Chapter Eight
Reversal Role Model
The back door of the Kent farmhouse opened followed by the screen as Jonathan Kent came walking out into the late afternoon with his blonde niece following after him. Today she hadn't gone to school with Clark as Jonathan had asked for her help on the farm tractor. There were repairs and work needed to be done on it, and with another super powered teen around the farm it was going to be much easier and more reliable to get it done without any problems. The two entered the open barn where the red tractor sat waiting for them on several jacks that Jonathan had Clark prop it up with before he left for school. "Kara, I'm gonna need you to stick close just in case one of the jacks decide to move on me." Jonathan stated while grabbing a wrench and red handkerchief off the near by shelf before he sat down beside the tractor. "The last time I worked on the old girl by myself, I ended up receiving a broken leg for it when the tractor fell."
"Ouch." Kara winced as she crouched down beside her uncle. "How'd that happen?" she asked while he started to work on the underside of the tractor. Kara was genuinely curious to hear the story and found it a great opportunity to get to know her cousin's father a bit better than she already had back in her timeline.
Jonathan gave a light laugh to her question, but seeing as how she was serious about it, he decided to tell her. "Well, I had wanted to get some repairs done on the tractor and your aunt was running late, so I went ahead and started without her. Which was a big mistake, because not even a minute after I started working on it a jack slipped out from under it and the tractor fell on my leg." Jonathan glanced over at Kara to see what type of reaction his story had received. The look on her face was one of a small grimace. "Luckily enough for me, Clark just happened to get home almost at the same time it happened and he got the tractor off me. It was of course broken and Clark took me to the hospital."
The blonde teen nodded to this as she watched the tractor and the jacks it sat on. The last thing she needed now was for history to literally repeat itself right then and there. "Well you don't have to worry about that happening again since you have me here with you this time." Kara stated with her blue-eyed gaze coming to rest on her uncle.
"Such are the advantages of having a son and niece from another planet with the same identical powers and personalities." Jonathan remarked while taking a turn on the nut he was working to loosen on the backside of the front tractor wheel. "Kara, can you see what's keeping this nut from turning for me?" he asked while still struggling to loosen the stubborn piece of molded metal.
Kara nodded and looked at the spot her uncle had indicated to. Focusing upon it and concentrating, Kara's x-ray vision kicked in and saw through the tractor metal. The skeletal hand of her uncle yanking on the wrench he was using appeared and so did the stubborn nut that didn't want to turn. Looking a bit harder she could see that the thing wasn't really moving at all no matter how hard Jonathan tugged at it. Ending the x-ray negative view, Kara glanced over at her uncle. "It just looks like it's being a pain." She told him with a small grin forming on her lips. "I can loosen it if you want." Kara offered while he gave one final tug on the wrench, only to have a rather disturbing sound emit from where the jack was holding the front end up.
The jack had finally wobbled onto its edge and then decided it was going to dump the heavy piece of machinery on the leg of Jonathan Kent once again. However, this time around it wasn't going to happen as Kara realized what was about to happen and reached both hands out to come up under the heavy tractor and caught it just as it started to fall. Jonathan had been thoroughly startled by the whole event and had made to try and quickly move but it would have been useless if Kara hadn't been there to catch the tractor. "Uncle Jon, are you okay?" Kara asked quickly with a worried tone in her voice as she lifted the tractor up enough so she could get the jack back under it.
"Yeah. Just a bit rattled." He replied while exhaling heavily and glancing up at the worried teen beside him with a relieved smile. "Thank you Kara. That would have been a painful repeat." Jonathan pointed out in slight humor that most people felt after a rather quickly terrifying event.
Getting the jack back under the tractor, Kara looked over at her uncle and smiled as well. "No problem. Family is supposed to look out for each other." She grinned while standing up. "I'm gonna go around to the front and keep a hand on it there in case it decides to go rogue on us again."
"Good idea." Jonathan agreed while reassuming his position under the tractor again and reached under to grab a hold of the wrench, but hesitated a moment. "Kara could you…"
The blonde teen laughed lightly while reaching under the tractor and took a hold of the wrench while keeping her other hand up under the fender. With one small pull Kara's alien strength had the nut loosened finally as she turned it over then to her uncle to finish. For most of the afternoon the two Kent's worked on the tractor without any other incidents occurring as they traded back-stories the whole time.
