The fun thing about being someone like me, was being able to roam the Solar System at will. Most often, Starfire would accompany me for experience, and hot sex where ever we pleased.
Floating among the clouds of Jupiter, or deep inside a liquid ocean on Europa, even bathing in a methane sea on Titan while staring at Saturn hovering above us. Sure, I did have a job to do, making sure no aliens sneaked past our defenses and sensor nets and invaded Earth by surprise.
The UEF still needed a decade to become a real war fleet, or even two or three decades if we waited for the Almerician women to give birth and their kids to grow into proper fleet crew.
This was why we didn't keep the 20 kilometers flagship captured from Yoongar. Not enough crew, unlike Almerac which had millions of super-soldiers in their army and fleet.
The Kryptonian city called Argo was proven a disappointment, as the inhabitants were mostly pacifists waiting for someone else to fight for them.
Although the lantern brother tried, it wasn't something that a rousing speech could change.
Not even video footage from the Yoongar battle seem to move them, being conditioned by their council into a bovine mentality, waiting to be sliced into beef steaks by any invader.
Sure, the Kryptonians also benefited from the yellow sun and began to exhibit their characteristic powers and abilities, but did nothing with them.
Sadly, this meant Fuerza had to be dispatched as the UEF contact officer with Argo City., and break a few fingers and hands when the Kryptonians tried to claim Venus for themselves alone.
The Lantern was building three new cities on Venus, using giant slabs of granite and V-plate reinforcement, able to withstand quakes up to 9 on Richter scale with minimum damage.
The Apple Wizard was doing the same for Appletown, and parts of Star City, while the Grey Mask simply deployed several Markov devices at 5 kilometers depth under Gotham and Metropolis.
*Ding.
-Gotham City gets hit by a random earthquake.
-Using three Markov devices at once, the earthquake loses 99% of strength.
-No human casualties, +100 WIS and +100 CHA
-Buildings collapsed: 19.
I didn't even have words to say how lucky that was, not that Grey Mask seemed to care. He was busy recruiting and training villains for his own purposes, mainly women for the obvious reason.
His newest find was a blue-haired villain with cold powers called Killer Frost, but not the original one. This woman was named Louise_Lincoln , and was much more fuckable.
So fuckable that all seven of us took a turn with Louise, since she felt like dipping your dick in blueberry ice-cream, while in exchange Peffy allowed all of us free access to Mongal whenever we wanted.
It was quite a situation, since the alien queen of Almerac had more endurance than expected, and could exhaust all of us one by one. The love potions Peffy had fed his wife only made it worse, and only the constant Ypoc barrage could keep the sexy alien queen sated. Luckily our MP regen was high enough to keep the beast satisfied, even if Mongal drained a Ypoc every few minutes.
.A month later, the ordeal came to a pause, by a fortunate accident.
*Ding
-Mongal Wizard is now pregnant. She will give birth to a demigod in 7 months.
*Congratulations, Gamer! +100 to all attributes.
We all gave a sigh of relief, knowing we were off the hook for about 8 months. Peffy could take care of feeding Apple Juice to his wife.
While the relief felt good, it barely lasted a few seconds.
A single name appeared in our minds, via the Monitor's clairvoyance. Alexandra_DeWitt .
Grey Mask was free and teleported on the scene, just as a villain called Major Force was trying to strangle the innocent woman, who was the girlfriend of Kyle Rayner , a human Green Lantern.
Major Force froze in place as Grey Mask held his body still with telekinesis while reading his mind. "A stupid villain going after a hero's family. Such a tragic story." Grey Mask mused thoughtfully, while reading the (too long) Observe page. Clifford Zmeck , a sadistic psychopath empowered by an early experiment carried by the US Army in the 60's, his list of crimes was longer than a phone book.
This villain was only energy now, covered in an alien alloy that allowed him quantum field powers, including recovery from damage and resurrection.
Three Ypoc clones appeared to restrain the villain ever better, then Grey Mask teleported with the villain on the surface of Mercury, on the sun side.
The heat soon began to soften and melt the alien allow away, causing the armor to become separated and instantly stored away in our inventory. With only an energy body, locked inside magic fields and slowly drained of powers, Major Force died ignominiously and unseen, although it took a week of slow drain.
As the final wisps of his soul got converted in magic power and drained away, Kyle Rayner appeared beside the Grey Mask and just watched in silence. "You're the Grey Wizard, right? The outfit is grey, even if different from your heroic attire."
"There is a Hero in China called Thundermind. Thundermind is very strong, but he has a secret. His other body lives in peace with a woman, while the heroic body hunts down metahumans and other enemies of the Communist Party. You have an Energy Twin, Green Lantern. There is no excuse to let your woman exposed to such incidents again." I explained in a low voice.
*Ding.
-You have drained the powers and lifeforce of Major Force. +3000 to all attributes, +10 Tech Use, +3 extra lives, +1 Fate point.
-You have obtained a suit of Dilustel Armor: which grants access to the Quantum field.
-New innate abilities obtained: Self-Sustenance , Energy Absorption , Matter Absorption , Resurrection Empowerment
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"... I see." Kyle whispered in a gentle voice, then vanished.
'I'll work on the Dilustel and see if it can upgrade our armor. And I mean the Durlan fighter.' Ra's Al Ghul decided with a bored voice.
