The
Global Protectors – True Romance
By Marcus Lycus
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May
2005
Part 4 – Maple Leaf Meets the Legion of Galactic Protectors!
“Hi Maple Leaf, what’s up?”
Jillian Havre, Canadian attorney, froze on the hotel steps and looked at the crowd. Who said that? No one was supposed to know that Jillian was in fact the world-famous leader of the Global Protectors.
But no one seemed to be paying special attention to her and no one seemed to have heard the comment so she let it pass. Had she imagined it?
Then she noticed a dark haired girl across the street looking at her with an odd smirk. She was about to call out to her when she heard fire engines.
She ran into an alley.
***
After changing into her costume, putting out the fire, and saving the tenants (even the 3 cats) Maple Leaf posed for the TV cameras talking about how wonderful it was to be back in Toronto.
She hadn’t really planned to do any heroics during this trip. She wanted to just be Jillian Havre, former Crown Attorney and world-renowned expert on superheroes and the law. She’d always kept her identity and private life secret; it gave her some relief from the stresses of the team and a chance to walk around without worrying about screaming fans or bellowing supervillains. When Jillian Havre was invited to speak at a legal conference in Toronto she figured it was a good chance to get away from Megapolis and see some old friends. Besides a whole week without Shamrock or Star seemed like heaven to her.
But hey, if Maple Leaf was needed, Jillian Havre would have to disappear for a little while.
“I’m glad to spend some time back here in my native city ay? The Global Protectors have our hands full taking care of the entire world but I’ve never forgotten my hometown!”
Good quote and it was under 10 seconds. Just right for the nightly news. Along with the footage of her rescuing the box of kittens it might even be the lead story. Many heroines forgot such basic techniques when talking to the media. That’s why they ended up forgotten while the Global Protectors were still on top!
She gracefully detached herself from the reporters (always leave them wanting more! Never let them think you need them!) and started to rise into the air.
But as she ascended she saw a girl in a trench coat and big hat give her a thumbs up and clearly said “Great job Jillian!”
She froze in midair and looked around. Had anyone else heard that? No one seemed to have noticed. She looked back, the girl was gone.
She felt a sudden chill.
***
As Jillian headed back up to her room, her forehead was wrinkled in worry. A little over a year ago La Sola had redesigned their costumes eliminating the heroines’ masks. Studies had shown that masks distracted from the heroine’s beauty and that generally weren’t needed. With skimpy costumes like theirs no one really looked too much at their faces anyway. But now she was rethinking it. If someone had figured out that Jillian was Maple Leaf she could be in a whole lot of trouble. Her parents or her brother could become targets or supervillains, she wouldn’t be safe at home anymore, and the IRS might decide to audit her!
Worst of all whoever knew was playing games with her. What if it was some supervillain like Mister Twister looking to blackmail her or just make her paranoid? She decided she should call the Gaea Building and give everyone a warning.
The elevator stopped at her floor, she got off as a cute blond kid got on. As the door was closing she heard him say “Hey Maple Leaf, give my best to Valkyrie and Tigress!”
Jillian spun but it was too late, the doors had closed and the elevator was going down. Well she wasn’t going to give up this time! She ran into her room undoing her top and dropping her skirt to expose the colorful costume below. She opened the glass door and Maple Leaf flew off the balcony into the skies of Toronto. Maple Leaf’s improved eyes scanned the streets around the hotel but there was no sign of the blond kid.
But she did spot a flash of rainbow light from High Park. Light that looked like nothing she had ever seen. When she looked again it flashed again almost like a beacon or a signal. Two odd occurrences at once were too many for her. She knew they had to be connected. Flying over the park she noticed it was unnaturally quiet. It was just after sundown, there should be joggers, couples and drug addicts out enjoying the park but it was empty, like someone had cleared it out.
That was too weird. Maple Leaf froze in midair and reached for her communicator bracelet. She wasn’t going to call for help just yet but she was certainly going to let the team know something was going on and make sure they kept an eye open, just in case.
But then she stopped. She didn’t need to call them! She started to fly forward.
Huh?
She reached for her communicator again; of course she had to call in! Hadn’t just been yelling at La Sola last week for not calling in about her encounter with Dynamo? Her finger rested on the call button.
Suddenly she was hit with a wave of nausea and dizziness. She lost altitude and spun a few times in midair before catching herself.
She took a few deep breaths.
OK, now that she had called in, she was sure she remembered calling in, she was ready to check this out.
***
There was another flash and she traced it to a clearing in the park. There she saw three teens in colorful costumes looking up at her.
The first was the dark haired Latin girl she had seen on the hotel steps. But now the girl was wearing a green and yellow costume with a clouded planet on it.
Second was the curly haired blond boy from the elevator, now wearing a red and gold costume decorated with two lightning bolts.
Third and strangest of all was a girl in a black and pink space suit, her head was covered in a dark bubble helmet that completely concealed her features. Presumably this was the girl from the fire. Her costume was unadorned except for an ‘ML’ on her belt buckle.
They didn’t look like supervillains, they seemed much too clean-cut and wholesome but they weren’t any heroes she’d ever seen before. They must be new. One of them waved. The other giggled.
Well if these snot-nosed punks thought they could go around endangering her secret ID they had another thing coming! Maple Leaf landed across the clearing from them, crossed her arms, wrinkled her nose and shot them a glare that could freeze the blood in a defendant’s veins.
“Who the hell are you?”
The dark haired girl seemed taken aback for a second. She looked at her comrades but they just waited for her to speak.
“Well, uh, Maple Leaf, or do you prefer to be called Jillian?”
“Maple Leaf. You can start by telling me how the hell you know my secret identity.”
“Uh, right, Maple Leaf, well, where we come from everyone knows your secret identity! It’s in all the history books.”
“History books?”
“So, um, sorry about uh, our little trick before but we wanted to have a bit of fun before we, uh, introduced ourselves.”
“Well you’ve had your fun. Introduce yourselves already.”
“Uh, right. I’m Venus Girl! This is Dynamo Boy! And that’s uh…”
“Uh, Mystery Girl!” The blond kid threw in.
“Mystery Girl? So how come she’s got ML on her belt?”
“He uh meant Mystery Lass, right Dynamo Boy? Mystery Lass!”
“Mystery Lass. Riiiggght.” She stretched out the last word to show she wasn’t buying a word of this crap.
