Breakfast at Zatanna's

The six of us were sitting around a big fancy table in a big fancy dining room next to a big fancy kitchen. I should really stop letting the size of this place get to me.

Zatanna had gone all out on making a huge lunch, apparently she really enjoyed cooking. Fun fact: Kryptonians eat a lot, like really a lot. I'm a growing dragon and the triplets were already on their third plate of food each while I still hadn't finished my first. I had decided no business at the table while we were eating so we just enjoyed some nice light conversation and good food.

Soon enough everyone was done though so I stood and walked to the side table that held a odd bottle with a full city inside it and an odd machine that looked like it was cobbled together out of spare parts.

"So the plan this morning is to go over some things with all of you. I'm sure you have had questions about what we've been doing and why we've been doing them. But first let me get this next experiment out of the way."

I took up the bottle of the city of Kandor and declared "As this is now mine the people inside are now my prisoners." and scanned the contents.

Fuck, seriously? ten thousand bloody Krytonians in this thing and only two consider themselves prisoners? What the hell kind of sheep were these people? Thousands of potential tier 9's and Nine Tenths Law couldn't touch them because they didn't consider themselves prisoners content in their bloody bottle. Ugh. Well two was two more than I had presently and well that was interesting. Linda's mother was one of the two, the other some guy I didn't recognize the name of. And even though they had both been in the bottle well more than three days the timers was only counting down now from when I picked up the bottle. Of course. Well it would be a nice reunion in three days I guess.

I picked up the Projector. These guys had to know they were prisoners right? They were supposed to have a trial and everything "Owning the Phantom Zone Projector I declare it's prisoners mine."

Good news all the inhabitants absolutely considered themselves prisoners, bad news there was only three of them...

I waved the Kryptonian women over "Am I reading this thing right? There are only three prisoners in the Phantom Zone? Shouldn't there be like dozens?"

"There should be" Karen said fiddling with the controls "This is very strange, it would appear the majority have been eaten by something. Something native to the zone which shouldn't have anything in it." Well fuck. How the hell had the Blue Boyscout missed this? Had he been letting Krytonians be eaten just because they were war criminals?

"Are the three left in imminent danger? Should we pull them or can we wait three days?" Because of course their timers hadn't started until I picked up that device as well.

"I cannot determine when the other inhabitants were consumed, so cannot say if they are safe or not. For all I know they could be gone by the time we finish talking. If it helps, having been imprisoned on Krypton none of them should be enhanced by yellow sunlight yet. I don't believe Zatanna has a prison."

"I do not."

"Then I would suggest pulling them out now and enshroud them before they are gone as well."

Okay a slightly longer delay and then we could talk while these three slept in darkness.

"Pull them out one at a time and I'll put them to sleep and wrap them up."

In short order Ursa-Zod, Faora Hu-Ul, and General Zod himself were taken care of and in a pile on the floor in the corner. They hadn't seemed anything but relieved to be free in the seconds before they fell asleep. All three interestingly enough were tall and muscular with short black hair, though two women and the one man. Kryptonian military standards were weird I guess. Three more Kryptonians that would be captured in short order but the meeting had been delayed long enough.

"Okay now with that potential emergency out of the way let me get to the point of this. I am working freelance for an agency know as The Company. The organization is insanely powerful but I'm really not sure just how big it is, I've only spoken to three people that belonged to it and only seen one of the three of them. They can and do create whole worlds for unimaginably powerful "people" to use like games. A lot of their freelancers are used to test these worlds before they are ready for commercial use, but not me. I was sent to this newly discovered cluster multiverse because of the other thing The Company is know for. They sell notable men and women to these powers as slaves. I am here to scout and collect such people. After I have finished a set quota of captures and side objectives I'll be allowed to leave to do this all over again in another setting, but I have no intensions of that. By now you all should realize that you are pregnant, this is a big part of my long term plan. Short term I have to be careful about getting too much attention because there are some seriously scary people in this universe and groups with the power to wipe out whole worlds. Eventually we will have a ****, first and second generation, that can face them. I intend to create an empire of dragon hybrids."

