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                            BABEWATCH 2


Chapter 1


     The witch known as Diabolique landed on the ground
with a loud thud. She was bleeding from the abuse she'd    
suffered at the hands of the First Pantheon. It had only
been because of the Keep's invasion of Earth that the gods had allowed her
to escape, but she would die before going back!
     "Where am I?", she groaned.
     "Look at that freak!", a man laughed.
     She managed to raise her head to see a group of young men standing
over her, each looking at her like she was personal property.
     "Leave me alone.", she groaned. Normally she would have killed them
but her powers were at their weakest and she would be unable to defend
herself even from these maggots.
     They were on her in moments and she was so drained that all she could
do was scream...until the men
all let her go suddenly.
     A tall man in a suit stood at the end of the alley she'd landed in.
His eyes seemed to be glowing even as
he spoke.
     "Leave the lady alone men, in fact stay right there until she is
ready to punish you.", he instructed.
     "Why would you save me?", she groaned, "You are a man."
     "I know of you Diabolique, we both share a common enemy in
Youngblood. I was delighted to hear
that you'd turned Shaft and the others into women!", he chuckled.
     "Who are you?", she asked while staggering to her feet.
     "I am called Psi-fire, my mental powers brought Youngblood to their
knees mere months before 
your gender-bending attack. I have only recently escaped torture at the
hands of an alien who
was using my powers. So you see we have much in common.", he explained.
     "You are a man! I have nothing in common with them!", she snapped.
     "Is that all? Then turn me into a woman!", he laughed.
     "What?", she asked in stunned wonder.
     "I have been a woman before my dear, and to destroy my former friends
I'll do just about anything!",
he swore.
     She summoned her last bit of power and a gorgeous brunette stood in
the man's suit. She was 
volumptuos and sexy, especially since her suit had not changed and now was
plastered to her curves.
     "Excellent!", the female Psi-Fire laughed, "Your powers are all that
I have heard!".
     Diabolique smirked despite her pain, "You are a different breed than
your fellow humans Psi-Fire,
perhaps we can make a partnership that will destroy Youngblood!", she
laughed.
     "What about them?", Psi-Fire asked while pointing to the men her
power held in check.
     "Bring them with us, when my powers return they'll be made into women
and will serve us as 
slaves!", the witch laughed.

                               YOUNGBLOOD HQ

     Shaft fired arrow after arrow into his target in the gym. He still
saw no evidence of Nu-Gene powers
in his performance....yet he knew it was there.
     "Don't you ever get tired?", Riptide asked as she entered the room.
     "Not lately.", he muttered.
     "I need to talk to you Shaft.", she said quietly.
     He saw the tears nearly coming from her and put aside his bow.
     "What is it?", he asked with concern.
     "I'm being stalked Jeff! Someone seems to know my every move, even my
boyfriend , well ex-boyfriend
thinks I'm being paranoid! He left me, said I was going crazy!", she
sobbed.
     Jeff hugged her warmly, he'd had his own share of problems with
relationships lately. 
     "Riptide, if you want move in here. I'll watch out for you.", he
promised.
     She looked surprised, "You would? But I was under the impression you
thought of me as a dim-
witted bimbo!".
     He stroked her hair off her face and kissed her, "Let's just say I've
learned a thing or two in the last 
few months about the ladies, hell I was one for a time!", he smirked.
     "And a sexy one at that!", Riptide laughed, "Did it improve
your...knowledge in bed?", she smirked.
     Jeff seemed stunned but quickly recovered, "Want to find out?", he
said sincerely.
     She pressed herself against him while kissing him harder. In a few
moments they were on their 
way to Shaft's room.

                CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK CITY

     Glory looked around with a concerned expression, first the dream
problem with her friends and 
now the fact that she could feel Diabolique's power in this city. She
looked around at the members
of Youngblood that had come upon her request, a concern etched her face
that Shaft had stayed behind.
     In attendance were Badrock, Combat, Cougar, Vogue, and Task. Except
for Combat they were all
very aware of Diabolique's powers and didn't want it happening again. 
     "She's here.", Glory said simply, "I can feel her power.".
     Task groaned, "This is a nightmare! I just regained my manhood!".
     Glory frowned, "I won't let her do it again lover."
     "Oh really?", a familiar voice chuckled.
     "Diabolique!", Glory snarled. 
     She flew to attack the witch only to have her brain explode in pain
from a mental attack. Unable to
think straight she fell to the ground stunned.
     Cougar's eyes widened, "I've got a bad feeling about this!".
     "Cougar old friend for once you were very right!", Psi-Fire giggled
as she came out of the darkness.
     She leveled them with a psionic attack and laughed as they struggled
to get up.
     "I've given you the time you required partner, now cast your spell!",
she laughed.
     Diabolique released a huge burst of magic, far larger than the same
spell she'd used months before.
     Beneath them all the heroes were changing, all the men were now
female. But also they were 
reverting into humans, or being transformed into them in Combat's case.
     Badrock had shrunk into a sixteen-year old girl, a normal female with
no powers! All of the others
were likewise altered and de-powered, even Glory herself!
     Cougar touched his now smooth skin, lingering upon the large breasts
he now possessed. He'd lost
all trace of his cat-like appearance or powers!
     "Thank you for sparing me.", Psi-Fire laughed.
     The witch smirked, "I never betray a sister. Now let us go to invade
the land of Glory's mother, 
sister Demeter!", she growled the last.
     Even as they disappeared from the witch's powers the six powerless
women on the ground were
stirring.
     Glory was unchanged in body, but she now lacked her powers. Even with
this her first concerns
were for the others.
     "Task!?", she asked the buxom woman in her lover's clothes.
     "Yes.", she frowned, "I'm even bustier now than when I had the
nightmare!", she growled.
     "NO!!", Badrock sobbed. He was a girl and seemed so small and weak
that he was horrified.
     Combat was gibbering madly, apparently having become unhinged due to
the sex-change and
also the loss of his true form.
     "We need to get a hold of someone, find out if it's like before!",
Glory snapped.
     She gathered the women and they flew back to Washington in
Youngblood's ship.
     
                  FEDERAL PENITENTIARY----WASHINGTON D.C.

     Knightsabre sat on his cot, he knew that his bunkmate was yet another
of the killer's Dredd
had planted to kill him. He'd already dealt with five such assassins in a
brutal, but non-lethal fashion
and wanted no part of more. 
     Suddenly he felt strange and put his head in his hands as the
dizziness passed. When he opened
his eyes he saw long, red fingernails on his thinner fingers. He looked
down and was stunned to see
huge breasts that had torn open the front of his shirt, now exposing those
breasts to view!
     "No!", he screamed in a woman's voice, "Not now!".
     The man below had heard a woman above him and jumped out to face his
bunkmate.
     "So, turned into a woman did we?", he laughed.
     Knightstrike kicked him in the nose without thinking then slammed a
loose brick onto the man's
head.
     "Guard!", she yelled.
     "What the hell!?", the stunned guard gasped on seeing a topless women
in his cell.
     "I need to get out of here!", she snapped.
     "Uh, I don't....", he was so stunned that he didn't know what to do.
     "Listen! I'm a woman now and I can't be held in a man's cellblock!",
she snapped.
     After they led her away she could only wonder what would happen to
the others, since they were 
probably affected as well.


