Chapter 5
Team KRWBBY hoped off of the bus that had driven them to Smallville. They woke up early to catch the airship to Metropolis. From there they had to sit on a bus for three hours and listen to Weiss complain about how she should be travelling in a higher class of transport. They were all extremely grateful when they arrived so that she would shut up. After then catching a lift from a stranger they finally arrived at the Kent Farm.
Clark knocked on the front door. It was good to be back, seeing the town, the farm, the house had made him extremely happy that they decided to come here. The door was opened by Martha who immediately pulled her son into a hug.
"Clark it's so good to see you," Martha expressed her delight at seeing Clark. Of course Clark had spoken over the phone but seeing him in person was ten times better.
"You to mum," Clark replied. Finally she let go and took in her guests.
"Bart, it's so nice to see you again," Martha greeted the young speedster. "Please come on in," she allowed. "Just drop you bags in the living room, we can put them away later," she told the team. "You lot must be exhausted, I'll go fetch you some lemon aid."
As she did this Jonathan came through the back door. Martha explained that the students had arrived and she carried the drinks over to them. "C'mon Clark introduce us to your friends," Martha requested.
"Well, this is Blake, Ruby, Yang and Weiss. And of course you already know Bart." Clark introduced them pointing at each of them as he said their name. "Guys these are my parents Jonathan and Martha."
"Thank you very much for letting us stay here Mr and Mrs Kent," Blake thanked the couple.
"It's no problem dear, and please call us Jonathan and Martha," Martha responded. Blake smiled, these were clearly very loving parents.
They decided through a couple games of scissors paper rock that Ruby would take Clark's old room, Weiss would take the spare bedroom, Yang had the couch and Bart would sleep on a spare mattress next to the couch. Clark and Blake had to sleep in the barn, which neither minded, the cold didn't effect Clark and Blake was used to sleeping in rough conditions. By the time this was accomplished it was midday and the sun was beating down on them. After having lunch the team decided to spend some time exploring the town. Clark drove them through the town pointing out interesting features here and there. Finally they pulled up outside of a coffee shop called the talon. They ordered some drinks and sat at a table together.
"This town definitely isn't very big," Ruby commented on the town after their tour.
"Yeah you could even say it's a Small Ville," Yang tried a lame pun. The rest of the team just shook their heads.
"What are we gonna do for the next?" Blake asked. Clark thought this over for a few seconds. "We could go to Crater Lake," Clark offered a suggestion. "Ooooohhhhhh. I didn't bring by bikini," Yang complained. Blake remembered something she had read about this town.
"Clark, could we go to the Kawatche caves?" She asked.
"The Kawwhat?" Ruby asked, confused.
"The Kawatche caves. A cave where an old Indian tribe painted symbols all over the walls telling a story through pictures" Blake explained.
"Sure," Clark responded.
The team visited the Kawatche caves, which Blake had found extremely cool and had a quick look at Crater Lake. They were currently standing in one of the open fields at the Kent farm.
"This is your last chance to give up," Ruby offered Bart.
"You wish," Bart replied. The two had decided to have a race to the end of the field and back. Bart had told them that his aura allowed allowed him to move at super speed, just like Ruby's did. However even with a strong aura the speed Bart moves at it would be impossible, therefore he would slow down to the same speed as Ruby.
"On your marks," Yang began the countdown. "Get set. GO!" The two sped off down the field. Even though he slowed himself down to Ruby's pace Bart of course made sure he won.
At eight o'clock they arrived at the club. Yang spoke to the door man, attempting to get Ruby and Bart in. No one wanted to know how she would pull it off so they let her handle it without getting involved. Somehow Yang succeeded and they entered. "Isn't this awesome!" Yang yelled having to shout over the insanely loud music. All the others weren't used to this kind of atmosphere and felt very out of place. Yang made her way to the dance floor and disappeared into the crowd.
"Well we lost Yang," Ruby commented.
"Same with Bart," Clark pointed out. They turned around to see Bart off flirting with a group of ladies. They slowly made there way to the bar.
"Hi there, can we have ahh four Cokes?" Clark asked awkwardly. The lady behind the bar gave him a weird look before getting the cokes.
"Well, what are we gonna do?" Weiss asked. The others didn't have any answers. The lady came back with the cokes and handed them to the team. She gave Clark a strange look, as though she was trying to remember him.
"Do I know you?" She asked. The others looked at Clark surprised that he of all people would come to a place like this.
"No I don't think so," Clark responded. Of course with his perfect memory he knew exactly who she was. He had met her two years ago, when he spent the summer in Metropolis as Kal, dosed on red Kryptonite.
"Derek, do you remember this guy?" She asked the bartender next to her. The male bartender stared at Clark for a few seconds. He definitely knew him, but where.
"All well we better find our friends," Clark attempted to move away from the bartenders before they recognised him.
"Kal," Derek called out. Clark froze. "Kal! Oh my God! Where have you been man?!"
The team all turned to Clark eyes wide in shock. To make matters even worse the female bartender remembered who he was. She marched over to him pulled her hand back and slapped him hard across the face.
"Asshole!" She yelled and moved back behind bar. The group's eyes widened even further which didn't seem physically possible.
"Clark, why did she slap you and why did they call you Kal?" Weiss asked the obvious question. Thankfully before Clark said anything Yang danced up to them clearly drunk.
"Are you seriously drunk? We've been here for five minutes," Ruby expressed her disbelief. It seemed impossible for someone to get drunk in such a short amount of time.
Instead of answering she grabbed Clark by the hand and began dragging him to the dance floor.
"Yang, what are you doing?" Clark asked.
"Come dance with me," she requested.
