Chapter 1: Kara Zor-El
Disclaimer: I do not own Supergirl or any of the other franchises/T. V shows I will be using in this story in any way shape or form! This story is made purely for entertainment purposes!
Author Notes, MAKE SURE TO READ BEFORE READING STORY!
Methods of Interaction:
"Normal speech"
"SHOUTING"
"Speaking with telepathy or soul bond"
"Communication through ear piece"
'Thoughts'
*Sounds*
"Demonic Voice"
("Other language being translated to English")
[Robotic voice]
~Play this music video~
Character Appearances:
Elros looks like Jensen Ackles with the body shaped as Ulisses Jr.
Kara looks like her cannon appearance but curvier.
All of the other characters look like their cannon appearance.
Hope you enjoy!
Kara Zor-El's story – Narration….
"My name is Kara Zor-El. 37 years ago, my planet Krypton, was in serious peril. The Kryptonian Council had drawn power from the planet's core in order to use this energy for our weapons in for the war against the most evil and hostile alien races in the galaxy. Krypton was apart of an intergalactic alliance called the Empyrean Alliance which consisted of the technologically advanced and peaceful races that inhabited this galaxy. It was originally created by the Valeronians, a race of humanoid beings much like us Kryptonians.
This war had just recently started and the entire Empyrean Alliance was now being led by a man who is very dear to my heart, Elros Anitos. However, now with Krypton's destruction being imminent, my cousin Kal-El was being sent to a planet called Earth for his own protection and survival so that he may grow up away from this war as the hostile evil aliens were mainly targeting the worlds under the Empyrean Alliance. You may know his story.
The story you don't know is that I was sent to protect him."
At this point in time, a 13-year old Kara was standing in front of a small pod that was sitting on a long runaway, ready to launch. Her father Zor-El and mother Alura were standing in front of her.
("Your pod's coordinates are interlocked with Kal-El's. You will follow him to Earth.") said Zor-El with a comforting hand on Kara's shoulder.
("I'm not afraid father. I have you all here in my heart.") said Kara who was wearing a white dress with the house of El symbol on her chest.
Alura then took both of Kara's hands in hers. ("The trip is long and you will sleep most of the way but we will be with you in your dreams and in your heart. I'm sorry we have to send you away from us and from Elros but he would want you to have a life away from this terrible war and so do we.") Kara nodded in response as her heart felt very heavy with the fact that she may never see Elros again or her family. ("You'll journey to Earth to look after your baby cousin Kal-El. Because of Earth's yellow sun, you will have great powers on this planet. You will do extraordinary things.")
("I won't fail Kal-El, you or Elros.") said Kara with tears in her eyes.
Alura nodded with tears in her own eyes, having to send her daughter away but she wanted her to live and not die with the rest of Krypton. So, she took off her necklace that held a tear dropped shaped pendent and out it on Kara, over the necklace Elros had given her. She then kissed Kara on her forehead and looked into her eyes. ("I love you Kara.") The entire ground shook as they could see at the end of the runaway, some pillars of lava were shooting upwards. ("You must go now.")
Kara gave a heart-warming smile in response as she turned around and was about to step into the pod but turned back and enveloped her father and mother in a tight hug, never wanting to let go. Both Kara and her parents let loose tears of sadness before Alura eventually pushed her away, ("Go.")
Kara nodded and stepped into the pod before a transparent barrier of energy was formed around the top part of her pod. The pod then activated its sublight thrusters as before it launched itself along the runaway and soon into the air and eventually out of earth's atmosphere.
While Kal-El's pod managed to create enough distance between him and Krypton, Kara's pod did not as the shockwave from Krypton's planet had knocked her ship off-course and into the Phantom Zone. A region of space in Krypton's solar system where time did not pass and escape was near-impossible. Kara in her ship slept in the Phantom Zone for 24-years before somehow, her pod got loose and escaped this timeless void. Her ship then made its way to Earth and crash landed where she was found by Kal-El who was now an adult.
Kal-El had introduced himself to the world as Superman, the most powerful man in the universe or at least that's what the people of Earth thought of him but Kara new better.
Kal-El wanted Kara to have the same normal human-type childhood he had and so he placed her with her adoptive family, the Danvers. Scientists who once helped him understand his own super abilities. The Danvers also had a daughter named Alex and although they were both from different planets, they knew their lives would never be the same again.
Although Kal-El did not need her protection anymore, she felt like she needed his and him leaving him with the Danvers had felt like abandonment. Especially since they were related by blood and he was her only connection to Krypton but she always kept this thoughts in her and after seeing the love from the Danvers and eventually her adopted sister, Alex, the thoughts had left her.
13-years later, present time….
Despite having the same powers as Superman and those powers being greater then his due to the fact that she had arrived on Earth as a teenage and thus had absorbed more solar radiation, Kara decided to live a normal life. After all, Earth didn't need another hero.
"I need two tickets in the orchestra section for wicked. No not for Miss Grant, her mother wants to see it. YES, again! Alright, I'll hold." Said Kara as she was on her phone and carrying files under her arm, and her other hand carrying her and her bosses' latte and some doughnuts. She was heading towards a tall glass building named Cat-Co., an online and imprint empire built and controlled by a woman named Cat Grant. The most powerful woman in National City and the Queen of all Media.
Kara was currently wearing a gray sweater, a white shirt underneath and knee length dark pink skirt. She also wore glasses outlined with lead that blocked her X-Ray vision powers. Kara had grown up to be a very, very beautiful woman. She had womanly curves that every woman on the planet would sell their souls to the devil for and she had a very beautiful face. Thankfully, she wore very modest clothes that hardly revealed any skin and this had helped reducing the attention she received but despite no one knowing her goddess like body, the beauty of her face was still mind-blowing.
"Hi Charlie! I'm calling about the correspondence dinner. I need to make sure Miss Grant does not end up next to Bill Oriley again." Kara then went into the building and to the floor where she worked as Cat Grant's secretary. As she exited the elevator along with numerous people, she walked through a hall of numerous desks beside the glass windows of the building. She noticed a man in his late twenties with short dark brown hair, black eyes and was wearing a dark gray dress shirt with a red tie and black dress pants.
The man walked up to her and started walking beside her as he put the iPad in front of her. "Did you see this? Armored car robbery last night. There are no witnesses except this Thomas guy who swears this guy had horns on his head!" exclaimed Winn as Kara handed a file to a man sitting at a desk as she continued walking towards her own desk. "I'm telling you they're out there! Aliens!"
Kara gave an awkward chuckle, "Winn, there are no such things as aliens!" Kara said in the best convincing voice she could muster.
Winn scoffed. "You would feel different if you read this website."
"You write this website."
"I-I-I contribute." Said Winn before he took a breath as Kara placed her purse and other stuff on her white desk located in front of Cat Grant's office. "Hey, I-I was wondering if you wanted to…I don't know wanted to go see a movie sometime."
Kara turned around and misunderstood Winn as she thought he wanted to hangout as friends. With her feelings as strong as ever for Elros, it made her incapable of noticing when someone liked her even though she would never ever be with another person even if Elros is dead. "I-I can't. I'm sorry." She held the locket on her necklace tightly. "I'm a bit busy with some personal stuff today."
"Oh ok." Said Winn disheartened.
"But we can hang out some other time." Said Kara, although she only meant as friends.
Winn visibly cheered when she said this. "Ok."
