Hi everyone thanks for all of the great reviews. Due to a fairly light week…well that's a relative term in college, I am able to update much sooner then usual. As usual I do not own Smallville or The X-Men. There is going to be a lot of switching of P.O.V.'s so I hope you don't get confused at all. Now on with the chapter 32.

The Woods of Smallville

Chloe Sullivan watched in pure terror as her best friend lied helpless on the ground in front of a tent. All she could do was watch as the battle waged on in front of her. The mutants either had forgotten about her, or just decided for now to let her be, either way Chloe didn't seem a factor. Not that she minded who would want to be in this battle any way. Then it came to her, Clark did, he was there after all, he must have wanted to help out, being the Boy Scout that he is. He must have known that he didn't stand a chance against Cory. But that was Clark after all, always the hero. She kept her light trained on the battle going on, she wanted to see what was going on, and if she could help she would. Right now it seemed like not only the fight was getting worse, but the weather was too.

Bobby was just able to stay awake barley while the fight was going on he couldn't do much except hide behind the rocks. Ororo was trying to create a storm to distract Cory and throw him off balance while Scott was firing laser shots at Cory's feet, he would only take a shot at the boy if worse came to worse, they after all did not want to kill him if they had to. All of this was to distract Cory away from Logan who was trying to sneak around the edge of the perimeter of the clearing to get to the meteor bomb. They hadn't worked out this plan in advance, but once Ororo and Scott saw that Logan was trying to go around the perimeter, they decided with out words to follow his lead and try to distract Cory. From where Bobby was looking he could see that Logan was almost halfway around the perimeter, there was still no moon out tonight which worked for their advantage at least.

Cory kept trying to use his ability on one of the mutants, but with it being dark out he couldn't focus, and now their powers were starting to come near him, close enough so that Scott's lasers were starting to come rather close to his feet. He needed to take control of the situation again, so he hid behind a tree to take note of where everyone was. The fighting came to a lull for a moment while the other mutants were trying to figure out what he was doing. He glanced around the clearing the teenage boy named Clark he believed was by a tree near the meteor bomb, but he was in no condition to cause any harm. Ororo was trying to figure out what he was up to as was Scott. While Bobby was trying to take cover behind some rocks, not even close to being a threat to him. That's when it hit Cory; there was one missing, Logan. Cory searched the area until he saw him. Logan was sneaking around supposedly to do one on one combat, or to take the meteor bomb. Well that was never going to happen when Cory was around. Cory took aim and fired at Logan. He went down in an instant, but Cory kept his hand pointed at the man, and draining of him of his energy and his life, tearing him up from the inside out.

Bobby saw Logan go down, and still Cory was taking out his anger on Logan, it was then that Bobby realized that Cory had shown a sign of weakness. Cory had left the meteor rock unguarded. He was distracted by his anger. He realized that if he could get a clean shot at the rock he could form a protective barrier around it allowing Clark to regain consciousness again and be able to get to cover. Chloe's light was currently on Logan, and it was no where near the meteor rock. He would have to do this in the dark, a great disadvantage for him. The meteor was dark, and hard to distinguish, but he could make it out among the surroundings. He lifted his hands slowly so to not to distract Cory, and released ice towards the meteor in one straight single shot. The meteor glowed a slight green when the Ice touched it and encased it, the green glow than faded away as its unique abilities were no longer able to work. Bobby noticed Clark slowly gaining consciousness, and starting to get up. Chloe had noticed as well, and a slight spark of hope came across her face as well.

"Scott, when Clark comes over here for cover you need to blow up that meteor rock, it's probably going to affect him in some way." Bobby whispered to Scott, keeping his voice barley audible.

"What if I created a wind storm and got it away from this area?" Ororo said, "It might be enough to protect Clark, and he seems to be the only one so far to not be affected by Cory."

"Just as long as Clark never goes near that area that should be fine," Scott whispered. All three then tried to get Clark's attention to come over to their area, so that he wouldn't be harmed by the meteor rock. He finally got the hint and quickly went over to the shelter.

