Change as a concept fascinated many people and Kal-El would be lying if he was not fascinated by the changes that could be caused by the universe shifting together.

Did it seem strange that two universes merged together, and everything worked out for the better? Well when you compared it to everything else that he had been through in his life, it didn't seem really strange at all. It seemed perfectly normal and mundane. If that didn't indicated he had a strange life, he didn't know what would.

He stood beside Kara and Jean, both of them wedged on either side of them, and the universe settled down. Both of his mates, two of many, watched him for his reaction.

Gwen turned up behind them and she whistled.

"So….I guess it worked out for the better, didn't it?" Gwen asked and Clark turned around towards her, raising his eyebrow. "You know, I was going to say that you going back and forth to home would have been a good thing, but you know what, the fact that you're here right now, that's not really a bad thing either."

Clark laughed in amusement. "I guess that really takes a lot of the work out of going back and forth."

Gwen smiled. "I guess it was the most elegant solution."

That being said, Kal made his way to the LuthorCorp tower, and he saw the three girls follow behind him. He hoped that everyone was in one piece. Even though many, actually most of these girls, could handle themselves in battle, that didn't stop him from worrying.

'You have a hero complex,' Jean thought, but she said this fondly and Kara laughed.

'He does, doesn't he?' Kara asked fondly and she smiled and waited for Kal to approach the area where he was.

That being some, the super powerful young man looked up and saw the Luthorcorp tower standing as tall as ever. He wondered if there was going to be any problems, but the doors swung open, responsively for them.

'Guess that answers that question,' Kara said.

Chloe greeted him at the front desk with a big smile, and she threw her arms around him in a big hug.

The hug lasted a few moments, and then she got more daring and gave him a hungry kiss and pulled back again.

"After all we've been through, that was the most elegant situation."

Gwen laughed and shook her head. "To be fair, if this went wrong, the universe would have had an earth shattering kaboom."

Kara decided that an introduction of some sort was in order. "Gwen, this is Chloe. Chloe, this is Gwen. I think that the two of you will get along."

Kara decided to hold off with the "Rao help us all" part of that statement, because that was what they were thinking.

Gwen and Chloe shook hands, and they smiled at each other. "So, this is where all the magic happens?"

"I guess you could say that," Chloe said, and she turned her attention away from Gwen to Clark for a second. "Tess will be meeting with you, and your mother and aunt as well."

"Thanks for the heads up, Chloe," Clark said and Chloe leaned in and stole one more kiss.

When she was satisfied with what she wanted, she lead Gwen off with a big shit eating grin on her face. "Come on, let me give you the tour."

Clark watched both of the girls walk down the hallway. When they were gone, Clark slowly turned towards Kara, who had a grin on her face. After staring his cousin down, Clark decided to say one thing to her. "You do realize that you've just unleashed something on this world, don't you?"

Kara looked like the prodigal mad scientist who wanted to see what her experiment would look like. Thankfully she didn't rub her hands together in glee, because that would make her look positively evil.

"And you're getting off on it, aren't you?"

Kara didn't answer, mostly because another party who showed up answered for her. "You know that she does."

Emma Frost joined the party in all of her glory.

"So, the world has changed, and after that dreadful headache went a way, I wanted to take a look to see what changes happened," Emma said and she stepped towards Jean and added. "Besides, I couldn't let the lovely Miss Grey have all of the fun, couldn't I?"

"You're such an attention whore, Emma," Jean said, but never the less, she couldn't keep that grin off of her face and Emma smiled, and played with Jean's hair in the most loving manner possible.

"You know, that may be the nicest thing that you've said about me, but I could be mistaken."

Emma shifted and she walked down the hallway, with a smile on her face. The tight white pants she wore offered a visual show. "And besides, I don't think that I would want to delay meeting with the lovely Miss Mercer. I'm sure that we could get some interesting business together."

Clark watched Emma leave and he ran over something in his mind. He wasn't quite sure what meeting he found to be more troubling. Would it be a meeting between Emma and Tess? Or it would be a meeting between Chloe and Gwen, and what they could do with their collective genius?

