The Bounty Hunter

by Arcadia81

Kal's journey to Earth is detoured by fate. Raised as a space bounty hunter, Kal only cares for getting his bounty with no time for love. Paid by Darkseid to capture Wonder Woman, will he turn the Amazon over to Darkseid or will fate intervene once more?

21. Chapter 21

AN: Thanks to Unoaranya and Hellace for their advice and ideas.

The Bounty Hunter

Part Twenty-One

Lex Luthor kept his wits about him as he walked in the Tower of Rage. Ahead of him walked Steppenwolf. To his left, right and behind him were parademons, blocking his escape. With his crushed hands thanks to Superman, he couldn't do anything. He wanted to run from this place but knew it would be useless for even Lex knew he would be easily caught.

What does Darkseid plan to do to me? He saw the mind controlled scientists and technicians as he walked in the tower and wondered if that fate was for him. No. Darkseid wouldn't do that. He wants to torture me so I can remember and feel the pain.

"I don't know what's going on in your primitive brain," Steppenwolf jovially said, "but whatever charm, pleading or negotiating you plan to make to Darkseid will do you no good."

"So, I should accept the mindless lackey role like you?" Lex taunted.

Steppenwolf chuckled. "Your role on Earth was mindless lackey to Darkseid. My role is much higher. I serve a God. I am in charge of the deadliest and most powerful army in the universe."

"You are a pathetic uncle serving his nephew because you don't have the balls nor the strength and power to rule this fire rock of a planet. How does it feel to serve your nephew? Bowing down and swearing loyalty to him? Doing his bidding instead of him serving you? On Earth, you would be known as a pussy."

Steppenwolf turned to belt Lex in his breadbasket and slapped a karate chop against Lex's neck. Lex crumpled to the floor. Steppenwolf stepped on Lex's crushed left hand, putting all his weight on it. "Speak again and I'll cut out your tongue! Now get up!" Steppenwolf took his foot off Lex's hand and kicked his face.

Lex coughed, expelling drops of blood from his mouth. With his crushed hands it was painful pushing himself back to his feet, especially with no one to help him. He carried on, following Steppenwolf. He obviously hit a nerve in the General.

He's easy. Darkseid won't be and pushing his buttons won't be a good idea especially when I don't have anything to bargain with him.

Steppenwolf pushed open the double doors to Darkseid's throne room . Lex didn't find the blood stone walls or torturous, Hellish murals intimidating. He found it welcoming. Too bad the tall, stone figure looking down at the Lowlies working near the fire pits wouldn't be.

Steppenwolf knelt at the bottom of Darkseid's throne. "Great Darkseid, I have returned with Lex Luthor."

Darkseid stood on his throne with his back to Steppenwolf and Lex. "As an Earthling, you will always be primitive, foolish with nothing to offer but allegiance to me to spare your life. What arrogance you have to think I would not know of your betrayal."

"I'm a businessman, Great Darkseid," Lex coolly mocked the Lord of Apokolips. "And an Earthling. Expecting betrayal from a higher authority and looking out for myself is every Earthling's God given right."

"I am a God and I do not give you that right."

"You're not the God I worship."

"And that arrogance," Darkseid turned; his fiery eyes burned with anger, "nearly caused you to ruin my plans. I have been patient with my revenge against Kal-El and Wonder Woman and for you to tip your hand to them, will cost you dearly."

"They don't know about us."

"'I can tell you of our common enemy.'" Darkseid repeated Lex's words to Kal. "I have eyes everywhere."

So he did. "Still," Lex maintained his cool, "they don't know I'm linked to you. A common enemy could mean anyone. I have many."

"You, as an Earthling, are born with limited intelligence. Kal-El's intelligence is so far above yours it's pathetic. It won't take him long to learn of our connection. If his guard was down, it's not anymore." Darkseid stepped down his throne. As he approached Lex, his form grew bigger and bigger. "You will pay for that."

"Send me back to Earth," Lex requested. "I can rectify my mistake."

Darkseid smiled and that worried Lex. Even Lex knew a smile from Darkseid was a bad omen for him. "You will never return to Earth. You are now one of my Lowlies."

Lex scowled his disapproval. It was one thing to not return to Earth but to be among the Lowlies? "I am the most intelligent man on Earth. I am in control of the most powerful threat to the Justice League. I have been low key on my attack against Superman, but if I go after him in full force. I can sway the populace on Earth. Most are brainless, self-absorbed individuals addicted to technology. They're too stupid to think for themselves. They'll believe anything I say."

"If you had that power, you would've unleashed it before now. On your knees, slave. Bow to your God."

"I will not bow!"

"Fortunately for you, any dose of my Omega Beams will kill you." Darkseid made a gesture to his parademons. They forced Lex on his hands and knees. Darkseid noticed Lex grimacing in pain from his broken hands. "Your hands. Are they the work of Kal-El?"

"You could say that."

"Then I should finish what Kal-El started." Darkseid held his hand out to Steppenwolf. The General smiled approvingly as he handed Darkseid his electro axe.

Lex, knowing what Darkseid was planning, tried to scramble to his feet but the parademons held him down. He looked up at Darkseid. There was a twisted smile on his stone face as he raised the axe above his head. Lex kept fighting as he pleaded, "No! Don't!" Darkseid swung his arm and Lex released a blood curdling scream. Two human hands rolled on the floor.

"Now you have no more pain in your hands." Darkseid tossed the axe to Steppenwolf who easily accepted it with one hand. "Give the Earthling new attachments and take him to his new life."

Darkseid returned to the top of his throne as Lex was taken away. He recalled earlier that evening watching live footage of Kal and Diana fighting Giganta, Poison Ivy, Parasite and Solomon Grundy. After Diana defeated Giganta, Darkseid burned with anger watching Kal kissing Diana. He was so angry; he killed the five parademons that were in the room.

How dare that Bounty Hunter kiss what is mine!

You stole my bride, Kal-El, only to have her for yourself. No one takes anything that is mine without severe consequences.

---

"How's Jonathan?"

Martha Kent held her husband's hand nervously waiting for the results of Kal's examination of Jonathan in what she assumed was a medical lab in Kal's Fortress. At Jonathan's insistence, Martha was taken care of first. She had bruises on her ribs and legs and a deep gash on her left arm. Kal covered Martha's wounds with a healing balm from Urvashi's world. With that medicine, she would be healed in a day.

Jonathan's injuries were severe. Kal wasn't concerned with the two broken ribs he received, the burnt marks from the electric shocks on his chest or the cuts across his body he got in his struggle with the Injustice League and their torture on him to pump information on Kal. With his off world medicine, those wounds on Jonathan would easily heal. The injuries to Jonathan's eyes wouldn't heal so quickly. Some of the wounds came from an old fashioned beating but there were burnt marks around his eyes, too, implying shock treatments.

"The wounds on Jonathan's chest will heal but they did a number on his eyes. He has optic nerve damage that's irreparable-"

Martha gasped. "You mean Jonathan's blind?"

"He would be if I were using Earth medicines." Kal opened a cabinet door, searching for what he knew would aid Jonathan. "When I was a kid, Dirk was caught in an explosion catching a bounty. Part of his face was burnt including his left eye. We thought he would be blind but Saki and I took him to a doctor who healed the nerve damage in his eye."

Kal pulled out a bottle with milky white liquid and a medical needle. "I was with the doctor the entire time he worked on Dirk so I know what to do. The doctor injected this medicine in Dirk's eye. It reached all the optic nerves where organic nano stitches repair the nerves. The healing ray—which is above you—" Martha looked up at two purple bulb lights on the ceiling- "will kill off the organic nano stitches once their work is complete."

"I see."

"Jonathan will have to be sedated for eighteen hours."

Jonathan asked, "Why?"

"I need him sedated so I can inject the medicine and the first eighteen hours are crucial for healing. It'll also go faster for him if he's sleeping through it."

It made sense and yet Martha was worried. "Jonathan's human. Will that medicine work on him or will it be too much for him since he is human?"

"I wouldn't recommend it if I didn't think it would harm him, Martha."

"How old is that medicine?" Jonathan asked. "If that stuff was used on Dirk, would it be too old to work on me?"

"This medicine won't go bad for fifty years and it was a fresh batch when used on Dirk," Kal explained and added, "If the medicine was bad, Earth does have the natural and scientific ingredients to recreate a close substitute."

That was all Jonathan needed to know. "Give it to me now. The sooner we start with this the sooner I can see again."

"Kal, give me a minute alone with him," Martha requested.

"Sure." Kal stepped out of the room giving Jonathan and Martha their privacy. Krypto sat outside the room on guard duty. Not that Kal worried of anyone breaking into his home but if it were to happen, his intruders would run in fear of Krypto.

He knelt to pet his dog when he saw Diana coming down the hall to him. While Kal took care of the Kents, Diana was communicating to the Justice League from the control room of his fortress. It was a big night and she wanted to know if the transport of Giganta, Poison Ivy, Parasite, Solomon Grundy, Killer Croc, Penguin and Lex Luthor to Metropolis metahuman prison went smoothly. He thought she would be relieve. After all, they took down some big players from the Injustice League but Diana looked agitated. "Diana, what's wrong?"

"Batman has informed me Lex Luthor has gotten away."

Kal cursed. "I knew I should've broken a leg. He can't run on one. How did it happen?"

"Every Injustice League member we captured tonight traveled in their own police van. There were check off points on their way to Metropolis; each check off point was fifteen miles. Luthor was in the last van and never showed up at a check off point. When no on responded on radio, a search went out for the van. It was found an hour ago. The officers were killed and Lex was gone. Batman went to LexCorp and J'onn went to Lex's penthouse to find Mercy. If anyone knew where Lex went it would be her."

