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(revised June 29, 1999)
The world's mightiest girl streaked through the air. She flew high enough in the atmosphere as not to create any sonic booms by her flying faster than the speed of sound. She didn't want her presence known as she raced through the heavens, furiously. Her unknown enemy had taunted and avoided her for weeks. Her opponent seemed able to get around faster than she could, always staying at least two steps ahead of her.
Supergirl was angry. Not only at her foe for the crimes he was committing, but also angry at herself for not being able to stop him, his crimes of kidnapping and bold abductions. He had always given her clues as to who he would kidnap next, but she was never able to decipher the clues in time and always arrived on the crime scene too late to save the unfortunate women. The mad man was traveling the world at random, and snatching entrants to the Miss World pageant. It was becoming fairly clear that unless she stopped the kidnapper, and soon, there would be no one left to compete in the international pageant this year.
She did not approve of beauty contests on principle, but this was no way of causing a turn about on the way women are viewed on the Earth. There were certainly saner, more legal means of protest, if indeed this was a means of protest. However, Supergirl did not think that this was a form of protest. The villain was much too slick for just making a simple political statement. He was after something bigger. But, what?, she asked herself as she streaked through the air. White slavery, perhaps?
She was headed for Texas. Houston to be precise. The home of June Wilson, former Miss Texas and current Miss America. She was apparently next on the villain's ‘hit parade', and she intended to get to her before he did. Then she was going to hand the villain his head. Seconds later she was over the city, and began to search the surrounding areas with her telescopic vision for Ms Wilson's ranch house on the south side of the Texan metropolis. She did not know what the villain looked like, so concentrated on finding Ms Wilson before he did. It was not long before she located the street that the beauty queen lived and and followed the street numbers until she spotted the house, and scanned it with her X-ray vision. Ms Wilson was there inside, but far from safe.
The tall blonde haired beauty was lying naked on her bed, writhing helplessly as a man was tying her ankles tightly to her long shapely thighs. Her arms were already bound severely behind her back with white rope that dug into her tanned flesh at her wrists and elbows and there was a large red ball-gag stuffed in her mouth. The man who was binding her was large, muscular, and dressed all in black, and appeared to be expert in binding women as before long both of her legs were pinioned together and the the beautiful woman had been rolled over onto her back, her large breasts heaving as she faced her captive in wide-eyed shock. Her attacker was masked, and Supergirl was very surprised when she could not penetrate the disguise as she tried to determine his identity with her X-ray vision. She figured that the cloth must be permeated somehow with lead to prevent just such an attempt by her.Which meant that he was all to aware of her attentions to this case.
Supergirl dove down towards the house, gaining speed and breaking the sound barrier several times over, and milliseconds later burst through the ceiling of the Ms Wilson's bedroom, spraying debris over the struggling girl and her captor, surprising them both. She grabbed the man and threw him against the wall, slowing down her momentum and pulling her powers back enough so that she knew he would be knocked out, but not crushed and killed. Ms Wilson screamed into her gag and thrashing about wildly fell off the bed onto the floor. Supergirl turned to make sure that Ms Wilson was unhurt and then turned back to unmask her foe. She blinked in disbelief as she saw that the man was in pieces against the wall where she had thrown him. There was no blood, only parts of sparking metal, and pieces of plastic. He was an it, an android. His clothing was laced with lead which prevented her from determining what he was. Examining the animatron she was amazed by its sophistication. No one on Earth made such robots, not even the Toymaster, and she was now more than curious about her foe, and a little awe-struck as well.
"EEEmmmmmppfffff!!!" Supergirl's study was was interrupted by a warning squeal by Ms Wilson and a low, menacing laugh behind her that made her spin around in surprise. Before her was the robots double. How did he...it?...sneak up on her without her knowing it? There was a strange look to his impossibly handsome face that caused her to hesitate. He seemed amused, and very smug. Also, he was not alone.
