Chapter 29
"First, I want to thank all of you for coming to my rescue as it were. I certainly would not want my identity compromised any more than any of you do. It seems like most of the men who needed to be captured have been and things will go back to normal, or at least as normal as they can be," Dax-Ur admitted.
"Now, I know that there are a lot of questions that need answering and I hope I can answer them for you. I left Krypton near what would be the year nineteen hundred and eight here. It was during my work with what I called the "Brain InterActive Construct", which I began to fear. Simply put it was a supercomputer that could hold vast amounts of information and had its own energy source that would never be depleted. That may sound like a great thing but in the end, it had the capability to grow smarter than its creators and I worried it would turn on those it deemed insignificant to the galaxy," the elder Kryptonian paused.
"That sounds scary," Winn swallowed.
"Indeed it was. So I figured the best thing to do was to leave Krypton and abandon something that could kill millions. I came here to study the effects of yellow sun on Kryptonians and perhaps help the race of peoples who inhabited this planet. Technologically, they were far behind Krypton, at the time, that I felt confident I could avoid creating something so dangerous again. However, Alura tells me that my creation was indeed finished and renamed it "Brainiac"," Dax-Ur said.
"I think that I can voice with some amount of certainty that it did not survive the destruction of Krypton. All that remains is Argo," Kara spoke up.
"I know that I certainly hope you are right. Sometimes man's own hubris blinds him until it is too late," he said.
"So how did you come into possession of the Stones of Power?" Alura wanted to know.
"My ship crashed in the Russian wilderness, near Vanavara, and I made sure to sink it into bog after I stripped it of everything I thought I would need. Knowing that if it was ever discovered as my entrance would undoubtedly be, it could be disastrous as my creation back home. I initiated a disintegration command and that was the end of that. I helped the locals with things they needed for a few years and they agreed to keep my secret. It was a good mutual agreement as they didn't want the government snooping around either. War broke out only six years later and only three years after that, the Russian Revolution. I left my friends and headed toward Moscow, wanting to see what the revolution was about and wanting to protect them, if need be.
"When I arrived in Moscow, there was talk of Comrade Lenin having special powers. He used said powers to overthrow the Czar and take power for the Bolsheviks. I spent the next few years trying to ascertain if it was just a story or if it was true. Once I worked my way up the power structure, I did find that Lenin had sent men to China to retrieve a special stone. That stone turned out to be the Air Stone. Immediately recognizing what it was, I stole it, and then fled back to my friends near Vanavara. After I stashed the stone, somewhere safe, I worried that the other stones could be somewhere that others could get their hands on them. However, I did not know where to start looking. When I was in Moscow, I had heard rumors of rumblings in Germany. Not sure I had the time to infiltrate their organization; I headed toward Poland, since it was in between Russia and Germany. I figured that it would be a good place to keep an eye on things. There I met Mordecai and his family when I stopped children from breaking the windows of their tailor shop. Feeling indebted to me, he let me stay with them. When war broke out, Mordecai urged me to get his family out of Poland. He refused to go. He wanted the future to be bright for his family. I did as he asked, no matter how concerned I was for him.
"I made sure his family got to England. When I was there I tried to use any resource I could to get my hands on to try and find another stone. Then the war officially broke out and I could not leave Mordecai on his own. When I arrived back in Poland, his people were being rounded up. Mordecai managed to dodge the grasp of the Nazis and I found him hiding in a neighbor's house.
"We fought side by side with a multitude of others as part of the Polish Resistance until we got word that the Germans were looking for items associated with the occult. They're expansion of the war into Egypt made Mordecai nervous. Weeks later, more news was received that the Germans had found something. I left Mordecai and tried to find out what it was. The tide of war was beginning to shift and Stalin's push toward Berlin had begun. Time was running out and the Germans were trying everything they could to change what was now inevitable.
"Mordecai sent word that a train was on its way out of Poland, which might have what I was looking for on it. He planned to get on the train and steal what we were looking for. He begged me to return to Vanavara and that he would meet me there. Once the stone was secured then we could go to England and join his family. I did not like it but the prospect of a bunch of them going without me but by now my face had garnered unwanted attention due to the display of my powers.
"It would be years later until John DeWitt found me and told me the terrible news about Mordecai. My friend had succeeded, however, in getting the Fire Stone. I stashed it with the Air Stone and found that the two Stones suddenly combined and gave me the location of the final Stone. So I went to England in John's place and told Mordecai's family what happened to him. I looked after them until they passed. Once they were gone, I went after the third stone. Now that I had them all together, they should combine for the one for who is meant to have them. I believe that to be Kara," Dax-Ur finished.
"They vibrated when they were near me," the blonde said.
"Then you can use them to create your own fortress, like your cousin," he told her.
"What about the crystal that came with my pod?" Kara wanted to know.
To Be Continued…