Marcus led Faith and Kendra out of the school as Hermione and Harriet ran ahead to the speeder, "You two can follow us or go on your own but until things have settled down I do not recommend going alone," he told them while catching up to the two at the speeder where he lifted Harriet into the seat behind the front passenger seat.
"I want to go through the dungeon some more; between the gear and stuff, it also gives a safe place of sorts to train with these new digs," Faith said, plucking at her trenchcoat.
Kendra nodded, "I, too, want to enter the dungeon more; we could both work together to learn."
Marcus smiled at the two, "That's fine, but you will need one more person to join you. Also, don't forget that there is another dungeon, and you can reach it through the frame portal in the gym; just remember to use your bracer to open the portal to the other dungeon or back here to Sunnydale."
Rounding the speeder he got behind the controls
while the two girls nodded to each other silently agreeing to stay together for the time being.
"Where are we going to find someone to join us though?" Faith asked.
"Ask around here in the city or out near the dungeons, there are bound to be solo people wanting to try it out," Hermione reminded them.
"I would feel it best to find another girl after what happened earlier," Kendra stated as she thought about the group of men who had tried to abduct Faith.
"Talk to Cordelia about the Cordettes. They may have someone who can join the two of you. I met one of them running a stall outside of the dungeon because there is an upper limit to the party size to go in," Marcus told them as he powered up the speeder.
"Hop in. We are going to where she is. You can talk to her while we update their tent to build these," Hermione mentioned while patting the speeder.
The two climbed into the back seat; once they were settled, Marcus took off following the path Cordelia took to catch Xander; after a few twists and turns, as well as a few times to backtrack after hitting dead-end roads, they found the junkyard with Cordelia's car parked near the gates.
Parking next to the car, they all climbed out with Marcus taking Harriet in his arms; it was not hard to find the two. All they needed to do was follow the sounds of the junk piles being knocked over and Cordelia yelling at Xander for nearly getting her with one of the piles.
"Hey, doofus, watch it; you nearly crushed me with that pile of junk; I know you want a new ride, but where are you going to find someone like me who will put up with your antics?"
"Sorry, I thought you were farther away," Xander called from the top of a pile of metal as they came around a stack of cars.
Cordelia was standing near the tent a couple dozen feet away from the junk pile that had been knocked over a few pieces of junk still wabbling at her feet, "Just watch out more, no telling what kind of trouble you'll get into without me," Cordelia called out though her words didn't really hold much anger in it.
Xander saw them coming from behind her and jumped down the pile, "I'll be careful," he said as he jumped, his landing was not graceful as he landed on a pipe that rolled out from under his feet, landing on his face caused a loud clatter, if his armor hadn't covered him quickly he would have been injured by a few things stabbing him or a few things hitting his head from higher up on the pile falling down.
"Xander!" Cordelia called out in shock, then ran to him, her steps as nimble as a cat, "You idiot, I told you to be careful," she yelled at him after seeing that his guardian armor had kept him from getting hurt, though she did smack him around the head a few times.
While Cordelia was helping? Xander, Marcus was uploading the schema for the speeder into the tents database.
Once the two were finished with their antics they joined Marcus and the others, "So whats up?" Xander asked.
"You took off before I could put the schematics for the speeder into the tent," Marcus told them.
"You doofus, you let your dream for a hotrod lead you off without thinking," Cordelia snapped at Xander who looked sheepish.
Head hung low, Xander gave a self-deprecating laugh, "Hey, this is a dream come true," he said while trying not to whine.
"Yeah, and I can understand that, but next time, give everyone a chance to catch up and be ready and able to help you," Cordelia said with a gentle tone, "If this had been one of those quest-like things you talk about when you geek out on DnD stuff you could have gotten hurt or worse and if that happens I'll have to teach you a lesson," She finished while hugging his shoulder.
"Yeah okay," Xander answered as he leaned into her hug.
They let the two stay in their own world until Cordelia looked at them, "So who are your new friends?"
Hermione gave the introductions while Cordelia lost her handle on her want to grab Harriet, though she did hold herself enough to only hold out an arm to the girl who shyly accepted the hug and petting from the teen much to the teen's happiness when she let go of Xander to hug her with both arms, Xander had a pout until Harriet reached out and patted his head.
