The Man of Steel: Superman and the Poisoned Planet

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they would be friends by now But if Ron even had any friends Danny was certainly not one of them When Danny turned back around his boss was nowhere to be seen It was as if she’d just disappeared into the thick brush of the jungle Where did she Danny started to say under his breath Then he thought better of it He decided his time would be better spent trying to catch up to his employer So Danny started to jog The path was just too overgrown with weeds and ferns for him to move very quickly Nevertheless he did his best The last thing he wanted to do now was get his boss even more annoyed with him This was the first job he had had in months and he didn’t know when another would come along Danny pushed past a particularly sharp thorny tree of some kind Then he stopped In front of Danny was a clearing The sun’s hot rays hit his face and neck He squinted in the bright light There a few feet ahead of him was a trench several feet below ground level Danny walked over and peered down into the hole His boss had already beaten him to the punch She was down in the crater kneeling in front of a strange glowing rock She had taken off her hat Danny noticed her long and flowing red hair It looked out of place there surrounded by all the green vegetation and the green stone in front of her Even her skin seemed to have a greenish tint to it Danny had never noticed that before Is everything okay he asked His boss laughed But it wasn’t a laugh like something was funny It was a dark little chuckle Like she was up to something Then she said Everything is perfect It was hard to see in the bright sunlight but Danny could make out something in his boss hands She was holding the end of a long vine The vine was growing right out of the earth under the glowing rock in the crater Just like the strange stone the plant was glowing bright green I think we found what we were looking for said Danny’s boss She stood up and faced him Danny could hear the rest of the men spreading out behind him in the clearing It was time to get to work And even in the heat and humidity no one was about to protest