Chapter Forty: The Old Gang.
Tess knew one thing to be certain and that was opportunity was around the corner, they just needed to have the proper chance to seize it. The two times HIVE has been directly involved in plans which impacted her and the others, greatly worried Tess. The fact they backed up someone like Winslow Schott, well Tess's frustration with them hit an even greater level to be perfectly honest.
She called a meeting to see what they would do next. Tess waited for them to arrive. Thea joined them first, followed by Patricia Swann. The other two members of their meeting did not show up just yet. Tess could wait, she was patient, playing a very long game for quite some time.
"So, did you manage to pull her away from her cave?" Patricia asked.
Tess answered with half of a smile and shook her head. "I did the best I could to extract her, but she's half in her own world and she still has a lot on her plate. So, she'll be here when she can and not a second before."
"And people call me obsessed," Thea said.
Patricia responded with a very dry chuckle.
Tess waved off her statement. "Obsession isn't necessarily a bad thing, to be perfectly honest. It gives people plenty of focus, but yes, when you have your mind on a single-minded objection, it tends to make you lose track of the more important things in life."
The businesswoman drew out a deep breath, the obsession of both Lex and Lionel as it regarded to Clark and his secrets were all too fresh in her mind. Both of them had been locked up. Lionel still yelled about Doomsday. Lex barely had anything to say at all, and Tess knew he faked the nature of his problems. There was a lot more going on in Lex's head than people realized.
It was just a matter of trying to get those thoughts out of his mind. The next play would be a very interesting one, to be honest. Tess just wished they had more lock.
"Sorry, I'm late."
Tess, Thea, and Patricia looked up towards Clark who showed up.
"I had a bit of a problem over in Smallville, another one of the meteor-infected, and he….well he had quite the temper on him."
"I can imagine," Tess said. "And there's no need to apologize for being late. You got here when you could get here."
"So, why did you want to see me?" Clark asked.
Tess waved off Clark's words, not out of being rude, but out of the fact she thought they should wait for another party to show up and join the fun and games. Tess leaned a fraction of an inch back on the table, hands pressed as firmly against it as possible.
"We're actually waiting for someone else to show up," Tess said. "And she's wanted to meet you for a very long time."
Clark answered with a raised eyebrow. "Oh?"
"Yes, and she should…."
Thea and Patricia turned around a second later and saw the figure making her way into the room. Patricia shook her head, chuckled, and dropped for a second to hide the look of complete bemusement which started to pass over her face. She could say something about this particular woman, no matter what the circumstances, she always could make an entrance. She got it from her father.
"Welcome, Helena."
A beautiful dark haired woman stepped into the room, with blue eyes. She dressed in the same business attire as the other women in the room. A smile crossed over her face when she approached the room, and also her eyes locked onto Clark. Clark got a sense of being scanned, but perhaps it was just him. His eyes drifted to a pair of stocking-clad legs which moved on for miles. She stood out, which said something in a room with three other beautiful women in their own right. It just had to do with some kind of cult of personality vibe, Clark suspected.
"It's good to be here," Helena said.
"Clark, this is Helena Wayne," Patricia said. "Helena, this is….."
"Clark Kent, it's long overdue, but I'm glad to finally have had an opportunity to meet you," Helena said, extending her hand out for Clark to shake.
Clark shook her hand in response. He could tell her grip had been firm, well pretty firm for a human. He decided not to tighten his any more than needed to.
"So, what was the urgent news?" Helena asked.
"It has to do with the orb….with the Kandorians."
Tess's bombshell had caused Clark to stand up straight, and he wasn't the only one. Thea and Patricia looked very interested. No person in the room appeared to be more interested at this particular point than Helena did. Helena's lips curled into one of the more obvious frowns possible.
"You found it?"
"I wish," Tess answered with a sigh. "Unfortunately, Kandor slipped a little bit out of my grasp…..it should be….well it should be around, but it isn't. I really wish I had it though. It should have been in the Luthor Mansion, but so much has changed. I searched high and low, and it wasn't there."
"HIVE has it," Helena said.
The conclusion they came to was pretty bad news. Clark's blood ran cold.
"The only good news is, we know they hadn't opened it, at least not just yet," Tess said. "When they open it, it will be bad news, for us all."
All they had to do now is figure out their next play. The ball, or the orb rather, ended up in the hands of HIVE. They had a few big problems leading there. Clark, in particular, could not understand how a group like HIVE managed to outmaneuver them at every turn, especially with some pretty smart people.
"As much as I hate to admit it, HIVE has it together more than I like to admit," Tess said. "It's bad news for us all."
"It's worse news if they open the orb," Patricia said.
The silent night showed there wasn't anyone around for miles. It didn't matter to the person aboard the helicopter though. Said helicopter landed down onto the ground in the middle of nowhere, in some desolate area.
The cargo had been unloaded and one Davis Bloom stepped out of the helicopter. He had just been a normal paramedic a few months ago until a bunch of goons grabbed him. They told him he had a greater purpose, and they would serve their agenda first. There was some kind of darkness deep inside him, bursting, longing to get out.
Bloom didn't want to believe them at all. Yet, months later, his temperament changed. There was a sense of coldness inside of him, and a sense of darkness which increased. His bloodlust could not be tempered, no matter how much he wanted it to.
The man had been dropped into the middle of a desert to fend for himself. A loud thump came across the back of his head. The thumping got extremely loud, with his breathing increasing. Bloom took a moment to gauge his surroundings.
There were no people around for miles. Which might have been a good thing should the monster clawing away deep inside of his being get out.
'I'm normal, I'm a person, I'm not this hideous….'
Something thumped against the head of Bloom. His handlers stood a few feet ahead of them.
"Stand tight, you won't be alone for long," one of the handlers said.
They laughed and Bloom had been left alone to contemplate their words when left in the desert. He rushed to the helicopter but didn't have the strength. He expanded all of the effort possible to keep the monster completely at bay. The monster continued to hammer, claw, try and break free from himself.
No way he could let it out, there was absolutely no way Bloom could let this particular monster loose.
'No, I'm not going to be their pawn, I'm no one's pawn.'
The thought made Bloom's eye flicker in thinly disguised rage. His fingers clutched together when he started to breath more heavily, in and out, his heart pounding intensely against his chest. Bloom looked around and started to walk. The cold air bit down on his body.
Yet, the harsh conditions didn't seem to bother him. Harsh weather never did. It put him on edge, he expected to be bothered. He could step inside in the middle of winter in short sleeves without any problem. He was completely durable.
The dust nailing him in the face backed Bloom up a couple of steps. He breathed the air around him, burning his lungs. It was hard to breathe around this particular area.
Bloom took a half of a step to stand around, realizing he wasn't alone. A man dressed in a black hood stood at the edge of the desert. His eyes glowed from underneath the hood and he stepped a little bit closer to Bloom. Bloom turned towards the man.
"Go, away, I can't control it!"
The man didn't say anything, he just lifted one hand. Dust particles manipulated in the air and shot towards Bloom. The dust particles slammed into his body like a rocket attack. Bloom screamed in pure, unbridled agony with the dust particles caught him in the chest.
Another figure dropped down next to him. Two silver spikes retracted from her wrists. The figure shot the spikes towards Bloom. Two of them impaled the man in the chest and knocked all of the starch out of him. Blood hunched over onto the ground.
He had been impaled by the spikes. Bloom instinctively grabbed the spikes and pulled them out of his chest. His body burned with agony, but yet, he was still alive, still breathing, and still very strong.
Another spike blocked by his hand. It didn't even break his skin. Bloom stood up high in the air.
The mutant next to him kicked up a sandstorm, but Bloom walked through the storm like there was no big problem. He grabbed the mutant around the neck and pushed him down to the ground. The loud sound of bones snapping echoed over the winds in the desert. Bloom lifted his hand and pounded the man's face.
