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The Matchmaker Chronicles Volume 1 -
Lois Lane – Mother of Utopia

Disclaimers: The characters in this story are property of DC, December 3rd productions and Warner Bros. No Copyright infringement is intended. I have just borrowed the characters for a short time.

This is my first excursion into an original fanfic. Anyone that read my “suggested Alternate ending to Accidental Husband” will know that I prefer WAFFY stories. You will also see just how ‘rough around the edges’ a first attempt can be. I hope that this story concept meets with your approval. I wish to express my thanks to my Beta readers Ray Reynolds and Artemis for their invaluable help. This was a VERY rough draft when it first landed in their hands.
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Please see author’s notes at end for explanations of Sidereal time, TTEMPO, TaDT, Multiverse identification and the Kryptonian naming convention. These are all integral to this story and future stories and will probably be included, in some form, in each.
As always comments are welcome. (ken.janney@kjanney.com)

Lois Lane – Mother of Utopia

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June 30, 2037 AD 7:30 PM local time (Sidereal)
Metropolis, New Troy
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Herb, the somewhat older version, had parked his vehicle around the corner and had secured it so that it couldn’t be stolen or inadvertently sent on a trip by someone fiddling with the controls. As he turned away from his ‘Time Sled’ he gave it an affectionate pat and then turned on the cloak. Even though there was a new device, the TaDT, for moving through the time stream and the dimensional planes as well, he still liked his original machine for trips of this type. He liked the ‘feel’ of travel in his old device compared to the new portal device. You could observe changes and adjust your ‘course’ to a certain extent, even stop off for a ‘side trip’. With the new portal device you simply step through from one time or universe into the other, that’s all … about as exciting as stepping through a door. Not enough of a ‘hands on’ feel for him.

Herb was confident that they were still here; his careful reading of their history had told him that. There were, of course, differences in the time lines of the multiverses which is why they had started using Sidereal time as the standard or Universal time measure since it was based upon the movement of the planets and stars and not based upon some arbitrary event. As he walked the short distance that would take him to 348 Hyperion Ave. he mused about the reason for his being here. There had been some things about this universe’s Kent Family History which had struck him as somewhat … odd, hence his current trip.

Since the founding of the TTEMPO - Time Travel Enforcement and Multiverse Protection Organization in the mid 2400s by himself and a group of scientists from that era, he had been laboring on producing a new, comprehensive, history of the Kent clans which would document all of the genealogy and list the significant events and contributions of the various members. He had already compiled one for universe Alpha 023 x Gamma 025 x Tau 036 called ‘*the* Alternate universe’ or Alt 1, as if it was the only one, by the ‘Original’ Superman and his family since it was the first one they had interacted with. <“I really should have chosen an easier universe to start with. Alt 1 with its missing Lois and all of the trouble that brought about had been a real headache. It came out alright in the end though, with a little help from me, thank heaven.> The ‘Original’ Superman’s universe being also Herb’s home universe is simply called Prime, actual coordinates Alpha 023 x Gamma 004 x Tau -120. He had been in the process of updating the Prime universe’s Kent Family History when he had come across the inconsistencies which had caused him to think that there was a mystery here that needed to be investigated. After all, he was a Science Fiction author and didn’t like mysteries. As he finished his musings he found that he was on the steps of the house which was the object of his trip.

Herb reached up and knocked on the door and waited patiently for it to be answered. When it was, he was greeted by a stunningly beautiful blond woman of about 25 – 35 years of age. She was wearing a smart dress suit in dark burgundy, a short jacket over a dark red silk, scoop neck blouse (which showed off an ample amount of cleavage), a very short burgundy skirt and high heeled pumps in red, which showed off her legs quite nicely.

“May I help you?” she said after looking him over.

Herb was speechless for a few seconds. This *definitely* was not the individual he was expecting to meet at the door. After clearing his throat Herb removed his Derby hat and held it in both hands in front of him as he replied, somewhat hesitantly, “Uh, Yes, Un, I would like to speak with Lois Lane-Kent if you please.”

