Lex Luthor awoke as the sun's rays lit up his bed room. He turned around in his king sized bed to face his beautiful wife, still asleep. Slowly, Lana opened her eyes and looked up at the man she married.

"Morning."

"Morning," she replied with a warm smile. Suddenly Lex's phone rang, disturbing their peaceful morning. Lex looked at the number and recognised it immediately. He excused himself and headed out of the room.

"Doctor, what is it?" he snapped as he answered the phone, angry that his morning was being disturbed.

"There's been an issue at the lab," the scientist revealed.

"What kind of issue?" Lex demanded angrily.

"One of the subjects, they've escaped. The GPS system isn't working and they're not responding to any of our computer commands. I've sent security teams out but so far they haven't been able to locate the subject."

"Which one escaped?"

"771. We believe their using their new technopathy abilities to somehow block out our programming."

"Deploy a team of soldiers to relocate them," Lex ordered.

"Are you sure that's wise sir?"

"Deploy the team! I'll be at the lab shortly and Doctor, I'm sure I don't have to explain what will happen if you don't recapture the escaped subject." With that Lex ended the call.

He raced back into the bedroom and began to get changed.

"What was that all about?" Lana probed.

"There's been an incident at one of the labs. I have to go," he explained as he hurriedly dressed himself.

"Are you sure you have to go, it's a Saturday."

"Believe me, I would spend every moment with you if I could but unfortunately running a corporation is very demanding." He leaned down to kiss Lana before racing out the door.

LUTHORCORP LAB

Lex stormed into the lab.

"Where is he Doctor?" he demanded.

"It's a she and I'm not sure. But I did send the team of soldiers to retrieve him." Lex logged onto a nearby computer and brought up the missing subjects file. The file showed an image of a young girl, no older then twelve or thirteen with long brown hair, green eyes and big smile on her face. Beside the photos was a list of the powers Lex's team of scientists had given her. Her original meteor power was the ability to project blasts of heat from her hands. Since capture she is now able to fire a continuous chain of lightning out of one or both hands at a time, she can control and manipulate electronics with her mind as well as having a speed and strength boost which was given to all the subjects.

"Send the team to her previous address," Lex ordered.

"Her address? Her memories were wiped, she shouldn't have any reason to go back there."

"She's not supposed to be leaving the facility by herself and not responding to commands. Now send the team."

CENTRAL CITY

Bart and Barry ran through the streets of Central City. Barry was impressed with himself, thanks to Bart's training in the last week he'd doubled his speed. As he ran he slowly began to catch up to Bart, who ran a few feet in front of him. Just when he thought he would overtake the younger speedster, Bart spun around and began running backwards. Barry shook his head in disbelief as Bart broke out into laughter.

The two speedsters came to a stop along the bay.

"Dude your awesome!" Impulse exclaimed. "Your way faster than when we first met."

"It's all thanks to you. Soon enough to student will become the master and I'll be able to outrun you."

"You wish!"

"You ready to race home?"

"Just one sec," Bart stopped him, looking out onto the water.

"What?" Barry asked.

"Why don't we try something new. You haven't run on water yet, right?" Barry looked down at him in shock.

"Water, no, no, I don't think I can…"

"Barry, it's just like anything else we do. Let the speed force flow through you and…run." As he said that last word Bart took off, racing across the bay.

Taking a deep breath Barry put one leg in front of the other and prepared himself.

"Run Barry run," He whispered to himself. His eyes glowed a light orange as electricity passed through them before he took off. He raced towards the water's edge and without hesitating he hit the water's surface. He couldn't believe it when he began running along the water.

"WOOOOOO!" He cried out in ecstasy.

SMALLVILLE
Outside of an apartment building stood a girl wearing nothing but a pair of black cargo pants, boots and a plain black t-shirt. She starred at the building, a blank expression on her face. She didn't know why she was there, all she knew was that it felt right. She began walking through the building, everything felt so familiar yet, she didn't remember any of it. Walking though the complex she found her way to a door. She looked at it in confusion. Why was this important? What did it mean?

