[ Clark smiles to show her she might regret giving him that time.

He becomes serious when she asks her question. ]

I was doing it another way... I was drifting around and helping where I could. [ He had been a ghost. Clark could always disappear if someone found out about his powers. He didn't want to sit on a farm and stay safe. ] When General Zod's ship found me, he demanded humans turn me over to him. I showed myself as Kal-El. When everything was over, they started calling me Superman.

This was a couple of months ago.