A new Karry Universe and Power Girl update all on one day? We do spoil you…
So, before I start I'd like to do something unusual and dedicate an episode or two to you guys, my readers. I may do this each week depending on how I feel about it, but first and foremost I'll like to dedicate my previous episode ('The Canary and the Siren') to my friend, and reviewer, Wandering Browncoat – if it wasn't for her I wouldn't have even got into Arrow in the first place and so would not be into the entire Arrowverse collection. While we both disagree with Laurel's death, we're now debating on watching season five of the parent show at all (to those who watch Arrow, please agree with me here that Arrow has become 'Felicity and Friends' more than anything), but we're both still very much dedicated to the other shows and love Flash and Supergirl particularly. So Browncoat, episode three was for you.
This chapter however has to go out to CharmedMillie – Karry Master, my beta. She started my obsession toward Barry and Kara and without her, this whole story literally wouldn't exist – like some twisted version of Flashpoint. So CharmedMillie, even though you know what's to happen in this chapter and the next few, this one's for you.
Everyone else, I hope you like. Your reviews are honestly what keeps me going and is what's made me do these dedication-things.
Episode Four – Return to Earth-3.
Kara was alone.
It was the first time, really, since she had come back to National that she found herself on her own. Of course she was used to being by herself; at ARGUS she had spent plenty of time on her lonesome – studying American, and by extent general Earth, history, researching space to see if she could identify where her originator's home planet could be – if it existed in this universe – and of course, sleeping. She'd spent a lot of time with Alex too.
True, her strength was unfathomable, making it hard to fight with others without breaking them in half, but they had found ways of countering this, particularly back at ARGUS where they had several really strong metas working for them that were nearly more than a match for Kara herself. Practicing with her freezing breath, heat vision, and X Ray vision and, to an extent, flying didn't really need physical opponents, and so those were the skills she had been practicing since she'd found herself back in Central.
But now that Alex had to leave and Kara refused to go with her, wanting to stay near her adoptive family and Barry, she found herself alone, wondering what her purpose in this world actually was. Everyone had a purpose didn't they? Alex's was to help metas and people like Kara; Barry's now was to save people and run really fast; even Iris West had a purpose, a passion to write for her Central City Picture News thing, but what did Kara have?
She had super powers and no clue how she came to possess them, in all honesty. She felt she had no place in the world beside that which she made for herself and wasn't yet comfortable to follow in the footsteps of Barry into superhero-dom. Was she even cut out for that? Alex had shown her superhero fluff pieces on the television from networks and movie conglomerates and they all seemed to follow that ideology that 'with great power, comes great responsibly' – she had great power, that was undeniable, but did she want to accept that responsibly yet?
Her originator must have, being that 'Supergirl' person on both the worlds Barry had visited. She wondered what those Karas had felt, what they had gone through and dealt with to become the superheroes that Barry had met. Could she, Kara Wells, ever live up to that kind of legacy?
"You alright, Kara?" Cisco's voice seemed to wake Kara from her reverie. In fact, it had woken her from actual sleep. She had been by Jesse's bedside, their father working with Joe on something – more than likely secure holding facilities strongmen couldn't just break through – and Kara, having nothing better to do, had gone to her foster sister's side, lost in thought that she had actually drifted off.
"Hmm?" She looked around to him, "yeah, I'm… yeah."
"You don't look 'yeah'," he pointed out sweetly, moving over to her and taking the other chair next to the clone, "if anything, you look a bit lost. Anything you wanna talk about? Happy to be your sounding board; I'm most people's sounding board, actually…"
"It's nothing, just thoughts, you know?" Kara smiled politely at the man; she liked him, he was quirky and a good team player with the others – she was glad of his company.
"What does a clone think about?" Cisco couldn't stop himself voicing this, "I mean I know you're a person, not exactly a human being, but it's not like you can remember and reflect on stuff like your childhood or wonder where old friends are; you have a limited memory and that must suck."
Kara raised her eyebrow but smiled nonetheless. "Yeah, it does suck. I don't have many memories but… you could help actually." It was like a lightning bolt had struck her, and not the same sort that had hit Barry – she wanted to know what her originator felt like, what her childhood was like, what made her the superhero she had obviously become – well, she could ask her!
