Black Ops, Introduction
(Last Revision: 24-Dec-96)
by Sharon Best
(This chapter resumes the normal time line as it occurs after the rescue of Aurora and Monique from Sh'lyra. The time is early May and a military Black Ops team, an anti-alien team formed under the auspices of the CIA, is about to be issued weapons that they hope will provide lethal defense against the Kintzi, perhaps even the Arions, Kryptonians and Velorians!)
The helicopter flew low over the trees, hugging the terrain as it once again penetrated the high security zone surrounding the test complex. Why this particular test was being held at this site was still a mystery to Katarina Unger, she and her team were still very much in the dark about the weapons trials they were to observe today.
She thought back over the last few months, starting from the original formation of her team and what had become known as Project Starburst, continuing her thoughts up through the devastating desert battle that had been fought against the Kintzi nearly a month before, the one that had nearly ended her career as it had ended the lives of most of her team members. (See Aurora 26)
She thought back further, remembering her initial assignment to this team, how it had seemed a bit of a lark at first, being the founding member of an alien defense team! What a joke! Aliens?!
However, as more team members had been recruited and the training had progressed, the true threat that they were facing and the nature of their mission had become clear. Her mood had turned deadly serious after the disaster in the desert, and any humorous speculations about ‘aliens’ were now long forgotten as they grimly studied the unmistakable but still fragmentary evidence of a real invasion of their home planet!
They had all started their training two months before that gruesome incident by viewing all the info they could find on a woman named Aurora, her display of incredible powers having been captured on video several times before the team was formed. She had since proven very difficult to find, seemingly coming and going without any warning, often showing up in the strangest places.
She herself didn’t seem terribly dangerous: the only anti-Terran tendencies she had shown so far were focused on criminals, many of whom had not survived their encounters with her. The police were not happy with her, never sure if her activities were truly self-defense or if they should more appropriately be classified as manslaughter! But one hardened detective had once grunted into a camera, “She never killed nobody what didn’t have it coming.”
The intelligence reports showed that another Velorian woman had appeared later, one who called herself Supergirl, obviously stealing the name from DC Comics, although it did seem very appropriate considering her gorgeously athletic blonde ‘cheerleader’ looks and her obvious powers! She was a younger woman, just out of high school and hardly more than a girl, a girl who had clearly been living among Terrans for many years. Her sudden emergence, along with the fact that she had grown up as a ‘normal’ girl on Earth, had shocked the leaders of Project Starburst. They suddenly realized that the alien involvement on Earth had actually started many years before Aurora’s dramatic arrival!
And of course, everyone had seen the extensive video coverage on the evening news of a Velorian woman known only as Laura as she had rescued thousands of people in Nevada following the nuclear explosion there. Her pictures seemed to be showing up everywhere now, many of them taken from some ‘interesting’ angles as her skimpy clothing had often been very revealing while she was exerting herself.
And lastly, the recent startling discovery of severe and deeply entrenched Terran interventions from another group of aliens, called Arions, is what had finally bowled the CIA leadership over. The intentions of the Arions were clearly not benevolent, and that realization had suddenly made Project Starburst both the most important and the most secretive project inside the CIA. The CIA’s mission to defend the country from external threats had been quickly expanded to include threats from beyond the atmosphere of Earth!
A military Black Ops team, Katarina’s team, had quickly been recruited and assigned to work with the CIA. They had first engaged a very strange pair of aliens, cat-like creatures of amazing strength and power that they later learned were called Kintzi, and most of Katarina’s original team had been killed in that bloody encounter. Her command had barely survived the questioning of her leadership, and only because the review of her actions had demonstrated that she had acted appropriately despite losing her team. Exonerated, she had since built a new team and had spent the last month analyzing the characteristics and powers of these aliens, a great deal of technical support being provided by a man known to others only by his code name, Karak. He was the one that had revealed that the cat-like creatures were called Kintzi and that they were in the employ of the Arions, doing a lot of the dirty work for them.
A long investigation into Karak’s background had finally revealed that his name was actually Chris Frandel and that he was a personal friend of Aurora, but only Katarina and her immediate superior were authorized to know that. Chris seemed to know a great deal about both of the female Velorians, Aurora and Supergirl, insisting that they were actually here to protect the planet from the Arions! He had given the CIA a long and detailed description of a plan, supposedly formulated and being followed by the Arions, to fragment Earth’s leadership and to place their own agents into many sensitive positions. Their goal, as described by Chris, was to manipulate the Terrans into destroying themselves in a nuclear war! The resulting destruction of the entire Earth was simply part of a larger campaign of revenge against their ancient enemies, the Velorian race, a race that continued to be fascinated with Earth, knowing that it was their ancestral home. The CIA leadership was hardly thrilled to hear that the Earth was being used as a battlefield in a war between two alien races with superhuman powers, but they were fairly accustomed to untenable situations, and they had decided to do what they could.
