You may have noticed a slight change in the pairing (again) which means there will be more Heralds. There's one spot open in Harry's expanded harem but I'm mulling over a few options.
Chapter 53: Unleashed.
From the pits rose the menace in all of its fury as the members of the League of Shadows who had been left behind watched it exit. Their eyes when they stepped back before the assassins backed off away from the monster. The monster's eyes snapped with the savage menace that they expected before the destroyer moved forward and did not discriminate against who it attacked.
The cracking of limbs could be heard as the few members of the League of Shadows who had been left behind had been torn up by the monster's assault. They were flesh and bone, and stood no chance whatsoever.
"Move!" Batman yelled when the Dark Knight clicked the detonator for the explosives he set around the area of the pit.
A loud explosion echoed to loosen a slide of rocks and the ground. The monster was surprised from the attack as he staggered back. The rocks flew down to bury the monster as it tried to move forward. The avalanche of rocks fell down upon the monsters to try and crunch it. The Dark Knight stood and watched when Harry and Kara rushed forward to join him.
With a thunderous punch, the destroyer broke his way through the rocks and lifted his arms into the air before he gave a deep growl. Harry and Kara stepped back they could feel the bloodlust coming off of him as Batman put two pairs of brass knuckles on before he dove forward.
Batman smashed the destroyer with his pairs of brass knuckles before the destroyer had been smashed back. The destroyer blocked his attacks and flung his enemy back hard like he was nothing. The World's Greatest Detective dropped down to the ground with a sickening thud and the monster advanced forward in his attempt to crush the Dark Knight.
Harry and Kara aimed all of the power that they could to blast the monster with a pair of energy beams. The destroyer was lifted high off of the ground and smashed back through the walls of the underground cave. The two Heralds of Death took a breath before they cracked their knuckles and stepped back.
They zoomed at the destroyer at super speed, he must not escape this temple and be allowed in the outside world. Harry and Kara summoned the busted rocks and transfigured them into razor sharp daggers.
"NOW!" Harry yelled as they sent them at the monster at rapid fire fury and setting the daggers on fire. The flaming daggers flew towards the monster to try and rip through him.
The destroyer staggered back when the knives stabbed through the destroyer at super speed. The monster staggered as it burned into his skin to cause him a great deal of agony, the misery continued to burn through him. He sensed these two as a threat, but it was faint and he would destroy it to show his superiority. The monster stepped forward and swung wildly at his enemies, furiously as he continued to swing for the fences.
The destroyer knocked Harry back with a punch before the monster reached over and grabbed Kara around the head. Kara's arms and legs swung back and forth as the destroyed tried to crush her skull like an eggshell through savage fury. The grip constricted around her head the more she thrashed and kicked her legs but the monster was not about to let up. In fact, the blonde Herald of Death felt a splitting headache coming on when she tried to overpower her dangerous adversary.
Harry rolled over and made a motion through his way but Kara was able to break free with a violent flip kick to the face of the destroyer. The destroyer staggered a few steps back before Kara's eyes began to glow with savage fury. She unleashed the heat vision into the head of the destroyer.
Kara's eyes burned a hole through the destroyer's head as it seared through the top of his head and burned directly into his brain in an attempt to lobotomize him. The searing heat fried through the top of his head as she cut into his cerebral cortex. It might seem to be a little extreme but desperate times called for desperate actions.
Harry and Kara held their hands together and summoned the full force of their power towards them before they blasted a bright blast of golden light towards the destroyer. The destroyer was hoisted hard up the ground before he smashed down to the ground with a thunderous crack. The two heralds of Death dropped to the ground as they recovered from using so much of their power to blast him hard.
That attack should be been powerful enough to reap him and send him into the afterlife. At least that was the theory that the two Heralds worked with. However, things were not that easy, it was never that easy as the monster rose up to a standing position. The top of his head began to heal itself over when he turned to look at Harry and Kara as he registered the pair of them as a threat. The monster took a step forward as it continued its rampage of destruction.
