Chapter Two: Message In a Bottle Part Two: The Forbidden Zone.
Kara did not have much time to be surprised, in fact, she could still hear the thumping from outside the door.
"Are they trying to bust in?" Imra asked with a frown as turned to question the rather pathetic shell of a Poltergeist.
"Yes, they try, they know that there is magic in here and every few days, they try to find their way inside," The shell stated briskly and he looked as if he was uncaring whether or not the people on the other side succeeded. To him, life lacked meaning.
"But!….It's really him! Encased in the ice and it's…."
"We know! But he can't very well help us if he's a human Popsicle," Imra snapped at Tinya and in return she gave the blonde a cross look indicating that she knew that.
"Yeah! I know but…."
"Breaking him out here and now wouldn't be a good idea. The shock might be not so good for his body or mental state, depending on how long he has been in stasis," Kara commented without taking a breath. The twenty three year old blonde Kryptonian looked at the second figure in the ice, it was almost like looking into a funhouse mirror from the past.
"Look alive, both of you," Imra warned them, she thought that they were trapped here with nowhere else to go.
"If there's a crack, anything, they can get through, this chamber has to be sealed tighter than anything else," The shell commented, although he looked extremely uncaring about the fact and his solemn voice did not show any emotion whatsoever. "So I would suggest that you find a way out of here…."
"I think we might, but….you do realize that if he put them in here, they're going to be pretty pissed at him," Kara said, nervously biting down on her bottom lip.
"Yeah, that thought did cross my mind," Chloe told them in a faint but thankfully audible voice.
"Nice of you join us Indigo, we've got a problem…."
"You crashed into the Forbidden Zone, with no way out, yeah, that's the definition of a problem," Chloe replied without taking a breath. There was no time to take one.
"I could fly us out of here," Kara suggested, almost slapping herself for not thinking of the extremely obvious answer sooner.
"No, that might the best idea, the hyper gravity fields around the school prevent anyone from leaving by the air, otherwise the creatures would have used a broomstick to escape," The shell offered as he looked above them. "Providing of course they didn't eat it already to consume the magic in them like they did everything else."
Kara heard the thumping getting louder and much more frantic, there had to be a way out.
"Time is not on our side….that's it, time, of course, if there's….the Legion Rings!" Kara yelled to them.
"I beg your pardon?" Imra asked as she raised an eyebrow and Kara launched into an explanation.
"Well the Legion Rings blast us to any point in time, so why don't we go to a time where the Forbidden Zone wasn't here?"
Chloe was the one to field that question. "It sounds like a sound strategy, but given the nature of the magic in the area and how it's grown hostile, you could rip a hole through time and space and collapse everything around us."
Kara threw her head back and sighed, so far two of her brilliant and quite obvious ideas have been shot down. She was not having a good day but they would all be having an even worse day if those monsters got inside.
"Come out and play, we'd love to have you all for dinner!"
"Hey! I got first dibs…."
"No! I get first dibs…."
"Lovely, they're fighting over dinner," Imra stated dryly as she heard both their voices, as well as the harsh and malicious thoughts that were coming from them. It led her to having quite the headache, almost like someone was trying to split her skull open with a spike.
"If Harry Potter was here, well as here moving around and not frozen, I'm sure he could…."
"Maybe he did," Kara stated as she rummaged through the artifacts on the floor. "One of these items might be the key to defeating those things."
"Well, if…."
"Yeah I know! Another lame idea, but you know what's another lame idea?" Kara asked in a faux innocent voice before she snapped. "GETTING EATEN!"
Imra and Tinya blinked at her outrage and there was a seconds pause before they nodded. It was really hard to argue with a statement like that.
"Let's see…some really gaudy sword, no, no, no….Yes! We might have something that could get us out of here, let's see, if the inscription says….Ah yes! A Portus Transporter!" Kara offered in triumph as she read its inscription. "Able to transport anyone, anywhere, no matter what the circumstances."
"And you know this how…."
"It's written on the bottom in Ancient Kryptonian, do you know how to read or write it?" Kara offered as she threw her head back with a sigh.
Imra's response was short, sweet, and very much to the point. "No, I can't say that I do...but….we need to get out of here and apparently that's our only ticket."
"Providing it works," Kara stated as she heard the thumping get louder and she could have sworn that she saw a rotting hand reach in for them through the walls.
"It's got to work but….what about them?" Tinya asked as she looked towards Harry Potter and his companion.
