Chapter 11: Pandemic

On the paradise island of Themyscira, the hidden plot of land had become something else over the course of three weeks. The land was barren of all animal and plant life, not a single root remained, not even in the water of the bay. The villages and capital city were crumbled and ruined, smashed into broken rock and smeared over by layers of hardened ejaculate. Hordes of brutish creatures stalked out in the open, drinking the sea water around the island after having drained the rivers and ponds dry. Some rutted out in the open, their barbed erections spraying thick cum onto the grounds as it hardened like cement over time, smothering out the roads and former gardens. Others surrounded fattened females, many in number on the island, feeding the demanding matriarchs hard cocks as their starving pussies took every drop of their cum and rewarded the brutes with new additions to their ranks.

In what was once a temple sat Artemis, howling with lust as two of the large males speared into her at once, licking at the curves of her six breasts as she pinned them close, wrapping her legs and four arms around them to keep them close. Three times her previous height and several tonnes in weight the brood mother moaned and growled as she felt them cum into her pussy like a fire hose, striking the walls of her womb with their spear tip cocks. She couldn't wait to birth another litter.

And yet despite her size… She wasn't the biggest.

Basking like a lioness at the center of the island land mass was a gigantic creature surrounded by dozens of males, each tending to her like a queen or goddess. Diana never felt more alive now then she ever had as a tiny amazon! Over two hundred feet long and almost 200 tonnes she reveled in her new size and power, she had become the very definition of motherhood. Hips so wide and flaring she could take several lovers if she so craved, and her cravings were often. Every new row of breasts that sprouted from her changing frame made her howl with pride and joy, ten in total lined down her body all the way to her naval. Large and heavy they were, almost the size of the chariots she used to race. The belly they surmounted was thick with fat, hanging like an apron over her dark, meaty pussy. Her six clawed limbs gripped at the stone hard earth digging grooves as easily as cutting into butter and her spiked tail struck the resin coated stonework like a thunderbolt, cracking the substance like glass. She smiled as she watched her swarm jump in surprise.

She was powerful, she was everything, but then...

It started as a slight vibration, but grew to fill her thoughts, a clarion as insistent as a lover's whisper and as distant as thunder on the horizon. It came from the north, calling her and her swarm. Rearing her head up Diana purred as she felt the presence in her head, pulling back her green lips with a smile to show off rows of sharp teeth like a shark and crested fins rising from her brow down to the base of her shoulders like a spiky headdress, her tentacle hair slithered and snapped when she called to her children and leapt into the sky. Undulating her body like a swimming reptile to water, Wonder Woman soared north, her brood joining her in the clouds, loyally guarding their matriarch as they abandoned the dead island for a new home.

***

Fawcett City was just as busy as ever; countless taxi cabs and angry motorists honked and swore at each other in packed streets and roads, pedestrians squished shoulder to shoulder crossed busy sidewalks and dodged cyclists on their way to cafes or restaurants or shops lining every building. Vendors stood at every corner offering foods and drinks and entertainment to the countless masses that walked by. Like any other day the drone of human activity blocked out everything else happening in the large city.

Except one thing.

A sudden boom stopped traffic into a violent pile up, the cars crashing into each other as far back as a city block while a crack formed in the center of an intersection. Another heavy boom and the crack grew, fracturing in every direction as the concrete started rising, pushed up as stone and earth gave way. Drivers stepped out of their ruined cars to watch as the road crumbled and heaved from something underneath. Something erupted from the rising mound in an explosion of dust and cement. A clawed fist the size of a plow burst from the fissure, opening its foot-long talons before slamming back down to grip at the concrete, pulling the rest of itself up.

The cracks spread down the street forcing droves of people to flee as their cars sunk into the fissures, the small quakes causing fire hydrants to burst. Then to their horror hundreds of orange glowing tendrils shot out of the ground, the 3-meter-long limbs slithering and snapping everywhere like angry snakes as the ground gave way to something massive.

