It's been 7 months since I left Starling and built up a base in Central City. In those 7 months, I had built up my reputation and a building for Kennedy, Inc. to operate. But, it wasn't known that Kyle Kennedy and S.T.A.R Labs were working together in building the Particle Accelerator and that's where I came close to Eobard Thawne. I needed to save Barry. The more heroes, the merrier they said.
"Malcolm Merlyn has been arrested by the SCPD with the help of Starling City's own protector, the Hood. Merlyn was captured at the charge of obstruction of justice, murder, terrorism and attempting of mass murder. The arresting officer was Detective Quentin Lance himself…"
I smirked and turned off the TV in my room. I lived in my own company building, at the basement for my vigilantism of course. I didn't even bother to look for an apartment, because when you had a very big company building, why didn't you make your own floor in it?
I pulled out my phone to call Oliver. "Ollie?"
"Oh, hey, Kyle. How's it going there?"
"All's good. I told you, you can do it. Are your parents okay?"
"They're safe. And Malcolm can't touch them even if he raves about their involvement in the Undertaking at the trial later."
"Good. That's good to hear."
"I told Thea about us."
"How did she react?"
"Just like you said. She was grateful, and begging me to train her. Also, I have a new 'quarterback' for the Team. The spot you left behind has already been filled."
I chuckled at that, "Let me guess. Felicity Smoak? The I.T girl at QC? You recruited her?"
"How did you… Never mind. I'll never knew how you know everything."
"Train her too, Oliver. Ask Lyla to help. Speaking of team, are you doing your job protecting the city or are you just screwing around with you team? I can't help but notice that all of your partners are female."
We're talking about our daily life after that and I called it enough, and I needed to prepare for the day in building the Particle Accelerator with 'Harrison Wells'.
I arrived at S.T.A.R Labs and seeing Cisco, Caitlin, Ronnie, a guy I remembered who would be a meta and finally, the villain himself, Harrison Wells. I would make sure that the Particle Accelerator would be built correctly and to avoid the explosion.
I was saying that 'Kyle Kennedy' helped S.T.A.R Labs built the Particle Accelerator. Reason of that was to avoid the people to mistrust the company as a whole, and only blame me and 'Harrison Wells' in case it failed and exploded again.
"Dr. Wells, how long until we can launch this masterpiece of ours?" I entered the Cortex with a smile for 'Harrison Wells'.
"Good morning, Dr. Kennedy. Because of your help over the months, we could launch it in 5 months time. I'm sure it will run smoothly if people like you and Mr. Ramon work together. The prodigies of Mechanical Engineering," he replied me. But 5 months? Wasn't that too early?
"Are you sure 5 months are enough?"
"I'm pretty sure, Dr. Kennedy."
I nodded at him and then approached Caitlin, Cisco, and Ronnie. "How's it going guys?"
"Kyle, let me tell you something. The lasagna recipe you gave me last night? It was…"
I felt the suspense there, "Was…?"
"It was super delicious! Caitlin and I really enjoyed it. How did you even learn how to cook, by the way?" it was Ronnie who completed the sentence it seemed.
"Well, good to know. Cisco, how's it going with the security measures of the PA?"
"Thanks to your techs, I'm sure we will have the best security if anything goes wrong. I'm not even sure that anything will-"
I immediately cut him off, "-Don't tempt fate, Cisco. You'll never know."
Cisco nodded his head and head off to whatever he was doing.
It was night time and I flew back to Starling to checked on Oliver and his team. I got into their comm system using Kellex and heard that they were stopping a bank robbery. I immediately catched up with them. They were chasing a van with motorcycles. I saw Oliver shot an arrow while riding on it and Thea did it too. What an inefficient tactic.
Apparently the robbers were good. I had seen enough, finally I dropped in front of the van. The driver was shocked at my sudden appearance and didn't have enough time to brake. The van collided with me, and the front side was dented.
"What the hell's happening, Arrow?" I heard Thea ask Oliver. So, he went by Arrow now.
"I don't know speedy. Stay on guard," he replied.
I broke the door with the driver and threw him out with his partner. Oliver and Thea did so too, and then we met. Thea pulled her bow, and shot it. I caught it without looking at her and she was shocked and prepared another, before Oliver told her to stop.
"Speedy, don't!" and Thea hold her shot. Oliver spoke again, "I appreciate the assist, but we got that handled. Nice to see you again, Kyle."
That shocked Thea to her core. "What?!"
"Let's get back first and then we can talk," I said and then I took off. Thea and Oliver followed.
