"Yeah! That's what you get for messing with a Luthor!" Lena bragged as she startled her latest foes into submission by suddenly summoning up her Lexosuit. She turned the dial around her watch for a few seconds before slamming her hand back down on the watch's face. In response, her suit sprung to life, unfolding from her wrist and encasing around her entire body until she was completely covered in metal. But then she paused. For some reason, the suit felt... different... today. It felt a bit oversized, too big and baggy, and it felt lighter than usual. It didn't feel as heavy or solid as it usually did. But before Lena could muse too much on why her suit felt different today, a shrill scream interrupted her thoughts.
"Supergirl!" Lena let out a cry of her own when she realized she knew who it was that had screamed. Her wife. The two of them had been ambushing a drug deal and had decided to summon up their suits together. From the way things sounded, though, something had gone wrong for Kara. Lena rushed away as fast as she could, literally running over her attackers to find Kara. What she saw was most definitely not Kara. It was the Lexosuit. What?! Lena quickly looked down at her hand.
"Oh my god!" she gasped. Instead of seeing that familiar, bulky black hand, she was looking at a slim red glove. Then it hit her. At the same time, the Lexosuit turned to her and, just as she expected, it was Kara's panicked voice that emitted from the large metal suit. They must've accidently switched watches while answering this distress call! (Which of course led to them each accidently summoning the wrong suit).
"Lena! Help me! I can't move!"
"Wait. What?! You can't move?!" Lena demanded, rushing over to Kara's side and extending a red-clad hand out to steady her. It felt so strange to Lena to see the Lexosuit like this, flailing around as the person inside of it panicked.
"The suit! It's too tight!" Kara gasped to Lena, still panicking. That was when another epiphany came to Lena. Kara was literally in a tight spot.
But that made perfect sense! Since Lena was smaller than Kara (only by a few inches! Shut up! Don't laugh! Just because she was the smallest one of the Superfriends didn't mean she was the weakest! Jeez!), that explained why wearing Kara's metal suit (affectionately and uncreatively known as the Robosuit) felt so big and baggy on her while Kara wearing Lena's Lexosuit felt unbearably tight! And then Lena remembered that Kara had severe claustrophobia. The poor girl must've been in hysterics, to have a tight piece of metal closing in on her from all sides and angles, perfectly human shaped to wrap her up, and squeezing her tighter and tighter and tighter until she couldn't-
"-move! Or breathe! I can't move! I can't move! I CAN'T BREATHE!" Kara sobbed, jerking uncontrollably around in the Lexosuit. Lena's heart went out to her and she reached out to Kara, begging her to stay calm and focused and stop moving around so much.
"Here! Here! I'm gonna help you get that thing off, ok?" Lena pleaded, trying to physically stabilize the frantic Kryptonian.
"Please, Lena! Please, Lena! Please!" Kara begged and Lena continued to try and hush her. Behind them, their surviving enemies slowly slipped away, hoping to make a clean escape while the Girl of literal Steel had her claustrophobia-induced panic attack.
"Listen, listen, there should be a button on your wrist," Lena continued to speak calmly, gently, touching Kara's arm. "Where the watch used to-"
"LENA! I CAN'T MOVE! It's too TIGHT!" Kara bellowed, and Lena could hear her sob pathetically as she attempted to move her right hand over to her left arm, to the place where the button should've been. Lena was dismayed to see that Kara was correct again.
"I didn't realize I was that small!" the Luthor couldn't help but pout to herself as she watched Kara struggle to touch her left arm. It didn't work.
"Alright, alright, alright, then, stop!" Lena muttered. "Let me do it!" and then she quickly ran around Kara's entombed body, still stuck in the suit that was too big for her (but better too big than too small, as Kara was proving to her). Then she clicked the button. Nothing happened, and Lena genuinely feared that the suit would remain stuck on Kara until they could cut it off of her. Was Kara so large that she had smashed the inside of the Lexosuit? Was the entire thing on lockdown? Had she managed to damage the joints and the hinges of the suit? It didn't seem to be capable of folding up anymore, because Kara's too-large-frame had pushed everything a little out of the way...
Kara's mind ran the same track, and she felt herself hyperventilating. This was even worse than the first time she'd ever been in the Robosuit, because at least that suit fit her! But this one?! She was in a tight spot, to say the least!
