The Watch Tower
Bruce sat quietly in a small conference room on a tablet, he knew that he should trust Diana, she's earned that trust but he couldn't help it. There was something about this Kal-El that was wrong, he's never gone against his gut and it usually works out. Which is why he was now looking at Kal-El's medical record that Ray and Dr Light where able to create with the little intel they were able to create when he was unconscious. And why he had asked for someone to come to him who might know something.
"You wanted to see me?" Shayera asked as she entered one of the secondary conference rooms. She stepped in and saw Batman sitting down typing on a tablet.
"yes, have a seat" Bruce said as he continued to look at the tablet.
Shayera ignored the rudeness from the Batman, she was used to this by now "what is it?" She asked sitting down across from him.
Bruce looked up to look her in the eye "I'm going to ask you a question, it's going to sound strange but I need some information" he said.
Shayera tilted her head at him confused "ok, what do you want to know?" She asked.
"I need to know something about your people, or more specifically some information your people on a whole know" Batman informed.
Shayera paused for a moment, becoming very confused 'What could he possibly want to know?' "what is it?" She asked.
"I want you to tell me about the Kryptonain's?" Bruce said sternly.
Shayera frowned in confusion "the Kryptonain's?" She asked as Bruce nodded "well... I only know as much as everyone else, I haven't thought about them since my mother told me their legend when I was only a little girl" she said, seeing Bruce nod in understanding she continued "From what I've been told, the Kryptonain's where a powerful race, the most powerful, the oldest. Nothing could stand in their way. The armies they had were strong enough to take on the lanterns, Apocalypse and new genesis all at once" Bruce's eyebrows raised, those three where the most powerful race's in the universe, at least to the Leagues knowledge "But something happened, I don't know the specifics but a civil war started, and even then, with a civil they had a great deal of honor"
"honor?" Bruce asked confused.
"yes, it was said that they didn't want to involve anyone else in their problems. so, they abandoned the colonies they created in other star systems and stopped any alliances with other races, supposedly because they wanted to solve this problem on their own. As far as I could tell nothing happened after that" she explained, Shayera leaned in towards Bruce just like her mother did to her "and some people say that anyone who gets close to their home system is never seen again" she said leaning back in her chair "and that's all I know" she finished.
Bruce sat back, he knew that Hal's intel from the lanterns was more reliable but he wanted to learn everything he could about Kal-El "why are you asking me this?" Shayera asked confused.
Bruce just stared back at her, not saying anything. She didn't need to know. Shayera frowned trying to connect the dots in her head "wait" she asked "does this have anything to do with Kal-El?" She asked.
Bruce just nodded back at her. Shayera tensed as she sat up in her chair "is Kal-El a...?" she asked as she saw Bruce nodded at her again. Shayera now looked scared as her mind tried to figure out all of the possibilities of what might happen "listen to me" she said in a serious tone "Bruce no-one can know what he is, if word gets out that there is a Kryptonain on earth. Earth will be in the spot light of the entire known universe, everyone will come here. And when I say everyone, I mean it. They'll want him for his technology, his knowledge, and they will set the earth on fire in order to do it" she warned.
Before Bruce could do anything else he was beaten to it by the intercom "Wonder Woman to Watch Tower, I repeat Wonder Woman to Watch Tower, does anyone read me!" Diana said over the com franticly.
"this is Batman, I read you Wonder Woman" Bruce answered.
"red alert! I repeat red alert! You have incoming, lock down the Watch Tower!" She shouted down the com.
Bruce stood up and pleased his hand on his ear, looking very concerned. Shayera stood up as well and took her mace out of its holster "why? What happened?" he asked.
"Kal-El found out that we're letting the Lanterns take his ship" Diana said.
Shayera's eye brows shot up as fast as she could blink and she ran to the console "Cyborg, lock down The Watch Tower. Priority one access code D3EF5" as she finished talking the lights turned to red and a loud alarm sounded throughout the station.
"where are you?" Bruce asked Diana.
