Kintsugi: Sunstone inventor (DC / YJ)

Chapter 10
Hey, sorry for taking so long to update this, I wasn't on my computer, and I forgot the password for SV... hehe.

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That same morning, Kara floated in front of the mountain, her mind deep in thought. She was feeling very… conflicted right now.

It's not like she didn't understand her cousin's reaction, she had been human once, a long time ago, she got why finding out you had a clone made in secret would affect him in such a way. Well, in a manner of speaking anyway.

There weren't any human clones walking around in her previous world after all, but she imagined the experience was kind of like finding out you had a son from a drunken one-night stand years after the fact.

Only, since Kal-El didn't consent to having his DNA taken, it was probably much worse.

Still, she kind of expected Superman to rise above such things. It was not like Superboy asked to be created after all. Kal-El could be mad at the scientists who created him all he wanted, but the boy needed help, now damn it.

Plus, she was Kara Zor-El and this was a DC universe, it didn't take her long to come to terms with the probable fact she'd have a clone made by one supervillain or another somewhere down the line.

Her Kryptonian education also didn't help in this aspect, at all.

On Krypton, nearly all Kryptonians were born on the Birthing Matrix, the DNA used was carefully selected and modified not only so they'd be more capable in the caste they were supposed to belong to, but also so they'd get joy from doing it.

Kryptonians didn't rebel against their imposed roles not because it was forbidden, but because they didn't want to, they were genetically designed to like their jobs.

Looking at things from a Kryptonian view, Superboy's birth was almost normal and only his accelerated growth was an anomaly. It was not like every Kryptonian pairing loved each other or wanted to be parents after all.

In fact, love between pairings was the exception, not the norm and, sometimes, their guild just needed a new member.

So, two thirds of Kara's mind was screaming at her that her cousin's actions were wrong and illogical and she should be giving him the beating of his life for abandoning a member of his own race like that. There weren't a lot of them left after all.

Still, she knew it would do no good right now and, more importantly, Superboy's situation came first. Kara would give her cousin the time to think about things in peace.

From the YJ show, she knew he'd take a long time to accept the kid but, maybe, just maybe, her presence had changed things for the better.

Right now, she had a newborn Kryptonian to deal with, even if he wasn't really a child. Since her cousin wasn't gonna be there for the kid, it was her job to take care of him.

Using her X-Ray vision, she pierced the layers of earth and stone over the secret base and sighed at the lack of protections it had. She really shouldn't be able to observe Superboy watching static on a TV, not from outside the building itself at least.

Why the hell was the League even still using this place for anything when every two bit villain knew it existed?

Well, it had some defenses and very advanced facilities for something a human could build, so it was better than any random house, but still…

Dropping fast, Kara stepped in the front entrance to Mount Justice and watched as the computer scanned her body before slowly opening the underground entrance. She floated down the mostly empty building while watching some robots doing a few last minute repairs and cleaning.

She followed the calming sound of static towards Superboy's location. The kid was sitting on a sofa in the mountain's living room while ignoring the robots working around him and concentrating on the TV.

"Hello there," Kara called out awkwardly as she dropped back to the ground beside the sofa.

Superboy wasn't surprised, he had probably heard her breathing or even her beating heart as she approached, he just grunted and gave a quick glance her way, then he jumped three meters into the air and fell back down with his fists lifted into an aggressive stance.

"Who are you?" he growled. "You're not a member of the Justice League."

Kara sighed at his aggression and sat down on the sofa. Crossing her legs, she looked at him without her x-ray vision for the first time.

He did look a lot like Kal-El.

Well, the Young Justice cartoon had established that already, but it was one thing to see it in a cartoon and another to see it in real life, with all the small little details.

"You're right, I'm not with the League. I'm here to find out how I'm gonna deal with you."

Slowly, Superboy lowered his fists, then he crossed his arms over his chest and glared at her. "Where is Superman? I thought he'd be the one to deal with me."

Was he pouting? Yes, yes he was pouting, cute kid.

"Kal-El is being a little stupid right now," she told him and turned off the TV. She didn't see the problem revealing his Kryptonian name since he didn't use it anyway. "I do somewhat understand his point of view, but that doesn't mean it isn't stupid."

"Is that… his name?"

"Right, you don't even have a name yet, fuck what were they thinking?" she covered her eyes with a hand and sighed again. "Come on kid, let's talk a little."

"Stop calling me kid!" he shouted at her and refused to obey, his anger already starting to rise.

Damn, she really didn't know how to do this.

"Alright, alright. Sorry," correcting her posture, Kara tried to be a little more serious since her approach wasn't working. "First, let me introduce myself, I'm Kara Zor-El, I'm Kal-El's older cousin."

"What?"

"Yeah, interplanetary travel and being frozen kinda inverted that order but, I was definitely born first," Kara told him with a nod. She looked around all the working robots and the empty space and came to a decision. "Nope, come on, we're leaving."

"What?" He asked again, still flabbergasted to be meeting a second Kryptonian.

"This place may make for a good base of operations, after installing some better security that is, but it's definitely not a home. Come on, you're staying with me from now on."

"The Justice League told me to stay here," he protested weakly, but Kara just got up and started pulling him away from the room.

"The Justice League stashed you here, you mean. Yeah, I'm gonna have to have some words with them too," she started to walk towards the exit when she remembered the boy couldn't fly right now. Turning around, she went back towards the Zeta-Tube.

She didn't really like using the things too much, she didn't have the time to study the network and she wouldn't put it past The Light to be able to access its records. Thankfully, Batman had approved of her initial paranoia and gave her a fake name.

Brika was a good name for an average flying brick package, wasn't it?

Kara took the kid back to Fawcett city but, instead of going directly back home, she stopped at an empty restaurant where they could have some privacy without having the kid become too defensive.

They sat at a booth and Kara pulled a device from one of her pockets, throwing it inside the table. She activated the sound blocker so nobody could hear their talk, soon a waiter came around and she ordered two plates of Beef Bourguignon.

"Come on, eat up," she told him as she thought about what to say.

Superboy actually dug into the meal with gusto, it seemed he had inherited her cousin's love for the meal after all.

"Alright, first we'll get you a name. Do you want to choose one for yourself or for me to give you one?" Kara asked. "I mean, if you have anything in mind it'll be great. but it's not like people usually choose their names, so there's nothing wrong about not knowing."

Kara had thought long and hard about Superboy's name, in the end, she decided there was nothing really wrong about Connor or Kon-El, and she didn't need to change it just to be different.


