Not Crazy yet [Comprehensive British and American]

Four days since "Brotherhood of Mutants Attack Lex Luthor Fundraiser".

Lana Lang strangled her neck gently, she leaned against the sink and retched.The woman's shoulders kept trembling, and her eye sockets were also physiologically red.But she didn't spit anything out - which was normal since she hadn't eaten in a while.

She stayed like this for a while, and until she returned to normal, Luther's sarcasm outside the door did not completely disappear.

The woman leaned on the sink to support her body.Her reddish blue eyes stared grimly at herself in the mirror.Watching the thin, vicious, stupid woman; and at the same time she heard Luthor complaining loudly to Moxie about everything that hadn't gone as planned that day: about not taking the opportunity to get 'Clark' fully captured, about Bizarro is still a bit too stupid...

…When Lana thought of that pale monster, she couldn't help retching again.

She remembered how she had 'created' him.She remembered how she had ruined that face so much like Clark's, and how she had taught that weird, twisted monster that was supposed to be just a monster, just a reptilian creature with a low IQ , why, for... not right.

She trembled.For the scene where Bizarro speaks, for Clark Kent's expression at that time.

Lang retched as if he couldn't take it anymore.She looked like she was going to spit out her heart, but she didn't make any sound.The twitching of Lana's body proved that she was in great pain, but the woman remained expressionless.

The expressionless face seemed to be glued to her head.Like that smile she had given Clark back then—same fake, same...

Enough, don't think about it.Don't think about the past.

Lang finally grabbed his throat again.The strength she used was not small, and she must have left bruises in her throat.But fortunately, she was well prepared, and she also wore a high-necked dress today.And Luther never touched any part of her other than her hair and face, so he was destined not to notice her abnormality.

--ah.hair.

Lana's pale blue eyes looked at herself in the mirror with disgust.The woman looked at the long hair that was exactly the same as before... She took out the dagger she had prepared from the middle of the bag, grabbed her long hair and cut it.

The pleasure of cutting off something brought her back to calm for a short time.Lana cut herself like an enemy.

Let him see it.Already seen it once.

enough.No reason to stay any longer.

Unexpectedly reluctant to part with - not even a trace of emotional fluctuations.Lana roughed up her long hair in less than 10 minutes.She was astonished by a sense of refreshment that she hadn't seen for a long time... After being astonished, she smiled slightly.

——It's like killing yourself.

The woman looked at herself in the mirror with a stiff smile.At this moment, she finally showed all her vicious looks, like a wild beast that had gone mad.The stiff smile soon became sincere, and a sinister and satisfied expression appeared on Lana's face.

Enough is enough...

enough.

She finally made a sound.Two uncontrollable chuckles sounded in the room, causing the two people outside the door to stop 'talking'.

Lana kept smiling and walked out of the bathroom. This smiling face was completely different from the Lana Lang familiar to Clark Kent.In the past, the girl's smile was like the sun just emerging, not warm enough but full of vitality; now Lang's smile is like a direwolf showing its fangs, full of desire to devour everything.

"What's there to say, Lex?" Lang's blond hair was ragged by herself, but it didn't affect her beauty in the slightest. "This is just the beginning, this matter is only the beginning..."

Lex looked at this completely crazy woman, and there was a rare hesitation in his emerald green eyes-but the hesitation was fleeting, and he sometimes felt that he couldn't understand Lana Lang, but he was always sure... The other side's hatred is real.

But the power condensed by this hatred fascinated him so much that he didn't want to refuse.

Rex subconsciously welcomed the ghostly slender woman into his arms, not even noticing that a few strands of her short hair stuck to his suit.

Lang looked up at him very softly, and calmly continued to finish speaking under the jealous gaze of another woman:

"Be patient, dear."

"We'll make him pay, we'll make him regret—"

"We're going to destroy it all, take it all away."

Lana piously swears to her god.But she didn't need God's response.The woman looked at Luther intoxicated and frantically, squinted her eyes with satisfaction at her prey, and nodded at her.

--what.

Check it out...just wait.

The vengeful demon has seen God.God didn't command it, didn't say a word to it.Since the gods didn't stop it—the farce was destined to continue.

........................

And at the same moment when the woman made up her mind, she was also in great pain.

"That's a good thing, Carl. I'm so happy for you."

A tall man of yellow race stood on the side of the street, the collar of his windbreaker turned up.Martian Manhunter whispered into the phone in his own stationary mimicry. John's tone was unusually high, which made Superman on the other end of the phone curl his lips.

"I still underestimate Luthor... But it's not very important. Maybe I need you to help me probe his mind next time I have a chance, but John, the important thing is this... You are right, I can face it. Thank you."

Hearing Superman's slightly embarrassed thank you, John couldn't help but smile at last.In fact, he really wanted to go back to the Fortress of Solitude immediately, to find out with Clark what happened that changed his state of mind so completely.This made the Martians rare to have a trace of curiosity.

When we first met, Superman was angry and painful, like an angel of death who suppressed his tyrannical thoughts.