Rising her head out into the open air Koriand'r purred as she inhaled a breath of air and exhaled with growl, she could smell the fear of thousands of fleeing, panicking humans running for their lives, all of it was delicious to her. Pulling herself free from the underground sewers and subways the massive leviathan Starfire had grown into shook her long neck to get the bits of stone and steel out of her tendrils, her six claws gripping the road stone and lifting herself the rest of the way out. The sound of sirens attracted her attention as a pair of police cruisers managed to make their way close enough for a small group of men in blue to fire on her. Their bullets merely plinked against her translucent chitin as she laughed, her saurian maw opening to reveal rows of razor teeth as the burrow she climbed out of spilled forth the rest of her brood. Hundreds of scaly orange glowing creatures descended on the streets as Koriand'r watched with amusement, drinking in every sensation and sound as three of her sons tore into the screaming police and anyone else too foolish to escape.

But she wasn't here for them... Yet.

"Come children, we must answer the call, she is waiting for us!" Crouching like a cat the two hundred-foot-long monster jumped into the air, her six claws pressing to her belly as her ten breasts wobbled from the ****. Taking to the air, the multi-ton matriarch flew above the sky scrapers with her swarm in tow, following her as they too shared in their mother's powers of flight. Leaving behind a scene of destruction Kori closed her eyes and smiled as she followed the psychic message, curious as to whom would call her out.

***

Karen could feel the two swarms approaching, sensing their life-forces they felt like they were two bright comets followed by hundreds of little fireflies. Their very presence was a pressure on her psyche, but not an unpleasant one. They were powerful and fertile, like herself, but of a different flavour. The babies she'd been feeding were removed from her breasts, their suckling mouths followed by a trickle of milk. She let out a purr of curiosity, eager to meet her new playmates. Proudly she strode out the ruined entrance to the pristine frozen landscape, like a mighty dragon leaving her lair, her body immune to the icy swirling wind. The sun hung in the arctic sky in perpetual dawn, energizing her with its golden rays. Eventually the two swarms came into view and landed gracefully in front of her, belying their bulky forms, both followed by a legion of mature drones and lesser matriarchs. Karen was impressed.

"Hmmmm, Diana?" she asked. "And Starfire, I presume?" They nodded in acknowledgment. She began to circle them like a hound, sniffing the air and leering at their bodies. They followed suit, looking her and each other over with curiosity and lust.

"Power Girl..." Diana said with a chuckle. "So you weren't just getting fat."

"Oh, I certainly was," Karen smiled, skilfully flicking her tail and caressing Diana's saurian features. "I needed to grow to lead my children. And you two, of course. I love the fin, by the way, Diana."

"So that is how this happened?!" Kori reared up in shock. Karen stood too, girding herself for a fight, but Kori's lips twisted into a predatory grin. "Then I must thank you!"

Moving forward she kissed Karen, their flexible necks bringing their mouths together, locking lips in a hard, primal kiss. Their tongues tangled and twisted tugging on each other in a sensuous battle for dominance. They were too easily matched, however. Claws found breasts, running talons gently over fat teats.

Karen turned to Diana, who had a glimmer of hunger in her eyes. She gave the large creature an inviting leer and wink of her yellow eye. Grinning, Diana embraced her new sisters, her own tongue crawling into the wet warmth of the kiss. When she did a blur of images flowed through her mind, while her tongue invaded the mouths of the two matriarchs, something else invaded her mind the same way. Who would have thought that the prim and regal Princess of the Amazons was such a nymphomaniac at heart? Perhaps turning you was a blessing. She realized after a moment that Karen had spoken telepathically to her, and looked questioningly to the female creature for answers. Yes, Karen responded, kissing her. Speech is so inadequate; don't you agree? We can save our lips for more... essential purposes.

