Hey everyone, Jaykid1 here with Justice League Origins: Rise of Sentinel.

For those of you who are first timers to the story, welcome. For those that are not, you may have noticed a few things. One, you may have noticed the name change. I have actually decided to rewrite/ freshen up the current chapters since I started this story a few years ago. I'm better at my craft now and have a better sense of my story. Before it was just a random idea, I'd no idea people would be so attached to it so I decided to freshen it up rather than create a new story.

For you returners, there is added content in the chapters that wasn't there before and more details. I wanted to do this before chapter 8 was officially posted.

Hope you like the new stuff.

Enjoy.

Disclaimer: I own My O.C's

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Planet Krypton. A thriving utopia housing the individuals known as Kryptonian's. A race of intelligent, logic-based people bent on seeking perfection. With their belief, they tried to spread their perfection by colonizing other planets through subjugation and extermination(1). They succeeded on their first try with planet Argo's, a planet so close it shared a moon with Krypton. Arrogant that their first try was such a success, they tried again on the next planet in line. A smaller planet in comparison to their own and further away than Argos called Argonia. The planet itself had a small population of a few thousand as it had a land to water ratio of 10-90. According to the scouts, the inhabitants were intelligent as they compensated for their lack of landmass by building floating cities.

However, even thou they had greater numbers, the Kryptonian's were unprepared for what awaited them. The first sign that they shouldn't be doing this came when they first entered the planets atmosphere. The sheer gravity was so high that their ships were nearly crushed under the weight. The Kryptonians that were lucky enough to survive the crash landings could barely stand under such intense weight. The one's that could quickly found out that the natives were not push overs and that their weapons, not only had no effect against the natives dense skin, but also seemed to energize them. The mission was a complete failure. The Kryptonians on the planet managed to send out a message saying to stay away before they were eradicated. The Kryptonian's wisely decided to keep their 'perfection' to themselves and their two planets.

However, there aim for perfection ultimately led to their demise. Seeking more power, they tried to harness the energy from their planets core, thus causing an unstable chain reaction. The Kryptonian's were blinded by their hubris and refused to believe that their planet's core was unstable and about to destroy the planet. One Kryptonian however recognized the danger and sent his new-born son off world moments before the planet exploded, taking with it, it's sister planet Argos. Thus leaving the Kryptonian race teetering on the very edge of extinction.

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After the Argonians got rid of their invaders, they returned to their peaceful lives. Despite the peace they lived by, it wasn't always this way. The peace was only as new as 200 years. Due the long lifespans of the Argonian race, 200 years was but a blink to most. The peace came when the newly crowned Argonian king, Reiko, led a rebellion to overthrow his father, the former king who ruled over his people with harshness and cruelty. With his father killed in the rebellion, Reiko was content to serve whoever would take the thrown, regarding whoever did take it made was a better king. Reiko's older brother Maero was prepared to take it himself before the people decided they wanted Reiko to rule, not only because he led the rebellion, but because he was the strongest of them all. Reiko tried to decline several times, it was only due to his then best friend now wife and queen, Solana that he agreed to take the throne. It took awhile for the old wounds to die but eventually some of the people learned to accept the peace that was brought on by Reiko taking the throne. Others merely tolerated the peace, believing it would never last, Maero chief among them.

That bit of peace was strained when the Kryptonians came. When they were defeated and driven off, many of the Argonians wanted to chase them to their home planet and end them, but Reiko stopped them all saying more bloodshed was unneeded. Some were content to listen, others were not. Among them was Maero, who believed in Argonian superiority, a notion their father took to the extreme when he enslaved the planet. It started to become obvious where the two brothers stood, Reiko wanted peace, Maero wanted war, and Maero knew only one thing was standing in his way of want for war... Reiko.

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Reiko was a tall man with a wiry muscled build. He had straight black hair that fell to his back with silver eyes. His tail, which as the same color as his hair, was wrapped tightly around his waist and was furrowed depicting it's owners agitated state. The reason the king was agitated was simple to those who knew him. He was in yet another conversation with his older brother regarding waging war and conquering other planets. Maero looked much like his younger brother only he was heavily muscled and his hair was spiky and resembled a mane. His tail was thrashing around, reflecting his anger.

"Brother, be reasonable, surely you can see the brilliance in this plan. We are the strongest race in the universe, we can remake the universe with our image!" Maero tried to get across.

"I have already told you, we are not going to force our will on other planets. In the last two centuries since I became king, we have lived through enough bloodshed to last our lifetimes, and you want me to authorize more? That would make us no better than the Kryptonians who attacked us years before."

"Brother, see reason..!"

