Chapter Summaries

After Coach Watt was ordered to suspend his football players for cheating, he awakened a fire-based power and vowed revenge on Jino Luthor. At school, Jino recognized Watt’s new ability, while Clark learned that Lana had quit the cheerleading squad.

• Principal Guan confronted Watt over leaked midterm questions and ordered him and the football players to accept a two-week suspension, despite Watt’s plea to delay it until after their next game.
• After Principal Guan left, Watt ignited flames across the sauna wall with his hands and swore that Jino and anyone who stood in his way would pay in blood.
• At school, Jino used X-ray Vision to see green energy surging through Watt’s hands and realized Watt had awakened a superpower.
• Chloe told Jino and Clark about the cheating investigation while Clark defended Watt, and Lana argued with the coach before leaving for the school building.
• Clark told Jino and Chloe that Lana had quit the cheerleading squad to find something she was good at, and Jino urged Clark to make the most of the opportunity.

Jino and Chloe rescued Principal Guan from a burning car, and Jino spotted Coach Watt watching from his office. The police ruled the fire accidental, while Watt planned to target the Luthor Family next.

• Jino and Chloe heard Principal Guan calling for help and rushed to the burning car.
• Jino broke into the car, pulled Principal Guan out, and put out the flames as Chloe went to call emergency services.
• Jino saw Coach Watt close his office window and suspected him of deliberately setting the fire.
• Jino took Chloe home, then returned to school to keep watch on Watt.
• Watt misled the police, who closed the case as an accidental fire caused by aging wiring.
• Watt celebrated after the police left and chose the gas station east of town as his next target, naming the Luthor Family.

Watt hijacked a gasoline tanker to attack Luthor Manor after burning Principal Guan, but Jino Luthor caught him and beat him unconscious. Watt begged for mercy, and Jino rejected his apology.

• Watt ran over the tanker driver Kade after Kade stopped to investigate an abandoned pickup.
• Watt recalled burning Principal Guan and planned to crash the tanker into Luthor Manor and ignite its gasoline.
• Jino revealed himself in the back of the truck and attacked Watt before he could use his fire ability.
• Jino slammed Watt's head against the steering wheel repeatedly, then threw him out of the truck.
• Watt apologized and pleaded for his life, but Jino told him that apologies did not replace the police.

Clark put out a tanker fire and discovered two charred bodies, while Jino denied causing the blaze. At Luthor Manor, Lionel defeated Lex in a fencing match and ordered Jino to keep an eye on him, leaving Lex determined to earn his father's respect.

• Clark walked Lana home, then ran toward a sudden explosion and found an overturned fuel tanker burning near the forest.
• Clark raced around town gathering fire extinguishers and put out the fire, but found two people dead in the wreckage.
• Clark encountered Jino on the road and questioned him about the fire; Jino denied involvement and left, while Clark wondered what had happened.
• Jino arrived at Luthor Manor and found Lionel and Lex fencing; Lionel defeated Lex and ordered him to cut staff by twenty percent and Jino to watch over him.
• Lex vowed to make Lionel admire his achievements, while Jino teased him about losing.

Clark learned that Coach Watt had died and suspected Jino had killed him, then saw someone who looked like Jino rob a bank. At school, he told Jino about the impostor and his new ability to see the robber’s green skeleton.

• Jonathan read that Coach Watt and a truck driver had died in a tanker crash, and Clark suspected Jino had killed the coach.
• Clark drove to town and saw Jino leave Dream Bank with a red backpack after threatening the manager with a sword and demanding money.
• Clark tried to stop Jino, but Jino shoved him through a shop window, and Clark saw the fleeing robber as a small skeleton with green bones.
• During PE class, Clark told Jino that he had seen someone impersonating him rob the bank and described his new ability.
• Jino became interested when Clark explained that the impostor’s skeleton had been green.

Jino and Clark searched the school for the person who had used Jino’s appearance to commit robberies, narrowing their suspects to four students who were absent. At Tina Loren’s antique shop, Jino discovered that Tina was there and identified her as the likely culprit.

• Jino used Clark’s vision to search the school and concluded that the impersonator was probably a student who had recently gained powers.
• Jino and Clark checked the attendance list with the principal and narrowed the suspects to Marco, Rod, Jenny, and Tina.
• Clark suggested Tina because she imitated Lana, and Lana joined Jino and Clark to visit her home.
• At Tina’s antique shop, Mrs. Loren nervously tried to send the visitors away and claimed Tina was at her grandmother’s house.
• Jino looked through the shop and found Tina Loren, confirming her as the person they had been seeking.

Jino Luthor confronted Tina for stealing his fifty thousand dollars and forced her to choose between dying and working for him. He took her to Luthor Industries, where he prepared to show her the truth of the town.

