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Rating: Light fiction for young readers and fans of the movie. Keeps within the Supergirl movie (1984) universe.
Summary: This story takes place 2 months after Kara has returned to Argo City with the Omegahedron. Having tasted life as a human, she longs for the excitement she had as Supergirl while at the same time longing for the company of Lucy, Jimmy, and Ethan. Seeing the sadness of their daughter, Alura and Zor - El decide that maybe letting her go visit the planet will help lift her spirits. Kara's return to earth proves to be a learning experience for her as she learns more about the people she had once left behind.
Selena's Revenge
They watched in silent horror as Selena performed a silent incantation that slowly and eerily restored her to her former high priestess self. The same mean look in her eyes had returned, as well as the boasting carriage that can be expected of a women who considers the world hers for the taking. A chill crawled up Kara's spine as she was forced to remain motionless as her arch nemesis walked out into the open space and mixed with the people ogling the hyper-pod.
Selena heard everything the people were discussing. So, the hyper-pod belonged to a super being who was not Superman.
" Velieris Mihi ! " Selena commanded the dark forces that she felt were strong around her.
She disappeared from sight and walked past the barriers, examining the craft up close, looking over the S emblem on its top as she levitated by uttering "Levi! , looking for a way in.
Indeed Selena had learned many things while she was at the Phantom Zone. The scientists and Elders of Krypton who were banished there for their crimes against Kryptonopolis were very helpful in helping her learn more about the dark side, the capabilities of the Omegahedron and how she could command the dark forces even while trapped in the zone. However, she learned how to get out of the Phantom Zone on her own. By combining what she knew of dark magic and the mystical powers of the Kryptonians, stolen from those she killed with her bare hands, she was able to disguise her true intentions and trick the white magic that guarded the zone gates.
Surely there was an incantation that would open the gates of this magnificent machine. She would need to do this later, when the crowds were gone for the night. In the meantime, it was time to look for the wimp who banished her to the Phantom Zone. Indeed, Selena knew Linda's secret, and she was not going to stop until she had destroyed both Linda and Kara. She no longer wanted Ethan, but she was going to be damned if She, the Lady of Dread and the Mistress of Slaughter would allow herself to be defeated in a battle. This machine would be her ticket towards getting rid of Supergirl and dominating Midvale, before she took over the world.
Using her X-ray vision, Kara saw everything that Selena was doing but did not want to alarm her friends nor give away her secret.
"What do you see Linda?" Ethan asked in a hushed tone, noting the fear and concern registering on his girlfriend's face.
"Let's get out of here. Fast." she told the group.
"Why? What's wrong? We need to keep an eye on Selena." Lucy protested.
"And fight her with what Lucy? You know what she did the last time. Do we look like we can defeat her? Do you see Superman around? I'm with Linda on this one. " Jimmy answered.
"But where will we go?" She feared that no place in Midvale was safe from Selena. The witch had after all, burned an old man for asking her to bring the phone lines back up and froze a young woman for demanding her ouster from Midvale openly.
"She hasn't started attacking anybody yet. Let's head to Frostee's. We need to pretend she isn't here until we can figure something out." Linda ordered. The last thing she needed was for her friends to be caught once again in the battle that she knew she would have to fight soon. This was certainly not the earth visit she had envisioned.
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Zor-El and Allura were huddled in conference in their quarters. Their daughter needed help. With Selena back on earth and still seemingly connected somehow to the Omegahedron, it would be next to impossible for Kara to do successful battle with her. It was a relief to both them and the council when, after Selena exited the portal, it closed itself and did not allow any others to pass through.
"Our daughter needs her cousin beside her right now Zor-El. But he does not know her and we have no idea where in the galaxy Kal-El is." Allura worried as she continued to watch the screen that allowed them to monitor Kara, now dressed as Linda and working her shift at Frostee's.
