This is a Smallville Fanfiction Only.
Other Franchises will be included.
Well, today Clark had to continue with his life, after that Burrito it was kind of hard to do, who knew they could stuff so much food in one thing, but besides that, it was actually delicious, even if the people around him were shocked by how many of them he ate.
An old American couple asked him how could he eat so much? He simply laughed and told him the flight made him quite a bit hungry, they simply said that it may be because he hated understandable airplane food.
The truth is that he used this trip to get that burrito to push his flight to the limits, and to test them out, the fact that he flew across the border of two countries and nobody even noticed was not something that he was expecting, he was actually worried about going through the airspace of a foreign country and that this would cause a major incident, even a war.
This turned out to be nothing to worry about, in the end, Clark began to think that either his reading on the radar screen was so unbelievable that the people looking at it thought it was a glitch or maybe Clark thought that he went so fast no one would even be fast enough to notice it. He flew away from major cities, and he had correct money for any of his purchases, the fact that he used his gamer powers to pretty much act as a universal translator was something he didn't think would be this handy.
The real problem was that he had a bean, broccoli, cauliflower, pepperoni, bacon, and cheese burrito, which made him worried about the fact that all of these things cause gas. To say that he really let it rip once he was back home was both disgusting and funny as all hell.
The only way this could happen is that his body had somehow changed and checked his status, he found out the horrible truth, he was human for the next ten hours, it seems the burritos that he ate had traces of blue kryptonite on the ingredients, why is this horrible? Because it means the kryptonite meteors that stuck around their town hit a much wider range than they first realized, it was spread all over the planet, and there was no telling which types of kryptonite landed and where.
Now if his friend had complete control of his father's company then finding what type of Kryptonite, where it was, and how much of it was simple, they simply had to use four of the orbiting satellites that Lionel's company owns, and with a wide range reading they could do that, there were however two main problems with that.
The first is they would pretty much give Lionel notices that a strange radioactive meteor had spread throughout the earth, and he would jump at the chance to experiment with it, creating untold horrors and killing countless innocent people, and the second problem is that Lex had no such control and he is very likely not to have it for a few decades because Lionel pretty much got rid of him by making him take care of a shit processing, I mean fertilizer packaging and distribution company.
So Lex would literally have to bend over, throw away any ethics or free thought down the toilet, and then finish off by condemning himself to be Lionel's obedient puppet who is forced to kiss his ass on the regular basis. Clark knew Lex quite well, and from what he knew he was certain of one thing, he would rather die than agree to that, hence why he was ostracized by his father. He didn't want to get rid of him outright, he called it that his brat needed some time to rethink his priorities.
Lionel knew that Lex would not have either a pleasant time or be welcomed by the people of Smallville considering how much he had done to increase his own profits by basically scamming and ruining the lives of many people in the town and doing in a legal manner using the law to rip farmer and other people off. The fertilizer plant was mainly placed near that town to basically tell them what Lionel thought of them, that he thought that they were no better than shit.
To Lex, however, this was not an insult at all, to him and the way he thought of it, and thanks to his knowledge of Kryptonian science he knew that shit was not something that is useless, in fact, it was very much useful, which lead to the initial argument that his father was stuck in how he thinks things, stuck doing things the way they had been done for generations.
Lex was not just smart he was considered one of the smartest people on the planet for a reason, Lionel saw it as stuff to throw away or use to grow crops, and Lex saw the potential for a renewable energy source that could lead to vast improvements in both health and sanitation. He told his father this very idea, and so he told him as an insult if he wanted to play around with shit, he can take over the least productive aspect of his company and take over the management of a fertilizer plant.
Lex didn't waste a second with his father, he simply said that he would as soon as he transferred ownership of that fertilizer plant to him, Lionel told him it was already done, but as Lex was ready to leave his father's office as he held the door he looked at him, "You think my idea is crap, in five years we shall see what I can do with it, and mark my words I will one day make you take back your insult and eat it."
