INTRODUCTION
'The Last Son will return to Krypton and redeem it. The son becomes the father and the father becomes the son.'
I started writing this fanfic and posted much of it on bluetights and then eyesskyward shortly after 'Superman Returns' was released. I left the movie theater after watching it feeling very dissatisfied. Was I supposed to be excited that Superman had saved the world from a disaster that never would have been able to happen if he had never come to Earth in the first place? And what if he had returned just a few days after he did? Ugh?
So I started thinking how to save SR from itself. What if Kal-el had a better reason to return to Krypton other than that "astronomers thought they found it?" It just wasn't mentioned explicitly in the movie. What if Lex Luthor had to create New Krypton. What if it was all part of a larger saga?
What if the Last Son had been 'prophesied' to return to Krypton? Return from where? Why had he left in the first place? Why would a planet need redemption? What could that mean anyway? The prophesies weren't clear. Kal-el wasn't even sure if these were 'prophesies' at all or that he was even the fabled Last Son.
The saga in its entirety is titled "Redemption," or "The Redemption of Krypton." It is a trilogy. Much of it was already written over a decade ago. Over the years, I have thought a lot about the saga and changed, reworked, and refined it in my mind. I recently was bitten by the writing bug, and decided to finish it. I was bummed to discover almost all my files were corrupted. I would have to start from scratch for the majority of it.
The first part of the trilogy, "Kara of Argo City," follows Kara Zor-el as she escapes the destruction of Krypton, only to be kidnapped by Sidredak (an anagram of Darkseid, on whom the character is very loosely based). She escapes and makes her way to Earth during Kal-el's absence. She is kidnapped again, this time by Lex Luthor. That story ends shorty before the events of 'Superman Returns.' I do have most of that story in an uncorrupted file, but I need to rework a lot of it as the story has changed so much in my mind over the years. Eventually I hope to post it.
The second part is "Last Son of Krypton," which I am presenting here now. I'll start with the first 3 chapters now and try to post at least one chapter a week thereafter.
The third part of the trilogy is "Redemption." In it, the Last Son and the Last Daughter face their destinies, bring meaning to the seemingly senseless death of Krpytonian civilization, and save the universe.
