Chapter Thirty Four: The Fate of Kandor Part One.
Clark's eyes widened as if he could not believe what was happening in front of him. He never felt a stronger combination of what he felt now and he'd be honest, he felt fairly betrayed by the woman standing before him, looking him in the eyes. She was supposed to be one of the people who would offer him protection and now she stood here, bold as brass and staring him down. Her blonde hair flowed in the breeze as she removed her hood from around her face.
"Raya?" Clark asked her but anger flashed through his eyes as he rushed over, grabbed her around the shoulders, and slammed her against the stone wall of the temple. "WHY DID YOU BETRAY ME? IT WAS HARRY WHO TOLD YOU TO DO THIS! HE'S BEEN OUT TO GET ME….FROM DAY ONE!"
"It's….it's…it was never supposed to go this far," Raya managed as she tried to twist out of Kal's grip but he had a strong grasp around her throat. It was hard to breath much less talk but the blonde was doing her best to keep cool. She stared him in the eyes with a pleading expression to let her go but no mere pleading in her eyes would make him let go of her. His grip remained tight and steadfast. "Kal….you must believe me….it…he promised me…."
"Potter sold you a bill of goods and you bought it," Clark remarked as he threw her to the other side of the room but he dropped down on his knee before Zod.
'Fitting,' Zod thought, his amusement flittering through his eyes but he said nothing out loud.
"It was not supposed to happen like this, I swear," Raya remarked in frustration as her eyes flooded over with pain and she felt a ringing through her ears. "You were….he was…..Jor-El told me that he knew Zod and his followers would try and use your blood should he got released. So I contaminated it….so they would go down more easily….it wasn't to kill you, it was to kill Zod….I have it right here."
Raya held it out in her hand, in a crystal vial. "I have the antidote, right here…..take it….you'll be fine again."
"Will I?" Clark asked as he seethed with anger and stared her down. "Why should I believe you after you betrayed me?"
Lana appeared in the temple but Zod reached over and grabbed her from behind. She struggled but Zod was far stronger than her.
"Kal-El, you must listen to me, if you value this one's life at all, you will hand me the vial, therefore I will be strong again and be able to lead my army to the promise land," Zod remarked as he stared at them as Kal took the vial from Raya's hand.
"Clark, don't listen to them!" Lana started as she tried to elbow Zod but Zod's grip was firm.
"Clark Kent is dead, there is only Kal-El," Clark remarked coldly as he took the vial from Raya and slowly walked towards him. "You were a noble leader, Major Zod."
"Your appreciation is noted," Zod said to him boldly.
"Note the past tense," Kal-El commented as his eyes glowed. "You can do whatever you wish to Lana….she's of no use to my future race."
He turned around towards Raya and Lana who looked at him with a pleading look in her eyes.
"Your loyalty is to Jor-El, who is nothing but an echo and an annoying one at that, therefore, you have no use to me either," Kal-El commented as he raised his hand but suddenly he felt a stabbing pain in the back of his shoulders.
Kal thumped to the ground on his knees and Talia held the dagger between his shoulder blades, having stabbed Kal in the back with it.
Lana used this distraction to elbow Zod in the stomach, then grabbing him by the hand she did a forward roll, sending him flying. Talia picked up the antidote and held it within her hand.
She bent down and removed the dagger from between Kal's shoulders, and grabbing him by the hair she yanked on it hard so he was looking up at her.
"Drink," Talia remarked but two of Zod's followers grabbed her from behind. Talia managed to twist and pivot and stick the dagger into the ribs of one of Zod's goons. She slid back and stood in a defensive stance. "You think you're taking me down easily….."
She pulled the dagger out and flung it but one of the soldiers caught it in his hand.
Zod picked up the antidote, his head would be clear but Clark looked up and used heat vision to burst the vial.
"What are you doing?" Zod managed as he felt the antidote explode in his hands and his lifeline.
He felt a fuzziness in his head but he had a stronger will than Kal-El, so it took much longer for the poison to set in that pumped through his veins. Zod rushed towards Clark and wrapped his hands around his throat.
