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Story is here.

Sorry it's not much. If anyone feels inspired to take it further, go for it.

Hi Mary,

Well…well…well…somebody’s been to the F…udge Castle It does track with the imaging though

I’m not 100% sure if it was here or right from the get go, that I realized we’re talking about non-fake soldiers based on the picture and Lois’s exclamation.

That’s just the crop-duster 12-y/o Clark is hearing over at the Ross-farm. Other side of town or not, it still sounds like his mother’s sewing machine.

Or joining the military?

/marks checkboxes at ‘dainty’, ‘high-heeled’, ‘civilian’/

LOIS: *Dainty*?

Well, she does require a lot of rescuing and she is quite easy to carry to safety after. Not so easy to carry to safety *before* the getting-caught through. Will hiss and scratch when getting pulled off a fire escape by an overprotective super hero.

Ever since J.A.G.: Aren’t there rules against giving husband and wife joint assignments?

James Olsen made it to Captain already?

So many questions. So many possibilities. So many…strings jittering about!

Michael

Hi Darth!



Titles are hard, and that's all I have to say on the matter. (Chtongueeek)




As a matter of fact, there's a perfect explanation for that...right behind you. *runs away*



I honestly don't know. Research was difficult since I'm currently on slow-as-dialup internet for the rest of the month. I saw a blurb that "special arrangements can be made for married couples", but not much detail.


Either this story is set a little further in the future, or he saved a general from godzilla, or the author miscounted and he should have been a lieutenant.

If I ever come back to this universe, I'll probably tweak it; but for now, let it stand as a memorial of my folly.

Thanks for commenting; your comments always brighten my day. ^_^

Okay this is absolutely adorable Queenie! I absolutely love it! Thank you!

Major Kent and Lane are perfect, no matter what world they live on!

But, in the picture provided for the challenge, Clark has Jones on his nametag.

V: Glad you like!

Morgana: Yeah, I think if I were going to do a longer one, I would have gone full "someone else adopted him" elseworld, but as it is, the challenge did just say "inspired by", so it's all good.

Of course Jimmy's a captain. He's in charge of the General White's personal transportation. (In other words, the motor pool.) Very important job, that - the horns on the Humvees must be tuned correctly.

I think this is completely, totally, absolutely brilliant. And Major Lane complaining about her counterpart's choice of vocation? Priceless!

This, however:


isn't a bit funny. But it's perfect! He couldn't have said anything better than this at this point in time. And given that H.G. surely let them peek at the other dimension, it's on point, too.

Excellent, Queenie. You have done it again. You have successfully mixed humor with pathos and laced it with the personalities of Lois Lane and Clark Kent. My humble applause to you.

I can't wait until you top it next time. It'll be epic because it will have to be.

Of course, we don't know where Lois' scar came from. We don't know if they're Army or Air Force or Marines, or why they've been transferred to this base. Lois' rant hints that she's the only one who knows about Clark's extra talents - which makes me think that maybe they're in a counter-intelligence unit. Or, maybe, they were in charge of security in an embassy that was attacked and she was wounded while defending it. Or they were deployed in a live fire zone. Or-

Naw, I'll stop now. It's just that having had a father who was an officer in the USAF for over thirty years, I got to learn about lots of interesting stuff, usually second-hand. And because he was in Strategic Air Command in the 60s (the ones with the nukes), he couldn't talk about his work at home. Used to frustrate my mother a lot.

If you want to extend this and you need some military knowledge from a former dependent's point of view, let me know. I'd love to work with you.

If not, that's okay. Just keep finding your inspiration where you will. Everything I've read of yours is outstanding. Keep up the great work!

Terry, thanks for the offer (and all the flattery). I might take you up on it one of these days.

Queenie, none of what I wrote was flattery. It is my unbiased, unassailable, irrefutable opinion. It's as valid as anyone else's, and carried just as much weight (almost none, actually).

But I meant every word I wrote. I do not flatter. I had to learn how to critique musicians - and if you think writers are touchy, then tell a guitarist to back off on the second chorus - which is an art form in and of itself. Had I any constructive criticism, you would have read it. I don't. I drool when I read your tales. They're tight, nothing wasted, and I wish I could write like that.

Oh, I did forget to ask you if you knew what Whiskey Tango Foxtrot resolves to (I think you probably do) in military parlance. It's not unlike the acronym SNAFU.

Keep writing so we can keep enjoying!

Queenie - I love it! It's hysterical to me that Lois would be so worked up about being a reporter in another world. And of COURSE Captain Jimmius Interruptus would be found in their world. I'm envisioning Lois' scar as being procured in the Congo during some military operation of another (just as alt Lois disappeared in the Congo - this one managed to survive that little excursion). Thanks for the fun ficlet!

Terry: Aww, shucks! Thanks! And yes, I know the term; it was the best fitting title I could think of at the time. As I said: titles are hard. :p

Chakram: Thanks! ^_^

And of course, if anyone wants to take this plot bunny and run with it, feel free! There's probably a million things that can be done with this concept.

This was great.

Loved Captain Jimmious Interruptus.

A fun story. Thanks for sharing.

Be well,
Lynn

Haha, that was a funny Little tale. I have hardly Problems to imagine a Military Clark, though I can totally see Lois as someone in-command. :-) Fascinating , how they got there? I asume Lois' father is here the General Lane again, instead of being a doctor, like he is on Supergirl and Smallville. If his attitude towards Superman is the same here, Lois (and Clark) will have a hard time at the Military if he has a higher Position than them...