Disclaimer: Same as previous chapter

AN: Had to adjust the timeline for BtVS and Smallville so they coincide with each other.

Chapter 2

"So," Xander said, "last survivor of a dead planet, how did it die?"

Azmuth looked at him and said, "The Kryptonians were one of the most advanced races in the universe but they fell due to several things, an arrogant scientist who further destabilized their planet's core causing the whole thing to blow."

"Wow," Xander said, "this guy sounds like a moron to me."

"He wasn't a moron, he was arrogant and arrogance destroys more worlds then war or nature combined," Azmuth said.

"Now my race, the Galvins, had very little to do with the Kryptonians but I met one of their scientists, his name was Jor-El, he was a good man. That is his son who we witnessed crashing to earth," Azmuth said.

"Cool, so does he have any powers?" Xander asked.

"He does actually," Paradox said, "his race has very interesting side effects after being exposed to yellow sunlight, very interesting indeed."

"So what do you want me to do? Guide him or something like that?" Xander asked.

"No, just being his friend and someone he can trust will be enough," Azmuth said.

"Yes and don't expect him to reveal his powers to you either," Paradox said, "He learned to be rather secretive about them. At the point we are going to introduce you to him one of his best friends has left town and he could use a new one."

"Ookay, sounds good to me," Xander said, "so, where am I going to be living here in Smallville?"

"You will be living next to the Kent's, there is a vacant farm there so it will be a good place for you," Paradox said.

"Now I am having a friend who will come and live with you," Azmuth said, "his name is Max Tennyson, he will serve as your guardian while you are living here so heed his advice."

"You can count on me guys," Xander said.

Paradox teleported them to the farm where he would be spending the rest of his high school years.

"Nice place," Xander said as he walked into the house, "so, when is Max going to be getting here?"

"I am already here kid," they heard a voice coming from the kitchen.

Xander saw an older man wearing a bright Hawaiian shirt.

He went to Xander and shook his hand, "name's Max Tennyson, I will be helping you kid."

Azmuth looked at Max and said, "I am indebted to you for doing this, its not going to be easy."

"Hey Azmuth, from what you explained to me I don't expect it to be easy. But lets talk over supper, I made squid burgers," Max said.

Xander looked at Paradox, "did he just say squid burgers? Is it too late for the eye gouging thing?"

Paradox smiled and said, "yes it is, but don't worry his food may take some getting use to but soon you will wonder how you got along without sea slug stew."

Xander's face turned a very bright green.

Max looked back at Xander and said, "The bathroom is upstairs."

After Xander came down from the bathroom Max sat him down and put one of the burgers in front of him.

"Eat it, you'll like it. I promise," he said.

Xander took a bite of it and started to cough violently.

"Don't worry, it grows on you," Max said kindly.

"Yeah, so does mould," Xander muttered.

Max laughed, "Oh, you are going to be fun, you remind me of my grandson Ben."

Paradox looked at Xander and said, "Why, you are right Max; he does indeed have a lot of Ben's good qualities and a few of his bad qualities."

"Don't worry," Max said, "I can handle him but Xander finish your dinner or no dessert."

Xander choked his way through dinner and sighed, 'well at least it was kind of food,' he thought.

"So Max, what is for dessert then?"

"Well kid, you have to start eating healthy, so its yogurt," Max said.

"Oh good, I like yogurt," Xander said as he began to eat it.

"Made from yak milk," Max added.

Xander looked at the yogurt on his spoon and shrugged, "well, it tastes good," he said.

"Good, you can deal with new and odd food quickly, that bodes well for our relationship Xander," Max said. "And Xander," Max added, "you can call me grandpa, okay?"

"Sure, I guess I could call you that. Grandpa." Xander said.

Azmuth looked at Xander and said, "We altered your records so that if anyone thinks of looking for Xander Harris they won't find any. To the world now you're Alex Tennyson."

Xander nodded blankly; 'wow,' he thought, 'they even changed my name, cool.'

Paradox looked at Azmuth and smiled, they had made the right decision bringing these two together.

"Now," Azmuth said, "we have to get going, I am sure your new neighbours will be coming by to greet you and we might raise questions."

"Okay, you should go now. I believe the Kent's are coming to welcome us to Smallville," Max said.

Paradox nodded, he picked up Azmuth, looked at Xander and said, "Be good okay? I will be stepping in from time to time to check up on you."

"Okay Paradox, I guess we will see you around," Xander said.

"You will indeed see us both around from time to time," Azmuth said.

"Hey buck up kid, you're not alone; you got me and I will help you adjust to your last year of school," Max said.

