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A/N: This is season two of my 'Smallville: The 'Lost' Son of Krypton' series. Hope you enjoy it! :D
Daniel: "Previously on Smallville: The 'Lost' Son Krypton…"
"Yes," Daniel smiled in satisfaction as the sapphire blue Crystal of Knowledge levitated from the slot in front of him to his eye level.
"Urgh!" he screamed as the crystal glowed brighter through the gaps in his fingers.
Ian reacted to his friend's scream and dashed to his aid to see his friend holding something that was steadily glowing brighter in his hand by the second.
"What the hell-?"
Suddenly, the light erupted from Daniel's hand, knocking Ian off his feet and transported both of them.
"Here goes nothing," he said to himself, staring down at the crystal in his hand and threw it as hard and far as he could away from him, in which it landed in the snow.
For a few seconds or so, it seemed like nothing had happened as only silence could be heard, but that silence was immediately replaced with the sound of gigantic crystals rising from the snow-covered ground to form a fortress of pure, clear crystals.
"I cannot tell you how proud I am of you for succeeding in your task of assembling the Fortress of Solitude, BEFORE it went into the wrong hands," AI Jor-El stated in a still very proud voice. "But, an issue still needs to be resolved."
"What issue?" Daniel asked puzzled at what the AI was talking about.
"You still have no kryptonian name," AI Jor-El reminded him.
"I've been thinking for a while about this and I thought of a kryptonian name," Daniel told him.
"Then by all means, tell me," AI Jor-El assured his nephew.
"How about: Dux-El?" Daniel suggested with a smile. "The word 'Dux' means 'leader' in Latin and since I thought that's what I'm practically going to be-"
But AI Jor-El silenced him kindly and with his loud booming voice, he announced proudly:
"Dux-El, the 'Lost' Son of Krypton- has FINALLY been found at last."
Multiple arcs of electricity sparked in the caves for a few minutes, until suddenly a pale woman with long and wavy bright red hair appeared wearing no clothes appeared kneeling on the floor like in the Terminator movies. She then stood up and glanced around her.
"Great," the woman huffed at the fact that she was naked and then said: "I've got to find, Smallville. He'll know what to do."
The Future Woman's P.O.V- (09:00)
I walked carefully and quietly out of the Kawatche Caves on my tip-toes (which hurt like HELL, but I pushed through). Fortunately though, it wasn't a long way towards the exit of the caves, so my next objective was to get some clothes, since my already quite pale body was getting even paler by the second.
Oh, I haven't introduced myself properly yet. My name is Erin Valentine and I'm from the future, the near future of the mid-2020's and not something like the 31st Century, not like them. Anyway, I was drying myself from a shower when I was transported here, completely naked and I figured the only one that could help me was 'Smallville', not the town, but the person aka Daniel Li, the genetically superior kryptonian clone. Mouthful I know, he even said so himself.
But then I started to panic, but not at the thought of meeting Daniel in a different time, but the thought of meeting Daniel at a different time where he didn't even know me yet and with my luck, I'm probably sometime where he just got his powers and physiology back. That would be bad news for me and the whole freaking space-time continuum as Carter once stated, or will state.
Oh well, I'll just have to wait and see as well as hopefully wish that I don't bump into the bitch along the way, although that'd be unlikely.
I looked up at the clear blue sky, yet another good day in Smallville and started to jog my way along the nearby trees for cover in case anyone saw me like this. It was would cause some attention that I would not like.
Luckily, after a few minutes, I gradually made it to the road and began running to the nearest gas station, knowing that there would properly be some bikers there to steal a ride and clothes from.
It didn't take long to reach a gas station and I noticed that there were only three male bikers there and no cars, so at least I would be causing a stir, or at least not a serious one. I smirked and casually began to walk towards them, all three of them started to wolf-whistle at me as I came and I couldn't help, but roll my eyes in pure disgust at them.
"Morning, fellas," I greeted with a smirk. "Say, that's a nice Harley."
The head biker I assumed, who had a bushy ginger beard and wore a black leather jackets, pants and boots grinned lustfully at me, occasionally 'scratching' his crotch region.
"Thanks," he said in what he thought was a seductive and cool voice. "What's your name, sweetie?"
