Chapter 5: Something has come up.

A/N: Still here guys, don't worry. I had my vacation and for waiting so long I give you another chapter. To Tenza I wish to say that I am happy you are liking this grand tale. I am sorry that I won't be using it but thanks for the idea of Kara meeting Clint and crashing into Laura's farm. I just can't use it cuz I had other ideas for Kara, especially how this is a more authentic based alien adaption of her. Meaning no learning Earth cultures in less than a month like the comics and the show. She will basically not comprehend anything except for basic concepts and situations.

Thank you StoryBird for liking both of my stories. You're the first person to ever say that I had written this stuff well…..even my own family thought of this as pure trash.

To RebelHeart94: You guessed it right!

And to all who are reading this…..NOOOOO. this is not a ship fic. I will only right what is cannon, Kara will not be shipped with anyone. Only a great friendship will somewhat rekindle her from the lonesomeness.

Kara held out her hands as she stiffened her body in the dark vast that was space just outside of the planet. Her heart was beating at a rapid pace, pumping her dark cerulean blood through her adrenaline veins even though she never once took in oxygen through her nose. For there was none, and because to her surprise it wasn't necessary. She did everything in her new-found power to try and stay where she was now since her complete rotation around this smaller world.

"I am in the vacuum." She repeated herself with a tremble of her lips. "Great Rao how can this be?"

The youngling paid no attention to her cape that was drifting in the void but it was a small tear that caught her eye as it fell out of her gland and began to float away from her face. Out of mourning and rage she had launched herself into the atmosphere, destroying an artificial structure in the process. Trying to somewhat gain control of her own will bending gravity Kara turned on an imaginary axis away from the blackness and laid her vision on the world of Terra. Her eyebrows furrowed when she realized she was on the darken side where the yellow sun did not shine. But she could still see the inky shadows of the land masses along with small brittle like lights shining at the edges of the large island and massive continent.

It was quiet. Incredibly quiet. Not a single sound could be heard from her position and view. Then it happened.

An earie shrill did not hesitate to enter Kara's ear canals and the girl now found herself gripping her scalp while curling into a ball position in space. Why had she even desired for sound the moment there wasn't the call of a breeze?

"AHHHHHRGGGGGGGHH!" the ringing came harder, no matter how hard she tried to squeeze her ears shut. Her advanced hearing was manifesting in the most irritating way possible. It was pointless to scream after her fruitless first attempt. Who was coming? Who was going to help her? Nobody, that was for certain. Without knowing, Kara began to swerve drastically to the west while staggering her mind from side to side.

"C'mon Pep, when was the last time you had a break?"

She turned her head in a random direction, not knowing where the unknown and unreadable voice came from.

"Mr. President, it's good to have you on American soil again sir."

Her eyes twisted to the opposite way, there it was again, but from a different sound of tone. Possibly feminine.

"This sure is a night of what you people call joy and relaxation Jane."

Voices, from all endless directions did not seize their intrusion. Callings in a language she did not understand in the least. had she not been struggling with her current uncontrollable ability, she would have turned her attention to the fact that she was not the only living being on this world she had been sent to. A calm exhale through the trouble was enough for all sound to official enter Kara's hearing.

She heard it all.

She could hear the life radiant off the landmasses, she could hear the sound of individuals rejoice, the sound of certain ones protesting in utter rage, the cry of what could only sound like children from mostly likely the darkened side of Earth and the noise of machinery being functioned in the western hemisphere.

It was all too much. Kara was through with enduring what was happening. Only a miracle could help her now. A miracle that came from a mere but sentimental memory.

"Can you hear it?" the voice of Alura In-Ze silenced all in the universe. Kara's fingers trembled upon listening to what her Mother had told her years ago. Many so years ago when she was a small child. The memory manifesting more like a whisper.

"Can you hear the sound as you lay on my breast?" the ghostly hollow caused the Kryptonian to nod sadly at nothing in particular.

"That is the sound of my Heart, your Heart my dear. If you sense such discomfort…..remember this, remember why you are loved….why you are a part of me…..close your eyes darling…Rao's light will awake you again."

"Mother…." The girl closed her eyes while bringing a palm to her right ear, fully recalling the sound of her bearer's heart-beat. The most comforting noise that blocked out all sort of unwanted intrusion. The steady rhythm had brought her to tears once again, her glands excreting the moisture through airless atmosphere.

