Chloe sat at her computer. She was compiling all the information she had on Clark. She was now glad she had not deleted the information on the adoption of Clark. She thought she would use that as a starting point. She pulled up the file and stared at it. She read through the information and printed the page then stood and moved to a black board that so far had Clark underlined and in big letters on the top center of the board.

She had found the black board a couple of weeks ago. She had been staring at the wall and found a crack in it. When she walked up and put her hand on the wall to examine the crack the wall suddenly clicked. Chloe quickly removed her hand to see part of the wall pop out a couple of millimeters. She grabbed the protruding wall and tried to pull it open but nothing happened. After a few minutes of struggling with the wall, it started to move. The hinges creaked in protest as it moved to a position it hadn't been in for over a decade, maybe two.

She couldn't believe she had never noticed it before. She examined the board it was about three feet high and five feet wide. She closed the wall again and examined how it was covering the black board perfectly. The hinges had their own place in the wall completely hiding them. She could understand now that she had never noticed it before. Her instincts told her it was probably where some story ideas had been written before computers had become available.

She had covered the wall so excitedly when she had become the editor of the Torch that she had not noticed the crack while she covered the wall, underneath it lay what Chloe now regards as a treasure. She would be able to put the information she finds on Clark there and no one would know she was investigating him.

She stepped up to the board and taped the adoption information in the top left. Next to it she wrote 1989. She stepped back and looked at the board then stepped up again to write: Where did he come from?

*****

Professor Xavier wasn't completely surprised that Logan attacked. He had already known that Logan wouldn't wait but he thought he would try to warn him. He quickly moved down the hall going back to Cerebro. He was hoping that with Clark this close and with Cerebro's help he might be able to do something.

Then he saw Pete and Nightcrawler walking down the hallway quickly. Xavier had an amused look on his face. "I see you two have met. Well that makes it a little easier. Pete I need you to go to your room and stay there. Kurt I want you to protect him."

"Protect me? Protect me from what?" Pete asked. Xavier saw the recognition in Pete's eyes and thoughts as he figured out that the alarm was Clark. "I can help."

"You remember what happened last time. I don't want you to get hurt."

"But maybe I could talk to him."

"No I want you to stay here. Kurt take him to his room and keep him there." Then he told him which room it was in his mind.

Kurt gave the Professor a nod then grabbed Pete and they disappeared.

Xavier then moved quickly to Cerebro. He sat patiently as the door scanned him then opened. He rolled to the end and put the small helmet with the metal umbilical cords on his head. He hoped he would be able to do something to help in this battle he knew had already started.

*****

Storm heard Logan yelling and she knew that he hadn't waited for her. Xavier had wanted her to go and talk to Clark to try and stall him until Cyclops returned with the kryptonite. She could hear she was too late. She ran down the hall faster now.

She rounded the corner to see Logan running at Clark. Clark was just standing there with his arms out to the side a grin on his face. 'Oh no Logan is going to kill him.' she thought to herself. Then she watched as Logan's claws started to cut into Clark's gut. Clark had a look of complete shock on his face. Storm wondered why he would be surprised at this since he had been standing there waiting for the blow.

*****

Logan couldn't believe how hard it was to cut the boy. He had expected a normal blow but when he hit him it was like he had hit a steel beam. Although this boy almost seemed a little tougher than steel no make that a lot tougher. No wonder the boy had had a smirk on his face. 'The smirks gone now, ain't it Bub,' he thought as he smiled. Luckily the adamantium was stronger than steel, but it was still tough to go through steel. Logan pushed with all his might as his claws slowly cut deeper into the boy. No one threatened his family, no one.

*****

Clark thought he was completely invulnerable so he was in complete shock when he felt the metal cutting into his gut. It was about two or three inches in him when he came to his senses and hit the man away. The man flew into a room and hit a boy. Clark fell to one knee breathing deeply not from the pain but from the shock. He looked up and saw a woman with white hair round the corner. He recognized her as the woman who had talked to him at the hotel. "Ororo." He said as he stood.

"What are you doing Clark?"

