The Global Protectors – Tangents

 

By Marcus_Lycus@hotmail.com

 

This story makes a bit more sense if you've read my first story the Seduction of Shamrock.  Hopefully it will be fun even if you haven’t…

 

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Tangent 3 – The Global Pillagers in the Redemption of Hooligan

 

Meanwhile in alternate universe…

There is a twisted parallel Earth where everything is reversed as though by some kind of cosmic mirror or a horribly clichéd writer who spent too much time watching Star Trek. 

In this world the singer Barry Spears loudly proclaims his promiscuity.  Supreme Despot Hillary Rodham claims control over the Disunited Principalities of Amerika while Geraldine Bush pleads for people to solve their differences peacefully. 

And McDonald's is a health food chain.

On that world the heroic women of the Global Protectors are replaced by the villainous men of the Global Pillagers.  Everything seems different.  But some things are strangely the same.

***

Hooligan was bored. 

His gang, the Global Pillagers, were looting some stupid society benefit dinner at the World Warfare Institute.  The fat yank called the Imperialist was looting all the ladies' jewels (like the bloody twit didn't already have whole vaults full of that shit) and the African savage called the Cannibal was gnawing one some poor security guard's arm (gee Can Man, that was scary and shocking the first hundred times but maybe it's time for something new y'know).  And Hooligan was just strolling through the crowd insulting the blokes and checking out the ladies.  Mostly senior citizens, there were a couple of slutty trophy wives but nothing worth writing home about.

Same old, same old.  

Then he saw her! 

She was lurking in the back behind some scared old ladies, dressed in a pure white satin dress that went down to her ankles, she was crying into her handkerchief but when she looked up her big innocent blue eyes… He couldn't look away.  

"Don't go near her you, you jerk!"  One of the waiters got his nerve up and jumped in Hooligan's way, he snapped the loser's neck without breaking stride and stomped up to the girl, his Doc Martins making the ballroom floor shake.  He moved his face inches from hers, his nostrils taking in her sweet scent and gave her a big toothy smile.

"Hey bird what do they call you anyway?"

The girl shuddered and retreated behind a couch. 

"I asked you a sodding question!"  He bellowed.  With one hand he lifted the couch and tossed it out a window into the streets below.  The girl retreated some more until her back was against the wall. 

"Quiet type huh?  Waddya say you just give me what I came for huh?"

He reached out his hand…

***

"Hey Hooligan, time is money!  Get your rocks off on your own time!"

The angry Irishman turned towards the fat American scowling.  But Cannibal was done with his snack and growled at the Irish villain.  Hooligan knew he could take on Imperialist but Cannibal would eat him for lunch! 

"Hey boss… just doing my job."  He reached again for the squirming girl and grabbed her purse.  He tossed it in his looting sack and turned to go. 

Flying back he found he couldn't get the blonde out of his mind.  He'd had beautiful women of course, like the time he and Aztec had attacked the Miss Universe Pageant and enslaved the contestants but there was something about this one.  Maybe it was the innocence in her eyes, or her shy manner.  With the world the way it was all the women were so cynical.  They just expected gangers or supervillians to come out of the woodwork and ravish them at any time.  They'd scream and stuff but it was all routine, just going through the motions.

But a girl who was genuinely afraid, that was something to savor.

He took another swig from his hip flask and decided he'd have to track this girl down. 

***

Imperialist was shocked when that drunken loser Hooligan volunteered to sort the loot from tonight.  The lazy slob usually took off as soon as there was anything resembling work to be done.  Maybe he was finally realizing that pillaging, especially on a global scale, took hard work and commitment. 

He wasn’t too worried about Hooligan embezzling anything from the group, the cameras and that artificial intelligence system Tengu cooked up would make sure of that.  The dumb mic was way too stupid to come up with a way to fool that system.  Naturally the Imperialist had figured out a way to trick it within twenty minutes and had been stealing from the team since day one but that didn’t mean he encouraged others to do the same. 

Hooligan carried the bags of loot to the Global Pillagers’ underground vaults.  Piles of cash, jewels, electronics, artworks and the devil only knows what else were carefully stored there by type and value.  The GP had no need for all that money, they never used it but, hey, how will people respect you unless you take what they have? 

Hooligan took a long swig of whiskey from his flask.  A year back they’d fought this magical heroine named the White Lady.  She'd been pretty powerful, had almost managed to weaken them and bring them over to her side till Thor smashed her face in.  After that they'd locked her in the basement and, after some 'persuasion' had forced her to grant wishes to the team.  The others had wasted their wishes on super weapons or new super powers but the Irishman had only demanded a hip flask with an infinite supply of booze.  The rest of the team just didn’t have their priorities straight. 

He fished out the girl's white purse and found a key for the penthouse suite of the Palace Hotel.  He smirked and dropped the looting sack. 

Watching from his office the Imperialist scowled when he was Hooligan flying off for town.  Stupid mic… now who’d sort the loot?

***

Most people screamed and fled inside as the Irishman flew by but a few waved and cheered.  Generally Megapolis was regarded as something of a safe haven in this twisted world.  While the Global Pillagers were harsh and cruel the eight of them could only oppress a small portion of the people at once.  And since they did not tolerate rivals a Megapolis citizen could go literally weeks without being looted or raped.  Compared to supervillain war zones like Kansas City and Denver it was a garden spot.

Hooligan hovered outside the Palace Hotel penthouse for fifteen minutes.  He caught a few glimpses of her inside reading a book, making some tea, writing a postcard.  She was totally unaware, he could take her just like he'd taken Dyna Girl when he ambushed her in the shower.  She was nothing, just a wee bit of fluff, entertainment for the night.

