Bruce
Chapter Two
The kid turned and walked towards the car, drawing Chloe's attention to it for the first time. The car looked to Chloe like a cross between a racing car and every sports car on the market, it was low to the ground with sleek lines and was unusually shiny, Chloe guessed this was some sort of armour. The overall effect the car gave was of a fighter plane.
As the kid walked he took out his remote control again pressed in a code and pointed it at the place. Suddenly an armoured shell started to cover the plane. When this shell was complete the armour shimmered and it and the plane disappeared from view. Armour and stealth technology thought Chloe, who was this kid?
As Chloe was thinking this the kid had opened the passenger door of the car "Get in" he told Chloe. She did so and he shut the door then got into the driver seat and started the car and drove off.
Chloe was in awe. If the outside of this car looked like a plane, the inside looked more like the inside of a spaceship than a car.
As they travelled back to Smallville they talked about "the wall of weird". The kid was fascinated and helped confirm Chloe's suspicions that meteor rocks were responsible for a lot of the strange events in Smallville. He then shocked Chloe with two new pieces of information; first than he had some of the rock and had studied them and second he was certain they had not come to Earth alone. Instead they had been dragged in the wake of a very small spaceship.
Chloe had known this for a while and had attempted to make sure no one else found out, in order to protect Clark. Something of her feelings must have shown in her face because the kid looked at her briefly and said
"You know don't you, You're protecting someone's secret."
"I'm…" Chloe began
"It all right " said the kid " Protecting people is good. I respect it. But I think it may be time to change the subject."
"I think you are doing a very brave thing going against Lionel Luthor. I first heard of him about a year ago, he's a nasty piece of work, but there was nothing I could find to prove anything.
Chloe let out a humourless laugh " Yeah brave, stupid more like, I almost got my father killed.
"No you didn't, Luthor did that, don't forget it." Said the kid
As they drove Chloe looked out the window, she was amazed by now fast this car was going, but she got the feeling it could go a lot faster.
Suddenly a beeping sound pulled her out of her thoughts, "The source of the EMP" Chloe asked the kid.
Bruce again smiled; he was impressed with Chloe's intuition. "Yes" he said as he pulled into a field and stopped the car.
"Great" said both Chloe and the kid as they looked at the "Luthorcorp" sign then Chloe was suddenly worried about Clark's secret being exposed, as she notice they were at the Indian caves, that had a strong connection to Clark. This kid was very very smart. If anyone could figure out this place's connection to Clark he could.
Bruce Wayne on the other hand was worried about taking Chloe into a Luthorcorp property, so he insisted she stay in the car while he investigated the caves. Chloe knew she could not argue with this without revealing Clark's secret herself. So she just watched as the kid got out of the car and made his way quickly and quietly to the entrance hole and jumped down. She was worried he would be hurt in the fall until a grapple shot out of the hole a second later and imbedded itself in a nearby tree. Then she realise he was able to lower himself down.
As Bruce lowered himself into the caves he saw what he hoped was the unconscious body of a middle-aged man. As he reached the ground he left the grapple rope dangling and went to check the man. He was relieved to see the man was alive but his pulse was weak. Suddenly it stopped. No thought Bruce this could be someone father, he would not let someone else's parents die. Bruce checked for broken bones then began CPR. After two sets the man responded. After confirming the man was out of danger, Bruce scanned the cave for EM fields. He found evidence that a "wormhole" had recently been opened in the wall but was not able to open it again, so picking up the man and hosting him onto his shoulder Bruce held the grapple-gun and pressed the retract button and was pulled up. After carefully pulling the unconscious man out of the hole Bruce carried him back to the car.
Bruce was not ready for Chloe's reaction to see the man.
"Oh my god" shrieked Chloe "Mr Kent" then to the kid "He was in the cave? Is he OK? We have to take him home"
"Yes he OK just unconscious. You want to take him home not to hospital, Why? Or is this part of the secret your trying to protect. OK we'll take him home; you called him Kent is this Mr Kent as in "the Kent Farm."
As he put Jonathan Kent into the car, Bruce felt him wake up, this guy was tough.
