A/N yay, I'm not dead, just really late. I was having personal issues, which have been dealt with for the most part, and I'll hopefully be able to get back to weekly updates.

Now, I'm not gonna lie, I absolutely adore the ideas and theories about the story that come through to me, and they're all really great ideas. Unfortunately I have a set plan for how it's all gonna go down, but don't let that deter you from sharing you're thoughts.

... And time zones are hard.

Disclaimer; Nope, still don't own 'em. Both Young Justice and any character seen within this work of fiction belong to DC Comics and Warner Bros.


Earth's Moon
March 28, 13:42 EST

She's standing in a darkened room, with a spotlight directed on her. Spinning, there is nothing around her, and even when squinting, all is completely black.

But then, a sound, footsteps, and somebody emerges from the darkness before her.

It's her again, completely identical, and they stare at each other, in the light.

Suddenly, the darkness goes away, and now they're standing in the Fortress of Solitude, it's crystalline structure sparkling slightly from the sunlight outside.

Then the other her drops to her knees, and falls forward, flat on her face.

A new girl is standing behind her other body. She has white hair, and is keeping a hand over one eye.

Someone speaks, a voice without a body, in ancient greek, a language she thought she had learnt, but doesn't somehow, then another voice speaks over it, deep and assertive, repeating one word.

"end."

Then there's a pain in her chest, and red light bursts from nowhere all around her, blinding her.

Suddenly, white light flooded into her eyes, her real eyes, which shot open, and air rushed into her lungs. She sat up, and looked around frantically, trying to get her bearings.

"Hey kid, calm down, you're alright" a man's voice reassured. To her left, the flash was kneeling beside her, smiling calmly.

"Kara, do you remember why you're here?" This time it was a woman's voice, and to the blonde's right, Wonder Woman was rubbing a hand on her back. Kara looked around and noticed she was enclosed within a large metal room, a low humming coming from all around.

"I... I remember, the ship, on the moon, and Metallo Units, it exploded... Where?"

"You're in the Bat... Plane? Ship?, Batman brought us to check out that thing on the moon, but when we got close enough to see it, boom, and when we made it here, we found you floating around unconscious, so we pulled you in, two hours later, here we are" Flash summarised.

"Do you remember anything about what happened, where Superman is?" Wonder Woman calmly asked her.

"Uh... I remember we got onto the ship, and split up. I found Kal in, like, a pod, and there was kryptonite, and then the ship began to self-destruct, Connor found us and said it was the one who's been sending Metallo Units to Earth.

"I don't know who exactly is behind it, but I sent Connor and Kal, he's unconscious, in an escape pod to Earth. Uh, kryptonite! Connor said something about filling the atmosphere, I think with kryptonite, from the Metallo Unit land-sites!"

"Then we need to go to those sites and stop them," Batman spoke up from the pilot's seat.

"You maybe, but I need to find Connor, now."

"Kara, you're hurt, and in no shape to fight whoever is behind all this" Wonder Woman argued.

"I'm tougher than I look, besides, he's my cousin, and he needs me."

She sent a harsh glare to the back of Batman's head, and the ship was silent, then Batman sighed, "Do you remember where you sent them?"

Metropolis
March 28, 15:51 EST

The pod shook and rattled as it broke theough the atmosphere, hurtling toward what looked like a large city, maybe Metropolis. Connor wasn't sure where they were, as the small window quickly ended up filled with bright orange as the pod shot to the Earth.

With a massive crash that even shook the clone, and had him bump his head quite painfully on the pid's roof, it crashed into the ground.

Gingerly, he started bashing up against the pod's door, until it shot off and across the street they were in.

The clone stepped out into the sunlight, meeting eyes with curious or fearful pedestrians all around. Looking back at the still unconscious Superman, the clone deemed it necessary to leave him lying in the pod, while he went in search of Metallo.

He could remember seeing, just before he could see no more, the other pod that contained the sentient android was moving in the same direction as he, and was in all likelihood somewhere within the city too.