He moved around again, staying out of sight.

If she was nothing, why did he want her so much?

And more importantly, why was he afraid to approach her?

He wasn't afraid when he was ambushing and raping superheroines, why should he be afraid of a normal girl?

His hands wouldn't stop shaking.  He couldn't catch his breath.  He felt an odd urge to, like, talk to her and stuff.

He landed on a roof opposite the penthouse and took out the hip flask.

Just need a bit more liquid courage to lubricate the pipes…

***

Virginia Celeste floated through the hotel suite seemingly unsure of what to do when surrounded by such luxury.  In her heart she yearned for a more humble environment, this suite left her feeling buried by its size and ostentatious décor. She really wanted nothing more than a bunk to sleep in and a good book to read, the 20' wide bed and wide screen plasma TV seemed a positively sinful waste.  But she knew that her plan required certain compromises.  She would be lucky if a luxury hotel suite was the most distasteful of them.

She had changed out of her modest white dress into a simple white cotton nightgown and had taken her hair down, letting it fall to her shoulders.  She caught a glimpse of herself in one of the gold-framed mirrors and stopped to take a long look at her heart shaped face and sandy blond hair.  She wore no makeup of course, but her naturally red lips and rosy cheeks made such things almost redundant.  What was the old phrase about gilding the lily?  She looked deeper into her own golden brown eyes and saw fear.  Her mission was so risky, so perilous, she was so inexperienced, could she really do it?  She had to try.  She was the only one left.

She heard the terrace door shatter.  Fear shot through her.

***

"Come out; come out where ever you are!"  Hooligan tossed a recliner over his shoulder and through the window.  It never hurt to remind the ladies that he was boss.  He kicked the bedroom door and it disintegrated. 

He saw her. 

Sanding there in her thin, thin white nightgown, her warm skin clearly visible through it.  He could smell her, taste her.

His heart jumped into his throat.

His mouth went dry as the Sahara.

His hands itched, he had to have her.  He had to take her.

His gut turned to ice, he couldn't hurt her.  He… kind of liked her.

"Uh… hi."  He said.

She fled to the corner and fell into a fetal position crying in terror.

"Please don't hurt me!  Take anything you want but please spare me!" His hid her beautiful face in her hands and sobbed.

Hooligan felt genuinely hurt.  "Wha?  No, no I'm not gonna hurt you.  No.  I'm Hooligan from the Global Pil- uh… from a group.  I just uh… wanted to talk to you, friendly like y'know?"

"Talk?"  She peeked through her fingers and batted her eyelashes at him.  "You won't hurt me?  I… I was so scared."

Hooligan could barely hear his own answers.  "Hurt you?  No, no I just came by like, to return your purse and like see if you, I dunno, needed company or something."

She climbed slowly to her feet and hugged him.  She buried her face in his filthy black tee shirt and dried her tears.  Reluctantly he put his arms around her, careful not to hurt the girl.  Holding her in his arm he felt like his groin would explode. 

"Megapolis is so scary, there are supervillians everywhere.  It's not at all like I expected.  You'll protect me won't you?"

"Sure, sure, hey I'm not like the others…"

"That's sweet!"  She smiled up at him, his heart skipped a beat.  She took his hand and led him back into the living room.  She seated him in an armchair and took a seat several feet away on the far side of the couch. 

Hooligan tried to remember what it had been like before Baroness Katz had given him his powers and he'd actually had to talk to a girl before tearing her clothes off and fucking her up the ass.  There was stuff he was supposed to say wasn’t there?

"So… uh, what's your name?  What’s your sign?  You uh, come around here often?"

"My name is Virginia Celeste sir.  I’m a Virgo and I am a poetess from Sarajevo."

Hooligan let out a low whistle, even an ignorant hood like him had heard of Sarajevo, the legendary bastion of tolerance and enlightenment, often called the Sudan of Europe.

"I came to this city to spread the message of my poems, that's why I was at the World Warfare Institute tonight; I wanted them to hear my poetry."

"I get it, they're like battle hymns so they can fight harder huh?"

"Battle hymns?  No! No!  My poems are messages of peace, stories of the horror and tragedy of war."

"Huh… you mean like when you lose?"

"Not exactly.  Perhaps you would like to hear one Mr. Hooligan?"

"Uh…” he racked his brain for a way to say no.

Too late…

 

The war consumes the world

The fires burn the forests

The bombs smash the cities

The guns slay the men

The hatred corrupts the soul

A cold rain falls on the ruins of Bern

A mother cries for her lost son

A sister for her brother

A wife for her husband

No one to touch their aching breasts

No one to kiss their lonely lips

No one to fulfill their desperate needs

Their arms entwine

Their bodies touch

Comforting each other

 

"Hey, uh, y'know usually poems kind of make me want to tear my ears off or maybe tear the poet's head off that one made me feel pretty good.  The beginning was all exciting and stuff and then you got those three girls hugging and kissing and everything… you got real talent."

She smiled at him shyly.  “Thank you sir would you like to hear another-”

“Uh… maybe later.”

“I see.”  She looked down sadly.

They sat for a few minutes in awkward silence.  Hooligan tried to think of something else to say.  Finally it came to him.

"So uh, wanna shag?" 

"Pardon?"

"Y'know shag, fuck, do the nasty?"

She looked at him horrified.  "N-no…"

"What?  I'm not good enough for you?"

"No, no it's just that…"

That was it Hooligan figured he'd given her a fair chance, she'd blown it and now he was taking his just deserts! 

