20: Power Couple
Notes:
'A Luthor and a super working together. Who would have thought?'
I feel like show writers are just afraid to have this OP power-couple absolutely stomp whatever badguy of the week they throw at them.
And yes, valid. They would be boss :D
side note- I couldn't bring myself to actually have Lena make her girl-shaped throwing knives, but Kara does wish she had some in this one..
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-Kara-
"I am the Underminer!"
Kara rolled her eyes. She hated it when the bad guys made their thing some adorable animal and this one looked like a fat mole rat with awkward sideburns. It was just like that creepy guy from Gotham that ruined penguins for her.
Bad guy # 7624 was sitting in an enormous drill that he had used underneath the streets of National City to get into several bank vaults, then apparently had popped his head out of the ground to monologue at her.
~Someone like this would be a great starter villain for Kon,~ she thought, trying to decide what she'd tell him to do first. Kara was absolutely stoked that she might get another chance at being a mentor. It's part of the reason she got so mad at Kal when he showed no interest in learning what it really meant to be Kryptonian.
She eyed the rat faced man speculatively, doubting he had much in the way of powers. ~Tag team, I would definitely have him evacuate people first while I incapacitate the drill to minimize damage to the city.~ She thought excited.
Weird as this particular baddie was, the Kryptonian didn't really mind. It gave her an excuse to use some of the nifty features Lena had upgraded in this iteration of her amazingly awesome supersuit that muggings and kitten rescue didn't typically call for.
The suit has been the source of conflict in the Super Fam the last couple of weeks.
Winn was obsessed and Alex was crazy jealous, but Kara wouldn't even go into the DEO wearing it.
As soon as Kara realized what it meant to Lena, the blonde hero defended her new suit like a doberman defended his yard from the menace of the mailman. In her head, Kara thought of the supersuit a lot like she thought about kryptonite, not like the eye-melting nails-in-your-blood part, but like no one else could touch it or have it or be near it without Kara watching.
She wasn't going to make Lena feel any more Luthor-y than she had to.
-I mean maybe she's not a Luthor anymore.- Kara thought her heart skipping, then shook the thought out, getting her head back in the game.
First, Kara circled around the machine her heat-laser beam shooting out from the crest at her chest, effectively taking out the wheels of the thing so he couldn't move. Now looking a little more frantic, the strange little man, pushed a button on his console and a compact version of his drill popped out of the larger one as he sped down the empty city streets.
Kara was about to go down to scoop him up, when she saw Batwoman landing in the driver's seat of her Bat-Tank nearby. Kara frowned and moved toward her.
"Supergirl, target is moving north by north east on-"
"I know, I know, A-Agent Danvers. I'll get him. I just want to see what she's doing here," Kara informed her sister. She wished for x-ray vision for the thousandth time looking at the black behemoth make its way down first avenue.
Kara heard two loud exasperated sighs come through her earpiece simultaneously.
"Wait who was that?" Winn asked curiously.
"Supergirl's resident guy-in-the-van, obviously." Lena's voice said with wry mocking humor.
"No, no, no, no, no. Absolutely not. You cannot do this to me Luthor," Winn complained loudly.
"Lena Luthor has hacked into our comms system?" J'onn's gravelly voice made the question an accusation.
"Hacking is such a pedestrian term Director." Lena said with cool confidence her fingers continuing to dance over the keys. "I prefer to think of my involvement as an unauthorized appropriation of intelligence materials necessary for the realization of my immediate communication requirements." Kara snorted.
Alex added, "Hey, that mech suit is Luthor made tech. That's a good enough reason for Lena to have access to the person inside of it."
Kara was intent on finding out what Batwoman was doing in her city, she added her support absently saying, "I do feel better when Lena is inside."
"Dear God. AFK. I'm going to go pour a bottle of Purell in my ears." Alex said sickly as Winn retched.
Kara paused in the air confused then blushed deeply.
Evidently ignoring the exchange, Lena commented sweetly, "Supergirl, do you think now might not be the best time to catch up with our bat friend. I doubt she's an early morning brunch kind of vigilante, but I'm sure I could arrange a play date. Mole-Man on the other hand will be a lot harder to track if he's able to get through the constructional foundation of the city with that drill."
"Villain naming too!" Winn protested making sounds of incredulity. Kara could almost hear the exaggerated hand motions of outrage that would have accompanied the sounds.
Kara pouted. Lena was probably right. She usually was. The hero put her Supergirl face back on and banked a corner turning back toward Mole-Man. Before she reached him, she saw the Bat-Tank shoot a spiky projectile through the back of Mole-Man's drill-mobile.
The depowered Kryptonian flew in the wake of the two vehicles, rapidly gaining. The Bat Tank launched a black cannonball which was deflected by a quick shield activation. The responding volley back included what looked like a ball of junk, shrapnel. Except-
Kara dove in front of the black tank and caught the missile lightly before it could detonate on impact.
She wrapped herself around the cylinder, squeezing her eyes shut ready to absorb the explosion's force.
She paused in the air eyes going wide as she remembered the current squishy quality of her head and how many of these very nice suits Lena had needed to fix for her the last few weeks.
~I should get safety points for that,~ Kara thought smugly as she instead tossed the missile into the river. ~At least five.~
She blasted out through the resulting spray smirking. The smile faded a she took in the scene in front of her.
The Bat-Tank was now attached via a grappling hook and chain. The treads on the Bat-Tank shot off sparks as it lurched back and forth behind the drill-mobile. The tank obviously didn't have enough stopping power. It disengaged and pulled up next to the drill.
Batwoman's black caped figure leapt though the top exit of her tank taking a knee, then jumped over to the top of the bad guys roof, using her cape to aim wind resistance. Coming out of her controlled fall, she executed a perfect roll stabbing a bat-hook into the top of it for leverage.
Kara gaped when she saw the woman attach a little metal bat to the window, it blinked red a few times and then exploded shattering the glass. ~Rao, how many Bat-shaped toys did this woman have? And why is it so cool?~
Unfortunately for the black-clad vigilante, Mole-Man had positioned a rocket launcher between them. A missile shot out right after the little bomb went off and the woman had to dive to the side, barely able to grab on and avoid being flung to the asphalt.
"Supergirl, bogey coming back around," Winn's voice commented interrupting Lena's similar statement. Kara grabbed it out of the air and remembered to activate her helmet, 10 points, right before she snapped the thing in half causing an explosion.
Kara flew down. Feeling mostly heroic and just a little tiny bit petty, she scooped up the vigilante and left her on top of a roof with no other buildings nearby. She grinned imagining the serious black clad specter-of-the-night making small talk while she used the elevator to get down.
"Well that was -helpful." Winn commented generously while Alex could be heard cackling loudly for a few seconds before she cleared her throat remembering her line was open.
Smirking she flew above Mole-Man and used her heat ray to start melting the enormous drill at the front of the thing so he wouldn't be able to escape.
She sped forward a few blocks and stood within a couple of feet of where she calculated the thing would lose momentum and stop. She stuck a heroic pose staring it down and waited, feeling like she was in an action movie. The girl ignored the annoying sounds coming from her earpiece.
She was sure it was going to stop, and this would look so cool -way cooler than bat toys.
Pretty sure.
A little bit less sure, she backed up one big step and stood more confidently. Her mind was busy running some additional, probably unnecessary, calculations when she felt her suit forcibly jerk her to the right.
Fighting the thing automatically she yanked her body back to the left- in the direction of the several tons of moving metal and her vision went black.
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Notes: Short and fun heroing adventure. Next chapter has some talk-nerdy-to-me fun and enters in the next couple of plot set ups :D