- J'onn J'onzz: You were greatly missed, my friend. By all of us.
- [everyone looks to a stoic Batman]
- Wonder Woman: Don't let him fool you. Your death hit him as hard as it did any of us.
- Superman: Really?
- Batman: No. I never believed you were dead in the first place.
- Superman: I guess that's sort of a compliment.
- [Superman prepares to return to his time]
- Superman: What happens to you?
- Vandal Savage: Redemption, if I'm lucky. Don't worry about me. Return to your friends. Do what you do best, what you were born to do: save the world.
- Vandal Savage: I picked up your comm signal a few weeks ago. Used it to track you down.
- Superman: You could have just called.
- Vandal Savage: Afraid you might be holding a grudge. If you'd switched off, I might never have found you.
- Superman: Grudge? You tried to take over the world - twice!
- Vandal Savage: In the long run, not so important. Take it from someone who knows.
- Superman: You're insane.
- Vandal Savage: True, but that doesn't mean I'm not good company. Say, you want to come over to my house?
- [off Superman's look]
- Vandal Savage: Like you've got something better to do.
- Vandal Savage: Your funeral was lovely. It was on all the networks. I used to have the DVD.
- Superman: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
- Vandal Savage: As a matter of fact, I did. But I've had 30,000 years to reconsider.
- Superman: [lifting a rock] I should smash your skull!
- Vandal Savage: Go ahead. We both know it wouldn't work.
- Superman: Self-help books? You don't seem the type.
- Vandal Savage: I read whatever I can find. Anyway, I've got issues, what with my destroying the Earth and all.
- Lobo: [hugging Superman and Wonder Woman] Ain't this great? The whole team, together again! All eight of us!
- Superman: Count again. You're fired.
- Lobo: What?
- Superman: You're not Justice League material, Lobo. Go chase a bail jumper. I don't care what you do, just clear out!
- Lobo: This is the thanks I get? What a stinkin' rip!
- [hops on his motorcycle and flies off]
- Lobo: Next time you lollipops need help, don't bother asking the Main Man!
- J'onn J'onzz: We didn't ask you this time!
- Superman: Superman to Justice League. Looks like we've somehow been transported to a planet with a red sun. My powers aren't working. I'm picking up your homing beacon, but I'm not getting audio. I'll leave this channel open and attempt to move closer to your position.
- Vandal Savage: About 30 years ago, some of the roach creatures broke in and stole my zero-point generator. It's the only power source in the world capable of running my time machine.
- Superman: Can't you just build another one?
- Vandal Savage: I'm working on it. I'll be finished in another 50 years. Care to wait?
- Wonder Woman: Superman!
- The Flash: You're alive!
- Hawkgirl: Are you okay?
- Green Lantern: I don't believe it.
- Superman: I'm fine. Very glad to be home. Flash?
- The Flash: [wiping tears away, sniffling] Something in my eyes.
- Green Lantern: Yeah, tears. It's okay, man. We all feel the same way.
- Hawkgirl: Superman, how can you be...
- Superman: Alive? Toyman sent me to the future. Then Vandal Savage and I fought some giant cockroaches and... it's complicated.
- Wonder Woman: I love the beard. Keeping it?
- Superman: Not a chance.
- Superman: What do the roaches want with a power cell?
- Vandal Savage: For all intents and purposes, it's a miniature sun. They use it to provide warmth to their central mound. We go on foot from here.
- Superman: [sarcastic] This is gonna be fun.
- Vandal Savage: Trust me, it isn't.
- Superman: Savage, wake up!
- Vandal Savage: [waking from his sleep] What? What is it?
- Superman: You've got a time machine!
- Vandal Savage: I spent several decades working on it. Then I lost interest.
- Superman: Why didn't you finish it?
- Vandal Savage: No attention span, I suppose. No point, either.
- Superman: There is a point. Don't you see? You could go back and stop yourself from destroying the world.
- Vandal Savage: No, I couldn't. This design doesn't allow me to travel back to any time where I already exist.
- Superman: Yeah, but I'm already dead.
- [Savage smiles]
- Superman: On your feet, Mr. Wizard. We've got work to do.
- Vandal Savage: [in the remains of the JLA Watchtower] They don't build them like this anymore.
- Superman: What?
- Vandal Savage: It didn't lose orbit until only 75 years ago. Remarkable feat of engineering.
- Superman: What happened here?
- Vandal Savage: I think you've already guessed.
- Superman: This is Earth.
- Vandal Savage: Yes. Thousands of years in your future. That simpleton Toyman never truly understood what he had created.
- Superman: The disintegrator beam he hit me with...
- Vandal Savage: An energized tachyon stream. That's what sent you into the future. Hello.
- Superman: How'd you get here?
- Vandal Savage: The old-fashioned way. I'm immortal. I'm the sole remaining survivor of the human race.
- Superman: All the people?
- Vandal Savage: Gone. The Earth belongs to the cockroaches now. Oh, and me.
- Vandal Savage: You have to stop me by any means necessary.
- Superman: I promise.
- Vandal Savage: Four days from your arrival, my younger self will steal a piece of dwarf star matter from a scientist named Ray Palmer. If you prevent that theft, I'll never be able to build my weapon.
- Superman: [trying to turn on Savage's time machine] It's not working!
- Vandal Savage: It's working perfectly. We just don't have sufficient power to keep it open.
- Superman: You told me this place was powered by its own hydroelectric dam.
- Vandal Savage: Ten dams wouldn't be enough to open a time warp for more than a few seconds.
- Superman: [seeing him thinking] I take it you've got something in mind.
- Vandal Savage: [serving lunch to Superman] Like it? I grew all the food myself. House, garden view.
- Superman: [a window turns transparent, revealing the view outside] Some garden.
- Vandal Savage: I spent quite a lot of time rediscovering the principles of agriculture. Something to do.
- Superman: Like the rocket ship, I suppose.
- Vandal Savage: Starship. I'd intended to leave the Earth and search the universe for other life, but I never did.
- Superman: Too difficult?
- Vandal Savage: Not at all. I decided I deserved to be punished.
- Superman: [finding the crashed Watchtower] Hello! Is anybody in here? Hello!
- [on the main computer, he sees files that the other JLA members' whereabouts are unknown]
- Watchtower Computer: Warning. Watchtower now running on reserve power. System sleep in 30 seconds.
- Superman: Override.
- [pounding the keyboard in frustration]
- Superman: What happened to everybody?
- Vandal Savage: They died, Superman. Thousands of years ago.
- Superman: I don't know what kind of con you're trying to run on me, but you're wasting your time.
- Vandal Savage: I should never have done it.
- Superman: Done what?
- Vandal Savage: This. I destroyed the world. It was only a few months after you disappeared. I had just perfected an invention that gave me total control over gravity. I proclaimed myself master of the world.
- Superman: The Justice League would never have allowed that.
- Vandal Savage: True. They put up quite a fight. Green Lantern was the most difficult. I killed him right here. No... it was over there. In any case, I destroyed the entire Justice League that day. But that wasn't all. My newfound powers disrupted the gravitational balance of the entire solar system. This is the result.