Flanking him were two huge ten foot tall dull-black robots. She recognized the type with gut-wretching dread. They were Klarion Warbots. 'Where in the hell did he get those?', she wondered, as he was not a Klarion. Just one of those Warbots could flatten a battalion of front line M1 Abrahms tanks, in seconds. She had never seen one on this planet, until now. Her cousin Superman and her had fought one on another planet years ago, barely destroying the Warbot with their combined powers. The battle had devastated the land on which they fought. The Warbots were impossibly fast, powerful and loaded with all sorts of powerful weapons, designed for war and destruction on a global scale. One was tough, and two would be next to invincible.
Well, she was determined to give them one hell of a fight and launched herself at the man who apparently commanded them, in order to get them out of the room, and away from the helpless Ms Wilson. In shock she found herself alone between the two Warbots. The man in black was gone! The beautiful superheroine quickly looked around the room and saw that the bound girl had vanished as well.
Before she could react to the very dangerous situation she found herself in each of the hulking robots each took hold of one of her arms and with incredible power held her between them. She grunted as she tried to pull her arms together to bash the two Warbots together, but their power was easily equal to her own. The two then before she could react twisted and each struck out with a vicious side kick into her sides, the huge feet crushing against her hip, waist and ribs.
"AAAIIIIEEEEE!!!", Supergirl screamed as pain shot through her body, making her gasp for breath, as the pair wretched her arms outwards again as she started to bend at the waist as she gasped for breath. They held her arms in one of their huge unbreakable grips and turned towards her again, raising their other arms up and then driving them down, striking her shoulders with their massive elbows and driving her down hard to the floor.
"Ugghhhhhhhhhhhh," she moaned as she felt her head being lifted up in the grip of one of the monstrous robot's gigantic hands. She felt as if her arms had been pulled from their sockets with the blows against her shoulders. She had to do something, or the fight was over before it even started.
"Uggmmmmmgggghhhhhh!!", she gasped as the Warbot slammed her face into the floor, her beautiful face a mask of pain as it smashed through the floorboards. She reached out and grabbed the Warbots foot and heaved, causing it to release her and smash off balance through a wall. She yanked her face through the floor and started to rise to her feet when the other Warbot grabbed hold of her cape and yanked her backwards.
"Ahhhhhh.....noooooooo", the blonde heroine groaned as she felt herself being spun about with tremendous speed, her feet smashing through the furnishings and walls of the room as the Warbot spun about, finally letting go to crash through another wall.
"GGGGaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!", she cried out as she crashed through the length of the house, bursting through the last wall and was finally stopped by a huge oak tree. The force of her striking it had caused the centuries old tree to literally shatter, shards of wood blasting apart in a vast spray of wooden shrapnel. She shook her head in disbelief as she pushed herself up to her hands and knees, stunned by the speed and strength of her foes. She was in deep and serious trouble! The Warbots were easily as strong as she was, and just as fast. They were also standing outside the house now, only yards from her, flanking her from either side as she pulled herself from the splintered trunk.
Supergirl scrambled onto her feet to counter attack when they both raised their right arms and beams of yellowish light emitted from their fists and pounded into her, blasting her back dozens of yards.
"RRrrrrrrruuuughhhhhh!!", Supergirl gritted her teeth as the intense shock waves blasted again and again against her torso, forcing her back step by step. But each powerful pulse that she was receiving were also thrusting her towards unconsciousness. She knew that if she blacked out it would be over for her. So, she used the force she was receiving to her advantage by turning and then tunneling underground with the flow of the energy, and then shooting upwards through the earth so that she would come up behind the Warbots in surprise. She rocketed to the surface, erupting through the soil behind one of the massive war machines. The Maid of Might grabbed hold of the robot's head and soared into the sky and heaved the Warbot upwards into the atmosphere, breaking the grip of gravity and flying into space. She knew that it could and would return from it's spaceward journey, but it would at least keep out of her hair until she dealt with the other. She knew she could only handle one at a time.
She turned to face the second Warbot, streaking back down towards the battle site in a blur of red and blue. She planned to dive on it and force it deep into the ground, but noticed that it was no longer there. She quickly scanned the area with her telescopic and X-ray vision, but the only thing she saw was the destroyed townhouse and the shattered tree. How did the robot do that?, she wondered. Must be some sort of cloaking device, she thought. She landed on the ground to look around for clues as to where her foes had went to, not just the remaining Klarion Warbot, but their master and his captive. They were no where to be seen. She frowned as she thought that they had to have escaped. She was wrong.
