Karry Universe
Disclaimer: I think this disclaimer needs more than my usual this time. As some of you may have noticed so far, I have limited this story to characters that are in one of the four Arrowverse shows (Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, Flash, and Supergirl) or my own original characters. That is ending as of now in which I will be expanding to include DC character that have not yet been introduced into any of the shows. None of them belong to me though, as hey all belong to their respective owners.
Note 1 (IMPORTANT PLEASE READ): It's ironic that this note is going on this chapter, considering the disclaimer above and what will happen in this chapter, but I need to address a rather major issue… I DO NOT READ COMIC BOOKS. You see, my knowledge of DC characters comes strictly from the Arrowverse (of which I watch three of the four shows – you all should know by now which one I do not watch) along with minimal amount of DC shows not in the Arrowerse (mainly the earlier Smallville seasons, the 70s Wonder Woman show staring Linda Carter and a couple old DC cartoons I used to watch as a kid) and lately from research I have done on Wikipedia on DC characters I want to include. My knowledge of these character's comic book history is by no way perfect and neither should it be. Please remember this is a story based solely on the Arrowverse (mostly focused on Flash and Supergirl obviously, but also including the other two shows as well). The show gets freedom when representing their comic characters so please give me that same freedom, and if I get something you believe wrong about them, please do not feel the need to correct everything. DC characters I include will not be exactly like their comic book persona because some of them simply can't – their histories will be changed to fit into Karry Universe.
Note 2: There seemed to be some debate on whether two of the characters I included in the poll were DC's own – those two characters being The Shadow and Green Hornet. After doing some research on them you guys were sort of right: they both did not start as DC characters, they are not part of the 'superhero universe' (with the exception of that time The Shadow teamed up with Batman) and one of their rights are currently not owned by DC (I believe), but they were at one point in time owned by DC and DC did try to integrate them into the DC universe (again, Batman and The Shadow). In fact, the Green Hornet comic books rights are currently co-owned by DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment, and The Shadow had its longest running series while under DC Comics in the late-80s/early-90s, but considering both characters were at least once DC characters, and it was you reviewers/readers who suggested their involvement in the first place, I see no reason why they couldn't be included, and so are completely eligible for the poll.
Note 3: That being said THE POLL IS NOW CLOSED! A winner has been decided and will be added as a permanent member of Team Arrow in an upcoming chapter. As for the other characters in the polls I may or may not include them in one offs, but I cannot use every DC character ever created in this story so I have to make decision on who fits best.
And now without any further ado on with the story
Powerful Allies, Deadly Foes
Kara was in her office at STAR when she felt Barry come up to the door. "What are you doing here?" Kara asked with a smirk, looking up at her husband. Since the two had returned from their honeymoon things had been almost peaceful in Central and National. There were a few metas and everyday things the two had to take care of, but nothing too serious.
"Thought I'd try to surprise you. Take you out for lunch," Barry said.
"Well you actually did surprise me and it's hard for one of us to surprise the other these days," Kara said standing up and kissing Barry. I'd love to go to lunch with you, Kara thought through their bond.
Before Barry could respond however, the room started to shake. "Earthquake?" Barry said, as objects in the room fell over and off their respective shelves. The quake didn't last long, but the two were in the Superflash cave in seconds, where Caitlin and Cisco were already at the computers. "What's the damage? It wasn't that bad of a quake."
"True, but it caused a major accident on the highway. Barry get there," Cisco said. "Kara, the construction site over on Miller Road is unstable. They could use Supergirl." The two had already changed into their costumes.
"Do I have time to grab Krypto?" Kara asked, knowing Krypto could be of help taking people away from the site.
"Not even at your speed," Cisco said worriedly.
"I don't understand why you don't just bring Krypto here with you. You own the place," Caitlin thought.
"That's a good point. I could just have him hang out here. Thanks Caitlin," Kara said as she and Barry both left, going to the places Cisco had told them that they were needed.
"Wait, no, don't…" Cisco tried, but Kara was already gone. He turned to Caitlin clearly upset. "You just had to tell her to bring the mutt here." Caitlin smirked, turning back to the computer.
-Superflash-
Kara had arrived at the construction site and started grabbing the workers who were stuck on top. She had two in her arms when a beam collapsed and a worker, who had been on it, started falling. "No!" Kara cried, knowing that there was no way for her to get the two in her arms to safety and save that worker as well.
But that was when someone else flew in and caught the worker.
Kara was stunned as she landed and put the two workers down. The woman had put her rescued man down and, without another word went up to grab more. Kara stared for a second, lost in wonderment, before continuing with her job.
Once everyone was safe and Kara had used her heat vision to stabilize a couple of beams that had been damaged in the Earthquake, so the half finished building would not fall, she flew in the air facing the mysterious woman. It was the first time she had got a good look at her since they had both been going fast – and had both been flying.
She had long black hair and blue eyes. She was tall, a lot taller than Kara herself, and had tanned skin. She was wearing what appeared to be some type of armor, greatly resembling that of amazon warriors, even if it was very revealing and attached to her hip was a lasso, and on her back she carried a sword and a shield.
