Superman: The Animated Series 'Fan Fiction Story'
By Tayla Drago
Note: Hi! Its me again, Tayla Drago – Anime lover and supporter of all voice actors who loves growing up watching the DC Animated Universe cartoons. Yep. For I'm doing a fan fiction story from the Superman one next, with some crossovers like the one in Batman, just because...It has action, fighting, friendship of a family, to love of course, and so on; although I had to put it on the comics of Superman and crossover with Batman just in case since its not on the cartoon thing. I don't know why either. Anyways, from my two OC characters from Helen Star who's a kind teenager who can fight to be more than human with some power she can absorb from her left arm for Jimmy Olsen has a thing for her; and Jake Star is Helen's little brother who's smart to have some magic in him to aid Clark Kent who's an alien to help Earth as the Superman to know about his secret since they live on their own from running away from an orphanage. And from there, its something else to enjoy. I hope you guys will like it.
Episode # 1 – The Last of Krypton
First off, lets see a flashback how it all started to begin with the story...On the distant planet of Krypton, Jor-El conducts research in the desolate northern region. He is suddenly attacked by a giant amoeba-like creature. He manages to escape the creature and returns to his mobile research platform.
"Welcome back Jor-El." said the co-worker. "How was it out there?"
And Jor-El's answer was this.
"Frostbite, monsters. Same old, same old."
While working, Brainiac, Krypton's omniscient central computer, appears on screen and demands for his collected data.
[Good afternoon, Jor-El.] spoke the computer Brainiac.
"Brainiac! What an unpleasant surprise." Jor-El angrily complies, but his bad mood is dispelled by the appearance of his infant son, Kal-El. His research complete, Jor-El heads home. "You know, Brainiac, somewhere in all those trillions of files clusters there's got to be one that says "people don't like to be spied on."
[Then why would they create me?]
Brainiac has a very good point there...
"A question I often ask myself." he said back.
Later, he goes over the data and it only supports his theory that Krypton is on the verge of destruction. His father-in-law, Sul-Van, warns him that his theory will only cause Jor-El to lose the respect of the scientific community, and the ruling council. Jor-El's only hope, Sul-Van warns, is that Brainiac will support his theory, or else his career will be over. As he says this, an earthquake rocks Krypton, worrying the populace. Jor-El reports his findings to Krypton's ruling council, insisting that the planet will explode soon. The council turns to Brainiac, who dismisses Jor-El's findings and explains that Krypton is only undergoing a temporary orbital shift. Jor-El warns the council that their blind dependence on the machine will doom them all, but the council is openly outraged when they hear his rescue plan: to send the entire population into the Phantom Zone—a penal dimension housing vicious criminals and creatures—and then release them on a different planet. In spite of Brainiac, Jor-El still believes he's right. He breaks into Brainiac's central unit and discovers that he is correct, and Brainiac knows it.
[Good evening, Jor-El.] said Brainiac. [You've been busy tonight. May I be of service?]
Jor-El will find the answers he needs to know that his creation was hiding something big.
"Just trying to find out why we disagree, Brainiac."
[Human error, I'm afraid.]
As if Jor-El would believe in Brainiac saying.
"Funny, I didn't think you were afraid of anything." he said.
Brainiac lied so that he could secretly download himself into a satellite and escape the planet's destruction, rather than be ordered to waste time preparing an evacuation plan. According to his programming, the survival of Krypton's knowledge is more important than that of its people. Jor-El is tempted to destroy him then and there, but Brainiac reminds him that if he goes, so does the planet's legacy.
[If the council knew the truth, they would put me to work on an evacuation plan, a futile gesture given the time remaining.]
"How long?" Jor-El asked.
[Hours...] said the machine itself. [This world has seen its last sunrise.]
Jor-El's hesitation allows Brainiac to summon a squad of security guards, advising them to use deadly force against him. He narrowly manages to evade them and returns home. At his home, Sul-Van has been reviewing Jor-El's research and found that it is actually quite sound. Unfortunately, it is too late, as Krypton will explode within hours. Jor-El quickly makes preparations for his back-up plan: to save his son, Kal-El, by sending him off in a small one-person spaceship he had earlier developed.
"Sleep, Kal-El, my beautiful child, my heartbeat, my life." said Lara-El.
Sul-Van is skeptical of this plan, but he ultimately agrees to distract the police while Jor-El and his wife, Lara, prepare the ship to launch.
"Good evening, officers. Is there a problem?"
Seeing Lara's grief over losing her only son, Jor-El offers to make some quick flight modifications so that she can be saved along with him. She refuses, saying that her place is with Jor-El. Kal-El's ship is launched and successfully lifts off. In another part of the atmosphere, Brainiac's satellite completes download and launches into space. As earthquakes rock the planet, and craters in the ground open, Jor-El and Lara hold each other and kiss. For everyone else to feel and see this, Sul-Van fears the worse to happen for real now.
"Not another one!" said one of the guards.
Yes, but it was ad for Sul-Van to say the bad news.
"No, the last one."