"I could?" Cisco looked hesitant, a little worried even.
"You said, the other day, you can open portals to other worlds. You even offered to throw some metas of Duplicate's gang onto the desolate Earth-5!"
"You heard that?" Cisco was shocked; what they had done with Duplicate, how they had stopped her the second time, Kara wasn't part of that, unless Barry had told her?
"Super-hearing, Mr. Ramone," she stated airily, although using the formal name like her foster father did.
"Oh." He'd momentarily forgotten about that. "But I can't just open a portal to a world I haven't been to – I can't even open them from other worlds, or at least I haven't tried. It's… it's pretty intense. But I could do something else for you."
"What's that?" Kara was intrigued, but she hadn't yet given up on the idea of going of Earths 3 or 4 and was insistent on pestering the meta until he complied. She'd have her way.
There was a fierce glint to Cisco's eyes now as he jumped from his seat, Kara doing the same – although not before gripping Jesse's hand for a moment in personal reassurance – before following him out to the corridor. Cisco was almost bouncing now as they moved down the circular corridor until he stopped, turning to one of the blank walls and touched what looked like a very faint outline of a handprint – obviously an almost-hidden palm-recognising lock of some type.
Instantly a doorway appeared – the section of wall sinking back an inch before moving to the side.
"I got the idea from our Fake-Well's secret room we hid Jesse and Wally in to protect from Zoom; obviously this room is part of the plans, I just sort of hid the doorway and updated the plans to remove the room to make it a somewhat-secret," Cisco explained as they moved through, Kara instantly noticing what looked like a similar layout to the Cortex, although lacking in furnishing or extra off-shoot rooms, but her eyes were instantly drawn to the three mannequins standing in the centre of the space.
One was bare, but the other two wore suits Kara had never seen before, at least not from anyone working in STAR – they were both molded to a female from, both similar in generic look to Barry's and presumably made from the same materials, but the colours were different. One was yellow and red, although more red than yellow – she could tell it was made for a speedster, mainly due to the lightning bolt logo just off-centre, near the heart. Its boots were red with a yellow trim, there were no gloves, but a mask, not too dissimilar to that of the Green Arrow's, was matching in colour to the boots set upon the mannequin's head.
The other outfit was off-white. There were, again, no gloves, the boots were a very pale blue colour with a white trim and the mask that covered the eyes, just like the female speeders', were wholly off-white, but with a light-blue trim to it too. There was no symbol to indicate what group of heroes it could belong to, at least out of the two she knew.
"Yours and Jesse's," Cisco stated, making Kara jump as she'd quite forgotten that he was there. "I had both of your measurements on file – you from when you first came to us and Jesse's more recently – so I thought 'why not?'. Harry wants Jesse to become a speedster, or at least that's the vibe I got off him, no pun intended, and as for you…" Kara looked back at Cisco now, an urgency to her gaze as he smirked to her that boyish grin he supported when he seemed to know more than he was letting on, "Destiny" he stated simply.
"Destiny?" Kara almost scoffed, glancing back to the outfits nonetheless and noting that, unlike Barry's, her collar didn't cover the neck and stopped just above where her collarbone was situated, probably to give her the freedom of neck moment Barry didn't necessarily need. That was the same with Jesse's. "Have you thought up names for either of us yet? The superheroes we're destined to be?"
"For once, no. I mean Harry calls Jesse his 'Jesse Quick' but I'm hardly willing to put her first name out there to the public, and 'Quick' alone is a little… eh. Your other selves were called Supergirl though, so, I dunno."
"Not Supergirl," Kara suddenly moved, turning away from the suits, "not anything, at least, not yet."
She moved back the way she'd come, the door opening for her as she passed through it and strode out, again lost in thought. Cisco had gone far already in making her, and even Jesse, outfits, but Kara didn't feel like she deserved it. How could she when she had nothing to fight for, no lives to want to protect? All she had was ARGUS and just over a month's worth of memories, that wasn't enough.
"Hey, Kara wait!" Cisco ran up to her, Kara not bothering to speed up, as she nevertheless didn't stop walking either. "Didn't you like them? Was it the name? I was thinking Superwoman would be more effective but –"
"It's not the name, it's not the outfit Cisco… I just want to know who I am before I go about saving people as Super… thing." She couldn't even think to utter the name, "I just want to know who I am."
