They drove for a few hours and all the Dukes were just driving into town when Luke noticed…they hadn't been chased, at all, by any police cars in Hazzard County.

"That's strange," he remarked a wave of uneasiness falling over him.

Meanwhile, Martha, Clark and Chloe (who had come along because she wanted to get "the scoop") had just arrived in Hazzard and were walking around the town square.

"This is a small place," Chloe remarked, "so how do we go about finding out where Mr. Kent is?"

"We could just ask," Clark suggested, "I mean in a small town like this, with an apparently big name racecar driver, they must know where he would most likely go."

"Racecar driver," Martha grunted, "when I get my hands on him…oooh, he's got a lot of explaining to do."

"Don't think I want to be around when she tears into him," Chloe sighed, "hey look, there's a police station over there."

She pointing to a building that stood out a bit from the rest, with two patrol cars parked in front of it.

"Let's go," sighed Martha, "sooner we deal with this the sooner I'll start sleeping better."

They entered the police station to hear three people arguing.

"Enos! Cletus! Why aren't you out there catching people in speed traps?" Rosco snapped, "What about them Dukes? They should have run up a small fortune by now!"

"That's just it, the Dukes ain't been around for about 2 weeks now," Cletus tried to explain, but Rosco cut him off.

"Now what can I do for you three?" Rosco asked Clark, Martha and Chloe as he noticed them in the doorway.

"We were just looking for someone," Martha said, "A Bo Duke; do you know where we can find him?"

"Oh geez, Bo Duke hasn't lived here for years," Enos began, "comes back for a visit every year, but missed it this year-"

"Oh hush Enos, now Ms, may I ask how you're involved with those…those…ruffians?" Rosco demanded.

"We're just looking for him for… an interview," Chloe interrupted, "Yeah, that's it."

"Geez, well Cooter at the Garage might know if he's in town," Cletus said, "but we haven't seen any of them Dukes for at least 2 weeks now."

"Good thing too," Rosco laughed, "if they don't get to the bank before 3:30pm sharp I finally get the Duke farm, coo coo, now Enos, Cletus, get out there incase some of them Dukes some how end up with the money!""

Enos and Cletus left to go find the Dukes they didn't believe were out there while Martha, Clark, and Chloe stared at Rosco in disbelief.

"You're going to try and make sure they can't pay?" Clark asked, "that's cheating."

"Well I can do whatever I want," Rosco said, "jeejee I gotta go tell Flash Jr."

He hurried away and the Smallville Trio decided to check out Cooter to see if he could be anymore helpful.

"That could explain why Mr. Kent needed a lot of money and fast," Chloe pointed out, "he was trying to save the farm here."

Martha nodded, "Oh Jonathan," she sighed shaking her head, "he'd do anything for his family."

Clark smiled, "Now that sounds like my dad, come on, let's go see this Cooter fellow."

They walked over to the garage and saw one man with a trucker hat working on an old pick up truck.

"Um, excuse me?"

Cooter looked up at them, "Something I can do for you folks?"

"Are you Cooter?" Chloe asked curiously.

"Yup, that's me Cooter Davenport, 'fraid I don't know you though."

"Well, Mr. Davenport, my name's Martha, and I'm looking for Bo Duke, do you know where his is?" Martha inquired.

"Well, geez, Bo ain't lived here for a long time, moved to Kansas, little place called Smallville I think, I can give you a forwarding address if you'd like," Cooter replied, but Martha shook her head.

"I know, I'm his wife," she sighed, and Cooter's mouth dropped open.

"When wee, he's gone and done it, Bo Duke settled down, never thought I'd see the day," Cooter laughed, "nice to meet yeah, I'd shake your hand, but mine are dirty, how is old Bo anyway?"

"He left a bit mysteriously a few weeks ago and we haven't been able to contact him, he got a letter from Hazzard, next day disappeared saying it was a family emergency," Clark explained.

"And who are these kids?" Cooter asked.

"This is my son Clark and his friend Chloe,"

"And a kid, boy, oh, boy, wait till Luke and Daisy hear about this," Cooter laughed again then went serious, "got a letter and took off hmm? Well Luke was talkin' about entering the Cannonball Run to get some money to pay for the farm, may have called old Bo to be his driving partner."

"Who exactly is Daisy?" Martha asked abruptly, "I mean I keep hearing her name but…"

"Oh that's his cousin," Cooter replied, "Dukes got lot o cousins, there's Luke, Coy, Vance, Bo and Daisy."

Martha wiped her forehead, "Good, um, if Bo was to be in town, where would he be?"

"Well let's see, it's about 3:10pm, so I'd say any minute you'll see three cars hurrying to that bank, chased by 2 cop cars, he'll most likely be in the orange one if not it'll be he cousin Luke," Cooter observed.

"Sounds like you know the Dukes quite well," Chloe stated.

