Smallville: Rise of the Phoenix
(This story is rated M for Mature. Smallville is copyrighted 2001-2006 The WB/CW Network. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are copyrighted above. Jean Grey, The X-men are copyrighted 2006 Marvel Characters, Inc)
Chapter 1: Return
2006-Smallville, Kansas. It was right around the Christmas Season, but for two families there would be no joy. People walked around as if nothing else mattered, focused on their buying Christmas gifts. They didn't notice the wind pick up and swirl around the outskirts. Blinding light formed a circle that was the Time displacement wormhole. Two people jumped through the vortex. They were Clark Kent, and his half-sister Trinity Jean Knight. One of the two was not of Earth but the other was a hybrid of the people of Earth and the dead world of Krypton.
"Are we home?" Clark asked his sister. Trinity smiled. They were both sad due to the events that had happened in the future. She used her psychic abilities, which were limited, to reach out for a nearby mind, not realizing the woman she was reaching out for was a mutant.
"We're a year late, but we're home. It's the year 2006," Trinity said, curiosity in her voice at the sense of power worse than that her own.
"What's wrong?" Clark said, noticing the look on her face.
"Kal-El, there is someone here in town who has some powers stronger than ours," Trinity whispered.
"Well who is it?" He asked. He then heard a new voice. A red haired young 19-year-old woman stared at him and Trinity.
"I am the person you are sensing, young lady. Are you a mutant?" Jean Grey asked. She had been to Kansas before but had never been to Smallville. Her grandmother had been put in a local nursing home. She had recently asked to join Professor Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which was in reality a secret school for those branded mutants, humans born-or-cursed with superhuman powers.
"No I am not. My powers are not genetic in nature. They are shall we say granted to me due to my heritage," Trinity said.
"What about you, young man?" Spoke up a man in a Wheelchair. The man was the most powerful telepath/psychic on the planet.
"I wasn't even born here on Earth. Who are you?" Clark said.
"I am Jean Grey and this is Charles Xavier, headmaster for Xavier's school for Gifted Youngsters. He accompanied me to visit my grandmother, Jeanette Masters-Grey. She's at the 24th Avenue Nursing home here in Smallville. Can you help us get there?" Jean said shaking hands with both Clark and Trinity.
"I'm Trinity Jean Knight and this is my half-brother Clark Kent. We just came back from a trip. Of course we would love to help you," Trinity said.
"Where are you from, Clark? I sense your thoughts are not human," Charles said as he pushed the joystick forward to move his motorized wheelchair forward as they walked down the street toward the nearby Nursing home.
"I was born in another Galaxy, on a planet called Krypton. My powers I was given when I came to Earth," Clark said.
"What is it with this place? I'm sensing alien minds here," Jean said, scared.
"Those are inmates escaped from a extra-dimensional prison called The Phantom Zone. They are seeking the one called The Last Son of Krypton. My brother Clark." Trinity said. Jor-El of Krypton who was dead in the future had informed them about the so-called "Zoners", but his spirit lived on in The Fortress of Solitude.
"We will help you find these Zoners as you called them," Charles said as they came to the nursing home.
"Thank you, Mr. Xavier. But we can handle it," Clark said. Charles nodded and then realized.
"Did you know that there are mind locks around some of your powers? How is that possible?" Charles said, curious as to why Clark's abilities were not being fully used.
"I haven't come to terms with my destiny and heritage. My Father told me that the day I quit running from who I am, then my powers will be fully released," He said.
"Who was your father?" Charles said. He then began to probe the young man's mind. He found some human thoughts about missing school at the local college, Shuster University, and about Lana Lang, but there was a memory granted to him by the log which was hidden in the Kawatche caves. A genetic memory of his Father Jor-El and his mother Lara.
"Oh my God. Your father was he?" Charles said.
"Professor, what is it?" Jean Grey asked as they walked into the nursing home.
"This man is related to a drifter who called himself Joe who was accused of the murder of a young woman's great-great-great-aunt. This drifter is the one I have been looking for a good most of my 20 years since I started the school," Xavier said.
"We'll meet you later," Trinity said as they began to walk home.
"What was that all about?" Clark said. She looked back, fear written all over her face.
"Clark, Professor Xavier doesn't realize the power that young woman has at her command. Her unconscious mind has been slowly allowing her powers to be fully released. She's the danger Jor-El warned us about," Trinity said. They then saw a familiar red truck pull up with Martha behind the wheel.
"Get in, kids. Clark your father just had a heart attack," Martha said.
To be continued…