Chapter 2:The Royal Mob (Part I)
Old Man Clark and Jimmy Olsen are in Clark's pickup truck. They've been in the truck for hours now. Jimmy finally decides to speak up.
Jimmy Olsen
You know everything changed after what happened in Metropolis. Seeing you fall...it hit everybody. Hard.
Old Man Clark
What the hell are you doing Jimmy?
Jimmy Olsen
Clark...when I told Lex I'd be advisor. His right hand man. I was just trying to protect Kara.
Old Man Clark
Yeah and you did a fucking good job with that haven't you?
Jimmy Olsen
Clark. It's not like that...I saw the classified files Lex kept. I'm talking about files that only Lex's personal people know about.
Old Man Clark
What's the fucking point you're trying to make?
Jimmy Olsen
...That there was nothing I could do to save Kara. See...after you went down in Metropolis The Justice League was never the same. The Green Lantern Corp. was taken over by Sinestro Corp. after Lex put a bullet in John's head and took his ring. He used John's ring to kill Hal. He gave Thaal Sinestro the ring which meant he had two rings. The Green Lantern Corps couldn't stop him.
Old Man Clark
(Reluctant To Ask)
...What...what about Aquaman?
Jimmy looks at him
Old Man Clark
What?
Jimmy Olsen
You...know one told you what happened to him?
Old Man Clark
No Jimmy they didn't. When I came out of my coma the League was no more. The only people I found was Diana, Bruce, and Wally and they didn't want anything to do with me. They were still hurt from their own pain. So I came out Los Angeles well...what used to be Los Angeles before it became a desert.
Jimmy Olsen
Aquaman was killed by Black Manta during their Seven Seas War. Black Manta became king of Atlantis after he killed Aquaman. Even managing to destroy Hawaii in the process. Lex put him in charge of the Navy and the Marines. Cyborg was in charge of National Security, but Lex found out he was planning to take him down...
Old Man Clark
So he killed him?
Jimmy Olsen
Even worse. He started torturing and experimenting on him.
Old Man Clark
How did Lex find out?
Jimmy Olsen
Green Arrow exposed him. So Lex made him his right hand man.
Old Man Clark
So who's in charge of the NSA now?
Jimmy Olsen
Deathstroke.
Old Man Clark
What about you? You seem content in working with Lex.
Jimmy Olsen
I'm not happy about working with Lex. I'm just trying to survive.
Old Man Clark
Surprised he even let you come see me.
Lex Luthor
He didn't. He thinks I'm searching for Amanda Waller's Suicide Squad Resistance.
Old Man Clark
People still out here fighting for what used to be. Pathetic.
They pull into a gas station.
Old Man Clark (CONT'D)
I'll be back. Gotta get some kind of food.
Old Man Clark gets out of the pickup truck and goes inside the gas station. Jimmy makes a call to Lex to check in, but while on the phone with Lex Jimmy sees a group of men beating on a man. Jimmy gets off the phone with Lex and gets out of the truck and rushes to help the man. Old Man Clark walks out of the gas station and sees Jimmy getting his ass kicked with another guy. Old Man Clark begins eating his apple while watching the fight. He watches as Jimmy tries to put up a fight, but fail miserably. Old Man Clark exhales a sigh of exasperation. He throws the apple away and walks over to the group and begins helping Jimmy and the man. He punches one of them then grabs another one tosses him. He blocks a punch and pulls the guy in and knees the guy in the chest. The last guy jumps on Clark's back. Clark grabs the guy and throws him over his shoulder slamming him into the ground.
Jimmy Olsen
(Talking To The Beaten Guy)
Hey you ok?
Eric
Yeah I'm okay.
Jimmy Olsen
What was that about?
Eric
That was uhh...that was them giving me a warning.
Jimmy Olsen
Some warning. What were they warning you for?
Eric
To pay my gambling debt.
Old Man Clark
Gambling debt?
Eric
Yeah I uhhh..have a bit of a addiction.
Old Man Clark
By any chance were those guys apart of The Royal Mob?
Eric
Yeah. They were The Royal Mob.
Old Man Clark
Shit!
Jimmy Olsen
What's the issue?
Old Man Clark
The issue? The issue is we're gonna have a tough time going through Las Vegas to get to Central City. Las Vegas is Royal Mob territory. And The Royal Mob is more or less one giant mobbed up military.