Chapter Two

The Kent farm

Clark had come home to a panicking mom who berated with a million questions ranging from "Are you okay? Are you hurt? What were you doing out in the street like that! Do you know how worried I was about you! Are you sure you're okay?"

"Yes, no, I'm not sure, curious, I'm sorry I worried you, and again yes I am." Clark answered in order while giving his mom an apologetic smile as he dropped his backpack down on the kitchen table. "It was amazing though mom! That blonde girl, she just lifted up that car like it was nothing and threw it." He described with a rather excited manner. "Maybe, maybe she's like me!" Clark pointed out as his dad came in and grabbed a glass from the kitchen cabinet and headed over to the sink to fill it.

"Maybe, but that doesn't explain those other two men with her." Jonathan Kent pointed out while turning the faucet off as his glass was half way full.

Martha Kent looked over at her husband with a rather exasperated look on her face. "Jonathan really! You could tell just by looking at them that they were…super heroes." She stated in the defense of the trio who had saved the talon from further damage and everyone else on the street from being seriously hurt.

"Super heroes? Is that what they've started calling costumed vigilantes now?" Jonathan asked while raising a brow and taking a drink from his glass.

"Well I think it's only obvious with the fact that they had powers all their own and they were protecting everyone." Martha pointed out while snatching up a dish towel and set to work on drying some dishes she had washed in the sink. "Honestly." She muttered under her breath while taking up a plate in her hand and vigorously drying it.

Jonathan grinned slightly as this and finished off his water before placing the cup on the sink counter and walked out of the kitchen. Passing by his son at the table, he clapped him on the shoulder and headed outside for the barn. Clark watched his father for a moment and looked back over at his mom who was still working on the same plate. "Super heroes?" he asked while raising a bit of an amused eyebrow at her.

Martha looked over at her son and gave him a rather stern look that was bit playful to say the least at the same time. "Yes, ever heard of Batman?" she asked while putting the plate down and moving on to the next item.

"Batman?" Clark whispered to himself while grabbing his backpack and heading upstairs to empty it out and sort through what needed to be done first as far as order of homework. Shaking his head, Clark pushed open the door to his room and tossed his bag over to his bed and then headed back out to the hall. Before he stepped all the way out, he caught something out of the corner of his eye through the window and did a double take. I could have swore I just saw…nah, it couldn't be. He shrugged it off and then left his room completely.

After dinner and helping his mom with the dishes, Clark headed out to the barn loft to have some time alone to think about what had happened at the Talon that day. Everything replayed so vividly in his mind even right down to when the blonde girl gave him that shrug and apologizing look before taking to the air and actually flying away. Now that was what startled Clark the most about those three people. Out the three only two flew away while the other just became this blur of red and gold and was gone in just mere seconds. Now he reminded me of that kid named Wally West that I met a while back ago. Clark mused while leaning back against the side of the window sill he was sitting on. Staring off into the night sky, Clark could only imagine what it must feel like to fly like they did without the aid of an airplane or some other device. Well that guy in the green suit was glowing when he left. That reminds me, I didn't feel weak or anything when that green light was emitted…so maybe his light is something entirely different and has no side affects.

As Clark continued to stare off into the night sky he caught something out of the corner of his eye which caused him to sit up immediately and look in that direction all the way. He narrowed his eyes a bit to see what it was he had caught. His vision became like a telescope as it zoomed in on that specific image that was in the dark sky. A yellow light was shooting out across the sky in small burst as it tried to hit something it was aiming at and missing apparently. Clark focused harder and finally saw what he had been looking for. His blue eyes went completely wide in the same shock he had been placed in at the Talon when the fight broke out between the costumed people. "No way!" he breathed while getting up on his feet and staring intently at the yellow light flashing through the air.