"Phase one is using the Kryptonians weakness to magic to gather a **** that added to my retinue no longer have that weakness, or are weakened by Kryptonite, and who carry their own yellow sunlight with them wherever they go. So far this is going great and while it could be better' I paused to glare at the city of Kandor "Six Kryptonian women is quite a **** to be reckoned with. Seven if Zatanna can get the new ritual to work. Not bad for a race many considered to have died off."

"Phase two is going to be dealing with the Justice League. I want to do this as quietly as possible to not alert watchers from other worlds that might see it as a reason to invade and because they are still a **** to be leery of. But once we have coopted their members into our own we can then use their database to track useful criminals to add to our cause." Karen had raised her hand "Yes?"

"We can get access to the database easy enough. Oracle's system is linked in and she's a soft target. Give me a shroud shard in the shape of a necklace or something and I'll visit her and tell her it's magic and will fix her spine. She's just human like the rest of the Bats so will convert in no time." I raised an eyebrow at her "Um we've been looking over the files in this mental chatroom thing you've got going during the rituals."

I hadn't realized Conjunction gave them access to my device information, that could be very useful considering Linda was some kind of genius and Karen a well trained scientist. It had already been useful if this plan worked actually. Oracle could stay in her command center and no one would even know while she funneled information to us via the network. And giving her back her legs would be nice. I still wasn't sure if selling The Joker to The Company would be a better fate than just killing him yet or not but I bet Barbara would love to pull the trigger.

"Okay that's a fantastic idea. Any more thoughts like that feel free to bring them forward." I pulled a shard free and shifted it to look like a leather choker with a big fancy onyx pendant "It will definitely heal her spine and it is magic so you're not even lying, but don't underestimate anyone Batman has personally trained. I don't care that he's "just human" he was the one that stopped the White Martian invasion when everyone else was a prisoner." If that had even happened here, I have to remember this was a variant of the Prime DC universe and cannon events may be different or not have even happened. The girls were nodding though so that was a thing here then.

"Okay so at some point during phase two after we have grabbed key League members and useful criminals we can set up for phase three. Taking Themyscira."

Zatanna raised her hand this time and I nodded at her "Having the League in hand before an invasion like that is a very good idea, but what about the Titans and the Justice Infiltration Team?" At my blank look to the second name she clarified "Informally known as Young Justice, though none of them are children at this point. When Vandal Savage used the Staro clones to capture the League it was they not Batman that saved the day."

"Good points and yes they should be dealt with as well. In fact it's possible the Justice group might be taken care of this afternoon." That got some surprised looks "The Shroud can extend it's influence through strong long established psychic links. Miss Martian is a very strong psychic and links her team telepathically during missions, very useful for covert operations like theirs but she has been shown to not be fully stable and is clingy. It is more than possible she keeps those links in place all the time, especially with Superboy. Summon him with the Kryptonian circle and hold him in a shroud until its influence has passed from him to her and from her to their whole team. If it works that's the whole of Young Justice taken in one sweep. At the very least I'm sure the two of them are linked and getting her without a fight is gold as far as I'm concerned. It will certainly be interesting to see how the shroud handles her seeing as White Martians are not exactly easy on the eyes."

"Regardless phase three gets us a veritable goldmine of Amazons and a Amazon/dragon hybrid will be almost as good as the kryptonian ones and far more plentiful. So good talk, now to deal with our guests."

The three ex zoners had been converted early into the meeting so I checked my HUD's popups.

Capture Complete! Ursa-Zod +52 credits

Capture Complete! Faora Hu-Ul +52 credits

Capture Complete! Dru Zod +40 credits

Quest Complete: Capture 5 Kryptonians +10 credits

New Quest Available: Capture 10 Kryptonians 7/10 +20 credits

Okay troll, are there even ten Kryptonians left to capture? Well one I guess as the seven already counted and I had two in the bottle. I could do this and I needed the credits, and wait why was Zod worth twelve points less than the women? That was strange. Anyways...

Dru Zod sold! +40 credits

The General faded out as I woke the two new women. With the shadows cleared they were stark naked save for long black hooded cloaks and much improved physically. Their now long black hair hung past shoulder length and their expanded breasts now near Zatanna's epic proportions. Not every Kryptonian could be as gifted as the triplets I guess, oh well.