The video with Starburst is sorta your fault, but the worst is averted... or is it? (F/F)

The title card for this video shows a date that you're all-too-familiar with: your very last day as 'Nightingale'.

On that day you had gone into a certain skyscraper with unique acoustic capabilities to stop Dr. Rainbow's two archenemies, Baconator and Gloomy Sunday, from carrying out their vile scheme to inflict crippling depression on the whole city. And, in a panic after Gloomy Sunday attempted to **** you with a video of a youthful mistake you made five years ago in a poorly-lit room with your stepdad Eddie, you had made a tremendously short-sighted decision to **** Gloomy Sunday to use La Petite Mort's quantum violin, which she'd planned to use to spread nihilism, to instead spread the normalization of incestuous attraction, which had rather embarrassing consequences for many. Not the least of which for Green Streak, who was fighting a gang of rogues led by his villainous sister Goldie Glider at the time.

It seems the Wonderland Warriors were active that day. You see that stocky brute Walrus brawling with what appears to be an eight-foot-tall shiny chrome robot, slamming it against cars, while a bunch of pawn henchmen use chess-themed swords and spears to try and slash at the machine while it's distracted.

You tap your earpiece. "Julia? I've found some details. You're still getting audio and video from my visor, right? I think this must be the 'Mechanoid' Queen of Hearts mentioned..."

On the screen, a blonde heroine in a blue costume swoops in, but you can't get a good look at her, as she's surrounding by a bright, blazing aura. Energy bolts shoot out from a golden staff she's wielding and knock several evil pawns on their backsides, while the robot gains the upper hand grappling with Walrus.

"Oh, and that must be 'Starburst'. I never ran into these two. Do you have any idea why they might be important?" you ask Julia.

"It's interesting..." Julia says. "I did a little digging when you first mentioned them. I hope you won't object that I did a little bending the rules when it came to looking at their secret identities-"

"Bending?" you ask.

"Fine, Rick, if you're gonna be a bitch about it - some flagrant breaking of the rules with computer hacking. The security in the League of Propriety's computer systems are so bad that they might as well have made their password 'Hello'." Julia says with a flourish of Spanish sass. "Anyway, this girl has got some alien-tech or whatever staff that shoots energy bolts, pretty standard stuff. Her real name is Courtney. She was originally a candidate to become Maiden America's latest sidekick, hence the star-themed costume... but apparently the PR department told Maiden A that replacing a body-positive, outspoken, LGBT-identified, latin-american 'Star' with a bubbly, blonde, conventionally attractive cheerleader a week after the former turned 25 was 'bad optics'."

"Hmph!" Snowflake straightens up a little. "I guess there are a few bureaucrats in this regressive League who have at least an ounce of self-awareness, after all. Could've fooled me."

You shoot your prickly white-haired teammate a dirty look. "Julia," you say, "has Snowflake been on the communication channel this entire time?"

"I just added her- crap, sorry, 'them' - back in. You patched things up, right? Let me know if you want me to kick them off again." Julia replies. You roll your eyes too late for that.

"Anyway, apparently there was a dispute within Starburst's family about her getting into heroing if she wasn't going to be a sidekick with Maiden A watching out for her. So, Courtney a.k.a. Starburst went to the Big 7 and asked to let her stepfather join the League too, as part of a duo with her, so he could watch out for her. There was resistance at first but the guy turned out to be a damn talented roboticist, and with a little help from La Petite Mort he was able to make a decent set of power armor, allowing him to join as 'The Mechanical Patriot'." Julia explains.

"Uh oh." you say. "This is starting to sound familiar... shit. Snowflake, you remember the stuff with Green Streak and that gang of rogues, right?"

"No." Snowflake says bluntly.

"Ok, I guess you weren't there for that. Uh... after Doc got captured I went to Raven Woman for help tracking down Hot-Cross Bunny to rescue her. Raven Woman sent me to Goldie Glider and her gang, who were blackmailing Green Streak with an unfortunate little incident that I was partly responsible for." you explain, your formerly confident voice going a bit sheepish. "Anyway, during that whole mess, Goldie Glider said she knew I was Nightingale and that there was a very pissed off novice superheroine looking for me as a result of my little taboo-loosening song. She threatened to put this heroine, whoever she was, on my tail if I interfered with her, um, intentions towards her brother Green Streak."

