Chapter Fifty-Two: Adjustments
The last few days passed without too much of an incident. Then again, everything would be pretty silent after Lobo arriving in town and then there being a War World being brought to Earth. Clark thought his usual adventures were insane. Little did he know there would be even more insanity to come.
The Kandorians, meanwhile, had been settling into their new world on Earth. Astra thought many of them had potential, but it was going to take a while for them to adapt to the new world. They mentally came from a Krypton which was flourishing, despite being part of a huge civil war. It was a huge adjustment for them to come to the determination their lives had changed.
Clark hoped their lives would flourish here on Earth. Both Karas adapted well enough, Astra did in her own ways, Raya, Lara, and Alura did as well. They were making the most of their time on the world which was a fair bit different than the one they left behind.
Now, Clark and Karen arrived, dressed in their civilian attire, at the museum of Metropolis. They were heading to visit an old friend who was out of town. Karen flashed a smile at Clark the second both of them dropped down onto the ground from their flight to Smallville.
"So, what do you think Diana and Doctor Sandsmark stumbled upon this time?" Karen asked.
Clark really didn't give it too much thought, at least just not yet. "It could be anything. They were gone for a few weeks, and Diana said Doctor Sandsmark was pretty confident this was going to be a big trip."
"I think the question I'm getting at, do you think they brought back any Kryptonian artifacts?" Karen asked.
The slab they had many months ago was a very interesting curiosity, although merely a relic of Ancient Krypton. It depicted a legend of a time long ago. Karen hoped they could uncover more information about it as time went on, but for now, they had other concerns which mandated a fair amount of their time.
"Why don't we go in and asked them?" Clark asked.
"Sounds like a plan."
The two survivors of Krypton stepped into the museum. They came across Doctor Helena Sandsmark, who was just talking on a cell phone. A frown appeared on her face when she was discussing something with the person on the cell phone. Clark and Karen hung back, they did not want to intrude on the woman's conversation, even if there was something in her eyes which was very much akin to supreme frustration.
"I disagree, I think the trip was more than worth it," Helena said. "I think some of the exhibits will bring in new revenue….yes, I understand."
Helena had the look of someone who was going to go around in circles just to convince someone that it was a good thing what they were doing. Karen knew some people were stubborn and the look on Helena's face showed how stubborn a lot of people were being.
"Of course, seeing is believing," Helena said. "And once you see the people this brings in, I think you'll figure out this assignment is for the best. Yes, I understand, but what's life without a few risks…..I'll talk to you on Monday….are you making the trip? Fine, I'll see you then."
The look of pure exasperation on the face of Doctor Helena Sandsmark only increased when the woman hung up the phone. Her sighing doubled, but she turned around in time to see the two Kryptonians with a smile.
"Kara…..I guess it's Karen now, " Doctor Sandsmark said.
"Don't worry, people are struggling to make that adjustment," Karen said. "Hell, I have to….having a secret identity can be a lot of work…Clark has a lot of practice because he is Clark Kent, Kal-El is the foreign one to him."
"It's nice to meet you again, Doctor Sandsmark," Clark responded.
Clark took the hand of the woman, who smiled. She peered over the pair of glasses at him, shaking his hand for a minute before slowly pulling away.
"Trust me, Clark, the pleasure is all mine," Doctor Sandsmark said. "I actually wondered when you two would show up. We've got some interesting artifacts from our trip, but nothing Kryptonian now, this time, sadly."
The Doctor could see the disappointment filling the face of Karen, even though the beautiful blonde woman tried not to show it. She looked towards Helena and tried to keep the disappointment off of her face. The Doctor waved her off as if this wasn't that big of a deal, and to be honest, it wasn't that big of a deal.
"Well, I didn't….it was a long shot you would find anything, anyway," Karen responded. "But, you did find something, which got you excited, didn't you?"
Astra would have liked to see some of those lost Kryptonians safely away. Hell, Karen would have, along with Lara, Raya, and Alura, and pretty much anyone. Humanity had come a long way, but even the most stone-age Kryptonian technology was very advanced for humans. Put the technology in the wrong hands, and there would be some huge problems.
"Yes, I found some things," Helena said. "If you would like me to show you what we've found and then…"
"Actually, we would, wouldn't we?" Clark asked.
"Oh, yes, we would actually," Karen said.
She didn't mean to imply anything else to the contrary. Sometimes, her own disappoint got the better of her. Doctor Sandsmark smiled and escorted both of them down the hallway. They turned around the corner and caught sight with Diana, and Diana was not alone.
The Princess of the Amazons talked to a beautiful woman who was a significant amount shorter than Diana. She dressed in a business assemble, with red hair coming down past her shoulders and a pair of piercing green eyes which shined.
"This is fascinating," she muttered.
"It's nice to see someone thinks that," Diana responded. She noticed the two newest members of the party walking around the corner and flashed them an accommodating smile. "Diana, Karen, it's good to see you both."
"It's good to be here," Clark said. "So, how was your trip?"
"Going through the tombs was very exciting actually," Diana said. "I was just showing Doctor Hall what we found."
"Doctor Shayera Hall at your service," she responded. "I helped fund the trip, hoping to find a curiosity some of my people stumbled upon a while back, and I'm glad to say they did."
"My name's Clark Kent, this is my cousin, Karen," Clark responded to her. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Doctor Hall."
"Please, Shayera," she said.
Clark could see the eyes of the shorter redhead looking him over for a minute. He was more than used to pretty much every woman he met giving him a once over the moment they met him. It put a very prominent smile over his face.
"Well, Shayera, it's a pleasure to meet you," Clark said. "What did Diana find that got you so excited anyway?"
"Here, let us show you," Diana said.
The party of four made their way over. Clark saw out of the corner of his eye, Doctor Sandsmark had gotten a call from another one of her investors, hopefully, this call ended up a slight bit better than the last investor call went. Clark felt a little bit bad how things were going for her.
'Then again, they want results, and they don't care about the historical interest. It's all about the bottom line, and nothing else.'
"See, right there," Diana responded.
Diana extended her finger and showed them three statues of what looked like winged human beings. One of them carried a shining mace in his hand, which was different from the rest of the statue's metal. The other carried an ax, and the third warrior did not have any weapons in his hand.
"It looks like a form of Nth metal," Karen said.
"Nth metal?"
Shayera crumbled up her face in a frown. Why did something about this Nth metal sound so familiar to her? Couldn't she process it anyway?
"Yes, commonly used by the people of Thangar, the Thangarians," Karen said. "They must have visited Earth at one time, a long time ago."
She wasn't sure what was the fate of the Thangarians. They were a race constantly at war.
"Why don't you tell me more about these Thangarians?" Shayera asked. "What were they like? Did they have any reasons from visiting Earth?"
"Well, I don't claim myself to be an expert on alien culture," Karen said. She flashed a brief smile to Shayera. "But, I'll do my best to tell you."
The two of them moved off, and Diana looked towards Clark.
"She was detached with all of the other things we found," Diana said. "But the statues of armor, and the weapons and this Nth metal I guess, that interests her for some reason. I don't know why."
"Well, everyone has their own areas of interests, "Clark said.
"Sorry, we couldn't find anything Kryptonian," Diana answered. "I think there's still some of that technology out there, although I don't have the slightest idea where it might be."
"Hey, it's okay," Clark responded, leaning over and placing a hand on the top of Diana's. "We'll find it eventually, it can't hide forever."
Diana could sense their frustration. If there were countless Amazon artifacts just out in the breeze, she would want to have collected as many as possible. She shuddered to think what would happen if some of the armor or weapons which had been forged by the Amazons, had fallen into the wrong hands.
"Someone is calling me," Clark said. "Do you think I could…"
"Hey, go ahead," Diana said. "I have to help Doctor Sandsmark with inventory anyway."
Clark smiled, that sounded like the most exciting job in the world. He moved over to pull out the phone and answer it.
"Hey, Clark," Daisy said. "Just wondering if you forgot about the fact you're joining Alex and I on a night on the town?"
"No, I haven't forgotten," Clark said. "You're still going out at six, right?"
"Yeah, right," Daisy said. "Unless there's an alien invasion or something which needs the DEO's attention, we're going to be out in the town then. Hopefully, we'll see you real soon."