"Erin," I smirked, never leaving my gaze on any of the bikers, whom were all grinning with lust. "And yours?"
"Chuck," he answered, pressing his lips together with an air kiss. "What brings you out here little lady and naked as well?"
I continued to smirk and stated calmly:
"I just needed a ride and I thought that if I asked nicely, I could ride on your Harley."
"Sorry, sweetie," Chuck shook his head and then smiled cunningly, adding with a wink: "But there are other things that you can ride."
The other two bikers laughed, but I wasn't amused and forcefully grabbed him by the collar, pressing him against the Harley.
"Look, pal! I need your ride now!"
Chuck through my hands off of him, his face expression furious at what someone just did to him. Him!
"You're going to pay for that, slut!"
He whipped out a knife from his inside jacket pocket and swung the knick at me, but I blocked it easily with a high-section block, bent his arm forwards and disarmed it from him into my right hand.
"Seriously guys," I threatened with the knife still clutched tightly in my hands at the three terrified bikers, who all had their hands up in defence. "I need a ride and some clothes, so cough it over!"
They nodded frantically and started to take off almost all there clothes, except for the underwear and dumped it in front of me. It was almost funny, until I remembered why I was doing this and remained focused.
"I'll think I take this," I told them, grabbing Chuck's black leather jacket, his leather pants, along with one of the bikers' pair of boots.
"Wait, so you're just going to leave us here?" one of the bikers, who sounded as if he never went through puberty with a high pitched voice like that, causing me to laugh. I couldn't help it!
"Oh, don't be such babies," I glared at all of them as I mounted the Harley and started it. "I could have done a lot worse."
The Harley roared to life and I left the gas station, heading towards the Li Farm at relatively high speeds, whilst listening to the radio and singing along too. There was definitely a reason I was here.
Smallville TSLOK: The Mechanical Flesh (Kryptonite - 3 Doors Down)
(Beginning Music)
If I go crazy then will you still call me, Superman?
Daniel Li
If I'm alive and well, will you be there to holding my hand.
Rene Smith
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might,
Kryptonite.
Ben O' Connor
Yeahhhhhhhh!
If I go crazy will you still call me, Superman?
Warren Li
If I'm alive and well, will you be there to holding my hand.
Janine Li
I'll keep you by my side with my superhuman might,
Kryptonite.
Joseph O' Connor
Whoa, whoa, oh…
(End of music)
Daniel or now also known as Dux-El, stood there in the Fortress of Solitude with a big, wide grin plastered on his face as he stared upwards where the gigantic, clear crystals almost met each other at the top, leaving a small view of the cloudless and blue sky above.
I did it. I did it.
It almost felt too good to be true as he thought those words to himself again and again. He had accomplished something that took Clark almost an entire year to do, whilst it only took him about three months or so.
"Dux-El," AI Jor-El said, snapping him out of his thoughts. "I know how proud you are of yourself, but that does not mean you can let your guard down for your next quest now begins: Your Kryptonian Training."
At these three words, Daniel face turned serious, however on the inside, he was jumping with joy at the prospect of training kryptonian martial arts and learning more about Krypton's History.
"Your right, Uncle Jor-El," he agreed, his face still serious. "Something tells me that it's only going to get worse as it also gets better."
"I agree, Dux-El," AI Jor-El sounded pleased that his biological nephew had grasped the seriousness of his kryptonian training so quickly. "First off we must-"
However, the AI's sentence was cut off, when a person came stumbling in with his arms wrapped around his chest as he shivered, due to the intense cold of the Arctic.
"Ian!" Daniel said loudly and ran to him at an average human speed and caught him just before he fell onto the hard, icy floor of the Fortress.
Ian was unresponsive, but his body was still shivering uncontrollably, so Daniel took off his bright red plaid jacket and put it on him, due to the face that he could handle the cold without it.
"Jor-El, I need to go! I'm sorry," Daniel shouted at AI Jor-El.
"Dux-El, you have not even STARTED your kryptonian training and yet you wish to leave now," the AI stated in a slightly frustrated tone of voice.