Chris’ subsequent description of Earth as the origin of both the Velorian and Arion races had seemed too incredible to believe however, but there was little doubt that the members of both those races certainly looked human, except perhaps for being a little too perfect. And the description of the ultimate Arion goal of having the Terrans destroy themselves in a blaze of nuclear fire also brought back too many old fears within the CIA. They had just spent 50 years trying to prevent just that from happening! Although it was truly not their efforts that had prevented it in the end. It had merely been the collapse of their enemies economic infrastructure. Something the CIA had never foreseen!
*
Many pictures of the Velorian women had since been distributed to the team, often in various stages of undress as their clothing seemed never adequate to contain the tremendous forces and expansions exerted by their own bodies during combat. The women’s gorgeously blonde looks and incredible physiques had certainly caused a whistle or two among the men! They may be deadly, but they certainly weren’t ugly!
The first Arion woman who had publicly appeared, Kirrin, had last been seen in LA. She was a different matter. While her body was nearly as dramatic looking and powerful as the Velorians, her actions were clearly cruel and violent, showing absolutely no regard for the lives of the Terrans she encountered! Her destructive path, and that of her young blonde companion, had killed tens of thousands of people in the huge nuclear explosion at the weapons storage site in Nevada!
Her young companion, known only as PowerGirl, was the most puzzling. Her appearance was that of a Velorian, yet Chris, who otherwise seemed to know so much about the Velorians, had no idea of her origin. She also seemed to have Arion-level strength instead of Velorian level. Not that she was weak, the car she had lifted over her head with one hand had proven that! No, she wasn’t a trivial woman, that was for sure, despite the callous and deprecating statements that Kirrin had been overheard making about her! The fact that PowerGirl had obviously tried to save some people during Kirrin’s rampage in LA had further confused the situation.
*
The last month had seen a dramatic reduction in sightings of these remarkable women, all of them disappearing completely during the last few weeks. Meanwhile, the Arions had been increasingly active, setting up a new base on a Pacific island.
It was not known where the Velorian women had gone, but they had dropped out of sight around the time of the nuclear explosion in Nevada. They had first been thought to have been killed, but Chris’ descriptions of Velorian powers and invulnerability had convinced them that this was unlikely, at least unless they were in very close proximity to the weapon. There was undoubtedly another unknown reason.
The final woman they were monitoring, a former movie star by the name of Bo, had proved the most fascinating of all. She was publicly available, showing her powers off for an amazed audience as she had appeared as a lifeguard on a specially filmed episode of the popular Baywatch show, her ‘secret’ super powers being required to rescue a large fishing boat instead of just a swimmer. The unstaged and unscripted footage of her walking up onto the beach with the 70 foot long steel ship over her head, her tiny red swimsuit stretching and tearing partially open from her dramatic exertions, had pushed the show even higher in the ratings. She had even posed nude for the current issue of Playboy and, wearing just a bit of clothing, for some of the muscle and fitness magazines! She was also reportedly making a variety of specialty movies that exploited her strengths and powers, not to mention her nude beauty, most of them too ‘exotic’ to show on TV. She had also been very open about demonstrating her own powers for the Starburst team, going as far as to allow herself to be tested in their lab before actually asking for permission to join the Project!
She had, in fact, been largely credited with saving Katarina and the remnants of her first team when they had engaged the Kintzi back in early April. She had single-handedly dispatched the first Kintzi before the Ops team had even engaged them, and eventually had immobilized the other sufficiently for their weapons to dispose of the other. The CIA had therefore made her a provisional team member, but she still wasn’t completely trusted by the command team yet, her only clear motivation being that of exacting revenge on the woman named Kirrin, not the general removal of alien interference from Earth. In fact, she seemed primarily interested in her other pursuits, mainly her public appearances and shows. Also, despite her awesome abilities, she clearly seemed less powerful than the other women.
Of course, ‘less powerful’ was certainly relative here, the widely shown video of her lifting one end of that huge railroad locomotive during the rescue effort following the Sacramento train wreck had been very impressive! Only the fact that she had obviously been straining very hard to accomplish that feat provided a clue that she did not have the raw strength of the other women. Still, the raw strength she did have was awesome; one end of a railroad locomotive like that weighed more than 50 tons! In fact, struggling to recreate that rescue for a Muscle Magazine photo-shoot, she had lifted one end of that huge engine over her head once again as they had measured and photographed her physique. The resulting exclusive report and photo-spread had allowed that magazine to triple its distribution in a single month!
*
Katarina, the Black Ops team leader, had focused her efforts of late on just the Arion/Kintzi influence, fully believing what Chris had said about the real threat coming solely from them, and not from the Velorians. She had earlier analyzed everything that was known about the Velorian women and had finally concluded, at least in her own mind if not that of her superiors, that they had the best interests of Earth in mind, even if their techniques of dealing with situations were not always appropriate or legal. She had also grudgingly acknowledged in her own mind that they actually belonged somewhat above the law, although that concept still bothered her a bit.