Chapter 2


     Jeff Terrell was awakened by the buzzing of his intercom. As soon as
his eyes were open he realized that something was very wrong....because he
was a woman again!!
     "Ahhhh!", he screamed in shock.
     Riptide nearly fell out of bed from the shock of the scream then saw
a gorgeous woman with long red hair in bed with her.....and it was Shaft!
     "Jeff!?", she gasped, "Oh my God, it's happened again!".
     "This can't be happening! I though Glory said that witch was gone for
good!", he...she gasped.
     The intercom continued to beep madly until Riptide punched the
button.
     "Jeff! Are you there!?", Vogue's voice asked.
     Riptide frowned for a moment, she knew that Vogue and Jeff had
enjoyed a brief affair and wondered if letting the woman know she'd just
slept with Shaft was wise.
     "Jeff! Talk to me! Die Hard and Battlestone just turned into women,
like before!!", Vogue screamed in near hysteria.
     Riptide answered, "Vogue, this is Riptide. Jeff's been transformed as
well, he's a little shaken up.".
     Vogue seemed to ponder hearing her voice from Shaft's private
intercom then continued, "Try to get him down here, the jet is returning
with Glory and her team. From what I'm hearing it doesn't sound good!".
     Shaft punched the button himself, "This is Shaft, I'll be there in a
minute.".
     Riptide seemed amazed, "Just a moment ago you were a wreck, now
you're slipping into that team leader mode!".
     Shaft started pulling on his uniform, and growled at how it showed
off his breasts and hips. "Crying about it won't help. I've got to get my
mind on something before I go nuts!", he snarled.
     "I can't believe this!", Riptide groaned, "I finally find a guy that
isn't freaked by my lifestyle and he turns into a woman after we have
sex!".
     Shaft pulled on his quiver and smirked, "You could always become a
lesbian.".
     "Not funny!", she chuckled despite herself.
     She quickly got into uniform then followed the female Shaft down the
halls.

              Washington D.C, a downtown hospital

     "This is like nothing I've ever seen!", Doctor James Ternall gasped
while looking at his patient.
     "It's not a bed of roses for me either doc!", the buxom blonde in the
bed snorted.
     "Brahma I've never even heard of men just spontaniously changing
gender!", the man gasped.
     She glared at him, "It's not like I did this by choice! My guess is
that man-hating witch Diabolique is back!", she growled.
     Finally Ternall's senses returned and he moved to calm the woman,
"Easy, those stitches in your chest still need to heal!".
     "Would you be calm!?", Brahma snapped.
     Ternall pondered that, "I imagine not, but you will do your friends
no good if you die here, whether as a man or a woman.", he said .
     Brahma sighed, "Right doc. Man I wish Shadowhawk had killed me!".
     "Just because you're a woman?", the doctor said with a hint of
disgust.
     Brahma sat up, "You'd have to understand where I come from doctor, if
I show up at my parents or my friends looking like this I'll feel like a
disgrace, and I don't need pity!".
     "You need a psychiatrist! This is hardly the worst fate that God
could deal you, think on that....young lady!!", the doctor snapped while
slamming the door.

             Youngblood HQ, Washington, D.C.