"We can't kill him," Kara breathed frantically as she looked at Harry, feeling a bit of something atone to fear at this point.
The two Heralds tried to work quickly, in their attempt to defeat the monster, to slay him before time ran out.
"We should be able to send him somewhere else, hopefully," Harry responded when he grabbed hands with his fellow Herald and wife as they smiled and shifted their gaze, determined and ready to strike.
The destroyer picked up a huge chunk of rock and hurled it at Harry and Kara. They stopped it from hitting them with a concussive blast from both of their hands before they aimed a second powerful concussive blast at the monster. While the blasts destroyed the rocks it barely put a dent in the destroyer.
The monster staggered around but a blur flew in from high above and punched the destroyer hard in the face with all of her might. A rapid fire series of punches and kicks connected to the destroyer to back him and forth.
Karen showed up and joined Kara and Harry, with the three Heralds standing side by side.
"Late as always," Kara remarked when she shook her head before the three Heralds stood side by side and aimed all of their power at the monster.
"No matter what, Doomsday cannot get out of here and into the world!" Karen yelled and Harry responded with a nod.
The trio of them knew exactly what was at stake as they summoned the full blast of their powers. Three energy scythes appeared from the three of their hands. Perhaps three Heralds could succeed where the two failed. Kara, Karen, and Harry summoned the full force of their powers before they nailed Doomsday hard.
The concussive blast of their powers sent Doomsday flying head over heels before he landed on the ground with a huge crash. Doomsday rolled over when he deflated from the impact but he was going to get up. There was no two ways about it, they had to go, now.
Batman was picked up by Kara and a look of annoyance crossed over his face when he was being trafficked out of there like a child. Karen and Harry kept blasting energy bolts towards Doomsday, to slow him down and the three Heralds blew out of the temple at super speed.
The temple began to collapse upon Doomsday to hopefully bury him deep underground, with Harry, Kara, and Karen picking up more and more super speed. They could not even take a breath, the friction tore at their clothes and Batman sent a grapple hook to swing away out of the grip of Kara.
The temple began to collapse upon itself to send smoke up in the air. The dust began to settle as the three Heralds exchanged a tense look with none of them wanting to say a word. The three of them shook their heads when they recovered as they collapsed to the ground.
"Did we win?" Karen managed as she collapsed onto Harry's shoulder as the dark haired Herald of Death held her up. In the chaos, she dropped her crystal but now was not the time to worry about that. She was sure she could find it later.
Harry checked the lifeline reading for Doomsday but cursed himself, when he had dipped in the Lazarus Pit it had turned him from half red and half gold to full gold. Now he was untouchable by the Heralds, with Kal-El being the only one who could take him down. That served to be an annoyance to them as they tried to regain their bearings. There was nothing any of them could do, so they never felt so helpless in their lives.
Of course, there were always loopholes as hopefully the three of them had softened up Doomsday a little bit so Kal-El could go in for the kill. Karen in particular doubted if he could handle the power of Doomsday, but even Harry and Kara had more than their fair share of doubts. They had seen the fury and felt the power; there was no question about how dangerous Doomsday wa
Kal-El sensed something happening throughout the world, as he tapped into powers that he never thought that he would have. And powers that he would never even have if he had remained holding onto his human identity. Once Clark Kent had been purged from his mind, the Last Son of Krypton understood everything quickly, there was so much more that he could do, he had been kept back. His full potential was held back by some force, something that Kal-El had thought of long and hard.
It was Jor-El who had blocked his powers but Kal-El had the last laugh when he had blocked the presence of both Jor-El and his mother in the Fortress. The two of them had remained silence with neither of them able to speak at this point with Raya having convinced him to not delete them. Kal-El thought that was the best for they would understand that he would succeed where they would fail.
He prepared the weapon that he managed to create in less than twenty minutes, thanks to his amplified intelligence and super powers. His powers had made him a literal god and with those foolish inhibitions that had been given to him by his human upbringing embraced, Kal-El could embrace his full potential.
It was time for him to take Karen's words to heart, to stop pretending to be a human, because he was far from one.
