When we arrived in the Bat cave there was a teenager boy, he wasn't much older than Caitlin, he had with spiked hair wearing a black and red Batsuit and looking at a computer screen. He had a pair of noise cancelling headphones hanging over his neck. He also had an energy drink sitting beside the keyboard. He spun around in the chair and looked at Bruce. Then noticed me and nearly fell out of his chair. He recovered quickly.

"Where you been old man? I needed you five hours ago."

"Busy."

Bruce looked at me and motioned to a freezer.

"There's frozen meals in there, eat something before you pass out."

I nodded and walked over all the while watching Bruce interact with the young man, I recognized the suit, it was Batman. You might say I was a fan, okay I am a fan. And he was cute. Sue me. I selected a breaded chicken meal and put it in the microwave and started it.

"Is that a Kryptonian?"

Bruce glanced at me.

"Yes. Now what do you need me for?"

"Nothing now, just send her. I'll just put up my feet."

"She is twelve years old, so no I'm not sending her."

"Why not, she can literally shoot lasers from her eyes?"

"Because she's twelve, and she can't do any of that yet. Also, she is still recovering after fighting Voidmonger, who you failed to capture three times and almost got J'onn killed. Now focus up, what do you need?"

He smacked the kid on the back of the head.

"And no drinks by the computers. I've told you that how many times?"

"Ouch. That's abusive."

Bruce shook his cane.

"I'll show you abuse if you don't get on with it."

Bruce tapped the computer screen.

"Metahuman prisoner transport was ambushed on Route 62. I'm trying to trace traffic to and from the area, there was no video feed."

"Who was it carrying?"

"How am I supposed to know?"

"Kids these days, useless."

Bruce pounded six keys and pointed at the big screen without looking.

"Department of Metahuman affairs prisoner database and transfer logs."

I looked up at the screen and felt the urge to throw up come back but I forced it back down. It was Voidmonger. Bruce noticed who was on the screen and tapped a key and it changed to a screen saver. He looked at me.

"Upstairs now. Take the frozen meal. Go."

I grabbed my fork, soda and half-eaten frozen meal and jumped on the elevator.

"And don't let anyone see you in your suit."

With that he pressed a button and I found myself back in the study about thirty seconds later. The house was still quiet, so I crept up the stairs and started peeking in rooms until I found the one with my suitcase in it. And closed the door. I stood by the window and let the rising sun warm me while I ate. The suit was working. I could feel my skin tingling more than usual. I finished my food and had a thought, so I dug in my suitcase for my tablet and pulled it out. I tapped my messaging program and opened the link from Mother. The app downloaded. The app icon was the House of El's shield. I tapped it and it opened. It used facial recognition and then the screen flashed saying uplink established.

"Hi."

"Logging in user: Amber Kal-El."

"Welcome Amber Kal-El how may I be of assistance?"

"You sound different?"

"I have improved the English-Kryptonian translation matrix to facilitate better communication. Amber Kal-El please be aware that the linked computer system can monitor all communications."

"I am aware. How long do I need to wear this solar regeneration suit?"

"You can remove it now Amber Kal-El. You have limited capacity to store energy due to your age and your genetic make-up"

"What do you know about my genetic make-up?"

"You are a Kryptonian-human hybrid. According to all data available you should not exist. However, you do. Predict retrovirus will complete work within approximately 6 solar years completely erasing human genetic material."

"What? Can we stop it?"

"Unknown at this time. Retrovirus is modified Kryptonian strain, but it has been corrupted by alien genetic material. Source is terrestrial."

"I don't understand what you're saying, what is a retrovirus."

"Retroviruses are used to complete gene therapy. They modify DNA of subject to remove undesirable traits, or add desirable traits. Retrovirus is…"

It showed a bunch of Kryptonian characters that meant nothing to me.

"I don't understand."

"That is the designation for the Retrovirus."

"What was it used for?"

"It has been used to correct several genetic disorders common to Kryptonian physiology."

"How do you know all this about me?"

"Data was provided by computer designated Mother so this system could provide analysis."

"So when I granted her access for this link it granted her access to make data requests?"

"That is correct."

"Fine, that's okay I guess."