     The ship landed in the suddenly crowded hangar as nearly all of the
heroes had gathered to deal with their change in gender.
     Glory staggered out looking like she'd fought a war....and lost.
Behind her were a group that the assembled heroes scarcely recognized.
Most of them were normal humans for the first time, and defintetly normal
women for the first time.
     Battlestone walked forward to greet them, her large breasts jutting
even more than Glory's to his mortification. 
     "So it's happened everywhere?", Glory groaned as she saw the room of
women.
     Battlestone frowned, "Yes. Who are those women with you?".
     Glory looked beaten, "Badrock, Combat, Cougar, and Task.", she
managed.
     "Rock is that really you!?", Shaft gasped at the teenage girl before
him.
     The altered youth broke down sobbing in shame and ran to his...her
quarters.
     Riptide smacked Jeff in the back of the head, "Smooth you moron! He's
obviously feeling bad enough without you adding to it!".
     "That's enough!", Alan Keever snapped as he...now she walked into the
hangar..
     "Keever!?", Battlestone was stunned, "How did you get here, I assumed
Dredd still held you on a leash!".
     The brunette tossed her hair out of her face and frowned, "I don't
care what you think idiot, we all have a common enemy this time.".
     "Diabolique.", Shaft said firmly.
     "Not just her.", Glory said as she sat down. "There was another woman
with her, calling herself Psi-Fire.".
     Shaft immediately looked to the woman who Cougar had become. He
somehow recognized him even though he was a woman and now totally human.
     Cougar didn't even wait for the question from his friend, "It was
him. Don't ask me how but it was Psi-Fire transformed into a woman."
     "Diabolique must be controlling him, like she did the last time with
you.", Keever said.
     "I don't think so.", Task spoke up, "They seemed to be partners.".
     "God help us all!", Riptide gasped.
     Shaft frowned, "Have we gotten any other heroes on the screens yet,
or is it just us?".
     Keever sighed, "No. It's like the last time. Supreme just appeared in
New York as a female, and I'm sure it wasn't Lady Supreme. Also Prophet
just reported in that he was a woman as well. Apparently he and Chapel are
both en route to here.".
     Suddenly Vogue realized something, "If....all of you from before are
changed...then Knightsabre is a woman in a man's penetentiary!", she
screamed.
     "Keever, get him released. And I don't want Dredd to know!",
Battlestone snapped.
     Sentinel had been silent as they bickered but now he spoke, "If
Psi-Fire is involved we'll need help. I doubt that even a full Youngblood
team can stop them both.".
     "That's why I'm here.", Maximage said as she appeared out of nowhere.
Seeing the various men she'd known in Youngblood transformed into women
was unnerving to her.
     "Lady your timing is the best!", Shaft laughed. 
     "Okay. Here is the plan. Shaft, Riptide, and Maximage go to the
federal penetentiary to free Knightsabre. Sentinel will wait for Chapel
and Prophet then set about finding allies for the fight to come. I'll take
Vogue to help me find our targets. Until we get reinforcements I want no
attack against them should you cross their path!", Battlestone snapped.
     The various groupings scattered to find their goals, each hoping they
could achieve some small victory.
     
            New York, New York (atop a skyscraper)

     Supreme frowned as his long silver hair whipped in the wind. He'd
somehow become a woman even as he's entered Earth's atmoshpere. He was
sure he knew the cause, his daughter Lady Supreme had told him of the
witch Diabolique and her gender spell.
     "Supreme!", a girl's voice yelled.
     The female titan turned to see a beautiful teenage girl flying
towards him, one that he knew well.
     "Hello Danny.", he said with a smile.
     "How could you know!?", the girl seemed stunned, "It was your
daughter that saw me like this before!".
     "She showed me a lot from her time as my replacement. Including your
unbelievable..situation.", he said with a grin.
     "I can't believe you're so calm! My mom freaked when she saw
me....like this!", Kid Supreme groaned as he/she indicated her breasts.
     "Panic never helps kid, nor does rage and ego. I've been guilty of
all three.".Supreme said.
     "The witch is in New York, isn't she!?", Kid Supreme snarled.
     "Yes. I'm tracking her and her telepath friend even as we speak. By
staying up here they don't sense us.", the female Supreme mused.
     "I'm not gonna just stay here! I'll force them to restore us!", Kid
Supreme howled in rage.
     "Kid, NO!!!!", Supreme yelled. But the girl was already streaking
towards the women on the street far below.
     Supreme wanted to fly after the kid, but a futile attack on the duo
would just be suicide, and he had to survive....no. That was the old
Supreme talking, the egocentric man who fancied himself a god. He flew
after the kid, hoping the youngster hadn't already been killed.
     
          New York, New York (street level)
  
