Remember this world is slightly different from the world of Children of El, so while some things might appear the same, there are differences in this world
Earth: The 31st Century - 3036
The air in the beautifully perfect manicured garden rippled and distorted for several seconds before the the bright flash of light deposited the two figures on the immaculate lawn. The taller of the two was an eighteen year old boy with short black hair and bright blue eyes. Those bright eyes darted around as if looking for something, danger, a location, the person beside him, or maybe all of that and everything in between. While his gaze remained alert he did relaxed a little when he saw the girl standing next to him. She was slightly shorter than he was, younger too at fifteen. Her hair was long, blonde and pulled back in a tight braid down her back. Her eyes were just as alert as she took in their surroundings but their color was different, her eyes were a sharp jade green. She relaxed at the sight of the boy, sighing a soft sigh of relief before instantly slamming her hands on her hips.
"Andrew!" Alexis yelled at her brother. "What the hell did you do?"
"I didn't do anything!" The boy replied while reaching up to rub the back of his neck. "At least I don't think I did."
Both teens were dressed in sleek black workout clothes that looked just shy of being somewhat militaristic. Alexis took a hand off her hip to poke her brother in his chest. "It had to be you because it wasn't me and there was no one else in the training room!"
"Still doesn't mean it was me." Andrew huffed while crossing his arms over his chest to hide the fact that he was rubbing where she had poked him.
Alexis narrowed her eyes at her brother and huffed at him before taking a few steps back to have a look around. They were in a garden of some kind. It kind of looked like one of those courtyard gardens museums have. Along with the flowers and bushes were stone benches and statues. From what Alexis could see from where they stood on the perfect green grass, they weren't anywhere familiar. "Where are we?"
"I have no idea." Andrew answered as he walked towards the path a few feet from where they stood. The path seemed to wind further into the garden no matter which way they walked. It looked in both directions but couldn't see where the path lead. He sighed softly.
Alexis lifted off the ground easily and flew straight up slowly, cautiously. It was a good thing that she didn't shoot up into the sky like she normally would have, because the garden seemed to be under some kind of domed force field. Reaching up, rather stupidly Andrew was sure to say, she pressed her hand against the force field. "Well shit." She said as she watched the ripple of energy spread out from where she touched it. Turning slowly for a full three-sixty view she was able to see that they appeared to be on a circular rooftop. The sliver of fear and uncertainty that Alexis had felt the moment she felt the odd sensation of the consuming light that brought them here was quickly growing. "Drew, we're on a roof, and there's a force field over it."
Andrew looked up at his sister and asked, "What do you see beyond the force field, Lex?"
Alexis had been too afraid to look past the force field. Clearly they were no longer in the training room in the sub basement of the DEO, and the gravity of the situation weighed heavy on her like a stone in her stomach. Biting her lip Alexis looked out past the forcefield and swallowed hard. The buildings beyond were strange in architecture and materials, so unlike anything she had ever seen before. Alexis' mind had been racing with possibilities and this one had been one of them but it had seemed so unlikely she hadn't given it more than a second's worth of thought.
"Lex?" Andrew called up. "What do you see?"
"I see L-Corp." Alexis replied, fixating on the one thing that did look familiar.
Andrew rolled his eyes. "Of course you do."
"It has a humunious L floating over it's roof." Alexis huffed at him. "It's hard to miss!"
Andrew's brow shot up. Then he launched himself into the air to join his sister. Taking in the view of the city beyond he hissed. "Shit."
"Yeah." Alexis replied. "I don't think we simply teleported some place else. I think we're some time else."
Andrew raised his hand to look at the ring on the middle finger of his right hand and sighed. The ring was gold with a gold L and shooting star on a black background. The ring had been left for him by his biological father and given to him on his sixteenth birthday by his mother. It's what allowed him to fly since flight wasn't one of his natural powers being half Daxamite, unlike his half Kryptonian sister. "My ring."
"What about your ring?" Alexis questioned with a frown, her sharp green eyes cutting back and forth between the ring and her brother's face.
Andrew looked up to meet his sister's gaze. "Cousin Clark said it had other features, that it did other things aside from giving me the ability to fly, that these other things didn't seem to be unlocked yet. He said as I got more comfortable with the ring, those features would open up to me."
"Was time travel one of those features?" Alexis asked, hands on her hips, not in a Supergirl power position, but more of a Lena what-have-you-two-done posture.
Andrew nodded. "It's how Mon-El and the others came to help with Lobo when I was a baby, and how Clark met the Legion as a teenager."
Alexis groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Time travel. Great. No way we're not getting grounded over this."
While Alexis grumbled Andrew took in more of the garden from their vantage point. He spotted several statues, but it was the largest one in the center of the garden that caught his attention. After getting his sister's attention the pair flew over to it and landed in front up of it. Andrew looked up in awe.
"Whoa." Alexis said softly as she took in the statue of Supergirl. "It's even bigger than the one Mom had erected on the waterfront."