"Please, he's one of my best friends and I can't let him die!" Daniel begged. "It's my destiny to save people, so let me save him!"
AI Jor-EL remained silent for a moment, when at last, with great hesitancy, allowed him to take Ian to the nearest hospital, but only if Daniel promised to continue his kryptonian training.
"I promise," Daniel told him, lifting the unconscious Ian in his arms and super sped out of the Fortress and towards the nearest hospital.
AI Jor-El watched him super speed away and thought:
Be careful, Dux-El. Your human friends can be your greatest strength, but it can also be one of your greatest weaknesses.
Somewhere in Germany
The mysterious shiny black goo slithered it's away through the sewers, occasionally stopping as if trying to find something… or someone.
It then started to move once again and slithered its way upwards out of the sewers of Germany and into a local hospital, where it stealthy snuck past all the staff and patients.
"I'll get the lab results immediately," it heard a tall male doctor, who had short brown hair, blue eyes, which were behind a pair of rectangular glasses and wore a traditional doctor's uniform.
For some weird and unexplained reason, the mysterious shiny black goo felt the urge to follow him and slithered down the corridors to where the doctor was getting the lab results for one of his leukemia patients.
"I can't wait until the conference is over so I can get back to Smallville," the doctor muttered bitterly under his breath.
At the word 'Smallville', its curiosity rose for that was the same word that he heard repeatedly from the 'lost' son, or 'Dux-El' and his friends, when he was trapped within the three Crystals of power, which was now known as the Fortress of Solitude.
Maybe this human can help me reach this 'Smallville' and also finally meet the 'lost' son of Krypton.
It slithered nearer to the doctor, when the doctor dropped something into the mysterious shiny black goo and bent down, only to gaze in horror as he saw the 'thing' spring up at his face.
"Get off of me!" he screamed, trying to pry it away from his with his hands, but failed as the mysterious shiny black goo seemed to literally grapple on his face and gradually spread everywhere across his body. "NOOOOOO!"
That was the final word that the doctor said as the mysterious shiny black substance took over all of his body, leaving him look as if nothing happened, except for maybe the sinister look in his blue eyes.
"I AM ERADICATOR!" it declared in a deep robotic voice and added as he scanned all of the doctor's memories, including all his information of the planet: good and bad. "And I must save this planet from what it is now."
Eradicator tilted his head upwards and suddenly flew out of the hospital at faster than sound speeds, whilst breaking the walls that were in his way without a single scratch on his human host towards Smallville, thanks to its host's memories and his highly superior intellect.
Li Residence, Smallville
Erin parked the Harley just beside a thick green bush, so that it wouldn't be seen and sneakily crept towards the house, hoping that she wasn't seen by anyone.
"That woman needs to sort out her priorities," a deep male voice stated, causing her to hide underneath one of the windows.
"Definitely," a female voice agreed.
This sparked Erin's curiosity and she carefully peeked through the window to see who were talking, yet when she did see, she almost forgot to breathe, for sitting on the couch and watching the TV were Warren and Janine Li.
I can't believe I'm seeing them for the very first time. They're exactly like they are in their pictures.
Erin shook her head and hid back underneath the window again, trying to regain her focus as she said in a soft, quiet voice:
"I'm too early."
She reluctantly stood back up again and dashed back towards the hidden Harley, mounted it and switched on the radio to which she heard something that once again peaked her interest.
"Reports state that Smallville High has been severely damaged as an unknown individual, possibly a meteor-freak, has wrecked almost everything in there, more news will be coming in shortly," a female voice said.
I got to check this out.
Erin started the engine and rode towards Smallville High, since she knew that even if Daniel was here, he wouldn't be able to help her, since he didn't even know, or met her yet.
A hospital somewhere in Russia
Ian slowly gained consciousness as he gradually opened his eyes to see that he lying down on a white hospital bed and that he was in a unfamiliar room that didn't look like any of the hospital rooms at the Smallville Medical Centre, or even Metropolis Hospital.
"I see you're up," Daniel said, leaning his left shoulder against the wall with his bright red plaid jacket back on him again as he gazed at his best friend blinking a few times at the realization that he not in Smallville anymore or whatever in the cold, snow-covered place that he randomly appeared in moments ago that he assumed was the reason that brought him here in the first place.
