Something I couldn't resist writing.
Disclaimer: Mickey and the Beanstalk belongs to Walt Disney, and Smallville and any other DC character I use belongs to DC Comics, Warner Brothers, and the CW.
Clark Kent and the Beanstalk
Chapter 1: My What a Happy Day
Clark Kent was putting his son Conner to bed with his best friends, Oliver Queen and Bruce Wayne as they was putting their children, Ollie's son Roy, and Bruce's son Terry to bed as their wives Lois Lane, Chloe Sullivan, and Tess Mercer were about to leave.
"Now boys, for once get them to sleep by their bedtime." Lois said with a smile.
"Good night kids." Chloe said as she blew the children a kiss.
"Good night, honey." Tess said as she waved to Terry.
"Good night Aunt Chloe." Conner said.
"Good night Mommy." Roy said.
"Good night Mrs. Queen." Terry said.
"Now go to sleep kids." Clark said.
"Could you tell us a story, Daddy?" Conner asked.
"Well, I guess one wouldn't hurt." Clark answered.
"Yay!" Roy called out. "Isn't that cool Unca Bruce?"
"Well..." Bruce said. "Uh... No."
"This is a story everyone should hear." Clark said.
"Yeah, but not everyone should tell it, and you know who." Bruce said.
"Well I'm gonna tell it anyway." Clark said.
"Alright, suit yourself." Bruce said with a sigh.
"Now, once upon a time-" Clark began before Oliver interrupted.
"Funny how nothing happens now-a-days." Oliver mused before he stopped when Clark glared at him.
"Now, once upon a time there was a place called Happy Valley." Clark began again. "It was called Happy Valley because everyone who lived there was happy."
"That makes sense." Oliver said with a smile.
"Okay kids, now close your eyes and tell me if you can picture it." Clark said.
"I think I can." Conner said.
"Me too." Roy and Terry added.
"It's all nice and green with a lot of hills." Conner said.
Happy Valley was often called Nature's garden spots, nestled among green rolling hills. A lovely brook, the laughing brook, flowed through the valley. Winding roads connected the valley with stately trees lining them. They also connected the lush fields and prosperous farms that dotted the landscape, and on a hill top over-looking the valley and shining like a jewel stood a magnificent castle, and three precious princesses lived in the castle. One was the fair maiden Tess Mercer who made fair rules and kept the country clean. Her fellow princesses were Chloe Sullivan and Lois Lane. While Chloe helped keep the peace, Lois kept the country bright, cheerful, and happy with her beautiful singing voice. Men, women, and children came from all over the world, feeding the country's trade, just to hear her beautiful voice.
My... What a happy day.
What a sunny sky.
Kinda make you sigh
in a happy way.
What a very merry day...
All the world is gay.
When your cares are light.
And your heart takes flight.
And you're swept away.
The air is sweet with clover.
The clouds are turning over.
Oh yes they're turning over
Just to show their silver lining.
My what a happy day...
Never knew such bliss.
Never read of this in a book or play!
What a lovely day!
What a great big gorgeous, sumptuous, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scrumptious!
My what a happy day!
When Lois would sing, all the farmers would join in as well, and their work got twenty times quicker.
My what a happy day...
Never knew such bliss.
Never read of this in a book or play!
What a lovely day!
What a great big gorgeous, sumptuous, thumping, bumptious, hum-galumptious, simply scrumptious!
Oh me, oh my, what a happy day!
The voice of Lois cast a magic spell of joy and prosperity throughout the land, but it was too good to last, for one day a mysterious shadow crept over the valley and something dreadful happened.
Lois, Chloe, and Tess were talking. They weren't biologically sisters, but they had been raised in the same home for so long that they couldn't have been closer if they were. When the sky got surprisingly dark, they all screamed and tried to run, but they were caught by the creature who had caused the darkness grabbed them, and they knew no more for a long time.
When the shadow lifted, Lois and her sisters were gone. No longer was the valley happy, for without the magic of Lois' voice, Chloe's economic know how, and Tess' wise guidance, all was misery... Misery... Misery.
The grass fields and trees all became a depressing reddish color as the desolation spread throughout the land and everything dried up. The fields of corn turned to dust almost before you could say kerplop. The Laughing Brook flowed no more, and what little water remained fell down the cracks that appeared in the river bed.
To think that this land was once happy valley, and now it was little better than gruesome gulch.
Days passed. Then weeks passed. Then months past.
A group of humble peasants, three orphaned boys, were hit the hardest. All they had was a cow who had dried up with the Laughing Brook. The three boys were all that were left of three proud families who had tilled the land together. Among them were Clark Kent and his closest friends, Oliver Queen and Bruce Wayne. The house was so much to handle for the three boys that it was in a derelict state with one of the doors having fallen off very recently. The three poor farmers sat at the dinner table as they were on the edge of starving to death. By some combination of miracles and careful planning, the three were still alive, still breathing, and sharing a pitiful crust of bread between them. Clark made as thin cuts with his knife as he could to save the last loaf of bread they had for as long as they could.
Were their spirits broken? Did they lose hope? Yes. The three teenagers were facing famine and were left only with beans... Well a bean by now. One bean to split between three people. Clark cut it as thinly as possible until there were three semi-thin bean slices that barely made the bread bulge. The only bright side anyone could have found was that at least the bean didn't have any bones. Bruce, though still muscular, had become gaunt from lack of food, becoming a bag of bone and weakening muscles. A true picture of despair, but Bruce never whimpered. Bruce never gave up.
"SHUT UP!" Bruce called out. "I CAN'T STAND IT!"
Bruce then grabbed as many plates as he could and attempted to eat them like a sandwich before Clark and Oliver grabbed him and pulled the dishes away.
"Okay Bruce, easy now." Clark said as Oliver and Clark rubbed his back in an attempt to calm him. "Easy now."
"Don't worry guys." Bruce said with a heavy sigh as he breathed hard from the rush of adrenaline. "Yeah... I'll be alright. I'll be alright."
Bruce said he'd be alright, but Clark wondered. Bruce had suffered too much. Oliver, knowing how Bruce got when he was riled wondered what plan was forming in the mind of the desperate Bruce.
Bruce meanwhile saw the axe they had used to chop down wood and got a sinister smile on his face as he slipped away and grabbed it.
"BRUCE NO!" Clark called out in alarm when he saw the empty space where the axe usually hung.
"Here cowsie-wowsie." Bruce said in a raspy, demented voice as he approached the cow. "Nice old cowsie-wowsie."
"Bruce!" Clark called out as Bruce suddenly shouted out and lunged at the cow with the axe. The cow mooed in alarm and jumped onto a tree as Clark pulled the axe out of Bruce's hand, and he then began chewing on the tail before Oliver and Clark grabbed Bruce and held him down.
"But guys..." Bruce panted as he began to come back to his senses. "I've just gotta eat. I'm so... Hungry."
Oliver and Clark helped Bruce into the house where he rested on the couch.
Aw, poor Bruce.