Dr. Rainbow pulls her face back from where she's been working her courage up to start licking you between your legs. "Oh my! You mean... the not-blood-related kind of brother, right?"

"Anyway!" you say awkwardly. "I'm starting to worry that having a stepfather/stepdaughter team operating downtown at ground zero for the violin incident might've been really poor timing. Let's see how this goes."

...

"UGH!" Walrus is slammed into another car. The bristly-mustachioed villain pulls himself off the floor and dusts off his unfashionable brown sleeveless wetsuit. "I'm very sorry, but we are going to have to apologize to our Queen for failing to get all the components! Jack of Hearts, hold them off!" Walrus grabs a small satchel in one hand and lifts a manhole cover with the other. He hurls the heavy steel disc right at the blonde heroine as she lines up another energy bolt. Before it can impact, the clanking chrome power-suit hurls itself into the path of the projectile, blocking it in the nick of time. Unfortunately for the forces of good, Walrus leaps right down the manhole while the still-conscious pawn henchmen fanatically hurl themselves at the heroes once again.

In the ensuing scuffle, to his credit, Jack of Hearts puts up a hell of a fight for a guy with no superpowers, almost managing to snatch Starburst's staff away several times before he runs out of backup and gets manhandled into submission by Mechanoid and tied up to a lamppost.

The bulky powersuit threatens Jack with a giant steel fist. "If you know what's good for you, creep, you'll tell us where that traitorous blubber-ball got off to. I don't know what your wicked queen or her pet rabbit plan to use those robotic processor chips for, but I don't intend to find out." he tightens his grip.

"Agh!" Jack protests. "I... I really would like to help you out, believe me," he sounds genuinely apologetic, "but you do know that I'm working for Queen of Hearts, right? Those aren't grass stains on that sword of hers. Put yourself in my place. Would YOU tell you, knowing how Queen of Hearts reacts to disloyalty?"

Mechanical Patriot doesn't have any clever response so he just keeps tightening his grip. A girlish giggle comes from behind him as Starburst comes up and leans against his chrome body. "Careful, daddy! If you squeeze too hard and break something you really will get kicked off the League!"

A sputtering sound comes through the power armor's speakers. "Honeybunch, we've been over this. First of all, you can't call me 'daddy' while we're working! And secondly, for goodness sake, don't tell HIM that! I'm trying to be intimidating here!" he says to her.

"Erk!" Jack of Hearts is clearly having trouble breathing. "I'm... I'm very intimidated, I promise you! It's just that I know the only way you are going to take my head off is by accident, whereas Queen-"

Before he can finish, he's cut off by Starburst smacking him on the top of he head with her staff. There's a blast of white energy and the impact leaves him dazed and mumbling.

For the first time, the camera focuses on Starburst. She's a young woman of above-average height with an athletic figure and golden blonde hair going down to her waist. It's clear that behind her half-mask, she's very pretty. Her costume consists of a skin-tight crop-top bodysuit covering her arms but leaving her eye-catching midriff exposed. The prominent white star on her chest is scrunched inward slightly by the C-cup breasts jutting out through the snug outfit. Below that she's wearing a matching pair of spandex shorts and red knee-high boots. As far as superheroine costumes go, it's pretty sexy, but not as revealing as some. No one could deny she fills it out well, though.

"Hee hee~ You're always so stressed, da- oops, I mean 'Mechanoid'." Starburst scrunches her face up cutely and sticks out her tongue, revealing the glinting orthodontic braces on her teeth. "Bleh! That's a mouthful. You really need to, like, change your name or something."

"Let's worry about getting you to B rank before we start thinking of many changes, little lady." the robot-like man says, affectionately nudging her with his arm as the two of them walk away from the defeated criminals towards a 'Justicemobile' SUV, the standard vehicle issued to heroes not marketable enough to merit their own custom-built vehicle. "I can't stand the thought of you getting handed over to some untrustworthy creep only pretending to be a good guy. You're not still upset I said no to the whole 'sidekick' program, right? It's not something you want to get involved with - you should hear some of the stories going around about sidekicks..."

