Filibuster Issue ! "Recruitment Drive"
Filibuster
Issue #1.A
Recruitment Drive
A pink haired cheetah in a revealing blue skin suit with a white stopwatch on her chest as a logo walks into a thirty foot room where a black and red skunk in a green lab coat is looking at a monitor.
"Hey, Tech-Scent!" The cheetah girl says as she comes in. "What's going on? You wanted to see me?"
"Hi, Quick Kitty," Tech-Scent says with a Texan drawl. "I did call you: You know we lost Bulwark in or last battle with the Mecha-Maniac?"
"I knew he was grievously injured," Quick Kitty answers with some concern. "But he's dead dead?"
"Yeah," Tech-Scent admits, "Which means we need a new tank."
"Hold on!" Quick Kitty growls. "I don't think I like what you're eluding to. We're heroes, Tech-Scent; seducing new talent is for the enemy..."
"You're not even curious?" Tech-Scent prompts. "I know you enjoyed riding..."
"Don't go there, Tech-Scent," Quick Kitty growls. "My preferences are not for general discussion. I am a member of the Hearth Guard but I'm starting to get a reputation I'd rather not earn."
"Would it help if I told you he was a grizzly with an odd fur color?" Tech-Scent asks in a teasing manner, "And has a "bad bear" rep?"
"Tommy Santiago," Quick Kitty starts to lecture, "Unless we are seriously altering our own charter I can't believe you are seriously thinking of recruiting who you're eluding to..."
"Senator Seamus Kennedy of Pennsylvania is campaigning extra hard on those anti-mask laws he keeps threatening to enact," Tomas "Tech-Scent" Santiago prompts, "If we make Benjamin Franklin Kennedy a member of the team we can force his hand either way."
"Doesn't Mister Tea Party use the Filibuster, his own son, as a bad example?" Quick Kitty asks as she looks at the big monitor which features a black furred grizzly with red hair and gray eyes in a red jumpsuit with a furry fist punching skyward, the middle finger upraised, that features black boots, belt and glove gauntlets as well as red glassed goggles. "The Filibuster, the big bad bear himself and Senator Kennedy's most adamant enemy among the meta-fur community. You're seriously considering him for membership?" Tom just nods. "You want me to offer myself as a 'signing bonus' for joining I take it?" Another nod, "Have you been looking over my journal?"
"I can neither confirm nor deny that," Tech-Scent says with a smirk. "But you're headed to Philly. I've already booked your hotel."
"And how am I getting there?" Quick Kitty asks. "Or are you relying on the fact I can run four thousand mils per hour?" Tom gives her a look. "Why am I not surprised?"
"A blue streak blazes from Atlantic City, New Jersey to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in a matter of minutes as New Jersey state troopers start to give chase until one of them realizes that it's Quick Kitty they're chasing as she runs up and over the Ben Franklin bridge on her way to her destination. As a courtesy the New Jersey state police warns their Pennsylvania counterparts that Quick Kitty is coming but by the time they acknowledge it, she's already checked into her hotel. After changing to civilian apparel, most of which is promoting Nike with whom she has a marketing agreement, she dashes off to the vendors on the Delaware, eating five pretzel dogs, three funnel cakes and four colas before getting into Penn's Landing for the Show.
DJ Filibuster's Politico Plague Lab is already into its second hour when Daphne "Quick Kitty" Marathon arrives on the scene. Benjamin Franklin Kennedy, sometimes referred to by the media as "Ben Ken" as well as his super hero code name of Filibuster, is a fifteen foot bear in all black excepts his shirt and goggles which are red, the shirt featuring the same rude logo he wears when fighting crime and that "Fuck You Fist" has come to be seen as his symbol amongst the super hero community at large as part of his identity as the unrecognized son of Tea Party Republican Senator Seamus Kenned and the counter culture superhero that those who study and report on the meta-fur community, hero or villain have come to refer to Ben Ken as representing as Filibuster is a publicly known and registered superhero which does not always make his life pleasant but it affords him many opportunities to tweak daddy's nose While the elder statesman that Senator Kennedy presents himself as being did it for sonny to help certain elements the like killing public heroes got on Ben Ken's nerves it has ended up causing more headaches for his father as he has to "answer" to his constituents in the anti-mask crowd for his "mistake" in all that Filibuster does and Ben Ken often sees the assassins sent to kill him from time to time as a potential work out more than anything else and when he wins he embarrasses his father who more often than not sent the killers to correct the mistake he made when his scheme to kill his war hero son backfired and made him the superhero he is today.
