The Global Protectors – Tangents

By Marcus Lycus

(Marcus_Lycus@hotmail.com)

Hello and welcome to Tangents.  This was supposed to be a set of easy short stories as a break before the big Global Protectors epic I’ve been planning for a while.  It became a 100 page monster but it was so worth it.  This time out I break away from the Global Protectors and explore some of the supporting characters I’ve created over the last year.  This lets me try some different sorts of stories but forces me to work without the comforting support of characters someone else created.  

Feedback is always welcome but in this case it’s especially important if you want to see any of these characters again.

The first story is my tribute to Supergirl and sweet innocent heroines everywhere.  I really enjoyed Peter David’s Kara Zor-El story from last year and Jeff Loeb & Michael Turner’s current Supergirl story and wanted to offer my take on the idea.  Which as it happens has so little to do with the stories cited that no one will see the connection but that's another issue…

Why not just write a Supergirl story?  I think using an established character is harder than making my own.  If I’m using Supergirl people want to read about Supergirl, not a nymphomaniac wearing Supergirl’s costume.  And let’s not even worry about the question of which version of Supergirl I’d be using.  By creating my own Sun Girl I can use as much of Supergirl as I want but still have freedom to make changes.  

Legal Horrors – The Global Protectors are copyright, trademark etc. of Doctor Droid (www.superstories.net/droidzone) and are used with his permission.  Sun Girl and the other characters and text are copyright and trademark Marcus Lycus.

What does that legal gibberish mean?  It means that if you want to use the Global Protectors in another story you need Doctor Droid’s permission (not mine).  It also means that you can’t repost this story or use the characters created in it without my permission.

And since this story is meant for people over the age of 18, please don’t read it if you are younger than that.  Any resemblance between characters in this story and any actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental of course.   

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

Marcus Lycus

September 2004

 

Tangent 1 – Aurora, Princess of the Dawn in: The Birth of Sun Girl

 

“Die Protectors!” the Human Dreadnought bellowed.  

His twin gatling guns raked Valkyrie with thousands of rounds of armor-piercing bullets.  Even the Swede Supreme could not endure such an onslaught, her spandex costume disintegrated (much to the appreciation of the tourists) and the blonde heroine was tossed backwards through the front of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.  Her psychokinetic field had saved her life but only barely.  

“You will never stop me from destroying Cleveland!”  He added as his iron claw smashed Rising Sun’s bruised face into the pavement.  He fired a burst into the huge American flag flying in the plaza enjoying the sight of that imperialist symbol being holed by his superior firepower.

Hugo DeMott looked over the battleground.  With the Swede and the Jap down only the Irish girl and the American remained to face him, and the American girl was cowering behind a dumpster.  He smiled under his steel helmet.  This was it, after all these years of perfecting his Human Dreadnought suit today was the day he would prove to the world that his precision-crafted Swiss armor was the most powerful force in the world.  He turned to the Irish heroine.

“Shamrock, why do you defend these barbarians?  You are a civilized European like myself; you should fight by my side in my crusade to destroy this garish and uncultured land.”

“HEY!”  Star yelled “Don’t go calling the US of A galosh and stuff you Euro-wenie-eek!”  She scurried back behind the dumpster when the Dreadnought fired another burst from its shoulder cannons.  

Shamrock realized she was alone; her two brave friends were out of the picture and Star… well she was sure Star meant well.  Sort of sure.  Actually she knew in her heart Star was worthless but had to at least try to see a good side.  Shamrock suddenly felt very afraid.  

“Join me Shamrock and together we shall remake America in our cultured and enlightened image!  Do you want your homeland to be overrun by McDonald’s and Wal-Mart?  Do you want to see your parents driving to a shopping mall in a converted military vehicle?”   

Shamrock looked around.  There was a bright yellow Hummer 2 parked by the curb; she hated those big, ugly, dirty trucks.  She walked towards it.

“Yes!  Join me Shamrock!  Destroy that filthy polluting war machine!”

“Hey Red what the fuck are you do-AH!”  Star fled behind the dumpster again when the Dreadnought took a popshot.

***

Of course you know that Valkyrie, Rising Sun, Shamrock and Star are members of the world-famous Global Protectors.

What do you mean you never heard of them?

The Global Protectors are eight gorgeous women from all over the world, who fight crime, work for world peace and don't wear much clothing.  What's not to like?  

Of course unlike most heroes and heroines they're not too shy about making a buck off it.  Sure Ultrawoman might host a $100 a plate charity dinner and Nightbat makes a fortune off of tee shirt sales but no other superhero team has been quite as shameless about marketing themselves.

And Star is by far the worst of the lot.  Real superheroine fans like to call the team's only American member the Anna Kournikova of superheroes.  They don't just say that because she's stacked blonde, but also because she's a lot more famous for her posters, calendars and magazine covers than anything she's actually done.  Just like Anna's mediocre tennis career even Star's biggest fans would have a hard time thinking of a villain she's defeated or a heroic feat she's accomplished but somehow she always manages to be there when the reporters arrive.

So now you're up to speed.
Back to the story then!

***

Shamrock started to feel funny.  Everything was starting to move really slowly, details looked sharp, she could see the texture of the paint on the hulking SUV, the sunlight glittering off the fountains, the shell casings falling from the Dreadnought’s guns; she could even see the micro fractures in its hull where Valkyrie had hit it.  And she knew what she had to do.  

She picked up the H2; the vanity plate read Assman.  She lifted it over her head, it had to be heavier than anything she had even lifted before but somehow she felt no strain.  Was she in ‘the zone’ that Tigress and Valkyrie has talked about so many times?  They had described what it felt like when their powers worked in harmony and anything seemed possible.  

Shamrock kind of liked this feeling.

“S-m-a-s-h t-h-a-t h-a-t-e-f-u-l t-r-u-c-k S-h-a-m-r-o-c-k” the Human Dreadnought yelled incredibly slowly.  

Everyone else seemed to be crawling and Shamrock was moving faster than she ever had in her life.  She turned towards the Dreadnought.

Hugo didn’t even have time to cry out.  One second his European companion was getting ready to smash that phallic symbol of American arrogance, the next second the Hummer was speeding towards his chest.  He heard the sound of tearing metal and popping rivets as his armor cracked.  The eight-ton suit flew backwards into the fountain.  Then the redhead was standing on his chest pounding the cracked hull with her fists.  Water poured in through burst seams.  The water hit the hydrogen fuel cells.  Millions of volts of electricity passed through the villain and the heroine, and both fell into darkness.

