Hancock, Lena, Jesse and Libby face off against some very dangerous foes while Kara speeds to the Big Apple to save Lena from a villain who's almost as invincible as Supergirl!
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They heard the screams of a host of people and witnessed black oily smoke rising into the cloudless blue sky. Then they saw many of the protesters flee from the park.
Now a grim Hancock announced, "You ladies stay here! I'll go see what in the hell is going on!" Suddenly, the man unzipped his wind breaker and revealed a leather body suit, black with yellow trim and a stylized eagle on the area covering Hancock's chest.
"Not on your life, John!" Libby Lawrence snapped before she shrugged off her overcoat and her sensible blouse to uncover the pale blue tunic with the symbol of the Liberty Bell on its front. Then she reached inside one of the pockets of her riding britches, withdrew a black domino mask and slipped it on her face. "I'm coming with you!"
"Mom, I thought you retired from this life!" Jesse exclaimed while she changed out of her civilian clothing into her Jesse Quick costume in the blink of an eye.
"Maybe so, but I'm not letting an old friend and my baby girl charge into battle without me!"
The speedster sighed. She knew her mother wouldn't back down from a challenge once she'd set her mind to it. Now she turned to Lena, knowing her friend needed to change out of the glare of the public eye. "Lena, you should probably go inside the restaurant and keep out of harm's way."
"Will do, Jesse. Be careful, all of you!" the brunette shouted before she turned and ran as fast as her high heeled pumps could carry her inside the building.
Moments later, Hancock took flight while Jesse kept her speed down so her mother could keep pace. When the trio reached the park's entrance, they saw a police cruiser lying on top of its roof as flames erupted from the destroyed gas tank on its underside. Near the overturned vehicle, they spied the charred bodies of a pair of uniformed police officers on the ground. Several meters to the right of the vehicle as they faced it, stood a giant of a man with a muscular form that would have been right at home in the Mr. Universe contest. The man was undressed from the waist up but that factor failed to reveal any flesh whatsoever. Instead, his body appeared to be made entirely of a stainless steel-like alloy! On the ground next to the man's brown trouser covered legs knelt the form of a young woman who was as still as a statue and encased in the same alloy that covered the giant man's body. A few meters behind the hulking man stood a guy clothed in a light blue costume that had a cowl that covered most of his face. The masked man hefted a huge double edged axe and both blades crackled with electrical energy.
To the axe-man's left, the heroes spied a fairly tall figure encased inside a gleaming white suit of armor with red trim on its chest plate and both gauntlets. The gauntlets were ringed with collars that glowed from the radiant heat Jesse could feel even though she was standing more than ten meters away from him. Finally, hovering overhead, she saw a muscular blonde man with a crew cut, who was dressed in a charcoal gray uniform trimmed with black patent leather boots, white gloves and a white circle on his chest with a red swastika inside of it.
"Captain Nazi!" her mother spat at the sight of the caped man.
Now the scar-faced villain turned toward them and sneered. "Mein eyes must surely deceive me! Liberty Belle herself! Und here I feared I would die of boredom from slaughtering these sheep who dared protest the glorious message our American brethren have offered to this decadent nation. Perhaps you shall provide more of a challenge, Frau Chambers?"
"Oh you can bet your last deutschmark on that, Captain! Tell us, who are your new playmates?" Jesse snapped at the man.
"Ah," he stared at her with lascivious eyes that almost made her gag. "You must be Fraulein Chambers! Although you're wearing a costume similar to that worn by your accursed father, you are just as beautiful as your mother. As a favor to you both, I shall introduce you to my comrades. The rather large gentleman is Reichsmark. As you can see, a single touch of his hand can change flesh into un-living metal. The man with the axe is called Hunter. He can track anyone or anything alive. The gentleman in the suit of armor is the White Dragon. He wields the flames of Tartarus itself. So, you see, fraulein, nothing can stand against us!"
"We'll see about that, big man," Hancock growled.
The Captain snorted. "And who are you to address your superiors without our permission to do so, mongrel?"
Suddenly, when a sexy woman's voice with a hint of an Irish lilt to it sounded from the sky above, Jesse smiled. "His name is Hancock, you monster. And, for your edification, I'm the Green Lantern. Do try hard to retain this information even after we inflict some serious head trauma on you all because I don't like to repeat myself."