The Destroyer was on his way and a grin crossed over Kal-El's face when he shook his head when he double checked the calculations. Sure enough, all calculations had been tabulated as it should be and the Nova Javelin would be launched into the city where the destroyer rampaged towards. Everything would be taken down in a world shattering fury and the Destroyer would be annihilated.
The javelin would destroy everything that it touched as well as the Destroyer, as well as this Doomsday. The Last Son of Krypton prepared to arm the weapon as he regretted the necessity of what had to be done but regret was such a human emotion. It was one that he had to get rid of as he tried to shake his head and get these emotions away from him. Time was not a luxury he had so there was that.
Raya watched Kal-El with a frown, this was something that Jor-El did not want his son to become. He was supposed to be a protector that was sent here to help protect the entire world from the dangerous forces. That was the destiny that Jor-El had in in mind, only the best intentions for his son. Instead, Kal-El was about to become a bigger destroyer than the destroyer.
She made her move before she super sped at Kal-El when his back was turned. With a swift movement, Raya sent Kal-El into the side of the wall with all of the strength she could muster. Kal-El bounced back as his eyes snapped into her face and a dangerous expression flickered into his eyes when he turned to Raya. He was about to threaten her but Raya grabbed him around the wrists and held him in place with her strength.
"I'm afraid, I can't allow you to do this, Kal-El," Raya said as she was thrown back hard by Kal-El's strength.
Lana showed up just in time to see Kal-El throw Raya halfway across the Fortress of Solitude. She took a deep breath when she looked at Clark when she shook her head before she took a step back and adjusted herself.
'Sorry Clark, but this is going to hurt me a lot more than it hurts you,' Lana responded when she rushed at Clark in super speed.
Clark spun around and blocked Lana's attempt to grab him from behind. Lana tried to overwhelm Clark with her strength but there was something about the pit's effects that enabled her. Lana struggled on her feet as her legs buckled when Clark's strength was overwhelming her. This threw her completely off her game.
"Clark, Clark, stop!" Lana begged him but Clark pushed Lana back.
"You shouldn't get involved," Kal-El said as he looked at this woman.
"Well if you want to stop me, then hit me!" Lana yelled as she tried to goad Kal-El into doing something but there was a flicker of something that resembled Clark Kent in Kal-El's eyes. He clutched his fists as he looked at her. "Clark, I know you're in there somewhere."
"Clark Kent is dead!" Kal-El yelled as he turned around and closed his eyes before he jumped up to fly away without another word from Lana.
Lana could have gone after Clark but she shook her head, there was something that she had to do before she went after Clark. Her eyes flickered over to the console of the Fortress of Solitude as the weapon was launching and would blow into Metropolis about one minute after it was launched. The dark haired girl stepped over to the console and took a deep breath.
Thankfully, Lana had the knowledge to shut down the weapon before it launched that was downloaded in her mind but would she have enough time? Not to mention Clark had encrypted the launch codes so she had to figure those out. Things never were easy, that much Lana had found out for sure.
At the speed of light, Lana tried to break through the codes, but she kept getting locked out again. Clark was about to send a super powered alien nuke at a populated city so he could just destroy this Doomsday. This was not like the Clark Kent that she knew, but Lana had to remind herself that this thing was not like the Clark Kent she knew. He was a twisted reflection that had been warped by the Lazarus Pit.
She bit her lip as she continued to type in, the countdown was at thirty and counting. Sweat began to roll down Lana's face as she was in the pleasure cooker and time was running out. She wanted to pull her hair out but she did not have any time.
"Come on, come on," Lana pleaded with the weapon as she widened her eyes and tried one last ditch effort to get through.
She screwed her eyes shut, to brace herself for what was to come next.
Kal-El hovered several miles out of the city of Metropolis when he waited for the big boom to happen but his ear had picked up something. The something he picked up was most certainly not to his taste as he scowled. Lana disabled the weapon at the last second possible for it was launched. The Kryptonian hovered in the air as he moved back and forth before he looked down upon the ground.
