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February 18, 2015

The music flowed over me as I sat in my private box at the Metropolis Central Opera House. My eyes were closed as I simply enjoyed the aural experience. I had heard it all countless times before, I had written the music after all, but it was still quite pleasurable, which spoke to the quality of the piece in my opinion.

It was the debut showing of my first symphony, performed by the Metropolis Orchestra. I had both incorporated musical ideas from my old world that never made it to this one and used my exceptional genius to develop my own. As this was the debut my work had yet to be reviewed by music critics, many of whom were here seeing it tonight. Still, the conductor and many of the musicians had told me that playing it was a profound experience. I was confident that critical reception would be highly positive. Writing a symphony turned out to be very enjoyable for me and I planned to continue. It didn't hurt that this should build up my reputation as a multi-field genius, a true polymath. I wanted to tie my image to that of people like Leonardo Da Vinci who were both scientific and artistic prodigies.

It had been around a week and a half since Kara had revealed herself. At first Lex, Lillian, and the rest of Cadmus had just been generally upset at the appearance of another "unnatural freak" not under their control. Shit hit the fan when she appeared wearing her costume, with the House of El crest front and center. Suddenly there was a massive frenzy to find information on the newly named Supergirl. They had managed to find out she was Superman's cousin from their moles in the DEO, of which they had many seeing as Cadmus had partially grown out of it. When the DEO learned about Fort Roz, Astra, and her followers Cadmus learned too and it devolved from there. They had known about Fort Roz but had had no clue that it was run by a bunch of Kryptonians. Quite a few members suggested nuking the entire west coast from orbit, just to be sure. They were eventually talked down, but Cadmus significantly ramped up their war preparations. Lillian was convinced Superman was pulling a Palpatine, letting loose an alien threat in order to gain more power from the crisis.

I knew all this because I had infiltrated Lex and Lillian's communications, as well as the few Cadmus sites I had access to. Through these links, I recently managed to gain near-total access to Cadmus. My penetration of their network also allowed me to discover that Kara's identity was already in a precarious position. Cadmus already knew she was an alien. Just like in the show she had been spotted flying when she was young and this led to the original DEO, who were basically Cadmus before Cadmus, blackmailing Jerimaiah Danvers into working for them. They didn't, and still don't, know that Kara is a Kryptonian. If they had they would have instantly grabbed her. All they knew was that she could fly, so they instead went for her genius scientist father. His price was to leave his family alone and seeing as he had been critical in turning Hank Henshaw into Cyborg Superman they thought it was worth it to ignore one flying alien.

Cadmus hadn't yet connected Supergirl to Kara the alien, which was quite fortunate as if they did bad things would likely happen to both her and Jeremiah. Hank and Alex were working to conceal Supergirl's identity from as many people as possible in the DEO, but they weren't doing a great job. Although to be fair to them, the DEO was highly compromised by Cadmus already. Luckily for the heroes, I had dedicated a fair portion of my digital mind to plugging up their leaks and making sure no info on Kara's identity got out. I was also messing with recordings of Supergirl, making sure she wouldn't appear too similar to Kara.

Kara had been out doing hero stuff around National City and from what I could vaguely remember about the small details from the show she had beaten the villains from the first two episodes. A cool thing was that I didn't have to do anything to gain access to the data on the aliens Supergirl beat. Between the penetration both Cadmus and I had on the DEO, it was just there for the taking. I also made use of Cadmus's data and my own knowledge to locate aliens and obtain their DNA, mostly through going through their trash or subtle use of nanites.

A big benefit to all the Supergirl business was it got me more access to Cadmus due to panic over Kryptonian invasions. I had already finished my research on the alien craft and created plasma blasters derived from it which I shared with Cadmus. Even with the largest model, they wouldn't do more than give a Kryptonian a light sunburn. Still, they were better than guns and could go up against some weaker aliens and metas. The projectiles also traveled faster than bullets, which made them useful against bullshit martial artists that could dodge bullets and the like. I started carrying a plasma pistol with me everywhere. The alien code gave me some fun new ideas and improved my overall coding abilities a bit and I derived a stealth field as well. I did not share these with Cadmus, keeping them to myself.

