After looking at the recent comments on Heretic, I will be making a sequel to that story. But first I want to finish Blood Of The Family to take some time and figure out how I want to proceed with the sequel.

But now, let's begin.

Chapter 6: Monsters Aren't Born

Von with the Black Mercy still attached to him, was laying on a table in a glass prison, with red lights beaming down on him.

"The red sun emitters should rob him of his yellow sun powers." Milton commented.

"What about the Doomsday serum?" Kara asked.

"Nothing I can do about that." Milton responded. "Now what exactly do you want me to do?"

"I want you to use the same setup Alex used to get inside my head when the Black Mercy attacked me. But instead of sending me to Von's dream, send me to his memoires. Can you do that?"

"Probably, but the Black Mercy will kill him after some time."

"After I've figured out Clark's location, I'll go into his dream and wake him from it."

"I don't know about that." Alex said walking in. "The Black Mercy is the only thing keeping him detained. The moment he's awake, he'll break out."

"If we don't do that, the Black Mercy will kill him." Kara responded. "I'm not going to let my brother die. Mr. Fine, when you're ready to get me in Von's memories, will you let me know?"

"Of course." he responded.

Kara nodded and left the room. Milton was about to do the same, but Alex stopped him.

"I need to ask for a favor." she said. "After Kara finds where Clark is, would it be possible to leave Von like that?"

"You want me to let Von die?"

Alex sighed. "He's dangerous, unstoppable and I doubt he's just going to let Kara go. She won't be safe as long as he's alive."

"I'm sensing that it's more than just Kara's safety to why you're eager to let a man die."

"Can you?"

Milton sighed. "No." Disappointment appeared on Alex's face, until Milton continued. "But if the device I used to help Kara get inside his head unfortunately broke after we found Clark, that would be a tragedy."

Alex smiled. "Thank you."

Later

Kara was laying on a table beside Von, while Alex, J'onn and Milton sat in the room with her.

"You're sure this will work?" J'onn asked.

"Yep." Milton replied. "I'm sort of a genius. You ready Kara?"

"As ready as I'll ever be." she replied.

Milton put the headset on Kara and before she knew it, she was gone.

Memory

Kara appeared in the middle of one of Von's memories, looked around and knew exactly where she was.

"Krypton." she said out loud.

She then looked to her left to see a young boy, maybe five years old playing with a toy in the middle of a field.

"Von?" Kara asked, surprised to see Von as a sweet and innocent boy.

"What are you doing?!" yelled a woman running to Von.

Fear began to overtake Von's face. "I'm sorry mother, I was just..."

His defense was interrupted when Von's mother slapped him so hard, he fell to the ground.

"I didn't give your permission to leave your room!" the mother yelled.

Von looked at this mother, now with tears in his eyes, cried. "I'm sorry mother, it won't happen again."

"That's right it won't, because you're going to learn your lesson in the cellar" Even more fear appeared on Von's face after his mother made that comment.

"No." he pleaded. "Not the cellar. I'm so sorry mother."

She again slapped him hard, and yelled. "This is what happens when you do anything, you always fail to realize that you destroy everything you touch."

"I know, and I'm sorry!" But she didn't listen. She grabbed Von's arm and dragged him into the house, while he was kicking and screaming for his life.

Kara watched in horror as all of this unfolded.

"What happened to you?" Kara said to herself.

The memory shifted to Von in some sort of basement, while the mother was holding is head under some water. He was trying to stop her, but she continued, for several seconds, until she let go, and Von came up gasping for air.

"Have you learned your lesson?" the mother asked. Von immediately nodded. "Really? I disagree. Maybe a few days down here will help?"

Fear overtook his face. "No mother, please, I've learned my lesson."

"I don't think that's up to you to decide."

"Mother..." he was interrupted when she grabbed him and threw him on the floor. He was crying and bleeding while his mother went up some stairs, left the cellar and locked the door.

"I'm so sorry." Kara said on the verge of tears.

CatCo Tower

Lena was sitting in her office, when a man entered.

"Ms. Luthor?" the man asked getting Lena's attention. "I wanted to let you know that the security system's fixed."