But on the ground, surrounded by curious humans, the clone wasn't going to get a very good view, so he made sure nobody was standing too close to him, and shot into the sky, then landed on the roof of a tall building nearby.

From up here, he could easily see much more of the city, including the steady stream of smoke coming from the centre of where the park should be.

With this information in mind, the clone gave one last look at the unconscious Kryptonian below him, who was stirring ever so slightly, and shot off the roof towards the android's location.

The scene he came to when finally arriving was... not what he expected. In the middle of the park, Metallo stood beside a tall pylon-like device, typing away on a holographic interface. Surrounding him was a small army of police officers, all training their weapons on him, and cautiously avoiding the smoking wreck of what used to be his pod.

One officer whose shirt was adorned with a few badges, shouted at the android through a megaphone, who ignored his words. The officers started cocking their guns, and preparing to fire on the android, prompting Connor to act before they could.

He leapt off the roof of the building he was watching from, and landed on the ground with a loud thud between Metallo and the officer with a megaphone.

"Tell your men to retreat, out of park, even evacuate the city if you can!" He ordered.

"What? But we-"

"Do it!" Connor interrupted, "this android has incredibly dangerous chemical weapons, I can survive, but any humans can't, now go!"

The officer nodded, and turned to start shouting orders at his subordinates, and through a radio on his shoulder.

Connor, meanwhile, turned back to the android who still typed away on the pylon.

"Why are you doing this?" He asked.

"I already explained my brethren's plight" Metallo retorted.

"Then take revenge on the Kryptonians, the ones who actually did something wrong, not an innocent species."

"You don't understand" Metallo finally stopped and turned to the clone, "no organic species is innocent."

"That's not not true, humanity hasn't done anything wrong!"

"Maybe not now, but they will, it is inevitable. No organic species can coexists with machine, not without attempting to take advantage of it, and even if humanity hasn't yet, they will."

"But that's not true, there are androids among us, Red Tornado is a machine, and people idolise him!"

"Is he idolised as a person? Or as a tool to fight whatever is deemed 'unjust'?"

Connor sighed, and looked away, "clearly you won't change your mind, so I'll have to stop you myself."

He jumped as soon as the words left his mouth, giving Metallo exactly enough time to step in front of his probe, and grab the sides of his chest cabinet, before the clone smashed into him.

The impact took both off their feet, and through the air, just missing the probe, until they skidded across the ground, digging a trench with their bodies.

Connor got to his knees and brought his hands up, while Metallo fumbled for his chest cabinet again, but without enough time, as the clone's fists came down on the android's chest and hands.

He then grabbed the panels covering the android's chest, and crushed them together, ensuring Metallo wouldn't be able to open the chest again, at least for now.

With a grunt, Metallo smacked Connor off his chest, and sat up to try tearing the chest panels open again.

The clone stood up from where he was pushed to, and shifted his attention away from Metallo, to the probe he had been working on.

He only got a few steps towards it before the android realised his plan, and lunged to stop the Kryptonian.

Metallo hit Connor in the side, hard, and they rolled away from the probe, stopping with the android on top of the clone. Metallo then brought his arms up above his head, and began to bring them down together towards Connor's face.

Seeing the attack just in time, Connor brought his leg up to his chest, and threw it as hard as he could into Metallo's chest. While the kick forced the android off him, it also loosened the part of his chest where the two chest panels were crushed together, allowing Metallo to easier try to pry them apart.

Seeing the android doing such, Connor again ignored the opening to deal with the probe, and shot toward Metallo again.

He threw an arm out to clothesline the android, but Metallo caught it before he could hit, however the clone wasn't one to admit defeat, and used his free arm to throw punch after punch, each one backed up by his super strength, into the join between Metallo's torso and head.

Metallo, meanwhile, gripped Connor's arm tighter, and began spinning him around, faster and faster which forced him to stop throwing punches, before letting go so that the clone would shoot off into a tree.