At around two o'clock their work was finished and Martha had come out to the barn to let them know she had lemonade waiting for them inside. Jonathan stood up on his feet and brushed the dirt and hay from his pants before putting his tools up. Wiping the sweat from his brow, Jonathan looked over at his niece who was currently lifting the tractor up with one hand so it sat in a position similar to that of a boom box on a kid's shoulder while using her foot to scoot the four jacks off to one side so she could set it back down. The girl didn't even break a sweat, which had Jonathan shaking his head and laughing to himself as he compared his son to this blonde heroine from the future.
"Come on kiddo, let's go inside and get something to drink." He gestured for her to follow with a wave of his hand as he started towards the farmhouse.
"Alright." Kara called after him while setting the tractor down on the barn floor and then gave it a slight glare. "You're an evil piece of machinery, you know that?" she accused it before kicking the tire lightly enough to where she didn't do anything to it and then headed out to follow after her uncle.
Outside the barn, Kara had just begun crossing the yard when the sound of tires against gravel caught her attention. At first she thought it was Clark, but that idea was quickly dashed as she took notice of the sleek silver body coming up the driveway. Kara stopped walking and stood where she was as the expensive car came to a stop just some ten feet from her in the driveway and the driver side door opened. Lex stepped out and closed the door after him before walking towards Kara. What's he doing here? "Hey Lex." She greeted her cousin's friend with a faint smile as she spoke.
"Not in school today Kara?" Lex asked as he came to stand just before her with a bit of a friendly smirk playing on his lips.
Kara smiled back at him in response to the little poking tease he was starting. It had been a little over a week now since she and two other members of the Justice League; Green Lantern and The Flash arrived in Smallville, and even after the whole Chloe almost being run over with a Luthor Corp truck, Kara had somehow come around to not acting a forced liking towards him. Actually in some sense she was seeing that this Lex Luthor was nothing like the man she at times faced off against alongside her cousin. It was if they were two completely different people. This Lex seemed a lot more…well, nicer and likeable in a sense. "Obviously." She replied in sarcastic good humor. "Uncle Jonathan needed some help around the farm today so I offered to stay behind and help out." Kara explained while casually crossing her arms over her chest and standing in a more relaxed position. Lex nodded his understanding to this, which caused Kara then to ask him a question. "So, what's up? I know you didn't come all the way out here to play truant officer on me."
This had Lex laughing a bit with a broad smile cutting across his rather handsome face. "You have a pretty sharp wit there Ms. Kent." He stated while giving her a rather amused look. "Well since you asked, I was hoping to find your cousin at home but obviously I'm early." He gestured at the fact that Clark's truck was missing by looking over to where it was usually parked. "But I think you might want to hear this as well." Lex stated with a bit of a sly grin. "The truck driver that nearly killed Chloe a few days ago was finally released from the hospital and then immediately arrested by Metropolis police who were tipped off to his whereabouts. Apparently, our friend George Anderson is wanted for various theft crimes back in Metropolis."
"Really?" Kara raised a brow as her voice held a laugh to it. "Somehow that doesn't seem to surprise me."
"Me either, but I've heard stranger and more surprising." Lex replied. "The police took him into custody and are waiting to interrogate him later back in Metropolis as to why he stole a truck from Luthor Corp." Lex explained while his gaze remained intent upon the blonde before him.
Kara's brows furrowed a moment as something struck her. "What was inside the truck anyways?" she asked, even though she already knew what it was after having viewed the inside of the trailer with her x-ray vision when the whole thing went down.
Lex shook his head at this with an unhappy look on his face. "I'm not sure. As soon as my father arrived he had the truck taken back to the warehouse and then told me not to worry about it or what was inside, to which he said, was simply nothing but empty barrels." He answered while giving Kara a rather curious look for a moment but then allowed it to pass. "Something tells me that Chloe won't buy that when she comes knocking for information on the situation." He added in with a slight grin forming.
"Well, I can't say you have no idea seeing as how you've known Chloe longer than I have. But I can totally understand what you mean." Kara replied with a grin as she recalled the whole thing where Chloe wouldn't stop bugging her about Bruce Wayne, to which Kara ended rather well at the hospital a few days ago. But something told her it wasn't entirely over just yet until Chloe was satisfied.
"Right, the whole Bruce Wayne thing. I heard about that. So tell me Kara, how does a young lady such as you randomly run into Bruce Wayne?" Lex asked while raising a brow at her in lack of innocent curiosity.
Kara gave Lex a rather unamused glare in return for his question. "Let me guess, you heard it from either Chloe or Lana. Right?" she asked while uncrossing her arms and placing her hands on her hips now.
