"No dad I've made up my mind!" Lois was shouting into her phone. "Don't you get it dad the town is in pieces!I've spent enough time here for this place to feel like home so I'm going to stay and help these people! Oh you go find her yourself you don't need me! She already showed me that she doesn't CARE WHAT I THINK! Ok goodbye dad!"
"Bad day Lois" a weak voice said.
"Mrs. Kent! You're awake1" Lois said.
"Where's Jonathan?"
"He went to find Clark. That farmboy of yours has a knack for getting himself into trouble." Martha smiled at this.
"I hope he's okay Lois."
"Don't tell him I said this but me too."
The mountain of ice was much warmer inside. Clark had expected to black out and wake up months later in some strange place but instead nothing happened. He followed the only hallway into a large central chamber.
"Welcome son, to your own personal Kryptonian library." Jor-el's voice echoed around the circular room.
"Library? Why have you brought me here Jor-el?"
"For many years I have watched you grow Kal-el and it is here that I have sought to guide you for these last few years."
"What do you mean?"
"You WILL NOT run from you destiny any longer Kal-el."
"I will not be what you want me to be Jor-el!"
"And are you so sure you know what it is that I want you to be Kal-el?"
"Then stop messing around and tell me what my destiny is." Clark said, obviously frustrated with the indirectness of how Jor-el spoke.
"I first tried to get you to listen to the ship but you would not and instead destroyed it but I was not to be discouraged and knew that you would discover the cave. I then made you forget all those who would distract you from your destiny to seek the stones but I did not count on Martha Kent's love for you Kal-el."
"If you wanted me to listen you didn't need to threaten my friends and family Jor-el"
"Perhaps so but this meteor shower is not my doing but yours Kal-el. By ignoring your job to find the stones you allowed them to be collected by a human. The Kryptonian who left the stones on earth had foresight that none of us possessed. Long had we Krytonians known about the planet you live on. We knew that it was habitable for our people and that the natives of this planet are similar enough that they would not notice one of us amongst them. The one who left the stones understood that perhaps the Kryptonian way of life would someday destroy us all and so left three keys that would create a library of knowledge on our planet and people for any survivors, so that they might not make our mistakes. In the end he was right and the rest of us should have listened."
"What happened." Clark said, suddenly much less hostile to Jor-el.
"Kryptonians were warriors, we felt that if something was weaker than us it should be conquered. We discovered another planet near to ours. The people that lived on it were technologically advanced but they were weak and so we attacked. The war destroyed their planet but a lone survivor escaped with a weapon they had developed. He fired it at Krypton while most of the planet feasted, celebrating our victory and then he jumped into space, but not before learning of the three keys on earth. The weapon was not designed to kill us directly but it instead turned the planet of Krypton into a weapon. The very rocks of the planet began to poison and kill us even as the planet itself began to die. It happened so quickly that few knew what to do. Mass chaos ensued. It was then that your mother and I loaded you into the space-craft and sent you to earth, hoping you would be loved. You have seen my past Kal-el. You have seen how quickly the humans killed one and other out of jealousy and then tried to lock me away for a crime I did not commit. When I ask you to rule these people it is not out of hatred for them but because they will meet Krypton's fate if they are not guided by someone more powerful than themselves."
"I do not have to conquer them to save them Jor-el."
"Perhaps not Kal-el. From now on your destiny is yours alone to write. My job was only to guide you here and tell you of your planet. Even now the power that has held my consciousness in these places on earth is fading." Jor-el voice became softer, as if coming from across a great distance. "Kal-el... There is one more thing I must tell you. The man who destroyed Krypton is here now, somewhere on earth. When he found out about the stones he laid a trap by making it so that if one was tainted by the blood of a human the remains of Krypton would destroy the earth unless it was united with the other two stones. You have saved countless people today my son but you must be wary. This man is a foe unlike any you have faced and he we not stop until either you or he is dead. You will not be able to leave this place to return to your friends unless you learn to use ALL of your Kryptonian powers. This is my last gift to you Kal-el." Jor-el's voice was barely a whisper at this point. "Goodbye Kal-el. I would very much have liked you to see Krypton." There was a flash of light in the chamber and suddenly it was filled with books with the Krypotonian symbols all over them. Clark looked around in shock.
'Jor-el wasn't a good guy but he wasn't a bad one either' Clark thought. Clark took one more look around the room. 'I will come back here and see what this place can teach me.' Then he headed back outside. Clark looked around the icy landscape and one again tried to figure out where on earth he was. Then Clark realized that the flash of light in the cave had made him aware of another power. Clark bent his legs and took off from the ground, freaking out the entire time because he was afraid of heights. He flew so high that he could see the continent of North America and saw that the library was somewhere in the northernmost reaches of Canada. Clark rocketed towards Kansas, intent on getting back to the farm to make sure his family was alright.