 of the bay area near LexCorp's nuclear facility.
Levitating, the two super beings slowly drifted through the tunnel system which naturally pervaded the area. When they had moved nearly half a mile or so into the labyrinth, Clark began to feel kryptonite induced pain and stopped. Without realizing that Clark was in some difficulty, Lois continued drifting through the tunnel system they'd chosen to explore. Suddenly, Lois received a telepathic message laced with pain, asking her to return. With trepidation, she rushed to Clark's side and clasped her fiance to her breast. Seeing that he was apparently okay, Lois looked quizzically at him and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Didn't you feel any pain?" He asked.
She shook her head in a negative response.
"Hmmm," he mused. "Something in your genetic makeup seems to be protecting you from Kryptonite."
"Kryptonite!" Lois nearly yelled.
"Yeah," Clark said. "I felt its effects as we entered this section of the tunnel system. I wonder if our girls have your protection to that poisonous mineral," he thought out loud. "We'll see Bernie Klein and have Mara, and Lara tested when this plutonium mission of ours has been completed." Giving Lois a hug, he said, "It would be nice if our kids have a natural immunity against the effects of that accursed glowing rock."
As they embraced in the dank underground cavern, enjoying the feel of their bodies, Lois said, "I'll continue exploring this passage. We'll keep in contact telepathically."
"Wait, Lois!" Clark cried out, as he flew from of the grotto. After a few minutes he returned with a very long coil of mountain climbing rope. He then fastened one end around Lois' waist. She looked puzzled but waited, a little impatiently, for Clark's explanation. As he kissed her on the cheek and felt her edginess, he said, "Relax Lois, just relax." Then he added, "You, sweetheart, may possess only a limited immunity to Kryptonite. As you get closer to the source of that toxic Kryptonium mineral, you might be overpowered by its radiation. If that happens, I'll be able to pull you to safety with this rope."
She nodded, understanding Clark's caution, and again proceeded down the passage leading towards the LexCorp Nuclear Reactor.
After a few minutes, Clark perceived Lois' excited thoughts tumbling through his head. "Slow down sweetheart," he said telepathically." Her response was immediate. Lois slowed her thoughts to a manageable rate. As their communication rapport came into sync, Clark could mentally see her smile as a deep feeling of her love washed over him. His amorous reply was instantaneous.
 Only the seriousness of the current situation broke the spell cast by Lois and Clark's love for one another.
Reluctantly interrupting their amorous state, Lois informed her fiance, "The camouflage Earthen — lead mixture has disappeared and I can now see the hidden portion of LexCorp's nuclear reactor."
Clark excitedly said, "Describe what you see." Then came a rapid exchange of thoughts and ideas. Finally, Clark told Lois that the bottom twenty percent of the LexCorp's power reactor was hidden beneath the camouflaged barrier they had previously discovered.
With her telescopic vision, Lois could now see steel tubes with the number two thirty-eight etched on each container being placed in a hidden section of the reactor core. From Lois' information, Clark knew that it was in this section of LexCorp's power reactor that element ninety-four, Plutonium, was being created.
As they continued to communicate, Lois started to chuckle. Gaining control of herself she said, "Clark, you'll never guess who's here and directing this operation."
"Who?" Clark asked.
"Our old friend, Alex L. Carnie," Lois replied. "From reporter to crook in a single bound," she snickered. "Just a minute, Clarkie," she said using a new term of endearment. Then, after a brief pause, Lois told Clark, "I can see several tunnels with small gauge railroad tracks running down their center. From the debris around the tunnel's entrance, I would guess that these passageways were a relatively new addition to this grotto. It seems that the new tunnels connected Lex's hidden grotto with the bay area."
"Can you see what's at the far terminus of the tunnels?" Clark inquired.
"Just a minute, dear," Lois replied. She then followed the tracks using her x-ray vision to their terminus. After a few moments, she said telepathically, "You aren't going to believe this, but Lex has constructed a submarine pen at end of the track."
