Chapter Fifty-Five: What the Future Holds.

Chloe took a look at the newspaper. Claire and Lana decided to indulge her with a minor amount of interest, although the two of them didn't share her interest for the strange. Well they were interested, but perhaps they should have said they didn't share her passion for the strange. Actually, passion really was the ideal world, neither of them could share.

"Wow, I don't really know what to say about all of this," Chloe said. "I thought moving to Smallville would be boring. I mean, no offense."

"Believe me, I wish you were right," Claire said.

"Are you kidding?" Chloe asked. "Everything is going to be really interesting. Look at all of the costumed heroes popping up."

"Well, the only reason why there needs to be heroes is there's a whole of villains," Claire said. "Someone is going to have to save the world."

Chloe nodded at Claire's words. They made a whole lot of sense to be honest. She allowed the breezes in the farm town to blow through her head.

Lana tried to catch Claire's eye. If Lana knew her friend, and she did, she figured Claire wondered what role she took. Lana thought about it, and hoped to support Claire every step of the way.

"Someone is going to have to," Lana said. "But, I'm sure whoever it is, they're not going to lack help."

"The bad guys have plenty of help though," Chloe said.

Lana and Claire stared at Chloe. Chloe folded her arms and didn't really say much of anything. She didn't want to upset them, for raining on their parade and it was a hell of a parade to rain on for obvious reasons.

"The bad guys might have their help, but so do the good guys," Claire said.

"What, do you think they're going to form some kind of club of super friends?" Chloe asked. She paused and broke out into a wide ear to in grin. "Hmm, super friends, now there's an idea?"

"What's an idea?"

Kara and Alia turned up. Chloe almost jumped halfway up into the air. Lana stopped herself from doing so. Claire hung her head forward and started to break out into a bad series of giggles.

"Must you sneak up on people?" Chloe asked.

Claire broke out into a greater fit of laughter. She tried to use her fist to block her mouth, but the laughter continued for a second.

"It wouldn't be Alia if she didn't give at least one person a heart attack," Kara said. "So, are the three of you staying out of trouble?"

Chloe's lips curled into a momentary grin. Claire ducked her head and started to laugh.

Lana decided to answer for the two girls who couldn't keep a straight face. Her exasperated expression cased the other two girls to break out in a fretful round of laughter again.

"Well, I don't think we could get in too much trouble," Lana said. "Even if Donna had to leave town, I'm sure you have plenty of people here who are going to keep an eye on us."

"Oh, you do like to keep an eye on young girls, don't you?" Chloe asked.

Kara's gaze locked onto the younger blonde.

"Always keeping a look out for future talent," Kara said. "We might look you up in a couple of years to join the group. If you stay out of trouble."

"Oh, you just had to really make it hard, haven't you?" Chloe asked. "Well, since I'm in Smallville, it's going to be much harder to stay out of trouble."

"I'm sure the three of you are just going to have to do your best. But, you're right about one thing, There's a lot of weirdness happening in Smallville."

Chloe placed her hand underneath her chin and nodded at Alia's words.

"Someone should really chronicle all of the weirdness in Smallville," Chloe said. "You know, having all of the information about everything might come in handy."

"Hmm, interesting," Alia said. "Well, I'm sure if someone decides to chronicle it, they shouldn't go too far into the weirdness."

'Are you encouraging her?' Diana asked.

'Really giving her a warning,' Alia thought. 'She's going to do it anyway. I know the look, you know the look.'

'Yes, you and Donna do it all of the time,' Diana said. 'Well more so when you were younger.'

'And you were perfect, weren't you?' Donna asked.

'Gabi pulls it off often as well,' Fleur said. 'And she's getting really insufferable.'

'Well, good things come to those who wait,' Alia thought. 'Did you get back at her about teasing her about the delayed puberty?'

'What do you think?' Fleur asked.

'Oh, you're getting revenge on her,' Kara thought. 'Naughty girl.'

'Thanks, I do try,' Fleur thought.

Kara leaned over to Claire. Claire frowned and Kara escorted her off of the side. Alia stayed to chat with Lana and Chloe.

"So, you're going through some weird periods with your powers?" Kara asked.

"Do, we even go through periods?" Claire asked.

"Kind of, but not in the human sense," Kara said. "I'll explain it to you, but you might not want to eat before I do."

"I see," Claire said. "A lot of people talk about how powers are like the onset of puberty."

