Instruments of War

Instruments of War

Chapter 1. Luthor’s Plan

By Scarlet

WARNING: This story contains sexual situations and violence (nc, MF). It is to be read by adults only. If this sort of material is not to your liking, then read no further.

Wonder Woman shook her head slightly as she fought her way out of the black hole of unconsciousness. She tried to remember what had happened as her vision slowly began to clear, and she futilely tried to sit up. She had been on a mission to capture a noted jewel thief with Batgirl and Hawkgirl when something had struck the back of her skull…that was it. With the returning memory of what had happened earlier, came the troubling realization of what was happening now. She was bound spread-eagled to the inclined bed of some sort of bondage device, and there was something wiggling in front of her face. As her vision cleared further, she could see that the wiggling thing looked like a giant insect…and that the giant insect was held in a man’s hand. As she looked from the insect-like creature to the man’s face, Wonder Woman’s vision cleared abruptly and she became fully alert.

“Luthor!” spat the raven-haired Amazon with unbridled anger. She was dressed in her usual costume which consisted of a red bustier topped by a golden eagle, blue trunks splashed with white stars, and red, calf-high, high-heeled boots decorated with white stripes. She wore a belt, bracelets, and tiara, all apparently made of gold-colored metal–the tiara was centered with a red star, and a thin golden lasso hung from the right side of the belt.

“Ahhh, Wonder Woman, so nice of you to join us,” chortled the bald man dressed in a purple and green battle suit of his own design. “I see you have noticed my pet here. I call it a facehugger!” Luthor’s green eyes gleamed with amusement.

“Luthor, get that ugly insect thing out of my face and free me at once!” the busty heroine commanded as she glared at the arch-villain before her with beautiful blue eyes, and pulled at her bonds with long, muscular limbs. “Obey me immediately, or, when I do get free, I will break every bone in your body!”

“Wonder Woman…Wonder Woman! How could I possibly continue to make my claim as the world’s greatest criminal genius if I gave up on a revenge scheme just before it was fully implemented?” Luthor smiled, almost shyly, as he waved the green-colored, six-legged creature in front of the lovely Amazon’s face with his right hand. In his left hand, the evil villain clutched the creature’s bulb-tipped tail. From snout to tail tip, the creature looked to be over three-and-a-half feet long. There was an opening, a mouth, on the underside of the creature. Its black eyes gleamed as its claw-tipped legs wriggled slowly.

“You will make no claims at all, you evil bastard, if I bust free of these bonds, squash that giant bug, and throttle you without mercy!” Wonder Woman warned shrilly. “What vengeance are you prattling about? Where are you holding my colleagues, Batgirl and Hawkgirl?”

Luthor laughed loudly. “Vengeance against you hero types, of course, for the many times you have thwarted my plans. As for Batgirl and Hawkgirl, they are here in the room with us, unfettered, standing behind you on your left and right. Take a peek, and then, since you asked so nicely, I’ll explain my plan so that you can marvel at true genius!”

Wonder Woman quickly twisted her head to her right, and, sure enough, there stood the blue-eyed, red-haired Batgirl in her grey bodysuit with a yellow bat-symbol on its chest. She wore yellow fin-decorated gloves, yellow calf-high high-heeled boots, a yellow utility belt, a black cowl, and a long cape, black with a yellow inner lining. The Amazon frowned as Batgirl waved shyly and then lowered her eyes.

The lasso-wielding Justice Leaguer then twisted her head to the left to stare at her winged teammate. The black-haired, green-eyed warrior raised her giant silver mace and shrugged. She wore her distinctive brownish hawk mask, yellow sleeveless blouse with a plunging neckline, orange trunks held up by the yellow-colored gravity-defying Nth belt, green tights, and orange calf-high boots decorated with yellow stripes. Wonder Woman’s ruby lips quivered in confusion as she turned her head back to the villain before her. She was simply speechless!

