Prologue
"Can it, Clark. No one's paying any attention," said Lois as she fell over her fiancé. "Yes, Miss Lane." responded the bumbling reporter Clark Kent, the man who stole her heart over a nearly two-decade period. "That's so hot. Mm." Lois whispered to him, "But listen, this is serious. Do you have them?" she asked. "You mean these?" Clark replied, holding up two rings. "Yes. Are you ready?" she said, absolutely ecstatic at her long-awaited marriage, just a few hours away. "I've been ready for seven years," he told her. "Somebody tell Perry White! Just came in over the wire! There's a bomb in an elevator uptown!" an unknown man exclaimed to the entire bullpen. "Just tell the minister I'm gonna be a few minutes late," said Clark as he sped off to the roof of the Daily Planet, flying off to handle the emergency.
We zoom out to see the screen of a flat-screen TV. A light-skin Black male with electric blue eyes, and hair of the same shade that fades to black further down, reclines in his chair, a satisfied smile on his face. "Damn, that was great, no wonder it lasted ten years. Although I can't help but feel we can make that an even better ending," he said as he rose from his seat, his cloak moving with a mind of its own, draping itself over him. The man walks over to a lead case, a memento of a once good man. He unlocks it and takes out a blue rock and three stones. He smashes the blue rock into 5 medium-sized pieces and places them in a diamond formation. With a few quick movements of his hands, a stone altar with weird symbols rises as he places the stones in the center. The stones combine to form a clear blue diamond. A bright light shines with a loud FWASSH as a nerdy-looking reporter falls out of seemingly nowhere. "WAAAAAAA-OOF. Owww... Huh… where am I?" he asks himself as he looks around and spots the man. "Yo," The man says. "Who are you," the reporter asks. "All in due time, Kal-El. Or do you prefer Mr. Kent, Clark?" Clark looked at the man in surprise, a tinge of horror mixed in on his face. "Uhm, Clark is fine…" he replied. The mystery man gave a warm smile, "Relax man, I mean you no harm, but I did take the liberty of casing the place in Blue K, didn't know how you'd respond to being yoinked into another dimension… again."
Clark looked on in confusion, staying silent. "I imagine you have questions, so let me break it down for you, my favorite Kryptonian. Sit and allow me to enlighten you. Questions are afterward I'm afraid, I know you can be very curious. First off, as for who I am…" the man paused. "Well, you may call me Blue. I'm a God, essentially. Very, very powerful, more powerful than anything in the multiverse. As for where you are, you are in my pocket dimension. A place outside of space, time, and space-time, that bends to my will and any who I allow. But I have called you here for a purpose, Clark. I have brought you here to save someone." Clark stayed silent for a minute, then asked, "Who?" "Lex Luthor." Clark laughed bitterly.
"Lex is beyond saving, I should know." "Yes, you should. I mean, you did try to save him, but you gave up too soon, far too soon. Hell, look at Lionel, he started a devil, but he turned into quite the friend, didn't he?" Clark looked away. "Anyway, back to Lex, I want you to save him because I believe that with you two combined, you can make a near utopian world, a world safe for everyone." Clark looked stunned for a second. "No. I won't do it. Lex had his chance, and I'm not messing with time again, last time, it cost me my father." "Your father," Blue said simultaneously. "I'm well aware, Clark, but rest assured this is a purely pro proposition, I want to improve your world, but I can only do so if you agree." Clark sat there, silent. "Well, I figured you could use some convincing, that's why I brought some very special people," Blue said. The god clapped his hands twice, causing a white doorway to appear, and out walked Johnathan Kent, Tess Mercer, and Lionel Luthor. "Clark. if you go back and fix Lex before he goes dark, you can have the opportunity to stretch out their stories, let them truly enjoy the life they could have." "D-Dad?" Clark asked, with tears in his eyes. "Hello, Clark," Jonathan said as he greeted his son with his warm smile. Blue walked up to Johnathan, "Mr. Kent, how are you?" "I'm good. But if you don't mind me asking, who are you?" "Ah, loaded question, to shorten it, I'll show you," Blue said as he offered his hand. "Shake my hand, and you'll know everything." As Jonathan does, his eyes go white, and from the back of his head, a white tendril shoots through the deceased. He releases Johnathan and all the dead look at him. "I uploaded the entirety of what happened from the moment of your deaths to now," Blue said, looking at Johnathan, an understanding nod between the two. " I'll give you two a moment," Blue said as he escorted the other two out of the living room.