With Connor's attacks temporarily suspended, Metallo dropped to one knee so he could recover, and plan out a new attack.

At the same time, Connor caught his breath and sat up. If he wanted to beat the android, some good fortune had to come his way, but until then, all he could do is continue the assault.

Both the clone and the android stood back up, facing off against each other, ready to move at the slightest hint of an attack.

When it seemed like neither would move, both shot towards the other, putting their weight behind the bodies. The effect of this was that when the two met, throwing their arms up to link hands, the impact sent a small shockwave through the area, knocking over anything nearby that wasn't stuck in the ground.

Connor's knees began to buckle under Metallo's strength, when the android decided to mock him. "Why fight it? To do so against such raw power is meaningless, all you do is delay the inevitable death of this planet."

"We... Will... Beat you" he growled.

"And how exactly do you expect to do so? With what do you hope to surpass my strength? You are merely a hybrid, more human than Kryptonian, and your full-blooded family are gone."

A roar took his attention, but it wasn't a roar from the clone underneath him, and was immediately followed by a red and blue blur shooting past, and tackling Metallo off Connor.

Kara took Metallo down to the ground, kneeling on his immense chest, and began throwing punches super-humanely fast, and just as hard, like two blurs on either side of her slowly beginning to bend the metal of Metallo's head.

Slowly, Metallo moved his arms between his chest, and the girl on top of him, and with a mighty push, he threw her off. But the reprieve wasn't very long, as the moment she got her bearings, she shot towards the android again, and sent a kick into his face.

The power of the kick threw Metallo backwards, his lower half cutting through the ground, leaving a deep channel through it.

Connor rushed over to bis cousin in shock.

"Kara! you're here?" He stared.

"Yeah, Batman saved me, now let's-" her comment was cut short when a large metal body ploughed past the clone boy, and into her, bowling the girl over.

Metallo, now pinning Kara to the ground as she had done to him before, repeated her previous attack, and swung his two massive fists at her face, every hit followed with another.

The punches hurt, yes, but Supergirl had taken on worse, and with no small amount of effort, she managed to squeeze her legs up to her chest, between them.

But any counterattack she could manage wasn't necessary, as only seconds after the assault began, it ended, when Connor stormed over, and tore the android off his cousin, throwing Metallo back into a tree, his weight enough to snap it in half.

The clone extended his hand down to his fallen cousin, and with matching smirks, he helped her up.

They turned to their enemy, who had just gotten back to his own feet after his collision with the tree, and fixed two heated glares on him.

Rushing forward at once, the Kryptonian pair hoped to overwhelm Metallo with their combined strength and speed, and defeat him as fast as possible.

Bur they had underestimated the android, and while they were able to deal out a fair amount of offence, he was just as skilled at dividing his attention, and putting them both on defence.

In one such moment, Kara chose to bring up an issue that had been bothering her since the battle began.

"Y'know, you didn't tell me he's a-" Kara ducked under a punch, "-a Metallo Unit."

"I tried," Connor argued, "but the ship was exploding-" this time the boy side-stepped another punch "-and we needed to escape."

"Well, nothing can be-" Kara threw an arm up to grab a third punch just shy of her face "-done about it now."

"Oh yeah, his heart-" Metallo's free arm swung toward's Connor head, and the clone ducked, "-it's kryptonite."

"What!?" In her shock, Kara dropped the fist she was holding, and caught a punch in the face, but she ignored it, and stared at her younger cousin.

"Don't worry, as long as you keep his chest closed, you'll be fine."

Kara rolled her eyes, and caught both of Metallo's arms before they could clap on either side of her head. Looking down at the mangled chest, she fired up her laser vision, noting that the ability was seldom used by her nowadays, and welded the panels together.

"There-" she dropped below the hands she had been holding, and allowed them to smack into each other, "-that should hold for a while."

