42: In Zod We Trust By: PoolHero(DCEU)

Fic type: SI

Just a really,really op godlike mc.

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In Zod We Trust

By: PoolHero

Come witness my rise to godhood, my legend. As I tear through obstacles, and bring down gods from their high places making them kneel before me. As I raze the very heavens, as I take my fate into my very own hands! DCEU transmigration reincarnation fic. Pseudo SI as Kryptonian.

Rated: Fiction T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 4 - Words: 25,227 - Reviews: 229 - Favs: 1,091 - Follows: 1,267 - Updated: Feb 9, 2019 - Published: Oct 30, 2018 - id: 13106313

Link:https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13106313/1/In-Zod-We-Trust

I have posted two chapters here.

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Chapter 1

Disclaimer :all characters and mentioned universes belong to their respective owners and/or creators.

This is a work of fiction.

'Italics means he is talking to himself /inner voice'

"inverted commas" means a normal conversation.

"different languages" means speaking in a foreign language.

Thoughts of other characters

"[Talking to AI]"

A VERY VIOLENT LAZARUS.

I was suspended in a fluid of some kind, I felt it being dragged upwards and then bursting open.

'I SUCCEEDED!' was the first thought that came to me when I opened my eyes. Bright lights instantly assaulted my vision causing me to periodically blink. Shapes,forms, sizes and colours gradually coming into focus with each blink. My body felt wet, a cluster of unintelligible sounds reached my ears. I could move my limbs but not in the way I wanted to, my body felt like it didn't have the muscle memory to fully respond to me. Or maybe it just didn't have the capacity to. I hoped the body I got wasn't severely damaged. Yes I understood that I took over another beings body and to tell you how we would have to delve back to some aspects of my previous life.

My previous life was one full of extraordinary accomplishments, but I still looked for more because I wanted to be more than just a man, I wanted to advance, transcend and move up the pyramid of existence and if I could, I would help my race do the same. I was a genius with an insatiable desire or maybe I was just a man seeking the truth.

Now imagine what I went through when I found out that I had an incurable brain tumor, I nearly broke down right there. After everything I've gone through, everything I had accomplished, everything I had done, I would die. I mean I did think about death from time to time. But having it knock on my door, was entirely different, so much so that it nearly drove me insane. The fact that nothing matters after I die. The fact that death would be the end of the story. An afterlife? I wouldn't put all my cards on it, hoping that one even exist. I refused my so called "fate". And I went against it with all I had, I wholeheartedly threw myself into metaphysical research. Research about the soul, about the brain and it's interaction with what we call the mind. Research on the preservation of the consciousness, I involved myself in spiritualism and meditation and its effects on the conscious mind. I put all my energy into finding a way to escape death. I did things….so many things that would seem morally wrong depending on some perspectives. But I was just trying to survive, to live. It may not justify my actions but I'm not exactly looking to be justified or saved. My life is in my hands. This is a dog eat dog world, only the fittest survive. And survive I did.

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I can't remember the process I went through to retain my mind even when I was in soul form. The whole process was erased from my memories. I don't know how neither do I know why. I know I died on a in my lab after strapping myself to the surgical bed, I remember that there was a lot of blood around me. But I can't remember why.

Upon death, My soul was sucked into a wormhole filled with a flux of colours and shapes that defiled existence, my mind was almost driven insane, I was on the brink of madness but some sort of protective aura was wrapped around my soul. It felt like hell, as the passage was increasingly trying to squeeze my soul, to make me forget myself, to lose all the things I worked so hard to achieve. The protective aura was gradually decreasing as well. I didn't reach the end of the tunnel. The aura bore a hole through the side of the passage sucking my soul through it. Leaving the tunnel I experienced the meaning of the word soul rending pain. Unimaginable, unbearable pain… I thought that my very existence would end then and there. But once again the protective aura saved me from such torture. Drifting through the ever expanse the protective aura around my soul was rapidly depleting. I encountered a impenetrable barrier of sorts, again and again I tried to go through it but failed. There was a momentary weakening of the barrier. It wasn't caused by me but I made sure to capitalize on it, using the last of the aura I pushed through the thick boundary walls, against so much resistance I pushed and pushed and pushed, slowly and steadily I move through the barrier. The protective aura already dissipating, I found myself inside the enclosed space.

A small soul came into view. A soul that would periodically dim and then brighten.

Approaching it as it did me I touched the soul and a piece of it was absorbed into me. Filling me with pleasure. There was no warning as we got into a battle of survival we knew that only one of us could exist the smaller soul was tenacious, it had so much willpower and although I was tired I wasn't going to lose out when it comes to survival. The battle was drawn out as we went at each other. Waiting for a chance I struck the soul the moment it dimmed. And I absorbed a large piece of it, providing nourishment to me. The soul seemed angered, it's light got brighter and brighter and it rushed at me but that was a stupid move as it dove right into my metaphorical jaws, I fully devoured it assimilating all of it into mine.

My soul was energised, the smaller soul provided sufficient nourishment and then some.

Thinking back through all that, I came to the deduction on why I couldn't remember the prerequisite process that led to me retaining my mind and having a protective aura. Parts of my soul was used to build and maintain the aura. And those parts held the essential memories concerning the process. Yes it was dangerous to not have a complete soul but I must have factored that in, Because by devouring the smaller soul I made up for the missing parts of mine. It allowed me to have so much of it, I don't know what to call it, it was life force or energy, it filled me and strengthened me. I can feel it course through my innermost being. I could feel it slowly sooth my mind.

I slowly drifted off back to sleep. I would acquire more info on my current situation later. For now, I just wanted to rest with my success still fresh in mind.

In the six years I had been born I had noticed one thing about krypton. It is gloomy, don't get me wrong, krypton is full of so much exotic plant and animal life. But the atmosphere of the environment seems spiritually gloomy.

It feels as though the planet is crying out to its unrepentant children, warning them of its impending death, but none seem to pay heed, the leaders in the council seem not to notice.

Or maybe it's just my world view, I mean it's not everyday you wake up to fiction becoming reality. I learned of that the first eight months after being born.

If hearing names like Jor-El or Lor-Van and on a planet called krypton doesn't do it for you, then the visible red dwarf sun should provide glaring evidence that you are on the birth planet of Superman.

I accepted my circumstances fairly fast, it's not like I could change anything by living in denial or ignorance or by panicking.

I'm sure anyone in my position would be pleased at the opportunity of becoming a potential superman. But that wasn't the case for me. See I would have been really happy if it wasn't for the fact that I and every other Kryptonian on this planet was going to die when it would finally explode. I just came from one death to get here and now all of that was going to be taken away from me by another death? No, I did what I do best and that was to think of a way to survive.

My name is Val-Zod, yes you guessed right, born into the house of the madman, General Zod. I don't know if he's my father, I didn't have any form of parental bond growing up, to me he was just the general, the leader of the warrior guild. All I know is that his genes and the ones of my mother(who I have never met) were used to create me. I wasn't even born through natural birth, I like countless other Kryptonians was born through the birthing matrix of the Genesis chamber.

I was bred with a specific role in mind, I was born to be a warrior and a leader. And everyday since my birth I was put through the process of becoming one. I would've succumbed to my birth role, if not for the maturity of my mind, I wouldn't just follow orders like sheep or like the other programmed at birth warriors, no I was me, I have my individuality and my freewill, my mind was too mature for it to take proper effect. They did see my brain activity but chalked it up to my unique biology. The effects of my genes on my physical body did show, I had a more advanced growth rate compared to the other warrior birth children, although I was 6 my body looked to be that of a 10 year old. I believed it to also be an after effect of the life-force on my physical body contained. My Kryptonian body even without receiving the radiation from a yellow sun is way more advanced that my previous earthly body. My senses are so much more Sharper, my physiology the pinnacle of health, and I was trained on how to control and properly utilise it.

I was trained and trained and then trained some more to ingrain their teachings into my very being(I have the scars to prove it) I actually did enjoy training, and making myself stronger and more skilled, I always sought to advance myself.

I found out that I(my body) could soak up all things related to combat allowing me to learn faster and become increasing skilled on experience, the guild members were elated at that, so much so that higher staff granted me access to the Kryptonian archives, with the order that I shouldn't look at parts I wasn't granted access to. You see the thing is if their programming had functioned like it should or if I had succumbed to my birth role then I would've done exactly that, but no and since I didn't, I learned all I could from the archives. Warriors did only what warrior should do or were told to do, as a warrior it was forbidden to learn what thinkers did in their guild, that was left to thinkers and the scientists. But that didn't stop me from learning.

