Hi,

A longer chapter. I would really appreciate reviews and constructive criticism.

vonny25

The next morning after getting dressed, Clark went to the living area to find his parents. They immediately noticed him, his mother hugged him, and his father patted his back, and kissed his forehead. He did not know what to make out of their affectionate gestures, and said in an angrier tone that what he intended, "I don't get it, why do you act all affectionate towards me? When you first abandoned me, and then without even asking for my opinion, took me away from everything, and everyone that is important to me." He was so angry that he was shaking, and then his eyes started hurting, and shinning red. He closed his eyes, and put his hands over his face, the pain was so intense that he fell to his knees. His concerned parents were by his side within seconds.

Clark continued to hold his eyes, and then cautiously opened them, still holding his hands in front of his face, which was a good thing, as a red beam came from his eyes, and hit his hands burning them, and then his eyes returned too normal. Clark left out an involuntary shout when his hands got burned. Jor-El was kneeling by his side, holding his shoulders, and Lara was calling her brother in-law asking him to come over immediately.

Zor-El got there, and found Clark laying on some cushions with his brother, and sister in-law at his side looking terrified. Jor-El told his brother what had happened. Zor-El first took care of Clarks hands putting a numbing ointment on them, and then ran a scan over his eyes. He said, "I cannot find anything wrong with Kal-El's eyes. I think we should take him to the hospital to investigate this further." Jor-El translated for Kal-El.

Clark had calmed down. He still had his eyes closed, as he was terrified of hurting someone. He said shyly, "I am very sorry, I did not mean for any of this to happen, but Lois can do the same thing, maybe she can help me, because it is my first time, and I don't know how to control it." Then thinking more about it he asked, "Mm, doesn't this happen to all Kryoptonians?"

Jor-El said, "No, Kal-El, I think it is related to you living for so long in a planet with a yellow sun." Jor-El translated for is brother. Zor-El said, "That makes sense, especially if you say it happens to Losi-Dru-Zod too." Lara was already on her way to try to get Losi-Dru-Zod, and see if she could help her son.

Over at General Zod's living quarters, the conversation was going a bit different. They were communicating in a mix of English that Zod, and Ursa had studied in preparation of getting their daughter back, and Kryptonian, as they realized Lois remembered some Kryptonian. Lois was saying, "So you are telling me that you send me to earth to save my life, but somehow you, and many other Kryoptonians were able to make it out of the planet, and then you waited over a decade before even bothering to look for me. Do you have any idea how dangerous that was for me?"

General Zod said, "Losi, we saw no other choice at the time, we wanted you to have a chance to live." Ursa said, "We are sorry, I guess you've had a pretty hard life based on the circumstances that the scouting team found you in. But you have to understand we could not bear to see you die."

Lois sighed, and said, "I understand, you gave me the best chance at life, based on your knowledge at the time. Don't worry, while it was a pretty risky thing to do, and I have been angry at you for years, it actually went pretty good."

Ursa said, "Would you mind telling us about your life on earth."

Lois looked at her parents and said, "Well my spaceship landed on a military base of all places, fortunately enough I got out before the military police showed up. By the way why did you send me to earth nude? Okay answer later, let me continue. The daughter of General Lane who was about my age had died in a tragic accident a few days before, but at the time she had been declared as a missing person since the body could not be found. I happened to walk in to his backyard. His wife found me, and decided that I was sent by God to take the place of her missing daughter. That is how I became Lois Lane, oldest daughter of General Lane, a five-star general in the American military. He started suspecting that I was not exactly human six months later, but by then I was his daughter, and there was no way he was turning me over to be tested like a Guinea pig."

General Zod asked, "How much do you remember of your life before we send you to Terra?"

Lois responded, "For years I did not remember much, the whole thing was very traumatic for me. I had all these feelings of abandonment, and betrayal, but it seems that seeing you again is bringing back memories. I guess you were decent parents before you sent me away. What I don't understand is why you kidnap me, instead of asking me if I wanted to come back. Good thing my human mother is already dead, or she would have gone hysterical. The General on the other hand knows I can take care of myself, and will think I am going through one of my phases."

Ursa said, "The commander of the scouting mission, felt you needed to be rescued, and acted on it." General Zod said, "After reading his report, and seeing the recording, it seems to me that he used good judgment, it appears you were being attacked by multiple humans, and you were clearly outnumbered."

