Summary: Jor-El miscalculates Krypton's destruction and sends baby Kal-El to earth early. 10 years go by and Jor-El has a second son, now the second son must wear the mantle of the house of El to face the rising power of the Soviet Union and stop a new war from arising.

A disclaimer: I don't own Superman DC and Warner Brothers do

Prologue

Distant Space

Krypton a distant planet which orbits a red sun. Before its destruction, it was home to a great civilization which boasted advanced science and technology. Kryptonians made use of their advanced science to create a world where scientific inventions and research influenced much of daily life. Robots and computers were used for many tasks on Krypton, even for determining what career paths young boys and girls would take as they grew up. Scientific and technological research are highly valued on Krypton, with the ruling body of Krypton named the "Science Council."

The terrain of this Krypton was bright and vivid, featuring such landmarks as the Scarlet Jungle, the Gold Volcano, and the Jewel Mountains. The Scarlet Jungle in particular contained many strange beasts and plants, such as a species of giant mole that could eat through metal. There were two consecutive capital cities on Krypton: Kandor and Kryptonopolis. The city of Kandor was shrunk by the evil android Brainiac and taken away; Kryptonopolis became the new capital of Krypton.

Brainiac defected and betrayed Krypton after capturing Kandor from all the confusion and fuss about its destruction predicted by a young scientist named Jor-El, it was he who saw the planet's destruction from its unstable core. However, he miscalculated and it cost him greatly not only his reputation but his own flesh and blood.

He sent his only son Kal-El as a newborn to earth, 300 million light years away, 10 years has gone by and his wife Lara conceived him a second natural born son, and he called him Kor-El, the young lad was almost the spitting image of his mother save for the mouth, nose, and ears.

Now Jor-El was before the Science Council, with news of Krypton's doom, he has done the calculation, he checked them, re-checked and re-checked again the calculation and this time he was sure that Krypton was doomed.

"Jor-El enough with your nonsense!" cried Sul-Van as he sat in his chair, rubbing his temples, "You can't just admit that you were wrong the first time, give it up before you lose all that you have! You already lost your son, my grandson Kal-El!"

The House of El was one of the noble ruling families of the planet, Krypton. The name El translates in Kryptonian to "of the star". The family line extends back thousands of years, to a time when the tribes of Kryptonians still waged war against one another across the continent, now it was the laughing stalk of the century.

"This time I am sure that it is doomed!" He cried out holding in his hands the documents of his research, "The last time I went over the calculation was when the last tremor occurred when your beloved Brainiac defected…"

"And how long ago was that Jor-El? 10 moons ago!" Rozan shouted, "The problem is not the planet about to be destroyed Jor-El, it's your ego! It's the size of Argus, for Rao sake, let it go man before you ruin yourself again."

The members of the of the High Council are as it follows Rozan as the council's head, Tyr-Us the second in command, his brother Zor-El, sadly though he and his wife was captured with the capital of Kandor, now Jor-El was the one in charge of his 7 year old niece Kara Zor-El. Next was No-Ton a senior member of the council, followed by his father-in-law Saul-Van another senior member of the council.

After Sul-Van was Or-Om, Korth-Or, Gal-Eth, and finally Gil-Ex each one of the council wearing white to this meeting with their respected insignia of their houses on their chest.

"Need we need to re-mind you it took you a long time to recover Jor-El, please, do not bring this up again. We discussed and agreed that even if Krypton was about to blow Jor-El which is not likely the case, you are too obsessed with this matter, which is why we are revoking your title as a scientist." Tyr-Us said, folding his fingers into a triangle the other council members agreed, "As we stated 10 moon cycles ago, we are not evacuating the planet for some silly prediction of end the world."

Jor-El could care less about his title being revoked, he looked at each of the council members seated in the high chairs, when he reached is father-in-law all that he saw was sorrow.

"You doomed us all…" he said quietly,suddenly a tremor was felt mightier than the last of 10 years ago. The room, shook to its foundation causing pillars to break from its position falling to the ground.

Jor-El took cover underneath a nearby table as the councilmen did the same, the tremor was powerful as it splits the room in two, cracks were formed around the building and everywhere else and panic was in the streets as people tried to head for shelter.

When it was over Jor-El came out of his hiding place, he looked at the damage done and to the Council, "Still think I'm crazy?"

He said, crossing his arms, Tyr-Us spoke, "A mere tremor Jor-El, a mere tremor."

The nobleman of the house of El was about to say something else when a blast was heard, the guards posted were shot, by energy beams and through the smoke as the nobleman of El and Council watched walked several dark figures from the dust of the cloud.

Military officers wearing art like pieces on the side that run up the back of the suit and down passed the waist and down the top half of the legs and forming a sort of belt across the mid-drift. A cape attached around the neck and runs down to the ground, sometimes of the same color which in this case was black.

