Bruce recupperates in the new cave.

In front of the battered gates of Wayne Manor, a tear in reality opened like a blinking eye lid, a portal of shadow and darkness that formed a ring where Zatanna stepped out and stood before the ruined double doors of the mansion. Looking around the property, “My goodness, Freeze DID do a number here…” She mussed, taking in the sight of the large building covered in melting frost and jutting spires of ice that pierced the walls and roof of the great mansion. The windows were all blown out, shattered either from some explosion from inside or thermal shock while flecks of snow could still be seen falling in the open hall within. Out of curiosity, Zatanna walked up the steps of the mansion, her heels clicking on the stone steps and gingerly extended her arm out to the wide-open doors.

To her dissatisfaction, her hand stropped just at the threshold of the door frame itself, an invisible force stronger than even her prevented her hand from even going a millimeter further. Eventually she was forced to recoil.

“So… Still not allowed inside. After ALL our history together Bruce?” She mused, turning around and walking down the steps to the still open portal she used to arrive, the vampires breathed in deeply, straightening the cuffs to her sleeve. “Sigh… Perhaps you’d accept some of the skeletons you’ve left buried in your closet? Lord knows I’ve found quite a few.” Snapping her fingers, the legion of spirits and ghosts she had collected poured out of the portal entrance like water from a spout. Circling over the property like a vicious storm, their wailing calls filled her ears, making the undead witch smile darkly before snapping her fingers again and pointing at the mansion. In that second the churning maelstrom above descended into a raging tornado that enveloped the mansion. It made her smile wickedly until she spotted the Joker dressed like the wicked witch of the West, riding a broomstick and cackling all the way.

As she watched on, Zatanna’s smile returned. Thousands of spirits raged and wailed, surrounding the building and passing through its bricks and mortar with ease. Their necrotic touch withered and aged everything they passed through; window frames splintered, the stones chipped, the metal rusted. Within minutes the mansion had withered and rotted, minutes after that, the foundation collapsed and deteriorated. When her ghostly legion stopped their rampage, all that was left standing were the creaking chipped floors and foundation where the mansion once stood.

Walking up the steps to the now hollow doorframe, Zatanna waved her hand and smirked. “Don’t need permission to enter a home that doesn’t exist anymore…” Laughing to herself and slowly spinning on the spot, dancing over the dust and fragile debris of the building, she slowly noticed something off.

No one was there.

There were no bodies, no bones, no trace of anyone living or otherwise in the empty plot of land. “Where are they?”

“WHOOOOPS! Looks like someone flushed out the wrong fox hole.” Giggled the ghost of the Joker, a cruel smile on his lips as he hovered over the vampires. “But hey if it makes you feel any better, I found the Miss’s wedding ring.” He smirked holding a worn golden ring with a diamond and slipped it on his phantom finger. “Sorry ladies… I’m taken HA ha ha ha HA!”

“WHERE ARE THEY?!” She screamed, her rage blotting out the Joker’s laughter and echoed out into the dark woods of the city outskirts.

*

Moving his way slowly through the secondary cave, Bruce leaned in close to Aloe Vera as a crutch while she showed him around the open space. Having found spare cloths and aching the entire while getting dressed, Bruce moved through the now lush enclosed forest in the cave. He should have been furious, but he understood the woman enough that she could never bear to stay in a place so dark and devoid of life.

Even standing over 9 feet tall and built like a muscle car, Aloe Vera walked with the grace of a runway model. Her chorded muscles shifting with each sway of her hips, every step was purposeful and without any of the clumsiness of the ‘younger’ wolves that tumbled and ran through the cave. Her furry tail and mane of waist long red fur bristled with blooming flowers that made them look like jewelry on her silky-smooth body. Looking down at Bruce, the red wolfess smiled warmly, gently laying a clawed hand on Bruce’s shoulder as she pointed at the outcrops of plant growth that jutted out of the cave walls and floor. Looking up at the giant red wolfess, Bruce was forced to admit that the woman had changed… And not just physically. Almost all her cruelty was gone, her rage calmed, like her new namesake she was soothing now. But he also noticed another thing about her.

“Aloe Vera, I’ve noticed you haven’t reverted to your human self in a long time.” It was true, when night would fall, she would eagerly try to turn as quickly as possible and fight the hardest to remain so when dawn broke. Even on nights when changing was an option and not forced upon like the full moon.

