I'm not sure how long it was before I woke up, but I was hooked up to some weird alien looking monitors. And I was wearing a black body suit that was ridiculously skintight, it had Superman's emblem on the front I traced it with my fingers the metal shifted under my touch. Reacting to me. It seemed to change and shift morphing between different symbols like it couldn't decide one to settle on. Finally, it settled on the stylized S from his costume. It the suit was the same black as my t-shirt and the emblem was silver. The suit formed boots over my feet as I shifted to stand up. I don' t know how to describe how it felt. The suit seemed to be alive and attuned to me. I wasn't in the medical lab anymore. I was in a bunk room of some type. I clinched my fists. I felt strong again. I felt my abdomen where the particle beam had pierced me. It felt tender through the suit. It split itself reveling my belly my skin was fresh and blemish free. When I heard footsteps, it shimmered back over my flesh filling in. It was Diana. She was wearing yoga pants and a sweatshirt.

"It looks good on you. Amber Kal-El"

"What?"

"Its customary for daughters to take their father's name, because we don't know who your father is, I used Clark's real name."

"Kal-El?"

"Yes"

I paced enjoying the feeling of every step not taking all of my energy.

"He wasn't from Earth. He was from a planet named Krypton; You aren't."

"What do you mean?"

"Most of your DNA is Kryptonian but you have some human in you. Its why you are displaying Metahuman traits. There is no doubt you are related to Clark. Half your Kryptonian DNA came from him the rest we have no matches for. It looks like your human DNA is fighting back against your Kryptonian DNA. You're at war with yourself. J'onn says it should stabilize as you get older. How human or Kryptonian you end up he cannot predict. It seems like Kryptonian DNA is dominant. You have some sort of retrovirus messing with everything. Its beyond our scientific knowledge. Basically, we can't answer many questions about you besides you are related to Clark."

I nodded and looked down at the suit I was wearing.

"What is this?"

"Kryptonian Solar Regeneration Suit."

"A whatsit?"

"You get your power from the sun. It will enhance your recovery. It already has, you look much better."

I nodded.

"I can give it back I'll be okay I think."

She shook her head.

"You're the last daughter of Krypton. Everything they are is now in you. That makes it your suit. Along with all the things he left here if you want them."

"Were you close to him?"

"Very. I thought we might have children together one day. It seems I was wrong. But such is life. It has been a very long time and I have moved on. Come on I'll show you his room."

She offered me her hand and I took it and she led me through the various corridors to sealed door. She motioned for me to touch the pad beside it. A synthesized female voice spoke.

"Recognize Amber Kal-El. Welcome."

"Thank you, Mother."

"You're welcome, Princess Diana of Themyscira."

The door slid open and with a hiss and inside was a dust covered room. I saw a folded suit made of similar material as my current solar regeneration suit, but it was blue and red. I ran my fingers along it and continued looking around. There was a picture of Clark and a very young-looking Edna on the top of the old tractor. Another family photo of them with the Kents. I traced his shape with my fingers. I have never gotten over my need to feel things to be in touch with them. I assume it is just a left over from being blind for a large portion of my young life. Things do not feel real until I touch them.

Everything in the room had been frozen in time for forty years. I found a pair of glasses I picked them up and ran my fingers along them. I felt the wear where they would go over his ears. I put them on and looked at my reflection in the hardened glass that looked out over the moon's surface. They suited me. Diana had said nothing and just leaned at the entrance to the room. When I turned to her she chuckled.

"They look good on you. They suit your face, of course they do, you look a lot like Clark."

I blushed and pulled the glasses off folding them and placing them gently where they had been. I found a dusty suit jacket in the closet. And found another picture of him and Diana sitting in front of a fountain I did not recognize. I picked that up and dusted it off feeling the ornate frame. I could tell by where it sat on a desk that it was an honored possession, its where I would put a picture I cared about. I held onto it as I continued my tour through the dusty museum of Clark Kent's private life. I saw a jewelry box on the desk as I reached for it my fingers brushed the dusty looking glass beneath it. The desk flickered to life and started displaying a series of characters reminiscent of the symbols that were on the crystal I found in the barn. They pricked at the corner of my mind, like I should understand them. But my brain just couldn't pull the knowledge together.