Bloom retracted his hand, blood splattered against his knuckles. His breathing grew even harsher. He did…he attacked someone and drew their blood. And he felt more liberated in doing so.
Astra spent some time looking around the Fortress for the next few minutes. She would have to say it was a marvel of Kryptonian perfection. A smile crossed her face when she studied every single inch of what the Fortress had to offer, wishing she could spend more time breaking everything down.
A figure appeared at Astra's shoulder and she turned around to greet him.
"Kal-El," Astra said.
"I just returned from a meeting with….well, is my mother around?" Clark asked.
Astra shook her head, Kal-El didn't one hundred percent trust her yet. Given Astra spent a very long time inside the Phantom Zone, battling the harshest conditions, she couldn't say she blamed the young man. Trust would be something which was very hard to get at the best of times.
"Yes, I'm here."
Lara and Raya made their way around the corner. Raya gave Clark a warm smile in greeting, although it faded.
"You've received some bad news," Raya said.
"HIVE has the orb."
Astra's blood burned at this particular news. Those barbarians having control over such a delicate object, they didn't really know the power they had in their hands, and how dangerous said power would be. All they had was their simple little schemes, to gain more control over the world.
At one time, Astra may have agreed and seen some merit in those schemes, but she spent a fair amount of time inside of the Phantom Zone, therefore she had plenty of time to think and even more time to reflect.
"You know we have to get it back," Astra said.
"Is it because Alura's DNA is in the orb?" Lara asked.
"Among other reasons," Astra said. "Then letting out certain elements within the orb is troubling. I don't want him to come out….despite the fact he's saner, younger, and hasn't been as broken, he still could grow into that particular monster."
Everyone inside the Fortress knew Astra referred to only one person, that being the one and only General Zod. She turned around and looked towards the map.
"We need to find HIVE now."
Clark would have to agree time was of the essence. HIVE was responsible for two major events. Those people opening the orb, or even attempting to did not bode well in Clark's mind.
"Yes, we have to find them," Lara said, gently. "And we will find them, you just need to calm down."
One look from Astra showed Lara she was about as calm as she ever was going to get in circumstances like this. Lara took a half of a step back and allowed Astra room to rage and rant.
"They have the orb and they have the monster," Astra said. "Zod intended for him to be a weapon, and in some twisted way, a son."
Astra could not even begin to fathom the twisted thoughts in Zod's mind, to be honest. Zod had grown extremely bent in the end, and the insanity increased during the rare times Astra met him in the Phantom Zone. Zod seemed to think he alone was destined to build a brand new Krypton.
Personally, Astra thought Zod's plans had a couple of very fundamental flaws in them, which she might have had to rip apart in due time.
"Alura did tamper with that orb, didn't she?" Lara asked.
"Maybe," Astra said. "I don't think my DNA is in there…but at the same time, not many of the people knew what they were giving their DNA for. The experiment was very controversial, and by the time it got back to the Council, they raged on for years about the ethical implications of it."
"The council thinking something was controversial?" Lara asked. She scoffed and shook her head. "Imagine that."
"Yes," Astra agreed. "It does seem a bit far-fetched, doesn't it?"
The sarcasm burning through her voice took Clark a little bit off guard, but he knew of Astra's opinions of the Council. To the point where she attempted to overthrow them, which got her landed into the Phantom Zone in the first place. The more Clark learned about the Kryptonian Council, the more he sympathized with some of Astra's ideas.
A beep echoed and Clark moved over.
"It's from the DEO," Raya inputted helpfully. "Agent Johnson and Agent Danvers want to meet with you, ASAP…whatever that means."
"As soon as possible," Clark said.
"Right," Raya said.
Human quirks still had been lost on her a lot of time, but spelling it out, it made perfect sense.
Weirdness might have been Chloe's middle name over the past couple of years. And things got real weirder when a mysterious figure was sighted in the countryside, heading over to Smallville. It was very close, too close to the Kent Farmhouse.
Given the warning Clark gave her, Chloe thought it would be just as well she would check up on Martha, to see if she was safe. Chloe was not alone when entering the Kent Farmhouse, Lana tagged along with her for the ride.
"So, what do you think it's all about?" Lana asked.
"I can't even begin to imagine," Chloe said.
It could be some kind of meteor mutant, at least Chloe thought it could be. Or it could be something else, something very awful. Chloe shuddered at the thought of what it might be. Regardless, she walked over to the door and knocked on it a couple of times.
Martha opened the door and smiled.
"Chloe, Lana, it's good to see both of you," Martha said. "I've just been….well, I've been listening to the radio, and they're talking about the weird man which is stalking the countryside."
"Yeah," Chloe said. "We heard about him too. I don't know what his deal is, but if he's coming here….we were going to give you the heads on."
Martha raised an eyebrow and sat down. She offered both of the girls something to eat and drink as well. They looked like they could use something relaxing tonight, especially given how long they came.
"And what gave you that idea?"
Chloe answered by shrugging. "I really don't know, just a hunch or something, I guess. It's really hard to explain."
Martha shook her head in response, she was pretty sure Chloe would have some kind of explanation, one way or another if she sat down and thought about it. She looked outside of the window. The night had been peaceful, perhaps too peaceful.
The day Clark arrived, the day was nice and clear as well, it was peaceful, tranquil, just your typical fall day in Smallville. Their lives all changed forever on that particular day, in ways Martha couldn't imagine.
A rapping sound on the door made them all tense up. Chloe decided to come and get the door. She had her finger near the watch she wore, which transmitted a supersonic signal which only Kryptonians could hear. Tess developed them, and handed them out among the girls, just in case.
The door opened and Chloe relaxed when she saw Diana.
"Hello, Chloe," Diana said.
"Hey, Diana, long time no see," Chloe said. "But, I'm glad it's you…and not someone else."
"You're talking about the monster roaming around outside, aren't you?" Diana asked.
"Yes," Chloe responded. "Was it obvious I was?"
Diana smiled, put her thumb and forefinger together. "Just a little bit."
"Diana, don't stand out there, come in," Martha said.
The Princess of the Amazons always could say one thing about Martha Kent, she really was inviting to all of Clark's mates, and she took this entire thing with stride. Then again, when you raised someone like Clark, you had to expect the unexpected.
"Thank you, Martha," Diana said with a smile. "And I'm always grateful for you to welcome me into your home…and it's as nice as usual."
Diana crossed the barrier of the door and sat down on the chair in front of them.
"You don't mind if I stick around, do you?" Diana asked. "I think Clark's mind would be more at ease if I'm here, while he's out there going after….that thing."
"Clark's out there?" Martha asked.
Martha knew her son was more than capable of fighting anything out there. Still, always, a mother worried, deep down what her son might have been running into.
"I'm sure he'll deal with it," Chloe said.
Chloe half-thought it might be just some other super powered meteor mutant, but something told her differently. It was just a feeling she could not shake off. She tried not to betray the darker, deeper worries to Martha, not to give her more to fret over. Chloe knew she would be very upset if the situation had been reversed.
Hell, she always had apprehension, despite Clark proving himself constantly.
'What was the word Lionel kept using?' Chloe thought. 'Oh, yeah, Doomsday, that's the word.'
Chloe doubted anyone or anything which called itself Doomsday invited images of warm fuzziness. She could have been wrong, but somehow she doubted she was.
Daisy and Alex waited for their backup. They could go in there with a small army of DEO agents, but their boss suggested a different approach might be necessary, especially considering the caliber of the enemy they were going up against.
"Did you ever have a feeling?" Alex asked. "Did you ever have a feeling there's some bad storm coming?"
"Oh, all night tonight," Daisy said. "Trust me, he'll find a way to stop it."
Alex hoped she was right. The few sightings of this creature and his path of destruction made her more than nervous. There were a lot of regrets in the DEO, wishing they could track the man behind the monster down, and cage him.
