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The Newest Marvel
*** Annandale-On-Hudson***
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Clark felt the hit on his back even as he grabbed both Rachel and John and move them out of harms way. Rachel appeared to be stunned by the event while John looked confused. He got them safely inside the house and his X-Ray vision showed two intruder coming in through the kitchen window but before that there was a spear like object aiming for one of Jean's guest.
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Using his super speed he grabbed the spear and rush over to the window and burst through it to intercept the large rock creature and the woman dressed in white armor. The creature he'd never seen before and the woman could have passed for Bekka appeared surprised when they saw him. To be able to see him while using super speed, they were clearly powerful. With his momentum he collided into both of them with the spear and ran them into the ground.
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Clark quickly turned around and opened up all of his senses to find more intruder and hear more energy discharging. He might not have been able to pinpoint the source of the attack but he knew where it was gonna go. It lead Clark to the front of the house where he tanked two shots that would have hit the elderly couple behind him. The shots tore holes into his shirt and was able to set it ablaze had he not snuff it out. The then saw the sniper, it was a man in a mask that was aiming at him again.
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Without a word of warning, Clark fired his heat vision and melted the weapon, then he sped forward and punched the man sending him flying off. The elderly couple looked surprise but rushed into the house.
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Smart move.
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"HELP!" Clark head turned toward the room where the sound came from. Using his X-Ray vision he saw two boys screaming for fear against a man in black suited armor with red goggles emitting some kind of fog from this body. Clark ram into the man with his flight at highspeed and punched through the Grey's roof. He then toss the man hard into the ground.
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Clark turned back to the house and saw Jean dealing with some type of small machines that acted like it had a hive mind. He watch Jean crushed the machines making it explode. Jean then contained the explosion in a telekinetic bubble and directed it outside of her home. He saw the Greys' were all gathering to the center of the room with Jean and Rachel keeping an eye out of each other.
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Out of the corner of his eyes Clark saw a couple that was trying to get into their car most likely attempting to flee the scene of chaos being targeted by a man with wings. Clark intercepted the winged man none to gently and smashed him directly into the couples car before pushing him harder into the earth. Quickly grabbing the two couple he brought them inside where the crowd gathered. That's when he saw a green bug thing trying to sneak up behind Rachel, it appeared to have some kind of stealth function. Dropping off the couple in his arms he grabbed the bug creature arm before it could stab Rachel and toss it outside.
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A moment later there was a flash of red as another section of the Grey house was destroyed but it was accompanied by the flying body of a large green skinned thing Clark recognized as a Skrull from the news, though it seem extremely large for it's kind.
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After a quick search Clark saw there was a gas life form trying to make it's ways to the Greys. Spinning like a top he was on top of it and sucked it around him before he disperse it outside of the house in the air.
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Finally Clark look down at the assembled attackers that seem to be regrouping even as Jean and Rachel was coming of the house with very pissed off expression. With the Grey's there was Betsy Braddock, who appeared to have been wearing a bath towel. Kitty Pryde and Kurt were standing guard. Jean must have called for them.
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Clark slowly hovered down to the ground protectively in front of Jean and Rachel. He could feel the women eyes on his back even as he stared down the group that attack them. They seem to be picking themselves back up but eyeing him warily. They consisted of a large birdlike man in a black cloak, a bald man with red goggles, the very same one Clark ran through the roof, the large Skrull, the women in light armor that reminded him of Bekka but without the sword. Then their was the green insect thing with big red bug eye that reminded him of a cross between and ant and a fly. Right behind them were the sentient gas cloud thing that reformed itself, a sniper with the skull like helm that he punched earlier, and the winged eagle face man. Finally there was the large creature that was composed of rocks who was not friendly looking like the Thing at all.
"Shi'ar!" Jean was the first to speak up as she appeared to have recognized them. "Why are you attacking us? Does Lilandra knows about this?"
"The order came from her office itself," the leader of the group informed Jean who made her suck in a sharp breath.
