I woke from a comfortable dream of snuggling Maddie to the comfortable reality of snuggling Maddie. My arms wrapped around her belly, and my face was buried against her sprawl of black hair. I could swear that I could feel the freckles that speckled her body like a constellation of tiny stars with the tips of my fingers. I smiled and nuzzled against her neck, my nose breathing in her smell -- soft and feminine and faintly scientific. Wait. I drew back, frowning a bit as I looked down at her. She rolled onto her back as I gave her some space in our bed.
Maddie's body was essentially perfect, and I would fight anyone who said otherwise. And since I was Archive, the third or fourth strongest superhero in Project Aegis, I'm pretty sure I'd win. She had cute, smallish breasts that were
just
perfectly sized for my palm. Her skin was pale enough to make her freckles stand out deliciously, and the ruby redness of her nipples was accentuated by circular, perfectly formed things that go around nipples.
Areolas!
Princess Radiant Element With Ninety Two, the spokesperson and head of the entire Altaran civilization that lived in my head and had lived in my head ever since an alien chunk of nanotechnology had turned me from Xander Logan, regular teenager, into Archive.
They're called Areolas. And Madeline's are very very attractive. Also, happy Cuckold Day!
I shook my head, waving my hand. I wouldn't be distracted from this by trivialities like a corporate holiday. I leaned forward, sniffing at Maddie's fingertips. Definitely smelled like
science
to me. Maddie shifted on the bed, still asleep as Radi started to list off the different chemicals I was smelling. I wanted to be cross. Maddie had promised,
promised
that she wouldn't perform any forms of mad science until summer vacation and the time between us graduating from high school and nabbing a college. Not that I thought Maddie planned to
go
to college. Being a wanted supervillain and supergenius did make college seem a bit...
"Heyyyy," Maddie mumbled, opening one eye. "Admiring my itsy bitsy tiny tiddies?"
"Nooooo-" I lied.
"Hah!" Maddie sat up, her breasts bouncing fetchingly, her eyes gleaming with eagerness. She grinned at me -- then looked at the clock. "By Anubis' fluffy tail, Archie, it's five in the freaking morning." She yawned. "Why are you awake?"
"That's a good question..." I said, then grinned. "I know. It's too...kiss you!" I grabbed her shoulders, leaned forward, and kissed her. My tongue and hers met and I tasted the stimulants still tingling along the roof of her mouth. When I drew back, Maddie had the grace to look
faintly
guilty while also looking completely wide awake. "Maddie! You woke up, took a stim, and went to the lab, didn't you?"
"No, I went to the kitchen!" Maddie said, spreading her hands.
"And did what there?" I asked, frowning.
"...okay, it may
look
like anthrax..." Maddie started.
I put my hands over my face.
When we were both standing in the kitchen, Maddie dressed in a bathrobe and me in my jeans and T-shirt, I picked up a tiny bit of the white powder she had been cooking up. The Altarans living in my computronium body -- every last cell of my human form had been replaced by an alien nanorobot that could do a million calculations every second, giving it more computing power than several dozen 'Earth's entire civilization', and those cells were used to simulate the last Altaran city, containing the survivors of Altara when it was destroyed -- worked quickly to analyze the material she had been making.
"Well?" Maddie asked.
"They're still studying it," I said, grinning at her.
"There are several million super-educated alien savants living in you and it's taking
this
long to figure out what little old me did?" Maddie scoffed slightly, brushing her dark hair back behind one slender shoulder. I knew, though, that she was proud, and I wanted to just...pick her up and hug her all over again. But then a chime rang in my head and the specifications scrolled past my eyes. A growing sense of chagrin filled me as I saw the specifications.
"It's...a cure for the common cold..." I said.
Maddie giggled and kissed my cheek. "I know you said no supervillainy. But this is just regular run of the mill super normal, not suspicious-"
I kept reading.
The chagrin turned to a flare of irritation.
"...and it turns men above the age of fifty with conservative opinions into
girls
?" I spun to glare at her.
"Sexy girls!" Maddie said, spreading her hands. "With enhanced libidos!"
"That doesn't make it better!" I exclaimed.
"No, but it
is
funnier," Maddie said, cheerily.
I scowled at her. "Maddie!"
Maddie sighed. "Hey, it is only a short term transformation. Besides, I had to work with most of those jerkbags when I was President. If you think that it's annoying to work with the stuffed shirts at Project Aegis, just imagine working with men who think that not calling someone a...the N-word is political correctness." She shook her head. "If we lived in a just world, they'd have been the first ones Darkthorn killed back in '85." She sighed. "But nooo, they all got fancy bunkers and safe houses to run to during the invasion."
I shook my head. "I can't let you release this as is. Can you take the girlification part out?"
