Warrior Princess Part 19

Doomsday by Hellacre13

DOOMSDAY by Hellacre Chapter 19 GOTHAM Half an hour ago Bruce Wayne was dining in one of Gotham's fanciest restaurant with his newest girlfriend Vesper Fairchild.They had been going out for a couple of months and Vesper was plastered on all of the society pages as having caught the eye of Gotham's wealthiest and most eligible bachelor.They were officially deemed a couple and this was unique for playboy Bruce Wayne who more or less lasted no more than a forthnight with any woman. She was a beautiful woman,and a journalist,and it was only because she had approached him at the Hyatt to ask him some questions that he had noticed her,and to keep up appearances he had asked her out.He eventually found out after a couple of dates she was pleasant company and Alfred had been very complementary about her.As far as the butler was concerned,his young master needed to take a break from the mask and try to enjoy some semblance of normality.Bruce was glad in a way because he let Alfred believe that was the real reason that he was dating Vesper.The truth was, in fact, far more aggravating and he himself didn't want to face up to it. He looked across at Vesper.She was beautiful with auburn hair and green eyes,and was very charming.Any man would be lucky to have her.Yet part of him kept thinking about a petite brunette with large brown eyes,and a kind of bravado that bordered on youthful enthusiasm and vulnerability.He had seen her once and yet he could not push her sufficiently out of his mind.He kept thinking of their encounter when they worked together to recover the kryptonite.She had grown up and was quite talented and perhaps was the only female to speak to him without any care that he was some debonair, rich billionare or a masked hero. "Bruce?Hey,you are far away," said a husky voice that broke into his thoughts. He looked up and took her hand and gallantly kissed it."Sorry.A lot on my mind.Business, you know." She smiled and leaned her chin on her hand."Maybe I can take your mind off all those boring business deals?" He smiled."How do you propose to do that?" "Well,we would have to leave here.It is too overcrowded." He saw the come hither look in her eyes.It was clear what she was suggesting."Oh yeah?Where do you propose we go?" She trailed her fingers along the back of his hand."Well,the limousine is quite roomy..." Bruce was about to reply when they heard a loud rumble,followed by a tremor and then a smash.People in the restaurant let out cries of confusion and dismay. Vesper frowned."What was that?" Bruce mused,"Earthquake?"He knew it was no such thing.Gotham had its fair share of crazed villains.It could be anyone of them. She rose and followed the other patrons to stare out the window.They had a view of the main downtown area from where they sat in the second floor of the restaurant ,and they could see a huge,hulking figure smashing its way into the crowded square,overturning cars and breaking structures in its path. She gasped."Oh god, what is that?" Before anyone could answer a large bronze statue came smashing thought the window and nearly took out a party of five and two waiters.There were screams and people ran for cover or just ran out of the restaurant.Vesper felt herself borne along by the patrons.She turned to look for Bruce. "Bruce??" He was cowering down on the floor and waved at her from under a table."Go.I'll get out through the back.Go and find the limo.Don't wait!Get out." As she was swept out,he got up and went for the back door.He drew out a kind of remote control ,and pressed a button.He also walked coolly through the kitchen as chefs and assistants ran out.He stepped out into the alley and waited.In five minutes time he heard the roar of the engine of his new Batmobile.It was an upgrade.The "Tumbler" had been too heavy and tank like.This one was low and sleek and had the look of a cross between a lamborghini and a thunderbird,with winglike projections at the back.The car was able to navigate itself by a built in computer system that was linked to Satellite technology.It screeched before him and the door flipped up and slid back. Bruce Wayne stepped inside. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Present Time Now here he was in the middle of Gotham square,facing the monster.The missile had done nothing to it.Just exploded and seemed to irritate it.The creature roared and ripped up a nearby street post.It came hurtling at the Batmobile with alarming speed.Batman pressed down on the accelerator and put the car in a spin.The pole just scraped past and smacked into the wall of a building behind the Batmobile.The creature ripped out a huge concrete pillar holding up the cornice of the opera house and he was about to throw it upon the Batmobile. Batman turned to drive off.There was no way the Batmobile would survive that being thrown at it.But the creature was covering the ground with blinding speed.The Batmobile screeched to a halt as the behemoth appeared before it.Batman tried to backup,but the entire pillar was coming down at it.Batman ejected and he flew up and into the air as the car was crushed. Batman tumbled into the air and spread his cape.The wings became rigid and he glided towards a near by church roof.He landed heavily,and turned to see the creature head straight towards him. "Well,seems it's me you've come for,"he muttered. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lex Luthor,Veronica Cale and Dr Donavan was at the top of Lexcorp Tower looking upon the monitors that was linked to a spy satellite,and were getting pictures and images beamed in to them of Doomsday rampaging Gotham.It was a matter of minutes the Batmobile appeared and they watched Doomsday take a missile as if he was being hit with a pillow.They watched with interest as the monster threw the pillar at the car and Batman ejected and glided to land on the slanting roof of a Gothic church. Lex said,"Humph,he thinks on his feet,I'll give him that.But let's see if he's fast enough to outrun him." Veronica mused,"You think Superman will show?" Lex smiled."Watch and wait.If it's one thing I have learned about hero types is that they are notorious for being predictable." Dr Donavan smiled,"I think the Batman needs a miracle here." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Batman cursed and backed away warily as the creature landed with such a thud on the roof,that the entire foundation seemed to shake and cracks developed along the roof.It would be a waste of time to even try to out run the monster.Already Batman clocked his speed.He was fast as the boyscout from Metropolis.Batman's mind ticked over.But what was it and where did it come from?He looked at the spire above them.Only one chance.As Doomsday came for him he raised his arms and fired both his lasers.The spire cracked and began to topple.Doomsday halted and felt the tons of brick fall atop him and the roof beneath him collapse.Batman himself gasped as he too was falling and buried under rubble. Batman felt himself stifling and the weight and darkness encompassing him.He grimaced in agony.He couldn't move.His ribs hurt every time he breathed,and he was sure he had fractured something in his foot.He suddenly felt and heard the stone and mortar being eased off him.He blinked and tried to focus.The inside of the church had not been totally destroyed with the cave in and he could see a stained glass window of the crucifixion as he was uncovered.His eyes blinked,as he saw standing on the rubble over him,as if being crowned by the window,was Superman. Batman rasped,"Where is it?" Superman hoisted him up by the arm and Batman had to grit his teeth as he staggered to his feet.He was covered in dust and his costume damaged in places. A husky voice sounded above them."Superman.I have been waiting for you." They looked up.Superman saw the creature standing on what was left of roof and looking down upon them.Batman's hand curled about his wrist."Careful.It is as fast as you are and seems just as strong." Superman looked at him."You have three broken ribs and a fractured talus.Get out of here." He flew up to hover and face the creature."What do you want?" Doomsday said,"Your death." And it came at him.Superman braced himself to catch the fist of the monster.The punch was like nothing he ever experienced.Not with Metallo.Not with even Zod.It sent him careening backwards into the air an entire ten blocks and he slammed into several buildings as he did so,taking out glass and steel.He landed somewhere on the middle floor of a skyscraper,and he clocked the monster coming.He rose and instead of waiting he went to meet him head on.They collided and the sonic boom took out the glass of the entire building. Superman delivered an uppercut that sent the creature flying into an illuminated billboard and it sizzled and short circuited as Doomsday shattered it into pieces.He muttered to himself,"What the hell are you?" Doomsday roared and went for a bus on the street and picked it up.It had people and they screamed as he threw it at Superman.Superman caught it and gently rested it down on a roof and he ducked and weaved and punched away several cars as they came at him.A voice sounded in his head. "Clark,what is going on?" It was Oliver. "Er,not now Ollie.A bit busy.Ooooff!" Doomsday had caught him by the cape and was swinging him around.He went flying into the ground and carved a huge crater into the road.By now people were screaming and running and the emergency services were trying to get the media away from the city.Helicopters flew overhead trying to film,even curious people wanted to be near to see or catch this battle on their phones. Clark groaned and looked up.Doomsday was coming at him with a large slab of concrete.He used his laser vision and fired.The creature felt the heat sear its eyes and it roared and backed away.It was blinded but only temporarily and the blackened,charred eyes began to heal and repair itself before Superman's eyes."Rapid self regeneration?How...?" Superman staggered to his feet and again he heard Oliver's voice. "Clark,what's going on?Do you need help?" Clark grimaced as he got a few seconds breather.He used his x-ray vision and gasped."Ollie,this thing...it's DNA...I can see it...I can't recognize...all the strands but some of the coding looks almost like my own." "Damn!We're coming.Where's Bruce?" "Injured.Left him in Gotham's Gothic cathedral.Er,here I go again..."Superman trailed off and saw a huge steel girder coming at him.He caught it and used its momentum to swing Doomsday away from the ground.The creature knifed into the air for a good mile.Superman went after him. "He can't fly.Maybe that will be my advantage.Keep him airborne.Keep him away from civilians.You will have to try to help the emergency services.Parts of downtown Gotham is in a mess...I can't fight if I'm worrying about killing people...!'' he shouted to Oliver. Oliver returned,"I hear you,Clark." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oliver turned and looked at Dinah."Call Zee!We need to get to Gotham!Now!" Both were in their Black Canary and Green Arrow uniforms and were in the vestibule of the Themysciran Embassy.Zatanna was with Diana,who had already changed into her Wonder Woman uniform and was arguing with her mother in the lounge.Hippolyta had apparently gotten wind something was amiss from the worried look on Julia's face.She came down stairs to see her daughter on the verge of leaving the embassy. "Where do you think you are going?" "Superman needs my help." "What?Who is Superman?" Diana gestured to the television."That is Superman...and he is facing something as powerful as a titan and destructive as the children of Cronus..." Hippolyta stared at the image of the man in the red cape battling the behemoth."But that is that boy!That Clark." "Yes.So what if he is?And he isn't a boy.He is a twenty four year old man,"Diana said crossly, rising to his defence. "You children are going to do what?Fight that monster?"She looked cynical and yet worried. "We will try."Diana retorted stiffly. Julia, meanwhile, was looking bewildered.Half an hour ago she was entertaining Diana's friends now she was seeing capes and masks and monsters."What?Don't be silly.Clark is here...where is he?"She looked at John and Michael who looked sheepish."No!He isn't really Superman, is he?" Ferdinand nodded."He is." Hippolyta looked at the tv screen as he flew and fought Doomsday in bemusement."I do not understand this ...How did he get those abilities?" "Mother,I have no time to discuss this.He needs our help.We are going,"said Diana firmly.She looked at Dinah."I am ready." Hippolyta watched them go out to join the Green Arrow and Black Canary."I do not believe this." Julia sighed."Neither do I."She looked at Michael and John and Chloe."Don't tell me you three are also super heroes?" Chloe smiled wryly."No,afraid not." Michael tried to joke weakly,"Not yet...at least." Diana,Canary and Zatanna joined Green Arrow in the hall.Ollie handed out the comlinks and said grimly,"We need to get to Gotham.But once there we'll need to split up.I think Bruce is somewhere injured.And Clark is adamant that we need to help search and rescue." Zatanna said,"I will go look for Bruce." Diana declared,"I will go and help Clark." Oliver nodded."Dinah and I will go downtown.We will all keep communication lines open.Okay Zee,now." She raised her hand and a circle of light encapsulated them."OT MAHTOG!" Lex Luthor watched the two images on the satellite move in the air then fall atop a ridge that was on the outskirts of the city.Superman was smart enough to take him away from people.He smiled as he saw Doomsday raise his bony spurs and pummel the Man of Steel,until he could see blood pouring from his nose and mouth. "Superman sure is taking some punishment,"mused Dr Donavan."How long have they been at it?" Veronica said,"I estimate about half an hour.Our beast is up to his full strength...the kryptonian is powered by the sun and is far from his full potential.In ten or fifteen years time years time it may be a far different story." Lex said dryly,"Well,it is a good thing we don't have to wait for that." Dr Donavan saw Doomsday grind Superman's head into the stony side of the ridge."Doomsday is like a machine.He feels no weight of tiredness nor pain.He is wearing the Boyscout down.Superman has no time to draw breath to recuperate." Superman's cape was in shreds and his uniform torn and he felt Doomsday nearly puncture a lung with the bony spurred knuckle.He let out a shuddering gasp and fell.Doomsday was about to follow up with a hit to the other side,when a golden loop came over the behemoth's head and yanked him away from the Kryptonian. Lex scowled."What the hell?" Veronica Cale exclaimed."The Amazon!!