chapter 13 Chapter 14:
" They will be here any minute now," Zorro said from behind Clark and Lois with Victoria's arms around his waist and H.G. Wells at his other side.
"Enjoy your freedom Zorro because this will be the last fight you will win, after our truce, I will succeed in capture you, you have an appointment with the hangman's noose." came from the other side. Desoto was standing there like he promised, with only a nervous sergeant on his side.
“ A good morning to you too, Alcalde! I would stop dreaming if I where you, you will never catch me.” Zorro quipped.
" Oh, I am not dreaming this time Zorro, you are going down the moment our truce end," Desoto responded.
" Lois, Victoria, go back to the camp and wait there for us," Clark ordered.
“ No, way I am not going back to camp. I am staying here, Tempus took me in the first place I want my revenge and don't tell me to listen to you, because we both know I will stay here anyway, so why bother.” Lois said too Clark with her arms crossed over her chest.
Zorro looked with the same eyes towards Victoria but got his response even before he could say something.
“ Don't even think about telling me to leave, Zorro, I want to see Palomares go down for good.” She took the same position as Lois they stood next to each other, both women determent to stay there.
Zorro sighed, “ alright, but stay here when everything begins.”
Victoria looked at him the determination still in her eyes. She didn't need to respond on that one he could see what she was thinking.
“ Why do I bother telling you this, you will do what you want anyway.” Zorro sighed again, shaking his head in disbelief.
" Those are the women who need to be illuminated" sounded from behind him in a British accent.
Everyone turned around and looked straight in the face of Tempus with Palomares behind him.
" I should have known that those 3 guards weren't enough and that you would survive Clark," Tempus said a bit agitated towards Palomares who didn't respond.
“ I am going to be quick about this, give yourself up now. You are outnumbered.” Clark ordered.
Tempus laughed, “ We don't take orders from an alien.”
That little comment didn't throw him off balance though.
“ Call it a strong suggestion then!” he bounced back.
Tempus only laughed. Palomares show our guest how we do this. Palomares draw his saber and charged at Clark but Zorro jumped in front of him with his saber.
“ I have warned you the last time, Palomares. Show up again, and give me the need and I will kill you. You are really close in giving me that need Palomares.” he said while charging him towards the place where Toronado was standing.
“ You are not going to kill me because you have principles.” Toronado took the moment to take his arm in a strong bite and reared up.
“ You are right I have principles, but my horse hasn't!” quipped Zorro before he saw his horse come down with Palomares yelling in pain. Toronado had a strong grip. He smashed Palomares against a large rock near him. The body ended at the foot of the rock, but the smash made an avalanche of rocks, burying the body as a sort of last resting place, all it needed was a wooden cross.
Toronado was stepping towards Tempus now. Tempus himself was stepping backward.
" Call that devilish animal back before I shoot him," Tempus warned.
Zorro didn't respond well on warnings, “ If Toronado dies, you will join him.”
Tempus laughed,” you think that I am afraid of your saber?”
Clark sighed he had enough of this, he stepped towards Tempus. The only way Tempus could go was the other way, back towards Toronado until he bumped into the horse. He turned around and jumped in his saddle, hoping he could hold on long enough to get this beast into moving forwards.
He didn't know that he not only faced the man of steel but also the horse with an iron willpower.
Toronado reared up. Tempus grabbed his neck. The stallion bucked as high as he could, making that Tempus falling his with his head on Toronado's backhand. Toronado reared again and smashed Tempus against the ground with another high buck, Toronado's backhand was almost straight in the air. Tempus couldn't hold on on that one.
" Aimed and launched." Clark quipped while facing Tempus, who was with his face down in the hot desert sand. He grabbed Tempus by the shoulder and lifted him up. " I will leave him in your capable hand's Sergeant. The sergeant was still nervous, he placed Tempus on the back of the horse he had taken to come here.
Desoto took the command back, "Senor Wells you can ride up behind the prisoner, senor Zorro I assume you take senorita Victoria to the pueblo, Senor Kent you and senorita Lois can take the other horse, Palomares came with. Everyone did what was told and soon they where on there way back to the pueblo, Tempus gagged because Desoto was agitated by his babbling about Clark being an alien and then about the poet of the Pueblo being Zorro, he was sure that Clark was the devil, but fortunately for Zorro he never believed that the coward of the pueblo was the outlaw Zorro.
The ride on the pueblo was filled with silence, Zorro's intuition was nagging him but he sighed and pulled Victoria closer to him, he blamed on the fact that he was walking next to the Alcalde and not being chased by him. He didn't trust the Alcalde completely but he would cross that bridge when coming to it. Clark was also lost in thoughts holding Lois close to him, he wasn't an experienced rider, let alone riding with someone in front of him. He admired the people who lived here, who didn't know what a car was, let alone how easy you could take something like that for granted. He even wasn't going to take his flying trips for granted. That was the power he missed using in the past. He was going to take Lois on a flying trip to Paris when all of this would be over and they were back in Metropolis and in the year 1993.
The biggest surprise though was when they arrived in the pueblo.
“ Dear Zorro, our truce is officially over now! Grab him!!” Desoto yelled.
Lancer came out of hiding, and surround Zorro and Victoria, separating him from Clark and Lois and H.G Wells. Toronado was agitated but didn't dare to rear with not only Zorro but also Victoria on his back. Zorro was outsmarted this time.
“ Take them to their cells, they die at dawn!” ordered Desoto to his lancers.
The people were filling the plaza piece by piece, Don Alejandro in front of them.
" Alcalde, What the hell have these good people done to deserve this, even that price on Zorro's head in disgrace and you know it," he yelled towards the Alcalde.
“ I wasn't going to say this because it would only panic the people but Mr. Kent is really the devil in person!” Desoto said sure of himself.
Mendoza nodded, “ He is right people, I saw him make fire with his eyes.”
The people were backing away from Clark everyone except don Alejandro. “ What about Zorro and senorita Escalante? They aren't evil.”
“ Dear people, Zorro is not only an outlaw but he is possessed by the devil himself. They need to die, I am sorry. Anything else and you will hang with them in the morning.”
" People, I am not the devil, I don't know where he gets this but I am not the devil, YOU NEED TO BELIEVE ME!!" Clark yelled he hated it that he couldn't use his powers now, because if he did it would make them only more suspicious of him being the devil himself.
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