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Chapter 13
Brainiac jumps off the ledge easily and smiles.
"It's nice to finally meet the intrepid reporter Lois Lane. I've heard so much about you. You've got quite the reputation." He turns to Clark.
"And her partner Clark Kent. Your work is almost as good as Miss Lane's. But of course that isn't why I'm here. I dropped by for a visit to talk with you Kal-El." Clark takes a step closer to Brainiac, ready to strike.
"I wouldn't do that Kal-El. Don't try to stop me, I can move as fast as you can and I have other 'special talents'. Miss Lane will die if you try coming any closer. I'm here to make a negotiation." Lois arches her brow, her reporter side kicking in.
"Yeah, and what's that?" Lois says crossing her arms over her chest.
"Your life and your children's' in exchange for Lois Lane's life." He says, directing the answer to Clark.
"No way." Lois said before Clark could even open his mouth.
"I'm not God and you aren't either, you can't bargain one life for another. The answer is no. You-" Lois interrupts him.
"You self righteous son of a bitch. You came here to gloat! You knew he'd say no. You think you can beat him. Well you're wrong. You will lose, against Superman you're nothing." Lois spat out. Brainiac laughed.
"I know I can beat him on my own. But I'm not alone." Lois gives him a questioning look.
"Ah, you didn't tell her. I have, let's say, friends of mine that would like to see Kal-El suffer as much as I do. Phantom Zoners." He said smiling. Lois looked at him as though he was crazy. Brainiac smiled and turned to Clark.
"Don't try to follow me Kal-El. We'll meet again soon, I hope." He said before flying off into the sky, the energy of him lifting off made Lois stumble back. Clark caught her as he looked up into the sky. He was helpless. He needed a plan and the JLA's help.
"Jay, Marty!" Chloe yelled out. The blue eyed children looked over at her.
"I need you guys to go in that room and stay there." She told them as she pushed them towards the room where they were previously playing X-Box. Chloe shut the door behind them when the first superhero arrived.
"Ollie, hey!" She said as he walked through the doors with his wife.
"Dinah." She gave her a curt nod.
"Chloe, how are things in the hen house?" She asked. Chloe groaned.
"Complicated. That's why I've called a meeting." Hawkman swooped into the room followed by Bart almost colliding into Bruce.
"Hey man, long time no see." Bart said extending his hand. Bruce gave him an annoyed grunt. Bart and Chloe rolled their eyes. AC walked in with Cyborg, bickering as usual. Then came the rest of the group. They all sat on the sofas in front of the computer monitors. Chloe told them about the escaped Phantom Zoners and explained to them what they are and what to expect, then she moved on to Brainiac or more precisely, the brain interactive construct. Near the end of the conference, somebody had finally noticed the man in the shadows. He had his arms crossed over his chest and he was wearing a black suit. Chloe knew instinctively who it was, though she wondered why Clark had come to Watchtower in his suit and not his costume.
"Hey man, it's been awhile." Bart said, clapping Clark's back.
"When this mess is all settled down we should go to Mexico again for more huevos rancheros." He said. Clark smiled at the memory.
"That would be great." Everyone took turns greeting the superhero.
"How long have you been here?" Chloe asked.
"Five minutes." Clark answered.
"Why the missing suit?" She asked. Clark chuckled.
"Lois drove here with Jason. I walked through the front door and no one noticed." He said. Chloe shook her head.
"I guess your disguise really does work. If you would've come in like you usually do, people would've noticed." She said.
"I need to talk with everyone." He finally said, his expression turned serious.
Chloe nodded. Clark went upfront where Chloe had previously stood. He explained to the other heroes about Brainiac's visit. They decided that they would meet again later that night to form a plan after they retrieved enough intell. Clark was glad Bruce was there, he had good resources which would allow them to figure out who the Zoners were and maybe, if Clark recognized them or if he brought the information to Jor-El, they'd be able to figure out their weaknesses.
"You think the meeting's done by now?" Marty asked impatiently. Jay shrugged.
"I still hear people talking... and Dad's there too." Marty scrunched her brow in concentration.
"I can hear him too!" She exclaimed excitedly. Jay rolled his eyes. It was nothing new that his sister's hearing was getting better. It had been improving over the past month.
"Should we go out?" She asked.
"Chloe told us to wait." He said, locking his eyes with hers. It was an order to stay. Like any sister she wanted to go against what her brother told her to do. She waited for the right moment and then exclaimed: "Oh my God, what's that?" She pointed in the opposite direction. As old as this trick was, it worked. Jay looked the other way, almost bored. When he turned back around his sister was no longer next to him. He sighed irritated and x-rayed the area to see where his sister had ran to. He spotted her crouched down behind one of Chloe's many sofa's. He ran to her in less than a second.
