Chapter 13: This Is It.
A/N: Merry Christmas to All and have a Happy new Year! See you all in 2018. Here it is folks, the assault on Washington is about to commence! Please and enjoy and don't forget to fav, follow, or review. The holidays can be Hell, so please forgive me when I said that I would update in a week when it has been more than two months.
To FrustratedBuffalo: You make a good point and question. In time she will learn to talk. But for now, Kara will remain how she is. This is an authentic alien based Kara just a reminder. Unlike many other adaptions where she learns everything on language and human culture in just a week or less than a month.
To warlocktongue: Thank you so much for reviewing once again my dude. You always motivate me to keep writing. Those ideas seem pretty slick but I think I'm going to have to go with what I have. Trust me. You will like it. if not, sorry.
"Uhh….Can somebody tell her that's not a toy?" Tony protested out loud with Natasha rolling her eyes.
"She's just curious Tony, Steve wasn't lying when he said she knows very little of this world."
"Well The Iron Man just so happens to be known in almost all third world counties Natalie. How does, Kara, here not even know she's holding him right now?"
Fury was half tempted to face palm. The stubbornness always getting to the man when a discussion arose. Didn't he just get an explanation on Kara limited knowledge?
No one would answer him, he knew the conclusion.
Instead Kara tilted the casket to wear it faced her in the form of a severed torso. It did have the appearance of an upper severed torso!
"I think she's getting it, here I'll give it a push." The billionaire twisted his wrist to where it was in his face and spoke into it. "J.A.R.V.I.S., do me a favor and activate MK43."
"As you wish sir."
Kara held in a yelp as a metal head popped up from the armor, two slits immediately glowing blue as if they were staring at her. The thick lower edges expanded to form hardened legs and set themselves down on the kitchen floor, prompting Kara to let go now since the machine was coming to life. The small glow of a blue circle shined over the now chest area and thick metallic arms erupted from the sides. There stood Iron Man for the Kryptonian to see.
"Iron Man, Supergirl." The man child announced while waving his hands in a greeting manner. "Supergirl, Iron Man."
Kara looked back to the table with awe radiant in her features.
"Is that the new one since the disaster with Killian?" Maria asked to be certain.
Tony nodded his head. "He is the current and only Armor I have, for the moment that is."
Steve spoke next to answer the number one question swelling inside him.
"So now it can work on its own and you no longer need to use machines to put it on?"
"Yes and yes Cap, took me almost a year but I've managed to upgrade the suit's capabilities, now I don't have to worry about running to my lab or secret entrances to put it on. There is a downside though, to allow better flexibility and to make it form into a standby capsule I had to reduce the thickness of the armor, still made of silicon infused steel and titanium plates but it's not as strong as the others were. I based this one off 42, the first of the new blood encrypted coded suits….this one is the second." After explaining himself Tony simply got up from his spot and went over to Kara and the active suit.
The girl's conscience would be lying if she protested that she wasn't impressed. She wouldn't do such a thing for two obvious reasons. The casket she had been holding had unfolded into a bipedal fighting drone, with polished colors of crimson and gold, mostly crimson. Kara had just now noticed the bearded man approach and the drone turned around to where it's front was facing away. They all watched as the back platings opened and the billionaire causally stepped in using the ankle plates that popped out for bunker steps. When they closed the now armored man turned to face Kara with the glow in his chest now brighter than before and opened his face plate, revealing a smirk from Tony Stark. He now had to look down a little since the suit he was in was taller than her.
"I don't believe we've had time to meet properly." He extended a red metal hand. "It's nice to meet you Kara, I thought you would've known who I was but I'm Tony Stark. Please to meet your acquaintance."
The girl took a step back while bringing a hand to her mouth in silent gasp.
Tony turned to the renegades enjoying the show. "Was it something I said?"
Sam chuckled while shaking his head. "I think she's grasping the concept that you're inside a metal suit. Yesterday she almost clawed at my back searching for The Falcon wings."
Sam and Steve had a laugh at that while the two women, Doctor, and Director only smiled.
Truly magnificent, was the only word that floated in Kara's mind. A magnificent suit of armor! Such advanced weaponry for primitives among this world. Polished unknown metal functioning in such a way was a sight worth seeing! This was by far the most impressive engineered science Kara had seen yet. Even more impressive than the transporters, buildings, ballistics weapons, chamber luxuries, and Sam's metallic wings.
This man was worth the meet.
"Kara." the blonde extended her hand out to Tony, composing the gesture she should have given him seconds ago. The billionaire along with everyone else feasted their eyes on the scene. The dainty but powerful hand showing no signs of regret or tremble. The Iron Man looked at it and politely shook it with a normal appearing grip.
"Careful Stark." The redhead stated with a slick smile.
"I know what I'm doing, these hydraulics work how I tell them to."
"She wasn't telling you to be gentle with her Tony." Steve wiped his lips with a napkin since he had yet to do so from eating his breakfast. "She was warning you to be aware of her, as in watch out for the hand that could crush layers of pressurized steel."
This in turn caused Tony's face to lose its sly confidence, earning chuckles from Sam and the doctor.
"Got it." was all the man child responded to that. Instead he took advantage of the hand shake by repeating his name. This time in a more-subtle way.
"Tony Stark." His head nodded forward to confirm his name. The metal and alien hand parted but Kara's face now grew into one of question. "Tony…..Stark."
Everyone watched the Supergirl's throat constrict and the sound of attempted words tried to escape.
"T…..T….." it was nothing but fruitless throat clicks that followed, along with an apology. At least to her it was and sounded like an apology.
"You must forgive me, but I cannot pronounce your name dear Sir." Everyone except Natasha, Steve, and even Sam, who just yesterday heard her speak in such a way, dropped what they were doing while watching. It was no longer a breakfast and a show. Kara realized what she had done and clapped a hand over her mouth. Her native language had slipped.
"Um….Ok, whatever that meant…whatever that was." Tony shifted on his metallic feet and swayed his metal arms with gestures as his voice got deeper with the rambling.
Nick fixed his glance at Maria, his expert in more than ten languages.
"No idea Sir." She chewed her fruit casually to blend in before slightly regretting the result she gave. "Never even heard of whatever that was."
Natasha knew that Kara had unintentionally embarrassed herself thus prompting the redhead to stand up and go to her aid. "Okay let's not make a fuss here, I didn't think she would reveal this secret of hers so soon, but it happened. Let me just point out that she doesn't even know what we're saying. That's how much she doesn't know about anything outside from where she came from."
