The group appeared in the Kent barn and were halfway to the house when Diana joined them in civilian clothes.
"I thought you had a date with Batman tonight?" Lois asked as she joined them.
" I did but he won't let it go that he was called out on being the cause of the high number of villains in Gotham, I found him writing up a threat profile on these three while they were being scanned by Kara," Diana said while pointing to Alex, Sam and Karen.
Clark shook his head, "He may be a friend but his paranoia is getting out of hand."
"It's Gotham, a native tribe cursed the land when the government took it from them a hundred or so years ago, and his cave is right in the center of the focal point of the curse," Alex said as the door opened to reveal Martha Kent.
"Welcome, so where's the birthday girl? " Martha asked even though she was looking at Karen with a big smile.
"Ah we need to add a birthday boy to that as today is Conners birthday well," Clark said.
"Huh?" Conner asked.
"Conner? " Martha asked.
"Happy birfday Conna" Karen squealed happily.
The others were stunned as they hadn't even thought about Conner being technically born that day.
Lois hugged Conner briefly, "Happy Birthday son."
"Thanks," he mumbled.
"Son?" Martha asked even more confused now.
"Ahh that will take some explaining, let me go get more cake and ice cream," Clark said while looking through the wall and saw that there was not enough cake for the large group.
"It's..." Martha started but Clark had already taken off in a blur.
"Well come on in he'll be back soon, " Jonathan Kent said from behind Martha.
Everyone entered the house the larger country kitchen table held a cake and several other foods, everyone found a seat in less than a minute Clark was back with a large cake and tub of Neapolitan ice cream.
"So son?" Martha asked again.
Clark and Lois looked at each other, "Lex had him cloned using my DNA but he was unstable and would have died in a few years, Alex here can adjust the powers of people and even give them to people, he gave Lois a copy of my powers in doing so he copied Lois' DNA, to help Conner live longer he gave him an upgrade to his powers and altered his DNA and fixed him and now he is our son," Clark said with pride in his voice.
Martha and Jonathan shared a look before turning to look at Conner, "Welcome to the family, and happy birthday to you and Karen," they said in unison.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!" "HAPPY BIRFDAY!!" the group said with cheer.
The meal was filled with fun and laughter, Conner was at a loss at first until Kara and Karen helped him ease into it.
When the time for the cake came Sam had to talk Karen into going to human levels which was a hard sale but in the end, it was one simple thing that got through to her.
"If you use super breath to blow out the candles you could blow the cake away then nobody will get any."
"Okay Mommy, everyone needs cake."
After the birthday song, Karen blew out one of the cakes while Conner got the other cake, and the feeling of family grew in Conner's heart.
The adults were talking over a few things, especially Conner's future.
"I think he should go to school it'll give him time to grow accustomed to the world and make friends," Clark said while watching Conner tossing an unpowered Karen up and catching her, much to her delight.
"Yeah that's not a bad idea and I think Kara should as well to gain some stability as well if she goes to school as well, we will have to see if they want to go," Lois said leaning against Clark.
Alex was watching Conner and Karen as well, "Yeah that's not a bad plan, it will also help them learn the teen culture, Gotham isn't far from here see if the bat can send Barbra and whoever is Robin here to Smallville High, it'll give Kara and Conner friends in the know and if they patrol it'll give them a group to join,"
Martha was smiling she finally had a grandchild albeit he was already a teenager he was still family, "Ask them first don't just tell them they are going to do it I remember Clark's teen years and sometimes it was a chore especially when you included the powers."
Clark blushed at his mother's statement, while the rest laughed at him, " That reminds me can you give me some names from your school years other than, Lana Lang, she is a fairly common childhood friend of yours over the multiverse," Alex said while reaching for a glass of tea.
"Give me a minute I'll get a yearbook," Clark said disappearing for a minute before returning with a school yearbook.
