Hi MrsMxyzptlk!
I've also taken liberties with Wonder Woman's lasso, since I'm mostly familiar with her from the cartoons and don't actually know what happens to people when they try to resist.
Oooh, looks like Wonder Woman’s in fashion these days
Ever since that new super-powered woman showed up to help Superman save the Earth from an asteroid, Wonder Woman was all anyone would talk about.
Somebody is jealous!
It wasn't just that every man in America was drooling open-mouthed over her "assets".
/flashes to Amazonia form ‘Love and Capes’ and Abby’s reaction to her/ :rotlol:
It wasn't even that Clark had an over-the-top, single-minded obsession to know where she was and what she was doing every minute of every day.
Wait, what? She’s jealous of Clark’s reaction to WW? Not just Superman’s? Oh boy.
Every time Superman had appeared in public these last two weeks, Wonder Woman was there.
Hmm…did she show up before or after the first flight against the asteroid? Because what if Wonder Woman was a part of Superman that got knocked out of him and became a self-sufficient entity due to the first impact with Nightfall?
And he had not spoken to Lois in public, let alone in private, since the asteroid. He seemed to be deliberately refusing to acknowledge her existence when she was in a group of reporters, and he no longer hung around to talk to her like he used to.
Oh.
given your lasso-reference, he is probably feeling some latent effects from it (she saved him with it during his tumble back to earth) and is no worried he would spill his beans to her.
"I don't have to explain myself to you," he was saying. "Now stop following me!"
"I know you have a plan to dominate this world, man," Wonder Woman spat, "and I am determined to discover what it is!"
"Cl- ... C- ...," he struggled to control his words as the lasso glowed golden around him. "... Kal-El."
Nice one!
Wonder Woman raised an eyebrow and said, "That is not the answer to the question I intended. You have a strong will indeed if you are able to manipulate your answer to suit your own purposes. Why are you on Earth?"
He would make a fine politician!
"Me?" Wonder Woman shrieked incredulously. "How could you possibly think that I would harm any innocents?"
Hmm…points at lasso/
WONDER WOMAN: Yes, but he’s a *MAN*!
"You are the man here, not I, and men are all the same.
See?
You, who have shown yourself to be too powerful to be allowed to roam around and do as you please.
Yes, I believe Lois would much prefer it if he didn’t roam around so much and stick to doing what pleases her.
Who knows what havoc you have already wreaked on the women of this city? This country? The world?"
WOMAN AROUND THE WORLD: Sadly, no havoc.
He has preventing airplanes from crashing! He's stopped armed robbers from killing people! He saved the entire city from being wiped out by a tidal wave! And he saved the world from being destroyed by an asteroid two weeks ago!"
To be fair, he could be doing those to preserve the property value of his future fiefdom.
I didn't want to give her any indication that you and I were friends."
WONDER WOMAN:
Superman looked down at his chest and prodded it next to the shield. His face grew tight in a grimace. "Ow," he deadpanned. "I'm not sure exactly what that lasso did or how it hurt me, but I think I'm burned where it touched me. I'm a bit surprised that my shirt isn't damaged."
Oh boy. That should be interesting when Clark gets back in Lois’s touching-range.
The gasp distracted Lois from her slack-jawed stare at his exposed abs.
Look familiar? Hmm…I wonder if there was ever a fic where Lois found out because of the familiar torso…
"I'm not sure how quickly you heal," she said, "but if it takes more than a day and it still hasn't scabbed over, you'll need to change the dressing."
I wonder if the wounds will remain till he stops lying.
"Exactly. So if she trusted you, she would probably leave you alone.
So, he should introduce her to his parents and start dating her?
"I don't generally shy away from letting people know what I think of them. Though I suppose that occasionally comes back to bite me."
Like when he dumped her in a garbage bin?
This screams ‘sequel’ to me! Lois and Diana should make an interesting duo.
Michael
But, sadly, I'm embarrassed to find that I had a rather glaring grammar error in Lois' rant to Wonder Woman that a few of you quoted. :facepalm: So I've fixed it.