Even though she had just helped her, Kara didn't know who this person was so she chose to take a defensive position. The woman realized the maneuver, and smirked. "I mean you no harm daughter of Krypton," she spoke for the first time, her voice strong. "I am Princess Diana of Themyscira," she continued, but then looked to the ground at people now taking pictures before looking back towards Kara "but people around here tend to call me Wonder Woman."
-Superflash-
The accident was bad. A truck had overturned in the quake and Barry found himself rushing injured people to the nearby hospital. That was when one of the cars that had been damaged suddenly caught fire. Barry rushed to grab the people nearby, running as fast as he currently could when he heard the car explode. He almost expected to be hit by the debris, but that was when a green light surrounded the group of people – Barry too.
The green light disappeared once the explosion was over, leaving a burned car smoldering. Barry looked up to where the green light had come from and paused; floating overhead was an African-American man. He was wearing an outfit that was mostly black, but had green shoulder pads, it also had a symbol on the chest looked like a ring. He had his hand out stretch and, on one of his fingers, was an actual ring just like that on the symbol. His eyes were also glowing green.
"Flash," the man voiced, nodding at Barry as he landed in front of him.
"What…? Um… I mean, who are you?" Barry asked, never having seen this figure before.
"I am a Green Lantern."
-Superflash-
Kara had taken this Wonder Woman back to the Superflash cave after Cisco and Caitlin had practically demanded it – she had been quite accommodating in going with her anyway and now the pair seemed star struck of 'Wonder Woman'.
"I can't believe it's actually you. Everyone thought you were dead," Cisco breathed, smirking however and obviously completely geeking out.
"I'm sorry," Kara said a little tired of this, "but how do you two know her?"
"You don't?" Cisco asked, almost not believing Kara as she shook her head.
"Wonder Woman is actually the first superhero Earth ever had," Caitlin began to explain as the hero in question watched her silently. "First appearing during World War Two…" she paused in thought as her brain caught up with her words. "I mean, has it always been you? Because if so you look really good for a woman of over a hundred."
Diana smiled and laughed. "Yes that was I. My people live long lives and from my understanding of Kryptonians life span, particularly on Earth, Kara should look just as good when she is my age."
That caused both Cisco and Caitlin to glance at Kara, who leaned back in the chair she was sitting in and bit her lip. She had never mentioned how much longer her life span was than humans, choosing to ignore the fact and live in the moment – it was something Clark had decided not to think about, either. Ignoring the looks her friends were giving her, she asked Wonder Woman: "How do you know about Kryptonian life spans? Are you an alien too?"
"No, my people are from this planet," Diana said. "I was very close to Clark for a long while."
"You know Clark?" Kara stood up, shocked.
"Yes, I helped train him in fighting when he first appeared and we dated for a time," Diana said dismissively, shocking the three of them. "It was short lived. He was too obsessed with some reporter."
"Lois Lane," Kara, Caitlin, and Cisco all said together.
'That would be the one," Diana said. "How is he doing?"
"Good. Him and Lois are married with two kids," Kara said.
"I am very happy for him," Diana said truthfully, making the three look at her.
"Really? You're happy your ex is happy?" Cisco asked, not quite believing her sincerity.
"I hold no anger at him over our split." Diana said. "He is a good friend. He deserves his happiness."
"So… how have I never heard of you?" Kara asked looking around, moving the conversation onward.
"I've no idea," Cisco said. "She disappeared like 15 or 16 years ago. We all assumed she was dead after a while."
"Oh," Kara muttered, "that explains it. I only arrived on Earth like 13 years ago."
"I always forget about that," Cisco said, pointing at Kara as he spoke.
"After she was gone, and with Superman around, she pretty much just disappeared from media," Caitlin said. "So it makes sense that you've never heard of her." Caitlin paused as she looked to Diana. "But what are you doing back now?'
Before Diana could answer Kara suddenly turned around to look at the back door. She heard Barry thinking excitingly about something – no, someone – he had discovered. "Barry's here," Kara said as Barry came in.
"You will never – wait, whoa…!" Barry said as he saw Diana. "Is that who I think it is?"
"Oh, wow," Kara said, ignoring Barry as her eyes on the man who had walked in after him. Barry could feel her amazement and wonder – almost a hero worship. "You're a member of the Green Lantern Corp.!" Kara walked up to the man holding out her hand, which he took. "It's an honor to meet a Green Lantern."
"Wait, you know him?" Barry asked.
"No, but the Green Lantern Corp. is legendary, almost, and I met another Green Lantern at one point," Kara said hoping the group wouldn't ask, but Barry could feel her emotions. As Kara mentioned meeting about her past with a Green Lantern there was a strange fear connected to her thoughts, a fear he had never felt from her before.
Oh, that is not being let go, Barry thought to Kara, taking her arm and turning her to look at him. What happened?
Barry it's just….
"It is very annoying when you two leave all of us out of the conversation," Cisco interrupted agitatedly, knowing when the two were talking in their heads – it was obvious these days anyway. Caitlin agreed with a nod, but the Green Lantern and Diana looked to each other, confused.
