CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter L

Gift of Starlight

Kara Avalon…

Kara Kent thought it had a nice ring to it. She just had to get over the first hurdle first, which was getting Harry to be her boyfriend. He was still a little hung up on her being younger than him, but it wasn't by much and she would be eighteen in several months, and she was an alien, perhaps they did things differently. She wondered whether he would even consider that if she slipped it into conversation.

Sighing, Kara knew Harry was just a great guy and looking out for her, but she knew he liked her too. Thinking of Harry, she smiled a little as she remembered that he would be home later today, as he called over from New-Earth a few hours back, and he couldn't talk for long but he had gained a couple of adorable little brothers he was leaving with his sister, Amanda. It was just like Harry to be such a great guy to his family – well those who deserved it, and she could only hope that someday she could be family too – his wife?

Kara had to bite her lower lip to keep from giggling at the thought as she was fully kitted up in a new super suit that Harry built for her. Her new suit didn't have any special powers as she didn't need that, well, beside being stored in a pretty red bracelet around her wrist that turned silver when not in costume. The new suit was more similar to Clark's suit, but layered with some kind of impact armour, so the more pressure and force put on the material the more durable it got, which was rather thoughtful. Her suit was blue trousers tight to her legs with red belt with her family crest in yellow, and then she had smooth blue up her body, and over her arms, pointed over the backs of her hands, and then up and round to a red collar, and top that curved red over her breasts holding them firmly, which was rather nice with a red engraved crest. Then last she had a red cape fluttering behind her that never seemed to want to get in her way and the yellow crest on the back of it, and red boots quarter way up her legs with powerful black soles.

Brushing a stray blonde hair behind her left ear, Kara trapped it by the red glowing focus by her ear. Her hair was tied back with a red band, and she wore a red headband with yellow S crest to hold her hair back.

Bringing herself back to reality, Kara had been bored with this odd case and it had just started to drizzle. She was just floating through Domino City as she had joined up with the Birds of Prey since Harry was away, and that brought her to a strange case – and trying to figure out what the hell was going on. She had found several bodies of dead men in alleyways. She could see the trail of destruction with her sight cutting through the dark.

She landed next to a dead man, dropping in from out of the sky. Kara used her X-ray vision. Yes, she did abuse her powers all the time – well, a couple of times, and only with a certain person as Seraph encouraged her, but she hadn't had the courage to take more than a millisecond peak. However, right now, Kara was trying to determine how this man died. He had a broken nose in two places and several skull-line fractures. However, she couldn't see a cause of death. He just had a shocked expression on his bloodied face. It was as if someone had just turned him off like an electronic children's toy.

It was very disconcerting. The others she found all showed signs of having the crap beat out of them. They had been in a physical fight like this man and lost, but they had internal damage and fatal wounds, unless this man had a pre-existing condition that killed him.

He was wearing a robe like the other men. However, this one was missing a little wooden stick. From what she could tell. These men were chasing someone who didn't appreciate it. They all gave her the creeps. Not because they were dead, but something about them cried out evil-guys minions.

Looking from the dead man, she stood up with a tired sigh. "Oracle," she said with a shake of her head. "I've found another, but this one has no cause of death! Yeah. His twigs missing too … wait. What do you mean magic?"

"They're mage!" the woman replied over the Focus's comm. "You should use extreme caution. Kryptonian's are as susceptible to magic as the rest of us. From the erratic pattern it appears they're hunting someone and doing a half-assed job of it."

"I see, so are these Lyra's people?" she asked, baffled as this magic thing, though not new to her wasn't her expertise, she had heard all about the Magical World hidden away from everyday people.

"It would appear so," she answered. "I don't know too much about magical's, but the Magical World seems to be on the corrupt, ignorant, arrogant, and naive egotistical jerk side of… well, and I wouldn't take anything these one's say at face value. Whomever they're chasing is likely a mage too.

"It would explain this man's death and why his wand is missing if magic killed him. Whomever they're hunting is a lot more dangerous than them, so proceed to follow the trail with extreme caution. Batgirl will be with you soon."

"Okay," Kara replied as she stood up straight and blast up into the sky looking around. "Whoa… Oracle!" she said suddenly as her eyes zeroed in towards the other side of the city. "I think. There's a girl with red hair. She's been trapped on a roof by some of these men! She looks really hurt."