Jor-El recognized the symbol of one, "Zod…"

"This Council has been disbanded!" He said

"On whose authority?" Gil-Ex Demanded"

"Mine." He raised his rifle shooting him in the chest, immediately he died after impact, "The rest of you will be tried and punished according."

He signaled for his lieutenant to take them.

Jor-El confronted him, "What are you doing Zod! This is madness!"

"What I should have done years ago." He responded, "These lawmakers with their endless debates have led Krypton to ruin! Jor-El we can forgive the fact that you miscalculated the first time, but this time is different."

Jor-El was in shock, "If your forces prevail Zod then what? You'll be the leader of nothing!"

"Then join me Jor-El." He placed a hand on his shoulder, "Help me save our race and we'll start a new. We'll sever the degenerated bloodlines that led us to this state."

"Don't do it Jor-El!" Cried Sul-Van, "If you join him there will be nothing left of your dignity, walk away from this."

Jor-El shook his head, "Then who would be the one to decide to which bloodlines will survive, you?"

Zod gave him a skeptical look, "Don't do this Jor-EL, I do not want for us to become enemies, that is the last I want to do."

"Zod you have abandoned the principles that bound us together. You raised the sword against your own kind! I cannot follow a man who does that, I'm sorry old friend, but I cannot." Jor-El took his former friend's hand off his shoulder, "I will remember the man you once were not this monster standing in front of me."

With that, he left, leaving a stunned Zod behind, arms were raised against Jor-El, nevertheless the General stopped them, "Let him go. We have other business to attend to."

Once out of the council building Jor-El quickly hopped onto his hover bike and raced home to his wife, son and niece. As he sped home another tremor was felt stronger than the last, he dodged oncoming building parts, zigzagging, jumping over sinkholes.

He sighed in defeat, "Krypton has surely seen, it's last sunrise. I must do now what I did 10 cycles ago."

Finally, after much evasive dodging he made it home, he quickly ran inside to the living room, as he called out to his wife, "Lara!"

"Over here Jor-El!"

He turned to see his wife under the table with their niece in her arms as well as their son Kor-El, he rushed over to them taking Kara in his arms.

"Lara it's time, we cannot hold them here much longer, the tremors are getting worse by the hour."

Lara had to tears in her eyes, she remained strong for the sake of Kara, she was already frightened from the tremors. Quickly Jor-El punched in a few codes from a panel and behold, two rockets emerged from the ground of the living room. He opened two windows putting the same coordinates for the two Kryptonians.

He placed young Kara into one rocket that was her size and Lara placed baby Kor-El in the other. Lara took off her blue necklace that had the symbol of El, she placed it around young Kor-El's neck, Kara looked apprehensive as she looked between her aunt and her uncle.

"Uncle Jor-El…" she squeaked, he rubbed her head

"It's alright Kara, where you are going you will be safe." He said, "Now sleep…"

He took a device out and placed it in her eyes, immediately Kara eyes were heavy with drowsiness and soon she was asleep. Lara did the same to Kor-El, she looked at her husband, "They will kill them…"

"No, Lara they will be like gods to them." He said

"I can't do it Jor-El, we lost Kal-El the same way, isn't there another?" She went to her husband embracing him.

He embraced her with his free arm, for his other arm was on the control as he said, "Lara, Krypton is doomed we cannot wait any longer."

She nodded with tears streaming down her face as Jor-El punched in the codes and the two rockets sped across the sky and away from view. From the moment they disappeared from sight, another tremor was felt and an explosion was heard.

"This one will be the last one…" Jor-El said, holding his wife as they looked into the horizon as volcanic eruption emerged from the ground. Soon enough their house began to fall apart, as eruption after another eruption was seen inching its way to their location.

"Looks like you were right Jor-El, this is end." She said sadly, they watched as the eruption consumed a city.

"I wish I wasn't Lara, I wish I wasn't." he said

"Make the world a better place than ours my little stars."

They watched as pillars of fire came up one after another, taking everything within its path to oblivion, Jor-El and Lara looked into each others eyes one last time, and closed the gap between them as the fire consumed them both.

From space, a molten red core could be seen if anyone was watching, the two rockets that held Kara and Kor-El flew over the planet, if anyone could see what was happening, volcanic eruption spewed out of the planet, with gases and more fire.

The rockets shot upward and was covered in the smoke of the planet, they managed blast through as the secondary booster kick in freeing them from the planet's explosion. Debris chased after them as a warp tunnel opened with some of its green radioactive rocks going through with them as well, as quickly it opened, it closed.

LXD: Hello and welcome readers to my first Superman Fan-Fiction, this the prologue thus far. I have to admit some things first if you're not too familiar with me, I suggest you read my bio after this to get a sense on how I do Fan-fiction. Second, I'm huge fan of Superman and ever since I watched the Superman movie played by Christopher Reeves, that did it for me. On that note, Comment, rate, subscribe…till then ^^