Chapter 2

"Green Lantern? What the hell is a Green Lantern?" Ginger exclaimed.

"They're sort of like an intergalactic police force," Hal explained. "I worked for them for almost fifty years."

"Fifty years? What?" Ginger exclaimed. "I'm still in highschool! I don't want this."

Just then Reggie began to stir on the ground.

"Look there's a lot of things I need to explain to you but I think we should leave before he gets up," Hal said as he looked down at Reggie.

"Fine we can take his car," Ginger said.

"We don't need his car," Hal said. "You can fly us away from here."

"What?" Ginger asked confused.

Hal stepped up and looped his arm around her waist. Ginger went to pull away but Hal held on. However he wasn't trying to do anything like Reggie had.

"Sorry," Hal apologized as he put his arm up around her shoulders instead. "I forgot what had just happened to you."

"It's… it's alright," Ginger said.

"All you have to do is just think about flying, and the ring will do the rest of the work," Hal explained to her.

"Think about flying?" Ginger asked in disbelief.

"Just try it," Hal prodded her.

Ginger thought the man was crazy. But then she thought about how her former cheerleading teammate Cheryl could fly now, and about that footage of Hiram Lodge becoming a giant demon. If all that could happen maybe this man wasn't actually all that crazy.

"Just picture where you want to go," Hal said.

Ginger looked up and imagined floating up into the air above her head. Suddenly she felt a strange sensation and when she looked down she saw that her feet dangling a few inches above the ground.

"Good job, keep going," Hal congratulated Ginger.

Ginger continued and soon she was fifteen feet in the air, Hal still clinging tightly to her.

"Okay now try to take us somewhere private," Hal said. "There's a lot more than I need to teach you."

Reggie got up rubbing his head. He realized that Ginger must have hit him from behind while he had been attacking that old man. As he looked around he saw that Ginger and the old man were gone.

"Shit my car!" Reggie exclaimed.

He ran back towards his car expecting to find it gone but it was right where he had left it, the two passenger side doors were both wide open. Reggie looked around confused. He had expected that Ginger and the old man would have taken his car; how else would they have gotten back to town? Maybe the old man had his own vehicle that was somewhere else.

Reggie went up to his car and saw the keys still in the ignition where he had left them. He closed the doors and got in and drove back to Riverdale. He wondered what Ginger was going to do, if she was going to go to the police; or perhaps she'd just brag about how she'd humiliated him to everyone from school; or there was the small possibility that Ginger would stay quiet and say nothing. Whatever the case Reggie knew he had to wait and see what she did and respond accordingly.

It was the following day and Cheryl, Barry, Sheila and Jughead had all arrived at Betty's farm. Sheila's parents had bought her a car for her seventeenth birthday that they were all riding in. It was nothing special, just an old grey Ford Focus hatchback with a lot of miles on the odometer, but it was enough to get her to school and out to Betty's farm and fit her friends.

As they pulled down the driveway they all noticed that Polly's vehicle wasn't there, however they noticed that Dilton's car was there. However Betty had called them all asked them to meet her out at the farm. As they approached the farmhouse they saw Betty emerge from the barn. All of them noticed how Betty was wearing glasses.

"Hey guys!" Betty greeted them happily.

They all ran over and hugs were exchanged.

"Man I missed all of you so much," Betty told them.

"We missed you too," Jughead said.

"Yeah, Riverdale just isn't the same without you around," Sheila added.

"Where's Polly?" Cheryl asked.

"Well it turns out that she got late acceptance to the University of Colorado," Betty replied. "She didn't find out until after I left. She left about a week ago and she's staying with my brother till she moves into residence."

"I didn't know she was looking to go to university," Barry said.

"Well she was taking time off to save up money for school," Betty explained. "But after my grandfather died she inherited enough to pay for her school, but by then it was too late to go. I had thought she was going to go college in New York or Philadelphia though and stay close to home."

"Well either way good for her," Sheila said.

They made their way to the barn where they found Dilton up in the loft as he usually was.

"Hey Dilton," Cheryl greeted him. "Any news on the search for my biological father?"