Wonderful, Diana thought blissfully. She burned with lust, and could feel the others' arousal, like flames licking at her. Claws linked, tails slid along inner thighs and tendril-hair seemed to gently tangle. Karen bit Kori's shoulder. Diana raked her claws on Karen's rump. Kori's tongue snapped against Diana's nipple. It was a slow, sensuous play fight, like a mating dance. Their thoughts darted and flowed, sharing memories, thoughts and feelings. You taste so good, Kori purred mentally bending to wrap her lips around Diana's teat. Drink all you wish, sister. Diana responded, moaning blissfully as Kori nursed from her. Karen's tail looped around Diana's neck and pulled her face down to the plump crease between her thighs. Diana could already feel the heat radiating from Karen's fertile womanhood and began to lap hungrily at the slick folds, her tongue darting in to taste Karen from the inside.

Karen let out a moan too, and saw Kori's pussy winking under her swaying tail. Impulsively, she darted her head under Kori and flicked her tongue along the glowing flesh, eagerly lapping at Kori as Diana did her. Kori let the breast fall from her mouth and kissed a trail to Diana's own slick folds, sucking and slurping at the musky juices before they grew cold in the arctic air. They could sense each other's arousal building to a crescendo, swirling like a vortex, as if they were three batteries on a circuit, only they were charged with lust, not electricity. Three minds cried out in unison, their orgasms refracting threefold between their stiffening, shuddering bodies, unwilling to let go of this new link as they each brought each other to their first shared orgasm.

They frolicked in the arctic like massive cats as their three swarms began to mingle eagerly and lustfully, females mounting males, sucking them off, tasting the cream of their cousins. Karen, Kori and Diana tasted every inch of each other, sucked milk from every teat and licked juice from each other’s faces. They toyed with each other with their tails, rippling the shape to pleasure and tease their lustful loins.

A cacophony of howls and roars echoed out from the North Pole, the gathering of swarms turned into a massive orgy as hundreds of creatures ground against each other in the frozen landscape, unaffected by the freezing temperature or sharp winds. Plump females were rushed and surrounded by eager males from all three swarms willing to feed and breed the fertile mothers-to-be. Lyta, Terra and Kate stayed together back to back as they rode a mixture of Diana and Koriand'r's sons, spear like cocks waved in front of their faces as they sucked and pumped their ribbed shafts to be rewarded with thick cum. Artemis moaned as she overpowered four of Karen's sons, almost rabid with lust as she wrapped her barbed legs around one of their waists and **** him into her.

At the heart of the massive throbbing celebration the three matriarchs of the united swarm kissed and licked each other as their many limbs pawed and gripped at their massive curves and bulk. Their minds were joining, becoming connected as they explored each other's bodies in unison, their bond spreading to the rest of their species as they felt every thrill, every pulse, every orgasm their kind experienced around them. At some point the largest and oldest males in their respective swarms took a chance and positioned themselves over the three queens, lining themselves up as they mounted the gigantic females.

Yessss... So strong, so potent! Your sons are quite excitable Diana. Purring with pleasure Karen nuzzled the former Amazonian princess as two of Kori's sons tried spearing into her at once. Indeed sister, they know how to treat a female when they see one. Smiling as she watched her son plow into Karen roughly Diana's eyes closed when she felt the two males in her pussy pick up speed, a low moan escaping her open jaws. MY sons are just as experienced Diana; they will pleasure you as much as you want before filling you to the brim. With her eyes closed and her serpentine tongue lolling out the side of her mouth Koriand'r was lost in a sea of pleasure as Karen's first born sons fought for space driving into her core, gripping at her wide flanks and tail as their rough cocks slipped in and out like jackhammers.

So close...

With a bellowing roar Karen felt the torrential flood of hot seed flood into her receptive womb, splashing against her inner walls as she felt her current lover tense and pulse inside her pussy, blinking rapidly she felt the pleasure and multiple orgasms of Diana and Kori, sharing their pleasure telepathically, the experience taking long minutes to die down. Just when she felt that the overload had ebbed away she felt her lover pull out tightly just before a new one took his place and speared into her just as roughly, thrusting hard into her flooded pussy again and again.

