It had been a very long day. Kara had to put up with more psychotic aliens, which had nearly killed her, and she had forgotten to book the appointment Cat had asked for.
She was still wearing the Supergirl uniform and sat in one of the cold offices of the D.E.O., staring off into space. Her hand rested at the side of her face in an exhausted manner, "Maybe life wouldn't be so bad right now if I hadn't gotten in between the alien brawl this afternoon," she thought, rubbing her jaw. Though she thought it was strange that one of the aliens looked human, "I guess even I look human, though I doubt he's from Krypton. Maybe he's from the planet Daxam, or is a shapeshifter like J'onn?" Then there was the suit. Not many aliens wore elaborate costumes other than her cousin or herself -or those humans in that other city Kal warned her about.
"Kara?" A woman called, snapping the supergirl out of her train of thought. Alex stood in the doorway for a long time before proceeding to enter the dark blue room.
Kara glanced up at her Earth sister, "Sorry, what?"
Alex looked slightly annoyed, but repeated what she had said for what seemed to be the fifth time, "I asked if you were alright."
"Oh. Yeah, I'm good. Just lost in thought," Kara replied. She stood up and walked towards her sister, who motioned for her to follow.
The pair left the room and walked down one of the long dark hallways of the DEO. They walked past the laboratories, and several rooms filled with computers, and other technologies. Kara had often wondered what all the machines were for and why humans would need them so much. Sure enough, Krypton had its' share of technology, but it was different, each appliance could perform hundreds of tasks.
Alex continued to talk, "Well you better find yourself again. With Hank out of town, we have to run this place ourselves."
"Well I'm sure you can handle it just fine without me," Kara smiled. She knew J'onn -Hank, couldn't have picked anyone better to run the D.E.O. while he was away. Alex was the bravest person she knew, and was perfectly capable of doing all this without her help.
The two sisters stopped in front of a large window that peered into a dark space. The dark space had a sealed glass-like container inside it. The container was generally used to hold aliens, but with a few exceptions to some people. They could hear yelling from within the room.
Alex turned to Kara, "We can see and hear him, but he can't do the same for us."
Kara winced and listened to what the powered being was yelling.
"-Listen to me!" He hollered, "You have to let me out of here!" The alien was now banging on the small glass-like prison. The sound echoed through the halls of the D.E.O. but many of the workers just shrugged it off. Ever since Supergirl had become affiliated with the agency, anything was considered normal, or at the very least ignorable.
"Poor guy's lost it," Alex said. She was watching the desperate alien throw himself at the glass.
Kara continued to watch him as well. It was strange, his jaw, and those eyes looked familiar. Kara put her hand on Alex's shoulder, "Wait-," she said.
Kara walked into the room to confront the man in the red suit. His arms were outstretched, hands firmly pressed against the glass, and his head looked down at the floor below him.
"Who are you?" Kara's voice was serious, straight forward.
The man's head moved up to look at her; he was surprised. He noticed the cape and the 'S-shield' on Kara's costume. It looked like he was thinking.
"I asked you a question." This time she sounded more stubborn. Kara was determined to get answers from him.
The man dropped his arms and walked a few steps backward, "I'm-" Kara used her X-Ray vision on his mask. "-The Flash."
Her eyes widened as she recognized him. It was the strange man she bumped into earlier. This explained everything: why he was so strange; he must be an alien.
"The Flash?" Alex chimed in as she entered the doorway.
The man paced around the cell, with his hands over his face. He dragged his fingers down his cheeks, letting out a big sigh. He slowly pulled off his red cowl and turned to face them, "Look. My name is Barry Allen, and I'm not from your Earth. I need your help."
"Why should I believe you?" The woman in blue said. This was the red and blue streak he saw earlier. The blonde woman. Now that he could see her up close he noticed a logo like his. She must be some sort of meta, a hero like himself.
