For the God-Emperor!

"Hmm. So everyone's gone," Roland said.

"I haven't." Lois stepped out from behind a pillar near Roland. "Clark ran off just now and left me here."

"Oh." Roland nodded. "I told you he was unreliable. Want to reconsider me?"

"Hey! I heard that!" Clark appeared in the church doorway.

"Wait. That Batman just now... was you?" Lois suddenly realized something and stared at Superman in disbelief.

"Yes." Clark nodded.

"...And Superman is you too?" Lois asked after a long silence.

Clark took a deep breath and nodded. "That's right."

"Oh, this is wonderful," Roland remarked.

"What other identities do you have?" Lois asked, covering her mouth, her voice trembling.

"Clark Kent is me too," Clark said with a smile.

"I don't care who you are. I'll stay by your side." Lois smiled through her tears.

"I think you need a priest right now," Roland said. "You may kiss."

Clark ignored Roland, pulled Lois into his arms, and kissed her.

"Congratulations." Roland pulled out a piece of Kryptonite. "I don't have much to give you, so—"

"Maybe don't give us anything." Clark swept Lois into his arms and flew away.

"Did I just see that right?" Kara had come in through the door just in time to witness it. She stood frozen.

"You did." Roland shrugged. "That was Carl."

"What was Carl doing?" Kara stared, dumbfounded. "Why was he doing that with that woman—"

"They didn't teach you that on Krypton? Actually, I guess they didn't," Roland said after a moment's thought.

Krypton's technology was highly advanced. Having mastered genetic engineering, Kryptonians had abandoned natural reproduction and used it to produce new Kryptonians instead.

That let them control their population and tailor newborns' genes to produce the people society needed. House of El, for example, had genes suited to science and