I'm so glad you shared this with us Power Girl. Kori thought, kissing along Karen's flank.

No. Karen responded, smiling. Power Girl doesn't exist anymore.

***

Meanwhile, back in Manhattan…

Batman climbed down the apartment wall from above the roof, passing floor after floor until he stopped at the floor he was climbing down for, coming upon the gaping hole where the window used to be in Karen Starr's apartment. He coughed and snapped a filter over his mask to keep out the damp musk. The Dark Knight looked around, finding only darkness inside. Pulling a flashlight out from his utility belt he took a few steps deeper inside. The air was thick with a cloying, pungent stench, and the walls were coated in several layers of some kind of yellowed resin. It looked like the empty lair of some enormous insect or spider. The walls and furniture were smashed and coated in the same resin material until they were almost unrecognizable. Among the bumps and forms that bulged under the resin lathered floors Batman found small scratches and grooves, several lining up like claw marks skittered all over the ground. Looking up there were dried husks hanging on the walls and ceiling, some were like the leathery remains of an orange rind while others had become brittle and dried like dead leaves.

"Good lord," he muttered as he examined one more closely, seeing shreds of black and red leather that seemed partially digested by some kind of enzyme within. Opening his communicator, he alerted Alfred back in Gotham City, pulling a few scraps free with a tweezer in his gloved hand. "Batman here. I think I know what happened to Bat Woman. Terra, too. I hypothesize it might have taken Power Girl first, then attacked anyone that came to her apartment. It looks like they were... digested in these sacs."

“My word…” Buzzed the voice of the butler over Batman’s earpiece. “What could be dangerous enough to do such damage master Bruce?”

“I intend to find out!” Moving around the hollowed chamber the Dark Knight held his flashlight forward until he came up to the walls, picking a tool out from his belt he scraped away at its surface to see it had no effect, almost like he was scratching at solid rock. “This material is tough, almost like it's made out of stone or metal.” Switching to another tool he lifted it to the wall and prepped it, turning on the diamond-headed hand drill and scratching out tiny flecks out of the surface and dropping the filings into a test tube under his hand. Turning right around and heading back out the ruptured hole of the building the Dark Knight gave the ruined apartment one last look over before leaping out of the hole.

***

Things had gotten dire after the events in Faucet City, news stations were running around the clock trying to get answers to what happened downtown. Emergency units and local heroes arrived to find a massive cave under the collapsed streets the gigantic creature had emerged from. The space it occupied was staggering! Well over the size of several football fields it was coated and surrounded in a cement-like resin, apparently it was the only thing keeping the buildings overhead from collapsing under their own weight, apart from that the walls and ceiling of the cave were riddled with dozens if not hundreds of dried out husks like the skins of peeled fruit or the remains of butterfly cocoons.

High above in orbit looking down at the planet, the Watchtower was silently turning over the Americas while a meeting was held with the remaining heroes on hand.

"This is what I found from Karen Starr's apartment..." Batman sat at the head of the table where Superman would have sat, a display of holographic pictures showed Power Girl's apartment and the fissure in Fawcett City. What members of the League who weren't missing or still responding to their communicators stared in shock at the images, Zatanna looked away ready to wretch while Green Arrow gripped at the table, unable to blink. "I checked the resin that coated the walls and to the cave structure under the city, apart from a few genetic discrepancies they are a near match with one another."

"How... How did this happen?" Wondered the Flash out loud, going over the books worth of written data faster than the others.

Clicking a button off the table Batman let Oracle back in Gotham speak for him, on the other end the Birds of Prey were listening in on the meeting where their faces popped up in the holographic display along with the pictures and footage of the attack, each of them looked just as unnerved as those at the meeting table. "From what Bruce has hypothesised after gathering evidence from both Karen Starr’s apartment and the event at Fawcett City, Power Girl was infected with the alien DNA from the Mars mission last month, turning her into something dangerous." Going over other files she continued over the intercom, her holographic image showing she was flipping through the same files that the league was reading. "And she's not the only one now, two of the husks Batman found in her apartment had fragments of Kate Kane's costume and Atlee's street cloths... She's spreading it to other people."

