Smallville

The Evil Legend

Book Two: Imprisonment

Chapter Five - Restricted

The imbedded ice block left Clark immobilized as he suddenly stimulated by a feeling that he new of take control. Gripping the sides of the ice block he moved the block to one side. Slowly opening his eyes he saw nothingness. The blackness of his prison was enough to make anyone go crazy, but he had no idea why his father had placed him in such a void. Still feeling the same effect of the kryptonite, he watched green veins ooze around him. His veins jittered with an irrepressible movement; he feared even more of being helpless.


Dr. Conners watched as Clark began to move underneath the ice block. He was shocked at how his body shook from the effect of the meteor rock. Looking over at the other scientists he waved them over to grab the cables extending over the edge of the pool. The lights flicked on as the block rose over the water about an inch.

"Keep it steady." Dr. Conners ordered. The others followed his command and watched while the ice dripped like the small blocks in a game of Tetris into the water. Right before they allowed Clark to move anywhere, one of the scientists standing over his head placed the proto-type around his neck. Once the brace was around his neck the scientists let him go. Clark fell into the water below him and watched groggily while the scientists moved around him. He didn't know why he was here, or why he couldn't really remember anything from before. But he did know one thing; he had to get out of there. Using his abilities he started to swim over to the other end of the pool. Hearing the doctors talk about him, he heard a few things very clear. That he did have a family, and someone was looking for him. That reassured him even more on wanting to get out of there.

Conners turned to watch their young captor slowly gather his strength to escape. Hitting a button on the wall next to him the others in the room watched as the young man stopped suddenly as if hearing movement.

Clark looked at the end of the pool seeing a glass cover move fast over the water. His heart started to skip a beat of fear as he swam fast to the other side seeing the door of the room not far away. Feeling his strength coming back to him, he kicked into high gear and took off in the water to the end of the pool. Before he reached the other end of the pool the neck brace turned on without command and Clark yelled out in pain. One of the scientists ran to the edge of the pool to help him, but Conners was already there; "Don't." He ordered; "But sir he could drown." Frank Summons confirmed; "If he's as powerful as Mr. Luthor acts, then we'll tests his powers." Conners told him. Frank looked back at the young man and without any more hesitation on the matter nodded in return.

The glass covered the water over him, as Clark sank deeper into the pool. Feeling the effects of the Kryptonite he felt for the neck brace and started to pull it off. He didn't want to die like this. Without memory of why he was here, without someone to reassure him from harm. Looking back up at the other men watching him he saw the one who had his doubts and sensed that from him right away. Without warning the neck brace shot out an electric wave, throughout the pool. Startled and in pain Clark screamed as he felt the Kryptonite move faster through his system and let go of the brace.

"See, I told you. With a little patience you'll go along way to find out his weakness, and from the readouts it's just a simple meteor rock." Conners told them as they walked into the far room leaving Clark by himself once more.

"Then that means if a meteor rock hurts him, he's a…" Frank suddenly was connecting the dots. He had read sometime before about the weird things that happened to people in Smallville from the meteor shower, but not this way. So that only went down to one thing; that Clark was an alien.

"That he's the real thing sir?" Frank asked looking back into the water. Dr. Conners slowly sat in the chair and started to hit buttons on the consol; "Yes he's the genuine article right in our hands." Conners pointed out bluntly.

"Do you think Mr. Luthor knows?" Frank asked him.

"If he has, he hasn't called to check in on that account, and if all goes as planned; we'll keep this to ourselves." Conners told him as he turned to face him. Frank wondered what Conners was thinking about; "Don't tell me." Frank stopped for a short minute; "I know what you want to do. I've seen you up late in your lab down the hall for the past week fooling around with this kid's blood." Frank blurted out.

"And that would be?" Conners asked him.

"To grow back your arm using DNA from the boy and the reptiles, you know what; you're crazy if you think that's going to work." Frank said loudly. Conners could tell the man was worried about his well being, but he was waiting for the right thing to come along, and that right thing was this boy.

"Have you seen his blood platelets?" Conners asked as excitement came over him; "They're amazing." Conners started to go into detail. Frank always hated that line whenever he said it; "That kid has more of a life span than you or I put together. He could live just as long as Magneto, or longer."