"So, I'm going to turn full Kryptonian in about 6 years and there is nothing I can do to stop or change that?"

"That statement is correct."

"What will happen to me?"

"You will increase in power exponentially as your cells become more Kryptonian. The light from star designated EXO-Y-4581 will empower you."

"Now but what will happen to me?"

"The macroscopic portions of your transformations have been completed. The only remaining changes are to your cellular make up."

"So basically I'm just going to get stronger but I will always look like this?"

"Negative. You are physically only an adolescent Kryptonian. You will reach full maturity in approximately six years to seven years."

"So I'm not even a teenage Kryptonian?"

"That is correct. Your previous deficient human genetics interfered with the Retrovirus and could not match your physical age to your chronological age."

"Thank you."

I threw the tablet down on my bed and closed my eyes picturing the solar regeneration suit removing itself. It collapsed into a fist size sphere of metal. I put it in my bag of Clark's things and pulled my toiletries out of my suitcase and went and got a shower. I hummed the song Diana had been humming to me to calm me down. It was a beautiful melody, and I could not do it justice. It sounded differently than anything I'd heard before and thus it intrigued me. I know you know exactly who she is, I'm not being cagey. I am just trying to be clear about when I learned certain bits of information. I finished my shower and walked out onto the balcony that was off my room. It was a gorgeous morning; I pulled on my Fitnow wrist band and saw the time it was only 6:30 am. I wasn't going to let the whole Voidmonger escaping thing, or the fact I stupidly took a shower first ruin my chance to take a run on the beautiful Wayne Estate. I pulled a pair of yoga pants on, a sports bra and a black Lycra shirt. I pulled the bun out of my hair tied it back in a ponytail and went out the front door and jogged around the various stone paths of Wayne manner. It was a massive estate and the whole circuit took me about forty-five minutes. I was half sad that I couldn't feel the burn anymore. I realized it also meant I wasn't about to die horribly, and I wasn't feeling particularly suicidal lately. I finished my jog unaware that I'd been photographed and caught on video several times. I wasn't even sweating but I still went and had another shower and washed my hair this time.

I picked up my tablet and lay on the bed in my bathrobe to dry off after brushing my hair out. I tapped the app again. It opened up after verifying my facial recognition.

"Begin Kryptonian language studies level 0."

I spent about an hour and a half learning very basic Kryptonian. The equivalent of a two-year-old learning the alphabet and the content was at about the same level. Their alphabet is about ten times more complicated than ours and it referred to several animals and plants that I had to ask the computer to define for me. It was going to take me years to learn it, I hoped it would be worth it. I heard a knock at my door. I had lost track of time. I rubbed my eyes. I locked my tablet and opened the door. It was an older gentleman I didn't recall seeing before. When he spoke it was with a distinct British accent.

"Young Mistress Amber, I am here to let you know breakfast is being served."

"Uh…thank you, sir."

He bowed slightly the moved off to his next destination. I went into the bathroom and got changed into my jeans and superman t-shirt. It actually felt right after spending yesterday in a black and silver Kryptonian body suit. I tied my hair up into a bun as it was still damp, and I did not feel like dealing with it. I went downstairs and saw Sarah being led towards the dining room, so I followed. Inside Bruce was sitting at the head of the table. Damian was there along with Timothy. Sarah was sitting close to Bruce, there was a woman I had seen before she was Damian's age I assumed his wife. Batman, well not Batman, the teenager who is Batman, he was dressed in a hoodie and jeans with his headphones around his neck he choked on his orange juice when he saw me. I wasn't sure if it was just me or the shirt. It was the shirt he thought I was crazy for wearing it considering who I was. But the way I see it, it's the perfect disguise.

I sat down beside Sarah where a place had been left for me. Food was passed out and the topic of the day was the attack in Metropolis by Voidmonger. Where Bruce and I had gone yesterday, apparently a shopping trip. I somehow would have preferred that to getting shot with a particle beam and finding out I could wipe out all life on earth. And also, Wayne Industries stock price, which was up that day, by the way. I ate silently, Sarah not so much she asked a million questions about Voidmonger, was Grandpa scared. What was the girl who saved them like? I really did not want to be there for that part of the conversation Bruce answered her very patiently. I was distracted by my own thoughts when I felt her tugging on my arm I looked at her and smiled.

