There was no time to visit Chloe with her uncle, and get prepared for the LuthorCorp event. But as Lois hurried around her bedroom, rifling through jewelry boxes, and trying on and taking off shoes, she had her cellphone on speaker. And she was arguing with her father, General Sam Lane.

"Daddy, there has to be something you can do!" Lois exclaimed. She didn't phrase it as a question because she knew the answer. Her father could be doing more to help Chloe.

"Lois, the time for help with your cousin, was when she was first asked to cooperate with the authorities. She's been a fugitive for seven months now. The best we can do is get her a good lawyer. I do know she could probably get limited prison time if she makes a deal."

"Limited prison time? You're serious?"

"As a heart attack, Lo. These vigilantes are law breakers. It would be one thing if they found out information and informed the proper authorities as to where to find law breakers, so THEY could step in. But that's not what's happening. Individuals do not get to decide who needs punishment and who doesn't. Now..."

But Lois had tuned out her father entirely by now. She loved him but he had always been a 'law and order' type of man. And she didn't have the time or the patience for it now.

"Lois, I know you're not listening to me now."

"Of course I am!"

"No, you're not. And that's okay. People have to learn these things for themselves."

"What things?" Lois asked, finally coming up with the earrings she wanted to wear with her dress.

"You didn't even know anything was going on, until all of the trouble broke, did you? You didn't know about Oliver and Clark. You didn't know about Chloe's part either, did you? Now you're about to put yourself out there for them, I can tell. You've got a good thing going over there at LuthorCorp, Lo. Just move on and don't let Chloe, young Mr. Kent and that spoiled Queen boy, drag you down."

"Daddy, none of them hurt anyone. All they ever tried to do was help people. Shouldn't, at the very least, Chloe, be given a break just on that principle?"

General Lane didn't answer his daughter directly. Instead he changed the subject.

"Are you planning on helping Jonathan Kent get -re-elected?"

"Yes. God, please don't tell me you think that's wrong too?"

"No. I like Jonathan Kent. He's a good man. But, I think he needs to come up with another story other than 'he and his wife found Clark in a spaceship'. It makes him sound crazy!"

"Yeah, I plan to bring that up to him when I see him." Lois responded, now playing with her hair in a mirror. "Listen, I have to go. I'm working tonight."

"Yes, I know. That creature exhibit, right?"

"Yes though I don't think it's a creature. It was probably some unfortunate cave man."

"In the desert?"

Lois stopped playing with her hair and frowned. Hadn't she read the information? This was a cave man, right?

"Well, I'll talk to you later, Daddy. Love ya, bye!" Lois said, hanging up. She didn't want her father to realize that she had been too distracted to research the event properly. Carter Hall kept saying that this specimen would help cure disease. What the hell was this thing anyhow?

She would find out later on. As would everyone.


Carter shook his head, as he held his cellphone in one hand, and rifled through his cufflink drawer with the other. Oliver was making a special call from prison.

"I managed to get into lockdown to talk to Clark. He said the Legion Ring is in his desk in the barn loft, at his parents property. Have you seen Doomsday?"

"Yes, he's still out like a light, no thanks to that special drug I gave him. Everyone thinks he's just crusted or something."

"Crusted? That sounds..."

"Nasty, I know," Carter huffed, finding his cufflinks, "but it's better they think that than the alternative. Listen, is it possible to turn this thing back into Davis Bloom before the event? If I can get him back down to normal maybe there's no need for any scare tactics."

There was a long silence. One that made Carter question whether Oliver was still on the line. Finally, Oliver spoke.

"What you mean by 'scare tactics', is that you wouldn't have to fly into the room as Hawkman and reveal yourself as a vigilante, right?"

"I didn't say that! And that's not going to happen anyway. I'm going to get to Doomsday while he's still in the lab and take him to the future, then come back." Carter said. "And don't get cute with me again. Just because you're stupid enough to be behind bars, doesn't mean I should fall on the sword for you. Tell Clark to keep his chin up." Carter said, then hung up. He then finished dressing and looked at his watch. He had just enough time to get over to the Kent Farm and get the Legion ring, before that creature was awakened and killed everyone at the event.


Lois eyed Tess as she came in-alone. Hopefully Carter Hall had either stood her up or had had sense enough to find another date!

Just as quickly as that mean thought had went through her head, Lois felt slightly guilty for thinking it. Yes, Tess Luthor was annoying. But she couldn't imagine JUST learning that her father was her employer! Tess hid it well, but it had to be disconcerting.

Tess was dressed in a royal blue, Chanel, strapless evening gown. It looked slightly shimmery and the color was nice against her red hair. Lois noted that Tess didn't especially look thrilled at being there alone. Why that should matter, she didn't understand. They were just looking at some dead thing, right? Truthfully, she didn't even see why they had to dress up!

