Selah heard birds singing somewhere above her.

As her mind tried its best to wake back up, that was the first thing that she noticed. She couldn't feel much of anything yet, and her eyes were still shut as she tried to make sense of why there were birds, and why they were singing. As sensation began to return to her body, she realized that she was lying on the ground, in the dirt. Part of her wished that she could go back to being unconscious, because now she could feel her body, and it hurt. Everything was sore, and she groaned as she groggily shifted her weight, trying to alleviate the achiness in her bones.

"Selah?" Kara's voice asked, and she managed to open her eyes weakly. She was surprised to realize that she could see again. It came as a welcome discovery after having been blind for so long, but her vision didn't seem to be fully restored quite yet. Everything was still very blurry as a blonde haired blob entered her field of view. She assumed that this 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," she insisted, bracing the girl's head as she wriggled, still trying to push herself up. "Please go easy, love." Dizziness washed over Selah, and she slumped back down to the ground as her memories began to return. She remembered the lab, and the cell, and the parking garage. She remembered seeing Beta, the woman's eyes filled with rage and insanity as she pointed the power dampening gun towards her. And then she remembered how everything around her exploded, and her world became swallowed up with blue fire.

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

"Slow down," she repeated, putting her 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, she managed to prop herself up on her elbows, leaning against Kara's side.

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

"To be honest, I don't really know," Kara replied, taking a long, deep breath. "I woke up in the parking garage. I don't know how long I was out for, but it couldn't have been very long because things were still burning all around us. You were still unconscious, and you got burned really badly, mostly around your eyes and on your 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 anyway, and I got us both out of the garage. My powers were gone, I must have solar flared, so I couldn't go very fast but I kept moving for as long as I could."

"And we ended up here?" She nodded.

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

"How long have I been out?"

"Four days. You started to heal up around the first day or so, and you woke up a few times yesterday, but never for very long." Closing her eyes again, Selah pushed herself up even more, positioning herself 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 once, 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 she 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." She 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, we're not going to jump to any conclusions right now. You were unconscious for days, maybe you just need a little more time to recharge. Or maybe something has changed with how you reach out now, with your new powers."

"Yeah," she replied, but Kara could see that she was not convinced.

"You need to eat or drink something," she 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?"

"I heat visioned a log. I don't want to brag but the first badge that I got as a Daisy Scout was 'wilderness survival'."

"All those 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.

"Weren't you thirteen when you landed here? I thought that Daisy Scouts are like, six."

"Oh, yeah they are. Eliza thought that joining Scouts would be a good way for me to get accustomed to Earth, but they wouldn't let me join in a higher tier since I didn't have any of the badges. It did not make me very popular in my middle school when the other kids found out about it, but I'm really good at making friendship bracelets now, so..."

"Alright," the girl rolled her eyes, stretching out her achy shoulders. "So what happens now?" she asked.

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"Are we flying 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. "Those are the great lakes. 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, so I made an assumption."

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

"I had more pressing issues on my mind, Kara," Selah answered. "Hey, at least I can say that I've traveled to another country now."

"Is this your first time flying like this?"

"Yeah. I've hovered and stuff, but I only ever flew short distances. Flying for real 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 when I was with the Danvers. Eliza used to say that if I went out flying she'd never let me eat 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 again once things are more normal."

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

"With our feet?" Kara replied.

"I'd figured that much out, thanks," 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 can hear her," the girl replied.

"What?"

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

"Fine. Just don't tell Alex." The two began descending down, landing mostly inconspicuously beside the coffeeshop. Together, they walked back out into the city, emerging 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. The hero took in the sight of her, overgrown curls, dried blood stained on her grubby face, 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." she nodded, and they entered the coffee shop.

"I will 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," she said, taking a few steps forward. "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 have no nieces," 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 said again. "Why couldn't she at least tell that you were an 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're going to 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. 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," she 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, while drinking tea from a mug that was definitely not hers.

"What does this mean?" Selah asked.

"It means," she replied. "That I don't think we're on our Earth anymore."

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"What are we doing here?" Kara asked 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, and then virtually all of their other friends' houses. However, they had found all of them either inhabited by other people, or they discovered 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," the girl replied. "I forgot my student card once, so I figured that I'd test it out, and it works. I can get us into the library to do some research, and we can also get into the gym to use the showers."

"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, people go on campus on Saturday all the time," the girl said, tilting her head. "Besides, that boy's mind says it's Saturday," she said, pointing to a scruffy looking college student in a red sweater. "Are you happy now?"

"Yeah, I'm absolutely thrilled."

"Dude, you need to take some deep breaths, or something."

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

"Can't you just dematerialize your suit or whatever?"

"No, because the nanites that make it de-materialize are triggered by a motion detector that's in my glasses, and Rao alone knows where those are."

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

"It's 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 open as she ushered Kara in.

"Now what?"

"The 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. She had removed her cape, however, and then she tied it around her waist, as if it was a sweatshirt- in an attempt to make the red and blue costume more subtle. Selah had decided that she was not going to comment on it, knowing that the woman was already on edge.

"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 that it takes is for one of these pictures to go up on social media and then Beta is going to know exactly where we are."

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

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

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

"You can do that?"

"Yeah, man, telekinetic powers. Bet you wish you had them." Kara swatted at the back of her head as they went into the library, but she ducked away. The library security guards stared incredulously at the duo, but the girl smiled politely, seemingly unbothered by their confusion. "Hi, I hope that you're having a good day," she said to one of them as they walked past.

"I hate this."

"Really? I think that it's going pretty well."

"Yeah, okay."

"Hi, could we use a computer please?" Selah asked as they approached a woman who was seated behind the main desk. The librarian wordlessly handed the girl a laminated card with a number written on it, raising an eyebrow at Kara. "Thank you so much."

"I hate this," the hero repeated as they walked away from the desk.

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

"Should I type?" Kara offered.

"Yeah, I forgot that I still don't have thumbs." She 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 for?" Opening up the computer monitor, she tentatively typed in the word Supergirl.

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

"Okay, so there's no Supergirl on this Earth. What about the DEO?"

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

"Right." She 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 with a functional, healthy sibling relationship, and they were working together out of a lab in Kansas, trying to find a cure for cancer. 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 another one of Kara's Google searches.

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

"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."

"And it doesn't seem like Barry or Oliver exist either, so we can't recruit them." Kara groaned, putting her face into her hands.

"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 are we going to do?"

"We could try to talk to Alex, maybe" Kara suggested as they logged out of the computer and went back to return their 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 over there will pick up your glasses, and that will make it de-materialize over here. Do nanite signals work across the multiverse?"

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

"Kara?" she asked.

"What?" she demanded, turning to look at the picture. It was a large group photo of about twenty professors, and it was captioned 'Psychology Department Faculty, Spring 2019'. There was a smaller plaque underneath that had all of their names listed. "What am I looking at, Selah?" As an answer, she pointed to a blonde woman in the middle row. The photo was grainy and not terribly focused, and the woman in the photo looked to be a little bit older than Kara, but it was unmistakable.

"So I guess that you do exist on this Earth after all," Selah said, still pointing her finger to Linda Lee, psychology professor.

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