"Amber, you're just like her, you're a hero. The news says so."

"Oh, I'm not like her Sarah. I couldn't do what she does. I'm just a normal girl like you."

"I don't believe you. You're Supergirl that's why you wear that shirt."

I laughed and hugged her.

"I think Supergirl's would be blue, red and yellow, don't you?"

She smiled.

"Just like Superman's!"

"Yes, just like Superman's."

I smiled at her and ruffled her hair. I caught Terry, that's the name of the boy who is now Batman, looking at me along with Bruce.

"Eat your breakfast Sarah."

She smiled and kicked her feet and started eating again. Terry took another drink of his orange juice.

"She's right you know. I saw that video of you on CNN, pushing power lines out of the way. Carrying that cop out of the fire and then that rich kid. You're Supergirl. She's just saying what the news said. They have dubbed you Supergirl."

"Boy are they far off the mark."

I shook my head and took another bite of my eggs. I could see Bruce glaring at Terry and shaking his head. Terry finished his last bite.

"Well I have some work to get done. Unless Supergirl wants to do it for me. Thanks for breakfast old man."

Bruce shook his head as he walked away. Bruce stood up and pushed himself along with his cane looking tired.

"I have some calls to make, Amber come with me please."

Sarah got up to follow.

"No sorry Sarah you're too small to help. Kelly could you look after Sarah for us?"

"Yes, Bruce I'd love to."

She walked over to Sarah and whispered into her ear something about dress shopping for a fundraising Gala in the evening. I grimaced that's why I needed to bring my gown.

"Grandpa are you okay? You look exhausted."

"Of course I'm exhausted between you and Terry."

He grumbled under his breath and sat down at his desk in his study and picked up the phone and punched in a number, it rang a few times.

"Hi Marcy, its Bruce Wayne, can I talk to Killian please."

I loved having super-hearing I could hear both sides of the conversation when I bothered to try.

"Hi Killian, its Bruce Wayne. Would you mind telling me how the hell Voidmonger escaped?"

"We don't know how they got the route Bruce we had two decoys."

"You have a leak. And now I have a mess to clean up."

"Batman can handle it can't he?"

"What about the last three absolute failures have you not understood precisely?"

"What about that girl that stopped him on Thursday night?"

"That girl almost died. But it's probably going to come to getting her involved. She's hard to find and even harder to convince to help. She had a personal stake last time; This time I have no idea how I'm going to talk her into it."

Bruce glanced up at me.

"I wish Superman was still alive."

"And I wish I was twenty-eight again, but it isn't going to help us deal with this mess you caused."

"Okay, okay, what do you want?"

"Access to STAR Labs metahuman tracking data. Please tell me you tagged him."

"We did. Hey if you get in touch with that girl, you think she'd come see us? Her power is off the charts. Literally we measured her as hotter than the surface of the sun."

"Based on my previous conversation with her, she'd rather burn all of your labs down. Its probably best you leave her be. I was told by a reliable source there is no containment on Earth that can hold her, so all you'd do if you try to capture her is piss her off and considering we are short on super powered allies, we need all the friends we can get. Metahuman sentiment is turning against you."

"Noted."

"Maybe you should have helped them like you promised instead of tracking their powers for the US government."

"Okay Bruce I get it, we screwed up."

"Ya, you did. Get me that tracking data and I'll clean up your mess. You owe me."

"What is it going to cost us?"

"I don't know yet but its going to hurt. Because asking that girl to help hurts me."

Bruce hung up the phone. And looking at me.

"Based on the fact you're Clark's granddaughter I'm pretty sure you heard everything that was just said and that J'onn said to me last night?"

I nodded.

"Well I heard you in the bathroom promising to never let your solar powers out again. I'm going to have ask you to break that promise."

"What do you mean?"

"Look, we tried super strength, lasers, drugs, poison gas, dropping him, throwing him. The only thing that hurt him so far was your solar flares."

"Last time he almost killed me."

"This time you know how dangerous he is, and you have the Kryptonian suit. That thing is indestructible."

"So am I but it didn't stop it from getting through it, grandpa."

There was a knock at the door. Bruce called out. Then gave me a shut-up look.

