The D.N.Angels
report to their mysterious boss, a shadowy general with an equally
shadowy aide in the background, about their failure to apprehend the
Guardian Baby. The general orders them to try again and to eliminate
Superboy.

After a mess of events in Pokolistan involving Superman[1] and Young Justice,
Superboy returns to Bianca's apartment where he left the Baby. He is
shocked when he gets there to find not a Baby but a young boy about
eight or so. The kid, Jim, is watching a war movie and having memories
from his (what? previous life? previous incarnation? previous cloned
self?). He asks Superboy if he will have to fight in a war when he is
older and SB doesn't know what to tell him. Just then, Oracle contacts Superboy and alerts him about a Metropolis Project at LexCorp Towers
which involves tech and data from Cadmus. Apparently, the MP is also
holding Strange Visitor hostage. Superman is unavailable and the
LexCorp security is on the look out for superheroes. Kon uses a
motorcycle to get himself and Jim into the sewers of Metropolis--from
there, he has a map courtesy of Steel that will guide him to LexCorp.
SB orders Jim to stay put while he goes ahead. After following the map
for a while, SB is attacked by Tofu People (part of the B13 Metropolis
upgrade to the sanitation system) but he defeats them easily, wondering
as he does about the question Jim asked him. At that point, he is found
by Heat Wave
and Serling who tell him that Mickey activated the Cadmus failsafe
because of Luthor's administration. Jim has followed Superboy, much to
everyone's dismay.

A weird figure called the Ferryman
offers to take them to LexCorp. He leads them past the city's
reactor's and the crew "commandeer" a security robot. They follow Talia Head, the new executive at LexCorp, and an aide for Amanda Waller into a lab where Strange Visitor
is being held and experimented on to handle the Pokolikstan threat.
Once the big wigs leave, Superboy and the team pour out and take down
the guards. Jim has a flashback to his last minutes, when he threw his
shield to protect someone's life but was then himself unprotected. Heat
Wave protects Jim from a shot aimed at him by the last of the guards.

After dispatching the last guards, Superboy and Heat Wave free
Strange Visitor while Serling hacks the computer about the Metropolis
Project. Unfortunately, Strange Visitor dosen't want any help, as she
was there on her own accord. Talia reenters and blasts Superboy for
disturbing a project sanctioned by the U.S. government on private
property (and having "stolen gov't property," namely, Jim). A short man
named General Good enters flanked by the D.N.Angels who grab Jim and knock out Serling. Good tells Superboy that he is now a military prisoner.