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Yes I think the resemblance will factor in most of the events. And there will be some information on the military depending on how these chapters turn out :) I see Clark as a warrior and scientists as well but right now, he does not have his powers as stated in Chapter 9 but who knows how it will all turn out :) Thank you for your wonderful comments and reviews and hope that you and the other readers will continue to enjoy this story
Thank you again for all of your reviews and please continue to send in more! Thank you! Here's chapter 10!
Planet Krypton
A few minutes earlier
Diana, princess of Themyscira, walked around the dark cave on her own. The cave was unlike she had ever seen from Themyscira and the difference was somehow exciting for her.
As soon as their space ship had arrived on the Kryptonian atmosphere, Diana became fascinated at the unknown environment that stood before her and her space ship's window. Her face leaned on the window as her eyes continued to scan the whole central city of Krypton. Her attention was too much fixated on the scenery that she didn't notice her mother called out to her.
"Diana?" her mother stood on the other side of the window
"Yes mother?" she finally looked up
"Look over here" the Queen pointed out the window towards what Diana realized was a cave covered in leaves and branches in the middle of a forest
"Is that a cave?" Diana wondered, "It's a really big cave"
"It is," her mother nodded, "it was said that that cave served a great purpose to a great civil war between scientists and soldiers tens of years ago. Since the ending of the war, it was preserved as a landmark along with the forest around it"
"It sounds fascinating" Diana whispered to herself, unaware that her mother heard her
"Diana why don't you explore the cave?"
Diana shot up to look at her mother, confused, "Now? I can't possibly go now and explore the cave. I have to meet with the King and Queen of Krypton with you. It's disrespectful if I don't. As a princess-"
"As a princess, it is alright to take a break from your duties" her mother interjected, "besides by the time we arrive in the Space Station, the whole pleasantries would only consist of me and Queen Lara's. I will ask for forgiveness until you meet with them later" she placed a hand on her daughter's shoulder, "right now, it is time for you to take a break. You have commanded over the ship for more than a whole day"
"But-"
"General Philippus!" Hyppolyta called to her general, ignoring her daughter's plea, "please tell the captain of this ship to land us in the forest, just to drop my daughter off"
"As you wish your highness" the General bowed
"But mother-"
"We will come and pick you up later" Hyppolyta smiled to her daughter," explore as much as you can until then"
Diana gave out a huge sigh as she wondered what her mother was thinking: did she do it out of pity for her daughter? Or was there a different intention? Still… either way, Diana was given permission to explore the fascinating cave she had heard about. When she was dropped off, she saw that there were people outside of the cave and so she decided to enter through the back, avoiding any confrontation. She wondered if they really were Kryptonians since they wore different clothing than the ones she saw Kryptonians wore before. Diana decided to shrug the thought off as the only thing she wanted to do at that moment was to explore the cave.
She touched the rough and spiky texture of the cave and examined them. Sure enough, they were tens of years old but nowhere near crumbling. Suddenly, she noticed the ground stopped before it touched the other side of the wall. As she approached it, the ground and ceiling shook. She tried to run away from the hole on the ground but was forced to get closer when rocks blocked her exit. She lost her footing by the edge of the ground and before she fell, she felt a shooting pain on her leg.
She held her hand up high to try and grab something to hold onto as she fell. There wasn't anything until-
"Hang on!" a strong voice called out to her
She finally realized that she was holding onto somebody's hand. She was caught by somebody she didn't know. She felt the strong touch of the person's hand and she felt… at ease
"Holding on to me might leave a numbing pain on your arm," she shouted back, "would you mind pulling me up?"
"I would but… right now I have a couple of rocks piled on my back. I can't move very much" the voice told her. The strong and deep voice from the person led Diana to believe that it was a man who held onto her hand. It should've made her felt uneasy but she was more than comfortable instead.
"A couple of rocks?" she was in disbelief, "with enough force from those rocks, they could damage your body. Are you okay?"
"My body can take it" he replied to her
She didn't answer at first but then, "You must be quite strong"
"Quite" he weakly laughed, "Listen, I can't pull you up without help. Would you mind swinging your body so my arm could swing you up?"
"Forgive me but I seemed to have injured myself from the fall," she had a low voice as she said it. She was ashamed, "it will be a few minutes until my wound is healed and strong enough to swing"
As if she couldn't have been anymore embarrassed of her situation she asked him, "Would you mind if I hang onto you just a little bit longer?"
It wasn't long until he replied, "You definitely can… I'll just keep holding onto you then"
And she did. His hand was strong and comforting as well as reassuring. It was as if no matter what happened, his hand will never let go of hers- she will never fall.