He jumped across the room with an animal roar and tore at her nightgown; it shredded easily baring her breasts and small blonde bush to the Irish villain.  She turned away in tears. 

"P-please… please… I… never…"

"Never?  You're like uh… waddya call them…" He knew there was a word for that but he'd never met one before.

"No… never… I'm a virgin!"

"Whoa."

"Maybe, before you do… it… you could… maybe… kiss me?  Please… I want this to be special."

Hooligan's dick was ready to explode but somehow he restrained himself, bent over and plunged his tongue into her sweet mouth.  She resisted for a second but soon responded caressing his tongue with hers.  He started to pull her legs apart again.

"Please… wait!  Maybe you could… touch my breasts first?"

Hooligan's idea of foreplay has always been yelling "brace yourself Bridgett" before taking the plunge but he was willing for wait a few minutes more.  First he grabbed her warm breasts and mauled them furiously, her face contorted in pain.  Realizing his mistake he softened his grip caressing them, stroking them slowly, feeling her nipples grow hard and listening to moans of pleasure rather than the usual gasps of pain.

Virginia tried to cope with the strange feelings within her.  She thought it would hurt, no one had told her it could feel like this! 

Hooligan realized this foreplay thing wasn't such a bad idea after all.  His heart was pounding, his pulse racing, he was panting, touching her, feeling her touch him, it was too much!

He exploded across her inner thighs. 

"Oh bloody…"

She leaned up and hugged him, gently kissing his neck.

"It's OK… It's OK… that was wonderful."

"Hey no worries, got super stamina, be right as rain in a few…"

"No, no Hooligan, tonight has been wonderful for me, let's finish here."

"But baby…"

She smiled and lifted a finger to his lips.

"Tomorrow!  Tomorrow afternoon I can come by your place and then we can take a walk in the park, have a romantic dinner of that spicy Irish food at then go back to your place to… finish.  It will be my first time, and it has to be special."

"I guess…"

"Tomorrow!"

***

Hooligan flew back home feeling unfilled but for some reason anticipating tomorrow.  He spotted some co-eds walking home and thought about kidnapping them for a quickie but… he just didn't feel like it.  He wanted to save himself for Virginia.

Weird.

He landed at his bachelor apartment and picked his way through the pizza boxes, dirty clothes and piles of porn to the 'guest' room. 

Julie was still there, lying in the filthy mattress in a pool of her own juices.  She still wore her white dress shirt and the tattered remnants of her blue skirt.  Her hands and ankles were tied and vibrators hummed in her pussy and ass.  An intravenous rig fed her a steady diet of nutrients and aphrodisiacs.  Her long brown hair spread out around her head like a halo.

The young entrepreneur had caught Hooligan's eye when he was flying by her office window the other day.  He'd smashed his way in, grabbed her out of a board meeting and taken her back for a few hours of fun.  He kind of forgot about her after that.  She was lucky he'd hooked up the IV or she might be dead by now.

He walked up, she looked at him with that mixture of fear and anticipation he loved so much.  This was the best time to enjoy a slave when she'd been broken down enough to crave her master's touch but not so much she didn't fear it.

He reached between her quivering legs and pulled out the twin vibrators.  He pulled out the ball gag; she sighed and licked her lips.  He casually ripped apart the steel cuffs on her legs and arms.  She lay back and spread her legs for him, shaking slightly and avoiding his eyes.

"Go on then.  Get out."

"Huh?  I… I mean master has this slave displeased you?"

"Tired of you, got another bird coming by, get moving."

"You mean I can go?"

"S'what I said.  You deaf or something?  Go."

Julie rubbed her legs together a few times, trying to control the desire raging inside her.  Stunned but afraid he might change his mind Julie rolled off the bed and staggered out the door.

She made it thirty feet down the hall before one of Hooligan's neighbors decided she'd make a nice house guest.

With his enhanced hearing Hooligan could make out her cries of terror as they became moans of passion.  He picked up a month old pizza box.

"Hmm… better clean this place up a bit.  Don't want Virginia to think I'm a pig."

***

Back in her penthouse Virginia lay on the floor for some time holding her breasts and rubbing her thighs together exploring the strange feelings aroused within her.  She reasoned that somehow her natural empathy must have caused her to feel a reflection of Hooligan's perverse lusts causing these strange feeling of desire. 

Yes.

That must be it.

She certainly did not enjoy being touched by that man.

Finally she rose and waved her hand ridding herself of the filthy villain's seed and restoring her white gown. 

She bent down and rolled up the rug exposing the silver pentagram beneath.  She lit several white candles.  She knelt, closed her eyes and entered a calm meditative state.

The smoke from the candles grew thicker and a shape began to form, a woman's face, once beautiful but wracked with pain and sorrow.

The White Lady.

She was a powerful angelic being whose holy light had nearly purified the wicked souls of the Global Pillagers.  Only the eleventh hour emergence of Thor's berserker rage had prevented her from turning the evil villains into protectors of the globe.  Since that time she had been imprisoned in the cruel dungeons below their Chaos Citadel raped and tortured countless times, forced to fulfill their dark desires.  Only the last vestiges of her power allowed her to evade their wards and speak to her last remaining servant.

Virginia flounced her hair; it grew out several feet the long golden tresses reaching to her narrow waist.  From her back, wings of golden light emerged stretching upwards to the ceiling.  She opened her eyes; they were orbs of pure gold.

"M'lady."

"Seraphim."

"I have begun.  I choose the one called Hooligan, though he is cruel and crude I sense a small seed of decency within him, one that I shall nurture and care for until I can redeem all his comrades and free you at last."