"You've been out for about fifteen minutes or so. I even wanted to call a nurse, until I noticed you waking up just now," Daniel told him, still not breaking his gaze on his best friend.
"Where are we?" Ian groaned, rubbing his sore head.
"Somewhere in Russia, I'm not sure where though," Daniel answered as if it was the most obvious thing in the world to say. "How are you feeling?"
"Humph, how am I feeling?" Ian huffed in annoyance. "I'll tell how I'm feeling, I'm furious that my own 'best' friend won't tell me or any other of his 'friends' the truth! What are you hiding from us that are so important that you can't even tell anyone? What is it?"
He was now breathing hard in anger and Daniel couldn't blame him.
"Are you really sure you want to know? Really sure?"
"Yes!" Ian exclaimed, waiting impatiently on the hospital bed.
Daniel sighed and super sped out of the room and back with two sodas in his hands, which made Ian's eyes widen and his mouth gaping stupidly in shock.
"That's not all," Daniel said, placing his hands underneath the bed and effortlessly lifted it up a few feet in the air, which caused Ian to jump in surprise, whilst he stared at the floor below, which now looked a lot further down then before, until Daniel put his bed back down onto the floor again and sat onto one of the bedside chairs next to Ian.
"I also have more abilities such as invulnerability, a super eidetic memory, longevity and even more on the way," Daniel added, waiting for Ian's response as he just sat there staring at him silently.
"S-So, you're a meteor-freak," Ian finally managed to stutter out of his mouth, which caused Daniel to unexpectedly laugh loudly.
"No, I'm not a meteor-infected, I'm a genetically superior, or advanced super-powered kryptonian clone born to Lara and Zor-El," he explained, gritting his teeth at saying his biological father's name. "I was born around the year 1987-"
"Wait," Ian interrupted. "If you're born in 1987, why aren't you like… older?"
Daniel smiled, knowing that he was going to interrupt with a question once he told him his true birth year and once again began to explain:
"When I was transported here on my ship, since my planet, Krypton was dying, my ship was apparently caught in a cosmic storm, which chronologically froze my age at a few weeks old and would have kept my age as that, if it wasn't for my mom and dad taking me out of the ship, once I crash landed in a corn field as they drove by. Any questions?"
"So," Ian seemed to struggle to digest this recent information. "You're an alien, a kryptonian."
Daniel nodded and added:
"An 'advanced' kryptonian as I like to call myself."
"Yeah, that and you have these abilities that you didn't get from the green meteor rocks," Ian continued, whilst Daniel nodded with a smile. "Why didn't you tell me earlier about your powers? When we were little kids and how did you change from 5'5 and scrawny to well what you are now?"
"It's because I didn't even know I had powers back then, probably because technically I didn't have them back then, due to the fact that my biological uncle, Jor-El, stored my powers and my true physiology into the Crystal of Knowledge, which was the sapphire blue crystal that teleported us to the Arctic," Daniel added at Ian's confused face when he mentioned the crystal. "Anything else you want to ask me, because I pretty much told you everything I know at the moment?"
Ian thought for sometime about it, but then shook his head.
"So you're a super-powered genetically advanced kryptonian clone that is actually born in 1987?"
"Yep," Daniel said, popping the 'p'.
"That's so cool," Ian grinned, which also made him grin in relieve at the fact that his best friend did not seem afraid about what he was or what he could do.
Yeah, it's a good thing he didn't act like when Pete Ross found out about Clark in 'Smallville'. That wouldn't have been pretty.
Just then, a female nurse came in and switched on the TV inside the room.
"Sorry," she said in a relatively thick Russian accent. "Apparently, there is a special news broadcast of something going on in a place called 'Smallville', I hope you don't mind if I switch it on."
At this, both Daniel and Ian stared intently at the TV screen, along with the nurse to see a reporter in brown suit and microphone talk at the camera.
"We are here at Smallville High, school to many students here in the small, yet also extremely bizarre town go to school here to tell you that something mysterious yet again from this town has crashed in this school and lay wreckage to it, just moments after the successful and rich, Joseph O' Connor's arrest, despite his catatonic state to which medical staff are still trying to figure out how he came to be this way."
