So here I am once again working on a oneshot instead of one of my many stories that needs to be updated. At least I'm finally diving into a real crossover story, with a SupermanxStorm pairing which is starting to become a growing addiction although in this story it's just a hint for a future relationship. This takes place before the Justice League (Animated series) forms in the D.C. universe.
Did I mention I own nothing but the plot which is too bad.
"I'm sorry Mr. Luthor but what you are asking for is simply not possible." The nervous Dr. Jackson says to his would be employer. The almost billion dollar machine that was supposed to be built so that they could cross into another world failed once again. "The very idea of parallel worlds is still only a theory and there is just no guarantee that-"
"I don't want to hear any more excuses Dr. Jackson!" Lex says coolly with a glare. "If an alien call fall out of the sky and land on earth or men can talk to fish. Then there is no limit to what can be accomplished especially when almost a billion dollars is involved to fund it."
"But sir couldn't we just use that money to make a weapon against Superman with Kryptonite?" Dr. Jackson tried to reason. "Why with enough time and effort we could build a very powerful android-"
"That isn't good enough Dr. Jackson!" Lex interrupts once again. "It's only a matter of time before Superman becomes immune to Kryptonite. Besides that fact that it's now too predictable, no what we need is to use that machine to travel into parallel worlds! Worlds that have the potential to have new materials or weapons to defeat Superman!"
"But sir-" Dr. Jackson tried to reason with his boss once again.
"You will get this done Dr. Jackson or else I will get very very upset." Lex says darkly as he walks out of the lab.
Superman pov
"Look up in the sky!" an excited citizen shouts."
"It's a bird?!" another onlooker says.
"No it's a plane!" someone else says.
"It's Sup-" someone else begins to say excitedly only to get interrupted.
"Don't you guys get tired of saying that every time?" a woman who was walking by says sarcastically. "This is Metroplis after all it's always Superman." She finishes saying rolling her eyes.
That's kind of harsh but I guess it is true. Superman aka Clark Kent thinks to himself as he flies through the sky waving at the citizens. He was on patrol on the bright sunny day and so far there hadn't been any crimes to stop. Which was always his favorite kind of day, he could just fly around and watch over his wonderful city that he had committed himself to protecting, the only commitment he was willing to have actually. He thought to himself with a sad sigh.
One of the downsides to being a superhero of course was the loneliness that came with it. Sure he had gone out on a few dates with Lois but he soon realized that he could never commit himself to her without risking her life. Though he would sometimes admit to himself privately of course that in another life he probably would risk being with Lois but only in another life not this one. He didn't have to worry about his parents because they were safe at their family farm in Smallville, away from the big city of Metroplis and having less of a risk of being seen with the legendary Superman.
Superman continued to zoom across the sky using his super hearing to listen for any signs of crimes being committed but things continued to be calm and peaceful.
"Wow this is really amazing there's not even any petty thefts going on today." Superman says to himself.
Meanwhile in the marvel universe
Storm pov
"What a wonderful rain storm." Ororo says with a happy sigh as she flies across the skies of Graymalkin Lane. While most people might prefer bright sunny days over rainy days being the weather witch that she was Ororo codename Storm much preferred rainy days. There was just something so cleansing about letting Mother Nature wash away all of your troubles.
Which was something she needed after her divorce from T'challa even after learning that their fallout was caused by something out of he's control the damage though had been done and now Logan was gravitating towards her but she knew that she had to reject this idea. Logan loved Jean no matter how much he tried to deny it and Ororo wasn't going to allow herself to be second best to anyone even if the other woman was her best friend.
"It's better to be alone right now anyway." Ororo says to herself. A statement in wish she felt was very true everyone else seemed so afraid to be alone but giving yourself space can give you time to make plans and figure out what it is that would truly make you happy.
"Whoa!" Ororo exclaims in shock as she felt a sudden wind change. The nice summer rain had suddenly changed into a hurricane, with howling winds and thundering clouds. The change itself wasn't produced by Mother Nature or herself (and Thor was nowhere near earth currently) something else was causing this disruption. Storm tried to put some distance between herself and the strange new weather but it only kept pulling her forward no matter how hard she tried to get away. It was as if it was holding on to her and wouldn't let go. The last thing the wind rider could recall was falling out of the sky.
