A/N Sorry Guys! I know it's been 2 weeks since my last update but my family went on vacation! We left last Wednesday so I wasn't able to update but hopefully I'll make it up to you.

Chapter 4

Swear

"Ok I promise." Pete said.

Swear it Pete, I'm serious this cannot get out to anyone especially Lex." Chloe said very seriously.

"Ok I swear." Pete said.

When they arrived at Lana's apartment it look like she had been expecting them. "Have you told him yet?" she asked.

"No, not yet." Chloe replied,

"Tell me what?" Pete asked.

"You remember when Lex asked me those questions about Clark and the stone? Well I lied." Chloe said.

"Ok back up what stones?" Pete asked. He knew he had been gone for a year but not knowing what was going on was starting to get on his nerves.

" These stones." Lana said while handing him a sheet of paper, "this is a legend that tells about three relics that are hidden around the world by an scientifically advanced race and when united would lead a person to vast knowledge. Only it's not a legend it's real."

"What do you mean?" Pete asked.

"Well when summer was almost over I got this weird tattoo on my back and when I researched the symbol it led me to the legend of the stones and my symbol matched one of them. Later I traced one of the stones with the help of Lex." Lana replied.

" You mean Lex was in on this?" Pete asked although he shouldn't be surprised since Lex was into everything.

"Yeah know you know why we don't want what were about to tell you to get back to him." Chloe said.

"Anyway," Lana continued, " we got this stone as well and for some reason that I can't explain I had a felling that those stones were some how meant for Clark so I gave it to him."

"And the same day I saw Clark with another stone, that's when Lex went postal and drug me into that cave, I can swear it on my life that I was Clark in that cave before I was struck by that energy. And I have to be the last person that saw him because no one has seen him since. He just disappeared into thin air. Chloe stated.

"So your saying that Clark is some how tied into these stones? Wait a minute I thought that you promised Clark that you wouldn't investigate his private life anymore." Pete asked.

" Yeah I did but that was before I got involved or at least Lex thinks I'm involved. He now thinks Lana's in on it. We just want to know what were tied up in!" Chloe said mater-of- factly. "Were worried about Clark"

"But what about the advanced culture that the legend spoke about? Hoe dose that fit in with Clark." Pete asked.

" Well that's where we ran into a snag. The legend said it was a scientifically advanced culture." Chloe said with uncertainty.

"What like Atlantis?" Pete asked.

"No more on the lines of extraterrestrial." Chloe said.

This totally blew Pete's mind! Lana and Chloe were actually on top of the answer to the question that they had been having about Clark Kent for the last four to five years. When he finally composed himself Pete asked the question he was dieing to know the answer to.

"So you think that Clark is an alien?" Pete asked.

"Honesty, we don't know what to think." Lana replied, " it would make since why he seams so withdrawn some of the time, but that so far out there even for Smallville."

Pete couldn't hole it in even though he knew he was cutting it close he had to ask this question.

" What would you guys do if Clark was really an alien?" Pete asked cautiously.

" I have no idea," Lana answered, " I guess it would freak me out a little but like I said just a second ago that so far out there."

" Is it so far out there that you can't put together the loose end into place?" Chloe asked. When Lana didn't answer Chloe continued. " Lana you came face-to-face with a UFO!"

"A UFO!" Pete exclaimed openly shocked.

"If you ask me it should be 'unidentified falling object, not flying'" Chloe said " But a UFO nonetheless."

"Lana what is she talking about?" Pete asked.

"When the meteor shower was happing I was in a chopper, Lex had so pity on me because he wanted the stone, but anyway the chopper was hit and went down. The next thing I know is that the pilot is dead and I'm covered in his blood and my leg is broken. So I dragged myself to higher ground only to find that some weird object was in the middle of the field. Then something happed that I still can't explain. Some glow came out of the thing and healed my leg!" Lana exclaimed.

"Where is it now?" Pete asked.

"The government has it." Chloe replied.

All Pete could think was 'WOW he had missed a lot and that Clark was going to have a lot of enplaning to do when he came back. If he ever did.