Kara couldn't really argue. People become weirded out because of how their body changes. What weirded out people more than dealing with powers they could barely control?

"I'll teach you, Claire," Kara said. "I'll teach you all about your powers, and how to use them."

"Would you really?" Claire asked. "It seems like I have a great destiny."

"Destiny isn't something you should worry about," Kara said. "I won't deny you have the potential for some great things, but regardless, the choice is yours."

Kara understood Claire might have had a lot of pressure on her once she hit a certain age. She hoped to ease up the burden.

'Helps a little bit she'll have a group of willing allies,' Alia thought.

'It does help,' Kara thought.

The trip to the island turned out to be good for the extended Evans family. Rose raised her eyebrow in amusement as the twins bounced up and down in barely suppressed glee, talking about what happened on the island.

"I can't believe it," Amanda said. "Everything was so cool, so amazing, I don't even know what else to say."

"Well, we're going to have to go back, several times," Emily said.

"Oh, if the two of you are good, I'm sure we can take a return trip to the island," Lily said. "We've barely scratched the surface of your training, I think."

"For some reason, Alia hinted the real training is going to begin when we hit eleven," Amanda said. "I don't know why."

Lily and Rose smiled. With the magical maturation process, both of them knew why. Granted, the real fun didn't take place until the point where they hit the second maturation process, which coincided with their second maturity.

"Well, what about when we turn fourteen?" Emily asked.

"Oh, the ascension ceremony, it's going to be really fun," Amanda said. "Cassie was smiling after the ceremony. I don't know why, she could barely walk."

Lily bent over for a second.

"Well, she put in a good performance, and made Alia break a sweat," Lily said. "You know very few people were able to hold their own against Alia. Only Artemis, Hippolyta, and Diana."

"And maybe one day she can be the greatest warrior who ever lived," Amanda said.

"Well, if you train and work hard towards it, anything is possible."

The twins gave a solid eep as Alia turned up.

"I'm doing that a lot today, don't worry."

"For the record, this time, I saw you coming out of the corner of my eye," Lily said.

She crossed the room and wrapped her arms around her daughter. Alia smiled as she looked up into her mother's face.

"So, what did the two of you think of Themyscira?"

Rose waited for a second for the floodgates to open. The twins broke out into an excited, rapid fire stream of twin babble, tripping over each other in an attempt to tell Alia precisely what they thought about their trip on the island.

'So, do you understand a word they're saying?' Donna asked.

'Some of it,' Alia said. She received her share of stares through the bond. She sighed and amended her statements. 'A little of it.'

'Good, glad one of us does,' Kara thought.

The twins lost a little bit of steam, finally slowing down the hyperactive exchange long enough for them to calm down.

"So, it's going to be so good, and sure, we got knocked on our butts a lot, but….it was still fun….."

"Really, fun, we can't wait to go back…"

"And I can't believe we have seven years to wait for our ascension ceremony…"

"We will have one of those, won't we Alia?"

Alia smirked. The twins most certainly would get the honor.

"Keep working hard, and you will," Alia said. "Train hard and more importantly keep up with your studies."

"Yes, a strong mind works in tandem with a stronger body," Lily said.

The twins smiled at their mother's thoughts.

"So, has everything been going fine here?" Alia asked.

"Business as usual," Rose said. "Some of the new recruits have been promising, but they're a little bit haughty."

Lily leaned in towards Alia. A smile appeared on the woman's face. Her fingers pushed through Alia's hair.

"You know you're going to have to show them the ropes and potentially break them in."

Lily left no room for interpretation with her words. She smiled.

'Yes, I'm certain Alia will be a good help in keeping the new recruits under foot,' Emma thought. 'And one of the elements the Hellfire Club sought, the Phoenix Force, may be one of our prime operatives. Or at least a very valued associate. I doubted very much I would ever say the day where this would happen.'

'Oh, you should believe you would,' Alia thought. A smirk flooded over her face.

'Well, we can come to an understanding,' Hope said. 'My problems with the Hellfire Club existed under previous management.'

'Management I can assure you has been eliminated,' Alia thought.

'And we're going to build a brand new glorious future,' Jaime thought. 'Sorry, I can't be there, for the extended Evans girls get together.'

'Don't worry, you're enjoying your time on vacation with Karen,' Alia thought. 'After being trapped in someone else's mind, you deserve it more than anyone else I know.'

