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Summary: My story of Clark Kent becoming Superman from the first episode of Season 5 of Smallville and on. Clark begins his journey of becoming a hero as he battles his most terrifying foes. Will he be able to accomplish his destiny or will forces of Darkness get in his way?
The Story of Superman
Guest Starring: Brainiac and Jor-El
Chapter 1: Invasion
It seemed like hell had descended upon the Planet Earth. Smallville had once again been hit with a meteor shower. The destruction of this one had caused just as much damage, if not more than the last one. Jonathon and Martha Kent had been in their house with Jason Teague as a meteor struck their house on the Kent farm. It looked as though the damage would take a while to fix. Looking at the destroyed house it seemed as though no movement could be seen or heard and that it could be the end of the Kents.
Meanwhile over in the fields Lana Lang had run into a huge crater. A crater that held possibly the biggest spaceship in the universe. It looked remarkable in her eyes but it also scared her. Lana was in shock and hoping that she was just seeing things. Hoping maybe that it was not real and if she blinked then it would just go away and disappear. The remarkable looking spacecraft began to shine like nothing in our world. It was a gold bigger than anything, anyone had ever seen. Cops started rolling up in their cars surrounding the glowing spaceship. They had no idea what they were in for.
As the shine of the craft dimmed there were three figures standing in front of the shape. They faced off with Lana and the police officers. One was a man, tall and bald. African American skinned wearing an odd alien like silver and black armor with different tattoos on his body. The other was a female with long dark hair and the same type of silver and black armor as her male counter part. And the third was a shorter man. He had short brown hair only he sported jeans and a t-shirt with a black dress shirt over it like a jacket.
"So it begins." The shorter man chuckled as the police aimed their guns at the three aliens ready to fire.
Lana was scared to death and didn't know what to do. She wanted to run but her injured leg from the helicopter accident was preventing her from moving at all. All she could do was stand there and watch as the invaders stood before her and the police. Lana noticed that the invaders did not have any look of worry on their face as they watched the humans facing off with them. She knew something was up in order for them to not be afraid of guns pointing at their bodies. Lana just knew that she needed to get out of there and fast.
Lana turned as fast as she could to start running away. However she still wasn't fast enough because the shorter male that was in the ship was right in front of her. Lana was scared for her life. This human-like alien creature was standing right in her face and there was nothing she can do. She really was looking into the eyes of death. Lana didn't know what to do.
"Don't worry." The mysterious invader smiled. Lana was still scared to death. "I need you to bring him to me." He added before zooming off away from the area that his ship crash landed.
In the Arctic, there stood Clark Kent as he watched the crystal that had formed from the three stones of knowledge barrel into the ground. Giant pillars emerged from below and began to form what started to look like from Clark's point of view. Clark was in awe at the events transpiring in front of him. As the huge ice castle was finished coming together, the Last Son of Krypton began his journey in the snow towards it.
It was like a brand new world to Clark. It was like a world he never had envisioned before in his life. The inside of this ice castle like place was incredible looking to Clark. Something he never dreamed of seeing before. He wondered all around towards the control panel in the center. A floating crystal was above it with a some sort of barrier around it. Clark reached out and took possession of it.
"Welcome home, my Son." Jor-El's voice rang throughout the place.
"What is this place?" the Last Son of Krypton asked curiously looking around.
"This is your Fortress of Solitude. A place where you can learn all that you need to know." the voice of Jor-El explained but he was not done. "This is where your training will take place. All of my knowledge and the knowledge of our people will be passed down to you, Kal-El. You are humanity's last hope for what is coming."
Clark took heed of what his birth father ad announced to him. "What is coming?" he asked.
It was quiet for a few moments. "Villains from Krypton are invading the planet Earth as we speak Kal-El and the only way that they can be stopped is if you begin your training." Jor-El answered as briefly as he could.
Soon Clark was engulfed in a barrier of information that Jor-El immediately begun. The training had finally begun inside the Fortress. "My son, you shall learn abilities far beyond what you know now and you can use them in order to help you defeat your adversaries. This is your destiny."