After finishing his set the giant bear introduces one of the bands playing the freedom festival in Philly: Barker than Ebenezer. While the band plays the hero takes a hoagie break with a Primo Diablo Italiano hoagie which is one of the sponsors of the venue tonight. Quick Kitty is still hungry after her long run and decides to have one herself and needs a lot of water when she finds out how spicy it is.
Ben Ken is doing a partial edit of his own show as Daphne starts to approach him. Much to her surprise the fifteen foot bear is being attended to sexually by a bunny girl who is full foot shorter than Daphne. On stage the alterno-pop band is knocking them dead with their hit song "Super Monkey Go Home" which is a vague reference to Confucius Fist, the self styled warrior/poet/philosopher from China who just so happens to be a gorilla and fervent supporter of communism.
A silverback gorilla in a red jumpsuit with yellow boots, cape and glove-gauntlets as well as a yellow star on his chest flies over the venue and glares at the performers. Filibuster rises to his full height and grabs a sports bottle of water to fling at Confucius Fist. Confucius Fist is too distracted by the music to notice the thrown water bottle until it explodes when it hits him in the head and drenches him.
"WHO DARES!?!" Confucius Fist thunders.
"Go home, Super Monkey!" Filibuster growls at full volume. "You're not wanted here!"
"Defend yourself, pedophile!" Confucius Fist challenges as he flies at Filibuster with his left foot leading for a power kick.
"PUNT!!" Filibuster yells which confuses Confucius Fist until Ben Ken pulls a dirty trick and kicks him in the groin that sends him flying back into the Delaware.
Confucius Fist rises to the surface to glare at Filibuster for thwarting his plans to disrupt the festival and American decadence. He could fly back up to challenge him but the crowd is chanting Filibuster's initials which only bolsters Ben Ken's mentality. But then an official watching this on CNN sends him a text ordering him to embarrass the American bear.
Quick Kitty sees Confucius Fist rise and decides to take a 2x4 and play some head hockey, whacking the gorilla's head as she runs rings around him as he can't quite catch him. Filibuster tosses a keg of beer at Confucius Fist as he's trying to hit Quick Kitty which she notices almost immediately and swerves to avoid at the last possible second to keep Confucius Fist distracted. It bounces of the gorilla's head and pisses him off that he's being shown up by a pair of American fools.
Barker than Ebenezer's song that prompted Confucius Fist's involvement provides fuel to the fire as the gorilla begins to rise glowering at his opponents. Quick Kitty is undaunted as she does her best to keep Confucius Fist as Filibuster leaps into the river on top of Confucius Fist. At eight hundred pounds Filibuster is no lightweight as he does his best to pummel Confucius Fist into submission.
It takes a lot of effort but Confucius Fist drifts down the Delaware are towards the Olympia and Becuna where they permanently moored for the Maritime Museum. Confucius Fist throws Filibuster into the water just shy of the ancient warships, but is still punch drunk groggy. Filibuster grabs a dud torpedo on display and flings it at Confucius and dings him in the head.
His constituents are screwing at him to continue the fight but Confucius Fist is just about ready to go home as the bear is ringing his bell with frightening regularity. There is something to knowing when you're beat and Confucius Fist is sure at this own defeat when a horde of macaques in the attire of Chinese Army Commandos come howling onto the scene. On paper it must have looked glorious but in practice it just gives quick Kitty some monkeys she can beat up on, while filibuster Confucius Fist's clock.
