Chapter 2 Guinevere Teague
A Dark alley Way
"Well after the Smallville debacle, I've decided that our agreement has been terminated but I gave a glowing reference to an interested party who want you to find something, I'm not sure what. But the pay is good" Came the mechanic voice down Markus' phone "She will call for your mission and…"
"She?" Markus spoke since answering the phone.
"Yes, but don't be fooled she has more money and power than me plus she can hide you from Luthor better than anyone else since she has claims to already have an agent prepared to infiltrate Smallville" The mechanical voice stopped. "Markus?"
"I'll do it" Markus said hanging up on perhaps his only friend. "Maybe we will meet again Superboy"
Talon (Later that year)
"So this is the infamous Talon" Came a British accent from the entrance of the smallville coffee shop. "Surprisingly empty" He commented looking at the girl behind the counter.
"Yeah well at 6:45 in the morning the buzz doesn't start for another hour" she grimaced at working this morning.
"Markus" he announced as he extended a duster coated arm.
"Lana" she smiled back as she excepted his hand and shook it. "So what are you doing up this early while I'm working"
"Up? Up she says" he laughed "I ain't been to sleep love" He said sitting on a stool at the bar.
"What can I get you?" Lana asked
"just plain black please" Markus said getting a twenty note out "and one for yourself, cheers" he gave her the money and got his coffee and change before speaking again. "you don't look old enough to be running this place alone" he said looking at the empty place.
"Yeah well Lex help's me out" Lana replied slightly distant now. Markus splutters on his coffee.
"Luthor? You don't say. What's wrong?" his dark penetrating eyes staring intensely into Lana's eyes.
"Well it's just that I can go to France which I always wanted but I feel like I would be abandoning my friends" Lana confided in the charming stranger.
"Well I've been to Lyon, Paris and Lords. They are all beautiful places but the people are fantastic they do everything so….French" Markus joked making Lana cheer up. "you never know you might find someone in the country of love." Markus said finishing his coffee flashing a smile then leaving. "It's done she's gonna go just make sure Jason woos her and not scare her" Markus said into his phone.
"Perfect your are quite the good investment" Came an evil cackle from the other side of the phone.
"Yes Mrs. Teague"
Metropolis Later that year
"So do you know what you have to do?" Came Mrs Teague's voice down the phone
"Yes Mrs. Teague"
"And this job is top priority" Mrs Teague's voice hardening. "I need Professor Swan dead as well as is assistant Bridget….doesn't matter. But I need this done professionally we want people to believe Swan died in his sleep while that Bridget brought to me dead preferably not burnt please" Markus swallowed his pride.
He put the phone down but as soon as he did it rang again bringing up another number "Who the…Hello?"
"Markus it's me The DK" came a familiar masked voice of his hated employer but best friend.
"I can't do this any more" Markus confessed.
"Don't worry I'll free you soon, but for me you need to go to Smallville and save someone for me please." Asked the mechanical voice.
"Sure" Came a smile from Markus' lips. "Smallville"
China 2004
"Jason is working with Lex so he can't actually obtain it for me, but he can assist you Markus in getting the stone" Guinevere Teague, Markus' new employer, Schemed down the phone to him.
"Yes Mrs. Teague" He almost likes his old employer better, almost. "By the way, what do these stones do. You have me turn the globe over looking them for nearly a year and if it this obsession does not stop I will quit." Markus said bored of being this one's lap dog.
"Oh shut up your getting paid and the stones are none of your concern" she hissed at him. "you should know your place you-"
"Woah Super boy and Lana is here." Markus said spotting Lana and Clark.
"So it begins Countess" The descendent of the Duchess smiles.
Ancient Shanghai Church
"Lana!" Lex cried as Countess Thuroux magically threw him into the wall knocking him unconscious.
"Lana!" Clark yelled as the possessed Lana hurled him into the door.
"Lana!" Jason hollered as he was tossed by his girlfriend through a window. "Rheon get in there now!" Jason breathed into a radio before he slipped into unconsciousness.
"Countess Thuroux" Clark said getting back up.
