June 22, 1000
Danielle, Diana, Kal and Bruce were sitting in the conference room. Danielle was staring at the floor, while Kal and Bruce were in front of her and Diana was sitting next to her. They had asked her to tell them about her life and how she grew up, who Dr. Sams was and anything else she could remember.
The flash drive had shown that they taught her how to use her power and trained her to be a warrior. The three leaguers stared at Danielle as she thought of where to begin. She remembered everything that happened to her, everything she saw, everything she heard.
"I woke in a empty room, it was cold and dark. I called out for you and my dad. I don't know how long I was in there before someone come to get me. The person brought me into a red hallway, I tried to get away but I wasn't strong enough," Danielle was staring off into space as she told them what she remembered.
"They gave me food and water ever few days. They asked me who my parents were, what their names were but I never answered their questions. They would put me in the red room with machines and sometimes people and have me fight them." Diana listened to her daughter tell them about the life she lived. "It's all I did for about 3 or so years, they brought in doctors, they studied me, asked me more questions. I never answered and when I did I yelled at them in Ancient Greek and some other language they never heard before."
"When Dr. Sams came he was the only one who I would talk to since he asked me questions about me and not my parents. He gave me first book, he played dress up with me; talked to me like I was a person and not something to be poked and prodded at. He gave me order to my chaotic life, scheduling my trainings, studies - everything….
...
It had taken the rest of the day for the Danielle to them about her life. Diana didn't know what to feel: angry, sadness, joy. Diana looked at the man that had taken care of her daughter, the man who raised her. He had taken care of her, protected her as much as he could, never let her do anything that went against the values that she would have taught her.
He was breathing on his own for a few hours. Danielle had refused to leave until his side until he woke up but her mother convinced her to get some rest. Kal has yet to come see the doctor, Diana thought is because of what Danielle had said about him. She had had a father growing up or at least a father figure.
Kal didn't even speak to her aside from their sit down earlier but even then Bruce was asking most of the questions.
….
Kal was watching Diana through the window, he didn't know what to do next. His daughter had a father, his wife had their daughter back but he didn't have his family back. He didn't know how he was going to get them back. He first needed to tell Danielle that he was her father, they needed to build a relationship. Diana and her had already started to yet he couldn't be in the same room as her without her being on edge.
He headed off to the training room to occupy his mind. He went to the (control room) to set the setting for specialized training. To his surprise John Stewart, Barry Allen and Shayera were there observing whoever was down there.
"Damn, she's fast."
"Not as fast as me."
"No but she is certainly faster than her father and he's the only one who can keep up with you." Shayera said as she watched her goddaughter flying through the simulation in half the time her father would have.
"What simulation is she doing?" They all turned to see Superman approaching them. He got to the Windows faster than they answered to see his daughter running their simulation. It was the hardest of them all, it took him and Diana to complete it the first time- even then it was still extremely difficult.
Danielle had never been more tired in life. This simulation had every one of her weakens and then some. The first part had "civilians" that she almost didn't save because they weren't real but she knew her mother and Dr. Sams would be disappointed in her. The next part had magical weapons that were coated with the green rocks that weaken her. She had build up an immunity from being constantly exposed to them over the years.
She still needed a good dose of sun if she was going to finish. The bot in from of her had transformed into a man of sorts. He had green metallic patches all over his skin and purple tentacles for arms. Danielle had never seen anything like this before in her life, then it spoke.
Kal saw her eyes burn the same red his were whenever someone had seriously hurt Diana but there was something else in her eyes-like her mother's when she….
Danielle flow force at the bot punching it causing a surge of electricity to appear then the simulations shut down.
All the lights in the Watchtower went out for a few minutes before it rebooted.
"What was her time," Barry asked as John was punching keys.
All systems reset
"All the times and records have been deleted as well as some of the newer simulations. It appears some sort of mystic energy traveled through the systems."
The lights in the simulation room were still out. Kal went down to the room to see if Danielle was okay.
He found her in the corner hugging her knees, staring blankly at the floor.
"Sorry. I didn't mean to do that, I can usually control it."
"Control what," he asked as he sat next to her.
"The electricity, I didn't mean use it- I-I was just so anger. I'm sorry."
"It's fine, the system was created to handle all sorts of things. Guess we have a new one to add to that list." Danielle chuckled which caused him to smile.
"Do you want to talk about?"
"Maybe after I go to the medic bay to make sure all the green rock radiation is out of system." She said as she got up. Danielle was no longer afraid of Superman. He had a kind smile on his face and a warmth in his eyes that she'd only seen in Dr. Sams.
"Kryptonite."
"What?" She asked, "like the element?"
"No, like the planet," he said as he stood next to her. "But yes, also like the element." Danielle was curious about this Kryton. Maybe Superman knew something about her father.
"Could you tell me more about Krypton?" Kal smiled, he saw he way into tell her he was her father.
