ALTERNATE UNIVERSE...
KRYPTON
Era of expansion
Krypton did not welcome children anymore.
The world screamed beneath iron skies.
Kael-Rho was born in silence no ceremonial chamber, no genetic overseers, no cold hands of the Science Council.
His mother labored alone in a cavern carved from black crystal stone on the outer continental wastes of Krypton, where failed colonies and political exiles were left to rot.
The red sun Rao burned weakly above.
The moment Kael inhaled his first breath, he knew.
DC Comics… Krypton… Superman…
But looking around and at the distant primitive orbital kryptonian style ships.
I'm fifty thousand years too early.
His mind was intact.
His memories whole.
And that knowledge terrified him more than the cold.
Was the fact in this era Natural birth was illegal already.
Punishable by death.
His mother sadly died three hours later, her body already failing from exposure and malnutrition.
Council drones, old and faulty due to the magnetic distributions in certain areas of the wasteland, arrived at dawn,
guided by genetic anomaly pings but Kael did not cry. He did not move.
He watched.
He learned.
He luckily survived by not moving .
The drones scanned the corpse.
Declared the child stillborn.
And left.
That was the first time his bloodline saved him.
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Time skip
AGE 3 — The Full AWAKENING
Kael was alone when it happened.
No drone witnesses.
No scientific instruments.
Just a fractured stone wall and his shaking hands.
He pushed.
The cavern wall folded inward like soft clay.
One ton.
His cells ignited not with heat, but hunger.
Solar Radiation flooded him.
Not just sunlight.
Not just heat but Everything.
His dark melanin rich skin drinking in the light much faster..
He understood instinctively:
What he absorbed could never be taken back.
So he hid and trained him self with basic shadow boxing and muay Thai .
AGE 5 — THE EMPIRE Above...
Kryptonian war fleets screamed across the sky.
Cities burned on distant worlds.
Children were bred for war now , not born free.
Kael dismantled scavenged tech at night near the dump , learning science faster than the Council academies, fueled by stolen data crystals and a mind sharpened by fear.
AGE 6 — THE LIE OF KRYPTON
He learned the truth.
The Council had exterminated his bloodline because they couldn't control it.
The council could never accept anything that couldn't be control and weaponized for the glory of kryton
Sun-Eaters
Living batteries.
Gods that did not obey.
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AGE 7 — ESCAPE
His ship was small.
Silent.
Perfect.
His AI activated for the first time.
"Designation?"
"Sol 1.".
The launch alarms triggered too early.
Council interceptors screamed toward him.
Kael pushed the engines manually.
Nine hundred tons of strength anchored the hull as space tore open from the warp drive .
A Council decree echoed across the system:
KILL ON SIGHT. NO CAPTURE.
Kael smiled for the first time.
"Good."
And vanished towards his long journey to Earth.
End of the chapter