Lois laughed, and said, "Yes, I can see why he thought that. I guess he was partially right. My younger sister Lucy who knew my only weakness on earth was Kryptonite, jumped me together with some of her friends. She only wanted to get my credit card, as she had already spent all her month's allowance. She would not have hurt me badly. She might be a bitch, but she is still my sister."

Ursa said, "What is a credit card, and how could that be so important that your own sister would hurt you over it?" Lois said, "My family on earth was pretty dysfunctional. A credit card is basically used to buy things, and since I was the oldest I got a bigger allowance than she did."

That is when they heard Lara knocking at the door, after explaining the situation, the house of Zod followed Lara to her living quarters. Lois went, sat by Clark, and said "What's up kiddo? I hear you are trying to have an indoor bonfire." Clark laughed, to his parents, and uncle relive, and said, "Lois, I think my heat vision kinda came in, and I am afraid to hurt someone." Lois told him "are your eyes hurting?" Clark responded, "Not anymore." Lois told him, "Then is safe to open them up." Looking at the adults she said, "I think Clark, and I need to go outdoors, so I can help him control his new power, without him burning the whole complex."

An hour later The Royal house of El, the most noble house of Zod, and Archduke Zor-El were outdoors. Clark, and Lois refused to wear isolation suits or helmets, as they said they needed the sun to recharge. Lois worked with Clark for about 3 hours until they were both satisfied over his control of heat vision, he at least could turn it on, and off voluntarily. On the way inn Lois, and Clark had to go through decontamination.

Later that night after dinner the parents of Clark sat with him on the cushions of the living room. Jor-El started, "Kal-El, first let me tell you that your mother, and I love you very much, you are our only son, how could we not? We never meant to abandon you, we only wanted to save your life, you must believe us. We also did not mean to take you from Terra without asking for your opinion, but the scouting team found you in a very dire situation, and decided you needed to be rescued. I must say that after reading their report and watching the recording, I agree with them. Isn't crucifying a method of torture, and death in Terra?"

Lara, had cried while watching the recording, and reading the report, she had nightmares from it. She added, "You can imagine their horror, and our horror when we learned how you were being treated on Terra. I don't care what you did, no one deserves to be tortured to dead. Whatever you did is not your fault but ours, for sending you to that planet by yourself with no one to love you, or guide you. What was there to ask, when you clearly were left to die."

Clark look at them first with a surprised expression, then with an amused expression, and finally started laughing under the concerned gaze of his parents, who could not find the humor of the situation. Finally, Clark stopped laughing, and said, "Well thank you. I can see you had good intentions, but I was not being crucified. I mean, I was, but not really. See on Terra I was starting High School, and my school Smallville High has a tradition of tying a freshman, that means one of the younger students which I was, to a pole for homecoming. I happened to be the unfortunate freshman that ended up tied up. I was unable to defend myself because they put a Kryptonite necklace on me, and Kryptonite was the only thing that I was vulnerable to on earth. The kids that did it didn't know. Eventually one of my friends, or my parents would have found me, and I would have been okay."

Jor-El said, "You mean that they did that to you without any provocation or reason. You might not think it's dangerous, but it certainly looked dangerous, and cruel to me. How can they let young people get away with things like that?" Clark sighed, and said, "It's not that I agree with what they did, and I would never do something like that to anyone. But they meant no harm, it was supposed to be a prank, if anything it was meant only to bruise my ego, but I would have got over it eventually."

Lara hugged him crying, and Clark hugged her back, as she was clearly distressed, and now he understood that his Kryptonian parents loved him, and cared about him as much as his parents back home. Lara eventually stopped crying, and said, "Kal-El, I cannot even imagine someone doing that to you without you giving them any reason, if before I thought it was wrong, now I am appalled. I am sorry my son, I don't know how many other cruelties you have gone through, without even being aware of the wrongs that have been done to you."

After his parents calmed down, Clark said, "Look, I understand how all this most look to you, but I was happy on earth, most people are good. I was found by the Kent's, and they are my parents, they have always been good, and loving towards me. I think they would have probably reacted like you, if they had been the one's that found me that night." Tears started rolling down his cheeks, as he said, "My parents must be worried sick about me. Nothing will stop them from trying to find me. My mom is expecting a baby. I just hope all the worrying does not affect the baby. I wish I could at least let them know that I am all right. Is there a way to send them a message?"

Jor-El put an arm around his son, and told him, "We will find a way to let them know you are all right. I met one of the Kent's on a trip I took to earth years ago, and I know they are good people. I was hoping that they would be the ones to find you and Losi-Dru-Zod, but it seems her ship went off rout after a meteorite hit it. I am happy you had good parents on earth, and I hope someday you will come to see us as your parents too."

