Okay, now I understand. Clark/Superman is still here, and the kid has been brought here from an alternate dimension or another universe (I think). I thought that if the kid was here, then the adult Clark/Superman would have disappeared and been replaced with the kid.

Anyway, it was really funny to see the kid from Krypton - is Krypton still intact in the kid's universe? - interact with Perry. The kid recognized Elvis! Talk about conquering Perry's heart.

Well! It's going to be interesting to see Clark meet a very young version of himself. So Lois is going to be Superman's mom (for a little while) and Clark is going to become the father of himself?

I'm really, really interested in seeing how this will play out!

Ann

My take on this is that this baby "Clark" is from another time and so the Clark Lois knows is getting ready to come in and see himself as a toddler.

Can't wait to see how fast you get Martha here!

Yep. That's what I got too - instead of trying to kill baby CK before M/J find him in L/C continuity, Lex/Tempus bring the 4yo, newly arrived Kal-El to the present before M/J found him.

Too bad Supes is halfway around the world .

Can't wait to see what happens!
Carol

"Can you say 'chief'?"

More FDK later

Temp paradoxons. If he gets back again in time to grow up as Clark, he would be there to be Superman in the present.

Otherwise, Lois wouldn´t remember either.

See Back to the Future for instance.

Michael

This suggests that two versions of the same person from the same universe, Clark Superman Kent, is physically present in the same time frame. A four-year-old Kal-El is going to meet and perhaps shake hands with his tweny-nine-year-old self. Back when I was reading science fiction, I was often told that two differently-aged versions of the same person can't exist in the same time frame.

Not that you have to obey any of these rules, Mercy. After all, what do those science fiction people know about time travel anyway? For that matter, what does anyone? To my knowledge, no one has ever traveled back in time in real life, or jumped ahead in time, either. I'm fine with you making your own rules, as long as I understand what your rules are. I didn't at first, which is why I was confused.

Ah, but let's get on with the story, shall we?

Ann

Well, they do in canon...

Clark and Lois go back in time in TF and baby CK is there - Clark even holds him at one point and takes him back to the spacecraft.

Maybe it's different because it's back in time instead of forward...?

However, if the little CK doesn't get back to his own time, before long our CK will start to disappear a la Marty in Back to the Future or even Clark in TF because the past has been changed too much. How long that window is... well, that's up to our author I suppose .
Carol

I have to admit that one thing still confuses me. If this kid is really, truly Clark himself - Clark snatched from his own childhood and dumped in the time frame when he is an adult - then why doesn't he speak English? Surely "our" Clark did that, when he was four years old.

Still a bit confused, I guess. Ah, but that is what a good story is supposed to do - first confuse you, then enlighten you.

Ann

From the author's note in part 1:
"For the purposes of this story, Clark came to earth at about age 4, Green Green Glow of Home never happened, and Clark never lost his spaceship. "
C

Woops. Meant to comment in this FDK. Loving this story Mercy!

Please ignore. (browser cache and post requests don`t mix)

Very fun story so far. As for the time travel thing... I tend to just ignore any niggling questions in the back of my head and enjoy the story. One question though: Is this going to be anything like that one movie called "The Kid"?

Ooops! Yes, Missy did say that. Shame on me for not remembering. Thanks for pointing it out, Carol.

Ann

Is it too early to beg for the next part?

Should someone be calling Martha?!

Lovin' it and I can hardly wait for part 3.

My take on it is that little Clark was already found by Martha and Jonathan (hence the t-shirt/jeans and the knowledge of Elvis), but he hasn't been here long enough to have picked up on the entire language yet.

It'll be interesting to see whether Clark has any memory of the nice, dark-haired lady that saved him from the bad men when he was little. LOL - no wonder he had a crush on Lois from the moment he saw her! What an imprint!

BJ

Edited: fixed nasty syntax error.

Wowza, thanks for all the feedback!

Yeah, I'm going for what cp33 and carolm said--little Clark is from this universe, just brought forward in time. Any suggestions for how I could make that more clear?



Yes, that's basically what I'm going for. Lois doesn't know when/where L/T grabbed Kal from, but it was from when he was a kid, so she's assuming he was taken from Krypton.

I love poking at Perry. He's such a lovable teddy bear, once you get under that gruff grizzly exterior.

Man, I love that you mentioned Back to the Future. I watched those movies so much when I was little (the first came out the year I was born). I could probably repeat the whole script, and so could my parents--though I doubt they are happy about that fact.

There will be more talk on the consequences of time travel in future parts.

Yeah, if I let the physicist in me tear into this story, there would be nothing left. Sometimes the best way to handle the bullets of time travel is to just duck 'em.

That's the precedent I'm basing this on.

Thanks steph!

Ha, no, it's not like that movie. I had to imdb it to see what you were talking about. Basically, I made Kal come to earth at an older age so that I could play with the idea of an alien child thrust into our world. Add in Lois Lane--notoriously not a kid person--and things are bound to get interesting!

I called the story "The Kid" because that's what everyone (er, all the fanboys) were calling Jason in Superman Returns when filming first started an Lois was seen toting a small child. Back before people knew she was supposed to be a mommy. (And even after--he wasn't very popular.)

Posted! But no Martha yet, sorry.

Exactly!