Experiment 001

Chapter 16: The Plan

Clark could not believe his ears. He needed to do something. This was crazy, he could not be expected to just sit there and do nothing! He needed to do something, anything! "Alley," Clark said, "what's going to happen to us?"

She scoffed, "I'm not entirely sure that you would want to know."

"I can't just sit here!" He said, almost losing his temper. He looked around the room; there was nothing, no chairs, no tables, just walls and a door. He squinted his eyes to try to look through the door to see what was on the other side, but found that all he saw was the door. "I-I can't see through the door…"

"Yeah," Alley said, "cyo ulraway."

Clark stared at her, "What?"

She looked at him blankly, "What?"

"You said something in Kryptonian."

She continued to stare, "I did?"

"Yeah, 'sss-iye-ooh ul-rah-way'?" Clark tried to sound out the words.

Alley looked surprised, "Oh," she thought for a moment, "not anymore."

"Huh?"

"That's what 'cyo ulraway' means: not anymore."

"So," Clark sighed, "we just wait?"

"It would seem." She sighed, "But someone should notice we're missing, soon enough, cy?"

"You did it again!"

"I'm sorry! It just happens! If it had been my choice, I would have never have had to learn English!"

Clark sighed again, "Let's not argue. If we're going to be stuck here, we might as well think of some kind of escape plan."

"Escape plan? I know you don't understand this, but I was stuck here for more than a year. There is no way out. We are stuck here. And unless someone can find us, we are dead."

"A year? I thought—"

"Awake. The ship malfunctioned. I was…asleep for longer than programmed. About seven Earth years too long."

"That's why we look the same age?"

She nodded, "Yes."

Clark looked around again, his eyes stopped at Alley. Her hair was up in pigtails. A sudden, slightly stupid idea came to his mind. "Alley, do you have any bobby-pins in your hair?"

She gave him a blank look, "Bobby-pins?"

"Yeah, I know it sounds stupid, but it's in a lot of movies and TV shows, pick the lock with a hair pin."

She pulled one out of her hair, "How does it work?"

Clark took the pin, "I don't know. I can usually just break the doorknob."

"If you want to try."

Clark walked over to the door and tried to put the hair pin in when the knob turned…

A/N: Okay, cliffhanger!!!!! But I updated faster than last time. Mostly cause Linh was sick and needed something to make her feel better. And I'm stuck in the computer lab. Can you believe that they actually require students to have at least 18 hours in the computer lab to pass a course?! What kind of crap is that?! So I'm stuck on this super old computer that doesn't even have a USB port to save my stuff to my little memory stick! So I had to e-mail it…cause my laptop doesn't have a floppy drive. And the keyboard on this thing is so stiff and junky!!!!! You people better be happy and give me reviews, I'm being tortured to type this up for you. But I still love you all. Thanks for all the reviews last time, believe me, they brighten my day. And I've needed that lately. We're winding down to the last chapters, so sad, I know. I will make the last 2 chapters extra long, so after the next one expect about 6-8 pages per chapter. So yes. Only three more to go! So sad.

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