Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Clark TOC can be found Here

Don't pass out from shock, but Alt-Clark finally arrived to the other dimension. <<dodging tomatoes>>

I will try to post every other day (at least through early July) at which time I will take a much needed collapse ... er... vacation. I will take up again a couple weeks later, hopefully at the same posting schedule.

This story is completely outlined / plotted out (unlike most of the stories I write), so I know where I'm going and how to get there. The problem will be more finding the time to write it all out (time without noise and interruptions and passing out from lack of sleep onto the keyboard).

Comments?

Love the alternative histories with President Elvis and such. I can't wait to see Clark with his parents.

Joan

Thank you, Joan. I was just elaborating a bit on what we had been given in canon. I wanted to show how different the two dimensions were. Before we meet the Kents, we need to get Clark a job. Should he apply as a garbage collector? A school teacher? A police officer? A super hero? A chef? A professional athlete? Oh, all right, :rolleyes: he'll be a journalist. Should I have him at the Metropolis Star? Or apply at the Daily Planet?

Good job, I like the way this is working out. I am looking forward to more soon. Laura

Thanks, Laura. Yep, no easy solutions or quick answers. More posting tomorrow night. Hmmm. Better get back to writing.

Hi Virginia,

So, AltClark is now in another dimension, AND he is back in time to save Lois and the world in the future..... Very clever!

Hi, Sydney!

Thank you. I'm glad you're back for Book 2.

Yeah! Let it begin!!

Why, thanky, kind lady. The set up is complete, so the fun begins tonight. Must go write more before my posting parts catch up with me and I have to post less often. I currently have a 20 part cushion, which gives me 40 days and my vacation to write another 20 parts. (See why I have the best Betas! I keep their lives busy.)

Ah yes. 1866. And that's cool about Wells.
Actually, I go on a BTTF bender every year. We usually do our marathon over thanksgiving break, and Star Wars marathon over winter break... because my brother and I always tend to obsess over everything, and drove my mom crazy... Your kids would probably like it, but you have to remember that 80's PG is the equivilent of our PG-13. So you might want to hold off until they know most the bad words. (Trust me, there's a lot more than you might remember- I'm always surprised by it.)

Thanks for the warning. In my memory it was geared more for teenagers. I was amazed at how many swear words were in "Short Circuit" (which my kids loved BTW). I'll wait on BTTF as they are only 4 and 7. (We have been on many SW - Original version Episodes 4-6 - benders since the beginning of the year. My kids LOVE SW. Episodes 1-3, I think they can wait five more years on.)

Short Circuit? Really? Wow. Talk about rose colored glasses. I don't remember any bad words... As far as SW goes, well, I'll always recommend them, since I essentially was nursed on the original trilogy VHS's and skipped school every time a new one came out (shh! Don't tell my teachers- though I think most of them knew, with how much I talked about/wrote about it...)

Well, okay, there was less than 5, but that was more than I expected for THAT kids' film.

I saw SW in the theatre when it originally came out and I was but a wee lass; so I figured if I had been old enough to see it, so were my kids. Plus, it has a great female role model in it for little girls! (Although, if I hear my daughter say she liked RotJ one more time because of the Ewoks I'm going to hurl. :rolleyes: )

Aw, I like the Ewoks. They're cute. But they're not why I love RoTJ. I love it because of everything else. :p

Hi, I'm a (most of the time) lurker that loves reading epic stories. Loved Another Lois and enjoyed Part 1 of Wrong Clark.

I de-lurked this time because I have a question that won't go away: how are you going to deal with Clark's portfolio? I'm guessing the stories he wrote in his dimension might not work in this one very well, and although OriginalClark (from the series dimension) got a chance from Perry after writing the theater piece and not his travel stories, he still might need a portfolio for his interview.

malu

Hi, Malu, this question will be addressed in tonight's part. Thank you for reading. Glad you enjoyed Another Lois. It was difficult one to write. This one is more fun.

Agreed.

Sounds like he's going to hold to the original (i.e. Canon) Clark's POV with regard to the "real self." Of course this means things are going to be difficult with her for a time.

OMG, can you imagine that???? I'm having a hard time visualizing the resulting situation. Probably because what I'm seeing feels so out of character for the two of them.

It sounds like he's going to be happy that he can finally have control over his own cash. That's definitely an interesting facet to have to deal with.

