Chapter Seven: Genesis Protocol Part Three
Clark's eyes slowly opened up. His arm remained wrapped around Kara and one hand rested on the top of her breast. It took him a couple of moments to determine what just happened. His mouth turned around into a deep frown.
Everything which happened came back to him. The interesting thing was, he regretted pretty much nothing that happened. There was a huge part of him who felt like he should, but he wouldn't.
The Silver Kryptonite left his system. The Red Kryptonite which Kara infected him had been burned out of the system. He didn't really move from his position. Kara's cute ass brushed up against him when she rested her head lazily on his shoulder. She didn't move from her position at least not yet. Clark lifted his hand up from on top of her breast. A bit of shock spread through him, and yet, at the same time, there was a bit of relief.
Conflicting emotions presented themselves for one Clark Kent. He decided it would be best if he would state the absolutely obvious thing which happened.
"We had sex," Clark muttered underneath his breath. He drew in a deep breath and frowned. "We had sex."
Kara tried not to laugh at the absolutely blunt manner he said this. She hid her face underneath her hair as it swung loosely for several minutes.
"We had sex."
Kara smiled, her cousin was almost adorable at what he was talking about.
"Yes," Kara agreed. She finally turned around and made sure she faced Clark. Clark could see the results of what happened dripping from between her thighs. Kara rested a hand on Clark's chest and slowly began to trace patterns on it. "That's what happens when two consenting adults are in love with each other…and it was the only way I could have saved your life."
Clark once again drew in his deep breath. Seconds passed when he closed his eyes, unable to believe what exactly was happening. He could sit here all day, deep in thought, and still not believe he had just had sex with his hot cousin.
"I still can't….."
Kara's lips met Clark's to silence him. She placed her hands on the back of his head and guided him through a long kiss. He didn't waste any time returning the kiss. His strong hands maneuvered behind Kara, latching onto her ass when he pushed into her.
The two looked about ready to resume their activities. Clark pulled away from her in an instant and tried to get up. He realized his clothes had been torn off in the fevered actions that were the night before. One hand lingered on the side of his hip when he looked out into the distance. Mouth hanging open, Clark looked up into the sky. He didn't even want to begin how wrong this was.
Kara turned towards the side of the bed, legs dangling. She looked up towards Clark. His human values clashing with his Kryptonian instincts caused Kara some frustration.
'Time to nip this in the bud.'
"Look me in the eye, and tell me you regret this."
Kara rose to her feet and stood before Clark, and all of her naked glory. Clark's eyes raked over her beautiful, firm, body. He couldn't look her in the eye and tell her regretted this. Kara placed a hand on Clark's cheek and leaned closer towards him. Her dazzling smile looked him in the eye.
"Human say it's wrong," Kara said. "But, we're not like them, biologically, are we?"
Clark shook his head. She had a point, as much as he hated to admit it.
"It's not a knock on them, it does take them awhile to come around certain things," Kara said. "Some of them still have trouble having an enlightened attitude with people from a completely different skin color than them….and then there's…"
Clark reached over and this time, he gave Kara a kiss this time before she complicated things more than they already were. She had been surprised, although ultimately pleased that he took the chance to kiss her on the lips. Kara locked her hands on the back of Clark's head and lead him into deepening the kiss. Their tongues pushed further together.
The two broke apart from each other. Clark moved over towards the wardrobe where he was certain there would be more clothes left for him. A couple of seconds passed, and Clark had been proven to be correct. There were more clothes out in the wardrobe. He scooped them up in his arm and peered out into the Fortress.
He had entered a brave new world, full of many possibilities. Clark couldn't really understand half of them, all he knew was he was willing to explore them. And if he was going to be in a relationship with his cousin, and then maybe multiple women, maybe it was meant to be.
'There were far worse fates,' Clark thought to himself.
Kara looked over towards the scans which had come over Clark's body. Her lips fell into another smile, one which brightened with a bit more triumph. Overall, their little encounter had been a success. Excitement flashed through Kara's eyes.
"So, it turns out all of that mind-blowing sex wasn't for nothing," Kara said. She took a moment to snicker at the look which crossed over Clark's face before she slipped into a more stoic frame of mind. Her eyes locked onto him, looking him straight in the eye. "You've been…cleared of Silver Kryptonite, the Red Kryptonite is gone, and your power levels have been seriously amped up. If that isn't successful, I don't know what is."
Clark just allowed it all to sink in.
"How did my power levels amp up?" Clark asked.
"Shared energy can have that effect, given how my body absorbs yellow sunlight as well," Kara said with a smile. "Gives you further incentive to explore our relationship, other than personal pleasure, wouldn't you agree?"
Clark thought she might have had a point. He wanted to figure out where they would head from here. There were so many possibilities of what they can do. And Clark would be lying if he didn't want to test how far they could go.
A loud and shrill siren cut through the air. Clark staggered back and almost fell over because of the siren hitting his ears. Kara reached over and stopped Clark from falling over. She rushed over towards the Fortress computer. Her fingers started to whirl a million miles a minute in an attempt to get the information up.
"It's coming from an abandoned lab outside of Metropolis," Kara said. "The one which Chloe was researching, before we left."
"Of course it is."
Clark almost could have groaned. Chloe's curiosity had gotten the better of her before, and this time, he was almost certain his friend had stepped into something dangerous. Yet there was something else in his mind.
"Could this be a trap?" Clark asked. Kara raised an eyebrow. "Brainiac might want to finish the job he started and lure us somewhere…where we can't escape."
Kara thought her cousin had a good point. He was finally showing intelligence his mother would be proud of.
"I think we can turn the trap around on him," Kara responded. She looked towards Clark. "Trust me on this one."
"I do," Clark said.
The two dressed at the speed of light and flew off. Clark only barely had time to register how much faster he was going.
Chloe entered the most frustrating state of being she could have thought of. She had a few of the questions, and every single answer she had, just raised more questions. Nothing infuriated a reporter more than something like this.
'It's a lot to take in, I know,' Lara thought.
'So, your name is Lara, and you're Clark's biological mother,' Chloe said. 'I don't want you to take this the wrong way, and there's really no other way you can take this but…..exactly where have you been all of these years when your husband was running amuck? Couldn't you have exiled him to the Artificial Intelligence Couch or something?'
