I can feel like you, like... I can really feel you. It feels just like real old man skin.
Val-ElBecause 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.
Val-El
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.
Val-El
Brainiac?
So you're telling me that there is an elevator that goes all the way from Krypton to Wegthor?
Val-El
A Hypersonic Orbital Tether, yes. We've used it before to get our people up there, quite successful. Well, you will be joining us, won't you? After what you saw in the future, you should understand better than anyone. We have to stop Zod on Wegthor before it's too late. Well, you must understand...
God damn it, Val, of course I understand. I just happen to think that Seg is our best chance of defeating Zod.
Val-El
I miss my grandson more than you will ever know, but there is simply no way of reaching him without my Phantom Projector.
What if I told you that I didn't need your Phantom Projector to find Seg?
Val-El
I would ask you to explain yourself.
Val-El
You do understand the Phantom Zone is outside space and time as we know it.
Exactly. Wait, you're saying that's bad?
Val-El
I'm saying if you try and teleport into the Phantom Zone, your body would probably deconstructed at a molecular level and your atoms scattered throughout the galaxy. I'm sorry. It just won't work.
Well, not with an attitude like that, it won't. The meaning of this symbol that you wear change while I was away. You can't just give up on them.
Val-El
I'm an El. We never give up.
And I'm a Strange, and we don't give up either. Not anymore, and you know why? Because of your grandson. Seg showed how powerful hope can be. Besides, you don't even know if he's still in the Phantom Zone, do you?
Val-El
No. No, I don't. But the risk is...
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.
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.
That won't be necessary. We already have a plan. Wegthor.
[sotto to Jax-Ur] 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.
Val-El
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.
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