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Can I just say that it helps having just watched the pilot on the Hub last night? Nice refresher. I know exactly where the differences are now, and wow! You did pretty great. This should fun!! But Clark's too gentlemanly for that, isn't he? Drat.

Great chapter! And I will be reading it as you post it immediately, so... Until tomorrow then!

Just a minor question. I'm a little confused as to why Alt-Clark and Lois would have memories of Superman eating the bomb. Unless canon Lois told Alt-Clark about it during her brief visit. But Lois' time alterations took place after this occured so it seems like she shouldn't have any lingering memories. (I love this stuff.)

Joan

Both alt-Clark and canon Clark ate bombs on their inital outtings as Superman :rolleyes: . Alt-Clark at the Mayoral Debate. Canon Clark on the Prometheus transport. Lois is remembering her Clark eatting the bomb, not alt-Clark.

Mouserocks: It's always nice to wake up to FDK, but this morning it was SUPER FDK. Thank you.

Thank you. Yep, some differences are subtle (placement of lines, and/or who spoke them), some a bit more noticeable.

Me, too.

No, he doesn't mean being outted as Superman. He means if he fails at rescuing the transport as his first mission as Superman, he won't be much of a super man in the eyes of the people of this dimension. Plus, Lois will be dead, and he'll blame himself... so doubly bad.

Sure, Superman, if that's the only way.

over him in the Suit. He's ready for the same expression when he's Clark Kent.





"I don't know. What's sex? Would you like to show me?" Oooops. Wrong boards. (Me, too.)

Lois doesn't have the mental ability to keep her emotions off her face at the moment.



Thank you. Yep, Part 7 will be posting late tonight. Part 8 - late tomorrow night. Then nothing more until late Sunday night.

Nicely done.

I especially liked the closing - Let's go to my place, not the Planet.

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<strong> Nicely done.

I especially liked the closing - Let's go to my place, not the Planet.

I'd forgotten about Alt-Clark's first events . If Lois can remember the original time line, why can't others like Perry and Jimmy? Is it because she's traveled during that time line? Kinda of like Men in Black 3?

Joan

I haven't seen MIB 3 (probably wait for the video), but I do understand it has something to do with time-travel.

Lois has echoes of her original memories (I call them echoes, because they are more feelings at this point than actual memories) while the others do not, because she was WITH Clark in the past at the point when time changed, so those memories stuck with her. Everyone else's memories have been rewritten over (thus replacing) the pre-existing memories. Deja vu / intuitive leaps may happen with them as well but not as often (especially as this new version of events unfolds differently) and not as clearly as they do with Lois. How is that for muddying the waters?

Hmm. That depends. Does Lois crave chocolate milk?
I loved picking up on them all.
It might give him an excuse to go to the bathroom at any given point in the time for the rest of his life. Super explosive gas issues... It could just be me. But it sounds as if "interview you for the Planet" is more like "um... *interview* you... on behalf of all the women on the planet."
OH! Charlie!! Somehow, everytime you've said Chuck is short for Charles I'm like, "well yeah, but what does that have to do with anything?" :rolleyes: Wow. Charlie *King*. How slow am I?
Yes, but nobody's seen the suit yet in this world. It's quite impressive. He can't expect her to get over it and fall for Clark just yet. (Especially when the last thing he said to her was "Snob")
He-heh. When she finds out it was Clark playing dumb, she'd kill him.
I don't know why you keep reminding me of that. I'm purposely ignoring that last part so that I can claim ignorance and complain loudly the whole time when you're not posting. But brownie points to you for posting so many in a row!

Wait! Four days is a long time between picking up Lois now and dropping her off at the Planet later... he really *is* going to go to her place?!

My place.

Wow. This Lois is a bit more aggressive with Superman then our Lois. I like it! Laura

This was fun. Well done.

My two favorite lines were:

Interesting how your use of a question mark there makes it so much funnier than if you'd put a period. Love that she asks herself why she would think that he would eat the bomb. Clark's "not this time" was cute, too.

Clark's mistake and quick cover-up were funny, but the "as if she would confuse her planet with any other" just cracked me up.

Looking forward to reading more...

Vicki: Thank you. Glad you're enjoying it.

Thanks. Clark was trying to avoid the previous unconscious he fell into at the Mayoral debate (of course, that was due more to Kryptonite, but why take the chance). Of course, he did get a bit of Lois mouth-to-mouth out of it, so maybe he was actually faking. Nah, he wouldn't do that.

Thanks. More giggles posting tonight. Reminds me, need to prep tomorrow's part. (Tonight's ready to go.)

Well, this Lois has already fallen for Superman, she's already done the wallflower bit, she's passed that. Let's just think of it as long-term repressed memories. Short term repressed memories would be that CK=S; a lot more informative, but not as sticky.

Mouse is back!

She likes chocolate milk, she craves chocolate ice cream.



Wasn't this given as a reason for him for him being outted? Let's see... 100 Ways to Reveal a Hero Ah, yes, #59:
Hey, wait a minute. Mouse, that was your suggestion!



