"Excuse me?" asked Chloe, Clark, and Lois together.
"I said my name is H.G. Wells."
"As in the writer?" asked Chloe.
"Yes. In this case, it is more important you know that I keep time in check."
"So you brought me to the future?" Lois asked him.
"Not exactly. You brought yourself to the future."
"What?" Lois asked with raised eyebrows.
"I am sure you three are familiar with the theory of parallel universes? There are more of them than you know and more being created everyday. This is the newest in which you exist. When a new universe is created, new people are not. It is like a piece of you is put in the new one. You are still the same person existing in many different places. When this world ends, as all worlds must, so will the parallel universes of Earth. In that moment, you will remember all of the vast lives that you have experienced. Until then you should not be here."
"Fascinating," Lois remarked, "but you still didn't answer my question. How did I get here?"
"When two of you desire to be where the other is at the same time, it simply happens because you are you. The Lois of this universe was wondering about life in 1938 and when your boss asked 'when you look back on your life at 100, what do you want to have accomplished?' it made you wonder about this year."
"This is all confusing, sir, and I can spot a problem in your theory," Clark put in.
"I know what you are thinking. What about Krypton?"
"How-"
"I keep time. Krypton and its parallel universes have ended, but a small fragment remains and that is only because your parents sending you to Earth ties in with Earth's parallel universes."
"Krypton? You mean Clark is Superman?" Lois said.
"Please tell me this is just a dream and Lois did not just find out about my powers," said a worried Clark.
"Things will be perfectly fine, young man. Once the Loises are in their right universe, they will not remember a thing."
"Who put you in charge of time anyway?" Chloe asked.
"Good question, Miss Sullivan. God. He controls it all. Once it all ends, I will be out of a job, not that I mind as long as I retire in the right place."
"I can't believe you never told me you were Superman!" Lois said to Clark accusingly.
"You're putting the blame on the wrong Clark. I'm not this Superman person, at least not yet." He focused his attention back on H. G. Wells, "This is a lot of information to process and it's sad to know the world will end. Can men never achieve a perfect world?"
"Oh, he will come pretty close. Unfortunately, there will always be a Tempus."
"A who?"
"Wrong universe. Even I get confused. I do not expect you to understand it all. I just need Lois to come with me, so I can correct this."
"I'm not going," Lois said stubbornly.
"I thought this might happen," H.G. said with a weary sigh. "Is there anything I can do to change your mind?"
"I don't want to forget all the things I've found out," she said as she eyed Clark a tad disdainfully. "I don't want to go back to a world where I might die before I get to see all this progress."
"Clark and Chloe, I am expecting you to keep an eye on her," H.G. Well said. "She could greatly alter the course of things if we're not careful."
"Where are you going?" Clark asked.
"Well, Mr. Kent, I'm hoping I'll have more luck with the other Lois and praying I don't lose my job."
And then he left.