A loud thunderous crash echoed when Kal-El sensed it was coming. This complicated things far more than one could ever imagine. He did not want to engage the monster toe to toe; fighting an enemy face to face was such a human thing to do. It defied everything that a true Kryptonian was, he had come to that realized as he embraced more and more what it fully meant to be a Kryptonian. Such a battle lacked a great deal of logic and now Kal-El backed off in the air before he flew back to face Doomsday.
Doomsday and Kal-El went face to face in the city streets of Metropolis before Doomsday raised his arms in a sadistic manner before he rushed forward. The monster's eyes filled with the fury of a blood night when he moved to engage Kal-El.
Kal-El dodged out of the way at super speed and Doomsday turned around but Kal-El raised his arms into the air before he smashed Doomsday down across the top of the head. The monster staggered before Kal-El summoned a full breath and blew at the top of his lungs.
His super breath sent Doomsday flying backwards halfway across the city before the monster spiraled head over heels. Doomsday crashed down to the ground as Kal-El hoisted Doomsday up into the air before he flew into the air hard and fast as he could. The friction ripped at these human clothes but Kal-El could not care about that. There was one thing on his mind and that was to put the monster in the ground, permanently.
A super-sonic punch smashed Doomsday in the head and another supersonic punch rattled Doomsday hard and long. A ballistic flurry of lefts and rights stung the monster but his healing abilities shrugged off the attacks. Kal-El found the monster's hands around his throat as he felt his strength falter just a slight bit but he ignored it.
Kal-El fell out of the air when his flight had failed him and Doomsday dropped down to the ground. He would not do it, he would not lose his Kryptonian self but rather he backed up and at super speed he knocked Doomsday back long and hard.
As the fight was going on, Lois Lane watched from the Daily Planet windows with an awestruck expression on her face. Suddenly, certain things flooded back to her to the extent where it overwhelmed her and almost made her pass out. Her eyes widened as things slowly clicked in her mind that had been lost over the past number of weeks. Lois grabbed the side of the window and dug her fingers into the side of the window before she turned her gaze back outside.
Everything made so much sense to Lois now more than ever before and she recalled her brief stint with powers. She and Clark were going to have a talk when this was over but right now she saw that the battle had left the streets of Metropolis. Lois could not help but watch the sadistic carnage that had been presented not unlike a car crash that one could not look away from.
Kal-El and Doomsday meanwhile soured high into the sky away from the city and into the country as they continued to exchange super-powered punches that sounded like cannons going off. The Star Child and the Destroyer battled high above the sky just as it had been written in the stars when their punches having continued to connect with sadistic fury. The intensity picked up with each passing moment.
With a smash, Doomsday cracked hard into the ground. The miniature earthquake could be felt all through Metropolis as Kal-El rolled over and held up his hands that had been scrapped when he turned around. The ravages of battle could be felt but he pushed himself past any limits that he had been imposed with before. Kal-El breathed heavily before he summoned all of his power as he flew around the Earth all of the way at super speed.
Doomsday looked up and Kal-El came back from the other side having circled around to the globe three sixty with his fist outstretched. The punch smacked Doomsday directly in the face before he flew down into the ground and now Kal-El grabbed him hard around the head, before he jumped up again.
With swift precision Doomsday was hoisted high into the ground with Kal-El bringing him high up into space before he spun around and then he sent him back down to Earth in a flash. Doomsday had been planted hard into the ground like a tree with a thunderous smash and in fact several trees had been snapped when the two fighters connected with the ground.
Kal-El and Doomsday laid in a crater in the Earth when the dust had cleared and the monster pulled himself up. The two clashed with each other with Kal-El having nailed Doomsday with a huge punch. Another punch smashed into Doomsday hard before Kal-El hoisted Doomsday high into the air before he grabbed him high up.
The Kryptonian sat out with a huge Muscle Buster type move which caused Doomsday to sink into the Earth, being driven deep underground.
