Epilogue.

They did it, somehow, someway, they did it, although there was a sense that despite everything that they done so far, there was still a lot left for them to do in the future.

But for now whatever else they needed to do, could wait until later. Kal stood inside the Fortress, which just a little while ago had been the scene of an intense battle. Zod's attempted return did not work as planned and Kal thought that he should be basking in the glory of his victory.

And in a little bit he would be basking in said glory but for now he needed to find a way to catch his breath and just try and figure out what happened. His eyes were bloodshot and everyone could see the ravages of the battle that he experienced today.

A hand was placed on his shoulder gently and Kal looked over it to see Kara standing there behind him. A smile crossed her face and it was one that could light up the entire room. Kal was not going to lie, that made him feel even more confidence in himself.

"We did it!" Kara cheered and Kal grabbed her around the waist to pull her in tight against him. Their noses pressed against each other for a brief second before their lips found themselves entangled in a passionate kiss.

Kara sighed as she felt her man's lips pressed against hers and the two of them saw that the crisis that could have destroyed humanity was averted. They tightened their hold on each other for a moment, before they stepped back breaking apart with a sigh. The two of them kept their eyes locked onto each other as they smiled.

"Wow, just….wow," Kara breathed to him.

"Yeah, that sums it all up, doesn't it?"

Karen turned up and Kal smiled as she joined him and Kara. The group basked in the moment of their glory.

"That could have ended very badly," Karen informed them. Kal nodded with a smile on his face as he grabbed her around the waist pulling the older version of Kara towards him.

"It could have gone far worse, but it didn't, because we stood together," Kara remarked to them and that was a statement that could be shared by all.

They were all in an extremely good mood for obvious reasons. Why wouldn't they be? The world was saved, which meant it was time to celebrate. At least that was the idea that they had in the back of their minds but they knew one thing.

This was the calm before a storm, another storm, although what that storm was going to be, well it was hard to say. One thing at a time that was what the name of the game was. Kal believed that strongly in his heart and mind that no matter what, if they stood next to each other, they could accomplish some of the greatest goals.

"So, I feel like my head got ran over by a steamroller."

Chloe staggered in and Kal couldn't help the smile that lit up across his face. The blonde made her way towards him giving him a warm smile in return.

"Nice to see you're back, Chloe," Kal told his lover and Chloe sank herself down on the block which was getting quite crowded. Not that any of them minded sharing body heat with the other.

"Well….it's kind of good to be back," Chloe admitted to them as she rubbed the back of her head and Kal checked her out. "I can't believe….well that bit about my origins, that was a revelation to put things mildly."

"Yes, very mildly," Kal told her in a teasing tone.

"Yes, well, you're getting some amusement out of that, aren't you?" Chloe asked all of the Kryptonians and there was several smiles given towards her.

"Just a little bit, just maybe," Kara told her as she held her finger's apart to show the tiny amount and Chloe grabbed her and gave her a teasing kiss on the lips, one which Kara returned.

Kal waited for his turn and as it turned out, he would not have to wait that long. Her lips met his with a fiery passion. Chloe sank her nails into the back of his neck as Kal pulled her onto his lap, feeling her legs tighten around him. The two of them kissed each other hungrily then Kal shifted and pinned her down.

"Wow, seems like a parties getting started and you're going to get things started without me," Lois commented in a teasing voice as she popped up. She looked around at everyone and mock sorrow erupted over her face. "I'm kind of hurt.

"Don't worry, Lois, we'll make it up to you," Kal told her in a breathy voice and that caused her eyes to flood with desire for a second.

"I hope you do, because making promises like that could be very dangerous," Lois told him with the grin crossing her face.

"Well, you aren't one who would run away from danger, especially when it flutters beneath your nose," Chloe bantered back.

"Well, you got me right there," Lois admitted with a laugh as she prepared herself for what might happen next.

"Yeah, always, Lois, always," Chloe told her cousin.

Kal decided to take a long look at the Fortress, granted a lot of it was trashed, compliments of the battle but there was a certain exotic quality to this wreckage. The Last Son of Krypton placed his hands on the top of his head and rolled his shoulders back with a sigh.

Lara's voice piped in alongside Alura's.

"We've completed with the final scan of the Fortress," Alura told them all.

Lara decided to pick up where Alura left off. "Zod's presence had been purged from the Fortress."

"Yes, and he will not be returning, not if we can help it," Indigo stated to them over the Fortress intercom.

"I see you did not completely destroy yourself in the battle," Lara told Indy and there was a second where the AI paused.

