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“Is everyone alright?” Called out Perry, crawling out from his office to find the entire floor still reeling after the attack and the fire suppression system putting out the flames. All around the man, his editing floor looked like a bomb hit it, with smoke sizzling from where the column of kryptonite energy burned a hole through his building and everyone were getting up to their feet shivering from the cold water, standing close just to keep warm.

Stepping out of her hiding place and shivering with her arms hugged tightly around her, Kat blinked, wiping the make-up streaking down her eyes so she could see and nod back to the editor and chief of the Daily Planet.

“I-I’m here boss, p-p-peachy keen.” The woman answered, shivering as the fire suppression water soaked her clothes and made her white blouse sheer see-through.

“Good to hear Kat… You might want to get a coat on.”

“I’m good boss!” Called out Jimmy Olsen from behind a cubicle, waving over for the old man to see him. “I managed to save the coffee.”

“Good man Jimmy, I knew keeping you around would pay off when we changed photographers.” Looking around after the fire suppression system finally stopped to a sputter overhead, the man looked around and scratched his head. “Hey! Has anyone seen Clark?”

*

North, he had to fly north.

Travelling several times the speed of sound out of the city of Metropolis and directly north, Superman tried to keep his velocity ‘slow’ in the hopes of making sure his wife was chasing him. He needed to take her someplace cold to calm the energy reaction happening inside of her, help her clear her head from the kryptonite withdrawal she was enduring. He could have led her to any of the freezers located in Metropolis but there was no guarantee they would be cold enough to tackle the intense heat she was giving off. No. Only the North Pole, his Fortress of Solitude would suffice. A location so cold and remote she could finally burn out the fission going on in her body to no longer be a threat to anyone.

Behind him, he could hear her chasing him. He was grateful she couldn’t fly, it made tracking her easier now that he knew what to listen for, but he was shocked to find that her incredible strength granted her the power to jump several hundred miles at a time in a single bound. Something he became apparently aware of when he spotted a shadow behind him when he looked back and was body tackled out of the air by a pair of clawed hands. Crashing into a brush of trees just outside the Canadian border and causing branches and wood splinter to rain across the landscape. Laying on his back, dazed and looking around as the crater he formed burned from the heat of his pursuer, Clark looked up to find his wife smiling down at him with her clawed hands pinning down his shoulders.

“I CAUGHT YOU!” She giggled, leering down at her prized with a hungry eye. “You gave me quite a chase too, you must be a SPECIAL type of kryptonite to give me all this trouble.”

“Lois, you’re intoxicated with kryptonite poisoning, you have to listen to me.”

“No. No! NO!!!” Her smile quickly turning to an angry sneer, her grip on his shoulders tightened while her saurian tail behind her slammed down and broke a tree trunk in half. “You’re the toxic one here! You make my Clark sick. It’s why Lex made you, to trick me and hurt my Clark… But once you’re gone, NOTHING will hurt him, and we can be together again. You’ll see.”

Looking around him, he could see her presence alone was causing some of the wood splinters to smoke and sizzle before igniting into flames. The same searing heat that burned him when she licked his face in the office. Struggling against her grip, he was surprised to find she was just as strong as he was, narrowing his options on how to slip loose.

“Heh… So… What do I take a bite out of first?” Licking away some drool from her fanged lips, Lois opened her mouth wide, wide enough that Clark could see a sickly green glow. “I think I mentioned starting with the head.”

Taking a deep breath, Superman used his freezing breath to startle Lois into letting him go, staggering back as the intense cold caused a backlash of steam to blow back out and put out the flames all around them. Keeping up the cold, ice formed over the wooden splinters where there were once flames, the ruined tree trunks cracking with frost spreading over the scorched bark. He thought perhaps this could be enough to cool her off, seeing her stagger back and become sluggish. That is until the green glow intensified, and a beam of green light cut through the freezing column of air and burned Clark in the shoulder.

Screaming out in pain and landing against a tree 50 feet away, Superman clutched at his burned shoulder and back at Lois, rolling out of the way as the beam of raw kryptonite energy carved through the tree and nearly had it exploded into green flames. No, it wouldn’t be enough. Roaring out in rage and incinerating everything around her, the radiation beam continued to streak and sear the ground and forest around her until she closed her mouth and breathed through clenched teeth, exhaling hot smoke out of her mouth, and glaring around her.

“WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU?! YOU’RE THE WORST ONE YET! I WON’T LET YOU ANYWHERE NEAR MY CLARK! DO YOU HEAR ME!!!?”