"That's it, that's it, you will kneel before Zod," Zod grunted as he forced Clark down to his knees before him. His hands tightened around his throat as he kept strangling him and Clark tried to break out of the grip but he could not struggle out due to Zod's superior strength. His hands kept trying to push out of the grip but it was a no go. He struggled and squirmed.
"I don't….think so," Clark gasped and wheezed as he tried to get his way out of Zod's grip.
Lana was back up immediately and she kicked Zod in the face with all of the force that she could muster. Zod blocked the second kick and he grabbed her around the leg and swung her around violently.
The force of this attack caused Lana's leg to break as she landed on the ground. She winced at the impact and rolled over, favoring her leg which hung off to the side at a disgusting angle.
Kal leaned down and shook his head as he stepped towards the pit, the only thing that ever made him strong and it would make him strong once again. He used his heat vision to seal the inner doors shut and make sure Zod did not appreciate the pleasures of the pit.
They would be reserved for only one and that would be him.
'The power is mine,' Kal remarked as he stepped into the pit, dunking himself in and feeling the power flood around him.
The energies of pit revived Clark and his eyes glowed with malice. A smile crossed his face as he felt the power that was escalating in his body that would be his. His eyes flickered open and shut as he nearly collapsed but maintained a certain poise to his form.
Then everything faded around his mind as he lost all sense of Clark Kent and only Kal-El, the Last Son of Krypton, was there once again.
Without another thought, his eyes lit up and he destroyed the pit so no one else could use it and he flew off, having what he wanted.
He was going to pay someone a little visit first of all.
"We kind of got side tracked," Harry remarked to Alex and the woman crossed her arms as she smiled and faced Harry.
"Yes, kind of," Alex remarked as she leaned back against the wall. She was not going to regret the side tracking, especially given the results of what happened. She blew her hair out of her face as she placed her hands on the edge of the wall. "Don't deny that you didn't appreciate it."
"I appreciated it, alright," Harry told her and Alex inclined her head, a smile crossing her face as she watched Harry. "So….what was your problem?"
"My, problem? I didn't have a problem," Alex remarked in a coy tone of voice as she placed her hands on her hips. "Actually…my problem was….I was afraid that it would have been too late….the powers would have taken you over and screwed your mind up."
Harry placed his hands on the wall and leaned back as he gazed into his "sisters" eyes and remarked. "Seriously?"
"Yes, seriously," she admitted as she sighed, perhaps that was a situation where she could have done a lot better. She placed her arms out in front of her as if she was going to touch him but stopped. "But it seems like that I've been….I've been having problems closer to home here."
"Yeah about the Sisterhood…"
"I might have manipulated things a little bit but I guess my plans blew up in my face," Alex remarked as she blinked at Harry. "I'm going to speak with them and we're going to figure out what happens next."
"Harry….we've got a problem."
Harry turned around and saw Lois standing right there in front of him.
"Of course we do," Harry offered as he let his breath out in a long whistle as he wondered what kind of problem they had and what they could do to mitigate the situation. His eyes flashed with annoyance as he looked at Lois.
"Yeah, I…I hate to be the one to bring up these points but….Clark's lost his mind," Lois remarked and Harry raised an eyebrow. "He….went to the Pit…again…."
"What about, Lana, Raya, and Alicia, can't they help track him down?" Harry asked as he threw his hands up. He could not deal with this right now.
"Yes…..we tried but I think when he dipped into the pit, he had enough problems to override anything we can do after jumping in the pit," Lois remarked. "I don't know what you were thinking about having Raya poison him to screw Zod over but…."
"Wait….I didn't poison Kal-El," Harry told Lois and her eyes snapped open.
"I….it just seems like the type of convoluted plan, you had an antidote and everything, didn't you?" Lois asked.
"It wasn't me this time," Harry commented but he did wonder about Raya a few times, especially given the circumstances.
She was sent to the Phantom Zone on the orders of Jor-El, who knew about the Kandorians. Therefore, he would know about the dangers of them coming and so would she. The wizard wondered if this was going to be a situation that would cause him a greater headache than ever before.
