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Story Title: The Traveler

Chapter 11

The Fortress of Solitude

Kara looked at Mon-El; he was frozen in shock. A sudden spike of fear ran up her spine. This was her, the woman that abused him as a child; the reason that he ran away from Daxam. Kara stepped forward. "He goes by Mon-El now."

Rhea looked at the young woman dressed in the colorful garb with the House of El symbol on her chest. She gave the girl a disdainful look. "It also appears that he is keeping company with Kryptonians. You have fallen far my son."

Mon-El frowned. "I don't remember you. Kara and Kal-El are my friends. They deserve respect.

Rhea laughed. "Respect! Their people destroyed our home. They deserve nothing but my contempt."

Clark stepped forward. "What do you really want?"

Rhea's dark eyes glared into the blue eyes of the last son of Krypton. "I want my son."

"I'm not your son," Mon-El said, his voice shaky, but he tried his best to steel his nerves.

Rhea shook her head. "So, you do know about that. It makes no difference. I raised you as my son, so you're mine."

Kara's fists clenched at her side. "He's not something to be owned. He's a sentient being with his own hopes and dreams. He doesn't belong to you."

Rhea's eyes flashed for a moment, something dark passed across her face. "I see, so she's your little whore."

Kara wanted to beat this woman to a pulp, but Clark held her back. Mon-El stepped forward. "She is no whore. She… Kara is one of the best people I know." He smiled at Kara before turning back to Rhea. "I will not go anywhere with you. Leave Earth and never return."

Rhea tucked her hands into her armor. She frowned at the three people before her. "You will return to your people, Lar." Mon-El shook his head. "Then, so be it." She pulled out a set of glowing green sai."

Clark and Kara stepped back. The radiation from the sai causing both of them intense pain and weakness. "Kryptonite," Clark said.

Kara was sweating, her heart racing in her chest. "Where did you get that?"

Rhea grinned evilly. "My planet is littered with the remains of yours." She turned to Mon-El. "You will go with me and I will let them live."

Suddenly, an explosion came from the other side of the main hall. Kelex flew across the room crashing into the wall; the smoking remains of the robot littered the floor. Ten soldiers dressed from head to toe in gray armor entered the main hall. They each carried a silver staff with a glowing energy crystal at the end. They circled Mon-El and his two Kryptonian friends.

Rhea stepped closer holding the sai in her hands. "There is no place to run Lar."

Mon-El looked at the soldiers. "Where is my father? I know he was a Daxamite."

Rhea smiled. "Oh, don't worry about Kel Gand; he's dead, I killed him."

Mon-El stepped back in shock. "Why?"

Rhea laughed. "You really don't remember anything from your time on Daxam, do you?" Mon-El frowned, but she was right. "It was an arranged marriage. Your father was still smitten with his Kryptonian, so sad that they couldn't be together. He loved you Lar, so much, but it was hard for him to see you. You reminded him of her."

Mon-El frowned. "My mother, you knew her?"

Rhea shook her head. "Kel never told me her name, only that she was Kryptonian. I hated him so much. First, I had to marry him, and second, he had you, a bastard and a freak. An abomination, a product of a traitorous union."

"Stop," Mon-El said, covering his ears, not wanting to hear any more of the venom coming out of the Queen's mouth.

Rhea stepped closer. "You pathetic child. You held so much fear. I tried to make you strong. I tried to make you a warrior."

Mon-El's eyes widened. "You were the one. The one who hurt me."

Rhea smiled. "Hurt you, it was needed to make you stronger and… more compliant."

Mon-El began to shake. "You monster. I was a child."

Clark and Kara were both on the ground; they were in pain, but they heard everything. They both looked at Mon-El. They could see his body shaking. They so wanted to help him, but they couldn't. They could only watch as everything played out.

"Come here child," Rhea ordered. Mon-El was still frozen in fear.

Suddenly, the sound of objects flying and wind whipping around filled the great hall. The ten Daxamite guards fell to the ground, each with a black throwing dart sticking out of the back of their helmets.

Rhea stepped back. "What trickery is this?"

Mon-El looked around his mind reeling with possibilities, but he couldn't see anyone. Then he saw it, a flash of purple before a lone figure stood behind Rhea. The Queen turned around her eyes widening in shock.

"You've played your role well enough, your Majesty," the figure said. He stepped into the light. He wore a tight fitting purple suit with black armor that covered his neck and shoulders. He had blond hair and his skin was light green. The strange thing about him was the three circles that were embedded in his forehead. The circles pulsed with power.

"Who are you?" Rhea asked.