Normal pov
When the bright skies of Metroplis suddenly turn almost pitch black there's only three logically things to do. "One get to safety, two seriously get to safety and Three Are you serious? Get to safety already and let Superman handle it!" But just as suddenly as it began it was over making people almost wonder if they had just imaged the whole thing.
Suddenly an explosion could be heard by the city's resident hero from many miles away from the city. Like a rocket Superman took off in the direction of the explosion and came upon an amazing and terrifying. The building that he was floating in front of was clearly a lab or at least what's left of it showed it was meant to be a lab. One of the few things left standing and clearly working was a machine pointed up towards the sky using all of its energy to pull a woman towards it though the woman herself was using all of her energy to fight the pull.
Not needing to see anything further Superman quickly used his heat vision to destroy the machine freeing the woman from its pull.
Storm having not been prepared for the pull to suddenly stop drops faster from the sky but is caught by Superman before she could regain control of herself.
"Don't worry ma'am I've got you!" Superman says looking down at the strange woman in his arms, he's completely blown away by her beauty having never seen anyone with a combination of white hair, blue eyes and mocha skin. He soon realizes with a blush that he might have been staring for too long when he notices her glare. Before he could come up with an apology she pushes him away. "How?" Superman begins to question but is quickly interrupted by Storm.
"Who are you? Why did you bring me here?" Storm demanded to know. The last thing she could remember was being pulled in by an unnatural force. She was getting angrier and confused and the weather was starting to reflex as much.
"I'm Superman." He answers over the howling winds and the heavy rain he could even hear the crackle of Thunder in the distance. This woman was much more powerful than he had thought and though she had yet to attack him beyond pushing him away the change in eye color from bright blue to haunting white showed that it could happen at any time. "Who are you?
"My name is Storm. Superman? Is that really your name?" Storm questions having never heard that name before which clearly confused the red and blue tights wearing man.
"Yes I'm the hero of Metroplis?" Superman is now asking surprised to be speaking with someone who didn't know anything about him. "The city that we are a couple of miles away from?"
"Metroplis?" Storm questions shaking her head in disbelief. "Is that close to Graymalkin Lane, New York?"
"I'm sorry Ma'am but that place doesn't exist." Superman says carefully not wanting to upset the woman although it didn't seem to be working. "Metroplis is in New York and I've never heard of or seen a city called Graymalkin Lane."
"Well just because you've never seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist." Storm spat in anger. "I've never heard of this Metroplis either how do I know that it even exist?"
"It's almost impossible not to know about Metroplis it's a world famous city." Superman countered back.
"And Graymalkin Lane is well known to be the home of the X-men." Storm answers back.
"Who are the X-men?" Superman asked much to Ororo 's surprised.
"You don't know about the team of superhero mutants fighting for peace and equality between mutants and humans?" Storm asked again shocked that this man had never heard of them after all they had been around for years. "You must know after all you're a mutant human yourself are you not?"
"Well no I'm an alien!" Superman answered honestly although this woman should have known that his story was famous.
"Oh so you're like Thor!" Storm says as if that wasn't a crazy thing to say.
"Thor as in-" The rest of his sentence was cutoff when he suddenly heard the sound of coughing beneath the ruble of the almost completely destroyed lab. "Excuse me I hear someone down there."
"What?" Storm asked but the man had already gone back down to help whoever it was that only he could hear. She flow after him just in time to see Superman push aside a large caved in roof like it was nothing. How is that even possible?
"Sir are you alright?" Superman asked as he moved to help the man get to his feet, his X-ray vision had shown that there wasn't anyone else around the destroyed building whether it was because he had been the only one there or because this man was the only survivor Superman wasn't completely sure but he hoped it was the latter.
"I'm alright Superman thank you." Dr. Jackson says in shock in relief if the man of steel only knew that the reason for this whole mess was because he was being paid to destroy him, he might not have bothered to save him.
"Was there anyone else working with you?" Superman asked though hoping that the answer was no.
"No I was the only one working today." The Doctor says with a shaky voice.
"What happened here?" Storm asked calling attention to herself as she looks around at all of the destruction.
