Season Two, Episode One
Huntress
-Metropolis, Daily Planet
Clark watched the TV screen closely, monitoring the Wayne Enterprises press conference.
"You've watched that 16 times," Ron Troupe noted.
"What's going on?" Lois asked.
"Bruce is acting weird. Weirder than usual," Clark replied, "And he's selling weapons to countries all over the world, and trying to take over Lex Corp, and Kord Industries. And when I tried talking to him he banned all press from the company."
-Gotham, Agora Cafe
"Hello, Helena Bertinelli, was Bruce Wayne supposed to you here?" Clark asked a woman sitting at a table.
"Yes," she replied. "Who are you?"
"A friend, Clark Kent. Have you noticed Bruce acting weird, by any chance?" implored Clark.
"I appreciate you're trying to help, but please leave me alone," Helena said. Clark walked away.
-Hub City, Warehouse
In the dark of night, the warehouse looked like a towering prison. Clark, now in his Superman attire, charge through the broken roof. His computer scan said Bruce was located here, and in trouble, but, he wondered, why.
All of a sudden he saw a dark figure in a black and purple costume and sunglasses. She walked up to him, and he recognized her a Helena from earlier.
"Superman?" She said in awe, "I recognize you from somewhere else though. Oh my gosh, are you…Clark Kent?"
"No," he brushed off, "Yes," he sighed, turning away. "I was trying to find Bruce, and confront him on his abnormal behavior. My tracker led me here."
"Me too," Helena said, "Did your costume just turn purple?"
From out of nowhere, black ops agents came and attacked the both of them, firing at them with kryptonite bullets.
"Why does this stuff have to be everywhere," Clark sighed as he fell to the ground. Helena pulled a bow from her boot and shot arrows at the agents.
"Are you okay?" she asked, "I'd think bullets would be no match against the man of steel."
"They're made of something called kryptonite, it comes from meteor rocks and it's a cheap material. The radiation is harmful for people from my planet," Clark explained, as he got up. "My costume is made of lead, which repels kryptonite, and the fabric warns me of it's presence by turning purple."
"Oh."
The two of us continued to the room where we thought Bruce should be; he was there, tied to a chair, and Helena began to untie him.
"I was replaced, by an alien that looked human," he explained.
"Like him?" Helena suggested.
"Like him, but not him," Bruce rebutted.
"Me!" A person who looked Bruce said, "My name is B'ars' Oom. I come from a planet called Mars, in a universe like your own, but the people their knew of my alien nature and feared me. However, in this universe, my martian physiology allows me to shape shift, and into the most powerful person on the planet no less!"
"You'll never take over the world!" Clark said.
"You're not of this world either, are you," Bars said.
"No, but I've put a lot of work into it!" Clark protested.
"But you're not martian either?" Bars questioned.
"My home is lost, but it's name lives on."
"And what is that?" The alien asked.
" Krypton!"
Suddenly, a green blast flew through the air. A green alien resembling John Jones' alien form appeared.
"I am J'onn Jones, of the planet Mars of my universe, and you must be Clark Kent and Bruce Wayne."
"I'm here too!" Helena protested.
"I'm Batman," Bruce said.
"You are out matched. I have a few other powers up my sleeve!" The martian said. He knocked all four of them back with a telekinetic shockwave and stuck us to the wall.
A dragon flew through the window and hit the evil martian, before transforming into his true form: Detective John Jones The Martian Manhunter, and then into human form. He suspended Bars with unbreakable handcuffs. "A good detective always brings backup," he said. John freed Clark, Bruce, Alt!J'onn and Helena.
"Thank you for a saving me," Clark said to John. "But it may be too late for those killed by Bars."
"I believe I once said something along the lines of, we can't save everyone, Clark."
"And it told you. The moment I believe that is when I stop trying," Clark said.
"Words to live by," the martian detective noted.
"I'll take B'ars back to his…our…own universe," Alternate J'onn said, "I live in a world torn apart by hatred. But you, wonderful people, all of you!"
"You're welcome back any time," normal John replied.
"Detectives," Clark said, turning to Bruce, Helena, Alt!J'onn and John and giving a salute, "Thank you, and good night!" He flew away
"It's nice to know my life is safe in your hands," Alt!J'onn said to them.
-Metropolis, Clark and Lois' apartment
"You're back," Lois noted.
"Bruce was replaced by an alien from another universe," Clark said. "Helena, John and I saved him."
"What are you going to do with Zod?" she asked.
"I don't know yet. But I have a feeling something else may be coming," Clark said.
"A new evil to fight."
"There is always a new evil. But there is also a new hope."