The Global Protectors – The Revenge of Blackchrome

By Marcus_Lycus@hotmail.com

The Global Protectors are copyright Doctor Droid (www.superstories.net/droidzone). Other characters and text are copyright Marcus Lycus.

Do not repost this story without permission. Please don’t read it if you are younger than 18. Any resemblance between characters in this story and any actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental of course.

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Marcus Lycus

August 2004

Chapter 4 - Endgame

Maple Leaf printed out the agenda for the morning meeting and reviewed it. Progress report on fundraising, plan to cut expenses, plan to improve executive compensation, looks like everything is covered.

Then she called up the monitor program to see if anyone had bothered to show up on time and was pleasantly surprised to see Val, Shamrock, Rising Sun and even Star were already waiting in the conference room.

"I guess my leadership is finally getting through to them" she said with a smile.

Walking down to the meeting room she wondered if she should praise the team for actually being on time for once or find something else to criticize to make sure they didn't start getting lax. She was still musing about it when she opened the door and looked inside.

The agenda dropped from her numb fingers.

Shamrock and Rising Sun fucking on top of the conference table.

Star crouching in the corner hiding her bloody face.

And Valkyrie, strong noble Valkyrie sprawled on a chair, drool leaking from her open mouth and a gigantic vibrator between her legs.

Maple Leaf's mouth opened and closed a few times, no sound emerged.

She felt a cold metal hand land on her shoulder and someone whispered in her ear "Surprise!"

***

Her back to the wall, La Sola took a step to the side shifting closer to the exit. She held the crucifix out, still happy that small token was enough to hold the evil forces around her at bay. She muttered prayers in Spanish and thought of her church, her priest of God and goodness and light. The vampires did not approach. She took another step; the angel-faced pretty boy backed off giving her room.

At the other end of the room Aussie Girl rose unsteadily to her feet. The count supported her until she could stand again. She kissed him on the cheek and threw her arms around his neck. He whispered something in her ear and pointed at the last Protector. Aussie nodded and started walking towards La Sola. Her eyes were no longer dazed and confused she was focused and calm, smiling at her friend.

"Carmen, won't you join us?"

"Stay back! Tu es la diabola!"

"Oh Carmen, don't be so literal. Vampires aren't evil. Not really. It hurts a little at first but then it feels so… so good. Look at Tigress, isn't she happy?"

Tigress was held up by the two vampire women, as they tasted her rich blood. The African woman eagerly kissed them as she offered her strong arms.

"It's like having a man inside but so much better. Mmm, I can still feel him." Aussie Girl ran her hands over her taunt young body and smiled playfully at her teammate. She pointed at the cross. "You know Carmen, those things only work for the truly faithful."

"S-stay back!" She waved the cross around. The two vampire men moved farther away.

"Come on Carmen, are you really going to try and convince me you're a good Catholic girl? After that night we spent with Dynamo? Or that time we went back to the hotel with the NBA team? Or that night in the Himalayas where we had to keep each other warm? Hmm?"

La Sola lowered her arm slightly. Her teammate advanced a little closer.

"Trust me Carmen. It's wonderful! Even better than villain sex."

La Sola looked at Tigress writhing as two women drank her blood. Her arm wavered again.

Aussie Girl put her hand on her teammate's hand and gently pried her fingers open. She tossed the gold cross into a corner making the blond boy scurry out of the way.

She kissed La Sola's rich full lips and led her towards their host.

The Dark Count eagerly received her.

***

Blackchrome wrapped a strong arm around Maple Leaf's ribs and give them a squeeze. Needles extended from her other hand and slipped into the heroine's neck giving her a taste of Blackchrome's personal cocktail of mind control and aphrodisiac drugs. A quick slash cut away the top half of Maple Leaf's costume exposing her ripe breasts. Then she helped Maple Leaf into her chair and bound the Canadian's hands behind the chair's back. Maple Leaf tried to break the polymer cables around her wrists but they were just too strong. And she just felt so weak.