Opening the book he started pointing to people and giving names until he said two names that Alex recognized, "And these are my oldest friends, Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan, Pete moved to a small town in Utah with his mother who became a priest, and Chloe works for Oliver Queen in tech support but I don't see her often, we had a few troubles through the years with me keeping my secret identity and her being a reporter and a darn good one she came close to finding out about me several times until college when she got possessed by an alien computer program for a few months, it left her with knowledge of my powers, she's kept my secret but the past stuff pushed her away when she realized I didn't want her to find out."
"Okay so is she your cousin?" Alex asked Lois.
"Uhh yes," she answered
"Okay I have a clue as to what neighborhood of the multiverse we are in," Alex said while taking a large drink from his tea.
"Multiverse?" Martha and Jonathan asked.
"Oh yeah we forgot to tell y'all that part," Alex said drinking some more tea.
"Sam and I are traveling the Multiverse this is our first stop after a ten-year isolation time in an empty world to keep me from accidentally hurting someone," he told them while looking at his now empty glass.
Sam sighed and reached for the pitcher to refill his glass and took up the story, "I'm a clone of a woman from a world that he is aware of, I was created to help him stay sane."
"Ohh." was the response from Jonathan.
"And Karen?" Martha asked.
"While Clark and J'onn were escorting us to the medbay Kara ran into me and activated one of my final changes which copied her powers which I must admit were overwhelming and I instinctively created Karen to bleed off the excess, she is our daughter no matter how unusual her birth," Alex said while indicating himself and Sam.
"Ahh Well I hope you enjoy your visit," Martha said while watching Conner tossing Karen.
Kara joined them and spoke to the two for a moment, Karen squealed for a second before hopping from Conners arms and flying to Sam, "Mommy can I play ball?"
Sam smiled, "Sure sweetie have fun."
Squealing again Karen curled into a ball and flew back to the teens who looked confused and a bit at a loss.
" I meant we toss a baseball back and forth not a toddler," Kara said getting chuckles from the adults and a pout from Karen.
"Keep it between the fences and powers on and she'll be safe," Alex said receiving exasperated looks from the women.
"We have three powered people here to catch her if they miss a catch plus she can fly and keep herself from going too far beyond the farm lines," Clark added.
Karen gave another happy squeal balling up again and bouncing around Conner and Kara in the air.
"Fine but you get to give her a bath before bed tonight," Sam said pointing at Alex.
The three youngsters moved off to play their odd game of catch while the adults watched carefully, "Are you sure that is safe?" Martha asked.
"Yeah she is just as powerful as Clark and Kara plus I'm thinking that part of this is her acting it up to release some stress from the two over there now, oh the cake request was real but look at Conner he felt out of place and now he's relaxed enough to feel like he belongs, Kara was in a similar situation and look at her she's relaxed and having fun," Alex stated with a smile while the others looked on with understanding growing in their eyes.
"Yeah I can see it now, " Clark said before blurring away to catch Karen and pass her to Conner, he continued to play with them.
The rest watched on as Conner came out of his shell more and more over the next hour, "Clark needs to get him a suit and take him out on patrol from time to time to help them bond more." Lois said smiling.
"Yeah and once you are trained up you'll have to do the same thing with him remember Mother is queen in the eyes of children," Sam said as she watched Karen fly wobbly over to her a sleepy look on her face.
"We have a spare room you can put her in after her bath," Martha offered when Karen landed in Sam's arms and began drifting off.
Alex tapped the air beside his seat opening the door, "Thanks but we never go anywhere without home."
Sam stood holding Karen and passed her to Alex after he stood up, "I put a shirt and underwear on the bed I was using so it's across from our room."
Alex nodded then went through the door leaving it open, it took him a while to get Karen undressed and into the warm bath, getting the now completely relaxed and sleeping girl dry and dressed was a chore in of itself but he eventually got it done, getting her under the blanket was easy but getting her to release her hold on his neck almost turned into a wrestling match.