Andrew noticed a small display beside the towering statue of Supergirl in her classic fists on hips pose, the gleaming marble representation of the woman who had raised him as her own son, who never once treated him any differently than his sister, her own blood child. Andrew reached out, waving a hand over the device and suddenly Supergirl's voice ran out.
"Now in each and every one of you there is a light, a spirit, that can not be snuffed out, that won't give up. I need your help. I need you to hope. Hope. That you will remember that you can all be heroes. Hope. That when faced with an enemy determined to destroy your spirit you will fight back and thrive. Hope. That the ones who once may have shunned you will in a moment of crisis, will come to your aide. Hope."
"That's part of Mama's Myriad speech." Alexis said softly. Turning to look at her brother, Alexis failed to mask the emotions she was feeling from him. She was scared, and uncertain, and finding this had allowed a certain unease to settle in her chest. "Drew, why does this feel like a memorial?"
"Because it is, Lex." Andrew said honestly as he looked into his sister's eyes. "We've come so far into the future, that she isn't here."
Alexis' eyes began to burn with budding tears. She was only fifteen. She didn't want to think about a world without her mothers in it. "Drew…"
"Shh." Andrew said suddenly. "Listen. Do you hear it?"
Alexis listened and nodded. "Three people, coming this way from the right."
"Be prepared for anything." Andrew said as they turned towards the approaching footsteps. "But try not to blast them until we known their intentions."
"Once." Alexis said with a huff. "I blasted you once and you shouldn't have snuck up on me dressed like a clown. You know I hate clowns."
Andrew smirked at his sister but any lightheartedness he might have felt melted away when the three people they'd hearded coming finally appeared. They were all wearing uniforms of sorts. The tall man with red hair wore a blue and white suit with lightning bolts across his chest. A speedster perhaps, like Uncle Berry? The man in the blue and black uniform was broad shouldered, massive in a linebacker kind of way, and had a much softer expression on his face than the redheaded man did. The only woman among them wore a white jumpsuit with a gold belt, and a white cape. She had long black hair and like the big guy, a warm expression.
"We don't get many flying teengers up here these days." The woman said by way of greeting. "Especially strange ones we don't know."
"Who are you kids and how did you get in here?" The redheaded man barked. Unlike the other two he didn't bother to hide the fact that he was in an offencive stance.
The big guy's bright eyes kept darting between the girl and the statue of Supergirl until he gasped softly. "Supergirl?"
"No, not quite, not yet anyway." Alexis replied when she realized he meant her. "I'm still in training and I'm not sixteen yet and they just won't budge on the whole sixteen thing."
Andrew dropped his voice so only his sister could hear him. "Lex. You're rambling."
"Oh, sorry." She replied sheepishly.
Turning back to the three adults Andrew said, "Look, we're not a threat or anything. We're actually here on accident." He made a fist and held it out to show them his ring. "I think I might have brought us here using this. Mon-El didn't really leave an instructional manual behind along with it."
"You know Valor?" The woman asked.
"Valor? If that's Mon-El's superhero name, then, well, I don't know him, know him." Andrew explained with a shrug of his shoulders. "I know of him, what with him being my father and all."
Three sets of eyes blinked in surprise before the redhead spoke up after the trio shared a concerning look. "We should take them to her, let her handle Mon-El's problems like she always does, if what the kid is saying it the truth."
"Really Garth?" The big guy said. "Now is not the time."
Garth, the redhead's name apparently, huffed as he crossed his arms over his chest and then turned to glare at the teens.
When the woman, who finally introduced herself as Phantom Girl, asked them to come with them Andrew and Alexis didn't put up a fight. They had heard the story of how Mon-El, Imra, and Brainy had come to help save Andrew as a baby from a space bounty hunter, and how Briany had helped their Mom implement her plan to cure their Aunt Sam from a biological tech virus. Clark had told them stories as well, about his friends in the future who worked together as heroes. They trusted the idea of the Legion, and until these people proved otherwise, they'd relay on that trust.
They were escorted into the building they'd been on top of and down several floors to a room that at first look rather stark and empty. It was brightly lit, all white with soft blues and crystal panels. They were asked to stand in the middle of the room and wait before being left alone.
"Lex." Andrew said softly as they both took in their new surroundings. He couldn't shake the feeling that this was some kind of interrogation room. The big guy, Bouncing Boy he said his name was, told them they were taking them to the leader of the Legion, their founder, and that she would figure this all out. "You ok?"
"I'm stranded in the future with no idea how we're getting home or what we're about to face. My stomach is in knots and I can't stop wishing Mama or Mom were with us." Alexis replied with brutal honesty. "So no, I am not ok."
Before Andrew could reassure his younger sister, or wonder about her very un-Luthor like burst of emotion, a male voice they hadn't heard before filled the room. "You, boy, you claim to be the son of Mon-El, is this true?"
"Yes." Andrew replied, searching for where they voice was coming from. "Mon-El of Daxam is my biological father."
"What is your name, boy?" The voice asked next.
"Andrew Luthor." Andrew answered.
