Chapter 8

"Dad did you check on Emma this morning?"

"No I thought I would let her sleep she never sleeps in."

"That's what has me worried. I will be right back."

Chloe went up to Emma's room and opened up the door. She stared from the open window to the empty bed.

"Clark!." Chloe screamed

Clark rushed up the stairs and stared around the room Emma wasn't there and either was Lilly.

"No." Clark said

"Who would take her?"

"I don't know Chloe."

Tears filled Chloe's cheeks she rested her head in Clark's chest.

"I am going to find her you stay here okay I have to go to the barn real quick and then I will search for her."

"Clark I am so scared what if something bad happens? What if she is in the wrong hands?"

"I will check the mansion first after I go to the barn and tell my mom. I will call you if I hear anything just stay here okay?"

"Okay."

Clark ran out of the house and a worried Gabe was staring at his crying daughter.

"What happened?"

"Someone took Emma."

Lionel stared through the glass at the sleeping child. He heard the puppy whining in the crate he had put her in. He rubbed Emma's face with his hand through the hole in the glass. She was pale it was probably the green meteor rock that made her weak. He took a needle that had green meteor rock at the end of it and put it into her arm and drew blood. Lex came through the doors staring at Emma trapped in a glass cage her arms and legs tied down.

"Dad what are you doing?"

"Son you got my call glad you could make it I am going to need your help."

"What are you doing to her? She looks so pale."

"Did you know that Clark has been lying to us for years? He is an alien from krypton and him and Chloe made a baby with unique powers. Just like her daddy."

"How do you know all that?"

"I put a camera in the kid's room heard her and Clark talking."

"Dad you can't hurt her."

"I thought this is what you wanted Lex to figure out how these freaks live. How they get these extraordinary powers."

"Not this way dad not with a five year old."

"What if it was a five year old you didn't love would you do it then? Would you do it to Clark who has lied to you all these years?"

"No I wouldn't do anything this drastic."

"Well son I am very disappointed I thought you might enjoy this project."

"How can I enjoy this?"

Clark was in the barn. When he heard footsteps behind him. He turned and stared at the four men all dressed in black. He tried to use his powers but they weren't working. One of the men had taken out a piece of green meteor rock making Clark fall back onto the floor. The man came over and tapped the meteor rock on his chest.

"Where is Emma?" Clark said weakly

"Don't worry Mr. Kent you will be joining your kid soon enough."

The four men picked Clark up and loaded him into the car. They brought him to where Lionel was. They carried him in through the door and put him on a glass table where they tied him down and pulled up the glass case around him. They pushed him into the room where Lionel was.

"Good work you guys can go now."

Lex stared at the glass and went over to it Clark was in it staring at him with these evil eyes.

"Now son have you changed your mind about this we could be heroes with the information from the two of them."

"Yeah you are right dad let me help you with this project."

"That's my boy."

"So what now dad?"

"Miss. Sullivan should be coming here soon "

"Why are you bringing Chloe here?"

"She obviously knows about them whatever they don't tell m she will."

"What makes you think that?"

"I'm holding the two people she loves the most. Why wouldn't she tell me?"

At that moment more men came in with Chloe and Gabe.

"Bring him into the next room leave the girl here."

So the man holding Gabe left and the man holding Chloe stayed put.

"Tie her up in the chair we need to start getting down to business."

The man did as he was told and Chloe stared at Lex and Lionel.

"What are you doing to them?"

"I just made them weak is all."

"Leave them alone Lionel. I can't believe you are in on this too Lex."

"I won't leave them alone you know how much I could get from this."

"I'm not going to tell you anything."

"Oh really? What if say perhaps I did this."

Lionel opened the glass case Emma was in picked her up and brought a gun up to her head.

"Now I am sure you will tell me everything you know Chloe because this gun is special it holds meteor rock bullets."

"How did you find out?"

"That is none of your business now start talking."

Chloe just stared at Lionel.

"Fine I will give you until the count of three and if you don't say anything then Emma here dies. One." Lionel pulled the trigger back some. "Two." He pulled it back more.

Then Lex tackled him hard and his father hit the floor and Emma landed beside him. Lionel got up quickly took the gun and hit Lex on the head with it. Lex fell back on the floor unconscious. Lionel grabbed Emma off the floor.

"Tie him up too I knew he had attachment issues."

The man came over to Lex and dragged his body onto a chair and tied him up. Suddenly Lionel's phone rang. He answered it.

"Hello...you need me now? ...fine I will be in as fast as I can." Lionel hung up his phone and stared at Chloe. "Well I guess we will finish this later I have a meeting."