“Right! We’re all members of the Legion of Galactic Protectors!” Venus Girl smiled and held her hands up like she was expecting Jillian to be impressed or something. Jillian wasn’t.
“Never heard of you.”
“Well of course not! That’s because we’re from the distant future year of 2636! And we’ve traveled back in time to meet you!”
“From the future? Uh-huh. Sure. Riiiggght.”
“Right!” The other two were starting to look a bit ambivalent but nothing seemed to dampen Venus Girl’s enthusiasm. “You see in our era humanity has spread out to colonize all the planets of the solar system and even planets in other star systems! Over time your legend and the legend of the Global Protectors has grown! Now superheroes from every world are proud to be a part of the Galactic Protectors! So we decided to travel back in time for a chance to meet you, the greatest heroine of any age!”
Maple Leaf’s eyebrows rose at this. Her legend? The greatest heroine of any age? Wow. Of course that was if she believed this bull, and she didn’t. Not at all. Really.
“So, what you’re saying is 600 years from now my team is still around and I’m like the most famous heroine ever? More famous than, let’s say, Ultra Woman?”
“Who?”
“Blond girl, dresses like a tramp, ridiculously large tits, no brain?”
“Never heard of her.” Kid Dynamo shook his head, Mystery Lass shrugged. Despite herself Maple Leaf smiled. Well that was good news.
“OK, so let’s say I believe you. Now what, you’ve met me, want an autograph or something?”
“Oh we want more than that Maple Leaf! We’re going to take you back to our time and show you the future you and your teammates will help build.”
“Wait a second, time travel? I have a conference tomorrow! And a meeting with the CBC! I don’t have time to…”
Around them the wind started to pick up, the temperature dropped, strangely colored lights started to float around them. The three teens encircled Maple Leaf. She looked up to fly out but above her all she could see was a square of light descending from the sky. Through it her improved eyes could just make out some silver buildings and sleek aircraft darting through the sky.
No way. It just couldn’t be…
“Don’t worry Jillian!” Venus Girl shouted in her ear. “With our Time Square we can return you here the minute you left! You don’t have to miss anything!”
Before Maple Leaf could object again the square of light had engulfed them. She felt a strange feeling of vertigo and then…
***
“Welcome to the world of tomorrow!” Venus Girl shouted with an extravagant gesture.
Jillian Havre’s eyes went wide, it was true! She was in the future!
They were on a balcony and all around them were mile-high silver buildings, tubes with people floating in them, sleek streamlined rocket ships crisscrossed the skies, there was even a monorail winding through the city. A monorail! It was just like Epcot Center!
“Wow.”
“Come along Jillian, Toronto is just a small town these days; the real action is in Megapolis.” The three teens took to the air effortlessly. Jillian followed them too stunned to object. They darted among the buildings and crowds of people waved as they passed. Looking down Jillian saw robots, aliens, cyborgs and every kind of human imaginable. If it wasn’t for CN Tower Jillian wouldn’t have known she even in Toronto anymore. It was more like an alien city.
Mystery Lass and Dynamo Boy flew into one of the tubes and Venus Girl gestured for Maple Leaf to follow.
“We don’t want to tire you out flying all the way to Megapolis so I thought we’d take the tube.” Venus Girl looked up and said “Legion Headquarters”. Suddenly Maple Leaf felt herself lifted by an invisible force and carried forward at an incredible speed. The three super teens with her were lifted and carried as well.
“This Zoom Tube allows anyone to travel across the Earth without all that pollution you have in your era.” They soon passed out of Toronto into miles of pristine forests and fields. “These days we use replicators to provide our food so the Earth has been allowed to return to its natural state in most areas.” They started to speed up; the countryside became a green blur rushing by.
Just five minutes later they slowed down and the massive domed city of Megapolis came into sight. Jillian spotted a few familiar landmarks like Shooter Tower and Steranko Bridge but the rest of the city was just as alien as Toronto had been.
“The city was domed after the Fatally Fearful Fifty attacked in 2269 trying to destroy the Galactic Protectors during our annual meeting. The domes are made out of indestructible diamond hard crystal.” The tube turned before it reached the city and headed towards a massive structure just up the St. Giffin River.
“And here we are! The Gaea Tesseract Nexus!”
The building was huge! It sprawled across acres of land; two long thin wings came together at a V where the main body of the building began. It spread outwards in an hourglass shape until it ended with two prominent twin domes capped with bright pink satellite dishes. The domes reminded Maple Leaf of something but she just couldn’t put her finger on it.
“Wow, it’s like a giant version of the Gaea Building in my time!”
“Well duh, it was totally rebuilt after… um…“
“After what?”
“Uh, after it became outdated of course!” Venus Girl quickly interrupted “in uh, 2111 the, uh, Solar Federation provided the funding to totally rebuilt the Gaea Building. Yeah!”
“Oh, OK. So tell me more about this building.”
“Well you’re only seeing a small part of it of course. As the Galactic Protectors have expanded the building has grown, most of it is in hyperspace and alternate dimensions now.”
The tube turned and headed towards the Gaea Tesseract Nexus running right between the two long annexes of the building to the mouth like entrance at the middle of the V. As they entered Maple Leaf noticed a glowing figure over the entrance, a powerful woman in a familiar looking red and white costume who waved and smiled at her.
“It’s… it’s me! It must be honoring me at the greatest heroine of all time! What’s does that say under it?” She pointed at the interlac characters hovering below the hologram.
Venus Girl quickly blurted out “Right! It’s uh, totally honoring you for starting the team and stuff.”
“And uh, being the best heroine ever of course.” Dynamo Boy threw in.
“Really?” Maple Leaf sat back with a self-satisfied smirk on her face. “Well all right.”
But then the tube turned again, away from the building towards a smaller yellow building off to the side. It was a cylinder with red fins on the top; to be frank it looked like a yellow rocket crashed headfirst into the ground.
“Hey what’s up with this?”
“Oh that’s our, uh, VIP house. You wouldn’t want to stay at headquarters with people coming and going all the time, you’ll want your privacy right?”
“I guess…”
“Great!”
***
Meanwhile, 600 years ago in the 21st century, a young woman entered Shooter Tower.
She grinned to herself as she noticed each turned head, each drooling mouth. Her eyes dutifully recorded each man she passed, recording the cute ones in her digital memory. Most of them were your typical fat Americans but there were some she would have to consider for later.
