Jordan was waiting in the lower room of the Luthorcorp fertilizer plant admiring the hot pipes steaming as they did when he saw Lex Luthor walking toward him. He smiled when he noticed that Lex was carrying a small parcel.

"Greetings Mr. Luthor," Jordan shouted right before he began to come toward Lex.

"Here is your rock, Jordan," Lex said rather impatiently as he gave the small cardboard box to him.

Jordan turned his back to Lex and hurriedly unwrapped the package. Once the card board was open he tore up the bubble wrap and revealed a blood-red stone small enough to hold in the cup of two hands. Jordan looked at it like it was the Ring of Mordor, and a huge smile curled up his face.

"Don't get your hopes up, Jordan," Lex said as he grabbed the stone away and put it in the leather bag he was carrying. "First, let me inspect my basement to see how you've been using my funds. And while you're at it, show me your creed and your knowledge of the caves."

Jordan looked at the bag like his life force was in it or something, and then he looked back up at Lex. "With pleasure." He said.

He and Lex slid behind one of the pipes and pushed open a door. After going through a long hallway, they came to another door. Upon entering, they came into a lounge, where a group of people were reclining on couches and eating several vegetable-based dishes. On the walls there were multiple pictures of the drawings on the cave wall as well as painted murals of cave encryptions as well as a few star frames.

"Let me tell you about our creed," Jordan said. "The cave walls were not written by the Kawatchi people, but by aliens." Lex put on a surprised face, even though he wasn't at all surprised. "They promised that they would send somebody from the stars to be our guide. Ever since I discovered the caves, the aliens have given me visions. They are from a planet called Krypton that was destroyed many years ago. They left all this technology on earth so that their "last son" could find it and use it to conquer earth. They told me that they would spare my life if I and some followers would help the last son conquer earth, and help him embrace his destiny."

"Alien visions huh?" Lex said with Jordan nodding. Lex laughed, "That is the biggest load of BS I've ever heard in my life."

"You don't believe me Lex?" Jordan said, still quite confident.

Lex then came close to Jordan's ear and whispered "I think you have something Jordan, but rather than you being a Joseph I think you're a brilliant linguist. I have a feeling that you deciphered the language and you're just starting the whole cult thing to feel better about yourself."

Jordan grinned and asked Lex if he'd like to see more.

"Like what?" Lex said, sounding outwardly skeptical. "Little green men?"

"Better. Remember the story of Naman?"

Lex nodded.

"What if I told you I…" Jordan stopped cold at the sight of his followers looking afraid of something. He looked toward the door and saw a girl standing there still as could be. Her hair was let down and she stare that could kill on her face.

"Ebony Swann?" Lex said as he turned around and saw her. "Hey, it's been a while."

"Bruce Wayne's last birthday party," Ebony replied. "I believe you were trying to entice me, a 14-year-old at the time, to take some tequila; you yourself drunk at the time. I believe you must be having a relapse now because I have no idea what other reason you would have for being down here."

Lex wanted to refute, but he noticed how the people in the room were backing away from Ebony as if she was frightening them. Even Jordan looked a little jumpy. Ebony then looked at one of the members."

"Hello Mark," said in monotone. Mark just looked down and stayed near the back of the detracting group.

"What's going on Jordan?" Ebony said as she briskly walked toward him.

"Hey, Ebony," Lex said stepping in her way. "I'd like to ask you the same…"

"Oh go to sleep Lex," an annoyed Ebony said as she swiped her hand in front of Lex's face and he fell to the ground asleep. The crowd let out a gasp as she approached Jordan.

"I did it, Ebony," a shaky Jordan said. "You're too late."

"I know you did it, why else would you have taken that boy." She then quickly revealed her previously hidden necklace, a circular wooden pendant, which warranted a larger gasp from the crowd and great fear from Jordan. He backed up against the wall and tried to avoid eye contact with the charm, but Ebony pinned him.

"Jordan, Uncle Virgil told you messing with Kryptonite was dangerous, but you didn't listen." Jordan shut his eyes as tightly as he could and squirmed around. "Where is it?"

"I'm not telling you where the stone is," Jordan said through clenched teeth.