"These are Kendra and Faith. They are slayers like Buffy, but unlike her, who got some powers from Halloween, they were just running on the slayer package," Hermione explained.
"So are they going to join you guys?" Xander asked while enjoying petting Harriet's head between her ears.
Marcus shook his head, "No, they want to explore the dungeon, but with only the two of them, they can't enter; I thought Cordelia could talk to the Cordettes about one of them joining them instead of having one of the girls having to wait outside for a run through," Marcus told them.
"I can try," Cordelia answered while rubbing her cheek against Harriet's.
Marcus nodded, "That's all we can ask for," he then turned to two slayers, "You two should be fine with the Cordettes; while most of the time they seem to be brainless girls, they are a solid group."
"So you think we can trust them?"
"Oh yeah, while they may say or do harsh things, they won't do something that will make Cordelia mad at them; she is the queen of Sunnydale High, after all," Xander answered Faith's question.
"And you are the king of Creetens, and as the royals of the school our subjects know better than to go against our decrees," Cordelia said smugly.
Marcus smiled at the two; even in these times, they did not let it get them down, "So, do you think you can help these two?" he asked before they could get further distracted.
"Yeah, I'll talk to Harmony; she has become the group leader of sorts while I am helping out with all of the changes," Cordelia answered distractedly as Harriet was flicking her ears to tickle her nose.
Marcus nodded, then turned to the two slayers, "Well, you two should be fine; we will be back in town from time to time; if you need something, let us know," he told them.
"Will do," Faith answered while Kendra nodded.
"We do need to be going, don't we? We have to be in Colorado tonight or early morning," Hermione said while she reached for Harriet; Xander, and Cordelia got in a few more squeezes before reluctantly letting the child go.
When the two let go, Harriet leaned over to Kendra and gave her a hug, then did the same to Faith; while Kendra was genital, Faith was a little stiff.
Marcus smiled, and then Hermione and Harriet left the four to talk things over; once they were in the speeder and safely in the restraints, he turned the speeder to the edge of town when they passed through the gates.
"We will follow the main roads as much as possible, and we will look for people in need of help, but we won't go out of our way to do it this time. Eventually, we will," Marcus told Hermione as he drove out into the wildlands.
"That's fine, do you expect us to find many people?"
"It's possible, but hopefully, in the last week or so, things have sort of calmed down. There will be some people who haven't been met by one of the groups," Marcus answered while steering around a burnt-out car.
For a few hours, they moved while chatting about how the world seemed to be adapting to the changes. Harriet had been watching the world pass them by from the back seat, but after two hours, she fell asleep.
Hermione, who had been keeping an eye out for troubles as Marcus drove, focused mainly on the road in front of the spotted movement not far from the road on her side.
"Slow down I just saw something up ahead on my side of the road," she told him in a low voice to not wake Harriet.
He slowed the speeder to be able to watch the roadside; he noticed what seemed to be a small group of people shuffling along the road; what caught his eye was that there was a person following the group closely but also not at the same time, he came to a stop a few minutes walk from the group and waited, Hermione cast a shading charm over Harriet to keep her from getting hot now that they were not moving.
When the group spotted them they stopped, they watched as the group seemed to be debating for several minutes, and they noticed how the figure behind the group stopped a short distance from them, eventually someone from the group went to the figure, and from what they could see from the gestures they were sending them to see what was happening.
The figure slowly walked toward the speeder; Marcus noticed that it was a short person, maybe a young teen, covered in a black cloak.
When they were about fifteen feet from the speeder they stopped, most of the person's features were hidden under the cloak other than their feet and glimpses of the leg when some wind blew the cloak, another thing Marcus and Hermione noticed were some shackles on the person's feet, exchanging glances they saw concern in each other's eyes.
"What do you want?" came the voice of a young woman from under the hood of the cloak.
"Nothing we stopped to see if your group needed help," Marcus answered.
"Food and water, we've been rationing what we have but it will not last much longer, two days at most."
"How many people do you have with you?"
"Twenty."
Marcus nodded, then looked to Hermione, "Call Giles or Buffy to see if they can take them in, I noticed that they moved the portal outside the city."
Hermione nodded and then made the call while Marcus turned back to the girl in the cloak, "Why do you remain away from the rest of the group?"