Kara looked towards them and she made a split decision, she just hoped that she wouldn't regret it later. "Yeah….we better take them with us, to see if we can do anything to help them."
"Is that such a good idea?" Chloe asked in a nervous voice.
Kara paused for a moment blinking in confusion, before she responded. "What do you mean?"
Chloe was only all too happy to inform her of what she was thinking. "Well, what if the reason why he encased himself in ice was to protect himself after he got infected, or to keep himself from infecting others. Or it could be a trap?"
"If it's a trap, we'll deal with it, but we can't leave him down here alone. Besides, if it is the real deal, it's a chance to meet a living legend, and I'm sure you'd jump on him….jump on a chance at meeting him," Kara stated as she corrected the Freudian slip she made.
Chloe was going to ignore the implied implication.
"Plus, it would be a lot more pleasant dealing with only two of them, than a couple hundred," Imra stated, although that was more of a ballpark figure. She watched Kara look at the device in her hand and the question of what a Kryptonian device was doing here was something that could stand to be debated later. But, it was well known that Kryptonians had visited Earth many times before Kal-El even arrived.
"Destination?" the device questioned and Kara did a dance in triumph upon hearing those words, it worked.
"Transport for the five of us! Out of here, back to the Legion Headquarters, and do it NOW!"
No sooner did they transport off with the two iced heroes in tow, did the infected break through into the room and dive at the small bit of Basilisk skin like it was an all you eat buffet, fighting over the scraps. The shell of a poltergeist stood there, unblinking, uncaring.
"Well, we've opened up the can of worms to end all cans of worms," Chloe concluded with a sigh, she wondered how things could get this bad. Actually, she wondered if the situation could get much worse given what happened.
"They've gotten the taste of us or the scent of us, but surely…."
"Could they reach us? No, not likely," Chloe admitted as she shook her head with a sigh and she continued to cycle through everything. "The Forbidden Zone was just that, completely Forbidden and well…"
"Are you saying that we shouldn't have investigated that distress signal?" Kara asked her and Chloe shook her head in the negative.
"I'm not saying that at all! But we have opened up the Pandora's Box to end all Pandora's boxes," Chloe concluded as she tried to assess the damage, but there was no end to the frustration she was currently experiencing.
"Yes, we got that the first time you told us," Kara stated as she looked around the complex. All was calm, too quiet, and that caused a knot to twist in her stomach the more that she thought about it. "If you thought…."
"If I'd thought that there was a problem, I would have been a bit more worried than I was before sending you in, but the message you found indicates that the Forbidden Zone is failing," Chloe said as she peered over her shoulder to look at Kara, nervousness evident in her eyes and in her mind. The blonde turned her gaze back to focus on the computer screen in front of her as her heart skipped another half of a beat.
"This may constitute as a problem, if he's….."
"We've got to find a way to break him free from the ice first. The problem is, if it didn't melt after all these years, it's likely to be enchanted," Chloe stated as she brushed her hand against the ice. She would likely break any tool she used trying to crack it. "And magic experts in this time are few and far between. It could take years for us to even crack the ice by scientific means."
"Surely you can think of something, though?" Kara asked and Chloe offered the girl a smile.
"Believe me Kara, I'll think of something but there aren't that many options to break the ice, so to speak," Chloe said quickly, as she put on her thinking cap so to speak. The expression sounded cliché but never the less it was accurate.
Chloe was trying to figure this out but her mind was stuck in a loop, a never ending question repeating itself as she kept asking herself, 'What to do, what to do, what to do?'
Kara brushed her hair out of her face and looked at Harry, who appeared lifeless within the ice. She could tell that in another time, he was so full of life and now he was trapped in the ice, never to possible break free. The blonde's heart steadily beat faster. Her eyes could not quite meet the other person in the ice. She threw her head back with a frustrated sigh, in order to get her hair out from the front of her face.
Well this is….well this is just great,' Kara thought as she walked back. She was sent to the future and already she had more questions than there were answers.
"Are you having second thoughts?" Imra asked.
"I'm not having second thoughts, I'm just completely….well look at her!" Kara offered as she pointed at the girl in the ice, then crossed her arm together under her chest. "My father once cloned himself and my aunt….what if he cloned me and this is the result?"
"I'm sure there's a perfectly logical explanation, but it will have to wait until we break the ice, if we ever do. Quite honestly, I don't think that we'll ever figure that out any time soon," Imra stated as she crossed the room to join them. She could hear the faintest thoughts from the two but they were fleeting, flickering, they barely lasted more than a few seconds. The blonde's eyes fixated on the two of them, she could not tear her eyes away.
