Wow thirty chapters! How did I get this far? I'm sorry for the long wait, I finally got back from college and am done with finals, and then I find out that I have to work almost every day of the week. What can I say it's the holidays and I work at a packing store. Thank you for all of the great reviews, they really meant a lot. As always I do not own Smallville or the X-Men. And now on with the story.

The light bulbs were going off every split second as the cameras and the video news crews stood watching the mutants. It was a very uncomfortable situation for the mutants. Logan was starting to feel the weight of carrying Bobby, Ororo was having trouble seeing because of all the light was suddenly shining at them, and Scott was just trying to find a way out of the situation…an answer that was not coming to any of them. It was Logan who finally made the first move and tried to make a path by shoving people out of the way. Ororo and Scott followed Logan not knowing what else to do. It wasn't a good plan of action, but it was a plan at least they could try. Logan was fairly strong and big enough to intimidate most normal humans, who had never seen him before. However the police were not people that were intimidated easily, they had formed a blockade that not even Logan could get through. Along with the police blockade they also had several snipers on a few of the buildings surrounding the Hospital and the Hospital itself, along with several officers who had their guns trained on the mutants. Logan looked around and could see that he had just gotten them into an even more ominous situation. In front of them was a barrier of armed police, behind them were the curious reporters and on all sides were crowds of people; some against mutants and yelling at them, and others only wondering what was going on; mere spectators.

"We would like to get through please, if that is at all possible." Ororo spoke up. Being the leader of the mission, she took charge and strode confidently to the nearest police officer.

"We can't allow you to do that 'till we know your intentions." The Officer in charge spoke up from behind the contingent of officers aiming their guns at the mutants.

"Our intentions should be quite clear, we just want to get out of here to a safe location." Ororo said with a bit of anger in her voice, but maintained her composure and kept her voice steady.

"You are carrying one of the injured, is he a mutant too?" The officer started to question Ororo. Obviously, Ororo decided, the police officer had wanted to question them at some point, but had decided not to do it in a police office but here instead. This was interesting to Ororo, because it would have made better sense for the police to want to put the mutants away. They'd been waiting to do that for quite a while, since they saw any mutant, no matter what kind of ability or age they were, to be a threat to mankind. However, Ororo decided it was for everyone's best interest to comply with the questioning, for now at least.

"Yes, he is a mutant," Ororo told them. The cameras starting clicking as the photographers instantly began rapidly taking pictures of the scene.

"Then why is it, that you are taking him out of the hospital where he can be treated?" The officer asked briskly, probably hoping for an ulterior motive.

"Because we feel it would be in his best interest to move him out of the hospital where some one, who is against mutants, could possibly harm him in another way." Ororo said, suppressing the anger at the question but knowing that she would have asked the same thing. "Now please let us through."

"I'm afraid I can't do that." The officer briskly stated.

"And why not?" Logan burst out, his deep voice alerting the officers to his presence.

"Because currently we feel that until we catch the mutant who did this," he waved his arms around indicating all the past attacks, "There is nothing stopping you from committing crimes such as the ones that have been committed lately." The officer stated, unwillingly sending the mutants' tempers flaring.

"One of our own is hurt because of that mutant," Scott burst out before Logan could say something that would get them all into trouble. "Do you really think that we are in league with Cory? We're not, we came here to stop him from hurting any one." Scott finished glaring at the officer as much as he could while having to wear sunglasses. The officer glanced around at the mutants, sizing them up and trying to figure out if it was at all possible that these mutants wouldn't be a danger to society. The crowd had grown quiet now, wondering what was going on. It was then that the officer heard a soft voice. He looked for the source of the whispering and found that it was coming from the larger mutant who had a rougher look about him. He was whispering to the other two.

"What's going on?" The officer asked the trio.

"I believe he is starting to wake up," Logan stated implying Bobby. The officer looked closely at the teenaged mutant; he did appear to be making small signs of movement.

"Alright, let's get him to someplace quiet." The officer stated and allowed the mutants through to a patch of grass away and out of sight from the crowd and most of the armed guard. Some of the police officers came with mutants to the spot to make sure that the mutants made no sudden moves. Logan placed Bobby on the ground while Ororo checked his vitals.

"He's starting to come around." Ororo stated out loud. True enough Bobby was starting to move, his movements were slow and lethargic, he was obviously still in a lot of pain. His eyes started to slowly blink open as he looked at his surroundings, obviously confused as to how he had gotten outside, and why it was dark out.

"Where am I?" He asked no one in particular.

"You're outside the hospital. We were finally able to get you out of there." Ororo stated. Bobby started to try to sit up but suddenly felt very dizzy and abandoned the idea.

