Chapter 54: Crisis Part One. (Alternate Title: Power Girl or We Are Legion).

Karen felt guilt wash over her body, after everything that happened; she was surprised that the other two Heralds welcomed her with open arms. Tonight's events were a wakeup call for what might have happened if Kal-El had shut his emotions off completely like she initially wanted. It was a dire sight as Clark had indulged himself in the more twisted aspects of the House of El and their bloodline.

The House of El had been an interesting lineage filled with more disturbed and depraved individuals than there were noble hearts. While Karen did not trust Jor-El to say the very least, she had to admit that he was one of the more decent individuals that came out of the House of El. Not that was anything to write home about, but Karen's mind was far clearer than it ever was before now she lost the crystal. The blonde Kryptonian spent a number of moments to contemplate everything that had transpired.

A chair offered to her was taken at the speed of light and Kara and Harry sat down in front of her.

"I suppose I should start with apologizing for everything that I've done, but the Herald of Death powers, they overwhelmed me and I didn't have the best life to begin with," Karen managed with a sigh. Her eyes screwed shut when she took a moment to contemplate her lot in life before she returned her gaze to her two fellow Heralds. "Kal-El…Clark, whatever, I might have been a bit harsh on him."

"Just a bit, yes," Kara said when she looked at Karen with a smile crossing her face.

"You can't deny that you're a bit underwhelmed by his progress," Karen responded and Kara looked back at her for a little bit before she decided to give her honest assessment on the situation.

"I would have at least thought Kal-El would have flown by now but I think that the fact is that he hasn't completely embraced his heritage. And that is for one simple reason, Jor-El's heavy handed approach and constant harping on Clark might have done more harm than good. My aunt is trying to temper Jor-El and prepare Clark the best she can, but Aunt Lara wishes in part that she had been there to guide Clark since the beginning."

"She was always the more level headed of the two," Karen remarked tensely when her eyes flickered against the clock. "Eight long years imprisoned, that really did a number on me."

"What happened?" Harry asked Karen. This inquiry gave Karen a moment's pause before she collected her thoughts and answered. Her hands placed against the chair allowed a brace for when she looked into Harry's eye, feeling she could trust him beyond all others.

"I came here to Earth just like this universe's Kara did. My ship was trapped in the dam for years, but I broke out. I found out that my cousin had been raised, not by Jonathan and Martha Kent, but by Lionel Luthor."

Harry let out the breath he was holding but he wondered where Karen had fit into this. Sure enough, she was not going to hesitate to tell him. Karen pressed on with the story as she figured that it would be just that much easier.

"I saw Lionel for the snake that he was but I was overwhelmed and captured, kept in a room underneath red solar ramps for days on end, experimented on. I had Kryptonite injected into my blood stream so Lionel could learn more about the secrets of Krypton and the universe, his lust for control was unbelievable."

Karen choked a little bit so Harry wrapped an arm around her, a gesture that she appreciated. There was something about Harry's touch that soothed her and welcomed her, at least for a little bit. The blonde closed her eyes tightly before she continued.

"For years and years, they conducted all of these experiments on me, but I tried to remain calm, thinking that I could still save him, still save Clark from Lionel, but that was when he showed up. The other child Lionel adopted. His name was Harrison…Harrison Luthor."

Harry had a really bad feeling about this as did Kara but both did not say anything for now. Karen took that as the cue to continue to talk to both of them and she did with a heavy heart.

"I was enamored by Harrison, most women were, and he had most women, before he threw them to the side like a used gum. He claimed that they were all nothing to him, that I was the one that he was destined to rule the world with, to rule all of the galaxies. He promised me that if I agreed to be with him forever, he'd kill Lionel and save Kal-El. I almost believed him but then he killed Kal-El, to make sure that I had no distractions from him. After he had ruined Kal-El's life by exposing where he came from, even though the two were raised as brothers. That didn't mean much in the house of Luthor."

Karen now had her head buried in Harry's shoulder as Harry now knew how he had figured in during that alternate world. Harry realized how lucky he had been with the Dursleys now, especially if the alternative had been being raised by Lionel Luthor. He shuddered to think of the implications. Kara looked from Harry to Karen as she felt a stirring in her heart and felt bad for Karen.

"He had all of your powers, and none of your heart," Karen managed when she looked at Harry. Harry was taken again as Karen wrapped her arms around Harry tightly and pressed up against him. "I know that Harrison Luthor was born Harry Potter of my home dimension, but through Lionel's conditioning, he got twisted into something else, something sadistic."

