Supergirl Z: The Growth and Maturation of a Superhero
Superspeeder
She was one of the last of her kind, he the last of a world long dead can these two work together to save what's left while growing as a superhero?
Supergirl/Dragon Ball Z Crossover Kara D./Supergirl/Future Trunks/ Pan/Wynn
Romance/ Drama(and humor as well)
Supergirl Z: The Growth and Maturation of a Superhero
Disclaimer: " "hey there my name is Goten the second son of Goku here to tell you that superspeeder does not own Dragon Ball or Supergirl; they belong to their respective owners. If anyone doubts me, then you can expect a 'visit' by the awesome Gotenks! "
Me: Once again Sage you read my freaking mind! YES the Kais are going to get involved with Trunks but not just for the reasons of HIM traveling back in time. That's a part of my plot that will be SO INSANE YOUR MOUTH WILL LITERALLY DROP TO THE FLOOR(Lol). As to your second question yes Saiyans such as Bardock WILL get involved in this story, but not just for Trunks or Gohan's reaction! You'll see what I mean when I get to THAT part of my story so stay tuned. I'm glad you like my secondary pairing of Wynn/Pan (I was worried that I would flamed by the Supergirl community) as it will make for HILARIOUS comedic moments with a certain overprotective saiyan father (*cough* Gohan *cough*)
Last time on Dragon Girl Z, Kara regained her powers thanks to the healing tank and set out alongside Pan to save her friends! Meanwhile it was another confrontation with Jemm that lead to Director Henshaw revealing his secrets as an alien refugee from the planet Mars known as J'ohn J'onzz! However, Astra decided to confront Kara and end the battle she began so long ago, and ambushed Supergirl! Will she make good on her promise to tell Kara about the blood her mother and the saiyans have on their hands? And what fallout will there be when Trunks finds out about Kara being Supergirl? FIND OUT NOW ON SUPERGIRL Z!
Chapter 10 Hostile Takeover; Secrets revealed! pt1
Kara was unaware that her aunt was hunting for her but she knew that this fight with Astra was by no means over. Taking her silence as a 'yes' Astra said tauntingly "no Trunks to bail you out this time Kara! This time it's just you and me!" Kara was shocked and asked "how the hell did you find out who I was working with?" "My dear Kara, my loyal generals has been keeping me informed of his "actions" with you these last few weeks. Frankly, I'm disgusted that you would choose to work with a power craving monkey instead of your own flesh and blood. If your mother could only see what you've aligned yourself with, she would've shared in my disgust!" That set Kara off and she immediately broke the hold the others had on her and was about to attack Astra, but she was stopped by the kryptonite knife that the alien Martian Manhunter used to drive her off the first time. "Why doesn't Kryptonite hurt you" Kara asked her aunt as she knew its effects on her powers thanks to their last battle. Astra chucked "Kryptonite is that what you call it? It's just like any other dangerous substance" and kicked Kara in the crotch which made her stagger back in pain (A/N that's going to leave a mark). "Shield yourself in the right materials and it becomes harmless" Astra explained to Kara; "Afraid of a fair fight?" Kara asked back gasping for breath. Kara knew that if Trunks were here he would also demand a fair fight out of Astra (that is if he didn't kill her up first) so she figured that it was only fair that she would do the same. "I don't want to fight you Kara; I've been blaming you for things that happened a long time ago" Astra began trying to explain but was interrupted by Kara shrieking "don't touch me!"
Astra then smiled in a weird way and said "your mother always said you had the heart of a hero, I need for you to be a hero Kara it's time for us to be a family again.""You're not my family [1]; my sister, cousin, James, Winn and Trunks and his friends are the only people that I can call family!" Kara spat hatefully. Astra sighed; she knew from the general that Trunks may have feelings for her niece based on his defense in their first fight, but she didn't think that Kara actually liked the saiyan monkey back! She knew that Kara forming an alliance with the Saiyans would go against everything she and Allura knew of them back on Krypton, but she also knew that it wasn't the right time to tell Kara about the blood they had on their hands quite yet. Instead she decided to focus on Kara and said "I know you hate me"; "Good we understand each other[2]" the girl of steel responded and flew off to try and get rid of the kryptonite poisoning so that she could recover her strength.
