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Topic: POWER RANGERS AGAINST GOVERNMENT EXPERIMENTS?
In: Boards ► USA ► NEWS ► THE WEIRD ► DISCUSSION
Otaku177013 (Original Poster) (Legacy Poster) (Top Contributor)
Posted on April 12, 2013:
Six months ago, a video appeared that shocked the world. Magical Girls and real life ESPers fighting some kind of bear monster thing. I, like many of you, assumed it was fake but the sheer amount of legitimate footage shown and the reaction from the world governments made it clear that it was very much real.
News articles with verified footage of the incident can be found [HERE].
Since then, there have been multiple sighting of either the supposed Magical Girls and even less of the teens. More recently though, there have been reports of three POWER RANGERS appearing with the Magical Girls.
First Appearance helping put out a forest fire in Australia as reported by FOX News. Found [HERE].
Second Appearance Rangers and Magical Girls assisting rescue and evacuation from flooding during Hurricane Sandy. Found [HERE].
Third Appearance the Rangers are seen fleeing military helicopters over Williamsburg, Virginia. Bystander footage [HERE].
Fourth Appearance the Rangers and Magical girls intercepting a ship in China and uncovering a people smuggling operation. All news articles from China have been removed from online. Saved images of WeeMo conversations from witnesses can be found [HERE] (special thanks to DumplingKING). Disjointed clips from early news reports have been compilated [HERE], original news reports missing from Fox, CNN and ABC websites.
There have been multiple reports of crimes being intercepted by both lone Rangers and Magical Girls from across the globe but little video evidence. Though #SuperSaveSelfie will net you a bunch of photos and accounts from saved victims who were able to pose with the Rangers and Magical Girls after being rescued.
Now there's a new video popping up on social media that's a lot closer to the action than previous videos and includes footage of a third superpowered individual.
If you haven't seen it then you can [HERE], [HERE] and [HERE]. But you'll have to be quick because these vids are being banned hard on every social media app I have.
If you can't see the video, I'll try to explain it.
It starts in a suburban park. I'm not an expert but it looks like some cozy town in middle America.
It's night and a couple of teenage boys are filming themselves skateboarding on some stair handrails with their phones. They get spooked by the sound of someone approaching from a grove of trees nearby and turn to film them.
A male figure approaches them from the trees. Tall, muscular, with short blond hair. He's shirtless yet something glows dimly yellow on his chest. He staggers about appearing drunk or psychotic. The teens make stupid teenage boy remark and act tough yelling at the guy who suddenly leaps forward faster than should be humanly possible and tackles on of the teens to the ground.
The others freak out but the kid with the phone thankfully stays on task. The strange man gets off the teen and you can now see in the street-light some kind of crystal growth coming out of his chest and covering one of his shoulders and down his arm.
One of the teens gets behind him and wacks him over the head with a skateboard.
AND THIS IS WHERE IT GETS WEIRD.
The video footage gets static-y and the dude screeches at the kids who clutch their heads in pain, if you freeze the footage at 02:44 you can see one of the boys has started bleeding from his nose and eyes.
The kid filming has it together enough to describe it as "oh fuck! oh GOD, I'm going to hurl. How does my brain fucking hurt?! DAVE! fuck, Dave, get away from him! DAVE!"
Dave is assumed to be the kid with the skateboard who is backhanded so hard he flies what has to be 12ft back.
So, the kids are looking fucked and in danger and then, I kid you not, the Green Power Ranger appears out of nowhere and drop kicks the weird guy into the dirt so hard that there's a crater left behind.
The Green Ranger takes the time to telekinetically move the downed teen to one of his friends who grabs him and starts dragging him away. The weird guy with the crystal in his chest pulls himself out of the ground and charges the Green Ranger.
What follows is an incredible fight that almost looks choreographed but not in the obvious fake way that Power Rangers usually are.
The Green Ranger and the dude are slugging it out and flipping around and honestly it looks like something out of the Matrix especially when they both seem to float sometimes or move faster than physics says they should. Eventually the guy with the crystal growth in his chest rips a metal pole from the ground and hurls it at the Ranger who stops it with some kind of telekinetic ability and flings it back at the guy even faster causing it to pierce his chest.
This causes the Ranger to hesitate for a moment and that almost costs him since the guy just rips it out of his own chest and attempts to beat the Ranger with it. The Ranger responds by somehow causing the green armour on his arms to morph into a sword which he uses to parry the metal pole. Eventually, the ranger manages to strike the crystal grown which causes the guy to freeze up.