In some continuities, Kon meant abomination, but that had not been its first meaning, and it was not the meaning in this reality. There hadn't even been a clone war in her Krypton, much less a prejudice against them.

"I-I really don't know?" he asked in confusion as he looked at his own hands.

"Hey, I just said it's okay, remember, no need to be worried," she calmed him down. "How about this, my cousin is called Kal-El, El being the house name. I'll call you Kon-El since you're family."

"I… Kon-El?" the kid said with a little smile on his face. "I'm family?"

Kara knew she was throwing a lot on his plate right now; the kid was barely out of his tank before, so he didn't have much experience, but he did have the knowledge necessary to understand things.

Hopefully, getting him in school and interacting with a wide variety of people would help with his emotional development.

Also, no member of the El house would live without a proper education.

"But, I'm a clone…"

"Alright, wanna know a secret? For a Kryptonian, you're actually more normal than Kal-El," she let Kol-El digest that as she ordered a serving of ice cream as dessert. Scoping a spoonful, she commented, "Most kryptonians are like you, born from mixing DNA, Kal-El was the odd one, he was actually born the old school way, can you believe that?"

Kara continued to eat her ice cream as Kon-El slowly started to understand the situation he was in.

Truth be told, Kara really didn't want to be involved. Kon-El was created by The Light, and chances were high they'd find out about her existence if she got involved but, she just couldn't leave the kid alone.

She, Kal-El and the boy may have been the last Kryptonians alive today. No way could she let a member of her own race fend for himself like that.

Well, there was the phantom zone to consider, but that was a whole other can of worms.

"I guess this is a lot to take in right? So, what do you want to do?" she finally asked him with a welcoming smile. "I confess I was a little hasty to just take you out of the mountain, if you want, I can take you back while you think about things, but I'd really like for you to stay with me. I wasn't there when my cousin needed me, but I won't make the same mistake with you."

Despite her dislike of the place, Kara was willing to recognize Kon-El would probably be safe at the mountain for another few days, and her main reason for taking him out of there was to have a frank conversation without Batman -or anyone else- peeking.

"I-I need some time to think."

"I understand," she finished her ice cream and laid back against the stuffed chair, "How about this then, let me tell you a little about your family, and Kryptonians in general."

"I'd like that, yes."

So, she told him about their original planet. About how most Kryptonians were like him, born through a machine in order to fulfill a purpose in their society, but they could still grow to like different things, all in order to get him to relax a little and maybe help him find himself sooner instead of being angry because he wasn't Superman.

It was painful to talk about her home, but she managed to hide that from him without much trouble.

She wasn't even lying, spending a few months or even years training in a different guild was a common form of teenage rebellion on Krypton. It was even beneficial, they'd inevitably discover they liked their original guild more and the experience would make them better when they came of age.

A member of the Science Guild who spent a few years training in the Military Guild would understand their needs better after all and Kryptonians lived long enough for the lost time not to be a problem.

She also told him about the house of El, their story, their customs and their achievements, all in the hopes of catching his attention.

That damn cabal of clowns used telepathy to fill his mind with thoughts of filling Superman's shoes and fighting for Earth like that was all he could do. Kara did her best to change that assumption.

Kon-El was created from Lex Luthor and Kal-El, a member of the El house, it was impossible for him to just be an angry muscle-head who punched things and she'd make damn sure of that.

Eventually, she left a much happier and, perhaps, a little less confused with life, Kon-El back into the mountain with a new cell phone holding both her and Kori's number. She flew away from the mountain for a few minutes before her smile fell off her face.

"UGH! That was a mess! I kept confusing him and barely let him talk!" she lifted both arms up and almost yelled in frustration. "And I didn't even talk with him about the examinations!"

Kara knew for a fact there were mental commands implanted on the kid and she wasn't about to let them stay.

Also, she didn't remember anything being wrong with his biology, but Kryptonian DNA was incredibly complicated. She wouldn't put it past CADMUS to have missed something that's only gonna show up decades later or, worse, left something on purpose.

She'd have to talk with Kal-El about letting Kon-El into the Fortress but, if he said no for some reason, she'd just have to sneak the boy inside. Worst case scenario, she'd use her ship's medical bay, but it wouldn't come to that.

She had already left a message with the Martian Manhunter asking for a meeting, but the male was busy with something at the moment and would get back to her sometime tomorrow, probably his niece arriving on Earth.

Now, to deal with the second problem.

When night fell, Kara stopped far above the clouds and over the damaged CADMUS building. There wasn't anyone fixing the entrance, but the heavy machinery lay all around the place.

She tried peering inside the building, but Luthor was one of the owners of the place, of course it was filled with lead.

She considered her options. At first, she had thought about just mining enough gold to buy the entire thing but, not only would that reveal her existence to the world, it would probably not work. The Light, or even just Luthor himself, had enough political power to block any such move.

She also couldn't risk The Light moving the things inside when they learned of her attempt.

She'd bet Luthor had filled the place with all sorts of contingencies in case her cousin snapped and actually attacked it. The man was far too used to dealing with an angry Kryptonian… too bad for him he wasn't used to dealing with an angry Kryptonian's tech.

Lifting a small pouch from her waist, Kara opened it and turned it upside down, releasing a deluge of metal balls half the size of her fingernail. They fell through the air, but stopped right before hitting CADMUS' surface, floating a couple of centimeters above the ground. A second later, they activated their non disturbance mode and disappeared from view.

Kara may not have access to Kryptonian military drones, but high grade civilian gear could work just as well when dealing with Earth's technology.

Every little drone she released was equipped with a camera capable of mapping terrain and keeping track of living beings, a wireless transmitter untraceable by Earth's current technology and a cloaking device.

On Krypton, they were used to float above a Kryptonian and help them navigate without being lost, take pictures or recordings of important moments and information for later use, keep track of children and remain inconspicuous during everyday life.

Here on Earth, they were nearly undetectable stealth devices.

Opening a tablet in front of her, she ordered the devices to start infiltrating the facility and map out all its rooms. It wasn't instantaneous but, after only a couple of hours, she had a complete map of CADMUS underground and the drones were keeping track of all organic movement.

Thousands of Genomorphs of all shapes and sizes, dozens of scientists all currently working and even Guardian himself taking a nap in a resting room, all unaware of the machines watching them.

Ordering one of the drones to connect to an empty and unobserved computer wouldn't usually be possible, but Kara had made a few modifications so the drones were compatible with Earth's tech.

Soon, she had access to CADMUS systems through her tablet and released a wave of malware. Small, inconsequential programs that were so alien to CADMUS computers they wouldn't be detected as viruses and slowly took over every aspect on their systems, using The Light's own hidden programs to do so.

