05/08/14

For the ClarkxBrainy club on deviantart Month long Weekly Challenge. This week's theme: Crossover.

I just watched the Iron Giant the the Giant's affection for Superman and wanting to be like him reminded me of Brainy and I thought he would identify with the Giant. I considered having a story where Brainy watched the movie but it seemed a little boring so I inserted the characters into the Iron Giant's storyline. If you haven't seen the movie I HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend it.

Enjoy.

The Iron Brainiac

Chapter 1

Clark Kent, a sort of native of Smallville Kansas, moved to Rockwell, Maine with his family when their farm was hit by a tornado. Pa tried to joke about almost being swept away to Oz but Ma didn't find it funny and Clark thought Oz would be preferable to Rockwell. At least Oz would be exciting and he would have lots of stories to tell his best friends Chloe and Pete when he returned, if he returned since the insurance was trying to cheat his folks out of their settlement and it could be years if they ever saw a penny, let alone rebuild the farm.

For now the Kents lived on a small farm owned by a family friend whom had given up farm life but still felt attached to the place who grew up in so he had been unable to sell it, renting it to the Kents for much lower rate than such a property would normally be at. As Pa worked at neighboring farms, Ma got a job at one of the local diners and Clark was forced to return to high school where he again became a target of the jocks for his glasses and his perceived meekness.

Oddly enough Rockwell, though about the same size of Smallville, had a lot more aliens at it. The first one he saw, from a distance, was Tinya Wazzo, the daughter of the town's mayor, from the planet Bgztl which allowed her to phase through solid objects, something that seemed to come in handy in crowded school hallways and whenever she was running late. She seemed to have a spunky personality, teasing her boyfriend in a affectionate manner and often sarcastic. Tinya's boyfriend, Brin Londo, was from Zuun but he looked like some sort of timber wolf hybrid. There were rumors that Brin's father, a scientist, experimented on him, which gave him those lupine features along with his increased strength, agility, and sense of smell, among other things. For someone so fierce looking, Brin was definitely one of the nicer students at Rockwell High, making the jocks back off of Clark when he witnessed the harassment and showing Clark around after, even introducing him to Tinya and the rest of their friends.

Among the friends was Chuck Taine, a optimistic boy who loved comic books and horror movies and was an Earth native, fully human, but had accidentally drank a super plastic formula which gave him the power to inflate like a ball and bounce. He was saying how he saw a meteor crash land on Earth and then a giant he mistook for the lighthouse when Luornu Durgo, his girlfriend, rolled her eyes and introduce herself. Luornu was from Cargg, so she could split into three identical bodies and each seemed to have its own personality. The one with orange hair loved gossip and excitement. Luornu with purple hair was more serious and responsible, doing their homework at the cafeteria table instead of eating. And the Luornu with white hair was the sweet, encouraging one whom seemed to adore Chuck the most out of the three.

Then there was Garth and Ayla Rannz from Winath, a world where nearly everyone was born a twin such as these two were. Normally Garth and Aya wouldn't have powers but when they were younger they were attacked by a lightning beast, along with their older brother Mekt, a rare single birth, and each ended up with the ability to generate electricity. Their parents still worked on a farm on Winath but they came to Earth with their brother Mekt, who owned and operated a scrap yard, often leaving Garth in charge when he had to make trips to pick up or deliver scrap. Aya also used some of the scrap to make art sculptures and insisted Garth helped her when he didn't feel too cool to do "arts and crafts".

Last of all there was Imra Ardeen, whom Clark regretted meeting at first. She was a strong telepath from Titan, whom initially came to Earth to join the Science Police but left when she was biased against for her powers. She was definitely kind but wouldn't take things laying down, especially not from Garth, but Clark knew she had discovered his secret when she gave him a knowing smile.

Like the others, Clark was an alien but, unlike the others, he was desperately trying to blend in as human. He crashed landed on Earth as a baby, the last known member of an extinct race called Kryptonians. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but Krypton exploded in the 21st century and Clark somehow landed on Earth, still an infant, in the 31st century and Kryptonians were considered highly dangerous and Clark's folks feared that if Clark was discovered he would be hunted down, arrested or banished from Earth to a red sun planet where Clark's powers would be extinguished.

Despite all of that Clark couldn't stand by when people around him were in danger. He had many close calls stopping run away buses and putting out fires. Eventually Ma made Clark a suit to hide his identity, allowing Clark to rescue people more openly and people started to call him Superman, creating comic books and cartoons about him, trying to figure out his story since Clark, or rather Superman, wasn't sharing a whole lot.

Years of hiding and it was all blown away within five seconds of meeting a telepath. Clark made an excuse and left the cafeteria, thinking maybe if he ran back to the farm and packed up his family's things, maybe they could run for it before Imra could tell anyone.

But Imra caught up to Clark and assured him that his secret was safe with her, she wouldn't even tell the others if Clark didn't want her to. She smiled and told him that she thought what he was doing was amazing.

After that Clark often turned to Imra when he needed someone to talk to and they became good friends. Garth liked to give Clark a hard time about it but Clark didn't really care though it was embarrassing when he introduced Imra to his folks and they thought Clark and Imra were dating. It was worse when the Kents were all but physically pushing Clark and Imra towards each other, even renting one of the two spare bedrooms to Imra when the lease of her apartment was up. Luckily after seeing them living together, the Kents realized Clark and Imra were more like brother and sister then potential boyfriend and girlfriend. Now if only Garth could see that.

During the days that this was happening Chuck talked a lot about the meteor he saw and the strange happenings going around town. Metal was disappearing, even big bite like chunks out of tractors and satellite dishes. He insisted that something was going on and that his father had even called the government to come check it out.

Clark hoped that the government being around, if they even came to Rockwell on such an odd tip, wouldn't lead them snooping around Clark or the farm but Imra assured him that she would do her best to help keep his secret. If worse came to worse she could always make them forget what they found.

This made Clark feel better and it freed up his mind to wonder exactly what Chuck saw fall from the sky.