When he rejoined the group he saw that Clark had brought out an actual baseball to pass around.
"Found a neat trick it seems I or we have a small psychic link with Karen to turn her powers off and on," he told Sam as he straightened his hair.
Diana had watched mostly just listening to the group talk about their lives and watched as the elder Kent's accept Conner with open arms, when Alex took Karen to bathe and bed she felt a pang of want for a child but the law's of her people forbid her from knowing the touch of a man in a lover's way.
Sam ever observant saw the looks and knew her pain and the law's of her people from Alex's talking about comics and cartoons one month and their arguments over which set they would like to visit DC over Marvel, thinking it over she would have preferred them going to Marvel and Spider-Man being who Alex first touched.
"Diana we have a spare room you can stay in for the night," Sam offered.
"Thank you I will take your offer I wish to not return to the watchtower this night," Diana replied with a smile.
Miles away in a cave filled with many things from a giant house seized penny and a stuffed T-Rex as well as many types of vehicles and a computer with a screen nearly as large as the penny.
"Alfred I need you to run a search on my rogues and compare them from before I first encountered them and afterwards," Bruce Wayne said pulling off his cowel.
"Of course master Bruce may I inquire the reason for this request?" Alfred Pennyworth the only person Bruce trusted completely asked.
"I've had it pointed out that aside from The Joker, Penguin, and Two-face, I am the cause of their escalations in violence and weapons," Bruce said as he sat and took the cup of coffee Alfred offered.
"Ahh very well I shall have the results for you in two days," Alfred confirmed his acceptance of the request.
"Also the League has a few thoughts on allowing our protégé form a team to work with lesser villains to learn without us hovering over them, I think its a good idea to allow them to grow, see if MR.Foxx can go to Mt. Justice and update the equipment, also forward a request to Oliver to send his people to help."
"Will Miss Gordon and Mister Drake be joining the group?"
"Yes Superman has two joining him in the future, if they join the protégé team it'll give them someone of the same gender to bond with, Flash has his own as well as Oliver, I'm not sure if Author will send Calder or not, J'onn has a niece that may join as well."
"What about master Dick and his team in Jump city?"
"The Titans are a fully trained and functional team and have been accepted by the people, we may ask them for assistance in training and support if we are unavailable."
"Very well I shall have MR.Foxx begin making preparations tomorrow, for now you should get some sleep you have a Lunch date and then a shopping spree to blow at least ten thousand dollars i suggest a few thrift stores in the lower income district using a debit card to ensure they can keep the money."
Yawning Bruce finished his coffee and stood, "See you in the morning Alfred."
"Rest well master Bruce."
Up in the watchtower a similar conversation about the protégé team was happening.
"M'gann the league is putting together a team of protégé and has offered you a place on the team the choice is yours," J'onn told his niece a white Martian who chooses to be green.
"Really I can follow you in helping people and join a team?"
"Yes it will take some time to get a headquarters ready for the team to work from but we have a few protégé already we will give this opertunity and as a telepath you can be of great help just as I am with the league."
"Will they accept a White on the team?"
"That's your choice to make to show them your birth form I do not believe they will reject you, they may be shocked but in time it should not matter but remember keeping a secret from your team such as this can cause a distraction if it comes out in a battle and get someone hurt."
"Okay uncle J'onn I will think about it."
"Now one more thing one of the protégé has had a bad experience with telepaths his name is Conner and he is the child of Superman and Lois Lane , be sure to ask him before you touch his mind if he feels you and you have not asked he may lash out and unintentionally and hurt you both."
'J'onn Alex has requested a meeting with you if you are available,' The Flash said over the PA system.
J'onn looked to M'gann who seemed to want to meet someone new, " Ask if I may bring my niece."
After a minute of waiting Flash answered, ' He said that's fine she can come along, they are at the Kent's place.'
