Later that night…

Clark had gone off overseas in response to a crisis on the Indian ocean that needed his attention, leaving Lois the time to do what she had planned to since she left the Daily Bugle. Getting dressed in black pants and a black jacket, the woman had also grabbed a pair of black winter gloves and a ski mask to hide her appearance when the time was ready. Taking a cab back to the military complex from the other day, Lois snuck into an alley close by to stay out of sight. Putting on the mask, Lois looked up while it was snowing in the night air, looking up at the five-story building and the roof up top. “This shouldn’t be hard right? After all if Batman can do it…” Crouching and bending at the knees, Lois jumped as hard as she could and nearly yelped when she propelled herself up in the air and almost missed the lip of the rooftop she was aiming for, grabbing hold of the brickwork and hoisting herself up easily thanks to her new strength.

“Okay Lois, mental note, AIM before you jump!” Breathing hard, the woman rolled off her back up to her feet again and looked over the roof top to the adjacent building across the street; the R&D lab she broke into yesterday. Last time she went in through the front door. With her new super strength, she had another opening in mind to get in. Looking down at the four-lane street down below and the high fence separating the building from the rest of the block, Lois backed up and stretched to give herself a running start. Sprinting to the edge of the roof, Lois jumped as hard as she could, wincing from the snow and cool wind in her eyes as she jumped across the street and past the fence to land in the yard, causing a small indentation in the concrete before she sped back up and jumped again, leaping up over the three story lab complex and ending up on the roof, looking around to make sure she wasn’t spotted.

Smiling under her ski mask, Lois wrung her hands in victory and ran to the door at the roof to get inside, prying the door handle off like it was tin foil and making her way inside. Being cautious now that she was inside the lab, Lois Lane kept herself low and retraced her steps back to the floor where she found the storage room. Checking the door, she frowned to find it locked, but with her new strength, ripping the door handle and lock off was no trouble. She was in. Looking around the dark room, Lois looked around for whatever kryptonite she could find… She didn’t have to look hard. All around her were the prototype weapons being prepared and charged, lead lined containers filled with kryptonite shards and the battery packs they were being installed in. Without even realising it, Lois licked her lips. Making her way to the table she ripped open a led sealed container to find the green glow of kryptonite dust inside, opening her mouth she poured it past her lips and swallowed, followed swiftly by another container.

Finishing off seven soup-can sized containers of powdered kryptonite, Lois licked at her fingers as she went over the notes of the lab’s research. From what she found they were grinding the kryptonite down into a fine powder and mixing it with an alkaline to make a battery pack for the laser rifles. Checking a rifle on the rack, she found the battery attached and unplugged it. Unscrewing the top, she ripped it clean off when it wouldn’t give, rewarded with a container filled with a green glowing slurry. Opening her mouth, she downed the fluid without a second thought. For over half an hour she repeated the same process; prying off the power packs to each display rifle and feeding off its power source until they were all empty. Leaving at least 40 ruined weapons on the floor and a woman licking her fingers clean after guzzling what had to have been 2 liters of liquid kryptonite. Despite the amount she consumed, she didn’t feel sick, if anything she felt the opposite, she felt energised and alert. She could hear the footsteps of people outside or the chatter from guards several rooms down, her senses now heightened.

But had she been paying attention she would have found that her clothes were getting tight on her, her pants looking tight on her legs where the hem at her ankles exposed skin, along with the wrists to her jacket as it protested more loudly after finishing her meal. But she wasn’t finished yet, she still had to clean the lab out of everything that could harm Clark. Then she found it! A storage container the size of a small propane tank lined in lead with several warnings stamped on it, her nose told her it was the last source of kryptonite this lab had. Breathing hard with her eyes wild with excitement, she hefted the container up and ripped a small hole at the corner where a green glow leaked out. Hoisting it over her head, Lois drank the liquid kryptonite like she was drinking milk straight from the jug, controlling her breathing as she swallowed one gulp after the other until it was finally empty. Tossing the empty container away with a loud clank, Lois let loose a belch that caught her off guard but made her laugh when she regained her bearings.

She did it! She picked clean every gram of kryptonite the lab had, and apart from a feeling of fullness and a little heartburn, she felt fine. BETTER than fine, giving her full stomach a pat, she made to leave when she found the door kicked open and three armed guards stormed in and aimed their weapons at her. “FREEZE!” The one guard ordered as she raised her hands over her head. “Lady, I don’t know WHO you are, but you are coming with us!” Still wearing her ski mask, Lois was grateful the guards didn’t recognise her from last night. But now she was in a REAL pickle if she were captured again. Looking around for a means of escape, when one of the guards came behind her to cuff her, Lois tossed him aside. Surprising everyone when he was launched across the room and crashed into the display rack 10 feet away.

“OPEN FIRE!!!”

Gasping in terror, Lois shielded her hands in front of her when she heard the loud rapid fire of the **** rifles fire at her… Only to feel nothing. Blinking in surprise, Lois looked down to find her black jacket torn and full of holes with dozens of flattened bullets on the floor by her feet. Looking back up to the two stunned guards, they reloaded their weapons and fired again. This time Lois could see the bullets exiting the chambers and fly towards her, only to bounce off harmless against her chest and stomach, causing holes in her clothes but nothing else. It almost felt like someone was poking her with their finger with each gunshot, which she found funny since each ‘poke’ left a finger sized hole in her clothes.

“Wow…” Looking back at the two guards, she shoved them aside and ran out the door, running as fast as she could, she barreled through the door to the roof, snapping it off its hinges just as the security alarm went off. Looking behind her and back out across the street, Lois Lane ran as fast as she could to the edge of the roof and jumped just as half a dozen guards had managed to join her up top and began firing at her. Leaping off the roof, she managed not only to cross the fence and street but cross the building she used in the first place and land nearly half a block away! Looking back to find the place still going off like an angry hornet’s nest, Lois ran and jumped from one roof top to the next, making her way back home.