Prompt Post - Part Nine [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
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Once upon a time, the Kryptonian scientist known as Jor-el visited the planet Earth in order to study its people. But the humans were smarter than he gave them credit for, and one of them somehow got their hands on some of his DNA. In an effort to protect their planet they cloned him, and accelerated the clone's growth, studied the clone's strengths and weaknesses. They wanted to know all they could about Kryptonian biology, just in case.
But Jor-el had been posing as a human, and they underestimated the clone's strength. At a mere sixteen weeks old, physically sixteen Earth years old, he broke out of the lab where he was being kept and into the wide open world. Having had knowledge of the world implanted in his mind by the creatures known as the genomorphs, he was not helpless. Adopting the alias Conner Kent, he conned, sweet-talked, and intimidated his way into learning everything there was to know on Earth about Krypton. It wasn't much, but he cobbled together a general area of the universe and a spaceship that might be able to get him there.
And somehow, through many trials and tribulations, he made it. The spaceship drifted into range of Krypton's satellite sensors, broken down and out of power, and still carrying its Kryptonian cargo. The Kryptonian shuttle crew who rescued him were amazed at what he had achieved with so little.
Once he explained where he had come from, the High Council wanted to retaliate but Jor-el and his clone both objected. They both knew that while some humans were misguided, the ones who had cloned Jor-el merely wanted to protect their planet, though they went about it in the wrong way, and that for the most part the human race was quite worthy of living.
As for Jor-el's part, he happily adopted the clone into his family and gifted him with the name Kon-el. He taught Kon-el about Krypton, her history, her traditions. Kon-el absorbed the knowledge like a sponge, eager to learn, and lived on Krypton for four Earth years. It was then that he made the startling announcement of his intention to return to Earth. Krypton may be the home of his people, but his memories, fake or not, were of Earth, and not only were they worthy of living, they were also worthy of a protector.
Jor-el had approved, and told Kon-el to find his calling. Kon-el promised that he would come back to visit, and prepared a spaceship much more suitable than the one he had arrived in. He said goodbye to the ones he had come to call mother and father, and to the one who he hoped would in time call him older brother, and set out for Earth.
When he returned, Krypton was no longer there. For years Kon-el searched, desperate for any hint of survivors, but eventually he had to admit that there were none. He was the last Kryptonian. Saddened, he returned to Earth for good.
But fate intervened. Some fifteen years after the destruction of Krypton, three teenage heroes known as Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad were passing through Smallville, Kansas when they were drawn into a mystery involving missing livestock. They confronted the mad scientist who had been kidnapping the animals in order to experiment on them, but had underestimated him. They were rescued by a local boy, Clark Kent, who had also been investigating the missing animals, and who in the process unwittingly revealed himself to be Kal-el, son of Jor-el.
Upon hearing the news, Kon-el was overjoyed. He rushed to meet with the one he thought of as his little brother. But Clark Kent shut him down cold.
“I don't know who you think you are,” Clark told him angrily. “You were not born on Krypton. You are not Kryptonian. And you are most certainly not my father! Blood does not make you any relative of mine, so leave me alone!”
Clark made it clear. He would join the Young Justice team Batman was setting up. He would be a hero. But he would have nothing to do with Kon-el. To him, Kon-el was nobody.
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The Batman and Robin pair is really tugging my heartstrings. It was gut wrenching reading the part when Dick failed to save Bruce's parents because of a malfunctioning tool. A FREAKING MALFUNCTIONING TOOL. Damn... TT.TT And then when he attended the funeral and provided comfort for the boy, that was just... maaannnn I'mnotgonnacryI'mnotgonnacry!
Bruce was also awesome in here. But not because he figured out Dick is Batman (that's expected) but on the fact that he didn't even blame him! He was a kid who just lost his parents because Batman couldn't save them and he just blamed the old malfunctioning tool! Not the person! That... that... Idk what kind of character that was and how much of it is needed but damn young Bruce was just plain awesome for doing that.
I look forward to his and Dicks partnership.
Then we go to Conner... Girl, you just took my heart out, ripped it to pieces, smashed it with a hammer, and burned it to cinders. FFFFFFFFFFNowI'mcrying!!!!
His story was really heartwarming and inspiring. He tried to find his place, his home, in this universe and found it. He got a purpose in life. He has a family that loved him and accepted him. I love that you gave him that in the story. He really deserves it.
But then when the Kryptonians were wiped out... and then he met Clark... dfjhgdfcaskdfsad Damn... Clark may have lost everything but I couldn't find myself to sympathize with him after what he did with Conner. That was HARSH. His reaction is a thousand times worse here than in the series because he is still young. He's still a kid. He doesn't have the maturity yet to know that some things are just better left unsaid. God... I just want to give Conner a hug after reading that part.
ILU that you filled this prompt but ILU more for writing the fill so beautifully. Thanks =)
And now I shall start baking internet cookies just for you.
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Dick just can't help but see a little bit of himself in Bruce and feels guilty for not being able to save his parents, so of course he's going to offer him comfort. Not his fault that Bruce is smarter than he looks and out for justice.
As for Conner, I wanted to keep things as similar as possible, hence the whole still a clone just of Jor-el thing. After he escapes I can't imagine he'd just bum around on Earth for shits and grins, he'd want to figure out where he came from. And Jor-el's just a big sweetie about the whole thing (I have no idea where that characterization came from, it just did). And Clark... Clark has issues with clones. In the series it's all "Cloned by evil people, must keep distance from clone because WHAT THE FUCK D:", but here it's so much worse because a little bit of it's just a misunderstanding. Conner isn't a clone of Clark, he's a clone of his father, so when he tries to get close to Clark, Clark is all "YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER /ANGRYFACE" but Conner doesn't want to be his father, he just wants to get to know him. And of course here it's Clark who's the angry teenager, so he's undoubtedly going to say some mean things.
I'm glad you like it so much!
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