Chapter Summaries

Lex fled to summon Jino while Lionel tried to stop Byron with a shotgun, but the bullets could not hurt the intruder. Jino arrived in time to save Lex and killed Byron with Heat Vision, leaving the stunned witnesses to face the aftermath.

• Lex ran toward the rooftop helipad and called Jino, while Lionel aimed a shotgun at Byron and shoved the Old Butler into his path.
• Byron ignored the gunfire, killed the Old Butler, and lunged at Lex, who closed his eyes as the claws neared his throat.
• Jino appeared between Byron and Lex, blocked the attack, and declared that Byron had threatened his brother.
• Clark, Chloe, and the others arrived and watched Jino throw Byron through a window and float outside after him.
• Jino used Heat Vision to burn Byron to death, leaving a charred corpse in a crater on the lawn.

After Jino escaped legal consequences for Byron’s death, Byron’s mother tried to avenge her son by ambushing him on the road to the Luthor Chemical Plant. Jino killed her with his powers and continued toward the factory after receiving a call from Lex.

• Jino warned Byron’s mother that Byron had trespassed on his property and that she had no legal grounds to sue.
• The sheriff advised Byron’s parents to drop the matter, while Byron’s father admitted he felt little grief over Byron’s death.
• Jino drove toward the Luthor Chemical Plant after Lex called to say he had results.
• Helena ambushed Jino with a shotgun, but he vanished before the pellets struck him.
• Jino crushed Helena’s shotgun, severed her arm with a red beam, and froze her into an ice sculpture before shattering it.

Jino used a mysterious mask to leave his universe and enter the Transformers universe. He landed in Houston, Texas, and began questioning a homeless man about his new surroundings.

• Jino put on the mask Lex had given him and vanished from his universe.
• Jino found himself among countless universes and chose to enter the Transformers universe.
• The universe resisted Jino's arrival, but his Bio-field carried him through its barrier and toward Earth.
• Jino plunged through the atmosphere and crashed into an alley in a city.
• Jino threw cash at a homeless man and demanded to know where he was; the man told him he was in Houston, Texas.

Jino acquired Sam’s glasses, which contained coordinates to Megatron, and waited for the Autobots to arrive. Bumblebee tried to pull him into the car, but Jino stopped the transformed Cybertronian vehicle with one arm.

• Jino searched eBay and found Sam’s listing for a broken pair of glasses that he recognized as the key to locating Megatron.
• Sam agreed to meet Jino at Farrell’s Auto Dealership, where he had gone with his father to look for a car.
• Sam sold the glasses to Jino, who paid him and left the dealership.
• Bumblebee drove toward Jino and swung open the driver’s-side door to scoop him inside.
• Jino pressed down on Bumblebee’s hood with one arm, stopping the Autobot in its tracks.

Jino revealed that he knew Bumblebee’s identity and mission, then offered to make a deal with him. A Decepticon interrupted them, and Jino destroyed it with overwhelming force, leaving Bumblebee in awe.

• Jino forced Bumblebee to transform by threatening to break the glasses and told him he knew about the Allspark mission.
• Jino offered Bumblebee a deal, but a Decepticon arrived before they could shake hands.
• Bumblebee stepped in to protect Jino and fought the Decepticon.
• Jino stopped both Cybertronians, then beat the Decepticon to death and destroyed its head.
• Bumblebee watched Jino’s display of strength with awe.

Jino secured the Autobots’ agreement to help him find the Allspark in exchange for creating a loyal intelligent lifeform. He went to Hoover Dam and demanded that the humans hand over the Allspark and Megatron, leaving the guards immobilized as he waited for their response.

• Jino killed the metal intruder and persuaded Bumblebee to summon the other Autobots to Earth.
• Optimus Prime and the Autobots agreed to create a powerful intelligent lifeform loyal to Jino if he helped them find the Allspark and kill Megatron.
• Jino led the Autobots to Hoover Dam, where the Allspark and frozen Megatron were hidden beneath a secret base.
• Jino approached the Hoover Dam guards, and their bullets shattered against his Bio-field.
• Jino immobilized the guards and gave their superiors one minute to hand over the Allspark and Megatron.

Jino froze the dam and its guards so the Autobots could reach the Allspark, then helped Optimus Prime create a new Cybertronian life in the form of a smartphone. After exchanging heartfelt farewells with the Autobots, Jino returned to his own world.

• Jino froze the dam, the soldiers, and the guards inside the underground base, allowing Optimus Prime and the Autobots to reach the Allspark.
• Optimus Prime thanked Jino Luthor for helping Cybertron and asked what name he wanted for the new life they would create.
• Optimus Prime used the Allspark to transform Cybertronian metal into a smartphone containing a newly born intelligence loyal to Jino.
• Bumblebee and the other Autobots bid Jino farewell, and Jino promised to visit again before vanishing in a burst of azure energy.

Jino returned to the Luthor Chemical Plant after a week away, bringing Singer, an intelligent life-form that could access computer networks. As Wayne Enterprises tried to build a quarry on Native American land, a giant silver-white wolf emerged from the forest and charged at the project manager.

