Greed God chapter 170

April 3rd 2016 Brightedge City, Palace of Debauchery 12:00 PM EDT

Amy  met me at the door of the house in a cute low cut summer dress and  sunglasses she kept pushed up her head. She bounced excitedly up to snag  my arm as she came close enough. I'd spent the last few hours talking  out various aspects of the territory expansion with the girls. Dinah had  come downstairs and she was inserting herself into the discussion. I  didn't even know how much she knew about my activities at this point.  She'd picked some up from talking to Jade, and we'd discussed certain  things over the interdimensional lightning phone, so I just gave her the  cliff notes of the plan I was comfortable sharing in front of Barbie.

After  I let them know I was going out to do recon they had adjourned to talk  between themselves. I suspected anything Dinah wasn't clued in on Barbie  would tell her, and vice versa, but I had a tight enough hold on both  women not to mind much. It would save me explanations and trying to keep  my story straight. Dinah wasn't leaving her baby daddy, and Barbie was  thoroughly mine unless I tried to tell her to start murdering babies or  something.

As we strolled out of the house arm in arm, Amy  chattered excitedly about our day. "This is going to be so much fun  Nicky, are you going to put on your costume? Or are we just going to  walk around like normal civilians? Because there's so many things I'd  like to see here. I've never been to Gotham, but I heard about it even  before I landed in Gemworld. This place is supposed to be crazy, but we  can handle in."

She was wriggling like a relatively busty  puppy, and it was kind of adorable, so I enjoyed the view for a minute  before I held up a hand to cut her off. "Sorry princess, no mask today.  We're going to be looking around, but I don't need to contact any of the  people holding our new territory. In point of fact, I don't WANT them  to know we're looking. They're more likely to act up if they think they  aren't being watched. You girls all had masks on when you went out  right?" Zee and Cherry had those randomizing masks from my Opal heist  and most of the others covered their faces.

Nodding  absently she reached into her dress and pulled out a violet face mask. I  wasn't sure where the hell she was keeping it, since I didn't think she  had the chest to conceal something that big, but still, it was nice  that she'd thought to bring it. I took it from her and slipped it behind  my back, where I had my pouch strapped in such a way that it hung out  of sight under my jacket. It was unlikely just the pouch would give away  my identity, but better safe than sorry at least.

Amy  started pulling at my arm, actually dragging my feet across the ground.  She wasn't as strong as I was, but she was strong enough to move me  easily if I wasn't resisting. I grinned at her. "Someone is certainly  eager. You that anxious to spend quality time with your hubby?"

The  pout I got in response was almost staggeringly sulky. "Of course, since  you never seem to have time for me. You're always busy with your plans  or other girls. Do you blame me for taking my time when I can get it?  This is SUPPOSED to be our honeymoon. I don't mind sharing since we  already agreed that was ok, but I expect to be spoiled and showered with  affection, and not just by other girls to keep me busy."

"Okay."  I said quickly, holding up a hand placatingly. "I get it. I promise  I'll make time for you princess. You might need to try to distract me  once in a while if I get too focused, but I'll try to make sure I can  fit you in." I shot her a wink. "Or maybe more of the opposite."

She  rolled her eyes. "Yes, yes, I'm sure you'll be having lots of sex with  me whenever you feel like it, but I mean doing things together as a  couple, not just sex. I don't want to have to bribe my own husband with  sexual favors to get attention. You'd better make sure to spend time  with me doing other things. Sex with you is lots of fun, and Emerald is  excellent at licking my pussy, but I have other interests." She huffed  in annoyance. "Besides I'm going to be pretty exhausted from all of the  sex I'll be having with your other girls. As your wife I have to make  sure they're up to my standards and know their place."

My  eyes glazed a bit at that. "I...um, ok. I didn't expect that honestly.  You're going to fuck all of them? Because I'd very much like to watch  that, maybe you could record it for me or something. Exactly how were  you planning to put them in their places?"

Shrugging, Amy  just gave a casual smile. "Oh, not all of them will need it. Some of  them are willing to work with me and follow my lead. Emerald's friendly  demeanor helped make Barbara much more amenable to working with me,  though I suspect she wants the three of us to bond as a group too. I'm  excited to become closer with her, I know how much she means to you.  Dinah is a wonderful person to talk to and incredibly open to my offers  of friendship. Jade seems like she may be a problem though, so I might  need to take a firmer hand with her."

I tried not to get  hard imagining my sunny little wife dominating my deadly little kitten.  As a D ranker Amy would break Jade in half if she decided it was  necessary, and I knew her recalcitrant the pretty assassin could be.  Considering how off balance I was, I didn't think she'd have a problem  making Jade her bitch. "Well good luck with all that. Like I said I'd  love to watch so try to get a recording of it. Do you know how to work  cameras or anything? Actually never mind, have Barbie help, I imagine  she'd cream her panties at the chance to watch you make Cheshire your  bitch."

