Chapter 4Author’s Note: I have altered the timeline of the show in this chapter by moving Tempus’s John Doe Presidential election bid to its correct spot between the “Ghosts” and around the time of “Stop the Presses” (i.e. November 1996).
While Clark was over in her dimension saving it from Tempus (“Lois and Clarks”), canon Lois, left back in his dimension, started to become delusional. Lois went to the
Daily Planet where she told everyone that Tempus defeated Superman and that Clark – the man she loved - was lost in time. When acting-editor Ralph was thrilled at this news story, Lois physically attacked him and promptly got fired. James burst in at that moment and let everyone know that she was delusional due to her husband, Kal El, being missing (and that Clark / Superman had gone off to find him).
Meanwhile, back in her home dimension, Clark realized what a heel he was in trying to steal Lois away from the man that she loved (canon Clark). He and Martha talked about Lois’s life in the alt-world and he gave her a photo of Lois in her secret identity costume (Lucy El) and the ultrasound photo of Baby Kent. Martha, in return, gave Clark a framed wedding photo for Clark to give to her daughter-in-law.
On the trip back to his home dimension, Clark told HG Wells of Lois’s recent strange behavior (i.e. becoming obsessed with him and forgetting about Kal) and Mr. Wells realized that Lois was suffering from what he called “Interdimensional Time Sickness.” This illness turned the time-traveler’s memories against them should they stay in the wrong time too long, making them believe that they were in the correct time. Since Lois was visiting another dimension and had the memories of her other self to contend with, it effectively made her delusional. The only cure was to return her to her proper time and dimension.
When Clark and Mr. Wells returned to Metropolis to take Lois back to her home dimension, they learned that she was indeed delusional. Delusional Lois went to visit Dr. Klein at S.T.A.R. Labs to talk with him about making a tracking device for the Neuroscanner in the hopes of finding Clark’s missing Lois, whom canon Lois knew was Lex Luthor’s wife. Lois had difficulty telling Dr. Klein about the Neuroscanner because her brain wasn’t working properly. Instead she told him that she was pregnant with Superman’s brother’s baby. While at S.T.A.R. Labs she also ran into Professor Jefferson Cole, who was behind framing her for murder in her home dimension.
By the time Superman found Lois, Jefferson Cole had her at gun-point, tied up in a straitjacket, locked in a padded room, and he was about to inject her with a sedative because she kept calling Cole a murderer. Superman lost control and knocked out the guards, threw Jefferson against a wall (with no care about his condition) and with the help of Dr. Klein freed Lois. With yet another kiss, Superman returned her to Mr. Wells for her journey back to her home dimension.
Mr. Wells took Lois to visit Martha on the farm. Wells explained to Clark’s mom that Lois was sick and just needed some time in her home dimension to straighten out her mind. Lois could not stay in her home dimension longer than a short visit as she was so far along with her pregnancy (just starting her 3rd trimester), she would be unable to seamlessly slip back into her old life; therefore she would be returning to the alt-dimension for the duration of her pregnancy. During lunch Lois told Martha all about her search for the other Clark’s missing Lois and how she needed to return to the other dimension to help the other Clark find his soul mate.
After leaving the Kent Farm, Wells took Lois to Metropolis for a walk to cement her new-found sanity. While in Metropolis, Lois snuck into her townhouse and seduced her sleeping husband (her stand-in being out of the house), telling him about the baby. She left him believing that she was only a dream.
After Wells returned Lois to the alt-dimension, she confessed to Sam that she still had feelings for the other Clark, but had control over these desires once again.
Meanwhile back in her home dimension, canon Clark was perplexed that his wife had no memories of their night of passion before he left for New Krypton, only to have her remind him that if they had indeed made love that night the curse would have killed one of them.
Back in alt-world, Lois apologized to James for her behavior and he gave her back her job. He sent Ralph to Gotham City and made Cat Grant acting-editor. A new permanent editor-in-chief was to start at the beginning of the year.
