Villainess Love: A Lesbian Romance

by Mia Archer

  Movement from the back of the room caught my eye. My inner smile turned to an inner grin, though I schooled my face to absolute stillness. I was so close. It wouldn't do to give up the game right when I was about to take the winning shot.

  I turned and my stern schoolmarm became ice. "And where do you think you're going, Miss Solare?"

  Selena froze as she made her way towards the door. She looked at the rest of the class staring out the windows transfixed. She was the only one making any move to leave. It made it easier for me to single her out.

  "The city is under attack!" she said.

  I raised an eyebrow and crossed my arms under my breasts. "So? Why is that any concern of ours?"

  God was enjoying playing this game. She was off to rescue the city, but she had to play it off like she was afraid and trying to get someplace safe because hey, giant robot, what else would a normal mortal person do? And every moment she stood here bandying words with me was a moment she wasn't fighting off the killer death robot, only she couldn't just give up the game because that might give away her secret identity.

  The twisted logic of the moment was convoluted and delicious.

  "That giant robot is going straight for downtown like always. Well away from the school," I said. "I see no reason to cancel class on that account."

  Not that the robot would ever reach downtown. I’d capture Fialux and be done with this before CORVAC had a chance to do some real damage. Before he had a chance to get too fond of that stupid robot and do something stupid like take a detour through campus or some other highly populated area. For an evil computer like CORVAC the shortest path between two points was the one that caused the most destruction, which had me nervous about letting this go on too long.

  Selena stared down at me and her mouth worked silently for a moment as she searched for something, anything she could say that would get her out of the situation. Then I guess she decided that dealing with a giant death robot was more important than keeping her teacher happy, because she hefted her backpack and continued towards the exit.

  I took a moment to enjoy the view. She was wearing another pair of short jean shorts that were practically molded to her tanned body. The way her ass curved in those shorts was nothing short of amazing. And she had on a tank top that came up just enough to reveal her cute little belly button. No piercing, I'm sure she would've avoided that even though it was the fashion right now, because how do you explain it to a tattoo artist that he can't pierce your belly button because your skin has the consistency of impenetrable tank armor?

  But even though I knew her skin could probably shrug off an atomic blast without any trouble, it still looked so smooth and amazing. My mind drifted back to the feel of her lips pressing against mine. Yes, godlike powers or no, alien or no, she definitely felt all woman when her body was close to mine. I shook my head and brought myself back to the moment. I had to concentrate on capturing her, not on watching the delicious way her tits bounced.

  "Miss Solare." I started after her as she walked towards the door. "Miss Solare!" I haven't cancelled class!"

  The large windows looking out over the city, thank goodness I'd had the foresight to use the mind control clicker to get this particular classroom with that particular view ahead of time, rattled as another explosion rocked the city. I briefly wondered exactly where CORVAC was attacking. I'd given him strict instructions to stay away from populated areas and stick to some of the abandoned docks down at the wharf. I figured there was plenty of unoccupied stuff to blow up there. If he wasn’t sticking to the plan… but no. That was impossible. CORVAC hated deviating from a plan, even if he hated the plan.

  He was probably just having a little fun and letting loose. I hadn't let him go to town on the city since the elevated train incident a couple of years back where he got carried away, but I still wondered if maybe he was taking his fun a little too seriously.

  But I couldn't do anything about that right now. What I could do something about was Miss Solare. Miss Fialux. I followed her into the hall. Completely deserted. Typical for this sort of situation. Usually when there was an attack on the city most people sought shelter in one of the many bomb shelters that had been mandated as part of city construction since it became obvious the place was going to be a playground for super powered beings of various provenance settling grudges and creating havoc for the insurance industry.

  That was perfectly fine with me. It meant more privacy for what I was about to do.

  Selena looked over her shoulder and frowned. "Go away!"

  "Not until you explain why you think you can just leave class like that," I said.

  She kept walking. I briefly thought about getting out the device here, but no. There was always the chance someone would step out into the hallway, and it wouldn't do for all of my plans to go awry because some stupid college jock saw me using my stasis field and decided to tackle me from behind. My plans had been ruined by far more stupid coincidences.

  This had to be perfect.

  "You don't understand," she said. "I have to go."

  "I think I understand perfectly," I said. "You're afraid of your feelings after that little incident in my office, and now you're running away from them."

  Now that definitely got her attention. Was I being entirely fair? Probably not. Bringing up something like that was definitely dirty pool, but at the same time there was nothing in the evil supervillainess handbook that said you had to play nice.

  Selena turned and took a step towards me, a pleading look on her face. I almost felt bad for her. She glanced behind her towards a door I knew led to a stairwell since I'd scoped out this entire building during the planning phase. I'm sure she wanted nothing more than to hop into the stairwell, zip up to the roof, and go out to fight the giant death robot attacking the city. And yet she still stopped to talk to me.

  This was definitely interesting.

  A jingle sounded in the empty hallway. Her phone. Damn it! Of all the times for that thing to go off! Then again why wouldn’t someone call her when there was a giant robot attacking the city? I was surprised her phone worked at all considering how jammed the cell towers usually got during an incident like this.