     "We have a visitor!", Psi-Fire chuckled as the streaking Kid
Supreme's thoughts betrayed him/her.
     "I remember this one, a mere boy. Let us see how our slaves fancy a
toy!", Diabolique laughed.
     She hurtled the spell at the girl and Kid Supreme screamed in pain as
all his/her power vanished before the spell. The fall to the pavement was
only broken by another spell but the girl was helpless as the duo's male
slaves gathered around her.
     "Show the boy what women have long had to suffer!", the witch
laughed.
     They were on her in moments, tearing at her uniform, grabbing her.
     "Wait! Ahhh!", Psi-Fire screamed as the sonic boom from Supreme's
flight drowned out her warning.
     Before either woman could use their powers a wind swept past, and Kid
Supreme was gone with that wind.
     Their slaves were all dead, having been flash-fried by the enraged
Supreme's heat vision.
     "Where is she!?", Diabolique snapped at her companion.
     Psi-Fire was still groggy but managed, "She's out of range!".
     "Why didn't she attack us?", the witch snapped.
     "I...I don't know, unless she's waiting for help.", Psi-Fire
explained.
     "Let us be away to Washington then.", the witch said as she warped
them away.

            Federal Penetentiary, Washington, D.C.

     "So little Aussie, you're the guy that turned into a babe?", a tall
woman asked Knightstrike as they were introduced.
     "As long as we're gonna be cell mates, the answer is yes.", the
dejected hero sighed.
     "Man you are fine though, I mean if I had boobs like that...", the
woman whistled.
     "You're not making this easier!", Knightstrike snapped, "I'm not at
all thrilled to be in a woman's cell block, but it's better than the other
choice.".
     "Just look out for the guards babe, with a body like that they'll
make your life hell.", the woman observed.
     "Prisoner 1002, get your ass out here!", a male voice snapped a few
hours into her sleep.
     Mick groaned and got out of bed, only to be thrown out of the cell. 
     "What the hell!?", she growled.
     The man decked her then ripped her prison uniform off. He leered down
at her naked form even as she struggled.
     "That's enough!", a woman snapped. 
     Mick knew that voice, even female she knew Shaft's tone.
      "Little bitches!", the guard snarled, "I'll kill you!".
     Maximage smirked, "I think you can take her place, it's a fitting
punishment for you!".
     She cast a spell and the guard was transformed into Mick's exact
twin, as she was now.
     "No, this can't be happening!", the newly female guard shrieked in
horror.
     "You okay Mick?", Riptide asked while giving the naked woman her
coat.
     "No I'm bleedin' well not! I was just about raped!", she growled.
     Mick punched her twin in the face and tossed the transformed guard
into her old cell. 
     She turned with a grin, "I'm still a bit shaken, but that certainly
helped!".
     Maximage teleported them back to headquarters, hoping that the other
teams had similar luck.


Chapter 3


     Sentinel sighed as she sat at the monitor. She'd been trying to avoid
looking at herself by watching the monitor boards, but she kept seeing her
breasts whenever she looked down.
     Alan Keever walked in then looking agitated.
     "Problems beyond the obvious Alan?", she asked.
     "Look at my shirt!", the buxom brunette snapped.
     Sentinel gasped as she realized that Keever's shirt had been torn
open to reveal a lot of cleavage.
     "How did that happen!?", Sentinel asked.
     Keever seemed ready to pop, "Dredd! The bastard made fun of me during
our meeting over Knightsabre. Then he grabbed me, tore open my shirt
and....kissed me!", she spat in disgust.
     "Well, maybe you...", Sentinel started.
     Keever exploded, "Maybe I what!? I'm wearing men's clothes! Do you
really think it was my fault!?".
     "Ladies, ladies...there's no need to shout!", Dredd laughed as he
walked in.
     "I'm not a lady you bastard!", Alan snapped, "I'm going to get you
for harassment!".
     "That would be a...mistake.", Dredd said with obvious threat, "I
could do far worse to you.".
     Sentinel couldn't believe this, she'd heard what an evil prick Dredd
was but...this, this was worse!
     Suddenly a gun appeared next to Dredd's head and his eyes widened.
Holding the weapon was a gorgeous black woman with very large breasts
straining against her t-shirt.
     "Leave before I splatter your brains!", she snarled.
     Sentinel had never seen Chapel female the first time so the sight of
one of the manliest men he knew looking like a Playboy playmate stunned
him.
     "You'll regret this.", Dredd said with a icy air.
     "Yeah, that's what they all tell me.", Chapel grinned wickedly.
     "You got here quicker than we expected.", Keever said calmly.
     A very tall, very beautiful woman walked into the room, "We both want
to get to the bottom of this as quickly as possible.".
     "Prophet!?", Sentinel gasped.
     The tall bombshell frowned, "Yes, although I'm not proud of that fact
right now!".
     Chapel looked around for a moment, "Where's everyone else! It
shouldn't be that big a fight to deal with this witch".
     Sentinel frowned, "It's worse than that. She's allied herself with
Psi-Fire.".
     Chapel's eyes widened, "I thought he was in a coma?".
     Keever groaned, "He was awakened by the torture of an alien recently,
now he's out there at full power!".
     "God will provide us with the answer to all.", Prophet mused.
     Chapel snorted, "Well he'd damn well better hurry!".