"They fear me," came the answer as Hermione was speaking to Giles.
"Why do they fear you?"
"My powers are dangerous. If I lose control, I could hurt or kill them, but at the same time, I can help protect them in case something attacks them."
"And the shackle on your foot?"
"They tie me up when making camp so that should I lose control they can escape."
"Aright Giles says that they can camp out near the town until they can sort out the groups already moving in," Hermione told him loud enough for the girl to hear.
"How far away is this town?"
"Nearly a day's walk from here, you just need to follow this highway and follow the signs leading to Sunnydale," Mrcus answered.
" But we can get the group there in minutes," Hermione added pulling a shrunken portal from the bag at her feet.
The girl nodded, then turned and walked to the group, spoke for a few minutes, and then returned to her previous spot; she watched Hermione setting up the portal from under her hood; if her face wasn't hidden, they would have seen her eyes widen from sensing the magic from it once it was in place.
"Your name?" Marcus asked when he noticed she was back.
"Rachel, what is that thing, and what does it do?"
"It is a portal that will lead to Sunnydale; it is a safe place," Marcus answered and noticed the girl's shoulders slump a little after he spoke; she then nodded before turning away to return to the group once more.
After some back and forth, the people in the group began to move cautiously toward the speeder and the portal; Rachel walked through it and came back after a minute to prove it was safe. After that, the group went through after Rachel spoke about the town and the high walls she had seen.
Marcus and Hermione watched as they went through neither noticed that Rachel had walked away from them in the direction they had come from.
"Well, at least they weren't trouble," Marcus said as the last person walked through the portal twenty minutes later, Hermione nodded as she shrank the portal and put it back into her backpack.
When they were ready, the two got back into the speeder; Hermione checked on Harriet, who slept through the meeting.
Marcus had been driving for less than five minutes when they drove past Rachel stumbling along the road; slowing down, he pulled the speeder to a stop beside her, "Why didn't you go with the others to the town?" Hermione asked.
"It's too dangerous to be around me," Rachel answered as she slumped to the ground beside the speeder, the heat of the day finally catching up to her.
Hermione jumped over the door, not wanting to possibly hit Rachel with it; Marcus got out and ran around the speeder, and when he got around to their side, he found Hermione checking the girl over; she had opened her cloak.
Rachel looked to be around twelve to thirteen years old; she had long purple-black hair with a ruby in the center of her forehead; her skin was a pale grey; she was also dressed in a leotard, and around her waist was a golden belt that had a red disk.
"Raven," Marcus said with a sigh, once he recognized her.
Hermione looked at him, confused, "You know who she is?" she asked as she conjured a cup, then filled it with water and dripped some into her mouth; Rachel, or now Raven, swallowed the water even though her eyes were unfocused.
Marcus nodded, "She is or should be one of the Teen Titans, a hero group, she is the daughter of a human woman and a demon lord, and she wants to be good but he can influence the world through her, eventually he would take over her body or she somehow opens a portal he can use to get to Earth."
"We need to find a way to block that, in this world, it could end up destroying all we and the others have been trying to help with."
"I know, we'll have to take her to the island for now, look at her body closely, she's too skinny her hands are covered in untreated wounds, and I bet her feet are covered with sores as well, it looks like even though the group let her follow them they didn't treat her well or made her fight for little to no food," Marcus pointed out indicating her ribs showing as well as her scab covered knuckles and fingers.
Hermione did a closer inspection, her face going grim as she noticed what he was talking about, she then gently closed the girl's cloak and lifted her from the ground, "You keep going I'll take her to the house and have the doctor look her over," she told him before opening a door sized portal to the island and stepped through.
Marcus returned to the driver's seat of the speeder, once the portal was closed, steering the speeder he drove for nearly an hour before he noticed another group but unlike the last who were filled with women and children for the most part this group was men in various kinds of clothes, it reminded him of one of those early eighties post-apocalyptic groups.
Pulling to the side of the road he climbed out of the speeder and then waved a ward around it to protect Harriet, stepping into the road he watched as the group instead of watching him from a distance charged at him some pulling guns from their backs while the majority lifted blunt weapons like baseball bats to crud clubs.
