7.20 Harbinger Part VI by TW & MR

MR: "The typical second generation soldier possessed six, maybe seven abilities. That was the most Richards could transfer and still maintain control of the subject. All we know is that the prototype was decommissioned because it had become uncontrollable. Someone finally found a way around that." The screen shows video of FauxChloe using telekinesis to move debris around the warehouse of the destroyed portal. Security guards come in and she incinerates them. A second later the video feed is lost. "I sent in what was left of my generation one soldiers but... they were no match for her. Chloe may be our only hope of defeating her."
TW: "Leave Chloe out of this!"
MR: "Whether you like it or not she's already part of it, Clark."
TW: Clark doesn't answer. He gets up and turns to leave.
MR: "Look, I know you want to help but that thing tore twenty generation one solders limb from limb. A garden variety meteor freak doesn't stand a chance against her. I hope you don't plan on facing her."
TW: "Maybe I'm not garden variety."
AM: He's organic!
MR: "Don't fool yourself, Clark. If Chloe isn't willing to help... Kal-El may be the only one who stands a chance against her."
TW: "Then maybe it's up to Kal-El to make things right."
MR: Lex doesn't answer.
TW: "It must gall you to no end, Lex, to find yourself dependant on your nemesis for salvation."
MR: "She killed by wife, Clark! If I remember correctly you were quite fond of Lana yourself, once."
TW: "I wasn't talking about Chloe."
MR: Lex chuckles bitterly, "Salvation? Suppose Kal-El does save the day today. What then, Clark? We continue to live in fear, hoping against hope mankind isn't trampled over like so many bugs underneath his feet in his next clash of titans?
TW: "Lex..."
MR: "No, Clark! Kal-El ruined my life and the lives of a lot of other people in Smallville the day he arrived with the first meteor shower. But the meteor show is just be a drop in the bucket compared to the lives he'll ruin if he doesn't man up and turn himself in." Lex gets up in Clark's face, "You can side with Lois and pretend Kal-El is some sort of extra-terrestrial savior if you want. But I know the truth. Kal-El is nothing but an albatross hung around the planet's neck."

TW: FauxChloe addresses her minions. "Now is the time, Furies. Show Kal-El the true meaning of suffering. Raze his city like he razed that of our Lord Darkseid."
MR: "No so fast." Cut to Chloe.
TW: FauxChloe, "Go Furies, do your duty! I'll take her."
MR: The Furies try to run but Chloe plucks them up with her telekinesis, "I said, not so fast."
TW: FauxChloe rushes Chloe and Chloe tries to control her with her mind but is unsuccessful. FauxChloe stabs her in the gut and cruelly twists the weapon before pulling it out. Chloe falls to her knees, gasping for air.
MR: "Go Furies, tarry no longer." The Furies scurry off.
AM: "Tarry no longer?" A bit stilted don't you think?
TW: Don't think you can pull it off?
AM: Oh, I can pull it off. Just watch me pull it off. I'll pull the hell off of it.
TW: Good. Stop complaining.
MR: Foe smirks, "Didn't think I could penetrate your defenses? You can't control me, I've been given a will of my own." She circles and kicks Chloe in the back knocking her to the ground.
AM: Foe?
MR: You prefer Xerox?
AM: No!
MR: Fake Shake Chloe?
AM: Hell no!
MR: Then Fake Shake it is.
AM: [deadpan] Great.
MR: Fake Shake kicks Chloe to the ground. "You're wondering, I'm sure, why your wound won't heal."
TW: Chloe tries to push herself back up but Foe stabs her through the hand. Chloe cries out in pain.
MR: "My blade is not of this earth. It was crafted to penetrate Kal-El. I can't wait to see what I can do with it to you."
TW: Chloe lies, cheek against the ground staring at the dagger embedded in her hand. Blood flows from her mouth.
MR: Fake Shake pulls it out rolls Chloe over on to her back. She raises the dagger over Chloe's chest, "To be honest I was hoping for a good roll with you before moving on to Kal-El."
AM: The clone is engaging ho-yay?
MR: I call it "chlone-yay".
[ED smacks MR on the back of the head.]
MR: Ow!
AM: Thank you.
ED: Had to be done.
KK: Tough crowd.
AM: Why didn't you do Lanabot-yay?
TW: I wanted it but...
MR: I thought it'd be a little too creepy for Lex to have more than one Lana sex bot.
ED: More than one Chloe clone isn't creepy?
MR: A different kind of creepy.
TW: FauxChloe brings her dagger down and it stops short a fraction of an inch from Chloe's chest.
MR: Chloe strains to keep the blade away with telekinesis, "I'd hate to disappoint."
TW: FauxChloe smiles, "Let's make it last." Telekinesis throws Fake Shake back. Chloe disappears and three standing versions take her place. The center one, "Call your minions back or surely you will die!"
AM: "Surely you will die"?
TW: I thought you didn't mind stilted?
AM: For an alien trained pod person maybe. But that's not how Chloe talks.
TW: Fine. Go with what feels right.
ED: How about "Call back your skanky monkeys of doom before I kick your pathetic leather-clad ass!"
[Cast stares at ED]
ED: No? I thought it was good?
AM: I'll figure something out.
MR: Fake Shake smiles, "What's the Earth saying, three's a crowd? Though I always subscribed to the theory of the more the merrier." Two more Foes appear. "How long do you think you can keep it up? Your wound must be catching up to you."
ED: You do know "keeping it up" typically is the guy's problem, right?
JG: Not mine!
MR: I know. Writing ho-yay for men is so much easier!
KK: Thus explaining the need for a dagger.
MR: The presence of a phallic symbol was helpful.
TW: That's why you wanted the dagger? [shakes head] The images of Chloe flicker. Cut to a neighboring alley. Chloe sits pressing her arm against her wound to stop the bleeding. Her wounded hand hangs limp. She breathes unsteadily and shakes. She whispers, "Clark, if you can hear me, I could really use your help right about now."
KK: Time for a threesome?
MR: Like they say, the more the merrier.

TW: As Chloe speaks cut to Clark and his super hearing. He turns his head in the direction of Chloe's voice just as we hear the screams of dozens of people.
KK: I thought Clark was in Lex's office.
TW: He left.
KK: So where is he?
MR: In the city looking for Fake Shake Chloe.
TW: Zoom to an overpass hanging by one side. Clark looks again in the direction of Chloe's voice before he resolutely turns back toward the bridge and super-speeds to help.

MR: Diner. A waitress pats Lois' head with a wash cloth. Lois comes to and looks around, "Where'd she go, my friend?"
ED: Friend? She knocked Lois out!
KK: It says something about a person when even her friends find her so annoying they slam her against the wall.
ED: Oh really? Would that be as annoying as the friend you decapitate?
KK: Shut up.
MR: Or even worse pancake her car.
KK: Stop making fun of my pancaked car!!!
TW: Lois rises and notices the other patrons glued to a small TV mounted behind the counter. The various Fury attacks are on live TV. Lois watches in horror.

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