Smallville: Days of Future Past
(Smallville is ©2001-2011 The CW Network & DC Comics. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are ©2001-2011 The CW Network & DC Comics.)
Chapter I: The Future
Metropolis, Kansas: Snow fell on the ground on a cold January day in the year 2311. The city had been "Futurized" well beyond what the city looked like in 2010. Light flared near The Daily Planet building that was now used as an archive center for all news media of the past. The person rolled into some nearby trash. The young man rose up. He was Superman, dressed in his costume. He very quickly switched to more civilian clothes and began to walk into the late night. He glanced around seeing cars that could fly. He then saw a visual scanner that would give him the news of the day.
"Lionel Luthor to run for President a 5th time" read on the front page of the digital view. He scanned the face of the picture which was almost exactly a duplicate of his former friend Lex Luthor. He smiled sadly and walked up to The Daily Planet. He entered the building passing by news reporters who now used the building to correlate the news of the current day with the news of the past.
"Hi!" He said to a young woman who was using a computer to do a follow-up to the story Clark just saw.
"Yeah?" Brandi Thompson asked as she glanced up. She eyed him.
"Can you tell me where I am and what year is it?" He asked casually.
"What planet are you from friend? It's January 23rd, 2311 and you're in Metropolis. Who are you?" Brandi asked.
"Clark Kent. I don't understand how I came here. And how is Lionel Luthor still alive?" Clark said. He saw the girl type in his name into the Database, but nothing came up.
"How odd. Your name doesn't come up in our public database. Lionel Luthor IV has been our President for years. The Luthor family has been ruling the US for almost 300 years. There was no one to stop him. A good most of us wish someone had," She said.
"Is there anything about a Meteor Shower that happened in the year 1989?" Clark asked.
"Computer, access database for the year 1989. Search Metropolis, Kansas and surrounding areas," Brandi said. The computer did a really fast scan of the vast database and came up empty.
"I'm sorry, Clark. But I find nothing. Do you have anything to back up your claim?" She asked. Clark pulled out his Kansas Driver's License. She imputed his information into the database but again it came up empty except for the location of the Kent farm.
"Well, we know where you live. Graham Kent lives there now. He's had the farm for the last few years. Knight Enterprises bought the farm some 300-odd years ago by some so-called Superhero who called herself The Hybrid and that allowed the Kent family to buy the family farm that had been in the Kent Family since Hiram Kent had bought the farm in the 1940's in the middle 20th Century," Brandi said.
"Computer, give me information on Trinity Jean Knight," Clark said. A few seconds later, Trinity's picture came up along side a picture of a meteor shower that hit Smallville in 1989.
"How did you know to look for her or who she is?" Brandi asked. She eyed the article of the Meteor Shower with interest.
"She's my sister. Her Father is my father from Krypton, but her mother was the wife of Wilton Knight, CEO of Knight Industries. She has all of my powers, and none of my weaknesses," Clark said.
"Our Scientists just discovered Dr. Swann's work which included his discovery of a planet that was destroyed by some unknown cataclysm. The message that was sent to follow your ship detailed the name of the planet as Krypton. President Luthor has tried to hide this information. Our computers can detect who locked out this information. Computer, give me the last known historian," Brandi said. She then stared in shock to see Trinity's own name listed, and the name Kal-El as the code that locked out the information.
"I found some other interesting information on the Knight family history in correlation to the Luthors. It seems one Tess Mercer was the primary programmer of The KARR Project. It would seem she was the technician responsible for the vehicle's reprogramming," Mike Miles said, who was fast-checking the Knight family history.
"According to my sister the Technician was working under LuthorCorp under another identity. Lionel didn't want his daughter being discovered just as Trinity didn't want to be discovered either," Clark said.
"We need to find out why this information was hidden from the archives," Brandi said.
"I've got to send a message to Trinity into the past and the only way to do that is for me to go to the Fortress. Is there anything I need to be aware of?" Clark asked.
"Yeah. Beware of Ultraman. That's a son that Lionel supposedly had, but Knight Enterprises scientists discovered he's a clone. Surprisingly, He looks like you," Brandi said. She then removed his glasses and glanced at him then kissed him.
"I've got to go," He said removing his shirt to reveal the Superman logo, The House of El symbol underneath and he used his super speed to change from his civilian clothes to his Costume.
"Be careful, Clark," She said. He nodded then took off, flying north.
2011-Foundation For Law And Government Headquarters-New Orleans branch-Trinity stared as Tess Mercer, the new Watchtower Operative had LuthorCorp techs scanning both KITT and KARR after the recent battle with General & Major Zod.
"You know the only reason why I'm allowing this is because I've got controlling interest in LuthorCorp along with Oliver Queen," Trinity said.
"Believe you me, Trinity I know this car's design better than you and Michael who rebuilt KARR. What inspired you to do it anyway," Tess asked.
"I was KARR's only friend that he had before he was miss programmed by a Technician who had invited her boyfriend and had sex in the vehicle. Dr. Alicia Garrison was fired by my father after the junior tech was fired and my father quit working on the project and he terminated the deal he made with Lionel Luthor. Somehow Lionel stole the plans for KARR and made a duplicate in 2002 of KITT. I wonder how he got my father's plans," Trinity said wondering mostly to herself.
"Lionel didn't steal the plans. Both he and Wilton had drawn up plans of the Vehicle and Lionel had KITT built because he didn't want The Foundation discovering his genetics program that he was running in 2001," Tess said after a minute.
"How would you know, Tess?" Trinity said. KITT spoke up.
"Because Miss Mercer is the daughter of Lionel Luthor and a woman before Lionel married Lillian Luthor, the mother to Alexander Luthor," KITT said matter-of-factly.
"So what your saying is that Tess Mercer is really a Luthor?" Trinity said staring at the woman disgustedly. KARR spoke up.
"Yes, That is What KITT is saying. I ran a DNA scan of Miss Mercer and it appears she bears the unique markers belonging to Lionel Luthor. Does Lionel Know this information or did He know?" KARR asked. Tess shook her head.
"And Neither did Lex either. Just as you were hidden from your father, I voluntarily hid myself from the Luthor Legacy and hid myself so well that when Lionel hired me to work on The KARR project with your father He didn't know who I was. I had used a variety of identities to conceal myself," Tess said. Suddenly an alarm rang in the building and a Computer linked to Watchtower came up.
"What is it?" Tess said as she saw Kryptonian hieroglyphics come up on the screen. She couldn't read the writing even though she had been aware that Lionel had been Jor-El's Oracle for years.
"My Brother. Clark sent this via the Fortress. He's trapped some 300 years in the future and he wants me to go to The Fortress and access the Time displacement system that Jor-El built into the Fortress and go back in time and discover why the Meteor Shower was hidden from the historical database. He wants also to discover if there were any secret cloning chambers Lionel or Lex had built. There's a Lionel Luthor running for President and someone code-named Ultraman running around who looks like him," Trinity said as she brought up the message.
"You deal with the whole time displacement and I'll discover what else my father or brother has hidden in the Luthor history or Legacy," Tess said. Both women nodded at each other, knowing that for them to discover the past would lead them to their ultimate family's future….
To Be Continued…