This is a Superman Fan fiction only.

It was the most efficient way I could think of, I was sitting in a chair right in front of the woman that would help me reunite with my only living relative, my godson. It has been so long since I saw Kal-El, it would be a dream come true if the baby I once held in my arms remembered me at all.

The baby that I gave his first slap on his rear to make him take his first breath, the child of my long dead friends, my only real friends I ever had. I promised Lara that I would find him, and thanks to the woman in front of me I will be able to keep my promise.

"So should I call you Louis or Ms. Lane?" She began to laugh and told me I could call her by her first name if I granted her the same courtesy. I could see no reason why not grant that. I told her she may call me Dur.

"So tell me Dur, how is it that I can understand your language?" I could not help but to shake my head at what she said. I took off my helmet and showed her the inside of it, it must look so strange to her.

I placed the helmet back on, "This helm has an auto translator, it is actually sending signals to my body to cause it to produce the translated words from my language to yours. In my travels, I fought many enemies and made an equal number of allies. Now I can here to find my last living relative, Kal-El is my godson, and I do worry about his well being so very much."

She looked at me and smiled, "I met him a few times, and once he did an interview right outside my apartment. He said that he came from a planet called Krypton. Could you tell me why was a child sent away from his world?"

I could not help the feeling that I was being tested, "My planet was named Krypton, as to why? The planet's core was unstable. The planet was going to explode and so my friend, my brother in all but blood, Jor-El sent his son, my godson, to safety."

"The planet was truly a beautiful world, so many wonders that somehow I will always fail to describe, words could never do my world justice you see. I am named Dur-Zod because my name is Dur, but I am a member of the house of Zod, just like my godson is Kal, and is a member of the house of El."

"My government was ruled by a council, and that council decided all matters on the planet. They made a mistake, they decided to drill into the core of our world to use the core as a renewable energy source. Kal and I both felt that it would be a mistake and with my troops, I confirmed it by taking periodic tectonic measurements."

I looked at her and saw that she was recording everything, "I placed within the ship Kal-El was sent the most highly valuable treasure to our people, Archives containing the knowledge and history of our people. I, however, promised his mother that I would find him, and make sure he was safe."

"It took me this long because I had to find the world that we could claim as our own, you see Louis, there are not that many of us left. We managed to use a terraformer to turn a poisoned world into one where life could flourish again. The only problem the machine can not build us homes, or even basic necessities, the machine you see lacks the knowledge. I thought it was the perfect opportunity for me to keep my promise you see. With the Archives, I can rebuild our home world again, and on that new Krypton I could ensure the safety of my godson."

"It took a long time and a lot of work, but there is nothing I wouldn't do for the benefit of Kal-El he simply is that precious to me." She, of course, had to ask why? I told her it was me that helped deliver him, I was the first person whoever held him when he was born, I was the man who slapped his little rear and caused him to cry the first time.

"You see Louis, while he may be my godson, I always loved him as if he was my son. I didn't mind being used as a scapegoat, being wrongfully accused of crimes I never committed, and even when Lara betrayed me to save the life of her husband. I could have easily killed the men around me when I landed, but I decided against it, his mother would never approve of me doing something like that, and I imagine Kal-El would not approve either."

I relaxed on my chair and placed my hand on the hand rest of the chair. "Is there anything else you would like to ask me, Louis?" She asked me two question and the first was if I was telling the truth, I told her that she was alive, wasn't she? That made her laugh. The next question caught me and Faora by surprise for different reasons.

She asked me if I have a wife, actually, the question was more towards if I was single, I looked at Faora and saw the jealousy in her eyes. "Truly Louis, I find the question quite flattering, but I must tell you that indeed I am married, the lady next to me is, in fact, my wife. I moved and touched her hand making her Faora blush.

"You see, I am very much happily married, I don't believe I have introduced you to her. This is Faora, and the lady who is helping find our godson is Louis, Louis Lane. Now relax Faora, I know that you are concerned for the safety of Kal-El, but there is nothing to worry about Louis will help us get in touch with him."

She smiled at Faora and after a quick handshake, a very careful handshake I should say, given the difference in strength between her and Faora, Faora could crush her hands into paste without even trying.

Which brings me some concern, how did my godson manage to live in a world that with the slightest error he could break something, injure someone, even kill them? "As you can understand Louis I rather get in touch with my godson and maybe see how he is doing."

She looked at me after a few more notes on her notepad and I could almost feel a question I would regret if I didn't answer with tact. "What do you plan to do once you met with Superman?"

I took a deep breath to calm myself down, "I plan to introduce myself, and tell him that he no longer needs to live on this planet, we have as I said in the last stages on recreating our home planet. I have to admit that our ship managed to receive some of your world's transmissions and they are not what you would consider civil."

"I saw the sheer hatred between members of your own species just due to the pigmentation of their skin. Discrimination was something that our culture it appears was blessed by the Gods because in Kryptonian society such a thing never existed, to begin with. Hatred for something so superficial is not uncivilized, it is from our cultural view point quiet, sorry for my bluntness stupid."

"If Kal-El chose to come and live with us in our new home world, I personally would think it would be best for him. This world would limit him in ways that I truly wish to spare my godson from enduring."

She continued to take notes, it seems this will be a written interview, rather than one broadcast over the air, like the programs our ship managed to decode and translate. "What if Superman had a wife or a lover on this planet? Would you tell him to abandon the woman he loves?"

I think I see why this question seems to be quite personal for Louis, if I didn't know any better I would guess that she is actually in love with my godson. I couldn't help but shake my head at the notion behind her question.