Kal-El pulled himself out of the crater as he cringed when he had felt blood being drawn. He tried to get up and fly away but he found himself blasted out of the sky with three bolts of identical magical energy. Kal-El tried to push back through the energy bolts but this effort was all for naught for he grew weaker, weaker, weaker, until he landed on the ground hard.
Head over heels Kal-El flew backwards and crashed down to the ground. He saw three figures hover in the air above the moonlight before one of them held a medallion over him. Kal-El recognized the medallion as the one thing that could threaten his powers but there was no stopping what was going to happen.
Harry pointed the medallion over Kal-El and hoped by purging all of the yellow solar radiation from him, this would reset him back into Clark Kent. The power battery was drained completely as Clark dropped to the ground with the impact. He took a deep breath as he looked down at Clark.
Kara moved in as she scooped up Clark and sped him back to the Kent Farm so he could recover. Harry activated the ear piece that he had on.
"Lana, Clark's fine," Harry told her over the communication link.
"What about Doomsday?" Lana asked Harry, her voice shook only slight but she recovered immediately. "Please tell me that Clark defeated him after all we went through tonight."
There was a moment where Harry paused long and hard before he collected his thoughts and he responded to Lana.
"He's still around, but he's half and half again," Harry answered before he elaborated. "He was all gold like Clark, which meant we can't kill him. Now he's half red and half gold."
"It's going to be Clark's monster to slay," Lana responded as she shook her head.
"Not alone, but yes he'll have to deal the crushing blow," Harry stated when he took a moment to recover. This had been a tense night all things considered. "I just hope that it's not at a great price."
Lana did not know what Harry meant but she had to know that it was not going to be good. With this entire Doomsday mess things were going to get a bit harder.
Harry turned around as he saw Karen fly off at that point, but that just seemed to be a standard issue with her. They would have to have a talk sooner than later but Harry had other things that he wanted to figure out.
"Chloe, Clark's fine," Harry said as he switched frequencies on the earpiece.
"Oh, thank God," Chloe said as she breathed when she had heard Harry's news.
"Don't thank him yet, Doomsday's not done yet," Harry told her when he walked away in a funk before he down and tried to track the monster. Yet he saw something else, he sensed something far more dangerous than Doomsday lurking in the offing. His bad luck just would not leave him alone. "Damn it."
"What's wrong?" Chloe asked to Harry over the communication link.
Harry collected his thoughts for a bit before he responded whilst he brushed his hair form his eyes.
"It's not over," Harry told Chloe in a cryptic voice. "It's just started. I'll see you at home. I need to get back in the Shining Light Foundation."
"Do you want me to meet you there?" Chloe asked at that point.
"If you want to go check up on Clark first, that'd be fine, but your help is appreciated," Harry said as he turned off to look into the sky.
The night looked oddly peaceful, the kind of night that was the calm before the storm.
Clark's eyes flickered open when he shook his head. It was not for the first time in recent memory that he had woken up without any memories. In fact, this seemed to be a disturbingly recurring theme that Clark was unable to shake that he should not have to deal with. His head shook as he tried to push himself up.
"Clark, it is you, isn't it Clark?" Lana asked as she hovered over Clark. She really hoped that he was back because that thing that he had been warped into was not something that she thought she could stomach.
"Yes, of course it's me, Lana, who else would I be?" Clark asked in confusion with Lana offering him a bit of a smile. "What happened?"
"You fell in one of those pits, remember those?" Lana asked before Clark answered with a brisk nod. "It twisted your mind but you're all better now."
Lana proceeded to explain everything that happened to Clark and Clark had grown rather frustrated when he had heard what nearly happened. Had Lana not been able to shut down that weapon that he prepared, who knew what was going to happen. Clark had an idea that it was not going to be a fun time for the world and she had found a new way to protect him, this time from himself. Who really knew what would happen, that was something that Clark mulled over in his mind constantly.
Actually Clark had a good idea, there might be a little bit of a problem. He looked at Lana for an extremely long time as he tried to determine what he was going to say. Clark shook his head when he looked at her with Lana's hand on his.
