The Protagonist System

253 L’amour En Abondance Part Six

“I'm not sure how to handle you flirting with me.” I admitted when I was done explaining my personal opinions about the various villains and I had yet to deal with.

Doctor Fate softly laughed, clearly amused. Her tone had that little tremble that made it sound even sexier than it had any right to be. “You are more observant than the usual men I meet to pick up my intentions like that.”

I glanced down at her legs and how she had tilted her hips just enough to the side to let me see the curve of her ass and the full length of her thighs. “You try to pick them all up?”

Doctor Fate laughed again. “Oh, no. I only make a pass at the interesting ones.” She said and uncrossed her legs, sat up straight, then leaned forward. “And you are very interesting, Clark.”

I couldn't stop my eyes from admiring the interesting things her full firm breasts did during that movement. “I sincerely doubt there's anything I could offer...”

“Don't pretend you don't know what your powers could mean in this world.” Doctor Fate said. “Your interaction with Faust alone caught my attention, then I checked on those wonderful wards you have on your farm.”

I held in my sigh at her possibly wrecking my expansion charms. “Did you leave them intact after examining and copying them?”

Doctor Fate nodded. “It's such a wonderful way to manipulate space to provide enough room for your needs. I will be applying it to my Tower as soon as I return to it.”

Her tower? I thought and then had another thought right afterwards. Is this Nabu I'm talking to or someone else? When did she become the current Lord of Order?

“I can feel your hesitation and doubt, Clark.” Doctor Fate said and reached up and lifted the golden helm from her head.

I was shocked when she revealed a 25 year old face and a cascade of golden blonde wavy hair flowed down her back. She shook her head several times to let her hair spread out and it was almost like a cape. Magic was definitely involved to have that much hair hidden inside such a small helm.

Doctor Fate laughed at the expression on my face. “I assure you, this is all me.” She said and the helm dissolved into motes of golden light. “Everyone expects to see the expressionless helm, so I wear it to maintain both my reputation and my privacy.”

I understood right away. “You can take it off and no one recognizes you.”

“Exactly.” Doctor Fate said. “Now ask the question you really want answered.”

“When did you become Doctor Fate and is there a voice in your head telling you what to do?” I asked and she smiled knowingly.

“It's an interesting tale, Clark. Do you want to hear it?” Doctor Fate asked.

“Please.” I urged and she smiled as if she was getting exactly what she wanted. It was just as sexy and welcoming as I thought it would be after hearing her voice.

She told me all about her quest centuries ago as she searched for the power to save the world from itself and from extra-dimensional threats. She eventually tracked down an ancient temple, drawn by both the feeling and the need to find it. When she did, she found the helm inside and instantly knew there was a controlling influence, as an unnatural spirit, residing inside the item.

She believed it was cursed, and rightly so, and she performed many cleansing magics upon it and it didn't remove the taint. Or so she believed. Since she was unwilling to give up, she continued her studies of the mystical arts for several years and eventually discovered how he had been imbued inside the helm.

Using her own prodigious skill with magic, she devised a specific spell to deal with him. Rather than fight the being on his own terms by putting on the helm and having a mental battle, she transferred his consciousness into a pig and slaughtered him. The helm was easily cleaned after that, leaving the magical knowledge and the task of bringing Order to those that needed it.

I was again shocked, because it told me exactly what the helm was. It was a horcrux. She had dealt with him the same way I had dealt with Voldemort when I was in Harry Potter, only I used a sheep and let a pack of Griffons hunt him and tear him apart. The similarities were not lost on me, so I relayed the story to her and explained it away as one of my many reincarnations that I remembered.

Not surprisingly, she had her spell checking me for lies and nothing showed up, because as far as I was concerned, it really was a previous life and I had lived it. I also died a few times since then as well.

“You are much more interesting that I assumed you were at first.” Doctor Fate said and slowly stood. Her hero costume dissolved into motes of light and left her completely naked, showing me it wasn't just her face that looked like she was only 25.

“I'm on vacation with a girl and we might end up together afterwards.” I said immediately.

Doctor Fate waved her hand at my chair and it changed into a comfy bed. “We both know you're not going to commit to her if she doesn't commit to you first, and she's not going to.”

“How do you know that?” I asked, a little surprised at that observation.

“You disappointed her. Even though it happened while she was drunk, she's not going to forget it.” Doctor Fate said and floated over to me. “You also plan on seducing Wonder Woman and possibly Captain Marvel to get them both pregnant.”