• Tina dreamed of drowning, then woke to find Jino holding her down in her room.
• Jino accused Tina of stealing his money and threatened to kill her unless she worked for him; Tina chose to obey.
• Jino told Tina to look at a woman and transform into her, then took her from the antique shop.
• Jino brought Tina to Luthor Industries and used a silver card to take the elevator to Basement Level One, promising to reveal the truth of the town.

Jino had Tina implanted with a remotely controlled Nano-bomb and brought her to his castle, then messaged Talia. On Demon Island, Ra's al Ghul sent a young man to undergo the League of Assassins' initiation trial, while Talia concealed her doubts about him.

• Jino brought Tina to Lex's laboratory and explained that he wanted to use her shapeshifting ability as a spy for Talia.
• Lex's scientists implanted a Nano-bomb in Tina's neck after Jino ordered her to comply.
• Jino took Tina to his castle, where Old Butler found her a room, and then Jino messaged Talia.
• On Demon Island, a young man asked Ra's al Ghul to teach him martial arts, and Ra's al Ghul ordered him to survive the League's initiation trial first.
• Talia privately doubted the young man's strength but told Ra's al Ghul that she shared his opinion.

Talia reluctantly agreed to meet Tina after deciding Jino meant to use her as a spy. Jino prepared a dance party at Luthor Manor, invited his friends, and recruited Clark and Pete to distribute invitations and screen guests.

• Talia stabbed a dart into a photograph of a young man, then agreed to meet Tina after receiving a message from Jino.
• Jino arranged for Tina to travel to London and contact her superior after arriving.
• Jino gave invitations to Chloe, Clark, and Pete for a dance party at Luthor Manor.
• Chloe accepted Jino's invitation to be his dance partner.
• Jino asked Clark and Pete to distribute invitations while keeping drug users and school bullies off the guest list.
• Jino suggested Clark consult Lana Lang about eligible guests, and Clark eagerly agreed.

Jino prepared a Dance Party while Clark and Pete managed invitations at Smallville High School. After Julie was mocked for her weight, she drank homemade vegetable juice and rapidly slimmed down, then asked Pete to be her dance partner.

• Clark and Pete registered Dance Party applicants as students crowded around them for invitations.
• A student mocked Julie for her weight, and she fled in tears after the crowd laughed at her.
• Julie decided to lose weight, drank juice made from vegetables she picked from her garden, and woke the next morning noticeably thinner.
• Lex declined Jino's invitation to the Dance Party, saying he planned to form an agricultural alliance to address the company's losses.
• Julie asked Pete to be her dance partner after slimming down overnight, and Pete gave her an invitation.

Jino and Chloe suspected Julie’s overnight weight loss was connected to the meteor shower, while Pete eagerly went with Julie to shop for a dress. The chapter ended with Julie suppressing a painful hunger and luring the boy who had mocked her toward the fitting room.

• Jino told Clark and Chloe that Julie’s transformation was suspicious and warned Pete to keep his distance from her.
• Julie approached the group, then invited Pete to help her pick out a dress for the Dance Party.
• Clark decided not to follow Pete after Lana reminded him that he had promised to help her choose a dress.
• At the dress shop, Julie chose a red gown and went toward the fitting room.
• Julie’s hunger returned, and she encountered the boy who had mocked her before, then offered to let him watch her change.

Julie devoured the young man who had bullied her, then attended the dance party with Pete nowhere to be seen. When Chloe learned Pete was not on the guest list and Julie was also missing, she decided to investigate.

• Julie lured the young man into a fitting room and devoured his body fat.
• Julie left the fitting room looking radiant, and she and Pete talked about looking forward to the dance party.
• The Old Butler welcomed guests to Luthor Manor, where Jino and Clark arrived with their dance partners.
• Jino opened the dance party and danced with Chloe and other guests while Clark struggled to dance with Lana Lang.
• Chloe asked the Old Butler whether Pete Coulson was on the guest list, learned his name was absent, and decided to go check on him and Julie.

Pete’s date with Julie ended when her hunger triggered a transformation into a Bat Monster, which pursued him and Chloe in Clark’s SUV. As they fled, Pete tried to call Jino and Clark for help, while the monster closed in from the air.

• Pete arrived at Julie’s house dressed for Jino’s Dance Party, but Julie felt a painful hunger and ran back inside, telling him to leave.
• Chloe told Pete that Jenos had been found dead with all the fat drained from his body, and Pete remembered seeing Jenos with Julie earlier that day.
• Julie watched Chloe and Pete from her house, transformed into a Bat Monster, and shrieked through the window.
• Pete leapt into Clark’s SUV, and Chloe drove away while scolding him for ignoring her and Jino’s warnings about Julie.
• The Bat Monster pursued the SUV, took to the air, and shouted that Pete belonged to it as Pete tried to call Jino and Clark.

Jino left a dance party to rescue Chloe and Pete from a Bat Monster on Smallville Highway 5. He pinned the monster beneath a tree and approached their overturned SUV.

