Exile

L'shanna T'Vah (happy new year...yeah it's rosh hashana) ..anyway, tollins robbins, dc comics, satan, and warner brothers own...just borrowing for my own sick pleasure....


When benign creatures attack

Sunday was the longest day in the history of the world. He called Kal earlier in the week and asked if he and his father wanted to come to Sunday dinner. Zed declined but Kal was available.
Tommorow Lex returned to his regular job teaching the uninspired of Smallvile chemical equations. And Kal would be there, a student and completely, utterly off-limits.
And he had the dream the night before, which always seemed to foretell distaster:
He was 9 years, asthamatic, red-headed, and freckled running through the corn field.
A high pitched scream like a helium balloon losing air, but a thousand times louder, and multiplied by a million piercing his ear drums.
His father was gone and he was alone, and oh god cover your head.
A crash so close, and now his ears are bleeding, and his nose, his unlamented red hair drifts to the ground like feathers in the wind.
And when he can see, and breath, there's a boy standing next to him. Naked, black haired, beautiful with a bright smile. He brushes hands against his cheek.
And then the rest of them are there, The ANTS, the aliens who took Lex's hair, and his asthma, and his father, and his billions, and his life. Tall with their black skin shining and glinting (like metal a dreaming Lex realized) their helmets(not heads, helmets) pointed, and shaped just like a workers ants face, and one who must be woman (she hs the approrriate bumps) pats Lex on his newly bald head (metal, not flesh, against his head.) And they scoop the other boy up and take him away and all Lex can do is cry, because now he is alone, truly and horrifying alone in a world where the monsters don't even bother to put on people masks anymore.


Lex tried not to worry even though he woke up in a cold sweat to his father calling his name. Intense physical labor always cleared his mind, so it was good to muck out the barn and tinker with the ANTS solution to a tractor, and milk their persnickety cows.
He was done with everything by 2:30, and he decided he had enough time to check on the bunny rabbits before washing up for dinner.
His laboratory was in the storm cellar, which he'd expanded years ago when his parents decided he shouldn't experiement in the house. One explosion, and people think you're a mad scientist or something.
It was cool down there,dark, and Lex congragulated himself on the job he'd done on the place. He had a computer stocked with as many scientific programs he could steal from the highschool and some he'd created himself, to help organize and analyze his data. Though he didn't really need to use it since he remembered EVERYTHING at this point.
He also had beakers, and test tubes, and bunsen burners, and anything else that wasn't nailed down from the chem lab at school.

Smiling for the first time in what felt like days, Lex turned his attention and looked at the 4 glass cages resting on a long wooden table on the opposite wall. There was something wrong with the picture, but it took a few moments for his mind to process all of the information.
In the first cage, Zeus had his ear pressed against Hera's mouth like he was listening to a secret. When they noticed they were being watched, though, they turned and gave Lex such a look of pure indignation he felt ashamed for a moment.
Well, excuse me.
In the second cage, Persephone and Aphrodite were going at it like rabbits: which was odd because they were both female. Bunnies and cunninlingus...who knew! This was definitely something worth noting.
But the last cage was the worse: Broken glass littered the floor and there was a giant, bunny shaped hole but no bunny. Apollo, the only brunette bunny of the bunch, was in pieces on the floor.
It seemed Ares, his brother, was loose. And in a homicidal rage.
"This isn't good." Lex said to other bunnies.




"Lex! Kal is here!" Martha called from the front porch.
"Okay, I'll be right there." He'd looked everywhere for Ares. He wasn't in the storm cellar, and something about the way the remaining rabbits looked at him...well let's just say he was glad to be out of there.
The bunny wasn't in the barn either, or around the barn, or anywhere.
Or at least, he wasn't responding to "here Ares, Ares, nice bunny, nice bunny."
Lex knew he should tell his parents there was a mutant bunny rabbit loose on the farm, but despite the fact that he was a grown-up he couldn't bring himself to do it. It wasn't that he meant bad things to happen...they just always did. He imagined what he'd tell his parents.
"See, dad, I already tested the molecular structure of the rocks, and I needed to see it's affect on something organic, and alive. And what better animal than the kindly bunny rabbit."
Fuck.
"Lex!"
"I'M COMING!" Lex decided it could wait until after dinner and pasted a smile on his face as he joined his mother on the front porch.
"Where is he?" He asked.
"Oh he's inside dear. We've been waiting for you. How's the experiment going?" Was it mother's intuition or midwest values that made her ask the question. Lex wasn't sure.
"Fine. No change...really. Same old Same old."
"Is something wrong dear?" She looked up at him, blue eyes like a hawk.
"No, of course..." And the look on his motehr's face as she pointed over his shoulder stopped him.
"What the FUCK is that!" She yelled.
Lex's first thought was predictably childish: Mom said the f-word.
Then he turned and saw Ares, now the size of a rottweiler, walking from the corn field towards the porch.
He shook his head for a moment, and noticed the other rabbits were standing at the door of the barn, their teeth bared and greenish glow to their eyes. They too were larger, and they actually snarled at him.
"Uh, I think we better get inside," Lex said weakly.
"Those aren't the bunnies Mr. Dell gave you are they. They look...different." She didn't appear to be moving, and truth be told, neither was he.
He grabbed her hand and pulled her inside just as the rabbits decided to pounce.

