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Prologue two - Settling in

"You know dear, I still can't believe that just happened." remarked Jonathan. After taking a seat at the table in their kitchen.

"Yes, I know. Out of all the places in the world, he arrived right here at our backyard, it's like all our prayers for a child have finally, been answered." Martha replied to her husband. Cradling Clark closer to her and trying to find something to feed him.

"Are you sure we can do this Martha. We are taking care of a baby who is literally out of this world." Jonathan wondered out loud.

"Uh-huh" Martha replied absent-mindedly, still searching. "Ah... Here it is." As she placed a bowl over the table top and poured some warm porridge into it. And she started feeding him.

"Are you, even, listening to a word I'm saying" Jon stated while watching his wife take care of the baby, his baby. And he couldn't stop the smile forming on his face seeing this.

"Yes, I have and I don't see why you are over thinking about it. Just think of it as if god have answered to our prayers and gifted us with a baby. Well, a super baby from outer space. Besides what do you suggest we do. We can't just abandon him after promising his parents, that we'll take care of their child. Now can we?" She replied still feeding Clark, who is now finishing up his second bowl with no sign of stopping. She chuckled at the porridge smeared face of her son. 'Her son', she liked the sound of that.

"I guess, you're right. We can't abandon him after all he's been through." He replied mulling over the message that came with the ship.

"Of course I'm right. You should know that by now." replied as she continued to feed him.

"I guess now it's time for the most important question." Jonathan stated seriously.

That got Martha's attention. "Oh. And that would be"

"When do I get a chance in feeding him, you've been hogging him all day!" exclaimed Jonathan.

Martha laughed at that. "Don't you worry about that. You'll get a turn in feeding him when he's 30 years old. Now he is all mine, isn't that right, Clark?" she replied. Making the baby gurgle in between his slurping.

"Please, hun." Jonathan pleaded with his best impression of puppy dog eyes.

Martha laughed a bit more and gave in. "Alright, you can feed him for a few minutes. I need to wash these dishes anyway." She replied while handing Clark over to Jon's eager hands.

"Hey, there kiddo. Aren't you glad you've got away from your mother?" Jonathan joked. Which earned him a slap on the back of his head from his wife and a giggle from his son.

"Speaking of mothers, how are we going to explain the fact we have a baby to everyone?" Martha wondered out loud.

"Well, I've been thinking about it. We could just say that a baby fell from the sky right in front of our doorstep" he replied with a straight face.

Martha rolled her eyes and replied "Ha ha Jonathan, that was hilarious. Now seriously what are we going to tell the others?"

"We could just say, we had him in secret. It's not like we have visitors that often. And we could say the mail got lost or something." He replied while trying to feed his son who was more interested in getting it all over himself and his father than eat it.

Martha chuckled "You should see yourself, Jon. The two of you are so adorable. I really wish I could save this moment like that pictures we saw in the paper"

"You mean like using whatever that made Jor-El's message or using those cameras?" questioned Jon

"Hmmm... Do you think there might be something like that in the ship?" She asked still chuckling at Clark

"Maybe. We could always check if there's anything in it?" He asked back while handing Clark the spoon to keep him occupied.

"I don't know. I mean there are a lot of people who couldn't do that." She replied half-heartedly while wiping her son's face, who is now looking at the spoon as if it holds the secrets of the universe.

"You know what, let's take a look inside and see if there's anything in it." Jon stated.

"Are you sure, dear?" She asked after making sure all the mess got cleaned.

"I guess so. I mean there is no problem in checking. Who knows what's there inside? For all I know, we might even find a couple of clean Superbaby clothes or something inside." He replied.

"You are not gonna stop calling him Superbaby, any time soon now, are you?" Martha deadpanned.

"Nope." He stated matter of factly. "I ain't gonna stop calling him that. Isn't that right Superbaby?" He finished playfully bopping Clark's nose. Earning him a squeak from the now named 'Superbaby'.

"Well alright then. Let's check it out tomorrow" She said picking up Clark who was dozing off with the spoon tightly in his grasp.

"Yeah, it's been a busy day already, for everyone. And as new parents, we should make sure Clark gets his sleep properly" He stated realizing how late it has gotten.

"Well, come on young man, it's time for bed" she told Clark seriously.

"He's Superbaby hon." Jonathan interrupted her.

"Fine. Come on Superbaby it's time for bed, there, Happy?" Martha said the last part to her husband. While she lifted Clark up, who looked up with his adorable baby blue eyes and squealed at her.

Jonathan couldn't fight off the smile that was forming on his face. Seeing his wife taking up the role of a mother like it was second nature to her. After turning off everything and making sure everything is locked he followed after them, he just hoped the life he had now stayed the same for the years to come.

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"Are you ready hun?" Jonathan asked his wife. As he and his wife neared the hidden ship.

After the last night's events, the family of three took a well-deserved rest and woke up much later than usual. Martha rose earlier than Jonathan and Clark, and she cooked a breakfast consisting of pancakes, bacon, and eggs for themselves and banana cinnamon porridge for Clark. They took turns in feeding their son and were amused by his never ending appetite. After breakfast, they decided to go out and do what they put off last night.

