Part I

The Age of Ultron

Chapter 2: Supergirl vs the God of Thunder

Kara followed a few miles behind the strange jet, out of what she hoped was the jets radar.

She had determined Tony Stark was indeed inside the jet hours earlier when she used her X-Ray vision to see inside the plane, and for the past couple of hours her keen eyesight and hearing had allowed her to follow the jet at what she deemed was a safe distance. An added bonus was the cover of night which she was sure made her that much harder to spot. Of course she knew they could've seen her with thermal vision but that was only if they knew they were being followed and she doubted they did.

Her hair rustled in the breeze. It was a cool and fresh.

One of the advantages of flying over an ocean.

Then her thoughts traveled to the man she had met. Tony Stark. He had seemed so sure of himself, like he was some big shot like Bruce Wayne. Ha if only. Then again, he was wearing a suit of armor and fought a massive rampaging monster like it was no big deal. How had she never heard of him before?

She shook her head and continued onward after the jet. Either way she needed him to find the League. Or at least whoever was left of the League. The Watchtower was gone, and so was Gotham and Metropolis. West City she didn't know about and Paradise Island they had lost contact with, so finding whoever was left of the League was her only option. They had to start preparing.

So she followed.

And followed.

It had been hours, and she still had no idea where they were going. She figured either Europe or the United States. Maybe Asia, but since the man spoke fluent english that seemed unlikely.

The stars were bright and there were few clouds in the sky. Every once in a while she would have to veer around a cloud so it wouldn't break apart and give her away.

Maybe following them discreetly wasn't the best idea, but she didn't know them and after seeing both the metal man and a monster level several blocks, she needed to find out more about them, and t would be easiest to do that from afar.

She looked up to the stars and sighed. Then, a smile formed on her face. She had to stay positive. She had to have hope. For Earth.

So she started humming and took in a deep breath of fresh air.

At least it was a nice night.

"Hey Stark your friend's still following us."

Tony Stark narrowed his gaze and walked over to Clint Barton, who was flying the Quinjet. He inspected the radar and indeed saw how his 'friend' was still trailing them by a couple miles. When his satellites had picked up a target and identified it as the girl he had fought the Hulk with he had hoped that she was just going in a similar direction as them.

But now that they were nearing the East Coast he knew it was time to do something about it. Barton had already mentioned how he wasn't going to his safe house with her in tow.

"Well she's just a kid. Probably wants a paycheck for helping me out with the big guy." Stark said with a shrug.

"Heh or an autograph." Barton chuckled.

"Both more than likely. I mean come on, how often do you get to meet the Avengers?" Tony smiled, smacking Barton on the back before turning away and walking over to were his suit stood in the QuinJet.

Barton chuckled darkly, "What a great first impression."

Tony pursed his lips together and looked around. The others were asleep except for Thor who was sitting with his back to them holding his head in his hands. He hoped they hadn't heard Barton.

"So whats the play Stark? It's not a safe house if she follows us and finds out where we are."

"I'll deal with her. Just keep going and I'll catch back up."

"We have stealth mode on…"

The Genius paused for a moment as his armor of gold and red wrapped around him. The helmet closed over him and in his electronic voice he said, "Good point. Put the jet on hover and wait for me. Shouldn't take long to get her to go home."

Iron Man walked towards the end of the QuinJet, feeling a tad bit guilty when the back opened up and the roar of the jets and the wind woke everyone up in the plane.

"What the…" He heard Bruce mutter with a start. At least he didn't go green.

"Stark, what are you doing?" Bellowed the large Asgardian from behind him. He felt a hand on his shoulder and glanced back at Thor.

"Don't worry big guy. Just hang back here and I'll be back in jip."

Whatever the others said he didn't pay attention too since the back door was open enough abd he blasted off towards the girl in red and blue.

His HUD had her exact location and for a moment he considered what would be better, surprising her or just going right up to her? On one hand surprising her could end with a fist to his face, but it was more fun that way! And after the day he had, he could use a bit of fun. Besides she seemed like a girl who could take a joke.

With that in mind he veered downward by several hundred feet so he could fly right up in front of the girl and give her a good startle. It would be hilarious. The look on her face he NEEDED to record, but he wouldn't record it. He wasn't that evil.

A minute or two later his HUD directed him upwards and he followed its set path, and already knowing how much thrust he would need to pop up exactly twenty feet in front of he, his repulsers increased their propulsion and shot him upwards.

Fortunately he didn't have to break the sound barrier and alert her to his presence.

However, a beep went off and he noticed how she was changing directions. He saw her radar dot coming right for him.

So much for surprising her.

He slowed slightly and looked up to where she was coming from and saw clouds. He wondered if she would be able to see him and did a scan of his own.