The Speedster knew he had to think, and he had to think fast. "-Because you and your city could be in danger as long as I'm kept here," he finally spat out.
"How?" The other woman said in a serious tone. She had shorter brown hair, was wearing all black, and had a gun and its' holster at her side. To Barry, she appeared to be some sort of agent or spy.
Whoever they were, these people did not mess around. Barry knew his argument would have to be good in order for them to listen, assuming they were good guys. He was certain they had to be good guys because the woman's costume certainly did not scream 'supervillain;' it's way too bright and cheery.
The best thing to do was explain things, and do it fast, "There's someone like me, he calls himself 'Zoom'. He wants to destroy me, my friends, and anything else that gets in his path."
"-Why?" The woman was confused. She winced and Barry knew by her expression that she wasn't about to budge (especially by the way the conversation was going). "Probably shouldn't have started with the whole parallel Earth thing first," he thought.
Being the fastest man alive sure had its' downsides, It was so easy to get impatient. Barry started to talk faster and faster, "He wants my power," he continued.
'Who knows what he could do when he reaches full potential,' Barry finished the sentence in his head, before continuing, "You, -uh -"
"Supergirl." The agent said before the metahuman had the chance to speak.
Did these people ever respond with more than one word? Barry continued anyways, "-Supergirl. You're like me, right? Please understand, that if I don't get back to my world soon Zoom could destroy it, and maybe your's too. You would do anything to protect you city - your world right? The longer I'm kept here the more dangerous this gets."
The agent turned to Supergirl, "You don't have to listen to him."
But the meta did not take her eyes off of Barry, "What species are you?"
Barry laughed, "What do you mean? I'm a metahuman-."
"No- that can't be right. Humans can't be like me," Supergirl mumbled to herself, but Barry still heard.
The room was silent for a moment. The agent looked back and forth at the two heroes; their eyes were locked on each other.
"What do you mean -'humans'?" Barry's smile dropped. He was confused. Why would anyone ask that question? Was this a joke?
Supergirl did not respond, her expression was hard to read but, Barry knew she wasn't messing around.
The agent looked at him, "What Supergirl is saying is that there may not be life on other planets where you supposedly come from."
Barry couldn't believe what he was hearing. Aliens? Real? It was something that shouldn't be so shocking to him but it was. All the time he spent studying science and fighting metahumans, actually living the impossible, aliens were so unheard of.
The room was silent as Barry paced around the glass container his powers were regenerating, but not fast enough. Food would definitely help but he figured that it was useless to ask. "Now this is impossible," he thought. Though he was still in shock, he turned back to the acquaintances, "Look alien or not, can you please help me get home?"
"You're not serious are you?" Alex asked her sister. They were standing outside the room where The Flash was being kept.
Kara took her eyes off the window to look at Alex, "Yes I am. I believe him."
What he had said about needing to go home had struck a tone with the Girl of Steel. Though everything was so hard to believe, he did seem sincere, his voice did not waver when he spoke, he couldn't possibly be lying, maybe crazy, but definitely not lying. Either way, she wanted to help, and maybe in return he could help them, "C'mon, Alex we could really use his help taking down- that big purple -Barney."
Alex sighed, "You always have to see the good in everyone don't you?" She was not a very trusting person. Kara always knew that. But Alex usually trusted her judgement, regardless.
Kara gave a manipulative smile to her sister, who was about to give in.
Alex looked through the window, "Fine he gets one chance. If he can prove he is who he says he is, then we can help him get back to his Earth."
Alex and Kara walked in the room where The Flash, Barry Allen, was being held. Kara could tell Alex was still sceptical but she delivered the news anyway, "We're giving you a chance. Prove to us you are who you say you are and we'll help you."
Barry Allen jumped with excitement. It was like he had waited years to hear those exact words, "Great! Give me a blood test." Barry phased through the glass container and zipped out the door faster than she could react.
