The Bad Girl
Chloe stormed into the Talon waving a copy of the Daily Planet above her head.
"Got some interesting news," she told everyone who listened to her.
"You always that loud?" Luna muttered. She was not sure how but somehow she had a hangover from the night before. She had barely had enough to get a small dog drunk how come it hit her so hard.
"Most of the time," Clark muttered. "Chloe is the person to get information from about pretty much anything. She'll know stuff before the cops do to."
"Yeah, well Clark kicks criminal butt before the cops do and then they accuse him of stuff. Nobody appreciates a good citizen anymore, do they?" Chloe asked and slapped the paper against Clark's arm. "Anyway, last night, convict escaped from Metropolis Prison."
"Let me guess, Chloe," Lana said rolling her eyes. "This convict happens to have been in Smallville at the time of the meteor shower."
"What kind of a guess is that? It doesn't matter where you were during the meteor shower," Luna muttered and grabbed for the ice pack Lana was holding out to her. Lana pulled it back and sniggered. She did it once more before handing Luna the ice pack to let her throbbing headache freeze to death.
"Where's your sidekick?" Chloe asked and Luna gave a faint smile.
"For one, I'm the sidekick, believe it or not and for two, I dunno. Clark musta drugged her drink last night cause she never came outta bed, I hear," Luna said and looked at Clark. Clark turned his eyes from her.
"She was just tired," he explained.
"So you left her lying on the couch?" Lana asked.
"She's on his bed," Luna said with a big smirk. "Who knows what happened last night, huh? What's your guess, cuz?" Lana gave a faint smile and then left the counter to attend to some customers. "What's her beef?"
"Anyway, Lana was right about the ex-con. She used to be a Smallville resident and…"
"She?" Luna and Clark asked together. Chloe nodded and stepped between them. She placed the paper on the counter and folded it out. It showed a woman in the usual convicts dress holding her middle finger up to the camera.
"Danil," Luna muttered.
"Yeah," Chloe said and picked the paper up. "Danil Sharps lived in Smallville until just after the meteor shower. She was jailed a last year in Metropolis, they don't say how they got her but she'd done her share in bank robbing until then. How do you know here?"
"Uh," Luna said while trying to think up and excuse. "We were in Metropolis at the time. Me and Kelsy."
"Oh well, apparently she shoved several guards clear across the room and one of them even dented a wall. They're all in total denial because a girl beat their ass, but this so stinks like meteor rock influence."
"What does that mean?" Luna asked and slowly pulled the ice pack off her head. She winced at the pain that was still there but she was more interested in Chloe's story.
"Well, this is only our suspicion," she said waving her finger between herself and Clark. "But we think that people who come in contact with the meteor rock develop powers. Me and Lana once kinda dated a guy who could be in two places at once, literally. And then there was this girl who could change the way she looked. We've had some freaks around Smallville, but most of the time Clark Kent, resident Superhero, is around to save the day."
"Clark? A hero?" Luna snorted and received a playful glare from the boy. "Ah, hey. Can you bring me to your place, I wanna tell Kelsy about Danil and your meteor rock theory?"
"Sure, yeah," Clark said. "Just wait by my truck. I want to talk to Chloe."
"Fine, don't tell me," Luna said and left the Talon smiling.
Aha… that clears up… nothing really.
Well… it gets better… sooner or later