Fallen Heroes
By Kai Lun Mau
In a far off galaxy a sun was slowly dying. On a world of technological wonder a society of people, scientist's artisans and warriors watched as their world crumbled from cosmic stress. Earthquakes rocked fabulous cities of crystal and stone to rubble. The crimson oceans rose and the floating city of Oceania was swallowed by the murky depths.
In a laboratory, a scientist, possibly the greatest this world have ever known struggled at his work station, his fingers dancing across crystal keys that emitted a ringing tone as each was caressed as he finished the central artificial intelligence ship program for the transport pod he was creating.
His wife stood by the craft, a small child barely several months old wrapped in a blanket clutched to her chest. "Why Jor-el why must you persist in this madness!" She stared at her husband. "The council of elders has decreed that the seismic disturbances will pass, why do you persist in this madness. I will not allow you to send our son away!"
"Kara, you have seen my research you have witnessed the destruction of our cities, our world is dying and I will not condemn our on to death over foolish pride." Jor-el hit the applications crystal and the program downloaded into the ships artificial brain.
Kara hissed. "You dare to go against the counsel, it is not them who are blinded with pride it is you!" She looked at the doorway and shook her head. "I am sorry Jor-el, sorry that it has come to this. GUARDIANS!" The doorway slid open with barely a hiss and several in white metallic armour trotted into the room with their restraining staffs drawn. Moments later a figure stooped with age, his hair silver and thinning entered the domicile of Jor-el. "Jor-el you stand accused of treason, spreading falsities and spreading those falsities with in the populace of our fair city. You shall be taken to confinement to await trial!"
Jor-el shook his head sadly. "Our world is over, I came to you seasons ago with my data and you ignored it, I begged, I pleaded, you would not listen. I will not allow my son to die for your foolish pride Elder. Sol forgive me, but I will not. He darted forward surprising the guardians with his rash actions. He grabbed the restraining staff of the guardian and pivoted on his heel driving a reverse spin kick into the white armour driving the guardian back into the rest of them in a tangled heap. Jor-el moved with a speed the belied his age, the restraining staff moving in a blur as he spun and blocked and countered the remaining guardians. Occasionally landing blows on his opponent's armour sending an electric discharge through their suits dropping them in a twitching pile. Soon he was the only one standing and he turned to face Kara and the Elder. "Give me my son!"
Kara blanched at the cold look on her husband's face. "No I will not allow you to cast our son into space for your madness!"
Jor-el shrugged. "Have it your way then." His restraining staff flicked forward in a blur tapping his wife in the stomach and sent the discharge through her body. "She moaned as she feel forward the child slipping from her limp arms. Jor-el dropped the staff and quickly snatched the falling child. "I have you, don't fret little one your father has you. Ignoring the elder Jor-el crossed the lab floor to the transport craft cradling his infant son close to him. Gently he lay the child within the liquid cocoon that would nurture and protect him. "Sol protect you Kal-el and grant you safe journey on your voyage." He leaned over and kissed his son lightly on the brow and brushed a dark lock of hair so much like his own from his face.
There was a sound of an electrical discharge and the smell of ozone filled the air and Jor-el blinked and looked down at the front of his robes as blood slowly began to stain the fabric. He stared at the Elder in shock as he held his arm straight the palm upright, the symbol of the ruling class glowing from the discharge. Jor-el reached into his lab coat pocket with shaky fingers and withdrew the octagonal key and turned, sheer force of will keeping him upright. He staggered as he felt another blast strike him in the back slamming him solidly against the transport. He fumbled with the key; blackness creeping into his vision as it dropped into place. Jor-el collapsed onto his back his life's blood pooling on the once pristine floor of his lab. The elder stood above the fallen father and stared down at him. "You would not come peacefully Jor-el, you brought this on yourself. He aimed his glowing palm once more at the dying Jor-el when a high pitched whine filled the lab. The elder raised his eyes and stared shocked as the transport came on line and floated from the lift cradle and rotated away from him. He didn't even have time to scream as the fusion drive came on line and heat of almost two thousand Kelvin's engulfed him blasting what was left of his charred and smoking body clear through the wall of the Lab.
Jor-el lay there on his back dying watching as the roof split apart and the transport craft blasted off into the night sky slowly vanishing into the star filled sky before finally the life left the eyes of Jor-el and he saw no more
Slowly spinning in orbit around Krypton's dead moon Lunis the stasis prison holding Krypton's most devastating weapon of war lay in a state of suspended animation. It was their greatest creation and greatest crime. Once activated it could not be shut down and only through the actions of a team of guardians and Scientists led by Jor-el was the stasis prison created and their weapon was bound. As the transport ship carrying the last son of Krypton blasted out of planetary orbit their sun finally collapsed sending a massive cosmic shock wave devastating the planet of Krypton. The shock wave was so strong the very planet itself crumbled like a sandcastle swallowed by the tide blasting the remains into space.
The shock wave travailed on striking Lunis and reducing it too to rubble. The Stasis Prison shuddered as it was struck by the cosmic wave but refused to come apart like the planet and moon had. Instead it tumbled out of control another piece of debris in the remains of an obliterated planet and moon. It hurtled through space slowly picking up speed it's course matching that of the transport craft.
Smallville Kansas: 1990
It was like the end of the world as meteor fragments bombarded the small town leaving destruction in their wake. Lana Lang lost her parents that day, while the Kent's a couple so much in love even after ten years of marriage who were unable to have children found a small child out in a field by his space ship. And what was thought to be the largest piece of debris from the meteor storm struck two miles outside of town creating what in years to come would be known as Crater Lake. But what struck the earth creating Crater Lake was no meteor debris. The stasis prison struck the ground so hard and so fast it tore the earth asunder and slowly water filled the massive crater swallowing the stasis prison in it's depths
TBC…
An: there you go first chapter up and Running…. I seem to be once more on a Smaville kick and I'm afraid you're all going to have to suffer