"I'm still on Themyscira with J'onn and I have no idea where Flash is but Kal-El stole the Javelin. He's on his way up now" Diana warned.
Bruce's eyes widened as he turned and ran for the main control room of the station "how the hell dose he even know how to fly it?" He asked as he heard Shayera run behind him.
"I don't know but I can tell he's not happy. Listen Bruce, J'onn, Barry and I aren't going to be to get there in time. You need to prepare yourself, he is not to be underestimated" he heard Diana warn him as he hung up his end of the com and he and Shayera reached to control room.
As they both entered they could see Cyborg franticly typing on consoles as they could see everyone running around the station on the camera's trying to find out what is going on "Cyborg to all personal, battle stations this is not a drill" he said into the intercom to the entire station.
Javelin
Kal had a frown of anger on his face as the Javelin just left the atmosphere, he had always tried to keep his emotions in check, a soldier can't let his emotions interfere with the mission but he was failing to keep calm at the moment. He narrowed his eyes as he managed to zoom them in on the Watch Tower, though he did take a moment to realize that he did rip the ships entrance ramp off of it. Looks like he can breathe in space as well, he sighed. Every time Kal discovered a new ability he couldn't help but think about what his life might be like if he had it during the war.
Despite everything Kal still had no idea how he was going to get into the station itself... well, he had an idea. He just wasn't sure if everyone would survive his idea, let alone himself. But he knew he didn't have a choice, no-one was allowed to take his ship but himself and he would do whatever it took in order to defend it. He could tell that was about one minute away from it, he used his eyes to see through the walls of the station and see that his ship was still in the main hanger. Using the controls, he aimed the ship at what he could guess is a secondary hanger and put the thrusters on full power.
Standing up from the pilots chair he stood up and headed for the back of the ship where there was still a gaping hole from where the ramp used to be. Taking a deep breath, he stepped forward and fell through it only grabbing on at the last minute using his superior strength he punched the hull of the ship creating holes in it and used those hole's too pull himself up to the top of the ship.
Kal stood at the front of the ship, right above the cock-pit. He couldn't help but look down towards the earth, admiring its beauty. Closing his eyes, he could help but listen at what was being said within the station "evacuate the secondly hanger, immediately!"
"WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THIS GUY!"
"BRACE FOR IMPACT!"
Kal opened his eyes and saw the station only a hundred feet away from him. He took his sword from his back and just before the ship connected with the station he jumped forward. BBBBBAAAAANNNNNGGGG
The entire station shook as the Javelin collided with the station. Kal swiped his sword downwards as he reached the stations hull and went straight through as the ship hit the hull also crating a massive explosion. Kal rolled on the hanger floor as he collided without it to soften his landing as the ship's wreckage hit the ground behind him. Kal was surprised that he was remarkably ok from the endeavor. He stood up and placed his sword back in its holster as the air was being sucked out of the hanger from the very large hole created by the now completely destroyed Javelin. Seeing the damage throughout the station from the impact, Kal was happy to see that no-one was greatly injured, just a few scrapes and bruises, maybe a broken bone or two. But he also took the opportunity to find a suitable route to the main hanger which was on the other side of the station.
Not wasting any time Kal walked forward to an elevator was used to enter the hanger, calmly he walked inside and pushed a button, the elevator went upwards to join the rest of the station. Kal frowned and his eyes glowed red slightly as the elevator stopped and his anger grew "what the hell are you doing here" Kal heard a voice say through the elevator intercom, he recognized it as the voice of the one called Batman.
Kal turned and looked up the small camera as he eyes returned to their normal state "I'm only going to request this once" he said menacingly "return what is mine, or suffer the consequences" he finished.
"I can't do that; The Lantern Coups wants your ship for safe keeping and we are in no condition to deny them that" Batman said to him.
Kal's fists tightened as his blue Iris's turned red "very well" he said as he turned his whole body to look at the camera "but you were warned" he said as he tried to focus his eyes the same way he did on Themyscira, the only difference now being that now. He was angry. His eyes widened and two red beams shot outwards and hit the camera directly completely destroying it.
