When Gods Meet Without Egypt
They did not meet in a single place.
They met across shared dream-space, where pantheons once negotiated borders before humanity learned to write.
The absence was obvious.
Egypt was there but diminished.
Ra's radiance flickered. Isis spoke less. Thoth's words carried hesitation.
The others noticed.
The Pantheons Present
*The Norse, watching with cold approval
*The Shinto, inscrutable, already adapting
*The Chinese Celestial Court, calculating long-term entropy
*The African Pantheons, old as the planet , quiet, and deeply displeased as they knew the truth but refused to speak.
*The Mesoamerican Gods, amused but wary..
*The Hindu Devas, observing cycles repeating too early.
It was Olorun who finally spoke.
"Egypt overreach Ed and brought this apon themselves ."
No denial came.
The gods understood the truth now:
They had encountered something that did not rebel.
It outgrew.
And worse
It remembered when crossed .
....
Kael's Return to Kryptonian Space
Kael did not announce himself.
He never did.
He moved through Kryptonian-controlled galaxies like a ghost remembered only by forbidden archives.
Seraphim infiltration units rewrote sensor data in real time, converting alarms into background noise.
Targets acquired:
Genesis Chamber (pre-Council terraforming core)
Planetary Terraformer Array
Relics from Krypton's earlier expansionist golden age before his birth .
Kael walked past statues of long-dead generals.
I was born hiding beneath their feet, he thought.
No battle occurred.
No alarms sounded.
The theft was discovered three years later, and by then it was irrelevant.
.... Time skip...
Venus, the Unfinished World
Kael chose Venus deliberately.
Hostile. Unforgiving. Dismissed.
The Kryptonian terraformers cracked the planet open slowly not violently, rewriting atmospheric pressure, gravity tolerance, magnetic shielding.
A primeval Earth began forming:
Volcanic seas
Heavy jungles
Gaint Predator-dominated ecosystems
Not a paradise.
A crucible.
"No fragile civilization," Kael murmured.
"Not this time."
....
.
Elsewhere...
The Daxamites Decide
Daxamite Prime had feared Krypton for millennia.
They feared Sol-Abraxas more.
But fear, when paired with opportunity, becomes ambition.
Ancient records were uncovered. Bloodline myths reanalyzed. Forbidden genetic lineages cross-referenced.
Conclusion:
Kael is not a Kryptonian aberration.
He is a pre-imperial relic.
They requested a meeting.
Neutral Space, Ten Years of Quiet Treason
Kael did not attend.
He never needed to.
Nox and Sol arrived instead.
Neutral space simmered no suns, no stars, just controlled nothingness.
The Daxamite High Houses bowed.
Not deeply.
Respectfully.
What Was Exchanged
From Daxamites:
*True history of House Sol-Abraxas
Confirmation that the bloodline predates Kryptonian genetic control
*Location data on the real Doomsday not the clone, not the weapon, but the origin
From Kael (through Nox and Sol):
*Removal of lead weakness
*Solar absorption optimization (+50%)
*Long-term survivability improvements to cellular structures.
The process took ten years.
No betrayal. No grand alliance.
Just mutual understanding:
Krypton will fall someday.
We intend to survive it and the aftermath.
....
Elsewhere
...
The Lanterns panicked.
Too many failures. Too many sightings.
They gathered:
Multiple Corps
Allied warrior races
Entities capable of fighting an adult Super Kryptonians
Their plan was simple.
Lure Kael into radiation-dead space. Separate him from the Seraphim. Overwhelm him.
They missed one detail.
Kael did not require radiation to maintain his power anymore.
It only made him worse.
Darkseid Watches and Smiles
True form Darkseid did not consult.
He never did.
He just sent an avatar not subtle, not fully restrained, into the ruins of the Intelligence War.
*It's time this mortal boy sees the bigger picture " said The true form of Darkseid.
.....
When the darkseid avatar arrived, the monitoring seraphim bots noticed immediately and activate emergency protocols.
Low-tier Seraphim engaged.
They died instantly.
Not defeated.
Erased.
Omega beams tore through their probability itself.
I'm shocked alarm, Nox felt it. Sol felt it even Vesper felt it.
Kael was informed immediately.
The Fight Kael Was Not Ready For
Kael went alone.
That was his mistake.
Darkseid's avatar did not speak.
It tested.
Omega Effect struck Kael without energy transfer, without spellwork, without narrative authority.
Pain followed as he was sent flying through causality wells left by the intelligence war.
Real pain.
His body destabilized. His mind fractured into survival pathways.
So this is worse than magic, Kael realized.
He pushed beyond limits. Beyond safety. Beyond pride over charging his body with all the stored energy and releasing the strongest gravity bending punch in his entire existence since gaining power .
The avatar shattered whilst smiling at him .
But Kael collapsed afterward alive, barely body broken by the recoil of his own attack combined with .
Darkseid Laughs
From Apokolips.
From beyond avatars.
True Darkseid watched.
And laughed.
"Good," he said.
"He bleeds like the rest ."
.....
The Seraphim React
This had not been calculated.
This had not been predicted.
Darksied was stronger than the record meta data..
The Seraphim changed priorities immediately.
Omega Effect counter-modeling. Causal reinforcement layers. Anti-axiom defense frameworks.
For the first time since their creation
They experienced something close to fear.
... Time skip...
World War II
Humanity burned itself forward.
Golden age Heroes emerged.
Hour man
Liberty bell
Wild cat
Wonder Woman
Flash (Jey Gerrik)
Green Lantern(Alan Scott)
Sandman
Black cannery
Stars man
The Justice society of America formed canon intact, untouched.
Above it all, unseen
Kael worked on Venus.
Terraforming. Building. Reflecting.
I am not ready for gods who do not obey rules, he thought.
Venus thundered beneath him.
A world waiting to be born.