Lois Lane

First Impressions

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Lois Lane

Clark hasn’t really ever done the smiling through clenched teeth thing before, but he was apparently making a lot of exceptions for Lois today. “Oh yeah, so helpful.” He made sure Lois got the hint that he noticed she skipped off before turning back to Miles with a more genuinely amicable smile. “Thank you again director. We know it was a big ask considering your busy schedule preparing for launch and all.”

“Oh, it was no problem Mr. Kent,” she smiled back with way to much interest. Rao help him. “You can feel free to contact me again if you have any further questions.” Yay…

They thankfully made it out without incident after that, but Clark was not pleased. “I cannot believe you ran off like that!” He exclaimed as soon as they were a ways out of earshot. “Is this how you usually go about your investigations?”

“You’re such a rookie, Smallville. It might be adorable if it wasn’t so annoying.” Lois replied. She held up her camera with a delighted grin. “For your information, I got tons of photos that are gonna break this case wide open. They’ve been using coolants on the ion particles. They’re supposed to heat them. That is proof of sabotage. We have our story. So, you’re welcome.”

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Kon nodded to Lois’ words, she certainly seemed not be a threat of picking out nonsense for him, but he was still skeptical. “Heh, yeah. It’s not. But what about the interview?” Kal didn’t put him in her momentary custody just to shop afterall. “Are you just going to throw in questions randomly throughout the trip as we look for stuff?” Suddenly, he got the queasy feeling this might also turned out to be an easy way to catch him off guard. He didn’t really have any secrets yet, but still.

“I don’t want you to be nervous about that, okay? It doesn’t have to be anything formal. We can just talk. Like two people getting to know each other.” She suggested. “Don’t think of me of as a reporter. Think of me as...a friend. Or an acquaintance, perhaps. Someone you want to get to know better. And I’ll do the same.” She offered a smile. “Superman is my friend. A very dear friend. And because of that I want to help you feel welcome here, and that means getting to know people.” She explained. “You can ask me questions too.”

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Lois Lane

Oh, thank Rao. Clark tried to not look too relieved. He really wouldn’t know how he would’ve dealed if Lois actually went through with her plan. “Well…we do have a few contacts who’re exceptional at this sort of stuff..” He was pretty sure all his Gothamite associated would have the same reservations as he did though.

“Ok, we’ll put out a call then.” Clark smiled back despite shaking his head. She’d convinced him, of course. “See if he bites. You want to do it or do you want me to?”

Lois smiled. “I think you’re a bit better connected than I am, honey. I mean, let’s face it, I may be a Pulitzer prize winning reporter, but you’re Superman. I can’t really compete with that.” She teased. She didn’t have the superhero resources he did.

Her tone and expression then became serious. “Clark, promise me you’ll be careful. I’m not kidding. I can’t handle losing you again.”

First Impressions

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Lois Lane

Clark tried not to look too relieved that that had worked. This sort of stuff really wasn’t his strong suit - he’d never really needed it back in Smallville, he and Lana kind of just happened. “Thank you Ms. Miles.” He followed her in with Lois in tow, but it wasn’t long before he heard his partner’s footsteps carry away from the group. Aw, no.

Now he had to work doubly hard at distracting director Miles so that she didn’t notice Lois’ disappearance. As if he wasn’t feeling gross and uncomfortable enough before. “Oh, that’s really nice,” he kept nodding and smiling as Miles kept talking about her rocket, then he heard Lois whisper. Interesting. “Say uh…can you talk to me more about your propulsion systems?” Miles winked at him and complied with a “Why of course Mr. Kent” and Clark felt himself die a little inside.

Then he heard the clatter. Aw Lois. He’d barely known this woman for two hours, and she was already giving him a heart attack.

Lois’ heart was pounding as she waited. The footsteps got closer and then, mercifully, faded. Lois let out a breath and slowly emerged from her hiding spot. “That was too close.” She whipped out a camera from her purse and started taking pictures of the place. “Should’ve brought a photographer, but this will have to do.” She muttered.

Once she was satisfied that they had enough, she quietly sneaked back out of the area and headed back. She spotted Director Miles who seemed thoroughly preoccupied with her partner. Lois narrowed her eyes and moved towards them. “That is so fascinating. We really, really appreciate the tour, Director Miles, You’ve been so helpful. Hasn’t she, Clark?”