Her thoughts turned to a less professional topic, as they often did lately, a small smile lighting her dark face as she thought of Chris. She had insisted on personally performing the test of his abilities, finding he had the strength of at least twenty men. His invulnerability had proved impressive as well, his discomfort at being shot at even with an assault rifle was always brief as the red bruises lasted only a few minutes.
Yet it was that one time that they had gone out together that she remembered most fondly, both of them lonely as they had been stuck at the desert testing facility one weekend. She still remembered his comment in the desert (see Chapter 26) as the Kintzi had tried to ravage his lower body. His comment had been that that area of his body somehow was his strongest and most invulnerable area!
Katarina had had too many drinks when she raised that subject, her daring comment immediately rewarded as he had smiled broadly, explaining the why’s and how’s of his own enhancement. Katarina had seemed to sober up immediately, the possibilities of that enhancement being more than an athletic and sexy woman like herself could ignore. They had eventually found their way back to the deserted barracks, Katarina’s life changing completely before the sun rose the next morning!
She felt a little tingle even now as she remembered her own enthusiastic responses as she had undressed him, as she had seen what that Velorian woman had accomplished in creating this ‘superman’. She had been staggered as she had used the skill of her strong hands and soft lips to bring his manhood to its full potential, her fantasies of meeting such a dramatic man finally realized. She had always been an unusual woman, her needs for fulfillment unlike other women’s as she had always known that size really did matter, at least to her. Her GYN had told her that she was ‘unusual’ and had offered to perform a minor surgery that would make her able to enjoy ordinary men. But she had resisted, resorting instead to artificial aids, ordering the largest sizes from the X-rated catalogues that she could find.
Yet kneeling in front of Chris, she realized she had met a man that could achieve what other men could not, a man who could fill her the way she so desperately craved. The remainder of the night had been ecstasy for her, her strong hard body had felt so soft compared to the near steel of his own, his special steel having explored the depths of her unusual body more times than either of them could remember, the bed finally collapsing beneath them.
Sitting now in the back of the helicopter, she flexed her bicep gently now, feeling the sleeve of her uniform tighten as it strained to contain part of the legacy of her night with Chris. She had been amazed to find that her strength had more than tripled by the end of the following week, the expansion of her already toned muscles increasing noticeably. She had gone back to the lab one night to secretly test herself, finding that she was now clearly stronger than any two male Marines combined. She had also found that she was now unable to cut her own skin with an ordinary pocket knife. A knife as sharp as a scalpel was now required to penetrate her skin, and even that was very difficult!
*
She finally turned to look back out the window of the vibrating helicopter, her thoughts coming back to the present, back to the weapon they were going to test today. She had read all about it, how it had been developed by a military weapons lab in Europe, the origin of the technology completely unknown on Earth. The CIA’s technical intelligence people had attributed the core technology to some captured Arion weapons, but the company doing the work still remained very secretive about it.
A background check by the CIA had uncovered that the company had most likely come into possession of a number of alien weapons after a battle inside an Arion mountain hideaway in Europe, the titanic battle having been fought and barely won there by Aurora. While the usual Arion/Velorian battle scenes were left littered with mangled and melted weapons, most of the weapons apparently crushed simply by the bare hands of the Velorian, this one had been left intact! The fact that Aurora had left behind this large cache of weapons inside the mountain, something not at all typical of her usual behavior, had been testimony to how close the outcome of that battle must had been.
Katarina was suddenly forced to hold on tighter as the helicopter continued its gut-wrenching flight down one ravine after another, always staying below the ridge lines. The stream bed they were following twisted sharply before it suddenly dropped over the edge of a huge canyon, the helicopter immediately following it down to the floor far below, much to the discomfort of Katarina’s stomach!
*
This canyon was the most secretive of all the test sites in Northern Nevada. It was also one of the few government installations remaining in Nevada where the radiation levels were now low enough for people to remain outdoors for an extended period without protective clothing. The huge nuclear explosion at the storage depot a hundred miles to the south had made most of the surrounding region uninhabitable for the next few hundred years!
Katarina’s new six person team finally climbed out of the helicopter, the steadiness of the ground feeling very reassuring after their wild hour-long ride. Katarina led them directly into the cement structure that was to be their home for the next few days.
They were slated to be trained with these new weapons, weapons that were going to be personally issued to them only when they left this location. They were also weapons that they had been told would be able to stop or kill an Arion, possibly to do the same to a Velorian as well! For the first time since the alien invasion had been detected, Terrans might be able to hold their own against the formidable and awesome physical endowments of these mysterious aliens.
*
Their first view of the weapons came an hour later and proved to be very impressive, each weapon looking like a huge oversized handgun, almost like something out of a cheap sci/fi movie. They were made of something that felt like plastic but was nearly indestructible, or so they were told. Each gun also had a laser telescopic sight on top.
