"If it means kicking those alien bastards off of it, sure." She's still a little bit doubtful, deep inside, that this is going to work. She's seen how Zod and his people can fight. How humans don't stand a chance. And she doesn't fully understand what's going on with the tower or how Chloe is going to shut it down. But she's stubborn and driven, and she's not going to back down from the challenge.

"We'll have a better chance sneaking into the city at night," Chloe says, leading the way into the narrow tunnels. Here and there, green kryptonite glitters in the red sunlight, embedded in the earth. "There's a small shelter in the middle of the tunnels. We'll camp there, then move out in the early morning, when it's still dark."