Pilot
KrytpoTech
Kara Zor-El was a busy woman. Not only is she the sole caretaker for her cousin Kal-El, but she is the owner of a multi-billion-dollar company and as such she does not suffer fools. So, she thought as she stared at the sniveling excuse of a man in front of her, why the fuck is this little ingrate still here? With a glare at the human before her, Kara slowly leaned toward on her desk causing the man to squeak in fear at the intimidating woman. With a snort in disgust, she pressed a button on her office phone instantly connecting her to her secretary. The phone didn't even finish its first ring before her secretary answered much to her approval.
"Yes Ms. Zor-El?" The bright and chirpy voice of her Secretary answered her. With a grimace of disgust at the cheeriness of the other woman, Kara's dark and dangerous voice answered her, dousing out her cheerfulness faster than a hose on a fire.
"Ms. Tessmacher, please tell me why this sorry excuse of a man was allowed in my building much less my office?" Kara growled, still staring at the waste of space before her making the man shiver in fear.
Ms. Tessmacher sighed, her boss could be very nice when she wanted to be, the problem was though that she rarely if ever wanted to be nice. In fact, if it weren't for her cousin Kal, Ms. Tessmacher is of the firm belief that Ms. Zor-El would be a serial killer and create weapons of mass destruction that makes the inventions of Lex Luthor look cuddly. As it is, Ms. Zor-El's attitude has caused many men and women to flee from her in terror and many more employees to run from the building screaming and in tears.
Ms. Tessmacher is proud to have lasted three years as Ms. Zor-El's assistant. Although the woman is firm to remind her she is a secretary and not an assistant because to quote the woman herself "I don't need an assistant I need a minion! The closest thing to a minion is a Secretary, so that is what you will be! Any Questions? Good now go get me a Latte!"
As it is, Ms. Tessmacher is used to this sort of response from Ms. Zor-El. Unfortunately, the man before the woman isn't and he heard Ms. Zor-El's question. Before she could answer her boss, the said sorry excuse to men ran out of the office in tears. Following the man's retreat with pitying eyes, Ms. Tessmacher sighed before she bid her bosses 10:15 to her office wishing him luck.
James 'Jimmy' Olsen is not a man who is easily intimidated. James wouldn't be able to have lasted a week with his longtime girlfriend Lucy Lane if he was. But there is one woman, one person in the entire world who would always be able to put the fear of God into him by just saying her name. That woman is unfortunately the person he is forced to interview today and to say that he is scared shitless would be an understatement. Not even Cat Grant or the Joker could scare James this much and he works for one and was kidnapped and tortured by the other. So with a deep shaky breath, James entered the office of Kara Zor-El.
As James Olsen entered her office, Kara was going over the proposal that the Board of Investors had sent her. General Samuel Lane, is inquiring about a device that can detect aliens and a weapon that could incapacitate aliens and Meta Humans. As she read the document, Kara concluded that the man is a Xenophobe and though she couldn't give a fuck about her fellow aliens that weren't Kal and herself, she also didn't care to create such a device.
If the Alien Detector could detect Aliens, what's to stop it from detecting her and Kal as an alien. Although, Kara mused as she spun her chair around to look at the sunset out her office window. If I do build this device, I could program it so that Kal and I show as humans. With that decision made, Kara decided to create the detection device.
As for the weapon, well she really wasn't in the business for creating weapons no matter which government asks for it. The only person she builds weapons for are herself, so the only thing she could do with the proposal of building such a weapon was to laugh at it and toss it in the pile to light on fire later.
While Kara was going over the proposals, James waited as patiently as he could until she was done. James has had dealings with Kara in the past, so he knows she is scary as fuck and too dangerous to fuck with. But other than that, he knows nothing about her, nobody does really. All anybody knows is that she started this company thirteen years ago and the company has been thriving and growing since then.