Lois also contacted and apologized to Dr. Klein, supplying him with a sample of her hair for the genetic fingerprint for the Neuroscanner tracker that she had requested from him. Clark, on the other hand, informed Dr. Klein that any information that Lois gave him about the baby, his ‘brother’ or the other dimension was to stay strictly confidential.
Shortly before Thanksgiving, Clark received a phone call from a woman who told him that she ‘was alive!’ It wasn’t until he was arguing later with Lois – about their confusing relationship – that he realized that the woman on the phone was his missing Lois. Sam was thrilled to learn about his daughter and so was Perry with whom they ate Thanksgiving dinner.
Meanwhile back in Lois’s home dimension, her husband had a discussion with his father, Jonathan. Clark talked about his strange ‘pregnant Lois’ dream, about which Clark could not stop obsessing.
Back in the alt-world, Clark confessed to Perry after Thanksgiving dinner that Lois was married to another man, whose child she was carrying. At this point Clark also made the connection between Lola Dane – Jaxon’s stepmother - and his Lois, realizing that his Lois was married to Lex Luthor. After Clark left the party to think about this information privately, James arrived and told the others (Sam, Lois, and Perry) that he had found Lex Luthor and their missing Lois living in Singapore. Not only was the missing Lois married to Lex, she was also blind and still being tortured by the Neuroscanner.
With Lex’s business card in hand, Lois tried to set up an interview with the evil man himself for Clark. After work one night, while waiting for the right time in the right time zone, Lois accidentally revealed to James that she was pregnant with Kal’s child. Lois set up an interview with Luthor that night for Clark – without her friend’s prior knowledge – for two weeks in the future.
On the day Clark was to fly to Singapore, he sent Lois to spend the weekend with Martha (using the time machine HG Wells left for him, in case Lois went delusional again before the baby was born), because Clark was afraid that Lex might send men after her while Superman was otherwise occupied.
While at the Kent Farm, Lois accidentally answered the telephone with her husband on the other end. Hearing Lois on the phone, canon Clark immediately flew to the Kent farm. Using the time machine to escape her Clark, Lois inadvertently traveled a year into future and learned that she had to return to the alt-dimension or still possibly die from the curse. When she returned to the present time, Lois discovered her husband waiting for her. Although she admitted to her Clark that she was his future wife and carrying his future child, Lois refused to tell him more. Martha, on the other hand, told Jonathan and her son that this pregnant Lois was not canon Clark’s wife, but the other Clark’s Lois due to her daughter-in-law’s wish that no one know the truth about her.
At the same time back in alt-world, Clark arrived in Singapore about 24 hours prior to a manmade cyclone which was about to hit the city-state. The night of the cyclone, Clark went to Lex Luthor’s Christmas party and discovered that Lex had made a decoy for him to rescue, a clone named ‘Lola’ who was willing to seduce him. Luckily for Clark, Lola turned against Lex and, on the condition that Clark promised to rescue her as well, Lola told him where to find the real Mrs. Luthor (A.K.A. Lois Lane).
Using the Neuroscanner tracking device that canon Lois had had Dr. Klein make for him, Superman found Lex, Jr. and destroyed the mind-spying and torturing machine. Superman then found his blind Lois, locked in her penthouse bedroom, and had to convince her that not only was he there to rescue her but that he could fly. Having been Lex’s prisoner and on media-blackout, she had never heard of Superman. With Lex about to bust down the door, Lois grabbed the notebooks of evidence she had collected on her husband (before Lex had blinded her) and flew out the window in Superman’s arms.
Superman left his Lois at Clark’s Smallville farmhouse as he went back to Singapore to rescue Lola. Unfortunately, he was too late. Luthor had already thrown the traitorous clone out a window, killing her. Dejected by not being able to fulfill his promise to Lola, Superman returned with her body to Smallville, burying her on the farm. Lois discovered her hero crying in the living room and got him to admit what had happened to Lola. Not able to resist her hero’s sweet nature and charm (not to mention his muscular body), and to distract him from his sad thoughts, Lois kissed him. Feeling the instant chemistry between them, but also his dirty body (due to burying Lola), Lois sent him to take a shower. Then she went in and joined him.
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