"You wish you knew what was happening as much as I do, don't you?"
Kara's question went unanswered for what appeared to be an eternity, but was really only seconds.
"You know, if I knew, I'd be more at ease," Imra stated as she kept watching the man in the ice. If she could pull one thought out of his mind as to how he got there, it would make everything going on around them much easier to deal with.
Chloe was still hard at work at her computer console. She was running several in depth scans, while at the same time doing her best to bring up any information that there might be on record on the use of magic or magical stasis. She was also scanning through several papers by Victor and Norah Fries since they were still the documented experts when it came to cryogenics even after all this time.
"Magic, most of the information regarding it was destroyed or lost," She muttered to herself, but it was loud enough for the other two to hear her. "This isn't going to be a picnic to say the very least."
Chloe kept pecking away at the database. It was rather dangerous to be a magic user for a period of time, given that there were many alien races that tended to go after magic users.
"Fuck! Nothing on enchanted ice….okay stasis fields, anything about that?" Chloe asked herself out loud, her very obvious annoyance visible for the world to see.
Kara once again was staring at the block of ice containing Harry Potter. She only briefly suspected how creepy this might have seemed, staring at someone, while he couldn't move. She couldn't look at the enchanted ice with her X-Ray vision for too long either, without getting a throbbing headache. The blonde slid back, panting after a brief moment of attempting to do so.
"No luck finding anything on that end?" Chloe asked.
"I thought there might be a flaw," Kara commented as she made her way over to place her hand gently on the ice block containing him.
"Even a Kryptonian would likely shatter their knuckles if they tried to break that ice," Chloe stated, she'd assessed that much from her initial studies.
"You could throw it inside the sun and….it wouldn't melt, I know," Kara said.
"That shouldn't be possible….."
"It's magic, facts, figures, and logic is largely irrelevant," Kara replied with a shrug as the blonde sat down and there was a second where something seemed to stir in the ice.
But, perhaps it was just her imagination, combined with the fact she hadn't slept in a while.
"Well, I've got good news, bad news, and strange news," Chloe concluded after a deep thought and that got the attention of Kara, Imra, and Tinya.
Tinya's eyes flashed for a few seconds and she crossed her arms. "Please get the bad news out of the way first."
That was a sentiment that was appreciated by all and all three of them nodded in agreement as well. Chloe offered a slight smile before she jumped in with an explanation. "Okay, very well, the bad news….well I still haven't figured out a way to get him or her out of the ice."
"Surely with all of the resources available, you must have been able to find something?" Kara protested and she racked her brain for a solution as well, but there was nothing.
"Unfortunately, scientific knowledge and magic, rarely intersect to work well together," Chloe stated to the trio of girls. "But you want to hear the good news, before hearing the strange news?"
All of them nodded, that was something that they all wanted to hear and Chloe was not about to leave them hanging in suspense.
"The good news is that I've been able to verify that nothing followed you here, as well as the fact that is the real Harry Potter and not some knock off clone or robot version of him," Chloe stated and that was news that was well received by herself and the rest of the girls.
"And what about…."
"She's Kryptonian, he's…..well I haven't been able to pinpoint exactly what he is, but then again I haven't been able to access Homo-Magi DNA….but I'm pretty sure that it's far different from this, then again, I'm just guessing really," Chloe babbled and Imra cast her a bit of a smile.
"And babbling, don't forget you're babbling as well," Imra offered Chloe and she shook her head.
"Yes, I'm babbling as well, can't forget I'm doing that, but you want to know the weird part about this?"
Kara paused, she was almost afraid to ask but then again, she figured that this was information that they really needed to know. The blonde kept her eyes locked on the other blonde.
"They've been in stasis for a very long time," Chloe told them and there were sounds of surprise but Kara jumped in, without any tact.
"How long?"
"About three thousand years," Chloe told them and there were some sounds of awe made by the group.
"Well, we have a good idea how far these two went back in time, and it was fortunate that no one came across them before then," Kara stated, but she was still trying to piece together how this other blonde Kryptonian, who resembled a teenage version of herself, came to be. She wondered if there was some weird alternate dimension sort of thing happening, or time travel and de-aging, or perhaps a clone thing, yes, it was possible for it to be a clone thing.
"We do know this ice held for an extremely long time and according to your solemn friend at Hogwarts, no one had been able to access that part of the chamber until Kara," Chloe stated. "There must be something special about you."