"Yes, I am. And quit worrying about me, let's just get this over with already." She replied to her husband's query while rocking Clark back and forth.

"Alright then, here goes nothing"Jonathan replied and placed his hand over the ship, causing it to become visible.

"So, you do know a way to get this door to open, Right?" Martha questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Jonathan cupped his chin, contemplating on what to do, and finally, he replied "Nope. I'm not sure what I have to do to get this open. It's not like it came with instructions."

"Great." She deadpanned over her husband's reply. She would have slapped him over his head if Clark wasn't in her hand. "Now what do we do, smarty-pants?"

Hearing the tone of his wife he knew that he'd be in trouble if he doesn't answer her carefully. "Maybe we can ask Jor-El to open this?". Hearing no complaints from his wife he tried calling out. "Hmmm... Hello, Jor-El it's me Jonathan, you know the guy you met yesterday. Ummm... I was just wondering if there's anything inside the ship that Clark can use now? So... umm, could you open this door please."

He waited a few minutes for any kind of sign. When nothing happened he turned around and faced his wife. "Well... That didn't work"

"Oh yes, I can see that it didn't work."

"Oh... Well if you think you can get it open, then, please be my guest" He replied with an exaggerated bow.

"My...Aren't you a gentleman" She replied rolling her eyes at him, which earned herself a wink, and she moved towards the ship. She ran her eyes along the smooth surface and found an odd square-shaped pattern at a particular point. After thinking it through she placed Clark's hand over the pattern.

The ship hummed to life. Suddenly, an antennae probe rose out of an outer panel of the craft's body, similar to what happened last night and scanned them.

She turned around and raised an eyebrow at her husband, who was doing his best impression of a fish, challengingly. The sound made the ship woke up Clark, making him squeal and gurgle out.

"How did you know what to do?" He accused his wife, baffled by what he just saw. "This explains the mystery of, why men can't understand women. You all came from outer space as well!" Which got him a jab to the ribs by his wife.

"I remembered Jor-El saying something about only Clark can open this. So, I gave it a shot." She replied with a smug smile for getting one over her husband again.

Before he could think of a good comeback the images of Jor-El and Lara appeared before them. Spooked of by their sudden appearance, the Kent's were at a loss for words.

"Hello, Jonathan Martha Kal-El. How can we be of service?" Lara stated.

Getting over her shock quickly Martha replied first "Hello, Lara Jor-El. We couldn't help but wonder about a few things and thought we should clarify it with you"

"We will answer whatever questions you have?" Lara answered.

"You said that Kryptonians were more advanced than us, humans. So, that would mean what may be bizarre to us, humans, would be considered normal for you, Kryptonians. So, we were wondering what we should be expecting from Kal." Jonathan asked best as he could without trying to provoke whatever's making this image. He was certain that if he were to make it mad it'd be the last thing he'd ever do.

"Your queries regarding Kal-El is admirable. As we have stated earlier Kryptonians are the Apex of evolution. We are stronger, faster and more intelligent than humans under home conditions. With the presence of your yellow sun, I've calculated that a Kryptonians abilities can increase exponentially. From my understanding, we might have additional abilities not found in normal conditions be present as well." Jor-El started his explanation.

"We are born by using a specialized birthing chamber. The Codex, picks the characteristics of the house you are born into. I was programmed to be the part of the Kryptonian Military guild like my family, whereas the house of El is part of the Science guild who are the ruling party in Krypton. For those who were born in to the military guild, we are born to have higher muscular build and quicker responses and is able to tolerate harsher environments. And those in science guild prefer to use their intellect." Lara continued after Jor-El.

"If it weren't for us Kal-El would have been born with only the choice of joining the Science guild. What we have provided Kal-El the greatest gift anyone in Krypton could have, the freedom of choice. He gets to follow whatever he chooses to believe in." Jor-El explained.

"As he's born without any of these predefined by the Codex, Kal-El would have both characteristics of the guilds. And with the yellow sun powering him, in time he could theoretically be stronger and more durable than anything I can compare to, and be as smart as, or even smarter than, Brainiac" He continued, surprising the Kent's.

"Brainiac? What's a Brainiac?" Questioned Jonathan.

"Brainiac is a planetary-wide supercomputer, a machine, that was designed by the combined efforts of the most brilliant minds in Krypton. Brainiac has a "12th-level intellect", allowing calculation abilities, enhanced memory and advanced understanding of mechanical engineering, bio-engineering, physics and other theoretical and applied sciences, as well as extensive knowledge of various alien technologies. For comparison, you could say that the population of Earth as a whole constitutes a 6th-Level intelligence." stated Jor-El.

"If this, Brainiac was so smart, as you said, then why didn't it warn anyone about the coming end of Krypton? It could have saved a lot of people if it had warned everyone in advanced" Martha questioned. From what little she could comprehend, this 'Brainiac', could have saved everything and this child in her hand wouldn't have been an orphan. And from the looks of it, her husband too have come to the same conclusion as well. She was heartbroken when she looked down at Clark, who was trying to reach out to the recordings of his parents as if they were there.

