Chapter Twenty-Five: Master of Death/Master of Everything.

Gwen Stacy knew that it was her responsibility to fill in the entire crew in Smallville with what was happening regarding Harry. She got a text message from Gotham City no sooner than she got there. It was short, sweet, and to the point and told her pretty much everything that the person on the other end wanted to know and everything that she needed to know.

What in the hell happened?

Gwen grimaced when she held the phone in her hand. It amused her that the person who got all of the information was the one that wanted the information from her. Gwen held the phone up and she tapped on it. She waited for the call to come in on the other side.

"Yeah, it's me, Harry's alive, and he's changed….for the better as far as he's said," Gwen said. "A lot of people who shouldn't be alive after all of this have dropped dead. It's interesting, isn't it? Yeah, I'll talk to you in a little bit, trust me on that one. How about we do lunch?"

Gwen confirmed that lunch was on. She was sure that this wouldn't be the only person that Gwen would have to give information to. The blonde chuckled in amusement. Being the smartest girl of her age could have many perks and benefits. It could also be a pain in the neck.

"Harry returned from his mysterious adventure, didn't he?"

"Hey, Chloe, and yeah he did," Gwen commented, walking forward. "Claire isn't taking it too hard that he didn't directly come back, I hope?"

"No, she did get his message that said he was okay, so I knew about this," Chloe said. "And Kara and Jean dragged him off for some alone time. I think she might be a little bit upset that she wasn't invited."

"That makes two of us," Gwen commented underneath her breath. Chloe shifted her eyebrow. "Or does it make more than two of us?"

Chloe smirked. She led Gwen over towards the Kent Family homestead. "I'll be perfectly honest. I long since stopped keeping track because I needed a spreadsheet."

Gwen laughed. That was the truth and nothing but the truth regarding Harry.

"Harry's a kleptomaniac, he likes collecting wayward women," Chloe continued. "And I feel a bit miffed that I was on the sidelines with this entire adventure."

"Chlo, trust me, you'd be out of your depth," Gwen said and she paused. She spoke bluntly and truthfully. "I was out of my depth."

"That's really hard to believe," Chloe said with a frown on her face. "But I guess that if you think that you're out of your depth, than you were."

"I did what I always did though," Gwen added. "I kept fighting."

"You kept doing whatever a Spider-Girl, did?" Chloe asked her.

"Pretty much," Gwen admitted to her. She cracked a moment of amusement on her face. "So are you ready to meet with the rests of the group?"

"Not really, Lois is driving me up a wall," Chloe said. Gwen barely held back her grin. "I guess that was just whatever Lois Lane does."

"Pretty much," Gwen commented. She met halfway with Chloe and the pair turned around. The two of them made their way into the Kent family homestead. "Martha, it's nice to see you again, it really is."

"Gwen, honey, it's nice to see you again as well," Martha Kent commented. "And it's good to see that you managed to escape the insanity of what's happening. I heard it through the news. It must have been far worse to live it."

"It was far worse," Gwen admitted, taking the cup of coffee that she had been pushed in front of her. Lana decided to join the group as well. Chloe sat down next to her. "But, at least it's over and more importantly, Harry is perfectly safe."

"Oh is he safe?" Lana asked, speaking up for the first time. Gwen smiled in response. "It's really good to see you too, Gwen."

"Same here Lana," Gwen said. "For about the eighth time, Harry died and came back to life. Or maybe he wasn't technically dead or alive."

Gwen got her share of confused expressions. She blinked and shook her head at them.

"You know, I don't know how to explain it any more than you do," Gwen said and she could see their gazes on her. "I know, it's one of those insane magic type things, that you have to be completely bent in the head to pretend to understand."

"There are something's in life that I don't think were ever meant to be understood," Lana suggested with a long sigh.

"If that isn't the truth, I don't know what is."

Lois made her way into the Kent Family home. She decided to help herself to the rest of the cup of coffee that rested on the table. There was an obvious groan that came from Chloe. It was because Lois Lane and coffee were an extremely bad combination especially in a stressful situation like this.

"I've been under a lot of tension," Lois said, seeing Chloe's eyes locked on her. The blonde shrugged. "Don't give me that look."

"Lois, you're going to end up popping a blood vessel," Chloe said.

"Lucy was in the thick of things, she just gave me a blow by blow account," Lois said.

"I'm sure that thrilled her a lot to be in her first big time mission when the world was ending," Chloe commented dryly.

