บท 102: Chapter Twenty: As Time Turns.
Chapter Twenty: As Time Turns.
"So, how did you avoid getting caught and thrown into the Hudson with cement boots on?" Harry asked Lois as the two of them walked down the corridors of the Daily Bugle.
Lois stopped and put her hands on her hips as she looked at Harry with narrowed eyes. "Give me some credit, Harry; I was smart enough to get out of there, while the getting out of there was good."
"Right, I'm not arguing any differently," Harry commented as he kept his emerald green eyes firmly on Lois's striking violet eyes, but then he shook his head. "But…."
"Yes, well, I thought that Silvermane's crew….I mean the guy just got out of prison last week. I got this lead that said he was after something big, I don't know what exactly, but it must be huge if a guy like Silvermane is after it," Lois stated as she leaned against the water cooler, which had the effect of showing a bit of her taut stomach seeing as how her shirt rode up, an effect that Harry appreciated greatly. "The guy's not exactly a spring chicken either, he's someone who….well, he's been around a long damn time when factor in how old he is."
"Some might say old, others might say classic, Lois," Harry offered back to her in a tense voice. "And the guy's been around the block more than a few times, so he knows what he's doing…."
"Popped off a few reporters in his day as well," Lois said as she brushed her hand through her hair and offered a smile back towards him. "But, anyways, one of his female 'companions' managed to slip me out the backdoor. I got the impression that she didn't think what they were doing was right."
'Sooo...are you going to tell her that said female companion was really the god damn Batwoman in disguise?' Gwen chimed in through the bond link.
'No, that would be spoiling the surprise, besides that would blow the cover identity she's using to infiltrate Silvermane's gang, even though I think she has all of the information that she needs,' Harry confirmed.
"Silverman's obsessed with making himself young again," Harry informed Lois, Helena had been keeping him in the loop in regards to what her investigation had turned up and he had sources of his own in place.
Lois shook her head. "You'd think…..well, he is at the end of his life, got to be pushing about eighty five or so….still a nasty bastard from what I've heard."
"A very nasty bastard," Harry confirmed as Iris made her way out of the nearby stairway, looking quite wind swept. "You look like you've been put through the ringer."
Iris shook her head in exasperation and looked at Harry. "Long story, going to have to tell you about it later."
"Looking forward to it," Harry said, the Crimson Blur as the Bugle was calling it was showing up fairly often. Interestingly enough, Iris was the one getting all of the exclusives of her.
Jameson wanted pictures, pictures of her, almost more than he wanted pictures, pictures of Spider-Man, along with pictures, pictures of the Star Child and those better not be blurred out crap either. Harry must have heard it a million times, but then again, one didn't need super hearing to hear the dulcet tones of J. Jonah Jameson from across town. The young wizard closed his eyes and took a drink of water, soaking in the atmosphere.
"Well, she does get all of those exclusives about that new hero, although I'm sure we could come up with a better name than the Crimson Blur if we tried," Lois commented with amusement dripping from her voice.
Harry raised an eyebrow at her.
"I wasn't going to think of one, at least not yet, but I'm sure the door is open for one," Lois offered in amusement as she raised an eyebrow back towards him. "Although I don't think…."
"Well, as long as she isn't wearing a pair of glasses, you should be able to figure out who the Crimson Blur secretly is," Harry teased her, he'd been able to figure it out easily enough, but then again he was observant. "Did you hear about the Gotham gang war spilling over here?"
"Yeah, Black Mask, now he's a real nasty SOB," Lois replied seriously. "I wouldn't normally be worried by something like that, but at the same time, I'm kind of worried."
"Don't be, Lois," Harry offered to her, which caused her to look at him questioningly in response. "There are people who are working to end this gang war, but the problem is tracking down the person in the middle of it."
"Are you referring to the Kingpin or are you referring to the so called Master Planner?" Lois asked Harry and there was a second where he paused to consider it.
"Both would actually fit who I'm thinking of, very much so, in fact," Harry admitted with a thoughtful look in his eyes.
"Well if anyone could figure out what's going on, it's you," Lois prodded him, fishing for more information from her boyfriend she could possibly use in for a story.
"I can't be…..well, actually I can be everywhere at once, but you know what I mean," Harry said to her. The ability to split off duplicate's really did work wonders.
