A unique element to the universes of Earths One and Two is known as Xium. This element unleashed potent and undefined power, which could grant the man or woman who wielded it with a tremendous advantage against any who may oppose them. And this became a potentially detrimental detour to the Superman of Earth-One and the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two when they encountered a pair of madmen holding this element in the palms of their hands.
On Earth-One, Xium was discovered by criminal genius Lex Luthor in the late 20th century. Using this radioactive element to power his prototype atomic transmitter and ray-gun, Luthor saw the potential for it to empower a person, potentially granting one power comparable to Superman. Yet fearing he might have an adverse negative reaction to it, he projected some of this Xium onto reporter Clark Kent, who seemingly manifested invulnerability and other powers after exposure to it. Playing along with he scheme, since in fact it was his natural Kryptonian powers as Superman and not Xium which gave him his abilities, Clark duped Luthor into believing that the element had short term effects and transformed the person empowered with it to becoming good. Since this was opposed to Luthor’s demeanor, he ceased using Xium as a personal power source.
On the unnamed planet ruled by Queen Cinderella in the mid-20th century, Xium was discovered. The foe to the royal court of that world, a man named Strogo, attempted to seize a buried storehouse of this element from indented the Queen’s castle in order to empower both himself and his rebellion. Seeing her Prince captured by Strogo, Cinderella used an interstellar transportation disc to bring Wonder Woman from Earth-Two to her world. With the Amazon Amazon’s assistance, Cinderella was reunited with her Prince Charming, while Strogo along with his hence-woman Chameleon and his forces were transformed into children once the Xium they stole was destroyed.
Cinderella’s counterpart M’La was herself exposed to radiation, although not Xium which wasn’t native to her world but rather found only on Luthor’s world. Instead, Prince Charming’s counterpart and M'La's royal consort Zalaz found an alternative cure for her*.
Jack-lord Zalaz of that far distant world in the Earth-One universe grew dismayed when his love M'La fell into a coma, from which she was unable to recover. He soon ascertained that only the Starheart, imprisoned in the heart of an actual star in Earth-Two's dimension, would have the power necessary to revive her. This theft unleashed the alien globe's radiation into his own dimensional plane, drawing the attention of the Guardians of the Universe and specifically Earth-One's Green Lantern Hal Jordan who recruited his Earth-Two counterpart Alan “Green Lantern” Scott and teammate Oliver “Green Arrow” Queen.
M'La upon her return became the globe's protector, where she would even bend time to guide and direct Alan Scott throughout his costumed career.
* Interestingly, just as there were two Green Lanterns and a bearded medieval ally in Green Arrow along for the adventure, so too Wonder Woman encountered a second Wonder Woman who was a Chameleon working for the bearded medieval Strogo (himself the counterpart of the Guardian of the Universe who alerted Green Lantern to Zalaz’s scheme, while the Chameleon’s counterpart was a lady gypsy from Earth who sent the “Greens” on their journey into the stars). Although in this case, the royal male saving his princess worked alongside the main hero rather than against them, while the cloned costumed crusader and bearded bard worked against the heroine!
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