****I updated this Prologue chapter. Some of the tenses were wrong and that bugged me.****

Author's Note: Hello, this is my first time ever publishing anything on the internet. Regardless, I am open to criticism and critiques.

This is a story that has been bouncing around in my head since I first saw the pilot for this show. I am following the general timeline and setup that the show has established, but there will be my own characters, and characters from the show. I am planning on a story arc, with a resolution.

The journey should be entertaining. Anyway, please enjoy!


The acrid air filled the area of the launch platform; the last breaths of a dying world. On the horizon, molten lava shot skyward, sending huge tremors through the ground and causing large fissures to open up in the surface of the land. Entire cities were incinerated and destroyed in seconds. Millions were dying as the apocalypse spread across the entire planet. This world was ending.

A blinding light flashed as a large pod rocketed down the platform and then turned skyward into the dark, menacing sky. The figure of a man crouched down over another pod waiting on the launch platform. A young girl and a woman came scrambling up the steps to the platform to meet him. There was little time.

"Your pod's coordinates are interlocked with Kal-El's. You will follow him to Earth," the man said to the young girl, attempting to comfort her.

"I'm not afraid father," she said defiantly. She was trying to keep a strong front for her parents, but there was still fear showing through in her eyes. Her parents gave a knowing look to one another and the man moved back to the pod as the woman bent down to speak to the girl.

"The trip is long, but you'll sleep most of the way, and we'll be with you in your dreams. You'll journey to Earth to look after your baby cousin, Kal-El. Because of the Earth's yellow sun, you'll have great powers on this planet. You will do extraordinary things." They had both gone over this several times, but she wanted make sure her daughter had all the information available for the perilous journey. The woman knew she was sending her daughter across the galaxy to a foreign planet, and that her life would never be simple or normal. She took some solace in the fact that her daughter would survive the death of their world.

"I won't fail Kal-El, or you," the girl said. She was trying to convince her mother that she would do everything in her power to survive and look after her cousin.

The woman kissed her daughter on the forehead. "I love you Kara," she said. The upheaval in the ground shook the entire platform as the threatening explosions advanced closer. "You must go, now!" her mother says. The girl turned and took several steps towards the pod and stopped to look back at her mother. She could see the pain in her mother's eyes. The girl knew that she was never going to see her parents again. She pivoted and rushed back to her mother, and they embraced in a tight hug. The emotion bursting through in the tears starting to stream down their faces.

"Go!" her mother insists, pushing her towards the pod. Kara turned and leapt into the seat, and the pod began to activate. The protective shield of energy formed around the cockpit and the engine core began to power up. Kara looked through the shield at her parents, still standing on the platform watching their only daughter.

The pod lifted off the launch rail and stabilized a few feet off the ground. A pulse of energy sent it zooming down the platform and into the fire sky. Kara peered forward as the pod ascended straight up into the gloom and murkiness and began leaving the planet behind. As the pod cleared the outer atmosphere, the turbulence subsided and the darkness of space appeared before her. Sobs began to rack through Kara, as she cried uncontrollably. She would never see her home again, and though she tried her best not to show it in front of her parents, she was scared. She hoped that she could be brave enough to look after Kal-El and do the great things that her mother spoke of.

This would be a lonely journey that she was embarking on, looking after her infant cousin on an alien planet. She wasn't sure how she would accomplish any of this, but she would not give up. She also felt twinges of anger and frustration; nothing was ever going to be the same again. Why did she have to do this alone? Kara gathered herself, wiped the tears from her eyes and face, and monitored the pod's systems as it continued to speed up towards the cosmos. The immobilizer would soon put her into a deep sleep and she would wake when approaching Earth's atmosphere.

She couldn't see the massive and blinding explosion behind her pod as her planet disintegrated. An enormous shockwave ripped through space, closing in on her pod at the speed of light. The wave slammed into the back of the pod, hurling it off course. The impact was so intense, power in the cockpit of the pod went dark. Kara's vision began to blur, and slowly fade to black.