[Heroes Assembled] Groot Fan Fiction - Krypton or Bust: The Dead Planet

 

Peter Quill has posed:
The first official run of the Guardians of the Galaxy was mere minutes away from completing the first leg of it's journey: the Rao system. Or was it the second leg? What with Oa and all, regardless it was an excuse for a party, so the music is blasting all over the ship and Quill is down in the common area while he waits for the computer to alert them they're about to jump into the system. Best piloting protocol? Probably not! But it's how Quill rolls.

He's dipped into the ship's supply of Earth food for the event, pop, beer, nachos are all available on the table and for those that want to, there's dancing. Quill is definitely one of those, grooving to himself a beer in hand, while Three Dog Night's "Shambala" plays over the speakers. A fitting track to herald the arrival to their promised destination.

(Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szm_SbNmK6s)

Groot has posed:
Groot keep looking at the ship sensors, focusing on the larger area of the galaxy for good portions of the trip but stopped to listen to this song. He'd actually gone out of his way to 'research' the lyrics, disappointed to find there was no such place but glad to finally understand the context. As it was, he put the chart away and walked to the bridge. They were, after all, about to visit what he himself considered a very large grave.

Kara Danvers has posed:
    Kara's mood had picked up since they'd leave Oa. That place was horrible. Those people were horrible. These people on this ship though? quirky and fun and she considers some of them friends. She was even starting to understand the grumpy moods of Nebula. And then she hears the music.

    Kara's head peeks around the corner in to the common room and then she enters with a small little bop to her steps and a hip sway. She picks up some nachos and dips them in to the sauce and noms. There's a nod of agreement to Peter about his choice of snacks and she bops her head a little more.

    "I've never heard this song before. I like it," she says and lets herself sway a bit more freely to the groove. She grabs a pop and lets it fizz open, then takes a sip. She lifts the drink in to the air, "To found friends and fateful journeys."

Clark Kent has posed:
Clark's been quiet, arms crossed, and a serious expression on his face.

He takes a slow breath when Kara says something peppy, but is otherwise applying his considerable super sense to searching the area for what feels like, to his instincts, the other shoe about to drop. Which is impressive, considering the war they barely avoided with the space police.

Conner Kent has posed:
Conner wasn't with the others when they talked with the Guardians of the Universe. Somehow the bald wicked smurfs missed him and his 'evil' Kryptonian genes. He was super-annoyed both about how the others got threatened and insulted, and the fact the aliens either didn't think he was Kryptonian enough or somehow failed to notice him.

Or maybe Maxima's ship messed up with their sensors. But Conner is blaming the GotU.

They did say Krypton's sun exploded, though. That means there shouldn't be much left of the whole star system. He has not talked with Kara about it, but he is somewhat pessimistic about the whole trip. And not even Quill's 'classical music' is improving his mood.

Karen Starr has posed:
    Contrastingly, Karen's mood hasn't picked up. To be fair, she's the angry one, so that's about par for the course. Instead, though, she's been devoting her time to planning- not for failure, but for success. Already, she's considering exactly what they'll do- and have to do- should they find the best result.

    Already though, she has her suit on- having ten minutes ago double tapped her gauntlet to signal the technology to deploy it across her form. It fits her like a glove all over, though for the moment, her helmet is clutched under an arm.

    "I don't know how accurate the Guardians' information is." she mentions, "The planet should have detonated- not the sun. If it was the sun, there shouldn't be anything left... Not for nothing, but I hope they're wrong."

Jon Kent has posed:
     Jon had never been to space. So of course, as a fifteen year old boy, he was having the time of his life. Floating when he could, unassisted by his powers, etc.

  The merriment and song has his dancing in overdrive, and he knew lots of old school moves. The Cabbage Patch, The Running Man, The Electric Slide. He even had a bottle of Soder Cola to celebrate.

  He still had on his Superman hoodie, and everything he came to this time with, which is pretty much the clothes he had on his back. But he was an optimist, now that he was pretty sure he wasn't going to poof out of existence, he has allowed himself to be relaxed.