Behind Kal-El's ship, Krypton explodes. Kal-El's spaceship then opens a wormhole in space and enters, several chunks of Kryptonite entering into it as well. Sad, wasn't it? For this was only the beginning for Kal-El where he was going to next.
Kal-El's spaceship reaches Earth's solar system, and makes touchdown in Smallville, Kansas. The ship is quickly discovered by Martha and Jonathan Kent, who decide to adopt its passenger despite some reluctance from Jonathan.
"Put that thing back, you don't know where it came from." Jonathan said to his wife.
"He's not a thing, Jonathan, he's a baby." said the happy Martha. "A little baby. Who'd put a baby in a spaceship."
They were the first two to discover Kal-El, that's for sure.
"That's just my point. It could be Russian, a Sputnik maybe."
Not likely, Jonathan...
"Oh really." she said.
"Maybe he's one of ours. You think NASA is missing a kid?" he wonders.
Martha decides to name the infant foundling 'Clark', after her maiden name, and the trio heads for home. Several years later, Clark Kent is now a teenager attending Smallville High. He talks to his girlfriend, Lana Lang, and explains about how he has been developing some strange superhuman powers recently using examples such as hearing a conservation from a distance and seeing a teacher put up decorations for the school dance through a wall.
"You're saying you can see through walls?" Lana asks Clark. "So, how many times have you peeked into the girls locker-room?"
As he talks to Lana, a family driving an RV has a traffic accident and is trapped in a fire. Without thinking, Clark races to the accident scene and frees the family, easily tearing through metal and remaining completely unscathed by the flames. Clark is disturbed by these new powers and goes to talk them over with his parents. Deciding that he's old enough to know the truth, Jonathan tells him the full story of his adoption. Clark is taken down to the farm's basement, where he is shown the spaceship that he was found in as a baby. His Earth parents give him a holographic projector that activates when he touches it, showing him a holographic message from Jor-El and Lara. They tell him of his Kryptonian heritage as well as the powers he will gain from Earth's sun; they also warn him that his powers may bring fear and attempted destruction from others, but in spite of this, he should never use his powers in anger. This message, however, only serves to further alienate Clark, who runs off in anger and fear. However, he is able to cheer himself up after discovering his ability of flight. For him to go back to his adopted parent,s Clark was going to be just fine on what to do with his new found powers of his.
Several more years later, in Metropolis, there has been talk of a 'guardian angel' doing good deeds. In truth, Clark, now an adult, has been secretly using his superpowers to help people. At the same time, he is hired as a new reporter on the Daily Planet's city desk. He becomes acquainted with his editor, Perry White, as well as his coworkers Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen. Lois, to her displeasure, is assigned to show Clark around for a few days. Speaking of Clark Kent starting up at the Daily Planet in Metropolis...Another person helps out around the area, from some bank robbing to be going down to put a lot of lives in danger for three crooks try to steal some cash with guns out; only for someone to step up as a beautiful, tough fighter, kind hearted, and just a teenager in high school name Helen Star. Moving the gun away from one of the bad guys 'without him knowing it', it happened so fast!
"Huh?" he notices now. "Hey! Where's my gun?"
"What do you mean? Stupid, you're holding-!" he sees it gone missing. "What's the matter with you?"
Just then, another member gets beaten up, leaving the other two to see who it was as everyone's hero on the streets.
"Johnny! Who did this?" the criminal asked.
"Over here, boys."
Helen introduces herself to the last two for her to take out next. She looks like Hitomi 'a little' from Dead or Alive video game series, but much more cooler and more DCAU made up type of style in my version.
"A girl?" they were confused.
"Not just any girl..." Helen punches the gun wielder in the face to go down to the ground in seconds. "I'm the one who's gonna stop you losers for messing with my hometown!" From Helen stopping the other one, and the last to get away with the money to flee. Only for this girl to use a fruit to throw really well, hits the man on the head to slow down, and allowing Helen to use her karate moves to stop the last one afterwards to save the lives and get the money back for the police to arrive and arrests the bad men. "That's what you dorks get from robbing the place, seriously." she gives the cash back to the clerk. "Here you go, sir, I hope all of you will have a fine day after this mess. You're safe now."
From Helen paying her things to buy and a newspaper 'reading about a Blue Angel', she takes off for others to respect Helen's bravery to help them put for her to train as a fighter since she was eight to do well in high school.
"Thanks again, Helen, you're the best."
She's something else, you know? And get this – Helen does well at high school to work a little from the mini mat store to support her little brother Jake Star who's smart to reach from elementary school to middle school early close to her high school. For him to to have blue hair and can learn magic tricks 'with a special wand he had since he was born', the two live a good life as Jake saw the whole thing today to like the battles, but he sometimes worries about his older sister. But who were they parents? What happened to them? Why were those two live on their own?
"There you are, Helen." the little brother shows up. "I thought I find you hear again."
"Jake?" she sees him. "How many times did I tell you not to follow me when i have to stop a small crime? You could get hurt."
"I can fight once I learn how to control my magic wand."
Only to make some sparks come out, but that was it.
"The strange item you had since we left the orphanage? It'll never work other than you're trying to train for a kid's Birthday to do magic shows in the future."