"So what? You want us to convince him to save Lex?" Tess asked. "No, Ms. Mercer, I brought you here to watch, because if all goes according to plan, Clark will agree, and we get to see how he does the second time around." A few minutes later, the two Kents walked out of the living room. "I'll do it," Clark says. "Awesome. Now to further the plan, I do have to erase your memories, to send you back." "Alright then, how do we-" Clark began to ask as he was suddenly swallowed in a white vertical stream and disappeared. "Like that, that's how we do it. Now, who wants to watch?" Blue asked his guests, making four recliner seats appear. "Folks, we are about to experience something that occurs very rarely in life, a second chance. So strap in, it'll be a while."
Episode 1: Grand Unveiling
As Morgan Edge lay dying on the wheel of his car, a clean bullet hole decorated his newly reconstructed face. With his life now snuffed out, his foot slams on the gas, sending the car careening down the brick driveway towards a crouched Lex, frozen in fear, with nowhere to escape as Lex sees the vehicle approaching, his life flashes before his eyes. Strangely he has a sense of comfort, reflecting on his time in Smallville and how, for the first time, he was happy. The car closes in faster and faster as Lex braces himself for impact. *CRASH* the sound of impact echoed throughout the estate. '…' "Huh?" said Lex, surprised that he wasn't a stain on the wall.
In front of him stood the enigma, his closest friend Clark Kent, with his shoulder lodged in the hood of the car. Clark began to stand up, seemingly unscathed. He then tossed the car back as if it were a can of soda. "C-Clark?" Lex gasped, understandably freaked out, "How did you do that? You tossed that car, like…like it was a toy?!" Clark remained silent as he began to turn around and look at Lex.
As Clark tosses the car back, he looks over at Lex and sees that he's safe. Clark looks to Lex with a worried expression as he is relieved to have saved his friend. But then he also realizes his fatal mistake, but then reflects on how far Lex has come in the last couple of years and is overwhelmed with a feeling of regret. 'Ever since I saved Lex from the car crash three years ago, he's been a good friend. I see this enormous urge to do good in the world. Damn it! I wanted to introduce Lex to my world a different way, I wish I could've explained this to him out of choice, but it looks like that option has gone out the window.' He turns around and looks at Lex.
"Lex, I know you must have a million questions, and I will answer each-and-every one of them," Clark says. The young Kryptonian was suddenly interrupted by the sounds of approaching cars. He uses his enhanced sight to see black vans pulling up in the distance. "Just not here. It's too dangerous." Using his super speed, he grabs Lex and speeds away to the caves. Lex looks around, confused and dazed, as he sees the drawings on the cave walls: a man with two heads, one human, one snake, a man shooting fire from his eyes, multiple symbols, still foreign to him but all too familiar. "We're in the caves? H-how? We were just at Edge's place," Lex stutters out, utterly baffled at what just happened, and he looks to the source of his confusion, "CLARK! WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!"
"Lex," Clark says. "I need you to calm down, so I can explain."
"Oh yeah, sure Clark, explain to me how you collided head-on with Morgan's car, and how one second, we're at Morgan's estate, and now we're in the caves."
"Well, Lex," says Clark as he takes a deep breath, "My name is Kal-El. I come from a planet called Krypton, and as far as I know, I am the last Kryptonian."
"Clark, you mean to tell me that… that you're not even human? You're what, some alien?" Lex says, thinking he's finally gone mad. As Clark tries to approach him, Lex points the gun at him. "Stay back, Clark!" he shouts. Clark puts his hands out in an attempt to calm his friend down. "Lex, that won't work on me. Put the gun down, so I can explain this to you." Lex hesitates but then throws the gun to the side.
"Okay, good. Yes, Lex, I am an alien. Due to my physiology, I was given extraordinary abilities when I landed on Earth. My powers come from solar radiation. I have super strength and near invulnerability, which is how I took the crash. I can run at super-speed, which is how I brought us here." Lex stares at him for about a few seconds and finally says, "Oh, and I suppose you can fly too, Clark?" in a sarcastic tone.