Calming himself down his eyes return to normal as he now used them to look through the elevator, he was two levels down from the main hanger and he could see everyone all run towards where he was now. Thankfully they were all separated from each other, either on their own or in pairs. Kal now had a plan, if he was fast he could take them all down one by one while at the same time heading for his ship.
Kal jammed his hands into the elevator doors and ripped them open, he stepped out he began to run down the corridor to the stair case. He turned a corner and stopped when he saw a woman in black leather with blonde hair and a man wearing green carrying a bow.
They both stopped when they saw him, Kal narrowed his eyes and the woman took a defensive stance with her fists raised and the man took an arrow out from its quiver aiming right at him. Kal took a chance and charged forward to them, the man released the arrow which Kal caught with ease, as he reached the two the woman opened her mouth and screamed. The sheer force of the scream stopped Kal and slowly pushed him back, he dropped the arrow and covered his ears as he tried to block out the noise. Which was failing, he wouldn't be able to do this for long, he looked up and could see the woman still screaming at him and the man looking off to the side with his finger in his ear mouthing something to someone.
Kal narrowed his eyes and he took his hands down from his ears and slowly stand back. The force of the scream created visible sound wave which made what was in front of him hard to see but he could still make out the man turning to face him mouthing something along the lines of 'oh, come on' as Kal in one fluid motion he dashed forward several feet and clamped his hand over her mouth.
She struggled to try and get free from his grip but nothing worked, the man moved forward and tried to punch him but failed as Kal quickly pushed his fist to the side and delivering a quick jap to his head and he fell back unconscious. He turned his head to face the woman who had both hands gripped around his wrist but before Kal could do anything else his eyes looked over her shoulder and he saw two more women running towards him. One was wearing a skin-tight suit that was a mix of black and pick, with a mask, holding a cross bow and the other was wearing a leather orange suit with some kind of necklace with an animal head on the end of it.
Kal lifted the woman off her feet and threw her at the other two. As she flew through the air Kal ran forward towards them. As the blonde-haired woman reached the other two Kal used his great speed to run along the wall past the woman as they dropped their weapons to catch the other. All three of them fell to the ground as Kal's feet touched the ground again and he continued to the staircase.
Kal opened the door to the staircase and ran upwards to the level the main hanger was on. The staircase was square in shape with a hole in the middle so you can look down to all the other level's. Kal turned his head as he heard something coming up towards him, his eye's narrowed as he saw a large man with what looked like silver skin and an atom symbol on his chest. Kal was knocked to the wall as the man fired a blue energy blast at him. Not wasting any time Kal jumped up and pushed himself against the wall, boosting him towards the man. Kal bashed him against the opposite wall and before he could retaliate, Kal picked him up by the neck and delivered a powerful punch to his face knocking him out.
Kal looked back up to the stairs and ran up to the next level before leaving the staircase. He stopped as he stepped out and saw three individuals in front of him. Two of them had wings and maces and they both stood opposite a man holding what looked like a trident. Kal narrowed his eyes as he saw the others ready themselves in defensive stances. Kal stepped forward and took his sword out of his holster.
The three charged at him. As Kal could see them coming towards him, knowing he can't waste any more time, he slowly grabbed the hilt of the blade with his other hand. The swords inscriptions and patterns began to glow in the ethereal blue they did before, his eyes slowly met those of the man with the trident.
Kal lifted the blade above his head and moved it down in a fast and powerful motion. Before the three could do anything else a large powerful beam of blue light shot out of the sword. Large enough to fill the entire corridor. Shayera, Fel Andar and Arthur didn't stand a chance. As the light faded returning the corridor to its usual brightness, Kal could them all on the ground unconscious, it looked like they were still breathing. They fared better than the corridor itself did, all of the floor and wall panel's where torn up, electrical sparks firing all over the place.
Kal walked forward as he took his left hand off the sword and it returned to its normal state. Walking past their bodies as he placed the blade back in its holster.