By the time Astra's minions turned around, Kara had escaped back to DEO HQ; finding both her sister and the disguised Henshaw she said "Astra's back; she's up to something, and she has her kryptonite knife." The Martian disguised Henshaw said "you didn't get that back by any chance really liked that knife". Alex was confused and asked "wait a minute so the kryptonite knife wasn't affecting her? how can that be?" "Well, that's more 'awesome news' Kara started "she has created a suit that makes her invulnerable to it" she explained, to which Henshaw remarked that it changed the game. He then asked "why she attack you now after all this time?" "She's recruiting me for her crazy cause whatever it is [4]. Plus she knows that Trunks has been working with me for the last few weeks thanks to her spies. She said Earth 'needs both of us' but according to the AI of my mother, Astra's idea of 'helping people' on Krypton was blowing up government buildings" Kara explained.
"She wants you off the board; this is what we feared since Fort Rozz first crashed on Earth; a city wide attack" Henshaw stated to Kara. Deciding to act Kara said "I'll head out now" but Alex stopped her by saying "no wait a minute, you need a few hours of rest to recover". Supergirl chided her by saying "now's not the time to big sister me ok?" but to her surprise Henshaw agreed by saying "you're no good to anyone if you go out there weakened and she kills you. Go home sleep; knock her on her ass another day." Kara wasn't happy by Henshaw's over protectiveness and said "will you stop handling me? It's my job to stop her"; "NO it's not its Hank's" Alex said shocking Kara greatly given her sister's skepticism over Henshaw's connection to her adoptive father's death. "Tomorrow come in and we'll spar" she said "to make sure you're ready ok?"She said and seeing that an explanation was in order Henshaw left Supergirl and Alex alone. "You two seem pretty chummy" Kara said after he left; Alex sighed and said "we were wrong about Hank he didn't have anything to do with my dad's death". "How do you know" Kara asked; Alex didn't want to tell her what happened with Trunks especially when she promised Hank not to to reveal that he was a shape-shifting alien known as the last Son of Mars and said "just (sighs)…I do trust me" . The heroine relented and said "fine..urgh I hope it's a slow day at work tomorrow"[4] and walked out with Alex not knowing what was going to happen next.
Meanwhile, Trunks had locked himself in his GR due to Henshaw's revelation that he was another alien; Vegeta noticed his absence (due to their weekly spar schedule) and said to Bulma "have you noticed anything different about Trunks woman? He's been inside that GR for hours and didn't want to spar with me or Pan!" Bulma sighed and quibbled "says the man who could lock himself in HIS GR for hours without a break. But yes, ever since he came back from defeating Jemm, he's locked himself in there and hasn't come out. Bulla has been wasking about what happened and why he wouldn't play with her, and I had to lie to her by saying that Trunks was probably fatigued. hatever happened during that fight must've really shaken him up if he's not eating or fighting". Vegeta shook his head and said "normally I would yell at you for criticizing my training schedule but I do agree with you that whatever happened in that fight must've been something bad if he's not willing to say a word about it. I'll speak with him Bulma, if I were you I would worry about the woman that our son has fallen for not the result of some stupid battle."
Bulma glared and said "what the hell are you talking about Vegeta, Trunks really cares for Supergirl's and Kara's well being when she lost her powers a week ago. If he didn't care, he would've left Supergirl out in the cold, and then what would've happened with Alex? I'll tell you, she would've lost a sister and an ally, and I'm sure Trunks would not use Shenron to revive Alex or regenerate Supergirl's powers; it'll raise too many questions" Bulma said angrily. Vegeta's shoulders dropped and said "someday woman you will know the reason I don't my son to associate with her kind, we saiyans may have shed innocent blood in the name of a tyrant, but that girl's Mother also has blood on her hand. She could've stopped the destruction of her world; instead she used her daughter as a freaking pawn to stop a rebellion[5]; that is a low that even Frieza found disgusting" he stated authoritatively and walked away to talk to his son, leaving a shocked and disgusted Bulma behind. 'So Supergirl's 'mother'-whoever she is- used her daughter as a pawn? I wouldn't want to be her or Trunks when they find that out; still I wonder why Vegeta could talk about it like that? From his tone, it sounds like he had first-hand experience…I wish you will be tell the truth about Supergirl Vegeta, for the sake of my son's feelings for her tell the truth Vegeta' Bulma thought to herself.
