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SUPERMAN [NARRATING]:
A black hole.
A collapsed star so dense
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that not even light can escape
from its gravitational pull.
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S.T.A.R. Labs
had discovered one
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less than six light years
from Earth.
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And with my ship,
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we had the perfect opportunity
to study it,
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up close and personal.
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After watching the probe being
pulled into the gravity well,
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this was about as up close
as I wanted to get.
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But I wasn't the only one
observing it.
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[ALARM BEEPING]
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[ALL SCREAMING]
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[ALL GRUNTING]
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I had no idea how their ship
got so far off course,
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but I didn't have much time.
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♪
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[GRUNTING]
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[GRUNTING]
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They were going to be all right.
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Still, I had to find a place
to take them.
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Fortunately, their ship
had left a vapor trail.
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It led to a nearby star system
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and one planet in particular.
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♪
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[ALL GROANING]
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[DOOR OPENING]
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I hope everyone's all right.
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[ALL GASP]
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He's one of them.
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Excuse me?
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WOMAN:
What should we do?
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MAN [WHISPERING]:
I don't know. Let's go.
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What's wrong?
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Run!
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♪
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I don't understand.
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I just saved your lives.
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Then maybe you'd better run too.
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[GRUNTING]
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So much for gratitude.
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[YELLS]
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He's still alive.
I think he's one of them.
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MAN [OVER RADIO]: That's not our concern.
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Our orders are to take
them all out.
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[GRUNTS]
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[YELLS]
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Maybe you can tell me
why I'm so popular around here.
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[SHIPS APPROACHING]
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[GUNS COCKING]
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Hold your fire!
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Stand down at once!
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Kal-El, welcome to New Krypton.
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♪
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You'll find the food
almost as good as on Krypton,
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if you can remember
that far back.
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Ah!
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Idiot.
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I see you still have a weakness
for the inferior, Kal-El.
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Some things never change.
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The last time I saw you,
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you were trapped
in the Phantom Zone.
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How did...?
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Did we escape?
A stroke of luck.
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About a year ago,
scientists here
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detected two meteors
of lunar proportions
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heading towards the black hole.
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They sent out a research ship
to study the phenomenon.
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[ALL GRUNTING]
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When the meteors collided,
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the released energy tore open
a rift into the Phantom Zone.
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[GASPING]
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JAX-UR:
We were free, but helpless.
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Had the aliens not been there,
we would have asphyxiated
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or been pulled into the hole.
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[BREATHING HEAVILY]
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And to express your gratitude,
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you seized control
of their planet.
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You see things
so crudely, Kal-El.
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ALTERUS:
General Jax-Ur,
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your pardon.
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What is it?
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Four of the escapees
have been recaptured.
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Two are still at large.
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JAX-UR:
Come back when you
have them all.
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Those citizens you so recklessly
saved were criminals.
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Anarchists,
condemned by due process.
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Even on your world, you don't
interfere with that, do you?
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Before we arrived,
this was a planet in chaos,
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divided by petty conflicts
and factions,
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not unlike Earth.
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We have brought to it
the order it needed.
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Is that a fact?
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Don't take my word for it.
See for yourself, Kal-El.
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Production instead
of destruction.
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Factories, where there were once
useless forests and wetlands.
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JAX-UR:
Workers who now cooperate with
each other, instead of compete.
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A job for everyone according
to his abilities and our needs.
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[GRUNTING]
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To insure a future
as orderly as the present,
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we have built new schools
to teach morality, loyalty
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and purpose.
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Needless to say, disciplinary
problems are now nonexistent.
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[ALARM BEEPING]
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All over this planet,
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we are tearing down
the irrational past
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in order to make room
for an efficient future.
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In one year, we have put
a new face on this world,
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creating the paradise Krypton
would have been under our rule.
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Now, if only someone
down there would smile.
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I hope you're not thinking
of opposing us, Kal-El.
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We've had a year
to develop our powers.
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I don't think we have
to worry about that, Mala.