I put off my Superman suit, and put on a casual clothing. A good thing indeed to stole Wakanda technology. I walked towards the club Oliver had, the Verdant. I smiled at the sight. It's very lively and I got inside.
The inside was very crowded and people were dancing, drinking, and having fun. The music and DJ were pretty good. And I ordered a drink at the bar. "Give me the best you have, Mr. Bartender," the bartender was making me something, until I saw Oliver walking out of the Bunker. I looked at him and decided to call. He picked the call up. "Look at your 5, Ollie."
And then he approached me and I stood up to hugged him. "It's been a while. Why don't we go somewhere more private?"
"Sure," and then my drink came and paid for it. We walked until there was a metal door. Maybe titanium, and then Oliver opened it after typed in the passcode. "It's neat you know. My stuff serve you good, Ollie?"
"Yeah, they don't disappoint, Kyle."
We arrived at the downstairs, the Bunker, and saw some familiar faces to me. Thea, Lyla, Felicity, and there was Roy Harper to my shock.
"Oh my God, this is the first time I see Oliver bringing a guest to the Bunker. What's going on?" Felicity was raving about they were being compromised. Thea's mouth were gaping like a fish, Lyla just smiled, and Roy was confused.
"Felicity, Roy, this is Kyle Kennedy-"
"-Another billionaire. I know. Oh Dr. Kennedy, it is an honor to meet you," she shook my hand. I smiled back at her.
"It's nice to meet you too, Ms. Smoak. Thea, you've grown more beautiful," Thea just mumbled a thank you. "Lyla, you haven't changed."
"I try not to, Kyle."
"Roy Harper, is it?" Roy seemed startled at me knowing his name. "It seems Oliver here was opening a recruitment for his team."
Roy was looking like a lost puppy, didn't know how to respond so he went with, "It's nice to meet you."
"Tell me, Roy. Did you get to the team by stealing some purse belonging to a certain woman?" my question made Thea and Roy looked at each other in confusion. They revealed the answer on their faces. Easy to read.
Oliver had enough of this, "Come on, Kyle. Enough of this. They'll go crazy you know. Don't worry about it guys, even I don't know how he do it."
We were talking about things like the crime rate that had gone down significantly, Oliver's parents, and among other things, our love life.
Sirens were heard on the comms as Oliver, Thea and Roy gave chase to another bank robbery. This time, Felicity, Lyla and I were 'quarterbacking'.
"Alright, Team. Let's do this fast and hard. Show them not to mess in your city," I said through the comms. They all replied yes and over.
"Speedy, Arsenal, take different routes and intercept them. Speedy take right, right now. Arsenal took left after 20 metres," Felicity commanded them.
The holographic view really came in handy. Lyla was looking at every CCTV around the city to keep track of the robbers. Finally, we heard Oliver shot his arrows and hit the tire, making the van went out of control.
"Speedy, Arsenal, fire the wires to stop the truck."
Then came the voice of Oliver. "We stop it. Good job, everyone."
Starling City's criminals were just thugs or an evil organization plotting to take revenge on Oliver. Nothing super villain until Damien Darhk. Even I took out the possibility of Slade being the enemy, and Ra's too. The only decent opponents for Oliver were Damien Darhk, Prometheus and Ricardo Diaz.
"Let's wrap it up tonight."
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It was July 2013. Meant that there would be 5 more months before the PA was launched, and I was going to make sure that the PA would be functioning as it should be. I handled the construction of it, so Eobard wouldn't have much time around it. And that made him frustrated.
He attempted to oversee the construction and plant the part that would make the PA malfunctioning, but I saw it coming and failed the attempt. I was very tempted to bust him right here right now but where's the fun?
Keeping eyes on Eobard was really taxing as the man deffinitely a slippery bastard. Even I put a tracker in his body while we were having a drink as I put my nanobots into his drink, and he drank it. He shouldn't be noticing anything, as I was very discreet.
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December finally came.
To my surprise, Queen Consolidated Applied Science Department was under attack, and that department was under my jurisdiction. As soon as I recieved the news, I headed there ASAP.
I arrived at the Applied Science Dept. and I was greeted by the sight of Oliver, Lyla, Felicity and Robert. "What happened last night?"
"This is what we managed to get from the security footage," Robert showed me the footage of one man that broke into the warehouse, and then broke the CCTV. I never expected that the Mirakuru would be duplicated. "The police suspects that this guy came in first and the rest of the crew got inside later," finished Robert.
And then, a man suddenly came in. "Actually, it was only one guy."
When he spoke, everybody turned to face him. I held my urges to smirk at his entrance. Barry Allen had come to the scene. And then he rambled about why he was late, and blamed his train. Oliver seemed pissed at Barry's sudden appearance. And then, Barry introduced himself to everybody.
