Disclaimer - I do not own smallville or any of their characters blahdy blah
A/N - This is my very first Smallville fan fic and I have chosen to take the 'what-if' route, I know dangerous route, but I thought it would go down better than writing a story that could ruin the story line for fans, plus this is more original.
Basically this is what I predict would happen if Jonathan and Martha Kent died in the meteor shower and Lionel Luthor was the one who found Kal-El, its a big leap but its packed with facts, as accurate as I can get it.
This is just the pilot, I will carry on with the story depending on the amount of reviews I can get from this. I accept criticism but no slanderous flames, if the story is that bad just don't reveiw.
Smallville
Diverse
Pilot
In the depths of space a cluster of meteors tinted with a green aura starts it's decent to earth, in the centre of this cluster of meteors a craft of unknown origin hides as they meteors make their decent.
October 1989, Lionel Luthor's chopper enters Smallville, flying over the many corn fields and farm houses that fuel Smallville's local businesses. Lionel folds down his paper and looks to his son Lex, who is sitting the chopper next to him with his eyes firmly shut,
"This has got to stop" Lionel says loudly to himself, "open your eyes Lex" he shouts above the sound of the helicopter rotors,
"I can't!" Lex shouts back with a scared tone,
"Luthors are not afraid, we don't have that luxury, we're leaders" Lionel said sternly to Lex, Lex kept his eyes closed, Lionel closes in on Lex's face and says loudly into his ear "you have a destiny Lex, you're never going to get any where with your eyes closed". The helicopter touched down upon an open area beside a field and a creamed corn factory, owned by the Ross family. Lex jumped out of the helicopter as soon as it touched own, happy to be on the land. Lionel stepped out and straightened up his jacket, he was greeted by the Ross brothers as soon as he walked on site,
"Mr. Luthor" one of the Ross brothers greeted him,
"I trust you have all my paper work in order" Lionel said shaking the Ross brother's hand,
"Yes, Mr. Luthor, I have it all over here" Mr. Ross said pointing over to the bonnet of his truck were his brother was,
"Very good, let's get this done, I have a meeting in Metropolis in just over an hour" Lionel said looking at his watch, he looked over to Lex, "Lex stay close"
The Meteors decent closer to earth, and begin to burn up in the atmosphere bound to cause a rain of devastation upon where it hits.
A single crow sits in a fence gazing at the vast fields of corn, Lex throws a stone at the crow but misses hitting the fence below it,
"Lex, Son" Lionel shouts, Lex looks around to his father who turns away once his had his attention, "now where to I sign?" he said to the Ross brothers
"Right here Mr. Luthor" said one of the Ross brothers pointing at the contract in the car bonnet.
Lex began to wander off into the corn fields, the corn towered high above his head, but it did not fray the young 9 year old, as he wandered further into the fields he heard a voice, weak and frail,
"Help me" the voice said, Lex looked around in fear, the voice seemed to come from all directions and from above the towering corn "help me please" the voice said again, lex looked around but all he could see were the still scarecrows that hovered above the corn, but a talking scarecrow was too much for the boy, Lex decided to run, to get out of the field so he didn't have to find out what was lurking in there with him, but the corn fields were like a maze, not being able to see over them makes you loose direction, and all Lex did was run deeper into them. The fear caused anxiety, Lex pulled out his inhaler from his pocket and attempted to take it whilst moving, causing him to trip and fall face first into the fertilised soil. Lex reached out and picked up his inhaler and looked forward and saw a post he backed up against the post with intentions of taking his inhaler, then he heard the voice again, weak and young like a teenager, this time it was closer, he looked behind him and saw a teenager tied on a scarecrow stand like he was a scarecrow himself with a giant 'S' painted on his chest, "hey kid" the teen spoke "help me" Lex looked up in fear as the teenager begged him for help, "help me please" the teen said again then Lex's attention was turned to a giant fire ball falling from the sky hitting the very field in which the teen and Lex were stood Lex ran to avoid the shock wave, the teen however wasn't so fortunate, Lex ran as fast as he could but was eventually caught by a tidal wave of crop dust and soil.
The Ross brothers ran towards their storm cellar, and held it open for Lionel at the shock wave hurtled their way,
"Come on Mr. Luthor" one of them shouted waving him in, Lionel refused the first offer and turned his attention to the corn fields that Lex had wandered into
"LEX!" he shouted over the sound of whipping corn plants, he saw the corn flying up in front of him and knew he had to take cover, one of the Ross brothers grabbed Lionel's arm,
"Mr. Luthor! Come on!" he said dragging him to the storm cellar, Lionel complied and took cover.
The people of Smallville looked up at the line of black smoke in the sky, confused, some scared. All of as sudden the sky erupted with thunder and from all directions meteors began to fall, hitting cars and buildings, the people of Smallville ran for their loves trying to take cover from the Meteors showering from above, even though they knew there was no where to hide. The town was in chaos, scream could be heard from every place and the rain of fire didn't stop until the town was in ruins.
Eventually the meteors stopped. Lionel, sat in the Ross's storm cellar heard the calm, and couldn't wait any longer, he burst out of the storm cellar,
"Mr Luthor, where are you going? The storm may not be over yet!"
