Title: Super Switch
Author: Superag
Rating: PG13
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters in either Smallville or Lois and Clark. I do not receive any monies etc. from any of this writing. I only benefit from the wonderful feedback and picturing what's going on for my amusement.
Crossover: This is a crossover of Smallville and Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. If you haven't seen the show from the 90's, it is quite different than SV. The ships will be Clois from L&C (3rd season) and Chlex from SV (5th season).
Synopsis: Chloe and Lex get switched to another dimension where they find out a lot more about Clark and Lois' future while Lois and Clark try to figure out Chloe and Lex's feelings for each other.
Smallville Gets Weirder – Chapter 1
Lex huffed at the last words from Clark as he followed Lana up the hill and back toward the barn. Turning, he noticed the strange far off look from Chloe as she watched the two disappear in a flurry of laughter. Walking over and leaning against an opposite post of the newly framed barn, he shoved his hands in his pockets unnoticed to her.
"Does it surprise you?" Lex asked coolly as Chloe turned to look at Lex. Rolling her eyes, she just nodded and started back toward the group of women before feeling his hand on her arm. "And to think he didn't even make the effort to get you out of the Yukon. I had to do that."
"You didn't have to do anything," Chloe sneered at the young man and tried to pull her arm away. Looking at him intently, she knew that he longed to learn about Clark but not sure what the motive. The puppy dog eyes that he revealed in Lana's direction as well were as covered up as hers to Clark. She scoffed silently to herself thinking that Clark could see through objects but apparently not right in front of himself.
"The least I could do after you knock me out." Lex released her arm and expected her to leave. Instead, he sighed, cocking his head in another direction and smirking. "You still haven't told me why you were there? Clark just magically disappeared from that cave?"
Shaking her head, she started away again, "I don't have to justify anything to you."
Not wavering from her snide comment and obvious mistrust of the situation, he scoffed. "There's a lot a of history between us Chloe."
"Not enough to do what you are thinking. Lex, don't you get it? There's a reason you aren't privy to information of many kinds. People see that strange dark streak that is your family's heritage emulate from you a little more each day. It seems to tighten its grip around your soul every time you think you get close to something that just isn't there."
Lex pulled Chloe away from the others and gripped her upper arm as she cringed. Leaning into her, he dropped his well attached smirk, "Do you honestly think that I would be out for vengeance? I have wanted to stay friends with Clark just as Lana. I can't help his agonizing lies and I really am sorry that now he's got you lying for him as well. I thought we had seen each other as equals."
Chloe glared, locking her jaw in anger at Lex. She couldn't really place when things fell apart between them. The last year after the trial had been rocky since Clark had found her after Lex's ill fated safehouse switch. Then there was the arrival of her obnoxious cousin that had wedged the only time Lex could talk to her out of his ability. By the time of the meteor shower, things only dwindled to jealousy for both her and Lex, but in different ways. An entire year lost on what Chloe had hoped would get her mind off Clark.
"Once, but I'm not on the same path you are."
"And what path would that be my dear?" Lex dropped his hand from her arm and both turned to see an old man dressed as if he was confused on the date.
"Sir, this is a private discussion," Lex offhandedly answered trying to ignore the strange quirky man.
"Ahh, but when one is discussing Clark Kent in any dimension, it becomes one of my interests Mr. Luthor. And as I see no Tempus in your dimension, the time traveler must have picked up on your behavior."
Chloe and Lex paused, both mouths opened and stared at the little man and then at each other. "I think the spaceship forgot somebody," Chloe joked as she continued to paste a smile on for the strange little man, suddenly standing closer to Lex than she had in many months.
"I'm sorry, my manners. My name is Herbert George Wells. And you two may be the only young people in this fair town to know who I am." The old man tipped his hat and smiled gently while adjusting his glasses.
"HG Wells," Lex commented uncomfortably. Running his hand along his scalp, he tried to shake his head and then looked at Chloe who could not take her eyes off the man. "I think more than a rock and a bolt of light hit us in that cave," he whispered in Chloe's ear.
Feeling the strangeness of Lex's breath in her ear, she tried to adjust to sudden strange turn of events. Chloe couldn't frame words in her strange whimper back. "I think it's the sun."
"Now, if you two would accompany me," the little man said before he turned and started heading down the hill. "I think you will find it very fascinating Mr. Luthor and Miss Sullivan, knowing both of your desires for the unexplained." Mr. Wells smiled to himself as he looked over his shoulder and eyeing the two still standing bewildered.
"After the lady," Lex groaned. "Maybe he can tell us when the next wave of aliens is going to attack," he chuckled half heartedly as Chloe looked over her shoulder at his shaking his head.