It terrifies John, and it hurts his heart.But Clark didn't reveal everything to him thoroughly, John only knew that he had lost the trust of a friend because of his 'stupidity', and therefore doubted all his past emotional connections and efforts.

This kind of self-doubt makes John helpless. The Martian Manhunter who is good at reading minds thinks that only time can heal Superman...

But just now, Clark actually told him that he and his friend would have a good talk tonight.They are likely to reconcile!

The turning point came so quickly, and the news made John very excited.Because the Martian Manhunter is very sure: as long as Superman can maintain the mentality of this moment, there is no misunderstanding that cannot be resolved; there is no problem that cannot be solved.

"You're always so brave, Karl." The Martian let out a smile. "I actually want to go back and watch the excitement, but this is obviously not in line with the etiquette on earth... I really hope that James can be like you and have the same courage as you."

At this point John stopped talking.He forced himself not to really sigh, but just thinking about the plight of the former Winter Soldier... the Martian couldn't be happier.

—John knew he didn't have to keep talking about Superman to get what he meant.This survivor's dilemma is exactly what both he and Clark are facing.It's just that what Lieutenant Barnes encountered was more difficult and painful... Among all the difficulties faced by intelligent creatures, in fact, only "forgive yourself" is the most difficult to overcome.

But unlike the somewhat pessimistic John, Clark only took a few seconds to adjust his mood, and then he spoke calmly and fairly:

"He is already very brave, John. He is willing to accept your help, and he dares to face the captain." Clark smiled wryly, but Lieutenant Barnes was far braver than him. "He's not giving up, he's still working on it...we're all the same."

"We all need a new beginning, a new hope."

This sentence seems to be the core of the content of this call. John couldn't help but feel a little dazed, but there was also some anticipation in his daze.Until he ended the call with Superman... This feeling of confusion but anticipation did not end.

—Clark was right.

They all need a new beginning, they all need a new hope.

John looked at the endless stream of distressed and ordinary people on Earth in front of him.The Martian Manhunter who lost his homeland and family finally made up his mind.

His new hope is...he wants to be someone else's hope.

He'll be as much a hero as 'Kal-El'.Even if he is treated differently, misunderstood, and hated, he will stand beside Clark and become the light of others.

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At this time, Clark Kent didn't know that he was the last person who made the Martian Manhunter a hero.The young Kryptonian restarted his robots and let them clean his fort.

Clark asked Bruce and Diana to meet here the day before Thanksgiving...and he had no intention of being the faux master in front of them.

I'm afraid no one would have imagined that Superman's mentality was so relaxed at this time.Even Nick Fury nearly collapsed after getting 'Luthor creates failed Superman clone, Lana Lang reappears'.He made more than 50 phone calls, half of which were rejected by Clark, while the other half were called to some 'big shots' ready to move.

The king of secret agents is really afraid that these lunatics will anger Superman again, so he almost scratched his bald head.So when Kar-El finally wrote back and replied "I'm fine."...the first thing he did was to check on the safety of the Prime Minister.

This made Clark a little dumbfounded.Fury doesn't know that he has an easier way to solve everything-just ask John to find out everything he wants to know, whether it's Luthor's follow-up plan or the total number of clones...

But Clark also knew what Fury was worried about.Superman was never defeated or replaced by a clone.No matter how difficult these things are, will Darkseid still be difficult to face?

... All Fury worried about was his anger.Fury just fears that he will be completely disappointed in humans.

Clark, who realized this, was even a little dazed.That's what he's always hoped for, Clarke's always wanted people to feel a little in awe of him—a man who refuses to be played with, controlled, or belittled.In the past, he always thought that this was just a normal appeal, that this was some kind of 'equivalence exchange'.

... Now he doesn't think so.

——It’s just, it’s too unnecessary.

Superman also doesn't know what changed his heart that has been harboring anger all this time... What is it?Is it love?Is it really love?Is the past self still trapped?By Lana?

The young Kryptonian came to the statue of his parents, thinking wildly.He looked enviously at the smiling faces of the two... the disbelief and confusion in his heart somewhat eased.

Now when he mentioned this name, he really didn't have any anger and unwillingness.

He was finally able to be sure: he really let go, and even the idea of ​​continuing to pursue the truth of the past disappeared.

Clark stayed for a while before continuing to inspect his fort.He deliberately avoided the corridor he had walked with someone, and planned to go to the room where Kalibak had been imprisoned first.

But Superman, who was in an extremely complicated and relaxed mood, completely failed to realize that the crisis was approaching—the inexperienced Superman really didn't expect that as stupid as Kalibak, he would leave himself a backhand.

The threat that had been hiding in the shadows, ready to move, rushed forward the moment Clark opened the door, silently hugging Superman into his arms.

The author has something to say: Lana needs to be explained about the plot, and then she will disappear.

The next chapter begins the trilogy of Enlightenment, Confession, and Confession.

It's all very cool, and the emotional lines are all cool.I don’t know how long it will take to code (lay flat) it will be more tomorrow

Lana: Cut your head.

Luther: Scolding someone.

Moxie: Scold each other.

Superman: Take a risk.