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Chapter 1 - Krypton's fall, escape of the two children
Floating in mid air, sounds of heartbeats could be heard.
"Hurry!" Came a voice shouting out.
Floating in mid-air is a machine showing two healthy beating hearts, which then transformed into a 3D image of two babies side by side.
A woman is lying in bed, grunting and screaming from the pains of childbirth. The man presumably the husband stands by ready to help deliver the babies.
The woman continues to scream, trying to push out the babies and bring them to life. The screams ended and a cry was heard, the cry of a baby.
The man lifts up the baby boy with so much joy, but puts him down to deliver the second child.
The woman screams one last time and then a second cry could be heard, this time a baby girl.
The machine from earlier comes along carrying a baby sized bed large enough for two.
"Sir please place you children on this bed. I'll take care of Lara while you are out at the council." Came the raspy computer-like voice.
- Scene Break-
Inside the council chamber sits five elders and standing in front of them is the man from earlier.
"Do you not understand? Krypton's core is collapsing. We may only have a matter of weeks. I warned you. Harvesting the core was suicide. It has accelerated the process of implosion." Said the man calmly with a hint of frustration.
The second elder from the right speaks, with a hint of annoyance.
"Our energy reserves were exhausted. What would you have us do, El?"
"Look to the stars, like our ancestors did. There are habitable worlds within reach. We can begin by using the old outposts." El speaks sternly with the hint of frustration now made obvious.
"Are you seriously suggesting that we evacuate the entire planet?" The center elder scoffs, thinking that the man is being ridiculous.
El slowly walks forward and has a grave expression.
"No. Everybody here is already dead. Give me control of the Codex. I will ensure the survival of our race."
The center elder looks on seemingly intrigued by this mans claim. El continues slowly lifting up his hands.
"There is still hope. I have held that hope in my hands."
He was about to continue but stopped when there was an explosion from behind. He looked behind and saw bolts of energy flashing through the dust cloud, hitting the guards. Sounds of whizzing and the falling of the guards could be heard.
Slowly a group of armed men and women could be seen approaching the council.
The leader of the group stepped forward.
"This council has been disbanded."
"On whose authority?" The center elder looked on in disbelief, their general was committing treason.
The general simply said one word, "mine" and proceeded to shoot the center elder with his sidearm.
The beam from the sidearm knocks the center elder in the chest and she was knocked back, dead within seconds, while the other elders looked on incredulously.
The general continued to walk towards the council members, while looking at each and every one of them.
"The rest of you will be tried and punished accordingly."
"What are you doing Zod? This is madness." El shouted while approaching the general urgently.
Zod took no time to think of a reply.
"What I should have done years ago. These law makers with their endless debates have lead Krypton to ruin!"
"And if your forces prevail? You'll be the leader of nothing." El questions.
Zod steps forward with madness in his eyes and places his hand on El's shoulder
"Then join me. Help me save our race. We'll start anew. We'll sever the degenerative bloodlines that led us to this state."
"And who will decide which bloodlines survive, Zod? You?" El looks at Zod strait in the eyes and speaking with utmost seriousness.
Zod narrows his eyes and tries not to shake his head.
"Don't do this El. The last thing I want is for us to be enemies."
"You have abandoned the principles that bound us together. You've taken up the sword against your own people. I will honor the man you once were, Zod. Not this monster you've become." El steps back slowly away from the person he once called a friend.
Zod closes his eyes for a second, and turns around.
"Take him away."
-Scene Break-
Three heavily armed guards are taking El away, when they saw the machine, which has been helping throughout the childbirth process.
"Sir? Is everything all right?"
"Out of the way." The guard said frustrated not seeing the slight nod from El or even him closing his eyes
The guard continues, "I said…" only to be cut out by a bright light blinding them for a second.
El immediately took the chance and whacked the guards face to his left, knocking him backwards a little bit and head-butted him. He did a quick spin grabbing the arm of the guard to his right, pulling him towards him and hits him hard on his lower back region, pushing the guard down
The guard from behind him tries to shoot him and El grabs the gun lifting it upwards by a little bit, narrowly missing his head.
The guard who got head-butted earlier, proceeded to stand up again pointing his gun towards El, only to be shot by El who was still wrestling for the gun.
The guard with the injured back stands up and punches El in the knees forcing him to fall down. El elbows the guard who's still holding the gun, and uses the momentary advantage to shoot the fallen guard.
El elbows the guard in his midriff and uses the butt of the gun to knock out the guard.
Holding the gun ready to shoot the next enemy, he walks towards the machine from earlier and urgently says.
"Get me Lara."