Lionel mocked him about this every single chance he got, but what he didn't realize was that Lex was no mere genius, he had a level 12th intellect and was equally wise, so he could use his intelligence in ways that could literally dance around Lionel and make him dizzy trying to understand the briefest of explanations, or so he regarded his father.
So that is what Lex was doing in Smallville, taking a failing almost bankrupt fertilizer company and making it into something that was so beyond everyone's imagination that nobody in Smallville except for those that were either aliens or Clark could even understand it. He managed to get the initial product made and it made him millions, it was actually environmentally friendly rocket fuel, and Lex sold it to NASA by the truckload, and it was cheaper and safer to use than what they used before.
The thing Lex asked them was to launch some of his satellites into orbit, and he would give them the weight of those satellites in fuel, now most people would think these satellites mean even more junk floating in space that will someday come crashing down and destroy a city, but no these were very special satellites, they were designed to capture and reuse any abandoned satellites that floated around earth's orbit.
Clark joked when he first heard of them and called them the vacuum cleaners of space, Lex simply told him if would he rather be given a bag and be told to pick up all of that garbage by hand?
Well while this was true Clark actually had to ask him if his new satellites could detect Kryptonite and how much of it had actually landed on the planet, to much to his shock Lex told him that was one of the purposes of creating the satellites in the first place if green kryptonite landed around and near Smallville, there is no doubt that other types would have landed as well.
This made Clark worry and asked Lex why would he want to locate that kryptonite to which he simply answered with one word, research. Clark was almost afraid of what Lex would use that kryptonite for and what research he was planning on doing either with it or on it. "I wouldn't worry too much about it Clark, it's not like I am building a kryptonite-powered android to say kill my father or anything, it is all research that will help my company and the innocent people of this world to prosper to new technological and scientific heights."
Clark asked him if he had any projects with blue kryptonite since apparently he went to the border and had a meal at a Mexican restaurant and he discovered that after his meal he was feeling weaker, so he checked his own status and found that he was under the effects of blue kryptonite radiation for ten hours. "I didn't know that a Mexican Bordertown restaurant had food with blue kryptonite dust, but this gave me an idea how about we use the blue kryptonite to hide the fact that we are Kryptonians, it could even help us train and get stronger."
Lex took out a small box from his desk and tossed it at Clark who caught it but was shocked to see it was made out of lead, "Way ahead of you, already had to find a way to hide that to keep hidden the fact that I got my powers restored, the last thing I need is for Lionel to find out and he will stop at nothing till I tell him how I got my powers restored, I made this nice little ring for me, and you have another one like it, they sort of look like class rings don't they?"
"As to what I am currently researching how to treat spinal cord injuries, and restore the spinal nerve tissue, it could be the sort of breakthrough we need to finally have a cure for Parkinson's patients, and wouldn't it be nice if this helps that scientists you told me about, to be able to walk and live like a nothing ever happened to him? Wouldn't that be nice?"
Lex told him right now the lack of good lab equipment was holding him back, and thus the research, if he could build some of the lab equipment from even the lowest labs on Krypton, then treating these conditions would only be a matter of a month or two, but currently, the lab equipment of Earth simply didn't meet his requirements.
If there was something that people in places like Smallville did and did often that would be gossip, and not only done by women, one was about a boy who was known to be a problem child and was causing his mother some severe stress that some men actually were amazed that she hadn't started hitting the bottle.
Clark was a good friend of the guy as they were in the same classroom since elementary school, so he knew him quite well, skinny, weak, and often the target of the local bully or jock, but he was however very interesting person to talk with, especially considering the guy was a walking encyclopedia on bug trivia and knowledge.
The boy much like many of the guys in the school was known to try and talk with Lana quite often, after all, Lana had been declared prom queen a few times and Clark knew this was true since she actually showed him the many tiaras that she had collected. The second thing people most didn't know about Lana was that she was an actually accomplished equestrian rider, and had won quite a few competitions.