Alura wasn't here with her. That much was known and certain. But Kara had done what she must in order to develop a small grasp of her enhanced senses and to Rao above it was working. Little by little she swayed in the orbit, slowly eyeing the world below as all became silent once again. All became what she didn't want at first.

The droplets disappeared from her grasping reach but Kara Zor-El paid no mind. Her eyes however remained almost without life as she grabbed the gravitational aurora of her body, controlling her form even in the vacuum. How could this be so? It wasn't so much as to what she was doing in space without oxygen. It was about how she wasn't able to breath even if she wanted to. Ever since she had fallen into the snow awaking from her slumber the last Kryptonian couldn't comprehend on why it was un necessary to inhale air for her. Had the yellow sun changed her drastically? The answer could only be yes.

Not wanting to stay where she was in the orbit anymore Kara gave a great thought before turning her body where the Sun was shining over the globe.

She stopped in wonder once again.

This World, this new world. Was more than what she thought it would be. There was more than just a blizzard waist land that resided in the south. It had inhabitants, and from what she could see on the visible side, there were oceans, extraordinary large oceans. One look far down was enough to make her turn her head. The Armada was down there, a reminder of what she no longer had, what she couldn't have.

A new World, seemingly unexplored by her people.

The burning sensation returned in her chest, something Kara desperately didn't want. The ultimate act of desperation consuming her so much that she steered her body towards the colossal shadow and propelled herself at a fast rate, reentering the blackened atmosphere and ignoring the flames that seemingly did no harm to her. The first thing she came across upon feeling the air once again was the view of actual clouds with the color of a dirty white. She tilted her head from side to side as she passed them, they were cold, so translucent, and if she focused clearly, she felt the misty touch of water between her fingers with an outstretched hand. Within seconds she now found herself beneath the clouds, progressing more towards the Earth.

Even the calm air with the exception of the altitude breeze was quiet, or so she thought.

Quickly stopping in place, Kara eyed the flying metal object coming at her from yards away. The noise of circular engines reached her ears as soon as she focused the slightest bit of her channeled hearing. Thinking quickly and not wanting to cause or attract attention, Kara ducked long before the Plane passed above her with its massive form, the girl getting a better view at what the contraption was by floating beneath it. It had a long narrow like body, with metallic wings on each of its sides with emerald and red lights glowing on the angles. Her cape blew at a fast rate behind her in the night sky as soon as the airliner continued its course through turbulence and clouds with Kara's jaw dropping with awe.

"Oh my." She told herself, the inhabitants possessed such technology that they were able to create transportation vessels. Ones that she had never seen in such design. The only flaw was that they looked less advanced.

The plane in no time was now miles away from Kara as she stood in place with thought. As soon as she made a quick check around her from all sides she continued her path downward and ceased her pace again when she took in her better and new views. From where she was she could see that all was dark, and the only way by telling a landmass was by seeing the figures with lights, the more obsidian like blotches could only indicate that they were the oceans, seas, or bodies of water. To her amazement the skies were more-clear even though the Sun was not bathing the sky, but to her disappointment there were even more flying vessels in the air all around her. Their positions from being miles apart would make it difficult for her to fly, until she set her eyes to the lower west.

Taking advantage of the open path Kara took off with such speed towards the enormous obsidian colored ocean, an echoing boom laid in the wake.

She eyed the blurred reflection carefully when she lowered herself to the water level but not decreasing her speed. There seemed to be no end the salted bodies as she stuck an arm out. Her hand cut through the water effortlessly and the huge splashes sprinkled onto her hair and uniform, her bangs of golden locks stuck to her cheeks for a moment before quickly drying in the fast currents. Knowing now that there was truly nothing to fear the alien dived into the water head first before elegantly propelling out of the waves in a spinning fashion. She brushed her palms across her cheeks to rid of the moisture mixed with dried tears while moving chunks of her hair behind her back. Water from this unknown region fell in cascades down her cape, the fabric touching past her ankles while wiggling her bare legs to dry in the air.

While washing her face in a slow manner Kara heard a low groan coming from a few feet away her spot above the water therefore causing her to rise higher to avoid an unknown predicament. She stood in place, trying to see if the sound would manifest again. for a while it didn't and Kara took this time to wipe her lips while eyeing the sky for the first time upward instead of her surroundings while she was in it. She would have been lying to Rao if she spoke out loud that the sky at night did not look pleasant at all. From her view, the blackness was showered with stars beyond the void with a simple but large moon glowing in the vast regions above the planet. This surely explained how there seemed to be a light illuminating the ocean away from the supposed civilizations.

"RRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOO."

There it was again, the haunting melody. Kara looked down into the water only to be gifted with another sight for her eyes to see. Just there, above the waves, was a gargantuan behemoth, with skin matching the very waters with traces of a blue hide, it laid on its side as though it was sleeping on a bed chamber. One stone size of an eye was staring into her visual orbs. What was this creature? Was it sentient? Why was it living in the ocean? Were there many like it?

Kara brought her fingers to her lips as the water lurker continued its gaze upon her. It blinked as she tilted her head in wonder. After a long and unwanted stare down the Whale closed its eye before slowly sinking back into the water that was her home. Never once had it seen a land dweller move through the air like the feathered sky dwellers.

Kara, being the one of the two to be truly flabbergasted took off in a random direction into the ocean. She sighed in utter lonesomeness as her body and uniform were dry within seconds and the Kryptonian continued with her unknown escape from her reality. That was of course until more series of unfortunate events decided to lure her in.

"You just jeopardized this whole operation." The unidentified voice protested with stern followed by the sound of glass breaking and soon enough, a large explosion that made Kara stop midair and stare into the distance to see a small fire gathering just above the once calm waves. Of-course this only meant that a disaster had occurred.

Unable to stand ignoring the flames that stood out like a sore wound Kara flew closer to the disaster in the ocean and was greeted with half of a metallic platform floating among the surface in flames. The shock struck her terribly as her channeled hearing began to pick up traces of what appeared to be cries of protest.

"Dammit Steve, watch where you decided to throw explosives next time." Natasha yelped as her partner stared in horror at what he just did down the flaming deck. He had mistimed the calculation of his counter throw from the grenade of an unnamed terrorist who now had a bullet in his skull thanks to the Black Widow and he ended up tossing the explosive out from the destroyed window where he intended to hit Batroc. This intern caused it to rupture next to the fuel barrels on the ship thus rendering half of the vessel in flames.

"This wouldn't have happened if I knew what you were up to from the start Romanoff!"

"Quit your bitching, now we are in a hurry."

The soldier and Assassin left the central control room to help the S.T.R.I.K.E. team recover the captured agents faster than what they thought they were going to be able to. After a fast jog to the other side of the transporter, Steve was glad to meet Rumlow with his team with the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents on the other helipad that was empty. Brock immediately confronted Steve as they both discussed the next plan.

"You might wanna tell me what happened?"

"Nobody is perfect we had a little accident, how long before the rescue chopper arrives?" Brock eyed his watch before cocking his eyebrow in satisfaction.

"They'll be here any minute now…where's Romanoff?" the Captain looked behind him and fought the urge to growl in annoyance. Of-course Natasha wouldn't be by his side even at a time like this.

"Guess I'm going back, if we don't return by the time the chopper gets here leave us behind, we'll find our own way." That being said, the star-spangled man with a plan turned on his heal and sprinted towards the direction where he thought the spy might have gone to.

"Just great." Natasha muttered as she pocketed the advanced flash drive into her boot properly again considering she dropped it the first time and had to return for it without alerting her partner. But where was she now? In the middle of the Indian Ocean on a transport liner now desperately trying to turn on the water valves on the high platforms in order to shower the flames caused by the tossing grenade earlier. If the chopper did not arrive in time, it wouldn't be long before the entire vessel sunk under the intense heat and pressure. The rust on the circular wheel did not help things for Natasha but with one final grunt and a grit of her pearly white teeth the wheel finally moved causing her to immediately let go with red sore fingers and flexed biceps. Unfortunately, when she witnessed the water coming out of the high tubes her smirk became her traditional deadly frown when small streams sprinkled out, the fire being too thick to extinguish.

"Oh you've gotta be kidding me."

"Natasha!"

"Yeah." She replied stoically.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"I dropped the drive but I recovered it, I thought I could maybe turn on the water valves to ease up the hell you accidentally caused….I was wrong."

"We need to get going alright? Brock said help would be here any minute, c'mon agent, this place is about to blow!"

"Didn't know you were into Kesha Cap."

"Into who?"

The spy rolled her eyes and the two summersaulted off many decks to try to and make it back to the huddled group.