'Well, one could argue you deserve a proper vacation more,' Jaime thought. 'But, the world is about to change….lot of heroes coming up.'

'Oh, we've been down the hero road before, haven't we?' Karen thought.

'Yes, we have,' Jaime thought. 'Are you going to dust off the old outfit?'

'Given how much it matured, I don't think it would fit me,' Karen thought. 'Plus Supergirl sounds like such a cheesy name.'

'I don't know, I kind of like it,' Kara said.

'You can have it, if you really want it,' Karen thought. 'Speaking of which Alia, do you have a codename?'

'No, and I don't want one,' Alia said.

'Well, you're a bit beneath the spotlight,' Diana thought. 'Hopefully, the press doesn't give you some lame moniker which sticks.'

'Well, I'd call you the Huntress, because you remind me of another friend of ours from Earth-Two, who got last in the translation,' Jaime said. 'Because, she used the name Huntress.'

'Not bad, but I think the name Fury suits her as well,' Karen thought. 'Or maybe…Nightwing, with all of the dragon talk.'

'Not bad, but I don't know, something about having a code name is…..'

'Weird?' Donna asked.

'To be fair, I didn't come up with the Spider-Girl name,' Gwen thought. 'Someone yelled it out when I saved them, and there you go, it stuck. Not sure what other name I would approve.'

Alia smiled.

"Gabi really is getting on my nerves," Amanda said. "She's complaining about how she isn't getting ugly fast enough."

"Who complains about not getting ugly?" Emily asked.

Alia leaned to her twin sisters.

"I'll explain to both of you when you get older."

Thea returned to a Penthouse across town she purchased with the money she earned working at the law office. She entered it, making sure to slip out of what she wore, and make her way into a bathrobe.

"So, long nights so far, Thea?"

Thea blinked and she noticed Alia sitting on the couch. She already made a cup of coffee for both of them.

"Hey, Alia, I didn't think you were stopping by," Thea said. "I did give you a key, but….didn't think you would be by tonight."

"Wanted to check up on you, see how you were doing," Alia said. She patted a spot on the couch and Thea sat down.

Thea wondered if Alia figured out what she did during her nights. The Queen heiress figured alia would have figured out what had been happening during some pretty long nights. Alia ended up being too smart for her own good at times, as far as Thea knew.

Thea smiled, wasn't exactly a complaint, more like a compliment of some kind. Regardless, she settled down on the couch next to Alia.

"I'm doing well, thanks for asking," Thea said. "Sara was by a few times to help me brush up on some of her skills. And she told me if I train well enough, she might reward me."

'Well, I think I put my sight on the wrong Queen,' Sara thought.

'I think you did,' Laurel thought. 'I think we both did…..so how is everything going with the revamped League?'

'Nyssa is working hard, but I'm making sure she's not getting too stressed,' Sara thought. 'If you catch my drift.'

'The same thing I do with Barbara when she immerses herself into her studies a bit too much?' Laurel asked.

'Precisely,' Sara thought.

Thea leaned back and started to sip on a cup of coffee.

"Thanks for the present you gave me, by the way," Thea said.

"Hey, you're very welcome, you deserve it," Alia said.

Thea thought for a moment she would kiss her and take her on the couch. And Thea would allow it to be honest. She would allow Alia to take her in any way possible, if she allowed so.

The Queen heiress shifted for a moment. It had been a long night and she had some frustrations to be honest. Her nipples hardening beneath her shirt didn't help with her thoughts.

"You seem pretty tense tonight," Alia said.

"Well, it's been a long night," Thea said. "Had a couple of hostile clients at Ms. Milton's life office."

Alia almost shuddered. She hated to think what Circe did to people who were belligerent at her law office.

'Is it just me, or do you have a bad feeling some pigs are going to be running around?' Donna thought.

'It's not just you,' Diana thought.

'You know, I'd much rather not raise Circe's ire,' Felicity said. 'The last thing I want to be doing is rolling around in a pit of mud and not in a good way….and all of the myths about her are true.'

'If anything, they're understated,' Diana thought.

"There's a lot going on," Alia said. "There's a mysterious woman in a hood running around and putting arrows in the scum in the city."

Thea tried not to break her stoic demeanor. Alia's gaze burned into her for several seconds.

"A world class archer putting arrows in people," Alia said. "Whoever he is, might be a prodigy."

"Or she," Thea said.

"Or she," Alia said. "Well, the city is becoming a cesspool. There's a lot of people who are failing this city, aren't there?"

