Krypton.
A planet galaxy's away from earth, very similar but also much older. Home to the Kryptonians. A smart and proud race, but for years struggled to survive against their thirst for energy. After much risk they were able to harness the most powerful energy they could, they harnessed the energy coming from their red giant sun giving them a practically unlimited source of power for the planet. For centuries their technology had advanced more in the last hundred years then the last thousand and their civilization flourished. They entered the realm of science fiction, colonies on the other planets in the solar system, giant space stations and an armada of military ships protecting their home, but it wasn't enough. It would never be enough. Becoming this successful as a race gave them unwanted attention from a hostile completely unknown race, The Scar. They fought back as best they could but the Scar came with their whole race in a massive armada of invasion ships and so the war began. A war lasting a thousand years, it was known as the Millennia war. The Scar wanted the power source for themselves but the Kryptonians would rather die than give it up. Over the years they learnt much about each other, they learnt that the Scar are harvesters. They kill the races of worlds and take the resources to make their fleet stronger. That's why the Kryptonians couldn't let the Scar have access to their method of up taming power, there was no telling what they would do with that type of technology. At the end of the first century the outer colonies were completely destroyed and the residents evacuated. At the end of the fourth century Krypton was the only place left standing in the system. After the sixth century their armada and space stations was completely destroyed and the last defense of their home world was lost. True they had done their own damage to the Scar. The Scar fleet was half the size of what it was when it arrived.
The Kryptonians fought the Scare systematically, street by street, city by city, country by country but over time they realized that they were never going to win the war. So they made plans for a last resort that they simply called The Project. The project was a mission for a pilot of a single ship. It was the last resort for a reason, it would kill not only the Scare but themselves as well. The idea was condemned by the high council but after much debate they soon realized that they were going to die either way, but at least they could decide how. A soldier by the name of Kal-El was chosen to be the pilot that was needed to activate the project, he was after all the best pilot they had to offer and his father one of the smartest scientists that they had. By now no one alive had any idea what peace was, they knew nothing else apart from war, ruin and death. The war was lost and everyone knew that, so after the high council had exhausted every other option they had no other choice. They had chosen to activate The Project, Kal was called into an emergency meeting with the council. Kal left the meeting in disappointment at what he had been asked to do. He dressed himself in his flight suit which housed his families crest which was the symbol for hope on Krypton and made his way to the hanger. As Kal made his way to his ship he looked around the hanger and saw at least a hundred men and woman all standing in silence as the sound of bombs and battle played in the distance. Everyone raised their right arms and crossed it diagonally across their chests, which was the Kryptonian salute. Kal saluted them back before walking past everyone in silence heading to his ship. Kal wasn't using his regular ship. When The Project was activated it required a certain ship. Kal would be flying a scout ship that underwent modifications to meet the requirements of The Project, some modifications that not even Kal knew about.
As Kal saw his ship, he could see his father Jor-El standing in front of it with a sad smile on his face as he held the house of El's sword in right hand, the sword was nothing more than an heirloom but it had sentimental value. Kal stopped in front of his father with only a look of sorrow. Jor held out his hand which showed a control key with his family's crest imbedded in it. Kal took the key without a word and looked back to his father as a single tear rolled down his cheek. Jor wiped the tear from Kal's face and embraced his son with a hug knowing that he will never see him again "goodbye my son" Jor said as he pulled back and looked his son in the eye "I know what you are being asked to do, we all do" Jor said as he gestured to all the people in the hanger still looking at Kal "but before you do, I need you to know that I could not be more proud of you, your mother was always proud of you, your brother was always proud of you and Loana has always loved you" Jor said as he could see another tear stray down Kal's face "all of our hopes and dreams, rest with you" Jor finished as he wiped another tear from Kal's face and looked down to his left hand, Jor lifted the sword and held it to his son. He knew Kal never really cared for it but he left reassured as Kal grabbed the sword with his right hand. Jor let go of the weapon and took a step back to join the rest of hanger.
