SuperGirl’s Darkest Hour
(Warning: This chapter is VERY violent and extremely graphic compared to previous chapters. If you have a weak stomach and/or are very attached to our heroine Kara, you might wish to pass this one by: it isn’t pretty!)
(Last Revision: 27-Jul-96)
by Sharon Best
It was late in the evening, and Kara was in LA again, just finishing her last publicity event of the week. She was standing outside under the bright lights near the back of the studio where her movie was being made, signing autographs for the people who had come to see: “Live and in person - the real SuperGirl!”
As usual, the event was full of studio hype, and at times Kara felt there was hardly any room for her real personality to emerge amongst such unreal flamboyance. However, at least she and the studio had agreed on her costume - it was the very sexy one she was to wear in the movie - skin tight, showing off her every curve, and almost translucent enough to show her every change in flesh tone as well. After a surprisingly long discussion on the subject, Kara and the studio had reluctantly agreed that her invulnerable Velorian costume - the authentic one that covered a total of just about five square inches of her body - was just a bit TOO revealing for an event that had no age restrictions.
Once the studio’s professional bullshitters (as Kara often called them) had finished their Barnum & Bailey speeches, and Kara was at last free to relate directly to her fans, she began feeling very relaxed. The bones she had recently broken in her fight with Sil were still not totally healed, but at least the stainless steel casts on her left arm and right leg weren’t terribly obtrusive, the steel gradually molding itself to her even firmer body, showing the shape of her curves beneath in a bright silvery shine, and actually looking much like sexy ornaments. Like Michael Jackson’s glove, they just might catch on! And while she was not anywhere near 100% on the inside, she looked very fit and sexy indeed from the outside. A Velorian Protector could look no other way, even an injured one!
Kara was in fine form otherwise tonight, fielding awe-struck questions from the kids, flirting outrageously with some of the adults, both men and women, and occasionally, apparently unconsciously, flexing her dramatic star-born muscles for all to admire. She had been the center of attention all day, a situation she always got off on.
But since it was late in the evening, the event was finally winding down; literally thousands of people had wanted to see and speak with a gorgeous alien woman in person, and she had signed more than two thousand autographs. The day had been an absolute joy, but Kara was beginning to feel quite weary. The studio security staff was just beginning to close off the area when two large strong-looking men walked up to Kara and asked for her autograph.
Kara sighed. It was getting late and her still-knitting bones were now aching a bit from all the posing she had done for people today, but she supposed signing just a couple more wouldn’t hurt. Holding the almost-nude publicity picture of herself in her bad hand while signing it with the other, she was suddenly startled when the two men grabbed her from each side! She felt a surge of pain as the man on her left twisted her bad arm backward behind her, forcing her forearm high on her back, and as he bore down, the force of his cruel hold sent waves of pain coursing throughout her entire body!
Trying to free herself, she felt sharp pains running up and down her injured arm, and she quickly found that her strength was too reduced by her injuries to overpower the man! Yet even if she had been suffering fresh multiple compound fractures up and down both arms, she would have been able to overpower ANY Terran!. She immediately knew that she was in trouble, deep trouble! These men had to be Arion Primes! DAMN!
The man on her left leaned down to whisper in her ear as his cruel hold almost lifted her off the floor.
“If you don’t want a lot of dead Terrans on your conscience, little girl, you’ll come with us without further resistance. Otherwise, my partner and I are going to burn these people surrounding you until all of them are nothing but ashes.”
He emphasized his point by releasing a quick flash of energy from his eyes directly into Kara’s face. She felt the intense heat washing over her for a moment, the violet glare momentarily dazzling her eyes.
She didn’t even pause to consider her actions, but instead turned to nod at him, clearly remembering the massacre in Boulder the last time she had fought Arions in public. She had nearly died that time, and many hundreds of Terrans actually had died - very brutally - and yet she had been in excellent health and full of energy during that encounter!
