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Story Title: The Traveler

Chapter 24

National City – DEO Headquarters

J'onn, Winn, and Alex stood around a large computer terminal as Winn worked to find the Eradicator. The confrontation in the alley, although a failure in catching the anti-hero did serve one purpose, it gave Winn the energy signature of the Eradicator.

"Got him," Winn said, raising his hands over his head and nearly smacking Alex in the face.

"Watch it, Winn," Alex yelled as she slapped his hands away.

Winn's face turned red. "Sorry, Alex."

J'onn sighed. "Where is he, Agent Schott?"

Winn gulped at J'onn's tone of voice before he furiously typed on his keyboard, clicking his mouse to hit the right sequence of commands before a map of the city appeared. A gold light signified the Eradicator; it was currently hovering over Central Park. However, two additional lights arrived soon after.

"Who or what are those?" J'onn questioned.

Winn grinned. "Superman and Wonder Woman."

J'onn and Alex smiled. It appeared that the Justice League had arrived to capture the vigilante.

Central Park

Superman and Wonder Woman hovered in the air before the Eradicator. He hovered just above the broken Monument to Valor.

"I… he was… a hero," the Eradicator said.

Clark and Diana looked at each other worriedly. Clark flew closer to the anti-hero. "Mon-El, is that you?"

The Eradicator looked at Superman before he took off his eye shields; two burning orbs like the sun stared at the Man of Steel. Superman retreated at the sight. "I am the Eradicator, son of Jor-El. Your mother created me to destroy evil and to protect you from it. I sense evil in the world now, an abomination created to kill. I must kill it before it kills you and the defenseless people of this world."

"If my mother truly created you, she would not want to you to kill. She would want you to protect," Clark replied.

"Your mother programmed me to destroy evil and to protect you. That is my purpose."

Clark sighed. "You aren't my brother."

"That abomination of Daxam and Krypton is gone. I was programmed to protect you."

Clark's hands clench into fists. "My mother would never call her son an abomination."

"I was also created by Jor-El."

Clark's eyes widened. "My father… he created you?"

"Yes, to protect you."

Clark frowned. "I don't need your protection."

"It appears that you need my help. This Cyborg-Valor, he will destroy all alien life on this planet, good or evil."

Clark was going to yell that he didn't need the help of a killer, but Diana put her hand on his shoulder. Clark turned and looked into her dark blue eyes. "Kal, we need his help. We can worry about what he's done afterward."

Clark sighed; he knew she was right. They needed the Eradicator to take down the Cyborg-Valor. "Okay, we accept your help, but after this, we are going to talk about your methods."

The Eradicator nodded. "As you wish Kal-El."

Just then, the Martian Manhunter and Supergirl arrived. They both hovered between Clark and Diana, and the Eradicator. "I take it that we are all on the same side?" J'onn asked.

"Yes, Martian, we must defeat this Cyborg-Valor," the Eradicator said. He ignored Kara; the sight of her brought up strange memories.

"I'd hate to bring this up, but none of us can fly in space, so how do we get up there?" Kara asked.

Diana smiled. "There is a javelin prepped and parked on top of the DEO Headquarters."

J'onn's eyes widened. "How?" Then his demeanor changed. It was him. "Damn, I hate it when he does stuff like that."

Clark smiled. "The Batman doesn't ask permission."

J'onn sighed. "Just once I'd like him to follow protocol."

Diana chuckled. "Not going to happen, J'onn."

J'onn sighed. "We better go, but the Cyborg-Valor, he'll see us as soon as we leave the atmosphere."

The Eradicator flew a little higher in the air. "I can survive in space. I will be your distraction," he said before he flew off toward orbit.

"Damn, we better get to that javelin," J'onn said as he flew off with the others behind him.

Low Earth Orbit

The Eradicator flew into orbit, using his enhanced senses to find the Watchtower.

He picked up speed as he approached the tower, blasts of laser energy shot passed him. He avoided them effortlessly. He sensed another object approach, this one was cloaked, but he could sense the energy readings, it had to be the javelin. In order to increase his distraction, he began to fire at the station, his energy blasts striking the shields of the station.

Onboard the Javelin

J'onn piloted the ship making sure to avoid the lasers that shot passed them as the weapons tried and failed to strike the Eradicator.

"He's certainly doing a good job distracting him," Diana observed.

Kara nodded. She saw the Eradicator blast the station as the shields absorbed the energy blasts. "How do we get by the shields."

"Do not worry Supergirl; I have that covered," a voice said from the main speaker on the ship's control panel.

The voice was rough, but Superman knew who it was. "Batman, you're there."

"In the cave, couldn't let you all get blasted," he replied just before the javelin passed through a small breach in the shields.

"How?" Diana asked.

"I still have some control of the station. Docking Bay two is open and ready."

Clark smiled. "Thank you."