• Chloe urged Pete to call Jino while the Bat Monster pursued their SUV on Highway 5.
• Pete reached Jino at Luthor Manor and told him the monster was trying to kill them.
• After the call cut off during a crash, Jino vanished from the party and raced to the highway.
• Jino ripped up a tree and hurled it into the Bat Monster, knocking it into the woods and pinning it down.
• Jino dismissed the monster as a brainless beast and walked toward the overturned SUV.

Jino captured the Bat Monster alive and delivered it to Lex’s underground laboratory, where Lex planned to begin experiments soon. At school, Jino denied seeing Julie Moss after her father reported her missing, keeping her transformation secret.

• Jino lifted the overturned SUV, then told Chloe and Pete to leave before he secured the Bat Monster with wooden stakes.
• Jino called Lex, who arranged to have the live Bat Monster transported to Luthor Chemical Plant.
• Lex examined the Bat Monster in the laboratory and said its capture would let him begin his research sooner.
• Jino checked his system and revealed that he had earned enough points from interacting with Clark and Talia to obtain another Replication Card.
• Two police officers asked Jino whether he had seen Julie Moss at his party, and he denied seeing her.
• Jino decided Julie’s father should believe she was missing rather than learn that she had become a mindless Man-Bat.

Jino left school to join Lex at a laboratory, where they activated a clone made from Clark’s DNA using electricity and Kryptonite. After the clone awoke in distress, Lex evacuated the scientists and sealed the laboratory, leaving Jino and Lex alone with it.

• Lex called Jino to the factory, and Jino asked Chloe to get him excused from class before driving there.
• Jino saw the clone labeled B-Zero in a tank and learned Lex planned to use electricity and Kryptonite to activate its abilities.
• Lex began the experiment, and B-Zero awakened, struggled in the tank, and frightened the researchers.
• Jino signaled that he was ready to handle the situation, and Lex ordered everyone to leave and sealed the laboratory with only Jino, Lex, and B-Zero inside.

Jino and Lex released Lex’s Bizarro-like experiment, and Jino gained Bizarro’s talent through his replication card. The chapter ended with Jino asking Lex for Kryptonite, while Lex warned him that it was dangerous.

• Lex released the subject from the nutrient tank, shattering the glass and plunging the experimental facility into darkness.
• Jino recognized that the frightened subject was unintelligent and approached him despite Lex’s warning.
• Jino named the subject Bizarro, and Bizarro happily grabbed his hand as the replication card dissolved and granted Jino Bizarro’s talent.
• Lex restored the lights and found Bizarro obediently following Jino.
• Jino asked Lex for Kryptonite, and Lex warned him that it could seriously harm him.

Jino tested whether copying Bizarro’s abilities had freed him from Kryptonite’s effects, then discovered that Kryptonite awakened a freezing ray in his left eye. After Jino accidentally froze much of Lex’s underground laboratory, Lex decided to keep Bizarro there and try to teach him language and restore his appearance.

• Lex brought Kryptonite closer to Jino, who felt no weakness and realized copying Bizarro’s abilities had removed his Kryptonite restriction.
• Jino held the Kryptonite and felt warmth as green veins spread up his arm toward his left eye.
• Jino’s left eye began emitting a freezing ray, and he turned it away from Lex before freezing an experimental tank and much of the laboratory.
• Lex excitedly asked Jino to cooperate with future experiments, and Jino agreed despite wondering why the freezing ray came from only one eye.
• Bizarro called to Jino and Lex, and Lex decided to keep him in the laboratory while scientists taught him language and tried to restore his appearance.

Earl’s attempt to confront Lionel at LuthorCorp ended in Will’s death after Earl’s body began vibrating at extreme speed. Later, Jino experimented with his Freeze Ray and learned that a janitor had died at the headquarters, while Lex left the problem to Lionel.

• Earl ran to LuthorCorp in the rain and begged his former coworker Will to let him see Lionel about his incurable disease.
• Will refused to let Earl inside, and Earl’s body began vibrating until the glass entrance shattered.
• Earl grabbed Will, and his violent shaking broke Will’s neck; Earl fled after realizing he had killed him.
• Jino froze a glass of water with his Freeze Ray and reflected on how he had extended its attack range.
• Lex told Jino that a janitor had died at LuthorCorp and said Lionel could deal with the media attention.

Clark and Pete found Earl, who blamed LuthorCorp for his strange illness and sought help from Clark’s father. After Earl’s powers caused chaos at the hospital, Clark collapsed too, suspecting the illness was connected to Kryptonite and resolving to find Jino for answers.

• Chloe took review materials to visit Jino while Pete went home with Clark to play video games.
• Clark and Pete found a weakened Earl in the barn, where Earl said he had come to find Clark’s father and accused LuthorCorp of causing his illness.
• Earl’s touch made Clark collapse, and an ambulance took Earl to the hospital.
• Police told Clark and Pete that Earl was suspected of murdering a LuthorCorp janitor.
• Earl convulsed in the hospital, threw two officers aside, and collapsed after Clark restrained him, causing Clark to collapse as well.