Of All Alien Great and Small

By XavAcid

Chapter 1 : Hi, I got shrunk

"Kara?" With hands full, Alex kicked the door close as she dropped the key on the bowl nearby. She expected to see the Kryptonian come out of whatever corner of the apartment that she was in when she heard the key in the lock. There was nothing. The light was on, but the apartment was quiet, too quiet. Kara was supposed to be here, she'd left the D.E.O over an hour ago, with Alex needed to debrief and filled out the report, so she sent Kara home ahead, so that she could clean up. The latest Fort Rozz's alien was a rather slimy one, after all. Her little alien had needed a bath.

So, Kara was supposed to be waiting since it was their standing movie night date and Alex was the one picking up dinner.

Although they rarely spent the night apart in months ever since their relationship changed from foster sisters to girlfriends. It wasn't something they talked about, but it just happened.

The agent stood quietly for a moment, trying to listen to any sound that would indicate where her little alien was. If she was still in the bath or in the bedroom. But other than the usual city noise, the place was silent. She put down all the bags, and fished out her phone. Maybe Kara had another emergency, or someone called for help, but then she would've call.

She hit speed dial one, and waited. A moment later a phone rang from the bedroom and the agent bolted for it. She found the phone on the bed right next to the super suit. Clearly Kara came home and changed but where did she go?

Alex felt her heart pound, her first thought was calling the D.E.O, but something stopped her. A voice. Kara was calling her name but where -

Then there was her little Kryptonian, keyword being little as she floated up to her line of sight.

"Kara?"

"Hi."

Alex felt her jaw dropped.

Her little alien was now, really little, she was the size of a doll.

"What the hell!"

"Someone was at the door, and I thought it was you," Kara pouted. "So I answered the door and bam!" She threw up both hands, "then I woke up when the phone rang. I don't even remember how I got inside."

"So, you don't even see what happened."

"Just that one flash in my face."

"You always check before you open the door, what happened?"

"I didn't expect anyone, only you."

Alex sighed, this was turning into a nightmare, and one they probably would not be waking up from easily. She'd called the D.E.O a few minutes ago, but wanted to look around for any clue as to what happened to Kara first. So far she found nothing, and the Kryptonian could not remember anything, except the flash of light in her face. So, they were waiting for the team to do a more thorough examination of the place. So far her visual inspection of Kara yielded nothing unusual, except in smaller size.

So that was how they ended up, Alex sitting on the floor in front of the couch where Kara sat, so that they were at least eye to eye. Mostly eye to eye.

Kara, despite the size she found herself in, felt perfectly fine, and she knew that they would figure this out. Alex would never stop until she found the solution. So, Kara wasn't worried.

Well, she wasn't worrying much.

Being this small, she could see so much more than she normally could. Tiny details that she missed being normal size, and she couldn't really say that it was a bad thing. Right now, though, she felt a pang in her chest at the expression on Alex's face, the frown that settled between her brows, the worry in her eyes. So she floated up and forward a little, and reached out with both hands to touch Alex's cheeks and placed a tiny kiss on the tip of her nose.

That got her a small barely there smile, but it was much better than the frown that the brunette was wearing before.

An hour later they were in the D.E.O infirmary.

The doctor took the time to check everything about Kara, and just as Alex had come to the conclusion and as Kara had already told her earlier, she was perfectly fine physically. She was simply in a smaller package. She still had her super hearing, super speed, and as she proved to Alex, she could still fly. Actually, she was not only faster than a speeding bullet, she was also just as impossible to look for.

That only slightly lessened the worries that the agent had.

So, currently Kara sat atop one of the numerous monitors in Alex's lab, swinging her legs back and forth in boredom. At first she was sitting crossed leg on top of the monitor directly where the agent was working on, but with her fidgeting and moving about and complaining Alex had seen fit to pick her up and put her on top of a different monitor. Still nearby but not directly in front of her.

Apparently she was distracting.

The doctors took several sample from her - that was an ordeal in and of itself - and Alex was analyzing some blood. But at this moment, the details escaped her. She was getting hungry, and sleepy. And by her own estimation, it was in the middle of the night right now, and they didn't even get eat the dinner that Alex bought.

