"I learned how to fly." I looked down at my missing lower half and then back towards the distant Superhero, "Do you think you can come bring me home? I'm about to crash into Venus soon."
"I can see that! Unfortunately, I can't just go galavanting around in space…" Of course he had some convoluted reason for not being useful again, "It's not convoluted, Clark. If I leave Earth, the White Martians might notice my Psychic Presence and it wouldn't take long for them to find both of us."
"For fuck's sake…" I rolled my eyes at him from tens of millions of miles away. Theoretically, he shouldn't have been able to see me do that for nearly four minutes, but apparently our super-vision could see faster than the speed of light? Otherwise how could I watch my lower half disintegrating so fast? The sun is 6 light minutes from Venus.
"Clark, you need to focus on slowing yourself down. If you crash into the planet at your current speed, the consequences will be dire." J'onn gave me some unnecessary advice.
"I'm surprisingly calm considering the circumstances. And I am slowing down." I focused on Venus again and my speed was decreasing rapidly. I spread my arms wide and enjoyed the bright sunlight on my back. I could feel part of my spine regenerating slowly. The intestines and other organs I lost were able to regenerate way faster than the bones.
"I can hear your friend calling your parents to check on you." The Martian asked, "Did you want me to let them know you're stranded on another planet?"
"I'm not stranded on Venus yet. Even if I make it there, it's just a matter of time before I get back home. I can fly now. There's nothing stopping me." Although I telepathically said that, the truth is that I would need a lot more time to actually get used to this whole gravitational superflight bullshit. I'm scared that I might miss Valentine's Day with Lena. I also didn't want John to get anywhere near my Mom…
"Why are you so afraid that I'll get near your mother? Clark, your mother is certainly attractive for a human female, but I'm simply not interested."
"Anyway, can you tell Lex to tell Lena and my parents that I'll be back soon? If I'm not back in a month though…" I didn't really know who was on Earth at the moment or who could and would help me get back home from Venus. Lex was planning on sending people to Mars within a decade, but he definitely didn't have anything that could get to Venus now.
"Don't worry. I have a friend that might be able to help. But he's just not on Earth at the moment." Of course he did.
"Thanks John. I appreciate it, seriously. I know it might not sound like it, because my mind is kinda chaotic, but I don't think you're useless." I did mean that seriously.
"I've been a telepath for nearly seven centuries, Clark. I've experienced many wars and genocides. Atrocities you can't and shouldn't have to imagine. Trust me, your mind is nowhere near the most chaotic or vulgar I've touched." He might be a superhero, but he wasn't Batman or Superman. He was the Martian Manhunter. Probably one of the most overpowered characters outside of nonsense like… No, wait, I probably shouldn't even think about those bastards or they might turn their gaze towards this dimension. The moral of the story is that J'onn J'onzz was hopefully my friend and not some kinda supervillain pretending to be my friend.
After all, that was a pretty common plot in literally every superhero show and comic.
…
*Boom~!* I hit the thick, insanely hot atmosphere and ripped it apart! The sound was deafening and it felt like my flesh was burning off!
*Doooom~!* And then I crashed into a volcano, ripping it apart as I blasted through the other side!
Then I blacked out when I finally hit the ground.
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Eventually I woke up.
"Ugh…" I felt so weak and broken. I swam up through the molten lava and pulled myself onto the rocky shore. My left arm was fucked, but at least it was still attached. The right arm was relatively intact, just really badly bruised.
"Shit…" I coughed, gagging on the ridiculously sick and noxious air. I could breathe, but was it worth it? My lungs could easily remove the oxygen from carbon dioxide, allowing me to harness the oxygen for energy. But the lack of sunlight down here was rough. Not that I lost my powers though. I basically had my powers unless I was hit by Red Sunlight specifically. No, I was still overpowered as fuck.
It was just taking a while to heal compared to my time in space. And I was even more crippled and gimpy now than before. Like seriously, what the fuck?
"Hahahaha~!" I couldn't help laughing as I thought, "Is this Superman or Invincible?"
Seriously, whatever cosmic being wrote this particular Superman story was definitely a sick motherfucker. First he has Superman arrive when Lois and Lex have already been best friends since high school and even started dating seriously. Then the bastard has Martha Kent become a pedophile that abuses her son. Lena Luthor and her mother are dead by the time Clark is four years old. I saved Lena, but then she got kidnapped immediately afterwards. Canon Clark would have likely gotten killed or captured trying to save the little girl, since he would've been way too much of a pussy to actually use a gun and kill people.
Let's see… Martha and Jonathan have marital problems while she occasionally abuses her son. Lex would have easily sunk his hooks into the naive and innocent kids, both Lena and Clark, assuming he didn't kill off the Kents first to gain custody of their son.
I'd like to think that I've made the best decisions I could and also helped make both my Mom and Lex into better people than they were destined to become. Same with Lena and umm… Well, probably Lana too. Assuming she didn't get murdered right there and then, she might have gotten raped and beaten by her father on a daily basis until she eventually awakened her powers and killed the bastard herself.
"I'm being too passive." I breathed heavily and felt my left arm start to regenerate more rapidly, "I'm not a fucking human anymore!" I growled as my body, or what's left of it, floated into the air.
"I'm about to be ten years old. Ten fucking years as a Kryptonian." I felt like my skin was being scorched by acid, lava and the heat of the atmosphere itself, just like my lungs. I breathed out, then inhaled even more deeply!
"Nine years on Earth! Nine years of bathing in Yellow Sunlight!" I roared and the vibrations shook the mountains around me. I inhaled the superheated air and felt it burning my chest, "You're not gonna fucking break me!"
*Boom~!* The volcano nearby erupted and the ground ripped apart underneath me!
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