Chapter 5

Thank you for the reviews you're very kind, I planned to have 5 chapters so I think I'll stick to the plan. I am sorry about the spelling mistakes and grammar, I was reading it back to me after I posted and some of the mistakes were awful, I was trying to type too fast. To anyone who is interested check out my other Smallville Time Travel story "The One I always needed" and if you like the whole time travel genre go to superlc529 for some Time Travel stories much better than mine. Anyway the Final Chapter.

Clark sped towards Cadmus labs Still reeling from the scene he had witnessed between Lex and Kent. If Lois hadn't have stopped him he would have murdered Lex for sure. Thinking more about it he realises that he wouldn't much care.

Clark started thinking about his family, his future wife, he would never have expected Lois to be the woman he marries. Still from the moment they had met however embarrasing for him had changed the dynamic of their relationship so it was different than any he had ever had. He had also supressed an attraction to her, I mean she is gorgeous. Clark found himself being extremely excited to meet his daughter for the first time. If Lex was lying then Kent would kill him no doubt about that.

Clark sped in through the door before anyone noticed, he stopped in the shadows so he was invisible to any of the staff looking for intruders. He was surprised at the amount of security in the place. Lex had beefed up security tenfold from the last time he had had the unfortunate experience of visiting Cadmus Labs.

"Where would Lane and Ella be kept?" Clark whispered over and over to himself

"Get me the status update on the rock samples taken from the Kawatche cave wall" Said Lex Luthor

Clark gasped, the younger Lex Luthor of this time was here. Clark had no idea this place was still in use before today but the fact that Lex Luthor himself was on site meant that the experiments were important and of course secret.

Lex talked about the experiment for a minute with a staff member before moving on into the main laboratory. Clark slipped in unoticed behind Lex and made for the dark corner. Clark assume future Lex wouldn't want Lane and Ella to be found by his past self, that was if he was telling the truth.

Clark watched whilst Lex moved around his scientists getting reports from his staff. Clark himself had no idea what experiment was taking over Lex's interest but assumed it was about the Kawatche caves. He would deal with this another time.

If he was an evil villain where would he keep prisoners. Clark left the room and continued exploring. He ended up in a deserted corridor which had a staircase at the end of it. There was hardly anyone around so Clark followed the staircase down. This section of Cadmus Labs was wildly different, it was much colder and dimmer. The colour scheme mad almost entirely of grey.

Clark ventured further growing more cautious, if Lex was experimenting with meteor rock again it may cause serious harm to him. Clark remembered how Kent was unaffected by Lex's Green kryptonite and was unsure how he managed it. Perhaps there was something to do with that blue rock he had.

Clark used his super hearing and xray vision to scour the labyrinth of rooms in the lower part of Cadmus labs.

He thought he found them, a couple of scientists and three security guards were stood outside a room which had to people inside. From their skeletons he saw that one was a woman and the other a young girl. He suddenly realised that this woman was his future wife and the girl his future daughter. Clark lost some of his composure at these realisations. The mass of people outside this room seemed to be the only people in this part of the lab. Clark took a deep breath and supersped into the room to save his future family. He knocked the guards out with a tap to the head and sped the scientists into a separate room and locked the door.

He moved over to the steel vault door that must be where Lane and Ella are. He realised they theses people might know about his powers. Still he had no idea if his children had powers as well. He had to make a decision. He ripped the steel door off the wall and sped out of sight. Lane emerged, she was slightly older than Lois obviously but still as attractive and she had also changed her hair to be a dark brunette. Clark thought silently that this suited her better than blonde. Lane had her arm round a young girl who like her mother also had dark hair, his daughter.

"Clark" Lois shouted slightly confused.

Seeing that she had barely batted an eyelid at a steel door being ripped off its hinges Clark presumed that they must know about his secret. Clark grinned and walked over to meet them.

"Clark"Yelled running up to him and throwing her arms around him tightly.

"Daddy" screamed his daughter hugging his knee.

"Err..I'm not..."But Clark was cut off by Lane's lips on his.

She was a great kisser Clark summarised, he surprised himself by kissing her back.

She pulled away obviously sensing that something was different.

"Clark?" Lane said once again this time questioning.

"Your in the past, I'm not your husband or her father yet" Clark told her.

Clark grinned when she began to blush.

"Wait what?" Lane had stopped blushing and began to look scared "Where's John and my Clark?"

"They're back at the farm, safe and sound" assured Clark

Lane breathed a sigh of relief.

Clark really noticed his daughter for the first time, still clutching his leg tightly.

Clark knelt down "Ella?"

She looked into his eyes "Everything's OK, your safe" assured Clark

She smiled and kissed him on the cheek causing Clark to blush.

"So Smallville you gonna get us out of here anytime soon" Lane teased

"You still call me Smallville" Clark rolled his eyes

"Absolutely, you didn't think we've changed that much did you"

"Guess not" Clark replied gazing into her eyes.

"Anyway grab hold and lets get back" said Clark

He was surprised by how it didn't seem awkward at all to have Lane pressed to him and his futre daughter. He thought he would have blushed or been a little enbarrased but he wasn't.