"Five years huh? You spent five years building up this team, getting a headquarters, two jets, international backing, tons of media attention and eight powerful heroines. Not bad. Not too bad at all. Of course it only took me five hours (give or take) to demolish it."

Maple Leaf hung her head low. She just couldn't look at Val's idiot grin or Shamrock's lusty gyrating any longer.

"Aw, don't worry, it's OK to cry. No one could blame you. I mean all that work and five years from now you'll just a trivia question on Millionaire and everyone will remember the Global Protectors as 'that chick group that came after Bikini Force'. If you're lucky, really lucky, CH1 might do one of their 'Behind the Mask' documentaries on you guys. But I doubt it."

Black Chrome sat down in the heroine's lap straddling her so they were face to face.

Maple Leaf caught the scent of burning wires from her captor's battered body.

"Mmm, five little heroines in a day. Gotta be some kind of record huh?"

"Who are you?" Maple Leaf finally managed to ask.

"You don't remember me? Well I guess we didn't spend all that much time together, and of course Rising Cum over there didn't remember me either, after we got to know each other so well too." Blackchrome reached up and pulled off her latex cowl revealing a scarred face, held together by metal plates and wires. "I… I don't know who you are…"

"I guess I kind of… changed my look huh? New haircut, different makeup, all that jazz." She giggled hysterically and moved her hands to Maple Leaf's breasts and started massaging them. Drugged and helpless the Canadian felt her body start to respond. "Ah, there you go, that sounds more like the Maple Leaf I remember, always happy to be fucked by your captor. Of course I hear you guys have trouble remembering those months we spent together down in the dungeons of despair."

"The Wraith Lord…"

"Yep. I was a VX trooper then, named Gretchen. I got captured and got the same treatment you guys did only without superpowers and nifty healing abilities. Got to spend some time as Clyde's sex slave till I couldn't take it anymore and drove a soupspoon through his eye socket. Got to see you guys escape when everything was falling apart, noticed you didn't find any time to save the rest of us."

"I… we…"

"Ah, water under the bridge dear. Water under the bridge. I followed you guys out most of the way; course while you could fly out I got pinned under the rubble when the mountain came down. The VX clean-up team didn't find me for two days. And putting me back together took a lot longer than that."

Maple Leaf looked into Blackchrome's silver eyes, the cyborg's right eye was starting to turn black. A thin stream of smoke escaped from her tear ducts.

"And then it took some time to plan this little caper. My inside knowledge helped quite a bit of course, even though the bosses actually didn't believe me when I told them what sluts you girls really are."

(I believed you.)

(Well of course. But you've had some personal experience with them too.)

"But I was right. You know what it took to beat you girls? Some gas, some drugs, some guys, nothing any street gang or drug lord couldn't put together. You people have some serious issues you'd better resolve soon. Assuming you have any time left of course."

(Uh, Blackchrome, you might not want to tell her exactly how we beat them.)

(Why? We are going to kill them after this aren't we? Aren't we?)

(Uh... yeah, sure, but why let her die knowing the truth?)

(Bah. You're just no fun at all.)

(Blackchrome, just stick to the plan God damn it-)

Blackchrome turned off her internal comlink and returned her attention to the drugged heroine in front of her.

"Didn't beat us all…"

"No? You're not thinking that Tigress is going to come swooping in to the rescue do you? You know what it took for me to beat big scary Tigress? It took a fucking email. An email! She was even easier than you were Jillian."

"…know my name…"

"Of course I know your name! Geisha girl over there" she slapped Rising Sun on the ass "gave me access to all your files! Took me less than an hour to break her. You might want to think twice about who you let design your security system. Maybe someone with a spine would be better. Oh and letting a repressed lesbian use the mind control helmet on you, bad idea."

"Lesbian… mind control?"

