Smallville: Amazons & Slayers by Antonio CabaƱas

Interlude 1

Disclaimer: Smallville, Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and all related characters are trademarks of DC Comics, which is owned by Warner Bros. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon.

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Spoilers: Smallville second season until "Rosetta" and the entire Buffy the Vampire Slayer series

I wish to thank my beta-reader Carycomix for his help and support

Answer to reviewers:

Carycomic: I'm glad to hear from you again, and I'm sorry to hear that your mailbox is still malfunctioning. If the problem is from the server, I'd suggest that you change to another, but if it's from the computer... well, I don't know enough to help.

Ragnhild: thanks, I plan to continue writing in the foreseable future. When my schedule allows (I am working this summer), I'll check your stories.

Author Note 1: English is not my first language, so the story has probably a good quantity of errors. Please, be gentle in that issue, I can't reach my usual beta-reader (If anyone is interested, my e-mail is above).

Author Note 2: this is an interlude written to set some thing for the climax and tie some loose ends, the main story will continue in next chapter.

Summary: A mysterious woman comes to Smallville, jealousies in the Smallville High Athletic Team take a odd turn, a mystery from the past reappears and Clark become involved in all of that.

Wayne Manor, Gotham City.

Several years later...

Hiding in the bushes before the gates of Wayne Manor, a paparazzi was very frustrated. He, and two of his colleagues of a tabloid had been assigned to try to get a picture of the multimillionaire playboy Bruce Wayne or from his last paramour, a bleached blonde popstar wannabe, but he hadn't any luck. He was the rookie and so he had to stand watch at the morning, when everybody knew that Mr. Wayne didn't got up of the bed before noon. The only people that had come in this morning had been a jogger with a sprained ankle and the rising star of the Daily Planet, Clark Kent. 'A very quiet morning, a wasted morning' he thought. Although he never knew that the first part was very wrong.

Clark smiled when he saw what Diana was wearing, the usual sportswear of joggers. They were both in the batcave, waiting for the master of the house to reappear.

"I suppose that those clothes were Bruce idea, Diana."

"Oh, yes." answered princess Diana of Themyscira, more commonly known as Wonder Woman.

"Where is him, by the way?"

"He said that he had to test a new bulletproof fabric."

"And the test had been successful, Clark." said Bruce, appearing from the shadows wearing a padded black jumpsuit that seemed very tight-fitted, and in the same time magnified his already impressive physique. "It's a pity that your friend Lex stole the formula and improved it. Lucius was very disappointed when Waynetech didn't won that Defense contract."

"Lex ceased to be my friend years ago, Bruce." said Clark, a bit venomously. "Well, why are we here?"

"Yes, you said that when Kal appeared you would tell us everything."

"The reality is that I know the same than both of you. The ladies that had organized this are very tight-lipped, but that doesn't mean that I hadn't deducted some things."

"Well, tell us what you have deducted."

"All of this has to do with the first time that we met. Do you remember, Clark?"

"Oh, yes." said Clark "By the way, Diana, how is Arty?"

"She was quite well, last time that I saw her. She helped me to defeat Ares in one of his insane plots." answered Diana "Are you acting under orders of the Watcher Council?"

"No, this came from Dr. Fate."

"I'll explain everything in a moment" said a female voice which was vaguely familiar to all of them.

Two women stepped out from the shadows. One was Inza, the wife of Kent Nelson, Dr. Fate, and the other was Dawn Summers.

TO BE CONTINUED...