A/N: Now, I know you think I'm "giving up" on Kryptonite because I'm updating some of my other stories, but I'm not. I promise. I'm planning to update Raelie, I swear! (ducks for fear of blows) I'm just trying to work on some more HaldirRel fluff, but I'm not really getting any ideas for it.

Thanks pottersparky, Samantha-Girl Scout, and nera for your reviews.

Kudos for Samantha-Girl Scout for being especially buggy about this particular story. :D I'm promising an update to Raelie soon, Sam, I swear. I'm just having troubles. If you have any ideas for Chapter 5 at all, I would so love to have them!

Disclaimer: See Chapter 1

Chapter 6: An Interview Gone Bad

Chloe stood at the barn window, her eyes glazed over as her thoughts wandered. Clark walked up to the window and stood beside her. She regarded him with a slight smile before returning to the window.

"Hey, Chloe, I know it was just the moodulators, but I feel kind of bad about trying to kill you," Clark said.

"Clark—"

"I want to make it up to you. Maybe I could get you that interview with Danny Phantom." He winced when he realized what he'd done.

Chloe didn't seem to notice. "Okay, how about today?"

"I'll see if they can find him."

"Thanks, Clark, I appreciate it."

"Oh, man, we're screwed," Danny muttered, dropping into the grass where Sam and Tucker were lying.

"What happened now?" Sam asked.

"Clark begged me to let Chloe interview 'Danny Phantom.'"

"Well, that's not so bad," Tucker said. "Maybe it'll shine some good light on your bad image."

Danny glared at his friend. "The only problem is we're supposed to meet her at the school with Danny Phantom."

"Yeah, that's bad," Sam said. "The only option would be to split yourself, and I would really have to hurt you if you did that again."

"You could flake out," Tucker offered.

"Nah, I'm not gunna do that to Clark." Danny rolled onto his back, his arms crossed over his head. "I mean, he's given us a free place to stay." He sighed. "I guess I'll just go as Danny Phantom and tell her 'we' couldn't make it." Danny looked at his watch. "I'll see you guys later. I promised Clark and Chloe I'd meet them at Smallville High at three."

Kim sat on the roof gazing around her. It was the second time she'd gone through moodulator issues, and it was the second time she'd fallen in love with Ron. Now, her thoughts drifted back to Danny and Clark. They had super powers, and she was just…a nobody.

"Hey, KP." Ron sat beside her, and Rufus poked out of his pocket, gasped at the heights, then disappeared back inside.

"Hey, Ron." She sighed and gazed sadly at the sky.

"You okay?"

"What? Oh, it's nothing. You know; same-old, same-old." The look on his face told her he didn't believe her, and she sighed again. "It's just Danny's half ghost and Clark's superboy. They're real superheroes. I'm just a cheerleader with some cool technology."

"Aw, KP, you don't give yourself enough credit. Sure, you don't have any powers, but you were still down there fighting beside 'em." Ron looked up at the sky. "So what if they have special powers. You've been saving the world just fine without any."

She smiled shyly. "Thanks, Ron."

They hugged but quickly pulled apart, having what Tucker would've called a "blushy moment."

"Heh, I'm gunna go see if Tucker's got any cool games on that thing of his." Ron made his way off the roof, nearly slipping once, making Kim giggle. "I'm okay!"

Clark looked up as Danny touched down. "Hey, where's Sam and Tucker?"

Danny gave him a look. "And I'd tell Chloe that Danny Fenton did what exactly? Flew away?"

"Oh, sorry. I totally forgot."

"Forget it." Danny shrugged. "This interview is the least I can do for you after how nice you've been to—"

"Well, if it isn't Danny Phantom in the flesh," Chloe suddenly said. "Well, actually you're a ghost so you don't exactly have any flesh."

He and Clark jumped. "H-hi, Chloe," Clark weakly greeted her.

"Where's your friends?" Chloe asked Danny after flashing a grin at Clark.

"Th-they said they had something to do. " Danny laughed nervously, rubbing the back of his neck as Chloe stared oddly at him.

"Okay." She headed for the school doors. "Ready for the Torch office?"

"I'll meet you guys there," Danny said, sinking into the floor.

"Wow, that is so cool." Chloe jot down a quick note before heading inside with Clark behind her, shaking his head with a grin.

Danny floated into the floor of the Torch office, and Chloe and Clark walked in moments later.

"So, what do you call that power?" Chloe sat herself down with a recorder and pen and paper.

"Intangibility. All ghosts can do it," Danny explained.

"And you usually fight ghosts?"

"Yeah, thanks to the Fenton Portal." Danny's eyes widened again.

Chloe cocked her head. "Isn't your friend Danny's last name Fenton?"

"Oh…yeah, he and Sam and Tucker try to keep the Portal closed for me since my…er, his parents created it." Danny was beginning to think this might not have been a good idea.

Sam knocked on the door to the Luthor mansion. Ron and Tucker were playing games, and she hadn't really felt like talking to the "cheerleader" so she thought she may as well go talk to Lex. He seemed to understand her a lot more than her friends.

Lex opened the door. "Sam, I didn't expect to see you. What can I help you with?"

"I just felt like talking. Everyone else was busy doing other things," she replied.

"Anyone in particular you want to talk about?" he asked.

"No," she added hastily.

"Have a seat."

"Aw, man, that's the second time you've beaten my best score!" The techno geek was pouting as Kim walked back into the barn.

Ron and Tucker were sitting in the hay watching Rufus play on Tucker's PDA. Kim smiled, shaking her head. She knew the naked mole rat was great with technology; it was no surprise to her that he was winning.

