For those of you playing the home game, I've thrown in a few "in-jokes."

The Lost Mariner is actually the title of the episode in which Xena and Gabrielle save Cecrops.

The comment about Gabrielle's top looking like a sports bra is a nod to the fandom nickname for the outfit - the BGSB (Billious Green Sports Bra).

Comments are most welcome!!!!!!!!!!!

I like the idea, but have to ask- do I need to know anything about Xena?

Not really. Just that she's a warrior woman who kicks butt in ancient Greece. She was once an evil warlord but changed to the side of good after fighting alongside Hercules. She and her friend Gabrielle travel Greece (and occassionally to parts outside of Greece) fighting for the side of good (for Xena, it's a way of atoning for all of her past misdeeds).

I've tried to make it as assessible as possible to the non-Xenites.

Any questions/confusion about what is in the story and I will be happy to try and explain to make it even more assessible.

Odd thought - Xena and Gabrielle have 20th century reincarnations; If I remember the timing right they'll be fairly elderly ladies when Superman makes his debut, but that doesn't necessarily rule out some renewed contact after L&C return to the 20th century.

If we get to meet Hercules too, it's worth remembering that in Hercules / Xena canon he's (a) an immortal demigod and (b) around in the 20th/21st century using the identity of actor Kevin Sorbo.

That's true. Xena and Gabs did get cloned in the Season 6 episode, "Send in the Clones." I don't remember all of the details about it (I haven't seen it since the original air date 10 years ago). But they wouldn't be elderly - just the samples used to clone them were 2000 years old.

And yes, Hercules acting as Kevin Sorbo. Those are the best Herc eps. Maybe I could use him if I do a Herc/Xena in the future story. (And maybe clone Iolaus - I find him way more fascinating than Herc.)

/puts it on to read list/

So, is Xena the Lois-incarnation of -??? B.C. to + 50 A.D.?

Michael

I was thinking more of the episode set in 1940, The Xena Scrolls, with Gabrielle as a sort of Indiana Jones character and Xena as the timid secretary. I don't think I ever saw Send In The Clones, a lot of the later episodes were only shown once on British TV and usually at stupid times.

Nope, that's just the random page break thing that I picked, since fanfiction.net won't let me use ************ as a break.

Good point. The Xena Scrolls was an amazing episode. I don't think you missed much by not seeing Send In The Clones - I didn't care for much of season 6. But I am watching Herc and Xena episode-by-episode currently.

Love the storyline when is the next posting

Probably on Weds or Thurs. Depends on a few personal issues that might arise this week. (Plus I'm still combing for typos.)

Glad you are enjoying it!

I am not a big fan of Xena myself. However, the concept of Lois and Clark thrown back to the time of Maximus is very intriguing.

Looking forward to reading the entire story in the future!

Thanks Morgana!

I like all the little details you've thrown in, both from the show and from the year(s) between the end of the show and this story--like Clark writing an article to bring back the hawks or the bananas from 'Ordinary People.'

It's too bad that Clark lost his powers, though I was wondering how he could be captured with them. Now, however, I'm starting to get a bit worried. And what will happen to Lois?

Well, I'm getting a bit ahead of myself, but...great beginning. I don't know anything about Xena, but I really like this opening.

Thank you Anti-K! Having Clark lose his powers was a necessary evil. Besides, it's always fun to write for a vulnerable Clark. And I really, really didn't want to bring Kryptonite into this - it would have been a little too much.

I do throw in little tidbits about Xena and her life in the following chapters. Hopefully it is enough to make the character/show concept really accessible.

Glad you liked the little throwbacks/details to the episodes. I think my mind was working in subconcious ways when I wrote the hawks in - I was actually thinking about the falcons that nest on the towers of one of the bridges where I grew up - but wrote hawks and realized much, much later that Lois and Clark were the Hawks in Just Say Noah.

What now?

Michael

Michael - I really do enjoy your feedback.

Yes, they really are that fast on the draw with their weapons. Trust me, I'm actually midway through both Herc and Xena on dvd. I'm calling it my research for the fic. (Really, I will take any excuse.)

They are indeed in a different universe...at least in this story. I'm considering altering that a bit if I write a sequel.

Tempus had a long time in solitary confinement to work on his time window??

I did not mean to kill a little tank. But I do like Lois' longer hair better than the short hair.

They all speak the same language for the same reason why Xena et al can wander the entire globe and converse with the locals.

It's mostly Clark and Lois' POV this story, but plently of Xena and Gabrielle in the mix.

Gotta love Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert's universe!

Thanks for reviewing and I hope you enjoy the rest.

I'm just the mirror cabinets mirror, reflecting what I see with a semi reasonable accuracy. Also, Muse is happy she gets at least some exercise.

Okay, so it's been a long, long time.

Huh, yay... And I just realized, he might have simply shorted out the time window's window bazimbo-doodle and now the damaged window is connecting the the devices surface to the time flux, and by extension, everyone who's touching the device Good thing the window's still transporting non-conducting material, or they might have ended up like the Terminator.

/slaps head/ Translator microbes?

Oops, did I mention 'long time' before?

You're welcome and I'll guess there's only one way to find out

Michael

Michael - Um, yeah, I *think* the long time part might have been mentioned.

Also, I would not have minded if Clark wound up transporting to Greece like the Terminator. Would not have minded at all.

Something that I and a lot of us have overlooked for a long time is the fact that Tempus was a technophobe. He couldn't even operate the fundamental controls of the time sled. He needed Herb to drive for him.

Later in Meet John Doe he steals the brain washing device and uses it. One explanation I can come up with is the possibility that they are Tempus variants from different universes all with the same motovation.

In view of all this how was he capable of constructing a time window device?

Hmm...I actually intended that he'd had an extra one around from the John Doe/Lois and Clarks days that he saved somehow, thinking of a new plan to get Clark.