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Story Title: The Traveler

Chapter 1:

Krypton – one day from annihilation

A red starship landed near the ancestral home of the El's. The ship was triangular in shape and looked like a small trainer. This section of the homeland of the House of El contained two towers. One was for the family of Zor-El and the other for his younger brother Jor-El. Both were scientists. Zor-El was one of the greatest biologists and biochemists that his race ever produced and his wife was the prime judicial leader for the planet. Jor-El was younger than his brother, but he was a genius inventor, engineer, and physicist. His wife was a diplomat; one of the greatest that Krypton ever produced.

Jor-El looked down at the red ship; he ran down just as the hatch to the ship opened. A younger man stepped out wearing a red flight suit with blue boots. He had dark black hair and his eyes were gray. He looked around until his eyes settled on Jor-El. He raised his hands to show that he wasn't a threat.

"Sir, please can you help me?" he asked. The young man looked up at the white tower that gleamed in the red morning sun.

Jor-El stopped in front of him. "My name is Jor-El. You have landed on Krypton. Why are you here?"

The young man nodded. "My name is Lar Gand. I'm a traveler from Daxam." Jor-El tried to remember the name until it clicked within his mind. "You're the prince." Lar Gand lowered his head. He knew that his escape would be short-lived. "Yes, please don't make me go back." Jor-El gave the young man a curious look. "Why?" Lar Gand sighed, maybe he wouldn't have to go back after all. "I escaped. I don't want to be the prince. I just want to explore, see the Universe." Jor-El smiled. He liked this young man. He had courage. Courage enough to escape the domineering rule of his parents. He remembered the stories that his wife told of the Prince. They contrasted greatly from the propaganda that Daxam spewed about their heir. This boy did not look like a tyrant. Just a child that wanted to be free. "I won't turn you in." "Jor-El," a female voice yelled. Jor-El and Lar Gand turned to see a beautiful blond woman walking toward them with a baby in her arms and a young girl at her side. The girl had dirty blond hair and bright blue eyes. Lar Gand thought that she would be a beautiful woman when she grew up. When the older woman drew closer Lar Gand's eyes widened, it was the ambassador from Krypton, his friend Lara.

"Lady Lara," he said, earning a surprised smile from the woman. "Lar Gand, what are you doing here?" Lar Gand's smile was bright. "I escaped. I finally left that horrible place. I'll never go back." Lara felt sorry for the young man. The little girl tugged on her Aunt's sleeve. "Aunt Lara, who is this?" Lara smiled down at the girl. "Kara, this is my young friend from Daxam." Kara's eyes widened. She stepped back from the boy. "I thought Daxamites were terrible people." Lara frowned at her niece. "No my dear, Lar Gand is a good young man." Lara turned back to Lar Gand. "Why are you here?" Lar Gand frowned. "I didn't mean to intrude, but I needed a star chart and some provisions, if possible. I mean to explore the Universe," Lar Gand said proudly. Kara's eyes widened. "By yourself?" Lar Gand looked at the girl. "Yes, it is better than being locked in a tower in the royal palace, like some prisoner." Kara's eyes narrowed as Lar Gand talked about the way he was treated on Daxam. "Your family treats you that way?" Lar Gand sighed. "They do not approve of my behavior. They do not like that I speak to other races. That I'm curious about how the universe works." Kara was aghast at the news. How could someone be treated this way?

Jor-El turned toward Lara and Kara. "Lara, please take the children into the tower." Lara looked at her husband sadly. She knew what he was going to do. She grabbed Kara by the hand and pulled her back to the tower. Kara looked over her shoulder one last time at Lar Gand and his small starship. He looked like a hero to her in his red flight suit, full of valor, ready to take on the universe.

Jor-El turned back to the young man. "Follow me Lar Gand. I will get what you need. You must leave soon."

"Why?" Lar Gand questioned. Jor-El sighed. "Krypton will be destroyed soon. The internal pressures on the planet's core have become too much. This planet will explode in less than a day." Lar Gand's eyes widened. "What about your family?" Jor-El didn't have time to explain his plans. He needed to help the young man to leave and then he'd have to finish his plans for his son and niece. "I have plans. Come on, we must hurry."

