Themyscira- East Wing of the Palace

Kal opened his eyes as he stopped his mediation, he looked out the balcony and saw the sun rising over the horizon. He wasn't surprised, you can really lose track of time when you're in a deep mediation, and when you do it right, it can replace sleep. Kal stood up and walked over to the balcony and looked down to the city, he could see that even at dawn the city was alive. The amazons where all working, some were at the market. The guards where on patrol around the outside of the city area. All though Kal's room offered and amazing view of the city, his mind wondered to the question as to why his body was altered to the degree it was.

Kal looked down to the ground and saw a rock lying next to his feet. Kal bent down and picked it up, it was no bigger than his palm. Kal closed his fist and he didn't even feel the rock turn into dust in his hand. One by one Kal started to list the things that could have changed in him. A different planet brings in a lot of variables, different oxygen, different elements, different diseases. But nothing Kal could think of that might change his body this much. But maybe Epione might know, if she examined him then she would have kept some sort of file or document on it, except she didn't know what Kal's physiology was before he left Krypton so to her everything was normal. But Kal would be able to tell the difference between then and now.

Not having another idea Kal turned around and left his room, picking up his sword and putting it in the holster on his back, not trusting it to still be there when he got back if he left it alone. Walking through the halls of the palace he tried to ignore the grim looks that the guards where giving him, even more so than before. No doubt beating Diana in the spar made his situation worse. Now they probably hated and feared him even more, though he still had no idea why.

He stepped out of the palace and headed for the healing isle. Kal walked through the market to reach his destination but as he did all of the amazons stopped talking and just looked at him. But unlike last time, it was more to do with fear then anger. Kal wasn't going to lie, it concerned him. He didn't want his hosts to fear him. For now, he decided to ignore it and he would try to change their minds about him later.

But he knew that was going to be difficult due to that fact that he had begun to open up his senses gradually, not all at once because he hadn't fully mastered the skill, so he could hear and small everything within a thirty-foot radius. Which is why he could hear someone following him, from the side behind the buildings he was walking by. Deciding it was better not to risk using his eyes again, given that last time he did a lot of damage to the space stations. He didn't want the amazons to fear him more than they already did. He will just have to wait until his follower reviled herself.

Themyscira- Healing Isle

Epione was still eating her breakfast while thinking about how she should prepare for the afternoon. Due to Kal-El's easily won spar with Diana, Artimes became ten times for worried for the safety of her sisters and demanded that Hippolyta allow her to start a very stricked training regimen and that everyone had to attended. Ranging from sparing to battle tactics. Hippolyta agreed but it was mostly to shut Artimes up more than anything else, she knew that Artimes only wanted to do this because of Kal-El "excuse me, Ma'am" she heard a man say from behind her.

Epione shot up from her chair and turned seeing Kal-El standing the entrance to her healing chamber. He stood with his body straight and his hands behind his back "Kal-El... uh...what" Epione stuttered completely shocked by his appearance. She quickly regained her composure "I was not expecting you Kal-El"

"I apologies for coming here unannounced but I was hoping you could help me" Kal said stepping forward towards her, he did it slowly to try and avoid making her feel anymore uneasy.

Epione frowned "help you?" She said tilting her head.

"when you preformed the examination on me, I would like to see the report that you wrote" he requested politely.

"oh, of course" Epione said not seeing the harm in it. She walked over to her desk and pulled a copy of the report she wrote to the queen and handed it to him. Kal took the report from her and looked at it closely, there was no difference, he still had both hearts, he wasn't given anything apart from that drink to make him sleep "you made an incision into my skin. Correct?" Kal said.

"oh, yes that is correct but I will admit it was not easy" Epione said.

"may I see the tool you used in order to penetrate my skin?" Kal asked.

Epione was surprised by the request, she didn't want to, she wasn't supposed to. It was gift from the god of medicine himself, but he did seem sincere and maybe if she did she would learn something new about him "very well" she said praying that she would not regret her decision. She walked over to one of the cabinets that held various different tools and antidots. Lifting everything out of the draw she pulled up the small hatch at the bottom of it and reached in pulling out a beautifully crafted scalpel "there are more tools I used but this is what I used to make the incision" she said handing him the scalpel.

Kal carefully took the scalpel out of her hand straightened his left arm. Epione frowned as Kal took the scalpel and cut his arm "what are you doing?" She asked walking forward to him and snatching the scalpel from his hand, amazing herself at the lack of fear she had to him.