"Enter!"

Sarah and Kelly walked in.

"Hey Bruce, Sarah wanted to know if Amber wanted to come shopping with us today?"

I looked at Bruce then back to them.

"I'm sorry Sarah, Grandpa is helping me with the donations we received for Mom and Dad. Then I need to help him find some books in the library. You go ahead without me."

Sarah pouted.

"Next time I'll come I promise sweetie."

Kelly ushered Sarah out and closed the door behind her. I pointed at Bruce.

"You made me do that. And I'm only doing this because there is a Gala tonight and Sarah is going to be there and it sounds like something he will attack. This is it, the last time. Then I'm going to do what Grandma said and put this all away, and I'm not wearing the suit. I don't deserve to have that symbol on my chest yet."

"Okay. Once we have the tracking data you and Terry will go out and put capture him."

"What if we can't capture him?"

"We don't kill Amber, we never kill, even Superman followed that rule."

"Fine. But I want a fitted dress to match my red diamond jewelry for the Gala tonight."

"Anything you want, I would have gotten you that anyway, you're my granddaughter."

I made a face at him.

"Go down to the cave, I'll make some excuses and join you."

I went upstairs and changed into my solar regeneration suit and grabbed my tablet. I pulled a pair of jogging pants and a hoodie over it and went down to the bat cave. Terry was already there he was pulling on his suit I could see circuit board like constructs on the inside of it. He had the cowl hanging off his shoulders.

"So, the old man finally agreed to call in the big guns. No pun intended."

I blushed, again sensitive area for me at this point. I narrowed my eyes.

"I'm twelve, you pervert."

He laughed.

"Whose mind is in the gutter, because that is not what I was talking about."

I scowled at him and put my feet up on a desk away from the computers and started on the level 0 lesson again. After about half an hour of us being quiet he came over and was looking over my shoulder.

"What are you doing?"

"Homework."

"Ya right, its summer, Supergirl, and you don't look like that much of a nerd."

"I was in a coma for six months I have a lot of catching up to do."

"No shit?"

I rolled my eyes.

"Are you really Batman? Because you seem more like Batboy. Is that like a cabin boy?"

He held his chest and stumbled backwards.

"Ouch. She flies, she shoots lasers from her eyes and she slays with her words."

I shook my head and looked back at my tablet.

"Computer continue lesson please."

"Of course, Amber Kal-El."

"Holy shit, you have that linked to the Kryptonian supercomputer don't you? You're like some sort of computer genius."

"Computer pause lesson."

"Lesson paused, Amber Kal-El"

"Yes, I am and if you don't leave me alone I'll overdraw all of your bank accounts and put out a warrant for your arrest for exposing yourself to little old ladies."

If you're wondering, Yes, he is still this annoying, fifteen years later, only its dad jokes now. I locked my tablet and sighed. He blinked at me like I'd slapped him.

"What?"

"You be scary for a twelve year old."

"Of course, I'm scary, I'm trying to learn a fricking alien language and you keep pestering me."

"What do you mean English? Cause you seem pretty good at that."

"I'm from Earth you idiot. I grew up here, I have human parents."

"Oh."

"What did you think I just suddenly arrived in my spaceship?"

"Actually, ya I did."

"I'm not Superman, I'm not Supergirl, my name is Amber, I'm twelve years old and I would rather be shopping with my sister right now then helping you go after the dude that almost killed me two days ago. Do you know what they had to do to fix me? They had to shoot me with something called a particle beam. It basically tore a hole through me right here."

I pointed to the spot on my abdomen.

"Like bit by bit cell by cell they tore me apart. And, oh ya, since I'm a Kryptonian they couldn't give me painkillers!"

I almost slammed my tablet down on the desk but then stopped short, even with the touch case I would have smashed it to pieces. Strangely as annoyed as he was making me, I didn't feel the heat rising in me. He winced at my description.

"So, I'm kinda pissed off, and you won't let me study in peace."

"Ouch. PMSing much?"

"I'm twelve. And if I was, inappropriate!"

I heard Bruce's voice.

"Don't antagonize her Terry. She can wipe out all life on the planet, including you."

Terry laughed like Bruce was joking. But then saw the look on my face I assume and went very pale.