"Which is really rather handy, for many different reasons," Chloe offered as she turned up to see what they were up to. "So, any luck on our delinquent Hitler wannabe?"
"If you mean Creed? No, the bastard's gone underground, Banner's dropped off the radar as well after those events," Harry explained to her.
"Methinks, perhaps, a Hulk smashing doth be in Mr. Creed's future," Chloe said trying to do an imitation of Thor, all be it a bad one, as she sipped from her bottle of water. "With Mystique's testimony, the information checks out, so I'm posting the full information on Creed's history on the Torch…."
"Hey! I thought…"
" You snooze you lose Lois! Besides, we can go for a two pronged attack this way, through both the Internet and the print media," Chloe said with a smile. "The blog is racking up the hits and also death threats, a lot of death threats. Even though it seems like anti-mutant hysteria is waning a little bit thanks to your efforts, there are still people who will cling to their prejudices."
Chloe sighed at the thought of such blatant racism as she took another drink of water.
"Such is the nature of fanatics…."
"Isn't that the truth?" Harry asked and then he did a double take when someone he knew in a previous life walked out of the nearby elevator.
"Well, there's someone that you don't see out in public that often," Lois offered. "Luna Lovegood….the author of the Bugle's Relationship Column, Good Loving with Lovegood."
Harry shook his head in amusement at that, just how funny that joke actually was, that was something lost on the two girls beside him.
"There's a rumor going around that she's in a relationship with some guy named Wilson," Chloe said lightly.
Harry did a double take and his blood ran cold, surely not?
The universe would implode.
"Do you ever have the feeling that something really weird is going to happen?" Kitty asked as she walked beside Harry around the grounds of the school.
"Define weird?" Harry asked as he looked towards her, with a barely suppressed grin crossing his face. There were so many things about their lives that could be considered weird by most normal peoples standards, that the mundane might as well be considered weird by them.
"Okay, I guess you got me there," Kitty said to Harry as she shrugged her shoulders. The brunette mutant lifted her head up and looked towards the ceiling before letting out a drawn out sigh.
Atlee was training in the other room and Harry stepped behind her to observe, although this time she didn't jump up into the air.
"I saw you coming this time," Atlee looked over her shoulder to inform him, her violet eyes looking onto his.
"And I'm glad for that," Harry informed the younger girl and a radiant smile crossed her face. "Do you need me for anything?"
"No….not entirely….well, not yet," Atlee admitted as she closed her eyes to focus. There were a few things that she might want from Harry, but she hadn't quite worked the nerve up for something like that. "I'd like to thank you, however, for helping me, I've got a lot better control over my powers than I did before."
"That's very good, I'm glad," Harry said as she threw her arms around his waist and pulled him into a tight hug. Her breasts pressed tightly against his chest and her groin pressed against his. She had quite the body, in fact it rivaled Karen's, although she had an innocence to her that didn't match it. "So if there is anything…."
"No, Harry, not right now," Atlee said trying to keep herself calm so didn't make the ground rock with excitement. There was this dream that she had about Harry…..that got her so excited she'd woken up to find everything knocked off of the shelves in her room. Thankfully, she didn't keep anything breakable on the shelves and she had good enough control of her powers to prevent sinking the entire room into the ground.
Harry offered her one of those smiles. "Are you sure?"
"...Yeah...I'm sure," Atlee argued faintly as she tried not to get thrown off by Harry, even though he was very easy to get thrown off by. Leaning in, he kissed her on the forehead and left her to her training. More or less running smack dab into Jean and Kitty, who were waiting out in the hallway for him.
"Soooo...she's about ready to be put underneath your thumb any day now," Jean offered with a wicked glint in her eyes and Kitty smiled widely at the thought of it.
"Well, she's going to have to make her move then, but I think that sooner or later, she will," Harry offered. He didn't want the younger girls to think that he was pressuring them into anything. Of course, given the corrupting influence of some of his older girls, it might not be too long of a wait.
Kitty threw her arm around his waist as Kara joined them. She frowned at something and that was noticed by Jean, Kitty, and Rachel, who'd turned up with Kara.
"What's up?" Rachel asked, she couldn't help but feel like something was wrong.
"UGH! YOU LITTLE TROLL GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY ROOM!"
