Smallville: Future Tense

Smallville is ©2001-2011 The CW Network & DC Comics. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are ©2001-2011 The CW Network & DC Comics. Any and all Knight Rider Elements are ©1982-1986; 2008 Universal Studios. Hannah Melvin is used by Permission)

Chapter 7: Stephanie Mason

Smallville, a café where 400 years ago The Talon stood at the electronic time clock and then swiped her card and exited the café where she had worked at least in the daytime to pay her bills and fund her extracurricular activities which was searching LexCorp's files for any information on The President Of The United States, Lex Luthor. She had worked previously for Knight Industries Technology until her underground cyberhacking skills were discovered and she had been fired a year and a half ago and had gotten a job working as a waitress. She walked upstairs to her apartment and touched the palm print reader and it flashed green, letting her know it was okay to enter the apartment. She was startled to see someone dressed in the costume of Superman standing in her living room.

"What the hell? How did you get in here and who the hell are you?" She asked, surprised to see someone in her apartment.

"My name is Kal-El and I come from the Planet Krypton. I came to Earth in the year 1989 and have lived among your people and was taken to this time with my team. We were brought to a world where Lex Luthor is President of The United States and has declared marshal law and has either imprisoned or killed any heroes that are here, in this time. My team and I need your help, Miss Mason," Superman said folding his muscular arms over his chest and he walked over to the light that scanned him and he used heat vision to burn the camera that was installed in it. He then put a finger to his lip and the removed from his cape a piece of Kryptonian technology which was a metal ball. The ball then rose in the air and a laser light shined around the room and destroyed all the listening devices that were in the apartment.

"That's better. I don't want Lex overhearing our conversation," Superman finally said. He then tossed her one of the listening devices that had a LuthorCorp logo. Stephanie examined it then tossed it. She smiled looking Superman's muscled body and then stared at the listening device.

"Lex hid these in my Apartment?" She asked. He nodded. She then grabbed it and hooked it up to her computer and noticed the circuitry marker of LexCorp.

"Damn that bastard. He's the President of The United States! Why would he do this?" She asked. Superman smiled.

"I've been told you have an extra-curricular activity of hacking computers, Primarily Government computers. Lex views you as a threat so He's got you under surveillance. But we can help each other, Stephanie," He said as She removed the deactivated listening device and Superman used his heat vision to burn it. He then removed from his cape a blood sample. He placed it on her computer then hooked up a reader she had bought from Knight Industries Technology before she was let go from that company.

"Whose blood is this?" She asked. Superman smiled.

"The President of the United States, Lex Luthor. But this is not the blood from our current President, but from the Original, who lived in the 21st Century. Our current President is a clone, masterminded by LuthorCorp back in the year 2009 to keep the Luthor name alive. Lionel Luthor cloned Lex and kept cloning him, giving the clones different names to hide the fact that he was doing something illegal. Cloning is still illegal in this country is it not?" Superman asked. She looked at him.

"Cloning organs is not, but a human being is. What's this extra stuff in his blood? This green stuff?" She asked pointing to the small green blobs floating around.

"Kryptonite. You'll remember the Meteor Shower that hit Smallville, Kansas in October of 1989? One of the Meteor fragments hit the Ross farm when the meteor shower hit, which covered my arrival. My biological father warned some families of what was coming. Lionel Luthor's father Lachlan learned of this coming meteor shower and began setting up LuthorCorp to search for The Traveler, which Lionel thought was me, but was in fact a member of my current team, Davis Bloome, otherwise known in the past as Doomsday. Lionel set up the clones to be prepared for anything. He manipulated the blood to hold the Kryptonite fragments and a LexCorp employee manipulated the Kryptonite fragments into a variant which would render me powerless. I ran into my older self here in this time and we devised a plan. We need you to post the DNA markers online before tomorrow night when President Luthor makes his state of the Union address. What you will find are DNA markers that reveal not only that he is a clone, but that he was manipulated by a Kryptonian to have genetic memories of my trip to Earth from Krypton. He was manipulated just like the American people are. He will destroy America with the computer virus that he will unleash on the Muslim people for their alleged attacks on Americans. We need you to discover if in fact LuthorCorp is behind this cyber attack or not or if it's the work of Terrorists as he claims. I'll stop him if this plan fails and he refuses to step down," Superman said. She then smiled at him.

"How much will this cost me, Kal-El. I need to be paid to do this. This apartment isn't cheap," She said. They then heard a voice.

"My company will pay you very well if you are willing to bury the hatchet, Stephanie," Trinity Jean Knight said walking in.

"What do I have to lose? Sure count me in," She said. She then shook Superman's hand. He then put his hand up to his Bluetooth device in his ear.

"Hannah, phase 1 is complete. Let Davis know as well as my older self to be prepared for phase 2," Superman said. He then pressed the Bluetooth device twice to switch it to hologram mode. Hannah Melvin's pretty face showed up.

"He's been alerted. August Queen has also been alerted. She's currently at the Luthor mansion doing some digging. Fortunately the place has been abandoned so no one stopped her. She found research and something Clark will want to see," Hannah said. Superman stared at his friend.

"what is it?" he asked. "Clones of you, Kal-El," Hannah finally said…

To be Continued….