"I am seeing reason, you are the one that needs to listen to reason! You are beginning to sound like our father. You and I both know how that ended." Reiko shot back, his eyes flashing white. Maero did know. Reiko had been the one to put an end to their father personally.

Before they got into an all out shouting match, a throat clearing drew their attention to the queen Solana. Solana was a beautiful woman with long spiky crimson red hair that fell to her ankles and glowing blue eyes. She had tan skin and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She was wearing a long white dress with her crimson red tail wrapped around her waist and making her swollen stomach more prominent.

"May I have my husband back." Her voice was like silk and though she posed her statement as a question, both males knew it was anything but.

Maero took a calming breath before wrapping his tail around his waist. "All yours, my Queen." He said with a bow as he left the room, inwardly cursing his brother as he left. It was time he put his plans into action.

Reiko walked swiftly toward his pregnant wife, meeting her with a kiss as one of his hands caressed her face as the other went to her belly, where their son waited to be born. When the kiss ended, he spoke. "My love, what are you doing here? You should be resting, is something wrong?" He asked concerned.

Solana frowned at him. "I should be asking you that question. I could sense your agitated energy, what is wrong?"

Reiko frowned. "It is Maero. He keeps insisting that we become conquerors. That while we focus on technology and science, our vast power is wasted."

Solana caressed his face. "My love, you know Maero has always been one who prefers the excitement of battle over the that of science. It's his instincts, an instinct all Argonian share."

"I'm well aware, but that does not mean we should abandon our intellect. There needs to be a fine line between instinct and practical thought. I mean the only thing keeping our race from being savages are our advanced intellect." Reiko huffed.

Solana grabbed his face so he was looking right at her. "Rei, you have nothing to worry about. The people will come around. You just have to trust them."

He sighed. "I can't, I want to, but I can't. The civil war has left scars and awakened blood lust in so many. So many people want to conquer and their slowly turning others to their cause. I fear there maybe another civil war about to start. And with the number of people that will fight, I fear this planet will not survive. It's too small to handle the power we wield. Especially with Krypton's destruction knocking us off our natural gravitational field. The planet is already suffering. We've abused it so much already, we hardly have any land masses left.

Solana looked at him funny. "Do you really believe..."

"I know my brother, he is good at persuading people, especially with most of our race thinking like he does." He said before looking at Solanna meaningfully. "I've my most trusted scientist building a spacepod capable of breaching the planets gravity(2)."

"A spacepod? But we don't need..." Solanna was interrupted.

"I know our energy allows us to breath in space, however we wouldn't survive extended travel before running out of energy. My point is, if something happens, I want you to get off the planet."

Solana stared at him a moment before pulling him into another kiss, wanting this topic to end she spoke. "Come, lets got to bed." She said as she pulled him to their bed chambers.

Neither had a clue how accurate Reiko was about his worries as Maero was in fact inciting a coup as they slept.

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It was a week later before it happened. Maero had stormed into the throne with an army of other Argonians who proceeded to blast everything in the room that moved. All the guards were taken by surprise and most were instantly killed while the others took cover and returned fire. Maero was in the back, avoiding energy blast and looking for his brother. To his annoyance, Reiko was no where to be found. Narrowing his eyes, Maero knew their was one place he would be. Seeing that his rebellion was had things covered here, Maero left to Reiko's secret lab.

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Reiko and Solana were in the lab working on a special box when they heard the explosions. "It's happening." He said as he looked at a worried Solana who held her belly protectively. "You have to go."

"No! Not without you!" She said.

"You have to, he won't stop until he finds me. I already set the coordinates for a safe far away planet. You'll be safe there until things settle down here and I come for you. Trust me." She looked at him sadly before she kissed him. She'd known him long enough to know when he was lying. She knew as soon she got in that spacepod she'd never see him again. Reiko scooped her up in his arms and carried her to the spherical spaceship. Placing her inside, he placed the box in with her along with a baby blanket with the chosen name of their son sewn into it and shut the pod. Walking to the computer, he took one last look at his queen before he hit the launch button. Before his eyes, the pod launched off the planet, taking his wife and unborn child with it. Reiko prayed to the Goddess Nebi that they escaped the rage of their species.

When they were no longer visible he accessed his computer for a specific location. No sooner had he found the location had he dodged to the left to avoid the energy blast aiming for his chest. Turning quickly, he was unsurprised to see Maero standing their with his finger still smoking. He looked different however with his eyelids black and black lines trailing his arms, His fangs were larger and his nails sharpened into claws(3). "Why am I not surprised to see you here?" Reiko said as his eyes narrowed.

Maero smirked. "You knew this was coming Reiko. Father had the right idea but he was wrong to enslave our people when there is a whole universe of people to enslave."