The man looked at Mon-El and smiled. "A friend of your sons." Mon-El stared back; he didn't remember the man. The man sighed when he saw the lack of remembrance on Mon-El's face. "The name is Brainiac Five."

Clark crawled to Kara's side. "Do you know him?" Kara whispered.

Clark shook his head. "No, but he knows Mon-El, I mean Lar."

Rhea held her weapons out in front of her. "Stay back."

Brainiac Five raised his hands in a placating gesture. "I'm not here to fight you. Lar Gand needs to do this."

Mon-El stepped forward. Rhea turned and smiled. "Yes child, come forth and meet your end."

Mon-El began to shake, his mind racing with anger, not fear. "I hate you," he yelled as he ran forward. Rhea slashed with one of her sai, striking Mon-El across the cheek, red blood hitting a group of crystals on a nearby table. Rhea spun around, embedding the other sai up to its hilt in Mon-El's stomach. He stumbled back, clutching the weapon in his hand before Rhea hit him with a front kick sending the hybrid across the room and into a crystal display case.

Clark and Kara tried to stand, but they couldn't, Kara's heart pounded harder in her chest, worry for Mon-El flooding her mind.

Rhea looked down at the two Kryptonians. "Time to end this," she said, but before she could hurt either Kryptonian the sharpened point of a black blade popped out of her chest. Her dark eyes went wide before her skin turned gray and she fell to the ground dead.

Standing behind her was Brainiac Five. He looked down at Kara and Clark. "You do not get to kill them. That is my job." He bent down and grabbed one of the sai.

Kara looked up at Brainiac Five. "Why?"

Brainiac Five looked down; the circles on his forehead glowing brighter. "I loved you and you threw it in my face. All because you couldn't open up. You couldn't handle a relationship."

Kara tried to focus but the pain was too much. "What?"

"Oh, you won't remember. They haven't come here yet. You haven't left with them. You haven't come into my life," Brainiac Five replied. Kara had no idea what he meant.

However, Clark had an idea. "You're from the Legion."

Brainiac Five looked down at the Man of Steel. "Oh, how the mighty have fallen, hey, Clark," he replied.

Clark's eyes widened. "How?"

Brainiac Five laughed. "You two like one-word questions. Must be a Kryptonian thing." He began to pace back and forth. "Yes, I'm from the future. I came back for revenge."

With Mon-El

Mon-El woke up, his stomach filled with pain. He looked down at the Kryptonite sai in his stomach. He clutched the weapon and pulled it out. He bit his lip hard, blood pooling in his mouth, but at least he hadn't alerted anyone to his location. His wounds began to heal; a perk of being a Kryptonian-Daxamite hybrid. He looked around. He was lying on the ground, broken crystal all around him. He rolled onto his side and looked straight ahead. On the ground in front of him, only a foot away was a gold ring. He reached for it, grabbing it with his hand before looking at it closely. It was gold with a round surface at the top. In the round face of the ring was a black background, as dark as space. On the black background of the ring was a large, golden letter 'L' and within the open part of the letter was a gold comet, streaking across the black background. Something clicked in his mind at the sight of the ring. He knew what to do, for the first time since he'd landed on Earth, he remembered something. He placed the ring on his finger before a golden light engulfed him.

Back to Brainiac Five

Brainiac Five stepped closer, reaching down to point the Sai at Kara's face. Suddenly, a golden light engulfed the entire great hall. Brainiac Five turned around quickly. Holding the sai in front of his body for protection. His eyes widened at the sight before him. It was Mon-El, but no longer the lost and amnesiac hybrid, standing before Brainiac Five was his best friend and brother in arms, Valor; the leader of the Legion of Superheroes.

Valor stood before his old friend and the two Kryptonians, who just stared up at him in shock and wonder. Valor was dressed in his most recent costume. He wore a skintight suit that showed off his muscled body, it was mostly black with white stars that glowed like real stars. The suit had a red stripe on the side that ran from his ankles, up his legs and torso until the color covered his arms and the red color created a large red 'V' on his chest. He wore a royal blue cape that was attached to the suit with gold clasps. A blue belt that matched the cape crossed his waist with the symbol of the Legion on the belt buckle. He also had gold boots on his feet and gold gauntlets on his forearms that matched the color of the clasps on his cape.

"Valor," Brainiac Five said. The android's mind reeling from the appearance of his best friend.

"Five, you need to step away from my friends."

Brainiac Five took a step back until he realized what he did. He couldn't let his old leader get in the way. "She needs to pay for what she did."

Valor shook his head. "Five, this isn't you talking. So, you and Kara had a fight, it doesn't mean anything."

"No, she told me she needed space, that I was confusing her."

Valor looked at his friend. The only thing that was new about him was the three circles on his forehead. "What did you do, Five?"

