You meet some interesting people

“Okay this looks like the place,” A Koopa Troopa said as he pulled the armored limo into a parking lot. You removed your arm from around Gwen S’s waist and looked outside. In the sunset light, you saw a relatively large building with red brick walls and some pillars around the entrance.

As a few families were leaving, the Powergirl with balloons and toys in front was swapped out for a JLU Wonder Woman in a much skimpier one piece suit. And as soon as the family vehicles left the parking lot, the windows tinted and the cartoony ‘Superheroine Hideaway’ sign disappeared into a slot in the wall and out came a large neon sign depicting a kicking and naked except for a cape woman was sitting on a sign with ‘Superheroine Hideaway’ below.

“Everyone, you know what Queen Bowsette ordered, form a perimeter and guard the neighborhood from any threats,” your driver said into his ear piece. A line of vehicles that were following your limo broke off and started setting themselves up around the neighborhood and setting up basic defenses.

Auntie Bowsette insisted that you take a horde of Koopas and Toads to guard the neighborhood so that no one could sneak up on the restaurant/strip club/brothel while you were there. They were some of Bowsette’s best troops and will follow their orders to the fullest. You could already see some passersby snapping pictures of the Koopas and the makeshift fortifications they were setting up.

Under your clothing, you had a vibranium undershirt and several Mario power ups in your pockets and in Kyouka’s jacket pockets. Several seeds were in a sack on your belt.

“Well, I guess we should start heading on inside.” You say as the driving Koopa Troopa parked the car and got out to open the door. You shuffle a bit to be the first person out the door and offer a hand to Kyouka. She rolled her eyes but accepted your hand anyways. Her boots clicked on the pavement and you got a nice view of the punk style dress that included a black jacket with studs and long fingerless gloves that had hidden speakers in the palms.

“Thanks my great polite master,” Kyouka sassed. You haven’t had much chance to get to know Kyouka personally that much yet but you were hopeful she will warm up to you as Aelita told you she did with your harem. You should probably start planning on hanging out more with more of the harem when you get the chance.

“Yeah thanks,” Gwen Stacy said as you offered your hand to her. Her Spider-Gwen themed ankle length dress was absolutely stunning. It had a long slit in the side to nearly her hip and exposed plenty of cleavage. Long elbow length gloves hid miniaturized web shooters. She had small silver earrings that also functioned as emergency beacons and trackers in case a kidnapper or attacker knew to disable the character tracker chips.

You walked with your two escorts (you hope neither Gwen and Kyouka find out that is how you referred to them) to the door and after a quick scan by the polite Wonder Woman, Kyouka and Gwen put on their wristbands indicating they were owned by you, well Kyouka put on a wristband and Gwen put on an armband (it looks like they were switching over from armbands to wristbands). The Wonder Woman did raise an eyebrow at the seeds you had and the power ups but allowed you in after having you leave the power ups in the car.

Down the road, a Koopa Troopa was eating some of his donut rations as he leaned against an old fashioned looking radio. A sudden noise in the alley behind him startled him, he bumped into the radio and it fell over with a crash. He gulped and quickly looked around before picking up the radio and putting it back on the table. The noise happened again and the Koopa Troopa called out to some of his fellows and they went into the alley nervously.

“Huuusssssk yumm yumm,” a small fur ball snickered as the Koopas fully entered the darkness of the alley.

Inside it looks like the ladies inside were setting up the auction/stripping stage and the audience seats. Several superheroines were getting on their stripper poles including a lithe Catwoman and a feathered dress clad Silk who were starting their dances. You briefly admired the Catwoman and were reminded of the Selina Kyle who worked at that Cat’s Meow place, a catgirl cafe style place. For some reason, the place was reminding you of something but you couldn’t quite recall.

“Why are we even here anyways?” Kyouka said as got out of the way of a Fire from Justice League Unlimited carrying a large tray of drinks and wings to a booth of college age Prime Worlders who came in while you were putting the power-ups away.