Star climbed out from behind the dumpster.

***

“And so once I saw that Euro-wenie was more than a match for the foreigners on the team I knew I would have to step in.”  Star explained her latest victory to the reporters while standing atop the ruined Dreadnought armor.  “Everyone knows that some Swiss tank suit is no match for good old fashioned Detroit steel.”  She smiled and posed in front of the ruined Hummer, making sure the damaged-but-still-proud American flag was flying in the background.  Totally a front-page picture she knew.  

She arched her back a bit more letting her one-piece leotard slide down a bit to expose more cleavage.  She gave them her million-dollar smile (no exaggeration, that's how much she has it insured for with Lloyd's of London) and flounced her blond hair.  She turned to her side to show off her long tan legs, firm belly and round butt.  The cameras clicked and whirred.  

"It's a good thing I was here or this priceless collection of Rock and Roll memorabilia might have been destroyed."

Some of the witnesses might remember things a bit differently than Star’s version but the American heroine knew that in the end people remembered what their TV told them.  Everything else was just details for little people to worry about.

Behind her, out of sight of the cameras, paramedics worked desperately to revive her fallen teammates.

***

That night found Star in the penthouse suite of the Cleveland Hilton.  The mayor has insisted she stay a few days until they could organize a parade in her honor.  How could she refuse?

The other girls were back at their headquarters in Megapolis.  Tigress and Maple Leaf had shown up to collect them; it looked like they’d be OK.  The Irish girl was still out of it but Star figured it was nothing serious, everyone knows the Irish have thick skulls. And Shamrock was a tough chick; she’d be fine.  She’d be OK.  She had to be…

Restless she climbed out of bed, carefully stealing a blanket without disturbing Warrick.  She slipped out to the balcony and lit a cigarette.  That was one downside to superpowers she’d learned.  The normal guys tired out way too fast and left her wide-awake and horny as hell.  

“Too bad all the superguys are such dicks…" she muttered.

She looked up at the moon; it was really bright tonight.  Really bright, and golden.  Like the sun.  

She realized she wasn’t looking at the moon.

“Greetings my lady Star, the Zeus-Son, God of the Sun and Lord of Light doest greet thee!”

“Alpo!”  She cried out.

“Apollo” he replied sounding vaguely disappointed.

A dozen emotions shot through Star.  Well, OK, two emotions.  But for her that was a lot.

Apollo was among the most powerful heroes in the world, only Ultra Man was in his league.  He was a bit wacko, talking funny and telling people he was like a god and stuff but other than that he was cool.  Star had met him a few months ago when she applied to join the Avenging League of Justice, the world’s greatest superhero team.  She should have made it in after impressing (and sleeping with) most of their members but the assholes had turned her down.  Nightbat had practically called her a slut.  So she hated Apollo’s guts.  But then again he was hung like a horse and had stamina for days.  It’s hard to hate a guy like that.  Especially after a lousy five-minute fuck like Warrick.

“So, uh, what’s up?”

The Greek God hovered over her allowing her to look up his white toga and glimpse a reminder of why she couldn’t stay mad at him.  She let the blanket slip down a bit exposing more cleavage.

“Ah beautiful Star thy beauty belies thy name for thou art no mere Star, one amongst thousand; thou art a radiant sun whose glory enlightens even the Zeus-Son!”

“Huh?”

“This eve, the Lord of Light comes to thee to ask a boon, for duties on distant Olympus call to me and I must leave my post as protector of this mortal realm for a time.”

“Huh?  You’re going on vacation or something?”

“But I dare not leave this Earthly realm unguarded lest my evil half-brother Ares or my mischievous half-brother Hermes take this time to bedevil the mortals the Lord of Light has pledged to protect.”

“Huh?  You’re going on vacation and you want me to cover for you?”  Star pictured the headlines “Star Chosen to Protect Earth”.  “Star: Earth’s Greatest Champion”.  But then again that sounded like a lot of work.

“Nay my glorious Star though thy strength is that of Pallus Athena, thy skills those of Artemis and thy beauty (and other attributes) as those of Aphrodite, thou art still a mere mortal, unready to face the Olympian challenges that I, Apollo, protect thine world from.”

“Oh…” The headlines in her mind changed “Star Rejected by Apollo (AGAIN!)”.  She pulled the blanket up, practically to her neck.  But why did this asshole fly out here just to insult her?

“So it is that I have chosen another to protect this realm.  And that is the boon I must ask of thee.  In my absence my protégé Aurora, Princess of the Dawn, shall take up my lonely stewardship of this mortal lands but she is inexperienced in thine mortal ways and will be bewildered much as I was when I descended to this Earth.  I must call upon you, triumphant Star to become her mentor, her teacher, her guide so that she may become the champion of this mortal world against all who would do it harm.”

“Huh?  You want me to baby-sit your kid sister?”

“Baby-sit?  I do not know this queer mortal word, I ask that you become her tutor, her genius, showing her the ways of this world that she may become a heroine as you have.”

“Oh…" Star smiled, that was different.  She pictured the headlines now… “Star, Mentors New Hero”, no that made her sound old, like a teacher “New hero looks to Star!” that sounded better.  And if she was right…

“So, like this sister of yours, what’s her name again Aura?”

Aurora

“Right, is she like as strong as you and stuff?”

“Mine sister doest share in mine Olympian Strength for in her too does flow the blood of the All-Father.”

“And she’s gotta do what I say right?”

“She shall be as your faithful servant and you shall be her kindly mistress, she shall learn at the feet of Star the Radiant as loyal Patroclus learned at the feet of mighty Achilles!”

That sounded like a yes.  So Star was going to teach a young chick, with all of Apollo’s powers.  Someone to do the dirty work while Star sat back and basked in the glory.  She’d always known that was the role she was meant to play, none of this crap where she had to break her nails hitting armored guys, Star always knew she meant to be more of a supervisor than one of those heroines who went around fighting villains and saving people.  

The name would have to go of course.  Aurora?  No one would even know how to spell it.  Sun Girl, that was a good name.  A new headline appeared in her mind “Star & Sun Girl, the Divine Duo”, protecting the world and looking good at the same time.  Action figures, lunch boxes, a TV show, this could work.  And Star could finally tell those foreigners in the Global Protectors to kiss her well-toned ass.