The Russian grabbed the shoulders of the girl who was entwining her fingers together in a shy manner. "C'mon missy." She stated now taking to the blonde. "Finish your food."
Kara felt Natasha's tug and walked back to the table with her friend in tow while glimpsing back to Tony who shut the mask of his helmet and opened his suit from the front to escape the clutches of the armor. Kara spun her head to meet the redhead.
"Anthony, try Anthony." She aimed at Tony with her head who was already coming around the table to take his seat again.
"C'mon only Aunt Peggy called me Anthony…." Steve cocked a brow at this statement, his face showing concern thanks to the millisecond flashback of his best girl's condition.
"Agent Carter, THE Agent Peggy Carter?"
Kara was grateful that nobody was looking at her anymore as she sat down.
Fury smirked as his memory contorted to remember Peggy. "She actually played the roll of Aunt to you Stark?"
"There's a lot of things you don't know about my life Mr. Fury." He replied with casual emphasis since Nick wasn't exactly Director anymore, at least for the hoping moment.
"Anthony." Kara on the other side said to herself and out loud.
Tony chuckled in surprise. "Can't believe it's easier for you to say my real name rather than my nickname kid, by the way, how do you do those throat clicks of yours?"
His response was Natasha stabbing a piece of French toast with the silver fork and raised it to Kara's mouth, to which she smiled and opened it to receive the pastry. The girl became lost when the fork was given to her and she successfully proceeded with eating for herself.
"Seems to me like we got a little Thor on our side." Natasha rolled her eyes at that statement. "When all this over, let's bring her to him, maybe he knows how she came here. Her magic is way more impressive than Reindeer Games."
"Powers." Natasha corrected as she popped a bacon strip into her awaiting mouth. "Not Magic…..and I don't think she's from Asgard."
"Me neither." Said Maria followed by Nick, Sam, and surprisingly Steve, who had lost all concept of Supergirl hailing from Odin's Kingdom.
"I agree."
"Same."
"I thought so too, but now I know better."
Tony caught on the routine of no one agreeing with him. "It's obvious people, godlike powers, looks like a Human, long hair, giant red cape. She is Asgardian."
Natasha was personally getting sick and tired of having to here about Kara being Asgardian. Just because superhumans have started to manifest over the years did not mean they came from an alternate world.
"Believe whatever you want to believe but she's not going to Thor. If we make it through this. I'm taking her with me. She's mine to care. And if anyone shows hostility to her I'm not gonna tell her to stop, she's free to destroy whatever opposes her in a threatening manner." she finished her statement by grabbing Kara's empty glass of Sunny-D and stood up to walk to the kitchen/Bar. Everyone including the doctor was shocked to here the seriousness in the Black Widow's voice, but they had to go with the fact that the Russian just proclaimed that Kara was hers that made them raise their brows past their hairlines so to speak. And that she would look after the lost girl. The infamous Black Widow was the quickly turning Indomitable Supergirl's caretaker.
Nick let the words from his number one ass kicker sink in. Heck even he didn't know what Romanoff would say if he protested that she couldn't have her way and that taking a young woman who looked as though she was entering her early twenties, was not a good idea. Who knew if Kara had any family or superiors in this world. but then again, it was obvious that this woman had opened Natasha in a way that was never thought possible. She was compromised. She would rebel for the happiness of this girl. She would fight for her comrades, but she would kill to make sure she saw the blonde another day. This girl had turned a ruthless killer, into a ruthless killer and a loving mother.
Sam and Steve could only be silently proud that Natasha would be there for Kara. They were soldiers, but they knew what it was like to pick duty over the care of a loved one. Something that the two shamelessly have not committed to doing one-hundred and ten percent. Steve remembered Peggy, and Bucky. And Sam remembered Riley. All suffering fates because the flyer and Super Soldier took duty. It sounded selfish to not want to do their part for the country. But maybe it was okay to be selfish for once. After all, they save the day and they are devastated rather than feeling the contrary at the end of it all. they were the only ones making sacrifices while everyone else kicks back and judges them on what they think they should have done.
Maria, took advantage of the moment and stared at Kara with not a typical stoic look, but rather an observing one. Natasha, her woman, had made a statement that nobody was most likely not going to argue with. And neither was herself. Because Maria knew that the only way it was possible for Natasha to have said those things, the only way she was able to prepare them breakfast, the only reason why she was able to make love to her the night before, was all because of the Supergirl sitting at the table. The super powered youngster had saved Natasha, and kept her out of harms way even though that was technically the redhead's now proclaimed duty. Kara cared for Natasha just as much as the latter did. Maria owed this girl. The Hispanic descendent didn't even once thank her for what she had done. Mostly because the timing was focused on other things yesterday but still. Kara deserved to be helped….and if Natasha wanted to take her…..then Maria would have to make an effort to accept these changes.
And that meant by participating in them.
Starting with baby steps.
Maria, being the left side closest to Kara, gently set her utensils down and politely raise the chin of Kara who had just finished swallowing three bacon strips. The girl stopped what she was doing to gaze into the eyes of the beautiful woman with dark hair. Maria gave her a tender smile while cupping the blonde's chin better and taking in her features.
Kara was indeed petite gorgeous with her button nose, round pointed chin and freckles that she had maintained since birth. Her majestic blonde straight hair that appeared more gold than blonde was topped with layers so thick and large they looked like as if they exceeded the normal amount of hair follicles found on a human. In time she would grow into a much more mature and beautiful woman. With a much more Amazon figure compared to her skinny yet toned form of now. It was amazing how ocean colored eyes were capable of glowing into a volcanic red and incinerate anything in their path.
"Kara." she began in a gentle low.
The Kryptonian took her own time to see every detail on Maria's face. Kara had seen enough expressions in the past to know that Maria was an iron-willed woman with years of strict experience, an aspect that Kara always found admiration and respect for. Especially in females taking the duty of hard driven males. But as of right now, Maria wasn't making any attempt to scold Kara.
The alien admired her beauty, a prim and proper face indicating she would be middle aged once another decade would pass. The small dimple on her chin suited her greatly with her brownish black hair that would've looked better if it wasn't tied in it's prison. Her eyes seemed to have once been committed to her work but now they gave off the feeling of love, support and encouragement.
