"-to the super-duper, so heart-pounding, awesome, stellar and astounding vision that the world has never seen!" the ad on Lena's laptop played and everyone in the vicinity could only stare with slack jaws.
"Oh my God. Is that... Kara?" James was the first to speak, sounding like every word he spoke took a massive amount of effort to formulate.
"Where the specular maps amaze you, and the danger doesn't faze you, in this land where dream is rule and you're the queen!" the ad continued.
"I... think... so?" Winn sounded just as confused, eyes and mouth wide as he stared at the girl in the ad, still dancing merrily along her way.
"A llama chorus starts to form, and soon they're dancing up a storm!" the onscreen Kara continued to sing as very blocky llamas suddenly popped up right out of the ground and created a chorus line behind her. Her own dance moves were rather... strange. To say the least.
"Uh-huh!" a square-Squidward-esque creature popped his head up from the corner of the screen and agreed with Kara.
"You said it!" Kara pointed at him. "What else could be in stooooore?!" she continued to belt.
While Winn and James looked like they were fighting hard to either not laugh or not puke, Lena was in total shock, silent. She could only sit there and stare at the screen, unblinking, face unreadable, and mouth covered by her hands. Was that really Kara Danvers? Her Kara Danvers?
"You feel the wind as it whips on by, caused by the chickens who fly so hiiiiiigh!" Kara continued to sing. Lena could still only stare. Yeah. This was her Kara. Painful as it was to say it, this dancing lune was the very one she called a girlfriend. She would know that face and voice anywhere.
How on earth had Lena fallen for such a complete and utter dork? But even as she asked herself this, Lena felt a tiny smile tug at the corner of her lips. Kara looked like she was having so much fun! Her eyes were bright, her smile was big, and her voice was, well, super-duper! And in the same moment that Lena asked herself how she might've fallen for crazy little Kara Danvers, the answer presented itself to her. Kara was just too peppy to not love! Even if this ad was a bit... odd. Kara's joy was just too infectious not to love.
"Well. She looks like she's having fun," Eve observed, unsure of what else to make of this strange ad unfolding before them on screen.
"Please tell me she at least made good money off of this gig," Winn muttered, sounding like the second-hand embarrassment was going to kill him.
"And you land right back where you started! But everything feels new!" Kara continued, and suddenly, a whole cast of Minecraft characters started to assemble behind her, each of them doing the same dance moves she was doing. "In this super-duper, realistic, extra special, fabulous, mystical and magical, dramatic, never tragical, world that waits... for YOOOUUU!" then the music cut to a sudden end and Kara was left alone on a stage, the words "SUPER DUPER" glowing behind her. Her arms were extended out and her chest was heaving as she finished.
"What the heck did we just watch?" James asked as the ad ended.
"I have no idea," Eve replied, and Winn could only shrug. Lena still hadn't said a thing. It was definitely the highlight of everyone's day at CatCo.
Later that night, Lena and Kara reunited. Kara had been away from the desk that day, out in the field and doing interviews. But once the day came to a close, the two met up outside of CatCo, having planned on going out to a late dinner that night.
"Lena!" Kara smiled cheerfully as she raced over to her girlfriend.
"Kara," Lena's smile was strained and strange. Even in the darkness, Kara could see it, and her running slowed to a walk.
"Lena? What's wrong?" Kara was alert at once, happiness switching immediately over into concern and protectiveness.
"Oh, nothing's wrong, per se," Lena replied airily, but all Kara had to do was raise an eyebrow. "Ok, fine, I'll tell you, but it's still nothing bad! It's just something... weird..." then Lena gestured for her and Kara to both head back inside. Kara was confused, but she obliged, following Lena back into CatCo's building. They stopped in the main lobby and Lena pulled out her laptop. After loading up YouTube, she turned the screen to Kara.
"Care to explain what this is?" she asked, and then she clicked on a video titled "The Super-Duper Minecraft Musical."
"Oh... That..." suddenly, it was Kara's turn to give the awkward, sheepish grin. "It's a long story," she admitted.
"Well, we've got time," Lena snorted and a blush began to spread across Kara's face, accompanying her sheepish smile perfectly.