If I didn't say it before then I'll say it now, I am a genius and I don't know how but I know that the life force and my Kryptonian biology raised that to New levels.

Back to the archives.

Of course I learned to hide my access and later erase all traces of my "illegal" activities of accessing the "forbidden" files. Which provided the groundwork of my operation 'escape from krypton'. I was actually "caught" by Jor-El when I began accessing the files. It was part of my plan, I knew Jor-El would have what Kryptonians would term as heretical thoughts and meeting someone like me who refused to go along the path I was directed to would interest him.

The surprising part was that he approved of my nature to learn, he was proud that I instead of being conformed to a role wanted to choose my own path. Well such views were the reason he decided to have Kal-El born naturally and then sent to earth with the codex. He knew krypton was dying and he made a spacecraft for his son. I mean, he could have built many more spacecrafts than just one right? What of the other kids, was he just going to watch them die? He could've done something. Don't tell me that he was being suppressed by the council, if he could've build a spacecraft in Secret without them knowing of it, then he could've built more. Not enough time? The Man has a cult following of nerds and scientists that look-up to him as a god. I mean what do you expect the man is a scientific pioneer, a genius who provided krypton with amazing inventions.

A single word from him would get them all lined up and ready to work. I'm ranting I know.

See, what Jor didn't know was that he gave me the means to make my escape. And today was the day I execute my plans.

/O/

The thunderous sounds of blasts was heard all over Kandor. The colourful explosions of ships caused a rain of burnt metal scraps.

The coup began earlier today, I waited for the guards to be occupied before I left the guild.

I wore my slim exoskeleton above my house uniform. The exoskeleton was made by my very own hands. I made my way to my spacecraft.

Yes, I have a small spaceship. How did I get it? I hacked my way into the grid that registers all the ships and worked on from there. The thing that caused me so much pain was acquiring a phantom drive. Do you know what I had to go through?! A full 4 years just to get that damned drive. The process was so hard it's disgusting for me to think about it anymore. I don't want to recall the hell I had to go through just to get it, period! One thing I will say is that the physics governing the DC verse defies common sense, it is constantly changing and being broken. Most of Earth-Prime's(Origin Earth) physical laws make little to no sense here, they barely even act! I'm saying this now for the science bending bulshit that happens in the future will cause you to lose your mind if you try to make sense of it (I know I almost lost mine...twice). (*Maybe you already did*)

My spacecraft was a highly modified dropship with a phantom drive fitted to a hyperdrive engines. Everything in the ship was modified by my own hands.

The ship was thoroughly hidden.

I smiled as I approached the dark as night ship, it had parts sticking out of the exterior that looked Frankenstein-ish, protected cables and pipes formed a network through the rods and the body of the ship.

I let my guard down.

"Stop right there! Val-Zod! Do not take another step!" The voice of the guard rang through the area.

I slowly turned around to face him. Ah it's the bastard I never liked, he hated me and I him. There were two others next to him who also had their guns pointed at me.

"Dex-Ul, I can see that you're still following my footsteps" I responded with my arms in the air.

"Quiet! You disgrace, I always knew there was something about you that wasn't right. You're a traitor and I can't wait to see the punishment you receive from the general. You don't even deserve to have his blood!" what an edgy guy.

He turned to the guard on his left.

"Disarm and arrest him" the guard gave him a nod as he approached me.

"Don't try anything suspicious or I will be forced to use lethal means" he warned me. They were still looking down on my form. I guess they saw me as just a child.

I saw the nasty smile spread across Dax's face.

"Dex-Ul, do you want to know why I always called you an incompetent idiot"

I straightened my arms as the guard took out his reinforced handcuffs.

"You underestimate your opponents"

The moment his eyes left mine to look at my hands I made my move. A swift kick to base of his ankle destabilized his stance. An clean uppercut met his falling form dazing him. I wrapped my other arm over his exposed neck and turned him to face the other two, who have now begun to register the situation. I pulled out the side arm and pressed it on his head.

"Drop your weapons or he dies! Drop it now!" I ordered loudly.

"No you drop yours immediately, or will you just put yourself in bigger trouble"

"You must think I'm joking! I will splatter his brain matter over the ground if you don't comply!" I threateningly pushed the gun towards the guard's head.

Boom!

'Now'

Using the distraction provided by the exploding ship that flew over us, I blasted the second guard down, I saw the energy blast headed for me I raised the first guard's body using it as a shield. The impact force drove us both back. I rolled around as soon as I hit the ground dodging another blast. I shot at Dex, impacting him on the leg causing him to drop his weapon as he screamed holding his mangled foot.

"Ah, damn you traitor. You will suffer the worst punishment. Wait please don't kill me! Please!" it's amazing how he goes from angry to begging with tears.

"Die with Honour, a good death is its own reward." I shot him in the chest, ending his agony. I barely felt anything after killing them. I know my genes had something to do with my ruthlessness but it was me or them plus I was raised in the house of Zod. Their principles and doctrines are with me even if I may not acknowledge it sometimes, I accept it as my heritage.(In Zod we trust, heh) When it comes to survival, I will choose myself. I didn't have the time to mull over my decisions.

I ran into the ship.

"[Welcome, Sir.]" Hope spoke in English.

Hope was my AI, I won't lie it wasn't as hard to make as I imagined it would be. Kryptonians were one of the most technologically advanced races in the galaxy. They contained a variety of AI's and methods to make them. I just made mine and added parts that would allow it to evolve, I took inspiration from various sources especially Iron-man's Jarvis, oh I also taught it English. What? I missed Earth OK, in heart...in soul I was still human.

"Hope, get the launch sequence ready"

"[Yes sir.]"

I secured myself into position, running checks throughout the ship, making sure everything was functional and ready to go. I looked at the coordinates once again, making sure it was the sol system of Earth.

"[Phantom drive online, ready for launch sir]"

I took one last look at Krypton and said my goodbyes. I already took all I could and most of them I would need. The shield panels slid into place. They would protect the ship and all its components.

I looked at the launch switch below the pulsating liquid gel interface.

'Now or never'

I pushed the switch.

~Vvvuzzzzmmm

With a stifled roar the ship began to make it's ascend.

Beep beep! "Hostiles on our tail sir"

I knew it wouldn't be smooth sailing.

"Deploy defensive measures! Speed up the phantom drive ignition process" I didn't have weapons on the ship, I had to take them out so install other needed tech.

The blasts I couldn't dodge impacted the force fields surrounding the ship, causing a wild turbulence throughout the spacecraft.

"[Shields down to 15%]"

"Now would be a really good time to get out of here!"

"[Life support systems activated and fully functional. Phantom drive ignition in 3….2...1]"

With a soft zip through reality my ship disappeared from Krypton's atmosphere with a flash of blue light.

The phantom drives I had wouldn't be able to make an instantaneous trip to Earth's system. It should take about a year or two at most, then the hyper drives would kick in accelerating the ship through space.

I was dizzy trying to wake up from from my stasis state deep sleep. The sounds slowly began to clear up.

"[Si…r…Sir!]" I instantly shot up. I had gone into induced stasis state deep sleep to save up on energy, and to also not go mad from the solitude of my ship, I wouldn't really age much in such a state due to my body being kept in a stasis like state. I took account of my situation and responded appropriately.

"Hope, give me the report" I said focusing on the controls and stat screen.

"[We're breaching the Earth's Atmosphere sir]" I guess we're here.

"Good, commence atmospheric re-entry procedures" I said as I worked on the controls.

"[Anti atmospheric drag and heat shields deployed]"

The temperature in the ship slowly rose, as the ship shook due to the re-entry.

"[Ship temperatures stable. Stratosphere breached, altitude 30,000m decelerating]"

The shaking stopped as the temperatures stabilized.

"[Entering troposphere, altitude 2000m Activating retro thrusters, beep thrusters unfunctional]"

"Dammit, activate all defensive shields at full power. Deploy emergency sails" I didn't come all this way just to die. "Brace for impact!" I held on tightly as the ship shook,

Crash! The whiplash jerked me off my seat all the way to the back of the ship as we impacted the land, boring deep ravines through sand.

I tore through the ship doors, the metal felt like paper under the strength of my arms.

The rays of the sun shone down on my body, enhancing and changing me. I was being rebuilt at every nanosecond down to each atom of each molecule, my being was gradually altered.