“I’ll do it!”

“Splendid!  The Zeus-son doest glow with pleasure, how may the Lord of Light thank thee?”

Star concentrated and hovered up to his level.  She let the blanket fall to the streets below.  She moved close to him.  The hem of his toga rose as something huge stirred beneath it…

They embraced.  

Star’s screams shattered windows all over Cleveland.

Warrick woke up alone to them wondering what had happened to his girl.

***

The next day Star was on the phone with her manager Greg Silverstein.  

“Yes, I am fucking serious.  Get on a goddamn plane and get your ass to Cleveland.  I don’t care what Jessica and Christina are doing, this is big, this really seriously big.  She’s supposed to arrive tonight and I need you here.”

Star and Sun Girl.

This was going to be awesome.

***

Star paced up and down the hotel suite, chain-smoking.  

“He said she’d be here at sunset, HELLO, the sun set like an hour ago, what the fuck, don’t they have clocks in fucking wonderland or where ever?”

Greg poured himself a scotch and tried not to stare too obviously at his client’s wiggling ass.  “Star, sweetie, you’re working yourself into a state.  Now are you sure that guy was the real Apollo? I mean it could have been-“

“What?  It could have been some other 7’ tall glowing guy who flies?”

“I’m just saying, maybe you should have gotten something in writing, y’know that way if this is a washout we can go after him for breach of contract.”

Star snorted, “Yeah, tell a guy who can move the planet you’re gonna sue him.  That’ll work.”

“Hey, sweetie, how long we been working together? Two years now?  I like you but you dragged me out of a meeting with Sony.  You’d better have something to show me and a crazy story about some superhero’s sister don’t cut no-“

Star was staring at something over his shoulder; Greg turned and saw a soft pink glow like a sunset or… a dawn.  It was coming closer to the penthouse.  In seconds he could see a shape in it; it looked like a girl standing in midair surrounded by a glowing cloud, like an aurora, the Aurora, Princess of the Dawn.  

She smiled; it was like the first bit of daylight illuminating the night sky.

“Mistress Star, I am so sorry to be late.”

***

Star looked at her new kid partner sitting in a dinning room chair.  Aurora sat with her back perfectly straight, her shoulder length blond hair hung neatly around her slim shoulders.  She was wearing a white toga similar to Apollo’s trademark garb but even shorter (it barely reached below her crotch and it was clear the girl was not wearing anything under it) and thinner (Greg could clearly see nipples under the thin white cloth).  A pair of red sandals with ties going halfway up her calves finished the look.  

“Do you like my body?”

Greg almost choked on his scotch.

“Master Apollo helped me choose my appearance.”

“Uh, choose?  You mean your outfit?”

“I am an Olympian” she said as though that explained everything.  “Master Apollo advised me on how I should appear to you.  He thought appearing as a youthful girl would be more pleasing to your eyes.”

The girl looked about sixteen, though very well developed for her age.  But her heart-shaped face, welcoming smile and innocent eyes made her look like an all-American girl next door.  The face of an angel, but with the body of a porn star.  It was a look Star had tried to perfect for years but never quite pulled off.  

Star walked around the visitor.  Aurora was a few inches shorter than Star, which is good since it makes it obvious she’s the junior partner.  Her tits were also a little bit smaller so Star didn’t have to worry about this chick stealing attention from her, except from perverted old men of course.

“So, uh, you could look like anyone then?”

“Oh, only before I came.  Once I entered the mortal realms through the gateways of Olympus this became my body.  I’m glad you like it!”  She smiled and blushed a bit.  Star wondered if that reaction was sincere or if this girl was playing with them.  If it was a game, she was very, very, good at it.  Almost as good as Star.

“OK, so you can’t change shape” good, Star thought shape-shifters were icky.  “So tell me, what are your powers?”

“I am an Olympian Mistress Star, and Princess of the Dawn.  Like my brother I have Olympian Strength, Olympian Indestructibility, and Olympian Speed.  I command the light of the dawn with my Solar Vision and walk on the winds.”

“Super strength, invulnerability, super speed, heat vision and flying.  The usual package.”  Greg translated.  

"We should probably like test that and stuff."

"I got just the thing.  Hey uh, Aurora, can you like uh, squeeze this?" he tossed her a lump of coal.  Aurora caught it, squeezed and produced a diamond.

"Is this good Master Greg?"

He took it back.  "Sweetie that's perfect."

Aurora beamed; somehow her smile was even brighter.  Even Star looked impressed.  A little.

“Right, now like what are your weaknesses? You allergic to any radioactive rocks?  Powerless against the color teal?  Need a magic belt?  Lose your powers if you kiss a man?  Anything dumb like that?”

“Oh no Mistress Star, that sounds most absurd indeed.  My only weakness is my ignorance of this mortal world.  I only hope that I can learn enough from your wisdom and heroic example to correct that.”

“You sure about this?  I don’t want get tied up and stripped in some abandoned warehouse cause you ran out of super vitamins!”

“Of course not mistress!  But… does that happen often?”

“What?  Getting stripped in some abandoned warehouse?  Uh… no, never, hardly ever.  Right Greg?”  She poked him in the ribs and Greg nodded.

“Now then Sun Girl-“

“Sun Girl Mistress Star?”

“Yeah that’s your new name, your heroine name, don’t forget it.  So Sun Girl, time for your first lesson.  What do you know about merchandising and publicity?”  

Greg opened his briefcase and took out the contracts.

***

“OK Greg, how do these look?”  Star pulled a couple more designs off the printer.  Once the contracts were signed Star and Greg had retired to the back room to get some groundwork done leaving Aurora to watch MTV and learn about the mortal world.  There were press releases to write meetings to arrange and a publicity campaign to start.  

The first order of business was a costume.  Aurora’s see-though toga was obviously not going to work so the two of them had been busy e-mailing designers for proposals.  

Greg sneered at the first one, a white mid-riff tee shirt, blue tube skirt and short cape.  It looked like something from a schoolgirl’s closet.  The next one wasn’t much better, a tight blue top with red shoulder pads, a red miniskirt and, for some bizarre reason, a red headband.  Hello 1983!  Loose blue top, red hotpants and red ballet slippers?  Did they think she was a Times Square hooker?  Blue minidress & red thigh high boots?  This must be the Hollywood Boulevard hooker outfit to balance the Times Square one.  Plus they all had this big red 'S' on them, and that was just begging to be sued.