One of the officers from the Marine gunnery division that had been testing the weapons took them outside to the test range for an orientation, the range holding a number of obsolete army tanks and cement structures for use in testing and practicing with the weapons. The team stood behind the Marine sergeant as he carefully sighted the weapon in on one of the huge tanks, the range being about 150 yards.
There was a sudden loud buzzing noise that grew higher and higher in pitch until it was nearly earsplitting, Katarina instinctively covered her ears, the sound feeling like it was tearing her eardrums apart! When the screaming sound reached a peak, a burst of brilliant green light dazzled her eyes just before a bright violet beam emerged from the weapon. The beam crossed the distance to the tank faster than her eyes could track, a shower of sparks coming from the metal as the tank was suddenly enveloped in a brilliant violet glow. The beam remained steadily focused on the tank for several seconds as the steel itself began to heat, a red glow spreading outward from the point of impact, blue and then white-hot shimmering waves following it outward to envelop the tank.
The base of the tank seemed to settle slightly, the metal visibly softening much like butter left in the sun, the metal flowing outward slightly as it became too soft to support the massive weight of the machine. Suddenly, just as the entire tank seemed to be glowing white-hot, a loud BANG came from the weapon, a rocket-propelled bullet shooting down the inside of the violet beam, exploding against the softened side of the tank. Partially molten steel flew in every direction, the explosion almost knocking the team off their feet from more than a hundred yards away, traces of glowing metal streaming up into the sky for a hundred feet! When it finally settled back to the ground, there was only a small flat crater left, half of it filled with glowing molten metal, the rest scattered across the desert sand. The entire demonstration had taken no longer than fifteen seconds!
*
Katarina was shocked, the power and fury of this weapon amazing her, even after being mentally prepared for a weapon that could destroy these normally invulnerable aliens.
“My God... that thing looks like it could sink a battle ship!,” Katarina blurted out.
The Marine sergeant replied, “Funny you should say that, Katarina, but I was doing some calculations and I actually think it could! The energy beam itself generates more than fifty million watts of energy, and the explosive shell is easily equal to a shell from just such a World War II battle ship. But while those shells contained more than a ton of high explosive each, these weigh only half an ounce. While battleship armor is nearly two feet thick in places, the energy beam would quickly soften that, and the explosive shell would then be able to penetrate easily.”
Katarina was very impressed as she carefully picked up another of the weapons, aiming it at a concrete structure nearly 200 yards away. She pulled the trigger to the first detent, her ears painfully assaulted by the rising scream from the power generator in the weapon, its sharp vibrations making her hands hurt as well. The pitch of the generator slowly moved lower as she held the laser sight on the bunker. The weapon remained motionless in her hand as a brilliant green light illuminated the bunker before a dimmer violet beam finally emerged a few seconds later, the cement bunker suddenly glowing violet and red. She held the trigger at the first detent, allowing only the energy beam to heat the Ferro-concrete to melting temperature, the roof finally caving in slowly as the concrete passed its melting temperature, the molten rock pooling inside the bunker as the walls softened and fell inward to splash into the blue-hot glowing ‘lava’.
Katarina released the trigger without pulling it to the second notch, without releasing the powerful explosive projectile, astounded that neither steel or concrete could resist even the first-stage energy beam! And with no recoil, it made an absolutely ideal handgun!
“What you hear when you first use the beam, that earsplitting noise, is actually the weapon adjusting the spectrum of radiated energy to match the material it is being reflected from,” the Gunnery Sergeant said. “It does that to maximize absorption of energy by the target. We have tested the weapon against many kinds of inanimate objects; it works every time. The only test remaining is one against a live target. While one of you may have to make that final test in the heat of battle, we have a reduced power version of the weapon that we are going to calibrate against one of your new team members.”
Katarina had no idea what he was talking about, a new member of her team?! A member of her team they were going to use that thing against?! A concerned expression was growing on her face when she saw Gunny looking over her shoulder. Turning to follow his eyes, she saw the woman known only as ‘Bo’ coming out of the command post, wearing nothing but a very skimpy bikini. Outraged, Katarina leaned over to whisper frantically to Gunny.
“No way, Gunny, you aren’t going to sacrifice her! She has been helping us a lot up to now, and there is no reason to believe that she is a hazard to us or to any other Terran! Besides, I owe her my life!”
“I know that, Katarina, but I repeat: this version of the weapon is very low power, less than five megawatts. I need to see how the weapon’s computer adjusts against her body. Besides, she has already agreed. Furthermore, she is now a permanent member of your team, as of this morning! They should have told you!”
Kat’s face was a mask of anger and confusion. No one had told her anything! The Sergeant continued.
“Lastly, she has already helped us with the energy projector several times, we only need to determine how well the modifications we made to the computer will allow it to adjust to the frequency of the reflected energy of her body as it heats up. We’ve had trouble with that in the past.”
