"Excuse me miss coming through!" a paramedic pushed Chloe out of the way as he pulled a stretcher towards the medical tent. Chloe and Lois had been taking turns watching Mrs. Kent who was now sleeping but in a stable condition. Chloe dropped the coffee she was holding when she saw who was on the stretcher.
"Lana!" Lana gave a meek wave at Chloe as she went by. Her leg looked pretty beat up
and she had some scratches on her face but she seemed to be alright. Chloe followed them into the medical tent. The nurses in the tent worked quickly and set Lana's leg, which was broken and put some bandages on her cuts.
"I wasn't happy with breaking just one of my legs so I decided to break the other one." Lana joked as Chloe approached.
"Lana what happened? Lois and I went to Lex's mansion looking for you. Lex was acting weird and in a way pretty scary."
"Lex said that he cared about my safety and he put me on a helicopter headed for Metropolis Chloe but it got hit my a meteor and crashed." Lana became more serious. "Chloe remember when Clark and I randomly went to China?"
"Yeah"
"Well Jason found a stone there that he said the Luthors wanted and he gave it to me. Lex only came to me to get that stone and he got really mad when I told him that I gave it to somebody for safe-keeping." Tears welled up in her eyes.
"I'm sorry Lana are you going to be ok?"
"Yeah I'll be fine Chloe, its just been an awful day. It just seems like two people I cared about turned on me."
"Don't worry Lana there are still plenty of people who will care about you after today. So who did you give this magical stone that Lex wanted so bad? Is it a certain tall dark and handsome farmboy?"
"Clark!" Lana says with a sudden realization. "Have you seen him?"
"Oh you could say that..." said Chloe remembering what she had seen at the cave. "I don't know where he is now but I'm sure he's okay."
"What do you think Lex will do to him when he finds out that Clark has the stone?"
"I don't know. Maybe Clark will use his Kent charms to convince Lex he doesn't have it anymore."
"I hope so Chloe." Lana hesitated. "Chloe there is something else. When the helicopter crashed it landed next to a crater. I saw a spaceship in it and I saw something like a man get out and then I passed out. When the paramedics found me it wasn't there anymore. I feel like I'm going crazy." Chloe's interest was perked. Between Clark, these stones and the meteor shower she was ready to believe a spaceship had crash landed in Smallville.
"Lana, where did this helicopter crash land?"
"On Fillmore Avenue, heading out of town, near that bar where Clark's dad was drugged."
"Stay here and rest Lana, I'm gonna go check out this crater. This would be Wall-of-Weird worthy if I hadn't torn it down two days ago." With that Chloe took off, told Lois where she was going and hopped into her car and sped off.
Jonathan Kent drove faster than he normally would. All around him he saw impact craters that no doubt each housed a piece of Kryptonite. He had to find Clark and make sure he was alright. There was no telling what the freshly fallen meteors would do to his son. The last thing he wanted to see was his son lying on his back in a field, crippled by the effects of the rocks. He looked at Shelby who sat looking out the window. "Yeah I'm worried too pal." They approached the field where the caves were located. "Stay here Shelby." Jonathan said to the dog and received a whine in return. "Good dog." Jonathan got out of the truck and walked down to the cave entrance. He examined the cave entrance and saw that somebody had either dug their way out or dug their way in. He knew he would have to be careful as his last two experiences with these caves had been less than pleasant for him, once leaving him with a bad ticker and once leaving him in a three month coma. Jonathan entered the cave. "Clark! Clark! are you down here son!"
"Oh I'm afraid I haven't seen him Mr. Kent." Jonathan was startled. None other than Lionel Luthor crept out of the shadows holding a flashlight. "You know I've always wondered what it was with your son and these caves Mr. Kent, but now its as if I've had my eyes opened for the first time."
"What do you mean." Jonathan did not like how this was sounding.
"Isn't it ironic that our paths should cross both times Smallville was hit my meteors Mr. Kent." Lionel grinned. "Something happened to me only a few hours ago. I.. I woke up with the worst headache I've ever had and something was driving me to come down to this cave." Lionel ran his hand over one of the Kryptonian symbols. "Its really amazing how much sense this cave makes when you can read whats written all over it."
"You can read what those say?"
"Oh yes Mr. Kent. Its actually quite the tale about a man who falls from the sky and can shoot fire from his eyes." He glanced at Mr. Kent. "You don't know anybody like that do you Mr. Kent?"
"No I'm afraid not Mr. Luthor but if my son isn't down here then I need to go look somewhere else."
"Oh very well Mr. Kent, Ah please say hello to Martha for me won't you." Lionel simply smiled at Jonathan. Jonathan paused for a second and then continued out of the cave.