"Kaity!" The girl slowly spun around to discover a young man starring at her in shock. "Kaity is that really you? Where have you been? Your parents have been searching for you everywhere!" The man approached Kaity and was about to hug a terrified girl her when she shoved him backwards, sending him crashing through the wall. Kaity looked down at her hands in a mixture of shock and fear. What was she? Memories flashed into her mind of her being carried up the stairs by a man. A woman stood next to them laughing at the sight of the two. Two words popped in Kaity's head, mom and dad. Suddenly, her hands began to glow red and a beam of heat shot uncontrollably out of them.

KENT FARM
Clark had just finished cleaning Shelby's water bowl when his super hearing noticed something in the distance. In a second he'd grabbed his suit and was flying towards the heart of Smallville. What he discovered was a building engulfed in flames, rapidly burning to the ground. With gust of breath he extinguished the flames and began removing the trapped civilians.

'Well this is one way to start the day' he thought to himself. As he began saving people he noticed a young girl carry people to safety, surprising everyone with her incredible strength.

"And here's your cat mam." Clark handed an elderly woman her ginger cat.

"Thank you," she replied. Despite the police blocking off the street a large crowd had gathered around, wanting to have a look at what was going on. In that crowd was Chloe Sullivan and Lois Lane. Who at that very moment were trying to get answers out of the police.

"Sir, what can you tell us about the fire?" Chloe queried.

"I'm afraid I can't talk about an ongoing investigation."

Heading towards them was Kaity, trying to escape undetected.

"Excuse me little Miss, I wanted to thank you," Clark showed his appreciation to the girl as he landed behind her. Kaity seemingly ignored Clark and continued to walk towards the crowd when she came to a sudden stop. Just ahead of her were a group of faces she recognised. They were the team of soldiers Lex had sent after her. Suddenly, images of a lab flashed into her head and intense pain ran through her body. Form the crowd one of the three in the group of people Kaity recognised reached up and activated her com.

"We've found the target. Retrieving now," the leader of the team reported. A woman of Chinese decent with short black hair and brown eyes. The other members of the team consisted of an African American man in his mid-twenties and a Caucasian male reaching forty. The trio of soldiers began to approach Kaity who began walking hurriedly back the way she came. Not watching where she was going she ran right into Superman.

"Ms, are you okay? Clark asked. Kaity glanced back noticing the team rapidly approaching. Seeing no other option, she pulled her arm back and punched Superman as hard as she could. As Clark was sent flying through the sky, Kaity began to run, the team of soldiers chasing after her.

As she ran, Kaity began to wildly shoot blasts of electricity at the team. The crowd turned to chaos as everyone raced to safety. The team surrounded Kaity who looked around worriedly. However, before any of them could make a move Superman crashed down beside them.

"What's this all about?" He demanded. One of the male soldiers snapped his hand towards Clark and a beam of ice shot from his arm. Using his heat vision Clark fought against the freeze beam. Using this distraction to her advantage Kaity sent a bolt of lightning at the other two soldiers. Although one hit the other missed and she began to attack Kaity.

With a moment of effort Clark overpowered the soldier with his heat vision. The man clutched his arm in pain. This moment was all Clark needed to race up to him and punch him into the ground. He looked to the others to discover they were now both attacking the girl.

"Wait, which one of you is the villain?" Seeing as Kaity was getting beaten to death he knew who he had to stop, for now. Picking the first attacker up Clark effortlessly chucked her a dozen miles away. Clark went to grab the other attacker but stopped when he suddenly found himself frozen in a block of ice. The soldier Clark had fought stood behind him triumphantly. However, in seconds Superman broke out of the ice, chucking two large chunks at the soldier. He launched himself at the man and the two began to duel.

With only one person to fight Kaity somehow managed to overpower her foe. She may be small but she's was incredibly powerful. She blocked his deadly attacks and managed to get the man on the ground. From there she blasted the man with a beam of scorching heat from her left hand and a continuous bolt of electricity from her right. When she eventually stopped the man was unconscious, smoke rising from where his body laid on the ground. Seeing that Superman and the other soldier were distracting each other, Kaity was about to run when the soldier Clark threw miles away ran up to her at super speed and punched her into the ground.

