"It's just not physically possible for you to absorb enough solar radiation to produce that much power." Lena was behind thick tinted glass, wearing welding goggles, as she operated a machine that bombarded me with massive amounts of yellow sunlight.
"Exactly." I felt the extreme heat and it did burn a little bit, but that was about it. Most of all, I was just energized. But I wasn't energized that much more than walking around in the sunlight outside.
"If you really were devouring solar radiation like that, then then room wouldn't be so bright right now. And your skin would most likely be pitch-black." It wasn't absolute, but the 9 year old girl was close enough. My body could still be reflecting some solar rays, or I could be using some sort of mind control to make people think I look like this… But we've tested those theories already.
"Wait, turn it off." As soon as I said that, she immediately turned off the machine and the room went dark. I looked down at my forearm and zoomed in, even in the darkness I could still zoom in on my cells. They looked totally normal on the outside.
"Are you okay, Clark? I told you this was dangerous!" Lena shouted angrily.
"I'm fine. There's no real difference that I can notice on a microscopic level." My vision was really good, but not as good as it could possibly become. I looked up and saw through the tinted glass, then it was like the clothing on the little girl's body became fainter until it was gone.
"Clark, why are you looking at my vulva?" She looked down at her own crotch and asked, "Am I menstruating?"
"Nope. Just readjusting my eyesight." I scanned up her pubes, across her abdominal muscles and then it looked like her flesh was gone. I could see her uterus and ovaries, bladder, intestines, "You're gonna have to piss soon. Don't make yourself sick."
"I've been holding it because it's so annoying to take this gear off!" She retorted as the metal door opened on the side. I sprinted through it so fast that from her perspective it was like I was teleporting in front of her, without any wind moving things around. Then I started taking the protective gear off her body rapidly. Once the two of us were standing in front of each other naked, she looked up at me and smirked, "Your powers are so convenient."
"It's not like my body is moving on its own." I rolled my eyes and picked her up in my arms. I ran towards the nearest bathroom and placed her on the toilet gently, "I'm still doing everything at a normal speed from my perspective. You're the one that gets to teleport around."
"I'm your Princess after all." She smiled up at me, revealing her missing front teeth.
"Yes, you're my adorable little princess." I kissed her forehead and left the room so she could piss in peace. In the meantime, I was studying my own cells again.
They weren't releasing a lot of energy. I couldn't tell with regular microscopic vision, but I could see other spectrums outside of the visual range of humans.
What I mean by them not releasing a lot of energy is that they're keeping whatever energy they're generating self-contained within the individual cells.
It's like each of my cells is breaking down matter and turning it into energy, but able to use and even store that energy in a more efficient way.
Solar radiation from a yellow sun activates the process, the more intense the sunlight, the more quickly the cells work, but there are limits. At least for now.
If I sunbathed on Mercury, I might actually die. But then again, I'm only 9 years old. I have just barely started puberty and I still don't even have my heat-vision yet.
I also haven't been able to fly yet. Okay, that's not totally true, but I can't just fly the way that Kryptonians usually do it.
"Clark, I'm done!" Lena shouted as the toilet flushed. I entered the room and took the toilet paper she handed me.
"Seriously." I reached down and wiped off her little lips, then dropped the toilet paper and complained, "You should do this before flushing."
"I don't want you to see my pee." She stuck out her tongue and giggled, making me flush the toilet for the bratty girl.
"What are you doing?" I looked down at her hand that was holding my dick.
"You're so lucky you don't have to urinate or defecate." She lifted my penis up and started fondling my balls, "Are you sure you aren't making sperm yet? They feel a lot bigger than before."
"Lena, if you keep that up, I'm gonna get a boner." I was fighting for my life here!
"I've never seen your penis get erect before. Is there something wrong with it?" She started examining my dick more closely. I wasn't circumcised, but I also had almost no foreskin. I don't know why Kryptonian dicks were designed that way, but I'm sure there's a logical reason, or maybe just some religious one. It's also possible that they were just naturally that way and it was a difference between humans and Kryptonians. I'm a fucking alien after all.
"There's nothing wrong with it. I just work really hard to control myself all the time." I explained as calmly as I could while the kid was playing with my cock. Even breathing on it. She leaned down and licked the tip, looking up at me with those curious blue eyes.
"It doesn't taste like anything special." She stroked my hardening penis a few more times and licked it again, "Look at your testicles and tell me if they're producing sperm now."
I zoomed in on the left testicle she was holding for me, but it was hard to see past the surface layer of cells. The skin, muscle and veins were in the way. I couldn't see the inside properly. There was space between the cells, sure, but they still obscured the deeper layers and they were much harder to see through than human tissues.
