Chapter 23
by
micdan282
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Overslept
The alarm on Rikki's phone was blaring for the third time when her eyes finally cracked open. The room was too bright, too warm, and her sheets were twisted tightly around her legs.
She groaned, rolling over, reaching for the phone with a sluggish hand. 9:26 a.m.
“Shit,” she muttered, bolting upright.
Her heart was still pounding—not from being late, but from the dream. The kind that clung to her skin like sweat. The kind that made her thighs press together as soon as she sat up. It had been intense.
Unlike most of her dreams these ones didn't fade. The images were clear in her mind and so were the feelings: hands on her body, heat in her stomach, a low voice whispering her name—was it Devin’s? Lawrence’s? The Supplier’s?
She groaned again, this time into her hands.
“What the hell is wrong with me?”
Still flushed and frustrated, she threw the covers off and swung her legs out of bed. Her body ached in the worst way—an itch under her skin she didn’t have time to scratch. Not today.
She scrambled to get dressed, brushing her hair with one hand while checking her calendar on her phone with the other. She had a parole meeting at her office in thirty minutes.
No time for coffee. No time for thinking about dreams that left her mouth dry and her conscience worse. Just work.
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Perils of a Novice Superheroine
A generic superheroing setting drenched with sex and scandal
Acropolis City, the center of super-human and caped crusader activity in this particular world - with its own dizzying highs and lows, high-tech skylines and slums standing in stark, four-color contrast, it provided everything that a costumed megalomaniac or masked vigilante could ask for. In fact, as is usually the case where colorful masked characters are the norm, it has become something of an institution by this point. But although the mere existence of costumed heroes and villains no longer shocks people, these people - who, by their very nature, thrive on attention - keep finding new ways to stand out from the crowd and attract the eye. This last goal tends to get a lot of emphasis in the most simple, sexualized way possible. For reasons that the world's most brilliant scientists have yet to explain, latent super-abilities seem to manifest more often in women than men by a ratio of 3 to 1 or more. This is true even when the superpower isn't "natural"; paranormal artifacts fall into their hands, esoteric martial arts schools never seem to have a male heir, the technological prototypes they test always seem to be the ones that are most easily used or abused for good and evil. Unfortunately, the glory days of the past where citizens were happy to see any old masked do-gooder show up are over - in recent years, Acropolis City has established a ranking system of heroes where those who get high marks from the citizens and resolve incidents are rewarded with corporate sponsorships and (most coveted of all) seats at the prestigious League of Propriety. Those who intimidate the populace, cause excessive collateral damage, or simply don't excite anyone, garnering low rankings, get 'asked' to move to less prestigious cities. Few superheroes want to get stuck battling clans of villainous hillbillies and corrupt small-town sheriffs for the rest of their careers, so they're always eager to please the influential citizens of Acropolis City (judges, eminent scientists, first responders, and of course the all-important reporters). On the other side of the law, a similar dynamic predominates; only the most glamorous and charismatic costumed ne'er-do-wells can make it in this town. And so, the novice superheroines just learning the ways of battling for justice and order, without any team to back them up, always end up patrolling the skeeviest, most undesirable slums of the city and taking on the most thankless rescues. As if that weren't bad enough, most of them feel obliged to dress in ways that get more outlandish and revealing with every passing year while they fight the good fight and/or feed their craving for attention, depending on how you see the 'cape life'. As if that weren't troublesome enough, the superhuman mutations that make so many of these heroes' careers possible also result in greatly increased sexual sensitivity, particularly in females. The adventures and misadventures that these spandex-clad lady crusaders get into are often too hot to print for the kind of comics that their young admirers would read. Messy mistakes will be made, but you don't want to disappoint your readers, do you? So let the League know what kind of superheroine you are, your chosen name, powers, and appearance, and they'll send you out on your first patrols. Good luck.
Updated on Dec 27, 2025
by micdan282
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