I opened my mouth to deny it and couldn't. My thoughts had been on Wonder Woman for a while now and I had missed helping Carol Danvers by a few years. That made me wonder how SHIELD had covered that whole thing up.

“How did I not hear about that whole thing with the Kree?” I asked Doctor Fate.

“I helped conceal things, of course. The world was not ready for alien incursions that would destroy the people's perceptions, and in fact, they still are not ready.” Doctor Fate said and gave me a searching look. “I think you could associate what I did as a giant notice-me-not spell.”

“Ah, that would do it.” I said and she motioned to my costume. I stored it to leave myself naked and she gazed down at my body and her eyes focused on my erection.

“Perfection.” Doctor Fate whispered, then she floated down and sat right on top of it. She let out a sexy moan as I slid into her tight opening. She sat there without moving for about a minute, giving herself shivers as she adjusted to the intrusion. “We are going to have so much fun, Clark.”

I somehow knew she was implying a lot more than just this once. “Future booty calls?”

“Many many future booty calls.” Doctor Fate said with a sexy smile and laid down on top of me to kiss me passionately.

*

When I finally made it back to the hotel room and woke Lisa up to eat, Doctor Fate's prediction came true. Lisa looked both disgruntled and disappointed and it wasn't because she was hung over. A quick touch of telepathy confirmed that she didn't remember much about us having sex, just that she was left disappointed and quite unfulfilled.

I held in my sigh at the look and we changed to go down to the hotel's restaurant for supper. Lisa wasn't giving me the cold shoulder, thankfully. She still chatted like we were old friends that were catching up and that gave everyone around us the impression that we were a couple and having a good time. That was what Lisa was aiming for, because as soon as we went back to the room, she stopped being so friendly.

I knew better than to ask her why she was acting that way towards me, since I was sure she would deny that anything was wrong or that I had done anything to make her act that way. For the first time in a long time, the old saying, 'it's not you, it's me', could be said by her and she would actually mean it. It wasn't my fault that she didn't feel sexually satisfied while she was drunk and that convinced her to be less accepting of my affection.

We spent the evening watching television and then went to bed. We didn't have sex, because she claimed she had a headache when I tried to approach her. I knew what that meant and backed off, so she wouldn't feel pressured into doing anything she didn't want to do.

When she fell asleep, I ensured she would stay that way and walked into the bathroom, changed into my hero persona, and stepped from there to appear at the next secret Hydra base on my new list. It was the place Armin Zola had stored his AI consciousness and I created a giant magnet and erased him without ever activating him.

A few punches and kicks destroyed all of the equipment and I used a fingertip and Black Hole for a moment to clear the debris out. Another step brought me to the terrorists camp in the middle east and I chuckled at the sight, because most of them had been involved in the slave trade and there were only a few lower rung members left and they were scrambling to rebuild themselves.

I didn't let them. They and their friends and associates soon became new residents on the moon. Oh, and that was a thing, too. Inside another crater was the home city of the Inhumans and I flew by their cloaked and domed city to wave at the inhabitants. It was kind of funny seeing them run around like ants in a kicked hive.

It didn't take long for someone with a giant teleporting bulldog to appear and they waved at me from the other side of the dome. I flew down and landed in front of them at the edge of the dome and we exchanged hand signals, which told me they were allowing me temporary entrance. I agreed and the dog was suddenly beside me.

“Thanks, Lockjaw.” I said and held onto his collar.@@novelbin@@

“Woof.” Lockjaw responded and I was beside the young man that had arrived with the dog.

“Welcome, stranger.” Karnak said as soon as I appeared.

“Well met, Karnak. My name is Atlas.” I said and hid my disappointment that it was the television version I was meeting, which meant all of them were going to be a little weird and out of character.

“You know my name?” Karnak asked, surprised.

“I know everyone's names.” I said and smiled as I patted Lockjaw's head. “Are we walking to give the royal guard time to mobilize or should we use the best dog in the world to arrive in style?”

“Woof!” Lockjaw said, giving his positive opinion on such an important matter.

Karnak blinked his eyes at me and then wiped at them, blinked again, rubbed them, then stared at me.

“You're outvoted anyway, Karnak.” I said and grabbed his arm and grabbed onto Lockjaw's collar. “Back to the throne room, my enormous friend.”