One of the yellow shots finally hit its target as the impact could be seen almost as clear as day and shot down whatever it was after in the first place. Clark watched as out of the sky plummeted something with a fire engine red coloring to it and crashed right through the roof a small shack that his dad used for storing various other farm implements. As soon as the object crashed through the roof the shack collapsed in on itself in a heap that threw up a cloud of dust and dirt. Clark was out of the loft and barn all together in a flash as he used his super speed and arrived in the barnyard just as his parents were coming out of the house and near running down the porch steps to join their son. Martha came right to Clark's side and grabbed a hold of his arm.

"Clark what's going on out here?" Jonathan asked him while standing on his son's unoccupied side.

Clark shook his head as he didn't really have a good enough guess. "I don't know." He answered while still keeping his gaze on the collapsed shack where the dust cloud was starting to settle. "Something fell out of the sky and just crashed through the roof of your tool shack dad." He described what he had seen personally but left out the yellow light being shot through the sky.

"My, my, what a mess you make little girl." A male voice commented from an unseen source that had all three Kent's looking around in confusion until Martha squeezed her son's arm and pointed up at the sky just above the dead shack. The same red skinned man from earlier that day came slowly down out of the sky in a gentle motion that had him touching ground safely, unlike whatever it was that had been shot down. He folded his arms across his broad chest and held a very cocky smirk on his face while walking towards the broken shack. "Tsk, tsk, what would the Green lantern say if he saw you so easily thrown down like this? Really child, you should know better than to challenge me alone like that." He sneered while stopping just short of the pieces of splintered wood.

Jonathan looked over at his wife and exchanged a frantic look of worry with her while Clark's face was starting to contort to a rather angry expression as he could now only guess what this alien looking guy was talking about or to. It's her! He shot her down! And now he's mocking her. Clark clenched his right hand in a fist and got the attention of his parents right on him almost immediately when he did. "No Clark." His dad stated quickly while laying a hand on his son's shoulder. "Whatever is going on, you aren't ready to handle." Jonathan Kent looked over at the red skinned man in black and blue leathers who had now turned his attention on him and his family.

A rather unsettling grin was on his face now flashing what looked to be rather fang-like canines in his mouth as he dropped his arms to his sides and held up his right hand that was adorned with a single yellow ring on his ring-finger. "At least there will be witnesses to recount the fall of Super-" before he could finish, the guy was cut off as the broken pieces of wood suddenly exploded with a blonde teen popping up in the middle of it all.

The red cape was a bit tattered and covered in a layer of dust as was the rest of her attire, but other than that she looked to be okay. Her royal blue eyes were burning with an angry fire as she stared at the red skinned man who was staring back at her rather dumbfounded to say the least. His look quickly changed to a rather irritated sneer as her closed his right hand into a fist and pointed it at the blonde. Before any source of yellow light could be emitted by the ring on his hand, the red skinned man was stumbling backwards as the blonde had suddenly come to be right up in his face without any warning. Clark watched in complete awe as the girl was once again exhibiting the same powers that he was starting to discover on his own. The blonde narrowed her eyes dangerously before lashing out with a very hard uppercut to the red man's jaw that sent him flying up and backwards to land on a wooden fence and completely break apart that one section entirely. Jonathan and Martha watched in what seemed like a mix of awe and horror as the girl had delivered such a hard blow to a full grown man that stood at least a good foot and some inches taller than her.

"See, I told you!" Clark stated excitedly to his dad while still having his eyes focused on the blonde. It seemed as though she heard him, because once Clark had pointed this out loudly to his dad the blonde girl looked over at him and held a rather shocked look on her face now. It seemed that she hadn't expected to see the same guy she saved in the street twice in one day while fighting the same man. Clark held a rather hopefully look upon his face as he and the blonde stared at each other as if speaking silently with many questions passing between them.

However, the moment ended as the red skinned man stared to pick himself up off the ground and get to his feet again. This caused the blonde to snap her head over in his direction and once more glare with what looked like hate. "I would think by now you would learn not to get up again Sinestro!" the blonde shouted through clenched teeth while also clenching her hands at her side.

The man she called Sinestro merely laughed as he dusted himself off and squared his shoulders. That same cocky smirk cut its way across his hard face as he listened to the blonde's threat. "What makes you think that just you alone could ever put me down? Eh, Super Girl?" he mocked while holding his closed hand out again as the ring on it was starting to glow with yellow light again.