The Main Hanger
Batman stood in front of the entrance to the hanger, standing right in the middle of the door and Kal's ship. Standing on his right was Hal, Atom, Red Tornado and Zatanna. On his left stood John Stuart, Firestorm, Steel, Blue Beetle and Shazam. Everyone else was either off duty or on mission somewhere else. Everyone stood battle ready as they faced the locked hanger doors, it was known by Cyborg who was still in the control room trying everything he could to slow Kal down that he had taken down, Black canary, Green Arrow, both Hawkman and Hawkwoman and Aquaman.
That caused everyone to be on edge and to be ready for anything "get ready everyone, he's just outside the door" Cyborg said over the com as he tried to get in contact with everyone else trying to get them to the station as soon as possible to help defend it.
Everyone visibly tensed at the news and readied themselves even more than before, expect for Batman, who stood like a statue. The next three seconds seemed like an entirety, everything had frozen, not a sound was heard. That was until everyone saw Kal's hands rip through the middle of the door and pushing them apart like they were made of paper. Kal took a step into the hanger with an emotionless face. Batman hand flicked his wrist and held three batarangs in each hand "I have already told Batman this" Kal started as he starred at the ten individuals in front of him "but since I have not told you I will now, step aside and allow me to take back what is mine. Or suffer the consequences" he finished.
As Kal finished speaking everyone readied there weapons more openly making it clear that they were not going to let him pass. Kal closed his eyes and sighed "disappointing" he said before opening his eyes and firing a blast of red energy aimed right at Batman.
Seeing it coming Bruce rolled to the side just managing to dodged the attack. He looked over to Kal who stood still, he smirked "I thought, you'd be a better shot" he quipped.
"I wasn't aiming for you" Kal said back.
Bruce's eyes widened as he and the other's turned to see the shield around Kal's ship shiver and distort before unleashing a powerful wave of red energy knocking everyone off their feet and left them dazed. Kal couldn't help but put a small smile on his face, he wasn't sure that would work.
Walking forward he passed everyone as they got back up to their feet but by then it was too late. Kal had passed through the shield and entered his ship. Walking inside he went straight for the pilot's chair. Not wasting any time, he started the engines, Kelex quickly came to life next to him "Master, we are currently taking fire" he informed Kal in Kryptonian.
Kal looked to his left out the window and saw everyone was back on their feet firing everything they had at the ship, nothing getting past the shield "what's the status of the ships power level's" Kal asked as he started the thrusters.
"our current power levels are zero-point five percent master" Kelex informed.
"Krosis" Kal cursed under his breath "it will have to do" he said to himself as he lifted the ship off the Hanger ground and left the station. Already the lights started to go out due to a lack of power "Kelex, run a life scan of the planet. Find the most uninhabitable area, and activated the cloaking" Kal ordered.
"y...yesssssss... mas...ter... scann...ing" Kelexsaid as the scanned the planet and turned on the cloaking device "loc...a...tion...fooooooooo...und" he finished as Kal looked up to see the from windows holographic glass activate a highlight white part of the planet located right at the top of the world.
Following his plan Kal aimed the ship right at highlighted location and put the thrusters on full "Kelex I want you to shut down all power to the ship expect for yourself and the cloaking. Now!" He ordered as the ship began to roast from the entry of the atmosphere.
"deac...tivat...ing...sys...tems..." Kelex said as all of the controls shut off leaving the ship in a free full.
"deactivate cloaking the second we hit the ground" Kal ordered as he grabbed the chair he was sitting in the try and stable himself as the ship rocked back and forth. He looked out the window to see he was heading for the ground "three" he said as he closed his eyes "two" ground was approaching fast "one" and then, darkness.
Themyscira- one hour later
Diana paced back and forth in the spot where the Javelin used to be parked. She was surrounded by her sisters, her mother and J'onn put no one new Donna and Barry where "Diana, you must calm down" J'onn said as he stood next to Hippolyta with his arms crossed.
"calm down? CALM DOWN?" She shouted back "how can I calm down J'onn, Kal-El is up there armed and probably in raged, with what we've down. I'd be surprised if he doesn't kill someone"
"daughter I do not think that would be the case" Hippolyta started "despite what I feel towards Kal-El, he does not seem like the type of man to kill mercilessly" she said trying to comfort her.