"I can't really tell." I blinked a few times and saw the adorable girl sucking the tip of my cock inside her mouth. It went between the gap from her missing front teeth. Obviously I was rock hard in an instant.
"Okay! Let's get back to work!" She stopped sucking me off and smiled up at me like the naughty brat she was. I stroked my cock at an insane speed, faster than she could see or comprehend. Then I crouched down onto her thighs, my left hand felt her bare pussy very swiftly and gently. Then I reached around and caressed her ass inside, rubbing my middle fingertip across her asshole. The tip of my cock ran across her pubes, then down to her clit and lips, before aiming below and spurting out a slimy glob of preteen jizz. I almost slowed down for a moment because the orgasm was so intense. But I managed to maintain that speed, spurting three more clumps of slow cum into the water. Before it could even splash up onto her ass, I picked the girl up and brought her out of the bathroom.
I let go of her and it looked like she was floating in mid-air. I grabbed her panties first and put them on, patting her pussy and ass gently afterwards. Then I put on the undershirt and finally the radiation-resistant outfit that looked like a pink jumpsuit. She also had a welding mask to protect her face, but she could put that on herself.
"Mnn~!" She moaned slightly and asked, "Did we just have sex?"
"No, we did not." I wasn't quite that depraved yet, "Are you disappointed?"
"Not really." She giggled and straightened her legs, standing a little unsteadily on the ground.
"Anyway, we know that red sunlight is like a shut-off signal for my cells to stop trying so hard." I frowned and walked back into the room, "What we need to do is figure out a way to counteract or negate this effect. Otherwise our enemies will use this weakness against us."
Yes, our enemies, against us. Even if I'm the one with the powers, I'm also Lena's best friend and I'd do anything to protect her, by extension, I'm also on Lex's side for the most part. Sure, he does sketchy shit and even kills people. But for the most part, he's not cartoonishly evil. At least my Lex Luthor isn't a total piece of shit. He is a manipulative, narcissistic, megalomaniac, but so am I to a certain extent.
"We could create a suit that completely covers your body and prevents the Red Sunlight photons from touching your skin, but the moment they touch the bioelectric field around your body, you're almost a normal human again."
She activated a dim red light on the ceiling and it shone down on me, causing everything to become surreally normal again. I couldn't use any of my powers.
I was still way stronger than an ordinary human, but I wasn't even bulletproof. It didn't really make that much sense logically to me, but hey, this is Kryptonian bullshittery we're dealing with here.
Some exercise equipment was placed around the large room. I struggled to lift a fifty pound dumbbell and curl it with one arm.
Something that would have been extremely difficult for me as an adult in my last life, but even as a 9 year old Kryptonian, it was actually possible.
Anyone who thinks that Kryptonians should be weak under Red Sunlight completely discounts the fact that Krypton had 10 times the gravity of Earth. Even as a newborn baby, I was able to survive there for a short time.
It also might be why older Kryptonians can get stronger, faster than I did. Not that they're suddenly absorbing the same amount of Yellow Sunlight I have thus far, but because the sunlight is only activating their cells and making them release their true potential. The Red Sun acts as a genetic shut-off signal or maybe more like a sleep mode.
"We could make an electromagnetic force field to block the specific frequency that the Red Sunlight is producing. But that's just half-measure." I think the real trick would be removing that weakness on the genetic level, but neither of us can be compared to a Krpytonian scientist.
Not to mention the Kryptonian scientific civilization as a whole. Trying to fix the problem might end up turning me into Doomsday.
In fact, the problem might exist for the purpose of suppressing the Doomsday nonsense in the first place.
"It's better than nothing. Plus, Lex would be proud of us if we could actually make a personal forcefield on our own!" Lena always wanted to make her older brother proud. A mental weakness that he loves to use to motivate his baby sister.
"Speaking of Lex, how's the trip to Japan going?" I breathed heavily as I picked up another dumbbell and started curling both of them, one after the other. Even as a 9 year old brat, my body was still kinda ripped. I'm also relatively tall, 5'1", so I'll probably grow more than a foot taller by the time I stop growing.
"It went well. The hydrokinetic tsunami-prevention technology is still unstable, but I'm sure my brother can figure it out before the next big earthquake happens."
She didn't seem concerned about the very real possibility that some super villain or lunatic would end up using the machines against Japan or maybe some crazy dictator would take over, then they'd use it against China or other nearby countries.
Then again, it wasn't a superhero that set up the machines. It was Lex Luthor. If you fuck with Lex Luthor… Yeah, good luck with that.
"Lois should be coming back home soon." I put the dumbbells down and moved over to the bench-press machine, pushing 225 pretty easily.