"AHHHH! HEY! HaHAHA!" I fell to my knees as my ears were bombarded by intense sounds across multiple wavelengths, I could hear the resounding laughed and screams, I could hear the ultrasonic screams of bats and the chirps of the birds. I could hear the world. I could hear the songs of the stars. And my sight wasn't any better.

Shapes and colors zoomed into view and then out of focus I could see through my ship and the sand beneath my feet and the bacteria that resided in it. I could see the electromagnetic spectrum, I could see through my very own hands at varying levels of exposure. The smells of the sweetest perfume and most disgusting filths assaulted my nose at the same time. I was agitated, I felt the nerves around my eyes generating great amounts of heat energy which were then expelled through my very own corneas. It was painful at first as my vision turned red, I turned away from my ship, the heat rays turning sand into burnt dust and the rest into glass.

I placed my arms over my eyes but that just made it worse as the beams became scattered through the space between my fingers.

I had to calm down! 'remember your training! You are the master of your body, you control your senses'

I shut off all sounds coming into my ears and focused on my presence, I calmed down and called upon my vision. I willed for it to clear, periodic blinks brought everything else into focus.

"Huf~f" I took a smooth exhale as my overwhelmed senses once again returned to my control.

I may have recovered faster than others in my case, I was a warrior my senses were mine.

"I AM SUPER!" with arms spread wide I announced to the heavens, the power behind my shout was enough to move the floating clouds and shake the sands I stood on as almost visible sound waves moved through the area.

Saying my mind is expanded feels like an understatement, my intellect is beyond anything I have ever known. I am from krypton part of a race that's known for their advanced technology and intelligence so believe me when I say my intelligence has risen exponentially. I didn't know the things I didn't, but I now understand all I knew, everything I once made research on is now like an open book. I now understood why the phantom drives took so long to get here.

This is what a having an above super genius level intellect is like. I knew things before but now I understood them, I see things now, such simple answers to complex problems. Can you imagine that in mere moments of gaining this intelligence, I solved the cure for cancer that killed me on Origin Earth. It's like an explosion of quantum computers in my mind, this must be how God feels. And I can feel it growing.

Kal-El has this and he chooses to be a journalist, he once said that lex luthor could single-handedly advance the human race. But what of him, Why didn't he advance the human race when such power was within his grasp! My goodness I really was a baboon before compared to my level of intelligence now. I will bury myself in education and information to make good use of my mind. One look would be enough for me to retain all information, I have the combination of a super raised to godly levels eidetic and photographic memory. (I think I broke the lottery of life)

I can see the atomic components of matter. I can see the entire EM spectrum, I can see the bacteria in the air, my vision went further than the microscopic level. I could see the atomic components of matter! I can see it with my naked eyes! Can you imagine it, can you truly imagine these clouds of electrons, surrounding a micronucleus. I could SEE! I was blind before, I don't think I could ever go back to being human after all of this even if I was given the chance.

/o/

After calming down from the realizations of my abilities, from the enlightenment I received.

I felt the bioelectric aura that surrounded my skin. It was like a autonomic response system that would affect my immediate surroundings. I tested this by lifting the ship and I still remained standing on the desert surface without forming any depressions. I guess this was the tactile telekinesis.

But why does it function this way? I didn't have enough info to form an accurate description on my abilities or that of superman. but even if I did I couldn't explain everything with common sense. Even DC hasn't given a comprehensive reason behind Superman's abilities because even though it's Fiction they don't truly understand it either. This universe doesn't fully enforce the laws of physics and reality. One example of this is my ability to know an object's position and momentum at the same time. Can you imagine that, I know where an object is exactly when in time it is. I shouldn't be able to do that! It makes no damn sense! That is basically small scale reality warping! Anyway back to the aura. I could consciously utilise the aura but it wasn't easy at all.

I know the heat vision is the discharge of solar energy through my optic nerves. The varying intensities caused it's different colours. I could make low intensity invisible rays, I could also make high intensity micro beams. The provision was down to a molecular level.

I wanted to try a different heat vision I speculated as one of the more explanatory reasons for Superman's power.

Heat glare. I willed my eyes to vibrate to ridiculous levels, causing excitations in the air molecules that come in contact with my eyes, turning them into a stream of super heated plasma. I was transferring kinetic energy into the air and the intensity and temperature of the beams had a correlation with the speed of my vibration.

speeding through the air.

Vvzzzz the superheated plasma cut through the air. I could combine both emitted beams and created ones to make something exceptionally destructive.

Yeah, I'll call the combination of both a destructo beam.

Doing the reverse of the process by absorbing the Kinetic energy in the air I could also create freeze rays.

They looked like solid beams of ice the would skewer and freeze an object on impact.

What? Doesn't make sense? The physics don't add up? Haha this universe doesn't conform to your definition of common sense.

I could fully test my abilities but I don't think I could cover it all in the course of a year.

It was time to test the real power that made superman iconic, flight.

I focused on my being, I focused on this aura that responded to me like a third arm, I had an instinctual feel on how to use it, to control it.

I directed and manipulated it, it responded to my advances. Sand grains slowly rose signalling the effect of my aura on the environment. And with a thunderously mighty shock wave I shot off the ground like a super rocket. Dust and rubble was scattered, the ground cracked and quaked as I zoomed through earth's atmosphere.

"Hahahaha!" Flying is like nothing else in this world. It's like swimming but with absolute freedom and barely any resistance. I shaped my aura on the fly instead of making it spherically streamlined I altered it into shape edges and immediately I cut through the air constantly bursting sound barriers. This could be utilized offensively, I could cut through an object like this.

Let's try the standing man pose, with my superior proprioception I would always have an awareness to the relation of my body to the space it was in all at pinpoint accuracy.

"Look Ma! I'm king of the world" I spread my arms out with a standing pose. I think I like this better than flying horizontally.

After hours of playing around with my flight abilities, I decided to go to space. To visit the very power source of my powers.

Flying through space without any form of protective gear was absolutely surreal. The Earth looks so much more beautiful when seen from space, this big blue ball of magnificence and vibrant life. I zoomed past the planets as I arrived before the sun, it's rays barely tickling my skin. Filling me with strength and power. I have a theory I would test to increase the energy procession and storage capacity of my cells. I would stay very close to the sun and with each trip I will gradually move deeper into it, till I reached the core of the sun allowing my cells to evolve and enhanced to have a larger storage capacity and the capability to effectively process it.

I couldn't immediately move to the centre of my sun, the resulting raw stellar energy would be more than my cells will be able to process which would then lead to them being over saturated with solar energy causing to burst from within, they would constantly explode resulting in the eventual degradation of said cells, effectively killing me.

I don't know how long I spent here bathing in the raw rays of the sun. I felt so peaceful just floating here among the stars and their songs but I had work to do.

Even from space I could make out my ship and its location, that's how op telescopic vision is. I zoomed through the Earth's atmosphere the re-entry resistance barely even affected me.

Boom!

Hero landing achieved. I would've coughed with all the dust and broken pieces of rubble shooting through the air, but I was a superman.

One thing I haven't thought of is a hero name. Maybe I should call myself Zod.

That would be epic! Churches would rise in my name and go "In Zod we trust" heh that really would be epic.

My house symbol would be a circle interpreted as Kneel! Before Zod. Heh, or it could mean doom( For my enemies).

Or maybe I could act as All Might, the defender of Justice!

Zod has a negative meaning? Well it's up to me to change it then.

Heh the things I would do to fulfill my aims. I had a secret weapon in my mind that would prove to be my key in obtaining the thing I needed the most. I can't acknowledge the existence of one of them yet because doing so would draw undesired attention towards me.

All the rocks I had brought from Krypton had turned into kryptonite.

Due to the solar radiation of earth's system the rock developed an unstable and unpredictable radioactivity at the molecular level. Rocks spray off a steady stream of isotopic particles that may have unpredictable effects on their surroundings or other beings. Such as the effect of kryptonite on the biology of a Kryptonian exposed to yellow sun radiation.

I had landed on Earth a decade after Kal-El did. This was due to the phantom drives and how it was integrated to the ship. I had thought that I would only take a year, but I guess sometimes things don't go according to plan.

That left me in the year of 1991. I was in the 90s, it good and all but wow, All the music (colour me bad, boys 2 men!) and movies(Fresh Prince of Bel Air). Sega was still king in the video game scene in that era.