I don't know what the Green Ranger would have done next because at that moment they're both fired upon by a whole bunch of military dudes who appear from the same tree line that the crystal guy originally came from.
The Green Ranger manages to deflect most of the bullets, somehow, and the ones that hit him just bounce off. The crystal guy isn't so lucky and goes down hard under a hail of gunfire.
The Green Ranger doesn't stick around and flies away and the camera zooms in and it looks like he meets up with the Red-Haired Magical girl in the air and they both fly away.
The kid filming everything starts running from the soldiers and hides behind a public bathroom building. The last thing recorded is him about to hide the phone in some sort of plumbing drain access.
So, guys... WTF?!
Who are these Power Rangers, really? Who are the Magical Girls? And what on God's green earth was that thing and how were the military involved?
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► SentaiFan54 (Veteran User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
I saw that vid too!
REAL LIFE SENTAI RANGERS!
Fight REAL LIFE MOBS!
Where do i sign up? Can i be the Red Ranger? WHERE DOES I GET ZOID?!
► Sk8terH8ter69
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Damn. Yo. Those kids nearly got fucked up. Yo.
So proud of my homie on the camera, tho. Kept the vid steady for our viewing pleasure.
► Victor111
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Fuck that shit is FAKE AS.
You fuckers really think these superhero freaks are real!?
It's the government making shit up or all in preparation for a movie or something.
► Watches_the_Watchers (Veteran User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Ever since the Day of the Bears, the world has gone crazy.
Magic? Aliens? ESPers? Angels?
No one knows for sure what's happening but one thing is certain:
The governments know more than they're telling and this new footage proves it! Did you all not notice that the Crystal Chest Man was wearing regulation Army pants? The same ones their military personal who turned up where wearing.
I'm putting my bet in for military experimentation for everyone involved. Bears, Rangers and Magical girls.
► UnderGround_33
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Victor111
Why on earth would the Govt. Fake this shit?
I was in Seattle when the Bears attacked! I had to carry my friend out when he was hit by a chunk of concrete that a freaking BEAR threw at him with its mind.
These things ain't fake.
Plus, as seen in Ops post. There are multiple sightings of them around the world helping out with various things. The chain of bureaucracy is too filled with incompetents to successfully hide this kind of stuff.
► MommaBear3 (Moderator)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Victor111
Please keep things civil and provide evidence when making such a claim against Veteran and Legacy Posters. Especially when they provide links to sources.
/UnderGround_33
Please PM me verification of your status as being at the Bear incident and I can modify your Tags.
(PS, REALLY REGRETTING MY USERNAME RIGHT NOW.)
► Sk8terH8ther69
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Watches_the_Watchers
Oh, shit you right.
and he's got a typical army-boy buzz cut too. How did i not see that?
► Big_D_69 (Temp-Banned)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Those magic girls are fucking hot.
I want to pin the blond one down and rape her pretty little ass raw.
[Mod - MommaBear3: We do not advocate sexual assault on this site. Take this time out to clean up your act.]
► HeatherZ (Sweetheart)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Big_D_69
Eww gross, most of them are only about 12yo.
► Otaku177013 (OP) (Legacy Poster) (Top Contributor)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Big_D_69
Dude... you know the rule: YES LOLI, NO TOUCH!
► GregThorn44 (New User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Otaku177013
I went to school with the Rangers!
I'm assuming that the new power ranger rip offs are the same three teenagers that displayed telekinetic abilities during the Bear Attack.
I'm in the year above them at school.
They're Andrew Detmer, Matt Garetty and Steve Montgomery.
A pic of their school yearbook photos can be found [HERE].
They haven't been seen since the Bear Attack but just about everyone in their year at school has been questioned by shady government men in suits.
Don't know why people aren't talking about them.
[Mod – MommaBear3: Post removed pending review to protect poster from possible confidentiality breach.]
[Super-Mod - Aries : Thanks, MommaB!]
► Otaku177013 (OP) (Legacy Poster) (Top Contributor)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/GregThorn44
Wow. That does look like them.
So they had their abilities before their suits? That's not how it's supposed to work.
Also… did you sign any NDAs to not talk about them?
► Faithful2Jesus (New User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Demons
Those are Demons and Sinners! And their powers are a sign of the Devil Deals they've made.
