Clark grabbed at one of the helicopter doors, but ended up pulling the handle off, thus losing it again. He managed to force his body downward until he was underneath the helicopter and pushed it back up towards the roof.
No one on the ground seemed to notice the impending danger, which Clark found odd. But, it did work to his advantage. He pushed the helicopter back up towards the roof, only to dodge another ray blast from the ship! Why was it firing at him?
Helicopter in hand, Clark saw another roof top and made his way over to it, just as Connor, Spike, Wesley, General Lane and the attendant, managed to disentangle themselves, and get back onto the roof. Connor was the first one to force the door open. He caught a glimpse of Clark flying over to the roof of a nearby building, just as the ship turned and aimed a ray towards them!
"Get back!" Connor yelled, shoving everyone back into the stairwell.
But the blast did not come.
"What the hell is going on out there?!" General Lane snapped. "Did the helicopter take off safely?! Is my daughter safe?!"
"The helicopter 'took off' just fine." Connor said briskly, shoving past everyone and hurrying down the stairs. He was going over to that building to confront Kent!
Spike grabbed his arm!
"You saw something, didn't you?" Spike asked, lowering his voice.
"I'll handle it!"
"The bloody hell you will! I can hear about as well as you can! There's no way that helicopter didn't crash to the ground."
Connor eyed the General and the attendant, who were arguing with Wesley.
"It didn't crash. Look, I will take care of this."
"No, why don't you take care of the girl that you made pregnant, okay? You don't work here, I'll take care of what needs to be done. Now what did you see?"
Connor turned and began running down the stairs. How could his father have hired such an insolent bastard? He wasn't telling Spike anything!
But Spike began following him.
"Doesn't matter, you know! I'm just going to follow you anyway!"
Meanwhile, the General gave Wesley hell!
"What the hell kind of half assed operation are you people running?!"
"You were warned about the danger on the roof." Wesley replied tersely. His eyes cut to Connor and Spike, who were heading back down the stairs at a rapid speed.
"You said a 'device' was up there! And to be honest, I thought you were lying! Hell, you people haven't been straight forward about my Lo since we've got here!"
The attendant slipped away and began to move down the stairs, leaving Wesley to take the majority of the guff.
"Yes, I confess for reasons that are unusual in nature, we have not been able to be as candid as we would have liked."
The General rubbed his face.
"I want to know that my daughter and son-in-law made it off of this roof alright!"
Meanwhile, Clark set the helicopter down and looked inside. Lex was either unconscious or had fainted. Lois looked out of it herself.
Clark pulled Lois off of the gurney and picked her up. He carried her over to a spot on the roof and began to lightly slap her face.
"Lois? Lois? Lois, wake up! Lois?" Clark continued, now wondering if she hadn't been drugged or something. Clark looked back over at Lex. What the hell were these two doing on a helicopter together? Why was Lois so out of it?
Clark then let go of her face and allowed his hand to wander down to her stomach. He was more than a bit surprised to feel how big her stomach was! He found that he could not let go of it, and continued to gently rub her stomach.....
Meanwhile, Lois, was not just asleep, but back on her tour of Krypton. She walked behind Lady Lara, taking in the woman's disgraceful attire. How could she wear that headdress thing on her head?
They passed by a mirror, and Lois could see that she was still dressed in her hospital garments. That was fine with her. They were preferable to the rags worn around here!
"Uh Lady Lara....."
"And this is Jor-El's laboratory." the woman said coldly.
"Okay.....who's Jor-El?"
"Kal-El's father."
"Yeah.....now who is Kal-El again?"
Lady Lara gave her a withering look. She then walked up to her and grabbed her chin!
"Mortal women! How my son could've chosen you as the life giving vessel, I will never know."
Lois jerked away from her!
"Listen, lady! I have NEVER met your son, okay? So I didn't choose to be the 'life-giving' vessel! Your boy drugged and took advantage of me and...."
"Insolent as well. Typical of mortal women. Your son will rule that backward and harsh dominion you refer to as Earth......
While Lois was getting her harsh lecture and forced history of Krypton, Clark made the decision to fly her back to Smallville. He picked her up and took a deep breath. He hoped like HELL, Lois did not wake up mid-flight!
Yes, this was the right thing to do. He would take her back to the farm and confess everything to his parents. The ship was killing innocent people here. It was after him....after his child. He could protect Lois better somewhere safe, away from a heavily populated area.
But, he would be putting his parents at risk.