Vegeta went to the GR and loudly knocked on the door "OPEN UP TRUNKS BEFORE I BLAST DOWN THE DAMN DOOR" he screamed. Trunks grumbled while opening the door and said in a grouchy tone "What do you want Father; surely you're not here to ask for a spar". Vegeta smirked and said "very funny that you take after me but no, I'm here because the woman, your sister, and Pan are worried about you; you've completely isolated yourself from them. Trunks rolled his eyes and said "Why do you care dad? It's not like you're hearing asking how I've been isolating myself so why start now?" Vegeta's face turned into scowl before yelling "LISTEN BOY I HAPPEN TO AGREE WITH YOUR MOTHER WHEN SHE TOLD ME THAT YOUR FIGHT AGAINST THAT ROUGE LAST WEEK AFFECTED YOUR PHYCHE SO SPILL IT!" to his son. Trunks sighed and said "If I do say anything promise me that no one will know not even Mom can you do that." Vegeta shrugged his shoulders "that depends what you're talking about". Trunks looked Vegeta in the eyes and asked point blank "When you were working under Frieza purging planets did you hear about Green Martians?" Vegeta thought about his answer for a VERY long time before saying "yes, I heard about the Martians, why do you want to know?" Trunks paused before saying "the reason that I want to know is that one is here by the name of J'ohn J'ohnzz and he is posing as Hank Henshaw!" "WHAT" Vegeta screamed "THAT'S impossible boy, the Green Martians were killed 2 years before Frieza destroyed Planet Vegeta!" he stated.
Trunks was taken aback and said "tell me about his race Father"; Vegeta frowned and said "the Martians we were aware of consisted of 2 groups; the Green Martians and the White Martians. The green Martians look a lot like Piccolo and even imitate some of his powers such as regenerating body parts and shape-shifting"[6]. "Well I mistook J'ohn's energy signal for Piccolo's and the scary thing is that he's even stronger than both of us" Trunks said remembering his encounter with the alien. "That's not a surprise that he did that boy, Martians were also well known for being extremely reclusive" the saiyan prince stated with a frown. "All the more similarities to Piccolo" Trunks joked "however you also told me about the 'White Martians' tell me about them" he urged his father.
Vegeta looked at his son solemnly and stated "the white martians and the green martians used to be a single entity until one of the so called "Universal Guardians" decided to split them into 2 in the same way Kami and Piccolo split from the nameless Namekian. The guardian gave the two new races an instinctive fear of fire to prevent either group from ever accessing their full potential. They also altered their powers so one race could never completely overcome the other and as a result they quickly degraded into a war like the Saiyan warriors against the Tuffles and like what happened to the Tuffles all known traces of both the white and green Martians were lost to history[6]." Vegeta said. Trunks listened in shock and said "well apparently one got away like Goku did so many years ago, and has been living on Earth as a refugee. I don't get how we didn't sense his energy if he was on Earth for all this time." Vegeta frowned and said "it's probably because he mastered hiding his energy source like Kakarott and using his shape-shifting powers to blend into the environment thus he avoiding detection from us, or any of the enemies we faced such as Cell". "It's a good thing Cell didn't know he even was on Earth; if he did that blasted android would've stolen J'ohn's energy and used that to further increase his own strength" Trunks noted then adding "I'm not saying a word about this to Kara or Supergirl she'll probably not believe me." Vegeta scoffed "if that would be her reaction to a Martian how will she react to you being a Saiyan?" he asked.