"What are they saying?" Oracle replied urgently.

"Filthy scum!" Kara hissed out instead. "I'm going to kick their asses myself. They're trying to enslave-. No. she just jumped; I'm going to-!?"

BOOM!

The world shook, vibrations crashing through the air shifting Kara's space and even shaking her. Car alarms started blurring and some windows shattered, and walls cracked.

Kara didn't know what was happening as the comms. went dead, and her Focus showed a no signal symbol in the top left corner of her vision. Kara startled and looked back to where the girl had fallen and felt sick that she couldn't save her, as it would be much too late now, but she had other matters right now. She would have to capture the filthy criminals after she saved who she needed too.

However, looking up as a whistling sound alerted her to something, Kara's bright blue eyes widened, as whatever exploded did so in space, but something was now streaking down through the inky sky. It was glowing bright green and heading for a high-rise apartment building just a short distance from her.

Supergirl shot up at speeds, shockwaves blast around her as she moved. She knew that light. She was quick; a streak as she curve through the sky. She moved and started falling next to the green glow with wide eyes as she had expected either Hal or John, or more than likely Guy as she heard that one was a little reckless sometimes. Instead, she got a girl. She wasn't aware of any female human Green Lantern's.

"Focus Call Oracle!" she tried her Focus, but it was still down as she only got 'no-signal' blinking three times before disappearing when she called for Oracle.

Her eyes could cut through the glow. She could see something was wrong, well more wrong. The girl glowed bright and Kara was certain if she were human, she wouldn't be able to see her at all. The girl was naked and unconscious though, Supergirl could see her chest rising and falling rapidly, in pained gasps.

The glowing girls' skin was cracked and split in places, which was where the green glow was coming from, as the normally red blood was luminescent, even out of her mouth.

Supergirl slowed her decent as she gently scooped the girl into her arms until she had pulled them to a stop half a mile or so above the city. She was surprised as she watched the glow dim significantly, and could now see the girl clearly.

She just held the girl gently in her arms for a moment as she used her X-ray vision to look through the girl and let out a little relieved sigh as none of the girls' bones looked broken and all of her surprisingly normal coloured organs looked to be in perfect working order.

Kara watched as the brunette girls' wounds were slowly healing before her eyes. She needed to get her somewhere warm and comfortable to recover. Therefore, she flew off, quickly heading for the large clock tower in the distance near the docks.

She figured it might be best just to take her home, put her in bed, and wait for her to wake up. She had obviously been through a lot, and Supergirl worried a little.

What could have happened? Supergirl had already concluded that this girl was the cause of the explosion, but what could it mean? Was she a Green Lantern from the future or possibly another universe they hadn't discovered yet? That could explain why Kara had never heard of her before.

Kara flew through the balcony doors open on the side of the clock tower where many computer systems and screens lined walls. Some of them were flickering while a beautiful red-haired woman sat at the console in her stylish and advanced wheelchair typing away trying to get something working again.

"Comm. is back online!" the woman said, but it wasn't over the comm., so she knew Supergirl had returned without looking around, but with training from Batman it would have been a surprise if she didn't detect the Girl of Steel. "Batgirl is with those mages and…" she turned, eyes widening behind her cute black rimmed glasses. "Oh. I was going to mention her being the cause of the disruption in comms., but I thought she blew up. Never mind, quickly, take her to your room to rest. I take it she is, okay?"

"Yeah. She… well. What happened to her?" Kara asked as she moved towards a door that led into a large comfortable lounge with sofas and a huge screen TV on one wall.

"Saved large portions of Washington in her reality from becoming a crater!" she called back. "I'll be in to check on her after we've dealt with this. Batgirl should be fine by herself for now, and monitors are back on line as the Focuses have shielding; thankfully that EMP wasn't very powerful and only wiped out the city for a short while as it was kept local, and we got the tail end, some cell towers seem to have been fried and two orbital satellites were shut down, but nothing too major."

Kara smiled as she reached her room and took her new friend in, sliding her under the soft sheets and not minding that she was getting blood on them. The room was only for while she was in town, but it was comfortable, and she always made herself a little too at home. She stroked back the brunette's hair as she pulled up a seat next to her to wait for her to rouse so they could introduce themselves to each other.

