Trigger Warning! Warning there are hints, eluding and descriptive triggers.

Triggers Include: Underage Non-Consensual Sex, Rape, Self-Mutilation, Self-Harm, Attempted Suicide, Self- Abortion, Abortion, Incest between cousins,

If any of this is a trigger for you, I apologies. I advise that you would please read at your own risk. Starting at this chapter things will get very dark. Krypton was not a fantasy land and was very dark. You have been warned!

A Monster is Born

Zor-El Residence- Day after plane crash

Kara didn't get much sleep that night, she spent most of the night tossing and turning when she wasn't checking on Kal. Finally at almost 2 in the morning she fell asleep and she dreamed, she remembered.

Krypton 3 months before it's destruction

Kara was in her study going over the reports of the troubling news from the Science Guild when her life truly started to fall apart. Kara had heard rumors of the estimation of Krypton's destruction was nigh and though she wanted to deny it, she would be a fool to dismiss the signs. Kara like other's didn't want to believe it, but unlike the council she was not a fool and knew that denial and dismissing the rumors was a folly. Kara may only be 13 Rao leagues old, but she was far too mature and intelligent than her age. The people of Krypton were an extremely intelligent race, not only in the fields that the Genesis Chamber provided them when the people of Krypton were created, but because once out of the chamber we evolve.

The Genesis Chamber is where the people of Krypton are created, the chosen parents take a sample of their DNA and Brain matter and inject it into a stasis field, which the Genesis Chamber transfers into a pod with embryonic liquid which like a plant feeds and nurtures the growth of the DNA samples. Once a month has past, the fluid is seeped into the DNA causing the DNA to form an embryo. Once another month has passed that embryo will start to grow into a child. Whilst the child is growing, the Chamber transfers the designated personality traits and skills that the parents require of their child, while another emerald green liquid is injected into the pod to kill the flaws the child would inherit from their parents. By the fifth month the imperfections will have been burnt out and the desired personality will have been shaped. Once the final month approaches, the child will have been given a vision quest of sorts to determine what Guild the Chamber will choose for the child. By the time the child emerges from the Chamber, the child will have a Guild, gender, skills and mate chosen for them.

Some Kryptonian's, like her father's house, the House of El remain stagnant to their chosen preset. Others like her Aunt Astra-InZe, evolve from their purpose and choose their own path. Astra-InZe was her mother's twin sister, twins were rare on Krypton and were more often than not seen as a bad omen. The last set of twins on Krypton started a war with the planet of Daxam that nearly saw to Krypton's destruction. So her mother and Aunt were seen as the bringers of death to Krypton, and it won't be until Kara had set off alone in her pod that she will see just how true those omens were.

Kara's mother, Alura-ZorEl was the Judicator of Krypton, it was her job to send criminals to the Phantom Zone, a place where time is irrelevant and there is nothing but despair and nothingness. To be sentenced to the Phantom Zone is the Highest of all punishments, because the people who enter the Phantom Zone never return and those who return come back as something else. Honestly the only mercy on Krypton when it comes to punishment is death, being such a highly advanced planet meant everything is advanced, including ways to torture and kill someone. In fact, that was her Aunt's specialty.

Kara's Aunt, Astra- InZe was Krypton's General and top enforcer. Whenever a war was upon them, she would lead them. Whenever her family was in any danger, she destroyed the danger and hunted whoever started the threat against them. Whenever someone needed to be silenced, she was the last face they saw and the last voice they heard as she sent them to Rao's light. Whenever the Council needed information, she made people sing their secrets to her…or scream them. Astra was Kara's hero, she loved her so much that she wanted to be just like her once she got older. In fact, Kara was already too much like General Astra, that her mother was worried that she would have to one day send her only child to join her Aunt in the void.

Since her mother was always too busy with either the Council or the Science Guild to spend any time with her, Kara was more or less raised by her Aunt Astra and her husband Non. Astra became the mother she desperately wanted and Non became the father she sorely needed. Maybe if Alura and Zor had spent any time with Kara besides tucking her into bed, criticizing her or scolding her for one thing or another, than Kara wouldn't have turned out the way she did. Maybe if Alura spent more than five minutes with her daughter, than she would have seen the darkness that was festering in her child as Non and Astra whispered into the child's ears of plans of the Council's downfall. But alas she didn't and the consequences of that neglect saw to the beginning of the downfall of Krypton.

