“Looks like a him – located him passed out in that alley around from that place you like, the one with the good chips. He’s a right nutter, though. Get this; he thinks he’s Superman.”
I’ve wondered and wondered - ever since that one Geico commercial - what ever in the world “chips” are. Are those like French fries or something? I know they aren’t the same thing as potato chips.
“Can’t tonight. I’ve got plans with Martha.
As in the Martha from Dr. Who? I think that was her name anyway. I do watch Dr. Who on occasion, but I’m not overly familiar with it lately because I usually have to work when it’s on and I’m too tired when I come home to watch so I just stopped recording it. And that’s probably more than you wanted to know, but anyway, wasn’t Rose’s “replacement” named Martha?
He thought that one day, the pain of losing the Doctor would lessen and then she would start to live again.
But sometimes the pain never goes away, does it?
He held fast to her heart the way he’d always held her hand and he probably always would.
That’s so beautiful.
They were a rich brown color and held the same depth of loneliness as the Doctor’s.
Awww....
“You’re at the Torchwood Institute at Canary Warf in London, England. England is just off the European continent on the planet Earth, also known as Gaia or Terra. We’re the third planet in a solar system of eight located on an outer spiral of the Milky Way galaxy.”
“I thought there were nine planets?”
“Used to be, but Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet a few years back.
LOL... Yeah that could be confusing to a person, eh?
As in Ex-Lax? Or are there really Xthlaxians on Dr. Who? Either way, it’s pretty funny...
“I’ll be two-hundred thirty-one next February.”
Maybe not an alternate dimension - from another time. Oops... Nope, both.
“344 Clinton Avenue, Metropolis, New Troy, USA.”
Oh, boy. Clark’s been living there a LONG time.
The first time I know of was in 1995 when an evil man named Tempus brought Lois Lane from another dimension into my world.
Ah-ha! This is alt-Clark.
Lois started in surprise at the question. Opening her eyes, she looked at Dr. Klein. His head was bent close over the open casing, mini-soldering iron in hand.
I think I see where this is going. If it’s going like I think, I like it!
“I know you’re curious about how you ended up being a fictional character here, but you probably shouldn’t have watched the entire Superman marathon last weekend.”
Wouldn’t that be something? To find out that you are really nothing more than a fictional being?
As if being transported instantly to another continent and losing eighteen years hadn’t been bad enough, it hadn’t taken long to figure out she’d lost her identity to a comic book character.
Poor Lois!
She held on to his hand for a little more than a minute, until a technician in a lab coat approached to ask her a question, but to Clark it felt like a lifetime. It had been decades, maybe even a century, since anyone had held his hand.
Oh, that’s just so sad.
“It’s amazing really,” Dr. Klein said, shaking his head. “You’re as blind as he said you’d be. Actually, I think galactically stupid were his exact words.”
Bad man, Dr. Klein. Bad, Dr. Klein. Bad.
Rose pounced immediately, hitting a pressure point on his neck to knock him out cold.
Darn. And here I was hoping the ‘blob’ was going to get him. Well, at least it got the kryptonite.
“Tricked through a time window by Tempus in the year 2197.”
“If you’re from 2197, how do you know Perry? Are you a time traveler too?”
What? Did Tempus suddenly decide to be a nice guy and put them together? Or did he not realize that there would be a time lag in the world he sent them both to?
Such a nice story, BJ. I love it when alt-Clark finds his Lois.
having an invulnerable traveling companion around might just take a bit of the fear out of dealing with the Daleks
But would Clark be invulnerable to the Daleks? What happens if he touched one? If I understand it correctly, wouldn’t their DNA evolve? And then they could be quite dangerous to Clark, couldn’t they?
Skipping 150 years will be odd!
I think I read another story where Tempus had transported Lois far into the future (same universe).
You know, if another of these very nice crossovers popped up on the boards, I think I'd probably take a quick look at it, you know, just to see if it's as good as this one is.
I’d still love to see Wendy do one. And I’d like to see you do a sequel, BJ. Great story.
