Chapter 7
Kara was pissed. That psychopath the Joker escaped from Arkham Asylum, then proceeded to place bombs in the Gotham children's hospital. He was lucky that the so call Dark Knight caught him and dragged him back to the asylum and deactivate the bombs before she got involved. That's why she is here in the Batcave, while the so called Dark Knight was out playing.
Kelex had already shut down the alarms and surveillance systems, so she didn't have to worry about being seen using her powers. Kara looked up at the Batwing, she grabbed the wing and threw it across the cave and watched it hit the wall and watched the crumbled wreck fall to the water below. She was hoping for an explosion and was disappointed. She proceeded to trash the rest of the cave, except the main computer.
After her little rampage through the cave she walked up to the bat computer. "Kelex make sure you or another monitor this computer for now on."
"Yes Mistress."
Kara sat down in the desk chair in front of the computer and proceeded to leave a message to Mr. Wayne. 'You should have killed the Joker. If the Joker escapes again and harms a child, what I did here will happen to your mansion above and your company. I will then reveal who you are and your little Bat Family. Understand?'
"When I leave restore all functions to the surveillance system and alarms." Then Kara left the cave.
After Kara left she headed to Metropolis. She was looking for someone in particular, she wanted to see it Lena was out and about. And she wasn't disappointed. She saw Karma standing on the ledge of a building looking out over the city, listening to the police band that was in her helmet. Kara silently landed on the roof right behind Lena. "Nice view wouldn't you say?"
Lena spun around and thrust her hands out, using her powers to push the stranger away from her. Kara went flying back and into the air and off the other side of the building. Lucky for her she could fly. Karma stood there amazed at what she was seeing. She saw this stranger in armor flying after being hit with her telekinetic force.
Kara used her x-ray vision and smiled at Lena's open mouthed wonder at what she was seeing and chuckled. She slowly flew back towards Lina and kept her hand up to show she wasn't there to fight. When she was at least ten feet away from Lena she landed.
Lena closed her mouth and straightened up. "Who are you?"
Kara held up her hand and shook her index finger at Lena. "Now is that how you greet a potential friend and ally Ms. Luther?"
Lena took a step back at the mention of her name then shook the shock off and stood even straighter. "H-how do you…"
Kara shrugged, "I have my ways. Don't worry I won't tell anyone who you are. After all I know who all of the other so called super heroes are and I haven't let slip their true names and I don't intend to."
Lena got herself together, "o.k. since you have one up on me, who are you under that helmet."
Kara chuckled at that and shook her head. "Not telling. But I will give you a chance to find out, that's more than the others have gotten out of me. After all I told the Flash 'nemo natus sum.' They still haven't figured it out and he has a scientist on his team."
Lena lifted a perfect eyebrow and suppressed a laugh. "You told them you are 'I am no one?"
Kara nodded, "yep." She took another step closer to Lena, "but you I will give a chance to figure out who I am."
Lena couldn't help but smile, she loved a challenge. "What do I have to do? Mind you I won't break the law."
Kara shook her head and stepped right into Lena's personal space, "learn to fly. That's all."
Lena took a step back and swallowed the lump that formed in her throat, she didn't like flying, at all. "I can't fly."
Kara took two steps back, "I know you can. I've seen people with weaker telekinetic powers than you fly Lena. On a scale of one to twelve, twelve being the strongest you at a twelve in power and looks." Kara lifted up into the air. "I know you can do it Lena." Kara waved her hands up and down her armored body and said with a smile. "When you succeed, you'll get to see what's under this armor." And with that Kara turned and shot off into the sky.
Lena decided to call it a night and headed to her lab. She walked to the center of the room and sat down and started meditating. Trying to figure out how to use her power to fly, even though she didn't like flying. Most of that fear came from not being in control, so maybe she wouldn't feel out of control is she was the one flying and she really wanted to know who that woman is.
After she finished meditating, she stood up and closed her eyes and concentrated and focused her powers down towards the floor, like she does when she is jumping from high places or when she wants to jump upwards.
As she was pushing downward, she felt herself lift upward slowly. As lifted herself up even more till she was at least a foot from the floor. She made the mistake of looking down, then lost her concentration and fell back down to the floor. When she landed she lost her balance and stumbled before righting herself. She straightened up, closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She closed her eyes and started over again.
This time when she lifted off the floor she didn't lose her concentration, and held her arms out to try and keep her balance as she willed herself to move forward. As Lena neared the wall she tried to stop but she couldn't so she reached out with her hand and pushed herself away and turned around. After practicing hovering and moving around the lab she went home.
As Lena slept, she dreamed of flying through the sky, enjoying herself, feeling the wind through her hair and on her face. For some reason she wasn't surprised to see Kara flying with her, both smiling at the other. AS she slept she had a smile on her lips.