Kal knew what he had to do, it would be the hardest thing that he ever had to do but it needed to be done. Kal stood on the top of the ships entrance ramp and turned around looking at the crowed of brave men and woman, some holding their life mate in a peaceful embrace, others standing with their friends and family and others just looking at Kal with a look of honor "I want you all to listen to me now!" Kal said out loud to everyone in the hanger "This was has brought more ruin and death then we ever thought possible, none of us know I life without War, none of us know what peace looks like. That is what the Scar have taken from us. At this moment, I see in your eyes, the same fear that would crush the hope of anyone. There will be a time, when our courage fails, when we forsake are brothers and sisters in arms and break all bounds of fellowship! BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY! This day we fight, one last battle, one last assault to end it all, and when the day is done you will see the same look of fear in eyes of the Scar" Kal spoke as everyone in the hanger began to smile and clap at Kal's words, what Kal didn't know is that what he was saying was being played on an open channel to every Kryptonian that had a radio "take all that you hold dear and stand together because in this moment. WE FACE THE MONSTERS THAT ARE AT OUR DOOR AND BRING THE FIGHT TO THEM, TODAY WE TELL THOSE SCAR BASTERDS WE ARE BRINGING THE APOCALYPES TO THEM!" Kal finished as he lifted the sword above his head and everyone in the hanger began to cheer at the finale words of inspiration.
"OORAH, OORAH, OORAH" the hanger began to echo with as everyone began to chant it while waving their fists back and forth. Kal saluted his brothers and sisters in arms one more time before turning around and heading into the ship. He sat in the pilot's chair and placed the key in the console on his left and placed the sword on the ground next to him "Greetings master" Kelex said as the ships engines started.
"hello Kelex" Kal replied "it's time to end this" Kal simply said as his face adopted the emotion of anger. Kal took off and left the planet, as he left he saw the remnants of the Scare fleet bombarding the planet. He looked at Krypton for the last time wishing that he could have seen it before the war, he had seen pictures and heard stories about it. But he knew now that it wasn't going to happen, he had his orders so he headed straight for the sun. He closed his eyes and started to breathe in slowly preparing himself for how many lives he was about to take, it would be genocide. He opened his eyes and fired his primary weapon that he aimed at the sun, as soon as it was fired he turned around and headed it the opposite direction with a tear going down his cheek as he looked back at the sun. It started to turn dark from where it was hit with his weapon, the darkness quickly spread throughout the sun. He turned his head towards the Scare fleet to see them turning around in retreat, he didn't think it was possible but he smiled. He smiled knowing that there was no way they could escape what was coming, he readied his ships slip space engines so he could make his escape. He looked behind him again to see his home for the last time, he turned his head to see the sun expanding, growing. He saw the very source of their success as a species become their greatest weapon, it had gone supernova engulfing Krypton In flame but it didn't stop there it kept on going. It caught up to the Scare in their retreat as Kal's ship entered slip space and entered a small wormhole that was only big enough to fit his ship through. As he entered he saw the Scare fleet being completely wiped out by the blast which brought on an even bigger smile on his face.
His ship had exited slip space in a unknown system god knows how far away. The war was over. Kal breathed a sigh of relief as he stood up from his chair and picked up his family's heirloom and walked out of the cock-pit as the holo-graphic interface of Kelex followed. Kelex's interface just looked like a ball with a smaller circle on the edge that acted as an eye (N:A think of Glyph from mass effect 3, google images will help if you don't know) "master, if I may. This is a joyous occasion. The Millennia War is finally over, we should be celebrating. The Kryptonians have won" Kelex said happily.
"no, they didn't Kelex" Kal said sadly "nobody won, all we know now is that it's over" Kal finished as they entered a small lab, nothing special. Just enough to preform basic experiments. The ship wasn't small but at the same time, wasn't big enough for anyone else to come with him. Kal had never seen this ship before and right now he didn't care what was on it. All he knew was that the lab had a single Cryo-pod and he needed rest.
"master, if you intend to put yourself into Cryo-sleep. I require I destination to head to while you sleep" Kelex said calmly as Kal activated the pod.
"no destination Kelex" Kal said as he stepped inside the pod placed the sword on his right facing downwards "activate a ship wide Cryogenic suspension and then log off. Just let us drift through the stars, until Rao decides what to do with us" Kal finished sounding like a broken man.
"…... very well master" Kelex replied sounding more depressed himself.
"activating ship wide Cryogenic suspension" a female voice said from the ship intercom.
"sleep well old friend" Kal said to the holo of Kelex as the pod began to activate and Kal began to fall to sleep still holding to sword with his right hand and pointing it downwards.
"and you as well master" Kelex said before call passed out, while at the front of the ship Kelex logged off and the command key ejected half way out of the console.
(Two Billion years later)
The Watch Tower
At the Watch tower, the founding members of the Justice League all sat in the primary conference room for their monthly meeting to discuss issues that the league is having or something they all need to look out for or just an update for everyone. The founding members of the league consisted of Wonder Woman (Diana), Batman (Bruce Wayne), Martain Manhunter (J'onn Jones), Aquaman (Arthur Curry), Flash (Barry Allen), Cyborg (Victor Stone), and green lantern (Hal Jordon). Three years ago, these seven-heroes met each other during an invasion of white Martians.