He continued to tinker with some sort of wand like communicator device beside his wife. He knew that a day like this would eventually come and he had long before been working on the communicator, a request from his brother Jor-El that was never put to use because Kyrpton exploded before he could finish the father and son communicator device. He had modified the equipment to now broadcast from inner space into hyperspace at a frequency that only Kal-El would be able to hear.
"Give me time Allura, I am working on a solution that will be of sure help to Kara. In the meantime, trust in Kara. We have to believe that she will be able to care for herself."
"But Zor-el..."
"I am working as fast as I can!" he picked up the device and left the room. He headed to the binary chute and recorded a message into the device before hurling it into inner space.
"Kal-El, if you can hear this, I want you to know that you are not alone. There is another Kryptonian on Earth right now. Your cousin Kara. She needs your help. You must go back to Earth immediately and assist her. She is facing the battle of her life Kal-El. I am Zor-El, your uncle and Kara's father. I beg you to help my daughter. The two of you are the last remaining descendants of the House Of El. It is your duty to protect her just as it her duty to protect you. Hurry Kal-El, Kara does not have much time."
The wand flew through inner space with a blast of light and made its way through outer space with a mission to fulfill. But would it find Kal-El in time?
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Selena walked through the city without any real direction. The carnival had been destroyed during the battle with Supergirl. She had morphed the carnival into the mountain castle that disappeared instantanously when Supergirl banished her to the Phantom Zone. At that very moment, she had no ally, and no place to stay. She needed a place to think and plan her next moves.
The Greasy Wrench Bar was the only other place that seemed to attract her. Maybe because her heightened sense of smell due to exposure to the acrid vapors of the zone led her to smell that Ethan was at the bar as recently as 5 days ago, although he was not to be seen in the bar that day. The person who was there was Jenna, telling the gathered folk about how Ethan had wronged her and left her for a slut.
A group of off duty policemen were at the bar and discussing the space craft amongst themselves and other bar patrons. Selena used mind meld methods and her charm to get them to buy her a drink. Interested in gathering more information, she asked about their suspicions regarding who owned the craft. This was when she heard of the sightings of a flying girl and the craft had just magically appeared along with her, as it it was landed in that specific place for a reason. Since Superman was not around, they had no way of telling whether the craft was friend or foe. Just the same, they prepared to battle the alien with Kryptonite. Hoping that the same weakness of Superman would be shared by this alien.
Her mind meld with the group was broken before she could charm one of them into giving her the key to the box. A group who had had one drink too many at the bar started a brawl that they had to break up. Causing them to get distracted from their interest in her and breaking the psychic connection.
Selena had long heard about the effects of Kryptonite from the Kryptonian criminals who were with her in the zone. She was absolutely sure that this green stone would be the key to finally defeating both the wimp and Supergirl. Using her mind control powers, she got the officers to hand her the box of Kryptonite and a gun. Both of which she hid inside her long sorceress gown.
"Aren't you the fortune teller? What are you doing here?" Jenna asked Selena who had just sat at the bar, trying to open up the box she had appropriated earlier.
"I have just returned from a very long and nasty trip. Now leave me alone before I turn you into a cat." she snarled as she tried different unlocking incantations on the padlock.
"Well, can you tell me my future while you are here? I want to know if I will get my boyfriend 's a free drink in it for you." Jenna stated.
Selena looked up from the box and accepted the beer. Drinking it slowly and savoring the flavor that was quenching 2 months of parchment for her.
"Now, answer my question." Jenna requested.
This was way below the witchraft that Selena was now capable of but she was in need of a side kick and she could sense the anger eating away at the soul of this woman. She made the perfect prey for someone like Selena. "Let us do this in a more private place."
"There's an office in the back we use as a rest area. Follow me." Jenna lifted the bar countertop to let Selena in.
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The two men sat at the back of the restaurant and promised to order as many food and drinks as it would take for them to wait for the women to go off duty. Linda and Lucy were an hour late to work and Dean was in no mood to be nice because everyone in Midvale seemed to have disappeared to the park and there were no clients at the restaurant except for Jimmy and Ethan.