After her mission.
She entered the newly refurbished private elevator. There was only one button of course, labeled ‘Dr. H’. She didn’t even need to push it. As soon as she entered the door closed and the elevator began to rise to the 86th floor.
The woman was 5’5”, with a slim athletic body from which sprouted healthy round 38C breasts. Her short strawberry blond hair and smirking face completed a very attractive package. Today she was dressed in a skin-tight red jump suit, decorated with the letters CCCP on both thighs. The suit was sleeveless and backless and black high-healed boots covered her feet and calves.
This outfit was Lt. Natasha Gorki’s idea of undercover.
Her internal cybernetics noted that she was being scanned from head to toe with millimeter wavelength radar beams as the elevator rose. Her host was carefully cataloging all of the cybernetic improvements the UN had implanted in her firm young body. She wondered if his interest in her body was strictly clinical.
The elevator finally arrived. She sent a quick comlink message to her partner letting Captain Castillion know she had arrived and then Natasha opened the office door.
The room could have come out of a 1930’s detective movie. It had the electric fan, the cluttered wooden desk, the filing cabinets, and the slightly disheveled but very macho man behind the desk with his feet up.
“So what can I do for you doll-face?”
“Doctor Hammer I presume?”
The golden-eyed man nodded.
“I see you’ve reclaimed your old office.”
“The investment bank was all too eager to let me have it once I explained the situation.”
“Well I’m sure I’d love to hear more about that. But first…”
“Your name is Natasha Gorki; you’re a member of UNICORN, the United Nations International Crime Organized Reaction Network, traveling here undercover since legally you cannot operate in the United States. You have over thirty different cybernetic systems implanted in your body. Many of them, I might add, derived from technology I developed.”
Natasha nodded, slightly impressed.
“And you’re here to find out what I’m up to and to see if I’d like to join your organization.”
“Yes Doctor Hammer, as you know UNICORN is the world’s premier-“
“I also know you’re prepared to sweeten the offer with some off-the-record bonuses.” He got up from behind the desk.
Natasha almost blushed. Almost. “Your scanners must be very sensitive Doctor Hammer.”
He put a hand on her shoulder, she almost jumped. “Unlike you, I don’t need toys to see the obvious.” He took off his hand. “But before we get to business let me show you around!” He led her through a nondescript door into his lab and started explaining his various projects from nanomachines to hunt down viruses to a drug that will make people permanently and violently allergic to alcohol.
“A cure for alcoholics?”
“I was actually planning on just putting it in the water supply. I’m working on similar ones for cocaine, marijuana and tobacco.”
“But…”
They entered the next lab where several complicated looking rays were set up facing a liquid filled tube. “I’ve been researching the Global Protectors’ psychokinetic activation process. It’s very interesting though it seems Dr. Boyd added some quite unnecessary steps to it, it’s almost as if he wanted to turn the girls into…” His voice trailed off, he’d never though of it in that light. “Anyway after some tinkering with the process I might be able to use it on myself. I’ve never wanted or needed ‘superpowers’ before but I can’t overlook the benefits.”
“I thought it only worked on women? Isn’t that why the team is all female?”
“That’s what they say but to be honest I resolved that issue in a few hours. Perhaps Dr. Boyd just prefers to experiment on hot chicks.”
He brought her into the next room, a fully equipped surgery.
“This is where I used to do brain surgery to correct criminal tendencies and turn crooks into productive members of society. I haven’t had time to try out my techniques since I was freed but I’m thinking next week I’ll haul in some drug dealers or pimps. With all the advances in mind control drugs and other techniques I should be able to adopt this for much wider use.”
“But…”
“You don’t have a problem with that do you? You know what it’s like out there; criminals will keep coming back and keep killing unless we find a way to stop them. My old friend the Nightshadow just shot them, I like to think my methods are more humane.”
“But…” Her voice trailed off intrigued.
“Come now let’s step into the library.”
The library was a classic gentleman’s study, lined with stacks of rare books, furnished with overstuffed armchairs and with a picture window offering an unparalleled view of Megapolis. Hammer poured them both some vodka, lit a cigar and took a seat. “Now to business.”
Natasha noted that the doctor has no qualms about alcohol or smoking for himself. She sipped her vodka and studied the man. His unique gold eyes seemed to bore right through her titanium reinforced skull. Even under his loose linen shirt his muscles were well defined. His voice was strong and firm and confident. But… if his plans moved forward…
“Doctor Hammer I was sent here to offer you a position as head of research for UNICORN and perhaps some work as a field agent but based on what you have shown me I am no longer certain that we have a place for you in UNICORN.”
“I thought UNICORN might feel that way. But what about Lt. Gorki?”
“I…”
“I like your outfit, but I thought the Soviet Union was long gone.”
“It… it is. And some Russians want it forgotten but I think we should remember there was a time when the world feared Russia, when it looked to us as leaders rather than a bankrupt former power.”
“So you understand what I want to do then. The Soviets were monsters; make no mistake but Stalin and his men understood one thing, that society must be controlled. And that keeping control sometimes means stepping outside conventional morality. I’m not planning to send poets to Siberia or run over students with tanks, I plan some simple, effective steps that will benefit everyone. It will take years to accomplish them but in the end the world will thank me. I realize now that last time I spent too much energy on symptoms and ignored the big issues. Stalin helped teach me that. I won’t make that mistake again. But I need help. I need people like you.”
“Hmm?”
“I heard your offer, now listen to my counter-proposal. I have a plan for the world; you saw a small part of it today. It will work. And once it’s far enough along no one will be able to stop it. Hardly anyone will want to. But here and now I’m vulnerable. The future is vulnerable if the authorities decide to stop me, the so-called superheroes or even some villains. You my dear have information. You know what UNICORN is up to, and UNICORN is plugged into the entire super community. I in turn have information and technology even your organization does not have access too. I have no interest in helping UNICORN at this time, but I do want to help Lt. Gorki.”
He stood up and took down a small book. “This is a complete list of Doctor Darkness’ lairs around the world. I’ve been updating it in my spare time. I would hunt him down myself but the needs of the world must take precedence.” He lightly tossed it to her. She thumbed through it, it was hand-drawn complete with maps, diagrams and outlines of security systems. “Take it, use it, find him. Tell them you found it, tell them you figured it out yourself, I don’t care. I would imagine there’s a promotion to be had for any ambitious agents who take him down.”