"It was a reliable source." Lex smirked as he knew that this wasn't too hard for a hint for Kara to get the answer on her own.
"It was Chloe." Kara corrected him to which Lex's smirk became a grin. "I knew it wouldn't take long before someone else found out about that whole thing. " She sighed, both because she didn't want this hassle and for the fact that she had been stupid enough to even say anything about Bruce to Chloe in the first place when asked about Gotham City. Why didn't you just say Coast City or Edge City? There's no one there of high importance and rumor mill material.
Thankfully enough, Kara was saved from further explanation on the subject as Clark's truck came driving up the gravel road towards the farmhouse and parked closer to the barn so that Lex had a way to get out when he was ready to leave. Both Lex and Kara looked over at the pickup truck as it came to a stop and the engine died. Clark got out of the cab and came around the backside of the vehicle. "Hey, Lex." He greeted while squinting slightly as the sun for a moment hit his eyes.
"Hey Clark. Finally free from school I see." Lex commented while extending a hand towards his young friend, who took it in his own and shook hands with him.
Clark shrugged. "For the moment anyways." He replied while glancing over at his cousin who was grinning at him and returned it with his own. Looking back at Lex, he still held a cheerful look on his face while the grin disappeared a bit. "So what brings you out here?" Clark asked as he knew that Lex usually came out to the farm when it was something important.
"Actually, I already told Kara everything since you were missing in action here." He replied while glancing over at the blonde before returning to Clark. "I came by to let you guys know that George Anderson was released from the hospital and then was taken into police custody immediately. He's wanted in Metropolis for various theft crimes." Lex repeated what he had already told Kara to Clark.
Clark raised his brows at this. "Surprise, surprise." He commented while grinning a bit now again. "I guess that means you'll be expecting a call from Chloe soon then." Clark's voice held a slight air of laughter in it as he spoke.
"She's already left two messages for me at the mansion." Lex stated while reaching into his coat pocket for his cell phone as it started to ring and vibrate at the same time. "Excuse me." He gave his two friends a quick apology while flipping open his phone and answering the call coming through.
While Lex took a few steps away from the two cousins in order to make sure that if this call was private it remained that way while there was no offense towards the two Kent teens, Clark stepped closer to his cousin for a small conversation between them before Lex returned his attention back on them. "Have you gotten a hold of John and Wally yet?" he asked having known of her concern over the lack of communication from the two adult super heroes.
Kara shook her head to this while crossing her arms again over her chest. "No, I haven't. I'm starting to get a little worried now. I mean, I know they've been active longer than I have in the Justice League and just being superheroes in general…"
"But you're worried anyways. Kara, I don't blame you, and I don't think they would blame you either." Clark assured her while laying a hand on her shoulder and giving a small squeeze.
"I know, but something just feels a little off for some reason." She stated quietly as Lex's phone call ended and had him turning about to face the two of them. Kara forced herself to give him a small smile now while Clark did the same only it wasn't exactly forced.
Lex pocketed his cell phone and gave them both an apologetic look before speaking. "I have to attend to some business that just came up. I'll see you guys later." He gave them a nod while taking a few steps backwards before turning about and taking to his car.
Once Lex had gotten into his Porsche and turned about to head back down the driveway, Clark looked over at his cousin. "So, did my dad work you pretty hard today?" he asked with a hidden grin as he started to walk towards the house with Kara following after him at his side.
"Nothing I couldn't handle. But I have to admit, it was fun to work on the farm again." Kara's eyes became a bit wide at how she had just let slip that small piece of information that would now surely have Clark asking her some other questions she knew she couldn't answer for fear doing something to his future. Her eyes darted over at her cousin trying to see if he looked a bit confused at what she had said; only to find he was grinning still.
The two teens entered the house and found themselves directly in the kitchen were Martha and Jonathan were talking about something between themselves when they came in. Martha perked up at their entrance and smiled over at her son and niece as they came towards the part of the kitchen containing the fridge. "Kara, I thought you were coming in with Jonathan earlier?" she questioned as the blonde seated herself in an empty stool that sat around the small island, while Clark grabbed two glasses off the dish rack and brought them over to the table.
"Oh, I got a bit distracted." Kara gave her aunt a sheepish smile while taking the offered glass of lemonade from Clark. "Lex showed up when I was leaving the barn. He told me that the truck driver that had stolen the truck from Luthor Corp was released from the hospital today, and then was taken right in police custody." She repeated the story to her aunt and uncle, who in turn looked rather surprised. "Lex said he was wanted in Metropolis for various theft crimes." After finishing the short tale, Kara took a drink from her lemonade.
