The Darkness of Clark Kent.

Chapter 4.

Clarks Hut, somewhere in Southeast Asia.

Clark sat in a chair, eyes closed and deep in thought. He had taken into consideration of the offer General Hummel had offered him. A place in the unit of the most elite of soldiers as an officer, with a goal to stop evil from the shadows, with a new identity. He read through the file given to him, which detailed the training required, as well as weapons, officer conduct, and the Force Recon code of Honor.

It was the code that got his attention, for the code detailed that by joining; you were doing this for the benefit of mankind, not for glory. Your name will not be published when you do a heroic act, you will not be a star with book deals, you will be a shadow whose goal is to fight for betterment of humankind.

When Clark heard footsteps, he looked up to see the two men from yesterday.

"Have you decided Clark?" asked general Hummel.

Clark stood up and looked the man square in the eye, "I accept."

The general smiled, "good, I'm confident you made the right decision. Pack up, we have a copter waiting, we leave in 2 hours."

Clark nodded and packed up what he owned, which wasn't much, just the cloths on his back and a few pictures. Soon, they were in a copter, and Clark was on his road to destiny.

1 year later, (1 year and 3 months since Clark's disappearance.)

Kent Farm.

Lois sat on the couch rubbing her forehead. The past year was rough she reflected.

First, there was Clark's disappearance, and then Lana was killed by Lex in a car bomb. Only Lana wasn't really killed, it was a clone, she had returned not long after, arriving on the Kent farm to see if Lois had found anything on Clark.

When Lois replied no, and that if she did she wouldn't tell Lana that had led to a massive fight. Lana argued that she had genuine feelings for Clark that she loved him and she knew he loved her to.

Lois had yelled back saying that Clark didn't love her anymore, and that she needs to stop trying to control him and leading him around like some sort of puppy dog and that she, herself, loved Clark.

Lana had yelled back, saying that Clark could never love a wannabe reporter who had to rely on the generosity of his mother.

Lois slapped Lana, hard, and told her that if she ever came back she would seek Shelby on her, and judging from how the dog was growling, he preferred it sooner rather than later.

Lois expanded her search by getting a partner, Jimmy Olsen, Chloe's boyfriend before her death. He had been deemed trustworthy by Martha, and been briefed on Clarks powers. He was accepting, saying he would help anyway possible.

Not long after, the Justice League had attacked one of Lex's facilities in Reeves Dam, and unintentionally released a Krytonian craft, and a girl named Kara.

The girl had caused some trouble at first, going into nursery's and playgrounds around the area looking for her infant cousin, Kal-El.

After Lois and jimmy cornered her, Lois explained to Kara about Clark, and Kal-El, about his powers and life in smallville, and finally his disappearance.

Kara had been devastated, thinking she had failed her uncle in being unable to raise her cousin as if he were her own son. But with prompting from Lois, had joined the search for Clark, but she had to first reclaim her craft, which was stolen by a rogue government agent.

When Kara and the Justice League finally located the craft, they found the facility empty with the exception of the body of the traitor agent, who was found dead with bullet holes.

That was a mystery to everyone, but they forgot it as they were all focused on securing the craft, which they were able to do.

Later, Oliver had been sending in reports that had raised many questions to one Lois lane. It seemed as if Lex's facilities were coming under attack by a rogue group. No one knew who they were; they just knew that they were good, damn good.

Then came the private life of Lois herself. A man known as Grant Gabriel had come to the farm asking to have Lois join the Daily Planet. He was apparently interested in her skills as a writer from when she was writing.

But Lois quickly learned he wanted her for other reasons. She didn't like that; it disgusted her to think a man would lie to her and hire her simply so he could try to get into her pants.

She declined the offer and chose to stay on the farm or with Martha in DC when needed. Unfortunately, Grant didn't like taking no for an answer.

He called Lois day and night; he sent her flowers and chocolates. Lois tried to get a restraining order, but somehow Lex got involved and stopped it.

Lois had even taken to having Jimmy stay over, and had invited Kara to stay as well. They were more than willing, for they felt like family.

To Kara, Lois was already family, all she had to do was get Lois married to Clark and it would be official, though no one knew that's what she was planning.

Lois was tired and sad, she missed Clark terribly, and the people of smallville missed him to, it was like part of the towns soul was missing.

She went up to Clarks bed and undressed, she then put on one of Clarks flannel shirts and a pair of pajama bottoms and pulled up the shirt to sniff in Clarks scent, it was all she had left of him. To night she was alone, Kara was in Europe trying to find a lead and Jimmy was in Metropolis working with Oliver late into the night.

She was about to climb into Clarks bed when a shadow came from behind her and covered her mouth. Taken by surprise, she tried to fight back but her arms were pinned to her sides and she slipped in darkness.