Sighing, he pulled his staff from its pocket and stepped farther away from the speeder; he watched as the ones with the guns slowed to let the ones with blunt weapons charge ahead to wear him down.
When the first neared enough to swing at him, what looked like a cricket bat wrapped with barbed wire swung at his head.
Dodging the swing Marcus twirled his staff hitting the cricket bat then continued with a strike at the man's neck, with a meaty thwack the man fell to the road, and the next attacker met with the staff striking his head collapsing his skull and fracturing it this one fell to the ground twitching, for a few minutes Marcus either knocked the men out or with lethal strikes to the head or chest.
All that remained were the men with guns, once all the other were on the ground they aimed at Marcus only for him to swing his staff, and from the ends of the staff blades cutting magic shot toward the men who tried to dodge but they were not fast enough, by the time Marcus rested the butt of his staff on the ground the six men were on the ground cut in half across their chest or horizontally from shoulder to hip.
Looking around and not seeing anyone near, Marcus made his way around to the dying men to finish them off with piercing hexes to the head. While ignoring the men he had knocked out while fighting, he used ledglemins to see into their minds and found them unwilling attackers.
When he made it to the farthest gun wielder he found the man still alive even after being cut across the chest from shoulder to hip, looking into his mind he found that while that was his full raiding team who had been tracking the group he and Hermione had already helped these men did have a base where they kept slave women not far away from here.
"You are a disgusting piece of work," Marcus said then finished the man off with an incindeo spell burning the man to ashes and destroying his body completely, while looking into his mind he found the man to have a healing ability nearly as powerful as Sabertooth from the Marvel comics, and he would have eventually healed from the wound if he could have pulled himself back together.
Returning to the speeder, he found Harriet standing in the rear seat, looking at him with wide eyes; when he looked at her, he did not see fear but confusion; getting into the speeder, he patted the passenger's seat as he sat.
"Were they bad people?"
"Yeah, they were mean men who hurt a lot of people; some of them were not bad, so they will tell others to be good once they wake up," he answered her as she took her seat and pulled the seatbelt over her shoulder.
"Oh, Okay, where is Miney?" she asked as he sped off leaving the unconscious men to come around in an hour or so.
"We found some scared people and sent them to be with Xander and his friends, but we found a sick and weak girl with them that they didn't want so Hermione took her to our house to see the doctor."
Harriet sat there silently for a few minutes looking over the door to watch the semi-desert landscape passing them by, "Will she be okay?"
"I hope so, we'll find out when we go home for our next meal," he told her as he steered around a burnt-out bus and then pushed a button that opened a panel that had what looked like a cup holder, with a musical him two cups filled with water formed from a micro replicator, "Drink up," he said then took one of the cups for himself and drank the cool water.
"Nnn," was her reply as she reached for the other cup and drank.
For another hour they drove, not seeing any more people he decided it was time to return to the house for a quick meal, opening the portal to the island, driving through and up to the house he parked the speeder near the front door, getting out he walked around and lifted Harriet from her seat then entered the house.
"Have an android check over the speeder as well as refuel it if need be," he called out as he walked to the dining room to find Hermione and Raven just sitting down Hermione lifted her bracer and then stopped as he and Harriet entered the room.
"We'll that saves some time," Hermione said as she began filling a plate for Harriet.
"Yeah, we were getting hungry, plus it was starting to get hot. Even with the shield and cooling charms, it was getting a bit warm," Marcus told her as he sat and began picking out some food.
As they ate, he told them how things had gone so far; when he mentioned the group of women that he had found out about but did not go looking for them, Raven grew concerned.
"Why didn't you help those people?"
"I did what I could. First, I freed the men from that gang, and they will return for them. Also, they are kept in a fortified place with water and food; they should survive just fine."
"What if the men you freed don't go back to them?"
"They will or already have, when I was fighting them I looked into their minds, most of their thoughts were on saving the women, we can't save everyone out there, so I'm only looking for groups that don't have some sort of safety measure or base to work from," he told the young teen who looked down at her plate seeming to be deep in thought.
"I'll send one of the larger groups a message to look in on them from time to time, but you're right," Hermione said as she put some more mashed potatoes onto Harriet's plate, receiving a nod from Marcus.