Clark looked over at his mom and dad who didn't look too surprised just like himself when the whole theft crimes thing was mentioned. Then something dawned on him that he hadn't thought about when Lex was there and had him glancing back over at his cousin. "Did Lex ever say what was inside that trailer?"
The Kryptonian teen's brows furrowed a bit at this. Lex had said he didn't know since his dad took custody of the truck almost immediately and for the most part she had no real reason yet to not believe him, while on the other hand she did know what had been in there. "Lex said he didn't know since his dad had the truck taken back to the Metropolis warehouse it was stolen from. But I don't need Lex to tell me about something I already saw." She explained while setting her glass down on the tile counter of the island and still held a slight frown on her face. "That truck had over fifteen barrels of green kryptonite inside its trailer."
The looks on the faces of all three Kent's solidified the fact that this was nothing short of serious. Kara had come to learn over the week's time that she lived on the Kent Farm that the family knew what kryptonite was, what its affects were, and just how harmful it was to Clark. They also knew now that kryptonite also weakened Kara just as it did with Clark, which brought them to learn even more about this other survivor of Krypton. Clark stared down at his glass that was already now half-empty. Something was weighing seriously upon him and it showed as Kara held now a concerned look towards him. Jonathan also noticed the look on his son's face and offered a piece of assurance and advice to him at the same time. "Clark, you don't have to worry about every little thing that happens with Luthor Corp when it doesn't involve you directly."
"But what if just the little things slip by when I should have paid closer attention to them? We didn't even know that Lionel was investigating me until mom was taken hostage with him in the office at Metropolis. " Clark pointed out as his tone of voice showed that he was becoming somewhat stressed out.
Kara looked between the members of the family while biting the inside of her bottom lip as she did. The last thing she wanted was to get them all involved in something that caused friction in the household. Thinking for a moment as an awkward silence fell in the kitchen, Kara suddenly was struck with a rather good idea that would at least get Clark's mind off the whole Luthor Corp and kryptonite thing for a while. "Hey Clark, you remember when we were coming back from lunch at the mansion and what we were talking about?" she asked and grabbed the attention of her cousin away from whatever he had been thinking about. Clark nodded slowly that he remembered. "Okay then, let's go." Kara announced while getting up from her seat and received a rather confused look in return.
"Go where?" Clark asked while raising a brow as he was clearly confused from what Kara was telling him to do.
Looking over at her aunt and uncle, Kara gave them a broad smile. "Uncle Jonathan do you mind if I borrow Clark for a while?" she asked just to make sure it was alright before doing anything else. The answer she needed came in a nod from him, which then had her looking to her aunt. "We'll be back in time for dinner then." Kara stated while grabbing Clark by the arm and dragging him off his seat and out the door. "Bye!" she called out to them as the two teens headed down the porch stairs.
Both Jonathan and Martha watched as Kara continued to drag a still confused Clark away by the arm and smiled as they knew what Kara was possibly up to with this.
Clark didn't really put up much of a fight as his cousin continued to drag him along. The blonde teen had taken the direction of heading towards the cattle fields where she knew no one would see them unless they purposely tracked out to find them, and even then it would be a rather long walk…but not for the two teens. Kara came to a stop just around the corner of the house and released her hold on Clark's arm.
"Alright, we race to the end of the pasture." Kara announced while taking up a ready position beside Clark, who gave her an even greater look of confusion. Catching it out of the corner of her eye Kara continued to look forward towards the desired destination she had in mind while grinning impishly. "Weren't you the one who wanted to find out just how strong I am?" she asked in reminder of the question he had asked of her a while back ago.
Clark gave a short laugh as he remembered and just shook his head as he took up a ready racing position as well. "On three, right?"
"Of course. We need to settle this tie thing between us on who's faster. You wanna do the honors?" She asked while glancing over at him with that same impish smirk still holding to her face. Her answer was the exact same grin from him and then both teens faced forward.
"One…two…three!"
In a flash both Kryptonian teens were racing across the cattle pasture in two separate blurs of blue as they were moving almost as fast as the speed of sound at this point. Kara pushed ahead for a few seconds only to have Clark quickly catch up and run even with her until they reached the halfway point in several seconds in which Kara then pushed ahead once again. In a time of only seven seconds the two teens reached the far end of the pasture and unfortunately it was once again a tie as they came to a stop just under an old windmill. Kara exaggerated an exhale while throwing her hands up at the fact that they had tied once again.
