Smallville: Future Tense

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Chapter 6: Lex prepares a surprise

August Queen stared at the file that Dr. Hamilton had emailed her. She was The Green Arrow and also a wealthy socialite. She had learned from her notes on the very first Green Arrow, her ancestor Oliver Queen how to keep a secret identity. She had set up this rebellion when she had heard some scientists that were hired by LexCorp to do some genetic manipulation on some cells. She scanned the file and turned to Dr. Terrance Hamilton, her personal physician who began to pull up different DNA scans of the blood analysis.

"Well, what's the word, Dr. Hamilton? Is that cloned blood or not," August asked. She then turned to Terry McGinnis and Bruce Wayne who stared at the computations with uncertainty.

"This is cloned blood from Clark's enemy Lex Luthor. How did He get a hold of blood from the past," Dr. Hamilton said finally.

"Maybe he used a variation of The Book of Rao to bring blood from the past," Terry suggested. August smiled then shook her pretty head.

"I don't think so. See that portion of ice in the molecule, Terry? That means the blood was frozen since the early 21st Century," August said. Bruce stared at it.

"So Lex kept the blood in hopes of what? Cloning himself? Not likely guys but we need to get this information out to the public," August said.

"Arianna is safe in the guest house," Trinity said as she walked in and then she saw the blood work that Bruce and Dr. Hamilton were mulling over Lex's blood sample.

"How soon will she be able to travel to Paradise," Bruce asked.

Trinity smiled and glanced at the holographic image of the blood.

"Another 2 hours and KARR will take her to Paradise. She'll be set up with Queen Industries as a scientist working on a cure for the AIDS virus," Trinity said.

"Thanks, Trinity. Anything else we found about the blood sample," August asked. Trinity stared at the blood then brought up the original sample that was taken in 2004 just before Lex's marriage to Dr. Helen Bryce. She then ordered the computer to scan and match the two samples. She then noticed the original blood sample had very small amounts of a gold colored Kryptonite in it. It was not harmful to humans but would render a Kryptonian powerless.

"The original sample had very small amounts of Gold Kryptonite. Dr. Bryce must have discovered them and injected Lex's blood with it. How did the version of Kal-El from this era lose his powers?" Trinity said, half thinking aloud.

"Is Kal-El ready for the plan?" Terry asked. Trinity nodded. She saw Kal-El, the Superman from this time period walk in.

"Brother, how did you lose your powers?" She asked.

"Lex had darts made out of Gold Kryptonite and lead me into a trap where four Archers from The League of Assassins that Oliver Queen graduated from had me surrounded. They fired the 4 darts into me without me realizing it and I was then shot in the shoulder. I had then discovered my powers and my unique healing abilities were gone. There was nothing I could do but run away as fast as I could. This was done before He ran for President. I guess He figured without Superman to stop him, He would be unstoppable. I became Clark Kent, but even then that was destroyed as a rival from The Daily Globe discovered my secret and released it. I became something the general populace feared and so I went into hiding. There was nothing I could do," Kal-El said. Trinity smiled and then glanced at her older self.

"I think I might have a way to restore your powers, Clark," The older Trinity said. Kal-El stared at her as if she was crazy.

I can't go back into time, not the way my body is now, Trinity," He said.

"No, silly. My younger self gives you a blood transfer and that should restore your powers," the older Trinity said. The older Clark Kent stared at the younger 37-Year-old half-Kryptonian woman who was his sister.

"Let's do it," he finally said. They then moved the medical lab where Dr. Hamilton was waiting.

"Clark, are you sure you want to do this?" He asked. The older Clark nodded. "If it's going to mean anything when the other team is gone, I need my powers to make a difference," Clark said.

"It'll take 10 minutes," Dr. Hamilton said. Clark nodded. Trinity smiled as she soon felt part of her lifeblood flow from her into her brother. She knew the risks. This type of transfusion had never been done not even among Kryptonians. She had reviewed The Book of the House of El, which was a record of her biological father's family and had discovered at least on Krypton, blood transfusions never happened as blood stores were cloned for the possibility of reproduction, since sexual reproduction wasn't allowed even among their own kind. Jor-El and Lara had broken that tradition by having sex together after discovering Earth and began to discover what human beings could do.

"How do you feel, Clark," Trinity asked as the fresh Human-Kryptonian hybrid blood flowed from her to him.

"Different. No longer human but re-energized," Clark said as Kryptonian energies once again flowed through him. The sun had not quite restored his powers, but He felt the flow of new energies that were once his.