"And?"

"J'onn found Mercy's body in Lex's penthouse. She was beaten and raped before she was killed. Autopsies will be done on her and the police officers for any possible connections." Diana felt pity for Mercy. "I know she wasn't a good person working for Lex but she didn't deserve that."

Kal folded his arms thinking of what this all meant. "Then Lex didn't escape with Mercy's help. He might've been kidnapped."

"I think it was an inside job. The roads were blocked off so only the police vans would be on the roads. It wouldn't be the first time Lex used his unlimited sources to get out of jail."

Instinct told Kal it wasn't an inside job. "Lex said we have a common enemy. I thought he was bluffing his way out of getting his ass beat but he could've been telling the truth. He could've been taken to be silenced."

"I'm sure Lex has enemies in the Injustice League and everyone in that group considers you an enemy."

"What about off world?" Diana had a good theory but it didn't make sense for Lex to mention a common enemy if they were in the Injustice League. "Has Lex been in contact with any aliens?"

"Not as far as the League knows. Lex hates all aliens and he has no qualms voicing that."

"Maybe but I bet a sodhole like him would ally with an alien to get rid of the good ones like J'onn or me." Kal didn't know Lex well but from his knowledge of him, he seemed like the snake to do that.

"The only alien I can think of… no," Diana shook her head. "Lex wouldn't be that foolish."

"Wouldn't he? I've made a lot of enemies, Diana. The only one I can think of that has been to Earth, hates me and has a possible connection to Luthor is Darkseid." Even with making a life for himself on Earth, Kal had not forgotten about Darkseid. "I know he wants revenge on me. I duped and embarrassed him in his home and I kept him from getting you. Darkseid doesn't forget betrayal. I know he's coming for me but I won't stop living my life in fear of him. When he strikes, I'll be ready for him."

"So will the Justice League," Diana promised. "You forget. He is after me, too."

Didn't he know it. Kal's gazed softened on Diana's beautiful face. Such a strong beautiful woman. What the fruck was I even thinking turning her over to Darkseid? "I know. My only concern is Darkseid finding out about us, and if he has been in contact with that sodhole Lex Luthor, there's a good chance he knows and he is pissed."

Diana wasn't worried. "I can take care of myself."

"If he kidnaps you or do anything to hurt you, I will kill him." It was a promise more than a threat.

Diana knew Kal would carry it out if he had to. "It won't come to that." She hoped it wouldn't. She didn't have qualms with Kal killing Darkseid. She didn't think he would survive.

Diana wanted to be optimistic but Kal knew better. He knew the horrors Darkseid committed. Whatever Darkseid did on Earth, paled in comparison of his misdeeds on other planets, and if he were to touch Diana…. Kal didn't want to think about it. "It's time to take action. I want you to invite members of the Justice League here in two hours. Your choice on whom."

"Why?" Diana was suspicious. This was so sudden. Not to mention it was nearly two in the morning. Why not wait until daylight? "What brought this on?"

"If you can trust them, then so should I."

"Yes," but Diana suspected with Kal there was more to it, "but you've been reserved letting them know about this place."

"You confirmed with me they were tracking you when we were here earlier." Besides with the threat of Darkseid looming, keeping the Justice League from his Fortress seemed trivial. "Contact them."

"Tell me what's going on in your mind first."

Diana was a hunter for truth. He could see it in her eyes she was trying to read his mind. She knew he had an ulterior motive for doing this. "I have a lot on my mind. For starters, I have to repair the nerves in Jonathan's eyes so he can see again."

"How are the Kents?"

"They'll recover. I really should get to work on Jonathan." Kal opened the door, indicating he was leaving.

He was using the Kents as an excuse to get away. "I won't like what you will have to say to the Justice League, will I?".

"Probably not." He disappeared in the room and closed the door on Diana.

---

Wally was in awe standing in the hangar of Kal's Fortress. There were rumors in the Justice League Kal built a home in a remote area on Earth. Some thought it was underwater, much to the chagrin of Aquaman. Others spoke of an underground fortress in the Sahara Desert, the Amazons and even Stone Henge. Of all the rumors, Wally never thought Kal built his home in the Arctic.

"Wow. I can't believe I'm here. This…is….awesome! Someone pinch me." Hal slapped the back of Wally's head. "Ow! I said pinch!"

"Slapping is more effective than pinching and you need to be hit going gaga for being in a hangar. We haven't seen the place yet."

Wally rubbed the back of his head grimacing. Donna wrapped his free arm around hers. "Does it hurt?"

"Yeah," Wally pouted. He glared at Hal. "You should hit him for me."

Donna chuckled and kissed his cheek. "How about I kiss you?"

"That helps but this is better," Wally kissed Donna on the mouth.

"Ugh!" Hal groaned. "Are you gonna get lovey dovey here?"

"Don't be so grouchy, Hal," Zatanna admonished him. "What's wrong with you?"

"I just returned from a mission in space with Kal tonight. I've been on nine hours of sleep in the past four days and thought I would finally sleep now that I'm home!" Hal grumbled. "Couldn't this wait until morning? Geez! It's almost four!"

"Why do we have to wait at all?" Bruce asked. "Why weren't they waiting for us when we arrived?"

Bruce studied the hangar from head to toe. The Javalin and Batjet were parked next to each other. Bruce knew this wasn't the only hangar for Kal's ship wasn't here. He wanted to know where it was. He wanted to know everything. The hangar itself had three entries; one directly ahead, one on the far right wall near Wally, Donna and Hal, and the third on the far left where Bruce and J'onn stood. Each entrance reflected a long hallway. Bruce decided not to wait for Kal and Diana anymore. He was going to explore on his own.

J'onn felt Bruce's unease. "It hasn't been long. We should wait like they…" he saw Bruce walking towards the entrance directly ahead. "Where are you going? We are to wait for Kal and Diana."

"I don't like waiting. Besides, I'll find out more touring this place on my own. If they didn't want us snooping, Superman should've put a door up." Bruce stepped inside and disappeared.

Zatanna frowned. She couldn't see Bruce anymore. "That's odd."

Kal and Diana stepped out of the left entrance. Diana was the first to notice Bruce missing. "Where's Batman?"

Zatanna pointed the way Bruce left. "Bruce got tired of waiting and entered that hallway. It looks like he disappeared." Diana suddenly looked worried while Kal shook his head. "What? Is it a dead end?"

"Something like that," Kal said. "My home is rigged with traps and mazes in case of a breach."

"So Bruce entered a booby trapped room?" Hal was fully awake and grinning. The Great Detective Bruce walked right into a trap. "What, is it a shark tanked room?"

"Actually he's swimming with polar bears." Dinah and Zatanna were concern. Ollie, Hal and Wally laughed out loud. "Two of the entranceways are portals to outside. For security, I switch them every day. One is on a floating iceberg and the other is a lake where the polar bears swim and hunt for food." Kal headed for the entrance Bruce went in. "I'll get him before he suffers from hypothermia. Show them to the prototype room, Diana."

Crossing through the portal, Kal hovered over the lake. He scanned the dark waters looking for Bruce. He quickly found him wearing an air mask, swimming in the ice waters and struggling to keep away from the polar bears. Unfortunately for Bruce, the polar bears didn't keep away. Kal and Krypto often swim in the lake with the polar bears and play with them. With Bruce in the lake with them, the polar bears thought they had another friend.

Kal dived in the waters, grabbed Bruce, quickly swam to the surface and flew them back to his Fortress. Immediately, the floor heated under Bruce, drying his clothes and his shivering body.

Bruce was grateful Kal saved him, but he was also angry; angry at the trap Kal set and angry he didn't see it until he was swimming with the polar bears. For now, he couldn't move. He didn't want to with the floor warming him. Heated floors. He would have to get that for his home.

Once his clothes were dried and body temperature normal, the heated floors automatically turned off. Pushing himself to his feet, Bruce snarled, "What kind of game are you playing, Kal?"

Bruce's anger wasn't a surprise. Kal expected it. It was something else that surprised him. "That's the first time I heard you address me by name. It's always Superman, alien or bounty hunter." He grinned. "Starting to warm up to me, Bruce?"

"Don't call me by name. I'm Batman to you!"

"Why not? Everyone else calls you Bruce."

"They are my allies. You are not."

Kal feigned his hurt. "After what happened in Gotham? I helped you with the Joker. I thought that would make me your best friend. Also, I know your secret."

"I'm aware you know about me and Zatanna," Bruce grimaced. "Your snooping dog gave us away."

"I would've figured that out on my own. The scent was fresh and I know you were in the Watchtower's training room. You both smell like you've been rubbing hard against those mats. I hope you cleaned those mats for the next person going in that room after you."

He knew all that? Bruce scowled, "How did you….?"

Kal tapped his nose, "My super nose picked up on it, too. This nose is a blessing and a curse, especially on this planet. There're a lot of foul smells here. I don't know how you Earthlings tolerate it."

"We tolerate a lot of things. I'm tolerating your presence now."

"You wound me," Kal's voice dripped in sarcasm. "So, is this permanent or a hit and quit it with you and Zatanna?"

As if he knew! "It's none of your business."

"Fine, Bruce. I won't pry and the secret of you and Zatanna frucking at the Watchtower won't be spilled by me."

Could he trust him? Bruce wondered. He didn't want anyone to know about him and Zatanna at least not until he figured out what was going on between them.