The brunette made her move and stroked the smooth chin she was holding with her thumb. Her smile grew as she stared at Kara before reaching for a thick strand of hair and brushing it behind an ear. The girl politely pulled away while bringing her head down to her plate. She gave off an infamous shy smile and Maria could have sworn she saw a tint of blue appearing around Kara's cheeks and eyelids for a second. Was she…blushing?
Her mind ceased this observation when her redhaired lover came back to the table holding a refilled glass of juice, she gave it to Kara and pecked her cheek in a loving manner once she sat. The gesture going noticed by Tony and Nick but they said nothing.
Kara, being the every most thankful, utter most well hearted, and only living Kryptonian in the Universe left, leaned over to peck Natasha's cheek to signify she was happy to be among peers.
The rest of the breakfast went by well. They all had finished nearly everything on the rotating spinner but the one who had made sure that the buffet was wiped out was Kara, everyone grew the question of how the hell was this young girl capable of devouring such portions and still maintain her figure? The world would truly never know. Tony had asserted that the MK43 would clean up after them all, and although they weren't so keen on letting Stark's A.I. controlled armor perform such a task, they were too full to argue. Nobody liked cleaning up after any of the daily three course meals. They all stood up with Natasha pulling Kara's shirt as the blonde shoved the last bacon strip and piece of rich brown toast into her mouth. She chewed casually as they all moved together to leave the kitchen, leaving the Iron Man armor, who had been sitting in one of the bar chairs patiently waiting to begin his task, alone.
Nick sat at the small gathering with his cast in its sling and a small security polaroid picture in his hand. "This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize, he said peace wasn't an acheivment….it was a responsibility."
He finished by slightly smacking the photo down on the desk.
"You see…its stuff like this that gives me trust issues!"
Natasha eyed the group as Kara's head laid in her lap while the rest of her physique was sitting criss-crossed on the floor, the Russian being extra carful not to spin in her chair, for that would collide the blonde's head with the edge of the table. "We have to stop the launch." She combed her fingers through majestic gold.
"Well I don't think the Council will be returning any of my calls Romanoff." Fury stated as he opened the black suit case that was next to him. Inside were three extraordinary looking microchips.
Sam approached with curiosity. "What's that?"
Hill took the lead from her former boss. "Once the Helicarriers reach 3,000 feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites and become fully weaponized." She aided her explanation with a demonstration from a monitor hidden in a brief case. Tony, who was one of the five sitting down, placed his phone in the center of the table and a much more advanced schematic appeared with magnification on what hill meant.
Nick would've spoken if not for the billionaire stepping in. "We need to breach those carriers, and replace their targeting blades with our own. But one or two isn't gonna cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work." He looked at his hands since he didn't want to finish the rest of the statement. They all knew full well that with just one of those Armadas still in the air, millions of lives could perish.
It was Nick's turn again. "We have to assume that above all those carriers is HYDRA, we have to get past them, insert these server blades." Natasha, Maria, Steve, and Tony knew where this was going. "and then maybe, JUST maybe, we can salvage what is lef….."
We're not salvaging anything!" Tony and Steve protested harshly simultaneously.
They both then eyed each other before Tony followed. "Take it from here Cap."
"We are not just taking down the carriers Nick we are taking down S.H.I.E.L.D."
"S.H.I.E.L.D. had nothing to do with this!"
"You gave me this mission! This is how it ends! The organization has been compromised you said so yourself, they grew under yall's noses and you didn't even notice."
"Why do you think we are meeting in this pimped-out cave, I noticed!"
"…..How many paid the price before you did?"
Tony crossed his arms and stared ahead as he let the words sink in.
Fury was too busy looking even more guilty than he already was. "Look I didn't know about Barnes."
"Even if you had would you have told me, or would you have compartmentalized that too?" The soldier shot back in defense. Fury was losing the battle with his serious stern. "S.H.I.E.L.D., HYDRA, it all goes."
There was a sad short-lived silence before the Hill heir responded.
"He's right." Nick could not believe the look of agreement on her face. He turned to Romanoff who simply looked down to Kara, who was eyeing the leader with a calm but cautious look. He turned to Stark, who obviously was not on his side.
"No more weapons, no Salvage, I am reclaiming what you all have borrowed throughout the decades, I'm pulling my services and that's that."
He turned to Sam who just shrugged his shoulders as he geared to Steve. "Don't look at me, I just do what he does, only slower." The Falcon finished with complete loyalty, no longer having a trace of ass kissing like when he first met Steve.
The Philanthropist gave a devilish smirk he had been holding upon seeing Fury's slowly slumping defeat in the argument.
This was it, the road to war once more. And the point of no return. It was all coming down for the aging one-eyed man. Everything he stood for, everything he fought for, everything he represented was coming to an end. Like many things. He knew it would happen. He just didn't think he would live to see it come. Still, he hid his emotions as best he could and leaned back in his chair.
"Well Cap, it looks like you're the one giving orders now."
Steve gave a proud look but didn't smile. Instead he now geared his face to Kara, who was now standing up after receiving the comfort she needed from Natasha. Even though she wasn't in her suit the girl looked just as brave and full of life as she was when she fought with them the day before. She gave Steve a firm nod, indicating that whatever was needed of her, she would gladly give it.
The Captain looked to Fury and back to the blonde. "Well Nick, we'll need all the help we can get."
"I'm with ya till the end of the line pal."
Those were the very words that made the blonde super soldier look down in mourning of the memory plaguing his thoughts. His friend, Bucky, was The Winter Soldier. And there was nothing that was going to change that no matter how much he didn't want to believe it. His friend was a killer. He would have been the killer of Natasha Romanoff had Kara not stepped in and launched him away with a wounded pride. It was not fair. Bucky did not deserve what was done to him. The thing that hurt the most was that not many would share his opinion if he were to protest that his friend was innocent, and that he deserved a second chance. Of-course it was not fair, it wasn't fair to him when he grew up being a kid from Brooklyn with a lot of disorders, it wasn't fair how his parents were taken from him thanks to war, it wasn't fair that all this time it wasn't necessary for him to crash into the ocean, thinking it would put an end to HYRDA. But that was life.
He had to be strong for his team.
"He's gonna be there you know?" Sam said as he walked atop the long concrete bridge that they were both standing on.
"I know."
"Look whoever he used to be, and the guy he is now….I don't think he's the kind you save…..he's the kind you stop."