"So has phase 1 begun," Clark asked as he rolled back up his sleeve and He felt a little woozy from the influx of new blood. He then felt new memories from the transfer.

Wilton staring at the Knight Automated Roving Robot in disgust as he had discovered a technician had sex in the prototype, Clark remembered as he then in his mind saw the face of Tess Mercer staring at the old man as she confessed that she had in fact had sex with her boyfriend and she had accidently reprogrammed the vehicle. He stared at Tess through Wilton's eyes.

Trinity found herself looking seeing the alien embers of the Crystal Sea as Jor-El held Kal-El in his arms as they were walking fast back to the lab. She heard the voice of Lara, Clark's biological mother speak, "He's so beautiful, but why do we have to send him to Earth," She said.

"Because This planet will be doomed in days if not hours, and I want our son to survive and if He is to survive, Earth would be the perfect for him to survive, Lara. The planet's lighter gravity and the yellow sun will grant him powers and abilities that will make him greater than the humans. He will need those gifts if he will survive to make sure Earth doesn't go the way of Krypton. Humans have a great propensity for good but their love of darkness instead of light will make Kal-El's ability as Savior difficult," Jor-El said.

"He'll be alone, Jor-El," Lara protested. He stared and smiled at his wife. He kissed his wife.

"He'll never be alone," Jor-El said.

Trinity shook her head to shake the cobwebs. She stared at the blood up on the monitor. It was Lex Luthor's. She knew she needed answers to get this rebellion up and rolling. She had an idea and a plan.

"Clark, I have an idea but it's crazy. I'm considering staying here in this time, to make sure the Luthor's don't do anything to bring their brand of villainy to the US or the World again. Knight Industries Technology is working to acquire LuthorCorp and it's current subsidiary LexCorp," Trinity finally said.

"Did you feel anything strange? I saw memories of you looking at someone who looked like Tess Mercer and a man was criticizing her for misprogramming a prototype vehicle," Clark said. Trinity smiled at him.

"I saw Jor-El and Lara loading a baby in a space ship. He called the ship The Ark" Trinity said finally. Clark remembered seeing written in smaller Kryptonian letters the words The Ark on the ship after Dr. Steven Hamilton had tried to steal the ship.

"Bruce, is there anything in the Batcomputer related to The Ark?" Clark said.

"No. I'm sorry. I wasn't able to download your ships historical data from the servers from Knight Industries Technology. Queen Industries & Knight Industries were wiped clean of any history of you or your flight from Krypton to Earth," Bruce said. Trinity then pointed to the blood sample as the computer picked up something.

"Guys, I think Lex downloaded Clark's historical data files into his blood stream," She said as she noted the DNA scans in Lex's blood.

"That's not my DNA. That's Zod's," Clark said as he pulled up the DNA files and found they matched General Zod's.

"You mean General Zod downloaded historical data when his spirit merged with Lex Luthor years ago," Trinity suggested. Clark nodded.

"Lex didn't even know it. We've got decode this as quickly as possible," Clark said. His younger self came in and saw the DNA scan.

"I had heard there was young hacker that could hack something like this, her name being Stephanie Mason," Clark said to his older self. Trinity stared at him.

"Kal-El, I didn't know you knew her. She was the one who helped me crack my own DNA and accidently helped me unlock my own powers. Her descendant bears the same name," Trinity said bringing up the young hacker's name up.

"You remember that KITT fiasco that Lionel did that brought you to Smallville in the first place? Watchtower, that is Chloe Sullivan, learned of her and contacted her in Chicago, while she was on the run from Chicago PD. Chloe convinced her to move to Smallville and gave her a new identity and she at the time had hacked Knight Industries servers to discover the KITT that was running around Smallville was not the real McCoy. When we set up Watchtower, Oliver and Chloe set up Stephanie as a programmer to stop one of Tess Mercer's Cyber bullies. It worked. When Tess took over as Watchtower, She kept Stephanie onboard to ease the transfer from Chloe to Tess. There should be a code located in the Batcomputer that should enable us to find Stephanie," Clark said.

"I know the code, but I haven't used it for fear Lex's men will find us, but that's a risk we'll have to take. Computer, this is Bruce Wayne. Activate program Mercer-1. Run," Bruce said. Terry walked over and saw the Batcomputer suddenly light up and began scanning over Metropolis, Gotham City and finally it narrowed it down to Smallville, & A small café where the Talon once stood. A security camera was activated and picked up a waitress.

"Clark, it's up to you now," Bruce said. Clark nodded and in a second he was gone…

To Be Continued…