"Aleeexxxx." The tiny Kryptonian whined. "I'm hungry."

"You're always hungry." The agent murmured, her eyes still on whatever she was looking at through the microscope.

"But, Alex," she whined some more. "We didn't even eat dinner, and it's already-" she paused to look at the clock on one of the screens. "Midnight, I'm starving!"

With a deep sigh, the agent wanted to continue, she wanted to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible, but she also knew that she had to feed her tiny alien soon, and also herself. Apparently the size did not affect the appetite much.

"Alright, let me take care of this and we can go." She turned to the tiny pouty face. "We wouldn't want your body to consume itself. You're tiny enough as it is." She teased.

"Hey!" Tiny Supergirl flew up in the air and launched herself at her human. "No teasing the miniature Super!"

She underestimated her power by a bit as she hit Alex's in her upper chest, nearly push her back on her butt. It was a good thing that Alex Danvers knew her so well, growing up together they did rough house often, after Kara was good with her control, of course, it was a way for Alex to reassure her that she trusted her ability to moderate her strength.

Which sometimes wasn't the case, but the brunette was good at bracing herself now. Careful not to let her reaction show and upset her young alien.

This time Kara noticed though.

"Oh! Alex I'm sorry!" She quickly pulled herself back and floated herself up so that they were eye to eye. "I didn't think-"

"I'm fine, Kara." The brunette reassured, "come on, let's go home."

"Ok," tiny blonde head nodded and floated closer, allowing Alex to catch her. She was delighted when her favorite human placed her right on one shoulder, and Kara wrapped both arms around her neck, cheek pressed near her favorite spot. She could feel her pulse so strongly here.

"At least you'll eat less in this size."

Kara head butted her. She nearly knocked the agent into the wall.

It took Alex a few more minutes to log off and leave the cave. She walked through the D.E.O with Supergirl sitting on her shoulder, her tiny arm wrapping around her neck, hand grabbing hold of the baby fine hair at the nap of her neck.

She could've flown home, but Alex would never agree to that.

As the agent made her way out to the parking lot, Kara watched various other agents greeted Alex respectfully, then did a double take when they noticed her sitting on the shoulder. So far Agent Bering's reaction was the most comical.

The agent was staring at her bug-eyed, her mouth fell open when her eyes caught the sight of Supergirl, in sweats, tucking herself close to her commander's neck, looking a bit like a tiny baby koala.

"Bering," Alex gave her a nod in greeting.

"Um… I…" Myka couldn't think of a thing to say. In her formal line of work, she had seen so many impossible things, so this shouldn't even phase her anymore, but she just couldn't help herself. And right now so many thought were running through her mind she didn't know what to say. "You're going home, Agent Danvers?" It came out a little lame, but she didn't think anything else was going to be appreciated. She was still new here, and for all she knew, this was a normal occurrence. Could Supergirl increase and decrease her mass at will?

"Yes, someone's whining." She tilted her head a little toward the sweats cladded Supergirl, who was waving her little hand back at her.

"Hello Agent Bering."

"Hi Supergirl." Bering waved back.

"We better get going, have a good shift Agent Bering."

"Have a good night Agent Danvers." Myka replied quickly. "Good night, Supergirl."

Her commander gave a nod and walked away.

While Agent Danvers was still standoffish with her, like she was with most agents, there was a slight familiarity that Myka knew came from that one weekend when they traded car with her. On Monday morning when they returned her N-Box Slash Supergirl had been there, cupcakes in hands in thanks. It was entirely unnecessary since she was also in need of a truck on that weekend and Agent Danvers SUV was perfect. She got all she needed, it was really a win-win.

They didn't really need to get her cupcakes for that.

But she was so glad they did, the cupcakes tasted like heaven. She nearly had to beat the entire shift away from the container.

Now that she thought of it, she should really ask where they bought them.

Tomorrow then.

"Did Agent Bering like the cupcake?" Supergirl asked from where she sprawled out on the front passenger seat. "I forgot to ask."

"I heard the entire third shift tried to sneak some, and she had to beat them all back, so I'm guessing she did."

Actually, tonight was the first time she saw Myka Bering after they traded their vehicles back. Normally, by the time Agent Bering started her shift, Alex would be long gone.

