A Short Update

A/N: Sorry if the story seems a little bit slow. This chapter was originally only supposed to have a few lines about Damian's company and exposition about the world's culture in regards to having a female majority population with normalized harems, but I suddenly realized I'd written over 2,000 words before I knew it.

I literally spent weeks grafting all these worlds together into a single one which made sense while also not making it weird for the MC to have a harem along with some other individuals, like Peter/MJ/Gwen, Nightwing/Starfire/Batgirl, Superman/Lois/Lana/Maxima, etc. I guess I was just too excited to share it all, so sorry if the pace is kinda slow, especially with only weekly/bi-weekly uploads

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The Harlem Monster Brawl, as it would later come to be known, was worldwide news for days after the incident. At this point in time, Tony Star had already escaped his captivity and denounced the production of weapons manufacturing, but still hadn't gone public about being Iron Man yet. To say he was pissed when he discovered Luciel Holdings had acquired 25% of his company while he was held captive and then upped it to 43% after his announcement would be an understatement. He was borderline harassing Emma day and night whenever he wasn't off on his Iron Man adventurers.

He was really dead set on keeping the rights to the Arc Reactor Technology to himself and his company, but a deal was made with Obediah Slane to transfer the patent over to us in exchange for buying in for 15% of the company's shares at their market price before the announcement when the news fo Tony Stark being captured finally broke, which helped keep the company afloat.

I told Emma not to give it back unless we got to keep the right to creating Arc reactor plants around the world. Tony was literally standing on a working Fusion Ractor with no waste products that was several hundred times more efficient than Nuclear Plants and was scalable. The fact that I knew he wasn't going to use the patent for the betterment of mankind by wholely replacing all fossil fuel power plants and only use it for flying around beating up criminals pissed me off.

I mean, Luciel Holdings was already dominating the Green Tech Sector. We were already using the cloning technology from Miles Warren, who died under mysterious circumstances *wink*, to clone all kinds of meats. In addition to being much more ethical than the battery farms of the meat industry, it was cheaper to produce and we could clone the best cuts of meat possible. No more 'cheap stuff' or meat with 'filler' or 'water weight' in it, nor was any of our cuts overly fatty.

This method was technically organic, since we didn't have to worry about pesticides getting into our ingredients, nor microplastics, nor other chemicals that the FDA might let slide but our bodies wouldn't. The facilities that made the meat were also much smaller in terms of land usage. We didn't even add any preservatives other than salt and using refrigeration technology. This was part of our strategy to cut into our own profits and not have a few key large growth centers providing it across the country. Instead we created local facilities near population centers which helped create jobs while still providing fresh meat to our customers while also not crippling us if supply chain issues occured. Perks of being a private company rather than a corporation which, by necessity, HAD to cut costs and increase profits.

It was still a bit more expensive than regular meat, and other was significant pushback from ranchers worldwide, but we were rolling it out slowly enough that they would have time to still make a profit off the herds they currently had, but also not breed new animals for slaughter, at least, if they were smart they wouldn't. We were giving them a golden opportunity to make their money and get out, and saying so very publically, so it'd be their own fault if they didn't take the hand we reached out to them with.

Hell, we even offered the ranchers the job of growing the artificial meats at ridiculously high pay.

We also used Warren's research into the cloning technology to create artificial blood and organs that were identical to the patient's DNA. Each Hospital would be able to custom order any organs needed for a patient that needed a replacement, and have it grown and transported in only a few days time. It'd be literally identicle to the patient's organ, so we didn't need to worry about the body rejecting it and after recovering,m they wouldn't even need to use medicine to keep it functioning.

I shook my head as I dropped the reports back on my desk. Everything was going pretty well. No big hiccups, though the plan to create room-tempurature superconductors for computing was going slower than I expected.

I was broken out of my train of thought by the sounds of feet rushing up the stairs and then down the hall to my room. A moment later, the door swung open, revealing my girlfriend Eve who was holding a golden watch in her hands.

"Damian, look!" She said, shoving it into my face. "Its a solid gold wristwatch!"

I took the watch out of her hand and examined it for a bit, even bending the latch a bit to see if the material was actually gold or something else that was just gold in color.

"very nice, Eve! It took me weeks to do that and you did it in only a night!" I praised, rising from my seat and giving her a congratulatory kiss.

Of course, what I had just said was a lie, I could do this the instant I knew I had powers, but Eve didn't need to know that. What she needed was positive reinforcement and the fact that we shared a similar powerset had made feel closer together. She could manipulate matter and energy to transmute objects, create energy constructs, shoot energy blasts, etc. It wasn't exactly what I could do, but it was as close as it could get without becoming actual reality warping, therefore, I was acting as her mentor while she trained her powers, especially her transmutation powers.

I looked past Eve and saw Jean leaning against the doorway. She gave me a look then sent me a telepathic message asking if it was true or not, and I confessed that it wasn't but that Eve needed alot of encouragement, and this lie wasn't exactly life-changing even if she did find out.

