Title: Survival of the Species
Author: Jedi-Bant
Rating: Teen
Fandom: Superman
Summery: Not knowing about Jason, and still standing firm about Kal-el not forming any relationships with the humans, Jor-el and Lara take desperate measures to continue the species, whether their son likes it or not.
Warnings: Male and Forced Pregnancy (Not rape)
Disclaimer: I do not own Superman, Smallville, Teen Titans, Justice League, Batman or any other recognisable characters, places etc. featured in this fic.
Chapter 26
Every year on Christmas Eve, the Justice League would host a party in the watchtower for any and all superhero who wanted to come.
Not only did this provide a good opportunity for everyone to meet up and socialize but they also help each other to deal with any problems on the Earth below, since it was a very busy night with everyone doing their last minute Christmas shopping, the heroes from busier cities such as Metropolis or New York, could get a hand with any emergencies, and if they had been running around all night, other heroes would take over for a while to give them a break.
It was suppose to be a fun night out, though more often then not it continued on into Christmas Day, especially for those who either didn't have family to celebrate with or didn't celebrate Christmas. Those who stayed also kept an eye on Earth the next day, and took care of any emergencies so that others could enjoy the day without worrying about the end of the world or alien attack.
Overall though it was just one big party.
He started waking up because of the low buzz of conversation, he tried to ignore it, trying to sink back into the deep sleep he had been in. He was about to roll over, to try and remove the disturbance that way, when a bright flash of light broke into the dark behind his eyelids.
He groaned and blinked to try and clear the spots in his vision. Then looked around to try and find the source of the light.
Standing around him was a group of at least ten female superheroes, all in costume, all smiling like they had just seen the cutest thing on Earth, and all watching him. He recognised most of them, Black Canary, Power Girl, Vixen, Hawkgirl, Huntress, Batgirl, Wonder Girl, even Starfire was there, plus a few others whom he had never meet. Blark Canary was the culprit with the camera.
"Um…hi ladies, it there a problem?" he asked pushing himself up onto one elbow, he was glad for the blanket someone had placed over him as he pulled it around his middle.
"No. You just looked so cute, I had to get a photo." Canary said smiling mischievously.
The other women nodded in agreement before some started to wander off; obviously the 'cute' moment was over.
"What time is it?" He asked, rubbing his eyes to try and wake himself up.
"Almost 6, everyone's starting to arrive." Wonder Girl said, handing Kal his jacket which had been draped over the couch for him.
"Thanks," Kal said taking the item. "Where's Diana?"
Hawkgirl answered, jerking her helmeted head in the direction of the control room where people were arriving for the party, "She's playing hostess, said not to wake you. Not that we listened."
Superman groaned and swung his legs over the side of the couch to sit up properly. "I must have fallen asleep, I only meant to close my eyes for a minute." He pulled the jacket on, and zipped it up, then he took the blanket and folded it neatly, before laying it on the back of the couch.
"She should have woken me; I was suppose to help with the food." Kal grumbled.
"Stop your complaining," Hawkgirl said, rolling her eyes, "now maybe you'll make it through the whole night rather then falling asleep like you did at the last meeting."
"Hey, I was tired and I can't help it that J'onn has a very soothing voice, it was a bad combination. Now help me up, I should go help Diana greet everyone."
Between the JLA, the JSA, and the Teen Titans, there was a substantial group in the watchtower, but add to that all the heroes not affiliated to a team, and you had a very big party. Passed around mainly by word of mouth, they never really knew how many people would turn up, but the watchtower was capable of hosting up to 500 people so they had plenty of room.
Food had been provided, curtesy of Wayne Enterprises, officially it was a thank you to the heroes for their hard work over the years, a select few knew that it was because Alfred refused to allow any of them to go hungry and so convinced Bruce to front the money. So a huge buffet was laid out to one side of the room, filled with everything from sandwiches to sushie, and to assist in them not running out of food, everyone with a hyper metabolism (namely Flash) agreed to eat a few large pizzas or the like before they came.