The nurse switched off the TV at the sound of her pager, although it really didn't matter, since Daniel had heard enough to know that something was going on, something worth checking out.
"I am very sorry, but I must go," she apologised to them. "If you need anything… Ian, then contact me or a doctor, I must go now."
Ian nodded and the nurse exited out of the room, leaving Daniel and him by themselves.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't tell you, believe me, I wish I could, but I wanted to keep you and everyone else save from the threats I encounter," Daniel apologized in a guilty voice, but Ian waved it off with an understanding smile.
"It's okay, you have your reasons and by the sounds of it, you've been protect not only the ones you love and care about, but also innocent people as well."
Daniel grinned, got up from the chair and super sped out of the room and towards Smallville High as fast as he could, leaving Ian sitting there in his bed in amazement.
"Whoa."
Smallville High
Erin parked the Harley against the tree and silently walked up the stairs of the building that lead to the entrance doors; ready for anything that might try and attack her, but no-one and nothing.
So far, so good.
She opened one of the entrance doors and crept along the edges of the hallway, which brought back lots of memories in the process.
God, I miss this place. It's been a while.
However, this was not a time for reminiscing and she shook her head out of her thoughts as she sneakily continued to go down the hallway, where she noticed that the further down she went, the more the things like lockers, walls, banners etc were becoming more damaged, so she knew she was getting close to the source of all this.
"Easy there, Erin," she murmured as quietly as she could in case anyone heard her. "What would Smallville do in a situation like this?"
Erin continued to creep silently against the edges of the hallway, until she saw it; a locker that was, compared to everyone else's, was completely destroyed with pieces of metal and paper still scattered on the floor.
"Uh-oh, this isn't good."
She cautiously walked nearer to where Daniel's locker used to be and bent down, picking up the largest piece of metal that she could find and examined its edges carefully.
This was definitely destroyed with some energy-based attack, but there are loads of villains that use energy-based attacks, most of which Smallville hasn't even met yet. So who-?
Erin heard a noise behind her and spun around quickly in a fighting stance with her guard up as she scanned the area with her eyes for anyone nearby.
"Who's there?" she demanded, her voice echoing down the hallway.
No-one, or rather nothing replied.
"Who's there?" she repeated, her eyes narrowing.
Suddenly, Erin felt a whoosh of wind rush past her and pick her upside down by her ankle as she realized that she was now dangling from one of the staircase ledges as something held on her right angle tightly.
"Insolent human!" a deep robotic voice, Eradicator's, sneered coldly as it held her. "You shall die like the rest of your cruel, cold-hearted kind!"
"Put me down and we can talk about this, Eradicator!" Erin shouted, wiggling slightly under its tight grip, although she knew it was futile.
"The human thinks that she can escape me!" Eradicator smirked nastily. "This just shows how overconfident your species in thinking that you have even the slightest power compared to me, although I'm surprised that you know my title, but it does not matter for you are about to die like the rest your species will!"
Eradicator dropped her and *as she began to fall towards the floor, Daniel came super speeding in and caught her, placing her gently on the ground* and glared up menacingly at the 'thing' that dropped her from the staircase ledge, which now had no-one standing there anymore, so Daniel, still with his guard up, looked away and gazed down at the woman that was unconscious on the floor.
Daniel's P.O.V
I gazed down at the woman on the floor in curiosity. Who was she? The woman was beautiful, no doubt about it, although almost as beautiful as Rene, anyway, the woman had long, wavy dyed red hair that just went past her shoulders, bright electric blue eyes as I noticed when she was falling in slow motion, very pale skin and looked somewhat like a younger, Kari Byron from the show 'Mythbusters', only younger with a slender, yet more athletic-toned body-NOT that I looked or anything, but you couldn't deny it.
The peculiar thing was that she was wearing what looked like biker chick clothing that looked quite a bit big for her as if she stole it from a biker, but nonetheless I couldn't stop staring at her, even though I already had a girlfriend that I loved and shook my head frantically as I tried to shake off these thoughts and super sped towards the other end of the school, hoping that if I stayed away from the woman, the thoughts invading my head now would disappear, but they didn't, in fact it seemed that they had gotten stronger, which sort of seemed to be because when I did super sped away from her, I saw the hint of a small smile on the woman's lips.