Kal looked at his arm seeing the blood drip from his wound "trying to find out what's different" Kal said as he looked closely at it looking for anything that is different. Already he could see that the blood had stopped running. Kal turned his head at the window and he could see a beam of sun light coming through it, he frowned 'a different type of star?' Kal thought to himself as he walked forward towards the window. Now standing right at the edge of the beam and he placed his arm in the light and his eyes widened as the wound entered the light and healed almost instantly.

Kal turned his head and looked right at the sun "a yellow main sequence star. That is a difference, of course" Kal said to himself speaking in Kryptonian forgetting Epione was there.

Epione stood behind him with his back to her wondering what he was doing "Kal-El?" She said stepping closer towards him.

Kal quickly turned around to face her "thank you ma'am, I appreciate your help" Kal said before leaving quickly not giving Epione any chance to ask him questions.

As Kal walked out of the healing chamber he knew that someone stepped out of the shadows behind him. Deciding to try and beat whoever this was at their own game and pretended not to know they were there and continue to walk forward. Behind him Phillipus slowly stepped forward and quickly glanced into the chamber looking at what Epione was doing and if she was ok before following Kal.

The Watch Tower- main hanger

Diana looked in the reflection of the Javelin window as it landed in the Watch Tower hanger. Though she could see right through the window, she could still get a glimpse of herself, thankfully her healing abilities have taken care of the pain but she still had some pretty bad bruising around her nose. Diana mentally thanked herself for coming this early because the only people likely to be here would be J'onn and Victor. She needed to tell someone about what happened and they would be her best choice as she always found the two to be the least judgemental of all the league members.

She stepped out of the Javelin and began to walk to the monitor room, thankfully she saw no-one there. It wasn't as if they were unprepared, someone was always monitoring everything in case of emergency. Opening the door to the monitor room Diana froze as someone stepped out as she was about to step in, someone she was hoping with everything she had that she wouldn't run into "hello Bruce" Diana politely as she looked into the shocked face of the Batman.

Bruce didn't replay. He quickly lifted his hand and glided his fingers over the bruise "what the hell happened!?" He asked as Diana walked past him into the monitor room and saw J'onn working on the controls "did you have another run with Cheetah or Circe?" Bruce guessed trying to think of the enemies he knows that can injure her.

J'onn heard Bruce's voice and turned to see Diana, he quickly became just as concerned as him "Diana, are you alright?" J'onn asked as he walked over towards her.

"I'm fine J'onn, thank you" Diana said "but I do need to talk to you, both of you actually now that you're here Bruce" Diana said as she took a seat by the controls.

"he did this to you, didn't he?" Bruce asked talking about Kal.

Diana sighed "I... I challenged Kal to a spar" she said looking down.

J'onn and Bruce both frowned at what they were hearing "and he beat you?" J'onn said confused, Diana was the best fighter, next to Bruce in martial arts.

"no" Diana growled, this was very hard to admit "he completely... completely... destroyed me" she said frowning.

Before J'onn could say anything, Bruce beat him to it "define 'destroyed'" Bruce quoted, already thinking of ways to take Kal down should he need to and he thinks he might need to.

Diana sighed again "we were sparing in the colosseum, I didn't hold back my strength like I do with some of the leaguers and it changed nothing. He gave me a broken nose and a concussion, he did it in less than two minutes and I didn't even touch him"

J'onn and Bruce's eyes widened and their jaws dropped. Even if Bruce had Diana's strength, he couldn't take her down that fast "Diana, we have to do something" Bruce said "do you anything that indicates a weakness we can use?"

"no, and Kal-El seems to be just as in the dark as we are. Besides we can't do anything against him. Kal-El has been completely respectful towards everyone, save for a few amazons who are completely unnerved by him. He never gave anyone reason to dislike him, he hasn't starred at any of the exposed breasts of my sisters, so they can't say he is a pervert. And I challenged Kal-El to the spar, he apologised for taking it to far and still remained respectful" Diana said.

"well this is interesting, though it could have been done better we have learned things about him. One is that he can fight..." J'onn started.

"and he's strong, strong enough to bruise Diana" Bruce continued "when he woke up he said that something happened that changed him when he was asleep, assuming he was telling the truth we need to find out what changed him. Knowing what species he is would help out a lot"

"Kryptonian" Diana quickly said.

J'onn frowned in confusion "what?" He and Bruce both asked.

"when Kal-El took his sword back he said it was Kryptonian technology. So, I assume he is a Kryptonian" Diana said shrugging.