"Oh yeah, of course!" Starburst says in a peppy voice. "I've actually been really excited to see a whole different side of you since we started fighting crime together and junk! I bet if Mom was still around she'd be jumping into your arms every night when we come home! Like, 'Oh, my hero! You're so fearless and tough, putting yourself on the line without any super-powered staff of your own! Gimme a kiss'!" And her pantomime goes beyond that as she actually leaps acrobatically into the armored man's grip, wrapping her legs around his oversized midsection and giving his metallic faceplate a kiss.

"Eheheh. That's... that's really sweet of you to say. I'm sure she'd be darn proud of you, too." he pats her on the back and gently puts her back on the ground, mechanical actuators whirring with the fine movements. "If I didn't know better I'd think you were buttering me up... please don't tell me you've suddenly changed your mind and want to skip college after all. I've told you, dear, you can't just do nothing but adventure. You need to have a real life, too. It's what your mother would've wanted, so if that's the direction you're going, I'm gonna have to put my foot down."

"I knoooow. I'm gonna go to university, starting in the Spring, I promise." the bubbly blonde giggles. "I used to think you were just being mean when you'd be firm with me about this kind of thing. But now that I've grown up a little I appreciate it. If anything," she waggles her index finger at 'Mechanoid', "I'd say you were a little too soft! Remember all those bad report cards I used to bring you? Maybe you should have given me a spanking!"

"Hah! Careful what you wish for, 'Starburst'. You may regret it next time I catch you doing something as reckless as with that subway car incident last week." the power-armored man laughs, poking her in the shoulder with a metal finger. "Anyway, we can leave the interrogation to the police. Just need to keep an eye on the scene until they get here to take away the Wonderland Warriors."

"It's not too late you know!" Starburst says in a peppy voice with a wink.

Mechanoid's next laugh sounds very ****. "Ha ha... ha... Wow, is that the kind of humor you're picking up from TV these days? I should pay those network execs a visit some time and ask them politely to tone it down.... Maybe try keep things a little more wholesome, honeybunch? I mean, not just for me, but for your brand..."

"Mmmm, are you sure? It's the only way I'll learn!" To show she's beyond just joking around, Starburst leans on the nearby wall with one elbow and then tugs the edge of her colorful spandex shorts down a few inches, exposing her pale backside.

"C-Courtney!" the armored man gasps in a mortified voice. "What are you doing? Get your costume back in place before somebody seees you! That's taking things much, much too far. If you think that was funny, it wasn't. Not in the slightest." He pauses. "Are... are you feeling alright? Did one of those bastards put some hypnosis on you or something?"

"No..." Starburst seems chastiszed as she straightens out her costume bottoms. "It's just... I figured nobody had to..."

"I think I need to get the experts involved, here." Mechanoid says, dialing the communicator on his suit's arm. "Hey - I need to talk to one of the higher ups. There's a potential problem here. Starburst and I just defeated the Wonderland Warriors attack on the super-tech shipment, but she's behaving strangely. I think one of the psychic members of the Warriors might be involved. Could you send someone here to check, just in case? ... Uh, yeah, we have the villains in hand. Except for Walrus, he got away. ...What's that? Already on the way?"

There is a noisy fluttering of feathers. A tall, albino-skinned woman whose voluptuous figure is easily visible through her black leotard descends on black, avian wings, tighenting them against her body as she lands dramatically. Her upper face is hidden behind a black beaked mask, and she carries an oversized cleaver in one hand. Raven Woman, of course.

"Yeah. Hey." she says casually in her typical flat, monotone voice. "I was on my way already. Was hoping to catch somebody whose name doesn't end with a number. But it looks like all you were able to get were 'Henchmen number fifty five and ninety nine.'" she pauses. "That was sarcasm. I don't actually know their numbers."

"Ah!" Mechanoid recovers from the shock of her sudden appearance. "Raven Woman! I'm glad someone so experienced was on hand. We did manage to capture one of Queen of Hearts' top lieutenants! Look!" He points to some distance away, where Jack of Hearts is bound up, recovering from unconsciousness.

