Girl of Steel
Jor-El put on his serious face as he approached the Kryptonian Council. "The core is collapsing. The planet only has a few weeks," he said.
"Enough with Geo-Change, we're not going to change our whole way of life to satisfy your alarmism," the lead council member said.
"We are all going to die!" Jor-El stressed.
"What would you have us do?" a council woman asked.
"Evacuate as many people as possible off the planet," Jor-El said obviously.
"Do you have any idea how much that would cost?" a council member objected.
"Maybe, we should stop sending our spaceships filled with criminals into a black hole. Just a thought," Jor-El suggested.
The council murmured in disapproval. "It is much more humanitarian to send criminals into a black hole for rehabilitation."
"Why not rehabilitate them here?" Jor-El asked.
"They could escape. Then what we do?" the council woman said.
"We would then recapture them?" Jor-El wondered.
There was a sudden explosion as General Zod and his troops entered the council chambers. "This council has been disbanded," Zod said.
"You know, there was a door. It was unlocked," Jor-El said annoyed as the dust cleared.
"On whose authority?" the council woman asked Zod.
"Mine, obviously," Zod said and proceeded to shoot her dead with his laser rifle. "The rest of you fools will be tried and punished accordingly."
"Zod, what have you done? This is madness," Jor-El said.
"Is it?" Zod asked rhetorically.
"I just said it was," Jor-El replied.
"Madness you say? This is Krypton!" Zod said and then proceeded to kick a council member out the window to his doom.
"Was that necessary?" Jor-El asked. "I was the one that asked."
"I couldn't very well kick you out the window. I still need you at my side. Join me and together we can rule the galaxy. Make it the way we want it to be," Zod said.
"I can't believe what I am hearing. You're breaking my heart, Zod," Jor-El said disappointed.
"Really?" Zod asked unimpressed.
"If you do this, you will be ruler of nothing. The planet's core will collapse in a matter of weeks," Jor-El said.
"No shit?" Zod asked astounded. "Damn, well, I guess we go with Plan B."
"What is Plan B?" Jor-El wondered.
"We murder as many people as we can, so we can earn a trip to the Phantom Zone off this planet," Zod smiled.
Jor-El gave Zod a horrified look. "Not you," Zod said obviously. "You're cool," Zod said giving Jor-El a fist-bump. "Let's go kill people," Zod said to his men.
"Hell yeah!" his men replied.
Zod then departed with his men into his spaceship with the intention of causing as much death and chaos as he could.
Jor-El summoned his dragon and flew off towards the middle of the city. Government forces battled Zod's ships in the air raining down fire on the city. Jor-El landed in a pool and swam to the bottom where he collected a broken skull. The DNA of the Kryptonian race was on this magic skull called the codex. He easily collected the fate of his race and went home without anyone noticing.
"Too easy," Jor-El smirked.
Jor-El rushed into his home that looked like an observatory on the outskirts of the city. "Laura, prepare the launch!" Jor-El yelled.
"What launch?" she asked obliviously.
"The launch that will send our daughter to another planet," Jor-El said.
"I am not aware of any such plan and why do you have a skull in your hand?" she asked.
"This is the codex. It has the DNA of our race. We must send it off into space before Krypton is destroyed," Jor-El said.
"Great, what happens to us?" Laura asked.
"We will perish with the destruction of our planet," Jor-El said gravely.
"What?" Laura said stupefied.
"I must have told you a thousand times that our planet was doomed," Jor-El said.
"I always thought you meant figuratively speaking, because you hated the government," Laura said annoyed.
"I built that spaceship in the garage to save our daughter," Jor-El said.
"You mean that piece-of-junk that will never get off the ground. You're not putting our daughter in that thing," Laura protested.
"We have no choice," Jor-El said.
Jor-El and Laura came over to the spaceship and then Jor-El placed his key in the computer slot. "What was that?" Laura asked.
"It is my consciousness downloaded into the computer chip so that I can guide her even in death," Jor-El said.
"Did you make one for me? I am her mother," Laura said outraged.
"There was no time," Jor-El argued.
"You've been researching the core for years, Jor-El," Laura said not buying his excuses.
Zod's ships arrived at Jor-El's residence and surrounded it. Zod entered the compound and found Jor-El and Laura next to the spaceship carrying their newborn daughter. "What the fuck is this?" Zod asked surprised.
"I'm sending my daughter into space with the codex to save our race," Jor-El explained.
"Oh? Carry on," Zod shrugged. "Wait, how did you have a daughter without authorization?" Zod asked suspiciously.
"I did it, Zod. I had sex with my wife and it felt good," Jor-El replied.
"HERESY!" Zod said outraged.
"It's okay, Zod. You will like it too. We can procreate like our forefathers did and save our race," Jor-El said.
"You mean, putting my thing in a female's thing?" Zod wondered.
"Exactly," Jor-El said.
"And you enjoy this?" Zod asked Laura flustered.
"Oh yeah, it's great," Laura agreed. "Except for the birth part. That was horrible."
Zod appeared uncertain. "Lieutenant Faora," he summoned.
"Sir," she said as she arrived.
