The Sun's Son

I do not own Superman, Batman, Supergirl or any of the other characters of the DC comics. Only James.

'Thoughts'

"Speech"

The three figures stood around the object of their attention.

"It is done?" the voice was deep and filled with the malice towards all things living, the figure was dark and shrouded in shadow.

"Yes it is done brothers." the tallest and radiating command and wisdom greater than the other two, the air itself seemed to crackle around him.

"But when will it be ready to use?" with a voice that seemed to bubble up from the deepest depths, his voice seemed faint but with the power a hurricane beneath it. A hurricane ready to be unleashed on the slightest whim.

"Soon brothers, soon. We must give it time, we must test it first and see if it is up to the challenge." The tallest said.

"Can there be any doubt? It was done by our three hands. That alone should ensure its ability and success." the third said, rage building, barely held a bay.

"Calm yourself brother. The goal is much too great to leave to chance. We have time, we can be patient and see." The tallest one replied. He was obviously was the one that held the other two in check.

As the two continued to talk about the object of their attention, the third remained silent. Contemplating. With eyes that seemed to reflect the countless souls of despair and loss the shadowy figure spoke. "Zeus, do you intend to bring this matter up before the council? Or does this remain between the three of us?"

"Hades. Brother." with a loud sigh," This is a matter concerning all of Olympus, not just us three." The King of the Gods looked suddenly very tired.

Poseidon jumps in with urgency, "But what if they disagree, say no, then all of our work will be for naught!"

"Worry not. For though they will have their say, ultimately the decision will be ours for it concerns us the most. We need only get enough of them to agree to justify our actions." Zeus informed his brothers.

"We do not need to justify ourselves to them! We are The Three! We rule over all that is, our words are absolute!" The Lord of the seas' temper began to climb like a coming hurricane.

"Yes, but with this move we change everything. Nothing will be the same again, what's to prevent the younger ones from doing this in turn? With even their minor consensus, we cement their guilt into inaction later on." revealed the Lord of Olympus.

As they two prattled on more on the details, Hades remained quiet and contemplated things on his own. Neither of his two brothers noticed the slow smile creep across his face.

'I see things getting very interesting now….'

Chapter Two: A Need Met

So it was at this point that Kara found herself within the 'Fortress'. A construction by her once 'little' cousin Kal, a.k.a. Clark or Superman. This 'Fortress' was truly an amazing thing, it seemed to depict both Kal's Kryptonian heritage while giving recognition to his Earthly upbringing. With all the exhibits on Kryptonian culture it was truly amazing and very reminiscent of home… or at least as much as she could remember… strangely her memories seemed to have been a bit hazy.

All in all it was truly extraordinary…

And all in all Kara was truly bored…

"Come on… please? Just for a bit? It's driving me crazy staying here all locked up all the time."

"Alright. Fine, you're right, you don't get out much. I guess we can see about even getting you a place to stay outside of the Fortress. Maybe with my parents?" finally submitting to the constant pleas and the nagging voice in the back of his head saying it's the right thing to do, the Man of Steel finally bent over beaten.

"That's great! Ohhh thank you Kal. Most of my time outside has been spent battling bad guys…"

"… Not something I'm still entirely comfortable with you know." the unease very apparent in Clark's voice.

"…Now I'll have time to spend doing other exciting things, like shopping and exploring the different places Earth has to offer!" clearly too busy imagining the possibilities before her, Kara was oblivious to the discomfort her listings were having on her cousin.

'Shopping?…well Kara's definitely picked up that past time fairly easily. Maybe too easy for my liking… ohh no I think she might need to pick up a job for her secret identity we'll have to create for her to help her merge into society, as well has fuel her new love for shopping.'

"Ohh I can't wait!" squealed Kara.

And thus began Kara's journey of both window and actual shopping from all over the continent…

…and the bending it would cause on the 'wallet of steel' …

The Midwest. Somewhere in the direction of Minnesota, possibly as far as into Canada. Not in his jurisdiction, but that's never stopped him before. The search probes' reading back that Travis was getting closer to the general area in which the 'target' was last read at being. He never liked going into a job not knowing what his 'catch' was capable of, some others found it exciting but Travis just found it made things more difficult and dangerous. Travis was no patriot by any stretch of the word and he was not willing to die in service to his country, he just enjoyed the freedom of freely beating things to a pulp with almost no possible government repercussions. All he knew was the 'target' was fast, pretty fast actually, but not so fast as to be real difficult, so long as it didn't follow too much more surprises. If not…

'Looks like I'm in for some fun, hahaha.'

'It couldn't be real. None of it. It's just too much. These things just don't happen.' Kaylee's mind racing while oblivous to what was happening in front of her.

"Kaylee? Go now! I don't want you to see what happens here" James' desperation apparent, but still unable to reach the now frozen Kalyee.

