Chapter 2
The Watchtower
Chloe was happy with the progress she had made on the Watchtower getting it ready to be the focal point of the team and their little endeavors. So she decided it was time to call Oliver and get the Watchtower online. And to start the first mission. Find Clark Kent. So Chloe picked up her phone and called Oliver. After three rings someone answered. "Hey Oliver its Chloe." She waited a second and no one answered. "Oliver? You there?" Chloe asked. "Yes I'm here Chloe just a little tired. Spent most of the night out on patrol." Oliver said still groggy. "Just seems like the city has gone to hell since Clark went MIA and the criminals know it's the time to strike." Oliver said. "Ya it doesn't help with the Red Blue Blur gone and the Daily Planet publicly announcing it, asking where he's gone too." Chloe said. "Any word from him or your crazy cousin yet?" Oliver asked. "No, neither one yet. Its been so long I'm starting to lose….." Oliver cut her off. "Don't say it Chloe. Because as soon as you say it, it'll become real." Oliver said. "I know but its so hard. I'm just lonely I guess." Chloe sighed, she looked down. About to cry. "I mean I've been alone before but this is just depressing. I've never thought what it would be like without them. And now…… I just don't know." Chloe said. "I'm sorry Chloe. Trust me, we will find them. I promise." Oliver said. "I know Oliver. But ya listen to me crying to you about my problems when you have your own. And I almost forgot the reason I called." Chloe said. "Ya about that, why did you call and wake me up at two in the afternoon?" Oliver joked. "Well I just wanted to thank you again for helping me turn the tower in something we can use for our extra curricular activities. And to tell you its almost completely done. I just need to update the system with all of the teams information and we are set." Chloe said. She was glad everything was done, because now they could start to find their friends.
"Good, good. So what do you think about the new team name?" Oliver asked. "Well I would tell you what I thought if I knew what it was. JL. What in the world does it stand for anyways?" Chloe said. "Well it means Justice League. We already knew Justice was going to be in the name but we couldn't figure out what to call it until a friend of mine in Gotham asked how my little League was going. And then it just came to me." Oliver laughed. " Chloe smiled. She hadn't smiled in it felt like months. "A friend of yours in Gotham….that knows about the League. The only thing I have heard from Gotham is about……..wait you know the Batman!" Chloe yelled. "Well you don't have to yell, but yes I do. I've been to Gotham a few times this past year for business deals and have had to go on a few patrols and I sort of hit him." Oliver stated. "You hit him. Why did you hit him?" Chloe asked confused. Oliver coughed. "Long story short, I ran into a guy trying to mug this couple and stopped him. Well he showed up right after I did and thought I was the mugger because the lady screamed. So it took a few minutes, and a wrestling match for him to realize I wasn't the mugger." Oliver said. He remembered it all too well. Batman was just as good a fighter, if not better then himself. But he wouldn't admit that to anyone. Especially not Chloe, if he didn't ever want to live it down.
"Oh well. Hopefully I get to meet him one day. I heard he is cute." Chloe giggled. Oliver laughed, shaking his head. "Females. You'll go for any wannabe hero in a costume." Chloe laughed. "Not true. I just heard he has a good body." Chloe said. Oliver choked on his spit. "Well anyways I will call the League and we'll all get together tonight at the Watchtower to start the search." Oliver said. "Ok, I'll see you later then. Bye." Chloe said. "Goodbye Chloe." Oliver hung up the phone. "So the search begins again tonight. Hopefully this time we will come up with something. But I wonder, If I hadn't had crossed the line, would you have still left?" Oliver asked himself out loud.
He flipped up his phone and began texting a message to Dinah, Bart, Arthur and Victor. "Meeting tonight, 1900 at the new Watchtower. Game on." Oliver closed his phone and put it on the night stand next to him. 'Time to get a couple more hours of sleep before tonight. But If only I had super speed and could speed all over the planet in half a second we still wouldn't have this problem.' Oliver joked to himself as he fell back asleep.
North American Border
He was running. He didn't think about where but just ahead. He kept running to try to stop thinking about all the mistakes he had made. Everything he messed up that he wished he could take back but cant. He needed to find her. He made it his only purpose in life. And decided that after he found her he would go back to doing what was best for the world but he needed to have closure. He needed to find Lois. So he ran. While he ran he made his decision. He would go to the only two people that could help him find her. Oliver, and if not Oliver then Chloe. But he had to do this first. He had to do this before anything else right now.
Luthor Mansion
"So you've failed me again?" Tess said. "Miss Mercer, its not that easy to track this man. He seems to be able to get away from our best men easily. We are doing everything we can…" Tess cut the man off. "I don't care how hard it is. Just find him and get him back to me before I get mad. Because trust me, you don't want to see me angry." Tess threatened. She stood up from behind her desk and walked to look out the window. "Yes Miss Mercer, we will find him." The man left the room, closing the door behind him.