Was it inevitable the beast would come out? Or was HIVE's tampering the thing which forced him out.
Alex looked up a second later and braced herself. Clark dropped down in front of them.
"So, you got our message," Daisy said.
Clark couldn't help, but give them a teasing smile. "Would I be here if I didn't?"
No, they supposed he wouldn't be here if they didn't receive the message. Regardless, both girls leaned back. Alex decided to be the one to break the bad news.
"You want to see these photos."
Alex handed Clark the photos. It was much worse than Chloe mentioned to him on his way here when she got in touch with him. Clark's mind was more at ease now Diana was keeping an eye on his mother.
"What do you think?" Daisy asked.
"I think we've found Doomsday," Clark said. "He's not completely evolved…but all bets are off, depending on what HIVE did to him."
Alex decided to cut through the scene with an unfortunate question.
"And what happens when he does evolve?"
Clark's grim assessment made both girls shiver.
"Rao, help us all."
Chapter Forty-One: Predatory Instincts
Clark learned enough about Doomsday to realize the very moment he dropped down, he was not going to face his average adversary. He was going to fight something much more dangerous than the normal class of enemies he normally fought on a day to day basis. Clark didn't really know what to make of it, only there was going to be trouble, plenty of trouble.
He stood side by side with Daisy and Alex. Alex had her ear to the latest news in an attempt to find enough information to properly take down Doomsday. It wasn't going to be an easy task, not by a longshot. Alex leaned her neck out for a few seconds and then leaned her neck forward a few seconds later, looking out into the distance from where she stood. Nothing, not one thing, at least until they walked over the hill.
The busted windmill and the overturned tractor were the first signs of something being extremely wrong, and there being a very bad situation. The trio walked further into the distance and saw a fence. Clark looked up and saw an old man down on the ground. He still breathed, although the man was shaking.
"Get him away from me!" the man yelled. "Smallville used to be so beautiful until the meteor showers? What happened? WHAT HAPPENED!'
The man threw his head back and kept screaming and ranting about a much better time before the meteor shower in Smallville.
"Doomsday has been here," Daisy said.
Alex clicked her tongue and turned towards her friend. "Yeah, I gathered about as much, Doomsday had been here, and now he's gone. And he's left a huge path of destruction in his wake."
The other DEO agent sighed in response. It looked like something had been ripped apart by some natural disaster. Tornados would come through this area from time to time, but it wouldn't do too much damage. Doomsday was far more destructive than any tornado could ever hope to be. He left a huge path of carnage in his wake and he would not stop for anything, for no reason, not even for a second.
Another long second passed before Daisy threw her head back and looked up into the sky. She looked back towards Clark.
"So, do you have any ideas where he might have gone off to?
Oh, Clark, despite not being a monster's keeper, had more than a few ideas. None of them had been remotely good, but yes, he had his ideas. Clark turned his attention to the area of the field and then back towards Daisy and Alex. Then he threw his neck back a second later.
"It has to do with where Doomsday comes from, or rather where he arrived," Clark said.
"He landed in the same field you did all those years ago?" Alex asked.
Clark responded with a nod. "Exactly."
He followed the trail left by Doomsday with his X-Ray vision. They needed a little bit more of a walk. It was hard to predict the patterns of an attack by something which was a virtual force of nature, although Clark really did try and give it his best shot, despite all sense telling him there was no way to predict something like Doomsday. And as Astra warned him, as Raya, Lara, and Indigo warned him, there was nothing like Doomsday.
With HIVE's tampering, Clark didn't really know how much of a chance he stood. But, just because he didn't stand a chance, did not mean Clark would just sit back and let the monster roll over him and everything he held dear. Clark had plenty of principles and he would be damned if he would allow Doomsday to compromise them.
'I'm in for the very long haul.'
"He might be hunting for you," Daisy said. "If Brainiac sent him here, somehow, his programming might have been altered to hunt you down."
Clark really didn't feel too much better about a situation like this. He just looked over and saw the field where he had dropped. Someone had dug up clumps of the field. He looked off into the distance. Two trees had been ripped off by the roots, and then another fence collapsed from someone smashing through it with all of the subtly of a runaway freight train. Clark inched further down the line, frowning in response.
'Okay, he's very dangerous, I'll give him that,' Clark answered. 'I don't think….well, it doesn't really matter now, does it?'
Clark's mind veered off in another potential direction. He could get in a lot of trouble depending on where he went.
"We're going to run into this monster sooner or later," Alex said. "Do you have a plan?"
"I would think the DEO is the one who has the plan," Clark said.
Both girls looked at each other. While they had protocols to deal with situations like this, there really was not anything like this creature.
"Maybe we do have one, but I was hoping you would have one," Alex said.
"Neither of us has a solid plan, do we?"
Daisy's words cut through the air. Clark set his jaw and turned back towards the dark-haired woman, nodding in response.
"We have a containment unit prepared in the Fortress, for Doomsday, but we're not sure it's going to work. It's not something we can exactly test."
Both of the DEO agents bought. All they could do would continue the hunt. Clark decided to switch and check in with Diana, who should have made it to the Kent Residence at this point, at least it's what Clark assumed. He recalled what many people said about assumptions.
Still, Clark pressed in the ear piece and it activated for Diana. "Diana, are you there?"
"Am, I at the Kents?" Diana asked. "Yes, your mother, is out, along with Chloe, Lois, and Lana, they're all up to the road, at the Potter Residence…..it's been rebuilt last time, and Lara….may have fortified the security a little bit."
"There's no might have about it, she did fortify the security after last time," Clark said. "So, you're there, right, ready to fight?"
"As an Amazon always is."
Clark could have chuckled at her words. Diana always projected so much confidence, it made Clark think she had it together a lot of time. Regardless though, Clark would be lying if he didn't say he was pretty worried about this situation.
"Do I need to tell you to be careful?"
Diana sighed in response. "No, you don't need to tell me. I'm ready for anything Doomsday can throw at me…..I've fought monsters before, you know."
The Last Son of Krypton didn't have it within him to tell the Princess of the Amazons there was not a monster the caliber of Doomsday. He didn't want to undermine Diana's confidence, not if he could help it.
"Hopefully, it won't come to that."
"Well, if it does, I'll be ready," Diana said.
Daisy turned to Clark a second later. She had come to an awful conclusion, and she was pretty sure the others came to the same awful conclusion as well.
"We might not have the luxury of bringing this one in alive."
Karen looked over the containment unit Astra prepared with a very critical eye. She didn't see eye to eye with her estranged mother, who she grew up thinking was her aunt, on a lot. However, she was impressed with the make of the containment unit. It should hold, even a rampaging monster of mass destruction like Doomsday.
Kara stood a few inches away from it. She really hoped that this would hold. The alternate idea was really not a good one.
"All of the vital systems are online," Kara said. "I think we're good to the go….my mother would have approved of it, I think."
The younger Kryptonian cast an eye towards the broken mass of crystals on a nearby table which was Alura's damaged AI. She tried to help fix it, as did Karen, as did Astra, Lara, and Raya. Still, despite some of Kryptonians best minds putting their heads together, they couldn't have fixed it even if they tried.
They all came to a conclusion the only person in living memory who could fix such an item was Alura. And unfortunately for them, Alura stepped in to survey her own handiwork, well, part of her own handiwork.
"Don't worry, she'll still live," Astra said. "Even if Alura herself is the only one who can fix it, it will be fixed."
Astra didn't want to get anyone's hopes up. She was capable of some rather cruel things, and she would have to be capable of some even crueler things if she hoped to take down Doomsday, but she didn't want to get the false hope of anyone up, especially if those people were her daughter or her niece.
"I have to say, you've done a remarkable enough job," Karen said.