"I find it hard to believe that Death would allow this," Kara chimed in but Karen's eyes remained on Kara's for an instant.

"Death did not allow anything, for Harrison Luthor is Death as far as that universe was concerned," Karen said when she managed to regain her composure. Kara now added her arms around Karen to comfort the poor girl. "He's far more dangerous, and this universe's version of Death sent for me, because she feared that he would discover other worlds or worse, you would become like him."

"Harry will never become like him," Kara responded in a firm voice as she expressed confidence in her voice.

Karen did agree but there was a problem, if Harrison Luthor could breach the dimensional barrier somehow, he could take over this version of Earth. He was that powerful, there was no question about it and posed a graver threat to the entire multiverse than most.

"He's over in your world right," Harry stated and Karen nodded slowly, as the mage slowly kissed the tears away from the blonde Herald of Death.

"But I can still see him, he's a monster, and that's not a word that I throw around lightly," Karen stated when she got up to her feet. "But now, we have to work together. I've been stubborn but now I have to work together. The three of us, we're the Heralds of Death and we need to protect Kal-El until the time where he's ready to step into his role. Whether it's one year or a hundred, that's the mission that we have been tasked with."

Harry and Kara agreed, this was what they had been sent here for. They would be there to pull Clark out of the fire no matter how many times it took.

"We found something, a gravestone with symbols on it," Kara chimed in when she remembered it from all of those months back. "It needs three of us."

"The key of eternity, the one means that the Herald of Deaths can use to resurrect one life without any consequence," Karen said and Kara and Harry nearly jumped out of their seat but stayed calm. Harry asked the next question when his gaze focused upon Karen's face.

"One time per person or one time per the three of us?"

"Good question actually," Karen answered with a shrug.

That was going to be something that they were going to have to look up at another time but right now there was something that caught their attention. At this very instance, blinding flashes of light could be seen outside the door outside of Metropolis and a blinding white light erupted with a flash.

Karen, Kara, and Harry watched the blinding lights with their mouths a gap when they leaned towards the window. They were so focused on this that they did not even see Chloe show up.

"Hey guys…whoa, what's that?"

Chloe's eyes widened, completely awestruck, before she analyzed the situation at hand. She patiently waited for the answer but she did not have to wait for very long as Harry turned around to go face to face for her.

"The First has awakened."

"All of these years…all of these years, suddenly my life makes so much sense, I can't even believe it. And all the….I can't believe I didn't piece together sooner."

"Believe it Lois, believe it," Clark responded as he was unable to keep that Kansas City Farm Boy smile on his face. Despite the utter cheesiness of it, Lois could not help but be endeared to him.

"There's just one thing that I have to say," Lois remarked casually before in a flash of light she grabbed Clark around the arm and flipped him down to the ground hard before she pinned him to the ground. Lois straddled Clark when she pinned him down to the ground, much to Lana's amusement. "C'mon Smallville, you haven't been eating your Wheaties lately or something?"

Clark looked at Lana as if imploring her to help but the grin that was on Lana's face could light up an entire room. She threw her hands up to feign innocence as Lois had Clark down on the ground and at her mercy. And Lois found herself completely lacking that particular quality for she continued to look in Clark's eyes.

"So, how do you like the shoe to be on the other foot?" Lois asked Clark when she pushed him to the ground.

"Yeah, point taken, would it help if I said uncle?" Clark asked Lois but Lois just offered him a brief smile.

"It's a start Clark, it's a start," Lois remarked casually when she peered at Clark in his eyes and allowed him to get to his feet. Clark scrambled to his feet but Lois stopped him once again. "I seem to remember something about a combat against some alien queen. Lana and I won that, I believe it was for a rite of combat for your hand."

Clark hitched in a breath, he wondered when Lois was going to bring up that point but the grin on her face widened. Lois grabbed Clark around the waist and pulled him into a tight grip. It was now that Clark realized that Lois had not properly figured out how to temper her own strength. Granted, Clark could take it but normal people could not.

"Yes, yes, you did," Clark managed when Lois leaned into him and gazed into his eyes long and hard, before she violently attacked his mouth with a kiss. She pinned Clark down to the ground when she shoved her tongue into his mouth.

She paused, and gave him a wicked smile. "And after all the secrets you kept from me…well I think you've been a very naughty boy Clark and deserved to be punished."