"Ooh Clark you've came" she chuckled as she started murmuring a spell.
"These stones weren't meant for you" Clark said adamantly.
"and what makes you think they are for you?" She countered and the spell took up form and projected a large statue towards Clark who seems dazed from her last comment.
"Superboy" Came Markus' voice as a green flame decimates the statue before hitting Clark. "C ya" He smiled as he blasted Clark into the vault with the krypyonite and stone. "Lana now calm down and we can talk about this."
"Yeah sorry but Lana's not here right now can I take a message?" The Countess sarcastically replied.
"Yes luv you can, tell her I got her into this 'n I'll get her out." Markus eyes glowed green as he unleashed a hellish blast towards her.
"Oh my, doesn't anyone here not have the hots for too goody too shoes" She laughed as her magic dissipated the fire. She started run at him and drew a sword.
"I just like to live by honour" Markus replied as he dipped into his duster a pulled out a single handed, double sided blade. They crashed furiously with blades clanging.
"Fool, Go, while you have done nothing to earn death" The countess said getting angry.
"Fool, I have done nothing for that I earn death" Markus said as he disarmed her sword "so what are these stones pet, why would you die for them luv" Markus smirked as she screamed.
"Freak" With this he lost it let a fire blast at her face but she smiled and blew on it sending it back with an extra punch.
"Finally" she said striding off, from the sliding Markus, over the top of Clark into the vault and collected the stone. "two more to go" as she left closing the vault allowing Clark to heal and super speed in front of her. "Damn you are persistent" She turned to see a unscathed Markus standing up.
"You rotten sod, I loved this jacket" He said taking off the duster and faced her with an angry scowl.
"Lana" Lex said as he tackled the Countess. "The Stone!" Lex shouted
"The stone?" Clark queried
"The Stone!" The Countess shouted
"The Stone?" Markus asked all confused like, he looked up in the air as the other three did as saw the stone sort of hovering there.
"THE STONE!" They all cried as they all reached for it but when Clark and Lanas hand touched the stone it sent them flying in different directions. Lex back where he was unconscious, Lana to the vault, Markus threw door to the outside and Clark into the other door.
"Clark?…Lex?" Lana said as she looked up as the first one to wake then it was Clark.
"Lana?" Clark asked unsure if it was the countess or not.
"Lana?" came Lex's voice.
"What happened?" Lana asked ignoring there looks.
"You…you?" Clark began.
"You wasn't yourself" Lex said as he secretly looked for the stone. Clark tried as well but was interrupted by Lana.
"I remember, I remember….nothing" Lana said almost in tears as Clark and Lex comforted her missing her slip the silver pointed stone into her bag.
"Lana" Whispered Markus from the door
"Rheon, you best get outta here" Jason said as he ran past. "Lana".
Luthor Mansion Later that year
"Listen I had a stone and now it's gone" Lex ranted at the security as a teenager bowled in smoking a cigarette clad in a green hoody, black jeans and a black leather biker jacket at waist length. "Markus come in"
"You found me" Markus said sitting down
"Yeah you should of never come back, why did you out of interest?" Lex said offering Markus a seat.
"….Stones…"
"aah just what I need you for I need my stones back and my security team are running all because of a meteor shower, I mean we survived the first one I think we can survive the second." Lex said as the security team filed out "It was in my safe now it is not go find it" Lex turned and ran towards the heli-pad where Lana was.
"Lana…Lana" He shouted until she turned just centimetres until the helicopter. "Lana where is it huh Lana where is it" he started riffling through her bag till it was empty. "it's not here…it's not here" Lex said looking insane at Lana.
"Lex I've told you I don't have the stone." She said emotionally. "I'm outta here I suggest you do the same" she turned to open the door but Lex stopped her. "Let go" she ordered.
"Not until you tell me where the stone is" Lex screamed at her as he saw Meteors begin landing.
"She said let her go." Markus' eerie voice came behind Lex and as he turned he was throttled with a slightly burning hand. "Lana, a word?" Markus asked putting Lex down and dragging Lana into the back seat of the helicopter. "Let's go" Markus ordered the Pilot as his eyes glowed.