She rolled her eyes a bit, but I caught a small  smile. I suspected she was looking forward to this particular 'duty'  more than she let on. We changed topics as we walked, getting off of sex  and back to whatever couple things I figured would make her happy. "So,  how have you and Emerald been settling in?" I asked. "I know everything  has been chaotic, but have you enjoyed coming over so far?"

Amy  flashed me a brilliant smile. "We haven't been able to do too much  outside of patrolling yet, but it's been very interesting. Emmy has been  kind of shocked at all the modern amenities. I remembered things like  TV and the internet from when I left, although the latter has changed A  LOT, but she had no context for a lot of the things we've seen. It's  kind of adorable to see her freak out so much." She glanced around as we  walked. "Speaking of freaking out...why isn't anyone else? This place  seems...almost deserted."

I shrugged. "Combination of  Gotham City Syndrome and the calm before the storm. GCS is kind of a  cultivated 'who fucking cares' mindset all born Gothamites get. Seeing  the Jokes gas whole blocks one week and fill a stadium with bombs the  next makes it hard to freak out every time something happens. Sure  sometimes people die, but usually not many. Even in Metro we kind of get  desensitized, but Gotham is ten times worse. The scale isn't nearly as  big over here, but sheer frequency makes most Gotham natives jaded as  hell."

Her eyes widened as it dawned on her. "And with the  while war between cities thing so recent Metropolis is likely even more  inured to it than usual. Calm before the storm though? You mean that  everyone is gearing up for some big fight? Why would that happen? You  would figure things would settle with Doctor Gotham gone and the magic  mostly dispersed from the city."

That one got a chuckle  out of me. "You're thinking about this the wrong way. This isn't Gotham.  Or Metropolis. It's a combination of both. Which means all the old  territories and roles are up in the air. We aren't just going to see  turf wars between factions from the two cities, people will be coming  from all over to try to get a slice of the pie. It's why it was so  important for us to go out as soon as we got back and dig in to claim  some territory. We need to prepare for the storm."

"Yes."  A voice echoed from the shadow of a nearby alley. "You do." I blinked  in surprise as I turned to take in the form stepping from the darkness. I  hadn't noticed anyone there. I was guessing he'd been lying in wait for  us, having picked the stealthiest location in our path. The form that  emerged was dressed entirely in form fitting black armor with a blue  bird on the chest and a black domino mask. Nightwing.

That  was...annoying. But inevitable. Even though the big boys from the  League were gone, the junior crew would undoubtedly be drawn to this  clusterfuck. I knew from Barbie some of the dynamics of the younger  generation, specifically that Nightwing was her ex and that she'd broken  up with him because he'd dated Zee and she couldn't get over her  jealousy. Personally I thought he was a scrub, not being able to make a  threesome happen under those circumstances was just pathetic.

He  was also at least reasonably competent in combat (not an issue for me  anymore) and slightly intelligent (less than Barbie, but still smarter  than your average bear). That said I had no clue what he was or wasn't  aware of. I doubted Barbie told him anything, or Zee, but he had to know  SOMETHING was up with me given my proximity to those two. The mask  would prevent him from connecting me to Mammon probably. So I figured my  best bet was to play dumb. I raised an eyebrow at him. "Oh, hello.  Nightwing right? I've seen you on the news. What can I help you with?"

I  wanted to see what he knew. I doubted he'd heard more than the last  little bit of the conversation if he'd heard any of it. Some references  to us wanting to grab territory in the shake up maybe, but nothing  incriminating. Which was lucky because I was betting knowing his ex was  part of my growing harem would have gotten his attention. That didn't  answer what he was aware of though. We'd been gone a while and despite  the mess Gotham had been while we were away, he WAS the protege of the  worlds edgiest detective.

His  eyes pierced me, scanning over my face for any sort of tells or  weaknesses. He found none. Obviously. I had perfect bodily control, I  could tell him I'd spent the last few months banging his mom in a  poolside cabana and he wouldn't have been able to pick up any deception.  "I've been asking around. Word is that you might have some information  on this whole thing. You vanished for a few months and popped back up  around the time all this happened. There were also sightings of you near  the battle between Fate and Doctor Gotham."

That...shit.  I had sort of forgotten in my haste to return home that I wasn't  wearing a mask. It sounded like no one but Leslie had seen me actually  merge the cities, but I'd been sloppy after all my time in Gemworld. I  could work with that. It sounded like Fate wasn't really talking to  them, since he needed to track me down to ask about shit, which meant I  could come up with my own story and they would have no one to contradict  it. Now, what kind of lies did I want to tell the Justice League?