Harry did a double take as a hex bolt flew from Wanda's room, but somehow disappeared in mid air. She exited the room, dressed in a black tank top and cut off jean shorts, with no shoes on. It looked like she was in the process of getting dressed after a shower. Her hair still being wet was a pretty obvious sign of that fact.
"Harry, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but…."
"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!"
"We have a gremlin in the house," Harry stated with a sigh and Kara used her X-Ray vision to see what was up. She groaned when she realized who it was.
"Yes, and it's a rather obnoxious little troll," Lara said over the intercom.
"HEY! HEY! HEY! I DON'T CALL YOU NAMES! DO I LADY?!"
Harry thought that his mother was more than right about that fact. It was an obnoxious little troll, who had a high pitched shrill voice that sounded like someone scratching their nails down a chalkboard, which was the nice way of describing it.
His appearance was not much better. He had a goofy expression on his face with a long nose and a purple top hat. He topped it off with a blue suit with a multicolored bow tie and spats.
"Who in the hell are you?" Kitty asked as she saw this floating two foot tall abomination in front of her.
"The name is Mxyzptlk! Mister Mxyzptlk to you, I've come here to liven your lives up a little bit more!" Mxy yelled as he snapped his fingers.
Jean, Rachel, Kitty, Wanda, and Kara were all dressed as school girls now. They had really tight tops on and really short skirts that showed that they weren't wearing anything on underneath them. Normally, Harry would appreciate a sight like this, but given the circumstances, he wasn't too appreciative of what this floating horror did.
"You….you….you….." Harry managed, before stopping to calm himself down in order to properly say the words that were conducive to speaking.
"Me….me….me…." Mxy mocked.
"Look here, Mister Mixel-Spittle! Like, what do you want?" Kitty asked, her frustration obvious in her tone. She would have stomped her feet on the ground, but she didn't want to give this awful little troll any more of a show.
"Hey! Valley girl who is from Chicago! My name is Mxyzptlk!" he yelled. "And I'm going to move here for the long haul."
'Har-Rell, you must trick him into speaking his name or spelling it backwards, it will banish the pest back to it's home dimension,' Peve said with a shudder. She'd encountered it before in the past and it was none too pleasant.
"Oh really? You're going to move here for a long haul," Harry asked him, he closed his eyes for a moment, before opening them and offering a wide smile. "Well, in that case! You're going to need to stay in the guest suite."
"Oh really, the guest suite? Well, that's really awesome, isn't it," the fifth dimensional imp asked as he swayed back and forth in the air.
"Yes, it's really great," Harry explained to him as he stepped forward to guide him towards his room. "It even has your name written on the door and everything."
Mxy floated over to look at the name plate and he couldn't help but scoff. "You must be an illiterate boob then! That's not my name! It says Kltpzyxm!…Wait a minute…."
Mxy faded into nothingness with a huge pop and cursed all of the way as he was dragged back into the fifth dimension.
"OH FUCK YOU! YOU SMUG LITTLE SON OF A BITCH!"
Harry waved him off as he disappeared into the ether. The girls reverted back to their normal attire and quite frankly, Harry was pretty sad to see that happen. Shrugging his shoulders, Harry turned back to them like nothing had happened at all in the past couple of minutes to ask them a question. "So, how was your day?"
Jean offered him a smile as Kitty and Kara looked like they were both about to break out into laughter. Now that the situation was behind them, it was pretty easy to laugh about.
"Just getting ready to head off to college in a few weeks," Jean explained to him. "My course load is decent enough to keep me pretty busy."
"Of course it is," Harry replied to her with a smile and Jean shook her head in amusement.
"Some of the girls are coming over here to start their summer internship's, I see," Harry stated to Selene as the two of them made their rounds through the Church. Their meeting yesterday, obviously, getting cut a little short.
"Yes, Regan and Monet seemed eager to worship at the altar of the Star Child and Emma's daughters are always happy for a piece of the action," Selene informed him and Harry really didn't need to hear any more than that. The two of them made their way off into a side office. "Jean is really coming into her role nicely, although I think that girl works herself a bit too hard."
"Well, I've known teenage girls that worked themselves a lot harder than Jean does," Harry offered, as his memories flickered back to a time that seemed like an eternity ago now.