His job was actually the least problematic or time-consuming, since a singly Ypoc could manage twenty Leagues of Assassins by itself. And it did.
'Time to take a plunge and use a Fate point.' Grey Mask said in a calculated voice, and poked the Perception attribute.
*Ding.
-Path selection, you gain +1000 PER
-Clairvoyance gains a tier and can cover the entire star system.
-You can detect alien infiltrators and mind-controlled individuals, even if they don't know what they are.
-You gain the Perk: Illusion Pierce. Masked, concealed or cloaked people or items reveal a contour.
Whatever the idea Grey Mask had, I stopped and took a look around the star system with new eyes, and noticed two things.
One, a cloaked alien near the Moon, conducting a secret invasion of Earth by empowering villains like Nightfall from the Cadre. This was the Overmaster , and we had been waiting for him for some time.
The other was an alien ship, flying undetected around Mars and scanning our most secret military installations. The Cooperative, a large galactic power with thousands of powerful ships and super-advanced science.
I decided to meet the new alien ship first, by simply phasing inside their bridge. "Welcome to the Sol System, everyone. You have been boarded by the Grey Wizard of the UEF." I spoke in a confident voice.
"What! How did you find us?" an alien Captain demanded in a loud voice.
"Nevermind that. Do your scanners see that Overmaster entity flying next to the Earth's Moon?" I asked a bit curious.
"Captain?" the tactical officer asked in a hesitant tone.
"Scan that area, T.O. If there's someone else in the system, things will get complicated." the alien Captain explained with a nod towards me.
I waited for a minute, then sighed as the Cooperative's ship scanners passed by the Overmaster but failed to detect him. My new Perk was better than a million years of technological advance.
'I will strike first' the Lantern self announced as he summoned the Spear of Destiny in hand and powered up, using the mage and Adept limits at once.
"Keep scanning..." I said gently, while more magic Ypocs and droids arrived to engage the entity, including the twelve Kelex droids from Argo and several former Extremist androids.
Floating defense satellites in Earth's orbit opened fire as well, using positron cannons.
The Overmaster took the entire barrage with barely a few dings, and screeched loudly enough to be heard from Mars's orbit.
"What is that? A cosmic-class entity?" the Captain of this ship asked in a horrified voice.
"Exactly. A Tier 1 entity, playing god around Earth and sowing discord and villainy. And then..." I continued when the Lantern flared up with over 100000 points of Magic and stabbed the entity with the divine spear.
Then we stabbed again and again, and used Energy Absorption to drain the entity before it could do too much damage. The Light of the Soul burned fiercely, just as Fuerza appeared and struck the Overmaster in the back.
That single punch would have broken the Moon in two, and even an entity felt that. He turned to mind-control Fuerza, but failed of course.
Her Title made her immune.
"No, it cannot be!" the Overmaster wailed, while enduring millions of spear strikes all over.
The UEF ships in range opened fire as well, with little result. This was not a fight that could be won by firepower. Entities were not called such because a ship could blow a hole in them. But the Spear of Destiny could, especially as the Lantern self was empowered now by two Lanterns and the Adept Limit.
Wonder Woman arrived to bind the entity with her Lasso of Truth, and then Ra's Al Ghul flew in at lightspeed and began gouging deep gashes with his new Dilustel armor. The gashes didn't heal now, as the quantum field absorbed the entity's matter and energy to power the armor itself.
"Impossible. You don't have this kind of technology..." Overmaster growled and tried to mind control the Lantern, then Ra's.
"We'll talk in a minute..." I said in a hurried voice, then teleported to the fight to aid as well.
I didn't have a good weapon, but I had the Angel Breaker available, and used it to return an energy blast right at the Overmaster's hand, and blew that hand to nothing.
I felt a tingle of mind-control bounce off my brain as well, and then Grey Mask appeared above the entity's head and began to drain his powers and lifeforce.
"Noooo! It cannot be. Earth is a backwater. " the Overmaster cried in pain, and tried to fire a giant blast right at Earth.
Fuerza kicked him in the balls, while I reflected the energy strike at his chest, vaporizing it. A thousand spear strikes aimed at the head finished the entity off, leaving only a giant mangled corpse that the Lantern collected for later.
*Ding.
-You have contributed 99% at defeating a Tier 1 entity.
-You receive +9000 to all attributes, + 10 Intimidation, +10 Lore, +10 Weapons Skill.
-Your mental perks receive a tier bonus.
-Your tertiary profession changes to Space Detective ( +1000 PER, +30 Awareness and Logic)
-Fuerza gains +1000 to all attributes, + 50 Deflection, +10 to all Skills.
-Her mental perks receive a tier upgrade.
-Wonder Woman gains +800 to all attributes, +40 Deflection, + 8 Lore.
-Her mental perks receive a tier upgrade. Mind-control discarded due to lack of a controller. She still can't betray you.
Uh. Affection at 100/100 could cancel out mind-control? Thanks System. Another excellent reason to use my dick more.
I grabbed Diana and teleported back inside the Cooperative spaceship.
"Right, as I was saying. I am the Grey Wizard of Earth. This is my wife called Wonder Woman. Care to explain what you're doing here?" I continued in a wry voice.
We did just murder a cosmic entity in less than 10 seconds. I think they were impressed.