DISCLAIMER: I do no own nor take the creative rights to the characters of Batman, Superman, or any of the DC Comic Universe characters, places, or events. I do however take a small amount of credit for a new take on a Superwoman character introduced into the movie-verse of Batman Begins.
BATMAN created by Bob Kane
SUPERMAN created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
BATMAN BEGINS story by David S. Goyer
BATMAN BEGINS screenplay by Christopher Nolan and David S. Goyer
Batman Begins
&
Superwoman Arrives
Part One: The Beginning in an Elseworld
- Chapter One -
The Meteor Shower That Changed The World
Across the velvet expanse of dark space a rain of shattered rock, possibly the remains of asteroid shattering against another asteroid or planet surface, traveled on a path that was directed towards the small blue gem of the solar system called Earth. Their path took them pass the moon, a few of the meteors being pulled down into the moon's own gravitational pull, small ones but nonetheless they were pulled out from the rain and drove pits into the already crater infested surface. While these bits and pieces struck the powdery surface, the major body of the rain, ranging in shapes and sizes, continued on towards Earth. Hidden amongst this rain of space rock, hidden in the sense that of course no one was going to see it in space anyways, an oddly shaped object that bore no resemblance to that of the meteors tumbling all about it, remained straight as if it were flying itself towards Earth of a predestined path all its own.
It took only minutes and the meteor rain entered Earth's atmosphere, flames burning about their bodies, as their entrance was fast and unyielding. Upon entering the first layer of Earth's atmosphere, the meteors began to split up and fly off in different directions further from one another while still holding a course that seemed directed. This rain of space rock had gone undetected by Earth's own satellite systems even after their entry, and now they hurtled down towards the North American continent, toward America's Heartland. From high above to those down upon the ground, the meteors looked like small and distance dots that were slowly growing closer. Seeing these objects in the sky would have one thinking it was a rain of falling stars just passing by outside of the atmosphere, however, the realization that this was in fact a meteor shower and not just a cluster of falling stars hit…literally.
All across the country meteor rocks struck down into the earth, biting holes and puncturing craters into the surface. California was hit both on the coast and up towards its northern border, the meteors numbering in the few but ranging in the scale size of large. Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, they were all hit in various places with different sized meteors, but the damage was all the same – destructive. Other states across the country were hit, but none hit as hard as Kansas, and no town hit as hard as Smallville. The rain pelted down upon Smallville, the meteors smashing through buildings and slamming down upon cars of the small downtown area creating havoc and panic amongst the citizens of the small midwestern town. Even out upon the farmlands of Smallville, the meteors hit destroying crops and homes, tearing apart the roads and fields with as much ease as a tractor would have had.
Upon one of these roads that had yet to be hit by the meteor shower, a red Ford pickup truck traveled out away from downtown, already a good seven or even ten miles from it by now. Inside, a handsome childless couple named Jonathan and Martha Kent, rode peacefully through the countryside that had been their home for many years now since the day they had been married to one another. As they continued on down the road, disaster struck in the form of a big object falling out of the sky and slamming down upon the earth to then cut across the road tearing into the asphalt with its inferno temped outer shell and near converting it back to the soft mix it had been at one point before being laid down as a road. The object's cutting path came right in front of the red pickup forcing Jonathan Kent to hit the brakes and try to get the vehicle he and his wife were traveling in. Martha screamed as she felt the car start to pitch sideways as the wheels locked up and sent the truck into a sideways spin that ended rather abruptly as the wheels caught the end of the deep crevice cut into the road. The pickup then tumbled into the crevice and landed upside down at the bottom, both driver and passenger temporarily knocked unconscious at the moment.
The hissing sounds of heated minerals cooling were the only noises in the air after the car accident ended. Curls and licks of steam and smoke danced up from the sides and even the bottom of the newly hewn gully that placed an enormously dangerous gap within the road. The left front wheel of the red Ford moved a bit as if its rotations were not yet completed. It was Jonathan Kent who came too first, blinking as his vision was slightly blurry and hazed by the fog of unconsciousness becoming conscious reality once more. The movements of his wife beside stirred Jonathan awake even further and soon the farmer realized that the scenery had changed a bit for possibly the worst at the moment. They had landed upside down in a ditch or gully, and their seatbelts had saved them from any further injury that could have happened to them. Hanging as they were within their seats, suspended and held down by their seatbelts, Jonathan and Martha Kent had finally come to just in time to hear a strange sound amidst the hissing of cooling heat. The sound was similar to that of crushed gravel being walked upon by feet, and that's exactly what it was as from the side in which Jonathan occupied appeared a pair of tiny bare feet that walked towards the over turned vehicle.
"Martha?" Jonathan called his wife's attention to him in a tone of voice that sounded confused and looked over at her briefly before turning his attention back to the pair of tiny feet now coming to a stop just near the rolled down window. Martha's gaze followed her husbands and became just as confused at the sight of bare feet belonging no doubt to a child filling some of the space before the driver side window.