He had no idea at all and that was something that he would have to sleep on. Right now, Kara followed him down the hallway towards the elevator, and Jean was on top of them.

"You know, I'm sure that you won't be that bad," Jean said with a grin and Kal turned towards her. The redhead shrugged her shoulders in response. "Okay, it could be a problem, but…..it might help us."

'I'll try not to do anything too bad,' Tess thought to them, and she grinned in response. 'The key word is try.'

'The key word is always try,' Lois thought and she tapped her pen. She wondered if she could get a job with this Jameson guy now that she was in the new world.

Clark didn't know why, but his body gave an extreme shudder at the thought of something. It wasn't his idle thought that gave him that either, but someone else's and he didn't even know why.

'Ah, don't worry, Kal, things will be better,' Kara said and she patted him on the shoulder and his bright blue eyes burned into hers. 'That's not helping, is it?'

'Not at all.'

Lara's sigh was long and lengthy when she looked at the party that turned up. "You know, all things considered, this could have gone far worse than it did…."

"You didn't intend to smash the two worlds together, and hope for the best," Emma said and she leaned back in the most comfortable chair. "Unless you did….."

Alura shifted sheepishly in response, and Kara nearly laughed at her mother looking like a school girl who had got caught doing something that she shouldn't really be doing. "You know…we didn't intend to do it, but that doesn't mean that we didn't intend to think about it. Especially given with all of the inter-dimensional disturbances going on, we wanted to think of an ideal way to bring Kal home."

"Well, you did just that, in your own way," Jean said, and she nearly laughed, but decided not to.

"I guess that everything worked out well," Alura said and she sighed. She believed that the Earthlings had a saying that to make an omlette, it couldn't be done without cracking a few eggs, or something like that.

"Don't worry, the end result is what mattered, and we have a brand new set of opportunities," Tess said and she leaned back in her obscenely big chair. Granted it used to be Lionel Luthor's obscenely big chair, but why let an obscenely big office chair go to waste like that. "And Miss Frost…..I understand that you and Kal-El have been busy….."

"It's just beginning, especially since the mysterious death of Peter Parker-Osborn, we've been appropriating various assets from OsCorp, and it appears Norman has left several cookie jars stashed around the city of valuable data and information, if you catch my drift," Emma said, and Tess responded with a frown.

"Bet he didn't think of that."

"Norman Osborn was a genius, but sometimes his ego got in the way of his genius," Emma said, and she smiled. "You know, this combined world could bring about some new advantages, we're just going to have to see."

"You know, what I want to know?" Kara asked and all eyes turned attention towards them. "I want to know how Waller and Fury are going to coexist with each other…"

"Actually last I heard, they're getting married," Tess said, and she nonchalantly turned to the next subject and left Kara struck dumb and speechless. She pressed on like she didn't drop the bombshell of the irrestible force marrying the immovable object. "And now, we've got to reestablish the tower, because unfortunately some things got lost in translation. No people, thankfully."

"Thankfully," Kal said, he would have hated to lose any of his mates.

Jean wrapped her arms around her mate's neck and leaned in, pressing her lips on the back of his ear. "Don't worry, I know how much a lot of them mean to you…..all of them, so I did my best to save them, and they're back…don't worry."

"I don't worry," Kal told Jean and he turned around to gaze into her eyes for a second.

"As amusing as this is, we still do have business to attend."

Kal smiled and sat down in the chair. Jean decided to perch herself on the right arm of Kal's chair and Kara took her place on the left arm of his chair.

"Business, that's normally foreplay to you," Clark said and Tess shook her head, but didn't deny it. Clark turned to Emma, and smiled. "For both of you."

'Well, it does serve as a proper lead in, doesn't it?' Emma asked and none of them were willing to deny that fact. That being said, she decided to take a place next to Tess.

First they would discuss some things that they needed to get done, and then it would be business.