As Helen plays around with the wand, Jake gets it back to let his sister know of being careful when stopping criminals and saving lives a lot.
"Come on. I mean, you have to be more careful, Helen, what if one day something bad would happen to make you lose it all?" he said. "I'm only saying this because we both decided to run away to live together to one day find our parents."
"And help everyone too, we talked about this already." Helen said back. "I do it because I care to raise money by taking karate classes, and I wasn't goofing off when I said I would take them and I did."
For Helen and Jake to argue sometimes, they mean well to still care about one another. However, things get worse when some cops walk over to Helen and Jake to know what that means to them...not good news. For they weren't just arresting the three bad guys, they wanted to help Helen and Jake find better homes to live together was hard enough for they were doing well to have this type of problem with no parents.
"Well, not when it comes from the police following us...because here they are."
Not good for Helen to keep Jake with her at all times.
"Ms. Star." spoke up one cop. "Please come with us, we need to talk about you caring for your younger brother."
"Please don't fight, come with us quietly."
Helen fears they were going to take Jake away from her after running away from the orphanage home with many reasons why...
"Hey! Leave us alone!" she was mad.
Things could've gone bad if Jake didn't stand up in time, which he did.
"Stop! We'll go. Sorry, police men." he said to say this to Helen. "Please, Helen, go easy. Maybe we can make a deal to still be together. Think about it."
And so, she does to go quietly for Jake to be care for from the cops to ask him some questions on his and Helen's daily lives living together was, and it was alright. With enough proof to go to court to fight for the right 'just in case', Helen wasn't in trouble but to proof that she was a good sister and guardian to work and have a good home for the judge to have something for her to do to make things more...adult supervision type of thing.
"Helen Star, you're standing in court today to discuss your...parenting and big sister responsibilities for your younger brother after fleeing the orphanage home to live together only. Not having parents, scared to trust in anyone, learning how to defend yourself, working hard, and having a nice apartment to live in; you should know by now that at the age of sixteen to have lots to do for a ten year old child can be hard. With no aunt, uncle, or other guardian can still be illegal to do. I show separate you two for better parents, however...from Mr. Star's interview and your records from school is doing well to be fully responsible enough to afford everything so far with a job too. Do you think you can still do so without running away?"
"I mean well, Your Honor, I never disobey the law." said Helen. "I only wish is for you to allow me to take care of Jake. He's the only one I have left in my family. We don't know who our real parents were and they could've been bad to leave us, so please let us stay together."
For everyone else in court to agree, so did Jake with his hand up.
"I second that too, sir!"
For the juries talk quietly to write something down to give to the judge, this was his final statement to help the two siblings out.
"Order!" he hits his gavel. "Very well, Ms. Star, I see its enough evidences for you two to stay. No more running away unless accompany by someone, or I will have no choice but the separate you two for good into better homes. For the jury has spoken: you are here by proven to keep your younger brother, if...you can work and still go to class carefully as a responsible per-adult guardian by working somewhere with more support for your apartment home. I here by having you Ms. Helen Star to work at the Metropolis' Daily Planet of newspapers first thing tomorrow at some regular timings, will be giving to you soon and this will allowing you get there however you wish. That is all. Court is adjourned!" the judge hits the gavel once more. "Are we clear, Ms. Star?"
Helen accepts the deal to prove a lot more to still keep Jake to be happy with it, and for Helen to take it or leave it to not go into different homes for them. Good!
"Yeah, I heard you the first time, Your Honor. And thank you."
"We did it, Helen!" Jake sounded happy. "Yeah!"
Well, we see where they were going to, for them to walk home together afterwards as Helen has a big day working at the Daily Planet tomorrow morning 'while going to school from time to time but Jake has to keep on going'. Meanwhile, Lois wastes no time trying to ditch him, but is surprised to find him already at work at the site of their first joint assignment: the unveiling of Lex Luthor's newest weapon: a powerful battle suit dubbed the Lexo-Skel Suit 5000: 'constructed by a patented alloy, and virtually indestructible', piloted by a single man, but with as much firepower as a battalion of troops. As both Jake and Helen sees this on their way back home, Helen really hate Luthor with many reasons, for Jake to learn a little about the rich greedy man...or what rumors had it to spread around from here to there sometimes.
"Oh, perfect...Not this guy again."
"I guess what you're getting at, Helen, really." Jake was smart enough to tell that his sister hated some people in the world. "For this Lex Luthor guy...For him to be so rich to make some things to help out others in Metropolis or the world, sounds serious. And yet, its hard to believe."
From the machine of his was cool, just not if it fell in the wrong hands.
"Its not that, Jake, it just...look at this guy!" said Helen. "Its the machines to be use by bad people. You see, from something to go this bad could be trouble to hurt others that needs more protection. Not from the cops and me, but like...Green Lantern, The Flash, Zatanna, maybe that Batman guy...You know, those people."
Helen then goes to the place to look angry for Jake to follow her.
"Ah, Helen, why are you going to that event show?" he asked.
"I'm going to give Lex a piece of my mind!"
"But you'll get in bigger trouble to get separated! Wait up!" Jake follows Helen. "Don't do this, please!"