Inside the caves in Smallville, Lex Luthor woke up from being knocked out by Chloe before a giant light engulfed her and Clark. Lex picked up his flashlight and started looking around for Chloe. Lex slowly wandered into the secret room in the caves that housed the stones Clark merged together. The key was still sitting right in its hole at the center of the table that had Kryptonian symbols all over them. Lex looked astonished that he had never seen them before in the caves. He didn't even know about the room that he was in. Lex picked the key up examining it. He looked very interested in how it appeared and disappeared all the time and what the origins were.
"Put it down." A voice said startling Lex so much that he really dropped the key.
Lex Luthor turned around and stared at what meant him face to face. It was the same shorter man that faced Lana after he and the two others were released from the ship. "Who are you?" asked Lex.
"Me?" the man asked then smirked. "I'm the Brain Inter Active Construct. And I have come here to Earth for just one purpose"
"Really?" asked Lex more confused than anything else. "To take over our planet?"
"Not quite." Brainiac replied slyly. "More like helping my master take over the planet." He laughed. Lex laughed slightly then stopped.
"You really think you can destroy us and take us over?" Lex retorted.
Brainiac used his super speed to zoom towards Lex and grip him up by his neck. "No question about it and there's nothing you or anyone else on this pathetic planet can do about it." Brainiac tightened his grip on Lex even more. Lex couldn't breathe because of Brainiac's strength and to make matters worse, alien-like vines came out of Brainiac's skin and wrapped themselves around Lex's neck. "Pitiful human." Brainiac said as he let go of Lex and he fell to the floor.
Back at the Kent Farm Lois Lane drove up to the front of the remains of the house and saw that the Kents' truck was still there. "Oh my God." Lois said as she shut the car off and ran towards what was left of the house.
Inside Jonathon was just starting to get up off the ground. "Martha!" he yelled. He had no clue where his wife was in all of the rubble and was not hoping for the worst.
"Mr. Kent!" Lois screamed running towards him. Jonathon started to fall back over but Lois caught him.
"Lois, help me find Martha." Jonathon said standing back on his own two feet trying to move around the destroyed house.
"Mrs. Kent! Clark!" Lois yelled searching through pieces of what was left of the Kent house.
"Clark wasn't here. He got out before us." Jonathon replied. He knew his son was out there somewhere trying to save everyone the only way he knew how to.
Lois bent over and moved a couple of boards out of the way to find Martha's face. Her eyes were shut and it looked like she was barely breathing. "Mr. Kent, over here!"
Jonathon came running over to Martha. "She's barely breathing." Jonathon said aloud. "I need to get her to the hospital." Then he turned to Lois. "Will you help me?"
"Yes." Lois nodded.
Lana had gotten away from the aliens that were released from the crash landed spaceship and was slowly moving towards town when a Porsche came speeding up the road and Lex barely stopped in front of her just in time. Lana was still scared of what she had seen just a little while ago and scared of the deranged look Lex had on his face when he wanted the stone before she got on the helicopter.
Lex got out of his car real quick. "Lana, what's wrong?" he asked. Lana started to run away but Lex caught her. "What happened?"
"A …. Spaceship." Lana said slowly. "Over in the fields."
Lex looked at Lana confused like he didn't believe her. "You're in shock. Let me help you. I'll take you to get help."
Lana knew Lex didn't believe her so she ran off but just as she started to her body gave out and she passed out on the ground in front of Lex. He ran over to help her up but she was unconscious. "Lana, we need to get you help."
Chloe had somehow found herself inside the Fortress of Solitude where Clark's training had finally begun. Jor-El had finally started Clark's training into becoming a hero. Chloe was shocked of the giant cold ice castle that Clark had seemingly created with help from the crystal the stones had formed. She was freezing cold trying to keep warm but knew it was impossible. Finally in the center of the Fortress, Chloe saw Clark in some weird chamber of light surrounding him.