"Oh that's right, you don't know do you? Never asked Valkyrie exactly how she 'treats' you for shock huh? Don't ask, don't tell." She tweaked Maple Leaf's nipples watching them rise to attention. "Course it doesn't help that Doctor Boyd tinkered with the process to turn you all into borderline nymphos. Bet Val over there didn't tell you that either. There's a lot she didn't tell you huh? She's got a nice library of pictures of you in the shower, you know. Buried in a subdirectory called 'Grant Proposals-2001'. Cute stuff, I posted them on the internet, hope you don't mind."

Tears fell from Maple Leaf's eyes.

"Come here you big dyke, I've got something for you!"

Valkyrie staggered to her feet and made her way to her leader's chair. She collapsed to her knees in front of Maple Leaf and started to suck on Maple Leaf's breast. Against her will the Canadian woman started to moan from arousal.

"Like that don't you? That's good. Everyone deserves to die happy."

Blackchrome got up and walked over to the metal briefcase on the table. She tired to open it but her fingers weren't exactly working right any more. On the third try she got it open just as her knees gave out. After a few minutes she pulled herself back up. By then smoke was coming out of several spots and the skin on her cheek was melting.

"Heh. Shoddy workmanship. Course didn't really think Star there would put up such a good fight. Hey Star! Good job!"

The blonde just whimpered.

"Not that it matters, wasn't planning to get out of this alive anyway. Too many enhancements, too many drugs running loose in my body, I'd be dead soon even if blondie hadn't gotten a lucky shot it. But hey…"

She looked around one last time at the degraded and humiliated heroines.

"…everyone should die happy!"

Blackchrome twisted the detonator lever on the plasma bomb.

***

"What happened?" Aussie Girl asked. She had just woken up in her hair aboard the Globe Hopper II. She could feel they were in the air. La Sola was lying next to her looking pale and tired. Aussie staggered over to the bar and poured herself some Gatorade. After a few cups she felt a bit better. Still weak and anemic but at least she could walk straight. She knocked on the cockpit door.

"Enter."

"Hey Tigress, uh…"

"You want to know what happened."

"Yeah that would be nice."

"You and La Sola were weak. You were overwhelmed by the Dark Count's vampire thralls and almost killed. I saved you."

"Oh…" That wasn't quite what Aussie remembered, she remembered something about dinner, and dessert, and sex... only better than sex… But then her head started to hurt too much. Besides Tigress' story made sense, isn't that what always happened?

"Say we're not going to turn into…"

"Don't be a fool. You cannot become a vampire by being bitten, again and again and again, only by drinking a vampire's blood can you turn. Everyone knows that."

"So now…"

"We return home. Perhaps someday we will meet the Dark Count again."

For some odd reason Aussie Girl found herself looking forward to that.

***

"What was the point of that?"

On the battlements of Castle Darkness the Dark Count watched the departing jet. He looked down at his dark haired thrall in her skimpy red bathing suit and snarled.

"You question me?"

"NO! No master, no, never. But I wish to learn… please… why let them go, why not turn them or kill them, why let them go?"

"Fool of a thrall! Were you not so decorative I would have eliminated you long ago. Did you not enjoy your feast? Was their superhuman blood not to your liking? Would you so quickly eliminate the most delicious fluids you have drunk in centuries?"

"I... suppose not…but surely as slaves…"

"I would soon grow fat on their blood. No. These Global Protectors are a special treat to be sampled sparingly, when I wish it. Perhaps in time they will serve me as thralls but for now they may go their own way, their memories conveniently befuddled save for the desire to return to my side."

The valley rang with the Dark Count's laughter.

***

Now that the subplot is over…

Blackchrome twisted the detonator lever on the plasma bomb.

The machine hummed for a second and died.

Blackchrome blinked twice and muttered "it's not fair" as the automatic signal deactivated her bionic heart and the acid vials hidden in her cybernetics began dissolving her body. In a few minutes, there was nothing left.

***

"What was the point of that?"

Beneath Twin Pines Mall Commander Hogan watched Blackchrome disintegrate.

He looked down at his assistant and snarled.