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Clark let out a sound that was half sigh, half wimper. “Yeah, I know. It’s just…this isn’t just a matter of danger or difficulty. This is Hydra we’re talking about. They’re Nazis. Going under cover among them would mean you’d have to be all,” he made a gesture of disgust, “gross hiding out there. You really willing to put up with that for this?” Needless to say, he was not fond of that plan. There had to be better ways that involved less contact that didn’t involve punching.

“My point is, that Stark will probably not have any information on Roger’s whereabouts. The others on the roster though…” Now that he’s stopped to think about it, she did have a point. Just because public relations have broken between Cap and his former team, didn’t necessarily mean that none of them made any contact anymore. “Ok, I concede on your point there. He’d probably come running if we put out a message saying we need his help to defend the planet or something.”

“Thank you for appealing to my moral compass. I hate it when you do that. Fine. But, someone needs to.” She would concede on this one, but that didn’t mean that it wasn’t a good plan for someone. “As if I need Tony Stark’s help?” The annoyance in her tone was evident. “Look, the bottom line is Captain America shares a lot in common with Superman. He has a good heart. And he wants to help. He can’t resist. So, if someone is in need, he’s going to be there. Just like you would.” She smiled, softly.

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There was no doubt her frustration stemmed from the recent events and somehow, it had been giving her the same feeling too. “ Uhm, no answers but maybe…we can go get coffee? “

“Yes, please. Need coffee.” Lois couldn’t function very well right now. Her brain was on overload and she just needed to get away from it all and relax, which was not something she really knew how to do.

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This was supposed to be an interview, and yet…they were shopping. Kon was fairly sure this was Kal’s idea, something along the lines of not wanting him to feel cornered, but it still didn’t explain why he decided some random reporter would be best to help him find a normal human wardrobe than any of the scientists at Star Labs - wait, no. He didn not want to be advised on how to dress by a bunch of nerds so he should be thankful Supes found someone else. That and he had a sneaking suspicion (most probably due to the ridiculously bright primary colours he always wore) that Kal secretly also had a terrible sense of fashion

Either way, now he was in the hands of apparently stylish, intrepid reporter Lois Lane, in nothing but a bunch of Star Labs gear, with yet another whole day to waste while he waited for the Kal to finish whatever it was that he did in the day that did not involve punching things. “So…” He watched Lois as he shifted awkwardly shifted on one foot to the other. “How you want to do this?”

Lois had to admit, she felt a bit nervous. This wasn’t like anything she’d ever done before, and she hated the idea of letting Clark down. Still, she persevered. Thankfully, shopping was in her wheelhouse. When Kon asked her how she wanted to do this, she smiled. “Shopping is an art for for me, you’ll see. The main thing is you want to be comfortable. Because if you’re going to wear something all day, that’s important, but you also want to look amazing. So, the key is to combine the two. It seems hard at first but eventually you get to be really good at it. Anything is better than spandex right? I mean, Superman is great. And I’m not insulting the costume, I would never.” She knew Martha Kent had made the original, so she’d never go there. “But, it’s not exactly high fashion is it?”

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Lois Lane

Clark chuckled and shrugged. Lois’ annoyance with Bruce will never not be amusing to him. He quickly stops though when he caught on to her train of thought. “Oh no. That…please tell me you’re not actually thinking of infiltrating Hydra yourself? That’s just -” An tangle of nerves he did not want to wrestle with. “Where would you even find them anyways?”

He shook his head. “Hon, I know you’ve been more focused on work and the me dying and coming back thing, but - ACHOO! - ahem sorry, but Cap’s been off the grid since the Sokovia accords incident.”

“Why not?” She asked. “I mean, it would be difficult. I’d have to sever all ties with you and pretty much everyone. But, I could do it.” She then snorted. “Do you know who you’re talking to? I’m Lois Lane. If anyone can find Hydra. It’s me.”

“I know that, but again, hello, Lois Lane. They didn’t give me a Pulitzer because I’m pretty, Clark.”

First Impressions

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Lois Lane

Well, if nothing else, Lois Lane was a heck of a lot effective at getting things to happen her way, as rather shortly the lady in charge of the place came strolling out to greet them. Clark slouched a bit more and pushed up his glasses when he noticed her eye land on him rather pointedly. Ma and Pa raised him to be respectable, but he was hardly ignorant. He still offered her a polite smile though.