“*I’m* Lois Lane. Do I know you?” she replied

To say that Herb was taken aback by this statement is to engage in understatement. Herb was stunned and simply stared at her in disbelief.

She got a look of comprehension on her face and said, “Perhaps you mean ‘Mama Lois’?”

After clearing his throat again Herb found his voice and stammered his replied, “Uh, if ‘Mama Lois’ is in her early 60s and a brunette, then, yes, I mean uh, ‘Mama Lois’. I, uh, I’m an old acquaintance of hers.”

“Won’t you come on in then and make yourself comfortable in the living room while I get her?”

She took Herb’s hat and placed it on a table in the foyer. She then escorted Herb into the living room and saw to it that he was comfortable before she exited and proceeded upstairs.

After a wait of something over 15 minutes an older but still very attractive Lois Lane came down the staircase. She was dressed in a gray pinstripe business suit, which matched the color of her hair, a jacket that came to below the waist and a skirt that fell well below the knee. A white blouse with a high neck and frilly collar and gray ribbon tie and low heeled shoes completed the ensemble. As she came to the bottom of the stairs Lois approached Herb and held out her hand in greeting. Herb stood up and took her hand in his. “Herb, sorry I had to make you wait, I wasn’t exactly presentable. It’s been a long time since you’ve visited us. To what do we owe this honor? More trouble in the alternate universe that you need us to help with?”

“No, not this time.”

Getting a worried look on her face she asked, “Is Tempus on the loose again?”

“My gracious no, not this time. This is more on the lines of a *social* call, if you will.”

Looking quite relived at this news, Lois said, “Clark’s out on patrol right now, but should be returning shortly. His patrols are more of a ritual now than necessity since the kids have assumed most of his responsibilities. Please, have a seat and make yourself comfortable.”

After they had both taken seats Herb began, “I have been in the process of updating the Kent Family History and I have identified some problems or inconsistencies, as it were, that I would like to have your help with. Actually, I might have just met the explanation for one of them. The, uh, young lady that answered the door identified *herself* as Lois Lane. I must admit to being ... well … *puzzled*. I thought you were the only one.”

At that Lois laughed. After a few seconds she began her explanation. “Herb, her name *is* in fact Lois Lane. Our eldest son, CJ, followed in our footsteps and went into journalism. His fiancée was also a journalist. They were both slated to start working at the Planet. They decided that the tradition of a Lane & Kent byline at the Planet was something that should be continued. They took advantage of a New Troy law which says that the name you put on your marriage certificate would be your new married name. It saves the cost of going through a legal name change. So, when they were married they became Lois Ellen Lane-Kent and Clark Jerome Kent, professionally: Lois Lane and Clark Kent. They intend to encourage their children to do the same thing when their time comes.”

“Ahhh, I seeeeee! That indeed does explain how there is a succession of Lois Lane-Kent and Clark Kents at the Daily Planet. I had noted in the Family History that there was an unbroken line of Lois Lanes and Clark Kents at the Daily Planet stretching into the mid 2300s and wondered how that could be possible. That would explain it nicely!”

At his statement Lois got a somewhat startled look <Very interesting> she thought, but quickly controlled it and managed to change her expression into a more neutral one as they heard a whooshing sound and Superman entered from the kitchen.

Superman appeared to be approximately sixty years of age, graying and showing some wrinkles but still with that killer physique in the spandex. It looked as though Dr. Klein’s prediction that his aging process would “stabilize and sloooowwww”, so that he would age at a dramatically slower rate than Lois had *not* been borne out. He appeared to be aging at the same rate as a normal earth human. There *had* been that incident with Veda Doodsen where he had given up some of his life force for Jimmy. It appeared as though that had actually had an effect on him. When he saw Herb he spun out of the suit and into jeans, casual shirt and running shoes. He reached for Herb’s hand in greeting. “Herb, it’s so good to see you. So, what brings you around? I hope it isn’t another problem in the alternate universe.”

