Smallville: The Journey
(This story is rated M for Mature. Smallville is ©2001-2008 CW Network & DC Comics. Trinity Jean Knight and Trinity Marie Knight are my characters but their powers are ©2001-2008 CW Network & DC Comics. Heroes is ©2006-2008 NBC/Universal Studios. Knight Rider elements are ©1982-1986 NBC/Universal Studios. All Other characters are mine)
Chapter 3: The Confrontation
Metropolis, Kansas, Belle Reeve psychiatric Center, 2008- Clark Kent, Michael Knight, Kara Knight and Claire Bennett were being led down a long hallway by Clark's one time friend Lex Luthor who owned Belle Reeve, buying the controversial center in 2007 after the Government threatened to shut it down due to questionable ethics and practices. Lex had reluctantly agreed to a meeting with the young woman from the mirror Universe who had engineered The Secret Wars and had tried to persuade Lex to kill the chosen One From Krypton, but failed in the end. The confrontation between Trinity Jean Knight and Trinity Marie Knight had been the focal point of the war and was the final thing to close the link between The Mirror Universe and our own. He stared at the young woman who looked like Trinity Jean Knight but wasn't in a sense.
"Now what?" Lex asked as he stared at his former friend Clark Kent.
"We need 5 minutes with her, Lex," Clark said. He then heard the whisper of Kara in his ear.
"I don't trust him, Kal-El," She whispered.
"We have no choice," he whispered back.
"If that is ok with the Foundation liaison then she's all yours, Clark. Personally I would have killed her by now but that is not my place to say. The Feds placed her here. Ask Mr. Knight how long she has to stay here," Lex said as he glanced at his watch. He was late with a scientist at LuthorCorp about Project Capricorn.
"If you will excuse me, I have a meeting," Lex said walking back down the hallway.
"Well, Mr. Knight we got here, now what?" Claire said.
"We talk with her. Clark or Kara you can't go in there. Kryptonite radiation is in there keeping the woman from having use of her powers. It's a low dosage so she won't die," Michael said.
"I'll take the risk," Clark said. Michael shrugged his shoulders. "Ok Clark, but be careful," He said. He tapped the electronic card reader to the keypad by the door and the door opened with a sound of an electronic ding.
"Hello, Trinity," Clark said, as the low dosage of Kryptonite began having an effect. It was making him sick. But he pressed on.
"What do you want, Kal-El? Leave me alone," She whimpered. She had no strength, no powers, no nothing. Her eyes flared red as her heat vision tried to surface but to no avail.
"I need to know where my Trinity is and if you know where she is, so I can bring her back," Clark said. He saw Michael move to a nearby control box. The radiation lights where he was standing went out and his powers were restored, as was Trinity's.
"What the hell for? She's nothing more than a half-breed, married to a useless human who should have died but was reborn," Trinity said defiantly. She then saw Kara come in.
"Let me at the bitch, Kal-El I'll rip her in two," Kara breathed. Clark shook his head no.
"We need her alive to stand trial for crimes committed against the Mirror Universe. And for crimes committed against our own," Clark said. Trinity breathed fresh air new, as her strength was renewed. He then grabbed Trinity Marie Knight and slammed her against the wall.
"What happened when we came back to Earth from Battleworld? How come Trinity didn't appear with my team, when the Beyonder's displacement unit brought us and you back to Earth?" Clark practically yelled at her. Trinity looked at him with a glassy look at her enemy.
"She's here, in this reality, somewhere in both time and space with amnesia. For some reason she pulled my secret identity and is using my alias as she discovers who she is," Trinity Marie said.
"Kal-El she's got something viral in her bloodstream that is killing her. We need to get her to a hospital, now!" Kara said using her x-ray vision.
"Damn! Michael we need to get her to a hospital ASAP!" Clark said. He then grabbed her and walked out.
"Take her to Metropolis General. They can deal with her!" Michael Knight said. He nodded at the Kryptonian. Clark nodded back and used super speed. Claire stared at Kara.
"How did she get something in her bloodstream that we didn't detect?" She asked the cousin of Clark.
"Don't know, but Kal-El will help her as much as he can," Kara said.
"Kal-El? What is that?" Claire asked.
"That is the name of Clark Kent given to him by his biological parents, Jor-El and Lara of Krypton," Michael Knight said.
"How do you know that?" Kara asked.
"Because Jor-El, Clark's father, met with the wife of Wilton Knight and he got her pregnant in 1973, and produced a child with powers of a true Kryptonian, but also human. The Kryptonian fragments don't make her sick like they do me. The recent discovery of blue Kryptonite by Dax-Ur would remove my powers but wouldn't rob Trinity of hers," Michael said. Kara stared at Michael.
"So what do we do now?" She asked. Michael just smiled.
"We pray," He said concerned both for his wife and her Mirror Universe doppelganger.
To be Continued…