"So have you….have you figured out what to do regarding the situation?" Selene questioned him, obviously she had her own thoughts on the situation, but she would as always follow along with what her Lord Husband suggested and advice him as necessary.
"...With the Skrulls?" Harry questioned her and Selene offered a smile towards him seeing as how she knew he'd catch on quickly.
"Yes, the Skrulls, they're an extremely tricky situation but…."
"I was wondering the same thing," Lillandra said as she entered the office with Tess trailing behind her. There was another woman with them Harry hadn't met before that caught his immediate interest.
She had striking coal black hair with startling blue eyes, her pursed together lips had a delicate and sensual quality to them. She was wearing a white top that showcased her modest breasts and flat stomach. She had a black skirt on and Harry could see that she had quite the nice rear as well, but then again, with these women, they generally had more than a few nice qualities to them. She had a nice set of striking legs as well, sensual and curved.
"Whitney Frost, we haven't had the pleasure to meet yet Harry….you don't mind if I call you Harry, do you?" Whitney asked, she wasn't related to Emma. Who did have two sisters, but she didn't speak of them in the most favorable tones, the few times that Harry got to talk to her about them at all.
"Not at all, Whitney," Harry stated as he took her hand and planted a kiss on the top of it.
She looked quite pleased with that.
"I'm just showing her the ropes, she's a recent recruit to the church, then again there are quite a few of them lately," Tess said to Harry with a smile, she paused to think about something, then raised an inquiring eyebrow towards him. "So what happened with our Warrior Queen?"
"She's at the Stronghold right now, we've got it set up so that she can go back and forth to her planet at will, although she's hinted that there's a few more members of her race who might want a piece of me," Harry commented.
Selene smiled at that thought, throughout their long history together, the statement about woman wanting a piece of him rang true each time. "Naturally, beloved, naturally."
Selene figured that Maxima would be an ideal addition to the Church in due time, it was just a matter of ensuring that she showed the proper respect to the other members of the Church. Of course, there were certain members who were more then adept enough to train a Warrior Queen. The woman took a half of a step forwards towards him, a smile etched on her face.
"I'm very pleased to see what has happened with the Church so far, you should be proud of yourself," Harry said with a smile.
"Believe me, we are," Selene said, she wouldn't have done some of the things that she did and neither would Lillandra or anyone else, if they didn't think that they would receive Har-Rell's complete approval. He was everything to them and he deserved to be satisfied beyond all measure.
Speaking of Lillandra, she was standing there beside Harry.
"Hello, Har-Rell, I trust that your day's been going well so far?" Lillandra questioned as she threw her arms around him to give him a passionate kiss, which Harry returned. The two of them closed their eyes to enjoy the tender passions that they experienced with each other.
"So, what of Ms. Darkholme?" Selene asked, randomly and seemingly out of the blue, so much so, that it took Harry aback.
"She may be able to rejoin society if she learns that she cannot play certain games with me," Harry stated.
"Well, her rage is a way to mask the fact that she wants to play other games with you," Tess offered as she rejoined the group, but she had Regan and Monet with her now, both of whom were eying Harry hungerly.
"Har-Rell, don't forget that we have ways of training women like Raven Darkholme," Selene said to him. "She shouldn't have forsaken you in the first place by joining up with Magneto, she didn't believe that you were coming back, she didn't exhibit the necessary patience."
"So she was part of the Church?" Harry questioned, he was wondering that fact, seeing as how Mystique acted as if there seemed to be some bad blood between them.
"Yes, and now she must be punished for not being a true believer," Selene said as she snapped the whip that normally rested on her hip and a wide grin crossed her face.
Tess watched Harry, she could see him watching Selene's actions closely and it was obvious he was eagerly anticipating what was to come. She anticipated it as well and hoped that she would get a front row seat for any punishments that the Black Queen chose to oversee.
"So, she'll be brought back into the fold," Lillandra continued.
"Yes, she will, and we have two new members who wish to join us properly," Selene said as she turned towards Monet and Regan. "And I'm sure that Tess would like to show them the ropes and ensure that they are properly devoted to the Star Child. It just so happens that the chance to show their proper devotion is here."
Selene paused as something else struck her.
"Har-Rell may even be inclined to reward you for your devotion to the Church and its cause," Selene added as an afterthought.