Angel would just have to understand. His parents would have to be made to understand this business about the spell and Lana.....he would think of something.
Clark took another deep breath, told Lois to hold on, then leaped up into the air, just as the roof door smashed open and Connor and Spike went running towards him!
"CLARK!" Connor screamed up at him. Spike shoved Connor!
"You know him?! What the soddin' hell is going on here? Who is that and where is he taking Lois?!"
Connor turned to glare at Spike.
"I didn't ask for you to follow me up here, okay? This is none of your business!"
"Oh, you got that wrong, mate! Luthor married Lois while she was asleep!"
"What?!"
"Yeah! Baldy's got his eyes on the prize.....that kid that Lois is carrying has powers and Luthor plans to use that to his advantage! So some new guy coming along and flying off with her, isn't helping things!"
"Like I said before, Spike, this is none of your business!"
"I got to know that girl a bit, okay? She doesn't want to be married to Luthor and she doesn't want some weirdo that can fly, taking off with her! Bloody hell! When Angel gets back here...."
"Oooohhhhh!"
Connor and Spike turned to see Luthor making his way out of the wreckage. He blinked several times, as if he was having trouble focusing.
"Wh....wh.....what happened? Am I dead? Is this heaven?"
Spike snorted, put a hand up as if to say, 'talk to the hand' and walked back towards the roof door. Connor crossed his arms.
"Are you alright?"
"Who are you?" Lex asked, looking around. This wasn't the Wolfram & Hart rooftop, was it? Why weren't they dead? And.....LOIS!!!!
Lex turned to look back inside the helicopter. The pilot was dead. The gurney Lois was on was nearby, outside of the helicopter, but she was gone. Lex looked at the guy standing some distance away.
"Where is Lois? Answer me, damnit!"
Connor shrugged.
"Maybe you should be telling me."
"Oh what the hell! What's going on here?! Last thing I remember is that we were falling, Lois, the pilot and I, to our deaths. Now we're over on another building...."
Lex stopped talking. Connor soon understood why. The ship flew past them and off into the distance. Lex shook his head, not understanding, but Connor did. That ship was going off in the direction Clark and Lois had.
Lex ran over to the edge of the building and looked down. Lois wasn't dead that he could see. Maybe General Lane or some of the Wolfram & Hart execs, managed to save Lois and pull her out of the helicopter? Though that did not explain how he got all the way over here.
Lex hurried past Connor and towards the rooftop door. Connor stared at the helicopter and realized that Clark Kent was the father of Lois Lane's baby. He had been cheating on Lana with her, when the spell was invoked.
The sudden knowledge that his spell had nothing to do with Clark or Lois's problems, made his decision a little easier to bear. It was then that his cellphone rang. Connor answered it.
"Yes?"
"Connor? It's me." Angel said. "Wesley just called me...."
"Clark Kent flew Lois out of here."
"Great! We were meeting him there!"
"It doesn't matter. I'm going to the Senior partners. I'm going to reverse the spell."
"Connor, wait! What did you offer them in return?"
"It's done. None of this concerns you anymore. My only concern now is Chloe."
"I understand that, but.....okay, just don't do anything before I get there! I mean we don't know for sure that Clark and Lois won't be affected! She remembers nothing about how she got pregnant!"
"Well maybe it's time she did remember. Clark cheated on Lana. That situation is different from mine and Chloe's."
"Connor, Clark's background, his origins, this is big stuff, okay? Just don't do anything until I get there! Damnit! I was bringing someone who could help Lois."
"I won't do anything until you get here. After, I'm not making any promises." Connor said, hanging up. He too then walked to the rooftop door.
Meanwhile, Angel felt like throwing his phone! God! That boy was so stubborn! Dr. Swann appraised him.
"I take it my help is no longer needed."
Angel took a deep breath.
"Clark flew off with Lois. I think I get where his head is at. Maybe he's trying to keep the ship from killing innocent people."
Dr. Swann continued to stare at Angel.
"You know, I did not want to get into this earlier, but I am curious about something."
Angel lifted a brow and stared at him.
"Who was responsible for this person....the one shrouded in black, coming for you in the first place?"
Angel shrugged.
"You mean the thing that brought me the Kryptonite ring? I'm going to have to assume the Senior Partners. Their dream is to have Angelus running the firm, not Angel, the sensitive one."
"But how did they know that the Kryptonite would affect you in that way? How did they know that the red Kryptonite would affect Clark in a less than positive way? What was their goal?"
