Smallville: The New Krypton Chronicles
Chapter 10: Jor-El creates a body
Earth, 2005, LuthorCorp, A sunny day in Metropolis. Lionel Luthor smiled as he looked at the new cloning facility that his scientists had finished. It had taken 4 years to complete but he had finally finished it. He was going to use it for scientific purposes, since he had imprisoned Lex in Belle Reve, which is a rehabilitation center for the Emotionally & psychically challenged. He had wanted a son, and now since Alexander, his own son had rebelled against him, he was going to clone him. His One and Only son. He smiled as he hung up the phone after talking with General Sam Lane. General Lane had prepared to give the schematics to the top brass at the Pentagon if the cloning procedure worked. He stared at the matrix as it was designed from some of the Kryptonite fragments found in Smallville. He then saw Chloe Sullivan walk in. She handed him a copy of the Daily Planet with his own face on the front page, which had the front-page caption saying, "Lionel Luthor resigns from LuthorCorp".
"What the hell is this?" She asked. She had a year ago had been fired from The Planet after she had turned down Lionel's request to find out about Clark Kent, Kal-El of Krypton.
"I was convicted of a crime, so the logical decision was to resign. Since I have been cleared in the trial of murdering my parents I took an advisory role at Luthor Corp. This Cloning facility was my final gesture to the world. You of all people should know me, that I have the world's best interests at heart." Lionel said. She smiled slightly. "Like when you designed the Knight Automated Roving Robot?" She asked pointedly. She had discovered Lionel had stolen plans from the Foundation for Law And Government for a 20-year-old multi-million dollar prototype. His team at the time had designed it perfectly, so perfect that it had destroyed Michael Knight's partner, The Knight Industries Two Thousand, forcing him to redesign the prototype and updating it.
"I had simply wanted Michael Knight out of the way. He was getting way too close to my operations in Metropolis, which necessitated the prototype. I understand Trinity Knight had designed a similar one. I find that intriguing, don't you Miss Sullivan?" Lionel said, smiling. Chloe just smiled, as if she had a secret.
"Where is Clark Kent? I thought he of all people would want to know about this new facility." Lionel asked innocently. Chloe smiled. "He's out of town." She said. Suddenly they were interrupted by the intercom.
"Mr. Luthor, you have a 3 O' Clock appointment at the Sierra Club with Rachel Givens. Shall I call her for you to let her know you're on your way?" spoke his secretary. Lionel nodded and silently cursed himself for forgetting to mark that on his calendar this morning before he left the mansion. He hit the talk button. "Yes, Miss Reeves, Call miss Givens and let her know I am on my way. Have a car brought around." He said. He then glanced at Chloe.
"I believe you know the way out, Miss Sullivan?" he asked. It was a rhetorical question. She sighed then walked out followed closely by Lionel.
A Few minutes later the cloning apparatus activated as ghostly hands operated the simple controls. Well, simple for the one who had activated it. It was the spirit of Jor-El of Krypton. The Ghostly spirit called up a design matrix and imputed calculations to create an exact duplicate of Lionel's body. He knew it would take a few minutes. He waited. Being a Kryptonian made him virtually immortal, which meant time was not meant to be rushed. At least by him anyway. He then saw the body complete in a few minutes. He closed his eyes and allowed himself to feel the call of the new body and his spiritual energies filled the body. He opened his eyes. He knew from the last time he was here, that the Earth's yellow sun gave him powers similar to what Kal-El, his son currently has. He then saw the security camera. Twin beams of heat vision blasted the camera into nothing, and he used his super speed to leave before the security alarms could be activated.