A small flicker of hope crossed the tortured face of the White Lady.  "I pray for your success Seraphim.  Not for me but for the countless victims of these monsters."

"Of course m'lady."

"Did you let him "touch" you?"

Seraphim looked down.  "M'lady… he is a cruel man, a rapist thousands of times over, his redemption will take time.  I… had to let him."

"Did you… did he…"

"NO!  No of course not m'lady."

"Good, good that is a comfort to me.  But did you… did you enjoy his touch?"

"Uh… no m'lady.  I, uh, thought it was foul and it disgusted me.  Only my faith in the light allowed me to accept it."

"Seraphim, you are still new to the ways of flesh.  You must remember that sex is a foul perversion of love and you must not be tempted by it, tempted to enjoy their hot cocks between your legs and up your ass or in your mouth as they spank you so that you can no longer feel the difference between pleasure and pain.  No… you must not allow yourself to enjoy that."  Her face grew dreamy.

"No m'lady… never."

The White Lady's head turned suddenly and a look of fear crossed her features, fear crossed with a bit of anticipation.

"The Imperialist comes.  I must leave you now Seraphim.  Remember to be pure, for you are my only hope."

The image faded into a cloud of white smoke.

As she always did after contacting her mentor, Seraphim cried.

***

Morning found Hooligan tossing another Hefty bag out the window.  The bachelor pad was starting to look almost livable. 

His door slammed open.

"Mi amigo!  What is this?"

"Aztec!  Help me out mate; I'm trying to clean this place up a bit."

"Por que?  Why not just kill some guy and take his place over?  That's what we usually do."

"I… I didn't feel like it.  I just… there’s this girl OK."

"Right, so you need like room for her cage and stuff.  You see those new torture racks in Sharper Image?  Gotta steal me one of those."

"No, she's like special.  One of those girls who ain't had sex."

"A toddler?"

"No, she's grown up but just never been fucked, bloody hell what's that word?"

"Fat?  Ugly?"

"No… it's like when I'm with her I want to be with her forever and when she's gone it's like part of me is missing.  What's that word for when you really, really want a girl?"

"Lust?"

"Kind of… I guess."

***

Outside Seraphim alighted on Hooligan's fire escape.  The golden wings folded in and disappeared and her glowing white robes transformed into a short yellow sundress that perfectly complimented her sandy blonde hair. 

With the hem of her dress she wiped a bit of dirt from the filthy window and peeked inside.  She smiled for a minute when she saw that the Irish thug had actually done some cleaning.  She was so proud of herself!  Who would have guessed that she would already have this affect on the beastly Pillager? 

But she stopped herself, pride of course is a deadly sin, she was not proud she was… confident.  Confident in her abilities.

Then she gasped when Aztec appeared.  The tan, lead villain was dressed only in a red loincloth, a few scraps of jewelry and his trademark silly hat.  As always an obsidian knife was in his hand.  The Argentine was one of the most frightening of the Pillagers, second only to the bestial Cannibal.  He was a follower of the Aztec religion, whose practices of human sacrifice and ritual cannibalism had spread from Mexico through out South America and the world.  She remembered the fearsome stories of how Aztec missionaries had landed in Spain and murdered millions of peaceful Christians with their obsidian knives and smallpox contaminated blankets.  Just looking at the Aztec villain made her shudder.  She fought down the temptation to flee.

But the White Lady was counting on her… And surely if Hooligan had begun to turn away from darkness after only one night with her Aztec could also be redeemed?  She took a deep breath and decided to try.

***

"Mi burracho forget about your fat ugly toddler and come with me.  The temple of Tezcatlipoca caught some cheerleaders yesterday and they're being sacrificed today. We need to hurry before all the hearts are eaten.  And don't forget we have a Pillager meeting at 8, we need to make plans for the Christmas rush."

"I dunno…"

"Yoo-hoo Hoolie!  It's me!"

The two Pillagers turned towards Virginia, neither had heard her come in but somehow it did not bother them.  She walked right up Hooligan and gave him a peck on his unshaved cheek.  So noticed he was wearing a clean black tee shirt and his jeans had hardly any holes in them at all.  An improvement already.

"Are you ready to go to the park?  There are these mimes there and they're so funny, you just have to see them!  Plus I saw all these cute puppies people were walking, aren't puppies the most precious things in the world?"

"Uh…"

She rubbed his unshaved face and frowned slightly.

"Oh I see you still have to shave."  She sniffed.  "And take a shower.  Why don't you do that and I'll wait."

"Uh…"  Hooligan tried to remember if he owned a razor.

"Please…” she smiled up at him and Hooligan's heart skipped a beat.  Just seeing her smile made him feel good, he hadn't felt like that since he raped the Miss Universe finalists live on TV.

"Sure honey, sure… just a couple of minutes."  He started digging through a pile of Soccer Hooligan Illustrated issues looking for soap and a razor.  He knew there'd been some in that guy's groceries he robbed.

Humming a little tune he headed into the shower.

***

Virginia turned to Aztec and smiled.

The pagan villain smiled back despite himself.

"So, you're one of Hoolie's friends, one of those Pillager types."  She said in an acidic tone that would dissolve steel.

"Uh… yeah…"  Aztec suddenly felt really conscious of the dried blood under his nails.

"Did you ever like, think of not killing people?  Maybe helping people sometimes?  I bet people would be awfully grateful.  And I think men who help people are kind of… sexy."  She leaned in closer to him.