Lois herself wore a black Prada gown, that was backless with a plunging neckline that accentuated he bustline. She noticed Lex looking her breasts when she walked in. Then again, it wouldn't be the first time she'd caught him oogling her. Lois told herself that she was only working at this snake pit, to help Chloe and the others...

Meaning Oliver and Clark. She sipped champagne, wondering why she kept fooling herself? Her and Oliver were as good as over, once she found out he had cheated on her with a reporter from the Daily Planet named Dinah Lance. And Clark and her were not that close. They argued a lot and he had saved her from some jams(but nothing she didn't feel she couldn't have gotten out of herself). The point was, Lois was not especially unhappy to be here alone. What she needed was a break from all men and to hunker down and concentrate on freeing Chloe.

Lex appeared before her, and Lois decided it was time for another drink!

"I don't suppose you have considered my offer?" Lex asked.

"Your offer?"

"About my campaign?"

Lois regarded him for a moment, then spoke.

"C'mon, Lex. You've read the papers. No thanks to the VRA, the media and a lot of other crap, you have a good a chance of beating Jonathan Kent, without my help. Or anyone else's. Why don't you run your own campaign?"

Lex looked around, then set down his drink.

"I know that Chloe was caught today. I know that they're looking to lock her away and throw away the key. She could use some help. If you want to get her that help, you will declare yourself my campaign manager and tell Jonathan Kent where to go. Are we clear?"

Lois rolled her eyes! Here we go! She had smelled some sort of blackmail coming down the turnpike, and Lex, being predictable, provided it.

Lois was not about to expose her desperation.

"What Chloe needs is a good lawyer. I'm sure it will all work out. Why don't you go and talk to your sister? She looks a little lonely over there." Lois said smoothly. Lex gave her a look she couldn't read, then turned and walked away-Thank God! She sighed and looked at her watch! When were they going to get the show on the road around here anyway? Wasn't it time for the creature to be revealed? The one that supposedly cured disease?

What no one realized, was that the creature was already awake and had killed one scientist and two guards, while on it's way to the party.


The Kent's were out, not that Carter couldn't have gotten by them. Shelby, the Kent's Golden Retriever, watched as he looked all through the desk and came up empty with regards to the Legion Ring. Did Clark just not remember correctly or was it someplace else around here?

His cellphone rang and Carter saw it was Tess. Tess was not a bad woman. She just came from a bad family and despite her beauty, it was a total turn off for him. But he had had sex with her twice, once in the office and once in a hot tub, so he was playing his part.

While Carter did think there was a possibility that a Justice Leaguer had outed Clark and Oliver, he was working on another suspicion that he didn't want to share right at this moment. That being that Tess, having been jilted by Oliver for Lois, had found out about him and Clark and turned them in.

Now, what would he do if he could confirm that? Probably nothing. But Carter was actually more concerned about what she may know about Clark. Right now, no one believed Clark's true background. And it was important that it stay that way.

Carter petted Shelby for a few moments, then left the loft. If Doomsday was trouble tonight, then the only thing he could do was be ready as Hawkman.

The sudden feel of an earthquake, caused panic at the get together!

Something was trying to come through one of the walls! People began running, screaming and tripping over one another! Lois grabbed Lex's tux lapels!

"I THOUGHT THIS THING WAS A CAVE MAN!" she screamed.

"I NEVER SAID THAT! REALLY, LOIS, A CAVEMAN IN THE DESERT?" he yelled, ripping her fingers off of his tux! Lionel hurried over to him.

"I thought that monster was dead!" he snapped. Lois looked from Lionel to Lex.

"MONSTER?!" she yelled. "I THOUGHT THIS THING CURED DISEASE?"

Lex was about to say that Carter Hall had said that, when Doomsday crashed through a wall and with one sweeping motion, threw three caterers into walls! Lex and Lionel ran, while Lois stood rooted in place, shocked. What the living hell had LuthorCorp brought back here anyhow?!

Suddenly, from above, a winged man swooped down and scooped Lois out of harm's way, before flying off into the sky! Lois was barely able to catch her bearings as she looked around and down towards the Metropolis night sky, and then back up to the man that now held her up high. He was muscular, with wings and he wore some kind of gold harness made from some kind of metal. He had one arm around her and in his other hand he held a mace. His wings flapped slightly.

Hawk Man started to land them on top of a building across from Luthor Corp, when Lois turned in his arms so that she was facing him. They hovered above the roof top.

"You're a vigilante too, aren't you?" Lois asked breathlessly. She couldn't help it. This powerful, winged man had swooped in and scooped her out of harm's way! She had to know who he was!

