Hey everyone I'm back with another chapter! Sorry it took a while to get this out I have a few short fanfics that I'm trying to have completed by the end of this month. I want to thank Celgress for reviewing last chapter!
I still own nothing but the plot
Normal pov
Five hours later Batman and Storm were one more interrogation away from being able to go home for the night. They were at the moment looking through some notes before the last person was brought into the room.
"Well so far each member of the Injustice Gang is pretty much saying the same things." Storm states putting her notes down to look at Batman. "It doesn't look like anyone knew about Lex's suit until he came out wearing it to attack Superman besides Humanite."
"No one knew about the suit and as far as anyone is concerned no one else was around that could have possibly helped Luthor build it." Batman states narrowing his eyes at the documents. "It just seems too good to be true that Luthor would be that sloppy."
"He is dying that has probably made him more careless?" Storm questions thoughtful. "His mean focus above everything else was to be the one that destroyed Superman."
"Even so if anyone else might have helped him built that suit Superman will be in a lot of danger." Batman states finally turning to look at Storm.
"The things we do to keep him safe." Storm says with a sigh when her communicator started going off again she looks down to see that the call was from Superman again. "Whether he realizes it or not."
"You know I'm starting to think he doesn't trust me alone with you." Batman says with a smirk.
"Goddess I wonder why?" Storm says teasingly before answering the line. "We're still not done yet Kal."
"You two have been there for five hours and you said everyone is pretty much saying the same thing can't you guys call it a night?" Superman asked trying not to sound annoyed. "I'm sure that Batman needs his rest anyway he didn't really take one."
"We have one more person to talk to Kal." Storm states trying not to roll her eyes.
"I wouldn't worry so much." Batman says taking the communicator away from Storm. "Storm will make it home to you…eventually." He says before hanging up the communicator. "I think we're good to bring Cheetah in." Batman then walked over to the door to let the guards know they'd be seeing the last person.
"You know Kal has a point you could do with some rest." Storm says slyly when he came back to sit at the table. "Why don't you go and get some water?"
"Get some water?" Batman questions if Storm could see under his mask she'd know that he just raised his eyebrow. "Right now?"
"Kitties make you thirsty." Storm says with a smirk staring him down. "So I suggest you go get some water."
"Storm, Batman we have Cheetah here for you to question." A guard states knocking on the interrogation room's door.
"And you'll be alright while I get some water?" Batman asked staring back at Storm.
"I'm not the one that's thirsty." Storm says coolly. "You may come in." She tells the guards whom drags in a handcuffed Cheetah into the room and sits her down, just as Batman stands up to leave the room.
"Ah Batman?" A guard questions nervously. "Aren't you going to stay for this?"
"I need a water break." Batman says darkly. "My partner is more than capable of handling a few questions on her own." With that said the guards and Batman leave the room shutting the door behind them.
"Well he left in hurry." Cheetah says with a small scowl. "It's probably just as well."
"Meaning?" Storm questions the cat villainess.
"Nothing." Cheetah just says quickly turning her head to face away from Storm. "Go on then asked your stupid questions so that I can return back to my cell."
"Well then I'll begin with asking why you decided to work for Luthor in the first place." Storm asked calmly her hands on a pen and notebook pad.
"Are you seriously wasting time asking me that?" Cheetah asked with an annoyed look. "Obviously it was for the money!"
"Yes, everyone else has said the same thing." Storm says evenly. "Luthor offered more money that one could ever hope to rob from even the world's largest bank but still…it's a very tall order to fill destroying the Justice League."
"And?" Cheetah asked with a snarl.
"Why risk calling so much attention to yourself by working with him?" Storm asked. "Besides needing the money for your own research? I'd say there has to be a bit more motivation then just money."
"Why does there need to be any other motivation?" Cheetah questions forcefully.
"Are you saying you felt no compassion for Luthor?" Storm questions in a pondering tone. "He is dying after all? But then again he had no compassion for you in return did he?" Storm continues on. "You were loyal to him were decent enough to tell him to mind his condition and what does he do with all that? Nearly kills you over a misunderstanding."
"Because he thought I betrayed him for Batman!" Cheetah begins to rant getting angry. "And all along it was Humanite the one that he trusted the most who betrayed him! The one who was helping him built that suit that the rest of us weren't even allowed to see or even know about!"
"Luthor just brought you in for the dirty work he could never do himself." Storm states evenly. "He was taking all of his own anger towards his self-inflected failures on you. And to top it all off he didn't even trust you a scientist to help him build that suit?"
"No!" Cheetah says letting her anger get the best of her. "It was all some big secret weapon he didn't want anyone to know about it or risk other villains making their own."
"I see." Storm says evenly. "Well I've wasted your time enough for one night." She then stands up to get the guards so that they could bring Cheetah back to her cell, a few minutes pass by before Batman makes his way back to the room.