There was a long pause before the voice spoke out again. "And you girl, do you claim to be Mon-El's off spring as well?"
Alexis snorted as she crossed her arms over her chest. "No, I'm not Mon-El's anything."
"Who is the boy to you then?" The voice asked next.
"He's my big brother." Alexis said proudly.
"But you just said you were not claiming to be an offspring of Mon-El." The voice replied.
"Not that it's any of your business." Alexis huffed as she narrowed her eyes to search out a point in which to glared at the unseen voice. In doing so she realized the room was lead lined. She couldn't see anything beyond the walls. "But if you must know, my brother and I, biologically share the same human mother. My other biological parent adopted Andrew when he was a baby, but none of that has ever mattered, cause he's just my brother. Period. End of story."
There was a another pause before a female voice asked, "What is your name, child?"
Alexis blinked before once again scanning the room. The voice seemed oddly familiar. Familiar enough that Alexis could detect amusement in it's tone. Familiar enough that without realizing it she relaxed, her arms falling to her side and her shoulder relaxed a little. "My human name is Alexis Luthor."
"Your human name, meaning you have a non-human name?" The female asked.
Alexis stood as tall as she could as she answered. "My name is Zee El, my brother is Dru El, and we are the children of Kara Zor-El of Krypton." Then she frowned a little and looked at Andrew with some concern. "And I'm not entirely sure why I said all of that so easily. Dru, we don't give people our Kryptonian names on a whim."
"It's the ring your standing in." A blue skinned man said as he walked into the room. Not only was his skin blue, but his hair was snow white and he had three glowing rings on his forehead. "It's technology based on a weapon used by a hero of your time. It uses various energy waves to compel you to speak only the truth."
Andrew blinked, looked down at the floor where he noticed for the first time the soft golden glow of lights in a circle around them, and then looked up at the blue skinned man and said, "She really doesn't consider the lasso a weapon, you know."
Before the blue man could reply Alexis gasped, covering her mouth in surprise. It wasn't the blue skinned man who surprised her, but the woman who stepped into the room behind a man wearing a black, grey and purple uniform. The woman was tall and wore a black bodysuit with silver accents, a silver belt that looked just like the one Supergirl wore, and a very familiar crest in silver on her chest. Alexis' eyes darted back and forth between the House of Ze crest, the woman's long chest hair with it's destivive white stripe, and the woman's golden hazel-brown eyes. "It can't be." Alexis said softly, her gaze finally settling on the women's all too familiar eyes. "It can't be you. You're dead."
"Oh." The woman said softly, her lips quirking into a soft smirk, but her eyes flickering with something else, hurt or pain perhaps? "That's an odd sense of deja vu."
Despite Andrew's hand on her arm to stop her Alexis moved closer towards the woman she had seen so many times in hologram form. Her voice was soft and uncertain as she said, "Aunt Astra?"
Astra In-Ze smiled a radiant smile. "So, you do know who I am."
"Of course we do." Andrew replied. He'd been just as shocked by the woman's appearance as his sister. They had each spent countless hours with the holograms of Alura and Astra learning everything there was to know about Krypton, and its culture, and the people who came before them. He stepped closer to his sister as he looked at the woman. "Which is why we know you can't really be our great aunt. She died before either of us were born."
"I did, yes." Astra said gently. "But my death wasn't an ending to my story, only to that particular chapter of it." Up close Astra could clearly see Kara in the girl, and not just in the physical features she shared with her mother, but in her bareing and the way she was looking at her. Kara had once looked at her like that, like she had found something precious that had once been lost. Astra had crushed that look by engaging in a fight with her niece. She wouldn't make the same mistakes twice. "Come little ones, I have much to explain while we wait for Mon-El's return."
"General, are you sure…" The man in black, grey, and purple spoke up.
Astra nodded and smiled warmly at the man. "I'm sure, Rokk." Turning to the blue skinned man she smiled and said, "Brainy, send word to Mon-El and Imra to return at once, and let me know when they've arrived."
Brainy nodded. "Of course, General." Then he turned to Andrew. "It is nice to see you again, Dru. Though you are much taller than the last time I saw you. You also have much better speech capabilities and motor function."
"Um." Andrew replied, rubbing his neck. "Yeah, that kind of happens when you grow up. You get bigger, and you learn to walk and talk."
"Yes of course." Brainy replied. "For us it has only been a year since we saw you as an infant on Earth. For you, it has clearly been much longer."
Alexis groaned softly. "Agh, time travel."
Astra took the two teens to her private office. Though she did not know the details of Kara's life following her 'death' she did know that Kara had had one, a good one, she had been reassured. It had just hurt her too much to seek out more than that. Once reaching her office she waved towards a large comfortable sofa, "Have a seat." She said warmly while walking over to a sideboard to make tea. "I know you must have a lot of questions, and have no idea where to even start in asking them. So I will simply tell you how I came to be alive and what I am doing here." She walked over to join them, setting the tea service between them and pouring as she said, "No one was more surprised by my return to life than I was…"