Obviously these guys were just sending out anything they had lying around hoping Star would buy the design.  Greg shook his head; none of them were anything a heroine would be caught dead in.

The door opened.  “Mistress Star, I must ask you, what is the meaning of this word booty?  I hear it many times on the far-looking device you have shown me.”

“Uh, not right now Sun Girl, we’re trying to pick a costume for you.”

“Costume?  Do you mean the ritual garb I will wear in my role as protector of humanity?”

“Uh, yeah, your heroine costume y’know.”

“Oh Mistress Star, before I came spent many days watching you and your noble sisters and I have already created my ritual garb.  Please let me show you!”  The young heroine closed her eyes and concentrated, a pink glow surrounded her slim body, she rose into the air and began to slowly spin, stretching her arms in exotic dance-like moves.  Her thin toga disappeared leaving her momentarily naked.

Greg dropped his drink.

Then a white costume appeared over her body, flowing from her wrists down along her willowy arms, over her shoulders (and pert breasts), down her concave stomach and finally becoming a short pleated skirt that ended an inch blow her butt.  A golden belt appeared around her slim waist and gold buttons appeared in her shoulders.  She turned again in the air and a red cape unfolded.  There was a flash of golden light and a yellow sun symbol appeared on her chest and on the cape.  She still wore the red sandals and (thankfully) a pair of red panties had appeared to cover her private parts.  She landed and beamed at the two adults.

Greg looked her up and down.  “Not bad, not bad, kind of retro but still cute and sexy but not in a slutty way like some heroines.”

Star frowned at that comment.

“I think we have a winner.”

“Thank you Master Greg, your approval fills me with joy!”

Star frowned, she’d seen the way Greg was looking at this kid, he’d never looked at her like this.  If all the guys were going to be staring at her maybe Sun Girl needed to get some acne or gain a few pounds or something…

“Fine then.  Greg I think we’re done for tonight.  First thing tomorrow I need you to set up the press conference, we can do it after the parade on Saturday, and then could you watch her for the day.  I’ve got to get back to Megapolis and take care of some stuff there.”

***

After taking some quick pictures of Sun Girl in her costume for the action figure company Star put her up in the spare bedroom.  She waited until Greg had gone and the girl looked asleep before calling Warrick for a little night time visit.  He was no Alpo but after all the stress today she needed something.  

He was a bit better this time; he seemed to remember the word foreplay and didn’t shoot his load in the first five minutes either.  Star figured last night was a fluke, it was his first time with her and, well, what guy wouldn’t lose it in the first five minutes with her?  But after two times he said he was spent and tried to go to sleep.  Star figured she could get one more ride out of this stallion and locked her lips around his thick member.

Lost in her task, Star never even noticed Aurora watching through the window.  

***

Dawn…

Greg could not take his eyes off of her.  Aurora had changed back into her little see-through toga thing and was just sitting there, ramrod straight, staring at him.  Waiting for him to tell her to do something.  He had some ideas but knew Star would break his balls if he said any of them.  Damn this girl is hot though.  

He wondered how old she was, she looked like a kid (from the neck up at least) but he’d heard something about Apollo always looking young.  She might actually be in her twenties or something.  Nothing wrong with a guy in his 40s being with a girl in her 20s right?  He had to ask, he had to.

“So, uh, Aurora, about how old are you?”  

The blonde bent her head and wrinkled her nose obviously thinking hard.  “I am about sixteen Master Greg.”

“Sixteen years old huh…” well that was out of the question then.

“Years?  Oh no Master Greg, sixteen of your millennia.”

Sixteen THOUSAND years old?  Greg walked over to the bar and poured himself a strong drink.  Talk about botox…  He looked again at her perky nipples poking through the see-through toga; this was so not going to work.

“Say, uh, do you have any other clothes?”

“No Master Greg, in the paradise of Olympus we do not need other garments.”

“OK then, let’s get you to the mall.”

***

Star flew back to the Gaea Building in Megapolis.  She showed her face for the last ten minutes of the Global Protectors' daily meeting and endured Maple Leaf’s sneers.  Star got some special satisfaction from twisting the knife when she announced she was taking a month off to work on a project.  Maple Leaf squirmed and tried to argue but it was in Star’s contract.  She really liked the looks on the other girls’ faces when they heard that detail, most of them barely got two weeks vacation a year.  Star had decided to use her project time to start off Sun Girl’s career.  No sense quitting the GPs till she was sure this whole Star and Sun Girl thing was gonna work out.

Once the meeting broke up she grabbed Valkyrie on her way downstairs.  The Swedish heroine was back on her feet but her fair skin was still dotted with bruises from her minigun massage.  

“Hey, uh, got a minute?”

“Actually I am quite busy, Shamrock still needs medical attention and I'm quite worried about Rising Sun's concussion-“

“Right, right, you’re like into this whole superhero thing and I wanted to ask if you know anything about Alpo.”

“Apollo?”

“That’s I said.  Now do you know like what his deal is with that whole ‘I’m a Greek god thing?’  Is he like nuts or what?”

“That’s a very interesting subject actually…”

Star groaned, that usually meant a long lecture.  

“When he first appeared in the 1960’s, the so-called Silver Age of Heroes, claiming to be a god of myth most people assumed, as you implied, that he was lying or insane.  In fact the 1963 Kirby Guide described him as incredibly powerful but possibly delusional.  However in the 40 years since then literally dozens of entities have appeared who also share his claim that they are creatures of Greek myth.  Ultra Woman’s people seem to be the amazons of myth, Apollo’s half-brother Ares has threatened the world many times and of course there is the mad titan Cronos who played a pivotal role in the Secret Crisis…”

“Secret Crisis?  Never heard of it.”

“Well, it is a secret.  In short it now seems that there is some basis to Apollo’s claim of a mythic origin.  Even Professor Salvador of the Ex-Titans speculates that mutant genes are the result of thousands of years of Olympian/Terran crossbreeding, hence the name.  The Allen-Richards Institute theorizes that what Apollo calls Mount Olympus may be some sort of parallel reality whose superpowered members have found a way to-“

“So he’s like an alien, got it.  Now has anyone said anything about his kid sister Aura?”

“Aura?  Do you mean Aurora?  Goddess of the dawn?   

“Yeah, that’s what I said.”

