Smallville: Assassin II
(This story is rated M for Mature. Smallville is copyrighted 2001-2007 The CW Network. Trinity Jean Knight Is my character but her powers are copyrighted above. Any and all Knight Rider references are copyrighted 1982-1986 NBC/Universal Studios. Hannah Melvin is used by permission)
Chapter 3: discovery
The Talon-4 hours later. Clark stared as he set up the DVD player left behind by Lana Lang when she sold the place to Knight Enterprises a year prior. Clark then heard a familiar voice as someone he did not expect come in. The person that came in was Michael Knight's duplicate Garth Knight.
"What are you doing here?" Clark asked, instantly on the defensive when he saw the goatee bearing young man come in through the back way of the Talon. In his own Universe, Garth Knight was the one and only son of deceased billionaire Wilton Knight who was the adopted father of Clark's half-sister Trinity Knight. The man had tried to kill Michael Knight, the man who was genetically altered to look like Garth. In his own reality, Garth was in a high security prison near Chicago Illinois after attempting to break out of a prison in LA.
"Take it easy, Kal-El. I asked him to come because he owns the Talon. He bought it right under Lex's nose. Trinity apparently took sexual advantage of him when he was younger and he very quickly discovered Trinity and Clark are behind Lex's rise to power. He's here to help you stop Lex." Hannah said. Clark just shook his head. He remembered Trinity telling him that Garth had taken advantage of the young woman when she was 12. His mad desire for control and for dominance forced him to rape Trinity which in turn brought her Kryptonian powers out of her at a relatively late age. Her own superhuman strength was not yet available to her but after the rape took place, all of her "mind locks" that had been set by Jor-El had been released. When Wilton had found out about the rape, he called the police forcing Garth on the run. But clearly in this reality, that had been reversed.
"What do you want me to say Clark? I know of my double in your universe. I know of Michael Knight and I know of your own past. Lex released the Phantom Zone inmates to aid him. One of those was Kal-El of Krypton, this universe's version of your biological father's son, you. Apparently Jor-El imprisoned his son because his son caused the destruction of Krypton. You must watch this DVD. It has a message for you," Garth said. He then grabbed the DVD remote and pressed play.
"For anyone watching this, I am Jor-El of Krypton. I escaped my dying homeworld to come here to Earth. My Son had set in motion the plans to destroy my home planet along with General Zod who persuaded my son to do this. I sent him to the Phantom Zone to spend his entire existence in that reality. I came to this world, thinking I could prevent Earth from going the way of Krypton. But I was wrong. Somehow a human Alexander Luthor released my son and a 1000 more inmates from the very parallel dimension I discovered and are now wreaking havoc on Earth. I know there is an alternate reality where my son also exists. There are journals written about it that date back to the Earth year 1950. I must find this other Kal-El and convince him to stop my son." The image showed an older man with a stylized goatee wearing modern clothing. What were going on in the background were bombs going off and the sounds of people dying.
"When did this happen?" Clark asked as Garth turned off the DVD. Hannah shrugged her beautiful shoulders.
"A year and a half ago. There is a grave not to far from here where the Luthors buried Jor-El's body. There was also a Kryptonite crystal buried there to that would supposedly unlock the rest of Kal-El's powers, so a Kryptonian prophecy says. You must find that crystal or neither side of you will be at peace, Kal-El," Hannah said. Clark frowned, remembering that he himself could not fly, but his Kryptonian alter ego, Kal-El could.
"There was no such prophecy in my universe," Clark protested. Garth smiled at him.
"That's because the prophecy was meant for you, Clark, not the Clark of this world. That will be the only way of defeating your 'Self' here," Garth said. He nodded to the man.
"Go! If you don't, your world will suffer the same fate as Krypton at the hands of that deranged lunatic known as Kal-El," Hannah said. She then kissed him firm and passionately, like nothing he had felt before.
"I've always loved you, Kal-El. I've just never shown it. My counterpart in your universe and I are different. In Your universe, you and her are only friends. Here your counterpart and I were meant to be married. But when Lex corrupted him that was lost. Now go and discover your destiny and claim the power that is rightfully yours," Hannah said. He nodded to the young woman and he used his super speed and was gone.
To be continued…