Supports plane

The engines on the other side were failing as well,
and Clark could hear the plane beginning to stall.
It was finally time to test just how strong he really
was.

Reaching up for the fuselage of the plane, he
found a support strut, and a moment later he began
struggling to level the plane.

To his surprise, it wasn't the weight that was the
problem. It was keeping the skin of the plane and the
metal from ripping away in his hands like tissue paper.
Lightning struck again, and a moment later the
world went white around him. He felt as though his
insides were being torn apart, and from the screams of
the passengers inside the plane, they felt the same
way.

A moment later he blinked, his vision returning.
He stared below him. Metropolis was gone.
In its place was clear land as far as the eye could
see, with only isolated homes built against an ocean
side highway.

He recognized the distinctive shape of Hobbs bay,
and the contour of the land was mostly the same. It
was as though the city itself had been erased, as
though it had never been settled.

From the sounds above him, three different
passengers were having cardiac problems. Whatever
had happened to Metropolis, he had to find a place to
land the plane.

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She squinted as she realized that she could see the
silhouette of something hanging from beneath the
plane as it passed by a light in the distance. Lois
wasn't sure if it was evidence of something badly
wrong with the plane or what else it might be, but
she'd go over the footage later. For the moment she
was filming live.

There was something else wrong. The plane was
stopping too fast, far faster than it should have been
able to. It had been raining as recently as a few
minutes before and the runway was undoubtedly slick.
But instead of sliding thousands of feet, the plane was
stopping unnaturally fast, in the space of a few
hundred feet.

In the distance Lois could see a line of flashing
lights as a police cars, ambulances and military
vehicles converged on the airplane. They'd been
situated near where the plane should have stopped,
nearly a mile further down the road.

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