"Mom! Dad!" Fear rippled through his veins, for he'd seen that their truck was still there. "Mom! Dad!" he repeated, fear growing inside of him. Throwing open the door, he heard him mother's whimpers and his father's pleas.
"Jason, why don't you let Martha go? She doesn't know anything about any of this."
Jason? Why would Jason be there? Without thinking, he threw open the door and ran to the living room. He could have sworn that his heart stopped beating when he saw Jason and the gun he was brandishing. He panicked even more when he saw the gun was being pointed at his mother, who was tying his father to a chair.
"No!" he shouted, running forward.
Jason swung around to face him. "Where the Hell are you keeping the stones, Kent!"
"The stones? I-I don't know what you're talking about!"
Jason shot a bullet into the ceiling, causing Martha to shriek. "What is it with you people! Just tell me where the stones are!"
"Jason, there's a meteor shower heading for Smallville! You've got to get out of here!" Jonathan tried to protest.
"Shut up!" he shouted. "I'm gonna find those stones. If I find them some meteor shower isn't going to matter! I'll have whatever power I need."
"Jason, you can't find them if your dead," Clark added, following his father's lead.
In reply Jason only cocked the gun and aimed it at Martha. "I swear if you don't tell me I'll put a bullet through her right now, meteor shower of no meteor shower."
"Put he gun down," Clark protested. "Put it down."
In a fit of anger Jason took the gun and whipped Martha in the face with it, sending her flying backwards. "Mom!" Clark shouted.
"Martha!" Jonathan yelled.
Clark started forward, but Jason yelled, "Move and I'll shoot her! You're dad too. You can be an orphan twice over."
Clark stopped. Jonathan started to speak again. "This isn't worth dieing over, Jason. What about your mother? Shouldn't you be getting her to safety?"
"I don't know where she is!" he screamed. "You people are so stupid!"
A sudden rumbling interrupted everyone. With the exception of Martha, who was unconscious, everyone looked to the roof. The only warning that they had of the imminent hit was the splinter of wood and the huge 'boom' as the meteor ripped through wood like it was melted butter.
Clark went into super-speed, throwing himself over his mother, causing the meteor to shatter on his back as boards and beams fell around him. Martha was shielded from the brunt of the assault, but Clark couldn't tell how badly his father had been hit by the falling debris. He didn't even know where Jason was.
He was about to get up and check on his dad when he felt the sickening, gut-wrenching pain. He opened and closed his mouth helplessly as he fell in a heap beside his mother. His skin was burning and his blood boiled. It hurt so much and he was helpless to move away from it, being pinned as he was by a beam that, he choked when he realized it, had driven splinters through the flesh of his side.
Clark blacked out.