Kara knew humans were more fragile than herself, but watching this girl heal the way she was, so fast. There was little chance that she would even have a bruise to prove what she went through to herself.

"A-Alice!" the girl mumbled in her sleep, startling Kara. "P-please. It hurts. Please don't leave me!" she continued, trailing off to a small sob.

Kara felt her own grimace as she reached over and took the girls hand in hers, cupping them she held them with one hand while stroking her hair in an affectionate way. Kara felt bad. It looked like the girls' girlfriend (as she was sure Alice was a girl's name) had dumped her. She had to wonder how anyone, girl or boy would want to let go of this beautiful young woman, and Kara brightened as she realised, she had lots of amazing friends, boys and girls, so she could find her someone new.

Brushing away a few stray tears from her new friends' eyes, Kara looked to the door as it automatically slid open for the beautiful red-haired woman to wheel herself in on her motorised wheelchair.

"How is she?" The Oracle asked as she stopped the other side of the large bed, eying the mess of dumped clothes and game console controllers and video game and Blu-Ray cases lying around the large TV with a shake of her head as Kara had been lazing and moping since Harry got stuck on New-Earth for the past week, which was why she had been sent off to investigate the bodies to keep her occupied.

However, Kara had the decency to blush, as her room was a bit untidy. "She's healing herself with every second," she quickly replied, "she doesn't even have her ring anymore," she added as she pulled off the chard green metal from the girls' finger and placed it on the bedside table. "It's the power. The Lantern power. Barbara! She is producing Green Lantern power without a ring or power battery!"

"Interesting," Barbara replied in awe. "That's a strange occurrence as Hal said he scanned that worlds network and didn't pick up on metas or mutants or heroes, and said it seemed kind of boring, but it could be that they're moving slower than this world, or… I don't know, but it's possible she has the metagene, or something similar that bonded the Lantern's power to her genetic structure so she could survive. The discoveries of what humans can become is astounding – even from this fourth world, and I thought it was amazing that New-Earth had burned and been terraformed just so humanity could survive their own ridiculous failings."

"So… can we keep her?" Supergirl asked hopefully as she rolled her eyes as Barbara went off rambling about silly things like that all the time, and even Harry didn't talk too much about that stuff, as it was complicated and boring. They should leave the complicated and boring science of the alternate universes to the science people who specialised in it, shouldn't they?

Barbara rolled her eyes at the expected hero-reply from someone who wasn't into science and exploration both.

"She is not a pet Kara," she said with a sigh, "but… I suppose if she wants to stay that will be fine, as she'll need lots of help, and a great and supportive friend like you around, when not trying to get into Mr. Avalon's pants," she said with a crafty grin to the end.

Supergirl pouted and stuck out her tongue childishly but her pale cheeks lit up. "You're just jelling," she retorted with a small playful smile. "Anyway, Barbara. Did you find out her name?" she asked, eagerly, already picturing all of the fun things they can do together since Batgirl never wanted to play, and was only thirteen, and for some reason always wandered off to continue training her mad ninja skills. Though, on that thought, Lyra was probably the only one who could get Batgirl to give it a rest for ten minutes to have some fun.

"Bella Swan!" Barbara answered. "She was placed in a dangerous situation by some idiot alien who had hunted and murdered some Green Lanterns, and stole their rings and batteries. A ring chose her, and she was willing to sacrifice herself for innocent and defenceless people.

"She has only just turned eighteen, apparently," she concluded thoughtfully. "So, if she is willing to stay and join the Birds… I can pull a few strings, and get her a Wayne Enterprise scholarship for Domino University."

"Awesome!" Kara cheered out. "We'll get to go to school together. I'm still a little concerned with actually going to school, but if I had a friend with me, it would be so much better."

Barbara laughed while shaking her head. "Well, anyway, Batgirl will be back soon. I think I'll wait for her to return and brief us on the enemy mage situation so we're both well informed. I'll leave you to take care of Bella. Try to be a little less enthusiastic or you might freak her out – especially with the 'not in your universe' conversation, and the fact she is the other side of the country on top of that."

"Sorry!" Kara mumbled impishly while Barbara laughed and left the room, leaving the two alone.

Kara looked over Bella's ring sadly. It was such a waste, but now Bella was something awesome, and probably the first actual super powered being from her universe.