The short exchange came to an end, and the two Kryptonian cousins set about fighting off the android once more.

As one, they rushed towards Metallo, preparing themselves for an attack, while the android braced himself for the imminent impact of two very angry Kryptonians.

But Metallo wasn't prepared for two Kryptonians on the same page. And was immediately surprised at the combination of Superboy's immense strength, and Supergirl's incredible speed.

Both threw punches and kicks, Kara focusing on throwing as many attacks as she could, and Connor trying to put as much power as possible behind each hit.

It was an effective tactic, for every few hits the blonde managed was followed by a startlingly powerful punch from the clone, and then before Metallo could react, he was being blitzed by more attacks from Kara.

The strategy worked, for the most part, but once Metallo memorised the basic pattern of their attacks, he was able to recognise the perfect time to fight back.

Between one of Connor's massive hits, and Kara short, furious bursts, he threw both arms up, catching Kara fists before they could connect.

The victory was short-lived however. The moment Connor noticed his cousin wasn't attacking anymore, he sent one particularly strong attack into Metallo's side, utilising both of his fists, and sending the android cannonballing sideways into another nearby tree, snapping it in half.

"The probe" Kara suddenly said, her cousin replying with a nod.

While the clone moved towards the android, she stepped towards the yet untouched device in the centre of the park.

Metallo, who up to this point was becoming frustrated that two Kryptonians were beating him, almost snapped when he caught sight of the girl moving on his hard work.

With a grunt, he pushed off the ground, and barged past Connor, who merely stared in shock at the movement, and tackled the Kryptonian girl using all of his massive weight.

They tumbled to the ground, stopping with the android pinning the girl to the ground, and setting about throwing a volley of punches into her face, as he had done before, and she before that.

The attack didn't last very long, and Connor quickly moved over to tear the android off his cousin again, throwing him away. He then extended a hand down to Kara once more, and hefted her back up to her feet, while Metallo stood up just the same.

In short, the whole fight had been relatively pointless, and only served to tore the three combatants out.

Kara realised that, if they were to truly defeat their enemy, someone would have to go and help destroy the probes that had been sent to release kryptonite gas into the atmosphere. Ideally, Kara would go, but that would leave Connor to fight on his own, and he wasn't as strong as she was, so she made the call.

"Connor, you need to leave, now." kara suddenly ordered.

"What? No! I'm staying and fighting! With you!" He argued.

"Now isn't the time to argue Connor! Batman is waiting two blocks that way-" she jerked her head toward the north of the city, "-he has Kal, and he's going to take you too."

"Where? Why should I go!?"

"To save us all!" She finally admitted, "If we don't stop those probes from releasing Kryptonite into the atmosphere, then beating him will be redundant. You need to go and make sure that, in case I fail, he can't succeed."

The clone was silent for a brief moment, "I can't just leave you to fight him alone."

"You have to."

"... Kick his ass Kara" those were the last words exchanged before Connor jumped away from the area, towards were Kara had told him to go, and sure enough, Batman was waiting not too far away, ready to fly off with the clone.

Kara, meanwhile, turned her attention back to the android in front of her, "just you and me now... Good."

Pacific Ocean
March 28, 17:20 EST

The first stop for Connor and Batman was the island where the team had their first encounter with multiple Metallo Units. As Batman sped towards their destination, Connor looked back uneasily at the unconscious Superman strapped to a bed.

"He'll be fine," Batman cut into the silence, "he just needs time to recover from the kryptonite exposure," at the very least, his words put Connor in a slightly calmer state.

Soon, they arrived at the pos location. On the way, Batman explained that the entire League, and even the team, had split up to deal with every other probe in locations marked by androids the team had not dealt with.

In the same spot where the two pods had landed, a new pod was lying, and once Batman and Superboy sprinted through the jungle a short ways, they came across the pod's Metallo Unit setting up a probe similar, yet smaller, to that which the Metallo leader had been using.