Kara then nodded at Winn before placing a small smile on her face. She then heard Cat Grant coming up through her private elevator and looked at Winn. "She's here."
Kara and Winn both got up from their seats while Winn asked, "How do you do that?"
Kara did not answer as the elevator opened and everyone else also stood up and looked at the Queen of all Media. "Good morning Miss Grant."
Cat Grant is in her mid-forties with shoulder-length wavy blonde-hair. She wore a one-piece tight dress that went down to her mid-thighs, a pair of sunglasses, a thick gold necklace around her neck, a rather big gray purse hanging off of one arm and a gray coat off of the other.
"The only reason I bought this building was because it had a private elevator. That way I don't have to get soaked in cheap cologne every morning getting to my office. Find out who used it, have them reprimanded or bathed, I don't care which." Said Cat as she walked into her office in a haughty fashion with Kara following behind her.
"Here is your latte Miss Grant." Said Kara as she handed Cat her latte.
Cat did a mix between a sigh and a scoff. "That will be new and different." She then walked to her desk and sat in her brown leather chair while putting her stuff down. "I have a meeting with the board at lunch so cancel sushi with my mother. Oh, and cancel my therapist. I won't be needing it if I'm not having lunch with my mother."
"Got it." Said Kara as she noted down all of Cat's demands while internally giggling a bit with her cancelation of her therapist and her reasoning behind it.
Cat took a sip of the latte before frowning and throwing it into a garbage can. "Also, I have emailed a list. Prepare termination letters for the Tribune employees as noted. I realize that there are quite a few but it would be so nice if you hand wrote them. Use the lesser cardstock."
"Your downsizing the Tribune?" asked Kara with a frown on her beautiful face. "B-but that was your first acquisition."
"Go see if the new art director has the layout ready." Said Cat as she began checking off somethings on a form in a binder all the while ignoring what Kara just asked and stated. "Its not that I don't see your frown, its just that I don't care enough to ask why its there."
Kara's frown grew while she held the small amount of anger she got in check. "All those people…their going to lose their jobs. What's going to happen to them? Their families. They don't have to downsize it at the Daily Planet."
This statement got an irritated look from Cat which got Kara to shut her mouth while her face held an awkward look. "Metropolis has a person who wears a cape and flies around performing heroic acts." Cat began taking off her high heel shoes while she was seated in her chair. "The Planet puts this superlative man on their cover 54% of the time. You want to save the Trib., go find me a hero Kiera." Said Cat as she dropped her high heels in a dramatic fashion before looking back at the documents she needed to sign.
Kara turned around while taking a deep breath and whispered, "Kara."
Kara then placed her note book on her desk and made her way to the art directors office. She pushed opened the glass doors. "Hello?" said Kara while the numerous cameras on a nearby desk and the pictures on the wall caught her attention. "Hello?" Kara said Kara, this time receiving a response.
"Just a minute." Replied a male voice.
"Miss Grant sent me for layouts and she doesn't like to wait." Said Kara while clearing her throat.
"She can wait a minute."
Kara then saw a dark-skinned man in a blue dress shirt and black dress pants, kneeled on the ground unpacking stuff from some boxes. She scoffed at the response. "Have you met Miss Grant?"
"Yeah, what's she going to do? Fire me right after hiring me." The man said in a sarcastic voice. "Her loss."
The man then turned around and looked at Kara and was immediately enraptured by her beauty. She was the most beautiful women he had ever seen and if Kara did in fact take off her glasses and stopped wearing very modest clothes, she would have had both men and women falling for her.
Kara just looked at him strangely seeing as he was staring at her.
"Hey, I'm the new guy." The man then smiled at her.
Kara seeing as she didn't know how to respond given the fact that he had just been staring at her, cleared her throat looked at a picture of Superman flying in the distance through some sky scrapers. "Oh, its him!" She then walked up to the 50cm x 50cm picture and picked up the frame. "I've seen this picture like a million times in posters. Wow."
"Yeah, only because it was the first real shot of him. It's a secret but he actually posed for that. Guessed he liked me."
Kara now remembered a certain man who was rumored to be close friends with Superman. "Your jimmy Olsen. Photographer from the Daily Planet." Said Kara as she turned around and looked at him.
"It's James Olsen. Jimmy is reserved for my mom and the big guy, who's stuck in his own ways." Said James with a small smile.
Kara looked down back at the picture. "I know what I've read but…what's he like in real life?" She asked wanting to learn more about her cousin from the eyes of his supposed friend despite having chat with Kal-El numerous times.
"He is…everything you want him to be and more. I mean I was scared to move out here but he told me the biggest risk is not taking any so…"
Kara looked down and smiled as those words reminded her of Elros and all of the risks he took for everyone. She wondered how he was now, if he was still even alive. How had the war gone? Was Earth going to be invaded soon. Not knowing was the worst.
"Take it." Said James, breaking Kara out of her thoughts.
"Hmm?" Kara hummed while looking at James questioningly.
"Take it." Said James while looking at the picture of Superman.
"What this? No, I can't, I can't." sad Kara while smiling and shaking her head.
"It's just a print." James exclaimed with a smile. "Please, take it. But first you have to tell me who you are."
Kara froze a bit before she opened her mouth but no words came out as she was a bit scared thinking that this guy knew who she was in reality. Did Kal-El tell him about her?
"I never got your name?" said James while leaning forward with a smile while internally chuckling since he knew her real identity already and that she looked more beautiful when flustered.
"Oh…gosh…I" Kara then looked down and laughed awkwardly a bit. "Kara…Kara Danvers." Said the blonde beauty as she shook James' hand.
James then decided to tease Kara a bit and took a step forward before pointing his finger at the space in between her eyes. "Anyone ever tell you, you look a little like him right there?"
Kara was now getting the feeling that this man definitely knew who she was and after a few moments of opening her mouth to say something she managed to say, "No. No, you're the first." Kara then looked down and took a few steps towards the door. "Thank, you very much. I appreciate it."
"Yeah, of course. Uh!" James exclaimed as Kara was right beside a white table that had some drawer's underneath. He then pointed to the papers on the desk. "Layouts."
Kara awkwardly smiled and took the layouts, "I almost forgot them. Bye!" she then walked out of the office before her smile left her and was replaced with a frown. 'Who is he? I'm certain he knows who I am, I mean he is friends with Kal-El so he might have told him about me given how much he talks about him but still…'
Later that day, at Kara's home….
Kara walked up to her door as she heard a knock and opened it, revealing a beautiful woman in her late twenties with shoulder length black hair, black eyes, a slender figure. She wore a black suit coat over a dark green blouse, and black dress pants and had a black leather purse hanging from her right shoulder.
"I have a conference in Geneva and I need to be on a plane in two hours." Said the woman.
"And I need you to help me pick out which T.V show we're going to watch later so I can go and buy the whole set." Said Kara. "I win."
"Why do you do this to me?" scoffed the woman with a big smile as she walked into the small home.
"Because, I'm your sister and you love me!"
A few minutes later Alex was on a computer browsing through some T.V shows available for order from the cities' local electronic and DVD shop while Kara was pacing around her spacious and comfy living room. The living room consisted of a small table by some glass windows, a paint stand that held a canvas with a half-painted picture by the wall, a 3-piece light gray colored sofa set placed in front of a 60" LG T.V.
