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[dramatic music]

[zapping]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[screaming]

[thudding]

[zapping]

[music continues]

[screams]

Brainy!

Forget me. Finish the job.

[music continues]

[grunting]

Hang in there. You're gonna be fine.

You may not be human

but you have the biggest heart I've ever seen.

[groans]

You're a true hero.

I..

[coughing]

Learned it all from you.

[groaning]

[instrumental music]

(automated response) 'Music terminated.'

'Simulation complete.'

(Lightning Lad) 'So you and your buddy managed to save the day again?'

Or did you and Superman just catch a movie this time?

[sighs]

As I've already explained

I'm simply preparing for the dominator threat

by using the sim chamber as a way

to consider all possible variables..

Including Superman's return.

Seriously, Brainy, you need to get used

to life without Superman.

He's not gonna be walking

through that door anytime soon.

[rumbling]

[instrumental music]

He's back.

I'm Superman.

[dramatic music]

[theme music]

[music continues]

[dramatic music]

Excuse me, but you're not Superman.

Well, this "S" doesn't stand for Sal.

But call me what you want, you're all coming with me.

- Now. - Maybe it's the fur, stranger.

But just 'cause you yell fetch

don't mean I'm gonna come runnin'.

I was told the Legion could help.

- Maybe I was told wrong. - Help with what?

Words can't convey the horror I come from.

This is something you will need to see for yourself.

But know, 44 trillion lives hang in the balance.

Forty-four trillion?

That's an entire galaxy.

We should at least check to see if what he's sayin' is true.

Then follow me.

I must advise against this.

Going into a situation blind with someone

who clearly is not who he says

isn't the wisest course of action.

How ironic. A Brainiac accusing someone of being deceitful.

[music continues]

Welcome to my world.

'New Metropolis. The 41st century.'

This is the future?

It's sure not the next great spring break destination.

[snarls]

Who did this?

[explosion]

They did.

[intense music]

[zapping]

[screaming]

[grunts]

[explosion]

[music continues]

[grunts]

[grunting]

[zapping]

[gunshots]

[grunting]

[gunshots]

I don't think we can hold them off much longer.

Then good thing help is on the way.

[music continues]

He is so not a team player.

[gunshot]

[whirring]

Nice job.

I had my doubts, but you survived

your first taste of the Imperiex army.

The Legion is a team, and you're a loose cannon.

That's not how heroes from our time work.

Not trying to be a hero. Just tryin' to survive.

And in my time, that means

doing what it takes to get the job done.

Then do me a favor. Don't call yourself Superman.

That name means something.

The name Brainiac 5 means something too.

Check out a 41st century history file when you have a chance.

- What is that supposed to... - Hey, put it on pause, guys.

More trouble, 12 o'clock.

[dramatic music]

[whirring]

Wait, that's not the enemy.

That's K3NT.

It created me.

Uh, created?

As in, like, your parents?

A regular ma and pa Kent.

Yeah, if the Kent's shared one body

six legs, and had a lava lamp head.

- So this is them. - Sure don't look like much.

Well, we already brought them here.

Might as well see if the Legends are true.

You probably want to know why you're here.

So let us tell you a story.

[instrumental music]

Many years ago..

A time of extended prosperity emerged.

(K3NT as female) After the Legion of Superheroes

defeated tyranny throughout the galaxy.

[gunshots]

(K3NT as male) We were the unprepared when a new evil finally rose up.

(K3NT as female) An evil named Imperiex.

The discovery of Superman DNA gave us hope

of restoring the bygone era of hero through cloning.

(K3NT as male) Kryptonite was then laced into his genome.

(K3NT as female) Making him invulnerable to its radiation.

We raised Superman X to fight.

(K3NT as male) And fight he did.

(K3NT as female) But alone, he could not stop Imperiex.

(K3NT as male) Who continued to grow stronger.

(K3NT as female) 'We needed reinforcements.'

(K3NT as male) 'We needed a Legion.'

Fortunately, K3NT discovered

the time travel device called the Warp Key.

'A device that harnessed a long lost technology.'

We would use it to turn to those we believed to be our last hope.

(K3NT as male) 'The heroes who first ushered in our golden age.'

(K3NT as female) 'The Legion of Superheroes.'

We now have news Imperiex has discovered

resistance headquarters.

If he destroys this base, our others will surely fall.

Then this is it. The moment I was created for.

[spaceships whooshing]

(Imperiex) 'Tonight, one final battle'

will determine control of this galaxy.

Tonight, we erase their past

and build our future.

(all) All hail Imperiex.

[dramatic music]

Resistance headquarters.

'The only thing standing in the way'

'of Imperiex's final solution.'

When I was a kid, I built better forts out of blankets.

Now you understand why K3NT wanted you?

Right now, you need more than us.

- You need a plan. - A plan?

How is this for a plan? We fight.

Fight until Imperiex's rusted husk

has been ripped apart for scrap metal.

You're quite the strategist.

But I bet we can do better.

First, we think.

You can do that, can't you, future boy?

