Prisoners of the Spectrum ‌

As Lex Luthor's funeral takes place amid a storm shrouded in a quantum cloud in Gotham City, Clark Kent is waking up from the thirteenth cycle. The countdown on his wrist read 72 hours - the countdown to death Lex had set for him with a kryptonite bullet, and the deadline for the entire planet to break out of the time loop.

"You should be thanking me." The holographic tombstone suddenly projected an image of Lex's life, "Every time you fly to the sun to refuel, you're accelerating the disintegration of the quantum anchor." The image pointed toward Gotham Bay, where a black pyramid that Clark had never noticed was suspended, its surface running with the same fluorescent patterns as kryptonite.

Clark's super hearing first failed when Martha's screams came from the direction of the farm. When he crashes through the barn door at three times the speed of sound, he sees Lex in his Kryptonian suit caressing his mother's white hair: "Kal-El, what timeline mother do you think you saved?"

Krypton in the time fold

The ice crystals of Fortress of Solitude suddenly began to grow in reverse. As Clark crashes into the core control room, the spectrometer is playing a choking image: The moment Jor-El puts the baby in the escape pod, the entire planet Krypton is suddenly compressed into a coin-sized singularity - and the man holding him clearly has the face of Lex Luthor.

"Krypton never exploded." Lex's voice came from all directions. "Your home planet has simply fallen into a quantum trap of our making." Clark's X-vision suddenly penetrates the Earth's crust and sees clusters of rotating black pyramids in the core, each surface engraved with the arms of the House of El.

As Martha walked into the control room carrying an apple pie, Clark's heat vision uncontrollably burned through her apron. My dear, you should learn to separate reality." Martha's wound did not bleed, but instead oozed the same fluorescent liquid as the black pyramid, "which Luthor Industries bought in 1992."

Spectral choice

Seven minutes before the clock hit zero, Clark rushed into the Pyramid with the dying Louise in his arms. Lex's clone is tuning the spectrometer, which has a teardrop of kryptonite suspended in its core: "Every time you save a disaster with super Breath, there's a parallel universe that gets drained of oxygen."

Lois' hand suddenly penetrates Clark's chest and grabs his beating Kryptonian heart: "The shooting at the top of the Daily Planet... I adjusted the trajectory of the bullet." Her pupils glowed pyramidically. "Someone has to stop you from tearing the fabric of space-time apart."

Clark activated the spectrometer before his heart stopped. In the flood of memories from countless timelines, he sees Lex repeating the same dialogue in different universes: "Super Power? No, you're just a parasite stuck in the cracks of the spectrum." As the corrected beam envelops Earth, Clark finally sees the true shape of the "S" logo in his suit - the coordinates of the singularities of all collapsing universes.