Confucius Fist manages to get clear of the American tank hero long enough for him to order a retreat and they all turn tail and run. The whole scenario turns into a fiasco for the Chinese who finds that the incident cast them greatly, both politically and financially as a portion of the debt owed them by the US is lost as if they had lost a bet. Heads roll in China as a result of this, quite literally in some cases, but Confucius Fist is lauded for ending the failed ploy before it cost China ever more than it already.
Quick Kitty sits on Filibuster's shoulders with the back of his head resting against her groin as she gives him a boob hat. She waves goodbye to the retreating Chinese as Filibuster just smirks as he enjoys the very idea of her rack resting on the top of his head. For her own part, Quick Kitty looks down and contemplates to perform fellatio on Filibuster and sighs as his groins is under water.
Filibuster takes Quick Kitty to a marina connected to some apartments one of which is registered to Benjamin Franklin Kennedy through his father, something that the crooked elder statesman is not happy about. Tiki statues and masks abound in the apartment marking the place as uniquely Ben Ken's which amuses Daphne no end as Senator Kennedy's opinion is a matter of public record in that Seamus Kennedy his own son as an example of what's wrong with supers as he continues to champion anti-mask laws.
Quick Kitty strips herself rapidly as is her wont when she is anticipating getting frisky which amuses and arouses Filibuster. He is much slower in removing his clothing which invariably teases her as she paws at his groin. Daphne Marathon is slightly impatient so when Ben Ken gets his pants down she puts her face in his groin licking at his scrotum to get his cock out for her to suckle.
Filibuster's pants are the last thing to go and as Quick Kitty is bringing his member he lays on his bed besides her does his best to put his muzzle in her groin to lick and suckle at her clitoris which causes her to moan as she performs fellatio. Ben Ken licks up Daphne juices as her pussy starts to salivate as her muzzle tastes Irish sausage while the term "Bangers and Mash" pops up in her head as this could have sexual context that makes her giggle in anticipation. When his member is hard enough to penetrate her folds Quick Kitty pulls her cunny away from Filibuster's muzzle to slowly but surely impales herself along his length.
"So what exactly are you doing here, Quick Kitty?" Filibuster asks point blank, "The Hearth Guard is supposed against vigilantes like me."
"You're a registered meta-fur, just like me, Ben Ken," Daphne growls with a giggle as she keeps on bouncing on his cock, "Granted your bastard of a father did it spite you."
"More like kill me," Ben Ken freely admits. "My father has been wanting me out of the periphery of his career for years. But you boss, Tech-Scent, has given media statements disapproving my methods in the past..."
"We also need a tank," Quick Kitty admits, "Bulwark died from his injuries battling mecha-maniac."
"Ouch!" Filibuster says with a wince at the news that causes Quick Kitty to check the status of his prick in her pussy, "I'm sorry to hear that, he was a friend, not a close friend but we did respect each other."
"Which is why I think Tech-Savant wants you to fill his spot on the team,:" Quick Kitty says honestly as she bounces up and down on his pole. "You know what you're doing! I'm gonna cum!"
"Let's just say that when you grow up among whores and gigolos you learn a trick or two," Filibuster with a knowing smirk, "Puberty was fun."
"Not to speak ill of the dead," Daphne Marathon says with a faded smile, "But you fill me better than he ever could. If you join us, I'd like this sort of thing to be a regular occurrence."
"It's a selling point to be sure," Filibuster admits with a smirk.
"I am serious, Ben Ken," Daphne says with a serious smile. "I'm honestly enjoying this. Oh! Is that you're knot I feel?"
"Yeah, it's not firm yet if you want to get off," Filibuster offers, "Or if you have something special planned."
"I'm debating whether to stay on or get my muzzle there again," Quick Kitty admits, "You're a grizzly and I'm a cheetah so there's the cross species thing...Oh, yeah! Wag that wong inside of me!"
"Would my joining the Hearth Guard affect my pension at all?" Filibuster asks.