"Gotcha." He smiled triumphantly as he pulled his sister up by the shirt. The room went silent, all eyes on them.
"Um, hey." Jay said waving at the small audience.
"Let me down." Marty said, kicking her brother. He dropped her to the ground with a thud.
"I told you guys to stay in that room." Chloe said, between clenched teeth.
"What's going on?" Bart asked. Marty smiled over at Bart; she had always had a crush on him.
"Bart!" She exclaimed, super speeding over to him. He was taken by surprise and was rooted to the spot. She collided into him and gave him a bear hug.
"Whoa kid, get off me." He said pushing Marty away. She backed away and turned to look at her brother. Hurt written all over her face.
"Marty." Jay hissed. "Get here now." She dragged her feet over to her brother.
"I just wanna help." She whined. He rolled his eyes.
"Me too. But running out here isn't helping." Meanwhile the rest of the JLA stared at their little squabble in confusion.
"Hey!" AC yelled out. "Who are you?"
"I'm Jason and this is Marty." He said, rolling his eyes in the all too familiar Lois fashion.
"We're the kids of the future."
"Oh." Pretty much everyone said. Some people laughed as the tension in the room was alleviated, others sat quietly studying them.
"How do we know they're not lying?" Someone in the room asked.
"Yeah. How do we know they're not working for that Brainiac guy?" Another one said. Then the room exploded with a bunch of sceptical questions.
"Enough." A loud voice boomed across the room. Everyone turned around to stare at Clark Kent. The room went silent. Jay and Marty stared at Clark wide eyed.
"They're on our side. Don't ask me how I know. I just do. If you trust me, then you will believe me. These are innocent children who got themselves in a sticky situation." He looked down at Marty and Jay sternly. "If you are all in this, we need your help. WE need to defeat Brainiac and WE need to get these kids back home safe." Chloe looked down at everyone's faces.
"I'm in." Bart said, then AC, Cyborg and the rest of the JLA.
Within a half hour most of them were gone. Bruce, Clark, Oliver and the Black Canary stayed behind. Jay and Marty were on the sofa. They were staring at the adult's wide eyed.
Next year, Jay thought, I'll be a part of this. People would listen to me. Maybe even respect me. They won't look at me like I'm a kid anymore. He couldn't wait until he was part of the JLA. He would have freedom and some alone time away from his brother and sister.
Oh, palease. Marty mentally rolled her eyes.
"Hey Bruce." Clark finally got to greet him the proper way. Bruce clasped his hand in a handshake.
"It's good to see you again Clark." Clark smiled.
"It's nice to see you too. Thanks for keeping an eye out on the city and… Chloe." He said. Bruce stared at him in surprise.
"I see the way you look at each other. It's kind of obvious." He said with a smirk.
"Well, things didn't really work out." Bruce said somewhat sadly.
"You watch, they will." Clark assured him.
"You're not really the greatest person to be taking advice from." Bruce said. Clark laughed.
Lois was getting impatient. She had been waiting in the car for more then a half hour. Half hour! He said he would be five minutes! Jason was getting impatient too.
"Mommy. When is he gonna be back? My butt hurts." He complained. Lois sighed impatiently.
"Did he forget about us?" He asked innocently. Lois got angry all of a sudden.
"He better not have." She mumbled under her breath.
She unbuckled her seat belt and then went around to unbuckle Jason's. She had watched earlier where Clark had gone in a building. She went that way. When she entered the building it was deserted. She sighed frustrated. Then she saw an elevator. Jason, on her hip, looked around them curiously. He could hear his father's voice somewhere. They entered an elevator. There was only one button; she pressed it. When the elevators opened up she saw a room with many computer monitors and a few sofas. There was an upstairs in which she saw other technological devices. In the middle of the room Clark, Batman, the Green Arrow and the Black Canary were in the middle of a discussion. There was also a woman with blonde hair with her back facing Lois. Marty and Jay were on one of the sofas; they looked bored.
"Wow." Jason said under his breath. Clark turned around at the sound of his son's voice.
"Lois." He said in surprise. Jay and Marty turned to look at them; they smiled, waved and walked over to them. At the same time everyone else turned around to look at her. The blonde woman was still not facing her.
"Hey Clark, Ollie."
"Hey legs." Oliver said. His wife and Clark stared at them in confusion.
"How do you know each other?" Clark asked.
"Yeah." The Black Canary said, staring daggers at her husband.
"We, uh, dated in college." Oliver said nervously. "It was only a few months." Jealousy crossed both Clark and Dinah's faces.
"How do you know who he is?" Clark asked.
"I figured it out later on, after we weren't together anymore." She said shrugging. An awkward silence followed. Jason squirmed in his mother's arms and ran over to Clark.
"Can I see the big computer?" He asked, pointing at one of the huge monitors.