"That's a link to the Fortress of Solitude computer. It seems to recognize you."

"I have no idea what it says. I don't understand the language."

The symbols started flickering and spinning and the screen reset, and English started scrolling up. It looked like when you start a computer running Linux. I was enough of a nerd I'd already installed that on Emma's old laptop to mess with it. It finally finished scrolling and words appeared on the screen.

Watchtower Uplink Established.

Please provide query.

There was a flashing curser. I looked at the onscreen keyboard that had been in what I assume was Kryptonian as the keys arranged themselves into a configuration that I recognized from an American standard keyboard. I looked at Diana and she shrugged.

"Don't ask me, it is not a language I understand."

"It's in English, ma'am."

She blinked at me and moved forward looking down at it.

"While I'll be damned."

I glanced at Diana and typed in.

Me: Who am I?

Computer: Kryptonian descendant of the House of El.

Me: What is the house of El?

Computer: House of El: Kryptonian Noble House. Line started with Erok-El. Current living members of House of El: Unknown female, Kal-El, Kara Zor-El.

Me: Who is unknown female.

Computer: Unknown female is current uplink user. Please provide designation and name and age for records.

Me: I am Amber Kal-El, Granddaughter of Kal-El

I glanced at Diana and shrugged she nodded to me and I turned back to the screen.

Computer: Please provide name of parents for records.

Me: I do not know who my parents are.

The computer's screen flickered, and a family tree scrolled past I counted at least forty generations of El's. It finally finished with three lines, one showing Kal-El with a box beside it under Zor-el saying Kara Zor-El, then a blank box under Kal-El, then Amber Kal-El. Every single one of them but Kara, myself and Kal showing deceased.

Computer: House of El Family tree updated - Inquiry: Please update on status of Kal-El he has not active on this system for 1,329,978,925.62 seconds.

Me: Kal-El is dead.

Computer: Please update on cause of death.

I looked at Diana who signed heavily.

"He was killed by a creature we called Doomsday."

I nodded

Me: He was killed while fighting a creature referred to as Doomsday.

Computer: Please provide scans and data on creature designated: Doomsday.

Me: We do not have that data available.

Computer: Kal-El entry updated. Login disabled. House of El estate – Fortress of Solitude ownership passed to Amber Kal-El. Genetic sequence confirmed. Amber Kal-El now listed as system administrator. Please provide query.

Me: Can you link to other computer systems?

Computer: Affirmative.

Me: What are the requirements of the system?

Computer: Crystal interface to create uplink.

A schematic that was written in Kryptonian flashed on the screen and I could not tell you want it was trying to tell me to make. But a crystal goes in it. That's about all I could tell you at that point. Diana tapped my shoulder.

"Mother can link you to this system from an Earth based computer with our satellite"

I nodded.

"I just, well maybe it can help me learn about my heritage."

Me: Display Kryptonian Alphabet with English letter equivalents

Computer: That is not possible. Kryptonian Alphabet does not correlate to Earth Language designated English.

Me: Then how are communicating in English.

Computer: This system is running it through a Kryptonian to English translation matrix to facilitate communication with System Administrator.

Me: I would like to learn the Kryptonian Language.

Computer: This system can facilitate that request. At the provide query prompt type Kryptonian language level 0.

Mother's synthesized voice broke the silence.

"Amber Kal-El. If you wish to link to this system from an Earth based computer you must provide me with access to interface with it."

"Umm, I'm okay with computers but how..uh do I do that?"

"The Kryptonian system is much more advanced then I am. I suspect it can answer that question."

Me: Query: How do I provide link authorization for another computer physically connected to this terminal?

Now I only included the query that worked. I didn't think you'd want half an hour of me trying to figure out what the right wording was. For an AI the Fortress of Solitude computer is really picky.