"Back to opening a breach to Earth-3 or 4 then, huh?" Cisco asked worriedly.
"Yes" Kara responded, bluntly herself.
"I don't understand. Why is this so important to you?" Cisco asked, trying to get a feel for this, to truly know what was going through Kara's head. This urgency had appeared to come on so suddenly.
"You couldn't understand," Kara said a little bluntly. "You have your life. A childhood, a purpose, friends, family. You know who you are. I don't have anything."
"You have us," Cisco reasoned.
"None of you can tell me who I am… what I am," Kara persisted. "I'm not human. Not really. There's a world out there with a history I don't know. A part of me is missing – a void of sorts – and you can't give me what is needed. I'm sorry Cisco, but here's only one person who can tell me about where I come from, the person I come from. I have to find the original Kara."
Cisco sighed as he heard Kara's speech and could hear the passion in her voice. He knew she needed this so all he could respond with was, "I think we gotta ask Barry, man."
-PowerFlash-
"Just concentrate on Kara." Barry had returned to STAR right after work – he couldn't take more leave or else he'd be fired – having found Kara and Cisco in debate in the Cortex. Finding out what Kara wanted to do, Barry knew there were risks but had instantly been on board with the idea. He had only come across both Earth-3 and 4 by accident however, so he couldn't guarantee safe passage to either, or if they'd find another Earth with yet another Kara/Supergirl on it too.
Caitlin and Ray, the latter having decided to remain in Central 'for now', had wound up in the Cortex as well to find out Kara's new plans; Caitlin was worried, Ray however, intrigued. The concepts of other Earths he knew about – after traversing through time, the ability to go to parallel worlds was suddenly not as ludicrous as previously thought, after all – but finding out Cisco was the key in that, that he could open portals to other worlds was amazing. All he needed to do was concentrate.
"I'm looking, it's… it's hard to do," Cisco spoke, having his Reverb glasses on, a hand outstretched. Originally Vibe had to find the correct location to breach places, the weakest point in the universe's structure, but recently, maybe due to use of the Magnetar or his more willingness and acceptance of his powers, he'd found that anywhere was as good as spot as any. He'd been practicing with Caitlin actually, away from Barry. The Flash had been through enough not to let this worry him too.
"Please…" Kara whispered to Vibe, her eyes on Caitlin now. Caitlin had been the first to go against traversing to another Earth again, after all, their first attempt had brought that monster, Zoom, to their shores, but Kara needed this. She needed to know who she was, where she came from, how to control herself. She just had to know. So they had planned. Cisco would open the breach, Kara and Barry would go through, they'd find that world's Kara, give her clone time with her and then precisely six hours after opening the first breach, Cisco would open another for Kara and Barry to return through. The last of this plan had been what worried Caitlin the most.
What if Barry and Kara didn't come through? Could they risk sending someone else through to find them? Would something worse come out? Both the Karas that Barry had come across had had rather nasty uncles bent on some sort of world domination – what if he had succeeded and either, or both, Karas were dead, the world in a terrible state? It was risky, but there was nothing they could do about that. If Barry and Kara didn't come through in six hours' time, Cisco would close the breach, Vibe for Barry and then… well.
"Wait… I think… yes, I see… somewhere. I don't know which, but I see Kara… long hair… blue suit… red cape, yes, like you described Barry." There was excitement in Cisco voice, he having found what he hoped to be true.
"Open it," Barry stated defiantly, glancing to Kara – who was now, for once, in normal civilian clothes: a full length florally blue dress and dull red sweater with bright red sneakers. She had picked the sneakers out herself, they being part of Central City's exclusive 'Flash' collection – before looking back to Cisco, who's hand was shimmering with blue light.
Kara gasped as the rippling blue light expanded, Barry quickly moving her behind Cisco, as what looked like a body of sparkling, shimmering, water exploded from Cisco's hand, large enough for a human to pass through as it's light cast an ethereal blue glow about the room.
"It's now or never," Cisco breathed as Kara grabbed Barry's arm, a little too tight, and he pulled on his mask. There was a flash of golden light and the Flash and the cloned alien girl were gone.