Lara tried to hold back her laughter. Out of all of Clark's friends, she liked Chloe the best. Granted, Lana and Lois weren't without their merits, but she liked Chloe the best. Then again, she only knew them from Chloe's memories and brief observation as a third-party.
'I'm afraid it's not that simple,' Lara said. 'And again, it's a long story.'
Chloe inhaled and exhaled.
'And again, I told you, I have plenty of time,' Chloe thought. She tried to pull herself free from, but the ropes snapped back a second later. 'I'm just going to be stuck here for the rest of the day while some mad scientist does a whole lot of whatever.'
'My AI laid dormant for several years, I have no idea why it did, it just never had gotten activated,' Lara said. 'It had been downloaded into both the ships and the caves much like my husband's had, but it never had a chance to rise to greater prominence.'
'Okay,' Chloe thought. 'But, what made you wake up? Especially after all of this time.'
Lara had plenty of time to think. Chloe tried one more time to break free and all this accomplished was an aching pain through her wrist.
'You handled the stone in the cave when they activated to create the Crystal of Knowledge, the element which empowers the Fortress of Solitude,' Lara explained. 'I had a couple of choices, a couple of directions where I could have gone. I could have downloaded my mind into a creepy young bald man, or I could have downloaded my mind into a perky blonde. I think I made the right choice, given your closeness to my son.'
Chloe thought the rope had been loosened. She pulled herself to a standing position and managed to use her free hand to untie herself. Finally, she made some progress.
'Who needs Clark Kent anyway?' Chloe asked. She looked a little bit smug and assured of herself. Scrambling over towards the door, Chloe tried to grab onto it to free herself. Only, the moment she reached the door it had been stuck. 'Actually, you do, right about now…damn, it…of all of the times for a door to jam.'
'Chloe, do you see the radio equipment on the desk?' Lara asked her.
Chloe turned her attention to the radio equipment. She saw it alright. It might, if she played her cards right, be her ticket out of here.
'Plug the red wire into the blue port,' Lara thought. 'And then when that's done, flip the third switch to the right.'
Chloe had just allowed all of this information to properly sink in. She did as Lara had requested. It seemed so absurd. She flipped the switch, and yet nothing happened.
'Okay, that was a bust,' Chloe thought. Suddenly, the radio lets out a shrill sound which caused her to stagger back. 'Okay, spoke too soon, it's causing my ears to bleed. What the hell did you just ask me to do?'
Chloe's ears stopped ringing. Now, all she heard was a dull hum coming through the air.
'I sent a signal to Kal-El and Kara,' Lara thought back to her. 'They should hopefully be arriving soon…and we can put a stop to this.'
The radio equipment ended up burning itself out. She figured as much. Cheap equipment found in an old office wasn't really made. Chloe noticed the door opening up and wondered if she could shove past whoever entered the room and make a clean break for it.
'Anything's worth a shot,' she thought to herself.
Chloe made her attempt to bolt from the office. She came head to head with Milton Fine. Fine grabbed her around the wrist and hoisted her off of the ground with a surprising amount of strength. Chloe's legs dangled from underneath her. She tried her best to kick out, but Fine was too strong.
Fine studied the woman like most would study a new breed of insects. Curious, yet the woman annoyed him.
"You think you're pretty clever, don't you?" Fine asked.
Chloe didn't think of a non-clever retort to fire. So she just decided to swing for the fences and go for broke, given how busted she would be anyway.
"I got free, didn't I?"
Fine continued his brisk stare of the woman. She would break free.
"Yes, and you summoned for help like I hoped you would," Fine said. "And I wasn't referring to you, human. I was referring to what resides in you…she thinks she's clever. But I am the most powerful mind in the universe. The Genesis Protocol will occur, and there will be nothing happening to stop it."
Chloe had been racked with confusion. She only had one recourse right now.
'Okay, I'll bite,' Chloe thought to Lara. 'What exactly is this Genesis Protocol?'
'It was used as a means by my friend Alura, Kara's mother, to save Krypton from its doom,' Lara said. 'The plan was to send all life on Krypton to the Phantom Zone while sending a select few to another planet where they would take it over.'
The implications they planned to take over another planet entirely had not been lost on Chloe.
'Yes, it's pretty extreme,' Lara confirmed.
Chloe found herself secured, this time with tighter ropes. Ropes which made it beyond impossible for her to breathe, because the more she struggled, the more those ropes strained against her. Fine wasn't wasting any time now.
'What is Fine?' Chloe asked. 'I think he used to be human, but he's not anymore…is he a meteor mutant or something?'
'No,' Lara said. 'He's something much worse than that. He's a computer known as Brainiac, and he's working to utilize the Genesis Protocol to clear Earth of all human life, so Zod and his followers inside the Phantom Zone can arrive on Earth.'
'Wait, that's…that's insane!' Chloe yelled. 'How does he hope to do that?'
The number of people who would perish made Chloe sick to the pit of her stomach. Fine being a machine explained a lot. No human, no person, they couldn't have such a disregard for the actual lives of people. He was only built for one purpose.
'There are ways,' Lara thought. 'There are ways to do this.'
Chloe had been so close to freedom. She needed to find a way out of here before Clark walked into a trap. And it wouldn't be the first time he had gotten into trouble on her account either.
'Okay, let's do this.'
Clark took the first step into the facility. He turned his head a couple of inches to the right and then turned his head a couple of inches to the left. When he made sure the coast was clear on both surprises. Kara took a couple of steps forward as well and she heard a light humming sound. Such a human normally had been the harbinger of something really bad.
"Kal," Kara said. "It's behind the door…he's behind the door."
Kara didn't need to say another word about exactly who was behind the door. Said door opened up and revealed the face of Milton Fine. He took a couple of steps before them and he walked out to meet both of them.
"The Son of Jor-El," Brainiac said. He rose up to his full height, his eyes locked onto him. "I expected you...I had hoped to run into you since the moment my period of dormancy concluded."
Kara's contempt could be barely held back when she stared at the soulless machine who was responsible for so much destruction.
"I wish you would have remained shut down," Kara said.
