The Black Mercy, and a reversal of fortunes

Kara woke up, stretching. A normal day; her enhanced hearing picked up the usual sounds. Car horns, voices, on top of the whimpers and shrieks she’d come to suspect. And, ah! A scream, and a more serious one.

With effortless speed, Kara dressed herself in her Supergirl costume. Oh, how she did love it. The vivid red of the skirt, the opaque stockings, the matching red boots, then the blue of her top and the S-Shield.

She couldn’t imagine life without it, and without the hope it symbolised.

Kara soared over National City, taking in the sight of it. Men and woman wandering the streets, to work, or at home, most of the women red-faced as ever. And…

There! Kara swooped down, catching a mugger in progress. It was easy to catch him, and restrain him, before taking the stolen handbag.

She turned, and offered it back to its owner. The woman, a brunette, hastily took it back before returning her arm to covering her tits, blushing furiously.

Glad of her role as the only clothed woman in the world, Supergirl smiled and soared away.

The DEO was immediately on guard when Astra was brought in. Alex had found her in Kara’s apartment, alongside Kara; Astra looked weary, while Kara looked…

There was a strange, unknown plant attached to her, keeping Kara ****.

“It’s called the Black Mercy,” Astra had said. “I did not think my people would go so far. It is…”

“Is it hurting her?” Alex said.

“The opposite,” Astra said sadly. “It’s giving her what she wants, whether it’s a life on Krypton, or some pettier desire, it just depends what was more prominent in her mind. It’s the cruellest kind of prison; one you want to stay in.”

She looked at her comatose niece, only reluctantly tearing her eyes away.

Alex glared at her. She didn’t trust this woman, this kryptonian that came out of nowhere and claimed to be Kara’s aunt, and to not like Kara’s state, when she was the one who’d brought Kara to them.

But she was the only one that seemed to have any clue what this thing was.

“And can you free her?” Alex said.

“I… don’t know if I can,” Astra said.

“Then why are you here?”

“There is a way to insinuate someone into her dream-world,” Astra said. “Join her in whatever delusion the Black Mercy has created. If you can convince her to let it go…”

“That’s it?” Alex said. “Put me in.”

“It’s not that simple,” Astra said. “We don’t know what you’ll find-”

“Put me in,” Alex said again, firmly.

Alex closed her eyes-

And awoke in what seemed like Kara’s office. Well, part of it, she recognised the balcony. Alex turned around, intending to walk inside.

Seriously, Kara’s ideal world was office work-

Alex faltered, in the same instant both feeling the cool air on her skin, the bare stone against her feet, and seeing the austere Cat Grant sat by her desk.

Cat was naked. Thoroughly, utterly naked, breath fast and face red as she clearly tried to distract herself from that fact.

And Alex was in the same boat, subject to the rules of this reality. She looked down, and couldn’t help an undignified squeak as she saw herself; even if this was just a fantasy it felt real, and it was definitely her real body on display. Hastily she tried to cover herself, an arm over her tits, a hand over her cunt, suddenly well aware both of how this Cat must feel, and how humiliated Kara must have been.

God, was that it? Kara wanted everyone else to know how she felt?

“Ah!” a rather unrealistic, embarrassed yell escaped Cat’s lips as she saw Alex standing in her office.

Cat quickly straightened, trying to regain her normal intimidating aura. It was less successful when she had an arm crossed over her bare tits.

“What are you doing here?” Cat demanded.

“J-just leaving,” Alex said.

Nervously she backed away, not wanting to turn around and display her ass to her sister’s boss.

“Do you happen to know where Kara Danvers is?” Alex said.

“Out there somewhere,” Cat said, gesturing with her free hand absently, cheeks still flushed. “Leave.”

Wait- damn it, this was an office. She’d been too distracted to remember.

Hastily Alex turned around, displaying her ass to Cat but by doing so hiding it from everyone on the other side of the glass doors.

And people were staring, even when this was apparently a common sight in this world. Of course they were, whatever vengeful side of Kara had caused this delusion must have wanted it to be as humiliating as possible.

Muttering a curse, Alex hurried out of Cat’s office, to see Kara at her desk. Perhaps unsurprisingly, her sister was the only person wearing anything.