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Justice League High – Prologue
By
Celgress
A town named Harmony in USA fifteen years ago, night
J'onn J'onzz a native of Mars grimly surveyed the smoking wreckage of what had once been a row of suburban houses. When he fled his war torn home earlier that same solar day he could never have imagined he would be trading one disaster zone for another. He did intended to set foot on Earth but the unexpectedly heavy meteor shower altered which damaged the navigation system of his spaceship set off a chain of events that ultimately led to this tragic moment.
"I'm sorry I couldn't save you. May your spirits find rest." J'onn J'onzz said. He bowed his green head solemnly,
Not long after arriving on Earth a mysterious masked being in a grey and black costume named Phantasm assaulted him. Their resulting battle had decimated the nearby structure before his assailant vanished into the night without leaving a trace. Likely this feat was accomplished via use of a teleportation unit of some sort J'onn mused. Whatever the case may be one thing was certain he needed to hide both for his sake and that of his infant niece M'gann M'orzz. M'gann was the child of his brother and sister-in-law. J'onn had been able to save M'gann yet he had failed to save her partners. One of many regrets that plagued his conscience.
J'onn could sense Earth authorities were fast approaching. Without another option, J'onn gleaned enough information from the fading memories of the badly charred dead bodies that surrounded him to assume borrowed identities for himself and M'gann. He morphed into John Lang uncle of Lana Lang the only "surviving" members of the extended Lang family who once lived in one of the demolished structures near where he now stood.
"Are you okay sir?" A young male cop asked the red-haired John Lang.
"I and my niece Lana have survived officer." John Lang said simply. In his hands he held a baby swaddled within a blue blanket nothing of her form was visible.
"I'm sorry sir." The male officer said. "You should both be checked out, just in case."
"That will not be necessary." John Lang said being sure he kept the baby Martian from sight as her shapeshifting ability was all but nonexistence at her present stage of larval development. He could not allow her to be seen.
With no time to argue given the sheer scale of the disaster, the male police officer could only nod before he ran off. Soon the entire area was filled with first responders. Residents of Harmony would not soon forget the "Night of the Great Meteorite Disaster".
Just outside of Town
John and Martha Kent proprietors of a failing farm were out for a drive. The couple often took long drives at night to ease tension. Martha desperately hoped their lives would improve soon. Not only was their farm in terrible shape but she was unable to give John the family he deserved because she was barren. While John told her that did not mean he loved her any less Martha felt like a failure as a wife. If only some miracle would occur. One that could not only save their livelihood but also give them a child. Was that really too much to ask?
"Will you look at those Mar?" John said peering out the windshield of there older model pickup truck. "I've never seen so many shooting stars."
"Me either," Martha said equally in awe of the heavenly display. Who knows perhaps one of them could grant my wish Martha thought. "John watch out!" Martha exclaimed a second later when a huge fireball zoomed by directly in front of their truck crashing into a field not far away. The shockwave from the impact rocked the vehicle threatening to knock it over before it subsided.
"Wow, that one sure was a whooper!" John said excitedly. He noticed the sky was no longer full of shooting stars the meteor shower had abruptly ended, how odd. A harebrained idea came to John. "Mar let's check out the impact zone. Maybe a bit of space rock will be left behind in that crater. It'd make a hell of a souvenir."
"John maybe we shouldn't. It might not be safe." Martha said but John was already gone having stopped the truck. Reluctantly Martha followed.
It did not take long before the pair of impromptu explorers located the impact zone. They were surprised not to find a molten meteor but rather what looked like a spaceship instead. In the center of which was located a transparent pod which automatically opened to reveal a perfect baby boy.
Martha took one look at the baby and fell in love. Her prayers had been answered by the heavens themselves. She and John had a son. She reached out picked up the crying infant.
John could do nothing to dissuade his wife from taking the baby home. Early the next day he recruited a close friend and local physician Dr. Kent Nelson. John and Kent loaded the small spaceship onto John's pickup truck where they draped a tarp over it and not a moment too soon. When they were driving away a convoy of military vehicles arrived ton inspect the area form "meteorite fragments", or so their cover story went.
Other than kindly old Dr. Nelson no one knew the true origins of the boy John and Martha named Clark. Under the influence of his surrogate partners, the ensuing years saw Clark grow into a fit but shy boy. A hard-working son of the soil who never turned his back on a person in need friend or otherwise.
At harvest that year all the farms including the Kents' delivered bumper crops of whatever they grew. This occurrence was made even more peculiar by the fact it had been a dreadful summer with practically no rainfall until a hurricane hit the region in mid-September. Somehow the wind and rain of the great storm managed to damage many structures but left the crops unsheathed. Rumors swirled that this unnatural resiliency of the plants was due to a strange variety of meteorite fragments that glowed various colors under certain conditions. Most residents of Harmony dismissed these claims as "fanciful nonsense". Using surplus money from their bumper crops John and Martha paid off the mortgage on their farm and soon become successful farmers by marketing their own line of products across the nation.
John Lang used the insurance money he received from that tragic night to buy a large house next to the Kent Farm. He went back to school earned two degrees in a few short years and began teaching advanced math when a position opened up at the local high school. The two Johns and their families hit it off immediately and Clark & Lana became the best of friends.
When Clark and Lana began school they formed lasting friendships with several other children their own age. There was Diana Prince the older of two girls whose widowed mother Hippolyta, who everyone called Helen because it was easier to pronounce, operated a booming coffee shop and restaurant. Bruce Wayne whose parents owned Wayne Wayne Enterprises one of the biggest tech companies in the country. Wayne Enterprises was locked in a perpetual struggle for dominance with Luthorcorp owned by Lionel Luthor. Bruce's father Thomas Wayne and Lionel Luthor father of Lex Luthor despised each other. When Thomas and his wife were tragically slain in a seemingly random crime that rocked sleepy Harmony to its very core many pointed the finger of blame straight at Lionel although no proof ever surfaced he was involved. After the murders, Bruce withdrew from his friend becoming distant. Clark vowed not to give up on Bruce no matter how long it might take. Rounding out the group were Barry Allen and Hal Jordan. Barry was a born prankster who his friends often had to bail out of trouble. Hal, on the other hand, was a politically minded boy with a deep sense of social justice that reviled Clark's own yet at times he could be reckless and hotheaded. None could have known at the time but their junior year of high school would change everything for the circle of friends, their town as well as the world.
To Be Continued
Author's Note One -
So what do you think loyal readers? Should I continue?
Author's Note Two -
Other than Lana who I have as an alternate version of Ms. Martian characters will be their canon selves in this story. In part I made Lana Ms. Martian because I was a huge fan of the TV show Young Justice back in the day. I am drawing on aspects of the dynamic between Conner and Megan as inspiration for Lana's and Clark's coming of age love story here.