Author's Note: This chapter is a continuation of the previous chapter, it also goes over what happens the next day when Conner searches for answers and he comes up with a plan.
Yesterday gave me hope that Lex can be saved. All I had to do was get both my dads to agree to talk to each other without fighting. When I came home from spending the afternoon with Lex, Clark was waiting for me with a tense look on his face. Obviously worried, but he had no reason to be, I have the body of a super powered teenager.
"Where have you been? Batman told me that you weren't at Mount Justice; you never skip out on Team meetings, Conner. Did something happen?"
I sighed. "No, nothing happened. I just wanted to spend some time with Lex was all."
"Lex."
"Yeah, you know…Dad number two. Actually we had a great conversation about my future."
"Oh, really? Do I really want to know what Luthor wants for your future?"
"You know, I thought the same thing but he actually wants me to get a good education and as long as I keep up my grades and graduate…he'd allow me to be a superhero full-time."
He blinked. "What?"
"Yeah, he was upset about it at first but I think I reasoned with him."
"I'm shocked; I thought he would want you to-"
"To be a super villain? Yeah, I thought so too but there is something else besides graduating."
Clark sat down on our blue couch and closed his eyes.
"And that would be?"
"He wants me to have a worthy nemesis that he chooses."
Clark sighed. "What? Why would he say that?"
"Oh I don't know Clark; maybe he's trying to be a good parent? At least as good as one can be to a teen superhero."
"How is that good parenting? I think I should monitor your visits with him, this is ridiculous! A nemesis?"
I could barely hold in my laughter, Clark made this too easy. Now it was time for him to take the bait.
"Yeah, we also talked about you too."
He froze. "Why?"
"I asked how he figured out that you were Superman and he told me about your first encounter…"
He scoffed. "Oh, really?"
"Yeah, really, but there are two sides to every story, right? I want to know what happened from your perspective."
"There isn't much to tell…he yelled, we fought, he stabbed me with pink Kryptonite and I blew up his lab."
"I see…pink Kryptonite? I didn't know that it came in that color, what does it do?"
Clark's eyes grew wide and he quickly got up and made up a fake excuse to leave the apartment. Coward. Why didn't he tell about pink Kryptonite?
I went to bed very confused last night, I needed answers and I wasn't going to get them from Clark.
I woke up to a wet and humid Saturday morning in Metropolis. This weekend I would stay at the apartment because Lex had a business meeting in Bangkok and both dads got into a heated debate over the phone about me going. I decided that if Clark wasn't going to give me the answers I wanted, then I'd have to go to someone who knew almost everything about the Justice League and its heroes.
Mount Justice
"You come to the right person, Superboy! I know everything about the Justice League thanks to my computer" Robin smiled.
"Thanks, Robin. I'm trying to get both of dads to talk to each other without biting each other's heads off."
"Dude, why? Aren't they nemesis for life?"
I smirked. "Kind of, well, the "for life" part anyway…"
"Are we talking heterosexual life partners or partners here?
"The second one."
The Boy Wonder plopped down on a couch in of the massive TV screen in the entertainment room. I didn't know if Robin would help me on this "mission" or not but I'm hoping I'll at least get some answers.
"Oh! So what brought on this assumption?" He asked with a mischievous glint in his eyes.
I wearily replied, "I was told both sides of their first superhero/nemesis encounter. Something about Superman's side of the story doesn't add up,"
"How so?"
"He ran out of the apartment before he could tell me what the effects of pink Kryptonite does."
"So not aster." He said, and then paused. "Did you say pink Kryptonite?"
"Yes, why-"
I stopped talking in mid sentence to watch Robin clutch at him tummy laughing. He even added a floor roll just for good measure; I don't understand what was so funny, maybe I shouldn't have said anything.
"Oh man! Luthor used pink Kryptonite on Superman? And I thought I'd never be surprised about anything that happens in this line of work but this…this takes the cake!"
"What's so funny about pink Kryptonite?" I yelled.
"Calm down, Conner. I didn't mean to upset you buddy, I'm just trying to process what I just heard. Conner, do you really want to know how pink Kryptonite affects you?"
"Yes."
"Okay, I only know this because Batman had the misfortune of experimenting once he found the meteor rock. I'm sure you know what the other colors do to you…this one brings out another side of you, I guess." He snickered.
I glared at him and he tried to put on a serious face. Keyword: tried.
"Pink Kryptonite when used on a Kyrptonian makes them…oh hell I'll just say it to put you out of your misery. It makes you gay, and I'm sure that Luthor didn't know that when he stabbed Superman but I'm sure he found out afterwards."
"WHAT?"
"It true, Batman to this day doesn't know that I know. Let's just say I saved his virtue before it was too late." Robin laughed.
"That's disturbing. So, Lex stabbed Superman not knowing that he would get jumped on. Why didn't he tell me that yesterday?"
"Maybe because he was just embarrassed? Look, if you want to get both Superman and Luthor in a room to talk without fighting, your best bet would be to drop a piece of the pink stuff in a room that locks from the outside."
I cringed.
"Don't look at me like that, okay? Leave them in there for a good hour and I'm sure that they'll be just fine." Robin snickered.
"That's not what I had in mind."
Robin sighed. "It's not like Luthor and Superman are the candle light dinner and walks on the beach type. You'll need to cause a reaction out of the two. Who's more forward?"
"That the thing, Robin. Lex has this huge crush but he refuses to tell Superman that he's in love with him. Superman…I don't know how he feels about Lex. He was really embarrassed actually."
"Well, then I'd say you need to confront them about it, then lock them in room and don't let them out until they talk to each other. The candle lit dinner can be optional, of course" Robin laughed.