"I'm starving," Supergirl whined.

The agent sighed, as she pulled to the side of the road. Even though there was no other car on the road at this time of the night, she didn't think it was a good idea to be fishing about for her backpack while driving.

"Here," she pulled out a small chocolate bar from the side pocket and handed over to the tiny Kryptonian.

Kara squealed, and leaped from her seat to the candy. "Thank you Alex." She said belatedly after she tore into the wrapper and took a big chunk out of the sweet.

"You're welcome." The brunette said softly, with a small smile. With Kara being so cheerful, it helped lifting her mood slightly.

Kara little face looked up at her and she floated up, candy bar left in the seat. "I love you." And she flew forward to press a big kiss on one smooth cheek.

"I love you, too." The agent gave a tiny cheek a stroke with the back of her finger, they looked at each other for a moment longer. Then Alex started the car back up and Kara went back to the candy, humming contently as she ate, not mentioning that her kiss left a small smear of chocolate on Alex's face.

"Are you serious? Doll clothes?" Kara whined.

"Stop it, you need some clothes, or do you wanna go naked while your one outfit is being washed?" Alex grumbled back, pretending to be talking into the phone. "At least we figured out what doll is your approximate size, 'cause you can't fit into Barbie clothes."

Kara huffed a little, but she had to admit that Alex was right. She spent several hours last night essentially naked with just tea towel covering herself when her clothes had to be washed and dried. Only because she was a little too enthusiastic about her very late dinner.

"It's not my fault that the ice-cream was melting." She pouted.

"Melting ice-cream isn't an excuse for you to go swimming in it." Alex muttered back at her.

"Well, when am I gonna get the chance to be playing in food again." It was like a dream come true, to have so much food she didn't have to worry about not had enough to eat.

Alex only sighed.

They gave Winn a call about the clothes, of course, and he would get to it right away, but sewing clothes, even in doll size took time. Thus they had to pick up at least an outfit for her at the doll store, which was why they were here today.

The Kryptonian leaned back against the soft towel Alex placed in the bag for her. The D.E.O didn't find much at her apartment, only residual of some radiation, the name of which escaped her. And now they were researching through Fort Rozz's database for possible suspect.

And here they were sixteen hours later, at some exclusive doll store. Since they found themselves with the clothing dilemma, Alex had spent the rest of the night looking through the doll sizes, and stumbled across these Japanese dolls that were her approximate size, good thing that there were a couple of stores that imported them, and actually sell the clothes as well.

"We can get a couple of outfits and we can have Winn make more. I hope we won't need more than a few, I don't plan on you being this size very long."

"Yeah."

Alex could tell that her tiny alien was pouting.

At least it was the weekend and Cat Grant didn't require Kara to be in for whatever ridiculous demands that she sometimes issued. The relationship between Kara and her boss seemed better these days, the Queen of All Media seemed softer toward her, and less condescending. Apparently that Saturday that the woman crashed their date had been a good thing.

"I'll try to be quick, alright?"

Kara didn't answer, she instead dove down and fished out a piece of candy from the bottom of the bag, Alex always kept a few pieces of candy, or sweet or whatever it was that she liked at the moment for her.

When they were younger and still attending Midvale High together, Kara often rooted through her backpack for whatever she got left over from lunch at the end of the day, mostly because she needed something to tie her over before they could go home. At first she would get maybe a piece of gum, which didn't help much. But after a while she would find a bag of chips, or cookie, that Alex packed extra for her. She never actually acknowledge it, or made a big deal out of it though. One day it was a stick of gum at the bottom of the bag and the day after that, bag of chip. Just like that.

She couldn't help but be grateful.

Winn often joked about how she must be a little hypoglycemic after not eating for twenty minutes or something, he would never know how true his comment was.

The agent heard tiny sound of candy wrapper being open and rolled her eye. At least Kara would be occupied for a few minutes.

One of the few upside of this was that, very little food went a long way. As they found out last night, as well as the amount of leftover in the fridge that had never been this full since Thanksgiving.

Alex walked toward where the clothing display was. And without asking anyone, she tried to look for the correct doll size, which was kind of difficult since the store used some sort of code on the label that she didn't understand. What the hell is a YOSD?