Computer: Enter Command: Grant MID 12 Dga g000:#51d -S -A

I typed it in just as the command was provide and the screen scrolled a bunch of Kryptonian text. Mother spoke again.

"Link access established. Link to Satellite Alpha established. DNS entry created. I have sent a text message to your phone it will download an app to any phone or tablet that will allow you to access I've also added the ability for you to communicate via voice. Please note due to my having to provide the end to end encryption I will be able to see all communications. This is unavoidable Amber Kal-El."

"That's fine Mother, thank you."

"You are welcome, Amber Kal-El."

Me: Maintain login and lock this terminal.

Computer: Command acknowledged.

The screen went blank. I picked up the jewelry box. Inside was a platinum necklace with what looked like a red ruby as a pendant. A pair of ruby earrings and what looked like a diamond engagement ring, but it was a ruby. They weren't rubies they were red diamonds. Go ahead look them up. I was holding millions upon millions of dollars in my hand, I didn't realize it at the time. Inside of the lid had writing on it.

To my love, Diana, these are as rare as you.

I smiled and turned to Diana.

"I think this is yours, ma'am."

She opened the case. She seemed like a woman who was above us emotional crazies, but I saw tears forming in her eyes. She touched them much like I had to feel them she took the engagement ring out and handed me back the jewelry box. She sat on the bed and a puff of dust was ejected into the air. She looked at it for several minutes before wiping up her tears. I was crying to. He had really loved her apparently.

"Do you like rubies or something?"

She sneezed suddenly and then I sneezed and after we finished our sniffles. She spoke again.

"No, not really."

"Then why'd he get you a ruby engagement ring?"

"Oh, no this isn't a ruby, it's a red diamond."

"They come in red?"

"I'm not surprised haven't heard of them. They are exceedingly rare. You probably have about ten million US dollars' worth of diamonds in your hands."

I almost dropped them. I could not comprehend that much money let alone it being condensed into three red gemstones. Mother helpfully chirped in.

"Based on the clarity and color of the diamonds and the size of the necklace I believe it is closer to fifteen million, Princess Diana of Themyscira."

I threw the jewelry box at Diana like it had just burned my hand. I did not want to be responsible for that much money, let alone the pricelessness of a gift from her lost love. She caught it and glanced at me.

"You can have the necklace in earrings Amber, I am happy with the card and the ring."

She pulled the card out of the box and closed the lid and put it on the bed.

"I can't take that."

Diana picked up the box and put it in my hand folding my fingers around it.

"Your grandfather made these out of love. He had a lot of it to go around. They should be yours."

"But its fifteen million dollars, you can't just give that to me."

She put her hand on my cheek.

"Don't think of them as money. Think of them as priceless gifts from your Grandfather. Money is fleeting. Think about it Amber, you could walk into any vault in the world and walk out with whatever you wanted, and no one could stop you. With the kind of power we have money is meaningless. It's just stuff."

She shook the jewelry box gently.

"This is love. Not because its expensive, but because it was made with love. Do you see?"

I could see moisture forming in her eyes again. I nodded. I wanted to ask her so much more about Clark, and about herself. I had no idea who she was, or what she could do but I had a feeling she could kick my ass even at full strength. She looked like a warrior woman. She turned to leave.

"Wait, ma'am."

I ran to the desk and picked up the photo I had forgotten about and I offered it to her.

"I know he loved this picture; You should take it."

She looked at it and smiled, she hugged it to her chest and said nothing else to me. I was left alone in Clark's room. He was not a neat freak. I started going through is drawers trying to find anything else that might give me more insight into him or my Kryptonian heritage. I found a baby blanket. It was red and made out of a fantastically soft material. I took that and added it to my small pile of belongings I wanted to take with me. Martha would love that blanket, hell I loved that blanket. I found a blue crystal that looked similar to the clear one I found in the Kent family Barn. I was hesitant to touch it at all, but I picked it up and it did not do anything to me. I tapped the desk.

