Chapter 3

Lois sighed in irritation as she noticed that once again Steve Lombard, one of the Planets newly hired sports writers was ogling her. The man was a flirt, had an ego that matched the size of his over large arms, and would not take no for an answer. And while she had become slightly used to his ways of flirting with her, she couldn't stand the way that he attempted to belittle Clark.

The man knew that she and Clark had recently announced their engagement, yet he still felt the need to try and prove that Clark was the wrong man for her and he was the right. Even telling her that if she ever wanted a "real man" all she'd need to do was ask. She'd responded that she did, that she didn't want to associate with "teenagers". He hadn't exactly liked that comment. Lois could have cared less.

And yet, Clark seemed to take every comment sent his way. Lois assumed that it was from years of practice. However even Clark had reached his limit when he had made a pass at her one day. He had heated one of the legs on Lombard's chair so much that it had bent when he was leaning in it, causing the man to fall and spill his coffee all over himself. Lois had laughed for the rest of the day every time she saw the man.

"I got no problem with you Troupe, I've just got a problem with people that cause problems with sports." Steve said as he glared across the conference table at Ron Troupe.

"And I've got no problem with sports as long as high school coaches aren't juicing teenagers." Ron argued back.

"Lombard, Troupe quiet. Troupe, good work." Perry said to which Ron nodded gratefully. "Lane, Kent, how's that article on Luthors return to Metropolis coming along?"

"Should have it to you in the next hour or two chief." Lois said as she gritted her teeth. Just thinking of Lex made her skin crawl.

"Good, good." Perry nodded. He turned his attention then to Cat who was passing a tin can of her cookies around and was about to open his mouth when a giant BOOM sounded from outside.

Startled, everyone jumped from their seats and quickly made their way towards the window to find the source of the noise. What they saw startled everyone. A giant vortex had opened up in the middle of the sky and there were things that were making their way out of it, flying, and leaping to the ground.

Lois turned towards Clark, her eyes wide and questioning but he wasn't where he had been. She turned toward the doors to see him making his way quickly towards the doors. A small smile over took her features as she saw him rip his shirt open revealing the red and yellow S bellow. "Go get them Smallville." She said quietly so no one could hear.

People were running all over the place. Panic seemed to have over taken the entire city. Parademons were swooping down on the people, causing destruction where ever they went. Some that had escaped the Parademons were unlucky enough to meet the Female Furies. Lashina would pull them back towards her while Mad Harriet would slice them up with her claws. Stompa, the behemoth of a woman destroyed the streets as she made her way through the people, slamming cars into the building and sending the people flying.

This was the scene that Clark found himself in as he flew from the roof of the Planet. Every where that he looked he found destruction. Every where he looked he found death. There were far too many of them for himself to deal with alone. But that didn't mean that he wasn't going to do what was needed of him.

He dropped from the sky right into the middle of the Furies creating a shockwave that sent everyone in the vicinity to their knees and the street beneath him to crumble. Quickly making his way to his feet he charged the largest of the three and sent her flying with one mighty punch.

As he turned around he felt a whip wrap itself around his neck and tug himself back. Taking a hold of the whip he pulled his assailant towards him and into a neighboring building. "Ha-ha-hee! Darkseids will, Darkseids way." Mad Harriet shrieked as she sliced into the back of Superman. Just as he was about to turn around and get the woman off of him a he noticed an arrow fly past his vision and embedded itself in her shoulder. The next second a kick sent the final Female Fury flying.

Clark looked back up the street to see the his cousin was floating in mid air surrounded by the Justice League and Justice Society. "The Cavalry has arrived." Bart said as he saluted Clark.

Clark nodded in thanks as Diana held out her hand to help him up. He nodded in thanks to those assembled, to which everyone responded in kind, even Bruce. With the help of those assembled they could possibly win, this battle.