"Plus we don't even know how old Magneto is." Conners finished. Before he could go on the system's alarms went off in the pool room. Both scientists hurried back inside; "What's going on?" Conners shouted over the noise; "He's passing out Conners!" The other scientist yelled leaning over the pool looking in on Clark. Summons followed suit and saw Clark, face down in the water not moving a muscle. Panic ran through Conners blood as he hit the button for the glass cover to move from the water.

"Where's the control for the proto-type?" Conners yelled angrily seeing their patient half dead in the pool; "Use the counter actor on him now!" Conners shouted. Frank snatched the control out of the other scientist's hand and ran over to him; "If green meteor rocks kill him, let's pray and see what this one will do." Frank held his breath and he hit a button to start the brace up again to use the counter actant on Clark. Seeing the brace glow a strange red color. They all headed over to watch intently.

Slowly he felt this incredible feeling one that he hadn't felt since last summer. He opened his eyes feeling them turn red. A heat burst shot out from his eyes as well from the brace as it became over powering. Dr. Conners was in disbelief as he watched the young man come around, but in an inhumanly manner.

"What in God's name?" Conners asked breathless as he watched this headstrong farm boy turn defiantly cold.

Smiling to himself Clark slowly lifted his head and glared at the men; "So you want to play." He said softly with a smirk.


Chloe sat at the foot of the door waiting to hear from Peter, but all she was getting from him was silence. Slowly getting up from her spot on the floor she opened the door. Before she could respond she felt something sticky wrap around her pulling her in the room.

Hearing the doorbell Lana hurried to answer it. Marie looked up from the TV as the door swung open; "Hello?" Lana asked wondering who the brunette woman was standing in the doorway. For some odd reason she looked familiar, but she couldn't place where she had seen her. Carrie could tell how hesitant the girl's approach was; "Hello, my name is Carrie Castle. I work for The Journal." Carrie introduced herself.

"Hi, what brings you here?" Lana asked.

"I was wondering if you knew where a Peter Parker is;" Carrie paused; "I was told that he was last seen in this neighborhood and the paper I work for would love to do an interview with him on the research he's doing with a Dr. Conners." Carrie replied methodically. Nodding her head Lana allowed the lady inside. Henry came into the living room hearing all the noise; "Lana, who's this?" Henry asked a little worried seeing her brief case and outfit. He could tell right away she was a reporter.

"She wants to do an interview with Peter Parker." Lana pointed out to him. Carrie could feel the awkward tension that hung about them so she left them to discuss it; "I'll be sitting right here while you guys talk it over." Carrie said as she sat down across from Marie.

"Cool hair;" Carrie complemented Marie; "Thank you." Marie answered shyly.

Henry looked worriedly at Lana; "Who is that? Henry asked her.

"I have no idea who she is. She just said her name was Carrie Castle and that she worked for The Journal. Now the only person that I knew of that knew this girl was Lex, but he's dead." Lana told him.

"How does she know that Peter's here? Don't you think it's a little odd that she knows where he's at?" Henry asked questioningly. Lana turned to look into the other room to see what she was doing. So far all she could see was Marie talking with her.

"I'll ask her to leave." Lana told him. She also didn't want this reporter checking in on them. After what just happened one of them might slip and tell her their little secret in the closet; "Just tell her to go see Jameson at The Daily Bugle. I'm sure he'll be able to help her on interviewing Peter." Henry pointed out. He knew Peter was there, but just didn't trust this reporter. Something about her wasn't right.

Walking back into the living room Lana cleared her throat on their conversation Marie was having with Carrie; "I'm sorry Carrie, but you might want to try at The Daily Bugle in New York. I'm sure Jameson will be able to point you in the right direction of where Peter is." Lana informed her nicely. Carrie smiled as pleasantly as she could, knowing fully well they were lying by their tone of voice.

"Thank you Lana and it was nice meeting you Marie." Carrie said.

"You too Carrie;" Marie answered as she watched the reporter leave the house. They waited for about five minutes before Lana shut the door to the front of the house. Breathing slightly she turned back around and shut the door; "What was all that about?" Marie asked her.

"She wanted to know about Peter." Lana told her. Marie's heart nervously skipped a beat; "Why would a reporter from Metropolis want to know about Peter Parker?" Marie asked confused.

"Your guess is as good as mine." Lana answered. Hearing a noise in the room down the hall, they ran to room where they kept Peter.