That's the problem with leaving backdoors in a computer system so you could interact with them without detection, someone else could make use of them if they had the right knowledge and equipment.

Kara had no doubt someone like Oracle, The Brain, Dr. Ivo or Dr. Morrow could quickly adapt against her programming, they were just that good, but CADMUS computers weren't really their focus, and Kryptonian tech was an out of contest problem the system just wasn't capable of fighting against without supervision.

With control over the building's computer system, Kara started downloading a copy of all the information they had, even the ones kept hidden on Luthor's secret little server. She also took the chance to install a program that would erase both her image and voice from any recording device in the building.

Alright, now what?

Despite her efforts, Kara's skills at stealth were about the same as her skills at fighting before meeting Kori, that is to say, she didn't have them.

Yes, she could avoid meeting anyone on the mostly empty upper floors, but the lower floors were a hive of activity and she still didn't have the time to adapt the drone's stealth tech to work with her clothes.

Worse, some of the Genomorphs were telepaths and she had no way to hide from them. "Alright, mental note, find a way to hide from telepaths, or at least block their powers."

Well, if she couldn't hide from the Genomorphs, she'd just have to get their help instead.

She quickly lifted her tablet to her face and changed the view to watch Dubbilex; since she already controlled their computer, it was easy to generate a message requiring his presence on one of the upper floors.

Then she dropped down. Using her speed and the darkness of the night, she managed to remain undetected by anything outside the building.

The ground floor was still filled with rubble, but she found an easy path down into the first underground floor which only had a couple of human workers, Kara avoided them and found an empty room.

Before long, she felt a weight settle on her mind, she knew she still didn't have the mental fortitude or training to resist his intrusion but, luckily, she didn't have to.

Instead, she tried to think about Superboy, their family connection and her intent to free the Genomorphs from their imposed slavery and hoped he wouldn't delve deeper.

She had to admit, it was somewhat of a gamble to let someone have access to her mind but, the second she felt him trying to delve where he wasn't invited, she'd use her speed to burst out of the building, even if she had to go through him.

She was pretty sure he wasn't a powerful enough telepath to incapacitate her before she was out of his range… or plastered him all over the hallway. She even made sure she was actively thinking about that too.

The automatic door to the room opened with only a small noise and the tall Genomorph stepped inside, his arms crossed behind his back.

"Greetings, Kara Zor-El. I apologize for the intrusion into your mind," he told her in an emotionless voice. "I can only say it seemed necessary from my point of view."

"I can see that, yes," she nodded to him in greeting and massaged her temples. "You didn't try to peek for too long, so I forgive you."

"Well, the image of my insides spread on the hallway in case I tried was most illuminating," he told her as he awkwardly extended a hand, then he continued. "It also seemed disturbingly likely, with the way you were thinking."

"Ah, I'd really like to avoid killing again, but mind control just leaves me on edge. Were you able to see why I came while you searched my mind?"

"I could see you're attempting to help my kind, but I have to confess, I retreated somewhat hastily after that vivid image."

Yep, Kryptonians were scary. No doubt about that.

"Well, I have three options for you," Kara told him while keeping an eye on the surveillance system. "First, I can just call the League again, I'm pretty sure the damn idiots were too tired from fighting Wotan, or too busy gapping at my cousin's clone to think about things but, after a round of yelling at everybody, I can get them to help free you guys from slavery… still don't know how they let that one pass.

"The second option is probably the safest, I'm pretty sure you guys qualify as a race of your own so, if I call The Green Lanterns and ask for asylum, they'd come over in a heartbeat to help you guys settle somewhere else. Heck, maybe Mars would take you guys; they're all telepathic shape shifters, so it could be easier for you guys to settle there.

"The third option would be a little riskier, I can help you guys take over," and here Kara leaned towards Dubbilex with a predatory smile. "I already have control of the building's surveillance systems and, with your telepathy, you can turn the tables on your so-called 'owners' without anyone even finding out."

"That is… three more options than I was expecting," Dubbilex said with a sigh. "I always believed Superboy would be the one to help us, and meeting the Justice League only enforced that feeling, even your heroes didn't really see us as anything but tools."

Kara's hands tightened into fists at his words, she really would like to argue with that, but she couldn't, not when what he said was right.

"I can only apologize for how the League dismissed you guys, I could say they're too overworked to pay attention to the little details. but it is no excuse, and slavery is never just a little detail."

"Why are YOU so willing to help us?" he asked, narrowing his eyes at Kara in suspicion.

"Many reasons, I'm pretty sure you were the one who organized things so Kon-El would be freed, so I feel indebted to you. Plus, as I said, I don't consider slavery to be a small thing and I have the power to do something about it," Kara said and scratched the back of her head, somewhat embarrassed by her next reason, "But I'm also doing this to stop whatever plans you creator's have for you, that's why I'm a little partial to the third option, I do need a base of my own, and a little help dealing with the bastards that created you. Having that help come from you guys and the base being one of theirs would feel somewhat… poetic."

"I see… and if I don't trust you, will you leave us alone?"

"I'm sorry, but no. I'm willing to let you choose how to do this, but I can't leave you guys as slaves no matter what you say," she considered things a little bit and completed. "Besides, I know for a fact there's another Kryptonian and a little boy hidden somewhere down here, so I'm raiding this place anyway."

"Impossible, I'm aware of every one of CADMUS projects, there are no records of another successful clone, Superboy is the only one."

"Wrong," she quickly browsed through the data she stole and turned her tablet towards the male. "They called him Project Match, he is in dire need of help and I WILL provide it."

Dubbilex didn't release his arms from his back but, with a light tug, the tablet slowly floated away from Kara's hands and towards his face, he quickly read the information about Match but, instead of giving it back, he started searching for information about Genomorphs themselves.

Kara let him. Dubbilex's face became angrier and angrier as he read on, finally he reached his own information and Kara swore, if she had been using a normal tablet instead of a Kryptonian one, it would have cracked in half as it was flung across the room.

"We accept," Dubbilex said without any hesitation in his voice. "They need to be stopped."

Kara grabbed the tablet back and couldn't help herself, she read what had bothered him so much. "Well... damn."

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Nice to see her going in and cleaning up the messes that yhe League ignored. The body jacking from the Fate Helm is the one everyone always talks about, bit how the genomorphs were treated was equally unconscionable
 
Sorry, I'm not completely up to speed on all the Cadmus stuff. What is the "well damn" issue? Or will we find out next chapter?
 