"Hooray, I guess." Raven Woman's raspy monotone voice doesn't sound very enthusiastic. "She goes through lieutenants like toilet paper. Also, it's difficult to interrogate a guy who knows his boss will literally **** him if he talks. Since apparently **** is, like, sooooo terrible that we heroes have to unilaterally disarm in the intimidation arms race."

"Um..." Mechanoid seems to be at a loss for words.

"It's fine, whatever. I'll get something out of him, I'm sure." Raven Woman says. "What was that about Starburst? Did she get mind controlled? Uh - veteran hero secret, dude: 'I was mind controlled' is the oldest excuse in the book for if you accidentally hit your teammate. If somebody has ACTUALLY gotten mind controlled, they'll tell you they aren't."

"I'd... rather not be specific. Could you just check her brainwaves or cast a counter-spell or however it works?" Mechanoid asks.

"With nothing to go on? No, I can't." The otherworldly dark mystic looks intrigued. "What are you afraid of? I'm not Maiden America or the priest guy. Whatever it is, I'm not going to go on some long sermon and shame you about it. At most, I'll make sarcastic comments." she pauses. "And, actually, I was already going to make sarcastic comments anyway, so you've got nothing to lose by being honest."

Mechanoid starts to hem and haw again, but Raven Woman holds a hand up and cuts him off. "Like, by the way you're acting, I already know it's some kind of sex thing. This is the Wonderland Warriors. It's always a sex thing with them. They are by far the most horny supervillian group I've ever dealt with. They make Smut King look like Cardinal Richelieu in comparison." She pauses. "Please tell me you get that reference. I get the vibe that you're from one of the generations that actually read books before smartphones ate everyone's minds."

Fiddling with a knob on the wrist of his power armor, Mechanoid adjusts his voice volume way down. "Alright, alright. After the fight, Starburst suddenly... solicited me. For something disturbingly sexual."

Raven Woman stares at him impassively for a moment, then takes a heavy sigh. "This is going to be a whole 'human resources' thing, isn't it? Let me guess. Because you're a robot and you don't have a dick, that made you feel inadequate? Am I going to have to learn a bunch of academic neologisms about biological privilege, now? This is going to make Snowball, or whatever that weirdo who just got kicked off the Young Justifiers calls themselves, even more insufferable. Starburst probably didn't know you are actually a robot. I thought you're a dude in a suit. She probably made the same assumption."

"Wha...? No, I'm not a robot! I am a dude- I mean, a man in a power armored suit!" Mechanoid says.

"Oh." Raven Woman says flatly. "In that case, why are you bothering me with this? Occams razor suggests Starburst wasn't hitting on you because of mind control or whatever. She's probably just horny."

She takes a few steps closer, heels clacking on the concrete, and stares at him. "Is this one of those things where you pretend to be innocent and like you never thought of such a thing, but actually you're bringing it up as a trial balloon, to see if you can get away with abusing your position on a super team to gratify your basest, most shameful urges? Like you want me to give you a permission slip?"

Raven Woman pauses, then interrupts when Mechanoid starts to protest: "Because I'll totally give you that permission slip. Go ahead, fuck your sidekick. We all do it."

Mechanoid's helmet makes it impossible to see his facial expression but by the way he is completely motionless, he's probably in a state of shock. Raven Woman speaks as casually as if telling him where he's allowed to park in the parking garage: "Thanks to our illustrious leader Maiden America, the practice of superheroes banging their sidekicks literally predates the postal service. So go for it, and don't bother me about it again."

"No! No no no no no! Jesus Christ!" Mechanoid protests frantically. He leans forward and whispers to Raven Woman: "She's my daughter!"

"Oh." Raven Woman says flatly. "Blood related?"

"No, she's- wait, WHAT? Why would you ask something like that?!" If possible, Mechanoid's voice just got more mortified.

"Sorry," Raven Woman responds, the barest hint of an apologetic softness in her raspy monotone, "I've probably been spending too much time with that perverted camera-head guy lately. I think the League of Propriety is still drawing the line at immediate family ****. Unfortunately for Green Streak. And I don't think adoption would fly with Maiden America as an excuse." She pauses. "Also it's gross, I guess."

