Beyond Smallville: Fan Fiction

"Clark, how’s your Egyptian?" Lois quipped. He cast her an annoyed glance. "What do you mean? We’re not going to Egypt to investigate Mosuban." Lois folded her arms. "Why not? Between our combined powers, and Kara’s super jet ability, we could go there and be back before my first coffee break tomorrow morning."

Chloe snickered at her ambitious cousin. "Lois, we don’t even know if this Mosuban is involved in anything wrong or illegal. We can’t convict the guy by the unsavory company he keeps. Though I would put my money on them being a three headed hydra."

Kara was getting worried about Lois. She seemed to become more aggressive every day that the kryptonite infection was within her. If Clark’s theory held true, they’d better concentrate on stopping her, she mused, safely and effectively.

"Lois, we can’t just invade Egypt and start snooping around Mosuban and his pals without arousing suspicions. Realistically, we don’t have the connections to get at him. Chloe’s right, we’re not even sure if he’s up to anything." Clark stated with conviction.

"Aw come on, Smallville…" Lois scoffed. "Don’t be such an old lady. If it looks like a duck, and acts like a duck…" Clark frowned. "No, Lois." He said firmly. "Let me get this straight, Clark." Lois’s tone was rougher. "You and Kara have all of these superior abilities and you sit on your duffs and watch the world go by."

"It’s not that simple, Lois." Clark defended weakly. Kara shifted uneasily, contemplating the best way to rid Lois of her powers, before she did something that she regretted. "Time out, you two!" Chloe intervened. "Did you just give me a time out, cuz?" Lois quipped. "Yes, now shush."

"Let’s see if we can find anything else useful on Mosuban." Chloe began, as she pulled up the Internet on the high tech Isis Foundation equipment. "I’ll do a web search on our friend, Mosuban and his bank. I’ll probably just get general info and puff pieces, but you never know."

"Maybe someone has something on him out there already." Clark added. "It’s not as if I can Google Mosuban under ‘secret evil plans and questionably funded research and development’." Chloe joked. Lois sighed in resignation. "Smallville, how can you stand this?" She put in.

Lois nervously paced back and forth across the room. "I mean how can you sit on the sidelines with all of these abilities bouncing around in your head?" Kara was certain that Lois was breaking down.

The meteor rock abilities were starting to take their toll on Lois’s mental and emotional state. She didn’t have much time left. "Uh oh!" Chloe muttered. "Uh oh? There is no Uh Oh!" Clark said as he hurriedly glanced over her shoulder. "Chill, Clark." Lois pushed past him to view the monitor.

"Mosuban is coming here, to Metropolis." Chloe announced as Kara gulped. "He’s going to give his blessing to a new financial grant for LuthorCorp and Rowland Chemicals research and development." Chloe continued to inform them. "Talk about a deal with the devil, in fact two of them."

"That still doesn’t make any sense." Clark remarked. "Sure it does, Smallville." Lois stepped back briefly. "Does the phrase ‘money laundering’ ring a bell? Remember my expose of the Mowhala

Drug Cartel? The gang had literally dozens of so called legitimate business investments."

"They’d funnel their cash flow through all of them, making it subject to legal taxation. My bet is that Mosuban is no different. It could also be going back the other way, from LuthorCorp or Rowland Chemicals to Mosuban’s bank, and other home grown businesses."

"When is he coming?" Clark asked with alarm. "This Tuesday." Chloe replied. "There’ll be a ‘dog and pony’ show, motivational speaker seminar, and business expo at the Rowland Chemical’s new Metropolis headquarters. Mosuban is the guest speaker."

Lois clapped her hands together, shaking the air around them. "We’ve got him! It’s perfect! He’ll fall right into our laps!" Kara circled in behind them. "Lois, we still don’t have anything illicit on Mosuban." She chimed in. "Trust me, kiddo! Either he or the insipid evil rich twins will slip up. They always do, and bam! We’ll pounce on them!" Lois’s voice rose excitedly.

"Bingo! Kara! We’ll haul the whole bunch in front of a Federal magistrate, and lock their sorry asses up indefinitely!" Lois continued to wring her hands with a wild look in her eyes. It was like she’d just received a major energy boost. Apparently the kryptonite infection messed with her hormones as well. Her eyes suddenly went yellow, as she glanced at Clark, alarming Kara.

The young alien superhero formed a plan. She’d have to get Kal alone for his permission, first. Kara intended to use Lois’s intense feelings for Clark as bait. "One step at a time, Lois." Chloe cautioned. "What exactly would we accuse Mosuban of, assuming we can get close enough to him?"