Really, she had PhD's for crying out loud, these code should not confused her this much.

Kara was happily munching on the candy at the bottom of the bag, but she was keeping an ear out for whatever was going on outside. Looking up through the opening of the bag, she could see Alex's hair, and parts of the shelving. She was more than content to stay where she was. She was sure that if the brunette needed something she would let her know.

"Hi," she heard a perky voice asked from above. "Anything I can help you with?" So she floated up toward the opening to see what was going on. Carefully, Kara poked her head out of the bag, right where Alex's arm was so that no one could see her.

The agent turned to the perky voice to find a petite blonde girl in casual jeans and t-shirt, but with a badge that indicated she was a staff.

"Yes, I'm looking for some doll clothes."

"What size?"

"Oh… um.." Alex tried to recall what she was looking at from the night before, so far she came up blank on the name of the doll, she should've written them down like she'd originally intended to do, until Kara distracted her that she forgot all about it. "It's the one that's about eight inches tall?"

"Eight inches? Is it a little girl? Or rabbit?" The girl quickly led her toward another shelve where dolls of Kara's approximate size were on display, as well as clothing. "Like this one?"

"Ah… yes, this is it. Thank you very much," Alex accepted the doll when it was handed to her. The doll was about the size of the tiny Kryptonian, though she would like to compare them before she made any purchase, except it wasn't possible right now that the salesperson was still here.

"All her accessories are here," the girl gestured to the entire shelves. "May I ask, if you're buying for someone?" The girl looking up at her with a bright smile.

"Yes, it's for a gift." Alex felt something pushing just inside her upper arm, and knew that it was her tiny alien, trying to look out. Really, she could just use her x-ray vision.

"Oh, are you getting the doll, too?" The girl pulled out different model of the same doll for Alex to look at. The one she handed over was one with long blonde hair, and blue eyes. She reminded her a little of Kara. So, maybe she'll get her, too, just for that fact alone.

"We have several model of Ruruko in earlier this week," the girl continued and pointed out a few more dolls on display. "And some clothes, too."

Alex was never interested in dolls even as a little girl. She was more interested in sports, and whatever scientific experiments her parents were conducting. She recalled getting Barbie for Christmas from her grandparents one year, and not paying any attention to it beyond the initial inspection.

These dolls seemed different, though. And pricey.

Alex looked up from the doll in her hand, gave the girl a smile, she seemed intended on standing around and help. However the brunette didn't need her help, she needed her to leave so that her tiny alien could come out of the bag and compared size. With a quick sweep of her eye, Alex asked for something that she didn't see around.

"There was a rabbit you said?"

"Oh yes," the girl replied quickly, voice high with excitement. "Usaggie, same company."

"Can I have a look?" Alex asked, freighting interest.

"Yes, of course, let me get it for you." The girl perked up and practically run out.

The agent gave a small sigh, "ok, Kara, come out now."

The Kryptonian who had been listening, and watching with her x-ray vision just below the opening of the bag popped out. Alex carefully open the brown box to reveal the actual doll inside, still encased in plastic. Kara carefully landed on the shelve next to the doll that Alex held up.

"Yeah, I think this will work." Alex murmured.

It was a good thing that the store seemed quiet since Kara took this opportunity to float over where the outfits were being on display. Most of the clothes looked to be for children, but she could make it work.

Sound of footsteps alerted them of the incoming so Kara quickly hopped back into Alex's totebag.

The brunette turned to see the same girl hurried over with an identical brown box as the doll in front of her. There were other things in her other hand as well.

"Here's the rabbit one, and I got Momoko for you as well, in case you'd like to see."

Alex gave her a small smile, and accepted the boxes. "Thank you."

The girl blushed as she stammered out. "You're welcome."

"What are they called?"

"Oh the rabbit is Usaggie."

"Cute."

"Yes, they are, aren't they."

Alex allowed the girl to launch into her introduction of the doll and the company for a few minutes before she gently cut her off and sent her away. The girl looked a little reluctant, but eventually walked away.

"So, anyone of these outfits you'd like?" Alex asked, she kept her voice low, knowing that Kara could hear everything.