However, during the ceremony, a group of mercenaries attacks and steals the Lexoskel. For Clark to hear it from a far to make his exit 'or saying that him hiding' somewhere quiet...
"Excuse me."
Same with Helen to hear it pretty well to be coming too. Huh? How's that possible? No really, how? Because I'm lost.
"Huh?" she hears it very clearly. "Jake, do you hear that?"
"What do you mean?" he then senses something. "Ah, well...I do sense something not friendly for what I'm getting at. Why?"
For Jake, he has some magic within him 'somehow' to feel things out. Soon enough, the group of terrorist blow up the building to cause some trouble. Everyone panics to running away as Helen pushes Jake out of danger in time.
"Get down!"
Now that was a close call for those two. Clark decides that it's time for his first public appearance and changes into his outfit. He saves Lois from being crushed and then attempts to pursue the mercenary group. That's right – here comes for this is a job for, you guessed it...Superman!
"No way..." surprised Lois. "The Blue Angel himself."
As Helen and Jake see who the Blue Angel was, it was the real type of man super hero to stop the bad guys for them to see in the air.
"Look, Helen, up the sky!" Jake points out. "Its a bird! Its a plane!"
"No, no, not ever close, Jake. Its a man with super powers of some kind!"
The two watch it all go down. As the mercenaries attack, but their weapons are ineffective against the hero. At first, it seems that Clark will save the suit, but the group's leader fires a missile that misses Clark but strikes a passenger jet, causing it to fall. For Jake and Helen knew what to call their new hero now.
"Its Superman!" they said it together.
Clark leaves the mercenaries and attempts to save the plane. At first, he only manages to damage the plane even further but finally manages to slow the its fall and gets it to land in a nearly empty Metropolis park. With such a display of power, there is no way for the hero to hide from the public. This looks bad! For Helen grabs Jake's hand 'to keep him close to her' as they follow the crash for Superman to try to save the many lives than stop the bad guys to make their get away, for the time being.
"This looks bad-!" Jake was getting pulled away. "Ah, Helen?!"
"Come on, Jake! This Superman...whatever might need our help!"
"Help?! But we don't have powers! You can fight in combat style only! Helen! Saying that isn't going to do you any good!" he said.
Like that'll stop Helen to protect the many lives in her home town, and for Jake wishes he could
use his wand to have magic powers to do something, he has been studying magic from a book, but no good lately.
"So what? I got to try, right?!" she said. "(We just got to do something! I have to!)"
Seeing Superman trying to grab on to the tail part of the plane, no luck to break. Heading down to the city, Superman grabs hold of it from the front this time to slowly it down all the way to the park. For Jake tries using his wand to stopping the plane, to make sparks at least to warn everyone to getting out of the area right away.
"Run, everyone! Get out of this area! Incoming plane crash! Hurry!"
It works in time, for Superman saved everyone on the plane and it lands safely to stop on ground after that, even for Helen to get the people to jump into the waters and out of their boat in time saved their lives.
"Nice one, Jake! I got these two!" she gets out of the water. "You're welcome."
And with that, Superman takes off in the skies to fly. Alright! For both Jake and Helen loved his work for saving the day somehow and for them to back him up a little, one of the machines crash down nearby for both Jake and Helen to see the machine that was made by...another Lex Corp thing? How odd.
"That was awesome seeing this Superman guy..." Jake spots it first. "Huh...?" he tells his sister about it to see. "Hey, Helen, look at this thing."
"Well, don't touch it." Helen then trips on a rock badly to been from her left arm to try stop it. "Ouch! That hurts...!" she then sees the logo of Luthor machine products to have a better look. "Lex Corp? What the heck? These are the plans and weaponry that the terrorists used while taking that machine, so why...? Do you know, Jake, because I don't. But you see where I'm getting at with Luthor's doing. I maybe on to something."
As Helen places her injured arm on the machine, something happens for Jake to notice...some weird chemical of liquid from the machine moves on its own to go within...Helen's blood from the open wound? Ew!
"Helen? Helen! There's something going into your arm!"
"What...? Ah!" it was too late to have it affected Helen's arm to have trouble stopping it. "(I can't get it out...its stuck!)" she screams in pain to passing out next to have Jake worried.
"Helen! Helen!"
Taking her to a hospital in time, it looks like something does happen to have Lois and Clark call them up to have Helen treated for her arm to heal soon enough in time to return home later that night. For her to be happy to hear it wasn't life threatening to make Jake feel better about it too. For Helen will get to working in a bit as soon as she heals up first. The next day after someone recorded Superman to be flying off to show at the Daily Planet, Perry White demands that his reporting staff find out who this man is, saying that the public is clamoring for information and is in a state of near-panic.
"Nice S." Lois sees the s symbol.
This gets Clark's attention quietly.
"Excuse me?"
Looking at video footage of the 'angel', Lois dubs him 'Superman' after the 'S' on his costume's chest. Clark is uncertain about maintaining a public image, but knows that if he keeps acting secretively, people will start to fear him.
"Does this mean I'll have to give up my life?" Clark question himself.
