Another Place
By TigerofRobare
Disclaimer: I do not own Smallville or Superman Returns. They are owned by Warner Brothers.
Chapter One
Through the Looking-glass
It was another one of those days for Clark Kent, another day he wished he was a normal human being and that there had been no meteor shower and he would not have to keep secrets from his friends. It had started out simple enough, all of his friends compared notes and had tried to work out the speed at which he was running between events. They had laughed at the result and concluded they must not be keeping good time.
All of them except for Lex and Lana. They knew about Clark's strength, his weakness to meteor rocks, and other things that didn't make sense for normal people.
"Clark," Lex had said, "we're your friends─you can trust us."
So Clark had been forced to lie to his friends yet again and the more he did it, the more he hated it. "I don't know what you two are talking about. I've got nothing to hide."
They left, but Clark knew they were not convinced and Lex had the resources to uncover his powers and perhaps even his origins.
So he stalked out into the field. Clark picked up a tenacious looking stone and hurled it against a tree. The tree rocked from the impact and the stone shattered. Angrily he gathered the pieces together and melted them into a new rock with his heat vision.
The black haired Kryptonian teenager walked through the woods outside his family's farm, he didn't see the entrance to the cave, covered as it was by years of vegetation and the weight of the hill, until it was too late. Clark fell a few feet, impacting heavily on the hard, rocky floor. He was about to jump out when something caught his eye.
It was a thick, brass-like ring. Similar to the thing the two Kryptonians had used to try to send Clark into the "Phantom Zone," whatever that was. Hesitantly, he approached it. When he was within a foot of it, a brilliant, bright, white light started to shine from it and the ring hovered in the air. There was a flash of bright blue light, then nothing.
Clark had lost consciousness.