I had to mostly re-watch stuff I had previously seen but it was nice being here. I was born in the late 90s back on Earth Origin so much of the stuff older folks would talk about just flew over my head but I get it now. Don't get me started on pet rocks (heh)

It was easy to get myself into the system. I mean I had a highly advanced AI and computers just began to have the internet. Let me rephrase that, computers just began to actually develop into a more widespread technology.

My new identity was that of Eric Valentine, an orphan who was raised in an orphanage, genius level intellect, did amazingly well in school. I made solid proof facts of my existence. Superpowers made secret infiltration easier than it really should be.

Oh, of course in less than five years of getting here, I started my own company.

I was on the forefront of technological advancements and innovations.

Start up Funds? Even if we ignore asteroid mining, did you know that the pressure in a super grip of mine is enough to form diamonds from the necessary materials.

And with x-ray vision I almost became a pirate unearthing the treasures in sunken ships littered all through the ocean.

The products my company made was well beyond it's time. Nothing too radical, just advancements to move the technology of the world along, helping it in its path to reaching the future.

EXCEL INDUSTRIES ; ONLY THE BEST.

I was raking in cash, I was so poor all I had was money. Haha I never thought the time would come where I actually had so much money I didn't know what to do with it. And so I did the next best thing, charity. All over the world my charity organizations worked to make the world a better place. I was a hero without even performing physical acts of heroics. The organizations established help centres not only in North America but all over the world. I was especially focused on Third World countries, providing top notch health care and education at next to nothing. I would periodically release technologies into these countries to make sure that they would have the needed tools to better their lives.

Oh, I wasn't shying away from the media, in fact my face was all over the media. They called me the futurist, the Man of tomorrow, the wunderkind.

I was the youngest person to ever make it onto the fortune 500 list. My age on paper was 18 like I looked to be when I was actually just 14. Due to the stasis state I was in when travelling to earth, my body actually only aged for 6 years.

But due to my unique biology and the recent solar radiation, I still looked developed like I trained all my life(which I did) I had a large strong build. Muscles decorated my whole being, they looked like they were sculpted by the very hands of a god. My body would rapidly but stability progress to adulthood and then aging would steeply slow to a crawl from there. And now that I was affected by the yellow sun's radiation, once I reach adulthood my aging process would slow even more. I had sharp(handsome!) facial features with sharp slightly raised at the ends hawk like brows, which went well with my angular features.

I inherited my father's blue eyes and the light brown chocolate skin tone of my mom. The mom I never met or knew…..moving on.

In 1999, My company has been slowly expanding and solidifying it's reach in other sectors,

It was rapidly growing into a diverse international conglomerate with interests in utilities, waste management, industrial manufacturing, computer hardware and software, chemicals, retail, bioengineering, weapons, pharmaceuticals, oil, communications, airlines, real estate, hotels, restaurants, technology, media, financial services, robotics, security, transportation, satellites, stock brokerage houses, cash businesses, space exploration and food.

In 2001 I caused a ground shattering change to the world. I introduced my cure for cancer. Nothing sounds better than the laughter of parents who know that their kid is going to survive that death sentence. I could hear the joyous laughter and cries of people all through earth, knowing that they had the chance to overcome their illness. The pharmaceutical companies tried to downplay its effects and then suppress my company. But I was too big to touch, my company was too large for them to be able to effectively act against me. And to make it all the more satisfying I made the cure as cheap as a pill of aspirin. Haha, I could hear them grinding their teeth to dust on that day. The citizens trusted me. The world adored me. I was happy that I could cause such a change….ok and the public image couldn't be any higher. I was untouchable, no news agency even wanted to try to run smear campaigns against me they respected what I had done and been doing, and those that did were easily silenced by the voice of the masses.

Two thirds of the population of metropolis and Gotham worked for my company directly or indirectly. The gloomy nature of Gotham was changed by my own hands.

What I achieved can summed up to four words. I revolutionised the world.(and became rich doing it...very rich)

June 2011.

Barry Allen, I've been watching him for some years now(Totally not creepy). Always keeping the necessary tabs, and at the slightest sighting of lightning or a cloudy weather I would be in close proximity to him. There have been many false starts but I wouldn't give up on trying to get the speedforce. I remade all the chemicals that would've been splashed on him during the lightning strike. Just like he did back in flash point when he was trying to get his powers back using the electric chair.

"Sir, we finalised the procurement of the company" a smooth voice interrupted. That was my personal assistant, Janet Lee. I like her for her courage and boldness. Did I mention that she's also hot because she is. She had long brown hair that she mostly keeps in a neat bun. A voluptuous figure and that matches her height.

She's half Caucasian and half Asian. No, I'm not any kind of relationship with her in any way, I'd say I enjoy her presence and she likes working for me.

"Excellent as always, Jane. I knew I could leave it to you." I smiled turning from the screen.

"You're doing that a lot these days sir. Although I do appreciate the trust you have in me, I don't think it's ethical" yep there's her honesty.

"You're indirectly complaining about the workload aren't you. I'm joking, Jane you just keep doing what you're doing and forget about the ethics" I said with a soft laugh.

I heard her mumble that she wouldn't mind a raise.

"Here are the documents that need your signature." she handed me files that I quickly looked through. After finalising it all I handed it back to her.

"That's all of it sir. I'll be taking my leave." she said.

"Take care of yourself Jane. You're the real MVP and smile more...please" that actually did cause a thin smile on her lips.

"See you look even better when you smile" I complimented her leaving figure. I could look at her naked form with my X-ray vision but that would be so easy it wouldn't be worth it, I had my honour. Plus I actually like the reward gained from hard work. If I can't even enforce my will to be able to be able to resist such temptation, I would just be another person without discipline or self-control, impulsive.

I turned back to the video feed of Barry's activities were being displayed on a screen. He was in his lab today, he looked visibly frustrated as he kept pacing back and forth. He did visit his dad earlier, he's probably frustrated at the fact that he still can't find his mom's killer. I noticed the weather begin to change from a bright sunny into a rapidly darkening thunderstorm. It has never acted this way before in all my years of watching. If that doesn't spell unnatural phenomena then I don't know what would. Immediately leaving the comfort of my office I sped through the air.

Just in time to witness Barry toss out a device through his lab window, breaking the glass. Rumbles and roars began to occur in the thunder cloud as yellow lightning increasingly flashed from cloud to cloud. I increased my perception raising it to superhuman levels everything began to slow down giving me more time to observe a bolt of lightning gradually travel from the cloud as it made its way to Barry's lab through the window, he screamed in pain as the lightning struck him and caused the chemicals to soak his form. I was more focused on me.

I was flying at supersonic speeds directly into the cloud.

I called on the equation that would affect reality, the equation that represented such power.

3 X 2 (9 Y Z) 4 A

With the mention of each letter and number the thunderous rumblings in the clouds increased, I felt foreign energy respond to my words, I called forth the power and the power answered. The world slowed to a crawl as a congregation of yellow lightning struck my form, bundles upon bundles of lightning took turns in striking me. It was actually somewhat painful, and that's a lot coming from me. It felt like hours when it was actually just seconds. I felt it course through my innermost being. I felt the connection to this zone, this Extra-dimensional field of time and energy. I felt it changing me, I saw it fundamentally changing then charging and empowering my cells with its electricity. It's was rapidly supercharging my bioelectricity and it enhanced my aura.

When I opened my eyes, it was as if time stopped. I had super perception that enabled me to view things in slow motion relative to others.

But this was different, maybe it was the combination of both the speed Force and my Kryptonian based superpowers but time seemed to have stop. The clouds, the wind, the people, the water droplets, everything seemed to have paused. It was like a super flash time vision. I understood that my brain's processing power was working at magnificently uncharted levels allowing me to witness time flow at super dilated levels, in short super perception on super steroids. Maybe I should call it god perception. The wonderful thing is that I had godly reaction and reflexes to match it. This was one of many effects of the speedforce on my biology.

Red lightning crackled around me as I reached out to stroke a suspended water droplet when I noticed that my body was vibrating at ridiculous levels this was most likely due to the speed of my thoughts and the unconscious use of the speedforce to continually phase through matter. I had to slow down my thoughts and slowly adapt to my new powers.

The cloud was rapidly dispersing, I flew higher into the atmosphere and made my leave.

I had flown to my secret underground base, and calming myself I was able to draw my abilities under my hold and stabilise myself.