"Praise?" Astra asked. "I feel we've turned the corner in our relationship."
"Don't get too cocky yet," Karen responded. "You still have a lot to make up for….even though I can tell the reason why you were the way you are. Trapped in a marriage with someone well beneath your standard, even if you made the most of it."
"Don't remind me of Non, and don't remind me of….how I strayed and spent one night with him," Astra said. "Although I have to say, the results ended up working out for the better, but it's just my opinion."
Lara stepped in, not wanting to break up this very touching family moment.
"Lot of work to be done, and we're running a simulation of how the containment unit should work," Lara said. "It should stop the monster its tracks and hold him into place. Then, we can send him to one of the Forbidden Zones of the universe."
The aptly named Forbidden Zones were named such because it was forbidden by many planets to go there. The planets were toxic, some of them had some of the worst monsters in the universe. Doomsday would fit right in, in a place like the Forbidden Zone, at least Lara assumed so. She knew what they said about assumptions.
"So, once the monster has been contained, it will transport him to the Forbidden Zone," Raya said. "It's a shame we can't test it, but it is a one-way trip."
Karen turned a second away and closed her eyes. So much could go wrong in a situation like this, but yet, she was confident they were doing the right thing. She saw her younger cousin waiting.
"All we have to do is wait for Kal to find him."
Astra didn't want to say the obvious thing, about there not being a problem with Kal finding the monster. The monster finding Kal concerned Astra greatly than ever before.
"He's following an established, if not an unconventional pattern," Raya said. "He's tearing through Smallville, on a rampage, and he's trying to perform an objective. Whatever HIVE has done to him in their custody, has made him more uncontrollable and dangerous."
All of the Kryptonian females in the fortress thought about the same exact thing. Doomsday being uncontrollable meant there was pretty much no way to reign him in, should go on his path of destruction elsewhere. HIVE had unleashed a huge demon.
"So, all we have to do is wait," Karen said.
"The least interesting part of any campaign, but essentially and functionally correct," Astra said.
Astra detested the wait more than many other things. She always was a woman of action, with the consequences resulting from these actions coming later.
Lara turned her attention to a blip on the screen.
"Kal, he's on the move," Lara said. "Prepare, and be careful….stand close to Alex and Daisy, and let them help you, but don't let Doomsday get to them."
She knew Daisy was empowered, and Alex was very skilled, even though she didn't have super powers, but it did not keep her from worrying. Lara didn't want to see either of those girls harmed, for both selfish and genuine reasons. She thought they would be perfect matches for Kal-El and good allies overall for the House of El.
"Are you even match-making during a time like this?" Astra asked.
"Oh, don't worry , you'll get your chance."
Astra frowned, she wasn't sure how Lara thought she wanted a chance. Anyone who satisfied her daughter would be worthy of consideration, but Astra didn't know.
"Let's deal with Doomsday first, and date night later," Karen said.
"Best idea I've heard in a long time," Raya said.
The council of HIVE leaned in close to the view screen to monitor the situation. They unleashed Doomsday out into the wild, hoping he would show what he was made of. The situation could not have gone any better, it went perfect, well not necessarily perfect.
"He is on the move to the exact same spot where he came to be," one of them said. "And the path of destruction is encouraging. Our tests have stripped away his humanity and turned him into something else. We turned him into someone else."
"And soon his instincts will be further triggered."
"Yes, once he runs into him."
HIVE's plans had been stopped by the protector of Smallville on multiple occasions, and now they needed to take him down before he became an even more pressing problem. The members of HIVE prepared for anything. They monitored their monster.
"We did lose valuable resources against him."
"All part of a greater plan. We will have more monsters, an army which will put control of this world underneath our rightful masters. Why stop at one Doomsday?"
"Let's ensure this one finishes his objective before we move forward," a woman said from the shadows. "And for your sakes, you better control him when he's done."
The members of the HIVE organization all frowned and continued to monitor the situation. The woman who lead them, the one who dubbed herself the HIVE Queen, refused to appreciate their hard and dedicated work. They had a few leaders over the years of HIVE, and despite the changes made to the management, the direction of HIVE didn't really change.
The HIVE Queen looked over her drones. She brushed the strand of blonde hair out of her eyes and took a half of a step over to the side. There were many experiments going on in the HIVE facility, the HIVE hive, at any given time. It took some time to gain control of the world, and she would be damned if the control would have been lost.
She looked towards the footage of the blur. There had been very few images of him because he moved too fast for a camera to pick him up. The few pieces of footage the HIVE Queen uncovered, she studied in a very obsessive and insane detail. Her lips curled a few inches.
'You are very interesting…but I'm certain you'll be more interesting when I pick you apart.'
The HIVE Queen walked down the hallway and pressed her palm onto a hole on the wall. The wall lit to light and the bricks slid apart. She stepped in to walk towards the scientists. All of the had bent over the orb. The orb which they needed to figure out how to open.
"You still haven't figured out how to open the orb?" The HIVE Queen asked.
"Please, forgive us."
The HIVE Queen raised a hand. There would be no forgiveness for these men, who had failed her. She would not tolerate failure, at any time, especially today. The HIVE Queen took half of a step in and surveyed these scientists. They all worked steadily at the orb, like busy little worker bees, ready to serve the HIVE.
"I know why we can't get the orb open."
The man stood up to face the HIVE Queen.
"Tell me why," The HIVE Queen said. "Tell me why you have failed so far to open the orb. Tell me, now!"
The man swallowed a lump in his throat which grew with each passing second. The HIVE Queen didn't look pleased with the man in question and his inability to explain things properly.
"Yes," the man said. "We need the DNA of a person of similar origin for the orb."
'In other words, Kryptonian," HIVE Queen said. "So, are you telling me, you need his DNA to open it up?"
The HIVE Queen waited for him. He nodded in response.
"Very well, once the predator kills the prey, you will have a sufficient amount of DNA. And then, I will have no further excuses. Is that clear?"
The man answered with a nod.
"Crystal."
The HIVE Queen smiled and turned around, perfectly glad they came to an accord, an understanding. And they would be able to move forward with their next move sooner rather than later.
'As it should be,' The HIVE Queen thought. 'We are the masters who rule the world.'
Clark had a feeling he was close, and now he was right across from the Kent Farmhouse. Diana waited to pounce should Doomsday attack. She was the last line of defense to keep her away from Lana, Lois, Chloe, and his mother. As far as last lines of defense went, Clark could do far worse than the Princess of the Amazons.
"I'm still here," Diana said. "And he isn't."
"Stand by," Clark said.
A loud growl cut through the air. Clark slowly turned his attention towards a figure in the shadows. Alex and Daisy stood on either side of Clark, if not standing a slight amount behind him. The two women's eyes widened when they saw Doomsday.
They saw what looked like a human moving in, although his skin looked to be turning grey and a couple of spikes protruded from his back. His long finger like claws rose out when walking forward.
"YOU!" the monster yelled. "Kill me…..put me out of my misery….before I become it completely!"
Clark had been caught off guard by the request. Daisy and Alex stood an inch behind him, mouths open. The Last Son of Krypton walked forward to engage the monster. The monster threw his hands into the air and growled in response. His fists nailed the ground, and he snarled in an even more insane manner.
"You must kill me!" Doomsday yelled. "Kill me…"
An electrical pulse shot through Doomsday. A lethal blast of electricity caught Doomsday off guard and launched him off of the ground. The monster collapsed down onto the ground, heavy breathing increasing. The monster's eyes closed and he started to breathe heavily. In and out, his pulsing hands squeezing together.
"It's too late!"
"Clark, take Alex, and get off the ground!"
Clark scooped Alex off of the ground and jumped off. Daisy put her hand on the ground and it shook underneath Doomsday. The ground had become a little bit less level. Doomsday tried to push himself out through the ground. He launched up and crashed down onto the ground.
