Karry Universe
Note 1: I've had some requests to do another footnote to explain a few things and, as I'm not keen on the idea, I have a sort of mini-footnotes set up at the end of this chapter to explain those points needing clearing. However, I continue to urge guests to sign up for an account as I can then address these issues personally with you, rather than in a complete chapter, but I don't mind entirely as it's a good refresh for me too anyway.
Note 2: If you guys like my writing I decided to self-publish an original piece of work onto Amazon. It's something I have been working on and editing or years and figured I would finally publish it. It's called Hell's Gate and is by Annastasia Jelic. It cost 3 dollars so if you are curious and have an extra three dollars go check it out.
Beta Note: Hey, Terrance Sigma here. As per usual, I know a lot of you don't read my Karry fiction but as a very small minority of you do, so this note is for those Power Girl readers. As you know, I was hoping to post up my final 2-part chapter last week and it's obvious that that didn't happen. I sound like a broken record with these excuses and hate myself for not being able to live up to my word, but personal and medical reasons are why my finale's yet to happen (I'm basically the family matriarch in my family so Christmas and New Years are insane, although now I have to provide caring needs too so that doesn't help). Anyway, I'm about a third of the way into my mammoth of a finale and though progress is slow, it is getting there. SuperEarth-2 will be different, for those interested, as I intend to write the whole story before even thinking of posting it, so that will be more Karry-esque in timing, but shorter chapters.
Disclaimer: Same as usual.
The Continuing Adventures of Superman and Supergirl
Kara was back at work properly now, sitting in her office at STAR and smiling down at Nora in her arms. Alura was in her carrier next to her, and Kara was making playful noises as the two flashed watery smiles. The babies had just started smiling last night and Kara and Barry had since been doing anything and everything they could to get those little grins from them. Additionally, along with the smiles, at a little over a month their Kryptonian powers were starting to manifest. Kara had been expecting them, timing it along to when Jason and Ella had started developing their powers, but the twins were developing their differently to Clark's children. They were even different from each other, despite being identical twins; it seemed the way their powers developed were unique to each baby.
Nora had started blowing out small and unbelievably adorable cold puffs of air, which were clearly the beginning of Nora eventually being able to use freeze breath. Alura on the other hand had her parents and the team unsure. Caitlin had been able to track the solar energy in each of their bodies, as with normal Kryptonians it was the sun giving them their powers, and noticed most of her energy was going to her eyes. But unlike Ella, Alura was not letting out small blast of heat vision, so the group was starting to think she had x-ray vision at least.
Kara looked up at the small TV she had in the room. Iris was on the news and Kara couldn't help but be proud of her sister-in-law. She was now the official media reporter / news anchor for CatCo TV and Kara always had it on these days. She still felt a great loyalty and warmth for anything Cat Grant related. "In other news, the funeral for CEO of Wayne Industries, Bruce Wayne is today," Iris was saying. "Bruce Wayne died last week, causes unknown, and is survived by his butler and loyal friend, Alfred Pennyforth. A little background, Bruce's mother was sadly murdered when Wayne Jnr was ten years old. His father died a little over five years ago, leaving the family company, Wayne Industries, in the hands of Bruce himself. The company hasn't survived well under Wayne Jnr's tutelage however, and the company has been going under for months. No one knows who's buying but rumors say Central City's own STAR Labs might be in the market. We'll keep you posted."
Iris doesn't know how right she is, Kara thought to Barry who had been updating Gideon. Kara and Barry had long since been trying to make a deal with Wayne Industry for an invention they had copyrighted, but Bruce Wayne was a difficult man to make a deal with. Even with a struggling company the man had refused to sell. In another life, he could have made an amazing Vigilante… maybe put Olly to shame, Kara had long suspected. Now with him gone and the company going bankrupt, the two were not only making deals for the project they had wanted, but for much more as well. I just got off the phone a few minutes ago. Everything is going smoothly. Kara added.
That's good, Barry thought back.
