Part 4: Greetings Smallville, take me to your Krytonian Farm Boy!

The stranger then said something in a language that if a trained linguistic had been listening would have placed it as an unknown but most likely oriental tone based language.

Clark had never heard it spoken before but knew in a flash exactly what language it was and said the first thing in English that came into his head.

"You're not from Smallville."

Then for Clark the second biggest surprise of the barbecue happened.

The stranger looked at Clark and said in slow but even English, "That's right. I'm from where you are from."

Clark's eyes dropped from the no visible means of support sunglass lenses to the huge skull on the stranger's chest. In a glance he knew the skull wasn't quite right. The eye sockets too oval and large for the face. Also the teeth were too long. However if not a modern human skull there was no mistake that it was a big white skull staring back at Clark. It's at this moment that the realization hit Clark that this stranger was if nothing else really scary. And that's not in a good way.

Clark knew he was way out of his league with this stranger but had to do his best to save everyone. Clark went the diplomatic route first and moved his right arm in a brief half circle pointing to the others.

"I won't let you hurt anyone."

The stranger smiled and lots of blazing white teeth appeared.

"I didn't come all this way just to step on the ants."

'Well, that's a relief,' thought Clark as he let out a big lung full of air he had been holding.

The barbecue crowd moved forward to listen to the cryptic exchange going on between Clark and the stranger. They stopped even with Lex's group which was about twenty feet behind Clark and the stranger.

"Then why did you come to Smallville?"

"I came for you."

Clark felt a momentary twinge of panic but was surprised to discover the stranger's presence was now having a kind of calming effect. So he quickly recovered to continue questioning.

"My parents?"

"Dead"

"How?"

"War."

Clark would have said the answer didn't surprise him but to be honest everything about the barbecue was a surprise.

"Did you know my parents?"

"Very well. I introduced them to each other. You look very much like your father…but you have your mother's eyes; my eyes."

The floating sun glass lenses disappeared and Clark was looking into his own piercing robin egg blue eyes for the first time not in a mirror but in the face of the stranger.

"Why…why do you have my…. I mean my mother's eyes?"

"That's not all I have of your mother. She looked very much like me; except of course very beautiful. After all Lara was my sister; my twin sister. "

The silence hung in the air for a few seconds and then Jonathon Kent just couldn't take this any more and yelled out to Clark. "We don't know that Clark…this could be a trick."

The stranger never looked at Jonathon and completely ignored the outburst. Clark turned around to his father and in a cold clear voice said: "Dad, you know what could happen in a heartbeat so for everyone's sake do not say anything more."

Clark then took a deep breath a returned his attention to the stranger.

"Why did you take all this time to come to Smallville? After fifteen years why now?

The stranger looked briefly up and then dropped his eyes to look directly at Clark.

"Several different reasons: Smallville is a long way away from our home. It's not on our maps. And there is a war on. The same war that killed your parents and forced them to send you away to Smallville to save your life. There wasn't as much time to search as I needed between battles. War keeps us busy."

Clark took in the stranger's words and thought about his birth parents and was suddenly over come by an intense feeling of sadness. But a bitter sweet sadness that was mixing with contentment and acceptance that came from for the first time in his life finding someone exactly like him. The feeling of loneliness that haunted him each day of being the only one in the universe was fading.

………….To be continued as Part 5: I wouldn't Have Told Them Either!...

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