As a violent storm rages on where Claire and Kal-El are stranded, a search and rescue mission has been deployed to try to locate them. The instructors don't have a lot of hope, but the other students vow to wait for them to be rescued. A clearly worried Ariel recalls when she first met Kal-El, who was introduced as an adopted new brother by the mechanic who rescued Kal-El. Despite not getting along at first because of seeing him as a rival, she soon sympathizes with him after learning about his dead parents, herself having lost her mother. She also learns about his secret of being the former crown prince...