As predicted she was heading in his general direction so he decided it would be better to meet her halfway. He started off towards the clouds and saw her approaching faster when he heard thunder. He stopped and looked back towards the Quintet. He saw a speck of a red cape flying out towards him.

He sighed. Damn Asgardians.

His sensors alerted him of the girl getting close to his position and he turned to face her. He watched as the blonde slowed and turned from her horizontal position of flying to where she was just floating in the air and looking him face to face.

Well face to metal helmet but same thing.

"How'd you know I was following you?" She asked crossing her arms, slightly narrowing her gaze at him.

Inside his helmet Tony raised an eyebrow at her. Was she seriously treating him like he was the bad guy?

"Radar," He replied with a little bit of irritation, "Wasn't hard to see you. You're not the stealthiest bird in the sky."

"Well neither are you." She replied like a typical teenager.

Tony sighed. "Look kid, Kara right?"

She nodded.

"Ok I gave you a choice to walk away but you followed us instead. Now I have to ask," he raised his repulsers at her, "why are you following us?"

"Uh," the blonde said rubbing her head, "ok well I need your help."

"My help?" Tony asked. "Why didn't you just ask when we were back in Africa?"

"Because we were fighting a giant green monster."

Tony blinked, "Touche."

The girl smirked and nodded again.

"Okay well if you need my help you can set up an appointment. Stark Industries, or you know what go to Avengers tower in New York and talk to Hill. She'll set you up with something and I'll be happy to give you advice all ding dong day once I get back."

The girl looked at him oddly, "Well I guess? By why can't we just talk now? You're already here."

Thats when Tony's suit picked up the Asgardian arriving right next to him.

"Stark, what is the meaning of this?" Thor bellowed as he stopped next to Tony, using his hammers constant spin to keep himself floating in the air with Iron Man and the unknown girl.

"Well blondie here has been following us since Africa and I decided to tell her to go home." Stark replied with a wave of his metal clad hand.

Thor looked on the girl with suspicion. He didn't know her, but what bugged him was that she was flying. What bugged him even more was that Stark seemed to know this girl and had failed to mention her to the rest of them. "And when were you planning on telling the rest of us about her?"

There was a moment of awkward silence before Tony responded, "Well it's not like I wasn't going to tell you guys. I was just waiting till we got to Clint's 'you know' place."

"Of course you were." The god said back shortly, still obviously sour at Tony for earlier events, aka creating Ultron.

"Look," Iron man said facing the Asgardian, "I was gonna tell you. She's not a threat and we have a lot bigger issues to worry about then some little girl."

"I'm eighteen." The girl replied with a huff.

Tony ignored her and continued, "Just go back to the Quinjet, I'll figure this out, then we can all go sing Kumbaya at Barton's place. Deal?"

"No," Thor replied shortly, his gaze irritated and unimpressed. His eyes then fell upon the floating girl. "And what is your name my lady?"

"Kara." Tony stated with a bored shrug, holding one of his hands up to wave away any comment the hammer man would've retorted with.

Kara looked at him with what he thought was a hint of annoyance before looking back at the god. "Yes, my names Kara."

"Well Kara I am Thor of Asgard." Thor stated politely, a small smile gracing his lips. He was pissed at Stark, but this girl seemed decent enough.

"Yeah God of thunder, flies around with a big hammer, but back to the big question," Tony looked over at her. "Why do you need my help?"

The girl rubbed the back of her neck and bit her lip. Tony wondered if she was hurt, and scanned her body for any signs of injury. Nothing came up. Well nothing injury related that was. Her cells however, were a completely different story. They weren't human.

His gaze narrowed. Now he was really interested.

"Ok, look, I'm kind of lost and I need you to point me to the League."

"League?" Tony asked dumbfounded. Lost definitely wasn't what he had expected when she asked him for help. He expected her to ask for money, or help with some other mission that she figured the Avengers could handle. Hell even directions to the nearest starbucks would've been more predictable than being lost.

"Yeah you know the Justice League? Superman? Batman? Wonder woman?"

Thor exchanged a confused glance with him.

"They owned the Watchtower? The big floating space station in space?"

Tony scanned her again. Her heart rate was steady and after scanning her a second time he was able to see, that at least according to his machines, she wasn't lying.

"I know not of this Justice League you speak of." Thor replied, his hammer spinning a tad faster. This girl seemed ok, but her questions were strange. He wasn't going to let his guard down.

"Ok," Tony started, "I don't know anything about this League you keep mentioning, but I'm sure if you go talk to Maria Hill at my office in New York she'll be able to help you out. Just tell her I sent you."

Kara stared at him blankly. He figured she had been hoping for more than just go to my office and my secretary will help you find whatever your looking for.

"So ok let me ask this again," She stared down, her face contorted in concentration, "you don't know who the Justice League is?"

