Chapter 13: Inside a Living Hell

Part 2

One week later...

Alicia continues to protect herself, and her baby. The door opens, and a plate of food slides over to her. Nothing special, salsbury steak, and Alicia starts to eat, if not for her, for the baby. It has been over 2 days since she has eaten, and continues to sit in the sun, which by now, normal human skin would have been burned, her's is perfectly tanned, not too dark, but not too light. The baby has consumed most of the sun's radiant energy, food has no purpose to it, except for speeding up the gestation cycle. Alicia has grown a few inches, the baby's growth has exceeded past humans. Her hair is a mess, and no one has given her a shower yet. They just come in, sometimes accompanied by Lionel, and take blood and urine tests. They measure her waist, taking various notes. The door opens again, and the impenetrable chinese woman walks in, and walks over to Alicia.

She grabs her hand, viciously, her temper rising each day. The doctor pulls her up, Alicia crying at the viciousness of her touch.

"Where are you taking me!" Alicia screams, unanswered by the doctor. Alicia tries to fight back, but her weakened state makes it easier for the doctor to pull her down the hall.

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Across the vast building, in a small room, sits Clark. He sits in his corner, talking to no one. Lionel and his doctors have not visited him in a week, which can only mean one thing. They're experimenting on Alicia. The thought of the doctors prying Alicia, prodding her with needles, testing her with variuous meteor rocks sends Clark into another fit of rage. His lover is being tortured, and the thought burns through him like a hot knife through butter. In his torrent of rage, he lets his heat vision take over. The fire shoots out, straight at the Kryptonite doorknob. His anger seethes, and the intensity of the heat starts to breakdown of the meteor rock. His rage continues to torrent through his eyes, until the Kryptonite starts to glow, and turn purplish black. It shoots out brilliant bright light, and explodes with the force of a stick of dynamite. The door hangs ajar, the burned, gaping hole where the doorknob was has vaporised. Clark gets up, and tries to superspeed, but fails. He finally understands the problem. Beyond the still searing door, sits tables and tables of Kryptonite, of various colors. Mainly Green and red shine their eerie glow, and Clark enters the room.

Immedietly, the green kryptonite does its work. Clark falls to his knees, and then his stomach. He pulls forward, sliding his stomach against the linoleum floor. The pain makes him vomit, but he continues to crawl. Inch by inch, he continues to crawl past until exhaustion sets in. He falls unconcious, nobody around his wing, prepping Alicia for the first week of tests.

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The door to Lex's mansion slams open. Johnathon storms in, and walks up to Lex's desk. Lex looks up from his portable laptop, and stares in shock at the temper of Johnathon.

"What's wrong, Mr. Kent?"

"Where the hell are Clark and Alicia!" Johnathon screams.

"I don't know, Mr. Kent. I didn't even know they were missing. What happened?"

"It has to be your father who is doing this. He found out about Clark and Alicia, and has probably kidnapped them."

Lex stands up, anger infuriating him.

"Damn it! I knew something was fishy when dad didn't return my calls."

"Where is Lionel at!" Johnathon asks, practically yelling.

"He might be at the new Luthor-Corp Labs he built on the outskirts of Metropolis. We'll take my private helicopter."

Suddenly, two more people walk in, Chloe and Lois.

"Not without us, you aren't." Lois pipes in, not giving Johnathon or Lex a chance to speak.

Lex looks doubtful as Chloe and Lois smile.

"Fine. But you have to stay in the helicopter."

Lois and Chloe look at each other, and then back at Lex and Johnathon.

"Fine." Chloe states.

"Then let's go." Lois says, as the group follows Lex to his helicopter.

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Alicia is continually pulled away by the doctor, now entering the West Wing. several people are locked up, most of them because of their abilities. She tries to break loose from the doctor's grip, but to no avail. Her sobs are heard over the entire lab. As she is pulled faster and faster, more doctors walk over and pick her up, some holding her arms, others holding her legs. She continues to scream, but no one listens, at least no one in her wing.