Lena adjusted the weight from her end, turning it up to nearly 300, before turning it back down to 275. A comfortable weight for my little body.
"I'm glad I got to spend Christmas and New Years with your family, but it's pretty lame that Lex and Lois weren't there." She didn't mention Lionel or Lilian Luthor, because she didn't even consider them her relatives in the first place.
They are alive though. They aren't even that old at the moment. Lionel is about the same age as my parents, while Lilian is about ten years younger.
"Are they still together or did they break up again?" I couldn't keep track of their messy relationship. I mean, they both travel a lot and who knows how many times they've fucked around with other people?
They're more than just boyfriend and girlfriend though, they're basically childhood friends that grew up together. They might also be swingers or in an open relationship though. I have no idea.
"I think they're still together. Lois said they were celebrating their anniversary on Valentine's Day." Lena looked at my face and then my penis, then at my abs and arms. She suddenly asked, "Clark, how would you feel if I found a boyfriend?"
*Aaanng~!* The red light shut off suddenly and the bar of the bench-press machine was ripped off, flying through the ceiling and causing a bunch of rubble to fall down onto me! Then it was gone. My eyes burned a little, but I could still see the hole that was punched through the snowy white clouds in the sky…
"Clark! Are you okay?!" Lena rushed into the room and hugged me, "What happened?! Clark!"
"I'm fine, Lena. Totally fine." I breathed as calmly as I could, hugging the adorable brat. It felt like I just had a crazy orgasm through my eyeballs though. The snow fell down onto the two of us as I smiled wryly, "Looks like I can shoot eyebeams now, huh?"
"I know! It was so cool!" She lifted up her protective welding mask and kissed my lips, then giggled happily, "Don't worry, Clark. I won't hurt you like that."
"I'm more worried about hurting you, Lena." I actually felt a little guilty about fucking around with my Mom recently. Though I also felt guilty doing anything with Lena, for obvious reasons.
"I'm not interested in other boys. It's okay." The little brat actually stuck her tongue on my mouth and started making out with me.
"You kids are having a little too much fun down there?" A deep voice startled both of us. We looked up and saw that shiny bald head reflecting the sunlight that shone through that hole in the clouds.
"Lex! You're home!" Lena let go of me with a blush on her cheeks.
"Hey, I'm here too! What the hell was that deathray?!" Lois also poked her head over the hole in the ground, "Why are you naked? Lena, what kinda tests are you doing to the poor boy?!"
"I'm not! I didn't! I'm just doing normal tests! There was nothing weird!" The little girl pouted and crossed her arms in front of her small chest.
"They're testing different types of starlight on Clark. Nudity helps with the process." Lex casually explained, "Though I'm not sure whether Clark unlocked a new ability or if there was a malfunction that caused that energy burst."
"It was probably related to my ocular abilities." I stood up from the bench and stretched a bit, scooping Lena into my arms and easily hopping up through the hole to land two floors up. Right in front of the two adults.
"Yeah! Clark got really angry and I turned the Red Star Simulator off at the same time and then I tracked a huge build-up of energy in his eyes before-"
"Sir! Are you alright?!" A woman rushed over with a bunch of other security guards and entourage.
"I'm fine, Mercy." Lex comforted his sexy body-guard and/or assistant woman person. I noticed that Lois narrowed her eyes and scowled a bit, before trying to return to a more neutral expression.
"Anyway, so the moral of the story is that I should be able to shoot lasers out of my eyes now. Either lasers or some form of particle beam, not totally sure yet. We'll need to do more testing." I chuckled and put Lena down. She immediately hugged her brother's waist and I did the same. Then we both hugged Lois as well.
"I really missed you brats." Lois sighed as she tried to pick us up, but we were just too big now.
"I missed you too Lois!" Lena giggled, "And you too Lex!"
"I missed you both as well." The bald smiled wryly and turned to his assistant, "Get started on repairs immediately. Call off the emergency alarm."
"Yes Sir!" Mercy Graves quickly took her men and left.
"We should head over to the Keep and catch up. Clark, perhaps you should wear some clothing. I bought you a new suit. We'll be taking some holiday pictures together. We should all look our best."
The dude really loves the optics that having a consistent long-term girlfriend and two kids gives him in the eyes of the media.
I think it'll only be a matter of time before he runs for some political office, maybe he'll even skip that and go straight for presidency at 35. Wouldn't be surprising at all.
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A/N— I've done my best. Three times I re-uploaded not bothering the warnings but the fourth time my entire Webnovel account got terminated lol.
I don't like doing this but from now onwards all scenes involving Lena will be only available on Patreon, besides that you can read the rest of the novel without worries.
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