The Red Streak

Kara's day had been the busiest day she had had all week, which was saying something after months of being Cat Grants assistant. After the recent alien prison break from the DEO, Kara had been searching all over National city for the escapees, even having to take small trips to other cities the aliens had decided to hide out at. She had been chasing aliens around all day that she had not been able to get the story Carr's was asking for on his desk this morning, which meant Kara could expect a ten minute yelling lecture on what it means to be a journalist and if she wanted to keep her job she needed to get her ass in gear and stop slacking.

As she headed back to National City, Kara looked down and caught the glimpse of what appeared to be a red streak moving through the streets 'What the...?' She thought to her self, not knowing what see had just seen. She flew down to street level and panned the city block. Pedestrians pointed and began taking photos of the superheroine. She felt bad for ignoring the kind citizens, but was completely distracted by what she had just saw. What made stranger was that she could smell what seemed really familiar to that of what you would smell if lighting had just struck. She surveyed the area and saw no burn marks, or damage to represent that such a thing could have happened. To make it more odd, the citizens had seemed to not even be phased by the electrified feeling in the air. She gave them a wave and flew back into the sky, speeding off toward National City. In addition to the strange streak that seemed to appear and then vanish out of nowhere, she could have sworn that she had heard one of the many bystanders taking a photo say 'Man, I can not believe I got to see two superhero's in the same day. This is crazy awesome.' ' Two superheroes?' She thought to herself, her super hearing had never failed her before, but she began to think that they were playing a trick on her. Before she could consider anything else her sister Alex spoke to her through her coms.

"Kara, we got another alien siting, right here in National City."

"Already heading back, be there in a few. Any idea what kind of alien it is?" Kara asked, trying to come up with an early game plan so she could take the creature out fast and get it back to the DEO holding cell. Even for a Kryptonian, she was getting tired and felt like she was about to fall out of the sky from sheer exhaustion.

"No idea," Alex admitted, she had an apologetic tone to her voice," Winn has been looking through all the documented Fort Rozz prisoners for the past thirty minutes and hasn't found a hit."

"There are hundreds of inmates to look through, that's not including the ones we have already either captured or were proven peaceful, and I had looked at all of them at least ten times. There is not a single record of what this 'thing' is." Winn had chimed in, Kara could sense the aggravation in his voice.

"Just keep looking, maybe something will come up," Kara responded. As she flew she still could not shake what she seen and heard. A feel feeling began to tug at the back of her brain, like she had seen the streak before, but could not remember where.

She arrived at the location Alex and Winn had given her. She had not seen a sign of the alien until she heard a loud crash and the breaking of glass. She turned just in time to see a convenient store clerk sit up and struggle to get out of the pile of glass he had landed in. Kara gave the man a quick x-ray and noticed he had a broken wrist and ankle. She then saw what had caused it, a tall muscular man came waltzing out of the store with a bag full of what Kara could only guess was money. 'Why would an alien need money?' She thought as she sped up the crook. She gave him a good punch to the jaw and sent him flying back into the store. She picked up the injured clerk and raced him to safety. She instructed the bystanders to call an ambulance for the man and raced back to the store. The guy had gotten back to his feet and was searching for what had hit him.

"So what are you?" Kara asked him " another Daxamite who found his way onto earth?"

"What are you talking about you crazy bitch?" He was brushing off his clothes and began to get angry.

"Ok, there are many things you can call me that will not get me upset. That however is one I do not like being called," she flew toward him, ready to pick him up and pin him against the building. At that moment the man fell to the ground and turned into a sludge goo substance.

"What the...?" Before Kara could finish her sentence the pile of goo formed a giant fist and down her across the street, right in to a hot dog stand. As she got back to her feet she could see the goo begin to form a humanoid shape, and the man she had hit before was standing in front of her.

"Now see, the only reason you hit me before was because I was not expecting it," the man remarked, a grin formed on his face," but I can assure you that it wont happen again."

"We'll see about that," she retorted, speeding toward him and landing a punch to his chest only to her surprise that her arm had gotten stuck inside of the man. His grin formed into a creepy smile as he grabbed a hand full of her hair.

"I thought there was only one freak running around that's why I moved here. But you sure are a hell of a lot more fine than that dork, to bad I gotta kill ya," He headbutted her and then picked her up and threw her into a the store. "I'll see you around girly. Maybe next time, if you're nicer we can have dinner." He ran off down the street and darted down a near by ally once the police began to show.

"KARA! Are you okay?" Alex demanded over the coms. She and Winn had be watching the whole fight go down through the various traffic cams that surrounded the block.

"Yea I am fine, what the hell was that thing?" She questioned, using her x-ray vision to search for the runaway, whatever it was.

"I have no idea," Winn replied honestly, "there is not a single record on an alien that can change its physical form into a gross looking pile of muck."

"Well what ever it is, we need to find it and get it back to the DEO before it can hurt anyone else. I'm on my way." Kara's day had officially gone from strange to completely crazy, weird.