2 Thessalonians 2:9 - The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders.
Those are not Magical Girls they are WITCHES and SORCERESSES!
Exodus 22:17 – You shall not tolerate a sorceress.[1]
► HeatherZ (Sweetheart)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/UnderGround_33
Is your friend OK, UnderG?
► GregThorn44 (New User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
NDAs? I had to sign some papers when I talked to the Feds but I didn't really read them.
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► XxVoid_RangerxX (Veteran User) (Conspiracy Theorist)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Puh-lease!
These aren't fake, or demonic or, secret government experiments.
These are INTERDIMENTIONAL ALIENS!
Crystalline Aliens fighting an intergalactic war have chosen earth as their latest battleground. What we're seeing is the forces allied with Earth having chosen their representatives and the monstrous forces against us who have infected civilians with a silicon-based virus.
► Sk8terH8ther69
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/GregThorn44
And that was the last we saw of Greg.
► UnderGround_33 (Bear Attack Survivor)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
New Tag FTW!
/HeatherZ
My friend is fine. Broke his leg but otherwise ok. Uses the story to pick up chicks.
/XxVoid_RangerxX
SOOO... like the plot of a Power Rangers series?
/GregThorn44
Oh, shit.
► Aries (The Girl In The Know) (Super-Mod) (Banned) (Unbanned)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Oh wow. These discussions are really taking off.
It's amazing how close you all are and yet so far.
I'm looking at you Void.
The truth would really blow your minds though.
I'll give you all a clue:
Gods walk among you once more.
[Mod – MotherBear3: You are not a registered Mod of this Forum. I don't know how you gave yourself tags that don't exist but I'm banning on principle. No hacking the Forum.]
[Super-Mod - Aries : Um… how bout no.]
► Otaku177013 (OP) (Legacy Poster) (Top Contributor)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
You seem to be hinting at knowing more than we do.
Would you care to elaborate?
► Watches_The_Watchers (Verteran User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
Are you saying that something "Divine" is causing this?
Because I find that hard to believe and I'll believe just about anything.
► Faithful2Jesus (New User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
It is only through walking with God that we can be saved.
► Aries (The Girl In The Know) (Ban Me If You Can)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Otaku177013
Things are going to get worse before they get better but we're here to help.
/Watches_The_Watchers
Yep. Hella Divine.
/Faithful2Jesus
Different Gods, This one is a little less "Our Father" and a little more "Please, Daddy" (^.~)
► XxVoid_RangerxX (Veteran User) (Conspiracy Theorist)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Wait... "we're here to help"
Does that mean what i think that means?
The Magical Girl first on scene in the Bear Attack had horns like a ram and wielded fire-based attacks.
While there's no footage. Witness statements from the forest fire last week stated that the red-haired MG used water in the shape of large pincers to put out some of the fire. Like a CRAB?
Could the Magical Girls be somehow themed on the Zodiac and that Aries is actually the small blond Magical Girl?
► Sk8terH8ther69
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
(/ω/) …Harder Daddy. LMFAO!
► HeatherZ (Sweetheart)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
You did NOT just say that!
/XxVoid_RangerxX
What? No, that's silly. Don't be silly. Why would Ouranos make magical girls themed after a pseudo-science divination method?
HAHAHAhaha.
► Aries (The Girl In the Know) (Ban Me If You Can)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Oh WOW. Void-baby you are on deductive FIRE!
I cannot confirm or deny your theories though.
But let me just sa ajklsdfgnm
elkg Tm/ GN Vwrgrw
► MotherBear3 (Moderator)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
I banned them. How could they still post?
► SentaiFan54 (Veteran User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Wait, that couldn't have actually been one of the Magical Girls, Right? Right?!
► Aries (The Girl In the Know) (Ban Me If You Can)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
Sorry All. Got to GO. TTFN!
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► Faithful2Jesus (New User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
HEATHEN! WITCH! THE LORD GOD WILL STRIKE YOU DOWN FOUL AGENT OF THE DARK ONE!
► Big_D_669 (New User) (Banned)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Aries
COME BACK AND POST YOUR TITS YOU FUCKING BITCH!
[Mod – MotherBear3: Did you make a new profile just to be a creep? BANNED!]
► Sk8terH8ter69
Replied on April 12, 2013:
WTF just happened?
► MotherBear3 (Moderator)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Sk8erH8er69
I'm not sure. But my account shows that she's offline now. Not that that helps as her account doesnt actually exist in my systems.
