"Never!" moaned Superman, "I'll never willingly kneel to you or anyone."
With snarl Black Rose draws back her fist, to deliver the killing blow. Just before delivering the final punch she stops, and smiles. "Very clever Superman, do you think I'm going to let you get off that easily. I could kill you with a flick of my wrist, but that would stop the pain wouldn't it. I bet at this point death seems preferable to living like this. Well let me assure you I have no intention of killing you, until you willingly kneel before me.
"Look at you, you're crippled, arms broke, back shattered, you're a wreck. I doubt you can even feel my punches anymore, you're nervous system is porbably completely overloaded with pain." Superman just stares at her blankly, he is too far gone to understand much of what she is talking about. His eyes glaze over, as he begins to go into shock.
"What! On no you don't I said only when you kneel would I end the pain, you must not die...yet, you don't get away that easily."
Realising that even his super healing could not reapir the severe damage she had inflicted. Judy thought about what to do. Then inspiration hit her. She picked up the unconscious body of the man of steel and flew him closer to the sun. She landed on the day side of Mercury. She looked around at the boiling lakes of molten metal, the light from the Sun was so bright, than a lesser mortal would have had their retina fried instantly.
As she had planned, the close proximity to the Sun, magnified Superman's healing rate by at least a factor of ten. He began to recover, before her eyes, his bones knitted back together, his back reformed his arms and hands reassembled themsleves. Even the broken bruised and bloddy skin began to reform, as good as new. Better in fact.
"Perfect!" exclaimed Balck Rose. Even better than I hoped. Not only has you're healing rate increased, it's clear your strength and invulnerabilty have as well. Let's hope you put up a better fight than last time. I know why you refused be broken and to kneel before me. I broke yuo puny body too quickly the realisation and enormity of what was happening to you, did not have time to sink in. Well dont worry this time will be different. I've given you hope, I've given you back your strength and power, now watch as I take it away from you bit by bit. I'm going to break you slowly so you can experiecne each moment of pain to the full. And when you can take no more, I'll stop let you heal and begin all over again, until you finally kneel before mein front of a watching world."
Superman waits until the end of her rant, and then deliveres a massive punch to her face. His newfound immense strength, and the weak gravity of Mercury, catch Black Rose off balance, and she is knocked back on her butt. She puts her hand to her mouth and then examines it. Blood! Superman had drawn blood! She realised that the strange new sensation she was feeling must be pain.
She stood up and turned to face Superman, and smiled. "Not bad, Man of Steel. I enjoyed that, why don't you do that again"

What do you do now?

	Black Rose becomes a masochist getting sexual pleasure from the punishment Superman inflicts on her
	They square off once again, to determine who the most powerful is now.

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