Lena stood on the roof of L-Corp looking out over Metropolis, she looked down and took a deep breath reached up and pressed a button on the collar of her suite and the visor on her helmet closed. She took another large breath then jumped. As she fell and she could feel her fear rising, but she didn't let it control her, instead she concentrated on her power and pushed. She felt herself start to slow down, then she was no longer falling. After a few seconds she started to ascend. When she reached the top of her building she didn't land, she spun in place taking in the view again, and started laughing. She saw a building in the distance and just the desire to go in that direction had her moving. At first she went slow then she started picking up speed.
She made it to the other building across the city. At first she had trouble slowing down then stopping, there were a few, Oh Crap, moments, but she made it. She set down on the roof with a thump and put her hands on her knees and took a few deep breaths through her open helmet. After she regained her breath and calmed her beating heart she started laughing in relief. When she finally stopped laughing she heard clapping coming from behind her. She spun as her helmet closed and was surprised to see the mystery woman in black armor, and sighed in relief.
Kara stopped clapping, "Congratulations Mrs. Luther, you did it. Of course jumping of your building like that was kind of stupid." Kara took a few steps closer. "But of course you are a Luther, so I shouldn't be surprised."
Lena chuckled and shook her head. "We Luther's don't do anything halfway, when we do something we go all out." Lena tilted her head to the right and smiled, "now are you going to keep your promise and tell me who you are?"
Kara laughed and reached up and as soon as she touched a spot on her collar, there was a hiss as the seal was released and the helmet detached from the collar and she took the helmet off and looked Lena in her green eyes and smirked.
Lena gasped, "Kara. I would never have guessed." Lena said and took a step towards Kara. "So you're a vigilante too?"
Kara shook her head, "No, I am not a vigilante or a hero, nor am I a villain. The only ones that I care for really are children, harm or kill a child and I will be the last thing you see."
Lena tilted her head to the left in thought. "Did you have anything to do with what happened with that child sex ring a week ago?"
Kara gave her a small and shrugged her shoulders. She walked up to Lena, "I'll be back here officially in two days, we can have dinner and talk some more. Till then I have to get back to Star City." She lean in and kissed Lena on the cheek put her helmet back on, took off and was gone in the blink of an eye. Lena reached up and touched her cheek were Kara kissed her and smiled.
Lena put her helmet back on, concentrated, lifted off and decided to patrol the city from the sky.
Back in her lab in Star City, Kara was putting the finishing touches to the new gauntlets, then ran it through the simulations and smiled when it passed the virtual testing they just had to pass the real world testing. "Send this to the Kryptonian fabricator, when it's done we'll put them through some rigorous testing, hopefully it works."
"Yes mistress. Estimated time of completion for both is four hours." Kelex informed Kara.
Kara walked over to a blank wall and placed her hand on certain spot, there was a faint blue glow then a portion of the wall slid to the away. Kara reached inside and withdrew a box and set it on the table. She opened the box and took out a roll of worn and old leather. She set it on the table and unrolled it and ran her finger along the knives that was sheathed in the leather. She rolled it back up and tied it with the leather strips. Picking it up then she turned and looked at Kelex, "I'm heading to Metropolis in the morning on official business."
Lena just finished up with the last meeting of the day when her intercom buzzed. "Ms. Luther, there is a Ms. Zorel here to see you." Lena picked up her phone and used its camera to check her makeup and hair, then she told her assistant to let Kara in. When Kara walked into her office and Lena had to swallow a lump that formed in her throat at what she saw Kara wearing. If memory served her right she was wearing a black tea dress with white dots all over it from the forties and a hat from the same era and she looked great in it.
Kara, smiled at the looked she was getting from Lena, "You like it?"
Lena nodded, "Yes, where did you get it?"
"At a vintage clothing store I found here in Metropolis the first time I was in this city." Kara said as she spun around causing the dress to flare out a bit. Kara walked up to Lena and gave her a kiss on her cheek. "I have something for you, in celebration of your first flight."
Lena raised her eyebrow in question. "You don't have to give me anything, Kara."
"Don't be silly Lena. Now stand over there in the middle of the office." Kara pointed out as she reached into her bag and pulled out a leather tool roll, sat it on the coffee table and unrolled it. She then pulled each throwing knife out of its sheath and laid it on top of it. She looked at Lena who had a questioning look on her face. "There are something about these knives you will find interesting."
"Like what?"
"These knives are made from a metal known as Nth metal." Kara told her.
"I've never heard of it and I know every type of metal."
Kara chuckled and shook her head, "I'm not surprised you never heard of it. After all it isn't from this planet or this universe."
Lena held up her hand, "wait, are you telling me that those knives are made from something not from this world."
Kara, waved the question off as she finished with the knives. "You can analyze them all you want later. But for now, use your powers to lift them up and make them fly around your body. But be careful, they are very sharp and can go through steel."
Lena was a bit nerves, so she nodded and picked them up one at a time and had them floating slowly around her. She looked over at Kara and saw her smiling and nodding in approval, after a few minutes of this she floated them back to the table and placed them down on the leather tool roll.