Natasha nodded. Doctor Darkness had been one of the world’s most wanted criminal since the 19th century!
“All I ask for is information. Whatever I need, whenever I need it. And I’ll make sure that you enjoy a long a successful career.”
Natasha thought for a minute. Hammer’s ideas were frightening, monstrous but… He said it would take years. Years for her establish her career, years of promotions and decorations; plenty of time for her to double-cross him later.
“I’ll do it.”
He stepped closer to her, his powerful chest was less than an inch from her firm breasts, only thin linen and spandex separated them. Her nipples were clearly visible. Her breath sped up. Hammer could hear her heart.
“Now for the second item of business.”
Natasha looked away, blushing this time; she wasn’t used to being the passive one. He raised his mighty arms and put them around her neck, he could feel her pulse racing. With her cybernetics Natasha should be able to stop that, if she wanted to. That was all he needed. He leaned in and kissed willing Russian girl. As their lips locked he grabbed the thin spandex material behind her neck and unfastened it. Before she could react he gave each end a tug splitting the red body glove from top to bottom, exposing the Russian girl from her neck to her neatly shaved pussy. She snarled and pushed back knocking Hammer to the floor and started tearing open his shirt. That was more like it.
Hammer felt his riding britches and drawers tear open, his thick member was already at attention. A simple judo move put him back on top despite Natasha’s superior strength and a quick thrust put him inside her. That was more like it.
***
And in the 27th century…
The building was surprisingly large on the inside but empty. Maple Leaf felt like she walked miles as the three teens showed her strange trophies and incomprehensible machines. Finally Venus Girl and Mystery Lass excused themselves leaving Dynamo Boy to show her to their room.
“This is your guest suite, you can get some rest here and we’ll start our trials tomorrow.”
Maple Leaf grabbed the blond boy’s arm before he could leave and guided him towards the anti-gravity bed in the center of the room. They say down together. Maple Leaf smiled at him, noticing he was sweating. She smiled at him. He was kind of cute and after all, she was on vacation.
“So Dynamo Boy, what’s your deal?”
“Well I’m the descendent of two people from your time, your teammate Aussie Girl and the villain known as Dynamo. I inherited both her enhanced physique and his electrical powers.”
“Dynamo and Aussie Girl? Hooking up? Like that would ever happen… must have been some other electrical guy.”
“Our historical records clearly show Aussie Girl and Dynamo were having liaisons as early as two thousand and –“
“Well your records are wrong kid. Believe me she hates that guy for what he did on her first case. When he breaks out of jail she always volunteers to hunt him down.”
“But-“
“I’ve lead the Global Protectors from day one! I know those girls as well as I know myself and believe me there’s no way anything would ever happen between those two. Sorry kid. Guess you’ll need a new name.”
Dynamo Boy thought about brining up the DNA evidence, Aussie Girl’s diaries and the videos they’d found in the Las Vegas archeological dig but reconsidered. If Maple Leaf didn’t want to face the truth…
“So what about the other two, Venus and Mystery Chick?”
“Uh, Venus Girl is a distant descendant of another teammate of yours La Sola, and like her 21st century predecessor she has the power to befuddle men’s minds.”
“La Sola doesn’t have that power. She just flies and is strong like the rest of us.”
“Right now yes. But your psychokinetic fields can be used a great many ways. So as your team entered the second half of the 21st century-“
“Second half of the twenty first century? Fifty years from now? How long did we live anyway?”
“Well-“
“Wait a second, should you even be telling me this? I mean I’m not supposed to know the future am I?”
“Well, um, we, um, trust your wisdom. It’s as legendary as your, um beauty.”
He really was sweating now.
Maple Leaf got up and poured them both some blue liquid from a pitcher. She hoped it was something strong.
“And Mystery Chick? She didn’t say a word on the way over here.”
“Mystery Lass, right, um, she’s from, like, a dark frigid world which is why she has to wear that helmet. Any exposure to sunlight and her skin would burn in seconds. That’s why we call her Mystery Lass, because we can’t see her face. She didn’t talk because, uh, her electronic translator was broken. She’s getting it fixed it now.”
Maple Leaf moved a bit closer to the nervous young man. He moved a bit farther. She moved a bit closer until he was at the edge of the bed and there was nowhere to run. She moved her lips up her his ear. She put a hand on his knee.
“So future boy, what else can you show me? I want to see everything.”
***
Psynet-Subnode-Adv257
DB>Help!
VG>Come on DB, go for it!
ML>Yeah, I don’t mind!
Just tell me how she was okay?
DB>Gulp!
***
Maple Leaf started nibbling on the boy’s ear and running her hands across his chest. One hand started reaching lower.
“W-what are you doing?”
“Well, I said I wanted to see everything…”
“You mean… you want… intercourse?”
Maple Leaf rolled her eyes. Way to kill the mood future boy. “I guess you could say that.”
“W-we don’t do it that was in the year 2636. Science has found that it was unpredictable and unhygienic. We have more advanced methods now.”
“You have something better than fucking? This I HAVE to see.”
Dynamo Boy fumbled in his red suit but finally produced two pills one pink and one blue.
“Intercourse through genetic contact and exchange of fluids was found to be random in the results and was therefore replaced in the early 25th century with biopsychic intercourse pioneered by-“
“Cut to the chase future boy. The mood is disappearing fast.”
“J-just take this pill” he held out the pink one “and put your hand up like this”. He held up his hand like a policeman saying ‘stop’ and popped his blue pill. Maple Leaf shrugged and did the same, holding her hand against his.
“So when am I supposed to feel some-AH!”
Every muscle in Maple Leaf’s body tensed up. Her hair stood on end. Sparks crackled along her skin, and in her loins. She could hear music in her ears, some sort of 70’s disco beat. She shoulders started to twitch in time to the beat, she saw Dynamo Boy doing the same.
Her chest started to heave, her breasts felt like they’d burst out of her costume and she could feel herself getting wet between her legs. Sweat poured down her face and down her back. Images appeared in her head, shooting lighting at a fleeing starship, taking her hypno-learning exams, riding the monorail… and doing this, with her, but not her. But before she could think too much about that more images bombarded her; crying over a dead alien pet, winning a hover board contest, swearing an oath before the Legion’s glow-in-the-dark flag… Dynamo Boy’s life seemed to be flashing before her eyes.