"Oh, I'll be there," Clark said.
Clark hoped for a nice, time relaxing out on the town, with good friends.
Astra tucked her hand underneath the chin and stared at the computer in the Fortress of Solitude with a frown on her face. She waited for Raya to come back with the latest medical reports. Alura and Lara were currently working on something else. A couple of upgrades at the monitoring of Earth would be beneficial. They just barely missed a War World coming here.
"So, do we have some upgrades?" Astra asked.
"Thea and Helena both generously offered me the Queen and Wayne satellites respectfully to increase the scope around our monitoring," Lara said. "We should be able to piggy back if the world's governments see anything. They might pick up things they won't be able to interpret, well until it's too late."
Astra just responded with a nod. That was the problem with the governments across the world, in any world. They didn't interpret things until it was much too late.
"And the Kandorians are adapting," Lara said. "We haven't told them they should have powers underneath the yellow sun."
"And they don't yet," Astra said. "Which means Jor-El's little scheme worked."
She didn't agree with many things Jor-El did, but Astra agreed with this one thing. Having a group of superpowered Kryptonians who would be assimilating on a new world, that would be a disaster waiting to happen. The measures Jor-El took to make sure they did not get empowered, well, it was useful. Astra would have to give him points, even if crafting his Artificial Intelligence off of an archaic process left a fair amount of work to be desired.
"Are you surprised?" Lara asked.
"Oh, he succeeds when he sets out to do something," Astra said. "I'll give him that. His results might not be to the benefit of everyone around him, but I'm not discounting the man's intelligence. No, not in the slightest."
Lara could have smiled. She never thought Astra would pay Jor-El such a big compliment. It was a strange situation she was entering. She moved over to double-check the monitoring of the planet.
"War World would have been very nice to have," Astra said casually. "You know, just in case we have an actually dangerous invasion."
"You have your army of Kandorians," Alura said walking over. "Well, technically, they're Faora's army of Kandorians."
"They were Zod's army of Kandorians," Astra said. "But, I'm not about to extract him from the box. Maybe if I could find a way to make him an obedient female, who would comply to my every whim, and kneel before me, but the Fortress's technology isn't quite adaptable to that."
"Plus, you would have to turn him into a female in mind, body, and soul," Indigo said. "And your monitoring network is one hundred percent solid, without any holes in it."
"Thanks, Indigo, I appreciate that," Lara said.
Lara hated to say it, but Earth was in a very delicate state right about now. There were many things going for the budding young planet, and also, there many things going against it. They had the potential to be as great as Krypton. And the people of Earth also had the potential to make the same mistakes which lead to Krypton's doom.
They hoped for a brighter future, even though there were some times where the future didn't look as bright as they wanted it to be.
The entrance of the Fortress opened, and Raya stepped back in.
"So, what's the report?" Astra asked her.
"All of them are in various stages of denial regarding the end of Krypton," Raya said. "I would have to concur with General Astra's earlier report, it would be better off them not having any kind of abilities here on Earth. They might use them to work out their aggressions."
"We don't want it to happen, not if we can help it anyway," Astra said.
"It's a nasty shock some of them are in a new world," Raya said. "I haven't broken it to them they were clones….the last thing about ninety percent of them remember, they were getting a routine examination for the Kandorian army."
Alura whistled, she had forgotten about that particular process. The only reason why she had awareness of being a clone, was her own merging with her artificial intelligence self.
"Did some of them know they were being cloned?" Lara asked.
"Faora was one of the few who did," Astra said. "But, many of the others, they did not. I would have never allowed myself to be volunteered for the process."
"Well, you are one of a kind," Alura said. "And I think we thank Rao each and every day for that."
Astra smiled, her sister was sharp enough to give her both a compliment and fire off an insult at the same time. She really appreciated that, in her own way. Regardless, they had a lot of work to do, at least in Astra's mind. They didn't have that much time to get it done, unfortunately.
"We're going to have to keep them confined to the portion of the Arctic we have them in," Indigo concluded. "And monitor them, for any signs the blue Kryptonian and red solar radiation bombardment Jor-El gave to them, wearing off."
"Is there a chance of that happening?" Astra asked.
"There is approximately a ten percent statistical probability of it happening, yes," Indigo said. "But, certain circumstances can raise that statistical probability up anywhere between fourteen point seven percent and nineteen point three percent."
"There's a chance then," Lara said. "Keep monitoring the situation, Indy."
A sound of someone dropping behind them, Karen, caused them to turn around.
"Any luck, Kara?" Astra asked.
The older blond Kryptonian responded by shaking her head. "No, they didn't find anything."
Astra hung her head in disappointment at the thought they didn't find anything. She thought it would be a long shot, but still.
"Okay, very well, let me fill you in on what's been happening to the Kandorians."
Clark took one look at Daisy and Alex, and there was no question, both of them were beautiful. Alex wore the classic little black dress, and Daisy dressed in a nice green dress. Both dresses flattered their bodies. The way the two of them carried on with each other made Clark want to ask a question. It was actually something he had been wondering about for a long time.
"Well, I dragged you all the way to the club," Daisy said. "I think it's only fair, I offer you one dance….but I have to warn you, I'm not very graceful on my feet."
"Hey, no one's perfect," Clark said.
"Oh, I think she's far beyond not being perfect," Alex said, a grin flickering over her face.
Daisy shot her long-time friend and partner at the DEO a very dirty look, before holding onto Clark's hand and pulling him out in the middle of the club. The music started to rock around them. Daisy wrapped her arm around Clark and guided him into the central part of the dance floor.
"Well, you're not standing on my feet," Clark said.
Clark pushed Daisy back and caused her to gasp for a second. He turned her around, as the music of the club picked up.
"Oh, Mr. Kent, you're not too bad," Daisy said. "Could use some work, but hey, those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?"
Clark smiled at her thought. He could see Alex over by the bar, getting a drink.
"I'm surprised she's interested in you actually," Daisy said. "Not that I can blame her, oh heavens no, no one could blame anyone for taking any interest in you. She's just….well she's never had much of an interest in other guys."
He took this comment with an interested, raised eyebrow. Daisy just smiled and leaned a little bit closer towards Clark.
"The two of you….you're very close to each other, aren't you?" Clark asked.
"Well, we started as roommates in college," Daisy said. "Then we were partners in the DEO, and partners….in other ways if you catch our drift."
Clark took a half of a second to just comprehend that. He wasn't really surprised, given how the two of them seemed to work together. He didn't want to say too much. Their personal life was their business after all, and Clark thought he shouldn't interfere with it at all.
"We're always looking for new ways, to spice things up," Daisy said.
One of the things they had not tried, is bringing a guy into their relationship. Daisy figured Alex was more bisexual than Alex thought she was, even if her preferences leaned towards women. It was just, she didn't really rule out guys to be honest, which was perfectly fine for Daisy.
"She's been a bit….well, I think she's warmed up to the idea after spending some time with you," Daisy said. "Plus, she wants to do something that her older sister hasn't done yet."
Before Clark could react, Daisy leaned in and stole a brief kiss from him. The kiss was extremely brief, but at the same time, extremely intense. The two parties pulled away from each other, with Daisy dropping back on the ground, a slight smile on her face.
Clark moved his way over, to join Alex. She eyed him up a bit curiously.
"So, I don't know why, but I like you," Alex said. "Actually, I can think of some reasons why…..you're making me question my sexuality all over again, you know."
"Sorry about that," Clark responded.
"Hey, don't apologize," Daisy said. "Sometimes we have to go through this journey…..you just like women more, but you won't say no if the right guy comes along."
Daisy leaned over Clark and gave Alex a reassuring kiss on the lips. The two women pulled away, a strand of saliva being left between their lips. It looked rather nice.
"I've got us the VIP room in the club," Daisy said. "Well, I didn't get it. Patricia Swann did. She owed me a favor."
Clark could only imagine. Regardless, Daisy took Clark in one arm and took Alex in the other arm, and marched them into the office. Alex shook her head, torn between exasperation and anticipation.
"You're really not going to let this one go, will you?" Alex asked.
"Not when you need to get laid badly, I'm not," Daisy said.
"I thought that was your job," Alex said.