Before Mechanoid can ask what she means by that Raven Woman continues: "Since this makes two incidents within a few minutes of each other in the same area of town, I am starting to think the mind control thing might be plausible. Good work, Mechanoid. That being the case, let me assess the situation without you being a distraction. I'll give Starburst some treatment with my arcane knowledge and get her back on the right track. You gather all those knocked out henchmen and take them to the police station."

"Ah... thanks, thanks." Mechanoid offers to shake her hand. Raven Woman just stares at the robotic gauntlet disdainfully, and he awkwardly retracts it. "I'll make sure none of them make a break for it..."

"Except," Raven Woman speaks pointedly, "the leader. Jack of Hearts. Leave him here. I'll interrogate him personally."

"Ah. Yes, that makes sense. If anyone would have been in charge of deploying the mind control, it would have been him, right?" Mechanoid asks gamely.

"Sure, why not." Raven Woman says flippantly. "Hurry up and get moving. I need to get to the bottom of this. Whether or not it was mind control, I'll take care of it so it'll never be a problem for you as a team again."

"Oh, thank you! Thank you so much." Mechanoid clumsily shakes Raven Woman's hand with his power-armored fist. "I hope more people can see that just because you dress all in black and carry yourself in a foreboding way, that doesn't mean you don't have a genuinely good soul and a selfless drive to help others in their time of need."

Raven Woman seems to find that amusing and cracks a rare smile, and chuckles in a low voice. "Oh yeah. Totally. For the greater good. I'm so glad you think so."

After Mechanoid gathers up the defeated henchmen, sans Jack, under his shoulders and dashes away.

"WAIT!!" Starburst sees him running away and starts to chase after him. "Da- I mean, Mechanoid! Where are you going?!"

"Don't worry." Raven Woman tells the blonde novice heroine. "He's blaming it on hypnosis or whatever. So just run with it."

"Uh... Thanks, I guess. But if he said... whatever he said, I was just playing a joke! He shouldn't take it so seriously!" Starburst protests in a huffy tone of voice, looking more annoyed than upset now that her 'daddy' is well away.

"Or not seriously enough." Raven Woman says dryly. "You don't have to hide it from me, newbie. If he didn't go for it, don't get resentful. Get even."

Starburst raises an eyebrow. "Um, wow. That is not what I was expecting. Aren't you from the Big 7? Like, shouldn't you be telling new heroes 'Great power comes with great responsibility' and 'Control your desires' and all that stuff?"

"Eh." Raven Woman cocks her head and shrugs ever so slightly. "We have Whole Glory and Mood Ring for that. I'm more like the League of Propriety's cool-aunt-who-buys-you-a-bottle-of-vodka-even-though-you're-underage."

Starburst leans on her magic staff. "Uh huh. And what exactly did you mean by getting even, Mrs. Cool Aunt?"

A tiny smirk graces Raven Woman's lips again. "I see Jack of Hearts is tied to a lamppost with bent metal bars over there. Your 'partner' tried to get information about where Walrus went, and what those stolen components are for, by threatening to beat the crap out of him. Right?"

"Yup." Starburst says, blowing air through her nose and rolling her eyes.

"Did it work?" Raven woman asks.

"Obviously not. Duh~" Starburst says in her 'valley girl' accent.

"Yeah. There's a more effective way to do it. Allow me to teach you the ways of the costumed world, young padawan. If bad guy is justifiably afraid of losing his head to the psycho he works for if he talks, you need to reason with his other head instead." the eerie, statuesque woman said.

"Other... head? You mean...?" Starburst can't suppress a nervous giggle of disbelief.

"Yeah. Of course. I do it all the time." the masked mystic said cooly. "I mean, within reason. It's not like I just get down on my knees and start sucking some no-name thug's dick to try and get him to tell me what his boss has planned."

Starburst's grins nervously, showing off the glinting metal on her teeth. "Oh! Um, yeah, of course. Just a kind of a teas-"

Raven Woman cuts her off: "The guy has to be at least two steps up the chain of command for a blowjob. And only seconds-in-command or higher get pussy. Unless he's young and hot. Or has a really big dick."

