Chapter 2

Clark woke up to the sound of his alarm clock. sighing he rolled over and tried to turn it off but he over reached and fell off the bed instead taking the blankets down with him. "Whoa!" groaning Clark gets up, running his hands through his hair. "Good morning!" Clark jumped clean out of his skin. "Brainy! what the hell?" "Oh, I am sorry to frighten you." Brainy said sheepishly. "It's alright," Clark laughed nervously. "I really thought last night was a dream and wasn't expecting to see-" Clark froze. "What's wrong?" "How long were you in my room?" "If you're wondering if I saw the fall yes, but don't worry I won't tell the others?" Brainy smiled. Clark laughed. "Well so much for first impressions, even though I pretty much tripped yesterday." Clark sat on his bed. "Is this like for real?" He flopped back his shirt rising up showing his belly button. "It's pretty real." Clark smiled. "I can't believe I'm doing this." Brainy smiled too. "Oh, so why were you creeping in my room?" Clark asked teasingly, Brainy began to fidget. "Well um... you see I wanted to show you around before the team meeting." Clark sat back up. "Cool I want to see if we got it right back at home." Clark super-sped to change his clothes. "Let's go." it took everything in Brainy's power not to jump up and shout, He had Superman all to himself. Clark didn't know why but he was excited it was almost like living in an actual sci-fi TV show, it. "Let's start, shall we?" "I'm right behind you."

Somewhere in a bad part of New Metropolis the Fatal Five were staying at some rundown building, Validus was perplexed on a dead creature which was a cross between a fish and a rat. "It's been a few days, they're still looking for us?" Ask Mano. "Well of course numb nut." Said Tharok. "Well we need to hurry up and get His ax, and her dumb eyeball, look at her she all jacked up" "It's not dumb, you ass!" Empress growled. She looked a mess without the Eye of Ekron, almost as if she was detoxing from a harsh drug. "We need to get it now." She said looking manic holding herself. "Well yeah I know that! We need a full proof plan though. We don't have to worry about those brats, since we took most of them down, they still have many empty slots." Tharok said pacing. "We need to hurry before they fill those spaces with an even more annoying hero." Mano chimed in. "But with my arm the Science Police don't have a chance either." Mano finished. "So?" Tharok spat "So, what are we waiting for?" Persuader grumbled. "Well the perfect plan of course." Empress screamed and threw a chair at Tharok. "We Go In Now!" she shouted. "I need it, I need it I don't know how long I can do this! We don't need a perfect plan build a goddamn gun and let's go!" Tharok glared. "Well with what I have I can't really do the damage I wanted to, but whatever you say Empress." "Good nothing fancy, just something to blow a whole and then we're in and out." Empress said. The rest nodded.

"And this is my lab." Clark followed Brainy in. "Wow its huge!" Clark's pace sped up as he began to explore the lab. "So, this is where you invent things, cool what's this?" "Wait!" Clark paused. "Some of this stuff in here can hurt you so let's not go touching things." "Oh, I thought I couldn't get hurt." He shrugged. "What is the extent of your knowledge of your abilities? "Brainy asked. "Well I know I have some sort of heat vision, super speed, x-ray, crazy strength, and nothing can hurt me as far as I knew." "I see, well there's a lot more, like flight, super breath-" "Whoa flight? I can fly?" "Why yes." Clark laughed a little. "There's no way." "Why you say that?" Clark seemed to curl into himself. "Well I have a fear of heights." Brainy stared for a bit then began to laugh. "What's so funny." Clark was blushing a bit. "I thought I knew everything there is to know about Superman finding out that he has a fear of heights just make me want to know more about you." Clark smiled. "Well you know Superman not Clark." "That is true, it's just so strange." Brainy sat next to Clark. "Can you tell me about… well me? I want to know how I was this hero." Clark said. Brainy frowned. "Clark I can't really give that information but, you will figure out some of these things on your own time." Clark was a bit disappointed but nodded. "I see… well thanks." They were quiet for a bit. "Um Clark?" "Yes Brainy?" "Well I was wondering why you call me Brainy?" Clark cocked his head to the side. "I don't know Brainiac 5 is a bit of a mouthful." "Brainiac 5 that's a silly name how about I call you Brainy.". "I'm sorry if that upsets you, I can call you Brainiac 5." "No!" Brainy quickly interjected, Clark gave a look. "It's alright, it just reminded me of an old friend that's all, haven't been called that in years." Brainy smiled. "Is your friend ok?" Clark asked sincerely. "Oh yes they are fine, why you ask?" "You had this lonely look on you face." Brainy looked into Clarks icy blue eyes. "Well I didn't think I'd ever see them again but we recently got in contact and they don't remember me." Clark gave a sad smile and put a hand on Brainy's shoulder. "How can anyone forget you, you're pretty awesome, but if you need a friend, I can be it." Brainy just stared up at Clark. "Ahem" Brainy jumped at the sound. "Oh, hi um..." "It's Lightning Lad." Clark winced at the tone of his voice. "Right." Clark sighed "You're late for the meeting." Lightning lad shot a look at Brainy. "Well-" "Oh, I'm so sorry I wanted a tour of the place and I guess I took up Brainy's time." Lightning Lad raised an eyebrow. "Brainy?" Brainy cleared his throat. "Let's go Clark, we shouldn't keep the others waiting." Clark nods and follows, Lightning Lad trailed behind "Brainy huh?" he said to himself.