"Wait, I forgot to ask about that magic girl," Kara said, worried. She just prayed to herself that Batgirl had managed to do something, like save her, or at least kick the fifty barrels of crap out of her enemies if she did – if she did die.

No! Kara shook away the bad thoughts. That girl was so much better at fighting than those wizards. She had to have survived, gotten away and escaped. Kara had heard what they had said. They were cruel. She could tell that beautiful girl had traversed a hell and still would not bow down to any man!

Kara couldn't help but admire that kind of tenacity. She hoped that she could learn the girls name, maybe even make friends if she had survived. They could go and beat up bad people together. Her, Batgirl, Bella, and the witch. They would be an awesome team, especially with Oracle in their ears acting as their outside eyes and ears. Harry could make the witch a super costume too.

She stroked Bella's cheek and smiled, as her pandering to the girl seemed to be working. Bella looked relaxed, and calm. Her breathing had evened out too.

It had been a long night and Bella felt groggy and confused as she couldn't remember going to bed, and had a weird dream about something weird. Green Lantern's? Superheroes? It made her head swim just thinking about it, but worse, when did she start having such silly fantasies? Then why was she naked? She never normally slept naked, but she supposed she could have been that tired she hadn't bothered with her jammies.

Though, when did she get such a large bed at her dads' house? It felt larger than a double even, and satin sheets? She would never buy such frivolous sheets, as they would be a waste, unless she ever won the lottery, which wasn't likely, and even then, she would probably settle for cotton.

Bella's throat felt sore and she wondered whether she had been trying some alcohol and forgot, but that didn't sound like her, even under peer pressure. Her eyes peeled open and she had to blink back the bright lights as the sun shone in from the large open window leading to the busy and noisy city below.

"I'm in a city?!" Bella asked herself hoarsely. She tried to move but couldn't. She looked around in a panic to see she wasn't alone. It was a blonde girl lying on the bed next to her, above the covers.

Bella was in shock as she was trapped in the blonde girls' arms; the girl's cape was over them both with a golden yellow S in a diamond logo. The girl. She was stunning. Bella didn't think someone could look as good or even better than a vampire. It wasn't a perfection like a vampire, but the slight imperfections that seemed to radiate from this girl. She had wondered whether the girl was a vampire for a moment with her being so strong yet so small, but she could feel her warmth and feel the gentle patter of her heart.

The blonde beauty was wearing a strange yet high quality cosplay, but the strength she felt – was it just cosplay? Bella let her eyes trail down the blondes' body where the suit ended at some exceptionally pretty bare feet. The blonde also had some kind of triangle stuck to her head by her perfect left ear.

"Oh my… all of that stuff really happened. I freaking blew up!"

Bella took a few deep breaths, as she lay calming down, letting everything return to her. That jerk Edward abandoned her in the woods. Then John Stewart and the Green Lantern rings. The alien. The time bomb of Green Lantern energy. Absorbing all of that power. Then blowing up in space. Her eyes were glassy as she let her memories run so she hadn't noticed she was free, and the beautiful face hovering over hers with a grin for a moment, startling her.

"Hey Bella!" the blonde girl cheerfully chimed. "I'm Supergirl, nice to meet you… well, I guess you can call me, Kara in private and when not in my costume. Wow. This is too cool. You're like a Green Priestess… or something, now that you can generate your own awesome Lantern powers without a power ring!"

"L-Lantern powers?" Bella asked her, surprised as Kara sat up, nodding her head and gestured to the bedside cabinet.

Bella could only stare in horror, as on it was her burnt out ring.

"Oracle says you're a metahuman, or the equivalent to your universe, which is why your body produces the Lantern powers now all by its self. I wonder whether you can still do the changing into a green outfit thing like that girl Arisia showed me last week. If not, I bet Harry would make you something if you asked; he's awesome like that, and hot…" Kara trailed off with deep red cheeks as she realised, she was babbling, but couldn't help herself as she carried on.

"Anyway, back to Arisia… well, Hal's supposed to be teaching her about being a Green Lantern. She's new and he said he pulled the short straw on mentoring a new recruit. But John said he nearly blew up a moon. I guess he's being punished for being irresponsible, but I like her, she's nice, and pretty. Her species reminds me of those elves from those Lord of the Rings movies."