"Yes, a few," Thea said.

Some of them being some of her mother's business contacts, who were involved in something shady, which might be tied into the Queen's Gambit going down, but Thea would sort all of the information out, when she sorted them out.

"Well, if I run into her, I'll tell her to keep up the noble work," Alia said. "She's fighting with a spirit of a true warrior."

Thea twitched at Alia almost closing in on her. From this position, her hard nipples became even more visible than ever before.

"And she's doing some noble work out there, believe me. Just be careful, because the people she's fighting are equally dangerous."

"Yes, pretty dangerous," Thea said.

Alia swooped in and planted a kiss on Thea's lips. The Queen heiress found herself left spellbound and in a desperate need of a change of panties.

Also, the warrior princess disappeared, which left her rather frustrated.

'I need a shower.'

Diana stretched her legs out. Everything went full circle in life eventually. She prepared to battle on the eve of Alia's third maturity.

The Ascension ceremony which kicked off her second maturity lingered fresh in Diana's mind. The Amazon Princess's lips shifted into a knowing smile. She leaned back to wait for Alia to turn up.

Alia approached the scene, determined and ready to fight. Diana backed off to allow Alia a sufficient amount of room to step into the picture.

"This looks familiar," Diana said.

"Yes," Alia said. "Only I've been through a lot in the past year."

"Seems like even longer for some reason," Diana said. "Guess, it's just how life goes by sometimes."

Alia didn't want to say anything, but with Limbo, the time passed even longer. Ginny and Illyana flourished after their trip through limbo. As for Ananym, she ruled things with an even hand and Limbo looked to be a bit better spirits.

'Won't stop me from showing up and making sure she stays in line. I wouldn't want her to step too far out of bounds to be honest.'

Regardless, Alia stepped into a secluded area of the island, along with Diana. Unlike the Ascension ceremony dual, this part of Themyscira didn't really have too many Amazons coming by it. Every now and then, the odd Amazon appeared to train in seclusion, but most of the people left it alone.

Diana went here a lot when she was younger, before Donna was born and Alia came to the island, because she wanted to be left alone with her thoughts. Or, because the princess wanted to skip her lessons.

Granted, Diana wouldn't admit the second reason out loud. No matter how clever she thought herself to be, Artemis and Hippolyta stepped ahead of her. Diana's plans fell by the wayside with every attempt for her to do something.

Couldn't really get away with anything, and believe her, Diana tried to get away with a whole lot.

"Nice place here," Alia said.

"It's a secluded spot, we shouldn't have any prying eyes here," Diana said. "We even shut the bond link down, this is between you and me. I really want to see how far you've come in your training."

Alia worked in some new techniques through her sparring sessions with Nyssa and Sara. She hoped these techniques would be more than enough for her to be a match with Diana.

"Some time ago on this island, you stood here, a girl, and you stand before me, almost a woman," Diana said. "And can you believe I was upset I didn't make you a woman?"

"You had some tension with Kara," Alia said.

"Yes, I know, and I acted like a bitch because of it," Diana said. "In reality, I'm no better than Aresia ended up being."

"I wouldn't say you're as bad as Aresia," Alia said. "But, you do have your moments where you're not as perfect as everyone likes to say you are."

"One might argue I'm really not perfect at all," Diana said.

"Maybe you aren't," Alia said. "But, regardless, it's now me and you, in battle with each other. To see if I can beat you this time."

"I won't be holding back," Diana said.

"Oh, and I won't be holding back either," Alia said. "And if I ever got a hint you were holding back, I would kick your ass twice as hard. And your ass belongs to me, any way you look at it."

Diana ignored the attempt to get inside her head. The Amazon prepared to step towards her sister. The young woman stood at the ready, about ready to attack Alia.

"So, are you ready?" Diana asked.

"I was born ready," Alia said. "I think you might be in for a couple of surprises today."

Tomorrow, Alia reached third maturity. The invitation to Olympus rang in her mind, and she wanted to accept it.

"Oh?" Diana asked. "Indulge me."

Alia extended her arm out and the two Amazons charged each other in combat. The swords connected together.

The two Amazons fought fiercely, with a combination of sword play and hand to hand combat. Both pushed each other to their limits in a rapid fire fashion.

The winner would be decided between just the two of them and kept between just the two of them.

The End(Well if you're reading the censored version. There's an extra spicy bonus chapter too hot for Dot Net).