Trunks was about to respond when his father suddenly felt Bulma's Ki in a state of distress; "hold on brat, something's happening with your mom". "Let's find out what's wrong" Trunks agreed and exited the GR and went back to Bulma where they found her and Gohan running around in circles in an obvious state of panic. "What's going on mom?" Trunks asked; Pan (who was with her father) replied "Dad and Auntie Bulma are trying to get in contact with Cat; apparently her company has been hacked." "How?" Trunks asked "from what Mom's told me, Catco has the latest in virus and software programming". "Besides that I found out through my talk with Kara at Thanksgiving that it was Winn was the one who designed Catco's firewalls to begin with" Bulma added; "really that's impressive if I may say so myself" Pan commented. "Yea she told me he's a technical genius" Bulma mused; "so the hack couldn't have been the result of malwares or overrides so nothing is out of place" Trunks commmented(Supergirl episode 8 "Hostile Takeover"). "If you ask me it sounds like an inside job designed to usurp Cat from being CEO in order to investigate your woman" Vegeta deduced; as a warrior he knew an inside job when he saw one due to his experience regarding a certain low class Saiyan's father (in regards to the death of his teammates back on Planet Meat). "That's not all; the Daily Planet has published every dark secret when it comes to Cat's life thanks to her personal Email server that was hacked into. There's one batch over that Bulma and I have been going through that is a bit baffling" Gohan said continuing Vegeta's train of thought. "Well what is it Gohan? What did you find" Trunks asked; Bulma gulped and replied "I'm afraid that couldn't be traced, and if Vegeta's right about this being an 'inside job' then its all the more harder to trace. "Well woman what are you going to do?" Vegeta asked Bulma; she smiled "me and Gohan are planning on helping to help Cat Grant; after all nobody has ever lost a case where both me and Gohan take and I don't plan on starting now". Pan realized the flaw in Bulma's plan and stated "wait, if Catco was hacked into, that means that Kara's job as Supergirl's photographer is also in danger." Trunks realized that Pan had a point, but Bulma had anticipated that flaw and said "that's why you and Trunks are going to accompany me and your father to help Kara to save her job as Supergirl's photographer. Trunks immediately agreed saying "I'm game; let's do this mom!" Silently his saiyan half was also looking forward to the meeting saying 'yea, and if we see that Winn we'll make him sorry for making our woman cry'.
Kara decided to let Winn and James sort through Cat's email while she went to spar with Alex as Supergirl. Even though Kara overwhelmed her sister with her powers, Alex was not happy with her performance. "Why did you hesitate" she asked Kara after she had flipped her over; "we're just training and you're my sister" the kryptonian responded. "What if I wasn't" Alex asked Kara rhetorically and seeing her hesitation asked "what's going on with you"? "Nothing" Kara responded brushing Alex off "I don't want to talk about it" and had good reason because she remembered (through a flashback) the time where Astra had told her niece she had done some 'wrong things' but she only did so because she wanted to save the lives of her people due to the instability of Krypton's core. Astra also said that she would have to 'go away for a long time' but not before telling Kara that she couldn't have loved her more if the Rao Sun God Religion (that Kryptonians such as herself followed) had granted her a child. Even if she herself had to give up on all things that were dear to her (which included Alura), she promised to always be there for Kara in times of trouble.
This was why Kara didn't want to talk about Astra to Alex, because even though she was the enemy now, she still was one of the few who she had a connection to on Krypton. Alex hit the nail on the head when she said "Astra is your family and I think deep down -whether you want to admit it or not- you still care about her!" Kara vehemently denied her sister's claim but Alex retorted by saying "Kara this is war and in a war sometimes the enemy has to die. Now can you look me in the eye and tell me that you're prepared to kill?" Kara snorted and pointed out "Superman doesn't kill [8] and neither has Trunks for that matter in the time that I had known him". "If that's your answer then you shouldn't fight her[9]; besides you forget that Trunks' friend Pan did help you destroy Red Tornado and he told you that he is willing to kill if anyone including your aunt hurt you" Alex pointed out. "It won't come to that" the kryptonian replied trying to reassure her but Alex disagreed saying "she has shown that she is ready to kill you and if Trunks is willing to kill her then you have to be ready to do the same". At that point Kara walked away to think but Alex stopped her with another question "what do you remember about her; what are you holding on to" she asked. "Nothing" Kara replied shakily "it's gone[10]" and walked out to return to her 'human' life and the mess of Cat's emails.