Aztec's loincloth rose slightly as something stirred under it.  He wanted her; he wanted this smiling blond cunt now!  More than he'd wanted anyone since that time with Dyna Girl and the Incredible Titaness.  But somehow something restrained him.  It wasn't fear of Hooligan, carrot top was cool with sharing and besides Aztec knew he could kick that drunk's ass any day.  It was something else, something inside him that said tearing her clothes off and raping her in a pile of dirty laundry was… not right.  It was weird.  He'd never felt it before.

"Si, si helping people es muy bueno."  He was barely listening to his own words.

"Maybe, instead of cutting those cheerleaders open and devouring their still-beating hearts you could help free them?"

"Yeah that would be nice."

"So you'll do it?"

"Si!"

"Oh thank you!"  Virginia threw her hands around Aztec's bare torso and gave him a kiss on the cheek.  "Please go now before someone is hurt!"

"Si, si…"  Aztec opened the window (instead of smashing through a wall like he usually did) and flew off to the temple.

Free the cheerleaders.

Free the cheerleaders.

Just thinking about it made him feel good. 

***

Back at the apartment Hooligan came out of the shower just in time to see his girl kiss his best friend.  His hands formed fists and a scowl appeared on his face.

***

Later at the park…

"Oh Hoolie look at that squirrel isn't it cute!"

"Yes dear…"

"And those flowers, they're so darling!"

"Yes dear…"

Virginia wrinkled her nose when he spoke.

"Hoolie, have you been drinking?"

"Me?  No, no just' y'know a little nip to help me get going."

She frowned.  "I don't like your drinking."

"I can stop… I guess."

Virginia smiled.  After only a few hours this vile piece of filth had been transformed into a model boyfriend.  He'd even promised to take her to the ballet next week. Virginia was so proud- CONFIDENT she was so confident and appreciative of her powers and skills. 

"And look at-” Virginia realized Hooligan wasn't looking at all, he was looking at the three women jogging by.  Their sports bras barely hid their erect nipples and jiggling breasts.  One of them looked at the Irishman and smiled.

Like most single women they carried pepper spray and .45 automatics but that meant nothing to an invulnerable villain like Hooligan.  Just a day ago he would have had all three in the bushes by now.

She tugged his arm and he looked back at Virginia she was scowling. 

"Uh, sorry dear, what was that again?"

"Were you looking at those bimbos?" she hissed.

Hooligan clenched his fists, how come SHE could kiss another guy and he couldn't even look…  But he knew what he had to say to shut her up.

"Wha-?  Me?  Them?  No I didn't even notice them, I was going to point, uh, this pretty bird I saw flying by, but it's gone now.  You know I only want you dear.  In fact, let me prove it to you we can go back in those bushes and-"

She smiled and put a finger to his lips.  "Soon dear, soon.  But I was thinking, first why don't we go over to your friends’ place so you can introduce me.  I really want to meet them."

"Yes dear."  He trotted ahead to hail a cab.

Virginia felt good, the one called Hooligan was already hers, and the one called Aztec had taken off to do her bidding without a second thought.  Surely these Global Pillagers were not as tough as everyone said.  No doubt the White Lady had made some careless mistake (Virginia was a bit shocked at herself for thinking that, she had never questioned her mentor before).  But Virginia, the Seraphim, would make no such mistake, she would ensnare them all and turn these twisted villains into obedient servants!  Servants of good of course.  She was not doing this for her own pride.  Of course not.

***

They arrived at the Chaos Citadel and Hooligan actually paid the cabby instead of killing or robbing him like he usually did.  The frightened cabby made skid marks as he escaped.

The two walked through a forest of overgrown weeds to the Citadel.  The slaves were supposed to take care of the ground but the lazy slobs never did a good job and none of the Pillagers could be bothered to supervise them so Imperialist generally ended up killing the slaves and getting a new batch a month later. 

At last they entered.

***

A few hours later Aztec landed in front of the Citadel.  The girl had been right; saving the cheerleaders was much more fun than sacrificing them.  After he'd saved them he made them line up and give him blowjobs and wouldn't you know it, they gave him much better head as grateful free women than he’d ever gotten from terrified prisoners.  And they were really hot too; he'd brought a six pack of cheerleaders home to stay in the 'entertainment room' for a while.  He could always sacrifice them later. 

Walking into the Citadel though he heard some strange and unfamiliar sounds. 

Agreement.

Laughter.

Camaraderie.

Sounds totally alien to the villainous group.

Cautiously he opened the massive iron doors of the meeting chamber.  The girl was standing in the center of the room with the Pillagers around.  All 7 of the other Pillagers were there: the fat American called the Imperialist, his short Canadian yes-man Runt, the savage African Cannibal, the cruel Japanese inventor Tengu, the hulking Viking called Thor, the suave criminal Aussie Con and the drunken Irishman Hooligan. Some sat on chairs but a few were actually kneeling before her as if in worship.  Only Hooligan was on his feet pacing impatiently and occasionally looking at Virginia with a scowl. 

"Ah Aztec!  Come in my good man!  This charming young lady was just talking about the famine in Utah."

"Oh thank you Imperialist, I was just saying that you have so much food you have pillaged that maybe you could share some with the needy people of Utah."

"Great idea!"

"I'm up for it!"

"Those poor Utahians…"

Aztec looked at Virginia she seemed different.  When he'd seen her at Hooligan's she was barely over 5' and had shoulder length hair but now she was as tall as he was and her hair was longer.  Her eyes too… weren't they brown before and now they're gold, shinning with an inner light.  He looked into those gold eyes and his mind started to drift…

He had heard stories about Angels all his life of course.  Beautiful winged creatures who had been driven from the warm caverns of paradise for being too weak and now dwelled in the cold empty skies with neither fire to keep them warm nor caves to live in.  There were stories of how these angels tempted the strong into weakness but he never thought they were real.  Or that he would so willing join one.