Katarina was still not convinced, but quickly noticed that Gunny’s eyes were staring at Bo with more than simple professional interest, the firm contours of her body looking more like a very fit 25 year old than a woman she knew was pushing 50. Her large breasts in particular had hardly any jiggle in them, despite the tiny scrap of fabric that covered them, her top clearly not intended for support, but only as a token of modesty.
Katarina noticed the difference in her from the last time they had met, her body now perfectly tanned, yet without any evidence of tanning lines. How she managed to achieve that with her invulnerable skin was a mystery. The last time they had talked, she had been complaining about becoming too pale, the sun’s rays no longer having any effect on her perfect skin.
“Katarina, so nice to see you again,” Bo said as she took Katarina’s hands firmly in hers. “You too Gunny, still playing with guns I see.”
“I’m always looking for the bigger and stronger ones, Bo, you know how it goes.”
“Yes I do Gunny, you got anything big enough and strong enough for me?” Bo teased, grinning.
“But of course, my lady, just step over there and let’s see if I can impress you today.”
“Well, I hope so! Men have a lot of trouble impressing me nowadays, so let’s hope your ‘gun’ is going to be big and strong enough.”
Katarina smiled, Bo’s teasingly suggestive speech had always set her apart as she flirted with the men she worked with, all of them knowing that they were no match for this superhuman woman now. Besides, every man here had seen her outrageous Playboy debut, those photos were the largest feature the magazine had ever published. She had spent a lot of time at the test site autographing her centerfold for the soldiers.
“Is this an upper body shot, Gunny?”
“Yup!”
“Well then, why don’t you just hold this for me.”
With that, she held his eyes in hers, smiling slightly as she reached behind her back to quickly undo her top, lifting it up to reveal her famous breasts, admired as they were by so many moviegoers and readers of Playboy. Katarina was surprised to see that they were far firmer and sat far higher on her chest than they ever had back when she was 20 years old and was everyone’s favorite movie star. She watched as Bo teased Gunny by brushing close to him as she handed him her top, her warm soft breasts almost deliberately grazing his arm as she turned to walk away from him, her firm hips swaying seductively as she walked out into the desert a ways.
Katarina smiled at Gunny, noticing his fast breathing and the flush of his face as he stared at the firm musculature of Bo’s back, her body so impossibly buffed for a woman the same age as he was. She stopped about 30 yards away and turned to face him, her hands on her hips.
Gunny sighed while taking a deep breath, aiming the weapon at her as the invisible seeker beam immediately sensed the color and temperature of her tanned skin, the high pitched scream of the power generator changing pitch dramatically as it adjusted to what it thought was the right frequency. The green ‘OK to Shoot’ light came on, the reduced power weapon projecting nearly five megawatts outward to strike the center of Bo’s softly rounded chest!
A brilliant green flash outlined her body for a fraction of a second before the violet beam emerged and stabilized on the target. A blinding explosion occurred directly between her breasts, sparks flying in every direction from her dramatic cleavage as her breasts were flattened against her chest. Her body was thrown violently backward more than twenty feet, the surprised former actress landing flat on her back in the sand.
“Damn, that stung,” her voice came back as she sat up, rubbing her bare chest, her fingers pausing for a moment as they swept across her suddenly engorged nipples. “Are you sure this is the low power one?”
Gunny checked it, confirming that it was set at only 10% of the power of the combat version, before nodding to her.
“Okay, then let’s try this!” she replied. Bo walked over to stand between two heavy steel beams that rose from the sandy soil, her strong hands gripping them tightly this time to keep herself in place. Unknown the others, she felt an incredible tingling between her legs, delighted as she realized she was getting wet, realizing that she was really turned on for some reason! That had not happened before, but then again, she had never seen that green flash when Gunny had tested the prototype energy generator against her body. She closed her eyes this time while throwing her head back, leaning backward and holding herself up with her arms, her fingers gripping the steel beams hard enough to distort the steel slightly. She was getting SO turned on!
Gunny aimed again, the beam striking her body a bit lower this time, sparks exploding for ten feet in every direction as her firm flat stomach was lit up by the beam, the green glow once again outlining her body for a fraction of a second. The power generator howled and changed pitch rapidly as it tried to find the right frequency, the energy emissions from her rapidly heating tanned skin clearly confusing it.
Despite the fact that the weapon was having trouble tuning in to the most destructive frequency, Katarina could see a bluish-white glow beginning to spread across the woman’s skin, starting from her stomach, her bikini bottom suddenly exploding in flames as her skin heated up past the combustion point for the Lycra. The bright glow spread outward in rippling waves, her entire body soon glowing nearly as bright as the sun, people having to shield their eyes just to look at her, the weapon finally stabilizing as Gunny read off the frequencies to Katarina so that she could record them. These readings would become the defaults for the other weapons.