The captain grew grim by the second.
"I don't know if I can do that."
"Well he might not give you a chance…..we know what's gonna happen to him if he sets his sights on Nat. Kara will kill him, I saw what she did to his body…he doesn't know you Steve."
"He will." He responded seemingly unaffected. "Gear up, its time!" the star-spangled man with a plan turned on his heal and walked in the opposite direction.
Sam cocked a brow at this. "You're gonna wear that?"
"Nope." Steve now faced Sam with a strong determined look. "If you're gonna fight in a war. You're gonna need a uniform."
Morning Security Guard Gary was patrolling the halls of the Smithsonian when suddenly he stumbled upon the historical demonstration of the Howling Commandos. What stood out like a sore thumb was a girl, a small tentative girl with the most golden blonde hair he had ever seen. She sported a black t shirt with matching sweat pants that appeared to be too long for her legs. Her feet were covered with lace less shoes. She was eyeing the small picture paper in her hands and then back to the mannequin dressed as Captain America from the 1940's. She could only give a smile and stepped onto the podium platform of the Commandos. Gary could only watch.
She was hesitant for a moment before she reached with a gentle hand and poked the lifeless humanoid. When he didn't move, Kara quickly realized this was a statue made to exhibit tailored uniforms. And this one was wearing the one Natasha requested from the picture in her hand. The girl understood the scenario of Steve needing his armor since he was a soldier and left the safety of the underground sanctum to find it. Yes, she should have brought Natasha with her, but Kara wanted to prove she was just as capable considering she didn't truly understand the plan that her friends were now seeming to undergo.
"Hey you!"
The girl stopped what she was doing just as she pulled the mask off the white waxed Steve. She turned in his direction while bringing a palm over her mouth to cover her gasp. Reacting with little time to spare Kara quickly disappeared from her spot with a loud whoosh in her wake. But the loud noise came back and now the entire suit was gone in the blink of an eye. Gary's eye to be exact. He didn't even want to begin to comprehend what he just saw. But he did know one thing.
He was so fired!
They all stood around the same table they were earlier. With ponder and worry aching at the back of their necks for the girl who left without a trace. Natasha in specific was actually chewing on a fingernail. It had been over twenty minutes. Where the hell was Kara?
"That was Superspeed eh? Looked more like teleporting to me up close." Tony said out loud to pass the time. "By the way Cap, if all else fails, can we just have the kid destroy everyone of those carriers? It may sound like it's a little too much for her to handle but maybe she could do it."
"Let's not jump to other plans Stark." Fury adjusted his sling. "If what Romanoff said was true then it's best we explain to her what her part will be as best we can, but we're gonna have to hustle. We don't have time for schooling."
"I know that. I'm just saying let's spare the chances as much as we can and have someone be the Michael Bay of this battle we're gonna kick ass in." the billionaire said with overexaggerated enthusiasm.
"I'll explain what we are all gonna do." Steve asserted his leadership. "But Tony has a point Nick, she'll be of big help. She herself crushed the Winter Soldier's arm and tore it out of his socket."
This caused Hill, Fury, and Tony to raise their brows in shock. Another thing that shocked them was as powerful as the girl had been described, she did not kill The Winter Soldier.
"Alright, alright. For the sake of being among allies. I'd like you to share what Supergirl has brought to us in terms of superpowered abilities." Nick only said that because up until this point he was curious about Supergirl, today had been the day where she had been officially introduced but not entirely. Just what were Supergirl's capabilities? Even Maria and Tony wanted to find out.
"I think that description report is yours for the taking Nat." Steve geared to Natasha who un crossed her arms popped her neck, waiting to give the growing renegades what they wanted to hear.
"Kara is an enigma in all herself. Her suit sports a symbol that can't be found anywhere on the internet, not even the most sacred, remote ancient lands have been described to bear it. Supergirl has shown to have superspeed as to what you saw a while ago, she has immense strength and durability to the point where bullets and high voltage don't affect her, she can even survive the collision of a missile. Her eyes can work one of two ways, a unique form of telescopic vision and the other serves more as a weapon since she can fire concussive lethal red heat beams from them. She can fly, be it hovering in place, soaring like a bird, or faster than a jet. Her breath can manipulate and produce ice…..I guess that's all of em." She finished with a shrug.
"Don't forget this one." Tony spoke as he once again used his phone to bring up the news from yesterday and sure enough, from a helicopter view, Kara unleashed a massive gale force wind exhaling from her very mouth.
"So that's what that was." Steve added with everyone nodding in agreement. "It almost slipped my mind, she also has an advanced keen sense.
There was another small silence before Nick realized. "Power."
Hill caught his drift. "Nine different abilities."
Tony eavesdropped. "All crammed into one body, I see now why Capsicle chose "Supergirl." Who else possesses that kind of potential?"
Nick had to agree with Tony. Who else in all that was Earth possessed such potential. He had seen in his time and the years to the present, the art of a superhuman. Someone who was either gifted or given supernatural talents were always beings who possessed one or two. Never had he heard a "different person", have the abilities that Kara did. Not even Thor himself showed have powers like her other than his superhuman strength, durability, pseudo flight, and control over his mighty Mjolnir. And that altogether was only four. How would the Prince of Asgard react to someone like this young girl? if anything he should have been cautious around Kara, and Maria would've thought the same thing. But this situation was nothing like what happened with Loki on the Helicarrier. He was not in control of anything anymore. And even if he was, Romanoff would have shown her status of compromised by keeping Kara away from him at all costs.
All self-thinking was washed away as a gust breezed their cheeks and hair, and Kara then manifested with a smile and the suit folded in her arms neatly.
"Don't you ever do that again." was the simple but stern voice of the Russian, her face showing her displeasure. Kara quickly bowed her head upon seeing her friend upset that she wasn't taken along. but it was all pushed aside since Steve walked up to her to examine the suit. The blonde offered it to him in which he opened his palms to receive it.
"Thanks Kara." he eyed the material more closely. "Where did she get this one."
He suspected the one he saw in the Smithsonian, but Tony had to give one of his typical remarks. "Who cares where she got, what matters is she got it. Well then children, I say we get to work."
Sam chuckled but followed everyone's lead when they all turned to leave for their rooms, Fury even going so far as to leave his circular curtained bed for a room, Natasha issuing Kara to follow her. The handsome middle-aged man was now alone. Except for the MK43 who was marching up to him from down the hall, covered in juice and egg yolk from the face and chest.