Valkyrie chuckled “Didn't you learn all this when you read the Iliad in school?"

"Ill-e-ad?"

"Uh right.  Never mind.  Aurora appears a few times in the Iliad where she is described as Rose Fingered Aurora who puts out the stars each morning and of course she is central in the myth of Tithonus a cautionary tale of love between a god and a mortal.  But she’s not Apollo’s sister...”

“No?”

“She is the daughter of titan Hyperion, brother to Cronos, father of Zeus.  Since Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto she would actually be his great aunt.”

Star pictured her wrinkly old great aunt Betsy, yuck, that was too gross.  She’d just stick with the kid sister story; it would sound better in the papers.  

“OK, thanks Val, uh, see you later.”

“Star do you mind if I ask why you’re so interested-“but the American had already left.  Val shrugged and headed downstairs.  Shamrock had broken most of the bones in her hands and needed constant attention.

Flying back to Cleveland, Star thought about what she had learned.  If Val was right (and she knew damn well that blondie was always right) this chick was the real deal, just as powerful as old Alpo but totally under Star’s control.  

Goodbye Global Protectors!  With a chick like Sun Girl in her pocket Star was going solo!

***

Greg gave the blonde his overcoat and took her to the nearest mall to get her something to wear that wouldn’t give him a boner every time he looked at her.  That’s what girls do right?  Shopping?  That had to be a universal constant.  

He decided to start with the basics, Victoria Secret.  But after three attempts to explain to the young goddess what a bra is and why she needs one (and getting a lot of dirty looks from the other patrons) he gave up and decided that he’d just settle for getting her some shirts he couldn’t see her tits through.  

At the Gap they picked out some shirts, a girl guesstimated Aurora’s jeans size (and sneered at her toga) and Greg finally sent her into the changing room.  He walked outside for a smoke.  This whole teaching her the mortal world thing was tougher than he thought.  

***

Aurora emerged from the dressing room garbed in mortal clothes for the first time.  They felt so odd against her smooth skin, so coarse and rough, not at all like her celestial garment woven of light.  But these blue jeans felt so good between her legs, their rough seam riding up in her most tender spot, it felt quite pleasant and stimulating rubbing against her.  No wonder the women in this realm wore them.  She walked around the changing rooms a bit adjusting to the feel.  She saw other patrons leave the changing room and go to the desk in front where they exchanged slips of green paper for their clothes.  Aurora understood that she needed these green papers to exchange and that taking her clothes without exchanging something would be theft and very, very bad.  But she had no green papers.  

What could she do?

What would Mistress Star do in this situation?

***

Marty hated his job.  ‘Changing room 5’, ‘No more than 3 items ma’am’ all day long.  The pimply eighteen-year old thought working at the Gap would be awesome but it was so damn frustrating.  All these chicks coming through, taking off their clothes ten feet away from him and he didn’t get to see anything.  Not a damn thing.  Some days he had to sneak into the back room and whack off just to stay sane.

One of the blondes was coming up to him now; the one who’d been in that transparent dress before (man why didn’t she keep that on?).  Probably going to ask if she could wear the clothes out of the changing room to show her dickwad boyfriend or something.  

She came up and blushed and lowered her face obviously embarrassed.  Marty wondered how old she was, looking at her body he’d figured she was grown up but her face was really young.  

“Excuse me sire” she lowered her voice to a whisper.  Marty caught a bit of an accent, was she from Europe or something?  “I am sorry but I have nothing to exchange for these garments but Master Greg requires I wear them.”

Master Greg?  What the fuck?  Was she into one of those weird S&M things?  Maybe it was some reality show or sorority initiation.

The blonde stepped a bit closer; Marty had to cross his legs.  She folded her hands below her stomach so that her arms pinched her breasts together.  Marty could tell she wasn’t wearing a bra.  “Is there some other good or service I might exchange for these garments sire?”

Marty smirked.  He led her to the back room.

***

Greg was about to go back in when Star called.   

“Hey sweetie, yeah she’s with me now, getting her some clothes and stuff.  Yup, she’ll be with you at the parade and then you’ll do a patrol.  Lawyers say your contract with the Global Protectors should be easy to break, after that video with Val and La Sola last year you can break it on moral grounds, hanging out with sluts like that hurts your career.  They might try and sue you for trademarks, y’know Sun Girl/La Sola/Rising Sun, but that will never work.  Remember that whole Ultra Woman/Wonder Woman thing?  So yeah, it’s finally gonna happen, your solo career is waiting for you, just have to whip that girl into shape.”

***

As soon as the door closed the girl dropped to her knees and unbuttoned her top.  Marty hadn’t seen too many tits but he knew what he liked.  Her breasts were firm and well rounded and perky as anything, the nipples jumped to attention as soon as the shirt came open.  She smiled up at him like a kid with an ice cream cone and opened his fly.  And started to lick.

***

Greg wandered the Gap for twenty minutes.  Where the hell was she?  No way it was taking her that long in the changing room.  But Aurora finally emerged from the storeroom loaded down with four big shopping bags and a satisfied grin on her face.  A pimply store clerk waved to her as she left.

“Say, uh, Aurora I didn’t give you any cash did I, any money?”

“No Master Greg.”

“So, uh, how did you pay…?

“I have watched Mistress Star through the enchanted pools of Olympus endeavoring to learn her ways.  Thus I learned that when a mortal woman wishes something from a mortal man she…

“OK!  OK!  Never mind I don’t even want to know, just don’t tell Star OK?”

“As you say Master Greg, for I have also learned a heroine must at all times endeavor to protect her reputation, regardless of the truth behind the matter.”

Greg started to wonder if they hadn’t bitten off more than they could chew.

***

A week later the divine duo of Star and Sun Girl was patrolling the skies above Cleveland.  Sun Girl’s debut at the parade had been a huge success.  After Star introduced her, the blond cutie had flown out and repaired all the damage to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in fifteen minutes using her Olympian Speed.  Star had helped too by providing a new, undamaged, American flag and running it up the pole in front of the cameras.

Mayor Campbell had been so impressed she’d offered to build the two heroines a headquarters near the Great Lakes Science Center if they would promise to stay in Cleveland.

And how could Star say no to that?  

