"Lois!" Jimmy answered in his friendly, boyish way further cementing his identity.

It just wasn't possible. Her mind was reeling though she was constantly being proven almost anything was possible.

"I was on my way to find you," he said as if she'd seen him at the Planet earlier that day rather than not seeing him for three years. "You heard about Superman going off the deep end?"

"I did," she answered slowly.

"Who are they?" he asked, looking over her shoulder at the boys.

She exchanged glances with Jordan and Jonathan. Jimmy had babysat quite frequently in the early years until Jonathan had thrown the football and broke the tire swing rope, making her and Clark too nervous to leave them with anyone who wasn't in on the secret. It had sometimes made finding a sitter a struggle.

This wasn't the Jimmy of their world. She'd thought as much even though they'd never recovered the body of their Jimmy.

"This is Jordan and Jonathan. My sons."

"Ah, I wondered why they looked so much like you." Not shocked. He knew he was in another world. "Nice to meet you, boys."

"Did you come through a wormhole?" she asked.

"Yep. A few months ago. I kept a low profile because it didn't seem right to just pick up where your Jimmy left off, and I know it wouldn't be the same for me or any of us. As you probably already know by now, all hell is breaking loose again. I had to help, past-dredging or not."

"Hop in," she said. She hadn't been sure whether she could trust him. Another version of someone didn't make for the same person, but she got a good feeling about him and her instincts were almost never wrong.

"We've heard about how Superman demolished your world," she said after she parked in front of the house, "but you to have to understand something. The Superman of this world is kind and good. He wouldn't kill people."

"Lois-"

She plunged on in her eagerness to convince him. "I know it seems that way, but someone's possessing him. He's stronger than them; he is. He has a reason to fight back, and he will, we just have to ensure he gets a chance to."

"Lois-" he tried again.

"And I know you watched your Superman kill your Lois. I saw the video you took, but this is a different world, and the Superman I know would die before he'd hurt me. You have to believe that."

"I do. That's what I've been trying to tell you if you'll give me a chance."

She stopped and listened.

"Superman didn't kill Lois, not even a possessed one. She found out what was going on with Morgan Edge."

"She did?" she asked suddenly very confused.

"She did. She is you after all a version of you, but there were other Kryptonians, hundreds of them; they needed time that they didn't have, so he pretended to keep being Zod, the general who tried to take over his body, to fool the others."

"The video," she said, understanding now why her anti-Kryptonian words and Jimmy's calm had been so out of character. No wonder her death hadn't been shown onscreen. "It was an act. But then Captain Luthor-"

He looked alarmed at the mention of his name. "Captain Luthor is here?"

"Yeah. He's so grieved by his wife's death that he's been doing crazy things like working with my father to kill Superman, but if he knew-"

"He knows, Lois. There's no time to explain anything else. We have to stop him now; he's even more dangerous than you know."

She looked at the boys. "There should be soldiers enough to keep you safe here, but Captain Luthor's weapons are still in the barn, right?"

"Right," Jonathan confirmed, "but shouldn't we stay together?"

Jordan agreed. "I thought we were doing these things as a family now. No more secrets."

"There are no secrets. It's just time is of the essence, and I don't want to have to worry about your safety too. Please, do this for me. I'll be in touch."

They consented and gave her parting hugs though they could have brought up how they'd saved both their parents lately.

Jimmy and their mom drove off and Jonathan said, "It makes you wonder, doesn't it? You remember how they told us about the Crisis and how some worlds sort of merged."

"Yeah, I remember, and I still don't understand half of it."

"I was just thinking that maybe if Captain Luthor and now Jimmy got into our world because there weren't other versions of them here, there could be others who don't have living counterparts who had wormholes open for them."

"That stands to reason. You thinking about Natalie?"

He'd told Jordan about her. They didn't hide anything from each other, not big things, but he hadn't been affected as deeply by the surrounding tragedy of it. Maybe it was seeing pictures of her, maybe it was Mom sharing the story of the loss of their real sister, or maybe it was the fact he'd always wanted a younger sibling that made him feel it more keenly. "I guess I am. What if she's in this world too?"

"It'd probably destroy Mom if she was."

"I'm just thinking maybe she could talk sense into Captain Luthor. A parent would do almost anything for their child, right? If we could find her, she could convince her dad to stop trying to kill ours."

He shrugged. "Worth a try, and at least, we'd have something to keep our minds off everything."