Smallville: The Chronicles of Jor-El
(This story is rated M for Mature. Smallville is copyrighted 2001-2007 The WB/CW Network. The Chimera are from the game Resistance: The Fall Of Man copyrighted 2006 Sony Entertainment & is exclusively for the Playstation 3. Trinity Jean Knight is my character but her powers are copyrighted 2001-2007 The WB/CW network. All Other characters are mine. Star Wars is copyrighted 1977-2006 Lucasfilm Ltd)
Chapter 1: Jor-El returns to Krypton
The beam of light filled the chamber of the central displacement room on the planet Krypton. Jor-El, one of Krypton's leading scientists was sent to Earth for 3 Earth days due to his rebellion against his father's wishes to marry Lara, daughter of Zod. He had been enticed by Lara's good looks, but when he found out that Zod had wanted the young man to marry her for strictly political reasons, he refused. He was on the High Council of Krypton's ruling senate and was punished. He had been sent to the far away planet called by its inhabitants "Earth" but was named Terra by the citizens of Krypton. They were in the process of learning Earth customs and traditions. Jor-El had been sent to Earth as a punishment and was told not to have any contact with the citizens of Earth. But even then he disobeyed the council, by falling in love with an Earth woman Louise McCallum, who was the great-great aunt to Lana Lang, Clark Kent's girlfriend.
He finished appearing and looked at his friends from the Council. He was dressed in the clothing left to him by Jonathan Kent's father Hyram. The leather jacket he had worn during his three-day journey on Earth had been left on the Kent farm. He was the spitting image of his soon to be born son Kal-El. He was sad but he had left the journal/medallion in the caves that were on the outskirts of the town of Smallville that had been founded by Henry Small and Joseph Shuster 150 years prior. Kryptonian people had begun to visit Earth 100 years ago by earth reckoning. He had discovered what his ancestors had discovered. Terra's yellow sun gave people from Krypton extraordinary powers and strength and an unusual resistance to the temperature variances on Earth. He had used those gifts to save Louise from the ancestor of Lionel Luthor, Lachlan.
"What is wrong, Jor-El? Where is your Journal?" Mon-El, his head of security and his cousin asked.
"I found the planet interesting, full of people that were both fascinating and horrifying at once. My Journal got lost," Jor-El said both telling the truth and lying to covering up his leaving the Journal behind that one day the truth of what happened might be found by one of his own people.
"How goes the war against the Empire?" Jor-El asked. They had been fighting the Emperor of a humanoid race from outside their domain. The Emperor of that Empire, Palpatine possessed powers from an energy field called "The Force" had unleashed a barrage of troopers to storm Krypton and take command of the planet. Zod had rallied his army against the Sith Empire and was now in the process of negotiating a peace treaty after they were pushed back from the planet.
"Commander Zod is negotiating a truce against the Empire. We have a new problem. The Chimera, our age old enemies from the planet by the same name, are sending a shuttle craft to once again try to negotiate a settlement on one of our moons. We recalled you back, due to the fact that we need your assistance. Did you have any problems on Terra?" Dominic asked. She was one of the youngest members on the Ruling council. She had set a record by beating Jor-El's age of joining the council. She was 18 Earth years old, and Jor-El had joined at the age of 21. Now five years older, Jor-El had learned to trust the younger woman's judgment.
"Just one. But the problem was resolved. "Jor-El said, thinking sadly of Louise. A woman he had fallen in love with on Earth.
"I'm glad. I wished though you had not lost your journal when you arrived back on Krypton," Dominic said.
"I can tell you all about my time on that planet in due time. Unofficially of course," Jor-El said as the two council members moved to a nearby walkway that leads to Jor-El's apartment.
"Sure. But the council is not backing down from its position that you marry Lara. If you refuse, they will send you back to Earth and you will be banished there permanently. Please reconsider," She said. She had asked the council for more time to discuss this with Jor-El.
"I will not be used as a pawn between Zod and the council. He wants on this council, and he figures on me marrying Lara will grant him that council seat. Did you thank the Empire envoy for me?" Jor-El asked casually.
"Yes, I did. What did my father say about my punishment?" Jor-El asked. He had not spoken to his father since his refusal to marry Lara.
"He wants you to reconsider especially now that the Chimera are once again planning on attacking us," Dominic said. She noticed him making an unusual concoction in a cup. His body still retained some of the powers that they had absorbed from Earth. He used his heat vision to heat up a combination of Cocoa and water that he had brought with him from Earth.
"So what was it like? Earth? What are the people like?" Dominic asked.
"It's a beautiful planet full of vegetation and forms of life never seen on Krypton. There are humans living there. I fell in love with one of the females there. I ran across a family there that helped me escape when I was accused of the woman's death. Some one named Lachlan Luthor shot me, but the projectiles he fired at me bounced off and struck the woman instead. The law enforcement officials pursued me but one family aided me to what the humans called Shuster field where the transport ship picked me up," Jor-El said.
"What was this human's name?" Dominic asked curious. Jor-El moved to a holographic emitter. The Emitter was tuned to the Journal back on Earth. It showed her the images from the last few days on Earth. One image that came through was that of Hyram Kent and his wife.
"Is he a follower of the Messiah?" Dominic asked staring at the holographic image as she drank the hot chocolate that Jor-El had made for her. They had received the Gospel of Christ from Earth and that document's particular message spread through the citizens of Krypton like wildfire.
"I'm not sure. I never got a chance to ask. If I ever have children, I would allow them to take care of my children as a way of saying thank you for helping me escape in my darkest hour," Jor-El said thinking back on that final day when Hyram aided him to Shuster field.
"You're an honorable man, Jor-El. Now how about some more of this exotic drink you made me? You fell in love with an earth woman, hmm? Did you procreate with her? You know the law for breaking that law?" Dominic asked.
"I did, but she's dead. I had heard that her body somehow produced a child despite the death of Louise," Jor-El said.
Lara walked in, a look of shock on her face.
"I'm sorry to bother you, but there is dire news! The Chimera have attacked!" She said gasping for air.
To be Continued…