The Hunger Dogs are obediently grateful to Kanto, whom they believe to have ordered their rescue.
"Now the lowly of Armaghetto are my loyal army!" Kanto exclaims. "If I need trash picked up or heavy things moved slowly from this place to that, my empire is complete. But, of course, my ambitions are somewhat loftier than these poor unworthy can conceive."
"I mean to seize Darkseid's palace, within which are his Boom Tube projector as well as his advisor, the Grandmother Box which knows all things. With these, I can send my legions to any corner of illimitable space, and outwit any opponent! Only three worlds need fall before me ... that is, before US, the Earth-Thanagar-Apokolips Alliance, and then Apokolips is secured!"
"Or would my charming visitors prefer to secure their home worlds from invasion, first? That might be easier, as Darkseid's palace is the cynosure of all this planet's factions. Earth, alas, is vulnerable from three directions, and Thanagar from five."
"Near Earth are THE CITADEL, home of the expansionist Psion scientists and their Gordanian lizard-troops; APIR, the bee-world of Zazzala, the Queen Bee, and her many minions; and, of course, THANAGAR itself, 'pon which the Hawk Police have been riven, some supporting the dictatrix Hyathis, some coalescing behind the reluctant general Katar Hol. One, two or all three may already have commenced an invasion of Earth."
(Katar Hol is Hawkman, and Hawkgirl's father.)
"While adjacent to Thanagar are Earth, RANN, that sterile desert planet importing champions via its Zeta Beam; NEW MARS, where the Martian race struggles to establish itself in a barren wasteland of crystal mountains; TAMARAN, world of feline warriors; and BRAAL, the Magnetic World, whose inhabitants command mighty magnetic forces, so much so that they need no spaceships to voyage across the infinite and colonize their prey."
"Any of these can no doubt be accessed by Mother Box, whose Boom Tube generator is limited, but equal to these tasks."
"Whither shall we hie, deadly and capable ornaments in the firmament of the stars? Death or glory?"
"Kanto, what are you doing here on Apokolyps? You're not a lost heir to the throne or anything, are you? Because we totally get that on Thanagar. But if you basically want adventure..." she mentally ticks through the possibilities.. "Don't suppose you have any intel as to who might be planning on attacking the Earth? Or if anyone's attacking Thanagar? Dad might need some help..." She looks at the poetic adventurer appraisingly.
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