Harry smiled as he looked at the woman before, with her sleek red hair, gorgeous green eyes, beautiful face, magnificent breasts, that looked high and firm on her chest, flat stomach, shapely ass, and gorgeous legs. She was a complete package of loveliness.
"There's a chamber off to the side, I'm sure that the initiation of these two will occur there nicely," Harry stated as he put his arm around Tess's waist and guided her into the next room.
Tess smiled as Regan and Monet followed behind them, once they were inside the doors shut behind them.
"You two have had pretty bad attitudes as of late, don't think I've forgotten that fact," Harry said to them with narrowed eyes and then he offered them a wicked grin. "Sophie, Celeste, Esme, Mindee, and Phoebe all have been punished, now it's your turn."
Tess smiled at the thought; she was wet at the thought of Harry taking such a strong hand with these girls.
"Yes, master, punish us," Regan said eagerly as she drank in his body with a hungry gaze.
Tess straddle Harry's lap and started to kiss him, as two more copies of Harry's split off, preparing to punish these young girls properly.
Regan felt her skirt pulled up and a pair of thong panties being revealed, with Harry's strong hand being prepped for her.
"That's going to be amazing, this nice ass," Harry said as he rubbed her hand down her creamy ass and she closed her eyes. He teased her nicely and caused her to whimper as he played with her tasty rear.
Monet was draped over his lap as well, her pants pulled down and her shirt pulled off. Her large chocolate breasts spilled out of her top and her ass as perfectly shape.
"Let's see if I can leave some marks on that nice…."
Harry smacked Monet which caused her to yelp in a mixture of immense pleasure. Her pussy dripped with pleasure. Harry raised his hand and prepared to ram it into her supple rear once again.
"Juicy!"
Harry smacked her hard in the ass once again and caused her to moan. His smacks grew with increasingly frequency and caused her eyes to flood over with untamed lust.
"ASS!"
Harry spanked her even harder and Harry squeezed her tight cheeks which caused her to squeal with pleasure.
Tess straddled Harry and her shirt was pulled off. She had a thin black bra on and Harry squeezed her tits through her breasts. She grinded her crotch down upon him and Harry grabbed her ass from behind, causing her to moan even louder.
"Oh, this is….oh fuck," Tess whimpered and Harry pulled down her skirt and pulled her panties back, working her fingers down into her dripping wet hot cunt.
Tess leaned back and he worked his fingers deep down into her. There was a sense where she was feeling a multitude of emotions go into her. His fingers probed into her tightening pussy and Harry worked into her.
"Yes, master, I'm your slut!" Regan yelled as Harry tanned her hide with a spanking.
"You dirty girl, you're making me so fucking hard," Harry grunted and Regan slid off, her cheeks reddened, but she had a burning and horny desire that must be filled.
"I'll fix that," Regan said with a pleased coo as she dropped down to her knees and prepared to whip out the duplicate's cock to go to town on it.
She pushed her breasts between his cock and started to fuck him up and down with her massive tits. The young girl looked at him with wide eyed lust.
Tess was pushed back against the mattress that had been conjured and Harry pulled back her panties. He started to lick her walls and she put her hands on the back of his head.
"Oh, fuck, so good," Tess moaned, her god's talents, they were just as amazing as she imagined.
Things got even more intense when Harry worked his tongue in and out of her. Then he started to rattle his tongue into her like a super sonic fury. His tongue kept rattling into her and the hissing got even more intense.
Her juices gushed out of her pussy with Harry licking her walls and she closed her eyes. Harry kept licking her molten pussy and Harry kept going into her, his tongue working into her.
Monet was done with her spanking and Harry grabbed her around the hips and prepared to spear himself into her tight ass from behind.
"Please, Harry, please master!" Monet yelled.
"Never been touched, good," Harry said as he brushed his fingers against both of her eyes.
"Like I'd allow anyone but you to touch me," Monet said as Harry speared into her ass while another Harry was in front of her.
"You have such a good mouth, you know what to do," Harry told her and Monet grabbed him around the hips and greedily slurped down his cock.
Harry grabbed onto her hips and speared his massive length deep into her ass. She clenched him as Harry hammered her from behind, working into him. Her tight ass snugly wrapped around him and Harry closed his eyes.
