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Chapter 16
"I can explain." Jason said sheepishly. Clark looked over at everyone in confusion. Richard came into the room.
"Superman!" He jumped back in surprise.
"I mean uh, Clark." Clark looked at him in surprise.
"You know?" Clark asked.
"Uh yeah. Everything just, you know, clicked." Clark nodded slowly.
"Um hello? Still here." The man on the sofa said.
"You're the guy from Mexico." Clark said a little unsure.
"Yeah. I'm a doctor and thanks to your son, I'm stuck on this sofa." He said, with little surprise to meeting the Man of Steel once more.
"Stuck?" Clark asked confused.
"Yeah, he's got like this kind of..." Jason cut him off.
"I have telekinesis." Jay explained.
"How?" Clark asked.
"Well you have the memory wipe thing and Marty can walk through things, you know." From the blank look on Clark's face he didn't know.
"We all have one individual power." He said slowly as if talking to a child.
"Hmm. That's cool." The doctor said.
"Why is he here again?" Clark asked.
"Well, I couldn't just let him go with everything he knew." Jay said this as though it were an obvious fact.
"Jason!" Clark groaned. "You've made this situation ten times worst. Now he knows who I am, where I live and who I know. Before he only knew…" He was cut off by the doctor.
"Yeah kid you really messed up." Both Clark and Jay glared at him.
"What are you going to do with me now?" He asked wearily. "I really have to get back to work."
"Can I trust you with this secret?" Clark asked. Andrews nodded enthusiastically.
"If you tell a soul I know where you are and I am certainly not afraid to… silence you." Clark said. He hadn't ever really threatened anyone before.
"Right." John said trying to get up. He cleared his throat at Jay and then his invisible bonds were undone. Clark's home phone rang. Everybody looked at it as though it would explode. Jay answered it.
"Talk to me." He said.
"Clark, hey..."
"Um actually it's Jay, Aunt Chloe. Here he is." He handed the phone over to Clark. Within thirty seconds the call was over.
"Everybody's alright? You know the way out, Richard?" Richard nodded.
"You can show it to John. I have to go. Duty calls." He said with a knowing smile. Clark flew out the window. John and Richard jumped back in surprise. Jay nodded to them and smiled.
"See ya." He saluted them, put his glasses on the coffee table and flew off after Clark.
"Whoa." The two remaining men said. John cleared his throat after a few minutes.
"Well I'm off." John said, walking out of the building. Richard followed him.
"So who are you anyway?" John asked not looking at Richard.
"It's a very long and complicated story." Richard said sadly. John looked at Richard and noticed a little resentment on his face. He didn't know what happened but it mustn't have been a good turn out for him.
"Well it was nice meeting you Mr..."
"White." Richard said shaking his hand. "It certainly has been interesting."
"If you ever, you know, need a doctor for a discretionary reason give me a call. Here's my business card." John handed over his business card, something he had found himself doing a lot lately.
"Yeah thanks." Richard said waving him off distractedly.
"Any new information on Brainiac?" Clark asked Chloe as he entered Watchtower.
"He's currently in New Mexico. Recruiting, I think. It's where the new Lexcorp building for meteor freaks is. You put a lot of people away their Clark." Chloe shook her head.
"This doesn't look good. I think we should strike now when he least expects it without his groupies." Clark nodded, this made sense.
"Have you informed the league?" Clark asked. Chloe nodded.
"There on their way as we speak." Jay entered Watchtower at that moment.
"Hey." He said casually. Clark looked over at him.
"Took you long enough, you were right behind me. What took you so long?" Clark asked. Jay was surprised that Clark had known he left, yet by now he should know better.
"I kinda fell... in a tree. But, uh no one saw." He said, embarrassed. Chloe burst out laughing.
"You should've seen Clark when he was trying to fly! Fell right through the roof top of the barn... or the time you were in midair and came crashing back down!" Chloe said between spurts of laughter.
"Sorry, I couldn't resist." She said when she had calmed down.