Sorry, I'm not completely up to speed on all the Cadmus stuff. What is the "well damn" issue? Or will we find out next chapter?
Cadmus is up to so very many separate horrifyingly evil projects that at this point it's impossible to tell which one set Dubbilex off. Think of a science-lab type thing that is anywhere from morally questionable to downright evil in a way that would make Cthulhu cringe. They're probably doing it right now. Yes, that one too.
 
Think of every bad comics book cloning, bioengineering or bio warfare trope, and Cadmus has at least one of every single one of those if not in the works, then at least on the back burner
 
@CapitaoCaverna if you want more readers and Patreons, I suggest changing the title. You're a pretty good SB/SV author, but the title reads as a generic WN fanfic which does not give a good impression in the least...
If I didn't know you are such a good author from your Danmachi fic, I wouldn't touch something called Reincarnated as X with a 2m stick.
She is not even reincarnated, it's called transmigration.

Blurb warning almost scared me off: "Also, I'm told it's a deal breaker for some but Kara starts in a very bad situation and her exposure to kryptonite for so long leaves a mark on her for at least the first 10 chapters"
I hate when MC starts crippled/dirt poor and traumatized, but your take wasn't bad at all. You should focus more on the positives, how you don't let it bog down the story and how this is a DC fixit.
 
Chapter 11

First, thanks for the tips, probably gonna change things a little tomorrow, (I have a headache today), I kinda didn't have a good name for the fic, and it was the most obvious thing I could think of, I was told that Readers nowadays have a very small attention spam, and I should let them know exactly what they were going to read from the start.

In truth, the quality of my first chapter was kinda... no, it was really bad. Not that the plot was changed a lot, but the writing was kinda crap. I kinda deserved the tittle back then.

The first few chapters were writen a few years ago and I improved a lot, but yeah, probably should change it to something better, just can't think of anything. Anyone has any suggestions?

Also, Kara was reincarnated, she just didn't remember her previous life until her time with the Psions, when the trauma made her remember. She reincarnated, lived her entire life as Kara, then remembered her previous life, almost as if she had been an Amnesiac recovering her memories. She/He didn't take over Kara's body, or her life, she was Kara, and her memories as Kara are actually more recent than those of her previous life.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!
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"Well, damn," Kara couldn't help but say as she read the information on the tablet.

She took a minute or two to read about the other genomorphs and felt sick to her stomach. She too wanted to throw the device away, the only thing stopping her was the fact its Kryptonian metal would probably break through the wall and kill someone, or at least alert the building to her presence.

The entire thing just hit far too close to her previous experiences at the hands of the Psions for comfort. It seems like Cadmus didn't just create the genomorphs from nothing or from a single genetic sample from an unknown race.

During Cadmus creation, the U.S. government saw some merit to Luthor's goals and quietly supported the project in exchange for data on the emerging metahuman threat.

The Genomorphs were actually created by using DNA from previous experimental subjects, humans who were experimented on by Cadmus in one of its smaller branch laboratories until they either escaped or died. The scientists had taken the DNA samples with the most promising powers and created the Genomorphs from them.

The current Genomorph types weren't the only ones created, just the only ones stable and useful enough to be mass produced.

Kara didn't recognize most of the names, but one of the subjects drew her attention, it seems like Dubbilex himself was created by using the DNA from Ace in the hopes of replicating her reality altering powers.

They were greatly disappointed, but not surprised, when he only showed signs of having her telekinesis.

It only left Kara angrier, she had been willing to give the Justice League a chance but damn, for them to have missed the Genomorphs even after Batman himself had shut down Cadmus human experimentations… how could they have fucked up so badly?

Later… she could deal with that later, now she had to focus on getting Match and Roy out of here, preferably, but not necessarily without anyone noticing it. "Alright, do you need my help taking over?"

"Depends," Dubbilex said in thought. "How exactly are you planning to take over? We could easily take over the building if we worked together and there are enough G-gnomes to mind control every employee but, either way, we would quickly be found out if we did so."

"I was thinking more along the lines of just… nudging the researchers away from anything we didn't want them to do, let them work on things we want while we gather information on their misdeeds," Kara confessed, she may have been a Kryptonian, but she wasn't really a mastermind or criminal genius. "Someone will still find out but, hopefully, when they finally realize there is something wrong, we will have enough information to get them all in jail… and it would buy me enough time to find a safe place for the genomorphs."

Kara didn't think she could fool The Light indefinitely, but she hoped they could do it long enough to be able to prove their identities to the Justice League and, more importantly, a court of law.

Worst case scenario, she'd still get some work done by Cadmus employees and Luthor would be paying for it.

It wasn't exactly a lawful thing to do, but Kara had long decided she cared more for what was right than for the law and she didn't really think her cousin would mind too much.

After all, he had been flying around and fighting crime long before the Justice League formed and had a UN charter. Vigilantism wasn't exactly legal either, as far as she knew.

"We can definitely do something like that," the leader of the Genomorphs said. "Usually, messing with someone's mind doesn't sit that well with me but, for those people, I don't think I'll have any problems."

"Good, I'll make sure to alter their electronic communications while you make sure they just… forget to do anything too unethical, hopefully we get a few months without detection."

"Likely," Dubbilex nodded while considering the people he… worked for. "We have been their servants for so long the scientists have become used to just ignoring us, nudging them away from noticing our activities will be easy if you can make sure we aren't caught on camera."

Kara wasn't exactly a programming genius. Her education had been more focused on producing hardware not software, but adapting the program she was using to delete her image so it would also include a few G-gnomes was easy to do.

"I can make it so no security camera notices any G-gnome where he isn't supposed to be but, if you want to do something big, you're gonna have to find a blind spot or warn me beforehand," then she pulled out a small casing and wrote her number on it. "If you need anything just use one of the employees phones to call that number. Also, inside the casing, there's a panic button, press it if you need immediate help."

"Thank you," Dubbilex bowed his head, his horns pointing her way. "This means a lot to us."

"It's nothing, I'm really sorry my cousin didn't do this earlier."

With their deal sealed Kara decided it was time to deal with the other problems in the building.

With access to Luthor's own secret server, she was able to find Match and Roy's locations with no trouble and, with Dubbilex and the G-gnomes, it was laughingly easy to traverse the building. She only had to modify the elevator data to indicate it wasn't moving and then walk towards it as if she owned the place. Right now, she kinda did.

It was incredibly easy for Dubbilex or any G-gnome to keep the human workers from even noticing her passage.

