TITLE: Elseworlds-Power
AUTHOR: William Rayne
EMAIL: knytmare@yahoo.com
RATING: PG-13
SUMMARY: Clark found, taken in and raised by the Luthors. Clark misinterprets his destiny due to Lionel's influence which allows Lillian to have more influence on Lex. The 'brothers' still end up bitter enemies, but who is the lesser evil?
SPOILERS: revised Premier and "Metamorphosis"
PAIRING: none
DISTRIBUTION: FanFiction.net, email me
DISCLAIMER someone else owns 'em, I'm just taking them out to play. Don't sue me, I have no money
FEEDBACK: Desired like none other.
NOTES AND NEWS: Thanks to Deia for helping me with story development and being a "über beta queen and grammar Nazi." As always: bold is stressed, italics for thoughts or voice-over, and underlines for sarcasm or disgust. It occurred to me that if Lex is destined to become corrupt because of his father then how would Clark fair if he were found by Lionel. This AU is the story of Clark's rise as the anti-hero. I fade in and out of Lex's reflections in some of the chapters. This is a *huge* work in progress, so expect possible revisions. Sorry to those who read my "Crossroads" story, but I had trouble with the updater…hopefully I won't have future trouble. And is it just me or is the Author Alert notification email not coming to anyone else either?
Prologue
Gotham City, October 16, 2015
They say that your life flashes before you in the moments before death…what I didn't expect was for it to start with what happened five minutes ago. I guess I was expecting it to start from the beginning. Life tends to surprise you when you least suspect it, or so my mother use to tell me. I'd give my kingdom for her advice, right about now.
An alarm sounds in Lex's office, one that ironically sounds akin to the London alarms during WWII. It's come to this. I knew this day would come, thinks Lex as he rises from his office chair and grabs his cell phone. As he hurries towards the near-by bookshelf, the CB radio hisses, "Orders, Mr. Luthor?"
"Delaying pattern, fall back as necessary, auxiliary units on full alert. Radio silence after I sign off," Lex instructs as he pulls back a first edition of Huxley's Brave New World. The bookshelf slides to reveal a vault door, which Lex opens and enters.
"Yes sir," responds the voice on the other end as Lex pauses at the vault's threshold.
"Oh and William, tell the troops to pray to whatever gods they worship for mercy, we'll need every miracle we can get," Lex mournfully whispers as he shuts off the phone.
Sealing the door behind him, he can hear the muffled sounds of artillery. He strides towards the podium and taking the box, he waits.
Still has a penchant for drama as always, some things never change. Was it meant to end this way? I wish there was another way…