"Don't get all sentimental on my Boy Scout."

Diana smiled as she elbowed Clark in the ribs, playfully. Clark sighed. His two best friends always liked to rub it in.

"Entering the docking bay," J'onn said as he sat the ship down in the empty bay. He sighed. "Well, we made it through that."

"Now for the tough job," Kara said as she hit the control and the rear hatch to the javelin opened, revealing the steel gray floor of the docking bay. The group exited, following Superman and Wonder Woman as they led J'onn and Kara forward. Just as the door to the bay opened, the Eradicator entered the bay through the shielded entrance and exit to space. He landed beside Superman.

"Nice job," Clark said.

The Eradicator nodded. "The Cyborg-Valor is in the main control room now. Green Lantern is still tied up in the Monitor Room."

"I'll get Hal," J'onn said before flew off in the direction of the Monitor Room.

Clark frowned. "Okay, let's go," he said before he flew off followed by Kara, Diana, and the Eradicator. The group reached the main control room; the door sliding open as they approached. They entered the room; it was the size of a football field and nearly as tall. A winding ramp went up to the top that overlooked the room and the large glass window that looked down on the Earth.

Cyborg-Valor looked down at them; his red robotic eye pulsed with power. "You made it, and you brought the newcomer," Cyborg-Valor said as he pointed toward the Eradicator.

"You shall not hurt the innocents of this world. Your days are numbered, cyborg," the Eradicator said.

Cyborg-Valor chuckled; the sound was metallic and made Kara and the others cringe. "Tough words, but it shall be you that dies." Just then, the walls on either side of the heroes opened up to reveal dozens of robots, all made from the same Kryptonian steel that comprised the cyborg parts of Cyborg-Valor.

"Separate and attack," Clark yelled as he flew off, striking one of the robots, which grabbed onto Superman and carried him through the wall and into the next room.

Supergirl charged the nearest robot punching it hard before it backhanded her, sending her flying to a steel reinforced column. Wonder Woman struck the robot, before pulling out her sword and cutting off its head. She turned to Kara and smiled. "We've got one weapon that destroys them," she said before she flew off, tackling another robot, before separating its head from its body. An energy blast struck a robot that tried to get to Supergirl. Kara turned to see the Eradicator, firing blast after blast into the robot, which finally fell apart under the onslaught. She stood up quickly as a robot approached her, firing a blast of heat vision into the neck of the robot; the neck exploded sending the head careening across the floor, until a familiar green energy circled the head, sending it flying across the room and into another robot.

"Couldn't let you all have all the fun," Hal said before he flew off, creating a battering ram out of green light, crushing two robots against the wall.

J'onn landed beside her; maybe we should stick together on this one. Kara nodded before the two flew off, destroying robots as they went.

J'onn, Clark, Kara, and Diana stopped at the base of the ramp. "I need to go up there," Clark said.

"Not without me," Kara said.

Clark smiled, turning to J'onn and Diana. "Can you hold them off," he said as he pointed toward the robots that were still coming, even as the Eradicator and Green Lantern destroyed them.

Diana smiled. "We've got this," she said before Diana and J'onn flew off to help the others.

"Come on Kal," Kara said flying up the ramp. Clark raced behind her before the two stopped at the top of the ramp. A large platform with computer terminals sat on one side while on the other side was a group of chairs, looking like a college lecture hall.

"So good of you two to join me," Cyborg-Valor said.

"Stop what you're doing Henshaw," Superman said.

Cyborg-Valor raised both of his hands. "Too late Clark." Clark's eyes widened. "We know all about you and your cousin here."

Kara's eyes narrowed. "I knew CADMUS was low, but to clone Valor and turn him into this abomination, it's a new low even for you."

"You wound me Supergirl. Your little boyfriend is dead and it gave us the perfect opportunity. To destroy his name and to kill every alien on this planet."

"We're going to stop you," Kara said.

Cyborg-Valor's metal arm glowed until it turned into an energy cannon. "By all means try, but just to give you a secret we learned more than genetics and alien metalwork. We learned a lot about Kryptonite, especially after the destruction of Metallo. We learned a great deal." When he finished speaking the muzzle of the cannon glowed green before a blast of green energy emitted from the weapon striking the area at the feet of the two Kryptonians. They felt their skin burn and their bodies weaken.

"Kryptonite," Kara said, falling to her knees, Clark at her side.

"Correct, we learned how to make Kryptonite energy weapons." He fired another blast sending Kara and Clark screaming in pain as they writhed on the floor.

"I think one or two more blasts will do it."

An energy beam hit the cyborg's face, making him back up and strike the control console behind him. The section of the console he hit exploded, ending the threat of the planetary laser weapon, at least for the time being. The Cyborg looked up and froze at the sight before him; a man in a black set of Kryptonian armor, holding a gray blaster rifle in one hand, on the chest of the man's armor was a familiar silver S, but painted over it was another familiar symbol, a red letter V.