Besides Cleveland was a lot nicer then Megapolis, it didn’t have those endless stretches of abandoned warehouses or supervillians coming by every week to rob a bank, take over the world or take a heroine’s costume off.  Most of the problems were just ordinary muggings and murders and stuff, nothing important.  Star tried to make sure they stopped at least one mugging a day (and that it always got in the Cleveland Plain Dealer) but that left plenty of time for meeting with sponsors and signing contracts for her new kid partner.

But it was all small potatoes.  As Star knew all too well, people got tired pretty quick of a heroine who did nothing but public appearances, sooner or later they expected some heroics.  That's why Star had always been careful to show up for the last five minutes of the Global Protectors' super battles.  

So she was very happy when the Larceny Gang of Ohio took control of the Cleveland Diamond Exchange, a nice easy high profile mission for her kid partner to handle and for Star to take the credit for.

***

"OK kid.  There's a bunch of robbers in there, I want you to go in there and git'em.  Then call me and I'll, uh, talk to the press for you."

Sun Girl nodded enthusiastically, her face beaming with joy.  "Yes Mistress Star, I will prove myself worthy of your trust!"  Then the girl was gone in a white and gold blur.

Star took a seat on top of the neighboring building and started composing her account of the epic battle.  She was careful to keep out of sight of reporters till Sun Girl gave her the all-clear.

Hey, if this worked out who knows where it could lead?  Greg did some checking on the internet and it looks like there's a whole bunch of those Greek goddess girls on Mount Everest.  They'd been talking it over and there were enough of them to make a whole team.

There was Artemis who was like this archer chick; they could call her Hunter Girl or something.  She'd be like the angry feminist.  Nike, goddess of victory, who had like wings and stuff, she'd have to change the name of course so the shoe company wouldn't sue, maybe Bird Girl. She could be the bold overconfident one.  Iris, goddess of the rainbow, didn't she used to have a TV show?  Oh Mighty Iris?  Well they'd just change her name too, Rainbow Girl.  She'd be the artistic sensitive one.  This whole superhero naming thing isn’t hard at all.  And of course with Sun Girl as the bright cheerful girl next door type and Star as their sexy confident leader if would awesome.  Star and the Goddess Girls!  Or even better, Star and Her Amazing Friends!  Yeah, that way she could fire any of them if they get too uppity.  

She hummed to herself, composing a theme song, while Sun Girl smashed her way into the Diamond Exchange.

***

"Come on Bruce!  The cops are on their way!"

"Shadup Cal!  The coppers ain't no match for us.  We gots guys downstairs to hold 'em off.  'Sides this joint's built like a bunker, they can't git in.  And there ain't no way they know we gots a way out through the sewer.  So grab a sack and fill it."

"It ain't the cops I'm worried about it's wasshername the flag chick-"

Their argument was cut off when a crash rocked the building.  From the next room they heard Oliver, Hal and Barry cut loose with their H&K G11s.  The distinctive sound of the hideously expensive caseless rounds echoed through the granite Diamond Exchange.  The shooting continued until they heard the dull metal click of empty magazines.  

Cal and Bruce looked at each other, their buddies had each emptied 50 rounds into something.  

And they were reloading!

The muscleman Cal reached into a dufflebag and pulled out a massive belt-fed SAW while Bruce, always a traditionalist, pulled out his trusty Tommy gun.  They kicked open the door and saw…

Tits?

***

Sun Girl stood before the bandits her costume shredded to ribbons by their firepower but her nubile flesh was unharmed.  The criminals just stood there, mouths hanging open and eyes wide.  

For a minute nothing happened.

Fortunately Sun Girl knew what she had to do from watching Mistress Star.

"Oh!"  she cried making an extravagant gesture of dismay, covering her eyes but somehow forgetting to cover her pert breasts or exposed sex.  "You have stripped me of my costume and my dignity, forcing me to bare my virginal charms to your lewd gaze.  Oh please valiant conquerors, do not subject me to your vile lusts!"

"Huh?"  Cal grunted.  The others just stood there looking puzzled.

Aurora was puzzled as well, weren't the villains supposed to take the lead?  She leaned her back against a concrete column, spread her legs a bit and closed her eyes.  "Like innocent Persephone I must submit to you my dark lords.  Take me if you must!"

Bruce smiled.  He got it.  He stepped forwards towards the denuded heroine and reached out a beefy hand.

"Bruce don't do it!  It's a trick!"

He grabbed her breast and squeezed.  Sun Girl began to pant and moan, covering her eyes with one hand while reaching between her legs with the other.  

"Oh you evil man!  You have discovered the hidden lusts I have long suppressed!" she moaned sexily.  "Now I am putty in your strong manly arms."

Bruce put an arm around Aurora and led her away from the hole in the wall.  

"Come my, uh, helpless prisoner, now you shall serve me… AS A WOMAN!"

Aurora squealed in terror but rubbed her breasts up and down his black turtleneck.  

"Uh Bruce… don't we need to get going?"

"Ah, we can hold off the cops long enough right guys?"

The others grinned.

***

"So then, one of them took out this, uh, AK97 and opened fire on Sun Girl but I jumped in front and uh, caught the bullets out of the air and saved her!  Yeah…"  

Star wracked her brain for more ideas.  Back home she had a whole pile of storyboards that she'd bought from this Hong Kong fight choreographer but she'd forgotten to bring it this time.  

"And then like, he took out these nunchucks…"

Yeah, the reporters would love that.  Hopefully there'd be a Chinese guy in the gang who she could claim was a ninja.

She heard more sirens; the cops were surrounding the place.

Funny… Sun Girl was sure taking a long time with the gang.  

***

Sun Girl took a long time with the gang.  She used all the skills Mistress Aphrodite had taught her during their long voyage through the Forest of Satyrs.  First Bruce.  Then Cal.  Then Bruce and Cal and Hal.  Then Oliver and Barry.  Then Bruce and Cal.  Then Bruce.

"Oh masters!" she moaned when Barry removed his spent cock from her mouth. "How can you degrade me so?"

"We ain't even started super bitch!"  Bruce yelled plunging into her wet snatch.  We're gonna fuck you till you die of cumming!"

"No master!  You know that orgasms are my weakness!"

"Ah-ha-ha-ha!"

Cal shook his head.  This wasn't right.  This wasn't right at all.  The super chick was hot and stuff, but… it was like a bad porn story.  Everyone knows real heroines aren't like this.

"HEY GUYS WHAT THE FUCK? YOU JERKING OFF UP THERE!"  Diana's voice cut through the building.  She was downstairs with John and Arthur holding off the cops.  

