Krypton

Seg, this belongs to

your grandson, Kal-El.

My name is Adam Strange.

I come from a planet called Earth,

a time centuries from now.

You have to save Superman.

Nyssa here is yet to be paired with someone.

You'll be binding with her.

Welcome to the family, Seg.

Product of your union, Cor-Vex.

- Do you care about Lyta-Zod? - I love her.

Stay away from Lyta.

There's something else clouding your judgment.

My name is Jax-Ur.

My work was supposed to cure disease.

Do you remember the day your mother died?

It was a skimmer accident.

You were in that skimmer, too.

At least, your original self was.

Who are they?

Clones, like you, Nyssa.

Someone from the future is here to destroy Krypton

and make sure Superman is never born.

It's known as the Collector of Worlds, Brainiac.

Today is the beginning

of your eternal lives.

The only way to fight something

that cannot be killed

is with a weapon that is un-killable.

It's called Doomsday.

Who are you?

General Zod, Superman's greatest enemy,

has traveled back through time.

I'm here to save Krypton.

It's you.

I'm your son.

House of Zod, House of El, you're my son.

I have come to offer you something.

You can have the Universe,

as long as I have Krypton.

Dru-Zod, I don't think he's come back to save Krypton.

I think he's come back to rule it.

Mother, stop, please don't do this.

You're gonna have to make a choice.

To the Phantom Zone,

a dimension that exists outside normal time and space.

- Ah! - I got you.

Seg...

My father's sacrifice will never be forgotten.

Brainiac is no more.

Kneel before Zod.

My fellow Kryptonians,

six months ago, we came together

to face the dawn of a new era.

I stood before you,

a man from the future,

with a vision for the future to rebuild a Krypton

unrecognizable in its perfection.

I knew only unity and equality

would heal our divisions and secure our future.

And now I offer my gratitude.

Ooh, God damn it, right in the Johnson.

Because, while I may have led our efforts,

it is by your own strength

that today, Krypton is indeed unrecognizable.

And perfection lies within our grasp.

We are now ready to claim our rightful place

amongst the stars and fulfill our duty

of promoting Kryptonian exceptionalism,

as rulers of the galaxy.

To those anarchic separatists on Wegthor,

know that through the toil, courage, and sacrifices

of true Kryptonians,

we will crush your treacherous rebellion.

And there has been no more noble a sacrifice

than that of my father, Seg-El,

who gave his life so that

we may all see a better tomorrow.

A better tomorrow.

Help us build a better tomorrow

by reporting any information on the Wegthor rebels

to your Sagitari District Commander.

By helping to report dissenters,

we can help build a unified, stronger Krypton.

Hey, now, I do not consent.

Any sign?

Clear.

Oh, thanks.

Shame.

Ah. Ow.

God, I really hate this planet.

Careful, the walls have ears, and the darkness has eyes.

Ow.

Well, you seem nice.

But what say we take things slow

and, uh, start with introductions.

You know, establish safe words, see where that takes us.

Do you mind telling me why you brought me here?

Also, how did you bring me here?

Did you just throw me over your shoulder like a...

She had some help from her friends.

Hello, Adam.

- Mama Zed. - Mama Zed.

We'll talk about this later.

I spotted you during Zod's announcement.

I'm sorry for the rough handling,

but better that than the Sagitari

get a hold of you, eh?

Oh, please, I could handle a couple of Sagitari.

Val...Nyssa...

Tiny baby...

This is Cor-Vex, mine and Seg's son.

Seg's son.

- Why don't we catch up-- - Holy cats.

Val, you touched me. He touched me.

You...this...

I can feel you, like-- I can really feel you.

It feels just like real old man skin.

Because I am real, not the hologram

you knew from the Fortress.

I'm back from the Phantom Zone.

Oh.

That explains the really leathery skin

and the old man smell.

Where have you been the last six months?

I went back...to the future.

Only the world I went back to wasn't the world I left.

On account of the same jackass

running your planet, conquered mine.

Oh, it gets better.

Sometime after that, Brainiac decided to

bottle my hometown.

Brainiac?

Yeah, him.

What's going on?

Well, if Brainiac escaped...

Then maybe Seg did, too.

Hold on a second.

Are you saying that...

Seg is alive?

Hello?

My grandfather was no traitor.

I was told to believe we have a future.

Seg!

- Relax. - Lyta?

Zod!

Stop. Please stop!

Stay. Stay with me.

Please.

Please...

Somebody please help me.

I don't understand it.

You built the projector thingy for the Phantom Zone,

but you can't get Seg out?

Zod destroyed my Projector.

I tried to rebuild it,

but then Zod seized the Fortress.

Wow, things really went sideways while I was gone, huh?

That's all right. I'm back now.

And I have a plan.

All right, I don't have a plan,

but I could totally come up with one.

That won't be necessary. We already have a plan.

Wegthor.

Is that the safe word?

It's a moon...

one of three orbiting Krypton,

but the only one with a completely self-sufficient,

fully sustainable colony;

Krypton's only city-state not under Zod's rule

and the home of our resistance.

Surprised you guys have been able to

pull a resistance together.

From what I've seen, everybody seems to be

digging the new Kandor.

Because Zod freed the Rankless

to distract the people from what was really going on.

After Brainiac was defeated,

Zod quickly took control of Kandor's Sagitari

and began annexing the other city-states.

He conscripted anyone fit to serve

and disappeared anyone who defied.

But he's made enemies along the way,

enemies we've been busy recruiting.

But now that his forces are gaining ground every day,

time's come for us to rejoin our allies on Wegthor.

So besides being the one that got away,

why does Zod have such a chub for this moon?

Wegthor's a mining colony,

home to a compound known as Stellarium.

Zod is processing it into warp fuel

to fuel the interstellar fleet he has under construction.

No, he can--he can't be building his fleet yet.

While I was gone, I saw other planets Zod had conquered.

He's not ruling over their people,

he's eradicating them.

He's turning every planet he conquers into Krypton,

terraforming to make them compatible with

the physiology of Kryptonians.

If Zod has his fleet,