Before I start: For this story I'm going to ignore the pod. So this story won't have Mon-El and also Miss Martian won't be making an appearance.
Chapter 1: Superman asks for help?
It had been a year since Kara Danvers had been promoted from her position as an assistant at CatCo Worldwide Media. When Cat gave her the option of what job she wanted, it did not take long to figure out she wanted to do graphic design for CatCo. On Krypton her aunt, Lara Jor-El, was an artist as well as a scientist and she taught Kara. Lara would always say how impressed she was with how quickly Kara picked it up and how good she was at it. Here on Earth, people have told her that she has talent for art. After arriving on this planet, she used painting to help control her powers and keep the memory of Krypton alive. Her favorite thing to paint was landscapes of her old planet and portraits of her friends and family. It made her feel less alone on Earth.
Despite all this, Kara was currently bringing her boss a latte. Cat Grant was going through assistant after assistant with none lasting more than a week. No one seemed to be able to reach the Queen of Media's standards like Kara did. She had learned that she held the record for time as Cat's assistant. So, Kara was kept busy her "new" job, her "old" job and her "secret" job, as she like to call them. Somehow she managed to do it though, probably because she did not need as much sleep with her Kryptonian DNA.
"Here you go Miss. Grant." Kara said as she placed the drink on Cat's desk, but she was not paying attention. Cat was looking through files that completely covered her desk, intently researching something. Kara wanted to ask what she was doing, but it was no longer in her job description to know. As she began to leave, Cat called out, "Don't worry about bringing me anything anymore it's no longer your job. A new assistant is coming in later today."
"Of course Miss. Grant." Kara replied. As she left to go to her own office she used her super hearing to clearly hear Cat say "Thank you anyway Kara" under her breath. Entering her office Kara looks up to see Winn and James waiting for her.
"What's up guys?" Kara asks.
"Clark just called. He needs Supergirl." James answers.
"Apparently he's been trying to reach you for an hour now." Winn adds. Kara then pulls out her phone, which for some reason was on silent, to find fifteen missed calls from Clark and ten messages all asking her to call him. "Oh no!" she exclaims, "My phone was on silent! Let me go give him a call. Kara then dials her cousin's number and waits patiently. It only took two rings before Clark picked up.
"Kara! Finally I've been trying to contact you all morning." He sounds panicked over the phone.
"I know James and Winn told me. I'm so sorry my phone was on silent. What do you need my help with?" Kara replied trying to get to the root of her cousin's distress.
"I'm in the Fortress of Solitude. There was an attack in Metropolis from some alien robot. I want to see if you know anything about this. Kal-X refuses to tell me." Clark said.
"Alright then. I'm on my way." Kara hung up the phone and turned to her friends. "Clark needs me in the Fortress. Can you cover for me with Miss. Grant?"
"Of course we can Kara! We're basically professionals at this." Winn said self-assured.
James laughed and said, "Go Kara if Clark is asking for help, either he's finally learning he can't do this on his own or it something really big." Kara smiled and nodded, then using super speed she changed into her Supergirl outfit and flew out a window heading to her cousin's secret base.
After a quick flight at the speed of sound, Kara arrived at the ice castle that was the Fortress of Solitude. Jor-El was always a flashy guy so he sent his son to Earth with a whole castle to serve as Kal-El's connection to Krypton. It also helped that Kal was a lot smaller than Kara was when they left Krypton. Kara lifted up the heavy key with ease and opened the front door. "Clark! I'm here! What is it you wanted to show me?" she yelled out to her cousin.
Kal-El then emerged wearing a slightly damaged Superman suit. "Clark?" Kara was so concerned by her cousin's suit she began speaking in Kryptonian, "Are you OK? What happened?"
"I'm fine Kara, don't worry. I just need to get the suit fixed up a bit." Clark replied in Kryptonian with a smile. He understood that sometimes when the two of them were together and Kara was stressed or excited she would sometime slip into Kryptonian, it was something she did a lot more often when she was younger and confused the Danvers's very much. "Here follow me." He stated in English signaling for her to follow him further into the Fortress.
"What exactly happened?" Kara asked curiously.
"Well this alien robot landed and started scanning things in the city. So, naturally I went to check it out, but when it saw me it went berserk. It to a lot to take it down as you can tell." He finished gesturing to his torn up suit.
"Well let's check out the robot." Kara said confidently. She was proud of her little cousin for asking her help when he needed it. He was not raised on the family motto, "El mayarah", stronger together. Clark saw asking for help as a weakness rather than strength. Clark opened the door to his lab. The "alien robot" Clark was talking about was laying on the operating table. One look at it and Kara froze in fear. She would recognize that anywhere, the Earth was doomed.
Thank you for reading! I hope you all enjoy the story!