The challenge is simple. Lois and Mayson are the same person. Either Lois is actually at the planet as a disguise for some investigation, and she really is an assistant DA named Mayson Drake, or Mayson Drake is a disguise Lois is using.

This actually would explain why Mayson so vocally dislikes Superman. If you are Lois Lane, Superman's number 1 fan, what better disguise than to denounce him as a vigilante?

I like this idea. What if Clark started working at the Planet first, and Lois got stuck as HIS partner? (how could he fly off to be Superman with a *partner*?) Of course, you could also have Lois’s true identity be Mayson Drake and Lois Lane is her alter ego (yet, her true personality, with Mayson Drake her Mad Dog type personality used to go after Superman), she’s using to get information on some story being investigated by Clark.

I can picture Mayson getting a pile of Superman related paperwork (cases dismissed due to lack of Miranda rights, failure to give statements, extra lawsuits due to property damage) to deal with right before meeting Clark, her witness, which is why she's grumbling about hating Superman so much.

Hmm, Lois Lane and Mayson Drake being the same person.

Pam Jernigan has a tale on the archive "Just Like That" where Lois wakes up to find herself in another body, a blonde one. Suppose Tempus had dumped this blonde Lois, into another 'Verse?

Or you could go Freaky Friday and have Lois and Mayson swap places and then dump her into another 'Verse.

Or have them briefly merge consciousness so each one knows what the other knows, and has felt what the other felt.

I can picture Mayson, post merge, looking at Lois and saying "How is it with everything you've been through you haven't realized that Clark is Superman?"

So... Lois gets blown away and Mayson and Clark live happily ever after?

I can't think of the name of the story, but Clark had more of multiple personality disorder than a secret identity. (great story btw) Clark didn't know he was Superman until Lois told him and convinced him. I could see something similar for Lois here.

Or Lois decides she likes being a reporter more than an ADA, and so she fakes her own death at the end of Lucky Leon.

Hmm, then Lois would have to pretend to be jealous of what Dan discovers of Mayson having had a real big crush on Clark.