This was bad. In her world, Doomsday caused the death of Superman. She knew that she could never tip him off about that without revealing how she knew that information. Superman, wherever he was, had to be aware by now that this thing was even more powerful than he was. If he was smart, he would leave most of the killing to Batman.
That is…if Bruce made it out of the Batwing alive.
The creature's eyes began to glow red and they sent a huge blast of fire towards Bruce stuck in the Batwing.
"No!" Kris screamed.
The blast never hit him. It reflected off something in its way.
What on earth could block a blast of heat vision from something like that?!
The blast stopped, allowing everyone to see what had managed to block it.
None other than Wonder Woman stood in front of the Batwing with her arms crossed, her indestructible cuffs protecting her and everything behind her.
"Oh, sweet!" Kris laughed. That entrance really could not have been more fantastic…or better timed.
"Do you know her?" Karly asked.
"Sort of. I more know of her."
"Who is she?"
"To me, she's best known as Wonder Woman."
"Well, she just saved your husband's life."
Wonder Woman slammed her cuffs together to create a sonic blast that pushed the creature several feet away.
"She's awesome," Karly remarked.
Something else fell from the sky and rammed right into the creature, sending it flying into a chemical silo. The silo exploded, destroying all of the nearby silos as well.
That could only be one person.
Karly and Kris rushed over to Batman and Wonder Woman.
Kris tightly embraced Bruce. "You okay?"
"Yeah, I'm fine," he replied.
"And Martha Kent?"
"She's safe."
"Why did you bring him back to the city?" Wonder Woman asked.
Bruce grabbed his shotgun filled with kryptonite gas from the Batwing. "The port is abandoned. And there's a weapon here that can kill it."
Superman landed in front of them, and Karly quickly went up to him and hugged him. "Thank goodness you're okay."
Clark tightly hugged her back before looking up at Bruce. "Did you find the spear?"
"I've been a little busy," Batman said.
Wonder Woman looked in the direction of the burning silos. "This thing, this creature, seems to feed on energy."
Superman walked over to stand next to her. "This thing is from another world. My world."
Wonder Woman drew her sword and faced the creature. "I've killed things from other worlds before."
Superman turned to Batman. "Is she with you?"
"I thought she was with you," Batman answered.
"We'll go get the spear," Kris said. "You three keep that thing busy."
She firmly kissed Bruce on the lips while Karly did the same with Clark. Then the two women bounded off towards the building to retrieve the spear in order to defeat Doomsday.
"Man, I love being married," Bruce remarked.
Wonder Woman rolled her eyes.
Inside the crumbled remains of the abandoned building, Kris and Karly searched around for the spear since they couldn't remember where exactly they had left it.
Kris's eyes scanned the floor. Finally, they landed on something glowing a dim green.
"Karly!" she called. "I found it!"
She quickly went over and retrieved the kryptonite spear which had landed near a small pool of water.
"Watch out!" she heard Karly scream.
Kris looked up and saw parts of the building starting to fall towards her. Hoping to protect herself, she quickly fell back into the pool of water.
Fortunately, the pieces of the building that fell were too big to land inside the water and crush her.
Her relief was short-lived when she realized that the chunks were so big that they blocked her escape. She couldn't get out of the water for air.
True to her character, Kris's main thought was, This is perfect! I've waited over ten years to see the Justice League form and right when it starts to happen, I'm going to die?!
Karly managed to evade the falling pieces of the building just in time. She wasn't sure what had caused everything to crumble, but she had a feeling Doomsday was somehow responsible.
Once she gained her bearings, she looked around for Kris.
"Kristina?!" she called out.
She raced over to where she had seen her before the building started to fall. Some of the pieces had landed on a small pool of water, but neither Kris nor the spear were to be found.
Suddenly, a hand shot out of the water in between a small crack in the destroyed wall that rested on the water.
Karly gasped and ran to the water. She could see Kris's face beneath the crack as she simultaneously stretched her hand through it.
"Kristina!" she screamed.
In a panic, Karly tried to pull up the large piece of wall trapping Kris underwater, but it weighed a ton and she couldn't move it an inch.
"It's too heavy!" she cried.
She looked through the crack again and could see Kris growing weaker due to lack of air.
With no other options, she began screaming at the top of her lungs, "Clark! Clark, please help me!"
Outside, the battle with Doomsday raged on, and it was clear that the creature was winning.
Superman shot his heat vision at it, but it just shot back a beam of his own right at him.
They held onto the fight for several seconds until the creature's beam proved too strong for him and he crashed backwards into another abandoned building.
Superman shot up into the air ready to fire again when he very clearly heard someone calling his name.
He would know that panicked voice anywhere.
Clark focused in on the voice until he knew the location and then zoomed towards it in the building where he had fought Batman just an hour beforehand.
He found Karly screaming her head off by a pool covered in debris.
"What's wrong?" he asked.
"It's Kristina!" she answered. "She's trapped in there!"