"Will I be able to review past footage?" Lena asked.

"You should be. If not, let me know."

"Thanks." Lena said smiling as the man left. She then opened the footage from yesterday. "Now why am I having a memory problem?" she asked herself as she scrolled through the footage of that day, and what she found, surprised her.

Memory

Kara was now in a new memory. She saw an eight year old Von standing outside her family home on Krypton. He knocked on the door, and an eleven year old version of Kara answered it.

"Who are you?" the young Kara asked.

"I'm a... I'm here to speak with a Zor-El."

"Kara." Zor-El said from inside the house. "Will you go play with your mother while I talk to this young boy."

Kara nodded and went inside, while Zor-El exited the house and closed the door.

"Who are you?" he asked.

"I'm your son." Von responded. Zor-El's eyes widened at this comment. "My name is Von, my mother is Fana from the House of Em."

"I know who she is." Zor-El said with concern over his face. "Why did you come here?"

Tears began to fall down Von's cheeks. "I can't live with her anymore. She's... she's..."

"She's your mother."

Von shock his head. "Not a very kind one."

Zor-El sighed, went down of one knee and said. "You can't stay with me."

Von looked up to meet Zor-El's face. "But father..."

"Please don't call me that. I... I have a family of my own, and I can't take you in right now."

"Please, if mother finds out where I went, she'll be angry."

"It's better this way."

Von shock his head even more. "No. No it's not."

"I'm sorry. Goodbye Von." Zor-El said standing up and reentering his house, leaving a crying Von outside.

Kara's eyes were beginning to tear up after seeing all of this.

DEO

Milton and Alex were by Von and Kara, when one of the machines started beeping rapidly.

"What's happening?" Alex asked worried.

"It's Von, his heart is giving out." Milton yelled running to the machine.

"How? I thought he had more time?"

"The Black Mercy must be more evolved than the previous one. If Von dies while Kara is in his head, she'll die as well."

"Then we pull Kara out." Alex demanded.

"What about Superman?"

"Right now I'm more worried about my sister."

Memory

The next memory Kara found herself in was quite devastating. She looked around to see Krypton dying, exactly as she remembered it.

"What are you doing mother?" a ten year old Von asked, following his mother to a pod.

"The House of Em has prepared a space pod for you to leave in." his mother replied.

Surprise and a little hope appeared on Von's face after hearing that. "You're... you're going to help me escape?"

His mother chuckled at the comment. "The House of Em believed that it would be best to save children, but I'm not going to waste a perfectly good pod on a bastard boy such as yourself."

Von's hope quickly turned to fear after hearing that. "You used me to save yourself?" he asked, seemingly about to cry.

"Look at it this way, you've finally done something good in your life. You helped your mother."

She was about to get into the pod, until she heard something from behind her. She turned around to see Von pointing a gun at her.

"You're going to shoot me? The woman who gave you life?"

"You may have given birth to me, but you didn't give me life." Von said with tears overflowing his face. "All you've done is take and rob me of life, just because my father wasn't your husband."

"That's not the main reason why I hate you." the mother responded. "The main reason is because when a mother looks at their new born child, they should feel pride, love, but I didn't feel that. All I felt was disappointment, and I was right to."

"Maybe." Von said firing several shots at his mother. Even after she died, he walked over to her and continued firing into her, until the gun was out of ammo. Afterwards, he wiped the tears from his face, entered the pod and took off.

Kara was covering her mouth after witnessing everything that just happened, now she had tears streaming down her cheeks. But her shock was interrupted, as the environment changed.

In an instant, she found herself back and the DEO, on the table.

She got up and asked. "Why did you do that?"

"Von was dying." Alex responded. "If you had stayed any longer, you would have died with him."

Kara's eyes widened after hearing that. "Wake him up!" she screamed.

"We can't." Milton said. "It's too late."

Kara wasn't even paying attention to the heartbeat monitor flat lining.

Tears began to sprout in her eyes.

"Are you crying because you couldn't find Clark?" Alex asked.

"No." Kara replied. "It's because I..."