"And you think one guy ripped through this door like it was tin foil? It is made of titanium alloy and can withstand a 50 caliber weapon," I replied to him and see where it goes.
"One very strong guy," he then explained the math behind the break-in and showed us the picture of the victim. "... the killer only used one hand. I'm guessing you don't know how hard it is to break someone's neck, hmm?" he looked to Oliver and me after he said that.
"Um, no," said Oliver.
After that, Barry told us he knew what was stolen, and so did I. "The Centrifuge," we said at the same time. We looked at each other with a shocked look from Barry. "What? You expect me to handle this department while not knowing everything insides?" I pointed out to everyone.
And then Barry went on to explain what is a centrifuge, and led us to where it was. The ground was literally ripped off. The guy who stole it sure wasn't known for subtlety. And I, for one, was curious who in the world managed to recreate the Mirakuru. I needed to investigate this. This should not have happened.
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Oliver, Lyla, Felicity and me were back at Oliver's office in QC discussing about what had happened.
"The CSI kid was right. Only the centrifuge is missing," said Lyla. And then Felicity showed us the CCTV footage that she pulled up 3 minutes after the alarm went off. It was showing a guy picked up the centrifuge by himself. If moments ago I was still in doubt, now I had no doubt that this certainly was the Mirakuru at play. No one in this Earth that could manage that feat except me, if not for me being a Kryptonian.
"Can we help you with something, Detective?" Oliver sneered as soon as Barry walked in the room. He really was paranoid with his secret identity as the Arrow.
Barry fidgeted a little at that before replying, "CSI aren't actually detectives. We don't even carry guns, just some plastic baggies," he chuckled a little making Felicity smiled in the process. Maybe she thought that he was cute. "Uh, where should I set up my equipment?"
I looked to Oliver before I turned my head to Barry. "I'll get you there, Barry."
"What's going on?" Oliver asked me.
I sighed at him. "The Applied Science is under my jurisdiction, Oliver. Even if you are the heir of the QC, you still don't have the authority. I maybe suggest the investigation is kept in-house, but I need the expert in this case. Besides, forensic science isn't exactly in my forte.
Have you cleared it with your captain?" Oliver was being an ass with this whole Centrifuge. Maybe he was remembering about the Mirakuru when I destroyed it in front of everyone's eyes, and was confused.
"Yeah, I have cleared it with my captain to lend you a hand," Barry said.
"Good. Felicity, if you would be so kind to help our guest get started," Felicity nodded at my request and went off with Barry in tow.
Lyla saw the entire thing went on and approached us. "Why do I get the feeling that the both of you knew what is going on than you let on?"
"Pray we are wrong, Lyla," was what Oliver said to her.
We're in the bunker which everyone, sans Felicity, already inside, and we were going to talk about the recent fiasco. Lyla was already running on the city CCTV to catch our guy.
"So, the two of you had encountered this before?" asked Thea to us.
One looked at Oliver, I read the message and I nodded, "Yeah. On our second year in Lian Yu, I stumbled upon this very old submarine from World War 2 era," and that began my story about our encounter with the Mirakuru to the team.
"If you destroyed the Mirakuru, how does it exist now?"
That was the million dollar question. A question which answer made my very bones chilling, "I don't know. Hell, we don't even know if it is the Mirakuru or not," I said making everyone raised their eyebrow a bit.
"What do you mean with that?" asked Oliver.
"If it is the Mirakuru, then I already have the antidote to that."
"If it isn't?"
"Then we have a hell of a problem to fix. Say, do you believe in the existence of aliens?" my statement made everyone rolling their eyes bar Oliver. And said something around I had gone crazy. But Oliver's eyes kept looking at me, demanding an explanation.
"You said you have the antidote to the Mirakuru. How did you make it?" asked Lyla.
"Because I didn't destroy them all. I kept one with me for further study. And I managed to make the antidote," and then I saw Oliver's face turned to of anger, "before you berate me for not trusting you with this, I never bring it out of the Fortress, Ollie," that seemed to calm him down a little.
"But before we make any conclusion, me and Oliver will investigate this first."
Me and Oliver were pursuing another stolen machine. Our guy used the same truck that he used to breaking in the warehouse, so Felicity warned us as she got the ping. I had donned my version of Superman suit, and Ollie donned his Green Arrow suit.
"Superman, I'll engage the target," Oliver said.
"Copy that. Use the antidote."