Daisy tried to bury the monster into the ground. The monster rose up from a standing position.
Alex reached for a gun and fired. Tranquilizer darts connected to the chest of Doomsday. The monster just howled in frustration and rushed towards Daisy, avoiding the rocks which rose out of the ground.
"No effect," Alex said. "Damn it!"
Daisy came inches away from getting rocked by Doomsday. Clark swept down and pulled her off of the guard. He pulled her away and dropped both Daisy and Alex at the end of the road.
"You want me?" Clark asked. "Well, here I am!"
Doomsday threw his hands up and howled. He charged towards Clark and went for the biggest punch ever. Clark ducked the punch and returned fire with one of his own. The Last Son of Krypton dodged behind Doomsday and jabbed away at the lower back. Doomsday kept swinging at Clark, coming precious inches from taking his head off.
Clark ducked, dodged, moved, and just pretty much kept away from Doomsday. The monster rushed towards Clark and Clark dodged out of the way. He picked up a piece of fence and wrapped it around Doomsday. He trapped Doomsday's arms behind his back in the fence and started to ram his hand into Doomsday's chest. Every single punch echoed the more Clark attempted to take the monster down.
Doomsday ripped himself from containment and picked up Clark. He lifted him up into the air by one hand by the throat and spiked him down with a huge choke slam type throw. He picked up Clark over his head and rag dolled him around, throwing Clark halfway across the road. He flew through a billboard and landed on the other side.
The monster jumped into the air and landed on the other side of the billboard. He smashed his hands on the other side of Clark's neck.
Clark jabbed Doomsday in the neck and doubled him over. Doomsday stepped back and Clark nailed him with a series of punches.
He decided to try something Astra showed him in the battle simulator. Clark grabbed Doomsday's hand and crushed it before rearing back and nailing Doomsday in the chest where the heart was. The monster was human enough to have his heart stopped and dropped down to the ground.
Clark stepped back, wiping the blood from his mouth. The monster was down on the ground and it appeared the breath had finally stopped going through his body.
"Kara….Karen, get the containment unit ready," Clark said. "Please tell me it's ready."
"Yes, it's….."
One bleary eye opened up and Doomsday reached up to grab Clark by the throat, before hoisting him up off of his feet. Doomsday dragged Clark across the field, digging into the dirt.
Daisy tried to nail Doomsday with a full brunt attack with her powers. No effect and Doomsday refused to let go of Clark. The monster howled and threw him towards the girls, who were forced to scatter.
The second Doomsday went for him one more time, a figure dropped down to the ground in front of Doomsday. Doomsday stepped back, in confusion.
Another Kryptonian, he would destroy them, before destroying the Son of Jor-El as per his objective.
Astra, however, would not go down so easily.
"Let's see how dangerous you really are," Astra said. "That's right, come after me."
Doomsday charged Astra with a blood stained hatred burning through his eyes.
Chapter Forty-Two: Scavenger
Astra got one look at the creature in front of her and saw how miserable the monster known as Doomsday looked. She almost felt empathy for it, at least she would have if she didn't know for a fact empathy would be something which would get her killed. She looked at Doomsday with one eye, the monster looking back at her with the same blood lust dancing in his eyes, directed towards her.
The General made a move for Doomsday at an instant and charged him. The monster took one of her best strikes. Said strike was only a way to gauge how dangerous Doomsday was and more importantly, how well he could take a punch. Astra drew back her fist and caught Doomsday with another punch. A third punch rocked the monster and almost launched him off of his feet.
Doomsday threw his hands back with a solid growl and charged directly towards Astra. Astra blocked the next attack and came back with a series of lighting fast jabs. Each of them came inches away from striking Doomsday in a very vital part. Astra drew back and tried to nail Doomsday with a violent shot. Doomsday blocked the shot. The block left him open for another shot which crumpled Doomsday over onto the back of his head.
He was made by nature, made to be a hunter, a scavenger, and a destroyer. Astra thought, at least in the back of her mind, he would adapt to fight. The woman's eyes closed when she looked at Doomsday.
'Time to see if his resistance to heat is there, at least right now.'
Astra launched a beam of heat from her eyes, directed straight at the monster. Doomsday howled in misery when dropping down to one knee. Astra opened her eyes and blasted the monster with another solid blast of heat vision, doubling him over. Doomsday attempted to hold himself up in a standing position. He growled when almost being pulled up to his feet.
Doomsday took half of a second to get to his feet. Astra caught him with numerous punches directly to the side of the head. All of the punches rocked Doomsday and caused the skin around her knuckles to redden. The monster took half of a step back and charged towards Astra.
She jumped into the air, landed behind Doomsday, and grabbed him in a neck hold from behind.
Clark rolled over off of the ground just in time to see Astra throwing down with Doomsday. The two of them attacking each other was very violent. Clark rubbed the side of his neck and tried to get back into the fray. He flew towards Doomsday and clipped him with one attack.
Doomsday swung his large arm around to go for Clark. It left him open to an attack from Astra.
"Good, distract him," Astra said. "He has a single-minded objective directed towards you. Therefore, it's the best and potentially only way to take him down."
Clark would have to take these words from Astra as a compliment. Doomsday tried to grab a handful of Clark's face.
Daisy's frantic cry of "jump" resulted in Astra and Clark doing just that. She caught Doomsday with a seismic blast which doubled him over. The monster staggered a half of a step forward, almost collapsing down onto the ground. Daisy blasted him with a seismic blast down across the chest and almost put him down to the ground.
Doomsday popped up and rushed towards the woman. Clark swooped over, lifted Daisy off of the group, and yanked her away from Doomsday.
He flew right into direction of the General, who hoisted Doomsday off of the ground, and hurled him into the air. Astra zipped in from of Doomsday. The monster caught her around the waist from the air and plowed her into the ground with a vicious spear like a takedown. The wind had been knocked out of both parties when they fell down to the ground.
Clark wiped the blood off of his mouth and turned around just in time to see a very frantic Alex running up the road.
"Just got a call from Henshaw, the military's aware of what's happening in Smallville," Alex said.
Daisy's brow crumpled up and she frowned. "I thought Henshaw said he was doing his best to keep a lid on the situation in Smallville."
"He was," Alex said. "But, it's kind of hard to keep a lid on a force of destruction like Doomsday."
Clark zipped down the road just in time to see Astra flip into the air. She landed in a not so graceful manner. Doomsday rushed down the road, destruction in mind. Clark put himself between Doomsday and Astra and took a deep breath.
Doomsday tried to rush through the gale force of Clark's super breath. The monster took swipes in mid-air directed towards Clark when he made his attempt to get through the barrier. Clark didn't once let up on Doomsday, and in fact, he hoisted him up off of the ground and launched him back a couple of feet.
The dust kicked up and for a few seconds, there was a lack of visibility. Clark could see the creature moving into position. Doomsday landed down onto the ground.
"Herd him over towards the field!" Astra yelled.
Both Clark and Astra worked in tandem with heat vision. Doomsday's resistant skin put up a fight, despite the fact he put up a fight. Both of the Kryptonians had to work together to get Doomsday over to a certain point, towards the field. The monster struggled against their attacks and took many swings at both of them on his way there.
The monster's heart beat steadily against his chest. Doomsday almost backed up towards the field where energy crystals waited for him, close to firing up.
He stepped onto the point where the containment field erupted, sending paralyzing gas around the creature. Clark and Astra zipped off to the side.
"A portal is going to open in thirty seconds," Astra said. "It would be prudent if we cleared the area before them."
Clark scooped Daisy up off of the ground and Astra did the same for Alex. The four of them disappeared off into the night.
Doomsday struggled against the invisible force holding him back. The crystals reached their full charge and an energy portal brought Doomsday through. The monster sucked into oblivion from his location.