Clark wondered what he had gotten himself into as Lana watched and hummed nonchalantly. A year ago, she would not be so accepting of this but after the Fortress information had been downloaded into her brain, she understood that there were certain cultural differences that she had to accept. Besides, it was healthy for the mind to open itself up to new experiences.

"Are you really going to lay down and take that, Clark?" Lana asked as she couldn't resist egging her boyfriend on.

"I'm trying," Clark managed when Lois had performed the kiss, working his clothes off him. "Lois, are you in heat?"

Lois's eyes were glowing to show her heat vision was about to go, so that answered Clark's question. She furiously began to go after Clark, she wanted him so bad that she could taste it.

"I think that he should make it up to me, for all of the times he ducked out on me and left me out of the loop," Lois remarked when she gave Clark Junior a handshake to greet him as Lana joined her down on the ground. "How long had he kept the big secret from you, Lana?"

"About six years," Lana remembered when Lois locked eyes with Lana, gave her a wicked grin, and caused Clark to shudder. He had a feeling that Lois formed some rather devious intention in her minds and he was about to be the victim to what she was cooking up.

Clark was right to fear that point when Lois turned to Clark with a mischievous glint in her eye that Clark did not know whether to be excited or scared by. Regardless, Clark relearned the lesson that he learned the hard when Lana had gotten her powers. That lesson was that super powered women acquired some super powered hormones, there were no two ways about it.

"I think Clark should be taught a lesson about keeping secrets from the people close to him," Lois answered with a smirk across her face as she stripped Clark at super speed and Lana was no help because she may have accidentally used her powers to hold Clark in place.

Right "accidentally" that was what she did, Lois and Lana exchanged a devious look to prepare to do something next.

Clark had gotten a reprieve when his cell phone rang. Lois and Lana both knew that this could be an emergency. As quick as light, Clark moved over to answer the phone as Lois just watched him before an amused thought crossed in her head.

'Faster than a speeding bullet, hopefully he's not like that in bed.'

The young man in question grabbed the phone and took a moment to collect his bearings before he answered.

"Hey," Clark managed like nothing out of the ordinary happened to him before he answered the phone.

"Clark, you need to get to the Shining Light Foundation ASAP, there's something going down that you need to see, and we might have a problem," Chloe said without pausing to ask Clark how he was doing. Clark could hear the frantic tone of her voice, so he managed to recollect his bearings along with his pants and answer.

It wouldn't be the first time Chloe saved his ass and he had a feeling that it was more literal this time than ever before.

"I'll be right over there right away," Clark responded in a firm voice. "Does it have to do with Doomsday?"

"Doomsday is the least of our problems right now," Chloe answered, and this statement did wonders in making Clark wonder what was going on. If there was something more dangerous out there than the Ultimate Destroyer, than they could be in for a rude awakening, but Clark struggled to think what that might be.

Lois and Lana looked at Clark curiously but he offered then an apologetic look.

"Cancel the orgy, I guess," Lois offered in an understanding voice.

"We have a problem, Chloe says that I need to get to the Shining Light Foundation pronto," Clark told both Lana and Lois but Lana was the one who amended Clark's words.

"Don't you mean that we need to get to the Shining Light Foundation?" Lana offered and Clark decided not to protest.

"Yeah, after all of the times that I got left out of the loop, I'm not about be to cut out now," Lois replied when she dared Clark to contradict her with a look at his eyes, but she found no contradiction to be had. Finally, he knew better.

The three sped off with Clark being the slowest but for some reason after tonight he was just a bit faster. Not fast enough to catch up with them but still he evolved a bit with his powers. Perhaps his powers underwent an equivalent of a growth spurt or something along those lines. Or perhaps the effects of the Pit had not quite left Clark.

Never the less he felt a bit stronger and a bit faster, which was something that Clark felt good about. After everyone had surpassed him, it was time for an upgrade.

Before Clark could reach the Shining Light Foundation a blinding pulse of light struck him. This was unlike anything that he had ever seen or felt before. Lana and Lois stopped and spun around as they felt it between them too.

Slowly, all of them appeared to be drawn into some kind of field that warped around them to reveal a cloud of anti-matter. A figure walked forward dressed in a blue bodysuit with a helmet with peering red eyes and a face carved out of granite. He towered over Clark, Lana, and Lois and walked forward, shaking the ground. The hideous creature looked at them in disdain.

"So, this is the traveler they prophesized coming," this individual said in a deep voice. "As of yet, I'm underwhelmed. But perhaps you are more than you appear, Man of Tomorrow."