Once inside, Lex and Martha watched as the door shook and groaned under the onslaught of bunnies. They hit it hard enough to break the window and the top, and then stopped. There was something ominous in the silence, and mother and son exhanged a long look.


Martha shook her head.
Jonathan walked down the stairs idly whistling an old country tune.
"What's going on you two?" He asked with a smile. Obliviousness, thou name art Kent.
That's when they heard the glass breaking in the kitchen.
They ran to the sound and there was Kal (wearing a pair of tight black jeans and a scumptious red shirt...Focus Luthor) struggling with a rabbit who was hell bent on ripping off the boy's beautiful face.
"Not his face!" Lex screeched. Martha and Jonathan gave him an odd look.
The rabbit turned as well, and decided Lex was the source of all of his pain. Snarling, Ares lept across the kitchen and attempted to rip HIS face off.
Kal, flushed and looking a littl sick to his stomach, managed to get his hands around the rabbit's neck, putting him in choker hold. Ares struggled, but then let loose with his feet launching Lex into his parents clusterd at the door. They all went down like bowling pins.
The bunny sank giant fangs into the boy's arm, who screamed and let go.
Kal recovered quickly as the rabbit turned and decided to take out this upstart boy. He picked up a skillet full of hot grease and fried chicken, and flung it at the bunny, who squealed and sizzled under the onsluaght. The boy picked the injured rabbit up, opened the oven, and shoved him inside, using his body to keep the door closed. The rabbit jumped against the walls of his prison, putting dents in the side.
"A little help here would be nice." He said to Lex, who was trying to get untangled from his parents. Once accomplished, the he ran to closet and retreived the shotgun and a box of shells.
He returned just as the other rabbits decided it was time to join the fight. Kal was pelting them with pieces of fried chicken from his spot by the overn, while Martha threw scoops of potatoe salad at their heads. Jonathan just stared in horror.
"Stand back everyon!" Lex shouted.
He took them out one by one, shooting Ares even though he was alreay pretty much cooked. It was really quite anti-climatic.

"What were you thinking! They could have killed us all in our sleep!" Jonathan began.
"How could you Lex! When I think what you did to those poor rabbits..." Martha interrupted
"Don't you know Kryptonite is dangerous! Do you have a death wish!" Kal growled.
Now that was interesting. Kryptonite. He liked the sound of that.
Lex sat on the living room couch while his parents and Kal acted like judge, jury, and executioner.

He tried to focus on their words, both spoken and unspoken, and feel ashamed at earlier events, but part of him was excited by the results of the experiment. He always thought the meteors had something to do with the large number of mutations in Smallville, and now he knew he was right. The telekinetic librarian, the fire-breathing poodle, Lana Lang's obsession with pink...it all made sense.
"Lex, you aren't a little kid anymore. We worked hard to teach you common sense, and responsibility not only for yourselves but others. But today...I don't know. Maybe it's time for you to move out and live on your own." Jonathan said, no longer able to meet Lexs' eyes.
"But I didn't mean for any of this to happen!" God, I sound like a 2 year old. He tried again. "Mom you want me to stay, right?" Lex turned pleading eyes on his mother.
"I think it's a good idea." Martha said with a sigh "It's not that your dad and I don't love you, it's just..."
The banging on the front door was a welcome interruption to his mother's words. He never thought she would agree with his father to kick him out. It hurt.
"I'll get it." Kal said. He looked uncomfortable so Lex sucked in his quivering bottom lip and managed to smile at the boy as he left the living room.
"Thank god for that boy." Jonathan said. "He's good people."
Kal returned holding a red Envelope.
Red Envelopes were bad, very bad. Everybody knew that. The boy handed it to Jonathan, wo gave it to Martha, who took one look at it and passed it Lex.

"Uh-oh." Lex said.
Lex opened it and an HI appeared in the middle of the room. A tall, forbidding man who actually resembled Kal, if Kal were 60 years older and really really mean, crossed his arms over his chest and surveyed the room with cool imperious eyes.

"Lex Luthor Kent, you have broken a number of the town ordinances while a member of this community. Illegal expermintation, reckless driving, hijacking a hovercraft to name a few. We have turned a blind eye to your activities in the past, but now we feel we must really step in to curb your dangerous and self-destructive behavior. You are hereby re-assigned..."
Martha gasped and started to cry. Everyone knew reassignment was a kind euphenism for death.
"If you think we are just going to standby and let you murder our son, then you've got another thing coming...you..you holographic image!" Martha yelled.
"Yeah, You and your dirty Ants will have to get by me to take him away!" Jonathan added, crossing his arms and giving the HI a steely glare.
"And me." Kal said, and his voice was as cold as the HI's. In fact, it gave Lex a chill.
The HI looked around, at Lex's accusers now turned protectors, and started laughing. Which was strange: He'd never seen an HI do that before.
"Johnathan Kent. Martha Kent. Kal-E...Anderson. Calm down. We aren't going to kill this young scientific genius. We just think he needs to be in an enviroment where his intellectual curiosity is an assett, and won't harm anyone else. You will be working for the Meteorite Recovery Team, to study their properties. Report to the Castle tommorow with all of your belongings by 5pm. You will be living there indefinitely." The HI winked out of existence.
Lex exhaled