The HIVE agent standing in the shadows watching, slightly disappointed at such a valuable asset having been lost.
'And yet, the study of the creature's DNA proved to be quite illuminating.'
He did not know whether or not Doomsday would find his way back from wherever they sent him. All he could say was the HIVE leaders pretty much had what they needed now, and he could move on.
And should move on, before either one of the Kryptonians or a DEO agent managed to catch on to the fact he was here.
Queen Hippolyta would say her daughter, Diana, had never been the most patient girl in the world. She disagreed with her mother's assessment, quite boldly in fact. The truth of the matter was, Diana was not very patient when growing up, but she matured.
Still, playing the waiting game for a fight was always something which stirred up Diana's worst qualities of impatience. She leaned back in the chair and drummed her fingers, very anxiously.
The sounds of battle could mostly have been heard. And then there was silence. Silence always made Diana uneasy for numerous reasons. The Amazon rose up to her feet and took a look outside of the windows of the Kent Farmhouse, So far, nothing coming up the street.
Diana could not say with one hundred percent certainty whether or not someone coming up the street was a good thing. All the Amazon Princess could do was wait, watch, and hope, hope something would happen, which would result in there is good news.
'And if there's a fight, I'll be ready for it.'
The Amazon looked up to something coming down the street. Her relief and disappointment combined in one when Karen made her way down the street and landed in front of the farmhouse door. She dressed in a white tank top , a pair of jeans, a jacket, and hand her hair pulled back. The Amazon opened the door before Karen opened it up.
"I take it the danger has passed," Diana said.
A sigh of relief passed over Karen's body. She nodded and touched a hand to the top of Diana's.
"Yes," Karen said. "Clark's back to the Fortress, being checked over. He got cracked by the monster pretty good."
"He's okay, though?" Diana asked.
"It will take a couple more than a few hard hits to put Clark down for the count," Karen said. "And if he was here, he would like to thank you for keeping an eye on the house."
Diana smiled as if to show it was not a problem.
"I thought the containment unit wouldn't work for a minute," Karen admitted. "Still, I've been proven wrong before, so there's that."
The two women stepped out of the back door and made their way down the street towards the Potter House, where Lana, Lois, Chloe, and Martha were all hanging out. They would have to inform them the danger has passed.
Karen moved and knocked on the door. The door opened, and Lois answered, with a crowbar being held behind her back. Karen didn't think a crowbar would do much good against the likes of Doomsday, but she had to admire Lois for being prepared all of the same.
"Hey," Lois said. "So, the monster is gone, right?"
The weirdness in Smallville was just getting weirder. Then again, Lois had no room to talk about the unconventional, given she was in a polygamous relationship which included her cousin. Something she would never have believed herself to be a part of, almost a year ago.
In a blink of an eye, everything changed.
"Yeah, he's been sent off," Karen said. "And I think we can all agree, he never returns."
Lois wasn't about to argue against that particular point. She had spent her time watching the news and caught a glimpse of the monster's path of rage. The destruction the monster underwent was more than immense.
"Clark's fine?"
Martha Kent stepped outside in the room to join the girls. She smiled when seeing Karen and Diana there.
"Yes, your son's fine," Karen said. "He took a couple of bad hits, but it could have been much worse."
Martha wasn't about to argue against this point, things could have gone much worse for her son if things had gone differently. She needed more than two hands for a number of times something like this could happen.
Lana and Chloe made their way out, and Karen and Diana smiled and greeted both of the girls. Karen locked eyes with Chloe, and Chloe looked like she had information.
"Do you think the two of us could talk?" Chloe asked.
"No problem," Karen said.
The two girls made their way outside. Now it was completely devoid of any rampaging forces of destruction, the area around Smallville was very peaceful. Karen would go as far as to say it was a very nice night.
"I've been doing some digging into HIVE. Shocking, I know."
Karen wasn't shocked at all. She just opened her hand and gave Chloe the opportunity to keep talking. When she had the opening, Chloe persisted in going along.
"None of the information I've received is any good," Chloe said. "They're working with the government as well…..they've been commissioned to find ways to build stronger soldiers, to combat terrorism."
"You mean the entire government?" Karen asked.
"Well, not every person in the government is working with HIVE, but they have their supporters in Congress, the Senate, and it stretches out to the White House staff," Chloe said. "Not sure if it goes to the president himself, but….isn't the president these days just a puppet for big business anyway?"
Karen couldn't say.
"And HIVE is backed by some big businesses," Chloe said. "I haven't been able to go too deep thought. It's lucky I found as much as I did here….and don't worry, I covered my tracks."
An experienced hacker like Chloe covering her tracks was only part of the territory. She wasn't about to leave behind any footprints that could come back to bite her.
"I've got all of the information here," Chloe said. "Maybe you and Clark can take a look at it."
Karen smiled, they would have to cross-reference the information Chloe found, with the information Thea's hacker dug up on HIVE as well. Working from two sides, maybe they could find something.
"Doesn't look good."
Chloe shrugged. "Well, given how they're playing with fire with Doomsday, isn't that obvious?"
Alex Danvers returned to the DEO. She was very lucky not to have been flattened like a pancake going up into battle against Doomsday. She turned over towards Daisy who stepped towards her. Her partner, best friend, and unofficial third sister leaned down against the wall, sipping a cup of coffee, and wincing in response.
"So, you got rocked pretty hard?" Alex asked.
"I've had worse."
Alex shook her head at her partner's stubbornness. "It doesn't mean you haven't gotten whacked pretty hard."
"Like I said, I've had worse," Daisy said. "Bruised ribs aren't fun, but like I said, I've had much worse."
Alex couldn't exactly argue with Daisy's point, of the other woman having a lot worse. Both of them had their fair share of bumps, bruises, and scrapes out on the field. It came with the territory of being super-secret government agents.
"I'm glad I'm in here, and I'm not going to be the one who is going to scrape the field of all of the DNA, both of Clark's and Doomsday's," Daisy said.
Alex answered with a light shrug while shaking her head. "It's a good thing they're cleansing the field. The last thing we need is some kind of Superman/Doomsday hybrid."
"Superman?" Daisy asked.
"Well, do you have a better name to refer to Clark as?" Alex asked. "What would you call him, the Blur?"
Daisy shook her head. She couldn't really think of a better name, to be honest. Then again, most superhero names weren't exactly the bastion of creativity, something man, or something boy, or something woman, or something girl. Thankfully, she adopted the simple and abrupt "Quake" for her codename. Being called Quakegirl or Quakewoman didn't just roll off of the tongue.
"So, that's what we're calling him," Daisy said.
"To be fair, I blatantly stole it from Tess Mercer," Alex said. "Speaking of which, she's here at headquarters, overseeing everything. I get the feeling she doesn't completely trust the DEO."
Daisy acted all shocked and appalled. To be honest, the DEO had to take some steps to ensure the world was safe which she was not entirely comfortable with. Still, as much as Daisy hated to admit it, everything like this really did have to be done.
"So, you're fine?" Alex asked.
"Yes," Daisy said. "If you want to though…you can check me over. Give me a full exam to make sure everything is functioning as I should."
Daisy looked over in the direction of the television screen. The usual fear mongering of the press was in full force. They were news reports about how aliens infiltrated their world and might have already been in the deepest reaches. She was glad the sound was on mute, such reports just made her want to punch the television screen.
"They should be worried about HIVE," Daisy said.
"To be fair, HIVE is a lot more of a shadow threat than aliens," Alex answered with a shrug.
One of the DEO agents made their way down the hallway and stopped just in front of Alex and Daisy at the end of the hallway. Daisy raised an eyebrow when looking at the DEO agent.
"Yes, can I help you?"
He looked to be a new recruit, poor guy. If dealing with something like Doomsday was something his first day brought, Daisy, didn't really know what to say. She felt a little bit of sympathy for the poor man.