Bella gulped as she looked up at the girl while she babbled. It reminded her of the way Alice could babble nonsense about her favourite things. It was sweet. She liked her straight away. It was a little weird waking up with this strange and beautiful girl in bed with her, but it did seem to be her room, but being naked was the embarrassing part, and hoped the girl couldn't see anything as Bella was too embarrassed to check everything was hidden away.

Though, Bella had hung out with vampires.

No big.

"Umm… I guess if you're to look like something from the books, elves and humans are pretty cool," Bella replied, confused, but smiling nervously as Kara looked confused. "You haven't read the books, have you?" she asked.

Supergirl shook her head sheepishly. "I… well I can read so fast on Earth that its over too quick. It's not as fun as curling up in bed and watching a movie. Now you're here, we can cuddle up and watch movies and play video games together any time I'm working with the Birds of Prey! Cassandra isn't much for playing and cuddling up and watching movies. Though, there was this one time, but I think she stayed because I wouldn't leave her alone otherwise, and there was a whole bunch of us."

"C-Cassandra?" Bella asked, confused with this crazy girl.

Kara nodded her head with a smirk. "Don't tell her I told you, but," she moved closer, her lips nearly touching Bella's ear. "She's Batgirl. You'll meet Oracle soon. She was the first Batgirl!"

"Kara!"

They were startled as the beautiful red-haired woman entered the room in her wheelchair and through the automatic door, glare-reprimanding the blonde before turning a smile to Bella who looked like she hadn't got a clue what Kara was talking about and was being too polite to ask, which was kind of amusing.

"I'm Barbara Gordon. The Oracle," she introduced herself while Bella shook her hand looking like she was exploding with questions if neither she nor Kara brought it up.

"Bella Swan."

"I bet you have questions, don't you?" Barbara asked gently and Bella nodded ferociously.

Therefore, the answers flowed, and the questions came over and over again. Bella could barely believe that she was in a different universe, and that Kara was a flipping alien superhero. She was in a universe where the Earth had super-powered beings and magic. Now some aliens somewhere in the universes were doing this somehow and for some reason that's probably hostile, and soon, all four (so far) universes were going to become one, which was very troubling.

"Joker did this if you're wondering," Barbara finished, and gesturing her chair with a shrug as Bella had looked curious. "He's a clown… an evil clown. Been one of my mentors' biggest enemies for years now... but, I think I've gotten over it, and now I do my bit with computers and research rather than anything where I'll get in the way. You'll meet my successor, Cassandra soon, but don't expect much from her. She doesn't speak much if at all, and only a very few people can get her to relax for a little while."

"Why are you…?"

"We want you to join the team silly!" Kara said in excitement. " You will have to learn to control your new powers or risk hurting someone. Barbara said she could get you set up with a scholarship for Domino University, so you'll get to go to school with me – it will be my first-time trying school as – well, my planets gone, and they did things differently," she said with a hopeful smile.

"Okay-," Bella replied, baffled. Not sure what she was agreeing to but Kara was so nice she didn't want to disappoint her, and she knew she would have to be taught to use her powers anyway.

"Awesome!" Kara cheered as she hugged Bella out of the bedding to her horrified embarrassment as she sat scooping the covers back to hide her breasts with when the girl let her go, blushing herself.

"Kara!" Barbara sighed, rolling her eyes before turning to Bella. "Don't worry. Its only girls here, which is why I sometimes catch Cassandra down in the training facility in just panties, or panties and a bra. It would be fine if she didn't feel that was all she needed while home. If she isn't already dressed because she's been out, she'll stay in her undies until she has to go out.

"Though, now I think about it Kara here is always in her PJs for hours in the mornings sometimes watching cartoons!" she sighed, shaking her head. "She doesn't live here like some of us, but I wouldn't doubt she's like that at home too. I guess growing up with just me and dad I couldn't be like that."

"Oh crap. My dad!" Bella startled them as she cried out throwing her naked self from the bed to the floor, and in a flash of green, she was in her lantern outfit.

Bella looked down at herself blinking in surprise before flashing green. Her suit was gone. She couldn't even care that Kara and Barbara were staring at her naked as she turned to face them. Then boom. She was back in her uniform, awed.

