Lois knew something was wrong a millisecond before Martha Kent began to catch on. Because once they drove onto the prison grounds, parked and got out, Lucy came running up to Lois to give her a big hug!
"Congratulations, Lois! I have your dress inside so let's get going!" Lucy cooed, pulling on Lois's arm. But Lois resisted her pull and looked around.
"Uh, hello, Lucy. Who was that that let us in here?" she asked her sister.
"Who's 'us'?" Lucy responded, then seemingly noticed Martha Kent for the first time! Her facial expression changed.
"Senator Kent! What are you doing here with my sister?"
Martha looked around.
"Did the president send you here?" Martha asked her. She knew Lucy moderately well, from her dealings with the Luthor White House.
"No. Uh...maybe you should leave?"
"Why? Lois and I are here to look in on the prisoners. We want to make sure they are not being fed dog food." Martha said firmly. She was now more suspicious that wary. What WAS Lucy Lane doing here? And where were the other guards?
"Lucy, what's going on here?" Lois asked, feeling the same vibe that Martha Kent was. "Where is Chloe?"
"Well, I'm kind of filling in for her." Lucy said, just as Kal-El walked out of a side door and began to come towards them. Martha backed back.
"He's a Kryptonian prisoner, isn't he? Why isn't he being escorted by guards? Where are the guards, Lucy?" Martha asked, her tone almost high pitched. But as Lois stared at Kal-El, she saw his features change. So that was Davis? Had Jor-El been experimenting on him again? Why would Chloe allow that?
Lucy noticed Bizarro as he appeared at her side.
"This isn't Kal-El. He's a clone. But for some reason, cloning Kal-El goes kind of wrong."
"He's a clone?!" Martha snapped. "Who's cloning around here?"
"Not around here, Senator Kent. It's a long story..." Lucy began but Bizarro interrupted.
"The story is that the Earthlings will no longer control this planet. Much like they no longer control this prison." he said ominously.
"Oh my God! Something has happened here...where is Chloe Sullivan? Lucy, have you helped the Kryptonians take over this prison?!" Martha snapped.
"Do not speak to her in that tone," Bizarro advised darkly, "Kal-El has instructed me to escort you both inside. Senator Kent, you will be a guest at Kal-El's wedding to Lois. Bruce Wayne is getting married as well."
Lois raised a brow. What the hell was that clone talking about? And what had Lucy done here?
"Lucy," Lois said, "where is Chloe?"
"She's been shrunk. For safety's sake." Lucy revealed. Martha squeaked, turned and tried to run! But Bizarro zipped in front of her and she ran into his chest, knocking herself out!
"Senator Kent!" Lois cried out, hurrying over to her. She bent over her for a moment, then rose to full height again.
"She's unconscious! We need to get her some help!"
"Why?" Bizarro asked, as if he were truly puzzled. Lucy patted his arm, then answered Lois.
"Zor-El is now running the medical ward. He can help her. Bizarro will carry her in. But you and I have to get into our wedding dresses!" Lucy squealed. Lois shook her head slightly.
"Lucy, what the hell are you talking about?! You said something about that before. Who is getting married?"
Lucy waited until Bizarro picked Martha up and carried her inside, before speaking.
"Kal-El arranged for the two of you to be married today. I am marrying Bruce Wayne, just to take him off of your hands so you won't be so conflicted."
"Okay. Hold up! So can I glean from all of this that your marrying Bruce, is not Bruce's idea? It's Kal-El's?"
"Yes. But Bruce will learn to love me."
"I'm sure, sis," Lois said sarcastically, "But Bruce can't come here. He's under house arrest in Gotham."
"Have not heard anything that's been said? The Kryptonians are taking back over. Chloe has been shrunk and she'll probably stay that way until she is no longer a threat. Bruce isn't going to be under 'house arrest' under Kryptonian laws." Lucy said.
"So you're telling me that Kal-El is going to bring Bruce here to marry you?" Lois asked, not liking any of this! Lucy saw the real Kal-El land a few feet behind Lois and decided to let HIM explain everything! Lois sensed he was there and slowly turned around as Kal-El walked up to them.
"What Lucy is saying, Lois, is that Bruce is already here. As is Orin. Lucy, why don't you go inside and finish getting ready while I explain how things are going to be." Kal-El said. Lucy smiled at him, then patted Lois's arm before turning to walk back inside the prison.
