Incarnation

Lois and Clark's Apartment.

"I'm jut looking over this portal to the Phantom Zone I sent Zod through," Clark explained to Lois. For a second, the saw Zod's phantom image, and then the portal began to malfunction and Clark found himself sucked through.

"Clark? Clark!" Lois cried out, trying to reverse the portal but getting sucked back.

"Hello Kal-El," Zod said, trying to escape through the open portal, causing Clark to hold him down and stop him as they crossed through and were sent flying through different dimensions before landing in one.

"Who goes there a familiar voice said.

"Whitney? Whitney Fordman?" Clark said, in his trademark confused tone.

"How do you know my name?" He asked angrily.

"Who are you?" Whitney asked Clark and Zod, who were now tied up, while he and an associate were pointing guns at them.

"Is that kryptonite?" Clark asked.

"It's called K-Lazer," The associate explained.

"My name is Clark Kent, I'm from another universe. So is this guy. He's an alien criminal I was trying to dispose of but he got the upper hand and until the dimensions re-adjust thanks to the failsafe I installed and we are returned to where we were before we're stuck here. That'll take about 24 hours," Clark explained.

"The K-Laser only affects aliens," Whitney told them, "Kryptonians."

"We're from krypton, the kryton if our dimension and we're vunerable to kryptonite, but this kryptonite seems to weaken us less."

"They're telling the truth," one of the soldiers said, "I have the power to tell when people are lying," he explained to Clark and Zod. The soldiers untied them, and then one of the soldiers caught his eye.

"Lois?" Clark asked.

"In my reality, you're my fiancé. Kind of. We were about to get married, but then we called of the wedding, we got attacked, long story. And you, Whitney Fordman, in my reality you were killed off a decade ago," Clark explained.

"So which reality is the real one?" Lois asked.

"Both are just as genuine as the other, just one is mine and the other is yours," Clark explained.

"Oh," Alt-Lois said, now more intrigued than ever.

"This ends now Kal-El," Zod said, about to attack. His hair was longer, his eyes were bloodshot, he was clad in military armor and a trench coat, and his voice was rougher and less eloquent, making him seem more monstrous, but he still pulled himself together and seemed semi-threatening.

"Nice to see you again!" Clark said, punching him out.

"He needs to be contained," Clark said.

Later, Clark was taking a stroll outside the facility and found himself by an alternate version of the Kent Farm, though this version of the Farm was thriving, and there cows laying in the fields. He found himself greeted by a teenager.

"Who are you?" the teen asked.

Clark decided to use an alias "Jason Johns."

"What are you doing on this farm?" he asked.

"Just wanted to see it," he said. "I used to, uh, I used to live near here."

"This farm has been in my family for 4 generations," the kid said.

"Good, good on you, keep it that way," Clark sighed. The kid looked confused.

He observed Martha Kent and an alive Jonathan Kent talking to each other inside the house. He looked at the kid and saw he was wearing a nametag - Christopher Kent. He didn't resemble either of the Kents, but he did look familiar. As he walked away, he realized the kid resembled Zod, and wondered if there was a connection.

Clark returned to the military facility to see they had Zod in a crystal container.

He deactivated the crystals so he could talk to Zod.

"Did you have a son?"

"What are you talking about, El?"

"Did you have a son?"

"Yes, on Krypton, I had a family, but they were taken from me," Zod said.

"No, after that," Clark asked.

"I did-his name was Lor-Zod. He was born on the Phantom Zone, but, I attempted to escape so I tested my device on him, and he was sent here, 15 years in the past, but the machine broke down. And good riddance, the child was useless."

Before Clark could activate the crystals again, Zod came up and attacked him, and was about the get a lucky strike on Clark, only to get shot down from behind, by Whitney's K-Laser.

"What were you thinking?" Whitney asked.

"It wasn't a good idea, I realize, but I just needed to be sure." Clark said.

"You will never stop Kal-El," Zod proclaimed, using his newfound ability to absorb the K-Laser and channel it through his body to redirect it at Clark.

"That's it," Clark shouted, "I have had enough of you!" He punched Zod in the face and smashed him against the crystals, then propped him up and hit him once again with laser vision.

Suddenly, he felt Zod and himself getting transported through the rift, sending Zod back to the Phantom Zone and him back home.

"Goodbye, Clark Kent," Whit sighed.

"Brave heart, Whitney Fordman," Clark said, happily saying goodbye.

The Nexus

"Where am I?" Clark asked.

"You are passing through to your home reality," the informed him.

"And who are you? I've seen you before, in the Phantom Zone. "

"We are the Trinity of Sin. We are also merely passing through," they explained.

"I've heard of you! Pandora, the Phantom Stranger and the other."

"We have our own matters to attend to. But before you leave, you must know a great darkness is about to befall you!" As they disappeared, Clark saw the omega symbol and he knew what he had to do.

Clark rematerialized in his apartment to see Lois there, just as there was an earthquake.

"I have to stop Darkseid!" Clark exclaimed.