"You can't go in there!" Kara heard the voice of her assistant, Sally say as the door was opened and a tall woman with long brown hair walked in and a foreboding presence took in the new room. "I'm so sorry Ms. Allen. She just came pass me." Sally appeared behind the woman, looking flustered. Krypto, who had been sitting by the girls, sat up and looked at the intruder.
"It's fine Sally. Go back to work," Kara said, standing up and putting Nora in her carrier next to her sister. "Is there something I can help you with?" Kara looked at the stranger, keeping herself between the intruder and the girls.
"Oh, just checking out the competition," the woman said. "You're my biggest rival, after all. You took the NASA contract right out from under my nose, and after all the work I did… Never mind though, don't feel too guilty Mrs. Allen, I have something bigger coming up that will put NASA to shame."
"I'm sorry… rival?" Kara asked, giving the woman a look and deciding not to comment on the NASA thing. "Who are you exactly?"
"Oh yes, how rude of me. Lena Luthor," Lena said, holding out a hand which Kara nervously took.
"Lex Luthor's sister?" Kara asked.
"Unfortunately," Lena responded. "Can't seem to get away from his shadow. I've taken over the family company, tried to remake it for a force of good, but everyone compares Luthor Corp to Lex… I am changing the company though."
"I thought you were centered in Metropolis?" Kara said, trying to keep up and completely confused, not sure why this woman was in her office in the first place. "What brings you out here?"
"Well, we were in Metropolis, but I thought a fresh start would do some good and since I bought Lord Enterprises it only made sense to move to National City. We're neighbors now," Lena said, giving Kara a small wink
"You bought Lord Enterprises?" Kara asked, unable to hide her shock
"Well, Maxwell Lord disappeared over a year ago so it wasn't a hard buy," Lena said and Kara tried not to smirk. After what happened with Robo-James, when Clark had gone to teach Lord a lesson, he'd found Lord gone. No one had heard from him since. "Your kids are adorable." Lena added.
"Thank you," Kara said, leaning on her desk, still confused on why Lena was here and thinking she had to talk to security.
"And what a good-looking dog," Lena added, bending down and going to pet Krypto.
"Wait, don't…" Kara said, but stopped as Krypto sniffed Lena and then let her pet him. "Seriously? But you hate everyone!" Kara commented to Krypto who had to bark at that as Kara couldn't hide a small smile. It was a good thing that Krypto seemed to like Miss. Luthor.
Lena's cellphone binged and she looked at it, pulling a face. "Sorry, going to have to cut this short. Media emergency, you know how it is…. and I was so looking forward on going on The Venture. Going to have to back out now. It was nice meeting you. We have to do lunch sometime."
"Lunch?" Kara asked.
"Just because we own rival companies, doesn't mean we can't be friends," Lena said as she backed out of the office.
That just happened, right? Barry thought to Kara, having been spying in on it.
It did, Kara confirmed still looking at her closed office door. This might be fun.
Did she mention The Venture? Barry added. Forgot that was launching today.
-Superflash-
It was later that day when both Kara and Barry were in their penthouse with the babies when the news informed them of an explosion on The Venture. The two didn't even have to think at each other before Kara was in her outfit and gone.
Barry sat back and smiled at his girls. "Looks like we get some quality daddy-daughters times," Barry cooed at them, making goofy faces to get one of their smiles out of them. Krypto barked, but Barry told him to stay put. Not much a dog could do to help here.
Meanwhile, in Metropolis, Clark and Lois were with the kids, Clark was on the phone with Perry White yelling at him when they heard what was going on. "I'll get the article to you soon Mr. White," Clark said hanging up the phone fast.
"Good luck," Lois whispered as Clark quickly hugged his kids before running off. Jason made a face and kept hold of Musty's leash. He knew what his dad did was important but was starting to hate it. Ella smiled though. She still found her family being superheroes amazing. "Come on kids. We'll go to the park without dad. You know he'll be back later."