Lois took a deep breath. Now was the moment she had done everything to avoid. She was facing Kal-El again.
"So what have you done here, Kal-El? You've kidnapped Bruce and Orin? Orin has a child..."
"So do we." Kal-El interrupted. "A son that is being raised by Lex and Lana Luthor. Tell me you knew nothing of that!"
Lois's mouth dropped open and she backed back a bit! First of all, she could not admit to Kal-El that she hadn't known the sex of their child. A boy. So she had a son. Or they had a son.
Secondly, HELL NO!
"I can see by the horrified look on your face, Lois, that your father must have been solely responsible for turning his grandson over to that man."
"My father would have never knowingly given my baby to them!"
"OUR baby!"
"Yes, Kal-El! That is what I meant! But you have to understand some things! Once we gained control again, I didn't think we had any future. I couldn't see bringing our child here to visit you here weekly!"
"If you had bothered to visit me at all, I could have filled you in on how wrong you were to think like that. I was very angry with you for awhile, Lois. But then I remembered what your true nature is. And you have a very bad habit of running from me and what we have. There will be no more of that. There will be no more distractions such as Bruce Wayne and Orin Curry. Bruce will marry Lucy or die and Orin will be reunited with his wife, Mera."
"What are you talking about? Mera was killed!"
"Tess Mercer has been with the Kryptonian people during our set back. She will be rewarded with sole ownership of LuthorCorp. Just as Thomas Wayne will be rewarded with Wayne Enterprises."
"Kal-El, don't do this! And you expect Lucy to marry Bruce when he won't have control of his money?"
"Lucy knows what will be expected of her. And Bruce will spend some time in Arkham, before she lives with him as his wife."
"NO!" Lois yelled. "You are not doing this to him! Bruce is not crazy! Why can't you see he just doesn't want anything bad to happen to anyone, the same way his parents were hurt? What is so hard about that, that you can't get that?"
"He is sick, Lois. I understand his sense of loss. My father is working on something now, that might ease his suffering. He cares for him more than I do." Kal-El groused. "And as for your other boyfriend, his wife was abducted and her death staged. They will go back to living happily ever after underwater. Of course, Orin lost a hand when he refused do as I asked." Kal-El said calmly.
"Lost a hand how? Like it fell off or you yanked it off?"
"It came off in a scuffle. He is refusing Kryptonian treatment. Probably because he is proud." Kal-El said. "Now, I will allow you to say your goodbyes to both of them. Then we are going to be married, go to the White House to claim our son and then...well, I'll reveal that later."
"Oh my God!" Lois whispered, turning away from him. Were they ever eating Alpo? Was Chloe going to stay small forever? Just 'how' were they going to take back their son? By killing the president and the first lady? How...
Lois turned back to Kal-El and smiled sweetly at him.
"How about a counter deal? You release Bruce and let him deal with his own brother in his own way, you release Orin and Mera so that they can go back to living happy lives, we get married and get our son and all is good in the world? Oh and we of course, make Chloe the right size again."
Kal-El now grinned!
"I have found that 'counter deals' involving you, do not work out the way I would like them to. Besides, there is more at stake than just those things you mentioned. Come inside with me now so we can go about beginning our life together." he said, holding out his hand to her.
Bizarro suddenly appeared, seemingly out of nowhere and he seemed quite displeased.
"I have done all that you have asked, Master." Bizarro began as Lois mouthed the word 'master' behind his back.
"Is there a problem inside?" Kal-El asked.
"I want Lucy for myself. I feel the need to kill Bruce Wayne. I am sorry but I won't be able to resist if this ceremony takes place." Bizarro warned him. Lois suddenly moved to his side.
"You see Kal-El! I actually want this guy as my brother-in-law, so THAT marriage might have to be a no-go." Lois explained. Kal-El ignored Lois and pulled Bizarro out of her hearing, whispering something to him. Bizarro nodded and walked back inside of the prison. Lois stared at the prison then looked at Kal-El.
"What did you say to him?"
"What needed saying. Now come with me." Kal-El said, holding out his hand to her again. Lois took it and walked inside of the prison with him. This was actually going to happen. She was about to be married to Kal-El from Krypton, Bruce was going to be married off to her sister and then remanded to a nut house, Orin and her would never have a chance to build anything and he had been maimed...