• Jino told Lex that only a day had passed for him while a week had passed in their universe, then introduced Singer and used it to show footage of Batman and access Clark's computer.
• Lex told Jino that Wayne Enterprises was struggling to build a quarry because Native Americans refused its compensation and contested the land.
• The elderly chief confronted Wayne Enterprises' project manager at the construction site and warned him that the land belonged to the Native Americans.
• The project manager heard wolves howling and saw a giant silver-white wolf emerge from the forest and charge at him.

Jino and Clark investigated the Wayne Group construction site after a newspaper reported a werewolf attack, and they discovered a vast underground cavern covered in ancient murals. Jino suggested the paintings might reveal something about Clark’s origins.

• Jino asked Lex to investigate why the Wayne Group had bought land in town, and Jino agreed to look the next day.
• At Smallville High School, Chloe told Jino, Clark, and Lana Lang about a Wayne Enterprises employee’s reported werewolf attack, and the group decided to investigate after school.
• Chloe mapped a route to the construction site, but Lana Lang and Chloe stayed behind when the climb proved too difficult for them.
• At the site, Clark sensed an enormous cavern underground, and Jino broke through the ground so they could descend into it.
• Jino lit a branch to reveal ancient murals throughout the cavern, then suggested they might be connected to Clark’s origins.

Jino and Clark discovered cave murals linking their ancestors to a powerful visitor from the stars, and Kara explained that the figure was called Nama in local legends. Jino revealed he had found a matching diamond-shaped stone and invited Clark to return at midnight, leaving Clark conflicted about learning the truth of his origins.

• Clark and Jino examined murals showing a spacecraft and a visitor with immense strength, and Clark recognized a recess matching one in his spaceship.
• Kara entered the cave, identified herself, and told Jino and Clark that the murals recorded the legend of Nama, who descended from the sky and wielded great strength and heat-beam eyes.
• Jino and Clark left the cave with Kara, then parted from her.
• Jino told Clark that he had seen the matching diamond-shaped stone and invited him to return to the cave at midnight if he wanted to learn the truth.
• Clark watched Jino leave and struggled with whether to investigate his origins.

Clark and Jino activated the cave’s strange stone and received a mysterious language in their minds, then used it to open Clark’s spaceship. Clark discovered that his parents had sent him to Earth to rule humanity, leaving him shocked and confused.

• Clark decided to face his past and entered the mine with Jino.
• Jino placed the diamond-shaped stone into the cave wall, and its light overwhelmed them with strange knowledge.
• Jino used Purification Magic to revive Clark and explained that the light had added a language to their minds.
• Jino and Clark ran to Kent Farm, where Clark placed the stone into the spaceship’s matching groove.
• Clark read a message from his parents telling him to become humanity’s god and lead them, then staggered back in shock.

After learning his Kryptonian parents had sent him to Earth to conquer it, Clark struggled with his identity until Jonathan reassured him that he could choose what kind of person to become. The spacecraft’s green dust then knocked Martha unconscious, and Clark paid for her emergency operation with money he had borrowed from Mr. Bruce.

• Jino told Clark that his biological father’s message meant Clark had been sent to Earth to conquer it, then left him alone in the barn.
• Clark ran into the storm, and Jonathan confronted him; Clark admitted he did not know who he was, and Jonathan embraced him and urged him to choose his own path.
• Jino told Lex about Clark’s origins and said he would stop Clark if he became a planetary dictator.
• Martha screamed and collapsed in the barn as green light and dust filled the spacecraft; Clark carried her to the hospital.
• Clark paid the hospital three thousand dollars for Martha’s emergency operation, and Jonathan questioned where the money had come from.

Jino helped Clark investigate Martha’s mysterious illness, and they discovered she was pregnant while Clark tracked down the spaceship that might have infected her. The ship released green dust that weakened Clark, while Bruce reviewed a Wayne Enterprises report about werewolf attacks and a mysterious cave in Smallville.

• Jino arranged for Martha to receive the best care and told Clark that the spaceship might have exposed her to a space virus.
• Clark recalled finding Martha near the spaceship and rushed to the barn to investigate it.
• A doctor told Jonathan that Martha was pregnant, despite having previously been told she could not conceive.
• The spaceship flew from the barn to the quarry cave, where Clark retrieved it after its power source fell out.
• Green dust escaped from the spaceship as Clark carried it, and he collapsed in the forest after it weakened him.
• Bruce read a Wayne Enterprises report about werewolf attacks and a mysterious cave in Smallville.

Bruce hired a mercenary to capture a giant beast at the Wayne Enterprises Smallville branch, and Slade Wilson accepted the job as Deathstroke. Clark awoke near the spaceship and discovered he could no longer move it, leading him to fear he had lost his powers.