"I feel like my insides were torn apart." he groaned, then asked, "Are they?"

"Something like that," Scott told him after helping to sit up.

"Did Cory attack any one else?" Bobby asked leaning against a small tree.

"Yes, the Vice Principal, who is now fine and quite angry by the way. He also attacked Clark; he's still unconscious." Ororo answered the question; "also Pete, who was awake, last we saw him." Bobby gave the elder mutants a strange look, as if to ask how Clark had been affected.

"We'll tell you more later, how are you feeling?" Scott asked him.

"Still a little disoriented, and like I said earlier torn up from the inside, but I'm okay otherwise." Bobby replied. Scott glanced around at Ororo, Logan and at the officer.

"What's the matter?" The officer asked noting a strange expression cross the young man's face and wondering what the look was for. Bobby was also wondering this same thing.

"The doctors told us that you have internal damage," Ororo informed Bobby gently, "you are going to need surgery, but it'll have to wait for now, at least until we get back to New York."

"Okay…" Bobby said slowly, "do you think that I should really wait 'till then?" He asked.

"If not then we will bring you right back here." Logan told Bobby, "are you going to be up for that." Bobby thought for a moment and then spoke again slowly.

"I think I will be," he replied, but was still scared wondering if he could last that long without help and still be okay.

"Good, do you feel up to leaving?" Ororo asked him, and then addressed the officer, "that is if you will allow us to leave?" The officer looked at them all, as if to judge whether they should be allowed to leave or not. He paid special attention to Bobby seeing him as a mutant, but also noticing that he looked like his own son back at home.

"You can go but, try to do it quietly please, I'm not sure how the crowd will react. And I'm sure I will get demoted for doing this." He motioned for them to leave using a path that was mostly hidden from the crowd due to all of the news trucks and police vehicles.

"Thank you," Ororo said, and quietly waited while Logan and Scott helped Bobby to his feet. It would be a while 'till Bobby was 100 again, but for now he would be okay, and with Logan's help he would be able to walk. The officer quietly watched as the four mutants walked away into the darkness. He knew there would be hell to pay, but some how it was worth it.

Inside the Smallville Hospital

Martha Kent watched as the action outside the hospital progressed, she had even noticed the moment when the mutants had been able to escape from the mob outside with the help of the police officer. "They've escaped," she announced to the room. They all gave a small sigh of relief, thankful that the mutants had escaped safely. She turned around once more and surveyed the room. Chloe was still by the window keeping watch surveying to see if any danger would come to the room. Although now that the mutants had left they didn't expect any. Jonathan was still by Clark's side watching their son trying to see if there was any change at all in his condition. The Ross's had left the room a few minutes ago to call family members to let them know how Pete was doing. Lex hadn't returned which, Martha was almost thankful for, however much of a help Lex could be sometimes, they really did not need him interfering now. Lana on the other hand had stuck around and was standing by Chloe right now, but she was mainly focused on Clark rather than what was going on outside the hospital room.

Martha's eyes, perhaps on a motherly intuition, wandered to Clark. She started noticing the subtle movements of consciousness pulling him back to the real world. After so many years of watching him fall asleep at night and waking up in the morning she knew when he was coming around.

"Jonathan," she alerted her husband to Clark's changed status. He also looked down at his son, who was beginning to wake up. Clark slowly opened his eyes and bolted upright, frightened at the fact that he was in a hospital, something that happened rarely enough. His sudden movement alerted everyone in the room that he was awake.

"How did I get here?" He asked. Martha rushed over to her son making sure he was truly all right.

"Logan, Scott, and Ororo brought you in," Jonathan answered. Clark glanced around the room and noticed they weren't there any more.

"Where are they now?" He asked a little dazed still. Martha and Jonathan glanced at each other wondering what Clark would do knowing that the mutants had left.

"They left to try and defeat Cory, they also felt they should leave so as not put all of us in danger. There are a lot of angry people outside; angry because there were mutants hiding in the town." Martha answered the question. Clark nodded and then got off the hospital bed.

"Where do you think you are going?" Jonathan asked his son sternly, he knew the answer, but he had to try and stop his son from putting himself in danger.

"I'm going to go and help them." He answered and started to walk out the door.

"Clark what do you think your doing, you can't help them. They're mutants, you're just a human." Chloe told him holding him back before he got out of the door. Clark looked at her seriously before he answered, knowing that once again he was telling her a lie, a partial lie, but still a lie.

"I know, but I helped them before, I have to help them now." He said giving his most basic reasoning, and then left them all in shock, confusion and unsure at what would happen to him.

Ok that is chapter 30, only a few more chapters left. I hope all of you enjoyed it. Please review! I will add on the next chapter as soon as I can.