Chloe had regained her eyesight that morning, but hadn't really said anything to anyone. She had been moping in her room, feeling a mixture of relief and sadness.

The relief, of course, was because she could see again. The sadness was due to the fact the lady that had come home with her to help her learn to deal with her blindness, Sandy Kyle, would not be staying. Chloe had felt some kind of instant kinship with her, and was sorry she was not sticking around.

And there was some anger. And that was directed at Kal-El and Lois! Her mind kept going back to Bruce Wayne, again, and what he had told her in his office before her 'half brother' attacked them and blinded her.

Was Lois being forced to have Kal-El's baby? Did she have a mark on her thigh? Chloe sighed and shook her head. She had a brother that was half Kryptonian and turned into a creature. For the love of Pete! Could things get any worse?

There was a quick knock on her door, and Lucy Lane stepped into the guest room Chloe was in, without waiting to be asked in. She closed the door behind her and peered at her cousin.

"Errr, you look like you can see?"

"I can. I woke up and I had my sight back."

"Wow. That's probably a good thing because I came up here to tell you that your 'teacher' is a thief."

Chloe eyed Lucy.

"Sandy? Come on, Lucy..."

"Chloe, I swear to God, I thought I saw her put an antique ashtray in her purse downstairs. Oh well, what the hell do I care? I don't live here anymore. So, listen, I wanted to apologize about springing that news on you about your mother."

Chloe shrugged.

"It's fine. I needed to know." she said, scooting over so Lucy could sit down on her bed.

"Well I'm glad you feel that way. And you know, Aunt Moira really looks good! I mean she doesn't look that old, to tell the truth." Lucy said. Chloe realized that she had not lain eyes on her mother since she had been released from that facility she had been in. Before Chloe could comment on it, Lucy moved on to other things...

"I heard that Lois is doing Kal-El? How are you taking it?"

"I don't know that for sure. But, I do plan to confront Lois about it. By the way, WHAT are you doing here? I thought you were going to be spending time with Uncle Sam?"

"You know with this Kryptonian round up, I haven't seen him. I was just sort of left wandering about on my own for the holiday."

"Lucy, no one had a 'holiday' around here, okay? The meteor storm ruined that for everyone."

"Yeah well where is Lois? I wanted to ask her about Bruce?"

"What about him?" Chloe asked.

"God, Chloe! You haven't heard? Bruce was arrested. They think that he's Batman! You know that creepy guy that attacked downtown Gotham using Green Arrow's 'arrows'?"

Chloe slowly stood up. Good God! She hadn't heard ANY of this! She was going to have to stop feeling sorry for herself and concentrate on her career! Someone needed to be on this story and she suspected Lois and Kal-El were holed up someplace, going at it. That meant that Lois wasn't covering anything.

"I need to get to Metropolis. I want to show Perry that I'm okay and get back to work. It beats hanging around here."

"I'll drive you. I actually wanted to talk to you about two guys I saw there recently." Lucy confided.

"When were you at the Planet?" Chloe asked. "And what happened to that older guy you were seeing?"

Lucy waved a dismissive hand in the air.

"It can't go anywhere." she said. She didn't reveal that now that the Kryptonians were being rounded up, Lucy didn't especially want anyone to know she had been screwing Vice President Zod!

"Okay, well, then I will allow my favorite cousin to drive me in to Metropolis. You can tell me more about these two guys you were referring to."

Lucy raised a brow.

"So now that Lois is sleeping with Kal-El, I'm the 'favorite cousin'?"

"You're the favorite cousin until Lois explains herself properly." Chloe said with a smile, tossing Lucy her car keys. They left her room and wandered down various hallways before reaching the staircase and...

Chloe pulled Lucy back!

"Did you see that?" Chloe asked Lucy.

"See what?" Lucy asked.

"Vice-President Zod just dragged my mother into the library down there! Why is he here?" Chloe asked in wonder. Lucy didn't respond. Yes, why WAS Zod here? She knew he had a past with her aunt, but surely, he couldn't still want her, could he?

Chloe didn't wait for Lucy to say anything. She eased down the stairs with Lucy close behind her. When they reached the first floor, they quietly made their way to the library door, which had sliding, wooden doors. Chloe eased the door open a crack and she and Lucy peered in.

