Chapter 2
"Can I listen?" the woman asked.
"Surely, Kitty!" the intruder agreed.
The woman looked to Lex and he nodded. She sat down opposite the
two men. "You seem to know us pretty good," Luthor
remarked.
"Oh, I know you quite well!" his guest answered.
"Now, your first operation to better Superman. metropolis
Energy....they've got an impenetrable vault where all their
records are kept. It even has a special alarm that will summon
Superman if somebody tries to break in. It's said to be
impeneterable."
Luthor nodded. "Been working on that," he remarked.
"It has a weak point. If been trying to find out how to
exploit it."
"Good!" his guest continued, "Metropolis Electric
is falling apart. Many of their investments have failed. They're
using illegal bookkeeping gimmicks to hide it from the public,
while their executives are cleaning out the company's assets and
hiding billions in overseas accounts. You get in the fault, take
everything they've stored there, and get the access codes to the
overseas accounts, clean them out! Sell off the treasures they've
gathered. There's a small electrical company for sale in Jersey,
Jersey Energies. Buy it, have control of it before you hit the
vault. Put it in Kitty's name. She'll run it with good people you
will hire.
When Metropolis Electric crumbles, you'll offer to buy it out,
paying the stock holders current value for letting them convert
to Jersey Electric stock of equal value. You will run the company
absolutely legally. It will be connected to your illegal
operation in no way, except maybe to sell some of them
electricity. Everybody will know you're behind this. You'll
become a hero! to thousands of stockholders and millions of power
users because you'll keep the rates reasonable and you'll have
bested Superman! You'll have exposed something illegal that he
was protecting! Oh, and you will make two million dollars and
each of your cronies will make a million, more than enough to
make it profitable!"
Luthor sat back and smiled broadly. "I like it, I really
like it! Get the records, copy them, give copies to the district
attorney, FBI and Internal Revenue. Let them do the dirty work of
bringing the company down so I can buy it out! It's beautiful!
But why not use the company for some of my other
operations?"
"Because they'll be watching it," his visitor answered.
"They'll probably have hundreds of agents all through its
operations trying to find illegal activity. They'll be tying up
their resources while you'll be operating elsewhere. Perfect
decoy operation! Oh, and there's one more person you have to send
a copy of Metropolis' records to, and that person should get them
twenty-four hours before anybody else."
"Who's that?" Luthor asked. "Lois Lane!" his
visitor answered.
Luthor's eyes brightened. "Of course!" he remarked,
"Even more perfect! Superman's girlfriend reveals that he
was protecting a bunch of rip offs! Perfect! I like you more and
more. O.k.! I'll set up your operation. We'll do it!"
"There's just one thing I don't understand," Kitty
asked, "You're obviously a good guy, why aren't you trying
to get Lex to be a good guy? Why are you still making this a
criminal venture?"
Her visitor smiled at her. "I can't change what is," he
answered. "Lex Luthor is a master criminal. He will be a
master criminal until he chooses to retire and spend his
declining years pampering his grandchildren with his wife, and
living a life of leisure. I cannot make him a good guy, I can
just make the criminal activity that he does good, so that ;when
he's ready to retire The President will be more than glad to
grant him a pardon."
"His wife?" Kitty asked.
"Of course," his visitor answered. "Lex will marry
the mother of his children, while Superman never acknowledges
who's the mother of his sons. By the way, Luthor, that's a secret
that must be kept forever. Superman would never take any action
against your children. You will be the superior man by knowing
who they are and never taking any action to threaten them, one
more coup you'll have over him!"
Luthor smiled. "Well," he remarked, "I guess when
the clerk's office opens this morning we're going to have to get
a marriage license!"
"Yes," his guest agreed. "In two days Kitty's
cousin is getting married up state. All of her relatives will be
there. I'm sure the minister wouldn't mind conducting a second
ceremony! And her family would be delighted with you joining the
reception. You'll all become great friends, though there's not a
dishonest one among them."
Kitty looked at Luthor wide eyed. "Really?" she
muttered.
Luthor smiled and nodded. Their visitor rose. "One other
thing," their guest remarked as he rose. "Tomorrow the
arms dealers you were going to meet will try to kill you. In the
exchange one of them will be wounded, and be dying. His blood
type is O negative. Remember that. His blood type is O negative.
Got to go!"
"Be looking forward to it," Luthor remarked. "I
enjoy your cunning! We could be related!"
His visitor only smiled and seemed to vanish. "Where'd he
go?" Kitty asked.
"He left at super speed," Luthor remarked, "faster
than our eyes could follow. This guy intrigues me! He really
intrigues me! Go get something pretty on. That clerk's office
will be opening in half an hour."
Kitty smiled and hurried off, and Luthor sat back. "Yes,
mister," he muttered, "you really intrigue me! How do
you know all this stuff?" He shook his head and poured a cup
of coffee. His mind was working!
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