Groot has posed:
Groot says, "I am Groot." Granted without Rocket here to interpret this, he tugs Peter's sleeve and points to the system nav which has suddenly deteceted a quark star and some asteroid fields one the Milano jumps out. He looks extremely concerned. He taps again with a flashing red notice that says 'Exotic Raditation'

Peter Quill has posed:
"I'll drink to that," Peter says raising his drink to Kara's toast. He takes a long pull from his beer and gives a thumbs up to Jon who seems to have caught the spirit of the event even if the rest of the crew were Gloomy Gusses. "Good moves kid," he grins. "And everyone, relax we won't know what we're going to find until we get there..."

Which is apparently now. Groot's tugging on his sleeve gets his attention.

"Thanks buddy," he says, before heading up to the cockpit. "Time to do Captain stuff!" he calls back down to the others.

Jumping into the pilot's seat he brings them out of jump space and veers hard to port just missing a tumbling bit of space debris, that scrapes against one of their winglets.

"Phew," he says wiping his brow before he flicks on the intercom, stopping the music. "It's alright folks we all didn't die, but we are now officially here, for those of you wanting a view... well come on up."

He starts navigating through the debris trying to get past it and have a proper look at what was in fact left of the Rao system.

Kara Danvers has posed:
    It has been three years for Kara since she was violently ripped away from her home world, watching it explode behind her as she jumped away from the Rao system. She puts down the pop and approaches the front window to look out at what remains and a hand goes to her stomach as it tightens.

    The Milano has jumped in to the midst of what was once a planetary system of colonised worlds. Now, it is a series of rings of rock and technology circling a tightly compacted and still unstable quark star. The quark star, a more dense neutron star constructed of exotic freely interacting quarks, has begun to pull some of the destroyed worlds back toward it, while most of the orbits are pushing outward from the dead sun once known as Rao.

    Argo is the outer most planetary body that seems to have remained mostly intact. One side of it scarred beyond recognition while the other is an icy tomb. The next planet Thoron once home to a large population has been ablated on one side, carved away by the explosion of Rao and now has a long crescent trail of asteroids ahead and behind it.

    The next is one of Krypton's moons, cut down in size considerably - Mithen, had been ejected from Krypton's orbit by the blast. The next planet Dheron, the fifth planet in the Rao system is as devastated as Krypton itself. A crescent chunk of both planets remains and the rest is a mass of asteroids and irradiated kryptonian crystal technology.. green.. carelessly called 'kryptonite' by Earth. Strangely the moon Wegthor of Krypton has mostly survived, though it has been battered by asteroids constantly in the 36 years since the sun went supernova. Krypton itself must have shielded it.

    Exotic radiation is one way to put it.. between the quark star and remnants of Kryptonian technology, this system is toxic. The shields of the Milano are quite capable of handling it so long as they don't get too close to Rao itself.

Clark Kent has posed:
Clark wishes Lois was here, something to hold onto among these strange aliens and future clones and visions of a past he increasingly wants nothing to do with. What are they doing here, among the dead and doomed? Even the pieces of his lost homeworld want to kill him. Forgotten ideas, a paradise that turned out to be a lie and worse, a curse on the galaxy so baneful it drove the Guardians of the Universe to become another faction of warmongering thugs. A galaxy without any real protectors anymore.

Clark wished he FELT anything, looking at these rocks in space.

Superman cannot falter, though, so the Man of Steel squares his shoulders and takes solice in the fact that no one here knows him well enough to realize it's an act. "Well, we're here. Ball's in your court, Supergirl. Can you pick anything up?"

Conner Kent has posed:
Conner follows Peter into the cabin, and peers to the blasted star system. "Holy crap," he mutters. He can't even really see what is left of Rao. Is that a black hole? "Still, there are more remains that Earth astrophysicists would believe. Supposedly a nova is to a planet like putting an nuclear bomb close to a wooden hut. But look... I can see some planets still, well, being planets," mostly. But they are /not/ space dust. "Which one is Krypton?"

Karen Starr has posed:
    "That's not right..." Karen states, looking over the debris of Krypton, and what's left of the Rao system. Her eyes narrow deeply, and she seems momentarily lost in thought, doing no small amount of math.

    "The star wasn't that old. They should have had /eons/ before it went nova. That's not right." bringing a hand up, she pinches at the bridge of her nose. This is nothing like the disaster of her Krypton.

