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 8: Lex Luthor speaks

The White House: President Lex Luthor watched all the activity as Lex was gearing up for a re-election which his advisors had advised him He would win. He had bribed his last opponent to drop out by way of one of his LuthorCorp Executives and He was the only one on the ballot, and now he was prepared to give a State Of The Union address with no one to stop him. The so-called Super Heroes were out of commission so He was told, and so was Kal-El, The Superman, by his own hand, but the United States didn't know that. That was done on the Kent farm years ago, with his own men who had infiltrated the CIA who had taken the Gold Kryptonite and formed bullets out of them and destroyed Superman's powers. But there were no reporters, no cameras no one there to witness the so-called Man of Tomorrow fall.

"Mr. President, all is ready for tomorrow night," Tim Robbins one of his top advisors say. He then heard Alicia Masters, His personal secretary come in with an envelope bearing the mark of The House OF El on it. On the front was the name Lex Luthor, President of the United States of America and the address for the White House. He stared at Cassandra Carver, his cyber police woman who revealed everything newsworthy to the President on the President's website, and she nodded as Cyberspace was clear.

Ariana Luthor stared at her husband as He moved from his cyber cop to his advisor. She stared at Cassandra with a cool look. She never liked the woman to begin with, and to find her going over Lex's notes was a little disconcerting. She then grabbed her cell phone and dialed a secured number. She moved from the West Wing back over to the private residence of the White House, all the while waiting for the LexCorp Satellite to triangulate and transfer the signal to a Queen Industries Satellite and then she heard a mechanical voice say "Secure Line authorized, Luthor-1 to Valarian Knight, you have 10 minutes before this line is detected," the voice said. She then spoke.

"Val, this is Ariana. Voice print authorization Tango Beta Charlie to Knight 2000. Valarian you are go. Get your tech team ready to block my husband's transmission tomorrow," Ariana said very quickly.

Smallville, Kansas-Smallville High School…the young dark haired woman smiled at her students as she was teaching them about the meteor shower that had hit that cool October afternoon in 1989, when she glanced down at her cell phone and saw it flash twice. She knew her server had dumped another short message from Ariana to her to give to the Rebellion. She had talked to Bruce Wayne about the plans to stop Lex Luthor, and now she was a part of it. She glanced up and stared at one of the students as he pointed to the symbol on her virtual chalkboard that hadn't been there before. It was the Kryptonian symbol of hope, The House of El that Superman wore on his costume.

"Mrs. Knight, what is that?" Jack Ryder asked her. She turned and saw the symbol in shock. It was one symbol that was hated by the Federal Government.

"That Jack is a symbol we all need in this time of darkness. It's a symbol of hope from a dying planet, of a Savior who was to protect us from ourselves. While he may not be what Jesus was, He was certainly there to stand up against evil in our darkest hour," She said. She smiled.

"Wasn't that symbol banned after Lex Luthor took office," Jack asked. She then stared at him.

"Our Emperor forbid anyone from looking at that symbol and would kill anyone from seeing it, but we are witnessing a rebirth of the man that held that symbol high," Valarian said. She then saw government Soldiers outside her classroom. Her eyes flashed red as her own nascent powers took over.

"Children get down on the floor, now!" She said as her eyes flared a crimson red. Heat vision flared out and the 5 men and women were dead. The kids slowly got up.

"What just happened?" Jack Ryder asked. Valarian smiled.

"I killed them to protect myself and you. You see, since we were discussing Superman, we would have all been arrested, and our rights as Americans would have been suspended because we would have been arrested as Terrorists," She said solemnly.

"Then we must fight," Jack Ryder said. Valarian stared at the 10-year-old boy. The other students began to nod and Valarian pulled out a holographic emitter and the face of Trinity Jean Knight the younger version and the older version of Bruce Wayne smiled.

"Welcome to the Rebellion to stop our current President and restore our belief in the US Constitution and to restore our faith in humanity and God. We have evidence to prove our President is a clone of a man from 300 years ago. We must act now or else we will be dead as a movement," Trinity said.

"There is a man who came from a dying planet called Krypton who was granted powers by the power of God and our yellow Sun who stood up for everyone whose only goal was to make sure Earth didn't go the way of Krypton. We have embedded files of Krypton's destruction and in looking at those files, we discovered the blood was cloned from a man born in the latter half of the 20th Century and rose to power in the 21st. He knew the Kryptonian known as Kal-El. That man is Alexander Luthor, known as Lex Luthor. He rose to the highest office of the United States. His Presidency was stopped by Superman and the Dark Knight, Batman. He cloned himself and someone from The Luthor line was always in the Presidency. Kal-El has always stood for what was right regardless of politics. We must join Kal-El's fight to restore The United States of America as the greatest nation in the world and goodness to the world," Bruce said.

The kids nodded to each other.

"Then, Welcome to our world," Bruce said. The holographic emitter shut down and the kids were ready for war against the President of The United States…

To Be Continued..