slayers_desire | the kind of future you don't want to have ((future!verse))

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the kind of future you don't want to have ((future!verse))

It was midnight.

The perfect time for Dark Oak to be out hunting. There was no out at this time beside the ones she hunted anyway. They locked up the humans to control the streets. The Kandorians.

But they couldn't control her. She was the best one for the job when it came to an assassination, such as her goal for tonight. To get in and do the job without getting noticed and without leaving any trace of what happened.

One night at a time they attempted to reclaim their world. Tried to work against Zod and his army. And tried to reclaim the lives of thousands of innocent people.

And while she worked for a rebel team, Dark Oak still felt alone. Her heart felt heavy, ever since she and Clark got separated. Zod seemed determined in making Clark hurt... and Dark Oak did what she could to hurt Zod back.

The darkness was there again in her mind. And she had to take a moment to stop... and wait...

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"I have to admit, I'm pretty glad too." He's been better, and so has she, but right now this is the best moment he's had since Zod came to power. It doesn't mean the shame of his failure is gone, but he can see her, touch her.

Lois shakes her head, and her expression clears a little when she notices Oliver with her rescuers. "Oliver!"

"Heya, Legs," he answers, smiling despite himself. "Long time no see."

"Am I ever glad to see you and your band of merry men!"

April closes her eyes for a moment. Of course Lois would assume that Oliver was leading the team of heroes.

"They are not all men. Your cousin is here too."

And she is just going to stay in Clark's arms. Confident that with her Earth elementals outside protecting them, they are safe for the moment.

Chloe and her strike team emerge from the halls, with a pair of the elementals escorting them. "The mansion's clear," she says, and she doesn't exactly smile when she sees Lois, but the hardness in her eyes softens a bit.

Lois gives her cousin a hug. "Man, those crazy space invaders almost killed us. You've got great timing, 'cos."

Oliver, meanwhile, has been distracted at the sight of Tess dying. Once his lover, now a long time enemy, he still can't help but feel concern for her.

Clark can't bring himself to watch, focusing on his wife in his arms. "Nice elemental spell. Your idea?"

"One that got approved." She still didn't quite take lead. But he is safe... who cares.

"I saw that they were coming for you." She touches his hair, leaning close to touch her forehead to his.

Clark doesn't say why he didn't try to contact her, that he didn't want her to see him die, or worse, be killed herself. It's a threat they've lived under since Zod took over. "I owe you my life, again."

She has seen him die before. It is definitely something that she would not want to experience again. Even through the bond.

"I can't believe I am in your arms again."

He may look slightly different than the last time she saw him this close. Small scars on his hands, on his face, from where the Kandorian guards sometimes hit him. A fresh cut in his hairline from when he tried to stop them from taking Lois today. A razor thin line on the back of his neck, where Zod rested his sword before raising it to strike. But he's still Clark, at the core.

"It's really good to hear your voice outside of my head again."

She is tempted to kiss each one of those small scars. And while the others in the room seem to disappear, April knows that right now is not an appropriate time for personal displays of affection.

"I am not letting you out of my sight this time."

"If that's your plan, we need to get going," Chloe says, getting down to business. "Zod won't just sit by and let us get the run of the mansion."

"I want to bury Tess," Oliver says, meeting her eyes.

"We don't have time-"

"I'll make time."

"Lois... do you still have the Legion ring?" If Chloe wants to get down to business, April can do professional mode.

"No. The one-named wonder, Zod, took it. What's so important about that ring?"

"It lets you travel through time," Clark explains. "We need to get it back. Then you can return to the past and stop Zod's solar tower from being built. Stop all this from happening."

"I guess we need to get the ring from Zod then."

"That's not going to be easy," Chloe says, ignoring Oliver as he picks up Tess and carries her outside to be buried. "None of us have been able to get close to him. Not after Clark went after him on his own."

"I did what I thought was best," Clark says, though it's a weak defense and he knows it.

Lois doesn't know what's going on, but she doesn't like this tension she's seeing and hearing. "Okay, then, look. Why Clark decided to take on our enemy E.T.s by himself is beyond me, and maybe you think he abandoned the cause or something. But come on, aren't we all in this together?"

April can understand Chloe's resentment too. Clark left her behind to face Zod too.

"Lois is right. We are in this together. And together we can fix this." She concentrates, focusing on her voices to see if they will tell her anymore clues.

Her voices will offer up the image of the solar tower, that constant beam of red energy disappearing, bringing back the yellow sun.

Clark, obviously, can't see her visions. but his thoughts are already along similar lines. This is the first time since the takeover that he's felt like he might be able to do something. "You guys shut down that tower and bring back the yellow sun, you know I'm your best chance of getting back that ring." And he doesn't care if Lois hears. He's not going to say that he's the Blur, but finding out he has a secret identity is small potatoes compared to what they're facing.

"My visions agree with Clark's suggestion." And April doesn't care if Lois hears about her abilities either.

"What's the big deal with this tower?" Lois asks, still confused. She keeps getting more and more questions, and that's intolerable as far as she's concerned.

"The towers are the key to the Kandorians' power. They collect all the sun's radiation, turn it red, and then beam it back up to the LuthorCorp satellites," Chloe explains. "Those satellites take the radiation, and they beam it back down to earth, giving them all their superhuman strength. If we take the tower down, we shut them down."

Lois looks alarmed. "Guys, I've seen Zod's troops. We are seriously outnumbered. We'd never reach it."

Clark knows that Chloe might not welcome his advice, but he needs to add in his two cents. "Sounds like it might be time to pull out the secret weapon. The Kandorians never found Watchtower, did they?"

It looks like Clark is returning back to being a leader. There is a slight smile on April's face as she stands back and watches him. He will make things right... she believes it.

Chloe looks irritated, but answers the question. "No, they didn't. I powered down Watchtower so the Kandorians couldn't find it, but I can use the computers to hack into Zod's big red flashlight and unleash a virus that should shut it off remotely. It'd be simple, if we can get into the forbidden zone."

"Bring back the yellow sun, and I promise you, we'll get the ring back and undo this."

"I have about a billion questions right now, but... how does turning the sun yellow make Clark our number-one draft pick for taking on this Zod guy?" Lois interrupts.

Do we tell her? April asks Clark. It is his decision.

He thinks about it. It could help, but it could also lead to a lot more questions that they don't have time to answer right now. She can ask me in the past if she really wants to know, he decides. "Zod and I have history," he says out loud, in a tone that clearly indicates he's not going to say anything else right now.

Since none of these questions are directed at her. And it is not her place to lead the others into their new mision, April moves to the window to check on her Earth sentinels.

Oliver has taken a few of them to stand guard as he buries Tess, smoothing the dirt over the grave in the front lawn of the Luthor mansion. It blends right in; there hasn't been grass on the lawn for months.

Clark pulls Chloe aside for a quick, private talk. And when they're done, he joins April at the window. "Chloe's sending the other rebels back. It'll be us, Oliver, and Lois. Too many people would attract attention."

"They will be safe. They can start reclaiming other innocents." She watches as Oliver says his goodbye to Tess. "They can start trying to reclaim their lives. And mourn for what was lost."

"Hopefully everything will be undone soon. And none of this will have ever happened."

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