I think I've mentioned it before, but I'll do it again with pleasure: I love your Lex fics!!! The dark side is strong in this one... or something...
Your Lex is just about the right mix of evil, ingenious, megalomaniac and treacherous.
And I don't know why, but this is probably my favorite sentence in the whole story:
With burning eyes the billionaire followed the hero's path through the sky memorizing all the ups and downs, straights and u-turns he performed.
Plus, the comparison of Miss Pearley with Lois Lane at the end sent shivers down my spine.
Bravo!
"I am Clark Kent. I need to be Clark. I'd go crazy if I'd have to be Superman all the time."
"Creativity is the residue of time wasted." (Albert Einstein)
"The future is there ... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. And from where they are, the past behind us will look nothing at all like the past we imagine behind us now. ..."
-- ("Pattern Recognition", William Gibson)