"I don't know, I just feel like I don't feel like I'm living up to my potential!" Kara then plopped herself down on the 3-seat sofa while Alex browsed through some options while sitting at the dining table. "I went to work for Cat Grant because I thought working in a media company run by a powerful woman who actually shapes the way people think would be the way, that I could make a difference. But instead I just fetch layouts and get coffee."
"You always wanted to be normal right? So, having a crappy boss, having absolutely nothing to wear and apparently nothing to watch either…this is what normal looks like Kara." Said Alex with a small strained smile.
Kara pushed herself off of the couch and walked towards the dining table where Alex was seated. "I'm not normal! I have the same powers he does and mine are stronger since I came here when I was 13! I can lift a bus, stop a bullet, Alex I can fly! At least I think I can. I haven't done it in years."
Alex sighed. "Kara, you've got a good job. Your cute, overwhelmingly beautiful and thanks to your alien DNA, you can't get pimples." Kara smiled in response. "Life is not so bad but, if you really want to help someone…you'll pick between one of these two shows so I can get on my plane!"
"Death in Paradise it is!" exclaimed Kara as she liked crime solving shows.
"You know Kara, you really should go on dates, find someone to love." Said Alex.
"Alex, we have been over this, I'm never going to do that or fall in love." said Kara with a sigh.
"But why? You keep saying that but never say why." Exclaimed Alex.
Kara didn't say anything as a few images of Elros popped into her head. He was the one for her and even if he was dead, she would be with him after she passed from this world but until then, she would keep his memory strong in her heart. "Oh! You only have an hour before your plane leaves! Hurry up, go!"
"Oh my gosh!" said Alex as she forgot about her previous question, grabbed her purse and bolted out of the door while Kara sighed in relief before going about her day.
1 hour and 30 minutes later….
Kara was currently sitting on her sofa with the T.V playing on the news while she was lost in her thoughts as she gazed at the stars visible through her open window. "Where are you Elros. I miss you." Said Kara as her talk with Alex caused her to think even harder of the man she loved.
She hoped with all her heart that he was okay, happy and had succeeded in defeating the Chthonic Alliance. She had her complete faith in him but when facing an army of evil and hostile alien races, more then faith is needed. But Elros' skill in combat and the art of war was second to none according to what she had heard during the few weeks the war had started. As such, he was probably the only one who could have led everyone through the war.
She sighed playing the game of guessing how Elros was like she had did probably a million times already in the 13 years she has been on Earth. In addition to Elros, she missed her family immensely especially her father and mother. It hurt so much knowing they were gone. Was this how Elros felt…probably but he was burdened with so much more so it was probably even more painful for him. But she listened to the same advice she had given Elros and kept them alive by keeping their memories in her heart. It gave her the strength to continue living but she didn't know how much more she could stand this. Despite having a family in Alex and Eliza, she felt so hollow with her entire world and a huge piece of her soul in Elros being gone. Kara gave a long and sad sigh as tears had long since started falling from her beautiful blue eyes. However, she couldn't cry her heart out like she wanted to as the news got her attention.
"National City Airline flight number 237, bound for Geneva is experiencing some loss of altitude. The pilot seems to be circling the city after apparent engine failure." Said the male news reporter.
The moment Kara heard this, she bolted out of the sofa and into the balcony of her apartment. She saw the plane flying over the city and she took off her glasses and managed to see and hear Alex with a mix of using her X-ray vision, super vision and super hearing. "Alex!"
Kara then raced out of her apartment in a blur and ran into a long dark alley. She kept running and tried to launch herself into the air but only got around 10 metres high. She kept running after landing and this time, pushed herself off of the ground with all her might and flew into the air at amazing speeds. She saw the plane flying over her with the inner-most engine on the left wing, being on fire. As she got closer to the plane, the inner-most engine on the right wing also got caught on fire.
The people inside the plane were in a panic, while on the outside, Kara was slowly getting used to drawing more and more power of the solar radiation that filled her cells. She started to get faster and faster as she closed in on the plane which was now tilted a bit downwards and was going to crash into a bridge in the distance.
As she got closer to the pane, the engine on the right wing exploded a bit and sent a few large flaming metal pieces right towards Kara. Said blonde beauty flew right past it as the metal burst into smaller pieces after colliding with her body. The collision did not slow Kara down at all as she got faster and eventually managed to make it to the wing. She pushed the plane a bit on that wing to make the plane straight while also noticing Alex looking at her with disbelief in her eyes through the airplane window.
Kara then made her way directly under the plane so that the front of her body was pressing against the plane. She looked ahead while upside down and saw that the planet would collide with a bridge. "Oh, come on!" She exclaimed in annoyance, but thankfully the area of possible collision was very large and triangular in shape so Kara made a plan in her mind. She began push towards one side of the plane causing that part to cave in a little.
But this had managed to make the plane completely vertical and hence pass through the triangular part of the bridge and make it to the other side with only the edge of the wings being slightly damaged.
She then began to push on the other side of the plane with all her might to straighten out again. She had managed to do so before the plane landed on the water, in tact and none of the passengers within the plane had died. Kara had been dropped in the water and as such, swam to the surface to breath air again although she could survive without air for quite a while. Kara grabbed onto the wing of the plane and pushed herself on top of it before standing on the plane while her clothes were completely soaked and her blonde hair was now darker due to the soot from the plane and very wet. Everyone from within the plane had tried to look at their savior through the windows on the right side of the plane.
Kara took a few deep breaths as the overwhelming sensation of not only protecting Alex's life but the life of hundreds of people. It was amazing but she knew she could not stay here long or risk her identity being discovered and hence launched herself into the air to make her way back to her apartment.
Later that evening….
Kara had returned home with glee written all over her face as she took a nice hot shower to wash all of the soot out of her hair and clean her goddess like body. After, that she ordered lots and lots of pizza from pizza Hut and was currently in a white top and soft pink pants for her pajamas with a green knitted sweater covering her. She was chowing down on the pizza's while watching the news with anticipation.
"The passengers of flight 237 appear to have a guardian angel, when what many report to be a female flying form, rescue them from certain death." Said the male news man.
Kara leaned back and shook her legs in the air in glee. "Oh, my Rao!" She then continued to eat her pizza as she watched a news reporter live at the scene.
"Thank you, Rick. Guardian angel or human wrecking ball, there is destruction all over auto-bender bridge!" said the female Asian reporter.
"What!" exclaimed Kara as she got up from her sofa. "Well you try saving a plane for the first time and see if you don't make a mess!" she said in irritation.
"Oh my god!" Kara heard the familiar voice of her sister behind her. She turned around and saw that Alex had just come into her home.
Kara got a huge and beautiful smile on her face as she ran to Alex. "I know! Its incredible!" She then hugged Alex with a bit more force then necessary due to her excitement.
"Ow!"
"Oh sorry! That…that was too hard. I'm just…I'm just so excited! I still can't believe I did it!" said Kara with excitement and disbelief in her tone.
"Yeah, neither can I. Are you okay?" asked Alex in a worried and anxious tone.
"Am I okay? Are you okay?" exclaimed Kara.
"Yes I am. Thank you." Replied Alex with gratitude and now fear in her tone.
"Were you scared? I mean I was but you…you must have been terrified, you had no idea I was coming to save you!" rambled Kara.
"I need a drink." Simply stated Alex trying to dull the large headache that was forming.
