Nothing particularly weird happened. Mom and Lana chatted about random things, school, friends, boys, girls, et cetera. I wasn't really interested to be honest. It was all so… Mundane.
Lana was just a human girl. Even if she was a Witch or some shit, Lena also had that potential, but she was much more than just a Witch.
She was a fucking super-genius and also a friend that I've been with almost every day for 5 years. In other words, I wasn't that desperate or horny that I would try to fuck every girl I met. At the very least, if I wanted to expand my harem, my standards were a lot higher.
I was more interested in remembering that feeling from earlier. That feeling of flight that was different from my usual methods. I needed to figure out how to replicate it. I needed to practice flying, rather than wasting my time sitting around and doing nothing.
"Hey, I'm gonna go learn how to fly. You guys have fun~!" I waved goodbye to the two of them and then ran away before they could respond. The moment I went outside and closed the door, I kicked off the ground and soared up into the sky, but I did eventually slow down and stop.
As I was falling down from hundreds of meters in the air, I tried to replicate that feeling from earlier.
"I'd sooner buy~ defy~ ing gravity~!" I tried singing the song from Wicked, which hadn't actually come out yet, but it didn't magically give me the ability to control gravitons freely. I kicked downwards and shot up into the sky much higher, then kicked again and again, until I broke through the clouds.
It was funny ripping off One Piece moves, but for fuck's sake, I'm a Kryptonian. Why is it so hard for me to use my bullshit magical flight abilities?!
Unfortunately, Martians use telekinesis to fly. So even when I asked John before, he was kinda useless. Not completely useless. His advice was: "Believe in yourself. Perhaps it isn't yet time for you to unlock this particular ability? When the time comes, your powers will awaken naturally. Don't try to force it."
Honestly, he's not wrong. And I have a feeling that my self-taught methods of flight have actually hampered my ability to awaken my graviton manipulation.
So maybe I just need to put myself in a position where I can't use my other method of flight?
"Umm… I mean…" I looked up at the bright blue sky and smiled wryly, "How do I get there though?"
I kicked off the air over and over again, going higher to the point where I could barely breathe anymore. But the thinner the atmosphere got, the harder it was to use my fancy imitation Geppo technique.
I didn't need to breathe, not really, but it did help and it did feel uncomfortable when I couldn't. I had to stretch my biological forcefield farther and farther to compress the air enough that I could push myself upward…
I went from hundreds of meters per step to only a few meters, then barely anything.
"Fuck." I was pissed off. Falling slowly towards the world below. I looked over at the curvature of the planet, with the dark sky above and the blue halo over the surface. The sun looked white as it shone directly on me.
"This view is fucking amazing though." I spread my arms and enjoyed the intense sunlight. Without much of the atmosphere left to protect me, I was getting bombarded with an insane amount of radiation. Humans might need to worry about it, but for me? It felt incredible.
I felt like I was floating. But I knew I was still falling. I could tell. I could feel the… Not pull.
Push.
The way that the space around the world was pushing me back down towards it. The fabric of space was warped, not particularly strange, that's just how physics generally work.
The more mass an object has, the more it warps spacetime. I was still well-within the gravity well of the planet.
I opened my eyes and looked out at the sun. It didn't burn my eyes. It didn't hurt me at all to stare at the Sun. Compared to Earth, the Sun's gravity well was insanely massive. Deep, the well was deep as they would say. The influence it had was technically infinite, until something else, like other stars, would influence it.
"Of course. It was so fucking obvious." I stopped falling towards the Earth. I started falling towards the sun.
"Jesus Christ!" And then I didn't know how to stop falling towards the sun!
"Nope-nope-nope~!" I reached out towards the Earth as I zipped out of the atmosphere completely, feet first…
"John! Holy fucking fuck, John, help!" I couldn't yell anymore, but I still sent out a psychic cry for help as loud as I could! I was falling faster! The fucking Earth started looking like a damn dot in the distance within a minute!
"Clark? What's wrong? Where are you? I can't feel-" And the Martian Manhunter was just as fucking useless as usual!
"I'm getting sucked towards the Sun! John! Help!" I'm pretty sure he couldn't hear me anymore, but I had to at least try.
"Calm down, calm the fuck down. It's gonna be okay." I turned away from the distant planet and towards the distant star. Thankfully the Sun is over 91 million miles from Earth. I was moving faster and faster towards it, but I was still pretty far away.
Was I traveling at relativistic speed? Maybe? I looked back towards the Earth. Counting the seconds in my head, I smiled wryly. I was moving so fast that my perception of time was being skewed. I wasn't even doing it intentionally this time though.
"Slow down!" I focused on stopping the acceleration. I didn't want to reach the speed of light or surpass it. I was getting there though, because the speed of light wasn't accelerating. It was just speed. I didn't have the Speedforce. But I was Superman.
The closer I got to the Sun, the more it bombarded my cells. I had a limit though. I was too young and it takes time to get stronger, even for Superman. I spread my arms and legs, as if I was trying to slow myself down in an atmosphere. Because I was traveling so fast that there actually was friction in space.
Especially considering the fact that the Sun was pumping out all kinds of particles of shit at insane speeds, everywhere, all at once. I was slowing down.
I didn't want to die so stupidly!
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