"Wait!" Marie shouted as Henry went to open the door. As he did, they stood shocked at what they saw.

"Oh no;" Henry said under his breath.

"What?" Lana asked.

"I forgot about the attic in the ceiling. He's probably half way back to New York by now with Chloe." Henry pointed out. Lana and Marie both looked in the room. Nothing had been left behind; "She can't leave me here." Marie started to complain.

"I've got to get back to the school." Marie told them.

"If you need to call go a head, the phone is down the hall." Henry offered. Marie moved away from them and went to make her call.

Chloe screamed at the top of her lungs as she flew over Metropolis in a way she never dreamed possible. She had read stories about Spider-Man and how he moved, but actually being a part of it was a totally different story. She held on tight to Peter's costume knowing that if she didn't it would be a long way down.

"Calm down Chloe." Peter said through his mask. At first Chloe was caught off guard when he spoke. It went to a darker tone that she had always enjoyed Clark's voice in; "Well I'd calm down more if we weren't swinging above thirty to forty story buildings right about now." Chloe pointed out slightly laughing. Peter giggled; "Well if you want to help me get Clark out of where he's at, then we'll be going into a restricted area." Peter informed her.

"Wait a minute you know where Clark is?" Chloe asked happy already.

"Yeah, Lionel had Dr. Conners take him to a secret base between Metropolis and Smallville to research him." Peter told her. Chloe got confused for a moment. Why would anyone want to research a high school student; "I know Lionel has always been interested in Clark. He's been trying to get me to help him find information about him, but if he already has Clark, I just pray he's not getting hurt." Chloe said worried.

"Dr. Conners wouldn't do anything like that Chloe." Peter told her honestly; "Out of all the teachers I've know who love science he wouldn't take his patients to a point of pain and suffering." He added as he jumped to another building.

"The only thing we are going to need is back up." Peter said. Chloe tried to move to grab her cell phone; "Who are you calling?" Peter asked.

"My cousin;" Chloe answered; "Her father is a military general, so he probably has everything we need to break into a base outside of Metropolis right." Chloe pointed out.

"You have a point." Peter told her.

Within in the next five minutes they reached outside of Metropolis. Peter landed in a field just south of the base to allow Chloe to call to form their plan. Peter was already liking Chloe from the first time he saw her, sure Mary Jane would always be his first love, but there was something Chloe had that Mary Jane didn't. Thinking these thoughts he couldn't hear Chloe's voice drowning into his ears; "Spiderman;" Chloe reminded herself; "Yo, you there?" Chloe asked to make sure the superhero could hear her. Startled by her voice he looked right at her; "Yeah?" Peter asked her.

"Good;" Chloe paused; "Okay; Lois is going to be here soon. I told her to meet us on high way 34." Chloe told him; "She's bringing all the stuff we need, and don't worry I won't tell her who you are." Chloe said honestly knowing how he felt after they pulled off his mask earlier that day.

"Thanks." Peter said.


Parish couldn't sleep as she felt a sickness over come her body. Ash had been watching her that whole night seeing what had happened to hear just a few days ago. Looking up to see Logan in the doorway she watched the man watch over them. He seemed to have a calm nature to himself when he was tired, but once he was fully awake she knew he could turn into a wild animal. Rubbing her tattoo of the symbol on her neck she grabbed a piece of paper and a pen. Drawing what she felt on her neck, she studied it.

"How long did it take for me to have the tattoo?" Ash asked him. Logan approached her and sat down next to her; "I think it only took a few minutes, but your friend seems to have a different effect to it." Logan told her. Hearing moans and groans off to her left she turned to see Trien struggle as well. Jumping out of her the bed she rushed over to him; "Trien!" Ash cried; "Calm down." She grabbed his arms and tried to stop him from bad dream. Touching his neck she felt the tattoo form on his as well. The hot lines circled into a pattern like hers. Only somewhat different; confused by what she was seeing she had Logan join her to turn him over; "What's that symbol?" Ash asked seeing three lines turn into an odd shaped sign. It almost looked like a cross turned upside down and curved over at the bottom.

"I'm not sure, maybe Dr. Swann knows." Logan looked worried himself now; "Wait here I'll go get Xavier." Logan told her. Ash nodded in return and rushed back over to Parish's side to see if her's was different than Trien's."