After banding together they fought off the invasion, saved the Earth and the human race. Once the battle was won the seven-heroes decided that there would always be enemy's or disasters that not one of them would be able to deal with alone, so together they formed the Justice League. An independent organization dedicated to the safety and wellbeing of the human race, over the course of the Justice Leagues existents more and more superpowered beings or Meta-humans or even a handful of aliens such as Manhunter and Hawkman and Hawkgirl. The League now consists of over thirty members.
"As I've said before, every single member of the Injustice League has escaped prison and is now on the run" Batman started "we need to find them before they have a chance to initiate whatever plan their coming up with"
"how do you know their coming up with a plan bats" Barry said as he leaned back in his chair relaxed.
"Because if they weren't, they would have revealed themselves individually by now" Batman said scowling at the Flash.
"the Injustice League isn't our only problem either" Cyborg started "the U.N's getting nervous about us again, no matter what we do people always seem to fear us. Now when there's an invasion or and attack and we deal with it, it puts people to rest but then when time passes and there's no attack or threat people start to wonder if they really need us or not" Victor explained "and it's been a while since we've had a major threat"
"we'll always be feared for the strength we possess, the only thing that matters is what we do with it" Diana said trying to ease the situation.
Before anyone else could respond the conference room door opened and Black Canary stepped inside "I'm sorry for interrupting guys" she said apologetically "but we have a situation that we need your help with"
"what is it?" Aquaman asked with a hint of concern in his voice.
"we have an unidentified ship that's just past Mars and is heading for earth, it's completely unresponsive and it's not answering our hails" she finished explaining what was happening.
The League founders all looked at each other with a look of concern on their faces "if it's unresponsive and isn't answering hails then how do you know it's a ship?" Hal asked.
"because..." Dinah said as she walked over to the table and activated the holographic imaging in the center of it "it looks like one" she finished as everyone looked at the blue hologram of the ship.
"what do we know?" Batman asked.
"from the first impressions we have without getting a closer look, it's eighty feet in length and thirty feet in diameter. Just big enough to fit in our main hanger but what has everyone on edge is that not even John's ring could find out what it is" She finished as everyone looked at her with even more concern. John was another Green Lantern and if his green lantern ring couldn't identify it, then there was something very wrong with it.
"Hal, you and John head out there and bring the ship into the main hanger. We'll look into the situation more then, and it would be best to put the station on alert until the situation is resolved" Batman said to the rest of the group, with no objections everyone stood up and proceeded to the main hanger while Hal went to get John.
As John and Hal brought the ship into the main hanger most of the league had found themselves waiting in the hanger, most slightly nervous by what was transpiring. Nighty percent of the time aliens come to earth it ends badly. Everyone took a moment to examine the ship as the lanterns placed on the ground. The first to approach was Batman as he took out his scanner. The ship looked like it was frozen, small ice stalactites came down from the ships sides "have you got anything?" Diana asked as she walked up besides Batman who stood right next ship.
"no, I'm not picking up anything" he said everyone began to feel a little more uneasy by the news that he could find anything "Ok, everyone" Batman started turning to everyone in the hanger that had at least twenty people in it "have a long around, see if you can find anything" he said as he turned back to the scanner in his hand.
Everyone that was in the hanger started to move forward and had a looked around the ship, some flying above it and looking at its roof and sides while everyone else began to look around the bottom of it. After Five minutes of looking around the ship Diana found the entrance ramp. It was hard to tell due to the dark metal and the thick sheet of ice but see thinks she could see the outline of the ramp "hey over here!" Diana said as everyone made their way over to her "Lanterns, see if you can melt the ice here" Diana said backing up away from the ramp.
Both Lantern's stood on either side of the door conjuring flame throwers that began to spray fire on the ice surrounding the ramp. Everyone began to give what they were looking at and made their way to the ramp.
The Lanterns stopped as the ice was gone, it took a moment but everyone jumped back as the ramp just fell heavily to the floor reliving a cold and dark entrance. Before anyone could react Hal stepped forward and conjured up a light and looked inside "it looks deserted" Hal said as Batman walked forward and lifted his scanner to the ship.
After a moment he turned back to everyone "Ok, it looks breathable to humans but nobody touch anything until we figure out what's in this thing and where it came from" he finished as a handful of people began to walk inside while some stayed where they were.
The people that went inside where Diana, both Lanterns, Barry, Bruce and J'onn. As they entered all they could see was a dead ship, the Lanterns and Batman used touchers to look around while the other tried to make sense of everything "look at this place" Barry said as he made his way to the pilot's chair. Being the playful guy that he is he took a seat in the chair.