"Sure." Clark said taking Jason's hand. "Chloe will show you how they work." Jason nodded.
"Chloe, this is Jason. Jason this is Chloe, my best friend." Jason wrapped his arm around Clark's leg and looked up at him to make sure it was okay.
"He's so cute Clark." She said smiling. Clark smiled back proudly.
"Go on." He said, urging Jason to follow Chloe. He did, though reluctantly.
"Clark, who is that?" Lois said, striding over to where they stood.
"Oh, sorry. Lois Lane, this is Chloe Sullivan; we grew up together." Lois stared at him and then the blonde's back.
"Chloe Sullivan?" She asked in disbelief.
"Uh, yeah, that's what I said." Clark said. Batman quickly said, "I have to go." before silently disappearing outside.
"You know what we have to go too." Oliver said, ushering his wife to the elevator. Jay and Marty went into the game room. Clark looked around in confusion; the room had cleared in less than a minute. Chloe told Jason to go into the game room with the older children. Chloe turned around. Lois gasped and then got an angry look on her face.
"Chloe Anne Sullivan!" She exclaimed.
"Hey cos." Chloe said nervously.
"Cos?" Clark asked.
"Clark stay out of it, this is between me and my cousin."
"Cousin?"
"Clark you're not a freaking parrot! Stop repeating everything we say." Clark shut his mouth with an audible snap.
"Chloe... what's going on?" She said a little too calmly. Lois' wrath was something to be afraid of.
"This is Watchtower. I'm the eyes and ears of the JLA." She explained.
"You're part of the JLA?" Lois asked in disbelief. Chloe nodded.
"I can't believe this! All of you have been lying to me and on top of everything you're all part of the same freaking organization!" Chloe and Clark smartly kept their mouths shut. Lois angrily plopped herself down on one of the sofas. They stood in silence for awhile.
"So, you guys went to high school together?" She asked calmly.
"Yes." They both said.
"You're best friends. Was it ever anything more?" She asked. Clark and Chloe both looked at each other nervously.
"How serious?" She asked. Both their cheeks turned red.
"Oh." Lois said looking down at her hands.
"We broke up after we graduated. Clark and Lana got pretty serious in college." Chloe explained.
"Lana?"
"Yeah, his ex-fiancée." Chloe said.
"Fiancée?" Lois asked shocked.
"I was going to tell you." Clark said.
"Why didn't it work out?" She asked. Clark shook his head sadly.
"Being who I am, it was too much for her. It almost got her killed." Lois looked at Chloe and Clark silently. They knew this wasn't a good sign.
"God!" She finally exclaimed. "I thought I knew you guys. I have a Pulitzer, I'm one of the greatest reporters and I don't even know you. Chloe we were practically sisters in public school, Clark you're Jason's father. I don't even know you." She cried out.
Why won't you let me know you? I thought, finally, we could trust each other. Clark sighed sadly.
We haven't had time to have a proper conversation. You're marrying Richard, Lois. What am I supposed to say? Hey Lois I used to have a fiancée almost ten years ago. I didn't know about Oliver, you didn't tell me about him. He shot back.
I didn't even know you knew him!
I don't know what you want me to say Lois. I...
"Whatever." Lois mumbled under her breath. Chloe looked at them confused.
"Jason, Marty, Jay, we're leaving." Lois yelled out. All three kids ran out of the room anxiously.
"You can fly to your apartment, Clark. I'll keep the kids for the night." Clark wanted to protest, but knew better. This was his punishment.
Lois and Clark went back to work for the rest of the day. They didn't speak to each other. Jay was at Lois' watching over Marty and... himself. When Lois got home they ate supper in silence.
"Why isn't Dad with us?" Jason asked innocently. Jay coughed nervously and excused himself from the table. Marty finished her food and super sped to Jason's room. Jay sat on the bed silently.
"You wanna go out for a run?" Marty asks. Jay looks up at her and smiles.
"Sure." They jump out the window and land silently on the grass.
"Here to Kansas. Last one there has to do the chores for a month when we get back home." Jay said.
"Deal." Marty said.
"On your marks, get set..." Marty left with a whoosh.
"Cheater!" He yelled out before leaving. They ran faster then the speed of light, all their problems were gone. They ran. They were free.
We're the kids. We're the kids. We're the kids of the future.
We're the kids. We're the kids. We're the kids of the future.
Standing on a dirty old rooftop
Down below the cars in the city go rushing by
I sit here alone and I wonder why
Come on Louis, keep moving forward
Hold your head up high there's no time for looking down
You will not believe where we're going now
Here we go let me remind you
Look ahead the past is behind you
We're the kids of the future. Woah!
We're the kids of the future. Woah!
Everybody live cause the future is now.
(We're the Kids of the Future, Jonas Brothers)
Jay won the race. Marty would be doing chores for the next month.
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