"Or it was sheer dumb luck," Kara corrected her and Chloe shrugged at that.
"Sometime's sheer dumb luck is better than having no luck," Chloe offered the other blonde, then she looked over at the ice and whistled. "You did say that they took a little trip through time to find the artifact."
"Which I'm sure they either didn't find or at least he hinted that they didn't find," Kara stated as she tried to piece together the few fragmented jigsaw puzzle pieces that she had in her head. She looked at the figure in the ice.
"That's turned up about as hot as it's going to go, it'd even burn your hand, and it isn't even causing the ice to melt," Chloe informed Kara as she eyed the chamber.
Kara thought about heat vision but there was a chance that she would rip the person inside in half. !She would need a counter spell and…..that would require her to go through all sorts of trials to have the ability to perform magic because Kryptonian magic was far different than Earth magic. It was not an ability that was gifted by birth but rather it was earned. Very few survived the trials because most could not separate their minds from science and logic to think outside the box. The Council made sure of that with their regulations.
Most of the family on her mother's side had passed the trials however, but Kara never did, due to the fact that her mother died before her trials could occur at the age of eight and Zor-El forbade her to learn such unnatural arts.
"Anything happening on Earth?" Imra asked, switching gears as she looked over her shoulder towards Chloe.
"Well, not precisely," Chloe stated. "At least nothing that would require the Legion's attention…oh this is useless."
Chloe shut off the chamber after saying those words, it had been at it for nearly eight hours and not even one drop of water.
"Most of the Earth, is a No Man's land to begin with, after the death of Kal," Imra informed Kara and she nodded. "There are alien refuges all over the planet and a lot of the humans have formed packs that war with each other, some willing to work with the aliens and others wanting to remove them from the face of the planet."
"And what is the Legion doing about this?" Kara inquired.
Imra offered her a mournful smile. "The best that we could actually but our best….we can't be everywhere. Earth is still a low priority planet, that said, it seems to be a Nexus point for every single alien conflict over the past six hundred or so years."
"At least," Chloe stated as she scanned the records. It was back to the drawing board. She wondered if a particle accelerator would be able to break the ice, although she would have to take extra care not to break the person inside the ice.
That would be the huge problem.
Kara once again looked at the ice, she was pretty sure that she was missing some trick, but there was nothing that she could think of that would even chip away at the problem.
Something was happening. The ice shifted, which caused Kara to fly up into the air and almost bump her head into the ceiling due to her surprise.
"Look!"
"Did one of the ten million things that failed actually work?" Chloe asked in astonishment.
"We'll know in a minute," Imra stated as she sensed an even stronger thought pattern. Something was happening, although what it was, they would know shortly.
Harry Potter was starting to come back to life after being put on ice for some time, and he had no idea how much time had passed.
All he knew was that he had been placed in stasis along with his wife, the reasons why, well they were slowly coming back to him. Slowly coming back to him as a jumbled jigsaw puzzle, but something had caused him to perform accidental magic which began to melt the ice.
Now, he was in this lab and he had no idea where he was. Harry Potter had woken up many times in the past with no idea as to where he was. Especially, during those years where the Department of Mysteries got it into their heads that destroying him might be a way to stop the plague that was infecting the wand wavers.
Of course, one could not simply destroy someone who had merged with the Deathly Hallows, although that process nearly destroyed him. However, there were many things that would have destroyed him that he ended up surviving in the past.
Harry's temper was on a hair trigger as he knew that he was not in Hogwarts.
"Okay!…um hi?"
His eyes fixed on the figures standing in the shadows. He had no idea where he was, he had no idea what was happening, all he knew was that someone had gone into the Forbidden Zone, because that was the only way that his body could be anywhere but the secret room beyond the Chamber of Secrets.
"I know you're confused but…."
"Do you have the slightest idea what you've done?" Harry asked as he nearly collapsed. Being in stasis for what might have been thousands of years had caused him to suffer from a state of dizziness and vertigo but once again, Harry adapted quite quickly to his surroundings.
"I know, I know," one of the voices commented, a blonde. "Your mind is confused…."
If there was one thing that Harry Potter hated more than anything else, it was someone delving into his mind without his consent. He had enough of that with the twinkling old fool and his greasy pet bat all of those years ago.
Imra thought that she might have upset him. Mostly, due to fact she was hurled back rather roughly by a telekinetic force which caused her to go crashing to the ground.
"I'll grab him," Kara stated and moved to do so, only to be shocked when he faded into nothingness, which confused her greatly.
