Time: 18 minutes before now…

Countless lasers, rockets and missiles whizzed past Superman at speeds well past human measurements. Rays of green light shone upon his red, yellow, and blue costume as the members of the Green Lantern Corps flew past him. He and two other Green Lanterns from Earth (Kyle Ryner, and John Stewart) had been called away from Earth days ago by one of the Guardians to help defend Oa from an invasion. Normally Superman would have left it up to the Green Lanterns but, the invaders were the Manhunters, a formidable fighting force, and the previous police force of the universe before their perverted logic forced the Guardians to banish them.

"On your left!" Kyle yelled, amplifying his voice with his ring

Superman quickly turned to see a Manhunter flying straight for him, a well placed blast of heat vision to its CPU shut it down.

"Nice" Kyle said taking out a group of Manhunters to the right with a massive green jackhammer.

Superman's cape was tattered and torn from days of fighting, and Oa's surface was now a battlefield, littered with the bodies of Manhunters and Green Lanterns alike.

"Superman!" John Stewart yelled flying across the field of battle evading fire from the enemy. "My ring is picking up a JLA omega level priority alert from Earth! Oh my God! Superman you have t--"

John was cut off when a massive energy blast from a Manhunter artillery cannon collided with his face.

"John!" Superman yelled using his super-speed to catch him before he collided with a cliff. John was out cold, his ring no longer responding.

Several Manhunters began advancing on them as Superman quickly scanned John with X-ray-vision to make sure nothing was permanently damaged. Superman stood quickly and dismantled the approaching regiment of Manhunters at Supers-peed.

"Kyle! Superman said approaching the other Green Lantern taking down Manhunters on his way. "Are you getting an alert on your ring too?"

"Yeah Superman, I think you better get back to Earth! Now!"

"What's going on?"

"There's no time!" Kyle yelled with a worried look on his face "We can handle things here just go! AND GO FAST!"

Superman could tell something was horribly wrong, normally Kyle was loose, the jokester in a tight situation, his seriousness did not bode well.

Faster than a thought and with a massive sonic boom, Superman was already millions of miles away from Oa, heading for Earth. Once he was in range he began listening for the one sound that gave him meaning in life, it was still there, Lois's Heartbeat, whatever the crisis was, she was okay. Next he listened for distress signals of any kind besides the JLA priority alert, Air raid sirens, bank alarms, chemical breach alerts, anything. Nothing out of the ordinary.

When he entered the Solar system he began trying to contact any JLA frequencies he could on his communicator, J'onn, Hal, Wally, Diana, all silent.

"—lling Superman, Superman if your out there this is an Omega Level situ—"

"Bruce?" Superman said recognizing the voice as he streaked past Neptune.

"Clark where are you?" Bruce said, his voice sounded troubled

"Almost at the Asteroid belt, what's going on?"

"Clark, it's your parents, you need t--"

Superman increased his speed, sound could no longer reach him, in .002 seconds he passed the moon and began to slow. His velocity made a massive hole in the upper atmosphere as he sped toward the northern hemisphere, the massive cushion made by his speed pushed the clouds away as he torpedoed toward the center of the United States. As he slowed for his final descent his eyes widened as he used his telescopic vision to see his parents home in ruins, with a final burst of speed as he saw the monster responsible for the destruction about to strike his father, he plunged both fists into Doomsday's face, and sent him flying backward.

Time: NOW

Superman saw the man who raised him on the ground, covered in bruises, with a terrified look in his eyes. It filled him with happiness that his father was alive, but also with rage, rage that he would direct toward Doomsday. He helped him up onto his feet.

"Clark" was all Jonathan could say.

"Pa, it's alright now, where's Ma?"

"B-Batman is taking her to a hospital son; he said another hero is coming for me any minute."

"Good, stay here Pa, I'll make sure he won't come back."

"Son" Jonathan mustered "Be Careful"

"I will Pa"

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