Looking around she found a mirror and pulling some panties and a bra off it and putting them on the side she looked at herself. Her eyes were emeralds alight with green flames, seeming to shine and glow even when they were not. She couldn't help but feel amazed, and for once she felt like her body was more than just ordinary.

"You look amazing!" Kara called out hugging her from behind. However, Bella shimmied around in the girls' hug, staring at her in worry before she was released.

"M-my dad!" she said quickly. "He'll be worried sick. Not to mention my mum too, and-."

"Calm down Bella," Barbara quickly said. "I've contacted your father for you," she said while getting a weird look. "We have gained the power to communicate between worlds thankfully. I had to pull off a few lies here and there while we come up with a way to make contact with the governments of your world, but it seemed to go well. Therefore, I reassured him that an alien hadn't eaten you, and that I thought he was crazy, it was quite easy to get you an excuse when he pretty much handed it out. He thought you might have run away with a boy when he and his whole family left town."

Bella's eyes narrowed in anger. "Edward is nothing but a sissy little prick!" she said folding her arms under her chest and pouting cutely. "If I ever see that loser again it will be too soon!"

"I guess he shouldn't have worried," Barbara replied, amused at her new charges adorable factor when angry like this. "I remember the first boy I was hating. They never do grow up, but whatever. Girls can be just the same. I know a few girls who have plenty of girl trouble, so it's not just guys. You're still young. You'll meet someone eventually.

"Anyway, I told your dad that you split up with your boyfriend and was devastated. So, I offered to let you move in with us where you'll have other girls to talk to and comfort you, and you just left without thinking of sending a note and was a bit embarrassed and ashamed of not leaving a note so asked me to call and explain. He sounded pretty relieved. My dad was like that too. Couldn't handle me dating and having to hear about it. He asked me to get you to give him a call as soon as you're feeling up to it.

"I also spoke to him about the opportunity for full scholarship to the University of Florida. I hadn't thought that far ahead, and the states between two of the worlds are the same, and the third world used to have those states, and we are in Florida… and I kind of forgot to look up university's and luckily it exists there too, as I know Domino City doesn't. He was a little annoyed that you left the state, and passed over a few others, but It's quite the opportunity, as Domino University is a pretty good school. I believe he is happy for you. Of course, you don't have too-."

"No! I want to!" Bella quickly said in awe. "I mean. I can't just pass that by, even the University of Florida would have been better than where I was planning on going. But what about finishing High School?" she quickly asked. "And then the Lantern thing. My ring told me a little, so aren't I like a member or something?"

Barbara shrugged. "Don't know about them, but talking to John earlier. He had explained everything with the Guardian guys. They're like the… bosses, but from stuff I've heard they're arrogant of their own know what's best, and ignorant of others intellect. They said they'll register you as another Earth Green Lantern, and won't call for ALL unless it's an emergency, and leave you alone to learn your own place, and won't want you to go to Oa, the Green Lantern planet unless you have difficulty controlling your new power.

"Hal, Guy… Guy's another Lantern you haven't met yet, and John don't leave the world to do Lantern business too much at the same time, and I don't think all three have been called in together since that incident with… well that doesn't matter. So, you're being treated as if you're a not quite recruit. Hal said he'll put you in some 'boot camp' training with his 'student' Arisia occasionally if we can't help you. Then he said something about a test by Kilowog, his old teacher. Then you can pass your high school exams early. Kara has already done that herself as she was 'home-schooled', but I helped her with what she needed on Earth, and I can help you too where you need it."

"Sounds fun," Bella said nervously, and not at all convincing that she believed it sounded fun.

Kara giggled, shaking her head. "It sounds like some hard work to me. I bet Barbara can help you get a hang of your powers long before that slacker, Hal Jorden gets you and Arisia together for some training."

"He did seem like a slacker," Bella agreed. "Maybe I'll get so good that by that time I'll have to take Arisia away from him or she'll never learn anything, like why the hell have I only just realised that I speak every language on the planet and then some?" she said startling as she just took to terms with the realisation.

"The rings don't just grant power," Barbara answered, smiling, amused with her. "It is also like a super computer that interacts with your mind, allowing you to know certain things, even another planets language, even though there are translators or spells some people or beings can use. I guess it will be just another useful trait you'll have to get used to – possibly being connected to this computer without the ring."