---

"What, no chairs?" Wally complained as he stood in Kal's prototype room. The only furniture in the room were tables placed against the wall and they couldn't be used for sitting with the various gadgets lying on them. "Diana, you gotta teach your guy some manners. When you invite guests in your home, you provide chairs for them to sit in."

"Kal could be implying he doesn't want us to stay long," J'onn commented.

Wally sulked. "Oh, right."

Hal with Ollie and Dinah studying the gadgets on the table. Some were weapons like guns and laser swords; floating orbs-Hal stepped away from those recalling what happened to J'onn. He picked up a harmless looking green golf size ball with a small air hole in it. "What is this, Diana?"

"Prototypes Kal built. He's been working on side projects in his down time. I wouldn't touch them," Diana warned.

"What does it do?" Hal squeezed the ball. A needle shot from the air hole and prick Dinah's left breast.

"Ouch!" Dinah yelp at the needle piercing her breast. They were still sensitive as Ollie had a lot of fun with them earlier. She was turned on catching Kal in the buff before his date with Diana and Ollie benefitted from it. She pluck the needle from her breast. "What is this?"

"Ooops," Hal sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "At least my aim is good." Dinah slapped him. "Ow!"

Kal entered with Bruce. Hal stuffed the ball behind his back and grinned wildly at Kal. "What's up, Kal?"

Kal opened his mouth to speak but Dinah spoke first. "I really must thank Kal for the wonderful sex tonight."

Ollie turned to Dinah, "What?"

Kal and Diana were stunned by Dinah's words but neither were as shocked as Dinah herself. "I… didn't mean to say that. It just came out."

"What sex?" Kal asked. "I wasn't with you tonight."

"Not physically but mentally you were here. After seeing that wonderful piece you carry on you, I had to attack Ollie." Dinah put her hands over her mouth. "Why did I say that?"

"Wait." Ollie didn't like this. "You were thinking about Kal tonight?"

Dinah shrugged at Ollie. "I couldn't help it. When he stepped out of Diana's bathroom naked, I was very privilege to see it." Dinah screamed. "What's wrong with me?"

Diana slapped her forehead. "Oh, no."

Donna grinned at Dinah. "You saw Kal naked? When?"

"Tonight. I meant only to talk to Diana but Kal walked out of her bathroom completely naked. One of the best sights of my life."

Now Ollie was irritated. "I'm standing right here."

Dinah didn't care. "And let me tell you Diana is one lucky woman." She giggled. "Or she will be when…" Diana clamped a hand over Dinah's mouth.

Diana looked to Kal for an answer. "What's going on with her?"

"Sounds like Dinah was hit with my truth serum. She will say what's on her mind and answer anything truthfully. Who played with the prototype?"

All eyes turned to Hal.

"Hey! I didn't know that would happen. You need to put labels on these things!"

"Or you need to heed warnings and not touch things." Diana asked, "How long will she speak her mind?"

"One shot with the pin last thirty minutes."

Dinah pulled Diana's hand from her mouth. "So I have to have an empty head for thirty minutes? I'm not a natural dumb blonde you know?" Dinah growled at Hal. "As soon as I get near you, I'm screaming in your ear!"

"Wait until after I say why I wanted you here," Kal told her.

"Why did you want us here?" Bruce asked. "I'm tired of waiting."

So was he. "The Justice League is going about it the wrong way in dealing with the criminals on this planet. For me, as a bounty hunter, criminals got one chance with me. The Justice League has given criminals way too many chances. Because of this, innocent people continue to get hurt. Two good friends of mine were captured, tortured and nearly killed. Their lives are in danger now because Lex Luthor revealed my friendship to the Injustice League. I won't risk them going through the same zhuut again. As of tonight, it's hunting season for every member of the Injustice League and no one, not even the Justice League will stop me."

It was a threat loud and clear to everyone in the room. Donna looked to her sister who stood with J'onn, speechless. Wally and Zatanna's mouths dropped. Ollie, Hal and Bruce were pissed.

Bruce growled. "Who the hell do you think you are?"

"Wow," Dinah gushed. "Kal's kind of sexy being authoritative."

Ollie rolled his eyes. "Give me a break."

Hal couldn't believe it. Bruce was right all along. Kal hadn't changed at all. "You're threatening to stop us if we stop you?"

"I don't want to fight any of you…"

"But you will if we get in your way." Wally couldn't believe he was fooled as well. He was starting to like Kal.

Kal didn't want to. He really didn't. He liked them. He liked the jokes Wally made. He liked sharing space stories with Hal. He liked Zatanna, Dinah, Mari. He even liked teasing Bruce and getting him angry. He liked them all differently. He didn't want to fight them but if they were going to stop him from taking down the Injustice League…

"Kal," Diana tried to maintain the peace, "what are you trying to do?"

"What should've been done a long time ago. These zhuutholes get away and continue to repeat their crimes because they can. If there was a strong force putting fear in them and letting them know their actions won't be tolerated, crimes wouldn't be as rampant and their wouldn't be new punks popping up every week."

Bruce was furious. He knew it! He knew Kal would soon pull a stunt like this. He knew he couldn't be trusted. "So, you're gonna break the laws hunting them down? So much for you saying you are a changed man."

"They are wanted criminals. Capturing them will not be breaking any laws."

"But we're not cops," Wally argued. "We don't capture the bad guys. I mean, we do but we turn them over to the cops. We can't take the law in our hands." Wally looked to the others for back up. "Right?"

"Doesn't Batman take the law into his hands when he go after criminals?" Kal argued. "Cops here don't hang criminals from a skyscraper by their ankles to get information out of them. Has anyone here has stopped Batman with his interrogations?"

Wally winced. "He's got a point, Bruce."

"I'm not trying to make a point," Kal tried to be reasonable. "I'm only saying everyone in the Justice League has taken the law into their hands one way or another. How am I different wanting to hunt these criminals down so no more innocent people get hurt? Who else will have to die or almost die before something permanent is done?"

Diana tried to reason with him. "Listen, Kal, I know you're angry by the Kents kidnapping, and maybe after you relax…"

"I am relax. This is more than just the Kents, Diana. You don't understand. You call yourselves heroes. You call yourself a Justice League but you're doing more harm than good with these criminals."

"Oh, boy." Donna saw the change on her sister's face. She didn't like that.

Diana turned to Kal. Now she was close to losing her cool. "Excuse me?"

Kal saw the fire in Diana's eyes. He knew he angered her but he wasn't going to back down. "You capture the bad guy and he's taken to jail. He breaks out and you capture him again. It's an endless cycle. If he does make it to trial, he gets off some stupid technicality because," Kal looked at Batman, "someone didn't show up in court to testify. It's time to put a stop to it. The police can handle criminals that are human. The zhuutholes that have abilities like us, aren't something the cops can't handle. We can. Instead of them preying on innocent and bullying their way, we prey on them. We capture them, let them go through your judicial system, serve however time the people vote for and place them in a prison where they can't escape; a prison we build."

Suddenly, Kal's argument didn't sound so bad. He actually made sense. Geez, Kal. You've got to work on your social skills. "There are metaprisons here, Kal," Donna told him. "We don't need to build one."

"The metahuman prisons you have hold the third rate criminals. Top tiers like Solomon Grundy, Giganta, Gorilla Grodd aren't held for long. I want to build a prison that holds them. I would prefer the Justice League's help but I'm willing to go at it alone. "

Diana's anger cooled once she understood Kal's reasons. "What does this new metahuman prison look like?"

To no one in particular, Kal said, "Open File: New Hope." The room darkened as a bright hologram of a building appeared in the room's center. The building wasn't designed like an Earth prison but an elaborate Hollywood mansion.

"That's suppose to be a prison?" Wally complained. "It looks like the Playboy Mansion! Look! There's an outdoor pool!"

"No one wants to live in a dreary prison but if the prison looks high class and a place fit for a king, it could work as reverse psychology and make the Injustice League eager to be in a place like this. Look at the celebrities on this planet that check in rehab facilities. They don't look like a prison. It looks a getaway people go to on vacations."

"He has a point," Dinah murmured. She was impressed with Kal. "You really have been studying us."

"I had some time on my hands," Kal quipped. "One level will hold the criminals in their own cells. The west wing is a recreation center. The east wing will be the rehabilitation facility where we can cure some of the criminals of their powers like Mr. Freeze. Perhaps we can go the extra mile and help him find a cure for his wife."

"Spoil them all you like," Bruce warned, "but it doesn't mean they will be happy. They will try to escape."

"I'm not a fool, Batman. Each room will be designed with the criminal's weakness and strength in mind. Each prisoner will be injected with a shock chip that activates when a prisoner gets a quarter mile from the prison. It's enough to knock them out. Getting out will be hell. I know a lot of top of the line security from visiting off world prisons. Escape will not be easy."

"How do you plan to fund this?" Ollie didn't think any of this sounded cheap. "I'll be damned if I fund a luxury prison."

"Where do you plan to put it?" Bruce wanted to know.

"Alcatraz is abandoned and has been for decades. I want to buy it and tear it down. As for funding, I have medicines and technology I can share with the world. The few elements I had on me has brought me some money."

"Elements?"

"As a bounty hunter, I've traveled through different galaxies and I took different kinds of payments. I was mainly paid in credits which are useless here but I was also paid with elements, some of which you called jewels like gold, emeralds and rubies."

"Oh, yeah," Zatanna recalled helping Kal out with getting money. "I found buyers for those jewels. I thought you were looking for extra cash. I didn't think you were planning to do this with the money."

Bruce felt betrayed by Zatanna. "You knew about this?"