"No, nothing," Dilton replied. "But that might be something in and of itself."

"What do you mean?" Cheryl asked.

"Well there is absolutely no trail, no trace of anything. The records of the opening and closing of the clinics are incomplete. They're clearly faked but it's almost as if they just suddenly appeared out of thin air; and that has to mean something, I just don't know what." Dilton answered.

"Well that is odd," Cheryl agreed. "Do you think you can figure it out?"

"I'll try," Dilton answered. "But the only things to go on are conspiracy theories really at this point. Stuff like the clinics were part of some military experiment, or it was aliens or something like that."

"I doubt it was aliens," Betty said.

"I wouldn't be surprised about the military experiment theory," Jughead said. "I mean Cheryl's like a super weapon."

"I'm not sure if that's a compliment or insult coming from you," Cheryl said.

"I'm sure Jughead meant it as a compliment," Sheila said.

"I did, I did," Jughead agreed.

"So tell us about what you were doing while you were gone," Barry asked Betty.

"Alright let's all sit down though, it's a long story," Betty said.

They all sat down on the couches and Betty told them what had happened after she had disappeared with the ship. The ship had taken her all the way north to Ellesmere Island in the arctic. There the ship had disappeared down into the snow and a large crystal structure had emerged, its shape reminded Betty a bit of a fortress. Inside Betty had been greeted by holograms of both her mother and father. For the next several weeks Betty had stayed there while her parents had told her about her home planet.

Krypton had been caught in a civil war before Betty had been born between the warrior caste and the scientist caste which her parents were a part of. The scientist caste had won the war, but it had taken a great toll on the planet.

Kryptonian weapons had been built from crystals mined from beneath the surface. This had been occurring for tens of thousands of years and the mines had been getting deeper and deeper. Also earthquakes, or as they called them on Krypton, kryptoquakes, became more frequent. However many thought that the two were unrelated. Betty's parents however had thought otherwise; they felt that the over mining of the planet was the cause of the quakes and that as they became more frequent to the point of three or four a day that it was the sign of a potentially global disaster. With Kara's uncle they came to the conclusion that the planet would be destroyed. However when they tried to set about evacuating the planet they were rebuffed. After the war all off-world travel was strictly controlled.

When Betty had been born the planet was in extreme danger, the quakes were so frequent that they were occurring every ten minutes and the planets gravity field had altered so much that it was impossible to launch all but the smallest of ships. Not wanting their daughter to be born only to die Betty's parents had placed her into the ship she had arrived on Earth in just an hour after she had been born and sent her to Earth. The planet had been destroyed soon after.

"So what's with the new costume?" Sheila asked after Betty had finished the story of what had happened to her planet. "Something wrong with the one I made?"

"Well, it tears pretty easily," Betty replied. "This one is made with a special Kryptonian fabric that's much stronger."

"What's with S though? You actually accepting your Supergirl name?" Barry asked.

"Yes, but actually the S is the symbol of my Kryptonian family, the House of El," Betty replied.

"The House of El? But that's an S on there not an L," Jughead said.

"The Kryptonian alphabet isn't like English," Betty stated a little annoyed at his comment. "I learned quite a bit and it's kind of like Japanese actually. The fact that it's an S and I go by Supergirl is just a happy coincidence."

"Okay, but there's one question that I know we've all been putting off asking," Cheryl said. "What is with the glasses?"

Betty chuckled as she took them off.

"These, well they're a gift from Sabrina," Betty replied.

"A pretty ugly gift, and I thought you have perfect vision," Sheila said.

"I do," Betty replied. "And I think they make me look sophisticated."

"Eh, you could probably do something different with your hair," Cheryl said.

"Enough with the fashion talk," Barry interrupted. "If Sabrina gave them to you there must be something special about them."

"Yes," Betty admitted. "Sabrina put a spell on them, as long as nobody sees me take them off nobody will realize that I am Supergirl."

"Seriously?" Jughead asked in disbelief. "Glasses are your disguise?"

"You've all seen what Sabrina can do with her magic," Betty said. "I mean this is nothing."

