Lyta-Zod quotes from Krypton

Lyta-Zod

We never ask for mercy.

Lyta-Zod

Commander? What is all this?

Mommy didn't tell you? New offensive. We're going down to the Rankless to smoke out Black Zero.

Lyta-Zod

This looks like we're going to war.

Well, shit yeah, we're going to war.

Lyta-Zod

The Rankless are not out enemy. Black Zero is.

Well, who can be bothered sorting out your actual terrorists from your regular, everyday, Rankless shitheads?

Jayna-Zod

I hope it was worth it.

Lyta-Zod

I tried talking to you.

Jayna-Zod

I don't know why you're protecting Seg, but if you want to risk your life for him, so be it. But not even Rao will help you if you risk those of your squads. Lyta-Zod, I hereby appoint you Commander of Fourth Squad, Sagitari. You are obliged to bear true allegiance and faith to the Military Guild of Kandor City against all enemies, and to defend and support the Supreme Council in loyal service of His Reverence, the Voice of Rao. May Rao's grace be your shield. It only gets harder from here.

Lyta-Zod

What happened to her? Is she still alive?

Seg-El

Barely.

Lyta-Zod

Seg, what's going on?

Seg-El

My grandfather was right. We're not alone in the universe. There's something out there. It found her, and it's coming for us.

It's amazing to see you like this.

Lyta-Zod

Happy?

Happy, open. Smiling. What I remember most about you was how heavy the loss of Kandor weighed on your heart. You didn't like to talk about it, but I learned that you were in one of the military vessels attacking Brainiac's ship when he ripped the city from the ground. You never forget your failure to defend the city. It made you bitter.

Lyta-Zod

I guess you're saying I'm not a perfect mother.

Maybe, but you taught me to put the defense of this world above all else. You fashioned me into a weapon. I take pride in that.

Seg-El

What was he telling you?

Lyta-Zod

Apparently, one day, I wake up to find I've turned into my mother.

Seg-El

Well, it seems I have a grandson who's decisions are morally dubious, so there's that.

Lyta-Zod

Can't help but worry, though.

Seg-El

Our future?

Lyta-Zod

I have a son who recognizes me as his mother, but only knows you as the father of his best friend. I suppose I thought... Now that you're Guilded, maybe there'd be a way. I still want to believe we have a future.

Seg-El

Let's stick with today. We already know the future is confusing.

According to the archive, we find that symbol, we find the weapon.

Lyta-Zod

It looks like a house sigil.

It doesn't match any house currently on Krypton. [Seg takes it back] You recognize it. All you have to do is take me there.

Adam Strange

Seg, you can't...

Seg-El

Shut up. You'll have your turn. The people who live down here, the Cythonnites. This weapon is what they're sworn to protect, isn't it?

Yes, and they will guard it with their lives. Because that is how powerful it is. Which is why we need it.

Lyta-Zod

Where did you get those? They're military-grade explosives.

Perks of using Black Zero.

Adam Strange

He's here to destroy Krypton, and make sure Superman is never born.

No Zod would ever destroy Krypton. It's our duty to defend our city, and our world.

Lyta-Zod

Our duty, and...

Our proud privilege.

Adam Strange

Oh, this is some grade-A, premium bullshit.

Adam Strange

You guys can't be seriously by giving this whackjob a weapon of mass destruction. Seg. I'm sorry. Really, I am. I know I should have told you before, but what was I supposed to say? Hey, man, let's go get a drink. By the way your world's gonna explode. Why even lay that burden on you?

Seg-El

Wouldn't you want to know?

Adam Strange

All right. I didn't tell because it was hard. It's not a conversation anyone wants to have. Look, I don't, I don't know. Maybe Zod's lying. Maybe... Maybe I was wrong. All I knew that Superman's enemy was going back to change the timeline, which means your grandson would never be born.

Seg-El

So you're telling me you didn't even hear the full story, but you came to me, so sure of yours...

Adam Strange

I had to. I couldn't just stand around and do nothing if it meant no Superman.

Lyta-Zod

Regardless of what you got wrong, Brainiac is still coming. We all can agree on that. We all want to stop him, so why don't we all work together?

Adam Strange

Because, if the warning I received wasn't about Brainiac it must've been about Zod. And if we're to preserve the timeline, then we have to step back and let... Let Brainiac take Kandor.

Seg-El

You said you're here to stop Brainac, that you've studied him. Let's hear the plan.

Firstly, you have to understand that Brainiac is virtually immortal. Existing for thousands of years. He possesses the intellectual plunder of countless advanced civilizations. He's far beyond us. And as history has proven, Krypton's current weapons are useless against him.

Lyta-Zod

Yet here you are. And we still haven't heard a plan yet, General.

Adam Strange

That's because he doesn't have one. On account of he's full of shit.

Lyta-Zod

Hurry, Val, we're all counting on you.

Val-El

Thank you, I am very well aware of that.

Lyta-Zod

Good, because whatever it takes, you need to find a way! Understood?

Val-El

I'm an El. We always find a way.

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.

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.

Raika

I already told you, I don't know where Doomsday is.

Lyta-Zod

But your people must know something, must have seen something.

Raika

[sobbing] I have no more people! When the creature broke from the containment chamber, he slaughtered most of us. The rest were rounded up by your son. Those who weren't conscripted to fight in his war... they were never seen again. Please. Please, I swear to you, I have no idea where Doomsday is.

Lyta-Zod

It's okay. I believe you. And I want this to be over for you, I do. But there's one more thing. Jayna-Zod was last seen in the catacombs badly hurt. Her injuries were thought to be fatal, but her body has yet to be found.

Raika

I don't know anything about that.

Lyta-Zod

But you helped her and Seg-El once before, correct?

Raika

I don't know anything.