Oooooh! Final part!
Other than the body of Tempus, she was alone in the time machine. "Where's Clark?"
Oh dear!
"Lane?" he said weakly. "Lois, is that you? What are you doing here? What happened to you? What happened to me?"
Oh boy.
Everything happened too quickly. He pushed me off. I stood up, took out my gun ... I didn't even think about it. He was going to escape.
Huh. That was awfully risky of Tempus to go to that exact spot in time. And where did Paul get a gun from?
"He has returned to his life."
"His life?" Lois squeaked. "His life where?"
"In Smallville."
Oh dear. How are you going to solve all this within this last part? Is Clark simply being reset to a pre-Tempus state?
"So ... I'm the only Lois?"
1993 Lois? With all her memory intact? Will she be able to save her parents? Will this be an almost-canon situation now?
They had lost over four months. All of her time with Clark had dissolved in the quirks of time travel, but that didn't matter. They would be together.
Are you pulling a Chuck here?
So I programmed it to return to default in the event that it undertake three consecutive journeys without the secret code being keyed in."
Ooooooh!
but I neglected to mention the imperative nature of the secret code."
Oops?
"Did he really live through so many different times just to die here and now?"
/tries to feel really sad for Tempus/
"As a true Utopian, I can never condone violence and misdeeds against one's fellow man," Wells said, "but the chronicles of time will be better served without Tempus prowling around them."
Very convenient, Mr. Wells. Very convenient
I don't know when the sixth and final story in this series will be ready to be posted.
Michael