"The Director wants to see you two, he's giving a briefing to the senior agents."
The man shivered and looked about ready to pass out.
"Thanks," Daisy said. "You should get a cup of coffee, you look like you really need one."
"But, it's almost midnight."
The sternness in Daisy's voice could not be fault or argued against. "Trust me, you really need a cup of coffee."
He needed something significantly stronger than a cup of coffee if Daisy was blunt. Still, DEO regulations prevented them from drinking on the job. A shame, because this job made a few drinks necessary.
Tess's supervision of the DEO's work allowed them to obtain a small strand of Doomsday's DNA. A small strand told them a lot, as Astra thought when she was looking over it.
HIVE could do a lot with such a tiny sample of DNA, and she was pretty certain they had more than a tiny sample. They would be extremely foolish if they did not hold onto some of Doomsday's DNA in the process. Astra leaned closer towards the central point, frowning when she looked things over everything.
'This DNA could be used for good, in curing diseases, if utilized properly.'
Perhaps Tess should have picked up more. However, Astra also realized there would be bad for the good. The way Doomsday was created made him unstable. He took on a human camouflage to adapt to certain surroundings. Astra's frown deepened when looking over every single point of the Doomsday DNA. She came to one very interesting, and also very frustrating conclusion.
'It can be used for both the good, in curing diseases. And also, the bad in creating a very twisted army of Doomsday clones.'
Astra had no desire to replicate such a monster. It was the furthest thing from her mind. One of them was more than enough. The battle wrecked her even enough.
The DNA strand looked more alive than most did. Astra took extra care to seal it away and took extra steps to make sure it had been secured. Only a Kryptonian could access the locks. No member of HIVE could even get close to breaking through the DNA's seal, at least in Astra's mind, they couldn't.
Astra stepped away from the DNA chamber and looked over her shoulder. She noticed her daughter standing outside, walking back and forth. Astra took half of a step outside and came face to face with Karen on the other side.
"Yes, Kara?"
"You were very unfocused for you out there."
Karen's blunt statement caught Astra off guard. She raised an eyebrow when looking towards Karen.
"What do you mean I was unfocused?" Astra asked.
"You would have taken Doomsday down a lot sooner if you had been focused," Karen said. "He would have been brought into the Forbidden Zone in pieces."
"Maybe," Astra said. "Or maybe you just underestimate how powerful a creature the likes of Doomsday could be."
Karen smiled; she thought it could be just as much. She stepped closer towards Astra, their eyes meeting up against each other.
"Maybe," Karen said. "But, I think your mind is elsewhere. You've been denied certain pleasures your entire life, and most certainly since you've been in the Phantom Zone."
"I don't think life…"
"Yes, you have," Karen said with a smile. "It's time for you to have something more stable in your life. If you don't, you could go off the rails again."
"I didn't think you thought about my personal well-being that much," Astra said.
Karen shook her head. Just because there were many things she disagreed with, what her mother did, it did not mean Karen wasn't concerned. She had thought about it for a very long time.
"Come with me."
Karen didn't speak in a request, no she ordered Astra to come along with her. Astra stepped around the corner, just in time to come face to face with Clark who was waiting.
"So, how are you feeling?" Astra asked.
She looked over his body, realizing he was not wearing a shirt. There were a couple of bruises on his body, but they healed. Astra spent some time analyzing every inch of the younger man's body, for the purpose of science.
"Your marriage is one of arrangement," Karen said. "I've talked to Clark, and Lara and they've both agreed you could use something more satisfying in your life."
"Yes, if you want to be a part of this," Clark said.
"Do you think I should?" Astra asked.
Clark and Karen both could see she stalled, almost afraid of what would happen if she took the plunge. The older Kara and Clark both looked at her with smiles.
Finally, the Last Son of Krypton answered her question. "What I think really doesn't matter, does it? It's what you want?"
Clark took a step forward, it was now or never. Astra leaned towards him, looking surprisingly anxious, almost afraid of disappointing such a specimen in front of her. Clark gripped the back of her head and guided her into a kiss. The first true kiss she ever received in her life.
Everything had been so formal before. Clark's tongue delving into his mouth made her feel, and she had been guided onto the bed, with him kissing her. She could only return the kiss with more of a feverish exchange of saliva. Both of them wanted this more than anything.
"Let me see you, all of you."
Karen already went behind Clark and started to undo his pants with a smile to show Astra what she was missing.
Twelve inches of prime, thick throbbing meat unleashed in front of Astra's face. She looked at it, in surprisingly wonder. She put a hand on it to feel it up in surprise.
"Maybe I should show you how to handle him?"
Karen dropped down to her knees and took Clark into her mouth with practiced ease. The warm mouth surrounding Clark's manhood caused him to grunt. His throbbing hard rod pushed deep inside of Karen's waiting mouth. She wrapped her lips around his hard rod, sucked him in, and released his cock.
Astra watched, greedily following the process of Clark's hard rod inside of her daughter's mouth. She needed it, every single last inch, buried inside of her mouth, and inside of her.
"Try it?"
The General was determined not to disappoint. She kneeled before Kal-El and took the mighty rod inside her mouth. A tight seal formed around Clark's throbbing hard cock.
"Damn," Clark breathed heavily. "She's good, a natural, it must run in the family."
Astra was pleased he was pleased. Her warm mouth proceeded to explore every throbbing inch of Kal-El's mighty rod. She wanted to get it nice and wet for intrusion in her body. Astra swirled her tongue around him, tasting the aching manhood all of the way. She sucked him into her mouth and released him.
Clark could tell by the lust in her eyes she wanted it, and Clark wanted it too. He wanted a nice, fresh, Kryptonian cunt for him to explore. He pulled away from her mouth and smiled.
Karen moved behind Astra when she got up and rubbed her breasts through the woman's uniform. The Kryptonian General practically melted underneath her lovely daughter's ministrations. Karen pulled down the uniform for her, revealing Astra's firm, tight body, with perfect breasts, a toned stomach, a pussy with a strip of dark hair coming down it, a thick toned ass, and long legs.
"Look at her, she's dripping," Karen said. "She's wet."
The jamming of the daughter's fingers into her mother's pussy made Clark nice and erect for him. His cock called for Astra's warm center to be driven into. He couldn't hold back his lust for the beautiful older woman any longer. He needed a piece of her, and he needed a piece of her in the worst possible way. Clark's hunger grew even more prominent when he stepped closer towards Astra.
"Yes, oh baby, take me," Astra mewed hungrily. "My pussy, it wants you so badly."
Her thighs spreading apart invited Clark to take the plunge. He stepped closer towards Astra who laid back on the bed, ready to receive. Clark was more than ready to give.
The first few inches of Clark's cock stretched Astra out and caused her to scream in pleasure. Clark drove himself down into him.
"Oh, you beautiful man!" Astra yelled. "Fuck me, senseless….fuck the bitch out of me!"
Clark pulled himself out of her and then jammed inside of her. Astra's strong legs gripped Clark in a way they would crush the ribs and pelvis of a non-Kryptonian. Clark slid almost all the way out of her and pushed deeper into Astra.
Karen watched the of them. Astra's screams escalated. Karen slid off her shirt, and jeans, along with her panties, and bra as well. She rubbed her pussy, watching Clark drill Astra from underneath.
"Fuck," Astra said. "You're so good…..I didn't even have to teach you….."
"No, that was your daughter's job," Clark said. "She's such a good cock-sucker, good at taking a cock in her pussy, and in her ass as well. I wonder if you're good in taking a cock in your ass as well."
Astra clenched him at the thought of all of the dirty, raunchy things her daughter did with the man she considered her cousin. And also the thought of, as Clark so eloquently put it, taking a cock in her ass. But, not just any cock, Kal-El's meaty, thick rod.