"All of the times you've been undressing Clark with your eyes, it's obvious you want….well it's obvious what you want," Daisy said. "It's not as bad as the times where you check out your sister."
"Carol or Kara?" Alex asked.
"All of the above," Daisy said. "But, I don't blame you."
Clark found himself pushed back onto the couch. Daisy and Alex stood a few feet away from him, predatory looks dancing in the eyes of both of these beautiful young women.
"So, we're going to do this, aren't we?" Alex asked. "We're really going to do this?"
"Just kiss him," Daisy said. "You never know until you try it."
Alex leaned in and took the plunge, plunging her tongue into Clark's mouth. She half expected to think this was a really bad idea. Clark reached the back of Alex's head and slowly worked his tongue, exploring the inside of her mouth.
She was a bit less reluctant now with the kiss and pushed deeper into his mouth with her tongue. His hands lightly touched her body. Alex could feel his hand on the back of her leg and it gave her shivers.
Daisy slowly slipped the strap of her dress down and stood before them, wearing nothing, but a pair of lacy black panties and a bra to match. She sauntered over and bit down on her lip. She motioned for Alex to pull away from Clark and she did.
Now, Daisy jumped in for the attack, giving Clark a passionate kiss. She straddled his lap, and slowly pulled his shirt over his head. Her hands lightly caressed his muscles. Clark tightened his grip on Daisy's ass when she ground up against him.
Alex decided to move to Clark's side, and wrap her hands around his neck. She kissed the side of the young man's neck and kissed him the side of the face.
Daisy and Alex peppered kisses down Clark's body, worshipping it like the god they thought he was. They were getting closer towards his pants. Daisy stopped and smiled, cupping Clark through the edge of his pants.
"Looks like someone needs some air."
Without another word, Daisy slid Clark's pants off and pulled out his huge cock. It had been let out in the air, and Alex's eyes glued onto it.
"I can't wait to have my lips wrapped around that handsome thing," Daisy said. "And I think you'll agree, my lips are perfect for sucking cock, really big cock."
Daisy wrapped her hand around the base of Clark's cock and she groaned. The woman's perfect lips slowly wrapped around the head, which caused Clark to lift his hips up to allow her further access. Every inch of Clark's cock had been surrounded by the warm pleasure.
Alex slipped her dress off, dressed in a pair of red panties with a bra to match. She slowly dropped down, kissing Clark's abs when going down. She could not believe she indulged in this body so much. The dark haired Danvers woman worked her way down Clark.
'Okay, I am Bi, damn it, Daisy, why did you have to be right?'
She licked the side of his cock, the part which did not enter Daisy's mouth. Clark grabbed the back of Daisy's head and worked a little bit more into his mouth.
Daisy took Clark as deep into her throat as possible. She gave him a very messy blowjob, with lots of deep-throating, and sucking, and it tasted so good.
"How do you do it?" Alex asked.
Daisy pulled off of Clark's cock which now dripped with her salvia and smiled. "Here, why don't I help you? Start with tasting his head, do it slowly."
Alex rolled her eyes. She knew how to give a blowjob, she just never gave one more. Still, Clark's mighty rod was an intimidating sight for her very first time. She lowered the point of her mouth down around his head and slowly drew his rod into her mouth.
The first few inches of Clark's rod parted Alex's lips. Clark held onto the back of her head. She tasted him and he tasted good.
Momentum finally had been established, with Alex coming down, wrapping her warm lips around his head. She slowly and sensually sucked him. She was really getting into this now, but then again, it was hard not to.
Both of these beautiful women took turns sucking Clark's rod. Each time, their mouth felt warmer and better than the last time. His balls throbbed when the girl who wasn't sucking his rod grabbed them and sucked them.
"I won't be able to hold out much longer!"
Daisy took him deep into her throat and started to vibrate around his lengthy rod. Clark closed his eyes, clutching onto the top of her head. The beautiful Asian-American girl really gave him an amazing blowjob with a hard sucking and the vibrating of her powers. Alex meanwhile sucked his balls. Both worked in tandem to make Clark blow.
Oh boy, did he ever blow! The sticky seed shot down Daisy's throat. Daisy brought her lips down and made sure to drink all of the contents from Clark's balls. She closed her eyes and sucked him down. Every burning blast of seed fired down her throat.
"Mmm," Daisy smacked her lips. "Want a taste?"
A handful of hair guided Alex towards Daisy's lips. Both of them grabbed their faces and sucked each other's mouths, and going into their bodies. The two of them grabbed the back of each other's hair. Daisy shared her seed with Alex, and she sucked him down.
"So, how was your first taste?" Daisy asked.
"Pretty good," Alex said. "Oh, I could get addicted to this."
Clark reached over and pushed both of the girls down on the bed in the private suite. He took off their bra and panties at the speed of light. Their tight, wet pussies just called to Clark. And what they called for, was a nice hard fingering. Clark aimed towards their cunts and shoved a finger inside a piece.
Pleasure racked every single inch Alex's body. Alex clenched her thighs around Clark's finger and released them. A second finger added to her pleasure, followed by a third. Clark really was making her feel good, and Alex couldn't argue with the results. Her cunt gushed something fierce from his fingers being shoved in her.
"More, please!" Alex mewled at the top of her lungs.
Meanwhile, Daisy's body warmed up with the orgasms. Her hips vibrated underneath Clark and caused a miniature tremor. She hoped that could get under control by the time they were done.
"Fuck, this is so good," Alex moaned.
"Told you it would be," Daisy said. "It would feel better to have a cock in you though, wouldn't it?"
Clark pulled his fingers out from inside of Daisy's dripping pussy and caused her to fall into position. Her legs were spread when she was on her hands and knees.
"Why don't we show her how a woman takes that big thing?" Daisy asked. "Come and get it. It's all for you."
Those thighs spread enticed Clark like nothing else before. He aimed his hard cock at the edge of Daisy's womanly pussy and rammed himself inside of her. He buried so much of his cock inside of Daisy's warm and willing pussy, she moaned out loud.
"Oh, like that, baby!" Daisy yelled.
The sight of Clark's huge cock being buried inside of Daisy's body caused Alex to get very excited. She watched the manhood push inside of her.
"Only half of its inside of you, and you're already cumming?" Clark asked.
"Only half?" Daisy asked. "I need more, please give me more."
"You asked for it."
She certainly did. Several more inches of Clark's big cock pushed inside of Daisy's warm walls. She could take it, her body stretched out to accommodate his thick, throbbing cock.
"Yes, I asked for it," Daisy said. "I asked to be hammered hard. Please, hammer my pussy hard. Make me feel your cock inside of me! I need it so badly!"
Daisy really needed it so badly, so badly she could almost taste it. Clark pushed his rod inside of her tightening womanhood and pulled almost all the way out. He pulled out of her completely and shoved inside of her. Every time he entered her body and retracted from her, she moaned.
Clark decided to explore every inch of this beautiful woman. Her skin shined with a sheen of sweat. Clark lightly caressed her nipples, causing them to harden underneath his fingers. Daisy's moans increased the second Clark touched them and tempted them.
"Baby, it feels so good!" Daisy begged him.
Every now and then, Clark flickered at Alex's clit. It caused her hips to thrust up. She watched, Clark plunging into Daisy and she got hot. Clark's strong hands worshipped Daisy's body. Alex closed her eyes, thinking about what it would be like to have those hands all over her body.
Suddenly, Clark now was on top of Alex. His cock brushing against her stomach, and the woman shuddering.
"Just tell me when " Clark whispered.
Alex nodded. Clark lightly touched Alex's nipple and caused her to moan. His cock dragged against her dripping slit and was about ready to demand entrance. The dark-haired vixen rose her hips up and wanted it inside of her.
Two hands full of Alex, and then Clark slipped into her body. The first few inches had been gripped by her extremely tight pussy. Alex rose up off of the bed. Her moans, light, and low. Her hands grabbed onto Clark's back. She broke a nail trying to scratch on his back up.
Clark pushed himself inside of her body. Her core gripped and released Clark. His balls smacked against Alex, and she rose up off of the bed.
"More, I can take as much as she can," Alex said.
"Famous last words," Daisy said.