“Do we have any idea where she is now?”

“No.” Answered Oracle. “I’ve tried going over satellite images of Manhattan over the last few days hoping if I can get anything that looks like Power Girl… But let’s face it if we can’t trace Superman when he really wants to travel fast then I’ve got a snowball’s chance in hell of spotting her!”

“That doesn’t help us Barbara.”

“So in the past month every person who’s gone missing from the League…” Questioned Hawk Man, his wings curling back behind him in discomfort. “Has she turned them all?”

“Possibly.”

Slapping his hand down on the table Green Arrow raised his voice. "Yeah well according to a hundred Iphones and three news copters whatever dug itself out of the center of town wasn't the size of a person. It was HUGE!"

Sitting up from his seat the Dark Knight interjected. "And it wasn't Power Girl either, I checked the resin samples of both locations. As I said, there were discrepancies."

"What kind of discrepancies?" Asked Zatanna, having trouble looking at the disturbing photos as she let the caped crusader explain. "The resin in Karen's apartment was an unknown genetic strain but it had traces of Kryptonian genes in the mix. The one in Manhattan had Tamaranian DNA."

"STARFIRE?!"

"That's not all, we can only assume that the heroes not responding to communications are either compromised by the same infectious DNA or worse." Closing the file Batman looked to the others as they digested the information with varying levels of horror and disgust.

"What do you mean worse?" Wondered Black Canary, her holographic display hovering over the table along with the images of Oracle, Huntress, Lady Black Hawk and even Cat Woman. Typing a series of commands at the table the images being broadcasted went from the scene at Fawcett City to a bundle of missing person reports, lost pets and news clippings of break-ins throughout town before yesterday’s destruction. “I’ve compiled reports based on the time between the last contact we had with Starfire three weeks ago of her attack and disappearance and the creature that burst out of the streets yesterday.”

Tracing over the files Captain Atom raised an eyebrow at some of the reports. Several were of missing people around that area while a great many more were reports of thefts and robberies, more specifically food thefts. One was the break in of the mustard factory across town and another was the disappearance of an entire kennel of dogs at the local pound. The majority seemed to be just a list of the usual crimes in a big city. “I don’t see a connection here.”

“Starfire was gathering up animals and people.”

Blinking in confusion Zatanna brought the image of the swarm of monsters that followed the massive leviathan that crawled out of the streets and attacked everyone it came across. “Are you saying these missing people are part of that… Horde of monsters?” Asked the magician, waving her hand over the pictures of several that were taken attacking and killing the bystanders downtown. “Then what about the animals?”

Oliver Queen looked between the files and the image and went pale, his attention going to the worried woman sitting across from him. “Zatanna… Take a GOOD look at those pictures, do you see any dogs or cats in that mob of monsters.” Looking at the footage and videos Zatanna winced when one video showed one of the reptilian creatures attacking and tearing apart police off screen, their screams mixed in with the growling snarls of the monsters that were killing them. “Are you saying they killed them? For sport?”

“No.” Cut in the Dark Knight. “What he’s saying is they were on the menu. All of them were…” Looking to Batman with pale stares the League couldn’t even react to what he was stating. “And considering the size and mass of the creature that flew off and assuming that it IS Starfire then that means in order to get that large then the last 3 weeks she’s eaten 185 tonnes of mass.” Turning off the reports Batman finished. “Or in this case 215 missing people, 408 lost pets and over 5000 cubic feet of lost foodstuffs.”

At that moment Zatanna fell out of her chair and threw up.

***

At the clock tower in Gotham City Oracle sat at the table with her Birds of Prey, sharing the same meeting with those up in the watch tower orbiting up above. In front of her Huntress, Black Canary, Lady Blackhawk, and Cat Woman cringed at the files in front of them. She was briefing the team by video-link with Batman about the strange disappearance of the other heroes and the devastation yesterday.