Kara sighed. She guessed she was telling the story after all. "When I was child, around five, my mom sentenced a very bad man to Fort Rozz. He was a leader of an international gang – very nasty people – and his gang wanted him back, so to get him back they kidnapped me." Kara paused, letting that information sink in to the horrified looks of her friends and husband. "I remember making the recording, begging my mom to save me. The group wasn't nice, obviously. Remember that scar you asked me about?" Kara turned to Barry, who nodded, trying to hold in the anger he felt. "They gave it to me. Since I got it before coming to Earth it never healed under the yellow sun."
Kara took a breath as she sat down. "My mom tried, but there was no way to get the guy out of Fort Rozz in the time the gang gave her. I thought I was going to be sent to Rao – I didn't understand death at the time, not really, but I knew once you were sent to Rao, you didn't come back. Then a green light surrounded me, just as they were about to kill me." Kara paused as Barry saw in her memories a different man dressed similarly to the Green Lantern they had here. "A Green Lantern had come. He took care of the gang and then he picked me up and brought me home." Barry was overcome by another memory of Kara's at that moment…
"Thank you," the little Kara said, kissing the Green Lantern on the cheek once back home.
"It's what I do," the Green Lantern said, looking down at Kara. "You know, for some reason I have a feeling I can expect great things from you." The Green Lantern smiled. "Who knows, maybe one day you'll be wearing one of these." The Green Lantern pointed at his ring and Kara smiled as she hugged onto her father's leg. The Green Lantern smiled at the family, nodded, and left.
Barry sat next to Kara and brought her into a hug. "The Green Lanterns and the Green Lantern Corp. are the first superheroes I ever knew. I must feel about them the same way you guys do about Clark or Wonder Woman here."
"Speaking of which… Wonder Woman!?" Barry asked now, completely shocked. "I thought you were dead!"
"Join the club," Cisco said, looking between the two newcomers. "Okay, we clearly need a lot of explanations here and no offense Greenie, but I vote on Xena Warrior Princess going first." Caitlin and Barry seemed to be in agreement, wanting to know what happened to Wonder Woman.
"Go right ahead," the Green Lantern said, holding out his hand to the woman.
"Well after me and Clark split –"
"Wait, you dated Clark?" Barry asked, curious.
"We've been through that already," Cisco waved Barry away. Kara quickly shared the memory of the conversation before he'd showed up with Barry who nodded and quieted down.
"Well," Diana glanced to Barry before moving on, "after we broke up, I decided the world of men no longer needed me. They were very happy with their new superhero in Superman and I missed my home. When I choose to protect this world I spent too much time away, so I went home and stayed on my island with my people until recently." Diana paused, emotions clearly overcoming her as she looked at a screen. It was obvious that leaving her people again was a hard choice to make. "An old enemy of mine, who I thought long-dead came to my island: Cheetah," Wonder Woman looked around "she was once human, but through some type of ritual she gained a Cheetah-like appearance and related powers. She has always been a hard one to battle, but I had thought our last battle was it for her. I do not know how she found my island, but she did and she murdered some of my sisters. We were going to capture her but she managed to escape. I left my island to track her down and traced her here, where I learned of you."
Diana eyes were on Kara, who pointed to herself and mouthed 'me?'. Diana nodded. "From what I have heard, you are a great female warrior in the world of men. You are strong and fast and you know this city. I have come to request your help in tracking down Cheetah and avenging the death of my sisters."
"Okay," Kara said a little surprised, not even thinking it through as she stated: "I'll help find her."
There was a moment of silence before Caitlin turned to Green Lantern. "Okay now I think it's your turn," Caitlin said, a little lost for words.
"Are you an alien?" Cisco started.
"No," the Green Lantern said, "I am human. The name is John Stewart and before being chosen by the Green Lantern Corp., I was an architect."
"See the Green Lantern Corp. chooses people from different worlds who are worthy and gives them a ring of power," Kara said with a smile. "I bet you're the one in charge of protecting this part of space."
"Indeed. I have recently taken over this sector from my mentor Hal Jordan," John confirmed.
"How have we never heard of you?" Caitlin asked.
"On primitive worlds we tend to work in the shadows, so as not to cause distrust with the powers we have, but considering the number of superheroes running around this planet now I felt it was safe to reveal myself. Oh, and I could use some help from the Flash."
"What with?" Barry asked.
"Sinestro," John said. "A former member of the Green Lantern Corp. He was kicked out and banished to the antimatter universe since he used his powers to become dictator of his home world. Somehow he found his way back with a Yellow Power Ring; he attacked the Corp. but we managed to defend ourselves. He retreated and we traced him to this planet, not far from here, but we do not know where. I have been assigned to find him, stop him, and bring him back alive so he can be sentenced before the Green Lanterns once more, but…"
"You have no idea where he is," Cisco finished, knowing where this was going.
"Yes, like this one here I was hoping a local hero who knows the city well could help," John said.
"Sure," Barry agreed.