Logan ran steadily down the hallways up to Xavier's office. Hearing a conversation inside he walked in; "Charles, the kids are getting their tattoos." Charles rolled away from Bobby; "Bobby, please I don't have time for this. I know Rogue can take of herself, and Chloe's better at handling normal people than you are." Charles said sharply. Bobby had been on his case since Rogue left with her. Charles had never seen that boy so worried or concerned in his life about one person. Before Charles reached Logan the phone rang at his desk. Reluctantly Bobby picked it up.

"Rogue;" Bobby's voice boomed over the others as he started to walk towards Charles; "Where are you?" Bobby asked her.

"I'm at Mr. Small's house in Metropolis. I need someone to take me home. Chloe left without word, and Lana's talking about leaving as well to go back to Smallville." Rogue told him. Bobby placed the phone down; "Rogue needs a ride back home." He announced to both of them. Charles looked right at Logan; "You both take the jet and pick her up. But please get back here as soon as possible." Charles added.

"Who's going to watch the kids?" Logan asked seeing that some of them were out doing other things.

"Don't worry Logan they're going to be fine. I'm going to ask Dr. Swann about what's going on with them." Charles remembered they had left the man alone in one of the rooms upstairs.

"Alright Logan, lets go get her." Bobby pulled on his arm forcing him out the door.

Charles saw Ororo walking up to him. He could see sadness in her eyes; "What is it?" Charles asked her.

"It's Dr. Swann." Ororo started to say; "He's in a coma." She finished. Charles sighed heavily knowing he should have looked in on the man earlier. He was stressed and angry but there was also something about his bodily functions that went wrong within the last couple of hours; "Call Miss Crosby." Charles said as they made their way up the stairs.


Lois pulled over to the side of the highway seeing Spider-Man and Chloe waiting for her. She had never before met the man, but he was looking good and she could sense some attraction between him and her cousin as she approached them; "So what did you bring?" Chloe asked all excited about this little adventure.

"Would you calm down already;" Lois began; "I just had to sneak past my father and about a dozen armed men before leaving. Thankfully he didn't see or hear me since they were busy playing their games of cards and filling their lungs with cigar smoke." Lois added.

"But on the side note I did bring some interesting toys." Lois paused; "By the way whatever happened to your little exploit into Dr. Swann's building a couple weeks ago?" Lois asked remembering her cousin briefly telling her how it went. Chloe blushed seeing Peter look at her; "Uh, it went great, though all that is back at Lana's house because I couldn't bring it with me." Chloe told her; "Plus I didn't know we were doing this until after I was half way across Metropolis." Chloe pointed out looking right at Spider-Man.

"Well hopefully you can fool around with these new toys." Lois pulled out a bag of equipment from the base.

"Are we attacking an army?" Peter asked as he saw all the weapons, and other cool toys in the bags she was pulling out.

"You have to be prepared for anything, and no one told me what type of base we were walking into, so I gathered what I thought would come in handy, alright." Lois said boldly as though she had walked into situations like that before.

"Let's move;" Chloe said as she jumped and grabbed one of the bags that Lois had spilled out all over the side of the road; "Hey!" Lois snapped; "Well we've got move, and besides I don't want a cop to pull us over for handling illegal weapons." Chloe added.

"Right;" Peter said under his mask as they all piled into her car and took off the long high way.

"There not illegal;" Lois told her, as she started the car and took off down the road; "I have a license to use them, you know how my dad is Chloe." Lois pointed out.

"That is true." Chloe said with a laugh.

"Alright Spider-Man, where are we going;" Lois asked the man in red and blue. Peter began to spill information on where the base was as they disappeared down the road.

Breaking his way through the building he still tried to pull the neck brace off of him. After what he saw the doctors do to him as Clark he knew right away they wanted to control him. Kal wasn't going to let that happen. Turning down a long corridor he broke through a vent that lead most of the way up to the entranceway.

"Did you find him yet?" Conners asked the security team; "No sir, but we think he's probably somewhere inside the vents." One of them announced; "Well don't tell me, go find him!" Conners yelled angrily. Frank came up beside him; "You know we could just use the prototype and hit the button on it again." He pointed out looking at it in Conners hand.

"No, I don't want to try and kill him off. There's got to be away to contain him without using such force that it will destroy the subject." Conners said.