-PowerFlash-
Barry stopped as quickly as he could, passing straight through the blue vortex from one world into the other, coming to a pause in a beautiful, picturesque landscape, the sun shining down on him. It was just as he remembered when he'd saved Kara and took her to the safe spot before. Surely here was where she'd stripped off her burning clothes to reveal the suit underneath? This was surely Earth-3.
He looked for landmarks; trying to figure out which direction National City must have been and came to a pause, the shining light of the late-afternoon sun reflecting off the buildings some miles away. Even from this distance Barry could see the two biggest company names almost glaring at him: CatCo and Lord Enterprises. He chuckled to himself as he remembered Kara telling him about Cat and Max's rivalry.
On the lookout for Central, to see if it stood next door to National as on Earth-4, he instead heard Kara cry Cisco's name, Barry looking to her to see her speed off the way they had come, he following her to find Cisco, indeed, lying unconscious on the grass. No portal to be seen.
"Cisco?" Barry crouched down, gently slapping the man on his face to see if he could wake him. Barry looked up to Kara on Cisco's other side, "What happened? Did you see?"
"I didn't! I just saw him… Barry, how are we going to get back?"
"We'll worry about that when we get to it," Barry told her quickly, trying not to think about that himself as he slapped Cisco much harder across the face.
"Zoom!" Cisco shot up, almost knocking both Barry and Kara aside as he looked about in panic. "He was here… where's here…? Barry?"
"We're on Earth-3," Barry stated softly, "you weren't meant to come with us. What about Zoom?"
"He came out of the breach the moment you and Kara went in…" He looked directly at Barry, "only it… he looked horrible, like one of those time wraiths, all… corpse-y." Barry felt the pit of his stomach drop as he looked away from Cisco, remembering the dreams that had plagued him since Zoom's apparent defeat – the black wraith chasing him through time – that had first really cropped up the night Kara had returned to his life. "Barry? If we're on Earth-3, how are we going to get back?"
"You can't just tweak your glasses?" Kara tried, Barry still not looking at them now.
"Do you see my Vibe glasses around?" Cisco snapped, Kara instantly realising what Cisco meant – he wasn't wearing the glasses now and they weren't anywhere around him either. They really were stuck.
"I might know a guy who could help you rig something up," Barry's voice was slow as he looked around again to Cisco, a small smile on his face. "I'm sure you and he will get on like wildfire. I may actually regret this." He stood, nodding to Kara who couldn't help but smile as Cisco sighed and stood himself.
"If it's the Harry of this Earth I may just scream. Two different Harrison Wells' in my life is one Wells too many." He groaned, aching a little from being pulled through the breach.
Barry turned to him. "I'm going to have to carry you, it's a bit of a walk to National from here." Cisco shrugged as Barry scooped down and picked his friend up in his arms. "Oh, getting a little heavy there," Barry couldn't help but joke, "you should lay off the fast food!"
"Hey, not all of us have super-fast metabolism!" Cisco complained as Barry nodded for Kara to follow him.
In a matter of seconds, they stood in a room, the walls unpainted and a lonely desk with computers on, and Cisco felt a little motion sickness. Barry dropped him into the only couch in the room and turned to Kara, "We're in CatCo media; where your doppelganger works, hopefully she's still here so… Kara?" Before he could finish, Kara had gone, a look of glee on her face as Barry now groaned. "You, wait here!" he addressed Cisco, changing into street clothes in a nanosecond and vanishing after Kara.
-PowerFlash-
Cat Grant of CatCo Worldwide Media was having a bad day. Not only was she regretting letting Supergirl – sorry, Kara – go as her assistant, but her replacement was nothing short of a millennial idiot. She couldn't fire this new one yet, the union would have Cat blacklisted with the amount of assistants she had had since Kara had been promoted, but right now Cat wanted to pull her hair out.
