How to deal with a blood sucker.

Slowly stirring awake and finding himself sitting in the cot of an ambulance, the Man of Steel looked around and rubbed his face with a free hand, quickly feeling a pair of gloved hands hold his arm and speak softly while helping him up and checking him over.

“Are you alright Superman? You got hurt pretty bad when those small jets attacked.” Commented the nurse as she checked his pulse and asked him to open his eyes to check for dilation. “Do you have a concussion? Do you know where you are right now? What’s the last thing you remember?”

“My wife… She’s in danger…”

“You have a wife?” He heard another nurse say out loud, helping the man sit up and check him for injuries. Feeling his vision clear, he looked up at the smiling woman, giving him a wink back in return. “She must be one lucky lady. I’m jealous already.”

Eventually he gently waved her aside and got back to his feet, if a bit unsteady in his stance when he took a step or two. A few steps more and regained his balance and looked back to the two nurses and around the lot itself. The crisis was being well contained and the authorities were already taking notes.

“Are you sure you’re okay Superman?”

“I’m… I’m good, I’m getting better.” Shaking his head and looking around. He made his way out of the parking lot for the Lexcorp facility he found Lois in. All around him he could see the debris from Toy man’s attack and stayed away from the kryptonite painted materia for his own safety. Checking his pocket for the kryptonite Geiger counter, Clark sighed when he found it had been damaged and was no longer working.

Looking out to the snow swept landscape and miles out ahead of him where the city was but a speck out in the horizon, Clark sighed. He tried to lift himself off the ground but was disappointed to find his powers of flight hadn’t been restored yet, but he was recuperating quickly.

“Lois, you REALLY need my help.”

*

“Clark… I need your help…” Lois whispered on the cold floor, a shadow looming over her as the Parasite turned on the drill tipped syringe in his hand and aimed it at the woman’s arm.

“Don’t worry doll face, this will all be over soon. Shame really, I was hoping for more than just a taste. If only the fun could last but a little longer… You know?” Parasite smiled his toothy grin like a shark.

Fluttering her eyes and looking up at the brute, Lois tried with all her strength to lift her head and glare up at him. “What’s wrong Rudy? Don’t want to finish what you started?”

“You don’t have much in the tank as it is Lois, what can you offer that I haven’t already taken?”

“You want to know where the imp is, right? Mr Myxlplyx?”

Turning off the drill and hoisting it up over his shoulder, the Parasite’s attention was piqued. “Go on.”

“I’m feeling pretty weak Rudy, I don’t think I can… Say it out loud… You may have to lift me up so I can whisper it in your ear.”

Smirking, the Parasite set the drill down and hoisted Lois up by her arm, his inhuman strength great enough to bring her up to her feet with ease. Looking drowsy and flushed, his touch drained more from her strength, causing her to diminish in size and grow pale. “Well gorgeous? What’s the secret?”

Her reply was her spitting into his eye.

“AAAGH! YOU FUCKING BITCH!”

Dropping her to the ground, Rudy stumbled aimlessly, trying to wipe the spit from his eye. Reaching out for something to steady himself, his massive hand touched the cap of the container Lois cracked open earlier and tipped it over by accident. Green, glowing fluid spilled over the ground and flowed towards Lois, while the rest of it pooled under the Parasite’s feet. The moment his foot touched the radioactive fluid, the monster screamed. He always had problems absorbing kryptonite, whether it was in its natural state or not. Slowly turning green from his foot up to his ankle, a green tinted static charge flowed up his leg, making the Parasite go stiff with pain.

Ignoring his cries, Lois extended her tongue to lap up the traces of the kryptonite fluid pouring in her direction. The moment her tongue touched the radioactive material, a heat bloomed in her chest that spread across her arms and legs. Strength returned to her, enough that she was sitting up and scooping the fluid in her hands to slurp up one handful at a time. With her strength to stand restored, Lois watched as the monster twitched and went into convulsions, the energies he sapped from the kryptonite wasn’t so much empowering him so much as taking up space in his cells, slowly making him green from the waist down as he soaked up more energy.

“What’s the matter Rudy? I thought you liked taking what isn’t yours.” Turning her attention to another cannister of kryptonite fuel, she pulled the cannister free from the truck and ripped the top off like it was cheap tinfoil. Lifting the cannister up with both hands, she doused the fluid over Parasite, making him scream louder as he absorbed the energies and became even more green all over. “You know what you are Rudy? You’re not a parasite, you’re a mosquito! Just some tiny, insignificant little bug that can only be noticed when you sting someone on the arm. But like all mosquitoes, you just need to be swatted, like the bug you are.”

The sound of glass fracturing could be heard as Parasite’s flesh began to calcify, almost as if he were TURNING into the kryptonite he was absorbing from. After just a few seconds, the massive brute went completely stiff. Sure, that he wasn’t going to be a problem anymore, Lois looked down at the cannister of kryptonite fuel and licked her lips. Upending the cannister over her head, the woman drank like a woman wracked with thirst. With each gulp, her muscles tensed, and her body grew. Crushing the cannister like an oversized soda can and with the same ease, Lois tossed it aside and reached for another, then another, and another. Her build and height were slowly being restored with each helping of kryptonite batteries she cracked open and drained like ripe oranges, or the fuel cannisters she downed, giving off an unlady-like belch that echoed across the loading bay before she tossed the cannister away behind her with a noisy clank of metal and reached for more.

Minutes passed, and heavy foot stomps announced Lois approaching the third truck parked in the loading bay and rip off its metal doors. With the same etiquette as a starving bear to a smorgasbord of salmon, Lois devoured what she could get her clawed hands on. By now she had fully regained her previous height and strength, and quickly grew even bigger. Shoulder checking the interior of the truck’s trailer for more room, the 12-foot-tall monster woman continued to grow as she ate more green glowing material in front of her. Her muscles throbbed and tensed, growing stronger, larger. Her hips and shoulders grew wider, brushing against the trailer walls and crumpling as they barely contained her powerful body. The spines on her back scratched against the roof and her horns would occasionally dent the walls when she’d turn her head to look for more cells or cannisters she hadn’t finished. When she finally reached the back and scratched at the backwall with her claws to reach for more and found none, Lois growled…

Her breath had become as hot as a furnace, with a green glow showing behind her fanged teeth and the metal walls going red when she exhaled. “More…” Tearing herself free of the constricting space, Lois stepped out of the ruined trailer and didn’t even realise she was as big as the transport truck that broad her meal there. She had already eaten more kryptonite in one sitting than she ever had in the past month or so combined. But she wanted more, NEEDED more.

“MORE!”

Well over 14 feet tall and rivalling Doomsday in both size and power, the massive black scale covered woman breathed hard and rubbed a claw over her flat abdominal muscles. Sniffing the air, she then turned her attention back to the Parasite. In the span it took her to eat every crumb of kryptonite dust, shards, fluid and power cells, Rudy Jones had been absorbing the kryptonite he was exposed to. He had absorbed so much of the material his flesh had become pure kryptonite. Frozen in place and completely crystalized, he gave off a sickly green glow from where he stood. But to Lois, it was the most tantalizing thing she had ever seen. Licking her fanged lips and wiping a sliver of drool from her lip, Lois snorted as she approached the human shaped kryptonite formation, her eyes wild with hunger as she reached out for her dessert after her long meal.