As Jonathan Kent started to wake-up his first thought was he was in a spaceship and that Jor-EL had kidnapped him, his first though was what had happened to Clark, and then he slowly became aware that someone was saying his name over and over. Then he recognised that it was Chloe and that he was in the most incredible car he had ever seen.
"Chloe" he said weakly as he tried to sit up.
"Don't try to move Mr Kent" That was not Chloe's voice thought Jonathan. He turned his head and saw an incredibly muscular kid in his late teens.
"It OK said the kid "you're going to be all right"
"Who are you"
"It OK Mr Kent I think we can trust him, he just save my life" said Chloe.
"What happened" ask Jonathan concerned.
"Basically Lionel Luthor tried to kill me. This kid is amazing. He came through the window on a motor bike, just as a bomb blew the house up. He had a sort of blanket made from kevlar.
Jonathan was feeling better and tried again to move, he could but he chest hurt. Opening in his shirt Jonathan was shocked to see a bruise on his chest.
"Sorry Mr Kent" said the kid "I did than when I give you CPR down in the cave"
Chloe and Jonathan looked at the kid in amazement.
"You saved my life?" said Jonathan, then as the kid nodded, said, "In that case I think you can call me Jonathan. Though shouldn't I go to a hospital"
"No" said the kid "you are out of danger and there is a little mystery about what happened to you, Chloe here seems to be protecting a secret of yours and doctor may have questions you won't want to answer. I am curious about this secret but I won't pry because Chloe is loyal to this secret and to you and I have come to respect her."
As they had been talking the car, which was very fast, was already through Smallville and was rapidly approaching the Kent farm. One of the fields was on fire and a woman was trying, without success to put it out. The kid presses a sequence of buttons on the control panel and Chloe and Jonathan heard some strange flushing sounds. Seeing their confusion the kid explained "Just loading the external jets with fire extinguisher foam.
Martha Kent was frantic. She could not put the fire out, she had just started to use the spray hose, having used every fire extinguisher on the farm when she heard the muted high pitch roar of what she first though was a fighter plane landing. Then she saw the car racing very fast down the road towards the farm. The car swerved suddenly and stopped with its back towards the field. Then white foam sprayed out of the back of the car in a powerful jet, The fire was out in seconds. Martha then watched as her husband, Chloe Sullivan, and a kid in has late teens that she had never seen before got out of the car.
"Jonathan where have you been, Where is Clark"
"It's all right Mr Kent," the kid said to Jonathan "I am heading into town. Chloe please stay here till I get back."
He then got back into the car and drove off. As Chloe and Jonathan watched the car drive away Martha looked stunned at the now almost normal field, then at the fast moving car "Who was that" she said in a low voice
"I never got his name," said Jonathan "did you Chloe"
"No" said Chloe " He called himself 'John Smith' but I don't believe it"
"Jonathan, are you all right" said Martha in a very worried tone of voice as she notice the bruise on her husband's chest.
"Yes love, I am fine thanks to him" said Jonathan as he pointed in the direction that the kid had gone in "He gave me CPR after Jo..." he stopped suddenly and looked at Chloe.
"It's OK Mr Kent," said Chloe "I know all about Clark being an alien who landed on Earth during the meteor shower."
Jonathan and Martha looked at Chloe amazement.
"How long have you known, how did you find out and have you told anyone" ask Jonathan angrily.
"I've suspected for a long time, but I wasn't sure until Clark told me when he was under the influence of the red Kryptonite and I have not told another soul." Chloe matched Jonathan's anger "Clark could have trusted me from the start and you should know better than to ever ask. Have I ever given you or Clark any reason to think I was anything but a loyal friend? I would never do anything to hurt Clark!"
"No Chloe you haven't" said Jonathan, his anger evaporating "It's just too easy to mistrust everyone when you have a secret like this.
"I understand," said Chloe her anger disappearing too" Where is Clark anyway"
Jonathan and Martha looked at each other nodded than turned back to Chloe and than Jonathan said, "I think he may have gone home."
TBC