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IM/DC Chapter 148
🕑 Added 2024-07-01 03:53:38 +0000 UTCIt felt like I was holding a livewire. The connection between us couldn’t be broken and while she wasn’t in danger she was still stuck in place as I had a death grip on her tits. Rogue called out after noticing I couldn’t even talk. I was too busy focusing on not losing all of my powers. It was a constant pull to not lose them as I slowly equalized the difference in our power siphon.
My skill grinds against my very soul as it expands into something that it couldn’t possibly as I can now steal powers from mutants as well as women. The time it takes shrunk down from ten minutes to nine, then eight, seven, six, and finally capped out at five. I felt another power rub as I could now choose which powers to steal before I got enough control back and noticed how everyone was panicking and Rogue was trying to unlatch my connection to her.
She stole some of my strength but the drain was far, far less than she would have against a normal opponent. Not only was I actively fighting it but our powers nullified the drain by a significant degree… Still, eventually, if the connection wasn’t cut I’d lose powers and stats I would rather keep. I could barely muffle out. “C-cut… M-my… Arm-mmm-ms… Off.”
Everyone looked at me with fear except for Psylocke who tried to cut my hands off with a psionic blade. I was too durable still, I’d either need to wait until she stole more endurance or… I pop out the lightsaber and telekinetically hand it to her. My brain was so unfocused I didn’t think to just cut my own arms off. She lines up before activating the lightsaber.
In my opinion, she took her sweet time figuring everything out as she finally cleaved through my hands, even with lower cosmic(possibly high superhuman from the drain) endurance. I notice an almost imperceptible wobble in the light beam as it decides whether or not it’s strong enough to cut through my flesh. In a single instant the choice was made, it cleaves through my hands like butter finally severing the connection.
My hands already regenerated back before the severed ones even hit the ground. I breathe in a sigh of relief as I pop open my skill menu. I ain’t reading all that shit so convert it to only show the stats and powers that went down in rank or were removed.
Low cosmic strength -> High superhuman strengthen
Low cosmic dexterity -> High superhuman dexterity
Low cosmic endurance -> High superhuman endurance
Mid superhuman intelligence -> High superhuman intelligence
Low superhuman charm -> Mid superhuman charm
Growth
Power siphon+ -> Power siphon+++
Biomatter manipulation -> Biomatter control (downgrade)
Telekinesis (rank 3) -> Telekinesis (rank 2)
Power bestowal -> Improved power bestowal
Light control -> Light manipulation
Mutation boost -> Altered
God damn it, I felt a little less safe with the sudden downgrade but the boost to one of my main sources to gain power was great. It also meant I didn’t need to consume mutant DNA to gain their power. Dropping from lower cosmic to high superhuman meant that about a hundred more people could kill me again. Subtract the half that were heroes and wouldn’t, the thirty that were out in space, and the ten I had counters for and that left ten people with enough power to kill me if I pissed them off.
I could do nothing to fix that problem except recover my strength, but it did put me back a month or two in progression. Light control didn’t go down a rank but I used it so much that it stayed at rank 2, it changed enough to outlast the pull. Altogether, I lost about a few weeks' worth of power usage on all my powers. The siphon on her end focuses more on stats than power otherwise I’d have really been fucked if she stole multiple ranks or my mainstay powers.
I felt my mutation shift and change becoming more complete as she siphoned me as well. I instinctively knew that I had developed a resistance to siphon powers from what just happened. It didn’t really change me enough to count as a new power it was added to my mutation instead. No, it wasn’t a resistance to being siphoned, it was a resistance to being altered.
I felt like I gained a tertiary resistance to alteration. That meant more obtuse powers were far less likely to work and could possibly reverse or injure the user. If I fought against it I could no longer be affected by probability manipulation and could reduce the effect on the environment around me making it harder for luck powers to work. I also couldn’t be wished out of the universe anymore.
If I fought Franklin Richards his reality manipulation would have less effect on the environment and if he tried to write me out of existence he’d probably pass out first. There was no Thanos gauntlet snapping me out of existence. Even altering my thoughts or viewpoint, hell I could probably resist the time shift Moira just gained to some degree, or at least keep my memories after the reset.
On top of all that, any attack would need to make it through my endurance, than any other resistances from powers then my tertiary resistance to being altered. When I got back to where I was I would be stronger in the long run. Now the big change that I couldn’t help but be glad that this happened. The upgrade to the second rank of power bestowal.
Now, I wasn’t exactly sure why it was upgraded instead of being siphoned… Maybe it worked very similarly to Rogue’s power or something. Maybe it was just extremely close to leveling and the tiny energy from our siphons fighting against each other affected it. I knew I could now give away my powers at a much cheaper cost. It would only take about 20% of my power to give away rank one and I could retain it without having the rank 2 of the power as well.
It meant even though flight +1 was still only rank 1 I could give two of my girlfriends the ability to fly and still retain the power. It meant I could give away powers I never thought I would because it would only be a small setback instead of an entire rank reduction. I smiled as it meant that all three of my original girlfriends could get elemental control right now since they all wanted it.
I’ll have to do a power giveaway later on now that I can. They didn’t need it but if one of my girlfriends wanted a power, of course, I’d give it to them. My thoughts finally caught up as only a few seconds had passed, my mind's mental processing working at such a speed that I could have absorbed all that information before my cleaved hands hit the ground. I just looked over before my hands went back to Rogue’s breasts. I few tentative squeezes and my new power of not being altered already came into play.
“S-sorry about that. Really didn’t expect… That our powers would fight against each other… You feeling okay Rogue?” The only difference I could notice in her was a slight increase in her breathing. “Y-yea just… Didn’t expect the sudden rush from your powers.” She went to stand up but launched herself fifty feet into the air. “Uhh, she’s going to need to get used to her new strength… I think that’s permanent.”