Not to his adopted human parents that Clark that doesn't have to.
"No, son." said Jonathan. "It doesn't matter where you were born or what you can do, you'll always be Clark Kent. Superman just helps out now and then."
Even Martha agrees with it to have another super hero in time.
"Still, it wouldn't be bad if people knew a little more about Superman. I don't want anyone thinking you're like that nut in Gotham City."
After a conversation with his parents, Clark decides to have a private interview with Lois to earn the people's trust.
The newly dubbed Superman takes Lois to a place where they can talk in private. He tells her of his Kryptonian background and that he's not here to scare anyone, only to help people. Lois is skeptical and wants to know his true identity. Superman refuses to tell her, but there is enough information to go public. Later that night, for Helen to try getting some sleep to have her arm healed, to get some fresh air from the apartment window that she and Jake were living in. As her little brother was sleeping well, Helen worries about them doing something and for Helen's arm to feel different hurting her so much; it gets worse to take over her body again, for one touch...makes her left arm turn into – glass! Freaking out to have it shattered 'thinking it was gone for good', she soon falls down from the balcony of her apartment and to her doom. Screaming, for Clark to hear it in time to still be Superman flies to her rescue in time from falling down.
"I got you!" he said to try to land safely and sees another problem. "Your arm!"
"Help! I don't know what's wrong with it! Its hurting me!"
Trying to think of of something, Superman quickly moves his hands fast to make his hands warm for moving so fast to grabbing hold of Helen's arm to stop hurting and cooling it off with water next to work. Nice one. This allowed her to patch it back up again to have more control now.
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah." she feels like herself now. "Thanks again..." Helen then sees Superman in person. "Hey, you're that Superman guy, right?"
As Superman carries Helen back at her apartment to see that she and her younger brother were the only ones living alone with no family.
"You live here alone?" he asked.
"Huh? No, just me and my younger brother, Jake. Why do you ask?" Helen then sees a pair of glass that Superman drop to know who he is. "You dropped these...Hey! Aren't you the new guy from the Daily Planet that I'll be working at too? Clark...Clark...Clark Kent? You are, aren't you? And you got powers?"
Well, so much for keeping his identity a secret from Helen now.
"Who me?" he couldn't hide it from Helen. "How can you tell?"
"I can tell from you as a hero to a normal looking guy, its your face. I'm not a idiot."
"You're smart for a kid."
"I'm only sixteen years old, Clark, but I won't tell who you are. Since you helped me and all." she said to be smiling. "Thanks."
Looks like Clark sees like Lois was, they she was a good person to not be sacred of him as Superman with powers, soon Jake wakes up to hear his sister's scream to see what was going on, for he too will learn the secret.
"Helen? Why did you screamed...?" he wakes up to see that Clark from Daily Planet was Superman himself. "Superman is really...?"
"(So much for keeping things a secret on some of it.)" Helen says it. "Yes, Jake, he's not a human being. His name is Clark Kent who's really Superman, that works at the job I'll be doing in a bit under court order."
Superman just waves to Jake.
"Hello, nice to meet you."
And what's his reaction...?
"So...awesome!" he looked happy. "You're a alien! A real life alien standing right in front of us! This is so cool, Helen! You saved her life and her arm!"
It would seem that Clark/Superman has some people to trust for a teenager like Helen and a child like Jake to see that who their new super hero was to learn of his secrets 'to only keep to themselves'.
"Two children living together alone with no family, I'm sorry." he said. "What are your names?"
With Superman asking them that question, both Helen and Jake introduce themselves to their new friend.
"My name is Helen Star, I'm a fighter."
"And my name is Jake Star, I'm a magician...Or I'm trying to be to get my wand to work. What's yours?"
And from there, Clark introduces himself for the two next.
"My name is Kal-El, the last being from my home planet Krypton. Though on your planet I go by Clark Kent." said Clark/Superman. "But when I'm wearing this, I go by Superman. Its nice to meet you, Helen and Jake. If you wish to tell me all about yourselves since this stays between the three of us, I would love to help out. If that's alright."
It sure was. And from there, Helen and Jake tell Clark about them were left out and born as babies from an orphanage home to not knowing about their parents, but to grow up to care for one another to never get separated from the bad ones to abandon them again; so they ran away to live together like this. For Helen to become a fighter to help out and was about to work at the Daily Planet to supporter the apartment home and Jake while they go to school. For Jake to go to school more and learn some magic skills to get better with. Clark felt bad for them to have more than them living on their own; he then tells them a bit about himself only to know that he was sent to Earth after his real parents and home planet go destroyed to do some good. Adopted from Martha and Jonathan in Kansas to slowly discover his powers to then try to use them for good from the yellow sun of strength, hearing laser eyes, speed, flight, and so on. It was from there that both Helen and Jake can do some good with their new super hero friend somehow for Superman will check on them everyday at least for a new found alien friend in their lives.
"Amazing, isn't it, Helen?" Jake asks his sister.
"It is, Jake. And from here, I think its a whole new beginning to do some more good with Clark's help as Superman." she said back to look at her arm. "And I won't let a bad wound like this stop me. (I will do more and work hard to keep my brother with me.)"