"Thank you, Lana, I guess you protected me in more ways than one," Clark said as he looked rather grateful and Lana just smiled at him.
"Yes, and you flew," Lana responded with a smile and Clark had got up immediately. "Clark, don't try and strain yourself!"
Clark had only half-listened to Lana as he pulled himself back to his feet to stagger to the left, a bit punch drunk when he shook his head from side to side. This was news that he could get behind, but the problem was how to get it to happen when he was not under the influence.
"That's proof that I should have those powers," Clark answered as he exited the Kent Farm and he tried to take a running start and take flight.
Sure enough Clark jumped into the air but as he tried to fly, he crashed down onto the ground. Lana tried not to be too amused at his antics before she shook her head and helped Clark up to his feet.
"Clark, don't get too discouraged," Lana told him in a firm voice.
True to form, Clark did in fact get discouraged as he took a deep breath.
"If I could fly when I was under the effects of the Pit, I should be able to fly, something's blocking my powers," Clark said as he looked up into the sky. "The Pit made me pure enough to fly…"
"The pit drove you insane," Lana argued when she looked at Clark with a serious expression in her eyes. She feared that Clark was going to do something rather drastic and needed to stop him before he did. "Clark, swear to me that you're never going to seek out that pit, no matter what."
Clark had seemed reluctant to give Lana his word for too long but a smile crossed his face when he saw the firm look in her eyes. The two stared at each other as the wind blew over the fields. It was a beautiful night in Smallville.
"Okay, Lana, but I can't believe that I flew," Clark answered as he wondered what about the Lazerus Pit had made him think differently. "What about the destroyer, what about Doomsday…"
"Harry said he's still out there," Lana offered as she interrupted Clark, but Clark's cell phone had gone off.
"Hello?" Clark answered when he looked rather tense but shook his head.
"Clark, we need to talk, Daily Planet, right now," Lois responded at that point. "I saw you outside and I remembered everything."
Lana and Clark exchanged a rather apprehensive expression, they wondered if this day would come.
"Lana and I will be right over," Clark said to Lois.
"Great, we can be a threesome," Lois responded in a cheerful voice, a term that caused Clark to stagger a little bit and nearly fall over his feet.
Thankfully Lana was quick enough to be able to catch him and with another motion, Lana scooped up Clark. Clark braced himself for what was to come as Lana jumped into the sky towards the Daily Planet with Clark in her arms.
It was up, up, and away from there.
Raya observed them silently, and nodded with a smile. She wondered if Lana would fill in all of the details to Kal-El what happened. It was not entirely bad if she had to be honest with herself.
Elsewhere in Metropolis Karen flew high above the sky to the outside of the Shining Light Foundation. She mulled certain matters over in her mind ever since that she had her encounter with Harry all of those weeks ago at Luthorcorp. While she was not a firm believer of destiny, Karen thought that there were just a certain amount of times where things just felt right. Karen flew towards the building.
She saw her two fellow Heralds of Death in the Shining Light Foundation as a smile had crossed over her face. With a movement, Karen wrapped her knuckles on the window on the office on the top floor. There was a pause before Karen waited for them to answer at that moment.
Harry walked over and opened the window to allow Karen inside. He looked at her but Karen flew inside and threw her arms around Harry as she slid inside. She calmed herself down for a minute before she spoke to her fellow to Heralds of Death.
"So, I've done some things that I'm not proud of when I've been here," Karen commented when she looked at them, her shoulders slumped when she shifted guiltily. "And while I still think that Kal-El should man up a little bit and take control of his own life, I do think that there is a chance that he could go too far as we saw today."
"Yeah, there is," Kara agreed when she looked back at her double before she backed off from Harry and gave a long sigh. "But these are matters we can talk about later, and believe me we need to talk."
"I know," Karen said to Harry and Kara as she slumped against the wall before she just though about everything that had happened and there was a lot that happened.
There was a long moment where the awkward silence happened as guilt ate away at Karen. There was something that drove her to act in the ways she did and it was just then where she realized just how messed up she was. Her bright blue eyes found their way on Harry and Kara for a very long time before she spoke.