► SentaiFan54 (Veteran User)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
So.. that could have actually been one of the Magical Girls?
Fuuuuck, she could have told us so much!
Like how to join the Rangers and if they have Zoids!
► Victor111
Replied on April 12, 2013:
You all actually believed that Troll?
► XxVoid_RangerxX (Veteran User) (Conspiracy Theorist)
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/HeatherZ
What did you mean by Ouranos?
► Underground_33
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/Victor111
Right. SHE's the troll. (◔_◔)
► Watches_The_Watchers
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/HeatherZ
Yeah, as Void said. Who's Ouranos?
► Faithful2Jesus
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/HeatherZ
Blaspheme. Only our Lord and Jesus Christ are the one true Gods. Cast away your sin of worshiping a fake Greek idol.
► Otaku177013
Replied on April 12, 2013:
/HeatherZ
Hello? Still here?
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"Damnit! Get offa me!" Avery whined as she twisted trying to get out from underneath Heather.
"Not until you promise to not reveal anything more online." Heather explained while she tapped out a quick goodbye and logged out of Avery's account that was open on her P-Comm.
Finding out that the P-Comms had seemingly unrestricted internet access though holographic screens had not been conductive to the productivity of those in the Temple but it was a boon for those who either couldn't or wouldn't go home.
"Oh, come on! It's not like they would've believed me." Avery groused.
"It doesn't matter. It's bad enough that half the girls here aren't able to go home, we don't need to risk any of the others losing their secret identities."
That shut Avery up. She was one of the girls that had a good homelife and a secret identity. Of the thirteen Twilight Princess Knights only six could say the same.
Four girls had shit parents: drug addicts, abusers or simply absent. One girl's parents were dead and she had no family to go to. Her choices were either the streets of Thailand where she had been found by her mascot or the Moon. The last two had made the mistake of telling their parents.
Turns out that completely rational and loving parents didn't like the idea of their barely teen daughters flying off to fight crime and monsters. They had tried to put their foot down and deny the girls but… the allure of the Magical Girl is too strong to ignore. Avery knew that she could never stop. The power, the thrill, the sheer wonder of being a superhero too much to give up. Those girls thought the same and left their parents behind. Thankfully, there seemed to be a spate of parents making up that their kids went off to join the Superheros when they had really run away. This meant that the truth told to the girls' parents was lost in a flood of lies by others.
But that couldn't last forever. Part of the reason Avery had thought to leak some actual information was to get their side out there before anyone noticed that two sets of parents in completely different countries were telling the exact same story to anyone who would listen.
Anyway, the point was that those six girls chose to stay at the Temple nearly full time. It wasn't as bad as it sounded. The temple had plenty of rooms and amenities as well as food and entertainment. Not only were the kitchens resupplied by the girls who could leave the Temple which was paid for using a Black credit card that Dianna assured them had enough funds for just about anything; Dianna could, as of a few months back, conjure picnic baskets full of tasty food and, for some strange reason, also conjure streams of honey.
Avery blushed and pushed away the intrusive thought of Dianna commanding her to lick the sweet golden drops from her smooth, pale skin. The sweet taste of the honey mixing the alluring musk of the absolutely gorgeous woman as she licked her way up the Goddess' thigh. Of how Steve would join them, nude as a Greek athlete and his dark skin glistening with the sticky swee-
"Are you even listening?" Heather pouted.
"What? Ummm, yes?" Avery said as she was brought back to reality her face heating up in embarrassment. Down girl! She thought to herself.
"Then what did I just say?" Heather pressed.
"Umm… That it was my responsibility as leader of the Twilight Knights to set a good example for the others to follow?" Aver asked.
Heather frowned at her. "… Lucky guess."
They were interrupted from further conversation from a voice at the door.
"You girls need a minute? I can come back in like an hour or so?" Aisha said smugly as she leant against the doorframe.
Heather frowned before finally noticing that she had delivered her lecture while still straddling Avery who had been knocked to the floor in their scuffle.
"Epp!" Heather squeaked before leaping off Avery. "I'm sorry! I gottagobye!" she said quickly as she swept past Aisha as quickly as she could without technically running.
Avery just rolled her eyes from where she was still on the floor.
"That girl needs to calm down sometimes." She said as she claimed to her feet.
Aisha shrugged and strolled over to one of Avery's couches, into which she flopped back with a muffled thump. "Or get laid."
