BIRTH OF G-MAN

The Loss

"DON'T YOU WORRY! I'M COMING," Superman said while plunging into the gap, reaching out as far as his hands could stretch. He pleaded with himself to save Sanjay and Paayal. His children’s beloved parents and the most important people in their lives.

"No, not again!" he cried out loud, recalling the pain when he lost his children's biological mother to the universe lord, Alpha God.

He shot red laser beams from his eyes to try and seal the gap. At the same time, he stretched out his arms to catch Sanjay and Paayal. His hands grabbed Paayal’s slender ankle covered in the fabric of her dress.  A smile came on Superman's face, but he wondered where Sanjay was.

"Help, help, help," cried Sanjay. He flailed and tried to grab Superman, but his hands struck empty air.

A sizzling hot laser beam erupted in the gap and shot through the pitch-black, a ray of yellow and white light, and surrounded Sanjay, then seized Paayal, wresting her from Superman’s grip. The light instantly whisked upward toward the Alpha God, a sphere of light resting in the white clouds.

"No! Not you!" Superman cried out, and he quickly turned around. He shot up into the sky to catch up with the deadly hot light as it sprinted Sanjay and his wife away.

From all night till early sunrise, the family had endured one threat after the other. First the fog, then the fire, and now the universe lord himself.

Superman had once again pushed his super speed to the limit, leaving sonic booms behind him as he matched the speed of light. Anger burst inside him. He would not lose them as he did with S-woman. He roared with anger and shook his head at the thought that the Alpha god had defeated him again. A stream of angry tears escaped him.

"No! Don't take them," he hollered out with raw emotion.

However, the light started in at their feet and expanded, vapourising the couple. In a futile attempt to stop this, Superman blew his super cold breath at subzero temperatures, but it turned into vapour once it hit the light.

"No — don't do it!" Superman pleaded with the Alpha God.

"It is their fate, as this is yours," the light responded in a deep deity voice.

"No! Please! Spare their lives."

"You are the one who caused their fate, not me," the light responded in a very dark voice, upset. It seemed the god didn't want to take a human being's life, but this was new for the Universe Lord.

Sanjay and Paayal embraced as the light consumed their torso, and they melted into each other. The light slowly dissolved their necks, then their heads…and then they were gone. Before the couple vanished inside the light from the Alpha God, Paayal said her last words, suffering in her trembling voice: "L-look after my children.”

Superman shouted, “No!!!!!"

The Alpha God's light vanished from the sky. 

A scream like a colossal roar burst out from Superman’s mouth as he stopped in midair to hover on the spot. He felt awful for failing again, first with his children's biological mother and now with their foster parents.

In a few seconds, he swooped down and hurtled toward the burned farmhouse, but the Alpha God wasn’t finished taunting him. The globe of light appeared in front of him with no sign of the couple. The voice commanded his attention. "Superman?"

“WHY DID YOU TAKE THEM? BRING THEM BACK!"

The voice was deep as if it came from the depths of the galaxy. "No need to be angry. Their fate was your responsibility. You should obey my words to bring up the triplets, especially the boy, G. Earth calls him Gaurav, is that right? Then so be it. Let the infant have the name Gaurav. Let his sisters have the names Heena and Chandni. But now you will be their father and have full responsibility to look after them.  You and your wife, Lois, will be so proud of them." The Alpha God repeated the familiar words that came back to haunt Superman.