"Sisters are probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship."

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Twelve-year-old Lena was looking out of her 3rd story window when a flaming object soared over the mansion. It flew low over the lake and crashed into the woods not far from the entrance to the cave. She ran across the hardwood floors of her bedroom, stopping long enough to grab her leather jacket and her converse. She was bouncing on one foot trying to tie the second one when there was a knock at her door. She hopped over to it and found herself staring at the feet of her sister, Alexandra.

"Lena, did you see that—whatever it was? It landed by the cave on the other side of the lake." Alex yelled, clearly as excited as Lena, since she still had one arm out of her jacket and was spinning around trying to slide her arm in.

"I saw it, do you think anyone else did?" Lena finally got her shoe on and was standing up straight.

"No way, the property is too big and everyone is in bed or down in the city." Alex grinned.

"Shortcut?" Lena grinned back.

"Of course." Alex's cheshire smile got even larger.

They ran down the stairs as silently as possible for two very excited teenage girls and headed for the study. Lena played the correct notes on the piano, and they both watched as the bookshelf slid to the side and headed down using the old metal elevator. Once in the cave, they wove their way around all the gadgets and vehicles, stopping long enough for Lena to grab her staff and Alex to grab her Escrima sticks. They also grabbed their comms and popped them in their ears. Then they shot towards the lake exit, which even at full speed would take them at least 15 minutes to traverse.

They exited the cave exactly 15 minutes later and Alex looked to Lena for directions. Lena turned and looked at the house, judged the direction the object was traveling, turned back towards the forest and pointed, "That way, Lexi." She said pointing in the direction they should travel. Both girls took off at a light jog, heading in the direction Lena indicated.

As they entered the woods, they slowed to a walk and Alex ignited one of her sticks, the electricity crackling but giving the dark forest a blue, otherworldly glow. They move deeper into the woods and begin to see broken and battered trees, creating a pathway. Lena and Alex moved to opposite sides of the path, ducking into the woods and keeping one another in sight. Switching to their personal channel, Alex reminded her younger sister to move slowly and have patience. On her side of the tree line, Lena pouted a bit, then smiled as she slowed her steps, matching her older sister's pace. That's when they both saw the crater and patience, not a virtue either girl possessed a great deal of was thrown to the wind as they rushed to the side of a shallow pit.

Alex peered over the edge, seeing something silver. "It looks like a ship, a little like the one in the cave."

Lena was fascinated, her scientific mind was spinning in hundreds of directions at once. "You don't think it's from the same place do you, Alex?"

"Not sure Lee, let's move a bit closer but switch channels back to primary okay?" Alex was older, and as much as Lena hated to admit it, a natural leader. She switched back to the primary family channel and allowed Alex to help her down the side of the crater. Warily they approached the front of the ship, trying to peek into the crystal cockpit. The ship was just a bit too high, so Alex squatted down and picked up her little sister, giving her a chance to peek over the edge. What Lena saw caused her to gasp.

"There's a girl Alex, there's a girl in here," Lena cried out.

"What?" Alex asked, so surprised she almost lost her balance and dropped Lena.

"We have to call Dad." Lena cried out. "We have to get her out of there."

Alex slid Lena back to the ground, after setting her sister down she tapped the communicator in her ear and called Alfred.

"Master Bruce is already on his way, I called him as soon as you two tripped the silent alarm on the elevator," Alfred said over the communicator. "He indicated that you two are to stay there until he arrives."

"Alfred there's a girl in the ship, we don't know how to get her out, what do we do?" Lena was almost crying.

Then both of them heard a voice of strength come over their comms. "On the bottom of the pod, about 12 inches behind the cockpit, there is a crystal, turn it 180 degrees to the right, it will unlock the cockpit."

Lena dashed under the ship, and did as instructed, hearing the hiss as air escaped from the cockpit. She returned to Alex's side, and she was boosted up again. She pulled herself over the side and immediately slid in beside the girl lying there. "She's breathing, almost like she's asleep," Lena announced over the comms.

