There be Pirates
Clark and Lana were both having a shared dream which was going to happen at some point because of their telepathic link. Lana's dream had them
at the Kent farm house on a weekend, Clark had gone out to take care of the daily farming chores. Lana was in the kitchen cooking breakfast for the
family, Clark had just come in the door. Clark turned to Lana giving her a huge hug and kiss he asked her "have I told you that I loves you yet today".
Lana just smiles and says "no, I think you need to show me how much you love me". Clark and Lana are about to kiss when they are interrupter by a
gaggle of noisy kids blasting down the stairs invading the kitchen. Lana was happy, here she was with her family all together enjoying each others company.
Lana hugs her kids and husband, she says "who wants pancakes" as she tickles her youngest, Clark scopes her up for that kiss. As their lips seek
each other out Clark starts to wake up.
Clark slowly wakes up to someone poking his shoulder saying wake up "Mr. Queen, wakee, wakee", in a moment Clark is wide awake he opens his
eyes to find their bed surrounded by armed gunmen. All of them staring at Lana's naked body.
"Well Mr. Queen nice of you to join us this morning we missed you at your first stop for the night but we seem to have caught up to you now". Clark
quickly pulls the sheet over Lana's body.
"Let me introduce myself, I'm Darius I'll be you captor for the next few days or until your company pays our ransom demand".
"We have captured many ships over the years oil, freight, and oil rigs almost any type of ship".
"All of them made us money one way or another".
"We are demanding a billion dollars, if it isn't paided, you will watch us kill your wife and then you will join her in death shortly there after".
"Just so you know we are the real deal were going to take your boat then transfer you to our ship and abandon your boat at your third night location
with ransom instructions".
"We have come a long way for you Mr. Queen and we will be paided and paided well".
(Lana are you awake)
(Lana are you awake)
(Lana wake up)
(Come on Lana please wake up)
(Clark baby why are you waking me?)
(I don't want you to freak out but we have been taken prisoner by Pirates. Just pretend your asleep for a while yet and listen to whats happening)
(ok)
(Oh by the way were Mr. and Mrs. Queen, now all the Queen stuff on the island is starting to make sense.)
(what)
(we need to pretend were the Queens you know our friends Oliver and Chloe)
(yes baby I know who they are)
"I'll give you the choice to wake your lovely pregnant wife of I can have one or more of my men do the job".
"I will wake my wife I need to get her and myself clothes".
"One of my men will get the clothes you will remain on the bed under guard until I say" stated Darius flatly.
"Get them some clothes" he barked at this men.
Clark gently shook Lana's shoulder "Chloe you need to wake up baby we have a problem just stay under the covers until these men bring clothes to
us".
Lana played along with a "oh my god please don't shoot me or my baby."
"Who are these people Oliver" Lana said looking at Clark.
"Baby we are being held ransom. They want the company to pays a billion dollar ransom".
"What" said a really surprised Lana.
"A billion dollars ransom" her voice sounding very small and very scared.
Darius left the Queens and went up to the flying bridge to make a radio call to his boss " Mr. Green we have them under control we will be at the
base ship in a hour and transfer them then, so far no problems".
"Darius sounds like everything went according to plan".
"We did have a wrinkle sir they weren't at the day four site we found them at the day three site".
" Well how did you figure out that they weren't where they said they were going"?
"We took no chance we stole more boats and had crew checking all their sites and just spent time looking around in case they changed something".
" Well then you did a good job I hope you destroyed all the other boats and are sticking to leaving their boat abandoned in a shipping channel close
to their day three site still"
"Yes sir, that is the plan still and it should be done in less than two hours, we planned on leaving evidence that they didn't go down easy"
"That should make the board of Queen Industries sit up and take notice, their CEO fought and we still took him, too bad they wont live to see
freedom again, feed the bodies to the sharks after we get the ransom money".
"Yes sir it will be done per orders".
"Your next check in is in two days".
"Yes sir".
Meanwhile Clark and Lana have been doing a little planning of their own.
(Wow you should have considered being a actor baby I'm so believing what you're saying)
(I'm not acting but thanks, that's a lot of money they want Clark)
(These guys are really organized and they knew exactly where we would be they even have our float plan I don't think were in any real danger but I
think we need to figure this out so we can stop this from ever happening again)
(You are right my love I hope I don't get scared)
(If they are going to really hurt you use your abilities and we will break out to safety and get away)
(Ok as long as we are together I'm ok, apart from you I'm not so sure baby)
"Ah here are the clothes get dressed" snapped a abrupt Darius.