"I… I went to the museum… the Legion museum."

Valor's eyes widened. "You opened the pod."

Brainiac Five laughed, it was not the laugh of Valor's friend. "Yes, he did. He released my essence and I decided to inhabit the greatest technological creation, my grandson; five generations removed."

"Brainiac, you need to leave him, return to the pod," As Valor said that he pushed a button on the crystal table that his blood splattered on earlier. A pod, a Kryptonian hibernation pod appeared.

"Mon-El, you can't open that," Clark said weakly.

Valor ignored him. Brainiac stepped back. "Don't come any closer," he was shaking, the sai in his hand nearly falling out of his grasp. Valor's eyes glowed before two powerful beams of heat vision burned the Kryptonian sai into a puddle of molten goo on the floor. Before Brainiac could move Valor was on him, with speed that could rival that of the Flash, he grabbed the android, opened the pod, placing Brainiac Five within the pod and shutting the hatch. Brainiac Five beat his fists against the glass, but it wouldn't break.

With the Kryptonite melted and the other sai too far away to cause them pain, Clark and Kara stood up. They were both shaky from the ordeal. They turned to look at Mon-El. "Mon-El," Kara said, hesitantly.

Valor stood before them with his hands on his hips. "I am Valor, leader of the Legion of Superheroes."

Clark and Kara just stared at him in wonder. Clark stepped toward the pod. "What are you going to do to him?"

Valor looked down at the pod. All of the memories of his friend flooding his mind. The way Five was there when he first arrived in the thirty-first century. Five was his first friend. The one that helped him fit in, trained him to be a hero. He looked down into the pod. The android was striking the glass of the pod, screaming to be set free. For just a moment, Valor wanted to open the pod, but when he saw the three glowing circles on his friend's brow, he knew, his purpose here in the past was clear. "He must be destroyed," he said before Clark or Kara could do anything Valor grabbed the pod, jumping into the air flying toward the roof of the great hall before breaking through and into the sky. Clark and Kara could only look up at where he flew off. They were still too weak to try to stop him. They both slumped down on the floor.

Valor flew into the sky; he could hear the screams of the android, of his friend. Tears filled his eyes as he flew into space; the Legion ring sending a glowing, golden shield around him so he could breathe in space. He flew as fast as he could, thankful that there was no sound in space, that he couldn't hear his old friend, his brother in all but blood. He put all the force in one final push before he sent the pod toward the sun. He watched from a distance as the pod raced toward the sun at a speed that no ship from Earth or Mars could ever reach. He watched for what seemed like hours before the pod entered the corona of the sun and exploded. His friend was gone and with him the threat of Brainiac.

Valor flew back to Earth, his sadness dissipating as he entered the planet's atmosphere. He entered the fortress landing from where he took off. Clark and Kara both looked a lot better.

"You didn't have to kill him," Clark said, barely able to control his temper.

"I'm sorry you feel that way, but it had to be done, believe me, it was the hardest thing I ever had to do," Valor replied, walking away from the two Kryptonians.

Kara didn't know what to say. She felt betrayed, but that was silly, Mon-El never betrayed her. He never knew who he really was. "What are you going to do now?" Valor stopped and turned to look at her.

"I think we can answer that," a male voice said from the other side of the hall. Three figures dressed in colorful uniforms, each wearing the same belt buckle as Valor. A dark haired young man was the one who spoke; he wore a black uniform with silver circles on his chest.

"Cosmic Boy," Valor said. Cosmic Boy smiled at his friend and mentor.

Valor looked at the blond haired boy standing next to Cosmic Boy. He wore a blue and white uniform with lightning bolts across the chest.

"Lightning Lad," Valor said. Lightning Lad smiled in returned with a mischievous look in his eyes.

Valor smiled at the beautiful blond girl dressed in a pink and white uniform with an image of the planet Saturn on her chest. Kara frowned at the way Mon-El… the way Valor smiled at her.

"Saturn Girl," Valor said. Saturn girl grinned at her friend, her big brother.

Clark stepped forward, smiling at his three friends; friends he hadn't seen since he was a teenager. "You're all really here," Clark said, his voice filled with wonder.

"It's good to see you as well, Kal-El," Saturn Girl replied.

Valor smiled at the exchange. He hadn't come into the past to meet Clark as a teenager, but he was the one that sent them. "I suppose you all are here to take me home."

Cosmic Boy frowned. "Lar, I think we need to talk."

Valor stepped toward his friends from the Legion; Kara and Clark followed him. The six of them stood in a circle around the main control panel to the Fortress; the hole in the ground where Clark's pod had been was in front of them. "What do we need to discuss?"

