chapter 9 Chapter 10:
the abandoned farm...
Tempus and Palomares chose that moment to walk inside the farm.
“ Did You hear that Tempus the girls want to go home.”
"Yes, poor girls, they are waiting for their heroes to arrive." laughed Tempus loudly
“ Wait until Zorro finds you, you will wish you were never born.” threatened Victoria.
“ Oh I am so scared, Well I hope he comes here, that way you will see how I will destroy not only your beloved but also your best friend and leave you with nothing but pain.” laughed Tempus again.
“ What has her best friend to do with it?” Palomares whispered towards Tempus.
“ Leave Diego out of this, he has nothing wrong!” yelled Victoria.
Lois could only look down, she knew what Tempus was saying and what he was about to reveal and there was nothing she could do about it or was there?
" Tempus don't you think you have tempered with history enough," Lois spoke trying to let Tempus see reason but that was the same as a cat learning how to bark.
Victoria's looks went from the villains to Lois and back, there was something they knew that she didn't.
“Oh no, my dear Lois, this time I will succeed.” Tempus his voice was serious.
“ Would somebody please tell me what is going on here and tell me why he wants to go not only after Zorro but after Diego too, Diego had done nothing wrong!” yelled Victoria tears running from her eyes now.
“ Oh this is rich,” Tempus laughed, “ You mean your that stupid?” Tempus shook his head but even Palomares was confused now.
“ Think about the period that Zorro arrived for the very first time. Who came home earlier? By day I am a caballero who's not able to defend himself but at night I become a master with the sword wearing a mask and riding a wild stallion.” laughed Tempus,
Palomares started laughing, " that clumsy De La Vega, the famous fox of the night. You are crazier than I thought."
“ You are the one that is stupid, Diego wouldn't do that to me and besides how the heck would you know?” Victoria's temper was rising now.
“ Oh didn't your new friend tell you, we are from the future my dear, we all know your story there and I am about to change that story.”
Victoria looked towards Lois who just smiled and whispered a silent sorry towards her.
" Don't worry Victoria, Clark is with him, not Superman, so his plan isn't going to work." Lois tried to convince Victoria to hold on to that hope.
“ You got to be kidding me,” Tempus laughed, “ you are even more stupid than Victoria.” Tempus mocked
“ Her hero had a brilliant disguise if I say so, but my dear you are fooled by some glasses! Think about that, my dear dear Lois.”
Lois shook her head that couldn't be, but the more she thought about it, the more it made sense.
“ So there is an alien with superpowers on his way over here and your not afraid?”
Tempus shook his head in no, “ you see my dear Palomares, there is one thing deadly for this man and that are these greens rocks. This will be easy, Zorro is on his own, Superman is useless.”
“ Is what he tells me true Lois?” Victoria asked in confusion.
Lois could only sigh in defeat before nodding, " It is all true, I am afraid."
“ I saw Clark bent a pistol with ease!” Victoria whispered to Lois.
Lois was afraid of that, for once Tempus was right. She was stupid, she was investigation journalist for crying out loud, and she never saw this. That meant that there was no way they could warn Clark about the Kryptonite. Zorro was indeed alone in his rescue as long as these dreadful rocks were here. She placed her head against the pole, for the first time since she was captured she lost hope, she knew Zorro was smart and a master with the sword but was smart enough to win from these two alone. She did something she never did, she started to pray for a happy end of this adventure.
S-Z
Clark kept using his gizmo eye ability to follow the tracks until an abandoned farm came into sight, he placed his finger in front of his lips, asking to be quiet while he X-rayed the abandoned farm. He saw the girls and the two villains but failed to see the Kryptonite that Tempus had placed Lois her other side.
“ They are keeping the girls inside of the farm, I see two bad guys, one of them being the one I am after, Tempus. Maybe we could dismount here and sneak up on foot?”
the other men nodded in agreement.
“ I am going to keep Toronado close though, but he knows how to be silent, he could be useful.”
