Epilogue (Two Months Later)

I realised that this story couldn't end without an epilogue, obviously… but it's pretty long so I apologize for that.

Thanks to gamePsycho11 for the suggestion, but I made it a reality. :)

And to Christina, I'm really glad you love this story.

Also, I just want to put this out, I was listening to the soundtrack from Batman v Superman, 'The Red Capes are Coming.' It really fits into this chapter, but you'll have to figure out when it should pop up. A little game of mine. Guess the location kinda thing.

More from me at the end.

Enjoy!

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Metropolis (LexCorp HQ)

May 19, 21:52 EST

"So… what brings you here?" Lex Luthor was looking out his office window. He was speaking to someone, who sat on a chair in front of his desk.

"I just… wanted to say… thank you." The person who was there couldn't utter his words out properly.

Luthor could only chuckle and turned to look at his visitor, "Conner, you don't have to thank me."

"I… actually kinda do." The boy of steel was serious.

"For the serum I gave to you those months ago?"

"Yes."

"You're welcome then." The evil businessman walked over to his desk. He pulled out a bottle of Southern Comfort and two whiskey glasses from one of the cabinets, "Want some?"

Conner couldn't help but chuckle, "Sorry, I don't drink."

"Oh please, you're already 23 years old and you can't drink? Be serious." Lex spoke in a calm, soothing voice as always.

"Fine… just one glass." He sighed and kindly accepted the offer.

"That's the spirit." Luthor smiled as he poured the whiskey on both the glasses and handed one of them to him, "Here you go."

"Thank you." Conner stood up to get it, but he didn't sit down as he realised they were both going to toast.

"To… finally not being a clone." Lex toasted. For some apparent reason, they both laughed at that. To Lex, it was understandable, but Conner… very unlikely. They awkwardly both drank. The Kryptonian cringed to the taste, he still wasn't used to alcohol.

"Man, that's strong!"

"It is Southern Comfort." The influential businessman pointed out.

"Right." Conner put down the glass and sat back down. Luthor did the same.

"So… how is your life?"

Superboy snorted, "Do I really have to tell you?"

"Listen. Tonight, I'm not 'Lex Luthor, the bad guy you have to stop'. I am simply, 'Lex Luthor, the businessman who trying to catch up with his son'."

Kon-El closed his eyes and sighed, "Sorry to say, but… I'm not your son… Anymore."

Luthor gave a, "Hmmmmm. So you admit to say I was your father."

"It was inevitable. But due to the serum. I'm fully Kryptonian, that means your DNA is out of the picture… for good."

Lex chuckled, "Let me ask you this. Who made the serum specifically for you?"

The only thing Conner could do was to just sigh in agreement.

"Who gave you the Shields that you used in missions before? Who… has made you a new suit?"

Conner's eyes widened upon hearing this, "New Suit?"

"Yes." Luthor pressed a button under his desk, the elevator in the very back of the room opened, "Follow me."

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In the Elevator Shaft…

May 19, 21:56 EST

"Where are we going?" Conner's arms were crossed as the elevator shaft continued to go down.

"Somewhere that the Justice League or your Team doesn't know about."

"And you're telling me this why?"

"Because you're still technically my son. We share things."

Conner wanted to retort, but couldn't bring himself to do it. Then he heard a 'ding' noise as the elevator doors opened, revealing a giant infrastructure. Pieces from the Scout Ship. A gasp escaped the boy of steel. There were also lots of stasis pods and people with lab coats examining the ship.

"How the hell did you get it all the here!?"

"Simple. Giant boom tubes." Lex Luthor said calmly, noticing Conner's raise of voice.

"And the Justice League doesn't know about this? How can they not see a giant ship just disappear into thin air!?"

"We used EMP devices to shut down their signals and cameras and lined the ship with lead."

Conner just stared at the evil genius, "Damn, he's smart. EMP so the League's eyes are closed, and lead so dad and I can't see it."

"What did you take?" Conner wanted to know more.

"Glad you asked. Walk with me… please." The pair walked into the interior of the now destroyed Scout Ship and Superboy noticed that the Genesis chamber was completely destroyed. He looked down in shame. It was his doing but he had to do it to stop Zod.

"We salvaged some of the remaining Kryptonian fetuses for breeding…"

"Stop right there Luthor. You're telling me… that you've been… BREEDING Kryptonians!?" Conner was pissed off. He wanted to kill him right then and there, he still couldn't do it for some reason.

