Epilogue: A Date With Batgirl

Minutes before dawn, Lois Lane waved goodbye to the young woman whose virginity she had stolen. Supergirl flew away through the air, toward Gotham—there to meet Batgirl in her civilian garb, to go out for ice cream and, hopefully, put to good use the reporter's quickie lesson in cunnilingus.

Only one thing bothered Lois...and it was a big one. Blaze had provided the wand that had pierced the Kryptonian's invulnerable hymen. Lois had seen the demon take the wand, with Kara's blood on it. What Blaze wanted the blood for, Lois didn't know, but she was sure that the demon was up to no good...and Lois felt the guilt and worry weigh on her as she considered that somehow Blaze could use it to further her evil schemes.

The reporter sighed as she got dressed, then grabbed her phone.

"Zatanna? Lois Lane. Look, I'm calling in that favor you owe me...we've got a serious problem, and we need help..."

Which is how, as Supergirl dropped into an alley and did a quick change, to come out and meet a redheaded young woman on a black Japanese motorcycle, Lois Lane was holding a council of war in her apartment.

Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Big Barda, Vixen, Hawkgirl, the Green Lantern Jessica Cruz, Zatanna, Stargirl, a female Dr. Fate, Mary Marvel (or Lady Shazam, Lois could never remember which), Raven and Starfire of the Titans, and even the sometimes-villainous Encantadora and Catwoman were crowded around the reporter's kitchen table as she laid out the short version of the story.

"...so Blaze has some sort of magic wand with Kara's blood on it," Lois said. "And I don't know if she could make some kind of...voodoo doll or something with it. Take control of her."

"Certainly possible," Raven said. "But there are other things she could do to...create a homunculus, a kind of magical clone with all of her powers. If there's enough blood, she could do both. We could be looking at two beings as powerful as Supergirl in Blaze's power...not good."

"So what can we do?" Lois said.

"We'll need to split our forces," Wonder Woman spoke, in a tone of voice that reminded Lois of her father the general. "The magicians will locate Blaze and the wand, provide intelligence and transport. The second group will engage Blaze directly—draw her out, put her down if we can. The third group will infiltrate her lair and steal back the wand."

"A sound strategy," Dr. Fate's voice echoed hollowly in her helmet. "But we must work swiftly; Blaze has many hours advance upon us."

Lois Lane, left without anything else to do, ended up playing hostess. Raven, Zatanna, Encantadora, and Dr. Fate formed the magician's group; Catwoman, Vixen, Stargirl, and the Green Lantern were the thief group; which left Wonder Woman, Power Girl, Mary Marvel, Hawkgirl, Starfire, and Big Barda to engage Blaze directly and keep her busy.

Supergirl and Batgirl sat next to each other outside the Li'l Pengy Ice Cream Shack. Barbara had gotten some frozen yogurt concoction with nuts; Kara had gotten a double-scoop of mint chocolate chip.

"You want a taste?" the blonde said nervously, remembering Lois Lane's advice.

"I shouldn't," the redhead said. "My diet..."

"Sometimes you have to try new things," Kara said...and as she held it close to her friend's face, and Barbara's mouth opened to grab a bit, Kara pressed her own mouth against the swiftly-melting cone.

For just a second, their lower lips touched. Barbara backed away, almost in shock...and that was when Kara leaned forward, pressing her sweet, ice-cream-stained lips against her date's...

In a cavern beneath the club, the demon Blaze hovered over a pool. The image of Supergirl and Batgirl's date was distinct in the smooth, clear waters. The demon was dressed in her traditional costume, a v-shaped strap of orange cloth that barely held her breasts in place, with a long loincloth beneath, held in a belt of leering faces. The helmet and epaulets added to the fearsome appearance of her blood-red skin, the dark horns that jutted from her brow, and her thin, muscular limbs.

The wand stained with Supergirl's virginal blood hung suspended over the glowing green depths of the Lazarus put. She chuckled to see the Kryptonian Maid of Might put the moves on her redheaded quarry. Soon enough, she would control Supergirl...and an army of homunculi with all of her powers. All she needed was a little bit of time...

A boom shook the cavern, caused the pool to ripple and Blaze snarled as she lost the picture. Her eyes turned to the bank of monitors nearby...and grimaced as she saw Wonder Woman and other heroines invade the empty club up above.

"Bitches invade my house..."

There was a crack of thunder, and the scarlet succubus was gone...leaving the wand to hover slowly over the pool.

"What's gotten into you, lately?" Batgirl asked. "You're sure you haven't been mind-controlled?"

Kara smiled. she laid a hand on Barbara's knee.

"I...I lost my virginity last night." Supergirl admitted. "I was with an older woman. She showed me some things. But while we were together, I realized I wasn't...I didn't love her. She helped to show me how to feel good, but I didn't want to do that with someone else. I wanted to share that with...my best friend. Someone I cared about, someone I trusted...with all my heart."

Barbara blinked. "I...Kara, I mean...wow."

The redhead stirred the remnants of her now unfrozen yogurt.

"So...what exactly do you want to do to me?"

A scarlet fist crunched against Wonder Woman's nose. The Amazon's eyes rolled backwards and she staggered backward as blood flowed. Blaze growled and grabbed at her golden breastplate, ripping it open to expose the Amazon's breasts.