First I have to say that this is undoubtedly unfair, my zod(heh) I was a superman with a speedforce! The speedforce the dimensional energy that allows you to break the laws of space time and reality. Yeah that speed Force. That was damn unfair. I really did break the lottery of life. Haha! I must have saved the universe in my past life. Well it's not like I was handed the powers. All I got I got through my own hands, through countless hours of planning and simulations. Mentally exhausting activities and danger at each step.(escape from krypton) I was confident in my abilities but I wasn't going to start getting arrogant and complacent. Anything could happen, with all the all powerful beings in the DC verse(Darkseid, antimonitor, parallax) I definitely couldn't be complacent if I wanted to live my life my way and peacefully at that. I maybe semi immortal now. The speedforce caused my aging to slow even more than it has been. I would basically look my adult self for very very very long time. Then coupled with the accelerated healing factor and my Kryptonian based powers, I'm almost unkillable. I don't have plot armour, but I do have hax powers. (heh)

I didn't need to physically run for the speedforce I contained to work. The speedforce activates even in flight so I wasn't limited to land like many other speedsters.

The powers came with the speedster package. Super enhanced speed/reflexes /perception/healing/neural process.

Electrokinesis, I was able to toss lighting like Zeus! Hell yeah, without even flying around to gain momentum. I could gain enough of that by just swinging my arms. Since the speedforce enhanced my physique which was kryptonian rather than a human's I could display more powerful abilities without the same amount of strain it would have on a speedforce enhanced human. I also had electric absorption, that ability alone had very large purpose that I would soon put to the test.

Aerokinesis Was The same as well. I could do that even before I had the speedforce, now it was just a whole lot easier and more powerful with the increased speed.

Body vibrations and intangibility were a given. I could manipulate the movement and acceleration of my cells, and even molecules, enabling me to shake and vibrate my whole body or parts of it by willing my cells to do so. You should have heard my batman voice, Bruce Wayne would be proud. I could also distort my image and generate more force behind my actions. But most of all I could phase my whole body or parts of it through solid matter, ghosts have nothing on me.

Speed mirages were awesome! I could actually talk to an exact replica of me. I could get my own jokes (heh)

Accelerated metabolism? I didn't have to eat like a beast, sunlight provided more than enough nutrients for my body.

Time travel? Nope not touching that…..yet. I know I know time wraiths and what not. But wasn't it proven that only only speedsters who are reckless and without forethought of how their presence in events could damage the timeline would be hunted down. I was going to do it wisely.

I also had momentum negation/speed absorption. That would allow me to suck up the kinetic energy from the atoms of an individual with a single tap. I know I shouldn't think this way but imagine using it during sex (heh!) or using it to secretly cock block someone. Oh this ability was going to be a major pain for bad guys. I could also use it to absorb the kinetic energy in explosions.

To sum it up I had all the powers a speedforce user would have but the powers were more pronounced and powerful due to my biology. And they would all continue to grow with time and usage.

My aura has been enhanced as well. I don't know how but I can feel it, it more potent and pronounced now. Have you seen paper cut through a solid metal block? That's what happened when I coated the paper with my aura. Maybe I should include cards in my weapons arsenal.

XX

I now live in a slow world. I'm very thankful that I could get used to super perception earlier because if I didn't I would live in torture. Do you know how slow everyone else is in relation to me, to my frame of reference. The world moves so slow that it is almost hell. It almost became a perpetual state of torture. I could be talking with someone and zoom around the world 10 times and still not miss anything. So I have to slow myself and my perception down instead. But that doesn't stop me from enjoying life, in fact it made me value it more. But with each passing day I notice that my thought processes , movements and reactions are increasingly becoming faster and faster. The speedforce is changing and enhancing me.

My cells are evolving and beginning to contain and process even more sunlight faster than before and more efficiently.

December 6th 2013.

Beep! My eyes shot open as I slowly rose from the bed, so I wouldn't disturb Sarah(met her last night)who lay beside me with her arm across my chest.

"Hope, what's the notification about" I went ahead to grab a drink from the stand. I wasn't worried about the woman on my bed over hearing. Hope was broadcasting over a very secure self made sound frequency that could only be deciphered by me. Even to superman it would just seem like white noise. I spent a while making that one function.

"[Sir, it's a distress beacon from the scout ship]" Kal must have activated the the AI of Jor-El. That means that he's in the scout ship right now. And if I received the beacon signal then so would Dru-Zod and that means he's coming here.

"sigh so it begins" I said gulping down the drink. A smile slowly formed on my face. "Took you long enough " I was more than prepared to take him and the sword of rao on.

"Hope, get the 'demon child' ready" that was my suit of armour, my war suit.

"[Yes, sir]"

'War is coming'

*BOOM! That was insane! Wow, I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did. Kryptonians are a haxor race, For real though, they really are. The aura was influenced by that of all star superman, it fits well(Although not sufficient) as an explanation for Superman's powers and how they affect his surroundings(dc has been shying away from giving a clear cut explanation). Val is a very determined man, he's selfish and he admits it but if he can help someone while he benefits then he does it. And he is also very protective of his and his own.

Back to you! How did you guys like it? Give me your feedback and constructive criticisms. Don't forget to Hit that fav and like button! It gives! Me! Energy! Haha.

Thank you all for your amazing support.

MAY ZOD BE WITH YOU. (IN ZOD WE TRUST) HAH!

VICTORY*

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Chapter 2

Disclaimer :all characters and mentioned universes belong to their respective owners and/or creators.

This is a work of fiction.

'Italics means he is talking to himself /inner voice'

"inverted commas" means a normal conversation.

"different languages" means speaking in a foreign language.

Thoughts of other characters

"[Talking to AI]"

I AM YOUR ZOD

Why save metropolis? Why save Earth? When I could just leave it all to Superman. First a lot of things here were built by my very own company, so I guess you can say that I built all of this through my very own hands. I'll be damned if I watch it all go up in flames because Kal-El couldn't put down Dru-Zod fast enough. And you must be joking if you think I'll leave my fate in another's hands. One thing that always bothers me is the magnitude of collateral damage in movies. I mean all that hard work, all the sweat, blood and tears, everything just gone in a poof, and they take the lives of innocent people with them, people caught in the crossfire. "The grass suffers when elephants fight" that description is the reality.

I can't save everyone but I can save a lot of them, and since I benefit from it as well then I'm a go for it.

Talking about the Warsuit.

The Demon child mark 1 is a suit of armour powered by my very own speedforce energy(which I had an abundance of) utilising the Electrokinesis and backup nano fusion reactor clusters for a fallback system, for the eventuality that something happens that causes me to not be able to use the speedforce.

It also included an Nth metal slimware for its anti magic properties, worn beneath armour. Yeah if I couldn't learn magic right now, then I would prepare countermeasures for it's usage against me. Nth metal is transuranic iron with an atomic number of 676, possesses innate anti-magical properties, is very hyperconductive and has self healing capabilities. I was able to acquire nth metal from Egypt, a thanagarian ship crash landed on earth back when the pharaohs were still in power, it was the whole reason behind hawkman and hawkgirl. The Egyptians used it to create staffs for their ruling classes. I might have also committed some minor crimes by "borrowing" artefacts.

But I got most of the nth metal from very rare meteors in space. The suit itself is a blend of a Kryptonian, nth metal mix, giving it unique strength and durability while still maintaining a slightly large but slim profile.

The suit had retractable excited kryptonite knuckle blades that constantly released k-radiation unless when de-excited by cutting off it's localised power source.

I wasn't immune to kryptonite but it's effects were muted on me. I spent years training with it in close proximity so I could withstand it's effects. And after getting the speed force and the resulting change that occurred in my cells, I could withstand it's radiation. The speedforce gave me a super enhanced healing factor, making kryptonite not as effective as it should be on me, the same as red sun radiation.

The suit also has inbuilt yellow sun radiation collectors, which would continually feed me with useful solar radiation even when in a red sun zone. The thing is my cell capacity for yellow sun radiation was increasing, allowing me to move even closer to the sun's core. I wasn't there yet but I would get there soon. This is mostly due to the speedforce. It has been enhancing and raising my cell processing speed, causing them to evolve to a more advanced and efficient form. Meaning larger capacity and better processing equals to more powerful and pronounced abilities.

The suit had a very advanced computer interface, with an onboard AI system(hope) controlled via a mind to Machine interface, that could interact with any computer on earth. Coupled with holographic projectors, and many more useful gadgets.

The face mask was a collapsible half face mask. A full face mask could work but the lag behind the digital image projectors would slow me down. My eyes could work way better until I designed something that could keep up.

The whole suit retracts back into the side waist buckles and wrist bands when deactivated. The suit is programmed to my unique speedforce signature and a touch of my Electrokinesis is all that's required to reactivate the suit. If anyone else should try to activate it, they would have a very bad end, from all the counter theft measures installed into it.