"Okay," Jason pouted, then smiled at his dog, forgetting about being unhappy on his father's limited time. He was used to it after all and when Clark was around, they had a good time… usually.
-Superflash-
The Venture was the first of its kind. A NASA-funded spaceship able to take high paying guests, mainly celebrities, on an all-inclusive trip into space. 'See the stars first hand' was the slogan, but none were paying attention – an explosion on board had caused mass panic and the spaceship was now plummeting back to earth. But it was temporary as the falling started to slow. Supergirl had just caught it from the front, pushing it up with all her strength, trying to balance the velocity of the fall with an uplift just to slow the thing down.
"Hey cuz," a second Super had arrived; Superman! "Need a hand?" he asked Supergirl.
"Since you're here…" Supergirl shouted to her cousin, who moved to the other side of the still-falling hunk of metal. "This is a job for the two of us!"
"It's lucky we make a good team," Superman stated as he assessed the situation, using his freeze breath on the destroyed, fireball of a rear exhaust. Once extinguished, he grabbed The Venture too, and together he and Supergirl maneuvered the ship back to Earth, the pair working together to get the ship safely on a field.
The two floated above the ship giving each other a grin and a high five. "Super team up is the best," Kara said as Clark afterward, but neither Super wasted anymore time before pulling off doors to get access to the people within, their mere presence giving calm to the panic within, but it was instant to both that this adventure wasn't without it's casualties. There was a hole in the back of the ship and several seats had been ripped out by the explosive decompression the initial explosion had caused. Many people were unconscious near that area and not everyone had had their seatbelt on quite so securely as there were many bruised and broken bones.
Superman and Supergirl sighed to one another. It was time to help the rescue teams as sirens could already be heard.
-Superflash-
It was an hour later when Clark and Kara reconvened in the Watchtower, taking position in the main lab as they tuned into the DEO – the ones taking the lead on the investigation. "What do you know?" Clark asked.
"A part on The Venture exploded," Winn responded instantly from his spot making Kara roll her eyes at him. That was kind of obvious. "Okay, I know that was obvious, but we now know the part that failed… It was oscillator, initial investigations look like it was tampered with, and – get this – the part was made by STAR labs." Clark turned to Kara and the eyes on the screen were on her too.
"It was?" Kara asked not having known that but feeling instantly responsible. Barry?
Um…. Well we do have that NASA contract. We've made a lot of things for them. The Venture was a joint operation between NASA and a private company. It's possible they used our part for it, Barry thought back and Kara repeated this aloud to everyone.
"We're going to need the design of that part," Hank said.
"Don't you worry, STAR is getting on this," Kara said, already knowing Barry was on the phone with Cisco and telling him to find who made the oscillator and get to The Venture to check it out and confirm.
"There was one person who was supposed to be on the Venture who wasn't, though" Astra said from the DEO, having pulled out the passenger list. "Lena Luthor."
"Wonder why she cancelled," Winn voiced.
"She had a media emergency, apparently" Kara said with a yawn. The girls had kept her up last night.
"Someone should talk to her," Astra added, making Kara look around. For once she was being ignored.
"A Luthor," Clark said darkly now. "Well I think it's time for mild mannered reporter Clark Kent to get that story."
"But I think it would…" Kara started.
"Kara, you want to come tag along or the kids got you exhausted? I remember back when Jason and Ella were little. I wish I could have thrown superhero duty on someone," Clark said, not unkindly, turning to his cousin.
"I think I'll come," Kara said with a smirk. "It might be easier to get in to see her with me anyway," Clark raised an eyebrow. "We are friends now; did I not tell you?"
"Wait, you're friends with Lena Luthor?" Clark asked concernedly, following Kara out.
"Well, we are competitors too," Kara said, smiling at Clark as they left Watchtower.
-Supergirl-
When they got to Lena's office in National City – the old Lord Enterprises building, Kara noted – they were immediately showed in when Lena heard Kara was there. "To what do I owe the pleasure?" Lena asked.
