Ch. 20 Pt. 2
The Talon
Kylie shook her head, not wanting to figure out the meaning for her ship calling her. She fell back on the couch with a groan, covering her head with a pillow and began persistently hitting the cushions with her fists and kicked her legs. To add to her resemblance of a little girl throwing a tantrum she let out a scream into the pillow.
'You don't have to go,' a voice in her head told her.
'It's my duty. What if the ship's found something?'
'So what! Every time that ship has 'found' something, supposedly Kryptonian, you end up finding nothing. You have a good life here Kylie, a boyfriend and friends that love you. People you call your family.'
Kylie shook her head again, 'I know…but what if it's real this time.' With no response from the voice Kylie shot off at super-speed to where she hid the ship so many months ago.
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Meanwhile at the Kent Farm Clark had just finished buttoning up a nice blue dress shirt. He was wearing casual, but nice, dark blue jeans and pulled a blazer on top. He began tucking the shirt in but both the voices of Lois and Kylie telling him he was 'such a dork' popped into his head made him quickly stop what he was doing and pull the shirt out. He shook his head but still smiled. It seems that the combination of Lois and Chloe's snark had rubbed off on his girlfriend. Not that he minded, his friends had become like sisters to Kylie and she was glad that Kylie felt at home here with him. He gazed over at the picture of him and Kylie on his bedside table, he remembered that moment easily: He and Kylie were in his loft watching the sunset…
"It's beautiful isn't it," Kylie said turning to Clark.
"The most beautiful thing I've ever seen," he said, obviously not referring to the sunset.
Kylie blushed, he loved making her blush. "Used that line before, Smallville?" she asked sounding suddenly angry.
Clark was about to stammer out an explanation when he saw Kylie smile mischievously. He smiled, "Once…" he said leaning to kiss her, "It worked pretty well then."
Kylie smirked, "It's working pretty well now too," she said leaning into him as well.
Clark smiled, "Ha. You've fallen into my trap, Ms. Kylie…" Their lips were almost touching when he heard the click of a camera.
"Guess your plan didn't work so well…" she said pulling away with a laugh. "But I did get a great pic…Well nighty night." With that she super-sped away
Clark looked puzzled, but then laughed, shaking his head. But then turned to watch the sun finally set, the world going dark…
'It was a good picture,' he agreed. Kylie had perfectly captured them gazing deeply into each other's eyes with the sunset in the background. He smiled; he had so many great memories of him and Kylie together. He was never happier than when he was with her. He was suddenly pulled out of his reverie by a sharp knocking at the door.
"Does it really take that long for you to change, Smallville?" Lois asked, opening the door. "What are you doing?"
"Just reminiscing…" he said with a sigh. "Are we ready to go?"
"Well, we would be if your girlfriend would show up soon…maybe it takes her a long time to change too."
He laughed, "Relax Lois, I'm sure she'll be here soon." He and Lois left his room and he was watching down the stairs but suddenly he clutched his ears and moaned in pain, the ringing of his father calling him echoing in his ears.
"Clark, you okay?" Lois asked, concerned.
"Yeah…Just not feeling well all the sudden. Listen, Lois, why don't I go pick up Kylie myself...see what's up. If I'm feeling better, we'll meet you in Metropolis.
"Um…okay…I guess…you sure you're okay?"
"I'll be fine…we'll meet you there, okay," he said, practically dismissing her.
Lois shrugged and walked out of the house. As soon as Clark saw the car drive away from the house, he super-sped to the caves…
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Kylie was in a secluded area of the woods. She heard the rushing of water and walked toward it. As she approached the river her band glowed brighter.
"This must be the place," Kylie mumbled to herself. With a quick look to make sure no one was around she tapped the glowing band. In Kryptonian she called out, "It is I Zara Nam-ek of Krypton…reveal yourself." Suddenly the water started bubbling and splashing around and covered with muck from the river's bottom emerged her ship. She pressed a seemingly random spot on one of the wings but soon a carving of her family crest appeared where her hand was. The ship started glowing and opened to reveal a blinding light.
"What do you want!" she shouted at the ship.
The voice of her father erupted from the ship. Kylie knew it wasn't anything, just the artificial intelligence that controlled the ship changing its voice to remind her of home. "My daughter, for the past months I have sent signals into the deep parts of space, galaxies away-
"-and you have found something that could be evidence to Kryptonian settlement on another planet," she finished in a bored voice, "I know…but 'the evidence,' of Kryptonian life always turns out to be nothing: crystal debris landing on other planets, remnants of our technology…usually being used by other people, but not by my own. Why should this be any different? Clark has been the only other Kryptonian we've ever found…" she sighed not wanting to admit it, "maybe Clark and I are really the last Kryptonians left," she choked up, "my parents are probably dead with the rest of them."
The ship had let her finish but of course it had a rebuttal to Kylie's harsh words, "Ah…but you see, this time my signal wasn't simply bouncing of Kryptonian artifacts…it was responded to." A glowing message in Kryptonian writing came up on a screen inside the ship. Kylie stepped inside to read it, she was not expecting what she saw and it made her break into tears. It read:
Zara, my daughter, it has been so, so long…
We have scoured the universe hoping to find you but your mother and I have had no such luck. But then, we received your signal and recognized it instantly from your ship. For many years now we, along with the other survivors of the explosion, have been living on an abandoned planet called Jorgon, we call it New Krypton. We imagine that you have already started a new life on some other planet, but we hope you can come and live here, with your true family…we hope to see you soon.
Love, your parents…
Through tears she broke into laughs. She couldn't believe it, her parents were alive…so were others from Krypton. With no second thought about what she was going to do she set off home to tell Clark what she found.
Little did she know that Clark was coming home with a surprise of his own…
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So ends Pt. 2…I'm going to Holland so I thought I'd at least get this part out before I go…it's not really done but I'll explain Clark's surprise in Part. 3. COMING SOON!! D