Clumsily getting back to his feet, Clark regained the strength to fly and flew off as fast as he could, the turbulence from his exit causing Lois to dart her horned head towards where he escaped and roared out in rage. He no longer had any other chances to try, it was now or never to get Lois to the north pole and cool off, someplace where she couldn’t stop the intense cold to cool off her burning insides. He didn’t dare look back, knowing full well that Lois was chasing him. Before she was starving, now she was furious. Looking forward, he already crossed the Baffin Islands and was reaching Greenland in just a few more minutes. All the while he could hear his wife’s approach from her landings using his super hearing. He was close, he was so close he could already see his fortress of solitude up ahead. All he needed to do was fly for a few more seconds and he could get to the front…

With a guttural roar, Lois grabbed hold of Clark’s leg in the air and slammed down into the frozen glaciers below. The impact alone caused the ice to fracture for miles in every direction, rippling through the solid sheet of glaciers and causing island sized chunks of ice to roll and churn in the frozen waters. Clark barely had time to get up on his hands and knees when Lois slammed into him feet first into his back, sending another fracturing **** to shatter the ice around them like a sheet of glass. Now so far north, the effects of her inner heat could be seen as steam blasted out from her back, chest, and stomach. Her entire body sizzled from the thermal shock of the frozen cold cooling her inner core and creating a thick fog of steam to erupt off her entire body. Even her mouth, nose and eyes billowed with hot steam escaping her body as she looked around, waving her clawed hands through the mist to clear her vision.

Looking down, her clawed feet trudged through boiling slush and water as she sank into a pool of her own making, with Clark pulling himself free from the boiling hot water and crawling his way away from his wife’s blind rage. Getting to his feet only to collapse again, Clark looked back to find Lois literally blind with rage as steam continued to blast off her skin and face, roaring out loud as she swiped and grabbed what she could, only for the ice she grabbed hold of to quickly melt and dissolve to her touch. But he could see it, the broiling hot steam was starting to give way, losing its intensity. When she was finally able to see again, Lois turned her attention to the prone Superman and growled out a snarl just as she reached out for his leg… And collapsed into the ice. The heat she had given off was so great, she had melted straight through the ice and fell into the frozen ocean below.

Collapsing onto his back and breathing hard, Clark looked up into the permanent day sun of the far north, seeing only clouds and the bright sun overhead. Every bone in his body ached, but thanks to the sunlight, he could feel his body healing. He didn’t have a lot of time; he didn’t know how long she could last in the water before she drowned. He hoped he could reach her under the ice and pull her free to breath again. Slowly he got to his feet and made his way to the bubbling pool of boiling water, finding that it was already starting to calm and frost over in the freezing winds around him.

Looking down into the pool, he tried to look deep down into the waters to spot his wife. What he found were a pair of green lights staring back at him. An explosion of hot water erupted out of the pool, sending Clark back when Lois exploded out to freedom and pinned him down to the ice with her claws. Wild with rage and desperation, Lois kept him where he was, baring her fanged teeth and staring **** into his eyes with her green glowing irises. Steam no longer fumed from her body, having finally cooled down, but the rage in her still hadn’t died down.

“Lois! It’s me! It’s…”

“EaT… YoU…”

Not hearing a word, Lois opened her maw and bit down on his wounded shoulder, causing the Man of Steel to cry out in agony as her razor-sharp teeth dug into his flesh. Flaring her nostrils to inhale the freezing air, Lois’s eyes rolled back with delight. She had done it; she had rid the entire world of kryptonite to save her husband. The thought brought a sense of ecstasy to the monstrous woman as she tasted her victory… Only to find it didn’t taste of the crunch of crystalline power. It tasted… Coppery, and sour. Sitting up and pulling away from what she had sunk her teeth into, Lois sat up and looked around, not recognizing where she was. All around her all she could see were glaciers slowly rolling and colliding with each other off in the horizon, and the biting cold of the northern winds over her scaly hide.

Reaching up to scratch her head, her clawed hand stopped when it met the curve of her horns, feeling them as if she didn’t recognise them, she looked down at her black, scale covered talon with surprise. She was immense. Her muscles bulged with barely contained strength, and her body was just as curvaceous as it was powerful, the slopes of her breasts heaved when she hugged her arms under them. looking down her broad shoulder she gasped at the sight of a massive tail behind her that was as thick around as her leg and twice as long. Breathing sharply in a panic, Lois felt up her face, closing her eyes when even with clawed fingers she could feel she still had a human face with narrow cheek bones, nose, and chin of a human. But when she pulled her hands from her mouth, she noticed her fingers were stained with a red fluid that was quickly drying in the cold. Confused, she rubbed the substance between her fingers, wondering why it reminded her of blood.

“Lois…”

Looking down at what spoke to her, Lois’s eyes went wide with horror when she found her husband gasping for air and clutching a bleeding wound in his shoulder and trying to stem the bleeding.

“C-clark?”