Clark cracked a smile at the way she was acting so dramatic over the out come of their race and laughed lightly. "Oh come on Kara, it's not that bad. It just means you can't beat me and I can't loose." He pointed out in teasing humor while receiving a cold mock glare from her in return.
"So basically it sounds as though you're declaring yourself the winner." Kara retorted while crossing her arms and continuing the mock glare she was training upon Clark.
"Not exactly, because you can also look at it as I can't beat you and you can't loose. So In a way, I guess we both win." Clark concluded with an amused look on his face that then broke into a wide smile at his blonde cousin.
Groaning to this conclusion that Clark had made, Kara rolled her eyes. "Fine. Whatever. We both win." She agreed while throwing her hands up again dramatically and walked over towards the old weathered windmill having to pass Clark as she did. Clark turned and followed after her, a bit curious as to how she was going to show him just how strong she was. Kara stopped just under the windmill and stared out passed the small groves of wild trees that bordered the backside of the pasture and laid eyes upon a very familiar city she knew all to well. Metropolis. I really hope you guys are close to finding Sinestro and a way home for us. Sighing, Kara tore her eyes away from the large city in the distance and looked over at Clark, who was standing beside her and looking out at the far away Metropolis. "So how do you propose we go about this whole strength test?"
Clark looked away from Metropolis in the distance and stared over at his cousin. "Good question. I hadn't really thought about that." He replied. "Maybe the only way we can find out is if we use our super powers against each other." Clark suggested as now an idea was starting to form in his head about this.
"What, like an arm wrestling contest? Clark come on, that's like totally…well it might work." Kara recanted herself a moment as she started thinking about this idea as well. It sounded simple enough. How else were they going to see who was in fact the stronger of the two if not by such a simple contest of strength as arm wrestling? "How about we try out a different version of an arm wrestling contest? Same concept except we won't be actually arm wrestling."
"Sounds a bit confusing, but okay." Clark agreed while turning to face Kara all the way as she did the same. "How do we do this?"
Kara grinned. "Okay, put your hands out like this." She instructed while stepping back and then held her arms straight out with her palms facing Clark. Clark followed her example and did the same thing; taking a step back and then held his own arms out with palms facing her. "Now, we step forward and lock hands." Kara stepped forward as did Clark and the two locked hands with fingers intertwined to do so. "On three we start pushing against each other with everything we got. The first to get the other to completely bend their elbows wins." She stated with a smile at the end of her instruction. "Got it?"
"Now that made more sense then that first explanation of yours." Clark answered while still getting in a jab at her in tease. His little quip got a shake of Kara's head and roll of her eyes to which he just grinned at. "Am I counting or you?"
"We'll both count just so it's fair." Kara stated while raising an accusing eyebrow at him in reminder of his little stunt back in the roadside field after lunch at the Luthor mansion. Clark chuckled a bit at this but agreed anyways.
Both teens started the count aloud at the same time – "One, two, three!"
And on three, the two Kryptonian survivors started to push against each other's own force of strength in response to the other. For a while it seemed like it was going to be a stand still of sorts until Kara started to push Clark's arms away from herself bending his elbows just enough to actually show that she might just overpower him. Seeing this, at first startled Clark and had him wondering if his cousin was possibly stronger than him. For a solid minute and half the side of favor rested with Kara as she managed to move Clark's arms yet again but not enough to count for something. As the stand still continued on a moment longer it stated to become evident to both teens that they were evenly matched. I'm as strong as you were when you were my age Kal. I guess this means one day I'll be as strong as you are now back home. A small grin flickered over Kara's face as she thought quietly to herself upon such a fascinating discovery as the one she had just made.
Clark seemed to have caught the sudden grin that appeared on his cousin's face as he gave her a smirk of his own. "Looks like we're at another draw." He commented while still pushing against her strength.
"I guess it is. But that doesn't mean I'm giving up just yet." Kara replied while still pushing back at Clark. "Unless that is, you wanna give up first." She stated while raising an eyebrow at the same time in emphasis to her suggestion.
"You first cousin." Clark retorted while that smirk remained still on his face as he spoke.
This seemed to be a cue of sorts, as both gave one final try in which they put every bit of their strength into this little game and then ended up shoving each other backwards. The two teens stumbled a bit but managed to keep themselves up on their feet for the most part while staring across at each other. A sudden silence came upon them and then immediately broke as they started to laugh at the ending of their game/test/competition. "Well, again we're at a draw." Kara pointed out the obvious and then slyly grinned as something dawned on her at that moment. Folding her arms across her chest, Kara started to float off the ground until she at a good three feet off.
