The alarm clock had to go.His very life depended on it." He offered further instructions - Babe was to sneak into the farmhouse, proceed through a kitchen and living room, and avoid disturbing the Hoggetts"" nasty, mean and favored cat Duchess (voice of Russie Taylor), and abscond with the threatening, job-stealing clock in the upstairs bedroom.He uses you.He uses you to cheat us, your own folks.Keeping his books there at the store.Well, we want to use you.We want you to help us...And I know Tom Blake""s boy will stand by his folks.Marvin was dumbstruck by he request - and was unable to respond.He was forced to straddle himself between the two opposing sides and not risk his job or livelihood, or to alienate his relatives.Lois brought Clark the handwritten letter from the concerned schoolboy, and he read it outloud: "Dear Superman, forgive me for writing to you, but my teacher was speaking about the President""s speech on the arms race.Troops were deployed with "cure"-weapons.Magneto was to be found and stopped immediately - "by any means necessary." He added: "Magneto wants a war.We""ll give him one." Soldiers"" metal weapons were replaced with plastic weapons loaded with cure cartridges.All of Worthington Labs"" facilities were surrounded by troops.At the same time, Logan/Wolverine had located Magneto""s forest camp through his senses, but on his way there was confronted by mutant Spike (Lance Gibson).