Prologue
Andromeda Galaxy, 50 years ago.
Jor-El never believed in Rao. He was a man of science and faith doesn't have a place in science, according to him anyway. But when a sudden alarm sounded in his lab and he rushed in to check it, he thought he will need all the divine help he could get if he is to save his planet.
Krypton was dying! Jor-El thought he was having a really bad nightmare when he diagnosed the results of the drone he had sent in the core of the planet. What he found was that there was a chain reaction which was making the core of the planet unstable. It was only some solar rotations before the core would go totally unstable and destroy the planet from within. He checked all the history logs to find out what caused this and to create a solution for it, but he found nothing. That was baffling in itself because the history logs dated back to millions of years and they recorded every detail no matter how miniscule. Correction, he found almost nothing except a legend about Rao and a God named Devourer fighting and the defeated god cursing the planet itself. "What a silly story!" he thought "There are no such things as Gods."
Rushing in he checked the source of the alarm. It was a spy satellite which was intended to spy for hyperspace travels under the solar system, secretly and without knowledge to Krypton's science council of course. Jor-El was trying to create a ship which could travel in hyperspace faster than light for years. But it was impossible without first having a template to open hyperspace. "This is my chance" Jor-El mused and looked at the portal on the screen, and froze in his place. There was a silver streak coming out of the portal which eventually revealed itself as a silver humanoid on a device which he didn't recognize but his appearance was unmistakable. The Silver Surfer was here!
Even on krypton, the legend of Galactus, the devourer of worlds and his silvery herald was well known. It was rumored that Galactus was the first being born when the universe was created. It was also rumored that Krypton was the only planet to ever repel Galactus and deny his legendary hunger in time immemorial, but there were no records of such an incidence.
"No, no, no. This can't happen right now." Jor-El was panicking. He needed time to calibrate the hyperspace engine in his prototype space ship using Surfer's hyperspace portal but he needed to drive surfer off the world before he summons Galactus first. "What to do, what to do" he was out of ideas when it suddenly clicked.
"Time for Eradicator to defend Krypton again."Present, Fortress of Solitude. North Pole.
Clark furrowed his brow looking at his armor. There was something missing which he couldn't point out. His thought also drifted towards the events of last night, namely the meeting with Batman. Clark still couldn't believe he was real. "What a total disaster!" He thought before thinking about the problem at hand. Then suddenly it dawned on him, "I need a symbol!"
The thing about Clark's armor was that, it was created by the fortress when he completed his training which was no fun if you ask Clark and it was totally bland with a full blue body suit, cape and boots. Hey, he was still 19 years old, what did you expect?
Now what symbol would it be? "Its going to be a large S like Sentry" Clark thought happily. Sentry was one of his favorite heroes along with Captain America and Green Lantern, not today's lame one mind you but the legendary Green Lantern of WWII. But they all had disappeared some decades ago without any reason or logic except Cap who was missing since the war.
"But I would look like a clone of sentry." Clark noted sourly. "Should I use a shield like Cap or a ring like GL?" he mused searching fortress archives when something caught his attention. It was his family logo which he laughed at when Jor-El's computerized voice suggested it as his symbol. Now he wasn't sure why he did that other than to irritate his father since it was beautiful. It was a large S in a stylized diamond and Clark finally found what his symbol was going to be.
Metropolis, next day.
Metropolis was often described as "City of Tomorrow". It was an apt name. More since the new protector Thor came up out of nowhere. The same protector who was facing two of his deadliest enemies he ever faced. Ulik, the strongest of rock trolls and Skurge the executioner.
"Ho, thunder god. Tis' the day you die." Ulik crowed out.
"Thou hast claimed thus several times troll. The strength of Thor is ever thine downfall." Thor retorted. Standing over 6 feet tall, with a very strong built, wearing a battle armor and sporting the legendary warhammer mjolnir. Ulik was about 7 feet tall with sporting a codpiece along with battle armor. Skurge was around 6 feet tall, strongly built and sporting a battleaxe.
"Enow' talk Excecutioner, kill him." Ulik roared and leapt in the air. Thor smashed mjolnir in his jaw, sending him flying away. Skurge came swinging his axe in a wide arc but Thor stopped the axe inches above his face with the handle of mjolnir.
"Tis not like thee skurge" Thor called out "Where was thine warrior's code when you allied with a troll, just to beat me?"
"I be tired of thine taunts thunderer. Now die." Skurge said and punched Thor in the face sending him crashing down to the street with mjolnir crashing down to the other side of the street.
With a warcry Skurge descended on Thor intending to bring the axe to his head again, only for thor to grab the handle and kick him in the gut sending him flying away.
Before Thor could do more than get up, Ulik tackled him from the behind with a roar down to the street. Punching Thor with a bestial ferocity few could match, he roared "Tis the last time thou hast sullied mine honor asgardian."
