Smallville: Days of Future Past

(Smallville is ©2001-2011 The CW Network & DC Comics. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are ©2001-2011 The CW Network & DC Comics. Any and all Knight Rider Elements are ©1982-1986; 2008 Universal Studios)

Chapter 2: Message in a Bottle

The Fortress of Solitude: Clark stared at the darkened ice building that had been built from 5 stones of power that had formed one crystal that built the Fortress of Solitude. He stared at the darkened master Control panel. He touched one crystal and then touched more in a particular sequence. The Fortress lit up after years of non-use. He remembered the last time that the Fortress had been used. Shortly before his battle with Zod, the United States Senate had written a piece of legislation called The Vigilante Registration Act but his mother, Senator Martha Kent had fought it using both Checkmate and other resources at her disposal to stop it. He then pressed another crystal sequence to bring up a 3-Demensional holographic screen of the world and then brought up a holographic keyboard and typed in the search pattern for the VRA and it brought up news information about how General Sam Lane had supported it, but Martha Kent had voted against it, and how she had lost. Then it brought up The KARR project.

"What does Wilton Knight have to do with the Vigilante Registration Act?" He asked. He was curious how Trinity's adopted father had something to do with the VRA. It then brought up an aged video of a prototype vehicle that was being sought by the US Government being designed by Knight Industries and how a girl & her boyfriend had intercourse in the not-yet-programmed vehicle.

"Tap into Watchtower and run facial recognition program on who the girl is," He instructed. It took a few seconds and the name Lutessa Lena Luthor came up under an assumed name of Dr. Alicia Garrison.

"What was Lutessa's given name after this incident?" He asked troubled how once again a Luthor had caused trouble. The name Tess Mercer came up and a picture of an elderly woman at an Orphanage home came up as well.

"Great. Father, why didn't I know she was a Luthor?" he said in frustration to no one in particular. Then he heard the voice of Jor-El.

"Because my son, I knew she would have value to your mission. She is a Luthor, who is your mortal enemy just as the House of Zod was my mortal enemy on Krypton. But Tess Mercer as she is known to you has the same fallen nature that all humans do. The desire for good, but a propensity for evil flows through her as well. Kal-El, be warned that the propensity for evil has brought the evil full force in your own time. The dreaded master of the planet Apokolips, Darkseid has infected the 21st century, but you have a problem in this time that you must deal with. The Luthor family has designed clones thanks to the brilliant but human mind of Lex Luthor. To that end, The Luthor family has stolen the leadership of the United States and has branded people like you as terrorists. He has done what General Zod did to Krypton. He made the United States a prison state and he has somehow cloned you and that clone doesn't have the moral compass that you have been born with and were given by the family I sent you to. The Kent family has survived but has been watched for years. This clone of you, Clark Luthor has none of the morality you have given to you by Jonathan & Martha Kent. He is a murderer. The Book of Rao sent you here by that desire to stop Clark Luthor. Kal-El, you must do something. Or else everything your Justice League will have fought for will die in vain. I had a hand in forming The Justice Society of America in the 1950's in California but was stopped after I left the Earth. The Justice Society of America wasn't super beings like yourself or your sister or any of your current members. They were business men, doctors, lawyers who had seen powerful men like Lionel Luthor rise and become corrupted by their rise to power. You must stop the Luthor clan or else Lex Luthor will plunge this world even further into darkness," the voice of Jor-El said as a holographic image took shape.

"I thought you went to New Krypton?" Clark asked. The holographic image nodded.

"I did. But I left my image imprinted on this Fortress of Solitude's computer. There is one who will aid you. You must seek out Trinity Jean Knight and reactivate The Brain Interactive Construct. Only together can you stop Clark Luthor and the reign of terror he has begun," Jor-El said.

"I need to send a message to Trinity in the past to not only discover the relationship Tess had with KARR and the Knight family tree but also discover why the meteor shower that happened in 1989 was hidden here in the future," Clark said as he brought up the recent discovery that The Daily Planet had discovered.

"My son, you can send a coded message to her asking her to go to the past. Her past, to discover not only how Tess could be apart of the Luthor family tree, but also if the Luthor family could manipulate the genetic pool gene to create a clone. It was done on Krypton once, and it must never be allowed to happen on Earth," Jor-El said. Clark began to type on the holographic keyboard in ancient Kryptonese and wrapped the language in a particular file so Watchtower would pick it up out of the millions of files that streamed on the internet in the 21st Century.

"There is someone here you must meet as well. The very woman who you are sending that message to. As you know we Kryptonians age very slowly on Earth thanks to our being in a solar system with a yellow sun. Seek out the Future version of Trinity Jean Knight. She runs Watchtower in the past to keep track of the current President of The United States movements. You must not reveal yourself to anyone here or else all will be lost. Go my son and bring light to this dark and depraved world," Jor-El said, and the hologram disappeared. He began to search the world for Trinity and after he had found her he sped off using his Super Speed….

To be continued…