"My name is Clark, Clark Kent" he called out to her, "may I ask what your name is?"
Diana paused. She didn't know if she should reveal her identity to him- her identity as the princess of another kingdom- from another planet. She wanted to introduce herself as who she was: not as Princess Diana or as a future queen but as Diana… just Diana.
It took her a while to answer, "Diana"
"Well Diana it's nice to meet you" he replied
"It is a pleasure to meet you too"
Finally, Diana's wound seemed to have healed. She swung her whole body back and forth while she held on to Clark's hand. He, on the other hand, helped her by swinging his arm with her until she was high enough that she spun her body high up in the air and landed on the ground beside him.
Diana couldn't see his face as he was lying down on his stomach and due to the rocks on his back, he couldn't turn his head. Diana didn't hesitate any longer and removed the rocks from his back one by one and threw them over the edge. The rocks were heavy but Diana was strong, she has trained her body since she was a small child.
"You're strong" Clark commented
Diana smiled as she looked at him, "I know"
Clark finally felt his body lightened as the rocks on his back were removed. Diana helped him slowly get up by carrying his arm on her shoulder. She then helped him lean on the boulder beside him. He leaned on the boulder as he put his hand on his shoulder due to the pain; he finally looked up to the woman in front of him.
And there it was. The most beautiful face he had ever seen. It was as if every feature on her face was perfect: the nose, the mouth and especially… those blue oceanic eyes. Her long black hair dangled on her back flawlessly. She wore a light brown cloak all over her body with a golden pin that tied her cloak in the middle, on her chest. He was struck by her beauty that he failed to hear her.
"Are you okay?" she asked him
Clark finally snapped out of his thoughts, "Y-Yeah I am, thank you" he smiled to her as he rubbed the back of his neck from embarrassment, "how about you? Are you okay? Is your wound healed?"
"Yes" she smiled, "thanks to you. I am eternally grateful to you for saving my life"
"Please don't" Clark weakly laughed, "Logic isn't needed when saving a person's life. It's common sense. It's just luck that I was able to reach you in time"
Diana continued to smile, "Then I should account myself as a very lucky woman"
Clark then felt blood flowed from his forehead. He tried to wipe it off with his hand but it just made it worse. Suddenly, he felt Diana's touch one again, but with a cloth. She was wiping the blood on his forehead with the cloth on her hand.
"Thanks" he told her as he blushed
"No problem"
Clark stared at her face once more. He still couldn't believe the magnitude of her beauty. It was too unreal for him. At that moment, he wanted to know everything about her.
"Forgive me for being straight," he began, "you're not Kryptonian are you?"
She paused at first but continued wiping the blood and wound, "I'm not. You're not either are you?"
After Diana finished wiping the blood off his face, he shook his head and replied, "No. I came from the planet Earth. I came here as a reporter under a programme introduced by the King and Queen of Krypton for us Earthlings"
"A reporter? What is a reporter?"
Clark was surprised. It was either she didn't watch a lot of TV, lived in a world without a TV or has not seen a lot of the world. He explained to her either way, "A reporter is a person who reports the news to a huge number of people whether through newspaper or TV"
"I'm sorry" she showed a confused look on her face, "what are a newspaper and a TV?"
Clark's mouth opened in shock. He couldn't find any other reason why she didn't know what those common things were. Still… he had a feeling he would enjoy teaching her all of those things and perhaps more. And even though it would take a lot of time in explaining to her some of the other stuff he grew up with, he didn't mind. He wanted to take his time… he wanted that moment with her to stay as long as possible.
Clark did end up explaining to her a lot of things from Earth: newspaper, TV, the types of transportation there and the delicious foods. All through their talk, Diana expressed a look of fascination as she intently listened to Clark. Clark, on the other hand, enjoyed talking to her about all of those things.
"They all sound fantastic Clark" she commented with a huge smile on her face
"Why don't you come to Earth and see those things yourself?"
Diana was silent. Her expression immediately changed into a lonely one, "I wish I could…"
"Then why can't you?" Clark asked, careful of his words
Diana gave out a sigh and looked up to him, "There are things in this world you just can't have no matter how much you try"
Clark felt sorry for asking her such a delicate question that he put his hand up on her shoulder and told her, "Perhaps not… but there will be things that will come into your life that will be worth more than what you desired in the first place… especially when you least expect it"
Diana looked up to him. There was something in her eyes that changed when she looked up to him- a twinkle in her eye as if something sparked within her. They both stared into each other's eyes with wonder of what each of them were thinking.
Suddenly, Diana shot up with a worried look on her face. Her head turned from both ways as she tried to look for something.