Meanwhile, Moira Sullivan didn't flinch within Zod's hold. He had her pressed up against a book shelf and she could feel his attraction for her, despite his anger. She forced herself not to look at the mirror, which she had a delivery service bring over, supposedly as a gift for Ella and Jor-El. But Darkseid wanted to be in a position to grab anyone he wanted and take them to Apokolips. And right now, he saw Dru-Zod from Krypton, as the biggest threat to his power play.

"Moira, my dear," Zod murmured, "you look suspiciously better than you did the last time we were in this house together. Why is that?"

"Why do you care, Zod?" Moira asked in kind, her tone daring. His answer to that was to hoist her arms above her head and pin them there.

"I don't." Zod said simply. But they both knew that was not true. Moira could feel his mammoth like erection, pressing into her.

"Let go of me!" Moira snapped, tired of his presence and his hands being on her.

"Why did you give me that fake crystal? You sentenced many Kryptonians to their deaths. Why, Moira? Tell me why, damn you!"

Moira grinned and Chloe, while not following all of the conversation, was stunned to see her suspiciously younger, beautiful mother, looking so uncaring and thrilled about people dying. What was going on?

"Did Faora die? Is that why you're here? To avenge your cold wife? Well, then I apologize. Sorry." Moira said in a way that was sarcastic, rude and very much 'not sorry'.

Zod's answer to her cruel reply was to release one of her wrists, so that his hand was free to rip the front of Moira's blouse! Chloe watched in horror as the sky blue fabric, floated to the ground. Lucy watched with depraved interest as Zod then tore her aunt's bra off of her! Lois was the only other woman in their family that was as well endowed as Aunt Moira there!

"Oh my God!" Chloe whispered in horror. "We have to help her! But I'm too scared to move!"

"I'm sure your mother can fend him off." Lucy lied. She wanted to see what was about to go down. Zod had taken her in an aggressive manner like this, in the woods near Camp David! He had pressed her against a tree. Lucy closed her eyes briefly. Just the memory of being taken in such a powerful way, still gave her goosebumps.

Lucy opened her eyes again, just as she noticed something else. There was an ugly mirror that she knew damned well, hadn't been here when she lived in the mansion. And it sort of looked as if mist was coming out of it!

"Chloe! Look, the mirror!" Lucy hissed. But Chloe couldn't take her eyes off of Zod and her mother. Zod had now buried his face forcefully between her mother's full breasts, as one of his hands reached up her skirt!

Chloe couldn't stand it any longer! She was not about to watch her mother get raped by the Vice-President of the United States! No way in hell!

The mist from the mirror grew, along with growly type of noises. Zod lifted his head and looked over at the standing mirror, just as Darkseid emerged, grabbed him by the neck with one, large, gray fist and pulled him through the mirror!

The looking glass then returned to normal, and Moira moved to stand in front of it, topless.

"MOM!" Chloe screamed. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?"

Moira slowly turned towards Chloe and Lucy. She bent down and picked up her torn blouse. She used it to cover her breasts.

"Chloe? You can see?" Moira asked with surprise. Darkseid had said he would restore her daughter's sight but she had not thought this miracle would take place this quickly.

"Yes, Mom, I can see. What the hell just happened? Where did that mirror come from?" Chloe asked, still shocked.

Lucy took out her phone and Moira looked at her.

"What are you doing?" she asked. Lucy smirked at her.

"I'm calling the President. I have his direct line. Someone has to let him know that the Vice President is missing. I just don't know how we're going to explain that he's in a frickin' mirror." Lucy said.

A noise from behind them, near the door was heard. Chloe was the first to turn around and see Kal-El. And he looked kind of haggard.

"Kal-El? What's happened?" Chloe asked, moving towards him.

It was then that 'Kal-El's face changed into a stain glass, grotesque version of his actual face! Lucy remained calm and began talking on her phone. Moira moved so that she was standing near the girls. What was going on with Kal-El? Why had he looked like that just now?

"Kal-El, what's wrong?" Moira asked, moving past Lucy and next to Chloe.

"I'm not Kal-El," Davis croaked, "it's me, Mother. Davis. Jor-El injected me with something, hoping to keep the creature from ever coming out. Now I look like Kal-El but not really. I need to find him. He was captured, I think." Davis moaned.