"What? You thought I'd just kill them off?"

"Yeah, sure. I mean, why not kill them? We had them powerless, why give Blackchrome a dud bomb? Why send her out at all if she's not going to kill them?"

"Tell me Collin, when you think of Villainy eXtreme, what do you think of?"

"Uh… we're supervillians."

"We're MERCENARY supervillians. No one dies unless we get paid."

"But then why…"

"Why send a fourteen million dollar cyborg on a suicide mission? Why play with the Global Protectors rather than take them out with snipers? Marketing!"

He patted his DVD burner.

"I have over twelve hours of footage of heroines being tortured, beaten and humiliated by our agent. Once the promotions department finishes editing this we'll send it out to all the major villains. Next time Doctor Darkness or North Korea has trouble with some caped crusader they'll call us. And pay us well."

"But didn't Blackchrome say anyone could have done this?"

"That's true. The fact is a monkey could take down the Glorified Prostitutes if he knew how. But we're the only ones who know that. As far as anyone else is concerned we took apart the world's second best superhero team. Besides…"

His voice dropped to a whisper.

"… do you want to deprive the world of Valkyrie's breasts?"

Collin laughed.

***

When Tigress' team finally returned they found a their teammates enmeshed in some kind of lesbian orgy in the middle of the meeting room. Tigress finally had to use a firehose to separate them.

Once the five drugged heroines regained some of their senses panic set in. Star threw a scrap of spandex over her head and locked herself in a closet screaming "don't look at me!" Blushing bright red, Shamrock ran downstairs to the shower room. Rising Sun just sat on the floor in a pool of her own juices as the memories flooded back. Maple Leaf pushed Valkyrie off of her and tried to assume command but gave up when Aussie Girl and La Sola wouldn't stop giggling. So she just slinked back to her office and locked the door. Valkyrie had no time to deal with what she had done. She immediately headed for the lab to locate some antitoxins and get Blackchrome's drugs out of their systems. Then there would be time for another piece of vital equipment…

***

Shamrock finished her third shower and stepped out. She wrapped a towel around herself and walked into the dark locker room. She still felt dirty, how could she do… that… with strange men and… with a girl? She hadn't even known some of those things were possible… Well hardly known at least.

She headed for her locker hoping she'd left a spare costume there and then she saw her… Rising Sun. She yelped in surprise and turned to run for the door but her oriental friend took her shoulder and stopped her.

"Shannon, please… don't…"

The redhead struggled to get loose and Rising Sun was forced to wrap her slender arms around her friend, feeling her warm skin through the thin towel, feeling her wet body against her spandex costume… She shuddered, knowing it wasn't just Blackchrome's drugs that made her feel that way.

"Please Shannon, please listen…"

The Irish girl turned to face her tears falling freely down her face.

"Oh Kisume I'm so sorry, so sorry, please don't think I'm a freak… I'm not a pervert, really! I… I didn't know what I was doing!"

"You? You're sorry? Oh Shannon! I should be apologizing to you! If I hadn't been captured none of this…"

The two girls hugged each other weeping. That felt good too.

"I'm a freak…" Shamrock insisted "I made you do those terrible things with me and… they felt good…"

Rising Sun looked into her friend's eyes, Shamrock looked so beautiful and so sad. She had to say it, whatever happened, she had to say it.

"Oh Shannon… you're not a freak! Listen, when a girlfriend gives you a peck on the cheek…" Rising Sun kissed the Irish girl's red cheek "…that's not strange is it?"

"No I guess not…"

"And when a girlfriend hugs you, does that feel perverted?" Rising Sun held Shamrock closer. The towel slid down a bit.

"No… it feels good…"

"Shannon back when I was in junior high school I went to my friend's house with the other girls from the tennis team. Miyuki showed us how to kiss boys. Except there weren't any boys to practice with. So we practiced together, just us girls. Does that make me a freak?"

"You? No Kisume, of course not! You're not a freak."

