Author's Note - Hey guys, first of all, I want to apologize for not getting the next chapter out sooner. I do realize that it's been a month, and I should have been more up-to-date with it, but I've been terribly busy with Across the Airwaves podcast stuff, catching up on 4 seasons of Fringe, and school, so I do apologize. I'm hoping to be able to get more chapters out quicker now, but we'll see. Anyway, thanks for your patience and please leave a review telling me what you think of this chapter and where the story is going so far. Thanks guys!
Jonathan, Martha, and Clark Kent are walking towards the storm cellar behind the famous "Kent Barn". As Jonathan opens it, Clark asks, "Pa, what are we doing in the storm cellar? I've been told for the longest time that we only use it for emergencies, and you told me never to go down there."
"And I'm glad your mother and I raised you in a way that allows you to want to listen to everything we tell you son, with no questions asked. But, I think there will be a lot of questions from now on."
"Clark, you're father's trying to say that we're glad you did what we asked for 18 years and didn't question us for a moment, but you're going to have a lot of questions after this."
"That's what I said Martha." Snapped Jonathan, but in a tone that would not bring about a fight (as the Kent's rarely had any).
"Of course dear, I'm just re-iterating for Clark, that's all."
The family head down the cellar. Jonathan pulls a cloth off of what appears to be a big box, then he opens it.
Clark is amazed. He's never seen anything like it before, he never thought that extra-terrestrials even existed, and if they did, they'd all look like a mix of E.T. and Yoda, but this, this was all to real.
"Pa… Is that what I think it is?"
"Yes son, it's a space ship."
"Where did we get it?"
Jonathan looks at Clark, then at Martha, then back towards his son.
"We found it 18 years ago, Clark, during the famous Smallville Meteor Shower. Your mother and I were driving home from the Crow's Homecoming game when it crashed in front of us. When we got out of the car, we went towards it and looked at what it was, just then it opened and there you were."
Clark was dumbfounded. He didn't know what to say, he didn't know what he could say. He wanted to cry, but he couldn't, because he knew, he always knew that he was different, this was just his confirmation.
"Clark, please understand," started Martha, "that we didn't want to hurt you. We wanted you to have a normal childhood; we wanted you to be safe."
"Normal?" Clark started, "Normal? I've never been 'normal', I'll never be normal. All my life I've had my abilities develop in front of my eyes. Super speed, super strength, heat vision, X-Ray vision, super hearing! Bullets can't even hurt me Ma! I'm a freak!"
"Clark, son, that's not true. That's absolutely not true! You told Pete, and Chloe, and Lana about your secret. We wanted you to be able to have people to talk to."
"No Pa. Lana found out when I saved her from a tornado, Pete found out when I saved him from a "meteor freak", and Chloe found out because of another "meteor freak", and then, after each of those events, I told them. I trusted them, like I could trust you, and you betrayed my trust!"
"No Clark, we would never betray your trust, we always let you make your decisions when you would save someone or when you wanted to tell someone your secret. We could have helped you cover it all up, but we let you make those choices yourself."
Clark knew his Ma was right. She had gotten to him. She was his weakness. More than the green meteor rocks, more than a meteor freak, more than even his friends, his Ma always got through to him.
"We love you Clark, but the reason we kept this from you was because we wanted you to have the best years of your life free of loneliness. We wanted you to feel as normal as possible. Please don't hate us Clark, we did our best."
Clark walked over to his mother, with tears in his eyes, and hugged her as tight as her body would allow and said, "I love you too Ma, and you too Pa, I realize that you never wanted to hurt me, and I want to thank you for trying to spare me pain."
Jonathan walked up to his son and put his hands on his shoulders and said, "You're welcome son." The father and son duo hugged and once they were finished, Jonathan had something else to say.
"Clark, you weren't the only thing located in the ship, we also found this…" Jonathan held up the Sunstone Crystal.
"What is this?" asked Clark.
"I have no idea son. But, I know it was meant for you."
Clark walked over to the ship and placed his hand on the \S/ emblem, and suddenly, it started to glow.
Clark, Martha, and Jonathan all took a few steps back, and suddenly a holographic video recording played.
*Ship: Translating Jor-El and Lara-El to Basic…*
Two figures appeared in the hologram, one being a male with the \S/ emblem on his chest, and the other being a female, his wife, who was trying hard to hold back tears.
The man started to speak.
"Kal-El, my son, you are not from Earth; you are from a distant planet called Krypton. Because of planetary changes, and the Brain Inter Active Construct's decision to turn against its creators, Krypton is no more."
The woman starts to cry, but the man continues.
"Kal, you are the Last Son of Krypton. The last child, our last hope. I have chosen a kindly couple to raise you in your mother and I's absence. You are not alone Kal-El, my memory and will resides within the Sunstone Crystal that is in your ship. Through it, I will answer any and all questions that you have for me. Even though you've been raised as a human, you are not one of them. You must embrace your Kryptonian heritage and become who you are destined to be. You will be a champion of your world, a god among men."
"We love you Kal, we always have, and we always will, no matter what." said the woman to her son.
"I love you my son. My only wish is that I could be there with you, to watch you grow. I failed to save Krypton, but I will not fail to save you."
They then look at the ship, then at each other, and then back.
*Ship: END TRANSMISSION*
The Kent's then stood there silently and wondered to themselves. They all saw what happened, but they were all still wondering.
Then Clark finally spoke.
"They're my parents, my birth ones, I remember them, I used to dream about them at night, but I always thought it was just a dream, I never thought…"
"Son, I know this is a lot to take in, but…"
"Actually Pa, I'm okay. Really. I don't have much longer until I graduate this year, but once it's over, I think there's something I have to do."
"What's that Clark?" asked his Ma.
"I need to fulfill my destiny."
Author's Note - Thanks again for reading the latest chapter of my Superman: Origin Fan Fic, please leave a review telling me what you think, and stay tuned for Chapter 6 of Origin entitled, "Goodbye Smallville"!