"Clark?" Chloe called surprised to find him inside. She had recently found out his secret but he didn't know that she knew and she also didn't know what he was.
The chamber of knowledge Clark had begun his training in started to dissolve from Chloe's voice because Clark could hear her. Soon the training had stopped dead right there in the Fortress as Clark had stopped to look over at his best friend, Chloe. He was surprised to find her there in the Fortress.
"What are you doing here Chloe?" Clark asked shocked to see her.
Chloe thought of how she should answer that question even though she was freezing cold. "Well for starters, I was in the caves with Lex and we saw this shining light inside the secret room. I knocked out Lex and found you in the center of the light. The next thing I knew I was here in the Arctic with you."
"Kal-El, why have you stopped your training?" asked Jor-El well aware of Chloe's presence in the Fortress.
"Wait, Jor-El." Clark replied. Chloe was surprised he had answered to the name Kal-El as she had never heard of it before. "She's my friend. I owe her the truth."
"One person knowing will not make a difference in your life Kal-El." Jor-El responded coldly. "Your destiny will still remain the same but very well, I will allow you this time to reveal yourself."
Clark looked at Chloe and could tell that she was getting colder by the second. "I have to take her to some place warm and then I will be back."
"If you leave this Fortress, my son then if you do not return by sun down this opportunity will be lost to you." Jor-El announced. "And I can not help you with the terrible evil that has come to Earth. You must deal with that on your own."
"I'll be back." Clark told Jor-El as he picked up Chloe. "I promise." He added before zooming off at the speed of sound.
Martha Kent had been taken to the hospital by Jonathon and Lois. Jonathon was scared that it could be the end for Martha. The last thing he remembered before the meteor hit was seeing Jason look up as the meteor destroyed his body. He was sitting by Martha's side while she lay in her hospital bed. Jonathon was holding her hand hoping she would be okay. Slowly but surely she began to open her eyes as Jonathon stared, he was so happy.
Martha looked around to see where she was. "What happened?"
"Martha Kent, don't you ever scare me like that again." Jonathon smiled. "The Meteor shower hit the house while we were inside."
"What about Clark?" asked Martha wondering if he had resurfaced.
Jonathon shook his head as Lois walked into the room. "Mrs. Kent, it's good to see you're alright."
"Lois was quite a hero." Added Jonathon still smiling.
"Well, you put a roof over my head." Lois replied. "The least I could do was help when it came crashing down." Lois joked.
A loud explosion went off as everything at the Smallville Medical Center began shaking. Jonathon went out into the hall to check things out. People were running all over the place for their lives. Then Jonathon saw them. It was the two other Kryptonians from the spaceship. The male and female without Brainiac in sight.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" asked Jonathon as the two stopped right in front of him.
The male spoke up first. "Where's Kal-El?"
Jonathon was surprised to hear that name come out of the man's mouth and knew he had to play stupid. "I don't know who that is."
The female looked at Jonathon. "He's lying." She said finally. Her male friend picked Jonathon up in the air. "Tell us where Kal-El is."
"Put the nice man down." Lois said running up to them trying to reason with them to let Jonathon go. "If you want to find your Kal-El buddy, you need to be a little nicer."
Jonathon was tossed across the hall into a wall and fell to the ground. The two Kryptonians then looked at Lois and the female picked her up by her neck. "Where is Kal-El?"
"I don't know anyone in this town named Kal-El." Lois tried explaining and she was right. She didn't know anyone named Kal-El.
Clark took Chloe to the caves where no one was at and set her down on the ground. He didn't know where else to take her since the meteor shower destroyed Smallville. Clark was still surprised that Chloe had found a way with him to the Arctic in the Fortress with him. He had no idea where to begin.
"Well the first thing I want to know is where you got all of your powers from?" Chloe asked finally letting everything out of the bag.
"Well I was born with them." Clark answered then decided to continue. "I wasn't born anywhere near Smallville, well actually, not anywhere near this galaxy."
