Aelita receives some bad news

(POV Change...again)

“So, we have everyone’s measurements with everyone’s preferences,” Marinette said as she, Gaige, Ahsoka, Aelita, and Erza left the house.

“Master Gardner said Starfire should be emerging from her cocoon later today so once we’re done dropping off the Katara’s food delivery and picking up the bridesmaids and others dresses, we’re heading over there,” Aelita said as she locked the door.

“Howdy neighbors!” A plain looking guy said as he walked down the street with four dog girls walking with him; they had leashes that the neighbors had wrapped tightly in his hand. Some awkwardly waved at James’s girls, seemingly very embarrassed being on a leash and outside. Other than the collars and leashes they were all wearing relatively modest outfits and dresses. They were dog girls as in humans with dog ears and tails matching various breeds and were quite cute.

“Hello Mister Walters. On your afternoon walk?” Aelita waved at him with a smile.

“Yup and making sure my new pups get familiar with the neighborhood,” Mister Walters pulled on the leashes, causing the dog girls to give a little yelp of surprise as they were pulled close to him.

“Welcome to the neighborhood! Mister Walters makes a great rib-eye and pork belly,” Ahsoka informed, giving them a friendly smile.

“Have a good day, and congrats on the wedding,” Mister Walters said as he started walking off with the dog girls hurrying to not get strangled by the leashes.

“Thank you!” Aelita called as the group started walking over to the van. They were about to get in when another voice called out.

“Hey ladies, why don’t you come over the fence and have fun with a real man.” A teen called out from the other side of the short fence between James’s house and the next door neighbor. The teen’s most defining features were a large and unusual looking chin and a red Hawaiian shirt.

“Not on your life, pretzel dick!” Gaige shouted back, very used to the teen’s antics. James has had to talk with the teen’s parents about him harassing his harem in the past but nothing has stuck. Hendrick Murray simply laughed and leaned forward.

“Come on honey, don’t be like that!” Hendrick tried to give a flirting smile. “Come give the Hendick a ride!” He jumped on the fence, giving the harem a view of the outline of a comically large cock due to his extremely tight pants.

“Stuffing your pants with a balloon and socks again?” Gaige heckled as she rolled her eyes and set a hand on her hip. Hendrick simply pulsed his dick.

“Nope my mom finally let me get a body mod,” he said proudly despite the continued unimpressed looks he was given. “So what do you say? Any takers?” Erza was about to say something but then a shadow appeared and she closed her mouth.

“Sir,“ Hendrick yelped as he fell off the fence. ”May I suggest you get better fitting clothing. This is a family neighborhood and that is definitely inappropriate,” a Supergirl glared as she floated by the teen.

“Screw you!” The teen got up and ran inside his house. Supergirl shook her head before turning back to the harem.

"Everyone alright?" Asked Supergirl.

"Yeah, though pretzel dick is going to be terrible now that he has a new dick," Gaige rolled her eyes. "He's going to be as bad as Calvert the Ass when he got X-ray vision." The harem turned their heads to the pink house across the street where a figure quickly ducked under the window. The window blinds fell closed quickly after.

“Please inform your owner to reach out if he needs our help to file a complaint against the kid,” Supergirl gave a business card to Aelita.

“Thank you Kara,” Aelita smiled before gesturing to the front door where Katara was peeking out. “I think Katara has some honey cakes leftover if you are interested.”

“Thank you, I think I’ll have to take some back to the office,” Kara smiled and walked to claim some honey cakes.

“Well that was an annoying start to our day,” Gaige said as she got in the back of the van.

“Not the worst I’ve had,” Ahsoka said. “The Jeffersons’ Lisa Loud once created a machine forcing everyone in a mile to be directionally inverted. Left was right and up was down for a week.” Ahsoka slowly backed out of the driveway and started down the street. Erza admires a moderately sized castle with various statues depicting beautiful and/or cute women from across the multiverse. She blinked in surprise when a few characters used a device to cloak a statue in darkness. The statue became a tired Arwen from Lord of the Rings who was quickly helped into a new pose before the device was turned off and she was petrified in the sunlight.