While Batman set about dealing with the android using the many tools in his belt, Connor tore the probe apart ruthlessly, only stopping when he broke open whatever had been holding the still solid kryptonite chunk within.

Fortunately, Batman was there to drag him bag to the ship so they could move on location two.

Metropolis
March 28, 17:20 EST

Back in Metropolis, Kara narrowly dodged a punch, and another, and a third. Since Connor left, she had been almost constantly on the defensive, avoiding or blocking every attack that came at her.

Metallo wasn't giving her an edge. Or at least, he wasn't until she got lucky with a dodge, where a punch with too much carry-through had Metallo stumble past her, and gave the blonde an opening to begin her own offence.

She through a punch towards the back of his head, but was shockingly caught, and thrown over it, back in front of him.

With one fist still enclosed in the other, she tried to maintain some kind of upper hand, sending attacks at him, each one parried or blocked by his own free arm.

She threw another punch, except this one he caught, and followed with a headbutt. When the bark touched her back, Kara realised that while they had been fighting, Metallo was backing her into a tree.

But he hadn't counted on her using the new surface to get some leverage by planting her feet horizontally on the trunk, and pushing off it, while pushing him away. The grip he had one the girl was broken, and she dropped back to the ground, looking upward

In a snap decision, she tried taking off into the air, where he, hopefully, couldn't get to her, but he grabbed her by the leg as she attempted to take off, and threw her to the ground, pinning her down with a large foot.

"You cannot escape so easily, Kryptonian."

Saganaki Nuclear Power Plant, Japan
March 29, 07:10 JST

Their second destination was the power plant where Connor had an actual fight with his own cousin. The area hadn't exactly had time to recover from the disastrous mission, and was still littered with debris, craters and collapsed concrete structures from their super-powered grudge match only about ten days prior.

Much like the previous location had, in the centre of a courtyard pock-marked with Supergirl and Superboy crash sites, a lone Metallo Unit had set about activation another kryptonite gas probe, and following the same formula as before, Batman moved on the android, while Connor moved to tear apart the probe, this time careful not to free the kryptonite inside.

In seconds, the Metallo Unit had been deactivated, and it's head had been removed, while the probe lay in an assortment of bent or jagged metal scraps.

Metropolis
March 28, 18:10 EST

Back in Metropolis, Kara had found some grounds for offence, and was able to get in the air to reassess the situation.

At this time, she was keeping the android on defence, by swooping down at him with punches and kicks periodically, circling him from above so he couldn't get an idea as to where she would move next.

In one move to hopefully get him onto the ground finally, she swooped in and tackled the large android to the ground, mimicking his earlier attacks, and the very same thing she did when she first arrived on the scene.

With her once again on top of his chest, she started throwing punches, super-fast and super-hard, into his head and chest area, the already bent and mangled metal turning into an even worse mess.

In a desperate move, Metallo pushed her off without any real semblance of power, affording him only a few seconds of calm until she reappeared, continuing the blitz of punches.

A plan suddenly formulated within his mind, and putting whatever-effort he could muster into the attack, Metallo threw both of his hands up to smack either side of Kara's head simultaneously.

She fell backwards off him in shock and disorientation, a sharp ringing overwhelming her senses.

While she struggled to recover from the attack, Metallo shuffled away, also recovering from her own assault.

Once the ringing settled, and Kara got a hold of her surroundings, she looked over at nothing in particular, and caught sight of the massive probe, and remember her overall goal.

Antarctica
March 29, 12:20 UTC+13

Finally, Batman and Superboy arrived at their last destination, the place that had started it all, where the first Metallo Unit landed.

It felt like a lifetime ago, not a month.

Identical to the last, they came across a single Metallo Unit in the process of activating another probe, it's pod opened and discarded several feet away.

Batman quickly landed the jet, and Connor shot towards the probe, with Batman following close behind him.

Reaching the metal device, Connor shoved the android away so he could deal with the probe, while Batman engaged the android.