"Strip. We're going to try this sex thing," Zod ordered.
As they were talking, the ship carrying Jor-El's daughter lifted off into space. Government ships arrived and turned their guns on the small craft. "Ensure that ship gets into orbit," Zod ordered.
Zod's ships distracted the Government ships allowing the small craft to leave the planet and enter interstellar space. Eventually, Zod's forces were defeated and Zod was surrounded. "You are surrounded. Lower your weapons," the Government ships ordered.
"Damn it," Zod said in defeat.
There was an immediate trial where Zod and his officers were placed before a new Kryptonian Council. Jor-El and Laura were present for the trial. "We have all declared Zod guilty of insurrection but the council must be unanimous. What say you, Jor-El?" the council leader asked.
"Guilty," Jor-El said nonchalant.
"You Son-of-a Bitch!" Zod shouted at him. "I saved your daughter."
"What daughter?" the council leader asked.
"I don't know what he's talking about," Jor-El laughed it off.
"You Bastard! I will find her and when I do, I'll do the sex thing with her," Zod promised.
"When the planet explodes, you will be trapped in the Phantom Zone forever and eventually starve to death. I cannot imagine a more horrible way to die," Jor-El said.
"I will find her and when I do, she will kneel before me. She will kneel before my...," Zod ranted until he was silenced by a clear jelly that covered his body.
The prisoners were then placed in pods and launched into a larger spaceship that lifted off into space. A portal was opened where the spaceship exited real space and entered the Phantom Zone.
"Jor-El, if what you say is true, when the planet is destroyed, these prisoners will be released from the Phantom Zone," the lead councilman said.
"Oh...crap!" Jor-El realized.
The planet Krypton shattered as its core exploded. Its red giant star also exploded disintegrating any remains of the planet.
A fishing boat went through stormy waves. The men on-board struggled to keep the boat afloat as water poured in. It was raining and the Arctic water was freezing. Kara watched all of this with a sense of awe.
"This is great TV," she said as she watched the Discovery channel. She was in a t-shirt and shorts while eating Cheetos on the couch.
"Get ready for school or you will be late," Martha reminded her.
Kara sighed and got ready for school. She was in elementary school in the middle-of-nowhere, Kansas. "When did Kansas become a territory?" the school teacher asked.
Kara found it difficult to doodle in her notebook during class. The paper looked translucent and every so often, she would poke a hole in the paper with her pen. "Kara?" the male teacher asked seeing her distracted.
Kara looked up and saw the muscles and bones of her fellow students and the teacher. Her vision would fluctuate as she saw them fully clothed, then naked, and then even more naked. To her horror, she could see her teacher's junk. Then she saw the junk of all the boys in her class.
"Excuse me while I freak out!" she said and then ran out of the classroom.
"Kara!" her teacher shouted as she left.
Kara ran down the hall and entered a closest. The teacher followed her to the closet, but Kara had locked it. "I've called your mother," the teacher said.
"Oh crap," Kara realized.
"Kara, its mommy," Martha said sweetly.
Kara became beat red in humiliation. "Kara, come out of the closet," Martha encouraged.
"I don't want to," Kara said stubbornly.
"You'll have to eventually. It's part of life. You can't hide from the world," Martha said.
Kara started to wonder whether her mother was still talking about the physical closet she was in. "Alright," she said eventually and opened the door.
Immediately, all the kids started jeering her. Kara walked out of the school with her mother humiliated. "I'll make them all pay," she promised.
Kara was soaking wet as she waded through the water and walked ashore. The school bus behind her was completely submerged in the water. "I'm not going to kill you," she said of the jeering kids. "But I don't have to save you."
Kara became a media sensation as the girl who lived from the accident. The reporters were turned away from the Clark's residence and then Jonathon Kent came over to Kara who was swinging on the swing set. "You did good. Just like I told you," Jonathon said.
"I could have saved those kids," Kara said.
"If you had, the media would make a big deal out of it. Government men in suits would take you away and conduct experiments on you," Jonathon said.
"I guess so," Kara said uncertain.
"The world doesn't need a savior, Kara. There's only one savior: Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," Jonathon taught.
"Right," Kara agreed.
"Come on, I want to show you something," Jonathon said.
Jonathon and Kara walked into the barn where the spaceship was parked. "Wow, I never realized this was here," Kara said amazed.
"Yeah, it's because you never did a day of actual farm work," Jonathon said resentful. "Anyway, this is an alien spaceship and you're an alien," Jonathon said bluntly.
"Really?" Kara asked amazed.
"Yeah, we got pictures to prove it. We found you inside this thing when it crashed," Jonathon said.
"It must have taken several men to bring this here," Kara said in wonder.
Jonathon grimaced. "Yeah, well, we are the only ones who know of this thing. Let's keep it that way," Jonathon said.
"Sure," Kara agreed. "Was I sent here for a reason?" Kara asked.
"Probably not. Just some random coincidence that you happened to land on this planet at this time. But just because you're an accident, doesn't mean you aren't special."
"Can I still pretend to be your daughter?" Kara asked becoming emotional.
Jonathon hugged his daughter tightly. "Yes, Kara. Always."