Ah yes, the anonymity that Canon Clark enjoyed and Alt-Clark probably will never take for granted.

I guess it's better to learn that now than after you've applied for the Daily Planet after all.

No pressure of the suit to remind him of how different he actually is from the rest of the world.

Superman's taking a week off. Probably for longer than the Canon Clark went between a day off.

Do you think it has anything to do with Tempus' trip into the past? I mean does that part of his history still stand?

It looks like it just hit home just how personally different his story is from this universe's.

Wow, I hadn't actually thought that Jonathan's accident had happened before Clark had become Superman. I'm sure like many people, I thought it had happened during series (I don't remember the episode but I distinctly remember a scene where Clark was already going to visit and caught Jonathan falling off of a ladder while painting the barn.)

Somehow I suspect Alt-Clark will be making a regular trip out to the Kent farm. Possibly becoming their surrogate son unintentionally (or maybe not, I guess we'll have to see.)

Yup, definitely going to be a regular guest/customer.

Hi, Christina: If things weren't difficult between Lois and Clark, there wouldn't be much of a story, would there? Boy meets girl, girl falls for him, he falls for her, the end. Nah! How about some angst instead?

Okay, you lost me here. What would be out of character? <<bites fingernails>> Alt-Clark falling for another Clark's Lois? Alt-Clark asking canon Lois to stay in his dimension because he fell in love with her? Alt-Clark almost kissing another Clark's wife? Oh, wait, THAT happened in canon already. That's why Clark moved to this dimension, no other Clark competition. Or so he thinks.

Kind of like a kid having to ask for money to do something, it's kind of bothersome.

Yep.

No temptation to rush off and save someone while in the Suit before he's come up with another way to announce Superman's presence in this dimension. Plus, he needed a weekend off.

Well, there were a few times in S1, when Lois mentioned that no one had seen Superman for days. So, he accomplished it at first.

The American Civil War (1861-1865) was different. Tempus was sent into the past in 1866. Since the doorway into the past (pre 1966) is currently sealed shut. Canon dimension and this alt-canon-dimension share a past May 16, 1966 and before.

"Madame Ex" when Clark comes to discuss Lois saying that she was fine despite her failed wedding to Lex. But that was with a CK in dimension. With no CK to paint the barn for him on a regular basis, this Jonathan painted it a couple of years earlier.



Thanks for the detailed FDK, Christina.

As far as I'm concerned, Episodes 1-3 never happened. Jar-Jar Binks ensured that.

Of the three Part 2 was definately the best (of these 3), Jar-Jar excluded. One was annoying (except for the light saber duel), and three... well, I'm sorry, it totally canceled out Darth Vader's redemption scene in RotJ. My daughter wants to see them because she wants to see Padame / Queen Amadala (mostly because she wears cool costumes.) My daughter is very girly. I don't know where she gets it from. I don't own a copy of them, so it makes it all the more difficult to show those three films to her. Oh, darn. My son is just too young as they are much more violent than 4-6.

It's not your story that I'm seeing as out o character. It's Alt-Clark and Canon Clark coming to blows...then again there were times during the Clone/Deter arcs that it seems like the only reason he (Canon Clark) didn't come to blows with both Luthor and Deter was the fact that he could potentially kill them. With Alt-Clark there's a much more even playing field.

Phew. That's a relief.

Been there, done that. New story, new ideas. (No, really. I know I repeat themes in my stories :rolleyes: , but that's not one of them, I swear ) Anyway, wasn't that done when Superman fought SuperClone in "Vatman"?

I don't know... it always seemed like Clark didn't really want to fight him at all. And as for the "jealous" type reaction, I don't believe he actually did. From what I can recall, Clark didn't move in on the apartment until after it was obvious that SuperClone was making very obvious untoward, unappreciated moves on Lois. I suspect if they had been accepted he might not have burst into the apartment. He might have regretted listening in, but he would have turned away. Not to mention this is at a different point in their relationship than later in the series, when their relationship was at a different stage.

Knowing that SuperClone wasn't the real Superman, do you really think CK would have let SuperClone spend any/much time alone with the woman he loves, even if on "good" behavior? I can't see him allowing that.

Duh!

As in sexual favors?

Yeah. Right.

Maybe next to him in bed.

After said sexual favor.

Except the sex.

