Bella MacLeod's Twilight Fanfiction

Call Me Kara

By BetterInTexas

Chapter 07:

Earth 3

Alex Danvers sat in the break room of the new facility, drinking from a water bottle that was filled with Vodka and hoping her mother didn’t notice. She really wasn’t in the mood for judgmental looks or heart to heart talks today. The former elite agent thought she could be of use here, use her keen scientific mind to find a way to get to Kara, and a small part of her was a bit angry that Kara would not come back on her own. She had no doubt that her sister was alive. She could feel it, there was no other possibility. Not one she would consider anyway. She understood Kara would feel betrayed, perhaps even put Eliza and Alex in danger if she returned but she felt a bit bitter over it. Kara had never ran from a fight and she should know that Alex could take care of both of them. She didn’t expect Kara to return dressed in her colorful Supergirl glory, but surely she knew enough about subterfuge to maintain a decent disguise, try to find out what happened after she was nearly killed.

She could at least send Allen to bring her to Kara. Although before the Fort Rozz incident, Kara had made Alex promise to live her life, Alex had lied. What Kara did not understand, and perhaps Alex never made it clear enough, was how much she needed her sister. She had resented Kara when she first arrived but that changed and she couldn’t imagine life without her sunny sister. Alex was dark and Kara was the light that balanced her out.

“You going to keep drinking bourbon or start helping find a way to Kara?” Hank asked. Alex should have known that she could hide Vodka from her mother but doing so from a mind reading martian would be a bit harder.

“Helping with what? I am an expert on alien physiology. They are standing around talking about mathematics I couldn’t even begin to understand. I have nothing to do but wait.”

“You can train. We have no idea what we will face when we get to that Earth, wherever the hell it is. You can listen as an outsider and try to offer fresh ideas that someone in the field might not think of since they are all used to working in their own little boxes of thought. There are a lot of things you could be doing.” Hank pointed out. Alex sighed and put the cap back on the bottle. Hank reached out and she handed him the liquor which he promptly reopened and poured down the sink.

Her mother had bought an airplane hanger at a small airport no longer being used, isolated but still close to the city, with a few offices and a lot of space. Not much was needed right now since nothing was being built. Until they knew how to get to another Earth, it was impossible to know what to build. A mechanical engineer had not even been recruited yet.

Kal El had been here along with Lois, but often left them all to visit his Fortress, hoping some sort of Kryptonian technology or knowledge would help them. Alex, Eliza, Kal El, Lois and Hank stayed in the hanger at night, not seeing the need to waste money on an apartment that wouldn’t be used much. The scientists stayed at a nearby apartment building, but rarely left the new workspace. They were enthusiastic, having proof of the multiverse, but did not think it could be done soon. Finding the correct frequency to vibrate to another dimension was not the problem, Kal El had given them the information they needed. The problem was building up enough vibrational speed to cross the dimensional barrier. The consensus was Allen was amazingly fast to get here, almost more speed than a human body could handle without disintegrating. Winn had said Allen talked about being struck by lightning the same night a particle accelerator exploded leading to more theories on how he could survive and what conditions must have been met to enable him to not only survive but do the impossible. Alex pointed out that they were stating the obvious but the point was that even with superhuman speed, no human or alien should have been this fast. Kal El knew the speed and vibrations but couldn’t open the breach. The key had to be that damn device.

Alex sat down on a fold out chair next to Winn who was reviewing remnants of the Myriad code looking for a clue in the information left behind, any traces, picked up from the Nevada desert, hoping for some sort of knowledge about the multiverse. She listened to the particle physicist, she couldn’t even remember his name now, talking about black holes and the speed of light when an alarm went off on Winn’s screen.

“Someone wants in.” he told Alex, who wished at this moment that she had not drank. No one knew they were here but that didn’t mean they were necessarily hiding. The top scientists in each of their fields leaving projects and research behind to work on a private, confidential project had made waves in the scientific community.

“Check the front camera.” Hank ordered. J’onn, as he now was in his natural form at the first sign of danger, and Kal El stepped up beside the console.

“Pulling it up.” Winn told them, already steps ahead, checking the back and side of the building.

“What the hell are they doing here?” Alex whispered. “I got this.” Alex moved quickly toward the front, anger building in her the closer she got to the door. Opening it she saw Agent Vasquez, Lucy Lane and him.

Maxwell Lord.

“Hello Alex.”

