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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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Oh snap, talk about good timing, Victor skitters to Lionel's side, glancing around the room. This isn't her lair. She's going to play a good old fashioned game of follow the leader and go where he goes.

It is crunch time. April follows Lionel too, to get out of sight and out of direct attack zone. Last thing she needs is another eye-blast attack.

Lionel leads them into the next room over, a back passageway that leads towards one of the ramparts or down into the wine cellar, depending on which way you go. It's small, but out of Zod's way.

And just in time. Zod knows they're there, but doesn't think they can do anything to him. So he waltzes into the study, a thick oblong octagonal device (http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Kryptonian_black_box) in hand. He grabs the laptop that Lionel had been inspecting, and sets the device on the corner. The symbols slowly light up, and the device begins to spin.

Victor is standing very still with them in that passageway and barely breathing at all, though her heart is doing all sorts of acrobatics, as she waits for the magic words.

Knowing that Clark can see through walls, April figures that Zod can see them. And hear them. But he is so confident... that will give her enough time to chant softly. "Terra, vente, ignis et pluvia. Cuncta quattuor numina, vos obsecro. Defendete nos a recente malo resoluto. Omnia... vasa... veritatis!"

The four symbols glow. And the binding spell is cast.

Almost as soon as she finishes the chant, all the mansion's lights turn on. The computer screen clears of its Kryptonian scrolling symbols, the clocks begin working, and every trace of the virus seems to be cleansed. The device Zod brought is still spinning, but no longer glowing as brightly, and he looks satisfied as he begins typing on the laptop, seeking out the Pentagon's website.

"Okay, so can we..." she whispers, not liking the tension that comes along with waiting, not liking the silence, because silence when a bad guy is around usually means that they're about to reach through your chest and pull out your heart and play a very squishy game of tennis.

April nodded and gestured for them to return to the room where Zod was standing. At least the power had been returned. "Another step in your grand scheme?" She asked, as she entered the room.

Zod doesn't turn to face them right away. "I do not waste time with frivolities." Whatever he's looking for, he finds it, and stands up straight. "The virus was only the first stage."

"Stop it," Victor says, as though talking to a very unruly dog, and in part she's acting like this because of a swell of panic in her chest, of the bad, bad feelings that come out of feeling like the situation is out of her control. She doesn't know how the spell works, whether it will keep him from hurting her. She doesn't know how to make his plan stop. "Stop... breaking things. I like this world. So. Stop it." How much is damaged beyond repair, she wonders, and that makes that sick feeling she has get worse.

"You will find Zod, that neither have we." April states. She knows that the time has come to find a way to deal with this enemy. And hopefully the binding spell will allow them to find a solution.

"I'm not breaking this world. I'm glorifying it." He gives them that superior, disdainful look again, and turns to walk away. "I will return."

But when he tries to cross the threshold of the study, he's stopped in his tracks, rebounding slightly like bouncing off a wall. He reaches out to strike at the invisible wall, and succeeds only in creating a loud crack as the motion breaks the sound barrier, and little else. "Force field technology. I thought this world was not so far advanced."

She rubs at her ears, thinking owwie thoughts, jumps, she is feeling rather jittery indeed. She has a stroke of genius and slides her little piece of kryptonite across the floor, to rest just inside the bounds of the trap. She figures if he can't get through, objects he throws might not be able to get through. Like a crab trap, they can get in but not out. "Soooo. There's that. You should, uh. Reverse. What you're doing. Please."

It is at least one good thing that the binding spell has prevented Zod from leaving. April watches as Victor slides kryptonite towards Zod. She herself doesn't have any more pieces, unfortunately.

"Unfortunately, we think this world is good the way it is."

Zod steps aside, out of range, and he doesn't know what they're doing but he doesn't like it at all. "You think you can hold me?" he says, turning that icy glare on them. "I have no reason to cease, and every reason to take what is rightfully mine."

He steps towards Victor, going to hit her, to silence this impudent human and mount her head on the wall. But his hand bounces off her, too. Which makes him even more annoyed. "Protective shielding."

"Thank God and all of the other gods and all of the saints in heaven amen." Victor feels like she's going to get sick all over everything, and she feels her knees go wobbly, and all she can imagine is, over and over again, her head shattering wet like a melon. The only outside show of that is the way her voice quavers when she says, "Or you can cease. You know. All the cool kids are doing it."

Picking up the images from Victor, April just can't imagine what would have happened if Zod had been able to make contact. They have to stop him.

April moves forward, holding her PINpoint ready. Maybe there is a chance they can send him to that Earth with a Red Sun. She is allowing Victor to distract Zod again, hoping to get close enough.

Zod may be contained for the moment, but his powers are still there, and he zips to the other side of the room. "You are persistent. But your actions are futile."

"Look. Bro. I could speechify about the persistence of the human spirit, but I don't feel up to it, plus it isn't anything you haven't heard before I'm sure. So cliffnotes: I'm right, you're wrong, and we're keeping our world."

Attempting to get close to Zod is not going to work. They basically have a wild animal trapped in a big cage. And April is not sure what to do with him.

Bathed under working lights, she considers something. Lionel... She makes contact with the older Luthor. Do you have your connection with the Fortress back?

Lionel doesn't flinch or reply outwardly, even though he wasn't expecting to hear a telepathic message. No. It's still gone.

"You saying so does not make it correct," Zod says to Victor, sneering. "And this prison you've built will not hold me forever."

"Yeah, aha, yes, yes, quite," she says, with a nervous laugh, almost a little shrill. "So you might as well tell us about this plan of yours. Since you're stuck here, and we're stuck watching you stay stuck here."

April ticks off another option that is lost to them. She shifts to vampire mode. That will give her at least some enhanced speed and agility to her advantage. The joining spell... while powerful... would be too obvious to cast right now.

"We just need to hold you long enough, Zod."

"Long enough for what?" He's pushing at the boundaries of the spell, testing it, turning his strength on it. It's holding up for now, but if he tries hard enough, the human part of him will allow him to break free. "You have no plan."

"Long enough to put you in another trap. We got an endless supply, honey." She's bluffing, but Victor pretty much bluffs for a living, and she's studying her fingernails all casually. "We could be here for years, taking shifts."

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