And then Oliver jumped to the truck side, and got inside. The driver wore a mask, I used my x-ray vision to take a peek at him. The result was, the man wasn't anyone I knew, and his physiology was a bit odd. Not the one Sebastian Blood sent to get all the equipments he needed with the Mirakuru. That got me thinking, who was the enemy.
My thoughts were cut off as I saw Oliver flying out of the truck to the side of the road. I chased the truck at my full speed, got in front of it and I punched it. The driver was sent out of the driver seat because of the inertia law.
The guy immediately got up and rushed towards me, and I didn't wait for him to throw the first punch so I beat him to it. I threw a kick to his ribs and the next second the wall he crashed upon had a web-crack. I used my Kryptonian speed to threw a barrage of hits to the guy. He seemed to be knocked out. But I didn't want to take any chances with him. I generated my speed force power to generate lightning, but before I struck him, he spoke.
"That sigil. The House of El. General Zod was aware of you the moment you built your crystal, but we never found your location. He will found you."
WHAT?!
This certainly wasn't Mirakuru. This was worse than Mirakuru. And it took all of my self-control not to giving in to the temptation in killing him. I refused to believe it.
"Zod, you said? You're gonna tell me everything I want to know, whether you like it or not," I used my Torquasm Vo to read his mind.
I dived into his head to find his memories of Krypton. I was never aware of the existence of Krypton on this Earth. As I found it, I saw a trial. From his point of view, I saw Zor-El, Jor-El, my parents, Alura, Zod and his armies, and finally myself. At least Ken-El of this Earth's Krypton. Apparently, Zod and his cronies were sentenced to the Phantom Zone because of the same reason. Treason. And I was the one to apprehended them to the Council.
And then the memory was jumped straight to the sight of the remnants of Krypton. Dust in the vast galaxy. According to his memory, Zod had been on Earth for more than 10 years, several years before my arrival. He had been planning to terragenesis-ed Earth into the new Krypton, and he stole the centrifuge to make artificially made Kryptonian to increase his army quantity. And then there were some more details about his plan that I got, including his hideout. The memory stopped at our encounter and then I let go of him.
Damn. My interferences caused an even more dangerous crisis. If a siege of Mirakuru super-soldier was a scourge, then the threat of Zod was on a whole level of calamity. I must not got Oliver involved in this. He would not stand a chance.
I struck lightning at him that enough to kill him. I got back to Oliver and found him still on the ground. I picked him up, and flew away with our guy.
"You what?!" when I broke the news to Oliver that I just killed our lead guy to our investigation of the supposed Mirakuru case, he was furious.
I wasn't backing down because of it. I dared him to shout at me again, but he did not. "Listen, Ollie, that guy was literally throwing you out like a ragdoll. Now sit down and let me explain."
Everyone else was smart to not interfere us. After seeing him calmed a little, I spoke. "Before I explain anything, stab the corpse with something sharp."
All of them looked at me as if I was going senile. I sighed and them stab him with an arrow. The result was as I expected but shocked everyone else. The arrowhead was broken, and split from the body.
"As you all can see, the arrow didn't even pierce his skin. If he was enhanced with a Mirakuru serum, the arrow would still pierce thorugh the skin, but not enough to stop him. Meaning, he wasn't injected with the Mirakuru," I finished my explanation.
"Then what was he injected to?" asked Felicity.
But Oliver answered the question for me. "He is an alien. Their physiology is completely different from us. He was your kind, wasn't he Kyle?"
Everyone looked at us with confused looks. "He was from Krypton," and more confussion, "let me reintroduce myself. My name is Ken-El, and I am from another planet."
The revelation of my origins to the team was rather smooth. And that did give them some senses to why I was able to fly. I told them of Krypton and kept out the multiverse part.
"What we are up against now is out of your league, Oliver. You'd be killed in an instant, so leave this one out to me."
Thankfully I didn't need to assert my point to him any further. The training we got from the League really helped him see the reality and the time when he was completely outmatched.
"How are you going to find this Zod?" asked Felicity, "he literally is planning to reform the planet! He has an army, and you only one man. And more importantly, how are you going to beat him?"
Well, Felicity's worries were fair-minded. But what she didn't know was, I was also a general and had a lot of powers. I hadn't even told them about the Speed Force. But nonetheless, I chuckled at her.
"Felicity, everyone, do you know the meaning behind the symbol on my chest?"
Thea squinted her eye, "An 'S' of some sorts? Is that why you picked Superman as your codename?"
I laughed a little. "This is not an 'S'. This is the symbol of the House of El. It means hope. Have some faith in me. I swear I will kill Zod."
Notes: Should I go with just barging in to Zod's hideout and beat the shit out of everyone or should I make something else first instead?