"Nice tits!" the demon laughed...and then Power Girl and Big Barda tackled her. Each superheroine grabbed a limb. Blaze growled and laughed; bursts of black light burned from her eyes and, as she twisted her neck, caught Mary Marvel, Starfire, and Hawkgirl as they flew near the tall ceiling of the former warehouse. The black beams shredded their clothes and sent the now half-naked heroines towards the floor.

Blaze laughed as she flexed her arms, to crash Barda and Power Girl together into each other. She couldn't remember the last time she had this much fun toying with those who dared to think they could challenge her.

Catwoman led the way through the back door to the club. Stargirl provided light in the dark, still corridors they slipped through. The magicians guided them with their divinations, uttered warnings about the wards and traps Blaze had erected about her lair...but between Vixen's enhanced senses, Catwoman's experience, and Stargirl and Jessica Cruz, there was no obstacle that provided more than a speed bump to their progress.

"How are things looking upstairs?" Jessica Cruz whispered over the commlink her ring had made to Lois Lane's smartphone.

"Not good, according to the mystics," Lois said. She stared at the four of them, who had turned her kitchen into a makeshift alchemical lab. A bonfire with multicolored flames that emitted no smoke had been kindled on the reporter's kitchen table. "But they say you need to hurry. Grab the wand and get back here with it as soon as you can."

"Oh...oh God," Barbara lay on her back in the hotel room, her biker pants pulled off as Kara kissed her clit. The Kryptonian's heart pounded as she remembered with impeccable memory the lessons that Lois Lane had taught her...how to please a woman...how to listen to her moans and what her body was telling you. To focus on what made her feel good, not just yourself.

"You like it?" Supergirl said. "I could eat you out all day and all night..."

The redhead laughed. "I'll bet you can. But I have an idea that might be a little more pleasurable for both of us..."

Kara never asked why Barbara was carrying a batarang with her in bed...or why the points and edges had been deliberately dulled and rounded. Batgirl smiled and began to tell her about how, on some light night patrols, she needed something to keep her awake and focused.

"Cunt!" Blaze yelled as Hawkgirl's mace slammed into the demon's red breast. "Right in the tit!"

Black beams burst from the scarlet succubus' eyes, but her aim was off. It hit a steel pillar as the winged warrior zoomed through the air.

Starfire, who was less perturbed at her near-nudity than the others, grabbed the demon's horns from behind, braced her feet against Blaze's back, and pulled. The head snapped back, the deadly beams burning a line of destruction toward the roof...and opening Blaze up to the body blow as Big Barda, topless and bleeding from a score of scratches from the demon's talons, careened into the crimson devil with her shoulder.

There were too many of the heroines for Blaze to deal with all at once, unless they attacked her all at once...and her foes were being canny, striking from all different angles, keeping her off-balance. If Blaze had time to think of it in the thick of battle, she would have realized they were buying time...

A shake of her horned head sent Starfire flying. A brutal knee crashed into Big Barda's jaw, and a right uppercut laid the massive Apokaliptan powerhouse panting on her back. The demon's claws grew to three inches long on her right hand...

"I'm going to pull your guts out their your worthless slit," Blaze growled.

Barda was too stunned to offer a retort. The demon stepped closer...and an emerald light seemed to stop her in her tracks. She growled as she found herself suddenly frozen, locked in a transparent green orb, apparently solid, yet...

"We've got it!" Jessica Cruz said. "Everyone, grab the injured and go! I can hold her for a minute or two!"

Inside the green energy construct, Blaze vented her fury. Black energy spewed out from crimson flash, atomizing what was left of her costume...and Jessica Cruz's arm trembled as she kept her ring pointed at the naked demonic figure, almost lost amid the barrage of energy, as her construct began to crack...

Her iron will held out, until the last of the heroines had exited the building. The Green Lantern counted to ten...and then released he construct all at once, focusing on strengthening her personal shield.

Blaze's power radiated out from her in a single burst of dark energy. Already weakened support beams bent, broke...and the demon lifted her head just as the whole building crashed down on her, the Green Lantern dodging falling rubble as she floated free.

"...I couldn't detect any life signs, but that doesn't mean she's gone for good," the Green Lantern said.

"You did great, Jessica," a battered Wonder Woman said, and laid a hand on her shoulder. "Like a true warrior."

The Amazon had been topless when she had come in, and her impressive rack was now stretching out the reporter's biggest comfy sweater. The rest of the heroines had likewise raided her wardrobe, nad the Daily Planet's Greatest Reporter couldn't fault them for that.

Raven fed the wand into the flames. Blood, and then bone, blackened and collapsed into swirling dust.

"It is done," the young witch said. "This threat to Supergirl is over...though no doubt, Blaze will try again. Someday."

"Ah...ah!"

Barbara and Kara's voices sounded in unison. They were facing each other on the bed, the blunted batarang between them. Like a bridge that joined their two bodies together...and they saw each other's eyes and in a moment of almost telepathic understanding, leaned forward to press their lips together.

Supergirl was right. It was so much better, making love with someone you truly cared deeply about...and Barbara wondered how they were ever going to top this date.