Clark cleaned his eyes with the back of his hands, and said, "Thanks, and I think it won't be that hard to see you as my parent, now that I know the whole story. I can clearly see that you love me. Maybe is faith, after all as happy as I was on earth, and as hard as I tried to integrate, well I am not human, maybe I belong with other Kryoptonians. The thing is that I don't know the language or the culture, how am I going to be able to fit in?"

Lara smiled at Kal-El, touched his cheek, and told him, "We'll start tomorrow morning, I will help you learn the language, and the culture. Your father will help you with sciences, and math. Before you know it, you will be attending school with other kids your age."

The next day Clark, and Lois found themselves being homeschooled together. Clark was delighted, as he thought Lois was beautiful, and hoped to become a good friend of hers. Lois was okay with it, it was better than studying alone, and Clark seemed to be a good kid.

Lara was surprised to see that Kal-El, and Losi were not intimidated with the advance Kryptonian technology, and learned to use it easily, and naturally. When she asked her son about it, he smiled, and told her that while the technology was more advance that on Terra, the basics were not that different, and that he had been adapting to new, and more advance technologies all his life. It gave her food for thought, maybe the Terrans were more advanced that what she gave them credit for.

Learning the language was easier than predicted, as Lois and Clark had been able to remember a lot from their early childhood. They did not even have an accent, as it seemed the rhythm of the language came to them naturally. They kids were speaking fluent Kryptonian in a matter of 2 months. After much discussion between their parents, the Kryptonian educational specialist, and taking in to account the opinion of Lois, and Clark it was decided that it would be best for them to start attending school with the other children.

Clark and Lois were in for a cultural shock, as they were not used to the social structure, and it was plain weird for them to be treated as the high-ranking nobles they were. It was also hard to remember to avoid physical contact, as physical contact was deemed appropriate only between close family members in the privacy of a home. To help them out the social studies teacher suggested for them to take a virtual lesson on the beginnings of New Krypton.

Once at home that night, Clark told his parents, "Today the social studies teacher had Losi, and I watch a lesson on the foundation of New Krypton, and I was wondering if you would tell me more about it, and about the house of El."

Lara said, "Of course we will. Your uncle Zor-El, aunt Alura, and cousin Kara are coming for dinner today, and I am sure they can also contribute to the story." Clark smiled he liked Kara, she was fun, and helped him a lot at school, even if she was a couple of years younger than him.

After the guest arrived, and they were all eating, Jor-El decided to take the lead, and said, "The Royal house of El is one of the oldest in Krypton if not the oldest. When our old planet first united, it was a kingdom, and the rulers were from the house of El, as millennia past, we became a democracy, and finally what I can only describe as a dictatorship by the council of science. When I, and a friend of mine realized that Rao was going to explode we immediately told the council, and my good friend General Zod backed us up with an escape plan. The council however refused to listen to us. My poor friend ended up being tortured to dead. I saved General Zod by sending him to the Phantom Zone. Being of the Royal house of El protected me to a certain degree, and I was simply placed on house arrest. I brought Zod back to Krypton in secret, and we decided to give you, and Losi-Dru-Zod a chance at life. My calculations were wrong by a few days, but the destruction of our planet did start on the day I predicted. Fortunate or unfortunately one of the firs buildings to collapse was the one of the council of science while most of the members were in the building. After that many of the Kryoptonians looked at the house of El, and at the house of Zod to save them. We did the best that we could, but the council of science had stopped us from having enough ships to save everyone. Of the 10 billion people, we could get 10 million in to spaceships, mostly those of noble houses, the military, and those with important skills. Another 15 million are still waiting to be rescued from the Phantom Zone. We will be able to start getting them to New Krypton as soon as we are sure that living in this planet is safe. We have returned to a monarchy at the request of the survivors who think the planet will do much better under the rule of the houses of El and Zod."

Clark thought about it and asked, "Does that mean that I am truly the heir to the Kryptonian crown, I thought my classmates were only joking." Lara smiled at him, and told him, "You are Kal-El. I hope you will eventually get used to the idea, this is the 5th time that you have asked us this question in one way or another." Clark blushed, and said "I'm sorry, it must be annoying for me to ask the same question over and over. It …how can I put it …shocking to me, as I have always considered myself the son of humble farmers, and I never even thought about a career in politics." Then he smiled, and said, "But as you say mom, I will eventually get used to the idea."