Chloe was really surprised. "So you're like what? An alien?"
Clark looked hurt when she said that. "I prefer intergalactic traveler. I'm from a planet called Krypton."
"Oh." Was the only thing that Chloe could say in reply to Clark. She was just shocked to learn that her best friend was an alien.
"I always wanted to tell you but my parents felt it best if I didn't tell anyone because they didn't want it getting out and…" Clark saw Chloe's face. "… and I didn't want people looking at me how you're looking at me right now. Do I look different to you?"
"No, it's just that you look so human." Chloe replied. "I just never would have guessed."
"How long have you known?" asked Clark finally asking the question he should have asked first.
Chloe considered then answered. "A couple months. I always had my suspicions. The weird exits, the lame excuses but when I saw you catch a car like a beach ball. That's when everything got confirmed."
"Why didn't you say anything?" Clark asked. "Why didn't you tell me you knew?"
"I figured if you wanted me to know then you'd tell me on your terms not mine." Chloe answered honestly. "I'd never turn my back on you Clark. I will never sell you out."
"Thanks, Chloe. That means a lot." Clark smiled as he crossed his arms.
"Does Lana know?" Chloe asked Clark and he just shook his head no. "Oh, well what was that forty story igloo that we were in?"
"Well, Chloe…" Clark began answering but wasn't sure how. "…there's things about me that even I don't even know yet. That voice you heard, that was the voice of my biological father."
Clark looked around real quick then decided it would be best to continue this conversation another time so that he could see if his parents were alright. "Chloe, can you make it out of here by yourself?"
"Yeah." She answered.
"Good, I'm going to go check on my parents." Clark replied. "I'll catch up with you later." He added before super speeding away from Chloe, out of the caves.
"Go get em, Super Clark." Chloe smiled after Clark had left.
Meanwhile at the Luthor Mansion, Lionel Luthor was craving symbols into the floor of Lex's library. The doors of the room were blown off the hinges startling Lionel Luthor, who looked like he was possessed. The two Kryptonians that arrived with Brainiac walked in and stared a hole right through Lionel.
"You do not belong here." Possessed Lionel said to the two Kryptonians.
The male stepped forward. "Where is Kal-El?"
"You can't defeat him." Lionel smirked. "He will defeat you."
"No." the female replied stepping forward then gripped up Lionel by his throat. "He will join us."
Clark arrived at the Smallville Medical Center and began his search for his parents. However it was Lois who ran into him first. Clark was surprised to still see her in town but walked past her and continued on for his parents. Lois followed suit she was wondering where he was.
"Your parents are a little banged up but they will be fine." Lois explained to Clark as he continued to ignore her and walk. "We have a bigger problem though, Smallville."
Clark stopped dead in his tracks and turned towards Lois. "What kind of problem?"
"A happy couple with super powers came in here a little bit ago and are looking for some guy named Kal-El." Lois replied quickly. Clark stared at her. "Do you know anyone by that name?"
"Where did they go?" asked Clark now focused on the problem at hand. Finding out who these two people looking for him are.
"I don't know but there's been news that two people broke into the Luthor Mansion." Lois answered wondering why Clark would want to know. "Maybe they are there."
Lionel Luthor had been knocked out by the Kryptonian invaders that invaded the Luthor Mansion. Lionel had been tossed into the bookshelf and was now on the floor. Clark zoomed right into the room and stopped at the doorway to face off with the Kryptonian invaders. Clark measured both of them up and was ready for anything to happen.
"What do you want?" asked Clark. He wasn't use to dealing with people of his own kind and wasn't sure what to expect.
The male stepped forward and smiled. "We want you to join us and then when General Zod returns we can make this place our new home, our utopia."
Clark definitely wasn't going to let that happen to his home. "I don't think so. You have two choices: either leave or we settle this right now."
"I guess we'll just have to punish you Kal-El." The female said taking her wrist band off and throwing it towards Clark.