Soon enough, Helen will be working. The next day at LexCorp, Luthor reads the story of Superman's origins while Lois and Clark are there to interview him about the Lexo-Skel theft. Clark muses aloud that the theft will actually work out well for Luthor. With such a powerful weapon in the hands of terrorists, the U.S. government will undoubtedly contract with LexCorp to build a bigger, more powerful version.
"Now that the terrorists have your prototype, the Pentagon is undoubtedly gonna want you to build a bigger and better version for them. When all is said and done, this could net you a multimillion dollar windfall."
Luthor laughs off the idea, but Lois is intrigued, especially when Clark later confides to Lois that Luthor possibly gave the suit away.
"Lois, it almost sounds as if your friend here is suggesting I should be glad that my suit was stolen." Luthor said to her. "You're very amusing Mr...Kent, is it? Yes, I'll remember that."
Driving back, Lois was amazed that Clark figured something out about Luthor's odd behavior.
"Nice work, Smallville." she said to her new partner. "You're only the second person I've ever seen get under Lex's skin."
Oh, really? Clark wasn't the first?
"Who's the first?" he asks Lois.
"Me. When I dumped him."
For Lois and Luthor did dated once, but that was it. As Clark tells Lois that Luthor was really up to no good. Geeze, you think? Soon enough, Helen appears on her first day to work for her to stock stuff and she didn't mind doing that at all. For Perry White introduces everyone to another new member in the Daily Planet.
"Everyone, allow me to introduce you two another fine member in the group name Helen Star." he said. "Treat well, and we can all work hard and get along just fine."
She waves to everyone to prove how strong she was by lifting up lots of boxes with one arm 'this surprises Clark the most'. As everyone says hi to her one at a time, for Clark to wink to shake hands with Helen. Since they'll be working together and keeping from one secret to another as promised.
"Nice to meet you, Helen, I'm Clark Kent."
"Hi, Clark. (Good to know that we'll get to know each other a lot more like)" she said hi back. "And you are?"
Lois shakes hands with Helen to see another new teenager to join the group.
"What up, kid? Try to keep up for Smallville's sake if I were you." said Lois.
Seems that Helen knows that they were also tough people the group.
"A hardcore one, I like it. You and I are a lot alike." she then shakes hands with another person. "Hello there...? Ah..."
Ron Troupe was his name to be a hard working man in the group.
"Ron Troupe. Nice to meet you, Helen."
And last was Jimmy to be blushing around the new girl like Helen was.
"And you must be the same age as me."
"Hi!" he acts shy to try to play it cool. "I mean...hello, Helen, I'm Jimmy Olsen, a photograph in the group. I hope we can hang out...when working! When you and I are working..."
Helen just laughs to see that she was going to be fine with everyone like Clark, Lois, and Jimmy the most.
"You're silly." she said. "Oh, right. I need to set up my desk. See you guys later."
With Helen doing that in seconds, the other three – Clark, Lois, and Jimmy have al ot to learn about Helen on some parts.
"Not bad for another teenager like her."
"Oh, please Clark." said Lois. "She's one of those strong people who's not dumb enough to use a brain. But as long as I get my story, then she's cool." she then sees Jimmy's face was completely red. "Hey, Jimmy, you feeling sick or something?"
Not as much as he was staring at Helen a lot.
"Huh...? Oh! Well, I just want to know her a lot more." he said to hide his feelings. "I think Helen's kind of cute."
"She is the same age as you are." said Clark.
"Maybe you two will hit it off."
Lois made a joke there to make Jimmy freak out.
"Huh?! Hey! Knock it off!" he said.
Ah, Jimmy likes Helen...Cute. Back at the Planet's archives hours later, Clark finds a photo of Luthor with the Regent of Kaznia, a country that the United States has placed under a trade embargo, based on evidence that the Regent has been employing a hit squad of terrorists against his political enemies. Clark's theory is that Luthor staged the theft in order to make a secret sale to the Regent. Helen comes by to hear about this.
"Regent of special type of terrorist group, huh?" she looks at the photos.
"You see where I'm getting at?" ask Clark.
Looks that way.
"(I knew Luthor was up to something bad!) Sounds like someone paying them off to steal, use and cause even further trouble." said Helen.
"But that happened years ago." Lois added.
"However, Luthor could have tides with them as an act of treason."
That could be the case, then yes. Leaving Lois to get the story for herself before Clark does.
"And where are you going, Lois?" Helen asked.
"I would tell you, but Clark would be on top before me." she takes off.
Oh, boy. She was good. As Clark and Helen see the photos, this could only lead to trouble if nothing was taken care of soon.
"You thinking what I'm thinking, Clark?"
"I am." he said. "Listen, you and Jake helping me is fine. But your arm." Clark checks on it. "I'm a little worried."
"I'll be fine." she said. "The pain's gone, maybe I got a burn from the cut feeling. Or something...But I'll be careful. Nothing like this won't slow me down." from her fast punches and kicks Helen was doing to prove her point to her friend. "See?"
Clark believes in Helen to let both her and Jake on board.
