"Say: Raaaawr!" I demanded in a soft tone.

"Raaaawr" Wildcat answered in a smart voice.

"Bring the blue ball, Bob!." I asked next.

Wildcat ran around, then sniffed and jumped from wall to ceiling to grab the ball from a nook and bring it to me.

"Good boy! Here's your treat!" I offered as praise and gave the bobcat a slice of raw duck meat.

Wildcat grabbed it, then ran away to eat his food away from noise and amused glances. "It is incredible though. I thought cats cannot be trained." Imra said in a curious voice.

"Animal. Food. Their minds are simple." Psi muttered in a disinterested tone, and returned to reading from my tablet. The Kryptonian culture and science book I assembled from Deimos databanks was quite fascinating, I know.

"You're spoiling my cat." Green Lantern complained in a morose voice.

"While on board my ship, Bob is a ship cat. Needs to learn how to catch rats and such. Says right here!" I countered while printing a section from the age of sail Royal Navy's manual about ship pets on the main screen.

"There's no rat around for light years!" Green Lantern growled in despair.

"See? My training is working already." I assumed with an entitled voice, like a British sea Captain from the 18th century.

Psi smirked a little, possibly catching Jordan's mental anguish. I tried so hard. That girl had issues.

J'onn opened a cabinet under his desk and drew out a bottle and some glasses. "I need a drink. We should have taken the Legion Cruiser instead." he complained at our relatively slow hyperdrive.

Saturn Girl grabbed the first full glass and drew it to her hand with telekinesis. "And I also told you no, Martian Hunter. I might take Psi or the Grey Wizard with me on the Cruiser, but nobody else. There's dangerous stuff on board."

"Anyways, How about a minor boost to Bob's mind? No magic, only more brains." I proposed while dragging a glass into my own hand as well. Then summoning some ice for myself and Imra, directly inside the booze.

I could do so many stage tricks now!

*Affection +1, 31/100

Haha. Magic tricks worked on the sexy babe from outer space!

"Bob, go hug Saturn Girl." I asked for no reason.

Rushing like a demented cat from hell, Bob jumped over desks and chairs and landed in Imra's lap, then rose on his hind legs to give her a warm hug.

"Oh! I see how you're doing it!" Imra noticed now, as the bobcat was close enough to read his tiny mind. "Right paw up! Now extend claws!" Imra commanded and the bobcat obeyed, holding his claws out for inspection.

"You were mind-controlling Bob, not training him!" Green Lantern yelled in outrage.

"Oh? You think so? Try it yourself." I said with a careless shrug.

"Bob! Say Raaaaawr!" Jordan demanded like an idiot.

The cat glanced at him with a bored face, and licked Imra instead.

"Hey! Why is it not working?" the green idiot muttered in confusion.

I glanced at the forward screen, where the asteroid with Argo_City just appeared. It wasn't that far from Earth, barely 5 light years, and orbiting Proxima Centauri, but finding the city was rather difficult because it was shielded with a Harun El boulder.

"I think we could bring Argo City into our solar system. Maybe land it on Venus." I mused to myself, waiting for the System to react.

*Ding

New quest received.

-Save the Kryptonian race and bring them on Venus.

I knew it! It would make defending Earth and the Solar System much easier, with millions of overpowered Kryptonians flying around.

Plus more opportunities to mix and match our races for hybrid children.

Green Lantern held still for a moment, before realizing the consequences. "It would be a major shift, in galactic power."

Superman glanced at me, almost seeing through me. But he didn't have context to make the connection. As far as anyone knew, I was just a normal human, with magic powers.

"Venus, not Earth. Keep the Kryptonians away?" Superman asked in a wary voice.

"As fun as 3-year-old babies with laser eyes might sound, they would be kinda murder on the human kids in kindergarden. And then imagine bullies in school, military service, criminals..." I countered with an easy voice.

