"Clark, you might want to check this out." Chloe Sullivan called over to her best friend/ not so secret crush.
The two teens had recently found a gauntlet buried in the hole that was unearthed when Clark saved Chloe from being buried alive in a steel coffin. They had gone back to the site in an attempt to get rid of Chloe's constant nightmares. The gauntlet was lying in the ground, glowing with a faint purple hue, though once Chloe picked it up the glowing stopped.
The gauntlet it's self was a black and had a metal band where, if worn, would rest on the wearer's wrist. However, on this band there were two small indentions. After speculating what could have made these indentions Chloe concluded that it there must have been jewels in place of the now empty craters on the steel band.
"What did you find?" The raven-haired teen inquired as he neared the sleuthing journalist.
She didn't reply with words but with the action of shoving a small, yet elaborately designed box into his hands. Clark secretly used his X-Ray vision to look inside the object that now resided in his hands. What he discovered though was two small gems that he hoped would fit into the gauntlet they found earlier. He opened the intricate chest and showed the prize to Chloe.
"Do you think…?" She trailed off as she swiftly pulled the gauntlet from the small backpack that was now lying at their feet.
Clark gently placed the gems where he assumed they would fit and both teens were pleased that the hunch was right. The gauntlet began glowing again and it suddenly burst with a blinding white light. The force knocked both Chloe and Clark off their feet and into an adjacent wall; Chloe lying haphazardly on top of the much larger farm boy.
Clark was the first to realize that something was definitely amiss and looked down at the girl sprawled on his torso. Fearing that she might have internal damage he quickly used his X-Ray vision to scan her for any injuries and was relieved that he didn't find any. He looked around the cavern and found that nothing had changed besides the collateral damage from the miner explosion.
"Clark." Chloe moaned as she woke up.
"Are you alright?"
"I've been better. What happened?" She rolled off of him and landed heavily on the dirt ground.
"Let's get out of here." Clark stood and helped Chloe stand on shaky legs. "We'll talk once we get to my truck."
Chloe nodded as she fought her investigative instincts. She leaned most of her weight on his taller frame due to the fact that she was extremely sore and bruised. They eventually made to Clark's red pickup and she gingerly sat down in to the passenger's seat.
However, once they got to the Kent Farm everything changed and both Chloe and Clark realized that they might be physically alright from the explosion but the rest of the world was not. Because as they pulled up to the house they noticed another Clark barging out of the doors with a fierce and frustrated expression on his face. They ducked just in time not to be noticed before the other Clark pulled on his leather jacket and rode off on his motorcycle.
"How are there two of you? I can barely stand one of you." Chloe whisper yelled.
Clark ignored the latter part of her statement and responded with a clueless expression that Chloe found adorable. Placing her feelings for him aside as she normally did she began to think of what could be happening and after realizing there was only one place they could be safe and find answers she began explaining it to Clark, who in turn whole heartedly agreed it was the best solution they could come up with.
"Well," Chloe spoke up after neither of them moved, "let's go."
Clark nodded before climbing out of the truck and walking towards his front door, well he hoped it was his. Deciding it was best to knock; they both waited for the elder Kent's to answer the door.
"What now, Clark, we don't have time for any more of your rude remarks and I thought I told you to." Jonathan was cute of by Martha who had placed a hand on her husband's arm and motioned toward the young journalist they used to consider their own until she moved back to Metropolis.
"Karren?"
"What's going on?" Jonathan questioned.
"Can we come in? We will explain everything once we get inside." Chloe asked being as polite as she could be.
Once they were all inside and seated at the table the two teens explained their appearance and awaited the Kent's response.
"From what I can tell it seems that either you are the 'good' twins that we never heard about until now or you are from an alternant dimension." Martha responded.
"So what's this 'dimension' like Mrs. K." Chloe interrogated as she wanted to know what kind of world they were beamed to.