Part 6 – Sins of the Creator
Luthor could feel the feather touch of invisible fingers running across his body; Ultragirl's psychokinesis, probing him.
"Did you think I would never wake up, Alexander?"
He had to destroy her now, before she became fully aware of who she was, were she was… and what she could do.
"Did you hope I would rot away, in the darkness?"
All he had to do was reach the remote he had brought, and then he could trigger her proto-matter form to reset itself. To become Template, the creature he had originally created.
"You think you have absolute power over me, don't you?" Ultragirl accused, spying the remote Luthor had produced from a compartment in his armour. "Just like every other man… like Byrne and my father."
Luthor dropped the remote as a sharp pain exploded in his wrist. Ultragirl had psychokinetically grabbed his hand. He refused to scream, to show any sign of pain, as she twisted the bones, grinding them against each other.
Ultragirl floated closer to him, so that she could reach out and touch his face. "I loved you, Alexander. You created me to."
She kissed him gently on the lips. "I still do," she whispered.
They kissed again, longer this time. For a second, Luthor almost forgot what he was dealing with. But only for a second. She bit his bottom lip with enough force to draw blood.
"But you always hurt the one you love, don't you Alexander?"
Casually she slapped him away, sending him sailing through the air. He landed on the grass a few metres away, rolled with the impact, and got back on his feet…
In time to catch a glimpse of Ultragirl as she crossed the distance between them in a millisecond.
With one hand, she dug her fingers deep into his body armour, until the tips pressed painfully into the flesh below. The other she balled into a fist and drew back, preparing to deliver a killing blow.
"I let you use me, Alexander. You, Ultraman… I was like a wind-up toy, a blow up doll you could all have your way with." She pushed her fingers deeper into his flesh, causing him to grimace.
"Well, that's all going to change. I'm a new woman now, Alexander. Demi Lee gave me strength, and Template gave me power."
Luthor struggled uselessly against the hand that gripped his chest. He had super strength, but Ultragirl's was staggering. Fuelled by the rage that boiled within her, she could have held him like that for days.
He wouldn't have to wait so long, though. She swung her fist forward, intending to take off his head with one blow.
"Goodbye, Alexander. I'll see you in Heaven."
Luthor steeled himself for the killing stroke…
…Which was never delivered.
He caught a glimpse of something red and white and moving fast that crashed into Ultragirl and sent her tumbling across the ground. When she came to a stop, the object was still moving at ultra speed, flickering in and out of Luthor's vision as it savagely attacked his former creation.
It was a white dog; powerfully built and dressed in a ridiculous crimson cape that somehow made its savagery all the more terrifying.
It was Neutro, the alpha-male of Ultraman's pack of genetically engineered ultra-dogs. And if the pack leader was here…
Luthor looked up, to see a swarm of ultra-dogs descending from the sky like bizarro birds of prey.