"Sorry Amber."

Bruce made his way to the console and started typing in commands and then a map of Gotham appeared on the big screen. There were various flashing dots. He looked at his hand and typed in a code. And the map focused on one signal. Terry squinted and looked at the map.

"Terry put your damn glasses on, its why you have them."

He grumbled glanced at me and blushed and pulled a case out of his bag and put his glasses on and looked at the screen again.

"That's at the Gotham Iron Works trainyard. Its abandoned. Bruce could you please bring back the rest of the trackers."

There were three other trackers converging on the location. Terry noticed them too and pointed at them.

"Who are they?"

Bruce typed in a few more commands. And I was starting to readjust my opinion of Terry. He was all business now and laser focused on the task at hand. Pictures appeared beside them. I saw fire powers, short range teleportation and super strength/invulnerability.

"Bruce, I'm not sure we can do this with just her and me, that's four on two and you said it yourself she's a kid."

"I'm a kid but I can do this. You just make sure Voidmonger stays down when I put him down. Let's get this over with I have a dress to buy."

"Look if we rush in there headlong, we are going to get crushed."

"Based on how fast those three are traveling I can make it there before they do. How about you?"
"I guess I could with the jet, but it's daytime."

"What do you melt in the sunlight or something?"

"No, fine, let's go."

I glanced at Bruce who shrugged. I walked around a corner and let the suit collapse down to the shield. I could feel the core again heating up. I blinked. I let it slip out a bit giving me my silver body suit and my plasma hair and eyes. I put the shield down beside Bruce.

"Bruce, this acts as a containment for the solar core. It seems to focus it back into my body."

"It does?"

"Yes. If I can use the computer to figure out how it does it maybe, we can recreate it with something less…obvious."

He nodded. I jumped up in the air and let the core envelope me and I floated there.

"Heading out now."

Terry looked up at me.

"But you don't have a radio."

"I turn everything except this bodysuit to slag genius. I'll ambush Voidmonger you put him out of action then we'll ambush the other three."

I let the core propel me forward. It amazed me how fast I could reach top speed. At least I wasn't a beacon during the day. I started in the direction of the warehouse. I saw the jet and it passed me I followed it. When I arrived, he was hovering above the building I looked through the windows. My vision was still Kryptonian even with these eyes. I located Voidmonger. He must have known something is up he was charging up an attack on the roof I launched myself through the windows and crashed into him. He screamed in pain and his beam attack went wild taking out one of the walls.

"You! You should be dead."

He was trying to get up from the molten concrete but was struggling. I was unwilling to let him get another blast off so I let loose with everything I had the ground cracked around him and I just let it keep going the concrete started to melt and the corrugated steel wall was started to catch on fire. I forced out one more extreme pulse of energy through the beams and the ground cracked around him in a blast wave. His skin was melted in places and he struggled to move out of the concrete soup I had created he was screaming in pain. Terry came through the ceiling and looked up at me from where he laid. He dragged him out of the slagged concrete and jabbed him with a needle.

"What did you do to him?"

"I made sure he'd never hurt me or anyone else again. You wanted me; This is me. This is why I didn't want to do it. I can't control it."

I lowered myself towards the ground and pulled the corona into my core. Leaving my bodysuit hair and eyes intact.

"Well let's not do that to the other three, they're just misguided youths, okay?"

"That's up to them isn't it?"

I looked at Voidmonger's charred body. He looked like someone dunked him in a volcano. I wanted to feel bad for him. I sort of did, but then I remembered that he'd killed a dozen people and almost killed me. He deserved to burn for it, and more. Terry snapped his fingers at me.

"Hey, no more, he's had enough."

I felt myself sneering.

"I don't know about that."

"You're nuts. Focus on the kids, and remember they are just kids."

"Leave him there, hide. I have an idea."

"Uh, you're scaring me kid."

"You're either with me, or you're in my way, I suggest you choose the first option."

He shook his head and shimmered out of existence. I leaped up in the air and let the corona envelope me. I hovered over Voidmongers charred body, he was missing a forearm and both his legs, It wasn't pretty, well part of me had to admit it was pretty because it was justice. I saw the three kids enter, the term kid should be used lightly here, they were all about sixteen years old. They rushed over to Voidmonger. One of them threw up. I cleared my throat. They looked up.

