Clark and Pete were walking though the halls at school headed towards class when they were greeted by Chloe.
" Hey Chloe." Clark said giving her the gorgeous smile that she loved to see.
"Hi Clark " She said blushing a bit.
" What's that?" Clark said look at the rolled up newspaper in her hand.
" Today's issue of the Daily Planet. Murder in Metropolis last night. The victim was the famed Dr. Monroe, whose claim to fame was working with human genetic alterations involving meteor rocks."
" Sound interesting." Clark said showing interest in anything involving the meteor rocks.
" So Chloe is this your new wall of weird material?" Pete said teasing her a bit.
" Well the story doesn't scream wall of weird, but it wouldn't hurt to look into it." She said very curious. " Shoot, I gotta go. I'm meeting my new recruitment for the Torch."
" New recruitment? " Pete asked confused.
"Yeah Principal Harris set Madison up with a spot on the Torch staff."
"You seem excited about it." Clark said detecting her sarcasm.
" Well I think my competitive side is getting the best of me. More than half of the students elected for the Daily Planet internship come from Metropolis Prep and they didn't immediately become my favorite bunch.
" Well maybe Madison different." Clark said sticking up for Madison.
" Maybe she isn't." Chloe said doubtfully.
" Who better to find out then Smallville's top investigative report?" Pete said encouraging Chloe.
" Well nice to know someone notices my talents." She said shooting a glance at Clark, who looked back at her a bit ashamed.
Madison was waiting in the Torch office because Chloe was running late. Madison started to examine the wall of weird. Madison was intrigued by all the weird occurrences that happened in Smallville. Chloe walked into the office in a bit of rush, startling Madison.
" Sorry I'm late, wasn't paying attention to time. Which is strange for a girl who lives in deadlines. In my perfect world there would be 32 hours in day."
" But even if we had 32 hours day people would still find ways to run out of time." Madison responded. Chloe laughed.
" True. Unfortunately for me. So Madison any previous newspaper experience?"
" Well I dated a guy who had an internship with the Daily Planet does that count?" Chloe laughed a bit thinking Madison was a total fry. " What's with the wall?"
" Oh the Wall of Weird. I have this theory that all these weird occurrences in Smallville are some sort of creepy effect caused by the 1989 meteor shower. See these green rocks in the pictures?" Madison nodded. " Well they are meteor rocks. That on more than one occasion have been found at the sites of these strange occurrences."
"Interesting."
" Well it's a bit more entertaining than cow tipping." Madison laughed.
" You're a bit different that I expected, Chloe Sulllivan." Chloe looked at Madison a bit confused. " The kids at Prep weren't kidding when they said the High School reporter from Smallville was giving them a run for their money." Chloe smiled, more excited than words could describe. She muttered yes under her breath.
" Really? Well I guess I better get working on my next article have to keep my rep up." Chloe threw down the Daily Planet. Madison looked at it and got wide eyed.
" Dr. Monroe?"
" Yeah. Did you know him?"
" No, but we heard a great deal about him. He funded our science department at Prep. He was a nice man as far as I knew. Why would anyone want to kill him? His whole life revolved around helping people. Curing them."
" Curing them from what?" Madison shrugged.
" Strange diseases that no one had ever heard of. Genetic alterations involving green chemicals I think."
" Meteor rocks?" The wheels in Chloe's head were turning. " Madison, did Dr. Monroe ever have patients from Smallville?" Madison thought.
" I'm not 100 % sure, but I do remember hearing a large clientele from Smallville."
" Hum. I think I found my new story."