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "GET AWAY FROM HIM!!" Diana held the lasso taut and flung him against the side of the ridge.Doomsday shattered a hole in it but instead of becoming docile under the influence of the girdle of Gaea,it grabbed the rope and yanked her hard towards him.Diana pulled back with all her might,her boots digging deep into the dirt but she was being drawn forward. "Hera!"gasped Diana and she suddenly let go of the lasso and went straight for it. Superman sat up,grimacing in pain,to see her going for the creature head on."Diana!No!!" She punched it,over and over, driving it back ,then it caught her by the face and it slammed her to the floor.It stomped its large feet into her back and was going for her hair.It lifted her up by her black locks;only to have her take her tiara and slash it across the throat.It rasped and stumbled back.The tiara fell,as did she.She panted in pain,blood was trickling down her own lips and she winced.Her knuckles were bleeding and protested when she tried to make a fist or flex it. She stumbled to Superman,who was up onto his feet, and grasped her shoulders and shook her."You fool!You could have been killed!" She gasped and looked at the material of his blue shirt,now seeping with blood."The lasso.It...didn't work...Hera...you are bleeding!!" "It has no soul...Diana...no conscience...It appears to be an engineered clone using my DNA and god alone knows what else...Your lasso cannot bend it to its will...and the tiara has only bought us seconds..."He looked at the beast as it was on its knees and beginning to heal."Here it comes again.You must go!" She shook her head and pushed away."NO...You are hurt...I will not leave you." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zatanna appeared in the darkness of the Gothic church and called."Bruce!" She waved her wand."THGIL!" She saw no sign of the Batman.Only dust and rubble.She knew his Batmobile was in pieces across town and wondered where he would be.He wasn't in the cave.Oliver had ascertain that from Alfred.She stared at the ground and saw a piece of what could only be Batman's scalloped wings and picked it up.She whispered,"DNIF NAMTAB!" She vanished and appeared in a storm drain.She could hear something ahead in the darkness,wading in the water.She called softly,"Bruce?" There was no sound.She grimaced as she trailed in the knee deep water and suddenly felt something grab her from behind.She screamed.A huge reptilian creature had her by the neck and had clamped it's cold scaly hands over her mouth.She couldn't utter a word.It's jaws was like that of a crocodile.It hissed."Ah,it's been a while since I fed on sweet girl flesh.I wonder how you taste,my pretty?" Zatanna struggled and tried to tear her way out of its grasp.But it was strong and she could feel its talons digging into her side.She would have been disemboweled if a batarang had not been hurled and stuck itself right in the center of the creature's back.The creature let her go and spun around to see a fist come into its face and a heavy boot into its gut.Zatanna herself cried,"PEELS!" The creature fell into the water and seemed to become comatose. Zatanna saw Batman emerge from the shadows."Bruce!You're alright!" He sounded angry."What are you doing here?" She looked at him impatiently."I came to find you." "Really?What for?" "Ollie said you were hurt.You needed help." "I'm not the one who had Killer Croc ready to eat me for supper." She tightened her lips."I have no time for this.I came to find you because I thought you might be in danger.I could be elsewhere helping Superman and Wonder Woman take down that thing that appeared in Gotham...If you don't need me..."She turned to go. "Wait!"He caught her arm."No.It's too dangerous to go in just like that.That thing is nothing like I have ever seen.I doubt your magic can contain it." She looked at his hand on her arm and said,"Clark told Oliver it shares his DNA.He thinks it's an engineered clone,but from what kind of life-form, we have no idea." Batman frowned pensively."An engineered clone?With part of Superman's genetics?So sharing some of Superman's vulnerability maybe?" She said,"He's vulnerable to magic..." Batman said briskly,"One doesn't go in half prepared in a situation like this,and hope that thing will be weakened by chance.Take us to the cave." She looked strangely at him."The cave?But that is wasting time.I could be..." "Zee...please...,"he said. It had been a long time since he called her by that name.She sighed."Very well.OT EHT EVAC!" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alfred was delighted to see Zatanna after so many years.He knew her father and inquired after him;only to have Batman say abruptly,"No time for that Alfred.I need you to do some bandaging ." Alfred looked stern."What did you break this time?" He pulled off his cowl."Three ribs and a fracture in my foot." Zatanna exclaimed."What?And you have been walking and fighting?You stupid,stupid man." Bruce gave her a sour look but limped to the wall where he had the vault and he opened it and produced a box.Zatanna asked,"What is it?" He opened the box and she saw a box of with a jagged sliver of green rock and beside it what looked like two green bullets. She frowned."What is it?" He took out the bullets."I made them especially from this piece I kept back."He put the sliver back in its place in the vault. "Kryptonite!!You kept a piece when Oliver told you to destroy it?!You have got to be the most insufferable,pig-headed,..."she exclaimed. Bruce interrupted dryly,"Spare me the abuse.This rock weakens and can kill Superman...therefore it can weaken perhaps something cloned from his DNA..." She retorted,"It isn't all his DNA." "Well,it's something.Because right now,...I'm sure it's all we've got." Zatanna asked,"What do we do?" Alfred interrupted coming up with a tray."First of all, you will sit and let me do my work,Master Bruce." Bruce