Secrets Discovered

Clark shrugged. "I have a hunch on where we'll find the cure for the mind control stuff." He replied. They went down a few flights of stairs and down some elevators all the way down to the basement. There seemed not to be any other rooms, but Clark knew better. "Lois, starting feeling the walls. There's an extra room below this one."

"What? Oh, right." Lois started running her hands over the walls of the basement. Finally she found a part of the wall that felt different. She pushed on it and a fraction of the wall slid away. "Hey, Clark, look! A passage way."

Clark followed Lois down the hallway into the secret room and looked around before touching anything. Lex had this room rigged as well. "Um…don't touch anything." Clark told Lois, scanning the room. "Um…Lois…uh…can you check behind us. I think I hear someone coming."

"Why can't you check behind us, lazy-bum?" Lois turned around and checked behind them.

As she did so Clark took care of everything and sighed with relief. "Um…must have been a draft or something." He told Lois before looking around at the equipment.

"What do you think all this stuff is for, Clark?" Lois asked, walking around the room and looking at all the equipment and contraptions in the room. There was one device in the back of the room that was producing a green liquid which dropped into tubes and were stored in groups in a container in the corner. This caught Lois' attention and she walked over to it. "Clark, what do you think this is?"

Clark walked over to it, but suddenly started feeling sick and weak. He frowned and moved back a step, the affects leaving him. "It's meteor rock." He replied. "Living in Smallville you learn to study things, they might either kill you or save you." He frowned looking at the contraption. "This is what he's used to brainwash them."

"He's brainwashing people with Kyptonite?" Lois said, shocked. She looked closely at the green liquid in the tubes. "There must be something to reverse the effects. Lex would have made something for a precaution. But, what?" Lois asked, leaving the contraption and looking around the room.

Clark wrinkled his nose at the green liquid and then began looking around. Lex had to have something- Clark's eyes landed on some needles that had red liquid on them.
"He's using another form of the Kyptonite." Clark replied. "Red Kryptonite."

"Another form of Kryptonite. Oh, I'm getting a headache." Lois muttered, rubbing her head. "Well, alright, grab some of the stuff and come on. We've got to get out of here before Lex notices we're here."

"He already has."

Lois turned to see Lex standing in the door way. "Lex!"

"Yes, Lex. Oh, did you really think that I would just let you find your way down here and ruin my plans? You've fallen right into my plan." Lex said, pulling out a hand-sized piece of kryptonite. At Clark's reaction Lex smiled. "Do you have a problem with kryptonite, Clark?"

Clark winced and stumbled over to the wall, slowly sliding down it. "Lex…what you're doing to…Hazard…and the others…it has to stop." He grunted. The pain was reaching its high point now and Clark cried out. His blood was burning in his veins. "Lex…please…" He tried moving away from it, but the rock of Kryptonite was just too big.

"I don't owe you any favors, Clark. We may have been friends once- well were we even friends, Clark? You lied to me the whole time. Heh, have you even told your little friend here what you are, Clark? Does she know?

"Know? Know what? Clark, what is he talking about?" Lois asked, turning her eyes towards Clark.

"I don't tell anyone for the soul purpose of not getting them killed!" Clark shouted. "And we were friends, but I choose not to tell you because of your father! He would have locked me up! He would have done…the same thing you're doing now! We were friend Lex…you just couldn't handle it that I had a secret that you couldn't figure out!" Clark was laying on the floor now, the pain surging through him like a heat wave. "Lex…I would have told you…but…" He trailed off. The pain was too much.

"But what, Clark? You couldn't trust me? You thought that I'd betray you? Lock you up and experiment on you, is that it? You couldn't trust me." Lex said, stepping closer.

"Stop! Lex, how could he trust you? Look what you're doing now! You found out some secret about Clark and now you're using it against him! Look at yourself, Lex! Look what you're doing and ask yourself if you would have trusted you in Clark's position? Think about how many times Clark has helped you." Lois yelled and Lex turned to her with an odd look.

He turned to Clark and then to Lois and then lowered the Kryptonite and, not looking at Clark or Lois, said. "Go. Because we were once friends, I'll let you leave. But, I don't owe you any more. We're even."

Clark got up, moving away from the kryptonite. He shook his head. "No. Not until you understand. I trusted you Lex, but your father didn't. He knew that if you found out about me, that you'd get in his way…he would have killed you Lex…remember that." Clark went to Lois' side and turned back to Lex before he left. "Think of what you're doing to Hazard…to yourself Lex…" He trailed off.

Lex said nothing, only stared at a spot on the wall which his eyes seemed to be locked on. Finally, still staring at the wall, he ordered. "Leave, Clark. We're even, no matter what you say. Now, leave, and don't come back."

Lois looked from Lex to Clark and sighed. "We should go, Clark. We need to get that stuff to Hazard." With that, Lois disappeared through the hidden door they had entered from.

They made their way outside and Clark took the antidote from Lois. "Go to my parents and stay with them." He replied. "I don't have time to explain everything, so just go." With that he ran off, but didn't go his normal speed until out of sight. He then messaged Bruce and was taken up into the ship where Hazard was still trying violently to get out of his prison. "I've got what we need." Clark said, handing the antidote to Bruce.