"I have to find my son!" he said running out side, he looked around, the factory had been un harmed, so his investment was still safe, Lionel looked out into the now flattened corn fields, "LEX!" he shouted pushing into the corn fields "LEX! WHERE ARE YOU!" he ran further into the fields and looked around, seeing nothing but flat land, he looked down and noticed a tuft of ginger hair, that he knew previous belonged on Lex's head, he grew fearful for his sons wellbeing, and gazed around the field frantically, until he noticed a small lump in the corn, "Lex?" he said hoping it was his son, alive. He ran over and desperately pulled off the corn covering his son, but then stepped back with a look of horror on his face as he stared at a bald 9 year old twitching with shock. Not knowing what to do Lionel ran to find help, without direction, he came to a road the road looked seriously torn up and a wall of smoke blocked it off, Lionel was about to turn and run in another direction when he saw an over turned red vehicle in a long crate emerge from the smoke, "oh my god!" he said running towards the vehicle. He stepped into the crater, "is there any body in here!" he shouted, hoping to find somebody alive to help his son, he bent down and looked into the driver's seat and noticed two bodies, a man and a woman both about mid 30's, obviously a farmer and his wife by the way he dressed, Lionel looked away in horror then scrambled out of the crater, "HELP ME PLEASE!" he shouted as he crashed to his knees beside the crater. He felt some one tapping him on his shoulder, Lionel turned to see a small boy dark hair not wearing any cloths "what the?" he said to himself "what are you doing out here?" he said to the boy, the boy said nothing "where you? Where they your parents?" he said to the boy, the boy still did not reply, "oh you poor child" Lionel said scrambling out of his jacket to wrap it around the boy, the boy just smiled at him, Lionel picked him up, "come on, we have to go find help for my son" he said walking off with the boy in his arms.
Hours later, Lionel managed to get Lex to the hospital. Sat in the hospital waiting room of Smallville medical Lionel was waiting for a Child services worker to come and take the orphan he had found on the road, the boy was now more lively, in the hospital waiting room he was playing with toys, well, more like exploring the toys. Lionel couldn't help but watch the boy, his curiosity, his fast intellect,
"Lionel Luthor?" the nurse said walking up to him with her files,
"How is my son?" Lionel jumped straight in,
"He's stable" the nurse said, Lionel sighed a sigh of relief,
"And what of the boy I brought in, how did his physical examinations go?" Lionel asked
"He's perfectly healthy" the nurse paused, "the child services worker should be here in a few minutes" the nurse said walking away, Lionel grabbed her arm,
"What will happen to him?" Lionel asked, the nurse turned to him and folded her arms,
"well assuming those were his parents you found, then he'll probably go into care and we'll start looking for a home for him to go to" the nurse explained
"You mean adoption?" Lionel asked
"Yes" the nurse replied, Lionel thought a bit,
"W-what if I was to… what if I was to adopt him?" Lionel suggested
"I'll make sure to mention it to the child services worker when she comes" the nurse said, and with that she walked over to the boy and started to play with the toys with him, Lionel looked at the boy and gulped, then walked off to check on Lex.
Present day. A silver porche pulls up outside a factory in Smallville, the licence plate reading 'LEX'. A man steps out of car, tall bald man wearing a black suit, he slams the door of his porche and looks around at the factory,
"Thanks dad" he says before walking into the doors of the factory.
In metropolis at the Luthor corp. tower, Lionel Luthor bursts into his office with his ear piece in and his smart suit on, furious he shouts,
"CHRISTOPHER!" he walks to his desk, there is a tall young man sat in his office chair, wearing a blue school uniform, shirt and tie, he had his legs up on the desk crossed with is hands behind his head,
"You called, dad?" Christopher said cockily,
"Christopher I just got a call from your school saying that you have just been expelled" Lionel said sternly, Christopher stood up from the chair,
"Yea, I can't really understand why" Christopher said, of course he knew more than he was letting on
"Christopher, Excelsior prep School is a highly rated school, why do you refuse to attend?"
"Because it's just not for me dad" he said walking over to Lionel,
"Christopher" Lionel put his arm around Christopher, "your never going to get any where in life if you dilly dally around"
"Dad, I'm just not in to all this private schooling" he tapped Lionel on the back, "you know what, why not let me go to a public school" Christopher suggested,
"No son of mine is going to be educated in a second rate public school" Lionel said taking out his ear piece and placing it on his desk,
"Why not dad?"
"This discussion is over Christopher" Lionel said sitting in his chair, all of a sudden Christopher lost his temper and slammed his hands on Lionel's desk breaking it down the middle, Lionel jumped back looking scared, "Look Christopher, I know how much you want to go to pubic school but you could benefit some much more from…" Christopher interrupted,
"I'm going to public school weather you like it or not" he said,
"What are you going to do?" Lionel said sitting forward,
"This is more than just classic teenage rebellion Dad, you know what I am capable of" Christopher starred into Lionel's eyes as if to threaten him, Lionel stood up,
"Ok son, we'll have it your way" he walked to the door, "I'll make a few calls"
Lex arrives at his home at Luthor mansion after working his first day at fertiliser plant no.3. He takes off his jacket and throws it over his coat hanger, he walks to his whisky stand pours himself a glass and walks into his living room, where he was greeted by a familiar voice
"Welcome home bro" Christopher said switching on the lights,
"Christopher, what are you doing here?" Lex said surprised
"Say hi to your new mansion mate" he said holding out his arms, Lex didn't know what to say.