The entire night passed by in a blur of drunk pleasure and desire, and by the time morning came along, Alex's level two bond with Susan had completely stabilized.
{ «Status- Host #6»
«Name: Susan Storm (Invisible Woman)»
«Bonding Rate: 0 -> 23%»
«Bonding Level: 1 -> 2»
«Powers: Hyperspace Physique (Superhuman) — Ambient Cosmic Manipulation — Hyperspace Psionics Manifestation»
}
Not only had the Bonding Rate increased significantly, but Susan's physique had received a significant boost after Alex finally formed a real bond with her. As for Alex, he had just added some very significant powers to his repertoire.
«Skill Acquisition»
«EP/Bioenergy» :: 127560 Units
«Cosmic Energy» :: 0.2347 Units
«Soul Energy» :: 84563 Units
«Manipulations» :: ‹Lightning Divinity› ‹Basic Blood Manipulation›
«Innate Abilities» :: ‹Biological Manipulation› ‹Host Enhancement› ‹Devour› ‹Copy›
«Derived Abilities» :: ‹Cosmic Physique Creation› ‹True Sixth Sense› ‹Inventory› ‹Advanced Camouflage› ‹Elemental Immunity› ‹Hypnosis› ‹Secondary Consciousness (Gaia)› ‹Psionics Manifestation›
«Magical Abilities» :: ‹High Magic Affinity› ‹Hyperspace Affinity› ‹Wielder of Chaos› ‹Soul Devour›
«Authorities» :: ‹Time (2.5%)› ‹Mind (7.5%)› ‹Soul (5%)› ‹Reality (5%)› ‹Power (2.5%)›
«Cosmic Abilities» :: ‹Low Cosmic Manipulation (Incomplete)› ‹Ambient Cosmic Manipulation›
With his and Susan's relationship taking a step forward, another week or so sailed by before Alex brought her to a special place. Considering that he'd already shown and played with her in the presidential sex dungeon in the White House, this special place held a different kind of significance. He brought her down to the core of her planet to show her the workings of the Shield Generator powered by her planet's core.
In the three weeks that they had spent together, Alex had moved with unreal efficiency and had already established authority over most of the world's superpowers and governments in the name of the Gaia Federation. While he'd kept Susan somewhat sheltered from a lot of it since her situation was special, her planet was already very different from the one she recalled from three weeks ago. Of course, the primary reason that he moved with such haste was that this planet was already drawing closer to Gaia. He wanted to take the opportunity to directly merge it into the cluster when the two celestial entities drew close enough. If he missed the opportunity, this planet would be in a similar situation to Earth-65, which, despite being a part of the Gaia Federation, was aimlessly moving in its orbit, waiting for its trajectory to eventually draw it closer to the Gaia Cluster.
Another week passed, and Susan helped Alex iron out some of the kinks in the generator's design. Ultimately, it was finalized well in time for the big day.
"You ready?" Alex asked.
"I don't know," Susan said hesitantly. "Are you sure I won't need a space suit?"
"With my enhancements, you can casually shatter the crust of an Earth-sized planet. You can handle some vacuum," he said before grabbing her hand. "Don't hold your breath."
Susan suddenly felt Alex sucking in a familiar energy from the environment all around her. Not only that, he was releasing a reality-defying crimson energy that sent chills down her spine. The mere pressure of him harnessing such a massive level of energy would have sent her to her knees if he hadn't been holding her. She didn't have the mental capacity to process the complexity of the three-dimensional structure that started forming in front of them while Alex poured nigh-endless amounts of energy into it.
Alex simply stepped forward, and Susan involuntarily followed suit. Immediately, the world around her broke down. The laws of physics stopped functioning, and the concepts of space and time seemed to lose all meaning. She felt a sudden overwhelming influx of information that her brain failed to process, instead treating it as if streaks of light were passing by her while she was experiencing tunnel vision. The glimpses that her brain was able to process seemed like glimpses of countless galaxies expanding and imploding in on themselves, followed by universes and something even beyond.
Suddenly, everything snapped back to normal, yet it was as if everything had changed. Susan was floating in space beside Alex as he seemed to be holding back something very uncomfortable.
"Okay… forcing my way through hyperspace is a bad idea… especially without the necessary protection against the exposure to its inverse space... Sue, you okay?" Alex asked, shaking Susan's shoulders. "Snap out of it. All you saw was the birth of the Fifth Cosmos. You'll see a lot more impactful stuff eventually."