"I only knew about getting cash for the jewels, which were of very high quality." His scowl deepened and it did nothing for Zatanna. "Don't look at me like that."

"I wonder if Kal has medicine that will increase a male's sex. I could make Ollie as big as Kal," Dinah wondered out loud. When eyes turned to her, Dinah blushed, "Did I say that out loud?"

"Yeah, you did and there's nothing wrong with my pal, Ollie Jr.!"

"Nothing is wrong with it," Dinah tried to explain. "It would be fun if he's a little bigger."

Kal could see another fight coming and tried to distract them from it. "One of the medicines I want to share I'm using on Jonathan Kent. His eyes were severely damage when he was tortured. His optical nerves so severely damage he was blind."

"Was blind?" Dinah caught on. "You cured his blindness?"

"Hopefully. I injected the medicine in Jonathan's eyes where the organic nano stiches will fix the optic nerves. Right now, the medicine is doing its work and hopefully when Jonathan awakens tomorrow, he will have his sight back."

"Hopefully?" Bruce wasn't joyed. "You don't sound convinced it will work."

"Jonathan's the first human to use this alien medicine so no, I'm not 100% certain but I'm optimistic."

"Can this medicine help any blind person?" Donna asked.

"I will have to test each scenario but if this works on Jonathan, it's a very strong possibility anyone blind will see again. They may not regain 20/20 vision and will have to wear glasses or contacts but it's better than not seeing."

As one who spent time with orphaned children, sick ones and even the elderly, Wally was starting to come around, "If it does work, can you imagine what this will do for the world? Millions of people will be able to see. People with Glaucoma will be cured. People losing their eyesight to age will see. Imagine elderly grandparents able to see their grandchildren or great grandchildren."

Batman stood his ground. He wasn't going to be won over so easily. "Superman's humanitarian efforts aside, we can't forget what he plans to do. He made his case. It's time for us to make ours."

At this, all eyes turned to Diana. She was dating Kal. Her decision would set the tone on what the Justice League will do.

Diana was angry with Kal for not discussing this with her privately and putting her on the spot with her friends. It didn't matter her response. One side, whether it is Kal's or the Justice League will be angry or worst disappointed in her and accuse her of being bias because of her loyalty to both. No one said this will be easy but I have my response.

"I side with Kal."

Kal was floored. He fully expected Diana to side with the Justice League. "You do?"

Bruce rolled his eyes. "I knew it."

Here we go. "I'm not agreeing because I'm dating Kal. I'm agreeing because he is right. We have been soft with the Injustice League. There were always more we could do but we didn't. We do have the ability to handle the Injustice League the police can't. I'm not saying we kill them and neither is Kal but if we build a stronger facility with all our sciences: Themysciran, Martian, Earth and the sciences Kal knows, I believe we can hold them and not deal with so many prison breaks. Perhaps we can give them the rehabilitation some needs like Mr. Freeze. We can hire humans to work in the prison under a thorough background check. If we want to achieve our goals of world peace, a time when Gotham doesn't need Batman, we should try."

"Trying to sway me using Gotham?" Bruce thought Diana was above that. "It won't work."

"It did on me," Wally supported Diana. "I'm game."

"Why not?" Zatanna made a face at Bruce. "I think it's time we came a little stronger towards the Injustice League. We don't have to kill them but we should let them know we're not playing any more games with them."

"You want to hunt the Injustice League?" Bruce couldn't believe this.

"It kind of makes sense." Wally contended, "Strike them before they attack. How many people would've been spared pain or their lives if we came a little stronger or if we built the prison that Kal wants to build?"

"If this prevent prison outbreaks and save innocent lives in the future , then we should give this new facility a try," J'onn reluctantly agreed. "There were too many outbreaks this year alone. Arkham Asylum had ten so far. Joker escaped three times before he was finally stopped. Poison Ivy was at large for six months before we got her tonight. Penguin was out longer." J'onn could hear Bruce's thoughts and the words the Dark Knight said to him. Looking at Bruce, he said, "We should give it a try but watch Kal very closely." Bruce didn't like that and J'onn suspected there was more to this. He would have to talk to Bruce privately on what's going on with him.

Donna and Dinah agreed with Kal's idea and Ollie said no for obvious reasons. Hal wasn't ready to concede agreement. "We will have to get the cooperation of the Governor, Senators," Hal shook his head. "Lots of political red tape to get use of Alcatraz."

"Why should there be trouble using Alcatraz to build our own prison?" Kal asked. "From what I've read, Alcatraz has been abandoned for decades."

Hal chuckled. "You know a lot but you don't understand how the U.S. Government works. Luckily someone does." Hal eyed Diana. "I think you still have some influence with Steve Trevor or is he still burned you dumped him?"

A former flame? Kal was intrigued. "Really now?"

Diana cleared her throat. After Dinah dealt with Hal, she will be next. "Yes. We are friends. Steve and I tried dating and it didn't work out but we've maintained our friendship. I could talk to him."

"You should bring Kal with you, Diana," Hal suggested. He was grinning like a college frat boy on the verge of playing a devious prank. "I'm sure Steve Trevor would like to see why he couldn't win Diana and of course, everyone wants to meet the famous Superman."

"I don't mind meeting him." Not that Kal was jealous but he wanted to see in person one of the men who thought they could handle Diana.

She will punch them both into next week. Diana knew what both men were doing. "It'll take some working since we're both busy but I'll see what I can do."

Hal scoffed, "We both know Trevor will drop everything for you."

Bruce had enough. Didn't everyone know what they were agreeing to? "Has everyone forgotten the Justice Lords? Do you remember what we saw when we encountered them and their world? If we do what Superman wants, we're following down that path!"

"Justice who?" Kal was clearly unfamiliar with the name.

"I'm amazed in your research of us you don't know." He seemed to know so much about them. It was almost a competition between them on who can find out the most on each other. "They were the Justice League from an alternate universe. The Wonder Woman in that universe killed President Luthor. After that, the Justice League became the Justice Lords. Initially, the people supported the Justice Lords for cracking down hard on the Injustice League but the Justice Lords changed from following the law in capturing criminals. They decided to take control of the governments on Earth. They had the leaders on Earth: Presidents, Chancellors, Prime Ministers, Kings answer to the Justice Lords and enforcing their laws because they thought they knew what was best for them. They literally rule the Earth."

"In other words, they got a big ego trip for finally stepping out of the box. They didn't know to control it, and took over the planet, running it with an iron fist." Kal wanted to laugh. Is this what Batman's worried about?

Either the alien didn't get or he didn't care. "In a way, yes."

Maybe if I set him straight Bruce won't be so paranoid. "Look, I have no intention of ruling this planet. Killing someone will not make me go off the deep end to being overzealous like the Justice Lords. I was trained as a bounty hunter and a damn good one at that. Killing is a last resort to me and it's happened only a handful times. Once Dirk and I had to rescue a group of people from War World. They were taken from their home to be used as sport in War World's arena. There are some very strong beings there and killing them was only to save my life, Dirk's and the people captured. There's no reason to kill anyone in the Injustice League. Their powers are significantly less than mine. Killing them would be taking the easy way out just like that Wonder Woman in the Justice Lords world."

"Like you did with me when you dropped me?" Bruce wasn't buying Kal's sudden maturity and he couldn't believe the others were either.

Kal wasn't surprised with Bruce holding out. Then again, he never expected to agree with it anyway. He was learning Bruce could hold a grudge. Not that he blame him. "I was a different person then but I figured you would survive."

Diana decided to step in. If Bruce insisted on going backwards than forwards, the would be here all night. And this night has gone on long enough. "This is a huge undertaking and not something everyone can digest now. It's very late, er, early. We will resume discussing this at an emergency meeting six this evening. We'll argue our points when everyone is rested and-" she saw Wally yawning and laying a head on Donna's shoulder, "awake! We'll vote and decide as a team. Until then," Diana turned to Kal, "don't take matters into your own hands."

Kal promised, "I won't leave my home."

---

Twenty minutes later, everyone left the Fortress. Donna could see it in her sister's eyes that Diana was ready for everyone to leave for she had some words for Kal and she couldn't hold it in anymore.

They were in the kitchen. Kal decided he wanted a snack. He lost his dinner on Poison Ivy earlier that night and there were so little food on Nansi that Kal gave the suffering people his rations from the Javalin. Like Hal, Kal didn't get a lot of sleep. In fact, he slept less than Hal. He never let on how tired he was because he couldn't wait any longer for his first date with Diana. Look how it turned out.

A perfect evening with Diana turned into a nightmare and now Diana was angry with him. He silently waited for the angry dam of Diana to break. He hoped to finish his snack first.

"Don't you ever put me on the spot like that again!" Diana snapped at Kal.

Kal dropped his sandwich back on his plate. Maybe next time.

"Next time you want to make a decision like that you come to me first! And would it hurt to use tact? You didn't have to insult the Justice League by telling us our way is wrong! We may not have done it your way but our way has achieved results!"

Kal stood his ground. "Temporary results. I'm used to being blunt and speaking my mind. Tact is something I'm still working on but if you want to be realistic the results of the Justice League has been temporary. While studying the Earth, I read about the Justice League and Injustice League. Numerous times I've read the criminals get away, were imprisoned but escaped or were released on a technicality. It's ridiculous! There would be a lot less criminals running around if the Justice League grabbed some bigger balls."

"We have them!" Diana ground out. "But we can't be barbaric! We have the media to consider, a reputation to uphold. We can't have the cooperation of the governments of this planet if we act like…like…"

"Like me?" He knew that's what Diana was leading to. Not that he cared because she was right.

"I didn't say you were barbaric."