“Ahhh! I see you’re ready to marvel at my clever plan,” Luthor chortled. “Listen up then. This is a good one, if I do say so myself. You see, a few months ago, my agents discovered what appeared to be an alien spacecraft buried in ice in inner Antarctica. I responded immediately, hoping the vessel to be of Kryptonian origin and containing meteor rocks from that planet. Yes, yes, I know, I need to stop dwelling on the Superman theme, but…I can’t.”

Luthor frowned for a moment, and then grinned broadly. “I sent in a team of my people, and they found a half-dozen of these ‘facehugger’ creatures hibernating…by the depth they were buried in the ice, they must have been hibernating for centuries,” Luthor continued softly in a matter-of-fact way. “The facehuggers awoke as soon as my crew started heating the vessel’s interior. My crew…the female members at least…learned quickly how nasty these beasties are. The male members were not un-endangered, but I didn’t learn that until well after I had ordered the alien lifeforms to be placed into cold storage and brought to me here.”

Luthor sighed, almost as if he was acknowledging a setback. “After careful scientific study, we learned that these alien creatures are symbiotic, and, like insects here on Earth, have life-cycles involving metamorphic stages…four metamorphic stages in their case. This, is the critical, if not the ‘adult’, stage.” Luthor raised the facehugger and rotated it back and forth so that Wonder Woman could get a clear look as he paused.

Luthor grinned again and winked as he noticed Wonder Woman yanking hard on her bonds. “I guarantee those restraints will hold, so don’t wear yourself out until you’ve heard the whole story.” He gloated as Wonder Woman appeared to stop fighting for freedom.

Luthor quickly continued, his eyes gleaming brightly. “The creatures are symbiotic because they cannot reproduce, their species cannot survive, without using other creatures to make their reproductive cycle possible. This metaform, I call it a male although all four metaforms should actually be called asexual,” Luthor once again raised the facehugger before Wonder Woman’s face, “uses sexual creatures of the female gender. It attaches itself to the orifice nearest the creature’s brain…yes, indeed, that would be found on a human’s face, and forces access to the interior of the creature. It inserts a symbiont, a second, perhaps the climatic, metaform of the alien, which exits the facehugger via its underbelly mouth, into the hosts near-brain orifice. For humans, they prefer the mouth.”

Luthor abruptly bent over and kissed the Amazon full on her ruby lips, and then jerked his head quickly back as she attempted to bite his own lower lip. “Now, once inserted, the second symbiotic metaform quickly works its way to the base of, in humans, the cerebral cortex, with some interesting results,” he continued jovially. “The human female finds it impossible to resist any command given to it by a sexual creature of the male gender. In other words, what I call the ‘brain worm’ tames the female completely.”

Wonder Woman had heard enough! “Hawkgirl…Batgirl…break me free and lets trash this bastard!” the Amazon roared. When neither heroine responded, she screamed, “What’s wrong with you two? Move it or I’m going to kick your asses!”

Luthor roared loudly in laughter…composed himself…and the continued with a ‘better-than-thou’ tone, “Now, now…don’t be angry with your friends! You see, I bated and captured Batgirl over a week ago with a fake tip, and a few days later used her to bate and trap Hawkgirl, just as the two of them bated and trapped you today. The jewel thief doesn’t exist! Now, Batgirl just fell for the trick tip…what can I say, she is naïve…but once I let my facehugger do its thing, she obeyed my command to set up Hawkgirl. Then Hawkgirl got the ‘brain worm’, and the two of them had no choice but to obey my command to set up you…so here we be!”

Wonder Woman grimaced, “Luthor, you do know I’m going to kill you…you do know it…right?”

Luthor smiled evilly. “Well, at least let me finish telling you about my plan before you do anything rash! I haven’t even told you about the other two metaforms yet. Now…where was I…oh yes…the brain worm. Well, the brain worm is only part of the facehugger's life mission. This here fancy tail also has a purpose,” the villain explained calmly, and the stuck the bulbous tail inches from the Amazons widened eyes.

As recognition crossed slowly across the Amazon’s face, she let out a soft gasp. “It looks…it looks almost…almost penisoid. NO! You wouldn’t dare!” Wonder Woman roared in defiance.