"So you think she was telling the truth?" Batman asked as he stood in front of her.
"There's always some truth when speaking in anger, no matter how much one tries to deny it." Storm says shrugging her shoulders. "I know it's not the same as seducing someone but it can still get the job done."
"Very funny." Batman says evenly.
Cut to outside of Stryker's
Batman and Storm were standing in front of the Batmobile discussing some last minute things before Batman would drive away.
"Make sure you don't stay up too late putting all that info up into the computer." Storm says leaning against the car. "Remember that Clark's parents and Kara are going to be coming in to celebrate their forty year anniversary. They are expecting to see you."
"Right Mrs. Kent does get all fussy if she thinks I haven't rested enough." Batman states.
"More like she knows you never rest enough." Storm proclaims shaking her head at him.
"She's just worrying too much." Batman says while getting into the Batmobile. "I'll see you guys tomorrow afternoon."
"Try to get some rest!" Storm calls out as he quickly drives away. "He's not going to."
Cut to the next day
Ororo and Clark were currently making their way over to the Daily Planet. "I can't believe Perry asked us to come in today!" Clark said while looking at his watch on any regular Monday it would have been fine but not the day his family were supposed to come into the city. "I just hope we'll still have time to pick up Ma, Pa and Kara."
"Perry promised to make this quick besides it's not the first time your family has been to Metropolis worst case scenario is that they'll have pay high fees for a cab to get to your apartment." Ororo states just as they entered the building.
"Smallville?!" Lois calls out in surprise when the two got off the elevator and worked into the newsroom. "I thought you had the day off?"
"Perry asked us to come in today." Clark explains as he and Ororo walked further inside. "Said it was extremely important."
"That it is Kent." Perry states suddenly from behind them, it was then that the three noticed most of the employees were standing around focusing on Perry whom was standing next to a man that they were not familiar with.
"Scott?" Ororo whispers under her breathe looking at the new man in shock, Clark being the only one who can hear her turns slightly to see what is wrong and notices the confused look on her face.
"Now as all of you very well know we haven't had a decent assistant editor since Ororo." Perry begins to announce. "Well hopefully that will now change, this is my nephew Richard White and he has decided to join us here at the Planet after being an editor at Lunar Star. I'm sure he will be a good fit to the team." With that said he dismissed the rest of the news team went about their business expect for Clark, Ororo and Lois. "Rick these are three of my top reporters Clark Kent, Ororo Munroe and Lois Lane."
"It's a pleasure to meet you all." Rick says shaking each of their hands. "Your articles are all amazing. I especially liked Ms. Munroe's latest article on the false fears of Bang Babies."
"Thank you Richard it's always good to hear that I'm getting people to change their minds about judging what they don't understand." Ororo says with a smile that hid how shocked she was feeling.
"Even still it's easy to see you're very passionate about your articles as I'm sure you're very passionate about teaching." Rick tells her. "And please you can me Rick."
"Speaking of teaching, Ororo since the Community College will be out for spring break do you mind coming in a few days this week to help train Rick with the editing?" Perry asked. "The better job he does the less stress I will have."
"Sure Perry I'll start tomorrow." Ororo says an agreement. "You do really need to get that blood pressure down."
"I don't think that will ever happen." Perry says shaking his head. "But if Rick here can manage to do at least half as decently as you than I can be a little happy."
"Well this has been nice but I've got to get back to my article." Lois states getting up to. "Good Luck to you Ricky and just remember three important rules, I'm the number one reporter around here, don't edit out any important info in my articles and all my articles go on the first page."
"Well isn't she just…skunky." Rick states as he watched Lois walk away from the group.
"Try not to be intimidated." Clark says to the other man. "Lois means well but sometimes she can be a lot."
"And if she gets upset because her article wasn't on the front page tell her that the decision was above your pay grade even if you were the one that decided that it was going to page ten." Ororo offers up.
"Sounds like I have my work cut out for myself." Rick says jokingly.
"Welcome to the Planet." Clark says with a shrug then looks down at his watch again. "We've got to get going Perry my parents should be landing in two hours."
"Go ahead then." Perry says dismissing the two. "Be sure to give them my best."
"Well do. Good Luck to you Rick." Clark says and he and Ororo walk towards the elevators. "Scott?" Clark asked once the elevator doors were closed.
"It's the strangest thing Rick looks a lot like my friend from back home." Ororo says shaking her head. "Of course I've never seen his eyes since he has to wear protective eye wear but still…he even kind of sounds like Scott." Ororo soon became deep in thought it wasn't like she ever forgot that she was from a different world but somehow seeing someone that looked like someone she used to see everyday was a cold reminder that she really wouldn't see them again.
Cut to later that day
Bruce was making his way over to Clark's apartment with a gift in hand for the Kent's anniversary, he doesn't have to even knock on the door before Clark opens the door to let him in. "Hey Clark you guys ready to the restaurant?"