She had been the steady girlfriend of the captain of their high school football team, and Clark and some others knew them as the ones that took delight in picking freshmen to use as the scarecrow. Clark was helping his folks with setting up a stall at the local fair, and he saw Greg trying very hard to talk with Lana, Greg mentioned that butterflies don't live very long and Lana trying to be funny said that they were the rockstars of the insect world which even Clark had to admit was funny.
Lex was at the local fair and saw Clark putting up the tables and even tried to help him, but he would never get used to the dirty and ugly glares he got from some of the farmers, the fact is Lex always knew that this was caused by the actions of his father, but he would catch most of it simply by being his son, which he suspects is a reason why he sent him to this particular town, to begin with.
"Hey Clark your family really hates me, say, I help you with these crates and you give me a few of these apples? Sound fair don't it?" Clark laughed and said that if Lex helped him carry half of them, he could have half of one of the ones that don't sell. As Lex began to carry the crates and placed them near the display counter that Clark finished building, he heard a person walk up to them, "Good you didn't forget your chores, nice going son." Lex stood up and looked at Johnatan and simply did as he thought was correct he greeted the man with a friendly good morning to which Johnathan returned as they with a handshake.
"Well it must be my lucky day today Clark, he even shook my hand. I honestly don't know how I am going to get your family to stop hating my guts, it's not like I am a monster here to destroy everything in sight, Lionel might if he thought there was a profit to be had but you know I am not as evil as him."
Clark asked him why he come to the market fair it was not like he couldn't buy some apples from the local grocer, Lex told him that he wanted to help his friend and give him a little something to ponder on, he gave him a folder and in it were dozens of maps and pictures, "That there Clark is a map and scans from one of the satellites I had NASA launch, this is a pretty decent map of the location of every single deposit of Kryptonite in the state of Kansas, I had the color-coded to show which type of Kryptonite was just in case you wanted to go and see it, I would suggest a lead suit for safety but much like your dad, you will not accept one if I gave it to you."
Clark told him a thank you for the map and scans, but asked him to please stop mentioning the thing with the truck, Clark told him that his father did accept the gift, it was only that the new truck would be better used in the farm, and thus Clark got to drive their old pickup truck. "Lex you do know that I am your friend, right? Well, that is good enough for me, it's not like Lionel Luthor likes my family that much either."
Jonathan simply looked at Lex and Clark and he mentioned that if they were going to talk behind someone's back at least make sure they can't hear them, as he then asked Clark to help his sisters with the vegetable crates, placing them for people to buy them.
As Lex saw his friend leave to help his sisters, Jonathan looked at Lex and told him that while yes, Lionel has done many things to harm the farmers of Smallville, Jonathan told him that he knows that he is trying to make himself more trusted by the people, and it will take some time to get people to see that he is not as rotten as his father.
As far as they know it was they needed to see if he was actually good, "Lex if that information is correct, I will accept those lead suits you offered my son, in fact, could you give us six of them, I am not dumb enough to refuse these gifts if it means keeping my family safe."
Lex told him he was happy to help, and he could pick up the suits anytime he wants he just needed the correct sizes and once he told the lady who essentially is his secretary at the old fertilizer plant, he could have all six suits. Jonathan did have to ask why was he willing to do so much for his family, to which he simply said Kryptonians helping each other was the right thing to do.
As the fair was done and Lex was seen eating one of his six apples, he had to admit, these were particularly nice tasting apples, too bad the other idiots didn't realize it because, unlike other people, they didn't fake them out by washing the apples to make them look glossy. It was sweet, juicy, and an absolute delight to the taste buds, even if they looked like they were picked off the ground. Knowing Clark they probably were, that however didn't make them one bit less tasty.
As the Kent family was driving down the road they saw a vehicle that apparently had a major accident since it had rolled and was on one side, Clark and Jonathan immediately stopped the truck and went over to the truck both smelling gas fumes coming from it, "Ok Clark let's take the guy outside and do it quickly, this truck is not going to last long if any sparks happen this whole thing could end up blowing up."
