It was another night out on the town for Clark. At least until the very end of it anyway. Clark had gone through the usual nests and demons helping people while staying out of sight. Then he got attacked by something that looked like a human rhino snake hybrid thing. Clark had fought with the creature and despite being strong it wasn't taking down Clark Kent. Clark had easily knocked it back when something unexpected happened. The demon gored him and the horn didn't break, it impaled him in the chest. Clark threw an unrestrained punch hitting the creature in the face and breaking the horn off. The demon made it a couple feet before dying from blood loss. Clark looked down and ripped his shirt he saw the wound and the area around it was quickly turning black. He ripped the horn out and screamed from the pain but the black quickly went away and his wound healed. He seen the sun was already up and ran home.

At school he meets up with the gang. They talk about the SATS which Clark is aiming for around 1400. To their pleasant surprise they enter the cafeteria and see an enormous amount of chocolate bars next to Snyder.

Willow turned into an excited child. "Ooh candy bars, lots of them."

Snyder picks up a box and gives it to Xander.

Xander smiled. "Principal Snyder thank you. You weren't visited by the ghost of Christmas past by any chance were you?"

"It's band candy." Snyder said.

"Remind me to thank the band." Clark said.

"Let's hear it for the band huh very generous." Buffy quipped.

Snyder glared at the group. "Kent can't say I'm surprised a runaway like you fell in with this group." Snyder handed Clark a box. "You will sell it to raise money for the marching band. They need new uniforms."

'I will not incinerate Snyder, I will not incinerate Snyder, I will not incinerate Snyder.' Clark repeats in his head. Reynolds called him out for laziness and he respected him for it Snyder was just an ass.

"Yeah those fuzzy hats aren't cheap huh?" Xander quipped.

"But they go with everything." Oz added getting him a smile from Willow.

"I'm sure we love the idea of going all Willy Loman, but we're not in the band." Buffy defended the group.

Snyder glared at her. "And if I had handed you a trombone we would have a problem." He gives her a box. "It's candy sell it."

Snyder walks off leaving them with their boxes.

"With a revolver in the library CK."

Clark turns to look at Xander wondering what he meant.

"How to kill Snyder." Xander finishes seeing the look in Clark's eyes.

"You really run away?" Willow asked.

Clark's face darkened. "It's complicated." Clark says as he leaves.

Xander was about to say something but Buffy stopped him. She recognized the face from when she ran away and he wasn't ready to open up. The scooby gang headed to the library.

The scoobies are in the library waiting for Faith. Whom wasn't too happy when Giles stopped her impromptu bailing so she can do research on whatever it was that killed two vampires and saved Buffy and Cordelia on homecoming. Faith came in with a smile she had gotten to slay something. Buffy knows it.

"Faith did you find anything?" Giles asked.

"The entity" Faith answered.

"Which is?" Giles asked.

"Not a clue Geeves." Faith replied. "Demons at Willy's say it's some sort of demonic boogeyman. Like the ultimate slayer here to kill any demon that attacks a person."

"It's not you?" Buffy asked knowing Faith has a habit of sneaking in extra slayings.

"Not unless I gave up all traces of the nightlife B." Faith answered. "It's been out every night all night for a couple weeks now."

"Giles what should we do?" Buffy asked.

"I can do a locater spell or try to do a locater spell." Willow offered.

"Can I say something?" Xander said cutting them off. "Something is out there killing demons only bad demons. So who cares this is a good thing right?"

"Well for starters. It's getting sloppy Xan." Faith says taking a horn with red blood on it out of her pocket.

Giles looked at it intrigued. "Where did you get this?"

Faith took a seat. "Did a sweep of a cemetery it was next to what was left of a demon that had his head caved in. I figured B killed it last night then I remembered you were with her and would have made her bury it."

Faith looks at the horn and Giles takes it Buffy sees a look of fear in his eyes. "Giles what is it?"

Giles went to cleaning his glasses. "Faith did this demon look like a reptile?"

Faith nods and Giles starts explaining. "This is the Tak horn from a Kungai demon. If something had the strength to not only pull it out but also kill the creature it must be very powerful."

Buffy was nervous now. "When you say powerful you mean like slayer powerful right?" She hoped.

