Man of Steel Page #5

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the ancient scout ship.

You led us here, Kal.

Now it's within your power...

...to save what remains of your race.

On Krypton...

...the genetic template

for every being yet to be born...

...is encoded in the registry of citizens.

Your father stole the registry's Codex...

...and stored it in the capsule

that brought you here.

For what purpose?

So that Krypton can live again...

...on Earth.

Where is the Codex, Kal?

If Krypton lives again...

...what happens to Earth?

The foundation has to be

built on something.

Even your father recognized that.

No, Zod.

I can't be a part of this.

Then what can you be a part of?

No!

Zod!

No!

No!

Your father acquitted...

...himself with honor, Kal.

You killed him?

I did.

And not a day goes by

where it doesn't haunt me.

But if I had to do it again, I would.

I have a duty to my people...

...and I will not allow anyone

to prevent me from carrying it out.

What's the sit-rep, major?

DSP pinged two bogeys

launching from the alien ship.

- Put it up.

-Yes, sir.

There it is.

Re-task lkon-4...

- ...and get me a closer look.

- Yes, sir.

Command, the word...

...of the day is trident.

We have two alien craft

on aggressive approach.

Ikon-4 coming online.

Air speed?

380 knots, entering Kansas...

...airspace.

Not responding to our hails.

You're wasting your efforts.

The strength you derived

from the Earth's sun...

...has been neutralized aboard our ship.

Here...

...in this environment...

...you are as weak as a human.

Unh!

Unh!

Where did you come from?

The command key, Miss Lane.

Thanks to you, I'm uploading

to the ship's mainframe.

Who are you?

I am Kai's father.

Can you help us?

I designed this ship.

I can modify its atmospheric composition...

...to human compatibility.

We can stop them.

We can send them back

to the Phantom Zone.

How?

I can teach you.

And in turn, you can teach Kal.

Will you help me?

The ship's crew are alerted.

We need to move quickly.

Retrieve the command key.

- Did you do that?

-Yes. Pick up her sidearm.

What's happening?

To your right.

Fire.

Behind you.

Secure yourself inside the open pod.

Safe travels, Miss Lane. It's unlikely...

...we'll see each other again.

Remember, the phantom drives

are essential in stopping them.

Move your head to the left.

Is it true what Zod said about the Codex?

Strike that panel.

We wanted you to learn...

...what it meant to be human first...

...so that one day, when the time was right,

you could be the bridge...

...between two peoples.

Look.

Lois.

You can save her, Kal.

You can save all of them.

You'll be safe here.

- Are you all right?

-Yeah.

I'm sorry.

I didn't wanna tell them anything,

but they did something to me.

- They looked inside my mind--

-it's okay, Lois.

They did the same thing to me.

Clark!

The craft he arrived in...

...where is it?

Go to hell.

There.

Unh!

The Codex is not here.

Argh!

Ah!

Where has he hidden it?

I don't know.

Where is the Codex?!

Ahh!

You think you can threaten my mother?!

Ah!

What have you done to me?

My parents taught me to hone...

...my senses, Zod.

Focus...

...on just what I wanted to see.

Without your helmet...

...you're getting everything.

Unh!

And it hurts...

...doesn't it?

Argh!

Get away from the window.

Get inside. It's not safe.

Ail players, this is

Guardian. I am airborne mission commander.

I have previously encountered

and observed...

...the beings we're about to engage.

They are extremely dangerous

and we have been authorized...

...to use deadly force.

Roger, Guardian, we are inbound to target.

Cleared hot. Weapons free.

Copy, 11. Weapons free.

Thunder 11...

...tally three targets.

Unh!

Thunder 11...

...good hit.

Request immediate re-attack.

Roger, Guardian.

We'll make a second gun run...

...on a heading of 212 degrees.

Thunder 11, eject!

Eject!

Thunder 11, eject!

I have a bogey incoming!

Oh, sh*t.

Argh!

You are weak...

...son of El.

Unsure of yourself.

The fact that you possess

a sense of morality...

...and we do not...

...gives us an evolutionary advantage.

And if history has proven anything...

...it is that evolution always wins.

Ragh!

Unh!

CCT, we're approaching...

...LZ Jayhawk. Get down in five.

Let's go. Go to the LZ.

Roger, sarge. let's go!

All rangers, I need you...

...to engage the targets.

Guardian, this is Badger 01.

What about the guy in blue?

I said engage...

...all targets.

Contact. Contact.

Ah!

You Okay?

We're auto-rotating, going in hard.

Brace for impact.

Brace for impact.

We're going in hard!

Fallen angel. Fallen angel.

Guardian is down. I repeat, Guardian is down.

Guardian, do you read?

Thunder 12, calling Guardian.

- Do you read?

-Thunder 12...

...this is Guardian.

Put down everything you've got

north of my position.

- This will be danger-close.

-Copy, danger-close.

Good luck, sir.

A good death is its own reward.

You will not win.

For every human you save...

...we will kill a million more. Unh!

Do we have an all clear?

Do we have an all clear?

Alpha team, sit-rep. Alpha team.

Do you copy? Alpha team.

This man is not our enemy.

Thank you, colonel.

Mom'?

I'm all right.

Nice suit, son.

I'm so sorry.

It's only stuff, Clark.

It can always be replaced.

But you can't be.

Mom, Zod said this Codex...

...he's looking for can

bring my people back.

Isn't that a good thing?

I don't think they're interested

in sharing this world.

Clark.

Clark.

I know how to stop them.

What happened down there?

He exposed a temporary weakness.

It is of little consequence...

...because I have located the Codex.

It was never in the capsule.

Jor-el took the Codex---

...the DNA of a billion people,

then he bonded it...

...within his son's individual...

cells.

All of Krypton's heirs...

...living hidden in one refugee's body.

Does Kal-EI need to be alive...

...for us to extract the Codex from his cells?

No.

Release the world engine.

Mat just happened ?

The ship just split in mo.

Track one is heading east,

track two to the southern hemisphere.

- How fast is that bogey moving?

- Approaching...

...Mach 24 and accelerating.

It's gonna impact

somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

The rest of the ship is descending.

Put it on the board now.

Yes, sir.

Oh, my God.

Bring the phantom drive online.

We are now slave to the world engine.

Initiate.

- What have they hit us with?

- Looks like some kind of gravity...

...weapon.

It's working in tandem with their ship.

Somehow they're increasing

the Earth's mass...

...clouding the atmosphere

with particulates.

Oh, my God.

They're terraforming.

What's that?

Planetary engineering...

...modifying the Earth's atmosphere

and topography.

Turning Earth into Krypton.

- But what happens to us?

-Based on these readings...

...there won't be an "us."

General Swanwick, sir.

I'm on with the control tower.

Colonel Hardy's on his way

and he's got Superman in tow.

Superman?

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