Clark agreed his new the legend of the famous horse by heart, coming from a farm he was more than interested in the legends with animals and the legend of Toronado being the king of all horses and being the loyal partner, besides Felipe that is, had been one of his all-time favorites.
Zorro hadn't called himself the fox because it was a beautiful animal, like the animal he was smart and cunning in order to survive, so he explained his plan.
What they didn't know was that someone had been following them and had informed the Alcalde of where he could find the masked man known as Zorro, Desoto was very happy with this information and raced in the direction that was pointed out to him, after racing for half an hour he noticed horses tied towards a tree,
“ Those are the horses the strangers were riding earlier.”
Desoto jumped out of the saddle and started creeping up on Zorro, Clark, and Wells, he was going to wait for the perfect timing to capture Zorro, he needed a plan to get rid of the other two first.
Because it was needless to say that Desoto was afraid of Clark, he had heard the tales of the man that bend a pistol like it was nothing special, he had heard it not from Mendoza but from a very loyal lancer, whom only spoke the truth and nothing more, you could call him Desoto's spy, giving information for a few pesos more every month and a promise of promotion once he captured Zorro.
Desoto crept up a little closer in order to hear what it was that they were telling each other, you never knew he would hear something he could use afterward, he watched the three men carefully, noticing that Zorro and the strong stranger, were sneaking to the front of that abandoned, or so Desoto thought it was abandoned, farm. He looked towards the other stranger, the one with the strange hat was creeping to the back of the farm hoping for a window of some sorts to sneak inside and release the women while the other two would take care of Palomares and Tempus.
Zorro stood on one end of the door and Clark on the other, Toronado was hiding nearby behind a large rock, Clark opened the door, but dropped on his knees, groaning in pain the moment he felt the radiation of the little green rock on Lois' side.
“ CLARK!!!” yelled Lois but it was no use, the Kryptonite had already started to weaken him.
Zorro looked at Clark in confusion but had no time to think about it when Palomares charged, keeping him away from his new friend.
Tempus used this moment to take the green stone and placed it next to a groaning Clark, who was trying his best to stop the blackness that could follow, the stone could knock him out, he knew from the first time that he came in contact with the green poison.
“ CLARK, CLARK, TRY TO STAY WITH ME!!!” Lois yelled through her tears, the man she loved was dying and she had no way of helping him.
Zorro was holding his own against Palomares, he had beaten him twice and he would beat him again wasn't it for the helpers he had been hiding, Palomares was leading him to a place he knew one of them was hiding, Palomares was going backward, giving Zorro the impression that he was winning, the moment he was short enough he started to turn around until Zorro's back was pointing Juan, one of Palomares loyal helpers.
Juan pointed a gun in Zorro's back, he looked around to where he knew Toronado would be, he winked to the horses who stayed hidden, for now, Zorro had hoped that they hadn't discovered Wells but his hope was shattered when he saw another of Palomares helpers with a gun pointed towards Wells.
“ Come on gentlemen, we have an appointment with ...” he couldn't finish his sentence when he heard his third man yell, “ Boss, I have another one over here.” coming down with his gun pointed against Desoto.
“ Well, look who we have here, you must be the Alcalde, tie them up we will decide what we will do with them in the morning.”
Tempus had already tied an now unconscious Clark to a pole when the rest walked in, all with there hands in the air. He tied Zorro at the other side of the pole that he had tied Victoria too, Wells had been tied up on Lois her backside with the pole between them and last but not least he tied the Alcalde to the last free pole in the farm. Clark was just tied up, with the green poison next to him.
" Come on Tempus, nobody knows they are here, we will come back in the morning and decide their faith." Palomares laughed placing a hand on Tempus his shoulder.
They turned around and walked away, leaving their prisoners under the guards of Juan and his men and to be sure Zorro would behave, Palomares had ordered to keep Victoria on gunpoint, ordered to shoot to kill if someone tries anything.
TBC
Is this the last night of Zorro and his new friends, and what about the Alcalde or will they be found?
Read in the next Chapter.
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