The sound of birds singing was the first thing that Selah heard as her mind tried its best to wake back up. She was lying on the ground, in the dirt. Her entire body was sore, and she groaned as she groggily shifted her weight.

"Selah?" Kara's voice asked, and the girl opened her eyes weakly. She was surprised to realize that she could see again, but everything was still very blurry. A blonde haired blob entered her field of view- which she assumed was Kara, and she tried her best to sit up a little bit.

"Where are we?" she asked, her voice raspy and dry.

"Hey, slow down," Kara insisted, bracing the girl's head as she kept trying to push herself up. "Go easy, love." Dizziness washed over Selah, and she slumped back down to the ground as the memories began to return. She remembered the lab, and the parking garage. She remembered seeing Beta, the woman's eyes filled with rage and insanity as she pointed the power dampener towards her. And then she remembered everything exploding, and her world becoming swallowed up with blue fire.

"What happened?" she mumbled, rubbing a hand over her blurry eyes.

"Slow down," Kara repeated, putting a hand on Selah's grimy cheek. She could feel the hero's anxiety, how worried she had been, and she tried to sit up again, this time managing to prop herself up on her elbows, leaning up against Kara's knee.

"What happened?" she asked again, more lucidly this time.

"I woke up in the parking garage." Kara replied, taking a long, deep breath." I don't know how long I was out for, but it couldn't have been very long because the guards hadn't gotten there yet. You were unconscious, and you were burned pretty badly, mostly around your eyes and face. I thought-" the hero cleared her throat, her voice shaking. "I didn't think that you had made it, but I picked you up and got out of the garage. My powers were still gone, so I couldn't go very fast but I just kept moving."

"And we ended up here?" Kara nodded.

"No one has come looking for us yet, but I moved us every few days just to be safe."

"How long have I been out?"

"Four days. You started healing up around the first day or so, and you woke up a few times but not for very long." Closing her eyes again, Selah sat up a little more, now leaning against Kara's shoulder.

"Where are we?" she asked.

"I'm not sure. I was afraid to leave you alone for too long so I haven't explored too much. This forest is huge, I flew above the trees and it goes on for miles and miles. I couldn't see the edges of it in any direction." Selah shut her eyes tightly and leaned forwards, beginning to concentrate.

"What are you doing?" the girl didn't reply, tipping her head back and trying to reach out with her mind. "Selah?"

"I can't find her," she whispered.

"Who?"

"My aunt. I can't reach her. J'onn either."

"Are you sure that your powers are back?"

"I can hear you." Selah bit her lip and shut her eyes again, tighter this time.

"Go easy, Selah. I don't want you passing out again."

"Why can't I hear her?" the girl demanded, running a hand through her hair in frustration.

"Hey, don't jump to any conclusions right now. You were unconscious for days, maybe you just need a little longer to recharge. Or maybe something has changed with how you reach out now, with the new powers."

"Yeah," the girl replied, but Kara could see that she was unconvinced.

"You need to eat or drink something," the hero said, indiscreetly trying to change the subject. Selah was too tired to track her as she darted off. She returned a millisecond later, holding a wooden bowl filled with water which she handed to the girl.

"Where did this come from?" she asked, tapping the bowl as she took a sip.

"I made it."

"How?"

"Heat visioned a log. Not to brag but the first badge I got as a girl scout was 'wilderness survival'."

"All those girl scouts with heat vision."

"Yup." Selah took another long sip of the water, trying to clear away the rest of the fogginess in her mind.

"So what happens now?" she asked.

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"We're over top of Michigan right now?" Selah asked, squinting down at the distant ground below them. The two were flying back to National City together, the cool night sky blanketing them as they soared under the stars.

"Yep," Kara replied, smiling as the wind blew on her face. "I thought you said that the lab was near the city."

"Look, I just saw the doctor going to a city. She didn't specify which one."

"Her thoughts didn't give anything away to the fact that we were in northern Canada?"

"Canadians don't think that different from people in California, I guess," Selah answered. "Hey, at least I can say that I've traveled to another country now."

"Is this your first time flying?"

"Yeah. It was strictly prohibited by my mother and my aunt. They did their best to stay under the radar as far as the whole alien thing went, and I guess that flying is a bit of a giveaway that you're not from Earth."

"It was the same for me with the Danvers. Eliza used to say that if I went out flying she'd never get pizza ever again."

"Oof."

"Hey, don't be rude. I had just been introduced to pizza, and the thought of losing it was," Kara shuddered dramatically. "Too much to bear."

"Alright," Selah said, rolling her eyes.

"We'll have to go flying together once things are more normal again."

"I'd like that." They flew in silence for awhile, as the lights of the city grew closer. "So like, how do we land?"

"With our feet?" Kara replied.

"No," the girl groaned. "I mean how do we land unnoticed in a highly populated city?"

"I usually just drop down in an alleyway, or straight into my apartment, but I'm guessing that we should go to the DEO first-" she trailed off as she noticed that Selah had stopped abruptly, and was hovering behind her. "What's up?"