"What?" Clark replied with an intensity that caused Lois' head to resonate.
"Easy on the intensity, buster," Lois shot back. "You almost took my head off."
"Sorry, sweetie," he telepathically replied. "Lois," Clark mentally voiced, "Come back. We'll leave this cave system and pin point the submarine pens from the surface."
When Lois and Clark exited the grotto, they used their penetrating vision to find the hidden submarine pens, which were in a man made cavern not more than a half-mile from their current position. Both reporters were elated that they had finally located Lex's clandestine plutonium production and export site. Leaving their natural grotto, Clark and his bride to be stealthily made their way to the illegal submarine facilities.
As the superheroes moved to a position above Lex's concealed undersea boat pens, Lois and Clark were obscured by the mirky blackness of the night and the natural foggy conditions which often covered Hobb's Bay area. Looking at his fiancee, Clark could see the sparkle in Lois' eyes. As Lois lovingly returned Clark's gaze, the two lovers became so entranced by their love that they drifted into one another's arms.
After a brief romantic interlude, hovering above the submarine pens, the two soulmates disengaged from their intimate embrace and allowed the cool night air to help calm themselves.
Several minutes later, the two super beings silently returned to the ground and noiselessly burrowed into the Earth. They continued to bore through the Earth's crust until they emerged within Luthor's hidden grotto housing his undersea vessels. When the two super beings penetrated the subterranean enclosure, Clark immediately felt the crippling effects of Kryptonite. Lex had placed the poisonous mineral at strategic positions around the submarine area. Using the procedure that they had evolved earlier, Clark placed a rope around Lois' waist. She then stealthily made her way to the undersea vessels and placed a cloaked surveillance device on its hull. Having successfully installed the reconnaissance tag, Clark and his soulmate exited Lex's underground complex and returned to Lois' apartment.
When they arrived at Lois' place, Clark started to chuckle. "What's tickling your funny bone?" She inquired.
"The family has a new secret weapon." Clark informed his super partner.
Lois, with a questioning look on her face, asked, "Who or what is it, Clark?"
"You," he said, with pride in his voice. "If Lex thinks he can hold us at bay with kryptonite," Clark told her, "then he hasn't reckoned on Lois Lane — aka Ultra Woman." Then she understood the full meaning of Clark's declaration. She was immune to the effects of the vial green mineral — the super hero executioner, Kryptonite — and could easily penetrate any system that used that poisonous mineral as part of its defensive strategy.
As they dined later that evening, Lois commented, "Did you notice that a channel leading to Luthor's cave from the seaward side had been excavated?"
Clark nodded and added, "It looks like a portion of Hobb's Bay had been prepared for submerged vessels to enter Lex's secret grotto from the ocean and exit by the same route." He then told Lois, "The trench had also been shielded with the same leaded- earthen mixture to prevent detection from above."
"After we finish dining, sweetheart," Clark said, "let's return to Sanctuary. We have to fashion a long-range detector that will sense a surveillance signal from anywhere on the planet."
"Clark," Lois remarked, "You know that I don't know a darn thing about electronics."
"Time to learn, baby," he teased. She cuffed him on the shoulder, and they both laughed. He embraced her and said lovingly, "My priceless treasure, your giggling is as infectious as it is sensuous.

Clark smiled at her and replied, "Not a chance, baby, not a chance."
By the middle of the next day, a small cloaked hovercraft containing a newly assembled long-range tracking device had been constructed and placed at the sea — trench nexus of Hobb's Bay. Here, it would hover and wait for Luthor's next submarine to emerge from the concealed undersea channel which transited Hobb's Bay from Lex's sub pens.
Several days after the surveillance vehicle had been placed in position, one of Lex's subs emerged from the undersea tunnel and entered the Atlantic Ocean. It traveled in a southerly direction followed by the cloaked tracking craft, which had