"Right! Yeah, we need to celebrate!" Kara went to her kitchen cupboard to get a bottle of wine. "It has been so long, I almost forgot how to fly! Well…not how but more like how it feels!" exclaimed Kara in happiness as she poured some of the wine into a glass. "Like-like scared…but good scared." Kara then brought the small glass of wine to Alex which she immediately downed. "Like when you kiss someone for the first time." As soon as Kara said those words, she smiled in pure happiness with a tint of sadness as she remembered her first kiss with Elros. "And now…now its like I don't know what comes next…or maybe, I am sure but am just afraid of what it means! And if it means what I think it means…"
"What were you thinking?!" said a now irritated and worried Alex who couldn't stand to hear Kara's rambling anymore especially with the knowledge of how much danger she now has gotten herself into. Alex gazed into her eyes with worry with disappointment and saw confusion in return. She then scoffed and walked towards the T.V still showing a very faint and blur image of her as the news was going wild. "You exposed yourself! To the world! You're out there now Kara! Everyone will know about you and you can't take that back!"
"I-I don't want to." Said Kara as she was confused as to why Alex was acting like this. She then walked towards the T.V and pointed at it, "This is what I was talking about Alex. I…I have always felt the need to help people and I was doing that before on Krypton but…I couldn't do that here. And tonight, I finally got that chance. I…I didn't travel 2000 light-years just to be an assistant." She said as she turned around and gazed at Alex, her eyes showing exactly how much she wanted this…needed this.
Alex stepped closer to Kara. "What if people figure out who you are? What you are?" She then glanced between the T.V and Kara. "Its…its just not safe for you to do anything like that! Ever again!"
"Oh…" said Kara who was now downtrodden and sad that Alex had that little faith in her. She knew her sister was worried about her but still. Her desire to help others had always been so great especially after losing her family and the man she loved and still loves. "I'm kind of tired…I just carried a plane on my back, so I think I'm going to go to bed." Alex rolled her eyes in sadness as a few tears leaked out, feeling the sadness coming off of Kara. "You should go." Kara then stated firmly while looking at Alex in the eyes.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." Stated Alex before she turned to leave a sad Kara's apartment.
The next day….
Kara just walked through the elevator which had taken her to the floor where her desk and Cat's office is. She had on her regular glasses, a loose light brown colored top, and gray-greenish colored jeans and her beautiful mid-back length blonde-hair combed nicely with two strands being tied as a bot behind her, over her hair with a ping going through it. She looked around warily thinking that she would be recognized by someone despite the fact that the only picture that was taken of her rescuing the plan did not even show her face properly. She then heard the news on a nearby T.V continue to talk about her which unnerved her even more.
As she was heading towards her desk, an Asian man in a formal black suit called out to her. "Oh my god Kara! You're a life saver!" this caused Kara to freeze in her tracks before turning around. "Thanks for doing those coms for me! Cat said I did great work!" the man said with a big smile.
Kara smiled with a hint of awkwardness. "Sure Ayashi, no big deal." She then turned and walked towards her desk while noticing many people where still watching the news as they talked about her. "Pretty cool huh?" Kara asked Winn as she set her stuff on her desk.
"Plane saving lady? Prfff…" scoffed Winn before he looked at Kara. "How is the world suppose to take her seriously if she can't even come up with a suit? What Metropolis gets him and what does National City get? Some rookie superhero?"
Kara turned to look at him for a second before some thoughts of a Superhero costume filled her mind…despite the idea always seeming stupid to her, it was necessary if she wanted to help people and keep her identity as Kara Danvers safe.
A short while later in Cat's office….
"I know most of you are used to being second best but its new to me!" exclaimed Cat as she stomped or walked with a bit more oomph in her step from around her desk to now standing in front of the many people including Kara who were standing in her office. "The most incredible event in the history of National City and yet we have no exclusive of any kind."
"We don't have much to go on, the image we're working off of is low res." Said a white man in a formal black suit with a blue dress shirt underneath and blue tie.
"We guessed she's around 5' 9". Tough to gauge with her height measured up against an airplane." Said Ayashi.
"Hair color brown…or black." Said a brown man in a formal brown suit.
"Or maybe her hair is just dirty. You know from soot." Said James as he walked into Cat's office. "The plane exhausts."
"James, you make an excellent point. Do you think there is any connection between this hero and…"
"To my friend in blue?" James finished for Cat. "I don't know. Not that he mentioned but if she's anything like him…then she's a hero. Saving people is what they are born to do. She'll be back." James looked at Kara who was looking at him and the fact that he looked at her just as he said this just confirmed what she suspected.
James knew about her and how she was from Krypton most likely from Kal-El.
"She better be." Said Cat with a smile as Kara tried her best to hide the awkward look on her face as she felt James' gaze on her. "This girl…she is the answer! She is exactly what I need to save the Tribune!" Cat said as she walked to her desk while also pointing to one of the numerous amount of varying sized T.V screens behind her desk. "Besides fatty foods, there is nothing people love more then a hero. We are going to blow her up! We will feature her online and on the paper, but we need images! We videos! We need an interview, and exclusive content so go! Go get me that girl!"
These words brought a smile to Kara's face as she gained more confidence and determination and was about to walk out of the office when Cat called out to her, causing her to turn around. "Kiera, go get me a lettuce wrap!" Kara nodded her head as she left the office.
"Its funny. It was the firs thing he did…save a plane I mean." Said James to Kara before walking towards his office.
'Is he even trying to be subtle? Does he really think I still don't realize that he knows about me?' thought Kara before she forgot those thoughts and reaffirmed her decision to do what she was about to do next. She then went to Winn and put her hand on his shoulders.
"Winn, I need to talk to you on the roof now!" said Kara before leaving.
Winn watched her go with confusion on his face before her words registered in her brain. "The roof?" he questioned with confusion and fear but she was long gone.
A few minutes later, Winn had made it to the roof and was now standing upon a flat platform with some red markings that showed it was a place helicopters could land. He saw Kara standing a few feet away from the edge looking at the city before she turned to look at him.
"Hey, whatever you have to say, can you make it quick?! I'm not so used to being this high up." Said Winn as his fear of heights was kicking in a bit.
Kara walked up to Winn and adjusted her glasses a bit and clasped her hands together. "Okay um…Winn, I'm going to tell you something about me that only 3 people in my life know. Can I trust you?"
"Y-Yeah, yeah of course." Said Winn as he crossed his arms, a bit taken back by the seriousness in Kara's tone.
"Good." Kara then walked a bit away from him. "I just really want someone to be excited for me. I, um…I-I…uh there is something about me that for most of my life, I've run from it, but last night…I embraced who I am and I don't want to stop!"
"Oh My God, you're a lesbian!" Winn concluded. Kara closed her eyes in annoyance. "Oh Kara, that's why you're not into me, this is great news!"
"I'm not gay!" Kara exclaimed with a bit more force then she should have mainly because the thought of anyone even mentioning she be with someone other then Elros always disgusted her. "I'm…I'm her!" Kara instantly noticed the lost and confused look on Winn's face. "The woman who saved the plane!" Kara let out a relieved laugh.
Winn gave an awkward laugh full of disbelief in response. "Okay. Y-Yeah, okay right." Winn then looked at Kara who just sighed in exasperation before she began walking towards the edge of the roof. "Kara what are you doing?" She shot an irritated look back at him. "Hey Kara! Hey! Get away from the edge, your going to get hurt!"
Kara turned to look at him while standing at the edge before she spread her arms and fell off of Cat-Co.
