Smallville
Summary: An AU fanfic. October 1989 – A meteor shower hits the town of Smallville Kansas, bringing about chaos and destruction for its citizens while also bringing to the world two orphaned children of a now dead planet light years away. Present Day – Clark Kent and his twin sister Lara are two teenagers just trying to get through high school and live a normal life, while having amazing abilities that will set them apart from everyone else for the rest of their lives.
October 1989Numerous pieces of space rock ranging in various sizes and forms tumbled through space at a high velocity while hidden amongst them was a rather peculiar shaped piece that was not tumbling about, but was set straight of a predestined course. The rain storm of space rock crossed over the moon and continued on towards the third rock from the sun – Earth. Down on Earth, more precisely in the town of Smallville in the state of Kansas, one would find upon entering its city limits the wooden welcome sing painted in bold and bright colors with the usual greetings that most cities have – WELCOME TO SMALLVILLE KANSAS THE CREAM CORN CAPITAL OF THE WORLD POP. 25,001. A picture of two ears of corn was pictured amongst the words. A shadow passed over the sign and then continued over a huge field of corn as it continued on towards Smallville itself. The shadow belonged to a private helicopter belonging to Luthor Corp's Lionel Luthor, who was inside the helicopter reading a copy of the Daily Planet. Along with him was his only son and heir to Luthor Corp. The boy had curly red hair, and for the moment the color of his eyes was indiscernible as he had them closed shut and tight. Lionel Luthor had been reading his paper for most of the ride until that is, he glanced over at his son and took notice of his closed eyes.
Closing his paper and folding into his lap, Lionel mumbled to himself. "This has got to stop. Open your eyes Lex." Lionel near demanded.
"I can't." Lex replied while keeping his eyes shut the whole time. He had a fear of flying.
"Luthors are not afraid. We don't have that luxury. We're leaders." Lionel stated while then leaning over to his son, who still had his eyes closed no matter what was going to be said to him. "You have a destiny, Lex. You're never going to get anywhere with your eyes closed."
The helicopter continued on towards its own destination while Lex kept his eyes shut the entire time.
In the downtown area of Smallville, at a local flower shop, a little girl of three-years-old with big bright green eyes dressed in a princess costume with wings attached sat on a metal garden chair before a flat water fountain with several ceramic frogs spitting out the small streams of water into a gravel bed. She waved a plastic wand tipped with a beaded star pattern over the fountain frogs repeating the word "Abracadabra" over and over a few times. The door to the flower shop opened suddenly, a small bell being rattled overhead to herald the entrance of someone's entrance to the small store packed with various varieties of flowers. A couple walked in together, the man looked over towards the front counter where a woman dressed in a dressy shirt with leopard print had her back turned to them as she was busy with something. "Afternoon Nell." The man greeted before looking in through the glass door to a large fridge holding flowers within a cooler environment.
The woman turned around and smiled broadly at the man who had greeted her. "Jonathan." The woman who was with him turned to face her from staring into the contents of the fridge and smiled over at her. "Martha. What a surprise." She stated, her face dropping a bit and her tone of voice sounding a bit disheartened for some reason or other. She set aside a few papers she had been working on and reached back to smaller portion of the wrap around counter to retrieve a pen she had forgotten to take with her when she turned about. "What brings the reclusive Kents to town?" she asked while still holding a smile to her face.
Martha headed over to the front counter at the question of their being there. "Tulips. Red ones, if you have them." She stated while coming to a stop at the counter and placing her hands on the lip, a smile on her face.
"What about a tiger orchid?" Nell asked while taking a step back gesturing towards the white cylinder container containing a large bunch of the flowers that she was referring to.
Jonathan walked over to the counter to stand beside Martha. "No thanks. Martha has her heart set on tulips." He stated while placing an arm around his wife's shoulder, which in turn had Nell nodding as she stepped out from behind the counter.
"Yes well, they are a very uncomplicated flower." Nell said while heading off to gather up the asked for arrangement that Martha requested.
As Nell went for the flowers, Martha took notice of the little girl sitting at the fountain waving her wand over the ceramic frogs and saying the one magic word that was always used when it came the terms of magic use. Martha crouched down beside the little girl, an even larger smile on her face. "That is a pretty dress, Lana. Are you a princess?" she asked, the little girl's attention was now on Martha with a toothy grin.
"I'm a fairy princess." Lana corrected with a grin and a happy tone to her voice as she spoke.
Jonathan had also come around the corner of the counter and smiled as he watched his wife interact with the little Lana Lang. "Hey, where are her parents?" Jonathan asked while looking over his shoulder at Nell as she was bringing the red tulips back to the counter.