But, Lois was going to meet her son. But at what cost to the family raising him? She did loathe Lex but she had never had an ill feelings towards Lana. She was sure she would have been a good mother to her son.
Her son. Lois decided in that moment not to obsess over what she could not control. And however it had happened, Earthlings had lost control of their planet, yet again.
Bruce was staring at Jor-El as he seemed to be puttering around a lot of very expensive looking, scientific and medical equipment. Equipment that no prison, no matter who it was housing, would have any need for. Clearly, Chloe Sullivan hadn't been running anything around here. And chances were she didn't even know it.
He knew Lucy Lane had disengaged the power source that kept the radioactive collars the Kryptonians had locked around their necks, in line and powerless. Bruce could see them coming and going without them.
When he had first been abducted to by the Kal-El clone, from his home, for a brief moment, he had assumed that Davis Bloom had been experimenting on himself again. But the violent manner of the clone, and Bruce's almost having to beg for Alfred's life to be spared, told Bruce he was dealing with someone different altogether.
There were pods in the room. Two of them. They were big enough to house human life forms and yet, the window that would reveal what they looked like, was darkened. Jor-El had let him out of his cell and brought him here for some reason. And he could not help but think that those pods had something to do with it.
Jor-El had two assistants look at power gauges, then hand over clipboards. Jor-El nodded, then asked them to leave the room. Once they were gone, Jor-El turned to Bruce.
"I know that what Kal-El did by bringing you here, was unseemly. But just know that under Kryptonian rule, you will not be a prisoner in your own home. Kal-El has some rules he wants to impose on you. I plan to make him see my side of things."
"Which are?" Bruce asked, now folding his arms.
"You need what you never had. To know what you missed." Jor-El said quietly. "And Kal-El needs for you to stay away from himself and Lois. He is very jealous of you, for more reasons than Lois Lane."
"I have always understood that, Jor-El. But if your son thinks he can order me to never see Lois again..."
"That is exactly what he plans to do, Bruce. He also plans to turn your company over to your older brother. And before you quarrel about his legitimacy, I ran a DNA test on him myself. He is your brother, Bruce. Somehow you will have to learn to come to terms with that." Jor-El warned him.
"How, or if, I do that, is your concern why, Jor-El?" Bruce asked, his tone biting. Who the hell was Kal-El to 'turn his company' over to Thomas? And he would be running his own DNA tests for himself! He just did not believe this man was related to him!
"Because your story has always...well...it touched something in me. I don't know how Kal-El would have survived if he had not had Lara and myself at a young age. And I want to give that back to you." Jor-El revealed.
Bruce squinted at him, then glanced at the pods. What the hell was Jor-El talking about? How could he ever restore the family that he lost to him...
Bruce looked at the two pods. Mother of God! Kal-El was not the only one cloned!
"How?" he asked, his voice suddenly dry. Jor-El walked over to him and rested a hand on his shoulder.
"By exhuming your parents bodies out of the crypt they resided in. I used them to discern that Thomas was your brother as well."
Bruce turned to face Jor-El.
"Why? Why would you do this?"
"Bruce, I never thought you were crazy or misguided. I understood your need for justice. I understood that you did not want other people to suffer the losses you have. But I have also watched you give up any chance for a happy life because of it. Cloning will be a large part of what we as Kryptonians do on this planet. But for military reasons. Cloning your parents and making them the age they would be today, is my gift to a man that I would have been proud to call my son."
Bruce coughed and swiped away tears, as Jor-El pulled on a lever and lights came on in the pods. Bruce could barely breathe as he approached them, knowing this was wrong, but unable to stop himself as he started to open the one that belonged to his mother, Martha Wayne. He stopped himself and looked back at Jor-El.
"Will they...will they know me?"
"Yes. I have given them memories that obviously are not true, but you should play along. And Bruce, you will have to share them with Thomas. You must find a way to make peace with him." Jor-El warned him, as Bruce pulled open his mother's pod to so he could be 'reunited' with her again.
Kal-El and Lois stopped outside of a locked room. Lois peered through the door window and saw a woman with long, red hair, pacing the room. She didn't see Orin anywhere. Lois looked at Kal-El.
"Where is he?"
"Probably being looked after in the medical facilities. If it would please you, I will see if I can find out what is happening with him."