Reiko shook his head as his own form began to shift. "You sound just like him, which is why I knew I'd have to stop you just like I did him." He said as his normally straight hair spiked and his eyelids turned black and his eyes turned white and his nails sharpened and a light blue energy outlined him.

Maero laughed loudly at that as his own eyes turned white and a sickly green energy wrapped around him. "Bring it runt."

With a roar, Reiko charged Maero who wasn't expecting Reiko to charge so fast and was tackled and speared through the wall of the lab and pushed outside. Reiko held tightly onto Maero as he flew threw the city. Maero growling in defiance, threw punch after punch into Reiko's back before bringing a knee up into Reiko's gut, forcing him to let go. Grabbing him by his hair, Maero threw a ground shattering punch into Reiko jaw. Reiko felt his jaw explode in pain but managed to twist his body around in order to swing an energy enhanced kick that exploded on contact into Maero's ribs sending the supposed usurper flying with a pained roar.

Knowing he didn't have time to waste with Maero, Reiko took off to the location he was searching for on the computer. As he flew, he could hear the dying cries of his people as they slaughtered each other. Reiko snarled in disgust. After fighting to liberate them and introduce compassion, his people thanked him by basically slapping him in the face. 'They deserved the fate that's about to befall them.' Reiko thought darkly as he flew.

As Reiko approached his destination, a certain area on the last piece of land mass on the planet, he suddenly blindsided by an energy blast slamming into his back. He spiraled a bit but evened out and kept flying. Looking back, he saw an enraged Maero gaining on him as he fired a volley of energy blast at him.

Reiko dodged as many as he could and deflected others with his own blast while continuing to fly. Alas, one orb of energy managed to find it's way into his gut and blasted him out of the sky. Thankfully he was over the land he had been trying to get to, unfortunately he was falling at such speeds that he slammed into the ground with a harsh crunch. Reiko, who had reverted back to normal, tried to rise and shake off the dizziness but sadly Maero chose that time to strike by flying in and diving into Reiko's chest knees first. Reiko coughed as the air was forced from his lungs from the impact as he felt some of his ribs shatter from the impact. As if to add insult to injury, he was pretty sure one of his lungs was pierced. When he coughed up blood the moment he tried to inhale, he knew it was.

Maero stood over him as he chuckled. "My, how the mighty have fallen." He said as Reiko finally managed to roll over onto his hands and knees. Maero pointed a finger at his brother and charged a sickly green beam slowly changing black from the compressed energy being charged. "Any last words?" He said as he aimed for his brothers heart, knowing that he would probably heal if he wasn't killed outright.

Reiko sent him a bloody smile. "Yes, I'll see you in the void!." Reiko cried as he sent a pulse of energy into the ground. This action was lost on Maero until the shaking began. Deep beneath the surface of the planet, burning hot cracks were forming creating trails across the planet and headed toward the core.

Suddenly Maero's attention was stolen from his brother by the large hot cracks forming beneath their feet. "W-What have you done!" He roared at Reiko.

Reiko gave a dark chuckle as he looked at Maero with a smug smile that Maero thought wrong on his brothers face. "I just put an end to this accursed race. In but a few moments, this planet will die, taking all it's inhabitants with it, due in no small part to the high gravity that will collapse in on itself."

"WHAT! You maniac!" Maero bellowed as he delivered a powerful kick to Reiko's already injured ribs, sending him crashing into a mountain. "No! I won't die here!" Maero said as he took off into the sky, fulling intending leaving the planet before it died.

Reiko felt his life fading, the wound in his chest was severe and he knew he would die soon. 'Solana, forgive me. Aaron, my son. Don't be like us. Be better than any Argonian has ever been. Live free.' Reiko closed his eyes and breathed his last breath as fire from the planets core erupted under him, engulfing him in all it's hellish glory. All around the planet, other Argonians were meeting similar fates, only instead of dying semi-peacefully like their recently deceased King, they were screaming bloody murder as the harsh flames took them by surprise and pierced their skins and burned them alive.

Maero was still flying, desperate to get away while cursing the planets gravity for hampering his escape. Alas, he wasn't fast enough as just before he managed to get out of the planets atmosphere, he was engulfed as well.

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Solana was far from her planet but she still heard the explosion. She held her stomach as she cried for not only her planet, but her lover and father of her child. In her grief, she hadn't noticed her water break. It was only a few minutes later when she winced in pain when she realized her baby was coming.

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1. I'm stealing this from Man of Steel.

2. From DBZ.

3. Picture sage mode from Naruto mixed with the Mazuku tattoo's fromYu Yu Hakasho.

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