"Shit" Barry muttered.  "Di finds out about this she'll fucking crush our balls."  Hal and Oli nodded in agreement.  They were pretty much done for the day anyhow.

"Bruce, you hear that?  We gotta go!"

Bruce grunted and thrust again into the blonde's tight pussy.  "Damn… guess we can't take her with us huh?"

"Oh masters please do not take me back to your lair and use me as your sex slave until my will is broken and I submit to you body and soul!" the heroine begged but in a tone of voice that suggested she meant the opposite.

"You could but remember what happened when Di caught you with Dinah?"  

Bruce grumbled but pulled up his pants.  

"Head on down, I just have one more thing I need to take care of."

***

Star could see the SWAT teams were getting ready to go in and decided it was time to check on Sun Girl herself.  She hoped the youngster hadn't gotten into any trouble.

Star knew the whole sweet and young and innocent thing was at least partially an act.  But it was still getting to her.  All that "teach me Mistress Star" stuff and "I want to be a heroine like you" stuff was kind of sweet.  She was starting to think of the girl like a kid sister instead of just a flying meal ticket.  Of course that little girl could crush the Human Dreadnought with one hand…  She was probably fine.

Still, Star figured it was worth a look.  At least she'd be on hand to greet the SWAT teams.

She flew in through the big hole and looked around.  Nothing.  No crooks, no diamonds, no Sun Girl.  Star opened the door to the next room and saw…

Crap.

Aurora was there all right, her costume was gone, she had duct tape over her eyes, her hands taped behind her back, and worst of all the thick handle of a maglight had been stuck between her legs.  The words 'Slut Girl' had been scribbled in magic marker across her breasts.

She moaned and moved her legs, obviously trying to pull the maglight in deeper.  "Oh Masters, please come back, please, please cum…"

Double Crap.

"I thought I left this bullshit behind with the Global Pussies…"

Aurora raised her head and stopped moaning.  "Mistress Star?  Have the evildoers left?"

"Uh, yeah."

The slim girl stood up easily snapping the duct tape and expelled the maglight.  A familiar pink glow surrounded her as her costume reformed.  She beamed at her mentor like a puppy waiting for a treat.

"How did I perform Mistress Star?  I tried very hard to be like you and your friends."

Star felt a sudden headache coming on.

***

Over the next three weeks things got worse as word got around.

"But Mistress Star, Dynamo defeated me in honorable combat; I had to submit to his will…"

"But Mistress Star, Master Menace ambushed me with chloroform; I was helpless in his arms…"

"But Mistress Star, the Criminal Cartel of Cleveland said I must submit to them or they would use their Xenon Bomb to destroy the city.  No Mistress Star I never actually saw the Xenon Bomb…"

"But Mistress Star, all of your adventures end that way…"

Finally…

"Star sweetie, we have to pull the plug.  Word is already out in the villain community about her little 'problem' and there's no way we can keep it out of the tabloids much longer."

"But Greg, she promised she'd try harder, I mean she remembered to keep her costume indestructible when we fought the Incredible Behemoth."

"Right and then he somehow managed to 'surprise' her when she was bathing in the lake.  The guy's ten feet tall and weights 800 pounds, how does he surprise anyone, much less a girl with 'Olympian Hearing’?  And why was she skinny-dipping anyway?  Plus just cause he surprised her didn't mean she had to…  I mean how did she even fit him in?  Geeze."  

"We almost caught him though."

"Almost don't impress the reporters.  Hey I like her as much as anyone and I’m gonna lose as much money as you but it's time to face facts, something is wrong with her.  And unless you want to be crucified in the press for letting a kid heroine get raped you have to dump her.  I hear Apollo is back anyway, he just fought the Cyclops King down in Miami."

Star looked crestfallen but Greg didn't give an inch.  

"Fine.  I'll call Alpo tomorrow…"

"Tonight."

"Fine!  Tonight…"

***

That night…

Star slept fitfully.  The mayor had pulled out of the plan to build a base last week after that incident with Aurora on the steps of City Hall.  Her free room in the Hilton was coming to an end too.  She'd be back working for the Global Protectors next week, taking shit from Maple Leaf and competing for media coverage with 7 other girls.  

Crap.

At least Apollo had been understanding.  She'd gotten him through the Avenging League of Justice's secret hotline number and he'd promised to come by and collect the heroine in the morning.  

She hadn't told Sun Girl yet.  She didn't want, y'know, a big scene with all the crying and pleading and everything.  She figured she'd like the big guy take care of that, I mean, she's his responsibility and stuff.  Star was just doing him a favor!  There was nothing to feel guilty about.  

And yet… somehow Star felt like she was the one who'd messed up.  Maybe she should have spent more time teaching the girl instead of sicing her like an attack dog.  Maybe she'd done one or two things in her career that weren't exactly the best examples of heroism.  

Maybe.  

One or two bad things.  Certainly no more.

It was so unfair.  Why should I have to feel guilty, Sun Girl's the one who keeps getting her costume destroyed and getting raped by villains?  That never happens to me.  Hardly ever to me.

Star tossed and turned.

***

Greg Silverberg poured another cup of coffee and finished his spreadsheet.  He'd been up half the night preparing estimates of just how much money he would lose tomorrow when he canceled Sun Girl's contracts.  "Health reasons and exhaustion" was the rationale he was offering up.  The young girl just could not handle the strain and needed some time in seclusion.  Hey, it worked for Britney.  

He hit the S button and looked at the total.

It was a very, very large number.

The only bright spot was his estimate of just how much underground websites would pay for his private collection of Sun Girl videos.

***

Star sat up in bed; Aurora was in the room looking at her with red eyes.

"You have no comprehension of what I am do you?"

"Huh?"

"What is it you thought of me as?  A flying meal ticket?  Am I a handmaiden to do your work while you bask in reflected glory?"

"Uh, not exactly what I was thinking…"

"Do you truly think you can dismiss a goddess as you would a scullery maid?"

"A skull what?"

"Let me show you…"

There was a breeze, a blur, an impact; a sense of moving and Star was… elsewhere.

Star felt her nightgown disintegrate as they accelerated and saw Sun Girl's toga vanish as well.  

The wall of the hotel had torn like tissue paper; the landscape below was gone in a blur.  Sun Girl's eyes flashed red, Star saw fires starting below her, heard explosions.  Behind her Cleveland was burning.