Chloe's eyes swept over him. Good God! He did look like Kal-El, except for the intermittent flashes of whatever the hell that was that was happening. It was bizarre.

Lucy hung up and moved to join them.

"Well you can't stay looking like that. And we have other problems. Your 'Daddy' paid us a visit and tried to rape your mother. Some gray looking guy came out of a mirror and pulled Zod into it. I think you need to get that mirror out of here." Lucy advised.

Moira turned to her.

"No, Lucy. Zod is where he needs to be. The world in that mirror is his new home."

Lucy's mouth dropped open.

"Jesus, lady! Are you crazy? He can't stay there! He's the Vice-President! I already called President Luthor and they are sending secret service and an investigative team here to look that 'mirror' over!" Lucy snapped. Chloe stared at her mother.

"You knew that guy would come and get Zod, didn't you?" she asked. But Davis took off his jacket and covered his mother with it.

"You girls don't know how much my mother has suffered at the hands of my father. If he is gone, then it's better that he is. Leave it alone."

"Fuck off, 'Bizarro Kal-El'!" Lucy hissed. "You'd better get out of here. You'll be locked up once the authorities get here."

Lucy then turned and flounced off down a hallway. She hadn't forgotten about that thieving Sandy Kyle! She was still around here someplace, probably ripping off the good china! Davis looked at his mother and sister, then at his sister again.

"You can see, Chloe?"

She didn't answer her 'brother'. She wasn't ready to face the reality of her messed up family just yet. And she was spared from having to do so, when a car screeched to a stop outside. Chloe moved towards a window and saw Lois sitting in the passenger seat with a huge looking blonde guy.

Lois was also yelling at him.

Davis heard the commotion as well and hurried outside. He accessed the situation, blurred over to Orin's driver's side door, ripped it off and pulled him out!

Lois jumped out of the car as well! Kal-El? He must have escaped Orin's men!

Orin himself was surprised to see Kal-El, until 'Kal-El's face changed.

"You are not Kal-El from Krypton. Who are you?" he demanded to know. Davis glanced over at Lois, saw her holding her own bra in her hands and decided his answer to Orin would be delivered by way of a punch, that knocked him into the air and out of eyesight range!

"Oh my God!" Lois cried out, hurrying down the drive a bit and shielding her eyes. She could not see Orin's bewildered form in the sky any longer. She turned to Davis.

"What the hell did you just do? And who are you?"

"Lois," Chloe came out towards them, "he's Davis. Jor-El did something to him."

Lois sighed.

"The treatments must have went wrong. Davis, we have to get Jor-El and Kal-El out of the detention center my father has them in. You can't stay in this condition." Lois said. Chloe looked at Lois.

"Who was that guy?"

Lois looked at her.

"Someone I met when I was a counselor at Crater Lake Summer Camp. He faked his death and now he's back. I'm going to change clothes then we're going to see the General." Lois told them before walking back into the house. She didn't have much to say to 'Aunt Moira'. There was something about the woman Lois didn't like. She walked past her without a word and headed upstairs.


Meanwhile, Kal-El was in the same detention cell as Jor-El and he was beyond livid!

"I cannot believe we are in this situation AGAIN, Father! How did you come to be here?" Kal-El asked, looking up at the ceiling. There was a green, strobe light that shined down on them. It was clearly what was weakening them but it was not as draining as the one that Bruce had used on them at his mansion.

"None of that matters now. Tell me your mother is alright?" Jor-El asked quietly.

"She is fine. Zor-El, Alura and Kara are fine as well. I did as we discussed in case of something like this." Kal-El said, knowing that this government was probably listening in on their conversation.

"Good. That gives me some peace of mind. Tell me, was in anyone hurt by the meteor storm? Ella, she is well?"

Kal-El nodded curtly, then spoke.

"Father, you really need to make preparations to leave her. This could impact my relationship with Lois."

"That is still something that is going on? I heard some talk of Bruce being arrested."

Kal-El eyed his father.

"You heard that within these walls?"

"Alright. If you must know, I asked after him. I wanted to make sure he had not been hurt."