Clark stared up at his cousin in a sort of awe as he watched just hover there like it was nothing that spectacular in the first place. "How are you able to do that?" he asked while stepping closer to her.
Kara raised a brow to this while slowly coming back down to earth and touched ground. "What do you mean 'how am I able to do that'? Can't you fly?" she asked while closing the gap between her and Clark so she only stood a few feet from him now. The fact that his facial expression dropped a bit and he seemed to be avoiding eye contact now, gave Kara all the answers that she needed to know. "You can't fly yet." She murmured partially to herself while dropping her arms to her side. "Clark, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to –"
"No, it's fine Kara. Anyways, it's probably a good thing I can't do that." He stated while giving her a rather sheepish grin. "I'm afraid of heights."
"Are you serious!" Kara asked as her eyes went rather wide to hear something like that coming from her cousin. "You? You're afraid of heights?" she repeated while still trying understand that concept at the same time. He's afraid of heights? How is that even possible! As Kara was trying to figure this all out, somehow she managed to catch the rather depressed look that was slowly starting to make its way across Clark's face. A pang of guilt hit the Girl of Steel as she realized just how embarrassed he must be having admitted to something like that to her and it didn't seem to help as she nearly berated him with questions right after that. Kara mentally scolded herself before dropping her gaze a bit in a sort of shame. Nice going Kara. You just made your cousin feel completely stupid for having a fear in the first place. So now what are you going to do genius?
Clark had partially kept his gaze on the blonde before him and noticed the way in which she seemed to be punishing herself for what she had said. Clearing his throat a bit in distraction, Clark turned himself towards Metropolis and then seated himself down on the grassy pasture ground. Kara's gaze flickered over to him as she noticed that he had moved, and then became a bit curious as to why he had sat down. Stepping over a space, Kara then followed suit and sat down as well next to him and stared out at Metropolis. The two sat in silence like this for a while, just staring at the city while a thousand different things passed through their minds as they sat there. Thoughts of home ran through Kara's mind as she wondered if the other Justice League members were looking for them at that moment or if their disappearance had been even known yet to them. If they knew, then just how distressed was he over her disappearance? At night Kara would wake up suddenly with a rather unsettling feeling in the pit of her stomach. She could only guess that it was homesickness and she was more than likely right. When the feeling became too much after waking up, Kara would sneak out her bedroom window and fly over to the barn where she would hide out in the loft for a while to just sit there and think. A midnight flight out over Smallville didn't seem appropriate unless she was dressed as Supergirl. In those times when she would sit there in the loft, Kara would think about what her cousin would do if he were in her position at that very moment. Everything I do, every choice I make, and every time I go out to save the day; I think about what you would do Kal. What would Superman do in this situation if he were here right now? We're the only family we have, and you're the only role model I've had in my life in how I should live it here on this new home planet of Earth. You taught me how to control my powers and how to use them for good. You taught me everything I know.
Kara sighed quietly and brought her knees up so that way she could fold her arms across their tops and rest her chin on a small perch. Apparently her sigh caught Clark's attention as he glanced over at her for a moment. There were still a lot of questions he wanted to ask her, but he was still a bit unsure whether or not he should. When they had first met she introduced herself as Kara Zor-El of Krypton, which meant that Clark wasn't alone after all. There was another survivor and Kara was it. After all they both shared the same powers, the same planet of origin, what else could that all mean other than he wasn't the sole survivor of Krypton's destruction? What's more, Kara was a superhero and she seemed to have total control over her abilities and used them publicly as Supergirl to save and protect. Clark could only imagine the freedom she must feel in being able to use her powers like that without being afraid of what people thought about her and how they would treat her in return. So far everyone in Smallville saw her as hero who had shown up almost out of nowhere and started saving the day, and Clark couldn't see why they wouldn't. Something deep down though tells me there's more to learn about her, but I don't know what. Even still, I have someone to look too for answers…I have someone who makes the loneliness of being different just go away. Clark smiled lightly while looking towards Metropolis again. This was nice. Just sitting here with Kara and doing or saying nothing. Wait…no… he wasn't feeling some sort of physical attraction to her or anything like that. There was an attraction to her, but it was on a completely different level that was completely opposite from the attraction he had towards Lana. His attraction to her was more like one for a role model but it also seemed to run deeper than that. She's like family in a way. After John and Wally left for Metropolis, Kara just seemed to fit right in around here. It's like I have a sister in Kara, someone I can go too when who I am gets frustrating and I need someone to talk too. She understands better than anyone how I feel.
