Nyssa-Vex quotes from Krypton

Nyssa-Vex

Cor-Vex. He seems handsome enough. There's that at least.

Seg-El

Doesn't it bother you? Knowing how his life's gonna play out?

Nyssa-Vex

I'm the fifth of five daughters, Seg. It's a miracle the Council are allowing me to bind with anyone. I'll take what I can get. Even a Rankless boy with a chip on his shoulder.

Seg-El

Your father chooses me, and you accept without a word.

Nyssa-Vex

Please tell me you aren't that naive. You are the grandson of a traitor. If my father binds you to us, he is taming you. Proving that even a dreaded El can be co-opted and brought into the fold.

Seg-El

I'm just a game piece.

Nyssa-Vex

Everyone in Kandor is a game piece to my father. Including me. Besides, you're not completely repellent. There's a lot I can teach you about life up here. My father only thinks he was the one who chose you.

Nyssa-Vex

Seg, wait up.

Seg-El

I can't. I'm in a hurry.

Nyssa-Vex

Well, I'm sure I can keep up. Nice to see you walking amongst the Guilded. Didn't even have to send a Sagitari to retrieve you. Some would call that progress. One of these days, we'll work up to a family dinner.

Seg-El

I'd like that.

Nyssa-Vex

Hm, I really need to teach you how to lie, Seg.

Seg-El

I'm better with the truth. It means a lot what you did for me, Nyssa. Allowing me the chance to give my parents an honorable burial.

Nyssa-Vex

Why do you want to save Lyta-Zod?

Seg-El

Because I love her. I love her. And I can't lose her.

Nyssa-Vex

Was that so hard?

Daron-Vex

Do you have any idea what you've done?

Nyssa-Vex

I'm trying to salvage this mess.

Daron-Vex

By going behind my back? To the Primus of the Sagitari? What makes you think Jayna is ready to join us and go against everything that House Zod stands for?

Nyssa-Vex

The fact that most parents love their children.

Daron-Vex

And if she loves her daughter so much, what's to stop her from going to the Voice of Rao herself and bargaining for a better deal? You risked everything, Nyssa.

Nyssa-Vex

We need the Sagitari. She's a Zod. If we don't stop Lyta's execution, we lose Jayna. And then we lose the chance to make a better Kandor.

Daron-Vex

A better Kandor? There's something else clouding your judgment. Or someone else. Seg, perhaps?

Nyssa-Vex

I did what I did so we can prevail against a tyrant.

Daron-Vex

Tyrants with power and a temper. If Jayna agrees, and joins us to spare her daughter, how do I explain to the Voice that he won't get the blood he's asked for? And if she refuses, and tells the Voice of our plans before we can put them in motion, then the blood he asks for will be ours.

Nyssa-Vex

All my life, I have watched you betray and destroy everyone around you. But I always held up hope that I was different.

Daron-Vex

You are.

Nyssa-Vex

I actually fooled myself into believing that in your own way you might actually love me.

Daron-Vex

I do. I do love you, Nyssa.

Nyssa-Vex

I gave up everything to please you. I sacrificed my friendships, my morality, even my own ambition! You molded me to be your perfect political ally.

Daron-Vex

I taught you the skills you needed to survive in the...

Nyssa-Vex

No! You taught me how to manipulate people, then disgard them when they outlived their usefulness. I learned that lesson well.

Seg-El

Next time we steal uniforms off of dead guys, could you please make sure I go for the larger one?

Nyssa-Vex

Why?

Seg-El

Those trousers are so tight, I nearly castrated myself.

Nyssa-Vex

Rao forbid.

Seg-El

You killed my grandfather when he tried to warn you about Brainiac. And now you are working for him.

Daron-Vex

I had no choice.

Seg-El

There's always a choice. You just made the wrong one. Now's he gonna take the city.

Daron-Vex

I don't know what you're talking about.

Seg-El

Your new master is going to rip Kandor from the ground and enslave all of us. I need to know how he's going to do it so I can stop him.

Daron-Vex

I have idea. And if it were true, you're deluding yourself if you think you have the power to stop him. Better to live under his rule than to die.

Nyssa-Vex

Coward. You won't live to see it.

So, what are we going to do?

Jayna-Zod

We need to raise an army. We can go to Kryptonopolis, establish a base there, reach out to other city-states, and return in force.

Nyssa-Vex

My sisters live there. They can provide us with those resources and connections we need.

There's no time. Brainiac's gonna take the city in a matter of weeks. We must stay and fight!

Jayna-Zod

We will not stand a chance. He controls the Sagitari. If we attempt this ourselves, we'll be slaughtered.

Then so be it. If we are going to die, then at least...

Kem

I'm just gonna stop you there. Um, I don't wanna die, so...

