Hello guys, here is the beginnings of Season 4. Enjoy.

Chapter Nineteen

Into the Zone

Lara Kent coughed as she rolled on her back. Groaning, she seated up looking around herself. All around her was bathed in bright and hot sunlight with a desolated like surrounding.

She stood up, glancing around herself not seeing anyone in sight. She was inside the Phantom Zone. She had studied a lot about the Zone, haring that the worst criminals of Krypton were send here for an eternity within this hell, as punishment for their crimes.

Lara then made to walk, her sneakers crunching on the rocky grounds, glancing around herself for a sight of life or…

WHAM.

She was hit from behind sending her sprawling on the ground, feeling her skin grazes upon the sharp rocks. Turning on her back to face her attacker, Lara froze.

A black shadow like shape with a decaying gray and bony hand attacked her again, pulling on her clothes, and scratching her skin with its nails. She was fighting back, but without her powers, she was pretty much too weak to fight against it.

"Get off me," she yelled, throwing the thing off.

It let out a screech and floated off. Lara used this moment to quickly get on her feet and started to run, which was hard in the sands rocks like terrain.

As she ran, the thing had attacked her again, this time pushing her sideway right into the steep hill. She rolled down it, hitting rocks and arriving at the bottom, bruised and bleeding.

Damn it, she thought.

She was about to stand up when a pair of arms took hold of her, pulling her into the larger rocks.

"Stay still," the person whispered, in a low Kryptonian.

Lara did so, noticing the dark shape that had been attacking her flying round before taking off in another direction disappearing from her sight.

Then her mysterious savior gets off her, and Lara had a good look at her.

Dressed in grayish rags of clothes, over her head and a mask hiding her face, but Lara can see the two gray eyes that were observing her.

"Leia-El," the masked woman whispered.

Lara suddenly felt cautious.

"You…You know my name?"

The mysterious woman chuckled.

"Of course I know your name. I was the one that named you."

The woman removed her mask from her face, and Lara's eyes widened in shock. The woman looked exactly like her…except she was older looking than her…but she couldn't be...

"I never expected to meet you like this, my daughter."

Metropolis Hospital

Neil was in the waiting room of the hospital. Ever since they had brought his Dad in, he had been in there and now they were operating. But that had been hours ago, and he was worried. He couldn't understand how his Father had landed in this situation and he couldn't think of anyone who could have done something like this to the man.

The place didn't look like it was broken in…but he didn't think that his Father would have thrown himself…

No, he thought, I know my dad. He wouldn't do something like this.

"Neil?"

He looked up, finding Chloe standing right in front of him. He was surprised to see her, and yet, to see her alone.

"Chloe," he said, "I expected Lara to be here, since I've left her a couple of messages."

"She is kind of busy," Chloe said, "But…how is your dad?"

"In surgery," Neil said, "He is still alive…despite what the news said."

Chloe nodded taking a seat beside him.

"Got any leads on what caused the attack?" she asked.

Neil shook his head.

"Nothing. Only my dad can tell us who the attacker is at this point, all we have to do now is wait."

"I guess you're right," Chloe told him.

The two stayed silent for a few moments.

"How is Lara busy anyway?" he asked.

"Her girlfriend is over her house," Chloe told him.

Neil blinked.

"Girlfriend? So Lara is…"

"Yeah."

"I did not know that."

Both Lara and Barbara were lying down upon the Barn's roof, watching the stars. They had been here for the past week and Lara was smirking continually.

"Barbara…do you love me?"

The girl looked at her, "Of course I do. Why are you asking?"

Lara glanced at her, her eyes looking at the girl sensually. She leaned toward the redhead girl, her fingers taking hold of her chin pulling her to her lips.

"I guess I'm one lucky girl," she whispered, causing Barbara to shudder slightly.

The redhead took hold of her lips with her own, deepening the kiss.

And you said they will see right through me, Lara through, a glint appearing in her eyes, Guess not even your girlfriend know you all that well.

She broke the kiss.

"C'mon, let me take you home. Don't want Bruce Wayne to get pissed at me," she said.

"Okay fine," Barbara said sighing.

Lara took hold of her and took off into the sky, heading toward Gotham.

Phantom Zone

Inside the Zone, Lara followed the woman into a tent that was hiding within the rocks. It was well, hidden probably of how dangerous the Zone was.

"In here we can talk freely," the woman said, looking back at Lara with her stormy gray eyes, observing the younger girl.

Lara glanced around.

The place didn't have much within it, mostly a lot of crudely made tools and they had a few rags similar the one the woman was wearing with something that look suspiciously like blood upon one of the mask.

"How did you get inside this place?" the woman asked her.

"It's a long story," Lara said, returning her attention back to her.

"I've got time."

"How do I know that I can trust you?" Lara asked her. Her last look-alike was the reason she was inside the Phantom Zone in the first place.

The woman let out a brief smile, and pulled something out from underneath her clothes. It was a necklace, and at the end of it hung a diamond shaped crystal with the black version of the House of El upon it.

"This is a bridal gift from Kal-El's parents," she said, "I received it on my wedding day, and inside of it is the picture of the treasure that I've left behind upon Krypton, my Leia-El."

She had opened the crystal and inside of it a little hologram grew out and the image of a sleeping baby draped in red clothes was shown.

"Not a day had passed by that I don't look at it, reminding me that there is a child out there that I will one day meet when I get out of here."

Lara could feel tears coming on. This…this was too good to be true. Ever since she had learn that Krypton had been destroyed, she had believed everyone who was blood related to her had died…but this woman in front of her was her mother.

Her birth mother.

"My little Leia-El," the woman said, taking the girl in her arms, "I've missed you so much."

Lara hugged her back. It would seem this trip into the Zone won't be a bad one after all.

And i have added a twist in this story.

Lara's real mother is in the Phantom Zone. What could have caused this, i wonder?

Sorry for the long wait, i was enjoying the holidays.

Jacques0 out.

R&R.