"No, I've been set free, and I've decided to atone for the destruction of Krypton and the unfortunate role that I played in it by helping its survivors," Indy concluded.

Kal was glad that he had the help that he did.

"I trust that there were no complications from what happened?" Indy asked her.

"My head's clearer than ever before," Chloe told the woman and she sighed. "I'm not sure if that's….actually that's a pretty good thing."

"As I figured."

The road to recovery began with a single step and that's what they were doing, one day at a time, one step at a time.

X-X-X

"So this idea of yours….."

Tess was at LuthorCorp, meeting with Karen, Kara, and Kal. She smiled as the thoughts of what their potential partnership offered went through her head.

"So, do you think it's genius or insanity?" Kal asked her, he knew that it could potentially be classified as both after he described it to her.

Tess pondered that for a second before she gave him a frank answer. "I'll be perfectly honest, being genius or insane, it's not mutually exclusive options. And this little idea of yours, this demented little plan, I think that it has traces of both."

Kal watched her and the redhead decided to add another statement of her own.

"For the record, I didn't say no either," Tess told him.

"I know you didn't," Kal fired back to her and there was a few seconds where their eyes locked onto each other. He decided that he would flip back into the other end of the equation. "But you didn't say yes, either, did you?"

"And now you're twisting my words around," Tess told him but then again, she figured that Kal would do well in the business world. That was an ability that should be learned if he stepped into that world, the need to twist the words around.

"Turning it pretty much on your head," Kal commented to the redhead and she turned towards him.

She thought about this situation and if she wanted to move LuthorCorp forward in a new direction, she needed to press forward in a certain way. And this little mad plan of Kal's was the first possible step.

"Well, we have to do something with about a hundred Kryptonian survivors, all of them female," Tess added as she closed her eyes. "And all of them have some knowledge of the various sciences that exist, whether it be rudimentary or advanced, beyond anything Earth has ever seen so far."

Kal could see that Tess was beginning to see things from a certain perspective and he felt her resistance being worn down. Slowly she was seeing things his way, for better or for worse. Kal knew that pretty soon she would come to the same conclusion that he did a while back regarding the survivors of Krypton that had come to Earth.

"They are a boon," Tess suggested thoughtfully as she once again ran through the possibilities. If she was perfectly honest there weren't any real drawbacks to this that she could think about and the benefits were immense. So that made it an extremely attractive proposal that Tess kept focusing on in the back of her mind. "And with the right….well with the right motivation they could bring this company to a level above all others."

She thought about appeasing the shareholders and that was a problem, the shareholders were among those who would only look at things in the nature of dollars and cents. Which was how the business world work, no matter how much Tess loathed to admit it. It was just a fundamental fact, no question about it. The redhead pushed her hair out of her eyes.

"So….here we go," Tess commented to them.

"Yes, it's your play, what do you want to do?" Kal asked her and Tess pondered as she watched him.

"Never said it was a bad idea," Tess told him and then her lips curled into a smile. "In fact, I think it's a really good idea."

"And that's why I brought it to you, because you see potential where a lot of people would fail to do so," Kal told her. "For now, Faora has taken the women to Paradise, they need some downtime after what they've been through."

"It was Zod, then in the end," Tess remarked to him.

Kal agreed with a nod and smile. "Yes it was Zod but don't worry, he's been taken care of."

"Good, I can sleep easier at night knowing that he's off of the table," Tess remarked to him and Kal's smile grew even wider.

"I know you sleep pretty good, and if not, well I'll make sure of it," Kal remarked as he placed his arms around her and Tess's eyes closed as she felt him breath into her ear.

"Yes….well I'm sure….you will," Tess said as she found it very hard to concentrate which she figured was done by his design.

"So….what do you think of….what do you think of this proposal?" Kal asked as he pressed her against the wall.

"In a year or so, they can be trained up so they can….mingle with humans," Tess admitted as she felt Kal's hands roam her body.

"That's good, we don't want to put them into the firing lines before they're ready," Kal told her and Tess shook her head in agreement.

"Most….certainly not," Tess agreed as she felt pleasurable flushes go through her as Kal had her backed against the wall and in the good way.

Helena showing up broke up the fun for now.

"All traces of alien residue have been purged from the satellites, although people are going to ask questions about what happened, even if it was mostly contained to the Arctic," Helena told him.

Kal nodded, he knew that there were going to be more than a few challenges ahead of him.

"So do you want me to go public?"

Helena offered him a steely gaze and she watched him. "Only when the time is right."

"And when will that be?" Kal asked her.