J'onn stood as did M'gan, " Please change into your human form although the family we are to meet do not have prejudice against aliens this is a chance to practice holding it."
" Yes uncle," M'gann said shifting into the form of a teen girl with almost pale skin with a dusting of freckles across her nose with deep red hair and green eye.
J'onn changed to be a dark skined bald man with similar facial features as M'gann, " Have you chosen a name for your secret identity?"
As they walked to the teleportation pads neatest the room they were in she thought for a moment, " Megan Moores."
"A good name similar to your real name can save you from confusion when someone calls you and you don't answer to another name, I once went by the name Jason but didn't answer when I was called, so I changed it to Jhon and the problem nearly completely went away."
At the pads now J'onn called out, "Two to the Kent farm."
A few minutes earlier at the Kent farm, "You know J'onn has a niece that needs a human education as well why not see if she wants to join the kids?" Martha asked as Clark and the teens rejoined them after having enough of tossing the ball plus it fell apart on the last throw.
"I wanted to talk to him about something anyway, why not call him down we can talk about her going to school with these two if they want to go?" Alex asked.
Clark tapped his earpiece, "Flash is J'onn still in the tower? Alex wants to talk to him."
'Yeah, he's still here let me ask if he is available.'
'Can his niece join he feels she needs human contact, Conner and Kara are also in a similar situation and they may bond over it.'
Alex shrugged, "This is your home and secret just because I know it doesn't give me the right to give it out."
"She can come," Clark said after a few seconds.
A few minutes later a flash in the barn announced the arrival of J'onn and M'gan, when they came out of the barn Alex nodded.
"Nice disguise though you may want to change it a little to not look so much like the actress you like from that show you watch."
Megan stopped and looked at Alex in shock, "You know about that?"
Alex nodded slowly, "Yeah dimensional traveler I know a lot just don't go digging in my head it'll hurt you."
"Okay, so what should I change?" she asked.
"Talk to Kara she is a girl too anything I could suggest would get me hurt," Alex said with a shrug.
Megan looked to Kara who waved her to join her and Conner, J'onn joined the adults and smiled as Megan skipped over to the other teens.
"You wished to speak with me?" he asked Alex
"Yeah let's go into my home this is a personal matter I need to ask you about and I don't want to reveal things you may be keeping secret," Alex said opening the door to his house.
J'onn followed Alex and took a seat at Alex's gesture, Sam went to look in on Karen quickly before leaving the house closing the door behind her.
"Okay, I'll get right to it aside from you and M'gann how many Martians are left alive?"
"About ten thousand were found in stasis last year why? "
Alex slumped, "So you guys have a viable population that's good, I have seen many worlds and know a lot about this one but the one thing that never came up was how many of your people survived that invasion."
"Yes I was afraid I was alone but after defeating the invaders here on Earth I didn't have a home to return to, the others helped me adjust, then two years ago a group of scientists began exploring the ruins a group of scientists found the stasis chambers and contacted us to wake them."
"That's great I was going to offer to clone a few thousand Martians to repopulate your people, but it's not necessary now."
J'onn slumped back in his seat at Alex's offer to build his race if they had not found the ones in stasis.
"If we needed it I would've given you anything to have my people returned in a fashion."
"Yeah I know, you are good people J'onn and you don't deserve to be alone."
"With that matter done I want to know why your people fear or hate the Whites, as I said the Martian lore was never spoken about."
"Ah yes that is unfortunate but they are simply a mutation that happens every few thousand births, usually the parents care deeply for the child no matter but some fear them just because they are different."
"And the reason M'gann fears people finding out?"
J'onn sighed heavily, "Her parents were among the ones that heated Whites, I took her in when I found her family using her as a beast of burden, it took years to get her to not flinch at my or my mate's approach."
"Will it help her if I made her a Green?'
"You can alter someone to that degree?"
" Yep, I'll need a scan of you to get a baseline and to remove the mutated genes and replace them with yours that are responsible for coloring and body shape."
