Gloves. That was the necessary accessory to touch Mya, otherwise it was impossible to do so and he had already suffered the consequences, since unlike the other time, this burns had persisted on his skin.
He stroked her hair watching her younger sister begin to open her eyes, looking at him for a few seconds before turning her gaze to her surroundings and finally to her wrists.
"Why am I here?" she asked directly.
"You were starting to transmit electricity" he responded by noticing how she noticed the presence of gloves in his hands, but stopping at the bandage that was visible despite the glove.
"Was it me? Did I hurt you?" She questioned him in barely a whisper.
"Hey, it's okay, sweetheart, they're just burns, they will heal" he said trying to calm her down. "Are you hungry?" he asked, unleashing her, right now she was not a threat, seeing his sister nodding slightly. "I brought you Reese's, they're still your favorites, right?" he smiled after seeing her smile at him.
He allowed her to eat quietly, not wanting to disturb her, but noticing how she tensed seconds before the door of the room opened, seeing Kara and Lena enter the laboratory, they both knew what that meant and as much as he wanted to refuse to it, he could not.
He noticed how his sister offered her arms willingly to be chained to the stretcher, a fact that broke his heart, since, sincerely, he did not want to do it. He stroked her hair one last time before separating from her, having to turn around at the moment when his sister's screams became audible, he could not see her with that suffering. However, to everyone's amazement, they had to increase the frequency enough in an attempt to make the Worldkiller appear, lasting their existence much less than other times, which made him smile, for the first time, Mya was fighting.
"We have to go to the DEO, but we'll be back soon, okay?" my brother let go of my hand before leaving with Kara from there.
I sighed before nodding slightly, not wanting him to leave, but unable to keep him there with me, so I just saw how they both left there, directing my gaze to Lena at the time we were alone.
"Are you okay?" Lena asked as she approached me. "You should try to sleep" she stroked my hair, but I just looked at her without daring to close my eyes. "Maybe not" she smiled slightly. "Are you sure you're okay?" she questioned again, without getting me to respond. "You used to talk more" she said sitting on the edge of the stretcher while I tried to understand how it was possible that she was so calm knowing that at any moment I could lose control.
"I see you've managed to lock the little alien up" Lillian's voice rumbled in the room making Lena turn in her search. "You seem surprised" she commented with mockery from the computer that controlled everything from that room. "Synthetic Kryptonite, why did you never tell me that you were capable of doing it?" She asked Lena, who distanced herself from me to approach her mother.
I closed my eyes containing the tears in them, because the memories of CADMUS assaulted me without being able to stop them, making me want to let go of everything that kept me there and flee, but I could not do it, at least I did not get it. I felt a hand on my cheek, which made me dare to open my eyes only to meet hers.
"Hello, little alien," she smiled slightly. "Have you thought about our conversation?" She asked, causing me to look away as I shook my head.
"Don't touch her, Mother" Lena shouted trying to get Lillian to remove her hand from my cheek. "Leave her alone, don't come near her" she asked, but again she did not get anything.
"Why should I do it?" She asked without looking away from me. "We are just talking, right?" she questioned forcing me to agree.
I closed my eyes wishing that when I opened them again, she was not there, I would be alone and the memories of CADMUS would be far enough away from me to turn into nightmares. However, it was not like that, her hand remained on my cheek, the same gesture as when I arrived on Earth, the one who showed me compassion and made me trust her, but not this time.
"I was falling and I was not able to stop it, the pod kept the same speed before my own fear, because I did not even know where I was, on what planet I was going to crash, if I was alone or another daxamite would have managed to flee before Krypton explode.
I sobbed, remembering the screams and chaos of my last moments there, the cry of that mother asking for help for her son. Honestly, it was unfair, no member of the Royal Family or, simply the nobles, deserved to live longer than those who had endured a reign full of injustice, a society that was not equal, but in which difference was too broad as to be able to solve it.
I closed my eyes waiting for the impact, wishing it was fast and it seemed to be, because after hitting the ground several times, it ended up slipping through it until it stopped, at which point I dared to open them again wanting to identify the place, but having to cover myself the face after dazzling me with a source of light coming from the sky, was it a yellow sun?