Me: Query – is voice/audio interface possible at this terminal?

Computer: Affirmative, would you like to activate voice/audio interface?

Me: Yes.

"Audio interface active. Please state your query?"

I placed the crystal on the screen.

"Can you identify this object?"

The screen lit up around the crystal and it started flashing Kryptonian symbols around it.

"It is a Kryptonian data crystal of unknown origin."

"How do I read the data on the crystal?"

"Warning, unknown data crystal, it is not recommended this is inserted into crystal slot."

"Warning acknowledged. Where is the slot."

It flashed a picture of the desktop and showed a panel with Kryptonian text scrolling beside it. I blew off the dust and sneezed a few times then found the panel I tapped it and it opened inside were several crystals and an open slot. I slid the crystal in.

"Reading data crystal please wait."

Kryptonian text started scrolling across the screen so fast even my enhanced vision and couldn't keep up.

"What's on it?"

"Phantom Zone prisoner manifest. Coordinates for Phantom zone entry trajectory. Schematics for dimensional pocket access portal. Argo city dimensional coordinates and entry codes. Argo City census data. Data transferred to Fortress of Solitude data storage. You may remove the crystal now Amber Zor-El."

I pulled the crystal out and added it to my pile of mementos. The panel slid closed.

"Please lock this terminal."

"Acknowledged"

"Mother, are there any bags I can use?"

"Please follow the green arrows."

I left the room and followed the green arrows and was led to a room full of equipment. I found a small duffle bag, or what appeared to be one. It was a strange material but seemed to serve the proper function without prompting Mother led me back to Clark's room I put the photos I had decided to take with me, the blanket the snow globe and the jewelry box in the bag and slung it over. I started towards exit and stopped by his neatly folded capped Kryptonian Superman suit. I felt the surface of the S again. Then touched the cape, it was the same material as the baby blanket.

"Hopefully one day I will be worthy of the legacy you represent."

I heard someone clearing their throat at the door. It was Bruce Wayne. I was not sure how long he had been watching. I blushed.

"Maybe you should make your own legacy, Amber Morris."

I looked up at him.

"Clark was great, but you are not him."

"Like you'd know anything about it."

I was still mad at him about the kryptonite thing.

"I suppose you have that kryptonite around in case I go rogue huh?"

"Yes."

I shook my head.

"I see why you Grandma were married."

"If you were putting Sarah in danger would you not want someone to stop you?"

"Yes, I would. Doesn't make it feel any better that no one trusts me."

"Ironic you should say that considering you're standing inside one of Earth's most closely guarded secrets. And that I revealed my identity to you, along with Diana and J'onn."

"I'm sorry, sir."

I felt terrible. I was a terrible mood. I realized I was starving.

"Considering you've been adopted by my daughter, maybe we should just go with Grandfather hmm?"

"Okay grandpa, is there food on this super-secret moon base?"

"Nothing I'd eat on purpose."

"What does that mean?"

"It means we have US military rations from 1979 that have been in stasis for forty years. While they won't kill you, you'll probably wish they had. If you're done here, why don't we go back to the manor and have breakfast."

"How long was I out?"

Mother chirped in

"You were asleep for twelve standard earth hours and fifty-three minutes and forty-five seconds. It is now 5:15 am in Gotham. J'onn has requested Amber Kal-El report to the medical bay before she departs for Earth. He wants to run more scans to ensure the void particles have been completely expelled from her body."

Bruce motioned down a hallway and I followed him. We entered the medical bay and I saw a inky black blob floating in suspension in a tube. It couldn't seem to move from where it was, but it kept trying to move towards me then snapped back. J'onn was in there and he motioned to another bed.

"Take off the regeneration suit please."

"Urm how."

