TIME:  2:30 AM

PLACE:  FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE

DATE:  NOVEMBER 10TH, 2001

 

START LOG

 

How to start this…  I feel like something bad is going to happen.  Call it a hunch… or even reporter’s intuition.  Metropolis is slowly changing itself.  25 days ago, October 27th, a new law was enacted in Metropolis.  The law basically states that all companies within Metropolis are to help further its technological well-being to become a literal City of Tomorrow.  Okay, that’s fine.  Hover cars are becoming more prominent, robot police are common on the streets, and the city is being built into levels. 100 stories per, 3 levels so far.  Forth on the way.

 

That seems fine.  But with new advancements are supposed to come new responsibilities, correct?

That’s what I thought.  I mean, the city has wasted no time in receiving gifts and such from companies like STAR Labs and LexCorp.  But crime has begun to skyrocket.  Homicides are spinning out of control.  I can’t even count the number of suicides.  Intergang is constantly trying to start trouble—and Intergang is at a new level as well.  They have these platforms on which they can attack, and laser guns that I’m afraid to let Kara or Kon-El go up against.

 

There’s an eerie feeling I keep getting.  Every time I don’t hear a jumper, or Perry sends me out to

investigate a murder case where a child committed patricide…  Sometimes I wonder who will have it

better once Metropolis builds up completely:  Metropolis or Gotham?  Gotham has a little over one and a half million people…  Metropolis is quickly approaching three.  Three million?  How are one man and two children supposed to handle three million people?

 

Kon came to me today while I was at work.  He informed me he was going to go to Gotham to talk to Batman.  And then he informed me he has “athazagoraphobia”.  And then he left.  Upon doing some research, I discovered that is the fear of being forgotten.  What does that mean?  Anyway, I should go. I promised I would stop by Barbara’s apartment and see how she’s doing at about noon, and I have to jump Lois before she gets home from the graveyard shift.  Technically there isn’t a graveyard shift, but you know my love.  She’s a workaholic, which I plan to change by our honeymoon…

 

SIGNING OUT

KAL-EL

END LOG

 

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TIME:  4:00 AM

PLACE:  FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE

DATE:  NOVEMBER 17TH, 2001

 

START LOG

 

My bad feelings are coming into reality now.  Kon-El left a note saying that he was leaving.  Yesterday he and Kara had a situation at Cadmus.  Apparently he had some moldy, festering pizza in his room and somehow he dumped a mutative potion onto it, and thus began to grow a monster.  Kara calls up screaming about how “a [censored] monster is trying to kill us all!!”  So, I went to Cadmus.

 

I had never been to Cadmus beforehand, and I wasn’t sure what to expect.  Kon-El always talks about Cadmus like it’s this wonderful thing.  I didn’t honestly believe him because the boy has issues.  But when I got there, I took one look and discovered that it was amazing.  Alien creatures I had never imagined are there, and humans, and so much more.  When I met the people Kon was always talking about… they weren’t exactly what I had expected.

 

First, Mickey Cannon.  Mr. Cannon is an older man, maybe Commissioner Jim Gordon’s age, and has a metal contraption on his leg as a brace.  As far as his personality went… I can see why Kon-El likes it there so much.  He’s professional, friendly, and cynical all at once.

 

Secondly, Doctor Roquette Serling.  Kon-El had dated her before, and talked about her in such a way that I thought she was at least 28 (which wouldn’t surprise me at this point), but come to find out… she’s a child prodigy.  16 or 17 years old, she’s the head doctor for Cadmus, and just as professional and sarcastic as Cannon.

 

Thirdly, Doctor Helen Angelico, AKA Doc Angel.  She’s slightly older, maybe twenty, and fits the same sarcasm state.  She happened to have more of an attitude though.  I don’t know, but I didn’t like her very much.

 

Forth came Tekka.  14… 15… 16 years old, and one of the technicians of the agency.  She works

under the Gadget Guru (whom I never met).  She’s really sweet, and it’s like she stepped out of the

60s.  [Sad thing is, it appears they all stepped out of the 1960s, but are much smarter than many people of today.]

 

Fifth was the shocker--Guardian.  Jim Harper.  This man is a hero and a legend.  He’s incredibly

professional and very noble.  I got along with him the best…

 

So, as Guardian is leading me down to the quarantined area, the floor suddenly erupted and this… thing busted out and ate me.  And after I hit its stomach, it regurgitated me right to the feet of my adoring little children.  Kara busted into inane laughter, and Kon merely said, “Awww, baby’s sick!”  My *cape* was destroyed…

 

The battle continued on for several hours.  In that time, Kara locked herself in Kon’s bedroom and Kon got eaten himself.  Guardian some how got the brilliant idea to give it laxatives (I’m guessing Kara had something to do with that).

 

…………

 

Once Kon was stuck to the wall from the effects of the laxatives, we were able to drug the monster and get it safely locked up.  Kon cussed Guardian out (who he disrespectfully called “Bullethead”) and ran off after peeling himself off the wall--because I was not going to help him, and he stalked off mumbling something, when he got jumped by some government official that he kept calling “Mandy”.  Then several more officials began to show up.  I went over to question them, when Kon calmly said, “My life, I’ll handle it, back off Kal.”  And then he left with them.

 

That was the last time I saw him.  My God, where is he?

 

SIGNING OUT

KAL-EL

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