Katarina eventually looked back up from her notes to see Bo’s body growing so hotly that the steel bars next to her were beginning to display a reddish glow, the steel gradually softening where her hands were touching them, her skin conducting the heat outward along her arms, fading from white-hot at her shoulders to merely red-hot where her hands gripped the steel bars. She watched as Gunny moved the weapon upward, the beam finally steadying on her left breast for a moment, her large white-hot nipple suddenly sending out a riot of sparks, the large nipple itself visibly engorging even from this distance, Bo’s firm flesh heating past white hot, taking on a metallic sheen!
Katarina heard Bo’s voice calling out, the sound of her voice higher and distorted a bit due to the superheating of the air in her lungs as her chest was heated.
“Ah, Gunny… what do you think you’re doing? This test isn’t for your entertainment, leave my tits alone!”
He grinned playfully, the beam crossing over to tickle her other breast for a few moments before he suddenly aimed lower, much lower, the weapon sensing the change as it suddenly changed the frequency of the beam to an electric green color, a loud gasp coming from Bo as the beam moved down between her legs, a new explosion of sparks lighting up the desert sand! Surprised by the change in color of the beam, Gunny quickly released the trigger. Yet her body continued to glow as it was apparent that she was both having trouble absorbing the energy into her breasts as she normally did, and that she was now VERY aroused! Gunny secretly knew where her arousal was coming from, the weapon had been discovered to be capable of projecting a previously unknown type of energy called Orgone. The fact that it had somehow sensed when it was focused on her sex was interesting; the feedback mechanism of this half-alien weapon was still not well understood.
Whatever the weapon had done, the frequencies were somehow wrong for Bo to easily use the power within her own body now, but were clearly just right to drive her crazy with desire! Gunny saw her hands sweeping across her body, obviously wanting to hold herself more intimately! But she had a pretty big audience right now!
Her legs moved in a funny way, knees bent inward a bit as she walked closer to them, the men finally having to cover their eyes as her glowing skin became too bright for them to look directly at, her body looking like it was made of shiny metal as it reflected the heat in the same spectral frequencies of mirror-smooth polished silver!
Gunny quickly realized that her Arion physique was reacting unusually to this new type of energy, her invulnerable skin looking exactly as if it was made of silver now, no trace of her normally tanned skin remaining, her body looking like some kind of animated metal statue! Or maybe a very sexy metal android. One with hints of steam emerging from her nether regions and with nipples standing out nearly an inch beyond her perfect breasts!
Katarina was shocked. Knowing Bo was essentially a ‘woman of steel’ was one thing, but to see her nearly blond hair and polished silver body reflecting energies so brightly that even her sunglasses were insufficient to protect her eyes was something else again! She had always thought of Bo as somehow softer and less powerful, maybe more ‘human’ than the other Arions and Velorians, but the shock of seeing her skin react this way to the energy beam served as a reminder to Katarina that Bo was really only a distant relative of Homo Sapiens now, her alien physiology so transformed that she was now clearly a stranger to Earth, truly an alien!
*
Bo walked as close to Kat and Gunny as she dared, their own clothes starting to smoke slightly from the radiated heat as they covered their faces, the sparse plants near her feet shriveling up and catching fire as she walked by them.
Katarina stared open-mouthed as Bo’s hands rose up across her flat stomach, her hands slowly surrounding her generous breasts as she gasped in pleasure, her nipples now huge and fully erect, her skin still reflecting the light almost like a mirror!
Katarina watched the muscles of Bo’s forearms flexing gently, her ears picking up the unmistakable groan of tortured stainless steel as her fingers squeezed inward, skin and flesh that were now the same consistency as that silverish alloy began bending under the force of her grip, fingers stroking across her chromed nipples! Somehow her body’s reaction to this energy had been to change the consistency of her flesh truly into something approximating steel!
Katarina saw that Bo was smiling slightly. She was clearly not feeling any significant discomfort as her eyes stared directly into Gunny’s. As her strong hands intimately explored her own body, her shiny silver flesh bouncing slowly back as she relaxed her grip, the keening sound of bending steel still clearly audible as she fondled her previously soft breasts!
Katarina could hardly believe what she was seeing, despite the background info she had on Bo. The way her body was reacting to this weapon was unexpected, her flesh turning to living steel, none of them having been at all prepared for this dramatic display of Bo’s Arion heritage!
*
Gunny came to his senses first, walking over to turn on a garden hose and spraying it over Bo, clouds of steam exploding from her body as she slowly turned around to let it cool all of her, rivulets of water finally able to remain in contact with her cooling skin as they flowed down the silvery contours of her body, disappearing between her thighs, still vaporizing before they reached the ground. It took some time before she finally could walk close enough to take the hose from Gunny, opening her mouth to drink and cool her insides as well. It took ten more minutes of constant dousing to finally cool her down enough for her skin to look normal again. Her skin finally appeared like that of a wonderfully tanned and healthy Terran woman again.
She handed the hose back to Gunny, her wet hair looking much lighter in color now, the blond strands tangled across her face, the tan of her body slightly darker than before as Katarina finally knew where she had been getting her ‘tanning sessions’. She had obviously done something like this before!