Kara finished her sentence with a taste of disbelief floating in her mouth. How on earth could these heroes, one who's apparently a god, not know about the League? Everyone knew the League! It just didn't make sense!

"Nope. Not a clue." The man named Tony, or Iron Man, replied.

She looked at the stars. Could she be…

No that was impossible. But she had to know.

"What about Lex Corp? Or Wayne enterprises?" Her voice cracked a little, but at the exact moment she didn't care. She knew of the multiverse and time travel and all those crazy things the League had done, and she needed to be sure if she wasn't in her own universe.

"Never heard of them." Iron Man replied without missing a beat.

She closed her eyes and sighed. If her instincts were right, then- "What about metropolis? And Gotham? How are they doing?"

The two other in front of her exchanged another glance before Iron Man said, "Are those places or people?"

Another sigh escaped her. She clinched her fists and shut her eyes tight as the water pooled behind them.

She was in another universe.

She was alone. Hell she didn't have any of her friends, this wasn't even her world, and she had no way to get back home. No boomtubes, no Batman to figure it out, no cosmic beings that she could bargain with, no Flash to help her go through time or realms. She had nothing.

"I'm sorry," She said looking up and blinking multiple times to wash the tears away, "I have to go."

A blast of air jetted out from behind as she busted into supersonic flight and raced towards what she hoped was the mainland, flying right by the jet she had been initially following.

She cared not for the wind or the cool air anymore. She let the tears flow, and jerked a bit as her breath became erratic and uncontrollable. Not only had she failed her friends and family, but now she had failed her home. She had failed her Earth.

"Damn it Clark," She hissed to the sky as she remembered him pushing her through the portal to escape certain death.

Kara shook her head hard to try and clear her mind. But grief was powerful, and any hope she had at saving her planet was all but gone. What was she supposed to do now?

She barely even noticed the cliffs she was approaching.

Her mind raced. She could try to find a way home? Obviously this universe had geniuses and monsters. Maybe she could find one who knew how to break the dimensional barriers. Or she could try finding any sort of cosmic beings in the universe and hope they would help. Or she could-

Wham.

A sudden bulk of cold hard metal slammed into her and she flew face first without even a cry into the cliffside.

The rock snapped apart when she hit, then she fell from the cliffside towards the ocean with a cough. She opened her eyes and saw the rocks falling after her, only for something metal to grab her from behind and lift her up, effectively crashing her into the falling rocks over and over till they flew above the cliffside and back over solid ground.

Only a few feet above the ground was she suddenly released, and she yelped as she fell to the ground face first. She spit mud from her mouth and got to her knees as thunder roared in the sky above and her fists grabbed at the mud and crushed it beneath her fingers.

There was a clunk and she looked up to see Iron Man kneeling down, then he slowly rose to a stand and looked down at her with hands raised in a peaceful gesture.

"Look this wasn't my idea ok I caught you but he-"

Kara slammed into him. She yelled as she hit him with a right hook then a left. She was gifted back with a repulsor blast to the chest that sent her flipping backwards in the air.

"Kara," Iron Man stated rising into the air with his thrusters, "look we just want to talk ok? He's the one who hit you with that damn hammer."

She turned around and saw Thor, the man who apparently considered himself a god, floating above her and staring down at her while thunder and lightning roared in the sky above.

Then it started to rain.

"Who the heck do you think you are hitting me with that freaking hammer!" Kara snapped, her eyes narrowed dangerously and her hands clenched into fists. She was so not in the mood to deal with this.

"You follow us after fighting our friend and have done nothing but answer us in riddles," Thor announced with a narrowed gaze, "you will come with us and we will sort this out peacefully."

Kara scoffed, "I'm not going anywhere with you!"

"Kid," Tony started hoping to get ahold of the situation before it exploded, "what Shakespeare here is trying to say is that your stories a little weird and after the day we had we don't need anymore weird ok?"

"Well I'm not lying if that's what you think!" The girl snapped at him though her words weren't as poisonous as the ones thrown at his fellow avenger.

"You speak of cities and people who have never existed on Midgard, you either lie or have deceived yourself." Thor responded with clear accusation.

"Dude will you please shut up?" Tony replied, knowing where this was going. After making Ultron and causing almost all of their problems himself he really wanted to avoid creating another one with this super powered girl.

The Asgardian didn't reply to him and instead Kara said, "Look I know you guys are having your own issues ok but I won't be a problem. I just want to find my friends!"

"Yeah we get that but-" Stark started only for Thor to interrupt with, "Lady Kara I do not know you and I cannot leave you to run around Midgard causing mayhem."

"Oh my gosh I'm not going to cause mayhem or whatever you think I'm gonna do! I just want to find my friends and get home!"

Tony sighed. How on earth did he end up being the least hardheaded person in the group?

