It was nearly midnight when the black sky burst to life with torrents of golden flame. A gleaming, silver object shot toward the ground- slashing open the silent night like a knife to flesh. When the object entered the atmosphere, the silence broke like a glass window to allow the foreign object to enter the world of humans. As the silver object hurtled toward the ground, people in the city stopped to watch and marvel at the beauty of it before it became clear that this was no ordinary event. When the object became closer and closer, those around began to panic and rush to and fro to avoid the potential destruction the silver object would cause. When it struck the ground, the debris from the impact showered upon the ground of the city park it had slammed into. A once beautiful fountain was now broken pieces and scattered upon the burnt grass. flames licking at the silver pod. It had just so happened the DEO, or one of its agents and a new fiance, had been present.
"This is Agent Danvers," Alex said as she brought her phone to her ear, drawing her gun from her holster, "we have a potential situation at the city park. No target yet, but a foreign- and alien- pod just crash landed." The person on the other end replied with a set of instructions, causing Alex to nod and hang up. Beside her, Maggie drew her own gun. The chaos seemed to continue in some parts, though it seemed some people were beginning to calm down. Everyone, however, still seemed unnerved by the flames and the alien object which had invaded their home.
"Think it's hostile?" Maggie asked, glancing at the silver pod.
"No way to tell until we open it up." Alex said. She pressed forward, careful of the flames, and examined the alien pod. It was nearly ten feet long and perhaps five feet wide. Alex hesitantly went to try and open it, but feared it would burn her- however, no heat radiated off of its shiny surface. Alex pressed her fingertips to the silver, but where her fingertips hit the surface turned a faint purple. Nothing happened, however, and the pod remained closed. "What is this? And from what planet?"
"Whatever this pod is or wherever it came from, it's not locked into the DEO archives." J'onn said, frowning, as he folded his arms over his chest. The pod which had fallen into the city had been brought into the custody of the DEO, held up by a series of pulleys and wires. The surface was undamaged and pure, despite having been thrown through the atmosphere and into the ground. "There's no telling what, or who, is inside until we find a way to open it. Until then, it'll remain here."
"So, out of the millions of info you have.. there's nothing on where this came from?" Winn asked with a nervous chuckle. "That's unnerving."
"I've seen this before." Kara said as she entered the room, looking at it. "This pod.. I've seen it from somewhere. Those glyphs, the ones embedded in the surface... it matches writing from the Invaldi system."
"The Invaldi system?" Alex asked, leaning against a metal table. "Where's that? Has it been here a while?"
"Yeah, it's... old. Older than quite a few places I know. It's about twenty-thousand light years from Krypton, but some of the races had really advanced technology." Kara said. "There were only a handful of species in the system. I.. Rao, what were there names?" Kara muttered to herself, trying to think.
"If it's so old.. why doesn't the DEO have any information on it?" J'onn asked himself, then spoke again. "Look, Supergirl," J'onn said, "are there any people you know who could possibly decode the encryption in the pod to allow us to open it?"
"I'd say Winn, for one.." Kara said, "but it sounds like we'll need more help."
"Who do you have in mind?" J'onn asked, glancing at the blonde, who had brought her phone to her ear.
"Hello, Lena?"
"So this is where you disappear to?" Lena grinned as she glanced at Supergirl. "A secret fortress? What's it called?" Lena had been blindfolded as not to compromise the DEO, but now that she was inside she was allowed to look around. People were watching screens on the walls with flitting information, some were talking, some sat at computers. Supergirl offered a smile before she answered.
"Well.. it's kinda confidential." Supergirl told her.
"You could tell me, but you'd have to kill me." Lena teased, chuckling.
"I.. I'd probably just get in trouble with HR." Supergirl admitted.
"It's a figure of speech." Lena cleared, chuckling still, as she followed Supergirl to the containment area. "Oh- what is that?" She glanced at the pod.
"It's some sort of pod from the Invaldi system, it's traveled quite a long way." Supergirl told her. "We've been trying to open it, and Winn's been working to open it ever since we brought it here but.."
"But it's not enough." Lena finished. She looked at Supergirl. "You need my help."
"Yes." Supergirl admitted. "We don't know if there is anything inside, We don't know if anyone is inside. It's.. almost unreadable, impenetrable. There's some sort of encryption keeping the pod from being tampered with."
"I'd be happy to help." Lena said, smiling. "Where do we start?"
"Well, Winn's over there- he'll give you the basics of what he's learned so far." Supergirl smiled. Lena returned the smile, giving a soft nod as she made her way to Winn. Supergirl watched as Winn pointed out different things on his screen to Lena, who nodded and listened, but soon Supergirl's gaze turned to the pod. Just as she had done with Mon-El, Kara made a promise. "If you're alive in there, know I will be there for you." She said to herself.