Kryptonians, that was the first pathetic thought that came to Kara's mind upon seeing the many men and women in similar uniforms on the ship it took every ounce of her conscious not to go and confront these inhabitants that resembled her people, her now dead people.

They were not Kryptonians, whoever they were they had many similarities except for the severe strange tongue they were speaking in to one another. The ache in Kara's chest beat onto her crest so hard she had to tighten her fist to her side to hold it together. There were even bigger tasked at hand. Right now, there were people on this strange fort stationed across the water of this ocean, there was no civilization for miles. On top of all that torrents of sickening flames blazed across the middle of everything. That was when Kara unknowingly had put herself at a crossing point.

"This is not your concern." She whispered to herself.

"This is not your concern, they do not know you, they are not your people….stay on your own path, this one is not yours….it is not yours."

But it was one look, that made the young girl stop herself from leaving the scene into the air.

There, just outside the crowd that was awaiting salvation were two individuals. Who were embracing each other in a tight hug. Kara could see and hear their lips moving but she didn't need to understand the exact vocabulary to know what they were saying.

"Agent Willis, you truly have changed my life. if you ever wish to be with me again, even after we've compromised, I will wait for you, in whatever after life."

"Agent Cortez, you have changed me for the best. When we get off this mess, let's resign. We could be together as you've truly wanted."

Kara's heart grew warm upon seeing the man and women engage in a passionate lip lock, not caring that their comrades would see them in the unusual position. The fires that grew bigger by the second was enough for the girl to come to a decision. She hovered quickly to the other side where she would not be seen and soon enough, her boots were placed directly onto the exotic metal floor that was The Lemurian Star.

Kara slowly walked towards the center disaster of the entire ship, mentally preparing herself for what she was about to do. She could only silently pray that all worked out well. That her plan could be pulled off without serious consequence.

She inhaled steadily relaxing her throat muscles.

Steve and Natasha were greeted with almost every eye on them. Brock came around the crowd with a small smirk upon the sound of propeller blades in the distance.

"You hear that Cap, looks like were gonna make it after al…"

Everyone ducked when the harsh wind coming from the other side of the vessel hit them hard like a deadly storm. They all held onto one another as the events were occurring. Several agents were doing their best to hold onto the rails to not go overboard. Soon enough they all felt the rather chili feeling of a cold breeze followed by the sound of crystal formation. After a while the winds ceased and Steve was the first to react after a soothing silence minus the copter blades.

"RECOVER!" he yelled as all everyone minus several already injured obeyed the national icon.

"What the hell is that?" Natasha asked when she was the first to look at the once jarring flames. The two other leaders followed by the agents turned to face the spy's direction and sure enough. Where there use to be disaster with sickening walls of destruction were now masses of pointy ice glaciers littering the mid port deck.

"What the….." Brock's similar question was interrupted when the sound of a sonic boom echoed high throughout the night sky nearly causing every head to look up. The mystery was not one to be solved as the winds from the rescue chopper finally rained down upon them. Several agents moved to the sides to give room for the pilot to land the air transporter. When he did the large compressed doors with the organization's logo swung open indicating it was time for all of them to leave. From here they would be taken to the nearest S.H.I.E.L.D. base and later be escorted into Quinjets to quickly be taken back to the main headquarters in Washington D.C. When everyone was safely secured Brock shifted in the seat next to the pilot.

"Did you happen to catch that?" he asked the agent with massive headphone like devices on his head.

"Yes sir, we had proper visual as soon as they formed but nothing else."

"Just get us home safe. We'll deal with the Lemurian Star in the days to come."

Kara flew in the north direction past the ocean, pride radiant off her as cool air blew out of her mouth. She had done it. She had saved the inhabitants with the help of her intense gale breath, a yellow solar ability originating from the density of Earth affecting her lungs and esophagus capacity. Knowing now that she was approaching civilization the girl set her eyes on the small region located beneath the supercontinent and descended her flight into the vast areas of field and mountain. This world had a lot geographical capacities similar in what she has seen throughout her life growing up. and now hear she was, on a stone like mountain in a narrow corridor at the edge of what use to be a massive sea that terraformed into open field. Kara listened into the night as her boots scraped the stone floor. She heard many chirming like noises into the field that shined with just a little help of the moon.