Superman deflected a storm of ice shards and rocketed towards the soldier. These were no doubt Lex's super soldiers but why were they here now? And why did it seem that three of them were attacking the other. Clark raced up to the soldier and began wailing on him, delivering super punch after super punch. Seeing Kaity on the ground, her attacker standing over her, Clark picked up the soldier in front of him and as hard as he could, through him at the other soldier. The two collided and went flying down the road, landing in an unconscious heap on the road. He looked to Kaity and could see the obvious fear in her eyes. Whatever she was, she wasn't like the others.

"I'm not going to fight you. I just want to talk," Clark explained as he held up his hands and began to slowly approach the girl. Kaity didn't run so Clark took that as a sign to continue.

"Listen I know what you're going through must be tough but if you come with me I can help you."

Kaity clutched his head and let out a scream of pain.

"You can't help me nobody can!" she cried as she leapt into the air. Clark was torn, he wanted to follow but he also didn't want to leave the soldiers unguarded on the street. Figuring they'd be unconscious for a while he made a split second decision and chased after the mysterious girl.

He found Kaity leaping just outside of the Smallville city limits and heading towards Metropolis.

"I'm not going to fight you. Please, can we just talk?" Superman requested.

"Have to get away!" She shouted in response.

"I know what's happening to you and its awful." Kaity came to a sudden stop.

"You know what happened to me?" Clark looked at her curiously.

"You don't." Kaity slowly shook his head. Clark rubbed the back of his neck and looked at him nervously. This was going to be rough. But before anything he needed to take care of those super soldiers. Looking back to the city he was stunned and incredibly annoyed to discover they'd vanished.

HELICARRIER

Superman sat opposite Kaity on board the Shiled helicarrier. He felt so guilty explaining to her Lex's experiments and what she'd turned into. He couldn't believe he was doing this. Explaining to this twelve-year-old girl that she was being experimented on like a lab rat. He couldn't believe Lex had gone this far.

As Clark finished explaining everything Kaity began to cry and Clark immediately comforted her.

"I want my mommy and daddy!" she wailed. It crushed Clark to hear her. What happened to the Lex Luthor Clark used to call a friend? How could he do this? Never in his life had he been angrier at anyone.

"I know you do and we'll do everything we can to find them but we need your help. With you we finally have a lead on all of Lex's operations. Take as much time as you need but when you're ready we would love it if you would give us any information you had on Lex. Do you think you could do that for me?" She gave a small nod in response.

"Thank you," Clark replied with a warm smile. A few moments passed as Kaity wiped away her tears. She looked up at Clark a look of determination on her face.

"You need me to help stop him from doing what he did me and all the others?"

"That's right."

"Then I'll help anyway I can." Clark gave her a smile and thanked her for all her help.

"Tell me everything you know?"

"Well it's fuzzy. I remember a lab, being strapped to a bench, unable to move, then pain. I remember the occasional flash of someone's face but nothing more," she explained, desperately attempting to recall as much information as possible.

Clark knew this was difficult for her, he knew she went through something no one should have too, especially a child and he didn't want to push her, but they needed more information.

"Can you remember anything else?"

"There was something about… I can't remember." Kaity shut his eyes in concentration. "Water," she blurted out.

"Water?"

"Water. When I escaped I remember there being water. I'm sorry that's all I can remember right now."

"Don't worry you're doing great, take all the time you need. Excuse me for a moment," Clark stood up and headed for the door. Before leaving he turned back to the poor girl. "Can I get you anything? Maybe something to eat? When was the last time you ate?"

"I don't even know. That would be great, thank you."

"No problem."

After making sure someone would send her something to eat he went to speak to Fury. He walked into a conference room where Fury, Natasha, Barton and Rogers sat.

"You guys got all that?" Clark asked as he approached them.

"We're going to need more then water," was Fury's immediate response.

"I know just give her time. Besides its better than nothing."

"Clark if we want Lex convicted we need as much evidence as possible," Natasha explained. "We need more information from her."

While the group continued to talk Kaity was delivered a sandwich, fries and ketchup. As she began to eat, an intense pain filled her head. She dropped her sandwich to the ground as a series of numbers flooded into her mind. Suddenly, all the pain she'd felt whilst being experimented on rushed back through her body, sending her crumpling to the ground. Through the pain she noticed the spilt ketchup on the floor. Slowly extending her arm towards it, she began dipping her fingers in it.

