Hey hey hey! If anyone that reads this watches Smallville, I just wanted to say that the last episode was hilarious, I loved it. Finally, some Clark/Chloe bonding time. Anyway, enough of that, here's my next chapter.

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Chapter 8

Jay and Marty waited impatiently for Clark to come back. Marty had finished interrogating her brother about what had been bothering. She had gotten the answer she had been expecting. She was still traumatised over the events that had occurred only a month earlier. Luthor had really messed up that time; it had cost him his life. Marty sighed sadly.

Jay plopped himself on the couch and flipped on the TV. He put his feet on the coffee table as he surfed the channels. Marty came and sat next to him. He stopped on the news channel.

"We have a new hero in town!" The news woman said as the camera pointed to a woman stopping a hostage situation. Marty looks at her brother.

"Is that…?"

"Uh huh." He replies as he listens to the TV.

\S/

Clark arrived at the roof top of the Daily Planet like he had promised Lois. She was there waiting for him and so was Jimmy, who looked bored. None of them were facing him. He clears his throat as Lois jumps and Jimmy comes to attention.

"Je-sus! I told you not to sneak up on me like that." She says swatting him on the arm. He chuckles.

"I try not to. Good evening mister Olsen." He says in his strong baritone.

"Uh- Su-Superman, uh hi." He says waving lamely at him.

"Picture?" Jimmy says pointing to his camera.

"Of course. Uh, what do you want me to do?" he asks, he'd never actually posed for a picture; people just tended to take them when he wasn't expecting it.

"Just uh you know, do your signature Superman pose." Clark looks at him quizzically.

"I have a pose?" Jimmy nods.

"Uh, yeah. When you cross your arms." Clark crosses his arms, pleasing Jimmy. Jimmy takes the picture and then Lois starts the interview.

After answering all the questions Lois had to ask, Kara lands lightly on the roof top. Clark hears her arrive but no one else does.

"Hello." She says, making Lois and Jimmy jump.

"Shit!" Lois yelps as she drops her recorder.

"Does scaring the crap out of me run in the family?" she accuses as she bends down to pick up her recorder. Kara laughs.

"Well since you're here... how 'bout an interview?" Kara says excitedly. She walks up to Lois confidently.

"That would be great." She answers excitedly. Jimmy takes a picture of Superman and Super girl standing next to each other without them knowing. They blink surprised and glare at him. He shrinks away from them, going closer to Lois.

"Okay, so Super girl…"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How come he gets to be Superman and I get Super girl. Why not Superwoman?" Lois scrunches her forehead.

"It just sounds better." Kara huffs impatiently.

"I should be Superwoman more then he should be Superman. I'm the oldest one!" She yells out childishly.

"You are?" Jimmy and Lois ask simultaneously.

"Yes, by seven years! I might not look it, but I am."

"You're 36?" Lois says in disbelief. "You look like your twenty."

"Kryptonian DNA has its advantages." She quips. Jimmy looks over at Lois.

"You know Superman's age?"

"Uhh… yeah." She says as if it's nothing.

"Huh, I thought Superman was older then twenty nine. Hey Lois that makes you a year older then him." She huffs.

"Thanks Jimmy." She says sarcastically.

"The interview." Superman says in his baritone.

"Oh right." Superman looks fidgety. Lois is going to kill me for this, he thinks.

Kara, we need to get to the Fortress and soon. Kara nods.

I'll be quick. This is my turn to shine, cos. Clark sighs exasperated.

Fine. Lois looks at them and then gets an angry expression on her face.

"I told you not to do that anymore." Jimmy looks at her. He's confused about Lois' outburst.

"Sorry." Clark mumbles. Kara only laughs as they start the interview.

"So, you come from Krypton, is that correct?" Lois asks.

"Yes, it is. Kal-El is my cousin. My father Zor-El and his father Jor-El were brothers. When my father found out from his brother that the planet would explode he sent me in my ship. It crashed in the water and I stayed there until Clark found me when he was 21. I stayed on Earth for a year and then I went to the Phantom Zone so that the Zoners wouldn't escape again." Lois looks pensive.

"How did you get back?"

"Brainiac, an artificially intelligent computer had been created on Krypton. Unfortunately he became one of our enemies. He found a way out and consequently I also got out of the Phantom Zone."

"What is this Phantom Zone?" Lois asks curiously. Kara explains it to her.

"So, the Zoners are prisoners caught in this dimension thingy?"

"That is correct." Kara answers.

"Is it possible that other prisoners could have escaped?" Kara and Clark both look at each other with worried expressions on their faces.

"Yes, unfortunately it's a possibility." Superman answers.

"Have you been to the Phantom Zone, Superman?" Lois asks, more for her own curiosity.

"Yes." He nods. "I was sent there for six months when I was in my early twenties. My father sent me there as a sort of lesson."

"But, you said your father was dead." Lois states. Kara answers for him.

"Kryptonian technology is very advanced and complicated, but Jor-El made an archive of all our intelligence and human knowledge into his crystals along with artificial intelligence of himself, his wife and of the counsel. One crystal can be extremely powerful and dangerous."

Superman continues the conversation. "Those crystals are the ones Luthor stole from me. He used them to make his island. As we have all seen; in the wrong hands they can be very dangerous." Lois nods solemnly. She knew all too well what those crystals were capable of doing. Kara turns to Clark.

"How did he steal the crystals Kal-El?" Clark looks away embarrassed.

"Luthor had been there before, he knew where to go. I should've put up a security system."

"What is done is done Kal-El. It is not your fault. Miss Lane, Mister Olsen, it was nice meeting you. My cousin and I need to attend to some pressing matters." At that she takes off into the skies.

"Superman, where are you going?"

"The Fortress." And he takes off. Jimmy snaps a picture of the two heroes in the sky.

\S/

Jason was waiting for his mommy in the school parking lot. She was late, again. He saw the car screech to a halt near him.

"I'm so sorry baby; I had an important interview to do." Jason rolls his eyes and walks to the car; he opens the door and ties himself in. Lois goes back into the car and buckles herself in. She turns around to look at her son.

"It won't happen again, I promise." Jason just stared at his mother; he knew it would happen again.

"Can we go see Dad now?" He asks impatiently.

"Yeah. We'll go to his apartment." Jason smiles happily.

\S/

Brainiac looked around at his surroundings; he was in a jungle. He looked upwards at the setting sun and took off flying. He planned to recruit as many super villains as he could. He remembered seeing follow Zoners escape; he would also recruit them. He could take on Superman on his own, but he wanted, no needed to watch Superman struggle before he finally killed him.

\S/

Watchtower detected some anomalies earlier that morning; one in New York and the other in a jungle in Africa, other smaller anomalies were detected in other parts of the world.

"Green Arrow, this is Watchtower."

"Green Arrow in. What is it Watchtower?"

"Meet me here at Watchtower ASAP. Bring AC, Cyborg and Impulse with you, I'll contact the others. Watchtower out." She says as she quickly accesses a satellite picture of Kara lying in the middle of the street. She switches it to the jungle in Africa. A man got up and then shot up into the sky. She gets the rest of the heroes online.

"This is Watchtower; I need everyone to get here immediately. We have a war ahead of us."

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