"Valor," Cyborg-Valor said.

The man holding the blaster looked at the cyborg strangely. "That's what Kelex called me."

Clark and Kara looked up at the newcomer. From the back, it looked like Mon-El, except that his hair was passed his shoulders. Neither could talk; they were in too much pain, but they prayed to Rao and any other god out there that he had returned from the dead.

"No matter, whoever you are, you'll be destroyed soon enough," Cyborg-Valor said, his weapon was raised, prepared to destroy this new threat. The weapon powered up; a green glow enveloped the weapon as the cyborg brought the energy output up to the maximum. "None of you will survive this blast." He fired, but a split second before the weapon enveloped his three intended victims the Eradicator appeared in front of them. The energy blast struck the anti-hero head on destroying the body of the being and flooding the longhaired man in incredible energies. When the beam ceased the Eradicator was gone, but in his place stood the longhaired man. His armor was in tatters, his torso was bare and the lower part of his legs was bare as well. He stood up to his full height; his blue-gray eyes glowed intensely.

"Hello, Henshaw," the man said.

"That voice, it really is you Lar Gand."

"I no longer go by that name. I am Valor, known as Mon-El, the hero of Earth; surrender and I will go easy on you."

The cyborg laughed. "Surrender, you cannot defeat me. I have all your power, plus Kryptonian steel."

"So be it," Valor said before he charged the cyborg. Cyborg-Valor raised his energy weapon and fired; Valor blurred out of sight, his speed beyond that of the Cyborg. He appeared beside the cyborg, grabbing his metal arm with both hands and ripping the metal appendage free from its housing. The cyborg yelled in pain and anger. His cyborg eye glowed with power before letting loose a blast of pure heat energy, as hot as the sun. The beam hit Valor head on, but he wasn't hurt.

"That's not possible," Cyborg-Valor said.

Valor looked up his eyes glowing brighter than before. He looked down at his hands; they were both covered in golden energy. He raised his hands and fired a blast of energy that covered the cyborg before an explosion rocked the platform, causing the remained of the computer terminal near the cyborg to explode as well. When the cloud of debris and light faded from the blast, nothing was left of the cyborg, except for a scorch mark on the metal floor.

Valor took a few deep breaths; the energy coursing through his veins was incredible, but also the knowledge. He remembered everything, He was the original Valor; the one thought to be killed in the fight with Doomsday. Instead of dying, Valor was put into a deep hibernation caused by the tremendous amounts of solar energy that had cascaded through his body when he destroyed Doomsday. He was freed by Kelex Two and brought to an underground section of the fortress that even Kal-El didn't know about. The energy coursing through his body was siphoned off to grant the Eradicator program the ability to gain humanoid form. However, the siphoning process also removed many of Mon-El's memories and transferred them to the Eradicator. The fight here with the cyborg and the blast that the Eradicator took had destroyed the program but it had also returned energy to Mon-El and in turn, it had restored his memories. He was Mon-El once again. The hero known as Valor had returned, just in time.

"Mon-El," Kara said.

He rushed to her side, sitting on the ground and placing her head in his lap. "Kara, are you okay?"

She smiled. "So much better now that you're here." Her blue eyes were watery, but they had never looked more beautiful to Mon-El.

"I'm sorry, I hurt you, made you think I died. I wasn't really dead, hibernating until Kelex woke me, but by then the Eradicator had siphoned off my power and took my memories."

"Why?" Kara asked.

"He wanted to protect Clark and you. Therefore, he used my power to create his body, but the energy transfer accidentally took my memories. That blast from the cyborg destroyed the Eradicator and transferred the energy and my memories to me."

Kara smiled. "I'm so happy that you're back," she said before she looked at his long hair. "I like your hair short."

Mon-El laughed. "I do too."

Clark moaned from beside them, rubbing his eyes as he woke up. His blue eyes widened at the sight of his brother. "Mon-El!"

"Hey Kal, feeling okay?"

Kal-El just stared at his brother before he crawled over to him and pulled him into a hug, careful not to squish Kara who was still lying down in her boyfriend's lap. Kal-El pulled out of the hug, tears were in his eyes. "I'm so glad you're back."

"Hey now, no need to cry, little brother. I wouldn't let anyone hurt you or Kara."

Kal-El smiled. "Where's Henshaw?"

Valor frowned. "Destroyed… there was no other way."

"Hey… don't be hard on yourself… he wasn't human anymore. He was more a monster than anything else."

"Hey, I can stand now," Kara said. Earning a chuckle from Clark and a smile from Mon-El. The two helping her stand up. "Come on, we need to check on the others."

AN: Mon-El is back better than ever. Henshaw is dead and the world saved. One more chapter and this story will be complete.