"So tell me, what did you do to piss off Lucy that way?" Jimmy wanted to know as they sat eating their lunch of burritos and chili con carne.
"If I am not mistaken, Linda told her something about what went wrong on our date last night."
"That explains why she slept at the Lane's."
"No kidding? I spent the whole night looking for her too." Ethan explained between mouthfuls of food.
Jimmy looked at the girls serving the few clients that were coming in for a late lunch. "I wish they could have taken the day off."
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"Your boyfriend, is he the town gardener by any chance?" Selena asked fishing for information as she cleared a wall in the back office.
"Yes. We've been going together for 2 months. Then that Linda came along and..."
"Linda? Wait a minute. The wimp is still here?" Selena felt anger rushing through her blood. So, Ethan and Linda were still together. She would take great pleasure in ending both their lives in the near future.
"Do you know them?"
"Mi sequere !" Selena commanded. With a wave of her hand, the images of Jimmy, Lucy, Ethan, and Linda enjoying the girls breaktime at the restuarant appeared on screen.
"That's the bitch! And my man is still with her." Jenna declared in an angry voice.
'That bitch is Supergirl. She is also the wimp. Not to worry, they won't be happy for long. Are you willing to do anything to get your man back?"
Selena saw the apprehension appear on Jenna's face. Unsure of what she meant by "do anything". She lightly held her index fingers to her temples and muttered "I will do anything to get Ethan back. Even if it means killing the wimp."
Jenna's face went blank as Selena took over her person and mind.
"Mihi hoc da!" Selena pronounced. Effortlessly pulling away the padlock from the box, she loaded the biggest rock into the specially made lead lined gun then placed it in Jenna's hands.
"I will be right there to help you." she prodded Jenna out the door.
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As Selena watched Jenna walk zombie like to the mall, her brain was busy at work plotting a disturbance that would force Kara away from Ethan long enough for Jenna to successfully do what she was programmed to. What would it be? A bank robbery? A fire? Even better, an explosion at the mall parking lot. That should injure enough people and keep Kara busy for a very long time.
Rummaging through the odds and ends strewn about the room, she found a model of an F-1 Renault racer strewn among the items. An even more thorough search produced a half used matchbox and an almost burned out candle.
"Perfect!"
Lighting the candle inside the beer mug she had just finished drinking, she held the model car over the flame until it began to melt away. as she dropped the car into the mug, the cars at the mall began to blow up one after another. Sending people scrambling for cover or safety as fires engulfed each floor of the parking building. The fire alarms went crazy inside the mall, forcing an evacuation.
Ethan and Linda looked at each other as the sound reached Linda's ears first.
"Get them to safety Ethan."
"What about you?" He pulled her back as she hurried away from the table.
"You know I have to do this." She communicated what she really meant with her eyes. Kara needed to help the people.
"Is something wrong?" Lucy asked as people started running past them.
"Jimmy, grab your camera and let's go." Ethan ordered.
"What about Linda?" Lucy worried for her friend who had rushed out the door before all the panicking started.
"She'll be fine. She said to meet her outside." he lied.
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Flying up the parking building, Kara surveyed the damage and tried to pinpoint what was causing the cars to explode. She sensed that Selena had something to do with this. She just hoped that she was strong enough to end what Selena had started. Flying through the fire and punching through cars soaring through the air, she picked up as many injured as she could and flew them to the open parking lot where people were gathered trying to make sense of the events.
"Look! It's Supergirl!" a voice in the crowd shouted.
Jimmy grabbed his camera and started taking pictures of the rescue. He had finally found his money shots.
"Supergirl! My friend Linda, she's still in there!" Lucy shouted.
Looking back at her friend who obviously had no idea that Linda was hovering above them, she waved and said "I will take care of her."
Kara flew through every floor of the building and sucked out the fires with her super breath. She had already put out the fire by the time the fire trucks came. All that was left was to assess the damage. Satisfied that she had done well, she flew back to her friends.
