The Protagonist System
357 Potential Team-ups

I ended up going home two hours later and changed into jogging pants and a t-shirt before I spent the rest of the evening hanging out with my mom as we watched her favorite shows on television. She had a couple glasses of wine; but, she wasn't guzzling them or going through the bottle like a fish through water.

All she had was a slight flush to her cheeks as she cuddled with me on the couch. It was such a nice and relaxing time that I actually started to doze off. That was apparently what she was waiting for, because after a short while she started talking.

“Thank you for being here for me when I needed you the last few weeks.” Debbie whispered, her words barely above a breath, as if she was afraid to wake me.

I felt her lips kiss my cheek and she relaxed when I didn't react.

“I never expected you to step up and become the man of the house. The thought never crossed my mind and I resigned myself to the fact I needed to handle everything on my own, then you surprised me.” Debbie continued speaking at such a low volume, even though she thought I was deep asleep. “You even brought a significant income into the house to make up for what we lost when your dad... no, when Nolan left.”

I felt her hand lightly caress my chest, then her lips kissed my cheek again.

“I really could not be prouder of you, Mark. You stood up to him and then you stood up for yourself.” Debbie whispered and her breath flowed so close to my own mouth that I thought she was fighting to not kiss me. “It was mean what you said to your friends; but, they needed to hear it. That proved to me you are a good man, even when things are rough, and any woman would be lucky to have you in her life.”

I wasn't sure where she was going with a speech like that, then she sighed and snuggled into my side.

“Oh, how I wish you weren't my flesh and blood. Why couldn't you have been adopted?” Debbie asked as I felt a fingertip lightly touch me down there. “I could really use a good pounding from a strong man...”

I sprang right up for her and she caught her breath. Her weight shifted slightly and I could see with my X-Ray Vision that she was studying my sleeping face intensely. When I still didn't react, she looked back down at me and very gently caressed my hardness through my jogging pants and she relaxed again when nothing else happened.

“How can you be this hard from a simple touch? Now I really wish... no, that's crazy talk. Nothing can happen between us and I won't ruin what we have for a chance at some great sex. I'm your mother and I love you.” Debbie said, essentially arguing with herself. “It's no wonder Olga was eyeing you up and down last night. She must have suspected you were gifted with more than just Omni-man's powers.”

I really did not need to know that about my dad. Nope, I did not. How would another man's wife know what dad looked like naked anyway? I suddenly saw a memory inside mom's head and it was after one of the team celebrations of a successful mission. A hot tub was involved, as was a lot of drinking, and mom experienced her first threesome between her, Olga, and my dad. It was one of many during the last 20 years, too.

Okay, I had to admit that memory Olga had a great ass. Even mom appreciated it and it seemed to deepen their friendship that they each liked and appreciated the other woman's body. Her memories flowed through several dinners where both lonely wives enjoyed meeting up as their husbands were off to save the world.

Many evenings were spent sharing a drink, more casual conversations than I could count, and they even went to a bunch of yoga classes in secret to keep themselves in shape. They also shared a mutual love of being plowed into a mattress while under a muscular man's mating press.

What was up with the women of this world that they all enjoyed that? I asked myself.

Amanda pretty much demanded I do it to her, just so she could really feel it inside of her after so long of going without. Atom Eve was almost as demanding, only she needed me to fill all of her holes as much as possible, or she wouldn't feel fulfilled when she finally finished. That was an odd order to follow; but, it wasn't like I was going to deny her and say no, not when I was already balls deep inside of her.

“I think I'll invite Olga over again. We need to have some girl talk about... mmm... things.” Debbie whispered as her hand lightly stroked me again, then she hummed contentedly and moved her hand up to my abdomen and hugged me as she drifted off to sleep.

On the positive side, my mom didn't pull my pants down to jerk on me or suck me off without my consent. On the negative side, I had a raging boner that needed relief and it was not going away anytime soon. Instead of worrying about it, I cast a sleep spell on myself to try and get a good night's sleep before I had to get up for school and probably take a very cold shower.

When I woke up, I wasn't surprised that I was alone. My jogging pants were also making quite the tent pole with my erection still sticking straight up. The cloth looked undisturbed as well, so I knew mom hadn't tried anything.

I stood up and stretched, glanced around with my X-Ray Vision, and found her showering in her room. I gave her a cursory glance and mentally nodded. She had been diligent in keeping herself in good shape, even all these years later, and I walked up the stairs to my room to grab a change of clothes. I went to the house bathroom and hopped in the shower, cleaned up, and my erection finally went down.

I dried off and dressed, grabbed my school bag, and went downstairs. Debbie acted like nothing happened, kissed my cheek to thank me for last night, which had quite a different meaning if she knew I had been awake the whole time. She left to go to work to continue her career as a successful real estate agent. It required a lot of work in the background and she was really good at it.

I went to school and it was a normal day of classes. Lunch was a little interesting when a group of the popular senior girls randomly sat at the table I was using. Surprisingly, they didn't ask me to leave or tried to involve me in their conversations. I wasn't an idiot, though. They sat with me for a reason.