“According to what my brother told me, there are rumors that several psychics are up for auction,” you explained to her as you sat down at an available booth and put in an order with the Jessica Cruz Green Lantern for a margarita and some mozzarella sticks. Kyouka and Gwen both ordered colas, though Kyouka’s was cherry flavored while Gwen’s was vanilla. “I’m hopeful that one of the psychics will be able to help Blackfire.”

“Why don’t you just send her to a therapist?” Gwen asked while she looked a bit wide eyed at the Shadowcat and Rogue walking past with only pasties covering their nipples and their augmented breasts bouncing in the air.

“One, most insurances don’t cover character mental health all that much since what Prime Worlders do to their characters limits their options,” you explain. “And while there is a mind manipulation guy I know I could send her to, he’s more about getting them into certain mindsets and stuff like that. Two, with the costs therapists charge most of the time for characters according to my dad it's cheaper just to buy a therapist character.”

You pause as you notice Gwen and Kyouka share a look. “What?”

“That sounds like rich people talk.”

“Well, umm,” you stammer a bit as you try to come up with a response. You tried to think about what was happening when your dad gave that bit of advice. “Thinking of it, I think my dad was looking through an article about the hottest therapists on the market at the time.”

“Yeah, I think he was thinking of something other than normal therapy,” Gwen said as your drinks and mozzarella sticks arrived. Your group started discussing other advice your dad gave you that might not match regular person advice. You did not realize that two hundred dollars was too much for a single large pizza, no wonder the local pizza places loved you.

After a while, you noticed that a table was finished being set up with auction paddles and a tablet. A Mantis was giving out paddles and accepting registration for the auction. You walk over and quickly get registered while complimenting the Mantis’ green skirt and boob tube combo. You got back to the booth in time for Kyouka to be stopped from slapping a prime worlder by a Storm from X-Men who then escorted the customer to where the SHH’s Kyouka was dancing.

“Lets go over to the bar, I don’t think our booth is that great,” you said as you set a hundred dollar bill on the table. “Hopefully, the bastard doesn’t kick up a fuss.” Normally, you would’ve asked the guy to apologize for whatever he did to set off Kyouka but you knew any commotion would either get you kicked out or the Koopas converging on the building.

“The bastard wanted to pay me for an hour,” Kyouka scowled.

“I would’ve let you slap him. He should’ve seen your wristband and collars, he’s an idiot,” you replied as you sat down at the bar close to where a Mina Ashido (from My Hero Academia) owned by SHH was chatting with a Yor from Spy x Family and a Wanda from the MCU. The Yor and Wanda were clearly owned by someone but you did not see their owner anywhere close.

“Oh wow, your owner must really like you if he got you such an amazing outfit,” the Mina said as she saw Kyouka’s outfit. The Mina very quickly dragged Kyouka a bit away to talk.

“Hi, you look a bit familiar,” Gwen greeted Wanda. You guess in Spiderverse Gwen’s universe there was a local version of a Wanda. Soon, the three of you were in a conversation where you were comparing how different Gwen’s Marvel universe is compared to Wanda’s universe and the different harem styles between your harem and Wanda’s owner.

While they started talking about some of the details between their universes, you asked Yor about the name of her dress’s style; you were considering getting copies of her Twilight Princess outfit for your girls. While she tries to remember the name, you were trying to recall what your brother Sam’s (Samuel via Momma Midna, not to be confused with your sister Samantha via Momma Mary) Rarity said about the dress a while back.

“Wanda, Yor, don’t stray too far.” A prime worlder in a sports jacket walked up and grabbed Wanda’s hand right around when she was asking Gwen how long you owned her. “Sorry to bother you.”

“Nah, it’s alright, she’s just making some friendly conversation. You have a lovely Yor and Wanda,” you told the guy cheerfully, they were great conversationalists. You were only slightly jealous that he had such lovely characters though you wouldn’t trade your own girls for them.

“Thanks, you have a lovely Gwen. Oh and is Jiro yours as well?” The guy asked as he saw Kyouka having a heated conversation with Mina though you couldn’t hear much over the music and other conversations.