"Can we get some privacy asked Clark"?
"No but you may cover your wife's assets with a blanket from the bed while she dresses".
Lana and Clark dress taking in all the detail they can remember about their captors. Darius arrives at the cabin door "in a hour we will meet up with
our ship and resume our course to home waters". "Your company needs to pays the ransom before we get there". "You won't live long once we
arrive at our home port".
Clark and Lana gulped acting the part for the moment.
"Once we are on board the support ship set course for the Arabian sea and we will get radio messages and satellite images to see if we ok to enter
the gulf of Aden" said a confident for the moment Darius to his pirate crew.
Clark and Lana both heard this information using their super hearing.
(Clark these guys are Somalia pirates, they kill people and take ships all the time their dangerous)
(we need to know who is providing them with satellite access and radios and support that the only way to shut them down) added Lana.
Clark and Lana spent the next hour and a half talking about their situation and piracy in general. Their telepathic conversation was interrupted as
Darius appeared at their cabin "ok you two we need to transfer you to our ship so up and out with you" he turned to the guards; if anything happens
to them before I tell you it will be your heads".
All six guards nodded their heads "yes Darius" was the only answer.
Clark and Lanawere put in ajoining cabins on the ship which turned out to be a modern looking transport ship. Separate but close enough to hear
each other once in a while when they were being questioned. Darius started with Clark first "how soon can your company put together a billion
dollars Mr. Queen or do you have that much sitting in a bank somewhere"?
"The company will have to raise the funds" said Clark.
"What is the pass-code for you email account Mr. Queen" Clark thought WTF.
"It changes every two days and once I'm not at work a retinal scan is needed to create a new password but that has to be done at the company
headquarters".
Darius decided on a different tack "How many cars do you own Mr. Queen"?
"What does that have to do with anything" asked Clark.
"I want to know how many expensive cars you own I want to have a target number".
"I've never really counted them just use them as flash for myself" said Clark.
"Once I retire from this line of work I want to own many so I think you can provide that for me".
"I own ten I think" lied Clark.
"Come on Mr. Queen we will be good friend by the time this is all over we even might send Christmas cards to each other isn't that what you
Americans still do"?
"Yea" said a skeptical Clark. Clark started to think about all of the details of the ship after Darius left him alone. The ship was built by Luthor corp and
had equipment all over the place from Lex corp could it be a coincidence or was it all related. This is something that he would talk with Lana about.
Lana's questioning was very different Darius started out as a hard ass but he seemed to be very taken with Lana's looks. He said a few things that
frankly scared her especially the comments if she didn't cooperate he would let her guards have their way with her any time they wanted if she didn't
do exactly as told. This little bit of mind game actually scared her. Darius started looking at Lana with lust in his eyes and that completely scared
Lana. The last thing Lana wanted was to be raped or gang raped, it was not something she wanted to experience, she was getting truly scared.
(Lana can you see any marking on the ship or the stuff in the room they have you in)
(Yes Clark, there are markings that said Luthor corp and the guards radio say Lex corp what the hell Clark you and Oliver shut this kinda of stuff
down a long time ago how are these guys still operating?)
(Clark Darius threaten me with being given to the guards as a sex toy if I don't cooperate with him I acted scared but even thinking about that makes
me sick)
(Lana believe me I will not ever let that happen to you I will kill them before they even get the chance)
(Clark I believe you but we don't need to kill anyone just make sure we get out of here please. What kind of people can run something like this?)
(The better question than that is who's supporting this operation it takes a lot to run a ship of this size and this ship is like a new cargo ship but has
a hidden crew compartments all over something here isn't right we need to find out more information)
(your right we need more information)
(did you notice the sign when we were brought below decks Clark)
(Some of them but not all I was looking at a lot of things)
(I saw signs that said 33.1 and a arrow pointing deeper in the ship)
(oh my god, hopefully they have no meteor rock on board we are going to have to be careful getting out of here)
(I think its time to use our X ray vision to see what exactly is on this ship Clark because if there is green Kryptonite here we need to go, I not risking
our baby)
(Ok you check what ever is behind above and under you and I'll do the same. That work for you baby?)