"Who are you?" Clark asked as Lana and Lois wondered what was going on. Come to think of it, Clark wondered what was going on as well; nothing about this situation seemed to add up to anything that remotely made sense.

"I'm called many things, and I go by many names, the devourer of worlds, the scrounge of souls, but you may call me the Anti-Monitor."

"Clark, you can't fight him," Lana managed when she grabbed Clark by the arm and fear flooded through her eyes.

This Anti-Monitor obliterated entire planets, galaxies, dimensions if what the Fortress told her was true and if he was who he claimed to be. He had been sealed away a long time ago, but not before many lives were erased. The records horrified Lana when she read about each atrocity.

"You are merely a fly upon the windshield that is the universe, so you can't stop me," the Anti-Monitor commented but Clark stepped forward and rushed at him at his top speed and swung with a punch.

Clark screamed when his hand was completely burned. There was no two ways about it, what the Anti-Monitor did to him hurt. He flew back but thankfully Lana and Lois were able to catch him, before they flipped Clark back onto his feet. The Anti-Monitor regarded the three of them as annoyances that he would crush.

"We're going to die, aren't we?" Lois asked when she gazed at Lana and Clark.

Before the Anti-Monitor could transform them into Anti-Matter, and erase them from the universe, three bright lights shot from the sky and impacted the Anti-Monitor. A tear in the fabric of time and space opened when the Anti-Monitor crashed through and the world around Clark, Lois, and Lana got suddenly warm again.

At first Clark thought that the three Heralds shown up to save them but these were three different heroes.

"Who are you?"

"We're the Legion of Super Heroes, and we've come from the future to stop the great crisis from happening."

This got Clark's attention immediately and he was helped to his feet, managing to regain his bearings.

"Tell me more."

"The seal was broken then," Kara concluded with a sigh when she, Harry, and Karen moved through the Lifeline Reading to double check everything.

"The Anti-Monitor was sealed away for millennia, but something busted him out," Harry concluded when he sat around in a circle with Chloe, Kara, and Karen.

"Do you think he busted out when Clark fought Doomsday?" Chloe inquired and at that question there was a moment where Harry considered it before he nodded.

"A true Kryptonian against a monster like Doomsday that would be a powerful fight, Harry commented when he thought about it. A bit of a sad smile twisted over his face when he considered everything that happened. "We were lucky that downtown Metropolis was not left in ruins."

"Luck had nothing to do with what happened, and there's the fact that Doomsday is still out there," Chloe answered when she looked at all three of them.

"Doomsday is a problem, I don't deny that," Karen answered when she considered everything that had gone down. This had been a long day for all of them but it was going to get even longer if they could not focus on the task at hand. "Be that as it may, it's Kal-El's problem to deal with, not that we can't help him."

"You'd hate to see something happen to him again," Chloe offered Karen but Karen did not say one word to Chloe. Chloe thought that getting any kind of response out of Karen was about as fun as pulling teeth. "Yeah, figured as much, despite your agitation with him, you've grown fond of him."

"He is family, sort of," Karen mumbled before she turned outside the window to see the flashing lights and to hear the weird buzzing. "He should be getting here by now."

"Unless he got sidetracked with Lois and Lana," Harry offered and Kara and Chloe both pulled faces, not wanting to think about either of their cousins doing the horizontal mambo with anyone. "I'm sure he'll get here when he can."

"Do you think that Ra's had any idea what he was doing when he released the First?" Kara asked when she tapped her fingers against the side.

"Good question, wish I had an answer," Harry responded when he brushed his hair away.

Ra's Al Ghul was another problem area given his status as an immortal but Harry would find and track him down along with Kara and Karen in due time. The problem was that one did not live as long as Ra's without learning a few tricks of the trade. Harry moved over to grab the phone to call Clark, but it went dead.

Claire was with Megan back in Smallville, but given what was out there; Harry wanted his daughter to be as far away from the chaos as humanly possible.

"We have a problem," Kara said suddenly as her pupils diluted and her body grew rigid.

A flash appeared in her eyes of Clark being obliterated in a wave of anti-matter and his particles scattered all across the universe. Kara shuddered at the thought of it, wondered how real it was, was it happening now, or was it going to happen? Harry threw his arms around one of his wives and pulled her in as the other two looked at him.

"You saw that too?" Karen asked when she placed her hands onto the floor. Her finger nails dug into the floor to leave indentations, nervous at what she saw and her heart beat steadily against her chest. A rhythm was established before Chloe inclined her head to meet Karen, to establish full eye contact.