    "Without the radiation of a red sun, we'll need full led shielding on all of the suits. It's going to make the visors more opaque, so be extra careful." she notes, slipping her helmet back over her head.

    "Whenever we're ready, we can see if there's... Anything we might want to take back. Most of it can't be salvaged because of- well, it's probably radioactive too... But maybe if there's data, records on the pieces of tech, that might be worth bringing with us."

Jon Kent has posed:
     Jon stopped his dancing long enough to dance over to the cockpit, and looking sad. "That...is not good." He comments at everything outside. "So, there's supposed to be something there? I thought there wasn't a thing left."

Peter Quill has posed:
Peter looks out over the devistation and his face falls. "Wow..." he says just staring at it all, the images enhanced by the Milano's systems.

Noticing the others there with him, he glances back struggling for words... "I can take us out of here if you guys want, there doesn't seem like there's a whole lot left," he settles on as he shifts uncomfortably in his seat.

Conner's question has him looking back. "Wish I knew man, this all happened before I even went to space," he says before tapping some keys on the console. "Here's some archival stuff on the system, if it helps any," a virual screen pops up by Conner with an old chart of the system and an encyclopedia style entry in Interlac about it as well.

Groot has posed:
Groot is reverently quiet as he observes this, helping the others (Peter in particular) to augment and enhance the ship's sensors to find things for their passengers to take back with them as momentos.

Kara Danvers has posed:
    Kara can feel her legs getting weak, barely registering Clark's prompt. She places a hand over her mouth and her breathing quickens. "It's too small. This ship is too small." Her hand crushes the headrest of the seat in front of her and she tears her eyes away from the outside. Conner's question falling on deaf ears. Stumbling back in to the common room where she can't immediately see outside. She doesn't get much farther than that before her legs give up and she drops on to her knees.

    She tries to control her heavily breathing, hyperventilating despite. Flashes of Krypton exploding filling her minds eye and the tight dark of the capsule as it travelled through space. She sucks in air through her nose and breathes out through her mouth, trying to steady her shaking body.

    "I.. I can't.. I thought I could..," she quivers and wraps her arms about herself, rubbing her arms. There was a plan.. it's still a good plan, if she can pull herself together. There's tears rolling down her cheeks as she is forced to acknowledge the reality that had been haunting her for three years... or thirty nine years depending on how you count it.

Clark Kent has posed:
Karen throws together a plan quickly enough. It's a good one for the circumstances, but certainly not the magical road to Argo City they'd been promised.

Superman looks at Conner and Jon, and Superman wouldn't be a jerk about this. So he steps forward and puts a gentle hand on Supergirl's shoulder, helping her back to her feet and letting her sob, a little. This entire thing is close to Kara's heart, and it's understandable she needs a moment.

Groot has posed:
Groot exudes as much empathy as he can radiate, wishing suddenly Mantis were there, but as it is he works the sensors while their passengers work through their justifiable grief and horror and pain.

Karen Starr has posed:
    After not long, despite being still in her suit, Karen's hand lands quietly on Kara's shoulder. There's a firm but friendly squeeze, and her voice cracks out over the speaker of the suit- not impersonal, but not as comforting as it could be.

    "You can. It's going to hurt, but I know you can. When you feel a bit better, you can put on a suit and come outside. Take the time you need, but remember- You can do this."

    Stepping away then, Power Girl heads for the airlock. If there's no reason to linger, she doesn't want to. If there's anything to be found, they should find it and go.

Gamora has posed:
    Gamora had been in the cockpit for the last little while, tapping the toe of her boot to the music while no one could see. She wordlessly nodded to Quill and the others as they arrived, and did her part aiding with the ship's systems.

    The sight they find is... a lot. Even for her. She's seen this kind of ruin on ground level on local planets; in the wreckage of ships that attacked or defended themselves against her father. But on the scale of a galaxy... words fail.

    When Peter offers to leave the system, Gamora gently chides, "Quill." with a slight shake of her head. They probably need time to absorb this. Not that Gamora has the best emotional intelligence in the world, but if SHE'S stunned, she can only imagine how they feel.

    Gamora stands suddenly as Kara drops to her knees, but lets the Kryptonians friends comfort her. They're better equipped for it, anyway.

