An hour later, the President and his retinue finally left the Weir home, their chopper creating a ton of noise, and the quartet of young women(Made up of two budding goddesses, their ethereally gorgeous and youthful mother, and an exquisitely pretty dragon girl hybrid), all a bit stunned, were left pondering what to do next.
"You're kind of turning into a slut" Shannon laughed uneasily at Meiko, breaking the silence.
"Only kind of?".
"First, you're deep throating sorcerers from other dimensions, and now the president? Who's next, Wonder Woman? You just know that old geezer is going to spread it around to a bunch of sketchy people that don't really deserve to live forever."
Meiko shrugged.
"I felt like we didn't really have a choice. Every budding religion needs political support. Look at Constantine the Great. When he converted to Christianity and made it the official religion of the Roman Empire, the empire lasted for another thousand years and Christianity *still* exists today. Without Constantine's support, maybe we'd all be worshipping Jupiter right now. Or whoever."
Shannon rolled her eyes. Her girlfriend was really good at rationalizing her behavior. So was Brenda. She guessed the type of people who wanted to be gods were a bit narcissistic by default. But whatever. Shannon just saw this as a game and wanted to see where it went.
**
Meanwhile....
Todd, a local teenage boy, was playing in a local park skateboarding by himself.
Life was getting awful strange, he thought. Especially for a sleepy small town in New Jersey.
His big sister Laurel had joined the goddess cult recently. Laurel becoming a lesbian didn't really bother Todd or their dad too much, although their mom didn't approve of it, and the mother and daughter had gotten into a bit of an argument about it. Things had calmed down a bit between them, but there was still some tension.
He was more worried about the increase in armed nutcases he'd been seeing around town, pacing around the headquarters of the new religion, and now he heard that the president was visiting to meet with the two leaders of the religon. Todd wasn't political or anything, but everything about all of this gave him the creeps.
Todd skated past a fountain aimlessly.
Suddenly he stopped, the wheels screeching against the pavement, as he noticed three women appear out of nowhere on the other side of the fountain.
Literally out of nowhere, like in a magic act.
The three women, two redheads and a blonde, were ridiculously gorgeous. One of the redheads, the shorter one, was clearly a butch lesbian and she was trying her best to maintain a masculine look, but her curvy figure and pouty lips gave her away.
All three women looked confused.
Todd cautiously skated up to them.
"Oh my God, I was right!" Katherine said, pointing at the boy on the skateboard approaching them.
Logan and Allison's jaws dropped.
"See, girls? I told you, I found a portal to another dimension!"
Todd stopped in front of them.
"Uh, hi" he said awkwardly.
"You're a boy" the butch lesbian said, pointing at him, her hand shaking.
"Girl!" he joked, pointing back at her.
The butch turned to the blonde, her bright green eyes wide in astonishment.
Todd noticed that they were wearing wedding bands on their ring fingers. Were these two women married?
The butch women walked carefully up to Todd, inspecting him as if he were a wild animal or something exotic. She touched his face.
She looked at him in awe.
"Um...hi" he said, feeling awkward.
Suddenly, Todd felt an oncoming sneeze. He tried to turn away in time, but it was too late. The poor butch woman got a face full of snot particles.
"I'm sorry!" Todd stammered apologetically. "I've got seasonal allergies. I didn't mean to..."
"It's fine" Logan said, letting go of him, wiping away the snot particles on her face. She hoped that she hadn't breathed any in.
"I'm sorry for being creepy. I'm just..I haven't seen a boy in..."
"Six years" Katherine said behind Logan.
"Are you two sisters?" Todd asked, pointing between Logan and Katherine.
"Eww...no!" Logan said, seemingly offended by Todd's innocent question. "That's my mother!"
This time, it was Todd's eyes that widened in surprise.
"It's just...she doesn't look old enough to be your mom. Unless she had you when she was like ten."
"Aww, thanks, that's sweet!" Katherine said behind her daughter. "I used to be her father!"
"Uh..."
The blonde giggled.
"I'm guessing you're just as confused as we are. We're visitors!" Allison said. "We think that we're from another reality or something, like in Everything Everywhere All At Once. We just stepped through this weird portal at the park near our house, and somehow we ended up here."
Todd looked at the blonde and nodded.
"Cool" he said. "Uh...welcome, I guess. Is everyone where you're from as pretty as you are?"