Master Plan: Lenity is Prepared for Phase Four

Lenity Luthor was running on a treadmill. She was sleek and well toned, her strawberry blonde hair tied back, goggles on her eyes, sensors glued to strategic parts of her body. She wore workout gear, and she kept moving.

Mercy was watching her. "It's amazing how strong she's become," she said to one of the trainers.

"She said you used to drive her hard in workouts. Pardon me, ma'am -- but when exactly did you do that?" The trainer sounded a bit confused.

"When indeed," Mercy said. She shook her head. "Lenity! That's enough!"

Lenity hit a button on the treadmill, letting it come to a stop, before she slid off and walked towards Mercy. "How did I do, Aunt Mercy?" she asked--

In answer, Mercy threw a sudden legsweep that knocked the 19 year old woman off her feet. Lenity hit the ground rolling to the side, sliding back into a crouch and springing forward to tackle Mercy before the assassin could get back into her own combat stance. The two rolled back before Mercy kicked Lenity off her and spun up.

Lenity hit the ground in a handspring, flipping up to her feet and sliding into a guard position. Mercy was in a matching guard on the other side.

The two then paused, stood straight, and bowed.

"I caught you off guard," Mercy said. "You made a good recovery, but you should have been ready for that legsweep," she said.

"I'm sorry, Aunt Mercy. I will do my best to do better."

Mercy half-smiled. "I know. All right. Grab a drink. Your time's gotten excellent, and your cardiovascular system's ticking like a clock. Whatever the boss wants you to do, I think you're in prime condition for it.

"I'm sorry, did you express an opinion, Mercy?"

Mercy paused. "Yes, that's exactly what I did, Lex."

Lex Luthor, followed by his little djinn lapdog Ovyah, had walked into the room. "How droll," he said, dryly. "Lenity, your progress is adequate. I am pleased. But we're coming up on the opportunity to move into phase four, and I want to be absolutely certain you have no issues or hesitation when it comes. In many ways, you're prototyping this process... but you will also be the most important of my children afterward, with the greatest power and the greatest future ahead of you. There is no room for failure."

"I hope to equal your intentions, Father," Lenity said. "What am I to do?"

"Ultimately? You're going to fuck a man, Lenity. Get showered and we'll discuss it further."

Lenity blinked three times. "Just... any man, Father? I should want some thought to be put into the choice."

Lex chuckled. "Good answer. No, Lenity -- you will never settle for 'just' anything. Certainly not just any man. No, you're going to be reclaiming a title and legacy that rightfully belongs to humanity, wrongfully usurped by an alien invader. I promise, this is not an idle whim."

Lenity considered. "I think Kegel exercises to strengthen my pelvic floor would be a good thing to add to my exercise routine, then."

Lex chuckled again. "I think you may be right. Get cleaned up and join us in my office, please."

Lenity nodded. "Of course. Thank you, Father. If you will excuse me?"

Lex nodded, and Lenity withdrew.

Mercy was staring at Lex.

"Yes, Mercy? I do adore your increasingly shrill voice when these things come up."

"You're going to pimp Lenity out?"

"Don't be obscene. This is a ritual. A means to an end. A sacred act. That it is sexual is a possibly regrettable necessity **** by Ovyah's limitations. Lenity and all my children will need to do what is necessary for my agenda to succeed. And that's what both of us want, isn't it? For me, for you, and most especially for Lenity?"

Mercy narrowed her eyes. "Of course," she said.

"Good. You should get cleaned up, too. I expect you'll want to join us."

Lex was drinking a glass of white wine. Lenity was drinking mineral water. Mercy was drinking vodka. Ovyah wasn't drinking anything at all.

"While you've been training and preparing, Ovyah and I have been laying in the groundwork for the next stage in my agenda," Lex was saying to his daughter. "Specifically, we've been conditioning the man I made reference to down in the gym."

"The man I am to have sexual congress with?"

"Yes indeed." Lex smiled a bit more. "He's being conditioned right now, as is the woman he's closest to." He touched a remote, and a screen slid up out of the floor and lit up, showing Superman and Lois Lane.

"...seriously?" Mercy asked. "You... expect Lenity to..."

"Have sexual congress with Superman," Ovyah said, smirking. "That is precisely what he expects."

Lenity frowned. "He isn't human," she said. "Are his genitals compatible with mine?"

Lex paused, then laughed. "Lenity? I adore you. Yes, I have it on good authority they are. Compatible enough, anyhow!"

"Lex," Mercy said, scowling. She then paused, and took a deep breath. "Lex... I... have to ask. What about his strength? Setting aside how you're going to convince the most vanilla man in North America to cheat on his wife with your daughter, won't his ejaculation blow her head off?"

Lex snorted. "I've read the article, too, Mercy. Superman has more control than that. And there are... steps which can be taken. It's how he manages to play change clothes in the phone booth with Lois Lane and not kill her. But in this case, there won't be any danger at all -- Ovyah's abilities will ensure Superman will do no harm to Lenity."

Lenity nodded. "Then of course I'll do whatever you require of me, Father. But... may I ask... why?"

"Why?" Lex smiled even more. "It's simple, Lenity. You're going to absorb his Kryptonian powers, but vest them into your completely human body. You will have everything he has. Be able to do everything he can do... but still be a child of Earth, not Krypton. He has the gall to call himself a Super Man when he's no such thing. Well. You are going to be the true Super Woman, and with that power you will be the vanguard of a new heroic order and a new heroic age for all of Earth."