The fascist shot a furious glare at the Emerald Gladiator then. "No woman speaks to me like that and lives! Brethren, attack!"
In response to that, Hancock flew toward Captain Nazi like a heat-seeking missile, leaving Lena to fire a green energy blast at Reichsmark that managed to push the giant back into the trunk of a huge tree, hard. Suddenly, Jesse raced toward the White Dragon, deftly dodging twin bursts of red-hot plasma while Libby closed the distance between Hunter and herself.
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CATCO Worldwide Media Building
40th Floor, 1102 Local Time
"Kara, hurry! You really need to come and see this!"
The reporter was working in the cozy confines of the office Cat Grant had given her after the woman had promoted her. When she had a backlog of work, Kara would use that office to address it. Nonetheless, she always had her hearing attuned to heed the call from one of her friends or loved ones.
Now she rose from her chair, exited her office, crossed the bullpen, flashing friendly smiles at everyone, before she entered James' fishbowl, Cat's former throne room.
"Hey, what's u-" Kara's voice trailed off to nothingness when she saw Lena nearly get her head torn off by the fist of a stainless steel giant who'd struck her lover's cheek despite the protection provided by Lena's emerald shield on one of the giant TV screens behind Cat's old desk.
"This is on all of the news channels. It's live from New York City," James murmured. "Maybe you should..."
However, after he shot a glimpse in her direction he didn't bother to finish his thought because Kara was long gone.
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New York City
Fifth Avenue, Local Time 1352
"Do you truly believe you can defeat me in glorious combat, mongrel?"
Hancock simply narrowed his eyes at the villain. "If you call me that one more time..."
"It is of no consequence to me to call you exactly what you are, mong-"
Captain Nazi never had the opportunity to finish his taunt because Hancock punched the man so hard he sent the German careening into the hood of another, fortunately, empty police cruiser.
Even after taking such a mighty blow to the face, the villain wasn't down for the count. Captain Nazi pushed aside the metal that had enfolded his body upon impact and grinned up at Hancock. "Finally! A foe worthy of my magnificent might!" Then the personification of Hitler's mad dream of world conquest launched himself at the dark hero and tackled him around his waist. Moments later, he flung Hancock through a massive tree, instantaneously converting it into kindling.
Hancock immediately got to his feet and brushed the splinters from his suit. "Not bad for a goosestepping chump," he drawled. Then before Captain Nazi knew it, Hancock moved almost as fast as Jesse Quick, raced over to a wrecked police car, hefted it over his head and flung it at his airborne foe.
"Ach du leiber!" was all the villain could say before the car struck his body like a runaway comet and cratered him into the clay surface of a softball diamond on the far side of the park.
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Libby Lawrence tucked and rolled while the sweep of Hunter's axe passed through the air where her torso had been a moment ago. Then she unfurled her body and performed a powerful handspring that landed her onto her well-balanced feet. Now she lifted her left leg and snapped a powerful sidekick that struck the man's hip, causing him to spin from the blow and tumble down to the ground.
Growling now, the Neo-Nazi pressed his back hard against the ground and flipped upward onto his feet. He moved fast and before she could counter him, he thrust the flat part of the head of his axe into her torso and pressed a trigger on the handle that released a charge of electricity through her body. As a result, the bolt of energy sent the woman flying several feet through the air to land in a stunned heap on the ground.
While the stricken hero tried to regain control of her muscles, Belle could only watch as the Hunter approached to deliver the killing blow.
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"Stand still, why don't cha, you damn woman?!"
Not a chance, asshole, Jesse Quick mused to herself. The man had been practically firing blind in an attempt to bring her down. However, her speed was just too much for him. On the other hand, his armor was pretty tough and even high velocity punches weren't doing much of anything to affect him.
She needed to shut this guy down before his plasma bursts burned the whole place down. But how was she going to… do...it."
Then a truly fiendish plan formed inside her fertile little mind and she smiled.
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Daniel Ducannon, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a/k/a the White Dragon was frustrated as hell by the speedster. Even after his suit's targeting scanners had been upgraded by their benefactor, they still weren't good enough to obtain a lock on Liberty Belle's little bitch.
So when his scanners finally locked onto a target for a brief moment, it came as a huge surprise to the man.