Rising Sun decided not to mention just how far that practice had gone. Or that it had continued into college.

"Thank you Shamrock, thank you. I just want you to know Shamrock, today… I felt good too. And…" she gulped "…and, maybe someday, you and I can try that again."

Shamrock's lips moved but no sound came out. Her eyes went wide with terror.

"J-just think about it… OK? Just… think."

She'd said too much.

Red-faced Rising Sun hurried out of the locker room.

Shamrock pulled her towel closer and ran back into the shower.

Hurrying away, Rising Sun didn't even notice Valkyrie lurking in the doorway or see the angry tears in her eyes.

'Shamrock! She choose Shamrock over me!'

Enraged Valkyrie crushed the vial of antitoxins and headed for the storage vault.

***

Upstairs Tigress and Maple Leaf started to take stock.

"It's no good Tigress. Hackers have been through all our systems, anything on the server could have been copied. I'm changing all the passwords and protocols but it's really closing the barn door after the cows escaped. What I don't get is how did they get through security?"

"I thought Blackchrome explained that."

"Yeah well she said a lot of things, she even implied that Valkyrie is… y'know… wears sensible shoes. Come on, did you ever hear anything that absurd? Val a lesbian! Why I'd sooner think Shamrock or Rising Sun were dykes then her."

Tigress wondered if her leader was really that blind. "She did say Rising Sun told her how to penetrate our systems though. And she was her first captive. She had hours to extract information from her. The girl is not as strong as you or I."

"You don't really think that. Rising Sun has always been a loyal and steadfast member of the team and I won't hear anything against her."

Tigress muttered something obscene in Swahili.

"Pardon?"

"Just an old African saying."

"OK, damage control. Obviously we're all in a bit of disarray here, could you go find Val and see what's keeping that antitoxin? I still feel kind of… y'know."

"Of course. I will return in… twenty minutes then?"

"Better make it thirty."

As soon as Tigress left Maple Leaf opened the soundproof secret compartment in her office and ducked inside. The chair was waiting. Years ago Doctor Droid had used it to test the Global Protectors' sexual stamina, the dildos and electrodes on it provided far more stimulation than a mere man ever could. Maple Leaf set the timer for thirty minutes and sat down.

***

La Sola pleaded outside the broom closet. "Please come out Star, I promise I won't look! And besides, those cuts should heal right? Star?"

More wails came from inside.

La Sola had no choice, exerting a bit of her strength (she still felt weak from that last mission) she snapped the lock and opened the door.

Star had found a first aid kit and wrapped her head in more bandages than the average mummy. Now she was just sitting on bucket bawling like a baby.

"Oh Star, mi amiga, why are you crying? Does it hurt that much?"

Star muttered something about her pride. La Sola closed the door to give them some privacy.

"Please mi Estrella, tell me what happened."

Star reached over and hugged her teammate, probably the first time she had shown affection to any of her rivals since joining the team.

"Oh Carmen, you don't know what she did to me! I had her, I had her in my hand and I could have beaten her right there, BOOM! Fatality bitch! And she still beat me. She said she'd make me beg and she did. I begged her for mercy. I kissed her boots, I told her anything she wanted to hear, just so she wouldn't hurt me."

"Oh Star, I'm so sorry but it's not your fault, she was muy peligrosa."

"Yeah she was kind of gross, but I can't stand it. I can't stand being so weak. From now on I'm turning over a new leaf, no more sleeping in! I'm going to go to those training sessions Tigress is always going on and on about, they're like at 11 right?"

"I don't usually go but I think they're at 6."

"Well that's great! I can go just before dinner and…"

"I mean 6 in the morning."

"Oh."

"But I hear they're very good! I know Valkyrie goes every day."

Star's voice started to recover some of its usual snotiness. "Right. I guess I can do that, one, maybe two days a week, if I'm not out late or if I don't have something to do… sure… you're gonna see a whole new side of me from now on! Just, y'know, not too early."