"I'll catch you guys later. I'm going to the Talon," Kim said.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Ron offered.

"And leave me with the rat!" Tucker asked.

"Hey," Rufus said in his little mole rat voice.

"No, I'll be fine." Kim pulled her hair back into a ponytail. "You guys have fun."

Chloe sighed and shut the recorder off. "All right, Fenton. You can knock off the charade now."

The ghost hybrid was so shocked, he fell out of his chair. Clark's elbow slipped off the bookshelf, and he nearly crunched it to catch himself.

She turned to the other startled teen. "You too, Kent."

"How'd you know?" they said together.

She turned back to Danny. "Oh, come on. Danny Phantom, Danny Fenton. I mean, you fell through the floor and shot some glowy green stuff from your hand." She turned back to Clark. "And your old girlfriend told me a way to test out your powers. Plus, only one person could throw things like that, and that was the boy that got struck by lightning with the meteor rock in his pocket."

"Yeah, but that only helped transfer my powers to him," Clark explained. "And she told you?"

Chloe ignored him, turning to Danny who was now propped on his elbows on the floor staring gaping at Chloe. "You figured it out that quickly?" he asked.

"Oh, come on, Danny. It's not like you look really different anyway." She stepped over him to her wall of weird, pinning up a picture of Danny Phantom. "And don't worry, guys. Your secrets are safe with me."

Danny returned to his human form and stood. "Yeah, that's why I'm on the 'Wall of Weird'."

"If I could, Clark would be up there too, but it'd be too obvious."

"That makes me feel so much better," Danny muttered darkly.

Kim sat in the Talon reading a book she'd found in Clark's barn.

"Looks like interesting reading," a voice said as the person filled her cup.

Kim looked up. "Oh, yeah. I got it from where I was staying."

"Oh, really? Where are you staying? I'm Lana Lang by the way."

"Kim Possible. I'm staying in Clark Kent's barn. Chloe brought us there."

"Oh, Clark and Chloe are my best friends," Lana said. "I wonder why they didn't mention it."

"Th-they've been kind of preoccupied," Kim replied, blushing as she thought about the moodulators.

"Hey, what's this?" Danny pulled a picture out of one of Chloe's many files.

She'd apparently learned the first time everything was stolen from her and had hard copies of every file filed away.

"Oh, that's the Drifter. Everyone used to say he killed Lana's great aunt," Chloe explained, typing up her Danny Phantom article on her new laptop. Lex had decided to get her something portal so it wouldn't get stolen as easy since she could take it everywhere.

"He looks just like Clark," Danny said.

"Actually, it's my dad," Clark admitted.

Chloe looked up in surprise. "Your dad and Lana's great aunt? Ew…"

Clark gave her a look. "No, I'm not Lana's second cousin or something. I came to earth during the meteor shower."

"Lucky for you," Chloe muttered, rolling her eyes.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Clark asked.

Danny was still searching for more stuff on the Drifter. He found a file labeled "private" and opened it. Pictures of Clark and Chloe dancing together at some dance at their school They looked really happy together, but Danny had a feeling things hadn't worked out somehow. He closed the "private" file, deciding his intangible and invisibility powers might come in handy later, then returned to the "Drifter" file. He caught sight of a symbol someone had doodled.

"Hey, what's this?"

"That's the symbol my dad used to wear," Clark explained, looking over Danny's shoulder.

Danny grinned. "You could put this up for Clark," he suggested to Chloe.

"Thanks!" Chloe snatched the paper from Danny and pinned it up.

Clark sighed before turning to glare at Danny. Danny just shrugged then grinned. Chloe definitely liked her "Wall of Weird."

Sam walked back to the barn alone. Her thoughts wandered back to her conversation with Lex then to the moodulators. She felt herself blushing as she thought about the kiss she and Danny had shared…sort of.

"Hey, Sam!" She glanced behind her to find Danny running to catch up to her. Clark and Chloe were walking together not far behind. "What're you doing out here?"

"I felt like talking so I visited the neighborhood millionaire." She glanced at him. "How'd the interview go?"

He shrugged. "She found out. Danny Phantom now has his own spot on the 'Wall of Weird'."

"Well, it wouldn't be that hard since you nearly fell on top of us when you fell out of the ceiling."

Danny blushed, rubbing the back of his neck nervously. He didn't really like talking about the moodulators. She didn't taste like geek like Dash had said.

"Danny?"

"Huh? Uh, sorry. Kinda zone out."

"I asked if you were going back to the barn."

"No, I'm gunna look around for a while and see if I can't find Drakken's trail."

"Okay, I'll see you then."

Sam walked on with Clark and Chloe while Danny disappeared into a nearby alley. For any truly attentive people in Smallville, they might've noticed the flash before a white-haired teen with glowing green eyes flew out of the alley where a black-haired, blue-eyed teen had just been.

Lex was walking across the street when he heard squealing tires. He looked toward the car careening toward him then suddenly he was across the street and a teen was floating before him. Lex stared, and the teen dressed in a black and silver jumper stared back with an odd look on his face. The teen continued to stare at him for a while before turning and disappearing as he flew away. Lex stared after him for a while then shook his head and continued walking.

Danny landed in an alley then changed back into his human form, breathing hard. There was something about Lex he hadn't liked; something told him that Lex was evil, and he needed to warn Sam.

A/N: All Smallville fans out there already know that Lex is slowly sinking into evilness. For those of you that don't know, Lex Luthor is Superman's arch foe. He's… I think Alexander in the movies.