And hers before his!
The images sped up, became a blur, Maple Leaf opened her mouth but no sound came out, she squeezed her eyes shut, she curled her toes and finally…
It ended. She hugged the future hero and he hugged her. They held on to each other for strength, for comfort, for companionship. For a few short minutes they had been in perfect harmony, perfect unity. She had known him ways she had never known any other lover.
“T-that sure was something…”
“I’m sorry; I should have realized you were a virgin.”
“Huh?”
“To this way of making love.”
“Oh. Right.”
“I guess I should have gotten first timer pills. Are you OK?”
“Yeah, I guess. Just… wow. Wow. So much information…”
“I felt it too… is that what the 21st century was really like? No wonder the elders don’t…”
“Who?”
“No one, no one. Anyway you’re exhausted, get some rest and tomorrow we’ll have your first test.”
“Test?”
“Just a formality. Nothing to worry about.”
***
Dynamo Boy stumbled back to his quarters his mind still racing with unfamiliar images from the 20th and 21st century. Had it really been like that? All that dirt and all those fat, ugly, and old people? Yuk.
His door opened automatically when it detected his psychokinetic field.
There was someone inside, in a pink and black spacesuit.
“About time you got here. Got any pills left?”
She reached for her opaque helmet and took it off.
The door closed.
***
Meanwhile back in the 21st Century…
The lean oriental girl groaned as the hooded man tightened the ropes again, stretching her out spread-eagled in midair. She cried out when the hot wax dripped on to her sensitive pussy, covering her tuft of hair. She wept hot tears as her captors gloated over her helplessness and pawed her vulnerable breasts and ravaged her mouth with their tongues. There was sharp stab of pain as the hooded man tore off the wax, taking her hair with it, leaving her pussy as bare as teenaged girl. The hooded man dropped his pants and showed off his long, thick penis. He slapped it a few times gloating and then thrust it in. The oriental girl let out a long cry of relief as her first orgasm blossomed.
Two hours earlier Captain Mai Lynn Castilian of UNICORN had entered one of those trendy coffee bars that had popped up all over America in the last few years. Despite the warm weather she was wearing a turtle neck and a loose sweatshirt along with some jeans and a Megapolis Martyrs baseball cap. No one gave the non-descript Asian girl a second glance as she ordered a cappuccino and a salad and took a seat in a dark corner.
That outfit was Captain Castelain’s idea of undercover work.
She watched her partner enter Shooter Tower and got a comlink message as Lt. Gorki exited the elevator. Then communication stopped. Mai Lynn had expected that Doctor Hammer would jam signals in and out of his sanctuary. She was slightly impressed that he was able to completely jam UNICORN’s sophisticated frequency hopping and millisecond radio bursts but then again he was supposed to be one of the finest minds in the world.
So she waited.
And waited.
The coffee bar was a wireless hotspot so she activated her own internal wireless internet link and checked her email. And the headlines. And then…
She knew she shouldn’t. But it had been almost an hour, obviously negotiations were going to take a while…
She went to her favorite website www.orientalcocksuckers.com and downloaded a new video (captive oriental! S&M with wax! Hot! Hot! Hot!) directly into her systems. For a cyborg like her she did not just watch the digital video, she lived it. She closed her eyes and sighed contently as a succession of powerful men violated her again and again.
And then one of them threw cold water on her. Her almond-shaped eyes sprang open and she saw Lt. Gorki smirking at her with an empty cup in her hand.
“Was it good for you too Captain?” She slid into the seat next to Mai Lynn.
“I was just… just…”
“’Checking your email’ Captain? Well you must have gotten some very good news.”
Mai Lynn pulled herself together and looked at Gorki. The Russian girl had a new outfit; she was now wearing a loose linen shirt and a pair of sweatpants drawn in at the waist. Mai Lynn’s enhanced olfactory sensors had no trouble picking up the tell-tale traces of cum on her partner’s body.
And breath.
“I see things went well lieutenant. No wonder you volunteered to go in alone.”
Natasha smirked and stretched her back, showing off her breasts through the thin top. The pair started to attract more attention from the coffee bar.
“It was… OK.”
“And?”
“Oh I’m afraid he is not interested. Not interested in joining UNICORN that is.”
“I guess you weren’t as tempting as you thought.”
Natasha pouted at that but Mai Lynn continued before she could reply. “Did you get videos of his lab?”
“What? Um, no. Nothing. We didn’t see the lab.”
“Well download what you have for me; we might be able to get useful intelligence from what you did see.” She took out a portable hard drive and a fiber optic cable and offered it to her partner.
“I can’t.”
“Lieutenant Gorki, while I do not approve I am not going to prosecute you for your… unorthodox method of negotiation. But your secondary mission was to gather intelligence on Hammer and you will download it now.”
“Let me tell you what Captain Castellan, I will download it, provided you are willing to download just what you have been doing for the last two hours. Maybe our superiors will find that more interesting. If not, then well, shall we say he found a way to erase my memory chips? Some sort of localized EMP? That sounds realistic I think.”
Castilian hissed at her partner but knew she was checkmated. Ever since Gorki had discovered she was using her cyberware for unauthorized purposes Mai Lynn had been forced to overlook all sorts of indiscretions. But this was the first time they would fail in a mission because of it.
“Oh don’t worry about your record Captain; I think we will more than make up for this soon.”
***
The next day, 600 years later, Maple Leaf was taken to a small conference room where the three heroes sat in a semicircle. She stood in the center.
“So where’s the rest of the group? I thought there were like dozens of you guys.”
The three Legionnaires looked at each other awkwardly for a second before Venus Girl answered.
“Dozens? No not exactly…”
“So how many are there? A ‘legion’ is supposed to be a thousand people, so obviously that’s wrong.”
“Well duh. As of the last census we have about three thousand six hundred members, from Abacus Lass to Zucchini Kid, of course that includes some of the reservists like Parking Karma Boy and Planet Eater Lad.”
“Planet Eater Lad?”
“We only call him for emergencies.”
“Uh…”
“So anyway before we introduce you to whole team we want to have a little test, you know, to let you show off your super abilities.”
“So what do I have to do?”
The three whispered among themselves and then Venus Girl spoke up. “There will be three tests and we’ll try to address three different emergencies. Let me turn on the Trouble Detector and find something.”