"But you thought it more than once."

"That was months ago, Kal."

Kal took Diana's. He walked her to the kitchen table, sat in a chair and pulled Diana on his lap. "I think you are becoming paranoid like Batman. I think you are overthinking the reactions of the people if you go after the Injustice League hard. The Justice League can still have a good guy reputation but you don't have to be pushovers. Be reasonable but not soft. Let the media say what they want. Let me take the heat."

Kal moved in to kiss her but Diana put two fingers on his lips. "You're trying to protect me. Again."

Kal kissed her fingers. "I like protecting you." he gently pushed her fingers away and tried to get a kiss in but was promptly rejected by Diana's fingers again.

"No. I'm still mad at you." Instead of kissing him, Diana rest her head against his shoulder. "If the Justice League agrees with your idea, we'll take the heat together. We'll protect each other together."

Kal looked over at his sandwich on the counter. He really wanted to eat but having Diana on his lap was quite satisfying. "I'm sorry for speaking to the Justice League the way I did. I won't blindside you again."

"Okay," Diana forgave him. "But you're still not getting a kiss."

Holding Diana was enough. "Okay."

Diana closed her eyes. It was nice sitting on Kal's lap and having him hold her. She could fall asleep like this. "Do you want to be part of the Justice League?"

"You want me to be a boy scout like the men are?"

Diana chuckled. "Kal, you are the furthest thing from a boy scout and I don't expect you to be. I to expect you to not keep things from me like you did tonight."

"Sorry, but I didn't think you would side with me."

Diana snuggled closer to Kal. She reached for his hand on her lap and slowly moved her fingers back and forth against it. "Why?"

"I thought you would side with the Justice League."

Diana sighed, her voice growing tired. She didn't bother brushing the hair falling over her face. "I can separate my feelings towards you and the Justice League to make a rational decision."

"You can. It's… you've been through so much because of me. I thought if I did this alone you wouldn't face a lot of crap from your friends."

"There you go," Diana murmured sleepily, "protecting me again."

"I like protecting you. I love you."

Silence. Diana didn't have anything to say to that? "Diana?" Kal tilted his head towards Diana confused. He brushed the hair from her face and got his answer. "Asleep. Sure. Take the easy way out."

---

Eighteen hours have passed since Jonathan's operation. Kal will awaken him soon and they'll know if her husband will see or not. She glanced at Kal who sat across from her at the kitchen table as they ate a late dinner. He was stoic. Martha spent most of the day with Jonathan and Krypto. She saw Wonder Woman on her way out late that morning before she left. She spoke with the famous Amazon briefly while making breakfast for Kal and asked if he was up. That's when Martha learned the two slept in separate bedrooms.

Martha knew Wonder Woman wasn't the only visitor to this Fortress. She heard voices, angry voices and they sounded like members of the Justice League. Martha was curious but she decided not to pry until now.

"I'm nervous about Jonathan. I need a distraction."

Kal cut into his steak. "About?"

"I heard voices last night."

"It was the Justice League." Kal didn't see a need to hide the truth from her. "How did you hear them? You were a floor above them and it's two feet thick. I thought you were sleeping."

"I was hungry. I've been held hostage all day and was too concern with getting out alive than eating. My hunger pains didn't return until after I was here. I heard voices when I got to the next floor and took another way to the kitchen."

"We had a disagreement with an idea I have. Diana and the Justice League are debating it now. "

"I hope you didn't put Diana in the middle." She knew of the tension between Diana and the Justice League in regards to Kal. "I thought things were going well with you and the Justice League."

"They are," he admitted, "but when you want radical change, you will meet resistance."

Martha washed down her food with water. "What radical change?"

"I want to capture every member of the Injustice League."

"You want to do something the entire Justice League hasn't been able to do?" She couldn't say Kal wasn't ambitious.

"Yeah. It's time to put them in their place so they won't hurt anyone else."

"Like me and Jonathan."

"Especially, you two. The Injustice League know of your connection to me. It won't be safe for you to return to the farm for a while."

"There are friends Jonathan and I can stay with." Kal shook his head telling Martha it would be a bad idea. "Right. They will go after our friends. Well, what do you suggest we do?"

"Stay with me here," Kal suggested. "There's enough room. It'll be safer for you and Jonathan."

"Jonathan and I can't stay in hiding forever. We want to live our lives."

"It won't be forever," Kal promised. "Maybe for a couple of months. I will take you home whenever you like. I will take care of the crops on the farm. I can build an android to be a bodyguard but until then, you're safer here."

Martha didn't like the idea of being cooped in the Fortress. She also didn't like the idea of being kidnapped and tortured again. Kal had her and Jonathan's best interest at heart and it was obvious, he was very concerned for their safety.

"All right," Martha relented. "I'll talk with Jonathan about this so for the next few weeks, you have roommates."

---

Martha held Jonathan's hand. The scars around Jonathan's eyes healed but that didn't mean his optic nerves did. Kal turned off the healing ray and injected a stimulator to awakening Jonathan. It took a minute before the medicine could take effect. Martha peered over her husband nervously as he opened his eyes.

"Jonathan?" Martha held her breath. "Can you see me?"

Jonathan looked at his wife and smile. "I see the most beautiful woman I've ever laid eyes on."

"Oh, Jonathan!" Martha cried and embraced her husband. She covered his face with kisses. "I was so worried! I love you so much!"

"I love you, too." Jonathan pulled himself up. He held onto Martha tightly and smiled proudly at Kal. He held a hand out to Kal to which he shook. "Thank you, Kal."

"It's the least I can do. How well can you see?"

"I think my vision's the same. I can see you and Martha clearly."

Kal scribbled something on a piece of paper, stepped back against a wall and held the paper up. "What does this say?"

Martha squinted. Her vision was very good. She didn't wear glasses but she couldn't read it. What was Kal thinking?

"Krypto eats too much," Jonathan read.

"Jonathan," Martha gasped. "How did you read that?"

"You couldn't?"

"It's the effects of the medicine," Kal confessed. "It made his vision sharper. If that's the worst side effect, I think that's a good thing."

"Just as long as it's not as sharp as yours," Martha quipped. "I don't need Jonathan looking through my clothes."

"Why not?" Jonathan's hand touched Martha's rear. "I like what's underneath."

Martha shrieked and smacked Jonathan's hand. "Stop that."

"Never," Jonathan vowed and kissed his wife again.

Kal quietly stepped out of the room and closed the door on them. He breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you." As assuring he was to Martha, he wasn't sure it would work.

Krypto who stood guard outside Jonathan's door suddenly stood up on alert. He barked and wagged his tail. Kal smiled. He knew, too. "I know, boy. Diana's returned."

---

Diana left as soon as the meeting was over. She had to tell Kal the results of the meeting for she knew he was waiting. She also wanted to know about Jonathan. She didn't expect to find Kal waiting for her. Krypto was waiting, too, and he ran to Diana when he saw her. Diana greeted the dog, letting him lick her face while she rubbed his white coat.

Diana left Krypto and went to Kal. He leaned against a wall. His arms were folded. Diana gave him a quick peck on his lips. "Now you want to kiss me."

"I was mad at you yesterday. I'm not today. How's Jonathan?"

"He can see. He and Martha are celebrating."

Diana embraced Kal. "That's great. I'm sure Jonathan and Martha are very happy now."

"They are. Now do you have good news for me?"

Diana's smile never left her face. "The Justice League agrees with you. We didn't leave it among the founding members. We took it to vote with everyone. Ninety percent said yes."

"That's good."

"Yes, it is. Bruce and a few others aren't happy, but they'll come around once they see you….what we're trying to do won't lead us down the Justice Lords path." Diana sighed. "I tried getting in contact with Steve. He's underground now on a special mission for the government. My friend, Etta, told me he should surface in a month at the earliest. Two at the latest. When he does, we can talk about Alcatraz."

"You can't talk to anyone else?" Kal didn't want to wait. He wanted to get the ball moving now on his plans.

"They don't have as much power or influence as Steve," Diana explained.

"Or is it you want to see him again," Kal teased. "You still have feelings for him or are you stalling Steve from meeting me?"

Diana scoffed. "It's not like that, silly. My feelings for Steve are platonic." She was beginning to think Kal spent too much time with Hal while in space. "I know you want to rush with this Alcatraz plan but let's do it my way. We can still go after the Injustice League and hold them in the metaprisons already built until we can build the one you want, pending approval from the government, and transfer them there."

"All right," Kal gave in. This was Diana's world. He should try it her way. "Whatever you want."

"Good." Diana was pleased Kal didn't argue with her. "I'm sorry I fell asleep on you last night."

"Don't worry about it."

"Did you say anything else?"

He did but now wasn't the time to bring it up. It can wait. "I did but it's not important. I have some hunting to do."

"We," Diana corrected him. "We have some hunting to do."

---

Metropolis

Krypto liked all animals as long as they were friendly and wanted to play. He even liked cats. He wrestled with big cats like lions in Africa and tigers in Asia but this cat he did not like. Teekl in his were-cat form was a formidable opponent. Not only was the animal three times Krypto size but his claws were sharp and penetrated his skin.

Teekl hissed at Krypto. So far he had the upper hand but the bleeding Kryptonian dog wasn't going to lie down so easily. Krypto knew his opponent was strong and magical but he had been in more fights and losing to a cat wasn't something the dog was going to allow to happen.