     Washington, D.C.--Jefferson Memorial

     "Why are we here Psi-Fire?", Diabolique snapped in annoyance.
     The woman chuckled, "You can't just charge into the lion's den, it's
wiser to make him come to you!".
     "And you believe they will?", the witch asked in irritation.
     "They're already here!", Psi-Fire laughed. "Come out, come out
wherever you are!", she laughed.
     Battlestone knew that they were screwed but attacked anyway. She knew
that if they tried to run the witch would easily zap them.
     Psi-Fire leveled the super-strong woman racing at her with a mind
blast then realized too late that it was a mere feint.
     Vogue's foot hit her dead in the jaw in the moment that she began
scanning again. Stunned the gender-bending villain fell bleeding from a
broken jaw.
     "I applaud you woman!", Diabolique laughed, "That was a masterful
strategy!".
     Vogue snarled and leaped at the witch, only to hit air.
     "Wha...?", she gasped.
     Diabolique unleashed a bolt of energy that would have fried Vogue,
until Battlestone leaped between them.
     "Brave my friend, but also stupid! That would not have hurt your
teammate since she has no powers...you on the other hand do!", she
cackled.
     Battlestone realized that she was powerless...and alive! Since
Project: Rebirth he'd been a reanimated corpse...but now she was alive!
     Suddenly an arrow hit the witch in the shoulder and she fell bleeding
and pissed!
     Shaft, Maximage, Knightsabre, Riptide, and Vogue now stood arrayed
against her, since Psi-Fire was still woozy from the ambush.
     She hurled an attack at Maximage but the woman merely wished for a
shield and the witch's spell bounced off.
     "Im...impossible!", the amazonian sorceress gasped.
     "I owe ya witch!", the aussie Knightsabre snarled.
     Battlestone spun the witch and punched her in the face, even though
she was merely human the blow caused the woman to stagger in pain.
     "You'll have to kill me!", she snarled, "I'll never restore you
men!".
     Psi-Fire lashed out at that moment, having played possum until they'd
forgotten about her.
     Maximage screamed in pain as the mental power ripped through her
brain. She fought it but that left her defenseless against Diabolique!
     The witch quickly attacked with her power-draining spell...a mistake.
     While Maximage and Riptide depended on super-powers the other three
did not, and so they were unaffected by her spell!
     Knightsabre punched her in the jaw even as Shaft's arrow hit
Psi-Fire. The mentally powered woman looked stunned for a moment then hit
the archer with a mental bolt that knocked her out.
     Vogue avoided a spell from the witch only to scream in pain as
Psi-Fire burned her brain. In the process she left herself open and a
powerless Riptide tackled her with help from the teenage girl that
Maximage was without her powers.
     Diabolique started a spell then looked up...and gaped in shock.
     Coming from all directions were super-humans! She could see Supreme
flying in from the north looking as if she wanted blood.
     From the east were the NewMen, a group of Nu-Genes she'd altered the
last time and apparently again!
     The remaining forces of Youngblood were coming in a jet from the
other direction. With so many heroes she knew that even her powers
wouldn't win the day.
     She teleported away, leaving Psi-Fire to the mercies of her former
teammates.
     Supreme picked the dazed mind-ripper up and grinned, "She left you
behind you know, apparently your friendship was only a business
transaction!".
     Psi-Fire started to burn a hole in Supreme's mind but the woman's
hand tightened on her throat until her concentration broke.
     "I can crush steel in this grip woman, would you like to see what it
can do to flesh!", the female Supreme snapped.
     Reign of the NewMen lashed out with her own mental powers and knocked
the enraged Psi-Fire out.
     Dash frowned at the group of women around her, especially Byrd who
seemed afraid of something.
     She decided it could wait and voiced what they all felt, "So now
what!? We have no clue where the witch will turn up!".
     The powerless Glory had been on Youngblood's ship and she now spoke,
"Diabolique isn't one to run very far. On the other hand she also knows
when to run. We won't see her again until she's convinced the odds are in
her favor.".
     "So what, we're stuck as women!?", Byrd sobbed suddenly, "This can't
be happening again...please no!".
     The former Maximage, Lori Sanders looked at the sobbing blonde woman
and immediately recognized post-rape trauma. She'd seen a lot of women
abused on the street and those memories flashed through her now.
     Reign was stunned as she read the buried memories that Byrd was
replaying in her own mind.
     "Dash...I need to talk with you...alone.", she said firmly.
     They walked off together until the newly female Reign turned to Dash.
     "She was raped....I couldn't help a quick flash when she
collapsed....apparently when she was abducted before the alien raped her
before she changed back into a man.", she said in disgust.
     "Oh God!", Dash gasped, "That's why he's been so different since
returning from the Keep's ship! I should have been there...if only I'd
been fast enough!", she cried.
     Reign hugged her warmly, "You did all you could. Even you can't
outspeed a teleport.".
     Supreme watche the two return and frowned, "I must return to New
York, one of my friends needs me by her side.", she said.
     Exit and the other NewMen had been stunned by Byrd's emotional
collapse and so were unsure exactly what to do until Reign herded them
into their own transport.
     The various heroes didn't want to speak to each other, each wanted to
deal with the total, and quite possibly permanent, change in their lives
in private.