Then when he witnessed the supremely wicked smile on the momentarily stationary speedster's face, the big-bad white supremacist gulped.
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"All right," a panting Lena Luthor grumbled. "Not the best idea I've had," she admitted ruefully as she rolled her battered body off of the shattered remnants of a concrete park bench.
Fortunately, the metal man moved so slowly, she had the opportunity to firm up her shields and take flight. She'd been foolish to use her ring to boost her strength to engage the giant in hand-to-hand combat. She'd just been so enraged to see the body of the woman whose life the brute had casually snuffed out. It was as if the woman had meant nothing to him at all. Essentially, to him, the victim was like a bug, simply something to be crushed underfoot.
Even with the incredible ring she wielded, Lena wasn't a brawler. She was a Luthor. Luthors resorted to brawling only when they might enjoy personally defeating their foes and seeing their battered bodies lying at their feet. Most of the time, particularly with super-powered enemies, Luthors defeated their opponents by using their minds.
So, now, she played for time while she carefully observed her foe, searching for a weakness. She created an energy construct battering ram and slammed it into his chest. She was able to knock him onto his ass for a short time only to see him pick himself up and continue his relentless advance toward her.
Finally, her scientist's eye noticed the continuous heaving of the man's stainless steel chest as he attempted to keep up his running battle with her.
Now the Luthor's superb mind formed an effective and efficient plan that brought a sinister smile to Lena's face that would have made Lillian proud.
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Supergirl's body had just begun to bleed off the excess heat of reentry when she flattened out her trajectory. She'd just exited the hyperbolic arc she'd taken that had allowed her to race from National City to the skies above the Big Apple in less than twenty minutes. Even though she'd raced along the edge of the upper atmosphere where she could see the curvature of the Earth, at any other time, her altitude would have likely caused her to relive her near death experience in space during the Myriad affair. Right now, though, the only thing on her mind was saving Lena.
Her focus on reaching her girlfriend's side was so intense, Kara almost missed seeing the rapid approach of emerald glory from the surface of the planet below.
Now Kara saw the love of her life slow her ascent, encased in her ever-present green energy shield while an energy construct clamp trailed behind her, holding fast the metal giant Kara had seen Lena battling on TV.
When she called out to her girlfriend, Lena glanced in her direction and smiled gently. "Darling! I missed you so much! What brings you to this neck of the woods?"
Exasperated, Kara slowly floated toward her dark angel. "You, you courageous idiot! When she floated closer, Lena willed her shield to allow Kara to phase through it. Kara then wrapped her lover in her arms while she choked back her tears. "When I saw him hit you like that on TV, I was so scared, baby."
"I'm so sorry, love. I promise to be more careful next time. I shouldn't have allowed my anger to get the best of me."
"I'm just glad you're okay." Then she studied the man suspended below them in Lena's construct. "He looks pretty dead to the world to me, babe."
"That was the plan," a pleased Lena noted. "When I realized his metal physiology really wasn't optimized to maintain any stamina, I dragged his metal ass to an altitude of fifty thousand feet, knowing he'd lose consciousness where the air is so thin."
"That was good thinking, Lena!"
"Thank you, love. Say, would you like to escort us back to the battle in the park?"
"I'd be delighted to be your escort anywhere, my lady. Do you want me to take this guy off your hands...so to speak?"
"I don't think that's a good idea, Kara. He's quite deadly. He killed a woman by simply touching her and turning her into a metal statue."
She hugged Lena close. "'I'm sorry both that you saw what he'd done and for that poor woman. But I'm invulnerable. I don't think his touch will do anything to me."
Lena drew back far enough to allow Kara to see her concerned eyes. "Even so, I'm unwilling to risk your life like that, baby."
Kara smiled warmly. When her bae was frightened on her behalf, all of Lena's formality was tossed out of the nearest window. "You won't have to risk my life, honey, if you place an energy shield around me, too!"
Her love grinned at her. "Now THAT I can do!"
Soon, both women were protected by glowing green shields. Moments later, Kara grabbed the unconscious villain by both arms and drawled, "Let's make like FedEx and deliver this special 'package' to its rightful owner!"
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Belle knew she had only one chance to survive this and she had no room for error.
