Smallville/Naruto

Metal Scourge

Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Naruto; Smallville is owned by Warner Brothers television and its creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar and is based on 'Superman' created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Manga series' Naruto' is owned by its creator Masashi Kishimoto and all characters featured in Naruto are the property of said author, all Smallville characters are owned by DC comics.

This work is strictly for Fan enjoyment and no profit is derived from it.

Fanfiction Written by; Dean Donnell.

Chapter 4

"Why didn't you tell me that Brainiac was on Earth?" Kara demanded as she and Clark worked at fixing the hole in the barn wall caused by Brainiac's uncontrolled flight through it.

"Because," Clark replied as he pushed a nail home in one of the boards he was replacing "when he came back you were halfway across the country with amnesia, plus before that I thought he had been destroyed," Clark sighed, shaking his head as he did "I should have known better."

"Never mind that," Kara replied dismissively "what we need to worry about is what to do about him now."

"Last time I went up against this thing he wanted me to release Zod," Clark told his cousin.

"But you destroyed Zod right?" Kara asked with an expression that practically begged him to say he had.

"I banished him back into the phantom zone," Clark replied "even if I was willing to kill a man it would be impossible to kill Zod now, he's not flesh and blood anymore."

"Apparently Brainiac is not going to try and get you to release Zod," Kara noted "but from what he said he hasn't given up on the idea of freeing him, for some reason he came after me though."

"But what reason could he have for coming after you?" Clark asked "logically his grudge would be with me for thwarting Zod's plans for this planet last time around."

Kara said nothing, glancing away as she did.

"Your father," Clark theorized, looking Kara squarely in the eye as he did "he made a lot of bad choices toward the end, is it possible that he and Zod were allies?"

"No," Kara replied flatly, unable to look away from her cousin's searching gaze "if there's one thing that our fathers agreed upon it was their hatred for Zod."

"Then why has he turned his attention toward you?" Clark wondered.

"I don't know," Kara replied uneasily "but when we go up against him it would be helpful if we could all stay in the same playing field for more than twenty seconds, or rather in the sky."

Tayuya was finding her first day of high school in this world to be an experience to say the least, the way things were done here was still something of a culture shock; so similar in some way and yet so different in others.

Her first two subjects for the day were physics and history, physics had been interesting, and history had required her to relearn a lot of things from scratch.

Of course she already understood the basics when it came to physics, but there were more advanced things here, such as Einstein's theory of relativity, seriously that man was a genius.

History had been fascinating as well, Tayuya was reasonably well versed in the history of the world she was from, but she only had a basic understanding of this world's history.

Today's history topic was a period in this world's history known as the Second World War, of all the lessons that she learned from this subject the one that she felt would stay with her the most was this.

Adolph Hitler was a certifiable nutcase, and those who followed him were idiots.

It was helpful that Bethany was in the same class as her for physics, and as it turned out she was good at physics and mathematical equations.

Tayuya was a smart girl but complex equations confused the hell out of her, mainly because she didn't have much experience with them, Orochimaru hadn't considered that kind of knowledge to be of any use to his soldiers.

During their morning recess the two talked, Bethany was a nice girl, though strangely evasive when it came to her family.

Tayuya got the feeling that maybe Bethany didn't have a very good home life.

For her own part Tayuya found herself occasionally dwelling on this morning's incident with Brainiac, a couple of times Bethany asked her why she had zoned out and Tayuya had simply laughed it off saying it was nothing, Bethany didn't pry.

It killed her not to be able to tell her new friend what was going on, but the fewer people who knew about this the better.

I hope we can find a way to deal with this, Tayuya prayed silently as she pored over her textbook problems in mathematics class before anybody gets hurt.