If it's alien you might want to check the DEO, Kara thought to Barry. See if they have any information.
"Good point, let's go," Barry said out loud, confusing John. "We're going to go to the DEO." Barry explained, realizing Kara hadn't that said out loud. He kissed Kara goodbye and then signaled for John to follow him as they left.
-Superflash-
Once at to the DEO, Hank seemed as excited about meeting a Green Lantern as Kara was; Astra too smiled and shook John's hand. They explained why they were there to the group. "Barry here believes you can help," John explained.
"Well, we do monitor and try to keep track of alien life as best as we can," Hank stated.
"You said he has a Yellow Power Ring now?" Astra asked, John nodded. "That yellow ball we detected coming to Earth?"
"That was barely anything," Alex waved off.
"No, I agree with Astra," Hank said, turning to another agent and asking them to pull up an image on their databanks. It was a shot from a satellite in space, and barely visible was something yellow heading towards Earth.
"That's him," John said knowing it instinctively. "Any idea where he landed?"
"This is the one thing we got," Alex said.
"Hold on," Barry said, going to a computer and started typing. "Multiple sighting of a weird yellow light…. definitely in National City and not Central." Barry pulled up a map on the screen. "From what I got I would say he's somewhere in this area." Barry pointed his finger, circling the area he believed Sinestro to be.
"Well you have been of great help," John said pleasantly. "Thank you, Flash."
"Ah, don't thank me until we've got him – you asked for my help and you have it until he is defeated," Barry informed John, seeing that John believed he could leave the Flash behind now he had assisted him in finding his enemy's location.
"Don't try to argue with him," Hank warned the Green Lantern at this. "I find it's pointless to argue with Kara or Barry; they are very thick-skulled and all about team work and coming together to take down foes."
"I guess that's something I can appreciate," John said finding himself liking this Flash despite his clearly undefeatable and flawed attitude. "Your speed could come in handy in finding him anyway."
-Superflash-
When Barry and John had left, Cisco and Caitlin started working on figuring out where Cheetah was, helping Diana. "Nice support group you have here," Diana commented. "When I was doing this, it was just me. Then again, there was less technology back then too."
"Well we try to work as a team as much as possible," Kara said politely.
"It's true," Kara heard a familiar voice and turned to see Karen standing by the back door. "Everyone at school was talking about this, Carter couldn't shut up about Wonder Woman's return… and being with Supergirl. This is so awesome!"
"Karen, how did you get in here?" Kara asked, half-bemused, half-annoyed. "The security should have kept you out."
"Oh, your code is easy to guess," Karen commented back airily.
"Even so, you need my code combined with my handprint," Kara said.
"I'm your clone. We have the same handprint," Karen said with a knowing groan, holding up her hand.
"We do?' Kara asked, not having thought of this.
"Apparently," Karen said with a smile, having been unsure that would work.
"She's your clone?" Diana asked in shock, finding this almost sisterly banter amusing and familiar.
"Long story," Kara said, rolling her eyes. "So you just came here to see Wonder Woman?"
"I want to help," Karen pointed out.
"Remember what I said about being a hero? Yeah, not for another ten years, missy." Kara said warningly.
"Oh come on!" Karen complained, not having been upset about that when Kara had originally said it, but as she grew she had started wanting to help people as much as Kara. "I'm nearly 13. I can handle it."
"No," Kara corrected, holding up her finger. "You were born 12, so technically, you're nearly one." Diana held back a laugh at seeing this; it was clearly a sister relationship Kara and Karen had going. "You should be with Carter or other friends enjoying this Friday afternoon, not here with superhero stuff. Be a kid while you can be."
"Oh, come on Kara. You have been training me; I can be like your sidekick or something?" Karen offered hopeful.
"I have a sidekick and a partner," Kara said, resisting smirk at this. "Besides I have been training you so you don't accidentally set something on fire with your heat vision or freeze something with freeze breath. I've been training you to control yourself so as to be a normal kid, not training you how to fight or use your powers in a battle. You see, control in a battle is different from control in life."
"I agree with Kara," Diana added, making Karen look at her. "You are young. You need training before you can go out on the field. You also need time to be a child and grow up to become a woman of clear view – good judgment comes with years of experience and not just superhero experience. Life experience. You are too young to help in the way you want, but not too young for real training for the future."
Karen looked to her feet sadly at this, knowing she was beaten and knowing the two were right – they had the upper hand after all. "Does Aunt Astra know where you are?" Kara asked putting a hand on Karen's shoulder in support, who shook her head. "Call your mother and tell her you are here and okay, and if she agrees then you can stay here in the lab and monitor our mission with Caitlin and Cisco."
"Seriously?" Karen asked, this being the best of the situation for her, and Kara nodded. Karen hugged Kara and then went to take out her cellphone.
"Sorry about her," Kara said to Diana who raised her hand and shook her head, not concerned with the interruption at all.
"I find your clone fascinating," Diana said, looking over her shoulder to where Karen was on the phone. "You should really be training her to fight for the future she will clearly have."