While her parents and the Council squabbled like children trying to deny the fact that Krypton was falling, Astra, Non and Kara plotted a way to save their planet. Astra and Non decided that a weapon should be forged that would ensure their survival, a weapon that only the two of them would know about giving Kara plausible deniability. While they were building the weapon, Kara built a spy network within the children of the Great Houses and the Guilds, using her silver tongue she quickly had her spy network. As her little spies whispered their reports and her Aunt and Uncle built their weapon, they had no idea that they were discovered, or at least Astra and Non were.

The night before, Kara had a very bad feeling that something was going to happen. Her mother called Kara into her chambers for the first time in a month to spend time with her. If Kara hadn't spent so much time with her Aunt and Uncle, Kara might not have seen through her mother's subtle interrogations. Alas, Kara knew an interrogation when she hears one, you don't get to be the daughter of a Judicator and spend so much time spying and not be able to detect a ruse. Playing along, Kara answered her mother dutifully, telling her of how her Aunt was teaching her the Ways of the Warrior and her Uncle was teaching her about politics. As she spoke, she saw her mother's frown grow more pronounced, showing her unease. By the time she was done with her interrogation, Alura looked more disturbed than Kara had ever seen her, before Kara could ask her what was wrong however Astra burst into the room. After being ordered to leave so that she could speak to her Aunt, Kara left to find out what was going on from her little network of spies. But it seems that whatever is going on, her mother is keeping her cards close to her chest since she could find out nothing from anyone. Determined to find out from her Aunt tomorrow, Kara went to bed, not knowing that this would be the last night she would ever see her Aunt and Uncle again.

Which brings her to now, in her study looking through her spies reports on the Science Guild's predictions of Krypton and the reports of Jor-El and Zor-El being more shifty than usual. Leaning back into her chair, Kara frowned. Spinning to look out the window of her study to see her city so full of activity, she was troubled at the thought that it would all one day be gone and if her father and Jor-El were to be believed in a matter of months. Kara sighed, she wished that her Aunt and Uncle were here, they would know what to do next. Her mother informed her that morning that her Aunt and Uncle were sent on a mission to one of their neighboring planets to find a way to stabilize the planet's core. Kara wasn't sure if her mother was telling her the truth or if she was telling her enough of the truth that it was enough to fool her, but she knew that her Aunt and Uncle were not here. With them gone, it falls to Kara to continue with their plan. The plan is to first find a way to save the planet, once they find a way to do that than present it to the Council. If the Council were to refuse them, well… they will simply overthrow them and enact the plan either way.

Kara was broken from her thoughts by the door to her study being suddenly thrown open. As quick as a Night Wing, Kara flung the closest object on her desk at the intruder, which was a letter opener. The intruder deftly caught the flying weapon before it could impact their face and swiftly sent it straight back. As deftly as the intruder caught it, so too did Kara. Once she had the letter opener in her hand, she twirled it in her hand once before calmly settling it down on her desk as if nothing happened. There is only one person that she knows who is audacious enough to just barge into her private study like they own the Rao's damned place and there is only one person besides her Aunt who is almost as skilled as she.

"Kor-Zod," Kara curtly greeted him as she got up from her desk to stand before him. Kara hated showing any sort of weakness in front of this boy and to remain seated as he stood above her was something she would not stand for. Kara was having a very bad enough day already, and it seemed to only get worse.

Kor-Zod is General Zod's and Laura-El's son. Kor was the result of his father raping his mother Laura-El, the wife of her father's brother. Kara never got along with Laura or Jor-El, but even she wouldn't wish what happened to Laura on anyone. Unfortunately, not only is General Zod alive, albeit in the Phantom Zone, but according to the laws of Krypton what happened to Laura was allowed as she was the spoils of war. General Zod having won the war for them against Daxam 15 years ago was given his choice of reward and the Council were forced to grant it no matter what or be forever denied Rao's light. General Zod chose to have Laura as his mistress to be his whenever he pleased, even though she is married, even though she was the wife of one of the Council, they had no choice but to grant it to him. Even now years later whenever General Zod calls for her she is forced to go to him and let him have his way with her .Thankfully, two years ago General Zod was sent to the Phantom Zone for trying to start a civil war on Krypton, so Laura is free except from the scars and the reminders in her bastard son Kor.

