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Chapter 1
Something woke Clark from a deep sleep. He glanced at the clock on his bedside table. Two in the morning. He frowned at the dark as he reached for the light switch, but before he could reach it, a soft thumping reached his ears. The noise sounded like footsteps heading from the hallway into the kitchen. His father wouldn't be up at this time of the morning would he? But then again, maybe he couldn't sleep and decided to have a cup of coffee.
Clark slipped out from under the covers and stepped noiselessly to the door. Opening it, he began making his way toward the kitchen. There weren't any lights on, no noises coming from anywhere in the house. So what was it that he had heard earlier?
He saw a movement by the bathroom door. What was going on? Before he knew what was happening, a hand covered Clark's mouth and he felt the prick of a needle entering the sensitive skin of his neck. He groaned and struggled against his attacker, but could feel the strength quickly draining out of him. Not wanting to give up without a fight, Clark used all the rest of his energy to try to throw his assailant off. The attempt consumed the last ounce of his strength and he was soon swallowed by darkness.
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Clark awoke to find his world spinning, though he was pretty sure that he himself was not moving. He reached up to rub his aching head but found that his arm wouldn't move. He tried to look down to see what was restraining it but found his head immobile, too. Then, from somewhere outside of his line of vision, Clark heard voices.
"His pulse and breathing rates are back up. However, I suggest that if you want to keep him alive long enough to experiment on, you keep any syringe containing meteor rock serum well away from him."
"I will do what I want with him. I hired you only to do what I ask of you. If you can't do that, I can always find another doctor more willing to cooperate."
The voices ceased but the footsteps sounded closer. One set of footsteps faded away while the other grew even louder till the sounds of heel hitting floor resounded throughout Clark's prison room.
Fighting against his constraints, Clark tried to get a glance of who had entered his room. Finally, the visitor moved into his line of vision. Though his sight was blurred by the meteor rock that flowed through his veins, he made out the face of Lex Luthor.
"What are you doing to me?" His words were slurred and it took almost all of his energy to get them out, but Clark was not going to let this traitor intimidate him. "I thought we were friends, Lex. What happened?"
"Oh come on, Clark. You must have figured it out by now," said Lex, his face glowing with excitement over his capture. "You've been hiding something from me since the day I met you. And now I know what it is. But don't worry," he said sarcastically. "I know you've feared revealing your secret to anyone, even your friends. So, I'm not going to force you to do it. Once I'm done experimenting on you, I will expose it for you. You will cease to exist as a human being and become nothing more than the alien freak boy--"
"I don't know what you're planning on doing to me, but my parents will realize I'm gone and they'll have Smallville P.D. all over town looking for me."
"Well, I guess it's a good thing we're far away from Smallville then, huh? I thought you knew me better than that, Clark. I'm not stupid. Once my men had your parents and you out for the count, they were told to take one of my private jets to New York and meet me here."
Only then did Clark look around his prison. The walls were covered with maps of different galaxies, certain stars marked or circled. Then, Clark's eyes fell upon one map labeled Krypton. Only this map was more of a mural, painted directly on the wall.
Realization slapped Clark in the face. He had been in this very room only two years ago, talking with world-famous astronomer Dr. Virgil Swann. Lex had brought him to Swann's headquarters.
A smirk swept across Lex's face. "Look familiar, Clark? I thought this would be the perfect place to bring you. Tell me, does it make you feel at home?"
The sound of a door swinging open interrupted Lex's enthused words. "We're ready to begin, Mr. Luthor." It was the same voice Clark had heard earlier. "Are we transporting the subject into another room for the testing?"
"Yes. Take him to the examination room."
"Shall he be sedated before the move?"
"No," said Lex, his voice dangerous, an evil glint lighting his eyes. "I want him to be awake…for everything."
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