Meanwhile the said Kryptonian warrior was being questioned by her general/husband Non for not killing Kara when she had the chance. He said that she "owed Alura nothing certainly not her daughter's life!" Astra protested by saying "Kara is not her mother; she can be made to see reason". Non sneered and said "I sometimes wonder if any women if your family can[11]; besides there's also the wrath of the saiyan boy if you harm the girl that I'm also worried about." "You forget Lieutenant; I am your general, Prince Vegeta killed his general Nappa for weakness. Don't make the same mistake he did" Astra chided in a warning tone to Non remembering how she was told the story of Nappa's disobedience to Vegeta (when he ordered him to step aside when he was outmatched by Goku) thanks to her investigation of all the battles Earth had gone through ever since Kara got out of Fort Raz. Non reassured Astra by saying "I have sworn my allegiance in every way possible; I obey your orders and your heart. If you cannot bring yourself to kill her, there is no shame and I do not judge. But let me end her and that monkey and be done with it" he implored Astra. "Do not question my resolve Non, I will see this through. I will die before I allow another world to end when I could save it" she stated in a sharp tone to the general. He replied "If you die she dies, and the monkey will be alone and vulnerable and I can then take care of him personally, and I always keep my promise-wife. [12]" Non stated as he knew that Astra wouldn't rest until both Kara and Trunks were dead and the Earth was safe from both of their races.
Trunks didn't know of Astra's plans because he wanted to get to the bottom of why Cat Grant's server was hacked into, and (more importantly) Kara's job safety. Using the CC Jet(they didn't want to use a hover car and stir up suspicion), Bulma flew Trunks, Gohan, and Pan out to National City; using his energy sensing Trunks was able to sense James energy at Noonans and told his mother to set the plane down. He found James talking with a black haired girl, Kara and Winn in the corner (as it was a common meeting place for Kara to discuss all things Supergirl related to her friends without watching herself). Bulma cleared her throat causing everyone to turn around, with the first question coming out of the black hair girl's mouth being "who the hell are you? Are you here to demean Cat's name like everyone else is doing today?" Pan's temper flared and she screamed "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO MY FAMILY! I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THE HACK THROUGH THE MEDIA!" The woman sweat dropped and asked James "do you know this girl James?" he responded "yes her name is Pan and she..substituted for Supergirl when she lost her powers and Winn's stopped blabbing about Pan being Trunks' student."
That got Gohan's attention in a hurry and he growled "oh really PAN; you know that any boys that want to date you have to have my approval" Pan however chided her father by saying "relax dad, I was only kidding around with Wynn, if anyone should be mad its Trunks not you". Winn had to hold a massive Roshi style nosebleed at the attractive features of the quarter-saiyan; 'fine legs, great body, strong will she's amazing' he thought to himself. Still he decided to apologize to Gohan by saying "I'm sorry I hit on Pan sir; it's just that I have the worst of luck when it comes to romancing people with superpowers" he explained looking at Kara with a sad look. Gohan accepted the apology and seeing that Winn was no longer a 'threat' to the pursuit of Supergirl or Kara, Trunks' saiyan half relented on his original threat. Despite the amiability of all parties involved the lady protested "how can you guys help Cat Grant? I'll have you know I'm the best lawyer in the city, names is Lane; Lucy Lane and don't you forget it".
