I watch as the blast of energy from the core of my planet disintegrates my parents from the relative safety of my launching pod. Before they can begin to feel the pain of their flesh ripping from their bones they are dead and I am entering the planets upper level of the gravitational pull. I'm not quick enough though, we launched too late, I am surrounded by debris, chunks of my home. Rao, save Kal El, allow him safe passage to the blue planet and allow me to follow after him. The ships sensors are all going off and a gas emits from the vents, before I can react it all goes dark.
I awake, muscles stiff and head throbbing, to the sensors still blaring violently. Rao, I'm no longer surrounded by green debris, I am nose diving into the atmosphere of the blue planet, I made it! The ship must have sensed I was in distress and entered me into sleep mode for the trip! I take over control manually and attempt to stop my crash. This isn't working, I'm traveling too fast to slow down or right myself, at this point I have to just brace for impact. The ship begins to tear apart around me, the shell torn off by sheer force. I am speeding closer and closer to a white ground that will surely be red by the time I land. My heart is pounding in my throat, I traveled galaxies to get here only to die upon impact. Kal, my sweet baby cousin, is surely gone as well. I shut my eyes and hold my breath, allowing Cythonna to take me. It is ironic though, the goddess of ice and death is taking me upon landing on a white plain.
I feel the impact, painfully aware of my imminent death, except death doesn't come. I pull myself out of the smoking wreak and land in what can only be described as fluff; ice cold, white fluff. My clothing has been ripped beyond salvage, I am alone on this wasteland. Where is Kal's ship? Surely it landed close by. As I scope the plain around, nothing but white, I see another ship approaching. It is not flying as mine did though, this one seems to by hovering a few thousand miles above me, and is pure black. The body is large and almost bird like, but not quite. It seems off. It hovers directly above me, watching me.
"Help!" I yell out, as I lift my head to meet it my eyes begin to burn. The colors of the world shift to red and I see part of the ships wing break off. I cover my eyes and feel the heat searing my skin, what's happening to me? The ship fires down upon me, retaliation for whatever my eyes have done. The shots hit me but bounce off, as if they are rubber. I turn and begin to run except my feet aren't on the ground. I am flying! Before I can gain control of my movements something hits me from behind and everything goes black once more.
"Her vitals are stable, sir." Alfred announces as he approaches the computer. I feel his presence next to me as I scan the girl's body. She's not human, in fact her DNA matches closest with Clark, with some minor variations. Granted, after what she did to my plane, I could have told you that.
"She's Kryptonian, Alfred. She must be another survivor of Clark's planet."
"How sir?" Alfred puts his hand on my shoulder, "Master Clark has been here for over twenty-five years, wouldn't she have come long ago?"
"You would think." I turn and look her over again. Her clothing was destroyed on her impact, I have her covered with a make shift hospital gown. She's young, can't be more than twenty tops. Unlike Clark, her features are light. Her golden blonde hair cascades over the pillow and from what I saw of her eyes they were bright blue. She has fair skin, flawless really. The only reason I know she is one of his people are the abilities she displayed. Even that doesn't make total sense though, Clark said it took years to develop his powers. She came off the ship ready to fight. I didn't want to use the Krypton but it was that or allow her to destroy anything in her path. I called Clark upon arrival to the cave, after clearing the children out. I walk back to the computer to look at her DNA again, the cells are 3x the size of Clarks, there has to be something I'm missing.
"Sir…" I turn to see the girl floating above the bed. Crap.
"Alfred, leave now."
"You do not need to tell me twice." He exits the cave in the reinforced elevator just in time. She sits up and looks directly at me, and she looks angry.
Where the hell am I? Who the hell is he? Where the hell are my clothes?! I look around, panic rising in my chest, I'm floating. I feel like my throat is closing, what's happening to me?
"What's going on?" I scream, the fear is rising up in me, my eyes are beginning to burn. The man is yelling at me in a language I don't understand. Behind him by vitals are on a screen, why is he looking at my DNA? I'm not a science project. The red overtakes my vision as I watch the screen melt. I turn my head, panic over taking me, until a set of hands rest on my eyes. Whoever this is, the burns don't hurt him.
"It's ok, you are ok." His voice is so soothing. Although his hands still cover my eyes I feel us ascend to the ground. He continues talking me down, my pulse slows and the red melts away. He removes his hands as my feet touch the floor. I turn to him and see a spitting image of my Uncle Jor-El, he even wears the family crest in our colors. The only difference is he has my Aunt Lara's eyes. I step back from him, this has to be a dream. My aunt and uncle are dead, who is this?
"I know you must have a lot of questions right now, I have some as well. My name is Kal-El. What is yours?" He's lying, he must be an aged clone of my cousin, that's why he looks how he does. His speech patterns are too formal as well, like he learned Kryptonian from a bot and not interaction.
"Liar, Kal-El is a baby. I was sent here to raise him, I'm his cousin I would know. Now truly, who are you and how do you know my cousin? Why do you look like him? I swear if you hurt that baby…" The red begins to return. His hands go up in a surrendering manner.
"Well, then you are my cousin. I am Kal-El. I'm not sure who you are but I can tell you I landed on this planet as an infant. I was raised by two humans, the dominant species here. I came in a Kryptonian ship with this," He holds out the necklace Aunt Lara placed upon him before he took off. The necklace cannot be worn by anyone not in the house of El, clone or not, the technology is too sophisticated. My hand rests over my mouth, this is my baby cousin, except he's no longer a baby. What happened to me?
"Kal, oh Kal I'm so sorry. I am so sorry I didn't get here in time. It must have been so terrible." I shake softly thinking of my tiny baby cousin raised without any real family. He smiles softly at me.
"Do not be sorry. I have had a wonderful life. Now please, tell me about you." The other man, the one whom I can't understand begins to speak, Kal answers him in his language before turning to me. "Ignore him, he's a bit pessimistic."
"My name is Kara Zor-El. My parents are, were, Zor-El, brother of Jor-El and Alura. I was born on and raised on Krypton. I was sent to the blue planet with the yellow sun as my world was dying in order to protect my infant cousin and to live my life among the people here. I entered a sleep state upon exiting the planet due to an overwhelming amount of debris and awoke when I was entering the atmosphere here. Kal, how old are you?"
"You must not have aged in that state. I am thirty-three years old now," the other man spoke again, "according to Bruce's, the man, you are about twenty, and does that seem correct?" I nod my head, "when your ship entered you into the sleep state you didn't age. Bruce is also saying your cells are 3x the size of mine. On this planet we have powers, our DNA processes the light from the yellow sun to give us the ability to fly, have laser vision, and other things." This makes a lot more sense, "what it seems is your ship must have sensed your distress and had you float around the sun until your cells were filled with energy. Then your ship brought you to its programed destination. Kara, I'm going to have you come somewhere with me until we can get a handle on all of this." I nod my head as he takes my hand, this is going to be a very long day.