Dares and Bluffs.

Staring out the window to his office, Lex Luthor leaned back in his chair, patiently waiting for Parasite’s report in the loading bay of his building. The silent alarm already told him that Lois had arrived, as did the security feed of his staff fleeing for their lives. After thirty minutes of waiting, the man began to feel concerned. Turning in his seat, Luthor tapped a finger to his intercom to get his secretary’s attention.

“Mercy? Prep a helicopter to pick us up at the roof.”

“Yes sir, Mr. Luthor.”

“Ten minutes.”

Suddenly a tremor reverberated through the office, causing some of the furniture to shake ever so slightly. Narrowing his eyes, Luthor looked back at the intercom with some worry. “Better make it five.”

“Y-yes Mr. Luthor. Five minutes.”

Another tremor shook the office, stronger this time as he saw the glass of bourbon on his desk swish and rattle. Pulling away from the intercom, the tremor hit again, then again. They were coming in shorter bursts now, almost like they were heavy foot falls. The paintings and decorations in his office shook with each heavy ‘boom’ that quaked the top floor until he heard what sounded like an explosion out in the hallway. Gunfire echoed behind the door, making Lex stand up from his chair and check a drawer at his desk with a line of sweat trickle down the side of his face. Outside he could hear Mercy cry out, followed by a pistol shooting rapidly before another tremor rattled his desk and caused a lamp to fall over.

Stepping away from his chair and moving towards the far window, Lex Luthor eyed the door while clutching onto a remote in his hand he pulled from the desk like it was a shield. The gunfire outside stopped abruptly, leaving Lex in silence for only a few seconds before the double doors of his office burst open, sending wood splinters raining over the room and forcing Luthor to cover his eyes.

“Finally found you little mousey mouse…”

Lex heard a deep feminine voice purr, looking up, his eyes went wide with shock. A clawed hand gripped at the wooden frame of the door and crushed it easily in its grip as the owner to that claw made its presence known. **** to crouch, Lois stepped into the head office while her back spikes raked over the door frame’s top. Saurian feet stomped into the room, her clawed toes tearing the expensive carpet making her way in, dragging a long and heavy reptilian tail that slithered behind her. Her body was at the peak of physical perfection, built solid with muscles that looked like they could bend steel with the same ease as folding tinfoil. Thighs as large as tree trunks, arms the size of light posts, every inch of her exuded power personified. Her jet-black scales shimmered in the overhead lights where a florescent green could be seen glowing through the seams of her hide, as if the power within her could barely be contained. Her black hair flowed down behind her and over her shoulders like an oil slick, tapered by a pair of massive horns that crowned her skull and framed her face like the horns of a bull. Standing to her full height of 16 feet, her chest heaved with her watermelon sized breasts standing full and proud off her pectoral muscles. Her cleavage along with her abdominal muscles and face the only thing uncovered by the kryptonite hardened scales covering her flesh. The woman looked down at the terrified man with utter contempt in her pitch-black eyes, their irises glowing a sickly green so intense it looked like she could burn the man with heat vision… If she had it.

“I’ve been meaning to have a word with you.” She cooed, tilting her hip and crossing her arms in front of her.

“Lois… This is very unexpected.”

“Unexpected? But you invited me Lex, you INSISTED I come here.” Unfolding her arms, the giantess stomped her way towards him, rolling her hips seductively with each step until she was standing in front of his desk, grabbing it with enough **** her claws gouged the wooden surface and tossed it aside with such **** that it flew out the side window and kept going until it landed across the street on the roof of a neighbouring skyscraper. “You brought ALL the kryptonite here to LURE me, so you could snip pieces off me to study, to study ANOTHER way to KILL MY HUSBAND!” She roared, a green glow emanating from within her mouth and spilling through her fanged teeth.

Just as Lex raised the remote in his hand, Lois was already in front of him and grabbed hold of his body like a rag doll, slamming him through the window to dangle over the skyline 200 stories up. Gasping and clutching onto her clawed arm, Lex looked down and back at the monster woman staring dagger back at him. “You’ve always been jealous of him Lex, just an insecure little man with no power of his own. Only the power to make him weak. Now I have that power, how does that make you feel Lex?”

“Oh… ‘cough’ I’ve always considered myself a resourceful man Miss Lane.” Smiling despite the situation, Lex raised the remote in his hand and pressed a button so that Lois could see. “Resourceful enough to have a backup plan if things ever went south like they are now.”

A low growl escaped Lois’s fanged lips, like the deep reverberating snarl of an alligator. “What?” Pulling him back into the ruined office, she continued to keep him hoisted up by her claw, his feet dangling almost a meter off the ground.

“I’ve spent a fortune gathering as much kryptonite as I could find for this little join project of mine, at least… The kryptonite I could use.”

Narrowing her eyes, Lois continued to listen, her grip tightening around the man’s chest to make him keep talking.

“Cough… Cough… There are ALL sorts of kryptonite in the world, every colour of the rainbow, but only the green stuff could weaken the man of steel’s body, the others poison the mind, the morals, the soul… If there is such a thing.” Seeing her eyes widen and her lips pull back in a sneer, Lex smiled at the reaction. “THOSE samples of kryptonite I kept in locked stores spread over my company’s properties across the nation, and the world.” Wriggling the remote in his hand to catch her attention, he continued. “I just sent a request to have that stuff taken out of storage so it could be dumped into the nearest food processor’s as ‘flavour additives’, so if you want to make sure your hubby doesn’t go on a mouth frothing **** spree after eating a granola bar spiked with black or red or polka dot kryptonite… I’d get moving, I’m sure you’ve got a nose for the mineral, after all its how you found my reserves in the sub-levels.”

Breathing hard and staring back at the man with murderous rage, the green glow in the woman’s mouth intensified. Tossing the man onto the ground where he scurried back to press against the wall behind him, Lois growled, her claws brandished as if she couldn’t decide whether to tear the man apart or pulverize him into paste. Eventually the green glow began to bloom in her eyes as the glow in her mouth became blinding. Rearing back, Lois roared out in impotent rage and fired a columned of green light from her mouth that blew out the ceiling and carved a gaping hole in the roof where molten slag dripped from the edges to sizzle and boil around her feet. The rest of the windows blew out and **** Lex to shield his face from raining glass shards.

Lois jumped out of the crude exit she made for herself and landed with a crouch on the top of Lex Tower. Sniffing the air, her eyes scanned the city for any kryptonite she could smell the scent of. Darting her horned head up out to see past the city, she jumped as hard as she could, and flew out of Metropolis with a gust of air and turbulence.

Getting up to his feet and wiping glass from his expensive suit, Lex Luthor looked around his destroyed office and frowned, just as Mercy staggered inside sporting a bruised face and cradling her arm. “Mercy, any word on my helicopter?”

“Uhm… No Lex, the lines died just as your ‘guest’ cleared the elevator.”

“Hmm, shame.” Kicking some debris out of his way, Lex handed the remote over to the woman in her free hand and walked down the lobby of his floor. Looking down at the item, Mercy gave a look of confusion.

“Mr. Luthor, what is this?”

“The remote control to the blinds of my office, I’m going to need a new one since I no longer have windows. I plan to take an impromptu vacation during this time and won’t be back for some time… Or at least when that monster of a woman is no longer searching for more kryptonite.”

“Uhm… Okay.”

“Oh and Mercy?” Lex spoke up as he looked at the ruined elevator and turned to head to the stairs, not even bothering to look back at the woman. “You’re fired.”

“Sigh… Yes Mr. Luthor…”