"What did you do?" he facepalmed when the droned armor shrugged his shoulders.
Natasha had picked her room to enter, with the Kryptonian following obediently. Natasha sat down on her bed, hoping that Kara didn't suspect anything when she sat down next to her almost near a stain from a private moment of last night. The redhead grabbed a hand from the blonde and cupped her cheek with the other.
"I know you can't understand me Kara, but I want you to know that the fight is coming again, we're going to the final round." She dragged her thumb across the alien's cheek, almost earning a slight coo. "I want you to be strong as you were yesterday. You can make this fight easier, and I want you to install fear into these bastards. Let them know they are not as powerful as they proclaim to be. Fight with us. When this is over I want you by my side.
Natasha's heart grew warm again as Kara leaned in to plant her head over Natasha's chest. Listening to her heart beat as Natasha wrapped her strong arms around her.
"Maria." The spy started again to let the name of her lover sink in. "Is a big part of my life Kara. She is my woman, and my love. She's hard headed I know, but don't let that fool you. She can be just as loving, and I want you to know that there is room for both of you."
Kara pondered in thought. She knew full well that this was a calm before the storm, soon they would all have to leave the safety of this place to endure the brutality of the world, along with the savages hunting them down. But within Natasha's sentences, she heard Maria.
Maria, the woman who had driven them away from danger in the grounded transporter and spoke to her during the consumption of many nourishments that tasted and smelled delicious. Natasha did mention Maria, but why so?
Just then the door was opened and the said dark haired woman came from around the shadow that led to the bathing chamber. There Maria stood in a rather tight dark one-piece uniform with two holsters of primitive firearms in them. Her face had been pampered with her bun holding the wavy locks in place. She crossed her arms upon seeing her lover and the girl on the bed.
"Never thought I would ever see you doing that to someone other than me." The brunette gave a sly smile.
"Well someone is a little jealous." The redhead grinned and slowly brought Kara out of their little embrace, she stood up, with Kara still sitting in place on the bed, and walked up to Maria.
"Why would I be jealous of the one who sav…." The former Commander couldn't finish as her head was cupped from the back and lips softly crashed into each other. Maria was both surprised and worried. Natasha had unexpectedly pulled her in for a kiss, and it was in front of someone! Wasn't there love supposed to be a secret? Did this go against what they swore not to do in public? The questions all went to Hell and Maria let out the moan growing in her throat with her nose flaring hot. The intimacy was taking over by the millisecond and the taller woman placed her fingerless gloved hands on Natasha's hips, while the former spy wrapped her arms around the thick lean neck. Their lips moved in sync, hot luscious flesh brushing with buxom ones. The mushy sound of the lips parting and mending echoed throughout the room and Natasha finished the demonstration faster than she could cease her urge to throw Maria onto the bed and have her way with her.
What lied in the wake of the performance was a flabbergasted Kara who had a trembling hand over her mouth. She had just witnessed her friend enter the beautiful stages of intimacy with the female leader that was Maria Hill. Now Kara understood the tall inhabitant's part in the life of the red-haired beauty, they were lovers if not partners. Kara's internal question was answered whether if not these primitives condoned or practiced Homosexuality. And that was exactly what these two were. To clear her conscience better the alien knew it was not her place to judge such acts. Only Rao judged the sins of a being and only he decided what must be done with a creation of his.
Natasha and Maria had revealed what they were to her.
She brought her hand away from her mouth and looked at her lap and hands. She swayed her head in thought.
"Nat….Why did you do that?" Maria asked properly even though she wanted to scold her lover for revealing their secret. Especially to this young girl that was The Supergirl.
"You know I love you…..my Maria." Natasha brushed her fingers across beautiful lips. "But you know me well, and you knew exactly how serious I was when I said I want her by my side…just as much as I always want to keep you at mine…..but I don't want you to feel uncomfortable with her. I want you to understand that she needs someone. Someone to show her what she doesn't know, what she has missed out on. And I want to do that, but not if your gonna be like this. Times are changing Maria. The life we only knew, the life we thought we could drag on with S.H.I.E.L.D. is slowly coming to an end. It is time for a change."
"You're saying we should come out to our friends and peers?"
"No…..we can still hide it." Natasha unwrapped her arms to walked towards Kara. "But not from her." Kara stared into beautiful orbs and grabbed dainty little hands to rise the body they belonged to off the bed.
"Nat, I know what you mean about her okay. She saved you…she saved you and I will always be grateful for that."
"Then show her."
Kara slipped into the bond when Natasha placed her lips over her forehead and brushed a strand behind an ear. She felt a hand that wasn't Natasha's on her shoulder and geared her head to face Maria who was giving off an aurora of surprising amount of comfort and understanding. Quickly the tallest woman in the room did the one thing she thought she would never do to anyone except for Natasha. She brought Kara into her uniformed arms. The girl's eyebrows were raised and she twisted her head to face Natasha who was simply smiling at the scene, even though Kara wasn't.
"Kara." she felt and heard her name being whispered into her ear. "Thank you."
She had finally said it.
"Thank you for bringing her to me. Thank you for saving her life. I owe you. I don't care what you've done in your past, I owe you…..thank you." the words were indeed serious yet soothing.
Now Kara was processing Maria's gesture better. She was being thanked for her service to Natasha. Maria was after all her lover. A lover who must have been worried sick upon realizing her love had been wounded in battle. And Maria had decided that she would not let these actions go unnoticed.
Kara had to do the one thing her true heart and mind kept telling her to do, return the gratitude.
Natasha's world seemed to be at peace when she saw Kara slowly bring her arms up from her sides and wrap the around Maria's back. the girl going so far as to bend her facial features into the crook of Maria's neck. The fumes were radiant and firm when they entered her nostrils.
They parted after they swayed for a while from side to side. The brunette rubbed the young woman's shoulders and spoke to Natasha.
"I will accept your choices Nat. know that I will always be here to support you…we can make this work. We'll just do what we do best."
"Fight for it." Natasha added and puckered her lips to peck Maria's who did the same. Kara looking down and blushing a little in the process.
"Since you are now in uniform, I think it's only appropriate that you see hers."
"Where is it by the way?"
Natasha gently leaned with a hand to touch the necklace Kara wore around her neck, the blonde tilting her neck back upon feeling her friend's finger's touch her possession. "Right here."