"That's true," Cheryl agreed. "I guess we'll find out next time you need to be Supergirl."

Betty looked over at Dilton who had been quiet the whole time to see he had slipped over to the computers.

"I think you might be testing that really soon," Dilton said. "The police were looking to transport Caitlyn Snow, the woman calling herself Killer Frost, to a government facility when she escaped just five minutes ago."

"That's not good, those people transporting her are probably in a lot of trouble," Barry commented.

"Where are they?" Cheryl asked.

"They were taking back roads and they're about twenty minutes out of town," Dilton replied. "Last report said something about a lake."

"I think I've got an idea where they are," Barry said.

"Well let's suit up and put this ice bitch back where she belongs," Betty said eagerly.

"Now imagine a brick wall, the kind you might climb over as part of an obstacle course," Hal said to Ginger.

Since the night before Hal had been training Ginger on the use of her Green Lantern ring. Ginger had first managed to get a hold of flying but now she was trying to master the light constructs that the ring was able to create.

Ginger thought hard about the wall and suddenly what looked like a green tinted hologram of a brick wall appeared in front of her. Hal walked up to it with a stick and banged the stick against it, the stick struck the wall as if it were actually made of brick.

"Excellent good job," Hal congratulated her.

"Thanks but why a brick wall?" Ginger asked.

"It's one of the easiest things to think of as a way to protect yourself," Hal replied. "If somebody is shooting a machine gun you want to hide behind a wall right?"

"Yeah I guess," Ginger agreed.

"Well if you're trying to block somebody else attacking you, you just think of the wall and their attack will hit the wall instead of you," Hal explained.

"I guess that makes sense, but I don't really want to fight anybody," Ginger said.

"No, and that's a good attitude to have, but sometimes you don't have a choice," Hal said.

Just then they heard the sound of shouting in the distance followed by gun shots.

"What was that?" Ginger asked worriedly.

"No idea," Hal replied. "But you should go investigate."

"But there are guns," Ginger protested.

"You have the ring to protect you," Hal said. "Bullets are nothing to what that ring can do. Now go!"

Reluctantly Ginger flew up into the air and off towards the sound of the noise.

Killer Frost looked around in satisfaction at the bodies of the dead FBI agents that had been tasked with transporting her to a secure facility. She had been sedated before being transported but the effect had worn off quickly. She suspected that it was because her body's chemistry had changed from the freezing powers she had gained which had made whatever they had given her less effective.

She was supposed to have been out for five hours or so but less than fifteen minutes into the trip Killer Frost had woken up. She had found herself sitting in the back of a prisoner transport van, her wrists and ankles all shackled. She'd managed to break free of her shackles with ease after freezing them. She had used her powers to freeze the van's fuel tank causing it to stall and coming to a stop on the side of the road. While the agents had tried to figure out what had happened to the van Killer Frost used her powers to break out and ambush them. They had tried to fight back but they were no match for her.

However as she looked around Killer Frost realized that she was stranded on a back road somewhere with no working vehicle.

"Fuck, I didn't think this through very well," Killer Frost muttered to herself.

She figured that she had three options. Wait for the fuel to thaw so she could use the transport, wait for another vehicle to come along and carjack it, or start walking. Since she wasn't even sure where she was at the moment Killer Frost didn't want to walk as she could have been over hour from anywhere. She figured waiting for either the van to start working again or a vehicle to come along was probably the better option.

She decided to move the bodies of the two agents since that could alert anybody coming along. She dragged the first body off to the side of the road putting it about six feet into the forest. She was in the process of dragging the second body when she heard somebody behind her.

"What are you doing?" a female's voice asked.

Killer Frost spun around and to her surprise she saw a young woman dressed in some sort of green and black skin tight outfit with a symbol that was a circle between too lines that sort of looked like a lantern. She was floating about ten feet in the air and had a green glow surrounding her body.

"Seriously another fucking hero?" Killer Frost complained.

From where she was in the air Ginger wasn't sure what was going on. But there was something very odd about this woman with icy white hair, extremely pale skin and pale blue lips. And the fact that she was holding onto the feet of an unmoving FBI agent.