“No, as I have been explaining to Ms. Lane, this is more in the nature of a social visit. I have been in the process of updating the Kent Family History and had some questions. Ms. Lane has been kind enough to have provided the answers that I was looking for.”

Lois asked “Herb, while we chat, would you like a cup of tea?”

“That would be delightful, my dear!”

As Lois disappeared into the kitchen, Herb turned to Clark and asked, “How exactly are things? How many children do you and Ms. Lane have at this point in your life?”

“Well, Herb, as you know, we weren’t sure that we would even be able to have children and, in fact, we didn’t for some time after we were married. We were starting to lose hope of ever having children of our own and were considering adoption. Within our first year of marriage we had asked Bernie Klein to determine if a Kryptonian human/Earth human hybrid pregnancy was possible. Bernie and Lois’ father, Sam Lane, both had looked over the data from the studies that Bernie had done and came to the same conclusion that a Kryptonian human/Earth human pregnancy was not possible. Apparently, at that point in time that *was* the case. The actual reason for this though was the fact that Lois’ body needed to be ‘conditioned’ by exposure to my aura in order for her to conceive and it took longer than that for the exposure to prepare her body to accept a pregnancy. The aura actually made some very subtle changes to her physiology.”

Lois called out from the Kitchen, “Herb, do you want Oolong, English Breakfast or Earl Gray?”

“Earl Gray would be delightful! Thank you!”

“Do you want milk or Lemon for your tea?”

“Milk, if you please. Thank you!”

“Sugar, honey or artificial sweetner?”

“Sugar will do nicely. Thank you!”

Clark continued, “Three years after we were married we had our first child, Clark Jr. or CJ. A year later we had Jonathan Joel. Two years after Jon we had Lara Martha. Then we had the twins, Celeste and Sean. Then came Jessica, James Perry (Jimmy), Lucy Ellen and Sam. It may seem as though we have an extraordinary number of children but we decided that we loved them and as long as we were able to we would continue to enlarge our family. The fact that birthing Kryptonian children was exceptionally easy on Lois, physically, was another inducement. Other than being extraordinarily tired for the first two months with only moderate morning sickness it is an easy pregnancy. Something to do with the aura the child develops after the first two months in the womb.”

“Can you go into any more detail on that? This is just the kind of information that would be important for the history.”

“No, actually, I can’t. I’m really fuzzy on all the details. Bernie Klein would be the person you would need to speak to for those. He ran all kinds of genetic and metabolic studies on all of us. He is retired from S.T.A.R. Labs at this point, but I’m sure he would be more than willing to talk to you.”

Lois came back in with the tea on a tray and placed it on the coffee table. After each had prepared the tea the way that they preferred the conversation devolved into general topics and about the family. Herb told them something about TTEMPO, how it was founded and what its mission and goals were and the invention of the TaDT. Clark and Lois sat together on the sofa. Clark’s arm was draped casually across Lois’ shoulders and Lois was leaning into him. Herb was seated in a comfortable wing back chair across the coffee table from them.

Clark said, “You know, Herb, you are lucky you found us in. We’re moving next week. Of course, we will be keeping this house, partly for sentimental reasons, but mainly because Jon and his family will be moving in. We recently purchased the old Delfino mansion out on Wisteria Lane. It had been untenanted for some time and was a real buy. With the royalties we derived from our book sales and movie rights we were able to purchase and remodel it and it is just now ready for occupancy. It will give us the room we need for our current family needs, since CJ and his wife will be living with us. It will also give us room for hosting relatives when they come to visit and if the kids return home when they have finished schooling and until they marry.”

Lois took up the narrative, “The nice things about the new Kent homestead are that it is out of the city, privacy fenced, wooded and will afford easy access from the air for the family with secrecy and security.”

