Hello any faithful reviewers from my original story, and to any new readers I hope you've read 'Amnesiac on the Loose' first. It'll make it a lot easier to understand the sequel.
"Elli Kalara Kent!" Charlie yelled up the stairs. "Get your butt down here this instant!"
Elli cringed, it was always bad when her mother used her full name. She wondered what she'd done this time, or rather what she'd been caught for this time. She X-rayed the floor and saw that no one besides her mom, brothers and sister was downstairs. The coast was clear of strangers. She supersped out her door and down the stairs. She came to a stop in front of her mother, who did not look pleased.
"Hi Mom, what's up?" She asked with a wide 'I swear I'm innocent' expression on her face.
"Elli Kalara Kent did you dare your brother to use his heat vision to heat Joey's coffee so that when he took a drink it'd burn his tongue?" She placed her hands on her hips.
Joey Kelnor was the Metropolis High School's resident bully/star linebacker. Although Jonathan was tall and built, because of the fact that he was a genius he was the favorite target of Joey's trash talking.
Jonathan could never fight back, even though he wanted to, and it annoyed him to no end. Sam White, Emily and Malcolm Olsen, and he always hung out. They'd grown up together and always covered for him when he had to disappear at a moment's notice, a habit that the Kent Family was known for.
"That jackass deserved much worse than that." Elli told her mother, her blue eyes intense. "I know we aren't supposed to use our powers to get back at them, but it isn't fair to expect us just to take it."
"Elli," Charlie said slowly. "You can't use your powers against people."
Elli shook her head and sighed. "Mom, I get that Jon can't fight him, he could kill him by accident. But why is it such a big deal if we just mess with this idiot once?"
"Elli, you just can't..."
Elli had had enough. "Whatever Mom. We're the most powerful beings on the planet and save the planet almost daily. They don't even appreciate all the things Dad does for them. They take advantage of his powers, but the moment he has something he has to do for himself they turn on him like a pack of rabid dogs."
Charlie had wondered when this topic would come up. "Listen El, I'm sorry that you read that article Lois wrote, but it was a long time ago and she was just feeling hurt..."
Elli stared at her mother disbelievingly. "It's not that she wrote the article Mom. I know she was hurt because Dad didn't say goodbye and she hadn't gotten a chance to tell him about Jason. This is about the fact that everyone agreed with her, they gave her a Pulitzer Prize for god's sake!"
Before Charlie could say another word to try to calm her, Elli supersped out the back door and took off into the sky. She left her mother far behind and headed for the one place she could be alone, and be far away from any pesky tabloid reporters who'd been after pictures of her as Supergirl. She hadn't been able to make any saves without having dozens of flashbulbs flashing in her face in the past three years since she'd first saved a runaway bus of schoolchildren.
Elli sighed as she landed on the hard crystal floor of the Fortress of Solitude. Her parents hadn't known that she'd made herself a costume at age fifteen, and they'd been upset that she'd decided to join the 'family business' so early. She pulled a familiar crystal out of her pack and slid it into the console.
"Hello Grandchild." A deep voice intoned.
I know this is really really short, and I apologize, but I just wanted a solid introduction before any action goes on.
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