Brainiac 5 threw himself to the side as the creature stumbled then slowly fell forward, the smell of burning hair and flesh both making him retch and revealing what Clark had been trying to tell him. His heat vision. Pushing himself to his feet shakily, he glanced around, noticing with a flare of annoyance that the boy they had been helping simply rushed off and left them both. But that was pushed aside when he saw Clark. Something was clearly wrong, as the Kryptonian was... crying? Abandoning all thought of the others they'd been helping and skirting around the corpse of the creature, Brainiac 5 rushed to his friend's side.

"Clark! Is something wrong? Are you... in any pain?"