"I don't think so," Quick Kitty says in a perplexed manner, "Tommy would know more about that. But you were honorably discharged weren't you?"
"Yeah!" Filibuster roars as he fills Quick Kitty's insides with his semen. "Shortly thereafter Dad's Buddy Marconi tried to kill me and my mother. But I got powers instead."
"What date was that?" Daphne asks as she collapses on top of him. "Tech-Scent has a tape from a hotel room with your father getting really pissy recently." Benjamin whispers the date as he hears somebody nearby that may spoil the afterglow. "I think we just got an answer to his reactions on that tape!" She announces before a fusillade of stilettos is hurled through a window at them.
"Alright, Calamari!" Ben Ken growls at full volume as the daggers bounce off his fur. "I know it's you, I'm going to be nice and give you two options: number one-You leave right now and go crawling back to your boss or number two-I put you in the hospital for a month! Up to you! I don't care," Then he thinks better of his statement. "On second thought, please do stay, Sardine Sammy's been pissing me off lately."
"You fucking shit cape got no right!!" A male raccoon in a three piece shots and then realizes that he gave himself away. "Awww, Shit! I just fucked myself didn't I?"
Rather than answer verbally Filibuster gives Carlos "The Killer" Calamari a right hook that sends him flying into a wall. He follows that with bone crushing jab to the ribcage. Finally Filibuster Carlos Calamari's legs in ten places each then his spine in five places that will leave him a quadriplegic for life as a message to Samson "Sammy the Shark" Marconi.
Daphne is shocked at how brutal Ben Ken acted to beat up the hitman. She isn't appalled as Ben stopped short of killing the mobster. In his mobile home she contacts Santiago to advise him of the situation.
"Was this a harassment call or an actual hit attempt?" Tech-Savant with a growl.
"I assume a hit," Filibuster answers honestly. "Sardine Sammy is under pressure to get rid of me one way or another. And before you asks my dad is only one ay-hole that is applying the pressure. I know for an unprovable fact that he's been dying to collect a kind of bounty from the Nightmare Factory for proof of death of as many superheroes as they can kill."
"Are they still in business?" Daphne asks incredulously. "I thought they were smashed in the 90s."
"We should be so lucky, Daphne," Tomas snorts. "They're just being more sneaky now."
"Yeah," Benjamin says as he pulls over before they get on the bridge named after the patriot he himself was named after, "I think those stilletos were coated with something. I'm not feeling so hot..."
"I got you on satellite tracker," Santiago states. "Go lie down and I'll see if I can do a long range scan."
"Alright," filibuster says and does just that, "I feel like I need a nap anyway."
"Is he, O.K." Daphne asks as he moves to the back.
"Nanoviruses," Tomas says in all seriousness, "It would have killed you but his cellular structure can probably handle it."
"Tommy," Quick Kitty growls, "The dummy version, please?"
"Filibuster's immune system is super effective," Tech-Scent explains, "His cells are constantly being made and die at a much more rapid pace than either of us. His white blood cells are already taking the nanites apart. He might get a power spike out of this."
A moment of silence and then:
"Whoa! Muscle mass increasing and Daphne, did you sleep with him?"
"Yeah," Daphne growls in annoyance, "Why?"
"I'm showing you getting a spike too," Tech-Scent states, "When you two get here, report to the Dojo for eval."
"If she's available would you mind sending Mercy over?" Quick Kitty asks. "I don't like the look of this or how I feel right now."
Quick Kitty joins Filibuster in his bed and almost makes herself a living pinball in the process as she swerve as the nanoviruses work their way through her body. About an hour later a white wooled ewe or female sheep with red wings and wearing a Union Jack one piece swimsuit with blue gloves and boots flies in. Daphne recognizes her as Lady Mercy, a British hero who was engaged to Bulwark but who's powers are mainly healing and flight as she was contemplating going home.