Unfortunately for Kara, it seems that the House of Zod's fascination with the House of El runs strong in Kor, for he has been obsessed with her ever since she could remember. Kara knew that as the heiress of the Noble House of El and the future leader of the Council, Kara was expected to take a husband. Thankfully, her parents although neglectful cared about Kara enough to let her choose her mate rather than follow normal traditions and betroth her to someone they deem worthy enough to become her future husband or wife.

Also fortunate for Kara, Astra and Non would sooner destroy the planet themselves than force Kara into a marriage that she doesn't want. Kara couldn't stomach the thought of what would happen if her parents were to have her married off to someone like Kor-Zod. The boy was a cruel, egotistical, man whore who was best to be gutted and left in the streets of Argos rather than become her husband. No matter what the boy did, Kara would never accept him as anything less than a future General Zod, the sadistic fucker that his father was.

As it is today he seemed to be more determined than ever to have her and for the first time that she could remember, she was wary of the young Zod.

"Lady El," Kor-Zod's rich timbered voice growled in her ear from behind her causing her to gasp in surprise. While Kara was lost in thought about how much she loathed the boy, he had snuck up behind her, silent as a Kandr'thor. Trying not to show him her surprise, Kara schooled her face into an unreadable expression, before she gently nodded her head to show that she acknowledged his presence, though she did not look at him she knew he noticed her surprise, she could practically see his smug smile.

"What is it you want Zod? I am busy as you know," Kara's stern voice filled the tense silence between them. Kara could feel that something bad was going to happen if she didn't get Kor to leave this room, so using all of the diplomacy she could muster, she tried to get him to state his business and then leave. Unfortunately, Kor never does anything that she wants him to do and this time will be no different. She heard him scoff behind her before she felt his hands grip her waist as he pulled him to her causing her to inhale sharply in surprise. Never has anyone touched her like this, against her will or otherwise, honestly she didn't think him capable of being this forward or rough with her, her being his obsession from afar until now.

Squirming to get away from him, she opened her mouth to call for her guards when she found herself well and truly trapped as the arm that wasn't gripping her hip had wrapped around her middle and trapped her arms to her side. Kara was trapped, she couldn't punch him because he had her arms secure and she couldn't move her legs to kick him because he had placed his leg between them so if she did, he would be pressed against her center more than he was already and what pride she had left wouldn't allow her to give him more pleasure than she could feel pressed against her behind. Thus she would have to call for help. Just as she opened her mouth to call for help, Kor growled into her ear, "don't bother," with a harsh tug of her earlobe with his teeth she cried out in pain, he continued "nobody is coming to save you." With that he roughly spun her body around and shoved her and bent her over against her desk, so that he was still behind her and she had no room to resist him without hurting herself further. Frozen in fear she could do nothing to stop him, with all of her training and all that she had been through to become the person she is, she is after all still a child and has not suffered through anything truly horrible…until now.

With a whimper of fear she opened her mouth, to beg, to plead, to call for help again even though it is futile, but nothing came out of her mouth. Not a sound. Kara was frozen with too much fear and as Kor Zod ravaged her body, as the sounds of flesh slapping against flesh filled the room and as the pain in her body grew and the screams and pleas she let loose finally sounded, Kara knew true suffering for the first time. As Zod finished and left the broken and traumatized heiress of the House of El behind, a part of Kara ZorEl died that day, alone in her office.

A part of Kara died when the shock wore off. A part of her died when her mother found her hours later a shell of the person her daughter was before. A part of her died when she found out that his seed left in her abused body produced a child that she did not want. A part of her died as she took her Aunt's knife and stabbed herself in the belly to kill the product of her shame and if it killed her she no longer cared. That was the day, Kara truly started to become the monster she would later become, a sociopath with only one soul to give her a chance of redemption.

With a lurch Kara sprung up from bed as she awoke, her heart was racing like she had ran a race without her powers and sweat was dripping down her heaving sweat soaked body. With wide eyes filled to the brim with terror and an anger that she knew as intimately as a lover, Kara began to settle as she sunk into her anger. Why? Kara thought to herself, enraged at having to remember that awful day. Why did I have to dream of that day? I haven't thought about it in years! With a deep sigh, Kara decided that there is no way in Rao that Kara is going back to sleep and decided to check on Kal one more time before she began the day. Giving her sweat soaked sheets a look of disgust, she left the bedroom and headed to check on Kal.