Getting Teekl back to normal size was the goal. Krypto had a plan. He growled fiercely at Teekl. He stepped forward taunting Teekl to come after him. Teekl took the bait and ran after Krypto. Krypto ran across the park, zigzagging across the grass. The dog reached a tall, thick oak tree. Using his hind legs, Krypto kicked the tree hard. Teekl following Krypto saw the tree falling. Being his size, he decided to catch it and fell right into Krypto's paws.

Krypto used his speed and zipped behind Teekl, grabbed the wicked cat's tail and flew in the sky. Krypto flew in an oval circle, going faster and faster each time he spun and dizzying Teekl. Krypto released Teekl's tail and the cat zipped in the sky, soaring above the clouds.

"Rrrrrrrrrraaaaaahhhhh!" Teekl screeched. The higher Teekl went, the less oxygen the cat took in. Teekl couldn't maintain his were-cat form and so slowly returned to his normal size.

Teekl thought he would float down to the Earth but Krypto wasn't done. He pounced on the cat pushed him into the ground.

"Mmmmmeoooowww," Teekl groaned weekly.

Teekl was no bigger than a housecat. Krypto picked up the cat with his teeth and searched for Kal, wondering how his master was against the witch boy Klarion.

"Fruck!" Kal growled as his back broke a tree, crashed through a stone fountain and landed head first into a sandbox.

Damn magical brat! This better work, Diana.

Klarion laughed gleefully watching Superman bounce around Metropolis Park through the power of his magic. Klarion knew of Superman's threatening reputation but he wasn't scared of him. To him, Superman was a big bully like all adults. Superman had the muscles and the speed but he couldn't do anything against anyone magical.

Klarion mocked Kal. "Magic triumphs strength every time, Stupidman!"

Unfortunately, for Klarion, Kal wasn't alone. Diana remained invisible with Kal's faser and watched the battle. Kal was the bait luring Klarion to fight him alone. Kal was also kicked around as Klarion used his magic on him like an angry child with a toy. He had to swallow his pride and allow himself to be kicked around by Klarion but as long as he got him, it was worth it.

Too enthralled in his impending victory and without his cat Teekl to look out for him, Klarion was caught off guard with Diana's lasso looping around him.

"What?" Klarion saw the gold cords tightening around him. He turned his head to see Diana approaching. "Where did you come from? I didn't see you! Let me go!"

"That was the point." Diana called out to Kal. "I've got him, Kal!"

Kal pushed himself to his feet and spat out the sand. He was not happy. He hated magic but he hated spoil rotten kids even more. Kal broke thin branches from a tree and stormed to Diana and Klarion. "Can he get out of the lasso?"

"No."

"Good. You spoil brat!" Kal grabbed Klarion. "You think it's funny using magic on me, trying to get in my mind? You think it's funny turning adults into kids, causing chaos in the city because you can't get your way? I'm gonna do something your parents should've done a long time ago." Kal sat down, put Klarion over his lap and slapped his butt with the branches.

"Ow! Stop it! Stop it!" Klarion whimpered in pain as Kal spanked him. "Let me go! I'm a witch! I know magic!"

"You're a brat!" Kal slapped him harder. "I want to hear an apology!"

Klarion refused to apologize so Kal kept spanking him. Two minutes of spanking Klarion, face red in tears finally cried. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry! Stop! Uncle! Uncle!"

"Okay, Kal," Diana stepped forward. "That's enough. He's learned his lesson."

Listening to Diana, Kal dropped the thin branches and placed Klarion on his feet. Looking Klarion firmly in his red tear filled eyes, Kal warned, "If I find you causing trouble again, I'm gonna spank you twice as hard and I'll make sure you won't sit right for a month! Do you understand me?"

"Yes," Klarion sniffed.

"Yes, what?"

Klarion lowered his head. "Yes, sir. I want Teekl," Klarion whine. "Teekl!"

Teekl meowed weakly as he returned to his master. His small cat body was in Krypto's mouth. Magical he was, he couldn't defeat Krypto. Krypto dropped Teekl from his mouth and made a gagging sound as if he wanted Teekl's taste out of his mouth. Klarion dropped to his knees and clutched Teekl tightly.

"Etrigan is on his way," Diana informed Kal when he came to stand by her. "How are you?"

"I'm not sure I want kids if they turn out like him." Kal growled irritably. "I hate magic."

Central City

He lost. The scientists he controlled were recovering from the mind control collars. The nuclear rocket he wanted to launch to destroy Washington, D.C. was dismantled. His plans were ruined. His only chance was escaping back to Gorilla City. He would be less welcomed there but it was better than the alternative of staying here and risk being captured by Superman. He knew what the former bounty hunter did to the Joker and there were rumors among the Injustice League that Superman killed Lex Luthor. He was on a warpath against the Injustice League and the worst part of it, the Justice League was fighting alongside him. They meant business this time.

Relief surged in Gorilla Grodd as his jet began to take off without a red cape in sight. He left Superman among weak humans he controlled and the deadly rocket. Gorilla Grodd had it figured out. By the time Superman remembered him, he would be long gone.

His jet hadn't reached three thousand feet before it was suddenly jarred by an unknown force. Gorilla Grodd checked the readings on his jet. One by one his engines were dying and his altitude was dropping. Looking out the window, he saw the flutter of a red cape. "Damn, dirty alien!"

Gorilla Grodd got out of his seat and went for his weapons he had on board. He had to defend himself. He nearly lost his balance when Kal forced the jet on the ground. Grodd grabbed a cannon gun and cocked it. Superman ripped the door open. "Gorilla Grodd, you've been a bad monkey!"

Gorilla Grodd fired his cannon gun. Kal swiftly dodged the cannon's blast. This was becoming a common theme among the Injustice League. He knew every member of the Injustice League had a weapon powered by red solar energy and kryptonite and they have been having a field day using them on Kal. He used his speed to snatch the gun out of the gorilla's hand and hit him with enough force against his face, the powerful , evil gorilla felt back with a loud thud.

"Since you like controlling people," Kal snatched Gorilla Grodd's mind control helmet off his head and put a shock collar on his neck, "see how you like it!"

Kal hefted Gorilla Grodd over his shoulders and headed out of the jet. "I don't know why but I have this strange desire to eat bananas."

Dallas, TX

After midnight, the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas was closed to the public. No one but the security guards were supposed to be inside. Tonight, the security guards were huddled in a corner, shaking under their desks and running frightened, as they suffered from the effects of fear gas Scarecrow released in the air ducts.

With the security guards trapped in their own nightmares, Riddler and Scarecrow easily broke into the vault and piled all the money they could into the large bags.

"Is this a good idea?" Riddler asked. "Perhaps we should've waited until we crossed into Mexico to rob a bank."

"We'll get farther spending American money."

"You're right," Riddler agreed, "But we could still stay here. It's bad enough we had to flee Gotham but the whole country?"

"Gotham's too hot for us now! We can't risk getting caught by Batman or worst Superman." Scarecrow shivered in fear. "He's scary and he's serious about hunting us down. I can't believe what he did to Dr. Light."

"Or Dr. Psycho." Riddler wanted to hurl. "Not even Batman would go that far."

"He's crazier than Batman!" Scarecrow never thought anyone was crazier than Batman.

Riddler closed one bag, grabbed an empty bag and stuffed money in that. "And those traitors turning themselves over to the police instead of putting up a good fight or running like we are. At least we can lie low until and get new identities."

Scarecrow sealed another bag. "Toyman was never a true member of the Injustice League. Neither was Copperhead. He and everyone else who ran to the police, begging to be taken to jail to get away from Superman are all cowards."

"Oh, I don't know. I think they are very smart to turn themselves in instead of facing me."

Slowly, Riddler and Scarecrow turned around to see a red eyed Superman staring at them. Riddler released a high pitch scream and dropped his bag of money. He pointed at Scarecrow. "It was him. This was all his idea! I wanted to turn myself to the police but Scarecrow wanted to run to Mexico and skipped to South America. He wanted to hide and get new identities. I didn't have anything to do with it at all!" By now Riddler was crying and on his knees. "Please, don't hurt me. I bruise easily!"

Kal looked at Scarecrow who shook in fear. "Is all that true?"

"I…..I…." Scarecrow tried to speak but couldn't. Superman was staring at him. His eyes were red. He was mad. All the things he heard Superman have done to the Injustice League came to the forefront of his mind and he responded in the only way he knew how.

Patches of straws fell from his pants.

---

"This evening was certainly eventful."

Kal loosened his red tie and freed the top buttons of his shirt. He hated the wearing restricted clothing like these but Kal was finding himself doing a lot of things for Diana. "You wanted me as your date. You knew that would cause attention, given my past and what I'm doing now to the Injustice League. The reporters went wild when we walked in together."

Diana stood before the mirror and removed her necklace. "I know, but you are special to me. I can't keep you from something that is a big part of my life. I won't hide you as if I am ashamed because I am not."

Diana said it many times before but knowing this woman was not ashamed of him, wanted him, move him and made him want to do nothing more than protect her and care for her.

"But," Diana went on, "It's protocol to invite the press."

"Including Myndi Mayer?"

Not her. Diana hated she came and she didn't hide her disgust from Kal. "She crashed the party. She did it out of spite and to get ratings for her show. "

Diana only need to give her blessing and Kal would make sure Myndi Mayer would think twice before thinking of causing Diana distress ever again. "And target me." Kal shook his head, recalling the brash woman and her questions to him. "The things she said."

"I'm sorry about that," Diana apologized.

"She doesn't like you."

"No, she has been trying to expose me as a fraud. She said some unflattering things towards me in the last and only interview I had with her."

Kal couldn't imagine why Diana would give a woman like Myndi Mayer an interview. She was too kind. "What did she say?"