Besides Supergirl panic the main thing that moved me up in Cadmus was my weapons contributions. The plasma blaster alone made me very popular. That only increased when I created the vibration blade. It was a blade that vibrates rapidly, allowing it to cut through most things like butter. It wasn't to the level of a monomolecular blade, but it came somewhat close. It could probably give Superman a papercut. I also gave them some non-lethal capture methods. First I ripped off the containment foam from Worm and then I invented a taser that could calculate precisely how much it needed to shock a person to leave them unconscious, allowing it to work against weaker aliens. I was a little uncomfortable handing over weapons tech to crazy, evil, xenophobes. I rationalized that they couldn't do too much damage with it and I would be taking over the organization soon anyway.

The personal shield design that I stole from Cadmus was refined and I could now have fun with shields. I built a belt that generated a strong personal shield, it should even be able to take a single hit from a Kryptonian. I also created larger and more powerful versions that I again hid around Luthor Corp, my home, and my ever-expanding list of secret locations.

My digital mind and its connection were also due for an upgrade. With the nanites in my body, I no longer needed the implant at the base of my neck, so it was removed. I could now use my nanites to manage my connection. This also greatly expanded my range to include not just around myself, but around any networks my mind was accessing. There were already numerous fail-safes to make sure an attack on my digital mind couldn't affect my real one, but I added another that I felt would be highly effective. I linked the connection to my unique magic and vital energy. This would mean that anyone attacking me would have to be knowledgeable about those aspects as well. There weren't very many people in DC that crossed disciples like that. I was glad I wasn't in Marvel so I didn't have to deal with Dr. Doom. This also allowed me to start combining my already great hacking and coding skills with magic. I still had very little magical knowledge, but my digital mind was working on digital magic tricks to make itself more effective.

With these upgrades, I started the slow process of building up. I bought and set up some secret facilities to house my servers and started multiplying my nanites and creating infrastructure. My nanites were not yet bullshit fabrication and construction nanites, so it wasn't that effective, but it was a start.

Mind control nanites that worked on humans were something I had been working on that this upgrade made possible. My mind control nanites could enter the brain of a person and alter their personality. It could be anything from subtle changes, to hardcoding their love and loyalty to me, to total personality rewriting. The downside was that this was an obvious procedure that took some time. If I wanted to mind control anybody I would need them unconscious for several hours at the minimum, obviously not something I could do in public. That's OK, that's what my pheromones are for.

The last tech advancement I had made came from my study of the metahuman creation event that was the finale of Flash season one. I had developed a field that I was fairly certain could nullify metahuman powers. Obviously I hadn't tested it yet, but the concept was sound. This device was one of many that I was including in the power armor design that I had started developing, the design wasn't finished yet but it was looking like it would turn out amazing.

I was startled from my thoughts by a sharp cymbal crash in the music and I returned my focus to it, savoring my masterpiece for the rest of the night.

February 20, 2015

Once again in my lab, I observed Jess's body as she floated in a pod filled with my Vital Boost solution. I approached Jess about joining me and she eagerly accepted before I could even get to offering superpowers. Even when I informed her I would need to hardcode her loyalty to me with nanites she still easily agreed, that idea actually seemed to arouse her. I didn't actually believe I needed to prevent Jess from betraying me, but my nanites could counter other forms of mental control.

Not much about my relationship with Jess would change other than the fact that we could have full-on superpowered sex together. While Jess was having her vital energy boosted my nanites were also adjusting her mind and reinforcing her body. When the process was completed she would be as strong and durable as me and her reflexes and cognition would be enhanced. She wouldn't have my internet abilities or be able to control nanites though.

I was thrilled to be asserting my mental dominance over somebody for the first of hopefully many times. These past few days had not been particularly productive, I was excavating areas for larger secret bases with my nanites and also increasing my nanite stockpile in them. I was slowly building up hidden areas in major cities, making sure to line them with lead to avoid x-ray vision. My endgame was to have the ability to summon and control giant nanite swarms from just about anywhere. Once I got around to building a drone army I would stockpile them as well.

