"Hahaha! It's him! It has to be him! Come to me, Ancient Monkey God! Come and pledge your allegiance to—" Ultra-Humanite exclaimed excitedly, but before he could finish, the portal opened by the projector snapped shut. He immediately flew into a rage at Winston. "Damn it! You've botched it, my most intelligent subordinate!"
"Tch. There's a problem with the lens."
"The problem isn't the lens, it's the machine itself! Only half the parts are original! Superman smashed it in half and confiscated the other half!" Ultra-Humanite realized something. "But that doesn't matter, because I rebuilt it perfectly!"
"Replicating Kryptonian technology with Earth materials is impossible, even for you!" Winston couldn't take it anymore. He hated clients who only half understood things. They were downright nuts.
"With my intellect, nothing is impossible!" Ultra-Humanite remained inexplicably confident.
Winston really wanted to punch Ultra-Humanite, but considering that he was both his boss and his father-in-law, not to mention that white ape body, he decided against it.
"Fine. Now we'll just have to find a way to steal the other half of the lens from Superman," Ultra-Humanite said after some thought.
"Do you even hear yourself?" Winston felt as though he was going mad. "We're going to steal from Superman?"
"Exactly. Superman is busy saving people everywhere right now. It won't be difficult," Ultra-Humanite said confidently. "Besides, we have a natural ally."
LexCorp Tower.
"The situation outside is getting worse, Mr. Luthor. At this rate, the eruption of the Lazarus Volcano will soon engulf all of Metropolis," Mercy told Lex Luthor. "My team has been tracking the signature of the so-called lazarus energy in the explosion. It seems to be manifesting as some sort of—weather event."
"Oh?"
"We don't know what effects the lazarus emissions will have. I suggest we stay where we are