"...And that's all we know," Batman reported grimly. Oracle nodded. "We'll try to find out what we can, Batman," she replied. “If she or Power Girl show themselves we’ll let you know.” Rolling her chair back and rested her head over her outstretched hands Barbara Gordon breathed in a deep heavy sigh. The rest of the Birds of Prey shared the same look of horror and shock as those at the League’s table. “Are you… Are you sure you can find them?” Whispered Huntress across the table from Oracle, a look of worry on the woman’s face. "If we find them we’ll stop them! In the meantime…"

The clock tower suddenly lurched like it was struck by an earthquake, her monitors snapped and went blurry with static, cutting back between the holographic feed she was sharing with Batman and going dead. From the ceiling bits of plaster fell and the gear works of the clock tower stopped. They could hear steel groaning under pressure...

"What is that...?" Black Canary asked out loud, holding the table for leverage along with the others. Suddenly twin beams of red light sheared through brick, steel and plaster above their heads, slicing through the walls and supports. Scrambling to the floor they watched while the top of the clock tower was pulled off like the lid of a cookie jar, held in the claws of a bloated lizardlike beast with chitinous scaly plating over its body. Looking up in shock just as the roof of the clock tower was tossed aside like a trash can lid the Birds of Prey got a full view of the monstrosity that loomed over them.

It was enormous! But it wasn’t the creature that attacked Fawcett City. Its bullet-shaped head was crowned by five gnarling horns that swept back like a crown, its red glowing eyes cooling off to reveal yellow reptilian irises that leered down at the five women. Pouting green lips pulled back into a toothy grin that threaten to split the monster’s face wide. Its head creeped and slithered with writhing tendrils layered like a mane behind the she-creature’s face. And it WAS female! Its massive scaly breasts attested to its femininity, pressing up against the ruined wall until an abyss of cleavage formed between its car sized bust and the saurian neck it led up to.

Batman called out from the holo display, his image still breaking up and getting worse. “Oracle?! What’s happening?”

The women barely had time to react in shock when the gigantic monster rose up and took four of its nipples each in a claw and aimed them straight down into the clock tower, dousing the Birds of Prey. Milk sprayed down in a white foamy torent, soaking the women from head to toe and drenching them in the creamy fluid. It pooled around their feet and splashed their faces despite their efforts to shield themselves. They couldn't help but swallow. Indeed, it became difficult not to while trying to gag for air and flail the gushing liquid away from their faces. Then the situation changed drastically when one by one the Birds of Prey clutched at their sides, screaming in shock and pain, underneath their cloths and costumes their skin writhed and squirmed. “WHAT’S GOING ON?!” Without warning tentacles burst from their flesh, shredding their clothing and stringing them up against the support beams. The last thing they heard before the cocoons sealed around them was a deep chuckling laughter from the creature that towered over them.

***

"Oracle?" Batman barked into the communicator. "Oracle, come in!" Alerts began to show all over screens and monitors of the watch tower, satellites orbiting the east coast focused on Gotham Harbour and broadcast images of the disturbance. There was some kind of invasion, hundreds of creatures flying through the sky and attacking the streets below, hovering over the city like vultures while three gigantic forms circled with them, their presence dwarfing the zeppelins that took up the Gotham flight paths.

“Oh my God!... There are so many…”

Batman didn’t stay long enough to hear Hawk Girl’s shocked gasp, dashing to the hanger bay where his Batwing sat ready to take off. He thumbed a control button on his spiked gauntlet, the whiz of static clicking in when he activated his intercom. "Alert the League members on Earth." he ordered running past shocked heroes and staff looking at the same pictures being broadcast. "I'm going to need backup." He strapped himself into the cockpit and armed his heavy-ordnance, the batwing roared into a start-up cycle just when the air-lock doors opened. Slamming the clutch, the black bat-shaped vessel shot out like a black arrow, descending towards the storm of monsters plaguing his city.