Then she had the wind knocked out of her when she hit something solid.

A mountain.

In less than five seconds Aurora had carried her from Cleveland Ohio to the Rocky Mountains, almost 1000 miles.

Aurora finished her sentence.  

"…exactly what I am.  Your world is not real to me.  Your walls are like paper, your bodies like eggshells.  Crossing your world is as easy as crossing a room.  You are mortals.  I am a goddess.  Does that mean anything to you?"

Star nodded.

"As it happens your world amuses me.  After millennia even satyrs and centaurs grow tiresome.  Somehow your little ball of dust has given birth to a few individuals who can entertain me.  Not many.  A few.  Olympian blood no doubt."

Star had no idea what she was talking about so she just nodded.  Aurora lifted her by the throat and narrowed her red eyes at the heroine.  She looked older.  She did not look at all innocent.

"Your antics do not amuse me.  I have no wish to return to Olympus at this time, certainly no concern for your reputation or morals either."

She drew back her fist.

Star shut her eyes.

***

"Sun Girl don't!"  Star sat up in bed bathed with cold sweat.

A dream, it was a dream!  

Her heart pounding like a jackhammer and soaked with sweat Star sat in darkness with for a few minutes.  She was alone, she really hadn't wanted company that night.  She was just wearing a pair of blue panties and long tee shirt, one of hers with a picture of her flipping the bird and a caption saying "Osama - Yo Mama!"  It always made her giggle.

Star heard something.

She'd never really developed her improved senses the way Tigress or Maple Leaf had but even she could there was someone in the room watching her.  As her eyes adjusted she could make out a shape at the end of the bed crouching like a cat, watching.

"Sun Girl? ’sat you?"

A small inclination of the head.

"Uh…" Star looked towards the window, wondering if she could reach it before Sun Girl could catch her.  Maybe…

Aurora sobbed.

"Hey uh… what's wrong?"

"I can hear them Mistress Star, all of them."

"Hear who?"  Crap.  Did she know?  Star looked at the window again.

"I hear Master Menace bragging to other villains, I hear Doctor Darkness plotting to capture me, I hear perverted fans laughing at my picture on the internet.  I hear a reporter at Wolfe International News plotting to ruin my reputation.  I hear a father at a PTA meeting calling me terrible names while looking at my pictures on his computer.  Even noble Master Greg scorns me while gazing at me with hunger.  They mock me, they hate me, they lust after me…  None of them like me."  She sobbed again.  

Gripped by an unfamiliar feeling of sympathy Star moved closer to the girl and hugged her, patting her on the back and feeling her warm body through the thin toga.  Aurora sobbed again and buried her face between Star's breasts.  

"Why Mistress Star?  Why do they hate me so?  Am I not beautiful; am I not sweet and joyful?  Do I not submit to their every wish?  What did I do wrong?"

Star understood.  How could she not?

"Sun Girl, Aurora, sweetie, it's not you, it's them.  They're all fucked up.  They want a sweet innocent girl who doesn't know anything about sex but who turns into a total whore whenever she's alone with a guy.  They want a girl who'll fuck them and suck them and stuff but who's also loving and caring.  Every guy wants a girl who'll pant and moan for him but who never did it for anyone else and who’ll do the laundry and cook breakfast in the morning.  They don't know what the fuck they want.  OK?  If you learn one thing it's that men have no fucking clue what they want so they just want everything, a virgin, a whore, mom, all in one package."

"I do not understand…"

"Like with me, they want the all-American girl all pretty and perfect and sexy, but they don't want to hear that, like, I've ever actually had sex.  Or that I ever enjoyed it.  Geeze I can be in Maxim wearing nothing but dental floss and a handkerchief and that's OK but if I ever did Playboy like La Sola did my career would be over, I'd just be a slut.  So that's the dance, you gotta give them 80%, 90% of what they want, keep them interested but hold the rest back, keep them hungry or they'll lose respect for you.  It's pretty fucked up but hey, that's the world we live in."

"But in fair Olympus there is no shame is doing what is pleasurable.  Lord Apollo does not scorn me for visiting the centaurs or submitting to the giants.  When Lord Zeus shuns his sister/wife Hera and assumes the form of a swan to sample the charms of a mortal-"

"Sister/wife?"

"Oh yes, Hera too is the daughter of Cronos and-"

"Swan?"

"Oh yes, that is one of Lord Zeus' favorite forms for enjoying a liaison with-"

"OK, too much information there.  You're from somewhere different, I got it.  Geeze, it sounds like fucking France over there.  You just have to learn that Earth is different y'know.  We're not all superheroes or whatever here.  Bad stuff can happen like AIDS and babies and shit.  You can't just do… what you've been doing."

Star patted Sun Girl on the back feeling very maternal.  OK so the girl came from a fucked up environment just like La Sola.  Doesn't make her slut or anything.  She could learn how to behave.  This could still work out.  All Star had to do was tell Apollo she was giving Aurora another chance.

Aurora stopped sobbing and snuggled closer, her lean legs tangling with Star's toned legs.  Star started to feel just a wee bit uncomfortable.

"You are so wise Mistress Star.  You have taught me so much."  Star felt one of Aurora's hands venture under her shirt and another to the elastic band of her panties.  "Please let me repay you as the Amazons repaid me once long ago."  

"Uh… you're not talking about…"

Star felt her panties tear off and dexterous fingers slip into her snatch.  A strong hand pushed her back on to the bed and tweaked her nipples.  Aurora's lips descended towards hers…

"Ah!  Get off of me you freak!"  She shoved Sun Girl off of her and retreated to the far corner of the room.

"Mistress Star…" Aurora started to cry "…did I displease you?"

"GET OUT!  GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE YOU LESBO PERVERT!"  

Aurora ran from the room in tears.

***

Star barely spoke to Apollo the next day, just handed back Aurora like a defective toaster.  

She let Greg handle the legal stuff and checked out.  

She flew back to Megapolis and the Global Protectors without even looking back.  She was just happy she wouldn't have to worry about slutty lesbian heroines ever again.

***

Aurora cried all the way back to Olympus.  Her grim mood caused cold rainy dawns across the world.  

Her mood barely improved when she arrived on Olympus to discover Lord Dionysus had set a great bacchanalia in her honor.  It was only when Lord Apollo finally promised to speak to some other heroines and try to arrange her return that Aurora's face became as bright as the dawn.


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