"what happened to don't touch anything?" Batman asked as he scowled at Barry.
"have you two got anything?" Diana asked the Lanterns as she saw a door leading further into the ship.
"No" Hal said.
"yeah, this is completely unfamiliar to me" John agreed.
"hey, what's this" Barry said to everyone. They all looked over to him and saw him pull something out of the console.
Batman walked over to him as he saw Barry pull out the control key. Bruce picked up the key and looked closely at it "I'll run some tests, see if I can find anything out" He said placing the key in a small container.
"J'onn, come with me would you" Diana said as she made her way to the door at the back of the room.
"of course Diana" J'onn said as he followed her through the ship.
"here" Bruce said as he tossed Diana a small flashlight. Diana nodded back at him before leaving.
There was an eerie silence as they walked down the halls of the dark ship, J'onn and Diana would never admit it but something about the ship but them on edge "have you ever seen anything like this before J'onn?" Diana asked.
"no Diana, I can't say I have" J'onn replied as he picked up something with his telepathy "Wait" he said as Diana turned to look at him "I can feel something" He said.
Diana placed her hand on her ear "Guys, J'onn got something telepathically. I don't thing where alone on this ship" Diana said through her com.
"ooohhhh, now I feel like I'm in the Alien film" Barry said sounding scared through the com.
"Shut up Barry, does he know where the mind J'onn sensing is?" Hal asked.
"it's close" J'onn said as he held his hand up to his head trying harder to locate the dormant mind "this way" he said leading Diana to a door at the end of the corridor that she didn't see. J'onn placed his hand on the door and stopped for a moment as Diana stood patiently behind him "behind this door" he said as the others came up to them.
"watch out" John said as he and Hal conjured buzz saws in their hands and began to cut the door down.
"so, what are we going to tell the government?" Barry asked "I mean, do we hand the ship over to them or keep it a secret"
"we don't do anything until we find out if this ship as an occupant if it doesn't we hand this ship over to the guardians" Hal stated "the fact that the ring can't find out what this ship is, is unsettling" he finished as they were both half way through the door.
"what does it mean if your ring doesn't know what this ship is" Diana asked.
"well, one of the reasons could be that the information on this ship is top secret known only to the guardians. Which is bad" John said as they nearly cut through the door "another would be that this ship is old. very old. impossibly old" he said with some fear in his voice as they finished cutting the door and it fell to the ground.
J'onn stepped in first, followed by Diana, the Lanterns, Batman and finally I slightly scarred Barry. From first glance, everyone guessed that it was some kind of lab though they couldn't know for certain "there" J'onn said pointing to the far side of the room.
Everyone looked over to where J'onn was pointing. Nobody could see what he was looking at so they all aimed their torches to light the area. There was a silence as they looked at the cryo-pod. The countless years of being activated made the pod all most impossible to see through. Diana slowly walked forward but kept her guard up as she approached the pod, preparing themselves for whatever might happen. As Diana reached the pod she slowly placed her hand on the glass and wiped a think level of frost covered the glass. She gasped and took a step back in shock at what she saw, everyone took that as a call to arms and readied themselves for a fight taking defensive stances. Diana moved in again and looked closer "come looked at this" She said to the others.
Everyone slowly began to move forward to where Diana was all began shocked at what they "is he alive?" Barry asked.
J'onn moved forward and placed his hand on the glass, closing his eyes trying to connect with his mind "yes, he's alive but his mind is almost shut down. I can't seem to connect with him on any level" J'onn said as his hand dropped back down to his side.
"let's get him to the med bay" Hal said to everyone as he walked forward to the pod.
Watch Tower Med-Bay
It didn't take long to detach the cryo-pod from the ship and move it to the med-bay. Everyone that stood outside the ship and wasn't on duty stood in shock at what they saw, soon Kal was in the pod that stood in the middle on the med-bay surrounded by all the founding members of the League as well as The Atom and Dr light, both of which had some sort of medical training "so? do we wake him up?" Barry asked the group.
"I don't want to until we know more about him but that ship is beyond us by far" John said with disappointment in his voice "I think we should wake him"
"yeah, but if this technology is so far beyond us. How do we open it?" The Atom asked as he looked at the console on the right of the pod.
Without a word Batman walked forward to the console and took the command key from his pocket and placed in a small hole with a similar shape but before he could even place it in, it was pulled from his hand and flew right into the console, followed by a strange sound coming from the pod and the buttons on the console began to light up. Clearly in some unknown language, without wasting any more time he pushed the key in a little further so it was in fully.