"Alright, but you two be careful." he said. "I think I know where it'll be with the trade off. Maybe Jake can lead us there?"
Helen smiles to see what she can do for Clark for her to pick him up from school to do just that. Nice team work. Lois decides to investigate herself in secret and goes to a Kaznian tanker ship docked in Metropolis Harbor. On the ship, Lois meets up with John Corben, who says he's the head of a diplomatic mission to restore friendly relations with the U.S. However, while she is snooping around the ship, she finds the Lexo-Skel, and is captured. That's not good!
Meanwhile, back at the Planet, Jimmy tells Clark about a smuggling story he and Lois worked on.
"A good photo shot here of Lois getting a good scoop from a cover story, stopping a group of terrorist from smuggling illegal weapons." Jimmy explained. "Check it out. Isn't it cool, Helen?"
"Huh?" she has a better look. "Oh, yeah. Its cool. (Hang on...That's the same boat that was there for a month now with no background check.)" Helen shows it to Clark next. "Looks at this, Clark, Jimmy maybe on to something."
Clark sees the tanker in one of Jimmy's pictures, and guesses where Lois has gone. For him and Helen to leave, Jimmy didn't know where they were going.
"Ah, Clark?"
"Sorry, Jimmy, I'll be back. And for Clark, he's probably finding out more details on his own." she makes up a story for him. "See you in a bit!"
With Clark changing into Superman to take flight, for him and Helen to over hear on the phone on what Jake found out before heading out for he was smart. Super smart for Helen to still have the brains too for a strong and kind hearted person.
"Okay, listen up Clark. Helen. I know where the ship is near Metropolis bay. Some of the ships break in heavy cargo of things from other countries sometimes, and one was the Regent of Kaznian. Trying to hide it from the public eye, they still do these illegal things. So if we stop them and get the weapon away by any means from Luthor, then we have proof that he was behind this whole mess." he said. "Anyways, Clark, you take off and both Helen and me will meet you there on foot.
Unaware that Helen's injured arm was glowing up suddenly, something good was about to happen after today...You'll soon find out what it is. Out at sea, Corben is about to execute Lois, but Superman arrives.
"Get him!" said Corben.
For the men to start firing a lot, for Superman to be Lois shield to have no affect on him. Using his laser eyes to free Lois, she makes a run for it. As Helen and Jake borrowed a boat from Bibbo, they try to find way to get inside of the boat.
"There's no way we can get in!"
"Maybe we can climb from the anchor chains?" Jake tries it. "Come on, Helen, its fun!"
Giving it a shot to climb up as quickly as they could without falling down in to the ocean waters, Helen gets hurt to soon slip and fall...but from one touch from her hurt arm to feel the metal parts of the boat, a miracle happens. Her arm turns into some type of armor! Seeing the glass part from the other night, Helen gives it a go to grab on to stop falling and then punches a hole to getting inside of the boat. Surprising to Jake to see this, same with Helen too.
"Ah! (What's happening to me?!)" she tries to hide it. "Jake! I can explain! I touch the part of the ship and it just...I mean you saw, right? I don't know what happened when I got hurt the other day from the my blood, the oil chemicals from the machine, and something to shock my entire body-!"
"Helen...! That's so cool!"
With Jake saying that, seems that Helen doesn't have to hide form her new give, just like Clark as Superman.
"You really think so?" she asks.
"You gt that right!" he said back to hear a gun shot to go off. "Hey, something's going down in the other room. Must be Clark stopping the bad guys."
They hurry into the other room for Superman to arrive in time to save Lois as well.
"That means Lois is there to." Helen leaves the way. "Let's go back up Superman, Jake. Come on!"
He easily defeats the terrorists, but Corben climbs into the battle suit to have a fighting chance against him. With Lois lending a hand to stop one of them, that's where both Jake and Helen come in. Helen uses from a shield to stop the bullets from firing to then making wood of her arm to fire spikes at the other one; leaving Jake to work on his wand to make something happen to say some words to create a powerful type of beam to shoot out and stop the other one for good. It works!
"Yes! I got the wand to work!" he said with joy.
"Way a go, Jake!" Helen checks on Lois next. "Looks like you're still alive and well. No worries, Lois, both Jake and I are here to help you out."
She didn't think that her co-worker and her little brother had some skills, but they do.
"Helen, what happen to your arm? You can control elements."
She notices too.
"I can?" Helen does it again with fire to stop the other firing from Corben's machine gun from the giant robot. "Oh, I guess I can. (This is going to be awesome!)"
Almost about to get shot from Lois for Helen and Jake ot try to save her again...
"So long, sweet heart."
Lucky for Superman saves Lois to getting her off the ship first, for Jake to hold the machine with another magic move, for Helen helps him out.
"Superman! Go! Get Lois to safety!" Jake said. "We got this!"
Looks like Corben was trapped long enough to cause some distraction thanks to those two, long enough for Superman flies Lois to safety and then goes to fight Corben. While also aiding both Helen and Jake next.
"Call the police and let them know what's happening. I'm gonna try and stop that thing." he takes off after that.
"Be-" Lois tries to say something to Superman but flies off quickly. "careful."
