Smallville: Dark Mirror
(This story is rated M for Mature. Smallville is copyrighted 2001-2007 The WB Network. All Knight Rider elements are copyrighted 1982-1986 Universal Studios. Trinity "Trina" Jean Knight is my own characer but her powers are copyrighted 2001-2007 The WB network. Do not use without expressed written consent)
Chapter VIII: The caves and Clark makes a startling discovery
The Kawatche Caves: Trinity stared at the caves that belonged to an indian tribe known as "Skinwalkers". She had never been down here in her own reality but had heard of them from Clark. Clark stared at the drawings that were written in ancient Kryptonese, the language of the Kryptonian people. They looked like simple cryptographs from cavemen, but they were not. Clark stared at them in wonder. Some markings were different as they written about him. He himself had the language of their own people downloaded into his mind when he placed the key from the spacecraft that brought him to Earth into a Octogonal shape into the wall. The Key had downloaded the language into his memory as if it were being downloaded to a computer's hard drive, but this "download" was much more instantaneous.
"Kal-El, these are beautiful. And you told me once that they were left to tell about you?" Trinity said as she shined her flashlight around the cave. Clark nodded in silence. He had recently been down here to merge the Kryptonian stones of power to prevent a 2nd meteor shower from coming to Smallville. He had done that on his graduation day, and he and Trinity had been sent back to Krypton's past to find the other stones.
"Yes they were. But these markings are different then the ones in the caves in our own universe. They tell of two champions who would redeem this place of the tyranny that is so rampant." He said then shone his flashlight and noticed something that had not been seen in his own Universe. A sleeper chamber in one of the caves so tranparent he didn't need his X-ray vision to scan it. Trinity then heard her com-link beep. It was KARR.
"Yes, KARR, what is it?" She asked the computerized vehicle.
"I detect a female in that chamber. Not quite human but not quite Kryptonian either. A…Hybrid of the two if you will. Please be careful. I do not wish you harmed." KARR said. She then shone her own flashlight and saw a face that she didn't recognize, but it was one Clark did.
"Lindsay Herrington. Otherwise known as Kara. She was the emissary of Jor-El when my father was determined to mold me and make me into his own. I refused but Jor-El caused her to cease living when I told him of Lana and my love for her. He agreed he would stop trying to make me into his image but he gave me a present I did not expect. He reconfigured Lana to be Kryptonian, due to a symbol in the cave walls relating to the "Consort of the Last Son of Krypton" I don't understand why he did it but he did. A few years later he took the form of Lionel Luthor. I never saw Kara again. At the time I told everyone she was my cousin. How can she be here?" Clark said. They all then turned when they heard a familiar voice to Clark but not to Trinity.
"She is here because she is waiting for you." Spoke the voice of Lois Lane. She smiled at them.
"Lois!" Clark said. He remembered after Chloe's death meeting her. Trinity stared at the body of "Kara".
"Kal-El, she's still alive. In some form of suspended animation." Trinity said as she used her super hearing to detect a heartbeat.
"So your Kal-El. The Choosen One. These walls tell much of you. And your battle against this universe's Kal-El." Lois said. The usual wisecracking spirit was gone replaced by a serious young woman with hopes and dreams crushed by a tyrannical empire with an agenda all their own.
"How do we awaken Kara from her slumber. She may be able to help us find our friend Veronica Mars." Trinity said. They then heard another voice from the past.
"Clark, You know how. You were the one who put her here." Said the voice of Pete Ross. Lois smiled.
"Pete! I thought you were in Witchita Falls?" Lois asked. The boy smiled. "I ended up living in Houston Texas when the Empire came looking for Clark. I knew his secret, and the Empire came hunting anyone who knew who Kal-El was. Or any other meteor freaks were. They were going to use anyone with Kryptonite-enhanced abilities. They abused then killed my mother when she didn't tell them what they thought she knew. I wish I had never left Smallville or you. We could have hidden you somewhere," Pete said fightintg back the tears in his eyes. Clark patted him on the back, wondering how to help this alternate version of his friend.
Clark then looked at the part of the cave where the key was. He inputted a code and he saw the "Sleeper chamber open and the Kryptonian hybrid known as Kara open her eyes. They were white, as Jor-El's where when he had briefly inhabited Lionel Luthor's body, earlier this year. Lionel had rejected the Spirit of Jor-El, forcing him to create a cloned body of Lionel Luthor While Clark and Trinity were in the past on Krypton.
"Where am I?" She asked, looking around at the cave. Clark smiled. "Your safe, among friends." He said. Kara got in an offensive stance as if ready to fight him. Trinity got between them.
"Whoa, Kara. We didn't release you just so you could fight my brother." Trinity said, prepared to defend her brother. Pete stared at her. He had never met her before. Not even in their own Universe. Pete had left for Witchita Falls in early 2002, when Lionel had tried to come after Lex when Lex tried to have him locked away for the murder of his grandparents back some years ago.
"Who is she Clark?" Pete wanted to know. Clark smiled, as he saw the tension in Kara's body leave and she relaxed.
"I am called Trina. That's a family nickname. My full name is Trinity Jean Knight and I am the biological daughter of Jor-El of Krypton and of the wife of the creator of the Knight Automated Roving Robot & The Knight Industries Two Thousand. Elizabeth Knight is the widow of Wilton Knight who funded the Foundation for Law And Government which is now a branch of the Federal Government." She said. Kara stared.
"I am Kara, The Emissary of Jor-El. I was sent to bring Kal-El back to the light. He eluded me and placed me in cryo-genic sleep for 3 years. Why do you release me, Kal-El when all you will do is join the darkness and rule the world with an iron fist?" She asked. Clark smiled.
"Look at me again, Kara. I am not the one who you think I am." He said. Kara stared into his blue eyes. They were kinder, more compassionate than his counterpart.
"Why do you awaken me?" She asked curious. They then heard a new voice. One None of them expected to hear.
"To bring this world out of darkness, and bring the Light of the World to reveal the darkness. Kal-El may not be the Light of the World, but he can show us the way, by being an example." Said the Voice of Lionel Luthor.
To be continued…
