Pink Kryptonite

Chapter 1: Nothing is Wrong

Dazed on the eroded streets of Metropolis,  Superman lays unconcious with a shard of kryptonite brushing against his waist. Metallo is ultimately defeated after his failed attempt to destroy the Man of Steel and is sent away to a maximum security prision. The Justice League quickly rushes to Kal's aid and without blinking Flash grabs the kryptonite and confiscates the fragment of space-rock into a lead container. Barry figured that something was off though because the kryptonite wasn't the shade of green it usually was, it was pink.

"Hey Batman.. something was off about the kryptonite." Barry proclaimed slightly opening the container to reveal a neon pink aura glowing from the inside. Bruce immediately assumed that it was closer to red kryptonite due to the similar wavelengths.

"If it has the same effects as red kryptonite we can't let it near him at all!"

"I know! The thing is-is that some effects are permanent. What if had already done damage?"
Batman grabs the lead container from Barry and puts it in the Batmobile. So many thoughts went through Bruce's head of what might have happend to the boy scout. Will Kal be ok? The Batmobile drives away from the reminiscence of the battle as the rest of the Leaguers make there way back to the Watchtower with Diana holding Superman in her arms. Once they get back to the watchtower Martian Manhunter and Cyborg take Kal to the infirmary later strapping him onto one of the cots in the room as they have no idea of what would happen next. A slight budge comes from the Kal while he opens his eyes. Realizing the situation that he's in, Superman decides to stay calm and content trying to remember what had happend before he blacked out.
"What happend?" Kal grunts still budging in his restraints.

"You were exposed to a rare form of kryptonite when Metallo struck a laser blast at you." J'onn replies.

"Do you feel ok? Does anything feel off?" Cyborg asks.

"Nothing feels off really." Superman responds ripping off the belts he was tied to with. The group theorized of what the side-effects were and what they need to plan for in the future.

"What if it only affects Bizzaro?" Cyborg infers.

"Definitely not, I feel a little weak from the radiation."

"Maybe it had a psychological effect on you." J'onn specualates.

"Possibly but I don't feel different at all." Superman says under his breath before the door glides open revealing the silhouette of a bat. The omnious figure walks in holding a glowing object analyzing the perimeter. Batman lightly does a underhand toss casting the pink kryptonite towards Kal. With no thought, he grabs the shard and stares at it, admiring the glow it reflected.

"Is it doing anything Kal?"

"No, I feel fine but it's the radiation that's slightly affecting me Bruce."

"That's odd." Batman says to Kal as he begins to talk to Martin Manhunter about the discovery he has found about the kryptonite. The two leave the premises while Cyborg is left with Superman and they start to light up a conversation. It doesn't last long since they're more of aquatiances to eachother rather than buddy-buddy. A couple of minutes or so go by in silence until the door opens and Batman walks in.

"Has the kryptonite done anything yet?"

"Not that we know of, he's been holding it ever since you and Martian Manhunter left." Cyborg responds while he takes the shard out of Superman's hands and putting the kryptonite into a molecule scanner. The scanner would analyze and take apart the molecules of an object that it's inspecting. Once it was done it made a beep sound which meant that the process has been completed and they could see the possible effects of the kryptonite.

"What the..." Cyborg notes under his breath showing Batman the data on the computer.

"Instead of radioactive emition the pink kryptonite has the ability to absorb testostrone?" Batman states as he is quoting the results given confusing everbody in the room.

"So it's spongy?" Kal says.

"I believe so- speaking of which- how long was he holding the kryptonite for Batman?"

"About twelve minutes."

"We should be able to see how much it absorbs then. If we find the average amount of time this shard can suck out than we can make it into a formula."

"Sounds like a plan" Kal retorts while nodding his head like a dog about to get a treat. The men go into a lab and do some experiments with the pink kryptonite. Test one was figuring out how it pulls a specific hormone from a Kryptonian and if the effects change Superman physically. A brief amount of time was put in for test one since Victor was able to hastily caculate the amount of testostrone it takes in twelve minutes. Later it was concluded that it takes about five seconds to absorb two-point-five grams out of the body. Superman didn't look physically different so Batman and Cyborg come to the conclusion that it might have psychological effects. During the test however Superman was very much out of it since all forms of kryptonite had some radiation. Everything Kal saw was blurry and his focus kept changing. The test lasted around seven hours and Superman was exposed to the kryptonite for fithteen hours which made the test pause so Kal could regain his strength again.

(The Next Day)

"How are you Kal?" Batman walks in holding a cup of coffee in his hand.

"A bit better. Anyways did you figure out what the kryptonite does?"

"We have therories-"

"It makes you gay!" Hal barges in as well as Oliver and Victor.

"That's one of the inferences." Batman grunts tryping so shoo them away.

"What?" Superman is left in confusion from what Hal has said. Hal leaves the room as Batman tries to explain to Superman about what the kryptonite does.

"While you fell asleep, we held a short meeting about the pink kryptonite. Long story short we assume it changes your preferences on sexuality."

"But I still like Lois!"

"Then go back home for tonight and meet with me in the lab tomorrow then." Batman grunted and then he left the room.

Hal walked back in a minute later and slammed a couple of magazines in front of Superman. He tells him to take the magazines home to read them to see if they do anything. Superman obliges and puts the papers in tucked into his belt without reading the contents.

Past the emptiness of space, Kal makes his way into the atmosphere and goes to his apartment in Smallville. Clark walks into his bedroom holding the magazines and starts reading them with caution. Every page that he flips is just full of hot men with their shirts off and it somehow aroused Clark.

The sounds of paper flipping as slowed down after each minute until there was no flipping noise at all. He goes straight to his phone and looking up "Am I gay?". A Buzzfeed test pops up with an array of links going to articles and whatnot.  Test after test, after test and Clark still couldn't find his answer. He ended up getting enough confidence to call Bruce.

"Hello?"

"Hey Bruce, so you know about the kryptonite thing?"

"Yes? Have you gotten back to Lois yet?"

"No, I'm in my apartment but I just wanted to ask.."

"Go ahead?"

"I did a bunch of online quizzes and stuff but I can't really figure out this whole ordeal. Hal gave me a couple of magazines and I just don't know how to feel."

"So what's your question?"

"What if the kryptonite is like cupid. What if it's like the first man I locked my eyes on-" Clark gets interrupted.

"Like a curse? Like the magic kryptonite?"

"I guess so."

"Who did you lock eyes with when you woke up?"

Clark thinks for a moment and then it rushed to his head, he locked eyes with Bruce. His face got all flustered and he had a lump in his throat.

"I think it was you.."

"Really?"