Unlike what happened with Eve, most mutants didn't awaken their powers immediately. It seemed to be a gradual thing for most of them. It was only a few thousand per week worldwide, so it'd take decades for them all to awaken. I also altered reality to make it so that I'd warned Fury ahead of time about the awakening individuals. I didn't tell him exactly who was awakening, as I didn't tell him individual names, but I did make it so I gave him ample opportunity to prepare countermeasures and prisons which could hold them for when some bad apples would inevitably pop up.

After I finished giving Eve some SFW loving, the three of us all went downstairs and settled in for a movie. Eve conjured up some Pizza, Popcorn, and Soda for us, showing off a bit of her control over her power, while I infused the couch with the essence of coziness for maximum cuddle potential. Jean would train her telepathic powers by floating the food to her mouth throughout the movie. the hope was that when she could do it without conscious effort, her control could be considered perfected. Suprisingly, I didn't come up with this training method, not did the Phoenix. It was something Eve came up with when Jean told her about her powers.

Anyways, the movie was some cheesy romantic flick about a man and his three wives grappling with the possible addition of a fourth wife to the harem, especially since she was a widow and there was a big stereotype against that in this world. There was also a problem that if they did, then they'd need to move.

Harems are all fine and dandy in fiction, but in real life they were a lot of trouble. For example, sexism was completely reversed. The stereotype is that men were the stay-at-home types and the wives would rotate their work schedules so that they all got to spend time with the husband. Another issue, which was shown in this movie, was the amount of space it takes to house a harem. In a 'small' harem of two women to a man, then there really wasn't much of an issue, but when it got to three or more, then things would get cramped and complicated. The women would need to decide on a 'Head Wife' who would be the top of the hierarchy and got the most attention from the husband and usually shared a room with him.

As a matter of fact, most 'drama's' in this world were about wife politics and jockeying to be the 'Head Wife'. Usually the oldest partner, as in has been with the husband the longest, not oldest in age, got teh position by defealt, but a 'homewrecker' could come in usurp the position if she was cunning enough.

It really was a fascinating culture. Due to my fascination with it and trying to figure it out, I never complained when we watched a 'chick flick', which earned me brownie points from the girls.

Eve let out a sigh as the movie came to a close. Of course, after winning over the other wives in the harem, the fourth woman was allowed to join after finally convincing the Head Wife, despite the Head Wife being the most vocal against expanding the harem any further. I looked down at Eve, my arm around her shoulder and gave he a little shake. Not one too violent, but only enough to get her attention.

"Whats up Eve?" I asked.

"Its just... since Jean and I are so good together and its only the two of us, we can share you equally, but I'm worried what will happen when you take another wife or two." She admitted to me.

"I know how you feel. I knew ever since we found out you were rich, that we probably couldn't keep this thing small and especially not when we found out your powers and how absurd they are." jean said with a sigh.

I pulled the both of them into my chest, holding them close. "Don't worry. I promise to keep you both just as happy as you are now if not moreso. I don't even think there are any women after me anyway." I commented.

"The hell are you on about?" Eve asked me, looking at me in disbelief.

"I told you he was clueless." Jean added.

"I'm sorry?" I asked, confused.

"Damian, you were literally voted the most fuckable guy at prom this year." Eve commented.

"Well, yeah, but that's just because I'm rich and sexy." I said. "Those shallow girls who only care about that definitely aren't going to be my future partners."

"I guess that makes sense, but you completely blew off Felicia you know." Jean said with a smirk.

"Hardy? Wasn't she trying to jump Peter's bones?" I asked, somewhat surprised.

Jean rolled her eyes and looked at Eve before pointing her thumb at me. "See? Clueless."

Eve giggled at that and my face went bright red. To be honest, romance wasn't something I was actively persuing right now. I was so busy preparing everything for my future plans and managing my company from behind the scenes that I legitamitly thought the times when Felicia Hardy was talked to me was just due to coincidence.

This was because we were all in the Advanced Class. Miss J was literally better than any teacher on the planet, so obviously we'd all take the same classes together under her instructions. Wether it was Biology, Chemistry, Political Sciences, History, or Calculus, Miss J could teach it all better than an expert could. That meant we all had her for all our classes and studied and did our homework together too, as it was too advanced for even some of the teachers to help us with. Both of these together meant our class stayed together and formed a single large 'click'.

We all had friends outside of it, obviously, Flash still hung out with the Football Team and Osborn still loved to show off his wealth to the student body, but we primarily hung out with one another. This meant when I was speaking to Felicia before, I thought it was legitimately as a friend, not a potential love interest. I guess after I didn't get the hint, she gave up and went on to try her luck with Peter.

This world wasn't like my previous one. While men still asked out women frequently, it was usually women who had to ask out guys or asked to be included. Furthermore, since the population was mostly women, it wasn't weird or sexual in any way for a guy and girl to have a close friendship while not being romantically involved.

I wanted to facepalm at how I'd inadvertently become a dense anime protagonist but my arms were around my two girlfriends and I didn't want to let go, so I let out a tired sigh instead. "Sorry you have such a dense boyfriend..." I said, half-feigning depression.

Eve and Jean looked at one another for a moment with knowing eyes before they simultaneously kissed my cheeks.

"Don't worry about it, we'll still love you." Jean commented. Eve nodded but didn't add anything anymore.