"Okay," Bella said taking a few deep breaths as she figured going with the flow was the right way to go. "Right. So first, phone home. Then find out whether you guys are going to feed me because I'm starving," she said impishly while Barbara nodded and Kara giggled. "Then borrow some clothes off someone, and can I even get home to get my things, before I come back to become a superhero in an alternate universe. I never thought I would ever say something like that before."

"I don't think many people do. It's probably more common than we might think," Barbara agreed understandingly. "Don't worry. I'll have a car ready for you, and a stealth shuttle to take you and the car home. Kara will keep you company since Cassandra is a bit of a night girl and is still in bed, so let's let her sleep some more before she gets back to her hero-ing duties."

"Thank you," Bella replied looking so grateful. "You've both been so nice to me, and I. Well, I think that we're all going to be great friends," she said to their delight as she copied her Alice's words from long ago in another life on another world, in another universe.

Bella knew she would find Alice someday and get the answer to her questions. However, for now, she had bigger issues, and she wasn't quite sure she had even woken up yet, but if she was dreaming, she didn't want the dream to end. Then after Barbara and Kara left her alone, and Kara had found Bella some clothes to borrow, she stubbed her toe and cussed a few times once her powerful lantern suit was gone.

Not a dream.

to be continued…

She had beaten the men up. It was easy. Effortless. She even had to go easy on them. Her black spiky hair waved slightly in the breeze as she helped the girl up. She was smaller than the girl she helped, hidden under a black mask over her mouth with her long black coat with frayed ends flapping about. It fit to her firmly, hugging her body in all of those special ways with black clothes underneath.

The girl thanked her and quickly fled. Golden eyes stared through the dark of the shadows of night, after her.

She had returned. She had, but it was fruitless. She had come to admit her truest heart.

However, when she returned, she found Bella had disappeared into this new world. Alice Cullen had found away in. It wasn't too high, but it took too many jumps. Alice had never before tried to clear a small skyscraper in height before, but she slipped through before what they called a dimensional convergence closed off and complete. Apparently, a convergence could be unstable for up to two hours, so she was lucky it lasted that long, but she would not leave Bella again, even if she could only see her from afar.

Alice couldn't believe that she was a costumed vigilante, so she could stop the odd bastard here and there, and none of the vampire community (if they existed on this world) would care even if they realised it was a vampire saving people. It was especially good for her as she saw glimpses of Bella's future, and this was a good way to get her attention.

She felt good knowing that she did something rather than staying down like a weak fool, like Edward. He had something so special. Someone so special. He had Bella and he turned her gay. Or at least pushed her to realise that so much sooner than she would have learnt. Hah, who was she kidding? Edward certainly turned her gay. Edward had always been such a melodramatic jerkoff but this move. The golden eyed 'hero' could have cried as she had watched the future back in Forks, but Bella never came back that she could see, but there were these dogs who screwed with her sight, so she left and followed Bella into that new world she saw.

Edward leaving had netted Bella a wonderful opportunity to go to Domino University, which was a school in Florida in Domino City. Alice was a little annoyed at such a bright state, but with all the mutants and other powered people, a girl sparkling wasn't even looked into anymore as far as she could tell. Alice wouldn't have hesitated to pay the tuition fee herself for Bella to attend any university if she had shown a desire, but Bella was always thinking of others, and forgetting she should have dreams too.

Alice Cullen arrived at the apartment she had bought in Domino City hoping that this wasn't stalking as she didn't want to become another Edward Cullen. She wasn't very wealthy in this new world, at first, but she could see the future, so a few dollars at the right time on the right bet turned into more, not enough to ever get noticed, just what she needed, and then she slipped some dollars here and there into the stocks, and then could afford her sweet little apartment, as she was never greedy, and with all her free time, she could help people out, and save people when they needed it since this new worlds authorities were so used to it they didn't seem to care too much about bothering 'superhero's'.

She just had to hope that Bella Swan would forgive her, but she would give it some time, mainly because Alice was much too chicken, and needed to work up the courage herself.

A/N: thank you for reading, and for those who don't know, I re-branded from Myrddin le Fay or Myrddin MacLeod to Outlaw Realms, so please follow, favourite, and review. Yay! Anyway, a celebration of CyberTech's 50th chapter, and I hope you've been enjoying this small arc.