"That's ok, I'll find it. I'm not going to let you do this to Clark!"

"His name isn't Clark!"

"Speaking of CLARK, where is he!"

Jordan seemed reluctant to tell Ebony, but it seemed that he would do anything to get her away from him. He motioned his arm toward the respective door, which prompted Ebony to run there and kick it down. She found Clark lying on the ground, looking very sick. She ran toward him and felt his pockets until she found the small piece of Kryptonite and threw it out of the room. Clark immediately looked better and lifted himself until he was sitting up. He then got a good look at his savior.

"It's you," Clark said.

"No time for that now. We have to get you out of here."

Clark then proceeded to break the ropes off his arms, but when he did, he was flung upward somehow. He then hit the ceiling and then fell back to the ground, leaving a nasty dent in the concrete ground.

"What was that?" Ebony asked, a little shocked.

"I don't know," Clark said as he attempted to get his bearings. He was asking himself if he actually did that, even though he didn't attempt to jump. Clark then wanted to ask Ebony what she was doing there when he saw Jordan at the door with his eyes squeezed shut and a pistol pointed at Ebony.

"Look out!" Clark shouted as the pistol went off. Clark was still woozy from the long exposure to Kryptonite and he couldn't react fast enough to protect the girl. The bullet hit him in the arm, but Ebony was bleeding out of her lower arm. She screamed in pain and Clark picked her up to get her off her feet. He then used his heat vision on the gun causing Jordan to scream in pain of his own and collapse to the ground clutching his hand. This prompted his frightened brood in the lobby to run out the back door of the shrine. All except for Mark, who hid behind a couch.

"We have to get you to a hospital," Clark shouted. To Ebony as he was holding her.

"No," Ebony managed to say. "No hospital. They can't… We have to…"

"Then let me at least take you to my farm." Before he could let Ebony answer, he sped out of the room through the lounge and out of the plant.

Jonathan and Martha Kent walked together out of the farmhouse as they saw Chloe's car pull up next to their barn.

"Hey Chloe," the obviously concerned Kents said as they met her on the front lawn. Chloe seconded their greeting.

"What made you think that Clark was in trouble?" Martha asked.

"Some girl called me and told me not to go find Clark because I couldn't save him or something like that. Right after that, you guys called and told me you couldn't find Clark. "

"Who couldn't find me?"

Startled, Chloe whipped around and saw Clark, holding the limp body of a girl in his arms.

"Oh my goodness," Martha shouted. "Clark we were so worried. What happened? And who is that?"

"Ebony Swann," Chloe said, to the slight surprise of Clark.

"Ebony SWANN?" Jonathan said. "As in Virgil Swann?"

"No time for questions dad." Clark said as he headed toward the house. "She has a wound in her arm we have to get it patched up."

"Why didn't you take her to a hospital?" Martha asked.

"She told me not to, and for some reason I decided to listen."

Both the Kents and Chloe were confused at this, but they followed Clark into the house to tend to the injured girl.

Lex Luthor woke up rubbing his aching head. He immediately jumped to his feet after he realized where he was and began to look around. The formerly bustling lobby was completely empty with the look that resembled the aftermath of a tornado. Lex then looked down and realized something, his leather bag was missing. Lex was about to utter a curse word when he heard shuffling behind one the couches. Lex took a peek behind it and found a frightened Mark cowering.

Lex smiled and said, "Hello. Mark, right?"

Mark nodded. "How did you know?"

"That's what Ebony called you."

Mark hung his head.

"You know, maybe you could help me find that leather bag that was stolen,"

Mark sat silent. Lex continued to persist.

"You know, I know your leader stole my bag for that rock I was holding for him. You have to ask yourself how smart he is if he went through the trouble stealing the whole bag rather than just taking out the rock."

Mark stayed silent.

"Plus, he can't be smart if he treats you like dirt when you seem like such a smart and strong kid."

Mark began to soften up. "You think so?"

"Yeah, in fact I'm pretty sure that you know everything about this place don't you?"

Mark was beginning to get the catch, but rather than prolonging Lex's trickery, he just decided to give in. "What do you want to know?"

"Just a couple simple things. What does Jordan know? And why you are so scared of Ebony?"