I wanted to open the ship, but I was not able, none of the controls reacted to open it, however, someone ripped the top of the ship getting me to look at him with amazement and gratitude to get me out of there.
He grabbed my arms to get me out of the interior of the ship, scared of such a fact, but unable to prevent it, only trying to let me fall to the ground to cover my ears wanting to block all external noise, it was beginning to be unbearable, too high for what I was used to.
"Don't fear, little alien" a woman appeared in my field of vision, without understanding any of the words she had just said to me. "Everything will be fine" she placed her hand on my face as if she wanted to reassure me, but still the tears slid down my cheeks, I had lost everything I knew. "It's not going to hurt," she said seconds before unconsciousness trapped me.
I woke up in a room, unlike any other I had seen, which made me get out of bed with curiosity, wanting to find out where I was. I frowned at the moment my bare feet made contact with the ground, noting that the clothes I was wearing now was completely different from the one I was wearing, a fact that made me observe myself with uncertainty.
"I see you've woken up" I turned to listen to the woman's voice, looking for her, watching as she moved towards me. "Where are you from?" she asked making me raise an eyebrow.
I saw her sigh, shaking her head as she sat on the bed and gestured for me to sit next to her, what I did, feeling watched by her for a few seconds.
"You don't understand me, right?" She said as if she expected an answer, but I could not give one.
"Where am I?" I dared to question, noticing the incomprehension that was reflected in her face.
"It's similar to kryptonese" a new voice echoed in my ears, getting me to look at the one who had spoken."You are on Earth" he responded to my amazement, I recognized this language and I could make me understand, were there Kryptonians here as well?
"Are you from Krypton?" I asked seeing him shake his head.
"My adopted daughter," he replied, making me nod slightly. "You're from Krypton?" He questioned, making me shake my head.
"Daxam, sister planet of Krypton" I explained. "I'm Mya Lar-Gand of Daxam" I introduced myself.
"Mya" herepeated my name as if he wanted to make sure he understood me well, to which I nodded slightly, watching him turn to look the woman who was sitting next to me. "Her name is Mya and she's from Daxam" she said at the same time that I listened carefully to the language, no doubt different from the one I had heard before.
The woman just smiled as she nodded, watching me again, but this time, after a few seconds, she placed her hand on my cheek.
"Welcome to CADMUS" was the last thing I heard her say before going back to unconsciousness."
"Get away from her, get away from my sister" I turned my head in search of my brother, who approached us decided to get it by force if necessary, but he did not need it, because Lillian distanced herself from me. "Are you okay?" He asked hugging me, which made me nod slightly, resting my head on his shoulder.
Mon-el did not say anything else, just kept me hugged for all the time I needed to calm down, unable to prevent the tears retained from leaving my eyes, when he kissed my hair and increased the strength of the hug.
The only thing I wanted at this time was to go home and not return, everything returned to normal and that my kidnapping by the Worldkillers had never happened, because, maybe, we could have saved all this.
When he distanced himself from me, he grabbed my face between his hands asking if I was okay and, although I tried to nod, I ended up shaking my head, who did I want to lie?
"What a nice relationship between siblings" Lillian commented. "You should have heard her scream when she discovered you were alive" she said making Mon-el hug me with a greater strength.
I buried my face in my brother's chest as I broke down in tears without wanting to remember that.
"I ran at the highest speed that my legs allowed me, feeling as if they had reached a point and they would end up bending over and falling to the ground, but I did not stop, I had to get out of here.
I slowed down my speed by focusing my attention on some cells similar to the one in which I had found myself locked up until then, were there more people like me in here? My own curiosity made me approach, perhaps wasting time, but offering the opportunity to escape to those who were there. However, I could only find a person lying on the floor, unconscious, at which point my heart began to beat strongly.
No. It could not be true. Was he well? What had they done to him? How long had he been here? I crouched on the other side of the cell observing him, feeling a small ray of hope, because, at least, in this way I would not be alone.
"Mon-el?" The daxamite flowed quickly down my throat despite weeks of using it. "Mon-el!" I shouted as I hit his arm trying to wake him up. "Please ... wake up," I begged. feeling as the tears began to slide down my cheeks. "You have to wake up, I need you to do it..." I continued crying while hitting his arm.