"So judging by what we know wherever Lex is experimenting on the meteor infected its most likely in Smallville and near water," Clark recapped.

"Right, now if we could just get a specific location from the girl we'll be one step closer to putting Lex away," Fury stated. The conversation was stopped as a Shield agent raced into the room.

"The meteor soldiers escaping!" He announced, out of breath from sprinting to them. They ran to the door but discovered it was locked shut, sealing them in.

"What's going on?" Hawkeye asked.

"It's Kaity," Clark realised. "She's keeping us in here." Hawkeye looked at Clark in shock.

"She can do that?!"

With a slight shove Clark knocked the door off its hinges and ran out of the room. He found Kaity on top of the helicarrier, preparing to jump.

"Kaity! What are you doing?" Clark cried as he raced over to the girl.

"I have to go."

"Why? We need you so we prove Lex is guilty."

"I know but they have my parents," she revealed.

"How do you know that?" Clark asked in confusion.

"They broadcasted a message through radio waves. My powers picked up on the signal. They have my mom and dad. They said I had to come to them alone and if I didn't they'd kill them."

"Let me help," Clark insisted.

"I can't take that risk. I'm sorry." A bolt of lightning shot out of her hand, smashing Clark directly in the centre of his chest. Clark was sent back sliding across the ground. Before he had a chance to get up, Kaity waved her hands and a series of missiles from the surrounding jets flew at him. As they exploded on Clark, she jumped off of the Helicarrier and used her heat beams to fly through the sky.

"Kaity I can't let you go alone!" Clark shouted as he raced to her side.

"I know, and that's why I'm sorry I have to do this."

"Do what?" Clark looked at her curiously. All of a sudden he noticed that the usual roar of the Helicarrier's engines had come a stop. He spun around the see the Shield base begin to descend, rapidly picking up speed as it fell.

In an instant Superman was at the base of the Helicarrier, using all his strength to keep the base in the air. Despite his best attempts, the ship was still falling and with no body of water in sight they were desperately running out of time.

With a cry of determination Clark put all of his strength into stopping the Helicarrier. Although slowing it down immensely, it was still falling. Clark looked around desperately, wondering if this time he wouldn't be able to save them when the back two thrusters boomed to life. Superman let out a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, it was only the back two thrusters that had been turned on which meant Clark still had to carry the front half of the Helicarrier. He scanned the area and discovered they were roughly fifty-two miles from the nearest body of water large enough to hold the base. He gave one final look in the direction Kaity went before carrying the base away.

Once the Helicarrier was safely down, Clark immediately flew after Kaity. He didn't know where she was or where she was going but he wasn't going to just give up. Meanwhile, on the Helicarrier, Natasha had made an interesting discovery.

"Fury, you're going to want to have a look at this," She spoke over her com. A few minutes later Fury walked into the room Kaity was in before she escaped.

"Sir look." She nodded towards the ground where Fury discovered a series of numbers written in ketchup. Immediately realising the numbers were coordinates Fury searched their location. On the screen in front of him appeared the image of a dam in Smallville.

SMALLVILLE

Kaity walked into the warehouse where she was supposed to meet Lex.

"I'm here!" she shouted. "Where are you?"

From the shadows three figures appeared. Kaity recognised them as the team of soldiers that attacked her earlier.

"Guys, please they have my parents. You have to let me save them," she pleaded as the team wordlessly began to approach her.

"Please," she begged as tears fell down her face. Her sadness was suddenly replaced by rage and anger. Anger over everything that'd been done to her and her family. She began to fire electricity at the team. They dodged out of the way and began to attack her. They fought throughout the warehouse, using their array of powers to fight. Despite her amazing skills, Kaity was quickly overpowered by the team. She laid on the ground, her face bloody and bruised. One of the soldiers was just about to knock her out when she suddenly stopped. The team snapped to attention and took a few steps backwards. Kaity looked up to discover Lex Luthor standing over her.

"You never really had my family," Kaity realised causing Lex to laugh. The billionaire reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a phone. He showed it to Kaity and began playing a video.

The video showed Kaity's parents, trapped in a cell crying and wailing for help.

"Oh I do have them and I'll be keeping them for as long as I see fit."

"You bastard. I'm going to kill you!" Kaity tried to get up but one of the soldier slammed their foot into her, keeping her pinned to the ground.