Who was she?
Third Person P.O.V
Daniel arrived at the other end of the school and was about to further investigate the place, when he found his path blocked by what appeared to be someone called: 'Doctor Miller' from his ID card on his chest pocket.
"The 'Lost' son of Krypton," it said in a deep, robotic voice, which caused him to tense up at the title, for now he knew that this person, or 'thing' knew about him and probably knew his powers too. "We finally and physically meet at last."
This sentenced puzzled him.
"What do you mean physically meet?" Daniel asked, not taking his eyes off the 'person'.
"I existed in the crystals of power, waiting to escape and when you're friend damaged to Crystal of Water that had the transference mark upon it, I managed to begin my escape from it and I succeed once all three of the crystals were combined together to make the Fortress of Solitude," Eradicator explained. "And now you must join me, so that we can take this world as our own and purify it from the humans."
"No," Daniel said simply, which for a second, visibly shocked it, until it regained its calm composure. "I won't claim the Earth. This is my home."
Eradicator glared at him with upmost loathing and disappointment and said, realizing that Daniel was set on his decision:
"Very well, then."
Eradicator super sped into Daniel, grabbing him by the collar.
"Let me go!" Daniel yelled.
"You chose this path, 'Dux-El'," it said coldly and raised one of his fists to uppercut him.
*The fist hit Daniel hard on the chin, causing his skin to ripple like water in a puddle and then hurl him through the ceiling and high into the sky*
"Argh!" Daniel screamed in pain and then began to panic, although not because he was quickly falling back down again, it was because Eradicator was flying up towards him at high speeds.
Think, Daniel. Think!
He dodged the Eradicator's attempt to super punch him from above and then moved out of the way yet of another of its attacks as it used his both his hands together and swung his arms downwards where Daniel was a moment ago, if he hadn't have moved away in time and grabbed the Eradicator in a tight bear hug as both of the slowly started to fall back to the ground again.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?" Daniel yelled as the wind rushed past them and Eradicator struggled to get free from his grip. "ANSWER ME!"
"Not yet, Dux-EL," it told him in its usual calm, deep and robotic voice. "Not yet, but soon enough you will understand. EVERYONE will understand."
Just then, Eradicator broke free from his grip and at incredible speeds that were definetly faster than the speed of sound, flew out of their to somewhere unknown and left Daniel plummeting towards the football pitch.
This is just great.
With a loud 'BOOM', Daniel smashed into near the center of the football pitch, leaving quite a big impact hole and a lot of brown dust behind, which made him cough a bit as he stood up and dusted himself off.
"Oops," Daniel said, surveying the impact hole he just made. "I think it's my time to go now."
He super sped out of the football pitch and was about to go back to his house, when he remembered that he had someone special to see first.
Rene's House
Daniel arrived on the front porch of his girlfriend's home and gently knocked on the door to which was immediately opened as Rene, who was in her cream silk pyjamas and violet fluffy slippers, embraced him in a huge hug.
"I was so worried about you! Where have you been? Lorraine said you disappeared after Joseph became catatonic, so I thought-" she rambled, but was cut off when Daniel gave her a hot steamy kiss.
"I'm okay, Rene, I'm fine," he hesitantly lied to her, once they broke from the kiss. "Are you okay?"
Rene nodded and both of them stood there holding each other's hands in happiness that both of them were unhurt and okay.
Smallville High
"Ouch, would you like at that?" the Sherriff remarked with a wince as he and his new partner, Charice, who was African-American, surveyed the heavily damaged school from afar. "Have you found anyone inside yet?"
"No, sir," she replied. "No-one at all."
Unbeknownst to them, Erin snuck past them and got on her Harley and rode off for the time being, until it was time to reappear and give help to Daniel when he needed it, despite the fact that to him, she was a complete stranger… for now at least.
A/N: That's episode one of season two completed. If you liked it, don't forget to review. If you didn't… don't forget to review XD No, seriously though, please review, it would help a lot and it keeps my writing :D Until next time, bye!