Giles nodded his head no. "Something far more powerful."

Cordelia smiled. "Well that's good news for us and more off days for Buffy and Faith right."

"Says the girl who's not a werewolf." Oz quipped.

Willow grabs him by the hand. "It only goes after evil demons. Besides if it tries anything I can summon lightning and fry him."

"Bright side to everything." Oz said.

"Any plan on finding this entity?" Xander asked.

Giles can't think of a thing. "Go to school, patrol, and don't do anything different with any luck this entity will find us."

The next morning Clark was back home and on his way down for breakfast he just dealt with everything with his heat vision last night to avoid getting impaled again. He came down and saw his parents making out on the kitchen table and mom's bare shoulders. Not as bad as when he was 4 and traded one nightmare in for a much more terrifying real one thanks to his stupid memory but still pretty bad.

"I did not need to see that." Clark said announcing his entrance.

"Don't you have to be at school son." His father asked.

"After what I just seen I'm going full speed I'm just getting something to eat first."

Martha laughed and threw Clark a candy bar. "Have one of these they're really yummy."

"I'm supposed to sell them." Clark said stating the obvious.

"Me and your dad brought the whole box have a nice day."

Clark supersped to school and took a couple minutes to calm his head and try to burn the visual out. He opened the candy bar and took a bite before he quickly spit it right back out and started choking. No, it can't be. He another bite and the result was the same. Yup kryptonite don't know where don't know why but there is bits of kryptonite in the candy bar not a lot but it's there. Bright side to this entire thing he has a case to work on. Bad side he'll have a stomach ache for a couple minutes.

Clark went to study hall for a couple minutes and to his surprise Giles didn't show up. Considering Giles was here at homecoming Clark almost thought he lived here. Another teacher showed up and let them out in about 5 minutes. When Clark had the time he made it to chem. lab and locked the door. He put the candy bar into a vial and melted it with heat vision. He used a droplet and made a slide. He looked at the slide through the microscope and instant horror came through his face as he flashed back to Smallville. No, no one would be this sick.

Clark was now in the library borrowing Giles' computer while on the phone.

"Smallville Torch"

"Hey Chloe"

"Hey Clark" Chloe's not surprised she thinks she talked to Clark more in Sunnydale than she ever did in Smallville.

"So how's Lois?" Clark asked.

"Much better thanks to you figuring out what poisoned her. Crazy plastic doctor is in Belle Reeve. Lois is pissed tough she missed so many days she really does have to stay the whole year now." Chloe answered.

"Anything interesting happen in Smallville?"

"The crows blew it in the semi finals and I lost my last $50." Chloe joked.

"How'd they do that?" Clark asked.

"Quarterback was expelled for shooting the assistant coach in the leg with a shotgun. And the team just sort of fell apart last game." Chloe answered.

"Huh"

Chloe smiled as her journalistic nose picked up a scent "Now don't think for a second I'm not glad to hear from you Clark but you wouldn't call during school without a damn good reason so spill."

"Do you remember the nicodemus flower?" Clark asked.

Chloe smiled. "Yeah between Pete hitting on me psycho style and Lana knocking you into the pool, how could you expect me to forget that."

Clark laughed. "Well some remember it more fondly than others." Clark stops laughing. "It's in Sunnydale."

Chloe's smile faded. "What, how?"

"I don't know do you know if Lex revived the research?" Clark asked.

Chloe rolled her eyes. "Clark I know Lex isn't your favorite guy right now but I think you need to put it aside and work with him. We both know how dangerous that plant is."

Clark groaned at the thought. "And if he lies to me again."

"Clark he was trying to protect me. Lex can help." Chloe responded.

"Fine, but I don't have to like it." Clark said.

"And I want a story." Chloe said.

"Yes madam" Clark joked. "Take care of yourself Chloe."

"You too Clark. Goodbye"

"Bye"

Clark started dialing Lex's number as the phone rings.

"Hello"

"Hey Lex"

"I never expected to get a call from you Clark. Now whatever it is it's going to have to wait until tomorrow."

Clark could tell Lex was upset. "Lex what is it."

"I went to visit my father today. He tried to attack me with a black weapon."

"Are you alright Lex?" Clark asked.