Growing more angry, she felt tears beginning to form in her eyes. It wasn’t fair the way they were ganging up on her! She had her own life to live, a life among her friends here in LA! She didn’t care that about the Arions, why should they keep bothering her?
Blinking the tears away, she finally spoke softly. “Ok, Ok, I’m coming, please don’t hurt these people. They haven’t done anything to you.”
Her mind started to race now as she tried to figure a way to tackle these Primes, preferably somewhere where there were very few Terrans to be injured or killed: the inevitable by-blows of a Velorian/Arion fight was enough to level an armored battalion! After all, battles between super-powered beings always seemed to include invulnerable bodies being knocked about at near supersonic velocities!
Her mind was still struggling to think of a way to tackle these Arions when she suddenly gasped again in pain, both her arms twisted painfully behind her back this time! The two Arions had lifted her completely off her feet with her upper arms bent behind her, and were jogging through the crowd to their waiting van, holding Kara suspended between them. And the one on the left was not being at all careful with her injured arm! In fact, he grinned toothily at her as he sensed her pain and jogged along stomping the ground solidly with each step, sending the jarring impacts up through his body and directly into her bones.
The crowd quickly parted to let the three of them pass, and people were smiling at Kara, clearly thinking that this was part of the publicity stunt - a theatrical exit. Several of them smiled at how silly this all was - how ridiculous it would be to think that any number of men could actually overpower their mighty SuperGirl!
* * *
The Arions drove for a few miles while Kara tried to figure out what they had in mind for her. She was very worried about her physical condition and still felt so tired and sore; it was very unlikely that she could overpower these two Arions in her current condition. But she was confident that at least her invulnerability was intact and that they couldn’t seriously injure her. At the worst, once they were away from any Terrans, she could fly off and escape! But she was still worried that they might go on a rampage if she did that, hurting innocent bystanders. Arion males weren’t known for their stable tempers, especially in combat! And most especially if they didn’t win!
The van finally stopped at a traffic light near a shopping mall, and Kara noticed the parking lot was nearly empty since it was near closing time. She suddenly decided that now was as good a time as any to begin to take care of these filthy Arions.
Pivoting her hip, she swung her bare leg, her good one, at the first Arion, the powerful impact sending him flying forward and through the windshield of the van, his body shearing off a huge power pole. The other Arion grabbed her good arm from behind, but she managed to swing her other elbow back with enough force to throw him completely through the steel side of the van, although she flinched at the pain that shot through her injury.
Jumping out the door, she prepared to leap into the air with her good leg, intending to simply fly out of their reach. But unseen behind her, the two Arions had quickly reached down to pick up the heavy van, their arms throwing it up and forward just as Kara was leaping from the ground! The bone-crushing impact of two tons of steel flattened her against the pavement, her bad leg crumpling beneath her.
Kara cried out as her steel muscles levered against bones that felt very much like soft wood, yet she heroically flexed her amazing shoulders and arms so powerfully that she sent the van flying more than two stories into the air.
Turning her head to follow the flight of the now airborne van, she was horrified to see that she had accidentally thrown it right at the Mall Entrance! Now distracted from the battle, she leapt from the ground, quickly soaring after the hurtling van - its trajectory arching toward the roof of the Mall, right over the Food Court!
She barely caught up with it before it impacted, her flying so awkward and so out of balance that she barely succeeded in slowing the vehicle down, the van crashing down on top of her for the second time in less than a minute. She was smashed through the roof and down onto the marble floor in the middle of the Food Court, a dozen late shoppers scattering from beneath her just in time to avoid being crushed.
Kara was now pissed at herself! This was just a small vehicle, for heaven’s sake, and she shouldn’t be so out of control of her powers, but the pain from her incompletely healed arm and leg were dulling her senses and impairing her judgment!
She was still struggling to stand up, the van tilting to the side as she rose beneath it, when the Arions smashed through the glass walls, immediately letting loose with their heat vision. The four beams struck Kara and the van, the violent energies pushing her backwards, instantly heating her body to incandescence. Her stainless steel casts began to melt immediately, removing their comforting support - even case-hardened steel could not withstand this kind of super-heated assault!