Once they had all eaten their fill, they moved to the living room to allow their food to settle; Marcus turned the TV on and brought up a child-friendly movie for Harriet to watch.
As the movie started, the phone on the coffee table began to ring, causing Harriet and Raven to jump; pausing the movie, Marcus answered the phone once he saw the caller ID showing that Chuck was calling them.
Hermione hit the accept icon, "Hello?"
"Hey guys, we just received a report from Janus that you saved Kindra and Diana at his request, with Diana with Faith her life will be much better than in the canon timeline," from the phone they could hear shuffling papers, "We also noticed the birth of six Asgard on your island, can you explain that?"
"Idun's golden apples," Marcus answered hoping that was enough of an answer.
For several minutes, the phone was silent, and then they heard what sounded like someone standing and knocking over a chair, "Where did you get those?"
The four leaned away from the phone as he nearly yelled through it, "Umm when we unbound Harriet's magic the lingering chaos magic caused her to be magically my child and somehow she became Asgardian as well, the surge of magic kind of made her hyper for several hours," Hermione explained, "she ran around casting off the excess most of the time things just changed shape and color but one of the apple trees was changed to be like Idun's tree, we couldn't change it back so we had the fruit collected and stored for safety."
"And the six new Asgard found the fruit and ate it?"
"Yes, Joyce Summers, her adopted son Harry Potter, three girls rescued from Hogwarts, and Luna Lovegood," Marcus answered.
"How much fruit remains?"
"A small crate, as well as however many have grown in the last few days."
"Alright, here is an offer we can make for the fruit; we can expand your island by twenty cubic miles per apple or upgrade your house to a castle similar to Hogwarts, but keep all it has now."
Marcu looked at Hermione, who shrugged, "I would say expand the island; I doubt we would need a castle anytime soon."
Marcus nodded, "Expand the island; ah, can you get us the schematics for the vats to grow flesh on the terminators?"
After some typing on his keyboard, Chuck spoke, "We can get those; let's see here: the company that is willing to sell them is asking if they can either get your rune schema for mana absorption and transfer to electricity or the design for your micro super computer like in the bracers."
"Give them the rune schema; I'll test the computer on the two terminators I'm building now to see how that setup will affect their systems; if it works out well, we can see what they will offer for it," Marcus answered after some thought.
"Alright, now how many apples do you have so far?"
"No clue; I had them stored at the potion ingredient farm," Hermione answered, then signaled an android to come over, "Go to the farm and collect the crate of golden apples; bring them here now that the children are no longer here and in danger of eating them."
The android nodded then left the house to follow her orders, "Now, let's see here after our regular systems check on the computer show no new possible hazards."
They sat for a few minutes before the android returned with the crate, Hermione conjured another crate of the same size as the one that held the apples and counted them as she moved them from crate to crate.
"We have twenty-one," she said after finishing.
"So four hundred and twenty cubic miles?"
Marcus sat forward with a thoughtful expression, "What would one of the apples do to Raven from the Teen Titans?"
After some rapid tapping of his keyboard, Chuck answered, "She would be purged of her father's influence as it would change her to a pure Asgardian, why do you ask?"
"We found a Raven escorting a group of people a few hours ago. We helped them get to Sunnydale, but she snuck off, and we found her near dead a mile or so away," Hermione answered.
Raven hung her head hiding her blush, "I didn't want to be a threat," she said in a whisper.
Harriet heard her being the closest but did not understand what she meant. She did understand the slight fear in her voice. She clambered onto her lap and hugged her, which caused Raven to stiffen up, not used to the physical contact.
"We will keep the one apple; you guys can have the twenty others, and we can make the same deal every time the tree produces twenty more, say until we have as much land as Earth," Marcus spoke to the phone.
"We can agree to that, but we can possibly purchase an empty Earth from one of the companies but what would you do with that much land?"
"Not much away from the island; mostly, I was thinking we could populate it with animal life, both mundane and magical, plus it will give Skippy room to stretch its wings."
"Skippy?" Chuck and Raven asked at the same time.
"Harriet's dragon familiar," Hermione answered while pointing to the small dragon that was sleeping under a window while the sunlight kept it warm.
"That's a lot of land for something so small," Raven stated, trying to figure out why they wanted so much land for something as small as a housecat.