Kara Zor-El is a mystery that no one can solve. The woman is an expert at dodging reporters and avoiding having an interview, anybody who tries comes back in tears and traumatized. Some people are never heard from again because they have decided to skip the country, there are rumors that she killed them, but nobody has any proof of that.
But finally, after thirteen years Cat Grant managed to secure an interview as a favor for her and though she meant to have done this interview herself, she couldn't because her son was sick. That leaves James as the only other competent reporter to do the interview because both women were too stubborn to reschedule or cancel.
"James Olson," Kara's dark voice purred in the echoing silence startling the poor man. James jumped and felt a shiver run down his spine at the tone of the woman's voice. The way she said his name, it sounded like a warning and a caress. Still facing the sunset, Kara acknowledged her guest, but she knew that her intimidation tactic worked.
Kara has learned early on that humans are easily intimidated, this was one of the reasons why she doesn't bother trying to be like them. Kara has neither the desire nor the patience to play human, so if she slips and shows her powers? Well so the fuck what? There are more Meta Humans and Aliens out there than humans at this point and she has the powers of a goddess at her fingertips. If some dumb fuck has the balls to harm her and Kal, well without their little green rocks who or what is going to stop them?
When she and Kal landed, Kara made sure to track down every single piece of Kryptonite she could find no matter how small. Some pieces she couldn't procure because the human government got a hold of them first and she didn't have the time nor the patience to storm a coup against the government for a tiny piece of a little green rock. By the time Kal was a teenager, Kara had found all of the Kryptonite around the world that wasn't in government hands. After procuring them, Kara made sure to destroy them all. That way if some idiot broke into her highly secured home and stole them, it wouldn't be used against them.
But back to the situation at hand, the interview. Personally, if it wasn't Cat Grant asking for this interview Kara would turn around and tell Mr. Olson where he can take his interview. As it is, Catherine Jane Grant is one of the only humans that Kara has met that she respects. Kara would go as far as to say that she likes Cat, but she is pretty sure that if Cat knew that she would keep calling for favors and that is not okay with Kara. This interview will be taxing on her as it is, she is pretty sure that five minutes into this interview she will be picturing about five ways she would enjoy using Mr. Olson's head in a sport and none of them in a nice way.
With a sigh, Kara spun around to face the man. As she looked him over, Kara could see what made her Secretary blush when she spoke of him. Kara supposes that Mr. Olson could be considered…cute. Kara scrunched her nose at the word in disgust, she hates that word and now that she thought of that word in association with a human of all things her mood went from bad to worse.
"Well, let's get this over with," Kara sighed in annoyance when the man did nothing but stare at her with a look of fear and awe. Kara was used to those kind of looks, she got them every day from both men and woman. But today she really didn't feel like dealing with those kind of looks, hell she didn't feel like dealing with people in general but she has to unfortunately.
With a shake of his head, James broke himself out of his daze of admiring the fearsome woman he has the honor of interviewing. Seeing that her patience is at an end, James sat himself down on one of the uncomfortable leather chairs before him. Grabbing his notepad and pen out of his bag and setting his recording on after gaining permission to record the interview, he began. Or well he was about to when Ms. Tessmacher raced into the room in a panic.
"Ms. Zor-El! Ms. Zor-El!" Ms. Tessmacher was in a fit of panic, when she sent Mr. Olson in for the interview there was an emergency broadcast about the flight for Geneva. The plane was going to crash! Normally, she wouldn't bring this to her boss's attention. But not only is her childhood friend Alex Danvers on that flight, but so is her boss's cousin!
With a sigh of relief for the interruption, she turned to her Secretary to either thank her for the interruption or to scold her for the noise she is making. But whatever she was going to say died on her lips the second her Secretary told her why she was in such distress.
"The flight for Geneva is going to crash!"
There was a suffocating silence for a minute before what she had said kicked in. Breathing heavily in barely contained panic, Kara suddenly stood up causing her desk to be roughly shoved forward into James making him cry out in pain and her chair to crash into the wall creating cracks in the wall.