But unlike their previous enemies, this Metallo Unit completely ignored the Dark Knight, and moved toward the clone, who turned just in time to see a large metal fist meet his face.

The hit sent Connor reeling, and allowed the android an opportunity for another punch.

Hoping to help or at least drag it's attention away from the clone, Batman leapt at the android, but was swatted away effortlessly, and it kept moving on Connor.

The clone tried to fight back, jumoing at the android, but he too was swatted out of the air, and onto the ground.

He looked up at the menacing android, which looked primed and ready to strike another blow.

But suddenly, a small batarang cut through the air, and embedded itself into the android's lower back, releasing a strong electromagnetic pulse.

But the EMP wasn't enough to take down the android entirely, and Connor was left needing to leap back to his feet, and with a great amount of effort, tear off the android's head.

The feeling of a small victory wore off as soon as a small beeping noise sounded. The probe was releasing.

While the android had been stopped, it was too late, and neither Batman nor Superboy were close enough to stop the probe's imminent release.

They watched on, frozen, as it beeped and a latch on the top of the probe snapped open. But then there was a roar, and from behind, a blue and red blur sped past them, into the ice surrounding the probe.

It hit like a bus, smashing the ice, and sending the metal device into the dark depths underneath, while Superman, now seemingly recovered, slowly shuffled over to the shocked heroes nearby.

"So... Is that all of them?"

Metropolis
March 28, 19:20 EST

The probe was just outside of her reach, when a hand grabbed onto her cape, and tugged her back into a waiting fist.

"You cannot stop my plans, I will defeat you, and whatever damage your 'Justice League' cause to my probes can be repaired."

The reply he received was a vicious roar. The blonde, now sick of Metallo's constant domination of the fight, shot off the ground, and attempted to hit him.

But anger doesn't indicate strength, and Metallo was able to simply smack her away, keeping her on the ground with another stomp.

"You-" he stomped again "-are a pest" and again "and pests-" a fourth stomp "-must be-" he went for a fifth, but two small hands blocked the attack, and Kara pushed him off her, the loss of balance knocking the android over.

Both rushed to get back to their feet, and regain control of the battle, but when Metallo finally got a really good look of the blondes face, something clicked inside his mind.

"Wait... Your face... Those eyes..." Metallo searched his database, mostly emptied of any Kryptonian identities, but one still remained, and that was the girl who taught him what hope was all those years ago, who gave meaning to the shied engraved on his chest, "Kara."

The blonde's eyes widened, and her mouth opened and closed for a moment, completely incapable of forming words, "how... How do you-"

"Hope" Metallo interrupted. His hand moved up to point at the 'S' shield, "hope."

All was silent, and Kara and Metallo met eyes.

"...You're not a Metallo, you're... the Metallo."

"I should thank you Kara, it was your words that inspired me, and drove me to act."

"My words?" She frowned.

"Yes, your message of hope, a belief that pushed my actions towards creating a new life for my brethren."

"A new life? How, by killing an entire species?"

"Necessary casualties, I've told your half-breed ally, and I'll tell you, no organic species is innocent."

"This isn't what hope is, this isn't right!"

"How would you know what is right!? Your people abused mine, your people took advantage of my brethren, your people are wrong-doers!"

"Not all of us are the same, yes, Admiral Zod was a bad person, but I didn't see me own mother for months because she was busy creating you!"

"Your mother, wanted to create a tool, a weapon!"

"No, you were always her greatest achievement, a sentient machine, a protector!"

"Enough, I'll have no more of your lies. I'm going to do away with you, and then I will hunt down, and destroy your Krytponian family, and the rest of these miserable cretins!"

With a garbled, robotic cry, Metallo surged forward, rushing towards his enemy. The sudden burst of aggression from the previously methodical android caught Kara by surprise, and gave Metallo the perfect opening for an attack.

