Darth Michael: 
Actually, it was just a little over a month without FDK for this one
And there’s a lot of FoLCs who picked up the slack
Yes, FoLC's brought my Muse many happy chocolate treats for this one.
So, a taxi honks, the truck driver gets startled and backs up and behind it, where kids have just been playing a moment before?
Gee, I don't think even my stories are THAT subtle.
Oh, they have been playing on the other side of the truck, but when the ice cream truck chimes, they run out behind the truck?
Just ambiance, Michael.
No. July.
They shouldn’t be holding hands during Man of Steel Bars
Between It's a Small World and NK arc.
Oh, Clark just saved her from getting run over by the truck. That’s why.
CLARK:
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Oh.
Also, poor Lois…
His ENTIRE body was 4".
CLARK:
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Told Ya!
Aaaand the bride is jealous because the groom went a bit wild with her twin sister
It's not like I ALWAYS go there.
Scared of the missus, huh?
As every smart man should be.
CLARK:
She called me smart!
Maybe someone should tell her that Clark’s *other* wife is going to show up any minute now and…
LOIS: Vegas. Now!
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She’s quite self-assured of her proficiency in the marital bed, isn’t she?
She quite self-assured that he wouldn't know the difference.
Clark! That’s not v….very patient of you[
CLARK: It's been 30 years!
Where the truck has backed over the ice cream crowd?
No, next to that.
Aaaand they *pay* for such wisdom?
MAG: Free service!
Oooh! Take Clark! Take Clark!
MAGICIAN: Runs off with old girl friend on the eve of their wedding.
Now do Lois! Now do Lois!
MAGICIAN: Leaves her new husband for a deformed criminal.
Oh, so you HAVE read this before.
Look at that! Tempus is back
Eeeehhhhh! Good guess, but wrong. Give this guy Ralph's phone number as a consolation prize.
Maybe he’s just playing with the magician’s assistant a little bit.
I think Mrs. M. might take offense at that.
CLAKR: She wants me to be patient for another couple of *months*! Me! Take me!
Hey, that's not me. According to John, IASMAA takes place in July, wedding's in October so... you do the math. Yeah, yeah, they postponed for a torturous plot arc but I figure there's no way, he'd be able to return and have such a fancy wedding set up in a week or two, so it must have been the Original wedding un-canceled (original #2, that is).
CLARK: /points to rust stains/ It's old.
EW:
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In Metropolis, it probably is. I do wonder, with a Dictator Kal-El, would the use of lead-based paint be considered a treasonous offense, punishable by smoking?
Dictator Nor definitely would.
Again. Cat. Twin sister. Other *wife*!
CLARK: None of those were MY FAULT!!!! Anyway, I meant right NOW.
Well… and who’s fault was it that Clark’s ego took such a hit?
LOIS: All I said was that him being just four inches tall isn’t really all that big of a deal.
So, you're saying she should have taken Ralph or Jimmy to the reunion, since no one would have noticed a shrinking of his....er.... ego.
I do wonder if Tempus recognizes when he’s just about to get sent to another dimension.
CLARK: /hands raised in self-defense/ I know when to let Lois fight her own battles.
Ah, this is like those new malware scams where your entire harddisk gets encrypted and you have to ransom your data back from the malcontent.
Excuse me as I log off the internet.
Lex Luthor’s widow is broke? Also, thought because she’s Lois Lane and thinks of herself as an investigative journalist.
Lex left his money to the clone. She does think well of herself, but she's not going to tell some stranger she has money.
And here I thought she looked forward to taking his naiveté.
She doesn't like it when other people get to it first.
Plus, the Lane and Kent billboards ever since. And the recent story about her running off with her ex-fiancé.
LOIS: That's not my FAULT!
CLARK:
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Now she needs to wear a blonde wig, a low-cut halter-top and a belt as disguise?
CLARK: Yes. Please. Yes!
Loving. Caring. Warm. *Nice*?
LOIS: Keep him.
That time of the month again, is it?
You mean when she's considerate enough to ask?
You knew I would get there eventually.
Can’t they involve the police with kidnapping charges?
LOIS: That's what the photo is for.
Ooooh! So, Mxysptlk set this whole thing up to target Lois?
MXY: Months!
He's a man, Lois! Geeze! He's a SUPER man, but even he's got his limits!
LOIS: You! The new girl. What’s your name?
ZARA: Sarah, Ms. Lane.
LOIS: Fine. Sara. Get me all research on magic portals we have in the archives!
ZARA: Um... okay.
Their wedding And consummating the wedding?