She walked towards the edge and sat down, using her cape as more comfortable way to sit. She was left to ponder once again in thought. Her delicate fingers tracing across her chest. After all that had happened in just a few hours it still didn't change the fact that here she laid, on this rock, as the last Kryptonian alive. There truly was nobody with her anymore. Nobody that ever would be with her. Not wanting to bathe in utter lonesomeness Kara leaned to her side and rested her body on the side of the mountain platform, waiting to see if the sorrow would manifest again so that she could try to make it leave her body. To try to continue to mourn for the loss of Krypton.

Sure-enough a small droplet fell down her cheek as she closed her eyes, followed by another going down the other. She wanted to sleep, could she sleep? She didn't want to sleep to see if she could wake up and all of this would be a dream. She wanted to sleep, because she wanted to wake up knowing that she was still alive and that deep down her parents would still love her, even in the time of their passing. Her mother sent her here to live out her life. Alura had told her that she was Krypton now, that she would travel far onto this world that still had so much to explore. But Kara did not know what she was supposed to do with her life. All she wanted to do now was sleep.

Rao's will had been done as the alien began to flutter and stutter her eyes while blinking through wetness. Kara blew several cooling breaths through her lips for a hushing moment and from that moment till the Sun rose again, Kara Zor-El fell into her most wanted slumber.

Washington D.C.-Triskellion- S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters. (8:30 AM)

If there was one thing that Steve hated the most about the system of teams and platoon squads these days was the amount of secrets everyone contained, especially from the leader or individuals in charge. Nick had managed to pull off another one of his side missions during the task at hand and not verifying it to the war hero. What had ever happened to the whole saying of soldiers trusting each other? It was never personal with Natasha. The women was doing what she was told by her superior. But that said superior was really starting to get on his nerves. There was not a single person in the world that the one-eyed man trusted. But who could blame him? As time goes by, so does the thought of having any kind of hope for those who take pleasure in backstabbing their allies. So where was he now? Riding down the advanced elevator with the Director, engaging in a conversation about the good old days that soon turned to business. One look past Fury's shoulder was enough to set the mood.

"Yeah I know." Came the grim voice of Nick as he stood with his shoulders back while staring past the elevator glass with a silent Captain Rogers taking in what was Tony's latest design in military weaponry for S.H.I.E.L.D. and S.H.I.E.L.D. only. "They're a lot bigger than a .22."

There stood the magnificent underground field of PROJECT INSIGHT. A wide base consisting of three incredibly armed futuristic Helicarriers that were being secured with jet fighters and ion cannons around their huge forms. Steve blindly followed Nick to the bottom where he casually listened to the proud man's new line of heavy ariel defense.

"Once we get em up in the air they won't ever have to come down. Continuous suborbital flight courtesy of our new repulsor engines."

"Stark?" the Captain asked with no real doubt.

"He had a few suggestions but after he saw our old turbines…..yeah." they both moved onto a platform that moved them to the bottom to admire the arsenal of weapons beyond that of the .50 Cal. Nick gave his facial attention to man out of time before concluding.

"The satellites can read a terrorist's DNA before he comes out of his spider hole Cap, we're gonna neutralize a lot of threats before they even happen."

"And here I thought the punishment came after a crime"

"Well we can't afford to wait that long….after New York I convinced the World's Security Council we needed a quantum serge in threat analysis. If anything, we potentially need it now more than ever."

Steve raised a brow at this.

"Excuse me?"

Nick couldn't help but smirk.

"I told you, you were wrong about me. I do share…..you are aware of our satellites are you not?" the question was rhetorical, of course they both knew that Steve was given a long tour about the necessary Knowledge of the organizations most precious equipment, the S.H.I.E.L.D. satellites of course being many of them.

"Yes."

"Well…we lost satellite BETA." The surely did cause the hairs on the back of Steve's neck to stand but overall contained his posture while crossing his arms.

"When was this Nick?" the concern was radiant in the Captain's voice.

"Just as I had sent you with Romanoff overseas. According to Hill it's been destroyed, it lies in the orbit as we speak. We are doing the best we can, to salvage what we can."

"Were we attacked?"

"I don't believe so. There was no logical explanation as to what happen. One second it was working fine monitoring any kind of global threat and then the next minute it combusted into shards. The scanners that were once connected to it at this base did not pick up any traces of target coordinates nor was anything major launched from our minor enemies…..and now that these events have occurred the World Security Council is in up rage about what happened."

"Are they going to send a nuke to every third world country across the planet?" Steve stated while trying to calm down the atmosphere that was building up tense in both men's knees.