"She questioned my sexuality, insulted the men in the Justice League, insulted my people and said I was a stuck up beauty who is sexually repressed, picky, preachy, never-giving-a-man-a-chance woman who needs one good, long hard, well," Diana gazed at Kal from her mirror, "you know."

Diana was being tough as usual but Kal knew the words hurt her. He moved to stand behind Diana. His hands touched her arms. "Sounds to me she's jealous of you. She wants to be you and have your life."

"It's not the first time things like that have been said about me."

Kal kissed the back of her head. "You don't have to worry about those sodholes anymore."

Diana smiled. She knew what Kal was thinking. "Don't tell me you're going to beat them up."

Kal turned Diana around to face him. "Only if you want me to." Kal lowered his head and captured her lips in his.

Diana broke the kiss smiling. She took Kal's hand and lead him to her bed. "I hate standing and kissing. I like sitting and kiss more."

Kal followed Diana. "Lying down and kissing is my favorite."

Diana turned her head, her eyes mischievous. "We could do that."

Kal picked up Diana and carried her to her bed. He gently placed Diana in the middle and laid beside her. Diana rest a hand over her stomach and Kal laid his on hers. "So, sweetness, what is going in your mind?"

Diana smiled coyly. "What do you mean?"

She smiled coyly but there wasn't anything coy to what Diana wanted. "Don't try that with me. What are you up to? What do you want me to do?"

"I want you to kiss me."

There was more to this and he knew it. "Just kiss?"

Diana grabbed Kal by his shirt and pulled him to her, closing the space between them. "Just kiss." Diana claimed Kal's mouth. When his lips parted, she didn't waste time slipping her tongue inside.

Kal felt Diana's hand slide down his shirt to his pants, brushing against his sex. Kal took her hand and enclosed it around his. He gently pulled her hand away from his sex, slowly pushing her body so Diana laid on her back and her arms pinned over her head with Kal's body pinning hers.

The passion in the kiss grew as Kal settled on top of Diana. When he rubbed against her in subtle thrusting, Diana's hips jerked at the contact. Kal broke the kiss. He gazed at Diana's beautiful flushed face. She looked so tempting, so desirable.

He closed his eyes. "If you keep looking at me like that, I may lose what control I have."

Kal pushed himself up as if to get off Diana but she grabbed him and pulled him to her body. "Lose it with me." She raised a leg and wrapped it around Kal's trying to pin him against her. "Let me lose it with you."

Finding it hard to resist Diana, he kissed her again. She was so beautiful, so tempting and yet he felt he was taking advantage of her. It was why he remained careful when he touched her. His hands rubbed her legs but he never went higher than her mid-thighs. He thought Diana wouldn't notice but she did. He was touching her but he was careful not to touch her intimately. Diana knew what Kal was doing. She took Kal's hand and guided his hand further up her leg. Kal pulled her hand away.

He was fighting her, trying to stop her from going too far.

Frustrated, Diana broke the kiss. "Touch me. Don't hold back with me."

Kal grinned. She looked cute angry. "Myndi Mayer was right about you being sexually repressed."

"Kal!"

He caught her hand before she could hit him. "Hear me out. It's not a bad thing. There wasn't a man on this planet to sexually awaken you. Until I entered your life. Now that I have. You want it bad."

"Is that so?" Diana wrapped her arms around his neck. Her frustration at him melted to lust. "You're so cocky."

"And I'm right." Kal parted Diana's dress further with his leg. "No other man has made you feel this." Kal slid himself between her legs where his sex directly pressed against Diana's. Clothes were between them but the surprised gasp from Diana and jerk of her hips had the effect Kal wanted. "Never felt that, have you?"

Diana blushed. "I can't say that I have." She tugged his shirt. "Do it again." Diana captured Kal's lips again wanting pleasure to both her lips.

As they kissed, Diana felt Kal rubbing harder against her. While she felt a thickening hardness between Kal's legs, she felt moisture forming between hers. Kal broke the kiss and attack her neck with kisses. The attack of Kal on her neck and between her legs left Diana feeling a shortness of breath, a pounding in her heart and unknown pleasure building in her. She especially loved the growing feeling between her legs. She did not understand her own body. It would move on its own with occasional jerks of her hips, wanting something Diana herself did not know.

Suddenly, Kal stopped his movements and rolled himself off her. Diana stared at him baffled. Wasn't he enjoying it? She was. "What's wrong, Kal?"

"I better not go any further. What I want will have everyone here knowing what we are doing." He winked at her. "I'm sure you don't want an audience knowing of your first time."

Diana felt her face flaming a deep shade of red. He was right but this feeling in her, this tingling. It was as if she was on the verge of something. She wanted to know, wanted to feel what that was. "Is there something we can do to tide us over?"

Kal propped an elbow on a pillow and rest the side of his face on his hand. While he felt the feelings Diana was going through, he has dealt with it not being seen through. Diana had not. "You need to get off?"

"You don't have to say it like that. It's…." Diana tried to think of the right words to say. "I need something. I felt this feeling before and nothing was done with it."

"Oh?"

"Back on the nymph world in my dream, you pleasured me with your mouth and when I woke up, the feeling was still there. I didn't like the feelings I had at the time towards you. I blamed the nymph activities for the dream and I willed myself to sleep to forget. Things have changed between us and well, I want to feel that way…I want to experience that with you."

Kal felt his sex jerk at the request. When she spoke that way, it was hard to turn her down. "So, you dreamed it though it never happened to you for real?"

"No." Diana shook her head. "I…well, I never had a dream like that. I've read the act. I even saw it once in the Watchtower." At Kal's surprised face, she explained. "I entered a rec room at the Watchtower and stumbled on Flash watching a movie where the man was pleasuring a woman in that way. It was quite a shock seeing the act on the television and seeing what Flash was doing to himself. I was so embarrassed."

Kal snorted, trying to stifle his laugh but the image was too funny. He gave up and laughed out loud. "Trust me, Diana. Flash was more embarrassed than you."

That was true. He avoided her for two weeks. "Yes, well. I have a vision of Flash I'd like to forget. Ever since then, Batman has blocked those type of movies from the Watchtower."

Kal had a feeling Flash or another member of the Justice League has hacked the system and they are still watching it. "And you never thought of it until that night on the nymph world?"

"Yes, but I wanted to with the man I want. He never arrived until now."

How could he turn her down now? He couldn't. "Doing this will just urge another feeling. You will want more."

Diana smiled. He was honoring her request. "I'm sure you, Kal-El, the great bounty hunter, can give me enough to curb my desire."

Inexperience she may be but she knew how to tempt a man. "Flattery will get you everywhere, Diana."

"What about you?" Diana touched Kal's stiffening sex. "After you help me, perhaps I…."

Kal took Diana's hand off him. "No, this is all for you tonight. I can control myself."

Kal kissed Diana and maneuvered himself till he was at Diana's legs. Kal's hands slid up Diana's legs pushing up her dress to her waist and revealing more of her beautiful legs. He teased Diana, kissing her legs as he moved up to her sex.

Diana watched him nervous and excited. She loved the feel of his lips against her legs, his sweet caresses. It made her more excited.

Kal reached the lace garment that protected Diana from him. Already he could see and smell the sweetness coming from her. Kal had to contain his own excitement and curb his own urges. This was for Diana tonight. This was all for her. "How about a tease?"

Diana gasped feeling Kal's tongue lick her sex through her lace garment. Kal raised his head smiling. "Do you like?" Diana slowly nodded. "It gets better." Kal touched the lacy garment at Diana's hips with his teeth and slowly pulled down. Being so close to her, Kal found Diana's scent intoxicating. Just a taste of her through her clothing was addictive like a drug. Kal wanted to remove the garment slowly off but he was so eager for another taste, he ripped the sexy garment from Diana with her teeth.

Diana yelped, shocked Kal ripped her panties off with his teeth, and laughed seeing Kal with her clothing between his teeth. He looked like a wild animal as he shook his head and tossed the garment away like an animal with a toy. He was a wild animal Diana decided. And he's mine.

Diana sat up to grab Kal by his shirt and slammed her lips against his. She kissed him hungrily like a wild woman herself. She wanted this man. She wanted him to touch her in ways she never wanted a man to touch her. One hand clawed his hair and the other his shirt as her fingers moved to the buttons.

Once more, Kal stopped her and laid Diana back on the bed. "This is for you. Not me," he reminded her. "Is this room sound proof?"

Diana shook her head. "No. Why?"

"I don't want you to be embarrassed if anyone heard you."

Diana didn't understand. She may moan but she wasn't going to scream. Even so, "What do you plan to do?"

Kal grinned. He wanted to talk dirty but he kept it clean just in case Diana changed her mind by his dirty mouth. "What you want. Give yourself something you never had. Trust me."

Diana laid back, puzzled again but she trusted Kal. Diana watched Kal slide down her body again towards her legs. When she found Kal staring at her sex now bare to him, she became concerned. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. You look beautiful."

"You've seen it before," Diana said. "You peeked at me remember?"

"I peeked at you but not at this."

"What?" Diana frowned puzzled. "But you said…."

"I was determined to not look at you no matter how beautiful you are but this," Kal grabbed Diana's curvy rear. "It was too hard to ignore this." He squeezed it. "It's so perfect. I couldn't resist. So I peeked."

Diana's eyes widen slightly surprised. When he told her he looked at her, he suspected he saw all of her, not only-"Oh!" Diana gasped feeling Kal's lips on her sex. Her breath suddenly taken away from Kal's lips on her other lips. Oh, Hera! What are you doing to me, Kal?

