>>5548737You debate saying something for a moment, but decide against it. If she trust you enough to tell you something, you'll hear her out.
“He found some rather....Disturbing news.” she says, sounding a bit worried. “He discovered the fate of his people and their homeworld. But it wasn't destroyed by a meteor or comet.”
As she says this, suddenly you get a sinking feeling in your guts. You have a feeling you're not going to like this answer, but already agreed to hear her secret.
“There was a single crashed Kryptonian ship he found in the East Quadrant of the galaxy with recorded footage of the planet's destruction.” she continues, expression darkening. “His planet wasn't destroyed by some natural disaster. It was destroyed deliberately. By King Cold's own hand.”
“Are you sure?” you ask, immediately regretting your words as you say them. She looks at you with a brow raised a moment before opening a portal beside her left shoulder. Reaching through she draws out a small, antique-seeming datapad and holds it out to you.
“See for yourself.” she says, tapping the button on the side to turn the datapad on. The screen comes to life, you watching as a massive ball of energy rises up from a familiar ship. One you know intimately, and could almost see from here. That's YOUR ship, the one King Cold gave to you. Watching on, the mass of energy is sent rocketing down towards the planet, slamming into it. In only a few seconds the entire planet detonates in a massive burst, the shocks from the blast distorting the camera's feed a moment before it cuts off entirely. Once the video finishes Raven deactivates the device before returning it to who knows where, sealing her portal back up before looking back up to you. “Ubo now knows that it was your boss who destroyed his home, who wiped out his entire race.”
“Damn.” you mutter, suddenly realizing why Ubo's been spending more and more time away from you all. If you'd been in his position, and discovered this sort of information out, you aren't quite sure how you would react. No, that's not true. You know damn well how you'd react, you've destroyed planets for far smaller offenses. “So that's what he's been dealing with, huh?”
“Yeah.... This news has been weighing pretty heavily on him.” Raven says, looking down sadly. “I'm not sure how to help him.”
cont