As they descended towards the storage area where Match was kept, Kara read about his situation.

It seemed like the complexity of Kryptonian DNA made his body really unstable. Not only did it have to be kept frozen in stasis to avoid further deterioration, it also had to be constantly fed with solar radiation to stop Match from dying.

Kara wasn't specialized in biology and she really didn't know if the Fortress had a solution for his problem. Krypton itself didn't deal very much with clones, much less failed Kryptonian clones made with Genomorph DNA as glue.

Although, Krypton scientists had been masters of biological, and even DNA manipulation, so there may be information about it on the Fortress.

She'd have to see what could be done, but there was a real chance she'd need to find someone trustworthy to help her solve it.

"It's really here," Dubbilex commented as the secret door opened revealing hundreds of stasis pods with failed experiments inside them.

"You didn't believe me?"

"You already proved how easy it was to infiltrate Cadmus computer systems," the Genomorph confessed with a blush. "It was entirely possible everything I read was something you put there."

Well… he wasn't wrong.

Kara shook her head and quickly located both Roy Harper and Match's stasis pods in her tablet. Both were locked in place, but could be moved with the use of a battery to temporarily power their systems, she went towards Match's first.

Despite being created through different methods, Match looked exactly like Kon-El, it made Kara wonder if that was how Kal-El had looked at their apparent age.

Mental note, make sure to ask for some photos from the Kents.

She made sure everything was in order with Match's pod, but didn't deactivate it. She remembered how the boy had reacted in the show and, despite her strength, she didn't know if she could subdue him without causing too much damage.

Kara stood there looking at the pod for a long time, her head twisting from side to side as she scratched at her chin in thought; Dubbilex eventually approached her side and asked. "Is something wrong?"

"Hmmm… I may have been a little hasty coming here," she confessed with some shame. She had just been staring at the clone with a single thought going through her mind, how was she going to bring the giant pod to the fortress? "I was thinking who I could call that wouldn't ask questions about a giant pod with a person inside and help me move it. Do you know if Wonder Woman has an invisible jet?"

"I… do not?"

Kara sighed. Well, it wasn't like she couldn't carry it there with her own arms but, well, flying around with an almost car sized pod above her head would be incredibly awkward.

Maybe she could call Batman? She could ask for help after she shouted at him about missing all this just a day ago. The only problem was that she still wasn't very familiar with the caped crusader of this universe.

Would he keep it a secret? Or would he try to take over the operation in the name of the League? Did she care if he tried?

Kara was surprised to discover the answer was no, no she did not. He could try all he wanted, she wouldn't let him.

In her mind, she had been making excuses for the way the League had just… missed an entire race of slaves right in the middle of the U.S but, after meeting and talking with Dubbilex, she could no longer pretend they hadn't royally screwed up.

Deciding to make a decision later, she went to check on Roy's own pod, even frozen as he was, the boy had a scared look on his face, he looked far too young to be captured by villains and his missing arm tugged at Kara's own strings.

She briefly glanced down at her own prosthetic and swore she'd grow him a new arm as soon as the Fortress cloning facility was ready. He wouldn't need to get a prosthetic from Luthor with who knew how many backdoors inside.

Then she glanced between the boy and Dubbilex and had a thought that brought a new smile to her face, it wasn't a very nice smile. "Say, just how good of a telepath are you?"

"I have to confess I'm a fairly strong telepath for a Genomorph, but there are G-gnomes who are both stronger and more skilled," he answered as he stared at the boy with some pity in his face. "Why do you ask?"

"Can you find and modify mental commands?" she asked, her mind working hard to think about the opportunity.

Didn't The Light like to use double agents to infiltrate the Justice League? She was already taking one of their facilities so, maybe she should take one of their plans too.

"That depends on how strong of a command it was and how deep it's been buried," Dubbilex said with a thoughtful voice. "I certainly couldn't disable a command created by someone like the Martian Manhunter but, if you can bring the subject to us and know what to look for, the G-gnomes are used to working with each other and there's enough of them to overcome just about anything."

"How… interesting," she suddenly couldn't contain herself and started snickering and then she laughed. "Muahahaha… wait where are you going?"

Dubbilex had retreated from her side and taken quite a few hurried steps away from her; at her question, he stopped and righted himself, but his red eyes avoided her own. "Apologies, Desmond used to laugh like that and it brought to mind some unpleasant memories."

"Ah, right," damn, she really had to stop with the maniacal laugh, it was cathartic, but she didn't want to give her cousin the wrong impression. "Anyway, that's for later. Can we unfreeze him right away?"

"I can get one of the scientists over if you need?"

"No, let me check their information first."

It seems Cadmus did indeed have the facilities necessary to unfreeze Roy, but it wasn't like Kara could just take him out of the pod. The entire process would take at least a day and his recovery a few days more to be safe.

With a sigh, Kara decided she would be flying with not one but two pods towards the fortress. Her takeover of Cadmus was far too risky and she wanted to leave as few vulnerable targets on the facilities as she could manage.

"Dubbilex, get their pods ready for transport, please, I'm gonna have to make some calls."

"Very well. I'll have a G-Troll bring the batteries over and move the pods."

Nodding to the male, Kara went back towards Match's pod, sitting down on an empty spot where another pod should be, dialing his number on her Kryptonian tablet. She smiled as his phone started to ring.

She really did love Krypton technology, no way would a human cell phone work this deep underground.

"Hello Kara, did you need anything?" Her cousin asked with a tired voice, Kara didn't know if she had ever seen or heard him when he wasn't tired. The League really was overworked. "I'm just getting home from League work if you could wait a little."

"Hi, Kal-El, we need to talk," She said with a serious voice. "When were you going to tell me there was another Kryptonian alive?"

"Kara I… it's complicated," He gave a huge sigh and Kara could feel the amount of frustration and exhaustion He was feeling even from across the phone. "He was made, Kara, made by my enemy to replace me… I just didn't want to get you involved and at risk."

"Kal you have Krypton's cultural data, you know being 'made' isn't exactly odd for a Kryptonian," letting her body slip towards the floor Kara rested her back against the support.

"He's dangerous Kara."

"He's a kid Kal, he needs help," Kara hit her head against the support in frustration. "I have seen what you have done for this planet, what you stand for, you're better than this."

"I-I know, I'll talk to him alright?" another sigh, another long pause. "Look, can we talk about this in person? You're still coming to the family dinner on the weekend right?"

"Only if I can take him too," when there wasn't a response Kara cursed in her mind. "Kal I won't say you're his father, but he is a member of the house of El, he's family."