The machine changes a little bit and a 3D image of Lara was formed, who immediately warns.
"Jor. Behind you."
Jor-El turns around and shoots two pursuers in the chest with the gun. He turns around once again.
"Lara, you have to ready the launch. I'll be with you as soon as I can."
Lara who's in the form of a 3D image looks down. The connection then cuts out and Jor-El runs to the nearest opening, seeing gunships firing at gunships, smoke and explosions everywhere.
Jor-El bellows out.
"H'Raka!"
A roar could be heard, and moments later a creature which looks like a dog with four wings appear, landing in front of Jor-El.
Jor-El quickly climbs on and beckons it to go, prompting H'Raka to jump off the building and then glides towards another spire which contained island like areas filled with water.
"Can you see the Codex?" Jor-El asks
The machine, which has been following him, responds.
"It's just beneath the central hub sir. But I'm compelled to warn you. Breaching the genesis chamber is a Class-B crime, you…"
"Nobody cares anymore, Kelex. The world is about to come to an end." Jor-El cuts Kelex off and takes of his official clothing's, leaving clothes, which look like overall tights.
Jor-El jumps off H'Raka into the pool right below him and proceeds to swim towards the codex. Here surrounding him, you could see seaweed like structures, and large headed spider robots moving along.
The seaweed strands have little bulbs along the length of it, and in those bulbs you could see babies inside, waiting to be born. The large headed robots could be seen harvesting the babies, preparing the babies for life.
Jor-El proceeds to swim upwards out of the water towards the central core of the spire. As he leaves the water, he takes a deep breath and he sees the Codex, which is an ancient Kryptonian skull.
The scientist takes the skull, and looks at it, when the alarms sounded. He immediately leaves the central core with the Codex and starts to swim back towards the surface.
Once he gets back out onto dry land, a soldier in a fly ship speaks through the speaker.
"Jor-El, by the authority of General Zod. Surrender the Codex."
Jor-El turns around and looks over the cliff. The soldier sees that the scientist is reluctant to give up the Codex and proceeds to shoot at him. He jumps out of the way off the cliff, dodging the beams, free falling down.
He kept falling until H'Raka intercepts the fall and catches the brave soul. They started to fly home, however they were under heavy fire of the soldiers. Jor-El sees two heavily damaged airships, and flew towards it.
One of the pursuing soldiers decides to fly away, whilst the other decided to continue pursuing, only to hit one of the ships and cause the ships to explode.
They narrowly escaped the clutches of death, however H'Raka is injured after getting hit by one of the debris from the exploding airship.
H'Raka growls, due to him sustaining severe burns on his right and also having broken its wing. Jor-El looks at the injuries helplessly, and could only pat H'Raka in comfort.
"Easy, H'Raka."
H'Raka growls once more and uses his remaining strength to fly his master home.
Upon reaching home, H'Raka could only land in a heap, collapsing under the pain he's feeling.
Jor-El looked on, but couldn't do anything to help H'Raka. He knew had to hurry and send his children away from Krypton, to somewhere where they would be safe.
He reaches the lab within his home, and places the Codex in the reading module, where it floated in the air and golden tendrils started coming out of it.
Jor-El turns to his wife.
"Did you find a world?"
"We have." Lara nods, face filled with sadness and grief.
"Orbiting a main sequence yellow star, just as you said it would." Another machine similar to Kelex called Kelor replied while transforming to show a 3D image of the solar system Earth resides is.
Jor-El nods and looks at the image formed.
"A young star. Their cells will drink its radiation."
The machine continued to update the images and began to show a human body, which then changed to an image of the human skull including the brain.
"It's a seemingly intelligent population." Jor-El commented appraisingly.
Lara sees the chance to change Jor-El's mind.
"They'll be outcasts. Freaks. They'll kill them."
"How?" Jor-El questions seeing Lara's plan, "They'll be god's to them."
Lara turns away disappointed, she walks towards the ship prepared.
"What if the ship doesn't make it? They'll die out there, alone." Lara looks at her two children's, her eyes filled with sorrow.
"I can't do it. I thought I could but."
"Lara." Jor-El tries to interrupt.
Lara could see that Jor-El was starting to crack and continues as thought she hadn't been cut in at all "Now that's they're here."
Jor-El simply walked towards her and told her the one message, which would sober her up.
"Krypton is doomed. It's their only chance now. It's our people's only hope."
In background Kelex beeps, signaling that it has been alerted to something.
"What is it, Kelex?" Jor-El asks.
Kelex immediately began transforming and forming images.
"There are five attack ships converging from the east. Citadel's defenses are being scanned and evaluated."