“I… I don’t like being that woman, every time I look at myself in the reflection, all I see is Poison Ivy.”

Grabbing hold of her pawed hand in his, Bruce gently patted her arm and slowly made her look down to face him. “Pamela, I don’t like the wolf in me anymore than you like the human in you.” He explained, seeing her look away as if being scolded like a child. “But he also told me there are two kinds of wolves in you; one who’s good and one who’s bad, the one you let out is the one you feed.”

Slowly thinking on that and eventually nodding in agreement, Aloe Vera closed her eyes and sighed deeply. As she sighed her body shrank and transformed. Her red fur fading away to reveal olive green skin, her tail and multiple breasts retracting back into her body as her face and ears changed to reveal a heart shaped face crowned with silken red hair with ruby lips and sharp green eyes. Human and naked, Aloe Vera blinked sheepishly and looked away before Bruce gently gripped her chin and pulled her into a kiss, the woman swooning into the embrace and pulling his hand towards the round curve of her pregnant belly. “There she is.”

Smirking back at Batman, Aloe Vera playfully punched him in his good shoulder, then proceeded to pepper the spot she struck with kisses. “Oh, I MUST show you something my love.” Holding his hand in hers, Aloe Vera guided Bruce deeper into the cave, her bare feet padding against the smooth granite floor. As soon as they reached a corner of the complex, Batman suddenly noticed a change in the flora and the environment. The lush plants were replaced with strange fronds and succulents like those found in desserts or tundra, the air warm but stark. Crystalline forms jutted out of the walls like natural glass, giving the impression the couple had walked into a raw, volcanic landscape.

“It’s strange but if I’m right, I think the Umbra stretches much farther than the scope of the Earth, this, ALL of this is actually krypton!” When Pamela finally stopped, she pressed up close to Bruce who stood stunned at the sight.

Lounging near a thermal vent with a content smile on her snout, Power Girl laid on her side cradling her full-term pregnant belly. Pamela was right, Karen looked so full of kids she looked able to pop at any moment. Her tail swished idly like a cat while her lower pair of paws gently rubbed at the surface of her bean bag chair sized belly, moaning softly from the sensation of so many kicking away at the insides of her womb. Her six breasts were just as swollen as the rest of her. Slowly opening her eyes to see who was nearby, Karen sat up and smiled back at the pair before standing on all sixes and waddled towards Bruce. Surprising the two, Karen pinned Bruce to the ground and smothered him under her body, his face just sticking out between her cleavage while she sleepily licked at his face.

“Karen! He’s still recovering!”

Ignoring Pamela’s pleas, Karen giggled and nuzzled Bruce before rolling onto her side, still kissing and licking his face while grabbing his arm in her steel strong grip and pressing his palm against the surface of her stomach. “I was wondering when you were going to show up, they keep demanding to be born…” Sleepily blinking her eyes, Karen looked almost inebriated, turning her attention to Aloe Vera, Karen chuckled to herself, resting her head in the palm of her hand. “Hmm… Looks like you’re almost due too… Maybe another week?”

Looking down at the curve of her stomach, a flutter of warmth filled Aloe Vera, a mixture of surprise and pride that welled up inside her. “Our love has declared that we find the rest of the wolves in Gotham, in the hopes of increasing our numbers to face Dracula.”

“Pff… He’s done quite a bit of swelling his numbers already, do you KNOW how many wolves are knocked up around here?” Karen asked, gesturing out into the lush forest outside her lair and sighing from the activity in her womb. Looking over to Batman as he winced sitting up, Karen took a more serious look. “Bruce… I love you… Heh, it took me to get turned into a monster and knocked up and have my mind pickled with hormones but… I love you, I want your babies, and not just the ones I’m having now.” Feeling the activity in her womb increase, Karen smiled and had a far off look in her lupine eyes. “Heh… its such a shame you’re not like this all the time like I am, otherwise, I’d be rolling in the hay with you all the time.”

“You’d break him Karen!”

Smiling back, Power Girl rolled her eyes. “He wouldn’t complain, most men DREAMED of screwing me before I turned wolfzillaaa-ah!” Gasping in shock, the trio heard a splash of liquid, followed by Karen’s moans of pleasure turn to discomfort.