"Yes. To renew the Kryptonian population, so you, your other father, and the other two won't be alone on this earth." Lex explained honestly and referred to Faora and Nam-Ek. His words were extremely genuine, quite unusual for him.

"Since when were you so kind to us?" Conner retorted, finally, "For years, you've been obsessed with killing my dad. Now you want to be on equal terms with him?"

"It's because of you, Conner. You're the only reason that I don't want to kill Superman. Without his DNA, you wouldn't be here."

"Don't smooth talk me. I won't buy it."

"Alright then. Do you still want to learn more of what I've been doing?"

"Definitely." Conner said harshly, but soon calmed down, "What's with the pods?"

"For the breeding, we started last month."

Conner had very mixed feelings. He wanted to put an end to this . He remembered something, "And what about this… new suit?"

Lex smiled, "Over here."

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22:05 EST

"What do you think?" Luthor looked on, smiling.

"It… looks nice." Superboy sighed. He hated to admit it, but the suit Luthor made for him looked perfect. It was made out of Kryptonian materials. The suit was mainly black with red lines all over and there no cape. (A/N: Similar to Superboy's New 52 outfit). "No cape huh?"

"You want me to add a cape?"

"I didn't say that. It's better without it."

"Hmph," Lex snorted and put his hand on Conner's shoulder without taking any thought before doing it. Luckily, Superboy didn't relent or attack. Luthor wasn't trying to hostile, they both knew that, "I want you to have it."

Conner turned his head to look at the businessman, "I will have you know that I worked on a suit that took me months to make. I'll treasure that suit more than this one." He pointed at the suit Luthor made.

"I understand that, but just keep it. It's my birthday present to you. Even if it's kinda late."

"Birthday present?"

"Conner, were you not born on the 21st of March?"

Superboy laughed hysterically and brought up both his hands, making two peace signs and arching both the index and middle fingers, "I was 'born'."

"Of course you were 'born'."

The boy of steel just frowned and groaned, "Why do you put up with me?"

Luthor was about to answer until Conner stopped him, "Don't answer it. It's a rhetorical question."

"I was going to say the same thing." Lex chuckled.

"Smartass." Kon insulted the genius in his head.

"Just take it, Conner." Besides Lex Luthor being a villain, pleading in an unperturbed voice was a major strong point for him.

"Fine." Superboy gave in and grabbed the suit, that was being hung in an opened tube, and folded it.

"Here." Luthor had already been holding a bag for him, with his company logo on the sides. Conner snatched it from his hand and stuffed the folded suit inside it.

"Now before I leave… is there anything else you want to speak to me about?" Conner asked impatiently.

"Yes."

"Make it quick."

"Did you notice something funny when Zod broadcasted himself throughout the world?"

"What's so funny about it?" Conner didn't understand, so his voice raised due to the lack of details given to him thus far.

"He only said two of his citizens."

"So?" He rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"He should have said… three of his citizens." Luthor turned around and walked towards a fully lighted hallway full of stasis pods.

"Three?" Conner analysed what Lex had just said, "Three? What the hell did he mean by three?"

"Come on son, it's not that hard. Three," Lex started counting with his fingers, as if Conner was still a toddler and needed to be taught numbers, "One; Superman. Two; You. Three… you should know who that is."

The businessman began wiggling his middle finger. That was when Superboy realized who that third person was meant to be. He suddenly turned angry and started to follow Luthor, "Where is he!?"

"Who?"

"Where is Match!?" Conner demanded to know where his 'half-brother' was.

"He's safe, in a stasis pod until we can return him back to normal." Luthor explained without hesitation.

"Bring me to him!" The anger flowed through Conner. He might have tried to free Match seven years ago and failed completely, but he still accepted him as a brother and would take simple steps to help him.

Luthor no longer had a smile on his face. He was now serious as well, "Follow me."

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22:11 EST

Upon seeing him after so long, Conner was horrified as he oversaw him in his stasis pod. He was horrified because it wasn't the Match he fought seven years ago. He was different. had become disfigured; he had gotten paler, his left leg and the left side of his face had swollen, and his right arm had become oversized.

"What happened to him?" Conner walked over to his stasis pod and touched it.

"He's unstable. That is why you were created."