Analyzing the combat data K3NT provided me

I discovered that while Imperiex is virtually unstoppable

he does have one weakness.

[music continues]

'His cannon blast.'

'Use of this weapon exposes his energy core long enough'

'that a well-placed magnetic pulse missile'

'would take him out.'

Alright, we'll try it your way.

This better work.

[sirens blaring]

[clanking]

[gun cocks]

Superman, Imperiex's forces are approaching from the east.

[intense music]

[zapping]

[screams]

[guns zapping]

[crackling]

[explosion]

[gunshots]

[grunting]

[growling]

[explosion]

[gunshots]

[music continues]

[explosion]

[thudding]

[gunshots]

[growling]

[screaming]

[grunting]

[gunshots]

[music continues]

[beeping]

[both grunting]

[growls]

So you brought in outsiders.

This isn't their fight, coward.

Coward. Hero. Does it matter if I get the job done?

Except you won't.

I will grind your civilization into dust.

Not while I'm around.

Stopping you is the only reason

I'm alive.

Then allow me to remedy that.

Whoosh

[grunting]

[beeping]

At least have the courage to look me in the eye

before I finish you.

Now.

Hmm?

Whoosh

[grunts]

Thud

[groaning]

[gunshots]

[instrumental music]

[all cheering]

[indistinct chattering]

- 'We did it!' - 'Ooh.'

I can't believe it's over.

I mean, finally over.

Guess you'll have to find a new hobby.

Can I suggest one that involves less scowling?

[static]

Not that I'm ungrateful, but maybe it's better

if we part ways sooner than later.

Agreed.

[grunting]

[rumbling]

[gasps]

[laughing]

Uhh.

No! The Warp Key.

Whoosh

I thought you destroyed his energy core.

I did.

H-he must have accessed an energy reserve.

Um... where is Imperiex?

You know, tall guy, nice smile, destroyer of galaxies.

He's escaped.

To the 31st century.

Then Imperiex used this Warp Key

to escape to the last place the device

was programmed for, the 31st century.

And there's not another one of these gadgets lying around

like, maybe in a sock drawer or something?

This happened because I listened to his plan.

- Hey! - Uh, not to worry.

I bet Mr. Twelfth Level Intelligence here

can build another one of these bad boys out of a soup can

and some dental floss, right?

Probably not out of dental floss.

But yes. Though it will take time.

Days, perhaps even weeks.

[rumbling]

Hey, anyone know what that is?

According to my instruments, that is the universe collapsing.

[instrumental music]

Pretty.

Unfortunately, I was afraid

this could happen.

'Imperiex has altered the past enough to ensure this future'

'no longer exists.'

'Now, the universe must reset itself'

'using antimatter waves that right now'

'are erasing one reality to be replaced by another.'

Anything caught in the path of these waves

will be removed from existence.

And ultimately within hours

everything will be caught in their path.

K3NT will know what to do. It always does.

K3NT, come in, we've got a situation.

Yes, we know.

'Imperiex has altered the time stream from the 31st century.'

(K3NT as male) 'If we want to reverse this catastrophe..'

(K3NT as female) We must stop him in the past..

(K3NT as male) Before he can make any significant changes.

But he stole the Warp Key. We can't follow him to the past.

The power source on Imperiex's cruiser.

It should be powerful enough to generate the energy needed..

To bend space and time to form a crude wormhole to the past.

There's one more thing.

(both) Goodbye, son.

No. Come in. Come in!

This time, we do it my way.

[dramatic music]

Thud

The engine room is through there.

Secure the perimeter while I go in.

I should go.

My systems can hack the power grid

and modulate a temporal distortion field

ten times faster than you can.

You mean mess things up ten times faster.

Why don't you both go

and let the rest of us

trash Destructo Bots in peace?

(Triplicate Girl) Terrific.

[zapping]

[dramatic music]

You're sure your 31st century tech

can handle this machine?

Don't worry about me.

My circuits will channel the power

into the temporal wormhole.

I just hope you can keep that core stabilized.

Boom

[zapping]

[dramatic music]

[grunting]

[crackling]

Anyone else feeling a little claustrophobic all of a sudden?

[beeping]

Thud

[grunting]

[screaming]

(both) No!

[both sobbing]

[crackling]

[beeping]

What were you implying when you said my name

meant something to the 41st century?

Let's just say once a Brainiac, always a Brainiac.

I just wish the same was true for you.

You may have Superman's genes, but you don't have his heart.

Okay. Almost there.

[gunshot]

[zapping]

- What's happening? - We're overloading the engines.

The failsafes are trying to shut it down.

- I can override that. - Then do it!

We are running out of time.

[whirring]

[crashing]

Whoosh

[intense music]

Forget me. Finish the job.

[grunts] That was almost Superman-like.

[grunts]

[music continues]

[grunts]

Thud

Superman!

Where is he?

Gone.

And us too if we don't get moving.

Wait, over there.

[grunting]

[music continues]

You did it, Brainy. You got us back here.

But before Imperiex? That's the question.

No. No.

[dramatic music]

[theme music]