Jor-El would use his own son as a chess pawn, especially the cracked AI copy who always had questionable motives.
"Jor-El decided to use her as a pawn as well," Lara remarked as she showed up and frowned. "I wanted to believe….or maybe I didn't want to believe…."
Lara sighed long and hard as Harry turned around. The League was getting into position to counter Zod and his army. The Female Kandorians were on Paradise right now, in the event that they were needed and they could take advantage of the time dilation to brush up on and enhance their skills.
"We want to believe the best of everyone but apparently Jor-El is going to use that to make fools out of us every time," Harry commented to them as he turned around.
"Kal shut down the bond link, didn't he?" Lara asked.
Lois nodded, she was feeling frustrated, not to mention at the end of her rope with Clark. Lana had a broken leg thanks to Zod, although it would eventually heal. Alicia had a concussion and Raya suffered brutal, but not quite fatal, injuries. She was the only one left, the only one who might be able to smack Clark back into line.
'Chloe, send out word to the League to take out our rogue Kryptonian,' Harry thought to his wife through the bond link.
'Yeah, will do?' Chloe remarked but she paused. 'Lethal force authorized or not.'
Harry paused as he placed hands on his head and nodded.
'Only if it comes down to that,' Harry told the blonde as he hoped that it would not come down to that but feared it could be something that might happen.
Harry turned to Lois.
"Red sun," Harry whispered to her.
"What?" Lois asked in confusion.
"Trust me," Harry remarked. "You'll know when the time is right….you're the only one who is able to pull the trigger now."
Lois was left extremely baffled and Harry saw Kara standing next to the doorway, looking a bit out of it.
"Harry, I've got something important to tell you," Kara told Harry and there was a second where Harry paused.
Kara never looked so urgent in her life. Harry wondered what she had to say and he turned, following his wife down the corridors of the Shining Light Foundation.
"Harry, I've been feeling off for the past couple of days and now I know why," Kara remarked to Harry and there was a few seconds where the blonde surveyed him and dropped the bombshell. "I'm pregnant."
Harry took a few seconds to allow that to soak in before he hugged his wife.
"That's great, Kara," Harry remarked, they had actually been going without the charms for a long time, they figured that the old Death was devious enough to remove their ability to have children.
It appeared that the new management brought it back.
"Is there a problem?" Kara asked.
"No, I'm happy, Claire will be over the moon about being a big sister," Harry told Kara and the blonde nodded at him. "But…..how far are you along?"
"A couple of months, I think," Kara remarked but she was worried. A super powered Kryptonian pregnancy was uncharted waters.
"You better head to Paradise, Kara, get out of the line of fire," Alura remarked as she placed her hand on her shoulder.
Kara was stubborn to a fault as she crossed her arms and scowled in her most angry manner. "Mom I'm…."
"You'll be fine, providing you don't strain yourself but a natural Kryptonian pregnancy is extremely high risk as is and underneath the yellow sun, you're an unprecedented case," Alura remarked. "Lara and I will make sure everything goes by without a hitch."
Lara nodded, she remembered how difficult Kal was when she got pregnant.
"I'll be right here when this Zod thing is taken care of," Harry remarked as he kissed his wife on the lips. "Promise."
"You better be," Kara remarked as the two exchanged a tight embrace.
Kara was frustrated that she could not fight alongside her husband if things gotten bad but her mother was right, the baby was more important.
Harry would be alright, he had to be.
Tess sat at her desk, filing some papers away as she heard the rumbling of footsteps across from her. The redhead peered up from the desk and she reached underneath her desk but she stopped when she saw him.
"You weren't the Kryptonian I expected, Clark," Tess said in a casual voice.
"Clark Kent is dead, Kal-El remains," Kal remarked as his eyes were sunken in and devoid of any life.
Tess remained calm despite the situation. "I'm beginning to see why you and Lex got along as well as you did. Both of you have certain delusions about your own capabilities."
Kal remarked as he grabbed Tess by the wrist and pushed her back against the chair, to exert his domination over her.