She's been in his arms for three monthes? Or just saw 90 sunsets?

No, technically, the last thing she said to Clark was something along the lines as "We're not partners" as the elevator doors slamed in his face. Here it is:

Well, I was close.

Wouldn't one of them already be dead because of the curse, anyway? <<ducking>>

Well, technically, I may have put in your FDK response, but it was meant for everybody, because I forgot to mention it on my initial post.

Are you talking about how long you would have waiting between Part 6 & 7 if I wasn't posting tonight? (No, I would have posted tomorrow night as usual, you just would have missed #8 posting on Fri night, it wouldn't have posted until Sun night). Or did you mean in canon? This ISN'T canon dimension; the dominoes have started to fall, things aren't necessarily going to happen as they did originally or even in the same order. Who said he'd take 4 days to get her to the DP?

That makes sense. Lois traveled through time with Clark.

Joan

Great chapter: I really love all the differences with the Pilot: good job!

Thank you.

Duh! OTOH, it might be the secondary burn stage ignition?

Yeah, if it blew up around him that might be kinda awkward to explain.

So, about 10-13 seconds to launch.

How could they do that on the show?

/remembers final scene from James Bond – Moonraker/



Duh. Lois has learned in the past, that if she dresses like a professional, she gets the scoop or interview in question.



Like that wouldn’t be a wasted gift.

Could be a fun game though, for the powers that be: What win’s out, prescient insight into danger or the willingness to ignore said danger?

/Points to playbook, Step 1/

/chokes/ Sounds like Clark won’t have to be patient.

He really is hard to satisfy, isn’t he?

/is not willing to bet used penny on that one/

Ooooh! He’s a Toyota Prius.

How about ‘anatomically correct man’?

Yep, he’ll take that groupie anywhere she wants. Kitchen. Shower. Bedroom. Closet. Rooftop.

Michael

Michael's Here! Time for the fun.

Fun works. Good, not so much.

"Colonists" to me says there are non-scientists.

Probably not a good thing to say since she's the one who finds the bomb.

Just because other people are fools, does that mean she should jump off the cliff too?

Well, I'm sure she meant shorts and t-shirt, not nothing, nothing. Probably just administrative help.

But that would mean that Lois acknowledges the existance and almost equality of the Met. Star to the DP, which she would never do.

You never know while flying around and working on something in the electrical compartment, if the shuttle will hit turbulance and someone will need to sit down and buckle up.

Nah, she would have insisted on doing both.

Would they have installed it slightly tilted?

Plus, Lois would be dead and that would be a bummer.

I believe the difference between the launch clock and the bomb clock is closer to 30 seconds.

Why would Tempus want to delay the launch? To save his own skin that he doesn't know about? Plus, sorry, Tempus still DOA in this dimension.

Well, he had a head start and he only had to fly across town instead of 1/2 way across the country.

Yes, but *she* doesn't know that.

Why not? I think that's why canon Lois did.

Nah, this Clark wouldn't risk it.

Yes, S1 Superman and Lois do have a bit of a Bond and Bond girl relationship (without all that pesky sex).

Nobody serious wants to be interviewed by a bimbo.



Again, best intentions are not always what happens in heat of the moment.

/Pst. can alt-Clark borrow yours? He never got one./



A bit.



Don't be silly, Michael. A FLYING Toyota Prius.

I don't think he really needs to state the obvious, does he?





Yes.

(I mean I could tell you that they now spend the next three day having a flying boinkfest, after which Lois will discover CK=S, they will argue for about 20 parts, until she finally forgives him, they ask Cat to join a three... oh, wait, Gfic boards. Have I been posting this story on the Gfic boards? Oh, me, oh my? I can't post those parts now... Hmmmm. Well, I'll just send them to the burning trash heap and find something else to post. Thanks for letting me Spoiler-filled recap, and can you apologize to Tank for me for having Clark impregnanting the entire DP staff... and hiring Jimmy and about 3 of his clones as their full-time nannies.)

They have *way* too much money. Then again, they did upgrade their first space colony within three short years to a really massive orbital habitat.

"No, your honor, I did not mean to imply that *I* am responsible for the bomb. I was only trying to scam my way aboard."

But look, there's water down at the bottom:


Michael

No, I was thinking these were the pre-moneyed colonists. You know the ones the moneyed people sent up first to make sure that they survived and didn't become fat or anything before they tried it.

Exactly.

Are you saying that Lois leaps into the water before testing it's depth?

And she only noticed them then because of Linda King.

<<chuckle>>

Oh, THAT time space bubble. Maybe.

Maybe he will. Or maybe, he won't have to.

What? You've been sarcastic?

Possbily. But I did find this...

Right, of course. Sorry.

Alt-Clark: <turns over book and flips quickly through it>. "I don't understand. Is it supposed to be blank?"

Protection? Why would he need that? He and Lois are from different planets? <<ducking>> And why would he join the BoyScouts? The male-female ratio is really BAD.

