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Chapter 9
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fyreant
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The two Lynns are reunited and meet the ones dragged along, just in time to be told of a mission!
"Bout time you get here, slowpoke!" You give the duplicate of yourself a poke in the chest (and considering your chest, that's pretty much impossible without pushing into her/your boob). "The bad guys have already left! You better get after 'em!"
"That's quite enough, 'Lickety-Split Lynn'." for the first time, Mort uses your actual title. "There's no more need for the pretense. Ah... I see you brought Nightingale. And another of the new tryouts. Nightingale, I apologize for getting you caught up in this. This was... a mere unofficial drill, you might say. Getting aid in the case of a hypothetical mind control incident. I told her to improvise the most shocking, disturbing story she could think of. I trust she did not disappoint, since you came here so hastily." Mort says.
The other Lynn comes over and stands next to you, revealing the other two new arrivals. One of them is a beautiful red-haired woman in a domino mask wearing a purple jumpsuit that is rather conservative by superheroine standards, not showing any skin below her neck. This must be Nightingale. She purses her lips and looks at the two "yous", then to Mort (who has obviously just re-dressed herself), then down at the paper envelope full of cash that Mr. Franco left. She looks displeased.
La Petite Mort looks a little nervous now and there's a quaver in her voice. "Ah... and... I can see that you knew quite well that the veteran superheroine on duty was a particularly prudish and judgmental one. You must have told her I was being assaulted by some lowlives, right? That was, ah, thinking quickly on your feet, Lynn."
"Well, we shall have to be careful that it doesn't happen again, then." Nightingale says with more than a bit of disdain in her voice. "And what about this money? Let me guess, a prop?" she picks up the envelope and swats Mort lightly on the forehead with it.
"Ahem." Mort stands up a bit straighter and gives her hardest glare back. "I'm sorry, Nightingale, but that information is above your rank. If you EVER happen to climb above B-rank, ask me some other time, and I'll gladly enlighten you. If I can still remember, however many years in the future that would happen to be."
While the two established superheroines are being catty, the other one to arrive sidles over near you and starts looking you up and down. You're pretty sure that she is one of the ones that you'd had in mind when you were getting self-conscious about looking good enough to catch attention.
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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
Created on Nov 30, 2016
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