Maple Leaf frowned at that one. “Real emergencies? Isn’t it a bit risky to use real emergencies as tests-“
“Ah! Here’s one!” The screen showed a freighter at sea and some sad looking sailors. “This freighter was carrying a priceless statue of the great philosopher Ann Coulter to the museum but a storm caused it to be washed overboard into a deep undersea chasm. The contest is to see who can recover the statue first!” A map showed the location of the freighter.
“But that makes no sense. First of all why were you using a boat instead of rocket, and if it’s priceless how come it was on deck instead of in the hold and since when is Ann Coulter a great heroine and-“
“Let’s go!” Venus Girl flew out the door. Maple Leaf shrugged and followed. The story might not make any sense but at lease she knew she’d win this one easily. With her powers of strength and invulnerability she’d get that statue in a heart beat. How could Venus Girl’s mental powers even begin to help in a situation like this?
***
But as Maple Leaf flew over this future Mega-Megapolis her keen ears detected the sound of trouble!
“Help! Help! Our Doctor Droid robot has gone crazy!”
Doctor Droid! He was one of the GP’s worst foes, if he was still around in the 27th century Maple Leaf knew she had to act fast. Besides, she had plenty of time to save the statue.
She dove down to the source of the cries. It was some sort of classroom and sure enough one of Doc Droids blue and grey warbots was smashing the desks and chairs yelling ‘Destroy all humans!’ The students fled but an older man stayed cowering behind his desk at the front of the room.
“Maple Leaf thank Gawd you’re here! I was teaching a lesson about villains of the 21st century when this antique robot when berserk!” The teacher yelled helpfully.
“Don’t worry!” Maple Leaf grinned. “I’ve been smashing these since Y2K!”
“No! This is a CLMX69 model!”
Maple Leaf stopped and looked clueless. The robot yelled “Destroy all humans!” again and smashed another desk.
“It has an atomic motor! If you smash it you’ll kill us all!”
“Right! CLMX69! Got it!” Maple Leaf moved around and faced the robot. She spread her legs, put her hands on her hips, flounced her hair and declared “Looking for me circuit brain?”
The robot looked her over. Slowly ancient memory circuits retrieved archived instructions. “Destroy Maple Leaf! Destroy Global Protectors!” It charged towards her but she easily dodged it. It charged again but Maple Leaf caught it and tossed it through the nearest wall. The room beyond was full of students unfortunately. Maple Leaf caught the robot again and carried it out a window. There she spotted sewer grate, she kicked it open and tossed the robot inside. She followed after it.
The robot was slowly getting to its feet. Maple realized that after 600 years the atomic motor must be running low, if she could just keep the thing fighting it should run out of power and become harmless. But somehow she had to survive long enough without getting killed herself.
Damnit! Why wasn’t anyone helping? Are the police in 2636 as useless as they are in 2005?
The robot threw a punch which Maple Leaf easily dodged. It held out a hand that started to glow with an orange plasma blast. Maple Leaf froze, in the confined space of the sewer piper there was nowhere to dodge, and a full-strength blast would fry her, psychokinetic field or no.
She need not have worried. The glow died quickly.
“Running out of juice huh? Should have used Energizers!” She threw a few punches, not strong enough to smash the ‘bot but enough to send it back.
The robot wasn’t out of tricks yet though. It grabbed Maple Leaf’s shoulders and shoved her back against the wall; it butted her head with its own titanium skull dazing the Canadian heroine.
“Destroy Maple Leaf! Destroy Global Protectors!” It yelled again. Inside its computer brain more data was retrieved and old programs were put into effect. Steel fingers found the top of Maple Leaf’s costume and in one swift motion it was pulled to her knees. Inhuman eyes took in her ripe breasts and auburn bush. If the robot had had a tongue it would have licked its lips.
“Violate Maple Leaf! Violate Global Protectors!” From an armored compartment between the CLMX69’s legs a complicated dildo emerged. It began to vibrate as the robot pulled the dazed heroine’s legs apart.
“Wha? Donald I told you I have a headache-“
Maple Leaf returned to her senses with a start. Her hands were being held over her head and she was pressed against the side of the sewer pipe. The robot had penetrated her and the sophisticated dildo had already brought her halfway to a climax.
“Get the fuck off of me you-oh-oh…oh…”
It brought her the rest of the way.
On the street citizens of the twenty-seventh century stopped in their tracks trying to figure out what was going on in the sewer below them. Maple Leaf’s cried died off however as the robot’s action slowed.
“Rape Maple Leaf! Rape Global Pro…” The warbot’s battle cry slowly died and its eyes flickered. It let got of the Canadian heroine and pulled out. Finally Maple Leaf gave the robot a push and it fell over.
“Figures. Even a robot goes soft on me.”
Maple Leaf dusted off her hands, pulled on her costume and flew out of the sewer. She dumped the inert robot at the classroom.
“Thanks Five!” The teacher yelled as she flew off.
Thanks Five? Maple Leaf wondered what that was about, some future saying no doubt. No matter.
Maple Leaf sped up and headed for the sea. She figured she still had time to win the Legion’s stupid contest.
But…
She arrived at the ship to see Venus Girl receiving thanks from the sailors. Next to her was a 40’ high statue of Ann Coulter covered in slime and seaweed. On the bottom she could make out the inscription ‘We should kill their leaders and convert them all to Christianity’.
“What? How?”
“Oh hello Maple Leaf! I got here first and used my mental powers to control some of the mutant monsters that live in the deep part of the sea; they carried the statue up here. What kept you?”
Maple Leaf stammered something about getting lost. She wasn’t the type to give excuses.
“Oh well better luck next time.”
***
Soon…
“So, like I was saying how come there’s only the three of you here, you said you have thousands of members?”
“Well, our members are scattered among dozens of worlds, not all of them are here at one time.”
“OK, but I saw a bunch flying around your headquarters and you said something about the whole team wanted to meet me and-“
“Hey I got another trouble alert! The Nova Express is about to fly into a meteor storm and their space radio is broken. We have to warn them!”
“But-“
“Maple Leaf, Dynamo Boy take these oxygen pills, they’ll allow you to breath in space for up to an hour. Now go! There’s no time to lose!”
The 21st century heroine and the 27th century hero took to the air without another word.