How did she know my name was Clark? he asked himself. Then he had an idea, "So Pete told you my Earth name then? Where is that boy anyway?" He looked around looking through the walls. He looked at the upper levels then to the lower levels. What he saw impressed him. There were lots of hidden corridors and he saw some mutants hiding in them. I'll take care of them later.

He saw a few lower levels looking nothing like the floor he was on or like anything that should be in a mansion like this. He located many secret chambers and passageways. Then he saw Pete sitting in a room with a blue man. He watched as Pete was pacing back and forth.

"Clark you don't want to do this?"

"I don't?" Clark asked bemused, now looking at Ororo. "I was sure I thought I did."

"Clark I know you are different than this. If you would just take the ring off then..."

"You, know I am different then this? I didn't know we had been that close. And my ring," he said as he lifted his hand looking at the ring, "now why would I want to take it off?" He smiled and looked back at Ororo. "But it makes me feel so good." He looked down at the red kryptonite in the class ring. It sparkled in the light.

Clark heard some footsteps that sounded as if they got heavier with each step. He looked in their direction and saw a large boy. His skin looked as if it were turning into steel. He passed another boy and walked up to Clark.

"Colossus no!" Storm yelled as she move toward them.

*****

Bobby watched as Logan had stabbed into the stomach of the boy. The boy then hit Logan and he flew back into the room. Peter caught him, but with the force that Logan hit him, he was knocked to the ground. Rogue ran over to Logan as Peter easily moved out from under him. Bobby turned his attention back to the fight.

He heard Storm say the boy's name and now he knew his name was Clark. He watched Storm and Clark talking when he heard Colossus coming up behind him. He watched as Colossus' skin turned to armor. Bobby didn't know if this was good or bad. He figured that with the force that Wolverine was thrown that Colossus and Clark might be matched in strength.

Colossus threw the first punch and Clark flew back through the front door. Bobby knew that the door would have exploded into splinters had it not been already been open. He saw Clark land on the ground. Clark was back in in the blink of an eye. Bobby couldn't believe how fast Clark moved, you practically couldn't see him. Colossus then was hit and went flying back over Rogue and Logan then through the window in the game hall.

Bobby on instinct held up his hand at Clark and the air started to shimmer getting closer to Clark. In seconds ice was starting to freeze around Clark forming a thin layer. Bobby didn't want to kill him, but chill him enough to slow Clark down.

Clark turned his attention to Bobby then smiled and took a step toward him. Bobby then decided he would have to be stronger and tried to freeze Clark rather than just make him cold. Now a thick layer was forming around Clark and he was slowing. Bobby was getting excited, his first fight with a real foe and he was going to win. Clark was now surrounded with over a foot of ice. Bobby feeling it was enough stopped and sighed with relief.

He turned his attention back to Rogue and saw Logan waking up. He ran up to Rogue. He was about to ask Wolverine how he felt when he heard ice breaking behind him. That's impossible. He said to himself as he turned and saw the thick ice breaking. Not remembering he lived in a world where anything was possible.

A mist started to form and Bobby saw Storm was causing a fog. The fog became so thick that Bobby could barely see his hand in front of his face. He then heard the ice shatter in pieces on the floor. At least he won't be able to see us.

*****

Clark had been impressed by the first boy's strength. Then there was the boy who had formed the ice cocoon around him. Clark felt he might have a real fight on his hands. He had thought it would be easy but he was used to knowing a little more about who he was fighting. He took a moment to break out of the ice and found himself in a thick fog. He figured one of these people would be making the fog, it was only logical. Someone among these people would have that ability. With what he had seen from the last three people anything was seeming possible. Clark smiled to himself. "Do you think this fog will blind me?"

Clark switched to his x-ray vision and saw where everyone was standing. None of them looked as if they were concentrating to do this until he saw Ororo. All the other skeletons he saw were looking around themselves but she was looking straight at him and standing a little stiff. He ran over to her and placed his hand around her throat in a second. Clark wasn't looking forward to killing anyone he for sure didn't want to look any of his victims in the eye, but someone had to do it. "Thank you for making it so much easier for me."