From the story Kara told, a few months ago, she and Alex had just been goofing off, enjoying a lighthearted night of stupid, silly, sisterly bonding. Laughter, games, jokes, pranks and memes were on the list for that night and, at one point, the pair began to reminisce about Minecraft. That had been a game popular back in 2012 ish and even though the game was still very well-known across the world, it had died down in more recent years and one of the things the Danvers sisters had done during their night of bonding together was revisiting their old Minecraft accounts. And not only that, but they skimmed all sorts of old Minecraft memes, joking and enjoying the cringey nostalgia of the early days of Minecraft. That had been when Kara had gotten the idea to, jokingly, make up a song for the game as something of an ode to its earlier days of blocky glory.
But what once had started out as a joke quickly became more when Alex dared Kara to post her stupid little Minecraft song to the internet. Back then, it had just been Kara singing while a camera pointed at her laptop screen. Eventually, however, Kara decided to take it a step further and turn it into a real and complete music video. With Supergirl's help, Kara managed to get in good with the people in charge of making Minecraft ads. Kara was hired at once and they took her silly little late-night video and made it into a fully fleshed out music video ad with proper dance choreography and slightly more realistic, interactive CGI all added in. The rest was history.
"So here we are now, several months later, and I think it was a pretty good success," Kara smiled shyly as she gestured to Lena's laptop.
"Mmm-hmm," Lena quirked an eyebrow as she looked back and forth between the dancing, singing girl on the laptop's screen and the one sitting right beside her in the CatCo lobby.
"Well what? It's a good game!" Kara suddenly pouted, growing defensive. It wasn't exactly uncommon for people to bash Minecrafters, making fun of them for indulging in such a silly and memetic game. Already sensing judgement coming from Lena, Kara was quick to grow defensive and hurt, embarrassed but ready to defend her love of the blocky building game.
"I know it's stupid, but it can be so much fun!" she pleaded. "It may be nothing more than a simple time-killer, but it has so much potential and it's not as silly or childish as everyone makes it out to be! Huge worlds can be built and all these creative storylines have been written for the game! Since it's so open-world, it really is up to the player to decide everything and that's where all of their creativity, intelligence and ingenuity come into play. Whether they choose to go into Creative Mode and just build to their heart's content, or choose to go into Survival Mode and see how long they can survive and how much they expand their world on their own merit and skill doesn't matter. What does matter is that it always takes a lot of innovation to get by and create, becoming a master of your own little world that is totally yours to create and design!"
While Kara gave her passionate speech about the wonders of Minecraft, she slowly began shifting Lena's laptop over to her own lap and not-so-subtly logging herself into the game as she spoke.
"Really Kara?" Lena quirked an amused eyebrow again as her girlfriend quickly logged onto her Minecraft account.
"Come on! Let me show you! Please!" Kara begged, already hitting the "start" button. Her server's name was MineKaraft (Mine-Kara-ft).
"Do I really have a choice?" Lena asked with a snort as she continued to watch Kara logging in. Looks like late-night dinner was going to have to wait for another night completely. Tonight was an impromptu Minecraft Let's Play, courtesy of Kara Danvers…
"-downloaded a new mod, but it didn't really fix the issue," Kara was still talking about an hour later, having barely even paused to breathe in any of the other proceeding 59 minutes of her playthrough. "But I still think they should've made Herobrine a bigger character, like, made him his own unique entity the way they did with the Ender Dragon!" Kara walk talking about a million miles an hour and Lena wasn't understanding over half of what she was saying, but the passion with which she was speaking was more than enough to keep the Luthor happy. She may not have understood what a "Herobrine" or "Ender Dragon" was, but she did understand that Kara had a vast knowledge and love for this game and that was more than enough to make Lena feel more than happy to watch Kara play and play and play.
"Wait a second. Is that a… Supergirl avatar?" Lena asked at one point. Kara had quickly switched into the settings menu and, in doing so, revealed what her player character looked like. Sure enough, it was a pixelated version of the Girl of Steel.
"What? No! It's nothing!" Kara was quick to exit out of the menu after that, stuttering and blushing up a storm as she tried to hide the screen. Lena was so amused by it all that she didn't even notice how much Kara had begun to fiddle with her glasses as she tried to explain away why her Minecraft character was an awkward replica of National City's favorite hero.
"I knew you were a big Supergirl fan, but that's just tacky," Lena teased.
"Well, she did help me get the gig for the ad in the first place…" Kara tried to explain, still fiddling with her glasses as she blushed.
"I'm almost jealous," Lena replied and Kara gave a weak laugh before turning back to the game.
But it didn't take long for Kara to recover and get right back into commentating.