"Change of plans." Clark begins to say shutting the door behind his friend. "Ma insist on cooking a big old fashion home cooked meal."
"It's her anniversary she shouldn't be cooking!" Bruce says as he follows Clark into the apartment. "Clark what kind of son are you to let your mother cook on this important day."
"She wants to do this! And when Ma decides on something no one can talk her out of it." Clark says defensively.
"We'll see." Bruce says with a smirk before walking into the kitchen where he could hear movement, he goes in to see Mrs. Kent busy at work preparing the meal in the years since he had first met Clark's parents Mrs. Kent had taken a real shine to Bruce often mothering him a bit whenever she saw him. Bruce would even joke that he was her favorite son just to annoy Clark. "Hello Mrs. Kent."
"Bruce!" Martha says happily setting down her knife to go over and hug Bruce. "I've told you before to call me Martha. Is Dick here as well?"
"It's good to see you. And no he's currently with his new team." Bruce says after pulling away from the hug. "I'm very surprise to see you haven't gotten ready to go out yet."
"Oh we can all go to a restaurant anytime." Martha says waving him off. "You three big time heroes could really use a nice home cooked meal." She then points an accusing finger at Bruce. "Especially you Bruce you're always working non-stop hardly ever taking a break it just isn't healthy. Especially when you're recovering from being poisoned."
"Doing a great job convincing her not to cook." Clark says teasingly while entering the kitchen the kitchen with Ororo and Kara.
"Well he is part of the reason she even wants to make a home cooked meal anyway." Kara adds in. "As if Ma wasn't already totally sick with worry about you guys."
"Ma I told you, you shouldn't worry so much." Clark says trying to reason with his adoptive mother. "You're gonna drive yourself crazy."
"And your three will be the ones driving that car." Martha states shaking her head and getting back to work. "At least Ororo calls once a week to ease my mind a little, it's more than I can say for these other two."
"Ma I call you!" Clark says defensively.
"Once every other month if I'm lucky." Martha counters back. "And that's if your Justice League duties isn't taking too much of your time. And Bruce you couldn't even take five minutes to call and say happy birthday yourself last month you had to have Alfred do it on your behalf?"
"Sorry Martha." Bruce says sheepishly with an embarrassed blush, he ended up being too involved with Catwoman that day to make a formal call. "Something really important came up."
"I'm well aware Bruce, lucky for me Ororo keeps me informed so I don't have to worry as much when you go after criminals." Martha states evenly.
"You told on me?!" Bruce asked accusingly crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at Ororo.
"I didn't 'tell on you' we aren't twelve Bruce." Ororo says evenly. "She asked me if I knew why you didn't call and I said it was something that involved Catwoman."
"Don't be upset with her Bruce." Martha warns stopping the fight before it can happen. "I just thought I would at least get a call on my birthday after all the cookies I've sent over for you three."
"What cookies?" Clark and Bruce asked at the same time looking very surprised.
"The ones I have delivered to Ororo? I send a package over to her once a month with three large tins of my chocolate chipped cookies you guys love so much one tin for each of you." Martha explains.
"I never got that?" Clark questions pondering out loud.
"Neither did I?" Bruce also proclaimed.
"Oh, I was supposed to share those?" Ororo says with a sheepish shrug.
"You ate all of our cookies!" Clark and Bruce say at the same time both glaring at Ororo.
"I didn't know those were to share and besides if you guys had called her more you would have known about the cookies." Ororo says defensively.
"So you're saying this is our fault?" Bruce asked with a glare.
"Again I'm not the one chasing after cats." Ororo states evenly walking out of the kitchen.
"Unbelievable." Bruce says shaking his head after her.
"Alright then everyone out so that I can get back to work." Martha says shooing the rest of the group out of the kitchen.
"But Martha there's a restaurant all set and ready-" Bruce tries to argue once more.
"Oh, your fancy restaurant can wait another day I'm sure now out all of you!" Martha states practically pushing him out. "Unless one of you boys would like to tell me if you're going to get married anytime soon?" Upon hearing that question Bruce and Clark rushed out of the kitchen.
"Gee Bruce what kind of son are you to let your mother cook on this important day?" Clark asked smugly to Bruce.
"One that doesn't call apparently." Kara notes, laughing along with Clark as Bruce just sighs and walks away from the two.
A/N and that's the end of that chapter I went on a bit of a slice of life moment at the end but I liked the idea that Mrs. Kent sort of adopted Bruce in some way since Bruce is considered Clark's best friend and I'm pretty sure he would have met Clark's parents at some point before the league was formed. The idea of Richard White comes from the Superman Returns movie in 2006 and funny enough the man who plays Richard also plays Scott Summers in the X-men movies which was why when Ororo saw him she thought he was Scott for a moment. Anyway please read and review!