"Hey wait up, what do you mean my last year? I was only halfway through my second to last year," Xander said.

"Don't worry about that, Paradox and Azmuth handled everything including your age. Now you're 18 years old legally," Max said.

"How the hell did he do that?" Xander muttered.

"If you ask him Alex he will say time travel and," Max added, "It doesn't hurt to have some friends on the inside."

"Now, let's get ready for our guests," Max said cleaning up the dinner plates.

Half an hour later the doorbell rang, Xander rushed over to get it.

"Hi," A pleasant looking woman said, "I am Martha Kent, this is Jonothan," she said pointing to the man behind her, "and this is our son, Clark."

Clark went to shake his hand and said, "Hi, welcome to Smallville. I hope you like it here."

As Clark touched his hand the Omnitrix began to send a silent message to his brain, 'Kryptonian located.' Xander sighed and thought, 'no surprise there, I already know that.'

Xander smiled and said, "Xander Tennyson, nice to meet you and also I am sure that I will like it here and this is my grandfather Max."

"Well, your gonna love the school, I can introduce you to my friend Chloe, she can help you around and hey maybe you could help out with the Torch," Clark said.

"The Torch, what's that?" Xander asked.

"It's the school newspaper, its pretty good," Clark said.

"So," Martha asked, "where did you two come from?"

Xander said, "Sunnydale, it's in California a couple of hours north of LA."

Jonathon said, "Sounds nice. So what brings you to Smallville?"

"Uhhh," Xander said, he didn't know how to answer that question, he looked at Max.

Max spoke up, "his parents were killed in a gang fight there. Sunnydale has a lot of gang related deaths so I decided to move him here; I hear it's safer here."

Clark muttered, "I wouldn't know about that."

Jonothan said, "well I am sorry to hear that, it must have been hard on you son."

Xander said, "Oh, it was hard on me Mr Kent."

Martha looked at him and thought, 'that poor boy, thankfully his grandfather was here with him. Maybe I could invite them over for dinner sometime."

After some small talk the Kent's left.

Xander said, "Well, they seem nice don't they Max?"

Max smiled, "yep, they are good people and like Paradox said; Clark will be needing help soon."

Xander smiled, "So, he was the alien? I'm kinda disappointed; I was expecting tentacles or something like that."

"Yeah, did the Ominitrix tell you that?" Max asked.

"It did, but I already knew, Paradox and Azmuth told me who he was," Xander said

"Well, not every alien has tentacles Xander," Max replied.

"But anyways Max, I think I might patrol the town to see if there is any vamp or demon activity," Xander said.

"I am not sure you will find any vampires here Xander, the whole area seems to be clean of them. Most demons also avoid this place," Max said

"Wait, why would they avoid this place? And for that matter I just said demons and vampires are real, why aren't you denying it?" Xander said.

"I was with the Plumbers and we saw more then just aliens I can tell you that," Max said.

"Really, I didn't know Plumbers got to fight aliens?" Xander said.

"It was more of a department name, I was actually a cop. We handled cases involving aliens, though sometimes demons came into the picture," Max said.

"So why don't demons come here? They don't like small towns or is it the atmosphere?" Xander asked.

"No, usually demons avoid small towns like this one, if any unexplained death happened people would be all over it," Max said.

Xander thought to himself, 'it makes sense and there would be more prey in large cities.'

"But that doesn't explain at all why they avoid this place?" Xander said.

"I assume Paradox showed you when the meteor storm hit, right?? Max asked.

Xander nodded and then said, "It also looked like it did some damage before we left."

"Well, it did more than that; those meteors contained a substance called kryptonite. Now this mineral has a bad effect on kryptonians, like your new friend Clark, but it has a even more extreme effect on supernatural creatures like vampires," Max said.

"Extreme? How?" Xander asked.

"Its radiation usually destroys them in seconds, they would be safer in a leaking boat in a lake of holy water," Max said.

"Ouch!!" Xander said, "I guess that's a good reason for them avoid this place."

"It is, and the radiation altered the blood chemistry of the some of the people here turning them into what they call 'Meteor freaks'." Max said.

"Lovely, instead of demons they get mutated humans," Xander said.

"Now why isn't Clark affected by this radiation, he's from Krypton so why isn't he dying?" Xander asked.

"The background radiation is to low to affect him in any way, but demons and most other supernatural creatures are way more sensitive to it than he would be," Max said.

"Can I send a chunk back to Sunnydale sometime Grandpa Max?" He asked.

"Not sure that would be wise, as of right now the only ones who know about kryptonite's effects are you, me and some other ex-plumbers. I really don't want the watchers council coming here and taking all of the mineral," Max said.