“Nothing’s going wrong this time” Maple Leaf vowed. Though she did wonder why this Nova Express thing didn’t have a back up radio. Or for that matter why Venus Girl didn’t just contact them telepathically? Whatever. If it got this stupid contest over Maple Leaf was all for it.
But…
A rocket ship sped by her firing laser beams at the police rocket behind it. The police seemed to dodge but suddenly their ship started pouring out smoke. The criminals accelerated.
“A heroine’s work is never done” Maple Leaf gripped and flew after the escaping ship. She easily avoided the laser fire and smashed through the hull. Once again she planted her hands on her hips; spread her legs and commanded “Surrender evil doers or face the wrath of Maple Leaf!” She flounced her hair dramatically to emphasize her point.
Two of the criminals took out ray guns and shot at her but Maple Leaf was pleased to see their weapons were ineffective against her psychokinetic field.
“Give up guys! You can’t hurt me, but I can hurt you!” She crushed a steel hatch to emphasize her point.
“Fuck you Maple Leaf!” One yelled. He reached into his bag and pulled out a different gun this one had a long tube ending in a bulbous head and had two small spheres under it that crackled with power. Maple Leaf was flattered she’d been recognized again (and why not? Her visit to the 27th century was probably big news here) but worried about the gun. She dropped the crumpled hatch and took a step forward.
The gun jerked in the criminal’s hand and a pink beam lanced out striking right between Maple Leaf’s long legs. But it didn’t hurt. If anything it felt a bit good…
Real good.
She took a step forward, her knees started to quiver. The criminal fired again this time striking her breasts. Maple Leaf gasped and hunched over, running her hands over her quivering breasts. She felt so confused. She wanted to catch them but she felt so good just standing here touching herself. A third shot caught her in the head. She fell on the floor moaning and touching herself. The criminals laughed.
“Gotta love Bliss Beams! Sure them Galactic Prostitutes have pain suppression implants but nothing for pleasure! No woman can withstand their stimulation, not even Maple Leaf Fi-“
But slowly, incredibly, Maple Leaf started to rise to her feet.
“Blast her! Blast her!”
Two more Bliss Beams shot out, catching her in the butt and the inner thigh but she still made it to her feet and began to advance step-by-step towards the criminals. One look at the twisted leer on her face told the criminals that making her hornier was not a good idea.
“Come ‘ere big boys, I got something for you!” She licked her lips, slowly.
“Sweet Jeebus! She’s feeding off the Bliss Beams! What kind of slut is she?” The criminals panicked and flew out the hatch with their jet packs before she could catch one.
Maple Leaf took one more step forward but then fell to her knees. The stimulation of her bare thighs rubbing against each other was just too much to bear. She pulled down her leotard and frantically rubbed her breasts. She reached down under the leotard to her wet pussy and started to rub her fingers over it.
“Oh yeah, oh yeah, that’s good…”
She was almost to an orgasm when Dynamo Boy flew in. He flipped a switch putting the rocket ship on hover mode.
“Maple Leaf? I signaled the Nova Express by creating giant letters out of lightning. Where were you, are you-“
He froze for a second taking in the sight of a great heroine furiously masturbating in front of him. Maple Leaf looked up and smiled. She grabbed his calf with a free hand.
“I’m great, now that you’re here.”
Dynamo Boy couldn’t even yelp before Maple Leaf had pinned him to the console, her tongue plunged deep into his throat, her bare breasts pressing against his chest.
“You, you want to make love?” He stuttered when she let him up for air. She answered by plunging her tongue back in and starting to pull apart his red and gold suit.
“Let, let me get out my pills-“ He tried to reach his belt pouch but Maple Leaf blocked him.
“Uh-uh future boy, it’s time for your history lesson!”
She pulled his tunic off and started on his pants. Her own costume slipped to her knees. Dynamo Boy could feel an incredible pressure building between his legs; his dick was already swollen like some 20th century tumor. Maple Leaf took it in her hands, he gasped at the sensation, he felt like his dick would explode! Then she maneuvered it be between her own legs into her waiting wet pussy, Dynamo Boy gasped again and squeezed his eyes shut. Every muscle went rigid.
Was this old school sex? Wow. Why did they ever stop doing it?
Maple Leaf started moving up and down on his hard rod, the future hero gasped with each movement. She leaned over, before he knew what he was doing Dynamo boy had seized her hanging breasts and squeezed them.
“Atta boy, you’re learning. Now let’s see if you’re really Dynamo’s kid.”
“?”
“Try a low current through your hands, that’s it, good boy… OH! Very good boy!”
Under Maple Leaf’s guidance Dynamo Boy quickly learned some brand new uses for his electrical powers until finally Maple Leaf collapsed exhausted on top of him.
***
Psynet-Subnode-Adv257
VG>Dynamo Boy? You
there?
Dynamo? What’s going
on?
DB>Uh, hi.
ML>Dude where are you, we’ve been trying to raise you on Psynet
for an hour!
DB>Uh, something came…
up. But it’s OK now,
we’ll be back soon.
***
Maple Leaf scowled as the two heroines
congratulated Dynamo Boy for winning.
Venus Girl asked again what had happened and Maple Leaf and Dynamo
Boy both muttered something and looked
away. Venus Girl let it
drop.
“Don’t worry Maple
Leaf! It’s all
good! There’s still one
challenge left! There’s
a forest fire in the Dakota Sector, and you and Mystery Lass have to put
it out! Good luck and may the
better heroine win!”
Maple Leaf and Mystery Lass took
off together. Maple Leaf noticed
that Mystery Lass was still wearing her pink and black spacesuit and opaque
helmet. She also had not yet
said a word. Was that translator
still broken? Maple Leaf was
starting to wonder if there was something these kids weren’t telling
her. But first she intended
to win this contest!
Mystery Lass suddenly veered straight
up, taking off for space. Maple Leaf smiled, it was looking like this time nothing
would stop her from winning.
Sure enough she got to the fire
first. Maple Leaf had never
stopped a forest fire before but she figured it wasn’t too
hard. She was looking for something
she could use to put it out when she was the red streak across the
sky. Looking up her improved
eyes picked out the Hubble Space Telescope falling from
orbit! It was raining flaming
debris and could destroy a whole city.
“Fuck.”
Maple Leaf cursed. She thought about ignoring it but… She was a heroine
damnit. Besides, Mystery Chick
was still MIA so she had time to deal with this and then tackle the
fire.