"We'll see who's delusional now, Tess," Kal remarked as he hoisted her off of the ground and Tess swung, hanging from his hands. "You think you're something….just because Harry's gotten in your pants."
"Yes and it's obvious Harry knows how to treat a lady where you need constant instruction and hand holding," Tess fired back and Clark threw her against the wall. She landed hard to the ground, rolling over.
Tess bounced back up, with super powers and sped Clark against the wall once he let his guard down slightly.
"So, you've decided to fight back, good," Kal remarked as he used his heat vision to try and barbeque her.
Tess fired back with a heat vision blast of her own and she used her powers to push back into his. Clark felt a burning sensation in his eyes as she slammed him against the wall.
"I don't know….I don't know what happened," Clark breathed as he rolled over, blood dripping down his mouth but Tess pulled a gun out.
Clark was on the business end of it, staggering back and Clark backed outside of the office, into a research and development area. There were many machines, with a giant pit off the side of the set of stairs.
"See the bullets in this gun, they're made of Kryptonite, and if one pierces your heart, you're dead," Tess remarked to him as she stood on his chest, her high heel digging into it. She had a Kryptonite ring on her hand although she did not make a habit of wearing it. She only put it on because she knew that Clark was coming.
"You can't kill me," Clark managed as she stood on her heels and faced him.
"Don't be surprised about what I can do," Tess remarked but someone nailed her from behind.
Hermione stood over Clark, a half of a smile on her face.
"You…."
"You're going to kill Harry, I'm afraid I can't allow that," Hermione remarked as she held the gun on his chest.
"So, you're another one who was in his pants," Clark remarked with a heavy breath.
"No, not hardly," Hermione remarked as she held the gun up to Clark's head but he used the heat vision to cause the gun to melt.
"She who hesitates is lost," Kal remarked as he grabbed Hermione around the throat and the torso and hoisted her up above his head, walking over to the elevated platform area and throwing her down into the pit below.
There was a loud crack and Kal smiled but that was before another blur flew in and nailed him across the face.
Harry Potter arrived and he knocked Kal down with huge banishing spell.
"So….it comes down to this," Kal remarked as he went for Harry but Harry dodged his attacks.
Kal dodged his attempt to take him down with a stunning spell.
He rushed around and took a spell to the torso just to get a punch to Harry's face. His super powered strength caused a busted jaw and Harry rolled over.
'Damn it….now I can't do it, I have to do it in close range,' Harry thought as he felt blood drip from his mouth. 'Lois, it's up to you…..if you can get here in time.'
Kal tried to use his heat vision but Harry created a shield and waved his hand. Spikes appeared from the ground but Kal dodged them as they shot up trying to impale him.
Tess rolled over and felt a fogginess running through her mind. She crawled over to a set of switches, it would release Red Solar radiation into the room, if she could get to it in time.
Kal stepped on her hands and kicked her like a football over the same ledge where he sent Hermione.
Tess was able to grab onto the ledge, her shoe slipping, dangling for her life. It seemed like no matter what she could not get a solid footing and she scrambled to pull herself up. Despite the fact that she had a good grip, it felt almost like she was going to lose it.
Harry turned around to face Kal but the young man stared him down, a smile, twisted as it was, crossed his face. Harry and Kal circled each other, there was no question about it, both were willing to take down the other, no matter what it took.
"I was a fool for ever trusting you," Kal remarked.
Harry pulled out the energy scythe.
"And you're going to kill me because I've exposed your plan," Kal remarked.
Harry saw Zod appear at the corner of his eye and he wanted to collapse down to one knee, he didn't have the time or the energy for this. A thumping resounded in the back of his head but he kept his head up firmly.
'I so don't have time for this bullshit,' Harry thought to himself as heart kept hammering within his chest but he pushed on, despite the situation. He was not about to go down without a fight, even though Zod being here, it was a problem.
"He's the problem, not you or not I," Zod remarked to Kal as the two of them locked eyes.