"You paid me a surprise visit today, I figured I would return the favor," Kara said with a smile. "See my competition this time." Lena laughed as Kara looked around and Clark cleared his throat. "Oh, and this is my cousin Clark Kent. He wants to ask you some questions."
"The Clark Kent?" Lena asked. "Daily Planet? The man who's written a few scathing exposés on my brother?"
"The very same," Clark responded coldly.
Lena smiled, surprising Clark. "I've read those articles. They were good. I thought you'd be older. Didn't know you and Kara were related though."
"Not many people do," Clark said politely, slightly taken aback that Lena liked his negative stuff on Lex. "But I wanted to asked you about The Venture, actually. I heard you were supposed to be on it?" Lena nodded her answer. "What kept you from it?"
"A last minute emergency regarding my announcement later today," Lena said.
"What is this announcement?" Kara asked. "Something STAR should be concerned about?"
Lena laughed. "Not entirely. My official plans to rename the company from Luthor Corp to L Corp., you know. To separate myself from my brother. Separate my company from him. Although," Lena smiled at Kara now, "I heard you're in negotiation with Wayne Industries?" Kara smiled but didn't say anything. "Seems we're after the same places too."
"Even after buying Lord Enterprises?" Kara asked.
"That's the strangest thing though – I somehow ended up with extra money. Enough to take advantage of Wayne Industries going out of business."
"Ladies, while this is interesting I have to ask; you have to admit that it seems strange you didn't show up for the trip on the Venture and then it explodes?"
"Are you claiming I did something?" Lena asked, giving Clark a cold look.
"You are a Luthor," Clark said.
"I'm not my brother Mr. Kent," Lena said staring at Clark. "And I had nothing to do with The Venture besides having a seat. I believe STAR made parts for it though so maybe you should ask your cousin."
"We're looking into that," Kara said quickly, taking Clark's hand to calm him. "And I think that will be all. Lena, we should do lunch sometime."
"Bring the kids and the husband," Lena said. "Oh, and the dog. He was really nice."
"What?!" Clark asked, turning around as they were walked out, shocked. "But Krypto hates everyone…" Lena laughed as Kara lead Clark out. "There's something going on there. You can't trust a Luthor." He now added to Kara.
"I don't know Clark…" Kara said covering up a yawn. "She's different from other people I deal with." At that moment, her cellphone rang. "Speaking of…" Kara took out her cellphone and walked away. Clark was tempted to spy on the conversation but decided not; watching as Kara had a very professional phone call which ended with a smile and a 'thanks'. It's done Barry. We have it.
"Good news?" Clark asked and Kara nodded. "Wayne Industries?"
"Yeah," Kara said as they walked out onto the street. "It looks like we're expanding. It's been about time really. STAR has grown bigger than even our labs and Palmer Tech can run."
"My baby cousin…. A mother, a successful business woman, and a great hero," Clark said putting an arm around Kara. "Sometimes I'm not sure how you do it all."
"Same way you do," Kara said. "It can't be easy being a reporter, father, and a hero."
"We get through it," Clark said smiling at his cousin. "Which by the way I have to ask what's with this Superman TV show and why did Hero Corp okay it?"
"It will make a lot of money," Kara said with a smirk. "And its mostly fiction anyway. There is even going to be a line in front of every episode that nothing on the TV show portrays your real life."
"Did you see who they are getting to play me?" Clark asked in a whisper. "Tom Welling. I mean come on." Kara had to chuckle. "Don't laugh I hear they are thinking of adding Supergirl to it."
Kara, Barry thought, breaking up the cousin moment before Kara could respond. The team we sent to investigate the explosion found out it was no accident. Someone definitely sabotaged it and connected it to seat 37. Looks like this was an assassination attempt.
"Clark call the DEO find out who was in seat 37," Kara said, and Clark nodded, taking the phone out and calling the DEO.