"I think you know it would 'please' me quite a bit to know that he was being looked after, after you took off his hand."
"Lois, he brought it on himself. But I can see from your facial expression, that it never occurred to you that I could've been the innocent party here?"
"He has one hand now and you have two, so no." Lois said sarcastically. "Can you unlock this cell?"
"Why?"
"Because Mera and I have to get some things straight."
Kal-El lifted a brow, but motioned for another Kryptonian to let Lois into the cell. The door opened and a flitting expression of surprise crossed her face, as Lois stepped inside, then told Kal-El she would let the guard know when they were finished. Kal-El said nothing to this. His wife-to-be was a brave woman. He would have the guards monitor this 'visit' via video camera.
Kal-El and the guard exited and Lois turned to face Orin's wife.
"I'm Lois Lane."
"Oh, I know. How you have the nerve to face me, is beyond all comprehension. I am royalty, so you should bow."
"Ha!" Lois snorted. "No offense but that ain't happening. I'm here because I wanted you to know that Orin and I really thought you were dead. Otherwise nothing would have happened."
"You mean you would not have seduced the King with your surface dwelling charms and tried to steal my baby for your own?"
"Uh, that's a bit personal..."
"It was meant to be, Lois Lane. I've known who you were ever since that 'shark' incident at the Curry camp. I have never had my husband all to myself, all because of his romp with some teeny bopper. I got pregnant on purpose to make sure that the royal line would carry on, but Orin would have gladly traded myself for you."
Lois had nothing to say to that. At the moment. Mera tilted her head.
"Nothing to say, Lois Lane?"
"What do you expect me to say, 'Your Royal Highness' or whatever the hell you call yourself. You said what Orin and I had was a 'romp'. No it wasn't but only Orin and I understand that. Look, I'm getting married after I leave here. So..."
"To the Kryptonian that calls himself 'Kal-El'? The one that took the King's hand? He should die for that." Mena hissed softly.
"I'm sorry about that."
"You certainly are, dear. This is ALL your fault. All of it! I was kidnapped and my death feigned on Kal-El's orders! And all so that the end result could be his having your love! Just like Orin wanted your love so badly, that it never occurred to him to question as to whether my death had been feigned! He was just eager to be rid of me so he could be with you!" Mera now yelled, before leaping forward to slap Lois across the face!
The door flew open and a Kryptonian came in and dragged Mera out, while carrying a cattle prod! Lois's face was still stinging when everything began to well up within her! Everyone blamed her for everything! Did she invade this planet? No! And SHE hadn't told Kal-El to do all of this!
And Kal-El was his usual jealous self! He had no right to threaten anyone she cared about or loved! Bruce, Lucy, Orin...they were all victims in this madness! Suddenly needing fresh air, Lois ran out of the cell, threw open a side door, triggering a fire alarm, and ran out into the woods next to the prison to think, clear her head and be alone.
Of course, her head would neither clear, nor would she be alone for long.
Lois ended up pacing in an area of the woods, feeling neither calm or clear headed, as the time passed. At one point, she reached down to pull off her high heels, which were killing her feet in the uneven tread of the forest.
Kal-El appeared out of nowhere and folded his arms.
"What did you think would happen after you confronted her like that?"
"You think I'm out here because of my dust up with 'Princess Mera'? You don't get it, do you?"
"No, since I would say I have more to be upset about than you. I was the one left heartbroken while you carried on as if I had never existed. And for a woman that doesn't take too well to being ordered around, you had no problems abiding by your father's wishes and giving up our son!" Kal-El seethed. "So do not play the victim out here!"
Lois stared at him for a long moment, before throwing up her hands!
"What do you want me to say? I didn't come and see you because I didn't think there was any point! How the hell was I supposed to know that you had some master plan to get around a warden that could shrink people! Huh? I know, if I had come to see you, I would have known. But I was not about to raise a baby on my own. And I was shown proof that you actually did sleep with my mother, so don't YOU go playing the victim either, okay?!" Lois snapped.
Kal-El clenched his jaw.
"Why do we always get back to this? This damnable, FAKE video of your mother and myself?! I did not sleep with your mother, Lois, and I don't believe for one moment that you believe I did!"
