* This story takes place during the Final Season of Smallville. So some of this may contain spoilers but I will try not to do any. However, this story will introduce characters that I introduced in my story Smallville: The Skull. It will also be how I would like to see Smallville End.*

For several months Drake traveled the world, and seeing the destruction the Kryptonians were causing all over the world. He knew that Clark would take care of it. However, this particular day there were no signs of strange symbols; it was as if there was peace within the world. In his mind there still raged, the darkness that consumed him those months prior was still in him. He had traveled to the Tibet to learn some inner peace but the monks could not help him. From there he went to India, but they couldn't help him. Drake was now in Japan and learning from a man who practiced the art of the Samurai that still did not help him at all. However, he did pick up some fighting tips and a cool looking Samurai sword. As he sat in his hotel room mediating he heard a knock at the door. He opened the door up and there standing at the entrance was Lana Lang. He had grown a beard since the last time he saw here but, she knew it was him.

Lana said, "Drake, it's good to see you."

Drake said, "Thank you, won't you come in."

They spent a few hours catching, as if they were two old friends that were catching up after not seeing each other for years. However, Drake knew that something was the matter but why would she be here to see him.

Drake said, "Why are you here Lana?"

Lana replied, "Your darkness that you had was something I experienced, I fought long in hard to get rid of it."

Drake said, "How did you?"

Lana said, "I trained as you have, you have skills that you once never possessed. However, once you realized that everyone has that side to them, and it's the actions that you show that define who you are."

Drake sat there and said, "I understand."

Lana left hours later, Drake went outside on the balcony and said, "The Skull can be a symbol of good, even though I do not have the power to absorb anymore, I do have the power of regeneration. To protect my identity I will need a way to hide my face."

As Drake slept that night, he began to have strange dreams. However they were about an ancestor of his, a great adventurer and archeologist. Drake woke up and was wondering why he dreamt of a man that he had never met. He decided that he needed to go back to the States and find out what the omen meant.

Drake had left on the morning plane and arrived in Metropolis by nightfall. He went to a warehouse where he had stashed his motorcycle, and he dusted it off and sped into the night. The city seemed different than how he left it, and as he looked around he saw Clark's symbol and it was crossed out. Drake remembered hearing about this anti-vigilante movement that was moving through the nations. He just went through the city and did not stop, and arrived at his family farm. He went to the attic and found the journal of his ancestor. He went to his father's study and sat down at the desk. He remembered that his father once said that the family money came from this ancestor's and all that he accomplished. As he recalled the dream he saw desert and then realized that most of his ancestor's travels were in Egypt.

Egypt 1941

I Alexander Lionheart III am writing this journal so that my descendants will know where they came from. My country is going to war, I remembered my father talking about the last Great War and the stories he told. Now I am living my own role, however, I believe that I will serve my country better by finding these artifacts before the Nazi's do. I have recently found an entrance to a cave, I have explored it and there lies a tomb to a Pharaoh. However, the markings on this tomb is foreign to me they are nothing from this world. From what was written in the hieroglyphics it stated that a Dark Lord was coming to this planet, and the Earth will tremble at his presence. From my knowledge it seems like an omen, that the ancients that built the pyramid, if it is and it hasn't come true then the Earth is doomed.

Present Day:

Drake set down his ancestor's journal and sat there and said, "I imagine that this Dark Lord hasn't come yet but I have a feeling that he is on his way." Drake typed in something on the computer and bought a plane ticket to Egypt he knew that he had to find away to stop this presence from happening. However, before he could make an entry to buy a plane ticket, Chloe walked in and said, "Drake, Clark needs your help." Drake looked up and said, "What kind of help?"

Chloe said, "That I put on this helmet and I could see the future, and in this future I saw that Oliver and Clark were all dead."

Drake said, "Then I will help."

As he looked up from his desk Chloe was gone, and he decided to open the bookshelf in the study and went into his lab. There was the armor that he wore when he was the Skull, and he said, "How am I going to help without them knowing it is me." He sat down at the table in the lab and stared at his armor. The he looked over at his guns, he saw the M1911 pistols laying there and finally, he saw the two Peacemaker guns. Then he saw the wide variety of machine guns and grenade launchers. He had the ability to heal however, it hurt like hell when he did get shot or blown up. So using the armor seemed like the ideal situation. He began to work on a helmet that here made look like a skull, there was a problem, he needed to look scarier. He then went to a closet and remembered that he made a fireproof Cloak. He wrapped it around the armor hanging in its place. He made the skull helmet looked white, except for the eyes which he put red sensors that would glow when turned on. He attached the helmet to the armor and then sat back and said, "That will do." He knew that when night feel that he would become the Skull again, but not to spread fear to spread justice.