A/N: This... it's a crossover with Smallville, and a referback to the Ever and Always (here posted as "Wanting To Know") epilogue where the Wave Rangers took the long way home ala Sliders.

Week 9 - 10/27/08 - UDC 3 - Wave Rangers...

41. Purple

Dawn stared as the teleportation beam cleared and she was finally able to see in the light of the fire. Was the guy really stabbing the daylights out of a plant? "Um..." Melinda shushed her. "What?"

"Let him," was all she said. At the sound of their voices, the shirtless man turned to regard them suspiciously. As if he didn't believe that they were real. "Mister Luthor?"

Gripping his knife, Lex frowned. "Are you real?"

"Put down the knife, sir," Dawn told him carefully. "And yes. We are."

"Did Lewis send you?"

Dawn glanced down at the plants that had been savagely attacked without mercy. "I can honestly say he didn't."

Still wary, Lex slowly put down the knife.

42. Orange

Susan appeared on the porch of the Kent farmhouse and waited for the door to open, and when it did, she stared hard at the man standing there. "Just where exactly do you think you are going, young man?"

Jonathan Kent stared at the girl who had to be half his age, if not younger. "I'm sorry?"

"Back inside. Now... and before you argue, Mr. Kent, I am older than you, so get that thought out of your head this instant. Back inside. Now."

Jonathan blinked and slowly turned around. "I was just..."

Susan glared at his back as she closed the door soundly.

43. Green

"Ow!"

"Still hurts, huh?"

Whuki sighed as he took the ice pack away from Ralarna and held it to the side of his head that hurt the most. "Yes. He punches like a super-powered mule."

"You're the one who didn't get out of the way, sweetie. Also, you're green right now."

"Concentration's kind of shot, what with him very nearly giving me brain damage and all."

Ralarna chuckled softly and smiled. "I like the green, Whuki. On you, green is cute and..."

"I love you too, Rala."

44. Silver

"So what are we doing down here, anyway?" Melinda asked as she followed Elsie through a cave and entered a big chamber.

"Solving the mystery of the dead cat."

"Huh?"

Elsie laughed as she studied the drawings on the walls with a flashlight. "Just a figure of speech. Wow..." When she found a round wheel-like one, Elsie frowned. "Or not. Dang."

"What?"

Elsie had no time to answer as the room was suddenly lit up with a silver light. When it faded, they were face-to-face with a ghost. "You must be... you're the AI, aren't you?"

"I am Jor-El."

"So that would be a yes..."

45. Copper

Amy had heard just about enough as she pushed herself off the fence post she'd been leaning on and began to walk away. "I'll go get Susan."

Ranko turned to her, frowning. "Why?"

"Simple. This person we're about to help? He's Kryptonian and immune to fire. That means that rather than going for big and showy, it's going to take finesse and brute force to get the job done. Thus… Susan's durability to go along with Whuki's shape-shifting and innate strength."

Ranko glanced at Whuki, who appeared halfway between nauseated and confident, considered him for a moment, and nodded. "Good point."