“Woof.” Lockjaw said smugly and we appeared in the middle of the room near where a small group of people were gathered. I let his collar go and the giant bulldog woofed again and leapt at a young woman with yellow hair that had black stripes through it. He licked her face and made her laugh.

“Lockjaw, you've only been gone a couple of minutes. Did you really miss me that much?” Crystal asked and hugged his neck.

“Woof.” Lockjaw said, affectionately.

“Was the rumored flying man not there, Karnak?” The tall redheaded woman asked as she turned away from the group, only to freeze when she saw me. Her hair seemed dead and not alive like it was supposed to be, which was disappointing. It was almost like she was ashamed of it.

“My... my apologies, Queen Medusa. I was too stunned by his presence to properly announce him when we arrived.” Karnak said and bowed. “Royal family, advisors, I would like to introduce you to Atlas, the stranger flying around our home.”

“Why were you stunned by him?” Gorgon asked, his eyes narrowed. He was the head of the Royal Guard and was supposed to be suspicious of new people.

Karnak glanced at me and back to him. “I shouldn't give my opinion while in public.”

I smiled warmly at knowing what he was going to say, because I was sure his power to 'see the fault in all things' was seeing nothing at all when he looked at my restored divine body. “I don't mind. You can tell them.”

The whole group turned to look at me now, even the king of the inhumans, Blackbolt. He wasn't mute like some people thought. He kept his mouth shut because his voice was so powerful that even a whisper could destroy mountains. It was like Black Canary's battle cry turned up to 11 and without any controls to use it properly.

“He's perfect... flawless... incorruptible... and divinely gifted.” Karnak stammered.

“I am happily married and fully devoted to my husband of many years.” Medusa suddenly said when her hair started to move towards me. She had to pull it back and whispered hissing words at it, then warned it to behave.

“I'm not married.” Crystal said with an inviting smile.

“Woof.” Lockjaw encouraged her, clearly approving of me.

“Your father and King says you are too young to be involved like that.” Medusa said after seeing Blackbolt's frantic hand signals.

“I believe he said I was to be kept as far away from taking her purity as possible.” I clarified and everyone gave me surprised looks, especially Medusa. “I can understand any language, written or spoken. Hand signals and sign language count.”

Blackbolt made several more signs and I nodded.

“I was just passing by after dropping a bunch of bodies in the large crater that's four over from your settlement and one up from the equator. I remembered you were here and stopped by to say hello.” I told them.

“You aren't here to invade us or perhaps kill us all?” A thin and mousy bearded man asked.

“No, Maximus. I am not here to capture the royal family like you plan to do in a couple of decades after you've subverted enough of the staff and the discontents under Blackbolt's rule.” I responded and his face drained of color.

“M-Max? Is that true?” Medusa asked and her voice was a little shaky. Her long red hair formed two claws on the ends, intending to grab him.

“N-no, I... I wasn't... planning...” Max stopped talking and tried to run.

Medusa's hair darted out and caught his ankles. The claws wrapped around him and pulled him back over to the group and lifted him to hang by his ankles in front of his brother, the king.

“Why?” Medusa asked after Blackbolt signed the same thing.

“It doesn't matter now.” Maximus said and glared at me, which looked funny while he as upside down, because his frown had been turned upside down and looked like he was smiling. “Stranger! You will pay for...”

I waved my hand at his face and transfigured his forehead into a penis. “From this point forward, you will be known as Dickhead. Any time you have an impure thought, like dethroning your brother, your erection will let everyone know your plans.”

Medusa gasped and blushed at the sight, because the flaccid penis rose and became hard. Crystal gave it an appraising look and shook her head, not liking the lack of size. The various men turned away from seeing the embarrassment Maximus had for showing an erection in public.

“Guards!” Medusa exclaimed and her hair held the captured Maximus out towards them when they ran into the throne room. “Take him to the private cells. Blackbolt will visit him later to pronounce his sentence.”

The guards saluted her and relieved her hair of its burden. Surprisingly, the hair didn't try to touch or caress the erection, so it had some standards. Blackbolt made several hand signs and I nodded.

“I agree, King Blackbolt. Now is not the time for a social visit.” I said and looked over at Crystal. “Would you mind Lockjaw giving me a ride back to Earth?”

“I'd love to!” Crystal said, answering wrongly on purpose as she grabbed her dog's collar. Both she and Lockjaw disappeared and then reappeared beside me and she hugged me with one arm.

“Crystal!” Medusa gasped.

“Bye, sis! I'll be back later!” Crystal said happily and we disappeared.