He knew she was going to show up sooner or later. She couldn't just sit back and let her friends get their butts kicked. He listened to her words, they seemed to have some level of effect on him as the intensity of his heat beams dropped and soon his eyes were back to their natural color.
It was true. No one in this world knew what he had done. None except those that he came in contact with. And the way she spoke to him. No one had talked to him in that tone since Lois.