The relaxing pressure of the melting casts made her arm and leg throb strongly again as the steel melted completely away and ran down the curves of her invulnerable body to pool at her feet.
Distracted by the pain, she struggled to set the van down without hurting anyone, but rapidly enough to escape these two determined Arions who, eyes blazing with heat energy, were hurtling towards her at two hundred miles an hour!
She just made it! As they reached within twenty feet of her and were closing fast, she finally managed to drop the van right into the empty space in their path. They crashed into it, sending the van careening towards her, but not before she surged into the air and flew safely over their heads and out the huge hole they had left in the side of the mall! Freedom!
She was fifty feet above the ground and just clearing the parking lot when she heard the sound of children screaming just behind her. Hovering in the air, she looked back into the mall with her super vision: Sweet Aurora, what now?!
She had been mistaken about the mall being almost deserted: dozens of children had arrived without cars, and the video arcade was packed with them! She was still young enough herself that she should have remembered how kids always remained in their favorite places until as far past closing time as they could manage!
These brutal Arions, as soon as they had seen their ‘bird’ fleeing the ‘nest’, had immediately entered the arcade and were lifting the young pre-teens off the ground, threatening to use their awesome strength to rip them apart! And all the while they were grinning back at her over their shoulders, able to see her very clearly with their own enhanced vision!
Kara was all of sudden very undecided: was she responsible for every act of cruelty performed by an Arion? She was just a girl trying to live her own life in peace, and have a bit of fun along the way! She wasn’t a girl like Fairchild who had been trained from birth for the job of Planetary Protector! This was extremely unfair! But Kara knew that she had picked this battlefield and should have realized the place would be packed with kids!
Sighing deeply, she pivoted in mid-air and returned to the mall, arriving just outside the arcade, stumbling a bit as she landed, her unsupported right leg now throbbing badly since her cast had melted away. Nevertheless, and ready or not, she was going to have to fight these Arions. She stood facing them as dramatically as possible, feet wide apart, arms folded, a look of false confidence on her face.
She didn’t have to do anything to attract their attention. They had been watching for her, seeming to know that she couldn’t help but return. And yet this time they didn’t rush back to attack her. Instead, each grabbed another child - one took a very pretty girl of about eleven, with long red braids and braces on her teeth, the other a slender boy about nine with blond hair showing around the edges of his Little League cap. They grabbed the kids gently, at least for Arions, their strong grips not causing serious injuries, while slowly walking towards Kara, their eyes never leaving her for a moment, slowly separating from each other as they passed through the doors of the arcade. It was almost as if these cowardly Arions feared for their own safety and wanted hostages!
Both of the children were so terrified by being in the hands of these powerful men that they were screaming at the top of their lungs! Kara’s heart sank. What the hell was she supposed to do now? There wasn’t a Terran kid in the world that could survive a tug-of-war between two super-powered aliens!
But the Arion on her right just gave her a smirk and said, “I’ll trade you. Step into my arms, my blonde Velorian beauty, give me a nice hug and I’ll let this little girl go.”
Kara carefully hid an inner smile. This Arion, Prime or not, wanted a hug from a VELORIAN??!! He must be crazy! Maybe she had never studied martial arts or developed any other fighting skills, but she had EASILY crushed Arions in her arms of steel before! This guy was obviously a lot dumber than he looked!
She nodded coldly at him and paced slowly towards him, her arms outstretched, hands open. As soon as this little girl was safely away…
As Kara drew near, the Arion shifted his grip so he was holding the girl with one hand by the neck, and set her on her feet to his left, Kara’s right. Kara stepped very close to him and placed her arms gently around his waist. She flinched in disgust as he rudely grabbed her tit with his free hand before lowering his free arm down to grab her shoulder. Not only was he rude, but he smelled!