Nell smiled over at the little Lana before answering Jonathan Kent's question. "Oh, they're at the homecoming game with everyone else." She answered while looking over at Jonathan a laughing as she spoke. "I'm being the good aunt." She stated while taking the tulips over to the counter to be rung up.
"What to make a wish?" Lana asked of Martha with that same smile still on her small face that seemed to beam with an inner light if that was even possible.
Martha grinned happily at Lana's question. "I would love to make a wish." She replied to which Lana only reached her wand out towards her.
"Okay. Abracadabra." Lana recited and then placed the star shape to Martha's forehead, to which Martha tilted her head slightly in response.
After paying for the bunch of tulips, the Kents said their good-byes to Nell and Lana before heading out and finishing the rest of their errands in town. While Jonathan went to pick up a few bags of feed, Martha went to wait in the truck. Martha Kent stared out the rolled down window with a look of day dreaming written across her face as she waited for her husband. Before long Jonathan returned to the red pickup truck and placed several small bags of feed into the bed of the truck before going to the driver side door and got in. Martha looked back over her shoulder in response to the door opening and smiled over at her husband before her attention returned out the window. Jonathan got inside the cab of the truck and shut the door as he scooted over to his wife's side and leaned against her.
"I know what you wished for." He stated with a smile in voice and on his face while staring at her in a loving manner.
"I see a little face. It's all I ever wanted." She replied while then feeling her husband's hand come to rest on her shoulder. Turning she smiled at him as he leaned forward and placed a kiss upon her lips to which she returned with her own.
A sudden cheer started up around them outside the car along with car horns honking in repetition. Martha and Jonathan were startled a bit, but it dawned on them as to what was going on with so many people starting come down the sidewalks wearing yellow and red while waving either pom-poms, flags, and even banners while clapping, cheering, whistling, or of course honking the horns of cars. Jonathan scooted back over to his side of the car and looked out of the rolled down truck window. Cars were coming down the street with teens and adults waving school colors and cheering all the same with horns of the cars honking every once in a while. Martha smiled and laughed a bit as she scooted near Jonathan to look out the window as well.
"Hey, looks like Smallville won again." Jonathan commented while starting up the engine and pulled out away from the curb he had parked alongside and entered the line of cars passing through the downtown streets of Smallville.
While festivities and celebrating continued due to the win of the homecoming game on Smallville High's own turf, in space the rain of space rocks were finally entering the atmosphere of the Earth along with the oddly shaped piece that continued on in a straight line of sorts. All the rocks and this oddity started to generate flames about their bodies as they streaked through the atmosphere at incredible speeds. The rocks began to slightly burn up in the atmosphere, but this oddly shaped piece that was strangely made out a metal element and did not burn with the flames surrounding like the rocks.
A crow cocked its head to the side as it stared at something, only have a rock thrown at the wooden fence post it perched itself upon and then gave a shrill caw before flying away. Lex stared after it as he had been the one to throw the rock in the first place. "Lex? Son?" Lionel's voice called the boy's attention back around for a moment. After seeing that Lex was not getting himself into any trouble, Lionel turned back to the two men he was standing with at the front of a pickup truck. "Now where do I sign?" he asked while looking over a few documents while holding a pen in hand.
"Right here, Mr. Luthor." One of them stated while pointing to the indicated line for a signature.
While his father's attention was elsewhere, Lex just shook his curly red head and then decided he had had enough of this boring matter and slipped through the spaces between the wooden rail fencing used to separate the cream corn plant his father was buying from the large ocean of cornstalks on the other side. Entering the cornfield, Lex started to walk aimlessly around, all sight of him being lost within the sea of green. After a few minutes of walking around, Lex stopped and started to look about himself realizing the obvious…he was a bit lost. Sighing to himself, Lex tried to remember which way it was that he had come from when suddenly something startled him. It was a voice. A voice asking for help. Again it begged for help, and this sent Lex running into any direction he was currently facing. As he ran through stalks of corn, Lex started to become short of breath as he had asthma, a bad case of it at that. Pulling his inhaler from the pocket of his school uniform's jacket, Lex went to place the spout in his mouth, but managed to instead trip up and land face first in the soil beneath him, loosing grip on his inhaler. Coughing and sputtering to free his mouth of dirt while grabbing his inhaler off the ground and sitting up to scoot backwards, Lex leaned back against a wooden post and tried to relax.
"Hey, kid."
Lex looked up to see a pair of dirty feet and then continued his gaze upwards to stare at the face of a rather skinny young man who's chest bore a quickly painted on red S. The guy was tied up like a scarecrow. Getting up on his feet, Lex stepped backwards a few steps and continued to stare up at the young man.