I was inspired by batman and his versatility when building the suit, so I had a variety of useful gadgets stored all over the suit. Like an emp emitter, a micro scout bot and red sun radiation grenades just to mention a few.

I told you I was prepared for the Dru-zod, so let him come.

The demon child suit had absolutely no capes, I don't think any of my suits will, it's just too impractical for me. The suit symbol would have a dark glow with white highlights when powered up, but the suit itself was blue with silver wrist bands and side belts.

I called it the demon child because it was going to torment my enemies.

From my office, I could see the black zero ship orbit earth's outer atmosphere. I looked at the people around me, The tension in the air, the emotions on their faces spoke of their curiosity and fear. As the TV screens displayed a video of the alien ship.

When suddenly the lights went off, and ghost screams like white noise filled all electronic devices. Heh not on my watch.

"Hope, deploy security patch"

[Yes sir.]

The words of Dru-Zod weyes cut short as a load screen appeared on all Excel tech devices as all the lights came back on.

A single message was now displayed on all the screens of Excel technologies.

"Security patch 2.0 released. All devices secure. Excel tech; only the best!" Every single electronic device across the world that was either running or an Xcel tech in itself received the patch.

Sharp gasps and shocked gazes were sent my way.

Holding back my laughter I announced.

"People, even aliens need our permission if they want access to our systems. We at Excel tech only deliver the best" as if on cue another notification came onto the devices.

"Would you like to view the Alien broadcast."

This time I could hear people all over the world, some saying that I was insane, some laughing and some just shocked dumb, after registering the implications of my actions. The atmosphere lightened just a bit from its gloomy nature.

After watching Dru-Zod give his ultimatum, this put everyone on edge wondering who the person they sought after was. I didn't miss the stray gazes that fell on me and the whispers that it could be me, due to all the technology I had created. (heh) if only they knew how correct they were.

You know I realise that I almost miss his voice, guess it reminds me of my childhood training.

I turned to Janet. "Jane get everyone to take the day off, you do the same as well. All of you, stay in the security of your homes. Be with your families"

"Sir, please be safe" she said with worry audible in her tone.

I smiled and waved at her, as I left the building. An electric arc flashed past my eyes.

XX

Superman had gone to the Peterson Air Force Base where he met the army general. He was led to the desert where he boarded a drop ship with Lois Lane as they would visit the black zero ship.

I knew that he would have a conflict of views with Dru-zod. And Dru-zod would come to smallville in search for the codex.

Everyone stood still momentarily forgetting their conflict as they observed the strange weather.

Dark clouds blotted out the golden light of the sun.

Shadows rose as if foretelling the approaching disaster. Mighty roars of thunder accompanied the red flashes of lightning.

The clouds increasingly began to erupt with lightning, the sounds of thunder began to shake the very earth. The wind sang in resonance to the call of lightning.

BOOM! A single bolt shot down from the heavens, a flash of brilliance split the very asphalt apart raising dust and rubble as the visage of human figure became visible. The

That was too cool. (Dramatic entry, achieved) I stood before Kal-El who was about to fight Faora Hu-Ul and Nam-Ek

"Kal-El, it's us against them. I know you have questions but let's talk about that when we're done here." I announced.

He nodded in understanding. I could swear I saw a bit of envy in his eyes when he looked at my suit.

Faora and Nam-Ek were confused as to my identity. I wasn't about to explain it anytime soon.

I stared at them and spoke. "You have one chance to surrender, do it now or I will be obligated to use lethal force. I'll say it again. Surrender now!" Faora stepped forward with Nam-Ek beside her. She looked at me "You are too impudent"

"General, I guess you were right" I spoke through the comms fitted into my half face mask.

"God help you….Zod" (heh) yeah, I was going as Zod. It's not about what the name represents but what the one who wears it represents.

I had met the general earlier today right after Kal left the Air Force base. We came to an understanding.

"Cue the music"

[Playing, Survival by Eminem]

The music soothed me. I was born for this.

"I'll take the big guy"

"Fine by me" Superman said as he tackled Faora in flight, sending them both through the IHOP across town and I faced Nam-Ek.

"Nam-Ek this is your last chance stand down!" I spoke to him in Kryptonian.

"rawghhh!" he roared, as he ran at me trying to ram me.

"You must be confusing yourself with the hulk" Red lightning flashed over my body and everything slowed. I had so many ways to kill him that it wasn't even funny. He was moving in slow motion to me, although it was faster than humans, his speed and strength were way below mine.

I sent an uppercut to his chin that took his whole helmet off of him, exposing his face. I flew above him and body slammed him to the ground, crack! forming a deep crater that sent tremors through the ground. Grabbing his feet I tossed him upwards again with more force this time, I reappeared in front of him and sent a lightning coated punch to his face, strong enough that it resulted in a shock wave. Nam-Ek fell back to the earth knocked out. Just before he reached the ground, he woke up. Anger written all over his face. Yep, that's the hybrid alright.

"Rarrggg!" the glass burst due to the intensity of his roar. As he jumped towards my floating figure.

"You should have just stayed down" I dodged below his punch as we rushed past each other.

"Aghh!" Nam-Ek cried in pain holding his chest, as he fell to the earth, never to rise again. When I had dodged past him, I lodged a kryptonite explosive pellet directly into his heart by vibrating my hand through his body just in that moment's exchange we had.

I looked over his dead body blood dripping from his lips, eyes wide open.

I threw him onto my shoulder and zoomed to my base which I now took to calling The house of Zod (heh). What? I wasn't going to waste premium Kryptonian genetic material. Yes, I just admitted the fact that I wanted to use his body for various experiments.

Dropping his body off at the base I went towards Superman's position.

/*/

What they don't show in the movies are the actual dead bodies of civilians. This was a harrowing sight of corpses littered across the street, some of the people were still alive buried beneath rubble. Superman was on his knees holding his side as blood dripped down from it. Faora held a kryptonite edged blade over his kneeling form with a sick smile on her face. The kryptonite in the blade should be harming her, but she's protected by her armour. Which was muting the effects.

She turned her gaze towards the soldiers who continuously shot at her. Moving at super speeds I helped take the critically injured to the hospitals and moved the rest away from the immediate surroundings.

"Faora-Ul" she snapped her head towards me. Surprise written on her face at the fact that I spoke Kryptonian.

"Dex-Ul begged me not to kill him, he really was a bitch but I guess that runs in your family" She was so angry that her eyes began turning red.

"I will enjoy hurting you! Bastard!" she leapt towards me. I had no reason to be merciful to her. I moved. My god perception was in effect as she was slowed down to a comical degree. I tossed lightning at her, striking her in the chest. Her face slowly contorted in pain, as I stood before her. Her eyes on mine, she wanted to react but her body was just too slow, her mind could barely even register my movements.

My arms wrapped around her neck as I snapped it with ease, she wasn't as tough as Nam-Ek the hybrid. The act generated another shock wave that was slowly spreading out due to my perception. I dialed it down as time resumed it's normal speed, the shock wave rapidly spread pushing back the closest soldiers onto their backs. She fell lifelessly like a broken doll.

I'm ruthless? Yes. I want you not to forget that I was a warrior, with the mindset of a pragmatic scientist. Killing those who need to die doesn't bother me. I had gone through enough of that, I was supposed to be a perfect combatant. Mulling over the deaths of my enemies isn't my thing. They are already dead.

Superman recovered from his wound but he looked distressed at the death of Faora. He would have confronted me about it, if it wasn't for the severity of the situation. The soldiers around me lowered their weapons, the sergeant announced that we weren't their enemies.

Sending them a swift salute I shot off into the air with Superman beside me.

"Kal-El, I have a plan."

The world engines had already been deployed by Dru-Zod.

I had the general on a live projector feed.

"General, we have a way to shut down those engines. Super man will head to the Indian Ocean to take out the world engine. And I will use this phantom drive to cause a singularity with Dru-Zod's black zero ship" It was actually a phantom bomb made from my ship's own phantom drive.

I'll say it once again. I was prepared for zod.

"Black hole?" he asked.

"Yes, a temporary one. That would suck the ship back into the phantom zone"Superman added.

"Well then gentlemen, the safety of the planet is in your hands" the general said, there was a tinge of grim in his tone. I mean what do you expect, he's a general and he can't even protect the people he is supposed to. All the things he has tried has resulted in failures, he is a general, he takes pride in knowing that he could defend his people. And now he's leaving that to two complete strangers. I would act the same way if I was in his position.