"Get out," Kara said softly as she trembled. When nobody moved, she slammed her fist onto her desk cracking the furniture and causing the two humans in the room to jump.
"GET THE FUCK OUT!" Kara bellowed, finally getting through to the two humans who fled the office as fast as their legs could take them.
As soon as she was sure that the humans were gone, Kara strode to her bookcase and pulled out her favorite book, The Art of War by Sun Zu. Once the book was in her hand she opened the book until she saw the back of the book where there was a carve out where a cell phone lay resting in it. With a sigh, she removed the phone and hit number one on the speed dial. Before the phone could begin ringing, the bookcase opened to reveal a wardrobe where there was only two items. A suit and an amulet.
The suit was a black and silver full body armor made from a blend of Graphene and New Magnesium. The Graphene, which is the strongest fabric in the world is the main part of the suit. The silver chest plate, silver chin guards and silver gauntlets are made from New Magnesium which is the strongest metal alloy in the world. In the center on the chest plate was an engraving of her family's coat of arms. The family crest of the House of El, it looks like an S but Kara had it modified so that it would be hard to tell if it was an S or if it was a serpent.
Kara's Mother made a lot of enemies before she was lost to Krypton's Death. Kara isn't so stupid as to advertise that the House of El still lives when she knows for a fact that her mother's enemies are out there. With that in mind, Kara made a modification to her suit to differentiate herself from other Superheroes.
Unlike the Batman who wears a mask and Wonder Woman who doesn't, Kara's suit does both. Once the suit is on, with a push of a button a clear transparent shield surrounds her head. To others, when they look at her face they see an illusion of a dark helmet, but in reality, she isn't wearing anything but a bubble over her face.
The best thing about this suit, is that the fabric was modified so that it has aerodynamics built in and it is light enough so that all of her supernatural strength goes into fighting her opponent and not on wearing the suit. This also makes it easier to fly without the need for a cape to balance her out. Kara always thought that a cape was not only ridicules but very impractical. All it would take is for your opponent to grab your cape to knock you off balance or to stop you from escaping.
Once Kara finished suiting up she turned to go rescue her cousin only to stop before she got to her office balcony. With a second of indecision she strode back to her wardrobe and grabbed the amulet before she stalked away, the wardrobe closing itself behind her after her heat signature was ten feet away from it.
Clasping the amulet around her neck, she felt ready to save her cousin. The amulet is not only the last thing she has of her mother, but she modified it to have a tracker on it. The tracker tracks not only her and Kal, but it has a warning device if there are any hostiles around it will send a pulse of heat and vibrate against her which will warn her of a threat. If the necklace vibrates, then there are hostile government enemies around, if it heats up it is hostile aliens if it does both then there are both around. The necklace with give a beeping sound detectable to only her and Kal when it is tracking them. Kal has one as well, although his is a ring that was from his father Jor-El that Kara modified for him.
It didn't take long for Kara to reach the plane once she was in the air going at Mach three speed and almost breaking the sound barrier. Once she arrived at the plane, Kara scanned the plane to see if anyone was watching her. After concluding that only Kal saw her, she set about trying to level the plane. Flying to each wing, she used her enhanced strength to level the plane before she got behind the plane to keep it straight. Once she was sure that the plane was as level as it could be, Kara scanned the surrounding area to be sure it won't crash into anything. Unfortunately, the closest casualty of the plane would be a bridge.
With a growl of annoyance, Kara sped below the plane and shoved the plane up, pushing the plane higher into the sky and steering it over the bridge. Once they were clear, Kara steered the plane to the ocean where she let the plane land as softly as she could. Once the plane was safely on the water, Kara swam to the shore and flew back the office before her Secretary and Mr. Olson could get suspicious.
