The Unknown Survivor

The planet of Krypton was enduring a dark era, the war against General Zod was not going well at all. All night the sky would be illuminated with bright flashes of light, the ground would shake nearly constantly and the once proud strong fortresses and towers of crystal would break and crumble to the ground. The screams and cries of countless Kryptonians could be heard at any given time, day or night.

Far away from the battle field a Kryptonian scientist Zor-EL was attempting to lead his daughter Kara-EL to safety. He led her towards the ship he had prepared for her that would take her far away from the war where she would be safe on a planet called Earth inhabited by a race identical in appearance to them but incredibly primitive when compared to Kryptonians. He rushed her to the front of the ship and after a few minutes of her protests he managed to convince her to get inside the ship and follow her cousin Kal-EL to Earth.

Zor-EL quickly ran back towards the center of the city of Kandor to assist in the war. When he arrived he found the council members and the military leaders in disarray.

"What happened? What's wrong with you all?" Zor-EL demanded.

"It's BRAINIAC, he's destroying are defenses." Screamed a female scientist.

"What? But he's on are side, Jor-EL built him himself." Shouted Zor-EL.

"True but Zod captured him and with the help of one of Jor-EL's assistants he managed to reprogram BRAINIAC to serve him." Said another scientist.

Zor-EL stared in shock at the people in the room before swallowing loudly and taking a deep breath.

"Ok what's the damage so far?..." He asked before he was interrupted by someone else entering the room.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE ZOR-EL" demanded Jor-EL as he strode up to his brother so close there noses where touching.

"I'm here to give any assistance I can to save Kandor, which is more than I can say about you."

"What's that supposed to mean." Jor-EL demanded furiously his eyes ablaze with fury.

"Oh nothing just heard what your little toy's been up to."

"That's not my fault how was I to know Tau-AE would betray me." Jor-EL said.

"Well I would think you would have set up your toys programming with some security, Tau-AE's an amateur there's no chance he could have solved anything as complex as some of the protective procedures that Kandor possesses."

"I had to allow changes to be made to BRAINIAC's programming so that his mission objectives could be updated and…" But Jor-EL was interrupted by a loud explosion from out side. Everyone in the room rushed to the window and saw giant fire where a defense outpost used to be, screams filled the air and the horrendous smell of burning corpses filled their nostrils. A loan figure walked out of the inferno, flames licked at the survivor's body but didn't seem to be burning him rather wrapping around him leaving him unscathed. A group of Kryptonian soldier quickly ran at the figure they could now identify as BRAINIAC and began firing at him, but before the destructive beams of light could hit he vanished only to reappear using his super speed behind the commander of the group a tall black haired male with bright green eyes. He punched a hole through the man's side. The man jerked forward dropping his weapon and blood slowly dripped from his mouth as BRAINIAC ripped his fist out of the man's side causing him to fall to the ground. His white leather like uniform was soon stained with the man's blood as the rest of his team including his wife were killed by BRAINIAC.

The occupants of Kandor's command centre looked down in horror as BRAINIAC weaved through all of their soldiers and defenses his eyes set on the command center staring up into the eyes of its occupants.

As the other in the room screamed and began throwing ideas back and forth about how to stop BRAINIAC, Zor-EL made his way towards the exit of the room and out of the tower, but before he could he was stopped by Jor-EL.

"Running away Zor-EL you coward running while the rest of us stay to face are problems." Jor-EL said.

"Not another lecture Jor-EL and I am no coward." Zor-EL stated.

"Not a coward you're running away just because a few people died and we lost an outpost phtt have some pride."

"That's the difference between the two of us Jor-EL you don't see anyone as a real person just a pawn to suit your needs and staying here waiting to be murdered isn't anything to be proud of Jor-EL its just stupidity." Zor-EL said before punching Jor-EL straight in the jaw dropping him to the ground.

Zor-EL began a quick pace getting out of the building and headed towards the nearest outpost. As he ran through the streets of Kandor he ran into many Kryptonian citizens many scared and afraid of what was going on, he was stopped by many of them hoping to be given reassurance that everything was ok, sadly he couldn't do that. Another 5 minutes later he heard another explosion behind him turning he saw the command centre he had just left in ruins flames hundreds of feet high scorching the sky. Running as fast as he could he finally reached a portal platform. Setting a detonator to go off after the portal was activated Zor-EL used the portal to go to the furthest outpost located near civilian residence. But as soon as he arrived he was thrown out for being a traitor, Zor-EL slumped down the side of the outpost wall looking at the destruction caused by the war.

"The fools couldn't they see I'm trying to help do they really think I want to destroy Krypton. Even my headstrong brother knew I didn't want to destroy Krypton." As he continued to talk to himself he found himself wondering about Kara.

"I should have never sent her alone, there are so many things that could go wrong, if only there was a way I could look out for her at least until she activates the crystal I gave her." Then it struck him his oldest friend Captain Thor-EN had recently had a child.

"Yes if he's anything like his parents he'll die before allowing any harm to come to Kara, and he's young enough so will notice he's gone with the war going on."

Jumping to his feet he ran back to the entrance to the outpost tower and asked security to locate Captain Thor-EN for him. They reluctantly agreed and activated his locator device but unfortunately he found out his friend was among the first to fall to BRAINIAC.

"What about his wife Sora?" asked Zor-EL. They typed in the new information and tried to locate her but she too had fallen to BRAINIAC.

Zor-EL felt numb two of his closest friends had been killed, resting his face in his hands he wiped away the tears that were threatening to fall.

"What about their son please tell me he's ok?" begged Zor-EL.

The soldier typed in the information again but this time the soldier was able to tell Zor-EL the child was indeed alive.

"Thank the lord where is he?" Zor-EL asked.

"He's in the care center being looked after by the military as his mother was rushed into joining the battle early." said the soldier.

Zor-EL immediately started towards there thanking every God he had ever heard of that it was near bye.

When he arrived he immediately spotted his friends child, black hair and the greenest eyes he had ever seen. Smiling sadly at the little baby he gently lifted him out the crystal cot and began moving as quickly as he could without hurting the baby back to where he now lived outside the city, as he was no longer welcome.

His home was a giant fortress similar to Jor-EL's fortress of knowledge, he ran inside as quickly as possible as he didn't have much time left and set to work arranging the necessary equipment the child would need to protect his Kara. Once everything was done he walked to his last ship an exact duplicate of the black ship Kara left in.

"Why Jor-EL would send his son in that tiny ship I'll never know, what's the boy supposed to do when he grows up?" Zor-EL muttered as he placed his friend's child into the ship.

"Good bye and please protect my baby girl, I wish you the best of luck baby Jor-EN." He said before sealing the lid of the ship and starting up the engines causing the ship too use the course plotted by Zor-EL and blasting away leaving Zor-EL standing there watching the ship disappear from view.

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