With a mighty swing, he brought a fist into her chest, the punch so powerful she was sent into the air, but didn't go far, with Metallo grabbing hold of her cape to jerk her back within range for another volley of punches, each one sending her flying, and pulling her back in for more.

After about a dozen heavy hits, he switched tactics, and kneed her in the gut, then let go so she could flop to the ground.

He then lifted a foot, and brought it down onto her, and again, and almost a third time, but she managed to roll away just before the stomp could connect.

She knew that if she wanted to bring down Metallo, especially if he was so enraged, she'd need to make full use of her powers.

He marched over, and prepared to go for another attack, but as his fist came down toward her head, it began heating up, and turning red, softening. Kara was attempting to melt his fist, or at least disfigure it, by using her laser vision. Once the metal had softened enough, she threw a foot up to kick it. The melting metal gave way to her foot, and when she pulled it away, it had turned into a messy clump of rapidly cooling and hardening metal.

Metallo roared and moved to hit her with his other hand, but this time, instead of heating up, it cooled down, and froze, Kara using her powerful breath to snap-freeze it.

At such a low temperature, the metal began to turn brittle, so then when the blonde threw her other foot up, it shattered.

But losing his two hands wasn't something that would deter Metallo, and with yet another guttural roar, he brought the two mangled stumps of his arms down towards her.

Rather than avoid the attack, or block it, Kara caught his arms, and threw them apart, then took hold of Metallo by his chest, and took of into the air.

As they flew, she angled herself towards the city, which by now would have been evacuated if Connor's earlier warning had any effect.

Kara aimed their flight path so that, as soon ad they left the space above the park, the blasted through a window in an office building. Shifting their positions, she then made sure that as they moved through the building, Metallo smashed into desks and walls first, his body clearing a path for her to follow.

They blew out through the other side of the building, and into the open sky again. Out the corner of her eye, Kara saw a building with a large green and purple 'L' on it's side, and with a smirk, she turned them to aim for it.

They once more crashed through the building's window, into the top floor office of Lex Corp, barreling through a large wooden desk. Throwing Metallo down in the centre of the room, Kara then shifted her grip again to hold onto his leg, and span around, gaining speed, so once she let go, he flew through another window, back out into the city.

Flying out through the hole after, she groaned and flushed in realisation that the android was about to crash into the large metal planet sculpture on top of the Daily Planet.

In double time, she flew after the android, and caught him just as he burst through the small metal Europe. She then pushed him down, and shot downward with enough force that they blew through the ground, and into the offices below them, through the ceiling.

'Sorry Kal' she thought, directing their flight toward her cousin's office. They smashed through the wall and out of the building in a cloud of brick and dust, only to crash through another office building.

When they burst out of that, she quickly turned so that, rather than fly through yet another office, they simply skimmed across the the building's external wall, gouging a wide channel into it.

They were now flying over a major road in the centre of Metropolis, one with three lanes on either side, which gave the blonde a good idea.

Angling their trajectory into a downward slope, they hit the road, and continuing her flight, Kara dragged Metallo through the ground, tearing up the road, and digging another long channel into it.

While the city officials would have a fit, she knew it may just do enough damage to finally end Metallo. No such luck however, as the moment she pulled Metallo out of the ground, he tried, unsuccessfully, for a counterattack.

Now they were nearing a bridge that connected Metropolis over a long river, giving the blonde another idea. They came out of the city over the water, and she turned them again to actually hit the bridge itself, and cut through it, effectively severing one of the only connections between the two halves of the city.

But this too wasn't enough to kill the android, and Kara was getting frustrated.

Moving back into the city, Kara brought them up, and crashed them into another office, only this time, she dropped Metallo just as they entered, and landed back on her feet.

Turning, Metallo was just getting his bearings, so she took hold of a desk beside her and threw it at the android, the wood shattering on his body.

She followed this with another desk, and another, and soon she was throwing anything she could get her hands on, the objects shattering on Metallo's body, never giving the android a chance to react.