"Louis while I indeed wish for my godson to be able to have a happy romantic relationship, a relationship with a person of this world could only end in disaster. A woman from your planet simply would never be able to carry a child to full term, in fact, I imagine that the first time the baby kicks or moved inside the womb it would end up killing both the baby and the mother."

"This sun on this planetary system tends to make our kind extremely strong, it was not the case in our original home world, but here a Kryptonian could probably end up killing by mistake his or her lover simply by engaging in sexual intercourse. Like I said conception of a child be it through artificial or natural means would end up in disaster for the couple."

She looked at me with this sad look on her face, "Is there no way for a human and member of your species to successfully have a child?" I could see the sadness on her face and I could hear it in her voice.

"Louis there are very demanding requirements that must be met, first off the Kryptonian parent would have to find a life sustaining world that orbits the sun that emits light on a specific spectrum, a red sun to make it simpler, they would have to live there for the entire time since conception till birth. Breast feeding would be out of the question anywhere other than on that world."

I looked at her and could not help but to feel sympathy for her. "Louis if Kal-El was to be the father of your child, all these requirements must be met, or quite frankly you would die. The other thing I am not entirely sure of is the effects that the radiation of a red sun would have on a human."

I couldn't help but feel this entire conversation had gone down a much more depressing direction than what Louis clearly had intended. "If you are a General, that must mean your people have a form of military, would you invade this world? Kill the people and claim this planet for yourself?"

I could not help but to feel almost insulted by the question, it almost sounded to me like an accusation truth be told. "We have no need to take possession of this or any other world, if it is economics that you think would influence us, well I have to tell you, our world is part of a league of peaceful planets, there are over a hundred worlds that help each other, and provide basic necessities in case of emergency such as natural disasters."

"So you see Louis, we don't want to do anything to you, the people of this world, or the world itself." I decided to pick something that was on the floor, it was made of some sort of composite metal. It had shapes on both sides of this strange looking circular piece of metal.

I placed it on the table and looked at Louis, "I hope this is not insulting, but what exactly is this thing?" I pointed at it and she told me it was a penny, a form of currency on the nation we were on. "I found it rather strange, we never had to exchange any form of currency in Krypton, and in the league, this would be unheard of."

"We don't use any type of currency in our economy Louis, it is an unknown means of trade to us. You might not believe it, but my husband is a very well read individual, it is one of his favorite things to do, to learn new things."

"Louis I am being quite honest, we have no desire of taking over your world. I am only interested in meeting with my godson, find out how he is? Ask him to share the information in the Archives that are on his ship? If possible I could ask him to come back to our new home world."

She for some reason didn't believe me, in that second a man came into the room and pointed his weapon at us, screaming that was to me at the very least very unoriginal. He screamed something along the lines of the die, filthy aliens. Well, not really but I simply don't want to repeat his colorful insults.

I moved my hands as quick as I could and caught every single bullet fired by his weapon, primitive weapon that not even the pirates we have fought would consider a toy. I breathed into my fist and the metal fragments cooled down in temperature.

I decided to look at the now scared man, I closed my fist tightly and the metal fragments got crushed into a ball. "I believe this is yours." I opened my hand and a metal chuck fell down in front of him.

"Dear God! What kind of monster are you!" This came to prove to me at the very least my godson was not welcome on this planet, at the very least they don't trust him. "I am a concerned godfather, looking for my godson, and I am not your God, I am Zod, General Zod. Now if we can do away with this theatrics I do believe Ms. Lane wanted to ask us some other questions."

The man took the metal chuck and ran out of the room like he was chased by Death incarnate. "These men just met us Louis, and they already fear us. People tend to fear the unknown, and people then to hate that which they fear, if the hate accumulates, then that hate motivates them to try and destroy that which inspired such hate."

I walked over to the chair and sat down again, "As you can see Louis, I have no ill intention towards you or the people on this planet. This, however, has shown me that my godson's life is in danger while he lives in this world. I decided to answer your questions to prevent this from happening, hoping to foster understanding and good will, but instead one of your species attacked us with a crude and primitive weapon. Tell me, Louis, if you found yourself in my position, what would you do? I think it's pretty obvious try to reason with my godson and hopefully, he will understand the need to come with us."

She looked sad as I finished telling her that, I guess she hoped that I would take the attack by the human as a show that I should leave, and she could continue to try and establish a relationship with Kal-El. "What if Superman does not want to leave this world? What if he chose to stay here?"

I looked at her and tried my best to look as peaceful as possible, "If my godson after hearing my arguments can honestly tell me he wishes to live here, there is no alternative. I will remain in this world to provide him with a basic education, train him in some self-defense, and try to establish friendly relations between your world and the League."

I got up from my chair and I looked at her. She was trembling, from anger or fear I do not know, "You don't need to fear me, Louis, I will not harm you. I always wanted to protect the innocent, and have helped the defenseless, so you don't need to fear me. I will not harm you, but as I asked, it would be nice if my godson and I could meet as soon as possible."

She pointed at a crystal ball dome on the ceiling, "I have already been helping you get in contact with him. This entire conversation has been televised across the many news programs across our world. We only need to wait for him to hear this, come and find us. Now would you like something to drink?"

I couldn't help but to laugh as she said that and sat down, "Some tea would be nice. At the very least some water." They did bring in a pitcher of water. I smelled it and looked at it, there was nothing unusual about the chemical composition of the water. I took a glass and served Faora a glass before I filled a glass for Louis and finally one for myself.

"I guess now we wait, tell me Louis is there any genre of literature you find to be to your liking? It might be strange for me to say it, but I prefer academic books truth be told like Faora said I do enjoy learning new things."

She looked at me and began to shake her head, she said she preferred romance novels, Faora has been a romance novel enthusiast for years. I guess this will give them both plenty to discuss while we wait for my godson to arrive.