Mercy's jaw had dropped.

Lenity looked thoughtful. "Are you certain I'm the appropriate choice?" she asked. "Since I know I was a prototype for your process, the implication is you are going to be putting other women -- likely other metahumans -- through it as well. Wouldn't one of my soon-to-come sisters be a better choice? Perhaps the obvious half-Amazon?"

"I'm positive you're the appropriate choice," Lex said. "Because those daughters will have work of their own to do -- and they will need a shining example. One who isn't metahuman, or at least wasn't before she became the new Superwoman. And you are so dedicated -- tireless already, with no powers at all. No. You're the right choice. I have no doubt about that."

Lenity considered, then nodded. "If you believe so, it must be true, Father."

"Yes it must." He sipped more of his wine. "Now. We're going to have a media event, to introduce you to the world. You're going to be introduced as my long lost daughter by Chastity Graves -- seriously, Mercy? Her name was Chastity?"

"Blame my parents."

"I do. For so much. Regardless. You will be introduced as the daughter I had with Chastity Graves. I will give you a dossier that will explain where you've been and what you've been doing. We want to be sure people will get to know you and accept your past."

"I assume you will do most of the actual talking, Father?"

"Only at first. I have my own job." He smiled, looking at the video display of Lois. "In order to get your future boy toy here, we first must make sure he has a reason to come. We then will make certain he has a need to... come." Lex chuckled. "Ovyah is seeing to that. She's already addicted the Man of Steel to her body sexually."

"Not my body," Ovyah said. "Lori Lemaris's body."

There was a long pause, hanging in the room like a tension wire.

"What. Did. You. Say?"

"When I incarnated the sexual being to ensnare Superman, I used Lori Lemaris to do it."

Lex stared at her. "She's dead. And if she weren't dead, she'd still be a mermaid. And whether or not she was a mermaid, she still wouldn't be you!"

Ovyah shrugged. "I asked for specifics. You said you didn't care so long as I accomplished the wish. I accomplished the wish. I'm still accomplishing it. Right now, in fact." She paused. "Orally, actually."

"I told you I wanted Superman addicted to you sexually! In what universe do you think--"

"You said you wanted Superman addicted sexually. You said you wanted me to handle it. This was the most efficient way. Rather than overcoming his ****, I gave him a scenario where he had to break his fidelity to save his first love from the grave she is already in. It meant he didn't fight. Indeed, he strove to--"

"He was supposed to break his wedding vows and corrupt himself! Not save his first love with his dick!"

Ovyah paused, then shrugged. "You didn't wish for that."

Lex took several deep breaths. He closed his eyes. "Is he addicted to Lori Lemaris?"

"Yes."

"And does Lori Lemaris exist outside of your duplication?"

"No. She is quite dead, other than through my assumption of her existence."

Lex took yet another deep breath. "Fine," he snapped. "It will do. But this is hardly what I wanted. You should have known that!"

Ovyah shrugged. "You should have said what you wanted, then."

"Have a care. I can make existence pretty unpleasant for you, Ovyah."

Ovyah considered. "I suppose you can. Though of course I exist to fulfill your desires, so if you want me to be uncomfortable, then I guess I'm comfortable with that."

Lex rubbed his brow. "...idiots. I'm surrounded by idiots."

"Father... do you need an analgesic?"

"No... no I do not, Lenity. Thank you for asking."

Lenity nodded, thinking. "If I am... interpreting your ideas correctly -- and I may not be -- you may have intended to both have the object of his sexual addiction and the woman he loves held here, so you could pull him in and put him into a helpless position where I could then copulate with him and assume his abilities and mantle. If... Ovyah has done this through making him believe he was saving the life of a lost love... and that lost love were brought here as well as Miss Lane... would that doubled emotional weight, coupled with his inherent shame for his continued sexual relationship... not increase the likelihood of your plan's success?"

Lex looked at Lenity. "Perhaps," he said. "But it's not nearly as satisfying. But that will have to wait, I suppose. Now. I'm going to go somewhere else."

"Father?"

"There's clearly only so much idiocy I can be around, Lenity. Try not to learn too much from these two. They're clearly bad influences."

Lenity watched his father leave the office, then turned to Ovyah and Mercy. "He is... not considering this plan as rationally as he should," she said, softly.

"No, he isn't," Mercy said. "Because this plan is insane."

"Not really. With Ovyah's abilities I could indeed gain Superman's power. If he does that with other heroes--"

"Heroes, villains, you name it. He's going to replace the world's superhumans with his own daughters," Ovyah said. "If he succeeds."

Lenity nods. "I do not mind becoming Superwoman," she said. "And if that means I must copulate with the Kryptonian to do so, I do not mind that either. But... I am worried we may need to protect my Father from himself, as well as his enemies."

Mercy snorted.

"Aunt Mercy?"

"Nothing. Sorry. You're right, Lenity-Benity." She shook her head, finishing her vodka. "But protecting Lex Luthor from himself is the only impossible task on Earth. I know. I'm the only person to even get close to succeeding at it, and you see how he treats me."

"Yes," Lenity said. "I do. And I do not care for it."

Mercy shrugged. "And he doesn't care if you do or not."

Lenity nodded. "I see." She thought for a long moment. "I see."