- J'onn J'onzz: You, me, Wonder Woman, Superman... all of us are orphans, exiles.
- Hawkgirl: Maybe we should call ourselves the 'Just Us' League.
- Hawkgirl: So, what are you saying? You'd sacrifice millions of lives just because you don't like this guy?
- Superman: You don't know Darkseid like I do.
- Batman: We know he used you. Humiliated you. Brainwashed you. Wound you up like a tin soldier and turned you loose against Earth. Cry me a river! On the outside chance that this isn't another one of his schemes, we have to take action. So I suggest you GET OVER IT!
- Batman: [Forager reveals Orion is literally above him and points out a floating city which demands attention with how impressive it is] I'm gonna need a longer grapple.
- Wonder Woman: [as Lightray slaps her then starts to fly off] Hey! Come back here!
- Lightray: Only if you catch me!
- Wonder Woman: He's worse than The Flash!
- J'onn J'onzz: You miss your homeworld very much.
- [Hawkgirl looks at him in surprise]
- J'onn J'onzz: It doesn't take a telepath to see what's troubling you.
- Darkseid: Apparently, he's harder to kill than you realized. You know his pattern, Kal-El. Once he's finished siphoning the memory banks and technology of my planet...
- Superman: He'll annihilate it. Good!
- Wonder Woman: Superman!
- Hawkgirl: What?
- J'onn J'onzz: You can't mean.
- Darkseid: [opening a boom tube to leave] You may not care what happens to me or my world, but know this: if Brainiac isn't stopped, countless millions more will perirsh. Think about it.
- Batman: [stumbles over to a stone ledge and sits down with his hand on his middle after going through the Boom Tube] *That* was fun.
- Desaad: You underestimated Highfather and, again, it cost you dearly.
- Darkseid: The solution to the Anti-Life Equation was almost within my grasp.
- Desaad: But at what price? Our forces are decimated, our defenses weakened? It was a fool's errand.
- [Darkseid then glares at Desaad with flaming eyes]
- Desaad: Uh, what I mean to say is...
- Darkseid: No one questions me, Desaad.
- [Desaad attempts to flee, but is hit with the Omega Beam and disintegrated]
- Darkseid: No one.
- General Steppenwolf: [as a hologram] Great Darkseid. The fleet ambushed us as soon as we hit the troposphere. Starkiller Four is gone, and we are in full retreat. They were waiting for us.
- Desaad: [to Darkseid] You knew that going into that sector was a violation of our treaty with New Genesis.
- Darkseid: It was a calculated risk. You have served me well, General. Take as many of them with you as you can.
- [Steppenwolf stares for a second, then bows his head]
- General Steppenwolf: As you command, my lord.
- Highfather: We know of your mad ambitions, Darkseid. This is your final warning: break the treaty again and you will be destroyed.
- J'onn J'onzz: Brainiac has already destroyed countless civilizations, and now he threatens another. Do you want this to be the legacy of your people?
- Superman: I'm telling you, there's something wrong with this whole scenario.
- [turning to Batman]
- Superman: All right, we'll play Darkseid's game, but I need you to do something for me.
- Batman: Sensors are picking up a powerful energy surge. But I've never seen a signature like this.
- Superman: I have. It's a boom tube.
- Darkseid: [emerging from said tunnel] We meet again, Kal-El.
- Superman: You!
- [he starts throwing punches]
- Batman: Stop him before he knocks us out of orbit.
- Wonder Woman: [trying to restrain him witih J'onn] Superman, don't!
- Superman: Let go!
- Darkseid: I see you haven't forgotten me.
- Superman: What do you want?
- Darkseid: Though it pains me to admit it, I need your help. My latest skirmish with New Genesis has left my military forces at considerably less than full strength.
- Superman: Why should we help you?
- Darkseid: Because my enemy is your enemy. Even as we speak, Apokolips is being assimilated by the Kryptonian menace known as Brainiac.
- Wonder Woman: [on New Genesis] Such grandeur. It even outshines the Mascarot. I've never seen the like.
- Batman: We can take in the sights some other time. Let's concentrate on finding Orion.
- Lightray: [flying by] What have we here? I've never seen bugs like you before.
- Wonder Woman: We're not bugs.
- Lightray: Well, you're certainly not gods.
- Hawkgirl: [following Brainiac's ship] Gone! But that's impossible.
- J'onn J'onzz: Some kind of warp drive?
- Superman: No, according to the navicomputer, he should be right... . below us.
- Hawkgirl: [seeing what looks like a moon's crater] Oh, my stars. What is that thing?
- J'onn J'onzz: [the Javelin is caught in a tractor beam] We'll know soon enough.