"Nu Zahkrii Krif tum nos (now deactivating cryogenic suspension)" a voice said from the console, before anyone could attack the pod began to defrost. Everyone took a step back as they all observed what Kal looked like, it went without saying that all the woman thought he was handsome while the men looked at his strange clothing, specify the 'S' on his chest and the redness on his shoulders that went down his back almost like a cape but since he was only face forward they couldn't know for certain but Diana wasn't thinking about either, she already had time to look at how handsome he was. Now that she could see his whole body her eyes immediately drifted to the sword on his right. From first glance she could see three and a half feet long sword, it was beautiful, which would work well will both one hand and two-handed combat, she could also see symbols that ran down an inch upwards from the beginning of the blade.
Everyone watched closely as Kal slightly groaned as his head moved to the right with his eyes still closed, the pod door opened and Kal fell forward face first to the ground. Diana slowly moved forward as Kal placed his hands on the ground to pick himself up "Diana, I don't think that's good idea" Barry said quietly.
Diana ignored him and placed a gentle hand on Kal's shoulder. Kal managed to bring himself to his knees, though it brought him great pain. He looked around him and saw, everything, the people in front of him but at the same time saw through them. He grabbed his ears and screamed in pain as he heard everything that is happening around him, everything was so loud it coursed him great pain. Without warning he quickly stood upwards and took a blind swing in the direction he felt something on his shoulder.
Diana didn't see it coming, he was too fast. As the side of his fist connected with her chest she went flying across the room and through the wall into the nearby corridor. Everyone else readied themselves and advanced on Kal but he wasted no time and began to run out of the hole in the wall he created as Diana began to composes herself and stand up "Sound the alarm!" Aquaman yelled to Cyborg as he and the others began to give chase to Kal.
"we don't want to harm him, he's confused" J'onn said as they ran down the corridor after him and Cyborg stayed to help Diana up.
Kal was running, fast, faster then he'd ever seen anyone run. He wasn't thinking, about anything. He was still in extreme pain from the sound in his ear's as well as his eyes as they seemed to be heating up. Kal stopped at a corner at the end of a hallway, trying to catch his breath and figure out what was happening to him. He grabbed his ear's again as the hallways began to flash with a red light and I voice began to speak loudly in a language he did not know "everyone the alien escaped and is on the run at level three, subdue him but do not harm him. He's confused and disorientated" Cyborg said through the stations speakers.
Kal pushed himself from the corner and began to run again, eh turned another corner and saw what looked like a man with wings holding a mace walking towards him with another man that had a in a red suit with a lightning bolt on his chest and white cloth over his shoulder. They both stopped and looked at Kal as he seemed to stager in place losing his balance "hey, it's ok. Where not going to hurt you" the one with the lightning bolt on his chest said as he held both of his hands up in the air towards Kal but Kal didn't understand a word of it. He just turned and ran in the opposite direction "Hey, Wait!" Shazam said as he and Hawkman began to chase after him.
"this is Hawkman" he said to his com that was tuned into the station speakers so everyone could hear him "we have him on level two and are chasing him. Looks like he's heading towards the secondary hanger" he said hanging up the com and focusing on the chase.
Kal couldn't tell where he was running, moving while you can see through everything his every confusing, he couldn't tell what was really in front of him and what wasn't.
Like everyone on the station Zatanna heard what Hawkman said as headed to the secondary hanger to try and intercept Kal, she was there with most of the league that was stationed at the moment "have you seen him" she asked Black Canary and Green Arrow as she approached the two.
"no sign of him" Green Arrow said.
Before anyone could say anything else the hanger does blow open and Kal came through with them. Everyone took a step back in defense as Kal picked himself back up and looked around, he could see everyone around him, he could see through their bodies hear their heart beats and listen to them trying to talk to him in a language he didn't understand. His eyes began to feel hotter and hotter. Everyone stepped back as he closed his eyes and his eye lids began to glow red. Kal screamed in pain and opened his eyes. Everyone ran and ducked for cover trying to avoid the red beams that shot out from his eyes.
Kal forced his eyes closed and fell to his knees in pain. Before anyone could do anything the founding members of the league had arrived including a limping Diana. J'onn quickly wrapped one arm around Kal's neck and placed his free hand on Kal's head as his eyes glowed red.
"Stop, we are not your enemy. Please let us help you" J'onn said telepathically to Kal, so Kal was able to understand what J'onn was saying but he didn't get to act upon what he was told before he fell to floor completely knocked out with the seven founding members surrounding Kal ready for anything.
Ok guys let know what you think, feedback would be greatly apricated and of course let me know what you think about my superman origin story and of course tell me what you think should happen next, if I do your suggestion I will give you a shout out.
Until then I will see you in the next chapter.