If there was any opportunity to be well known, Axel knew it had to come from getting into the Power Lounge.
However mired in controversy one may have been (just look to Celebrant for an example of that), just the status of being a member of the Power Lounge was something that brought prestige and wonder to a superhero's career. However, being part of a professional hero organization was something that required a lot of talent in both managing one's image as well as in proving one was strong enough to actually keep up with the best of the best within the organization.
In other words, it was hard to join the Power Lounge. One needed to be proven worthy of holding their position, and that meant that Axel had to do the one thing she was dreading of doing: she had to train.
"Are you sure you want me to do this, babe?"
"Come on, it's not like you'll be aiming to kill me. Just trying to knock me flat on my ass, okay?"
"Okay... but I should let you know, us Succubi are stronger than we appear. We're mid-class demons for a reason, after all."
They had only a week, so she needed to use the strongest demons she could summon in order to improve her strength and reflexes. There certainly was something stronger that she could summon, but the supplies she needed for it's summons arrived in three days according to Yeng Shipping so until then she had to rely on her girlfriend. Stellae... wasn't exactly skilled in combat, but she was physically strong enough to dent a car, and that strength was certainly good for Axel to practice against.
Thrusting her fist forward, Stellae impacted the concrete of the abandoned building they were hiding up in with enough force to crack the wall. Having ducked and weaved away at the last second, Axel's face was only a mere inch away from where the blow had landed, with beads of sweat dripping down from her face. Remembering that she was supposed to keep face so Stellae had a reason to continue punching, her face still showed confidence at the situation, despite the sinking feeling deep inside.
"See... that was nothing. Again!"
With that, Stellae then shifted to a roundhouse kick, which was meant with Axel's hands as she tried blocking the blow. Taking it head on, she felt her own body being pushed across the ground by a few inches, but somehow she managed to steady herself on the concrete floor. Her hands were super sore from holding all that strength however, with her shoulders feeling like they were about to dislodge from the blow.
"A-and again!"
Over the course of the next thirty minutes, the two continued to spar against each other with all of their might. Whenever Stellae managed to hit Axel, the human of the two felt like she was getting hit by a truck, leaving her body battered and bruised all the while. When she hit her succubus GF however, it felt like she was hitting a wall of steel, barely even managing to push into her potbelly with the strongest of her wrench blows.
At the end of this mini-session, she was heavily regretting this idea. Beaten black and blue, she threw her wrench down and got to her knees, panting all the while as she looked up to her lover.
"M-maybe we should take five..."
About half a hour after that, she had switched tactics. Sitting on the couch, she was having one imp feed her a burger while the other five or so she had summoned were all working together on a series of inventions and gadgets. This was what she was better at, namely being a delegator for other creatures beneath her. Sure, it wasn't exactly the best thing to be proud of. But she was sore as fuck and just wanted to lie on her ass until she felt better.
"Oh, I'm so sorry babe..." Stellae said, her tail wrapped around an ice pack as she placed it over Axel's midsection. "Please, if there is anything I can do to make you feel better, just ask and I'll try to take care of it."
"I keep telling you, you don't have to worry bout shit." Axel retorted, pausing in between bites to respond to her girlfriend while letting the imp just wait there, unabated. "You did exactly what I asked of you, and I learned that I'm not exactly the best at fighting beings above my paygrade. Honestly, I should have just practiced by lifting you up and down. I'm sure you'd enjoy all the bridal carrying, wouldn't you?"
"W-well yeah..." Stellae's face blushed blue a bit at the idea of Axel picking her soft ass off the ground and holding her up in the air. It was probably a pipe dream considering how soft she was, but the fantasy distracted her from the worrying enough to let her smile all over again.
"Heh, I could try right now if it weren't for this damn pain..." Moving the ice pack a bit further up, she twinged in pain as the ice made contact with one of the spots where she had let herself get struck by her babe. While her arms were focused on moving the pack to where it needed to go, her mouth was busy munching down on delicious patty meat straight from Yokozuna Burger. All this fighting worked up an appetite after all, and she had only started her training at 5 PM, so this dinner certainly was well appreciated.
Yokozuna Burger... twice in a day. Now that was a treat that she rarely ever got to cherish. Thank the devil that Stellae had pitched in to afford both of their meals by herself via DoorDash, or she'd have to settle for some bland and uninteresting frozen dinner from the fridge. She'd have to thank her for that later somehow, if not during the next time that they made sweet love then certainly by paying for her next big meal. Otherwise, she'd owe Stellae a favor, and she preferred it when they were even.
Of course, when it came to Stellae she didn't see any need for a favor when it came to Axel eating. These Triple Ozeki burgers were an absolute explosion of calories, and eating one was practically biting their way into a calorie bomb. She wanted Axel to succeed in becoming a member of the Power Lounge, sure. But she also felt like she was missing what she was finding hot about her own weight, and wanted to see how she plumped up in the long run.
Then again, maybe it was the succubus in her that left her lustful at the prospect of Axel getting slobby and chunky.
"The gadgets are ready, Engi-Cubus!"
"Alright, fire them up in the air then."
Flicking her open hand around, Axel commanded them from her spot on the couch as she watched the imps aim the devices they had built squarely towards the sky before pulling the trigger. Two spurts of fire came out from each of the devices on the far edges, swirling together in the shape of two sinful snakes. The centermost device created a bright flash of light, akin to a flare gun before the bright light burst into a full on fireworks. The remaining two meanwhile pushed out a spurt of bubbles into the air, which released tiny bursts of pepper spray with each pop.
Were these gadgets practical? Maybe the fire snakes but certainly not the flare gun device or the pepper spray bottles. But those two examples were meant to be flashy and iconic, different from what other heroes could possibly try to offer at the audition. If she needed to prove the practicality of these sorts of devices, they only needed to look at the flame-spewing ones and the damage they could inflict on some good old-fashioned wood.
After a bit of thinking, she had her notes.
"Pepper spray bubble device is perfect. The flame spewers though should have their range decreased by a few inches. It'll shorten the range, but it will also save us quite a bit on actually fueling it continuously. The flare on the other hand is a bit too bright. It's too much of a distraction compared to the bubbles, so maybe tone down the lights a bit? Or better yet, maybe we can replace it with a machine that launches liquid nitroglycerin?"
"We'll see what we can do." The centermost of the five building imps stated, as they got back to work. They were going to have to build these from scratch on the day of the audition, but for now they could afford to make mistakes on the process to perfecting it all.
"Hey, maybe tomorrow I should exercise with an actual punching bag instead?" Axel stated, throwing her idea out without a care. "See if I can break it after enough hits and all?"
"I think you should still rest." Stellae countered. "You got sooooo hurt after all, and you'll only break your muscles if you kept up this stress on yourself."
"Yeah, yeah..."
It was kind of true. They said that if you let your muscles rest for a day after an intensive beating or training regiment they'd repair themselves to be stronger than ever. She doubted the authenticity of that statement... but to be honest she didn't really want to exercise all that much anyway even if she needed to for the audition. She just wanted to wait until her body was all better, and then find a workaround in order to make her body strong enough to match her girlfriend.
Workarounds always worked for her, after all. They're what taught her how to summon demons, and it'd help her get ready to become a Power Lounge member. She just needed to figure out how to work around her human limit.
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