FDK: Fictitious Persons (46/53): It’s Hard to Say Goodbye

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Chapter 47 will be posted Sunday morning. Only seven more to go!

I really appreciate every comment! I’d love to know what you think of this chapter. I was very tempted to call it “Scientific Progress Fails to Go ‘Boink’.”

Someone stole from Superman. That's gotta be a big mistake regardless of which world you are on. Great chapter.

A-ha! We finally know what Tempus did! He followed Clark's beckon to the Kevin and Megan's garage and stole their time machine! Yikes!

Not good. No wonder he thinks he stopped Utopia with Superman's other two children being raised by the Lanes.

What will happen next? Lois, Clark, Kara, Caitlin, and Emily are ready to head back. Let's hope I'm wrong and Kevin actually moved it to a safer locale. What a cliffhanger? Also, where did all those boxes come from? Did Tempus drop off some clothes for them?

Originally Posted by DebbieG

I really appreciate every comment! I’d love to know what you think of this chapter. I was very tempted to call it “Scientific Progress Fails to Go ‘Boink’.”

Is that a C&H reference?

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Kara followed her dad into the garage and watched expectantly as he pulled off the tarp. She hadn’t seen it yet, and thought a real time machine had to be awesome.

What they found was a collection of cardboard boxes.

Kara squinted at her dad. “The time machine… isn’t like the one in Calvin and Hobbes, is it?”

Dun, dun DUN!

Tempus had to rear his ugly head sooner or later.

Thanks for the comments, everyone!

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Is that a C&H reference?

From the end of the chapter:

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What they found was a collection of cardboard boxes.

Kara squinted at her dad. “The time machine… isn’t like the one in Calvin and Hobbes, is it?”

He sighed. “No, it’s not.”

So definitely, a Calvin and Hobbes reference.

Calvin and Hobbes may have traveled through time in a cardboard box:
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but I don’t think that’ll work for our heroes.

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Tempus had to rear his ugly head sooner or later.

We’ll find out more about what happened in Chapter 47.

Oh, wait, I misunderstood you, Virginia. You were asking if my alternate title was a C&H reference. Yes, it was (see here). And obviously way too obscure, so it’s a good thing I left the chapter title as is.

Hmmm, someone stole from Superman, what would he do? Build a time machine and go back before it was stolen and hide it better, leaving some empty cardboard boxes in it's place...

Who stole the time machine from Superman? Superman did!

Tempus needs to be strapped into a Time Machine and sent far, far off into the future. After our sun has gone cold...

Sniff!

Sniff!

We are getting close to the end of this wonderful story!

I rather like the story [name I can't recall] where he was isolated on an island back in the long ago past and left to die there.

Originally Posted by hank1469

I rather like the story [name I can't recall] where he was isolated on an island back in the long ago past and left to die there.

How I Spent My Christmas Vacation by Nan Smith. But I'm sure that wasn't the end of the story, now was it?

Debbie, my daughter loves C&H, but it's been a while since I've read it. The "Boink" sounded like Calvin, but I wasn't sure about "Scientific Progress", so I doubt I would have recognized it until you mentioned them at the end. Also, "boink" sounds more like an error (to my ears), so it would've made more sense for "Scientific Progress Went Boink". LOL.