Bronze Age

Chloe is working in the Torch* when she notices the power doesn't work, there is no one in the halls, and the only other person she can find has been turned into a plastic mannequin.  She's stuck inside a model of the Smallville High building, on the last day of class with no idea how she got there.  Eventually she runs into two other students who inform her that they're being watched.  Brendan, a photographer at SHS, comes out and reveals that he's controlling it all.  "Some of us didn't get into our dream colleges like you," he snipes at her, trying to convince her to stay 'in high school' with him so she won't be disappointed.  Brendan shows her that he turns the people into mannequins with the clear threat that if she tries to escape, she'll be one too.

Smallville, Episode 2.09: Chloe and IanChloe and Lana move in together; Clark helps transport Lana's boxes to Chloe's house and offers for the three of them to hang out but both girls have plans.   He tells them to call him when they are scheduled to breathe.

At school the next week,  Chloe working in the Torch when Ian Randall comes over to borrow back some of the reference books she's borrowed from the library.  When Ian tells her he's getting ready to graduate this year if he can get the Luthor scholarship, she claims she's "journalistically intrigued." She offers to give him an interview in the Torch, promising to take it easy on him.

She goes with him after school to the Talon where she interviews him; he comments that he can't wait to get out of Smallville.  Chloe adds that while she doesn't get the "mad rush" to graduate, she
can't wait to take the world beyond Smallville on.  She agrees to let Ian tag along and help at the Torch.  She nods to Clark before she leaves; Clark and Ian talk as he picks up the bill and agrees to help Lana with her Algebra.  The audience sees Ian's power - to split into to two halves.