Intro type thing

[ihavettk]

"Agh, what the sprock?" Flash bang. One minute, he and Superman were getting ready to head back from the 30th century so that Kon could finally rejoin his friends and family after being dead of all things, and now he's... somewhere? He flies up to get a better view. Hawaii, apparently. Though it doesn't look like it did last time he was here. And

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[max_friendship]

There is someone up here.

Someone who is a four-foot-long purple bat thing. With four wings. And a cabled sweater. (Not illustrated.)

Someone who is curious about the new face.

"Bat?"

[95_tan]

"I'm afraid I'm not sure... he's very nice, once you get to know him. I hope he hasn't gotten up to mischief with you!"

[ihavettk]

"I don't know. I didn't know he was tame... who are you, again?"

[95_tan]

"Oh, please forgive my rudeness." She bows. "My name is Windows 95. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, Superboy-san."

[ihavettk]

Kon gave her a strange look. "...I asked your name, not what kind of computer you use."

[95_tan]

???

"I did not mention what I'm installed on...? Er, is everything all right?" DID YOU GET HIT ON THE HEAD?

[ihavettk]

He's never met an anthropomorphic computer operating system before! And he's also pretty computer illiterate. He doesn't know the vocabulary or anything.

"Installed on? What are you talking about?"

[95_tan]

She is pretty used to this. At least he knows what a computer IS!

"I am an OS. I suppose you are from one of the places where we are... boxes." She still doesn't get that.

[ihavettk]

"...Still not following." Have they made that many technological jumps since he got back?

[95_tan]

"Where I come from, my sisters are all like this. It makes it so we can properly manage a user's tasks."

[ihavettk]

"Where are you from? Japan?" Seems the most likely place.

[95_tan]

"Yes, that's correct. And yourself?"

[ihavettk]

"...that's the million dollar question, isn't it?" Lab under California, Krypton, Smallville, Hawaii, there were a lot of places he could claim. "I live pretty close to Smallville." In the very house they were standing near, to be accurate, but hey, secret identities. Conner Kent might live with the Kents, Kon-El did not.

[95_tan]

"Ah, is that so? I'm surprised we haven't met before. I have been here for close to a year. I live and work at the hospital."

The one she's pointing to. Which was probably not there when he last hung out with the Kents.

[ihavettk]

"Like I said, I've been dead for about two years and... huh. That's new." He frowned and looked over at it.

"Look, I don't suppose you know where I can find Clark Kent? He's a reporter so he'll want to cover the whole Superboy being back thing."

Oh yes, he is good at this secret ID thing. No one will EVER SUSPECT.

[95_tan]

"That sounds very inconvenient," she comments. "Though I suppose it's good that you've managed to recover."

Hey, even if she's never known a human to come back, that doesn't mean it's impossible! OSes can be restored, so maybe other people can, too.

"I don't believe I've met anyone called Clark Kent. Certainly, there isn't anyone like that around the farm. Perhaps there is someone in the city who might know."