She opened her mouth to speak, but instead vomited the contents of her stomach right on Alex's shoes. The only positive was that all she let out was her stomach bile. Any food she ate was usually immediately digested and converted into nutrients.
"How can I…How can I hear you? We're in space."
"There's a lot to your powers that you still need to discover, Sue," Alex said. "We are currently inside a bubble made of your psionic force fields. While I wasn't able to create air because I don't yet have enough control over the frequency manipulation part of your abilities, I can make sure that our sounds are perfectly transmitted as far as they need to."
"But I'm not suffocating."
"That's a benefit of having me around. Your powers are only helping to transmit the vibrations accurately."
"Alex…Are you manually controlling every single wave that is being produced when sound is produced?" she said with disbelief. "That's impossible."
"For a human, maybe," he said dismissively. "If you think that's a big deal, I just breached light speed for a moment there. That's what's truly impressive."
"What!?" The woman's eyes widened in both shock and horror. "You just did what?"
"I breached light speed," Alex said with emphasis. "That's why the vertigo was strong enough to practically kill you if not for your current physique and my protections. We went into Hyperspace for a brief instant there and emerged here. That's why there were no other side effects."
"Alex…" Susan looked at him flatly. "Fuck!" She screamed at the top of her lungs.
"All right, it's happening," Alex grabbed her head and forced Susan to look in the direction of her planet. "You can freak out about me breaching light speed later. This is a once-in-a-lifetime view."
In their vision, there were almost a hundred celestial bodies, counting both the Earths and their Moons—man-made or otherwise. Out of those hundred or so bodies, a few seemed to be separated in their own world, enveloped by spherical shields made of hexagonal structures. Gaia's two Earths and their respective moons were isolated from the effects of the other planets and specifically stood out due to their irregular shape compared to other similar celestial bodies. When she looked slightly closer, she felt that the planets were rotating at an unreal speed compared to the others. It was to the point that she couldn't even make out anything on the surface beyond the shades of blue, brown, and green.
"Is that the time dilation thing you were talking about, Alex?" Susan asked with a frown. "Those planets are moving so much faster than the others."
"You can see that?" Alex asked, for once, seeming genuinely surprised.
"Shouldn't I be able to? Your so-called Farm and Research Earths are rotating so fast… Is that even okay for a planet?"
"Yeah, it's fine. The Time Stone is very robust…" Alex dismissed her concerns. "Let's focus on you first, Sue. You are the only one who is seeing the speed of those planets from an outside perspective, aside from me, of course. But my reasons include the ownership of the Time Stone. That's very special."
"So what do others see?" She asked him.
"Just the blue hexagonal shields…" Alex trailed off. "That means your variants can also probably see inside the sphere… Great, another thing I need to worry about. Anyway, it's about to start. Pay close attention. I want to see how the merger looks through your eyes."
First, the planetary shield of Susan's Earth was activated, rapidly enveloping the entire planet within its hexagonal structures. Next, as the large sphere of Gaia was aligned with Susan's Earth, the lone planet and its moon started getting pulled toward the larger sphere as if by magic. But she knew it was all science and a precise application of the interaction between the bodies' gravitational forces being expressed through their individual shields. Steadily, the two celestial bodies drew ever closer, only for Susan's planet to seamlessly pass through the shield that surrounded Gaia while maintaining its own shields as a secondary defense. Once inside Gaia's sphere, Susan's planet aligned itself with the other two planets and released two beams of light toward both Farm and Research Earth, forming what seemed like planetary corridors made of light. As the three planets and their moons came into formation, the rotational speed of Susan's planet started accelerating slowly until it perfectly matched the speeds of the other two planets.
"Now then," Alex said. "Since the third planet is done, do you want to do some real work and help me acquire my fourth planet?"
"I don't get to go home?" She asked him.
"Of course you do," Alex said. "If anything, once you go home, it will be months before there's any point to leaving. After all, a year will pass on your planet while barely a day will pass outside the Gaia cluster. So, do you want to get back to our routine of training your mind, body, and soul in both combative and sexual ways, or do you want to have a short adventure before we get back to that routine?"
"An adventure doesn't sound too bad…"
"Attagirl," Alex spanked her ass, making her yelp as she turned to look at him with admonishment, yet the excitement shining in her eyes told an entirely different story.