"Astra says it was… Oh, here's the twist: it was supposed to be Lena Luthor." The two paused and looked back at L Corp building. "What's going on Kara?"
"Someone tried to kill Lena," Kara said. "And they'll do it again." The two nodded at each other before heading off.
-Superflash-
Barry held up Alura who was smiling her biggest yet. Nora was nearby and Barry was grinning himself. "You know girls, I could go and help mommy but mommy is having so much fun with Uncle Clark. They don't get to spend enough time together anymore and I get to spend time with you two." Barry smiled at the girls as Krypto barked and Barry knew what he wanted. "Oh fine." Barry put Alura down and ran Krypto into his outfit. "Go meet with Kara."
Krypto barked happier before running onto the balcony and flying away. "That dog sure loves being a superhero," Barry told the girls. "And one day maybe you two will as well." There was a cry heard. "But for now, you need a diaper change."
-Superflash-
Hank walked over to Astra and Winn. "Supergirl and Superman are taking care of Lena. How's the mole search going?" Hank spoke lower as he talked. They had decided the Cadmus mole Winn had found out about the other day had to either come from the Justice League or the DEO, so he put the two people he knew were clear on it. Winn, obviously, and Astra.
"I think we cleared most of the DEO staff," Winn said. "The Justice League is harder. I find it unbelievable to think any of them would work with Project Cadmus, but considering the clone Jeremiah, any of them could have easily been taken and replaced with a clone. I would count out any with superpowers, especially Kara, Barry, Ronnie, and Stein. Those links can't be copied, so that leaves…."
"The vigilantes," Hank finished. "Oliver returned not long before the mole."
"According to what Laurel said, Rip Hunter lead him back," Winn said, Laurel having informed the group of her encounter with the time traveler and he had been the one to put the hit on Oliver. Although Winn had a feeling there was more to the story since Laurel seemed hesitant to explain more. "You think a time traveler would lead a clone to us?"
"Besides, something is bugging me," Astra added. "Cadmus didn't know when the Justice League would attack the lab. Every member of the league knew time and date."
"That's a good point. They have second hand information. Someone talking to the mole. We're not looking for a member of the league or DEO. We're looking at someone close to them. Someone they trust enough to tell things to," Hank said making the realization himself and Astra and Winn automatically agreeing. "Start looking into the rest of the superfamily. Someone is not who they say they are."
-Superflash-
Lena Luthor was outside of her building, heading toward her limousine. Her assistant was by her side and she had a tablet in her hand, going over the final details on her speech soon. That was when her car exploded.
She flew backwards by the force of the blast, her assistant joining her as she only just remained conscious, but the attention of the people on the street were now on her, and as if on cue, three familiar people landed in front of her: Superman., Supergirl and Superdog. Lena didn't wait as Superman grabbed her unconscious assistant and Superdog went to her aide, pulling her up and leading her back into her building.
"What's going on?" Lena asked Superman, who had put her assistant on a couch in the lobby and turned to her.
"Someone's trying to kill you, Ms. Luthor," Superman replied. "Supergirl is checking the lay of the land, to see what other traps may be lurking…"
"My car…" Lena started, putting a hand to her head as one of her staff approached her with a medical kid.
"Gone," Superman stated.
"I need to make my announcement. I have stuff set up and a speech prepared…" Lena began, but Supergirl entered the lobby now.
"Can't see anything else," Supergirl told her cousin. "Ms. Luthor, we need to get you somewhere secure – while there's a hit on you…"
"No!" Lena stood up, batting the staff member away who was attending an apparent wound on her head. She regretted this though as she felt suddenly dizzy, but ignored the feeling. "I am making my announcement today. I will not let any attempt on my life stop me."
"Ms. Luthor, it can wait," Supergirl commented, trying to remain calm herself.
"No, I'm not scared," Lena pointed out, and Kara knew Lena was not back down. It seemed they had until her announcement to stop this assassin.
"Okay. Superdog, you stay with her while she makes the announcement. I can fly you to where you need to go, deal?"
