Chapter 14: Fortress of Doom

Clark enter the Kent House, Matt sat in the living room awaiting his arrival. Clark stopped in the door way.

"You ready?" Matt said. Clark nodded, "So, are we going to the caves?"

"I don't have the key anymore; we'll have to go by foot,"

"Alright, let's get going," Matt stood up. Clark seemed a little cautious to run. Matt went into his pocket; pulling something he slid it on his finger. Clark looked on as a bright flash of green light burn his eyes and seconds the later the light and Matt were gone. Clark looked around in shock, but knew to go head to the arctic. Seconds later Clark too was gone in a flash.

Dr Hamilton sat at his office desk examining the photos from the camera. He looked at them in awe, as every shot had shown a significant piece of the "red n blue" puzzle. He smiled at his new found knowledge.

"So you were working on the side."

Hamilton looked up to set Tess standing in his doorway. She raised a gun in his direction. He raised his hands in fear as she pulled the trigger. A dart stuck his neck; his legs became wobbly as he collapsed to the floor. Tess approached the desk and glanced at his motionless body.

"Don't worry," she said. "You're not died, I still need you."

She too began to examine the photos. A look of shock crossed her face, as she took the one photo the proved everything.

Clark stopped next to Matt in the Fortress as the both looked around in confusion.

"My training said nothing about black Kryptoian Fortresses," Matt said examining the area.

Clark knew what happen, "Brainiac, he did something."

"Welcome to the Fortess of Doom!" A voice bellowed through the ice house.

"Brainiac!" Clark looked around as if to find a figure.

"Kal-El, I'm glad you finally joined us."

"Clark!" Matt yelled from behind him. Clark turned to see him standing over a crystal. Clark stepped towards him. Viewed what Matt saw.

"Help—Help me," Davis said as he laid inside the crystal.

Matt looked at Clark, "He's being frozen."

Clark looked at the ice forming on Davis' skin. Clark was going to help him. He raised his hand to smash the crystal as a whoosh of hard ice air knocked Matt into the depths of the Fortress not to be seen.

"Matt!" Clark could barely hear himself think, the wind was so hard. He looked for any sign of Matt. Clark stood there; he didn't know what to do. As he looked on, he saw a green light, then a flash, and Matt appeared in front of him. Now wearing a black and green suit with a symbol on it, a circle with two parallel lines on its side.

"Clark, you have to shutdown the fortress," Matt said to him.

"I don't know how!"

"You didn't do your training,"

"Of course he didn't do his training," the voice interrupted. "He's a useless son. Zod's son will rightfully take his place, as the Last Son of Krypton!"

Matt raised his fist to Clarks head. His ring pointing at him, it too had the circle and lines. A beam emerged from the ring and struck Clark.

"Now, shutdown the fortress,"

Suddenly Clark knew what to do, some how Matt implanted the knowledge in his head. Clark ran to the control consol. He removed two crystals and switched their places; he removed another to crystals and switched their places. As he touched the last crystal he froze, a blot of energy ran through his body, he yelled in agony.

Matt appeared in front of him, "What happen, are you okay?"

A crystal flew at Matt and knocked him into the air, Clark watched him disappear again.

Clark tried to free himself from the crystal.

"As I told your father when I pulled his plug, Doomsday is coming, and will mark the fall of the House of El!" the voice of Brainiac informed Clark.

So much wind and noise Clark could barely think of what to do. A vibration began to start under his feet, soon a portal open under him and Clark was sucked in.

The wind stopped. The noise stopped. It was silent, died silent.

Across the fortress Matt laid in an ice block, the ring on his finger was slowly losing its glow; the ring was going to die.

At the control panel a purple glow formed, and a flash of light lit the arctic. A figure stood in the light and looked around.

"There's no place like home," it said.

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