(Don't stare at one place to long they might catch on that we are doing something)
(Good point Clark thanks I love you lets get this done)
Ten minutes later Clark check in with Lana
(You find anything Lana)
(Um looks like there's a couple of lead lined vaults behind us and below deck I counted 36 people on my side of the ship and I found what might have
been a 33.1 facility but I cant really tell can you try and figure out what it is please Clark)
(How many compartment back from you and up or down)
(Three back from me and two down to the right side of the ship)
(I also found a couple of spaces packed full of computer equipment)
(I found what looks like satellite dishes that are concealed or retractable 40ft forward of where we are)
(I hate to say this Lana but we need to stay put for a while and try and take over the boat then contact Oliver this could be a big hidden part of 33.1)
(Ok from what Darius said to us while we were on our cabin cruiser they sound like they are from Somalia or somewhere off the African east coast. From what I remember of
this part of the world Clark there are some very nasty people who work in this side of the world. I just hope we can take down everyone before something happens)
(We will do whatever it takes to make the take down happen I think we should try the middle of the night tonight I overheard some of the crew talking that they are three
days to port)
(Clark while we were apart I spent some time in this part of the world before I found my way to your mothers door step. These people have little respect for human life there
are warlords that run operations and drugs and human trafficking here we could be dealing with them or something bigger)
(Lana with all the signs that say Luthor corp and Lex corp I'm concerned because this would be perfect for Lex or Lionel to have set up testing center where no one cares
what happens as long as they get paid)
(What really scares me is that this happened and we found no evidence of this operation going through the files left behind by either Luthor)
(I never saw anything while I was married to Lex about Africa and/or business activities there but that just might be a big clue that something was going on too)
(We'll have to figure that out once someone has had time to look through all this information that is on this ship and then shut down what ever is still going on.)
(How do you think we can safely take the ship away from them Clark)
(There is a large hold the other side of the wall in this room. It has a total of six doors and it looks like its the crew sleeping quarters, if I'm right once they shift to a night
watch there will be a minimal crew working so if we super speed thru the ship grabbing crew and dropping them in the hold after we weld all the doors shut below decks we
should have a place to keep them contained. The only question is I counted 15 more people on my side of the ship that I scanned which brings us up to 51 people we have
to contain. I counted 45 bunk spaces so that leaves 6 people on the night watch I hope. We can weld the doors shut and capture all six before any alarms can be sounded
we just might be able to pull this off and take the ship away from the pirates)
(So we wait for a while then)
(Unless something happens and we are in danger, punch through the side of the ship and get out and find help from Oliver and then retake the ship)
(Ok we have a back up plan too, cool. I like working with you husband we make a good team)
(We do Lana, we do, but I'm worried about the baby still especially if there is Kryptonite aboard this ship)
(Hopefully not husband, rest for a while we have to be real alert when we need to make our move)
(Let me know if you want to talk about anything Lana I love you so much)
Hours later
Their captor Darius returned a couple of hour later to check with the guards and look in on the Queens he had some more mind games planned but decided to save them
until they were fed. He had planned to add a little drug to their food which would get Mrs. Queen to forget most everything. Darius planned on giving Lana a date rape drug
he had a fondness for that he found on the ship. This wouldn't be the first time he used a drug to get what he wanted out of a woman. He had a eye for hot women and he
knew he could get a good price for a fine piece of ass like that. All he needed to do what get rid of the baby, drug her up for a while get her good and addicted. Then she
would do anything for her next fix, the perfect whore in his book compliant and submissive willing to trade her body for her next fix. Darius thought that life was just so good,
everything was starting come together. Hell he might keep her for himself she was a looker after all. Darius told the guards to make sure no mater what the Queen's didn't
have any marks on them, until he gives the order to kill him. Tasers only, if he got out of control. Yes now that he thought about it the Queen bitch was going to be his
personal slave he could just imagine the first time he gets to break her in, he got hard just thinking about it. He also told the guards watching Lana that if they tried to
touch her, he would personally cut off their balls and maybe more, the guards backed up from Lana and left a lot of space between her and them. Darius just chuckled as he
stroked his chin painting a picture of Lana bent over with his manhood shoved inside every hole she had. Life was very good to Darius. Too bad for him Clark understood
every word he said. Clark was getting more upset by the second he was having a hard time keeping his cool just thinking about what Darius said a few minutes ago was
enough to have him rip this ship apart and feed every person aboard to the nearest school of sharks he could find.
(Clark baby whats wrong you are getting very angry what are they doing or saying to get you so angry baby)
(I need to concentrate on a conversation someone is having baby I'm ok its just the subject that is upsetting me I just over heard someone is planning on drugging us so
don't drink or eat anything I have no idea how we will react to whatever they give us lets not take a chance ok)
Clark figured he sort of told the truth and he owed Lana the whole truth but not right, now he needed the anger to take the ship, if he got into trouble Lana still had to be
able to get away.
