This series was started in 2003, is currently being remastered, and follows the timeline of the show up until the Season 3 episodes, Exile and part of Phoenix but diverged at the deal between Jonathan Kent and Jor-El. Details that match the show will be explained, but there are many things in this timeline that will be different from how they happened on the show. This Kara Zor-El is not the Laura Vandervoort from the show, but a bit of a all the different incarnations of Kara Zor-El from the different eras. Lois is still the same Lois, but did not meet Clark until they were adults; Jimmy Olsen is not the same Jimmy from the show, but Perry did come to Smallville as he did in "Perry." Again, more details will be divulged over time, but that's all you need to know for right now.

June 17, 2013

A lonely green and blue planet spun lazily on its axis, orbited by a single moon. The planet teamed with majestic wonders: plant and animal life, and over seven billion humans, spread over seven different continents. Despite that large number, very few noticed the spaceship that hurtled past the moon, heading for their planet. Within a matter of minutes, the spaceship hit the planet's atmosphere, glowing fiery white and orange as it rapidly descended.

Fort Truman, Kansas - 11:32 PM

Five miles north of Metropolis, alarms sounded loudly at Fort Truman Air Base. Officers scrambled to their stations in the main communications center, frantically bringing up images on their radar screens. Captain James Williams hurried in and walked over to the nearest station.

"What do we have, Lieutenant?" he asked.

The officer looked troubled as he brought up a radar screen. "Not sure, sir," he answered. "We detected it earlier; it just entered Earth's atmosphere a short few moments ago. It's decreasing too rapidly to be any form of aircraft, and it's moving west to east."

"A meteor?" Williams asked.

"Could be," the lieutenant answered as he tapped the screen. "By all indications, it should be passing overhead any moment now."

Williams stared at the screen for a moment before hurrying outside; several soldiers were already on the tarmac, staring up into the night sky. Williams' eyes adjusted quickly as he looked toward the west, scanning the clear sky. A large, fiery orange object suddenly appeared, lighting up the base as it zoomed only a couple thousand feet overhead; a loud sonic boom was heard a split second after the object passed, shattering windows and rattling Williams and the others to their bones. The object trailed off toward the east, disappearing from sight over the horizon, leaving a thick contrail it its wake.

"Lieutenant."

A nearby officer took his eyes off the sky and stood at attention. "Yes, sir," he said.

"Call General Danvers," William ordered, never taking his eyes off the sky. 'Tell him we have a situation." The officer nodded and saluted, and Williams looked down and gave a quick salute. Williams saluted back, and the lieutenant hurried away. Williams turned back toward the east horizon and narrowed his eyes. He didn't know what he had just seen, but he was determined to find out.

And nothing was going to stop him.

Smallville, Kansas - 11:34 PM

Sherriff Pete Ross pulled his truck out of the Kents' drive and headed down the highway; he had spent the past few hours filling up on Martha's home cooking and spending time with the Kents, something that had become a regular habit for quite a time. Clark would sometimes join them, but most of them time Pete went solo. It didn't bother either Jonathan or Martha; they knew Clark visited as often as he could in between his job at the Daily Planet and his…well, other job.

Pete chuckled as he drove down the dark road, the only light coming from his headlights, listening to his favorite station on the radio. It had been over two years since his best friend went public with his abilities, but Pete still had a hard time believing it. What surprised him even more was how accepting Clark's parents—namely his father—had been about the whole thing and how proud they were of their son.

"I guess saving a crashing airplane in the middle of Metropolis would make *any* parent proud," Pete mused with a smile.

Suddenly, a fiery orange object slammed into the field adjacent to the road, slamming into the ground with the force of a small bomb; it threw debris into the air as it skittered along the field, burrowing a trench over a hundred yards long. Pete slammed on the brakes, and the truck fishtailed across the road before coming to a stop on one side. Shaking, the young man got out and looked over into the field; even in the dark, the trench was clearly visible, the object smoldering in the distance, while small fires dotted the trench like an airport's runway at night.

His curiosity getting the better of him, Pete grabbed a flashlight under his seat and turned it on as he made his way over to the trench. He carefully jumped in and slowly walked the trail, swinging the light from side to side. The beam of light fell on a smoldering object at the end of the trench, and Pete slowly drew closer. His jaw dropped as he recognized the object: a spaceship—just like the ship that brought Clark to Earth, only twice its size.

It was designed a little differently, appearing more like an elongated bubble with fins on tits side and boosters on the back; the bubble part a dark silver and opaque. An octagonal slot was position on the front of the ship, encircled by symbols that Pete instantly recognized as Kryptonian, even though he had no clue of their translation. An object on the ground glinted in the flashlight beam, and Pete trained his light on it; it was a familiar-looking octagonal key. He stepped closer and picked up the key, brushing the dirt off; there were three sets of familiar-looking symbols. The young man got a funny feeling in his stomach, but took a deep breath and put the key near the octagonal slot.

The key flew from his hand, floated over, and hovered over the slot, twisting and rotating before it suddenly stopped and then settled into the slot. The whole ship glowed, and Pete heard a soft sizzling sound as the top of the bubble started melting into a semi liquid goop on the ground. In a few moments, he could see the bottom half of the ship was solid, like one half of a dark silver tube. Nestled inside, among what appeared to be soft, silvery blankets, was an unconscious teenage. She had blonde hair, and wore a white body suit with a white skirt over it and white boots. Across her chest was a silvery emblem—an emblem Pete remembered being burned onto his best friend's chest when they were younger.

"Oh, man," he whispered. He reached into his pants pocket and pulled out his cellphone.

(End of Chapter 1)