Elevens a Crowd

Meeting finished I made my way back to the lab with the girls. Things were about to potentially get messy but I liked the odds.

Once in the lab I gathered my Kryptonian squad leaving Zatanna to go back to her work with Merida looking over her shoulder. I spent another 50 credits gifting the newest girls shrouds of their own and was surprised when instead of white gold like the triplets their cloaks stayed black and gained a pattern of stars. Void shrouds then, interesting. Well I wasn't going to say no to Krytonians with temporal powers, that would be all kinds of a nasty surprise for speedsters. I really did need to nab Grand Tapestry soon, being able to borrow the girls shrouds could be more than handy.

I set the triplets to bring their new sisters up to speed while they were on watch to lend a hand at need. And back to the circle for me.

The ritual was laughably easy this time, was it really only my third time casting it? As the hazy red light filled the space I readied my mind to strike, I needed this target asleep as soon as possible. And then he was there, a muscular young man with short black hair, Superboy also known as Conner Kent. Very much similar to the departed Superman in looks but this clone had some twists of his own, being half human and something of a telepath. No mental defenses to speak of though and he went down easy. I had to wonder if M'gann left him that way on purpose or if it was just a side effect of her hold on his mind.

Leaving him cocooned in darkness and **** as his counter timed down I looked for the links my shroud might follow to the others on his team and there it was.

The psychic link tying him to M'gann was exceptionally strong. If I could sever it, and I wasn't sure I could, it would cause a great deal of mental damage to both of them. Of course I had no intensions of that. Lightly touching the link with my mind I didn't sense any shock or worry, nothing but a quiet contentment. Good, good his disappearance had gone unnoticed. They must have been apart, or even asleep, when he was grabbed. His eyes had been closed, I could use more such luck.

Capture Complete! Superboy +18 credits.

Odd number but he was a few tiers down from a full Kryptonian. I left him wrapped up and asleep for now, what was important was the link.

And there it was! A timer for capture of M'gann M'orzz for one hour. One nail biting hour waiting to see if she would notice the invasion, or Conner's absence, and lead a full scale invasion of the League to Zatanna's mansion. More likely just the infiltration team though and that I was pretty sure we could handle. Still this was a risk.

To distract myself I walked over to Zatanna to see how her research was going.

"Anything yet?" I asked her after a long deep kiss for luck.

"Good news and bad I'm afraid my Lord. Reaching this Earth 3 with a summons is possible and even with the red sunlight infusion not more than I can handle, especially with both of us working together. However your target is not a Kryptonian. I managed some light divination and this "Superwoman" is a human, a human invested with the power of several gods in fact."

"She's a Marvel? That can't be right, I could swear she was Kryptonian."

"It's not the first time the Marvels have caused such confusion. Superman invited Shazam to join the League because he thought he was a Kryptonian in fact. Earth 3 from what i can skry only has a single Kryptonian, a alternate version of Superman I believe."

"Well I don't want him now, maybe later for more credits. But what about Mary, can you adjust the circle to summon her?"

"I think so, but with her innate magic power it will be very difficult and the red sunlight will do nothing to weaken her."

"Work up the ritual without the sunlight obviously, as for weakening her if she is a Marvel I only need to cause her to say Shazam. A Kryptonian dogpile by the girls to catch her off guard and a simple mental command should leave her only human. I really really hope she doesn't turn out to be a child under that body though, too much ick."

"Her equivalent in this world is a young adult, in fact she is a member of the Young Justice team you are currently working on."

"M'gann could net me a Marvel? Well fingers crossed the link extends past her and Conner." I checked the timer, half an hour left "Quiet so far, I think I must have caught them sleeping when I snatched the lad. What about plans for Raven?"

"She won't have her guard up when she ports in, if I leave a glyph keyed to her power signature by the entrance it will active any number of effects I could weave into it. Putting her to sleep would be simplest. She is a strong empath and has trouble with groups of people with strong emotions. Asleep our collective devotion to you should have a heavy impact on her mind which may make her subversion quicker but once asleep keeping her **** should pose no difficulty however long it takes."

"Excellent plan, have the glyph in place as soon as you can. Be sure to let me know when so I can watch you weave it though."

After a quick kiss I patted Merida's head and rubbed her belly to let her know she wasn't being ignored. Her stomach was already taut again, maybe I would go back to a full gallon a day for her, she seemed to be adapting quite well. Then I headed over to the super squad to kill more time.

"Ladies, all caught up?"

Ursa and Faora snapped to attention while the triplets swarmed me in a super hug.

"My Lord we have been made aware of the situation" Ursa replied in crisp military fashion "And our gratitude for freeing us from that **** trap. You have no idea the horror we went though watching our fellow captives being consumed one by one unable to do anything. You have our undying loyalty."

Interesting to see these two militant feminists, one who had murdered hundreds of men, so quick to submit to a man. Not that they had any choice with the shroud but I didn't detect any resistance in them, they were mine completely. Funny enough so were the triplets, turns out they had deep seated submissive tendencies. No complaints here.

And speaking of being mine. Capture Complete! Miss Martian +20 credits.

And then a fan of links spread out, timers filling my vision. "Oh boy..."