"It wasn't my fault, honestly." Fryer Tuck defended using elaborate arm motions. If he couldn't be Robin Hood he could at least try and sell the part and make the best of it. "Poor people needed food, thou people were starving." He continued with his fake English accent pointing to Pete representing Little John.
Prince John directed his sword toward Fryer Tuck. "How dare you defy thee."
Oliver smiled as he pulled out his sword too. This was just what he needed a sword fight with his sworn enemy, Lex Luthor.
"OH, Robin Help!" Lois exclaimed as Maid Marian.
"Thou does not deserve to live. A thief impersonating a priest." Prince John demanded. As Lex skillfully fought Fryer Tuck. His years of fencing finally came in handy. He still had a score to settle with Oliver. They fought long and hard covering the entire room. Oliver lost his footing and Lex was able to use that simple mistake to flick his sword from him. Oliver lay there on the floor with a sword pointing to his neck.
"Clark!" Lois yelled knowing this was more than the script. Clark stepped in between them and immediately felt that familiar sickness from meteor rocks. Clutching his stomach he looked around to find the source of the meteor rock. His frantic search came up empty. "Calm down." Clark told Lex motioning with his free hand for him to put the sword down.
"Here, have it back." Fryer Tuck replied. Holding out the necklace, trying to save his life by returning the stolen object to the owner. It was then Clark noticed the light shining on the necklace and the familiar green glow. He took a few steps back protecting himself from the meteor rock. "Oliver." Clark stated trying to get his attention toward the necklace. Oliver was too busy with the sword still pointing directly at his neck to even realize the color of the necklace. Lex snatched the necklace from Oliver. "Thou still does not deserve to live." Prince John stated solemnly as he moved towards Fryer Tuck.
"Robin, please help him." Little John replied.
Clark looked at the script as it showed a duel between Prince John and Robin Hood. If he wanted to keep his secret from Lex and Lois he knew there was only one thing to do. He had to follow the script. He cringed as he followed the script by putting down his arrows and pick up a sword lying on the floor.
"Thou will not harm Fryer Tuck." He mechanically read as he bravely stood in between them. He clutched his stomach with one hand, trying to hide the effects of the meteor rock, and holding the sword in his other hand he began to duel with Prince John.
The evil Prince John grinned and continued the script. "This shall be the last time thou has gotten in thee way." The lights flickered on and off. The Princes screamed when the lights came on. Robin Hood lay face down on the ground with a fake arrow in his back. Lois pulled her cell phone out of her purse and text Chloe that it was time for them to come in. Two seconds later there was a knock on the door. Lois the closest to the door answered it and handed them each a script. They began reading immediately.
"What happened?" Officer Jimmy asked holding a camera for crime scene photos.
"Robin Hood was killed with an arrow." Little John replied.
"Pete!" Chloe exclaimed running over to hug him tripping over Clark in the process.
Clark grunted as she tripped. "Why didn't you call?"
"We wanted it to be a surprise." Pete tried to explain. "Happy Birthday!" He said.
"Can we get on with the show?" Lois said annoyed.
"Oh ya, sorry." Chloe grinned looking at her script distracted too much to notice that Clark was really passed out on the floor and breathing evenly.
"Fryer Tuck can you tell thee what happened?" Chloe asked expertly.
"Robin Hood tried to save thee life." He stated. "And got into a duel with Prince John of Nottingham."
Officer Jimmy took some white tape and outlined Robin Hood's body on the floor to mark as evidence. "Let's move Robin Hood to a spare room before thou body starts to smell." Officer Jimmy read off the script. "Leave everything else as it was."
Prince John and Princess Lana dragged Clark away and came back shortly. Everyone glanced at their scripts for there was nothing else only the guilty party knew who done it. From there on out it was up to them to stay in their characters and figure out who killed Robin Hood.
Chloe expertly scanned the room for any clues. There were arrows, and two swords on the floor. "This was thou sword?" Chloe asked Prince John. She flipped open her notepad and noted that there was no blood on the sword.
"That is so." Prince John stated.
"What was thou fighting over?" Chloe added.
"Fryer Tuck's life." Princes Lana said for the first time. "Thee has stolen a necklace from my Prince."
"May I see this necklace?" Jimmy asked pulling out an evidence bag.
Prince John franticly pretended to search for the necklace. "Must hath gotten lost in the squabble."
Pete gave a worried look, and Chloe noticed the arrows were next to him. "Where were thee right before the squabble?"
"Thou was standing over there." He said pointing away from the arrows. "I didn't see the necklace." He added wondering out loud.
"Thou hath got to the restrooms." Pete stated. Lex pointed in the opposite direction they put Clark. Pete ran off and started looking for Clark not knowing that Chloe, Lana, and Oliver knew his secret. Unfortunately all he found was the bathroom. He went ahead and flushed the toilet for the noise and finished by getting his hands wet then went back to the room. Chloe was busy drilling Made Marian and Fryer Tuck when he got back so Pete stood over by Lana.
"Where's Clark?" He whispered.
"Out looking at the stars, with Lex's telescope." She whispered back. "I'll text him when it's time for him to come back." She continued.
"So he felt ok, and everything with being murdered?" He asked attempting to be coy.
"It was a fake arrow." Lana pointed out. Pete let out a deep sigh and got back in his character to continue the game.