"Thou knows nothing about honor troll." Thor said back blocking his punch and countering with a one-two combo and throwing the troll off him.
"Aaargh" Thor cried out in pain as Skurge slashed him in the back before Thor recovered from Ulik's punches. He backhanded Skurge away only for Ulik to punch him in the back with more force than he ever remembered.
"Surprised, thunderer?" Ulik grinned maliciously flashing twin Uru pounders to a groggy Thor and started pummeling him mercilessly.
"Stop thine hands troll!" Skurge barked out "The thunderer is down, tis dishonorable to strike a warrior when he canst defend himself."
"But thine have sullied mine honor too many times thunderer. Time to die." Skurge lifted the axe over his head only to have his hand caught by a hand.
"Didn't momma ever taught you not to hit girls!" Clark quipped before punching Skurge in the face so hard, Skurge spit several of his teeth landing on the street. He was out cold.
Clark hoped he could've picked a better way to debut in metropolis. He was seeing the news feeds in the fortress all over the world when he saw Thor struggling with these two and then getting slashed by Skurge, he knew that he had to intervene. So here he was fighting two guys who took out the Mighty Thor in two minutes flat!
"Tis impossible! Skurge felled with one blow, not even Thunderer can do such a task!" Ulik was incredulous. His astonishment soon turned to rage as he charged at Clark, surprising him with his speed and taking him off the ground. He rained blows after blows on downed Clark only for him to block everyone of his punches and countering with a haymaker.
Clark stood up wincing "Man, those pounders pack a punch!", before he sensed something moving behind him and instinctively put his arm before the incoming object.
"Aaaargh" Clark cried out as a recovered Skurge's axe slashed across his arm. A large gash formed across his forearm and an incredulous Clark stuttered out "H-how? Nothing can cut me."
But even before their eyes, the wound closed and Skurge was even more astonished, "What kind of creature thou art, whelp?"
"Who the heck talks like that today?" Clark thought before rushing in and tried to punch Skurge but Skurge was now aware of his strength and parried the blow with the handle of his axe before smashing the handle at his jaw. Clark however forgot about Ulik who punched him in the back of his head sending him spiraling down to the ground.
"Thou art strong, but thou art no warrior. Yiel-Yearghh." Skurge screamed as Clark's eyes flashed red and a searing beam of heat poured out of his eyes to slam Skurge and send him flying out of sight.
Ulik stared at clark "What kind of wizard art thou?"
"No hocus-pocus tall, hairy and ugly. Just ol' heat vision at your service." Clark quipped before tackling Ulik in the air and dropping him from the air. The impact sent cars flying and Clark landed on the edge of crater formed by the impact only to see Ulik still getting up.
"Man, what takes to take this guy down!" Clark groaned.
KRAAAAA-KOOOOOOM.
The bolt of lightning slammed on Ulik who was leaping at Clark sending him flying away. He stood groggily and un-steadily before an enraged Thor descended from the heavens, lightning arcing around him. The God of Thunder roared which deafened even the lightning he commands, "Thou claims to know honor, vile one? Thou claims to know the way of warrior? Know this, the king of trolls, THOU ART NO WARRIOR OF ASGARD." Thor slammed Ulik so hard with mjolnir that Clark swore the whole city trembled by the sheer shockwave of the impact. Ulik was out like night.
"Look out Thor" Clark called out before speeding towards Thor where Skurge was leaping at him from behind with his fists blurring and hammering Skurge in the air. Skurge was out even before he hit the ground.
"I am in debt of thy help, young warrior." Thor boomed after he checked that Ulik was still alive.
"Don't mention it, Thor. Whoa!" Clark quipped after checking on Skurge turning towards Thor when Thor grabbed him by his collar suddenly.
"Odin's beard, where hast thou found that sign whelp?" Thor asked angrily pointing towards the logo at Clark's chest.
"I-it's family logo of mine." Clark stuttered out.
"Is tis some kind of joke whelp? The entirety of cosmos knows that the proud and noble Kryptonians art no more." Thor nearly shouted now face to face with Clark.
"N-no, I'm the last kryptonian." Clark said backing down before the enraged thunder god.
"Well, thou hast made a grievous error if thou art lying whelp. Come, the All-Father would decide whether thou art the last kryptonia or not." Thor yanked clark to his side and started whirling his hammer around when suddenly his eyes widened as a glowing portal appeared in front of them.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
Three figures appeared out of the portal, one a strongly built man with a face-mask hiding his whole face on a flying harness. The other two remained cloaked in a strange white aura.
Before a startled Clark could say anything, Thor boomed.
"What art thou doing here, Orion of New Genesis?"
Next: Enter New Gods!
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