"You were at the Talon… Markus right" Lana said as she got secure in the seat behind the pilot letting Markus sit on his own side of the helicopter.
"Correct"
"Then what are you doing here?"
"We are entering a shower of meteors" Came the Pilots crackling voice.
"I met you after the Talon…in China…. You wasn't your self but I still said I made you go to France and got you in this mess that I shall get you out and ….here I am" Markus Grimaced as a meteor just missed them and sent them spinning.
"But your eyes, your hands, Lex's throat…you?"
"Are altered by the first meteor shower. By the way if we survive you must get me the number of that Smallville torch Girl" Markus smiled
"Chloe! I don't believe this we are in danger and the male is looking for a hook up. MARKUS!" Lana screamed as the tail was hit and sent the copter into a nose dive.
Flanders Field
"Markus?….Markus?….oh my god" Lana Squealed seeing Markus face first into the windscreen or what was left of the windscreen in the muddy, glassy mess with a drizzle of blood from the pilot's bleeding skull. "Oh my god" she repeated as she tried to wake them up but to her they looked dead so she tried to run. "Oh my god" again repeating when she saw the huge crater. "What on earth?" she peered into the crater seeing a spaceship.
"Don't worry about me luv, just leave me up in here to die" Called Markus as he scrambled out of the helicopter bloodied and cut. "he's kicked it, bloody skull caved in, I reckon your skull didn't cause of his been in the way and mine…. Well it feels like it has but otherwise it is a miracle." He Smirked as he stumbled up to the top of the crater. "I called for a search party on the radio and they…is it just me pet or is that a spaceship"
"I…I...I...Think" Lana stuttered. Then came a blinding light as it opened and two figures appeared. "Aliens"
"Come on Lana let's get you safe" Markus said as they turned but the aliens appeared in front of them. "Super speed?"
"Where is Cal-El?" The female looking one of the two asked as she hoisted Lana up in the air by the throat.
"Hey leave her alone" Markus said before he was effortlessly batted away by the male looking alien with a back hand making him land behind the helicopter.
He fought falling into unconsciousness and he was winning but only through being hit by Clark the odd time.
"Super Strength" He growled seeing the police rescue team turn up "No" he cursed inwardly as he they would never survive. Two minutes later all the cars were blown up and the offices dead but Lana had escaped Markus saw. "Heat vision" then a black man landed beside him on fire. He quickly turned and made his own fire to dissipate the burning on the officer. "Now you'll live to do good again." Markus smiled "I think super boy has relatives, mate" then the two took flight. "I hope Clark can't fly I will never beat him then" then he slumped into unconsciousness.
Smallville hospital
"Where is Cal-El?"
"sorry lady I don't know who you are talking about" Jonathon Lied
"No you will tell us" the man said as the girl hoisted him up.
"Hey you leave him alone" Lois Lane shouted as she ran towards him but as the female alien let go of him as she hoisted Lois up.
"Do you know Cal-El" The woman asked Lois.
" 'Scuse me Mate, but we haven't finished" Markus taunted as he propped himself up against the wall but eyes glowing.
"Aethyr this one is from the field" The male said to the female one.
"Nam-Ek he is challenging you" She teased in the no humour kind of way.
" I shall oblige this human" He said darting straight towards Markus.
"Not human, Freak!" Unleashing a blast scorching Nam-Ek and sent him hurtling down the hall. "So I can hurt you" Markus smiled as he illuminated his fists and did a combo of punches on Aethyr sending her burnt and beaten to the floor. "Imagine this Markus Rheon defender of earth, I'm gonna need a cool super hero name." All of a sudden he was rushed through a wall.
"This human can hurt us" Said Nam-Ek still slightly burn't but standing strong above Markus, a split second later he was joined by Aethyr.
"He manipulates an element and Kryptonite" Aethyr stated looking at Nam-Ek
"He must die" They said in unison.
"I know where Cal-El is" Lana's voice came from the hole in the wall.
(Markus' sword is hard to describe but if you type in 'Sword of Kroenen' into google image search you will see a picture)