Lex Luthor approached Lois Lane and she turned around. "So nice to see you Miss Lane. And...you are?" Lex turned to the man with dorky glasses: "Clark Kent, I'm a reporter-" "Yes, yes I'm sure you are!" Lex waved him off before refocusing on Lois: "So....impressive isn't it? Kind of makes you wish we'd stayed together-" Lex began, only for Lois to interrupt: "I'm here as a reporter, Lex. NOT as your ex-girlfriend who you for some reason think is desperate enough to-"<br/><br/>"Well he actually seems pretty friendly." Kirito says to the others. Quintus only chuckles. "You have no idea Kirito." "We best make sure nothing big is going on." Asuna whispered to the others. Klein nodded after eating another bit of what was provided on the food tray. "Aw, I wanted to see if Zach was good on the dance floor, that is, if there is one!" Lisbeth stated.<br/><br/>Soon the charity ball was over...but as Kirito, Leafa and Clark and Lois were leaving, Lex went into a hidden passageway....and when any of the Kryptonians in the party tried to use their x-ray vision...they found it didn't work in that spot. "Huh....my x-ray vision is malfunctioning or something." Leafa said.<br/><br/>"That's just rude!" Leafa hissed her whisper as she rubbed her eyes in annoyance. "I almost stared so hard my eyes hurt!" "So they can't see through lead. That's nice to know they have some limitations." Lisbeth said. "All I got is the ring and I can take it off at any given moment."<br/><br/>"I don't wanna know what drawbacks I might have." Klein muttered.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, deep within the bowels of Lex's mansion: Lex had used his various connections to stage a prison riot and disguise the abduction of a badly wounded prisoner at Strykers Island Penitentiary named John Corben from the infirmary.<br/><br/>He watched behind a two way mirror as his best team of researchers replaced Corben's body with cybernetics...all powered by the mineral he'd discovered: Kryptonite