Introduction part II

Amidst all the damage portrayed in front of her, Kara stood perplexed at what the woman wearing the black and green light suit, just said. Nevertheless, she grew agitated and demanded information. She went off with the first, casual question she could think of. Although, Kara knew she was a Green Lantern by the small battery symbol on her chest, she really didn't want a dispute to happen just yet.

"How could you be a Green Lantern? I thought Hal-" but she was cut off.

"Hal had to settle a dispute somewhere in another sector of the galaxy. I'm Jade, temporary protector of Sector 2814, in other words, this galaxy now.

"I see."

"Now that I've answered your question, answer mine. What species are you and why have you not checked yourself with the rest of the team? I'm guessing that you didn't stand up against a weird drone unless you had something to prove." Jade responded a bit sardonically.

Due to her classmates and teacher watching her from behind, Kara responded with a whisper while hoping Jade would be courteous to accept her as an ally. "I'm a Kryptonian. I came here about a year ago. Kal-El found me, you know, the superhero known as Sup-"

"So you're her? " Jade interrupted and gasped with disbelief before she went on. "I heard rumors that another of his kind came here." She began circling around Kara, surveying her.

"So then you already know a lot about me." Kara pointed out.

"I also know that Bruce Wayne was the one who gave you that necklace which negates your abilities. Apparently you had caused a bit of mayhem yourself while on your own mission, Batman was not too fond of that and suggested you be under control. Hence, you take off that necklace and you will be shunned from the Justice League…" Jade said letting her voice trailing off.

"You revel in my punishment." Kara declared. "I use this mineral so that I can be human." she said with force.

Smiling, Jade responded "I only-" before an explosion occurred behind her knocking both Kara and her a few inches away. The students a few feet behind them gave shouts. Several cars soon went up in flames. A wall of smoke had been made but a long shadow crept forward and materialized.

Casually, a metallic figure wearing a weird halo with a three-sphere symbol on top of his forehead and a black trenchcoat made his way to both Jade and Kara. The man wore a metallic armor that Kara knew too well. She became angry when she recognized him. So did he.

"Kara Zor-El. I am amazed that out of all the planets in the universe, you manage to come here, to Earth." The figure spoke.

"You know him?" Jade spoke to Kara.

"Oh, we go way back. Don't we?" the figure sneered at Kara. Silent, she could only focus her anger to the highest level possible. "Would you like to know what I did to Argo City?" he took a step forward and sneered.

Kara reached a boiling point and screamed and thus, threw a fist which he blocked and threw her aside. Jade was on her feet and re-activated her green energy suit. Brainiac then threw a laser blasts at Jade but she blocked the blasts creating a green transparent shield in front of her. She quickly withdrew the shield and launched a green laser blast to him. The blast indeed knocked him over several feet to where other cars, now empty shattered as he made contact.

Jade turned to Kara, who lay panting on the ground, bleeding from her forehead and had regained consciousness. "Get away from here! Let me handle this! You are no longer supposed to be fighting, remember?" she then floated and sped off.

Kara only gave Jade a look that signalled disappointment in her and herself. She understood however, that her friends were in significant danger. Getting up, she went to where her classmates were. Jim caught up to her.

"Linda? What's going on? How-" Kara cut him off and merely suggested they keep moving to the exit of the bridge.

"Let's go!" she cried to all of them.

A battle on a bridge was extremely risky and beyond dangerous. The bus had already been destroyed. Students along with other innocent people were running for their lives. All of them hoping they wouldn't be caught in random explosions. Kara continued to lead Jim and the others to safety. Enemy blasts from Brainiac continued to go on without interruption and friendly fire from Jade had to happen unfortunately. Drones were attempting to hit innocent people but merely hit the sides of the bridge. Shaking was occurring and thus, they all stopped. Kara could tell that the mortar was weakening which meant that the bridge was about to collapse any minute.

As she knew it would happened, Kara saw that the remaining section of the bridge tore itself opened due to Brainiac's machinations. How can he be here? she wondered. Several cars from the opposite end fell down where Kara could see there were several interstates below. They were high up.

"Let's go the other way!" the teacher cried out. Suddenly the ground beneath his feet gave way and he fell to his death. The students including Kara gasped with shock. Several cried. The section they were in was beginning to give way and was slowly lowering itself to the large gap. They were about to fall. Slowly each student started to slide down, several stopped and gripped with their hands, hoping they wouldn't fall. Kara continued to slide and was about to reach the end when someone stopped her and grabbed her hand. Looking up she saw Jim, his glasses fell down. He was hanging by a large nail sticking from the ground.

"Hold on!" he cried.

"Jim!"

Kara saw in terror that the nail was about to tear itself loose. Jim saw this as well and attempted to pull Kara up further. Kara saw that a plane hovered in front of the torn section. It was being fired upon by Brainiac drones but it fired back. It slowly made its way down where a young man wearing a small black mask on his eyes was seen pulling the students into the large craft. She recognized the young adult. It was Robin!

"Come on, get in!" Robin cried out to the students were an opened section of his ship opened up. Using the wing as a platform, the students made their way by walking into the ship slowly as they could.

Eventually all the students except for Jim and Kara were collected. Robin was about to pick them when he was knocked down from his ship due to a laser blast. Sliding down, he used his grappling gun. Shooting a rope and pulling himself up, Robin got to the top of the bridge and had no choice but to attack the drones using his weapons. Kara and Jim were still struggling to hang on. Kara found a sharp point of cement to hang on. Suddenly more shaking continued which caused Jim to lose his grip. Kara could not believe what happened next.