"Now that the Phoenix have left you, now is the best time to kill you and wipe out the entire Grey's Genome so declare the Shi'ar Majestrix! We the Death Commando will carry out our duties!"
"That is not going to happen," Clark told the Death Commando leader. The leader seem to be looking at Clark as if studying him.
"Odd, you were not in our database," the large Black Cloak creature told him. "Our quarrel is with those of the Grey bloodlines, not you."
"Any quarrel with you have with the Greys is with me, Shi'ar," Clark spat out with anger. To wipe out everyone with the Grey Genome? To cleanse off an entire bloodline no matter the age? Clark eyes glowed red and he saw several of the Shi'ar death squad members step back a bit.
"Clark?" Jean asked him uncertainly as if she was not sure who he was.
"I'll explain everything to you after this is over, I promise," Clark told Jean and felt a soft presence touched his mind.
'Okay.'
"You're like a Strontian with your powers, yet you look human, what are you?" Black Cloak appeared puzzled by Clark.
"Your worse nightmare if you want to continue this fight," Clark warned as he prepared for battle.
There was a tense silence before Black Cloak threw his spear at Jean at high velocity while the Bekka like woman threw out an energy projectile at Rachel. Clark was able to intercept the spear before it struck Jean, and move to block the blast that would hit Rachel. The two Grey women of course were not idle as the entire Death squad which had been charging toward the trio staggered to their knees clutching their heads in pain.
"You dare come down here to threaten my family?!" Jean voice began to take on an ethereal quality. "You will forever regret this decision!"
"D-Death Squad, retreat!" Black Cloak ordered before a beam teleported him and his entire group from sight.
"Are they gone?" Clark asked Jean who's hair was floating all around her, there were flicker of fire at the edges of her visible power but after a moment it tapered off.
"Yes, I don't sense anyone at all around us, and this time I am actively looking for it." Jean expression was one of pure relief and self loathing.
"Jean, it was a sneak attack, if they knew you, they'd prepared for you, you shouldn't blame yourself," Clark gently walked up to Jean and hugged her to him, he felt her relax soon after.
"Mein Gott, so Clark was a mutant the entire time?" Kurt Wagner aka Nightcrawler appeared out of no where looking very shocked.
"Really? This is huge news!" Kitty Pryde came out with Psylocke in toll. The later were in a bath robe for some reason.
"Not quite," Clark sigh as his secret came out in the worse way. He never even told Carol but for some odd reason, perhaps he felt that Jean would be more understanding.
"You guys mind if I talk to Jean first?"
Rachel and the rest looked at Clark before they nodded leaving Jean and Clark alone. Her green eye were looking at him with encouragingly. There was no scorn for withholding the secret from her.
"You sure you don't need to talk to your family and make sure they are okay first we talk?" Clark asked with a wry smile as he looked at the damage to his shirt which were nothing more than tattered rags at this point.
"Already talked to them," Jean assured him as she tapped a finger to her temples. "Perks of being a telepath remember?"
Clark could only chuckle before he prepared to revealed his biggest secret.
"Where do I even start?"
"Are you a mutant? I know you didn't have these powers before, is that why you change so much?" Jean asked as she eyed him with curiosity, her eyes roaming over his body as if to take in the changes from what she remembered.
"No? Yes? Maybe?" Clark groan and ran a hand through his hair frustration but suddenly felt a gentle touch on his face. He looked down and saw Jean looking at him encouragingly.
"Ok, it all started with a car accident I was in almost a year ago, that's when my powers reawaken," Clark heard Jean gasp but continued on.
"Or perhaps I should say heritage? Birthright might be a better word..."
"So you got your powers from your car accident?" Jean asked him to which he nodded yes. "It sounds like the stress of your injuries awaken your powers. That makes you a mutant Clark."
"Do I still count as a mutant if I gain my power because I have alien DNA?" Clark asked Jean bluntly and saw tilt her head.
"I'm- I'm not human when my powers are active and I don't know why."
