Metallo

“Kryptonite?”

Superman was rather confused, even stepping back from Dr. Hamilton’s deduction after the man looked away from the microscope and plucked the scale off its slide to admire it between his fingers. Thinking the item dangerous.

“Yes, the mineral composition is kryptonite, but its structure is ORGANIC in nature, almost like keratin. Not only that, its completely inert, there’s no radioactivity at all... Just where did you get this anyway?”

“I… I found it somewhere.” Superman told the man, not wanting to reveal too much yet or give the man anything to worry about. Shrugging to the answer, Dr. Hamilton gave the scale back to the Man of Steel and brought up on a screen what he had found from the item so far. The microscope had zoomed in and took pictures of the scale’s cellular structure and the dark green metallic substance seeped into it.

“Well, best I can come up with is it’s a scale, like that of a reptile or fish but with kryptonite minerals infused into it, forming a kind of natural carbon fiber. It’s almost as tough as YOU are, even the diamond drill we have in stock wasn’t enough to chip the surface. If anything, the scale chipped our drill.”

“Sorry.”

“Oh no, no worries with that. I’m rather impressed, you’ve brought so many different items to our lab to study, makes my job even more exciting.” Taking the scale back from Clark, Dr. Hamilton placed the scale into a small device where the interior was laced with a strange ceramic. The man shut the door to the compartment tight and went back to the screen to get a radioscopic readout of the scale. Checking the readings, the doctor leaned forward and scratched his chin in fascination. “Interesting…”

“What is it?”

“The kryptonite in this sample is giving off no radiation of any kind. It’s inert.” Pulling the scale out of the radioscope, the man admired it between his fingers again and handed it back to Superman who did the same. Utterly surprised to be in the presence of kryptonite that was not irradiated. “Element testing shows Its half-life has been completely depleted. Something drained it of all its ambient energy, normally this would take thousands of years for a radioactive mineral to transmute like this. Extraordinary.”

Looking down at the scale and pocketing it back into his costume, the Man of Steel looked back at the doctor as he repositioned his glasses.

“Doctor, you wouldn’t happen to have a way of detecting this mineral, would you?”

Shrugging, Dr. Hamilton shook his head and went back to his current notes. “If it were irradiated maybe, but as it is? You might as well ask if I can make a device that can detect wood.”

Thinking on that, Superman crossed his arms and thought deeply on the matter before proposing another idea. “What about kryptonite that’s still irradiated, can you build a device that can detect that?”

Turning in his seat with a smile, the doctor leaned back with a raised eyebrow.

“That I think I can do.”

*

Pandemonium erupted in the warehouse, with gunfire echoing across the entire structure with gun flashes sparking through the windows, only to be cut short by a forklift flying out the roof to land across the parking lot outside with a squeal of buckled metal when it landed on top of John Corban’s personal limo. Inside, Lois growled and fumed with her arms up as she was being shot at from all directions by the now panicking mercenaries after that display of her strength. Her dress now clung to her in bullet riddled taters and the green glow in her eyes intensified as her temper flared once again.

“The kryptonite, give it to me!”

Even with being fired on from 12 different directions, the bullets peppering her skin barely had the strength to bruise let alone damage her in any way. Dropping to the floor as soon as they belted off her skin to rattle and roll at her bare feet. Nothing they did damaged her, but it was still annoying, and it did nothing to curb her gnawing hunger. With the ricochet of a bullet off her left temple, Lois fumed and stormed towards her attacker, grabbing the man by his arm and tossing him out the hole she made when she descended into the complex when she arrived. The man screamed out loud with a yelp as he disappeared out the hole in the roof. Additional gunfire spat across her back, making the woman roar out in rage. Grabbing hold of some shelving she spun on her heel and flung the ton and a half of metal at the two firing at her from behind. The pair of men turning to run only to be pinned under the shrapnel she flung at them.

“GIVE ME THE…”

A blast to the face silenced her after the grenade went off in front of her. The explosion enveloping her and filing the warehouse with smoke. Flinging the spent shell from the grenade launcher, Metallo reloaded and fired again.

“That’s it. Keep at it men, wear her down.” Called out Corban, loading another shell into the grenade launcher after firing at the woman from a safe distance. The explosion caused everyone to guard their eyes and back off as the plume of smoke and shrapnel rained out in every direction. Reloading his grenade launcher, a form jumped out of the smoke and swatted the weapon out of his hand and pinned him against the wall with enough **** to buckle the steel behind him. “What in blazes…”

“You have kryptonite! I can smell it off you!” Lois hissed; her eyes wild as she ignored the gunfire ricocheting off her back. “GIVE IT TO ME!”

Metallo’s body was specifically designed and built to take on Superman in a bare knuckle drawn fist fight. But Aa strong as he was, Metallo could tell that the woman holding him down was strong enough to match him. As hard as he was trying to pull her off him, he couldn’t make her budge.

“GIVE IT TO ME NOW!”

“You want it love? Fine.” A compartment in his chest opened to reveal a green glow that flooded the entire warehouse, a light that grew in intensity and focused into a beam straight at Lois’s face. His ace in the hole if it ever came to brute **** not being enough to taker down the man of steel. “Take as much as you can handle.”

The green laser carved up and out from Metallo’s chest, blinding the mercenaries nearby as they turned away. Lois screamed out loud as the laser enveloped her, burning her clothes off her body, and making her loosen her grip on Metallo’s arms. Stepping back from the man, the light only intensified, burning everything, it touched and carved a scar into the roof above. Getting back up to his feet and rolling his shoulder, Metallo smirked at the sight of the woman staggering back, her screams did not die down at the slightest until he finally decided to shut off the beam and close the compartment to his chest. He was not disappointed with the results after seeing her. Her body was charred black from the blast, breathing hard with her face frozen in a rictus cry of pain.

“Hmm, seems someone couldn’t handle the heat then, and here I was told you eat this kind of…”

“More…”

Taken back by her response, the man realised she wasn’t charred to a crisp, far from it. Instead, her entire body was coated in a strange dark green material, its surface almost jet black and polished smooth like snake scales enveloping her entire body save for her stomach, chest, and face. Her finger and toenails seemed sharper, and just as jet black as her new coat of scales. She also seemed… Bigger. Her muscles were more defined and chorded underneath the scales, her thighs thicker and hips wider to accommodate them only to taper to her slim waist and rigid abdominal muscles underneath the twin shadows of her melon sized tits heaving with each breath. She had to have grown to almost seven and a half feet tall, towering over everyone in the warehouse even as they reloaded with trepidation, not knowing what could harm the now inhuman woman standing before them.

Panting and breathing hard, Lois hissed and shivered just as she looked up at John Corban, and the two of them locked eyes. Artificial blue stared back into black pools with green glowing irises staring deep into his own, filling the man with horror as he came to a sudden realization. The blush on her face, the heavy breathing, and the trickle of fluid trailing down her leg revealed much to his shock that she had not been screaming out of agony the entire time he blasted her with his kryptonite beam.

It was an orgasm.

“MORE!”