Yes, that's what Lois was thinking about.
Ooooh! The missus is going to tell the little homewrecker to go wreck another home
I'm sorry, who is who in this little scenario, and would Zara survive such a confrontation. I mean, we only have Lois's WORD that she threw out that Kryptonite bullet during her cruise.
Umm…that was a bit blunt, don’t you think?
ZARA: /doesn't understand 'blunt'/
Exactly.
Yeah. Except, Zara already showed up once, during Clark’s prom, and… well… you know…kids and consummating…
CLARK:
It was DARK! How was I supposed to know she wasn't Rachel?
LOIS: /points to his eyes/
CLARK: Oh, right.
New Krypton, to be with his bride.
Nope. Bride is right here.
Oooh! Like during the sentencing, huh?
Only with a little less pain.
CLARK: Sentencing?
Exactly.
Well, that’s good to hear because most humans would consider the spontaneous poofing of persons or tanks to be magic.
NOR: What do you mean, ‘I can’t use heat vision on the slaves’?
Actually, I don't think anyone ever told him this.
That sentence would be so much funnier with the magician being a woman
LOIS & ZARA: Funnier? to whom?
Constipation. Either that or telepathy.
I doubt Zara would ever admit to the former, so that would mean, the latter.
Otherwise, Nor will visit under less-than-happy circumstances.
NOR: I hear Hawaii is a great place for honeymoons. The hot pools on the mountain tops are supposed to be to die for.
ZARA: Yep. Our honeymoon would definitely be a "less-than-happy" time for Nor.
CHING: /nods/
Why is Lois so calm. Zara hasn’t proved anything. She could be a random fling of Superman’s, trying to encroach on Lane territory. Plus, she knows the secret.
Lois thinks she's wacker-doodle at this point. And according to Resplendent Man's sister, not trustworthy with the truth.
Oh look. She’s real after all. Either that or Lois is hallucinating due to her being pregnant with Dr. Deter’s love child.
Lex's, and that's a different less funny story.
CLARK: Say, what.
Maybe a little bit? Her personality, that is.
Change it how?
She now a homeless person?
Nah. Just shopping.
Her apartment was destroyed. She was living at Clark's for a while, but without electricity to run her microwave, she still needs to go to the local fire pit to cook her tv dinners.
Oh look. Lord Nor showed up. Who’d have thunk.
ZARA: /raises hand/
JOR-EL: The Ras have always been a bit mentally unstable. It took me blowing up the entire planet to prevent that marriage from happening.
KAL-EL: And they STILL tracked me down.
What the…?
LEX’s GHOST: See? Should have let me make the next President, than that wouldn’t have happened.
You don't think B39 could win?
The district’s warlord is trading for goods with his nubile women of his district? Also, why is there no mention of nuclear fallout? Why did the entire society crumble like that but no one detonated nuclear weapons? Why didn’t Mexico invade North America. Why not Canada?
Details. Details.
And what of the goods inside? And what of using lockpicks on the cuffs?
It's empty. She hasn't done her shopping yet. She just doesn't want it to be stolen. RE: lockpicks, it's a chance all good citizens take when locking up their shopping carts... same with bicycles.
Also, since it was telepathic Clark who first noticed the commotion, I wonder if he might not have just done a mind-whammy on Lois and made her imagine this entire year so she’d agree to eloping.
CLARK: /scared of this awesome power you have given him/
That'd be bad.
LOIS: Tell me about it. Hold on, where did I put that Kryptonite ?
By using her womanly whiles on her husband and Kryptonite on the interlopers?
LOIS: Clark, they need Superman in China!
CLARK: Okay! /flies off/
LOIS: /pulls out kryptonite from her lead pouch/ Now, you were saying, Zara?
Mxy? No, according to the comics he's totally pro-LnC wedding.
Yeah, but maybe until after the consummation.
LOIS: That's what I was thinking.
CLARK: /confused/ Ribbit?
Nah. EW just a bit evil.
Oh no! Ribbit! Also…Herb?
Okay. Not THAT evil.
MICHAEL: There you are /waves at Herb/
Only THIS evil.
So…more less rather than little less, huh? Also, maybe she should not step out with more less when the visitor is here. It might be embarrassing to the nice Victorian Gent.
LOIS: Whatever scares him off.
EW: She wasn't naked.
HERB: Phew.
Oh, right. They know him already.
This is post meeting Alt-Clark.
This was grand entertainment!
I have to prove myself worthy of short stories every once and while.
Sorry if the FDK ran be bit long, though…
I hope I bared... beared?... the burden well.