"Lucky for us Stark has already sent us the money and equipment needed to get our capsule back in space. It's a big stress relief for all of us here at S.H.I.E.L.D." the Captain stared with his own experienced and intense stare before shaking his head and turned straight for the exit a few platforms down.

Steve puzzled about this as he took his good long twenty minutes of packing his things with his shield and hopping onto his motorcycle. He wanted to believe that S.H.I.E.L.D. had been attacked, he really did. But after the truth and nothing but the good sounding truth coming out of Nick's mouth it was hard to believe his mind. The organization he worked for had just lost an expensive piece of equipment with an important purpose. They were down one and left with two satellites.

He pondered as he now found himself driving just outside the property of The Triskellion. Steve Rogers was right on one thing. There was no accident. Something had come up while he was away, but if only he could pin point it. If Fury, in all his desperation at not trying to run the organization into the ground couldn't solve it. Then it would be harder for any other S.H.I.E.L.D. operative to do so as well.

"If Nick Fury thinks he can get his costumed thugs and striped heavy commandos to do his per say mop up his mess, he is sadly mistaken." Came the voice of an experienced member of the Word Security Council.

"This failure is unacceptable."

"Considering this attack took place one mile from my country's sovereign waters, it is a bit more than that. I move for immediate hearing."

"We don't need hearings we need action. It is this Council's duty to oversee S.H.I.E.L.D." came the voice of the only female member of the power driven, power hunger group seated in similar glass chairs.

"A breach like this raises serious questions."

"Like how the hell did a French pirate manage to hijack a covert S.H.I.E.L.D. vessel in broad daylight?" Pierce took this moment to speak after hearing the members appointed by the government and other nations to oversee the organization.

"For the record Councilman he's Algerian, I could draw a map if id help."

"I appreciate your wit, Secretary Pierce, but this Council takes international piracy very seriously."

"Really? Well…..I don't. If this Council is going to fall to rancor every time someone pushes us on the playing field, then I think it's about time someone oversees us."

Councilwoman Hawley stared daggers at the Secretary.

"Need we remind you Mister Secretary that BETA has been lost to S.H.I.E.L.D. since yesterday, with absolutely no explanation other than our enemies are secretly building weapons to even the playing field?"

"Need I remind all of you that Stark has financialized all repairs and that without him, there is no organization for you to monitor? We are doing what we can to salvage what can be saved along with the broken scanners to see if we can detect what led to the destruction of BETA. Once we discover…" Pierce would have continued if not for the interruption of a fellow agent. Who politely spoke into his hear and without further ado, he excused himself from the council, the forms of what was once people in the glass chairs disappeared. Rendering them holograms from the very start.

The two walked into the office next door and Pierce was greeted with the sight of Nick waiting for him. The conversation was bound to be grim by the second.

South/East Europe- Thermopylae- Greece.

The sight where a battle that occurred over a thousand years ago was bathed in golden light as the Sun began to rise on the older side of Terra. The sleeping form of Kara Zor-El stiffened when the rays of the young star touched her skin for the second time in her life. Her pores absorbed the new-found energy and her heart beat increased within a few seconds just as she began to stir her head from her sleeping position.

Beautiful young eyes slowly opened to the sound of the fresh air blowing in the area that was once a great coast. Upon meeting the light face to face from where she laid Kara's visual orbs glowed a sickening red before she slowly rose from her slumber. A slumber that she was most grateful for. She knew this was not a dream. The memories of everything she did the night prior was as real as Rao himself. She let out a small yawn as she absorbed her surroundings, she was exactly where she positioned her self to sleep. Her first sleep on this planet and also the first where she did not wake up in her bed chamber that she had been laying in since her birth. After all, it was gone. There was also another thing, daylight had engulfed the eastern hemisphere.

Kara stared up with her head held high and watched as the clouds where now high in the sky in a pale white color, along with a sky now shining a light blue compared to it's obsidian counterpart. The alien took this moment rise into the air, the wind blowing off any excess dirt from the mountain off her body. She felt amazed on how she wasn't sore at all from her where she laid her head.

Greenish hills and mountains came into her view from behind along with the open field ahead of her with what was left of a dried coast, the shallow water could be seen across the mile-long perimeter but what got Kara's attention was the figure standing on a stone like podium down in the valley below. If her eyes were deceiving her she also spotted an embedded path that was buried into the ground level below that ran from multiple directions. The alien verted her eyes back to the figure.