Daisy enjoyed the show and the show as Alex getting her male penis to vagina virginity being taken away from Clark's extremely engorged cock. The manhood pushed inside of her, and Clark worked himself into Alex, driving her to an orgasm.
The moment Alex had been pushed up and sent crashing down from her own orgasm, Clark moved over and rammed his cock inside of Daisy's dripping pussy. Daisy clenched Clark the second he slammed down into her.
"This is a pleasant surprise!" Daisy moaned at the top of her lungs.
Clark held onto her ass for leverage and pumped his thick manhood into her body. Daisy spent some time lifting her hips off of the bed in time with Clark's thrusts. Both aliens connected with each other, feeling the pleasure of their loins connecting with each other.
Daisy closed her eyes and experienced the pleasure rising through her body. The bed was rocking, in more ways, than one thanks to her powers.
"Damn it, Daisy!"
Daisy's powers caused miniature vibrations to escalate through Alex's pussy. Her hips bucked up and down off of the bed. Her heart stammered a couple of beats ahead, and then she found Clark inside of her once again.
Clark established the pattern of giving one girl a pounding, leading her to an orgasm which left her dazed for a while. He switched between Alex and Daisy, fucking them both as hard as they could take. They would be a little sore, but Clark knew his limitations. He could afford to be a little rougher with Daisy due to her enhanced biology, where Alex, he was a bit softer with.
He alternated between both of the women. His cock rammed into both of them and drove both of them to multiple orgasms. All while Clark's balls filled up, towards the breaking point. He closed his eyes and was now balls deep into Alex. He was reaching the end.
"Don't worry, I know there's plenty more where that came from," Daisy said. "Cum in her, Kal-El….bathe her walls with your divine seed!"
Daisy tasted it, as did Alex, so both of them could attest to how divine it tasted.
Alex could not believe her sister's cousin was going to cum inside of her. Her legs tightened around his waist and Clark drummed his fingers against them when ramming deep inside of her. She closed her thighs around him and Clark worked into her. His balls slapped against Alex's moist thighs and they were so full of cum for her. Alex tingled with excitement when sliding her warm walls up to the base of his cock.
Clark filled Alex, bathing her womb with his seed. Alex jerked up off of the bed and took Clark's manhood inside of her. Each spurt of cum filled her up and launched as much cum inside of her as she could handle. Clark held onto her and rocked himself against her hips.
Both settled down on the bed from their mutual orgasms. The moment Clark rolled over, Daisy climbed on top of his lap and started to vibrate her pussy against him.
"Hope you're ready for more fun, stud."
Clark grabbed Daisy's thick ass and told her she was. Her pussy brought his hard cock back to life, and Clark slid Daisy down the pole. The beautiful DEO agent rode his cock like there was no tomorrow.
A gruff looking men and two men dressed in rags made their way down to the tomb buried deep in the heart of Egypt.
"It's hard to find anything, these days," one of the men grumbled. "All of the good tombs have been cleared out, by archeologists….all of those treasures going to waste in a museum."
"Quiet!" the leader of the pack yelled.
"Oh, sorry, I wouldn't want to wake the spirits." one of the henchmen said, his sarcasm becoming very obvious when he spoke.
The leader of the pack came across a tomb of a man who looked like he had the wings of a giant hawk. The gentleman pulled out the crowbar.
"Finally."
"Do you really think there's anything in there, other than bones and dust?" one of them asked.
The leader of the tomb robbers declined to answer. He put the crowbar on the edge of the tomb and grabbed onto it with a solid tug. Try as he might, it was a struggle to get it open.
Crack, the crypt broke open. Dust parties flew out of the tomb and swarmed around the two raiders. The particles were sharp and started to rip into the tomb robbers who screamed in absolute agony from the attacks!
The leader of the tomb robbers was much more fortunate, at least that was how things appeared. The leader's eyes glowed red and wings slowly, but painfully retracted from his back. He resembled a giant hawkman just like depicted on the crypt.
"Finally, I've risen again!"
The Black Axe in his hand smashed against the wall. More dust fell as the transformed tomb raider walked down the hallway. It was time for him to resurrect his brothers and sisters, and to be reunited with his soul mate.
Chapter Fifty-Three: Midnight Sun Part One
The freedom of flight and all of the sensations which went along with made Carol Danvers feel alive. The superheroine, known as Captain Marvel, flew through the skies. The gentle breeze whipped the wind against her hair which flipped against her face. So much excitement entered her body, with Carol closing her eyes.
Ever since she received her powers, life most certainly had changed for Carol. There was plenty about her life which had gotten a lot more interesting. Potentially, a lot more complicated, not that Carol feared any complications in her life. What was a complication in her life, Carol saw as a very interesting challenge which she had to deal with. And she would rise to every single challenge.
Everything settled down and Carol closed her eyes. She noticed she flew somewhere over Egypt. Everything was very peaceful and tranquil. Carol soaked up the sun and pretty much everything around her. Life was pretty good, life was more than amazing in fact. She couldn't be…wait, what was that?
Carol stopped in mid-air and turned her head around. There was a presence in the air, and it most certainly was a frustrating distraction. She dropped down onto the ground and took a couple of steps to one side. The blonde woman frowned, unable to figure out the source of what she was looking for.
Then, it hit her. Some strange energy signature caught her attention.
'Well, if there is one thing my work has taught me,' Carol thought. One heaving sigh stopped her thoughts before Carol pressed on. 'Strange energy signatures are never a good sign.'
Curiosity got the better of Carol Danvers. There was no way she was not going to investigate, to be honest. Carol walked over the edge of the temple. The markings on the temple showed her there was something interesting going on. An alien language of some sort was written all over the temple. Carol pressed her palm against the temple and a frown appeared on her face.
'It's not like anything I've ever seen in my life.'
Through her studies, Carol came across a number of very exotic alien languages. Some of them were very complex, and others were similar to languages found on Earth. The vast nature of the universe showed the languages found in it were extremely complex.
A heavy breathing sound could be heard from inside of the temple and needless to say, this particular quality caught Carol off guard. There was not only something inside of the temple, but there was something inside of the temple alive. And the doors entering the temple opened up a couple of cracks.
Carol decided to take the plunge and step further inside of the temple. Her eyes shifted from one side of the temple to the other and soaked in every inch of that particular temple she could. Carol crouched down and picked up what appeared to be a knife of some sort. Something melted the knife and contorted the metal.
Two steps later, a canteen laid on the ground. Carol picked up the canteen and studied it. There was most certainly someone in the temple. The only thing she couldn't determine whether they had been innocent explorers, ignorant to all of the potential problems. Or if they had been tomb raiders, who had managed to get their hands on something they shouldn't.
"Rise! RISE!"
Carol heard the screams and the loud chanting. She thought neither would most necessarily be a good thing. The blonde poked her head, and saw a tall man, with glowing black wings sticking out of his back and an ax. He had been surrounded by a statue of hawk warriors.
"Break free!"
Carol knew she would need to get some help because these hawk warriors were too vast for her. She took a half of a step back only to notice a bright light flashing.
The hawks showed signs of life. The leader of the hawk turned his attention right around and locked his beady little eyes right onto Carol's. Carol froze when he stared her over, and a grin passed over the man's face.
"Well, what do we have here?" he demanded. "Looks like we have an unwanted guest."
In situations like this, Carol could see there being two obvious choices. Fight or flight, and while flight would be the sanest solution in matters like this, one look at the hawk monsters showed Carol really didn't have much of a choice. One of them flew towards her and swung a huge ax much like what his leader flew.
Carol dodged the ax and caught it once more on the backswing. She punched the hawk in the face. Two more swarmed onto Carol and grabbed her. Carol pounded the hawks with all of her might. She grabbed one of them by the wing and swung him around before launching him to the ground. The hawk collapsed on its fellow warriors. Carol backed off, breathing heavily.
"Grab her, my children!"
More of them appeared behind Carol when she flew back to form a little bit of space. They grabbed her and pushed her to the ground. Carol struggled and sent them flying against the wall. Two of them smacked against the wall hard, one of them leaving a blood smear.
One of them rushed forward to make a bloody smear out of Carol with a spear. Carol blocked the spear and hooked it underneath her finger. She twisted the spear out of the hand of the hawk.