"Is he dead?" Ginger asked in shock.

Killer Frost responded by flinging a huge icicle at Ginger. Ginger created a brick wall with the ring like Hal had taught her just in time to block it.

"Hmm that's new," Killer Frost commented. "But you're dealing with Killer Frost here little girl."

All of a sudden the air began to get very cold and frost began to appear on the road, the trees and everything else as if an extremely localized blizzard had suddenly set in. Ginger looked around worried and suddenly huge ice shards appeared in the air around her and then flew towards her. Ginger created a bubble around herself at the last second and the ice shards smashed off of it.

"Jesus fucking Christ, is the only thing you do fly and block?" Killer Frost complained.

"Nope, I can also do this!" Ginger replied.

Using the ring she created a huge fist that was almost as big as Killer Frost. It flew forward into Killer Frost and punched her knocking her into the side of the van. She then fell to the ground apparently unconscious. Ginger slowly dropped to the ground to check on her. As she did she heard a whooshing noise and she spun around to see The Flash standing behind her.

"Whoa, what's going on, who are…?" Flash started to ask.

Ginger was so frightened she took off into the air and flew away.

"Hey! Wait!" Barry yelled after her.

Ginger glanced back to see Barry standing there confused looking at the unconscious Killer Frost. Ginger turned around only fly right into Cheryl.

"Cheryl, I'm so sorry," Ginger apologized. "I didn't mean…"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Cheryl cut her off. "Who are you?"

"It's me, Ginger," Ginger replied.

"Ginger?" Cheryl asked in surprise. "What the heck, where'd you get these powers?"

"It's a crazy story," Ginger said. "But I got this ring from this old guy."

"Well come back with," Cheryl said. "There was no reason for you to run away from Barry."

"Barry? As in nerdy Barry Allen? He's The Flash?" Ginger exclaimed in disbelief.

The two girls flew back down where Barry was making sure that Killer Frost was secured.

"Hey Barry," Cheryl greeted him. "You'll never guess who this is."

Barry looked at Ginger for a moment and then suddenly a surprised look of recognition crossed his face.

"Ginger?" Barry asked.

"Huh I guess you can guess," Cheryl said.

Just then Betty who had been looking for the van elsewhere arrived.

"Hey Betty," Barry greeted her. "We've got a new hero in town, Ginger!"

Betty and Ginger both looked at each other.

"Oh wow, what's the story here?" Betty asked.

However Ginger was looking at the girl wearing the blue and red costume with the yellow diamond with an S on the chest.

"Betty? No this isn't Betty," Ginger said.

Both Barry and Cheryl looked at Ginger like she was crazy.

"It's Betty Cooper," Cheryl said. "How can you not tell?"

"No it's not," Ginger disagreed vehemently.

"I told you the glasses worked," Betty said.

"Glasses? What? Is this some kind of prank?" Ginger asked getting frustrated.

"Can you fix this?" Barry asked Betty.

"I left my glasses back at the farm," Betty said.

"Alright how about we all go back there then?" Cheryl suggested.

"Well what about her?" Barry asked pointing at Killer Frost.

"We should probably get her to wherever they were taking her," Betty said.

Barry quickly searched the van and almost immediately found where they were headed.

"Looks like they were taking her to a jail in Pennsylvania," Barry said.

"Well you and I can get her there before she wakes back up," Betty said. "Cheryl why don't you take Ginger back to the farm and we can talk about everything there?"

"Sounds like a plan," Cheryl agreed.

Betty picked Killer Frost up of her shoulder with ease and then she and Barry took off in a blur.

"Whoa…" Ginger commented.

"Come on follow me," Cheryl said as she flew up into the air.

"Wait," Ginger said as she too flew into the air. "I should get Hal, he's going to wonder where I went and he can probably better explain what's going on with me and this ring."

"Okay I guess," Cheryl agreed.

The two of them then flew off to find Hal.

So we now have the newest member of the gang. Find out what happens when they all meet Hal Jordan though in the next chapter. Please review.