Eeehhh… It might help if it was mutually contentious. Less hassle.

This dimension killed off their Lois. It doesn’t deserve a Superman.

Eeeehhh…

Without another woman to make him interesting? Oh, right. You didn’t mention an abundance of cattiness.

Eeeeeehhhh… /has noticed that Virginia did never mention the title of Book 3/

He could dig on the bottom of the sea? Or, actually, go after the Caribbean gold?



Wow, people are attentive in this Metropolis. Usually, you only get talked at if you cause discomfort to someone.

Michael

Edit: BttF has swear words in them? Huh. I really need to dig out those DVDs. And Short Circuit, too? Of course, I've always only seen the synchronized version (need to get my hands on the original). Maybe they cut them out... Probably, considering what they did to Bruce Willis's catchphrase from Die Hard in German. I think it's even less of an invective than 'bastard' is compared to what he says in English.

Michael! Welcome to my next ride! (I promise not as dark and a lot less deadly.)

One track mind much?

Are you saying that maybe, possibly, there might be a fair chance you've read something like that somewhere before?

Let me guess Bruce said something about "Schweine"? Not quite the same.

So, Nightfall is not going to crack the Earth open like an egg and throw the pieces out of their natural orbit?

Michael

What Nightfall does or does not do has been explained in Another Lois. Why should that change? Oh, right, Superman! Hmmmm.

Well, that's a recommendation if I've heard one.

I meant the Prologue from this story.

Now, THERE's a crossover waiting to happen.

I have a tendency to do the opposite. My Betas are constantly adding "not" and "n't" to my sentances. :rolleyes:

No, he's pretending he's normal, remember. So, no x-ray vision.

So, "Them" being the "Sliders".

Clark's singing makes crop circles?

I think I know "what" they were trying to say, but like the twins names cannot be said on the Gfic boards. Sorry.

Right. Duh! Did I react that way back then, too?

Geek question for The Big Bang Theory: Who'd win, a Jedi or Superman? And is Superman impervious to lightsabers?

/imagines Virginia writing how Lois did want to consummate with Lex/

Michael

No, you're creatively different each time I repeat myself.

Only the green lightsabers can hurt him.

Something like that. How she did want to date Clark. How Clark was the man for her. How there was another man out there for her. That sort of thing. Freudian slips?

True. This isn't Gotham City.

Oh. Well, if I remember correctly from my ASU watching, didn't the nuke miss anyway?

Thanks. <<brow furrows>> I think.

I'm sorry, even though it may not seem like it at times but I DO have standards and Beavis & his buddy don't meet them.

So, the Sith should switch to green crystals, then?

And they noticed?

True.

And did just recently call Lois slippery, didn't you?

Umm...nono, I only know of them because it's hard not to be aware of them. Well, unless you shun all useless trivia and stuff. Anyhow, 'buddy' was the easiest way to circumscribe things you can't say.

Michael

Only if they expect to come upon Kryptonians visiting / living in a yellow sunned systems.

Of course! I have terrific Betas! Anyone who reads my stuff and keeps coming back for more is tops in my book!

Very possibly.

Know of Beavis & BH. Of course. There were a few years I couldn't escape them when I tried (and believe me I tried). I believe "buddy" was my term for Beavis' pal, but that's what happens when a few days pass between FDK comment postings, you end up going

Michael

Guess who started at page one!!


I'm intrigued also. *wonders if this is explored waaaay later*


Nobody asked you, Clark, so shut up.



Not to mention the ENORMOUS one?

MrsLuthor: Yea! You're back!

Guess who was one of my betas for this first 75ish parts. Granted that was several years and a zillion medical facts ago, so you're allowed a memory lapse.

It's on my to-do list. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about it.

Ooooooh. Somebody doesn't want Mr. X-Ray eyes to dig up naughty stuff on her hubby!

Enormous one? Oh, yeah. That he fell in love with a different Lois from another dimension, first. That one, right?

I'm pretty sure I beta'd well into the 100s BUT reading this felt like the first time! Some parts I remembered and had some Aha moments on because I start to recall a bit. It's been too long indeed!

College truly ruined my poor brain. It doesn't remember how to read for leisure.

And you'd be right. Another look back over my notes, it seems that you made it through about the first 130ish parts before RL took over your free time.

I know the feeling. Kids do the same thing for me.