With that thought the suit collapsed on itself pulling into them emblem leaving me in my underwear. I tried to cover myself, but the pair weren't even paying attention to me. Bruce was staring at the blob and J'onn was looking at his tablet. I put the emblem on the tray beside my dress across the room. I walked back and laid on the bed he tapped something into his tablet and a series of robotic arms came down and started running beams of light over me. Bruce pointed his cane at the blob.

"Why haven't you disposed of that yet?"

"Because its alive."

"You should incinerate it."

"I tried. The only thing it seems to react to is Kryptonite. I have it in magnetic containment for the time being it seems it still has the electromagnetic properties from before. But it has taken on some of Amber's genetic traits and became a living organism."

I laid there trying not to move.

"Heat won't work. I dove into a vat of molten steel. Coughed up the steel."

Bruce leaned over and looked me in the eyes.

"Why were you in a vat of molten steel?"

"I don't want to talk about it."

"Then it is definitely something we should be talking about."

I was kind of trapped there being scanned, and he kept staring at me. Looking me in the eyes. I blinked.

"Fine, I was trying to kill myself."

"What?"

"I was trying to kill myself. Are you going deaf?"

I closed my eyes again. I could feel my solar core starting to heat up. I was angry at myself and embarrassed and scared what he was thinking of me. I couldn't help it.

"Mr. Wayne you should cease this line of questioning. I'm detecting a massive energy build up inside Amber Kal-El. It is too late it is.."

Bruce and J'onn where shoved out of the way when a barrier went up and I exploded the plasma from inside me washed against the vaporizing the bed and my under clothes along with some of the floor. The energy shield seemed to contain it. I floated there above the molten remains of the bed and floor. I had my silver body suit on again. Bruce was looking at J'onn.

"What the hell was that? What did you do to her?"

J'onn was tapping furiously on his tablet, alarms were going off and the lights were flashing red and white. Diana appeared in the doorway.

"What happened? The whole base shook."

Bruce pointed at me floating in the energy shield I was still glowing. Steamers of plasma were licking off of me and into the energy barrier. J'onn was staring at his tablet in disbelief. I could feel the solar core inside of me reignited. I closed my eyes, and I forced the plasma back into the core and I landed with my feet in the quickly solidifying metal of the deck. The energy field dropped and I jumped out and stomped my feet breaking the solidified metal off of them leaving globs of half melted metal all over floor. Diana pulled a thermal blanket around me. Mother spoke.

"Reboot complete. Magnetic pulse caused several fused circuits power rerouted successfully."

The three adults were staring at me now. Bruce spoke first.

"What happened Amber?"

"I don't know you were looking at me and…and I told you I didn't want to talk about it!"

I pulled the blanket close. It was freezing in the medical bay. He blinked at me. He started quietly but then it got louder as he was looking at J'onn.

"Next time I'll listen. But it still doesn't explain what the hell just happened!"

I flinched when he yelled. Diana put her arm around my shoulder. I will admit I even started to tear up.

"It's okay Amber. Shh. Bruce there is no need to yell."

J'onn swept his hand along his tablet towards one of the walls and a hologram of me showed up.

"This is what the scanners captured before they were…destroyed."

He tapped a few more times and the animation progressed showing my body charging up then exploding then the plasma aura, then that shrinking into a tiny, condensed ball of energy at my core.

"You can see there is a massive gravimagnetic disturbance centered here in her core you can see it increasing exponentially then it explodes outwards in a pulse, a blast wave as you will, then it settled on her surface which I measured at about 11000 f, before the sensors blacked out, then back into a small core. It's like she was a star that went through all it's phases, ignition, mid-term then supernova, then back to just a small core of energy."

"You said supernova, just how big of an explosion was that?"

"That one was the equivalent of a 10 KT blast. If she were fully powered, it would probably be an extinction level event."

Bruce blinked a few times. I felt like I was going to throw up. I ended up dry heaving into a sink. I was feeling the panic set in again and felt the core starting to expand again. I was trying to force it down.

"I am detecting another massive energy build up from Amber Kal-El."