She blinked multiple times when she comprehended that her vision was focusing at an increased rate, bringing the aging statue into a better sight. It stood at the top of a polished white platform with what appeared to be a disk like Shield brace around one arm, followed by the long pole like sword that resembled a weapon from how it held it above its head, ready to throw if necessary.

The monument of King Leonidas, standing tall and proud in the valley where his brave three hundred defended the ancient lands just south.

Kara shook her head and pressed her fingers to her eyes in order to get rid of the sensitivity that was increasing in her vision, she let out a sigh when she opened them and her orbs were restored. For a moment, the Kryptonian stayed in the air, calmly thinking about what she would do next. It would always be a burden to feel the ache return ever so slightly in her chest. Events that she did not want to be reminded of. Without a second more to spare or think Kara elevated her flight even more, increasing her speed and quickly entered the sky with the clouds surrounding the atmosphere.

Just as she suspected, the transporters were in the air, spreading as far as the eye could see. Unable to even think twice Kara did the only thing she could.

South, she headed eastern south. Where she hopefully wouldn't be able to run into these metallic winged inferiors. But if anything, she was no victim. She was flying in a world that was not hers.

A new world, unexplored by her people.

Perhaps she would consider burying herself in the exploration that she had tried to attempt the night before. As of last night, Kara knew there was so much more than met the eye in Terra. She continued her path downward at a fast pace, twice as fast to avoid any incoming potential adversaries. For the sake of it she looked down to try and hone where she was in the hot morning sky, with great contribution her vision enhanced once again to see past the clouds below and there it was, she was in a new land mass past the seas from where she left the mountain that marked her first resting place for a slumber. The area was rather different. For miles the lands were mostly desert and mountains, regions that caught her eye on the spot considering no Kryptonian of her generation had ever seen a vast desert considering they all had terraformed on Krypton, making them nothing but a mere history lesson.

Blizzards and desserts, how very peculiar. But was Kara Zor-El destined for a life so simple?

No.

It was not everyday that Rhodey was asked by S.H.I.E.L.D. to help perform intense training exercises for the new jets that were part of PROJECT INSIGHT, of course courtesy of Tony's knowledge and big mouth the Colonel was able to understand the true meaning behind the tests but he had decided to consult with the organization anyway. So where was he now? Back in the unmarked Air Force military base overseas with his men guiding the pilots to make sure the next generation fighter jets were on point using restricted remote regions of the middle east as the playing field, sky.

Until something appeared on the radar that sent the crew members stationed in monitors on the alert. The multiple screens that were put together showed air scans of indeed a bogey. A small and fast bogey.

Rhodey stared at the screens with the Major next to him. Talk about a severe case of déjà vu. He could only grit his teeth hoping it wasn't tony or one of his Iron Man related schemes even though the billionaire's focus these last few months have been geared towards the finishing touches of the new Avengers tower.

The jets Thunder #1 and #2 were being instructed by their superiors to abandon the drill and be on the alert.

"What do we have?" Asked the dark-skinned man to the women in uniform working the desktop in front of her.

"It's moving fast sir, sensors indicate that the bogey came from up North."

This was going to be a tough one. Here he was with not only advanced equipment but S.H.I.E.L.D. property, a bogey was the last thing they needed as of now.

"Colonel Rhodes we have a mark on the bogey." Came the voice of a white bald man with in fact a S.H.I.E.L.D. uniform, indicating that he was an operative sent with the Colonel's group to help, aid, and guide.

Major Allen, issued the following orders.

"Thunder one and two do you copy?"

"Roger that sir, your orders?"

"Do you have visual on the bogey?"

"Confirmed we have visual."

It was a matter of trespassing that truly sent the Colonel and Major in precaution. Not only did they not want to lose these next generation planes, but they also did not want to lose the pilots, for they were indeed members of S.H.I.E.L.D.

It was all fast for Kara to comprehend as two smaller metallic transporters appeared several meters behind her. Just past her cape she could see the exotic mechanisms. And they were catching up to her. How was this possible?

Taking measures and precaution into her own hands she stopped in mid air and watched as the jets flew past her at an intense speed, the pressure of the wind blowing her hair and cape forward. It was indeed risky but she channeled her hearing out of utter curiosity, not truly expecting to understand what would enter her hearing canals in the first place.

"Holy….."