“What the hell do you three want?” Vasquez had never done anything to her and she had once considered her a friend. However the fact that Alex was not at the DEO the day it was supposedly taken over in an attempt to kill her sister gave her reason to not trust any DEO agent, especially Lucy Lane.

“We have information you are going to want, something you need to see and we want to help.” Lucy calmly explained. Alex took her in, noting she appeared tired, depressed even. There was not much emotion on her face, but what was there was not pleasant.

“What makes you think we need your help?”

Vasquez flinched at this but remained looking Alex in the eyes.

“We had nothing to do with what happened to Kara, Alex.” Lucy told her. “I tried to warn her but the damn cell service was cut…”

“By your father. Your very dead father.” Alex reminded her. “And you.” she pointed out Max, “there is absolutely no way in hell I would ever trust you. You would rather find a way to make sure Kara never returned than help us.”

“That may have been the case when she first showed herself Alex, but I believe you know that Kara and I had come to a sort of working relationship towards the end of Myriad and believe it or not I have great respect for her. She saved us all and don’t for one second think I have forgotten that. She is the bravest woman I have ever known, besides yourself, flying a spaceship that had never gone out of atmosphere to save her? The bond you two have is special and I would never try to stop you from getting to her. Alex, I know I have done many things, not all good, but my intention was never evil.”

“You turned a brain dead girl into a weapon to try and kill my sister.” Alex reminded the man. “You studied her, going as far as planting bombs at different sites to identify her weaknesses. An innocent man who relied on a medical treatment for his daughter sacrificed his own life on your orders. You spied on us to find out her real identity. You Max, may have the best intentions but you are a monster.” Alex reminded him.

“Maybe you are right. I did also help save her, I helped her against Myriad. I… Alex I won’t defend my actions. I realize I have done some horrible things in the pursuit of what I thought as the bigger picture. The fact is you cannot get her without my help. You know not one of those so called experts in that room are near my capabilities. If you really want to get to her, you are going to need me. If you don’t want to believe I am capable of just helping you then I will give you another reason. Since the government is out of the alien hunting business I have started a new enterprise. A task force to protect the Earth against the next invasion and I promise you, there will be a next. It is only a matter of time. How long? We have no idea, but this world needs all the help it can get.” Max looked behind Alex and saw the tall green martian and the Man of Steel standing behind her.

“So you have started a private DEO. I am assuming you and Vasquez are in this venture as well, Lane? Trusting Lord? Vasquez, have you lost your mind?”

“I’m doing what I do best Alex. Max is the only one who is willing to fund a…”

“Under his direction! How can you trust him?!”

“They have no choice. Might I remind you that I am the one who told you not to trust the government. You don’t have a choice about trusting me either if you want to get Kara back. If she doesn’t want to come back then at least I can be at peace knowing that you are with her. I didn’t try to have your sister murdered Alex. That was Lane and the President, and you know I hate the military.”

“This time you may not have tried to murder her. What about before?”

“I wanted her defeated, not dead. I know she is a good person, better than all of us. Once I realized this, I hope you can admit that I helped her when the Dream Shade was attached to her, when she was under the influence of the experimental Kryptonite…”

“That you made.” Alex pointed out.

“It was a trap for Non and I never meant for that to happen to her. I also have the megahedron. The late General Lane gave it to me to try and weaponize. He must have forgotten that I don’t play well with the government. Neither do you big guy.” Lord noted with a wink to Kal El standing behind Alex.

“I have all the megahedrons I need.” Kal told him, knowing they were in the one place in the world Lord couldn’t get to them.

“And you have someone who knows how to apply theoretical physics into reality? I do what others consider the impossible Alex and you know this. If you want her back, these guys may be able to help, in ten years. Maybe longer. It may take me as long but I believe we can have it done sooner. If we work together, I can harness these little super batteries, pun intended, to try and open a breach.”

“You would use it to visit other worlds and steal tech. I know you Lord. You wouldn’t do anything unless there was some benefit to you.”

“What makes you think even if I got to other worlds I could steal anything? I doubt your muscle would ever let me go on my own. BesidesI have never needed to steal anything from anyone. I prefer to trust my own brain.”

“Get out.” Alex told him, moving to slam the door in his face. Lucy’s hand stopped the door before it was closed completely.

“There is something else Alex. Max located a possible breach site, six days after Kara disappeared. We rushed there hoping to find her. Instead we found a canister. A lead cannister.”

“And you are just telling us this?!”