"Yes Virginia, anything you want…"

"You guys are so great!"  She stroked Cannibal's filthy hair and he purred like a cat.  "So from now on you'll try to protect people and help them?  That would really make me happy."

"Yes!"

"But of course!"

"Sure thing ay?"

"Hai!"

"Que es?"

Seraphim walked up to the Aztec villain and smiled at him.  She ran her fingers along his bare shoulders and gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Won't you do it as a favor for me?"

Aztec found himself nodding before he could think.  "Si, si, voy al Utah."

"Thank you Aztec."  She gave him another kiss.

As Aztec fell under her spell Seraphim felt her power grow.  She had created a virtuous circle!  As the goodness within the Global Pillagers grew the positive energy around her grew and her power increased, allowing her to further nurture the seeds of good within the villains.  She already felt taller and more powerful than she had been before.  At this rate she might exceed the power of the White Lady herself!  Seraphim felt so proud of herself, truly no servant of light had ever accomplished so much in so little time. 

"So it's decided!  You three will deliver food to Utah; you two will start returning the loot you've stolen, you three will stop the Attacking Legion of Genocide from destroying Lithuania.  And Hoolie here will show me the dungeons so I can free all those poor prisoners.

The Pillagers nodded.

Except for one.

Hooligan silently fumed as he saw how the others were looking at his girl.  And how she was looking at them, kissing them, saying nice words.  Damn it, he couldn't take it anymore.

"Hey just one minute there darling.  Before you go I just want to make one thing clear OK?  You and me are together right?  You're mine.  Cause the thing is-"

"Oh Hoolie, I wouldn't put it that way, I think we're partners traveling together on the adventure of a relationship.  I don't think we can say that I'm yours any more than we can say you are mine."  Her eyes narrowed and her button nose wrinkled.  "Isn't that right dear?"

"Well you see…"

"Isn't.  That.  Right.  Dear."

"Th-that's right dear."  He muttered with resignation.

"So now that that's settled let's do downstairs and free those poor prisoners you've been torturing."

"But, uh, just one thing dear.  I kind of have this, uh, itch we need to scratch."  The crotch of his jeans looked ready to burst.  The Pillagers looked at him with sympathy, Seraphim with disgust.

"I don't think this is really the time or the place-"

"Now, now little lady, you yourself said you two were partners and that means sometimes you gotta give a little yourself, ain't that right Runt?"

"Yes sir Imperialist!"

"Besides you were talking about helping people who are suffering and it looks to me like Hooligan's suffering pretty bad right now."

"You said it Imperialist!"

"But… you can't mean… can't it wait until…"

"I need it now baby."

"Come on Virginia!"

"A man has needs y'know!"

"Spread the love!"

"But…"  Seraphim felt her control slipping away.  Aztec and Cannibal grabbed her arms, she tried to struggle but their strength was too great and her own was being sapped by fear.  Hooligan pulled a switchblade from his Doc Martin stompy boot and walked towards her.  

Seraphim started to tremble.  Just a few months ago she had been a being of pure energy existing on the astral plane until the White Lady persuaded her to take on human form in the hopes of effecting a rescue.  Growing used to material, fleshy, existence had taken weeks.  She had had to learn to talk, walk and eat.  She had studied humans carefully adjusting her form to one that would be effective in ensnaring the Pillagers.  She had thought her weeks of study had taught her everything she needed to know about being human but her brief intimacy with Hooligan and the strange feelings it had aroused had shown her there was still much more to learn.

And this was not how she wanted to learn it!

"Don't worry baby, I'll be gentle, you're not like the other sluts, you're special.  It will feel so good and after that I'll take you downstairs and lock you up so the other guys can never bother you, you'll be mine.  Forever."

The worst was when she looked in his eyes expecting to see lust or hatred but instead she still saw love.  For him this was love.

He raised the knife to the top of her dress and started to cut down. 

She screamed.

No one cared.

The razor sharp blade slit the thin dress down the center exposing her white bra and lacy white panties.  The Pillagers whistled in appreciation.

"Nice one Hooligan."

"Lad's got good taste."

"Don't suppose you'd sha-” Hooligan cuffed Aztec across the head.

"She's all mine guys.  Just hold her still, she's kind of shy."

He felt around for her bra clasp but could not find it, she'd created the undergarment with magic, there was no need for a clasp.  Virginia squirmed as his hands roamed up and down her breasts and around her chest.  Finally Hooligan gave up and tore the bra off.

The Pillagers whistled again.

Her panties followed exposing her bare pussy.  Virginia hated body hair and had never bothered to grow any. 

The crotch in Hooligan's jeans exploded and his thick member emerged ready for action.  Virginia screamed again.

Desperately she realized there was just one slim hope.  She closed her eyes and reached deep inside herself.  She felt Hooligan's hands caressing her inner thighs, his tongue licking between her legs, she tried to shut it out and focus within to find and reveal her true self.  She tried to forget just how much she wanted Hooligan to finish.

"Wow Hooligan never saw a girl do that before."

Golden light began to shine from within Virginia eyes, mouth and pussy catching Hooligan in the face.  She grew taller; her hair longer, white robes covered her nude body and golden wings sprouted from her back. The villains were tossed back like leaves in a hurricane and the Seraphim stood in Virginia's place!