A gush of wind hit their faces and caused Alex to step back from the force of it. "How-?" Alex was stunned. Kara remained with her arms crossed and did not look away from where he had stood.
In a flash, Barry was back with equipment. "This will prove I'm human. I would have done it myself, but I figured you wouldn't have trusted the results." Barry handed Alex a syringe, microscope, and a glass slide.
Alex and Kara were shocked. Barry finally noticed this, "-Oh don't worry, earlier I was too power drained to vibrate my molecules out of there. -Hey do you have any snacks?"
"-But you still could have-" Alex's stammering voice trailed off. The question had been ignored.
"-Gotten out? Yeah." Barry interrupted.
Kara nodded and then looked at everything Alex was holding. She took the microscope out of her arms, "Well we won't need this. We have computers to analyze that."
"Oh right. This is some sort of military base, isn't it? Had a quick look around.. So of course it would have high-tech stuff." Barry rolled up his sleeve as he talked to Kara.
Alex injected the syringe into the speedster's arm, drawing out some blood. When she had taken the syringe out, the pinhole in his arm healed instantly.
Kara wondered if it was his speed alone that allowed him to do what he does, or if he had other powers as well.
Alex looked at Kara, "Don't let him leave. I'll be right back." Kara's sister made direct eye contact with Barry before walking out of the room with the blood sample.
There was silence between the two for a moment before Barry Allen started to speak, "So what planet are you from?"
"Krypton." She responded. Normally she would think twice before giving information to just anyone, but this guy was different, besides, there weren't too many secrets left to tell that Kal hadn't already spilled to The Daily Planet. Though it was strange that he wasn't aware of her or even Superman himself. "Is there seriously no 'Superman' where you're from?"
She looked on as Barry thought for a moment. He sat down, his eyes looking upward before making eye contact again, "Hmm no. I don't think we have any aliens around on my Earth. We have metahumans and vigilantes, that's about it."
Kara had known about vigilantes, in fact one of her cousin's best friends was one (though he was kind of creepy), but metahumans?
"What exactly is a 'metahuman'?" Kara asked.
"-Normally I'd say it was someone who was affected by the Particle Accelerator explosion in Central City, but there are others who just have different freak accidents and end up with powers now," Barry explained.
"Freak accident?", Kara thought. She spoke to Barry "How did you get your powers then?"
"I got hit by this massive lightning bolt created from the Particle Accelerator and happened to fall onto all the chemicals in my lab. I was in a coma for months, woke up with some pretty weird abilities," He laughed.
"Could anyone have any worse bad-luck?" Kara thought to herself. She continued to speak even though the whole thing was kind of freaky, "Well here the only ones with powers are aliens so a human having powers is pretty spectacular." Kara brought the conversation back on topic.
Barry looked surprised, "Are you kidding?! Having life on other planets is by far cooler!"
The man was silent for a minute and she wondered if he was thinking about what his earth would be like if there were aliens.
Alex walked back in the room, "His DNA checks out. He's definitely human, or at least a mutated one."
Kara looked at Barry who raised his eyebrows and looked at Alex. "That would be the metagene," he corrected.
A phone rang and Barry looked around to see where it was. Alex stuck her tongue out at him when he wasn't looking, and Kara, who noticed this, gave her a dirty look and mouthed 'Alex!'
Kara put a finger to her ear to touch the ringing earpiece. She had forgotten that the earpiece was linked with her phone. "Oh no," she said.
Barry had now figured out where the sound was coming from and looked at Kara.
"What is it?" Alex asked.
Kara turned her head towards her, "Cat Grant's paging me and I haven't booked the exclusive with Oliver Queen!" Kara knew Cat was going to kill her if this did not get done. She sighed and then threw her hand over her mouth, realizing she probably gave away her identity to the new aquintance. Luckily, he hadn't been in National City long, so there was a chance he didn't know Cat, or more importantly, who works for her.
Barry looked confused, "Did you say Oliver Queen?"