When Super Met Marvel
by: Sam Lincoln
Disclaimer: All the characters contained in this story are the propery of DC Comics and Warner Brothers. No infringement is intended.
Summary: Kara makes friends with a new hire at CatCo named Mary Bromfield. She's just a normal girl from Fawcett City, right?
Spoilers: This story takes place in between season three and four of Supergirl.
At CatCo Kara found Mary sitting in the cafeteria with a table full of papers in front of her. "That is a lot of paperwork," Kara said. "I am not going to lie." She sat down at the table across from Mary.
Mary looked up at Kara. "It's more than a little that's for sure. But it's okay, it's proof I got the job."
"That's the spirit," Kara said. "How has your day been going?"
"I've watched so many orientation videos you can't even imagine," Mary said. "I can't wait to be done with all this and start doing actual work."
"After you turn those forms in are we can start my special training." Kara looked around the cafeteria. "Or we could start right now, this paperwork isn't going anywhere after all."
"Tempting, but I'm almost done with these so I'd really rather get them finished."
"Okay, I'll get some lunch while you're working then." Kara stood up from the table and walked towards the cafeteria line.
Mary looked up when Kara returned with a tray loaded down with food. "Are you feeding an army?" She asked Kara.
"I have a very fast metabolism," Kara replied. "If I don't eat like this I get loopy."
"Such a burden," Mary said as she watched Kara bite into a sandwich.
"I know right? Alex always calls me a jerk every time we go out for dinner."
"I can see her point," Mary returned to her paperwork and signed her signature on the last form. "There, I'm all done."
"Awesome, let me finish this," Kara waved her hand over the remaining food on her tray. "And then we can get started."
Mary looked down at Kara's tray. "Okay that, uh, sounds good."
"Do you want any of this?" Kara asked.
"No, that's okay, I don't want to be a mooch," Mary said.
Kara finished off her sandwich. "Suit yourself. One of the perks to working here is that the cafeteria is really good." Kara cocked her head to one side when she heard an alarm ringing in the distance. She wiped her mouth off with a napkin. "Shoot, I forgot I agreed to meet with a source. When I get back from that we can over my tips for the job."
"What about your lunch?"
Kara stood up. "Can you take care of it for me? I'm sorry to dump that on you, but I have to fly."
"Sure, no problem, it's the least I can do for all the help you've given me so far," Mary said.
Kara smiled at Mary. "You're the best."
Mary watched as Kara hustled out of the cafeteria. "What a strange person," Mary said to herself. "Nice, but strange."
Kara landed outside the source of the alarm, a jewelry store that was being robbed. The store was built into the first floor of a larger building with a large plate glass window looking out onto the street. The window had been smashed in by the robbers. Kara stepped through the window and found five masked men holding the store's staff and customers at gunpoint.
"Okay, drop the, er guns, and surrender," Kara's voice faltered when she saw the strange, futuristic looking weapons the robbers held.
"I was wondering when you were going to show up Supergirl," Boss said from behind the ski mask covering his face. He glanced down at his watch. "You're running late."
Kara cracked her knuckles. "I'm right on time to stop you."
"I don't think so. Rem, Nails, take care of her," Boss said.
"With pleasure," Rem said. He and Nails unslung their rifles and before Kara could react they shot at her with beams of energy. The force of the blast sent Kara flying out of the store and into the building across the street. By the time she picked herself out of the rubble the robbers had vanished.
"Supergirl are you okay?" Please respond," Alex said over the radio.
"Yeah, I'm fine, just got sucker punched is all.
"Come back to the DEO, we need to talk," Alex
Kara brushed hunks of plaster out of her hair. "Yeah will do. I'll be there soon, and tell Brainy he'd better have figured out what the hell those guns were. I need to go back to CatCo for a few first though." She turned off her radio without giving Alex a chance to reply. Kara then surveyed the damaged building to see if anyone was hurt before she flew off.
Back at CatCo Kara found Mary sitting at Kara's old desk outside of James's office. Mary was leafing through a copy of the CatCo employee handbook, but put it down when she saw Kara approach. "Hey there," Kara said. "Sorry about ditching you at lunch like that."
"You duck out of my interview, you ditch me at lunch, I'm starting to sense a pattern."
Kara waved her hands frantically. "Oh no, that's, Mary I'm…"
"Relax Kara, I was just teasing you."
Kara pushed up her glasses. "Oh, right, of course sure. So here, let me make it up to you, I'll take you out to dinner, tonight."
Mary cocked her head to one side. "Laying it on a little thick don't you think?"
Kara sat down in the chair next to Mary's desk. "What do you mean?"
"Just that every other time someone's tried this hard to impress me they were also trying to date me."
Kara's ears turned pink. "Oh no, that's no, I'm not, it's…" Kara fidgeted with her glasses then took deep break. "I'm not asking you out on a date, but just hypothetically would you say no? I'm not asking for myself, I have a friend, and she went through a bad breakup, a failed engagement in fact, and she really needs to start dating again." Kara dropped her head into her hands. "You probably think I'm a crazy person. Okay truth time. I've had a lot of friends leave recently, and right now my only friends in town are my sister and Lena. Don't get me wrong, they are good friends, the best even, but it's also a really small circle you know? So then I meet you, and you seem like the sort of person I'd like to be friends with. Does that seem weird?"
