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. All Other Characters are mine. Hannah Melvin is used by permission)
Chapter 5: White Light
Clark & Lana walked around the Fortress of Solitude. It was designed and replicated from Krypton's terrain for the Last Son of Krypton. But it was not meant for the Clark of this twisted reality. It was meant for Kal-El.
"What is this place, Clark?" She said surprised she wasn't cold.
"Jor-El calls it my Fortress of Solitude. It was meant for my training," Clark said smiling at the young woman.
"Training for what?" She said looking at him with a look of wonder in her eyes.
"My powers were meant to be used for the greater good of humanity. They were meant to inspire hope and Salvation, but what good am I?" He said as he looked at the control panel that held the crystals of power. Lana smiled at him.
"In this reality, you are a conscienceless butcher of humanity, who rules with an iron fist. But you do it at the beck and call of the real king of this US. Lex Luthor. He ordered Trinity to go through the Inclusion device and ordered the death of Lionel Luthor. She's a slave, just like your friend Hannah," Lana said. Hannah walked up.
"I'm not a slave anymore Lana. I'm free. I'm a Christian. I also have gifts. I was granted Immortality and Eternality by the Kryptonite fragments that are scattered around this leafy little town we call Smallville. You know the meteors that killed your parents?" Hannah said.
"That happened here too? I guess we're not so different," Clark said. Lana shook her head.
"We are, Clark. You see, because I married Lex Luthor. He's the Emperor of the Satanic States of America. He's the one who offered Clark Kent power beyond what he had. Clark was promised immunity from the meteors, yet Lex turned his back on him and made him his slave. He also enslaved his half-breed sister Trinity and forced her to go to your reality," Lana said stepping back.
"What do you mean you married Lex? Then if You married Lex, that means-" Clark said turning around to see his nemesis standing there with 'himself' standing by his side.
"Yes, Clark. I asked her to bring me here. You see I never knew this place existed. Neither did your duplicate. This place was hidden by Jor-El, because he knew that if I found it or if Kal-El found it we would use its knowledge to enslave the rest of the world. So I would say thank you, but that would be a waste of time," Lex said smiling at him.
Clark remembered that first day they met. The Bridge after Clark had discovered he was not from Earth. Lex's Porsche slamming into him at 90 miles an hour. How Lex had begun investigating Clark out of simple curiosity at how his car's roof was ripped open like it was tin foil. But he knew as in this reality as in his own, He would stand against Lex Luthor and the darkness that he represented. His fists clenched, but the first punch blind sided him, for it came from Lana who held a Kryptonite fragment in her hand.
"did you really think I would not come prepared?" Lex said kicking Clark in the ribs. But the Kryptonite didn't affect him, for it was green. And here in this alternate reality, the green Kryptonite didn't make him weak, but merely increased his powers. And his strength.
"And you underestimated me, Lex," Clark said as he rose from his fetal position on the ground.
Lana then punched the other Clark with the Kryptonite fragment and he fell to the ground weak.
"Why honey?" Lex asked. She then slapped Lex in the face.
"Because I knew I had to find a way to stop the madness that you started. And if it meant betraying Clark, then so be it. You may think me your wife, and your slave, but in the end you must have known I would backstab you sooner or later," Lana said as she dug her boot's heel into Lex's hand.
"You Bitch! I'll kill you," Lex said, screaming in agony. Hannah Melvin moved forward.
"I don't think so," She said as she injected in his neck, a narcotic powerful enough to knock him out.
" Kal-El, you must go to Krypton's past and stop Kal-El from attempting to destroy Krypton, or he will escape to Earth and do what he did here," Spoke the disembodied voice of Jor-El. Clark then saw another inclusion doorway.
"Where does that lead?" Clark said. Hannah smiled at him.
"To your home. Krypton. But not your Krypton, but the one native to this reality. You must stop Kal-El or else all will be lost," Hannah said as she pushed him into the inclusion device and he was gone…
To be concluded in Smallville: Dark Krypton