"You need to understand what happened, and I need to get something off of my chest," Karen said as she leaned against the wall before Harry offered her a chair. Gratefully Karen took it as she sat down.
"And it's just as well you came around because we might need your help," Kara chimed in and at this statement Karen grew quite curious.
The three of them had been at odds several times and had worked together at others, but it just seemed like they were on different pages. Yet, the more time passed, the more that they wished to get together and step forward into the light to face anything. They might not be able to take down Doomsday, given how Death dicked them around on matters like this.
However being the Heralds of Death, there was so much they could do the help guide Clark, as long as they stood together.
A figure laid in a cornfield somewhere in the countryside as he was splattered in an immense amount of blood. He shuddered when he woke up. The last thing he remembered he was abducted and then he was here.
Davis Bloome rested in the field and there was something that was completely different amount him, there were flashes that appeared in his mind. Flashes flickered through his head about a beast that had taken over his body when the Lazarus Pit had flooded into him, with every single cell of his body having been saturated and changed. He was far more dangerous than he could ever even believed.
Bloome shook himself as he saw a pickup truck show up at the edge of the field. He actually heard it far before it had shown up but naturally his mind did not really process it all that much. The man got up and he felt a savage fury bubble deep within him. There was only one flicker that had gone through his mind.
'Rip, tear, kill, maim.'
Those words repeated themselves like some demented mantra that caused Davis to twist more and more around the bend like a knife had been stabbed deep within himself. The footsteps could be heard as the farm couple had gotten closer and closer to check him.
Davis mentally flashed back to a figure being found in the field by a group of uniformed personnel. They had found him to think that he was some kind of savior, some kind of traveler, and had taken him in for observation.
Everything just went back to a cornfield and a shower of green fire, but what that exactly entailed, he did not more. He did not know at all and Davis pulled himself up when the young man had shined a light in his head.
"Are you alright there?" the farmer asked as he shined the light.
He pulled himself up as he did not have a stich of clothing on him before Davis got up with the farmer looking him right in the eye. Davis felt the urge to murder, the monster needed blood or it would break out again to destroy everyone. The destroyer would kill far more people to lead to a literal doomsday.
Bloome got to his feet and knew what he must do to satisfy the bloodlust. He grabbed the farmer around the neck and with surprisingly strength snapped his neck back. The farmer landed down on the ground with a thud.
His wife screamed but a hand to her mouth silenced her. She tried to struggle against the grip of Bloome but the harder that she struggled, the more Bloome suffocated her until the air had been pushed out of her. The eyes rolled in the back of her head as she dropped down to the back.
Davis felt satisfied as did the monster within for now but how long would it last? Or would it even last, that was the question that he asked mentally. Davis walked off as the two dead bystanders had been knocked out. A chill could be felt through the air as he walked off.
"We tracked it to Afghanistan when we found it in the wreckage, not a scratch. I want to know why."
Tess held a glowing crystal in her hand and had her people at Luthorcorp hook it up to the computers. No substance on Earth would be able to survive that damage. There was an instant where she waited, watched, and hoped for the best.
There was nothing at all after nearly an hour despite the efforts of her best people to scan the crystal. It did not get a blip even at all.
Tess spun around and walked off, another disappointment but the rumors of what happened in Metropolis piqued her interest. As did three villages in the Middle East that vanished off the face of the map, almost like they never existed at all.
The moment Tess left, the computer screens flickered to life. A symbol of three dots in an upside triangle flashed with strange symbols on the screen.
There was a download in process.
"Soon, Kal-El, not even your Herald of Death protector will be able to stop Doomsday from coming. I manipulated the girl into accelerating his descent by attacking him whilst inflaming her mind to act in an irrational manner and now the job will be finished. The House of El will fall. The BrainInteractive Construct will fulfill the core objective from the House of Zod."
Slowly, subtly, Brainiac of Earth-2 infected the Luthorcorp computers.
To Be Continued in the Next Arc "Crisis."