POSSESSED

Lois saw it. She suddenly understood part of what her commitment to Clark involved. She wondered if she would have as strong a connection when she woke up…if she ever woke up.

She had been whispering into Clark's mind that he needed coffee and he was ignoring her. That's when she saw the flash of silver in the doctor's eyes.

"Jor-el! Jor-el!"

She heard no answer.

She started calling for Clark to come to her…Maybe if he came up to the room she was in, maybe she could stop him

"Clark…I need you….Clark….Clark! Please Clark…answer me!"

Clark had the strangest craving for coffee. He figured it was something to do with the mind meld between him and Lois, but he wasn't sure.

"Excellent, if you would follow me up stairs, I would like to get started immediately."

Clark followed him like a sheep going to his slaughter….Lois felt him coming near, but she was still unable to connect with her own body.
Clark sat down in a chair next to him, as Chloe and Lana followed him up the stairs. The first thing the doctor did was take out a syringe.
Clark smiled slightly and said, "I'm afraid that won't work on me."

"It's made of a Meteor rock residue,"

"Hold on doctor…Lana spoke up quickly…how do you know what to use?" and then snatching the syringe from his hands, she asked…. "Just what are you up to?"

"Relax Miss Lang….I'm only taking a blood sample. I have known about the traveler since my days at the Swan Institute…in fact Dr. Virgil Swan was a good friend of mine."

Lana looked at him suspiciously. But Clark broke in and said "Lana, it's okay, give him the needle…"

Reluctantly she handed it back to him.

"Can we trust him?" Chloe asked Ollie quietly…

"I've known him since I was a kid; he would never do anything to hurt anyone."
Chloe nodded but she had a feeling in his gut; one she should have listened too.

The first thing the doctor did was take four vials of blood; he then marked them and put them in his pocket. He was going to make his own army of clones, with the strength of Kal-el, and he was going to clone Lois as well. The army of New Krypton would be born from their blood and seed.

"When I am done with them they both will be dead, and so will the rest of this miserable planet."

Milton Fine was underestimating the degree of progress that Lois had made. He was sure he could walk away without being caught. He walked over to Lois and just as he tried taking her blood, her eyes opened and she grabbed him by the throat, her eyes were a dark red, and it looked as if she was in a trance. To everyone's surprise, she stood up and started squeezing. The Doctor made gasping sounds as Brainiac was caught off guard. Before he could go on the attack, she had grabbed the vials of blood and threw them across the room with her other hand. All of them one shattered, along with Brainiac's plans.

"Lois! Let him go!" Clark shouted,

She looked over to him and shot fire out of her eyes, knocking him back.

"I told you she was possessed by Brainiac!" Lana said, as she rushed over to Clark, Chloe and Ollie went to try to free the doctor, from her grip, but as they did, that's when Brainiac made his move.
He stuck out his finger, and started to probe Lois's brain.

"Nooo!"

Fear shook Clark at his very core; it took a microsecond for Clark to pull him off her. Lois fell to the bed as Brainiac threw Clark out of the window, and then followed him. Ollie was on the phone and out of the room and house in a second. He wasn't going to let Clark fight this one alone.

"Oh my God…Lois!" Chloe ran to her cousin, and felt frantically for a pulse she was relieved to find Lois breathing.

Dr Klyburn walked in the room, in a state of shock, she had seen Clark being thrown out, and Michaels following him out the same window. Chloe saw her enter the room and shouted- "Stay there! You're not getting anywhere near either of them!"

"I don't know what happened…This couldn't have been Dr. Michaels…he would never…Oh my God. If that wasn't him…then what has happened to him?" Dr. Klyburn worried aloud. Lana walked over and looked at the doctor, and the touching her face she saw there was no part of fine in her.

"She had nothing to do with this." Lana stated. Then she walked over to stand beside Chloe.

"Her eyes…check her eyes!" Lana said firmly

Milky white, just as Lana's had been.

"What are we going to do?" Chloe said desperately.

"Brainiac won't free her, he wants to destroy Clark…I felt it when he attacked me."

"Then how did you escape?" It was Dr. Klyburn.

"He was initially weakened when Clark overloaded him with voltage, but he has restructured his mental faculties to protect his power to control minds, he is not as strong as he was, but he can devastate Clark much easier this way…"

"Just take away anyone who loves him, oh God…" Chloe started crying. "This is it…it's over for her isn't it?"

Lana put her arm around Chloe and said, "Don't give up hope yet…I have an idea on how to save her."