Both chuckled, but Marcus answered, "Skipy can change its size, from that cat size to around fifty feet snout to tail tip and nearly as wide wing tip to wing tip; we don't really have the room for it to take its full size right now so it stays that small."
Raven looked down at the little girl, still hugging her to the small dragon several times; Harriet nodded with a smile, "Yep, Skippy is a good dragon; he grew big once and couldn't move around much, so he stays small," Harriet said, following Raven's eyes.
"We'll take the four-hundred-mile expansion, then you guys can look into the empty Earth, though I would want one where man never evolved," Marcus said while thinking.
"Too bad there isn't a company like that bunch from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy that replaced the Earth on the orders from that couple of mice sizes people," Hermione said absently thinking of the movie she had watched once while Marcus and Harriet had fallen asleep after lunch a few days ago.
"Um, actually, there may be one, I'll have to look to see, but with the infinite variety out there, there could be one," Chuck said, sounding like he was trying to remember something.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about the whole infinite stuff," Hermione said after a few seconds.
"Well, it's either that or find an empty universe; there has to be some out there so long as it can be placed here around the island," Marcus says.
"Yes, it can be, it will just take some workarounds to ensure its appearance doesn't cause too many waves it's why most companies sell sections over time instead of full worlds," Chuck answered
"Um, yeah, I didn't think of that; we'll do the section at a time then, but do keep an eye out for that planet-building group. You never know when something like that could come in handy."
Raven listened to these people speak about building or owning planets as if it were nothing outrageous, the small girl in her arms was the only thing keeping her from jumping up and exclaiming that they were all crazy.
"I'll be sending the contract for purchasing the apples and adding land to the island; how does it sound to you if we write it up to purchase them twenty at a time until the island is part of an earth-sized body, or the tree stops producing them?"
"It took a week for new apples to grow after picking the crate, so how about doing it every month? We could trade the extra with other companies for things if something comes up," Hermione suggested.
"That shouldn't be a problem," Chuck said as the sound of papers being moved around and then the sound of him writing something down could be heard.
When he finished, Marcus spoke up, "Your friend who bought the schema for the bracers and tents works for one of the larger or multiple companies, right?"
"Yes, and he is enjoying the sales he is making with them, he told me that just adding those items has greatly helped the poorer contractors. What did you want to know about him?"
"I wanted to know if he would buy a few of the apples on credit for possible later needs we will have," Marcus said while hoping to build some goodwill that could help should they meet something that could harm them.
"I'll ask him later and let you know as soon as I know something but I believe he would be happy to make such a deal with you," Chuck answered while understanding the underlying meaning of his question.
"Thank you. Also, I wanted to know if we copied the Brainiac overwrite program to Destiny, would the company stop us?"
"No, once we sent it to your computer system, it became yours to use as you want, but I do have to ask why?"
"Simple, Harry will be sent to the ship in a little around a year; he won't know or understand the dangers of the Brainiac program; with us fixing the ship, he will be tempted to check the computer systems. What do you think would happen if he accidentally opened it?"
"Being part of the universe even with you repairing the ship we wouldn't be able to step in to stop it like we did to your home computer,"
Marcus nodded then made a short note on his bracer to remind him to have the program uploaded to Destiny when they returned to the ship.
"Well, that's all we have to talk about now," Chuck said then waited a few seconds to see if they had anything to add.
"Sure, we will be in touch," Marcus said, then hung up the phone and turned to Raven.
"We'll get you sorted, then we need to get back on the road," he told her, then stood and left the room, "Let's do this outside."
Hermione stood, pulling Raven to her feet. Harriet, still in her arms, led the girl out of the house, picked up one of the apples ordered the android to take the crate to the gate where the company could retrieve them as well as to begin picking the ones from the tree when they were ready.Marcus led the group to an open place far from the gate and ship; he watched as Hermione set Harriet down, then spoke to Raven for a few minutes before handing her the apple, and then she joined him with Harriet at her side.
They watched as Raven slowly ate the apple. When she ate the last bite, she began to glow brightly from the inside, unlike Joyce and the others who had eaten an apple whose change only took seconds, the change in Raven took five minutes.