Tess was now on his cock and bouncing up and down on it. Harry grabbed her breasts and squeezed them. This caused her walls to clamp down upon him.
"Oh, so good, so good," Tess moaned as Harry cupped her breasts and he rammed up into her. She had spent years mentally building this up in her mind and he exceeded pretty much every single expectation that was imaginable.
Harry felt her pussy grip him like a vice grip as she slid up and down him, riding.
"Cum on my tits Harry, oh come on!" Regan cooed as she felt his fingers work into her dripping cunt and she imagined his cock inside her.
She was not about to be denied for long, his balls slapped around her chest and Harry worked into her, working his hard dick between her amazing cleavage.
"Oh, fuck, oh yes," Regan moaned and his balls tightened and exploded into a shower of cum, coating her tits.
"On your hands and knees like the bitch you are," Harry demanded, seeing his cum dripping from her chest and cheeks. Harry smiled as the girl obeyed, her ass pretty much presented to him. The blonde's pussy was parted for him.
He slapped her ass and she squeezed. Harry pushed his fingers into her pussy and brushed it up against her cunt. She closed her eyes and Harry aimed towards her. His cock brushed against his dripping entrance and Harry rammed into her from behind really hard.
Harry rammed into her from behind and worked into her sopping wet pussy.
"Oh yes baby, ride me, oh fuck," Harry grunted as he worked his cock deep into Tess's dripping hole.
Tess worked her hips around him and worked up and down him, rocking her hips around him. The redhead's walls clenched him and worked her hips around his large tool. It felt so good to be inside her molten hot pussy.
"Fuck me, oh fuck me!" Tess screamed out loud as she rammed her walls onto him.
"Keep it up, you know you need me to be inside you," Harry growled and he cupped her breasts, with her hips working into her.
"Fuck, oh…
Monet's ass was being speared from behind and she grabbed around his hips. His cock was worked deep down into her throat and she kept sucking him down. Her lips wrapped around him and Harry hammered into her mouth from the front.
Monet's mouth was being hammered along with her ass and both sides caused her so much pleasure. Two cocks, one up her ass, one in her mouth, and another was added into her pussy.
Harry felt her super tight body, it was built for strength and it was built for someone like him. He grabbed her breasts and gave them a hearty squeeze with Harry working into her sopping hot cunt from behind. She was closing her eyes and she felt him go all the way into her.
Monet's whining escalated as Harry worked into her and Harry slammed into her ass as deep as he could go.
Harry battered Regan's pussy and sucked on the back of her neck as he increased the frequency and speed of his strokes.
"My lord, please, cum inside me," Regan begged him.
"In a minute," Harry grunted.
His thrusts got even more rapid fire into her and she was getting closer to clenching him as hard as he could. Her pussy was sore but it was worth it, it was more than worth it. His cock went as far into her as Harry went into her.
His cock battered her over and over again and that was the way she loved it.
There was a lot of moaning and heavy breathing as all three girls were being pleasured and Harry's balls tightened when he injected them with several blasts of cum, filling up their nubile young bodies.
There was still many more inductions to go.
"So, we're dealing with these weird fluctuations in time and space, normally I wouldn't be so concerned about it, but I think that it's worth our time to take a closer look," Karen said as she walked next to Harry.
Harry raised his eyebrow at that and it was Faora's turn to chime in with a few words of her own.
"At first, they were happening every day for only a split second," Faora admitted, from were she walked next to him. "STARR was barely picking them up, so they might have been happening a lot longer than we've been monitoring them. Regardless, they increased in strength and this is what we have so far."
"Right," Harry said as the trio of Kryptonians walked into a lab, then they moved up at least three flights of stairs.
The equipment in question needed to be built at one of the higher points in the city. Any other location and it wouldn't have worked as well as it should, or at least that's the assumption that Harry was working under. Regardless, they were almost there and his green eyes widened, impressed by what he saw in front of him.
It was a pretty close to accurate reproduction of the equipment within the Fortress, or at least accurate enough for it to work. He saw the swirls of energy moving around it and Harry couldn't help but offer a smile at how amazing it looked.
Karen frowned as she looked at Harry and she opened her mouth to say something. "I know it's not the most sophisticated thing in the world, but….."
