Season 6

Trespass

Over the past several days, Lana has had a couple of things on her mind. The first concerned a chisel she kept from the Kent farm. It was the same one that Lex had used to stab Clark but there was a reason why she kept that particular tool. Somehow the chisel had shattered, which should be impossible.

The other thing that bothered her was she appeared to have a stalker. Someone has been giving her cryptic phone messages and sending her photos of herself. Several of them had her doing something before a message she received over the phone. At first, she thought it was just because of her relationship with Lex, which was something he had told Lana when he found out about the messages/pictures. Now that they kept on coming, she was not so sure about anything anymore. Due to this, she asked for help from Chloe and she agreed to help.

Chloe then enlisted Clark to help her and to follow up on a possible suspect. She also suggested that he get Jimmy to assist. The reason why Chloe asked was since she and Jimmy recently broke up, she did not want to bother him. Before Clark left, she warned him about Lana having the chisel and possibly learning about his secret.

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Days Later

After an accident and a brief stay at the hospital, Lana went back to stay at Luthor Manor. Their prime suspect was killed by Mack, one Lex's security guards while Lana was at the hospital. After getting settled back at the Manor, Mack informed Lana that Lex would home tomorrow. He also stated that Lex should not have left her alone and that the remainder of the security personnel was sent home. Next, Mack goes into a diatribe about all the girlfriends that Lex has had and how Lana was nothing like them.

With all of this talking, Lana came to realize that Mack was her stalker. Some quick thinking on her part allowed Lana to knock Mack out with a nearby bottle and swiftly locked herself in another room.

Mack slowly recovers and goes on his search for Lana but before doing so, he cuts the phone lines to prevent their use. He then found a locked door and hacks it down but there was no one in the room. A brief glance around and he located an open window.

Lana is on the roof to the Manor when Mack finally caught up with her.

"Why are you doing this?" Lana pleaded to her stalker.

"I'm doing this for your own good, Lana," Mack answered as he lunged toward her.

He grabbed her and then started to choke her. Struggling for all that she was worth, Lana knocks the both of them through the skylight only for the pair to die because of the fall.

Season 7

Veritas

Clark's cousin Kara was busy doing some chores outside the barn while a hawk seemingly keeps an eye on her. That same hawk suddenly flew into the barn and causes Shelby, the Kent family dog, to bark. Kara entered the barn to see what has disturbed Shelby when a quick footed figure moved amongst shadows. The figure revealed itself to be Brainiac. He then made her an offer to go back in time and to make some changes so that things would be the way they used to be. Not buying into any of his promises, Kara refused the proposal. For her none compliance, Brainiac attacked her. Luckily, Clark chose that time to enter the barn, was able to get a hold of his hated foe and tossed him outside. Once away from the pair of Kryptonians, Brainiac made a hasty retreated and flew away.

Now alone, Clark explained to Kara that it was Brainiac that they fought. He also told his cousin that he wondered if he worked with Kara's father. She doubted that had happened and suggested they take to the skies in their search of Brainiac and doing that together.

That could prove difficult since Clark does not know how to fly and that his aversion to heights would not help. Knowing this, Kara decided to teach her cousin to fly. Taking him up to the barn, she tried several methods in order to get Clark to soar into the skies. To their dismay, none of those tactics worked. Due to this, Clark decided they should end this and focus their energy on finding Brainiac. Since Brainiac is a computer, they surmised that he needed energy to keep running. They both take off, Kara flying and Clark super-speeding, to possible locations where their enemy would go to recharge.

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Lana was busy at the Isis foundation when her computer suddenly flickers. The reason for this appeared behind the young woman in the form of Brainiac.

"Good day, Miss Lang, I believe you have some information for me," Brainiac coldly stated.

"What kind of…" was Lana got out before Brainiac made his move.

He swiftly drove a mental probe into her brain to gain whatever knowledge he could get to further is fight against Clark.

"You won't be needed anymore," Brainiac told her once the probe was removed and hastily snapped Lana's neck.

He then left to further his plan.

Season 8

Power

Ever since she had left Smallville over a year ago, Lana has been on a journey of discovery for herself. Perhaps, it was more of a quest than a journey. This search is one of power. For several years she has been someone who needed protecting. First it was Whitney and lately it was from both Lex and Clark. The difference between Lex and Clark was that the latter did it because he cared about her and that it was the right thing to do. For Lex, he too probably cared for Lana but he usually did things with an ulterior motive.

All Lana wanted now was to learn how to protect herself and not have to someone else do it for her. The first step for her was to train and the person she approached to accomplish this task was Lex's strategic advisor, Carter Bowfry.

Lana offered Carter money for his training and ended up having to convince him to do so. Luckily for her, he agreed to teach her. Part of Lana's training regimen consisted of exercises that would aid her to resist pain and torture. He also gets Lana to admit that she is still holding onto Clark and that for her training to succeed, she has to overcome her past life and become a new person. Once the training is completed, she realized that she needed something that Carter could not give her and that was power.

In her quest for power, Lana secretly paid a visit to Chloe during her year away. She asked her friend to help her track down some information on Lex's Project Prometheus. Chloe advised her not to go after it. Lana then insisted that she would be looking for it and when the time was right, she would tell Clark.

With the information she needed, Lana contacted the person in charge of the project, Dr. Grohl. She complimented the doctor on his work in creating Prometheus and wants him to provide her with the skin graft that would grant the wearer super powers. Lana warned the doctor that Lex was too dangerous an individual to be given that kind of power and that she would be a more suitable candidate. Further cajoling by her made Dr. Grohl to use her as the test subject.

Tess Mercer, who was overseeing Luthor holdings since Lex's disappearance had also learned of Project Prometheus. She too was like Lana at one time and considered Lex to be an honorable man until she recently found out how wrong she was. Tess wanted to locate where the project was located and to make sure Lex didn't use it.

With the resources at her finger tips, it didn't take long for Tess to find the lab that Prometheus was held in.

"Where is the Prometheus suit, I want it now!" Tess demanded from Dr. Grohl.

"I can't," the doctor began, "The process has already begun and if that chamber is opened, the person inside would die."

It was at that time that Tess noticed that it was Lana that was inside. Grohl claimed that it was Lex's orders and Tess told him that Prometheus must be destroyed. He also warned that destroying the suit would kill Lana. Hell bent not to let the suit fall into the wrong hands, Tess pulled out a gun and destroyed the control panel along with the chamber that Lana was inside thus killing her.

Next: The final chapter