In this wasteland composed of countless rock fragments.
All around was deathly silence, and in the midst of that silence were two figures.
Pero and Kara floated in space.
Pero raised the torn half of a bat cowl in his hand, showing it to Kara.
Kara noticed the bat-like features of the cowl in Pero's hand.
"Bruce...?"
Pero looked at Kara.
"You guessed right."
His voice reached Kara's ears through the vibrations of his bio-electric field.
"This is Earth."
A sorrowful expression appeared on Kara's face.
"It happened again."
"Shattered, just like Krypton."
The scene of Krypton's destruction surfaced before her eyes once more.
It sent a chill through her entire body.
"Isn't this your universe? What happened?"
"I don't know."
Pero shook his head.
"This isn't my universe, but as for what happened here..."
He released his grip, letting the half-cowl drift away.
"I'll need to take another look."
Just then.
Hum-!
A strange disturbance emanated from somewhere around them.
Pero and Kara warily looked toward its source.
An enormous phantom Earth, glowing faintly blue, appeared in the void without warning, like a mirage.
It swept in from afar at a terrifying speed, passing straight through Pero and Kara's position.
Like a ghost.
"What was that?!" Startled, Kara instinctively took a defensive stance.
After passing through them, the phantom Earth plunged into the void on the other side without stopping and vanished without a trace.
It was incredibly fast. The entire process lasted only a few seconds.
But those few seconds were enough.
With their unparalleled Kryptonian super-vision and superhuman reflexes, both Pero and Kara clearly caught the important details within that phantom image.
On that phantom Earth.
They saw two figures fighting in an enormous city.
They fought from the ground into the sky, then crashed from the