Lady Mercy walks in and feels small at five foot four inches in a mobile home custom made for Filibuster, even Bulwark was nine foot eight inches would be somewhat dwarfed. She recognizes Filibuster as a friendly rival of her fiancée as well as the sickness ravages his and her bodies. Quick Kitty she cleans up with minimal effort but Filibuster's own immune system becomes part of the problem as the virus is assimilating itself into his system.
Daphne drives the mobile home to Hearth Guard headquarters while Lady Mercy attends to Filibuster's medical needs as the bear has fallen into coma as a result of what is going on with him. Lady Mercy makes sure that Daphne is fully concentrating on driving before she makes her next move as it only take is a few touches to get his member out and hard. She has one method she would use on her boyfriend that she derived only for him when they were alone and he needed it and she wants to make sure she is not going to be disturbed any time soon before she can attempt it on Ben Ken.
She closes the vinyl curtain for privacy before shifting the bottom of her outfit aside so she can ride him. Lady Mercy is very careful to do what she wants and subsequently she feels she needs to do as silently as she can as Quick Kitty is certainly within earshot. The fact that she's going to be enjoying herself is a perk of the technique to be sure but she's still not about to let anyone else know how she kept her fiancée patched up when he looked like he was a goner.
Healing energies get pumped in Filibuster's body as Lady Mercy bounces up and down his cock. Filibuster moans and stirs but remains unconscious all the while as Lady Mercy smirks lustily. She knows that Quick Kitty will probably secure the bear for herself, if she wasn't needed to drive the vehicle she might will be back here looking askance at Mercy and what she's doing with the bear, but for now Lady Mercy gets to have some fun as she uses her healing abilities to clear his body of impurities and make sure the nanovirus that slipped into his system is destroyed.
Filibuster has barely climaxed when a problem arises in Cherry Hill that requires his attention. Mecha-Maniac, a disembodied intelligence infecting devices and turning them into vehicular creatures that could have been dreamed up somewhere in Japan uses his, gender has never been established but it's assumed Mecha-Maniac was a dude at some point, abilities to warp an entire parking lot of cars and trucks into a colossal mechanical scorpion to attack Filibuster's mobile home. A ponderous claw flips the recreational vehicle with the heroes inside which shakes Filibuster awake and he's none too pleased when he comes to.
"So this is Bulwark's replacement?" A digital voice challenges. "I'm not impressed. The son of a crooked politician is the best you can do?" Then it notices that Filibuster has picked up a dumpster: "That's exactly what you are: TRASH!"
"Well," Quick Kitty giggles as Lady Mercy slides next to her, "He's about to take out some trash!"
"OW!" Mecha-Maniac yells as the thrown dumpster takes out its stinger. "You can throw?! I will crush you!" He grabs the bear with a clw but Filibuster ends up shredding the limb effortlessly. "How strong are you?"
"Strong enough to destroy you!" Filibuster replies in a challenging growl. "If I have to dismantle this body piece by piece to get to your black box; I will!"
"Brave words," Mecha-Maniac says as he animates cars to charge at Filibuster at full speed, "But can you back it up?"
Filibuster grabs the cars as they slam into him and flings them at what remains of the titanic metal scorpion. Mecha-Maniac continues to assault the bear until he runs out of vehicles to use. Quick Kitty disables filibuster's mobile home's engine so it can't be used against him.
Mecha-Maniac hits Filibuster with a claw and knocks him back somewhat but he just got miffed enough to uproot a light post and use it like a baseball bat. He leaps into battle with Mecha-Maniac using the lamp post as his weapon to bash its body until it collapses into a junk pile in the middle of the parking lot. News crews capture the whole thing for the evening's program as his father will use footage in a montage he will prepare to release on YouView bashing all "Masked Marauders" as continually calls all supers and especially his own son.
Insurance adjusters arrive on the scene just after Filibuster's mobile home drives off and more than a few of them yell curses at the super heroes until Mecha-Maniac takes over their cars to form something vaguely humanoid to give chase. Tech-Scent uses the wireless connection that Lady Mercy and Quick Kitty have with the base to send a disruptor beam at Mecha-Maniac's new body which causes the new form to collapse into its component parts and adds more vehicles to the junk pile while they begrudging take claims from furs of various mixed species. Mecha-Maniac is undaunted as he takes over a news chopper to continue pursuit.