Once she arrived at Kal's room, she gently opened the door and gazed at her little star. Kal looked so at peace as he slept, as if nothing in the world could harm him, which if Kara had it her way it wouldn't. The fact that he almost died yesterday due to the human's incompetence raised her ire to such lengths that she vowed that she would find out who is responsible for causing that plane to crash endangering her cousin's life and when she found them she is going to destroy them.

A chirping sound coming from her bedroom roused her from her vengeful thoughts. With a frown, Kara glanced at her wristwatch to see how early it was. Seeing the watch read 4:15 am, Kara silently groaned as she had a good idea as to who would be crazy enough to call her at this hour. With one last glance at her sleeping cousin, she quietly left the room and gently closed his door, content that at least one of them was having a peaceful sleep.

Once back in her bedroom, Kara grabbed her phone off the nightstand beside her bed and headed to the kitchen to start her breakfast as she talked. With a swipe of her phone she answered.

"Catherine, how can I help you at this lovely hour?!" Kara answered sarcastically as she flicked the kitchen light on, not that she needed it and started her coffee machine. With a humph, Cat Grant pointedly ignored her friends early morning snark and got to the point of the reason she is calling her old friend at 4:15 in the morning.

"You owe me an interview," she simply stated it as a fact knowing that neither women liked beating around the bush. Raising an amused brow at the woman's boldness, Kara smirked as she got the ingredients out to make pancakes for her and Kal. It wouldn't be long until he was up for his morning run before school.

"Do I now?" Kara toyed with the woman, she of course knew that she owed her old friend absolutely nothing, but it was amusing to hear this human try to sound like she had any type of control over her. It was a game they had played ever since they met, it was a game of cat and mouse and although the woman's name was Cat Grant, she more often than not was the mouse in their little games.

Cat's only reply was another huff at her friend and her little mind games, Cat knew exactly how her friend viewed their little tête-à-tête, but honestly she found their little mind and word games too fun to call her out on it. With an amused chuckle, Kara decided to throw the other woman a bone. "Fine Catherine, I will give you your interview," hearing the almost quite sound of relief that anyone other than Kara would otherwise hear, Kara smirked as she continued her ultimatum. "But with you, not that Olson boy," Kara told her in no uncertain terms.

Kara did not like Mr. Olson, from just one meeting with him she got a good read of his character and could tell right off of the bat that he is too self-righteous and too much of a pussy to stand toe to toe with her in an interview. Kara would eat that poor boy alive and spit him back out, Kara wanted her first interview to be with someone who isn't afraid to ask her questions and to dig. Kara is just longing for a challenge, something, anything really that will provide excitement. At this point she concluded that nobody other than Catherine would be able to interview her without either ruining it, being too intimidated or both.

If her old friend was surprised at her ultimatum, she didn't show it. Besides Kara knew that Catherine would have rather interviewed her yesterday anyway, in fact if her son wasn't sick than she would have.

With plans to have the interview next week with only Cat, the two old friends chatted for a bit while Kara finished cooking breakfast. By the time she hung up and breakfast was done, Kal had finished his run, showered and was at the dinner table ready to eat his enormous breakfast before school. Once her coffee was done, she quickly made her cup before she joined Kal at the table. After a few moments of eating in silence, content to just bask in being together and savor the fact that Kal was alive, the silence was broken.

"Another nightmare?" Kal quietly asked his older cousin. Kal knew she had nightmares, but Kara would never tell him what they were about. At first it hurt that she wouldn't confide in him. But as the years went by and she refused to divulge anything to him about them he decided to stop asking what they were about. Kal just always acknowledged that he knows that she had them and the offer to talk about them is always there unspoken and silent. Kal's only answer was a grimace of agreement. Kara chugged the rest of her coffee, grabbed the dishes and put them in the sink. With a sigh at his cousin's silence and stubbornness, Kal grabbed his bag and with a peck on her cheek and a quiet I love you to his somber cousin, Kal left for school.