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Kal-El knows his place,
and this planet
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is simply out
of his jurisdiction.
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[MISSILE APPROACHING]
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I'll find them.
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Anarchists.
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These days, a minor annoyance.
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♪
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I've had my troopers
recover your ship.
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You'll find it undamaged,
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though I'm sure you'll want
to x-ray it yourself.
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I know I would.
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Have a pleasant journey.
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[GRUNTS]
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You're taking quite a risk.
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How do you know
I won't turn you in?
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It's a chance I'll have to take.
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My name is Cetea.
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I used to work
for the National Council.
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The people you saved in the
execution ship were leaders,
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not criminals.
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We may have
our wars and factions,
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but we are not the barbarians
Jax-Ur portrays.
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Even so, I can't fight him,
Cetea.
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You must. You're the only one
powerful enough.
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If I do, your planet
will be the loser.
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A battle between us would cause
more destruction and bloodshed
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than all the wars
that came before.
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We're willing to risk it.
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I'm not.
Not that way.
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I understand.
This is not your world.
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But I don't believe
our royal benefactors
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have given you
the whole picture.
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There's something else
you should see.
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From what I gather, he was
unconscious for about an hour.
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Cetea!
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We should have killed her
the first time she crossed us.
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She doesn't know much, but
still, we'd better find them.
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You have performed well,
Alterus.
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As you always do.
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Business before pleasure, Mala.
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Ugh.
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This is what
they didn't show you
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on your little tour.
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Interstellar ships,
manned by robots.
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They're building an armada.
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[BUTTONS BEEPING]
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What are you doing?
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Activating the guidance system.
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I wanna know where these ships
are headed.
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Here.
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Earth.
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Why am I not surprised?
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[ALARM BEEPING]
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They know we're here.
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JAX-UR:
Fall back.
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Well done, Kal-El.
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[GRUNTING]
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The restraints create
a magnetic field
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not even you can break.
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You should have left
when you had the chance, Kal-El.
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Ha!
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JAX-UR:
Mesmerizing.
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Of all the phenomena of nature,
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none fascinates me
more than a black hole.
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It is the one true force
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of absolute power.
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Everything it touches
becomes its own.
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You would admire that.
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We're within range, Jax-Ur.
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Think of it, Kal-El.
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You might actually
last long enough
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to get a glimpse
inside the hole.
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I almost envy you.
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Almost.
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Ah!
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Great Ral!
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Alterus, what's happening?
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We've hit
a gravitational anomaly.
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Navigation is off-course.
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We're being pulled into it.
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Keep an eye on them
while we adjust the navigation.
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Come.
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A short reprieve
at best, Kal-El.
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♪
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Plague on you
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and your self-serving treachery,
Alterus.
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My dear Cetea, I deserve
much worse than that.
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We have to hurry. It won't take
that witch long to realize
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it was I who disabled
the navigation.
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JAX-UR:
Look for yourself, Mala.
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There's no anomaly here.
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Your soldier boy
has been playing tricks.
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[ALARM BEEPING]
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What's that?
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An escape pod.
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♪
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It's ejected
with two passengers.
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Two?
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I decided to stick around.
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I thought we might find
a new planet.
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A nice, cozy one,
just for the two of you.
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[BOTH GRUNTING]
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I mean it,
you're not going back.
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[GRUNTS]
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Ah!
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We're caught
in the gravity well!
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[BOTH GRUNTING]
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JAX-UR:
Mala!
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Put it on.
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[GRUNTING]
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[GRUNTING]
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Ah!
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[GASPING]
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Your lungs are going to burn.
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[GROANING]
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Forget Kal-El.
He'll never survive without air.
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[BOTH GASP]
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[SCREAMING]
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[SCREAMING]
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♪
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SUPERMAN [NARRATING]:
Although Cetea's people
were grateful for my help,
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I wondered if it wasn't I
who should be grateful.
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They reminded me of the saying,
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"Evil triumphs
when good men do nothing."
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I won't forget it again.
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♪