Avery didn't respond except for a small blush. Despite being the leader of the Twilight Princess Knights; she was not the oldest. Aisha, at fourteen, had two years on her and as all teenagers know two years was a lot of difference in experience. Specifically, Avery's none to Aisha's alluded to 'some' regardless of her overactive imagination.
"You need me for something?" Avery asked as she took a seat on the opposite couch in her little sitting room.
Aisha nodded. "Sagittarius, Leo, Blue, Red and myself just got back from North Korea."
Avery nodded and with a flick of her wrist opened up her inbox on the P-comm. Already there were two submitted mission reports from Leo and Red. Three more would be coming in within the day.
"You were on a simple scouting and investigation mission." Avery didn't ask as she had been the one to send them out. Andrew had shown he was good with computers and with the help of Jade, who turned out to be a natural, they had hacked into some of the Chinese Government's systems. To be honest, they had hacked every government not just China but China did have the most actionable data. The computers available here in the Temple were truly ridiculous on what they could accomplish.
What they had found was that Chinese had isolated anomalous seismic readings from the mountains between China and North Korea over the last few months that were progressively getting stronger. The readings did not match expected seismic activity typical of the volcano nearby but were much more regular and slowly growing in intensity.
"We surveyed the mountains between North Korea and China and found a joint base near Changbai Mountain. It's set up to look like a geological research facility but there's too many armed personal."
Avery frowned as she brought up a map of the area. The P-comm map was linked to the Temple's Observation Orb which, while absolutely incredible, could only actively observe one location in real-time at any one time and was currently in use on higher priority targets. This meant that despite the Orbs ability to observe the surface as if one was literally standing there, she could only bring up incredibly high-resolution stills that the orb captured passively during the moons twenty-seven-day orbit. Albeit, these were high-resolution images of every location on earth but it still did mean that her map was technically (she checked the last orbital time in the top right of the image) eight days old.
The images showed the beginning of construction of what could be a temporary base but really could be anything. A lot must have changed in eight days.
"And this couldn't wait for the mission report?" Avery asked as she still scrolled through the map getting a feel for the location. Even if the Chinese and North Koreans had located a possible Titan emergence point it wasn't like they could really do anything except be the first casualties if and when it did emerge.
"Not when I saw General Peterson there." Aisha said almost flippantly.
"Fuuuck." Avery groaned. "I wondered where he disappeared to."
General Jack Peterson was one of the military higher-ups pushing for more research using the 'Metagenic Unkown Mineral' or MUM of short, though it was also being tentatively called Urcinite in some circles. He was also one of the leading voices in America calling for the capture and interrogation of the 'dangerous and uncontrolled metahuman threat', AKA the Twilight Princess Knights and the Rangers. The fact that he was seen onsite at a joint operation between China and North Korea, two nations that did not have great relations with America, meant that there was communication going on behind the scenes that they hadn't yet uncovered.
Aisha kicked her heels back and lounged, making the lazy posture somehow look good. "Ya thinks this is connected to the slave boat we found?"
Avery was already writing up new orders for Andrew and Jade to look deeper into the systems they were in and to meet in the morning to brainstorm how they had missed this but she nodded distractedly at Aisha. "We knew we had ruffled some feathers when we uncovered that little shit show."
Aisha grunted her agreement. It was, sad to say, expected to find human trafficking in the less well-off nations of the world. But those girls they had rescued had not been scooped off the streets of South Asia or the more troubled parts of Eastern Europe. No, they were all little white girls snatched from American streets. Aisha wasn't racist or anything but she did see the reality. Those girls' disappearance would have been noticed and they would have been reported as missing to the authorities. Sure, a handful of kids going missing could be explained as bad people doing bad things. But two hundred kids kidnapped in the last six months all fitting between the ages of six and sixteen and all of them blond haired and blue eyed? No, that was a pattern and patterns get noticed. The fact that it wasn't all over the news before they had been rescued meant that it was being covered up and that level of cover up meant that it was either high-up or widespread or both. This was doubly confirmed by the lack on media coverage on the case after they had saved those kids.
Aisha grit her teeth in frustration. What was the point of saving people if the world still sucked?
"All we can do is keep a watch on the site and try and keep track of Peterson." Avery sighed as she finished up her messages. "We're building good public opinion of ourselves but we still don't have enough public support if we start fighting the military head on."
Aisha tilted her head to the side. "And the fact that Green was seen doing just that last week?" She said referencing the video that Avery had just been commenting on.
