"Everything is like that." I sighed again, "Humans, animals, aliens, Gods, Devils, we're all monsters on the inside."
"Are you sure you're only nine years old?" He squinted at me with his eyes glowing red for a moment, before turning brown again, "I've dealt with cases of possession before, Clark. Whether mystical, psychic or physical."
"What about reincarnation?" I didn't bother hiding it, because if he really looked into my mind, it would be much worse than revealing a few surface-level secrets.
"Reincarnation?" He seemed to think of something and then closed his eyes tightly, turning back towards the road as he opened them.
"I was a human before. Died in my thirties." I casually explained, "Not this Earth though. It involves alternate realities and shit. I'm sure you've probably dealt with Parallel Timelines if you've been on Earth for hundreds of years."
"Why would you assume that?" He snorted and started laughing, "No Clark, I have not dealt with parallel universes or timelines. The theories have been around for ages, but I wasn't aware they've been proven one way or the other."
"They exist. Or will exist. Or have existed." I wasn't actually sure how that shit worked to be honest, "Anyway, the moral of the story is that you're not gonna find my past self on this Earth. I've already looked and couldn't find some version of the past me. Probably for the best. Reincarnating as a-as an alien baby is complicated enough. Don't need other versions of myself out there."
Well, I'm sure there are other versions of Clark Kent. Probably countless. But I'm the only one in this Universe at the moment, hopefully.
"Is Reincarnation really possible?" He was probably thinking about his wife and kids. Uh, not sure how many kids he had in this timeline. Would be awkward to ask.
"If I can do it as just some random human dude, I'm sure your friends and family could theoretically do it too…" I wasn't sure how it worked with people already in the DC Universe, since there are so many fucking versions of the Afterlife here.
Just like on my Earth. Except I know for a fact that there are tons of different Heavens and Hells out there.
In fact, John immediately mentioned, "Martians believe that the God of Death, H'ronmeer, ferries our souls to the afterlife. But because of the psychic imprint we can leave behind in each other's memories, I always liked to think that perhaps… My friends and family are still with me."
"I mean, I'm not exactly an expert on souls, but you could go find Lucifer and ask him about it." I didn't really worry about saying the Devil's name, because the slutty Archangel was probably getting gangbanged at the moment.
"Lucifer? The Devil of Christian Mythology?" He looked at me in confusion, "He's actually real?"
"Lucifer Morningstar, Google him. Not super hard to find." I waved my hand casually and then made another suggestion, "Or you could hire John Constantine. But he doesn't exactly have the best track record."
"Another John. Sounds promising." J'onn telekinetically folded up the newspaper and threw it in the backseat.
"Just be careful he doesn't sell your soul." I couldn't help laughing as I said, "Lucifer is actually a lot more reliable and safe compared to John Constantine."
"I'll keep that in mind then." He was quiet for a while after that. Just the sound of the heater filling the car with unnecessarily warm air. I closed my eyes and almost fell asleep.
"Hey John." I opened my eyes and looked towards him again, scanning his body down to the fucking DNA and honestly couldn't tell that he wasn't human. Kryptonians were basically in the same situation.
But we're not shapeshifters. Our cells and genes are just eerily similar to humans. Even the chromosomes are the same. Otherwise we wouldn't be so compatible with humans.
"Is there some special way to tell if someone is a White Martian?"
"Who do you think is a White Martian?" He furrowed his brows and stared at me seriously.
"I'm just paranoid. I think anyone could be a White Martian." I shrugged and wasn't even lying. If they can hide on a genetic level and manipulate me telepathically, then even Lex and Lena, no, everyone could be White Martians.
"There shouldn't be that many White Martians left after the war." He said something kinda surprising to me, "There was a psychic pathogen that infected almost everyone, White and Green Martians alike. There were uninfected, I'm sure, but the war was only a few centuries ago. I would be surprised if there were more than a few hundred White Martians left. We reproduce and grow slowly, so in a few hundred years, they might have doubled at most."
"In other words, you don't think there are other Martians on Earth?" I didn't think this was the Supergirl universe, at least not from the TV Show. At least that didn't sound similar to my memories.
"If you're really worried, you could try using fire. If they're not afraid of fire, even subconsciously, then they aren't Martians." He didn't elaborate too much, but it basically coincided with what I remembered.
Mom and Dad aren't Martians in that case. Lena and Lex have also been around fire often and aren't afraid. Martians are genetically programmed to have fire as a weakness. Even their ancestors, the Burning Martians, who could manipulate fire, were still weak to fire other than their own.
"That's good to know." I closed my eyes again and started to drift off. I saw flashes of distant memories, Supergirl, various antagonists and protagonists.
The Worldkillers stood out, because they were Kryptonian super-soldiers who also happened to be hot girls and they were stupidly powerful.
In the show, they arrived on Earth in 1979, but they were in stasis for 10 years and released from their pods in 1989.
They were adopted by humans and raised to adulthood and beyond that really, because they were all in their 30's by the time that they actually awakened their Kryptonian Worldkiller powers.
Samantha Arias, she was the main one. I can't remember the others… At least not their adoptive names. I know they were called Rein, Purity and Pestilence though. A Hispanic girl, a black girl and an Asian girl.
Three perfectly fertile female Kryptonians…
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