"Well, she got that from you….and she got that from me, and she has a few issues by losing her mother at an extremely young age, yeah I'll just shut up because I'm rambling."

Gwen snickered. That was the one thing about Lois, she did that.

"So, where is Claire?" Gwen asked her.

Suddenly, Claire stumbled in and she looked a bit worse for wear. It was obvious that she had been through a lot.

"Just swung by the mansion and he wasn't there," Claire said. She sounded absolutely exasperated at the thought of it. "It didn't help that something caused me to drop out of the sky the moment that I was there."

"That something wouldn't have wanted you to head to the nearest shower, would it?" Chloe asked Claire with a raised eyebrow. Claire looked like she was doing her best impression of some kind of tomato. She was this close to being able to stammer and stare. Chloe nearly looked at the absolutely amusing expression on her friend's face. It amused her a million times to see this look on her face. "Yeah, I thought that it might be like this."

"I believe that Harry decided to test drive his new powers," Gwen said and that got the attention of the entire group in the kitchen. "And it looked like he was going to use Jean and Kara as his partners in an attempt to see what he could do with his powers."

"It was impressive," Chloe said, letting out her breath in a low whistle.

All of them were thinking the same things.

"Kara mentioned something about Vegas as well before she left," Gwen commented, almost speaking as an afterthought.

That caused Claire's eyebrow to rise up nearly past the top of her head. Perhaps she had completely lost all sense of herself but there was only one thing that went through her mind when someone talked about Vegas.

"Well she's adapting to Earth life quite nicely," Lois said in laughter.

Claire folded her arms and Chloe grabbed her gently by the shoulder to bring her back to life.

"You and I both know the reason that you're upset about this," Chloe commented to her. "I don't even need to spell it out for you. You don't even need to have to read between the lines."

Claire sighed.

"How about a road trip?" Lois asked.

"How about no?" Claire replied, she was glad that Lois snapped her out of her disappointment. If nothing else, it gave her something to banter back and forth with.

Lois was shaken with being shut down so fast that she couldn't really believe this.

"You….you…..?"

It was seconds after Lois allowed her brain to reboot when she realized that Claire was gone. It left her in the kitchen in the dust.

"You know what she's like when she sets her mind to something," Chloe said. She amended herself. "Well, Lana and I know better because we've known her the longest."

"So, who's up for lunch?" Martha asked calmly which brought their attention back away from this drama regarding Claire.

It was a wild and insane night in Vegas. It might have been a couple of nights to be honest. Harry really wasn't too sure about that. He just tried to return himself to a state of sanity.

He woke up in the Vegas hotel room. It already had a state that indicated that it was well worked in. His head lifted up halfway off of the pillows. The walls had scorch marks. The ceilings had scorch marks. It was very lucky that the bed was intact after what he somewhat recalled.

'What a night,' Harry thought to himself, finding a bit of amusement in this situation.

The truth was that he didn't get drunk all that easily unless he mentally willed himself to attempt to try and get drunk. If that happened there would be exceptions to rules. There would be exceptions to many rules. Harry proved that he exceeded every single rule.

His arm wrapped around the redheaded female that pressed against him. Her body was extremely sweaty and very sticky. There was also a satisfied look on her face.

Harry realized that they took their fun to their ultimate conclusion. Given the bonds that they shared, they were pretty close to that point as well. He chuckled in amusement when he realized that many people might be upset that they didn't need to partake on the fun.

Jean Grey stirred against him. It was obvious that she had finally crashed after an extremely long night. This was a long night that made their Smallville escapades look like a warm up.

They made those Smallville escapades look like a warm up for sure. Harry couldn't even begin to go over the number of ways how that happened. He shifted the sleeping redhead off of his arm. Who had decided to cling on it when he was asleep and wasn't letting go any time soon.

"Hello sleeping beauty," Harry whispered to her and Jean shifted awake. There was a bright grin on her face in response.

"Hey yourself," she responded in a tense voice. She had a look on her face that indicated that she was extremely pleased with herself. And why shouldn't she be? It was a great night to be alive. "So, what day is it? Or have you lost track of the time like I did."

"I'm pretty sure it's just the next day," Harry said. Jean turned over towards him, propped up on the side of her elbow. She grinned at him. "At least I'm almost sure it's the same day."

Jean raised her eyebrow and laughed. "Well if you're almost sure."

Jean leaned over towards Harry. She swept him into a kiss. It was something that indicated that last night was a prelude to things to come. Which would make the fun and games in Smallville a prelude to the prelude. Harry didn't want to think about this too much. His brain started to melt.

