Chapter 2 Things Fall Apart
Conner POV
"Quickly all of you huddle under me" I look towards the three guys who had just saved my life. The spandex was a little lame but I do owe them. I watched as the three of them looked worriedly at each other as if asking the silent question. Can we trust him?
As I waited for them to get their act together the sound of shifting rubble filled my ear drowning out the sound of the city above me. "I get your suspension but the last time I checked I'm the only one that can withstand this rubble."
The lack of faith that the three of them had in me wasn't all that shocking but the fact that they are debating my trustworthiness when their lives are on the line is strange. But as they crawled under me just in time as the full crushing force of the rocks and debris cover me.
A thin layer of dirt cacked my skin as the sound of rumbling rocks ceased and the scent of fresh air filled my nose. As I struggled to throw the weight of the rocks back each muscle and fiber in my body told me to stop.
The whole thing was borderline painful but the kid with sandy orange hair and a bright smile spoke to me. As if he could sense that i was starting to take a toll on me. "So what is your name"
His bright yellow bolt told me that he had to be the sidekick of the flash, were they related maybe his kid. But even in a time like this it was a weird question for him to ask.
"My name is Kon El but my human name is Conner Kent. Nice to meet you I guess." He smiled wide as if he didn't have a care in the world but a I threw the boulder of off me. We were all exposed to the fresh open air. Causing his smile to get even bigger as he spoke in a energetic voice.
"I'm Wally, this is Kalder and this guy over here won't tell anyone his real just call him Robin." I sighed as my muscle aches but not because I had been holding that ceiling up. Rather that this was the first time since I had been posed that I was allowed to move freely. It felt good, felt freeing.
I looked up only to be greeted by the moon, her sliver light shining bright cascading over the land as the stars twinkled and glow behind her silently. It has been so long since I have seen it, seen the sky.
I wonder just how long? It felt like years in the pod but how much time truly passed by. "Do you know how long I was locked away in that pod?" I looked at the three of them and each one looked sad or uncomfortable with my question.
"Two years my friend" Kalder put a hand on my shoulder, the warmth of his skin sent shiver down my spine. It had been so long since I had even got a ounce of friendly or gentle contact from anyone. "Great" I mumbled it honestly under my breath as my eyes darted back to the moon. Dad, mom where the hell are you two? Do you even live in the same house? Do you think that I am dead?
With each haunting thought that drifted through my mind, I could see an emerging floating figure coming ever closer. At first, I thought that my mind's playing tricks on me. But as he got close there was no denying it, it's my dad.
"Dad!" I flew into the sky and hugged him.I didn't feel him move, probably from shock that I am really here. But I sunk further into him nonetheless soon his mind would catch up with the reality that I'm alive. That I'm really here in his arms.
I felt his head lower into my shoulder, as he seemed to tighten and wrap his arms around me. As he spoke his voice, seemed to be filled with a thousand different emotion. But the most shocking thing has to be that he spoke to me in our people's langue.
"Where have you been these past two years? What happened?" I sighed while resting my head on his chest, just taking in his scent for a moment before pulling out of the embrace. Just in time to see my savior's getting chewed out by their mentors.
Something in my snapped I don't know if it is based on all the time that I spent in my pod. But it pissed me off to see adults dictate how we should act. My body simply reacted as I surged forward in the sky, landing quietly next to Robin as I stared them down.
"If I wasn't for them I would be a slave to Lex Luthor! Back off!" I glared at each of them letting my eyes heat up a crimson red for extra effect before turning to see my father flying over to us. Just the thought of him being here is enough to make me smile. "They saved my life, how can you yell at them for that" I spoke to him in Kryptonian forcing him to sigh heavily as he nodded slowly.
I watched as he yanked on Batman and nodded his head off to the side as the spoke momentarily. As he turned back to us he has this deep angry scowl on his face. "Alright meet at Mount Justice early in the morning, is that understood."
Who was he to tell me what to do? Nonetheless I nodded my head before taking out the sky with my father at my side. The cold air flipped around us as the rough corse air whipped into my eyes causing them to take up. But it was perfect it had been so long since I was free and now standing here in a parking lot.
As the sound of Metropolis playing in the background seemed to real. But as I looked around I noticed we wee in front of a old dinner that dad liked to go to during his lunch breaks at work. "What are we doing here?" I stare quietly at him as a wide dazzling green took over his face.
"I figure that you would be hungry after 2 years of not eating." I thought about my two years at Cadmus. I remembered everything they did, like how they simply shoved needles in my arms feeding me my needed nutrition.
They didn't want to risk me breaking the control that the genomorphs had over me. There was no way that they would be able to overpower me without that stupid rock.
I looked down from my thoughts and saw what my father was wearing. God, it looks even cornier and lame in person. "No offense dad but I don't really want to be seen with a guy that wears underwear over a pair of tights."
He laughs light heartily at me even though I am pretty sure that I sounded 100% serious. That, however, didn't stop him from walking into the dinner forcing me to trail after him.
We walked into the restaurant and it seemed like everything stopped and people froze in shock as we took our seat. Even the waitress seemed to stop as she stared at us in awe.
It took him a few minutes but soon she adjusted and took our orders before running off. I sighed and order a steak while my father asked for a burger. As she left people began to take pictures of the two of us and I tried to ignore it.
"Hows mom?" He smiled at me. "Fine she never stopped searching for her, in fact, I am sure she will be excited to see you when we get home." I nodded my head though I was aware of the way that his voice filled with worry at the thought of my mother.
"What do you want to know?" Dad snapped his head up in confusion but I knew that he was faking it. His sky blue eye was full of corners but there was something off about him. Finally, after a few more moments of silence, he put down the confused charade.
