A/N: Thanks for all of the great reviews, I thought I had lost my readers, but I guess it just took you awhile. I have finally found a break in my schedule, I'm sorry; if you want to lodge a complaint bring it up with my professors. It seems I need a new beta reader, so if any one knows Smallville and the X- Men fairly well please put it in your review. Thanks. And again sorry for the long wait. As always I do not own Smallville or the X-Men, and all names unfamiliar to both are made up by me, now on with the story.
Smallville-Hospital
Lana Lang entered Clark's hospital room walking slightly behind Lex Luthor; she was so thankful that Lex had stopped by when they had gotten the news that Clark had been attacked by the mutant. Lex had immediately offered here a ride to the hospital to see Clark. After going through all of the press line who had ambushed Lex with questions as to why Lex was going to the hospital to visit the attacked victims. Of course the networks had also noticed her self, but they didn't pay too much attention. They were all used to Lex having a new girlfriend every week, and just came to the conclusion that that was what Lana was. Lana immediately noticed that everyone in the room was staring at the two of them. The Kent's by Clark, the Ross' by Pete's bedside, who was currently awake, and three strange people by Bobby's beside. One of which was the man she thought had been familiar, she still didn't know why but now she knew who he was. She had met Bobby, but never had even thought he could be a mutant. Everyone had their secrets, some just kept them better concealed, she thought to herself. It was then that she glanced over at Clark who was still completely unconscious. She had almost never seen Clark look so weak. There had been a few times when he would seem to feel sick one moment and completely fine the next. This time however was different, she could feel it somehow.
"Mr. and Mrs. Kent how is Clark doing??" Lex finally broke the silence that was in the room, no one knew what to say yet and how to react to Lex's sudden appearance.
"The doctors aren't sure yet, all we can do is wait and see how he does over night." Martha Kent replied, sounding to everyone like a concerned mother, which she was. Both of the Kent's, Pete and the mutants knew that Clark would survive this just as he did everything.
"And Pete, how are you feeling?" Lex asked Pete turning from looking at Clark and looked at Pete.
"A little shaken up but other then that I'm fine." Pete answered a bit surprised that Lex even asked, but just because he didn't like him that didn't mean that Lex didn't like Pete.
"How's Bobby?" Lana asked the people beside Bobby's bedside whom she assumed were also mutants. She knew that Lex wouldn't ask because he didn't know who Bobby was. Lana did though since she had had a class with him.
"The doctors say he should survive, but it's going to take awhile for him to recover from this." A young woman with white hair spoke up by Bobby's side to give Lana her answer.
Silence continued to fill the room as everyone just stared at each other. All of the questions about how everyone was had been answered. But yet there were still unanswered questions that everyone was thinking about that no one asked. The Kent's were wondering when Clark would wake up and how this could have possibly affected him. Meteor rocks had to be involved, but how long was the affect going to last? Pete was also thinking about Clark and what could affect him so much. The X-Men on the other hand were wondering when the rich guy would leave so they could get down to talking again without being overheard. Lex, on the other hand, was trying to deduce who all of the people were by the Bobby's bedside. Listening to the reports on the radio coming to the hospital Lex assumed they were possibly other mutants. Part of him wanted to question them and get inside what and who they were. To investigate them, everyone else just wanted to put them away, he wanted to try and figure out how the X gene exactly worked. The other part of him knew that if Clark knew what he was thinking then there would be problems between the two of them. He knew that Clark would somehow remind him to grab a hold of reality and leave people alone.
It was after about 3 minutes of everyone not talking to each other that Lex's cell phone went off. "Hello," he said answering it and walking out of the room, leaving everyone to breathe a sigh of relief that they hadn't known they had been holding. The X-Men went right back to discussing in a huddle what to do next and how to find Cory. Lana moved over to Chloe to see how she was holding up.
"Ok so what exactly is going on here?" Lana asked Chloe.
"Pete's going to be fine with a little rest; Bobby has some internal damage that they are going to have to wait to repair. Nothing too major but they can't do surgery till he becomes conscious again." She responded; she knew Lex as well as Pete did and knew that they only wanted him to know as little as possible in this situation.
"And Clark?" Lana asked of her ex boyfriend.
"That Mrs. Kent was correct about when she responded to Lex. We have no idea how he is. They can find no internal or external damage, he just won't wake up." Chloe said her voice as confused as all of the doctors and nurses outside were about Clark and how he still hadn't woken up.