"Foul villains, you will never again touch a woman!  I thought to redeem you all but I see now your perversion is far too deep and must be cleansed by Holy Fire!"

She gestured dramatically and a flaming sword appeared in her slender hand.  She smiled.  This was going to be good.

***

The Global Pillagers just stared at her in disbelief.

"Darling?"

"Huh?" 

"Hey she's even hotter now!"

"That's it?"

"She's just another White Lady knock off trying to mind control us?"

Seraphim frowned.  When she fought demons on the astral plane they were usually more respectful.

"Surrender now Global Pillagers or face my Holy Wrath!"  Seraphim felt better, that sounded good and impressive.  They'd surrender now.

"Yeah, whatever, Thor gets her."

The hulking Viking grunted and picked up his iron hammer.  Despite his larger size and strength Seraphim managed to parry his clumsy blows keeping him from threatening her.  She managed to maneuver herself so that she had clear access to the door to the dungeons.  Between blows she glanced around, the others were standing aside watching the show.  Tengu and Cannibal seemed to be making a bet with Imperialist, Aztec and Aussie Con were cheering while Hooligan was on the floor crying softly and nursing his hip flask.  She took another half step, the way to the dungeons was close, if she could just free the White Lady and other heroines imprisoned there…

"AH!"  The young angel cried out as something landed on her back clawing her breasts with sharp nails.  She could just make out a pair of red sleeves.  Runt!  She’d been attacked by the diminutive Canadian villain everyone tended to forget.  With Seraphim distracted for a second Thor landed a devastating hammer blow on her shoulder shattering bones and causing her to drop the Holy Sword.  Runt ran his sharp claws down her face blinding her in one eye.  She stumbled back in pain.  Another hammer blow to her hip sent her the ground no longer able to stand.  The disgusting midget started licking the scratches on her face. 

The Imperialist picked up her Holy Sword and waved it a few times.  Once out of her hands the flames had dies leaving the villain with an elegantly crafted silver and gold weapon.  He took the blade in two hands and bent it in half.  He tossed it over his shoulder to Tengu muttering "melt it down for bullion."

The slight delay had give Seraphim a few seconds to recover, she called upon her diminishing power and healed herself.  She started to rise to flee but Cannibal and Aussie Con grabbed her arms pinning her to the ground.  The others started to hoot and holler.

Imperialist looked her leered.

All hope fled her and she started to cry.

The Imperialist advanced, undoing his emerald-studded "$$$" belt buckle. 

"Please… no!  Please, I'll…"

"You'll do what bitch?  You work for the White Lady right?  Well but after a couple weeks of our tender loving care she was ready to do anything we want, everything we want.  You think you got something to offer us? Something we can't get out of you?”

 Seraphim tried to think, to find the words that would show this villain the error of his ways.  That would convince him to show mercy.  No words came.

The American's thick phallus emerged from his red and white stripped pants aimed squarely between Seraphim’s fair legs. 

“See this?"  He pointed to the massive member between his legs, “the White Lady gave me this in exchange for two days without torture.  And from what I see you ain’t got half the guts she’s got.”

She felt his fat fingers on her thighs, prying them apart.  She whimpered and squeezed her eyes shut hoping it wouldn't be as bad as she feared.

It was worse.

The feeling of the Imperialist's fat dick entering her dry tunnel was like having a pool cue rammed down your throat, it made her want to vomit, the pain of being torn apart made her scream.  Then he started to thrust into her pushing against her injured body with his super strength.  All remaining pride left Seraphim and she screamed and begged for mercy.

The worst was how, after what seemed an eternity, her body began to respond.  She could actually feel her traitorous body secreting endorphins to make her enjoy it.  She tried to stop it, to feel the pain seemed more honest but finally she could not endure.  Her nipples grew hard, her pussy moist, her fingers clenched as her body began to feel its first true arousal. 

The Imperialist finished long before she could feel anything more than the beginnings of arousal but Thor soon took his place.

Crushed in his strong arms Seraphim once more started to feel that strange warmth between her legs.  The massive rod inside her stopped feeling like an instrument of pain and more a wand of pleasure.  Seraphim started to moan.

The Viking also finished early.

Tengu took his place.

Again and again the villains had their way with her fulfilling their twisted lusts but never giving Seraphim more than a taste of pleasure.

Until finally only Hooligan was left.  The others had departed.  They'd all felt obliged to rape the angelic heroine but none of them were that interested in sticking around, not with a dungeon full of heroines downstairs and a city full of women outside. 

"So mind if have a go then?" 

Imperialist looked the Irish villain up and down.  He'd stopped crying a while ago and seemed to be back to his normal self.  He was even swaying back and forth and his breath positively reeked of whiskey.  Normally Imperialist would have the drunken sod down in the pain pits by now for letting this bitch control him but…  Hadn't the poor drunk waited long enough?

"Yeah, go for it.  Mind if I watch?"  It would be a good chance to make sure Hooligan really was back to himself.

"No worries mate.  I'll give you a good show."  He leered down at the soiled angel.  Seraphim's white robes were a dirty gray now, her fair skin covered in bruises and cuts, her inner thighs coated in jism.  The long golden wings were broken in several places; feathers pulled from them and boot prints clearly visible in places.  Unfortunately her golden eyes were glazed over barely noting the world around her. 

Hooligan decided to get her attention.  He planted a boot between her legs and pushed.  The girl screamed again and saw him.

He bent over and breathed harsh fumes into her face.  She gagged.  He put his hands in her armpits and pulled her up against a stone column enjoying the expression of pain on her face as her shattered wings shifted.  He kneed her in the gut. 