• Bruce decided not to go to Smallville himself and posted a five-hundred-thousand-dollar bounty for someone to capture a giant beast at the Wayne Enterprises branch.
• Slade Wilson killed eleven armed men, then reviewed jobs with his assistant Wintergreen.
• Slade accepted the Smallville job after Wintergreen noted the town had drawn interest before.
• Clark awoke beneath the forest after passing out and headed for the spaceship to meet Jino and save his adoptive mother.
• Clark found he could not move the spaceship and feared he had lost his powers.

After losing his powers, Clark failed to use his spaceship to save his mother and encountered Kara while trying to hide it. Kara pursued suspicious men Slade and Wintergreen, and Clark followed her; Slade stopped their vehicle when a giant wolf confronted them on the road.

• Clark's attempt to strike his spaceship triggered a force that injured him, and Kara found him in the maple grove.
• Kara told Clark she was guarding the Cavern Murals and warned him that two suspicious men were heading toward Wayne Quarry.
• Kara left to follow the men, whom she suspected were destroyers hired by Wayne Enterprises, and Clark chased after her.
• Slade spotted something following the SUV and ordered Wintergreen to stop so they could prepare for a fight.
• A gigantic white-furred wolf appeared before Slade and Wintergreen, and Slade asked Wintergreen for whom Deathstroke would toll.

Deathstroke and Wintergreen fought the giant wolf, and Deathstroke defeated it by stabbing it repeatedly until it collapsed and reverted into a young woman. Clark arrived, saw the naked, bloodied Kara, and accused Deathstroke of harming her.

• Deathstroke sent Wintergreen away and used his hearing to anticipate the giant wolf's attack.
• Deathstroke evaded the wolf's claws, stabbed its paw and body, and caused it to collapse from blood loss.
• The giant wolf transformed into a naked young woman, and Deathstroke told Wintergreen to put clothes on her and take her back.
• Clark rushed out of the forest, saw Kara, and demanded to know what Deathstroke had done to her.

Clark tried to stop Deathstroke from taking the wounded Kara, but Deathstroke shot him and nearly killed him. Jino appeared in time to stop a bullet, then devastated Deathstroke with a punch, leaving the mercenary regenerating and charging back at him.

• Deathstroke defeated Clark and warned him not to interfere as Wintergreen carried the unconscious Kara toward the SUV.
• Clark stood back up and charged Deathstroke, who shot him in the calf and then fired at his forehead when he kept crawling after them.
• Jino appeared and stopped Deathstroke’s bullet before it reached Clark.
• Jino confronted Deathstroke for hurting his friend and punched a massive hole through his abdomen.
• Deathstroke began regenerating, discarded his sword, and charged Jino on all fours.

Jino defeated Deathstroke and Wintergreen, then learned they had come for Stone Wall Cave and that Kara had transformed into a giant wolf. After Deathstroke offered to buy their lives, Jino proposed his own terms: Deathstroke would die there or work for him.

• Jino survived Wintergreen's grenade and effortlessly overpowered Deathstroke, then pinned Wintergreen with a crushing force.
• Jino questioned Wintergreen, and Clark revealed that the mercenaries had likely come for Stone Wall Cave.
• Wintergreen denied assaulting Kara and said she had transformed into a giant wolf and attacked them.
• Jino confirmed that Kara was still a virgin, then began strangling Wintergreen despite Clark's anger fading.
• Deathstroke begged Jino to spare Wintergreen and offered sixty million for their lives.
• Jino dropped Wintergreen and gave Deathstroke two choices: die there or work for him.

After forcing Deathstroke to sign a Bondage Contract, Jino helped Clark and the badly injured Kara and brought them to Smallville Hospital. Clark then remembered the spaceship in the woods and pulled Jino away to retrieve it, leaving Chloe behind.

• Deathstroke chose to sign Jino's harsh Bondage Contract to protect Wintergreen and his family, then told Wintergreen to blacklist their employer and avoid missions in Smallville.
• Jino pulled the battered Clark from the mud, learned that Clark had suddenly lost his abilities after the spaceship went out of control, and carried the unconscious Kara toward help with him.
• At Smallville Hospital, Lana Lang rushed Clark to the infirmary while Jino waited with Chloe as Kara was taken to the emergency room.
• Clark remembered the spaceship was still in the woods and dragged Jino out of the hospital, leaving Chloe alone in the corridor.

Jino helped Clark recover the ship key and reactivate the craft, restoring Clark’s strength and allowing him to learn that Martha had recovered. After Jino stored the ship in Luthor Manor’s underground dungeon, Jor-El’s memories appeared and condemned Clark as unworthy of being Kryptonian.

• Jino found Clark’s missing ship key in the cave and placed it back into the craft.
• The ship’s light swept across town, restoring Clark’s strength, and Jonathan told him Martha had recovered.
• Clark left to see Martha and entrusted the ship to Jino.
• Jino hid the craft in a dungeon beneath Luthor Manor, where it began glowing and summoned an orange sphere.
• The sphere identified itself as Jor-El’s memories and will, then denounced Clark as cowardly and unworthy of being Kryptonian.