In the woods outside of National City, the sun rises. Something's different today.

Alone in a clearing, a nude Kryptonian minor slumbers in the embryonic position. He looks like Kon-El...a LOT like Kon-El...

He wakes. He looks around. He doesn't seem familiar with where he is. He has trouble remembering how he got here.

A sable marten wanders up to him. Kon-El makes eye contact with it.

A porcupine wanders past him. Its quills scrape his bare leg. They leave no mark. Rather, the quills that make contact with the Kryptonian's skin get whetted to nothing.

The sable falls in step behind the rodent, and creeps up on it. The rodent seems passive of the danger. It shouldn't. Sables eat porcupines, and have a VERY violent means of de-quilling them...

Kon-El gets a bad feeling. In a flash, he grabs the sable by the tail.

Naturally, the marten fights back. Kon-El subdues him in a heartbeat, by pinning him in his pleasure spots.

Kon-El has no idea how he knows what those are. There were no sables on Krypton, after all.

He waits until the porcupine is gone. Then he releases the sable. It runs, and gets as far from him as it can. Kon-El stands, and walks around, trying to figure out where he is, and what his purpose is, if not to protect that porcupine.

He wanders far and wide. This forest doesn't seem to end. It might not seem that way from the sky. He poises to fly...

He gets shot in the neck with a dart. Weak, Kon-El pulls it out of his neck, and looks at it. The dart is green, and glows. He faints.

All around him, armed and armored CADMUS agents move in. They chain Kon-El up, and haul him out of the forest.

One of them radios Lex, and tells him they've found him. He'll be very pleased and very disappointed to find out there's another Kryptonian on his own Earth.

Kon-El's locked up in a CADMUS lab, and experimented on. Mr. Luthor makes frequent visits.

Even more frequently, Eve makes visits. She especially likes to spy on Kon-El as he's showering in a translucent stall...

Kon-El's tissues will provide humanity with a lot of expensive gifts. Eve's sure Lex can't wait to sell the first ones to the highest bidder. And there are plenty of men out there who're biased against aliens, who'd love to use it to protect themselves from alien threats. Eve can't wait to do business with them on her mighty boss's behalf.

And yet, she'll miss that hunk of a Kryptonian's image...even if he is just a boy. OTOH, it's not like Eve's been accused of being a woman by many people, L-Corp or not...