"he won't have to" Diana spat back "he will let the league defend themselves but we all know that, that will do nothing. Even prepared, he will kill every last one of them" she said pressing her finger to her ear "Batman" she said into it "Batman, come on" she continued "Hal, are you there. Oliver Report... SOMEONE COME IN" she shouted franticly her voice full of fear.
"Diana, it's Cyborg" Victor said through the com.
Diana and J'onn both sighed in relief as they heard their friends voice "Victor, what happened? Are you ok?" She asked.
"I'm ok. The rest of the league not so much" he said with his voice full of regret.
Diana and J'onn looked at each other with concern "what do you mean Cyborg?" J'onn asked.
"the secondary hanger is completely unusable. Green Arrow, Aquaman, Hawkman and Hawkgirl are all in intensive care, everyone else has a few scrapes and bruises but nothing that series. Kal-El's gone, he took his ship used some kind of cloaking device. He's gone" Cyborg informed.
All of the amazons but on a shocked face. J'onn seemed unfazed by it while Diana looked disappointed "what's going on?" Wally asked as he and Donna walked through the crowed.
"WHERE IN HERA'S NAME HAVE YOU TWO BEEN!?" Diana shouted at the two as they reached the others.
"I got bored watching you get pissed at how easily Kal was pushing you back..." Barry started.
"and I noticed so I offered to show him around more" Donna finished for him not flinching or stuttering in the slightest, being smart enough to think of their excuses before they came and still lying in bed panting.
"without your com?" J'onn asked spectacle as he crossed his arms.
Barry pauses for a moment, he didn't think of a comeback for that "I tripped and fell in some water. Com got damaged" he said quickly as Donna nodded along.
Before Diana or J'onn could say anything, Cyborg beat them two it "I'm sending a Javelin to you now, should be there in a couple of minutes. Listen Diana, I know you and J'onn want to see the best in Kal-El but Batman's on the war path and he has the rest of the league behind him. Kal-El just kicked our asses"
Diana and J'onn both sighed "what can Bruce do Victor? We don't even know where he is?" She said looking over the J'onn.
Krypton- two billion years ago
Kal and Lok where both putting on their stealth suits, stealth was a shadows primary weapon after all. Kal looked out of the front window as the ship was on auto pilot, they were close now "Brother, I know you want Loana back more than anything" Lok said as he looked at the back of Kal's head as he looked out the window "but you need to know that we have to destroy that ship" he stated.
"that wasn't the mission Lok" Kal remained his brother.
"I know, I know are mission was to get everyone out" Lok sighed "but we can't stop there, we have to destroy this ship. If we do that, maybe we can win this war"
Kal turned to face Lok with a complexed face. Kal wanted to destroy this ship, don't doubt that but his first priority was Loana and everyone else on the ship, nobody knew what happened to the captured Kryptonian's, they only had a basic idea because of what they've seen in other Scar camps and prisons. He didn't want to imagen what happens to the people that are taken here "very well, but the prisoners are our first priority" he said sternly.
"Agreed" Lok said nodding his head but he didn't get to say anything else before his eyes were drawn to the front of the ship. His eyes widened and Kal turned to see what he was looking at, Kal's face adopted the same look at Lok. They both took a step forward towards the front of the window to get a better look at what was in front of them.
They both froze for a moment and saw the Scar capital ship in front of them 'The Shadow of Intent' one of the banes of the Kryptonian people, that ship is responsible for so much destruction and death. It's led the charge against six of the Kryptonian worlds always been the first to start the glassing process when all the defensives where knocked out.
Kal went to the pilot's chair and began to slowly fly the ship towards the exhaust point under the thrusters "are you ready?" Lok asked.
"for Loana, I'll always be ready" Kal said back without any hesitation "are you?" He asked back.
"whatever it takes for our people, brother" Lok said back as Kal stopped the ship just under the port. The ship rocked as he activated the magnetic clamps locking their ship against the Scar's.