Not only that, but the article on Superman's defeat of Darkseid had been claimed by Perry White right from under Cat's nose. True, anyone could run any article they liked, but Perry still had a hold of Cat in a way the media mogul didn't like to admit – and if he got first run of an article, it meant any that followed would just be a rehash of the Daily Planet's initial coverage; Kara wouldn't get the recognition she deserved that way. It was a shame as Kara had even written a lengthy and, surprisingly unbiased, article that CatCo could just no longer print. This would have been Kara's biggest article to date since her report of Supergirl's defeat of Non and the Myriad device and would have put Kara on the top along with, well maybe not Cat or Perry themselves, but maybe Lois Lane. Cat wanted that for Kara, even if she didn't show it.
"Claire!" Cat called for her millennial assistant, not looking up now from the stationary computer screen as she read the quite menacing email from Perry. "Oh where is that girl?!" Cat looked over to her assistant's desk, not finding the girl there but then paused.
Kara was wandering the floor, looking lost and supporting shorter hair than she had seen of her former assistant. "Keira?!" Cat now called to the girl, who looked over to Cat, shrugged and moved toward the office.
To add to Cat's intrigue of Kara's new look, a familiar man seemed to appear out of nowhere. Before he could move to Kara though, the secret superhero had entered Cat's office with a smile, Barry Allen forcing himself to walk up behind her and nod to Cat.
"How lovely to see you again… Flash," Cat stated, Kara's eyes going wide as Barry moaned. He obviously hadn't known Cat Grant had figured out who he was when he'd first been here. "And Kara, I like the look! It suits you, shorter hair. Was I an inspiration, I wonder?"
"I'm sorry, Ms. Grant –" Barry started, Kara not even knowing where to begin.
"I would like to know Mr. Allen" Cat cut him off, "how you became the scarlet speedster? Every city seems to have its superhero mascot; Supergirl for here of course, Superman for Metropolis, there's even the rather dully named Starman of Opal City, but you… Central City had a Flash, but he was much older than you, not too old of course, he could have passed as your father, but he vanished about a year ago, taken by a blue blur and neither has been seen since. When you appeared in Central two months ago I thought, well, you can understand I'm sure but, then not a word of you, or the Flash since, either… I have to wonder…"
"I don't know what to say Ms. Grant," Barry honestly didn't know, but Cat only pulled a small smile as she leaned back in her chair and he tried to take in all that Cat Grant had revealed. When he had first come here the only heroes he'd been told about were Supergirl and Superman, they clearly being the favourites of the bunch or he just being in Supergirl-territory and so none of the others were mentioned. Now he was being told of other heroes on this world and one of them was very familiar – worryingly familiar, in fact. Before he could think more of it, Cat Grant started talking again.
"So, what do I owe the pleasure of your return? You're a bit late to help Superman. Incidentally, Keira, your article I cannot run, as much as I would like to; Perry outmanoeuvred us there."
"Um, Ms. Grant?" Another Kara by the door, looking in and only seeing the backs of Barry and her other self, knocked on the glass pane and Cat did a double-take. So did this Kara as Barry's Kara turned to look at her double. "Oh boy…" Cat's Kara muttered, but couldn't help smile when she saw Barry.
"I think some explaining is in order!" Cat now stood up from her desk.
"Twin sister!" Barry almost shouted, turning back to Cat, whom raised an eyebrow. "Well, I'm Kara's cousin, aren't I? These two were separated at birth and only recently came back together, I suppose Kara didn't want to let you into her private life and we both thought we'd surprise her. You know, an evening drink and whatnot…" Barry tried.
Of course Cat didn't believe the Scarlet Speedster, but she was good at maintaining a poker face and knew she'd get some sort of full story from her Kara in the end, so forced a small smile. "Well, that's… lovely. What should I call your shorter haired… sister?" she addressed her Kara at this.
"Keira!" Barry, again, almost shouted, wanting to slap himself at the same time for using Cat's nickname for the superhero. How could he be so stupid?
"Really?" Cat really did have a hard time keeping her poker face this time. "Well then Barry, Keira… if you wouldn't mind, I'd like a private word with Ker– Kara before she obviously clocks off for the weekend." Cat stood down as politely as possible as Barry gave Kara Danvers a knowing looks while he traversed a slightly shocked Kara Wells from the office. It looked like another lie had given Miss Wells an identity, and they hadn't even been back on Earth-3 for ten minutes!