That move seemed to have been in their favour though, as Lois’ breakthrough with the guard quickly seemed to come to a stop with the manager. Clark inwardly cringed when he met Miles’ gaze again, but it was pretty obvious what he had to do now. Please sweet mercy, don’t make this awkward.

Stepping forwards slightly, Clark flashed Miles another, warmer smile, as he lowered his notebook. “Sorry, if you don’t mind me interrupting Ms. Miles, but what Ms. Lane wanted to convey was that we’re concerned over some possible inconsistencies with what we’ve been told about the Prometheus. Would it not be at all possible for you to show us around just a little? Just so that the public knows they have nothing to be concerned about?”

The woman couldn’t help but be charmed by Clark and found herself blushing. Lois had to hold back another eye roll. Really? Was this woman that desperate for a man? Pathetic. “Well, Mr. Kent, I suppose I could give you a brief tour. I mean, I can’t fault you for doing your job, now can I?” She asked. “Come this way.” She began leading them on a tour of the facility. With her focus on Clark, Lois took the opportunity to slip away and sneaked off to where the actual work was being done on repairing the Prometheus.

She slipped past the barriers and started snooping only to find that coolants were being used. “Why would they use coolants?” She whispered lightly. “They’re supposed to heat the ion particles, not cool them.” This was it. This was the proof she needed. But, before she could take photos or anything, she accidentally kicked some debris and then heard voices and footsteps in her direction. Damnit. She ducked behind a wall.

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“Yeah, I don’t,” Clark sighed. “But I just don’t like you, or B, or anyone worrying themselves into a corner over it I guess. Let’s just focus on what we can do and what we can solve. Please?” But Lois seemed to have gotten way ahead him by that point as she was already rambling off on a new theory.

Clark rolled back on his palms as he considered it. “Huh, now there’s an idea. I can’t imagine what they’ve got planned if even something that powerful isn’t enough to be their main focus, but with the way it was hyped up and them made off with…the whole thing does kind of play like a spectacle doesn’t it? I’m still really curious as to how Hydra even knew about the thing. Like, knew about it knew about it. Not just as some precious historical relic, but as something of power. It’s almost like they knew the thing could have this kind of effect on us.”

He pulled out his notebook and quickly scribbled everything down, noting how his hands seemed to find it easier to write faster again. “I’m no expert on Hydra, but world domination seems to be their usual motive. Heh, you know what’d be cool. If we knew where Captain America was right now. Bet he could shed some light on what’s going on.”

“I don’t care that much if Bruce Wayne loses a bit of sleep worrying.” She muttered. “That’s the problem though, we don’t know how Hydra thinks or operates. Imagine if we could though. Imagine if we could get someone on the inside.” A double agent. Oooh, her mind was whirling now. “Think of the information we could get. It would be the greatest undercover mission ever.”

“Captain America can’t be that hard to find. He’s an Avenger, right? So, we just track the Avenger’s latest movements and start there. Or you could send out a message via the Justice League and go that route.”

First Impressions

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Lois Lane

Traction?! “Ok, noted. I’ll stick to Ms. Lane from now on.” Clark mumbled back with an exaggerated wince as he followed in behind her. Then, true to form Lois began their visit with an immediate verbal smack-down of the security monitor at the entrance. He could only shrug and try not to smile too broadly when the guy gave him a look that was instantly resulted in him being interrogated.

“I’m sure he’s just surprised,” he tried reassuringly. “Probably not used to anyone but his boss walking in here and knowing exactly what they wanted.” An assessment he was fairly sure was accurate, the guy probably didn’t actually get many visitors at all.

“Well, that’s unfortunate for him. Everyone should know exactly what they want. It’s important to have goals in life.” She reasoned. Soon, a well-dressed woman approached them. “Hello there. I’m Patricia Miles. I run this facility. How may I be of service?” She asked.

“Lois Lane, Daily Planet. This is Clark Kent. We’d like to ask you a few questions about Prometheus.”

She glanced at them both, taking a particular interest in Clark. “I’m sorry, what exactly would you like to know?”

“We have a source that tells us that Prometheus zero G, your most installation, has been sabotaged.”

Ms. Miles let out a light laugh. “Well, with all due respect, Ms. Lane, your source has been grossly misinformed. I assure you, we do very thorough inspections here.”

“Then, you wouldn’t mind if we took a look around?” Lois asked.

“I’m sorry. I’m afraid that this facility is off limits to civilians. I apologize.” She made eye contact with Clark and Lois rolled her eyes. Really? This woman was flirting with the farmboy?