"Thanks for the help, but what's going on?" He asked not knowing what the plan was. Bobby quickly informed him while, Ororo started to create a windstorm to carry the meteor away to safe distance. It was then that Cory stopped his attack on Logan and realized what was going on. He watched in horror as Ororo's windstorm picked up his meteor bomb and carried it away to a farther part of woods near the edge of the clearing opposite of the mutants, and Chloe. Scott touched her arm to let her know that that was far enough. He then took aim, and fired at the meteor rock.

"NO," screamed Cory furious with what had just happened. He was distracted enough now looking at his creation that had gone into pieces. Everything was lost he realized, he didn't have the strength any more, and wouldn't have again for a while because of this battle.

It was now that Clark took advantage of the situation, Cory was far enough away from the meteor rock fragments that they wouldn't harm him, so he took off at super speed and tackled Cory to the ground in an instant.

Chloe's attention got drawn towards where Clark had suddenly tackled Cory to the ground. 'How did he get there so fast?' Chloe questioned herself. Of course it could have been her imagination; she had been watching the mutants who were rushing towards Logan to see if he was alright. Logan had been slowly getting up when all of their attention was drawn to Clark and Cory. Chloe probably had the best view of the two, because neither one was facing her, but were in a profile towards her. What she saw next surprised, amazed, and made her ask even more questions to her self.

In a matter of a few seconds after being pushed to the ground Clark, and being restrained on the ground by him, and unable to move. Cory opened his eyes in utter confusion, his masterpiece was gone, and here he was being pushed into the ground it seemed by a non mutant. He was not in the mood for this at all, right now he just wanted to destroy every single person in sight including the blonde girl he had noticed that come up to the clearing. In order to get Clark off of him, he put up his hands close to Clark so it would affect him more, he released his power and…nothing happened. Clark just stood there glaring at him.

"Ororo, do you have any rope of any kind?" Clark asked out loudly.

"No, but I'm pretty sure he has some in his camp site," she said, surprised as everyone how things had taken a sudden twist. By this point Cory was struggling underneath Clark trying to get free to no avail, Clark had too good of a grip on him Cory thought. Ororo by this point had run over to the camp site where indeed Cory did have rope. "Make sure his arms are under him before I come over." She yelled out to Clark who did as he was told, he knew he should have realized that while Cory's power had no affect on him, it certainly had an affect on Ororo and the others. Ororo came over and secured the rope tying Cory's hands behind his back so that he wouldn't have any affect on any of them. The other mutants joined them, Bobby was feeling almost back to normal while Scott helped a bruised ego Logan to walk over. They all watched Cory wondering what to do next. They hadn't exactly planned this part out. It was Logan who came up with the idea, and as usual he didn't tell any one. He just took the initiative and punched Cory in the face to make him go unconscious so he wouldn't even have a chance to do anything to any one…for at least an hour. Everyone including Clark just stared at him.

"Well someone had to do it," Logan explained to their bewildered faces.

"For once, your right." Ororo stated agreeing with Logan, who just shrugged. Scott picked up the now unconscious Cory and started walking out of the forest, they couldn't stay here much longer, and someone must have heard the explosion from the meteor bomb. If they hadn't heard that they probably heard the screams of pain, or noises from the battle, they weren't that isolated after all staying in the forest. They all started walking out of the forest, Logan now wasn't limping because of his healing abilities. Clark was with them as they all passed by a very confused looking Chloe at the edge of the woods.

"Clark…" Chloe called out as Clark passed by her, he turned around slowly, wondering how much she had seen of his abilities. She must have seen something, he walked up to her bracing himself for what was to come.

"How were you not affected by Cory's power?" Chloe asked him, her flashlight was at her side shining light on both of their faces.

A/N

Well that's it; I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Spring Break is next week so I hope to have the last chapter up sometime during it. Please Review. And thanks to my beta reader Maria for editing for me.