"So how did you know to call it Kryptonite anyways Grandpa Max?"

"Well, actually Paradox told me what it was. The plumbers only knew it as element 0," Max said.

"But anyways, go on your patrol Alex. See if you can find one of these meteor freaks, you might be able to stop it," Max said

"You can count on me Grandpa Max and call me Xander," he said as he activated the Omnitrix. He turned into a blue moth-like creature.

Xander unfurled his four blue wings and began to patrol Smallville, he passed by the Kent's house.

Clark was reading when he had heard a sound by his window, he saw a blue moth like creature fly by and it looked like it was looking for something. He rushed out to follow it; he saw that it was heading towards Smallville.

'God damn it, looks like its going to attack the town,' he thought.

"Hey," Clark called out, "Get back here!!"

Xander looked behind him and said, "What do you want?"

"Get back here, if you're going to attack the town you have to go through me," Clark said.

"Hey, not attacking here. I'm just seeing the sights," Xander said.

"Like I am going to believe that," Clark said as he picked up a heavy rock and flung it at Xander.

Xander quickly went intangible as the rock went through him.

"HEY!! You could hurt someone like that," Xander screamed.

"That's the idea," Clark yelled as he blasted Xander with heat vision.

"Hey cut it out, that tickles," Xander laughed.

"Since your not going to leave me alone, how about you CHILL!!" Xander screamed as he phased through Clark freezing him.

Clark muttered, "Bastard."

"Hey, I didn't start this fight but I ended it right now, how about we leave each other alone okay?" Xander said.

"You're just going to attack innocent people," Clark said chattering with cold.

"No, I am not. Good guy here okay," Xander said, "I was just going to patrol when you attacked me."

"Okay, maybe I overreacted but you do look pretty weird, okay? Anyone could have made the same mistake," Clark said.

"Yeah," Xander said, "but hey, gotta go. See you around sometime."

Clark watched the moth like creature fly away, he thought, 'what the hell was that thing?' He would ask Chloe about it tomorrow.

Xander sighed as he continued his patrol. That was annoying; he was supposed to be friends with the guy and they started to fight right away, great way to begin a friendship.

Max was busy making Xander's school lunch when he heard the door open, he looked and saw Xander, still in his Alien form, come in looking a bit dejected.

"Hey Xander, what happened?" Max asked.

"I got attacked by Clark, I guess he thought I was some kinda monster or something," Xander said.

Max rushed over and checked Xander over.

"Did he hurt you Xander?" Max asked.

"No, he didn't hurt me. I managed to fight him off due to my ice powers," Xander said.

"Good thing he is still learning them, if he had been at full power he could have hurt you," Max said.

"I got that actually, thank god for ice powers huh?" Xander said.

"Listen to me now Xander; Clark is going to become very powerful in time and you could get hurt badly if he persists in attacking you," Max said.

"So what do we do? Hope for the best that he doesn't attack me?" Xander said.

"No, Clark has a great deal of powers but you have the powers of over a million different aliens. I want you to start training in the use of the powers of the Omnitrix, just in case," Max said.

"Okay Grandpa Max," Xander said.

"Now, you have to get ready for bed okay Xander?" Max said.

"Yeah, I am pretty tired," Xander said.

"Good night Xander," Max said.

The next morning Xander woke up to Max saying that it was breakfast time.

"So, what's for breakfast Grandpa Max?" Xander asked.

"Eggs and bacon," Max said, "and I had some left over squidburgers for lunch for you Xander."

Xander devoured the food and rushed to get the lunch bag in an effort to get to the bus on time.

"Hey," Max called, "be home as soon as you can, you will have homework to do and also some training with the Omnitirx, okay?"

Xander looked back and said, "sure thing Grandpa Max."

As Xander got on the bus he saw Clark, who waved him over.

"Hey Xander, how was your first night here?" he asked.

"Not bad, how are you?" Xander asked, "You look like you got a bug or something like that."

"Ah, must have come down with it last night," Clark said.

"Oh, Xander; this is Chloe Sullivan," Clark said pointing to a blond girl in the seat behind him.

"Uhhh, hi Chloe, it's nice to meet you. I am Xander Tennyson."

"Nice to meet you too," she said, "and welcome to Smallville: home of the weird and strange."

"How did it get that nickname Chloe?" Xander asked.

Chloe went on to explain about the weird things that happened in Smallville.

"So Xander, where did you come from?" She asked.

"Oh, I came from the true home of the weird and strange: Sunnydale," Xander said.

"Hmmm, I will have to look that up," Chloe said, "not sure you can beat us in weirdness."

AN: The current alien that Xander turned into was Big Chill.

TBC

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