'Yes because you're the epitome of everything good in this world….might as well fix my broken jaw when the two of them are yacking,' Harry thought to himself.
Kal's eyes flashed in a combination of annoyance and amusement as he surveyed Zod, the two of them staring each other down. There was a few seconds where both of them locked eyes with each other and Zod's heart hammered against his chest.
"Do not be a fool, Kal-El,' Zod warned him and Kal watched him as he kept his eyes on the Major's face. There was a sense that both were jockeying for position.
"I'm not a fool, that's you," Kal remarked as he reared his hand back and with a thunderous crack, he knocked Zod in the chest.
Zod was sick of the demon spawn of Jor-El being a fool and he decided to finish him off once and for all.
Harry aimed his next attack at Zod's head, knocking him off to the side and through the windows. There was a loud crash of glass.
"You think you can take me down," Kal commented and Harry smiled.
"I know I can….Red Sun," Harry remarked and the code word came online.
Kal wondered what the meaning of this was, at least until he was frozen in place. He could not move, he was only allowed minimal movement for breathing. He stepped towards Kal as the young man was rigid in place. There was a sense that he would glare at Harry, had he been able to move his eyes.
When Harry gave, Clark and Lana the initial Kryptonite cure, he put a failsafe in there, in the event that they went rogue.
Harry reached over and held out his hand, pulling Tess up.
"You know, you could have just flown up," Harry remarked to Tess.
"Sorry, still working on manual control of that," Tess commented as she wrapped her arms around Harry and held them loosely around his neck. The emerald eyed wizard dangled her against his neck and she watched him. "So…you're kidding me?"
"It's not permanent," Harry told her.
Sure enough, no sooner did those words escape Harry's mouth, Kal's control was coming back to his body.
'And with the pit, it's even less permanent," Harry commented to her, as he turned Tess around.
Kal rushed forward, eyes blazing and he blasted Harry with heat vision. He expected a good twenty minutes to be able to contain Kal.
"Can't you just Red Sun him again?" Tess asked to him.
"Not for another two hours," Harry commented as he made his way around. "And we've got some good news, by the way."
This statement was said with sarcasm that Tess picked up.
"What the hell could be worse than this?" Tess asked.
"Well, shutting down his powers is draining on my powers…..given that I derived the cure from my DNA, therefore…..yeah I got bitch slapped by some annoying quirk of my powers yet again," Harry remarked as Tess wrapped her arms around Harry's neck and he kicked off, managing to summon enough magical strength to create a shield.
The heat vision rocketed off, as Harry used his last bit of strength to get Tess out of harm's way.
'Harry, I swear, if you die, I will kill you,' Chloe commented but she closed her eyes. 'I would be there to help but Zod's guys, they're on the move.'
'I'll curb stomp General Makes Other Men Kneel Before him, the League can handle the troops.'
Harry turned around and blocked Zod's hand. He struggled with him but managed to push him back and continue the fight. Both went face to face and Harry used his free hand to hammer him with a series of shots. Zod grunted in surprise but a smile widened across his face.
"Weak as a kitten," Zod remarked as Harry flipped over his back but Zod nailed him in the ribs with an expert punch.
"Still….stronger…than….you," Harry remarked as he caused several explosives that he had planted to go off with a click of the button.
That was his last ditch effort to screw Zod over, even though it would take him out as well. It released clouds of the modified Kryptonite gas and more explosions as fire surrounded the two of them.
The platform started to collapse sending them to the ground. This area was warded off so no one could enter it and with Tess out of there, they were safe.
Harry fell down into the pit as Kal grabbed him and hurled him into the explosion with sparks flying everywhere.
Kal stopped and a moment of regret appeared through his eyes.
"What have I done?"
Another flicker went through his eyes.
"You've become a man, Kal-El," Jor-El whispered and he turned around to leave Harry and Zod to burn in a pit of their own damnation.
"Yes, I'm not the weakest link," Kal grunted with a wide smile crossing his face.
Battered did not even begin to describe how Harry Potter felt but he had been given a beating. He would have suffered a worse beating had he been mortal but thankfully he could take it. Better him than someone else.