nodded and began to try to peel off the armor plate and tunic.He grimaced as lifted his arms.Zatanna tutted impatiently and said,"Let me..." She helped him out of it,and as her hands brushed his chest,they stood still,mere inches apart.Bruce stared down at her,as she held the tunic,and pretended to examine the garment for tears.Alfred coughed.Bruce turned away. "Be quick,"he said brusquely. Zatanna shook her head as if to chide herself silently.She dropped the garment on the table and decided to contact Oliver as Bruce had his injuries seen to.Oliver and Dinah were downtown and helping the police and fire services to keep the area clear and rescue people who may have been injured by the fight.Oliver was able to tell her that Superman had not answered his communicator for over fifteen minutes.He had no idea what was going on.Diana too was not answering. Zatanna gulped."I hope they are okay.Bruce and I are going to try to see if we can help." "Bruce is okay?" "As well as can be I guess if you have broken ribs and a fractured in your foot." "Right.Well,good luck.Keep in touch." "Will do." Alfred complained as Batman rose,threw on his armor and cowl and wouldn't let him give him an analgesic shot nor bind his ankle."No time,and painkillers will slow me down." Zatanna looked at him as he went towards his armament stash.She watched him pick up something that looked like a sniper rifle.He loaded the two kryptonite bullets in the chamber and looked at her."Let's find Superman." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doomsday's throat healed and he roared."I will kill you both!" Superman shouted."Tackle him.Together!Now!" They launched themselves at him and they grabbed Doomsday,trying to take him down simultaneously The creature writhed as Superman held him from behind and raised him off the ground and Diana used her bracelets to smash the side of its skull.What Diana didn't realize was that it had the ability to close off its auditory canals.She was knocked away with a powerful uppercut of the spurred fist.It reached back to grab Superman's hair and he flung him over its head.Superman tumbled into the dirt and landed in a heap near an unconscious Wonder Woman. Superman laid on his back.He could see the silhouette of the aberration loom over them in the moonlight.Superman struggled up.He was feeling weaken and tired.It was almost an hour now he was battling with the beast and he had not a breather nor chance to heal.He struggled to his knees.Doomsday sensed victory as he reached for his neck.He would snap it off. "I have you,Superman.I will kill you and then break the female into two." The sound of wings and a woman's voice made Doomsday turn. "Creature,you will not touch a hair on her head!" Superman saw Queen Hippolyta swoop in wearing her winged sandals,and the gauntlet.She also carried the sword.She came from behind and punched Doomsday so hard he flew into the forested valley below.She flew after him,her sword swinging.Doomsday saw it coming and raised his arm.The blade shaved the bony spurs off the right fist and his shoulders.She slashed across its chest and arms.It roared and caught the blade of the sword and yanked it from her.It tried to snap it,but was only able to bend it over on itself. Hippolyta's eyes widened in amazement,as it flung the sword to the ground and ripped out a huge tree and hit her with it.She flew back taking out several trees herself,coming to land painfully in the shallow part of a river bed. She shook her head."Zeus,that thing is as powerful as a titan." Meanwhile Superman was bending over Wonder Woman.He ascertained she was breathing.He stood up and saw the battle in the valley below,and his eyes widened as he saw Doomsday bend the sword of Hephaestus and smash a tree into the Queen of the Amazons.He looked down at his chest.The wound was still opened.He had no time to go up to the sun...to recover...he took to the air and flew towards the river bed. Doomsday picked up a rock and hurled it at Hippolyta.She punched it apart with the gauntlet.Another came at her and another and she gasped to see Doomsday's spurs growing and his chest closing from the wounds made by the sword.His speed, now that he had recovered, took her by surprise.He reached for her and slammed her to the ground.She grappled with him but she could feel the bones in her non gauntlet arm break.She screamed,and could see the spurs coming for her eyes.Superman was seconds from her. The sound of a report made the creature still.Something had hit it in the forehead.It roared in pain.There was another report and this time Hippolyta saw the second green bullet whizz past her and embed itself in the monster's neck.The monster staggered backwards. She did not know it but on a cliff high above,was Batman with a rifle and Zatanna at his side.Superman flew in and scooped her up."Your Majesty, are you alright?" Hippolyta looked at him in confusion."What happened?Where is my daughter?" "She took a hard hit.She is concussed,not mortally harmed."Superman landed her next to Zatanna and Batman.He looked at Batman ironically."Kryptonite?" Batman nodded."Yes." Superman looked at the creature."It's not going down." Batman said wryly,"It will just buy you time.Weaken it." Superman stood up."It will not stop until I am dead.I need to take it down permanently."Before anyone could say anything,Superman went after it.He caught Doomsday around the waist. Doomsday roared and struggled as Superman took him up and up and up.Soon they were vanishing into the dark sky. Zatanna clutched her cheeks."Where is he taking him?" Batman said grimly,"I don't know but it's out of our hands now." