Chapter 5: Superman and Superwoman
Planet Staryl. Superman thanks the woman who helped him.
"Thanks a lot for the help. I don't think we were properly introduced. Where do you know me from and how do you speak my language?"
"My name is Luma Lynai, native to this planet, named Staryl. Your deeds are known in many places throughout the cosmos, Superman. About the language, I learned it in the interplanetary academy where I study, the Crucible Academy. The people there called me Superwoman, because of the 'S' in my chest. A reference to you, I think. The symbol is actually pronounced 'Na' and it means 'solar'. I had just arrived from Crucible. I took a few days off and decided to see how things are at home. Hence, I came across your heroic action on the dam and a Czarnian firing a missile to the northwest. What's up with this guy?"
"It seems that he wanted to keep me busy. I've had quarrels with him before, but this time someone hired him. I already suspected it because, if it were personal, he would have focused on a direct fight. Then, my superhearing detected him mentioning to have received space credits of a certain Vernax, of Valeron."
Luma recognizes the name and is astonished.
"I know this scoundrel! He is a clone of another Valeronian, Vartox. Vernax tried to come at me overtly, insisting that I become the "queen of Valeron. To get rid of the bastard, I had to invent that the yellow sun of his planet was poisonous to me. Luckily, he believed, but I was prepared to play the sick if he wanted to test me. The last word I heard from him was that he had become interested in Princess Maxima Pereztern of Almerac."
"GREAT SCOTT! I know why he hired Lobo!"
At that moment, appears in the skies of Staryl a space cruiser of L.E.G.I.O.N. – Licensed Extra-Governmental Interstellar Operatives Network. It's an interplanetary law-enforcement organization under the command of Vril Dox II. The cruiser's door open and two flight-powered members leave the vehicle: Lady Quark– a Caucasian woman with very short white hair, wearing a golden mesh from which emanate bright red spots– and Sodam Yat, a Caucasian man with a short black mohawk, wearing a Green Lantern Corps' uniform. Using his power ring, Yat creates a green contention bubble around a still unconscious Lobo, while Quark takes the prisoner to the ship. After a minute and a half, Yat leaves the ship again.
"Lobo is already properly accommodated, Superman. The ship will take the Czarnian to our headquarters on the planet Cairn. I will accompany you back to Earth, using the energy of my ring to create shortcuts through hyperspace."
Before the door of the ship closes, the green-skinned blond Vril Dox II handwaves briefly to Superman, who returns the gesture. Superman says goodbye to Luma with a handshake.
"Thanks for the help, Luma Lynai."
"You're welcome, Superman!"
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