Author's Note: Retcon time! Due to a series of plot holes that I can see developing, I've decided to retcon Green Lantern's Light. Sorry for those of you who'd like to see some Clark-Buffy action, but that's just going to have to wait a year (in story, hopefully not in real life). Also, Lana's been retconned back into existence to cover a few of those plot holes and I'll be introducing an additional female character to give a bit of feminine perspective on Clark and his abilities.

Prologue 2: The Meteor Shower

Smallville, Kansas; 1997

Jonathan Kent smiled as he got out of his red pickup and looked over at his wife, Martha. The couple were in their late 20s, young enough to feel a true spark in their lives, yet old enough to know that they chose the right spouse. Martha had shoulder length, brownish-red hair, green eyes, and a smile that, to Jonathan, could light up the world. Jonathan had the country look, with short, blond hair, green eyes, and a beard that had been growing for the past couple of days. The two of them began to walk happily into the florist shop, which was still open, despite the late hour.

While the Kents were happy, they had always wanted one thing, that which they could never have, a child. Martha was diagnosed with a disease which prevented fetal growth, effectively preventing the Kents from having children of their own. They had tried and were rejected dozens of times. And it was this fateful night, that they would have all their dreams come true.

"Evening, Nell," Jonathan stated with a sense of familiarity to the shop owner.

"Good evening, Jonathan," Nell responded in kind, "What brings the illusive Kents into town?"

"Tulips," Jonathan told her bluntly, a slight grin appeared on his face as he recalled the discussion of creating a small garden in front of their house.

Nell tried to see if they didn't want a different flower, but Jonathan refuted, saying that Martha had her heart set on tulips. Martha, meanwhile, had noticed a little girl with brown hair and green eyes in a fairy costume and began to walk toward her, "Hi Lana," she stated with glee as she got down on her knees, "Are you a princess?"

"I'm a fairy princess," Lana declared, holding up her wand and showing her wings to prove it.

"Where are her parents?" Jonathan asked Nell as he glanced over.

"At the game," Nell handed Jonathan the tulips, "I'm being the good aunt."

"You wanna make a wish?" Lana asked Martha, enthusiasm clearly showed in Cordelia's voice.

"I would love to make a wish," Martha replied as she closed her eyes, sincerely thinking of the one thing she wanted, a child of her own. Lana waved the wand, said the magic word, and lightly tapped Martha on the forehead. With a smile on her face, she and Jonathan left the store and got into their truck.

Jonathan sighed as he saw the look in Martha's eyes, "I know what you wished for," he told her, his voice assuring her that he wanted the same thing as much as she did.

"It's all I ever wanted," Martha told him as he embraced her and the two kissed. That kiss, however, was interupted by the sounds of honking horns.

Jonathan laughed at his luck, "Looks like Smallville's won again," he noted as he started his truck and began to head home.

The Kents trip home was, for the most part, uneventful. The young couple remained silent for the most part, but couldn't remain so for long. Miles out of town, they began to notice meteors crashing outside only meters from their car. Eventually, one meteor crashed right in front of them, causing Jonathan to have to swerve out of the way and crash into a ditch that it created.

Upside down in their truck, the two Kents began to recuperate from their trip when, as Jonathan looked to his right, they both saw a young boy and girl, both about three years of age, in the ditch with them. As quickly as they could, they got out, took a couple of blankets from behind the seat of their truck, and wrapped it around the two, who instantly began to hug the adults as they held them.

"Martha..." Jonathan started, being completely confused as to how the two ended up in the ditch, "Kids don't just fall out of the sky."

"Well, they must have come from somewhere," Martha told him as they advanced toward the meteor at the end of the ditch, flashlights in one hand.

"We need to find their parents, they must be worried about them. We found them..."

"We didn't find them, they found us," Martha stated, dreamily as she looked into the blue eyes of the boy. She felt as if her wish had come true.

"I know what you're thinking, but we can't keep the kids," they stopped at the end of the ditch. A large, metallic object, big enough to hold the boy and girl, laid in the center of a crater.

"Whereever their parents are from, their not from Kansas," Martha noted as the young couple looked up into the sky, wondering where the twins came from.