Bulma sweat dropped and thought 'so this is the infamous Lucy Lane. Kara said was James' ex-finance and Trunks did say that they are together now. I can feel the contempt Lucy has towards both Kara and Supergirl. If I were you Trunks I watch my back; this lady radiates nothing but trouble for you'. Still Bulma kept her cool by saying "It's a pleasure to meet you Lucy and everyone else who are Kara's friends; my name is Bulma and I happen to be the head of Capsule Corporations as well as Cat's business partner." Lucy clammed up upon realizing who she spoke to; her father had warned her that Bulma wasn't a woman you wanted to cross. In light of that she apologized by saying "I'm sorry Bulma, I heard a lot about you from my dad and I guess I acted a bit rashly." Bulma accepted Lucy's apology but decided to keep an eye out for her in the future if his son and Kara(who Trunks had told her that Lucy was jealous of) decided to act on their growing feelings and the bond that had blossomed between 2 alien races. Kara decided to cut in by stating "we were discussing whether or not we could get a warrant to search for Armstrong's office before you came here". "Armstrong who's Armstrong and how's he related to the hack?" Trunks asked; Kara sighed "he's a member of the Catco board. When they met in the office I might have you know accidentally heard their conversation; Armstrong is setting up Cat up to take a fall. "
Pan was baffled and asked "the only person that I know of that can hear a private conversation is Piccolo, so how can you do it? You're not Namekian!" 'Pan's right unless J'ohn J'ohnzz also has that ability but then again Dad didn't say anything about Martians having super-human hearing'. Kara paled but managed to say "my ears are very strong, so I can pick up on private conversations whereas others can't", Pan and Trunks accepted Kara's explanation but Gohan and Bulma both quietly decided to ask Vegeta if other races were capable of hearing private conversations behind closed doors after Armstrong was dealt with. "Well since this Armstrong guy is a member of the board, then he must have a paper trail of evidence that prove he hacked her emails" Gohan stated wisely, Bulma agreed and said "I have just the thing. A little microchip that a person could put inside Armstrong's computer that will download all of Cat's personal history into a small file which we could use as evidence against him". Lucy offered her opinion on the idea by saying "if you do that, you'll be taking a big risk, if it turns out to be a useless lead".
Suddenly the TV blared to life with a special report: "An unknown woman is hovering over Catco Plaza with it seems the same powers as Supergirl. Does she mean us harm should we be concerned.." the reporter blared. Kara looked uncomfortable but was saved from exposing her dual identity by James saying that they would continue working on the hack. She left immediately and picked up the phone with Alex on the other end pleading for her not to fight; Kara refused saying that she had no choice, and leaving through a back-door transformed into Supergirl to fight her aunt. Trunks watched the report and told his mother and Pan "that's the bastard that fought Supergirl when I first met her; she's her aunt." Gohan's eyes were filled with worry over Supergirl's condition and asked "you think she can beat her this time Trunks?" "Not without my help she won't; I'll follow Supergirl to the plaza you three stay here and cover for me."
Once more Pan asked if she could go with the hybrid to the fight but Trunks refused saying "no, I think the best way that you could help is to accompany Winn when he goes to hack Armstrong; Kara told me that except for mom, he's the best person in regards to that department." Gohan was worried and said in a menacing tone "aren't you concerned AT ALL that Wynn may flirt with my daughter Trunks?" "Of course I worry Gohan she's my student after all; but there's more at stake than your daughter and Winn Gohan! Supergirl's life is in danger and from the vibe I picked up Astra would do anything to kill her." Bulma agreed saying "Trunks is right Gohan, Supergirl's safety and well being is top priority for Trunks; everything else (whether it is Cat's email scandal or your daughter's love life) is gravy." "Your right Bulma, sorry for yelling at you Trunks; now go! Go be a hero![13]". Trunks waved, after quietly exiting though a back-door transformed into a super-saiyan once more to go after Astra. 'I don't know why you're so obsessed with Supergirl Astra but mark my words; I will not hesitate to kill you if she dies because of your obsession! THIS ENDS RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW![14]' he thought and flew off to one of the most revealing battles that would set off a chain reaction of events neither he nor Supergirl thought off when the saiyan first saved her life those many weeks ago against Astra..TBC