"No, not at all, believe me, I have no friends in National City, and I'm not interested in driving a potential friend away."
"I can be a little obsessive when I'm trying to do something, so I'm sorry for how I might've come across," Kara said.
"You don't have anything to apologize about," Mary said. "I just didn't know what your interest was so I wanted to know. No harm, no foul."
"I'm looking for a friend, nothing more. Unless you are interested in women, because like I said, I have this friend and I do not mean that as a euphemism."
"That's flattering, but I'm not looking to date anyone right now," Mary said as she examined her hands.
"That totally makes sense, and I won't bring it up anymore. But I do feel bad, so I am going to take you out for dinner my treat, and that's final."
Mary smiled. "In that case how can I say no?"
"Great it's a, well not a date, but you know. I'll text you the location."
"I'm looking forward to it," Mary said.
Kara's phone range interrupting their conversation. She glanced down and saw Alex's number. "Oh hold on, I have to take this." She walked into James's office. 'Hey Alex, what's up?"
"Kara, can you come back to the DEO? Brainy has some information about the jewelry store robbery."
Kara glanced over at Mary through the office wall. "I'll be right over."
"So what have you got for me?" Kara asked Alex as she strode down the steps from the balcony in the DOE.
"The origin off the weapons that attacked you," Brainiac-5 said.
Kara clapped her hands together. "That's great. What are they: Czarnian, Thanagarian?"
"Cadmus," Alex said as she entered the room. "Cadmus designed them to kill you."
"I thought we had captured all of Cadmus's technology," Kara said.
"Evidently some of it slipped through the cracks," Brainy said. "All is not lost however, because I have the means to track the weapons."
"You can, where are they?" Kara asked.
"I was getting to that," Brainy said. He looked over at a computer monitor and blinked his eyes causing a map to appear on it.
"How did you do that?" Alex asked.
Brainy looked over at Alex. "I've interfaced with the building's wireless and can control the computers remotely."
"That's not creepy at all," Kara said.
"It's the most efficient way for me to access information," Brainy said. "Would you rather I performed sub-optimally because it is more aesthetically pleasing?"
"We can talk about this later," Alex said. "Where are the weapons?"
Brainy pointed at the monitor. "There."
Kara took a step towards the monitor. "I know where that is."
"Kara wait, let's stop and come up with a plan first," Alex said.
"We have a plan, I got there and punch the bad guys."
"They have weapons designed to kill you," Alex said. "Let me put together a team to assist you."
"Like you said, they have weapons designed to kill me. That is precisely why I should go alone. These weapons are too dangerous for anyone else to try and fight," Kara said. She spun on her heels and flew out of the DEO.
"I wish she wouldn't do that," Alex said. She glared at Brainy. "Start getting a strike team prepped."
Kara landed outside the warehouse Brainy said the robbers were hiding out in. She scanned the warehouse with her x-ray vision and when she didn't see anything suspicious she pushed open the door.
Kara had only take a few steps into the warehouse when she was surrounded by beams of energy shooting up from the floor. Kara reached a hand out to touch one of the beams, then pulled it back when she received a powerful shock.
"Careful Supergirl, that's enough current to kill and elephant," the disembodied voice of the Boss said from the darkness of the warehouse.
"That's awful, elephants are beautiful animals, what gives you the right to go around electrocuting them?" Kara shouted.
"What, where do you think we would get an elephant?"
Kara shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know, you're the one who made the comparison."
"Forget the elephants, the point is we have you trapped."
"If it makes you feel better to think so then go right ahead." Kara said. She knelt down and rested her hand against the metal sheeting of the floor. She drew her arm back then punched the ground, knocking a hole into the flooring. Kara grabbed an electrical conduit and pulled it out of the floor. The bars of her cage flickered, then vanished.
Kara stood up then rolled her shoulders. "Okay, this is the part where you surrender."
Before Kara could advance further into the warehouse she was hit in the side by an energy blast. She staggered, then was hit in the other side by another blast. She looked around and saw two men step out of the shadows holding the same strange energy weapons from the jewelry store robbery.
"We, I, figured you'd find out hideout, so we were ready for you," the man said. "Cadmus thought these guns could hurt a Kryptonian, let's find out if they were right." The other members of the crew stepped forward and also fired at Kara who struggled under the combined force of five energy blasts.
Kara felt herself being pushed into the ground. She tried to take a step towards the robbers, but the crew managed to encircle her and there was nowhere for her to escape.
"Keep it up boys and we can say we killed ourselves a Kryptonian," the Boss shouted.
Kara cried out in pain as she was pushed to her knees. The ground beneath her buckled under the strain. There was a crashing sound overhead and as Kara started to lose consciousness she saw a red and gold figure descend from the ceiling.
-To Be Continued-
