[center][color=8b0000][h1][b]V A L O R[/b][/h1]
M O N - E L ,  M I K E  M A T H E W S[/color]
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[sub][hr][/sub][COLOR=#f69a05][indent][sub][B]Location:[/B] [COLOR=#bbbbbb][i]Stellar Orbit, Sol System - Present Day[/I][/COLOR][/sub][sup][right][b]Familiar #1.01:[/b] [COLOR=#bbbbbb][I]Solus[/I][/COLOR][/right][/sup][/indent][/color][sub][hr][/sub][INDENT][color=f69a05][sub][B]Interaction(s):[/B] [COLOR=#bbbbbb][I]None[/I][/COLOR][/sub][SUP][RIGHT][b]Previously:[/b] [url=https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/4894592][COLOR=#bbbbbb][I]Mon-El of Daxam[/I][/COLOR][/url][/right][/SUP][/color][/indent]
[indent][indent][color=silver]By it’s twentieth turn around the brightly gleaming star, the ship finally obtained enough heat to begin the thawing process. Slowly long dormant systems came back online, lime colored lights flashing on the control panel, and a little hologram of the star system displaying itself in midair as a course was drawn from just inside the first planet towards the third. The only passenger still slept, heedless of the change. His eyebrows were drawn together in discomfort and his muscles were cold and stiff as ice.

Once the nose of the darkly lit ship was pointed at the tiny blue dot in the distance, the engines flared to life. In the blink of an eye it was gone, hurtling at speed towards its destination. A faint trail of green dust followed them, pieces of kryptonite had long been welded by intense heat and frozen by extreme cold to the outer panels of the ship, having switched so quickly from one to the other that there hadn’t been a chance of it falling off. Until now. Warmed by it’s extended recharge at the yellow sun, flakes and grains of neon sand sprinkled behind it’s path.

All too soon the ship was bearing down on a cloudy blue planet, designated in GLC coordinates as [i]2814.36 C[/i], and a translation into what might have been an old Kryptonian dialect that was... less than comprehensible. To a Daxamite anyway.

When the first flames began to catch upon breaching the atmosphere, the ship tilted in such a way that the wind flowed through the meshed fins of the ship [i]just so[/i], creating enough drag to slow the descent in short order. With a quick flourish, the ship spun and skipped across the ocean, landing like a hydrophobic bug perched between the waves. Now out of the sky, and the thawing well underway, the ship turned towards land and trekked atop the water at a leisurely speed towards land.

For a moment at least.

[i]Something[/i] launched into the cooly glowing engines of pod, an unusual signal of some kind blocking all attempts at automatic correction. By trying to compensate, the autopilot began speeding up, no longer sliding along waves but skipping harshly across them as a speedboat would until finally it shot to far into the air, reactivating flight settings even as the engines began to overheat and made worrying screeching noises like torn metal. With a jarring [i]Boom![/i] the ship nose dived at speed straight into the New England coastline, flames spewing across the deserted sand beaches and the sound of shattering glass echoing in the wind.

Power in the pod went out the moment it connected with the ground, and slowly, blearily, the passenger opened his heavy eyelids, only half-thawed and beginning to shiver.

[color=fff8b5][i]”Mon-El? Can you hear me? I appear to be blind… Mon-El?”[/i][/color] 

He tried to respond, to wake up, he really did. Something felt wrong, but he couldn’t quite remember… he was stuck in that haze. It was like his brain was still half frozen too. Maybe it was.

But oh that light, that glorious light. Through lidded eyes Mon-El saw a yellow star in the blue skies above him, and it’s rays felt like nothing he’d ever known before. It was blessedly warm, but maybe that was relative, because he still felt so cold. The shivers worsened before they got better, with each shallow breath of admittedly lukewarm air, he felt just a little bit better.

He should probably stop staring directly at the star.

But not yet.[/color][/indent][/indent]