Clark Kent looked sat on the couch and looked across the room at his host. He was sitting in a high-rise apartment in Manhattan. The apartment complex dominated the rest of the city, and from the large window, the entire financial district could be seen. The view was simply breathtaking, but Clark Kent wasn't looking at the city...
He looked at the young man who had recently stepped out of the shower. A tall young man with a lean, wiry build. He was good-looking, with blond hair and pale blue eyes. His name was Bart Allen. He was the fastest human being in the universe. Long ago, Clark Kent and Bart Allen met, back when Clark still lived in Smallville. Nowadays, Clark Kent wasn't the smalltown boy he used to be. He was a junior at Metropolis University, studying Journalism, with a minor in Business Management. He had moved out of his parents's farm in Smallville and lived in an apartment, somewhere in Metropolis. Not long after Clark Kent's arrival in the City of Tomorrow, there were rumors of a strange man with super powers helping people in the city. This man was seen stopping car accidents, foiling bank robberies and catching the most dangerous men and women of the criminal underworld. Yet no one knew who he was, or where he came from.
The local newspapers called him a "Superman".
The "Superman" in question was none other than Clark Kent. He had taken to wearing a blue shirt and jeans and red leather trenchcoat when there was trouble afoot, that and sunglasses. So far, no one had recognized him. He'd been in the city for three years and had caught dozens of criminals and saved hundreds of people from certain death. Clark Kent was living his life. Ever since he left Smallville, there had been a lot of changes in his life. He had fully embraced his Kryptonian Heritage. The mighty Kryptonian Fortress of Solitude stood in the Arctic, accessible only through the Portals which only Clark Kent knew the location of. Clark Kent had gone into the Chamber of Knowledge, a special part of the Fortress.
The Chamber of Knowledge had instructed him in the entirety of Krypton's Natural Evolution, Civilization, History and Technology. It had helped him embrace his heritage. He had been transformed. Now, he could fully use all of his Kryptonian powers. Flight, Super Strength, Super Speed, Super Hearing and Invulnerability. The Chamber of Knowledge had corrected a certain flaw in his biological and cellular structure which made him vulnerable to different varieties of Kryptonite. Once the cellular flaw was removed, Clark Kent, also known as Kal-El of Krypton, had become impervious to all varieties of Kryptonite. They could no longer harm him physically or psychologically. None of them. Green, Red, Black or White.
Clark Kent's actions in Metropolis hadn't gone unnoticed by the other superhumans who knew him. Back in Florida, Arthur Curry, the tall blond young man who would one day become King of the Sea was making waves. He'd been helping a lot of people during the storms that battered Florida. There were rumors of a tall, handsome young man with superhuman strength and speed who seemed to be able to control the sea itself. The locals called him "Aquaman". Bart Allen had been in Florida while the storms occured. He had done something very uncharacteristic of himself. He had stayed to help the humans, even though with his Gift of Speed, he could run a couple hundred miles in less than an hour and could outrun any storm. While helping the humans, Bart Allen met someone else who also had super powers... Arthur Curry, also known as Aquaman. They ended up working together to help people. Curry told Bart about another person with super powers, and based on his description, Bart heard about his old buddy, Clark Kent!
