chapter 7 Chapter 8:
Clark raised his hands, ready to fight off whoever was creeping in the kitchen, forgetting the fact that he expected Zorro to come here.
The footsteps were approaching the curtains, a black glove opened the curtains and a black masked man appeared in the tavern.
Clark snatched him up and placed him against the wall, his fist ready to strike, before Zorro could think of reacting, he had an amazing intuition but even that wasn't good enough to see this coming.
“ Easy Clark, it's me!” said Zorro with a calm voice, lifting his hands in the air.
Clark recognized Diego and placed him back on his feet, “ I am sorry, you are Zorro right?”
Zorro nodded, “ Yes, I am Zorro. I must say you are pretty fast for being such a big fellow.”
" You ain't see nothing yet!" thought Clark to himself looking towards Wells, who was clearly thinking the same thing.
“ What happened here? Where is Victoria?” asked Zorro, clearly anxious when he talked about his girlfriend.
Clark turned towards Wells, " Yes, tell us, my friend, what happened here?"
“ Help me up, please, and I will tell everything I know!”
Clark reached out and pulled his English friend back on his feet and towards one of Victoria's wooden benches.
“ It was after senor De La Vega left...,”
Zorro and Clark listened closely to the story hoping to get some clue's on where to start searching, Clark was cursing the fact that he couldn't use his speed in the past, fearing he would change too much and what impact that would have for the future, let alone how the people in this timeline, who were afraid of witches would react if they knew that he wasn't an earth human but a Kryptonian human, an alien, in other words, he didn't want to find out not with the two women's lives in danger.
“ Who is behind all this and is it the same bandit that took your Lois and my Victoria or are they both different and if they're different, do they work together?”
Clark sighed, I think I can answer some of those questions but I rather answer them where nobody can hear us because, and this is going to be the hard part for me, there is a reason why I said earlier that I understand your life better than you might think.
Zorro nodded before standing up, “ get your horses and meet me behind the tavern, we will start looking from there.” Zorro said on a kind of leader tone.
Clark and Wells nodded before running to front doors, Clark unlocked them and made their way to the two beautiful dark brown Andalusian horses they had borrowed from the De La Vega ranch.
They jumped into the saddle and walked straight behind the tavern, where Zorro was waiting on a beautiful black stallion.
“ Gentlemen, this here is one of my loyal partners, this is Toronado. There is a reason I lend you those particular horses, they are the few lucky horses that can keep up with my good old boy here,” Zorro said while stroked the stallion's strong, black neck.
The other men smiled but they were both anxious to start looking for the missing women.
S-Z
In the abandoned farm...
Lois was starting to nothing, in particular, not thinking much, it was the impact of the hot desert sun warming up the farm she had been imprisoned for a few days now, she snapped out of thoughts when she heard a soft moan next to her.
Victoria was regaining consciousness, moaning softly, “ where am I? What happened?”
“you must be Victoria?” said a female voice on Victoria's left side, she turned her attention to the direction of the sound.
“ Yes, I am. I don't want to be rude but I never saw you before, who are you?” she asked Lois.
Victoria had a thought of who she could be but she wasn't sure, “this could be the woman senor Kent was looking for.”
" My name is Lois Lane, a man named Tempus took me from my home and brought me here." Lois was careful with what she would reveal towards Victoria for the moment anyway, she didn't know if she would believe her if she told her everything.
“ You are the woman, senor Kent and his friend are looking for? But why would Tempus want to capture me?” Victoria sensed that there where things Lois wasn't telling.
Lois sighed, Clark was looking for her together with his friend, that must be Mr. Wells.
“ That friend is he a little short with a strange hat and a strange accent?”
" Yes, that is him," Victoria answered honestly.
Lois' her hope was rising again, Clark was looking for her, Clark, not Superman. It would be soon now that she could jump into those loving arms, kissing those loving lips.
“ That reminds me, I think we are both taken by different bandits but my guess is that they work together, I never recognized the voice. All I know is that he said that he would have his revenge on you and Zorro and that he would get that other idiot, meaning Clark.”
" Taking revenge on Zorro that is nothing new and on me well I am a woman with an opinion, not everyone is happy with that, plus I think most people know that they can lure Zorro out by using me as bait."
Lois laughed, she knew what it felt like being used as bait to lure out the hero, she was used as bait for Superman more times than she was able to count.
S-Z
outside the abandoned farm...
Tempus and his partner in crime, Palomares around the campfire just out of sight from the farm where they were holding Lois and Victoria.
Palomares men, Juan, Rico, and Francesco were holding guard around the farm.
" So you want me to believe, that you Tempus come from the future and want to destroy an alien named Clark Kent aka ' Superman' " Palomares said quoting with his fingers when he said Superman, " to rule the world in the future by destroying their loved ones?"
“ That is the short version yes!” said Tempus with a serious face.
Palomares started to laugh, “ What do you take me for? An Idiot?” Palomares grew more serious again, “ Say, I believe you, why helping me with the revenge on my enemy?”
It was Tempus his turn to laugh now, " oh but I am not only helping you, my dear friend, but I also need to destroy him to rule the earth completely and you were willing to help me without any questions."
Palomares shrugged, " If it takes me to go with you in this crazy story to get rid of the man who humiliated me twice well, so be it, but don't even think about playing with me or it will be your last time. I want Zorro's head and nothing less."
“ Don't worry you will get your revenge.” laughed Tempus Darkly before it got silent between the two.
S-Z
Clark pulled down and started to scan the sand behind, he tried to pick out the right tracks, he jumped off his horse and examined a pair of human tracks.
“These tracks or from a man that is carrying a great weight possibly over his shoulder, see that one track is deeper than the other, I believe that this track is the one we need to follow, he is carrying Victoria!”
Zorro couldn't believe his eyes, he knew he was good tracker but this was insane, he jumped of Toronado's back and looked at the tracks Clark had pointed out.
“ I am curious about this man's story.” he thought while he mounted Toronado again.
Clark looked towards the tracks and followed them until they ended and where hoof tracks started, he pointed a little further.
" That is where he mounted his horse, so that are the tracks we need to follow," he said while he walked back to the horse that Wells was holding, he jumped on the horse his back and turned it in the right direction.
“How did you know all of this?” Zorro wanted to know
Clark sighed “ I think it is time I revealed my secret to you, but first of all please all I have to tell you is going to sound unbelievable, but trust me everything is true but this secret has to stay between us even at the moment that I will leave this time.” Clark pleaded
TBC …
What will Zorro's reaction be when Clark tells him the secret of Superman?
How are they going to save Lois and Victoria?
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