It was over in seconds as the Kent Farm came into focus.

"El" yelled John somehow sensing his family members, the little boy rushed down the stairs and into his mother's and sister's arms.

Lane felt tears form in the corner of her eyes and quickly blinked them away.

The rest of the Kent family and Lois had followed John out of the house. Jonathan and Martha were looking happily at the family reuniteing whilst Lois was shocked seeing her future self and daughter.

Kent was flying through the clouds holding the rapidly deteriorating Lex's arm around his neck.

They soared over the hundreds of corn fields glimmering with the sun. Smallville was where they met, Smallville would be where Lex died.

"I always wondered what it felt like" commented Lex

Kent looked at Lex and saw for the first time in years something other than hatred.

"What happened to us?" Kent asked, over all the years they had evolved from friends to mortal enemies, Kent still wasn't sure how.

"You never trusted me, you always assumed that I was like my father a villan"

"You never gave me a reason to, always obsessed with finding out my secret, I probably would have told you eventually but you pushed...and now here we are from friends to enemies"

"It too late to change that now, the choices have been made, nobody can undo it"

"So how many more clones have you got?"

"Enough" Lex paused while he caught his breath "You know I'll keep coming for you"

"I know"

Lex seemed even paler and asked to be taken down. Kent touched down in the fields behind the Luthorcorp plant.

"Why Lex? why do you keep doing this" Kent asked urgently whilst Lex was still alive.

"Because its who I am, who people have made me to be, who you have made me to be"

"You don't have to keep doing this"

"Yes I do Naman"

Kent was surprised "How do you know that name"

"I pieced it together after I found out your powers...Do you remember a conversation we had years ago, about Naman and Sageeth. It turns out I was Sageeth didn't it. I do this because it is what I am for, to keep you from destroying the world. Your an alien, I am doing what's right for my Planet"

"How can you claim you are doing the right thing, all the pain you have caused"

"I've caused, you have caused If you wern't here then the world would be a safer place. Doomsday, Braniac all because you were here"

"Your wrong, I protect people thats why people look up to Superman, I help"

"One day the world will turn on you, I just hope I'm alive to see it"

"I will always be there to stop you"

"Good, till the next time then" Lex grinned evilly as he succumbed to death.

Lex lay still, stone dead.

Kent stood over his dead body, gone were the days where Lex's words affected him, he knew he was doing the right thing. His marriage has given him the confidence and his wife's never wavering support has moulded him into the man he way today, loving father and husband.

Trouble was that Lex Luthor also believed he was doing the right thing. In the world of good and evil, Lex had always occupied the morally grey area, venturing further into darkness as time went on. Kent leant down and closed Lex's eyelids, he did not feel sad, he knew he would be seeing him again soon. He would face that day then and he would be ready to combat any foes he sent at him. Lex was his worst enemy by far, being that now he was in a position of power as the president of the United States his reach spread far and wide.

Looking down at Lex's frail, wrinkled body he only felt pity. Pity that he was unable to save Lex from this path.

Kent looked up at the darkening sky and leapt into the air. Flying back home.

Kent opened the front door of the farm and was met with excited squeals as his wife ran into his arms. The wide smile returned to his face. His children Ella and John also came to join the group hug. Breaking free from Lane hold he sank to his knees and held his children tightly tears trailing down his face. Lane too had tears rolling down he face and she began kissing the tears away. The children ran back to their grandparents in disgust. Each yelling "Yuck". This caused Martha and Jonathan to burst out laughing. Proud looks on their faces as they looked at their son's family.

Lois and Clark meanwhile were stock still, completely shock by the sight of themselves in a tight liplock. They avoided each other's glances but laughed along with Martha and Jonathan at the sight of their children screaming when they kissed.

Kent and Lane meanwhile were on the floor kissing each other passionately as if reinforcing them that the other was still there. Kent tried to put all his emotions into the kiss. He loved her so much and couldn't imagine his life without her.

Eventually they broke apart.

"What happened to Lex?" asked Clark and Lois at the same time. This caused them to glance at the other and each blushed. They still were determinately not looking at their future selves.

"Dead, his body was weak so it was bound to happen sooner or later" replied Kent.

Lane still had her arms wrapped tightly around Kent.

"You ready to go home?" Kent asked to his wife and children.

"Yes Daddy its really weird, there's two Mommy's and Daddy's" said John while Ella still glanced at her mother to Lois and back again.

"Goodbye Dad" said Kent giving his father a hug, he did the same to his mother.

Hugs were exchange all round even Lois and Clark hugging Lane and Kent albeit akwardly.

"We're so proud of you son" said Jonathan. Martha was saying goodbye to her grandchildren.

A bright light shone through the house and when the light dissipated the time travelling family were gone.

In the next few weeks that went by Kent and Lane returned to work at the daily planet and their children returned to school. Lex Luthor's body was also found, the body must have time travelled back with them. For now it seemed the next Lex clone would take a while.

Kent held his wife tightly, what would he do without her, the woman who makes everything worthwhile, his wife. She kisses him and they fall off into a peaceful sleep.