Diana rushed up behind me and started comforting me. I could feel myself calming down. I was crying and sobbing uncontrollably now. I basically was told I could wipe out the human race. It's not something you get over fast. The pressure to release the energy slowly faded and I was back to feeling normal again.

"Energy build up has receded. All levels are back to normal."

J'onn looked at his tablet.

"It would seem like the strength of her fusion core increases exponentially with her emotional state. Fear, Anger seem to cause it."

"Wow thank you Mr. Obvious, how can we stop it?"

"Stop upsetting her?"

I was still gasping for breath and started to dry heave again. I was pretty glad I hadn't eaten yet. J'onn and Bruce were speaking in quietly. You'd think with them having spent so much time with Clark Kent they'd know I'd be able to hear them clearly. I was over the shock of it.

"I meant how can we stop her for cracking the planet in half?"

"We can't."

"What do you mean we can't?"

"I mean, she is the only thing containing an unstable solar core, if she dies she explodes, if she gets mad she explodes, if she gets scared she explodes. Why hasn't it happened before?"

"It has. I had Mother do a trace on similar gravimagnetic pulses on Earth I found one just over a year ago, Metropolis. The building where they found her."

"You mean she killed her whole family?"

"I mean she did and remembers it all according to my brain scans."

I was shuddering now I started dry heaving again. I closed my eyes and focused on Diana's gently rubbing of my back. It kept the core contained. I knew I had killed them, that wasn't news and of course I remembered every moment of it. I have a perfect photographic memory. I remembered every god damned agonizing second of hearing them burn up around me. I couldn't stop dry heaving now, between that and sobbing I was an incoherent blob.

"She seems to be doing okay."

"We have all suffered tragedies. Bruce. The difference is she caused hers. And she will never forget a single moment of it. You don't understand like I do, I can see it in her mind. She relives it over and over again. She has a perfect photographic memory, she remembers every scream, every single person begging her to not kill them. Watching her adoptive father get shot. Finding her friend in a puddle of blood after she attempted to commit suicide. Every memory of that friend up that point where she failed to help her. She sees and feels it all like you are feeling my hand on you, and you're seeing me right now. Forever."

Bruce's eyes went wide as he looked at me, I looked at Diana. I could tell she heard too. She sat down and held me humming a tune I had never heard before. I lay against her shoulder buried in the thermal blanket.

"How is she still functioning?"

"She's Clark's granddaughter? I don't know Bruce but she needs serious therapy. We are the only ones who know she remembers her old life. Her parents have no clue how much trauma she has suffered. And it just keeps compounding on itself. She still sees the men she burned up after the attack on her house. Hears their screams."

He touched Bruce on the cheek, and I saw Bruce stiffen. I saw something then I never thought I would see Bruce Wayne brought to tears. Diana looked at the pair of men. I had no idea what J'onn was doing but it had an emotional impact on him. J'onn removed his hand.

"Every moment of every day."

Bruce nodded and leaned heavily on his cane. He tossed the solar regeneration suit at me and Diana caught it.

"Get dressed, we're going home."

Diana handed the shield to me and I went into the bathroom and placed it on my chest and it formed the black body suit around me. And settled into the House of El's family crest. I washed my face and pulled my hair back into a ponytail. I stood up straight. I couldn't help but feel every single of my secrets had been laid bare in front of J'onn. I felt my cheeks growing flush but I pushed the core back into its little home. I would never let it out again. Not if it could do what J'onn said it could. I swore it on my parent's graves. Enough people had died because of it. It would not hurt anyone again. I looked in the mirror.

"You will never come out again, I refuse to be defined by you."

I walked out of the bathroom with my head held high. I went over and put the summer dress and ribbon in the bag Mother had given me and I slung it over my shoulder.

"I'm ready to go home grandfather."

Diana and J'onn waved to me.

I looked at J'onn.

"Thank you for saving my life. Sorry about the bed."

He nodded and Diana gave me a hug. She whispered to me.

"We will meet again young warrior."

Bruce led me to the pad and with a flash we were back in the Bat Cave.