"I would like to know that as well?" Superman adds in crossing his arms over his chest and getting into his serious mode. "Why was that machine attacking her?"
Dr. Jackson suddenly grew pale which Ororo didn't fail to notice. "You caused all this didn't you?" Storm shouted and the winds picked up once more. "Why?! What did you want from me?"
"What?! No this machine wasn't meant to harm you!" Dr. Jackson tried to plea with the strange woman but the winds only became more forcefully. "I swear I was only hired to build a machine with an ability to cross into a parallel world."
"Why would you need to do such a thing?" Storm asked her voice laced with suspicion. This man isn't telling me everything.
"Well the theory of parallel worlds has always been fascinating and whoever ever could succeed in making a breakthrough can usher in a new age of science!" Dr. Jackson answered knowing that it was only partly true. "I wasn't sure myself until the machine locked in on something today…and I guess that was you?"
Well that certainly explained everything. The confusion, why the two super beings had never heard of one another or the cities even though they lived in the same state.
"I'm sorry I'd send you back right away but the machine is broken." Dr. Jackson says with a shrug.
"Then I suppose I'm stuck here." Storm says not in a sad tone but just clearly stating facts.
"I'm sorry Storm if I hadn't destroyed the machine you could have had a way to get home." Superman says apologetically. Though to be fair he hadn't know what kind of machine it was he only cared that Storm was fighting against it. "How long would it take you to make another one Sir?"
"That depends on if my employer is willing to start this project up again." Dr. Jackson explain not that he doubted that Lex Luthor wouldn't want to try again the man was obsessed with the idea of defeating Superman and when he found out the machine had worked enough to pull another super being into their world.
"Maybe if I talk to your employer he'll be willing to try again?" Superman suggested knowing that must people would be more than happy to help Superman.
"NO! Ahem I mean that can't be done." Dr. Jackson said clearly very nervous. "My employer is very private and doesn't want to call attention to this project."
Ororo narrowed her eyes at the man, this may be a different world but she had seen that kind of behavior before whomever this employer was clearly wasn't a good man. Her gut was telling her that this project was not just about making a scientific breakthrough and her gut was rarely ever wrong.
"Very well then." Storm says before taking off into the sky. I'll just have to find another way to get home because that man cannot be trusted.
"Storm wait!" Superman yelled flying quickly to catch up to the weather witch. "Where are you going? We should be talking to that doctor about finding a way to get you home."
"And if you believe that you can fully trust that man then you are a fool." Storm says forcefully. "I've seen man like that before they either work for monsters or are monsters themselves nothing good can come from trusting him."
"But then what will you do?" Superman asked in concern. In a way this woman was now just like him a being from another world now far away from any family or friends at least he had his adoptive parents when he landed and then later on his cousin. "Where will you go?"
"I'll figure something out." Storm says with a shrug tragedy was not new to her nor was finding ways to survive on her own she'd done it once and she could do it again. "I always do."
"You shouldn't have too. At least not all by yourself." Superman says clearly still concerned. "You can stay with me until you can get back home! And I have a friend that's really smart a genius really he might be able to figure out a way to get you home."
"I wouldn't want to impose on you." Storm tried to reason with him. "Plus we don't even know each other. Why do you want to help me so badly?"
"Because a long time ago I was like you and if I hadn't been helped by a nice couple who knows what could have happened to me." Superman answered honestly. "And I'd rest a little easier knowing that you're safe."
Ororo had to admire his honesty he was really putting himself out there for someone he didn't know. "Okay." Storm always knew to trust her gut feelings and right now it was telling her she can trust this superman.
Meanwhile
"Dr. Jackson are you telling me that after all that money I spent on that one machine now I have to invest more for another?" Lex Luthor yelled sounding just as intimidating on the phone as he would in person. "Give me one good reason why I should have you deposed off?"
"Well sir…" Dr. Jackson began to explain.
Duh duh DUH END?!
I know what you're thinking why end this oneshot here when there is so much more to cover? Well here's the truth this oneshot is just a prequel! The actually story will take place during the Justice League/Unlimited series. But I'm sorry to say that you won't be seeing it until the summer. I want to finish up at least one of my current ongoing stories before I do more for this one. Until next time please read and review!
