Yue

 12th November

19:37 GMT -3

The world flickers around me and what the hell happened here?

This part of the world is a wasteland anyway, but the added lines of molten rock suggest that Kon needed to unleash-.

The air turns white as something very hot armourarmourarmour! Okay, regular heat vision, not Kon's version. Deflect towards the ground! The rock beneath me begins to liquefy as the beam pours heat into the volcanic rock, then cuts out. Appropriate response-

Lantern Stewart generates a construct shield.

-is kryptonite radiation. Since my run-in with an asteroid made of the stuff, I've had the opportunity to get hold of kryptonite samples of a variety of colours. Gold kryptonite is safest-.

A grey shape blurs past me, slamming into Lantern Stewart and sending them both careening out of-. Shit, where's he gone? Ring, accelerated per-.

Perception already accelerated.

There's a small landslide as part of the caldera wall explodes. There, right, moving! Saturate the area with gold kryptonite radiation and show me who we're fighting!

Compliance.

Predictably, Mr Luthor's done something to the area to disrupt ring scans, but optical scans show-

Lantern Stewart goes for height and distance, battering ram construct shattering as his opponent rams through it!

-a large, naked, grey-skinned humanoid with a pearly white horn jutting from his forehead. I'm guessing that's Doomsday 16, but if so then this version has kept his humanoid form better than the comic and animated versions. Though the bony plates covering his back are forcing him to hunch over somewhat and though he's notably over scale when compared to a human his proportions are fairly normal for someone seven feet tall. I think he's even got facial hair.

I don't remember anything about Doomsday being affected by kryptonite, but I don't remember him flying either and I've got the gun ready and he isn't faster than light. The laser strikes home and.. he isn't slowed in the slightest. Fine, green, and fire. This one… There's a slight shimmer before it hits his skin and nothing. He doesn't even look my way as his right fist crunches through Lantern Stewart's construct defences. I can't tell exactly what injuries he just took, but from the slow motion look of shock on his face and the approximate speed… Shattered lower ribs and severe internal bruising at least.

"Stewart, orbit."

And I transition forward, x-ionised broadsword coming out of subspace as I reappear. Construct armour to deflect. Doomsday's head is already turning my way, eyes lighting up as Stewart weakly tries to push away-. Innate interdiction? Darn.

My sword cuts into Doomsday's side as the heat vision is once more reflected away by my construct armour. This time the angle causes it to shoot skywards, then as he tosses Stewart aside and lunges at me the deflected energy spins in an arc across the sky! That could have hit-! He punches my right arm, construct armour cracking at once. I move the sword into a guard posit-. He redirects his heat vision, striking the side of the blade and melting through it. Fine, crumbler gauntlets it is-

There's a flash of green as Stewart disengages.

-then. Light flash, maximum intensity, kryptonite-enhanced smelling salts, ultrasonic pulse and punch the fuckwhereish-!

Blooughf!

I can't keep up, blows are slamming into my construct armour too quickly for me to perceive even with my mind accelerated. It's cracking and gone, kinetic barrier blocking the next few hits-. Right bubble.

I get maybe a second to look at him and then his heat vision starts up again, slashing across my armour! Agh, yep, that hit the projectorphase!

There's a sort of grunt from Doomsday as his arms blur and his eyes burn as he tries to strike me. I try flying away as fast as conventional ring flight allows me, but he's keeping up easily. Flying down through the ground around an extinct volcano while a Kryptonian weapon life form is trying to punch me seems like a bad idea… Where's the team?

I step out-

-and I reappear in.. what looks-

"Who the hell are you?"

-like a barracks, someone in full body armour levelling a gun at me.

"He-. Ugh." Kon tries to push himself up off the floor, his face covered in cuts and swelling with bruises. Sunlight shines out from him, but that doesn't actually make him heal much faster. He's not wearing his armour, but rather yellow LexCorp-branded overalls. A scan through it shows that the rest of his body isn't in much better condition than his face; his left arm is broken in three places and he's got fractures across his ribs, skull and spine.

Shit. Okay, that's going to result in a nasty concussion-

I take a purple healing ray out of subspace and shoot him with it.

-but the Danner Formula will knit his internal injuries together faster than those suffered by a normal human. He holds out his right arm and I carefully pass him the ray, being sure to maintain the beam.

Other overalled figures lay on the beds. Some have tourniquets over severed limbs, others have their uniforms torn away so bandages could be applied to lesser injuries. Visible skin appears to have… Grey, discoloured patches. I quickly spot Kaldur and Canis, both unconscious. Kaldur doesn't have any visible injuries while Canis looks like a normal person would if someone took a cricket bat to their face.

One of the injured shakes for a moment, then lies still.

"Superboy, what's going on?"

"You see the big grey guy?"

"Yes. Briefly."

"He happened." The man with the gun semi-slumps back against his own bed. Looks like volcanic gas inhalation. And a few bruises. "Fucker just came right out of the ground and started-." He emits a wheezing cough. "Started burning everything. Some sort of mutant kryptonian."

I take out another ray and shoot him, then pass it to him. "Use this on everyone."

He takes it, then looks at Kon who has just stopped using it on himself and is testing his left arm. "Ah, okay."

"Right. Big grey guy-."

Kon stands. "Do you know where he is now?"

I send my battered armour back into subspace, then shake my head. "No. Green Lantern A had to fall back, and I teleported here."

"Great." Kon nods. "This place is designed to be Kryptonian resistant. Lead lined everything, structural reinforcements and-"

"Wards."

"-w-. Yeah. Radio can't penetrate, which is why we missed our check in. And the reason it's like this is because this is where Luthor gets most of his kryptonite from."

The guard looks around from raying one of his injured colleagues. "Nothing illegal about digging for minerals. Plenty illegal about spying on private property."

"My team's the reason why you're still alive!"

"Digging for kryptonite, fine. And you didn't know there was a kryptonian down there as well."

"Seismic scans and ground penetrating radar showed nothing like… That thing." He exhales sharply. "Not that I think any of us would have recognised it."

"Alright. I wasn't briefed on your mission. Start from the beginning."