Signs

Lana Lang looked left and right before crossing the street, her hand clutched tightly on her purse as she shivered slightly; it was a cold day in Star City. She knew what she had to do.

LexCorp Office Building, Star City

"Watchtower is in," Chloe said over her earpiece to the other members of her team, and sneaking into a seemingly empty room to peer at a desk, bumping into a mysterious figure who turned around to reveal herself as . . . Lana, who took a step back in shock, dropping her bag on the floor and spilling the contents.

"Sorry, I'm a little rusty at the whole Bond type thing," Chlo sighed as she crouched down to pick up the items in Lana's bag, only to find one that intrigued her.

"Where did you get this tablet?" Chloe asked standing up.

"I found it in Istanbul," Lana said. "Why?"

"There's another tablet, Clark has it right now and they look exactly the same," Chloe informed her old friend, observing the tablet; the writing was similar and it was the same type of material, and both had one rough side and one smooth one. "Can I take this?"

"Sure," Lana replied, "What are you doing here?"

"Same as you, looking for info on Lex," Chloe said, opening the desk to reveal a flash drive and a folder full of medical files.

"I wonder what if this tablet is important," Lana wondered starring at it.

Kent House

Conner opened the refrigerator and picked out a carton of milk.

"Conner, when did you get here?" Martha Kent asked.

"I left DC a few minutes ago," he explained, "I just got here."

"Don't drink from the carton," Martha told him.

"Sorry," he sighed.

"So Clark, this other tablet was found and I was wondering since.." As Chloe began to talk, the tablet flew and attached itself to the side of the other one, two rough sides coming together, and the tablets glew as they merged into one."

"What the-?" Clark asked, "Where'd you get?"

"This was .. This one was found in Istanbul."

"Oh, well I don't like this. It all feels so cryptic."

LexCorp

"Mr. Luthor, how are you doing?" A doctor asked.

"Much better than I have in ages," Lex said in a relaxed tone as he went over ways to destroy Superman.

Kent Barn, The Loft

Conner sifted through Clark's old belongings with a sigh as he searched for Swann's book, which Clark had left there, finding it buried under a red jacket with an S shield on it.

"That was Clark's," Martha explained, "Before he became...what he is now."

"Back when he was the blur, " Conner noted, "I know," he added, putting it on the see if it fit.

Watchtower

Chloe was looking over at the two tablets that had attached at the sides and were now one, as she talked on the phone with Lana.

"He just asked...couldn't you have stayed, like couldn't you have gotten rid of the kryptonite somehow, with the blue k, or the clear k, or with..."

"I think, in the end, in that moment of reckoning, in that moment of requiem, I knew it was the end, I knew I had to end it, and Clark did too. Maybe there were things were could do to stop the problem, but there was no way to save us."

"And you're done now. With him? Completely?"

"Absolutely."

"Good for you."

Conner stood, wearing his jacket and having his hair combed up, out by the cornfield, and, with a deep breath, started running, kicking into super speed as he hummed to himself.

Meanwhile, on Apokolips, Darkseid continued to look out at the universe that was laid out in front of him. Partially defeated, but not destroyed, he knew what he had to do.

"Kal-El is a threat. To me, and to the universe. I must destroy him. Rise my disciples."

"Goodbye, Lana."

"Goodbye, Chloe," she said hanging up.

On a mysterious planetoid near Apokolips...

"Darkseid is making plans," a woman in a veil and a face mask said, watching over a crystal ball, "Proceed to phase 2."