"Kryptonian?" J'onn mumbled to himself "that name sounds familiar"

Bruce crossed his arms "is there anything else that might help us understand what he is"

Diana looked at him "yes, before I left to come here. I prayed to Hera hoping that she and the other gods might know something to help" Bruce and J'onn listened carefully "and she said the markings on Kal-Els sword are from a legend, she herself thought it a myth. And that concerns me, if I didn't know any better, I think she was scared"

Bruce frowned "Hera, the queen of the gods, seemed scared of Kal-El"

"how old must the markings be if they are a legend to the Olympian gods" J'onn asked.

"I do not know" Diana said.

Before anyone could say anything else the door opened and Victor walked in "hey guys...oh my god Diana, what happened?" He said walked forward to her to make sure she was ok.

"I'm fine Victor, it's nothing" Diana said but that didn't stop him from worrying about her for five minutes straight.

"what are you doing here Victor?" Bruce asked as he started to get annoyed by Cyborgs worrying.

"oh right" Victor said taking a step back "I just came to tell you that Hal's made contact, says he has big news about the ship and needs a meeting with the founding members"

Diana, Bruce and J'onn all raised an eyebrow. The founding members of the league have certain perks, one of them includes being able to call all of the other big seven for an emergency meeting. But that wasn't something to be done likely "I'll contact the others" Bruce said as he left the room and headed for the communication centre.

"how long until Hal gets here?" Diana asked.

"thirty minutes" Victor said as Diana was trying to decide whether or not to stay for the meeting or go back to Themyscira so Kal-El wouldn't get suspicious. She choose the latter.

Themyscira- wilderness behind the palace

Kal decided that it wouldn't be the worst idea to get his sight under control, but just to be sure he walked behind the palace and entered a wooded area so no-one would get hurt in case it went badly. Well, that was the plan until Kal heard that heartbeat and footsteps following him again. He knew he needed to address this.

Once Kal entered the tree line he decided to put his limited amount of training as a 'Shadow' into to play and sprinted forward. Sprinting forward was exactly stealthy but it would confuse the person following him for the two seconds Kal needed to despair from sight. And for a 'Shadow' two seconds is all it takes to vanish from view behind a tree and then they would have more time to find a better spot to hide.

Phillipus felt that she had being doing a good job following Kal-El without his knowledge, she became confused and worried when he started to head for the forest. As she entered the tree line following him as quietly as she could. She didn't know what he was doing when Kal sprinted away from her but it didn't matter, she ran after him still trying to remain hidden but that's difficult when you're running. She saw Kal-El run behind a tree, slowing down he crouched behind a bush and waited. When Kal didn't come out from behind a tree and she didn't hear him move forward in front of it she became concerned. Phillipus slowly walked forward and looked at the other side of the tree to find that Kal-El wasn't there. Her eyes widened in shock, she lost him 'Dammit' she shouted in her head.

Up in a tree thirty feet away Kal looked down to see who was following him. His head tilted in confusion at what he saw 'the general' he said to himself. 'Is Queen Hippolyta this distrusting of all her guests?' he asked himself. He knew Hippolyta didn't trust him but this seemed drastic. Kal sighed as he saw the general turn and leave. No doubt to report what has happened to the queen, Kal had no doubt that this wasn't going to help his relationship with the amazons, but that was something he could think about once he was done here. Using his new hearing he could tell that the general was out of the tree line and returning to the palace, he jumped down from the tree and walked into a small clearing.

Kal took a deep breath as he begun to try and use his eyes differently, but using your eyes wasn't the same as using your hearing and smell. It was harder than he expected, so he did the only thing he could think of. He began to open all of his senses to everything not holding them back at all. He winced as he began to hear the sounds of all the amazons, the wildlife around him, the sound of the leaf's waving in the trees and the waves of the sea landing on the beach. Kal opened his eyes and as strange as it sounded opening all of his senses made it easier to see his eyes as muscles instead of... eyes. That makes them easier to control, he lifted his hand up to his face and he could see under ship skin, the bone, the veins, the blood, everything.

Kal put his hand down and looked at the trees and wildlife around him, he could see through the trees, the roots under the ground. Slowly Kal tried to block out his other senses and only leave his eyes open, but as he blocked out everything else, his new-found sight left as well. Kal took a moment collect himself as he took a couple of deep breaths. This time he tried to remember the feeling he got when he used his sight and tried to replicate that feeling 'this may take a while' Kal thought to himself as he tried again.