The people and nanites that I had collecting alien and meta-human DNA also made some progress, I hadn't gotten around to studying any yet, but I had a fair amount of samples and that would only increase with time. I had taken some of Sam's DNA but it was literally junk data, nothing remotely related to Lex's Superman samples from Cadmus. It seemed her DNA was actually encoded. This process would be useful once I figured it out if I ever wanted to hide DNA evidence or the DNA of whatever superior lifeform I eventually transformed myself into, so at least I gained something. I could gain DNA and more extensive data more quickly through unscrupulous means, well more unscrupulous than collecting DNA without consent, but I drew the line at kidnapping people off the street to dissect. I was fine with studying defeated enemies or bodies that were already dead, but abducting people I had no problems with for unethical science was outside my moral comfort zone.

My focus was on observing the progress of my nanites when it was suddenly drawn to Star City, which was apparently being attacked by the League of Assassins. I watched as the members of Team Arrow worked rapidly to fight off the army of ninjas and stop their chemical weapons from deploying. Most of my attention, however, was on the epic duel between Oliver Queen and Ra's Al Ghul. They were both dressed in League of Assassins outfits and having a fast-paced sword duel on a dam. My combat model was loving the data from this fight and I was excited to make use of it, seeing as swords are awesome.

Oliver eventually turned the fight around and pulled off a last-minute victory thanks to his protagonist powers and was then saved by Felicity after he was shot off the dam by the cops. Ray Palmer's nanites neutralized the League bio-weapon and the day was saved. I was a bit jealous of Ray's nanotech, it was better than mine in quite a few aspects. Still, I wasn't too upset, Ray Palmer is probably the best person at tiny technology in this universe, being the Atom. He was going to have a lab accident where he discovered his iconic shrink tech fairly soon and then I could steal it and everything else he had, which was enough to fully lift my spirits.

I also observed an interesting conversation between Sara Lance, current White Canary and former Black Canary, with her sister Laurel, the current Black Canary. It seemed that since Sara was a member of the League of Assassins who had deserted and now had participated in the death of Ra's Al Ghul certain remnant factions of the League would hunt her with particular enthusiasm. She explained what to expect with League politics now that Ra's was dead and Oliver refused to step up as his successor. She then shared a teary goodbye and fled to go into hiding from the assassins that would come after her.

The League of Assassins following Ra's death would splinter into existing factions that had only been held together by Ra's himself. The traditionalist faction was led by Thalia Al Ghul and contained many of the League elders, all highly skilled martial arts masters. They were the strongest faction with control of almost all the Lazarus Pits and Nanda Parbat. A major focus of theirs would be trying to find a way to resurrect Ra's. This was also the group that would be hunting Sara. HIVE was a faction that had broken off from the League a long time ago and often opposed them. It was led by the evil sorcerer Damian Darhk. They would probably move against the League now, sensing weakness.

The extremist faction was led by David Cain. Now that Ra's was dead he would probably go full supervillain and try to conquer the world. Cain was the leader of the espionage branch of the League and ruled it with an iron fist, hypnotizing all his people. He had sleeper agents in most governments with others sprinkled everywhere. Cassandra wasn't mentioned but I assume she existed in this world, seeing as her father did.

Nyssa Al Ghul led the progressive faction with Lady Shiva and wanted to take the League back to its original goal of protecting the world from the shadows, taking up the mantle League of Shadows. They also hated the extremists, presumably, Lady Shiva wanted her daughter back. The final faction was the smallest, the vigilantes. The leader of the vigilantes was what I assumed to be a recently revived and League brainwashed Jason Todd. He called himself the Red Hood and led his group in meting out brutal justice to criminals and corrupt elites.

All these groups were managed by Ra's with his centuries of experience and once it became clear he was not going to quickly revive things would fall to chaos. I was interested in allying with Nyssa's progressive faction, their goals were similar to mine. Nyssa and Shiva would also make fine additions to my collection. My current plan was to track down Sara, hire her as my bodyguard, and then have her guard my body.