Kara had never given much thought into training Karen in more than just self-control. She herself had never had training on how to be a hero until the time she decided to actually be one – of course she was more resistance to the idea of ever being a hero than Karen was, leaving that to Clark. "Even if I wanted to help her, between being Supergirl, work, the labs, and personal life I don't have the time."
Before Diana could answer, Karen came in clearly happy. "Aunt Astra said I can stay here," Karen said, taking a seat by Caitlin who smiled at the clone.
"There have been multiple wild animal sighting," Cisco stated suddenly, reminding them of why Diana was here.
"From the description of the sighting and your own description of this Cheetah it's probably her," Caitlin added. "We'll give you direction as you fly." Caitlin handed Diana an earpiece.
"We have to stop at my apartment first though," Kara said, making Cisco sigh and Caitlin and Karen laugh; Diana seemed confused though. "We have to get my real sidekick. He could be of some use." Kara messed up Karen's hair as she left, telling her to be good as Diana followed her.
-Superflash-
Barry was running through the streets of National as John flew overhead; they had reduced the proximity of Sinestro's location, but didn't know exactly where he was overall. John was certain that once they got close, Sinestro would reveal himself – and he was right as a yellow light came at John, which he dodged.
"So they only send one man after me?' Sinestro scowled flying up. His outfit resembled John's, only black and yellow instead of black and green, and his features seemed more stretched, taller, with red-almost-purple skin. "I expected more."
John ring glowed as he looked at the former Green Lantern and joined him in the air, preparing for a battle with the Yellow Lantern. Barry watched as John seemed to be having problems in the fight; the Yellow Ring seeming to overpower the Green, and Barry didn't know if it had something to do with the colors or if Sinestro was just more powerful.
John was clever though, and seemed to be using real world objects in his fight, throwing at Sinestro, forcing him to dodge and lose concentration. Despite this, the two next seemed to get close to one another – battling on energy and objects rather than one another.
"Why can everyone fly lately?" Barry found himself asking, missing the days when only Clark and Kara could fly. It seemed everyone they met lately had the ability, particularly with these Lanterns and Wonder Woman.
He didn't let this phase him though as he thought, looking for a building in which to use. The tallest nearby building was CatCo and, deciding on how best to approach the situation, Barry quickly ran up it, barely taking noticed as he passed Cat Grant out on her balcony and to the roof. "Come on!" Barry said, keeping an eye on the battle. He needed Sinestro to get closer.
That happened when John used a blast from his ring to push Sinestro right towards Barry, who ran at top speed, taking a flying leap at the end of the building. For a second he was in the air, and then he wrapped his arms tightly around the Yellow Lantern, grabbing his hands around Sinestro torso and held onto his back, wrapping his legs around him so as not to fall.
"What the hell are you?" Sinestro cried.
"I'm the Flash and I protect this city!" Barry stated, reaching for the ring. Sinestro, seeing what he was trying to do, flew high so as to try to knock Barry off but Barry held on tight. He found his hand on the ring and started to attempt to remove it.
Sinestro tried using to ring itself to shake him, but despite the ring hurting him slightly now he still held on. Sinestro finally managed to shake him off and tossed Barry into the air, but Barry had his hand tightly on the ring. The ring came off with Barry holding onto it as he started to fall. Sinestro, now suddenly without his power ring, also started to fall.
Barry freaked, not knowing what to do, never having thought this far ahead, and started moving his lower legs in circles, similarly to how he produced cold air from his arms. He was surprised when the legs started to create a small tornado beneath him, which he momentarily started hovering on. It was almost as though he was flying, although he knew he wasn't really – he couldn't maintain it for that long; the tornado slowly bringing him down to the ground where he landed.
"You did not inform me that you could do that," John stated. He had been trying to help Barry while Barry was on Sinestro's back but found it hard to keep up with the wild flying Sinestro had been doing to repel the Flash. When he saw the two fall, John was going to catch Barry and let Sinestro fall to his death, despite his orders to bring him back alive, but when he saw Barry's tornado he was able to catch Sinestro at the last minute; the villain was now contained, hovering near John surrounded by the green light of John's ring.
"That makes two of us," Barry sighed, still in shock. He then looked at his hand where the ring was still. He smirked and held it up. "Look what I got." He said with a smile, tossing it in the air and catching it like a toy. John rolled his eyes at his ally's antics, nevertheless glad he had asked the Flash for help.
-Superflash-
"Did we really need the dog?" Diana asked, flying besides Kara. Krypto was next to Kara in his Superdog outfit and barked in complaint at that. "I mean how much help can he really be?' Krypto growled but stopped when Kara glanced at him.
"I find him rather helpful. Especially when we are trying to find someone," Kara said. Diana decided not to say any more, remembering that she had gone to Kara for help in the first place. "So what would this Cheetah be doing?"
Before Diana could speak there was the sound of a distant alarm. "Probably that," Diana said.
"Cisco, where is that coming from?" Kara asked.
"The museum," Cisco replied, knowing exactly what the pair were on about.