Krypton-Two Billion Years Ago

Kal and his brother Lok both sat in a small conference room listening intently to what their father was saying as he decided to give them the briefing himself. This might be one of the most important mission in the entire war. The two brothers were listening as carefully as they could but Kal was more distracted then Lok, as to be expected considering that this was a mission to get Loana back "now, once you break through the atmosphere. My newly developed stealth drive should keep you hidden" Jor-El said as he paced in front of a monitor in the front of the brothers that showed some images of the outside of the ship.

"Genral Zod said that Lok and his team acquired intel that could provide a way on 'The Shadow of Intent'" Kal said.

"yes" Jor said as the images of the capital ship changed to an image of a small access point "there is a single, small, weak exhaust port, underneath the ships thrusters"

"under the thrusters?" Kal said confused "the heat from the fumes would burn us alive. It would be suicide"

"no" Lok interjected, Kal looked over to him so he could elaborate "normally they would, but right now the ship is parked peacefully in the middle of the entire fleet, unmoving"

"and if its unmoving then the thrusters and not going to be in use" Kal said back "but how do we get into it, unless the port is open? we don't have any hand-held weapons that can get past the armour of the Scar ships, let alone the shields"

Jor smiled "are scans of the ship show that it's power is far below average for a Scar ship, we have to assume that the reason why it's in the middle of the entire fleet unmoving is because that it's recharging its primary reactor. Unlike us, there power reactors can't run continuously. As for the ships armour plating. You use this" Jor said as he removed the El sword from a holster on his back.

"father" Kal and Lok both said confused.

"this is the only thing that can penetrate the armour plating, that you can use while remaining undetected by the Scar" Jor said as he took the blade and held it sideways with one hand on the hilt and another on the blade. Jor took a step forward and reached it out to Lok, him being the oldest meant that he was next entitled to it.

"Father, I cannot. It's not my time" Lok said stepping back.

"it is your birth right my son" Jor said as Lok slowly lifted his hand up to hold the hilt "just as it is Kal's. Once I move on from this life and join your mother at Rao's kingdom, it shall be passed down to you, and if you join us also, it shall be given to Kal"

Lok took a deep breath as he placed his hand around the hilt took it off Jor. Jor took a step back as he and Kal looked at Lok as he pointed the blade upwards before grabbing the hilt with his other hand. He grunted and took a deep breath as the markings around the hilt and the words carved into the blade began to glow blue "now Lok, go, take your brother and get those prisoners home" Jor said as he looked right into Lok's eyes.

Lok turned and looked at Kal "come brother, let's go get your lover back" Lok said as he left the room with Kal following closely behind him.

The Watch Tower- Founders conference room

The founders conference room was called that for a reason, no one could just walk in like Dinah did when the league first learnt that Kal's ship was coming. It uses both a biometric and retinal scanner's and a voice recognition system to ensure that no-one other than the big seven can get in without the any of the others knowing.

Over the last twenty minutes, one by one the other senior members of the league began to walk in. Apart from Diana, Bruce, J'onn and Victor. Barry came in first complaining about how early it was and that this was his day off from work, but quickly composed himself once he saw Diana's face and quickly asked who did it and should he beat them up for her. Diana could help but smile at Barry's childish response to her bruised face. After Diana told him what happened he sat down, not thinking it would be a good idea to fight Kal-E.

Arthur entered next calmly as he usually, once he saw Diana he asked what had happened and Diana told him the truth, but once she was done explaining Arthur couldn't help but burst out with laughter. Diana started to growl under her breath. At this embarrassing moment "well it seems that you finally found that opponent that was worthy of your time princess" he said calming himself down. Now Barry and Victor couldn't help but chuckle.

Diana always said that as a taunt when she sparred with the other leaguers, all of them hated it when she said that but she still won so they couldn't say anything back. Arthur has been waiting to say that for a long time. It felt so good to finally let it out. The laughter stopped as Hal walked in.

"Hal, did you find something about Kal-El?" J'onn asked.

"yeah, I did" Hal said as he slowly walked forward and took and a seat at his chair.

Everyone frowned as they looked at Hal's facial expression, Hal was usually relaxed but now he looked worried "Hal, what did you find?" Barry asked.

Hal sighed heavily "that ships Kryptonian and he's a fucking Kryptonian" he stated as he placed his hands on his face.

Everyone began worried, the way Hal spoke. Like he was worried and exhausted about the whole thing "yes, he told me that his sword is Kryptonian technology. Hal tell us what you know?" Diana asked calmly.

