Jimmy walked down to the Editor’s office and wondered if he would get lectured on his awful attempt on trying to capture Superman in action. Once he came in Perry White had his chair turned facing the window, the blinds were closed, not good.

“I’m not happy with you, James. I thought you could do better; you were doing so well.” Jimmy hung his head silent for a second then lifts it up and says “Mr. White if
you could give me another-“

“Your fired Olsen, get out”, Perry said calmly and with a somewhat sad tone.

               Jimmy sat in shock, his heartbeat was the only thing he can hear other than the tick tock tick tock of the clock above on the wall, and then slowly he got up and felt his stomach ache and felt like the lump in his throat got larger. He took his Daily Planet badge and set it on Perry’s desk, not once did he turn to look at Jimmy, not even a fair well glance. When Perry heard the door close he turned back facing his desk only to see Jimmy’s badge. Perry sighs, guilt acknowledged behind it.   

That incident happened little over an hour ago. Jimmy sat thinking about it in the little corner coffee shop, the rain pouring outside. Not just the extremely gloomy, cold kind of rainy day but the warm and sleepy kind of rain that makes people want to dance out in it then get hot chocolate afterwards. Days like these usually made Jimmy at ease and relaxed but definitely not today.

He was fired from a job he loved. Not even did he consider it a job because jobs are something people groan about in the morning, careers are something people are so passionate about where they wake up in the morning shake off the tiredness and come in with a smile.

                 That was Jimmy.

                 So happy go lucky and puts a smile on peoples face at his young confidence in himself to make believe one day he’d be admired for his capturing photographs.  He was on his third cup of coffee, he took his camera and looked through it scanning the tiny coffee shop that hardly had anyone there. He stopped at the door when he saw a lovely short-haired blonde enter putting down her umbrella. She walked over to her boyfriend.

                “Jimmy-“

“You heard?” he said with a monotone voice sipping his coffee again that felt like it needed more sugar.  

Chloe nodded “Unfortunately bad news never gets dropped in a
reporter room.” and she puts her hand on his arm but he didn’t look at her. She
hated to see him like this considering it’s not the Jimmy she knows. His intense
blue eyes seemed to have lost its luster and looked very distant. She felt so bad
for what happened. Of course she knew all about his situation of  ‘You either take
a picture of Superman or it’s the highway, Jack’ and thought it completely unfair
considering all the other news stories going around that could use a good picture
to get peoples attention. Chloe sighed, “Jimmy look-“ but all too suddenly there
was a loud bang outside the coffee shop.

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A single bullet ricochets off a man, but not just ant man. The shooter
gets lifted up by his expensive suit, “Look his name is Luthor okay?!”, he says with
anger and fear.

“Where is he?” the immortal man says.

“Somewhere off at the east docks! Lemme go!” The incredible man  
takes the shooter and flies him to the nearest jail, the shooter swearing and
throwing punches. A cop handcuffs the shooter as soon as their arrival and
says "Thanks Superman." The red capped wonder smiles “Just doing my job”   


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Jimmy and Chloe run outside to see what happened only to see nothing.
The rain had stopped leaving light fog. Then something dark catches Jimmy’s eye
and it was the cloak of a man rounding the bin. He rushes after him leaving Chloe
behind.

“Jimmy wait!” and starts to run after him but he’s already to far away
for her to see in the fog. As she takes another step she steps on something an  
she looksdown to discover a floppy disk. Chloe picks it up and examines it having  
no doubt it was probably from the person Jimmy chased after.

After Jimmy regains his regular breathing pattern after running he walks  
along the moist east dock area until he hears someone yell and hinds behind  
some piled crates.

“Look Luthor! That disk can’t be far! Find it!, another man says to the  
cloaked man with a hat, his face shadowed. “Luthor...” Jimmy whispers to himself
and takes his camera shooting silent, flashless pictures. Luthor then said  
something that Jimmy couldn’t quite hear and the other man leaves, passing by   
Jimmy behind the crates when the top crate starts to tip and falls right on Jimmy’s
head.

“Ow!” Jimmy yells out of reaction from the pain throbbing and covers his  
head and suddenly the man turns to find the source of the yell and sees Jimmy
and yells “Hey!” The man runs right towards Jimmy and Jimmy stumbles to find his
feet again and starts to run away as fast as he could the pain in his head still
throbbing.

The man then pulls out his pistol and fires at him but it misses and hits
the unstably stacked crates, which then fall behind Jimmy giving him more time to  
get away as the man climbs over the fallen crates. But then Jimmy’s luck soon runs
out as soon as he’s face to face with a dead end, with no way to turn around, and
it's all too soon when the man catches up to him laughing evilly.

“Just wanna let ya knows kid, men don’t really swim good when their
arms are shot.” and cocks his gun. Jimmy gasps and closes his eyes. It’s all in slow
motion when the man pulls his finger on the trigger and the bullets burst out of  
the gun, one for each arm. Then all of a sudden both bullets are completely
knocked off course by two red laser beams. Hearing the beams Jimmy opens his  
eyes and looks to the sky.

“Superman!” he cries looking at blue Boy Scout himself. “Aw crud!” the
man says and sprints and fast as he can in the opposite direction. Well we all
know this is no use for then Superman super speeds up to the man and retrieves  
him. “Hey! Hey! Hey there Supie! You knows that I was just playin’ with the kid
eh?” and laughs fakely. Superman gives him a not so playful look that all together  
stops the man from laughing.

“Let him go” a voice says.

The man, Jimmy and Superman all look to the left shadows and a man in
a cloak and hat appears; face in shadow.

“Luthor stay out of this! Run!” the man says demandingly.

“Luthor?!”, Superman says with so much hatred you could see the red
beams glowing in his eyes, “I should of known you were behind this!”

Luthor stays hidden in the shadows, “I’m not who you think I am…” and
steps forward into the light and removes his hat only to reveal a not bald,
handsome you man.

“I’m Julian Luthor”, he says, “Where’s the disk?”

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Meanwhile, at the Daily Planet, Chloe loads the disk she found into her
laptop knowing if she loaded it into her computer here at the Planet people would
surely be able to get passed the security and load it. She wasn’t taking any
chances, even if it meant crashing her own hard-drive. The disk loads completely
and Lex Luthor appears on the screen and says “Julian, I know you won’t talk to  
me but this is classified information so listen very carefully……”