"Doesn't look like she can hear you buddy, heh heh heh." one of the burglars.

'Fine then. It's now or never.'

"Well lets get this over with shall we?" surprised by how authentic his casual nonchalance appeared, and quite at odds with his earlier apprehension, James decided to move while his sudden change in attitude confused and unbalanced the burglars.

Caught by surprise, the three burglars didn't notice James as he stalked up, practically on top of them until it was almost too late.

BAM and the tallest burglar crumpled to the ground from a backhand to the temple. The second burglar had just enough time to flinch back, saving his nose from a fist and settling for only a grazing of the right cheek, as he fell backward. The third swung desperately at James, missing him completely. His gun was clearly forgotten in the confusion and rush, behind his back.

'Wow? That was quick and easy.' Surprised by his apparent victory, James was unaware of the tallest guy getting back up ready to spring on him.

His only warning was the crunching of the packed snow on the ground. Twisting to get out of the way, James slipped in the snow and fell with the tall man also falling on top of him.

"Quick! Get up and grab him now.!" as all three get up and commence wrestling James to the ground Kaylee came back to her senses.

"James!" panic driving Kaylee's plea into a shrill shriek.

With a dry prickling heat swelling through his body accompanied with an energy James attributed to the adrenalin flooding his system, James forced the three burglars off his person with one strong heave.

As all four men got up the one burglar with the gun remembered what he was packing and brought the gun to bear upon James. Entirely pulled by reflexes James drove forward to the gun, while ducking and swooping to his left and nailed the burglar in the nose with and upward open palm followed by a chop to the left side of the neck and ended with right to the gut and a shove to the ground.

"You better do a lot better than that if you want to get anywhere with me." James replied coldly. Still pumped by the adrenaline rush James forgot about the gun, unfortunately the tall burglar was a bit smarter and quicker for though.

"Well you're fast I'll give you that, but are you fast enough to stop a bullet heading to your friend? I doubt it." confidence and a lot of smug amusement dripping from his words, the tall burglar leveled the gun to point at Kaylee.

Finally at a lost for what to do, James could only look like a deer caught in the headlights, instincts and reflexes weren't giving him any clue on what to do now, unless they were saying to not do anything now.

Finally liking where things stood and where they appeared to be going, the tall burglar decided now was the perfect time to let his frustration on how such a simple burglary became so difficult out on the cause of the whole mess. James.

"Lets beat this punk into a bloody pulp."

"Yah! I think the puke broke my nose! I wanna make him bleed bad now"

"He's caused us too much grief, so I say we make him and his little girl pay"

So the two unarmed burglars commenced to beat down James while the gun remained aimed at Kaylee.

'Damn this kid is solid. He must work out a lot.'

'What? Are these guys like little kids? I'm barely feeling this'

"Is that all you guys got? Are you that tired already that you can't hit any harder than my little nephews? O.K. I'm done with these games." 'Damn they aren't hurting me even, but it sure is getting annoying, just like a four year old trying to pound into me… make that two four-year olds.' Already tired of the rouse James decides to try and surprise them again.

'Damn this guy's weird. Could he be one of those super powered types. Awww crap I bet he is… so he's prolly playing with us which means we better get out of he…'

BAM! BAM!

Both burglars drop and James rushes to place himself between Kaylee and the gunner while also closing the distance between himself and the gunner.

BANG!

The gunner shoots off of reflex and the bullet slams into James's right shoulder, causing him to jerk with the impact halfway spinning him around.

As James slowly spins back to face the gunner, his face looks grim, "Ohhh now you've done it. You just pissed me off! Time for a world of hurt." looking completely unaffected by a near point blank shot.

Seeing the hole in the jumper top and the only effect a point blank gunshot seemed to have was to annoy said individual, the burglar came to the conclusion that he was indeed facing a superhuman and was indeed facing a world of hurt.

In a few rapid movements all three burglars were out cold and James was already starting on restraining them with there own sweaters.

"Oh my god you were just shot! Are you alright?" not really sure if she would like either answer or what they could mean.

Turning around slowly with a large grin, "Sure of course I'm fine, It's all over isn't it?" the grin was obviously forced even from where she stood.

It was then that she noticed the sweat. James was sweating profusely and was already damp, It was easily too cold to be sweating like that. That's when she noticed the blood on the snow and on the hand he used to rub the shoulder he was supposedly shot at.

"Ohh My God! You were shot and you're bleeding!

At this point things began to get blurry and dark for James… "What are you talking about I'm fine. Just alittle sore is all." at which point James fell to the snow as he blacked out.

The last words he could remember hearing were, " James! Are you O.K.? …"

Sorry things were a bit shorter on this one but it was the best spot to cut off at, and I was running out of time and wanted to add as quickly as I could.

So please send me some reviews and soon things will be picking up a bit. I have a fight scene coming up in about two chapters so get ready.