Hearing alarms blaring by the time they drove the car to the side of the fence, Lois, Chloe, and Spider-Man got out of the car; "Well they sure know how to attract attention with those alarms." Chloe said.

"Yeah well, Conners and Mr. Luthor were always a particular type." Spider-Man added.

"So how do we get in with all this madness?" Lois looked over at the Spider-Man.

"There's a vent on the top of the building. I can swing us up there, and hopefully we can get a clear shot at slipping inside. My guess is that Clark is already trying to escape. And if that's so, I'm hoping without a doubt he'll be heading out that way." Spider-Man told them. Chloe didn't want to know or see what they had done to Clark. This was partly her own fault and she already felt guilty for helping Lionel in the first place to send her best friend to a place like this.

"Come on." Lois pulled the two closer to the fence; "Alright Spidy, do your stuff." Lois waved her heads upward waiting for him to at least get them over the fence. Grabbing the two girls and one bag, he jumped straight up. Chloe was about to scream when Lois crossed her arm over Spider-Man's face and covered it; "Um, Lois, I can't see." Peter said in a muffled voice. Lois looked up to see where her arm was; "Oh, sorry." Lois apologized lowering her arm.

Landing on his feet he gripped the girls tighter; "Ready?" He asked them. Chloe still looked like she wanted to throw up, but Lois seemed to be standing her own; "Yeah." Lois answered.

Chloe lowered her head into Peter's shoulder as he jumped once more and swung over to the top of the building. It seemed like she was flying forever until they landed on the ground.

"Alright this is where he should come out. Any ideas on how to hold him down;" Chloe asked wondering how shook up Clark would be if he was escaping.

Lois opened the bag and pulled out a large gun; "This should work." She told them as she demonstrated by firing the gun over by the woods behind them; "Huh, yeah that should knock him out for an hour." Spider-Man said.

"Why don't you go down there and find him, tell him were here to help." Lois told him. Spider-Man backed away a little; "Um that might be a bad idea." Peter said remembering the kids face when he took him from the island.

"Just do it alright." Lois ordered. Without being able to argue she pushed him just a little bit over the opening of the vent and he fell in.

The lighting was very dim and the air was stuffy, as Peter made his way through the vent hoping to find Clark anywhere but back in the lab. Clearing his throat he started to call his name; "Clark!" He listened to the steam rising from the air vents from the side of the building. Hearing only silence with the whoosh of steam he moved on.

Kal had heard it the call, but wasn't sure if it was real. He stopped to hear the call again, and he was right. It was real. He didn't want to hear the name Clark, but it came out again in the empty vent of darkness. Using his other abilities at this time he super sped to the voice he heard.

Peter wasn't ready for a body moving faster than a speeding bullet, but before he could move from his spider sense he felt large hands grab his shoulders shoving him up against the wall. Trying to breath from his grip that was now on this throat he looked right into the kids eyes; "We're here to help you Clark." Peter said. Kal released his grip; "What do you mean we?" Kal asked in a demanding tone Peter remembered back on the island. Before he could answer a shock wave of the gun Lois had in her hand fired at Clark, knocking him out. Looking down at Clark Lois couldn't help but notice the young man was dressed in nothing but a tight bathing suit; "I like the view." Lois said outwardly.

"I heard that." Chloe stammered as she made her way into the vent.

"Alright help me pick him up." Spider-Man told them as he began to lift; "He's a little bit heavier than I thought from the last time." He said.

Within the next half an hour they were out of the building. A few guards were outside searching the main grounds but no one seemed to check the top of the building. Lois was once again behind the driver seat speeding out of the complex onto the main highway.

"I hope this was worth the risk." Lois said, as she turned up the radio and sped faster down the highway.

Back at the base Conners slumped in his chair angry at himself for not recapturing Clark. Lionel would be calling soon, and he'd have a story to tell him. The man wasn't going to be in the mood to hear the story, but it was all the information he had.

End of Chapter Five


Authors Notes: Sorry its had taken me so long to update this. But I wanted to make sure everything was in order. Also I wanted to let you know I maybe reformatting my whole computer since something happened… So I may not have online this weekend. Just wanted to let you know ahead of time… Thanks… Please read and review…

Thanks to: Kara for editing... any other small errors we missed, were sorry...

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