"Definitely Cheetah," Diana said as they were directed towards the museum and saw a yellow blur running passed. Diana sped, up seeing her pray and landed in front of her as Cheetah stopped. She was holding a knife in her hand and Diana recognized it as the one Cheetah had used in the ritual that originally gave her her powers. "So, that's why you came here."
"My god will make me even stronger," Cheetah muttered, holding up the knife and running at Diana, who dodged. Cheetah didn't see Kara come up and was shocked when she was punched, making her drop the knife. The punch didn't do as much damaged as Kara expected though, as Cheetah held out her claws and went to scratch Kara.
Kara went to dodge, but Cheetah, with her speed and agility, got Kara's arm. Kara groaned at the pain, the claws unable to penetrate her skin but still hurting – she ignored it though as Krypto barked and used his own heat vision. The beam hit into Cheetah, causing pain on the mutated woman. "Good boy," Kara said, using her own heat vision now.
Cheetah screamed and attempted to run, but Diana was on her, punching the woman. Cheetah attacked back, punching Diana just as hard – that was when the earth started to shake again. "After-shock," Kara stated, the shaking causing onlookers to lose balance. Cheetah paused, trying to remain standing in the sudden movement.
Krypto though remained in balance and ran at Cheetah, biting the distracted woman who fell at the pain. Kara sped in, ignoring the shaking which was subsiding, and punched Cheetah as hard as possible. Before Cheetah could get up, Diana had her sword out and to Cheetah's throat as the after-shock stopped. "As we both know, my sword can hurt you," Diana whispered to her enemy, anger her eyes. "You came to my home and killed my sisters. For that, they will be avenged."
"No," Kara said, going up to Diana and holding out her hands. "We do not kill unless we have to, and we do not have to here. We will lock her up."
"No jail will hold her for long," Diana warned.
"Ours can," Kara said. "Please. Trust me."
Diana glanced at Kara thoughtfully, and without a word took her shield off her back and hit Cheetah in the head with it. The power behind the swing and the material of the shield instantly knocked Cheetah out. Kara let out a breath as Diana turned to look at her and then looked down at Krypto.
"Thank you. You know," Diana said "I am a big enough woman to admit when I am wrong. The dog was helpful."
-Superflash-
When they had returned to STAR labs, they locked the still-unconscious Cheetah into the pipeline. Cisco was already talking about how to reinforce her cell just to make sure, too. Kara had to change into normal clothes to take care of some lab business and when she walked back into the SuperFlash cave when done, she saw Diana already teaching Karen how to position for better balance when about to strike a foe.
Karen noticed Kara first and backed away, quickly getting out of the stance. Kara smiled though. "Tell you what, I'll set some time aside on Sunday and if Diana wants to and Aunt Astra agrees we can do some fight training together then. All three of us."
"Seriously?' Karen asked, a big smile appearing on her face.
"Yes, but Aunt Astra has to agree," Kara said warningly. "And you have to go home. It's getting late."
"Okay," Karen said, hugging Kara quickly and saying goodbye to Diana before running out.
"I'm sorry if you just want to go home," Kara said, realizing she hadn't asked Diana about her availability before making that promise to Karen.
"It is all right," Diana said. "I have regrets about leaving the world of man the first time now."
"Regrets? What regrets?" Kara asked intrigued.
"That I wasn't there for you," Diana said; Kara raised an eyebrow. "You have clearly become a formidable female warrior, but if I had been here I could have helped make you even better than you are now. Never having a woman of your own caliber to help strengthen your abilities has set you back. Even now I can see things I can help you with."
"I don't know if I should be insulted or honored?" Kara questioned with a smile.
"I have taken an interest in your clone as well. She has great potential in her but she needs someone to train her. I thought about what you said about not having the time and I realized I could be there for her. Train her to be great, with your permission of course."
"Well I have no problem with it but there two conditions," Kara cautioned, and Diana waited. "Firstly, I want her to have as normal a human life as possible – she needs time for friends and family." Diana nodded. "And secondly, you need to make sure my Aunt Astra is okay with it – Karen may be my clone, but Astra is her mother."
"Of course," Diana smiled.
"So, I guess you're sticking around then, huh?" Kara asked. "Because if you need it, I know a couple of people who can help you get a human identity."
Kara looked over to where Barry and John were playing with what appeared to be a yellow ring – the two had returned not long after Kara and Diana had come back – a yellow light came from the ring and Barry, who had momentarily put it on his gloved hand, took it off. "I think I should just stick with my speed," Barry muttered, and Kara laughed; she and Diana going over to the pair.
"Ladies," John said, nodding his head and taking the ring from Barry.
"So I guess we all had a pretty good day? Got the bad guy and everything," Kara said. "You'll be heading back to the Corp. soon too; I guess?"
"I must bring Sinestro to them," John confirmed. They had placed Sinestro in the pipeline until John was ready to leave.
"Well I'm sure we or the DEO won't have a problem locking him up forever if you wanted," Kara joked, and John smiled.
"I will mention that," John nodded. "You know I have been thinking of the story you told before, and it came to my mind that there is one Kryptonian Green Lantern left in the Corp. He doesn't seem too old, but considering the life span of Kryptonians, not to mention the powers of the rings, it could be the same one who saved you all those years ago. I could ask next time I see him."