One of them smashed her down to the ground. Several chains flew out and caught Carol, pinning her on her knees. Carol struggled to break the chains, but much to her horror, they held her into place.
The leader of the hawk gods stepped over and placed a hand on Carol's chin. Carol looked at the warriors, who surrounded her, and realized the situation had been pretty dire.
"Excellent, you will make a sacrifice to restore my beloved queen back to her proper place."
Diana mentally counted down the minutes until she got off of work. Don't get her wrong, Diana loved her job, but there were times where it could be challenging for her. And she was going to hang out with Clark, Karen, and Kara. Alex requested Diana help out a bit with Kara's training, and from what little Diana saw, she was headstrong.
Then again, as Hippolyta reminded Diana, she could be pretty headstrong when she was that age. Hell, she was still a little bit headstrong. She saw Clark, Karen, and Kara make their way around the corner.
"Kara wanted to see the armor you found," Karen said.
"Yeah, real life Thangarian armor," Kara said. "They were some of the fiercest warriors in the universe, you know. They never knew the meaning of the word surrender."
"I notice to speak of the past test," Diana said.
"Well, they disappeared after the great war," Kara said. "No one knows where they went, there might be some of them still out there."
Clark smiled, if Kryptonians were any indication, then groups who they thought to be extinct, were not exactly as extinct as they thought they would be. Then again, the self-preservation methods of Krypton were interesting, as some had been sent on in pods, some made AIs, some had been sent to the Phantom Zone, and there were many clones.
"Looks like I'm not the only one interested," Kara said.
They turned around and noticed Shayera had arrived at the museum. She had a funny look in her eyes and walked over towards the exhibit with a purpose on her face.
"Shayera?" Diana asked. "Are you okay?"
Shayera didn't even acknowledge Diana's question. Clark could tell something was wrong. Her heartbeat was quite irregular for what he could pick up with his super hearing. Said heart beat continued to go off when Shayera approached the wall.
She dropped to her knees.
"Should I call…"
Karen's question had been stopped at the last precise minute. Shayera's hands started to shake and her breathing escalated to an insanely high level. Her eyes glazed over before wings ripped out of the back of her shirt. They were all taken aback by how much these wings resembled the ones on the statues which Doctor Sandsmark found out her expedition.
Shayera gave a feral roar of rage and ripped the mace off of the wall so quickly. She swung the mace at Kara, who dodged out of the way. She moved around to take a swing at Clark.
"Shayera!" Diana yelled.
"I don't think you're talking to Shayera," Clark said.
There was some other person in the driver's seat. The archaeologist's body was there, but her mind, and potentially her soul, it had been hijacked by someone else, or maybe something else. Clark looked up just in time to see the mace out of the corner of his eye.
She moved pretty fast, and those maces packed a huge punch. Clark shivered when he felt the mystic energy. It wasn't that Kryptonians were more vulnerable to magic than anyone else, despite common misconceptions. It was just, they were as vulnerable to magic as anyone else.
Another violent swing almost nailed Clark in the side of the head. Both versions of Kara jumped on Shayera's side and held her in place. The strength of both girls could not be matched, but she was putting up a hell of a fight. She growled and spoke in some kind of language which Clark could not pick up.
"Thangarian, I think!" Kara yelled.
"Yeah, it is, but the wings should have clued us in on that," Karen responded. "She's lost it, lost it big time, I don't know what to do."
"Let her go!"
Diana moved over and both Kryptonians really had no choice, but to let Shayera free. Shayera broke free from their grasp and the second she did, Diana used her lasso to bind Shayera. Diana pulled Shayera down to her knees and she smacked into the ground.
Just in time as well, because if they would have waited too much longer, Shayera would have caused immense amounts of damage to the museum, and there were priceless artifacts which could not exactly be replaced.
"They are rising!" Shayera yelled. "The world will be doomed!"
"Who is rising?" Diana asked.
"Diana?" Shayera asked. "Why do you….what the hell is going on here?"
"That's….what we want to ask you," Karen said. "You went completely insane and started trashing the place….you grew wings, and spoke a different language."
"Wings which she doesn't have now."
Clark looked at Shayera, the back of her shirt still was ripped, showing where the wings would grow out.
"It's happened again," Shayera said. "I've blacked out a couple of times, but, I don't think it's been anything this bad. I've never woke up with rips in my shirt and museum property in my hand."
"Has there been anything else strange happening?" Diana asked, making sure to hold the lasso tight and not let Shayera go.
"There have been dreams, dreams about a place where I've never been in my life," Shayera said. "I really don't know what to make of it."
None of them really knew what to make of it, Clark especially. His cell phone started to go off and the Last Son of Krypton didn't waste any time sending it. Karen and Diana were still looking at Shayera, but Kara looked at Clark curiously.
"Alex, she wants to see me," Clark said. "I better go real quick."
Clark's frown deepened, those coordinates could be right. They were pretty close to where Doctor Sandsmark and Diana went on their last expedition. And if Clark was right, Alex may have stumbled upon something which may have explained what the hell just happened with Shayera.
Maybe she did, at least, Clark held out some hope she could have.
Kara bit down on her lip and offered a frown. She wondered why her sister sent Clark an urgent message. She decided to follow off after him, while Karen and Diana were preoccupied dealing with Shayera and her problems.
Alex Danvers had been looking for this signal for every angle. It was very weird, and the weirdest part was Carol sent a distress for help. Carol was the person who always pulled people out of the fire, she wasn't someone who needed much if any help of being pulled out of the fire.
'I don't understand it, none of it makes any sense.'
She sent the distress signal to Alex, approximately twelve hours ago. Alex thought about getting the DEO involved but decided, there was something really rotten here. She didn't even tell Daisy about it. Rather, Alex was searching the area which Carol had been found and it brought her all the way to Egypt.
Research indicated there was some bad news here, and it wasn't just because it was a haven for grave robbers, although it was part of the reason why. Alex folded her arms and looked up into a sky. She hoped Clark could help her actually.
"So, what's up?"
Straight to the point, Alex liked that. She liked to avoid any bullshit whenever possible because it caused a lot of stress and a fair deal of frustration in her life.
"Twelve hours ago, Carol sent a distress signal," Alex responded. "But, it was very brief, and there weren't many details. And I'm not sure she sent it intentionally."
"Have you heard anything else?" Clark asked.
"No, I haven't," Alex responded. "And I'm sure you've figured out something, or maybe you haven't. But, Carol doesn't do trouble. She's the one who gets people out of trouble. And we're in an area, where there have been a lot of strange disappearances of the years."
Clark listened closely. This particular area was one which had its fair share of extremely mysterious disappearances. A lot of the artifacts from ancient civilizations ended up being alien artifacts, and when alien artifacts were used, everything was not good.
"Carol's in trouble?"
Alex turned around and noticed Kara dropping down behind her. The two sisters exchanged a look with each other.
"Kara, what…"
"You followed me here, didn't you?" Clark asked.
Alex didn't like this at all, mostly because she didn't want to have to worry about two sisters being in danger, and Kara's presence here indicated she would have to worry about two sisters being in danger. Clark turned his attention from Alex to Kara.
"Kara, you shouldn't have followed him here," Alex said.
Kara put her hands on her hips. "I thought I did pretty well helping you a couple months ago. And besides, if Carol's in danger, then you're dealing with something nasty. And you need all of the help you can get."
Clark turned his attention towards one of the temples and the writing. He turned back around and held up his hand, to hopefully alleviate another potential sisterly squabble. He wondered though if he was barking up the wrong tree, trying to stop that from happening.
"We could use all of the help we can get," Clark said. "I think this is tied with Shayera's episode at the museum."
"I think you better get me up to speed," Alex responded.
"Shayera went all weird, grew wings, grabbed a mace off of the wall, and tried to attack us," Clark explained. "And then, when Diana bound her with her magic lasso, she yelled about how they were coming. Then she snapped out of it."
"It was like nothing happened," Kara said. "She didn't remember going full Thangarian."
Alex sighed, the fact this insanity met something in her life really showed something. She could see Clark leaning closer to the loud sounds and listening very intently to something.
"Their heart beats are quickening," Clark muttered. "It was just like Shayera's when she had her episode, they're most certainly here."
"You're telling me Carol stumbled upon an alien ship, where there were still alive aliens in them," Alex said.