Gunny handed her top back to her, her bottom unfortunately lost forever as it had vaporized during the test. Her huge nipples were still clearly visible as the tight Lycra of her top hugged them, her body giving off a wonderful scent of flowers and honey. Yet Bo herself didn’t appear to be at all sensitive about her half-nudity as she walked over to the control post to sit and review the results with the engineers. Despite her crossing her long gorgeous legs to cover herself a bit, the sight of her nude lower body and her pronounced erect nipples through the inadequate cloth made it nearly impossible for the engineers to concentrate on their work! Fortunately for the job at hand, she didn’t stay long, wandering out toward the front parking lot with a funny look on her face.
*
Katarina finally had to punch Gunny lightly in the arm to break the spell.
“Hey, Gunny, get your eyes back over here, she may be gorgeous but she isn’t exactly available, you know. You saw how her body looked a moment ago, she would need a true ‘man of steel’ to satisfy her! Remember the last Terran that she tried to make love to back in LA? He spent a month in the hospital before his back got straightened out. She may look very human, but we both know that she is anything but human now. She may also be our enemy some day. After all, being able to destroy someone like her is what this project is all about! Protecting the Earth… remember?”
Gunny’s silent acknowledgment was all Katarina got from him, the conflict between his infatuation with Bo and his sense of duty silently burning within him.
*
The two soldiers finally turned away from the sight and the memory of Bo’s splendor before spending the next hour adjusting the default settings of the rest of the weapons. Tuning them to the spectrum of Bo’s body, knowing that if they now had the power to destroy a woman as powerful as she, then hopefully they would also have a chance against the even more powerful Arion Primes and Velorians.
They also knew that Bo had only a portion of the other women’s power and invulnerability. However, the sight of Bo lifting a car in the front parking lot an hour later, using just one arm, her lower body still exposed and so dramatically feminine, her legs flexing so gorgeously while the fortunate soldiers took picture after picture, still made her look awfully powerful. The sobering reality that she had only two thirds the strength of an Arion Prime and maybe half the strength of a Velorian woman made those other women TRULY scary!
In any case, with these weapons now tuned to her alien body, the team was finally loaded for bear, no longer as worried about being subservient to the whims of these super beings! It was now time to help in the hunt for the Arions, perhaps accepting help from the Velorians for a while, but knowing that in the end they also would have to either leave Earth or be destroyed themselves. Earth was for Terrans, and Terrans only!
***
It was very late in the day when Katarina’s team and the support crew got back into the two helicopters, weapons stowed in their packs, preparing to fly back to their base in California. Gunny stayed behind along with one Marine guard, the two of them detailed to secure the remote sight until testing of some other weapons resumed the next day.
Gunny waited until the helicopters had climbed out of the narrow canyon, the early darkness nearly complete down at the bottom. He slowly walked out toward the stream that had labored so long to form this deep canyon, the silence now broken only by the sound of bubbling water. He stood for a while watching the water until he could see it no more, the darkness now complete.
His thoughts were on Bo as usual, the image of the shimmering steel glow of her body burned into his mind, his infatuation with her power almost overwhelming him. She was so perfect, so strong; the way she affected him was startling, especially since he knew his infatuation was only a fantasy, her body so far out of his reach, way out of his league!
He was nearly ready to turn away, to feel his way back to the command post and his warm sleeping bag, when he felt a light touch, a pair of soft arms sliding around his waist, the wonderful scent of an exotic perfume filling his nostrils, the soft swish of a woman’s silky hair against the back of his neck. He felt soft and gentle kisses traveling up from his shoulder, caressing his right ear, his body initially startled by such an erotic touch. He shivered in anticipation at a soft whisper in his ear.
“Are you still dreaming of me, Gunny?“
“Oh, God, yes, Bo. I don’t seem to be able to think of anything else lately.”
“Do you like the new perfume? I picked it out especially for you.”
“Oh, God, Bo… please don’t tease me like this. You know our friendship can only go so far, we are just too... different.”
“I know, Gunny, believe me I know. I get lonely as well. But you can still enjoy being held, can’t you, my arms around your waist as you remember what I did with them today as I lifted that car in the parking lot? 4"
Gunny did indeed remember, the gorgeous flexing of her nearly nude body imprinted on his brain forever as she had effortlessly lifted that car over her head, one fingernail held innocently between her teeth, the other hand casually gripping into the rusted steel over her head as she supported the car, the bottom of her swim suit still missing, her characteristically shy smile so appealing. The vision of powerful burnished flexing shoulders, strong, pumped torso and endlessly long shapely legs lifting more than a ton of cold steel still burned constantly in his mind so many hours later!
Her warm body now felt very different as she leaned into his back, the unmistakable softness of her breasts, the sharp points of her large nipples tracing subtle patterns in his back, her hands caressing slowly downward across his flat stomach, her fingers tracing the contours of his rippling abs. Unending hours of exercise had maintained his body in remarkable shape despite his 50 years.