Conner Kent has posed:
Conner was actually fascinated by the sight of the broken star system until Kara breaks down. That makes him sober up quickly. That broken planet was Kara's home, and where her family and friends had lived until just a few years ago.

He slides to the girl in a second, helping Clark to get her back to her feet. "I am sorry," he murmurs. "I... sorry," really, there are no words. He looks at Karen and grimaces. "Would it be worth it? But if there is someone alive here, maybe she ship sensors can find something."

Peter Quill has posed:
"Right, uh, take as long as you need guys," Peter says after giving a nod to Gamora. "Shields are holding firm, we should be good to stay as long as you need, and our sensors /should/ be able to cut through this background radiation," he adds trying to be helpful. His emotional intelligence is somewhat lacking but he's trying hard not to step on the Kryptonians sombre moment.

As he falls quiet he shoots another look to Gamora to see how she's doing with it all.

Kara Danvers has posed:
    Kara leans her head against the chest of her cousin. The sound of his steady heart beat is helpful. She wipes away the tears and draws in a deep breath, then lets it out again slowly. If Karen can do it, so can she. No doubt Karen did a similar trip - pilgrimage - to her Krypton once upon a time. She nods to Conner and lowers her hands, a piece of the chair she just brutalled dropping to the floor.

    "Okay," she says with a slightly weak voice. She turns and steps back in to the cockpit and her eyes survey the system with determination and sadness, her cheeks a touch puffier. She points a finger to Wegthor, the moon. "Twin moons of Krypton. Wegthor and Mithen. Wegthor has had a military installation on and in for a very long time. The first Kryptonian to ever be sent to the phantom zone - Jax-Ur, he set off a missile that destroyed a large part of the moon colony. I remember learning that in history class..."

    She wets her lips and rubs them together, "If anything survived ....this.... it'd be under the surface of Wegthor." Another tear slides down her face, she has no control over it now. Kara is not okay but typical of her and her family, she is pushing on regardless. She taps the control on her wrist to deploy the space suit that Karen made. "Captain Quill would you please take us closer," she asks and then gives a nod to Clark and Karen.

Gamora has posed:
    Gamora watches silently for several long moments before it occurs to her that any given passanger may not appreciate strange eyes watching this vulnerable moment. She sits back down slowly into her seat and meets Quill's gaze.

    She's confused by it for a moment, but she ends up interpreting it as concern. "You don't need to worry about me." Is her slightly evasive answer, though her eyes drift back to the view screen and she adds, "It just... brings back memories. In a way."

    When Kara makes her request of Peter, Gamora looks over the screens on her console, and gives Quill a quick nod to indicate that that IS possible. Maybe not RECCOMENDED, strictly speaking, but they don't get paid for avoiding risks.

Jon Kent has posed:
     Jon slowly approaches Kara on her knees, gently reaching out to her shoulder too. He doesn't have the words to even help here. But he's going to help...somehow.

  Bright blue eyes darken on the sight of all this...mess. It's truly saddening. He looks to Superman, not sure what he should do.

Clark Kent has posed:
Superman smiles, a little tightly, when Kara pulls herself out of her dispair. It's a rough situation, to be sure.

But we have a direction, and that makes everything better. "You want the two of us to go?" Sueprman offers Kara, "You can direct us from inside the ship since you know the area better. I think I've got the hand of this space suit."

Superman grins a bit more hoenstly, ruffling Jon's hair. There may be a hint that morale duty is important right now for his aunt.

Maxima has posed:
Despite having wanted to see the ruins of Krypton with her own eyes, Maxima was not aboard the Milano when it set out. Even as her ship had reached the edges of the debris field where the Milano disembarked, there was still lingering diplomatic considerations from what transpired on Oa and she was sequestered away in a conference with her mother, the Queen of Almerac Prime and Empress of the Empire.

That seems to have concluded however as a dot of energy appears in the midst of the Milano's bridge, a dot which quickly expands into a glowing yellow portal through which steps the Almeracian Crown Princess. Once the momentary disorientation of the portal travel has passed and she has a moment to take in her surroundings, she stops and stares at the ruins of Krypton bearing witness, for the first time, to what in her mind was the end of a great warrior empire.

