Supergirl Invictus - A Resurrection Comedy - Chapter 7 : It's a bore, it's a shame, it's....

In his newlywed appartment.

In Metropolis...his realm.

His Eden.

And Kal El tried to do the deepest most important thinking of his life...how did he get to this pretty pass?

How?

All around him was bedlam, the pictures were hanging crookedly on the walls...there were huge jagged holes in the plaster...unsightly burns in the carpet, the furniture was

smashed to kindling.

Lois his wife his queen his Juliet was howling in the background.

"No NO Cir-El Bad girl Bad! Don't use your heat vision in the...."

A smell of smoke came to Kal El's supersensitive nostrils.

"CLARK!!!" wailed Lois.

But Superman stirred not.

At some point there was a reassuring whoosh of a fire extinguisher.

"ME LOVE MOMMIE" grated an hateful saccharine voice.

Lois poked her head in the living room...she looked bedraggled and sported an apron covered with bloody handprints.

She was uncommonly beautiful...but clearly on her last legs.

"CLARK! for God's Sake Cir El just tried to burn me a valentine in the wall with her heat vision-DO SOMETHING!!!".

"Oh yes and soon" said Superman in a sad faraway voice.

Suddenly the wall above his head exploded and a head poked through seemingly undamaged...it was a girl with a preposterously short hair cut.

"PEEKABOO MOMMIE!!" she shrieked happily.

Lois lost it.

"No No NO! Cir El no more busting through walls you promised!"

Lois ran out of the room their condo would be ruins by sundown if this kept up!

Cir El their "daughter" giggled in a horrible fashion that suggested a six year old sociopath.

Sit Superman sat.

It was all over he could tell.... nothing was right anymore and to deal with Cir El who was either a daffy clone or refugee from a horrible future required more ruthlessness than Superman could manage.

Had he forgotten?

After all this time?

The difference between right and wrong?

Cir El seemed to be proof of that.

And then he said it.

"Kara? Where are you Baby? Cousin Superman needs help right now..."

Silence greeted his still small plea.

He looked up in supplication..."Kara beloved cousin...remember the old days, you used to bail me out quite a bit...I sure do need some of that now"...here the Metropolis Marvel came over in wracking emotional pain and actually sobbed quietly.

A breeze came from the shattered window.

And he could smell...what...rosewater?

Now who used rosewater?....a friend as he recalled.

A soft warm cheek can down next to his..."What's up cousin?"

Superman spun around.

It was her.

His Cousin...

SUPERGIRL!!!!

Kal El fell to his knees and wept pressing his face to her long toned legs.

"H-how!" blubbered the Man of Steel.

"Your love, that brought me back...isn't love the most powerful force in the

Universe-stronger that you, stronger than me...stronger than bad times?" Kara smiled quietly and ruffled her cousin's thick black hair.

An almighty crash punctuated this tender reunion.

Cir El, devoid of all sense, briefly stuck her head through her previous hole in the wall.

"Whoopsie", She sang.

And then she pulled out and trudged down the hall knocking huge holes in the floor.

"Daddy is being nice to a yellow girl" she tattled.

"CLARK! WHAT NOW?" despaired Lois.

Supergirl looked down at her cousin.

"Who is the new talent?" she asked.

"Oh that is Cir El...according to the Futuresmiths she is going to be my daughter in the future...but but" the hero trailed off.

"But what Kal?"

"She she...has MY DNA but none from Lois!"

Supergirl sat down next to her cousin and threw a comforting arm around his shoulder.

"Don't you see...in the future Lois and I aren't...aren't" he broke off with a sob.

Supergirl set her chin defiantly.

"Kal El I am SURPRISED at you! This Cir El is obviously some ghastly genetic forgery designed to unhinge your wits!"

"You think...?" asked Superman.

"I'm sure of it! Listen just leave it to me I'll take care of this Cir El dame!"

Supergirl stood up...now all this time she'd been sitting on a sharp object...now she saw what it was-a well chewed stick.

Kara picked it up "Got a dog?"

"Yeah Krypto...he chews on that sometimes..."

KRYPTO is back!?" said Supergirl incredulously.

"Things change Kara..."

"Oh I'm just sure they do! Listen do you think Krypto will mind if I borrow his stick?" asked the Maid of Might.

"No I guess not" said an abashed Action Ace.

Supergirl strode purposefully into the kitchen..."It's been one damn phony Supergirl after another today..." she muttered to herself.

She dug into the pouch of her cape and produced a tiny spinning orb that gave off an odd light.

"You'd better come through for me now Omegahedron!" she thought.

In the Kitchen, Lois was cowering in a corner; Cir El was consuming a whole sack of sugar and doing a messy job of it as well.

"Supergirl!" breathed Lois.

"No ME SUPERGIRL" said Cir El.

"Lois why don't you let me and Cir El here to get better acquainted" asked Kara who threw Lois a wink.

Lois straightened her apron and marched out with great dignity.

"Sooo Cir El...you are Supergirl right?"

"Yes-me Supergirl everybody love me!" said the simulacra.

Kara without another word tossed the omegahedron in the air, instantly a colorful portal opened up spewing colors and energy.

"Ohhh Pretty" gaped Cir El.

Supergirl positioned herself in front of the portal and pulled out Krypto's stick.

She whistled "Here Cir El Cir-El, fetch the stick!" she whistled again and dangled the stick in front of the portal.

"ME FETCH" roared Cir El who bounded at Kara with glee.

The Maid of Might deftly threw the stick into the portal whereupon Cir El leaped after it vanishing into the weird glowing void.

The portal suddenly collapsed leaving the so-called omegahedron lying on the kitchen floor.

Supergirl reached down and picked the talisman up.

"First decent use I've gotten out of you in years!" she said.

Lois re-entered the kitchen tentatively..."Y-you didn't kill here did you?"

"No just sent her to a dimension more suited to her low I.Q. and lack of charisma..."

Lois fairly leaped for joy; she hugged Supergirl good and hard.

"Liberation!" she shouted "Clark we are off the hook!!"

***

The three of them were now happily ensconced in what remains of the Kent living room.

"Gosh wait till Lana finds out she was married to a robot!" opined Lois.

"Oh lets not get into that my dear..." said Superman "It's all too convoluted".

"I can't believe you two are married!" marveled the Girl of Steel.

Here Kal El hugged his wife affectionately and said "Why? Don't we make a cute couple??"

"Yeah I guess it's just hard to think of you two keeping house together" said Kara.

"Times change cousin" said Superman.

"I keep hearing that" laughed Supergirl.

"Listen Kara, you and me need to team up one of these days..." offered Lois.

"And I keep hearing that too" japed the Maid of Might.

They laughed, the first good laugh Lois, Clark and Kara had enjoyed in years.

"Ah cousin...um...why don't you move in with us? I can always use another hero in

Metropolis and well..." Superman trailed off abashed.

"Yes Kara, we've got an extra room and I'm sure we could establish a new civilian identity for you..." that was Lois Lane, always eager and practical.

Supergirl sat back this was a tempting offer, but her destiny lay elsewhere.

"Now I should be getting home my foster parents will be worrying about me..." she squared her shoulders and stood up.

"Are you sure they are...available?" asked Superman.

"Love has brought me this far Kal El...it won't forsake me now" responded his pretty cousin.

"Um if it doesn't work out, I think I speak with my husband when I say you can live with us-that offer stands"

"You guys are so sweet to me" Kara kissed her cousin and his wife.

And with a teensy tear in her eye our heroine flew out the window-westward towards Midvale and home.