"I don't know anything. Nobody does, the Kryptonian's are one of the oldest legends in the universe. Nobody knows anything for certain. Shit I didn't even think they were real" he said lifting his head out of his hands.

"Hal. Is this good for us or bad for us?" Barry asked.

Hal looked right at Barry "I. Don't. Know" Hal repeated "no one has even seen a Kryptonian in over a billion years. That's why the legends are so old and well known. Every advanced civilization knows the story, Tamaraneans, Apokoliptians, Almeracians, The New God, every advanced race in the known universe knows about the almighty Kryptonian's" he finished.

"oh, that's right, I remember now" J'onn said out loud as everyone turned to look at him "I mentioned to Diana and Bruce that the name Kryptonian sounded familiar, and now I remember that my people knew the legend. I remember my father telling me it when I was a child. He spoke of the Kryptonian's being the universes first conquers, they battled and enslaved one race after another until a race they were invading sent a messenger the nearest planet that supported life and that survivor found another cavillation, he warned them of the incoming threat of the Kryptonian's and the race listened. When the Kryptonian's came they were prepared and won the battle. Nobodies heard from them since" J'onn said giving his fellow leaguers a brief version of the story that his father told him.

Batman immediately became alerted and was about to speak but Diana beat him to it "are you saying I aloud a conquering tyrant shelter at my home with my family?" Diana said standing up and heading for the door, she was going back to Themyscira and was going to stop Kal before he had a chance to repeat what Hercules did.

"no, he's not" Hal said stopping Diana before she could leave "Diana please sit down" Diana did as instructed deciding to trust Hal's word "like I said a lot of races know the story but the problem is legends are never a hundred percent clear. For every race that knows about the myth, there's another twist in the story. That's what the Martins believe. The Almeracians believe that the Kryptonian's became too hot headed and arrogant, not caring about the risks and destroyed themselves in an experiment they thought would befit them. The Tamaraneans believe that they entered a civil war and killed each other. The New Gods believed that the Kryptonian's grew so powerful that they drew the eye of the source itself and it decided to allow them to pass through the source wall, into a perfect home" Hal said listing off the ones he knows.

"which one is true?" Arthur asked being very interested in what was being said.

"I have no idea" Hal said shrugging his shoulders "that's the problem, well one of them anyway"

"what's the other?" Bruce asked thinking about this very carefully.

"well, while all the stories and legends are different in some areas all of them are the same when they speak of the Kryptonian's power and knowledge... and we have a fully operational Kryptonian ship in are hanger" he said pausing for a moment to allow that to sink in "The Lanterns are sending agents to come and collect it, they'll be here in a week"

Diana frowned "considering how Kal-El behaved around his sword I doubt he would allow anyone to take his property"

"we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" Cyborg said firmly.

"what about the lanterns?" Barry asked "being as old as they are, surly they know more about this legend than anyone else" he pointed out.

"yeah" Hal said "we have some information but ours is based off evidence, but we don't know the whole story.

"Hal, tell us what you know" J'onn asked calmly.

"well, from what I was told. When the lanterns were first formed they were attack. A hostile alien race attack Oa, we don't know who they were or why they attack, we still don't. A year after the attack, they won, they were ready to finish us off and end the lantern core before they could begin. But for some reason they left, just left without a word. Later we found that they started another fight, and we think they went to fight the Kryptonian's. When we finally got back on are feet we were able to track the ships they used to attack us. We followed them and all we found was a star system with a dead star and four dead worlds, two were molten wace lands and the other two were just worlds in ruin, nothing was even salvageable and after we scanned the sole system itself we found that there were another six worlds but they were close to the star then the others so they were just completely destroyed" Hal explained "we believe that, that star system belonged to the Kryptonian's" he finished.

Everyone was listening very carefully to what Hal was telling them, Diana new that she needed to speak to Kal-El about this when she returned. She didn't want to pry but after all of this she wanted to clear the air but she couldn't help herself but think about what Hera told her. Not just how long ago this happened but what the gods thought happened to the Kryptonian's "Hal, how long about was this?" She asked.

"over two billion years ago" he answered.

Everyone took a moment to consider that alone, most felt bad for Kal-El now. Thinking about why Kal-El never gave any indication to return home. He must know that there wasn't one left for him. Even if what Hal said about the race that attack him wasn't true, two billion years would make anyone think that their home was gone. Two billion years ago the earth was still full of volcanos and ash, no life at all.

"excuse me" Diana said standing up "I thinks it's time I had a talk with Kal-El" she said leaving the room.

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