Clark rammed into Astra, fully away from Karen furiously masturbating off to one side. Her heart beat faster. Clark motioned for Karen to get on her hands and knees, and she did.
The moment Astra recovered from this particular orgasm, would be the moment where Clark would take his plunge into Karen, and work her pussy hard with his rod. He picked up the pace and drilled Astra into the bed. Astra's hips rolled up to meet Clark's intruding manhood.
The orgasm to end all orgasm's cascaded through Astra's body. Her body sized up and shuddered with a multiple doses of pleasure.
Clark slid out of Astra and aimed his rod towards Karen's willing center. He pushed his cock into her opened lips and rammed deep inside of her.
The moment Clark's cock entered Karen, she came unglued and screamed. Clark balanced his leverage on her hips and pushed deep inside of her. The manhood shoved deep inside of Karen's body, and she worked him, worked him so hard Clark thought he was going to lose it with multiple thrusts inside of the goddess beneath him. Karen clamped down onto Clark when he pushed his rod inside of her waiting body. He pulled back and shoved inside of her.
Karen's hair flew wildly in a ponytail. She considered cutting her hair, but given how Clark grabbed onto her ponytail and fucked her from behind, she was glad she didn't. Long hair really did have some great leverage in being rammed from behind.
"Fuck me!" Karen mewled at the top of her lungs.
She had a particularly devious thought and leaned in to take her mother's breasts. She licked and sucked on them, the stiffening nipples pushed into her mouth. Astra jolted back to life.
Clark rode Karen the rest of the way, feeling the pressure of her clamping thighs around his cock. Astra demanded his attention once again, and Clark wouldn't be the one to deny her certain pleasures.
Karen realized her time was up the second Clark's cock left her. There would be more than enough time to be pleasured once Clark fucked Astra sideways.
The mature Kryptonian woman on the bed looked up at the young stud who was about to enter her one more time. She smiled and enjoyed the feeling of the man's handsome face buried between her ample chest just seconds before his manhood pierced her all the way.
Their hips collided together in a passionate exchange of them thrusting back and forth against each other. The concussive sounds could be heard.
"Make me yours, Kal-El," Astra moaned in his ear. "I want to feel you, all of you, buried inside me. Don't hold back on me, please, don't hold back on in."
Clark had no intention whatsoever of holding back on Astra. He just kept working his hips back and forth against hers. She clenched him hard inside of her and released him. Astra looked intent to milk his breeding rod.
Astra thought prolonged exposure to the Phantom Zone may have compromised her ability to reproduce, which was a shame. Then again, she hadn't had a chance to test that particular theory, until now. Clark pushed deep inside of her and pulled almost out of her. The head of the cock rested on Astra's entrance just a second before he lowered inside of her with the longest, most powerful thrust possible.
Their bodies collided together. Astra's voice was muffled and realized it was because Karen hovered over her face. Temptation visited Astra, along with her daughter's sweet pussy.
Karen titled her head back and the sensation of Astra's tongue delving inside of her pussy drove her absolutely bonkers with pleasure. Her mother picked up on what she wanted.
"Good, thank you, it feels so good," Karen said. "But, if the rumors are true….you have far more experience with licking a pussy than you do with a cock."
Astra refused to confirm or deny this particular fact. She delved herself into Karen's center and tasted the tangy juices coming from the inside.
As nice and sweet as her daughter's pussy was, the very large and very powerful cock slamming into her could not be denied. Clark gripped onto the side of Astra's legs and almost pulled her off of the bed before he brought the point of himself back inside of her. The two side slapped together in a very pleasurable encounter with each other.
Astra slid her warm walls all the way up on Clark. He gripped onto her so hard.
"You're going to make me lose it, you know," Clark said. "But, that's what you want, isn't it?"
The General could not answer on the account of wrapping her warm lips around Karen's hot, juicy pussy. She sucked her lips nice and hard, and then shoved a tongue inside of her.
Still, the long, throbbing cock working her insides over made Astra get very close to becoming undone. One more long thrust would send her over the edge.
"Fill, her up," Karen said. "Fill her up with your cum."
Clark pushed his manhood and bottomed out inside of Astra. The warmth of her inviting body made him want to bury himself into her forever. Unfortunately, even Clark had his limits. The heavy load threatened to burst and be released inside of Astra.
He bottomed out inside of the Kryptonian beneath him. Astra held onto Clark with her legs which wrapped around him and pumped a sticky, gushing load of cum inside of her pussy.
Karen pulled away from Astra and left her driven breathless. She moved over onto Clark's lap no sooner than he pulled away from Astra. Her inviting breasts pushed in Clark's face. Clark cupped the wonders in his hand and gave them a nice, firm squeeze.
"You know what I want," Karen said. "And you know what I need."
Clark wasn't about to argue with Karen now, he knew what she wanted, and what she needed. Her wet slit lowered over Clark's cock who got rather hard. The two Kryptonians joined together at the loins like it was always meant to be.
His long, throbbing cock slid deep inside Karen's most depths.
"It turned me on how you fucked my mother really good," the older Kara purred in his ear. "I want you to do the same to me. I want you to show me what you can do with your big, strong cock."
Clark showed her before, numerous times what he could do, but he wouldn't be opposed to giving Karen a refresher course. He grabbed onto the hips of the goddess sliding up and down on his pole. His throbbing manhood shoved deep inside and went out of her. Clark lifted his hips up and slid it completely out of her.
"How's that?"
"Mmm, good honey," Karen said. "A little bit harder as well...LIKE THAT!"
Clark buried himself into Karen. She responded by bouncing higher and higher on him with an endless amount of energy dancing through her eyes. She bounded up and brought herself down onto the point of his crotch. It buried inside of Karen's gripping center.
The ample chest of Karen in Clark's hands made him feel really excited about what he was doing. He took those round breasts and gave them a nice little squeeze. Karen screamed out loud. He could tell how much she loved Clark playing with her tits, and Clark paid special attention to those juicy nipples and firm breasts.
Astra looked up at the sight. Her thighs were rammed raw by Clark, but it did not mean she couldn't watch, and she would watch. She would watch Clark go all day and all night with her beautiful daughter until there was nothing else for him to do.
"Fuck her," Astra managed.
Clark's roaming hands played with every lovely inch of Karen. He explored her body, nook, and cranny, and allowed her to moan out when coming down onto his cock. Her wet center tensed around him and released with a flood around Clark's manhood.
"Your turn."
The dance escalated a little bit more with the two of them joining together at the hip with each other. Karen came one more time before Clark prepared to do so himself.
The tension inside of his balls reached a fever pitch and had been unleashed inside of Karen's dripping womanhood. She slid halfway down onto him and released him with a series of fluid pumps inside of her body. He flooded her body with an obscene amount of seed.
Karen thanked herself for the nano-technology they used to prevent pregnancy. She did want to bare Kal's child one day, but for now, she wanted to focus on her studies.
The two of them shuddered to a stop, their mutual orgasm sealed. It felt so good to achieve optimal release.
One look at Astra's smile indicated she was not quite done for the night. Karen opened up Clark's cock for Astra to take her control.
The younger Kara stood on the outside of the next room, face red, palms shaking, and heart racing pretty fast. She went to check up on Clark to see how he was doing, and she realized her cousin and aunt made sure he was doing fine. Kara reached up and checked for a nose bleed, but realized she didn't have one.
'I watch way too much anime,' she thought to herself. 'How else do I explain the tentacle dreams?'
"Kara?"
Kara jumped a little bit. Raya stood a few inches behind her.
"Do you think you can help me with something?" Raya asked. "We have a lead on the Kandorian orb….and I wanted to see if you could assist me in tracking it."
"Yeah, sure."
Kara moved down the hallway, not noticing someone watching from the next chamber with a shit-eating grin on her face.