Natasha didn't expect Maria to understand, that's why she issued Kara to stand a little more back while reaching for the girl's shirt.
"Why are you undressing her? She's letting you?" Kara obeyed and helped herself to rid the shirt off her body. It was a little embarrassing since another woman was now in her presence as she disrobed but the Kryptonian knew the feeling of removing garments in front of many women. After all, she always did it for the all-female physicians who examined her exposed body during her courses for any hidden or pathological diseases.
The girl maintained her discipline and removed her footwear as Natasha undid the seal that held her breast bindings together, exposing her perky chest muscles. Kara cautiously removed her oversized leggings and stepped out of them. Standing completely exposed to Natasha and Maria, both woman focused their eyes on the beautiful necklace Kara had. The redhead brought two of her fingers to her neck, indicating that she wanted Kara to dress herself in her Kryptonian Armor.
And so, she did.
Maria thought she had seen it all, but seeing the suit Kara had worn with the red cape manifest out of the once normal looking necklace told her straight to the brain that she didn't. She had no idea that it was possible, but it was, and now Kara stood in place with her height elevated by her red boots, her cape trailing past her ankles and heels, with her polished armored leotard topped with the styled "S".
Supergirl had completed her image with a proud posture.
"Wow." Came the brunette's only response.
Maria Hill walked through the trees with The Falcon, Captain America, and Iron man: MK43 behind her. Their boots crunching the sticks and stones beneath them and the hydraulics from the advanced armor echoed in the wake. The Commander was lost in thought, she could only hope that everything had been set and explained well back in the underground lair.
They came upon a voided end that let out to a large lagoon, and just beyond that lagoon, was the once proud standing base known as the Triskelion.
"We are in final launch sequence." The speaker protested loudly over the underground cargo bay. "All personnel to Launch stations.
"Grand Councilwoman Hawley immediately saw herself to the personal restrooms once her copter had landed. She had just finished applying makeup to the development of crow's feet around the edges of her eyes when one of the stalls behind her was ruptured open and out came the deadly Black Widow who didn't hesitate to grab her by the neck and slam the aging woman's face into the mirror, the glass cracking under the impact and rendering her unconscious.
"Putting makeup isn't gonna hide them forever. But it might work for that disgusting cut you got oozing, by the way, I'm gonna need this suit."
"And how was your flight?" Pierce had to ask for the sake of all that was fuck.
"Lovely, the ride from the airport less so." Came the reply of Hawley who had recovered from her assault in the personal bathroom.
"Sadly S.H.I.E.L.D. can't control everything, including Captain America….however, this facility is biometrically controlled, these will give you unrestricted access." A field agent brought a suitcase to the Councilmen and Pierce, and they each took a metallic badge upon being presented one.
The unnamed Tech operators rambled in their seats upon learning that a damn parking spot had been taken by one of the filed agents who so happened to be their friend.
Being the people that they were they occasionally reported in.
"Negative DT 6 the pattern is full."
Suddenly they screamed from the high pitch noise coming from their own ear pieces.
"AAGRRHH, what was that!"
"Dammit!"
"Must be the Dish, I'll go check it out."
Suddenly the voice came in through the speakers, an oddly familiar voice.
"Children if you please would turn to the horribly glass proof window you have set behind you." they all instinctively turned around and there was the Iron Man, floating in place while looking at them. "Good, now please look that way and play nice since Mom and Dads are here."
A metallic finger pointed to his right, their left, and the door was pried open with a harsh kick. Entering the room was the former Assistant Director Hill, Captain America, and an unknown man wearing goggles, camo pants, grey shirt, and a bulky harness.
"Excuse us."
They all raised their hands in surrender upon seeing the woman and man hold guns at their unprepared assess.
"I am sure you are all aware who this is." Pierce said as the Councilmen and woman looked at the monitor in the meeting room, the image showed the clear footage of Supergirl heading straight for BETA. "You may have seen her on the news in the last couple of days."
They all eyed with awe and interest.
"Captain Rogers has taken this woman under his guidance, and he has revealed to us unintentionally that she is known, as Supergirl, capable of leveling almost everything and everyone that we have sent to retrieve her. She is dangerous and has demonstrated abilities far superior to that of the so-called God in England." He paused to catch his breath and shut off the monitor.
"But there is nothing to worry I can assure you. Those with great power like her should not be trusted alone, in time we will cease her and learn more about what she has to offer. Just as how we succeeded with Thor of Asgard…..now I know the road hasn't exactly been smooth, and some of you would have gladly kicked me out of the car along the way…finally we're here." He raised his glass. "And the world should be grateful."
Tony Stark was the last voice they expected to here.
"Uhhhhhhh how bout no Mr. Pierce." The aging man nearly coughed on his alcohol.
"Take it from here Cap."
….
"Attention, Attention all S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, this is Steve Rogers…..you heard a lot about me in the last few days, some of you were even ordered to hunt me down."
At this point, all agents froze in place throughout the base, some going to far as to drop their papers and coffee.
"But I think it's time you all know the truth, S.H.I.E.L.D. is not what we thought it was. Its been taken over by HYDRA. And Alexander Pierce is their leader."
The evil man almost tempted to flip off the looks he was receiving.
"The S.T.R.I.K.E. and Insight crew are HYDRA as well."
That was Brock's cue to move in upon hearing the voice of Steve mention him. They had to move quickly.
"I don't know how many more, but I know they are in the building. They could be standing right next to you."
The crew aboard the primary station began to eye one another in shock.
"They almost have what they want…..absolute control. They shot Nick Fury…..and it wont stop there. If you launch those Helicarriers today HYRDA will be able to kill anyone who stand in their way except for one. Unless we stop them…I know I'm asking a lot. But the prize for freedom is high…..it always has been. It's a price I'm willing to pay, and if I'm the only one then so be it…..but I'm willing to bet I'm not." He took a calm breath as his team behind him stared on with absolute determination."
"Because we have someone who is gonna put a stop to all this by force if this plea is ignored. Some of you may have seen her on the news. Some may have seen her on your very screens just before she accidentally destroyed Satellite BETA. Some of you may hunt her down upon direct orders…but Supergirl….is here to fight with us…not for us…..so please tell me…what happens when a supposed unstoppable force…..meets an immovable and unbreakable object?" That being said, he backed away from the speaker, waiting for war to begin.
Rollins came from around the corner, his men coming from the other side. The stood in place next to their leader, waiting upon real command.