Groot has posed:
Groot watches and listens, not yet commenting. I mean, most wouldnt understand him anyway, but as it is he can be an extra pair of eyes on the sensors though he watches those as much as the rest of the room.

Karen Starr has posed:
    Karen remains at the airlock, and holds there for a time, the visor of her helmet nearly opaque as it fills with a form of gaseous Led. Like a grim specter, she remains wholly silent for a time, before quietly cycling the airlock as soon as Kara has taken her feet and helped give them a course of action.

    She didn't need to be told- she already knew that was going to be the most likely destination, but if anyone needed to do this, it was Kara. There are enough differences regardless that Karen cannot trust the knowledge from her home universe, but the similarities are enough that she's drawing a lot of the same conclusion.

    Slipping out into space, Karen latches onto the side of the Milano as it approaches the moon, and once it's close enough, she'll detach and start heading for the surface, still silent over the communicator.

Conner Kent has posed:
Conner is not used to teleporting tech, so Maxima's arrival surprises him. First thing he thought it was they might be under attack. So, it is a relief when the tall redhead steps in. "Hey. Nice to see you, princess," he greets.

Today Conner changed his usual jeans and leather jacket by the N.O.W.H.E.R.E. outfit. Black with red lines and the glowing red S on his chest. Some of his friends teased him saying he looked like a Tron character. But it is a smart suit centuries ahead of any Earth space gear and should keep him safe from radiation. As long as he wears a helmet.

Peter Quill has posed:
"Of course not," Peter says quickly to Gamora's evasion. "And I bet," he says of bringing back memories. After all if you roll with Thanos long enough you're bound to see some blown up planets. Even if he didn't know one of them was her own.

Kara's request and Gamora's look are both met with nods. "Yeah, we can get you closer," he says taking the controls. "Groot, Gamora one of you want to give that moon a scan and see if we can find what they're looking for below the surface?" he asks as he weaves the ship through the debris towards Wegthor. He doesn't even crash when Maxima appears suddenly on the ship, he just mutters to Gamora sotto voice. "We totally need that tech." For good and honourable reasons of course!

Groot has posed:
Groot nods and does just that. He begins focusing the Milano's sensors on the moon. He is not as skilled at it as Rocket or Nebula but he has a firm attention to detail and is methodical.

Kara Danvers has posed:
    Kara nods her head to Clark and says, "I.. need to do this Kal. I can't stay in here and watch." Kara places her hand on Jon's shoulder. He feels like family.. and is, even if she's only just met him. There is a tilt of her head as Maxima appears via portal. She nods to her, then takes in another deep breath and activates the same gaseous led in to her helmet. "Let's.. go see what was recorded," she says and heads to the airlock. She gives Conner a thumbs up on her way out.

    The drop down on to the moon is perilous. What is true of this place is an almost constant barrage of dust and meteors crashing down against its surface. The ground is peppered and it takes the likes of a Kryptonian to carefully dodge the dangers. The scans done by the Milano crew guide them close to an energy signature.

    Not far away is an opening in to an underground bunker. An oval shaped entrance with an iris that has been smashed open by the rain of stone and kryptonite. Of Krypton. Inside, a corridor is partial shelter. A red beam sweeps over the intruders before a purple set of holographic glyphs alight a pathway deeper in to the facility.

    Another iris door oval in shape spreads open to allow them entry. On the other side, an energy field keeps atmosphere clear. A working Kryptonian room .. of sorts. Pristine and white with a crystal console in the middle and a glitching hologram, barely able to keep any kind of shape. The console indicates 'Heritage Protocol' is engaged.

Gamora has posed:
    When Princess Maxima chooses to just *materialize* on their ship, Gamora's reflexes are good enough to, in the same breath, grab a blaster and begin to aim it at Maxima; and then recognize Maxima in time to realize what a world of shit she'd be in if she allowed muscle memory to take the wheel. So she very quickly hides the gun away before she's quite gotten around to pointing it at Maxima.

    Gamora lets out a very tense breath with a 'near miss' sort of look on her face, and nods to Quill. "Agreed."

    Gamora watches Kara leave with a solemn sort of expression, her eyes lingering on the last place she saw her.

    "Oh." Gamora suddenly turns to Quill, quietely noting, "In the next... 'ad'... we can say we've transported royalty, yes? That might impress people."