Instead of staying silent, I commented on a few things, like the best time to head to the mall for a sale and what food to avoid in the food court. The girls looked surprised when I spoke up, then I was pulled into the conversation and they had small smiles on their faces when I kept up with them.

The conversation suddenly switched to talking about their current English assignment about Shakespeare and I had to hold in my laugh. Since I had a lot of recent experience with that subject, I offered my opinions and had them all listening attentively by the time the bell rang to bring the lunch period to an end. Two of the girls wrote down their phone numbers to give to me, right there in front of their friends.

I graciously accepted them with the warning that I might not have a lot of time to call them, because I was so busy, and that had them giggling as they left with their friends. That earned me a lot of weird looks, especially from two of my old friends. Will looked gobsmacked and Eve looked like I had kicked her puppy.

I ignored them and went to my next class, which just so happened to be with the both of them, and I sat at the far back of the room and barely paid any attention. All that mattered were the tests and any reports and assignments that were due, since final exams were in a couple of weeks, and then it would be time for graduation.

*

The Giant was a 30 foot tall cyclops with bulging muscles and an 8 year old's mentality, because he actually was only 8. He had been accidentally sent to a medieval world by his mother when she dabbled in magic, only to be captured by a sorcerer and changed into a monstrous creature to do his bidding. The Giant didn't like that one bit, killed him, and rampaged across the countryside.

He had proven he was strong in the other world he had been sent to and they made him the ruler. Why couldn't he be the ruler here, too? He was still strong!

When he was finally let out of being home schooled, he couldn't decide if Titan was a better stepdad than Machine Head was. He was just as ruthless and didn't take shit from anyone; but, he didn't curse as much and his restrictions were different than what The Giant had to follow before. It was just as restrictive, though. Maybe he should kill him, too? It worked before and he could do what he wanted.

First things first, he wanted ice cream. He studied hard and wanted a treat. He needed money, so he grabbed a handful from the store he passed, which included the cash register, part of the counter, and someone's arm. He tossed the arm aside and the counter, ignored the sound of crashing windows and skidding tires, and carefully broke apart the cash register to pull out several bills. That was definitely enough to buy as much ice cream as he wanted and he walked down the street to the ice cream truck.

*BOOM!*

“ARGH!” The Giant groaned when something hit the back of his bald head and blew up. “Hey! What gives? I'm getting ice cream!”

“You stepped on six people and crushed three cars!” Black Sampson shouted and hefted a car up using his super suit and threw it at the thing's belly, only for the car to crush and do nothing. “Damn modern cars, they're all fibreglass. I need a real car to throw.” He glanced around and saw an older car with a metal bumper half a street away. He'd have to drag the thing to get it close enough to throw with any impact.

Another explosion hit The Giant. “Leave me alone!” He said as he grabbed part of the roof of a building and thew it at Rex-Splode, who ran out of the way and ducked behind a car as the clump of stone and wood slammed into the ground where he just stood.

“A need little help over here!” Rex shouted.

“RAAHH!” The Giant roared and started having a tantrum. He hated it when he wasn't allowed to do something and he punched and kicked at anything near him. He screamed when a glowing thing hit his face and exploded.

“That's for stepping on my favorite bar, you piece of shit!” Rex-Splode yelled and threw a few more pieces of debris, with little effect besides getting even more of The Giant's attention.

“Don't call me that!” The Giant shouted and stomped over to him. “I'm The GIANT!”

Rex-Splode dodged and dove out of the way again as the giant orange foot came down and crushed a bus.

“I wanna be the president of America... and a astronaught!” The Giant said.

Robot flew by on a hover-bike and shot the giant cyclops with a laser with little effect.

The Giant didn't like the sting he felt and grabbed a handful of a nearby building to throw at the gnat, only to miss and crush several windows in another building. The debris from the projectile and around the windows fell down to the street, endangering civilians, and Dupli-Kate was there to save several people at the same time.

“Those are very specific requests.” Dupli-Kate said as she caught a civilian she had tossed to herself.

“I think he's just ranting at this point!” Rex-Splode shouted and tossed another mini-bomb.

“Based on his speech patters and vocabulary, The Giant seems to have the mental capacity of an 8 year old.” Robot told them as he flew by and made another strafing run with his hover-bike, with almost no effect.

It was at this moment that Monster Woman leaped onto a nearby building and ran across the roof towards The Giant. “An 8 year old what?” She asked with a sexy voice, then her strong, muscular, and quite female form jumped from the building and her fist slammed into The Giant's chin.

The villain staggered backwards and shook his head to recover from the successful attack.

Monster Woman dropped to the ground without needing to slow herself down using the side of the building, and landed in a hero pose. She stood tall with a huge smile on her face, because she no longer looked like a grotesque male orc. She looked just like the She-Hulk that Taylor Hebert changed into back in the Worm Universe.

“Human, I assume. He's speaking English.” Robot answered.

The Giant knelt on one knee and saw someone walking around a car, growled at anyone daring to approach him when he was hurt, and slammed his large three fingered hand down onto them and crushed a car. When he lifted his hand, there was no splatter of blood, which confused him, so he turned his hand over to look at what he squished.

“Maybe we can buy him some comics or something.” Shrinking Rae said as she grew to her normal size and punched the Giant right in the eye.