"I got us here Lok, now it's your lead" Kal said as he opened the ships roof entrance, as the ship was locked in place against the Scar's no air was taken out as there was nowhere for it to go.
"well than" Lok said as he took the blade of its holster and grabbed it with both hands. As the blade used its full power Lok thrusted it upwards right into the Sadow of Intents hull, going right through it.
The Artic
Kal's eyes slowly opened as he lay on his back looking up against the sky, everything hurt, his back, his front, his head, his hands. His head turned to the side and he saw the sun hanging just above the horizon. He lifted his hand as if he was trying to touch it but the more he looked at it the more he could feel himself feeling better.
Standing up Kal looked at what was in front of him, nothing. Kal couldn't see anything for hundreds of miles, just a waste land. But something was falling from the sky, he didn't know what it was. The only thing that comes close to it is that ashes from fires of crashed ships and explosions but this wasn't anything like this. Kal lifted his hand up and opened it. He could feel the cold of it as landed on his hand and head and shoulders.
Looking in front of him Kal could see thousands and millions of them falling from the sky. He couldn't help but chuckle and smile at the sight. In all of this...what can only be described as the desolation of nature, there was beauty.
The smile on Kal's face faded as he turned around and saw his ship. In very bad shape, taking down the shields might not have been the best idea but he had to in order to save whatever power he had left. This ship was full of puncture holes, sparks flying everywhere, honestly Kal didn't even think he could fly the ship if he tried. Running forward he climbed in the ship by the huge hole in the middle of the front window, guessing that he was forced through it when the ship crashed.
It looked even worse on the inside as it did on the outside, walking over to the console where the control key was it pushed a few buttons and Kelex soon came to life "mas... ter... master it is good to see you unharmed" Kelex said.
"likewise, Kelex, what is the power status?" Kal asked.
"are current power level is zero point two percent Master, if you continue to not use any other systems. I should operational for another forty-eight earth hours" he informed Kal.
"I thought you were taking power from the station" he said back confused.
"I was master but the power I was collecting from the station was not strong enough to keep the ship operational while at the same using the cloaking device which consumes more power than any other system" Kelex explained.
Kal sighed "so what now?" He said put loud, honestly, he didn't know what to do next.
"Master, I was instructed to give you a message from your father" Kelex said back calmly.
"what?!" Kal asked angered and shocked "why didn't you tell me this before?" He asked angry.
"apologies master but I was instructed not to give you this message until the ship landed on the surface of a habitable planet" Kelex defended.
"well... play it" Kal ordered till angry.
The hologram of Kelex faded and was replaced by one of his father "my son, if you are seeing this then it means that you have landed on a planet with a suitable environment" Jor said sounding calm and professional "I don't know where you are or how long it's taken you to search for a new home but what I do know is that you did, one way or another, you found a new home" Jor smiled sadly "hopefully you will have found a world full of peace, prosperity and happiness. Something I have always wanted for you, I don't know if where you are is safe but I need you to know you are not alone" Jor explained as a large circler container rose up from the floor, it was full of small glass tubes with what looked like embryos inside. And a large glowing crystal at the top "there was reason why I developed this ship myself, I know it was against the law but I planted the tools to create every species on Krypton, so that wherever you are. They can live again, Kryton can live again, through them. Through you my son, through the teachings that you give the race of you are with"
"you can give to them what you gave everyone on Krypton in their final moments. Hope, a hope that what happened to us would never happen to anyone else" Jor smiled as he looked right into Kal's eyes "don't forget embodied within is belief is possibility of the protentional of every living thing to be a force for good, that's what you can teach them. Good luck my son, I love you, always" Jor finished as the hologram faded and returned back to Kelex.
Kal was shocked, his father trusted him that much? He had no idea that is father had planned this. Kal walked forward and took the crystal from the top of the container. He couldn't help but smile at what he was looking at. This was it, the foundation for his new life, is new mission. Peace and hope "Kelex?" Kal asked.
"yes master?"
Kal turned to him and smiled "It's time to get to work"
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