The young blonde heroine stares goggle-eyed for a long moment, and covers her mouth with her hand. But she can't help breaking up into a fit of the giggles. "Oh my gosh..! Are you serious? You ARE serious! But aren't you, like, the second most powerful woman on the planet? You let nasty bad guys do something like THAT to you?"

In response, Raven Woman points a finger at the firm, eye-catching grapefruit-sized breasts protruding through her black leotard, and down at a pair of long, graceful thighs that could dominate the front page of a swimsuit magazine. "What's the point of looking like this if I don't use it? If I only used it on evil men that I really truly needed to because there was no other choice, I'd have a long time to wait."

Flapping her black wings and throwing her head back, Raven Woman strikes a sexy pose. "I'm not interested in that Red Sonja shit. A man 1/100th as powerful as you can still get you off just fine." she says in her sardonic monotone. "I've got nothing to prove. If some unimportant nobodies with boring lives tell each other 'Hey, did you hear that Raven Woman is a slut?', that has basically zero effect on my life. Like... 'Oh, you mean the undisputed mistress of arcane power who regularly saves our pathetic civilization from forces beyond our comprehension has sex with strangers?'

"Wow. I remember I overheard Maiden America say that it was critically important to keep you away from microphones during that congressional investigation about the League of Propriety corrupting the morals of the youth or whatever. I think I'm starting to understand why." Starburst says with a cute smirk.

"Not to mention, it's great for making someone who overlooks you jealous." Raven Woman says. "Like your dad, for example."

Starburst was clearly already thinking along those lines and doesn't even hide it. She just bites her lip and looks down her her feet. "Wow. Um... maybe..."

"It seems like the kind of thing that would really piss 'Mechanoid' off, considering his cringy sitcom dad gimmick. If he thought you were calling somebody else 'daddy', I mean."

When Starburst partly turns away, clearly considering, Raven Woman suddenly swoops in behind her. Being half a head taller, not to mention superhumanly strong, Starburst can do nothing to get out of her grip after the surprise wears off. "Ah...! Ma'am, what are you...?"

"Just giving you a little encouragement. And checking out this hot young body."

RW's breasts squish against Starburst's back as she gropes the younger blonde's perky bosom with both hands. "Oh, and making sure you're not hypnotized like your dad worried you might be, I guess."

"worried... I was...?" Starburst gasps unable to form sentences as strong hands run up and down her body, caressing and squeezing shamelessly. "I didn't... know you were even into girls..."

"You know what they say about variety being the spice of life." Raven Woman murmurs, her voice taking on a more husky tone. "Now Starburst. In case you did get mind-controlled to lust after your partner, I'm going to do a kind of factory reset."

"Factory...?" Starburst's hands clutch at Raven Woman's wrists as they squeeze her breasts through her midriff-baring blue and white top.

"That means I'm going to make you so horny that you just want to fuck and help you get it out of your system." Raven Woman says as she slides one of her hands down into Starburst's spandex shorts. Her fingers start rubbing over the cute blonde's slit... and soon dip inside. Starburst continues to weakly struggle but her breathing is getting faster and faster.

After a few minutes of aggressive fingering, Raven Woman pulls her hand away from Starburst's crotch and holds her fingers up where Starburst can see them. As the blushing blonde watches, Raven Woman sticks the fingers coated in Starburst's excited wetness into Starburst's mouth. An excited shudder visibly runs through her when she tastes her own juices.

A trail of glistening saliva stretching from Starburst's lips, Raven Woman sticks those two fingers inside her own mouth, and sucks and salivates loudly.

"Ma'am... are you... we're still in public! The press could show up at any moment now...!" Starburst whimpers.

Raven Woman continues insistently slurping on her fingers. When she withdraws them, rather than her pristine white skin, they are covered in a glistening pitch-black film... a substance that looks all too familiar.

"I'll create a dome of darkness to keep things private, while you finish getting warmed up. But first I need to turn the key." Raven Woman says matter-of-factly before jamming her fingers back down between Starburst's legs. This time the lithe blonde has to cover her mouth with both hands to muffle the sharp moan of pleasure as she feels those invasive, slimy fingers plunging deep inside her, while Raven Woman's palm mashes against her clit...

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