Candyland?

[themanoftomorrow]

Heavy footfalls resounded through the halls of the Fortress of Solitude, the cavernous halls of the building magnifying the sound. They sped up as Superman felt something was just a bit off, and when he entered the main hall he stopped and stared. The gigantic memorial of Krypton, supported by statues of Jor-El and Lara, his long dead parents, had been replaced…

By a gigantic jawbreaker being held aloft by peanut brittle likenesses of his parents.

“What,” he all but shouted, looking around the room for intruders. And it was then that it hit him. It wasn’t just the memorial, it was the entire fortress. The ice caverns had mysteriously changed into translucent rock candy, the chairs were constructed entirely out of solid peppermint, and there were boxes upon boxes of sweets of all shapes and sizes all over the floor, stacked neatly into every open space.

“…What’s going on here?”

He had to be dreaming. There really couldn’t be any other explanation, but then again maybe Mr. Mxyzptlk was up to his old tricks…

Comments

[themanoftomorrow]

Sarcasm noted, Superman shakes his head and floats up over the ruins.

"I had something else in mind," came an equally teasing tone. And then he began to sweep his eyes across the ground, scanning with his x-ray vision, and carefully avoiding Mercury.

[waterfell]

She decides not to question it. Instead, she calls out for the results. "What do you see?"

Strange, that she can think there'll be something, even when she already knows this is another world, and the likelihood is low.

[themanoftomorrow]

"Just ruins. Rubble. Nothing much else. There's lead in the soil here, makes things a bit fuzzy"

[waterfell]

"As I expected," Mercury tells herself. "Before we came, I already knew this would be what we found." At least, in some part of herself, she had assumed that.

[themanoftomorrow]

"I could always dig deeper, but I doubt I'll find anything more than stone. Anything else would've been cooked by the sun."