Now dressed as Linda again, Lucy hugged her friend with tears pouring down her face. "Where the hell did you go! If Supergirl had not shown up..."
"I told Ethan I would meet you all here. I needed to make sure the restaurant was secured first."
"You missed Supergirl Linda!" Jimmy excitedly told her.
"I did?" she looked at Ethan who winked at her and smiled.
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"Supergirl! Show yourself! Face your worst fears! Selena is back!" the voice of Selena broke through the noise of the firetrucks and police cars arriving at the was no way Linda could break away from the group again.
She was hovering above everyone in the afternoon sky, pinpointing Ethan in the crowd and aiming her arms at him in a wandlike manner.
"Come out, come out wherever you are... it won't take much for me to turn your boyfriend into pink mist!" she thought silently, conveying the same to Kara as she hoisted Ethan up into the air by raising her arms.
"Wha--- No! Put me down!" Ethan screamed. His body felt bound by unseen ropes as he tried to move his arms or legs.
"Ethan!!!" Linda cried out trying to stop him from lifting off the ground without flying after him.
"You've got only one chance at this Supergirl. " Selena warned Kara seriously through thought transference while Ethan continued to lift into the air.
Linda felt her heart pounding like it never pounded before. She had to help Ethan. She had to fly up there and get him even if it meant letting Selena win this round. She began to break away from the group.
"Are you crazy! Stay right here. Supergirl will come back. " Lucy demanded.
"You don't understand Lucy!" Linda cried out in desperation.
"I do understand. Clark will kill me if anything happens to you! Now stay put!"
"You won't show yourself? Fine, say goodbye to your loverboy." She heard Selena's thoughts.
"No!" she cried out breaking away from Lucy and running at super speed. Lucy lost sight of her immediately.
"Kara!!!!!" Ethan hollered as he felt himself dropping out of the sky. He could only hope that she would know where to catch him.
"Trace coordinates for Ethan's landing." she screamed into the wrist computer as she tried to beat time and gravity.
"Stop right here." The voice commanded her.
She held out her arms just in time for Ethan to fall safely within. Her heart pounding in fear and anxiety. Tears began swelling up at the thought that she had almost lost him permanently.
"How did you do that?" Lucy and Jimmy came running towards them.
Setting Ethan on his feet, Linda was ready to tell them the truth. "There is something the two of you should know about me."
A shot rang through the air hitting Linda just above the heart. She looked down at it. The bullet should have ricocheted off her but instead, there was a hole in her chest with blood gushing out of it, a green glow pulsing from within her. Kryptonite! She fell to her knees without a word. Her power draining out of her, her surroundings turning dark, she felt her life ebbing away.
"Linda!" Lucy screamed in horror as she caught the falling body in her arms.
"It came from over there!" Jimmy hollered.
Ethan turned to see Jenna drop the gun and run. "Why Jenna? What made you do this!" he screamed. Turning his thoughts to securing Linda instead of chasing after the shooter.
"Ethan.... Ethan.... I am so sorry. I messed up again. I always put you and my friends in danger. I am going to die. Nothing any of you can do will help me. If only Kal-El were here..." Her voice was barely a whisper in his ear.
He wondered why he was able to pick her up without realizing that the Kryptonite in her system had rendered her mortal. He started walking briskly away from the crown. Not really sure of where to turn, what to do, or how to help Kara. Jimmy and Lucy frantically tried to keep up as he ran like a mad man for God knows where.
"Don't worry Linda, I won't let you die! Don't speak. Just rest. We've got to get her to the hospital."
"What happened? What's going on?" Lucy began sobbing as Jimmy supported her weight as they ran.
"Stay with me Linda! You are not going to die on me! " Ethan kissed her as her body went limp in his arms.
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In the deep recesses of outer space, a lone flying figure is seen flying hurriedly in the direction of Earth holding the device that Zor-El had cast into nothingness in the hopes of finding him. Kal-El sped forth hoping that he would not arrive too late to help his cousin.