Cardin swung his weapon at Clark. Clark using his unlit fire sword easily blocked the attack. Cardin swung a second time and once again Clark blocked. Clark was about to go for an attack when he tripped over his own feet and fell to the ground. Cardin walked over to the downed Clark Kent and was about to strike him when a buzzer went off signalling the end of their battle. Glynda Goodwhich walked up on the stage and announced Cardin as the winner of the round. "Remember students the Vytal Festival is only a few months away and it won't be long until students from the other kingdoms arrive," Glynda reminded the students as they began to funnel out of the hall.
As Clark picked himself up off the ground the rest of his team came over to comfort him. Of course he could have one the fight, instead he lost on purpose to enhance his disguise as a mild mannered nerd. It had been five weeks now since him and Bart began their night time heroics. Bart would usually go out every second or third night because he needed more sleep than Clark who went out every night.
"You had him on the ropes," Yang comforted Clark, giving him a supportive pat on the back.
"Thanks," Clark replies.
When the team arrived at their room a small box was lying at their door addressed to Clark.
"Oohhhh, what is it?" Ruby asked eagerly. As they entered Clark opened the box to reveal a chunk of silver rock.
"What is it?" Blake asked.
"I'm not sure?" Clark responded. He went to pick the rock up but as he made contact the rock cut deep into his finger. He instinctively pulled his finger back and dropped the rock, surprised by the effect it had had on him.
"You okay Clark?" Yang asked the young Kryptonian.
"I'm Fine, it's just a cut." He responded, not taking his eyes off of the wound.
"We should go to the nurses and pick up a band aid," Bart suggested. Anything that could hurt Clark wasn't good news.
They quickly made their way down the hall leaving the rock on the floor of their room. "Dude, what happened?" Bart asked, worry for Clark evident in his voice.
"I don't know, but I don't feel very well." In fact he wasn't feeling well at all. He was sweating and his face was beginning to pale. He also believed he had what people call a headache.
"Clark! Clark, you look like crap man. C'mon, I'll take you to Ozpin, perhaps he knows what's wrong with you." As the duo neared Professor Ozpin's office Clark stopped a few metres from the door. "What's wrong?" Bart asked.
"Ozpin's on the phone, he's talking to..." Clark paused as he realised who was on the other end. "Lex Luthor!" Clark continued to use his super hearing to listen in on the conversation.
"Of course, I have enough meteor rock to kill twenty of him," Ozpin spoke.
"Excellant," Lex replied. "Soon the world will know the freak Clark Kent really is."
"And those weapons you promised me should arrive within the week, correct?" Ozpin asked for clarification.
"Within the week," Lex assures.
"Excellent, I'll speak to you later," Ozpin concluded as he hung up. How could Ozpin do this, Clark trusted him. At this moment Ozpin began to leave his office. As soon as he opened the door Clark grabbed him by the collar and lifted off the ground.
"How could you! I trusted you and you betrayed me!" Clark yelled at the shocked Professor.
"I betrayed you because it's my job to protect the World from monsters, and that includes you!" Ozpin yelled.
"Clark what are you doing. Let him go!" Bart exclaimed as he grabbed Clark's arm. With great ease Clark tossed Bart aside knocking the boy unconscious as he hit the wall. As a result of the commotion Glynda Goodwhich came over to inspect. Her eyes widened at the sight in front of her. After several seconds of shock she yelled "Mr Kent what do you think you're doing?!" Sweat poorerd down Clark's face as he looked from Professor Ozpin to Ms Goodwhich.
"Stay back, I don't want to hurt you," he warned. Glynda however decided to take a step forward which unfortunately resulted in Clark chucking Professor Ozpin at her causing both to collapse to the ground. Clark could hear people running down the halls and decided to super speed away before anyone else caused him trouble. Ozpin managed to see Clark blur off and his glasses fall to the ground.
Clark slowed down at his dorm room and burst through the door.
"Clark you don't look so good," Ruby observed. Without saying anything Clark rushed over to his closet and began to shove clothes into a bag.
"Ahhh, Clark what are you doing?" Weiss asked the question they were all wondering.
"I'm leaving, I know place up north. Somewhere that no one will find me," he gave a brief explanation for his actions. The four girls all gave him puzzled looks but before they could say anything he ran out the door. They were about to follow however when they reached the hallway he was nowhere to be seen. At this moment Bart came rushing around the corner.
"Where's Clark?" He asked.
"We don't know he said he was heading up North," Ruby explained.
"Thanks," Bart responded as he turned around and began to run after him.
"Bart! What's wrong with him?" Yang asked, worried for her team mate and friend.
"I don't know, but if you see him be careful, he's dangerous," Bart called out as he ran around the corner and out of sight. The girls confused and worried decided to go see Professor Ozpin for help.
Clark was just leaving the school when Bart appeared in front of him. "Clark what's wrong with you?"
"Nothing is wrong with me. It's Ozpin, he turned on me. He's working with Lex to have me captured," Clark explained.
"Clark, that's not true. He would never do that," Bart tried to reason. Clark gave him a curious look as he noticed an envelope in Bart's pocket. He stalked up to the younger boy.
"What's that?" He asked pointing at the envelope.
"Clark it's just a letter," Bart explained not understanding wha Clark found go interesting aboutn it. To prove it Bart gave clark the letter. Inside he found a stack of hundred dollar bills. His eyes widened in shock. "You, you're in on it to! Was our friendship worth less than this?!" Clark yelled as he chucked the money at Bart.
"Friendship, what friendship? We were never friends. I maybe different but I'm nowhere near as weird as you, you freak!" Bart yelled as he revealed how he truly felt about Clark. "The only reason I pretend to be your friend was because of the sweet dosh Lex was sending me for spying on you."