"Not exactly," Kara said. "They're not alive, but…..someone may have been possessed by the spirits of them…..aren't there a lot of tomb robbers in the area?"
Alex only nodded, the true gravity of what they were up against hit her suddenly. Things were going to get really insane in a big hurry. It wasn't like life wasn't pretty insane, but it was more insane right there. Alex decided living a normal life wasn't a real luxury she could have.
"So, let's take a closer look," Clark said. "I'm thinking that temple in the center is where we can find our answers."
"How?" Alex asked.
"It has the highest concentration of Thangarian heart beats," Kara said.
Carol's eyes dropped shut when she hung high above the rafters. Then slowly opened, the legions of hawk warriors shifted around in excitement. Carol took a full view of what was beneath her inside of the temple. She dangled beneath some kind of red liquid which glowed.
The chains she had been wrapped in were hooked to a crank which obviously had been meant to drop her inside. Carol hoped her last ditch effort to call for help, had gone through. Carol shifted her wrist a little bit. What were they waiting for? Did she even want to know what these hawk warriors were up to?
The leader of all of the hawk warriors stepped around to the pit. Carol could see him standing proud and tall and she noticed he was about ready to go into pure monologue mode, which was always a treat, she thought. Carol tipped her head back a fraction of an inch.
All of the Hawks kneeled before the leader of the warrior. Carol wondered what they were going to do next.
'Got to find a way out of here.'
If help was not coming, Carol would have to find a way out of this particular situation herself. These chains were made of the same metal as the weapons of these Hawk warriors, and they caused great consequences with Carol's powers. The more she attempted to struggle, the more difficult it was for her to break free from those chains. One of them snapped back onto the ground.
Carol gritted her teeth. There were some problems to put it very lightly and very mildly. Her head started because something was happening in the temple. The loud chanting increased in volume.
"Rise my children!" the leader of the Hawks declared. "And look upon you, at the gift we have been given. The gift of a sacrifice."
Carol figured about as much. This little encounter ticked off all of the checkboxes for a human sacrifice. The chains remained as solid as ever, even though the way she was positioned, it might be very hard to fly away from the pit before she plunged into whatever the red liquid was beneath her.
She really hoped it wasn't so kind of alien blood they were about ready to dunk her in, even though it was pretty obvious it might be.
"We have been given a gift of a sacrifice, which will bring us to prominence once again!" one of them yelled out loud. "This gift will allow us to return our queen back to the realm of the living!"
Everyone involved cheered, and Carol found herself tense up. It was going to be a very long drop.
"We need to sacrifice this woman to the elders, so I can locate where my queen is," the hawk said. "I can feel here, she's on this primitive world. Our souls have been lost for an eternity, doomed to never meet again."
The various hawk warriors looked excited. Carol, meanwhile, summoned all of the energy she could and tried to fly out. The chains snapped back quite painfully and left her dangling like a slab of meat over the pit. The pit bubbled as the hawk god continued in intensity.
"You can struggle all you wish," he said. "The fact you stepped inside of this temple, means you offered yourself as a sacrifice. And when the stars have aligned with the planets and the moon, we will present you as a sacrifice to the elder gods. Chay-era and Katar will rise, and will rule over the lands of this world like they should before we were entombed."
"Are you sure you're not just crazy?" Carol asked. "Because, you seem pretty crazy right about now, just think about it."
"SILENCE!" one of the hawks bellowed out loud.
"It's fine, she's a nonbeliever," the hawk leader responded. "Let her assume an ignorant stance. The most ignorant will mean a great sacrifice, and will allow me to locate my queen and allow her to finally unlock her true potential in this primitive world."
'You know something,' Carol thought. 'They're trying to kill me by boring me to death with this speech. Okay, Carol, you've really got yourself into this mess this time. How are you going to find a way out of it? You better think, and think carefully.'
"She's here, I can feel her!" the hawk warrior leader bellowed at the top of his lungs.
All of his followers cheered, and Carol again closed her eyes. The sound of footsteps could be heard from the other side of the chamber. Carol hoped it meant help was on the way, although she didn't know whether or not this would be out of the pay grade of the DEO or not.
'Still, most certainly an alien problem,' Carol thought.
Hope dashed immediately when Carol noticed it was only one of the hawk warrior guards.
"Great one, someone approaches."
The Hawkman leader looked up and noticed something up in the sky. It wasn't anything avian, or a vessel of some sort. It was two someones in fact.
"Star Child!" the leader yelled.
It could not be the so, it could not be the same one they encountered so many generations ago. The Hawkman clutched his fingers together so tight, his knuckles almost became white.
"Take care of him, and his companion," the hawk leader said the moment he regained his composure. "The sacrifice must not be interrupted."
He would not have gone this far, without finding his queen. There would be no denying the power and his destiny of reuniting with his beloved.
Alex circled around the temple in a reconfigured ship the DEO found and modified. Kara and Clark had made their way towards the temple, looking for a way inside from the top.
"I'm going in through a back entrance I've found," Alex responded. "The ship is picking up a lot of Carol's bio-energy….looks like I'm going to have to walk the rest of the way, but I know she's most definitely inside."
"Okay, be careful," Kara said.
Kara and Clark hoped to meet Alex inside when they got through the front entrance. Only, the front of the temple started to rumble underneath them. Clark and Kara looked down and saw them move out of the temple. Dozens of hawk men, many of them with weapons.
"That's a lot of Thangarians," Kara murmured underneath her breath.
Clark sensed the mystical energy coming off of their weapons, so they would have to be extra careful. One of them flew towards Clark like a mad man. He came inches away from parting Clark's hair with a giant ax. Clark dodged the ax from impacting the top of his head and spun around. He nailed the hawk warrior down across the back of the head and took him to the ground.
Kara circled around them at super speed. She created a miniature cyclone and caused several of the hawk warriors to fly up into the air and snap them back to the ground. The Girl of Steel dropped down to the ground with a smile on her face.
"Kal, to your left!" Kara yelled.
One of the hawk warriors rushed towards him. Clark blocked the hand of the warrior, turned his arm behind his back and kicked him down to the ground. The creature dropped down to the ground with a huge thud.
"Okay, about six down, about six dozen more to go," Kara said.
The creatures rushed towards the two Kryptonians, and Kara and Clark looked into the air before they nodded and did the one thing the Thangarians didn't expect.
They flew straight at them.
Chapter Fifty-Four: Midnight Sun Part Two
Alex took a couple of nervous steps. She lost contact with both Clark and Kara, but there was no time to worry about that. The only thing Alex concerned herself with was the fact Carol had been captured by these hawk like creatures. It was terrifying to say the very least, and maybe she should have let the DEO get involved.
She reminded how this might not have been a good idea. The DEO was good at their jobs, but there was a lot of red tape to navigate through even at the best of times. Despite them being unconventional for many reasons, they were still a government agency at their heart. They still had to do things by the book, and Alex appreciated that, but during times like this, she was annoyed by it.
Especially during times like this, when time was of the essence. Alex turned her head around and looked down the tunnel. She could see the tunnel illuminated by these torches. She was most certainly getting pretty close, to be honest. Alex reached to her side and pulled out a gun. Something about this weapon made her feel not quite as armed as she would have liked to be.
Yet, she pressed forward, because Alex had to press forward. Alex took those casual steps deeper inside of the temple. She peeked around the wall and heard some very eerie chanting off to one side. The eerie chanting put Alex on guard and caused her to keep looking around. Alex re-loaded the gun and made a movement forward.
She stopped short and walked past a glass case. Alex eyed the case up nervously. Inside the case, rested a blue scarab. The scarab remained motionlessly. Alex looked at it for a long minute and then turned around. She moved, gun in hand, three hundred and sixty degrees to the point where she needed to go.
The eerie chanting coming down the hallway got even more prominent. Alex kept her hand as steady as possible and moved closer towards the chanting. The sounds of battle could be heard slightly above her head. It was Alex's hope that Kara and Clark were going to find their way inside.
'As good as I am, I'm going to need some backup,' Alex thought to herself. 'Okay, here we go.'
