Chapter 4: Fortorn Enemies Part 1
The light dissapates, and Johnathon, Martha, Lois and the rest of Metropolis watch as the two people stand, holding each other by their necks. They look exactly the same, except for their eye color. They are both wearing black cloaks, their capes moving in the wind. The news crew starts rolling film as the man with glowing purple eyes lifts up the other man.
"The void element has split us up, Clark Kent. We can team up, and control this planet, the way Jor-El wanted."
"No, Kal-El...this is not the way to get back Alicia...we must fix this destruction we did..."
Kal-el lifts Clark even higher off the ground, and throws him into the Kent farm truck with such force, that it flips over, and lands on Clark.
"I don't care for Alicia anymore, Clark. She's your problem now."
The Kent truck barely has time to sit as it explodes off the ground, Clark picks it up. Kal watches as Clark throws it at him, and Kal catches the truck in mid air. he tosses it behind him like toilet paper, and it slams into the ground.
"It was your fault she died, Clark. Not mine. If I had been in control, I would've moved, so that bullet would've hit one of my bones. You were too human, Clark. You let your emotions take over, and it got her killed."
"That's not true Kal-El. She would've died no matter what. I couldn't have done anything to stop it."
"What about the dream Clark? She wanted you, not me. She kept calling me Clark, she didn't even know I existed. Now I'm doing the same."
Kal jumps into the sky, and rockets off, away from the destroyed buildings. Martha walks over to Clark, and puts her hand on her son's shoulder. Her touch makes fresh tears in Clark's eyelashes.
"Clark, is that really you?" She asks warily.
"Yeah... it's me."
"Why did you do this, get reprogrammed by Jor-El?" Johnathon asks.
"Because I thought that if I did what he wanted, he'd bring Alicia back to me, so I could be with her, but he tricked me. I pleaded to be released from that mental cage Kal-El kept me in, but no one answered my screams. When Kal was blasted in the rubble, we experienced some sort of dream."
"What was it? What did you see?" Martha asks.
Clark looks to the ground, not meeting his parents eyes. Tears hit the ground, belonging to Clark, and he looks back up, straight into Johnathon's eyes.
"I saw...I saw Alicia...and our baby... They had light all around them, and they were speaking to me..."
"What do you mean, Clark?" Johnathon asks.
"I think I actually was talking to her...she said that they died prematurely... she said that time was spun out of control, and that I had to right some wrongs, to save both of them."
Johnathon and Martha stare, shocked at their son, the dream that he had running through their heads. Johnathon reaches his hand to Clark, but he forces it off.
"This is my fault... I should have never went to those caves. I thought Jor-El would've tricked me, but there was this chance, this one chance I had to get Alicia back, and he wouldn't do it. He had all the power of the Kawatchee caves at his disposal, and he wouldn't even do it. He wouldn't even think about it."
Clark falls to his knees, the busted pavement and broken glass does nothing to his skin, and he starts sobbing terribly. His tears are heard all over the block, or what's left of it. Lois stands, completely shocked at what she saw.
Two Clarks? But one of them didn't sound like the calm farm boy...it sounded alien...
Clark suddenly stops crying, and looks at the sky.
You must right some wrongs, Clark. Then talk to Swann. He knows what to do. I love you...
These words run through Clark's mind as he stands up, and with all his concentration, leaps into the air. He rockets forward, straight through the Dailey Planet Globe, leaving a huge hole straight through it. Clark gains altitude and speed, but these things don't matter to him. All he wants to do is right the wrongs that he commited when he was Kal-El. And the first is to bring down one of his most feared enemies, himself.
Alicia's favorite song runs through Clark's mind, Here With Me by MercyMe. As he gains more and more speed, all he hears is that song, a sign from Alicia, that he is getting very close to his destination.
I know for your embrace
every single day
to need you in this place
and see you face to face
Will you show me?
Reveal yourself to me
Because of your mercy
I fall down on my knees
Clark has sped past New York City, and is now flying over the open Atlantic Ocean. As he speeds faster and faster, waves of water lash out the sides of him, in a straight line, towards a destination he has never been before. Still the song runs through his mind, through his body.
And I can feel your prescence here with me
Certainly I'm lost within your beauty
Caught up in the moment of your touch
Here in this moment, I surrender to your love
Your everywhere I go
I am not alone
You call me as your own
to know and be known
You are Holy, I fall down on my knees
And I can feel your prescence here with me
Certainly I'm lost within your beauty
Caught up in the moment of your touch
Here in this moment, I surrender to your love
London is in sight to him as he flies closer and faster, the buildings move past him so fast that nobody notices the strange flying teenager less than 150 feet above them.
I surrender to your grace
I surrender to the one who took my place
And I can feel your prescence here with me
Certainly I'm lost within your beauty
Caught up in the moment of your touch
Here in this moment, I surrender to your love
And I can feel your prescence here with me
Certainly I'm lost within your beauty
Caught up in the moment of your touch
Here in this moment, I surrender to your love
Sure chaos fills Clark's ears, as he hears hundreds of people scream, and run for their lives. As he nears, a familiar red beam flashes by him, a sign that someone is using heat vision. A car suddenly hits Clark at 200 mph in midair, exploding on impact with him. Clark falls out of the sky, landing on a curb, destroying the pavement beneath him. Hundreds of people run, ignoring the fact that a man hit face first into pavement at 60 miles per hour.
Clark looks up at the culprit, Kal-El, who has now picked up a double decker bus, and throws it straight at him. Clark reaches in front of him, and when hit by the bus, it slows, but knocks him over, falling straight on Clark. Survivors from inside the bus, the driver and a middle aged woman run out, just as Kal blows the gas tank up using his heat vision.
Clark crawls out from the wreckage, and stand up, looking at a smiling Kal-El.
"I can't let you do this, Kal-El. It's not right."
"Are you going to stop me, Clark Kent? You are nothing but a human personality, who seems to inhabit the rest of my body. Once I kill you, I will rule this planet under an iron fist."
"Oh yeah, make your fist move, Kal-El, or are you scared?"