Superman
Ultimate Battles
Origins: The Final Chapter

The ship began to lift as a white glow began to emerge from around the ship. Jor-El held Lara tight as they stood there and stared at the ship hoping it would leave.

"I wished they would of listen to me Lara, it's hopeless."

"I know, Jor-El, but keep faith in what we have accomplished...for it is Kal-El's only chance of survival. Our Son the last of the El family."

A few moments of silence fell between them and Lara looked away as some words escape her mouth.

"The Last Son of Krypton."

Jor-El and Lara watched the ship begin to move upward as it engines began to kick in and a large flame started to emerge from its boosters. Smoke quickly filled the room as it started to lift upwards. The sounds of laser blasts were heard hitting the door. Jor-EL and Lara moved towards the control panel and then looked at each other.

"It'll only be a few minutes before they get within the room Lara,..I love you!"

Tears rolled down Lara's cheeks as she kissed him deeply. "I love you too!"

Then Jor-El and Lara looked back towards the ship and smiled with some new set of hopes within their hearts as they held one another hands tightly at their sides; watching the ship blast out the ceiling. The door fell apart and Lara and Jor-El looked back at the Officers. There had to be at least over 12 dozen of them all ready to fire on command. The small computer like screen on the control panel cut on and instantly alerted Jor-EL and Lara with the constant static. A figure appeared covered in shadow and the only thing visible was the large S shield on his chest.

"Father! Static M...her! I static made...more static Father...ma..it!"

Just when the message was about to get clear a laser blast hit the screen. The explosion sent Jor-EL and Lara to the ground beside one another.

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The earthquakes around Krypton got worse, and the fear of the councilmen grew. For they now knew that Jor-El was right. Their wishes and concerns could matter no more then a rock for all hope was lost. Most broke down and begin to cry as they saw the destruction occur around the last city of Krypton. Some couldn't even believe the images they we're seeing. The ground was splitting apart and continually, eating everything in it's path. Explosions were emerging every where with large flames engulfing anything in it's path. Large streams of lava was bursting though the ground, while lava pits formed in other areas. People found them self's being consumed by the dark black abyss as screams filled the air. Buildings fall and crushed thousands as ceilings caved in killing the inhibitors.

The once icy and half dead planet was now a active burning star only moments from it's bitter end. It was now giving off a heavy red glow which lit up it's part of the galaxy. Many of Krypton's enemies sat back and watched as spectators would with a nice smile across their face. Amazingly to say, they were so fixated on the death of a planet that they failed to see the small shuttle leave the planet.

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The ceiling was caving in and most of the soldiers was either engulfed in the abyss, or crushed under the ceiling. Lara and Jor-EL was some how found the strength to stand once again and hold each other, staring deeply within one another eyes. The message they heard early was clear enough for them to know their child would one-day make it leaving their death an oblivious thought. Jor-EL lowered his head towards Lara and they began to kiss deeply.

They smiled as they kissed with tears slowly running from the far corners of their eyes. This was it, the final moment of the planet; Krypton began to shake so much it was impossible to stand. Everything began to sink in as if the planet had turned into a black hole, then within seconds the entire planet exploded!

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The Young Kal-EL's ship found it's self in a race against time, and the ultimate prize was the life of Kal-EL's. The planet's explosion sent a powerful circular ring of debris, fire and dust in a outward motion traveling beyond the speed of light. The ship was only inches from its grasp. The quick construction of the ship left no time for the shields, so it was all up to the burners.

Stars raced pasted as the ship sped though space with an inclosing death ring right behind it. The young Kal-El was now sleep as the green crystal glowed be-side him, as the sound of his parent's voice could be heard whispering within his ears. The ring was quickly overcome by a more powerful ring from the explosion, and again overcome by an even more powerful ring.

Kal-EL's ship began to shake violently as meteors shot past it, and some hovering around it, as knights would protecting their king. The ring was now at the back of ship; you could literally reach out and touch it. The ship slowly began to take another shape, a more triangular like design. Three more boosters emerged from the back of the ship and instantly turned on. White lines begin to appear around the ship as the hyperspace drive kicked in. Then almost as if it was being pulled in, the ship vanished with most of the rocks that surrounded it!

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The voice of his mother and father slowly entered the ears of Kal-EL's as he traveled though space and time towards the planet Earth!

"...which Einstein called his theory of relativity. Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact from dozens of other worlds spanning the 28 known galaxies."

"Early Chinese writings point out the complex relationship between ..by carrying this complex equation to its ultimate power, my son.."

"Chief among these powers will be your sight, your strength, your hearing, your ability to propel yourself at almost limitless speeds."

"The early history of our universe was a bloody mosaic of interplanetary war."

"Each of the six galaxies which you will pass through contain their own individual law of space and time."

"It is forbidden for you to interfere with human history!"