Saturn Girl looked at her friend and leader. "You can't come back with us."

"What?"

Cosmic Boy's expression darkened. "We sent you back here to prevent Kara from being killed by Brainiac Five, but in doing so, your presence has disrupted the timeline."

Valor clenched his fists at his sides. "I came back to save the timeline, not damage it further. You should have let me keep my memories."

Saturn Girl shook her head. "You misunderstand. The timeline is not damaged. You have fixed it. Your presence here without your memories has fixed the timeline."

Valor looked at the three members of the Legion before him. "You knew, all along you knew."

Lightning lad stepped toward his friend. "Valor, we did, but we couldn't tell you. You know that things had to play out the way they did."

Valor sighed. "So, I can't return with you. I can't go home." Kara and Clark looked at each other. This was Mon-El's home, but clearly, Valor didn't consider it home.

Saturn Girl stepped forward and hugged her friend, her big brother. "This is your home Lar or should I call you Mon-El now?"

The two pulled out of the hug. "I don't know who I am anymore Imra."

Saturn Girl gave him a sad smile before she gave a nod toward Cosmic Boy. Cosmic Boy touched a control on his wrist. A light flashed in the hole where the pod once sat, when the light faded, Mon-El's pod was in the hole. "My pod?" Valor asked.

Cosmic Boy smiled. "It's Kal-El's pod actually."

"You sent Mon-El back here my pod?" Clark questioned.

Lightning Lad nodded. "Yes, we had to make it seem that Valor was in a similar pod. We needed you all to trust him; he needed people to trust him, to care for him when he had no memories of who he was."

"Why did Brainiac Five want to kill me?" Kara asked.

Saturn Girl frowned at the question, but a nod from Cosmic Boy told her enough; she could explain the truth. "In the previous timeline, Kal-El or Clark defeated Brainiac, who nearly escaped his prison in the pod. Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and I came from the future to help. You came back with us. You said that you had nothing left here. You and Brainiac Five became close. I guess you know the rest."

"I don't know why I would leave here," Kara said.

"Kara, I don't really know, you felt left out. You felt like you weren't needed. I don't know," Saturn Girl replied.

Kara nodded. She looked at Mon-El, but his focus was on the pod. "Why bring the pod here?" Valor asked.

Cosmic Boy smiled. "It belongs here in the fortress, plus there is a message; one that I think all three of you should hear."

"What message?" Clark asked.

Cosmic Boy smiled. "One that will make things clearer." He looked at his two friends. "We have to go Lar."

Valor nodded. I understand. He hugged his three friends. Two of them disappeared in a flash of light, leaving only Saturn Girl. She smiled at Valor, a tear falling down her cheek. "I'll miss you, big brother."

Valor smiled, his eyes tearing up as well. Saturn Girl smiled one last time and disappeared. Valor rubbed the wetness from his eyes, walking toward the pod. He looked down to see a red button, flashing before him. He hadn't seen that button before. Kara and Clark stood on either side of him. Valor reached down and touched the button.

The control panel behind the pod lit up before a light extended down from the ceiling, revealing the image of a beautiful blond woman, her blue eyes shining down upon them.

"Aunt Lara," Kara said. Her blue eyes tearing up at the sight of her aunt; the mother of her cousin.

"Mother," Clark said.

Valor stared up at her. "Lara," he said, his voice showing that he knew who she was.

Lara didn't even look at Kara or Clark. Her eyes were fixed on Lar Gand of Daxam. "Oh Lar, I thought this day would never come."

"I'm sorry that I couldn't save you," Lar replied, his voice sad.

Lara smiled, but it was a sad smile. "Jor-El and I knew we wouldn't make it. I'm just glad that you left when you did. I also understand that you saved them," she said as you looked at Clark and Kara.

Lar smiled. "I only did what you would have done."

"Oh Lar, you were always too good for Daxam. You were too kind and caring. Such a departure from those around you," Lara replied.

"Aunt Lara, what is the message that you came to tell us?" Kara asked impatiently.

Lara smiled at her niece. "Always so impatient Kara." Kara blushed. "My message is for Lar Gand." Lar looked at her curiously. "Lar, I hope you will understand. I could never tell you this on Daxam or in front of my husband."

"What are you trying to tell me?" Lar asked.

Lara smiled at him. "Lar Gand, as you know, you are of Daxam and Krypton. What you don't know is who your mother is or was." Lar looked at her, a hopeful expression on his face. "Lar, I am your mother."

AN: Longest chapter yet and I tied up a few story lines, and revealed a great deal of Mon-El, or Lar Gand, or is it Valor? Stay locked on target to learn more.