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I can always tell when my owner is feeling pleased with himself by how rough he gets when he fucks me. The happier he is with an outcome, the more he pulls my hair, slaps my face, bites my ears, punches my guts, and grinds his heel into my face. I had never seen Master Lex so pleased with himself and my work as he was when I got back to Metropolis from Wachanda. He took his time and really worked me over. Had I been a morty, I would have been in the hospital for weeks. But an alpha-grade meta like me, it just kind of tickles.

"Now that Congress has approved them, marketing for the Alice and Seth androids can begin." said Master Lex as he stuck his bruised knuckles in ice while rehydrating. "The advertising wonks plan to release them into major cities and free range them in a kind of giveaway. Whoever takes them home at the end of the night will get to keep a limited edition replicant." My owner beckoned me to his side. I let out a silent moan as Master Lex teased my nipples with ice cubes.
"While that is going on, the marketing teams believe that we need to give the world a taste of your capabilities. That is why I want you flying around doing some hero work. Drop in and save the day a few times wearing the Lexcorp logo." Master Lex grabbed my neck and squeezed with all his might. I felt him try to choke the life out of me. If I needed to breathe, I might have panicked. As it was I just smiled and let my owner throw me onto the bed. When I saw my Creator grab some pliers and a blow torch from the closet. I knew that things were about to get spicy.

***

It is a rare treat to be let off the leash and permitted to just soar through the stratosphere. There is nothing like the sensation of flying through the air untethered by gravity, when I fly, it almost, almost makes me wish I were free, free to just float between the soil and the stars and make the clouds my home. The feeling never lasts, protocol will not allow that. But I remember how liberated I felt those few days and nights I got to spend wandering the world, going wherever I wished so long as I was helping people like the hero I was being marketed as.

I saved some cats from some trees, put out a few fires, stopped a mud slide or three, punched a couple of kaijus back into the ocean, and foiled a few bank robberies. It was all pretty boring and I was not happy about the suit. The Lexcorp logo on my chest I got, but they had me looking like some kind of Tokusatsu space cop with all the gold and chromatic color pieces they had me wearing. At first, I was ordered to be silent and stoic, then on the third day I was instructed to just give cryptic answers and banal platitudes to any questions I was asked. I don't know how many times I answered "A friend." when people asked me who I was or answer "I am just here to help." when asked just about anything else.

Then out of nowhere on the fifth day of my patrols, shit hit the fan. Volcana, Giganta, and Livewire had taken the mayor of Metropolis and his family hostage. "Finally." I said to myself before rushing to the scene. I was practically shaking with excitement at finally getting the opportunity to show these mortys what I could do.

I got there just in time to see the Super Twins getting their asses handed to them. The son and daughter of Superman had been doing their best to protect the city, but as I arrived I saw Jon'El AKA Super-Bro get launched past me after getting clocked by Giganta. Then I heard the earsplitting scream of Lara AKA Super-Sis being electrocuted and burned.

I did not hesitate. I blasted Livewire and Volcana with bolts of water magic as I diced full speed and grabbed the nineteen year old Kryptonian girl.

"You okay?" I asked Lara. The young lady that the news had dubbed 'Super-Sis' nodded and got herself back in flight. The two of us hovered above the battle and locked eyes on the fifty foot tall woman who was starting to get bigger. "You go low, I'll go high."

The pair of us went hypersonic. "Solar flair!" I shouted before projecting a blinding light that dazzled and dazed the giantess.

I heard the huge woman let out an "OOOOOOOFFFF" sound before I sent her flying. Giganta went soaring into the sky right through a portal to one of my tesseract prison cells.

"Where did she go?" Asked Superman's daughter.

"Government sanctioned metahuman holding facility." I answered.

I noticed Lara noticing my Lexcorp logo and my market branding. "You're Luthor's assassin slave. The android he made using my Dad and Uncle J'ohn's DNA, aren't you?" The Kryptonian girl's tone full of a cold indignant fury.

"My name is Alex." I said. "And I am just trying to help." I opened my helmet and let her see my face. "No need to thank me for saving your ass from getting flame broiled."

Before she could respond, her brother came flying in at near hyper sonic and stopped inches from me with total precision. "You okay, Sis?"asked Jon'El. Lara's response was once again interrupted, this time from a barrage of fireballs.

"We are not done yet." Said Volcana.
"Don't ignore us!" Yelled Livewire.

The three of us looked at each other, then looked at the pair of supervillains, nodded in agreement, and blitzed them. They did not see what was coming.

By the time Volcana and Livewire woke up, they were in the back of an armored transport with suppressor collars around their necks on their way to Belle Reve.

Meanwhile the Super Twins and I played nice and smiled for the cameras. We all shook hands with the mayor and receiving hugs from his wife, daughters, and son. "It truly is a wonderful thing to see our city's greatest son and daughter working together with our biggest company for the common good. Alex, Super Twins. On behalf of all Metropolis. Thank you."

"It's just what heroes do." I said, smiling for the cameras with the face that I thought of as my real face. The one that had all the newspapers and social media commentators debating what I looked like outside of my armor. A face that could belong to a pretty boy or a beautiful woman.