Clark dodged out of the way of it but was caught off guard when it grew bigger and turned into a giant vortex. Everything close to it began to get sucked in, including Clark himself. The two other Kryptonians laughed at Clark's reaction. However, Clark had an idea. He used his super speed to get behind the other two. Now they were caught off guard by Clark. The female Kryptonian tried to hit Clark with a punch to the face but Clark dodged and knocked the wind out of her with an elbow to the chest, knocking her into the vortex. The male Kryptonian was angry and also went to attack Clark. The young Man of Steel caught his fist and countered back with a punch of his own knocking him into the vortex as well closing it shut. Clark saw that it was sun down then walked out of the Luthor Mansion.
Lex Luthor had taken Lana to the Medical Center and she was resting comfortably in a hospital bed by herself. She just needed to rest and let her leg heal and all would be fine. She was now sleeping peacefully waiting until they told her that she could be discharged. The door to her room opened up softly and the mysterious man known as Brainiac entered. He walked silently up to Lana's bedside and placed his pointer finger on her forehead. The same wires that entered into Lex's mind now entered into Lana's.
"Sleep tight, Ms. Lang." Brainiac smirked as the wires retracted back into his body. "You will be very valuable to me." Before he sped off just like Clark always did.
Clark stood in front of his house looking at the damage the second meteor shower caused. He couldn't believe at what had happened. He blamed himself for everything that happened recently to his friends and family. It was because of his Kryptonian heritage that those Kryptonians came to Earth to take over and it was because of them that just about everyone he cared about got hurt. He didn't even know where to begin on building the house with all the rubble.
Jonathon and Martha pulled up in the truck into the driveway at the Kent Farm there. Clark was happy to see that they were both up and moving around. Jonathon got out of the car first then walked over to help Martha out as she was on crutches. Jonathon helped her over to Clark and Clark helped Martha stand.
"I took care of the danger that Jor-El warned me about." Clark announced smiling before adding. "Which is good because my abilities are gone."
"Jor-El just took away your powers without any reason?" Jonathon asked skeptically.
"Yes." Clark nodded. "I think Jor-El and everything is all behind us now. We can rebuild the house brick by brick. Everything is okay now"
"You can get hurt now." Martha said caringly.
Clark stared down at her. "I know mom, but it's what I've always wanted."
The rest of the day seemed quiet as everyone recuperated from the events that had taken place within the past 24 hours. Clark helped his parents settle down then decided to take a trip to somewhere he didn't think he'd go, to the Medical Center to see Lana and clear up the things that happened earlier, the last time they saw each other.
Lana was lying in bed still reading a newspaper that had you owe me one with an arrow pointing towards Genevieve Teague's obituary. Once she saw Clark walk in with some flowers she looked up and smiled. "It's a surprise to see you here. I wasn't expecting you."
"Yeah well I wanted to see how you're doing." Clark said walking closer as Lana put the newspaper down. "And there were three words that kind of stood out."
Lana looked up at him. "Clark, there was a natural disaster about to happen."
"Yeah…" Clark replied to finish. "…. Some people say things they don't mean."
"That's not what I meant." Lana corrected.
"But you just said…" Clark began but Lana cut him off.
"I just don't want things to be like last time." Lana clarified to Clark.
Clark thought about their previous relationship and how bad it went before they broke up. It was all because of his secret. "This time it will be different. I promise." He said extending his hand for Lana to take then he took action and kissed her right then and there in the hospital room.
At a LuthorCorp plant just outside of Smallville, everything was all locked up. No one could get in or out in anyway. Lex Luthor held the mysterious spaceship. Brainiac emerged out of the craft in the empty room and looked around with a smirk on his face. "These pitiful humans will kneel to my master." Then all the power in the plant went out.
A/N: I know it's a lot like the season 5 premiere but I can guarantee that from this point forth a lot is going to be different. Anyway I hope you enjoyed the opening chapter in my version. Please give feedback.