Time rewound several hours earlier.
After Courtney talked with Pat in her bedroom, she reflected on things.
It was indeed wrong of her to put her friends in danger.
So she tried talking to a few companions, wanting them to hand over their gear.
But, as expected, they all refused.
High school students, now with their new lives, certainly wouldn't miss the chance to play other roles.
Hourman possessed a magical hourglass that granted him an hour of superpowers, including super strength, endurance, speed, and attack resistance.
Rick Tyler was the person now using the Hourman moniker. As Blue Valley High School's most volatile high schooler, he became the second-generation Hourman after acquiring the hourglass that originally belonged to his father.
Wildcat was the female class president in Courtney's class. After putting on her suit, she gained agile movements and superhuman strength.
As for Midnight Doctor, she was a Black high school girl with no combat ability. What she relied on was the goggles inherited from the previous Midnight Doctor—goggles equipped with artificial intelligence, capable of retrieving and identifying big data, hacking, and conducting surveillance and eavesdropping.
After confirming that Eric was the one who stole the Star Scepter, the group, with Hourman driving, arrived in Smallville to investigate Eric.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they drove onto the farm, they encountered the scene before them.
Seeing Courtney grabbed by the neck, Wildcat immediately reached out her hand to grab Kara's arm.
But Kara, with her super speed, simply moved slightly and dodged Wildcat's attack.
Although Wildcat's attack missed, Courtney was rescued. Covering her neck, she leaned back forcefully, preventing Kara from grabbing her.
"Wildcat, drive quickly! Didn't you say you got your driver's license?" Courtney anxiously shouted at the female class president sitting in the passenger seat.
"My driver's license is only in the DMV payment stage right now!"
"I'll guide you!" Midnight Doctor said to Wildcat.
Her goggles could retrieve a lot of information, naturally including driving a car. So she began guiding Wildcat on how to drive.
"First, fasten your seatbelt, turn the car key to 'on', and if you feel hot, you can turn on the air conditioning!"
"I don't think turning on the air conditioning is a good idea right now! Isn't your goggle artificial intelligence? Why is it acting like an idiot now!"
Wildcat was flustered and at a loss, complaining frantically, finally starting the car at the last moment.
With a roar, Wildcat slammed the accelerator, and the car immediately shot forward.
Standing outside the car, Kara had no intention of stopping them from escaping. She just stared at the car, a cold smile playing on her lips.
"Wait!" Courtney, sitting in the back row, immediately realized she had forgotten something very important.
Hourman was still outside!
"Stop, we have to save Hourman."
As soon as she spoke, Kara instantly appeared in front of the vehicle.
Before Wildcat could even hit the brakes, the car violently crashed into Kara.
Bang! At the moment of impact, the car deformed and was pushed backward by a massive force.
With both hands pressed against the car's hood, Kara completely absorbed the energy generated by the impact.
With a thunderous crash, she pressed the car down.
The occupants inside the car were immediately shaken, dizzy and disoriented.
"Hmph!" Hourman, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly roared and charged towards Kara.
Hourman, in a yellow cloak with his hood and eye mask obscuring most of his face, possessed super speed. In a breath, he was beside Kara, clenching his fist and striking at her.
Facing his attack, Kara did not dodge. Instead, a crimson beam of light shot from her eyes, instantly piercing his chest.
Under the astonished and shocked gazes of Courtney and the other two, Hourman heavily fell to the ground.
"Rick!" Courtney, whose body was uncontrollably shaking and ears bleeding from the impact inside the car, let out a painful cry as she saw Hourman fall to the ground.
"Oh, my God!" Martha, standing on the farm, immediately covered her mouth when she saw Kara use Heat Vision to instantly pierce the other person's chest.
"She killed that person!"
"I know. It looks like those people in the car are just kids."
Jonathan's brow furrowed as he said to Clark, who was also in a state of shock, "Clark, go stop her. Don't let her kill anyone!"
"Ugh!" Wildcat, inside the car, spat out a mouthful of blood. She saw Midnight Doctor's head hit the car door from the impact, bleeding profusely.
Just as she was about to go and cover Midnight Doctor's wound, the car was lifted into the air by Kara with one hand.
Wildcat, her heart filled with fear, tightly gripped the deformed car window and looked back at Courtney, who was lying in the back.
However, Courtney, having lost her Staff, was now just an ordinary person.
Clutching the car and enduring the intense pain throughout her body, Courtney gave Wildcat an apologetic look.