"You'd have to ask Luthor. I'm sure he's in cahoots with Wolfram & Hart."
"But because of the spell, neither Luthor, or even General Lane, remembers their original plans for both Clark and yourself. Something is just off here."
Angel agreed. But he could not think about that right now.
"Listen, why don't I have the pilots turn the plane around?"
"No. I'll stay put. Clark may need us sooner than he thinks. I don't believe this is a battle he can fight alone."
Angel sighed. Neither did he.
"What do you mean, Lois is married to Lex?" Chloe asked. Fred and Spike were standing at her bedside.
"It looks as if Lex got someone to give Lois a sedative so he could marry her without any resistance, I guess." Fred reasoned. "But there was some kind of crash"
"Crash?!"
"Uh, Fred...maybe we shouldn't be so vocal." Spike suggested. "After all, you have quite a powerful bun in your oven, yourself."
Chloe blinked at him.
"Excuse me?"
"Goodbye, Spike!" Fred snapped. Spike gave her a look.
"She doesn't know about her kid's pow...."
"Spike!" Fred fumed. Spike looked from Fred to Chloe.
"Take care, luv. And don't you worry. We'll help Lois."
Chloe said nothing. First of all, Lois would rather die than be married! Second of all, she would rather die than be married to Lex 'Richie Rich' Luthor! And third, what the hell was Spike going to say about her baby?
Connor passed Spike as he was on his way out. He ignored the bleach blonde vampire and tentatively made his way over to Chloe and Fred.
"Did you find out anything about Lois?" Fred asked carefully. Wesley was trying to do damage control with General Lane and Lex, over Lois's disappearance. They couldn't tell the men that some guy had flown off with her!
"Uh yeah. I'll tell you outside, later." Connor said, looking at Chloe. "How are you feeling?"
"Fine. Were you two talking about Lois?" she asked. Connor sat down on the edge of her bed.
"She's fine. I'm more concerned about you."
"Why?"
Fred bit her lip. This whole situation was just so stressful! Two young women show up here, pregnant by men that are not normal, human men. Only they don't remember the men or how they got pregnant. And now, Chloe was clearly suspicious of Connor's hovering over her, when she did not remember him.
"Because someone has to be."
Chloe was oddly touched and at the same time, insulted!
"I'm not a charity case!"
"I never said you were." Connor replied a bit taken aback.
"Well who are you really? I mean why do you keep coming in here as if.....just go! None of you are telling me why this is happening to me! Who impregnated me?! The same people that hurt Lois? Who?"
"The father of your child loves you." Connor said simply, then got up. He turned and walked out. Chloe stared at the door he went through for the longest time. Fred coughed.
"Well, I'm going to see if there's any news on Lois. Do you want me to send in your father?"
"No." Chloe said, her manner now grumpy. Fred nodded and left the room herself.
Clark landed on the farm, trying to be gentle, but still ended up falling with Lois in his arms. Martha Kent saw this from the window and hurried outside.
"Clark? What is this? Is that Lois?"
"Uh, yeah, it is. Where is Dad? Lana?"
"Lana went back to the university to look for you when you didn't return. She said you were with some professor."
"He wasn't a professor and we need to get Lois upstairs." Clark said, walking with Lois towards the house. A sudden noise made them stop in their tracks. Martha and Clark looked up.
The ship flew into the barn again. Jonathan came running out, shocked.
"Why does it keep doing that?!" he screeched. He then looked over and saw Clark holding a woman. Was that Lois?
"Clark, what is this? I thought Lois was in California."
"Mom, Dad, I have some things to tell you and we don't have a lot of time. I need to get Lois upstairs to bed. I also need for you to help me in case we have to deliver her baby.....my baby."
Martha and Jonathan's mouths dropped open, as they looked from one another, to Clark and Lois. Jonathan nodded tersely, as Clark hurried up the porch steps with Lois. Martha shrugged at Jonathan, before following after her son. Jonathan glanced over at the barn, before walking up the steps as well.
Connor burst into Harmony's office.
"I want to reverse the spell. You're the new liaison to the Senior Partners, so I want you to help me do it."
Harmony licked her lips and stood up from her chair.
"I am aware of the contract you have with this firm. You do know what we want."
"I do."
"Good. And you do know what will happen if you try in anyway to cross us?"
"I do." Connor said blithely.
"Good. I'll just run it by the Senior Partners, and it's done. Time will pick up at the moment the spell was first cast." Harmony chirped.