"KARRAAA!" Winn shouted as he ran towards the edge but as he was a few feet away from it, Kara shot up flying over him and landed a few metres behind him. "Y-Your…you're her." Said Winn as he breathed heavily from not only the shock of nearly seeing Kara die but also the revelation of who she is.
"Yep." Said Kara with an awkward laugh.
At a gas station near outskirts of National City….
A white man in a blue dress shirt, gray pants and baseball hat, just climbed up the ladder at the back of a truck and opened a hatch at the top before climbing down the ladder inside. The man walked to the end of the truck and saw a holographic screen showing a dark brown bald man in a black skin-tight suit.
"What happened with the plane Vartox? You were ordered to bring it down."
"Our trap worked. The DEO agents were on board and the bomb detonated." Explained Vartox.
"Then why aren't they dead?!" asked the brown man.
"A female. She flew into the sky and caught the plane."
"Who is she?"
"Zor-El saved his child before Krypton's destruction."
"Alura's daughter." The brown man concluded.
"She's working with the humans."
"Throughout the years, we have been forced to hide in the shadows. But the general's arrival is imminent! Nothing must interfere! Your instructed to continue as ordered to eliminate the human operatives. You can add this girl to this list."
"Can't promise her death won't be public…and messy." Said Vartox in a malicious tone.
"Human casualties are irrelevant."
"Good." Vartox then grabbed a gray-colored axe made of a special weapon and infused with an orange colored reactor core in the middle of the axe, from a nearby stand that was holding said axe. "And if she is Alura Zor-El's daughter, then she will pay for her mother's debts. And so, will her city!"
Next day, evening time….
After, Kara had told Winn of the truth of who she was and how Superman is her cousin, Winn decided to help her out being a superhero by first making her a suit and as such, they had gone to her home and started working. There had been some trial and error and sometimes Kara outright refusing some of Winn's crazy ideas. Some suit designs she liked and had worn them for a few minutes or so and fought some crime and helped people.
It was until the next day after Kara revealed herself to Winn, did she settle upon a design Winn created that she liked. Her suit consisted of a skin tight blue top with the house of El symbol above her chest area, a low thigh length red skirt, knee length red leather boots and a red cape made from Kal-El's baby blanket. Of course, she also took off her glasses but she still never could understand the stupidity behind people being unable to recognize someone just because they take off their glasses and put on a superhero suit. Were humans so dull? She often wondered how people never discovered who Superman was.
Despite her personal thoughts behind the subject, she had taken off her glasses and now wore her new costume and stood in front of Winn.
"T-This one has the 'S', just like your cousin." Said Winn with fondness and tried to hide his blush seeing how attractive Kara looked.
Kara as usual did not seem to notice Winn leaking the fact that he liked her, turned to look at herself in the mirror. "It's not an 'S'. It's my family's coat of arms. The roya…the house of El."
Winn then heard of a fire happening in the city through a radio on Kara's dining table. "I'm assuming you can't catch on fire."
Kara nodded her head as she flew out of her apartment and then above the city. She used her super hearing powers and heard numerous fire trucks blaring as well as smoke rising in the distance. Kara flew towards the smoke but a few seconds later, something struck her chest. She looked down and saw it was some sort of green needle. Then she felt another one hit her on her abdomen before she quickly slipped into unconsciousness and fell to the ground.
A short while later….
Kara shot open her eyes as she tried to look around, in panic as she remembered that she had been just shot with something that could actually penetrate her skin. She felt that she was lying on a cold steel bed and then she noticed a blurry figure beside her. As her vision cleared, the figure turned out to be a black male in a black t-shirt and black pants and had his arms crossed.
Her panic now became fear as she tried to get up only to find green glowing metal cuffs on her arms, that tied her to the steel bed.
"Made of low grade Kryptonite. Radioactive mineral from your home planet. It weakens you." Explained the black male.
"Where am I? Who are you?" asked Kara as she looked around while still being a bit delirious.
"Name is Hank Henshaw, and I believe you already know…Agent Danvers." Said Hank.
This got Kara's eyes to widen in shock, and she tilted her only to see her sister, Alex walking towards her. She was dressed in a black t-shirt and black pants, similar to Hank.
"She doesn't need those." Said Alex as she opened the cuffs that bound Kara and tried to intertwine her fingers with her, only for Kara to jerk her hand away. Alex saw the betrayed and hurt look in Kara's eyes.
Kara looked at the ceiling and then at Hank as he started talking, still trying to wrap her head around everything.
"Welcome to the DEO – Department of Extranormal Operations."
These words caused Kara to look at her sister again, feeling even more betrayed and hurt although it was a roller coaster ride for her since she learned so much in the past few minutes.
"The DEO monitors and protects Earth from extra-terrestrial presence and/or…invasion. That means you." Said Hank as he looked at Kara.
Alex then freed Kara who did not say a word to her and this hurt her. Hank then motioned for Kara to come with him and she followed the man with Alex tailing behind. He led her through some corridors before arriving in a large room, with numerous scientist in white lab coats walking around, working with some type of technology or watching some monitors. She also saw some people sitting on some chairs in front of a series of large screens displaying various things, a round table in the center of the room and many doors around the room with people walking in and out of them.
It was then Hank motioned towards a small pod with 3 curved fins at the back which Kara instantly recognized as her pod. "Your ship, we keep it here as a reminder of the day you crashed on Earth. You're the reason for all of this."
This statement confused Kara. "Me? But my cousin was here 2-dozen years before me."
Hank nodded his head. "And it was his arrival that triggered the need for this organization. We realized we weren't alone in this universe and soon might be getting more…immigrants." This got Kara to snap her head towards Hank with annoyance on her face. "Sure, enough you came along. And with you…Fort Rozz."
"What? But how?"
"I don't know. Somehow your pod had gotten lose from the Phantom Zone and made its way to Earth but it had also brought Fort Rozz, Krypton's maximum-security prison with it. When it crashed, the alien convicts, the worst criminals in the galaxy, they all escaped, and you brought them here."
Kara internally snorted at this. If they thought the Fort Rozz prisoners were the most dangerous criminals in the galaxy then they clearly did not know about the Chthonic Alliance and evil hostile races that make it up. Kara never had bothered telling anyone of the alliances or about the galactic war mainly because it has already been a couple decades since the war started and by this point it would have been over and since Earth was still standing given how many humans are here and how tempting of a target it would have been for the Xenomorphs and Wraiths since it was a rich food source for them. She believed in Elros and it seems that he had succeeded in leading the Empyrean Alliance to victory.
Kara was broken out of her thoughts when she heard Hank speak and walk to numerous people sitting in front of computers right under the screens. "These beings, some of them have powers from your darkest nightmares. For over a decade they have stayed hidden, but in the last year many have been emerging, making themselves known."
Kara and Alex walked to Hank and stood in front of the numerous screens displaying the faces of various Fort Rozz escapees. "They're planning something. Just not sure what it is yet."
That's when realization dawned upon Kara on Alex's recent incident with flight 237. "Your plane, that wasn't an accident. They were trying to kill you. I can help you stop them!"
"How? You couldn't even stop us from capturing you." Asked Hank as he placed some documents on a nearby round glowing table.
"I…I'm still learning."
"Our job is keeping people in the dark about alien life on Earth and nothing says covert operations like a flying woman in a red cape." Hank said, oozing sarcasm.