"In a pinch, it will do," Harry told her and a wide smile crossed the blonde's face as she lead him on through. "So, you're saying that you started to pick up these weird fluxes of energy, about ten days ago."
"Nearly eleven days now," Karen admitted and Harry nodded at that. He motioned for her to continue and Karen jumped in to do so. She took a breath, collected her thoughts, and prepared to explain things properly. "There have been these flares in space, we do know there's an infinite number of dimensions and during some rare occasions they align, but it happens for less than a second."
"And these have been happening for slightly longer than a second," Harry said, pinching the bridge of his nose after slipping off his glasses and Karen nodded.
"Yes, right in one," Karen said as she checked the readings. So far, all seemed calm on the western front.
"It's not another invading force from Krypton's past, is it?"
Faora shook her head and turned towards Harry to alleviate his fears. "Doubtful, Har-Rell, it's extremely doubtful, the energy signatures don't match any Kryptonian vessel that I've ever seen in my life. Or anything that has ever been on Krypton as a matter of a fact, it makes me think that whatever out there might not be from any world that we've seen so far."
Harry was hit by one thought and he shuddered to even consider it, but never the less, it was staring back at him with damning intensity.
"So we're dealing with the supernatural."
"Yes, we are," Faora agreed with a groan and she hated that fact, because science, it was easily explained through facts and figures, there was a rational explanation for anything in regards to science. This on the other hand, couldn't be explained by anything rational, so it was just staring back at them, and that was more insanity here than her mind could handle right now.
Harry briefly wondered if this had anything to do with the Skrulls or worse yet, the Kree. Ronan hadn't returned from the journey into mystery that Harry had sent him on and he was thankful for that fact.
He was making preparations if Ronan or any of his pals made a fresh attempt at Earth. They'd underestimated what that they had to go up against last time, Harry doubted that would happen this time.
He took a closer look at the readings, it wasn't the Skrull, it wasn't the Kree, Harry had no idea what in the hell it was. It wasn't alien science, therefore he had only one explanation, if one could call it an explanation, that being the supernatural.
Of course, there were some who called magic, science that people couldn't properly explain yet since they didn't have the proper data about it.
Harry considered those people to be fools. Magic was magic, what made it magic was the fact that it couldn't be explained by any rational means, at all. He was almost insulted when people tried to fit theory onto what couldn't be explained.
Then again, he was strange like that.
Karen was unnerved by Harry's sudden silence and she jumped in with a few words of her own. "So what do you think?"
"What do I think? Well that's a loaded question as any," Harry offered the blonde and she blinked for a second as she watched Harry. She was about to call him out on his vagueness, but he cut her off. "Actually, I don't know what to think and that's what scares me. I'll bring these readings to the Council at the Fortress and see what they're able to put together. Also SHIELD might want a heads up because whatever's out there? It's not unlike anything I've ever seen before."
Harry would like to say that he had a great understanding of magic, but there were those who had a greater understanding. The Sorcerer Supreme was currently off in dimensions unknown for months and months at a time, fighting some grand evil, so naturally, Harry was pretty much on his own but he was used to having to hash out explanations on his own.
"I'll figure out what's causing this," Harry told both of the Kryptonians and they smiled.
"Spoken like a true Kryptonian," Faora said with a great deal of pleasure and approval in her tone.
From her, Harry was going to take that as one of the highest compliments that one could get.
'Mother, I'm sending something to the Fortress, you might want to take a look at this, although I wonder if we can even classify this,' Harry thought to Lara back at the Fortress.
"SHIELD's picked up similar spikes," Natasha informed Harry as the two of them made their way towards a meeting with Director Hill.
"Good to see that you're on the ball," Harry said to her and the redhead offered him a brief smile.
"Yes, well, we're not too far on the ball, given we haven't figured out what's going on," the redhead spy said to him. She paused and then decided to smile. "I don't suppose…."
"What do you think?" Harry asked her and Natasha offered him a brief teasing smile as she nodded. "If I'd figured it out, I wouldn't likely have gone to SHIELD this soon, although I'd like to have more information."
"Don't suppose it's anything regarding the current problem, do you think?" Natasha asked him and there was no question that it was a present danger on the forefront of her mind.
Carol turned up to join the two of them. "I just checked in with SWORD, they're pretty sure it's not the Skrulls this time."
