DC
Marvel
The Newest Marvel
(A/N finally getting to write an original chapter, Unchanined had set the bar for this quite high, so I hope I can keep up)
***Three days after world war hulk events***
***Jean Gray pov***
***Xavier's institute for gifted youngsters***
Jean was sitting in her office, a pile of used tissue paper, it was this morning that she was at the funeral of one of her best friends and lover who she fell hard for.
Jean remembered standing there with Jane Kent, both were bawling their eyes out as they saw the coffin being lowered to the ground.
Marcus Kent was a wreck as well but had put on a brave front for his wife, this was every parent's worst nightmare, having your child die before you do. Jean, her parents and Clark's parents were all embracing now all the woman crying and the men just being strong for their family's sake.
Jean got awakened from her daze when she heard a knock on the door, "come in Hank." She answered already knowing who is in the door thanks to her telepathic abilities.
The first thing to get through the door to her office was the dark blue furry hand, then the rest of the body of the beasty mutant came through the door.
He had a somber smile on his face, Jean knew that he took the news of Clark's death quite hard, everyone in the institute took the news hard but hank was a different case, Jean knew that he probably wouldn't admit it but he began to see Clark as a friend, rather then just a collogue.
The furry mutant came and sat on one of the chairs in front of Jean, he looked at her and said "just came in to check on you, how are you doing?"
Jean smiled she appreciated her old friend checking up on her, she wanted to say she was ok, she wanted to say that the worst is over.
But as soon as she opened her mouth she began to cry again, it wasn't as bad as before but it was still quite heard.
Hank was quick to come and comfort her, he gave her an awkward hug, all the while patting on her back and saying "there, there."
The only thing that came through Jean's mind was the regret that she never really told Clark that she loved him, and it would hunt her for the rest of her life
***Carol Danvers pov***
***New York, Baxter building***
Carol was in her civilian cloths standing near the windows viewing the city being rebuilt, it was still a mess, especially after Bill Foster's nephew Tom foster had gotten his hands on the Goliath formula, made himself big and came after tony and misty knight, but soon after when the aliens from sakkar had fought each other he gave up in order to bring some semblance of piece.
Now Carol was looking at him as he helped damage control by holding the side of a falling building, tony had told her that he was going to hire him after what he saw the kid doing with his uncle's formula.
But Carol wasn't thinking about that, honestly the only thing that came to her mind these last three days was the one thing she didn't want to think about at all.
Clark.
She kept thinking about her ex and how he had hid his powers from everyone, even his bloodwork was not showing anything, but he was able to keep up blow to blow with the hulk himself, he was even able to fly faster then she could, at first when she only knew his hero persona as Cobalt she thought much like everyone else that he had made his own stronger version of the iron man armor, but now she didn't knew what to think.
She was tired of thinking to much about the subject, after all the only person that could have given her any answers was six feet under ground.
So she turned around from the window and went to Reed's office, she had a meeting with Tony and Reed Richards anyway.
As she went to the meeting she already had an idea what it would be about and honestly she wasn't excited about it.
She got to the office and knocked on the doors and waited for a minute before she heard Reed's voice saying "come in."
As she pushed the doors and went inside to the office she could see Reed sitting in his chair behind his desk, while Tony was on the other side of the desk, he was wearing a usual black business suit and in one hand had a glass of whisky and the other had still in a sling.
Reed motioned her to sit in the chair next to Tony, after she did the three of them sat there in an awkward silence for about three minutes before Tony finally broke it by coughing and saying "soo... Carol... I have to ask... did you knew your ex was a powerful Hyperion/sentry like being?"
Even though she expected this question, she was caught off guard of how fast Tony had gotten to the subject of this meeting.
Carol was quick to shake her head and said "I had no idea, when I was reunited with him, after our.... Evening together I had S.H.I.E.L.D agents do quadruple checks on him, the reason for that was ever since I knew him he was a sickly scrawny person, you can imagine my surprise when I saw a healthy muscular guy in his place."
Carol noticed that both Reed's and Tony's interests were picked at that, and Reed asked "so how did he went from being this sickly kid to that... well.. Superman?"
Carol was quiet as she heard him calling her ex what the whole world was calling Clark after his battle with what the media dubbed "world breaker hulk", she shook her head and said "according to the agent I had talked to, he said that Clark had gotten to this point through hard work and exercise, he even told me that he had blood work done before starting to work in the ant farm, and that his blood came up negative to any indication of superpowers."
At that Tony had given Reed a look, to which he had shrunk in his place and said "I had checked it myself and it is true, Clark Kent's blood work did came back negative to any and all superpowers, so either he had gotten them after working here..."
"or he somehow had hid his powers in his blood works." Tony had finished for him.
Carol was sitting there in silence trying to figure out what to do now when all of a sudden Tony had turned to her and asked "and when you two were dating, you didn't noticed anything different or out of the ordinary with him?"
She shook her head and said "no, nothing out of the ordinary, and like I said... he was different from what I'd remembered him, and that what had caused me to contact S.H.I.E.L.D about him in the first place."
Tony had just nodded his head and said "thank you Carol and sorry if we made you feel uncomfortable, but we needed to know you weren't compromised."