Chloe glared up at Lex and shook her head again. Walking up to the contraption buried behind a group of trees, Chloe snickered. "That is a time machine?" She looked at Lex, both all but forgotten the argument they were having earlier. Looking over her shoulder, she couldn't imagine things getting much weirder after the last week. "What the hell; aliens and little old men." Climbing into the back seat of the strange vehicle as it started up, she stared at Lex.
"What? Now you grow a conscience? It's not as if Lana and Clark are going to want to hang out with you tonight."
Seeing Chloe's point and falling again for his incredibly insatiable desire for the strange, he climbed in the contraption before a flash of light and Smallville disappeared through a funnel.
****
"Hey guys, I thought you two were taking some time off before the big day? If you're here anyway, you should check in with Perry." The spunky kid ran around the desk of the main floor of the Daily Planet building and up the stairs to the elevator. Yelling across the newsroom, he waved, "And thanks for the in Lois, Megan is coming to wedding with me."
Looking at each other, Lex noticed his clothes were distinctly different and then eyed Chloe, "Did he just say Lois?"
"Yeah, and I have this sneaking reporter's instinct that you're Clark. Nice glasses."
"How?" Lex leaned over to whisper and Chloe turned him around to face the desk behind him. Neatly placed in the middle of the desk between two pencil cups and mounds of paper was a nameplate. Removing the glasses from his face, Chloe smiled and pushed them back up to him.
"Put them back; I have a feeling they are there for a reason. But I don't resemble Lois in the slightest."
"No, you look stylish but professional. Your cousin should learn something about it. Maybe you could take this little experience and teach her something."
Chloe raised her eyebrow at Lex's suggestion, but realized he may not have ben far off. "Maybe I will give her some tips when we get out of here. Wait, my cousin isn't even a damn reporter." Chloe paused and Lex could see the look on her face. Raising her hand to her mouth, she scrambled around the desk of what said Lois Lane on it and started typing into the computer in front of her.
Moving back form the screen, she noticed the headline from the Daily Planet archive in their present dimension. "Green Reporter Chloe Sullivan lost in Panamanian Rainforest Raid," Lex read over her shoulder slowly. "You're dead. You were older than Lois here," he commented skimming the rest of the article and doing quick math calculations. "Try mine."
Chloe looked over her shoulder and huffed wondering if she even wanted to know about Lex. It was clear that nothing was as it seemed. After a few clicks of the keys, Lex was relieved that part of Chloe at least remained. "Oh God," she whispered at the screen as she felt Lex lean further over her shoulder.
"Lex Luthor Behind Bars," Lex read to himself. Chloe flipped her head around and stared at Lex turn a shade of white she had never seen on the man, even in someone else's body.
"Lex, you think Mr. Wells…"
"Dumped us here in this hell to see what could happen. I went to jail for kidnapping Lois after being raised from the dead. What the hell? I thought we already had weird problems, but they follow me."
Chloe spun out of the chair and turned off the computer. "No, they don't follow you – you apparently make them in every life. Now let's just figure out how to get out of here and go back to being barely speaking." Chloe picked up the jacket she had shed just as the editor's office door open.
"Lois, Clark. What are you two doing here? I thought I told you to take time off before the big day. Get…"
"We're on our way," Lex smiled and placed a hand on the small of Chloe's back. "See you at the wedding Perry," he added before turning toward the elevator. Leaning into Chloe, he glared, "Perry White runs the Planet. And I apparently owned the Planet before going psychotic."
"Talk at the apartment." Lex pushed her in elevator as Chloe started going through what was obviously Lois' purse. Pulling out the driver's license, Lex leaned over and nodded. The apartment was in a nice area of town. Suddenly he wondered if Lois from their dimension would ever become that practical.
Arriving back at Lois' apartment, they walked in and took in the small but chic place. " I could use some coffee and some aspirin. You?" She looked over at Lex as he sat down on the couch in the middle of the living room. Whoever this Lois in this dimension was, he liked her tastes much more than the loud colors that Chloe was going for.
"Fine." Turning on the television, he leaned back and noticed that none of his companies existed in the market. Most were smaller companies that used to be staked by Luthorcorp. But the scroll caught his eye; they actually were an announcement on the news, about the wedding. "We're the news."
"What?" Chloe handed Lex a cup and then looked at the same scroll as he was reading. "Looks like Lois and Clark make something of themselves."
"Looks like you can find your way around the kitchen. At least that bodes well for us." Lex laughed half heartedly as he took a sip from the cup.
"I have a thing for knowing about coffee and painkillers," Chloe drolled as if Lex should know better. Chloe continued walking around the apartment, noticing the small pictures of people with Lois and Clark in the photos. Lois had parents that weren't military. This ought to be good.