Luthor chuckled and contempt filled his eyes. “Wouldn’t I?” His head slowly nodded and the evil grin returned. “Of course I would. I am Lex Luthor, the greatest known criminal mastermind. However, don’t sweat it yet toots, I’m not done talking, and everyone knows that you hero types make your break just as the villain finishes revealing his evil plans.”

Luthor paused, winked, and then resumed in a low confident voice. “Now…now back to the tale about…oh yes…the tail...you’re right, it is an inseminator. While the facehugger metaform is struggling to force the near brain orifice of its chosen host to allow the brain worm its entry, the inseminator is busily searching for access to the host’s reproductive organs. Once the orifice to the reproductive organs is located, this nasty little beastie attempts to bring its host to a climatic orgasm, a reward I guess for the crucial role the host is going to play in the beastie’s own reproductive cycle.”

Concern flooded Wonder Woman’s face, but not concern for herself. She was still confident she would soon break free. “Batgirl…Hawkgirl…surely he didn’t…you weren’t…” As the Amazon peered first at Batgirl and then at Hawkgirl, each heroine’s face reddened as they lowered eyes to the floor. Obviously, both heroines had been sexually assaulted by the alien creature. “Are you two okay, you’re not…compromised...are you?”

Luthor roared with laughter. “Are you asking them if they’re pregnant? No, no, they have not been impregnated from their playtime with the facehugger and its inseminator. It doesn’t work in such a straightforward manner. I told you the symbiotic organism is asexual. The facehugger, even though I told you I considered it a male form, doesn’t inject semen into its host via its inseminator when the host climaxes. It injects the third metaform…I call them egglets…into the host! The egglets are incredibly tiny, and with the culmination of the ‘mating ritual’ the inseminator spews them into the host by the hundreds. Somehow, the egglets manage to find their way up the hosts ‘love canal’ to its reproductive organs. There, the egglets remain dormant…waiting for the one thing its female host does not have…a Y chromosome.”

Luthor paused and ogled his captive as he let her take everything in. “So…you see…the female host remains uncompromised…not impregnated…until it has sex with a male…a male of any sexual species. Once the host is fertilized by a male sexual species, the egglets slowly begin to become alive…become mobile. For the first 24-hours, the eggets mobility is very limited as they slowly change form. After 24-hours, they are fully changed, and the process has an amazing effect on its female host. I suppose it is the brain worm that is causing it all…causing the host to have an unquenchable desire to mate. In plain words, the female host becomes a real slut constantly looking to rut!”

The arch-villain frowned slightly as the Amazon maintained her stoic silence. He supposed she just wanted him to get on with it until she figured out how to get free. “Now, once fertilized, the egglets present no danger to the host or its male mates until the end of the 24-hour period. At that time, they change into what I call a larvae stage…the fourth metaform. For the next four days, the larvae do one of two things. They either continue to simply grow in the female host waiting the birthing period, or they swim up the penis of any male mating with the female host until they reach the testis, where they insert themselves, continue to grow, and undergo a metamorphosis for the next three days in the male host. At the end of three days, any larvae in a male host hatch and claw their way out of the testis…not a pleasant experience I assure you. Upon maturity, what you get is this.” Luthor again waved the facehugger in Wonder Woman’s face.

“Luthor, what a cruel fate for any man…such a thing would surely destroy his will to survive. These alien creatures should be exterminated at once!” Wonder Woman said softly, thinking of her many male friends.

“Cruel? Tell me about it sweetie. All of the male members of my recovery team committed suicide within weeks of their…fateful experience,” Luthor said softly, once again almost showing remorse. “However, the female members of my team faired even worse. The larvae within them also underwent metamorphosis until they hatched at the end of the four-day period…one day after the facehugger forms escaped from their male hosts. Upon hatching, hundreds of creatures were birthed at once…none of the women survived the birthing process. The larvae hatched from the females…then rejoined…entered the bodies…of the facehugger form to complete their final metamorphosis. Yes! I can see from your face that you guessed the answer. The hatchlings from the female hosts ultimately become the brain worm symbiont. A perfect circle is it not?” Luthor smiled and slowly lowered the facehugger he held toward the Amazon’s fear-filled face.