     New York, New York---Home of Kid Supreme
 
     Danny sat on the edge of her bed staring at the posters on her wall.
They were pictures of her, Kid Supreme. At least they had been her, before
she'd been turned into a gorgeous girl.
     Her mom had been stunned of course to see her superhero son now
transformed into a woman, but she seemed to be dealing with it even better
than Danny herself!
     Suddenly she felt a gust of wind and Supreme stood before her, or the
babe that the old man had become anyway.
     "You look like Lady Supreme you know.", Danny said with a small
smile.
     "She is my daughter.", Supreme smirked then sat beside the girl.
     "How did things go, I assume since I'm still a babe that you guys
lost?", Danny asked.
     Supreme sighed, "Yes, and no. We defeated them, actually Youngblood
did before I even arrived. But the witch escaped.".
     "What about Psi-Fire?", Danny growled.
     "She's in custody, her mind powers are dampened by a headband. But
she doesn't know anything about where the witch might have gone.", Supreme
said quietly.
     "So this is permanent!?", Danny screamed.
     "Yes.", Supreme whispered.
     "No!", the girl who had been Kid Supreme sobbed, "I can't stay like
this!".
     Danny's mother entered the room and stopped stunned upon seeing the
silver-haired Supreme standing before her.
     "Are...are you okay baby!", she asked the sobbing girl on the floor.
     Danny clung to her mother, crying in rage and pain at all that she'd
lost.
     Supreme suddenly spoke up, "Danny, I can't turn you back into a man
but I do think I can give you something else.", she said firmly.
     Danny spun with tears streaming, "What a bra!?", she snarled, "This
is all your fault!".
     Supreme grabbed the girl's hand and Danny's eyes widened in suprise.
     "What...what did you just do!?", she gasped. She could feel strength
returning to her.
     "We share a link with my powers, the real Supreme powers that is. As
long as I kept my powers I could restore yours.", she said with a smile.
     Danny floated in the air, joy at her returned powers momentarily
erasing the pain of her lost manhood.
     "You must be Supreme.", the stunned mother managed.
     "Pleased to meet you madam.", Supreme said while bowing, only to have
her breasts jiggle about. "Sorry, I'm still trying to adjust. Danny, care
to go for a fly?", she smirked.
     "Mom! Where's my uniform!", Danny blurted. She raced at super-speed
until finding the tatrered remnants of her former suit in the trash.
     "Clothes....nor gender make the hero Danny.", Supreme said. "Let's
go.".
     Danny looked at herself, clad in her old male body's Levi's, that
seemed plastered to her wider hips. She frowned at not being able to wear
her own uniform at least then followed the older hero(ine?) out the
window.