“Jon has been married to a lovely girl, Jennifer, for a little over 3 years and they are expecting their first child.” Lois said with some delight and a very large smile on her face “I’m going to have my *first* grandchild, I’m gonna be a *Grandma*!! That feels almost as good as when we had our first *child*. I can hardly wait. I feel like a kid again waiting to open my Christmas presents (which I always found and opened early). This is one present I’ll have to wait for though, she’s due in 3 months. Oh, I almost forgot to mention, but of course you already know, the Kryptonian genes are dominant and will pass down through the generations so we are going to have a *super* grandchild in more ways than one.”

Clark jumped in, “We had been concerned with the possibility of genetic dilution with succeeding generations and eventually our descendants losing the powers. Bernie relieved us of our concerns on that point some years ago.”

Sitting his cup down on the table Clark continued the tale, “Each of the children has been given Kryptonian names as well as our family names. For instance Jon is Kam-El and Lara is Myel. We didn’t want the Kryptonian name to be anything like their Earth name. We gave them Kryptonian names because of continued interaction with New Krypton. We have good relations with them now; in fact some trade is carried on, mostly High Tech and commodities.”

“CJ and Lois, the girl that answered the door, live with us.” Lois added, “They started at the Planet just as we retired. CJ is out on a stake out right now or you could have met him.”

Clark picked it up, “CJ has adopted a suit exactly like mine and when I retire, he will be Superman. Jon, when he had attained mastery of his powers, adopted a suit very similar to mine, the difference being the main color of the suit is black instead of blue. He took his Kryptonian name Kam-El as his super identity. I personally can see why he prefers to use his Kryptonian name when in the suit as opposed to ‘Son of Superman’ or something like UltraMan or AmazingMan especially since neither of those would go with the “S” shield on his chest and it helps with the separation from his real identity. Since not very many people know my Kryptonian name is Kal-El they don’t realize the family relationship. Almost everyone thinks that with the improved relations he came here from New Krypton to help out. He is a research scientist working at S.T.A.R. Labs. He started as Bernie Klein’s assistant and was mentored by him.”

“We are very proud of him.” Lois added as she also sat down her empty tea cup. “He’s every bit as good as Bernie was and is carrying on with his work. One of the things he’s working on is an antidote for Kryptonite poisoning.”

Clark resumed, “Lara, who is the spitting image of Lois, on the other hand took on the suit of her mom and the name Ultra Woman instead of her Kryptonian name. She is proud of being the daughter of the original Ultra Woman and lets everyone know it. She was recently married and is now living in LA. She has a position as a junior partner in a law firm out there. Her husband works for the same firm. Their specialty within the firm is negotiation of trade contracts with New Krypton firms. Her senior partners in the firm don’t know why she has such clout with the New Kryptonians but she is able to negotiate deals no one else can. All she can do is smile sweetly and claim that it has to be her charm. However, we know that the El family name still carries some clout on New Krypton and as Myel the daughter of Kal-El she is given special consideration. As a result of this we expect she will move up in the ranks within the firm rapidly. Since she is the one with the aura we don’t expect there to be any problems when they decide to start their family.”

Lois again picked up the story, pride evident in her voice as she spoke. “The other 5 are still in various stages of schooling. The youngest, Sam, has just graduated from High School, Valedictorian of his class I’ll have you know. It’s a shame we didn’t know you were coming. He is an Eagle Scout and is away at a Scout Jamboree right now or you could have met him.” Lois laughed and said as an aside, “We always called Clark the ‘Boy Scout’, now it turned out that all of our kids have been involved in scouting for real! Anyway, he has already been accepted at MetU for the fall semester. He wants to get his MBA and work for the Superman Foundation.”

Herb had been looking back and forth at them as they exchanged leads on telling the tale. He was slowly getting a broader and broader smile as he followed the exchange.

Clark picked it up at this point, “The twins and Jessie are sharing an apartment near MetGen where the twins are completing their internships and will soon be MDs. Sean has chosen Emergency Medicine as his specialty, he has already been offered a position in the ER at MetGen, and Celeste has chosen Family Practice. They also plan to work with Jon on the Kryptonite antidote problem because of their knowledge of Kryptonian anatomy and physiology.