Seg-El

There's another way. The Nova Cycle celebration. That's how we get our army. [holds up a blaster]

Jayna-Zod

Not with that. Our weapons have no effect on him.

Seg-El

They might not harm him, but they will piss him off... when everyone was gonna be watching. If we can provoke him into revealing his true nature, if we can show the people that the Voice of Rao is an alien creature, the entire city will rise and stand against him. We will have our army.

We will need your grandfather's unsurpassed intellect. I believe Val-El is our last, best hope.

Seg-El

You left my grandfather stranded in that place with no way out, but now that we need him, you suddenly have a way to free him.

If you hadn't kept this place a secret from me, I couldn't have done it anytime, if there had been a need. [to Val] I assume you can activate it.

Lyta-Zod

So what's the catch?

Someone has to go in and get him.

Seg-El

I'll go.

You would get lost in there forever. I know my way around and I'll find him.

Nyssa-Vex

Or now that you've failed to stop Brainiac, this is your means of escape.

No one's ever been in there would consider going back an escape.

Jax-Ur

How long did you stand by your father's side? Scheming and plotting, as you both about creating the city of Kandor has become. And now, as it faces its reckoning, you want to flee?

Nyssa-Vex

You're right. For too many cycles, I helped my father divide our people. And I'm prepared to pay the price for that. But my child is innocent. Please, give him the chance to be free.

Jax-Ur

Free? There's nothing free about our society or anyone in it. Even the life of that gestating fetus has already been predetermined.

Nyssa-Vex

His name is Cor-Vex. You think the Genesis Chamber decides who we are, but we can be more, if we choose.

Jax-Ur

You still have no idea about the society you helped your father create, and your true place within it.

Seg-El

Where did he go?

Into the Phantom Zone, a dimension that exists outside the normal space-time continuum.

Lyta-Zod

How do you know that?

Because I was trapped in there with him.

Seg-El

You mean you were sentenced there for leading a coup.

Yes. Because the Council convinced me was as corrupt as the one that condemned Val-El.

Seg-El

That doesn't make sense. If Val went into the Phantom Zone 14 cycles ago, and you were thrown in there some point in the future, how did you two even meet?

Once inside the Phantom Zone, time and space have no meaning. Val told me that her father and the Voice of Rao believing that he was dead, it game him opportunity to seek out Brainiac, observe the way the creature operated in order to help Krypton prepare its defenses.

Seg-El

Then why didn't he come back?

Because he didn't have this. It was his only way out.

Nyssa-Vex

So you stole it? You betrayed him.

Only one of us could get out with this. So, yes, I betrayed him, but not his mission. Who better to stop Brainiac, hmm? A frail old man or a general? Such a mission required a Zod, not an El. Turned out I was both.

Adam Strange

What's going on?

Val-El

Well, if Brainiac escaped...

Nyssa-Vex

Then maybe Seg did, too.

Adam Strange

Hold on a second. Are you saying that... Seg is alive?

Adam Strange

I don't understand. You built the projector thingy for the Phantom Zone, but you can't get Seg out?

Val-El

Zod destroyed my Projector. I tried to rebuild it, but then Zod seized the Fortress.

Adam Strange

Wow, things really went sideways while I was gone, huh? That's all right. I'm back now. And I have a plan. [seeing their looks] All right, I don't have a plan, but I could totally come up with one.

Nyssa-Vex

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

Adam Strange

[sotto to Jax-Ur] Is that the safe word?

Jax-Ur

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.

Adam Strange

Surprised you guys have been able to pull a resistance together. From what I've seen, everybody seems to be digging the new Kandor.

Nyssa-Vex

Because Zod freed the Rankless to distract the people from what was really going on.

Nyssa-Vex

Hello, Father. Six months I've been searching. I was almost ready to give up.

Daron-Vex

How did you find me?

Nyssa-Vex

You used to joke about how much you despised Bokos, which is why I never thought to look here. And then I received a tip earlier today. I still have some connections.

Daron-Vex

I don't doubt it. You always were resourceful, Nyssa.

Nyssa-Vex

I never understood why you hated this city, and then I found out that this is where you're from.

Daron-Vex

Nobody knew that. [realizing] Jax-Ur.

Nyssa-Vex

We've developed quite the bond while you've been bathing in shit. She told me everything. About how you grew up in this filth and then remade yourself in Kandor by binding with my mother and using her name to gain power. I know all about you, Father. And I know what you did to me. Why didn't you tell me?

Daron-Vex

I had my reasons.

Nyssa-Vex

It wasn't your decision to make. This is my life, and I need to know who I really am. Because unlike you, Father, I am not done living yet.

Daron-Vex

You always were the better parts of her.