“Let the girl go. You win.” said Kara as she got ready to use every ounce of her awesome strength on this filthy Arion. “Not quite yet … he still has the girl,” she thought to herself.
“Certainly, my dear.” replied the Arion.
Kara turned to watch the girl for just another moment, watching as she slipped and fell onto the floor in her haste to escape, the girl then scrambling to her feet and running for her life!
“Now!” thought Kara. Just as she began to turn her head back towards the Arion, preparing to flex her arms to crush his ribs, her left arm exploded in agony! She’d been blind-sided!
While Kara had been distracted by seeing the little girl off to safety, the other Arion, having no compunctions about Terran lives, had surged across the room accelerating rapidly to over a hundred miles an hour, launched himself into the air feet first and delivered a massive double kick directly into Kara’s broken arm! She screamed as she felt her bone break all over again!
Now the two Arions began attacking in earnest, hitting her from both sides, putting all their energy into attacking her broken limbs. One twisted her arm so violently that the broken bone now fractured completely, effectively leaving Kara with two elbows on one arm, and ablaze with agony!
The blinding pain staggered her, but she swung her other fist around to connect solidly with the Arion’s face. He flew more than 100 feet through the air before smashing head first into a Pizza outlet, two counter clerks crushed beneath his huge invulnerable body. Kara winced, knowing that the two girls at the Pizza Crust had probably not survived being hit THAT hard!
She suddenly grew angry, these Arions were really pissing her off again as they continued to take Terran lives so easily! She had defeated that super-powered giantess Sil while injured, she could certainly do the same with a couple of Primes! Just turning her attention back to the other Arion, she was unable to move fast enough to avoid a massive kick, the blow landing with great force at exactly the point on her leg where the bone had broken before. She felt a staggering pain as she heard the bone break once again, the white-hot pain driving her immediately to the floor as the Arion landed on top of her, wrapping his arms around her while twisting her newly re-broken arm back and forth, grinding the shards of her bones together. Kara screamed in unearthly pain!
Kara struggled desperately with the Arion, blinded for a moment from the incredible pain, twisting her body painfully around until she had almost pulled herself from his grasp, her badly injured arm and leg sending sharp messages of agony through her entire nervous system, agony so great that she wasn’t sure she could stay conscious. Just as she managed to squirm to one knee, the Arion delivered yet another mighty kick to her broken leg, and as her unbearable agony increased yet another notch, she felt it collapse under her, totally unable to bear her own weight. As she collapsed again to the floor, she struggled against the waves of blackness that were seeking to overcome her. Yet dimly through a thick haze of all-enveloping pain, Kara wondered why the Arion man was calling out loudly, his thunderous voice filling the Food Court. “Carol, its time, NOW!”
Kara thought she saw a new shape looming before her a moment later, and blearily looked up to see a thin scraggly woman standing in front of her, an evil grin splitting her face!
She suddenly felt an incomprehensible but terrible dread as the woman raised her hands, a weird and very audible electrical crackle emanating from her long fingers, the discharges making the woman’s hands waver and glow in their own green light. The Arion squeezed her even tighter as the woman reached down to place her crackling green hands on both sides of Kara’s face.
Those terrifying hands felt like the most soothing of caresses, like that of a scented balm, a wonderful floating sensation filling Kara’s body, her pain fleeing so far away, leaving barely a memory of the agony she had just felt. She felt as if she was floating on air, flying while still on the ground!
Yet at the same time, her eyes grew dim and she felt an incredible rush of energy flowing from her body and into this woman. Her arms grew weaker and weaker as every moment passed, her muscles softening until she couldn’t resist the Arion at all!
His grip quickly grew incredibly painful again as her body grew softer and more vulnerable, her large proud Velorian breasts of steel taking on a normal Terran teardrop shape, her tummy rounding out a bit from lack of muscular support, things that had never happened before to her marvelously fit body! Kara looked down in horror at her changing body, her screams filling the mall as her previously invulnerable flesh now began to tear apart in the Arion’s relentlessly tightening grip!