“Jessie has just graduated Pre Med and will be starting an internship at MetGen in September. She has chosen Obstetrics/Pediatrics as her specialty.” Lois added, “Jimmy is following in the footsteps of his Godfather, namesake and Uncle, Jimmy Olsen as a Computer Science major. Jimmy Olson married my sister Lucy and they have 3 children of their own so our kids have some non-super cousins. Our Lucy is a Clinical Psychology major at MetU. Jimmy and Lucy are both living in the dorms.”

“The only ones that have found their soul mates, so far, are CJ, Jon and Lara. The rest aren’t in any rush to get married.”

Lois looked at Herb and asked “What do you find so amusing? You have this big smile on your face.”

“Forgive me, my dear, it’s just that, the two of you…It’s like watching a ping-pong match or like observing two people with one voice. It’s like you are finishing each other’s thoughts. Like the two of you are *really* one!”

Lois looked up into Clark’s face with a very loving look and said, “You know, Herb, we came to that conclusion a *long* time ago.”

“Would you like to see some pictures of us and the kids?”

Herb nods in agreement as he finishes a sip of his tea and sat his empty tea cup down. “That would be very nice.” Unlike a lot of people when you asked if they wanted to see some of your family pictures, he wasn’t just being polite, he sincerely wanted to see the pictures of the super family.

Lois got up and went over to a book shelf and grabbed a photo album. “There are even wedding pictures from CJ and Lois’, Jon and Jennifer’s and Lara and Mike’s weddings in here.”

She handed the album to Herb who paged through it. Clark got up and joined Lois next to the chair. they stood beside the chair, arms around each other, and explained who was who as he went through the album. Giving little anecdotes about the situations depicted as they went. Since most were from the children’s non-super period it was a lot of ‘normal’ family stuff.

Herb asked about the wedding pictures. The picture from CJ and Lois’ wedding showed simply the bride in a simi-formal gown and the groom in a dark suit, in front of what appeared to be a small chapel whereas the others were apparently formal church weddings.

“That is something of a sad story.” Lois answered “Cecily, now Lois, was an only child and lost her family in a tragic accident when she was young. She wound up in a decent foster home until she was of age so it turned out OK. In view of her lack of family it was decided to have a small, private ceremony rather than a large church affair.”

After looking through the album Lois returned it to its shelf and they resumed the conversation, “Clark and I retired from the Planet three years ago. We had been co Editors-in-Chief for 10 years. We had told the suits upstairs that the only way either of us would take the position was if we *both* did. We had seen what would happen if either of us took it separately and we didn’t want that to happen again. We were appointed to that position when Perry retired. When we retired we completed the books we had started while we were there. We wrote a history of our time at the Planet, outlining the major investigations we had done. We actually did a separate book just on the Luthor exposé. Then we did a first person ‘Tell All’ (which really wasn’t) about Superman. We were very careful with that one. It still turned out to be a best seller. That was the one we sold the movie rights to. They have made a couple movies from some of our adventures and there is talk of a TV series.”

After a while Herb felt that he had enough data to add to the book so he bid them good night. As they escorted him to the door, Lois and Clark expressed their pleasure at seeing their ‘old friend’ and extended an invitation for a future visit. As Lois handed Herb his hat he thanked them and expressed his disappointment that he had been unable to meet any of the children, other than their daughter-in-law and asked that they express to her his pleasure in meeting her, to which they said that they would. Herb had had such a pleasant time and actually had so much information dumped on him that he didn’t even occur to him to wonder that he hadn’t seen the younger Lois after she first greeted him at the door. There was one other thing that really didn’t register because of the information overload. That was the fact that the *only* picture of CJ in the album was the wedding picture.


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A short time later
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After closing up the couple cleaned up the living room and kitchen and putting out the lights proceeded upstairs.

After entering the bedroom Lois turned to Clark. Clark put his arms around her waist as she put her arms around his neck and he drew her in for a kiss which started out as a soft touching of the lips, but which quickly escalated to soul-shattering proportions. After a few delirious minutes they separated so that they could catch their breath. After holding each other, forehead touching forehead, for a minute they broke apart.

