In the Daily Planet, Clark Kent investigating the unsolved murder case of a couple. He scrolls downs the webpage.

"Hmm…" he hums to himself

Bored he concentrates. With his super-hearing, he finally he hears lightning and a single word.

"Shazam!" An unrecognizable voice says

He looks out his window and sees it in a straight line, flash right in front of the daily planet.

"Just great….." He says to himself

He super speeds down the stairs to the front of the building. He sees nothing, but notices someone. He looks up at the Globe on top of the Daily Planet. On top of it he sees a

silhouette of a man with a cape, blowing in the wind. Clark super-leaps to the top. The man turns his head slightly.

"Who are you? You are not authorized to be here." He asks.

The man is quiet. He turns but hides his face in the shadows. A symbol of a lightning bolt on his chest. He stands in a heroic pose

"Citizen, I am…….…err...Marvel!" The man replies

Clark looks confused. The man salutes to him and takes off in flight, leaving a red/yellow blur behind.

"Marvel….." Clark says to himself

Clark is searching the web for the name " Marvel" and finds nothing but comic books. Lois comes in.

"Morning Smallville. How's my favorite mild mannered reporter?"

Clark doesn't respond. She turns of the computer monitor.

"Since when did you find comic books more interesting than me?" She teases

"Come on you know you're my number 1 girl….." Clark reassures

"Yes I am, just remember those spandex-sporting, over-confident, beauty queen super-chicks you fan boys read about, aren't real" She responds

"If I didn't know better I'd say you were jealous" he teases

"Yes….but you do know better." She responds

He gets up and flashes a smile. She turns on the computer monitor.

"Oh yea, apparently metropolis's personal S-shielded guardian has sprouted his own angel wings. I've got at least 100 text messages from people claiming the saw the blur flying."

"Really…." Clark responds

"Yea and get this apparently he uses the forces of nature as his own personal police siren." She adds.

"I doubt The Blur knows how to control the weather" He interrupts

"Well, you could say it's either him or Thor, the Norse god.....which choice sounds less out there farm-boy?........" She adds ".........So dear old Tess is offering me the front page…..if I can get a glimpse and photograph of El Blur-ito in action…isn't this the wrong time for Jimmy to be gone" She says with a sad face.

Suddenly Clark focuses in on his super hearing and hears thunder approaching.

"Uhhh….Lois I'll be right back…I've got to go…….."

"Save it" She responds "Just be back quickly"

Clark exits the office room and into the elevators. He opens the emergency door at the top and commits a super leap, while changing into his Blur costume. As he goes to the roof he witnesses a boy being struck by lightning. He fails to stop it. The boy that was there is than replaced by a grown man.

"You…….you're the blur! It's the blur" He excitedly yells.

"Yes…….. Marvel is it….I need to know what's going on here." Clark ask

"Yes…I was…………" A flash of lightning comes down on the two sending them flying.

A man wearing a similar outfit to Marvel's, but with a black color scheme

"You fool……….you underestimated my power!" He yells "Prepare to feel the might of the Black Adam!"

Black Adam swings a fist at Marvel and puts him into a sleeper hold.

"Shazam!" He yells and changes Marvel to a boy

"Once you are eliminated I...will be the strongest mortal on the planet!"

"Guess again!" Clark says and charges at Black Adam. The two fall of the roof of the daily planet and land onto a Black SUV. A crowd gathers and Black Adam speeds away with Clark in hot pursuit. The two zoom into Granville where Black Adam is tackled. The two swing fist at each other and Black Adam puts Clark into a sleeper hold. He screams

"Shazam" and lightning strikes Clark's chest injuring him. He repeats the word.

Until Clark gives in. Adam kicks him over. He unearths a shard of kryptonite.

"I've been watching you Blur…I know what can kill you" He mocks

He proceeds to stab Clark with it. But Marvel pushes him out of the way. Shazam lands a mighty blow which sends Black Adam into the air.

"This…..is not over…..you shall feel the wrath of The Black Adam!" He says and flies off.

Marvel transforms into his young boy form and eyes Clark.


The sky is cloudy from all the thunder storms. Clark weakly says

" Marvel……….I know……that's you…..sun…..I need the sun."

The boy says the word

"Shazam!"

He grabs Clark and quickly flies him above the clouds. Clark soaks in the sunlight. And Shazam takes him back to the Daily Planet.

"No…….instead" Clark suggest "Lets go to that building right there"

He points towards Watchtower

"There are some people you need to meet.