"Our empire is only going to expand," Tess started in and she added with a smile.

"I hope I'm not too late."

Helena Wayne entered the office and walked inside. She smiled when she greeted Kal and leaned in, to kiss him.

"No, actually you're just right on time, we're going to talk," Tess said and Helena took one of the free chairs. "I trust that you've gotten some time to understand the chances in the universe, so they're not overwhelming or jarring."

"I'll adapt," Helena said, and at those words, the door opened again.

"Decided to start without me," Karen said and she sighed, and walked in. She decided that there wasn't enough room on the chair with Kal, so she pulled one over and propped her feet up on his lap.

"Is that everyone?" Emma asked and Tess laughed in response.

"Yes, that's everyone, sorry, I jump the gun a little bit too much, you know," Tess said and she smiled when she brushed her fingers through her hair and reached underneath her desk. She pulled out a thick folder.

Clark whistled when he looked at it. "Someone's been busy."

"Of course, I don't sit in my office all day doing nothing, but even before the merger, there's a lot to keep track of," Tess said and she folded her legs over themselves. "Now after that, that multiplied at least tenfold."

Clark laughed. "At least."

Tess smiled and she rolled her fingers over the paper and looked towards them. She appeared intense and the grin that went over her face was more so. "Shall we begin now?"

"It's your party," Kal said and Tess smiled in response and cleared her throat.

She hoped to get through all that she needed to, hopefully before the sun went down. Then they would have some time for fun afterwards. Unfortunately the old adage of business before pleasure shined on through, no matter how much she wanted it to be otherwise.

"The world seems so quiet, despite the world was merged," Carol said and she turned around to look at Power Girl.

"Believe me, that won't last for long, you should know the rule of being a hero means that the calmer the calm before the storm is, the bigger it is….." Karen said and she smiled. "How are you going on with the fact that the Avengers are no longer the Earth's mightiest heroes?"

"You know, I thought at first that might be a good thing to have double the heroes but….."

Jan popped in pretty much from out of nowhere and appeared off to the side of them and she added. "Double the heroes, mean double the villains…..so guess we're just going to have to fight even harder, won't we?"

"Yeah, we're going to have to fight even harder," Carol agreed with them, but she prepared to look around.

Kal showed up to join them on patrol, and the sun shined brightly over them. It felt so good to be in the middle of a world that was somewhat familiar to him, but also extremely different to him.

Perhaps the world would work out for the best or there would be a lot of insanity on the way to making everything fit.

"A round peg into a square hole sometimes, but…..you know these personalities clashing together could lead to some entertainment," Diana said, and Kara and Karen walked next to them.

"Are you talking about Green Arrow and Hawkeye getting into their little dick waving contest?" Karen asked and Diana smiled.

"Not sure that's how I'd put it…"

"It was like that, although I think that Clint did school him," Natasha said, not helping to be able to overhear the conversation. "I might have a bit of a biased opinion you know, but…"

"Don't worry, the judges agree," Karen answered and there was plenty of laughter because of that when the group marched onwards and forwards.

Kal looked up in the sky, and the very telltale sigh of an alarm rang somewhere in the city.

He wondered if he should worry about it now, there seemed to be no less than fourteen heroes and heroines that he could see patrolling various areas of the city. And maybe even more for all he knew, he couldn't really tell from where he stood.

"So, does this look like a job for Superman?" Carol asked, and she stopped and paused. "You know, I feel like I should be singing a triumphant tune or something."

"You know, it would be catchy," Jen replied and she could see a winged woman with red hair and a mace fly into the picture. "You know, I almost feel sorry for the poor criminal…..almost, not really though."

'Well, I almost would,' Kara said and she looked amused at the thought.

Kara and Kal smiled, expanding their influence worked rather well and there would be more adventures to come.

Something happened off in the distance, and he prepared himself, now that looked like a job for Superman.

Along with Superwoman, and about twenty other heroes who jumped on the person who caused it.

The future looked to be interesting; all they had to do was live through the next part of it.

End.