As Clark ripped away the windshield off the truck he saw that it was Whitney and quickly took him out of the truck, and knowing how fragile human bodies are taking him away from the truck as fast as he could but sadly it was not fast enough as he heard the spark, Clark using his own body as a shield, protecting the unconscious Whitney, Jonathan knew that it would take more than that to actually harm Clark so he calmed his wife who wanted to run over to him and check on how he and the person her son had helped were doing.
It was not long before Jonathan had already called for an ambulance and for the police to come over so he could report the accident they just found, not that he thought that the police would have any luck finding how the hell the accident happened, after all, there was not much of the truck left after the explosion. He was happy to see the ambulance didn't take that long, and the police were going to report the accident and maybe be able to make the road a little safer.
The fact is that Clark Kent basically saved the life of Whitney, and thanks to his quick thinking and actions the quarterback of his high school football team the Smallville Crows, was not that badly injured, the one thing however that made the Kents amazed is that some of the profits of the now Waste Recycling Plant, that had been a Fertilizer company before were actually used by the clinic.
Lex donated heavily to the clinic in ways of medical and diagnostic equipment, he renovated the clinic from what once could be considered a clinic only fit for a veterinarian, into a very efficient and self-sustaining hospital, much of the waste recycling technology was used, meaning, that they could, in fact, recycle their water and other waste into both good enough to drink, and thanks to the money that came from having the company collect solid waste, the hospital was able to install highly efficient solar panels and had enough power to last them for months if there was a major power outage.
The fact that Clark heard one of the nurses talk about how a young man by the name of Alexander Luthor was offered to have an entire wing of the hospital named after him, and he declined it saying that knowing he can help improve the health of his neighbors was more than enough reward for him. Lex did of course note this as a donation for tax purposes. However Clark knew that deep down Lex was a businessman, and this was all just good business.
As this was happening Lex just saw some rather impressive riding from Lana, as he walked up to check on her knowing that she was having some trouble because Clark told him he and his sister had to actively avoid coming near her. After all, the stone on her favorite necklace was actually dangerous for them to be near, green kryptonite was potentially poisonous and in long exposure lethal to pure-blooded Kryptonians. Lex didn't have that problem since he and many others were half-Kryptonian.
"You really got a talent for riding, I got to say you have amazing form, it is clear to see why you won so many Equestrian Competitions, the name is Luthor, Lex Luthor, I came to see you first and foremost because I heard that you are troubled by something, I wanted to see if there was something that I could do to help."
Lana looked at him as she placed her saddle back on the rack and couldn't help but smile, "It is nice to hear that especially from a Luthor of all people, you might not remember me, when I was a little girl I won a competition and your father invited me and my family to have dinner with you and your family at one of your family's rich hotels, I am not surprised that you don't remember, I believe that at the time you were helping a girl in a bikini in the hotel pool learn I believe it was the breaststroke."
Lex couldn't help but laugh, "Not a very good impression I gather like I said I came here to offer an olive branch as it were by offering to help, so Ms. Lang what seems to be causing your so much trouble?" She at first didn't want to believe him but in the end, she felt why the hell not, might as well tell him what is bothering her if only to get it off her chest.
"Alright, first and foremost my friend Clark and his sister have been avoiding me like I am a leper, and then there is the fact that I lent my boyfriend my favorite necklace and he just told me he lost it and had no clue where he lost it, and finally, Greg has been coming at me trying very hard to flirt with me, when I clearly have no interests in being with him at all. I do have a steady boyfriend after all."
Lex told her that she should ask Clark why he is avoiding her, but knowing his friend there was a very good reason why so it wasn't anything meant to hurt her feelings, as for the necklace he was sure that she would recover it soon so there is nothing to worry about, and as for someone hitting on her, the real question is why isn't half of the school doing that, she is the prettiest and most accomplished girl in her year if not the school, he knows that she has been declared prom queen quite a few times.
She laughed as she heard him say that, and she simply said just because she has been a prom queen people do not automatically want to ask her out, to which Lex mentioned that these very same people voted for her to be chosen as the Prom Queen, so that is a little strange, as for her boyfriend be sure to ask him what he was doing the night before that big game that usually happens the day before the prom, he might have dropped her necklace while he was doing something, could help her thinks of places where to look for it.