"If he is, tell him the girl he saved is doing good," Kara smiled, and John nodded once more.
"Hey, what is the life span of a Kryptonian?" Barry piped up, never having given that any thought until this day.
"Oh, look at that! I think Cisco is done on the bios on these two," Kara said quickly, not wanting to address the issue and going over to the computers where Cisco had two Justice League communicators connected to a computer.
You can't avoid this question forever, Barry thought both amused and agitated as he went to follow her, nearly tripping on a sleeping Krypto.
"What bios on us?" Diana asked, joining Kara as she glanced confusedly at John who shrugged.
"A while back, the heroes of Earth realized that we're stronger if we work together. So we created a sort of team…" Kara started.
"It's called the Justice League," Barry continued. "And if you want, we are willing to send a request to the other members of the Justice League, to add you two to it. If they all say yes, you're in. If one person says no your not unless we can get them to change their answer."
"And if you're in every member of the Justice League will have your backs if needed and we expect you to have ours so…" Kara glanced at Cisco, who nodded and pulled up the bio for every member of the Justice League on the screen. "This is the Justice League." Cisco indicated the faces of Barry, Kara, Clark, Oliver, Ronnie, Stein, Ray, J'onn, and the recently-added Thea, Laurel and Sara.
Diana and John looked over the bios of Earth's heroes; Diana was the first to speak after taking in the names, faces and skilled: "As I expressed to Kara. I will be staying in the world of man for a while and I would be honored to be among such heroes."
"I would too, but I'm not always on Earth," John reasoned.
"Oh, you could just push the unavailable button when away from here," Cisco shrugged, noncommittally.
"There's an unavailable button?" Kara and Barry asked together, turning to look at Cisco.
"Did I forget to mention that?" Cisco asked airily, not meeting their eyes.
"Caitlin," Kara sighed the usual instruction, and Caitlin lightly slapped Cisco in the forearm for Kara.
"You've really got to stop doing that," Cisco groaned. "Okay, who's sending the request?"
Kara went up to the computer and put her code in to send the request to the rest of the League. Barry's communicator binged and he took it out to answer 'yes'.
-Superflash-
Ronnie was in STAR, working on an experiment in a different lab when his communicator sounded. He looked around so as not to be disrupted, but no one was there, so he took it out. "So, that's what those two have been up today…" Ronnie mumbled. Looking over the bios for a second before accepting both and going back to his work
…
Martin Stein had been home, spending some well-earned time with his wife when his communicator sounded, "Don't tell me you have to go?" Clarissa moaned.
"No, it's a new member's request from Mrs. Allen," Stein said, Clarissa in on the secret for obvious reasons, and read the bios to his wife. After a moment of talking with her he decided to accept both of them
…
Ray was in a tuxedo, flowers in his hands when his communicator binged; He looked at it, barely taking in the bios before pushing in the affirmative. If Kara and Barry liked them, they had to be okay. Besides, he had an important date – he was already at the front door as he knocked and Lucy quickly answered. "For you," Ray bowed, keeping the flowers aloft as he held them out for her.
"Lilies, my favorite," Lucy grinned, taking them. "How did you know?" Lucy let Ray into the apartment as she went to go put them in water.
"I'm just that good!" Ray said with a smirk.
"You asked Lois didn't you?" Lucy returned, making the smirk disappear.
"Technically I asked Kara who asked Lois," Ray defended himself.
"You'd think I would be use to dating someone who has connections to my family," Lucy thought aloud.
"Well, our dinner reservation awaits," Ray said, holding out his arm and Lucy took it
…
Hank was at this desk when he got the request; truthfully, he had been expecting this for a while, having seen the pictures of Kara with Wonder Woman and having met the Green Lantern before. He had decided a long while ago to accept them nonetheless and clicked yes, before going back to work
…
Sara and Alex were making out like college kids on Alex's couch when Karen flew in. "Mom!" Karen yelled, not realizing she was disturbing the two as they quickly pulled apart and Astra left the bedroom. Karen started talking really fast about Diana and Kara's promise, begging Astra to let her go and be trained by Wonder Woman.
That was when Sara's communicator went off. "What now?" Alex asked a little bit annoyed. She was a bit upset at first she had not been given a communicator too but she had begun to understand why she was left out – she wasn't a vigilante or a superhero or a secret alien; she was helping them the best way she could through the DEO, and she was better off outside the Justice League than in it.
"Just a new member's request. Kara wants to add a Green Lantern and Wonder Woman," Sara said. "I thought Wonder Woman was dead…?"
"She is amazing," Karen said, turning to Sara now. "You have got to accept her into the League! She would be the best. You should have seen the way she and Kara worked together to take on this Cheetah bit– I mean, woman." She glanced to her mother now.
"The Green Lantern would also make a good member. They are amazing," Astra reasoned, choosing to ignore Karen's vocal slip and started mentioning what she knew of them already, all the while Karen continued going on about Diana.