Now alone in the empty house, Kara's shoulder sagged in weariness. Kara knew that her cousin meant well and that he only wants to help. But Kara would rather pretend that she never had any nightmares, it is how she is able to get through the day. Kara knows it isn't a healthy way to cope and that she should talk to someone about it, but she can't. Kal was a baby when Krypton died and although she has been teaching him of the customs, culture and technology of Krypton, she hasn't really brought up much about their family.

She didn't talk about them partly because it was too painful to talk about the family that she lost, partly because she had nothing good to say about a majority of their family. Rao their family was so bad that at the age of 13 Kara was leading a rebellion against the Council and their parents in the shadows. How do you tell your cousin that the planet that they had lost, was better off lost? How do you tell your cousin, that their family was so twisted and fucked up that their cousin raped her? No it was better that he never know. Let Kal live in the ignorance she so wished she could have. Besides, it's not like she could talk to anyone else about the nightmares and trauma she lived through, what shrink would listen to an alien? Not to mention, the day she divulges her woes to a human, is the day that her Aunt Astra will come back from the dead.

With a shake of her head, Kara decided that there was no time like the present to find out who in Rao's name decided it was a good idea to try to kill her cousin. With a glance at the sun through the kitchen window, Kara headed to her home study to start her investigation. Kara just prayed to Rao that before the end of the day she will have the name of the dumb fuck who thought it was okay to mess with her family.

Author Note 1

So I hope you liked this chapter! Starting from this chapter and continuing on, this story will get dark. Although there will be light moments, fluff and happy moments, there will be a lot of darkness. Remember, this Kara is a Sociopath and would sooner slit your throat if she feels like it or it suits her, than she would forgive you or be your friend. Although Kara is not a total monster, Kal being her humanity, as the story progresses and she lets people in, she will gain some morals but overall she will still be scary as fuck!

Author Note 2

I always thought that Astra was always more of a mother to Kara than Alura, so in this fic she is as good as. I also made Non a tolerable character for our little psycho. What terrible influences our little Kara has had even before coming to earth right?

Also, I know it doesn't seem realistic that a 13 year old can lead a rebellion in the shadows, much less have her own little army and on top of that act so much like a soldier. But remember, Krypton is a technologically advanced planet and in order to be that advanced, that means that the planet is full of geniuses. I can see no way where someone who is such a genius at a young age isn't mature enough to lead an army, spy network, rebellion, whatever. Not to mention the Genesis Chamber pretty much kills childhood naivety, what with being created to be perfect and being so naive is the opposite of perfection. Also if you think about it, back in the medieval ages, it wasn't uncommon for someone so young, heck even younger to lead an army, rebellion and be this stoic and mature. In some places this is still a thing.

To clear up the age confusion:

Kara ages at a very slow rate. I want to emphasize that Kara and Kal-El are not human at all. They may look human and sometimes act human but they aren't. The only one of the two that are the most similar to humans is Kal since when they arrived he was a baby who never had any contact with any other sun but the yellow one and the only alien he knows is Kara. There is more than one reason that Kal is the only thing that keeps Kara human. Also Kryptonian's age much slower than humans do, they age six years slower than humans. Kara will have two ages in this story her Kryptonian age and her human age. Although she looks like her Kryptonian age her human age will have an impact on the story you will see. It sounds confusing but it will make sense as the story goes on.

Here is the timeline:
Kara is 13 and Kal is a month old when they leave Krypton
Kara and Kal spent 24 years in the phantom zone where only Kara is awake and aging.
Kara is 37 in human years when she and Kal land on earth
Kara is 31 in Kryptonian years when she and Kal land on earth
KryptoTech is started 3 years later when Kara is 40 in human years and 34 Kryptonian years.
The story starts 13 years later when Kara is 53 human years and 47 Kryptonian years.

Her Kryptonian years is her physical age in a way. So she looks 47 years old right now, but with her alien DNA she has no wrinkles, pimples, acne, grey hair, etc.

Krypton Terms:

Rao Leagues= how many years old. 13 years old=13 Rao Leagues old

Kandr'thor(Khan-dre-thor)= A predator on Krypton that is highly toxic, the creature is very fast, has highly tuned senses, is incredibly strong and it can camouflage to blend in extremely well with its surroundings. This creature is highly flammable and gives off a secretion that is used in some of Krypton's medicine to treat the Argo Fever. The cry of this creature is nearly fatal to anyone who hears it.