"My FATHER showed me the video, Kal-El! He wouldn't lie to me anymore than he would have knowingly given my baby to Lex Luthor! Luthor may be his commander-in-chief, but he is well aware of what kind of man he really is! If our baby ended up with him then it had to be a mistake!"
Kal-El suddenly just grabbed her, flew up in to the air and took her back to the prison! And without her shoes! When they landed, they were outside of the office of the warden! Lois could sense other Kryptonians staring as Kal-El pulled her into and through the waiting area, then threw open Chloe's door, forcing Lois along with him. Once inside, Kal-El closed the door and faced her.
"I did not want it to come to this. But when you never came to visit me even once, I knew you had lost faith in what we had. I know that for much of our time together, you thought you were sixteen but our feelings for one another were always very real...no matter how old you thought you were."
Lois said nothing but looked away from him. Kal-El walked over to a safe, tore the hinges off of it and removed a DVD. Lois raised a brow.
"What is that?"
"As I said before, Lois, nothing Earthlings did or said, was a secret. This is a DVD of your father planning to break us up."
"In Chloe's office?"
Kal-El ignored her disbelief. He walked over to the television in Chloe's office, turned it on and put in the DVD. Soon, General Lane was visible. It was also clear that whoever took the video, was hiding in a closet in the General's office. Sam Lane was on the phone talking to someone.
Lois moved forward to watch as her father, as he told someone that the tape his ex wife had doctored looked so fake, that he knew his 'daughter' would never believe the man in the video with his ex wife, was Kal-El. He needed for his daughter to have no doubts that she had been betrayed by Kal-El with Ella.
Lois stared at her father as he talked, then looked around for the remote, stopped the recording, then rewound it back to the beginning! There had to be some mistake! Was he going to admit to giving her child to Lex and Lana as well?
She was so engrossed in her father's clear betrayal of her, that she never heard Kal-El lock the door and move so that he was behind her. He slowly pulled her sweater up until the back of her bra could he seen.
He then ripped it off!
Lois was about to whirl around to confront him, when his large hands cupped her full breasts and slowly began to heave and knead them up and down. Lois struggled to keep from moaning and reached up to pull her sweater back down. But his hands had moved to her skirt to unzip it.
"Kal-El," she whispered, "this changes nothing. We can't go back."
"We can and we will." he whispered back into her hair, as he unzipped her skirt and it dropped to the floor. Lois's underwear hadn't hit the ground before she felt his rigid bulk get longer and longer. Kal-El's thick penetration plowed through her buttock cheeks and snaked it's way in to her intimate flesh.
Just the heat of Kal-El's flesh within her was mind numbing. It was implacable and immobile, as he continued to fondle her breasts like an erotic juggler. Lois's vision blurred as she watched her father speak about betraying her. She began to helplessly rotate her hips in a small, circular motion.
The small motions changed direction, and Lois soon began skewering herself repeatedly upon Kal-El's bulbous member, while he matched her rhythm, his arms now wrapped around her...all while they half listened to the evidence that proved that General Lane conspired to make Lois believe a lie, that she never should have listened to coming out of anyone's mouth.
Even her own father's.
They shuddered, jerked and twitched together, as Kal-El gently held her tightly against him, gasping for breath. There were no words between them for several moments before Lois broke the silence.
"Can you forgive me?" Lois asked, closing her eyes. Being in his arms, in this fierce, primal way, sent flames scorching through her body.
"Tell me you love me, and I'll forgive you everything." Kal-El responded.
"I love you."
"I love you, 'Kal-El'." Kal-El corrected her.
In this moment, Lois would say just about anything he wanted. Even the truth.
"I love you, Kal-El." Lois breathed.
"We did not know how many people wanted to come between us," Kal-El said in a low voice, "but we cannot allow it to happen again, Lois. We must swear to one another that we will NEVER allow anyone or anything, to keep us apart again. Swear it, Lois. Swear it to me." he asked, or ordered, as his hands cupped her tantalizing breasts again.
"I swear. I swear." Lois said softly, as she closed her eyes and continued to encase him within her flushed body. Kal-El let go of one of her breasts and reached for the remote control to turn off the DVD.
The regular TV came on and Lex and Lana Luthor appeared, announcing to the nation that they had 'adopted' a child some months ago, but wanted some adjustment time before they announced that 'Alexander Luthor Jr.' was joining their family.