"Best friends a man could have, and I know 'em almost too well" Cooter said smiling looking at the clock on the wall, "now watch this, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…"

The General Lee's horn was heard just before a loud thunk as it landed not too far from the garage, a police car soon followed, but not making as quite a nice landing, the front end crumpled blowing out both front tires in the process.

"Nice one Bo," Luke congratulated, "now come on, we need to make sure Maria gets to that bank on time."

Black Tilly 2 swerved to avoid crashing into a tree and stopped as Maria jumped out carrying the briefcase, then it sped up as Enos's police car came after him.

"There she goes," Rose remarked looking past Luke to see Maria jump out of the way of Enos's car.

"Bo, I'm going to go check on Cletus," Luke said hopping out the window, Rose followed, saying she needed to stretch her legs after all that time in a car.

Maria dashed towards the bank and disappeared inside its' doors.

"Hope that's the end of that," Bo groaned, "I'm getting to old for this."

"You have no idea."

Bo whipped his head around to see Martha standing outside the passenger window, looking in at him.

"Martha?" he asked in horror, then added sheepishly "Um…howdy?"

Chapter 7 ( Cracking)

"Hi Jonathan, or should I say Beauregard?" Martha asked, "can I come in?"

"You have to get in through the window, here, I'll come out," Bo got out of the General, "so you figured it out huh?"

"Actually Chloe and Clark did," Martha sighed, "Jonathan, why didn't you tell me?"

"Martha, in Hazzard, the law's crooked, especially if you're a Duke, I have a police record a mile long for stuff I mostly didn't do, I just wanted to get away from it, settle down, have a family, I just…I wanted to be a role model if I had children, I just didn't want to be known only as an outlaw, no matter where I went, so I adopted a new life as Jonathan Kent, I come back here every year for a visit," he paused to let this sink in, "A few weeks ago, I got a letter from Luke and Daisy, two of my cousins, Uncle Jesse's farm was in trouble, Rosco was making us pay for police cars that were wrecked when they were chasing us, it was a real high price, Luke didn't have enough money so decided to enter this Cannonball Run to get the money, and we won."

"Oh Jonathan…"

"Martha I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, it's just, this is a totally different part of my life, one I was hoping to keep separate from you and Clark, and people would recognized Bo Duke as a racecar driver, I'd never escape so I've just lived under the name Jonathan Kent for a long time. "

Martha hugged her husband, "You know, this I don't mind, but you running off like that, being so vague, I was terrified, I don't care if you're out driving cars, I just want to know when I should start worrying."

Bo patted his wife on the back and looked down at her, "And I know it was a very foolish thing to do, I won't do it again and I promise, if I want to go race cars, you'll be the first to know."

Martha smiled and kissed Jonathan…Bo…whoever, and he knew he was at least partially forgiving.

"I'll go tell Clark," Bo sighed, but Martha stopped him, "I'll tell him, you go talk to your cousins, okay?"

Bo nodded and went off in separate directions. After explaining the situation to both sides everything made a lot more sense to each side of the family and Daisy invited everyone (including Cooter) back to the farm for supper, providing Maria had gotten there in time.

At that moment Maria came running out of the bank smiling, holding the briefcase that had the extra cash in it "We just made it."

"In true Dukes fashion," Coy laughed.

Rose wrinkled up her nose, "Uh-oh," she said.

"What?" Luke asked.

"I just realized I have no way to get back to California," she sighed, "I don't even really want to, you guys have such amazing lives,"

"Some of the time," Luke pointed out.

"Well, Maria and I were planning on using our part of the money to put up a second little house on Uncle Jesse's farmland, so I could move back here with my family," Vance remarked, "hey, Coy, weren't you thinking of doing the same thing?"

Coy nodded, then smiled, "Oh I get it, well I'll admit I don't know you too well Rose, but if you want you could move in with me after the place is built, stay around here long enough you might change your mind about not wanting to go back to California."

Rose smiled, "Really?" she asked excitedly, "You'd do that?"

"Well I got to get to know you a bit better first…"

"Hi," she said excitedly leading Coy off in a different direction, "My name's Rose…"

The other Dukes laughed.

"Come on, let's get back to the farm," Luke said smiling and turning to leave but was stopped by Chloe.

"Are you Luke Duke?" she asked determined to get something from him.

"Yes I am."

She smiled "Can I get an interview?"

"Sure thing," he laughed, "Come on, you can ride with Bo and me, we'll give you an interview you won't forget."

Bo smiled, "Now I don't know Luke, poor Chloe might end up with white hair with you driving."

"Hey, I'm just as good as you if not better!"

"You want to test that?"

Martha rolled her eyes, "Men will be boys," she grumbled, "come on Clark, if Chloe wants to ride with them she can, but I'd prefer if you stayed in one piece."

The all drove off to the Duke farm and it appeared to be the happiest ending there could be to a story like this. But then again there always is a happy ending, in a place called Hazzard...

BEM: Is it the end? Well that's up to the readers, do you think we should write a sequel?

Mel: Review and let us know