"They know about my cousin and they don't fear him."
"Plenty of people do. Just not popular to admit it. You want to help? Go back to getting someone's coffee." Hank then walked away.
Kara started walking away in anger and frustration but Alex ran behind her. "I know your mad and your hurt. I wanted to tell you every single day."
Kara turned and glared at Alex, her eyes showing a mixture of anger and hurt. "Instead, you told me every single day not to be who I really am."
"You have to listen to me!" exclaimed Alex.
"I can't! This just feels like a big coincidence doesn't it? You working here, hunting down aliens, and me being one? I can't help but think the real reason you were recruited was because of me."
"They recruited me because my background in bio-engineering makes me an expert on alien physiology!" Alex said, not believing Kara's word. "And yeah, it helps I shared a bed room with one."
"I'm leaving now. Unless you want to try and stop me, which I wouldn't." Kara said, wanting to get away from all of this as it was a lot to take in.
Alex sighed as she watched her go and Hank walked up to her. "I know you don't want to hear this Agent Danvers, but she's dangerous. You of all people should know that." Alex gave one last sigh as she continued to look in the direction Kara went.
The next morning at Cat-Co.….
Kara sighed as her mind was still in a haze with everything that happened. Learning about Alex and that she worked for a government organization specifically made to hunt down aliens was something that hurt her even though she understood the need for it, given the Fort Rozz escapees.
She then walked through the elevator that had just opened up and started to make her way towards some glass doors. She currently wore a pink dress shirt that was tucked into her dark maroon pants. She also carried Cat's regular latte and some doughnuts for herself. Just as she walked through the glass doors, she heard the T.V nearby displaying some news about her.
"Miss Grant dubbed National City's new female hero, Supergirl!"
This got a surprised and somewhat frustrated look on Kara's face as she quickly made her way to Cat's office.
"Supergirl!? We can't name her that!" said Kara as she angrily placed Cat's latte on a nearby glass table on her office and placed her purse on the carpet floor.
Cat who was watching the various T.V screens behind her desk on the back wall while sitting comfortably in her brown soft leather chair, spun around and placed her hands on her desk. "We didn't."
Kara caught onto what she meant and awkwardly adjusted her glasses. "Right. I'm sorry." While she was not a big fan of the whole idea of dressing in a costume and being given a title for being a superhero, given the fact that it never happened on Krypton when she healed many people with her special healing powers, it now felt important to her since she was a superhero now. And being called girl rather than a woman did feel like somewhat of an insult to her since she had been through enough that she had become a woman a long time ago. "I-I just…I don't want to minimize the importance of this. A female superhero…shouldn't she be called Superwoman."
"Sorry darling, I just can't hear you over the loud color of your cheap pants." Said Cat in a mocking and sarcastic tone as she looked at Kara's dark maroon pants.
Kara began pacing in front of Cat's desk. "If we call her Supergirl, something less then what she is, doesn't that make us guilty of being…anti-feminist?" Cat gave Kara a mocking stare. "Didn't you say she is a hero?"
"I'm the hero. I stuck a label on the side of this girl. I branded her. She will forever be linked to Cat-Co.., to the Tribune, to me. And what do you think is so bad about girl?" Cat then stood up from her chair. "I'm a girl." She then walked around her desk, towards Kara. "Ans your boss, and powerful and rich and hot and smart. So, if you perceive Supergirl as anything less then excellent, isn't the real problem you? And if your so smart Kiera, give me one good reason why I shouldn't fire you."
Kara looked at Cat in the eyes, not sure what to say thinking that she might be losing her job soon. However, before she could say a word, someone form behind her spoke up.
"I printed it! And its in even higher resolution then you hoped for!" said James as he walked up to Kara and Cat with a file in his hands and a smile on his face.
"James. You are interrupting a very craftily worded termination." Said Cat as she walked around her desk and sat in her chair.
"Kara wanted to surprise you. She has a friend that works at West National City Bank." Cat gave him and Kara a confused look. "The branch that got robbed."
"Right! Right. Yes, I went there." Said Kara, deciding to play along but still very confused as to where James was going with this. "Yeah, it took me a while to park my car, the streets…the one-way streets are so confusing." James cleared his throat and Kara stopped her awkward rambling. "You tell it so much better."
"Kara convinced her source to allow us to use a photograph she captured." Said James as he walked to Cat and opened the file, revealing a picture of Supergirl when she was stopping the bank robbery.
"You got a clean image of Supergirl?" Cat gave Kara a shocked and dubious look. "Kiera, if you can't take credit when you do something well, you're going to be at the bottom of the pile forever." Said Cat in a stern tone and Kara looked down for a second. "But muzzle's off. You bought yourself for another day."
Kara and James then left the office. As Kara walked beside James, she did feel grateful to him for helping her but also angry that he thought she couldn't handle it herself. "Thank you for that, but I was handling the situation."
"Oh yeah? And what was your plan? To get yelled at and fired because that was working." Said James in a sarcastic tone.
"I don't need you or anyone else fighting my battles for me!" Kara then stopped walking as her ears started ringing in pain and then she heard a voice.
"I'm communicating at 50 000 hertz. If you can hear this, you were not born on Earth."
"Are you okay?" James asked Kara.
"Yeah. I need to go get some water." Kara then quickly walked away.
"Painful isn't it?" Kara continued walking towards the roof of the building as her ears and mind was in a lot of pain but she tried her best to hide it. "The humans of National City will suffer 10 times this pain if you don't face me! Meet me at the National City power plant. How many innocent people are going to die until you prove your not a coward! Daughter of Alura."
Kara burst through the doors of the roof of Cat-Co. and took off her glasses and clothing as she wore her Supergirl outfit underneath. She then flew into the air and made her way to National City's power plant.
Once she made it there, she landed near a large water tank and started to use her X-Ray vision to scan her surroundings but found that her vision could not see past any of the metal structures but she did hear a faint beating sound. "Clever. Picking a spot lined with lead." Said Kara as she started walking forward. "But I can still hear your heart beat."
That's when a figure from behind the nearby water tank leaped high into the air and landed behind Kara. This got her to immediately turn around but she received a back handed punch that sent her flying backwards.
Kara slowly got off from the ground and glared at the bald man with a beard who wore a dark blue dress shirt and blue jeans. "On my planet, females bow before males."
"This is not your planet." Said Kara in an angry voice.
"You look like Alura."
"How do you know my mother's name!?"
"You don't easily forget the name of the woman who condemned you to prison!" angrily said Vartox.
"Fort Rozz? What does that have to do with her?"
"She was our judge, and jailor! Can't kill her, so killing you will have to do."
Kara eyes hardened in fury as she launched herself on the ground and landed a powerful two-handed punch onto Vartox's chest, sending him flying and crashing into a stone wall. Vartox quickly got back up and ducked under Kara's punch. She then turned around and tried to punch him again, only for it to be blocked by his hand before he landed a powerful attack on her abdomen. Vartox then grabbed Kara by her throat and threw her towards a large building.
She crashed into it and landed within as some electricity sparked due to some broken wires. Kara got back up only to receive a powerful kick from Vartox who had jumped through the hole Kara had made. She crashed through some metal poles and some more large thick wires were ripped apart and more electricity started sparkling here and there.
"Just because you wear that symbol on your chest, doesn't mean your him. Fighting him would be an honor. Fighting you, its just exercise." Said Vartox in a mocking tone which served to anger Kara more.