This sad father realized that there isn't much time remaining.
"I'll upload the Codex."
"No, wait." Lara gasps, hoping to her god that there's another way.
"Lara…" Jor-El requests, knowing how hard this must be for his wife.
Lara nods, trying to be strong and keep her tears from falling. "Just let me look at them."
Lara looks at her own children's and touched their faces. "We'll never get to see them walk. Never hear them say our names."
Jor-El touches their faces too. He looks at them "But out there amongst the stars, they will live."
They both lean down towards their kids and both kisses them on the head. Once that was done, Jor-El clicked the button at the base of the ship and the Codex was split into two, transferring the DNA of every Kryptonian yet to be born into every single cell of their children.
Upon completion Jor-El creates a key, with the symbol of El, and places it into the ship.
Jor-El gently touches his sons head and kisses his daughters head.
"Goodbye, my son, my daughter. Our hopes and dreams travel with you both."
Upon him saying that, Lara sheds a tear, and shakes her head wiping the tear away. Jor-El inserts the key fully, and the bed containing the two children of Krypton slowly started rising, before it was accepted into the ship, which would carry them to another planet.
Kelex beeps a few more times, signaling the approaching forces is nearing. Jor-El looks at Lara who nods, and he goes away to put on his battle armor.
-Scene Break—
The five attack ships from earlier were closing in to the house of El. The leading ship contains Zod who shouts out over the whizzing sound of air brushing past them.
"Concentrate fire on the main doors."
Immediately all the surrounding ships went forwards and started attacking the main door to the house of El.
Within minutes the doors broke down under the relentless barrage of beam weapons.
-Scene Break-
Meanwhile inside the lab, Lara is working on the final calculations and calibrations that would be needed to keep her children's safe. Once she was done she sends the updated data to Kelor who is preparing and uploading all the changes that have been applied by her master to the ship. She looks at the ship as it does its final changes.
"Lady Lara. The phantom drives are coming online."
Lara looks at Kelor and nods, "Proceed to ignition."
-Scene Break-
Outside Zod and his troupe have just landed, and were preparing to raid the El's home. Faora comes out looking alert as ever.
"General. We have identified an engine ignition within the citadel."
"A launch. Hold this platform, commander." Zod's eyebrows creased and pursed his lips.
He then proceeds to walk in to the home of which he once called friend. He reaches the lab where he could see the early sequence of a launch, releasing clean white smoke.
Out of the smoke comes Jor-El in his ceremonial battle armor, with Lara at the back continuing to work on the launching sequences of the ship.
Zod stands right at the door, looking calm and collected.
"I know you stole the Codex, Jor-El. Surrender it, and I'll let you live."
"This is a second chance for all of Krypton, not just the bloodlines you deem worthy." Jor-El comments knowingly.
Zod hears the knowing tone, and demands for an answer.
"What have you done?"
Jor-El wanted to give his friend one last chance of redemption and told him the truth.
"We've had a child, Zod, a boy child. Krypton's first natural birth in centuries, and he will be free. Free to forge his own destiny."
Zod listened to what his friend said, and even he could see that he has broken one of the greatest laws of his people. He shouts to his people.
"Heresy. Destroy it!"
Zod's soldiers take aim, but Jor-El was prepared, he raises his gun and shoots the two followers of Zod.
Zod grabs his gun and punched Jor-El in the face. The great scientist was trained in the arts of combat too and would not relent. He knocks Zod away with the butt of his gun, and slices Zods face with the tip of his gun.
Zod grunts in pain, but as the General, pain is nothing but a temporary distraction. He forces his body to work and pushes Jor-El backwards, into one of the generators, which sparked from the force of their impact.
Lara looks up, and realizes that she has to hurry up and launch the ship before it is too late.
Both Zod and Jor-El was at a stalemate until Zod knocks Jor-El's gun down to the ground. Zod then tries to whack Jor-El in the face, however Jor-El's understanding of the Kryptonian body led him to holding the seasoned generals arm in a lock.
The general broke out of the lock and proceeded to throw punches at the great scientist only to hit the ceremonial armor. Frustrated, he throws in a kick only to be blocked and countered, by multiple punches to the face, and a heavy blow to the stomach, which knocks the wind out of Zod.
Zod was about to double over, when he receives yet another punch to the face. The general was dazed and could not stop any more attacks, receiving punches after punches to the face and was soon knocked to the cold metallic ground.
Zod realized his defeat, and stayed down. Lara looks up from the computer as she has just finished the final inputs to the launch sequence. The Phantom drive of the ship officially boots up. One step left.