Brainiac's eyes turned towards her. Kara refused to waver from her stance. Their eyes met together when the two of them stood eye to eye. They didn't blink, she didn't blink.
"I didn't expect to see you out of your box this soon, although perhaps I should have," Brainiac said. He surveyed them with a harsh expression on her face. "Do you know where her loyalties lie, Kal-El? Do you even know who she is?"
Kara figured Brainiac was going to pull this game, but she wasn't going to let him.
"Don't listen to a word he says," Kara said. "He's a deceiver…..he deceived all of Krypton….and he's up to his old tricks on Earth."
Kara could tell Brainiac upgraded himself to be more durable than ever before. The form he preferred might have looked human on the surface, but it was anything other than human. They were in for a fight, one way or another.
Brainiac's powerful gaze locked onto Kara.
"You betrayed your own bloodline," Brainiac said. "And now you're going to pay for your sins, just like your mother….."
Kara jumped at Brainiac and knocked him into the wall with a super powerful punch The computer crashed into the wall with a sickening thud. He bounced back off and Kara swung her fist into his chest, knocking him down one more time.
"You have no right to talk about her….."
A beam of light shot out from the other side of Brainiac's hand. Kara dodged the beam of light and fired back with a beam of heat vision which sent Brainiac spiraling back a few inches.
Clark rushed towards Brainiac and clipped him on the side of the head with a huge swinging punch. The punch caught Brainiac on the side of the head. More punches followed with Clark chaining the attacks together.
Brainiac caught Clark's arm and knocked him back to the ground. He raised his hand which started to illuminate with red energy.
Kara drove her shoulder into Brainiac and caused him to slide back from the impact. Clark jumped over Brainiac, and the two of them punched at him from either side. Brainiac shimmered out of the darkness. He turned around and closed his hand.
A shrill signal resulted in Clark dropping down to his knees. The pure agony spread through his body. Kara tried to rush in to attack. Brainiac flipped her over and caused her to land onto the ground.
"You're on your knees, just like an inferior being like yourself should have been from the very beginning," Brainiac said. He raised his hand, continuing to force Clark down to his knees, further grinding them into the ground. "You're weak, pathetic, a waste of life. Look at you, struggling to breathe. If this is the savior Earth demands, then they aren't worth of salvation."
Clark once again struggled to get out of the position. He broke free and nailed Brainiac with a punch. The punch rocked him a few inches back. Clark summoned all of the power and channeled all of his frustration into one thunderous punch.
"I'm not weak!" Clark yelled.
"Your human upbringing makes you soft, and unable to comprehend the power I can use to bring you to your knees."
Kara jumped back into the attack. The distraction caused Clark to nail Brainiac in the side of his robotic neck. A loud crack followed when Clark started to string together multiple punches to stun his adversary and bring him down to his knees.
Clark continued to string together a multitude of punches. Each of them caught Brainiac off guard and forced him back a few more inches. He rushed forward and nailed him as hard as possible. The punch started to rip through his side. Brainiac struggled to avoid the punch before it dropped him to the ground.
He noticed the weak spot. Brainiac had taken extra care to guard it against Clark's attack. He locked eyes with Kara.
Kara swung her fists and caused a gust of wind to hit Brainiac in the chest. Brainiac blocked the gust of wind with a shield.
"Genesis will happen, like it or….."
Clark caught the spot in the side with one huge punch. Brainiac's eyes bulged out when Clark hit it.
"Much…start…repairs!" Brainiac managed.
Clark's fist pushed further into his side and he grabbed a black and orange box before ripping it out from him. Sparks flew when Clark removed the component core from him.
Brainiac's knees shook and the vibrations continued to ride through his body. He vibrated into a cloud of black dust.
Kara quickly gathered up the dust. She thought it was too easy, but more tests would prove whether she was right, or if she was just being paranoid.
"Hold onto that tightly," Kara told Clark.
Clark nodded, vowing to guard the black and orange box with his life.
Chloe looked up at the sound of footsteps. She really hoped it wasn't a creepy robot coming to have another little chat with her. She looked up and the doors opened. Clark entered, with a black and orange box in his hand.
"Thank Rao it's you," Chloe said.
"Thank Rao?" Kara asked, looking at Chloe in confusion.
Chloe blinked, wondering where that came from. Actually, she knew, and they would have to have a talk sooner or later.
"Um, yeah," Chloe said. She looked at Clark and Kara. "Do you think you could untie me? Those don't look very comfortable?"
"You're not the bondage type I take it," Clark said.
"Well, maybe, if you play your cards right," Chloe said. "But seriously, these ropes are making it very hard to breathe, so do you think you could….."
Clark undid the ropes. Relief hit Chloe's body, finally, she could breathe again. She had gotten up to her feet and Clark wrapped his arms around her to make sure she was stood.
"He didn't break anything," Clark said.
Chloe shifted towards Clark with a smile.
"Oh, are you a doctor now?" Chloe asked. "Maybe you should give me a full exam."
Kara cleared her throat a moment later. Chloe decided to take herself off of the high of being rescued to focus on the situation at hand. And also the fact she had something very important to tell Clark, and Kara as well.
"Clark, there's something I need to tell you," Chloe said.
'Took you long enough, 'Lara thought.
'Oh, I'm just telling him about the fact you're inside my head,' Chloe said.
'That's what I was talking about,' Lara said. 'What did you think I was talking about?'
Chloe flushed in embarrassment. Talk about sticking your own foot in your mouth.
'Never mind,' Chloe thought.
"There's…something really important I need to tell…." Chloe said. "Well, it's just…..I was hearing voices in my head ever since the cave…well not voices as in pure, but….just a voice."
Chloe's entire voice shook. Clark put an encouraging hand on her shoulder and convinced her to stand up. She took in a deep breath and tried again.
"I thought I was going insane, and can you really blame me," Chloe said. She decided to cut off Clark. "And I thank you for not making the obvious comment about me being halfway there."
Clark took a second to just let it all soak in with Chloe.
"Your mother, Lara, she's inside me," Chloe said.
'You make it sound so seedy,' Lara thought, with a smile.
"She is?" Kara asked. "Are you sure about that?"