"Is there something wrong?" Clark asked
"I have to go" she told him, still looking around the place
Clark didn't want her to go but the worried look on her face suggested she needed to leave immediately. So Clark looked around as well for an exit but he saw that their exit was blocked by huge piles of rocks. Together, they would be able to throw away the rocks and cleared a path for them but it would've taken them quite some time so Diana regarded the idea. They didn't have a way out except for the dark abyss down below until Diana began,
"The height of each floors is about 7-8 feet" she examined and looked at Clark, "if I may guess, you're 6 feet aren't you?"
Clark nodded.
"Then I guess that should be enough" she murmured then looked at Clark," once again I must ask something of you"
"What is it?"
"Would you mind giving me a hand as I jump to the floor above us?" she pleaded, "once I get to the floor above us I will try and find something to pull you up so that we may both escape"
Clark didn't need to think over it and agreed immediately. When Diana asked him how his back was, Clark lied and said it was okay when all along it was in pain. He stood up, ignoring the pain on his back and put his two palms on top of each other in front of him. Diana took some distance away from Clark and prepared herself. She ran fast towards Clark and jumped with her right leg on his palms as Clark pushed her right up. It was a success since Diana managed to hang on to the edge of the floor ground above them. She lifted herself up and immediately looked for something around her that could help her pull Clark up from the ground below her.
There wasn't anything on the floor but machines. Diana thought that the machines themselves wouldn't be of any help at all but the wires inside the machine would. Clark told her that technology in Earth was connected by long pieces of wire and she thought that maybe, it was the same as in Krypton. She punched open one of the machines found in the room and took out a long wire. Thankfully, the machined hadn't been working for a long time so there weren't any energy inside them at all to electrify her. She managed to pull out a really long one and ran towards the edge where she threw the wire over it and hanged on to one edge of the wire.
"Clark! Grab onto the wire!" she called out
Clark, who felt the pain on his back, struggled to grab onto the wire but he knew that both their efforts would just go down the drain if he just gave up due to the pain. He was slowly pulled up by Diana and as she did, he held on to the wire tightly. Finally, he was pulled onto the edge.
"You are in pain" Diana looked to him sternly
"I'm fine" Clark tried to smile it off
"No it's not" she shook her head to him and pulled him up by carrying his arm over her shoulder
"But Diana shouldn't you be-"
"It's fine. You told me before… logic isn't needed when helping someone" she then smiled to him
Clark couldn't help but smile back. Soon after, they were walking towards an exit they both found in the room. Diana continued to help Clark through their walk. She was determined while he was embarrassed the whole way through. Finally, they reached the exit and felt the red sun's rays on their skin. Both Clark and Diana took in deep breaths as they felt the wind touched their cheeks.
They head down the entrance of the cave where no one was to be seen. Clark thought that maybe everyone was inside due to the sudden earthquake that occurred- they were either helping each other, looking for each other or are trapped inside just like he and Diana were.
Diana sat Clark down on the ground as she looked for help for Clark. She couldn't find anyone around but saw that there were people exiting the cave
Diana touched Clark's cheeks and stared into his eyes, "It's time for me to go and it seems you have other help so it will be fine if I just leave you here for now" she kissed his forehead and smiled at him, "once again, I thank you for saving me. I am forever indebted to you Clark Kent"
And with that, she turned around to leave when Clark caught her arm, "Wait!" Diana turned to look at him, "will I ever see you again?"
Diana was silent at first but then smiled again, "I am a free bird who flew here from a faraway place. I can fly to wherever I want. And if you want to see me again, I will simply fly towards you and… you will see me again"
"Then I shall look out for you"
After one last touch of his hand, Diana ran away towards an opposite direction.
It wasn't soon after when a group of reporters came running towards Clark. They were led by Jimmy and Lois who couldn't help but hug him as soon as they saw him.
"Are you okay Clark?" Lois shook him, "we managed to get rid of the rocks that trapped you but once we did we couldn't find you!"
"How did you end up here Clark? What happened?" Jimmy asked
"I'm fine" he smiled reassuringly to them, "I managed to escape with the help of a beautiful bird"
"A bird?!" both Jimmy and Lois shouted in surprise together
Clark nodded and laughed weakly. Both Lois and Jimmy just stared at him with a worried look
Lois commented, "I think you've been hit by too many rocks on the head Smallville"
"Seriously CK what happened?"
Clark looked at them and grinned.
"I met a Goddess"
Hey guys! Finally! The "official" meeting of our DC couple! :D Okay I couldn't help but add the "you're strong" moment into this chapter since it fitted that moment right there! XD
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