"I don’t know! He must be up to something." Lois grumbled, as Chloe began to bring her cousin down off her hormone related high. "If he is, and slips up, we’ll be there!" She reassured the overanxious Lois. "I guess I’ll head home and bounce off the walls for a while." Lois said.

"Why don’t you clean up your side of the apartment with all of this excess energy?" Chloe teased. "Been there, done that, Chlo’. All of my stuff is over at Clark’s now." Chloe smirked. "Oh really?" She sounded partially jealous, and partially amused.

"You and Clark are living in domestic bliss?" She quipped, as Clark reddened and Kara laughed. "Something like that." Lois took it in stride.

"That’s right, Smallville, there’s a new sheriff in town." Lois taunted Clark. "Good luck with that." Chloe gibed. "There’s an idea, Lois, why don’t you use some of that energy to build yourself an addition to our farm house?" Clark ribbed her. Lois pretended to be offended.

"Don’t think I wouldn’t, Smallville." She grinned. "Unfortunately, materials cost money, and I’ve only got about half my check to draw from this week. Are you Scoobies going to hang out here, then?" She probed.

On the one hand Clark wanted to go with her, and keep her out of trouble, on the other, he wanted to talk to Chloe about reducing Lois’s powers. "I guess so." He finally decided. "Okay, then I’ll see ya’ll back at the ranch, literally." Lois joked. "I’ll go with you, Lois." Kara offered.

"Cool! I’ll take the super girl with me, then. Later!" Lois opened the doors. "Don’t let anything exciting happen while I’m gone." With that, Lois zipped out of the Isis Foundation, followed closely by a super speedy Kara. Clark put his head in his hands. "What a nightmare!"

"Oh, Lois isn’t that bad." Chloe put her hand on his shoulder. "I’ve lived with my super Wheaties abilities for over a year now." She remarked. "True. Lois got a full range of supernatural powers from me. It will be too much for her. You see how she’s been acting." He gestured toward the vacant hallway. "Do you have a plan?" Chloe asked warily.

"Not much of one." Clark admitted. "I know how I can pull the plug on Miss Personality, I just don’t know how to make her forget about it all." Chloe spun towards him in the comfortable leather chair. "Are we talking quality time with Daddy Jor El?" She quipped.

"That’s my final option, yes." Clark confirmed. "I only hope that he can pull that off." Chloe rubbed her thin chin. "Are you sure that you want Lois back to her obnoxious, underpowered self?" She asked, playing devil’s advocate. Clark looked puzzled. "Why wouldn’t I?"

Chloe smirked, enjoying her playful conversation with Clark. "There are certain advantages to having a super powered girlfriend, especially alone at night, on the farm…" Now he caught on.

 "Chloe! I can’t believe that you’d think that I’d put my feelings before what’s right for Lois,

and everyone else." Chloe threw up her hands. "I’m just sayin…"

Clark shook his head. "No, even if I wanted her to remain…unique. Lois’s body and mind couldn’t handle the stress of the power amp up over the long haul." Chloe made major eye contact with him.

 "I’m worried, Clark." She confessed. "Don’t worry, Chloe. Kara and I will find a way to bring Lois back to normal…well, normal for her at least." He reassured her, throwing in the dig.

"No, I was thinking about you." Chloe caught him off guard. "Me?" Typically, Clark wasn’t following her lead. "What are you going to do with your life?" She hit him with the big question. "I don’t know!" He answered reflexively. "I think you do." Chloe insisted.

"You and Lois aren’t going to live on the farm happily ever after." She began. "You two need to be where the action is. I think that you two should team up in Metropolis." Clark shrugged. "We’re really not team players. I mean we can be. As of now, we both work for the Daily Planet." He was beginning to come around to her line of thinking.

"Clark, it’s time for you to step up. You’ve already got the red and blue blur thing going for you." Chloe continued her lecture, rivaling Oliver and Jonathan Kent’s best speeches.

"Actually, I think that was Kara half the time. She gets bored easily." He stated. "Regardless. This list of the meteor rock challenged is just the beginning. There is true evil out there, Clark, and it’s not just from Krypton."

"We know we have to stop Lex and his cronies, including Rowland and Mosuban. We all need to get coordinated. We have the makings of a great team." Chloe added. "Think about it, you, me, Kara, Oliver and his crew, John, and even Lois and Jimmy could help."

" My goofy cousin is right. We don’t have the luxury of sitting on our duffs as the world goes to hell around us. The question is: What do we intend to do about it?" Chloe completed her motivational speech. Would Clark take her words to heart?

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