Kal-El quelled the rage that he could feel building within him, at his father's answer! Jor-El had 'asked after him'! Why? Surely Bruce Wayne was crafty and resourceful enough to weather a meteor storm, was he not?

"Bruce is in legal trouble. There was an attack on the citizens of Gotham the same day Krypton was no more. It looks as if Bruce had some sort of alliance with Green Arrow. They merged weapons and fired them into innocent people from high buildings." Kal-El told him.

Jor-El rarely looked surprised or shocked, but this he could not understand!

"What? That is utter nonsense! Why would Bruce attack the people of Gotham? Why would Green Arrow for that matter?"

"Father, I have no idea about these matters. But the police must have had good reason to lock both of them up."

Jor-El raised a brow.

"So Bruce has been arrested because he was outed as Batman. And if he supposedly colluded with Green Arrow, then his identity was revealed as well then?"

"Yes. Apparently Oliver Queen is Green Arrow. He actually contacted me about a merger he wanted to have with LuthorCorp. But it wasn't the right fit." Kal-El revealed. He noticed his father was STILL looking at him though!

"What is it, Father? You look troubled."

"How did the authorities find out who Bruce and Mr. Queen were? Did they turn themselves in?" Jor-El asked, his tone taking on a harder edge. Kal-El was spared from lying any further, when their cell door opened and General Sam Lane and Ella entered. A guard closed the door behind them. Jor-El stared at his 'wife'. He could see by the look in her eyes, that she knew.

"Hello, Ella." Jor-El said quietly.

"Hello, Jor-El." Ella said. Jor-El expected more and glanced at Kal-El, who looked a little surprised that his step-mother did not have more to offer in the way of conversation. They both looked to General Lane, who had PLENTY to say!

"Here's how it's going to go guys: if you want out of here, your going to sign loyalty oaths to THIS planet AND you are going to give us any, and all information on Kryptonians planning to take over Earth."

Jor-El gave Sam a grim smile.

"That is not happening." he said simply.

Then Ella spoke.

"Why not, Jor-El? Don't you want to come home? To me?"

"Ella, now is not the time..."

But Ella moved closer to her husband.

"I have been here, waiting to see you for quite a few hours now. My dear ex husband stayed on the phone longer than he probably needed to, to make me squirm. But then again, maybe I deserve to squirm. Everyone is saying that you are already married, Jor-El. Tell me, is this true?"

Jor-El found himself unable to form any words. Ella tilted her head.

"How about you just nod or shake your head?" Ella suggested sarcastically. Kal-El looked at his father and felt a brief twinge of pity. Lane women were complicated. And he knew his father felt something for Ella Lane. He suspected Jor-El had not expected this moment to occur in this way.

"Yes, Ella. I am married. To Kal-El's mother, Lara. She is beautiful and the love of my life. But you are very dear to me as well. And it was never my intention to hurt you."

"Just fool me, right?" Ella asked snidely, shaking her head. She glanced at Sam, who's eyes were now on Kal-El. Yes, there was that other problem...

"Kal-El," Ella said, "Lois and Bruce told me that disgusting story about that tattoo looking thing on her thigh. Jor-El, you should have had the decency to tell me what was going on. I don't intend to let Lois end up like me."

"That means," Sam finished, "she's not having a Kryptonian child. So you can forget that."

"Lois and I care for one another. We WILL be parents and we will be married. There is nothing you can do to stop that." Kal-El said coldly. General Lane smirked!

"I'm stopping you right now! You can't even get to my daughter. Throw in the vigilantes that dropped you off here, and I can keep you here forever if I want." Sam said.

Kal-El backed back a bit!

"What do you mean vigilantes brought me here? Those were not your men?"

"No. I didn't know where you were. But I am grateful to the good citizens that handed you over." Sam replied. Ella folded her arms and continued to glare at Jor-El. She wanted to get a look at this 'Lara' bitch!

"You don't understand! I was with Lois when I was brought here! If those were not your men, then there is no telling what they did to her!" Kal-El yelled.

Suddenly, the door opened and a guard walked in and whispered to Sam. He then turned and left. Sam took out a cuban cigar and lit it up. He took a puff before speaking.

"No one did anything to Lois. You know how I know that? Because she's here. Lois, and Chloe, are here, waiting to speak to me." Sam told Kal-El.