***

Deep inside the Gaea Building's subbasements Valkyrie desperately searched the Protector's secure vault.

"Where is it! Blackchrome couldn't have taken it… she couldn't have… I need it! There's still time while they're confused by the drugs, before they stop and think about what she said…before Rising Sun…"

"Looking for this?"

Behind her stood Tigress with Valkyrie's mind control helmet in her hand.

"I…" there was no point in denying it. "How long have you known?"

"Since the beginning. Before you erased-"

"TREATED!"

"-erased our memories of the Wraith Lord case I wrote myself some notes in Swahili. I relearned the truth minutes after your brainwashing tried to erase it. Since then I've made it a point to note down any information you might try to wipe from my mind."

"Tigress… I…" The Swede seemed close to tears.

"Valkyrie, I understand. I didn't understand two years ago but I do now. I have always thought the others were weak, but I did not appreciate how weak until today's events proved my fears. Imagine letting a villain manipulate them like that, use them as puppets and humiliate them for perverse purposes. Shameful. I would never let something like that happen to me. You were right my sister, they need your strong influence to carry on. You and I were Doctor Boyd's firstborn. We are the strong ones, they are inferior copies of us and need our help."

She tossed the helmet to Valkyrie and the Swede caught it. Then, as quick as her namesake, Tigress seized Valkyrie's costume and lifted the blonde off her feet.

"But remember this white woman, if you even try to use that evil machine on me again I'll crush you like a grape!"

Terrified Valkyrie nodded.

"Now go upstairs and make things right."

Epilogue

The next day the team assembled in Maple Leaf's office for the morning meeting since the meeting room was still being cleaned and disinfected. Maple Leaf had even ordered new furniture and the old set burned.

Rising Sun and Shamrock stood at opposite ends of the room, the Japanese girl eagerly eyed her friend for some sort of reaction while the Irish girl tried not to look up. They didn't notice Valkyrie eyeing them both with barely disguised hatred. It had been hard not to 'modify' their thoughts the night before. Very hard. Part of her still regretted making the ethical decision.

Star tried to lurk in the corner behind La Sola and Aussie Girl, her face was still half covered in bandages even though the cuts had healed overnight to noting more than pink lines. She'd actually shown up at 6:45 for the 6 am training session and let Tigress put her through a few exercises before excusing herself. She'd spent the rest of the morning calling the press to cancel her upcoming appearances and say she was going on a secret mission to Tibet. Then she called her record company to say she was going into seclusion to work on her next album. And then she called a few select gossip columnists to say she was taking off for Hawaii with Justin Timberlake. Star might seem down, but she was far from out of the celebrity game.

Maple Leaf stood up and started the meeting.

"Although Blackchrome's drugs distorted our memories, it seem obvious that she was a cunning and powerful foe who nearly defeated us all."

The Global Protectors nodded at Maple Leaf's statement.

"But is also obvious that we were able to defeat her because one of us stood tall and fought her to a standstill!"

The Protectors looked at each other confused, as far as any of them could remember Blackchrome had beaten and humiliated all five of the heroines she had attacked.

"The security tapes confirm that the terrific damage this heroine did won the day for us causing Blackchrome to self destruct before she could arm her plasma bomb. For this reason I am pleased to give our highest honor to… Star!"

Star blushed and mumbled thanks as Maple Leaf placed the metal around her neck. The others applauded politely.

In the back of her mind she considered this. Maple Leaf was right, I did save the day! Guess I really don't need those training sessions after all…

Afterword

Hope you all enjoyed this episode of the Global Protector's continuing saga. There are more stories in the works but I think the next project will be a set of short stories focusing on the various original and not-so-original supporting characters you've seen in other stories.

Look for the adventures of Lara Crowe, the Penalizer, Bikini Force and Aurora Princess of the Dawn whenever I get around to writing them…

And remember, as always…

Please e-mail me with any comments, complaints or suggestions. Remember feedback leads to more stories!

Marcus Lycus

Marcus_Lycus@hotmail.com