"Help me." He pleaded in a quiet voice. "Help me, please."
Behind him, Lex could see a long dark streak pass through the sky, it looked like a black cloud something trailed after catching fire and plummeting to the Earth. Whatever it was passed overhead to slam right into the cornfield a bit further behind Lex. Turning to watch, Lex next saw a huge wall of dirt come rushing through the cornfield right for where he and other boy were at. A sense of panic over took Lex and immediately he turned on his heel and bolted to escape the on coming wall that roared up right behind him. Without a second warning Lex was overtaken by the wall of dirt and various other pieces of debris.
In town, people were staring up at the sky where a thick column of black smoke had passed over and still remained. As they vacated cars and stores to stare up at the sky in wonder they murmured amongst themselves. A few wondered if maybe an Air Force plane had been downed by the way the black smoke lingered in its column plummeting downwards from the sky. Even Nell came out from her flower shop with little Lana in her arms to see what everyone's attention. Staring up at the sky she too could only gawk for the time being. On the other side of the street, a car had parked itself alongside the curb and the man and woman inside got out. The woman caught sight of Nell and Lana, her face breaking into a beautiful smile as she waved.
"Hi Lana." She called out and grabbed the little girl's attention.
Lana looked over and grinned from ear to ear while holding on to her Aunt Nell's neck. "Mommy! Daddy!"
Lana's father smiled over at her, but his attention went up into the sky along with his wife's to stare at the angled column of black smoke. Nell looked over and noted the fact that her sister and brother-in-law had arrived, but when she saw that Lana's father had turned his attention towards the sky, she did the same. Just as she was looking back into the sky, everyone spotted a flaming meteor come streaking out of the sky and straight for the streets below. Without any warning, the meteor struck the parked car the Langs stood beside. Upon impact with the vehicle, an explosion erupted and consumed the car and the couple in a massive ball of flame. Debris from the explosion flew out in various directions along with a massive gust of wind that blew dirt everywhere. Nell held Lana against her and dove for cover immediately as soon as the explosion had taken place killing her sister and brother-in-law. People screamed and ran for cover as the fireball that had been a car bounced high in the air and then back down to land in the middle of the street burning continuously and extremely hot. More meteors were headed down from the skies towards Smallville. One struck the water tower and exploded, while yet another crashed through the tower front of a building to come out the other side and hit a parked truck. Other cars exploded as more meteors rained down upon the streets, sending the citizens of the small community to run for cover.
Amidst all this chaos, Nell had managed to keep Lana safe and was now sitting up with the crying three-year-old in her arms now orphaned.
The meteor shower had not been limited to just the downtown area of Smallville and its outer fringe of course. Once the shower had ended, and it was somewhat safe, Lionel ran out into the cornfield calling for his missing son. "Lex! Lex! Where are you!" he cried out in a sort of panic as he picked his way through a few cornrows
After coming to a stop upon entering the field, Lionel stared out at the entirely flattened field of corn. The stalks had all been flown over to lay flat against the ground while others had been ripped up after the impact of the meteor sent out a gust of wind and dirt all across the area like a rippling effect on the surface of a pond when a stone had been dropped in at it middle. Scanning the area quickly first, Lionel could see no sight of his son off hand. But his attention somehow went down to his feet where near his left foot sat a lock of curly red…hair.
Crouching down, an empty unsettling feeling came over the wealthy CEO of Luthor Corp as he picked up the lock of hair and studied it for a moment. He knew it to be his son's as he fingered it for a few seconds before realizing that maybe Lex was nearby. Looking up he again quickly scanned the area. His gaze fell upon something that was not flat like the rest of the field had become. Getting up, he ran over to little mound of cornstalks. Reaching it, he immediately scooped away the green stalks that covered his son. Only Lionel found to both his relief and horror that his son was alive and well, trembling, whimpering, and without any trace of her red hair upon his head. But he was alive
Along the road out of town, the Kent's red pickup was traveling along a peaceful speed when from behind it a meteor shower came flying down out of the sky to crash into the cornfield along the roadside. The sudden explosion of the impact caught the couple off guard and startled them. Another meteor came down and crashed into the welcome sign, which burst into tiny pieces upon impact under the force of the meteor's fall. Martha turned about in her seat and stared out the back window to see what had happened. "What's happening Jonathan?" she asked while looking over at her husband who had also turned to see what had happened.