She took a deep breath and soared
up to meet it.
She’d caught falling planes
and other things before but nothing like
this. She intercepted it miles from the ground and caught the
front with both arms. Even through
her psychokinetic force field she could feel the
heat. She pushed against it but it was going too fast, it was
too big for her to even slow down.
She was carried along with it, she could feel the costume on her butt
smoldering from the heat of reentry while the spandex on her boobs was dissolving
from the heat of the telescope.
Desperately she tried to adjust the course of the falling satellite
managing to gain some control over its
fall. Looking over her shoulder
she spotted a volcano in Washington.
She adjusted again and then let
go. The flaming satellite fell
right into the crater and melted, doing no damage to the people on the
ground.
“Whew.”
Maple Leaf turned back towards the
Dakota sector and saw that a nearby river had been dammed by meteors causing
it to overflow and put out the fire. Mystery Lass was there giving her a V for victory
sign.
“Fuck.”
Maple Leaf cursed again.
Then she noticed her costume was
gone.
***
Psynet-Subnode-Adv257
DB>Wow did you see the look on her
face? Priceless!
VG>Yeah but, Jeebus, what do you think happened to her
costume?
ML>Maybe she stopped to have sex.
VG>Weird. None of
the history books mentioned what a slut she was.
***
An hour later Maple Leaf stood before the three Legionnaires, dressed in a fresh costume from their replicator. Venus Girl, Dynamo Boy and Mystery Lass sat facing her seated at semicircular consol. There were two buttons in front of each Legionnaire and two lights facing Maple Leaf.
“The trials are complete. We will now vote on whether or now Maple Leaf will be inducted into the Legion of Galactic Protectors.”
They pushed their buttons. Three lights came on. All of them blinking a big, red, “NO”.
“I’m sorry Maple Leaf, but we cannot admit you into our Super Hero Club. Your low score on the tests we gave you show your powers are just too ordinary. Do you have anything to say for yourself?”
***
Psynet-Subnode-Adv247
DB>You guys sure about this?
She looks really upset.
VG>Don’t worry DB, all the history books agree Maple Leaf
was a great sport. She’ll
gracefully back down and then we can let her in on our joke and we’ll
all have a good laugh.
ML>Boy she’s gonna be surprised when she finds out that Venus
Girl made that robot go nuts, or that Dynamo Boy disabled the police cruiser
or that I’m the one who knocked the Hubble telescope out of
orbit. And besides, that fact
that she always interrupted her mission to help innocent people proves that
she’s the great heroine everyone says she is.
DB>I guess. But she
really does look mad.
***
“Do I have anything to say for myself? Fuck yeah! Jesus Christ you fucking kidnap me from the twenty-first century, put me through this bullshit test and now you’re saying I’m not fucking worthy?!”
She brought her fists down on the consol, smashing it into a million pieces and grabbed Venus Girl by her green and yellow costume.
“I want some fucking answers now lady! How come you have a bazillion members but I’ve only seen the three of you? How come Mystery Chick over there doesn’t talk? How come you have me going around destroying priceless antiques like the Hubble telescope while you guys go around causing floods and stuff? What’s up with those damn pills anyway? And how the fuck do I get you of this madhouse and go home!”
Venus Girl stammered apologies and the three Legionnaires finally lead Maple Leaf to the Time Square.
“Uh, Maple Leaf maybe I can explain-“
“Fuck you Electric Kid, fuck you all. Just get me home NOW!”
“But-“
“NOW!”
Mystery Lass shrugged and pulled the lever, a time vortex appeared and swiftly transported Maple Leaf back to the year 2005. Her last words were “Fucking retard future kids…”
***
Maple Leaf reappeared in High Park a day after she left.
“Dumbass future kids, can’t even get me back in time.”
Flying back to her hotel she thought about this strange adventure. She still liked the idea that the Global Protectors would be around in the future but somehow it all seemed a bit silly. Time traveling teen heroes visiting their idol? Would anyone even believe that story? It sounded like something out a fifties comic book. Finally she decided it would be better to keep this little episode to herself. Hell. In a day or two she’d probably think it was a dream.
***
As soon as Maple Leaf was gone “Mystery Lass” popped off her dark helmet and shook out her long auburn hair. She unzipped her pink and black spacesuit revealing a familiar looking red and white costume underneath, identical to Maple Leaf’s except for a small number 5 in the center.
“What a fucking bitch.”
“You can say that again Maple Leaf Five.”
“I like totally cannot believe I’m cloned from her! Am I like anything that?”
“Now way. Not at all. You’re really cool. Remember they did have four chances to get it right after she got killed.”
“I guess but still, I mean, Jeebus, did she say one polite thing the whole time she was here? And did you get a load of that ego? She takes one look at the hologram of Maple Leaf Three and just naturally assumes it about her! No wonder the elders never talk about her.”
“Hey uh, Venus Girl did you remember to erase her memories of the future?”
“Oh poo. I knew I forgot something.”
“Should we go after her?”
“Nah. We took her from what, May 2005? She won’t even be around in a few months.”
“Good riddance.”
“So what do we do next week?”
“Well Maple Leaf Five got to pick this time so I guess it’s my turn. I always wanted to meet Lady Murasaki, the 11th century Japanese noblewoman who wrote the Tale of Genji.”
“Literature again? Why don’t we do something cool? I was thinking of meeting Jesus.”
“Why don’t we do both?”
Then the door to the Time Square Chamber opened and a tall nude woman, seemingly made of blue crystal faced the three teens. Holograms hovered around her showing chronal disruption curves, energy expenditures and a copy of the Legion Constitution.
“Venus Girl. Maple Leaf Five. Dynamo Boy.”
“Hi Val…”
“Hey…”
“What’s up…”
“We need to talk about your unauthorized use of the Time Square.”
“Uh-oh…”
This chapter was a lot of fun to write,
I hope it was fun to read too. And believe it or not there’s actually some foreshadowing
for the upcoming final chapter of the Global
Protectors.
Comic fans may recognize this as a
parody/salute to the Legion of Superheroes, especially their early
Silver Age stories and movie fans might spot a scene from Jane Fonda’s
classic science fiction spoof
Barbarella. And of course
there’s bits and pieces from Futurama as well.
If you did like it, don’t forget to
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Marcus
Lycus