"So, where's the other third of our Unholy Trinity?"

"Present and accounted for."

Kara made her way out of the bathroom, wearing a nice transparent white robe. She sauntered into the room, a sultry smile on her face. She made sure that she got the proper amount of attention from Harry. The blonde decided to obtain this by leaning down. Her lips stole a kiss from Harry. Not that she needed to be some kind of grand master of theft to get such a just reward. It was the thought that mattered.

"You're raring to go this morning, aren't you?" Harry asked.

Kara decided to take a seat on the bed. And what she did was straddle over Harry's lap. She placed her hands on either side of his shoulders.

"You better believe it," Kara said with a smile. She looked down in her soulmate's eyes adoringly.

Kara's fingers trailed down his hair, she stroked it with an adoring expression dancing in her eyes. There was more excitement brimming through her eyes than one could even realize.

"I hope that you weren't going to even think to start without me," Kara commented with a wicked grin on her face.

"No, the thought never crossed are mind," Harry said and he decided to turn her over, to pin her down on the bed. Kara writhed underneath his grip which was an enticing thought to be sure. He turned his attention away from Kara to Jean. "Did we?"

"No, we would never do such a thing," Jean whispered, making sure that she situated herself so she was face to face from being away from Kara. "Trust me, honey. Just trust me."

Jean smiled and leaned down. She slowly planted her lips onto Kara's with a kiss.

Harry heard something arrive outside the Balcony. Kara could hear the same thing.

"I was wondering when she would show up," Kara said, getting up to her feet and she walked over towards the window.

There was a yell from the pavement below.

"LOOK, IT'S SUPERWOMAN!"

"Superwoman?" Kara asked, raising her eyebrow.

"Hey, if the cape fits, wear it," Claire said, pulling back the curtain to face Kara. "So, you decided to indulge yourself into the blunders of Las Vegas?"

"Don't give her such a hard time Claire," Harry told her. "Need I remind you about you and Alicia…."

"I could have sworn that I told you never to bring that up again," Claire commented, her cheeks growing red. "And you did a bang up job of being the angel on my shoulder."

"Oh, I've got to hear this."

Claire could see the mischief dance in her cousin's eyes. She tried to give her a look.

"You know, technically we're not that far apart in age, maybe a year, and technically I'm older than you if we go by actual birthdate," Kara fired back at her. She amended something. "Even if the time in stasis doesn't count, I think that I still have you beat."

"Don't push it," Claire commented to her. She was smiling, she couldn't keep a straight face. "How dare you go to Vegas, and didn't invite me?"

"It was kind of a spur of the moment thing to be honest with you," Kara said, shrugging.

"You mentioned it off hand to Gwen," Claire argued with her cousin. Kara shook her head, amending her statement.

"Okay, fine, it was a spur of the moment thing, that became less of a spur of the moment thing, when I decided to go for it," Kara commented. "Are you happy about that explanation?"

"Next time you go to Vegas, invite me, I could have used the downtime," Claire said to her. "And…"

"Fine, next time I get married to Harry and Jean in Vegas, I'll be sure to invite you along."

Claire gave a sigh and a shrug. There was sometimes where she thought that her cousin missed the point. Then again, it ran on their side of the family.

"You walked right into it, didn't you?" Harry asked her.

Harry was just as bad as riling her up. That was why she liked him so much because he could push all of her buttons and stir her up something fierce just like that.

"Yeah, I walked into that, are you happy now?" Claire asked her. "So, what insanity did you cause? I'm actually capable to get arrested."

"Well, we did, but we made the cops think that they were cheerleaders and they let us off," Jean commented idly and she curled herself up onto Harry's lap. Kara found her spot onto Claire's lap. "We should have invited you, along with about a dozen other people. But the trip would have been less conspicuous."

Harry smiled at the banter. It was what truly made the world go around. He prepared for some more challenges. Some of those challenges would put the world in peril.

More adventures would continue even after this book was written. There wasn't a single doubt in Harry's mind regarding that.

The End.

Well that be all. Yes this scene ended with a similar scene that happened in the snippet almost a year ago. So you got the end before the beginning and you didn't know it at the time. That wasn't really intended that way, that's just how things fell in the year between the snippet and this story being completed.

No sequels, because we've told the story, time to move on to other things. Although adventures continue. But they always will in any universe, unless everyone dies. Which would be a kind of sucky ending but that would be the only way to have a definite end to a universe, now wouldn't it?"