“We wanted to tell you earlier but you haven’t been exactly easy to find. We were also hoping if you let us help…”

“You are using it as an incentive right? Show us what you got and we let you in the club?”

“Yes.” Lucy admitted. She had wanted to tell Alex immediately but the woman and her mother, even Lucy’s own sister had disappeared, no doubt to Superman’s secret hideout.

“Let them in Alex. If they try anything I will kill them.” Kal El told her.

“And if they have Kryptonite?”

“Then I will kill them.” J’onn told her, looking at the three.

“I’ll get the ‘s quite heavy.” Max offered and walked to the car, leaving Lucy and Vasquez alone with the three.

“Alex I am so sorry. You know how I felt about Kara. I tried to warn her but they hit us too fast.” Lucy tried.

“I killed your father.” Kal told her, daring her to complain. Even without his suit, perhaps because it was gone, he was intimidating.

“I know. He deserved it. He had gone too far. Perhaps he had always been gone too far. Lois saw him for what he was long before I did. I always hoped he would change. I do not hold it against you. If it had been my cousin, I would have killed him too. Is… Lois here?”

“Yes.” Kal answered shortly.

“Do you think…”

“What would give you the idea she would want to see you?”

“She is my sister?” Kal said nothing. The awkward silence was broken when Lord walked up, obviously straining from the weight of a lead cylinder. Hank grabbed it with one hand and he and Kal took it in. It was lead, in the shape of a football, and it was obvious where it had been welded in the middle. The weld was different though than normal welding techniques. Most wielders loop the stick in circles overlapping themselves to form a strong bond. This was a straight line, smooth at just the right temperature to mold but not melt the metal.

“You haven’t opened it?” Hank asked. He saw what Kal had seen. Only someone with heat vision could have made this wield.

“I haven’t been able to X Ray it for obvious reasons but I did check it for radioactivity. I couldn’t find any traces on the outside. If you look at the bottom there are letters but I can’t make out the language. For all I know it could be a bomb inside or some biological weapon.”

“Its not a bomb. The writing is in Kryptonese.” Alex told the group. Kal was always impressed by her mastery of the language. She had learned as much of the native language of Krypton as Kara learned of English.

“You can read Kryptonese?” Max asked, impressed.

“Read, speak, it is only one word written. Danger.”

“Why would the word danger be written in Kryptonese? Hank wondered.

“Because Kara wanted the only one left in this world who could read this, besides me, not to open it, because there is Kryptonite in here.” Alex reasoned. “How long ago did you detect the breach?”

“About six days after Kara was attacked.” Lucy told her, Vasquez nodding in agreement.

“Was this all you found? Did you search the area? How do you know she… she could be here. She could be hiding here! On this Earth! Show us where…” Alex rambled, hope filling her heart for the first time since that fateful day.

“She isn’t here Alex.”

“You don’t know that!” Alex screamed at Kal El, being one of the few people on Earth not intimidated by him.

“If she was here she would have taken whatever danger is in that cylinder and hid it herself. This container was thrown through a breach. I need to know what is in it.”

Before anyone could talk him out of it, Kal El had taken flight and touched down a mile from the airport. Using his heat vision he opened the weld and immediately felt the presence of Kryptonite. Only a small amount, not enough to incapacitate him. Only enough that if fired from a gun, would pierce his skin.

Two small Kryptonite bullets, the forms still intact, along with a note. He unfolded the note and smiled, covering the Kryptonite as best he could and walked back. Alex ran to meet him when he was near, followed by the others.

“What is it?” she asked,

“See for yourself.” he told her grinning, a sight she had not seen in a while.

Hank held the cylinder while Alex reached inside, pulling out the two Kryptonite bullets. She just stared at them lying in her shaking hand.

“These must be the bullets Kara was shot with.” she whispered.

“I have Kara’s DNA. I can run a test to be sure.” Lord offered.

“No these are the ones that nearly killed her. She survived, she had to have survived to write on it in a language only three people on this Earth now know. She is alive.” Alex whispered, tears filling her eyes.

“Yes she is. You should read the note.” Kal suggested. Alex wiped her eyes.

“She wrote a note?”

“No she didn’t, but obviously someone who knows her did.” he answered. “She probably didn’t even know it was in there, knowing her. It’s not exactly her style.”

Alex took the note with trembling hands and read for the group.

To whoever finds this,

Kryptonite is not allowed in this universe. Anyone attempting to bring it onto this Earth will be dealt with. Don’t mess with us, we take care of our own.