“That they be, though don’t let her hear you say that. She still hasn’t forgiven me for a mess up in her purchase order,” you say with a bit of a chuckle. Kyouka has calmed down quite a bit but you don’t think she’s fully forgiven you for making her watch multiple seasons of Catching Up With The Cardassians during her delivery. Before Trash World and a couple times during the games earlier, she would use her quirk to startle you.

“Oh, I can understand that,” the guy nodded as Wanda wrapped her arms around his arm. “What’s your name?”

“I’m James, James Gardner,” you said with a bad British accent. You spotted a Susan Storm leaving the back of the club and you finally remembered where you remembered SHH from. This was the place with a nasty manager who would call Rein Corp to pick up nice and undeserving characters and also some incredibly rube characters. “Where’s the manager?” You say a bit absentmindedly which the guy overheard and grinned.

“Well, the old manager had a bit of an incident with the law so we had to let him go. I’m the new manager, Ethan Kenway, manager of this place and heir to the CCI.” You tried to recall where you remembered the name Kenway and CCI before. It felt familiar but you were not sure. While you thought about it, you missed some of what Wanda and Ethan said.

“Well, congrats on your…promotion?” You ask, unsure if Ethan got promoted or was a new hire. You handed him your business card; Rein Corp was old fashioned in that they gave all employees their own business cards. “If you need anything or anyone from Rein Corp, let me know alright?” You figure if this guy needs to get rid of some of the club’s girls without needing an auction, you might be able to get a nice commission.

“Sure, will let you know if anything happens…” Ethan trailed off a bit. “Can’t say I have but the name sounds familiar.” You wondered what he meant, he meant either your name or Rein Corp. Ethan looked past you with a concerned look on his face.

“Your Jirou who is talking to Mina, who works here, looks like she’s about to blow a fuse.” You wondered why he phrased it like that but you still looked behind you and see Kyouka with an outraged look on her face and Mina had a somewhat annoyed/defensive look. You mentally sigh, Aelita has reported some incidents Jirou had with other MHA characters and how she had overreacted sometimes. You would think a character who was part of a bank robbery crew would know or be used to how things worked on Prime Earth. Then again, she might be sensitive when it's someone familiar.

“Gwen, can you maybe…?” You ask and Gwen immediately responds.

“I’ll handle it,” Gwen shot a web at Kyouka and pulled her back to your group with Mina following, giggling at Kyouka’s expression.

“Yeah…I think I need to domesticate her some more but I can’t seem to catch a break,” you sigh, with all the things that have been happening and the sudden increases in your harem, you don’t have much time to correct bad behaviors and actions. Though you feel that Kyoka’s attitude was adorable especially when she would play with her earphone jacks while getting scolded.

“Ohh hey sweetie!” Mina grinned at Ethan. “I was just chatting with this Jiro, she’s a bit uptight about me working here.”

“Nice to see you too Mina, this is Mina by the way, she actually likes working here if you can believe it.”

“Now Kyouka, we don’t disparage people due to their job.” Except for certain pimps, lawyers and politicians, you thought to yourself. You faced Mina and apologized to her, “Sorry about that Mina.” You figure you will try to patch things up between Kyouka and this Mina, since it couldn’t hurt. “What do you like most about working here, what are the perks?” You realize belatedly how that question could be interpreted when Mina raised an eyebrow and Gwen muffled a laugh.

“Well, we can’t leave and all, but working in the day shift is fun, the kids are fun to play with and they see us as their heroes, it's adorable!” Mina grinned happily, as Kyouka looked surprised at the idea of kids coming here but Mina continued before she could ask anything. You guess she didn’t see the restaurant shift its front to its club setting. “We also get our own living space which is big enough for all of us! Whatever tips we get turns into credits which we can use to get anything we want.”

“And the living space has a time… Ehh.” She struggled to recall the term so Ethan helped her. “Time dilation function so we don’t miss a wink of sleep!”

“By the way, why are these characters being auctioned instead of sent to the ‘Glue Factory’ like the old manager would.” You asked him, causing him to blink in surprise. You could see several of the nearby SHH-owned girls/waitresses flinch or tense at the mention of the ‘Glue Factory’.