"Barry?!" They had barely left the office when the familiar tones of Winn Schott Jnr met Barry's ears and he couldn't help but turn and smile at the young man, who didn't even wait for permission to give the speedster a hug. "Nice to see you! What are you doing back? Kara, when did you…?" He was pulling out the hug when he saw the Kara in the office with Cat and the Kara next to Barry, looking politely lost.
"She's from my Earth," Barry responded simply, to Winn's somewhat knowing look as Barry continued, "I'm actually going to be needing your help. I brought a friend, computer genius, who is going to need your help in making a device he's familiar with. He's actually in the Supergirl Office." He referenced the room he'd left Cisco in, the one Winn himself had claimed as the Regular Joe's base of operations outside the DEO.
Winn nodded as his eyes befell his Kara, walking from the office. Barry's Kara, or 'Keira', seemed to be watching her double with a steely gaze, but before she could even voice what she planned on asking her, Barry moved in front and between the two Karas.
"Nice to see you again, Mr. Allen," Kara Danvers grinned to her friend, "and to see me for the first time." She nodded to her counterpart. "I think we better go somewhere private to get a full scope of what's happening. I'm beginning to think this won't be a quiet weekend after all."
In the Supergirl Office, Cisco had already made himself at home; easily hacking into Winn's account to research the girl known as Supergirl, the original Kara, to have an understanding of exactly what made the woman so powerful, and was just on the synthetic 'Red K' Kryptonite incident when the door opened and Barry, two Karas and an ordinary-looking man entered the room. Cisco didn't bother to pretend he had been doing nothing in the time he'd been left alone.
"Cisco, this is Winn. Winn – Cisco," Barry introduced, Cisco jumping up now and shaking the guy's hand.
"I've been looking at your work so far – it's good! Considering you're doing all this pretty much on your own…"
"I have James to help," Winn quickly interrupted, referencing Superman's best friend and his co-worker.
"Where is he anyway?" Barry turned back to Winn, generally curious.
"Metropolis. Supes just took on some big bad called Darksied and, well, James thought he'd be more use up there than here at the moment. Been a bit quiet since Kara stopped her uncle and his mind control device…"
"So that was his plan?" Barry looked to Kara Danvers now, already getting too involved in this Earth and forgetting his goal here, despite two Karas being in his vision. "Mind control? Yeesh!"
"Yep, but I saved everyone, killed him and flew Fort Rozz back into space." Despite the glee in her voice at her achievements, there was a noticeable sadness to her eyes, something Barry knew all too well when it came to taking a life. Kill or be killed.
"Yeah, and I hacked into its computer system and flew the prison ship right back to where it came from," Winn added giddily, "cos you know a lot of those prisoners would have spacesuits available and still be able to get back here even if their base was no longer on the surface."
"Neat!" Barry grinned, "Back to the remains of Krypton or the Phantom Zone?" Kara had told him all about how she got to Earth and how Fort Rozz had followed her out of the Zone the last time Barry had been here.
"Phantom Zone," Winn smirked.
"You flew a space ship, via remote, into deep space?" Cisco asked, amazed now, a whole new respect for the 'ordinary-looking man' in front of him.
"Yep. Was relatively easy, like a game. Actually reminded me of Stellaris…"
"No way! You have that here? I'm on it all the time when I'm not helping Barry out or, you know, working!" Cisco was geeking out around this other techno whiz kid and Barry couldn't help but smirk at the pair – Earth-3's Kara seemed to be enjoying the exchange too, curious of Barry's version of Winn more than anything.
Earth-1's Kara however was both intrigued by the exchange and getting increasingly annoyed at not getting the answers she had come here to readily seek, and only when both boys stopped to breathe did she force herself to speak before the whole group got lost in irrelevant conversation again.
"As fun as that is, that's not why we're here Barry, is it?"
"Oh, yeah, good point," Barry admitted, rubbing a hand to the nape of his neck in mild embarrassment, looking to his Kara before he looked to the original. "My Kara here, she's a clone."
Winn's eyes now focussed on the shorter-haired woman, curious at the reveal of her origins. Kara Danvers paused, gazing at her counterpart and then back to Barry. "I'm sorry; a clone?" Kara asked having just assumed this was just Barry's Earth version of her. She had been ready to ask Barry how he found her and what they were doing here.
