Later, in the Air Force One plane, Lois was writing her story in a notebook while she was waiting to interview the President of USA when a small cell terrorist group appeared in the aisles of the plane, threatening everybody on the flight.
"All right, ladies and gentleman of the press. Here something for you to write about," one of the terrorists said in a very dangerous look.
"What do you think you're doing?" Lois asked with a challenging look.
"What looks like Ms. Lane? Lois Lane… Daily Planet reporter, right"?
"That's what my byline says," Lois said with a sarcastic tone.
"Yes, I know you."
"Big deal, everybody who reads the Daily Planet knows me," Lois snapped back, crossing her arms. "What's the point of all this? Kidnap the President in exchange for money?"
"Of course, what else would our agenda be?"
"Typical. Can you at least be original once in a while?" Lois pointed out before realizing she was talking too much. Shut up, Lois! Don't give him ideas.
Suddenly the flight attendant came to inform the passengers to stay calm because besides the terrorist group there something wrong with the left wing of the plane.
"Oh my God!" Lois said a little worried. "What are we gonna do?"
"Wait to die, Miss Lane." One of the terrorists said. "You're gonna die anyway," he said with a very dangerous look cocking his gun and pointing it at her.
"No, we're not. I have this feeling we're going to survive," Lois said hopefully. "He'll save us."
"Who?" a girl sitting next to her asked curiously.
"A guy I've been dreaming about for a while. A blue god wearing a red cape."
Back in Metropolis, Clark was trying to write a story when suddenly Perry stormed out into the newsroom and turned on the television.
"Did you see? The president's plane lost the left wing! The plane is falling!" Perry informed them all, obviously worried. "Lois is in that plane!"
"Oh my God!" Chloe said also worried about her cousin.
"What?" Clark asked very surprised to know Lois was there.
"Kent. I want to you to cover this. See if you can find the route of the flight."
"I'm on it, chief." Clark nods before Perry comes back to his office. Clark turns to face Chloe. "I have to go, Chloe. I have to save Lois."
"So go, Clark! Good luck!"
Clark runs to the elevator and after he made sure that nobody was looking, he took off his glasses and entered in the elevator. When the doors closed, he flew off, his clothes falling to the floor as his new outfit appears: a tight blue spandex uniform with a red and yellow S shield in addition to a red cape and boots.
He flies in the direction where Lois' plane was located. She couldn't die, not now. Not today, and if it were up to him, not ever. He would save her.
Being the most powerful man in the planet, he knew that he would do anything in his power to save the woman he loved, even spin the Earth backwards if necessary.
"Lois, wait! I'm coming!" he said before speeding into flight.
In the airplane, the pilot was trying to make the plane stay aloft when he noticed something bizarre on his monitor.
"What's that?" he asked to the co-pilot, pointing to his monitor screen.
"A bird? A plane?" the co-pilot guessed.
"I don't know but it's coming really fast."
Lois was trying to hold herself together but that was practically impossible since the plane was falling very quickly. She knew that she would die in a few moments, but she still had faith that the Blue God would appear and rescue her and their plane.
Suddenly the plane stopped falling and was flying again. Lois looked out the window and noticed a man holding the plane. He had black hair with a curl, blue eyes and was wearing a blue outfit with a red cape. "It's him!" she said smiling relief to see him. "Thank God!"
The mysterious stranger helped land the plane back in Metropolis and the passengers piled out of the plane, relieved to be in the ground again. Lois ran to him, looking up into his face and smiling. "Thanks! That was…super!"
Clark noticed she was looking at him differently, the way he had always wanted her to look at him. It seemed that now he would have another competitor: his alter ego.
"Who are you?" Lois asked obviously smitten with him. "And how did you do that?"
"I'm a friend." He answered trying to avoid Lois's second question before she could figure out he was Clark. He turned back to the other passengers and smiled. "I hope this hasn't put you off flying. Statistically speaking, it's still the safest way to travel." Lois kept looking at him, confused and smitten at the same time, and he turned back to her before grinning. "I have to go."
"Wait… how I can find you?" Lois asked hoping to make him stay a little longer.
"I'll be around," he answered before flying away faster than Lois could answer.
Suddenly, the main pilot came to talk with Lois.
"Lois, baby…are you okay?" Lois nods still grinning. "Who was he?" he asked curiously.
"He was… Superman!" Lois answered with a silly grin. "Superman!" she repeated before fainting in the pilot's arms.
TBC