"Alright, I guess I can introduce you two then."

"Kal, I already met the boy."

"WHAT?"

"I just said he was family, did you think I was just gonna leave him alone on that mountain?" Kara almost screamed back and had to take a second to calm herself, to remember her cousin was a failed being just like everyone else. She took another glance at the second clone inside his pod. "Look, don't think about him like he's your son, he isn't, just think of him as any other kid who suffered because evil people messed up his life, right now, he just needs help Kal."

"You're right," Kal-El eventually said as she heard him throw himself on the sofa. "You're right, is he still on the mountain?"

"Yes, I offered for him to stay with me but he needed some time to think."

"I'll talk with him tomorrow then. I really need to rest right now."

"That's all I ask," she told him and smiled, she'd still have to get back at him for his fuck up so he wouldn't think she'd just let it pass but, at least it wouldn't need to be anything drastic. "I'll see you on the weekend then."

"Alright, yeah," yet another frustrated sigh as Kara heard something breaking in his hand, then he relaxed. "And, Kara, thanks for calling me out on it."

"My pleasure, his name is Kon-El by the way, can't believe none of you guys even thought to give him one."

She turned off the phone and went back to looking at Match's pod. She had gotten her cousin to at least talk with Kon, but she didn't think he needed to face a second clone right now, one who was dying too.

Kara didn't have Batman's phone and a quick search on the internet with her device didn't uncover Bruce Wayne's personal cell phone, but she did find the Wayne manor landline on some private database.

She was still angry at the Justice League but, now that she thought about it, she couldn't justify keeping Roy hidden away from his adopted family. With some luck, Batman would manage to see the advantage of keeping the boy hidden and convince Green Arrow, she'd hate to see her newly formed plan be ruined because of her ethical standards.

By Rao, being a supervillain must be so much easier.

"You've reached Wayne Manor, how may I help you?"

"Hi Alfred, This is Kal-El's cousin, Kara, can I talk with Batman?"

There was a beat of silence over the phone and then Alfred took a deep breath. "Master Bruce will not be happy with this."

"Alfred, put Bruce on the line, please."

"Very well, it will be just a moment," Kara heard him walking for a minute or two before talking with someone. "Master Bruce, Superman's cousin wishes to speak with you."

"Clark wasn't supposed to share my identity," he said in a harsh, angry voice.

"My cousin didn't tell me you were Batman." She huffed.

"How did you find out?"

"I'm a Kryptonian under a yellow sun, how do you think?"

"Hmm, what did you need?"

"I was just curious, you guys had a Kryptonian, two green lanterns and the world's best detectives, how did you miss a second Superman clone and a frozen kid when you searched Cadmus?" she said in a conversational tone, "Particularly when it was the second time you guys dealt with a Cadmus problem?"

There was a long silence filled with barely contained tension before Batman spoke a single word. "Explain."

Kara was certain her device was secure from anyone trying to hear their conversation, both because her technology was so advanced and because nobody knew they had to counter it yet so, she did.

"I'll be there in twenty minutes," was the only thing the Bat said before turning off the phone, but Kara's enhanced hearing managed to hear a lot more.

The slight tremble in his voice, the shaking of his hand on the phone, the beating of his heart, the harshness of his voice, Batman was absolutely furious, almost beyond reason.

Without even touching the ground around her, Kara floated up and back to her feet, from the side, a huge G-troll came around the corner carrying a portable battery.

"Can I get a G-Gnome to help me bring Batman inside and make it seem like everything was in order?" Kara asked Dubbilex.

"Does he approve of our actions?"

"I doubt it, but he isn't saying anything yet and, after the way he dropped the ball here, do you think he has the right to say anything?"

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I was told that Readers nowadays have a very small attention spam, and I should let them know exactly what they were going to read from the start.

In truth, the quality of my first chapter was kinda... no, it was really bad. Not that the plot was changed a lot, but the writing was kinda crap. I kinda deserved the tittle back then.

The first few chapters were writen a few years ago and I improved a lot, but yeah, probably should change it to something better, just can't think of anything. Anyone has any suggestions?
What kind of readers do you want? Pretty much everyone on SB and SV is sick of asian web novels and the JP novel trick to put a whole sentence in the title to draw in lazy bastards who can't bother to read the blurb. It does not speak of quality but quantity.

There's similar fic to yours A Patina of Sunstone [DC SI] I had no idea what patina is, nor does it indicate at all what the story is about but the title sounded interesting so I gave it a chance.
It's enough to put fandoms in the brackets like (DC/Star Trek SI/OC).

Your improvement is mighty impressive, I can tell from your non SB/SV fics. As for the title change, you can go with explanatory like Kryptonian Inventor...well don't use that one, it's bad. The best titles are original and tangentially related like Never Fade Away, it's a song from Cyberpunk and a good title for fanfic of it.

Your Danmachi title is good, you can always go with funny if it's a comedy. Ok, here's a decent suggestion "Different kind of Hero".
It hints it won't be a goody two shoes who has to chase villains that escape from prisons, but better ask on SB or elsewhere where you have more readers for suggestions.
 
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Alright people, first, I still haven't came up with a new name for the fic, but I'm probably gonna be changing that this week (Got busy in RL here)

Next, new chapter is ready, I'll try to post chapter 13 tomorrow but, again, I'm not certain I'm gonna make it, if I don't, it will come in two days.

As some of my readers pointed out, the last chapters have been bashing on the JL a little too much for my liking. I have to say I didn't really start to write the previous chapter wanting to make the JL look bad, I never wanted to bash the JL because I love them, I think what they did to them in YJ is almost criminal and I wanted to write them better.

I'm also what they call a discovery writer, I do have a general plot in mind when I start writing things but if I lay it all on the screen before I start I just lose interesst in the story... it's not fun to write if I already know everything thats gonna happen and this is how the whole JL bashin kinda ran away from me.

This is also what happened with Mr. Mind's little plotline, the villain was never supposed to appear so soon, he'd only be a shady mastermind behind Amy (girl with lightning powers) attack, and he had only done so in order to gather information without risking members of the Monster Society and fully expected the girl to be defeated but, as I wrote, I let Amber escape after seeing the damage she was causing, in my mind she'd obviously go speak with her employer, the one who helped unlock her power and was kind to her, Mr. Mind would obiviously see the huge oportunity a depowered Captain Marvel was and show himself and the arc grew from there.

This has some very obvious downsides when writing in a serialized maner where chapters are posted often and one at a time, the main one being, I don't have the ability to revise everything or change things in earlier chapters to fix plot holes or things I didn't like later and the entire story usualy turns out VERY different from my initial goal.