Kara came up to the top, her tiny blonde head popped up to look. She really, really wanted to sit on Alex's shoulder, but it wasn't possible. If Alex let her hair grown out like she had when they were teenager she would have.

It would be so easy for her hide in those dark, lush mane. She kind of missed it a little, but Alex looked so good with her hair the way it was now, it suited her very well. But in any case, she couldn't let her mind wander, who knew if the girl was going to come back and try to help again.

"Maybe that set with the jeans and hoodie?" They even came with a pair of rubber boots.

"Good choice." Alex murmured, and she picked up three outfits that looked to be more comfortable than some for Kara. "Do you want to look around and see if there's anything else we can get?"

"Ok."

Alex grabbed the doll and the outfits as she strolled along the shelves, seeing more accessories that more or less perfect for her little alien's size at the moment.

She was going to spend so much in the store, she just knew it.

"I think the girl has a crush on you." Kara took a big bite of her noodle. Being this small wasn't so bad, she decided as soon as lunch came along. She didn't appreciate this fact much before, she was occupied with other things to notice how much, or rather little, she ate.

"Who? Rebecca?"

"You remembered her name!" Kara pouted.

"Baby, she introduced herself, and she gave us discount."

"Yeah, 'cause she has a crush on you."

They ended up with quite a few things, three outfits that Kara picked out, and a few utensils that Alex deemed perfect for her size, there was even a low table that she was using now. It was weird because other than the time Eliza visited, she never really used her own dining table, except to put her bag.

"You're ridiculous." Alex rolled her eyes.

"And I can't believe you bought the doll, too." The tiny Kryptonian gestured toward the bags where she knew the little doll was.

"She looks kinda like you." The brunette said with just a slight tilt of an embarrassing smile.

Kara turned her head to look at the aforementioned doll in the bag. Their purchases was on the kitchen counter still, the only thing that took out of the package were the utensils and the table.

"I guess," Kara shrugged and took another bite of her pasta. So far she found that a fork full of noodle filled her up pretty good, when it normally would take the entire box of spaghetti and a pot of sauce with tons of meatballs to fill her up.

"Well, Winn should be by tonight. He should have something for you already."

Kara hummed in respond. She had no doubt that her friend would tackle the challenge of creating outfits for her, he would probably go overboard like he always did. She did see his collection of action figures, after all. And Winn was really good with sewing machine, as her own super suit could attest to that.

Even the agents in the R&D department of the D.E.O was pretty impressed with his sewing skills.

"Do you think he's gonna make me a mini super suit, too?"

"He probably will, or he might already have them made for his dolls."

"Action figure." Kara corrected her with a cheeky grin. "He called them collectible action figures."

"Sure, his Ken doll is definitely action figure."

"They are G. Ken dolls."

Alex just rolled her eyes and finished up her own plate of food, she almost ordered their usual amount of food earlier, but stopped herself. Kara still ate a lot, but no where near what she usually consumed in her normal size. She supposed that whatever they spent on clothing and little accessories could come out of their food budget.

A ding could be heard from Alex's phone.

With a quick flick of her thumb, the agent unlock her phone and read the message.

"Winn is coming over with the clothes, he also said he got some other stuff for you, too." She frowned, "or at least that's what I can decoded."

Kara floated over to the screen to read for herself. She knew that Alex disliked the way Winn texted, he often used symbols and codes and a lot of times she couldn't tell if he intentionally sent his text that way or he was just in so much of a hurry that he hit a bunch of keys and ended up with some typo passing themselves as codes.

"Yeah," she said slowly. "I think you got the gist of it."

a/n : I had this scenario in my head, so I have to write it out. Probably gonna be a little long, it's all fluff 'cause I could use the happy. So could Alex and Kara.

Ruruko is a 8" size doll of a girl by PetWorks, she's very much in proportion, and her size is actually fit to sitting in the palm of Alex's hand, or her shoulder. I'm ignoring the fact that a lot of doll clothes have enclosure in the back (Ruruko's clothes are nice!) except some for BJD (ball joint doll) because you can remove the head to put on the shirt. YOSD is a 1/6 size BJD.

Thank you for reading, all comments are very much welcome.