Clark's eyes widened. He quickly removed the huge piece of broken wall out of the pool. Then he reached beneath the water and grabbed Kris's arm before pulling her out of it.
She inhaled sharply as oxygen finally reached her lungs. Clark gently placed her on the ground as she coughed and panted.
Karly rushed to her side and put her hand to her back. "It's okay, it's okay. Take some deep breaths."
Kris looked up at Superman. "I…I think that save means you're even in my husband's eyes now."
Clark gave her a sad smile before diving into the pool to retrieve the spear.
Kris's bottom lip trembled from the cold water as she and Karly waited for Clark to resurface.
It took longer than it should have, but he finally bobbed up facedown, weakened from the kryptonite.
"Help him," Kris mustered out.
Karly ran over to him and pulled him out of the water. In his hands, he held the kryptonite spear.
Clark ungracefully flopped onto the ground, his face contorted in pain.
Kris forced herself over to them and moved the spear away so that Clark wouldn't feel the painful effects of it.
It was the least she could do after he just saved her from drowning.
Clark slowly regained his strength after some distance had been put between him and the deadly weapon. Karly put her hands on him in an effort to provide some kind of comfort throughout all of the pain.
All of them looked at the battle in front of them. Doomsday tossed Wonder Woman several feet. She quickly grabbed her sword and used to it to block Doomsday's arm just as it was about to crush her. She then maneuvered her sword around and cut its hand off. In anger, Doomsday punched her with its other hand.
Electricity glowed all around the creature and his missing hand was replaced with a crude version of Wonder Woman's sword.
Things were looking quite grim.
Clark put his hand on Karly's. "I love you."
Karly looked out at the fire blazing on the 'battlefield' and her heart sank when she realized why he was saying this now. Her eyes quickly began watering as she looked back at him.
"No, no, you can't," she cried softly.
"This is my world."
Karly slowly ran her hand across his cheek. "It always was."
Clark gazed at her lovingly and smiled. "You are my world."
Karly let out a strained laugh. "That's really cliché. You know that, right?"
"Doesn't make it any less true."
A tear ran down Karly's cheek. "Please…don't leave me."
Clark wiped the tear away before leaning his forehead against hers and gently kissing her. He got up and started towards the spear.
"No, no!" Karly cried out as she held onto him as long as she could.
She put her hand to her mouth and stood up to watch the ensuing battle. Kris stood up as well and came by her side.
This wasn't going to be good.
Superman flew into the air and grabbed the spear, immediately feeling it poison him. He mustered up all the strength he had left in him and flew directly towards Doomsday.
Wonder Woman used her Golden Lasso to restrain the creature, but it took everything she had to keep it contained.
From a distance, Batman shot his last kryptonite smoke bomb at it. The creature fell to its knees weakened from the resulting cloud of green smoke surrounding its head.
Feeling drained and sick, Superman flew towards Doomsday and rammed the kryptonite spear deep into its chest. The creature roared in agony which sent more bolts of electricity shooting around the vicinity.
A piece of flying rock hit Wonder Woman and she lost her grip on the lasso.
Doomsday broke free and grabbed Superman in its large hand. With the other hand that had Wonder Woman's sword knock-off, it stabbed Superman directly in the chest.
Karly flinched beside Kris, and the older woman took the other's hand in her own. She had hoped it wouldn't happen, but what she had feared was coming to pass.
Superman put all thoughts on Karly. If he failed now, this creature would kill her and he refused to let that happen. This gave him just the surge of energy he needed to shove the spear so deep into Doomsday that it came out of its back.
The creature howled in pain and huge beams of yellow and green light shot out of various parts of its body. Then the howling stopped and the creature fell to the ground dead.
"Clark!" Karly screamed as she took off running into the wreckage.
Kris joined her to ensure that her husband was okay. Unfortunately, she already knew Superman's outcome.
Bruce slowly approached Doomsday's body, feeling sick when he saw the dead body of Superman inside its lifeless hand. He knelt down and closed his eyes for him.
Karly finally came up to them, and Diana cast her a solemn look.
More tears came to the young woman's eyes when she saw their faces.
Bruce gently wrapped Superman's cape around him before carefully lowering him down. Diana supported his head while Karly and Kris took his torso and legs, and the three women slowly brought him down to the ground.
Karly put Clark's head in her lap and ran her fingers across his face and through his hair. "Please," she cried. "Please, Clark. Open your eyes. You can't. You can't leave me. Please…no."
She began wailing and crying over his lifeless form, and no one could say anything to help her feel better.
Bruce came down to their level and lightly hugged Kris. They both turned to look at Karly crying over Clark.
"He saved my life," Kris said softly. "Just before…"
Bruce held her close to him, at a complete loss for words. Things had gone so much differently this night than he had planned. Only a few hours ago, he had no idea that he would stand mourning the loss of Metropolis's superhero.
But much to his surprise, he felt a sharp stabbing pain in the pit of his stomach.