Again she heard that strange bemused laugh behind her, and turned just in time to duck below the blow of the second Warbot that would have probably taken her head off if it had connected. Well, she was no lightweight herself, and threw a series of jack-hammer blows to the robot's torso that would have torn through a battleship. She barely dented the thick alien metal. 'What are these things made of?', she wondered. The Warbot responded by grabbing her in a huge bearhug, lifting her from the ground to be crushed against it's chest, it's huge arms crushing against the small of her back as he groaned and pressed her hands against the Warbots shoulders and tried to extract herself from the Warbots grip. She began to pound against the Warbot's head, holding her fists together to strike it first against one side of it's huge squarish head, and then against the other. The Warbot only increased the pressure against her spine as it's head snapped from side to side under the onslaught of Supergirl's mighty blows, and then added to her torment by shocking her with thousands of volts of electricity that it sent through it's arms as they pulled her ever tighter against it's huge chest.
"Gaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!", her blonde hair stood on end and a strangled scream of pain was forced from Supergirl's throat. She blasted into the Warbots face with the full force of her heat vision until it's head and neck was white hot, and then taking both her fists together again, and ignoring the pain of it's crushing embrace, took a mighty swing that knocked the Warbot's head off in a dazzling shower of sparks. The Warbot made a few popping and whirring sounds, slowly loosening it's iron grip against Supergirl to release the superheroine, and fell to the ground. She had beaten it, she sighed triumphantly as she looked down upon the dead hulk of dark metal.
But she was still hurting and the first Warbot would soon make it's way back at any moment. In fact, she heard the sonic boom of it's descent and looked up to see it rushing towards her with the speed and accuracy of an ICBM. Supergirl only had time to turn into the attack when it struck her with the force of a atom bomb, rock and earth blasting around then as the massive robot pounded her deep into the ground. The two opponents finally slowed and she was able to get her feet between her and the Warbot and pushed it off of her, sending it back out of the deep hole in the ground and high into the air. It soared backwards and finally landed onto a dump truck parked half a mile away, completely crushing it from the force and it's bulk.
Supergirl painfully climbed out of the hole to find the Warbot back waiting for her. A cavity in it's chest opened up and out streaked four missiles towards her like lightning. She quickly launched herself into the sky and zigged and zagged desperately tried to avoid their relentless pursuit. But, to no avail. They struck her all at once, and the sky was shook with four explosions that joined together as on the par of a nuclear explosion.
From the smoke, miles above the earth, Supergirl fell like a stone. She was barely conscious from the explosions and moaned to herself when she saw the Warbot flying towards her to finish her off. Things looked impossibly grim for the hurt heroine. She needed time to clear her senses, and it was all too obvious that time was one luxury that she did not have. The Warbot reached her in a second and grabbed her arms, pinning them to her sides, and arresting her fall. Supergirl tried to struggle from it's mighty grip, but was helpless in it's grasp. She could not break away from it's monstrous grip no matter how hard she tried and each move she made hurt. She just did not have the strength at this time to finish this battle due to the punishing treatment that she had received so far, at least, not yet. Supergirl decided to let the Warbot give her a free ride to where ever it was taking her so that she could catch her breath and regain her strength.
They landed again at the Wilson ranch, which was now all but totally destroyed. The man in black was waiting for them, laughing. She stood facing him, still held in the unbreakable grasp of the Warbot's huge hands at her shoulders, also pinning her arms to her sides. The robot's master then stopped laughing and walked over to Supergirl so that they were face to face. There was an aura of sheer menace and power about him that caused her to take a sudden deep breath that caught in her throat. There was something very odd about him, something that she could sense, and yet could not place. He nodded his head to the Warbot and once again a huge surge of high voltage electricity flowed through her body from the Warbot's fingers, at the same time pounding concussion waves into from it's palms into her.
"Nooouuunnnnggggg," she moaned as the two forces crashed and flowed into and through her. Supergirl had taken too much punishment in too short a time from the battle with the Warbots for her to take any more pain and punishment, and she gratefully passed out.
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