“NO! Luthor…you must not carry on with this mad scheme. Not even you can be so truly evil so as to doom one such as I to a truly tragic fate!” Wonder Woman screamed, for the first time a hint of fear in her voice. “Release me…release all three of us…and I will vouchsafe you any ransom you demand!” The Amazon swallowed hard, for her pride was damage by her own words…words sounding far too much like begging.

The bald archfiend chuckled jovially and grinned broadly. “Can it not be said that you doomed yourself when you chose this profession, heroine…cannot the case be made that Batgirl doomed you through her naivety? You truly wrong me when you attempt to lay all of this blame on me. Were I a lesser man, this blame I would refuse…but I, Lex Luthor, am not a lesser man. I will claim full credit for your defeat and…eventually…your demise!” His speech finished, Luthor slowly lowered the facehugger towards Wonder Woman’s terrified face.

“NO! STOP AT ONCE!” Wonder Woman commanded stridently. “Batgirl, you foolish hussy, wake your ass up and help me undo this mess or I’m going to kick your boney ass from here to October! By Jove, you rich bitch, you’ve screwed things up royally yet again!”

“Wonder Woman…Wonder Woman! How often must I remind you to be kind to your friends,” Luthor chortled, the journey of the facehugger towards the Amazon’s face halted, at least momentarily. “Now, if you really feel that Batgirl should pay for her poor judgment, you should know that she and I are about to leave the room and join the rest of my men...my very horny men. There, Batgirl will be commanded to strip and play the part of the little engine that could, as she pulls the proverbial ‘train’.” Luthor’s evil grin broadened as there was a sighing gasp from Batgirl and the sign of remorse filling Wonder Woman’s eyes. “This time tomorrow, I will command Batgirl to go to the Batcave and seduce both Batman and the Boy Wonder. With her uncontrolled sexual urges, no doubt the Bat family will be in seventh heaven…for a few days.”

“Luthor, you sick son of a bitch, if you rape Batgirl and force her to turn on her friends, I’ll kill you. What’s more, if you carry through with your plans for me, I guarantee you that I will find no pleasure, brain worm or not, from you and your men’s pin-sized limp dicks. When I finally get the chance, I will rip off those pint-sized peckers, testicles and all, and roast them over a barbecue…”

“Enough, Nag!” Luthor roared in anger. “Big tits or not, I’ll give into you on this one point. It won’t be my men and I that finally seed you and your soon-to-be-deposited egglets. I’ll leave that honor to a Great Dane…while my men and I are fully utilizing that nasty mouth of yours. Oh…by the way…just in case you are incredibly stupid just now…a Great Dane IS NOT an important man from Denmark. As I mentioned earlier, the egglets won’t care!

Wonder Woman opened her mouth to protest Luthor’s disgusting plans, but quickly clamped her jaws tightly closed as the facehugger was abruptly pushed to its intended destination. In a quick, precise motion, the bald villain snatched away the cloth covering the Amazon’s crotch, the material tearing like tissue due to the battle suits muscle enhancers.

“Hawkgirl, see to it that nothing prevents the facehugger from fulfilling its life’s mission, and that no one interrupts the bawdy party we are having in the next room!” Luthor commanded briskly. As Hawkgirl nodded silently, her face expressionless, Luthor turned to Batgirl to look at her wide-eyed, fear-flushed, reddened face. “Lead the way, Miss Gordon, you’ve egglets in need of seeding and a destiny to fulfill!” With that, the master villain rushed out of the room, pushing Batgirl before him.

Wonder Woman knew it was time to break free of her bonds. She pulled hard with both arms and legs as she felt cold air blowing over her bared sex. She groaned as she felt the facehugger’s claws hook behind her head and neck, and the alien pressed its body, its undermouth centered over her own mouth, hard against her face. Suddenly she froze…almost opened her mouth to scream in terror…as she felt the facehugger’s tail begin its first probe at her labial lips.

End Chapter 1.

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