Clark Kent has posed:
Was this what I was like as a boy?, Clark thinks as Jon leaps head first into danger.

Clark follows Kara and Karen's lead for the moment, playing backup, getting ready to move heavy things and otherwise be an extra pair of hands. He really knows so little about Kryptonian technology, it's kind of awkward and embarrassing. He feels like a caveman.

Maxima has posed:
Maxima stands there as the glowing yellow portal closes behind her. She returns Kara's nod and nods in greeting to Conner as well, though she doesn't speak up just yet, silently watches as the ship changes course and approaches the moon. The normally boisterous warrior princess seems to sense the weight of the moment.

"I am here if you need me." She tells Kara before the other young woman heads for the airlock.

At which point she steps over towards where Conner is to continue watching.

Jon Kent has posed:
     Jon's shaggy hair is ruffled, well, it was ruffled before, but now ruffled differently. A smile starts growing on his face as he stays to provide a little support for Kara. He joins the others, though the suit is a little...different to him. But it doesn't shake him as they make their way down to the moon's surface.

  Jon follows into the Kryptonian room, where the others are. He doesn't say anything yet, not even sure what this all is, he's only ever seen the Fortress, but he knows that this is important for him and his family.

Peter Quill has posed:
Quill lets out a breath when Gamora doesn't shoot the alien space princess on their bridge, a quiet thumbsup is given before he get the Milano settled in orbit above the moon as the 'landing party' heads down to the surface and beyond.

Peter snappoints Gamora's way at that suggestion though. "See that's some solid thinking," he says. "Think we could convince Maxima to give us an endorsement?" he asks, then looks back to Groot. "Also let us know if those scans pick up anything interesting down there," by which he means valuable. "Our guests might want to know about it," and if they don't well it could make for some decent salvage on a return trip.

Karen Starr has posed:
    Experienced in space, Karen dances through the debris down to the moon as if she's been here before- technically, she has- but it's less preternatural foreknowledge and more skill.

    When she lands, she holds, waiting for the others- and specifically Kara- to come landing and following behind. Thus her time of taking point comes to and end, and she defers to the young woman to lead them through in silence.

    Her attention clearly lingers on the form-challenged hologram, and she sets a hand again on Kara's shoulder. "Go ahead. See what it can tell you." her attention goes to Clark, then, "You should go with her."

Kara Danvers has posed:
    Kara nods to Karen and approaches the console. Her hands out stretch as she starts to make gestures to it. The blur of projected pixels twist and turn awkwardly, "Something has corrupted this." She walks over to a wall and pulls away and sharded covering. The insides is a twist of crystals infected with the now familiar green. "Kryptonite," she says.

    She flinched. It's hard not to when she knows just how painful it is.. but the suits are protecting them. With a foot she kicks at the kryptonite until it dislodges and exposes where a chunk of meteor crashed down in to the cavity behind the wall.

    Kara returns to the console and tries again. The image sharpens in to a map of the solar system. She starts to move the footage back through time by jumps until she is confronted with a multiple holographic angle of a huge flash of light. The shockwave of explosion, either from rao or Krypton, it's hard to tell.

    Cautiously she inches the footage forward until suddenly an audio interface appears and there is footage of a glowing semi-sphere of shielding energy and light with long trailing crystalline tails - like a space jellyfish, though the size of a city.. it moves away from the debris field and then becomes a blur as it shoots off in to space away from the Rao System.

    Kara motions to the audio and starts the track.

    "Hello, my name is Zor-El. If you can hear this we have safe refuge for all lost Kryptonians. Argo City has survived and we are plotting a course toward... join us." The audio triggers a holographic update showing a plot away from Krypton to yellow sun solar system identified only as K-2.

    Kara steps back. She becomes motionless like a statue, stunned beyond all belief. That was the voice of her father leaving a message for others who might find their way back here.

    Argo City survived.

Gamora has posed:
    Gamora ponders Quill's question, once more being required to guess the motivations of people existing outside a relatively simple world of 'success or hell'. Her eyes drift to the side. "... Hm."

    Gamora watches the unusually solemn Princess for several seconds, then looks back to Quill. "... Perhaps there will be a more appropriate 'mood' in the near future."