"It's OK, give me your hand" I reached out to grab the arm of a little boy trapped in the back seat of a minivan. He looks at me with trust in his eyes as he reaches out, I pull him out of the wreckage and coat him with my aura. The circumference of the gravity beams area of effect were expanding and I was evacuating people. I'm really grateful for the added speed boost provided by the speed force, without it I wouldn't have been able to rescue most of these people.

Zooming out of the immediate area I hand the child to his mother, Who had escaped earlier without her son. I'm not judging, not everyone is brave enough to face death, this isn't a movie it's the real world. People get scared. The woman hugged her son as she cried out "thank you" and "I'm sorry" in between sobs.

I couldn't just activate the quantum bomb now. The gravity beams would not only disrupt and destroy it, but it might also cause a self sustaining black hole to form. So I needed Kal-El to destroy the world engine in the Indian Ocean.

I flew through the streets of metropolis grabbing everyone I could and sending them to safety as fast as I could and that was very fast. I flew into buildings that weren't evacuated fast enough and rescued the trapped individuals. I heard the dying screams of those I couldn't save. So I focused on those I could. My god perception allowed me to accomplish impossible feats given enough time I could evacuate the whole city but that would be impractical with the current situation.

Vvmmmm

The electric sound of the gravity beams signalled destruction as it lifted the flattened cars and pieces of rubble and debris after a moment of pause it dropped them back down even harder, causing a massive Earthquake and intense short lasting tremors.

It's effect radius expanding with each linear movement. The skyscrapers tilted and began it's falling descent on the hysteric people. Some running, some screaming, some paralyzed in fear and others just accepted their demise.

Vvvmmm

I flew below the skyscrapers and held it, it's whole weight held above my head, my bioelectricity expanded to cover it's form spreading from the contact surface of my hands, allowing reality to bend to my physics defying acts. I heard the unbelieving gasps, I heard the cries of joy mixed with the exhales of relief, I heard the prayers of thanks. "god, is that you?" one of them asked in between sharp breaths that one nearly got me cracking up. "No, I am Zod" I answered with a smile hidden behind my half face mask.

I set the skyscrapers down on its side and evacuated the trapped ones.

Vmmm- crackle boom!

The gravity beam cut off causing massive electric arcs to run across the black zero ship. Superman did his job. I grabbed the phantom bomb from where I had stashed it and flew to the top of the black zero ship. Drop ships flew out of the black zero and started raining energy blasts on me. But it was too late for them.

Electric arcs danced across the black zero ship and the phantom bomb was placed on it. Vvvppp a shock wave radiates outwards as a singularity was formed. It swallowed the ship as though it were just a piece of noodle like fabric. Space bent and so did matter, nothing in the immediate surroundings escaped from the suction, not even the drop ships. I felt the suction force trying to draw me in but I stood my ground. I watched as the hole in reality disappeared as soon as it arrived. It was as though it never even occurred, the only evidence that it was ever here were the missing pieces of skyscrapers, rubble and debris.

"Whooooo!" the jubilations of the people lifted the atmosphere, they rejoiced. I even heard someone say humanity, hell yeah! Yeah, I just hope someone got that all on video. Oh, wait, yes I did and I released it online. What? Fame isn't bad….for me.

Sigh why can't it just be easy.

I rushed and stood before energy blast was speeding towards the civilians. It impacted me but was neutralised by my armour. The resulting force did push me a step back. "You all need to get to safety."

That was a stray blast from the crashing scout ship. Laser beams were expelled from its interior, causing explosions and sparks. The ship began to fall even faster, if it fell here a lot more people would die.

I flew into the air and caught the ship. My muscles expanded as I pushed against the forward motion of the falling ship, I had to exert effort,OK its wasn't much effort just a bit. What? I was just trying to add some drama. I stopped the ship in its tracks. My aura worked to lessen the inertia from its rocket thrusters. I held the giant scout ship over my head as I was floating meters away from the ground. It was tumbling on the inside due to the activities of Superman and Dru-Zod.

I flew with the ship still held in my grip, I was taking it back to Antarctica, the ship contain a Genesis chamber and other technologies that were too useful to me, I couldn't just leave it in the hands of the government.

Kal-El and Dru-zod burst through the side of the ship in a tackle as both of them crash landed miles away from me. Using the opportunity I adjusted my plans, I flew even faster causing red lightning to crackle around me as it formed arcs that ran across my body and parts of the ship, this time I was heading to my base.

XX

Dust clouded the surroundings, burning rubble and tipped over cars littered the streets.

Dru-Zod was on his knees and superman was standing beside Lois(how the heck is she here) and the rest of the civilians.

I floated towards him, I could feel the massive killing intent being expelled from the kneeling Dru-Zod. His anger was clearly expressed through his words.

"I exist only to protect Krypton. That is the sole purpose for which I was born. And every action I take no matter how violent or cruel, is for my people." his body began to shake in anger "And now I have no people! My soul is what you have taken from Me!" He flew at me with an incredible force, I sidestepped his tackle. He dug a deep ravine as he came to a stop. Superman left the others as he also came onto the battlefield.

The three of us standing in a triangle formation.

"Dru-Zod, have you forgotten me so fast" I lowered the mask, showing him my full unobscured face.

"Impossible! How are you here? Val!" his face went from confusion and then to anger "You side with these, humans, against your own People! You were born to stand for Krypton, your sole purpose was to protect it and this is what you do!" He shouted, pointing at me.

Realization dawned on Superman's face as he looked at me after listening to zod.

Pulling my mask back on. I replied "Krypton, is dead old man. Surrender now and maybe you can survive"

"HAH! Child you order me! To surrender!" Ptui he spat on the floor.

"You are as heretical as your mother was before I put her to rest. A zod never surrenders!"

So that's how my mom ended up huh, I would have been angry but I never met the woman, but I will respect her death and take his life as payment for hers.

"And as for you Kal, these humans you have adopted, I will take them all from you" he said with a maniacal grin. His gait was getting faster.

"You're a monster zod, and I am going to stop you!" super man said as he took a horizontal pose, rushing at the now forthcoming zod.

Red lightning arcs danced around my form as I refused myself for battle.

Zod jumped over Superman's tackle and instead stomped on his back using both feet, driving Superman into the dirt. Causing a massive shock wave to pan out from the newly formed crater.

Zod had experience, although he was just getting used to his powers the Man spent most of his life on the battlefield, and superman really was a farm boy to be honest.

Jumping away from Superman's downed figure he rushed at me, I threw speed force lightning at him which he dodged. That was just a distraction, I speared him in the abdomen at supersonic speeds sending us both shooting off into the distance. The heavy armour he had on gave way to the immense impact force. He started slamming both hands down on my back, I grit my teeth and bore the pain as I went even faster slamming him into the desert floor of the Sahara, causing a sand storm. "ughh!" he groaned in pain. He wasn't the only one in it. I shielded my face from the intense laser beams he released from his eyes, the impact force drove me off of him sending me flying through a sand dune.

Zod jumped after me but he was met with another tackle by the now arriving Superman. I immediately shot up into the skies after them. A kidney shot from zod caused Superman to scrunch up, grabbing Superman's cape Dru-zod used it as leverage to toss him towards me. (This is why capes are impractical) I grabbed Superman's outstretched arm, and with a rotation I threw him back even harder, he used the resulting momentum to impact general zod with an uppercut that broke the sound barrier. I was already in front of his rising form, I sent a full powered punch at his face, cutting his lip and blooding his mouth causing another shock wave.

"Arghh! Let's see how you protect your beloved humans!" during the course of out fight we had mostly circled through the earth and we were now back in metropolis.

Zod must have mastered even more of his powers as he shot down towards metropolis. Superman tried to block him, but he was just tackled along, they were falling directly towards a large skyscraper that had my company symbol on it. Yes they were falling towards my very own company hq, of all the other damn buildings they could have chosen from they instead took mine. That wouldn't have been an issue since I made sure the building was evacuated earlier, but I saw Jane in it using my x-ray vision. I don't know why she was even there when I told everyone to take the day off, I mean couldn't she have left even after the black zero ship was destroyed. The problem now was that she would die when Superman and zod would crash into the building. 'Not on my watch' more lightning arcs crackled over my body as I flew faster than the falling zod and superman. I broke through the glass entering into the building, I tore through the steel and concrete pillars even with my god perception I saw superman and zod fall the top causing it to slowly cave in. Jane's face was full of panic and shock as she saw a large piece of the roofing about to fall on her. Everything was in slow motion as I grabbed her and flew through the other side of the building. My aura protected her from the whiplash and any other physical forces that would've caused her death.

