Supergirl

        Her hair is golden. Her eyes steel blue. She is slender and fair.
    She floats in a transparent pod in Superman's fortrest of solitude.
    He has always considered cloning a new race. Zorel, his
    Krypton father had instructed him; "My son I have given you the
    knowledge to resurrect your people. If you choose to, then humanity
    will be surpassed by a race of Supermen. A new Krypton will
    rule the Earth."
        Jonathan his adopted father had warned him, "With great
    power comes great responsiblity." Should he abort her? Can he
    control her and her children? Aproaching the crystals surounding
    her pod; his hand holds a green crystal in position. A brilliant light
    fills the chamber. She stands and takes her first breath.
      "I am Lyla. Your wife." she is a goddess.
      "What if I told you we weren't married? Would you leave me?"
    Superman's words echoed in the chamber. Lyla approached him
    floating over the cystals and into his mighty arms.
        "I am born for you. I am flesh of your flesh and blood of your blood.
        I am yours Kal-el." they kiss; her finger run through his black hair.
    The joining is complete. There will be no need for further clones. But,
    what of his son from Lois? Could this be a threat? He loves them.
    Perhaps, there will be a balance.
        "Your eyes are else where; what troubles you?" Lyla instinctively
    detects a rival. "I have a mortal wife, who has born me a son." his
    gaze measures her responce. "What is the alternative? Not as we will,
    but as Krypton demands. We must think of our race. I will stand with
    you on a new Krypton." her eyes are steel blue. "So be it." his voice
    thunders like a God.
          He dresses her with the shield of Jorel. They stand before the great
    crystal hall. Jorel appears before them: "My son. You have chosen well.
    Here now Krypton is reborn. Go out and be fruitfull and multiply. But, do
    not under estimate the mortals, who would fear you." Kal-el holds and
    kisses his bride Lyla, "This will be our secret. We will live amongst them
    as mortals. When the day of our assention comes, the people will love us."
          Kal-el returned to the Daily Planet as Clark Kent with good news of
    his marraige to Lisa Cord. She is a Cable News Broadcaster and very
    blond. Lois is pleased, she is living with the Daily Planet's exuctive
    publisher Brent. But, she feels a strange sense of loss.+


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