Sincerely,

Cisco ‘Vibe’ Ramon -Technical Director TeamSuperFlash- Technical Consultant Team Arrow

Dr. Caitlin Snow, Biomedical director and badass field trauma surgeon TeamSuperFlash

“I think I’m in love with this Cisco guy and the badass trauma surgeon.” Alex whispered.

“This Caitlin Snow. Allen wasn’t lying. He had help waiting and she saved Kara.” J’onn said wanting to believe so badly that the woman who lifted a large space prison into space not expecting to come back was still alive. Watching her battle with Non, J’onn was certain she would have been drained. Her heart wasn’t though. Nothing in the universe would have stopped her that day from saving everyone.

“She is alive. Now we need to get to her.” Max told the group.

“She didn’t come back with the breach. She threw this in instead. She doesn’t want to come back.” Alex realized.

“Maybe she doesn’t realize the whole world isn’t out to kill her. If nothing else Alex we can get you and Eliza to her. You and Lois if you want, Super… Kal El. Personally I think if anyone can convince her to come home it would be you, Alex.”

“Why do you want her here Max? Its not like you to seek out aliens.” J’onn pointed out.

Max shrugged his shoulders. “Like I said it’s only a matter of time before the next invasion. This world needs her, the big guy and the green guy too. I’m not seeking out an alien, I’m looking for the champion who went to certain death on the off chance she could save us all. And I want her with you Alex. I know how much she means to you and despite your thoughts on my faults, some, most of them deserved, I have never harmed you or tried to harm this planet. We all have common goals. Mine is to protect this Earth without relying on politicians and inept military brass. Yours is too see your sister again.”

Alex looked at Kal El who shrugged.

“You betray us and you are sharing an urn next to Lane.” Kal told him in a voice that let Max know he wasn’t joking. Lucy flinched but remained stoic for the most part.

“Wouldn’t dream of it. So are we in? One big happy family? My strike force and scientific genius and your group of amateur hacks?”

“Yeah, you are in.” Alex told him, feeling Hank’s hand on her shoulder squeeze. She had his backing and knew he was reading Lord’s mind. If he saw something wrong he would have told them no.

“I need to show this to Mom. She needs to know Kara is alive.” Alex ran inside holding the forty pound metal cylinder like it weighed nothing. The others followed, Lucy looking for Lois immediately. After all had walked in Kal El stopped J’onn.

“What is he thinking?”

J’onn, now resembling Hank Henshaw again, smirked.

“He’s thinking he is in love with Alex Danvers, knows she probably hates him and will do anything he can to get in her good graces.”

Kal El nodded. The man was slime but he was a genius that put Lex Luthor to shame. If winning a woman he had no chance at is the motivation he needed that was fine with him.

Earth 1

“I am so glad you didn’t miss the hole. I was afraid you would throw like a girl, all awkward and no form or follow through.” Cisco told the blonde who had just launched a lead football into a breach. He managed to slip the note in before she welded the thing closed with her eyes from a distance. She had insisted on writing Danger in her alien language, saying she didn’t want a chance that her cousin would open it, without expecting Kryptonite. Cisco knew the chances of it being found by the one Kryptonian in the galaxy were non existent but humored her.

She was not humored now.

“Did you just say throw like a girl? How exactly does a girl throw Cisco?”

“Uh… Barry tell her.”

“Nope, this is all on you.” Barry told his friend, leaning back against a counter and enjoying Kara stalking closer to his friend.

“I just meant that not a lot of girls play sports and…”

“And how many did you play growing up? Were you the Quarterback Cisco? Why don’t we step outside and have a little game of football.” Kara suggested, smiling at the thought of how much better she would be able to throw than the guy who may be a genius but did not appear to have much of an athletic background. Alex had taught her quite a bit about sports and was a great athlete herself.

“Sorry, okay? I didn’t mean to offend you. I throw like a girl… I mean I throw like… I’m not good okay? Point taken. Caitlin never gets this mad when I make remarks about girls.”