“Huh,” Gaige says as she notices something further down the street. “That’s the first time I haven’t seen Butcher Phil’s character bin not outside on trash day.”

“What’s a character bin?” Marinette asked, thinking it was a bin for magic or technologically advanced trash. The more experienced characters gave each other awkward looks and Ahsoka gave a weak cough and looked away.

“Some owners go too far with their characters,” Aelita says slowly. “And they need to have a sanitary way to get rid of anything that’s left.”

“Butcher Phil goes through characters quickly, torturing them non-stop,” Ahsoka says grimly. “James usually pulls a girl or two from the Butcher’s character bin every week on his way to work.”

“It's not a pretty sight…” Aelita said as she looked away from the foreboding and gothic looking house.

“And because no one cares about ‘characters’ they just let him **** as he pleases!” Erza growls, tempted to jump out of the van and charge the mansion.

“James would call the police whenever we could hear the screams or when Ahsoka could feel the ****, giving them some relief, but the guy just installed mufflers,” Gaige frowned. “Then we would only find out when he has the character bin for pick up. James would rescue those who still had life in them and Katara would heal them as much as she could.”

“Were any of you…?” Marinette asked, looking between them sympathetically. They answered in the negative.

“None have wanted to stay so close to that monster so James would bring them into his job, getting them a chance at a better owner,” Ahsoka explained, giving Marinette a sad smile in the rear-view mirror.

“This place is horrible,” Marinette cried.

“Hey, chin up,” Ahsoka comforted. “If he doesn’t have the character bin out, that means either he hasn’t needed to get rid of them or he finally stopped.”

“Unless he was lazy and threw them with the regular trash again,” Gaige said offhandedly. Erza gave Gaige a punch in the arm.

“Hey!” Erza only glared at the shorter girl’s protest and pointed her chin at Marinette’s horrified face.

“I didn’t feel anything from the trash cans,” Ahsoka reassured Marinette as they left the neighborhood. “So no one was dead or dying.”

“How about we put on the radio,” Aelita said as she quickly turned the radio to the local station.

“In other news, Vanessa Simagen, socialite and ex wife of Don Hanover, the CEO of Reintegration Corp, has been placed under house arrest after Tuesday’s…”

(Two Hours Later)

“Thank you for everything, Rarity, Nessa, and Coco,” Aelita thanked the fashionistas working the Fashion Supreme Dress and Bridal store as they turned over the large pile of dresses, accessories and shoes, all appropriately labeled.

“No problem, I still owed James for helping me out that one time,” Nessa said with a grateful smile. “Just don’t spring any more additional orders, okay? We had to work around the clock to get them done on time.”

“Just call us if there are any alterations needed,” Rarity said with a smile indicating that there better not be more alterations needed.

“There shouldn’t be anything more surprises, but Jmaes has been on a shopping spree recently,” Aelita said apologetically.

“His dad as well,” Nessa said as she accepted the last of the payment for the dresses. “He ordered over a dozen dresses and suits just a few days ago.”

“Did he say who for?” Aelita asked curiously.

“Only something about in-laws and special guests.” Nessa replied, handing Aelita a receipt.

“I would have thought George and Jane would’ve already had clothing ready,” Aelita said, thinking about James’s grandparents. Nessa only shrugged. Soon they were loading the dresses into the back of the van. They were about to start heading over to James’ parents’ mansion when Aelita got a phone call.

“Hello?” She asked the ones on the other end of the call. “Miss Daisy, I can’t understand you…”

“We picked up the dresses and are on our way over to your mansion now.”

“Wait what happened to James?!” Ahsoka, Gaige, Marinette and Erza looked at each other in concern and shuffled closer to Aelita to try to listen in.

“What?! He’s missing! How could he go missing!” Erza quickly supported Aelita so that she didn’t fall and hurt herself or the baby. Gaige quickly grabbed the phone from Aelita’s numb fingers.

“Hey Miss D, we are on our way,” Gaige glanced at Aelita who was getting helped into the van. “Maybe have Doctor Joy on standby.”