Author's Note: One of my friends had asked that I do a Rich/Kori oneshot. This didnt turn out quite the way I had planned. But this should turnout to be a real intrestring story nonetheless. Originally this was going to be a songfic to Matchbox 20's "The Real World" It didnt turn out that way, but I'm quite pleased with the overall result. I plan on this being an on-going story hopefully. This is going to be a little different from my other stories, hope you like it.
It was an average day for Richard Grayson as he worked behind his desk at the Daily Planet in downtown Metropolis. He had recently moved from Gotham to prusue his goal in journalism. He wasnt a star reporter like Clark Kent or Lois Lane but he was an up-and-coming writer. Everything was going along smoothly until a large explosion rocked the building people screamed as office workers were knocked to the ground. Richard and several others ran to the window to see what was happening. A man in a green and yellow flight suit was bombing the city with missles. Clark and Lois were among the ones watching from the window as soon as editor Perry Mason turned to call out Clark's name he discovered that his star reporter was gone, Richard couldnt figure out where he could have gone. Without hesistation he and Lois took off out of the office to cover the story. The two reporters ran out into the street and were swept over from above by a powerful gust. By then people started to cry out.
"Look! Up in the sky!" said a man
"Its a bird!" said a woman.
"Its a plane!" said another woman.
"No! It's...Superman!" a man cried out as he pointed at the Man of Steel.
Superman takes to the skies to confront the mad bomber. The rocket-propelled villain raced through the skyline as he dropped bombs on the unsuspecting citizens below resulting in mass destruction. Superman using his speed flew after the villain who was well aware of the caped hero's presence. He spun around on his back and launched wrist mounted missles at him. The rockets hit Superman in the chest and knock him out of the sky. The manaic cackled as he spun around on his stomach and continued his assult on the city. Superman crashlanded on the roof of a car, but got back up when he saw the damage and destruction the enemy was causing and took off after him. He fired his heat vision at him hoping to sever the villain's backpack. Dr. Blast saw him and dodged it, his heat vision cut through part of a building causing the top corner to give way and fall. Superman cursed inward and flew to catch the falling slab. He caught it after falling a short distance, the slab was big and awkward for him to carry, Dr. Blast saw his opportunity and fired several rockets at it, resulting in a huge explosion as chucks of debris sent the Man of Steel hurtling to the street below. People ran as the large chunks of debris hit smashing cars and narrowly missing people. Superman buried under most of the debris, Richard and Lois could only watch on in shock. Giving his camera to Lois, Rich raced across the street to dig Superman out of the rubble. He threw aside large chunks of rock as he despretely tried to unearth his fallen hero. His large, muscular arm bursted through the rubble startling Richard as he emerged from his would-be tomb. Shaken but alive, the Man of Steel sat up and cradled his head.
"Big Blue, are you ok?" Richard asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks." Superman said.
"He's tearing the city apart." Richard told him.
"Dont worry, I'll stop him." The Man of Steel said getting to his feet. And with that took off after the mad doctor.
"Come on, let's get out of here!" Lois grabbed Rich from behind. The two of them took cover in some nearby shelter.
Superman took to the skies once to to confront Dr. Blast. This time he was going to take him down for sure. He attacked him from behind and punched him in the cheek sending him spiraling to the ground with a crash. Superman joined him on the ground and walked over to the downed villain. The villain struggled getting to his feet. He was skinny old man in a green and yellow suit. He was bald and had a gray goatee, with green small round green goggles covering his eyes.
"Who are you?" Superman asked.
"The name's Dr. Blast." the villain annouced.
"Catchy." he said unimpressed.
"Why are you doing all this? What reason do you have attacking these innocent people?" Superman asked.
Dr. Blast chuckled. "Do I really need a reason? I just do it for the hell of it."
"I fail to see the humor in that." The Man of Steel said as he neared closer to him.
"I take it you dont have a very good sense of humor." the doctor told him.
"At least mine isnt twisted." Superman responded.
"Why dont we pick up where we left off, with some nice human carnage." he said blasting off, Superman took off after him.
The villain fired multiple rockets at buildings, though he tried Superman couldnt stop the rockets from hitting. Several buildings start to crumble, he watched in terror as chunks of debris fell. People screamed trying to evade the falling debris. Rich saw a girl with red hair about to be crushed by a large slab of concrete. He raced across and tackled her, the two rolled across the ground as it hit, crushing the sidewalk. Richard covered her with his body. The two find themselves laying in the remains of an empty windowsill, that seemingly saved them.
"Are you ok?" he asked her.
"Yeah." she said looking up at him.
"Come on, we have to get out of here!" he said taking her by the hand and rushing to safety.
An enraged Superman attacked Dr. Blast punching him hard in the face busting his goggles. He punched him again in the stomach and tore apart his rocket pack with his barehands letting the doctor fall to earth. The doctor's rocket boots fired and he attempted to make a getaway. Superman shot out his rocket boots with his heat vision after falling several stories in terrified flight, the Man of Steel grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and held him there in mid-air. The Man of Tomorrow's eyes glowed red as he gave the doctor the death stare. He had every notion to break the guy's back over his knee. After all the destruction he had caused, all the lives he had put in danger and possibly killed. He had every right to use his heat vision right now, and melt his head off. But he wasnt that kind of person. Superheroes do not kill. All thought it took all of his restraint not to do so. Superman lowered himself to the ground. Ripping up a street sign he wrapped around the villain, turning him over to police. In the meantime Richard was still laying on top of the woman he saved, he got off of her and helped her to her feet.
"Are you ok?" he asked.
"Yeah, thanks. You saved me." the young red head said.
"Just doing my job." he smiled.
The young woman smiled back at him.
"Is it always like this?" she asked.
"Not always. Usually he takes the battle away from us." Rich says.
"Who?" she said confused.
"Superman. You sure your all right? Nothing's broken?" he asked.
"I'm fine." she nodded.
"All right, well I better be getting back." he said.
"Wait." she grabbed his arm.
"I didnt get your name." she said.
"Its Richard." he said.
"My name is Kori." she told him.
Rich smiled at her, she smiled back at him. Kori reached into her purse and pulled out a slip of paper.
"Its my number, call me later. I'd love to hear from you." she said.
"Thanks." he said accepting the piece of paper.
"Thank you." she told him.
Rich smiled and nodded. "Its no problem." he said.
Rich took off down the broken sidewalk to where Lois was waiting for him. Kori smiled as she watched him run off. The girl then turned and left.
Author's Note: I want to thank my friend Berrydrops for being the partial inspiration behind this story. I use to do Teen Titans/Superman stories back in the day. It feels good to write another Superman story. Not one of my biggest heroes, but still intrestring to write. I thought I'd take a different approach in a Rich/Kori story. This will be the first time I've posted a crossover story. There is actually some truth to this, in the comics Richard is close friends with Superman and actually looks up to him as his idol. So let me know what you think and if you'd like to see more.
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