"I'll be more than enough you washed up traitor!" Super Girl shouted while flying forward at Sinestro with a fist ready to be thrown.

Sinestro smirked at the threat she had made and got ready to fire. "Foolish girl." He muttered while firing his beam. His smirk soon disappeared as his beam seemingly missed as Super Girl came twirling out from the side and flew right for him while throwing a punch. Sinestro's face showed the depth of his shock before his entire right cheek took a hit from a fist that felt as though it were a concrete block smashing into him. His body was tossed to the side immediately. But somehow the former green lantern managed to keep himself on his feet and fire another shot from his ring.

Again Super Girl dodged the shot taken at her and changed her flight direction and streaked again for the evil Lantern and caught him across the face again with a right followed by a left and then her right foot met his temple all one right after the other. Sinestro was sent reeling from this attack while trying to keep his balance all at the same time. The only way he was going to be able to get a shot in on the female version of the Man of Steel was extort the weakness she shared with everyone in the Justice League. Sinestro's black eyes turned on the Kent family who was still watching the fight from where they had been standing. A wicked glint crossed his eyes while being accompanied by a sly grin as he glanced over at Super Girl and then aimed his ring at the family of three.

"All you heroes are alike." He cackled while firing on the Kents with his perverted Lantern Ring.

Super Girl's eyes went wide for a moment as she watched the ring fired at the innocent people who's yard she had been knocked into. Without a single thought of hesitation the blonde Kryptonian made to rush in front of the family and take the hit for them. However Sinestro knew she would, so as soon as he fired the first shot he fired a second at Super Girl that caught her off guard and struck her right at the center of the chest knocking her backwards to the ground. Sinestro laughed for the moment until he looked over at the innocent family he had attacked and ceased to finish his laugh as he stared with a gaping mouth at the sight before him. The son was standing before his parents like a human-shield with no sight of injury done to him at all. Sinestro raised a curious brow at this and made to start forward at the boy in curiosity. As he took the first step a green beam shot down from the sky just in front of him drilling a hole in the dirt and leaving a scorch mark behind as it had been a short blast. Jumping backwards a few feet Sinestro placed himself into a defensive stance as he could only guess who had just arrived.

"Didn't think it would take long before you started causing trouble Sinestro." Green Lantern spat while coming down out of the sky to stand in front of the Kent family with a green outline glowing about him and the same light taking over his eyes.

Sinestro sneered at him and prepared for a fight but stopped when a red blur passed by him bring with it a sudden rush of wind and came to stop beside the Green Lantern. "Dammit! I should have seen that coming!" he sneered while lowering his hand as he was having second thoughts about his plan. "Don't think you've won just yet!" Sinestro yelled angrily before jumping into the air and flying off to only who knows where.

"Yeah, we sure showed him." Flash commented while crossing his arms over his chest and plastering a smug grin on his face as well. "But man! Did you see the shape his face was in? Little S sure did a number on him!" he laughed while looking over at GL who in turn was looking over across from them and to the side. "What? What are you staring at?" Flash asked a bit confused as to what had the man's interest and then turned his head to see for himself. The eyes of the Flash went rather wide as he finally took notice of the downed Super Girl who now had some random teenaged boy crouched next to her ready to help her up if she needed it.

Clark reached out a hand and brushed aside some stray pieces of Super Girl's blonde hair from her face while holding a worried look on his own. "Are you okay?" he asked as she was now sitting up on the ground and shaking the cobwebs from her head.

Super Girl nodded in reply. "Yeah. It'll take more than just one shot from his ring to knock me down for the count." She stated while moving to get up on her feet again. As she started to push herself up, Super Girl found to her surprise the helping hand of the guy next to her offered freely without any hesitation. Looking him over for a moment with her eyes, Super Girl then placed her own hand in his and allowed him to help her even though she really wasn't in need of it. Back on her feet Super Girl gave a small smile to him in return for his help. "Thanks."