* * *
Carol was very careful to not absorb any of the girl’s pain or the debilitating effects of her broken limbs as she focused on drawing only the essence of the girl’s body and soul into her own. She wanted to keep everything that was good in this girl but she would discharge her pain into the crackling air around her.
She had barely started the absorption process when she felt an incredible rush of power, and quickly realized that she would not be able to even begin to contain the incredible energy that she was drawing from the girl. She was staggered by the extent of the powers that rushed into her, the energies contained in this teenage girl’s body exceeded even her wildest expectations!
Finding that she was quickly overloading, she concentrated on containing only Kara’s essence in one part of her body, all the while striving to absorb the girl’s genetic structure into herself. She didn’t really need her energy and power, she wanted only her genes and her soul. She could recreate the rest if she had those two.
Tens, hundreds, of megawatts of energy crackled through the air as Carol found that she had to let almost all of the girl’s energy flow straight upward into the air. The Mall crackled with bright blue lightning as the incredible energy from a Velorian superwoman was released harmlessly into the night air.
Carol felt her body heating up very dramatically as she conducted all this energy into the air. She had absorbed the power of dozens of strong men before, but those experiences were now totally insignificant compared to the torrents of vigor and passion she was feeling now. The energy just kept coming and coming, and the girl’s power seemingly endless.
Yet this girl was not truly a Goddess, and her power, while great, was not inexhaustible. It took nearly half an hour, but Carol finally knew the end of her power was approaching, the flow of energy slowing just as she saw the Arion flexing his astounding muscles again, his grip crushing the poor girl. Carol knew she had what she really wanted, she had the full genetic makeup of this alien girl stored within herself! She now had the power to even become her if she so desired!
* * *
Kara felt herself getting weaker and weaker as this strange woman somehow seemed to be absorbing her very essence, all her powers! She gasped as she felt her body slowly continue to weaken, the Arion’s grip now so powerful in contrast to her formerly invulnerable body that it started to crush the very bones of her good arm, and even her shoulder began to tear apart under the force of his hands. She had no idea what was truly happening to her, but she could clearly feel that all the things that had made her Supergirl were now flowing into the other woman. The familiar feeling of having only Terran strength, a feeling she had not felt since before her transformation during the Northridge earthquake, now returned, her arms and legs feeling so weak, so useless. And even the Terran strength and muscle tone she had always maintained through active sports and vigorous exercise now seemed to be deserting her as well, as her large breasts now sagged almost completely down to her belly, and her body became appallingly soft and flabby.
She pleaded wordlessly with the woman, gratified for a moment as she saw the barest flash of compassion touch the woman’s face. But the older woman quickly broke eye contact, pivoting on her heel before hurrying across the floor of the Mall toward the nearest exit.
* * *
Carol hurried toward the door, glad to be away from what she knew was going to be a gruesome scene. She had heard the Arions boasting about what they were going to do to this girl during their mission planning. And even though these Arions had come to her, had requested her help, had promised her great rewards, she knew of their reputation for treachery. She had no illusions about them, knowing that they would kill her most brutally as soon as they were finished with this former ‘Supergirl’. It was also clear that they didn’t care about USING her Velorian powers, they simply wanted them eliminated from the Universe!
Carol felt like she was going to throw up as her brain envisioned the girl’s torn body, the Arions making sport of her. She ran out the door and across the parking lot, desperately wishing she could use some of this girl’s powers to get away, yet knowing that they were far too powerful for her to try just yet. No, this girl’s powers would take much time to explore, and even longer to learn to use properly.
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The Food Court in the Mall
Meanwhile, Kara gasped in hopeless pain as she felt her shoulder crushing, the Arion grinning cruelly at her as he twisted her arm until all the ligaments were torn from her shoulder, her previously powerful limb hanging by a thread. Yet he continued his torture, his hands slowly sliding down her arms, each powerful grip pulverizing more of her bones, deliberately breaking her arms in half a dozen places.