Alex noticed the carvings of the magnificent hawk warriors on the wall. She took another tentative step towards where she needed to go and saw a small army of the hawk warriors standing in the circle in the room. The largest of them all stood with his staff lifted high in the air. He looked to be in the process of making a speech, or perhaps leading a prayer. From Alex's vantage point, it was hard for her to tell.
Moving a couple of steps forward, Alex leaned in and saw Carol dangling above a pit of some kind of red liquid. Alex leaned in and eyed the pit with a nervous gaze in her eyes.
'Oh, please tell me that's not what I think it is.'
Alex thought it couldn't be what she thought it was, there was no way possible it was what she thought it was. Still, her stomach was turning, twisting, the stench was overpowering. It was some kind of weird stench, coupled in with some kind of decay, or something.
'Thirty,' Alex thought making a headcount. 'At least, thirty of what I can see. They're not going to make this one easy, are they?'
"Brothers and sisters, hear me!" the leader of the hawk warriors said. "Hear me, and listen to my words. The time for a sacrifice is near! The time for our warrior goddess to return to us is near. You have all lead me in a prayer, hoping for the safe return of her soul!"
The Hawks all rose their hands in cheers. All of them looked ready.
"And now, you're going to help me bring about her grand return," the leader of the Hawks responded. "I would like to thank this woman who has arrived, for it would not be possible without her noble sacrifice."
Alex tensed up, and she knew with the words "noble sacrifice" she had to make their move. They were going to kill Carol unless she did something about it.
'Well this is a first, saving Carol from trouble, and not the other way around,' Alex thought.
Alex wondered how good this gun would do against those Hawk warriors. There were so many of them and only one of her.
'Well, you didn't join this line of work because it was easy,' Alex thought. 'Let's do this.'
Alex took a step forward, but before she could shoot, there was something flying in from above her head. She stepped back a step, holding out her gun and bracing herself for what was about ready to go down.
A thunderous crash echoed from high above. Alex followed the progress of both of them dropping down to the ground. She watched Clark slamming the hawk warrior down into the ground from the ceiling. The hawk leader turned towards Clark and raised an ax into the air.
'So much for stealth,' Alex thought to herself, nervously.
Alex pointed her gun towards one of the hawks and took a shot. The shot connected with the back of one of the hawks and caused him to scream.
The others turned their attention towards Alex and blasted right at her. Alex was ready for them, ready to defend herself through any means necessary. They all rushed towards Alex at the same time. Alex avoided the oncoming rush of the hawk warriors. She noticed Clark hurling the other hawk warrior off to one side and getting knocked down to the ground in the process.
"Hang on!" Alex yelled.
Shayera closed her eyes. She thought all of this was under control, but she guessed not. Shayera was in the process of having another episode. Hard to describe, but Shayer guessed she was experiencing some kind of past life. Several past lives at once.
"No!" Shayera yelled. "No, we can't….we're not gods…you can't make me do this!"
Shayera's wings retracted from the back of her shirt again. Karen and Diana stood on the other side of her, with Diana holding onto the Lasso, finding her.
"Shayera, listen to me, you have to fight whatever you're feeling," Diana said.
"The lights are on," Karen said. "But, I don't think anyone we know is listening."
Karen was no stranger in having false memories, but she doubted this was it. It was something else, something she had never encountered before in her entire life. One look towards Shayera showed the woman thrashing about and trying to break free.
"Shayera, what's going on?" Diana asked. "Come on, you can talk to us, we're your friends!"
"Are you sure that lasso is going to hold?" Karen asked.
Diana was about to mention the lasso should hold, but she felt a tug on it and Shayera had a burst of adrenaline which caused her to rip from the lasso. She flew off to one side, with Diana trying to hold onto the Lasso, struggling to hold onto the Lasso.
One swift mid-air movement and Shayera took flight through the windows of the museum and flew out.
"We've got to go get her, now!" Diana yelled.
Karen answered with a nod and the two of them followed. They had to keep a close watch on Shayera, especially if she turned back to normal in mid-air. That was not going to be a good look on either them. Both of the women followed, as fast as they could go.
"She's making pretty good time," Karen said. "I'll see if I can get in front of her to cut her off, wherever she's going."
Diana frowned, it was almost like there was some kind of divine force causing her to go. She watched when Karen zipped off to the side. Diana noticed her lasso frailing in the air, wrapped around Shayera's waist. It was almost out of reach. Diana had to grab onto it.
So close, yet so far, Shayera pulled away from Diana one more time. Diana kept flying towards Shayera and tried to grab her out of the way. She rushed towards her.
"Shayera, listen to me, you have to stop this!" Diana yelled.
"No!" Shayera yelled. "I have to stop him!"
Diana stopped and wondered who was the he, Shayera was referring to. The Princess of the Amazons made her way closer towards her target in flight. Diana was a couple inches away from grabbing onto the rope around Shayera, but she pulled away one more time.
A blur of light zipped in front of Shayera. Shayera had her hands back on the mace, somehow, and she swung it towards Karen. Karen zipped off to one side and avoided the mace from caving in her face. The Princess of the Amazons moved into the Kryptonian Survivor.
"We're going to have to grab her, now!" Diana yelled.
"I'm on it!" Karen yelled. "Okay, I'm not on it!"
A swarm of Hawk warriors blasted in their direction and came towards Karen and Diana. Diana grabbed one of them by the wrist and flipped him onto the ground.
Karen avoided the swing from one of the blades of the hawk warrior. She grabbed onto the warrior's blade and took him down to the ground. She punched away at him until the blade had been ripped from the hand of the hawk warrior. Karen caused him to land down onto the ground hard.
"We lost her, I can't believe we lost her!" Karen yelled.
"Keep your head before you lose it!" Diana called back.
Another blur came out and caught one of the hawk warriors down. She held a spear in her hand and plunged it into the wings of one of the creatures which caused him to go to the ground. Karen pulled back her sight to see Kara moving her way in. Her face looked pretty scratched up, her cape was torn, and there were dirt smudges all over her, but overall, she was fine.
"Kara?" Kara yelled. "Behind you!"
Karen turned around just in time to block the Hawk's swinging ax. She grabbed him by the wrist and headbutted him in the chest. The Woman of Steel flipped the hawk down to the ground and then she flipped up into the air. The ax had been turned, and Karen flung it, causing some of the hawk warriors to scatter.
"Don't hold back, they're zombies, statue constructs created by the hawk god in the temple!" Kara yelled. "Alex and Clark are in there, fighting them…and I just saw Shayera fly past as well, going into the temple."
They would have really loved to do something with this information, but they were up in their necks with zombie hawk warriors who would not let up their attacks for any reason. Karen grabbed onto one of the axes and pushed the hawk warrior down to the ground with a solid smack.
Diana engaged them in battle. She went sword to sword with her attackers, never once breaking up the battle. The Princess of the Amazons pushed back as hard as possible.
She didn't know why, she didn't know how, but she did know they were running out of time somehow. She took in a deep breath.
Clark jumped up and kicked one of the hawk warriors down on the top of the head, causing him to crash down onto the ground with a solid smack. Clark returned fire and nailed him with a series of punches down to the side of the head. The hawk warrior tried to push his head up, but Clark held onto his head and forced him down to the ground.
Carol dangled and Clark needed to get her out. Alex fired a shot at the wing of one of the hawks, and it left Clark's path open to grab Carol and remove her from her spot on the ceiling.
A loud boom echoed from the ceiling above where Clark stood, and he knew he dodged a bullet somehow by pulling Carol out of the line of fire. The woman took a deep breath and nodded in response.
"Thank you!" Carol yelled. "Behind you!"
The leader of the hawk gods knocked Clark back with a vicious swing. Clark flew head over heels down to the ground. Carol tried to help, but three of the hawk zombies blocked her path. Good, she needed someone to take her aggressions out on, after being bound and hung over that pit of blood for so long and nearly sacrificed.
"You're not going to ruin it!" the leader of the hawk gods yelled. "No, you're not going to ruin it, not again!"
The leader rushed Clark with the ax and tried to part his hair. Clark held onto the ax and struggled against the attacker. He put his feet underneath the attack and kicked him back into the went towards him and tried to punch the attacker in the side. The hand had been grabbed and the hawk warrior twisted Clark down to his knees. Clark gagged when he had been pushed down to a kneeling position.