"Not a problem." Clark returned and absent mindedly continued to hold on to her hand while just staring at her as his mind tried to piece together why she looked so familiar to him.

Looking down at her hand Super Girl raised an amused eyebrow and looked up at Clark again before clearing her throat. This gesture startled Clark as he realized what she was indicating to and smiled nervously as he released her hand. "Sorry." He muttered under his breath as he started to feel his face grow slightly warm from embarrassment.

"Hey, hey now!" Flash spoke up as he suddenly appeared next to Super Girl and elbowed her in the shoulder in a teasing manner that had the youth shooting a glare at him right after.

Green Lantern, who was still standing over by Jonathan and Martha, rolled his eyes and then turned to face them with a passive look upon his face. GL wasn't by any means a stone cold guy, it was just that his Marine background sort of had him giving off a more harder personality than he really possessed. So, trying the best he could to not look as gruff and tough, Green Lantern gave a wry smile to the couple. "I'm sorry we placed in such a dangerous position like this." He apologized to them and glanced off for a moment at his two comrades who were now starting an argument between each other and groaned mentally before looking at the husband and wife. "It wasn't our intentions to do so." He finished while hoping this would at least smooth out the possible bad impression they may have just instilled.

Instead of the expected reaction, GL was surprised when the husband stepped forward and held out a hand to him in a friendly gesture. "We don't blame you." He replied while holding a bit of a smile on his own face. "You were only doing your job."

Lantern nodded his head to this and shook hands. "I take it things like this don't seem that surprising or odd to you then." GL mused as he and Jonathan ended their hand shake.

Martha smiled at GL and came to her husband's side. "Oh, where to begin." She state with a bit of a nervous laugh in her voice as she was still shaken by the events that had just passed. "But yes, I suppose you could say that. Smallville's no stranger to the out of place."

The mention of the town's name that the three Justice League members found themselves in after being sucked in through the black hole had all three staring at the husband and wife speechless. Super Girl on the other hand seemed to be rather dumbstruck as she then turned her head to look at the boy around her own age standing with her and Flash. "Um, if you don't mind me asking, what's your name?" she asked with a rather suspicious look in her eyes that flickered for a moment and then passed before it could be picked up.

Clark gave her the same smile and extended his hand this time in greeting to her. "Clark Kent." He answered and took notice of the sudden shock that came over the blonde girl before him who hesitantly placed her hand in his once more to shake it. "It's Super Girl, right?" Clark asked as he was trying to remember if that was in fact what the red skinned guy named Sinestro had called her a few times before taking off.

"Uh, yeah, it is. Well, that's my alias super hero name." she answered while ending their hand shake and eyeing him in a rather peculiar way that even Flash was mimicking at that very moment. Super Girl felt a slight poke to her lower back and realized that it was Flash's way of telling her to introduce him as well to Clark. Super Girl cleared her throat quietly and then stepped sideways and held a hand out at the guy in red and gold next to her. "Clark, this is The Flash." She introduced the adult with her in a somewhat bored manner that had Flash eyeing her for a moment.

"The Flash?" Clark repeated a bit confused by the name as he looked at the guy in the skin tight red suit.

Flash nodded as he crossed his arms over his puffed up chest that seemed to still be swelling with pride. "Yep, that's me! Fastest man alive!" he added in as a secondary title and smiled smugly as he did.

Clark looked over at Super Girl who rolled her eyes and just shook her head in what seemed un-amusement as it was something she was hearing almost constantly for a while now. Seeing this, Clark suppressed an oncoming laugh and managed to keep his smile to a more decent one that hid the fact that he wanted to laugh at how Super Girl reacted to her friend. Green Lantern broke his stare off the goings on with the Flash and Super Girl, and looked back over at the other adults. "Green Lantern." He introduced himself while holding his own hand out this time to the husband.

Jonathan nodded to this with a half smile and shook hands with him. "Jonathan Kent, and this is my wife Martha." He introduced his wife who in turn shook hands with GL after her husband. They already knew the names of the other two heroes as they had introduced themselves to their son.