Ultimate Superman #3

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Ultimate Superman #3: Part One: Team Up  
 

Metropolis:  

 
....through the people he loves.

Part Two: The Discovery

It was almost too easy for Braniac/Luthor. They scanned for a Kyrptonian mind and found one almost instantaneously. Karen Kent.

Luthor/Braniac fashioned a disguise of an old man with nowhere to go. Braniac's databanks said the Kents were very welcoming to strangers. They invited him to stay in Clark's room . He found newspaper clipping of "superboy's sightings" all around his room. "Possibility that Clark Kent is Superman: 93.465 percent" Little did Lex/Braniac know...Kara Zor El was listening.

I heard the scream about a half hour ago. I immediatley recognised it as Kara's. We've been fighting since then. There's this Cyborg thing. Half machine, half human, attacking us. I wonder if it has anything to do with that monster that attacked me the other day.....

I use heat vision while Kara uses arctic breath. I attack from behind as she attacks from the front. Suddenly, the cyborg puts up it's force shield.

"Kara Zor EL?" asks the Cyborg, to Kara. "H-how do you know me?" She asks. "You don't remember. The two voices say. It smirks and three lights light up it's head.

"Braniac?" says Kara. "Yes...." says the voices.

I take the opportunity to slam into the machine and put him in a nelson hold. I fly him up into the atmosphere and bring him down, causing a crater to appear. His suit sizzles and crackles with electricity, I scream in pain as I'm forced to let go.

Kara picks up where I left off. she slams into him, hitting her repeatedly. "What do you want with us, Braniac?" she asks. "Jor El and Zor El foiled my plans and told the science council. What do I want? I want revenge!"

I don't need to have grown up on Krypton to know what he's talking about. I shove Kara aside and hit him with a bright flash of heat vision. "YOU!" I shout. "YOU KILLED KRYPTON!?"

I slam into him and hit him repeatedly. It's funny...you never see machines bleed in movies. That's what happening here. The situation only worsens when Kara enters the fray. The Braniac/human hyrbrid sticks some kind of device on our chests, and presses a button in the center. It puts up a sheild and prepares to teleport. "Bye bye Kara." it says. "Oh, and Kal El....I liked you better when you were an infant." It teleports away.

When Superman and Supergirl awaken from the explosion the confrence will be over. Thinks Braniac to Luthor, now in the guise of the bald genius. Yes. Thought Luthor. But don't forget that it was a LexCorp device used to dig underground that did it.

He rang up his assistant. "Mercy" he said. "Tell the press I'll be holding a confrence in a few hours....

.....where I reveal the identity of Superman.

BUMPED!

Great job so far! Keep up the good work!  
 
I love how you're writing Kara and Braniac (supes too, though but I love Kara ^^). Braniac sounds totally evil and I'm very interested to read more! ^^

BUMP!

Very nice story so far. I like the characters you've chosen and how you're using them. Braniac/Luthor seem like a legitimate threat.

Thank you! :D  
 
I also decided to downplay Doomsday...I didn't want him taking center stage, I wanted him more as a henchman.

OMG! Kara, no!!!

Part Four: finale 
 
My first thought after battling Doomsday and the machines is "Ma's going to kill me. My suit is all torn up." I immediatley forget the suit when I listen to see what I missed. It's not what I hear that shocks me...it's what I don't hear... 
 
...I can't hear Kara's heartbeat.  
 
Faster than light I fly. Through LexCorp towers. "BRANIAAAC!!" I shout. I try to scan the room for Kara, but everything's lead lined. Braniac/Luthor comes from behind and electrocutes me! It's painful. Very painful. I turn around and punch him into a wall. I melt the wall around him and harden him in a chryssalis.  
 
I search every room. I see her, but when I reach for her, I fall to the ground. I quickly grab the nearest instrument I can find and reach it out to Kara. The rest is up to her...Summoning all her strength, she grabs onto it, and I slide her out of the gravity canon holding her.  
 
She starts bleeding to death.  I manage to cauterize her wounds, but I need to get her out of this lead lined building for her to heal properly. I don't have much time. She's stopped breathing!  
 
I'm immediatley hit with a blast of energy. Braniac/Luthor is back. "Your too late" they say. "I killed her. Who should I kill next? Martha?" My eyes glow red with hatred. "BUUURN!" I shout. delivering a powerful blast of heat vision.  
 
When the smoke clears, he is holding raw energy in his hands. "Idiot." they say. "I can convert energy into my own being for my own uses! You can't beat me! You--  
 
I rush him at superspeed punching him repeatedly. He hits me with a fist surrounded by energy. "What part of 'I can aobsorb energy' do you not understand?" He hits me again. My face is covered in blood.  
 
I watch as he takes all the energy from LexCorp inside himself. "YOU CAN NOT BEAT ME!" In a brilliant flash of light, all the energy is directed at me.  
 
All I can say is, that left me sore....all over. Against all odds....I stand up. "Impossible." They say. "No." "Improbable then." He blast me. again. and again. and agian. and again. Each time I get up.  
 
"Why do you still get up?" He asks. "Because I have something worth fighting for. Think about it. You've hit me with all this energy, you can't beat me. admit it." I start appealing to Luthor's ego. His voice becomes dominant. "I-I'll show you. I'LL ABSORB ALL OF THE ENERGY IN METROPOLIS!"  
 
Metropolis goes dark. Braniac/Luthor start to glow. Their eyes glow, their insignia glows, hell, even the suit glows. I take advantage of the situation.  
 
I run up to him and slam my fists into his chest and vibrate them, while using heat vision at the same time. "You want energy, Braniac?" I say. "Take it! Take it all!"  
 
"NOOOOOOOOOO0000011011011010101011110001110110101010100101110101"  
 
In a blinding flash of light, Braniac vanishes, leaving only Luthor. "Superman? what are you doing here?!" Get out!" He demands. His heartbeat tells me he isn't lying.  
 
I take Kara's body, and I fly with it. I fly as far as I can, straight up to the sun....that's when I hear it.  
 
It is a pin being dropped. The faintest sound...even with super hearing.... 
 
...of a heartbeat.  
 
slowly but surley, Kara wounds clean themselves, leaving only holes in her costume. She takes a breath inwards....and her eyes open. Tears drip down my cheeks. "Kal?" she says weakly... "There was a light....I saw Pa." It's okay, Kara." I say, hugging her, closley. "It's fine"  
 
"Everything's fine." 

Aww!!! Yay! Kara's alive! *glee!*