When the glow faded, Raven was on her hands and knees panting; all around her on the ground was covered in black viscus sludge that gave off a fowl stench as well as an aura of malice. Hermione ran to the girl's side, casting strong vanishing charms at the sludge cutting a path to Raven.
When Hermione reached her she cast a cleaning charm over the teen cleaning her body, she helped the girl to her feet letting her lean against her as she led her back along the cleansed path, once they were away from the mess Hermione looked to Marcus who waved an overpowered vanishing charm, with a small flash of light the sludge as well as two inches of the dirt disappeared.
Once they joined Marcus and Harriet, they could see many changes in her body; the largest change was that she now stood equally with Hermione instead of her head reaching just under Hermione's shoulder, and the other large change was she was now well-muscled instead of her thin figure from before.
"How are you feeling?" Hermione asked as she led the group to the gate and table.
"Clean and much stronger both magically and physically," Raven answered, her voice sounding more mature; she was shocked by this just as were Marcus and Hermione.
As she helped the girl sit, Hermione again looked to Marcus who shrugged, "Raven..."
"Rachel, I hate being called Raven; it is the name Trigon gave me, mother always called me Rachel until she died," she snapped out with a bit of sorrow in her voice.
Marcus flinched back a bit, "Sorry, I will have to work on that, I've only ever known you to be Raven from what I know from comics and a few cartoons based on your exploits with the Teen Titans.""I am ok; I am sorry for snapping at you," Rachel apologized, then looked confused, "That's the second time you've mentioned the Teen Titans who are they?"
"It's ok; as for the Teen Titans, they are a group of powered teens who worked separately from the Justice League, you should have been a member from around the time you were fourteen or fifteen, which reminds me. How old are you? We assumed you were twelve or so from your sizes before the apple."
"Oh, um, I am eighteen; suppressing my powers also slowed my growth," Rachel said with a blush, "I did it on purpose my father needed my body to be fully mature."
Marcus nodded, his eyes scanning her body when he noticed that her leotard was in tatters and her cloak was the only thing protecting her modesty. Then he looked at Hermione, "We'll get you some proper fitting clothes," she said, noticing the same he had causing Rachel to pull her cloak closed fully and lower her head to hide her blush.
"Well, I'll let you get to that; we still need to get to Colorado Springs in a few hours," Marcus said, wanting to not be around for those talks, "Harriet you can either keep riding with me or help get Rachel clothes."
Harriet looked between them and smiled at Hermione, "I'll stay with, Miney."
Marcus nodded, then turned away from the three and walked to the speeder; climbing into the driver's seat, he drove it down and through the gate which closed once he was through.
Hermione laughed and then stood, pulling Rachel to her feet and leading her back to the house; Harriet followed them skipping and humming as they went.Once in the house, Hermione led Rachel to one of the guest rooms and showed her the replicator, "You can use this to have clothes made it just needs to let it scan you," she told the former demon girl then suddenly reached out and pulled the girl's cloak from her shoulders and threw it on the bed.
Rachel gave a squeak and then tried to cover her now larger breasts as the top of her leotard fell to expose them. Hermione laughed with a shake of her head, "No need to be shy it's just us girls here."
Rachel gave a weak glare, but it did not seem to affect Hermione, who simply pointed to the replicator, "Fine, but a little warning would have been nice," she said, dropping her arm and then going to have her measurements taken by the device.
For several hours, Rachel tried different kinds of clothes with Hermione, offering several ideas, including leather pants and a corset top, the most embarrassing part of it for the teen was when Hermione suggested some very risque undergarments.
When they had enough clothes to last her for at least a week packed into a bag Hermione had an android bring to them as well as a bracer when Marcus called out for them from the living room.
"I'm back, I only found a small group but they were all powered and searching for people in need," he called up the stairs.
"How did you know they weren't bad people pretending?" Hermione asked as she came down the stairs carrying Harriet, Rachel followed, wearing the leather pants and tight black shirt covered by a trench coat.
"It was Captain America, his English counterpart and Vision," he answered as he turned to look up at them. Though he tried not to ogle Rachel, he couldn't keep his eyes from roaming her figure briefly.
Hermione smirked seeing this but made no comment, "Well, that's good how far did you get?"
"Just outside Colorado Springs, I called George and told him we would be there after dinner," he answered as he looked away from Rachel.