"You won't stop me again!" the hawk warrior yelled. "You will not steal my destiny, do you hear me? Thangar will rise again?"
Clark took a deep breath and tried to break out of the attack one more time. Something about the hawk warrior's magic caused Clark to become very dizzy, and made him become vulnerable. Still, regardless of the fact he was vulnerable, he had to fight out of the attack as much as possible.
"No, not at Earth's expense."
"You don't understand, we enriched this planet," the hawk warrior said. "They treated us like gods, and we blessed them….."
Clark broke free of the hawk warriors grip and sent heat vision at him. The hawk warrior used his ax to block the attack and took a deep breath.
"You want to impede progress?" the hawk warrior asked. "Then it will be on your head, literally."
A swing and a miss with the ax, and Clark moved around the hawk warrior. He started to punch at the warrior and catch him with a series of jabs. The hawk warrior's knees crumpled out from underneath him.
A sound echoed, and Shayera of all people burst from the floor. She flew through the Hawk warriors who inclined their heads as if worshipping the woman. They received a violently swung mace to the face for their efforts!
"Get out of my head!" Shayera yelled.
Alex had been pinned down in the corner, but not for long. Shayera rushed to the hawk warriors and obliterated them with the mace being swung hard and fast at them. Alex collapsed against the wall, taking several deep breaths when realizing a very real truth.
'It's a good thing she's on our side.'
A damn good thing, as Shayera started to kick ass and take names. She saw the blonde woman who was about to be sacrificed in her name and moved over to take out the zombified hawk warrior statues. She rushed towards the man who brought her to life.
"Welcome, Queen Chay-era!" the hawk warrior boomed in his loudest voice. "You might not recognize me, but I am your beloved…."
Shayera responded by swinging the mace at the ax of the man in question. Both of them looked at each other.
"I know, you're upset, confused," he said. "But, you will become your true self, just like you have in every single other life…"
"No, he was killed, and he moved on in our last life," Shayera said.
She didn't know why she had been chosen to stay behind, but it was what it was. The memory core in this temple must have downloaded the memories of Katar into the mind of this gentleman. He had no sense of himself and believed he was a long dead hawk god.
"He's dead!" Shayera yelled.
"No, I'm not, can't you see it?" the hawk warrior asked. "I'm right here, I'm right with you!"
Shayera swung the mace one more time and smacked it against the wall when the hawk warrior ducked. This was an insult to the memory of her once husband.
"No, no, he's dead!" Shayera yelled. "He's at peace, you're just a victim. The memory core must have uploaded his memories into your mind, it's making you confused."
Shayera swung the mace one more time at the abomination who looked at her. He swung the ax to block it and forced her back to the ground. His hands wrapped around Shayera's throat.
"I'll make you remember!" he yelled. "You will rule beside me again, enlightening the people of Earth…..we will be worshipped. We will be revered. We will be gods!"
Clark returned back into the fight and headbutted the hawk god in the back of the head. He slammed down onto the ground and turned towards the Kryptonian. Fire burned through his eyes and raged filled his body.
"You will not take her away from me!" the hawk warrior bellowed. "Not again!"
Shayera shook her head and noticed a crystal statue at the end of the hallway. She clutched her mace and realized right away what it was. She charged the statue and smashed it as hard as possible with the mace.
A bright light filled the temple along with a loud humming sound. Karen, Kara, and Diana stepped into the temple to join them, almost blinded by the light.
"What happened?"
Shayera had the worst headache possible, and she was down on the ground, breathing heavily. She didn't know what to make of this insanity, one way or another. All she knew, was something really went wrong, in the worst possible way.
Clark turned around and all of the hawk warriors in the temple turned to statues. A cloud of dust covered the ground where the leader of the hawk warriors once stood.
"Everyone okay?" Clark asked.
"Yeah, now we are," Carol said. "Thanks for the assist."
She took a couple of steps forward but collapsed to one knee. She got more of a thrashing than she thought. Thankfully, Alex and Kara were there to hold her up and prevent her from collapsing down to the ground.
Clark looked from one side to the other. He couldn't put a finger on exactly what, but Clark just had one of those feelings something was going on here, and he was pretty sure, it wasn't something she liked.
Carol Danvers took a deep breath when sitting down on the chair. She was a survivor, no question about it. Today's battle had been a step too close to her though. She thought everything could have gone much worse, had things changed.
'Well, at least I'm still here.'
They were back in the DEO headquarters, who learned about the incident after the fact. Carol hoped Alex didn't get in too much trouble for breaking protocol and going into the battle alone. Technically though, she wasn't alone, as Carol reminded herself.
Clark saved Carol as well. She would have to thank him later. Carol turned around and saw Kara standing in the doorway.
"That was way too close, wasn't it?" Kara asked.
"Yeah," Carol said. "So, you did a pretty good job out there, I hear."
"I try," Kara said. "I've got a lot of big shoes to fill, between my sisters and my cousins, but I think I do alright, all things considered."
Carol smiled and shook her head. Glad, Kara came over to keep her company, because Carol was getting a bit stir crazy just sitting here, without much of anything to do. She looked towards the younger girl who sat down.
"Alex wants to make sure you stay here until you're medically cleared," Kara said.
"So, she's enlisted your help to make sure that happens, "Carol said. "I don't think I'm going anywhere."
"Well, it's a good thing we picked it up. I've never seen anything like it in my life. Yeah, we're going to study it."
Alex made her way over, having a conversation with Daisy, and some of the other DEO agents. She moved towards the room and popped in on her sisters.
"So, you two doing okay?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, we're doing fine," Kara said. "You didn't get in too much trouble."
"Given, I averted a potential interplanetary crisis, I didn't get in as much trouble as I could have," Alex responded. "It was just the standard, never do anything without the consent of the DEO lecture I always get in situations like this. It's no big deal, not real."
"Just as long as you don't get in too much trouble," Kara responded. "I would hate to see anything happen to you."
"Yeah, I would hate to see you lose your job over me," Carol said.
"No, this isn't your fault," Alex said. "But, what happened is pretty weird."
Something told Alex this entire mess was far from over. She couldn't be sure why, but regardless, she made her way around the corner and stopped cold. The blue scarab was in a case and it flickered in the light. Almost as if it reacted to Alex's presence.
"Daisy, did you see that?" Alex asked.
"See what?"
"The scarab, it's flickering," Alex said.
"I don't see any flickering," Daisy said, shrugging her shoulders. "You've had a long and hard way, and you have a lot of paperwork to file….so you really can't go insane before doing that. Because let's face it, paperwork brings enough insanity on its own as is."
Alex's lips flickered into a smile. That it did, that it did.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news."
The voice of Indigo came over the DEO system and caused them to jump into the air. Alex and Daisy both looked nervously at each other.
"She really doesn't have any concept of personal boundaries, does she?" Daisy asked.
"The temple while the statue was destroyed sent out a signal," Indigo said. "It may have been picked up, but someone."
"Who, the Thangarians?" Daisy asked. "I thought they were all extinct?"
Alex shrugged her shoulders. Something rotten was going on right here and now, and she couldn't quite put her finger on what. They would have to keep a closer watch on this situation as it progressed.
Lara studied the scans which were coming in, and sure enough, The Fortress technology verified what Indigo said to be true. The woman bit down on her lip and took a moment to breathe it.
"I've informed the DEO about the potential invasion coming," Indigo said. "Thangar is not what it used to be, but it still could be a potentially dangerous threat, as there are pockets of Hawkmen and Hawkwomen out there who could cause problems. And Earth is a strategic location for one of their ongoing wars."
"Well, we have a problem," Astra said.
Lara nodded in response. There was a chance Thangarians would not receive the signal, even though it had been sent out. It was hard to trace where the signal exactly went at this point.
"If they received the signal, we do," Lara said.
"We should be under the assumption they did, and prepare for war," Astra said. "It's a good thing, we have an army at our disposal."
Lara took a second to think about that fact and nodded. They did have an army at their disposal, but would that particular army be ready?
"They're going to have to be ready," Astra said. "The real question is, do we take the ultimate step to prepare them?"
"They were a great army without super powers," Lara told Astra. "Therefore, they can still be a great army without them."
Astra nodded in agreement. They needed to prepare for war and all of the horrors within.