"We all saw it, I think," Harry breathed when he grabbed onto Kara's hand and tried to comfort her, to let her know that everything was going to be okay.

"Clark's going to get killed by the First, we have to go now!" Kara yelled losing her head and panicking.

Karen did not want to voice the other alternative that what Kara saw was the present and not the future, but something held her back. She felt a knot in her stomach at the very thought and Chloe looked as bad as she felt. Harry was the only one who remained calm, thankfully for all of them, because someone had to.

A flash erupted to jerk them all out of their thoughts and Harry, Kara, Karen, and Chloe all jumped to their feet. The Shining Light Foundation alarms gone off to indicate that someone was here that was not authorized. The four of them flew down the stairs to find out who was there, because something about an alarm going off triggered a red flag in their heads.

Three figures stood at the bottom of the stairs surrounded by downed security guards.

"Impressive, you took out my security," Harry responded with a raised eyebrow when he braced himself for an attack. "But the three of us do not wish to fight you."

The dark haired young man spoke to face Harry. "Do not be alarmed, we do not wish to fight you, Heralds of Death, or any of the children under your care."

"Heralds of Death, I don't know what you're talking about," Harry replied as he feigned interest.

"Yeah, I never heard of that name in my life," Kara responded catching on but a blonde woman just looked back at her.

"Your legend goes throughout time, even after your fall from grace, the good that you've done is not forgotten," the blond woman responded in a crisp voice. "Harry Potter, Kara Zor-El, and Karen Starr, or Arcane, Supergirl, and Power Girl as history remembers you."

"Power Girl?" Karen managed with a raised eyebrow.

"She's not named that yet," the third member of the team, a red haired young man stated.

"Am now, thanks for the idea," Karen answered when she offered a wide grin.

"Don't worry, they're with me," Clark said when he stepped out of the shadows and Lana and Lois followed, both looking quite baffled, and a bit skeptical.

"Oh, thank Rao, Clark, you're okay," Kara said in a happy voice, with Chloe, Karen, and Harry sharing in her relief. "We thought the Anti-Monitor blasted you."

"These three managed to defeat him," Clark answered but the dark haired young man shook his head.

"Not exactly, we didn't defeat him, we merely delayed him," the dark haired young man told Clark and Clark was shocked. He turned around to face Harry, Kara, Karen, and Chloe. "Rokk Krinn, Leader of the Legion of Super Heroes."

"Imra Ardeen," the blonde said when she regarded Harry with a bit of interest.

"Garth Ranzz," the red haired young man said when he looked at them.

"Now that introductions are down, we can get down to business," Rokk remarked as he looked at Harry. "You wouldn't happen to have a conference room or a place where we could meet?"

"Upstairs, follow me," Harry responded but his eyes were still on the three. "Where did you three come from?"

Rokk responded in a calm voice without missing a beat. "The thirty first century."

Now Harry was both curious and skeptical but it remained to be seen what emotion won out in the battle of his mind. The powerful mage would give them all the benefit of the doubt to explain why they were here, but his suspicions heightened. The fact that they said the Heralds of Death had a fall from grace was not missed upon them.

"I hope you're well K…Clark," Karen replied in a polite tone of voice that took Clark aback.

Today was definitely a strange night and it was about to get stranger he had a feeling. Why was Karen actually being nice to him and not bitching him out about how he stalled in his destiny? Clark sensed that Lana was equally suspicious but Lois seemed to be adapting to this new level of insanity.

Clark had a feeling that Lois would fit right in.

Being bounced a few seconds ahead of time was something that the Anti-Monitor detested but he bounced back after a few moments when he found his way back. Given the intensity of the attack, the Anti-Monitor was very annoyed indeed. The force of destruction understood who had attacked him, those meddling fools in the Legion of Super Heroes interfered in his plans.

Oh yes, the Anti-Monitor encountered the Legion before in their future which by his perspective would be his past. He recalled a battle in the future where he had been temporarily banished to the ancient past, a thousand years ago this moment. Death did what she could to contain him, to seal him in the past, but that failed.

The Anti-Monitor at one point existed simultaneously in the past, present, and future, with Death's manipulations on his form indicated that he would not be able to do anything given that he was thrown into a state of constant flux. He circled throughout time in hyper-speed in an endless loop to watch civilizations come and civilizations go. By design, the Anti-Monitor stopped before he reached the end of time or the beginning before he looped back again.