In reality, Lex already had her necklace in a small lead coffin that his mother got as a souvenir when she went on a European vacation, but if he could help Clark by giving a few hints to Lana about what horrible thing her boyfriend did, this could help Clark. She was smiling as he left the place and knew that Whitney was going to be asked a question that he seriously didn't want to answer.
As he was placing his newest soldier model on the display on the table in his office he heard a person walk in he appeared to be running at high speed, which caused two of the models on the display to fall so Lex had to straighten them. "You know Clark you should be happy that no cop is fast enough to measure your speed cause if he could you would be getting a ticket for speeding, and no it does cover something besides driving."
Clark looked at him and said, "What is this diorama about Lex? First time I ever saw it." Lex told him this was a gift from his father, he often considers the business to be the same thing as war, so this was supposed to help him think outside the box, this was a recreation of the battle of Troy, and yes, this is something that did help to make him understand there are many ways to deal with a certain problem.
"Speaking of problems, you know a large one of yours would be gone now if you only did nothing and let the car accident take care of it, and yes I am kidding. Come here I got a nice gift for you, your own trojan horse if you will. Inside, this box is a key that will help you get what you always wanted with Lana Lang."
Clark asked him what he means by that and Lex told him inside the small box was the necklace that Whitney tied to him when they tied him up to be the scarecrow before that big game, the box is made of lead, his mother told him the person that sold it to him said that the box was made from the metal of the armor of Saint George.
"But honestly Clark I still don't understand why you didn't report him to the police, that is at least assault, at worst attempted manslaughter, you know tying you up like that, no even the Romans did that on the yearly basis, they saved that sort of punishment for special cases. Now think about it, that football team does something like that every year and it is something not even Caligula would approve of."
"As for this small lead coffin, this is your trojan horse, this is your way in, the only thing you need to do is tell her the truth about that necklace and use this box, no seriously Clark that thing is radioactive, any human that is exposed to that thing is going to develop some or several forms of cancer. Even if you are shy you should at least tell her that wearing this necklace while pretty is like she is constantly playing Russian roulette."
Clark had to admit that he did need to tell her about that at the very least and thanked Lex as he left not before telling him he left a crate full of veggies and fruits in his walk-in freezer, to which Lex told him that he was planning to enjoy this gift and thanked him as Clark left the house, it always amazed him that Lionel had this entire castle transported from their ancestral family lands and no one until Lex moved to Smallville that one of his family ever lived in the supposed ancestral home of the Luthor family.
Clark finally made to his home to find that someone was doing something in his private loft that his father built in the family barn, as he walked up he saw Lana was actually looking at his telescope, "Funny I never pictured you to be into astrology, you didn't use this thing to peek at women changing their clothes did you, Clark?" Clark almost by sheer instinct moved the telescope so that it couldn't point toward Lana's bedroom.
"You know Lana this is the first time ever since you came up here, my dad built this place so I could relax and deal with my daily stress, he jokes and calls it my fortress of solitude. You can find amazing things out here if you know where to look, just like you can find amazing things on Earth, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit?"
Lana laughed and she told him that after Lex got done talking with her, she decided to ask Whitney about the whole scarecrow thing, and he sort of confessed that you were chosen to be the latest scarecrow, so Lana decided to come and ask him if he still had that necklace her aunt made for her?
Clark walked over to her, "I do, but first there is something you need to know, the rock on this necklace is pure green Kryptonite, and the reason me and my sister have avoided being near you is that this thing is toxic if not poison to me and my sister, to make matters worse this thing is radioactive, so the longer you wear it, the more likely you and those near you could end up with a fatal case of radiation poisoning and cancer."
She then realized what Clark told her and this totally made sense to her, she understood why he was always keeping his distance from her, and why his sister would avoid being near her, it wasn't because they didn't like her, it was that the stone in her necklace made them sick or could potentially kill her. Clark took out a small box from his pocket and put on a ring with a blue stone on it, he took a deep breath and gave her the box that had her necklace.