Groot has posed:
Groot stays on the scanner, looking for interesting things. There are, of course, LOTS of interesting things since there are tons of technology around or ruins the trick is finding things that they WANT but he starts feeding the filtered data through more and more watching the transmission with rapt fasination, "I am Groot.

Clark Kent has posed:
"Alright." Superman says, trying not to show his sheer discomfort with walking through this tomb.

He, again, follows Kara's lead; she knows this technology, he knows...not much. He can just about recognize the pictures from Kelex's old files. It's like watching old photos of a family tradgety that he's a generation or two away from. It's bad, but not in a way he can really interact with. And then...

Zor-El. His...uncle? Superman reaches out, for a second, eyes wide. Kara was right. There were survivors. This is a map, too them.

General Zod and his cultists are at large.

"...should we be taking this away from here?" Clark finally approaches the question.

Jon Kent has posed:
     "Zor-El? Oh wait, no. I was thinking Jor-El." A slight blush coming to Jon's face. He wasn't good with all the Kryptonian names. But...wonders. "I guess I wouldn't have one, huh?"

  The boy's expression widens as there is mention of a safe Argo City. "Wait what? No way!" He hadn't known of this revelation himself, but from his tone, he is very pleased. "That means we aren't all...y'know." But the question of Zod and his compatriots gets a definite nod from Jon. "If it keeps it safe, probably." But that was just his two cents.

Kara Danvers has posed:
    It takes Kara a moment to get over the shock and surprise that in this universe, too, Argo City survived. Just like in the world where the monster existed. And that was her fathers voice, "Dad...." she says, utterly stupefied by this revelation. She gulps and looks to Clark, Karen, and Jon.. then back to the console.

    "You're worried Zod might find them? even he wouldn't be crazy enough to attack them. I.. don't know. What if there are others like us that might need this? Karen? Clark? ..Jon thinks we should take it, I don't know.."

    She stares at that brightly glowing city frozen in the hologram like a still frame. She plays the audio again just so she can hear her fathers voice once more. "Jor-El is your grandfather.. Zor-El is his brother, my father," she says to Jon even as her voice wavers. "I.. a name is just a name."

Clark Kent has posed:
Superman listens.

He is not worried about Zod HURTING the Kryptonians. The opposite, in fact.

He looks at Kara, and then at his son.

"No, that's not the right thing to do. We'll take a copy of the files." Superman's already ripping the console out of the wall...carefully, but still a brute's solution to a problem. But hey, a sword solved the Gordian knot. "Kelex will take it apart, we'll confirm the location, and maybe make a visit if we decide it's safe. If the galaxy loses its mind over that..."

"...well, maybe they'll have a right to. We don't know what sort of Kryptonians these people will be, after this long alone in the cold of space. But hiding from the truth isn't going to solve that for us. And better in our hands than in the grip of whatever scavengers will dare this place one day."

Kara Danvers has posed:
    Kara blinks in surprise at Clark's approach to taking the data. The hologram blinks out of existence. "..right. I mean, we have a space ship and a bunch of possibly pirate friends. We should at least check the place out." She starts walking back to the exit, feeling a rumble under her feet as another asteroid hits the moon hard.

    "My parents could be there!," she exclaims with a touch of excitement. "..and if it's bad, well, we leave. With my parents." Outside, she looks up to the Milano and then rises up in to space to re-dock and enter the airlock.

Maxima has posed:
Maxima's otherwise stoic expression registers startled surprise for a moment at the news of Argo City's survival, a surviving colony of Kryptonians. An entire city of such potent warriors is a prospect impossible to ignore, though the thoughts racing through her mind are diametrically opposite to those of the Guardians of the Universe.

Jon Kent has posed:
     "I'll do whatever you all want to do...this is kinda...big. But I'll have your back whatever you think is right." Thing were so much easier on Earth, only because he knew it, all of this space stuff was much more different, many more shades of grey. Jon was an optimist, finding the best things in people and working with that. "Alright, so what can I do to help?" He asks, looking to the others.

Clark Kent has posed:
Clark flies back to the Milano with the machine.

He's not the most cheerful, but he does say, "We got some coordinates." To the Guardians of the Galaxy, "We'll need some time to figure them out, but we should probably get out of this system as soon as possible."