Chloe realized something. Kara had brought up a pretty good point. No one could be sure Lara was really inside her head.
"Tell me something only Lara and I would know about."
Lara relayed something to Chloe which caused her face to go about ten shades of red. Chloe walked over and leaned towards Kara, whispering it in her ear. Kara's ears went a bit red at what she heard, she couldn't believe Lara used that as the thing, but to be fair, it was something they only would remember.
"That's her…that's her alright," Kara said, voice shaking. "Aunt Lara, it's good to see you again."
"She says it's good to see you again as well," Chloe said. "Um…maybe we should find her a body…or find a way to create one, I'm sure there's some Kryptonian thing we can use in the Fortress."
Chloe's eyes rested on the black and orange box.
"It was a trial run," Chloe said. "The real Brainiac is out there somewhere."
Clark and Kara both figured deep down as much. It looked like they had a lot of work to do.
"We better go back to the Fortress," Clark said.
"As long as I don't freeze half to death this time," Chloe said
"Don't worry, I can keep you nice and warm if you do."
"I sure hope so."
Clark smiled and scooped up Chloe in his arms before he darted off. Kara followed closely behind.
Chapter Eight: Transference
Chloe's initial impressions of the Fortress of Solitude weren't exactly the warmest or the most charming in the entire world. The second impressions worked out a lot better. Sure, the Fortress couldn't have been dressed upon too much given the circumstances. Still, she didn't feel the cold and dead feeling the moment she stepped into the Fortress that she did the last time. There were a lot of things about the Fortress which improved in her mind.
Plus, not freezing to death was a huge positive in her book. Chloe walked into the Fortress, taking a good look around. Kara and Clark stepped right behind when they explained the ordeal the two of them went through.
"Wait, wait, just let me get this straight," Chloe said. She brushed a strand of hair away from her face, sighing before plowing back in. "You're telling me the two of you had sex…with each other."
The complete dead pan way Chloe said this statement was only matched by the complete dead plan way.
"Yes," Clark said. He sounded so nonchalant Chloe would have had to laugh. "Yes, I did."
Chloe looked from the two of them for a couple of moments. She blinked and tried to figure this out. Granted, she didn't blame Clark, and hell, she didn't blame Kara, and Clark did live in a rural area, so relationships with blood relatives weren't exactly uncommon out in these parts. And they were from an alien planet, where such things might not have been as frowned upon as they were from the people of Earth. Plus, the advanced genetics might have not resulted in the potential biological problems offspring would have, although Chloe was thinking too far ahead.
Besides, they might have had advanced contraception to go with advanced genetics. Okay, Chloe was overcomplicating things a lot.
The rambling thoughts faded from Chloe's mind. She took a couple more seconds to figure this out.
"So, the two of you knocked boots….."
"Well, to be fair, we weren't wearing boots," Kara said. "We weren't really wearing anything."
Chloe tried to push the thoughts out of her mind. She didn't think it was wise to visualize Clark in such a state, especially considering the fact Chloe had the man's mother lingering about in the back of her head. Therefore, it would be kind if inappropriate to think about the fantasies she had been having about Clark for over five years.
'Oh, I already know about your perverted fantasies about my son,' Lara thought before Chloe could really brush those thoughts out of the back of her head. 'They're so deeply ingrained in your subconscious mind it's…well, it's kind of amusing.'
'Oh God,' Chloe thought.
'And by not thinking of it, you only pushed them further into your mind,' Lara answered.
Chloe couldn't believe such a thing would happen, and yet at the same time, she did believe it. Her mind flew through multiple different possibilities, going a hundred miles a minute with so many thoughts. It almost made her ears buzz.
"You know, if you think about it, it was about the only way possible to eliminate the Kryptonite infection," Clark said. "You know to sweat it out."
Chloe figured it out after a moment's thought and really kicked herself for not thinking about it. All of those times Clark had been under the influence of Red Kryptonite, she could have, helped him get over it. Granted, there were two problems with that. The first was, most of those times, she didn't really know what was going on. And if she had an idea, she made herself blissfully ignorant and unaware. People could be willfully blinded and not know it.
And the second thing was she would have hated herself for it in the morning, with such an obvious and blatant breach of Clark's trust. It would be a rather dodgy proposition, no matter how much desperate times called for it.
"Right, sorry, sorry, it's just….a whole lot to take in, you know," Chloe said. Clark looked at her with a smile. "It would be just like if I told you about a sexual escapade I had with Lois, just casually, as if it was the most normal thing in the world."
Clark stared back down at Chloe, smiling.
"Is there something you're not telling us, Ms. Sullivan?" Clark asked her.
Chloe flushed, realizing she stuck her foot in her mouth. She tried to look stoic, but Clark's smile made her flush even deeper.
"No, nothing like that, and I'd kindly ask you not to get any ideas of the sort either," Chloe said. Her hands on her hips only caused Clark to crack up into laughter.
Chloe realized, perhaps a bit too late, this was not a battle she would win.
'Open mouth, insert foot.'
"We're going to…well there's no delicate way to put this," Chloe said.
'We're going to have to locate me a body, yes, I'm aware of this,' Lara thought.
"Well, your mother, who only I can hear right now, pointed it out," Chloe said. "We're going to need to find her a…."
"A body?" Kara asked. "Yes, I thought about that as well."
Kara moved her way to the Fortress of Solitude computer. She brought up several different plans on the computer. Clark and Chloe watched them flash about the screen.
"And Clark gave me an idea," Kara said. "A couple of years ago, Jor-El used an imposter bearing my name to try and trick Clark to return to the cave, for one of his little missions."
Chloe recalled that, although she was a bit too busy narrowly escaping being blown up to really think about it until now.
"His sense obviously left him the moment he went all AI," Chloe said, shaking her head.
'My words exactly,' Lara thought.
Chloe wondered if Lara was being a bit more literal with these words than she thought she was.
'Didn't you just put them in my mouth,' Chloe thought. She brushed back a lot of hair from her face and frowned.
'Don't split hairs over the details, sweetie,' Lara thought.
Kara shook her head. She could tell right away from the look on Chloe's face, she was having a mental debate with Lara. And she decided to take pity on the other girl.
