Ch.52

The next day Clark ended up strung up in a field and a meteor infected came to him only to leave him strung up. Kara and I floated down and I pulled the meteorite necklace off of him while Kara introduced herself at a distance. I put the necklace in a lead lined box and handed it to him, telling him. "The box is made of lead, keep it closed when you return it to your crush. Feel free to stop by when you're ready to meet your cousin and learn more. Bring your parents if you think you must, after all it's a long story to tell and saying it's once is easier than saying it over and over again."

Clark agreed before leaving to go play hero before Lex could show up. Kara and I left before the cue ball could arrive as well. Clark stopped the metahuman and the ball was in his court as it were. The next day a big boy caused trouble only for Kara to step in and stop him, saving Lana and knocking the bug boy unconscious.

Clark showed up and I put bug boy in enhanced power dampener restraints, making him just another pissed off horny teen with his mutation suppressed entirely so it wasn't driving him insane. Then again he'd killed his mother and nearly killed several more people. I told Clark what the cuffs do and left Gregory there while Clark had his hero moment with Lana. Kara and I left before she could wake up because that would be awkward.

Clark and his parents showed up at our place the next day for a rather long talk. Kara told them of Krypton, the war, Lara, Jor-El, Zor-El, everything. She told them of Zod, Jor-El's plans to make Clark the ambassador of aliens that seek refuge on earth, his plans to make Clark a symbol of hope and of the fortress and training that awaits him if he should ever be ready. She showed him the crystals of power, told him the key went to his ship as well as to the cave's computer core.

She told him of the alter there that would take him to the Arctic should he be ready and that he would throw the crystal and it would grow into the fortress to teach and guide him while helping him learn everything in the twenty-eight known galaxies. She showed them her ship and ours, before telling them how we'd found her. Finally I apologized for misleading Johnathan and them these past two years, telling them of my long life, immortality due to my insane healing ability and my indestructible body.

I told them everything down to actually living in the Buffy universe as Inara called it and how it was destroyed, how I ended up in the Firefly universe and how I met Inara and River. I sighed. "We came here looking for those that escaped the collapse of the universe I'd been in and found nothing so River and Inara wanted to experience life on earth since their earth had long been used up before they were born. Then we found alien technology, meteor rocks, weird space girls who really are the impatient sort-"

Kara snorted and smiled saying they should ignore me as I was a beast. I told them of the star blade and how I fused it with my claws, showing them said claws and putting them away as Kara told them I now had the powers of a Kryptonian, not that I needed them since I was scary strong and durable. She told Clark of all his natural gifts we had and that he'd grow into before explaining that it came from the yellow sun.

She told him that when he's ready she'd like to teach him and be there for him like she should've been to raise him as she promised Lara. She told him she'd watched over him from afar and now that he knew the truth she hoped they'd get to know each other. It was a lot for them to take in, but I told them they could sleep on it and take their time because we weren't going anywhere for at least a decade and it's not like we'd age.

I handed a box to Martha and a Johnathan. "The rings inside are magic based and will halt the aging process. They won't make you heal or anything so you'll still have to be careful, but it's basic immortality and a gift from us for raising Clark or Kal-El as his Kryptonian name is."

Clark said it was just Clark. I nodded. "For now perhaps. But someday you'll realize you can be both without subtracting from either. Kal-El is just a name and it doesn't change who you are, just what you're called by certain people, kid. You are you and that'll never change anymore than humans change. But you can become more without losing who you've always been and that's what's important. The choice is and will always be yours to make."

I turned to Martha. "As for you, Inara has a gift for you so if you'd follow her inside, she'd explain there. It's women talk and apparently I'm not allowed to know whatever it is."

Inara snorted. "As delicate as a sledgehammer as always sweetheart."

I huffed and Johnathan smiled while Kara showed Clark her ship closer. I showed Johnathan my own ship and we talked a bit. I told him id lived a very long time and I've done so much that I teach those willing to take in wisdom, nothing more. He asked about River's company and I shrugged. "Her earth died from resource mining and pollution so she's trying to use the technology I know of and her universe had to help earth and stop the pollution. She wants earth to survive the coming global warming challenges and issues. I'm ambivalent to it because I've lived so long and realized I can't save every earth I come to. Trust me, I've tried and it doesn't always end well."

He sighed and asked if that's why I enjoy fishing and meditating so much. I shrugged. "Perhaps. I do enjoy the simple peace and it helps to quiet the eons of memories I have locked away in my mind."

I let him sit in the command chair and he got to rev up the engines before we stopped and headed out. I showed him the vault and told him how I could pull the raw materials from the world without harming it so I'd gathered resources and TR Industries was helping distribute them wherever needed. I gestured to the meteor rocks and told him we were looking into a way to pull the radiation from them and revert them into pieces of Krypton so Kara and Clark could have a piece of their home world if we succeed.

I told him all the meteor rocks would be purified that are in storage and perhaps used in Kryptonian technology someday to help better the world without the harmful radiation they contain now. He said he didn't know how to feel about us having things that could hurt Clark.

I made a fireball in my hand and told him. "Magic can hurt Kryptonians. Trust me, if I wanted to harm Clark I wouldn't need meteor rocks to do it, nor even the Kryptonian powers the star blade gave me. I've no intentions of hurting anyone. In fact, if the extraction process works we may be able to de-power those afflicted by meteor rock exposure, helping a lot of people."

I crushed the fireball in my hand and sighed. "I can only explain so much Johnathan. In the end you'll have to decide for yourself what my intentions are and whether to believe me."

We left the vault and it closed behind us before we headed upstairs. Kara and Clark were with River, Inara and Martha in the living room now. Clark told Johnathan that Inara healed Martha's barren issues so she could have kids if they chose. I raised an eyebrow and River said it was repurposing the healing nanites our suits had, but it worked.

I shrugged, knowing they knew what they were doing having studied my own suit quite thoroughly before they made theirs. Even Kara had a suit of her own and was learning magic and sorcery. Eventually the Kents left and things became bland because without meteor rocks coach Walt was just an asshole who got fired before his big game, so no fire starter crap there.

Tina Greer was caught when power suppression cuffs were used mysteriously while she was robbing the bank. Kara began teaching Clark how to control his X-Ray vision. Sean Kelvin ended up just a drowned kid as meteor lake had been cleaned of all the meteor rocks by TR Industries. Lemaris Pond was the same by the old folks home so a dumb old serial killer sneaking a cigarette became another statistic.

The Melville's had turned over their meteor rocks for a substantial sum and allowed TR Industries to clean the place of meteor rocks so Jodi hadn't gone ravenous cannibal. That just left poor Earl Jenkins who was affected my meteor rock exposure at a secret lab at the LuthorCorp facility. He held up the place and when all the documents and files on level Three were released, Lionel Luthor looked like a lying sack of shit.

TR Industries swept in and helped Earl with his treatments using nanites to remove all the meteorite fragments in his body. With Earl's testimony, the leaked documents and the meteorite fragments, it was enough for Earl to get exonerated for the accidental murder of a LuthorCorp employee he was trying to get help from. He sued LuthorCorp and with TR Industries backing him, he won a twenty million dollar lawsuit for them nearly destroying his entire life.

Lionel looked into TR Industries and us, but our backgrounds were squeaky clean whereas his wasn't at all.