"I hear her," the girl replied.

"What?"

"My aunt. I hear her, in Noonan's. Can we-?"

"Fine. Just don't tell Alex." The two began descending down to the city, landing mostly inconspicuously beside Noonan's. Together, they walked back into the city from the same alleyway that they had both been taken from.

"Is she going to be mad?" Selah asked, twisting her hands together as they began walking to the door.

"Almost definitely," Kara answered, putting her arm around the girl. "But she loves you, and I am sure that more than anything, she'll be glad that you're safe." Selah nodded, looking down at herself.

"I look like a mess," she said. Kara took in the sight of the girl, overgrown curls, dried blood caked around her forehead, old clothes covered in ash and dirt and blood, and she tried her best to smile, knowing that she probably looked just as disheveled.

"Hey, at least you're not the one in a cape," she quipped. "It's not that bad. We'll be able to get cleaned up soon." Selah nodded, and they entered the coffee shop.

"I'll be with you in a moment," Lea said, her back to the door as she sorted bags of coffee. Selah and Kara exchanged a glance as the girl cleared her throat. The woman sighed as she finally turned around and walked to the register, still not looking up. "What would you like?" she asked flatly.

"Aunt Lea," Selah said, taking a few steps forwards. "It's me." The woman looked up, her face confused. She stared blankly at the girl, raising her eyebrows expectantly as she took in the sight of the grimy girl and Kara in her superhero suit. "Selah?" she added.

"Sorry kid, do I know you?" Lea asked, frowning.

"What do you mean? I'm your niece."

"I don't have a niece," the woman replied, clearly taken aback.

"But-"

"Look, are you going to order or not? Because we close in ten minutes, and I just want to go home." Selah blinked a few times, her body tense as she stood frozen on the spot, dumbfounded. "Alright. Go take a shower or something instead of messing around here," Lea said, throwing a towel over her shoulder and walking to the back room.

"Why doesn't she know me?" the girl asked quietly, as Kara walked up beside her.

"I don't know," she replied. "Let's go to the DEO, okay? We'll get answers there." Selah nodded numbly, and let Kara lead her out of the coffeeshop, and they began walking the few blocks to the agency.

"Do you think they did something to her? To make her forget me?" the girl abruptly asked as they waited at a red light.

"I don't know," Kara answered. "Why couldn't she at least tell that you were Andromedan?"

"Normal Andromedans can't connect with Empaths as easily."

"Could you still hear her?" Selah nodded.

"She really had no idea who I was."

"I'm sorry, love. We'll figure all of this out."

The two turned a corner, entering the street that the DEO was on, but they both stopped short in the middle of the sidewalk.

"Um," Kara said. The building was no longer there, and in its place was a small, grassy park. There was no sign that a skyscraper had been recently torn down, or that one had ever even occupied the lot in the first place.

"Was that always there?" Selah asked, pointing to the teeter-totter.

"We need to go to my apartment," the hero said, darting back up into the air.

"What, why?" the girl demanded, taking off as well and following close behind as they wove through the city.

"To see if it's still my apartment." Kara stopped outside of her building, hovering by the windows. Thick, woolen curtains obscured the inside, which already was enough confirmation, but she squinted, peering through the walls. A young Asian woman was on the phone in the kitchen, and an elderly man sat on a couch that was definitely not hers, watching the news on a television that was definitely not hers.

"What does this mean?" Selah asked.

"I don't think we're on our Earth anymore."

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"What are we doing here?" Kara hissed as Selah strode through the gates of National City University, ignoring the stares of other students. They had slept in a mostly empty alleyway last night, which certainly didn't help their appearances. They had also flown to Alex, J'onn, and Selah and Nia's apartments, as well as virtually all of their other friends' houses, only to find them either inhabited by other people, or that the buildings were not even there in the first place. It had been a mostly sleepless night, partially due to the physical discomfort that came with sleeping in an alleyway, but also because of Selah's incessant questions about the multiverse and how it worked, so Kara was feeling a little on edge as they walked across the campus.

"I can override the access panels to get into university buildings with my telepathy," Selah replied. "I forgot my student card once, so I figured I'd test it out, and it works. I can get us into the library to do some research, and also into the gym so we can use the showers by the pool."

"Okay," Kara said. "What if someone asks us what we're doing on a university campus on Saturday? Is it even Saturday on this Earth? Does this Earth still have seven day weeks?"

"Calm down," the girl said, tilting her head. "That boy's mind says it's Saturday," she said, pointing to a scruffy looking college student in a red sweater. "Happy?"

"Just thrilled."

"You need to take some deep breaths, man."

"Selah, I am wearing kevlar, okay?" Kara snapped, gesturing to her super suit. " I look insane!"

"Can't you just de-materialize your suit or whatever?"

"No, because the nanites are triggered by a motion detector in my glasses, and Rao alone knows where those are."