Just then the doorbell rang and the two looked at each other and waited. "Your apartment." Rolling her eyes, Lois got up and opened the door, signed for the small slender box and then sat back down on the couch next to Lex. "To Lois Lane."
"Funny," she dropped. Popping the ribbon from around the box, she gasped, "They're dead." Lex put his cup down and looked at the box full of dead, almost crunchy roses as Chloe sat back in the seat and stared at the roses.
********
"Clark!" Lois screamed as she pulled herself up from the grass she was laying. Seeing something rolling around on the ground, she wandered over and stared at the man. His head was bald and he was dressed in a back trenchcoat in what felt like the middle of summer. "Clark?"
"God, my head." Clark stopped and sat up. "My head doesn't hurt normally."
"Yeah, and you're usually not bald. Clark, I have a really bad feeling about what is going on here. Pull out your wallet." Clark walked up to Lois and pulled the wallet out of the front breast pocket and choked. Lois looked over his arm as she moved stealthily away from him. "Oh, I was afraid of that. Try something – your you know," Lois said while trying to pretend no one was noticing the two of them from the top of the hill.
Clark stood up and stared past the trees and squinted harder. "Nope, it's all gone." He turned and looked at Lois. "Who are you anyway? You know anyone with blonde hair?"
Lois thought for a minute as she saw a man waving in Lex's direction. "Come on, I think your ride is here." The two started down the hill as Martha and Jonathon Kent watched the two leave. "My older cousin Chloe was a reporter for awhile until she was killed in a drug raid."
"Good afternoon Miss Sullivan. Mr. Luthor, the board is waiting on vote for the funds to allocate to the Smallville clean up sir. And Gabe Sullivan called about a few items at the plant that are in need of repair after the shower. And your father is awake, but not speaking clearly."
Clark and Lois both entered the car and sat down in the plush limo as Clark listened to the driver, and obviously more, drone on about meeting schedules and a special item that had been procured.
"Thank you. Let's go see my father first." Turning to Lois, he was still in partial shock at the abrupt switch. "You think this is another one of Wells little trips? And how am I supposed to sound like Lex. These clothes even itch like evil."
"Just be…stuck up. Pretty sure about Wells, but usually he appears by now. Where do you think we are?" Lois looked out the side window and gasped as the car passed what obviously was something out of the ordinary.
"We're in Smallville, but that looks like we have arrived right after someone else and it looks like something large landed there," Clark whispered over Lois's shoulder as they passed a burnt crater in the middle of a field. Looking back up at the driver, he noticed the strange look on the driver's face. "And I don't think you and I particularly like each other."
"What?"
Clark pointed to driver's strange awed expression before Clark pushed the privacy liner up between the two of them. "Clark, it's freaking two days before our wedding. Why can't we be normal?" Lois sat back in the limo and felt a sudden shiver run through her picturing the last time she was in a Luthor limo. She was going to marry the man. And then he died, then came back to life to haunt her again. And now, her fiancée was him again. Why did the Gods hate her?
The limo stopped in front of Belle Reve Sanitarium and the driver moved around to the side of the car that Clark had sat down on. "Sir, we are here." Clark stepped out of the car with Lois by his side and entered the institution, not ever being somewhere so stale and cold before.
"Your father is still in a catatonic state, but continues to scribble lunacy on the walls. He fights when we take the pen away, so we're hoping that someone will be able to decipher it. Though, we haven't found another since the …" the nurse faded off at the end and Clark expected that she was trying to not get herself in trouble with Lex.
"I'll leave you with him."
Lois watched as the door at the end of the hallway closed and she looked back at Clark as he opened the side door. "Be careful," she said as she tapped the glass. Clark looked at the scraggly old man and wondered how that had led to Lex's downfall. The Luthor they knew didn't even have his father this late in life, but the having a father was hard to picture looking at the man's white eyes.
"What do they say?" Lois asked as Clark walked circles around the man that was Lionel Luthor.
"Something about Zod is coming. Is there a camera in that bag of hers?" Lois handed Clark the camera as he snapped pictures before feeling a hand on his shoulder. "Kal El?"
The man spoke as if he could see right through Lex's skin into Clark's soul. "Kal-El, son. It is coming. You must prepare together with the Clark of this time. You must make him see."
Clark stood staring at the elder Luthor in stunned silence as a man he had never met, never knew existed. Glancing back at Lois, he shook his head slowly thinking the fuzziness would hopefully go away and that the orb from his apartment was leading to his hallucination. "See what?"
"His destiny." The man turned back around and stared at the opposite wall mumbling the words, Krypton all over again.
"How?" Clark asked, but all he received was silence.