"I don't really dance," he attempted to get out of the situation. Yang wouldn't allow it and kept on dragging him. In her drunken state she tripped and knocked nearby girl to the ground. The poor girl spilled her drink all over her dress. As she got up she turned around to face Yang who had an apologetic smile spread across her face.
"Ahh, sorry," Yang apologised.
"Ohh, your sorry, that totally makes up for ruining this dress. Do you have any idea how much it cost?!" Her voice rose as she got angry at Yang.
"Do you know how much your medical bills are gonna cost when I'm done with you," Yang responded. Clark decided to get between the two before anyone got hurt.
"Listen, we're incredibly sorry about your dress. She's had a little to much to drink." Clark explained, still finding it impossible that yang got drunk so quickly. Whilst Clark was trying to calm the girl down Yang decided to taunt her and stuck her tongue out. She couldn't take it anymore. She dived on Yang taking them both to the ground. As they began to fight a crowd circled around them and began to cheer them on.
Clark quickly moved in and picked up both girls with each arm and separated them.
"Of course Kal is at the source of all the trouble," the female bartender commented, venom in her voice. As though it couldn't get any worse, security came in and asked them to leave.
"We were in there for ten minutes," Bart complained as they wondered down the streets of metropolis.
"And Yang still managed to get drunk," Ruby added with a role of the eyes. As they neared the car a blond woman ran up behind them.
"Clark," she called out. They turned around to see her and another slightly older brunette behind her.
"Chloe," Clark responded as a smile spread across his face. He pulled her into a hug. "Lois," he greeted the other woman. "Guys this is Chloe Sullivan and Lois Lane. Lois, Chloe, this is Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Blake and Bart," Clark introduced.
"Hey Chloelisios," Bart greeted the blond.
"Hi Bart," she responded. "We were just in the club and saw you guys being rushed out by security. What happened?" Chloe asked.
"Yang got us in to this club and almost immediately got us kicked out," Clark explained. "Hheeyy," Yang slurred. "Are you making fun of me?" The team just sighed in response.
A few minutes later they sat on a bench catching up and getting to know each other. Yang and Lois were getting along extremely well.
"So how's the Daily Planet going?" Clark asked Chloe. Of course they had remained in touch with each other through e-mail and phone but Clark thought it'd be nice to ask anyway.
"Nothing major so far. Just gotta keep trying," she replied. Despite it only being a week Clark had missed the blonds company. The group chatted for another twenty minutes when Clark's superheating picked up on something, a dust store was being robbed on the other side of town.
"Excuse me guys, I've gotta make a phone call," he explained to the others. He walked down a dark alley out of sight. Then after making sure no one in the surrounding buildings was watching him he sped off to the robbery at super speed. A few seconds later Clark arrived at the scene of the crime. A bunch of muggers armed with red swords were stealing dust and loading it into the back of a white van. Continuing to move at super speed Clark ran towards the nearest guard. When he reached him he pushed him through the shop window. He quickly took down all the other guards by giving them a simple tap on the head.
Finally he stopped moving in a blur and took a look at his handy work. Some people nearby had heard the noise and came over to investigate its source. Luckily it was dark and no one could see Clark's face in the shadows. He was about to blur away when the van began to speed off. Clark's eyes glowed red as he shot two beams of heat, bursting the back tires. The van skidded out and drove into a wall. The driver jumped out, he had orange hair, green eyes, wore a bowler hat and white suit. He grabbed a civilian who had been inspecting the crash and put a gun to the mans head. Clark tensed, could he run fast enough to save the innocent civilian.
"I don't know who you are, or how you managed to take down my men," the criminal began. "But it was a big mistake. Now, come out of the shadows so we can have a good look at your face," Clark remained were he was for several seconds. "Okay, you come out or this guys gets it." Could he run fast enough to stop the gun from being fired, could his heat vision force the criminal to drop the gun, perhaps he could freeze the criminals hand. Clark wasn't sure what would be the safest option, all he knew for certain was that he had to save the civilian, even if it meant exposing himself. He was about to walk out of the shadows when the guard Clark had thrown through the window regained conciseness and climbed out and onto the pavement right between Clark and the criminal.
"Get out if the way you idiot," the criminal ordered pointing his gun at his own guard. This was all the distraction Clark needed, he ran up to the gunner at super speed freed the civilian, disarmed the criminal and knocked him out. He ran up to the conscious guard and knocked him out a second time. Without stopping he ran off into the night as a blur. A few seconds later he rejoined his friends who were getting along extremely well.
"Sorry about that guys," Clark apologised.
An hour and a half later the team began to drive out of Metropolis. Despite not spending the night as intended they definitely enjoyed themselves.
Three hours later they finally arrived at the Kent's house and were preparing for bed. Blake and Clark made their way to the barn carrying sleeping bags and pillows. Blake decided to bring up a topic Clark had been avoiding.
"What happened back in the club, why did those people call you Kal?" She asked. Clark tensed. After a few seconds of silence he sighed aloud. "A couple of years ago I went through a bit of a rough patch. I ran away from the people who loved me and turned my back on Smallville." That's all Clark is willing to say as they enter the barn. Blake still wants the whole story but if Clark doesn't want to talk than that's fine. Who is she to tell someone off for keeping secrets. They set up their sleeping bags and had a good nights rest.
The next morning after thanking Martha and Jonathan, team KRWBBY made their way back to Beacon.
"Guys I'm sorry we got kicked out of the club," the now sober Yang apologised.
"It's fine Yang," Ruby forgave her sister. Besides, hanging out with Chloe and Lois was really fun.
They arrived at Beacon and enjoyed the rest of their weekend together.