Jim fell.

She saw how Jim hit hard to another highway below. He was dead.

Kara cried out for him and now tears were welling up in her eyes. Angered even further, she took her necklace off and launched it below, out of sight. Kara could feel great energy and power flowing through her body now. Rays of sunlight hit Kara and disappeared after what seemed like a few seconds, leaving her breathing heavily. She was repowered.

She flew upward and she could tell students who were pressing their faces to the window were eyeing Kara now with amazement. Kara held nothing back and threw laser blasts at all the drones with her eyes. Kara then used her super-speed to round up all the innocents to a nearby place of salvage. Robin saw her and shook his head.

Kara arrived to where Jade and Brainiac where fighting. Jade was on the ground, apparently her energy had been spent and was about to be defeated. Kara came within a blink of an eye and punched Brainiac as hard as she could. Kara sped off as Brainiac flew threw the wreckage, leaving a stunned Jade behind.

"Uff!"

Brainiac landed what appeared to be a half a mile. He got up with a struggle but Kara was already ahead of him and gave him two powerful crosses to his face. He staggered back, now confused and a bit disoriented and yet he tried to give another hit to Kara. She immediately blocked it with her left and elbowed him in his face with her right arm. With all her might, she yanked it hard, swinging Brainiac around and around until she stopped and sent him roughly to the ground. Using a unique wrestling technique, she put her legs between Brainiac's and pulled it upward, making him scream and tearing it away from his body, electricity spewed from his other end. Kara tossed the arm away in disgust.

Kara then knelt down and pummelled Brainiac relentlessly. Green blood spit off from his nose and mouth. She punched him so hard, they were leaving a crater with them in it. As she raised her fist again to launch the final killing blow, her wrist was caught. Turning around, she saw Kal-El with a serious look on his face.

"That's enough." he had said firmly. Kal-El picked her up away from Brainiac's still body. She looked at him attempting to get an once of empathy. He and Kara flew off to headquarters after she had calmed down.

The League

Standing in the middle of the room was something totally uncalled for. It was also nerve wrecking. Kara stood in a large oval room. It was dark save for a few small lamps seated on the large podium ahead. Countless eyes were watching her from what appeared to be stands. Jade's silhouette was shown. She had already given her testimony as to what happened on the bridge. Despite the dark room, Kara could tell there were three shadows seated. One was large in middle, she immediately knew it was Kal-El, one was a woman with long hair and the other man on the right had two pointy ears on his head. That man spoke first.

"This attack did not go unnoticed by the rest of us. Some of us attempted to intervene." the man's deep voice said.

Kara remained silent. All she could think about was Jim.

"As you should know, you wore that necklace so that you could control yourself better. An incident in which you took down one of Darkseid's soldiers was the case for that. You were reckless and it was your own fault at the time."

Kara felt a tear roll down her cheek. She nodded.

The man continued. "This is the last straw. We see it fit that you be taken to another place and time so that you can better the responsibility of being a super-human."

Kal spoke up now. "Kara, this is the only way you can learn. We tried our best to show you the rules but it seems you're just too stubborn." Kal got up from the podium and made his way to the center of the room where Kara stood.

"Kal, please don't do this! Give me another chance." she pleaded.

"I'm sorry. But until you show you are strong in mind and spirit. I have to send you to some friends of mine." Kal-El then drew out a small golden object, a ring, with an 'L' insignia on it.

Kara eyed it suspiciously.

"Think about a thousand years." Kal-El had said.

Legion of Super-Heroes

The 31st century was extremely complex. Advanced technology that rivaled Krypton's was heavily displayed practically everywhere. Tall buildings stood proudly with many compartments totally accessible to both human and non-humans. Flying vehicles sped by, going on their daily routine. Individuals were going about their business as well. Countless beings flew around the city without the use of machines. Kara was among them. She had a depressed look as she flew by. Arriving to a large building, she made her way down the corridor.

I wonder when it will be time to go back. She wondered. Kal-El said until I had to learn something about being strong, but what is it?

Kara arrived several months ago and met with both Rokk Krinn, Imra Ardeen and Garth Ranzz, both of them referred to as Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl. They were known as the Legion. Her arrival was indeed expected and immediately, they took her under her wing. They had expressed great enthusiasm toward her and what she will be known as. Although they kept the title anonymous.

She did however, faced several battles and together they prevailed against common enemies.

As Kara made her way to the room at last, she saw a familiar looking face waiting for her. He was wearing a purple jacket with a green shirt underneath. Kara knew he was a hero but his face would always bring her hatred. He reminded her of the villainous machine she almost murdered back in the past.

"Hello Kara, how are you?" he asked cheerfully.

"You called for me?" Kara simply asked.

"Yes. I wanted you to see it for yourself. Behold!" Pushing a button on a panel, the ceiling opened up and a large container was settled down. Kara could easily make out the similarity of the container to the pod she was placed by her father back on Argo City. As the container opened, Kara frowned at the figure inside. It was a pale woman with black hair wearing a tight black suit showing her unique curves. Full lips decorated her face. Her eyelashes from her closed eyes gave her sharp features along with her cheek bones, they were hollowed and made the woman even more exotic. She was very beautiful.

"I found this relic and it took me years to find!" he said excitedly.

"Who is she?" Kara asked.

"She is known as the Annihilator." Brainiac 5 replied with awe.