Back at their base, Tech-Scent is monitoring the situation and brings up a special monitor that he made to contain Mecha-Maniac so he can stand trial. Besides having an extremely conservative news station chasing them the trip for the heroes is uneventful. For the conservative however, the trip gives the villain an open forum to vocalize his agenda non-stop without even pausing for commercials which in turn causes their ratings to tank and invites a vocal reprimand from a politician that usually has high praise for the station and its work: Pennsylvania Senator Seamus Kennedy.
Once at the base Filibuster and Quick Kitty report to the Dojo, the virtual reality training area where a turtle sporting a Fu Manchu moustache and a Karate gi greets them. Quick Kitty bows to the retired hero known as the Philosopher. Philosopher and Filibuster share a sly wink as the turtle has been a thorn in his father's side for years and Philosopher gave Filibuster some basic martial arts instruction as part of an inner city program Benjamin Franklin Kennedy was enrolled in because his father wasn't doing much to support his mother at the time.
Senator Seamus Kennedy stopped this as soon as he became aware of it as he was anti-mask back then as well. However the turtle kept tabs on the young bear and when he was transformed into Filibuster he held out hope that the bear would some kind of hero and is proud at how Filibuster turned out. Philosopher understands that most Filibuster's bad boy status stems from his feelings towards his father and if he does become a hearth Guard member Philosopher is going to help Filibuster grow beyond that and heal those wounds as he knows the boy inside the man is capable of being what others call a "True Hero" but what Philosopher quietly maintains as using your gift responsibly.
Quick Kitty is put on a treadmill and told to run as fast as she can and complies willingly with relish as the speedometer cranks up to a whopping 8, 000 MPH. Filibuster enters a crushing machine that tests how much weight he can press and ends up maxing out at 25 kilotons. Next comes the combat simulators where any new combat abilities are showcased.
Filibuster's body has developed a pair of new quirk in terms of increasing abilities he already had. He is now immune to suffocation as his body quickly adapts to various stimuli the computer puts forth to strangle him into submission. He can now leap a full nine hundred feet and while this not as impressive as how fast Quick Kitty can run it means he is no slouch in the movement ability with his Mobile Home now being a place to sleep at night.
Daphne finds she can do something besides run as she grabs a mecha-minion representing a generic mook and spins in place at tremendous speed causing various degrees of motion sickness in her victim. More destructive is when she lets go to a victim while spinning which creates a centrifugal slingshot effect that's only slightly less hurtful than a straight punch from Filibuster. By running in a tight circle Quick Kitty finds she can create localized windstorms that could be helpful in certain situations.
She also finds out some other abilities have improved as her awareness, presence, dexterity, and fighting sense have all increased somewhat. Ben Ken is till smarter and has more awareness than she does as well as better at fighting than she is and by the nature of his powers his strength and stamina far outshines hers. Much to her dismay his powers of persuasion are as great as hers and his tossing skill is much better, but she is better at things out so that gets his smirking until Filibuster just shrugs his shoulders as if it weren't a big deal.
Filibuster ultimately accepts the offer to join the Hearth Guard for the access to resources and to spite his father. Senator Kennedy goes on an hour long rant in congress that evening that CNN covers and the team watches including and especially Filibuster who sighs and shakes his head throughout the tirade. At least half the attacks are directed squarely at Filibuster so the team holds no grudges against him as they hold a press conference to announce Filibuster joining the Hearth Guard.
At Hearth Guard headquarters a party is arranged with red and black balloons everywhere both to mark Bulwark's passing and to celebrate Filibuster's joining the team. Banner sized photos of Bulwark are on display as Filibuster alters his costume slightly with the fist symbol losing the upraised middle finger and a black shield with a red star appearing on his back and forearms to along with the chevrons on his upper arms that he has to remind him of his past as US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Non-Commissioned Officer.
