Copyright 2017 Matt Nicholson. All rights reserved.
Disclaimer - This story's chock full of hard breast punishment. As a result of red kryptonite exposure, Superman's inhibitions are gone and Wonder Woman and her lovely breasts become his targets - not that she really minds. In any case, it's a tale of cutting loose and wish-fulfillment that plays fast and loose with the whole "safe, sane, and consensual" thing. So, if tit torment's not your thing, then please have fun with someone else's stories. Otherwise, enjoy and let me know what you think. Best! ~Matt~
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It was supposed to have been a celebration.
The President of the United States had given each of them gifts -- ruby encrusted rings of yellow gold, each engraved with their respective emblems. Diana thought the gaudy rings looked rather like the professional sporting championship jewelry she had seen being worn at high-level social events by the sports heroes of man's world. However, instead of sports symbols, hers bore an eagle. Bruce's bore his bat, and Kal's bore the universally recognizable inverted triangle surrounding a stylized "S".
Almost everyone believed the symbol was simply the first initial of a name given to him by his deceased wife decades earlier, back when she had been a crusading reporter for The Daily Planet and Kal had been a mystery for Lois to solve.
The triangled "S" was actually the patriarchal crest of a family long dead, killed forty-three years earlier along with a planet thousands of light-years distant. The planet had been called "Krypton." His family name was "El." The crest was actually a symbol of hope. The world knew Kal-El as "Superman."
The "Freedom Rings", as the President had so tritely dubbed them, were their reward for the mostly peaceful elimination of a terrorist organization called "The Islamic State." They had managed to elude the highly trained and technologically superior armed forces of the empirical United States and other countries for almost two decades after the world's largest terror event on September 11, 2001.
Diana knew the ceremony was just another excuse for the politicians to grandstand with the three most well-known heroes their Earth had known. Bruce thought the same. But then Bruce suspected everyone's motives. The surprise reaction had come from Kal.
Superman seldom said anything bad about anyone, even during his and her private conversations in the calm of space outside the Justice League's orbiting satellite. But, during a chat only the day before, his tone -- and the impatient way he'd flicked his wrist while flinging space rocks like marbles to explode against passing asteroids -- told her he was more than a little frustrated. Having to participate in yet another ceremony designed to make this particular President more popular in the American polls was irritating even to The Man of Steel.
Yet, despite his inner distaste, Kal insisted they participate. Adopted as an infant and raised by salt-of- the-Earth farmers after his space ship's fiery crash into the heart of the young country, "Truth, Justice, and The American Way" had been his slogan for decades. Even though the Amazons had all but adopted the United States of America as a project, she always blanched at "The American Way" part.
"The Justice League of America" had long since dropped the "of America" descriptor, wisely choosing to be heroes of the world as "The Justice League." Yet, Kal always remained true to the land he called home, regardless of the obvious fact that the U.S.A. wasn't always representative of a global perspective. Diana feared that, eventually, Kal's naΓ―ve disregard of his gut in favor of being politically correct might well cost them their lives.
As far as the current crisis was concerned, she highly doubted the President had known the stone in Kal's ring wasn't ruby. As unscrupulous as she thought the man, deliberately turning the planet's most powerful being into a drunken juggernaut served no purpose. In all likelihood, someone the President considered an ally had offered the rings as a gift. The President had gladly accepted, with dreams of a public relations coup dancing in his eyes. Whomever the ring's original holder, he or she had likely planned for exactly what was happening, having easily played the U.S. President for a pawn. It certainly wouldn't have been the first time.
They called the radioactive rock "red kryptonite." It was a fragment of Kal-El's obliterated planet. Unlike its green-colored cousin, this variety didn't make him weak or kill him; it just made him very ill-mannered and deadly. The moment Superman slipped the ring onto his finger and the brief tell-tale red pulse bulged though the veins in his hands, she regretted not having checked the ring as she'd planned. Thoughts of Cassandra's failure to act on her suspicions over the Trojan horse came to mind. Diana hoped the results of her own inaction wouldn't be similar. They'd blamed the fall of Troy on the women, too.
Once the gift's alcohol-like effects radiated through Kal's veins, and his unrestrained opinion of the President became known, she and Bruce had no choice but to join battle against the Kryptonian. Even though Diana's opinion secretly mirrored Superman's newfound candor, it wouldn't have been seemly to let him kill the most prominent leader of the free world on public television.
Almost always at Kal's side, especially since the death of his wife several years past, she'd been the first to react. While Batman took aggressive glee in knocking Secret Service agents out of harm's way, Wonder Woman tried talking Superman down. In response, he'd simply grabbed the stylized golden eagle's wing that covered her left breast and swung her around by it like a dervish. Then, with a twist of his wrist that tore a quarter of her supposedly impervious uniform free, he'd sent her careening backward through the air for almost a mile.
By the time she'd done her meager best to cover her freshly bared breast, straightened her tiara, and returned, Bruce had managed to dodge out of Kal's reach long enough to activate the Justice League's emergency transmitter and was tugging the second of two glowing green gloves into place. Diana frowned at the need for kryptonite, but she couldn't argue the point.
In the distance, flying, running, or otherwise moving in low and fast, she saw their super-powered reinforcements coming. Bruce made it back to the Man of Steel just moments before her, throwing a spinning back fist that was technically perfect. The green kryptonite reinforced glove smashed Kal's nose, drawing blood rarely seen since the days of the monster Doomsday. Superman dropped the President long enough to turn on his black-cowled friend. Kal wiped the blood from his nose with the back of his hand and grinned like a drunken bar fighter. The delay gave Diana just enough time to get in and let her fist fly.
He stopped a blow that could have shattered titanium dead, three inches from his face. Then, while leering at the bare breast she couldn't keep from bouncing, he grabbed the remaining golden eagle wing. He'd always been scrupulously careful when doing battle with women, and, to the best of her flawless memory, had never even torn a leotard.
In the next instant, he twisted his wrist hard and down, laying her other breast bare and ripping most of the rest of her bodice away. After a knowing look and a throaty laugh, both as unlike him as his actions, he missiled off in the direction of the incoming heroes, leaving her hovering in shock like some topless mortal trollop.
For a second, she could only blink. It was so unlike him, and so like some of the fantasies she'd never have admitted to, that it left her stunned. Shaking it off, she left most of her shock with the tattered shreds of her uniform top and sped after him, saving just enough irritation to help her focus.
She watched as Green Lantern and Supergirl split right while Power Woman split left. Captain Marvel, colloquially known as "The World's Mightiest Mortal" -- and most likely the nearest thing to an even match for Superman that existed -- continued down the center. It was a basic flanking maneuver, one they'd all practiced together many times, and since one flank was weaker, she moved that way to reinforce the left.
Unfortunately -- and contrary to popular belief -- none of them were truly invulnerable. Superman was well aware of each of their limits. Regardless of alien physiology, magical enhancement, telekinetic skill, enhanced technology, paranormal gifts, or superior training, even the strongest among them could be hurt, though some less easily than others. She knew they were in trouble when he blurred forward and all but disappeared, moving into a speed zone beyond them all. He slowed only long enough to punch though Lantern's glowing green shield and body slam him into senselessness.