The battle drags from the harbor to Metropolis for Corben break from from Jake's spell for him and Helen try to stop it, with Corben seemingly having the upper hand to stopping Superman, it was hard to stop a machine like from Lex Corp. From being blasted to firing shots at him to the city to catch fire to have the other two worry about their friend.
"Superman!" cried out Jake.
Trying to create a shield for Superman, he gets out of the fiery blaze unharmed to fight some more leaving Helen to gather more fire to absorb from her special arm.
"Jake? Helen?"
Surprising to see them have some type of gift, Superman uses a truck to throw at Corben as he aims and fires back.
"You're so stupid!" he said.
Firing a lot of shots, Superman throws the truck for the gun shots to make it exploded for Helen to fire blast the machine and Corben to go flying. Another good team effort for it wanted some more. Trapping Superman in a car to get crushed, Helen uses another metal part to stop Corben from hurting him.
"Stop!" she punches and kicks a lot. "Leave him alone!"
But Corben uses the machine to punch at Helen to go flying to the ground hard.
"Sorry, honey, but I won't let you super heroes stop me and my goal. I'm going to rich after this!"
"Helen, no!" Jake tries to hurry to his sister side.
Corben fires more fire to then throwing Superman to construction sight to get destroyed from every fire power he was shooting at, thinking fast, Jake's fires another blast from his wand where Superman was hit. But did it work?
"Got ya!"
Or so he thought...Nope! Superman was saved thanks to Jake's shield to punch Corben on to another building, and for Helen to make a sharp type of metal to throw and destroys one of the machine's arm, allowing Superman to rip it up next. Destroying the other arm and leg, and for Helen to absorb electricity now to shock the system to make it go on the edge of the building to have one leg left. Superman just uses a powerful gust of wind by blowing from his mouth to make it fall down, both Corben and the machine were finished. This made this loser to surrender now and for both Jake and Helen to celebrate after climbing back down from Jake's beam to make an large arm. Amazing...
"We did it! We did it!" they both cheered with joy.
Superman checks on the two kids, they did well to put up a fight.
"Amazing magic, Jake, do keep it up."
"Thank you, Superman." he said.
Superman then checks on Helen's conditions and her special arm.
"And you, Helen? You don't like you're badly hurt." he said.
"I know... (That's weird, I got kicked hard and I'm still standing.)" Helen thought to herself about it. "And yet, I'm fine. I think its my arm to have a special absorbing type of ability I just got. I like it, I can control it at ease." she does it with water. "This is cool."
Superman smiles to have two other people who he can trust and they were Helen and Jake Star.
"Thank you again. Until next time..." he then deals with Corben. "Shall we go a few rounds without the suit?"
Looks like Corben was done for good.
"Uh-uh." he responds.
"Too bad."
As Superman flies Corben off to the police, Helen and Jake walk back home to rest.
"Can we go home now, Helen? I'm hungry." he said.
"Then lets eat, Jake, come on." she leaves the way. "We'll leave Superman to stop Luthor from causing trouble to him. We'll get that loser soon enough.
You got that part right. On Lois' order, the Planet stops the presses and re-prints the front page, with a story on Superman's triumph. Superman pays a visit to Luthor's office. At first, only Luthor talks as Superman gives him the silent treatment.
"I'm afraid we already have a window washer... oh, the silent treatment, eh?" said Luthor. "Well, I don't know what you thought you heard out there, but I know what you can prove, and it's nothing." Superman still doesn't say anything. "You see, uh...Super-man...I own Metropolis. My technology built it, my will keeps it going, and nearly two-thirds of its people work for me whether they know it or not. Even you have to admit, it's a model of efficiency. And yet, I've often thought... why limit myself to just one city? A being with your abilities could be very useful to me on a, shall we say, global scale? Why don't you float on in and we'll discuss it? Or better yet, tell about your little helpers? They must be very special to you to have powers of magic and some...absorbing thing that the girl has." Luthor then loses it. "SAY SOMETHING!" He grabs the model of the Lexo-Skel Suit 5000 and hurls it at Superman, who catches it and crushes it into powder between his hands.
"I'll be watching you, Luthor." said Superman. "You keep those two out of this, we will stop you."
He then flies through Metropolis while various citizens cheer him on. Even for both Helen and Jake to see their friend/hero from the window view while enjoying their ice creams to eat on their first time aiding a hero to stop some bad guys.
"Here's to us with our new powers to learn and a friend like Superman. Who's really Clark Kent." said Helen.
"And for us to do our power to protect our home by his side." and Jake too.
Hitting their bowls together to eat afterwards.
"Cheers!"
Waving to Superman to pass by for him to do the same, it would seem that stopping Luthor will be a piece of cake. As well as learning how to control their powers a little; for as long as Helen has Jake to work at the Daily Planet, everything will be fine in Metropolis. Yes it will. Elsewhere, in the deep reaches of space, a crew of aliens discovers Brainiac's satellite. They take it aboard their ship, but before they can study it, the satellite quickly comes to life, kills the entire crew and takes over their ship. Not that thing again, looks like we haven't seen the last of that monster.