"Little alien!" The voice of that woman calling me got me to break away from my brother and I shrugged on myself, I did not want to go back to that cell. "Here you are" I heard her speak at the moment when she found herself in in front of me, without understanding what she had just said. "Come on," she grabbed my arm to pull me up, but I resisted screaming my brother's name.
He released me, causing me to fall back to the ground, at which point I dared to hit Mon-el's arm again, why did not he wake up?
The woman watched me with caution as if analyzing each of my movements, my reactions to the frustration that I did not get him to wake up.
"Who is him?" She pointed to him crouching in front of me, making me look at her for a few seconds trying to understand the question, seeing her sigh when she realized that I was not going to respond. "Like you?" she asked pointing to me getting me to nod slightly.
"Brother" I answered the only way I knew. "Mon-el" I pointed.
"I don't know what you're saying" she shook her head.
"I think she says it's her brother" I looked at the man who had just spoken, the only person who had really cared to understand me. "Brother?" he asked me to get me to nod slightly. "He's her brother" he assured.
They both watched me, but I focused on my brother again, I needed to know that he was fine, but I could not stop the tears from being present again.
"We have Supergirl" I heard another voice.
"Well, take them" the woman sat up gesticulating with her hands, which I soon understood, shaking my head at the moment that two agents grabbed my arms. "I don't want her around here" she said as they lifted me up and started walking.
"No!" I shouted trying to let go. "No! Mon-el!" I sobbed helplessly as I realized that I would not be able to get rid of their grip.
The moment they introduced me to the cell I dropped to the ground, hitting my back against one of the walls while I was falling apart in tears.
Mon-el was alive. That phrase was repeated continuously in my mind and I was sure it would be the only thing that would give me the strength to continue fighting."
Both my brother and Kara continued going back and forth from the DEO, investigating the mission in which both were mired, times in which I was left alone with Lena, who tried to avoid by all means that her mother was close to me, but in the moments that she had to leave to keep an eye on Reign, she had no choice but to leave me alone with her.
I turned my head towards her, watching her closely, wanting to find out what she was up to, for I was sure that if she was here it was for some reason.
I began to breathe with agitation as a consequence of not being able to introduce air into my lungs, which she seemed to understand, because soon she approached me.
"Can you breathe?" She questioned making me shake my head, I could not. "Okay, stay calm" she asked placing an oxygen mask on my face before listening to me. "Are you better?" She questioned what I nodded, because the mask seemed to have helped.
I saw her nod slightly as she finished making sure that everything was fine, a fact that only made me look at her closely, why did she bother to save me when she had always tried to kill me?
"How is the place to which you go each time the Worldkiller appears?" She questioned pulling me out of my thoughts.
"It's a Kryptonian valley, Juru," I replied in barely a whisper. "There live the most perverse creatures of all Kryptonian mythology, like demons, and it was the place where those who witchcraft were hiding," I explained, bending my head. "It's dark and you can only hear the whispers of those demons trapped there" tears were stored in my eyes.
"Then it's a real valley?" She questioned making me nod. "And you always go there?" She looked at me to what I nodded again. "How do you get back?" She asked.
"I don't know" I answered sincerely. "I usually remember all those who tie me here" I tried to give some logic to what I was saying. "Everything that makes me be myself" I pointed out.
"Have you ever thought about not continuing to fight?" She asked curiously.
I sighed turning my head without wanting to agree, for yes, at some other time I would have preferred to surrender, let myself be carried away by the darkness, but I had never found the courage to do it.
The tears ended up sliding down my cheeks at such a thought, but maybe it was something I had to consider at some point, because that way I would allow them to kill the Worldkiller without being afraid that it was still me.
"Shh, little alien, everything is fine, okay?" She raised my head keeping her hand on my chin before placing it on my left cheek. "You will be back to who you are, I have no doubt about it, but you have to fight, Do you know how to do it?" She questioned making me nod slightly. "Well, then do it, okay?" She dried my tears before separating from me and soon I understood, both my brother and Kara had just entered.
"Mya, sweetheart, would you come with us to find the stone that can save you?" asked my brother approaching to which I nodded quickly, I needed to get out of here desperately. "Then let's go" he smiled slightly getting me to smile back, being sure that this would be good for me.
Thanks for reading,
Ayrin