The moment the blade began its descent, she slapped both of her palms together with all the strength and speed at her command. Fortunately, she managed to halt the edge of the blade an inch or so from the bridge of her nose.
Hunter's eyes widened in disbelief at the sight.
That was a deadly mistake on his part.
Now she raised both of her legs and fired a hard mule kick into his gut, separating the villain both from his axe and her by several yards.
Then she tossed the weapon aside, leaped onto her feet and raced toward her gasping foe. A moment later, she nailed him across the jaw with a solid left cross, immediately followed by a vicious right uppercut to his chin that put him down for the count.
Panting heavily, a bit worn out from combat she hadn't engaged in for ages, she reached down and pulled the cowl over the man's head. She found the fairly normal face of a young millennial who could have passed for one of the millions who work in corporate America. Shaking her head in disappointment at a life wasted on hate, she dragged the Neo-Nazi across the lawn by his loosened cowl and retrieved his axe. Then she dragged her unconscious prisoner over to where her daughter was standing and staring at the unusually immobile form of the White Dragon. Jesse appeared to be studying the armored man as if he were a statue on display inside the Met.
"Hi, mom!"
"Hi, yourself, sweetie," Libby said. Then she began to study the armored man just as her daughter had moments ago. "What did you do to him?"
Jesse grinned. "I used my speed to create enough friction with my hands that when I rubbed them against every joint in his armor, I caused the entire assembly to seize. So, as long as our mean old White Supremacist is stuck inside that armor, he won't be able to move a muscle."
"I see. I also noticed that you froze him so if he fired those plasma weapons of his, he'd strike his armor where his, shall we say, private parts happen to be."
"Yep," Jesse said with a pop to the 'p.'
"I always said you were a smart girl."
"Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the maternal tree...Liberty Belle."
Libby gave her daughter a heartfelt smile a moment before she observed two flying figures encased in green energy fields carrying a very limp steel-skinned hulk between them.
"Isn't that Supergirl with your friend Lena, sweetie?"
"Yep."
"What do you think they're going to do with that Reichsmark fellow?"
"I don't know but I'd bet my last dollar whatever they've come up with is going to be spectacular."
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Hancock grinned.
It was nice to have a chance to finally cut loose. Usually, most criminals he dealt with were pretty fragile in comparison to Mary and him.
On the one hand, this Captain Nazi guy wasn't really so tough. Sure, he was fairly strong and somewhat invulnerable, though nowhere near as strong or invulnerable as Superman. One time, about a year after he'd left Los Angeles for New York City, the Man of Steel and he had both been the victims of an unfortunate misunderstanding. After an hour long battle in the desert where no one else could get hurt, that Green Martian guy proved to both Superman and him that Lex Luthor had been the real culprit responsible for the attack on Fort Knox.
After that, Superman and he had become somewhat friendly toward the other except for that one time he'd made a comment about the Kryptonian's cousin being so hot, he'd do her in a heartbeat.
Obviously, he still had a lot of work to do on his social filters.
Now, though, he had no need of any filters as he stared at the tough guy wannabe crawling out of the softball field crater for the tenth time. Truth to tell, the man's tenacity had made quite an impression on Hancock. Despite the fact the guy was both a world-class asshole and a Grade A psychopath, he had to admit there wasn't an ounce of quit in this Captain Nazi guy.
"I-I'm not finished with you, Mein Herr!" Captain Nazi wheezed.
Hancock smiled. Finally! The man had dropped that 'mongrel' nonsense and was finally showing him some respect! "I don't know about that, Cap. Look at you! You can barely stand on your own two feet!"
"Nein," the Nazi denied. "I shall begin our battle in earnest again...once I catch my second wind."
Suddenly, above and behind the beaten villain, they heard the sexy purr of a woman's voice ask, "Why don't you catch this instead, Herr Nazi?"
Both men peered up into the sky and saw Green Lantern hover over them wearing a wry smirk on her masked face alongside a grinning Supergirl encased in an emerald shield like the Lantern's preparing to hurl the unconscious form of Reichsmark right at the personification of fascism. "Candy gram for Mister Nazi!"
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Once the dust had settled, Hancock supposed that after being slammed down inside the crater for the eleventh time was finally enough to put the caped villain down for the count. Now he glanced up at the pair of women who had supremely satisfied expressions on their faces and smirked. "Blazing Saddles? You know, that was totally badass for a pair of white girls!"
