Chapter 15
Across town at the bus station a truck pulled to a stop in the parking lot.
"Clark, I wanna thank you for everything this year." Whitney said. "I'm sorry I was a jerk to you at times. I just… I don't know. I felt threatened by you at first, but now you've become a really good friend Clark. Probably one of my only real friends that I have hear in Smallville."
Clark was dressed in his Tuxedo ready to go to the Spring Formal immediately after this.
"Thanks Whitney," Clark said. "You have no idea how much that means to me."
"Well," Whitney said grabbing his bag. "I won't keep you from enjoying Spring Formal. Try and have a fun time for me."
"I'll try," Clark said.
Whitney stepped out into the rain that was beginning to come down and quickly ran across the parking lot to the waiting Greyhound bus. Clark watched as Whitney went up the steps onto the bus. Once Whitney was out of sight Clark started up the truck to drive to the Spring Formal.
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"Wow that's quite the storm out there," Chloe commented to Lana and Pete.
"Yeah," Pete agreed. "I wonder if there will be a tornado."
"That's always a distinct possibility," Lana said.
"Has anyone told you two that you make one of the cutest couples?" Chloe asked.
Lana let out a loud sigh, "We've heard that from just about everybody else already," Lana replied.
"Well just making sure you know," Chloe teased.
"Man I really love this band," Pete commented changing the topic.
"Yeah, I've never heard of Remy Zero until now. But they're pretty good," Lana agreed.
The band finished up their current song and began playing a slower song. The couples all gathered out on the floor to dance.
"Miss Kent may I have this dance?" Pete asked polite.
"Why yes," Lana replied.
They stepped out on the floor and began to slow dance.
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Clark was driving to the Spring Formal. The going was tough however because the wind had picked up so much. The truck was weaving about on the road just from the wind. Debris was being flung about. Suddenly something smashed the windshield, it was a set of mailboxes. Clark lost control of the truck temporarily and it drove off the road and slammed roughly into a ditch leaving Clark temporarily dazed.
When Clark snapped out of his daze he got out of the truck the wind was howling. Clark looked across the road and saw something that completely frightened him. Three funnels had touched down and were making their way in his direction. Hopped back in the truck and tried desperately to start it back up.
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Down in the Kent's storm cellar Roger Nixon was snooping around. His snooping didn't last very long though. He almost immediately found the spaceship and began videotaping it. As he examined it he noticed a strange spot on the ship. It was an octagonal indent. It brought Roger Nixon's thoughts to the very thing that had gotten him so obsessed with the idea of aliens in the first place. He reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a metallic disc. It was the exact size and shape to fit into this slot in the ship. Roger Nixon hesitated wondering if there was any kind of danger in putting the disc into the slot.
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At the dance the band was suddenly cut off as the Principal came up on the stage.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," he apologized. "However we have just received word that three funnel clouds have been spotted south of Smallville."
"Clark was south of Smallville," Lana said.
"I'm sure he's fine," Chloe said. "I'll call his cell phone. He should be here any…"
But when Chloe turned around Lana was gone. Pete came over carrying two glasses of punch.
"Hey where'd Lana go?" Pete asked.
"I don't know," Chloe replied.
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"Come on Martha we've got to get into the storm cellar!" Jonathon Kent hollered over the howling winds.
Martha was carrying a bunch of pictures which couldn't be replaced if the house was destroyed. Jonathon suddenly noticed that the doors to the storm cellar were open already. He ran ahead to see who was down there.
"Nixon!" Jonathon shouted seeing the man who had been stalking Lana.
Roger Nixon placed the octagon in the slot.
"I've got the proof Kent," Nixon said. "And I know several people who will be willing to pay for this information. You've made me a rich man."
"You're not going anywhere." Jonathon said. "Now give me that tape."
"No!" Nixon yelled.
He and Jonathon began trading blows. Martha came down the stairs and noticed the spaceship which was glowing and had lifted up off the floor of the storm cellar.
"Jonathon," Martha called out in a worried tone.
Jonathon took his eyes off of Nixon to look at the spaceship. Nixon used this opportunity to run away up and out of the storm cellar. Jonathon began to run up the steps after him.
"Jonathon no!" Martha yelled at her husband over the wind.
"Martha I am not going to let that man tear our family apart," Jonathon said as he ran up the steps after Nixon.
Martha watched helplessly as her husband ran out of the storm cellar. She then turned her attention to the spaceship which had aimed itself at the stairs. Martha stepped out of the way more out of fear than reason. The ship suddenly shot out of the storm cellar into the sky much to Martha Kent's confusion.
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Lana was running at super speed to the south of Smallville. She saw the three funnels merge into one large tornado. Not long after Lana came across a truck that had gone off the road that was directly in the path of the tornado. A she looked closer she noticed that Clark was in the truck desperately trying to get it to start. Clark looked up and noticed Lana standing there.
"LANA!" He yelled, "Get out of here!"
The truck began get sucked into the tornado.
"Clark!" Lana yelled as she ran into the tornado after him.
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Please Read Over:
And there you have it, the end of Season 1. Now on to Season 2, which will be a lot more exciting and may involves some of that Clana that I know people are looking forward too.
Just another one of the usual reminders that if you want to talk to me about the story or Smallville in general. Go on IRC to the otherside servers, irc. (Port 7000) or irc. (Port 7000), channel #smallville. Hope to see some people there. If you're looking for an IRC client I would recommend X-Chat although there are many other options out there. Really, please go there to discuss any questions answers will be a lot more direct. That and it gets kind of boring talking to the same two people all the time, I need fresh opinions. Look forward to seeing some of you there.