Kara swung at Vartox which he easily dodged. She swung twice more but they were blocked by his arms. He then grabbed her arm and threw her into a large pile of wires with electricity sparkling over her. Vartox walked over to Kara and glared at her. "You actually think you'll be able to stop me? Stop any of us?" He grabbed her by the arm again and threw her, this time with more force causing her to crash out of the building they were in, and then crash into a large amount of big and long metal rods tied to a truck.
Vartox jumped out of the building and stomped his foot onto Kara's chest as she was lying on her back. This caused her to grab the foot and groan in pain. She then moved her head to the side in order to dodge the axe that Vartox just swung, intending to decapitate her. Kara then took this opportunity to kick Vartox in the chest and get back on her two feet.
Vartox who managed to regain his bearings from the kick, threw this axe towards Kara and while she did her best to dodge, the axe's blade still managed to graze her a bit on her shoulders. This caused her to grab her shoulder as for the first time since she's been on earth, she felt physical pain.
Vartox took advantage of her distraction to run forward, grab her by the neck, then lift her up and slam her back down onto one of the large metal polls behind her, causing it to cave in. He continued to hold her by the neck and started to squeeze it. "Now you know what it feels like to bleed. Soon, your whole city will bleed."
Kara glared at him as she tried to use her strength to loosen the grip he had on her neck but wasn't making much progress. Vartox then began to use both of his hands to choke her and Kara was struggling to stay conscious with the lack of air.
Right then, a large explosion went off behind them, causing Vartox to look back. He and Kara both then noticed a military style helicopter above them that was firing missiles at Vartox. This caused the alien to quickly abandon his fight with Kara and run away.
Kara then saw a figure sliding down a rope from the helicopter. The figure landed and took off their helmet, revealing Alex's face, and she then ran to Kara. Alex then pressed a button on a radio attached to her uniform. "Trap 1, pursue the hostile."
"Copy that." replied a male voice as the helicopter continued to fire missile after missile towards the running Vartox who eventually made one big leap to get away.
Meanwhile, back with Alex, she gently helped a frightened and hurt Kara. "Hey. Hey I'm here. I got you. I got you."
A short while later, in the infirmary at the DEO at the outskirts of National City….
Alex took some tweezers and pulled out a small shard of Vartox's axe that was stuck there. This caused the small wound on Kara's arm to instantly heal and disappear as it was never there.
"You're going to be okay." Said Alex in a comforting tone as she placed the small metal shard in a small tube.
"How did that hurt me?" asked Kara.
"You're not indestructible Kara." Said Alex as she walked to a computer with two monitors.
Hank who was standing beside the computer with his hands crossed, added a few words of his own, "Nice move, nearly letting that alien cut you in half." He then turned to look at Alex who had just placed the small tube she placed the shard in, inside a small cylindrical shaped scanner wired to the computer. "If we can ID his weapon, it may give us a way to defeat him." Hank then looked at the information presented on the monitor and chuckled before taking the tube with the metal shard. "Look at that, you did help." He then walked out of the infirmary.
"Did you know about my mom? That she was the one who locked up all of those aliens." Asked Kara.
Alex walked up to her sister and took off her white gloves. "Its why I didn't want you going out there. Showing yourself. Showing this." She then pointed to the house of El coat of arms on Kara's chest. "The Fort Rozz escapees would give anything to get revenge on your mother and the only way they can do that now is to hurt you. I'm trying to protect you!" Alex exclaimed.
"You were right. The world doesn't need me." Said Kara not just feeling bad about learning about her mother and the Fort Rozz escapees but also at how worthless she felt when at Vartox's mercy. Compared to how well Elros fought when up against 50 aliens that each were 5 times more vicious and stronger then Vartox was, she was utterly pitiful in her mind. With a sigh she got off of the bed she was sitting on and went out of the infirmary, leaving Alex to watch with a sad frown.
Later that night at Kara's home….
Kara was wearing a short sleeved top and soft green pajama pants and currently seated on her sofa. She held the locket Elros had given her and had it opened up as she looked at the picture inside. On the left side, she saw a picture of her and the entire house of El family being displayed by a large holographic screen, while on the right it was Elros with the small Anitos household family.
She missed her family so much. But more so, her heart and soul missed Elros so much that it was unbearable. She didn't how she had managed to even continue living without him in her life. It was like someone had torn apart her very being and now she was struggling to even keep herself together. Not only not knowing if Elros was even alive or not but now the added guilt of not being able to honor his or her family's memory and failing to defeat a single alien even with her superpowers.
It made Kara feel pathetic.
She was then broken out of her thoughts when she heard a knock on her door. Kara used her X-Ray vision and saw that it was Alex and made no motion to get up and open it.
"Kara, its me Alex. Can we talk?"
After a few moments of silence, Kara said, "Its open."
Alex walked through the door and noticed Kara was sitting on the couch but what was interesting and surprising for her is that she had her most treasured necklace in her hands and the locket was open. Kara never had opened that locket around anyone, not even her. And now that it was, she was able to see the holographic screen it projected and the image of Kara and her family as well as some other group of people.
"Hey are you okay?" Asked Alex as she put her purse on the ground and sat beside Kara.
"I miss them so much. I miss him so much?" choked out Kara, barely able to hold her tears in.
"Who's him?" asked a confused Alex.
Kara then pointed to Elros in the picture with his family when he was 14. "He…I…I loved him so much…and I still love him…with all my heart." With those few words, Kara's dam broke as she began crying heavily and held onto Alex like she was her lifeline.
Meanwhile, Alex was quite shocked to hear this. Kara had always been very adamant on never dating anyone or even trying to find love even when it was presented in front of her. She was always confused as to why Kara acted this way but now it was becoming clearer. "Where is he?" Asked Alex after a while since Kara had calmed down.
"I…I don't know. I don't know if he's alive or dead, if he's happy or not. Not knowing about him…and knowing my entire family…my entire world…is gone. Its been tearing me inside for so long…I don't know if I can keep going Alex." Said Kara in a lost and broken tone.
Alex sighed as this was the first time she had seen this side of Kara. Despite being sisters for 13 years, Kara was always so reluctant to open up and while she had told her about her family, this was the first time Alex had heard more about Kara and her love life. Not knowing how to comfort her sister, she decided to speak what came to her.
"Before you came to live with us…I was the star. And then…how could I compete with you? Someone who could touch the stars…had beauty surpassing the stars. You know I was happy when you decided not to use your powers. You feeling like less somehow made me feel like more. And now I can see that you have been suffering far more then I could ever understand Kara. I'm not sure if I can ever understand what you went through and are still going through. I know you miss them…miss him but even if they're gone, you should keep their memories close to your heart Kara. Keep their memories close and use it to for strength because the world needs you Kara. Needs you to fly."
Kara internally gave a bittersweet smile. Kara had said the same thing to Elros before he went to become King and fight in the war. Those same words were now being said by her sister to try and help her. "I can't Alex. I'm not strong enough."
"You can Kara. You are the strongest person I know and many people believe in you. Me and mom believe in you. And if they were here right now, I know your family and he would believe in you too." Alex then grabbed her purse and took out a hexagonal shaped prison device that was gray in color and had some writing on it.
"That's Kryptonese writing." Kara said as she held the device and examined it.
"Hank and his old team recovered it from the pod that brought you to Earth."