"Deal," Lena smirked, giving the dog another glance.
-Superflash
By the time of the announcement they had not found the assassin. Kara was in normal clothes, walking next to Lena. Krypto was still in his Superdog outfit next to Lena, ever the guard dog. "I'm glad you came," Lena said, smiling to Kara. She had since been cleaned up and stitched up, having a nasty gash on her head from the car explosion, but her team had covered this up with her hair successfully.
"I came to try to convince you to not do this," Kara said, causing Lena to look to her. "I have my sources. I know someone is trying to kill you. Is this really worth it?"
"Would you go up there?" Lena asked and Kara was about to say 'no' but stopped. She couldn't honestly say she wouldn't go up there, although part of that was due to her Kryptonian invulnerabilities. "I thought so. I'll be fine. There are government agents and police officers all over the place and I have Superdog here being a guard dog." Krypto barked, doing his best to pretend to ignore his mistress now. "I'm sure Supergirl and Superman are nearby. Maybe even the Flash."
Yeah, the Flash is kind of busy, Kara heard Barry think and tried not to smile as she knew Barry was juggling the twins. Plus, it was nice working with Clark again for a change. Kara decided she needed to do this more often.
"I've got to go," Lena said, and she walked up to the podium. Kara watched her for a moment before walking away and going to change into her Supergirl outfit. "People of National City," Kara heard the speech from afar. "It's time for a change…" Lena was cut off though by the sound of gunfire and Kara rushed back to the scene to see Krypto had jumped in front of Lena, protecting her from the gunfire as the L Corp owner jumped from the podium herself and Krypto lunched forward.
The assassin tried to run, but Krypto was on him in a moment, sinking his sharp teeth into the man's leg, who cried out. Despite the pain, he began to fire his gun at random people in the crowed and it distracted Krypto enough to protect them now. The assassin turned to limp after Lena, but Kara landed in front of him as Clark went to Lena's aide, as Superman. Before the assassin could take his chance to fire at Supergirl, however, a police woman had broken from the crowd of police calming the gathered crowds and took up aim. The man collapsed in front of Kara, dead a moment later as Kara stared, dumbfounded at the new woman.
"Nice work, your dog did good" the police officer said as Clark joined Kara. "Is everyone safe?"
"Yes, officer…?" Kara had never seen this police woman before. Although she wasn't in National that often these days – at least not in the city itself.
"'It's 'detective', actually. Detective Maggie Sawyer of the NCPD," Maggie said and Kara nodded at the Detective as she saw DEO agents taking over the scene.
-Superflash-
"It seems Lex Luthor didn't like what his little sister was doing," Hank informed the Supers half an hour later. "He hired out our lone assassin, one John Corbin to take her out from prison. He just admitted to it, too, now that Corben is dead. It looks like Lena is a different type of Luthor if her own brother tried to kill her..."
"Hate to say I told you so…" Kara said looking at Clark who rolled his eyes at his cousin smile. "Although why exactly did Lex want her dead?" She turned to J'onn at this question, who simply shrugged in return.
"Okay," Clark said. "She's an unusual Luthor, but still be careful."
"We both need to note that," Kara sighed as she noticed two new arrivals and grinned.
"Hey everyone… we're back." Alex and Sara had just returned from their honeymoon, it seemed, but they paused at the mood in the room. "We missed something, didn't we?" Alex looked about, seeing Clark there as well. "Come on. What did we miss?"
Kara and Clark laughed and Kara hugged her sister and sister-in-law. "Hope you had fun," Kara said. "But I got two babies to get home to and I think they would like to see their Uncle Clark before he goes home. Please pop round later so we can catch up."
"Of course," Alex grinned.
As the Super trio left, Superdog getting a quick pet from Alex, before he followed, the newly wedded due turned to Hank. "What's wrong?"
"The mole," Hank said, believing this was more important now than the several attempts at Lena's life. "The Justice League should keep information close to themselves. No talking to outsiders."
