Kara Zor-El had been supposed to protect Kal El, her cousin.
She had been a little bit older than him when she was sent off world, away from Krypton, after her cousin to the planet Earth.
She had been one of the only ones to escape the fate that awaited the rest of her kind. From space, she witnessed the death of her family, friends, and home.
She sat down and hugged her knees to her chest, crying.
She was alone now. She had to get to her cousin.
And soon.
When her ship landed years later, it was by Smallville, Kansas.
She climbed out of her ship and looked around. Suddenly, she remembered her mission.
"My cousin…Kal El!"
She looked around and climbed back in her small ship to see if she could find him on the scanner.
"He's around here!"
Kara walked across the fields of what her coordinates said was Kansas, in the United States of America. She had one purpose in mind, to find her cousin. She had already been late, having been forced to take a 'detour' around an exploding star. She was anxious to see Kal, and find out what had happened to him. She shook her blonde hair back, and looked for a sign of civilization. She had spent her teenage years learning the earth language, and studying their history. She frowned and touched the S symbol on her chest. She wondered if Kal had kept his symbol. He had been a baby when he left, surely he wouldn't be able to remember much of anything.
She stopped at the end of a driveway with a box on a stick at the end of it.
Mailbox, she thought. It had the word KENT on it. She cocked her head, curious, and started up the drive. Halfway up, she tripped on a loose stone, and fell. Well, started to fall.
"I'm…..flying….oh yes of course!" Kara swooped upward. "The sun! Yes…..that must be it." Having read records of Krypton, she knew of the drastic differences between suns. That must be what gave her power. And Kal must have this power too, she thought.
She flew up the driveway and knocked on the door. The door was opened by a middle aged woman. I think, or do people age differently on this world?
The woman looked at her in some shock. She recovered. "Greetings," she nodded.
"Hello," Kara said tentatively. The woman regarded the S on her chest.
"Are you looking for my son? Clark Kent? I mean…..Superman?"
"I am searching for my cousin, Kal El," Kara told her.
"Oh yes, that's him. He told me his real name, I had forgotten. Why don't you come in?" She held the door wider for her. Kara lowered herself to the ground and walked inside.