A/N: Thanks for the reviews all. Your encouragement is making this story a lot of fun to write!

Superman sped over the city with one arm outstretched in a fist; leaving a sonic boom behind him. He flew through the canyon of buildings and finally slowed to a hover over the toy factory. He saw where Batman had entered the building from the roof and moved in through the open skylight. He snuck in and found Batman looking down at the Joker and the rest of his gang.

The Joker had a huge vat of what looked like acid in the middle of the factory; the two ladies were hung suspended over the vat from a support beam. The Joker was giggling and was telling the girls how perfect his plan was.

Batman felt him approach and spoke without turning, "You get the girls, I've got the clown."

Superman nodded and watched as the Dark Night leapt from their hiding place and landed in the middle of the gang. The Joker reacted almost instantly, hitting a button on the remote in his hand. A small explosive went off that was attached to the beam holding the girls, severing the rope.

Superman jumped from where he was crouched and caught the girls in mid air landing on the ground next to the vat.

"NO FAIR!" The Joker screamed as he saw his hostages getting away. He pulled a huge gun out of nowhere and nailed Superman in the chest. Clark was thrown against the wall.

Superman shook off the shot and raced to cover the girls. Batman threw a Batarang and knocked the gun from the Joker's hand.

"Get them out of here!" He commanded.

Superman picked the girls up and raced out the way they came in. He flew down to the newly constructed police barricade. The cops looked up in awe at the sight of a man flying. Superman quickly untied the girls and left them with the cops. He leapt back into the air and flew back into the building.

Batman had taken down most of the thugs as Superman landed on two of the remaining men. Batman jumped into a roundhouse and took the last man down.

They looked around for signs of the Joker but he had escaped during the fight.

"What happened?" Batman demanded, "You are faster than that, the girls should have been out of danger before the fight even began."

"The Joker's gun threw me off…" Clark began

"You are invulnerable…"

"If I'm not ready for it, a bullet can surprise me and those were big bullets!" Clark shot back.

"Always be prepared. You know that…"

They were cut off by the police who started escorting the thugs to the waiting police vehicles.

"Batman." Jim called.

"The Joker got away."

"That's unfortunate, but looks like we got most of his gang."

Jim turned to Clark, "We haven't been properly introduced, Jim Gordon."

Clark shook his hand, "Superman."

Gordon smiled, "Glad to have you around, anyone that helps us cops out is a friend of mine in this city."

Turning back to Batman, "I know you probably know but the latest word is the Roman's desperate for new transportation. He's throwing money at anything with wheels. Sooner or later someone's going to bite."

Batman nodded, "I've been hearing the same rumors too. I'll let you know if we find anything." Batman pressed a button on his belt and the Batwing came and hovered right outside of the door.

Gordon realizing that the conversation was over walked back outside to Selina and Lois to see how they were doing and to take their statements personally.

"Batman, I'm sorry." Clark said softly as the walked to the Batwing.

"I'm just stressed…you could have done better but the main thing is that neither of the girls got hurt." Clark realized this was as close to an apology and forgiveness as he was going to get.

Batman jumped in the jet and Superman smiled as he realized Batman was waiting for him to get in. "See if you can keep up old man."

Superman shot twenty feet into the air; the cops all looked up again in amazement at the flying man. Batman was visibly shocked as he hadn't seen Clark fly out the roof earlier. But quickly recovered and shut the roof of the Batwing.

"Old man huh…" Batman smiled as he punched the throttle and the Batwing screamed away from the toy factory. "Lets see what you can do kid."

Clark flew off after the Batwing and quickly began to close the distance. Bruce swung the jet around and looped around a few buildings; Clark almost missed the first turn but quickly recovered and again started to close on the Batwing. Bruce jerked the jet into evasive maneuvers, as if daring Clark to touch his jet. Clark catching the new game pushed himself even more and followed the jet in a few maneuvers coming very close to grabbing the wings a few times.

"Master Bruce, shouldn't you be picking up Selina and Lois? I'm sure they don't really want to spend time with the police." Alfred suddenly came on the com link.

"Uh, yes Alfred…we were just on our way to do that." Bruce responded.

"BUSTED!" Clark laughed after Alfred closed the link.

Bruce shot him 'The Look' as the two heroes headed for the Cave.

Thirty minutes later Bruce and Clark pulled up to the crime scene and found the two ladies had just finished with their reports for the police. Both girls ran up to the men and hugged them tightly.

"Smallville where have you been? I had to be saved by some guy in blue tights!" Lois teased.

"Well we regular heroes have to have our beauty rest." Clark shot back.

"Yeah well you can forget about the superman of the year award."

Bruce guided them back towards the waiting Mercedes and they took the girls back to their homes.

Clark walked Lois to the door of Lucy's apartment.

"Well Kent, it was an interesting first date."

"Yeah, wasn't quite what I had in mind, maybe I can make it up to you?"

"What do you have in mind?"

Clark picked Lois up around ten and they made their way to the Gotham Marina. Docked there among the other boats was a good sized yacht with the Wayne Enterprises logo on it. They boarded the boat and the captain greeted them and let them they were ready to go. The captain expertly guided the boat out of the marina and into the open water.

"This is quite the surprise Smallville; I thought we were just going to the beach." Lois said taking her shirt off and revealing her bikini top underneath. Clark tried to think of something to say but couldn't.

Lois smiled at the effect she had on him, "Catching a lot of flies there Kent?"

They found some deck chairs at the front of the boat and the steward brought them some ice cold water. Clark pulled off his tee-shirt and this time it was Lois' turn to stare. I don't remember him looking that good at the farm.

The two drank their water and talked while to boat made its way towards a small island. After dropping the anchor the captain came down to tell them they had arrived.

Clark led Lois down to the back of the boat and there were two jet-skis that the small crew had unloaded into the water. Clark gave her a life jacket and they jumped on the watercrafts. The rest of the morning they zipped all around the island, splashing each other with their wake.

Around one o'clock Clark yelled for her to follow him and they beached the crafts on the small island. Clark had the steward setup a nice picnic for them under the shade of a few trees on the small beach.

There was fruit and sandwiches, water and soda and Alfred had even packed two pieces of his exquisite chocolate cake for desert. The two ate until they could eat no more and they laid out on the towels in the shade.

Lois reached over and Clark flinched thinking she was going to hit him; instead he got a kiss on the cheek. "The second date has been much better Kent."

Clark blushed and then Lois moved closer, "This one is for saving me last night."

She kissed him on the lips. Clark's arms closed around her and pulled her close quickly deepening the kiss. They finally pulled apart several minutes later and Lois rolled onto his arm breathless, Wow!