"What happened? You would never lose a fight, especially not to a human-like Lex." I sighed heavily forcing my whole body to deflate as I thought back to that event 2 years ago that changed my life.
"I flew to school touched down on the ground when he walked out of the shadows with kryptonite, I was forced to the ground. While he grinned like a madman at me. I never got a chance to fight or save myself he made sure of that."
My tone was harsh and unfriendly, not something that you would hear from the son of Superman. I sighed and didn't realize how hungry I was until they laid the plate of steak in front of me.
I dug in not waiting for my father I'm sure that is rude but then again do I give a shit. I sighed to myself and looked at him he hadn't even changed I get that Kryptonians age very slowly but still.
I looked at him he seems sturdy, content but he was looking at me funny. "What?" I looked at him and he sighed and started to eat his burger only looking up to drink, his soda. God, I missed soda I drank a large gulp before looking at him.
"Noting you just haven't changed if anything you are more solitary." I rolled my eyes at him out of irritation, which only caused his to get angry as he glared. "You're ruder than before, that did change. There was a time where you would never dare to roll your eyes at me."
I laughed at him "No I just did it when you weren't looking super dad." He laughed at me as he spent the rest of the night watching me, eat all of the things that I hadn't had the chance to in CADMUS.
"I suppose now that people have seen you in public with me, we will need to buy you a pair of glasses." I rolled my eyes and this time it seemed like he had officially lost his patience. "Kon El I will only take that one more time."
I cringed inwardly at my full name as I spoke a politely as I could. "No offense dad but glasses won't change a thing only idiots would think that me wearing glasses would make me look any less like you. I not wearing them and you can't make me sorry."
He looked at me this curious look on his face and then he sighed and looked out of the window for a moment at the city he had sworn to protect. "I suppose that you aren't going to be in the spotlight fighting crime anyway." I nodded my head before looking at him he had this worried look on his face but he didn't seem any closer to saying what was bugging him.
"Kon?" I looked up for my 13 plates of food and look at him. "Yeah, dad?" I watched him smile at me and he sighed "Nothing I forgot what I was about to say." I laughed at him he was lying he just wanted to hear me call him dad again it had been two years.
"So how is cousin Korra." I looked up at him and he smiled sadly. "Fighting crime even though I told her it was a bad idea eventually they will link the two of us together and it will be a world of hurt for the both of us. But she is an El and she had to get her way all the time. It's hard to believe that she is older than me." He sighed and looked at the stars there really was something bothering him did it have to do with me or was it league business.
"Did mom join the league yet or does she still think that she is too good to take orders from how did she put it stupid little humans in tights." He laughed and nodded his head "She does some mission with me to keep her mind off of her missing son." I nodded my head and finished the rest of my meal before he paid the check and we walked out.
I walked into the house after dinner it seemed different more haunted than usual. "You're going to be staying in the cave of justice it's more secure and it would make me feel better while I am gone."
I look at him confused and then at the emerging figure coming down the steps. "I doubt mom will like that idea and where are you going." He laughed at rested a hand on my shoulder. "Kali get down here." I watched my mother descend the stair her dark blond curls a mess and her blue eyes glazed over with sleep.
But her eyes widen when she reached the bottom of the steps and smile wide at me. "Kon El you are all grown up." I laughed at her as she pulled me into a hug. "I'm not all grown up I'm 16 mom and I have only been gone for 2 years." She smiled into my shoulder before pulling away. "It had been longer than that Kon El."
I rolled my eyes at her and she simply smiled at me, unlike dad who found it annoying. She said that it should my strong will and pide as I El. She smiled at me pulling me into an even tighter hug "Mom I know that I am indestructible but your super strength is going to break a few ribs."
Eventually, she let go of me and smiled for a moment before placing a hand on my check and examining me. I yawned and I knew that my eyes had sleep in them. She sighed and looked at me one more time before spitting out her orders.
"Come one off to bed you are moving into the cave starting tomorrow." I look at her how could she know that unless she was eavesdropping. "Where are the two of you going and why do you want me gone so bad." They both laughed before looking at me. "We are heading off-world for a little while on a mission for the batman."
He did an exaggerated eye roll and I laughed at him. "so it would be better if you stayed out of sight until Lex Luthor can be put to a stop or until I know for sure that you are safe. Now off to bed." I nodded my head and ran up to my old room, not a thing was changed I am glad I didn't have a have a 14-year-old bedroom.
It was pretty basic an Xbox, flatscreen and black walls I didn't have posters of my favorite superheroes because it was overrated. I sighed and laid my head in my bed I didn't think that I would ever spend another night in my own bed again.
I thought that I would be stuck in that Cadmus pod until they order me to kill my own thought haunted me my whole time in that stupid pod having to kill what was left of the El would have been next cousin Korra.
I was to caught up in my thought to go to sleep I simply turn on the tv and watched the news there was already a distorted picture of my father's and some mysterious Superboy as they like to call me. I sighed and heard a knock at the door only to find my father standing in the doorway.
"Go to bed Kon El." I look at him he has this stern expression on his face that was unwavering. "Not tired" I get that he was worried about me and that I have been missing theses past two years but he was not going to order me around like this. I hated taking orders especially from someone that I haven't seen in 2 years and who I barely know at this point.
"Kon El I am going to tell you one last time tv off and go to sleep." I glared at him and turned off the tv before getting out of the bed and glaring at him "Whatcha going to do old man I'm not tired."
In one swift motion, I was placed over his knees and he had a belt in his swatted me a few times like maybe 10 even though I was indestructible he still has super strength and a leather belt.
In one more swift motion I was placed on my bed and the blankets were thrown over to me. "Don't make me have it come back in here Kon." I groaned and growled under my breath before drifting off to sleep.