     NewMen base

     Byrd looked up as Dash entered the room, she'd not spoken to anyone
since her outburst in Washington.
     "Tell me about it.", Dash said firmly.
     "What?", Byrd asked, dreading Dash's answer.
     "It will eat you alive if you let it, now tell me!", she snapped.
     "How could you know!?", Byrd snarled...then realized what she'd said.
     Dash smacked the other woman across the face, "How could I know! As
if it isn't important because I started life as a woman!".
     Byrd dropped her eyes, "I'm sorry Dash, it's just.....I was a
man....then to feel someone..to be so helpless!", she sobbed.
     "I know, shhh....", Dash soothed, "Let it out.".
     Byrd hugged her lover and cried like a baby, she'd buried the memory
of the rape after regaining male form...now the shock of her gender change
had resurfaced it.
     "It wasn't your fault lover, you know that!", Dash urged.
     Byrd frowned, "I think I did blame myself.....after I killed him
there wasn't an outlet for my rage.".
     "You killed him?", Dash asked in surprise.
     The bird-like woman snapped, "Damn right! I turned back into a man
after he'd forced me, then I tore him apart!", she growled.
     Reign sat alone in his room listening to their conversation with his
mind. He still thought of himself as a man even though he was very much a
female. He remembered being forced to rape Dash...and realized exactly
what it had felt like. She reached into Byrd's head and absorbed the rape
scene, only in her mind it was her, not Byrd, that was being raped by the
alien.
     She forced herself to relive the rape time after time until she fell
to the floor sobbing, no matter what reason for her crime she now knew
what being the real victim was like.

     Washington, D.C.--Youngblood HQ

     Shaft snapped the bra she'd been given and looked at herself in the
mirror.
     "Damn! I still turn myself on!", she whistled.
     "I must say that I liked the male version better.", Riptide sighed.
     "Me too!", Shaft laughed, "I' ll never get used to this!".
     Suddenly a huge crash sounded and a rock head stuck through the door.
     "Badrock!", Shaft gasped, "How did you get your powers back!".
     The huge rock-skinned woman grinned, "I got my powers due to a
chemical Jeff, my dad kept a sample of my altered cell structure and
recreated the formula. I may be a woman but at least I'm still Badrock!",
she laughed.
     "Lady Badrock! I like that!", Riptide giggled. She hadn't even missed
her own powers yet.
     Shaft's intercom buzzed suddenly, "Jeff! This is Keever! Let me in!".
     Shaft smirked, "It's not that hard Alan, after all I've got a
basketball sized hole in it!".
     Alan Keever walked in wearing a bikini, and holding another.
     "Jesus Alan! Letting it all hang out are we!?", Riptide laughed.
     Keever blushed, "This is Dredd's doing, he's got a new rule that all
women wear these 'uniforms'!", she snorted.
     Ten minutes later Shaft walked out of Dredd's office smiling.
     "What did you do!?", Keever asked.
     Jeff smirked, "Look for yourself.",
     Alan Keever opened the door and broke down laughing, pinned to the
wall by about two dozen arrows was Dredd himself, with Shaft's bikini
uniform gagging him.
     "Maybe the future isn't so dark after all!" Alan laughed as she
closed the door.