Clark felt his stomach tighten as he ran towards Lady Jaye; reflecting on it later he would willingly admit that he had never been as scared as he was in that moment. As soon as he heard the guard give the order to kill Lady Jaye he started to run, and the world seemed to slow down around him. He pushed himself faster and faster racing through the doors of the Gala just as he heard Duke confirm that the President was actually Zartan, Cobra's master of disguise. Two seconds later, he was racing out of there, Jaye safe in his arms just as the first bullet was fired toward where she had been mere seconds before.

"I've got Lady Jaye" Clark said, setting her down on a park bench several miles from the Gala.

"Good work Kal, we'll meet you back at base, Duke out"

"You alright?" he asked her and she nodded, smiling before scooting over so Clark could sit down next to her. He sat next to her and neither of them said anything for a minute, each waiting for the other to break the silence. Finally Clark did so, wondering if he was doing the right thing.

"About what happened earlier-"he began but Jaye cut him off.

"I don't regret kissing you Clark" she told him, both of them smiling at the memory before Clark continued with what he was saying.

"I wouldn't have kissed you if I thought I was going to regret it. However, if anything is going to happen between us, you need to know everything about me. I won't be in a relationship where I have to lie" he said, stopping again to organize his thoughts. Jaye wondered what he meant by telling her everything about him, but kept silent, letting Clark organize his thoughts knowing that whatever he was going to tell her was important.

"You already know I'm not like most people, but when I told you that people have abilities where I come from, I wasn't being entirely honest. In 1989 a meteor shower hit Smallville Kansas, but the meteors weren't all that came down with the meteor shower. Light-years away a planet called Krypton exploded after it had been consumed by civil war. Every person died except one. Jor-El a brilliant scientist that knew Krypton was doomed built a rocket ship to carry his son to earth. He was found by a farmer and his wife in a cornfield outside of Smallville and they took the baby and raised him as their son. As he grew the child realized he could run faster than a train, had impenetrable skin, could hear from miles away, see through solid objects and shoot fire from his eyes"

"You were that baby weren't you Clark?" Lady Jaye asked as the pieces finally fell into place. Clark nodded, hoping he wouldn't regret telling her everything.

"When we first met you, you said to call you Kal" she continued and Clark nodded again before answering her unspoken question.

"My birth name was Kal-El"

Jaye was absorbing all of this as calmly as possible and she knew if she hadn't seen what she had in the last couple of days and if it had been anyone but Clark telling her this she would've called them insane, but looking into Clark's eyes she found not a trace of deception, just honesty and a hint of fear; Jaye looked into his eyes and realized that Clark was afraid of her, afraid she would reject him because of what he had just told her.

"Thank you for trusting me with this Clark and thank you for my life"

Clark smiled as he realized she didn't hate him because of what he was, and that she wasn't to run out on him.

"Now where were we before Duke interrupted?" Jaye asked with a mischievous smile before she leaned forward and locked her lips with Clark's and before long Clark deepened the kiss. The world seemed to fall away for the two Joes as they reveled in a completeness neither of them had ever felt before; Jaye had never thought that she would find anyone she could be with since she was a woman in what was largely considered a man's line of work and constantly felt like she needed to prove herself while Clark found himself finally able to be with someone who didn't need him to be anything but exactly who he was. They stayed there for a minute longer before Clark finally broke the kiss.

"We ought to get back to base before Duke thinks we went AWOL"

"You're right" she said with a sigh, neither of them wanting to move, but knowing they had to go.

"We'll continue this later"

"Yes ma'am" he smirked before picking her up and running her back to Colton's house finding Duke waiting for them.

"I was about to send Flint to find you guys" he said, and Clark smirked.

"Sorry Duke, we were a bit preoccupied" he told the Joe leader and Duke gave the two of them a knowing smile, which caused them both to blush. Duke's smile broadened for a minute as he thought of when he had told Colton the same thing when he had first begun to date Anna.

'I'll come back to you Anna, I promise' he thought, hoping she was safe back at home, although he wouldn't put it past Rex to have kidnapped her again just to spite Duke.

"C'mon you two, we need to go over the plan" he told them, putting thoughts of Anna in the back of his mind and walking into the kitchen where Colton, Roadblock, Flint and two of Colton's old teammates from his Joe days waited. Clark heard the smallest of noises, and motioned to the others to pull out their weapons.

"Drop your weapons" Storm Shadow said his sword at Jaye's neck.

"I'd step away from her before that sword ends up across your throat" Clark said from behind him and Storm Shadow turned, wondering how the boy got behind him so fast.

"Easy kid" a girl from next to him said.

"Who the hell are you?"

"Jinx Snake-Eyes apprentice" she replied and Snake-Eyes appeared in front of Duke, conversing with him silently.

"It's alright guys, they're with us" Duke said and the Joes put away their weapons.

Two hours later

"So that's the plan Joes. Tomorrow it ends. Either we're going down or they are"

A/N: I hope you guys liked this chapter! I always wondered what happened to Anna after Duke saved her so you can expect her to appear later! Please review and if you have any suggestions for the later plot, please let me know!