"Where's Lois?" Clark asked, noticing her absence.
"In the room upstairs, sleeping. Being possessed took a lot out of my cousin." She chuckled.
"Yeah, well hopefully we can get all the Zoners and Brainiac back into the Phantom Zone where they belong." Clark said, brows furrowing.
"The League will be here soon. We'll finish up the plans and attack when they least expect it." Chloe said with a determined gleam in her eyes.
"Hi I'm Kara Kent." Kara extended her hand out to Mr. White.
"Perry White" He said gruffly in return.
"The only experience I see here is Smallville High." Perry said.
"What have you been doing since then?" He asked.
"Volunteer work in a third world country." Kara said. It was the truth, she reasoned with herself. Perry scrutinized her.
"You can start working with Jimmy, the photographer." Perry got up from his seat and walked out to the bullpen.
"Olsen!" He yelled out. Jimmy got up quickly and practically ran into the office.
"Yeah Chief?" He asked.
"This is your intern, Ms. Kent, this is Mr. Olsen."
"Oh gee, it's nice to see you again Ms. Kent." Jimmy said shaking her hand.
"Please call me Kara." She said. Jimmy blushed and swallowed hard.
"Right Ms. K-Kara." He stuttered.
"I want you two working on the new superheroes angle. I want the pictures to be worthy of the front page." Perry said.
"Oh," he dug into his desk, "here's your camera." He said thrusting it into Kara's hands.
"Thanks chief." Kara said getting up.
"Oh and Kara, I have one last rule, don't call me chief." He popped a cigar into his mouth and went back to work.
"It'll be nice working with you, Jimmy." Kara said smiling at the shy photographer. Jimmy's cheeks reddened.
"Thanks." He said. They entered the elevator doors. Jimmy fiddled with his camera nervously.
"Jimmy, relax. I'm not going to eat you." She said chuckling.
"R-right." He said. Kara rolled her eyes, he reminded her of Clark.
"What year do you come from dear?" Martha asked. Marty turned away from the TV.
"I can't tell you. Jay says it'll change the future." She said, biting into her granola bar. Martha nodded pensively.
"I have another brother." She said smiling.
"I think I can tell you that." She said thinking about it.
"His name is Johnny, after grand-pa." She said, Martha smiled.
"Mommy always used to say that he was the trouble maker of the family. Had the Kent looks, but the Lane brains." She smiled.
"My mommy was the best in the world." She said sadly, sniffling.
"Daddy was too... until mom had to go away." She said, tears trickling down her face. Martha looked at the clearly upset little girl.
"What happened, dear?" She asked.
"Jay told me that Luthor killed mom and that dad and he weren't fast enough. She died, the baby died too." She whispered the last part.
"The baby?" Martha asked.
"Laura was only just two weeks old. She was my cousin. Mom was babysitting her. When she got shot she fell off the balcony... and so did the baby." Martha gasped at the horrendousness of it. Lex Luthor, the little red headed boy had killed a mother and a baby. If he were here now she wouldn't hesitate putting her weak hands around that neck and not let go until there was no air left in his lungs. Martha soothed her grand-daughter until she fell asleep.
Brainiac watched his followers.
Pathetic humans, he thought. He looked lazily at them as they trained for battle.
"Hey, you!" A man with red hair yelled out, the teleporter.
"Yes?" Brainiac asked annoyed.
"When are we going to get Superman? I'm getting bored here!" He yelled. The group yelled out in agreement.
"All in due time." He said, dismissing him.
"Hey I'm talking to you!" He yelled out, grabbing his shoulder.
"Touch me again see what happens." Brainiac said. The man laughed and looked at his audience. He poked him. Brainiac tilted his head to the side and shrugged. He lifted his hand and a metallic finger went into the man's skull before he could blink. When he was dead, Brainiac asked:
"Does anyone else question my authority?" A chorus of no's and they went back to what they had been doing.
"We strike in two days!" He yelled out.
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