Resistant • Jonathan Kent

vii. Anti-Hero

"Ow... Why the hell does everything hurt so much?" Cameron was covering his eyes and the light was blinding him briefly, when he first opened his eyes. "And much more importantly, why is everything red?"

"Both of those are excellent questions, my son. Frankly, I was simply hoping that you both, would spin me a tale as to why and how, you two both ended up here." Cameron looked up at the familiar voice and he saw that Tal-Rho was standing in the corner of the cell, with his arms crossed over his chest. "Hello, son." The switch between English and Kryptonian was flawless and Cameron groaned in pain, arguably more irritated by the fact that he was in the same cell as his father.

"Father." Cameron replied in the same tongue as he was looking over at Clark, who was slower to wake up than he was. "Kal. Kal!" He said as he got up, before he walked over and he slapped Clark across the face.

Clark woke up with a grunt of pain as he stared at him. "Don't hit me again." Clark muttered as Cameron nodded in agreement at the words, before they heard that Anderson was coming into the black site operations quickly.

After Clark and Cameron said nothing to Anderson about the location of the alternate superman, Anderson was leaving them alone with Tal-Rho again.

"I couldn't save them last night." Tiana murmured quietly and then, she was sitting down on the porch steps. "So... Do you guys hate me now?" Tiana asked as she looked at the twins, who were walking out of the house and then, they were both quickly just helping her up onto her feet.

"It wasn't your fault, Tiana. I am sure that Cameron and Dad, they both know that you did everything that you could." Jon said and she blinked, before she was looking at Sam's car that was in the driveway.

"So... Do you guys want a quicker ride to school than usual?" She asked as they were grinning at the words, before she quickly grabbed Jordan and she was dropping him onto the field and she was zipping back to the house to grab Jon, before she dropped him off as well.

Tiana changed behind the bleachers back into her school clothes and she was walking out from behind them.

"Jordan!" She called after him as Jon was already inside of the school. Jordan turned back around to look at her quickly. "Did I miss anything?" She asked and Jordan was pointing down at her finger, which had the Flash Ring on it and she sighed.

"Oh Jesus Christ. Thanks Jordan, that's embarrassing." At the words, he nodded quickly as she took it off and she was slipping it into her pocket. "Oh crap, I am going to be late for the bus to Central City."

"Can't you just run to Central City?" He asked pointedly and she was shaking her head, stunned at the fact that she didn't think of it before. She was quickly just disappearing into a flash of lightning and then, Jordan grinned quickly.

"Father, would you please just shut the hell up?!" Cameron shouted at him angrily as his eyes were flashing with anger and Tal-Rho stared at him. "Please, stop." He said as he was shaking his head.

"The red solar energy, it is clearly affecting your body much worse than us." Tal-Rho said and now, Cameron was holding his head in both of his hands and, it was almost like he was trying to crush his own skull. "We have to get him out of here, somehow."

"Kam? What's wrong?" Clark asked and Cameron felt blood leaking out of his nose quickly and Cameron gasped in pain. "Oh god." Clark murmured softly and Cameron gritted his teeth, before Anderson's men were outfitting both Tal-Rho and Cameron with collars.

Both of them were screaming in pain and the collars were being turned up to the full power as Cameron was crying out.

And all the while, he was clearly already suffering severe pain from the red solar cell around them and his pain was ripping through him even more than before.