Lois walked over to her vanity table and sat down. Turning toward him with a troubled look on her face, she said “Clark, I really hated to have to deceive Herb that way. Don’t you think that he really has a right to know the truth?”

Placatingly, Clark answered, “Now Lois, we’ve already talked about this a few times. We have to conceal this from *everyone*, and that everyone *includes* Herb.”

“But, he’s trying to get the correct history of our *family*”, she protested. She was justifiably proud of her family and wanted the record to be clear. …. If not now then eventually.

“I realize that, but, you know what happened when Jason Masick found that copy of Tempus’ journal which revealed my secret. He blackmailed me, tried to kill me and my parents and because of Nigel wanted you dead. What if someone like that or someone like Tempus got hold of this ‘corrected’ history? Just think of what could happen.”

“It just doesn’t seem right. After all, what real harm could be done? In the future, everyone will know that you and I were married and that you were Superman.” As she was speaking, Lois began to remove her makeup. As she did so, her wrinkles seemed to disappear and her appearance became that of a young woman. Then she reached up and removed the gray wig she had been wearing, revealing golden colored tresses.

“I really need to touch up my roots,” Lois muttered as she regarded her blond self in the mirror. “I think next time I’ll be a red head. At least that is closer to my natural shade.”

Clark in his turn removed a wig and some makeup to reveal Clark as he had appeared when he was in his thirties.

“You can have the shower first,” Clark said. “That is of course, unless you want to share,” he continued with a wink.

Lois looked back up at him. “That sounds like fun! It’s been a while since I have had to wear this get up for this long a stretch. Last one in the shower has to do the dishes for a month and no fair using you powers!” She said back over her shoulder as she started to dash for the bathroom.

Clark cheated and used just enough superspeed to arrive in the bathroom at the same time as Lois.

Clark then used his superspeed to finish undressing Lois and himself even hanging up the gray suit and white blouse next to the Burgundy and red outfit.

After the shower they shared an intimate period in bed and then lying in each other’s arms, Lois’ head on Clark’s chest, her fingers tracing little figures on his chest, they resumed the conversation because they hadn’t really resolved the issues.

“Ever since we found out from Bernie what had happened to me we’ve had to cover it up. When I told Herb that the Kryptonian genes were dominant I *was* stretching the truth a bit. I thought that I needed to though, since there were going to be a *lot* more half Kryptonians than there was any right to be normally, but, still he is going to *have* to know *sometime*.”

“We could write him a letter and have it delivered to, what did he call it, Tempo(?) in the future.. That sounds like an interesting organization. We should have asked him more about it while he was here.”

“I think that the acronym is actually T T E M P O. I guess writing a letter could work, like what Doc. Brown did for Marty in “Back to the Future”.

“I just can’t thank the Newtrich sisters enough for what they unwittingly did.” Clark said

“I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the concepts.”

“The key was telling Bernie that you were Ultra Woman and how that had come about. By having my powers for a while, your body was sensitized to the aura.”

“Now, as long as I am exposed to a Kryptonian aura I age at the same rate as you. When we are intimate what remains behind of you, in me, has enough of an aura to act the same way as if I were in your arms.”

“And as long as you are within 3 feet of me or one of the kids you pick up the aura.”

“Whenever I’m pregnant the aura of the child in me has the same affect and that ‘kicks in’ after a couple of months. Naturally, while the child is an infant, I’m nursing and the child is rarely more than 3 feet away. Aside from loving you and the children the additional benefit of not aging is quite an incentive for us to have *lots* of children.”

“Neither of us has aged perceptibly in the last 30 years.”