"Did it just stop." Although the jets continued flying forward the new and improved scanners indicated that the bogey stood in mid place as they quickly continued through the morning sky. The members down in the base stared blankly at the three dots on the map.

"Thunder one is the bogey still on your radar?"

"Bogey is still on the radar repeat bogey….."

"It's approaching us sir!" Thunder two spoke in destress.

Soon enough Kara caught up to the pilots and flew rather closely to the one near her. She turned her body to where her head was staring into the compressed glass of the one seated pilot.

"Holy Shit!"

Next came the cry of Thunder two with every single person in the monitor room as quiet as the vacuum of space.

"On your Cockpit….it's a women….A WOMEN!"

The S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives took this time to type on their keyboards to bring up the enhanced cameras installed on every major corner of the jets thanks to Stark Industries. Without failure, the footage was brought up with the cameras splitting in two, one from each pilot. to everyone's shock, Thunder Two spoke the truth.

There was indeed a women, directly next to the first jet, they knew because of the long blonde hair with a slender figure gave it away but if there was one thing that caught Rhodey's eye, it was the cape. The crimson cape.

Could it be possibly, was there another Asgardian on Earth?"

"What the hell?!" Allen protested out loud upon seeing another impossible.

What on earth was a cape-claded-women doing thousands of feet in the air? Where did she come from? It wasn't the Iron Man after all. the moment was shocking as the girl on the camera spun her head around and stared directly at the camera with almost lifeless causing man of the operatives to stop with jaws agape.

The women raised her eye brows on the screen while tilting her head to the side in wonder. Soon enough she backed her distance and proceeded with flying faster to the point where she was now in front of them. The Colonel's thoughts were interrupted when the Major spoke next.

"Thunder One if you have a clear shot take it."

"Copy that sir, targeting acquired."

Rhodes was not sure if this was the brightest of ideas.

"Major we are not even sure as to what we are dealing with right now."

"We can't let anymore of these costumed freaks and so-called Gods run amuck on this Earth Colonel, Thunder One if you have a clear shot take it!"

This was oddly strange for the Kryptonian, these inhabitants possessed technology to actually pilot an individual through the air. Even at high altitudes with tremendous speed. She continued for the moment, not wanting to seem as a threat to these people. She thought it would properly be best if she went on and ignored them in order to make her leave but her train of thought was heavily interrupted when one of the transports fired a barrage of incoming ballistics that connected with her legs and back creating loud metallic clanging noises and caving the lead bullets into pebble like plates.

This in turn caused Kara to stand upright while still moving forward at fast speeds before crossing her arms, turning around, and gazing into the cockpits of both pilots with her cape blowing over her torso due to pressure.

"Thunder two open fire!"

The bullets came at her again but from the second jet and Kara remained unfazed as they grazed her head, and chest.

Fighting units, of course, why hadn't Kara thought about it in the first place, these mechanisms containing this world's people were indeed military, and she happened to have stubbled on their premises. Fighting them was something that she defiantly didn't want. But she did not want to be gunned down by theses primitives either.

She had to think quick.

The alien turned around and reverted her body back to her horizontal formation in the air. She picked up the pace just to where she was yards ahead of the jets and with every bit of confidence, she blasted at a much faster pace, multiple echoes following her wake and creating turbulence for the pilots.

"My God….."

"Bogey just went hypersonic, repeat bogey just went hypersonic!"

The crew was left in shock, more than they already were. The women had dropped off the radar just as fast as she had showed up on it.

"This is unbelievable." Came the distress of the Colonel.

"This is unexceptable." Followed the irritation the Major.

Rhodey wasted no time in ordering the crew to call the pilots back to base and took this opportunity to excuse himself. When he found himself alone in a small lounge be pulled out his special Stark phone that he personally always carried. A press of a button was all he needed.

"Hey pal, how's the drill going?"

"Not as we planned that's for sure."

Tony smirked into his earpiece.

"What else is new?

"Something that just blew all our minds away."

"Let me guess there was a malfunction with the engines, I told good ol' Saint Nick not to tamper with any of my shit."

"Its not that Tony." By the sound of his best friend's voice the playboy grew serious within seconds.

"Alright bud, what happened?"

"Something has come up."

A/N: You guys thank you so much for still following this, I know excuses don't count as a way to get by in life but my computer burnt out and I had to wait months to get a new one. Please forgive me and I hope you guys enjoyed this. So how was it? Was it good? Please stay tuned and I thank my 29 followers for waiting. See ya soon!