"Where have you gone Clark?" Tess whispered to herself. "My thoughts exactly." A dark figure in the shadows of the room said. As he took a step forward out of the corner of the room to show his presence. Tess looked over at him. "We will find him. He cant run forever." Tess said. The man just stared at her. "I know you will, but what about the gathering? Do you have all the individuals I said for that?" The man asked. Tess looked back towards the window. "Yes we do, I don't see why we need them or so many. Couldn't you…." The man cut her off. "I could…. but trust me. We will need them all. He has friends, they are for his friends. If he decides to go against what we offer him then we will need them." The man said. He then looked to the side of the room. "Do not worry. Utopia will come to this planet. With or without Kal-El." The man said, then disappeared back into the shadows. "I hope so, Zod." Tess said as she looked to where he was just standing.
Unknown Location - 3009
Lois awoke with a splitting headache. But she was on the softest bed she had ever felt. She opened her eyes and was blinded for a second by the light that was around her. She blinked her eyes a few times to get her vision straight and when she looked at the room around her Lois was confused. "Where the hell am I? I've never seen this place before." Lois said to herself. She stood up and started to walk around the bedroom. It was simple. It had a bed, dresser, everything you would have in a bed room but it still looked different. Everything was grey or white but it all looked….futuristic. She had never seen a bedroom that looked anything close to this. But as Lois was inspecting the room she tried to remember back to the last thing that happened. She remember the black hole experience, and before that the fight with Tess. But what exactly happened. She sat down on the bed again.
Then it hit her. The ring. She had just knocked Tess out and was on the floor when she picked up the ring that fell out of Clarks desk. Then there was the flash of purple light. Then darkness. She searched herself trying to find the ring, but to no avail she couldn't find it. 'Whoever put her in this room must have it.' She thought. 'But why would Clark have a drug ring? I mean how the hell can a ring give me a weird ass trip like that, unless I got hit harder by Tess then I thought.' Lois thought. At that second she could hear two people coming up in the hallway behind her. So Lois ducked in the closet and crouched down listening to what the two were saying. The pair stopped in front of the door and continued talking.
"But Rokk, we cant keep her here any longer. She doesn't belong here." The female voice said. The voice sounded familiar, like the voice she heard after she hit the ground. "I know Irsa, but we cant just send her back. The past has changed for the worst. If she goes back now we don't know how that will affect the timeline." The man she presumed was Rokk said. "But she is the only one that can change it. No matter what, a past with Lois Lane is better then a past without Lois Lane." Irsa said then sighed. 'What in the hell are they talking about a past without a Lois Lane…. Just my luck a couple of crazies find me. Why cant anything in this god forsaken state be normal.' Lois thought to herself. "I know, I know. We just need more time to examine the timeline that's all. But for now lets talk to her and see what she knows." Rokk said. "Ok. But just so you know she is awake and in the closet." Irsa said. "What the hell how did she know that?" Lois said to herself as she got up and out of the closet. Moving to stand in front of the doorway where the two were about to come through. The door then opened and Irsa and Rokk then walked into the room.
"Miss Lane, my name is Rokk. And this is Irsa." Rokk said. "Hi Lois." Irsa said then put her hand out to shake Lois's hand. Lois looked at her hand then back at Irsa. "How did you know I was in the closet?" Lois asked Irsa. Irsa looked at Rokk who just nodded his head and then looked back at Lois. 'Because I am a telepath Lois.' Lois heard in her head while she was staring straight at Irsa. Lois looked surprised and then said. "Wow, so let me guess. You're Meteor infected too?" Rokk and Irsa looked at each other confused and then back at Lois. "What do you mean Meteor infected?" Rokk asked. Lois just raised her left eyebrow. "The Meteor shower in Smallville. You were infected by the Meteor rocks like everybody else? And got your abilities from them." Lois stated. "Oh. Well no I was not infected by any Meteor rocks. I am what you earthlings call an alien." Irsa said. Lois snorted. "Ya right, next thing your gonna tell me is that I've traveled a thousand years into the future or I am dead." Lois said. Rokk just looked at Lois. "Well your not dead, but you are in the future." Rokk said. Lois just laughed. "If I was in the future or you were an alien why is everything so normal. You don't look like an alien and this just looks like a weird bedroom." Lois replied. "We cant tell you much Lois, but just know that we are your friends and that we are trying to help you get back to where you belong." Irsa said. "But if you follow us we can tell you what we can and figure out what to do from here. Plus we can get you food if you are hungry." Rokk then said as he and Irsa turned around to walk out the door. "Food, why that's the best thing I have heard in the past twenty four hours. Lets go." Lois said as she followed the two out of the room.