Clark Kent had a problem.
A problem that every teenager the world over has had since the beginning of time...what type of corsage to get his girlfriend for the Spring he stood in Nell's Flower Shop looking for all the world like a lost kitten Clark couldn't help but smile at the thought of holding Chloe close as the music played. For three years now Clark Kent and Chloe Sullivan have been inseparable,bound together by a love that was almost too strong for them understand. Bound to together by the young man's amazing secret.A secret that she discovered on the very day that they met. It was on that day that she discovered that Clark wasn't human. He was in fact an alien from a far off distant star. What made Clark truly different then anyone else was the fact that he possessed powers and abilities far beyond mortal men. In fact he had used his freaky powers to save Chloe from being impaled. A dopey grin formed on Clark's face as he remembered just what happened after he saved her life. Clark had more power then anyone had the a right to. No one his age should be able to lift a tractor over his be fair no one should be able realized early in life that this was his cross to bare. That he was given these powers for a reason. The young farm boy decided to use the powers that fate had bestowed upon him to help those around him. It had felt good to save his fellow students from threats like Jeremy Creek. Clark frowned slightly as images of the crazed look that was in Creek's eyes flashed through his those troubling thoughts from his mind Clark decided to shift his focus back to his , Chloe hasn't been very happy with his need to play the hero lately. He did feel bad about having to duck out on her while they were at the museum last week. She had been angrier then he had ever seen her when she caught up with him later that night. She demanded an explaination and Clark had been very quick in giving her one. He told her how he had wanted to get some air and walked outside for a second. He told her about the bus losing control and the person sleeping on the bus bench directly in the bus' path. Clark told Chloe that he just reacted to save the transient's life. Clark had still been in a state of shock as he described to Chloe how it stopped the bus. He had just planted himself and put his shoulder into the front of the bus. It folded around him like an accordian. By that point Chloe had agreed with him about leaving the scene as quickly as he did. He wouldn't have been able to explain the damage that he had caused to the bus. A dark cloud of angry settled on Clark's face for a second as he remembered what happened and Chloe had thought that he had gotten away from the incident at the museum clean but they had been wrong. A corrupt Metropolis Police Detective named Sam Phalen had seen Clark's amazing act of heroism. It didn't take Phalen long to track Clark down. Phalen showed up in Smallville a few days later and proceeded to blackmail him into stealing the jewel-encrusted breastplate of Alexander the Great. Luckily Clark was able to outsmart the corrupt cop with a little help from Chloe. While Chloe called the police Clark tricked Phalen into handling the breastplate with his bare hands. He then took it from him and threw it through the window.
When Phalen realized just what Clark had done he tried to shoot the super powered teen. Clark easily dodged the bullets and fled the scene. Clark and Chloe found out the next day that Phalen had been fatally wounded trying to escape from the museum. If Chloe hadn't been there for him god only know what would have happened. As he thought about Chloe his eyes fall on the prefect corsage for the beautiful fledgling reporter that he loved. Three golden tulips seemed to call out to him as he moved toward the display case. The tulips were tightly bond together and accented with baby's breath. Clark's smile could have lit up the darkest sky as he picked it up and paid for it. As he left Nell's shop he never noticed the pair of angry eyes looking at him from across the street. Jeremy Creek's anger was bordering on the homicidal as he watched Clark Kent walk toward the Beanery. Clark Kent had cheat him out of his revenge and he would pay. Electricity sparked the length of his left arm as he looked at the poster advertising the Spring Formal.
The Spring Formal.
Jeremy never got to go to his. They had taken that away from him. He spent his formative years in a hospital bed, languishing in a coma. That is until he was freed from his prison of flesh by that electric had cost him twelve years of his life and turned him into a freak of nature. He got his revenge on two of the five who destroyed his life but the other three eluded him. He discovered that one had left the country and the other two had vanished shortly after he had fried their little friend. When he found Kent strung up in the same field that he had been victimized in Creek realized that nothing but the faces had changed. There were still those who bullied others that were weaker then them.
An object lesson had been in order but Kent stopped him. There was a price to be paid for bullying others and Kent stopped him from collecting what was due. The deaths of everyone at the Homecoming Dance would have been a nice message. Creek moved deeper into the alley that he was hiding in. Creek watched as Clark climbed into his father's pickup truck and drove away. Creek knew that to get his revenge he had to destroy Clark Kent but he had already proven that his powers were completely ineffectual against him. To defeat him he needed more power but how would he increase his powers?
He had the feeling that he could drain all of the power out of the Smallville Hydroelectric Power Plant and still not have enough to take the boy down. As he pondered over the problem a discard issue of the Smallville Ledger caught the young mutant's attention. Picking it up Creek began to read the front page.A slow,malicious smile crossed his face as the solution to his problem presented would seem that Lex Luthor has chosen Smallville,Reeve's Dam to be specific, as the testing site for his company's newest generator. The XPJ Electron Super Collier. It was designed to generate over five million megawatts of electrical energy an hour. As he jumped into his truck Jeremy Creek began to laugh. His maniacal laughter only got louder as he made his way to Reeve's Dam. The path to ultimate power and his revenge was now within his grasp.
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