Post "Kara"
Jun. 4th, 2008 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hero_farmboyClark had promised himself that once the phantoms were dealt with, he'd go to the Fortress to complete the training Jor-El keeps telling him he needs to do. He knows the Fortress is back up and running – he can just feel it – but it's been a while since he's been here. For good reason, of course.
Now that he is, there's just one thing he needs to clear up first.
”A Kryptonian girl showed up at my doorstep. Her name is Kara. Last time that happened, you were behind it.”
It had thrown Clark for a loop. After the destruction of the dam and Lois and Chloe's presence there, which he still wasn't clear how that came about, he decided to go with Lois when she went back to survey the wreckage. To try and figure out what she knew, if anything, and also to say goodbye. He didn't know how long he'd be gone, after all. That was when they found the spaceship - a Kryptonian spaceship – in the woods near the reservoir. And then they'd been attacked by a blond girl, moving too fast for Lois to see, but Clark sure as hell saw her as she flew up and out of sight after telling him to take a hike.
He'd told himself it couldn't be her. She's not supposed to be here until he's older, if at all. He's supposed to have time.
It doesn't take long for Chloe to track her down, monitoring reports of a blond woman barging into schools and harassing the children. It didn't matter who she was, Clark wasn't going to let that kind of behavior go unchecked. So he found her at a playground, picking up little boys and asking them what their names were. Clark put a stop to that pretty damn fast, grabbing her by the arm and speeding her away.
Turns out she was Kara, sent to Earth by her father to look after him. It seemed her ship has crashed in the river and been trapped, only released now after nearly two decades of suspended animation because of the damage done to the dam. A familiar enough story to him by now, but still really, really weird to hear when it actually applies to him. And having her really there... it'll take some getting used to.
Then her ship went missing. After a crash course in superhearing, they were able to track it down in a bunker owned by the Department of Domestic Security (which Clark would let himself freak out about later) but only in time for Kara to absorb the blast as it self-destructed. And then it was gone, and Clark was left with a teenage girl who knew nothing about Earth.
And he had training to do.
There really wasn't much time to get to know each other, but Clark had to do this. If he let it go every time something new came up, he'd never go. Chloe had agreed to help Kara, who'd acquired a bit of humility after learning from Clark that Krypton had been destroyed (and hadn't that been fun to have to tell her). He also had a feeling there would be someone else watching who could intervene if things got too out of hand.
So Clark finds himself at the Fortress, asking his father about the new girl, and why he'd never been told about her, or her family.
”I know nothing of her arrival."
Clark isn't sure he believes that, but it's no matter now. There are other things to deal with.
”What about my training?”
”Your training starts with Kara. Watch over her, Kal-El. She poses a greater threat than you believe.”
Now that he is, there's just one thing he needs to clear up first.
”A Kryptonian girl showed up at my doorstep. Her name is Kara. Last time that happened, you were behind it.”
It had thrown Clark for a loop. After the destruction of the dam and Lois and Chloe's presence there, which he still wasn't clear how that came about, he decided to go with Lois when she went back to survey the wreckage. To try and figure out what she knew, if anything, and also to say goodbye. He didn't know how long he'd be gone, after all. That was when they found the spaceship - a Kryptonian spaceship – in the woods near the reservoir. And then they'd been attacked by a blond girl, moving too fast for Lois to see, but Clark sure as hell saw her as she flew up and out of sight after telling him to take a hike.
He'd told himself it couldn't be her. She's not supposed to be here until he's older, if at all. He's supposed to have time.
It doesn't take long for Chloe to track her down, monitoring reports of a blond woman barging into schools and harassing the children. It didn't matter who she was, Clark wasn't going to let that kind of behavior go unchecked. So he found her at a playground, picking up little boys and asking them what their names were. Clark put a stop to that pretty damn fast, grabbing her by the arm and speeding her away.
Turns out she was Kara, sent to Earth by her father to look after him. It seemed her ship has crashed in the river and been trapped, only released now after nearly two decades of suspended animation because of the damage done to the dam. A familiar enough story to him by now, but still really, really weird to hear when it actually applies to him. And having her really there... it'll take some getting used to.
Then her ship went missing. After a crash course in superhearing, they were able to track it down in a bunker owned by the Department of Domestic Security (which Clark would let himself freak out about later) but only in time for Kara to absorb the blast as it self-destructed. And then it was gone, and Clark was left with a teenage girl who knew nothing about Earth.
And he had training to do.
There really wasn't much time to get to know each other, but Clark had to do this. If he let it go every time something new came up, he'd never go. Chloe had agreed to help Kara, who'd acquired a bit of humility after learning from Clark that Krypton had been destroyed (and hadn't that been fun to have to tell her). He also had a feeling there would be someone else watching who could intervene if things got too out of hand.
So Clark finds himself at the Fortress, asking his father about the new girl, and why he'd never been told about her, or her family.
”I know nothing of her arrival."
Clark isn't sure he believes that, but it's no matter now. There are other things to deal with.
”What about my training?”
”Your training starts with Kara. Watch over her, Kal-El. She poses a greater threat than you believe.”
