Hi Mary!
Well, to answer the question: Because Lois Lane was coming down the sidewalk on his side, doused in Revenge.
Much to his surprise, a blue and red blur suddenly flew across the street and tackled him to the ground!
Oh my, Cloneboy’s back!
Clark might have been squished if he hadn't been Superman.
So, still working on the kinks, huh?
Superman looked very nervous. "Um...I'm...uh...I'm you!"
Oh boy.
Superman smiled at him. "Yes! That's right! I'm you from the future. I remembered someone trying to shoot me with a Kryptonite bullet, and so I came back in time to save my life."
*blinks* How is he still alive to come back to rescue himself? Or is this the paradoxon for the paradoxon, Superman knowing he will get shot because he was saved by future Superman so he can come back and save himself and now I have a headache
"If I was shot, how could I then go back in time to save myself?"
See! That. Right there!
"Because," the second Superman explained patiently, "You weren't actually shot, thanks to your future self - me - coming back in time and saving you. See?"
TEMPUS: Duh!
"If you're me from the future," Clark said, "then you should be older than me. You look too young!"
It’s not been Brutal Youth time yet, has it?
"But you look younger than me!" Clark protested.
"Kryptonians age backwards," the other Superman replied.
*blinks* Will Lois have to change his diapers? Also, she won’t be happy with an 8 y/o in her marital bed…
"Twenty hundred?" Clark echoed. "Do you mean two thousand?"
"Yes," said Superman. "That's, uh, how people talk in the future."
Also, must be all that radiation, requiring more simple terms due to…well…people are less smart?
PEOPLE: Robots do working for us. We not need be smart!
"Now, hold on a minute!" said Clark. "First of all, you were trying to tell me that this was just a time loop; second of all, how would me saving my own life in the past have anything to do with me suddenly having brothers or sisters?!"
He did not fly back to Krypton and do stuff Sigmund Freud would have a field day with, did he?
Superman started to sweat a little. "Well, there's actually a very simple explanation," he said. "You see...hey, what's that?"
Clark looked where the superhero was pointing and suddenly heard a sonic boom behind him. When he turned back, the other Superman was gone.
FREUD: I see. Yes. /makes notes/
and investigate the sightings of a strange man in a bat costume.
I really need to work on that one ficlet again. /hangs head in shame/
But right now, he was headed for home: his dear wife had something important to tell him, and he didn't want to be late.
Oooooh! Lois is pregnant. With Superman’s kid sister!
What a quirky little ficlet!
Oh, Clark. clap That isn't you, you silly lunkhead! That's your first born child, a son!
Michael