Lex calmed down a bit "I'm fine it's just-"

"Your dad tried to kill you." Clark finished.

"He'll be dead soon enough. Not long with his liver." Lex said. "So what do you want Clark we both know it's not to check up on me?"

"I was wondering if you revived the nicodemus flower research." Clark said.

"No the research was stolen 2 years ago." Lex said.

Clark would bang the back of his head on the wall he started leaning on if he wouldn't break the wall.

"Clark are you sill there?"

"Yeah I'm here. Take it they got the cure too?"

"They got everything Clark sorry I can't be of more help."

"Its fine Lex you did what you could and I'm thankful. Goodbye"

"Bye Clark."

Clark turned off the phone he's out of leads and running out of time. Come on Kent think what do you know about the candy. Besides the fact that it has traces of kryptonite from the nicodemus. It came from Snyder so he does have one lead.

Before long Clark was over to Snyder's office. He broke the lock and started rummaging through the office trying to find something hell anything at this point. He looked through and seen nothing suspicious but a file on Buffy already open which he's leaving alone being who he is. Besides considering how Snyder treats him Clark bets half of it is not even true. Like a 90 pound girl could burn down a gym.

"I think they kick you out for this CK."

Clark turned around and saw Faith at the door arms around her waist in a smile.

"I think they only kick you out for stealing this is rummaging. And when did you start using Xander's nickname?" Clark asked.

Faith shrugs. "If the boot fits."

"Fair enough" Clark says while going through a drawer.

"So why did you lie to me about coming back at the dance." Faith knew she was a loser magnet but she was never stood up like that.

"I didn't" Clark replied. "Came back and you were dancing with other guys."

"Never occurred to you that maybe I was killing time?" Faith asked.

"Faith we were dancing it's not like we were-"

Whatever Clark was saying was cutoff as Faith pushed him to the wall and started kissing him. Two elderly teachers enter and instead of being upset well their reactions were down right terrifying. They were encouraging them. One even instructed Clark to use more tongue. Faith grabbed Clark by the arm and they both left. That was too weird even for her.

"Well at least that wasn't strange." Clark joked.

"That was nothing compared to the guy with the bull whip." Faith replied.

Clark got a stunned look but let it drop real quick thinking Faith's messing with him. "Well thanks for doing that."

"Any time. Well you look busy so I'll see ya around CK." Faith said going to the door. Her job is done. Giles isn't here to stop her so she's out of Sunnydale to blow off some steam.

It took all afternoon and the beginning of the night but Clark had finally found Snyder with his superhearing he was at the Bronze unfortunately thanks to Super hearing he can never look at some people the same again. He might need therapy after this adventure. He was now in the bronze with old people acting like uninhabited kids.

"Hey Kent is this place off the hook or what?" Snyder asked.

Clark laughed in his thoughts he pictured teenage Snyder exactly like this.

"Principal Snyder can I ask you something?" Clark asked.

"Call me Snyder. Just the last name…like Barbarino." Snyder replied.

Clark rolled his eyes. Focus Kent all of Sunnydale is in trouble. "I was wondering where you got the chocolate from Snyder."

Snyder was still smiling like an idiot. "The Milkbar factory if you're out they'll give you more at the back loading door. Hey Kent check it out Foxy ladies 9 o' cock."

Clark turns and to his horror Snyder is checking out Buffy and Willow. Yeah he's going to need therapy after this lots and lots of therapy. "I probably won't be able to keep up with you. Why don't you go talk to them both Snyder?"

"I think I will Kent." Snyder said.

Clark hopes the girls can forgive him if they ever find out he sent Snyder their way but the whole town can fall into a coma at any second. In a blur he's to the Milky bar factory and once there he finds his parents here making out again. Clark realizes he has to get rid of them because god knows what he is walking into.

"Mom, dad what are you doing here?" Clark asked.

His parents broke the kiss to Clark's relief.

"We ran out of candy." Martha said. "You should get some while you're here too."

"I don't want any and neither do you guys." Clark replied. "Go home."

Jonathon pushed Clark in response. "Don't talk to your mother like that."

Clark was wondering if the candy had already driven his dad mad but then he remembered he was a jock in high school. Clark got ready with his best impersonation of Kal he could pull off. Clark quickly grabbed his father by the throat and started.