The conference room was filled with the Legionnaires who stay at the headquarters full time. In the room were, Triplicate girl, Bouncing boy, Saturn girl, and Phantom girl "What's taking him so long?" Bouncy asked. "He'll be here." Said Saturn girl. As soon as she said that the three boys entered the room.

"Ok this meeting is on our new friend here Clark." Lightning lad announced. "We really didn't need him..." He glared at Brainy. "Since we can handle the Fatal Five ourselves." He then added. "Yes, we do, half of our team mates were wounded trying to get them in custody. We need Clark, the Fatal Five have already escape after what 10 months? We don't have the man power since some them are out of commission or out on some other mission. And with his power he can help!" Brainy finished he was tired of this attitude from him he knows he did a good thing getting him. Everyone else nodded sadly, some of their team died, lost mobility, or just went insane thanks to Emerald empress. "Ok but why him?" Lightning lad pointed to Clark. Clark felt insulted, why did this guy hate him so much? "I figure we needed some old fashion help." Brainy quipped. "Well you got old fashion right, but this is not exactly Superman." Phantom girl said hands waving dramatically. "I don't mean that in a bad way." She added. Clark gave her a sad smile.

"We are not that desperate, you're making it seem like we can't do our job." Lighting lad added "We can't we're just a bunch of kids." Triplicate girl sadly interjected. Lightning lad was going to say something but Clark interrupted. "You could… you are not just a bunch of kids. I read the mission files on what you all did, it was incredible. You were able to take down a powerful villain, the police couldn't even do that. You all sacrifice your lives to save others… for a bunch of kids it was heroic…" Clark smiled then frowned. "But I'm not like you guys I'm not strong enough, I can't do half the things you all can." Everyone stared at Clark. "How…" Saturn girl started to ask but Clark answered for her. "Brainy gave me a mission report so I can catch up I read the whole thing, I am sorry for your lost." Clark added respectably. Everyone was quiet "You can too Clark, you are Superman in your own way, you are that man you will see." Saturn girl said. Clark shook his head. "Look I-I want to help I do but what if I make things worse?"

Lightning lad stood up. "You could make it worse…" Clark frowned. Lightning lad sighed heavily. "But you can also help us, you will never know if you don't try." Clark gave him a shocked look. "I'm not saying I like you just yet but, we do need more people and this being an emergency I need to know if you can handle it, the Fatal Five is the strongest foe we've ever encountered, we lost many of our friends because we treated it as a club, we need to do this seriously and I am not willing to lose any more of us." He looked at Saturn girl who turned away sadly. "You start training after this meeting I'll give you 20 minutes to get ready…." And he walked out the room. Clark sat there for a bit, is he ready for this? Can he do it? "C'mon Clarkie let's get started." Bouncy said trying to liven up the room. Clark had a determined look, I can do this. "Ok."

"Oof." Clark was getting hit left and right by the training bots. "C'mon Clarkie you can do it!" Clark was hit hard by another bot and he was on his hands and knees. "What's wrong can't take the heat?" Lightning lad asked. Clark couldn't answer as he got punched in the gut, this simulation felt too real, and the pain he's never had pain like this before "C'mon Clark don't hold back, the enemy will not be so merciful, you have to learn how to use all of what you got." Lightning lad lectured. Clark nodded got up again, he's never used his full power before he was always afraid hurting someone or worse killing someone. A bot out of nowhere came and tried to punch him, but Clark dodges it quickly and punched it into a wall and it smashed to pieces. He moved so fast he didn't know what had happened. "Good…" Lightning lad began. "But next time keep your eyes open." Clark nodded. "Yes sir." Lightning lad smiled cockily. I got superman to call me sir. "You're impossible." Said Saturn girl. "What?" He said with that same cocky smile. She just rolled her eyes. "Ok that was just round one ready for two?" Clark gave a thumbs up. "I was born ready."