The Arion saw the glazed look on the girl’s face, her body in such shock that she could now barely feel the pain. He violently pushed her up against one of the marble columns, a dozen Terrans staring at the two of them as his hands reached down to cup her breasts, an evil grin forming on his face as he looked around to enjoy the observers’ stunned expressions of horror, his hands slowly tightening as he felt the girl’s soft flesh squishing to mush in his hands, the girl’s jaw almost dislocating from her own actions as she silently screamed!
He briefly considered ripping her crushed tits from her chest, but he wanted to prolong his fun with her. Instead, he lifted her up over his head, his large hands surrounding her once-beautiful thighs, his grip tightening as his fingers dug into what had recently been such firm and dramatic flesh, such beautiful and erotic curves, such golden perfection. Yet her thighs were now soft and flaccid, shapeless, and pasty white. He suddenly gripped them tightly, feeling a satisfying SNAP as both her femurs broke, his hands twisting outward to disjoint both her hips, the sensation a pleasant one for him, much like that of disjointing a well-cooked Terran chicken!
He looked up at the girl’s wide eyes, seeing that she clearly understood what was happening to her, that she knew she was mortally wounded. Yet he was dismayed that she wasn’t really showing any pain, quickly realizing that the other woman must have left her this way deliberately.
He shouted angrily after the Terran, determined to deal with that mutant bitch as soon as he was done with this ‘Supergirl’. Smiling evilly, he reached down to open his pants, lifting his massive cock upward, barely pausing as he shoved her body down onto himself in one quick stroke, a satisfyingly wet tearing sensation greeting his deep penetration. He thrust into her again and again, the loud crunch of her collapsing hips thrilling him as her soft body was trapped between Arion steel and the marble column behind her.
Shoving her body downward on himself even harder, he felt the invulnerable steel of his cock shattering her pubic bone, shoving harder yet as he ripped her body open, all the while gasping in rapturous pleasure! The joy of fucking this proud Velorian Protector to death was easily the greatest thrill of his entire life!
He now began to thrust himself wildly into the girl as his steely organ turned her organs to mush, ripping her open like a gutted trout. His orgasm quickly rushed over him, his loud shout coming as his super muscles flexed, her chest caving inward as he hugged her soft body, savoring the feeling of each rib snapping as he crushed her against the steel of his own ribs.
It was only a moment later when the powerful explosion of an Arion Prime’s ejaculation sounded and acted like a bomb exploding inside her mortally wounded body, the supersonic blast of semen raced like a missile through her body, exploding outward, tearing the top of her head off, the final spasms of his wild orgasm crushing her completely flat against the column!
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The Pizza store
Girman had finally woken up after the girl had thrown him into the Pizza place. He untangled himself from the broken bodies of the Terrans he had landed on and looked across the floor to see his partner frantically fucking the now clearly mortal girl! He knew that the woman they had found, the one with the mutant powers, had done her work: the Velorian’s legs and arms were twisted in impossible directions. Her formerly invulnerable skin was in shreds, now covering barely 20% of her ruined flesh. Shards of white bone emerged from red pulp in at least a hundred places. He saw the sadistic look on Firth’s face as his arms closed about her, as he shouted out his pleasure, as the top of the girl’s head exploded up against the ceiling from his violent release, as the few remaining hanks of her long blond hair were soaked and matted with her own blood!
Girman was suddenly disgusted at what Firth was doing to her, and ran over to pull the crushed body of the girl from his partner’s arms to lay her down on the floor. Amazingly, she was still alive, her brain stem still sending signals for her to breathe into lungs that could no longer expand. Girman felt a surge of compassion for the dying girl - she had been an extremely worthy opponent and he knew that had it not been for the injuries she had entered this battle with, the outcome would have been far different. Even Arions could sometimes admire the worth of an enemy, even a despised Velorian, and this young girl had ascended to magnificence in a very short life! She deserved a far better exit than a lingering death at the hands of this rutting savage! It was time to end this brave girl’s torture.
