Author's Notes:Since this is an AU verse story some of Clark's powers such as X-Ray Vision and Superhearing have manifested in his freshmen year of high school.

Interlude

Jeremy Creek has never been considered was always an introverted child. He never made friends at school. He always preferred to be was these reasons and a overlaying sense of cruelty on his classmates part, that lead to him being chosen for the dubious honor of being the Smallville scarecrow in 1989. Jeremy remembered being accosted by members of the Smallville Crows football team on his way home. He remembered being drug,kicking and screaming to Lawson's Field. He remembered the pain that he felt as they tied him to the post that they had set up in the middle of the field. He remembered the humiliation he suffered as they ripped the clothes from his body,leaving him in just his boxers. He remembered their laughter as they walked away from him. He remembered the little redheaded boy that he asked to help him but what he most remembered was the thunderous explosion. He remembered feeling helpless as his body was pelted by massive amounts of dirt and glowing green rocks. He then remembered...nothing until he woke up in the driver's seat of a truck that was submerged in a few feet of water. Standing there was a boy named Clark,a look of concern on his face as he helped him out of the truck. No one had any answers for him when he asked what had happened to him. All his parents,Helen and Richard, could tell him was he was caught in the meteor shower thirteen years before. He had been found broken and bleeding in the corn field next to Ross' Creamed Corn. He had languished in a coma for all that time until the night of a lightning storm. He then mysteriously vanished. No one knew where he was until his parents were informed of his location by Sheriff Ethan Miller.

Since coming back home Jeremy has wondered just what happened to him. He had gone over the last thing that he remembered more times then he cared to think about. As he stood in his parents kitchen,as was often the case,whee his thoughts turned to his lost memories Jeremy knew that he had forgotten something important. Something that he needed to do. Suddenly Helen Creek voice cut through his thoughts as she said,"Jeremy,could you do the dishes for me I have to run to the market."

"Yes,mom,"Jeremy replied.

"Thanks son,"His Mother replied. "I'll be back in a little while."

Jeremy sighed softly as he began to fill up the sink. Creek was so lost in thought that he never noticed the plugged in toaster that was on a precarious perch near the reaching for the dish towel above the sink the toaster made its fateful slide into the lights dimmed as hundreds of thousands of volts of electricity rushed through Jeremy Creek's body. With one final surge of power Jeremy was thrown across the room..All was quiet as the young mutant laid unconscious on the floor,his body still smoking.A ripple of energy course through his body as his eyes popped open,his face twisted into a furious scowl as he stood up.

He remembered everything.

He remembered what they did to remembered waking up in the hospital,his body surging with power. He remembered wanting to get his revenge on all of those who left him strung up in that field. He remembered that he had gotten his revenge on two of the people who where responsible for turning him into a freak. What he remembered the most was who stopped him from getting his ultimate revenge at the Homecoming Dance. Jeremy Creek's desire for revenge was almost as primal as the forces he could command. He wouldn't be denied again. He would punish them all but he would start with he blasted the kitchen door off its hinges and stalked out only one name came from his dry,cracked lips,"Kent."

End Interlude