Well, I could, since I'm going over the older chapters when reposting them here, but that would take far too much time, and I'm kinda happy with the way things eventually turned out so, while not entirely happy with JL bashing, I am content with the way this fic is going, when the JL made the mistake the bashing became necessary, hopefully this is the last chapter where they are really called into question and, from now on, it will just be the JL improving thins.

Next is another Kara chapter and then a Batman interlude in the same mold as my Superman interlude.

I hope you guys enjoy the chapter.



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Kara watched as Batman approached Roy's cryo pod with sure steps, her x-ray vision going over his body on instinct. He was actually already wearing a lead mask, plus his utility belt had several lead pouches, but his armor was mostly made from different materials.

She could also see he had a recently broken rib and a cracked bone in his leg, she was impressed, the guy wasn't even limping. "Wow, did you make a lead mask in just 15 minutes?"

"I had it prepared as soon as I found out someone managed to clone Superman." He grunted back and stopped in front of the pod.

For quite a few minutes he just stared at the boy frozen inside without moving a muscle, even his breath was calm making Kara think he was doing some kind of mental exercise to keep his anger in check. Finally, he asked. "How long until it's safe to release him?"

"It'll take a day or two, but I was planning on moving the pod to a safer place before I started," she told him and handed the man the tablet with Roy's medical information. "I'll also be moving Match's pod before releasing him."

"The second clone?" Batman asked, but it didn't wait for her answer. "Good, we're gonna have to call Green Arrow and hunt down the copy soon."

"About that…" Kara started to talk, but almost swallowed her tongue when Batman's burning gaze turned her way. Damn, the man was intimidating, and he didn't even turn his head. "The current Roy has no idea he's working for your enemies."

"That is obvious," the Bat said and turned his gaze back to Roy. "As much as the League messed up here, the boy couldn't fool us for two years if he was aware of what he was doing, is it drugs or telepathy?"

"The later," hmm, it seems Batman could be sharp when he was focused on things.

"You know who's responsible?"

"Beside's Luthor you mean? I have some idea," Kara put the few mentions of The Light she had managed to find in Luthor's private server and showed them to the Caped Crusader. "I have a few suspicions about who the members are, but it will take some time to confirm them."

"I'll start looking into it," Batman told her as he turned his eyes back towards the pod, almost as if he was unable to turn away from it for too long.

Kara knew she really should tell him about her knowledge of the YJ show but… she couldn't do it. No, she didn't want to do it. She didn't want to tell anybody how much she knew about things, about the world and the monsters hiding in it.

She liked keeping it a secret, that way she would have an advantage against anyone she faced. Rao, Batman himself had counters to the entire League hidden away, she could have her little secret too.

It was another advantage keeping her from ever getting used or captured by anyone else again and she really didn't like letting go of those. Plus she could still tell him their identities in a few days, after she had time to think about things, then she could justify her knowledge by claiming she had investigated it or something.

Shaking her head she decided to change gears. "How did you guys miss this, the slaves, the secret rooms?"

"We were tired and they played us," the Bat confessed, his voice becoming even harsher as his free hand closed into a fist. "Fighting Wotan had been challenging and Luthor worked quickly, his political power meant we only had a limited amount of time to search the facility before turning the case over to the authorities. Only Superman and Flash could have found this place in so little time and they probably had countermeasures specifically made to counter them.

"When we didn't find anything dangerous inside the facility, we trusted the legal authorities to deal with everything else, including the Genomorphs. We failed here, all of us."

"And the Green Lanterns?"

"In order for the UN to accept the League, the Green Lanterns had to work under several restrictions, they can't use it to break into private or government data banks unless there's a life at risk, the situation here was already resolved by the time we arrived."

"The countries were afraid you'd find all their dirty little secrets?" Kara asked.

"Yes."

"You know, you guys are called the Justice League but, are you really fighting for justice or just the law?"

As they quietly observed things A G-Troll approached them and actually lifted Roy's pod with a single hand, then connected it to a portable cart with its own energy source, making sure everything was in order.

"The League has to change," Kara continued as Batman didn't give her an answer, her voice hard as she made the ultimatum. "I'm not an expert and I don't have your experience so I can't tell you how to do it, but it HAS to change, you can't drop the ball like this again."

"Yes," was Batman's single word answer.

"That's it, that's all you're gonna say?" she threw her arms up and started walking away from the man.

"We fight for what is right, Kara Zor-El," Batman finally said. "We fight so no child has to see their parents die in front of their eyes again, so an evil man can't take a kid and force her to fight until her own power kills her and, sometimes, that means following the law. I want nothing more than to arrest Luthor right now, but what do you think is gonna happen if I do so?

"I could capture him, I could gather all the information on his computers, I could spread all the terrible things he had done to every corner of this world and he would still not stay in jail a single day because I didn't follow the law," the frustration on the Bat's voice was clear for anyone to hear, Kara didn't even need her super hearing. "But you're right, the League has to change, we are making too many mistakes, our enemies adapted and we did not."

Kara just stared at the man for a few seconds, finally, she sighed. "I still feel like punching you."

"Do you still need any help with the Genomorph situation?" he asked, ignoring her latest sentence and looking at Dubbilex. "I noticed no human bothered with me coming down here."

"A lawyer for when they inevitably have to come out in the open would be nice."

"I'll get it ready," he watched as the G-Troll started wheeling the pods towards the elevators, then turned back to her with a considerate look. "I can see you have a plan, tell me about it."

So she told him, she spoke as they went up to the surface without interference, or even the notice of any worker, then up into the Batplane and right back towards Gotham City.

"What you're proposing will be risky, even for a Kryptonian, you'll be going against enemies that could give even your cousin a fair fight," he commented when she finished and Kara snorted.

"I'm not asking for permission, even if Roy and Green Arrow don't agree I'll still do it, it will just be harder," she answered as she thought about things. "I'm also not going to do this alone."

"They'll agree. I'll just have to keep them away from Luthor until they regain their senses and they'll agree," Batman lowered the Batplane inside the cave and opened the hangar door. "Who are you thinking of recruiting, your friend?"

"She was really excited about teaming up with the sidekicks, plus she isn't really the most discreet girl," Kara said and sighed. "Not that I am a master spy or anything like that, but I can remain hidden when needed, Kori is a warrior at heart."

"I have a few ideas about that," the Bat told her and took a few seconds to send her a message with an address, "If you want to investigate The Light go there, they'll help you."