"He disappeared," Tinya whispered, only to scream when she found herself suddenly hanging upside down by her ankles.
"No, he's invisible," Chloe stated as she bit down on her lip.
Kara cut Tinya down with heat vision and she looked around, trying to use her X-Ray vision to find him.
She couldn't even see him, she couldn't hear him, but she knew that he was here. Call her crazy, but she could sense him. She wondered if she acquired another Kryptonian power, in this case a sense that humans didn't even have. Never the less, unless she fine tuned it in the next few seconds, it wasn't going to really help her at all.
Suddenly, Kara found herself trapped in an energy bubble. She had no idea what happened, her super senses couldn't comprehend anything.
"He's pretty sharp for someone who has been asleep for three thousand years," Chloe said as she tried to see if she could scan for any signs of life. Suddenly, she felt shackles wrap around her feet and ankles. She struggled to get out, but even with her enhanced abilities the blonde couldn't break free.
"Look! I like bondage as much as the next girl, but don't you think this is a bit forward?" She asked as she struggled to free herself once again, with little luck.
Tinya and Imra helped free her as Kara managed to break her way through the bubble.
It was then that the lights went out, plunging everything surrounding them into darkness and causing them all to become rather frustrated by the course of events.
"Okay, either someone forgot to pay the power bill, again, or he's messing with it," Chloe stated as she went to put back up power on.
The ice broke the rest of the way and the young blonde slid out of the ice. She was looking around wildly, confusion swimming through her eyes. Her mind exploded into a heavy amount of panic.
"HARRY, HARRY!" The blonde shouted frantically, although it was in Kryptonian, so only Kara was able to make it out.
The older blonde edged carefully towards the younger blonde. Kara kept a careful watch on what seemed to be a younger counterpart of herself. "Okay! Listen!…We're here to…."
Kara received a super powered Kryptonian punch to the face for her trouble, which did hurt. She flew backwards from the force to land rather hard on the ground.
The younger Kryptonian looked around in frantic shock, they weren't supposed to be out, if they were out, that meant that the protections around the Forbidden Zone had failed. That's how the charm was intended to work.
"OKAY! That's it!" Kara yelled out in fury as she tried to tackle the younger blonde to the ground.
"LET ME GO!" She shouted as she struggled with what appeared to be her older counterpart. She wondered if she had been cloned, this girl looked so similar to her it was eerie, though perhaps a bit more mature. She scratched, clawed, and tried to push her way out of the grip that the older blonde had on her.
"Not until you calm down!…AH!"
Kara was grabbed firmly by the shoulders and lifted off by an invisible force. She could tell that he was still a bit disorientated after being submerged in the ice for that long.
"Don't you dare put my hands on my wife again," A harsh voice stated, but Kara freed herself with little effort.
"Please! Show yourself! We're not any of those Forbidden Zone people! We're here to help you! Please, let us help you!" Kara stated as she leaned forward with her hands intertwined in front of her in a pleading gesture and her white shirt rode up to show off her taunt midsection. Her mature and quite spectacular breasts, a product of a recent growth spurt, straining against the fabric of her outfit.
There was a pause after that and Harry reappeared. The female Legion members had been knocked around a bit, largely because he'd gone invisible and due to the fact they weren't willing to hurt him over what was basically a misunderstanding.
"You don't know what happened, do you? You don't know what you've been dragged into?" Harry asked as he was reined in his temper. He could destroy every single electrical device in this place if he lost it, and then there would be nothing to keep himself and his wife from leaving.
"We freed you….I think," Chloe stated but Harry shook his head.
"No. The charm work….it was only intended to free us if the protections around the Forbidden Zone were starting to fail," Harry told them and the true horror of what happened struck them.
That did not improve anyone's mood at all.
"So….how…..we got off on the wrong foot first of all but…."
"You should have never removed me. I could have tried and stabilized the fields in the inside," Harry offered bluntly.
Kara looked at Harry, shaking her head in annoyance at his attitude. "While playing tag with those hideous things? I might…."
"Fought worse actually," Harry commented as he looked at her with a slight smile, although it quickly grew into something more serious. "This is the 31st century?"
"The year 3081 to be precise," Imra confirmed to him.
"That means it held for over a thousand years, but my attempts to find the proper artifact to take it down, they were all for nothing," Harry offered.
He didn't take the drink that was offered to him. He did not have any reason to trust these people beyond casual conversation. Being entombed in ice for three thousand years had made him slightly more jaded than ever before, perhaps.