Lois planted a few kisses on Clark’s chest and then continued, “You know, until we found out what was happening, ever since the time of our encounter with Veda Doodsen, I had been worried about growing old while you stayed young. Part of that was wondering if you would still love me if I was old and wrinkled. Another part was my concern about how you would handle life without me. After I died, I would have wanted you to find someone else to love and be with. It kinda made me jealous to think of it, but hey, I wouldn’t have been around and maybe you would have found me again as your soul mate. This way, I don’t *have* to worry about it. You have *the original* to keep you on your toes”

“Your observation of what was happening, or more precisely, not happening, is what caused us to go to Bernie and ask him to do the metabolic studies in the first place. When he told us that metabolically, you were a woman in her early thirties; even though at that point you were actually in your mid forties, we were shocked.”

“Of course, that presented us with a whole new set of problems. How were we going to explain how neither of us was aging? Your idea of the makeup and wigs was good! That took care of the aging for both of us. That still left us with the problem of how to ‘come back’ again. The absolute stroke of genius was when you had the idea for the fake birth certificate for CJ, the son that was never born, and finding the name of a girl that was stillborn and creating a complete identity for her.”

With the help of their brother-in-law Jimmy Olsen and his dad at the NIA they had created a complete persona for each digitally. Complete with driver’s licenses and passports. Lois and Clark then wrote articles under those names and submitted them to other, smaller papers around the world to build up a portfolio of work for their application to the Planet when the time came to apply for employment. For CJ the explanation was that he had been managing the Kent farm in Kansas until he had decided to travel as his father had done. His fiancée had been a ‘big city girl’ and orphan from the ‘Big Apple’ where it is easy to have a very limited number of acquaintances. They had met there during his travels and fallen in love. She had then moved to Metropolis to marry him.

“At the appropriate time you changed your appearance somewhat and assumed her identity. Then I assumed the identity of CJ. We made a show of a courtship and then we were married taking our original names back under the laws of New Troy. Absolutely brilliant”

Lois stopped her finger tracing and placed her hand flat on Clark’s chest for leverage as she lifted her head up so that she could look Clark in the face. “Oh, by the way, Herb told me something quite interesting this evening. He didn’t realize it but he did give me a piece of information about *our* future. You know how we’d been wondering just how long we will be together now with the way things are. Well, Herb told me that there will be a string of Lane and Kent reporting teams at the Planet until the mid *24th century*.” She gave this a couple of seconds to sink in. Clark whistled. “Do you think you can put up with me for that amount of time?” she asked, raising an eyebrow archly.

Clark simply grinned, pulled her up and kissed her soundly. “If you can put up with me for that long, I think I can make the same sacrifice.”

She jabbed him in the ribs and they both broke out in laughter.

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In the course of time, somewhere in the early 24th century, when the foundation of Utopia had been established and there were sufficient numbers of Supermen and Superwomen, over 50 of them being direct children of Lois and Clark and therefore half Kryptonian, over 500 grandchildren, 2500 great grandchildren and uncounted great great grandchildren (Etc) it was revealed to the world that the Supermen and Superwomen were all from the Kent family. By this time crime and warfare was virtually unheard of, thanks to their influence, and most of what the Supermen and Superwomen were called on to help with was natural disasters.

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When it came time for Lois and Clark to pass on, their children had tombstones erected on their graves engraved as follows:

Clark Jerome Kent
Kal-El - Superman
1966 – 2388
The best father on any planet

Lois Ellen Lane-Kent
The original UltraWoman
1967 – 2386
Mother of Utopia

FIN


A/N:
Sidereal (pronounced sai’diera.el) time is a universal constant based upon the movement of the planets and stars. Primarily used by astronomers. In my L&C universe (this and other stories to come) it will be used. Because in other stories I will be having events occur ‘out of sequence’ with the L&C universe of the series but the ST or UT will provide the touchstone.

TTEMPO (pronounced Tempo) Time Travel Enforcement and Multiverse Protection Organization founded in 2435 by Herb and a group of research scientists working at what was then called Uni (short for Universal) Labs, a descendant of S.T.A.R Labs. They were a multi-disciplinary group with specialties ranging from computer science to particle physics and beyond. When Herb approached them with the method he used for time travel they were interested enough to hear him out on his proposal. He had seen the affects of uncontrolled time and dimensional travel and saw the need of an organization which would oversee such travel and which would be able to take the necessary steps to correct alterations to the time lines as needed. Thus the organization was formed with several branches, Admin, Research, Documentation and Enforcement. They approached the Superman Foundation which had assumed certain governmental responsibilities with the establishment of Utopia, and were granted a charter for their activities.