"Oh, that's only a small comfort, isn't it?" Natasha asked him and the redhead's mind went wild with a series of theories, all of them more outlandish than the last.
"We'll get to the bottom of this, trust me," Harry said to the two of them.
They trusted Harry, because if they couldn't trust him, then it was really hard to trust anyone, at least that's was the thought in both their minds. The redhead walked beside Harry, with the blonde following behind them, as they made their way to meet the dark haired Director of SHIELD.
"Mr. Potter," Maria said in a diplomatic voice, knowing it was time to get down to business.
"Director Hill, I understand you have found out about the same things that I have," Harry said to Maria.
"Yes, SHIELD satellites have picked up a mysterious influx of energy," Maria said, realizing full well how vague that statement was. Despite the vagueness of the statement, she needed to push forwards, so the dark haired Director of SHIELD continued. "I've had our best scientists cross reference them."
"And I've had my best scientists do likewise," Harry stated to her and Maria offered him a nod.
"So between the pair of us, we're not really able to determine what is causing this problem, these weird….fluxes," Maria said as she struggled to find the right word.
Carol was visited with a potential theory. "Do you think it's another…..arrival like yours?"
"Well that's a possibility," Harry said to the blonde woman, he shook his head as he tried to figure out what exactly was happening. The green eyes of Harry Potter were once again filled with so many emotions, that it was hard to figure out what precisely any of them could mean.
"But, you're not certain," Maria said to him, it was more of a statement than a question.
"I'm not going to state any theories until I have proof," Harry told the woman and she nodded at him.
"Very well," Maria said to Harry and she watched him for a few seconds as the two of them locked eyes with each other. The two of them had their own way of doing things.
"So have you heard anything regarding Fury?" Harry asked her.
Maria shook her head. "I was hoping that you would have found something by now."
Harry thought that there was a chance that Fury was taking a long overdue vacation. But, there were a lot of things that pointed to the fact that he was up to something. What exactly was he was doing? Harry couldn't really say.
He was more than capable of finding out though.
"These are all of the readings I've been able to collect so far, I'm not sure how much they would collaborate with yours," Harry told Maria and she nodded, a smile crossing her face.
"It's all Greek to me….actually now that I think about it, I've learned foreign languages that weren't this complicated," Maria admitted as she flipped through the portable computer in her hand. "The good news is that SHIELD has some of the best scientists in the world working for them, and if that doesn't work we'll hit up Dr. Richards and Tony Stark."
"I'm glad that you do, because we're going to need to put our heads together to figure this out," Harry said and Maria nodded in agreement.
"Don't worry, we're going to figure this out, we want to succeed as much as you do," Maria said and she closed her eyes as she thought about it.
There were times where she thought of the age old question of what would Nick Fury do and then she realized that Fury had his own problems. There were rumors in the organization that he finally cracked, faked his own death and was living in some kind of backwoods town under an assumed name. She didn't put much stock in those rumors, although it was really interesting to think about. She shook her head and her heart skipped a couple of beats.
"I'm glad you want this to succeed," Harry told her. "I'm leaving this in the extremely capable hands of SHIELD."
Harry hoped that he wasn't mistaken about something like this, although there have been many times where he was. He just hoped that this was one of those times where he was right.
Maria turned around and she heard an echoing bang followed by a squealing hum.
Harry heard it as well.
Could this be a vital clue or something that…?
"Greetings! SHIELD and Arcane! It'ss your criminal mastermind the Riddler here! All the way from Gotham City!" the man cackled over the communication line. "I've been waiting for a long time to match my wits with someone new! When Batman died, it was a tragic, tragic, day! A worthy opponent had left me. Sure his brat is running around the cowl now! But! With you Arcane! Oh with you! I have someone who might in fact be worthy of the game!"
"Isolate that frequency!" Maria yelled and her SHIELD scientists moved over.
"Don't bother, I am bouncing this frequency between many more relay points then you can even fathom!" The Riddler crowed form the other end of the frequency and there was a loud humming that resounded from around them. "What shape is forever?"
There was a pause as the Riddler laughed.
"Answer the question and you will find the first hostage! The first of many in fact! Fail to find it within five minutes…..and the life of our hostage will be lost!"
Harry knew the answer after thinking it over and prepared to head to the first location.
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