"The only reason I can be near you while you wear that necklace is that Lex found out that this stone helps stop making me as bad as I felt when you wear that necklace without this ring, he found out there are many types of Kryptonite, and you know how he is when he finds something new, so it didn't take him long to figure out that this blue Kryptonite ring would help me be more human thus the green Kryptonite will not affect me as badly, but if I was to wear that necklace for long, not even this ring will save me, cancer is not a matter of if but rather of when."
He looked at the rafters in his little loft and looked at one place, as Lana understood and returned the necklace inside the small lead coffin and closed the lid, he took off his ring and Lana asked him what was the matter? Clark told him nothing much just that she really needs to tell her aunt about the dangers of that necklace in case she too had a piece of jewelry with the same sort of stone, to which Lana thanked him with a kiss as she left the loft as Clark was staring at the same spot in the rafters near the roof.
"She already left Greg, I know you are there, I can see you, so come on down, we need to talk." That is when he heard the buzzing of insects and that is when he heard Greg growl, "Why would I want to talk with you Kent you are trying to steal my mate, Lana is mine, she will be the mother of my children, but you are trying to steal her from me!" As he said this he jumped at him and almost like he was an insect he jumped from the ceiling towards him punching him so hard that he was sent to fall down where Jonathan was currently working on the blades of a wheat thresher.
He fell down on the blades and had he been wearing his ring he would most certainly be either dead or heavily injured, Jonathan helped his son up and asked him what is wrong, "Greg was bitten by insects contaminated by green Kryptonite, I need to go and stop him before he does something he will regret for the rest of his life."
Jonathan understood how serious this was and he immediately thought of calling someone to come and help Clark, and as he left to make the call he told Clark to take one of the suits that his friend Luthor gave to them, if Greg was emitting green kryptonite radiation like the bugs, he will be weak to fight him if he is exposed to him. Clark took the suit and as he walked outside he saw that Whitney was there to ask him if he saw Lana, she said she was coming over to talk with him, and he needed to apologize for losing her necklace.
"Look Whitney that is nice and all, but right now we need to get to where Greg is and stop him from doing something horrible to Lana, he needs help, now I am going over to that treehouse his father built for him, you know the place where he goes to collect bugs, you better get an ambulance he will need it."
Whitney told him he could do that, but he first had to apologize to Clark about the whole scarecrow thing, to which Clark told him they didn't have time for that saving Lana was more important, he can talk about the prank that he and his team did later.
That is when he realized that Gregg if he was an insect he is in his feeding stage not his mating stage, so he decides to run as fast as possible towards Gregg's home, as soon as he got there he quickly got into the lead suit and jumped through a window to slam Gregg into a wall as he was about to murder his mother.
The woman of course had the much-expected reaction of asking what the hell is going on, so Clark did the only thing he could just tell her the truth as he was doing his best to hold a snarling and kicking Gregg who was absolutely pissed that someone was keeping him from getting a meal, not realizing that this is his mother he is planning to devour.
"Ma'am, your son got bitten by bugs that were contaminated, he had undergone some mutation and is currently insane, please get as far away from here as possible, my father is probably waiting to take you to a safe place by that dinner two blocks from here." She didn't want to believe him but the minute that she saw her own son spit out a wad of what looked to be spider silk from his mouth she did as she was told and ran towards the dinner that she thinks she will find Jonathan Kent.
Just as she did Gregg seeing his meal runaway punches Clark so hard that they both fall through a wall and as he is about to run away he sees a person running at him at high speed that made sparks appear as he rushed towards Gregg. As soon as he caught up to him his hands lit up in light and Gregg began to shout like he had been hit by a taser.
That is when Lex finally came towards them able to catch up to Jeremy, and as Gregg fell down on the ground Jeremy held him down, as Luthor forced him to drink some water infused with another form of Kryptonite called Aqua Kryptonite, that is capable of treating the insanity caused by the green kryptonite, as he finally finished drinking the water, he soon realized what he nearly did, and so did his mother, who promised that they would take him to Central City to get him help at Star Labs.