Chapter 14.1- All of Infinity in the Palm of my Hands

I braced for impact, and when the light came towards me, I decided to do something stupid. You see, Kelex and I had done a lot of digging into Kryptonian physiology and just what made us so powerful. So the first thing we had to note was where exactly our strength came from,. There were different continuities with loads of different explanations for just what made us so physically mighty. The most fascinating was the one were all the Kryptonians were actually just powerful psychics who could easily express it with strength and speed and what not. Unfortunately, my body wasn’t blessed with the gifts from that continuity. Instead, I was more like Superboy from canon dc. The reason I was so strong was because I had tactile telekenesis. It never mattered before today. After all, all it did was make me hit things as hard as I want, and lift basically as much as I wished. But it also explained a lot. 

It was why the building hadn’t just collapsed around me when I’d hurled myself into a section of it and began trying to keep it upright. Physics dictated that the entire thing should have just continued falling apart from the part I was holding, but superpower bullshit meant I could do it. That was what I was hoping for now. More superpowered bullshit. I knew it wouldn’t hurt. Nothing had been able to hurt me for a very long time, but it wasn’t about me. I was invincible but that didn’t translate well to the city that I called my own right behind me. I lifted my hands towards the beam, and I prayed. Not to any puny god. But to myself. I could do this. I’d done whatever I set my mind to, and this would be no different. 

The beam hit, and just as expercted, my bare hands were somehow holding it back, preventing it from making progress. Sure, it strained at my strength a bit, but it was nothing I couldn’t handle. Guess it’s time to return to sender, I thought to myself as I begin straining an d flying forwards, heading right to the ship with its beam clutched in my grip. 

I couldn’t hear them from here, but I was sure the people on the Mothership must have been shitting their pants. At least, that was until two more beams joined the one I was holding. It was abrupt as the force I was straining against almost certainly tripled between one second and the next. All I could see was the light from the beams as I held them back. I fought and strained against it, but I could feel myself losing ground. It wasn’t fast, but it was noticeable. I could feel it, and I was sure their sensors must have told them the same. I struggled. For the first time in this life, I pushed at something with all my strength, but I wasn’t winning. It wasn’t giving. I was losing ground. I wasn’t strong enough. Minutes passed, and I was already out of space, being pushed into the planet’s atmosphere. New Kylos was going to die here, and it would all be my fault. Because I wasn’t strong enough. 

I was pushed back even further. I was sure of it now. This attack would be a planet buster when it finally hit. I could survive. This wouldn’t be enough to kill me, I knew as surely as I knew my name. But it would kill everything else. AIKO, the Kylosians, Ovette, Drax, Komori. Fuck. Komori. So young and so full of life. She brought new strength to my bones. I couldn’t give up here. Not when her life was at stake. 

“Ahhhh” I screamed to the heavens as I pushed against the beams, but it was all for naught as I didn’t even manage to gain any ground. I was only able to prevent myself getting pushed back for a few seconds before the beams continued their journey with me as a minor slowing impediment. 

“Is there anything that can be done?” I asked AIKO through my earpiece, struggling to even recognise the voice that came out of my own ears. 

“Nothing. I’ve been trying to design some new shields, but nothing we have ready would work against an attack of this magnitude” She said to me. I nodded to myself, unsurprised. 

“Make a copy of yourself. Preserve only the essentials. There is no time for anything else. Send it out into orbit on a small drone the moment you finish. I’ll hold this back to give you time.”

“Captain?” She asked back, confused. 

“New Kylos dies here, AIKO. But this needn’t be your end.” I said to her, still struggling against the attack. We’d enter the city’s skyline anytime now.

“Artificially Intelligent Kylosian Organiser. That is the name you gave me, Captain. These people are as much my people as they are yours, and I will not live without them. A good vice-captain must go down with the ship, nay?” She said. 

She was resolute. Her mind was made up, and that was her decision. Sure, I could order her to do as I said, but that wasn’t me. Not the kind of person I ever wanted to be. 

“It’s been an honour having you then, AIKO” I said, saying goodbye to her. 

“It’s been an even greater honour serving you, Captain. Avenge us.”She said, and I nodded. 

It was sudden. Sudden and abrupt. In the space between seconds, the force pushing down against me reduced in power. By at least 30%, I estimated. And then it happened again. What’s going on? I thought to myself. The answer came quickly as I began flying back into space, the suddenly reduced attack doing little to hinder me. 

And then, my vision was clear as even that remaining beam disappeared. I stretched my vision for the Kree ships in space, only to catch the last few seconds of their retreat. They disappeared in a hyperspace jump, and as I flew upwards I was met with the brightest humanoid I’ ever seen. She shone like the sun.

“Heard you needed some help” Her voice rang out.

A/N; Yes. Yes, I just did that. I did it. Now what do you think?