He looped again and again throughout time for all eternity, in temporal flux, until the seal broke itself to deposit him in a time where the Traveler and the Destroyer battled. The Anti-Monitor learned of their coming long ago when he was gifted the powers of the Herald of Death by the entity known as Death. They would have a cataclysmic battle where the Traveler would either rise from to take his first step to his destiny or fall hard to engulf the world into darkness.

The battle only began the previous day, the Anti-Monitor saw the battle from afar as he broke form his temporal containment. The traveler, this Kal-El, underwhelmed him but it was the Heralds of Death who intrigued him most of all. This new set seemed to be allowed emotions, and seemed to care for these pathetic worms that infested this world.

Unknowingly, the Anti-Monitor warped into the worst case scenario of what the Herald of Death powers could do to a person when they were not properly grounded. For three hundred years the Anti-Monitor worked tirelessly but he felt that there was something more. He tried to erase all of reality and instate a new order, but Death stopped him.

Now the Anti-Monitor sought revenge against Death and those empowered by them and their Heralds. He struck against a barrier and understood that he appeared outside of his charge. Those fools in the Legion of Super Heroes cracked his outer shell but this was no matter. The Anti-Monitor repaired himself when he lifted his hands.

Thousands of lives around him snuffed out, he did not know where, he did not know when, and he did not know who, but he didn't care. The pure power given by thousands of lives snuffed out was amazing. The Anti-Monitor sucked every single bit of the essence, men, women, children, vegetables, minerals, animals, it mattered little to him.

All that lived withered due to his mere touch and the Anti-Monitor empowered to seek out the only ones who could stop him. Then with that finished, Death was next on his list.

"We've come to the past to help save the past, present, and future."

Harry's expression turned towards the three members of the Legion of Superheroes, a few peaks into their mind verified they were who they said they were, no level of deception could fool the Heralds of Deaths. Kara and Karen folded their arms, they wondered about the consequences of a trip to the past.

"You realize that a trip to the past could have severe consequences that will impact the future," Kara remarked without missing a beat.

Harry could not resist adding his two cents. "There have been grave consequences for those who meddled in the past, unless of course your trip has already been set in stone."

Hermione lectured that point to Harry when they went back in time during their third year at Hogwarts to save Sirius from the Dementors and Buckbeak from getting executed. Harry recalled it and understood that time travel was a risky business. The final battle with Brainiac proved that much.

Rokk understood their misgivings. "The past is one that is always in flux, the more time that has passed. In the thirty first century, there have been tails from travelers who claim to be from a far more distant future than the one we reside from."

"We risk a lot from stepping into the past, for the moment we try and return, there is every chance that we will cease to exist," Imra responded with that fear rather real.

"It's for a noble cause, and besides, we get to see one of the greatest heroes in the twenty first century up close and personal," Garth remarked when he looked at Clark.

"Many of the greatest heroes," Rokk corrected but he readjusted his stance and continued to speak. "It will all be for naught if the past happens as we have recorded it. We only delayed the Anti-Monitor but he will return with a vengeance. Our rings managed to transport him far enough to the future."

"What do those rings do?" Chloe asked curiously.

"The rings allow for time travel and the flight among other powers, in addition to our more natural gifts," Imra answered and with that statement, Chloe turned to Clark with a smile.

"Well we know what to get you for your birthday," Chloe commented with Clark giving her a mock glare. The three members of the Legion had their eyes snapped towards Clark in confusion. "He can't fly yet."

"Kal-El can't fly?" Garth asked as he tried to reconcile this bit in his mind. "He's supposed to go faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, and that's just the one thing about Superman, he flies."

'Wonderful, I'm going to have to mind wipe him before I go back now,' Imra thought in a sardonic manner.

"Superman?" Clark asked in confusion, mulling over the name in his mind.

"I prefer the Blur myself," Lois chimed in with a grin but Kara rolled her eyes in response. "It's a perfectly acceptable name."

"Enough," Rokk said before he turned towards Clark. "The past is being written right now and many details get lost to the annals of history. We have come back for one purpose."

"The Anti-Monitor is after Clark," Kara chimed in, remembering the vision she had earlier, that vision spooked her.

Imra felt the need to correct Kara. "While the Anti-Monitor is after Clark, he will survive. You will not."

Kara looked surprised and alarm flooded Harry's face.

Rokk continued to chime in. "History states that Supergirl was killed fighting the Anti-Monitor to stop the great Crisis and Arcane eventually became one of the greatest terrors the world had ever seen, killing countless when he was driven mad by her death."

This was a revelation that did not go over well with anyone at all.

To Be Continued in "Crisis Part Two."