* * *
Mercifully, Kara was now past pain, so deep in shock that the remains of her nervous system had finally stopped sending her brain those endless messages of new injuries, of new agonies. She was dying, and anything that now happened to her ruined body was beyond her control, beyond even her knowledge.
Such a short life! For some reason the song “Girls Just Wanna have Fun” was going through her head, and she guessed that the song just about summed it up. She hadn’t asked for this war between Velorian and Arion, and it had been thrust upon her so suddenly! She didn’t want to die!
She remembered the excitement she had felt when she had happened upon Fairchild, Laura and Chris making love in a semi-public room of a hotel that night only several months ago, and the wonderful sense of awakening she had experienced so shortly afterwards when she had joined Fair and Chris in their own bed and made such wonderful love to them both.
It had been the major turning point in her life. She had found Chris, who was so much more of a man than any she had experienced before in her active life, but even more, she had discovered Fairchild. The first passion she had ever shared with a strong and needful Velorian woman was simultaneous with the first time she had ever touched ANY woman in love and in lust. It had been so thrilling!
Yet if she had not shared that bed, a sexual encounter of such intensity that it had almost seemed to set off a major earthquake, she would never have discovered her super powers, and quite possibly she would not be dying now. Had it all been worth it?
She was just deciding that perhaps it had been - she had enjoyed thrills and exaltation and fame in the past several months that most women never even dreamed of - when she felt an intense heat washing over her entire body, the tingling pinpricks reaching inward until they found the darkness within …
* * *
After giving Firth a strong signal to follow his lead or else, Girman focused his eyes on the ruined body of the former SuperGirl and released his full heat vision against her flesh. Her broken body was suddenly outlined in a red glow as Firth joined in with his own vision, and again the girl’s body flared to the same incandescence it had so often reached in the past from the heat of battle or even during the throes of her passion. But this time she did not glow dramatically, she did not light her surroundings with her impossible beauty, she simply vaporized, the last vestige of the fabulous Supergirl, of our beloved Kara, was a simple puff of white smoke rising to the ceiling!
The two Arion Primes stood back with satisfied grins on their faces as the twisting smoke cloud rose up toward the ceiling, both of them watching as it was finally sucked into one of the ventilation ducts. They shouted in thunderous triumph, their cries deafening many of the people who cringed against the shattered vibrating walls of the Mall.
The welcome they were sure to receive now filled both the Arions’ minds as they walked through the shattered remains of the Food Court, kicking any cowering Terrans they met from their path, heading back to their shuttlecraft. Many teams had tried before to kill a Velorian, yet THEY had been the first of this expedition to truly succeed!
They had killed the girl who had arrogantly allowed herself to be named Supergirl, the one whose Terran name was Kara Matthews. They were now glad that there was just ONE Protector left on Earth! A Protector they would deal with the same way as they had this ‘Supergirl’, once they found that mutant woman again!
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(At this point, with Kara Matthews having left the pages of my stories, my chronicles continue in the Adventures of Aurora Chapters 18-01 through 18-26, (the stories previously known as the Adventures of a Supergirl).
Chapter 18-01 continues with a surprising twist involving Carol, the woman with the green hands, her powers not limited to ‘taking’ a person’s essence.
These chronicles then wind a crooked path through the many parts of Chapter 18 until they eventually lead us to a split in the road.
Following Aurora Chapter 18, you can branch off into the Little Firebug series, the action moving to Earth-2. Or you can follow the Adventures of Aurora Chapter 19-0 and beyond, chronicling events involving Aurora, events that are occurring here on Earth-1. Or you can do what many do, follow both, and achieve a wonderful sense of confusion as you unsuccessfully attempt to tie the two story lines together!
The Little Firebug series itself will eventually cross back over into the Adventures of Aurora, thus completing the circle, and perhaps resolving your confusion. <grin>)
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