"It's expected for us to clash with 'rogue elements of the military' but the moment we start going after elected politicians is the moment we get labelled as dangerous.
"This ain't a comic book story, ya know." Aisha grumped.
"Isn't it?" Avery counters with a vague gesture around the room. The room in the Moonstone Temple which was, you know, on the moon.
"I'll have my report for you by morning." Aisha sighed and started getting off the couch.
Avery nodded. "I'd like you to be at the meeting with the techies at ten."
Aisha cocked an eyebrow. "You know me and computers don't play nice, right?"
Avery snorted. "I know. I still remember you somehow crashing the solitaire."
"It still say it was cheating." Aisha smirked.
"No. I want you there cause you're going to be leading the team on this."
Aisha smirk evolved into a full grin. "Now you're talking."
She made her way to the door and left with a wave over her shoulder and a "Later."
Avery shook her head and pulled up more files. She had a few new meetings to schedule.
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Alex flinched then forced himself to relax under the tender ministrations of the small, Asian woman who was crouched over his back and currently manhandling his upper back muscles as if they had done her a great personal wrong. Her hands deftly pressed and flowed along the lines of his musculature in a methodical manner that near painfully stretched his muscles yet also eased any tightness or soreness and left him feeling both relaxed and slightly strained. After all, if a massage didn't hurt just a little then it was just foreplay.
The girls in his life were lovely and he was pretty sure he loved them but none of them could give a proper massage if their lives depended on it. The idle thought to jump to a world with a massage talent perk flitted across his mind but was quickly dismissed. His Kings Ransom perk made him disgustingly wealthy which meant that in most Jumps he could simply pay for a professional massage if he wanted one. Which is what he was doing now.
The Jade Lily was the go-to place for Hong Kong's rich and famous. The exclusive spa was high class and expensive enough to guarantee prompt service, use high quality and natural oils and give a very good professional massage. Its exclusivity negated any awkward situations where the masseuse might offer various extra services while fondling your sack though, if his social perks were reading the masseuses body language correctly, the spa might have passed the point where the higher cost actively prevented unprofessional offers and entered the stage where such services were either included naturally or offered as full on after work escort work.
Alex had never been to a place like this before he started his jump chain and so just didn't know. Hell, it could just be his various attractiveness enhancing perks acting against him and making the young woman more considering than she would normally be. Not that he would take her up on the offer he was sure she was going to make at the end of their session. He had enough women in his life right now and didn't think they would appreciate him sleeping around… though now that he thought on it, maybe they wouldn't care.
His relationship with the girls was a strange one. They had simply seemed to fall into it together. He wanted to say they were all in a polycule type relationship but that simply wasn't the case. It was definitely a harem with the only question being if it was centred around himself or shared with Lyn. That's not to say that the girls didn't like each other or didn't share intimacy with each other; only that they weren't as emotionally invested in a joint shared relationship.
For Morrigan and Lapis this made some sense given their origins. Morrigan started as an asexual ghost-monster turned into a female-ghost via a magic crown. Asexual in that she literally didn't have a defined sexual characteristic before putting on the crown rather than a complete lack of interest in sexual activity. She enjoyed intimacy and was happy to engage and seek it out. She liked to make crude jokes and remarks in private and she was currently pregnant with his child. But sexual intimacy was superfluous in her life. She didn't need it to be happy. What she drew from the relationship was a sense of partnership and companionship more than intimacy. She would likely simply accept anyone new into their circle so long as they enriched their shared experience by contributing to that joint partnership.
Lapis was much the same in that she had the mentality of a Gem. Their concept of relationships and love were entirely a strange combination of romantic, platonic and familial love. Eros, or erotic love, didn't play a role in their species courtships at all, or at least they hadn't until they had encountered human and imitated their physiology enough to enjoy sexual intimacy. From what he could tell, Lapis saw intimacy as something enjoyable that can be done freely between romantic interests, close friends and even with family. The group she was in was, to her, comprised of all three. To Lapis we were her friends, her partners and her family and thus she would accept anyone who joined them as one or more of those categories.
And Lyn… Lyn was just weird. If he was honest then he could recognise that she was the best type of yandere. Her obsession with him wasn't possessive or destructive but was instead supportive in nature. Her happiness was, in her mind, tied directly to his happiness. If he enjoyed the company of another then she would be happy for him but would also be happier if she was included. Her interest was primarily in himself and any relationship she built with others was likely to be something that furthered her relationship with him. That didn't mean she didn't enjoy herself or didn't want to be in a relationship with the others; didn't mean that she didn't like or even love Lapis and Morrigan. What it did mean was that there was a set hierarchy to her relationships and he was at the top.