-Superflash-
The next day Kara was looking for both Ronnie and Ray. She finally gave up and asked Barry if he knew where they were. Ronnie's in his lab I think. Ray's probably with Lucy. Barry thought back. You know, CatCo.
I'll take the girls and go see Ray. Can you go talk to Ronnie?" Kara asked and Barry replied that he would. Kara already had the girl in their stroller.
It wasn't a long trip to National City or CatCo and Barry was right to find that Ray was with Lucy. "Raymond Palmer," Kara called, and Ray jumped. "I've been looking for you."
"I know I should be at work but…"
"We need to talk," Kara interrupted as Ray seemed to go into a panic. It was fun being the boss and seeing people panic sometimes but she also had a fine line between boss and friend to some of these people. "Cat, mind if I use your office for a moment?" Kara turned to her former boss.
"As long as I can hold one of the girls," Cat said and Kara smiled and nodded, leaving her daughters with Cat as she and Ray went into the Queen of Social Media's office.
"I'm sure you heard the rumors that we were negotiating with Wayne Industries," Kara said and Ray nodded. "Well, they were true. We bought a couple of their copy rights along with two locations. Including their main building in Gotham. L Corp is still in the running for other shares, but that's not the point…"
"Okay," Ray said unsure where this was going.
"We need someone to run the new Gotham branch of STAR," Kara said, "and we want you to do it."
"Um… what…? But Gotham is insane! The gangs and the criminals and…" Ray started, and paused, "I have a kid on the way and Lucy has her job here."
"I know," Kara said, looking through the glass at Lucy who was with Cat and the girls. "Please, take your time, talk to Lucy, and think of this, but if you ask me it's been a long time coming that Gotham needs a hero. Atom could be that hero and it would be good money for you. Also, you might want to know just what we're going to have our Gotham Branch focus on." Ray raised an eyebrow. "Robotics. Including robotic servants, robotic suits for NASA, and robotic prosthetics, including arms and legs. Eventually we may even get on to proper robotic fingers."
"But that's not…. Is it possible?" Ray asked.
"We've had the technology for a while to connect robotics to the brain, from Palmer Tech itself and technology from STAR. We just needed the right material to make it from. Something durable, but not heavy and Wayne Industries gave us that final piece with something they had been working on. If everything goes well, in a year everything will be ready."
"So, in a year then? Okay, I'll talk to Lucy," Ray said, a look in his eyes. He loved robotics and he wanted in on this, but his wife's opinion and the location of Gotham were important factors, not to be taken lightly.
"Take your time. Get back to me by the end of the month," Kara said, hearing the girls start crying. "And I have a baby to take care of."
-Superflash-
Barry had brought Ronnie into his office. "As you might have heard we have been negotiating with Wayne Industries," Barry started, and Ronnie nodded. "Well, we bought a lot from them, including a small lab they owned just outside of Central. In fact, it's not far from Blue Valley. We're going to be transferring a lot of projects from here to there including the shielding you're currently working on."
"Is this you telling me I am being transferred?" Ronnie asked.
"Actually, this is me promoting you,"' Barry smiled, shocking Ronnie. "We need someone to be manager of that labs and we want it to be you." Ronnie looked shocked. "It's close to Central so you don't have to move and you'll be making more money. I know you and Caitlin are thinking of adopting and having more money could only help there."
"Why me?" Ronnie asked.
"Our company is growing. Kara and I can't run everything like we could when it was just STAR labs on its own," Barry started. "We want people we trust in the top positions, making calls when we are not there. That's why Thea is manager of Palmer Tech. It's why Ray is being offered an external position as well. And why we are asking you to do this."
"I have to talk to Caitlin," Ronnie said and Barry nodded. "But this sounds… Good." Ronnie left the office smiling and Barry sat back.
I think Ronnie is going to do it, Barry thought to Kara.
I think Ray wants to, but it depends on Lucy, Kara thought back to Barry. STAR Company is really starting to get big.
