Supremacy snared

The night sky above Metro Heights burned neon blue as alarms screamed from the abandoned research district. Supremacy streaked between shattered towers like a living comet, cape snapping behind her as she searched for the source of the strange radiation spike. She landed hard in the center of a ruined laboratory courtyard, boots cracking the concrete beneath her. The place smelled wrong — metallic, sweet, almost floral — and before she could focus her enhanced senses, the ground beneath her erupted. Thick pink tentacles burst outward from hidden fissures in a stone wall, wrapping around her wrists, waist, and thighs with terrifying speed. She strained instantly, muscles tightening as the pavement buckled around her feet, but the tendrils only constricted harder, pulsing with veins of glowing pink crystal embedded beneath their slick surfaces. A sharp wave of dizziness hit her almost immediately. Supremacy gasped as the pink kryptonite lining the creatures seeped an intoxicating warmth through her body, turning her strength soft and sluggish. Her heat vision flickered uselessly from half-lidded eyes while another tentacle coiled around her shoulders, pinning her helplessly above the ground. She fought to stay conscious, jaw clenched as the world tilted around her in a haze of pink light and distorted shadows.