Lionel put Emma back into the glass cage and locked it with a numbered code.

"Guard the door Andrew."

The man followed Lionel out the door leaving Chloe alone with everyone who was unconscious. It was then that she noticed the blood near where Emma was. 'He must've taken it from her. The only way he could have of done that was to use the meteor rock. Which means it is inside of her, slowly killing her.' Chloe tried to get herself undone from the chair knowing that Emma was going to die soon if she didn't get the meteor rock out of her. But she didn't know where it was the only person that could find that out was Clark. Chloe kept trying to get the rope free from around her hands but she was cutting them and making her arms bleed. She pushed through the pain she needed to save her family. After awhile Chloe gave up it was useless the rope was too tight to get undone and she was just doing more damage to herself. She noticed that lex start to move where Lionel had hit him was a big red spot but there was no blood. Lex opened his eyes and remember what had happened. He stared at Chloe.

"Where is my dad?"

"He left awhile ago for a meeting."

"We have to get out of here."

"Your going to help us?"

"The only reason I told my dad I was going to help was to try and save them."

"Well how do we get out of here?"

"I have a knife in my pocket. I just need to get it."

Lex tried to adjust himself in the chair in order to get into his back pocket. He pressed his fingers closer to his pants trying to reach the knife that he could feel was sticking out some. He grabbed it with two fingers and moved it so his whole hand was around it. He carefully undid the ropes around him and got out of the chair. He went over to Chloe and undid her bloody ropes. She had huge gashes in both of her arms. Once Chloe was freed he went over to Emma's glass cage. He stared at the numbers on the key pad.

"Do you know what the code is Lex?"

"No."

"We have to hurry there is meteor rock in Emma that is killing her."

Lex stared at Emma's face it had gotten paler since the last time and he knew Chloe was right but there was no telling what would happen if he typed in the wrong code.

Lex thought about what his dad could've made the code.

"Lex hurry." Chloe pleaded

"I'm trying Chloe I just don't know what will happen if i type in the wrong code."

"Well isn't there something your birth date maybe or his."

"No he doesn't care about me enough for that."

"Well pick something."

"What if it is wrong?"

"Than take that risk we have to get them out."

"Chloe do you understand what you are asking me to do."

"I am not going to lose Emma or Clark so just type in a stupid code Lex."

"Fine."

Lex typed in the first number that he could think of and alarms started going off. Lex kept typing in different ones until he found one that worked the guard who ad been at the door burst into the room Chloe punched him and he hit the wall and fell unconscious. Lex opened Emma's glass cage and picked her up he gave her to Chloe and went over to Clark's typing in the same code for some odd reason his father had picked 5556. After Lex got Clark's cage open Clark made himself get out. Lex pushed the cage away knowing it had meteor rock in it. Clark stared at him he still looked mad. Alarms were still going off no one had any idea of when they would get stopped.

"Come on we need to get out of here." Lex told them

"But Emma needs to get the meteor rock out."

"We don't have time just wait."

Clark got the dog out from the cage she was in and they all left and got in Lex's car. He drove them to the mansion.

"Why are we going here?" Clark asked

"Because it is where my father least expects for me to take you."

Chloe ran her hand over Emma. Emma was still pale and she didn't look good. Clark stared at Emma.

"Clark you have to get the meteor rock out now. I don't know how much longer she can handle it in her system."

"Okay."
Clark took Emma from Chlo and x rayed her and found the meteor rock in her arm. He ran his hand over it and used his heat vision to burn her skin since it was weak there the skin opened and Clark pinched her skin until the piece of meteor rock came out. He gave it to Chloe who threw it out the window. Lex pulled into the mansion and everyone got out. Lex brought them into his study.

"I will bring you up to Emma's room you will have to stay up there until I tell you everything is okay my father might come soon."

"Okay." Chloe said

Lex led them up to Emma's room and Clark, Chloe, and Emma went in Lilly was with them. Chloe laid Emma down on the bed she was still pale and she was still bleeding from her burn.

"Clark go get something to stop the bleeding."

"She shouldn't still be bleeding."

"Well she is."

Clark went into the adjoining bathroom and got a towel. He wrapped it around Emma's arm He ran his hand over her head she was burning up sweat was streaming down her face. Chloe stared at Clark she looked nervous.

"Go get a cold washcloth Chloe."

Clark stared at Emma's weak body he wondered why she was still so weak they had got all the meteor rock out. But had it stayed in her for too long? Clark hoped it wasn't too late to save Emma.