"Somewhere on me is a little red rock. You want to keep pushing me Johnny what do you think I'm going to do to you. Go home." Clark orders as he puts him down.

Even with the mind of a teenager Jonathon isn't foolish enough to fight Red K Clark without kryptonite once he catches his breath him and Martha leave. Clark continues to walk in stride he sees Giles and his mom's boss kissing but that's actually an improvement according to his hearing and he has to get to the factory so he leaves them be. Clark is up to the factory and knocks the two people giving out candy into the wall hard knocking them out. He goes inside and sees a British man walking about.

"Something I can help you with?" Ethan asked.

"You can tell me why you poisoned Sunnydale with the nicodemus flower." Clark answered.

"Oh I don't think I'll be doing that." Ethan says with a smile seeing Trick's left over vampires in case the entity showed up walking up to Clark. To his shock however Clark turns around and the vampires burst into flames. "Bugger"

Clark grabs Ethan by his shirt and holds him against the wall. "I don't have much time now how long before people start going into comas."

Ethan's panicked. "They won't I diluted it enough so that when people are cut off from the candy the effects will wear off."

Clark smiled at least he had one less thing to panic about. "Now why are you doing this in the first place?"

Ethan won't talk. Trick scares him more than this guy. "Excudo"

Clark is hit with a ball of energy and sent flying into a wall of boxes and hitting the floor hard. To his shock that hurt as he struggles to his feet he realizes that really hurt. Before he can fully recover he sees Ethan coming towards him.

"Vincere" At this word Green energy shoots from Ethan's hand and wraps around Clark's torso to Clark's surprise he isn't able to break free. Ethan continues to hold his hand out and moves it up lifting Clark a foot off the floor. The green energy turns white and Clark passes out.

Clark hits the floor with a thud he doesn't know what that was but he should thank the guy for his first bit of sleep he's had in weeks. Clark looks around and to his surprise his rescuers were Joyce and Snyder.

"Rupert was right it worked." Joyce said holding a knife.

"It's not safe for you two to be here." Clark said getting up to his feet.

"We're fine Buffy and Rupert chased the guy down." Joyce said.

"Summers whooped him good. I could have done it too." Snyder added while doing something that was supposed to be martial arts apparently. "Took Tae Kwan Do classes at the Y."

Clark and Joyce both roll their eyes at this. Thankfully before Snyder can add anything else to it Buffy and Giles are back.

"Clark welcome back to the land of the living now do you want to tell us what you're doing here?" Buffy asked.

"The guy that trapped me used an old experiment from Smallville to make the candy bars. It drops people's inhibitions basically makes them teenagers. I tracked him to here." Clark answered.

"And you didn't bring in the cops why?" Joyce asked.

"Figured they would be teenagers." Clark said hoping they'd believe that.

"Well next time you do something like this you get me understand." Buffy says in a commanding tone she is grateful Vamps have the night off or she'd likely be burying a new friend and maybe even slaying him with how he looks. "Now we have to go to the hospital like right now are you good to come with?"

"I'm still woozy from that green circle thing." Clark lied. "Go I'll be fine."

The gang left leaving Clark where he is to his surprise he sees the British man who beat him walking out one handcuff off one handcuff on.

"Oh bugger I thought you'd all left." Ethan said

In a blur Clark had him suspended over the air by his arms stopping him from doing whatever he did last time.

"How did you hurt me?" Clark asked he didn't think it was possible without kryptonite.

Ethan smiled. "Simple energy blast and containment spell."

Clark was left dumbfounded by this. "Magic is real?" and even worse it can hurt him.

"How do you think I grew the nicodemus so fast?" Ethan asked.

"Speaking of the plant you have to the count of 10 to tell me why you were doping the parents of Sunnydale." Clark said.

"1"

Ethan smiled this boy's bluffing he's nowhere near as intimidating as the slayer "2" Ethan taunted Clark.

"9" Clark's eyes turned red.

Well no slayer can do that Ethan thought in a panic. "Larconis, we needed to get the tribute and the parents had to be out of the way."

