A/N: I'm asking for leverage when it comes to the Legion mythos...I've never read the comic and only watch Smallville so if I got something wrong with them, sorry. Also I'm treating time travel as a relatively fluid thing. What I got from Rokk's visit in the finale is that he remembered his last visit and what the future was prior to the changes. Thats what I'm going with here too.
31st Century
Now Lois was really worried. "Something's happened to Chloe hasn't it? That psycho's done something to her? You have to send me back I have to try and save her!"
Rokk shook his head. "Lois, Chloe's fine. She's alive and unharmed. I really can't tell you too much more about your friends' situations, until we decide what we're going to do. You see Lois everything we tell you could have an impact on the future, and we won't know what that impact will be until we send you back to your time. However you may be able to help us with one thing."
"Well what are you waiting for get this neon brain trust in gear. We have to do something and I don't do too well just cooling my heels."
Garth couldn't contain his chuckle. "That makes sense given the number…Oomph. What Rokk, it's not like that still applies anymore!"
Lois raised an eyebrow in question but decided that there were more important things to worry about than some punk kids crack about her adventurous habits.
Imra came up behind her and took her elbow. "Why don't we take you to my loft to discuss what were going to do. You must be tired and hungry, plus this isn't exactly the best location for the rest of this conversation."
Rokk stepped forward and took her other elbow, "Lois do you trust us?"
"Obviously, otherwise you'd all be face first on the floor right now!"
"Ok Lois, I need you to close your eyes and keep them shut until we tell you to open them again. This is very important Lois you need to promise to keep your eyes closed."
Lois brushed this off eager to get going. "Sure, sure. Whatever. I promise."
Imra and Rokk exchanged a look of concern before turning to the others. "Garth you come with us, the rest of you back to HQ."
With that Rokk and Imra lifted off the ground and flew, with Lois, towards Imra's loft. Garth followed close behind them not one to be left out of all the fun.
With her eyes closed shut Lois only felt the feeling of wind and weightlessness. Given her own recent trip and the fact that she was now in the future she assumed that she was being teleported. Briefly, curiosity almost got the better of her and she considered opening her eyes, but with the rush of air and Rokk's warning she quickly quashed that idea. After all, who knows what could happen, better to keep her eyesight for the task at hand and leave the mystery of this trip for another day.
"Alright Lois, you can open your eyes now"
Lois opened her eyes and looked about her new surroundings. It was a nice loft. It sort of reminded her of Oliver's but even more streamlined. It was all clean lines and smooth surfaces.
"Nice place you got here. What does a place like this run you in the 31st century? Are we still using dollars or is our currency strictly digital these days?" Lois chuckled softly to herself still looking around the place.
"Um, why don't I get you something to drink?" Imra said slipping behind a corner into what Lois could assume would be the kitchen.
Rokk turned to Garth," How about getting a room ready for Lois incase she's tired or we decide she needs to spend the night."
Garth slipped off down another corridor, leaving Lois and Rokk alone to talk.
"Lois I need to know how much you know about this Red Blue Blur."
"You know about the Red Blue Blur?" Lois was surprised, back home the blur was still relatively local. "Does that mean he survives?"
"I think I can safely tell you this, you'll find out when you go home anyway. Yes, Lois the Blur does survive. But again I need you to tell me how much you really know about the guy."
"Well I've only spoken to him twice on the phone. And honestly both times it seemed like he knew me better than I knew myself. I mean I know the guys fast but he's also damn near omniscient."
"So you don't know who he is, you've never met?"
"No, I have no idea who he is. We were supposed to meet tonight in fact, before all this craziness went down. Gosh he's probably thinking I'm a total flake right about now."
Lois sighed.
"I'm sure he'll understand once you explain."
"Yea that's if he even gives me the chance to. I probably won't ever hear from him again."
Rokk smiled softly, He wished he could reassure Lois more that the Blur's and her destinies were more intertwined. But that might be too much. Plus that was the old future. The one they were in now wasn't nearly so reassuring.
"Lois, you're an army girl right. You grew up around soldiers and on bases. So you know was troop morale is right?"
"Yea sure, it's the troop's outlook on the cause, its how much the troops feel that they will win the fight or lose it; to put it simply."
"Right and heroes have similar feelings; our group here was formed in part because of the Blur and his beliefs, at least, prior to May 14, 2009. After that date, your present time, the Blur as changed, his story is different. I traveled back in time twice to meet the hero, I had read about and idolized during my childhood. But something between then and now must have changed, because most of those stories are gone." Rokk lifted his hand towards a wall of bookshelves, "The man in these history books in no way resembles the man that I met."
Lois looked on Rokk as he explained all this to her. He looked like a little boy lost. Rokk had lost the hero he'd defined his life by. And Lois couldn't help feeling that it was partially her fault.