Kal moved his tongue over Diana's lips, coating her essence with his mouth. Kal found her taste addictive. Never before had he found a woman's essence so stimulating and intoxicating. The more he tasted her, the more he wanted her and the move he loved her with his mouth. Diana's hips jumped again. Her body wanted more of what he was doing and so did Diana from the sounds coming from her mouth. He put his hands on her thighs, holding her down and opening her even more to him and allowed his tongue to plunge further inside.

Diana screamed, not understanding the words coming from her mouth. Kal's named escaped her lips but so did others. She recalled saying Hera and Aphrodite's name. She recalled switching from English to Greek voicing her pleasure.

She felt his tongue swirling inside her, nibbling her sensitive skin, plunging in and out, demonstrating what a larger anatomy on him would do to her. She had no control over her body. Her hips bounced off the bed, wanting to mold itself on Kal's face. Her dress rolled further up her body, exposing her stomach to him. When her legs wrapped around his head, Kal separated them and held them in place as he continued to love her. Needing to grip something, her hands dug into the sheets as her body bounced uncontrollably. Her voice rose higher and higher the more Kal continued and when she thought she could take no more, Diana felt Kal's lips teasing the special nub on her that tingled with pleasure. He gave brief attention to it as he loved the rest of her sex but now he was solely concentrating on that special nub.

"No, no," she said. If Kal continued, she wasn't sure she could take it. "Kal….I can't…."

But Kal didn't listen. It was as if he knew what that special nub would do to her once he loved that as well. Diana squirmed feeling Kal suck and nibbled her nub as he did with her lips. Suddenly, she felt a deeper, strong and very pleasurable feeling grow in her, faster than she could comprehend what was happening.

"Oh, Kal, is this….." she couldn't finish. With Kal loving her faster, she knew it was. It was more than Diana could take. She screamed as waves of incredible pleasure washed over her like she had never known. Her hips continuously spasm as the wave of her first orgasm washed over her.

Diana wasn't aware when her body stopped moving. She laid on her bed sated, catching her breath, waiting for her heart to steady with no true way to comprehend what happened. She noticed her dress was no longer at her waist but was pulled down to her legs. When did that happen? Wait. Where was….? She turned her head, noticing Kal smiling at her. He laid on his side, propping his head on an elbow. When did he move beside her? "Did I pass out?"

"No," Kal removed a lock of hair from Diana's face. "You were too busy recovering to notice me move." He kissed her. "How do you feel?"

"A little tired, almost sleepy but I feel very, very good." Diana snuggled closer to Kal. "I never had an experience like that. Thank you."

"You're addictive," he told her. "I couldn't get enough of tasting you." He took her hand and kissed it. "I think you bewitched me."

"I don't have such power."

"You said you were blessed by some love Goddess."

"Aphrodite. She gifted me with love and beauty."

"Then perhaps she granted you with some of her powers. Any man who tastes you becomes addicted to only you and wants only you."

Diana grinned. Kal was so silly. "I thought I already had you."

"You do but tasting you sealed the deal and enraptured me in your spell."

"Don't be silly," Diana said. "It's nothing like that." She looked down at Kal and noticed the bulge. "You haven't.."

"I'll be fine. I was harder earlier but I've come down." He read the look on her face "Don't worry about me. Tonight was for you but this weekend could be for us."

Diana was puzzled, "What do you mean?"

"How do you feel about us getting away? Just the two of us. I promised to take you to Gallinore."

"Sounds serious."

"It'll be as serious as you want it to be." Kal knew it was a big step for her so the ball would be in her court. "There are many things to do on Gallinore. It doesn't have to be horizontal or vertical, on the bed, in the air….."

Diana laughed. "You've thought about it a lot, haven't you?"

"You've no idea."

"Why not now?" Diana asked.

Kal shook his head. "I told you. I want you alone and we don't need everyone in the Embassy to hear it. At least not the first time."

It was tempting and Diana really wanted to, especially after what just happened but Diana had her responsibilities. "I really want to, but I can't do it. I'm on the roster this weekend for the Justice League."

"Damn."

"But I'm off next weekend."

Kal's eyes twinkled. "Really? I can't wait."

"Neither can I." Diana wrapped an arm around Kal's neck and kissed him. She loved kissing him. She was loving a lot of things about Kal and things were going so well for them but Diana wondered if Kal felt the same as she about her feelings towards him.

Maybe it is too early to have such strong feelings but I can't help what I feel for Kal.

A rapid knocking pounded her door and ruined the nice mood Kal and Diana were creating. "Diana! It's Julia! There's breaking news on the television that you must see!"

Diana groaned as she buried her head in Kal's chest. "Oh, what horrible timing."

"Can't the other members of the Justice League handle it?" Kal asked. "Even you have off days."

Diana rolled over and pulled herself out of bed. "Julia wouldn't disturb me if she thought they could handle it."

Kal got out of bed and followed Diana out of her room. They went downstairs where many of the staff stood in front of a large screen television watching breaking news of an alien in Los Angeles crashing a movie premiere party.

"Kal, isn't that…"

"Lobo," Kal confirmed. He grimaced seeing his friend on the television laughing as he walked the red carpet. He could hear Lobo asking people if they've seen him. When the people ran in panic, Lobo aimed his cannon gun in the air and fired. "Yeah, it's him. What the fruck is he doing here?"

On the television, they could hear Lobo say, "Has anyone seen my buddy, Kal?" Lobo grabbed a famous Hollywood actress and pressed her against him. "You're cute. Have you ever got it on with an alien?"

"No….I'm….married," the actress shakily answered.

"Ah, frag. Taken woman." Instead of letting her go, Lobo kissed the woman passionately. The actress struggled and tried to push Lobo away but she was too weak against him. When he ended the kiss, he asked, "How do you feel about open relationships?" The actress fainted. Lobo dropped her. "Ah, Earthlings are weak." Lobo kept walking down the red carpet, asking if anyone knew how to reach Kal.

Julia was appalled at Lobo's behavior. "Kal, are you really friends with that monster?"

Right now, Kal wanted to say no but he couldn't deny the truth, "He's…..Maxima!"

She was here, too.

The reporter transition from Lobo to footage from an hour ago. Cell phone video caught Maxima shopping in a Beverly Hills store. Civilians stared as Maxima caused a scene. Clothes were scattered everywhere as Maxima tossed clothes anywhere she pleased, complaining about every piece of clothing she touched. "Is this the best fashion on his planet? How pathetic?"

"Hey, Sexy!' a bold young man approached Maxima. He put his arm around her. "Where have you been all my life?"

Maxima grabbed the man and tossed him through the store window. "That is not how you address Maxima, Queen of Almerac! Ugh! Repulsive man! Will someone tell me where I can find Kal? He's a bounty hunter! I hear he is parading around this planet as Superman!"

"Oh, fruck." Just when things were starting to look up. Kal ran a hand down his face. With those two on Earth, it only spelled trouble. "Let's get to L.A., Diana, and find out what they are doing here."

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AN: In DC Universe, Alcatraz is a prison for metahuman prison. For this story, I thought of Kal having the idea of building one there. I always thought if Superman ever went all out against the bad guys, they would be running scared with little chance of standing up against him. Put in a Superman who was a former space bounty hunter, makes it even harder for the bad guys on Earth.

To my readers and reviewers, thank you so much for your patience. We're almost at the end! Got some Bruce and Diana, Diana and Steve, Lobo, Maxima and Kal, Diana and Maxima, Bruce and Zatanna, Mama Bear, humor, fluff and WTF stuff in the future.

Kal'garion: Don't know DC wants Superman to be one dimensional and have him leave the thinking to everyone else. His parents were scientists. He's from an advanced race. Even growing up on Earth, his brain will always be ahead.

Unoaranaya: Dogs do have a stronger sense of smell. If dogs can tell when women have that special time of the month, they can smell when you're doing the horizontal mambo. And I love Krypto.

Joe: Lex doesn't have hair. He doesn't have hands now thanks to Darkseid. Hmm. With Kal rounding up the bad guys, the Kents will be back in their home soon. Also given that Kal is hunting the Injustice League down, I don't think they would go after the Kents in fear of Kal's wrath.

Heliosion: Is that Simba for your avatar? Superman in this story grew up on a planet with two yellow suns. Therefore he absorbed twice as much solar energy as he would if he grew up on Earth. In Kingdom Come, Kryptonite didn't bother Superman anymore and Superman was in his late forties, early fifties? Kal is thirty in this story and when he left the planet he grew up on, he was 17 but was as powerful as he would be at 34 if he grew up on Earth. Add 13 years to that you get 47. So with that much yellow solar energy stored in him, Kryptonite wouldn't weaken him.

Ben: No, Diana is a little impatient having her way with Kal. Yeah, I love Krypto biting people. It's funny and you know they deserve it. LOL! Yeah, Lex is doomed. He can't rub his hand wickedly anymore. Darkseid's not happy with Kal and Diana as you can see. I'm gonna hide when a certain chapter comes out.

R: Superman in this story won't revert to the model of how he is portrayed in the comics. He'll be a good guy, a little softer from his portrayal in the beginning but no boy scout. It would be impossible and wrong to do a complete change.

Preston-Gal: Thank you so much. I really appreciated that coming from a BMWW fan. Most want to hang me but I thank you for being respectful and kindly voicing what you like to see more.

GenoBear: Lex isn't naïve. He's really arrogant. He thinks he can control anyone and have everything go the way he wants because it always do. There wasn't anyone to really challenge him. Not even the Justice League. Even though he knows Superman is strong, he still thinks he will get his way with him.