Xan was having a very nice time sunbathing in the cornfield, when a fuckoff giant snake showed up for the express purpose of ruining his day. It had a mirror for a face, which seemed like an obvious weak point, but when he went to shatter it he just went straight through it, and now he's - where?
Still in a cornfield!
A different cornfield, though. Cornfields look much alike, but having been around them one's entire life it is often possible to pick out the subtle differences. Such as the unfamiliar blonde girl standing over him.
"Are you okay?"
"I- What the fuck just happened?"
Xan evaluates what the fuck has just happened. Snake: replaced by blonde. Corn: replaced by different corn. His clothes: not replaced by anything, he's naked in front of this girl he doesn't know and that's a proprietary mixture of "exciting" and "possible grounds for another misdemeanor arrest".
"Am I hallucinating?" he asks somewhat disjointedly. "There was a snake. And now there isn't. And the corn's different."
"Well, from my perspective, you just fell out of a random patch of thin air, and stuff that weird happens all the time in this town, so, I'm going to go with 'probably not.' Unless you have any enemies that would drug you right before random weird stuff happens so you'll rave like a madman and be discredited if you attempt to accuse them of things."
"...no, no enemies like that, my enemies are dumb jocks and I can't see how they'd manage to drug me. Uh, nothing weird or interesting has ever happened in my town except for me existing at it, so I'm assuming I am no longer in Kansas. Either figuratively or literally."
"...I was just in Smallville. And I haven't seen you around before, which is weird because there are like fifty fucking people in Smallville. You wanna run that by me again?"
"...This is Smallville, Kansas, the weird an/or interesting capital of the state. I guess there must be another town named Smallville in Kansas because even if you managed to sleep through all the murder I think the meteor shower in 1989 would count."
"1989. Alright." He exhales heavily.
"Did we ever get out of fucking Vietnam?"
"Yeah, I figured, s'why I asked about Vietnam - uh, let me see - I'd ask who's President but I wouldn't know him from Adam. Has moral decay eaten through the fabric of society yet, or do I need to help it along?"
"From a sixties perspective? Not all the way, we'd be glad of the help, but we've come a long way. The first legal same-sex marriage was performed in February."
"Shit, nice! I didn't even think it'd be out of the DSM-whichever-you're-on-now, I was afraid to ask. Did all the Christians get raptured in the millennium flip or something?"
"Nah, they sorta split. There's the reasonable mainstream ones who mostly don't let it get in the way of being reasonable and there's the crazy wacko ones who think God faked the dinosaur bones or something."
"Can't have everything, I guess. Uh, what else... how are the Amazons doing? Did Wonder Woman ever come back out of retirement?"
"Wonder Woman? Fought Germany in the hilariously misnamed War to End All Wars, then fucked off back to her island paradise of immortal lesbians because she thought we were done killing each other?"
"I got good enough grades in History that I'm pretty sure I'd remember that."
"...alright then. World without superheroes. I don't know how big you are on astronomy, but was there, at one point, a planet called Krypton?"
"...Not...that the public knows of...but...I did talk to Doctor Virgil Swann a few times, and, yes."
Then where's your Superman, he doesn't ask.
"Well. Good to know. Um, not that I'm not enjoying the fresh air, but could I maybe impose on you for some overalls or something? If I'm going to be integrating into a world I never made, and all."
"Yeah, sure. You won't be the weirdest thing or person I've brought home. Uh, my parents'll believe you if you tell them what happened, and my brother and my close friends, but most of the town is still mostly in denial about the weird stuff that happens here."