"You know when I first learned that I could fly, it scared me." Kara suddenly spoke up while still staring forward even as Clark looked over at her with a rather surprised look on his face. Catching his expression from the corner of her eye, Kara looked over at him with a bit of a furrowed brow. "What?"
"Nothing, it's just that…I never thought that someone like you could be afraid." Clark replied. " I guess now I understand a little better abut what Chloe told me one time." He added in while adjusting the way he was sitting a bit. "How did you learn that you had the ability to fly in the first place?" he asked in hopes of learning more about his own powers through Kara.
Kara shook her head before speaking. "I was trying to run away from the police in Gotham City after I accidentally set one of the squad cars on fire with newly discovered heat vision." She explained while grinning a bit as she could see the humor in the whole accidental thing. "From what I understand Krypton had a greater pull of gravity that was way stronger than earth's. Because of that, the people of Krypton were naturally born with the ability to walk around normally with such an intense gravity pull. The ability to fly and leap a tall building in a single bound is a result of the fact that we live here on earth now. Oh, that and the sun acts like a super charger for our cells which absorb the energy…and…I just totally confused you didn't I?" Kara asked while grinning over at her cousin who seemed totally lost in what she was trying to explain.
"Pretty much yeah." Cark answered while grinning as well. "But I think I understand what you're saying. Who told you all of this?" he asked as a new question of course had come to mind.
"I don't think that's something I should really be telling you Clark." Kara replied while realizing that she had more than likely said more than she should have. "I'm sorry." Her face held an apologetic look that Clark could only smile sympathetically at.
"It's fine. I don't completely understand why, but I think to a degree I can." He replied while reaching over and resting a hand on her shoulder to give it a squeeze. "Knowing that there's someone else from Krypton here on earth just makes being different a lot easier to handle."
A warm smile started across Kara's face at this. She knew that Clark had always felt s alone for most of his life even with the friends and family he had here on earth, and she also knew how much she changed his life when her space ship finally came crashing down into the Gotham harbor. A family had been reunited, and a sense of loneliness was gone from his life and Kara's after finding each other. And to know that now she as giving him that same feeling all over again without actually telling him outright that they were blood related cousins, it helped that home sickness sink away and not bother her so much as it had been. "You're welcome Clark." Kara stated while leaning over to him and giving her cousin a hug to which he returned right back to her. When the two parted, Kara held a new smile on her face. One of mischief. "So, have you ever wondered what it feels like to fly?" she asked coyly while bringing her knees up closer to her chest.
This caught Clark a bit off guard and the fact that Kara was acting the way she was at the moment, it had Clark wondering what she had up her sleeve. Giving his cousin a suspicious look and leaning back a bit to get a better look at her. "Something tells me you have something else in mind rather than just getting an answer out of me." He implied while trying to see if he could tell what Kara was thinking at that moment in her head.
An impish grin crossed her face at that moment as she suddenly jumped up to her feet and then offered down a hand to Clark. "Do you trust me?" she asked and then waited for his reply. If he said 'yes' then they were both in for a rather interesting outing, and if he said 'no' then they were going to be sitting in the pasture for the rest of the day with Kara wondering if he really did trust her as she thought he did.
However, whatever worries or doubts she had were erased as Clark placed his hand in hers and then stood up as well. "Yeah, I trust you Kara." He replied as her hand grip tightened just a bit about his own. "Just promise me it won't be too high or too fast…that is if you're going to d what I think you're going to do." Clark stated while trying not to allow his fear of heights to get the better of him at that moment.
Kara grinned at him while taking a step closer to him. "I promise. Edge of Smallville away from Metropolis and back." She explained while looking over her shoulder and pointing with her free hand. Looking back at Clark she raised a brow in question. "So, you're sure you want to go through with this? I mean if you really don't want to…" Kara trailed off a bit in hesitation just to see if Clark was having second thoughts before they took off.
"I'll be fine…I think." Clark replied but then shook his head. "But like I said, I trust you." He stated while giving his cousin a nervous grin. "Anything I should know before we lift off?" he asked.
"Uh, don't let go?" Kara gave him wrinkling her brows in a sort of puzzlement that had Clark giving her a look that had her quickly taking back her joke. "Sorry, I didn't mean to freak you out. There's really nothing that you need to worry about." She assured him as her feet started to lift off the ground. "Just trust me." Kara had come off the ground to the point where she couldn't go any further as her hand held on to Clark's, and he was still on the ground.