Clark's eyes bugged out reading the library's books he knew all about Larconis. He tapped Ethan in the head and blurred to the nearest manhole cover. The sewers are the only place that thing could be. Even if it is magical like the demon from two nights ago or the British guy no chance in hell is he leaving babies to be demon food.

Buffy, Joyce and Giles, have left the hospital and made it to the sewers after sending Snyder home. Joyce and Giles have gotten the babies away while Buffy is fighting for all she's got. She already dusted two vamps as one swings a roundhouse kick at her which she easily dodges. Another vampire attacked her but she sidesteps and throws him into the water and stakes the one who tried to round house her. The fighting is stopped temporarily as the ground begins to shake.

"What the hell is that?" Giles asked.

The vampire in the water got to his knees just as a giant snake demon came through a tunnel. It sees the vampire and eats him before heading back into the tunnel.

"Larconis I'm thinking." Buffy said.

Mr. Trick smiled with his demon face. "Ordinarily I like other people doing my fighting for me. But I just have to see what you've got."

"Just tell me when it hurts." Buffy said as she advances on him but is pushed aside by Giles who rushes him. "Giles no."

Giles hits Trick with a solid punch but he isn't bothered. Trick grabs Giles by the shirt and throws him into the pool. He lets Buffy go past him and climbs up a manhole as the place starts shaking again and just suddenly stops. Trick looks disappointed but performs the bad guy cliché sticking his head out.

"You and me girl fun times ahead." Trick warns before making himself scarce.

"They can never just leave they always have to say something." Buffy pouts. She turns around and freaks out when she sees Giles climbing into Larconis' tunnel. "Giles what are you doing?"

"Just calm down it's already dead." Giles points to the burning Snake down the tunnel.

"How?" Buffy wondered.

"The sodding entity how the bloody hell should I know." Giles answered.

"Can we go home now?" Joyce asked.

"Yeah I got SATs tomorrow." Buffy said.

Joyce rolls her eyes going to the babies. "Blow them off I'll write you a note."

Buffy joins her mom with the babies. "No it's Ok."

Clark was lying down resting his eyes in the back of his truck. Larconis being the big demon that he was must have canceled evil for the night as he didn't hear a thing demon related. His eyes shot up as he caught a fist and he sits up and sees that it belongs to Faith. She's come back from her night in wherever she went.

"Good reflexes" Faith said with genuine surprise.

"Thank you." Clark said.

"What are you doing out here CK?" Faith asked. In this town this was the equivalent of a suicide attempt.

"You find out about the candy yet?" Clark asked.

"Red gave me the footnotes." Faith answered.

"Red?" Clark asked.

"Willow"

Clark nods getting it. "My parents are hopped up on band candy and the walls suck."

Faith nods in understanding. "No one should hear their parents screwing."

Faith gets a laugh at how red Clark turned at her comment. She climbs into the back of the truck with him.

"What are you doing?" Clark asked.

"Town like this I'm not leaving you alone for the night move over." Faith ordered.

Clark is too tired and can finally get some sleep so he doesn't fight. He does however take off his jacket and gives it to her.

"Don't you want it?" Faith asks.

"I'm from Kansas this is like summer weather to me." Clark said.

They were both tired from their night or many nights in Clark's case and went to sleep. Faith thought about it for a second after she touched Clark's chest but lets it drop. His parents are right inside and according to Clark the walls suck.

Clark woke up the next morning somewhat refreshed. Thanks to Larconis it was only a couple hours but it was sleep. He turns around and to his surprise Faith's gone. How was she so quiet to get past his ears? In a blur he's dressed clean and off to the SATs when he comes back he'll have a very uncomfortable conversation with his parents.

That Monday after school Clark seen Buffy talking with Joyce and Giles about a dent in Joyce's car.

Buffy is quick to defend herself and points at the dent. "Uh, hey, the way things were going, be glad that's the worst that happened. At least I got to the two of you before you actually 'did' something."

Clark is walking to his truck as fast as he can. He'd superspeed home to avoid this if he wasn't in public. As Buffy gets in the car Joyce and Giles just look at each other embarrassed. They know what they did.

"Right" Joyce said

"Indeed" Giles added.

"Y-yes" Joyce muttered.

They both quickly pivot and head off in opposite directions.

Author's Notes

Thanks for the reviews.

Happy Halloween

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