Kitty Faulkner, examining all of the B13
modifications on long nights and stretching days, is walking through
the S.T.A.R. Labs facility when she notices a downed guard. She
investigates, and is belted in the head by her angry alter ego, Rampage.
Faulkner wonder how Rampage can deck her, as Kitty IS Rampage. Rampage
knocks her out.

In Clark and Lois's apartment, they practice the ancient
Kryptonian art of Torquasm Rao, a centering technique. Lois is failing,
and getting frustrated. Suddenly, she's taken from her body on a psychic
trip, where she sees a Metropolis under siege by shadow creatures. She
returns to her body, and tells Clark.

Mr. Sleaze, Elton Jackson, is wandering down an alley when Thorn
appears, and beats the tar out of him. He's been selling VR sex machines
and abusing the young women who provide him the service.

Prankster comes down a ladder, seemingly from nowhere, and
confronts Thorn. She remembers him, because he's the man who broke into
Rose's apartment. Prankster ducks into the alley, changes into Steel's
suit, and knocks Thorn out.

Superman goes out and looks for the shadow disturbance, and the
world turns dark. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor rallies in Smallville on his
last major stop. The Kents, in the crowd, liken it to the Nuremberg
rallies. A kid named Cary is going to sleep late, having stayed up to
watch the Luthor debates, when Adversary busts in cursing up a storm. He
grabs the kid and flies off.

Superman is attacked by shadow creatures who are taken apart by
white owls. An Indian woman appears in a white cloak and takes credit
before disappearing.

The reason is then revealed where all of the alter-egos
previously mentioned are revealed around a board room table with Lord
Satanus.