As their attention was off the road before them but behind them, the Kents didn't notice the odd shaped metal meteor slamming into the road ahead of them and sliding across the surface turning the asphalt into finely crushed gravel. A billowing trail of smoke arose from this odd collision. Jonathan turned about and stared at the billowing smoke cloud coming up off the road and slammed down on the brakes, only to have the pickup slid into the smoke and disappear from sight. However, in the next moment, the sounds of a car crashing came from within the smoke. The red pickup truck had been flipped upside down in a carved out trench that a meteor strike had caused, and both Martha and Jonathan were momentarily knocked unconscious.
Jonathan was the first to start coming around and for a moment figured that his ears were playing tricks on him at first from having been in a car accident. He distinctly heard the sounds of approaching footsteps, but that didn't seem as though could be true until he looked out the window. Blinking a few times just make sure he was seeing this right, Jonathan watched as two pairs of tiny feet walked side by side towards the over turned truck. The feet stopped just before the window and remained stationery. For a moment Jonathan wasn't sure what to think about this. "Martha?" he called his wife's name, as she was just starting to come around as well.
Both husband and wife stared out the window at the two pairs of feet, because at that moment the little faces belonging to those feet crouched down and peered into the cab of the truck with large smiles. Jonathan looked over at his wife who held the same look of confusion on her face as he did before looking back and continued to stare with his wife a sort of dumbfounded awe. Staring in at them, unclothed and completely naked, were a little boy and girl looking to be of same age and family by the looks of it as they had the same dark colored hair and bright blue eyes. The two children remained close to each other as they smiled at Martha and Jonathan, arms wrapped about their knees. Before long, the Kents had gotten themselves out of the over turned pickup and went immediately to check on these two children who stood up upon their arrival and held out their arms to them in a gesture to be picked up. Martha couldn't contain herself and was beaming brightly as she knelt down and embraced both children who went right to her. The two wrapped their arms about her neck on opposite sides and hugged her.
Jonathan crouched down next to his wife and these two children and smiled at them. "We better find them something to cover up with." He stated to his wife, who looked over at him with a bright smile and nodded.
"I think there's a blanket in the storage bin on the bed of the truck. But I think there's just one." Martha stated while looking back over her shoulder at the truck.
It took a while, but Jonathan managed to get under the gap between the ground and the bed of the over turned truck. Once under the truck bed, Jonathan got the storage bin pried open and most of its contents fell out along with the blanket that Martha had mentioned. Grabbing the blanket, Jonathan crawled back out from under the truck and handed the pale blue blanket over to his wife who wrapped the blanket about the little boy and then gathered him up in her arms. Seeing as how there was just that one blanket to spare, Jonathan removed his jacket and used it to cover up the little girl before taking her up in his arms as well. Both kids had wrapped their arms about the necks of Martha and Jonathan after being picked up and were smiling now at each other before looking up at the people holding them and still smiled. The little girl cuddled up against Jonathan and rested her head on his shoulder without any hesitation or second thought to who he was. Martha had to fight back tears that were starting to come over her at the sight of such a sweet thing. Jonathan had to swallow a bit hard as he looked over at his wife and smiled at her.
"Jonathan." Martha said her husband's name before pausing as she looked between the two children they were holding as she had just started to realize something about these two. "They look so much alike." She pointed out and then looked to her husband with a somewhat astonished look on her face. "They must be twins, or if not, of the same family."
Jonathan nodded in agreement to this while looking off down the newly cut ditch across the road. Smoke was steaming off the entire thing as if something extremely hot had cut through. The Kents started to make their way down the ditch, searching for signs as to where the two children had come from. Kicking aside a few strewn about charred branches, Jonathan continued down the ditch with Martha following. "Children just don't fall out of the sky Martha." He stated while continuing on.
"Then where did they come from?" she asked as they weren't seeing anything around to tell them the answer to this question.
Kicking another branch to the side Jonathan kept his hold on the little girl as a dip in the ground appeared before coming back to a level surface. "I don't know. But they must have parents." Jonathan stated while then stepping up a small rise to come to a stop after seeing something that didn't seem right at all. Embedded within the ground, buried half way, was the tail end of something large and metal-like and more than likely it was what had struck the road and carved out the ditch.
Martha came up beside him and stared down at the object as well. "Well if he does, they're definitely not from Kansas." She pointed out while studying the object for a moment before looking at the little boy she held in her arms and smiled at him sweetly. Her smile then turned to the little girl peering over at her and then reached a hand out to tickle her under the chin a bit.
Seeing that his wife was starting to grow attached to the two children already, Jonathan sighed and gave his wife a knowing look. "Sweetheart we can't keep them. What are we going to tell people? That we found them out in a field?" he asked.
"We didn't find them." Martha replied while looking over at her husband and giving a small smile before looking at the two children they held. "They found us."
