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Hey it's Raymoney back with another addition of Georgios' life as the son of superheroes.
Chapter 5
We waited in the reception area of the Daily Planet for a good ten minutes until the receptionist called my name.
"Georgios Kent-Prince."
"Yes."
"Miss Lane will see you now."
"OK."
My dad placed one hand on my shoulder.
"Go get 'em tiger."
"Sure thing, dad."
I entered the room, what caught my eye were the various editorial awards this woman had received and framed articles she had on her wall kind of neat that most of her articles were about Superman, it was almost like I was born for this job.
Miss Lane walks to me and extended her hand to me.
"It's a pleasure to meet you Georgios."
"You too, Miss Lane."
We both sat at her desk.
"Now, there's no need to be nervous by common belief you already have the job, this interview is more like a background check and kind of like a get to you session, so why don't you tell me a little about yourself."
"Well, my parents traveled around to dangerous places a lot so I was raised in Metropolis my whole life with my cousin in an apartment complex, I started writing articles for my elementary school newspaper as a hobby which over time progressed to my articles in my middle school newspaper."
"And you're on your way to entering high school is that correct?"
"Yeah, just a couple weeks of the eighth grade left."
"And do you wish to continue on your journey into journalism, while attending high school?"
"Yeah, I want to follow in my father's footsteps."
"Oh, you want to be the next Clark Kent?"
"How did you know he was my-"
"Come on young Georgios, I'm a journalist it's my job to know what I need to. Besides you resemble him a lot."
Twenty minutes later we were finished, Miss Lane extended her hand to me again.
"Welcome to the Daily Planet, we'll call you next week."
"Thank you, Miss Lane!"
"Oh, you can call me Lois."
Before I left Lois stopped me one last time.
"One last thing, give Clark my regards.'
"Will do, thanks again."
"No problem."
As I walked out, into the reception area both my parents were looking at me anxiously waiting to hear the news, mom then spoke.
"Well?"
"I got the job!"
Both mom and dad were excited to hear the news, dad then spoke.
"Well, I think a celebration is in order, let's go out to eat this evening."
"That works for me, what about you Georgios?"
"I like the the sound of that."
Dad then told us his suggestion for tonight. "
"Perfect,I know a great Italian restaurant around here."
Mom then spoke.
"Then it's a plan! Now Georgios your father and I have to do a couple of things for the Justice League before tonight, will you be OK by yourself for a few hours?"
"Well, Doomsday isn't gonna bother me anytime soon, so yeah I'll be fine."
Mom then inquired.
"That reminds me, what did you do to Doomsday while you were in space?"
"I chucked him, into a wormhole."
That caused dad to chuckle a little.
Back at the hotel room, things were pretty dull, i was just watching ESPN and preparing my clothes for later tonight, and then I noticed my former roommate Kara came flying by, she looked a little flustered.
"Hey, Kara."
"Hey Georgios, can I come in?"
"Sure thing is everything OK?"
"Ugh,I can't find an apartment for the life of me!"
"You'll find a place,I mean how did you find our old apartment?"
"I found that place two months before you were born, and my old place wasn't turned into a pancake by some ancient kryptonian villain."
"I know that shouldn't sound surprising, but it does."
"Well, I hope you have good news for your cousin Kara."
"Well I do have something."
"Come on, spit it out."
"You remember that article I wrote for my middle school paper?"
"Yeah, what about it?"
"Well, Lois Lane of the Daily Planet has read it and she had given me a job there."
"Oh wow, what did she hire you for?"
"Well right now I'm a paid intern."
"Nice! And this is Lois Lane right?"
"Does she know about you being Kal-El's kid?"
"Yeah, she knows who my father is."
"Well, congratulations you've earned it!"
"Thanks, we're actually going out to dinner to celebrate, you flew in on me getting my clothes ready for tonight."
"That's great, hey where are your parents?"
"They are at the Justice League base, that's in space right?"
"Yep, you didn't see it up there when you sent Doomsday into that wormhole?"
"No, I wasn't looking for it I was looking for some place to hurl his ugly ass so he didn't bother us anymore."
"Oh well that was nice. I also forgot to mention, you know Lois Lane knows of your parents secret."
"You mean she knows that they're Wonder Woman and Superman?"
"Exactly! So I guess she knows you're their spawn."
"She did tell me to send dad her regards."
After looking at the clock Kara, decided to leave the hotel.
"Well, I gotta go, it was nice talking to you Georgios."
"You too, and Kara don't worry about the house hunt, you're the one who taught me that if a door if slammed shut them we have to force a window open."
"Did I really sound that corny, when you were younger?"