"I was looking around, and I'm pretty sure, Jor-El kept the girl in cold storage, just in case he needed her again," Kara said.
Chloe thought about the bad implications and realized things got even trickier, and dare she say it more dodgy.
"Yes, because kidnapping a young girl, keeping her captive, using her as a pawn, and shoving her into storage isn't creepy at all," Chloe said. A shudder reached through her body. Clark put a hand on her shoulder which relaxed her. "Still, it's not like there are many bodies we can use for this process."
She thought that was a sentence which would have never passed through her lips. Since when did she go all mad science and stuff, Chloe wondered. It didn't really matter, though. It might be the only chance to separate Lara and not have the awkwardness of having the mother of the man she loved inside her head at all times.
"I have a pretty good idea where she might be," Clark said. "I saw…..well I saw her disappear, and I know where Jor-El put her….."
Chloe raised a hand and smiled, understanding where this would go.
"Well, lead the way, then," Chloe said, a bit more chipper than she thought she would have been.
It made about as much sense as anything else for Jor-El to keep the body of Lindsey Harrison, the imposter Kara, in cold storage. After all, why go to all of the process of turning someone Kryptonian, giving her abilities and just throw her away like a piece of cheap tissue paper. That entire process seemed rather counter production even to Jor-El. He may have wanted a failsafe just in case his son went rogue, after all.
The trip into the cave brought back all kinds of memories for Clark and only a select few of them were anything good. He closed his eyes and flashed back to the moment where he had been brought into the cave. It was over a year ago, but to Clark it just seemed like yesterday in many ways.
Chloe stepped behind him, and Kara followed. The trio walked into the cave. Thankfully, perhaps by some sheer miracle or stroke of fortune they didn't run into any trouble. Perhaps their luck would actually pan out for once in their lives.
'Not going to count my chickens before they hatch, though,' Chloe thought. 'The worst thing possible is this turns around for the worst.'
Clark touched his hands on the cave wall. Despite Jor-El's presence in the caves being negated, there was still an echo of what was. An echo of memories which threatened to bubble up in the back of Clark's mind, but he shoved that way into the back of his head. He continued to work his way through.
"We have to be close, aren't we?" Chloe asked.
"Yes," Clark said a moment later. "We are…"
'Don't worry, nothing bad will happen,' Lara thought. 'Kara removed all of the failsafes Jor-El used to…discourage intruders.'
Chloe recalled one of them, and chills once again found their way to the base of her spine. The extent Jor-El went to safeguard the cave for intruders, it was amazing. And quite frankly it was fairly obsessive if she were perfectly honest.
Yet, a small part of her understood.
'Given how many shady people sniffed around these caves, the failsafes were needed.'
Clark's hands brushed against the side of the cave wall and he found the spot he was looking forward. He turned to Kara and Chloe, who shifted their feet off into the distance. He realized what could happen, and he might be the only one to stop it if it did.
"The two of you should stand back," Clark informed them. "I'm pretty sure it's safe, but…we're not going to take any chances."
"Right," Chloe said. She stepped back, and so did Kara, although she lingered a little bit closer.
Kara knew she disabled all of the fail safes, but disabling them was not a completely foolproof process. She watched, along with Chloe, a tad bit nervous about what might happen when Clark touched his hands on the side of the cave wall.
Clark experienced a flow of energy between his fingers. The vibrations rocked his body. For a mere moment, Clark thought he was about ready to lose sense of himself, with the continuous vibrations of the cave rocking in and out.
The rock slid open to reveal a shining bright light which caused everyone to be back.
Contained in a modified stasis chamber was a beautiful statuesque blonde, dressed in white attire, much like the type Kara wore. Her eyes closed shut and it looked like she was sleeping. Yet, there was something extremely eerie about her.
Chloe stepped on the other side of Clark and stepped over towards the chamber.
"Chloe, what are you doing?" Clark asked.
"Relax, I know what I'm doing," Chloe said. She screwed her eyes shut and decided, she had better verify what she meant. "Well, at least Lara knows what she's doing, I….I really don't have a clue what I'm doing. This should be amusing."
Clark thought amusing might not be the word to describe it. Regardless, Chloe pressed a couple of buttons in sequence. The fluids released from the chamber. The body of Lindsey Harrison slid from the chamber, and Clark caught her. She was still pristine, still healthy, other than the fact there didn't seem to be anyone home.
"Back to the Fortress."
A macabre sense of checking the cave for other bodies which Jor-El may have stashed here visited Clark. He shook it off, not wanting to go there.
They were back into the Fortress in a blink of an eye. Lindsey laid down on the operating table. Chloe and Kara secured her to the table, where Kara walked over and a brain scan started up.
It took several moments for them to eve scratch the surface of what a brain scan would have had to offer. Kara touched her hands to her hips, watching the scan go over to make sure the vessel was completely empty for Lara's transference.
"I don't think she's had any brain activity for a long time," Kara said. "Other than what Jor-El directed her to go…"
Kara double-checked the brain scans, nothing inside her mind. The humans had a saying where the lights were on, but no one was home.
It must be awful to lose memories, not have a sense of herself. And yet, Kara could feel only vague memories of those last few months on Krypton herself, so she understood the predicament the girl had gone through.
It would be far too late to restore her, but she could use her as a vessel for Lara's AI.
"She's all gone, mentally, and the only thing Jor-El used her for as a puppet."
"The crash she had been in must have caused her to go…well caused her to have brain damage," Chloe said. She brushed back another lock of hair from the side of her face and frowned. "Are you sure this is a safe process?"
Kara put a hand on her cousin's friend's shoulder and gave her a smile.
"Entirely," Kara said. "You'll feel a mild tingling feeling before you pass out. And then you'll wake up, and your cranium will be less crowded."
'Well, Lara, I guess you don't have to put up with my perverted delusions about your son anymore,' Chloe thought. She slipped onto the second table when Kara helped set up the process.
'Remember, they're only delusions if you choose for them to be.' Lara thought. 'And it's not like I'm leaving you without leaving my mark.'
Chloe was caught off guard.
'What do you mean?' Chloe asked.