He now felt himself responding gratefully to her touch, his arousal instantly complete as he felt her hands sliding lower, pushing down the elastic top of his running shorts. He could not stop her, he had never been able to stop her, her strength and her sensual presence were far too great for him to resist! And even if he could have, he had no desire to stop her. Her hands surrounded him now, testing his hardness, finding him trembling and very ready as her soft hands began to move slowly and her tantalizing lips and her soft whispers found his ear again.
“Feel my hands of steel, Gunny, my Arion muscles holding your own ‘steel’ so firmly, hands that no steel can resist, hands that you cannot resist!”
Gunny tried foolishly to resist for a moment, but the feel of her strong soft hands, her tickling lips, her whispers, the sensuous strokes of her hands, were too much for him, his body exploding moments later as his surrender to her overwhelming presence became too powerful for him to control. Not physical power this time, but the sheer captivating power of her warm presence, her thrilling words and her intimate embrace. He sagged backward against her, her strong arms all that held him upright as his legs grew weak, the warmth of her body comforting him as he gave himself up to her, feeling such love for her as she shared her rarely seen gentle side with him in the afterglow! He may have been a hard man in a hard job, a Marine, but this woman made him feel like no more than a weak kitten! The fact that he was secretly pleased to feel so possessed, so owned, to feel so helpless in her arms, was something only the two of them would ever know!
Bo lifted him in her arms as she walked over to lay him on the warm grass, her enhanced eyes able to see clearly in the near total darkness. She knelt beside him, allowing him to recover for a few moments, then insistently, but still gently, raised his body slowly until they were both standing, facing each other in the dark, his hands reaching out to gently touch her soft skin.
She began their own private ‘dance’, slowly tensing her shoulders, his hands knowing just where to go as his fingers began to trace the strong contours of her muscles, Arion muscles she now flexed to their full size as he began to slowly and deeply worship her body!
Bo herself felt the same thrill she always felt as Gunny’s fingers traced across the dramatic steel contours of her body, her super muscles putting a Terran bodybuilder to shame, his eyes never able to see as she only allowed this in total darkness, allowing only his touch and his imagination to explore her. She felt his hands travel down her upper arms as she brought her biceps to full size, flexing them even larger than she had during that magazine shoot, his hands suddenly unable to stretch around the invulnerable mounds that grew beneath them, the two of them both thrilling in the knowledge that her biceps were far harder than any substance on Earth!
His hands lingered on her mighty biceps, his breathing growing fast and shallow as he felt her muscles warming up from the incredible internal strain, his hands finally moving up to caress her shoulders as her biceps grew too warm to continue holding.
She continued flexing more and more of her body as his hands again traveled downward, the heat from her muscles soon growing too intense for him to remain next to her, his eyes still unable to see as he felt the warmth of her body washing over him, her fragrant perfumed warmth mixing with the cool night air. He strained his eyes, waiting for the first visible signs of her body, knowing from the heat that he felt against his face and his body that she must be getting close to radiant now, his searching eyes finally catching sight of a dim red glow.
The glow grew rapidly stronger now, the image of glowing strands of hard muscle faintly outlined by the darker and cooler clefts between them. Each beautiful contour of her body began to grow visible now, her entire body gradually reaching incandescence solely from the heat generated from the hard flexing of her star-born muscles! The ground around her was gently illuminated by the red glow, her body a study in muscular sculpture now, radiant muscles on display for her lover in a way that only a superwoman like this could ever achieve.
The glow of her body grew brighter and brighter as Gunny was forced reluctantly back further and further, the red glow merging into a bluish-white as her body reached nearly 800F, her muscles flexing very hard now, her entire body glowing as she lit up the meadow like it was daytime!
Gunny was amazed as always to actually see her body glowing so brightly, her truly unique form of isometric exercise demonstrating just how different she now was from the Terran woman she had originally been. He watched lovingly as her stroking hands created a riot of sparks moving slowly downward across her flat stomach, finding the wonderful pulsating area between her legs for a moment as her own fingers moved rapidly, yet now so wonderfully visible to him, her efforts rapid and strong, but so sensuous. She let out a deep sigh before her hands eventually swept back up her body, caressing her full breasts for a moment before she began to slowly relax her muscles, their exercise completed, her body cooling.
Both their eyes were locked on each other, their minds melded in a wonderful way, their libidos soaring together into the sky! Terran man and Superwoman, strange lovers in the darkness, Bo finally crumpling to the ground, her body savoring the sweet and very rare sensation of true physical exhaustion!
It was an hour later before they finally walked off together, her body finally back to normal temperatures, the two of them slipping into his oversize sleeping bag to gently cuddle all night as she kept him warm and snug, as her body seemed to glow with an inhuman warmth. For the first time in a week, he did not shiver in the cold desert air.
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