Kara took the prism and placed it on a nearby table before pushing a small button at the top, causing a small blue crystal to come out of the device. The small crystal then lit up and projected a holographic image of Alura Zor-El, Kara's mother. But rather then a still image, Alura was actually looking at Kara as if she was really here.
"Mom…" Kara said with tears in her eyes.
"Kara. My brave daughter." Said Alura with a big smile. "By now you have become the woman I know you would grow up to be. And though you were sent to Earth to protect young Kal-El, your destiny is not tied to his. There is no correct path in life. You will lose your way many times but what's important is that you always find your way back to the brave girl you always were and will be. Be wise, be strong, and always be true to yourself."
Kara walked forward, extending her hand to touch her mother, only for the projected image to fade away. This caused Kara to shed tears as gazed at the place the projection of her mother was. After, a few moments, Kara managed to regain her composure as strength and will filled her once more. She then turned to look at Alex and wiped away her tears before asking, "So what do we do now?"
"First things first, you need to change." Said Alex with a smile that Kara returned and nodded.
A few minutes later at the DEO….
Alex and Kara, who was in her Supergirl outfit, walked into the main room of the DEO, past some glass rooms and approached Hank who was standing in front of the various screens and computers on one side of the large room with other DEO agents there.
"Well, if it isn't Agent Danvers and her sister from another planet." Said Hank as he walked up to them.
"She's here to help us fight Vartox." Said Alex with a confident tone.
"I told you I don't trust aliens."
Alex turned to look at Kara and then back at Hank. "There is no one I trust more! Like her cousin she was sent here to help us and if you want anymore of my help, your going to let her."
Before Hank could even reply, a female voice called out, "I found Vartox. Sir. Ma'ams." The woman has a blue dress shirt and black pants, light brown skin and black eyes.
Hank walked up to the woman and Alex and Kara followed. "Where?" Hank asked.
"The sliver of metal you extracted from Supergirl's arm. It has a unique nuclear thumbprint. Satellites picked him up heading towards the city."
"Vartox said he was ready to start killing humans. Looks like tonight's the night."
"Order a strike team to intercept." Said Hank.
"Your men will not be able to stop him." Said Kara with a fierce tone.
"Thank you for your opinion Ms. Danvers." Said Hank in a loud tone.
Kara walked up to the man. "Director Henshaw! People of this city will die because of something I did! I started this, you have to let me stop this." She said in a pleading tone.
Hank gazed into her eyes and only saw pure determination and the sheer amount he saw surprised him greatly but he did not show any emotion on his face. After, a moment of silence he said, "Make sure you win."
Kara nodded and sped out of the DEO, intending to stop Vartox once and for all.
A few moments later with Kara….
Kara just landed on the road some distance away from National City. She then saw a large truck driving towards her and with her super vision, managed to see it was Vartox who was driving the truck.
"Do you have eyes on the target?" asked Hank through the communication ear piece Kara had.
"I got him!" Kara said fiercely before she stood her ground and let the large truck ram into her. This caused Vartox to be launched out of the window thanks to physics while the engine of the truck exploded due to the collision.
Kara walked forward as the entire truck behind her exploded and sent some flaming metal pieces flying everywhere, making her look like quit the badass.
Vartox glared at the woman and grabbed his axe that had conveniently landed right next to him when he was thrown out of the truck. "You never should have come back for more!"
Kara glared at him before launching herself off of the ground and towards him, intending to punch him in the face. Vartox quickly reacted to this however, and dodged the punch and managed to grab her foot but Kara used her other foot to kick him in the face causing him to let go.
Kara landed on the ground and glared at a now angry Vartox who recklessly charged towards Kara but she instantly retaliated with a powerful knee to his chin, sending him flying a few feet upwards and then crashing to the ground. Vartox attempted to get up, only to receive a powerful punch to his face, sending him to crash down to the ground again.
Kara tried to punch him again while he was down but Vartox managed to catch it and land a punch of his own, sending Kara flying backwards while Vartox grabbed his axe that was beside him. Kara flew forward and kicked Vartox on his chest with both of her feet, sending the alien flying backwards, crashing into the flaming truck, causing it to be split in two and then crash to the ground.
Kara ran forward to the down Vartox, lifted him up slightly and launched a devastating upper-cut, causing him to fly into the air a bit and crash into a large chunk of the road that had been taken out due to their fighting. Kara jumped a top the chunk of the road and Vartox took this chance to swing his axe at her but Kara easily dodged by leaning to the side and punching him in the stomach. Vartox then swung his axe backwards towards her head, but Kara ducked under it and punched, Vartox's knee that had become exposed due to the reckless swing. This caused him to kneel in pain.
Kara then used her knee to kick his face again causing him to stumble back a bit. This move was the last straw for Vartox seeing as a how a woman of all people was somehow managing to beat him. So, he took the axe above his head and swung it down onto Kara, intending to slice her body in half but Kara had other plans. She immediately caught the swing by grabbing Vartox's arms and held him there.
She then began channeling her solar radiation power into her eyes and followed the plan like Alex had told her. She eventually launched two beams of blue energy of immense heat that hit the axe on its blade.
Vartox kept trying to push the axe closer towards Kara but it would not move given her strong grip on his arms. The blade of the axe started to turn orange as the entire axe began to heat up due to the heat vision and Vartox finally managed to notice the danger. Due to the self generating atomic charge that powered up the axe reaching a temperature of around 2500 degrees Celsius, anymore heat and the axe would explode.
And that's just what happened after a few more moments of Kara's heat vision heating up the axe, causing it to eventually explode, sending Vartox flying back with a large burn on his face while Kara stood her ground and remained unharmed and unfazed.
She stared at Vartox's bloody and burnt form. "Its over."
"You think I'm afraid? You have no idea what's coming!" said Vartox before he took a small shard of the remains of his axe near him and plunged it through his heart.
This did not make flinch Kara since she had seen quite a bit of death and destruction as a 13-year old kid when a portion of the Chthonic Alliance had invaded Krypton.
"Great job Kara." Said Alex in a proud tone.
"Thanks." Said Kara with a small smile before her heart thumped. It beat loudly and she began to feel something she had not felt in a very long time. The same connection that always sparked when Elros was near her. Her breath stopped as she couldn't believe she was feeling this again.
"Kara, our satellites just picked up a meteor entering our atmosphere. It will crash 2 miles north of your position so thankfully its away from National City." Said the frantic voice of Alex.
Kara heard her sister and looked at the sky, and saw a fire ball heading towards Earth's surface.
AUTHOR NOTES! PLEASE READ!
Well that concludes the first official chapter of this story after the prologue. There are a few differences as I'm sure many of you have noticed when compared to the cannon. Note that while I will be sticking to the cannon for the first season and after that is when I will be deviating to my own arcs of the story which I'm sure you will all find very interesting.
And now its time for Elros arrival but how will the first meeting of Elros and Kara go?
Note that this time around, their will be some development in Elros and Kara's relationship and while it won't be fast, it won't be too slow either. Even though Elros and Kara know each other and Kara loves him, their will be many challenges they have to overcome for their relationship to become real, especially from Elros' side.
So, continue reading and I promise the wait for the chapters will be worth it.
Please make sure to review and give comments on how I can improve my writing or storyline. You can also PM me with questions you may have regarding this story or any other stories I may be doing.
Also make sure to read "Two Legends, One Fate" as I could use support in that story just as I could use lots of support in this story as well.
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