Ficlet: Bugged (for Vigilante_Wake!)

[mithen]

Title: Bugged
Fandom:  Superdictionary
Pairing/Characters: Lex Luthor
Notes:  I wanted to write something with some humor in it for vigilante_wake 's birthday.  Unfortunately, my sense of humor is not as good as hers.  Written also for fortycakes  challenge #6--"Jail."  fortycakes --your one-stop shop for fanfic based on the Superdictionary!
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 137
Summary: Lex Luthor contemplates his condition.



When Lex Luthor stole those forty cakes, how could he know they had been bugged?  How could he know someone had put listening devices in them?  Superman had caught him and put him here.  Lex hated Superman.

Lex suspected Batman had given Superman the bugs.  Lex hated Batman too.

Lex's mattress was also bugged.  His mattress had many small insects in it. 

Lex hit the mattress with his fist.  "I am so bugged!" he said.  "I am so annoyed!"

Lex's cell-mate, Bluto, looked at him.  "Did you say you were buggered?" he asked.  "Did you say you were--"

"--No, no.  I did not," said Lex hastily.  He said it quickly, so he would not hear the end of Bluto's sentence. 

Lex hated being in jail.  He hated being in places with bars on the windows and doors. 

Comments

[genclay.livejournal.com]

*sniggers*

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Poor Lex. Though I suspect Bluto turns out to be very cultured and they have long intellectual discussions, lol...

[nilamarthiel.livejournal.com]

HA. Poor Bluto. He just wants a piece of that fine cake.

I mean man.

Roight.

♥

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Lex Luthor is a fine piece of manhood. :) I love the scan of him looking all annoyed on his cell bed for the prompt!

[hawkwitch.livejournal.com]

LOL! good one!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

I could not resist the lure of the Superdictionary! (Man, once you get in the rhythm it's hard to not THINK in that style for a while)...

[zenithjolt.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

What thorough contemplation, lol.

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Lex is happy to provide definitions of key vocabulary while trapped! :)

[angelikitten]

*loves*

Also, your banner is in the mail, honest!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Whee! Someday I shall find a way to include El Dragon in a plot as well...

[brushed-velvet.livejournal.com]

*chortle*

Ah, I love the nursery rhyme feel of this although Lex should never be in any nursery rhyme for real lol.

[mithen.livejournal.com]

*grin* Damn, I can't link to the Superdictionary scans on scans_daily anymore!

I belatedly realize I might need some context for this fic, lol... forgive me if you know all this!

Basically the Superdictionary is a children's dictionary published in the 1970s using DC heroes and villains to define words. Which all sounds reasonable until you see the actual definitions, which are totally insane. The most famous is perhaps the definition of forty:



Then there's Superdictionary's Batman:



And, uh...



Yeah. Superdictionary rocks. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Hee. Thanks. I'll admit I've seen Lex with the cakes one but not the other two. Also is it really advisable to bug cakes? What if people ate them? I'll admit that makes it funnier except for the people that could of ate them. Lucky they're fictional. ;-)

Angeloz

[seiberwing.livejournal.com]

It was Batman. He knew Luthor wouldn't eat the cakes.

[saavikam77.livejournal.com]

ROFL! XD Poor Lex. :p

[mithen.livejournal.com]

He just wanted some cake! (Forty of them is pretty terrible, though!) And now he's in jail... :)

This was a weird kind of fun, lol...

[cmer.livejournal.com]

LOL, this was so cute! Poor Lex. And I was very happy that it might be possible that Batman could have played a role in this too. Awesome job squeezing him in and awesome job overall with this.

I'd be ecstatic if you could write S/B slash in the superdictionary-verse. XD

[mithen.livejournal.com]

I'd be ecstatic if you could write S/B slash in the superdictionary-verse. XD

I'm kind of hoping to! We'll see if a prompt leads to an S/B direction.... :)

(I admit I couldn't resist having Batman helping SUperman with Lex's downfall!)

[dizmo]

*cackle* Oh, Lex, your predicament inspires much hilarity. It makes us all laugh hysterically at you. Er. I mean, with you, of course.

And as is my duty, I bestow challenge points. And cake.