The night shift came on and they were down to one guard each as Clark expected and Lana verified that left 4 other people doing tasks that night. Lana had pretended to
have gone to sleep a hour ago waiting for a sign to move from Clark. Clark acted asleep 30 minutes ago he couldn't wait to see the faces of the pirates as they were sealed
into the ships hold. Clark had no plans on providing food or water. These guys were scum and nothing more. After they got in touch with Oliver he decided he might have a
little fun with Darius a game of see who can throw him higher sounded like just the answer.
(You still awake Lana)
(Yes baby are we ready to act yet)
(Give it another 20 minutes or so some of the crew are still wandering about on the ship I want most of them in the hold when we make our move. Dealing with 4 will be a lot
better that dealing with 10 or more and we know about the lead lined compartments and who knows whats in them. I don't want you anywhere near them ok, please)
Lana smiled to herself she could almost see Clarks begging face in the dark (ok baby just for you stay safe for me please)
(Yes my love always we are a team after all)
20 minutes later Clark contact Lana
(Baby get ready flex your muscles and make sure your ready to go we are taking these chumps down in a few)
(Ok Clark I'll let you know when I'm stretched out)
Moments later Lana contacts Clark
(I'm ready)
(Me too)
(Lets go, first the guards and then one of us will go to the wheel house and the other goes to the engine room. Then we'll make our way to the lower section of the hold
and we weld the doors shut. There are two doors on each deck and the hold is three decks high. To make it faster the hatches to the hold have a wheel in the middle that
opens the door weld the wheel and do a couple of spots on the door seal we can come back and weld them completely around later after we have every one contained)
(What do we do with the ones we knock out?)
(We dump them in another room and weld them in just like the hold)
(Hey how about we weld them in here there isn't anything of any use in my room other than the bed)
(You are so smart baby I love you Lana)
(On three)
(1,)
(2,)
(3 …...) and off they went into super speed mode breaking the leg chains and then the handcuffs and tapping the guards on the head knocked them both out. Lana smiles to
Clark as they both caught the unconscious guards and put them in the cabin where they held Lana captive. Clark couldn't resist he hadn't felt Lana's lips for way too many
hours he closed in for a kiss, Lana wasn't about to refuse, she needed a Clark fix in the worst way.
(Lets finish this)
(Who is going where?)
(I'll take the engine room knock them out and take them one at a time back here and then we can weld the door together)
(I like together)
Clark smiled (I love you)
Lana heads to the pilot house and knocks out both of the people there without them realizing that someone had even entered the room. She took the first guy below decks
and dropped him in her old accommodations. Clark mean while was at the engine room he was fast but the twists and turn slowed him down he lost the element of surprise
the man at the control board was a easy tap and slumber land Clark had to resort to using x ray vision to find the other guy who was working on something with a real big
wrench. Clark approached the guy and he swung the wrench with all his might. The wrench shattered on impact with Clarks face the look on the guys face was a mix of
what and oh shit. Clark tapped him on the forehead and he was out too. Clark took both his prisoners back to Lana's room and dumped them he was using his x ray vision to
make sure everyone was still in the hold he counted up the people and came up short one. That's a problem he quickly welded the doors on his side and was almost through
the ones Lana was going to do when he heard Lana contact him telegraphically.
(Some one is out I just saw some one on deck Clark)
(Lana stay put don't move unless they come to you then take them out)
(Ok Baby)
Clark speeds to the last of the hatches and uses his heat vision to weld them shut.
(Hold is sealed its just the guy on deck and the one you have Lana)
(Clark he's coming up here to the pilot house he's calling to the crew what do I do?)
(Clark its Darius he wants do bad things to me doesn't he?)
(Lana your strong he cant really hurt you)
(Run if he has a chunk of green rock)
(He's opening the door oh my god I'm scared Clark)
Darius enters the pilot house "where are you guys, your on duty, I should shot you and throw you off the ship worthless Africans damn it". "What" as he has seen Lana he
quickly pulls out his gun and points it at Lana.
"Well well Mrs. Queen who would have ever thought you would be the hero type how did you get out"?
"Never mind you are a problem, I don't like problems, I hate to waste such a fine example of a woman as yourself but I can't have you behaving badly so it looks like this is it
for you Chloe".
