The Amazing Starflyte in...
The Ooze Bride!
Part 1- A Slimy Proposal!
There are a lot of flaws that come with being a professional Superheroine in the modern world.
-The health care isn't nearly as good as you think, but that's the profession regardless of gender.
-The uniforms generally push back the women's equality arguments back several decades, but a heavily armored Heroine just doesn't have the marketability in this sponsor-driven corporate world...
-You have to fight ten times harder than the men, and still get treated like you'll bruise at the slightest mistouch...
-And last but certainly not least, there is ALWAYS going to be some Villain more than happy to drop you down to Damsel Status...Which is where we are now...
But WHY did it have to be HIM...?
...Our heroine, Starflyte, grunted in disapproval as she tugged one wrist that was firmly cemented to the wall by a blob of green, glistening ooze that had hardened into an amber-esque substance. There was no give, and all four of her limbs were equally plastered to the wall, spread eagle, a sticky and gummy layer of the stuff had been smeared over her mouth to silence any protests, or swearing. She had been doing a lot of that today, in regards to her captor. There was also a thin layer of the stuff...in her hair, staining her costume, all over..
The Goomeister. Formerly a chemist named Edward Gouten, blah blah blah, industrial accident, blah blah, body completely reduced to a sentient ooze material, blah blah, something about converting everyone in the city into goo creatures...Starflyte really hadn't dug that deep into Goomeisters dosier. He was D-List, the kind of hoodlum who recruited neighborhood toughs as his henchmen for a cut of the take, robbed banks, committed fraud, and other tame forms of villainy. She was used to dealing with B-list Crime for Hire types like Dragoon or Snowblind. Villains you could take seriously...Gouten...you just couldn't take a man in an airtight rubber suit and a fishbowl for a head filled with bubbling green liquid seriously...You could hear a 'bloop' every time a bubble boiled up.
Maybe that's why she was now glued and gagged to the wall while her captor in question and singing to himself as he played with his chemistry set...How he could even talk, well...Again, she didn't really do the homework on this assignment...
"Mmmmph." Starfly grunted and struggled. If she could somehow reach her belt and adjust a few settings, she could break free, but such was not the case...
"What was that, my little dafodil?" Her struggles must have caught his attention. Gouten had a very high pitched voice for living sludge, and almost always had a lilt as though he was about to break into a fit of laughter.
"Fmmph mm gmmm!" Starflyte growled and jerked her arms. "Hmm tmmmm gmmm ummm!"
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't catch that..." The fishbowl tilted and he waved his hands, the slime covering her mouth sliding away.
She shook her head, sending droplets of wet lime hued goo flying before she shot him a glare. "I said, call me 'dafodil' again, and I'll stick your ass in--NNNGH!" She was immediately silenced by the ooze on her neck transforming into a new gag.
"Oh, my darling, my peach, you know I don't like that kind of language!" He waggled a rubber finger at her. "And don't worry...you'll be free soon...Oh yes, very free...So very very free!" The fishbowl bubbled as he laughed, turning her attention to his work.
She grunted. Great. Here it comes, ladies and gentlemen...The part where the villain reveals his big plans of global domination for less than $20 a day. Not much she could do but listen...and hope he dropped a hint to his defeat in the process...
"For years now, no one has understood...My happiness..." Goomeister fawned over vats and beakers and vials. "...Happy, so very happy...The day I became..." He shuddered visibly. "Goooooo
...was the happiest day of my life..."
She had to admit, Gouten was one of those who...was just really upbeat about things, despite being a D-list punching bag.
"And that, my dear, is why I want to BRING my happiness...To all of Calimane...No, no Edward...Calimane is just one small step...You see, my love, my precious..." Okay, he was close to her. Real close. It might be a good time to mention that Gouten may have had a thing for Starflyte. As he got close, she could feel the patches of ooze starting to...crawl all over her. She raised a brow and struggled. Was this his way of copping a feel? That jerk! "...In bringing happiness to the WORLD!"
"Mmm mmph..." She narrowed her eyes at him in a 'oh really' gesture.
"Yes...Oh yes...Once I am finished, I will have created a serum, that will transform all organic matter...In beautiful...Delightful...pure...GOOOOOOOOO!!" He hugged himself as another shutter hit him. This was the awkward part of dealing with Gouten...Nice guy, really. But he apparently has an orgasm every time the word 'goo', 'ooze' or 'slime' gets uttered. It makes a girl a little skeezed out.
Starflyte rolled her eyes. Yes yes, Edward...Let's turn all the people in the world into slime...
"But first...My love...You will be my first citizen, in my new world. A gift, from me to you..."
She snapped her eyes at him, a panic suddenly hitting her. She shook her head frantically, No no no, you are not.
And he just nodded his head, Oh yes yes yes, I shall, I shall.
"And at last, we shall be wed...As we were always meant to be...My Ooze Bride...And together, we shall rule this world, in love...and happiness...and GOOOOOOO!"
This...just got a whole lot less D-List...
-To be continued.