This mean that while Morrigan and Lapis wouldn't care if he had casual sex with his masseuse, they also wouldn't want to participate or do the same with others. Lyn though would only be disappointed that she wasn't invited to the fun but otherwise wouldn't care… He still wasn't going have sex with his masseuses though.
Alex grunted as the masseuse loosened at particularly stubborn knot in his right shoulder, a knot that really shouldn't have been there at all given his various body perks and alt-forms. Pondering the nature of his relationships was, oddly enough, simply a way to distract himself from the stress he was accumulating from watching the path this world was taking.
Chronicle was supposed to be a jump where he picked up a powerset, grabbed pseudo-capstone booster and enjoyed and researched some modern entertainment media to inspire future jumps. He had certainly not intended to turn the world into some kind of strange amalgamation of magical girl anime, sentai warrior tokusatsu and marvelesque superhero shenanigans. Part of the problem was that by the time the MOGOs actually started emerging he had planned to have already left the world far behind. His intentions, therefore, had been good; spread some powers around so that humanity had a chance if the MOGOs emerged. But in the time between now and when those empowered individuals were going to truly be needed the plot just kept on thickening!
Honestly, he thought to himself, he might have lost control of the situation. Of course, then he had reflected on his past actions and came to the realisation that he never had control of it to begin with. That didn't make him feel much better.
Eventually he came to the conclusion that he had been way too hands off during this jump even when he had actively changed so much and added outside variables. That didn't mean he was going to suddenly jump into the thick of things within Chronicle but that he should try to be more involved in the story of whichever world he went to next if only to remain on top of the changes he would inevitably introduce.
Alex was distracted from further pondering by a delicate hand slipping between his thighs and caressing his junk.
"You should know that I am available or any further stress relied you may require, Young Master." The masseuse only slightly accented English was whispered sensually into his ear as her nails ran lightly over his sensitive flesh.
Alex suppressed a groan, either of pleasure or annoyance he wasn't sure himself. "Thank you, but no. I'm happily in a relationship at the moment."
The girl pouted and genuinely seemed to be disappointed but was professional enough not to press. Alex was definitely going to leave a large tip though; he had the money and the massage had still been excellent.
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There was only a month left until they could leave Chronicle and move onto the next jump. This meant that all around the globe hundreds of pregnant women were giving birth to very special babies. Each of these women were part of one of three groups: The Prometheus Foundation, the Daughters of Gaia Society and the Jörð Sisterhood. These three organisations were all created by Lyn as fronts for the multitude of trust funds and to act as support systems for the new mothers. They each promoted and supported motherhood and childcare initiatives for all women as well as a heavy emphasis on community support systems and social welfare programs. Additionally, they each had advanced learning and child healthcare programs in place for members to take advantage off.
Even though the organisations were only created to support the thousand or so children Alex and the girls had spread around the world, the collective membership of the three organisations had already exceeds two million and were still accepting new members. It wasn't difficult to make the three organisations self-sufficient when you had near unlimited funds to get the ball rolling and the good in the community that each organisation was already accomplishing more than justified any initial investment. Additionally, the more regular mothers that joined the programs only meant the greater the smokescreen that hid those women carrying special children.
Alex was going over the reports he had on the progress of each of the programs. So far none of the chosen mothers were showing any issues. Both Lyn and his own social perks was doing their best. Half the expectant children were already born without any complications and each infant seemed to be thriving according to the reports.
Alex looked up from his Gemtech computer as Morrigan entered the room. She was the only woman currently carrying a child he was emotionally invested in and so he closed the reports with a thought and turned his attention to her.
"Alex, there's something I want to talk about." Morrigan started.
"You do know that that sounds really ominous when a guy here's something like that from a girl, right?" Alex joked to cover his sudden anxiety.
Morrigan waved those words away as she took a seat on the opposite side of his desk. "It's nothing bad."
"Alright then. What's up?" Alex asked easing up just a little.
Morrigan nodded. "I've been tracking my pregnancy and think we might have a slight complication."
Well, that wasn't concerning at all. "What do you mean?"
"I asked you to give me Diamond child because the Danann needed a successor and we weren't having any success with developing a new Diamond from the Diamond shards."