"Remind me again." Conner didn't want to say, but he wanted to remember his history.

"Match was created as part of Project Match by Cadmus, as a first attempt to clone a Kryptonian." Lex started from the very beginning.

"Because you wished for my dad to… 'meet his match." Conner knew that like it was in the back of his head.

"But the project was a failure. We realized that Kryptonian DNA proved too difficult to replicate, and that is why the imperfect sequence made Match uncontrollable. So we stored him deep inside Cadmus, and hoped that his presence was to be kept secret from both the public and the Justice League."

"Then what?"

"So we tried again, this time was more successful because we filled the gaps with human DNA."

"Your DNA." Superboy concluded.

"Precisely." Lex was impressed that Conner still knew some of it.

"Can you help him this time?" Superboy couldn't believe what he just said. He was literally asking for Luthor's help. Whatever Lex did, it would be for the Light, and Conner knew that very well.

"I'm afraid not. His DNA is corrupted and we can't fix it." Lex described the issue in a stressful tone of voice.

"Then he can have some of mine." Conner offered without thinking twice, "I don't care if this helps the Light or not! Just… do it!" Superboy didn't know what he was saying anymore. "What the hell are you doing Conner!?"

"Alright then. I'll have to take samples of your blood. So we need Kryptonite to inject you. Are you sure about this?" Lex asked in concern. Also quite unusual for him.

"Yes."

"By the way. You're not contributing to the Light at all." He said sincerely while he pressed a button, presumably calling someone for Kryptonite, "It's for your benefit."

"How so?" Conner furrowed his eyebrows.

"I believe that if there are more Kryptonians, you'd feel at home." Luthor said humorously.

Conner snorted but laughed anyway, "Funny."

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22:30 EST

After the procedure, Conner looked back at the stasis pod of Match and spoke in his mind, "I'll get you out of here. One day." He smiled to his 'older brother' and walked away.

"I feel that we have gotten along just fine, don't you think?" Lex said with his usual dark smile as he and the former Kryptonian genomorph walked into the elevator shaft. The doors closed as Luthor pressed the button that said 'Main Lobby' on top of it.

"Perhaps too much." Conner said sarcastically. Honestly, he did enjoy himself being there. Sure there were obvious on and offs, but overall, he didn't mind it. Even if he most likely befriended a bad guy. Lex Luthor out of all them. The elevator doors opened and showed the main lobby.

Conner walked out of the building, Luthor walking with him so they could say their goodbyes.

"Thank you." Conner reached out his hand to the businessman's. He was implying for a handshake, "For the gift and all."

"Don't mention it," Luthor gladly shook his former 'son's' hand, "Seriously, don't."

"I won't." Conner unexpectedly smiled, catching Luthor and himself off guard, "Well… goodbye then." He waved and started walking away.

"See you around." Luthor waved back before walking back into his building.

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Metropolis (City Skyline)

May 19, 22:30 EST

Up in the city's skyline, Nightwing was on patrol in Metropolis for the first time. He'd usually been on patrol in either Gotham or Bludhaven, but tonight, he assigned himself in Metropolis because, truthfully, he just wanted to view the skyline itself for relaxation. He was enjoying himself until he came across the LexCorp HQ and on the bottom, noticed Conner and Luthor outside the building. "What the hell?"

Dick unclipped the binoculars that hang on his belt and zoomed in to see more detail. He widened his eyes once he saw Conner shake hands with Luthor. The worst part was, is that Conner reached out first. Not only feeling worried that Conner might be secretly working with the Light or just Luthor himself, he felt betrayed just by seeing it. What would the Team feel? What would M'gann feel?

As he saw Conner walk away, he noticed a bag with the LexCorp logo on it.

Dick squinted his eyes as he squeezed the binoculars in his hands, hearing a slight crack. He grimaced and glared deeply, "What the hell are you up to, Conner?"

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And that's that!

Thank you once again for reading this story. Without a doubt, it's not over yet! There will be a sequel that is already in the works, but you'll have to wait for a while as I finish planning it. I'm also making another story which is not connected to this one at all. The main pairing for that story will be DickBabs.

Also, my very first one-shot was published two or three days ago, I recommend that you go read it. You don't have to though… just a suggestion. It's called 'Sick Martian's Christmas'. Thank you for your cooperation! :)

Have a great day/night! An early Happy New Year greeting to all of you!