And now we're back to SuperCorp. Hope you liked that story about Steve and Diana's wedding, but it was meant to serve as more of a filler while I came up with new ideas for the main stories. Which I did. Enjoy.
Before heading back to National City with the rest of her team, Kara decided to stay in DC for a few more days, since Diana had told her about another new member of her own team would be serving as her stand in as Washington DC's resident hero while she was on her honeymoon and Kara had to admit, she was interested, since Diana seemed to think that this hero should be put up for a vote for League membership at the end of the year. So she wanted to meet him herself and get a feel for them.
Especially since she had a feeling that this guy would become a more permanent protector of DC, since it sounded like in addition to being Queen of the reunited Amazons, Diana was also their protector, just like how Arthur was the king and protector of Atlantis, so her duties might start being split between the two worlds, not that Kara blamed her.
That was why she was walking through the Wonder Woman exhibit of the Smithsonian, which was currently under renovations to be expanded into a complete Justice League exhibit, and after making sure no one was looking, she walked up to the mannequin that was wearing a replica of Diana's WWI armor and shifted the replica shield to the left, causing security cameras to instantly loop footage of Kara just looking at the armor and turning the mannequin transparent, revealing a hidden stairway that headed down.
"Typical secret lair." Kara said to herself as she quickly walked down the stairs as the camouflage reactivated.
The second Kara entered the base, she felt several automated guns on her and while she knew they wouldn't hurt her, her outfit was expensive and she didn't want it riddled with bullet holes.
"JL override 01." Kara said, since she knew that this base, along with every other Justice League member's base, including her own, was synced up to the Justice League's system.
She felt the system scan her to confirm her override command.
"Scan confirms user, Supergirl, 01, override accepted." an automated voice said as the systems disarmed and Kara watched as Diana's base, which she knew was actually the former base of the precursor to the Justice League, the Allie's secret weapon during World War 2, the Justice Society of America. Which was actually founded in the image of Diana's original squad from World War One the Seven Soldiers of Victory, since while her team had been strictly off the books, Diana had told her that during World War One, she'd had another team of superpowered individuals devoted to helping the Allied Powers win the war. In fact, Kara saw a framed photo, probably the only photo of the team in existence, framed and hanging on the wall. It was a photo of Diana and some of Earth's first superheroes, though these were heroes that the world didn't even know existed.
The heroes with Diana in the photo were ones Kara knew were called the Crimson Avenger, Wing, Vigilante, Shining Knight, TNT and the Spider. Heroes that the world would likely never know about, but they were the world's first heroes.
And she saw that the photo wasn't the only thing Diana had kept from her old war days. It looked like she'd set up a whole shrine to her fallen comrades, since none of them had survived the war, which was part of why they'd been forgotten, since there were statues of her fallen teammates, all of them wearing what Kara was sure were their original outfits.
It was clear to Kara that when Diana had begun renovating this place, she'd wanted it to serve as more than just a base of operations, but also a place for her to remember and honor her past.
"Who are you and how did you get past the security system?" a new male voice asked and Kara turned to see a white guy with black hair that obviously had too much product in it and wearing a full suit consists of red and blue pants, a blue breastplate with a white star in the center of it with red accents around it and blue shoulder pads, a pair of blue gloves and arm guards and a red helmet with white and blue accents. Clearly whoever had designed it was a fan of Captain America, though that suit's theme did match Diana's.
"You must be Nathaniel Heywood, aka, Citizen Steel, Diana's new partner." Kara said.
"How did you know that?" Nate asked and since Diana had vouched for him, Kara decided to simply activate her own supersuit.
"You're Supergirl." Nate said and Kara nodded.
"And since this base is linked to the Justice League's system, which allows me an override as both a founding member and the leader of the Justice League." Kara said.
"Got it. So what brings you here, since Diana's on her honeymoon. I'm still jealous she hasn't taken me to Hephaestia yet." Nate said and Kara chuckled.
"It makes sense that she'd show her husband her home first." Kara said.
"I know, but still. Why are you here?" Nate asked.
"For you." Kara said.
"For me?" Nate asked.
"I wanted to get a feeling for the person who's gonna be covering for Diana as DC's resident hero while she's gone, especially since not only does she speak highly of you, but she's considering putting you up for a vote for league membership at the end of the year. But before I can consider that, I wanted to meet you myself. I read Diana's report on you. Nathaniel Heywood, son of Commander Hank Heywood of the military and grandson of Henry Heywood, aka, Commander Steel, a founding member of the world's second superhero team and precursor to the Justice League, the Justice Society of America. You were born with a form of hemophilia, leading to you becoming a historian to learn more about your grandfather's exploits in the JSA and researching the history of metahumans in the world, leading you to discover the existence of the 7 Soldiers of Victory and caused you to become a bit obsessed with Wonder Woman, especially after she became active again a few years ago. Then you somehow gained metahuman abilities, allowing you to turn your skin to a kind of steel form, which cured your hemophilia and gives you enhanced strength and durability, since while you're not as invulnerable as kryptonian, you're pretty close, along with accelerated healing and durability." Kara said, practically quoting Diana's report on Citizen Steel word for word.
"Wow, that is incredibly in depth." Nate said.
"I have a very good memory. But I have a few questions that aren't answered by your file. The first one being how did you get your powers?" Kara asked.
"From you." Nate said, shocking her.