As Lara was about to press the launch button, Zod attempts to stop them one more time.
"Lara, listen to me. The Codex is Krypton's future. Abort the launch."
Lara stared blankly into Zod and looks at her husband, who made no comment or movement, trusting his wife to do what is right.
Lara simply presses the release button, which releases the ship from its hold, allowing the ship to rise.
Zod seeing that there's no stopping the ship, screams aloud at the top of his throat.
"No!"
In his rage, he takes out his arm blade and stabs Jor-El in the stomach. Jor-El who was distracted by the launch of the ship, slowly looked down, not believing that even in the last moments, his friend would not stop.
Jor-El falls backwards, as his body no longer had the capabilities to keep him alive. Lara immediately runs towards the body of Jor-El, only to realize that it is too late. Her husband is dead.
"Your children's, Lara. Where have you sent them?"
Lara merely hid her face, mourning for her husband's death. Crying, because she is now alone. She looks up, and her face was filled with sorrow and hatred.
"His name is Kal, her name is Tara, children's of El."
After saying the name of her children's, the hatred disappears from her face. She looks at Zod, with a look of pity, pity that the general would forever be alone.
"And they are beyond your reach."
Zod creases his eyebrow, as he was filled with guilt, at the same time confusion, unable to understand why they could not understand what was at stake here.
-Scene Break-
Outside the soldiers of Zod are waiting loyally for his orders. Zod walks towards them calmly, and turns around looking up into the sky, right at the ships, which carry the last children's of Krypton.
"Bring that ship down."
One of the soldiers controlling the attack ship, ascended to reach the ship.
"Target locked."
The soldier was about to fire when an artillery strike hit the attack ship, and the only thing that anyone could do was watch as the last children's of Krypton disappeared in a bright flash of light.
A warship appeared from the smoke clouds and using the speaker they spoke.
"Lay down your weapons. Your forces are surrounded."
Zod and his people could only look down, realizing that they have lost.
-Scene Break-
At the rooftop of the council spire, a void ship could be seen.
"General Zod, for the crimes of murder and high treason, the council has sentenced you and your fellow insurgents to three hundred cycles of somatic reconditioning. Do you have any last words?"
Zod stood at the front and center of his crew, could not contain his anger and rushes forward.
"You won't kill us yourself! You wouldn't sully your hands! But you'll damn us to a black hole for eternity!"
He was then forced backwards by one of the guards, but not before he spits on the elders.
"Jor-El was right. You're a pack of fools, every last one of you."
He then pushed his way towards Lara one last time.
"And you. You believe your son is safe? I will find him. I will reclaim what you have taken from us."
He was once again forced backwards but this time with no resistance from Zod at all.
Lara looked at him in disgust.
Zod stands at the solidifying circle and repeats.
"I will find him. I will find him, Lara. I WILL FIND HIM!"
Zod then stops and looks down seeing ice like crystal forming from his feet, inducing lots of pain.
Some of his soldiers couldn't take it and started screaming a little bit. Zod however held it all in and wouldn't give in to the pain.
The new prisoners of the Phantom Zone have all been crystalized, and the elder raises his hand in a fist, beckoning the crystals to ascend into the void ship.
The people of Krypton looked at the ship as it slowly floated into space.
The void ship reached the Phantom Gate, which slowly opened up the portal to the Phantom Zone. The tendrils electrified the ship, allowing all of the mass to be converted into a single mass point before being transported into the Phantom Zone.
Once all of the ship has passed through the gate, the portal closed.
-Scene Break-
Lara returned home, admiring the ceremonial armor of her husband, when she started to feel tremors. She realized that the end has finally come.
She walks to the open balcony, and Kelor beeps a few times.
"Lady Lara, shouldn't you find refuge?"
Lara merely shakes her head. "There is no refuge, Kelor. Jor-El was right. This is the end."
As she said that, lava shoots out of the planet.
Lara looks to the skies. "Make a better world than ours, Kal. Protect your brother, Tara"
Moments later she was devoured by the rising lava, and within seconds she was gone.
Krypton imploded moments after.
-Scene Break-
Out near Saturn, a bright white portal opens, and the ship carrying Kal and Tara, is approaching Earth at a high velocity. Within minutes the ship is within Earths orbital range, and proceeds to go into reentry mode, where the primary booster systems switch off, leaving the secondary directional correction boosters.
The last children of Krypton, has just arrived on Earth.
That's it for the Chapter 1! Please read and review. Once again I'm sorry for not posting anything for a while. BTW! If there's any grammar mistake, please comment on that. I'm here to learn as well as entertain people.