"That sounds similar to what happen with Carol, she has Kree DNA in her that let her become Ms. Marvel," Jean tried to draw a parallel for him but she was not on the right track.
"You know what, let's start over," Clark began again this time finding a better way to explain it. "I am not the Clark you know but at the same time I am. The Clark you know lived on this world for exactly twenty three years."
Clark watched as Jean face slowly morphed into horror, she was probably assuming the worse.
"But the Clark you know is not dead cause he never died. When the accident happened memories of a past life reawaken. In that past life I had these powers," Clark explained quickly and he exhaled in relief as she no longer was horrified but completely confused.
"And no it is not reincarnation, if anything it was more like a rebirth..."
Jean expression was scrunch up in confusion but Clark was glad she was clearly trying to make an effort to understand.
"In my past life, my name was Kal-El, my parents sent me from my dying planet, Krypton to Earth, there I was found as an infant by my adoptive parents, the Kents. They did not realized under Earth yellow sun, I was given many powers, powers that I learned to controlled with time. At the age of twenty two I made my debut as the super hero known as Superman. I was also the very first super hero of that Earth."
Jean looked like she was about to asked him something but Clark continued.
"In this life, I was born Clark Kent, three month prematurely by my blood parents, the Kents. Unlike my previous life, I was weak and frail as you well know. I could only have dream of flying in the skies."
Jean eyes soften as Clark described the second part of his life.
"For some reason, when I got into an accident, my Kryptonian physiology kicked in and saved me and my Kryptonian mind instead of wiping out the personality that was this Clark, merged both old Clark and new Clark together."
Jean eyes finally revealed a look of understanding on her face.
"Clark, that's… thats-"
"I know right?" Clark smiled at his childhood friend in sympathy. After all he too had a tough time trying to understand it too and it happened to him.
"Oh and I've, been moonlighting as the super hero known as Cobalt after hours, well, was anyway, now that the SHRA is in effect."
Jean still looked a bit lost but slowly her appeared to be looking at him perplex.
"Wait we did your blood work, Hank personally drew your blood, you're human!" Jean look to Clark for an explanation.
Clark took out his watch and handed it to her.
"The people of Krypton lived under a red sun, it's radiation made them as fragile as any human here, it is yellow sunlight that would empower them. This watch emits a very small amount of red solar radiation directly into my blood stream to suppress my power. However, for some odd reason, when it fully suppresses my power, my entire physiology return to that of a human, healthy yes, but still human."
Jean looked from Clark to the watch several time.
"But you still remember everything from the past life and this life?" Jean asked as she looked at Clark with curiosity shining in her eyes.
"Yes, up until the moment of my previous life death," Clark saw Jean frown at his casual mention of his previous life death.
"Do you know who you feel is the more dominate personality?"
"I can't really say, although I think the Clark from my old world was more reserve because he had to hide himself while the current me was more outgoing. It feels like I've retain the best from both."
"Hmm," Jean looked at Clark again. What her thoughts where he can only guessed before he felt her snap the watch back on his wrist.
"I guess we should keep quiet about this since you don't want to register and you are clearly not a mutant."
Clark looked down at the watch and looked back to Jean hopefully. "Does that me-umph!"
Jean silenced him as she gave him a deep kiss before breaking it and looking at him.
"You are simply Clark. There is no old you or new you."
Clark was speechless at Jean's declaration, but the rejection he feared that might have happened turned into acceptance.
"Jean… Thank you."
He truly meant it from the bottom of his heart and Jean must have known as she blushed prettily at that.
"Lemme talk to the others to keep your powers secret, the less that knows about what you can do the better," Jean decided as she walked over to her friends but stopped as she turned to face him with a what he called her headmistress stare.
"Oh and you owe me a date mister, I'm not just any girl you can kiss you know."
Clark laughed feeling the knot in his heart loosen in regards of his secret. Jean accepted him and for now that was all that matters.
To Be Continued...