"No where else to go?" Clark said with a smirk.

Agitated after his walk, he punched through the wall. Instantly he collapsed to his knees. He groaned and looked up. He gasped at the room coated in green around him.

A man stepped in to the room from some alternate place of entrance. "Tsk, tsk. Clark, Clark, come to play?"

Two pairs of hands came in after the man in the black coat. They wore white and picked Clark up dragging him up to the metal operation table in the center of the room. Hesitantly, Clark hissed, "Lionel?"

He turned his head again to try and identify his attacker. The intense pain blurred his vision, he did not hear what his captor said next as he lost consciousness. "No, only a pawn I'm afraid." the man said.

Lucas let out a breath. Turning to the attendants he hissed, "You know your orders."

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Lex swayed toward the running brunette. She was gorgeous. He knew he was crazy following a mirage, after all why would his dad use something as weird as her for a plot to destroy Lex? A little dazed, Lex did not even notice the stone floor beneath him was slowly becoming laid out in a velvet red carpet.

Something in him suddenly made him stop. Lex collapsed to his knees and cradled his head in his hands.

"Think this through!" he murmured.

Looking up he saw they had come to a fork in the road. One side, the left, was lined in red carpet. The other stone. He could see ahead of the bend a little, there was a bed in the chamber following the path of red. Lex was feeling very glad at that moment that he was wearing elastic waist band pants.

Leaning back he thought back to what his father had been saying to him after one to many nights at the club: "Oh Lex! You're always having sex here and there! It'll be your downfall son. Hell hath no fury like a women's scorn."

Lex had laughed at that, he had smugly replied, "Well dad, I think you are wrong. I'm your son so let me tell you: Hell hath no fury like Lionel Luthor's scorn. And I'm sure so many would agree..."

That had really pissed Lionel off, Lex chuckled at the memory.

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"What the hell is he doing!" Lionel screamed at the monitor.

Lucas walked in and Lionel turned to face him. "Sir, we have the Kent boy."

"Good, good, tell me what do you think of this?" Lionel gestured to the monitor surveying the maze. Lex was laughing.

Pulling up a chair next to Lionel, Lucas asked, "Did you release the toxins to early?"

"No, no, he's supposed to follow, what was her name? Ah, he was supposed to follow Anne…"

"Alexandria," Lucas mentioned.

"Don't interrupt me. Anne was supposed to stab him as soon as she had lured him to her bed. Damn maybe he is smarter than I thought," he observed as Lex took the stone path.

Lucas let our a half smile, and made gestures with his hand, "Luckily we have made it sooo…"

"Challenging?" Lionel offered.

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A sigh escaped Lex's lips as he came face to face with another metal door. This time the sign read, Good, if you've made it so far you've realized that sex is your downfall. It's definitely not a major one, but hell it is certainly distracting. I had fun one to many times and now I'm stuck with you. Now did you think this was hard? Open the door, you'll see another level of challenge.

"Not right now thank you. (Lex I don't feel so good.) Don't worry; I think we'll sleep in by the door for the moment. When we wake up we can go through. (Ah, good, idea.)"

Placing his back against the door Lex sunk to his knees and was about to fall asleep when he heard a sound, a haunting sound filled with pain from years he had tried to push out.

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"Well, now that we have that going let's go to our rooms shall me?" Lionel said watching as Lucas hit play.

As his finger hit the button the tape previously pushed in began to play on the intercom. "I hope he enjoys this. We'll get him another soundtrack tomorrow."

Both men laughed and walked out from the mechanical room. They both entered the elevator; it took them up to the top of a penthouse.

Lex was underground in a maze and above him, unbeknownst to him, where a bunch of guests partying in a hotel. A hotel now owned by Lionel Luthor. True it was in Metropolis, distances away from the mansion, but that's what black vans were for.

Parting to go to their separate plush rooms, each man had a fairly good sleep; especially in comparison to the shivering man 60 levels below.

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Lex shuddered; his father had left the air conditioning on. Did anyone know he was here? No, he realized, if his father wanted it buried, it stays buried.

Once more he tried to let sleep claim him, but the tune was haunting his very being.

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Hush little baby... don't say a word... I'm gonna buy you a mockingbird... and if that mocking bird don't sing... I'm gonna buy you a diamond ring... If that diamond ring turns brass... I'm gonna buy you...

---to be continued---

Reader Replies:

Hope Roy: I do hope I can get better.

Eviv: Nope, sorry, parents said N-O. On to witty replies: writing: a man walked into a bar …it hurt is fine, it is funny, and something irregular. I just like jokes. Okay you're confused? Lex has been shot and taken to Lionel's hideout. From there he is released into a maze. As he begins the first level Clark searches his mansion and finds a spot of blood. Chloe says its Lex's and so Clark searches (yet again) for any underground passageways. He finds one, but it dose not lead to Lex, it leads to DOOM. Dose that make it any clearer? I hope it helped.

baseballfan44: 'Ello. Hey that rhymes with jello! (Author is thunked on the head) Yeah, yeah, I'll focus. Want more eh? ESPECIALLY AFTER THANKSGIVING? Wow did you not eat enough? And I have tons of leftovers if you don't. Lol.(now you gotta say that was witty right? LOL!...actually I can't make you say anything…)