Helen froze, and so did Hal.
But Helen recovered faster. Before Hal could react, she flew at top speed toward the far side of the sun and quickly found Bruce, who had come to meet her. Together, they moved around to the other side of the sun.
Hal still stood there blankly, seemingly unable to believe what he had just seen.
But just as he struggled to pull his thoughts free from his memories, reality dealt him another crushing blow.
A figure flew out of Krypton.
Hal was struck dumb once more.
His lips moved, and a syllable laden with complicated emotions escaped them, only to vanish into the noise of the universe. No one but him heard it.
"Dad..."
Half an hour earlier, two tiny figures stood before a massive machine. Clark took out the box he had found in his home.
"Oh my God, this is the Medal of Distinguished Science. I knew Uncle Jor-El had one. So Aunt Lara had one too." Kara looked at the contents of the box.
"These are Kryptonian coins." Kara picked up several coins beside it. "This side has the denomination printed on it. This is one dollar, and this is five dollars. The other side bears the insignia of the High Council. Not much to look at, right?"
"This thing... this is a portable storage device. But it doesn't look like a civilian model. Uncle Jor-El probably brought it back from the lab. He must have stored something inside."
"Let's take a look," Clark said.
He picked up the tiny storage device. Kara found a port on the machine's control panel. She said, "Over here. Just put it in this slot."
Clark walked over and inserted the storage device into the port. A flash of blue light passed by, and a