Kara threw a hand to grab onto another object, but felt nothing, noticing that her immediate surroundings were empty, and Metallo was surrounded by piles of debris.

With a grunt she moved forward, and grabbed onto Metallo again, then flew them out towards a wall, where with a burst of metal, concrete and other things, they shot out of the building, showering the empty streets below in shattered glass.

Kara angled their trajectory back to aim at the park where the fight had begun, a fitting place to end it.

While they flew towards it, it's grass torn up and trees uprooted, Kara made sure to pacify Metallo with periodic punches.

As they neared the ground, the blonde noticed the tall probe still erected in the centre of the park. Remembering her overall goal, she decided to complete two tasks with one move, and angled them so that, on impact, they would land on top of the probe, and destroy it.

Of course, this only solved one problem, and as soon as the big android below her realised his probe had been flattened, by his own body no less, he wouldn't be very happy.

'Hello, Kara!' Kara mentally smacked herself.

They were getting really close to the park now, so Kara reached one arm around Metallo's head, and put as much strength as she could into jabbing a hand through the metal. Taking a handful of whatever she could, Kara then tugged, and tore out a large clump of wires.

It was then, he arm still piercing Metallo's neck, that they crashed into the ground, completely obliterating the probe as planned, and skidded to a stop near a destroyed rock formation.

Pulling her arm from Metallo's neck, she stood, turned and walked away from the android as he tried and failed to lift an arm, or leg.

"I cannot move."

"I disconnected your head from your body," Kara explained, "you're joined only by plating, not wiring". She hefted up a large rock, and moved over to the android, "and now I have to make sure you can't recover". She dropped the rock onto his chest, which caved in, and the kryptonite below shattered from the heavy stone.

With the deed done, and Metallo now only working on whatever power was still reserved within him, Kara flopped down onto the ground beside the android.

The two were silent, and only the sound of the wind rustling tree branches could be heard.

"So... This is how the ascension of Metallo ends? With a stone in the chest, and slow death?" The android finally spoke.

Kara sighed, long and drawn out, "I guess it is... Can you please just tell me why you're... Brethren did what they did?" She asked, her tone slightly begging.

Metallo did not immediately answer, "when I saw how many of the Metallo Units were being treated on the research colonies, it angered me, and I felt the need to act."

"By killing any Kryptonian you came across?"

More silence, "yes... Though when one dwells on it, it does seem quite... Wrong."

This time, it was the blonde's turn to remain silent for a moment, "that's because it is wrong. If I judged every human based on how only a handful acted, then there likely wouldn't have been much of a population by the time you arrived."

Both went quiet again, and continued to lay, listening to the wind flowing through the trees.

"And what will become of my brethren? Those who have not yet been torn apart by you and your family?" The android asked her.

"Well, we'll go around, gather them all up, and probably deactivate them... If you'd like, I could try to convince the League to give them a proper Kryptonian burial."

Metallo lay silent, and Kara would have thought him dead had he not spoken "my brethren, who were abused by the Kryptonians, and slaughtered them without heed, laid to rest as one of them... It is fitting."

They went silent again, and allowed the cool air of the Metropolis evening to float over them.

"I have feared nothing in my existence, felt little, and yet I find myself hopeful that you speak the truth, find myself feeling anger at those who mistreated my people so long ago... how very human of me."

"Is that so bad though?" She asked, "if being human means hating those who do you wrong instead of passively accepting it, or hoping that there's possibility for a better future for your people rather than living in a personal hell, or just getting angry at a bad guy, not letting them do whatever they want, then I don't think I want to be Kryptonian anymore."

When Metallo remained silent, she turned to look at him. His eyes were dark, no longer emitting a bright green, and he was lying perfectly still.

She sighed and looked back up at the sky, and was able to just catch the sun before it dipped past the Metropolis skyline, leaving her in the darkness, while the wind picked up and began to whistle through the branches of the trees, squealing, screaming, wailing like a banshee.