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the calvary arrives in Smallville

It was time to mount a rescue effort in Kansas. After losing Clark to the Phantom Zone, April had helped Lionel get back to the safety of his mansion, and then had disappeared to the Nexus. Where she was able to find a couple of people who wanted to help keep the peace.

PINpointing back to the farmyard with her allies, April waited for everyone to get settled. Then she took a breath, and gave them a briefing. "So basically right now we have mass public panic, no technology is working, and there are several friends of Clark's that are missing."

"We have two enemies that we need to be concerned about," April pulls out two artist renditions. "The first is Brainaic, a Kryptonite supercomputer who has been posing as Professor Milton Fine. He has all the Kryptonian powers of flight, strength, speed and healing... but isn't affected by Kryptonite. Meteor rock. He can also shapechange. Chloe, you will go with Alice, Victor Van Dort, Doc and Marty to find Brainaic. Also do what you can for those innocents who need to be saved from this chaos. You will also need to find Martha Kent and Lois Lane, as they are both missing."

"The second is General Zod, who has taken possession of Lex Luthor. Once again Zod has all the Kryptonian powers, and I am not sure if meteor rock will affect him. I haven't had a chance to test it."

"Victor Allen and I will try to find Zod, as we have more experience with dealing with crazy Kryptonians. We will also look for a way to bring Clark out of the Phantom Zone."

"I am going to give each of you a piece of Kryptonite, just in case. And hopefully we can figure out a way to get through this situation." April took a breath. Hoping that their little plan would work for the better good.

((this will be a split thread. Alice and Her gang will go off with Chloe to deal with Brainaic. Victor Allen and April will deal with the Clark issue))

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They're back on track, then, and now's the time to test whether it works at all, or whether he laughs in their faces. Files in her mind reshuffle, accounting for Lana, accounting for positioning, for the kryptonite in her hand, for how close they are to the exit, to each other so that they can PINpoint if need be.

"Yeah, uh... falling world, it's gonna be awesome, how do you get your hands on a gateway to the Phandom Zone?"

Their PINpoints might be their last resort to dealing with Zod. And April sends a flicker of a memory to Victor, of her and April dealing with Clark under the silver Kryptonite poisoning. They still have that Red-Sun Earth dimension in their PINpoints. They could use it against Zod.

"I wasn't thinking of trying to stop you. After all, you have proved yourself to be stronger than Kal-El."

Zod just looks at Victor, arrogant and cold as ever. "You don't. All the portals have been destroyed."

He regards them all with a gaze that speaks of superiority, of looking down on insects to be squashed under his heel. "I must go. There is work to be done."

"Say you left a really important handbag in the Phantom Zone and it has your wallet in it, how would you go about retrieving it?"

Come on come on come on, this can't be it.

April is already feeling the sensation that there is nothing they can do. It has been a long three days for her, and she is ready to give up. April moves to help Lana, and ensure that the young woman is not taken.

Maybe Zod will give a clue to helping Clark, but April is pretty sure their grand scheme of getting answers is dead in the water.

"Then it is gone forever. Just like Kal-El, and all the other prisoners." Zod is quite obviously not very broken up about this. And though the entrapment spell slows him considerably, it's not enough to prevent him from leaping skyward, soaring away into the smoky Metropolis sky.

"What the hell is going on?" Lana demands shakily, once he's gone.

"No," she says firmly, once he leaves, looking over her shoulder to April. "He's not gone forever, it just means we have to look at other universal technology. Opening our own portals. We have the multiverse at our disposal and nothing is hopeless."

"Aliens. Aliens are going on. But that's okay, because we're gonna fix it."

"How's your... the eyeblasts, how're you holding up?"

"I thought Clark had told you that Lex wasn't Lex." April replied to Lana's question. "Basically, Lex has been possessed by an alien spirit. And he is not Lex anymore. He is Zod."

April looks down at the burn area. "Still a little pain. But we have other things to be concerned about." She can't mention about her enhanced healing in front of Lana.

"He did, but I didn't believe him. He's one of those things, isn't he? From the black ship." At this point, she has no idea that Clark is also 'one of those things,' and probably wouldn't react well if she found out. "Who's Kal-El? Why do they all want him so badly?"

"Kal-El's one of the good guys. They want him because he's so good, and they suck hardcore. You know, the basic story of good versus a-hole. Is there anything I can get either of you? To make you more comfortable, or ease your mind? I have, like, everything in my backpack."

"As the good guy, Kal-El can stop Zod and the rest of the bad aliens. Unfortunately the ones from the black ship are all bad." April doesn't want Lana to think all Kryptonians are necessarily evil. Or things for that matter.

April knows that blood would help her heal faster, but she can't ask (or take) for any in front of Lana. "We should get Lana to safety."

"How do you know all of this?" Lana doesn't understand, and is still overwhelmed that this is even happening. Far below in the streets, the rioting continues, people driven by anger and desperation.

"We have inside intel. Remember to take deep breaths. We'll get you somewhere safe." A glance to April. "One of the offices, you think? A good spot, and she won't have to go down on the street."

"We will take her to Lionel's office. It is the most secure." Then afterward they can think of what to do next.

Perhaps finding Lionel would be a good idea. Lionel is Jor-El's oracle, Victor. I think we should go to him next

"Wait, you are not leaving me here by myself," Lana says, a bit alarmed. "What are you going to do?"

Victor is viewing this the way she views the zombie apocalypse, because really it's not so different. Masses of uncontrollable people. "The safest possible place you can be right now is on a high floor of this building. If people are looting, they won't make it up this high. We're gonna see what we can do to try to... get this issue fixed."

"Lana. You are a strong woman. You will be fine here." April replies softly. "We will make sure that we come back for you when this situation is fixed."

"So you're putting me in time-out?" Lana's a bit offended here. She doesn't know that April is a vampire, that Victor is a superhero in her free time, doesn't understand that they're both more knowledgeable and more capable than she is. "The whole world's falling apart. I want to help."

"Gosh, no, that isn't it. It's just that we took the same self-defence class, and we both know inside players. I don't mean any disrespect. Sometimes the best thing you can do when the world's falling apart is stay safe, so that the people who love you still have you when the dust clears."

"Staying here will help Lana. If we find others, we will send them to you. And you can take care of them from the safety of Lionel's office."

"We need a reliable person to run our safehouse. And that's you."

Lana clearly doesn't believe them, but she's not sure what else she can do. "And what if someone finds me?"

Victor taps her bottom lip. "The chances that anyone'll come up to a top floor are really low. If they do, they'll look around the perimeter of the floor, bigger offices with a lot of glass, where you can see into it. They'll want to go into labs, where there'll be valuable equipment, not offices. We'll find you a smaller office than Lionel's, which might be searched just on the basis that it's Lionel's. And that's all if anyone comes up here at all, which I think is seriously unlikely."

April is feeling a little drained dealing with Lana. They definitely can't take her with them, because that would mean continued lying. And having to keep secrets from one member of the party would make things difficult

She searches through her bag, and then pulls out a small dagger. "Here. Arm yourself. That way you can defend yourself. You are not going to be left in a dangerous situation Lana."

"Fine." She's at least appreciative that she gets something to defend herself with, although any other time she might wonder where April got it. And she's still not thrilled at being left alone in the middle of a city that's tearing itself apart. But they don't have a lot of options.

"I owe you a serious coffee when this whole mess is over. I swear, I'm not trying to be a huge jerk, it's just the issue that we're in, unless you know the guts of the situation, it's too messy." She leads the way down the stairs, holding onto the banister (ow-ow-ow, okay, ow). Then jogs to a more central office, unlocked. "Might be good?"

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