"We are going to recreate the scene. I want everyone in their exact places and no one move the evidence." Chloe said. Prince John stood next to his sword and Lana a few feet from them. Little John and Fryer tuck stood opposite of the body outline. Maid Marian relocated back to the door.
Chloe expertly looked at every piece of evidence in relation to the location of the characters. "Eureka." She said. Jimmy pulled out his pen and paper taking notes.
"Fryer Tuck, do you have anything against Robin Hood?" She asked him.
"He tried to save thee life." He said. "Thou was a good friend."
"Not true." Princess Lana stated. "Thou came to me in angst over the trouble Robin was thou causing you."
"You knew thou would defend you in his honor." Maid Marian added accusingly.
"I was fully willing to give the necklace back." Fryer Tuck stated defending himself.
"You expressed concern for thou life before you took the necklace." Princess Lana stated.
With a defeated look on his face fully in character he kneeled before Prince John. "Forgive me your honor." He said as he held out his Bible. "I no longer deserve to be a priest."
"On the contrary you did me a great favor." Prince John stated. "You shall keep your life and extra payment for your duties toward me."
"So wait you hired Fryer Tuck to kill Robin Hood!" Chloe exclaimed. Oliver and Lex smiled ear to ear. "Brilliant."
"Told you she wouldn't have figured that part out." Oliver told Lex.
"Oh, hey where's Clark?" Chloe remembered.
"Oh, hang on." Lana said as she picked up her cell phone and text him to come back. They discussed the murder mystery. About ten minutes went by and Pete started to get worried again. "Shouldn't he be here by now?" he asked.
"I'll go get him, I swear some times he doesn't know how to use a cell phone." Lana said as she left. She came back a few minutes later with a note in her hand and a confused look on her face.
"Something came up I'll catch up with you guy's later, Happy Birthday Chloe." She read out loud and handed it to Chloe. She looked at it and noticed it was in his handwriting.
"I hate it when he does that." She said.
"Let's go have dinner anyway, now that the murder mystery's over." Pete said trying to cover up for Clark's disappearance.
"Ok." They agreed as they got their jackets and purses.
"Uh shouldn't we change first?" Oliver pointed out before they left the room.
"Ya, it's against the law to impersonate a cop." Jimmy agreed.
"Ok so we'll change and meet at the restaurant in a half an hour." Lex agreed.
"I'll call Clark." Chloe said as she pressed speed dial on her cell phone. With in second they all heard his phone from down the hall. They all looked at each other for a split second in silence. Oliver was the first one to dart towards the ring tone. Once Chloe got there Oliver was already holding the cell phone in his hand looking around. Pete took note that there was actually a telescope on the balcony. He figured Clark had to do some hero business and took off.
"There's the pen and pad he used to write the note." Chloe said as she noticed the impression made by the pen on the page underneath it.
"Come on Clark probably just took off as usual." Lois said and shrugged it to no big deal. "Let's go eat."
"Ok." Oliver agreed as he pocketed Clark's cell phone. "Let's meet in a half hour after at the Lobster."
Chloe's phone rang before they got left. We need to talk. The text read from Oliver. My place 15 min. She looked at Oliver and nodded in agreement as they headed out.
"Hey Pete, Oliver you guy's ride with me." She worked out. "Jimmy, Lois, Lex, Lana take the other car."
Oliver gave a questioned look to Chloe. She nodded back to him in response. "You know?" He asked Pete as the got into the cars.
"Know what?" Pete replied hoping it wasn't about Clark.
"It's ok. We know." Chloe told Pete.
"Know what?" He explained again. He couldn't let Clark's secret get out no matter what. So he decided just to play dumb the whole time. There's no way Clark would have told Chloe, he thought. She'd immediately write a story about it.
"About Clark." Oliver stated.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Pete insisted.
"Are you sure he knows?" Oliver asked Chloe as they pulled Oliver's apartment.
"Uh ya Clark told me when we were on a mission." Chloe replied. "I'm gonna go change." She said leaving Pete and Oliver alone in the room.
"Clark left us an SOS message on his cell phone." he pulled it out and showed Pete while he activated the computer screens. It read Kryp. "But the question is where was the Kryptonite?"
"The necklace." Pete stated. Finally satisfied with the use of the word Kryptonite instead of meteor rocks. "Lana had one just like it when we were in school. But it got lost."
"So wait, there was meteor rock in the room and you didn't tell anyone?" Chloe demanded when she came back.
"If I would have known you guy's knew." Pete said defending himself.
"Oh ya Lana knows too." She added.
"What ever happened to Clark not telling anyone." Pete yelled.
"Circumstances changed." Oliver stated. Wondering how stable Pete was with being able to handle this sensitive information.
"So what now we just go to dinner and act like nothing's happened?" Pete said.
"Nothing has happened, all we know is that he sent us an SOS." Oliver stated
"If we don't go now Lex may suspect something's up." Chloe reminded them.
"How do we know that Lex isn't the one behind this?" Pete demanded.
"Lana would never betray Clark." Chloe tried to calm him down remembering Pete's hatred for the Luthor's.
"Let's go." Chloe said once they were all changed. When they all got to the Lobster, they made sure to save a seat for Clark before sat down. A waitress came up to the table and asked to take their drink orders. After about five minutes later the drinks were brought to the table and they started talking about the party.
"Sorry I'm late." Clark pulled up a chair next to Pete at the table in his changed clothes. "I had to catch a cab." He stated solemnly glaring at Lex. "How'd the party go?" He asked changing the subject.