Drinks were kept non-alcoholic, partly because of the underage guests, but mostly because it was considered inappropriate to have been drinking before attending to an emergency. The one exception to this rule was during the traditional speech, in which everyone had a glass of champagne.
"Alright everyone," Diana called over the din of chatter, "If everyone could grab a glass, we will have the traditional speech. Champagne is on the table for anyone who wants it. Anyone who is underage, sorry but Batman has taken up residence by the glasses, so if you value your limbs, don't even think about it. We'll start in about five minutes."
Everyone moved in a fairly ordered fashion towards the table where the glasses had been placed, except for the teens who were either sulking, or laugh at those who were new enough not to know that they didn't have a chance, "You didn't actually think that you would be able to drink in a room full of goodie two shoes, heroes did you?" Robin asked Cyborg and Beast Boy, who were two of the ones sulking.
Wonder Woman stood up on a small stage that had been specially constructed, and called again for everyone's attention, "Alright everyone, quiet down please. Now as most of you know it has become a tradition every year, since this is the only time that we all come together, when the world isn't at stake, for someone to make a speech. For the last 5 years it has fallen to me to do this, and though I see it as a great honour, this task was not
originally mine, and since he is once again present this year, I am proud to pass this task back to Superman." Diana looked over to where Kal was sitting close to the edge of the room.
Through this introduction, Kal had been slowly getting more and more worried that this was exactly what Diana was going to say, and it wasn't something he had expected to do tonight. Hence the deer-in-headlights expression.
Everyone in the room turned to look at him. When he didn't move straight away, someone behind him gave him a nudge forward.
"Come on Supes, speech." Flash called from beside the food table. Which of course set everyone else off.
"Speech" "Speech" "Speech"
Finally he stood and walked, waddled, up to the small stage.
"Way to put me on the spot, Diana." He groused playfully, before he turned to face the mass of heroes filling the room.
"In the past, I'd spend at least a few hours thinking about what I was going to say for this speech, but since Diana has seen fit to throw me in the deep end, so you'll have to forgive me." He took a deep breath, gazing at all the different faces waiting for him to speak.
"Many of you, I haven't seen in almost six years now, as you all know I went in search of my home planet, and returned earlier in the year. Since I've been away, a lot of new faces have appeared in our ranks, especially in the younger generations," he nodded in the direction of the Teen Titans who had taken up residence in one corner along with other sidekicks their age. "I hope that I will get to know you all as well as I once did."
"Before I go any further, I would also like to apologise to you all." A murmur went up through the room, "I wish to apologise for leaving in the first place, at the time I felt I had to go, I was hoping to find other Kryptonians, but in hindsight I've realised that though I'm the last of my people, I have never been alone, you have all been my family for many years, and I should have realised that I didn't need to leave to find my family. Hopefully given time, I can regain the trust I lost by leaving," he unconsciously glanced in Batman's direction.
"Now enough of that, everyone have fun tonight, this is likely to be the last party I attend before I 'pop' as Flash so aptly put it." Flash grinned, from his spot at the buffet. "Please if your new, come and introduce yourself, I would love to meet you, and those I already know, I'd love to catch up. Enjoy your evening, and Merry Christmas."
"MERRY CHRISTMAS!" 400 odd people responded before everyone drank and returned to their conversations.
"Now that wasn't so bad was it?" Diana asked innocently.
Kal just gave her a playful glare before he was swamped by people wanting his attention.
As expected the JLA Christmas party continued well past midnight and into the next day, which was marked by the screamed chorus' of "MERRY CHRISTMAS," which was started by Flash and continued for several minutes. Batman was of course the first to leave, returning to his beloved city. Kal has hoped that he would talk to Robin before he left, but the two had stayed assiduously on different sides of the room without contact. Clark decided he would have to get Alfred's help in forcing the two to talk to each other.
Slowly as the night wore on others left to return to their families or prepare for whatever they had planned for the next day, as the older generations started to thin out the teens hi jacked the sound system and started a much louder and more active party, that many of the adults found a bit too loud, but they allowed them to have their fun, instead quietly slipping into the control room to continue their conversations.
