This fanfiction is slightly AU. To start off everything that happened in Smallville season 1-3 happened in this fic. He never met Lois as a teenager and he was the Blur before he went for his training at The Fortress of Solitude. He met Kara though she had to leave before his training to go to the Phantom Zone. Everything that happened in Superman 1, 2 and Returns has happened in this universe. This is my first fanfiction. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything.
Prologue
It had been two months since the New Krypton fiasco (that had been what the media had come to call it). Life for everyone at the Daily Planet had become normal again; well as normal as it was six years earlier when Superman had been around. Everything in Clark's life had become almost routine: get up early in the morning to do a fly around the city, arrive at the Planet at 8:30 am. There he would work on his articles and go out interviewing people, sometimes he was teamed up with Lois. Lois had begun to treat him like old times, meaning mostly she would brush him off, ask him how to spell words and sometimes they would go out for coffee (his treatof course). Usually Clark had to make a few excuses to leave during the day when he heard there was trouble. On week days Jason would arrive at the bullpen at around three. When his mother was busy he would walk over to Clark's desk and draw his pictures there, Clark enjoyed his time with Jason and Jason liked to spend time with him too. Clark was usually done his articles early so he could bring Jason to the park. Jason looked forward to going to the Planet after school, because it wasn't boring like it was before Clark had come back from his trip. Then at five o'clock (if they weren't working on a big story) Lois, Jason and Richard would leave to go home. Clark would leave soon after, he'd take a quick bite to eat and then patrol the city for the rest of the night. If he wasn't very busy he would visit Jason around ten o'clock when most of the household was asleep; Lois had begun to leave the window unlocked for him. Jason never knew he came by and Clark thought that it was for the best; he didn't want to shatter or disrupt the five year olds family.
Today was like all the other days since the past two months. The bullpen was busy as usual; hustling and bustling with reporters. Clark sat at his desk finishing up his article, watching Jason from the corner of his eye. Lois was also busily writing her article and handing crayons over to Jason. Jimmy was cleaning his camera lenses, the Chief was in his office angrily discussing something on the phone and Richard's office was empty due to the fact that he had left for London on a business trip two weeks earlier.
Clark could hear an odd buzzing noise becoming louder and louder. He quickly got up from his chair when a man dressed in black came crashing through one of the glass windows, he landed with grace and he looked directly at Clark. He started to charge towards him when two figures went crashing into him. Now the whole bullpen was aware of what was going on. Jason sat still with a crayon in his tiny hands, Lois was wide eyed, Jimmy had a shocked look on his face when he slowly recovered and rapidly took pictures, and the chief was now out of his office standing next to Jimmy. The two smaller figures were a boy and a girl. The boy was about seventeen years old and he wore a black cloak and black clothes, much like the clothes Clark used to wear when he was just the Blur. The girl looked like she was only ten years old, too young to be fighting crime. She wore red and blue, much like the costume Kara wore, and they both had the S insignia on their chests. The two children worked together trying to beat the man down. His hand morphed into a sword and he hit the young girl in the chest, knocking her backwards into the wall. The boy gasped outraged and lunged himself towards the man. He repeatedly hit the man and continued out of blind rage. Clark was about to pull the boy off the man when he suddenly stopped and looked at his fist a little surprised. Then he looked towards Clark with a remorseful look. The man looked like he was out. Though Clark noticed the man had no cuts or bruises from the blows the boy had sent him.
Lois was the first to speak up. "Who are you?" she said without hesitation.
The boy smiled at her, but then turned towards his unconscious partner (who Clark assumed was his sister). The man dressed in black got up at that moment and lunged himself towards the unsuspecting boy.
"Watch out!" Jimmy and Lois yelled out at the same time. The boy turned around only to be tackled to the floor. Clark, behind the desks ran crouched down towards the girl. He does a quick x-ray on her to check if she was alright. He notices that the sword hadn't penetrated her skin and that she had no broken bones. The girl wakes up slightly dazed, blinking several times.
"Daddy" she whispers, "my head hurts." Then she notices the noise and looks up towards her brother.
"Oh", is all she says and clamps her hand to her mouth. She looks up at Clark's surprised face.
"Uh…" Her brother sees her, he sighs and then says: "Marty, help me." He gives her a look like, what are you doing just sitting there? Marty, the young girl, gets up on wobbly knees with Clarks help and goes to the aid of her brother. She pulls out a ring, one that looks like the Legion ring; she points it towards the man. Then the menace disappears as suddenly as he had arrived. The bullpen is in utter silence. The boy and girl look nervously at everyone with exhausted and scared faces. Then the whole bullpen erupts with questions.
"Who are you?" "Are you related to Superman?" "Where are you from?" The boy and Marty silently look at each other with panicked expressions. Marty lifts her fist up, as if to use her ring, when it makes an awful loud ringing noise that make Marty, Clark, the boy and Jason grab there heads and crumple to their knees in pain. Lois looked frightened and slightly puzzled at Clark. Why was he affected by the noise? Thankfully, nobody saw Clark or Jason except for her. Everyone else was starring at the unknown foreigners suddenly bent down in pain. Lois looked over at her son. She didn't know what to do. She thinks quickly: the noise started when the girl lifted up the ring so if I can break the ring it will stop. She hurriedly walks up to the young girl who eerily has her same hair color and grabs the ring. The girl is in too much pain to protest. Lois smashes it with her heel. Relief floods over all there faces. The boy looks at the crumpled remains of the ring.
"Wh-what have you done? That was our only way of getting back home!" Lois looks at the boy flashing him an angry glare.
"If it weren't for me young man, you'd still be on the ground in pain." The boy gives her a sheepish look. Jason runs up to his mother.
"Mommy!" he says hugging her legs. Jason looked confused; she was relieved that no one in the bullpen had seen that her boy had been affected by the noise.
"What was that?" she finally asked. The boy gets up and he helps his sister up too.
"A high radio frequency. Only people with uh, sensitive hearing are affected by it. It's very painful for us. But I don't know why the ring did that. It's never done it before. Its only purpose is to transport us to different time frames and without the ring we're stuck here." The boy explains.
"Wait a tick. You're from a different time?" Lois hadn't noticed Clark walk up behind her. She looks at him suspiciously and then turns back to the unknown kids in front of her.
"Uh… Yeah. We're from the future." Marty joins in on the conversation. The bullpen erupts with noise again; questions were bombarded towards the children. Jimmy took pictures with his camera, and the chief was trying to tell his employees to quiet down, but no one listened.
"Maybe the roof would be a better place to discuss this." Clark says over the noise.
"Yeah. Meet us up there in ten minutes." Lois puts in quickly. The boy smiles, reminding her of someone. Then they are gone, followed by a gust of wind. The people in the bullpen look skywards to see where the visitors had gone.
"Alright, alright people. Shows over. It seems here, we have a new story to write. Lane, Kent! Find out who they are. Write me a Pulitzer." Perry says waving his hands up in excitement. The cleaning crew arrives soon after and so does the police; they ask around to inquire on why the Daily Planet had a huge whole in its wall. Lois was too preoccupied telling her son to stay with Perry to have noticed them. She didn't understand why Clark had heard the noise, as far as she knew he was as normal as people came. She didn't think that even with 'sensitive hearing' he should've been affected like the boy and the girl and even Jason, considering that he is Superman's son. She didn't even understand who these 'visitors' were and why they were there and why mysteriously they seemed to know both her and Clark.
I hoped you liked it. Please review, I'd love to know your thoughts. More chapters to come as soon as possible.