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I had this idea while writing the script to my video and I don't have nearly enough time to write it. But I would still like to see it written, so I'm leaving it up to you good folcs to solve.

The story starts out with Superman dropping from the sky.

"Stone cold dead."

Seriously. Dead.

No joke. Superman's dead, and nobody knows what happened to him. Enter a whole slew of problems- Clark Kent goes missing, Lois is confused, and nobody knows what to do.

Your turn. Anybody want to pick up where I left off? (Don't worry, if you want to, Clark can always be resurrected at the end or something if you want.) I'd really like to see this written. If there's something similar already written, please direct me to it. I'd be really interested in reading about it.

It could always be Luthor's clone and Clark ends up in... I don't know... Seattle?... Peru?... with amensia (that way Lois doesn't find him right away). Just a thought.

I was actually *just* coming to post that the dead Superman could be the clone. And maybe Clark allows "Superman" to stay dead for a little while, seeing if he can give up his alter-ego for a chance to be with Lois.

I mean, Vatman happens really late in season 1, when Clark is fully aware of how he's being cast aside in Lois' sight as compared to his super self. So it could be feasible that he experiments with letting the "superhero" die for a while. And of course, he wouldn't *really* be able to do it, so by the end of the story (maybe a week or two after SuperClone dies) the real Superman takes to the skies again.

Just a thought. I'm refusing to allow my muse to do this. I have her (more or less) on a very short leash that is attached to the remaining chapters of Contractually Bound.

Good point, DC.

My first thoughts involved Jason Trask, kryptonite and a plane, but where would be the challenge in that? Then again, I suppose Gretchen Kelley could be involved.

Maybe Superman's powers are stolen using a RedK laser think as in 3rd season but in this case transferred to a Superman look alike.

We know that powers transferred will wear out just as the ones transferred by lightning did. And in time Clark's body will store up enough light to become super again. But if it is early enough in the timeline Clark will NOT know that.

So Clark could be working on how to deal with a superpowered phoney while he is unpowered, when the imposter uses up his supercharge and falls to the ground.

All good points. Especially liked the use of red k instead of green k. And the clone.

What if it happened after Lois and Clark were already married? Post season four. Clark is gone on a rescue, and suddenly it's on the news that Superman fell from the sky. Lois doesn't believe it's true until her husband doesn't return...?

If Clark was to eventually return, would it be because of the clone? Resurrection? Did he fake his death (actually a very interesting reverse-take sort of on TOGOM)? Thoughts?

How evil! I love it!

I thought so. Of course, there's always those eternal optimists who want Clark alive (which I of course, do not comprehend), so I still think I would work it out in the end.

Ooh. Randomly evil side note. Halfway through the story, while grieving privately for her husband, Lois gets a phone call from Clark's cell.

A twist! A twist! A very evil twist!

Take #2
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Poring through the Superman Foundation archives Tempus found himself entranced by a strange little tidbit he’d never come across before. With his various run-ins with the Man of Steel and determined in his thirst for revenge, he had become quite a scholar in Utopian/Kent history and had never.... Having been a multidimensional traveler, and a time traveler to boot, he was sure he would have heard, but....

He began a search of the science section of the Library for any mention of the phenomenon, technology or even theoretical work. Hundreds of years of material were searched. Weeks went by and his diligent search returned “nothing”. Certain related lines of research with many published results simply ended which led him to suspect a cover-up. Imagine--a cover-up in Utopia!

Well, the cover-up wasn’t complete. In the ancient book he had found the item that changed his life and revitalized his dreams. A footnote mentioning a powerful fifth dimensional being that had terrorized Superman’s life centuries before. So, he thought, “How, exactly would one contact an imp named Mxyzptlk?”

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The rest is left to the reader as an exercise...

Oddly enough, today I logged into my Twitter. I follow SupermanTweets and he posted the following:

"I've found Clark's last will... #Tears picture "

I would totally wear at least a Superman T-shirt if I ever go skydiving...