Of course even before the teens took over conversations were interrupted often by problems on the planet below. Most of the time someone would take the call for Kal, allowing him to continue talking but mostly because everyone was convinced that something was going to happen every time he left. The one time he insisted he was fine, he had a near miss with a bullet and moments later he was surrounded by Hawkgirl, Vixen, Wonder Girl, Starfire, and two other heroes he had yet to meet. The thief had been so shocked at the sudden appearance of six new heroes that he had dropped the gun, moments later he had been apprehended and the groups attention turned back to Superman, who after the initial shock of the group appearing, was inspecting the small graze on his upper arm. The group had appropriately fawned and herded him back up to the tower, leaving the perp and police in stunned silence, and the press with a juicy sextangle story for the morning paper.
Back at the tower Superman was herded forcefully towards the centre of the control room and made to sit down. Not that he would admit it but currently most of these women were stronger then him so he didn't have much choice. Waiting for him in the control room was two dozen more worried women all clambering to see if he was alright. Flash and Diana just stood to one sit laughing.
"Everyone please calm down, I'm fine." Superman insisted.
"You were shot!" Wonder Girl said, not calmly.
"Yes, you should sit down so I can take a look." Hawkgirl added.
"I am sitting down, but…"
"You!? You don't know anything about first aid," Vixen snapped at Hawkgirl, "I'll do it."
Green Arrow and Black Canary now joined Wonder Woman and Flash in laughing, though Canary was trying to be discrete.
"You surrounded by gorgeous women, enjoying it Supes." Arrow shouted over the din.
Canary elbowed him in the ribs for that.
The women continued to try and help the pregnant superhero until Diana finally took pity on him. "Alright girls, he's not even bleeding anymore, leave him alone before he dies of attention."
They finally stopped clambering and actually looked at the wound, which had in fact stopped bleeding and now looked the same as a three day old cut on a human.
"Oh…well it could have been much worse." Woman Girl said.
"Yes you were very lucky," Starfire added.
"No more emergencies for you today." Hawkgirl insisted before making a quick exit.
Once the group had finally dispersed Superman was left with just the four who had failed to 'rescue' him.
"Thanks for the help," Kal snapped, though not viciously. He glanced over at the bullet wound, the bullet had missed his tee-shirt, but the women hadn't, the whole sleeve was down around his elbow, only attached by one long thread. Somehow his jacket was on the table, though he didn't remember it coming off.
"You do realise most normal men would have enjoyed that?" Arrow said, raising one blonde eyebrow.
"Blame my inner-Clark," Kal rebutted, he removed the sleeve from his arm and threw it on the table, would have to ask Ma to reattach it, though it probably wasn't worth it.
True to Hawkgirl's demand, Superman didn't make another appearance that night, though Clark wondered what effect that would have on whatever story the papers cooked up for tomorrow.
In an effort to get to know some of the younger generation, Kal returned to the main room and allowed the Titans to try and teach him some modern dance moves, though that got more giggles then results, pregnancy splayed hips does little for dance moves, but it got the channels open.
Apparently all the sidekicks in attendance were honorary members of the Teen Titans, who according to Robin number over a hundred when in full force, though there were only two official permanent teams, Titans West, which was Robin's team, and Titans East, which was run by Bumble Bee, who turned out to be one of the women mobbing him earlier. Two of the Titan East members, Mas Y Meno, twin speeders, were ecstatic to find out that Kal knew Spanish, their only language, and had talked a mile a minute, literally until their short attention spans ran out, something that seemed to be shared my all speedsters.
Finally Kal had to admit defeat and call it quits for the night. He had planned to stay and help with the clean up process, but when Diana caught him dozing in his chair, she put her foot down, normally he would protest, but when half a dozen others backed her up, he admitted defeat, wish everyone a merry Christmas and left.
Still by the time he flew into Metropolis the sun was rising to greet Christmas Day.
Authors note: I had this all planned out then I got the Kal's speech the production line froze, this is the main reason I haven't posted in ages. As it is I don't actually like what he said in the speech but that is what came out and it has taken so long that I just went with the flow, if I have a flash of inspiration later I may come back and change it but for now I will leave it as is.