“Yes she does.” Barry told him, still smiling, arms crossed and eyes trained on his beautiful, he guessed he could say girlfriend? They had definitely picked up where they left off. Their time on her Earth was always bitter sweet, growing closer each day and knowing that their time was short. They knew they should have kept their distance, conversations more casual than intimate, yet it was too difficult. They found each other so easy to talk to, Barry found himself telling her about things even Iris didn’t know. She told him stories about Krypton, her childhood, how she got the small barely noticeable scar on her forehead, seeing birds for the first time, her first crush that happened right before her planet exploded weeks later. She had even shown him the hologram Alex had given her from her pod after she first appeared as Supergirl. Barry had, in a way, met her mother. He also let her cry on his shoulder, because she could never watch that hologram and not cry.

“Barry, Kara, an explosion at Central City Tower Heights just occurred. Looks like something happened on the thirtieth floor. That floor and the ones above it have people trapped. The whole top of the building is in flames and debris!” Caitlin’s voice cut in.

Barry moved without thinking, running into his suit and moving towards the center of the city. Central City Tower Heights were luxury high rise apartments, spanning forty floors. Whatever caused the explosion must have been catastrophic if Cait had that much panic in her voice.

“What is the situation, Cait?”

“People on the lower levels are evacuating but the top floors, I doubt the people on the floor where the explosion occurred are alive. See if you can make your way past the debris and take as many as you can down. There is too much heat for a thermal so I have no idea what you will be facing as far as obstacles.”

Barry moved up the stairs to the 30th floor but paused before opening, wondering if a backflash was waiting for him. Having no other option he opened the door and began rotating his arms causing a vortex to try and calm the flames.

It didn’t take him long to realize the floor had been gutted. Hardly any fire was present, but what was present were the bodies, some blown out into the hall. He took the scene before him in, feeling helpless.

Then he heard the cries from above.

He moved back to the stairway and entered the 31st floor. People were laying on the ground, those who had not been dropped into the floor below. Grabbing two of the nearest he made his way down and then back up, over and over again. He had managed to get twenty people to the street before he started on the 32nd floor.

“Barry you are overheating. Your body temperature is at 103 degrees.”

“Well it is kind of hot Cait. I don’t exactly have time for a water break.”

“Kara,” Cisco’s voice cut in, ” You cannot bust through a wall. The structure isn’t sound. Make sure you land on the roof and use the stairwells. If you open a window you could ignite a backflash.”

“I can handle fire Cisco.” Kara told him, much more nervous than she tried to sound. She had rescued people from burning buildings before but never one that had been rocked like this. She knew people were killed instantly and had seen bodies already using her X Ray vision.

“Yeah but the people in the rooms can’t.”

“Got it.” Kara wished she had this kind of help from the DEO when she started. They were very helpful in dealing with aliens but when she saved others, not affecting the DEO, she was on her own.

Kara worked the floors as best she could, pushing debris aside, using her vision and hearing to find the ones still alive and flying them to the rescue vehicles who were just now arriving. Jumping back up onto the roof she entered the stairs again, this time meeting the Flash on the 36th floor.

“Kara, cool Barry down a bit.” Cait instructed. Barry stood still, not knowing what to expect. Kara did her best, she had been working on controlling the temperature of her breath, but was unsure. She didn’t want to risk freezing Barry.

“He is at 105 degrees Kara. Just a bit, you can do it.” Cait encouraged. Kara stood back from Barry and blew gently. As her breath surrounded him it turned to steam. She continued for a few more seconds until the steam around him stopped forming.

“Okay he is back at 99. Good job, guys, lets keep moving. Cisco is picking up movement on the 39th, no they are heading to the roof.”

“Fly them down Kara, I’ll search the rubble for survivors.” Barry told her. He took quick notice that her suit was holding steady, no tears or burns. Good job Cisco. Kara nodded and headed for the roof. She took in the panicked people looking down, praying for a rescue from the fire department. Taking the youngest two first, a boy of around 11 and a similar appearing younger girl, probably a sister, in her arms she shot up in the air.

“Close your eyes, we are going to be dropping really fast.”

Not waiting for an answer, she moved, dropping as fast as she could, feet first so the children would not have to be upside down. They landed and stumbled a bit but confused firemen, trying to figure out who the blonde was, grabbed the children.

Barry having no clear way to the roof now, ran to the bottom of the building and then straight up, grabbing a man and running back down. Kara met him at the top, grabbing two, landing as Barry reached the ground with his guy. The two continued working and a minute later, twenty people had been rescued from the roof.

Just in time it appeared because the roof was collapsing on the floors below. A cell tower that had been perched on top tilted over and screamed towards the ground, a street crowded with police, firefighters and onlookers. Kara raced into the air, catching the tower and moving it a street away, landing it safely, blocking the road but not causing any car wrecks. In her mind that was a win.

