Smallville: Apocalypse Rising

Prologue
"Descent"

The shadows had claimed the entire basement of the Daily Planet. It was cloaked in the night's darkness. As the doors pushed apart, a figure began to emerge. A woman. She was tall, moving through the shadows fast. Reaching the only source of light in the room, her face was illuminated. Lois Lane. She approached her desk, taking a seat with an exhale of breath.

She was alone.

The entire room cleared out.

It was just what she needed after what had happened. After the Blur had pulled her into the shadows and exchanged the most passionate kiss she'd ever shared with someone. And as he pulled away, and disappeared into the night, she had realised who she was kissing. Clark Kent. Of all the people out there doning a suit and saving lives, Clark Kent, Smallville, he had to be one of them?

"I'm the last to know..." she sighed, eyes widening with discovery.

"And what might that be, Ms. Lane?" a voice asked from the distance.

Lois jumped in her seat. A shiver ran down her spine faster than she could turn around, and as she faced the voice that sprung from behind, she found herself gazing into the past. Lionel Luthor emerged from the darkness, approaching with a grin on his face.

Lois stood to her feet, backing away.

"What's the matter, Ms. Lane. You look like you've seen a ghost," he teased, approaching her.

"I don't know if I bumped my head out there, but last time I checked, you were dead," Lois replied, raising her hands as a means of telling him to back off.

"Well, thats not the warm welcome I was hoping for," he began, "but I guess it was expected."

"I want some answers," Lois demanded.

"All in good time."

Lionel reached into his jacket pocket, and pulled out a yellow folder, and held it out in front of him. Lois makes a short glance at it as he removes it from his jacket, before darting her eyes straight back to his crippling, frightening eyes.

"The next few months are going to quite a ride," he cunningly grinned, "and I don't think any of you are truly ready for what is on its way."

"On its way - what are you talking about?" she questioned.

"The apocalypse," he firmly responded, "the one I tried to warn you about before - well, before I met my demise by the hands of my own son."

"He pushed you out of the Luthorcorp building..." she caught on.

"Well I didn't exactly trip and fall," he mocked.

Lionel hands her the folder, and she willingly takes it.

"What's this?"

"It's what will lead you to the answers that you're looking for, Ms. Lane," he answered, before slowly stepping back into the shadows, "even the Blur can't stop this world from total annihilation."

Then suddenly, she found herself alone. Her eyes wonder, scanning the room as all signs of Lionel being here were now gone. She is suddenly distracted as a large, blinding yellow light flickers in the corner of her eye, out of the window. She races towards it, staring up as the sky cracks and tears apart.

"Oh my god."

(x)

Clark Kent stood as the Blur, facing his opponent, General Zod on the rooftop, in the dark city of Metropolis. Both powerless. Both no stronger than any other mortal. Clark knew what he had to do, how he was going to pull it off was another story. The others had ascended to their homeworld, a New Krypton. But with the blue Kryptonite dagger standing in their way, Clark had to remove it. He looked up with a sudden realisation of how this will all end.

The edge became closer to his feet, and he shuddered, holding the blue kryptonite dagger back as Zod struggled to plunge it forward.

"You destroyed my first home," Clark grunted, "I won't let you take this one."

Clark tugs on Zod's hand, bringing the dagger straight into his own gut. It lights up, reacting with his body. A sudden gasp escapes Clark, and he stumbles back, ready to fall to his doom. A smile forms on Zod's face.

This world will finally be mine, Zod thought to himself as he watched Clark fall back, off the edge.

But before he could express his victory, a consuming light emitted from the sky. He was overtaken by its force, and was sucked straight up into the night sky, that was torn apart by the exploding, yellow energy - all caused by the book of rao. It was the last thing Clark saw as he made his descent towards his own death.

A/N - This story takes place after season nine of smallville. I've been inspired by the season ten trailer that was released, and wanted to branch out into my own story from the "salvation" finale, and from what little we've seen of season ten. This prologue actually takes place after Lois found out the secret, from the kiss. Which is why the scene of Clark's death is shown again.