Carol nodded and said "understandable Tony, now do you need me for something else, or am I free to go?" Tony had gotten up from his chair and said "you are but you know the old saying... don't leave town and all that..." Carol had gotten up as well and Tony had walked her to the door.
As soon as he had closed the door behind her she received a call saying they needed her help, something about possible location on the hulk remaining warbound.
She soon had changed her outfit and went to action, all the while thinking that her biggest regret was not be able to patch things with Clark.
***Reed Richards pov***
As soon as tony had closed the doors behind Carol, he turned towards him and asked Reed "well? Does she checks out?"
Reed had a frown on his face while he was going through the notes he wrote down during this faux interrogation, after going through it all and the S.H.I.E.L.D files depicting the information Carol clamed to give, after that he sighed and said "so far she seems to tell the truth, all of her claims checks out."
Reed sighed again, thinking about everything he went through these last three days, the city rescue and rebuilt efforts, the Tom foster incident, him almost killing Bruce Banner when he found him after he and Cla-Superman fell back of earth and seemingly died.
And finally, he and Sue's marriage problems, he put all that to the back of his head and said to Tony "so what are we going to do? It's not like we are able to ask the only person that actually have an answer about the whole story."
Tony just gave a small smile and said "Au contraire my dear Reed, although he might not be able to tell us anything he still might give us some answers."
He motioned for Reed to come with him and they left his office, on their way Reed couldn't help but ask himself what Tony had gotten both of them in to the labs in the building.
They were both entering through the door but as soon as Reed saw what was in the middle of his lab he stopped dead in his tracks, Tony turned towards him and said "now I know what you must be thinking... but I can assure you, this is no grave robbing... since he was never really put in the grave."
Reed looked on as in the center of the room was a giant test tube and in it floating in liquid was Clark Kent himself, he had some oxygen mask on him but most importantly, he was wearing a black suit that had a silver S shield in the middle of his chest, and on closer inspections reed could see that the suit was made from a solar absorbing material.
He had turned towards Tony and said "explain. Now."
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***Clark pov***
***unknown location***
All Clark could see was white, he was in a white space and nothing else, he saw nothing but endless white space stretching to infinity.
And then a figure appeared in front of him. He could tell the figure was female in form, clad in purple robe, she had a face that many would call beautiful but Clark couldn't help staring for a different reason.
He knew he saw her before but wasn't sure where, but then it clicked "I know you... you were there when I had my accident with Jean and Annie."
He stopped and gave another once over and asked "who are you?"
The figure just gave him a small smile and said "over the eons I had received many names and titles, but you may call me this, Mistress Death."
Clark wasn't as shocked as he thought he'd be, after all in his old world he had met with gods of death and even Nekron himself, but more over he knew that he wasn't at full strength when he pulled that stunt with the solar flare in order to save everyone on earth so he half expected this to happen.
Finally he asked "so I take it that I'm dead?" to his surprise she shook her head saying "not really, and yet at the same time... you aren't really alive..." that confused the reborn Kryptonian and Mistress death laughed saying "please allow me to explain, due to your original Kryptonian physiology, your body is now in a death like coma state, it is repairing itself while your consciousness is somewhere else."
Clark now had taken a look around and asked "what is this place then?" Death gave him a smile and said "I guess one such as yourself might call this place 'the in between', not quite hell or heaven, a void if you will."
Clark felt that he understood what she was trying to say and asked her "so why am I here? If I'm not about to die then what am I doing here?"
Death answered "well you see, as you must know you were reborn to that universe after you had died on your old one, but what you don't know is that it was I who rebirthed you in that universe."
"what?"
Death smiled and continued saying "when you first died something, or rather someone had rejected you from your multiverse and into mine, I saw the life you had lived, the sorrow you went through and the sacrifice you had made, I wanted to reword you but seeing as you weren't from my multiverse I had to saturate your soul with experience in my realm by rebirthing you there, I had given you a good life, and also made it so you would know what it is like to be human so you would be able to connect to the people of earth."
Clark had thought on her words deeply, on the one hand he was confused as to why he was rejected from his multiverse, he did try his best to save everyone and had paid the price.
On the other he was grateful to Mistress Death for what she did to him, as strange as it might sound, he would have never been able to truly connect with the people around him if he had his powers from the beginning, and that was a gift to him.
So he turned to Death and said "thank you for doing this for me." She smiled and said "your very welcome Kal El." At hearing her call him that something in him started to stir, on a very deep level he started to feel yet another although smaller change accruing.
He asked her "so now what?" she gave him a look and said "now you are going to start waking up, and when you do, all of this will feel like a forgotten dream to you."
And before he could answer she snapped her fingers and everything went black.
***two days later***
***Jean Gray pov***
***Xavier's institute for gifted youngsters***
Jean woke up from her sleep and was about to get up from her bed when something had stopped her, she felt a faint signal from consciousness in her mind, it took her a second to recognize it and she had her jaw dropped when she did.
~impossible!~ she thought as she quickly got out of her bed. ~he died." Were among all the thoughts the came through her head as she came to a conclusion that she never thought possible ~Clark Kent, Superman was alive!~
To Be Continued
A/N hope you guys enjoyed the chapter so far, It was hard for me to write, usually I only write about 1500 per chapter but I made an extra effort for you guys, tell if you liked it in the comment, and if you have any ideas to improve the story tell me in the comments or P.M me