TaDT - called a ‘Tad’, actual name - Time and Dimension Transporter. A small device slightly larger than a Blackberry or I-Phone type Smart phone with a full keypad (no need to use alt characters to type in numbers) and a large display. It has a tremendous amount of computing power and memory and is powered by a Kryptonian power source of tremendous power for its size. In its initial form it was only capable of moving through time since it was based on the principles of Herb’s Time Sled and was called a TT – Time Transport. After a while the ability to move geographically was added and the name was changed to TLT – Time and Location Transport. Once this was accomplished and the actual nature of the alternate dimensions was determined it was a simple matter to use the base algorithms from the geographical movement to add dimensional movement. It is capable of opening a ‘portal’ either within time lines, alternate dimensions or both. The default setting when crossing the time ‘barrier’ is location zero (Please see Herb’s recounting of his initial adventures in his book “The Time Machine”). The default when crossing the dimensional barriers is time zero, current time Sidereal, NOT local. Tempus had managed to acquire one of the later versions which enabled him to cross the dimensional barrier to Alt 1. The one unpleasant ‘side effect’ of using the Tad is that it does tend to create an almost imperceptible weakness in the dimensional barrier and a ‘worm hole’ type effect which has two fixed end points. Tempus use of the device created a paradox of sorts in that it alerted Herb to the existence of alternate dimensions. Herb was able to bring this knowledge to TTEMPO which facilitated the development of the TaDT which device Tempus later stole.

The multiverses are separated from each other primarily by their vibratory state expressed as 3 vectors. The closer the 3 vectors are to each other in total indicates the relationship of one universe to another. For instance universe: Alpha 023 x Gamma 025 x Tau 040 would be more closely related to and in fact an offshoot of Alpha 023 x Gamma 025 x Tau 036 (Alt 1) than Alpha 023 x Gamma 004 x Tau -120 (Prime) as can be seen by the similarities in the Gamma and Tau values..

The creation of universes within the multiverse will be explained in a future work.

The Kryptonian naming convention is as follows: The male children carry the family name, or surname, after a hyphen which follows the given name. The female children carry the family or surname as part of the given name without a hyphen. Upon marriage they then adopt the family name of their husband in a format similar to the males it being added after the given name and hyphenated. For instance Zara was Za of the house of Ra (An example of this coming into play is the story “Backwards” by CarolM when Lois Kent ‘hears’ a message from Jor-El when examining Kal-El’s ship telling her “In the absence of the House of Ra, you have my blessing.” which was referring to Zara.) Kal-El’s mother Lara would have been La of the house of Ra indicating that Kal-El and Zara were distant cousins at the time of their birth marriage as infants. Although it is not mentioned in either movies, series or comics Lara would most properly have been Lara-El having taken the family name of El upon her ceremony of union to Jor-El as Zara would have become Zara-El if the ceremony had been completed wedding her to Kal-El. In this story Lara Kent’s Kryptonian name is My of the house of El – Myel. In “Luck and Consequences” by Bob Bartholomew, Lois made up a Kryptonian name. At the press conference she said her name was Lor of the house of El as her married name. This would have had to be L of the house of Or prior to her marriage indicating to me that this was a spur of the moment creation or else she would have come up with a longer given name, although this is still perfectly legitimate. This naming convention is an aid to Kryptonian genealogists in tracing family histories. There are cases such as Lt. Ching or Lord Nor where the surname is not mentioned. This could be due to the presence of the title: Lt. or Lord. In the case of Lt. Ching the reason would be the presence of a *military* title. The same would apply to General Zod. With Nor and Trey it could be because they are members of the aristocracy. I seem to recall at some point that Nor is referred to as Zara’s brother which would make his complete name Nor-Ra.
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