Before another word was spoken between the couple, the body that the feet belonged to suddenly crouched down and stared in at them with a pair of big bright blue eyes rimed in dark lashes upon a petit angelic-like face. Crouched down and staring in at the people, the little body encircled its knees with small arms and then smiled at them for a reason known only to this little mind. It was a child, as both Jonathan and Martha had reasoned separately in their own minds, and now seeing this child's face, they knew it to be a little girl who was unclothed and bearing a head of baby curls colored dark black brown. Shocked to their core to see such a sight, both husband and wife quickly exchanged looks of speechless confusion as to what was going on. It took them only a few minutes more before they snapped out of their dumbstruck state and started to free themselves from their seatbelts and the confinement of the truck. Jonathan first helped Martha get free, unclipping her seatbelt as she held her hands out against the roof of the truck to keep herself steady then carefully eased herself down on to hands and knees. Once out of her seat, Martha crawled out her window, Jonathan setting himself free as she went.
While her husband got himself situated inside the cab of the truck, Martha stood to her feet and came around quickly to the driver side of the truck where now the little girl had stood up and beamed brightly at Martha. Quickly unzipping her red jacket, Martha came to the little girl and knelt down to her level. Wrapping the adult sized jacket about the naked body of the child, Martha smiled back at her almost with same amount of wattage as the zipper of the jacket was pulled up. It seemed that as soon as the zipper of the jacket was pulled and encased the little girl in huge bundle that looked like a poorly fitted dress, the dark haired girl lifted her arms up at Martha and still bore that same smile upon her face. A bit taken back by the sudden gesture to be picked up by this little girl, Martha didn't even seem to think twice before reaching out and then picked up the girl in her arms as she stood to her feet. Jonathan had freed himself from the cab by the time Martha had started to wrap the child in her jacket, and continued to watch as his wife then quickly embraced the girl and held her close while standing. Since before they were married, the two of them wanted to have children, but when the found out that Martha couldn't have children it disheartened them a bit but that didn't change the relationship of their marriage as they also often talked about adopting.
Cradling the young child in her arms, Martha couldn't help but continue to smile as she felt the girl's arms slither up and wrap around the back of her neck to hold on to her. Jonathan held a look on his face that seemed to be that of admiration as he watched his wife interact with this child they had found alone and unclothed not long after the accident. He was snapped suddenly from his thoughts as his gaze found itself interlocking with that of the blue-eyed angel staring at him with a bright smile from the arms of his wife, and soon he too found himself smiling right back at her in the same manner. Looking over at his wife a moment later, Jonathan knew that they had to find this girl's parents and return her to them as soon as possible. "Come on sweetheart, let's see if we can find anything around here that can tell us where she came from."
Nodding in agreement with her what her husband had stated, Martha followed after him as he led the way back down the gully that they figured the girl had come from. They walked for a good ten minutes, picking their way through the debris left behind from whatever had happened out here, the Kents were now coming to the conclusion that there was something very odd about how this little girl just suddenly appeared. "Jonathan, I don't see anything around here to indicate another family or car accident." Martha stated as she adjusted the falling shoulder of the jacket the girl wore.
"Martha, children just don't fall from the sky." Jonathan stated as they continued on down he gully. "She has to have a family somewhere." He added in and then came to an abrupt stop as his eyes became rather wide at the sight of the object blocking any further advancement down the gully. It had to be the thing that fell out of the sky and cut the gully through the earth and tore through the road, but it was the weirdest thing he had ever seen. For the most part, the entire egg shaped elongated body that looked to be at least three feet long and at least two feet wide, looked to be made of a highly polished dark metal bordering on bronze headed toward silver. Around this elongated body shape, a triangular structure surrounded it with the point resting in the same direction of the rounded point of the egg shaped body, it rested about the body at midway so that way it looked as though there were a dome on both the top and the bottom now with fins sticking out on either side of the widest part of the body. A third fin sat atop the flat base at the end of the triangle frame giving it an even further weird look of "alien-origin".
Martha came up beside her husband and stared at the object as well with raised brows and a look of shock upon her face. "Well, if she does, I don't think they're from Kansas."
The only thing that could be assumed about this…this object, was that it was something of a space ship formation and that it was nothing ever seen on earth before. Jonathan continued to stare at the space ship like object even after his wife made her comment. What did this mean then? Was this little girl, who looked perfectly human and normal, from another planet outside of their own solar system? Was she…an alien? Was that even possible? A thousand or more questions raced through Jonathan's mind as he couldn't quite grasp this whole situation at the moment. Glancing back over his shoulder to where his wife was standing just beside him, Jonathan again held a warm smile on his face as he watched his wife continue the bestowing of motherly affection upon this child of unknown origins, through smiles, rustling of her dark hair, and even a kiss upon the cheek or crown of her head. Watching her only reminded Jonathan that this was not their child and that they couldn't keep her. "Martha, sweetheart, we can't keep her. What are we going to tell people? That we found her in a field?" Jonathan stated gently knowing that this reminder would place a damper on his wife's emotions and attitude at the moment, but that couldn't be helped.
Looking over at her husband, the expression on her face having changed very little at this point even at his words. "Jonathan, we didn't find her." She stated simply and then looked at the girl who was still smiling, and yet to say a single word yet, in her arms and grinned. Jonathan's attention was taken to the girl as well who beamed at him and Martha at the same time now. "She found us."