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"Colonel Lucy Lane, Homeland Security. We're here to take these terrorists into custody."
Supergirl smiled at her friend, the DEO assistant director in charge of East Coast operations. She'd called Alex and had asked her sister to give Lucy a call so her tiny friend could show up and take Captain Nazi and his crew off of the city's hands and transport the villains to a DEO facility that could hold them. "Hello, Colonel Lane."
"Hello, Supergirl. I guess we owe you our gratitude for saving the day once again."
"Actually, as I was saying to Captain Beckett," she indicated the tall, thin and beautiful woman who was dressed in skinny jeans, a turtleneck, a bulletproof vest, a pair of four inch high heeled boots and a holster on her shapely hip that was packing some serious heat standing in front of them glowering at the members of their little band of heroes. "I'd just made it here to see the very end of the fight. Liberty Belle, Jesse Quick, Hancock and Green Lantern were the ones who'd kept the villains mostly contained even though three people were killed before they'd engaged the terrorists."
Lane nodded to each hero. "Thank you all for what you did here today. Your government appreciates your actions. Now, I should supervise my people while they ensure these perps are properly restrained before we take them in."
"Wait a second, Colonel," Beckett snapped. "These animals killed two of my officers and a young woman who was a resident of my city. I think they should be placed in my custody until all the jurisdictional issues are sorted out."
Even though the other woman had almost six inches on Lucy, especially in those killer heels of hers, the DEO agent didn't back down a single inch. "Look, Captain, I'm sorry about what happened to your men and the woman. But let's be reasonable here. Two of these perps have tremendous superhuman strength. One of them can kill almost anyone with a single touch of his hand. You simply don't have the facilities that can keep the public safe from these men."
Now Beckett stepped into Lucy's personal space, causing a bemused smile to dawn on Hancock's face while Lena and Kara both whimpered lowly. "I'll concede the point as to both the crew cut guy and the metal man. However, the guy with the axe is a low level meta while the guy who'd been inside the armor until Supergirl none too gently removed him from it, is basically a normal. In addition, the armored guy was the one who'd killed my two officers, so, I...want...those…two...men…now, Colonel."
At that point, Lena must have noticed how hot and bothered Kara had become because the Green Lantern noisily cleared her throat and began to spout complete and utter bullshit. "Supergirl! We've got to go! Batman just called. He said we're needed!"
"Sorry, everyone," Kara announced, following her girlfriend's lead. "I'm afraid duty calls!"
"Ms. Quick, I hope to see you again soon. Mr. Hancock, I'll be in touch," Lena promised right before Kara and she took flight.
"Looking forward to it," Hancock yelled after the two women as they flew into the wild blue yonder.
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As the pair continued to gain altitude, they flew together closely, side-by-side.
A second later, a saucy smile formed on Kara's luscious lips. "Oh, Lena…seeing Lucy and Captain Beckett confront each other like that…it was…so…so…"
"Freaking hot!" Lena drawled.
"Yeah." Kara sighed wistfully.
Now, Lena used her ring to make them both invisible to the outside world. Then she turned her head and shot a smoldering look at her lover. "Kara, I'm so turned on right now, baby. Lord knows I've been patient, but…I really…really can't take it anymore. I need you badly, darling. I love you, Kara Zor-El."
"I love you, too, Lena Luthor. And, I need you; I want you, too."
"All right then. No more distractions. No more interruptions. No more foreplay. Kara, I'm taking you to a decadent hotel suite that has our names on it. I'm going to pay someone an obscene amount of money and that person is going to bring you enough food to take the edge off the hunger you must have after you flew all the way here to protect me, my love. After that, we're going to get naked then we're going to fuck like bunnies until the cows come home! That is, of course," Lena added because consent was so important to both women, "if that sounds good to you."
"Good?! That sounds freaking awesome!" Kara exclaimed. The lovers then lost themselves to the passionate kiss they now shared.
Once their lips had parted, they tenderly held each other close while Lena guided Kara to the five star hotel. Then a deeply emotional Kryptonian peered upward with a sense of reverence toward the point in the sky where she knew the star of her long dead home world was located and declared, "Blessed Rao, thank you! Thank you for making our dreams finally come true!"
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