Clark was a bit tired after the training he worked himself too hard, but he needed to he needed to control and use his powers. Clark flopped on the bed and there was a knock on his door. "Come in." The door opens and Brainy came in, Clark sat up. "Oh, hi Brainy what brings you here?" Brainy walked further in. "I heard what happened earlier are you ok?" "Yeah I'm fine." Brainy gave him a look. "That's not what I heard." Clark sighed…. "C'mon that's all you got? Try harder, pay attention!" Clark was tired he tried but the hologram enemies were pounding him left and right. "Heat vision you have it use it!" Lightning lad shouted. "Hey take it easy on him." Triplicate girl said. "He wants to be a hero he needs to suck it up. One mistake can get us all killed!" Clark got hit hard that he fell again but this time he couldn't get up fast enough and he was getting jumped by all of bots. He couldn't move he felt trapped. Then he began to panic he remembered being trap like this before. He had accidentally hurt a kid badly. Clark began to panic more he didn't want to hurt anyone. "Lightning lad it's too much for him, stop it!" Saturn girl cried. "Hang on." He wanted Clark to pull through, everyone watched as Clark didn't emerge from the pile. "Uh Lightning lad he's not getting out." Bouncy said. "Turn it off!" Triplicate shouted. Lightning lad rolled his eyes. "Fine." He turned the program off. Clark was just curled up in a ball it looked like he was trembling. "Clark!" the girls shouted. "Uh oh." Lighting lad said cringing did he push him too hard?. They all flew down to him.

"Clark are you ok?" Saturn girl asked. Clark just stayed in the ball trembling. "I-I didn't mean to I'm sorry." Clark whispered. "What do you mean?" Phantom girl asked. Clark seemed to snapped out of it and sat up. "I'm r-ready to try again." Lighting looked down at Clark he didn't look right, the way Clark looked up with those icy lost blue eyes he felt bad, he took it too far. "Training is done for today, just take a break ok?" Clark looked up at him. "No, I could do it! I won't hesitate this time." Lightning lad sighed. "Look kid, I worked you too hard, just-" Clark stood up and wiped his eyes. "No, I can do this, I'm not giving up. I want to learn how to better control my powers instead of fearing them and hurting someone!" Clark had his fist clenched. "Clark…" Saturn girl started. "Please let me try again." Lighting lad looked into Clarks pleading blue eyes. "Ok we'll start again." "But Garth-" Lightning lad held up a hand. "It's his choice not mines. Ok everyone clear out, he's starting again."

"It was nothing it was just too much at one time, something I'm not use to is all" Clark smiled. Brainy didn't buy it one bit but he knew he was tired and left it at that. "Ok well get some rest." Clark nodded. "Ok I will." Brainy left Clarks room, he frowned and flopped down on the bed. "Oh, my body hurts." But then smiled, his body hurts and he was exhausted he almost felt normal.

New Metropolis Planetary Prison

There was a loud explosion in the prison's high security storage room causing the alarm to go off. "Ahahaha! Don't you just love the sound of destruction!" Shouted Tharok. "Yeah, yeah whatever." Said Mano. They quickly went in to see if it was clear. "All clear!" Empress and Persuader followed in. the smoke hadn't cleared yet, debris was everywhere along with body parts of the guards on duty. "What a shame." Empress said to herself as she stepped over them, she picked up a head of one guard. "tsk, this one was cute oh well" she tossed it toward Persuader who swiftly caught it. "Really?" He deadpans. "Found them!" Mano alerted. In front of them was a big metal door. "You sure it's in there?" She asked. "We better hurry." Said Persuader held up the head to the eye scan. With a click the door opened. "Yes finally, come my sweet." Inside there was an eerie green glow, Empress was laughing hysterically.

AN: Thanks for reading, I feel so lonely I really hope the quiet is because y'all are shy, and not because the story sucks, please send feedback I like to bring this ship back and I hope I can do it with this series.