Alex nodded. "I'm not sure exactly why you insisted on needing a new Diamond but yeah, I remember that. It's why we used Breeding Program to ensure that the conception would be a Diamond."
Morrigan nodded. "We need a new Diamond because the Gems of Danann are becoming more independent. Despite all their work in becoming more egalitarian they are, at their core, a species that exists with hierarchies. A Diamond daughter between you and me will alleviate their ridiculous fear that you're one day going to sweep in and take over as well as legitimise my legacy by having a Diamond who won't oppress their society ready to take over."
Alex didn't agree that that made any sense but agreed that somehow it did so to the Gems. These were a species that even when the Diamond Authority released their iron grip on them still upheld the Diamonds as the panicle Gemstone.
"So, what's the problem?" Alex asked.
"The pregnancy is progressing much slower than a human one." Morrigan admitted. "We assumed that since the child was conceived, instead of simply created, that they would develop more like a human foetus."
Alex nodded. "It's going to be more than the normal nine months."
Morrigan nodded again. "More like eighteen years. Much faster than shard-based pregnancies but longer than human ones by a factor of twenty."
"That sucks," Alex admitted, "but I'm not sure what the problem is."
"The problem is that I know we're not going to stick around this Jump for another seventeen years and a half years."
"We can stay for nine more and then spend ten in the next jump. That should be plenty of time for the child to come to term."
Morrigan smiled. "It's nice of you to offer but we both know you'd go stir-crazy if you had to spend nine more years here. Plus, the next jump is likely to be more dangerous than this one and I'd rather not go only to be stuck in Danann for the safety of the kid."
"Then what are you suggesting?" Alex asked confused.
"I was talking to Seraphina and she made a suggestion." Morrigan started.
"Wait." Alex interrupted her. "How did you talk to Seraphina?"
Morrigan cocked an eyebrow at him. "She called me on the companion phone."
"Right, sorry. Continue." Of course she could do that if she wanted to.
Morrigan nodded. "She suggested that I stay here in the Chronicle Jump while you do the next one. She's very interested in the changes made to this world and wants to see how they play out so she's willing to adjust the time differences between the jumps to give me three years here for every year you do elsewhere. Supposedly, having a companion stay will actually make it easier to adjust the time differentials."
"But you'd be stuck here for at least eighteen years." Alex argued.
"That really won't matter to me. I'm still primarily a Ghost and Gem and our sense of time is much different to you own. You still think mostly like a human." Morrigan answered then smirked. "I'll be fine micromanaging Danann for a decade or two but Seraphina's suggestion means that you only have to miss me for six to seven years."
Alex gave a weary chuckle as she saw through to the heart of his objection. He didn't want to spend so long away from her and their new unborn child.
"Just think of it this way. Now you won't have to put up with me being all hormonal and such."
Alex gave her glib stare. "You know I wouldn't care about that."
Morrigan shrugged. "Just trying to lighten the mood."
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Alex asked eventually.
"I think it will be for the best. This world is safe for me to give birth in and I can still have fun watching over the Twilight Princess Knights. I've got Dianna to keep me company as well as everyone on Danann."
Alex was silent for a long moment as he considered their options but eventually, he felt he had to acquiesce. He couldn't guarantee her and the child's safety in jumps with magic or other superpowered threats. Here, despite their meddling, held no real risks for either Morrigan or the child. Seraphina's willingness to alter the flow of time between the worlds was also a boon. Neither of them expected a near two-decade long pregnancy and this way did minimise how little each of them was going to miss out on the adventure.
"Alright." Alex finally agreed.
"Thankyou." Morrigan said with a relived smile.
"But you know what this means, right?" Alex said as he stood and walked around the desk to her.
Morrigan frowned. "No…" she said cautiously.
"It means I've only got a month to show you how much I'm going to miss you." Alex smirked and swept her out of the chair and into his arms.
Morrigan giggled as she through her arms around his neck and relaxed in his hold. "Well then. We better make the most of it." She said with an exaggerated wiggle of her eyebrows.
Alex laughed as he carried her to the bedroom.
AN. I'm not happy with this chapter. Especially the massage scene. It was supposed to be this scene where Alex reflects on the need to be more active in the next jump but devolved into an analysis of his relationships with the girls that, while possibly needed, just doesnt really fit.
PS. FFNET you lost some formating in the Forum conversation. Check out Ao3 or QQ for a more legible scene.