Alex had barely gotten the words out before J'onn was holding a hand out for him to take, "Anything for her happiness."
Alex took his hand scanned J'onn and nodded releasing him, "Open the door and call her in."
J'onn stood walked to the door and pulled it open, "Megan could you come here for a moment I need to ask you a few questions."
Megan looked at him and nodded before coming to him confusion in her eyes, stepping through the door and hearing it shut behind her.
"Please have a seat, I have one question for you and I want you to think it over before you answer," Alex said as she entered the house.
M'gann took a seat looking confused as J'onn joined her on the couch., "Okay, what do you need to know?"
Alex looked to J'onn then back to M'gann, " Do you wish to be a Green? Don't rush to answer think it over."
Tears sprang to her eyes and her hands went to her lips, "Green?"
"Yes I can make you a Green," Alex replied.
M'gann sat there quietly as tears continued to fall down her cheeks, in a minute she nodded, "Yes I wish to be Green."
Alex reached out to her, and M'gann touched his hand, almost immediately she felt her body begin to change after a few seconds he dropped his hand with a smile, "Welcome to the Green."
M'gann dropped her morph to find her flesh no longer white but the same green as J'onns, she almost jumped to hug him but remembered that humans were not as open to contact as Martian's were.
J'onn reached over and pulled her into a hug, she grabbed him in a fierce hug with sobs of joy, Alex sat there and watched the two.
It took a few minutes to calm down, "Thank you for this please let me know if you need anything, if it is within my power and I will do it," M'gann said from her uncle's arms.
Alex looked between the two then smiled, "A sample of your morphic clothes and bio-ship, we will be traveling many worlds and a few may benefit from them and we as well could use them because we aren't always going to have a sample of clothes in whatever world we go to."
"The clothing is doable immediately but the ship will have to wait until we can return to the watchtower but I must ask you to not create or grow a ship until you are in another reality," J'onn announced before a small piece of his suit came off and settled on his open palm.
Alex reached out and touched the piece of living clothes, the information he gained from it was shocking as he began to understand how it would bond with a host.
"These are amazing, your people make some amazing stuff and I feel like these can be used as armor with a little tweaking, would you like me to give your clothes that upgrade?"
J'onn and M'gann dumbly nodded after listening to him speak, when he touched the sleeves of their shirts and sent the upgrade to the suits they seemed to ripple for a few seconds then settled down.
"Ask Clark for a sample of the cloth his suit is made of, it's a nice start for the suits," Alex said as he sat dack.
"Thank you again, this will keep M'gann even safer in the future," J'onn said shocked by the new information his suit was giving him.
M'gann was just sitting there shocked as she too felt the new abilities her clothes were able to do now.
"Well I think maybe we should go join the others again, we can talk while the kids get to know each other," Alex said after a few minutes of silence.
M'gann jumped when he spoke, "Yes I think I will join them and continue to get to know them."
"Yes that's a fine idea, Clark said something about schooling here in Smallville so you can learn from the culture," J'onn said as he stood and helped her stand as well.
Alex followed them out of the house to rejoin the others finding that Martha and Jonathan had retired to bed.
"Diana is going to use a spare room tonight," Sam told Alex as she joined him.
"That's fine, we've got the room," he said while walking to the table to get his cup of tea.
"I think she wants a child but her people's laws kind of forbid her from doing it the traditional way," Sam whispered in his ear.
"We can talk about that in the morning," He said while looking around to watch the groups talking.
When the teens rejoined the adults Conner was completely relaxed while the two girls seemed to be growing close.
"Alright, kids let's talk schooling, I want Conner and Kara to go here it'll help you both get accustomed to the world and possibly make friends," Clark said as they sat.
The two named teens looked at each other while M'gann looked to J'onn who nodded, "I would like to join the school I know almost nothing about Earth, plus I can join my new friends," she announced while taking Kara's hand.