  Selena pulled out the phone and looked at it. Frowned. I stared with rapt attention. Was she going to answer it? A war of desires was clearly playing out in front of me. Her desire to save the city, her desire to talk to me, and her desire to answer her phone. Which would win? Two out of the three options worked for me.

  I saw that slack-jawed look start to cross her face, the look that said she was about to answer and launch into an endless call with this mysterious boyfriend of hers, but then there was a loud explosion off in the distance that rattled the building coupled with sirens wailing once more. The blank look disappeared from her face, her look firmed up to one of determination, and she put the phone back in her pocket.

  She looked up. Locked eyes with me. I blinked. Was she actually choosing me for a change? I figured for sure her desire to save the city would win out. This was impossible, but it sent a warm feeling running through me as she spoke.

  "That's not it at all," she said.

  "Then what is it?"

  She took another step closer to me. And another. She was just as close to me now as we'd been in my office the day before, only now there was no fake wood chair in between us. I was painfully aware that she could snap me like a twig if she realized who I was and what my game was. I was painfully aware that all it would take was for one of us to lean forward and wrap our arms around the other and we would be in the middle of one of the most passionate embraces of my life.

  Both thoughts terrified me equally.

  "I don't know what it is about you," she said. "There's something about you. Something that draws me to you."

  I was so caught up in her words, so turned on by what she was saying, feeling her body so close to mine, that I almost forgot my true purpose. I almost let her go down to that stairwell to fly out and destroy the death ro
bot that I knew wouldn’t survive a single encounter with her anyways.

  Almost.

  I just hoped this worked. I hoped I was right about why the anti-Newtonian stasis field didn’t work correctly the first time I used it on Fialux. Obviously if she was already moving and in action when I activated the field that there wasn't a snowball's chance in hell the field would be able to stand up to the kind of power she was throwing around. But I was about to seriously risk life and limb testing the thing in a live scenario when she was already a body at rest…

  Like she was at that moment staring up at me with the barest hint of moisture in her eyes. Begging me to let her go and save the city. The city that didn't actually need saving since CORVAC had strict orders to disappear as soon as I made the capture. Hey, I might know the giant death robot was a dud, but that didn't mean I wanted to waste all the work that went into it by risking some hero destroying it. Or the military getting in a lucky shot.

  Yet I couldn't help but feel something as I reached out with the stasis device. An odd feeling. Something I don't think I'd ever felt before, or at the very least an emotion that I'd thoroughly stomped down up until this moment.

  Guilt.

  I can't say that I liked what I was about to do. But work was work. There was still the risk of someone interrupting us since we were stuck in the middle of this deserted hallway, but I wasn’t going to get a better opportunity. It was now or never.

  "I'm sorry," I whispered.

  Selena raised her eyebrows in confusion. "Sorry? What are you talking about?"

  I looked down and activated the stasis field. Immediately it sprang up around her, the glow not quite so bright in the lighted hallway as it had been when I was fighting Fialux in the middle of a storm or in a dark alley when I captured Shadow Wing. I looked back up at her and a huge grin split my face.

  "I'm sorry I'm so fucking awesome!"

  Selena’s eyes widened and joined her raised eyebrows. Immediately she started thrashing around, but I raised the field slightly so she was floating in the air and couldn't actually launch herself off of anything. Damn. That would've been embarrassing if I went all the trouble of capturing her in the field and then she was still able to push off the ground. She flailed more and more and the glow grew brighter and brighter.

  For a moment I worried that maybe the kind of power she was throwing around might still be too much for the field, but even as it glowed brightly, turning blue and then purple, it stayed firmly in place. The field was working exactly as designed when she wasn’t already throwing her momentum around. I threw my head back and allowed myself a victorious cackle. Then I lowered my head and narrowed my eyes at Fialux. Because only Fialux could put out enough power to cause the field to blue shift like that.

  "Damn it feels good to be a villain," I said.

  "Who are you? Why are you doing this? The city is in danger!"

  "Oh, right, about that."

  I pulled my wrist band up to my mouth. I had the satisfaction of watching Fialux's eyes widened as she saw the wristband. Oh yes. She recognized that.

  "CORVAC, call off the attack," I said.

  "But mistress, I'm almost to a populated area," CORVAC's metallic voice rang out of my wrist communicator.

  "I don't care. I've got the package and it's about to be delivered. Now shut down the bot and get back to base," I snapped.

  "You!" Fialux said.

  I sketched a brief bow and came back up with a grin. "I suppose it's time to do away with silly costumes, wouldn't you say?"

  I raise my blaster and fired at her once, twice. She didn't even flinch. The first blast knocked off her university logo shirt revealing the bright green skintight Fialux t-shirt underneath. Just as I suspected, the shirt didn't even singe as I blasted it. Though I had to admit part of me was disappointed that it didn't blast away her clothes to reveal her fantastic body. Then again, I suppose she had to be ready for anything when she went out, which meant always being in uniform.