After grabbing the car with one hand, Kara casually tossed it towards the top of the barn on the farm.
"No!" Clark shouted at Kara, wanting to stop her actions.
But the moment he spoke, the car flew into the sky and then plummeted towards the top of the barn.
The barn was where the spaceship was hidden!
If the car crashed directly, not to mention the people, even the spaceship might be damaged.
Even though Clark wanted to save them, he couldn't fly, so he could only watch everything unfold.
But to his surprise, the car did not hit the barn roof; instead, it floated silently in the air.
Eric stood in the air, beneath the car, holding it aloft with one hand.
The three girls inside the car had thought they were doomed, but unexpectedly, a rescuer appeared.
Watching Eric hold the car aloft like a god, the girls immediately felt a sense of "we're saved."
Eric, in order to protect the barn from damage, held up the car.
As for the few people inside the car who had tried to cause him trouble, him saving them was something he had not anticipated.
Holding the car, he slowly descended from the top of the barn. When it was about three or four meters from the ground, Eric directly threw the car to the ground.
Courtney, Wildcat, and Midnight Doctor, having been thoroughly brutalized, had just thought they were saved, but then encountered Eric, who didn't play by the rules. With a bang, the car slammed into the ground, and the three suffered again.
They immediately felt a pervasive pain throughout their bodies, uncontrollably crying out in agony, their already injured areas worsening!
Courtney even suspected her soul had been tormented out of her body.
"What are you doing?" Clark rushed in front of Kara, angrily questioning her.
"These guys have ill intentions. I don't think there's any problem with eliminating them," Kara said expressionlessly.
"So you're going to kill them?"
"Yes, Kal-El, have pity. What humans find most unbearable is pity, especially when they deserve it. But pity can kill people; it makes your already weak body even weaker."
Saying this, she reached out her hand to Clark, "Come with me, I need to take you somewhere."
"I'm not going anywhere with you!" Clark angrily pulled his hand from her grasp.
But as if subjected to an irresistible suction, all his strength seemed to be confined, and he was uncontrollably pulled by her, rising into the sky.
"Eric!" Seeing Clark controlled by the Kryptonian Woman, Jonathan immediately shouted at Eric.
The next second, Eric shot into the sky like a missile, striking Kara's abdomen.
With a bang, as if hit by a missile, Kara crashed down from the sky like a direct hit baseball.
Clark lost control and fell from the sky, hitting the ground with a loud thud.
Fortunately, he had a Man of Steel body, and this level of impact did not harm him.
Eric did not press his advantage, merely watching Kara, who was on the ground and covered in dust from his impact, with a cold gaze.
"Sorry, while I'm not interested in where Clark is going, what I detest most are those self-proclaimed gods who act superior! Whether it's you or Jor-El (Superman's biological father)!"
Before Supergirl could even stand up, Eric moved rapidly in front of her, striking her face with a punch.
The air violently exploded, and Kara let out a muffled grunt, her entire body flying backward, crashing into the ground with a bang!
Amidst the flying dust, the ground was forcefully impacted by her, creating spiderweb-like cracks.
"Hmph!" Eric, after activating his super speed, moved over, grabbed her, and lifted her up.
"This is my planet, not Krypton! So put away that arrogant look!" He aimed a punch at Kara's face, directly sending her smashing backward.
The surrounding air seemed to compress in an instant, then exploded. Eric's punch even caused a sonic boom.
He was already fed up with everything before him.
Whether it was this guy who suddenly barged in, calling herself "Supergirl," or Jor-El, who was secretly pulling strings behind the scenes.
Inside the basically ruined car, Wildcat and Courtney, suffering from severe concussions and multiple fractures throughout their bodies, endured the pain and watched the exaggerated battle between the two not far away, completely stunned.
Midnight Doctor's injuries were somewhat severe, but she could barely stay conscious.
"Stargirl, Wildcat, you won't believe what my goggles calculated about Eric Kent's speed and strength just now. Do you know how it appraised him?"
"What?"
"An unidentified biological entity, with no similarities to any existing life on Earth, and no superhero is similar to him. Preliminary estimation: alien."
Although she was in too much pain to speak, her defining trait was being "garrulous"; as long as she had breath, her mouth wouldn't stop.
Even though she was severely injured now, she continued to speak to the two of them.
On the other side, Martha clasped her hands together, worrying about Eric.
As far as she knew, Kara claimed to be Clark's older sister, which meant Eric was also considered her younger brother.
So, could a younger brother be a match for his older sister?
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