L&C Part 1
L&C New Adventures
This takes place after Lex Jr. and Leslie are dead, but before the end of the series "The Family Hour". Character stories belong to DC Comics. They never got around to having Clark from the other dimension reunite with "his Lois". This is how I'd like to have Clark find his Lois. After a recent save, Clark finds himself being sucked into a vortex transporting him to the year 1993.
Clark lands back into his Brownstown with Lois kissing her on the cheek, sets the takeout on the counter, and says he'll be right back after a shower and she offers to set the table while he cleans up. Clark dries himself off and changes into a comfortable pair of jeans and a t-shirt. He tosses his outfit in the hamper to be washed. Meanwhile, Lois has set the table and divvied up the portions. "Clark…dinner's ready", Lois calls out, walking upstairs with a glass of wine.
"I'm on my way", he replies and at the same time, there is a "woosh!" sound behind him. It's a vortex and is pulling him into it and its strength is more powerful than him. He yells, "Lois!" She runs into their bedroom and sees her husband fighting to get away from the vortex, but moments later he's gone. "Clark!", she cries out. "Where did he go?" she thinks to herself.
Clark tumbles through the vortex landing in some bushes. He stands up quickly and brushes himself off. He glances around at his unfamiliar surroundings and tries to make sense of what just happened. He didn't have his suit with him, his wallet and ID were back at the Brownstone, but where is he? He closed his eyes to listen for her. He couldn't hear her cry out for him.
Clark finds a newspaper, the Brazza News. It's in French, but Clark with his many travels has picked up several languages along the way. He looks at the date and he realizes the year and it's a year before he started at the Daily Planet, He knows he's not in Metropolis anymore (much less Kansas). Most everyone spoke French, The locals he saw were non-white, so he would stick out like a sore thumb and it would be best to do most of his movements at night. He soon discovers he's not in his world either. He's in the Congo a part of Africa where Lois last was said to be on assignment. He worries about her and what she must be going through right now. The poverty level was far below what he could ever imagined. He asks himself if this is HG Wells doing. He did mention to the other Clark that nothing was impossible and maybe he needed his help instead. But as each moment passes, he becomes more and more agitated and pissed. If this is true, where the heck is he to guide him. He discovers he still has his powers, but his suit and IDs are back home.
Sure, he could fly if need be, but what about the rest? There was already another Clark, his adoptive parents died years ago on this alternate earth. Was his mission to find the other Clark's Lois and bring them together? That Clark knew nothing of him as they never met until Clark met "his Lois" and nearly fell in love wither. He had to, convince the other Lois of the improbable, the impossible, and all about "Superman". There is a US Embassy in the Congo, but he couldn't risk that as himself since there was already a Clark on this planet. If he can find Lois, she might have need of it.
Clark was beside himself with worry about his Lois. She must be crazy with worry and paranoia. If they weren't on different planes of existence, they would be able to feel each other. They were so in sync they could feel the love they had for each other. She was all alone. The only people who could help her through this would be his parents and he hopes she would call them as they could be there for her. She wouldn't be able to function at work and if his parents were there, the Brownstone wouldn't feel so empty. He wondered if she would think of Wells having a part in it.
He first needed to use his newspaper research skills and his Superman powers to fly the town, and the country to try and find her. He remembered Wells's words about "Soul Mates" and this Lois could never match up to his Lois, but he would need to remember that and distance himself so she would fall in love with the right Clark. He had to get her back to her Metropolis and meet the other Clark in the same way he met her before the other Clark Kent ever showed up.
He wished he had money to pay for food, but he resorted to his super-speed and grabbed something before going to make sense of everything. If it was Wells, he should stay nearby, but if he had to do all of this on his own, maybe that would send him back home.
Feeling sufficiently full, he waited, mostly trying to keep hidden, but Wells never showed. He flew around the many villages in the Congo. She could have hit her head, been brainwashed, hypnotized, dead, or lastly in prison, all of which she endured on their planet. Those would be the only reasons she wouldn't or couldn't contact the Daily Planet or her parents on this planet. As much as it pained him to think of her in prison, especially how Americans were treated there, it would be easier to free her from there than rescue someone who didn't know anything or was resistant to leaving.
He knew enough French and everyone was friendly enough based on his clothes, not much had changed in five years, jeans and t-shirt wise. He asked questions and the answers about prisons terrified him, but there were only three in the general vicinity of her last known whereabouts. He went to a dark alley and flew over all the prisons and used his x-rays and night vision to see if her could find her. The second place he flew over, he saw her. His first instinct was to fly in and break her out, but he had to be smart about it. He scoped the layout and the points of entry to best introduce himself and convince her to leave, even if that meant showing her his powers. Tomorrow night he would see Lois, it would not be his Lois, but that didn't matter right now.
…..Back on his Earth…..