"Well on the plus side, no one has recognized you yet, so there's probably no Supergirl on this Earth. You just look like you're excited for Halloween."

"It's practically December."

"Hey, you don't know when Halloween is on this Earth. For all you know, it could be today." They arrived at the gym, and Selah opened the door, holding it as she ushered Kara in.

"Now what?"

"Showers are to the left. After you."

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About an hour later, they had both showered and managed to mostly clean their clothes, although Selah's shirt was still bloodstained around the collar. Kara was still in the suit, although she had removed her cape and tied it around her waist like one would do with a sweatshirt, in an attempt to make the red and blue costume more subtle. Selah decided not to comment on it, knowing that the woman was already going through some stuff.

"We need to figure things out quickly," Kara hissed as they walked towards the library, covering her face as a girl tried to snap a photo of her in the suit. "All it takes is one of these pictures to go up on social media and Beta knows where we are."

"I barely survived that explosion," Selah replied, "Is it wishful thinking to assume that maybe she didn't?"

"What about the guards then? Or the other Director? Or the doctors? Or-"

"I know. I've been deleting the photos of you off of everyone's phones anyways."

"You can do that?"

"Telekinetic powers, man." They went into the library, Selah smiling politely at the security guards who stared incredulously at the duo. "Hi, hope you're having a good day," she said as they walked past.

"I hate this."

"I think it's going pretty well."

"Yeah, okay."

"Hi, can I book a computer please?" Selah asked as they approached a woman seated behind the main desk, who wordlessly handed the girl a laminated number, raising an eyebrow at Kara. "Thank you so much."

"I hate this," Kara repeated.

"You're not even trying to blend in. Stop putting your hands on your hips so much, and like, slouch more." They sat down at the computer, and Selah stared at the keyboard for a second.

"Should I type?" the hero offered.

"Yeah, I forgot that I still don't have thumbs." Kara slid over to the seat in front of the monitor, and turned it on.

"When do those usually come back?" she asked.

"I don't know, they should start growing soon. What should we search?" Kara opened the internet browser, and tentatively typed in Supergirl.

"We could read an article about super girl names for your baby," she deadpanned.

"So no Supergirl on this Earth. What about the DEO?"

"If you googled the DEO on our Earth, nothing would come up. That's kind of the point of an undercover government organization."

"Right." Kara searched Superman, but once again, nothing relevant showed up. It was the same for Kara Danvers and Clark Kent. L-Corp didn't seem to even exist, even under the Luther Corp name. As far as Kara could tell, Lex and Lena Luthor were science partners working to cure cancer out of a lab in Kansas. Alex Danvers was a doctor in Seattle, a brain surgeon, and unsurprisingly, there were no results for J'onn J'onnz.

"At least Cat-Co still exists," Selah offered, after Kara's umpteenth Google search.

"Yeah but Cat Grant has absolutely no idea who I am, because there is no Kara Danvers."

"So you don't exist on this Earth at all?"

"Maybe Krypton wasn't destroyed here, and so Kal and I never came."

"It would explain why there's no DEO." Selah said, leaning back in her chair as she thought. "The whole agency was formed because of Fort Rozz landing here, which it never would have done if Krypton is still around."

"And Lex started going insane because of his jealousy towards Superman. But there's no Superman to make him jealous anymore, so I guess he and Lena are pioneers in oncology research."

"So basically on this Earth none of our friends know each other, and so none of them can help us get back to our Earth." Kara groaned, putting her face into her hands.

"And it doesn't seem like Barry or Oliver exist either, so we can't recruit them."

"This Earth sucks," Selah replied a little too loudly, gaining some confused stares from the students nearby. She cleared her throat awkwardly, "uh, climate change, am I right? It's... bad," she said, pointing to a dark haired girl who was sitting a few desks away. She didn't reply, and slowly put her headphones in. "Okay, what do we do?"

"We try to talk to Alex, maybe" Kara suggested as they logged out of the computer and went back to return the number to the main desk. "Damn it, my glasses are on another Earth," she groaned. "I'm never getting out of this suit."

"Maybe someone will pick up your glasses over there, and that will make it de-materialize. Do nanite signals work across the multiverse?"

"This is what I get for letting Brainy design me a suit." The hero handed the laminated card back over to the librarian, who seemed just as confused by Kara's appearance as she had been the first time. "To Seattle?" she asked as they began walking out of the library, but Selah didn't reply. The girl had stopped walking, and was standing in front of a large picture frame, peering at it intently.

"Kara?" she asked.

"What?" Kara demanded, turning to look at the picture. It was a group photo of about twenty professors, captioned 'Psychology Department Faculty, Spring 2019', with their names listed below. "What am I looking at?" As an answer, Selah pointed to a blonde woman in the middle row. The photo was grainy and not terribly focused, and the woman was older than Kara, but it was unmistakable.

"So you do exist on this Earth after all," Selah said, still pointing at Linda Lee, psychology professor.

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