Psi snorted out loud and threw me a praising look. "It's good someone is thinking ahead around here. A few Kryptonians and some more Daxamites almost cracked our poor planet. That city has millions."

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J'onn measured the large city with a frown. "How far away is the terraforming of Venus?"

I thought for a moment. "The geology is finished. Needs some water and removal of the sulfuric acid." I answered in a level voice.

"The city can withstand the vacuum of space already. If someone figures out how it can be landed safely, in a deep crater perhaps..." Imra proposed with a knowing voice.

'Stop that, Imra. Knowledge from the future is bad.' I sent telepathically into her mind.

Imra turned to stare at me in surprise, then glanced at Psi for confirmation. "Don't ask me how. He just copied my power." Psi said in a careless voice.

"Another power, Grey Wizard?" J'onn growled in despair.

"That's your problem? I just empowered you to match a Kryptonian, and gave you enough magic to level a city by yourself. And the other stuff." I said with a disappointed voice.

Superman just sighed, and formed a tiny magic dragon in his palm. "Grey Wizard's telepathy is not a concern, J'onn. Even if that entire city was filled with people like you and me, they would be like ants in front of him. Less than ants."

Imra changed a dozen faces. "Already? I thought you gained the real powers only years later..." she revealed with a surprised voice.

"Must have hidden it better in another timeline. Or maybe it's your presence here that changes things, Imra." I answered with a sad voice, just as a tractor beam grabbed our escort vessel and pulled us towards Argo City.

Very Death Star and all.

"Should I break this tractor beam?" Green Lantern asked to make himself useful.

"Nah. Let them think they have power. People reveal so much more about themselves, when they believe to have power over others." I answered in a bored voice.

Psi smiled at me, and nodded.

*Affection +1, 70/100

Uh. The girl was a thinker alright. Which made sense, considering her powers were mental. Gayle would never punch someone, if she could make them jump into molten metal instead. Made you wonder what Gayle could do, while in a threesome. The other woman would be a melted pool of juice and love.

Imra sensed the change as well, and blushed heavily while Psi just sighed and closed her eyes. Telepathy was quite a complex art. I must be stomping around like an elephant.

Ah. Psi did like Imra. She even told me so, in a subtle way.

"I'll act last, after their evil priests are revealed. Superman, that Peace Officer is your entry point. Her name is Thara_Ak-Var . The cat stays with me on the ship." I said in a soft voice, since there was no need for a big stick around friends.

Psi levitated her armor and assembled it with telekinesis, turning into a Daxam bodyguard with a full helmet on. "You too Imra. Bodyguards don't need to talk." she explained in a curt voice, and assembled another armor around our Saturn Girl.

"We should have taken Mon-El." J'onn muttered as he shapeshifted to Mon-El's semblance.

"Yeah sure. Give the Luthor girl more alien tech to play with. She caused an invasion already." I muttered in a bored voice, and leaned into my chair, legs comfortably resting on my desk, whiskey glass in hand.

"An invasion that took you two seconds to defeat, and capture all their ships." Psi noted with a wry voice.

"That was mostly luck. I thought it would take 3 seconds..." I allowed in a modest voice.

Bob jumped in my lap and nested there for warmth, while the heroes departed the ship to solve an alien murder mystery.

"You and me, Bob. I should make you a cape." I mused in my glass as the action began on screen.

"Mrrooow." Bob demanded as Superman met his peaceful relatives.

"No Bob. You cannot have Nth metal claws. Maybe a few drops of enhanced blood?" I wondered in a thoughtful voice.

"Prrrrr." the cat purred peacefully, while a bunch of Kelex droids showed up to arrest the heroes.

"Wings you say? Like Hawkman?" What was the proverb, like adding wings to a tiger? You'd need to be a bit bigger." I continued while the cat purred happily.

My water dragon flew a circle and landed beside the cat, and preened with his magic wings. Hmmm. Magic wings sounded better.