“Kara, take deep breaths.” Cait instructed.

“I feel fine.”

“Maybe but the pulse ox reader in your suit shows your oxygen blood stream absorption rate at 92% You need to be at 99%, Blow your lungs out to clear the carbon monoxide and take in oxygen. You don’t want a power outage now. Your heart is racing and you are going to need as much oxygen as possible to avoid dizziness. Barry you are at 94. Vibrate for a few seconds.”

“Yes ma’am.” Barry responded. Both did as Cait suggested and Kara actually felt better instantly. She had never really thought about the need for oxygen while using her powers. Sure she needed to breathe, as Red Tornado had taught her when he nearly choked her to death but she assumed as long as she was moving, her body was still getting all the air she needed.

“Got another problem guys. The parking garage on the bottom of the building. The fire department has cut all power to the building but I am picking up a distinct electrical signature. Could be a bomb.” Cisco informed them.

“Great.” Barry whispered. “Someone wanted to make sure the job was done right. A bomb at the top and one set for a later detonation to bring the whole building down.” Barry’s CSI mind was already at work. Whoever did this must have had a target on the thirtieth floor and the second bomb would go off after others had a chance to evacuate. The ones above would still die but this guy probably thought he was being merciful by allowing the majority to live. Barry was reminded again that it isn’t just Metahumans that can harm others. Ordinary people were capable of evil on their own with no powers.

Barry moved into the garage locating the bomb in a second. It was inside a trash can. He saw a timer on the top, at ten seconds.

“I’m not going to have time to get this out of the city guys.”

“I’ll fly it.” Kara responded beside him.

“No time.”

“Kara use your freeze breath on it. Wrap it up in a block of ice. It will slow the electrical current.” Cisco instructed.

Kara did so without delay, admitting to herself while doing it that her first instinct would have been to fly it out and she probably would have failed and landed hard, if not injured along with whoever was around her. When the timer hit 2 seconds it stopped, wrapped in a block of ice the shape of the trash can around it.

“Any chance of deactivating this thing without it blowing?” Barry asked, knowing the bomb in one piece would be a better piece of evidence than an exploded bomb.

“Doubtful Barry. Can you take it out of the city maybe let it melt and see if it still goes off? At least no one will get hurt if the ice melts and the timer does start.” Cisco suggested.

“I’ll do it.” Kara told him immediately. Not liking the idea of Barry carrying a bomb, even one encased in ice.

“Kara you have another problem. A large section of wall on the 29th just came loose and is hurtling towards the ground. I’m talking a twenty by forty section of brick. If it hits it is going to blow shrapnel like a grenade.”

“Go, I got this.”

Kara did as Barry said, not liking it but seeing the wisdom. She would have to remember he had been doing this by himself long before she arrived and trust him to take care of himself.

Whipping out of the parking garage she saw the section Cisco was talking about hurtling very quickly towards the ground.

“It should be solid, judging by the way it came off Kara, Just catch it with soft hands as close to the middle as you can.” Cisco told her. She flew into the air, not as fast as she could but slower. Kara had learned before that catching a wall too fast would just cause the wall to crumble around her. When her hands touched the wall she hovered down at a slightly decelerating pace. To one looking it would appear that she was being forced down by the wall but as she slowed, this was shown to be untrue. Twenty feet from the ground, she stopped in midair balancing the wall perfectly and lowering it gently to the ground.

“Thats my Superwoman! This isn’t the first wall you have caught, is it?” Cisco asked. Kara instead of answering, looked for Barry and saw he was gone, a streak of red blurring away from the city.

“Flash you okay?” she asked.

“Almost there.” he responded. Kara jumped back into the sky hovering around the building’s ruined sections, scanning with her X Ray vision, for any sign of movement,listening for moans, any sign of life. Sadly finding none she began scanning the lower floors for people who may not have been able to evacuate for one reason or another.

“Barry?” Kara called, high enough that no one would hear her use his name.

“I’m good. Cisco let Joe know the bomb is at the ordinance range the police use. Send the bomb squad out. Kara, when you are finished there we could probably use you out here.”

“Are you okay?!”

“I’m good, but when this block of ice melts I doubt the police will be able to disarm it. We are going to have to let it blow and try to reassemble the pieces. I’ll ask them when they get here but if they want it to blow you are the best option. You can laser it from a safe distance.”

“I’m on my way.”