'Well, you'll be able to understand Kryptonian writings still, and you'll have higher durability than usual, you won't be full Kryptonian, but you'll be stronger than the average human,' Lara thought. 'So, I don't think there will be any excuses for you not to fulfill your…..delusions.'
Chloe realized how surreal it was for her best friend's mother to be playing matchmaker when they were about ready to be separated. Regardless, she felt her eyes getting fairly heavy, and she knew now it would only be a matter of moments before she blacked out.
Kara watched Chloe's mind drift off into a state of restfulness. This gave her an open door to start up the transference process and separate these two brilliant minds.
The process started up without any hiccups and with a careful hand, Kara intended for it to go this way.
Chloe rested currently, and Lara was adjusting to her new body. This left Clark and Kara alone in the Fortress, along with the black box which Clark pulled from Brainiac sitting in front of the pair of them. Clark hunched over the box, the deepest of frowns passing over his face.
Kara walked over to Clark to put a hand to his shoulder and started to caress it.
"The box, it's not giving off any signals," Clark said.
"None that the Fortress could read," Kara said. She took a moment to turn it over. "Brainiac's not exactly an idiot. He must have disconnected himself from this particular drone the moment you defeated him."
Kara hoped to find anything, the slightest, most minor trace out of the system. She located pretty much nothing, therefore they had pretty much gone nowhere.
"And the ship, it's a non-starter," Clark said. He leaned back into the chair. "Lex would have upped the security around it after….he found out someone tampered with it. And then…..it's not to say what the ship would do to either of us."
Kara had some many unanswered questions in her mind. She decided to try and state one of them.
"Who was the one who sent you the information anyway?" Kara asked.
Clark had given the matter much thought and decided to come off with what he hoped was a solid theory about the matter.
"It would have had to have been someone who was pretty high up the food chain in LuthorCorp," Clark said. "Someone who Lex would have trusted to get close enough to a top secret project."
Luthors always had their secrets, and if Clark knew one thing, he didn't exactly hand out trust very easily. Throughout their entire friendship, Clark always had the sense Lex was viewing him with a critical eye, underneath a microscope. Therefore, Lex wouldn't be telling Clark anything.
"So, while we're waiting, there's something else I have to ask you," Kara said.
"Is this about the multiple wives thing?" Clark asked.
"Yes," Kara said. "Have you given it some thought?"
Clark frowned when looking towards the box. It allowed him to stall for time for a few more minutes.
"Yes," Clark said. He turned around and returned tinkering with a couple of items in the Fortress. He was trying to put something together where it would help him trace Brainiac a lot easier.
At least, it was the idea, but Clark knew what happened to the best laid plans. They often flew completely off of the rails.
The dead signal coming from the dead box should have been an ideal starting point. At least it should have, but Clark figured in the end it didn't. It left him back at square one, trying to scramble to find a way to locate something.
"We don't have to do anything too jarring," Kara said. "Just find someone that you trust, and bring them into the fold. And then we'll work from there, on a case by case basis."
"Yes," Clark said. "I perfectly understand where you're going with this one…and…..I don't know….."
"Right," Kara said.
Kara figured the fact he didn't exactly say no outright was encouraging. And she had the perfect ace up her sleeve to help convince him. She knew Clark about as long and as well as anyone else. And she had her eye on Clark about as long as anyone else.
She stepped into the room to check on Chloe. Chloe had sat herself up in bed and was shaking her head. Kara walked past the room where Lara was currently resting in her new body and sleeping underneath yellow solar ramps to replenish her energy faster.
"So, how are you feeling?" Kara asked.
"Oh, I feel….it's funny, I went through a major medical operation, and I feel like I can tackle pretty much anything," Chloe said. "That's funny, wouldn't you think?"
Kara smiled. She had to be perfectly honest, she did find that fact kind of amusing. Still the fact Chloe had plenty of energy served Kara's goals quite nicely. She reached over and touched a hand onto Chloe's. Chloe looked up at her in surprise.
"So, you and Clark are very close, aren't you?" Kara asked.
"Yes, I mean, we've had our differences, but even the best of friends do, don't they?" Chloe asked.
Chloe took one look at the smile on Kara's face. She didn't really know what to make about that particular shifty little grin.
"Um, why are you smiling?" Chloe asked.
"Chloe, it's obvious you have an interest in him," Kara said.
Chloe knew she could be pretty transparent at times. Still, the fact Kara was grinning made Chloe wonder exactly what she was up to.
"Yes, but you've…already made your interest in him clear," Chloe said. "So….."
Kara reached over and touched her fingers to Chloe's lips. The spunky blonde looked up at Kara.
"You think you don't have a chance, but you do," Kara said. "Kal-El, Clark Kent, whatever name you want to refer as is special….and he deserves….don't you think he deserves a reward for all of the times he's saved the day?"
Chloe's lips formed a very obvious smile. Boy did he ever save the day, more times than she cared to count.
"He has saved the day a whole lot," Chloe said, wondering where this was going. Actually, she had a pretty good idea where this was going and she was pretty sure she….well she was conflicted about it.
Kara could tell she hooked Chloe. All she had to do was drag her in.
"Didn't you ever dream about thanking him for all of the times he swooped in and saved you?" Kara asked.
Oh, Chloe thought about it alright. Thankfully, Kara didn't listen to her when she slept sometimes. Her frown grew in prominence. She didn't know where this was going, to be honest. All she knew was Kara was doing a pretty good job in egging her on, and making her think, making her crave the notion to take her relationship with Clark to the next level.
"You should go for it," Kara said. "You should have gone for it years ago….I'm not opposed to sharing, and I know you're a girl who wouldn't be selfish either."
Chloe blinked and wondered if Kara….actually there was no wondering about it.
'She just gave me her blessing, and come to think about it, so has Lara,' Chloe thought a moment later. 'I…boy…this is…..well….'
She thought Kara was right, maybe something like this should have happened between the two of them years ago. Chloe took a moment to consider something and considered the ultimate question of the universe.
What would Lois Lane do?
Chloe had no idea why her cousin came to mind during this pressing question, but a voice resembling Lois barked through Chloe's subconscious.
'You should stop being a pussy and jump his bones.'