"Then I'll go straight to the source," Clark exclaimed. "And stop this once and for all."
With that Clark threw a punch which Bart easily dogged. Instead of attacking again Clark used his heat vision to blow up a nearby car. This was a distraction which Bart fell for by looking at the damaged vehicle. Clark grabbed Bart and chucked him into a parked car knocking him unconscious for a second time. With no one else stopping him Clark blurred away.
As Bart came to he found himself lying on the pavement surrounded by his team, Professor Ozpin, Glynda and a few other teachers of the academy. "Are you okay?" they asked as he was helped up. Although he had cuts and bruises all over and he suspected a sprained ankle he didn't care for his own health. "I'm fine, just a sprained ankle. Where's Clark?" He asked although he didn't expect anyone to know.
"We don't know he was gone when we got here," Milton Fine explained, he was one of the staff who had come to investigate the incident.
"Did he give any clue as to where he was going?" Ozpin asked desperate to find the Kryptonian before he did something truly terrible. Bart thought this over for a few moments.
"I think he's going to the see Lex Luthor. He thought I was working for him and said he was going to the source. That's all I know," Bart explained.
"Thank you," Ozpin replied. "I want you to go to the nurse's office and get yourself checked out."
"It'll take him hours to get to Smallville. Perhaps we can find him at the station." Glynda suggested. Ozpin agreed, although he knew Clark wouldn't need an airship and was probably already half way to Smallville.
Clark slammed the doors to Lex's study open and found his target sitting behind his desk. The bald billionaire looked up from his laptop to find and sickly looking Clark Kent.
"Clark?" he asked curiously. "What's wrong with you?"
"The only thing wrong with me is you!" Clark cried as walked around the desk to face Lex. Lex stood up taking a few reassuring steps backwards. There was obviously something wrong with Clark.
"Clark, this isn't you. Please, let me get you a doctor, we can have you looked at."
"You'd love that wouldn't you! Dissecting and studying me, it's what you always wanted! Well, I'm not gonna let you hurt me or anyone else again." With that Clark picked Lex up by the collar and threw him into the book case. Lex fell to the floor unconscious. Clark eyes glowed red as he prepared to finish Lex off with his heat vision. However just before he could complete the job a blurred figure moved in front of him and punched him in the stomach. The force was so strong it sent Clark hurtling backwards. Clark crashed heavily on the floor. Before he could react the figure moved on top of him and pinned him to the ground. As the figured slowed down to human speed Clark discovered it to be his Professor, Milton Fine. "How?" Clark asked confused at the strength and speed of his professor.
"I'm like you, I come from Krypton." Fine gave a short explanation before he jammed what looked like a test tube with a needle at one end into Clark's shoulder. "Forgive me, this is going to hurt." With that the device began to suck blood out of Clark's shoulder as well as a splinter of the silver rock. As soon as the splinter left his body Clark could feel its effects fading away.
After making sure Lex was okay the duo blurred off to Beacon. As soon as they arrived back at school Clark was requested to see all members of staff. Professor Fine made up the excuse that he found Clark walking the streets, completely healthy again. The told the others that whatever was affecting Clark must have worn off. Clark explained that the rock which Fine had revealed to be Silver Kryptonite had somehow infected him. After a long discussion it was decided that Clark could continue to attend the school as his actions weren't entirely his fault. Milton promised to speak soon but suggested that he should speak to his team mates first. He also requested that Clark didn't tell anyone about his Kryptonian background. Clark promised. as he made his way back to his room he sighed aloud, he was not looking forward to the conversation he was about to have, after everything he did, what he did to Bart, did he deserve their forgiveness.
He slowly opened the door. Bart lay on the bed, a bandage around his sprained ankle, Blake was staring out the window, Yang lay on her bed, Ruby was playing with a pencil at the desk and Weiss was pacing up and down the room. Each one had a look of fear and worry spread across their face. They noticed the door open and all turned to stare at Clark.
"Clark," Ruby began warily, "are you okay?" Clark gave a small smile.
"I'm fine, completely back to normal," he explained.
"Oh, thank God!" Yang exclaimed as she pulled Clark into a hug. "What happened?"
Clark explained how the rock affected him and how he was hearing and seeing things that weren't really there. He apologised numerous times to the girls and especially Bart. Bart being Bart shrugged it off saying it was no big deal, after all he is a fast healer. Despite accepting his apology Clark was certain it would take some time for his team mates to fully forgive him.
"What happened to the rock?" Clark asked as he noticed the rock and box it came in were gone. The others explained how it was gone when they came back from the nurses. Later Clark called Lex to make sure he was okay and apologised. Lex believed Clark's story because the Clark Kent he knew would never act the way he did.
Later that night Bart and Clark sat in Professor Ozpin's office. They gave a full explanation of what happened now that no one else was around.
Ozpin wasn't on the phone to Lex, he was in fact speaking to Oliver Queen, a former student who never completed his schooling. Clark apologised numerous times to the Professor who forgave the boy immediately.
"Oh and Clark you dropped these," Ozpin notified Clark as he handed Clark the pair of glasses he had dropped. "There is one problem though," the Professor noted.
"What's that?" Bart asked.
"Who sent Clark, the rock," Ozpin explained. "Whoever it is must know your secret." Clark sighed in frustration, this exactly what he didn't want. "Be careful my boy."
Author's note
I realised that beside characters and some locations my story doesn't actually involve a lot of RWBY. I have some ideas on how that can change in chapters to come. Next up the team go on a field trip and Clark has a talk with Milton Fine.