Survivor, that's what Harry Potter was. He got Tess out of there and Hermione was already gone when he hit the ground.
Life was not the most ideal for him right now, as he pulled himself out of the flaming wreckage, burns covering his body. They slowly healed, but they healed at a crawl, with the pain taking its sweet time to fade away. Blood splattered down onto the ground as he dropped to one knee, then another knee, and then kept pushing himself forward.
He scanned the wreckage, it burning to use his X-Ray vision but he knew one thing and that was Zod had left the building. Somehow, his attempted and perhaps quite suicidal scheme to take down Zod had gone up in flames.
No pun intended obviously.
Harry opened his hand and shut it. There was no damage, at least none that he could determine. The wizard pushed himself towards the exit as he saw the blinding light to the other side.
"Are you trying to scare me to me?"
Harry turned around and saw Death standing there in the shadows.
"No, not particularly," Harry remarked as he checked the lifeline reader, Zod was still glowing gold, therefore he was out of his jurisdiction.
"It's reaching to the end of this road, the final battle and….I'm not sure if this situation can be salvaged," Death remarked to him in a swift voice. "Kal-El, despite your best efforts and because of the best efforts of others, may be too far gone. And you sacrificed yourself in one last attempt to redeem him."
"His problem is that he's cracked underneath the pressure," Harry informed Death and Death responded with a nod of her head.
"That will be the issue but you must ensure that Kal-El does not falter any further," Death told her Herald and Harry nodded. "He is verging into a territory where he may be considered an undesirable if he's not careful."
Harry tried to not betray that he could barely walk, even though his legs were about to buckle out from underneath him once more. He had never suffered this much pain in his life and whilst his powers slowly returned, his sanity was this close to faltering. His green eyes closed as he looked up into the sky, they were here, somewhere, in the midst of the city.
"It's not going to get that far," Harry informed his supervisor.
Death watched him, a half smile flickering over her face. "I appreciate your confidence although I can't help but question your sanity."
"Just watch and see," Harry commented as he turned around.
He was on one leg more or less, beat up, battered and abused but there have been far worse situations that Harry Potter had to go against. It was in his nature to never surrender, even when the going went tough.
'Harry….we're fine, but….I think Clark's going to do something desperate,' Chloe thought.
'You….you think,' Harry managed in a pained tone of voice but that was about all that he said, he could not go any further.
'Yes….I think,' Chloe remarked as she felt the exasperation coming through her voice.
'Well the good news is that he doesn't have the Fortress this time, so we won't see a Nova Javelin nearly strike the middle of the city,' Harry remarked to himself as he placed his hand on the top of his head and pondered everything.
Crisis was a word that many people threw around too lightly, but this was what Harry felt, he felt that he was going through a crisis or at least the world was.
Yet when there was crisis, there was opportunity.
Zod's men appeared in front of Kal-El as he stood at the edge of a building's rooftop, looking down upon Metropolis below.
"All of you….you're following someone who is going to lead you with lies," Clark remarked as he held the Book of RAO in his hand. "But this….I can bring us to a new world….a world where we could be free of all of the shackles of humanity. We will never fit together on Earth."
Clark smiled, he could use the Book of RAO to send everyone away and with Harry Potter out of the way, he would be the only Kryptonian in the world. He felt a headache coming onto him but he ignored that. He was in for an impressive fight but he was not about to be taken down, at least not yet. His hands were getting completely and totally numb as he opened his hands and closed them. His breathing became more rampant.
"Okay, Clark….just settle down."
Clark turned around and saw Green Arrow standing there in front of him.
He was the one who happened upon Clark first but he hoped for some real super powered back up soon. He had a feeling that his arrows were not going to be sufficient to take him down. He placed the arrows in his hand and he stood in front of him.
"You're….trying to tell me what to do?" Clark asked to him. "What….the rest of the League decided to send their errand boy to try and talk Clark down because he's been a naughty boy?"
Green Arrow felt a moment of annoyance and he looked around. He felt like a walking target up here with a group of super powered Kandorians walking around him. He tapped his hand on his arrow.