Stripping herself of her armor with shaky fingers, Kara leaned against her ruined desk. She did it! She saved her cousin and no one was the wiser, no one saw her save the plane, so no one could expect her to be a hero. With a sigh of relief at having dodged a bullet, Kara sealed her armor and her mother's necklace away in their safe spot and once her bookcase was back to normal she headed to her office couch and collapsed onto it in exhaustion.
Not even five minutes have passed before a timid knock interrupted the relaxing silence. With a sigh of aggravation, Kara didn't even need to use her x-ray vision to know who was at her door. Without getting up or opening her eyes Kara summoned her ever faithful Secretary into her office.
"Come in Ms. Tessmacher!"
With a sigh of relief at hearing her boss sound a lot more relaxed than before she tossed them out, Ms. Tessmacher entered the office to tell her boss the great news. Seeing her boss collapsed on her couch, looking so tired and defeated made Ms. Tessmacher want to hug the other woman. But she wouldn't do that, the one time she tried that Ms. Zor-El looked about ready to stab her. Ever since that incident when she stabbed a shareholder with a dull pencil that somehow caused him to bleed as though it was a sharp knife for trying to threaten her for not taking his client's contract, Ms. Tessmacher has wisely decided not to give her boss a reason to want to stab her.
"What is it Ms. Tessmacher?" Ms. Zor-El's exhausted voice pulled her out of her head, reminding her of why she was here. Without giving her boss a moment to insult her if she didn't continue, Ms. Tessmacher shared the good news.
"A miracle has happened! The plane it-it's safe! I mean obviously the plane isn't safe otherwise it wouldn't have crashed! But I mean it's safe now! Kind of? What I mean to say is- "
With a sigh at her babbling Secretary, Kara decided to put her out of her misery.
"Miss. Tessmacher," Kara interrupted her babbling Secretary causing her to shut up so fast that Kara could hear her jaw snap. "Is it safe to assume that my cousin is safe?" Kara asked her calmly, after all Kara could care less if the other humans survived or not. All that Kara cared about was Kal. Normally she wouldn't have to worry about him since he has the same powers as she does, however her cousin is an imbecile and blew them out the other day by racing his friend Barry of all things. So, this incident scared the ever-loving shit out of her because this time she could have really lost him, he was as human as the humans they are surrounded by every day.
After a short silence, Miss. Tessmacher confirmed that Kal was perfectly fine minus being shocked. After hearing that, Kara let out a sigh of relief and dismissed her for the night and told her to send everyone home. Once the woman was gone, Kara let out the tears that she has been holding back. There is only one thing in this entire world-no in the entire universe that could reduce Kara to tears and that was Kal. If Rao forbid she lost him, Kara knew for a fact that she would lose herself to her darkness. Rao help the world if something ever happened to Kal, because that sixteen-year-old boy was the only thing keeping Kara from razing the world to its foundations or just taking it over just because she can.
After shutting her computer down and locking up, Kara went home. Kara needed to see Kal with her own eyes, she needed to hold him and feel that he was alive and well. Once she pulled up to her house, she saw her cousin waiting for her on the porch. Quickly turning off the car, she raced out of the vehicle and sped to her cousin and wasted no time pulling him into her arms.
"Kal!" Kara choked out in a rough and tight voice. Squeezing her eyes tightly shut she just held him as tightly as she could, belatedly realizing that he got his powers back because they were using their full strength as they held each other.
"I'm here Kara," Kal soothed her as the woman who raised and protected him his whole life cried in his arms. It hurt him to see her in such distress when he knows that nothing could ever bring her to tears but him, but it also comforted him to know that she loves him so fiercely. Especially since his cousin is a sociopath, it felt good to know that he is her humanity as much as it is daunting to know he is the only thing that keeps his cousin from becoming a monster.
Once Kara was calm, they headed inside, unaware of the fact that there were consequences to her saving her cousin. Unaware that they were being watched. Unaware that the plane was just the beginning.