"Actually, no, but I do have heat vision and X-ray vision," said Clark as he then lit a nearby pile of wood aflame with his heat vision.
"Jesus, Clark, I was kidding." sighed Lex in exasperation. Lex then began to realize something, "All those times I was faced with certain death but I always came out unscathed, you were always there, just in the nick of time." Lex said. "I don't know how I can thank you, Clark, but I know words alone won't do. You have to tell me everything about yourself. The fact that aliens actually exist is fascinating. I don't know if this is some fever dream from my insanity, exhaustion or something, but right now, I don't care," said Lex as he digested the information. "So, what's it like having all these abilities, Clark? Or should I call you Kal now?" said Lex, having, at last, calmed down.
"Clark is fine, Lex, I'm still the same guy who you hang out with, who helps you with anything you need. As for the powers, they're great and all, but despite these abilities, I would give anything to be normal," said Clark. "These abilities allow me to do incredible things, but they also hinder me from living as normal as I can."
Lex stares in shock, "But why would you want to be a normal man, Clark? People would kill for the power you have Clark, to be able to do anything. Most would try to conquer the world and abuse that power for personal gain, but you Clark, you use your abilities to save people from calamity, to be a hero."
Clark sits in silence for a few minutes, digesting Lex's words. "Thank you, Lex. Is there anything else you want to know?" Lex thinks for a moment, "There is one more thing I'm quite curious about, the meteor rocks, do you know what they are?"
Clark pauses, 'Can I do this, should I disclose everything to Lex...? No Clark, you're in too deep now, you can't second-guess yourself now; plus, omitting information now will only make you seem shady,' Clark looks over to Lex, who has a mixed look of curiosity and awe. Clark then steels his resolve, "According to the data I gathered, with Dr. Swann's help, we discovered that the meteors are radioactive remnants from the planet Krypton, my home. We named those radioactive rocks, Kryptonite."
Lex sat against the cave wall, amazed, "Hold on, so we know that this, Kryptonite was it? gives ordinary humans different abilities, but that raises the question, what does it do to you?"
Clark takes a breath, "Essentially, it's like an extremely potent, and volatile poison. But I should tell you it comes in various colors, each with its unique effects. So far, I've only encountered two types of Kryptonite, Green, and Red. Green Kryptonite, the poisonous one, as you said, gives humans abilities, but when I'm around it, it makes me feel nauseous as if poison is pumping through my veins. Red Kryptonite doesn't affect humans, as far as I know, but when when I come into contact with it, it feels as if all my morals vanish, and I act on pure instinct alone, it's terrifying in all honesty."
Clark stands up and makes his way towards the exit. "Clark..." Lex says as he stands up, "I wanna thank you for being open and honest with me, I mean that sincerely." He continues sarcastically, "This may come as a shock to you, but being a Luthor doesn't get you many friends without ulterior motive." Lex and Clark smile at this. "You're a much-appreciated change of pace, Clark," Lex says as his voice cracks, and he embraces his best friend in a hug, as a tear sheds from his eye.
"Thank you, Lex, it's nice to know I can keep my secret safe with you. Now, let's go home, I'll run you to the mansion," Clark says as he tightens his grip and uses his super-speed, zooming through the woods as a blur, back to the Luthor mansion gates.
"Woah...hahaha!" Lex laughs, looking around his estate as he catches his breath. "That was awesome, Clark." Clark smiles at Lex, "I'll see you later, Lex, thank you for being there for me," he says as he speeds off, and Lex makes his way to the mansion, neither aware of the minuscule camera, no bigger than a computer chip, hidden on the gate's lock, capturing the whole scene. We zoom out to see the video played on a computer screen as a shadow watches from a dark room, "Well, well, well," muses the shadow, "just who are you, really, Clark? And what else can you do?" The shadow says as it chuckles menacingly.
Lex walks into the study a few minutes later as his father stands up and walks towards him. "Lex? Are you okay? Where have you been?" Lionel asks his son. "I'm fine, dad. There's no need for doctors or any therapy. After all, I'm a Luthor, we're stronger than some island."
Lionel chuckles smugly, "Yes, Lex, we are." Lionel hugs his son, but as soon as lex is about to let go, Lionel injects him with a sedative, knocking him out.
End of Chapter 1