"I see," Lana then lowered her voice, "and I'm assuming that they are all mutants too?" She asked slightly pointing to the X-Men.
"Yes they are." Chloe said her voice low as well. It was then that Lex entered the room again. They all once again looked up to him and watched to see what would happen next. Lex liked this that he could hold the attention of everyone in the room without even trying and just by walking into the room.
"I just got a phone call from a reliable source, you might want to turn on the TV, and something is going on." Lex informed them with as little information that he could give them as possible. Chloe went over to the TV in the room and turned it on to the local station, where a local reporter was reporting live from in front of the hospital.
"Hello I'm Sandy Clearwater reporting live from Smallville Medical Center, where right now members of the Kansas State Patrol and the National Guard are moving in on the hospital and surrounding it. We are getting sketchy reports that they are not here to 'hold the peace', but to take by force the mutants in the hospital."
Inside the hospital room the whole room gasped, and Ororo's phone went off. "We are told that they are assuming that the mutants are dangerous. However there are still reports coming in that one of the boys that were hurt earlier today was a mutant and is still unconscious and may have internal damage. If that is true, how will the State Patrol and the National Guard deal with it?" The reporter took a breath and continued, "Will there be uproar at the police taking an innocent teenager? Those are just some of the questions surrounding the situation right now. Now back to the studio."
A stunned silence filled the hospital room as Ororo grabbed her still ringing phone. "Hello," she said answering it and going outside the room brushing past Lex as fast as possible since the person on the other end of the line was the Professor.
"Thank god your there," Professor Xavier said as soon as Ororo had answered the phone, it took her way too long to answer the phone for his comfort. "What's going on over there?"
"Not good news, professor," Ororo replied him quickly.
"Of course its not good news I'm watching it on CNN right now, Ororo get the X-men out of there." Professor Xavier instructed her, he wanted his people out of there as soon as possible.
"Were not sure how possible that is going to be now, Professor, with the State Patrol, and the National Guard surrounding the hospital. I'm sorry I should have had us leave sooner." Ororo replied, she was feeling incredibly guilty at what she had done, not leaving sooner. Now leaving was almost not an option.
"I understand your decision Ororo, but you're going to have to make a try for it, otherwise you are going to end up in the hands of the government." Professor Xavier replied; he knew it was a stressful situation, but they would just have to make it through.
"Do you want us to take Bobby or not?" Ororo asked the Professor.
"Yes, you are going to have to. I don't trust leaving him no more then I would trust leaving a mutant who was still a baby or a toddler there." He replied his voice filled with anger at the government at the moment.
"Where do you want us to go?" Ororo asked, ready for instructions.
"The Kent farm would be the best to get out of Smallville, but if you should probably consider hiding in the woods first until you can get out of there. You might want to take the back roads back to the Kent farm." The Professor instructed.
"Of course sir, I will call you again when we get out of here." Ororo said and hung up the phone going back into the room among strange glances from the hospital staff and other people in the hospital.
"Were leaving now, Scott, unhook Bobby. He's coming with us." Ororo addressed the X-Men.
"How are we going to get out of here?" Logan asked.
"I'm not sure, but we will figure that out when we come to it." Ororo addressed the question that was in everyone's minds. Nods came from both Logan and Scott as they headed out of the room, not answering any of the questioning looks from everyone in the room. Ororo took the lead as Logan followed carrying Bobby and Scott took the end of the line. The rest of the people in the room were left staring at the door where they had last seen them.
In the hospital people were staring with open mouths at the X-Men walking through the hospital carrying Bobby. Only one doctor had the courage to approach them.
"You can't take him out of here," he stated.
"I'm sorry but our lives depend on getting out of here alive." Logan replied and the kept on walking. It wasn't till they got outside the hospital via the back entrance that they had entered from that they realized that the hospital was indeed completely surrounded. As they came face to face with the camera lights and police force outside the hospital, light bulbs flashed and people outside the hospital began yelling at them both words of encouragement and words of hatred. Only Logan spoke up to say to the other X-Men.
"Well, I guess this was the wrong way to go." He said in a very angry voice loud enough for only the other mutants to hear. They just looked at him and then looked at the crowd, the mutants with looks of uncertainty and a little bit scared on their faces as they faced a very raucous crowd.
A/N: Ok that is Chapter 29, I hope you all liked it and again I am sorry for making you wait so long. Please Review!!!