"Rao, get me out of here!" she despaired, attempting to reach up and just tear the suit off with her hands. Lena looked loathe to destroy her precious suit, but when the thing refused to start folding up again, she chose to sacrifice the suit for Kara's sake.
"Hang on, Kara!" she muttered, then she grabbed the head of the Lexosuit and pulled up.
28 seconds later, the Lexosuit was nothing but a bunch of smoldering scrap metal on the ground, every piece bent, broken or twisted in some way to some degree. The layers of the suit had all been compressed into one smooth sheet, Kara having finally just burst her way out of the suit, causing it to explode and compress simultaneously. While she literally sobbed with joy, flying around the sky like a maniac, Lena stared down at the burning ruins of her beautiful suit with a rueful sigh. It had taken her far less time to remove her suit, but the moment she tried to trade watches with Kara, Kara had loudly declared that Lena could keep both of them forever.
"I am NEVER using one of those blasted suits again!" she declared and Lena didn't have the heart to try and convince her otherwise.
A week later however, things managed to find a happy ending. Alex and J'onn had managed to apprehend the drug dealers because, when Kara started freaking out in the Lexosuit, she had spent part of her time screaming and crying to Alex and J'onn. They quickly took it upon themselves to come out and help in the fight, catching the bad guys while Lena continued to work on the suit. But even after the criminals had been arrested, their little drug business brought to a sudden halt, Lena's Lexosuit was still ruined beyond repair. But even though that Lexosuit was history, Kara felt bad enough that she personally remade and rebuilt the Lexosuit from scratch and by hand (she did have help of course, from other engineers at the DEO and from some of Lena's blueprints) but most of it was painstakingly done by Kara herself.
Lena had nearly done a backflip when she saw the rebuilt Lexosuit. Even sweeter and cuter, a remodel of the Robosuit stood beside it.
"Oh my god!" she squealed like an excited little child on Christmas. Her nerdy side was coming out in spades.
"I was a little hard on it before," Kara apologized humbly. "And I know I shouldn't have freaked out so badly that day..."
"No! No, don't apologize for that!" Lena interrupted fiercely, touching Kara's arm. "You have claustrophobia, you weren't freaking out! It was a natural reaction! Maybe not a pleasant one, but it wasn't your fault!" she continued to insist passionately.
"Perhaps not," Kara gave Lena a weak smile. She was still amazed by how lucky she was that she was the one Lena had chosen to marry.
"But even so, I still thought it best if I do continue to wear the suit... occasionally... Because I know you only made it to protect me, and I think that's really sweet of you," Kara gave Lena a look that melted her heart, and then suddenly, Kara had leaned over to kiss her. Lena was certain that she had died and gone to Heaven.
"And I did upgrade a few things," Kara continued as she drew away from Lena. Lena almost didn't hear her, head still spinning from the kiss. But she shook her head and managed to wake up long enough to hear what Kara had to say next.
"The new and improved suits have looser material, so to speak, so that if we get stuck in them, we will be able to get back out again without having to explode the suit," Kara winced at the memory and Lena gave her another apologetic look.
"Similarly," Kara continued. "They can remove themselves with voice commands as well as buttons," and the Kryptonian prattled on for a bit longer. From what Lena was getting, the suits were, essentially, a bit less clunky and confining and a bit easier to escape. Understandable. Though Lena did feel a bit embarrassed again...
"But that's not the best part!" Kara said finally. Then she took two small objects from the hands of the suits. They were watches. This time, one had the Supergirl logo on its face and one had the L-Corp logo. They would never mix watches up again. Kara put hers on and clicked a little button and parts of the chests of both suits fell off. Lena jumped in surprise as two pieces of metal clattered to the ground, but what remained underneath made her smile. It was her logo, transposed onto Supergirl's. The "L" went right through the "S", combining their logos.
"You dork," Lena couldn't help but laugh as she and her wife admired the two new robot suits and the matching logos that graced their chests.
"What can I say? I'm a hopeless romantic," Kara grinned adorably.
"No really? I never would've guessed," Lena pretended to roll her eyes, but then all thoughts flew from her mind once again as Kara leaned in for another kiss. This one lasted much longer than the first.
AN: Here Blackpaw29! Here's your prompt where the two goobers accidently switch suits (which happens when they accidently grab each other's watches before the events of the story).