"Been waiting a long time for this you super cocktease.  Brace yourself Bridgett, I'm going in!"

And with that, he went in.

Imperialist laughed for five straight minutes at the look of absolute horror and despair on Seraphim's face. 

Hooligan pounded the poor girl with all his strength; she felt granite chips slipping between her butt cheeks as the wall behind her disintegrated under the pressure.  Tears fell and she howled in pain.  Hooligan gripped her shoulders and pushed harder slamming her into the wall dislodging blocks.

Through her dimming eyes Seraphim thought she could see tears in Hooligan's eyes but she knew it was just wishful thinking.  Her eyes began to close.  The world went black.

The Imperialist laughed harder. 

He was still laughing when Hooligan pulled out a block and threw it at his forehead.

The Pillagers' leader slumped to the ground unconscious and bleeding.

***

Seraphim felt nothing but darkness and despair around her.  She had failed.  There were no sparks of decency in the Global Pillagers, just darkness and evil.  With no goodness to feed her Seraphim was almost powerless barely able to endure her punishment.

But then…

She could feel it coming closer, a tiny ember of light and of love.  She felt gentle hands on her body moving her to a bed.  She felt a warm tongue on her abused breasts replacing feelings of pain with those of pleasure.  Her body and soul responded naturally, her wounds healed, her wings knit, her nipples rose and she felt dampness between her legs. 

She opened her eyes.

She saw Hooligan.

She began a scream but his tender lips covered hers with a loving kiss.  She felt it; somehow his love for her was still strong, even after…

"Uh!"  She grunted as he entered her.  Her healing powers had made her as tight as she had ever been.  Hooligan's member should have hurt but somehow it was pleasant and warm inside her body.  They were not having sex, they were making love.  She kissed his chest passionately, he pushed harder, she cried and moaned.  And finally…

"YES!  BY THE LIGHT YES!  Thank you Hooligan, thank you, I never knew, I never thought mortals could feel this way…"

"Yeah, yeah, you were a good shag too.  Now off with you."

"What?"

The Irishman turned angry.  "Get off now!  Leave me alone!  Stop making me, y'know, feel things.  I don't need this crap in my life!  I was happy damn it!  Now get going and-"

She put a delicate hand on his bare shoulder.  "Hooligan no.  You have just begun to discover the goodness within, I can help you redeem yourself and-"

He shrugged off her hand.  "And what?  What?  Become some goody two shoes hero like the rest of the losers in the basement?  Fight the Pillagers till they finally kick my ass and then get anally violated by Tengu's rape machine till I go mad?  That what I have to look forward to?  Maybe we'll get a cell together like Mr. Helpful and Ms. Nice!"

"Hooligan no!  Heroes can win, we can defeat the Pillagers or even redeem them-"

"Maybe that works in Sarajevo or Pyongyang or somewhere but in a shithole like Amerika there's no hope.  So get lost!  Let me go back the way I was!"

She could see the tears in his eyes, the struggle within him.  She knew her next works could tip the balance.

She put her hands on his shoulders and looked him in the eyes. 

"Hooligan, your soul is like a flower emerging after the darkness of winter, small but beautiful.  Hooligan I swear by the light, I love-"

His smack knocked her across the room.

"GOT OUT!  I don't want your sodding love damnit!  Get the fuck out!"

His face twisted in rage he charged her.

Fear filled Seraphim, she looked at the skylight and…

***

A golden beam of light shot out of the Chaos Citadel illuminating Aztec and Aussie Con as they headed for the women's gymnastics finals in Athens. 

"Heh, guess she got away."

"Wonder who Impy will blame for this fuck up?"

***

Upward, ever higher, she soared.

Seraphim could feel the crude matter of her material body fading away as she returned to her true form.  The gates to the Planes of Light were ahead of her, she could hear her brothers and sisters calling, calling…

But their songs were not welcoming.

"Go back"

"You are fallen"

"Tainted"

"Impure"

"Soiled"

"No, no I am pure, I am innocent" she tried to object but the memories of those few minutes of pleasure came to her unbidden.  Even without her body she could feel him inside her and feel herself yearning for more.

The gates closed in her face.

She fell.

***

A golden comet struck the Wertham River and disappeared.

A few hours later…

"Great Hitler's Ghost!"

Ivan could not believe what he had found.  A beautiful blond girl, naked as a jaybird, had washed up by the hobo's shanty.  She was gorgeous, like a living angel, except for that look of incredible sadness on her sleeping face.

He managed to get her into the shanty and lay her down on the pile of blankets.  He stopped to tie her hands with rags just in case.  She didn't stir.  He poured himself a glass of moonshine, took another look at the girl and decided to get on with it. 

A quick thrust took him inside her but he was only good for a few minutes between her warm wet legs.  He shot his load and lay down next to her just feeling her sweet warm body next to his.

When he felt up for it again he too another turn.  Halfway through the girl started to stir.  She opened her innocent blue eyes and looked right at Ivan.  The filthy bum hesitated and stopped, pulling out of her and pulling up his pants. 

"S-sorry miss, I…"

"No sir, please but… perhaps there is a way we can both enjoy making love?"

Under her instruction the bum began a gentle, caring night of lovemaking, fulfilling her every need as best he could.

The next day he stopped drinking and started looking for a job.

In her heart Virginia Celeste wept for what she had lost.  Her pride and her weakness had cost her everything.  Her mentor was still a prisoner, and she was trapped forever in this cold dark world.  But somehow she would continue, finding whatever sparks of goodness there were in this city and maybe, someday, she would challenge the Global Pillagers again. 

And next time she would succeed.


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