Chloe raised one hand and gave a weak salute. What did she have to lose anyway? If anything, Clark and her would awkwardly realize this wouldn't work, and things would be awkward, but their friendship would be strong enough to survive.
What if it did work?
Chloe was sick and tired of wondering what could be. It was time to woman up.
Clark bent over several pieces of high-level equipment. It was amazing how sex cleared the mind and gave a person some inspiration to get certain things done. He continued to work over the pieces of equipment and try and find something which would allow him to track down Brainiac.
He just wished there was more success in doing so. Pretty much every attempt to hunt Brainiac and track him made Clark think ramming his head into solid concrete would be more productive.
'Every single moment he's out there, he puts people at risk,' Clark thought. He shifted two pieces of the equipment together. 'He's a danger, a danger to everyone in the universe.'
Clark heard the sound of water running all throughout working on the project, but he really paid it little mind, if any mind at all. He had his mind on the project.
"The Fortress is really perking up now, isn't it?"
Clark turned around and noticed Chloe walking out of the shower. She wore nothing other than a towel which covered her body. Clark noticed it was hard not, how she had undergone a growth spurt after the transference process. Her bust had grown a cup size or two, her hips grew a little bit wider, and her legs had shot up a few inches. Chloe walked over with a smile and parked herself onto Clark's lap.
The brazen action of the young woman caused Clark to be off guard. She turned towards him, her lips coursing in a smile.
"You seem tense," Chloe said.
The towel wrapped around her looked to have been held up by the sheer force of gravity.
"Um, Chloe," Clark said. His gaze averted down the front of her towel. It was almost like some kind of magnetic pole pulled him in. "You know….aren't you…aren't you getting a bit cold…."
Chloe smiled and leaned closer towards Clark. Their lips almost touched, but Chloe pulled back with a tease.
"Well, if I'm getting cold," Chloe said. She touched a hand on Clark's shoulder and smiled. "You can help me warm up a little bit, can't you?"
Chloe's hands touched on the back of Clark's check. Her body pressed against his which caused Clark's pants to become very constricted. He tried to block it out of his mind. Chloe's smile widened when she pressed closer towards Clark.
"You saved me again," Chloe said. "That seems to be a recurring thing, doesn't it?"
"Yes," Clark said. "But, it's no problem, I'm….."
"You think I should get a tattoo on my ass?" Chloe asked. "Maybe it should read, the Property of Clark Kent."
Chloe turned over and the towel rode up. Clark almost slid back in the chair when he saw Chloe's firm ass, along with other parts of her when the towel rode up. He wanted badly to touch her, to have her.
"I think it would look good right about here, wouldn't it?" Chloe asked. "But, that doesn't seem too practical right now, when I can just thank you."
Chloe turned around and dropped the towel completely. Clark's heart started to race when Chloe sauntered over towards him. She placed her hand on Clark's package and squeezed it.
"You are tense, Clark," Chloe said. She gave him another squeeze. Chloe picked up Clark's hand and placed it upon her breast. "Maybe we can help out each other."
Chloe decided to seal the deal before Clark could protest with a kiss. Her warm lips crushed over Clark's and he returned the favor. The warmth of their mouths pressed against each other, when Chloe unleashed years of pent up aggression into one kiss, even though it was just the beginning.
She violated Clark's tonsils with her tongue, before pulling back.
"Let's get you out of those pants," Chloe said. "And into something a little warmer, and maybe a bit tighter."
Kara watched from the corner of the Fortress, a triumphant smile crossing her face. As much as she would have liked to help Chloe out, she preferred to see how this would go.
Plus it would be good progress for the limitations of Chloe's new found stamina.
Chloe settled the towel down on the ground and settled herself down on her knees in front of Clark. His throbbing cock stuck up in the air in front of Chloe's face. Chloe wrapped her hand around it and stroked him a few times.
Clark enjoyed Chloe's soft hand caressing his manhood. Her fingers intertwined against his hard cock. She leaned down and licked the head which resulted in his cock jumping up a little bit more.
"You like that, Clark?" Chloe asked with a sultry smile. She ran her tongue all the way over his manhood. "Well, if you like that, then you're really going to love this."
Chloe took Clark's hard rod all the way into her mouth. She sucked on him, lips making some rather nice smacking sounds when she made her way all the way down on Clark's base. Her hands rested on Clark's thighs with these long, powerful, sensual sucks.
Clark could not get enough of her warm mouth and throat. Chloe really went to town on his manhood. Her fingers caressing his balls made this even better.
Chloe continued her sucking on his rod. She pushed her lips around him and took him down into the back of her throat. She hummed when coming all the way down on Clark's mighty rod. Chloe's fingers stroked him a tiny bit and looked towards him. The hunger increased when her hot, passionate sucking did. She really did work over every inch of his cock.
Clark enjoyed this for several minutes, but he wanted more. He grabbed Chloe's face and made her pull his rod away from her mouth.
"Why did you make me stop?" Chloe asked. She bit down on her lip.
"Because," Clark said. He leaned down and cupped one of her nice firm breasts in his hand. "I want to take you to my bedroom and eat your pussy before I fuck your brains out."
"Sounds naughty," Chloe said. "But, do you think you can handle me?"
"Let's find out."
Clark scooped up Chloe, and the next thing they knew, they were in a bedroom inside of the Fortress. He tossed Chloe down on the bed.
Chloe laid back and spread her thighs. Her pink pussy opened up, inviting Clark to dive in between those warm and inviting thighs.
Clark did so. He started to kiss his way down, starting from Chloe's chest. He sucked on her nipples and caused her to scream. He then kissed all the way down from her navel which resulted in more tingles coming down her body. Then, the moment he reached her pussy, his tongue lavished the hot wet hole and shoved his tongue deep inside of her.
Chloe grabbed onto the back of Clark's head. She could not believe this particular dream came true. Clark was eating her pussy. And it felt so good to have his powerful tongue delving inside her. She moaned and grabbed the back of his head, encouraging him not to stop. An amazing orgasm started to rack Chloe's body. Her hips thrust up to send her juices flying into Clark's mouth.
Clark tasted Chloe's hot pussy, making sure to lick up every single inch of it. The only thing which this served as to get him hotter and hornier, cock throbbing even harder, becoming like an iron bar hanging between his legs. He knew the only way he could kill this pulsing erecting.