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Clark, still unconsious hears the screams of his lover. He suddenly wakes up, and starts to crawl, the sounds of Alicia returning his strength. As he passes the meteor rocks, some light up, excited at this new treat the have been given. His blood veins expand under his skin, but Clark doesn't care. He only wants Alicia back, safe in his arms. The world is against him, Lionel using meteor rocks against him, the experiments with his blood, and the assaults the doctors do to Alicia. The meteor rocks still weaken him, but Clark speeds up, and crawls down the hall. The last of the meteor rocks dim, their insatiable appetite leaving them.

His strength returning, he starts to stand up, and his head throbs. He examines his surroundings, and notices that behind evey glass window, are more meteor rocks. They are close enough to devour some of his strength, but far away enough that he can still stand. He walks slowly, his powers are dimmed. He tries to superspeed, but he can't. So he continues to walks, down another long hallway, a sign to his left states: NORTH WING: METEOR ROCK EXPERIMENTATION

He continues to walk, no doctors in sight.

That means only one thing. Their ready to experiment on Alicia. Clark thinks.

He walks until he faces two hallways. Two more signs sit on the walls, the one on his left states: WEST WING: METEOR FREAK EXPERIMENTATION, the other one stating EAST WING: ANIMAL TESTING. Clark concentrates with his super hearing, the various sounds of the other people drown out, until a very high pitched scream emminates to his ears. The scream of pain. Alicia's pain.

Not caring about his headache, Clark runs down the West Wing, and notices doctors running down the hall. The prescence of Meteor rocks are now non existant down these halls, and before the doctors could react, Clark superspeeds into them, punching them, and knocking them into the wall ajacent to him.They are knocked unconcious, and Clark runs down another hall, stopping before he reached the doctors window. He sees Alicia, tied to a bed, her legs spread, a meteor rock sitting next to her. Several doctors are getting prepped, and a familiar face is dressed up as a doctor. Lionel Luthor. Anger seethes through Clark again, and he notices Alicia's face.

She's in pain. That means the baby is too. Clark thinks.

Out of a fit of rage, Clark lets out a stream of torrent fire from his eyes, melting the glass, and igniting a bottle of flammable liquid. It explodes, and doctors run for cover. Lionel looks behind him, and sees Clark standing, defiant. He walks through the glass, the shards not doing any damage to him. Lionel smirks, and turns to him.

"Well, look at this. We get two aliens for the price of one. Hello Clark."

Clark doesn't answer, his anger emminating throughout his body. Lionel picks up the meteor rock, and slowly approaches Clark. The pain from it hits Clark, but he stands his ground. Lionel stands now no more that five feet from Clark. Clark aims his heat vision at the meteor rock, blasting it with his thermal energy. It sky rockets out of his hand, and falling into a metal sink twenty feet away. Lionel's smirk fades, filling his face with fear. Clark starts to walk closer to Lionel, who tries to run away, but Clark grabs him, holding Lionel by his neck. He lifts him off the ground, the weight of Lionel seems to be nothing.

"Clark...you wouldn't hurt me, would you?"

Clark's anger ignites in his heart, but before he could break Lionel's neck, Tim and McFarlane run in, and Lionel looks at them.

"Do it." He states simply, and Tim turns into a sand-like tornado. Clark drops Lionel, he falls on his back, and starts to crawl away. The strength returning to Alicia, she breaks the cuflings that bound her to the bed, and stands up. Tim lunges at Clark, and Clark tries to stop him, but his fingers run through the sand. He swirls the sand-like mixture around Alicia, and Clark runs for her, but Ben stops him. Immedietly, Clark elbows Ben in his stomach, sending him flying behind him. Clark runs, and in slow time, Clark picks Alicia up, and they run out of the room. Tim follows, his sand-like body returning to normal.