Smallville: Dark Awakening
(This story is rated M for mature. Smallville is copyrighted 2001-2007 the CW Network. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are copyrighted above. All other characters are mine All Knight Rider references are copyrighted 1982-1986 NBC/Universal)
Chapter 2: Discovery
Reeves Dam: Clark and Trinity and Chloe moved down the stairs toward a basement that surprisingly , had been stored at The Fortress Of Solitude. Clark used his X-ray vision and looked behind a wall.
"Look!" He said, gesturing to Trinity to use her X-ray Vision. Chloe stared at the two and rolled her eyes.
"I hate it when you two do that," She said. Trinity shrugged her shoulders to the young woman and once again used her heat vision and saw the ship that had been hidden from the world since the 1st Meteor shower in 1989.
"Yep, that's it," Trinity said. She then used her heat vision to melt part of the wall. The three stepped in and saw the gold colored ship.
"How do we get in?" Clark asked as he saw the keypad that was overlaid with Kryptonian Hieroglyphics. Trinity smiled then turned to the Reporter friend who had accompanied them.
"Chloe how much time did you spend with Dr. Bonnie Barstow, the computer and cybernetic technician for the Knight Industries Three Thousand?" Trinity asked.
"Too much time. As a matter of fact, she gave me this," Chloe said, removing a small black box from her purse.
"What is that?" Clark asked. Clearly he had not done his homework on FLAG related missions.
"Michael Knight and the Original KITT had gone on a mission to stop an international thief. They were to steal some money off of a 18 wheeler without the driver knowing it. FLAG had ordered Michael to take the identity of an international bounty hunter. For the mission, Bonnie had designed a computerized locksmith which could discover and disable any lock or security system. Bonnie left that at Lois's apartment when the two last visited." Trinity said.
"Oh lovely. First you have your prototype stored at the farm, now it's technician is hanging out with a friend of mine who happens to work for a tabloid newspaper," Clark muttered. Chloe smiled.
"Lois also happens to be my roommate, so watch it or I might tell her your little secret," Chloe joked as she attached the small box to the keypad. The device began searching for the correct code sequence and within 5 minutes had found it.
"baby, we hit the jackpot!" Trinity said, excited to meet her cousin.
"Yeah, really great. Let's just find this sleeper Kara is in and wake her up," Clark said as the three walked up the ramp that had lowered. The ship, he said looked oddly familiar but he couldn't place it. He then issued flashlights to the two girls as they began examining the powered down shuttle. Clark had moved toward the bridge and Chloe and Trinity moved toward the rear of the shuttle. Clark stared at the holographic emitter which for some reason had been active.
"Why would this be active?" He asked himself. He then saw a holographic image he never thought he would see. A red haired Trinity Jean Knight boarding the shuttle.
Crap, He thought. He then moved with super speed to the rear of the shuttle craft.
"Guys, your not going to believe who was already here looking for Kara," Clark said as he saw the two girls. Chloe shined her flashlight around to see written in what looked like red ink the word bitch and Death to Krypton all over the walls and the nearby control board.
"I think we may already know," Chloe said. She then walked over to the nearby control board. She began pressing buttons. Finally the lights came up. They then saw a row of about 5 sleeper units. Cryo-stasis units, lined up all in a row. One of them held a dead woman and the other held a young woman still in it.
"Who's the dead woman?" Chloe said. Trinity grabbed the small Kryptonian ID unit on the woman's wrist.
"It's your aunt Lorina. She's dead. It looks like Trinity came here to find Kara but didn't know about the defense grid. She ripped into the sleeper unit and killed her. But why kill the aunt? Why not just override the defense grid?" Chloe said as she glanced at a security hologram of what must have recently taken place.
"Because apparently my mirror universe counterpart wasn't prepared for this ship. She may have used another way to get in but she didn't know the access code to unlock the sleepers. She just ripped into the one carrying our Aunt because according to the time designation, Lorina woke up first. Apparently she was to guide the ship in then wake up Kara. She never got that far," Trinity observed.
"Well how do we wake up supergirl here?" Chloe said. Clark stared at her.
"Nice. Can you use that lock thing again?" He asked as he wiped the water off the sleeper to see the gorgeous blond haired 19-year-old still in stasis. Chloe shook her head.
"It will need to recharge for a minimum of 12 hours. But I think this control board should activate it," Chloe said as she noticed a switch labeled in both English and Kryptonese, "Sleeper". She turned it to the left which she hoped would turn the unit off.
The Sleeper unit, after a few minutes began to glow a crimson red. The glass broke shortly there after and a naked 19-year-old woman stood there, then collapsed.
"Let's get her out of here," Clark finally said. He reached into a nearby storage bin and noticed a one piece Kryptonian garment. He and Trinity put the garment on the still sleeping young woman. They then carried her out.
"Where do we take her?" Trinity said as they walked back toward KARR. Clark sighed. He knew Martha Kent would not like his idea but it would have to do.
"Home. The Kent farm," He said after a minute. He wondered how finding this girl would help Trinity stop her sinister duplicate...
To be continued...