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Lois Lane

Clark smiled, to this day still awed by Lois’ determination. “If anyone can get an exclusive on Luthor, it’d be you.” He gently squeezed her shoulder then slid onto a counter next her, arms planted on either side of him as he rolled his head back, thinking.

“Well, maybe not. But maybe we already know more than we think. I mean, we already know it has radiation signatures that are not from earth. Which means it could have something to do that galactic threat that the JL seems to think all the Lanterns came to earth for. The writing on it looks like it could be connected to a foe we’ve fought before, and the ‘hail Hyrda’ bit was a bit of a dead giveaway as to who took the thing.”

He gently reached out and entangled his fingers in hers. “I know you like to be prepared. Think of the worst possibilities and try to stop them from happening. But we’re not there yet, we still have time. We’ll figure this out and stop Hydra before they make a mess with the artifact. I know we will.”

“You don’t know that.” He couldn’t know that. “You don’t know much time we have. Just like you couldn’t anticipate how the whole mess with Doomsday would go down. Like it or not, Clark, we have a ticking time bomb in the hands of villains. And that time bomb is more dangerous than any of us could’ve ever anticipated. And none of you have the power to stop it.”

“Which means...which means, maybe you weren’t meant to.” Lois’ brow furrowed. “Okay, hear me out here. Maybe I’m reaching. But, what if the artifact was meant to be a distraction. Like...the artifact has great power. We know it can take away your powers and the powers of those who are metahuman and others, right? And that’s what we’ve been focusing on. We’ve been so focused on what the artifact has done and what it can do. But, what if that’s the point. What if all of this was meant to distract us? So that we’re too focused on that and then whenever the real master plan happens, we are caught by surprise because it happens right under our noses and we were too busy paying attention to other things.”

“Maybe it’s not about the artifact at all. Maybe that was a way to get us off track. Except what is it they really want?”

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Don’t you be such a stick in the mud, Clark snarked back at her in his head. But he just rolled his eyes. Geez, even in his head he was bad at coming up with insults.

He pulled out his notebook and rapped on it pointedly with his pen. “Yes ma’am. I’ll make sure to be very thorough with my notes,” he smiled at her, a small olive branch despite their previous misgivings. She might be difficult, but Lois Lane knew what she was doing, he could at least give her that.

“One more thing, Kent. The last person who called me ma’am ended up in traction.” She had a totally serious look on her face. “I appreciate the manners, Kent, but don’t ever call me ma’am again.” With that, she turned and paid the cabbie, including the extra twenty she promised. Then, she headed inside, flashing her press badge. “Daily Planet, Lois Lane. I’d like to speak to whoever is in charge, please.”

A man at the entrance shook his head. “I’m sorry, ma’am but the press isn’t allowed here.”

Lois glared at him. “Excuse me, sir, but I asked to speak to whoever was in charge. And I am not leaving here until I do. So, I suggest that you go back to your desk and make a phone call because Mr. Kent and I are here to speak to your superior.” She replied.

The man rolled his eyes and gave Clark a sympathetic look before heading back to his desk.

“What was that?” She asked, turning on Clark. “What?” She demanded. “I’m not being unreasonable.”

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Clark at least had the decency to look abashed. “Ok, fair. That’s fair.” He then siddled after her, glancing which way and that to check for security or other injured people that might be a more immediate concern. They seemed to have mostly made it out by now, so that was a relief.

“X-ray vision, microscopic vision, infrared vision…yeah, too bad for us,” Clark shrugged as he studied the room. “Heh yeah,” he chuckled back. “I totally got you there.” He pulled open a couple bags on one of the tables. “Hmm, nope. Just some personal stuff Luthor’s personal probably brought in with them. Nothing with I.D. though.” He closed those back up and kept looking.

“Luthor, that son of a bitch.” She muttered. “No one avoids Lois Lane forever. I will get an exclusive with him, just watch.” She shook her head. “This stuff is useless. None of it is going to tell us anything about the artifact, what it is, or most importantly, how to find the people who took it.”

“Clark, we may have a global problem here. We don’t know the range in which the artifacts powers work. Yes, tonight everyone was in the same room, but what if they don’t have to be? For all we know, all someone has to do is turn on this...thing and bam! No more superheroes. And then what? Then, the world is vulnerable to whatever is out there.”