March 1, 2015

I had finally found Sara, the fact that she managed to stay so off the grid that I couldn't find her for ten days was a testament to her skills that only made me want her more. She had popped up in Dallas, Texas of all places, she might be trying to cross the border.

These past few days hadn't only been focused on finding Sara of course, I had been hard at work. I spent a fair amount of time doing press for my HAVID regenerators, which were seeing wide success and being adopted at more and more hospitals. My press tour had seen highly positive results as had my announcements that I was looking into curing cancer and 3D printing organs. 3D printing organs was only a small part of my project to develop nano-fabricators, which was coming along.

The press tour also provided me a reason to fly around to different cities and I was currently in my private jet traveling to an appearance I had scheduled in Dallas. My digital mind was constantly doing numerous things, but currently the majority of my thought strands were dedicated to either tracking Sara or developing my power armor alloy. I was designing Luminalium V1, a titanium alloy. I planned to continue upgrading this alloy as I gained access to better and stronger bullshit comic book metals.

My plane landed and I went to my hotel before taking a car out, claiming I wanted to do some sightseeing. I tracked Sara to the industrial area of the city and was canvassing the area in my car while I searched my surveillance network. Spotting what looked to be a fight, I sped up towards it. I came near and was driving past an alley when Sara jumped down off of a nearby rooftop. She was quickly followed by three League of Assassins members. One of them wielded a bow and shot an arrow at her as he jumped into the alley. Sarah barely had time to deflect it with one of her batons before she was set upon by the other two assassins, both striking at her with their swords.

It was obvious this fight had been going on for a while, Sara was dressed to blend in with tight jeans, combat boots, and a blue T-shirt that was now stained with blood. She had multiple minor wounds across her body and the assassins didn't look much better. Judging by the bloodstains on her batons I deduced that there had been at least one more assassin who had fallen earlier in the battle.

I stopped the car in front of the alley and got out as Sara and the assassins engaged in a deadly blade vs. baton melee. The exchange ended when Sara surprised them by dodging into a blade, receiving a slash on her leg. She grabbed the assassin and shoved him into the path of an arrow fired by his bow-wielding comrade. The arrow drove right through his neck and he was dead instantly. As the bow assassin was distracted by his accidental fratricide Sara pulled a dagger from somewhere and launched it straight into his eye.

Unfortunately, it seemed the injury she received to gain the opening had done some damage and her leg gave out, causing her to collapse in the alleyway. The final assassin swung his sword threateningly as she glared up at him. He then let out a grunt of surprise and his sword clattered to the ground as he received a series of silent plasma rounds to the back courtesy of yours truly. I holstered my plasma pistol and ran up to Sara.

"Oh my God, you need a hospital!" I gasped, acting shocked as I looked over her and throwing out high levels of "trust me" pheromones.

"No hospitals," She grunted as she tried to stop the bleeding on her leg.

"I guess I can help you," I said unsteadily as I kneeled down next to her.

She nodded and I took out a container of my nanites.

"This should stop the bleeding," I told her as I held it against her and controlled them to enter her body and do just that, as well start general healing.

I helped her into the car and drove us back to my hotel, erasing the footage from any nearby cameras as we left.

One of the benefits of being able to access camera networks is that it makes sneaking an injured superhero into your hotel room much easier. I got Sara up to my room and put her on the couch as I retrieved a HAVID device I had brought for a situation just like this.

"What's that?" Sara asked as I approached her with the device.

"I call it the Hyper Amelioration and Vitality Infusion Device, or HAVID for short. It will boost your body's vital energy to rapidly heal your injuries. Vital energy is the life energy of your body, I discovered it recently and it has numerous medical applications. It has been thoroughly tested, so I can guarantee it is perfectly safe," I replied.

I enjoyed talking about my inventions. The press tour was good for that, but there I had to maintain the image of a professional Luthor for everything. It would be wonderful once I didn't have to worry about my family and was powerful enough to act however I wanted. Something about explaining my creations to people as they helped them was very nice. I shifted my pheromones to putting out lust as well. For my nanites to start doing their work she needed to be asleep and I saw no reason why that couldn't occur after we had some fun.