"Arrest him." Said Councilmen Singh, his reward was a gun pointed to his face, startling the man.
Pierce liked where this was going. "I guess I've got the floor."
Brock stood in place with his weapon trained onto the head of the launch control room. The agents have broken out into a gun pointer fest and Sharon Carter held her gun at the HYDRA scums face.
"You picked the wrong side Agent."
That being said, he dropped his gun but quickly retracted his blade and slashed a vein in Sharon's wrist, causing her to drop the nine-millimeter, resulting in a shootout. Being the risky person that he was, Brock Kicked Sharon hard into her stomach and threw the nerdish looking man who was frightened beyond all that was sacred to the floor. The HYRDA agent typed away furiously at the head monitor and overrode the intended launch time. Bullets going past his head every two seconds.
The roof shattered with a thundering rupture and a red caped woman descended into the loud firing room. Brock was aggressively lifted by his thick neck and was turned to come face to face with a red eyed Supergirl. Everyone raised their guns upward since she was floating several feet off the ground but ceased pulling the triggers.
Sharon Carter and every other agent watched in horror as Rumlow was thrown into another room, breaking the bullet proof glass in the process. She now gave her full attention to those who were eyeing her. She didn't give them enough time to react and she blew a gale force downward, driving Papers, advanced monitors and bodies in all direction.
Supergirl rocketed straight out of the room just as quickly as she got in.
PROJECT INSIGHT, had been launched.
"Boys! They are initiating launch!" Maria sat in the same room her comrades were in not too long ago. She was now by herself monitoring the helicarriers.
The three heroes were out on the massive hangar. Running as fast as their bodies could carry them. Tony was right behind them, his metallic boots clashing against the concrete.
"Here they come guys!" His repuslors grew bright.
"Hey Cap, how do we know the good guys from the bad?!" asked Sam.
"If they're shooting at you they're bad!
"Capsicle where is Supergirl!?"
"She's doing her own thing let her be!"
And just like that they approached the edge with the Falcon and Iron Man taking to the skies, and Captain America leaping below to the elevated bay.
Kara Zor-El, The Supergirl, stood hovering above the heavens as she watched with a mixture of awe and horror at the three Primitive Armadas rising into the air. Massive weapons built for war and aerial support could only spell a disaster, and that was what all this was.
A disaster.
She clenched her fists in anger, they were infiltrating the established base of the operatives who have been so eager to see them all dead. This was her chance to demonstrate who was the primitive, this was the determination returning to her soul every since she began her educational courses. Everything she knew was gone, and no matter how hard she pleaded, she was never going to get anything from her old life back, her world, her home, nothing but a memory, now.
The tear ran down her face as she rubbed her gauntlet. The gauntlet of Zor-El, her Father.
She swallowed the lump in her throat as her eyes opened revealing a piercing red glow.
The last Kryptonian was here to fight, and she set her sights on the armada with the most cannons and weapons.
Steve battled his way through the HYDRA operatives and chucked a grenade from around the corner. He didn't have time to watch them all blow up and he leaped over a crate to disarm a soldier in black armor.
The falcon spread his wings wider as he soared from underneath a helicarrier and above where the cannons were placed. Upon reaching their sights they began to fire at the Falcon. The years of the flying soldier on the field guided him through the disaster with movements so quick.
"Whoa Cap! I found those bad guys you were talking about."
"You Okay?"
"….I'm not dead yet."
….
"Hang in their Mr. Wilson." Iron Man was now on his tail. "J.A.R.V.I.S. deploy flares upon sight."
"Will due Sir."
When the Cannons were prepared to lock on again they caught the glowing spark of flares that started behind the Falcon and went in another direction with Iron Man, now making him the target but the armored billionaire swerved his way through the fire the same way the Falcon did.
"Got them off your back Sam, move in."
"Got it."
The Falcon now dived down head first into smaller danger with the turrents and sentries now aiming at him. His professionalism took over and he managed to evade pass them to fire rounds and rounds of his automatic pistols into HYDRA agents that were still on the hangar.
Then it happened, the roar of an echoing boom in the heavens spread across the noon sky, a red streak came from above and was heading downward straight for the helicarrier that was the closest to the ground. Upon impact a shockwave ruptured throughout the Triskelion and the entire armada exploded in a colossal ball of fire and smoke. It was as if the entire vessel had self-destructed. The red streak curved upward and headed back towards the sky from where it came from.
For a moment the cannons stopped firing, the Councilmen, woman, Pierce, and S.T.R.I.K.E. team looked out the window. Iron Man flew high away from danger to hover in place. The Agents throughout the facility stopped once again what they were doing. Maria Hill's mouth was agape with horror. She stumbled to find her words but spoke into her commlink with absolute certain.
"Helicarrier 001 is down, out of commission…two to go."
Steve stayed where he was for a second in his hiding spot behind more crates. "My god, Kara."
Supergirl had just taken an entire Helicarrier, HYDRA crew on board and all.
Pierce looked out that window and watched as the smoke cleared. It didn't seem like it was going to be doing that any time soon. But he knew well that a helicarrier now laid in ruins. All thanks to Supergirl. He tired his best not to panic, but he was panicking. All it took was an aerial strike from her to bring down one of HYDRA's most powerful weapons.
"Let me ask you something." He started grimly as he marched to where Singh stood. "What if Pakistan marched into Mumbai tomorrow, and you knew that they were going to drag your daughters to a soccer stadium to be executed, and you could just stop it, with a flick of a switch.
He handed the Councilman a glass of Champaign, which he hesitantly took.
"Not if it was your switch." Singh spoke for everyone and threw the glass across the room in disrespect.
Pierce expected something like this, so Rollins gave him a gun from his holster and set his aim to Singh, ready to take his life.
Of-course the devil was not meant to live happy that day, and before he knew it, Hawley began to disarm his men like he had never seen a woman do such a thing. The had to be seen to be true how an aging woman could take down brutality trained men, but it was happening. Rollins got what he deserved, and the shock baton stick he was trying to use was reverted out of his grip to stab him straight in the neck. He was rendered unconscious after that little tour. Soon he was left with a menacing Hawley holding a gun at him while the rest of the Council just watched.
The silence was obvious, but Hawley added more to the show by clicking the side of her face within the roots of her hair, sure enough her face began to contort the way a pixelated frame wiggled onto a screen, and the holo mask was pulled off.