  The second blast knocked away her deliciously tight jean shorts revealing the skirt she wore underneath. It looked slightly disheveled, obviously flying at high speeds was part of what kept it looking presentable. To my delight the skirt barely covered her panties. As she thrashed back and forth I caught glimpses of her delicious ass, a panty-clad ass I’d glimpsed before in fights but which I'd never taken the time to truly stop and admire in person until now. I felt weak in the knees just thinking of rubbing my hands along that ass.

  But there would be plenty of time for that soon.

  "I suppose I should let my hair down too," I said.

  And so I did just that. I hated that the damn academic bun I'd forced myself to wear while I was teaching this course anyways. I reached up and my hair fell down across my shoulders. There, that was far more comfortable. I didn't turn the blaster on myself, but I did very carefully and meticulously unbutton my shirt and pants slipping out of them revealing my far more comfortable carbon fiber suit underneath.

  Yes, far more comfortable.

  I hit a button on the wrist controller and my mask materialized into place. My custom HUD sprang to life feeding me information.

  And I couldn't help but notice that the way Fialux's eyes stared at me intently, anger there for sure, but something else as well as I disrobed. Admiration? Lust? I could hope.

  "I can't believe it Fialux," I said. " I finally have you in my clutches."

  "Even if you kill me there are others who will try and stop you," Fialux said.

  "Kill you?" I asked, arching an eyebrow. "Now what in the time we’ve spent together this semester makes you think I’d go and do a silly thing like kill you?"

  "Then what are you going to do?"

  I chuckled and reached out to attach a long range teleportation targeter to Fialux. "Oh Fialux, I have far more interesting things in store for you my dear."

  18: Confessions

  Fialux looked so beautiful strung up in an antigravity field I'd placed in the lab for just this occasion. Coupled with the stasis field I was pretty sure there was no way she could escape until I was ready to let her escape. I hoped there was no way she could escape until I was ready to let her escape. She stared daggers at me as I walked around her tapping my lips and trying to think about how best to broach the subject I so desperately wanted to broach. Damn. I felt as nervous as my first school dance so many years ago. I guess some feelings never changed no matter how old you were.

  "Would you like to prepare one of the elimination plans mistress? We could never tell if they would actually work before, but now that we have a live subject to experiment on…"

  "No, CORVAC."

  "But…"

  "CORVAC, I've seen her get hit point-blank with the most powerful weapons in my arsenal and shrug it off without any problem," I said. "I'm pretty sure none of the tricks you came up with are going to do jack squat."

  “But what about the Trinity protocol…”

  “You are not detonating a hydrogen bomb to try and destroy Fialux. Besides, we’d have to go to the trouble of stealing one and you know what a pain in the ass that is.”

  There was a pause. A pause that with a human would have been accompanied by a derisive sniff or some other indication of dissatisfaction. As it was, CORVAC just let some of the monitors around the room pick up their beeping before his voice returned.

  "Fine, mistress," he said. If he was anything other than a computer I would have sworn he was pouting. "If you're going to be that way."

  "I am," I said. "And in fact I'd appreciate it if you could turn off your monitors in this room."

  "But mistress!"

  "I said leave the room CORVAC. Fialux and I have some talking to do."

  "Fine mistress," he said.

  All the electronic banks running around the room went dark. Just to be certain I pulled out my wrist blaster and hit a button to send out a very small, very localized electromagnetic pulse that would only take out the electronics in this room. The cleanup bots could
replace the components later, and if CORVAC was listening in then it would serve him right to get a little bit of a zap.

  I paused and listened for a moment but there was no protest. If he was still in the room I'd definitely be getting an earful right now. There was nothing he hated more than when I set off an EMP, whether accidentally or intentionally, where some of his precious circuits might get tickled. Of course I’d still probably hear an earful once I was in a room where his circuits weren't friend and he could talk, but that was a worry for later.

  I held up my wrist blaster for Fialux to see and reached out to touch the button at the side. The straps released and it fell loose in my hand. I gripped it by a strap and held it out far from my body.

  "I'm going to hit this button and you're going to be freed," I said. "No tricks. Nothing up my sleeve. Just the hope that you'll return my trust with a little trust of your own."

  I searched her face for any sign that my peace offering was being met with approval. But the only thing I saw there was a flat stare. I figured there was at least a good 70/30 chance this was the single most stupid thing I'd ever done in my life. And there was also a good chance I was about to get both my ass and my secret lair completely pulverized by an angry vengeful goddess.

  Still, it had to be done.

  I pressed the button and immediately the antigravity field and the stasis field disappeared. I shook my head. All that work to create this damned thing, to nullify the basic laws of the universe as we currently understood them, and I was just turning the damned thing off. I was either an idiot or a hopeless romantic. Probably both.

  The anti-Newtonian stasis field’s subtle glow winked out and Fialux fell to the ground. Or rather she floated to the ground and landed lightly on her feet. Right, the whole unpowered flight thing.

  As soon as the field was down I tossed my wrist blaster to the other side of the room. It's not like it was going to make a difference if she decided to come after me anyways, and I wanted to show her I definitely didn't mean her any harm. Well, no harm beyond kidnapping her and taking her back to my secret lair. But that's where the harm ended. I swear.