Beyond Smallville: Fan Fiction

Flight Plan

Chapter 3

Flight Plan “There it is again, Chief.” A middle aged air traffic controller pointed to a blip on his radar screen. “What’s the flight designation?” His supervisor asked. “That’s just it there is none.” He replied.

The supervisor watched as the blip disappeared again over Lake Michigan. “I’ll get on the phone to the Air Force and see if it’s one of their birds. They might have had some flight training scheduled. Either way, the bogey is out of the local air space. How big is she?”

The controller wondered why they always referred to various craft as ‘she.’ “She can’t be that big, sir. I’d guess that she was a Piper Cub or another small Cessna. Actually she was hauling ass pretty good. I wouldn’t rule out an F-16 or F-18.” The controller answered.

 His supervisor placed his arms behind his back thoughtfully. “But whose is she?” The controller shrugged. “She’s gone again. Maybe it’s just a radar ghost, or a flock of geese.”

The supervisor coughed roughly. “I hate to alert the Feds if it’s just some wayfaring birds. Keep me posted, Reilly.” The controller nodded. “Will do, boss.” 

Kara zipped through the high level clouds filled with ice crystals. She’d never seen Chicago, and now seemed like as good a time as any to look it over. Lex’s arrival at the Talon had spooked the young alien into a game of hide and seek with the clouds. 

Kara enjoyed blasting some crystals into water and making it rain with her heat vision. She headed for the Sears Tower, one of the tallest buildings in America, if not the world.

Careful to avoid any maintenance workers, Kara landed atop the skyscraper and relaxed. I’ve only seen Earth through television shows, books, and the Internet, Kara mused.

I know a lot about this world that Kal and I are supposed to save, yet I’ve really been nowhere. The flying, though unexpected, was a great way to get from place to place, she considered. 

Kara draped her long legs over the side of the last flat space atop the tower, below the broadcasting antennas. She gazed out over Lake Michigan and the surrounding area, blissfully unaware of the controversy she’d started at O’Hare International Airport…or that Brainiac was intent on tracking her, and bending her to his will.  

 A few large jets had taken off from the large airport, and the smaller one called Midway, deeper inside the large Midwestern city. Kara watched them with passing interest.

Earth’s technology was on the rise, similar to how Krypton’s was a few short centuries ago, she observed.  The humans had reached another planet, their moon, and had sent primitive craft across their solar system and into the rest of their galaxy.

What if someone bad found it? Kara thought warily. Someone like Brainiac? She shuddered, ignorant of how close to reality she’d come. The young alien continued on her journey, leaving the Sears Tower and Chicago behind. 

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