Just then, the Black Mercy fell off of Von, dead, and Von got up immediately.

"Smart." he said getting off the table and looking at everyone in the room. "But I won't be killed by some parasite."

Von then hit Milton, and Milton went flying through the glass cell.

Alex pulled out a gun, but immediately dropped it when Von grabbed her by the neck and said. "I don't appreciate it when people go digging around in my mind."

"It's not Alex's fault." Kara said. "It's mine." Von hearing this threw Alex to the other side of the cell. "I'm the one who went through your memoires. So if you want to punish anyone, punish me."

Von smiled. "Why would you do that?"

"I needed to find Clark."

"You went through some very private stuff."

"I'm sorry. Not just for going through your memories, but fro everything you went through. No one should have to go through that."

Tears were brimming in Von's face. "I'm going to walk out of here. But before I do that, container number 2347 on the west side of the city, that's where Kal is."

"Thank you." Kara said.

Von didn't respond, and immediately sped out of the DEO.

CatCo Tower

Lena was working by her desk, when Von walked right into her office.

"Now where is the..." Von began, but was interrupted.

"I know you're kryptonian." Lena interrupted. This got Von's attention. "And I'm guessing Kara's Supergirl." Von nodded, and Lena scoffed. "I should have known, God I'm such and idiot."

"If you were one, I wouldn't have made you work on a spaceship and analyze my blood." Von said. "Speaking of which, have you done that?"

"Well, it was kind of hard not to considering you brainwashed me." Lena said pulling out some paper. "This is what I found from the analysis. It appears that the mutation in your kryptonian DNA is growing unstable."

"That's impossible. I had two of the best experts on kryptonian DNA perfecting the serum."

"Well you should have ran more tests, because it's slowly but surely growing unstable."

Von sighed. "What's going to happen when it's completely unstable?"

"I honestly have no idea. But I do have some solutions. We could try to cure you of the mutation and..."

"No." Von declared interrupting Lena. "Not an option, I need the serum to keep my sister and cousin in line."

Lena sighed. "I guess I could try to find a way to stabilize the serum."

"Do it."

"You do realize you could ask politely." Lena commented.

Von rolled his eyes and said. "Would you please help me not die."

"Very well, if you insist."

Von sighed. "Why are you even helping me, I've not hypnotized you to do so."

"I like to try and save lives, even those of control freaks."

Von smiled at the comment and left.

DEO

Kara was pacing around the DEO, until Clark walked in with cuts on his suit.

Kara immediately ran up to him and hugged him. "Don't do stupid things like fight a super kryptonian."

Clark returned the hug and replied. "No promises." After separating from the hug, Clark asked. "Where is Von?"

"He sort of escaped." Kara replied.

"And that's a problem we're going to have to fix." a voice said entering the DEO.

"General Lane?" Clark asked.

"What are you doing her General?" J'onn asked.

"After your screw up with the super kryptonian, the president has ordered that I gain control over the DEO until the matter is resolved."

J'onn sighed. "With all due respect General, the reason we've been having difficulties is because this kryptonian is not only stronger than Superman and Supergirl, but our only defense against kryptonians is useless against him."

"That is why we have brought... an expert." Lane replied.

Two soldiers entered with a man dressed in prison attire between them.

"No!" Clark yelled seeing who it was.

"Is that..." J'onn began to ask.

"Lex Luthor." Kara finished.

Unknown

Milton entered an alien lab and put a vial of blood on the main computer.

Milton then began to speak. "Subject: Von-El has demonstrated impressive abilities even for a kryptonian due to the Doomsday serum. However, the serum is growing unstable in his body. In order to use his DNA in Project: Morpheus, I'll need to stabilize first. However, if the instability reaches its full potential, the most likely scenario is that he will undergo some metamorphous. Into what is unknown, however he will almost certainly be unable to control it, and will likely lead to an all powerful, all out of control super kryptonian. If this is achieved, then perhaps Project: Morpheus isn't necessary for Earth's salvation."

And so ends yet another chapter. Hope you where the story is going, if you do leave a review, fav, follow and I'll see you in the next chapter.