"Do you think that little toy is going to take me out?" Clark asked as he taunted him.
"No, but anything's worth a shot," Green Arrow commented as he launched his arrow at him.
He stared down Clark and there was almost a daring glance in Clark's eyes. His hand quivered over the bow and the arrow as he tried to keep his hand onto it. He was this close to firing off a shot but he stopped.
"Go ahead, Ollie, pull the trigger, or are you nothing but a playboy in tights cosplaying as some reject from the Sherwood Forest?" Clark asked.
'Annihilate him, Kal-El,' Jor-El demanded.
Lois showed up on the roof immediately, surely she was not too late? She saw that Oliver was squared off with Clark.
'Oh boy….what did Harry….oh shit better do it Lane, no turning back now.'
Lois cleared her throat and said it "Red Sun!"
Clark and the Kandorians all froze like statues in the middle of the square. Lois blinked as she watched them.
"Well….guess I should have brought you along in the first place," Green Arrow remarked but Clark came back to life.
"That was a noble effort but that only works once," Clark said scathingly as he went towards Lois but she dodged out of the way.
Lois smiled as she moved out of the way.
"If you're stalling for time, then you've got another thing coming," Clark remarked to her.
"Snap out of it, you might be many things but…."
"I'm not what, Lois, tell me what I'm not?" Clark asked as he reached towards her but she sent him flying off of the edge of building with a huge punch.
Oliver blinked but Clark climbed back up and he rushed forward.
Lois jumped out of the way but Oliver, without having super speed, was not so lucky. Clark nailed Oliver with huge punch although a small part of him still held back. The impact rattled him in the side of the head and there was a few seconds where he staggered onto the ground.
The Green Arrow dropped down but another archer was perched and she had Kryptonite tipped arrows.
'Ready, aim, fire.'
Clark was nailed in the back with one of the arrows and he staggered for a brief second, nearly falling over. Another arrow nailed him in the chest, along with a third arrow, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth.
Clark took six Kryptonite arrows to the chest but the adrenaline from the pits pumped through his body. He would not be taken out that easily and his heart thumped harder within his chest but the blood flowing through his veins allowed him to step up.
Oliver was down on the ground, blood pouring from his mouth, and he had seen far better days.
"An insect," Zod remarked as he turned up and grabbed Oliver like he was garbage.
With a casual toss, he threw Oliver over the edge of the building into an alleyway below like he was a piece of paper.
"And then there was only one," Zod remarked as he reached to grab Lois but she dodged out of the way.
"RED SUN!" Lois yelled frantically but Zod's hand found her throat.
"That little codework might work with someone of lesser will but you'll find that…."
Clark nailed Zod from behind and caused him to stagger.
"He's purged his blood of the elements already, he was willing to poison you all," Clark remarked to them.
"Really….I was going to ensure that the antidote worked on me," Zod said but there were many accusing eyes on him.
"You would have sold them out, sold out your own people, and don't deny that you would," Clark remarked as he saw Zod.
'Send them away, Kal-El, you've done well,' Jor-El remarked and Clark broke open a statue on the side of the building.
"The crystal structure," Zod breathed but his men grabbed him from behind.
"You gave us tainted blood," one of the soldiers commented.
"I was going to cure you….you've got to believe me."
"They won't believe you," Clark remarked as he saw him. "Kneel before the Son of Jor-El, Zod."
"You must be joking if you'd think that I'd demean myself," Zod remarked as he looked towards him.
"I'm going to send you away and then I'm going to make sure that the rest of your days are going to be miserable," Clark remarked.
Lois watched the situation, wondering if this was all part of whatever nutcase plan Harry cooked up.
A bit of humanity went through Clark's eyes but he could not kill Zod, not here. His eyes flickered.
"Justice will show it's way," Clark remarked.
'Send them home son, you're going home, to Krypton," Jor-El commented to him.
"Yes, we are," Clark remarked as he placed the Book of RAO in the slot.
To Be Concluded in Part Two.