He pulled from her face, dripping with her juices. Clark peered down at Chloe's beautiful face. She looked so primed and ready to fuck. He leaned down and pushed his throbbing cock head at the edge of her entrance. Chloe's hands rested on his hips.
"Clark," Chloe muttered. "I need you, badly."
Clark smiled and shoved his hard cock into Chloe's dripping hot pussy. Her wet cunt stretched over the top of his throbbing cock head. The warmth Clark had been surrounded in was intense.
Chloe closed her eyes. She had never believed this would happen. Yet it did, with Clark rising almost all the way up out of her, and driving his hard cock into her tight body. She hung onto the back of his neck, enjoying him taking some deep plunges inside of her.
"More, please," Chloe breathed. She could hardly stand this. She needed Clark so far inside her, it wasn't even funny.
Chloe grabbed onto Clark's shoulder and tried to dig her nails into him to make him ram into her.
Clark hung onto Chloe and drove himself down into her. Her pussy felt so warm, and tight he could just fuck it all day. The build up in his balls made him feel how much he wanted this.
Chloe's orgasm hit her hard. Clark didn't even back off. He held down Chloe and kept fucking her. She encouraged him to.
"We should have done this….a long time ago!" Chloe yelled. Her hands cupped Clark's ass and encouraged him to drive his cock deeper inside her. "Keep fucking me, don't…don't ever stop fucking me!"
Clark slid his cock deeper into her snug hole. He had no intention of letting up on her, not if he could help it. The warmth of her latest orgasm only encouraged him to drive his hard cock further into her body.
"All of the times...I wanted to pull you into my office at school….suck you off," Chloe said. "Do you realize how many times I wanted to do that?"
"Why didn't you?" Clark asked. "I would have let you."
Chloe's pussy tensed up around his hard rod. He slammed this rod into her body.
Clark wondered how he could make this night even better. He had his answer when Chloe's newly developed breasts grew with each time he pushed his cock inside her tight body. Clark bent down and grabbed her wonderful tits.
"Oh, Rao!" Chloe yelled. Clark's hands squeezed those breasts. "It feels so good…keep fucking me, I'm almost there again!"
Clark rode Chloe out to another orgasm. Chloe's hips rose up to meet Clark one more time. She tried in vain to milk his cum all out of her.
"I want to get on top of you, and ride you," Chloe said hotly in his ear. "I bet you'd like that, I bet your cock would be bigger inside of me if I was on top. I bet it would be so nice to see my new titties hitting you in the face."
Clark pulled out of her and Chloe's pussy whined. She never thought she could feel so empty. Regardless, she saw Clark lying back on the bed, cock primed for her. It looked so delicious having been coated in the evidence of her constant orgasms.
"You wanted me," Clark said. "Here's your chance."
Chloe turned over and smiled when getting over on the bed. She looked at Clark's throbbing hard penis. Chloe climbed on top of him and put her pussy at the tip. She spread her legs and eased his cock inside of her.
"It is much bigger when I'm on top!" Chloe yelled.
"Damn has your pussy gotten tighter," Clark groaned.
Chloe smiled and started to bounce up and down on Clark's rod. The spunky blonde pinned Clark down onto the bed while riding him and assaulting his mouth with hungry kisses, along with every other part she could reach. She rose up until the entire tip was brushing against her entrance, teasing herself and Clark. She brought herself down, giving herself a slap on the ass for good measure which made this entire situation all the more enticing.
Clark reached up and cupped Chloe's chest in his hands. It only caused her to bounce even higher. The friction of their loins meaning together lead to an aching in Clark's balls, so much cum inside of them. He watched Chloe come up and down on them, those tits just firmly cupped in his hand.
Then, he sat up, and Chloe wrapped her arms around the back of his head. Clark's face buried between Chloe's soft, sweaty, breasts. He sucked on those juicy nipples, and hunger started to increase in his body. Chloe made Clark suck her round, sweaty orbs.
It was so good to feel Clark worship her breasts. Chloe almost came undone when feeling him buried inside her.
"That's it, baby, fuck my pussy," Chloe said. "Don't you pull out of me either….I want your cum inside of me…..I've been waiting for you to fuck me hard for five fucking years. I think I need a little reward for my patience."
Clark kept at her pussy. Chloe squeezed his rod, trying to milk him for everything he had.
"Well, maybe not so little," Chloe whispered in his ear. She tensed up around him. "Yes, baby, that's it, cum for me."
Clark held onto her ass. Her sexy voice hitting his ear, her breasts in his face, tight pussy wrapped around his cock, and his hands on her firm ass, it was almost too much for Clark to bare. Chloe kept whispering dirty speak in his ear and he could not last much longer.
"Spill your sticky cum in my tight, nasty pussy," Chloe whispered. "Just think, we could have been doing this for years. You should have taken your reward. And now, I'm going to take mine."
Clark had been a little slow on the uptake sometimes, although she did blame herself for not being ab it more assertive. Chloe's wet walls closed down on him and she knew the end of his orgasm was near. Her pussy sang with hunger, wanting to milk his balls dry.
Those balls released their glorious reward inside of her. The first blast of cum hit the inside of Chloe's walls with the force of a rocket, and she admired them for that. Every time they hit her, she thought she would have lost her mind.
Clark enjoyed the warmth of Chloe's pussy. She squeezed his cock and milked his balls all the way down to the last drop, filling her body with his semen.
Chloe rolled over, resting her head on Clark's chest. She placed her hand on his abs, tracing patterns all over them. She was sticky, sore, and all worth it.
She turned, a slight scowl on her face. Clark had been surprised about the about face in Chloe's temperament.
"Did…did I do something wrong?" Clark asked.
"Yes, there is."
Chloe shook her head and grabbed Clark firmly by the shoulder. Her leg wrapped around Clark's hip when she pushed towards him.
"I'm pissed off at myself for not doing this much sooner," Chloe said. "And Kara, the next time, feel free to join us….after all, the more the merrier."
Kara smiled over from the corner. She had more than enough fun watching two friends unleash their bottled up sexual aggression towards each other.