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Yay for cake and points! *dances* Poor Lex is getting in trouble with this challenge...

[starsandsea.livejournal.com]

Mwhahahahahaha!!!!! OMG, this is awesome

The forty cakes had been bugged!! *rolls around laughing*

Lex's cell-mate, Bluto, looked at him. "Did you say you were buggered?" he asked. "Did you say you were--"

*falls over laughing*

Lex stealing 40 cakes may have been terrible, but this was just completely awesome. <3

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Lex stealing 40 cakes may have been terrible, but this was just completely awesome. <3

*beams* Thank you! Poor Lex... he didn't expect Batman to be helping Superman out on the Great Cake Caper. :)

[bradygirl_12]

LOL! Perfect! :)

And 'Promise' has some wonderful Bruce/Dick possibilities. ;)

[mithen.livejournal.com]

And 'Promise' has some wonderful Bruce/Dick possibilities. ;)

Doesn't it? I'm imagining toresture and h/c written Superdictionary-style...the mind boggles.

[loqia.livejournal.com]

Khovuodh kryp w Superdictionary-fic-urr! :O

[mithen.livejournal.com]

I thought of you while writing it! *grins*

[liarashadowsong.livejournal.com]

*snicker* I love the Superdicitonary and the fortycakes community. " 'Did you say you were buggered?' he asked. 'Did you say you were--' "...Of course not, Bluto. Lex would not stand for that unless the bugger-er was a certain Kryptonian... (mmm... clex is almost as much fun as S/B ^_^) *falls over laughing*

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Lex is so not saving himself for Superman. Nope. Not at all. (Damn that Kryptonian, he keeps ignoring him!) :D

[taro-twist.livejournal.com]

LMAO! Oh my god, Jen, this was brilliant! And now I understand the cake picture. :D

Bugged cakes! Bugged mattresses! Buggered Lex! Bahahahaha.

(Also, I didn't know there was a Superdictionary fanfic comm. That makes me so happy. ^-^)

[mithen.livejournal.com]

The idea of a Superdictionary fanfic comm fills me with glee. :D It's getting the long-neglected El Dragon some love, which is good!

*grin* This came to me when contemplating the image of Lex in jail and I couldn't resist...

[anthraciteowl.livejournal.com]

Poor, poor Lex. He should never have stolen those cakes! Especially not as many as four tens! It was terrible.

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Though even Lex Luthor has birthdays! I can only assume no one else gave him cake, so he had to steal them... :D

(Man, I love the Superdictionary so much...)

[angelikitten]

Here, have a banner. Have a visual commemoration of your participation in this challenge:



If you have problems uploading it for any reason and need a perminent link for it, use this:
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt31/bannersbannersbanners/fortycakes/Challenge%2006/Challenge6-mithen.png

Thanks for playing!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Yay! *dances* Poor Lex looks so brooding, lol...

[skund.livejournal.com]

*snort* Brilliant!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[vigilante-wake.livejournal.com]

I HAVE THE PERFECT ICON FOR THIS!

Ahem.

Thank you so much! How did you know that Superdictionary fic was on my birthday wish list? Especially Superdictionary fic with some Superman/Batman in it!

This story is slashy if you squint. This story contains hot man-love if you look at it a different way.

And what do you mean you're not as good at writing humor?! You write the story about Clark getting turned in to a puppy, which remains one of my favorite things ever.

*hugs* Thanks again! This was delightful!

[mithen.livejournal.com]

Everybody needs a Superdictionary icon!

There is definitely slash going on between Superman and Batman somewhere in the background of the Superdictionary! I believe it is up to me to find it... :)

*many hugs*

I hope your birthday was the most wonderful so far, but not the most wonderful you will ever have!

(Also, I wish there were some Booster and Beetle in the Superdictionary! Wouldn't they perfect for it? I might have to encourage you to compose some Superdictionary fic for either the hapless Hal Jordan or the dogged El Dragon sometime...) :)

[snake-easing.livejournal.com]

Ha! That made me laugh. Sounds came out of my mouth and throat.

[mithen.livejournal.com]

*grin* It was fun to write! Once you get in the mode it's hard to get out of it, lol...