31. Leaving to Mars
Superman and Kara looked baffled.
Zion looked at them for a moment, checking his face, "What?"
Superman coughed, bringing himself together, "You want ot turn a planet semi-sentient? how do you even do that?"
Zion bobbed his head, "Well, if I use my Omnitirx's Morph-Matrix and fuse it with Kryptonian Sunstone's self replication, I could do it, hypothetically."
"Hypothetically?" Kara asked, "You are trying to terraform a planet with lives on it with a hypothetical plan that you don't know it will work or not?"
Zion shook his head, "The hypothetical part is, the whole planet gaining sentience and we would have a highly advanced race as our neighbor. That is a headache I really don't want to deal with."
Kara and Superman just looked confused, the creation of a sentient planet was such unique even that their birth seldom witnessed, but Zion was saying that he would create it by accident.
"So, I think I made my plans clear," Zion dusted his hands, "Are their any questioned?"
Kara and Superman looked at each other before tactically deciding that they would not ask the insane person before them anymore question. Kal-El still needed time to fully learn about Krypton and all. Kara still haven't finished her studies to understand all this.
"Okay, no questions," Zion nodded to himself, proud of his brilliant explanation. "I think We should take our leave as soon as we can."
Superman pushed his thoughts aside, "You leaving?"
"Yes, I already have everything I need," Zion waved the sunstoned before pocketing it. "We can leave after Kara fix the hole," Zion turned to Kara.
Kara grumbled before she flew away and brought back a large peace of metal sheet from somewhere and welded the hole shut. "Happy?"
"Yes, " Zion was 'okay' with her patch work. He couldn't complain, Kara would just try to punch him if he pushed her more.
Zion threw her a re-breathers he had built for this space trip to Kara. The re-breathers would cycle their breaths for extended usage, and help them not choke in the vacuum of space.
He then access the Omnitrix and transformed into Solaris, wore one of the re-breathers and handed the spare to Superman, "You might need this."
"Thanks?" Superman checked the mask that would only covered the lower half of his face.
Zion wore the re-breather that looked like sci-fi wolf mask. The mask attached to his skin airtight and created a minor force-field around his head for extra safety. After checking sure that his re-breather fit correctly, he turned to Kara, a smile crept up his lips immediately.
The cat-like mask with cute goffy cat smile sat perfectly on Kara's face, but if the slight frown on her face was anything to go by, she wasn't feeling good about looking cute. The thing was, the mask fit her perfectly, especially the canines, and the red-blue colour scheme that fit her dress.
Zion just smiled, and walked out of the warehouse with Superman following him. Kara walked out with them without a word. Zion punched some numbered on the digital lock for the warehouse and turned to Superman.
"See you in a while, Superman," Zion extended his hand for a handshake.
Superman took Zions hand, "I hope to hear good news."
Zion gave a confident smile, "Of course, I always impress."
Superman released Zions hands and turned to Kara, "Don't punch people the minute they do something you don't like."
"I am not that hotheaded," Kara refuted, but the looks she was getting from both Zion and Kal-El was saying otherwise.
"I will keep an eyes on her, " Zion assured Superman, before kicking off the ground.
Kara turned to Superman, "I will keep an eye on him." She kicked of the ground and followed Zion.
Superman watched as his juniors fly off to outer space on an expedition. He didn't know what to say about Kara's words as he had decided to trust the kid he only met about a month ago. He hoped for his journey to be successful and the Martians don't aggro.
Superman check the surrounding for with his X-ray vision before flying off to metropolis. He needed to give a convincing allaby to his friend.
***
Kara flew next to Zion.
They didn't converse, but they flew out of Earth with tactical understanding. Zion paused to check his pocket for the sunstone,"Check."
Zion gave Kara an affirmative node before accelerating toward the red planet they could see in the distance.
It was good that Mars was still relatively near Earth, and with the Stellar energy from the sun unfiltered. They strength and speed only increase each passing moment. Zion and Kara kept accelerating, yet kept near each other. Their trip would take only a short time.
Kara and Zion didn't converse the whole trip as they chased after the red planet which grew bigger with each passing second. Zion scanned the celestial canvas, this was his first time looking at space unfiltered and the Kryptonian vision really made it more mesmerizing.