"If I say yes will you two shut up and go out to a movie or something?" Sara asked, amused and annoyed.
"Yes," both Astra and Karen said at the same time; Sara raised an eyebrow but clicked yes to the two anyway.
"There go," Sara said, and Astra grabbed her purse and took her daughter out. "How long do they have to live with you?" Sara asked Alex, looking at her girlfriend.
"Until the government says Astra can live on her own," Alex answered, thinking this herself.
Sara groaned, laying back. "Maybe we should look into finding a bigger place," Sara muttered.
"We? We're living together?" Alex asked, and Sara shot up, seeing the playful smile on Alex's lips. Sara was herself unsure what to say until Alex kissed her. "Maybe we should." Sara smiled as they went back to making out like teenagers
…
Oliver, Thea, and Laurel were getting ready to go out to stop a drug shipment when they got the request. "Wonder Woman is alive?" Thea asked excitedly and clicked yes right away.
"You don't watch the news do you?" Laurel smirked, clicking yes for Wonder Woman as well; she having seen the pictures of Kara with Diana on the news herself.
"Who's this Green Lantern?" Oliver asked unsure, and as usual being untrusting. He also knew of Wonder Woman so had said yes to her, but was unsure as he looked at John's bio. "I mean he seems a bit odd…"
"Kara trusts him," Thea reasoned.
"Which means Barry trusts him," Laurel added, "So it's good enough for me." Laurel and Thea both clicked yes.
"Wait, this is our team. We need to trust these people. Shouldn't we at least talk about this?" Oliver reasoned.
"If you want to talk we can talk. Oh, maybe we should have Kara and Barry come over and tell us more since they are the one requesting it? Of course this would all take time so we'll have to put this mission on hold," Thea said with a smirk, knowing she had her brother.
"We could stop this shipment first and then go after Kara and Barry…" Oliver muttered, glancing between the two girls.
"You have really got to be more trusting," Laurel moaned, now fiddling with her weapons.
"We could talk about this all day and you still wouldn't trust this Green Lantern," Thea added, "Look, Olly, he's a good guy with superpowers – I think he'll be a valuable asset to our team."
"Fine. Okay, I give," Oliver sighed, clicking yes and scowling at the two women. "If Felicity were here, she'd be on my side. Can we go now?"
"I don't think she would be," Thea and Laurel chimed in together as they followed Oliver out of the Arrow Cave
…
Clark had just returned home and was still in his Superman outfit when he received the request. "Don't tell me you have to leave again?" Lois sighed, having just put dinner on the table and getting the kids to the table too.
"No, just a new member request from Kara," Clark said to his wife. "A Green Lantern. Oh, I read about them in the Fortress." Clark remembered the information he got about them before clicking yes. "And a…" Clark paused as a small smile came on his lips as he looked at the second bio. "Diana!"
"Diana?" Lois asked, not aware of Wonder Woman's alter-ego.
"Wonder Woman," Clark pointed out, a little cautiously.
"Oh yeah, her – I saw she had returned," Lois said airily. "There are pictures of her with Kara."
"I never thought Diana Prince would return," Clark said thoughtfully.
"You know…" Lois paused as she realized Clark's words "Prince? Diana Prince? As in your ex girlfriend Diana?"
"No," Clark said quickly, but backed down at Lois' look. "Okay yes. Diana Prince."
"Your ex girlfriend is Wonder Woman?" Lois blinked. "And you never thought to tell me this?"
"Well, I… and she… and…" Clark shuttered, unsure what to say.
"And now she is going to be added to the Justice League where you can secretly communicate with her?" Lois said, putting her guard up.
"Lois, we're soul mates remember?" Clark said, sending calming emotions to Lois through their own bond. "Me and Diana are in the past; she's just a friend and she would be an amazing addition to the League." Lois paused as she nodded, knowing Clark was right and Clark finally clicked yes to his ex.
"Okay," Lois stated softly, moving over to kiss her husband on the cheek.
-Superflash-
The group waited for everyone to response. "Yes from all to both. I really thought you would have to annoy Oliver until he changed his answer," Cisco finally said as the communicators lit up activating. He took them off the computer and handed them to their new owners.
"Well then Wonder Woman, Green Lantern," Kara said, looking at Barry. Both smiled as they both said: "Welcome to the Justice League."
Post Chapter Note 1: I hope you all liked more traditional members of the Justice League appearing and the chapter – expect them to appear more often!
Post Chapter Note 2: I'm aware Hal Jordan is the more popular version of the Green Lantern, so before anyone complains please hear me out on why I used John Stewart's version instead. As a kid I use to watch a Justice League cartoon that had this version in; he was the first version of Green Lantern I knew and John Stewart was always the Green Lantern I thought of when the character was mentioned so that's why it was this character – plus, and without sounding too naïve here, he's also a black character, and let's face it: we need more heroes of color in these things.
Poster Chapter Note 3: What does everyone think about Wonder Woman training the future Power Girl?
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An Explosive Situation- When two men are kidnapped, Barry and Kara find themselves attempting their rescue; but as they investigate further, they discover that the situation is deadlier than it seems
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