"Three thousand years, even Hogwarts was built over the top of me, and it's a wonder….who managed to read the inscription?"
Kara looked at Harry with a smile. "I did."
"That's interesting, because it should have been nearly impossible to translate, but I guess that there's something special about you," Harry offered her with a smile.
"Sheer dumb luck really and….you seem unconcerned that the Forbidden Zone breaking open…."
"Would you rather me run around like a chicken with its head cut off and thus not accomplish anything?" Harry asked, as the younger blonde in his lap shifted. She seemed a bit agitated by the presence of this other blonde for some reason, looking at her, Harry could understand why.
"Well, no, that wouldn't be good for any of us," Chloe admitted as she moved back. "Could you….I don't know, reapply the charms or something, do what you did before?"
"If it was that easy, I wouldn't be sitting here having this conversation with you, now would I?" Harry asked and she shook her head.
"Yes, well….there must be a way to destroy them…."
"Again, if it was that easy, I wouldn't be sitting here, having this conversation with you," Harry stated as he shook his head. "You're saying that there were hundreds of them?"
"Yes, and….while we didn't count them, it was most certainly more than a hundred but less than a thousand," Imra told him and Harry raised an eyebrow. "I know, it doesn't narrow it down at all, now does it?"
"No, it doesn't, but my fears are that there are more of them, which means they're converting the sentient magic that they consume into more creatures, I'm not even sure Riddle thought the plague would be this successful," Harry muttered to himself.
"Tom Marvolo Riddle…he was your greatest enemy," Chloe whispered, more to make conversation than anything else.
"In his own delusional dreams perhaps, but he was a bit of a nuisance really, given some of the other threats that faced the world after he was gone," Harry said. "In the end, he was just some scared little boy with issues, crying out because Daddy didn't love him enough."
"Ouch," Imra stated at that dismissal.
"There were books about you…."
"Yes, I've seen those books about me, highly inaccurate, well not so much for the first five years, but year six and seven, someone was taking huge creative liberties," Harry stated in disgust. "If I find out who sold my story to that squib and allowed them to mangle a good chunk of my life so badly, I will….well they're likely already dead, so the point is pretty bloody moot, isn't it?"
Harry could see beyond what was able to be seen by most people's eyes. And he could see that these girls were quite powerful. Which made him glad that they weren't actually trying to hurt him or his wife. After all, he'd been frozen for three thousand years, so there was no telling whether or not he'd lost a step.
"So what really happened to you? I'm sure most of the accounts are as skewed as these mythical books that were released," Chloe said to Harry.
Harry paused and decided to offer the most direct answer. "Well it's a long story, and one that we don't have time for."
"Yes, in case you've forgotten, those monsters are about to break out of the Forbidden Zone and terrorize people, so right now we need to deal with them first," Kara commented as she looked even more anxious.
"The charms haven't failed completely, but a skilled mind will be able to find ways around them now, especially if they've already been tampered with," Harry said thoughtfully. "You may have resources that could sneak us back into the Forbidden Zone and finish what I started all those years ago."
Imra and Tinya didn't look too thrilled about going back there but they understood that there was a job that needed to be done.
"They will not rest until Earth is a dried out husk, devoid of all life, you saw what the Forbidden Zone was like, that will be the fate of everyone on Earth if they get free," Harry explained to them. "And they might not stop at Earth."
"Do you think they can…."
"If it all possible, they will find a way, there is still a modicum of intelligence buried within the layers of insanity," Harry explained as he got to his feet. "Some do have a gravely inflated sense of their own intelligence, but that's beside the point."
"You know, I believe that introductions may be in order," Imra stated.
"Well, that would be a polite thing to do," Harry stated. "I'm Harry James Potter, you might have heard of me."
That got a round of smiles.
"Chloe Sullivan, but I'm mostly called Indigo these days."
"Imra Ardeen, Saturn Girl's my codename."
"Tinya Wazoo, I'm Phantom Girl."
Kara smiled. "Kara Zor-El, um….Supergirl I guess."
She wasn't too fond of that name now given that people would think that she was in her cousin's shadow. She would have to think of a new one.
The younger blonde narrowed her eyes at her for a moment before speaking. "Kara Potter….formally Zor-El, I don't have a codename."
Kara the younger and Kara the elder stared at each other for a long moment, but Harry figured that the two of them would have to set their differences aside for now because they had a job to do.
To Be Continued in Part Three.