"Now, Kaity darling there's a very easy way you can solve this," Lex teased.

"How?" she demanded.

"Come back to the lab peacefully and submit to reprograming," he revealed.

"And become one of your puppets again. No thanks," She spat.

"If you don't your family will stay trapped and I'll even send some of the soldiers to work off some stress on them." Kevin looked at the monster in horror.

"What are you?"

"I'm someone who gets what he wants. Now, what's it going to be?" Kaity took one last look at the video before making her decision.

Clark desperately searched for Kaity, he x-rayed building after building, factory after factory searching for her.

"Superman," an unexpected call came through his com.

"Kaity?" Clark queried recognising the voice. "Kaity where are you?"

"I can't tell you."

"Why not?"

"Lex has my family. If I don't surrender myself, he'll torture them."

"Kaity I can help you. The Avengers can help you. You don't have to do this."

"I'm so sorry but I have to go. I just wanted to say thank you for trying to save me. It's good knowing there's people like you to fight monsters like Lex Luthor. Goodbye."

"Kaity, Kaity, Kaity!" Clark shouted. Hanging his head in sorrow he knew today he'd lost.

LUTHOR MANSION

As the sun set Lex sat behind his desk, sipping on a glass of scotch. Despite the day's issues, everything had been taken care of. Suddenly a sonic boom smashed the window behind him and sent him crashing to the ground. He looked up to see Superman just as he flew through the window his arms crossed and his eyes glowing red with rage.

"Superman," Lex greeted him as he stood up, acting annoyingly calm. "Care for a drink."

"Save the crap!" Clark snapped.

"No, then get out."

"How could you? How can you sleep at night knowing what you've done to all those people?!"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"You're a monster. I'm going to expose you for everything you've done."

"I'm the monster. You're the super powered alien running around without control. You and all your Avenger buddies."

"Don't try and turn this on us Lex. You're the guilty one." Clark began flying back towards the window. "No more taking our time. We're coming for you."

"Is that a threat."

"A promise." With that Superman took off into the sky.

SHIELD HELICARRIER

The Avengers sat around a table explaining the day's events.

"That bastard!" Victor exclaimed, knowing firsthand what it was like to be one of Lex's test subjects.

"Clark you shouldn't have threatened Lex like that," Natasha recommended.

"I know but I just couldn't help myself. After everything that Lex's been doing, to Kaity and all the other meteor infected."

"Clark's right," Tony agreed. "No more of this slow and steady shit we hit him hard and strong."

"To bad we still don't know where his base is," Oliver reminded them. Facing defeat, the Avengers disbanded and went their separate ways, vowing to take down Lex soon.

GOTHAM CITY

Clark walked into the park, finding Barbra on a bench by the fountain.

"I am so sorry I'm late," he immediately apologised as he was late for their date.

"For a guy who's a fast as you, how is it you're so late?"

"I know, it's just, I had a really rough day."

"Then tell me about it?" Barb suggested.

"No, I don't want to bother you with it," Clark refused.

"Clark we're a couple and part of that is listening to each other's days, no matter how bad they get."

Finally, after a long, hard, devastating day, Clark could no longer keep his feelings inside. He began to cry, holding Barbra closely as he imagined all the terrible things happening to Kaity and all those other innocent people Lex was torturing.

REEVES DAM

Hawkeye jumped out of a vent, landing gently on the floor. He began running through the compound, quietly and stealthily. He found an empty room with a computer to the side. He raced over to it and began searching through the computers files. His eyes widened in shock as he came across something noticeably important. Downloading the files, he began to make his way through the base. Finding the room he was looking for, Hawkeye carefully walked in. He looked around in shock. Surrounding him were all the missing alien weapons from the invasion. They were strapped into varying machines and scientific equipment.

"Well, I just hit the jackpot," Clint mumbled to himself. He turned to escape but was met by two super soldiers standing over him.

"Boy, you guys are quiet." The two soldiers began to approach menacingly towards him. "Well shit."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

And with that is the beginning of the end for this story. Probably one more chapter maybe two.

Also I'm not sure if Clark can lift Thor's hammer in this story. I've thought about it and maybe he could move it a little like Captain America but I'm not entirely sure yet.