“ARRRGH!” The Giant roared and covered his sole eye with both hands, so he didn't see her shrink back down and hide on his shoulder.

“I don't care how old he is.” Black Sampson said as he finally dragged the heavy car down the entire street to where he needed it, then flung it at the thing's neck. “He's going down!”

The Giant couldn't roar as his throat was damaged by the heavy metal car and he choked a little and dropped to a knee again to try and recover.

“That's an excellent suggestion, Sampson. There's a multi-level parking garage beneath this intersection.” Robot said as he flew his hover-bike around for another strafing run. “If we detonate the stress points in the concrete, we can drop The Giant down into it.”

“I think I've seen enough.” Immortal said. “Back off and I'll handle this.”

“But sir, we can easily neutralize the threat without endangering any more civilians.” Robot argued.

Shrinking Rae grew and hopped onto The Giant's face and pulled his eyelids closed, blinding him. The creature groaned at the irritation and grabbed her with his hand, and flung her away.

Monster Woman leaped up from the ground and easily caught the flailing superhero before she was in any danger from hitting a building or falling to the street. “I got you.”

Shrinking Rae couldn't stop her blush as she was coddled against Monster Woman's large chest that was only covered by a thin piece of ragged cloth.

“The new contact lenses look good on you.” Monster Woman said as she bounced off of the side of a building and landed safely on the pavement. “They really bring out your eyes.”

“Th-thanks.” Shrinking Rae said and her blush stayed firmly in place.

Before Monster Woman could put her down, they both saw Immortal fly in and slam his fists against The Giant's chest.

The Giant fell backwards with a yell and the ground shook when his back hit the pavement. “Why are you so mean to me?”

Immortal ignored him and started punching him in the face, over and over.

“Why you do that?” The Giant asked, then a fist missed his cheek and broke off one of the small tusks at the sides of his mouth. “ARRGGHHH!”

Immortal realized it was a huge mistake when he was grabbed by both of The Giant's hands and the huge beast rolled over and lifted him into the air, then slammed him down into the pavement. The monster held him still with one hand and the other hand made a fist and started punching him repeatedly.

The ground shook with each blow and the sounds of bone crunching filled the intersection as splatters of blood were liberally spread around. It was such a shocking turn of events that the other Guardians of the Globe stood there and watched as their team leader was beaten to a pulp.

“Did someone order ice cream?” A sexy male voice asked.

The fight came to an immediate stop and everyone turned their heads to look, even Immortal. They all saw Atlas floating gently down to the street and he had a gigantic ten foot wide bowl of ice cream held above his head. It had many different scoops and flavors inside, as well as giant bananas and cherries. There was even a giant spoon!

“WOW!” The Giant said and let Immortal go. He looked at his bloody hands and frowned. “I can't eat it like this!”

Atlas chuckled. “Not to worry. Wipe your hands off with this.”

Only the heroes were shocked when a huge piece of cloth the size of a circus tent was handed over to The Giant.

“Thanks, mister!” The Giant said and eagerly wiped off his hands, then dabbed at his face and his chest. He had made quite the mess with all the blood and was happy to clean it off.

“Fold it over and put it on your lap. It'll keep your pants clean if you spill any ice cream.” Atlas suggested.

“Good idea! Mom always got after me when I dirtied my pants.” The Giant said and did a kind of hop and sat down with a loud thump and the ground shook again. He folded the giant cloth to only show the clean side and placed it on his lap and then clapped twice in anticipation before making a grabbing motion.

Atlas laughed and placed the giant bowl of ice cream on The Giant's lap. “Don't eat it too fast, okay? You don't want another ice cream headache.”

The Giant laughed too and picked up the spoon, marvelled at it for a second, then scooped up some ice cream and a cherry. He shoved it into his mouth and let out a rumbling sigh as he chewed.

Atlas flew over to where Immortal was and checked him to see if he was still breathing, then tapped his earpiece. “One for immediate transport to the medical wing. It's mostly superficial damage.”

The Immortal disappeared in a swirl of teleportation and Atlas patted The Giant's knee as he walked past him and over to the Guardians of the Globe where they had gathered. Monster Woman still had Shrinking Rae in her arms, too.

“I'm sorry about not showing up sooner. I just got the notification you might need some help.” Atlas said and the others exchanged questioning looks and worried expressions. “You had everything in hand until Immortal interrupted you and wanted to showboat, so Cecil called me.”

That changed their expressions to smiles. It was nice to hear that they were trusted so much.

“I'll stick around to give you a hand with the clean up as the crew comes in to take the Giant to his new job.” Atlas said.

“His new job?” Robot asked.

“As the Astronaut President of America.” Atlas said and they all heard a muffled cheer behind them as some ice cream splattered across the street.

“Sorry 'bout that.” The Giant said and used the edge of the napkin to wipe at his chin, then kept eating. He also looked really happy.

“I'll explain later.” Atlas said. “Let's get to work cleaning this place up.”

The Guardians of the Globe had no reason to argue and did as he asked. No one mentioned how disappointed Shrinking Rae looked when Monster Woman had to open her arms and put her down.