“Well the reason why we're doing this is to get back the money lost, the old manager bought some of these troublesome characters with company money and with this auction we can get the money back and give the girls away to replace them.” Ethan explained, you nodded as you were somewhat familiar with the old manager.

“I can respect that, hopefully I’ll be able to make them less troublesome,” you say, confident that you would be leaving here with at least one new character. Its very likely that taking a psychic away from a place where lust was constantly on everyone’s mind (at least at night) would help their mood. On that line of thought, you decide to ask if one of the ladies up for auction would fill some of the roles needed in your harem.

“Who do you think would make the better personal assistant?” With how big your harem was getting and Aelita needing to relax, you might need a dedicated assistant to at the very least lighten the load. Ethan looked a bit unsure for a hot minute before he answered you.

“Let’s see, I’m not supposed to say but there’s a Batgirl from the Batman TAS universe and a Jean Grey from the comics being sold. Those two are good picks if you want an assistant, but you need to domesticate them.” He said as Wanda raised an eyebrow while Gwen made a little noise on hearing Jean Grey’s name.

“You’re more of a super powered house wife than an assistant.” Ethan said, causing Wanda to blush happily.

“Oh thank you,” Yor said smiling, causing you to look at her a little confused but as Ethan said nothing and smiled back at her, you said nothing as well.

“Oh, if you ain’t supposed to say, then say no more,” you tell him before you think about those options more. “Hmm, Jean might be good especially with how Aelita and Star are getting.” You scratch your cheek a bit, with how Aelita and Starfire showed some bridezilla tendencies earlier and Starfire likely to be hit with pregnancy hormones soon Jean might be able to help you keep track of it all. Unintentionally, you start to think aloud, “Having another psychic around might be good once the kids are born. If they are like me and my siblings, we are going to need all the help we can get.”

“Oh, you’re gonna have kids?” Ethan asked as his Wanda started to get a far off look. Hopefully, you didn’t just start something with Ethan and his Wanda. “Whose the mom?”

“My soon to be wives, Aelita Schaeffer from Code Lyoko and Starfire are both pregnant though Aelita is further along; Star was a much more recent thing,” You boasted about the loves of your life and your future children. You see sparks of red start to come off Wanda’s hands which Ethan didn’t immediately notice.

“Oh Congratulations,” he said before noticing the red mist coming from Wanda. “Wanda, your powers are showing.” Wanda blinked before noticing her powers acting up and apologizing while the mist faded away. It was at that point that Gwen decided to speak up.

“Ahsoka and Diana have been acting a little differently,” she commented, causing you to freeze. You start imagining a little Togruta kid running around with Ahsoka’s marks and your eyes and smile. You also see a little Amazon girl charging a cardboard fort with Diana. You snapped out of it when Gwen laughed teasingly. “Just kidding master…probably.” You glared at her and pinched her side in retribution.

“Heard of protection?” Ethan smirked as he asked teasingly; you wonder why he mentioned protection, you wonder if he was commenting on your vibranium undershirt. It was at that moment that the Susan Storm you noticed earlier appeared by Ethan’s side, ignoring the leers the other customers gave her and cleared her throat.

“Sir, it’s almost time.” Ethan nodded before returning to you.

“Alright, it was nice to chat, hope you enjoy.” He walked away with his girls following close behind with Mina giving a cute wave at Kyouka and Yor waving friendly-like while Wanda was still daydreaming as she walked.

“Nice talking with ya!” You waved at Ethan and the other before saying to your girls. “He seems like a nice guy, at least he was better than the last guy.”

“I can’t believe that Mina likes being a stripper,” Kyoka said, causing you to flick one of her earphone jacks causing her to flinch and rub her ear.

“Be nice, she’s an entertainer,” you say as you work your way over to a seat with a better view of the stage. You took a margarita off the tray of a passing Raven and gave her a couple hundred dollar bills that she stuffed in her slutty version of her hero uniform while her face twitched a bit. You gave her a look but shrugged it off and the looks Gwen and Kyouka gave you. Soon Ethan was getting on stage.