"Miss, you're safe now" I said with a gentle tone as I slowly descended to the ground.

Her eyes were shut tight, she just held on to me, death was right before her eyes and now it's not anymore. I don't think she knows what just happened.

She slowly opened her eyes, turning her gaze towards mine. They shook for a moment as we just stood there with me smiling at her. She slowly unwinded her arms from my body her gaze still kept on was most likely still shocked. (This is getting awkward, say something)

"Take care of yourself miss. I'll be heading off now."

"Thank you! I'm sorry, I was just a little shaken up" She said with a little blush.

"It's no problem, you just stay safe." I smiled at her.

I shot back into the air heading for Superman's position.

These two destroyed even more buildings and other infrastructure, dammit. The mortality rate was now definitely through the roof. Oh, their deaths didn't weigh me down, no. I just get angry at the fact that all these people died because I didn't put this guy down earlier, and because Superman is busy f*cking around with him. I had to end this fight now.

I sped through the air, breaking sound barrier after sound barrier. The speed force aura made it so that the effects of my actions didn't cause too much destruction. Dru-Zod never saw me coming. I slammed into his side, crunch his ribs broke under the impact. "ugh!" he took a pained breath. A deep crater was formed in the solid asphalt as we fell into it, cracks and tremors radiated from the epicentre. Again blood pooled in his mouth as he spat it out, he tried to laser beam me again but I sent cold spears at his eyes. "Aghh!" he groaned as ice covered his vision. I closed my fist as a fine tipped kryptonite blade extended from my knuckle. He felt it's weakening effects, I felt it too but not as pronounced. "I'm Your Father, son ta-" "FUCK that" I stabbed him through the heart, "Arghhh! umm!" he screamed and sealed his lips stifling the rest of it. His eyes glared at me. "You always taught me, a zod never begs. This is for my mom as well" his body grew cold. I grabbed his corpse with both arms, the eyes of the world was focused on me. Superman who had stood behind me, gave me a complex look. There was an unnoticed tear that slid down my face. I did what I….fuck! I killed the last of my family, I know he wasn't a father, I knew he killed my mom, I know all that. it's just complex how I feel right now. It wasn't sadness or anger, it was just loss. I guess I was really alone now.

I ascended into the skies with general zod's body still in my grasp and flew off.

It's been some hours after the invasion ended, the whole world was going crazy over the implications of the invasion. The fact that there were aliens that looked like humans and they were super powerful beings gave much to imagination. My fights and acts were online as well. Lois made an online report on I and superman.

I would have to spend billions to rebuild metropolis but that didn't matter, I was the wealthiest man on earth, I had too much of it. ll that hard work just washed away,

I walked slowly into the Mansion, passing by the gardens and the colourful fish pond. I entered my home exhausted, I already sensed the presence of someone else here and smelled the food being prepared.

Jane walked out of the kitchen with a bowl in her hands.

"Jane, it's a surprise seeing you here."

"Yeah, I thought I'd drop by." this wasn't the first time she visited, it mostly involved work and papers, but this is the first time she's cooking.

"Sir….Val, I was at the company building when that massive ship hovered over metropolis and when those aliens were duking it out. That was the closest to death I had ever been. And I…" she took a deep breath after setting the bowl down "I just had my priorities set straight, my life flashed before my eyes and I thought, about all the things I would regret not having done and one thing was at the top of that list." she turned her sight towards me.

'This won't end well'

"I am in love with you" if this was a book this would be a perfect time to spit out the liquid in a way that would convey my feeling of surprise. I could tell that she wasn't lying, her heart and breath were in sync I knew she was serious. It takes a lot of courage to admit to your feelings for someone else.

"Jane, I think you're just in the high of the moment maybe the-"

"No, I have felt this way for a while now. I just never told you due to our boss to employee relationship. And there was also the issue of you being a womanizer. But I just had to get it off of my chest. I remember when we met back in 96, you were that guy with the cocky tone always had this confident smirk on your face" Hah! Those were the crazy times, what? It was the nineties oK and I was a teen.

"Jane, you don't get it. I'm different, I'm not.. I'm not good for you. You'll just be in harm's way if you get involved with me. That's why I refused to form deep relationships, that's why I never had a long lasting thing with people. In fact you are the closest person to me and we just work."

"Eric, I know you're different. I may not know all about it, but the way the company rose and solidified itself, the way you just seem to invent amazing things off the top of your head. When we released the cure for cancer you weren't even hoping it would work you were expecting it to and the way you just upped and made the cure. I thought you had gone insane until I saw the results"

"But that doesn't matter right now, what I'm saying is why can't we just try" she stood up and faced me, I saw the sincerity in her eyes I saw the love deep in it. But I just couldn't.

"No, Jane it won't work. I'm sorry but that's the way it has to be." I couldn't let her get hurt. If she's too close to me….or is that just my excuse for running away from relationships.

"You're afraid of commitment. It doesn't have to be that way"

She didn't have any visible change in her expression, it just went back to her professional look. A thin smile spread across her face. She picked up her stuff and hugged me then she left. I would've said she looked fine if it wasn't for the sobs I heard when she got into her car.

Sigh why do things have to be so complicated.

I just want to protect her.

I formed speed mirages and had a conversation with myself.

'Why do you keep running away. Why don't you face your fears. Why don't you let someone in'

'Why? Why? I don't know, I don't want to trust someone else. That could be a weakness that could be used against me. I don't want to lose any more close people is what an idiot would have said. No I just don't want to trust anyone but me'

'It could also be a strength. Don't be a coward. Pushing them away is the same thing, if you don't want to lose them then hold onto them and protect them. Why not just give it a try. '

'Do I even know how to love? She could teach you, she could be that bridge. Don't push her away. You don't have to be alone anymore.'

'Could you tone it down with the sappy lines, geez. But I guess there's no harm in trying….yet'

Knock knock

"Coming!" The door opened wide with her standing in front of it. She had a hoodie jacket on and yoga pants that accentuated her curves, her hair was still kept in a ponytail.

"What are you doing here, Sir?" she asked with a surprised tone.

"Janet Lee, I want to apologize to you. OK first off I'm an asshole, and I was a coward. I didn't want commitments because I was afraid of what they came with. But I realise now that I have to take the good with the bad. I'm not perfect, I have my flaws. But I want to be with you too.

Maybe you're right I shouldn't give up without even trying. I don't know how to love but I want to learn and I want it to be with you. I'm not going to say a corny line like I want to be with you forever, but I can try right. Yes, there things about me I haven't told anyone, I want to build enough trust between us to the point where I can tell you about it."

Not about my rebirth that wouldn't make any sense and would be the most stupid thing anyone would ever think of doing in the entire universe. Can you imagine it? Telling someone their whole existence is a lie, that you know things about them that they don't know themselves, and expecting them to come to terms with that, and be, 'wow thanks for the info'? No, it doesn't work that way, the consequences are way more severe than that.

I would reveal my Kryptonian origins but that wouldn't be today. I need to build enough trust for that.

'What about your Wonder Woman ship' (shut up brain)

"So, Is there still a place in your heart for me." She drew me into her apartment closing the door behind me. She jumped on me the moment I turned around. Our lips connected as we delved into a passionate kiss, her soft mounds pressed against my upper body. The sweet scent of her perfume filled my nostrils. It was like I could taste the love in her kisses. It wasn't bad at all. She drew back, smiling at me the brightest smile I had ever seen. I felt a tug in my heart and a warm fuzzy feeling building up in me. I looked into her beautiful brown eyes that I could get lost in.

"You're beautiful, Jane and not only on the outside. I don't know what you see in me that would make you love someone like me" I really was curious as to why she would think that way.

"I see you for who you really are. Merry Christmas" She laughed and we went back to kissing.

*Boom! There you have it people. A surprise, thrilling chapter!

The Kryptonian invasion feels somewhat similar to the chitauri invasion. But the collateral damage! I went over the movie again and all I can say is that the death toll is through the roof. Superman was still holding back when fighting zod which resulted in a lot of unnecessary deaths. Yes all the bodies Val took will be used for his experiments, nope, he isn't a really good guy.

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PS I don't think Val could function in a relationship with anyone but himself, but maybe he'll try and just maybe he'll succeed.

VICTORY!*