Magic flared around them and with it power returned to both Arion and Power Girl. They both breathed slowly, feeling themselves whole for the first time in years.

Arion grinned at Karen/Kara/Power Girl as she shook her head.

"Be careful, Kara, in order to help us handle this mess, I had to merge us with all of our dupes from the Multiverse, but that means you now have all the memories and powers of yourselves, and are actually back to the levels you were at before your accident."

She shook her head, blurring slightly, then appearing clearly once more, now looking like she was in her old costume, with the exception of a babysack on the back, where her son had been restored to her once more. She smiled.

"It's all coming clear now, Arion. After a lifetime wondering who I was and am, I know now, all of me are from the same place, and the same time, and it explains so much."

Arion smiled warmly at the girl he had come to love as a granddaughter.

"Yes my dear, you are from Atlantis. Not My Atlantis, but the one Mine was named for."

She blinked and stared at him.

"You know? You know about the Ancients?"

"Yes, Kara. I know the secret of Atlantis and the Kryptonians and all of it. But right now isn't the time to discuss it. We must prepare for the Crisis and act as the Monitor instructed us. Or else all will be lost."

She nodded reluctantly. Even with memory restored, she had so much to ask. But Arion was right, the old man usually was. She grinned suddenly and bowed in mid-air.

"After you, Old Man."

He scowled, even as he soared away, his hands glowing with the trademark magic that was his birthright. He had been born millennia ago in the second city of Atlantis, during the age of Magic on Earth. He had cared for her for a long time and she felt an honest care for him, despite the lies he had told her through the years.

They soared through the air, headed up into orbit, before angling back down into the air and soaring towards Stonehenge at massive speeds. Kara gloried in the cold air and in having her former cosmic level of power back. She swooped across the sky and back and he laughed as she did so. They descended to the formation of stones and Arion grinned at her then let loose with the power that was his to command. As the stones rose and began to almost dance, she laughed in delight. She had always loved magic. He had made magic for her as she had asked and it always enchanted her, to make a small pun.

She watched as the stones moved into a pattern and then he called for her help to set them just right. With her increased powers it was easy to set them just so and she grinned. She loved this! She lowered the final piece into place and then soared back to the center where he was hovering.

"Now it will get harder. We have to concentrate the power of Magic from this Earth into us, then through Stonehenge, channel it into the Star Gate."

Kara snickered and Arion cast a glance at her.

"Yes, I know the Ancients left behind their own Gate, but this one is, as you know, much newer. "

She nodded thinking back to the year before when the strange crossover with that other universe had resulted in the Shi'Ar of this universe becoming aware of Earth. they had immediately established a Star Gate near the moon, something that the Monitor was using to his advantage. He and his allies had set forth a plan involving seven universes in an effort to stop the madness.

She watched Arion and the stones ad the magic rose then groaned as it began strobing through her and Arion. It felt like Kryptonite and fire all rolled up into one. She heard a cry escape her lips, echoed by Arion's own gasp and she saw him go to his knees. She reached over and somehow hauled him to his feet, feeling the power roar through her, and suddenly she grabbed her ears, reeling. She could hear screaming and yelling and voices. Thousands of voices echoed in her ears and somehow she knew these were all those across time and space feeling the shift all those who were disrupted.. and then there was a scream and ...

..She awoke in a room, alone and clean and in a different uniform. She groaned and stretched. She felt like a day old towel. She sighed. She was in the Orbiter she was betting and it was time to find out what was happening.