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[noboothneeded]

Up above the rooftops of Metropolis, a portal opened and unceremoniously spit out a teen in a Superman costume, before shutting again. Clark tumbled in the air a bit before righting himself. He wasn't certain what was going on. The last thing he'd remembered, aside from a blurry mess, was that he'd been somewhere above Los Angeles, rescuing a plane. He turned around, trying to get his bearings, and suddenly stopped.

He might not enjoy the Superman comics, but years of having them foisted upon him meant he could recognize many things in them by sight alone. The famous globe of the Daily Planet was one of them.

"What." Clark said flatly. He looked around, some more, enhanced vision picking out the Lexcorp Towers and Centennial Park.

"This can't be happening. I can't be in Metropolis. How am I in Metropolis?"

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[noboothneeded]

"It's about having an over-inflated ego," he muttered.

Clark flew up, catching the tower as he did so, and started following the trail of broken glass, using the mass of metal he carried as a makeshift barrier. As soon as everyone was safe and out of the way, he placed the load down, and cast his eyes to the rooftops, trying to figure out where Livewire had disappeared to.

[shock_jock]

This guy was spoiling all her fun! And she was feeling more and more charged the longer this dragged out. As Livewire drifted past buildings electricity was being drawn to her out of lightbulbs, power lines, computers and phones setting too close to windows.

With a growl she dove towards the ground in a flash, a bolt of lightning blazing from her lower body in blinding white light. Just before she hit the ground she pulled out of the dive causing people to scream and scramble for cover. Crackles of electricity danced around cars as she blew past them soaking up even more energy.

"You're a real kill joy you know that? And the only guy allowed to shock-block me is big blue himself!"

She threw her fists forward intending on bringing all that excess energy right through his chest just as she had before.

[noboothneeded]

Knowing what was coming helped Clark maintain consciousness. It didn't stop him from being blown off his feet, and it certainly didn't do anything about the fact that, after a blast like that, he couldn't even get back to his feet.

He needed to think quckly. If she hit him with that much power another time, he probably wouldn't get up again for a while, if ever. Electric supervillains were usually weakened by water, right?

A split second x-ray of the ground showed him what he needed. Heat vision lanced out of the ground, melting a hole in the asphalt, and bursting a water main right beneath Livewire.

[shock_jock]

"What the-"

Livewire had just spun around in the air to gloat at Clark when she saw where he was firing. As fast as she was she wasn't fast enough and the water struck her from below causing a massive discharge of energy that shattered windows and shorted out any electrical devices that she hadn't already drained of their juices. It would be hours before anything on this block had electricity.

Her scream echoed through the street as she was blasted out of the air by the pillar of water. By the time she hit the ground and the blinding flash of energy had subsided Livewire was gone and Leslie was laying in a rapidly growing puddle of water, hair puffed out in all directions looking on the verge of passing out.

"Oh my head, oh my everything!" She groaned finding herself too sore to move right away.