SUPERGIRL AND THE MONUMENT TO SUPERMAN (Part Three)
the fullest extent. There were reports of suicides and attempted suicides by a large mass of people. The Earth mourned the loss of Superman.
ONE MILLION MILES PAST MARS TOWARD EARTH
“Should…be…there…anytime now.” Zora-El’s blonde hair waved back in her amazing velocity.
“There! And now to?”
LAKE TAHOE, NEVADA
“I…am…Zora-El…the cousin of Kal-El. Where can I find him?” Zora shocked the people coming out of the MGM Casino and Hotel, as they stared at the seven foot blonde haired, blue-eyed beauty wearing a shiny silver bodysuit.
“Ah-h-h…well…he died.” Bobby McGee and his wife Carol looked up toward her face.
“He what? He…died? Why? And…how?” Zora felt the deepest remorse that had ever come over her.
“An alien attack. That was it.” Bobby tried not to laugh, because Zora was just too beautiful.
“Who were the aliens? And where did my cousin die?”
“All we know is that his burial monument is in Arlington National Cemetery.” Carol offered to help Zora with money from her purse.
“I do not need that…I can subsist on very little food and water.” Zora flew high into the sky toward the direction which the McGees had given her.
AT THE DAILY PLANET
“Perry, military intelligence has detected a supersonic bogey flying at nearly three thousand miles per hour. The bogey flew over the Atlantic Ocean and into Western Europe, and then it flew back over the East Coast at a slower speed of almost one hundred miles per hour. It…appears to be…uhm…another alien life form.” Brad Johnson was an intelligence officer with the NSA.
“You mean the crystalline aliens?”
“No. Our photographic evidence shows the bogey to be a woman in a silver bodysuit.”
“Well, who the hell do you think that ‘supersonic’ woman is?”
“Our computer data banks recorded a call from a person in Lake Tahoe, Nevada…a Robert McGee to his uncle Peter Reed. The transcripts of the call read…’She said she was the cousin of some Kal-lul. A real beauty. I guess almost as tall as an NBA basketball player. And beautiful beyond belief….’ …well, there you have it. We think she is Superman’s cousin. Same speed, same power…I guess.”
“My, my, my…another superhero. Well, Earth needs another protector. And to think a woman.”
AT THE NAVAL ACADEMY, ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND
“Who…are…you? Why are you so tall?” Cadet Casey Carter.
“Where is the National Cemetery?” Zora’s suit sparkled in the sunlight.
“Ma’am it’s in Virginia, by the Potomac River. Whoa! That’s some speed!”
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
“This is his monument? This tiny place? What is the little fire?” Zora-El could not believe her cousin had died. Moreover, she could not believe what people at the cemetery were telling her. She was told that the people of Earth forced ‘Superman’ to fly and meet with an alien force so powerful that they could destroy an entire sun.
“My cousin died in vain, for a people and a planet so undeserving. Why would he lay down his own life? For you? Or for you?” The people were afraid of the seven foot Zora.
“Maybe you humans do not understand who I am. I am not my cousin Kal-El. I was born on a planet and in a star system far more advanced than my cousin’s. We are actually very distant cousins in the El lineage. I am more powerful than Kal-El.”
“Well, you are a lot taller than Superman.” Paul Walker spoke on behalf of the crowd.
“Are you Earth’s new protector?” Paul asked.
“Why should I risk my life for inferior beings?” Zora began to get angry at the people.
“Where did my cousin live?”
“You could find out over in Metropolis. Just fly there…I guess.” Paul watched as this new ‘Supergirl’ flew straight up into the sky.
OVER METROPOLIS
Zora could hear the clamor from the different cities, and when she detected the sounds of people living in Metropolis, she made her descent into the city.
“Hey…well…hey baby…can I give you a backrub?” Theodore Williams smiled broadly at the gorgeous blonde.
“Quiet! Where can I find Superman’s artifacts?”
“Artifacts? What are you talking about?” Theodore looked puzzled.
“His belongings.” Zora stood right next to the diminutive man.
“You know…that newspaper…the Daily Planet did a lot of business with Superman.” Theodore felt intimidated by her resonance of power.
“Where is this Daily Planet?”
“Well the building has a very large round globe on top of it. You’ll find it. Well I’ll be…she flies just like Superman.”
ON PLANET CRUSEX
“There is another alien race which we did not know about. They are more powerful than the Supreme Intelligences. In a different dimension.” Queen Ursa spoke to the Council.
“We traced a being which flew to the Earth at a speed that surpasses our own ships.” Tanthorus wanted to engage the unknown alien by blending its genes with theirs. The military leader postulated that the gases they had collected from the different planets might be lethal to this new alien.
“The decision reached by the Council and I stands. We will attack the Earth once more, with all of our Pod Ships.” Answered Queen Ursa.
“Over one thousand ships. We…are…ready.” Tanthorus spoke.
AT MCLOYDS BAR AND GRILL IN DOWNTOWN METROPOLIS
“What is there to eat here?” Zora sat at a booth.
“Well, here’s the menu. We have just about anything any other grill has, I suppose.” Mary Scott, a waitress, was in awe of the terribly tall blonde.
“Honey, maybe you would like a sampler of our sandwiches.”
“That is fine. Bring it out.” Zora looked at the crowd of people staring at her.
After twenty minutes, Mary brought the sandwich sampler to Zora’s table.
“This food tastes horrible! Do you have moss and roots?”
“Excuse me? What are you talking about honey? Moss and roots? Are you a vegan?” Mary’s brows arched high.
“I am from a different planetary system far from your Earth.”
“Ri-i-ight…sweet thing. Another planet huh? Like Superman?” John Calloway wanted to pinch Zora on her rear end. And when he did, Zora threw him across the room. She grabbed another patron’s salad plate and left the bar unchallenged.
AT STAR LABS
“I can’t believe this. Five observatories around the world have tracked an apparent plethora of asteroids headed for our galaxy. Is it another alien attack?” Edgar Murphy had called another officer of STAR LABS.
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