I nodded my head and said.
"Yeah you did, oh and I would to patrol with you sometime, you've hogged the adventure for fourteen years it's now my turn."
"I think I'll take you up on that offer Georgios, see you around."
"See ya."
And in a huff, she flew out ready to continue her day.
Later that evening we were at the restaurant looking over our menus our waitress gave us.
I was a little curious about my parents lifestyle as superheros.
"So do you guys eat like this a lot?"
Mom answered my question.
"Well occasionally, when we're out of our respective homes, you know all of the world needs superheros, not just Metropolis."
After the waitress came back and took our orders, we were still talking, trying to catch up on the lost fourteen years when suddenly a man caught sight of the three of us, wait a minute that's billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne of Wayne industries, I've read about him before, he's listed as one of top ten fortune 500 CEO's at least that's how I remember it, the interesting thing was he started coming towards us I then asked my parents.
"Hey do you guys know Bruce Wayne?"
Dad answered.
"In a way yes, why?"
"Because he's coming over here."
He then started talking to mom and dad.
"Clark, Diana how were things at the tower?"
Dad answered.
"Things went well, no problems."
Mom then spoke up.
"Bruce, I'd like to meet our, Georgios."
Mr. Wayne then extended his hand to me.
"Please to meet you I'm-"
"Bruce Wayne, I've read about you before."
"Well yes,I am known as Bruce Wayne but I am known as someone else and since you know who your parents are you should know someone else's identity."
"Who is that Mr. Wayne?"
"Well I'm Batman."
"Really, you?"
"Yeah, and I would like to welcome you to the Justice League."
"Uh, thank you Mr. Wayne."
Dad then turned his head around.
"Hey Bruce, is that your swimsuit model?"
"Oh right, don't want to keep her waiting."
As he left I couldn't help but think, while my mother got back my attention.
"Something on your mind, honey?"
"It's kinda hard to believe, Bruce Wayne is Batman, he's so sociable while Batman is dark and brooding."
Dad them spoke up
"Secret identities are a thing of wonders, Georgios, you'll find that out when you start fighting crime."
I guess that was his way of saying he wants me to be like him not that I mind, I think it would be nice to be like the one and only superman. Just then the waitress came out with our orders.
"Alright, I've got the Fettuccini Alfredo for the woman, the lasagna for the gentleman and the chicken parmesan for the boy, is that correct?"
We all confirmed our orders to her.
"Perfect! If you need anything else let me know."
End of chapter 5
Chapter 6
Well, here I am on a new day, fighting some cheetah lady alongside my mother, and here's the thing every since I started being Superlad (Superboy was taken, don't hate the name) the villains all have one favorite target on my person: my neck. No matter how useless it is due to my strength but there is something about my that make these baddies want to unsuccessfully choke the living daylights out of me.
"Um, mom do you want to tie this cat lady up now?"
And on cue that lovely golden rope was wrung around this woman.
"Hey thanks mom."
"No problem sweetie, you alright?"
"Yeah I'm just confused, why do they always want to choke me? I mean I've got other things."
"No idea but, you have to admit it's funny that they think you're so vulnerable they can take you down with their bare hands."
"Well you do have a point,I mean I'm fighting crime with Superman's logo on my chest, you would think they would take a hint."
"Well, let's get back, that apartment isn't going to get those boxes into itself."
My curiosity got the better off me.
"Hey, by the way what was that woman's name."
"Cheetah."
"Yeah of course it was, villains really suck at making up names for themselves."
It's been a month since the Doomsday incident and since I discovered my parents identities, we've moved into an apartment close to the Daily Planet for my work, Kara even found a place in Metropolis which is good she's better happy than when she's moody and depressed. My job at the Daily Planet is going great, I'm learning so much from Lois Lane and I'm even on my way to having my first article published, I mean it's not a front page story but hey it's in the paper, life was pretty for me.
Unfortunately one villain would expose my weaknesses to me, it was a quiet Saturday when suddenly Kara came swooping by.
"Georgios I need your help."
"What do you need Kara?"
"Lex Luthor is coming after the Justice League, we need to stop him!"
"Alright!"
I changed into my Superlad clothes and followed her to the Luthor corporation where we were ambushed by a bunch of robots, we took care of them easily but we were surprised by a fluorescent green light, it was weird I suddenly felt weakened, and so did Kara.
"Kara, is this?"
"Kryptonite, yes."
I started to lose consciousness but before I did I sent out a distress call to my father for help and like that I blacked out.
To be continued...
Well that's it for this installment, like always faithful readers if you have any suggestions, I'm all ears, nothing inflammatory.
-Raymoney out