STAR Company? Barry thought back, nearly jumping up as he remembered when he had met Rip and his wife and they'd called it 'STAR Co.' Since when are we called STAR Co.
Oh, STAR Co., does sound good. Anyway, unlike with Palmer Tech we don't own the rights to the name 'Wayne Industries' so we need to rename the buildings and I like STAR so we're calling it, well, STAR Co. now.
I take it that's the whole company name? Barry asked.
Yeah. It's made up of STAR Labs, Palmer Tech, STAR Gotham, and Little STAR for the small lab we bought. You like?
Love, Barry said with a laugh. What's next? Are we going to get another lab, or should we diversify and open a restaurant or shop? STAR Foods? Barry could feel Kara laughing.
Who knows what the future holds, Kara thought back.
Post Chapter Note 1: Well, I hope you enjoyed this sort of rewrite of the season premiere. I hope I did it justice, changed a few things around, and having Kara and Clark working together was fun. It's been a while since I had them together like this
Post Chapter Note 2: Yes, I used Maggie Sawyer in this chapter. And no, this chapter does not mean I am doing too many Supergirl Season two rewrites. The Cadmus I have here is not completely the same as in the show, and as for Maggie and Alex, I may have them meet but Alex is just married and I like her with Sara so no Maggie/Alex dynamic.
Mini-Footnotes:-
As mentioned before the chapter, I had a few people question some of things in this story, asking for more footnotes as I'm not keen on doing any more, I think addressing issues after a chapter would be better than a whole new footnotes chapter (plus it's not completely 'legal' on fanfiction to do non-story chapters.)
Couples (marital and parental status):
Kara/Barry (Karry) – married with kids
Clark/Lois (Clois) – married with kids
Ray/Lucy (Lanmer) – married with kid on the way
Cisco/Lucy (Lisco) – dating, practically engaged
Caitlin/Ronnie (Ronlin) – married and thinking of adoption
Iris/Eddie (Edis) – married, no kids
Sara/Alex (Salex) – married, no kids
Jesse/Jax (Jessax) – sort-of dating
Karen/Cater (PowerGrant) – just friends, but are endgame
Oliver/Laurel (Black Arrow) – friends for the moment
Winn/Hartley (Winntley, Hartinn? I don't know.)- dating
Singles:
Joe West, Henry Allen, Cat Grant, Eliza Danvers, Diana Prince (Wonder Woman), John Stewart (Green Lantern), Thea Queen (Speedy), Paula Bertinelli (Artemis), Roy Harper (Arsenal), Dick Grayson (Nightwing), Astra, Donna, Megan/M'Gann, J'onn J'onnzz/Hank
The Known Millma Verse – there are tones more Earths in this, but the known ones so far are…
Earth 1/Prime Earth: Super Double, Power Girl and The Flash, eventually Power Girl and the Flash Season 2 and more, by my beta Terrance Sigma.
Earth 2/Wells Earth: The Earth 2 of Power Girl and The Flash, by my beta.
Earth 3/Alien Earth: Supergirl TV show Earth (with added features from my beta stories – this is a different universe entirely, so NOT Earth 38!).
Earth 4/SuperEarth: SuperEarth and soon to be SuperEarth-2, by Terrance Sigma.
Earth 5/Karry Universe/Earth: This story, Karry Universe.
Earth 6/Mutant Earth: My story, A New Karry and its soon-to-be sequel.
Earth 7/Kryptonite Earth: My Kryptonite series (Trapped, The Two Karas, X-Power)
...Earth 8 and onward to come.
(To note this list is also on my profile so if you ever forget you can check there)
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Next Time on Karry Universe:
The Birth of a Speedster: It's been a while since Jesse was put into a speed-force coma – not as long as Barry's, but long enough. Now she's about to wake, to see the world as a true speedster and maybe help Team Super-Flash for the better. This is the birth of a speedster.
Karry Master OUT!