"-and then they added in pandas and cats, instead of just ocelots, because for the longest time, all they had were ocelots!" Kara continued. "But then Notch-OH NO! DANG IT!" Kara's anguished cry echoed across the dark, empty, front lobby of CatCo. Her screen was tinted red and the words, "You Died" appeared on the screen. "It must've been a Creeper! And I didn't even hear it coming!" Kara continued to despair. Lena, meanwhile, had to stifle a laugh. Kara just looked so distraught over that surprise attack. And Lena really had never pegged Kara as a gamer girl, yet here they were, spending a late night at CatCo playing a game where everything was made of cubes. Kara heaved a dramatic sigh as she hit the "respawn" button and her avatar appeared right back by the bed in her little hut. It wasn't much, but Kara seemed proud of it. It may have only been a one-room building, just a giant square with a few basic tools like a bed, crafting table, furnace and a few chests, but Kara seemed proud of it.
And it didn't take long for Kara to get right back on track with her game despite suffering that unexpected setback.
"-discovered it because I was looking up memes and I found several Minecraft ones and that's kind of what drew me into the game, the memes! And then I found all these funny YouTuber videogame commentators, these Let's Players like Tobuscus and SkyDoesMinecraft and PewDiePie. They made it so entertain to watch walkthroughs. It's honestly my goal now, at this point, to go to a MineCon, and I also want to give the new Minecraft Story Mode thing a spin too!"
And Kara went on and on and on. Never once did Lena get bored or tired. Instead, she could only watch with an amused and tender smile as her dorky girlfriend continued to talk her ears off while running her player character through vast lands of unexplored tricks and treats. She could've been a YouTuber herself by this point! She had so many helpful tips to give (even though Lena didn't understand too much of it) and her passion and enthusiasm were both incredibly captivating.
At last, however, Lena finally called an end to their impromptu Minecraft date.
"I really do hate to call an end to all of this, but it really is getting late and we do still have work tomorrow," she said, put on a consoling hand on Kara's as she gently convinced her girlfriend to log back off her server.
"Awww," Kara looked genuinely sad, but she obeyed Lena's command and returned the laptop to its rightful owner.
"Don't worry," Lena promised with a fond smile. "We can talk more about this tomorrow."
"Really?" Kara sounded genuinely disbelieving. "You don't mind listening to me babble on and on about the game?"
"Not at all," Lena promised sincerely. "I quite enjoyed every second of our date tonight, even if it wasn't what we had originally planned," she paused to laugh while Kara cringed apologetically. "But honestly, I did enjoy listening to you teach me about the game and I would like to play it with you some time, but it just can't be tonight."
"Sorry, boss," Kara gave Lena another sheepish smile but Lena only shook her head, still smiling warmly at her employee.
"How about tomorrow we play? Just you and me? You can show this rookie the ropes," Lena offered and Kara's face lit up like the sun.
"Maybe after I show you the ropes, we can make a server together," she suggested, then she gave Lena a more meaningful look. "Or maybe you could just talk to the Mojang CEO yourself and maybe make an acquisition?" she raised her eyebrows suggestively.
"Are you seriously asking me to buy Minecraft for you?" Lena snorted, crossing her arms in amusement.
"Maybe?" Kara gave an adorably innocent smile and Lena only laughed and shook her head knowingly…
A couple months later, a tweet from Notch shocked the videogaming world when he announced that Mojang and L-Corp were officially entering a merger. Some of the company would still be owned by Notch, but a large chunk of it would now also be owned by L-Corp. When Alex read the tweet, she shot a glare at her younger sister, who was blissfully playing upon her new-and-improved Minecraft server.
"Did Lena buy you another company?" Alex demanded.
"I didn't ask her to!" Kara replied vaguely.
"But she bought you another company, didn't she?" Alex repeated, though this time, she wasn't looking for an answer, because she knew she wouldn't get one. Instead, she only rolled her eyes in disbelief before looking back to her phone once again. Lena! That useless lesbian! Was there anything she wouldn't buy for Kara? Alex honestly couldn't say she was surprised at this point.
Meanwhile, Kara's eyes were glued to her laptop, and the one other avatar in her newly-made world of MineCorp. She smiled at it. It was Lena's. Together, they were building a revamped version of the L-Corp tower. Wasn't this game absolutely super-duper?!
AN: This is for AO3s International Fanwork Day of 2019 and is inspired off of the Melissa Benoist Minecraft Musical ad. I've always wondered what Supergirl's friends might've thought when they saw that ad, and now I finally got around to writing a possible reaction fic.