Clark's arm was held up high and at its limit as he stared up at the blonde Kryptonian girl who stared back down at him, waiting. Heights scared him, but for some reason right now his fear wasn't taking a hold of him as he thought it would be with the promise of being airborne in a few short seconds. With a nod of his head in reply to Kara, Clark soon found himself high above the ground holding on to the one thing that was keeping him that way. They hovered over twenty feet from the ground as Kara wanted to make sure Clark was okay so far. "Wow, this feels…weird."
"Trust me, it won't be a weird feeling for to long." Kara replied while giving him a quick grin before looking up at he further levels of sky above them and in classic manner, took her free right hand with hand closed, and pointed it up above her.
In a sudden rush of air Clark found himself traveling further up into the sky at a somewhat quick speed that wasn't freaking him out too bad, but it did cause him to take a tighter grip on Kara's hand as they soon were a mile or so off the ground now and still climbing. Kara reached a desired height that had them staring down at the green cow pasture with the old windmill looking near like a toy now from the height they had reached, and here she stopped a moment to check on how Clark was doing. With only a weak grin to her in gesture, Clark was soon flying forward towards the limits of Smallville going away from Metropolis. It was an easy flight at first so that way Clark could get used to the whole defying the laws of gravity thing, and then Kara started to pick up the speed. During the whole event Kara had kept her hand holding Clark's retracted close to her side so that he had a sense of ease as they went, but as they had now reached a speed of fifty-five miles an hour, Kara looked over at him. The wind was blowing their back out of their faces as they traveled and for the first time, Clark experienced a sense of freedom that he never knew while soaring through the air alongside his cousin. A smile had formed on his face as they continued to fly and as he stared into the boundless sea of blue and spots of white, Clark noticed out the corner of his eye that Kara was looking over at him. As the two made eye contact, Kara started to slowly extended her arm out so that way Clark was becoming a bit more separated from her side while still holding on to him.
At first it seemed a bit shaky to find himself being pushed from her side, but when their arms were fully extended and Clark found himself just flying through the air, all worry, dread, fear, terror, and anything else he had been feeling was immediately gone as he flew over Smallville like bird or plane. A huge amount of various feelings were now rushing through him all at once, and the only way Clark felt that he could express them was to simply give a shout of total joy and elation as he returned his attention forward to watch their journey through the air. Kara grinned at this and also soon turned her attention forward. The two teens remained at the same level and speed all the way to the end of Smallville's county line, and that was when Kara pulled Clark in a bit close as she then guided the both of them down towards the earth at an angle to which they touched ground feet first in an open field of tall grass. As soon as they touched ground, Clark found that he had to take a few running steps forward to make sure he didn't go tumbling head long as Kara released his hand, and then whirled about to smile broadly at his cousin.
"Kara, that was amazing!" he exclaimed excitedly while coming right up to her and grabbing her by the shoulders. "Scary, but it was still amazing!" Clark grinned while releasing his cousin and standing back from her.
"I know." Kara agreed while looking up into the sky. "When I'm up there, it feels like everything down here is so small compared to how big and endless it is up there." Kara explained while looking down from the heavens and returned back to Clark. "A sense of freedom." She added in while giving him a warm smile.
Clark smiled back at her and then allowed his face to take a semi-serious look for a moment. "But that doesn't mean I'm over being afraid of heights." He pointed out before his look was lost behind another giant smile that swept across his handsome face. Kara laughed at this and Clark joined in for a moment until it ended, after which he gave the blonde teen a rather warm smile of thanks as he stared at her. "Thanks Kara."
"For what?" she asked while cocking her head to the side a bit as she was genuinely curious as to why she was being thanked by him.
"Well, mainly for that completely new experience, but also for everything else you've done since showing up here in Smallville with John and Wally." Clark answered while sticking his hands within the pockets of his tan corduroy jacket.
Kara stared at Clark for a moment in silent though while a faint smile was creeping up on the corners of her mouth again. "You're welcome." She replied while giving a small nod of the head in accompaniment to what she had said. "However, I think it is time we returned home as I believe dinner will be served when we arrive." She joked. "Foot race?" she asked while turning around into the direction that the farm lay in.
Clark shook his head while stepping up next to her side. "You just won't be satisfied until we find a winner in all this, will you?" he asked as they got into position.
"What are you kidding me? I don't live for a tie." Kara returned and then started the countdown to one for their race.
As they raced off across Smallville to beat the other one home, it was then that is was seen rather clearly. There had been a reversal of role models between the two Kent teens.