"You'll know when the world need someone like you to step officially into the light," Helena commented but there was a brief flicker of a smile on her face. "Unlike people like me, who stick best to the shadows."

"You said it," Kal told her and Helena smiled back at him.

"Yes, I did," she concluded and she got onto her tiptoes to press her lips against Kal's lips in a kiss, which he returned.

The two of them had gotten off on a shaky start but that could be chalked off to some unresolved sexual tension between the two of them.

The next stage of their lives were about to begin and the world would never be the same as it was a few months ago or even a few days ago.

Things had changed a lot and they wanted to see what would happen next.

X-X-X

"Just think, Kal, up here, we can see the entire world."

Kara said this statement in an extremely cheerful voice and Kal's eyes turned towards the blonde who swayed from one direction to the next.

"Yes, we can see the entire world but…"

"I know what you're thinking and I'd be lying if I wasn't thinking the same thing," Kara remarked as she shifted her weight and placed her head down upon onto his shoulder. They stood on a mountaintop looking down at the entire world.

It was funny in some ways, this entire adventure throughout the past few months started with them. It started with a red rock but it grew into something much more.

Kara smiled as she thought of the interesting ways that a person's destiny came together. It was a twisted situation to be sure of it and the blonde smiled as she brushed her hair away from her face.

"So what's on your mind?" Kal asked her.

"Just thinking of everything that's happened," Kara told him and Kal's smile grew wider.

The adventure of the lifetime, well that was putting things rather lightly. It was the first step for the rest of their lives, no matter what they would do next, they would always have these moments together that built the foundation of an amazing future.

"It's amazing how things turned out like this," Kal told Kara and she turned towards him, a smile swimming over her face.

"Amazing just like you are," Kara said as she felt his arms tighten around her as she started to sway within his arms.

She thought that things could have ended fairly badly but things turned out for the better and really that was what in the end mattered to her.

"So you've finally got the flying thing down," Kara told him and Kal flew around the mountain to show her.

Kara smiled with pride on her face, she knew that he could it. She always knew that he could, although there were certain things that were holding him back. Most likely the demons that swam in the back of his mind. The blonde kept following Kal's progress as he flew around and then landed at the edge of the mountain with a smile on his face.

"Very good," Kara told him in a breathless voice.

The two of them stood on the precipice, staring out on the rest of the world.

"One small step, towards one big journey," Kal told Kara.

Kara smiled. "Yeah, you can say that again."

Kal was about to say it again but Kara grabbed him around the waist and pushed him into the air. The two of them swayed in each other's grip with Kara wrapping her arms and her legs around Kal. The blonde kissed him passionately.

Kal held this sexy blonde in his arms and thought that he was the luckiest man in the entire universe. In fact, he redefined the term lucky bastard.

"So….we're just starting, aren't we?" Kara asked him and Kal offered a smile on his face.

"We are," Kal told her and there was a smile. "So…..Diana wants us to visit the Island, to see how the Kryptonian survivors are settling in."

"I'm sure that's not the only reason why Diana wants you to visit," Kara offered to Kal and Kal turned his head towards her with a raised eyebrow.

"I should hope not and Maxima's coming over so we can spend some time together," Kal told Kara and she couldn't help but laugh at him.

"Seems like you have a pretty full dance card, Kal-El," Kara teased and he tightened his grip around her.

"You know for sure that I can handle it," Kal breathed and her grin got wider.

"I wonder sometimes," Kara offered him in an expression that was swimming with mirth. "But hey….that's just how things go."

"I'm sure I can give you a reminder," Kal told her as he tilted her back in air and Kal kissed the side of her neck a few times. She closed her eyes as her legs and arms tightened around him.

"Yes, I'm sure," Kara remarked as she grabbed Kal and playfully tackled him into the side of the mountain. The blonde smiled as she grabbed his arms and held him, pinning him down.

"Oh, I'm sure," Kal commented as he rolled over the position.

"Well," Kara remarked as she shrugged Kal off and got into the air. Her skirt flowed in the breeze and there was a hint of her ass in the air. "You're going to have to catch me first, if you want to prove anything."

Kara wiggled her rear at him.

"Catch me and you get a reward," Kara told him with a smile. "Unless you're too slow."

Kara laughed as she shot through the air like a cork out of the bottle.

"We'll see about that, Kara," Kal remarked as he pushed himself back and then flew after her.

The blonde shot into the air, taunting Kal and Kal went after her.

When he got his hands on her, she was going to get it.

The sun rose as two multi-colored blurs flew in the sky.

"Catch me if you can!"

A brand new day dawned on world, as one book closed, another one was yet to be written.

The End.