Thor floated down towards her, "I understand, but you need to come with us. If you would just-"

The God of Thunder reached for her and the next thing Iron Man saw was his friend flying into the ground below them and the super powered girl turning to face him.

He raised his hands, repulsers aimed at her before saying, "Kid listen ok we just want to talk!" Her eyes relented a bit, and he saw her shoulders relax. She was obviously acting out of emotion, but was definitely not telling them the whole truth of her situation. That much Iron Man knew.

"I-" A hammer slammed into the girls side and she went flying upwards into the sky.

"Damn." Tony said as he watched her fly upwards.

Mjolnir shot back down to the earth and he watched Thor grab his hammer then fly up to meet the girl in mid air. He watched as the two exchanged a few punches and hammer swing then saw the girl unleash two red beams that singed Thor's armor and launched him back into the ground below.

He shook his head, but knew what had to be done. He shot forward and slammed into the girl while she was distracted. He let her go so her momentum carried her forward then blasted her with his repulsers.

She continued to fly backwards for a moment then halted her own momentum. He saw her frown and look at him with fire filled eyes.

So much for handling this peacefully.

Kara was pissed. Why the hell would they try so hard to force her to come with them? They were heroes weren't they! Heroes didn't do that! Then again Clark and Batman had a few times whenever peaceful talks failed and the were forced to act in violence.

Wham.

She reeled back, feeling her head spin and tasting blood in her mouth as she tried to recover from a blow to the head from a hammer. She looked down to see the supposed God grab his hammer from the air then fly up at her.

Her energy focused and she turned to meet him when two blasts of energy hit her and forced her into a mid air roll. She glared at Iron Man but jerked upwards as she was hit with a fist to her gut then a hammer swing to her back.

She flew towards the ground and tried to stop herself, however a missile and another energy blast sent her flying to the ground, burying her head first into several feet of rock and mud.

The wet dirt filled her mouth and she was forced to hack it up only for a knee to crash into her back and make her swallow more of the mud as she tried to yell. A hand wrapped around her hair, yanked her upward but instead of continuing the punishment its owner set her down.

"I do not want to-" She didn't let the hammer man finish and socked him in the face. He had thrown the first punch. Screw whatever he wanted.

This time instead of racing at him she looked for Iron Man. She saw the energy beams fired at her and dodged to the side, kicked off the ground, then rocketed upwards at the metal man. She slammed into him, wrapped her arms around him, spun, then threw him at the ground.

She wasn't able to see if he hit since a good old hammer swing clocked her from the side. She gasped then was hit again on her left side. Her vision finally caught up with her and she saw the hammer right before it uppercut her. She flew upward but this time saw how Thor had flown upward and was about to bring the hammer down on her. She reached up to catch the hammer but it was heavy to the point she literally had no chance to push it back and it slammed into her.

Rock cracked beneath her as she landed on the ground and sent mud flying everywhere while the rain continued to drench her. She was covered in mud and what remained of her clothes was soaked.

She groaned and sat up looking at the hammer man. He hit hard.

Before he could continue his attack she blitzed upward. She slammed a fist in his gut, then spun and kicked him in the side. She was prepared to continue her assault when a metal hand hit her in the face then a energy blast caught her in the gut and sent her rolling backwards in the air.

Again she caught herself mid air and straightened herself back up only to see a bright white light that crashed into her face.

Electricity coursed through her body, and she screamed as it shocked her at level she had never felt before.

It stopped after a few seconds and she jerked awkwardly as the remains of the electricity finished up their journey through her body before discharging into the air. She groaned but grit her teeth and looked up at the two so called heroes.

Again Iron Man raised his hands and said, "How about you come with us and-"

She raced at him, and felt the metal of his chest dent underneath her next punch that sent him flying in the opposite direction. She barely dodged the hammer swing sent for her head and delivered a series of punches to the so called gods face and torso before delivering a sweeping kick to his neck that launched him into the ground, his hammer falling from his hand.

She took the opportunity and flew down to the hammer. She grabbed the handle and lifted.

Nothing.

She stared at the metal tool before trying to lift again. Again it didn't even budge. She looked at it in bewilderment. Why wouldn't it move?

Suddenly a metal hand hit her in the face and she tumbled backwards onto the ground, her cape flipping over her before finally tearing off her back and falling to the ground. She didn't wait and launched herself at Iron Man.

He dodged her. She turned and flew right back at him. A energy blast hit her in the face and she gasped as she crashed into the ground from the supercharged attack.

She looked up and the last thing she saw was an electrified hammer crashing down on her.

A/N Heres chapter 2! Hope you guys enjoy. Next Chapter Kara will get to meet the rest of the Avengers, of course not in the best of circumstances. Also to clarify things Kara lost easily because she's tired. She's been through a lot and just fought the hulk and has had no rest.

Anyway thanks for reading! Review! God Bless!

-Metal4k