Revealing a stoic Natasha Romanoff.
"I'm sorry did I step on your moment?" she taunted with the gun still trained on him.
"Falcon, Status." Maria demanded through her commlink.
"Engaging! And did Kara just take out a battleship sized Helicarrier!?"
"What did you expect Chicken Wings!?" Tony blabbered as several jets were now on his tail. "She lives up to her name…..the not so Jolly green giant is gonna be so jealous!!
"Tony! I need help! I'm being tailed!"
"Your telling me? Btw, just trust me, radio silence from here on out." before Sam could reply, his link to both Steve, Maria, and Sam were shut off.
Sam had been thrown of his flight thanks to the impact he made with the ground on the hangar. The jet that was after him now hovered before him and just as the minigun fired, Supergirl ruptured straight through the vessel, causing it to explode. And giving Sam enough time to leap over the edge to spread his wings again.
"Thanks kid."
Natasha typed away furiously at the main keep board in front of the glass monitors. She had given her gun to Councilman Yen.
"What are you doing?" asked Councilman Rockwell.
"She's is disabling security protocols, and dumping all of yalls pathetic little secrets onto the internet." Tony Stark came from the elevator no body knew dinged upon his arrival. He sported his typical attire from when he was using Iron Man, tight athletic pants, boots, and t shirt hugging his muscles. It also hid the Arc Reactor glowing faintly without the suit. "And HYDRA's, and oh yeah S.H.I.E.L.D.'s too."
Pierce was slowly losing the fight to keep his face one hundred and ten percent stoic.
"Mr. Stark…."
"Spare me the formalities Pierce."
"How?"
"Do I really need to answer that?"
"No, I mean, how are you still here when Iron Man is out there?"
Tony fiddled with his earpiece connecting him with the suit, but he answered the way he normally would.
"No idea…anyways I came here for my stuff. Natalie, you might wanna scooch over." Natasha did as she was asked with a smile. "Alright let's see."
Several files were brought up on the organization's connection with Stark Industries.
"Here we go." He popped his knuckles and flexed his fingers. "That's quite the budget your boys loiter around Alexander, I wonder what would happen if I, oops." The graphs containing S.H.I.E.L.D.'s benefits and accounts all draining down to zero, the bars becoming red apart from there once shining blue.
"Looks like you're out of money, and look at this, starting tomorrow I will be sending several of my personal Cargo quinjets to pick up all my Tech and equipment. Sorry but I have no choice. I'm not what you call Merchant of death." Pierce watched helplessly as all the benefits that HYRDA could have used before murdering the last living Stark were gone before his eyes.
The billionaire then stared daggers at the dethroned leader. "Feed yourself now you Son of a Bitch." That in tern earned him a chuckle from the Councilmen.
That being said. Natasha took her position of gathering information again, preparing for the final climactic effect.
Pierce however, still resorted to whatever pride he had left. "Disabling the encryption is an executive order…..it takes two alpha level Members."
Natasha seemed unfazed by this. "Don't worry, company's coming."
The sound of the helicopter blades were not once heard until the figure had come right through the door. There stood the man who once could've been described as a true leader, now. He was just here for one more mission. The Councilmen and Pierce all stared in flabbergast as Nick Fury, the man thought to be dead, was standing tall and proud in his attire with his arm in a sling.
He ignored the looks he was given by the people and walked straight next to Stark who was happy as all get out. Natasha looked on at the leader of HYDRA and shrugged menacingly.
"What no hello?" Nick didn't say nothing. He wasn't going to waste his time anymore. They both knew what the other would say, and what the other could say. But Fury was not going to give this man the satisfaction. Instead he did the one thing that took everyone to another level by surprise, he lifted his eyepatch, exposing his sickly dead eye and looked to Stark. The playboy was stoic at first but then nodded and they both walked to the retinal scanner that would end all of this.
"Did you really think that you were needed for this." Natasha asked Pierce. "You're not the only Alpha Level Member here…You're only here, to watch all of your so-called dreams, die."
Tony and Nick didn't show any signs of resisting, the scan had been made and the trending process mended with the internet.
No more secrets, no more hiding, no more HYRDA, no more S.H.I.E.L.D.
Natasha pressed a red button that manifested onto the screen and the evacuation process of the Triskelion began, within several minutes, all personel throughout the building were hurdling towards the transporter trucks, eagerly waiting to take them to safety.
Pierce was beyond furious and defeated. Now what? His goals have been shattered. His helicarriers were facing potential defeat and Supergirl would no longer be under his control with how things were going. He had to do something. And that plan wasn't so pretty. He still however had to try.
"You think you truly won Nick? Your little puppet out there may have destroyed one of the helicarriers but there are still two valuable good ones that will incinerate and destroy anything within reach, those men on board have direct orders to destroy intended targets. And thanks to your little hero she is one. If Supergirl can't be with HYDRA then she can't be with anyone. Someone like her shouldn't wander around so carelessly with that kind of power. She needs to be taught, she needs the right guidance….."
"Don't you get it?" Fury finally snapped. "You lost, it's over, you never entirely had a chance at winning, people like you Pierce, will never accept defeat, until you're on your knees and left with nothing.
Suddenly Maria appeared in the room and her features contorted into a shocked expression. "What the hell."
Then Sam manifested with his harness missing and bruises forming on the side of his face. He eyed his surrounding before setting his sights on the Billionaire, Councilmen, Natasha, Pierce, Nick Fury, and Maria.
The room received one more guessed and Steve was there, his face being bruised, and several shots were embedded into his shoulder. "Bucky!" he panted as he realized where he was.
They were all together. Standing united against their will to HYDRA.
Maria didn't like how things were turning out. Did Kara do this? it was a stupid question, of-course Kara did this. But why? They were so close. Why was this happening?
"I knew it." Natasha spoke up. "This is what she planned. "I knew she wouldn't understand properly if I tried explaining all this to her…this is her way….she's ending this."
The roof collapsed under a specific section and red boots were smashed into floor with a marvelous red cape following behind heels.
The red eyes of Kara Zor-El glowed red with her breath flaring cold.
Now that he was surrounded and had nowhere to go, Pierce made one last attempt by reaching for his phone.
A/N: the conclusion will be the next Chapter of the Winter Soldier series! I can't wait for Infinity War guys. EEEEEPPPPP! Any way take care. Hope you guys enjoyed this and I will see you all in 2018!