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lex was screaming."What the hell?Where did they come from?" Veronica said wryly,"It's like Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men.I think they have weakened it.Look at the monitor.It's pain receptors are up.That is impossible...unless...it is kryptonite!!Do you think??" Lex looked furious."Call it back!" Dr Donavan was pressing the electronic link to the to the creature."I can't.He's taken him clear out of the earth's atmosphere.I think...they are now on the moon..." Lex growled."Find a satellite link.I want them traced." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They smashed straight through a rotating satellite and the battle was taken momentarily to the moon.The pair fell heavily into a scarred crater.Doomsday had been made weaker by the kryptonite and Superman was now clearly flagging.Superman felt one of his eyes closing shut and his face was bruised and swollen.He could feel difficulty breathing and his heart felt as if it was about to burst.He fell back as Doomsday stamped the ground beneath them and when the monster came to slam his fist down upon him again,he mustered enough energy to send out a blast of heat vision out of one eye and sliced the entire arm off. The disembodied arm floated away into the vacuum and Doomsday rasped,"You think this matters,Superman?You may cut off both my arms and still I will destroy you.I will destroy all those you call friend and love.The Bat.The Amazon.You will have to kill me first." The words were barely out of his mouth as Superman pull himself up and went for him.He lifted him up high over his head with an agonizing grunt and as one pushing a mountain,he flew at warp speed,taking the creature towards the Orion Spur,towards the nearest stellar mass black hole.He could see the collapsed star,and feel the gravitational pull.Doomsday roared as he saw it and began to struggle.But Superman held him fast and flung him with all his remaining strength.Doomsday tumbled and swirled like a dervish through the vacuum of space and felt himself caught up in the gravitational pull of the dead star.He fought against it,only to be sucked in further and further. Superman heard the bellow."This is not the end!!" and then Doomsday was gone. Superman,breathing hard and fast,his face etched with pain, turned to fly back towards the earth. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Zatanna had transported everyone back to the Batcave in Gotham,where they were able to communicate with Oliver and Dinah who were still downtown.Hippolyta had a broken arm and Diana was nursing a splitting headache and fractured knuckles.Alfred was doing his best to coax the Queen into taking pain relief and have him set her bone.She was insistent she could bear it,dismissing his injection and primitive bandages with talk of a purple healing ray.She seemed more worried over her damaged sword than her own injury. Wonder Woman,Zatanna and Batman stood before the monitor listening to Oliver's grave voice on the speaker. "There is no sign nor word of Superman.I am worried now.I think the NASA said something was picked up on the moon...but that is as far as I know." Diana began anxiously,"Can no one find a way to go and see what is happening?" "I'm afraid we are talking about deep space,Diana...I don't have access to a space craft...well not yet at least...,"Oliver added, as if a thought had occurred to him. Batman said,"I'll keep all frequencies open to see if...wait...I think there's something from INSAT...something is being recorded as coming down from space and is projected to hit the Thar Desert in India...in Rajasthan..." "Think it could be him?"asked Zatanna hopefully. Batman said grimly,"I don't know.It could be anything...even the creature...We need to be..." Diana turned."I'm going." Hippolyta began,"Daughter,if it is the creature,and not Superman?" She took in a deep breath."Either way.We need to know.Give me the co-ordinates,Batman." Zatanna said,"I will come with you." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- They appeared above miles of sandy desert after Zatanna transmigrated them to the spot.Diana looked around in vain at the sedate dunes and valleys."Where?I can't see anything...I..." Zatanna pointed to the sky as something seemed to breach the clouds and like a burning star seem to plummet in an arc over their heads.It landed a mile away and the sound was like a huge explosion. Diana cried,"Gaea!" She took to the air,Zatanna also spoke her words, and levitated and they appeared over a ridge to see a huge smoking crater as if an asteroid had hit. They saw him.He was lying in the middle of the crater and was not moving. Diana cried,"CLARK!!"