Chapter One: It Can't Be…

It was a normal day.

Except that Kara Danvers never had a normal day. Between Snapper and Supergirl duties, everyday was a rollercoaster of events, some milder than others.

So it was less of a normal day and more like a let's-start-out-good-and-than-see-how-messed-up-we-can-get day.

Actually, that was how most days were.

But Kara wasn't focusing on that. She was just leaving L-Corp after a wonderful lunch get-together with Lena Luthor. They'd talked about L-Corp a little, Catco a little, and nothing in particular a lot.

It turned out that Lena Luthor, the stoic CEO of L-Corp, was really just a nerdy, goofy teddy bear at heart, something that Kara was happy to be figuring out, one meal after another.

Kara's phone rang as she stepped out onto the sidewalk.

"Hello?"

"Kara, we need you at the DEO."

Kara immediately started walking faster, not Super faster but faster. "Alex, what's wrong? Are you okay? Is-"

"Everything's fine, no one's hurt." Alex was quick to assure her.

Kara stopped abruptly, unaware of someone behind her who almost fell into her. "Then why are you-"

"Barry's here."

Kara paused a moment. "Barry? As in Barry Allen, The Flash?"

"No, Barry from the pizza parlour."

Kara frowned. "Alex, I'm pretty sure there isn't someone named Barry who works at-"

"Kara!" Alex was smiling, Kara knew it. "Of course, I meant Barry Allen. He has something you need to see."

Kara pouted. "Alex," She whined. "That was mean."

Alex just laughed.

"I'll be there in a minute." Kara grumbled good naturedly.

Winn glanced up from his computer when Kara swept in. "You had ten seconds to spare." He congratulated her.

Kara frowned. "What?"

"You told Alex, who told us, that you'd be here in a minute. It's been fifty seconds." Winn explained.

Maggie, who had been visiting Alex for lunch, snorted.

Kara smiled. "Well, I'm not Supergirl for nothing."

"That's true," Mon-El said. He stepped over to Kara and kissed her check.

Kara grinned. "So, where's Barry?"

"He's checking out the place." Cisco appeared from behind a computer monitor he'd been looking over.

"Cisco!" Kara hurried forward and engulfed the Earth-1 tech nerd in a hug. Cisco smiled and returned the embrace.

A burst of wind ruffled the papers on Winn's desk (which were held down by Star Wars paper weights) and Barry was there.

"Barry!"

Barry smiled and pulled Kara in for a hug.

"So," Kara was smiling broadly. "What's with the surprise visit?" Her face turned serious. "Don't tell me it's another invasion because I am done with alien invasions for a while."

"Uh," Barry glanced around, noticing the look on not only Kara's face but the others present. "No, it's not that."

"Oh, good." Kara resumed her happy smiling. "What's up?"

"Well, um," Barry wondered how to announce his news. "Soon after the dominators left Cisco started keeping an eye on our universe. Like light years away and, uh, the other day a planet exploded…and we have reason to believe it was…Krypton."

Kara froze.

Alex stepped forward. "What's your reasoning?"

"This," Cisco said. He held up a flash drive (no pun intended) and, with a quick look at Winn, who nodded, plugged it into the computer. He opened some files and, after a moment, pulled up a fuzzy picture.

"How'd you get that?" Winn asked.

Cisco launched into a complicated web of technical (and nerdy) explanations that only Winn and Alex seemed to be following (Barry could have if he hadn't already heard it) but Kara (who, with her science-y backround on Krypton, could have grasped it all) wasn't listening. Her eyes, wide in unbelief, were glued to the screen.

In the top left side of the image was a pixilated mess of a yellowish-red mass. But that wasn't the part that Kara was staring at.

Kara was looking at two small grayish smudges; one just about to reach the bottom right side of the image, the second following closely behind. If that yellow mass was Krypton…then the two grayish spots must be…

"Wait," Alex said logically. She didn't wait to crush the dim hope in Kara's eyes but she also didn't want this to all just fall flat. "How can you be sure about this? This could be any planet."

Cisco nodded, expecting this response. "That's what I thought as well." He agreed. "But I also have this picture." Another image appeared. It was similar to the first one except that the yellow mass was bigger now and one of the grayish spots was halfway out of the frame. "I thought that the gray stuff was just rock or something but it didn't really look right and as I looked closer I realized that it wasn't rock or a meteor. Now this took a lot of work but I got this." He found another image. This one had obviously been painstakingly focused in on and cleaned up.

It was an up close shot of one of the gray splotches.

"When Cisco showed me, I couldn't help but remember seeing your ship." Barry said quietly.

Kara nodded, numb.

It was a pod like the one both she and Kal-El had arrived in. She frowned then stepped forward. "May I?" She indicated to the computer mouse.

Cisco stepped back and Winn slid his chair a few inches away. Kara bent close to the screen. She pulled up the other two images and began furiously flicking through them.

"When did this happen?" She asked.

"Um, a few days ago." Cisco replied after a moment.

Kara bit her lip. She started pacing, murmuring under her breath. Alex exchanged a look with J'onn.

"Today." Kara stopped her movement. "It's today."

"What's today?" Winn asked.

"It should be today anyway." Kara said, resuming her pacing and seemingly not to have heard Winn's question. "Of course, that's only if the shockwave didn't throw the second pod, or even both of them, off course."

"We need to go."

Everyone turned to Mon-El.

"What?" Alex asked.

"We need to go." He repeated. "If Kara's right about the pods arriving on Barry's earth today, then we have to go."

"I agree." Kara agreed, to no one's surprise. Her mind was reeling. To think, Kara Zor-El of Krypton in Barry's universe had been alive when Kara had been to Barry's earth.

Alex looked to J'onn. "J'onn?"

The Martian thought a moment. Then he spoke. "I think Mon-El's right. If the occupants are Kryptonian, Kara will be able to communicate with them. Besides, we all know that Kara would go even I ordered her not too."

Everyone laughed; Kara smiled sheepishly.