He kept turning his head, taking in all he could. The distant star cluster, the milky way, nebula, all looked mythical. The space was like a whole different world. It was a beauty beyond words.
Kara wasn't enjoying the visuals, she was battling her thoughts. She didn't have the distraction of protecting metropolis now in outer space, and her demons were crawling outin the absolute silence. Her insecurities born of darkness and the burning rage of pain, it was everything she suppressed to live normally. She could never forget her caged days, it would haunt her for life.
A tap on the shoulder, dragged Kara out of her drowning thoughts and a voice entered her ear through the mask. "You are it! Catch me if you can, slowpoke!"
Kara looked her gaze on Zion, and could feel the grin on his face through the vacuum of space. Zion quickly blitzed past her, covering many spacial units in moment. Kara shook her head off thoughts and decided to take up on Zion's challenge.
That how the race between two supers started.
Zion made many angular turns to compensate for his slow speed, compared to Kara, making sudden unexpected turned to keep her from catching him. He kept it until he got caught and Kara became the prey. This repeated many times until they arrived on Mars.
...
While Kara and Zion were placing tag.
The observatories that were observing mars detected a high speed object nearing Mars, its directions and velocity constantly changing, and its path non-linear. This sent alarms through the observatory, the leading astronomer rushed to check the reading's on the equipments.
Due to the delay between the communication, they had to wait a few minutes to get a good look at what was causing this. The images they got of the objects were blurry and confirmed it was two different object that kept changing their velocity at will.
After a minuted, few more images reached their computers, and this time, unlike before, the images were clear. The imaged showed two humanoids, one especially distinguishable with the 'S' on its chest. This shocked the observers and confirmed some of their theories on Superman.
"I want all the data saved and copied. This could help us understand Superman's anatomy," The leading astronomer ordered his junior.
"Yes, sir," The young man quickly copied the files and transferred them to his seniors computer. "Sir, who do you think the second one is? He seems to be wearing an hourglass symbol on his chest."
"Maybe another Kryptonian. Even though we learned that it was destroyed, doesn't mean all of them Kryptonians are dead." The senior answered.
"A species capable of traveling the vacuum space without any equipment. They might really be god among men." The senior concluded, awed.
"I don't think they can travel without equipment," Another leading astrologist pointed at a picture with more clarity, "They seem to be wearing masks, it is probably for breathing."
"Might be," the senior agreed as he scrutinize the image.
"What are they doing?" The astrologist asked.
"They seem to be traveling toward Mars and..." The junior cross check the many blurred images for confirmation, "Playing tag?"
"Does that even make sense? playing tag?" the senor chided, "Check Mars landscape, we might have missed something and project the images from the Mars satellite on monitor 2."
The junior quickly got to work and connected the feed from the Mars satellite to monitor 2. The seniors keeping watch on the two blurs notice them slow down as they neared Mars. The astrologist was the first one to notice a certain anomaly as he calculated the time it took for these blurs to travel.
"How fast are they traveling?" He questioned.
The question froze both his colleges, they haven't noticed it as they were more focused on what their purpose was. The junior quickly wrote the calculation in his computer, and his eyes widened at the result. The speed, calculated by the time frame it took them to travel such distance, was unrealistic. It was many times even their fastest artificial satellite.
"Should we report this, sir?" The junior questioned.
"Not for now," The senior ordered, "But keep an eye on Mars."
"Yes, sir,"
...
Zion stopped above the red planet called Mars.
He was at his destination and he would gain one of the powerhouses' Bio-Matrix and a small token of the alliance. He would first need to go to the Martians to get their approval and such. Kara stopped next to him, ending the game of tag with Zion being it.
"What now?" Kara questioned.
"We meet with the Martian Royalty. The Martians might be hardheaded and they might not take our visit well. But remember, we are here to make peace," Zion pressed the last sentenced to signify.
But he left his plans unsaid as the peace might be brokered as allies or as the ruler of the species. It might be best if he ended their whole racial division at core before they have a coup.
"I am not a barbarian," Kara retorted.
"I know, my peace loving warrior ess. Just don't punch down, and focus your bio-field around your brain, oscillate it in irregular pattern to keep the psychics out," Zion instructed before diving down.
*****
Think of it as creating a psychic barrier of raw psyionic energy.
Or more like alternating brainwaves.