Then he was there, his jet hovering silently above them as he lowered himself into the cockpit. To anyone else he seemed scary, dressed in the dark grey and black of his 'costume', but to his girls, he was just Dad. He checked the pulse of the young girl, and satisfied, he leaned over and pulled his older daughter up with them. He looked over the controls and satisfied with whatever he saw, he explained to them that they needed to take the pod and the girl back to the cave. He indicated the controls to the girls and then tapped a button on his gauntlet and a tow hook lowered from the jet. He connected it to the pod and explained quickly that they would be towed back to the cave, and not to mess with the controls. Then he quickly shot up his own line and jumped into the cockpit.

"Lexi, lower the cockpit and you and your sister hold on, I'm going to take it easy, but not sure how that thing will ride," Bruce warned.

"No problem dad, we got this." Alex smiled. Lena, nervous as she was at the condition of the other girl, was bouncing because she had a chance to ride in a real-life spaceship.

Bruce towed them slowly to the lake entrance of the cave. They entered the cave and made their way gently into the cave. Bruce may have risked his own life nightly over the streets of Gotham, but he'd be damned if he would risk his daughters, at least not any more than they had already risked them tonight.

He settled the pod into a research section of the cave and waited as the girls climbed out and Alex released the tow hook. Then he docked the BatWing, as the girls called it, and entered the locker room. Emerging minutes later in a pair of sweats and t-shirt, he padded across the cave in his socks to see what he could do for the young girl in the pod.

As he approached the pod he noticed that the girls had already been ready with Alfred's medical bag and a gurney. He couldn't help but smile, two girls from such different backgrounds and yet they fit each other perfectly. Alexandra, Lexi to everyone, was the ultimate big sister, protective and fierce like her mom had been before the incident. Alena, Lena, was the most intelligent person he had ever met, she was slightly introverted, and preferred to read over anything else, but Lexi made it a point to get her out in the world and around people. Thankfully Selina, his lovely wife, and his partner when he needed one on the streets had made sure both girls were both as comfortable in Gotham's seedier areas as they were in the high society their last name made them a part of.

He lifted the girl from the pod, as he had expected, she was heavier than his girls, but nothing he couldn't handle. He lowered her to the gurney and rolled her over to the cave's medical center. He hooked her up to the machines and made the adjustments to the system so it would recognize her physiology. Of course, Lena noticed immediately.

"Those are not human stats?" She wondered out loud.

"No baby, they aren't, if my guess is correct, she is Kryptonian," Bruce answered honestly, he didn't hide anything from the girls, they were both too smart for that.

"Like Superman?" Alex asked looking over the little girl.

"Yes, just like him, Lexi. And if these readings are correct, it looks like she may be related somehow." He said, going over the readings. "Can you two do me a favor and check for a crystal in the control panel of the ship, it should be in the center of the cockpit, and may have a symbol like Superman's."

Alex and Lena raced over to the ship, jumping into the seat and immediately found what they were looking for. While Lena was overthinking how to remove it, Alex figured it out, there was a catch just below, which she popped to release the crystal. Alex smirked at her sister, who was sticking her tongue out, "You don't have to overthink everything, Lee."

"Hmm", was Lena's only response.

They returned to Bruce, handing the crystal to him. He absentmindedly dropped it into his pocket and looked over the readings one last time. He stepped over to a locker with the symbol of the El family and pulled out a lamp, a special lamp that he had developed at Wayne Technology for Superman for situations like this one. He plugged into the special plug on the side of the monitor and focused the light on the little girl's face. Then he went back to his thoughts.

"Is she going to wake up Dad?", Alex asked quietly.

"She should be fine, but Superman, he was like a solar battery, and I'm thinking that this little girl may have been out of the sun for quite some time. I don't know how long we might have to wait." He explained.

"We can wait with you?" Lena asked. They were both already taking on the protective roles Bruce and Selina had instilled in them.

Speaking of his lovely wife, she picked that moment to show up on her bike. She parked in her usual spot, directly beside the tumbler, the Batmobile, Alex called it. While his color of choice was black, Selina wore grey when she was on patrol, and her bike was a highly customized Kawasaki Ninja painted in a stealth grey paint, with almost as many gadgets as Bruce's plane.

"Mom!" Both girls hollered at the same time.

"Hello kittens, what kind of stray did you two bring home tonight?" she smiled. "Alfred called, said something crashed?"

"She's Kryptonian, Selina."