"Stray piece of hair… a meta who could clone… it's a long story," Barry said dismissively, taking a breath and not sure how to continue.
Kara Wells though continued from Barry's pause, addressing her other world twin: "I was made – created, born, whatever you want to call it – about two months ago now and have no memories of anything before that; no childhood, no school, no awkward teenage moments… I wanted to find you, Kara of Krypton to find out more, to get insight into who I am, who we are, and maybe then I can feel I have a place in the universe."
Kara Danvers' expression changed from that of curiosity to genuine sadness as she put a kind hand on her clone's shoulder. "My past is my own, Kara – Keira… I wouldn't wish it upon anyone else, but I see your point, I see why you need to know who you are. Is there no Clark Kent on your Earth, no Superman?" She looked to Barry at this who shrugged and shook his head. "Oh." Kara Danvers briefly wondered what Krypton history was on Barry's Earth – questions she would probably never get answers for.
"Are you not going to help me? To help yourself?" Kara Wells asked, dejected and suddenly a bit angry, "Because if you want me to fight you for something, I'm willing…"
"I think we'd be an equal match," Kara Danvers winked to her clone at this, "besides I don't want to fight you for it. I don't want to give you memories I would kill to have taken away – the heartache and the disillusionment."
"But I want that! I want to know what it was like growing up on Krypton, on our home; I want to know what our parents were like, the language we spoke. Even the hardships, the loss and heartache. I need that. I can't be anyone if I'm not you. If I'm not Kara of Krypton."
"Kara Zor-El," Danvers corrected in a deadpan tone, a million thoughts and ideas running past her mind while the three men watched them in silence, "of the House of El" she continued. "If you want to be Kryptonian, houses are important. Mine – ours, was one of the most powerful until the destruction of the planet."
"See! Even I didn't know that! How am I meant to be Kryptonian, how can I embrace who I am if I don't even know where I come from, what my history is meant to be? I mean, I know it's not meant to be the same – I'm a clone after all – but what's the point in living if I have nothing to live for? No memories –"
"Shush," Kara Danvers muttered holding up a hand. "You don't need to convince me anymore. Clark told me his Fortress of Solitude has a magnitude of alien tech, including… yeah… I hope it will work. Kara… what's your last name on the other Earth?"
"Wells," Kara Wells couldn't help but smile at this, fond of Harry whom she had welcomed back in her life pretty quickly. Fond even of her adoptive sister, who she had yet to really meet while she was unconscious.
"Kara Wells? Not bad. Well then, Kara Wells, we're going to take a trip to the North Pole!" Kara Danvers grinned, giving Winn a knowing look.
"I'll come too," Barry immediately interjected, not wanting to be away from the Karas.
"No. If Supergirl is out of town, then The Flash will be needed to keep an eye out for any misfortunes that may befall National." Kara Danvers warned Barry, whose face fell at this.
"But Winn said, since your uncle…" he tried.
"Doesn't mean this weekend's going to be quiet. Lex Luthor's strange sister is in town and giving Maxwell Lord a run for his money, and you know what a pain in my ass Max is," Kara Danvers pointed out.
"Nice try, man," Cisco patted Barry on the back at this seeing the face Barry made.
"See you soon then, Barry" Kara Wells moved forward, a gleeful look on her face as she pecked Barry on the cheek then moved back.
"Do you know how to fly?" Danvers asked.
"Sure. Pretty good with manoeuvring – was the first thing I really perfected with Alex," Wells stated.
"You know Alex?" Danvers grinned, glad that at least her adoptive sister still existed on Barry's Earth. "Right, anyway, follow me." In a second, Kara Danvers' clothes were on the floor, a flash of blue and red streaking out of the open window as she was followed by her double in the casual attire.
"Two Karas…" Winn stated, a little dreamily as he stared at the spot they had been.
"That was so cool!" Cisco added, either about the exchange, the flying, Kara's Super-suit or all three, but then he seemed to come back to himself as he added to Barry: "So is Winn the guy who can help me make my Vibe goggles?" Barry nodded, eyes still on the open window.
"Vibe goggles?" Winn asked, suddenly distracted and intrigued.
TO BE CONTINUED…
