SMALLVILLE: THE LEGEND BEGINS
By Derek Andrew Sharp
RATED: PG-13 to NC-17
SHIPPERS: Clark/Lois
ALTERNATE SEASON SEVEN.
Special Thanks Goes to Mark Waid, Grant Morrison and Kurt Busiek for influencing
PROLOGUE: BIZZARO
"I'm you...just a bit Bizzare," the Phantom Zone created duplicate says, his eyes meeting Clark's own and not looking away. Clark says nothing, trying his best to keep cool in the situation. On some level, he wants to takes things lightly but the fact of the matter is there isn't any way he can. Looking at himself is just utterly...freaky. Something he never expected in his life time in Smallville. He takes a small breath before charging towards himself, just as the Bizarro Clark does the same at full force. No backing down now Clark...none at all.
The impact between the two happens instantly. A blur of red, blue and black then an impact like a flash of light as Clark is pushed back hard, falling through the dam wall breaking it instantly before bouncing off the river a few times and hitting the water and sinking down into it. His eyes never leaving Bizarro Clark as he flies over head, his body shifting into a gray and broken form unlike anything he's ever seen before. In the back of his mind, he regrets the decision on using Kryptonite but pushes it aside, pushing himself out of the water and leaping up into the air, colliding with his Bizarro self.
"Where are you...going!?!" Clark asks managing an uppercut, that doesn't even hurt Bizarro Clark.
"Everywhere and nowhere, Kal-El," the Bizarro Clark says diving for Clark's chest, pulling him in tight and diving towards the ground. The ground seemingly shattering on impact as Clark throws in a few punches on the Bizarro Clark, but again fails to do any damage, but Bizarro Clark hits him back twice as hard. Clark's face beginning to bleed more and more by the second. "Die by the hand of El!"
In less than an second, heat seems to overwhelm Clark. Something that shouldn't catch Clark off guard but fact of the matter is it is. His shirt burning away before Clark manages to use his own against Bizarro Clark. Heat vision fighting against heat vision. Bizarro Clark still burning away against the real thing.
"Don't...stop!" Clark says kicking Bizarro Clark in the stomach, pushing him away, allowing his body to almost soar amongst the landscape of Smallville for what could pass as minutes before Bizarro Clark's flight kicks in. Acting on instinct, Clark takes off. He doesn't have time for this, not now. Lionel...
Then he hears Lois' voice in paniac despite the circumstances. Still within the dam...with someone beside her. A low almost non-existent heart rate.
Lois holds Chloe tight, the water rising more and more by the second.
"Stay with me...stay with me..." she whispers to Chloe. Her arms holding her tight as she begins to attempt to lift her cousin. "Don't do this to me now...come on Chlo..."
Out of the corner of her eye, there seems to be a blur of blue and red. Something that doesn't fully register at first until she sees Clark standing right in front of her. His shirt completely gone.
"What's happened to Chloe?" he asks lifting her up into his arms, scanning the surrounding area.
"Don't know...woke up like this..." Lois says struggling to get her words out. "Came here to find out what Lex was doing here. What are you doing here, Smallville?"
Clark glances around for a few seconds before meeting eyes with Lois.
"I'll explain everything later," he says it, lifting his shoulders, hinting that she needs to grab onto his back and hold onto his neck. She takes a few seconds to consider it, not really certain of what's going on here, but does as she's hinted as such. "Hold on tight."
The walls seem to fall away inbetween the seconds between the Smallville dam and arriving outside of Metropolis General.
"Take care of Chloe," he says, his head shifting slightly as he notices a black blur out of the corner of his eye: Bizarro moving in.
"Not without an explanation for that Smallville," Lois says looking down at Chloe in her chair.
"Lois, not now!" he says it moving forward, his eyes watching the black blur. "I will. I promise you that." Before Lois can even say anything Clark is gone.
"Super speed and a super leap all in one day," Bizarro says it tauntingly, watching and waiting for Clark to land on the rooftop. His eyes now a pale imitation of Clark's own. Lifeless and seemingly dead.
"What do you want?" Clark asks, taking in the new Bizarro Clark fully.
"Dead...you dead and the Phantom Zone ended," Bizarro says it, his body twitching only slightly. "Free will on this world for those captured and imprisoned by the House of El." Clark takes it all in, his fists balling up.
"I can't let you do that," Clark says it standing his ground, his face seemingly emotionless.
"Soft for the people are you?" Bizarro asks, his own hands hanging free.
"You're part me, you tell me," Clark says it, not moving from his spot.
"Are you...you are," Bizarro Clark says it shifting his head a bit, almost spasming. "Or you wouldn't have gone back for...Lois...Chloe...and Lionel..."
"You're not getting anywhere near them," Clark moves forward only slightly.
"What are you going to do about it?" Bizarro Clark asks trying his best to not laugh at Clark.
"Fight back," Clark says charging towards him at super speed, black and red and blue blurring together once again and with an impact on the rooftop causing the ground below them to shake.