"Hi."

One of them vanished with a pop. The one who was a fire based metahuman tried to hit me with a jet of flame. I lowered myself and ignored it. I pointed at him and unleased a blast. The angle slammed him into the floor and then into a cargo container. He wasn't moving. I was pretty sure I hadn't killed him but somehow, I wasn't much caring one way or another. I lowed myself slightly and looked down at the last remaining metahuman. I quirked my head to the side.

"So, you must be the invulnerable one."

I looked down at Voidmonger.

"Care to test that out?"

He picked up a cargo container and threw it at me. I caught it. My hands started melting it and I threw it back at him and he was buried under it. I lowered myself and pulled the corona inside. I heard a pop behind me and without looking grabbed her by her neck and lifted her up.

"One little twitch out of you and I'll snap you like a twig. Or I just let the plasma eat you alive. Like it did for your little folk hero down there. How would you like to die today?"

She was clawing at my hand fruitlessly and I could see her struggling to breath and then she was unconscious. I tossed her to the ground, not hard enough to cause any real damage. I saw the cargo container starting to shift. I walked up to it and shoved it off of him. I put my foot on his throat and began to crush.

"I can keep pressing and we'll see what wins, my foot, or you so-called invulnerability. The other option is you surrender, and I don't kill you."

He struggled to get my foot off of his throat, but he had no chance. I could throw a mountain; he could throw an empty cargo container. I pretended he was a bug under my foot and began to squish. He started turning red and gasping for breath then he stopped moving. I felt a hand wrap around my arm.

"Enough, he's out."

I scoffed. But I lifted my foot of his throat.

"Why did you come here again?"

"Because you're a psychopath."

"It got done. If you don't like my methods do it yourself next time."

I heard tires squealing and an assault team came running in. Terry vanished again. The started shooting me. I sighed.

"You were warned."

I picked up the cargo container and threw at them with all my strength. The must have realized what I was going to do because they scattered it smashed through the cement wall and crushed their armored vehicle. One started getting up and pointing his gun at me. I leapt upwards and let the plasma out of its cage. I pointed at him.

"Stop before you do something I won't regret."

I burst through the roof and streaked away. I blasted the rear blade of the chopper they were trying to chase me in. It started falling slowly out of the sky as they lost all control of it. It landed on the ground slightly hard. But again. They had been warned. I lowered myself and pulled the plasma inside. Terry was already back, and I could hear him yelling at Bruce. I walked into the cave and over to the solar regeneration suit and walked around the corner and put it on burying the rest of the solar core. I started to realize at that point that me with the plasma free seemed to be a lot more…violent then me with it contained. In fact, with the suit on I was feeling a lot more myself then I had for the rest of the day the solar core was having a detrimental effect on my behavior.

Bruce was looking at me warily. Terry wasn't hiding his contempt he had his cowl off and was actively sneering at me he started pushing me backwards. Apparently, his suit gave him enhanced strength because I could actually feel the shoves.

"You are out of control. You should be locked up with them!"

I did not resist him. Now that I was thinking more clearly, I was sort of agreeing with him, but I wasn't sure how to voice it. Bruce finally pulled him off me.

"Enough!"

Terry pointed at me.

"Why is she free?"

"Honest answer?"

"Yes."

"Because there is nowhere, we can contain her, and she doesn't randomly kill people."

"She's a psycho Bruce. Plain and simple. She enjoyed it. The look on her face when she was stepping on that guys throat. I've seen it before in the Joker's face."

"Did she stop?"

"Yes."

"Did she kill anyone?"

"No."

"Could she have killed anyone?"

"Ya she could have killed them all easily."

"Then is she really a psycho?"

"No, but this is the way we do things."

"She told me no, she told you no, we demanded she help. Maybe next time we should listen to her."

I looked between the two I had tears forming in my eyes because I was realizing that that sadistic thing was in me still.

"Its not me. When the solar core isn't contained I just…its like it has a mind of it's own. It wants to burn things. It's a struggle just to stop it. Its why I'm never letting it free again, ever, never ask me to do that again. Never!"