7.17 Revolt by TW and KK Part VII

as retold by RepairmanBob

TW: Back at the Vault, Clark and Lex circle one another. Lex tries for a few quick punches, but Clark dodges them. Clark tries to punch Lex, but he blocks to blow with his forearm and jabs Clark in the chest. After a few passes, it becomes clear Clark is faster, but Lex is the better fighter.
JG: I doubt that.
TW: Michael, could you –
MR: Anything for Iron Lex! We get an in helmet view of Clark, with lots of measurements and figures. "You are holding back, alien. I, on the other hand, have been measuring your reaction time." Lex raises his right hand. A small circle in his palm glows brightly, and Lex blasts the ever-living crap out of Clark with a bolt of green energy.
TW: Ever-living crap?
MR: Hey, it’s Iron Lex. "Hassad may have been a bastard, but he did know how to deal with your kind." Lex fires at Clark again, who barely gets out of the way. "It was surprisingly easy to reverse engineer the technology. If I had this years ago, I could have eliminated your allies who attacked Smallville during the second meteor shower." Lex fires three times in quick succession, the last one hitting Clark in the leg.
ED: Is Lex actually… winning a fight?
TW: Clark zips to the right and hits Lex in the chest with heat vision. The heat shimmers, and stops a few inches from Lex. He is knocked a few feet backwards, and stops.
MR: "Heat reflective energy shields. Insulated ceramic body armor." Lex smirks. "You will have to do a little better than that, Kal-El."

TW: Brainiac turns back into Lex. "Your people are sadly predictable. The humans will blame the freaks, the freaks will blame the humans, fighting will commence... all according to my designs."
KK: We hear a sound in the background – Chloe’s heartbeat.
TW: "I will have every meteor freak in the United States arrested. In the world, if the correct alliances can be arranged."
JG: Damn, that is a good plan.
KK: Chloe’s heart beat speeds up. She is still shaking, but manages to raise her head and stare at Brainiac.
TW: "An endless source of materials for a new generation of Spartans, all under my control. General Zod’s Crusade will continue, and Kal-El will be eliminated." He smiles at Chloe. "Of course, if you had your powers, you might be able to stop me."
KK: Chloe’s shivering has progresses to a grand mal seizure. Her heartbeat gets faster and faster. We move inside her body see inside her body, where the liquid GreenK is moving through her veins.
AM: Kristin…
KK: Chloe’s heartbeat gets faster and faster as it reaches her heart, then stops.
(The cast looks at KK in stunned silence. Well, except for JG, who pulls out a stopwatch.)
JG: Ten…
AM: (Face turns white)
JG: Nine…
AM: (Face quickly moves from white to red.)
JG: Eight…
KK: Allison, just –
JG: Seven…
AM: (Slowly stands up)
TW: Look, I am sure this all –
JG: Six…
AM: THE MACK IS GOING TO LAY THE SMACK DOWN ON YOUR CANDY ASS! (Leaps over the table at KK)
AoT: Now that is a catchphrase!
(ED and MR try to pull AM away from KK)
AM: I will whip your monkey ass, your treacherous bitch!
KK: It’s OK! It will all work out
JG: I want to get killed next!
AoT: No, me!
TW: OK, let’s take a break, people.

(Five minutes later…)
TW: Allison, are you going to be able to control yourself?
AM: But –
KK: Or am I going to have to give Annette more scenes in exchange for kicking your ass?
AoT: More scenes and I get to hurt someone? Oh, goody!
AM: (Takes a long look at AoT)
AoT: Think about it very carefully, dear. It has been weeks since I got to give a good beating.
AM: (Continues to glare, slowly sits down)
TW: Good choice.
KK: You are going to thank me when this is finished, Allison. We will get together and laugh.
AM: One of us will be laughing, all right.
KK: (Clears throat) Lois arrives at the Slab, and runs into Bittleman and Martha watching the Clex fight. "Ted, what is going on?"
TW: Bittleman does not even turn away from the fight to look at Lois. "Ariel, do you know when I told you that all of that Kal-El crap was insane? That you were wasting your time, and much more importantly my time, in a half-assed witch hunt that did not even have the benefit of ending with a witch? That even a dull witted child could see your pitiful pursuit of an imaginary friend was both sad and amusing?"
KK: "Yes?"
TW: "I may, just possibly, owe you an apology."

TW: As Bittleman is talking, we see Clark dodge more GreenK blasts from Lex. He pulls off a piece of the wall and throws it at Lex.
MR: Iron Lex!
TW: Lex raises his left arm, and a small chain gun pops out of his forearm. He blasts the slab of concrete. Clark runs through the cloud of debris and hits Lex from the side. He slams into a support beam, leaving a large crack.

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