Politicians are not invited to the gala but the media is as a US Marine Corps Captain who runs the recruitment stations in New Jersey attends and Captain John Smith is the bulldog that recruited Benjamin Franklin Kennedy into the Marines in the first place. Filibuster salutes Captain John Smith when he sees the old dog and the officer does likewise as John Smith is actually proud of Filibuster as a marine who continues to defend America after being discharged with the full honors of an officer, commissioned or not. Members of the Marconi mob try to get into the party but unfortunately for them, Filibuster knows most of Samson Marconi's people on sight and has provided a list so they are refused at the door.
The party is in full swing when a trio of black helicopter gunships approach largely undetected until they surround the pier that the Hearth Guard Headquarters has situated itself. Dark silhouetted furs are broadcasted to the internal monitors and especially to the screen of the ballroom where the gala is taking place. They identify themselves as the Defenders of Normalcy, who have come to purge the boardwalk of all freaks.
Freaks by their definition includes all metafurs whether they be hero or villain. The heroes The heroes of the Hearth Guard get their normal guests to safety as Filibuster takes to the roof where stacks of manhole covers are in strategic locations as Bulwark liked having them for his convenience in situations like this. Tech-Scent activates the automated defenses only to have the DON helicopters shoot them out as Filibuster takes aim.
Bullets from the machine guns do nothing to Filibuster as he throws a manhole cover at a chopper like a discus and disables its rotor. One of the other two fires a rocket at Filibuster who grabs the missile and tosses it back to its sender. After it explodes the sat one fires all of its rockets at once which prompts Filibuster to start tossing manhole covers like mad.
Tech-Scent has gotten the base's defenses back on-line to diffuse the missiles as the DON chopper turns tail and runs. Unfortunately for them Filibuster is able knock out its engine and sends it careening into the ocean. Rather than get caught the pilot pulls the suicide switch and blows the vehicle sky high.
Filibuster gets a hero's welcome when he rejoins the party and the DJ plays "Go the Distance" in honor of his achievement with Ben Ken taking over the singing at some point. After the set is done the gala becomes a live recording of the Politico Plague Lab with DJ Filibuster which amuses Tech-Scent and slightly annoys Quick Kitty. In the live broadcast that goes the next day as a podcast Filibuster bashes his father and hints at how much of a hypocrite he is, although Ben Ken is careful to couch this as a rant more than anything else.
Politico Plague Lab becomes a feature on the Hearth Guard's web page with Quick Kitty learning a few tricks as she becomes Filibuster's co-host . Filibuster and Quick Kitty playing off of each other as part of the banter between sets quickly gets popular as even Tech-Scent guest DJs on the show. It's still a techno-industrial music program but eventually it goes to a three DJ format with each DJ providing two half hour sets of music that turns them on with the odd track of metal, exotica, surf rock and cool jazz thrown in just to expose the audience to new things as "experiments from the lab".
After the party concludes, Tech-Scent's robots clean up as Filibuster and quick Kitty relax in a hot tub while Lady Mercy has some fun with Tech-Scent in the showers before they join the other two in the clothing optional tub. Daphne is the one that started it mostly to have her way with Ben and she has his cock firmly between her legs and inside of her when they get company. There are times when moving at hyper speeds is detrimental to what she wants and sex is definitely one of those instances that Quick Kitty takes her time as she tries to prolong his climax as long as possible.
In fact Filibuster and Quick Kitty are too busy with each other to notice they have company until he quietly climaxes within her. Afterwards they smile and nod to Lady Mercy and Tech-Scent before going to the repurposed and formerly Bulwark's room with all the expansions needed for Filibuster's comfort. Quick Kitty moves in with him as they have agreed to start a relationship with each other now that he is an official member of the team and it helps keep him insulated from his father a bit as the Senator has even less jurisdiction over his life as part of a nationally recognized team of heroes.