Rachel was never his "girlfriend", only a friend who was a girl. Lana didn't really like all the work she had to do to earn stuff in scouts, plus she got upset when she learned the GirlScouts didn't get the cookies for free, and never joined. Technically, SHE was his first and only real girlfriend.

You really have a bad opinion of alt-Clark, don't you? He's really not that bad of a guy. Just trying to find his way in the world, the best way he can.

She's discovered that if she looks anywhere other than into Superman's eyes, she cannot form a complete thought, let alone remember her name or any questions for her article. There's a reason to her madness.

You mean, like monkeys? Also, was talking about them as in the space program.

Why would I ever even consider to imply such a thing?

I *know*. And finally, a reason to use it.

He really doesn't understand the all's-fair-in-love-and-war concept, does he?

/shrugs/ He's fun to poke at. Plus, he once slept with a drugged and married Lois. /pokes some more/ Then again, considering what he did and did not do in part 7, one has to wonder... Jimmy probably shouldn't get to cozy with him.

Michael

First generation past monkeys. Like long term monkeys.

Actually, as a matter of fact... he's horrible at it. But he's really trying to learn.

DIFFERENT alt-Clark, Michael! Um... You don't think Jimmy and Clark should be friends? Is this because he doesn't want to date Cat? Or are you just trying to please Tank? Or is it one of those Kryptonian things?

Imagines Clark in front of a multiple choice test: So, when a criminal Lex and Lois run away and Lois tells me to shove it, I do...
a) Nothing
b) Wish them all the best for the future
c) Carry Lex to the police precinct
Hmm... a)?

Hmm...Oh? So, when did their timeline split and what was the trigger?

Yes, they separate pleasure and procreation.

Michael

You really don't know how apt this question is right now. I want to pose my current writing delima on the boards as a question, but I don't know how to phrase it to not have spoilers. At least I have Super betas to help me out. I think I'll do when I got to the scene and just write out different reactions and see which one fit best. Of course, one Beta chose one option and another Beta chose another option, so I almost ended up having a "chose your own" part for the story. Instead I ended up combining the best lines and actions from both. Well, we'll see if it meshed together well enough but not for... Never mind. I don't think that will really work for this current scene I'm working on. As the reactions I'm thinking of are "right" and "left" on the spectrum.

So, F) at super speed Clark kills Lex, makes it looks like suicide, and flies off into the sunset with Lois, against her will? (BTW - d. would have been ALL of the Above, and e - NONE of the above).

No, Michael, DIFFERENT story. Same alt-Clark, different story. There's no IDT Sickness in this story either, 'cause BOY that would really suck for alt-Clark.

Test tube babies. How unfun is THAT?

Michael

<<counting on fingers>> I've posted 12, 13 goes up tonight if the boards don't disappear again, I've just finished writing Part 30... Oh, you must have gotten my outline the last time you broke my firewall.

/psst. There's a reason I broke this story into three books. Actually, if I had known HOW long Wrong Clark wanted to be I would have broken it into my bite-sized pieces... Like Nan's Home series... The THREE books are very different actually. /

In my story, Clark says he NOT a science-experiment gone wrong.

Michael

Why could I see this as a story? How to make Dad really hate your boyfriend before he met him.

LiL: "Dad! You'd hate anyone I brought home."

Clark: "Honey, you've brought home an Olsen, and even a Wayne and I never batted an eye. This is different."

LiL: "How can Norbert be any different?"

Lois: "Just trust us, honey, he's bad news."

LiL: "But, Mom, he was sent to Iowa in a spaceship, just like Dad. Raised by farmers, just like Dad. And he knows how to fly, just like Dad! He's soooooo Cool."

Lois: "Genetics, honey. Trust us, he's *not* like your father."

LiL: "Well, I'm going to date him, whether you like it or not."

Clark: "Over my dead body!"

Norbert: "That can be arranged."

Okay, I'm using up all my creative juices on this. I should put this to better use... Like Part 31.

Oh, wait, there's more...

This Clark has self-confidence?

There's got to be a vignette (15-20 parts) in there somewhere. Plus, I live the shortened name (LiL). Wonder if they might actually continue to evolve it to Lilo or Lilly. Michael

Oh, dear. I'm starting to get a reputation for long rambling stories. Should I add that to my ideas list (which is actually quite a short list, but the stories on it are long - currently includes: Book 3, sequel to ML, and thought bunny for a NK arc Nfic - oh, yeah, and summer fictathon "water fight" unploted fic)? Maybe we should post it as a challenge if you wanted to read it before the end of decade.

I was thinking the same thing about her name. Or should it be Li'L = for Little Lois? Of course, naming their daughter that is just asking for trouble, wouldn't it?

More than the genetics would do anyway?

Michael

Is she, or did the whole trip to her place happen off screen in canon? I mean, she has changed clothes at some point between when we last see her on the space shuttle and when she shows up in the newsroom in Superman's arms. And Cat in canon thinks that Lois and Superman got very friendly on the space station.