“Kara stop by here. I’ll be at the back entrance to the lab. You and Barry both need Gatorade. Your resting heart rates indicate you are both dehydrated.”

Kara shook her head at Cait’s suggestion. She took in the scene around her, a crumbling building, onlookers, police, wounded.

Then she realized they were all looking at her. For the first time Kara wondered if she looked scary in a mask. She didn’t need the city frightened of her.

Her concerns were answered when soot covered children rushed her, hugging her waist. Police officers and firemen walked up with a smile and patted her on the back, thanking her.

For a moment, Kara felt alive again, really alive, the way she always had after she had helped one person or hundreds or even billions in the case of Non.

Then she thought of the ones who didn’t make it down.

“What do we call you?” A police officer asked, She looked and saw Joe’s smiling face.

Kara shrugged her shoulders, not feeling very super at the moment.

Joe stepped up to her and whispered into her ear.

“There are always going to be those you can’t save. Those people never had a chance because of the person who did this. Look around Kara. You and Barry, you just saved over a hundred people. They are alive because of what you two did. You are a hero and this city is damn lucky to have you.”

“Thanks Joe.” Kara whispered back.

Joe stepped back and turned to the crowd. “That’s a Superwoman if I’ve ever seen one people!” he told the crowd loudly. The people began clapping and moved towards her, patting her on the back, one woman hugging her with her children next to her.

“Can I have your autograph?” a little girl asked. “and could you ask the Flash to be my boyfriend?”

Kara chuckled and bent down.

“But he’s my boyfriend.”

“Oh, well if you get tired of him let me know.” A detective Kara did not recognize, meaning not Joe, handed her a pen with a stoic face, trying not to be amused. Despite the devastation, seeing the Flash have help from this amazing woman who was obviously good with kids warmed his heart on this tragic day. Kara grabbed a piece of paper off the ground, one of many that had blown from the building and signed her name.

Superwoman.

With a smile, she bent her knees and shot into the sky, following Cait’s directions until she saw Barry. A bomb squad truck was next to him and the frozen trash can holding a bomb sat a hundred yards away. The field was open and no one else was around for miles besides the officers and Barry.

Landing next to the disbelieving officer, Barry smiled at their reactions.

“Hey guys, meet Superwoman.” Barry introduced her, his voice vibrating, sounding hilarious to her. She supposed he wouldn’t want his voice recognized by people he saw at work every day.

“Pleasure ma’am. Uh… so Flash says you can detonate the bomb for us? We don’t want you getting too close. We can send a robot in and handle it.”

“No problem officer.” Kara turned towards the bomb and her eyes blazed, the twin beams causing a massive explosion, one that easily would have brought down the rest of the building on the citizens in the streets.

“Gotta go guys.”

Flash took off and Kara took to the sky following him. On arrival back at S.T.A.R. they found an irritated Caitlin Snow standing in the back, a Gatorade bottle in each hand.

“Inside you two. Barry your body temp is way too hot, Kara your cells are burning oxygen too quickly. This might have to do with why your powers blow out at times. It may have nothing to do with how much you use and instead linked to your stress levels and breathing efficiency. The next time I ask the two of you to drink, I expect you to make a pit stop. Neither of you are any good if you pass out. There are twenty pizzas inside. Save two for me and Cisco.”

Kara and Barry took the bottles and walked inside, Kara dazed a bit by Cait’s irritation and Barry already used to it.

Cisco however was not irritated.

“Way to go guys! You two just personally save one hundred and two people and counting. The news is all over the Superwoman and Flash! We are a hit!”

“How many died Cisco?” Barry asked.

“62 so far.”

“And its not 168 because of you two, or even hundreds more in the streets.” Caitlin told the two, catching up.

Barry pulled the mask off his head and turned to Kara peeling the mask from her face.

He kissed her gently, the blonde not even minding the fact that both smelled like smoke and Kara looked like a raccoon with the darkened bottom of her face and the clean top that had been covered by the mask.

“How did I do for my first time as a sidekick?” he asked her.

“You looked like a hero to me.” she told him and kissed him once more, before the smell of pizza became too much for them to turn down.

“I’m going to have to head into work after I eat and shower. I’ve got a bomb to try and reassemble tonight.”

“Need some help?” she offered, not knowing much about reassembling bombs.

“I could use some company.”

“Then I will be there.”

Maybe the old Earth didn’t need Supergirl anymore, but Barry needed her and that was enough.