"Wow," Sara gasped in amazement as her smaller cuts and bruises began to heal at a visible rate.

"You should be good as new in a few hours," I told her. "Maybe sooner, you have high levels of vital energy. Which makes sense seeing as you are some kind of expert martial artist?"

"You could say that," Sara said coyly. "I'm more interested in you, your invention is amazing! You must be a genius."

"I have heard that before. Oh! I just realized we never introduced ourselves. I'm Lena Luthor, scientist and CTO of Luthor Corp."

"Sara," she bluntly stated. I gave her a look at that answer and she eventually elaborated with, "I'm a professional badass."

"You certainly are from what I've seen. You handled quite a few of those ninjas. It's clear to me that they were after you for some reason. I am willing to assist you in avoiding them. Having someone of your skills acting as my security would be a boon to me and it should be more comfortable than being on the run. I have ways of disguising your presence." I suggested

"That is quite the interesting offer, Lena," Sara remarked. "I think I've heard about you, didn't you write an Opera or something?"

"A symphony actually, music is a passion of mine," I replied. "I'm going to go get us some food, you stay here and heal up alright."

I left the room in search of lunch and around three-quarters of an hour later I returned to find Sara exactly where I left her. We ate together and shared some general small talk. It seemed Sara was feeling better as she started flirting with me after some time. Eventually, Sara was just about healed and she headed to the shower to get cleaned up. She exited a short while later wearing only a small bathrobe that rode up very high on her legs.

She was quite the sight for me to check out. Her breasts were about the same size as mine and looked like they would make fun handfuls. By far her best feature though was her fantastic ass. It was a sculpted mass of muscle that I just wanted to play with for days nonstop. Sara was muscled most attractively and her butt was the peak of that. I was checking her out and she noticed as she turned toward me with a smoldering look.

"Like what you see?" Sara teased.

"I do," I nodded in reply.

"Then you'll like this even more," she said as she shrugged off the bathrobe and revealed her naked body.

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"Wow," Sara said as she removed the baton from inside us. She stuck my end in her mouth and slurped up all my tasty juices. It was quite the sight and I enjoyed it immensely. I turned out the lights and Sara snuggled into me as we went to sleep.

March 5, 2015

Jess and I were laying down in one of my labs as I used our nanites to download Sara's martial arts training into our minds. After we woke up Sara and I discussed her situation in-depth and she eventually agreed to accept my offer. I was unsure if the offer of superpowers or continued sexy times with me was more appealing to her. Sara soon received my vital boost, which boosted her much less than it had Jess and I seeing as she was already near the peak of human fitness.

The nanites however were very effective and Sara was quite pleased with her new strength, as well as the collapsible vibration blade I gave her. I also used the time she was receiving her nanite upgrades to slightly modify her personality. The only things I changed were her trust, love, and loyalty to me, which I amped up. She was now entirely devoted to me and saw nothing strange about that.

In public Sara always wore a wig to appear as a redhead. I also used my abilities to erase any evidence of her presence from the internet. Discovery was less of an issue now that I could detect any incoming assassins and Sara, Jess, and I were all beyond human. A human assassin would have a very difficult time killing any of us, especially because they had no way of knowing we were anything but normal.

After a few hours, Sara's knowledge was downloaded and we were testing it out. It appeared that it would take quite a bit of practice to familiarize ourselves with the knowledge, but it still would be astronomically faster than learning it the old fashion way. With a few hours of practice each day for around a month, Jess and I would be on Sara's level. Not too shabby, becoming equivalent to an elite member of the League of Assassins with a month of training.

Sara had shared with me the locations of the League bases she knew about and I had already moved on the ones in Metropolis. The Metropolis League base was quite small and only focused on information gathering with the occasional subtle assassination through poison or vehicle accidents or the like. The League was smart enough to keep in on the down-low in Superman central. My nanites infiltrated the base and took over all the assassins. I now had half a dozen professional ninjas under my control. I planned to slowly take over League bases in the United States and build up a faction behind Sara before merging with Nyssa's faction and having them be my allies from the shadows. The fact that Nyssa's faction was almost exclusively female had very little to do with it, I swear!