Maddie sighed. "Yes." She picked up a salt shaker that my mom had bought ages ago -- it was a magnetized pair of Kirk and Spock in a wedding outfit. She bathed her white powder with salt and smiled at me. "The salt bonds with the girlification enmeshes and re-polymerizes them into a non-newtonian slurry. Totally harmless."
"Did any of those words actually mean anything?" I asked, cocking my head.
"No, but the real explanation is more complicated," Maddie said, cheerfully. "You can check the stuff."
I sighed. "No. This may be...Cuck Day...but I trust you." I smiled at her, ruffling her hair slightly with my one hand. Maddie giggled, leaning her head back and kissing my palm. As she kissed me, I bit my lower lip and...just...
tingled
. Feeling her lips made me feel like butterflies and squirming excitement and golden rainbows. I drew my palm away from her face and Maddie playfully chomped onto one of my fingers, not letting it go until she shook her head back and forth like a puppy. Once I had gotten my hand back, she licked her lips.
"So, you're right, it
is
Cuck Day. Are we going to do anything for it?" she asked.
"Do anything on the day where people are encouraged to go out and cheat on their partners?" I asked, shaking my head. "God, no."
"Good," Maddie said, nodding as she crossed her arms over her chest. "It's a dumb holiday. I don't even know why it started."
"You? You don't know why a holiday started?" I asked, putting my hands on my hips. "You're a Class Sixteen intellect!"
"Yeah, but even someone as smart as me doesn't -- can't -- know everything," Maddie said. "I mean, Marcus Flair doesn't know how to keep his pants on around cute girls, and he's a Class 12 intellect."
I snorted. "Iridium isn't that bad."
"He's thirty two and dating your friend Alison," Maddie said, skeptically.
"Okay, yeah, Iridium is that bad," I admitted.
The door to my parents opened and Dad-2 walked out. He looked scraggly and unshaven and somewhat less than human. This was because Dad-2 was actually an alien shapeshifter -- it was a long story. Basically, aliens had wanted to invade Earth secretly using shapeshifters, Dad-2 was one of them who had copied someone, but he ended up falling in love with Mom and staying when the aliens got their butts kicked. So, now, I had two Dads.
Okay, actually, it wasn't that long of a story, actually. He blinked as he looked at the two of us.
"What are you two doing up?" he asked, his green scales shimmering as he focused and withdrew them underneath his false human skin, his eyes turning from slitted yellowy orbs to more human ones.
"Nothing!" Maddie and I said at the same time.
###
I thumped down into my desk and leaned back as the homeroom teacher started to scrawl on the broad the lesson plan for the day. Maddie sat next to me, while Alison sat to my right. Alison, my childhood friend and former most intelligent girl in my life, glared at Maddie. Maddie ignored her with her multispectral don't give a fuck field. I sighed. I knew why Alison might be upset -- today
was
Cuck Day and she was dating the least restrained superhero I had ever met in my entire life. But I decided right now, that I would dedicate today to being the best boyfriend in the entire history of the
universe
.
"So, if anyone wants to exchange Cuck Day cards, now is the time to do it," the teacher said, absently.
I nodded.
And then Trevor Shane walked by and slipped a card onto my desk with a mean smirk. Trevor Shane did not know that I was, in fact, Archive. If he had, he'd be less impressed with his Orak muscles and his four arms. And he'd stop trying to freaking bully me. And because secret identities were a
thing
, I had to freaking take it. I took up the card and saw it had a picture of two deer -- a buck with smallish antlers and a doe. Their noses were touching.
Don't be lonely...
It said on the front. I opened it and now, the doe was being mounted by a larger, darker furred buck with
much
bigger antlers. The picture was drawn in a way that made it impossible to see any penetration, but it was so overt that it might as well have been softcore. The expression of blissed out pleasure on the doe's face was also unmistakable. The smaller back watched on with a chagrined expression -- and under him were the words:
I still make her horny.
"That's not school appropriate..." I muttered.
I closed the card, a sudden sense of decision crackling through me. "Professor, can I go to the bathroom?"
"For the last time, Logan, I'm a teacher, not a professor, and yes," the homeroom teacher said. I smiled, sprang to my feet, kissed Maddie on the cheek, then sprinted out. The instant I was out of class, I kicked on the superspeed. I moved faster than the human eye could see, arriving at the library with only a faint
crack
of wind. The head librarian started as she looked over at me, clearly shocked that I had just appeared before her. I beamed at her.
"Hey," I said. "Do you have any books on the history of Cuck Day?"
She sighed. "Yes," she said. "I have three..." She frowned at me. "You aren't thinking of breaking that Madeline's heart, are you, Logan?"