Carter didn't answer her. Instead, he kissed her, almost eagerly. He had wanted to do that for awhile now, and while he knew he was wrong to take advantage, he could not help himself...

Lois clung to his shoulders and kissed him back, almost brutally, his mouth inflaming hers! While their mouths continued exploring one another's thoroughly, Hawkman, yanked up Lois's dress so that it bunched around her waist, while discarding her underwear. He then lowered his pants quickly, suddenly overcome with the need to possess her.

Lois wrapped her legs around his waist as Carter entered her savagely! Lois kept kissing him, overcome with a surge of lust that seemingly came out of nowhere. Carter cupped her buttocks within his hands, as he thrust within her fiercely until Lois was so overcome, that she passed out. Carter took his own release, only after he realized Lois had only fainted.

He lowered her to the ground, his manhood still embedded inside of her. He gently revived her and she slowly lowered her legs from behind his waist. They both corrected their dress, as helicopters suddenly surrounded the LuthorCorp building across the way.

"I have to contain the creature." Carter said. "You'll be alright?"

Lois nodded, then moved to kiss him, but Carter dragged her into his arms to complete the job, their lips hungrily mashing against one another's, before he let her go suddenly and flew up into the air. Lois watched the vigilante that she would later learn was named 'Hawkman', fly back towards the building that contained that monster. She was flushed and still in a quasi state of shock.

"I have to find out who that was." she murmured, then walked over to the roof door to begin the long process of getting out of this building.


"Well, well, well!" Lionel sneered, as he saw the winged man swoop down and use a metal mace to beat back the creature!

"Damnit, there's another one!" Lex seconded his father's opinion, as the creature punched Hawkman and sent him crashing out of a glass window! But before anything else could happen, the creature suddenly fell to the ground, then slowly turned back into some guy!

Lionel couldn't believe this! They had the find of the century! A normal man turned into that thing?! He would have to be captured for research purposes, of course.

The Swat Team came in and grabbed a naked Davis Bloom up and took him to a Swat Truck, bare assed and all. Lex looked at his father.

"How long until you get him out of police custody and imprisoned in Level 33?"

"One hour." Lionel responded.

Meanwhile, Carter managed to disappear and return looking messed up in a tux, as if he had been a victim of the creature's! Tess saw him and gasped!

"Oh my God, Carter! What happened? Where were you?" Tess asked, panicked. Lex raised a brow. Where did he suddenly come from?

Lois entered shortly after, looking disheveled. Carter pulled away from Tess and hurried over to Lois.

"Are you alright?" he asked urgently. Lois just nodded, looking up and around. Lionel and Lex approached her.

"What was that thing that flew you out of here?" Lionel asked, his tone demanding.

"Thanks for the help when that monster was coming towards me." was Lois's tepid response. "If it hadn't been for that 'thing', I would've died."

"Dad didn't mean anything by that," Lex said soothingly, "but clearly there is another vigilante out there."

Tess was looking at Carter. He was watching him watch Lois. What was going on here?

"I don't know who he is," Lois repeated, "he just dropped me on a roof top and flew off."

Carter refrained from smiling. That wasn't exactly what happened, but the fact that Lois was so protective of Hawkman, made him want her all the more.

Tess linked arms with Carter.

"I want a paramedic to look at you. You could be hurt."

"Uh, well, so could Lois." Carter countered. Tess smiled thinly.

"Lois is capable of fending for herself, aren't you dear?" Tess asked, then pulled Carter along. Lionel disappeared to make a phone call. He hadn't believed a word out of Lois's mouth. And he was going to find out why she was covering for that bird man!

Lois faced Lex.

"Tell me you didn't know that thing was a monster?"

"Lois I thought the thing was dead! We all did! I certainly didn't expect it to be alive or turn back into a man!"

Lois lifted a brow.

"It turned back into a man?!"

"Yes. Though to be honest, I'm surprised your boyfriend, Carter Hall there, didn't know what we were dealing with."

Lois rolled her eyes!

"He's NOT my boyfriend."

"Apparently he doesn't know that. And you've made an enemy of my sister."

"Like we were friends before? Look, we need to get out a statement and get in front of this thing, before the company loses stock. I'm going up to my office." Lois told him. She began to walk away when Lex called after her.

"Think about the offer I made earlier!"

Lois stopped walking and turned around.

"I gave you my answer earlier. And you should be lucky I'm planing on helping you explain the mass murder that took place here tonight. You've just hindered your chances of beating Jonathan Kent."

And with that, Lois walked off. Lex folded his arms, deep in thought. Carter Hall had to have had some idea what that thing was. He had been in charge of this excavation. He would ask him about it and if he didn't like the man's answer, he was going to be fired and blamed publicly for this mess-sister's boyfriend or not.