"When Jor-El broke into Brainiac's central unit to download all of Krypton's data he discovered that Brainiac had lied to the council so that it could secretly download itself into a satellite and escape the planet's destruction, rather than be ordered to waste time preparing an evacuation plan." Stated Lara shocking the Kent's. "According to it's programming, the survival of "Krypton's knowledge" is more important than that of its people. It had sensed the imminent destruction of the planet. In its mind, as long as the records of Krypton existed, the loss of the planet itself and all its living inhabitants was acceptable. It also knew that if word of Krypton's impending doom escaped, it would be forced to calculate a way to stop this, which Brainiac knew to be impossible as it wouldn't have time to save all of Krypton's history and would only distract it from the more essential task of saving Krypton's records."

Lara's answer made the Kent's horrified at the thought. How could a machine make such a decision? A decision which ultimately lead to the destruction of an entire race.

"That's just horrible... So many people... I... I can't even imagine" Martha sobbed out, holding Clark closer for comfort.

Jonathan embraced his wife and asked "Do you think, Brainiac is out there and do you think, he will come after Kal?" He was worried about this, thing coming after his family.

"Negative. From what I've understand, the wormhole that brought Kal-El here did more than shorten the distance. It also brought him back in time as well. The exact period he has transposed is unknown. There by, the probability of Brainiac coming here now are near zero." Answered Jor-El.

"Well, that's one problem we don't have to worry about right now." Jonathan said with a sigh. He was relieved a little in hearing that from Jor-El. And slightly surprised, knowing that his son should have arrived at a different timeline than he's now. He looked at his wife and realized that, they have gone off topic. "By the way, we were wondering if there's anything inside the ship that might be useful for taking care of Kal?"

"Negative. We could only send out a few things along with Kal-El without hindering the transportation. But we've been able to locate a Kryptonian scout ship somewhere in the northern hemisphere. It should house whatever Kal may need in the future." Lara answered Jonathan's question.

The Kent's were slightly disappointed that there wasn't anything else inside but, never the less, they were happy in just having Clark in their lives.

"By the way, when do you think Kal will start showing his power?" Jonathan asked before he forgets.

"By the rate at which his cells are accumulating the solar radiation, it would happen slowly at first. Later it will increase as he grow older." Jor-El answered.

"Before we go, there's something that've been bothering me. Why do the two of you speak as if you don't have any emotions?" This was something that's been bothering Martha for a while now.

"The answer to that is two folds. Kryptonians have emotions just like humans, but they are taught from an early age to suppress them and rely on logics instead. And also we've designed this interface to act as a guide for Kal-El. We couldn't afford the time to add our emotions to it without hindering the results" Lara answered to Martha's question.

"I think we should head back, hun. It's about time for everyone to start their day." Jonathan whispered to his wife. "We don't want anyone to notice us." He continued. Reminding Martha that they could not stay out for long.

"Yes, I think we should go back." She whispered back. She adjusted Clark over her shoulder and walked towards the ship and said "Thank you, Lara Jor-El for telling all of this to us. I think it's best for everyone here, that Kal be the one to talk to you next time."

"Very well. It's the best course of action"Jor-El stated, before they disappeared along with the ship. Leaving Kent's alone in their backyard.

"Well, I guess that's over?" Jonathan remarked, breaking the awkward silence that permitted around them.

"Uh-huh" She replied absent-mindedly still mulling over what she had just learned right now.

"Alright then, come on let's get you and Clark inside. And afterwards, I should probably go to the town and get a few things for our newest member." Jonathan commented again. Bringing his wife out of her musings. "Look hun, whatever happened, happened. We can't change the past, all we can do is make a better future for our son. So, let's put everything that happened here at the back of our minds and keep moving forward." He finished, looking right at his wife's eyes.

She thought over what Jonathan has said and finally replied. "I guess, you have a point. Let's just make sure Clark gets to live the life his parents have wished for." She finished with a kiss on her son's forehead. She vowed to herself that she'd take care of their child as best as she can.

"Well then, let's go inside. We are burning daylight here! We have lots to do." Jonathan said bringing his family back inside. He was unsure what's in store for them in the future but he was sure that the coming years are going to be the best years of his life. And he couldn't be happier.

"Oh and don't forget to hide the ship inside our barn, dear" Martha reminded him before she got inside.

Jonathan looked back at the ship and the barn house. "You'll help me move this, won't you dear?" Jonathan called back. "Dear?" He called again after hearing no response. "I guess, I'll go get the ropes" He grumpily said to no one in particular.

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AN

That's it for this chapter. Hope you guys liked it. The next chapter will move this story along a lot faster than this and will have a time skip.

Thank you for all the reviews. And as always all reviews are welcomed. And I don't think I can keep a schedule going for this fic. I'll try updating this as often as I can.