An hour later, Lar Gand and Jor-El had packed all the provisions that he would need and Jor-El had given him a star chart that would help him navigate over two thousand galaxies. Lar Gand and Jor-El stood outside the ship. "Are you sure that you and your family will be okay?" Jor-El smiled, this boy was so different from the others of his race. He felt proud that he was able to help him escape his oppression. "We will be fine," Jor-El lied. No sense having the boy die trying to help them. "Now, you must go Lar Gand." Lar Gand looked at the older man and at the tower behind him. "Will you say goodbye to Lara and Kara for me?" Jor-El placed his hand on the young man's shoulder. "Of course I will." Jor-El was about to turn around when the young man hugged him. Jor-El felt a stirring in his heart. Would this be the way it would feel to hug his own son when he was Lar Gand's age? Jor-El almost let a tear fall from his eye. He would never be able to experience that. He hugged the young man back. They pulled apart a minute later. Lar Gand wiped the tears from his eyes. "Thank you," he said. Jor-El smiled down at the young man. He was almost as tall as him. He imagined that the young man when he was fully grown would be taller than him. "You're welcome son, safe journey," Jor-El said. Lar Gand nodded before he entered his ship and closed the hatch. Jor-El ran back to his home just as the ship's engines ignited and flew off into space.

Jor-El entered his home and was greeted with Lara, still holding their son. He looked around. "Where's Kara?" "She went home Zor-El called for her." Jor-El nodded. "It is time, we must get to the pod." Lara looked down at their infant son. "Are we doing the right thing?" Jor-El smiled at her. "We are ensuring that our son lives and our niece. They will take care of each other." Lara nodded as she wiped the tears from her eyes. Jor-El and Lara walked to the control room for the launch, setting in motion actions that would not only change the lives of their son and niece but the fate of planet Earth.

Krypton's solar system – several hours later

Lar Gand's ship orbited a rocky planet far from Krypton and Daxam. He couldn't chance that his people would find him. Why was he waiting? He was waiting for Jor-El, Lara, and their family. He didn't want to leave them. There was just something about them that made him feel at home. He watched the sensors on his ship just as an energy spike appeared, from the previous location of Krypton. He looked on. The explosion was so great that he could see the bright light even where he was millions of miles away. He prepared his engines and was ready to change course as soon as he met up with Jor-El.

He looked on watching as an energy wave of destruction flooded the inner solar system. Daxam was hit hard, but the planet wasn't destroyed. He was thankful of that, but he wasn't worried. His fellow Daxamites didn't care for him. To them, he was a freak or he was some propaganda story that his family made to hide their embarrassment with him.

He broke away from his thoughts as a proximity sensor went off on his controls. He looked outside his ship to see two small pods racing by him. They were Kryptonian. They were too small to hold adults, especially not four adults and two children. Then a thought struck him. Jor-El lied to him. He didn't want him to try and use the meager resources of his ship to try and save all of them, instead, he used the pods to save his infant son and his niece. He lowered his head in sorrow. They were dead. Not all of them, a voice said in his head. He realized that he could look out for the two pods, keep them safe on their journey. He turned on his engines and powered after the two pods. He would protect them with his life, he'd make sure that they reached their destination.

They had finally left the solar system avoiding all of the debris from Krypton. He scanned the pods that were both settled on the right side of his ship. Both occupants were in hibernation. His scan also uncovered their destination, the planet known as Earth. He programmed his ship on the same course and set his hibernation pod to awaken him on the edge of the destination solar system. He smiled as he gave one last look at the pods. "We'll be there before you know it," he said as he laid back in his pod before the glass cover closed over him and he drifted off into a very long sleep.

Millions of light years later

Lar Gand woke to impacts striking his ship. He looked around before he moved to sit in the command chair, as he checked the sensors and controls. They had exited hibernation too late. They had entered an asteroid belt between a large gas giant planet and a small red and rocky planet. He looked out his viewscreen; the pods were still there. He needed to run interference for them or they would surely be destroyed out here. He powered up his one laser cannon and began to fire on the asteroids, destroying them before they could hurt the pods or his ship. One pod made it through, but just before the second did, a large asteroids struck the edge of his ship, knocking him off course and into the other pod. He powered up his shields even though his ship was now almost out of power, but by doing so he only pushed the pod; he didn't destroy it.

The second pod flew out of the asteroid belt, but it was off course. Lar Gand cursed under his breath. He tried to power up his engines, but they wouldn't work. He looked on in horror as an asteroid came toward him. He had only one option. He entered his own escape pod, set the coordinates to what he remembered was Earth and ejected from his ship just before it was destroyed. His last sight before the hibernation system came on was a bright light.

AN: This is an alternative story to the one from the TV, that is more in line with the comics, but still a little different to make it unique.