Reincarnated as Supergirl (YJ / Kara Zor-El (Comics))

Chapter 61

"Haaa... hahahaha... Well, I had a blast. How about you?"

Kara stared at the Villain, his back against a piece of rubble and his purple suit half destroyed by the impact. Such a fragile man... and yet, such a dangerous enemy if given time and motivation.

Kara could just step on him now, crush his head even easier than she did Faust's.

Then she dismissed the thought and turned to check on her girlfriend, she was far more important than the clown any time of the day.

Kori was already up, floating a few centimeters above the ground and watching where the portal had been, making sure it was well and truly gone. Her armor looked damaged, a small dent on the side of her belly where Major Force's blast had hit her, but it hadn't been breached.

Slowly, with pained movements, the Joker grabbed a pack of cigarettes from his chest pocket and pulled out one, staring at the thing with a confused face for a second before sighing. "Ah, I don't even have a lighter, and it seemed like such a good deal at the time."

"What kind of deal?" She couldn't help asking while thinking about his fate.

She had already used both her vision and the remaining sensors on her armor to verify he didn't have any last tricks hidden away —he did, but nothing that could threaten her or Kori— so she felt safe just considering him.

The problem was... she wasn't sure he wouldn't come back, there was more than one being capable of that in this universe after all. If one needed proof, a portal to Hell had just been formed not even 20 meters from where she stood.

Granted, nothing from over there had really crossed over, but could she risk it?

"My soul," the Joker started to laugh again, but had to cough and ended up just snickering. "I found it pretty funny that someone thought it was valuable."

Well, that was one worry off her chest. Kara had been fairly sure the Joker had made a deal with Neron, but she couldn't even guess what he had asked for. A pack of cigarettes was both harmless and completely in character.

Still, could Neron make use of Joker's soul once he was dead? Could the Demon resurrect him or turn him into one of his own species?

All around her, she felt the shadows moving, stretching impossibly wide before starting to gather in pools at the corners of the underground parking lot, gaining a new depth she hadn't known was possible.

Staring at one particularly large spot, she swore she could sense something looking back, her new senses telling her something large and powerful was paying attention to her, but no matter how hard she looked, she only saw darkness.

With a beep, Kara felt the magic-draining device locking onto her chest, the armor itself making sure it couldn't be dislodged before completely draining her.

So, it had been three minutes.

From the corners of the room, the shadows exploded in motion, gaining physical substance as they wrapped around the plant's roots, covering them in pitch-black tentacles that seemed to consume anything they touched.

No longer under the Joker's control, the plant had been content to just dig deeper into the ground for nutrients, but the shadow's attack awoke the damn thing, vines, and roots fruitlessly attempting to fight off the assault.

Without infernal energy to fuel its power, the botanical horror lost.

Checking the drones outside, Kara saw Minion 3 had stopped shooting and even the Martian Manhunter was flying away from the plant as fast as he could. A simple command later and Kara had all her drones rush towards her, picking up her expended dimensional lock on the way.