Darius raises his gun and pulls the trigger. He fires several shots at Lana. Lana closes her eyes she is thinking this is it I'm going to be dead in a second. Darius is looking at
Lana with his mouth open not believing what he just witnessed the bullets bounced off Lana like they were rubber he didn't understand. Lana blinked and opened her eyes
"shoot at me" she was pissed off and madder then hell with a dose of fear included. Just then she pointed her hands at Darius and from her hands comes a powerful blast or
purple energy. Lana takes down Darius the blast of purple energy striking him in the chest. Lana raised her hands he immediately was raised to the top of the compartment
wall. Darius is dumbfounded he is swearing every name in the book at Lana, bastard cant move whatever the purple energy is its holding him fast he isn't moving anytime
soon. Lana stand there with her mouth open this is no power she has ever seen Clark use and she never knew she had this power it just came from somewhere from her
apparently. Darius finally starts to call Lana a fu-king swine loving witch. Lana raises her hand and closes her fist at Darius a bolt of purple energy gags Darius's mouth shut.
(Lana called to Clark)
(Um baby darling can you come up here please I need you to see something)
Clark was standing next to Lana in a split second he couldn't believe his eyes purple bands of energy holding Darius and his mouth shut up against the ceiling of the pilot
house.
"Lana did you do this"?
"Yes Clark baby but I don't know how I did it".
"I know you don't remember Isobel but she did the exact same thing to me in the barn when I tried to take the stone of transference from her back home".
"You mean I did this or Isobel did, because I didn't black out like the last time Isobel came to visit Clark".
"I don't know what to say baby that's something else"
"I remember something Jor-el said back at the fortress"
"Baby lets take care of this asshole who wanted to kill us before we have a talk about anything important".
"You're right again Lana do you think I can move him or is that something you are going to have to do because of the purple energy?"
"I'll try first husband if you don't mind" Lana reached up and took him down without issue the energy bands stayed in place "Cool, huh" said a smiling and very happy Lana.
Clark picked up the other guy and followed Lana to there old accommodations. "Very cool baby you are the greatest wife ever baby" said a very pleased Clark.
After they dumped the both of them in the cabin and welded the door shut they went back to the hold hatches and welded the hatch seams completely. They burned two
quarter size holes in each side at the top of the wall next to the hold so the scum could get some air. Darius was beyond pissed he wanted blood no one does what these
two just did to him he swore he would kill them little did he know his future was going to be a military prison for the remainder of his life however long he had left.
Clark and Lana returned to the pilot house looking for communications gear they found all sorts of radio and satellite transceivers but nothing they knew how to use. Lana
started searching through the desk and cabinets and came up with Clarks cell phone she didn't even bother to ask Clark she dialed Oliver's number from the address book.
"Baby I'm calling Oliver, let me put it on speaker phone for you".
A grumpy Oliver came on the line moments later "What is it boyscout not nice enough for you on that atoll"?
"The atoll is fine Oliver, getting kidnapped wasn't any fun at all" said Clark.
There was silence on the line Oliver couldn't make up his mind if Lana and Clark were pulling his leg or what. He decided to go with the safe option "come again what
happened to you two"
"Well we got kidnapped but they thought we were you and Chloe they wanted a billion dollars for our safe return which they planned on killing us anyway and dumping our
bodies as shark bait".
All Oliver could say was what at this point. "Where the hell are you two"?
"Were on a ship headed to the African coast somewhere south of the sea of Aden".
"Somalia" asked Oliver ?
"Yea" said both Clark and Lana.
"Wholly shit" said Oliver "man this is a story. you have to tell me from the start".
"Forget that Oliver" cut in Lana "we found more what looks like 33.1 part 2 according to what we have seen so far we need your help".
"33.1" screamed Oliver "on a sea going ship, this is bad". "Can you guys tell me where you are and your current heading and speed if you can find out that information I'll
send some of the league to help out".
"We have a lot of prisoners too Oliver" said Clark.
"Prisoners, boy you two don't mess around what happened to the quite honeymoon for metropolis's newest power couple".
"Well until this is dealt with looks like its on hold".
Lana asked if there had been any news of Oliver's capture or anything about a ransom "nothing yet but I will have to check with the office to see if someone didn't believe
the demand because I've been in the office all week so far looks like that's going to change I think I'm coming out to see this as well".
"We might need someone who knows how to operate a ship too this is a lot bigger that the cabin cruiser we rented from the island".
"Cabin cruiser" asked Oliver ?
"Yea we saved a couple of people from drowning and well we ran into issues lets just say we had a following our only chance at privacy was to get on a boat and leave for a
while so people would leave us alone".
"We couldn't get five minutes to ourselves it was terrible" added Lana.
"Well wait until I tell Chloe what you two have been up too she is going to be happy you are ok but this is just unbelievable".