Kara didn't recognize the address, but a quick search showed it was just a large house beside a cemetery in New York City and owned by someone called Cain. Settling the Plane down, Kara saw there were already people waiting for them with medical equipment.

Beside Alfred, there was also an old, white haired woman waiting for them inside the cave, she had an incredibly annoyed expression on her face and barely lifted an eyebrow as Kara floated out of the plane holding both pods above her head.

"Leslie Thompkins, my trusted physician," Batman explained as he started walking inside the cave.

The woman's frown deepened and she tried to his Batman's head with a cane. "What did I say about leaving with those wounds?"

"Don't."

"Exactly! So why did Alfred just wake me up asking for my help!" Kara almost snickered as she watched the old lady berate Batman. "Now, let me see what I have to work with."

Kara carefully deposited Roy's pod beside the woman and made sure to send all the information about his state to the Batcave's reserve servers which Batman had given her access to. They were completely isolated from the main servers even by her equipment, so he probably felt safer that way.

"Do you have a Zeta-Tube in the cave?" Kara asked.

"Yes, I'll give you temporary permission to activate it before calling Green Arrow."

"Thank you. I appreciate it."

"Green Arrow will probably need some time to process this, I'll inform you when we're ready," With a nod, the Bat just left her there and continued walking inside the cave until he was outside of her usual vision.

Kara turned away and started looking for the Zeta-tube, but she still heard his steps becoming uneven as he started limping outside her view. Finally, his steps stopped and she heard him punch the wall, then lay his back against it and release a deep sigh, filled with frustration.

Trying to ignore it, she finally found the Zeta-Tube and activated it, leaving the cave until Batman called her back.
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Kara manipulated the Fortress controls and finished adapting the solar chamber to be able to house March's stabilizing fluid. Throwing herself back against the chair, she sighed. "How long until you can fully understand his biology?"

"Three days, his cells seem to be mostly defective Kryptonian cells, but there is an alien DNA mixed in and holding it together. The fortress database may not have the information needed to fully cure him."

"Not even by cloning him a new body?" she asked the AI.

"It would certainly increase his lifespan, but not solve the issue completely, his brain would still be composed of defective cells and eventually deteriorate, we could clone his brain tissue, but even Krypton was unable to ascertain if that would solve the issue or just create a new being."

"I see... would exposure to Nth metal solve the issue?"

"Again, it would delay the deterioration, but the cells are fundamentally wrong, it is unlikely to fully solve the issue."

"So, either I get a geneticist good enough to fix it, or I find a mage capable of transferring his soul," Kara wondered out loud. "Does the Fortress have any information about anyone who could help me?"

"Unfortunately, the great majority of such individuals are known villains, several scientists at star labs may be able to solve the issue given enough time and investment, but it is likely the clone would have already died by then."

"As for transferring his soul, again, the field is mostly dominated by villains, but Giovanni Zatara may be able to help with it, the former Dr. Fate or John Constantine however, are far more certain options."

"Ugh, right, there was that Fate debacle to deal with," Kara wasn't completely against Fate, yes the YJ version was a mind controlling asshole, but it could have easily been avoided if people didn't keep ignoring the man? Creature? Eldritch being?

The Lord of Order was a necessary presence in the universe, Kara doubted she could befriend the being, she'd always remember what he would have done by taking over Zatara's body, but she could respect it… somewhat. Its situation could have been handled so much better.

She could only imagine the state of the world's mystical problems after so many years without a Lord of Order to balance Klarion's influence. No matter how much of an asshole Nabu truly was, a Lord of Order was still needed and, at least, he was somewhat heroically inclined.

It would really suck to get rid of the helmet and get saddled with a dictator or mass murderer, not all order was nice after all. Kara was starting to see how the Justice League could be overwhelmed; she didn't even know where to begin solving problems.

No, that was a lie, she knew where she had to start, she had to get more allies, she had to get her own team, a team of heavy hitters capable of dealing with the likes of Klarion and Mr. Mind and coming out on top.

Maybe then she could make her cousin's life a little easier.

She did briefly think about getting the help from the team, but there was a problem. They were kids.

Sure it was fun to watch them work in a cartoon, but she just couldn't put them in the kind of situation she was planning on getting. In truth, the team was composed of kids with ages between 14 and 16 years. They most definitely should not be facing people like Vandal Savage and Sportsmaster, much less the eldritch abomination that was Klarion, no matter how much they protested they were ready.

For fuck's sake, they weren't even over the age of majority, they should NOT be risking their lives, she respected them for it, sure, but that doesn't mean she'd let them do it.

This is why there were child labor laws, damn it, and to think that she was mostly on the team's side when she watched the show for the first time.

At least she had to admit, most of the Team's troubles weren't the League's fault. At face value, their missions weren't anywhere as dangerous as they turned out to be.

Yes, they weren't ready for an infiltration mission on a foreign country, but Superboy, Miss Martian and Kid flash were strong enough not to be in any danger from average drug dealers and Robin and Aqualad had the training to deal with it.

More than that, almost all of their missions were like that, things they shouldn't have any problem with that went to hell because of things impossible to know were happening.

At least this time they'd have Kori with them, so they shouldn't get overcome by most dangers. Starfire may not have been the stealthiest of heroes, but Kara would actually give her a fair chance against almost any member of the Justice League, the girl was just that good a warrior.

With another sigh, Kara stepped away from the control panel and stretched her neck, now it was up to the Fortress to examine the clone in depth and try to find a solution to his defective genetics.

Who knows, it may not even be that problematic and its Kryptonian database may have a ready solution? Stranger things had happened.

It had been almost two hours since she arrived at the fortress and Batman hadn't called her back yet, Kara was starting to feel uncertain, had Green Arrow not agreed with their plan? Or was he taking his time beside his newly found foster child?

Kara's plan was simple: to use the Light's own creations against them, she had already taken over Cadmus and, with the G-Gnomes' help, she could deprogram both Kon-El and Speedy, getting both an uncompromised half-kryptonian and a double agent.

The Light's main advantages were their anonymity and the fact nobody knew where they hid, with Speedy freed from their mental commands, he could continue to act as if he was following orders and find out where they were.

The Light's main dangers were Klarion and Savage; if Kara could take out those two it would solve half her problems.

Not that she was underestimating Lex, freaking, Luthor but the main driving force behind this particular alliance were the two immortals who had been working behind the scenes for millennia.

At least she could trust Lex's xenophobia to turn him against someone like Darkseid in the end; she couldn't say the same about Savage, much less Klarion.

Unwilling to stay in place just waiting for an answer, Kara made a quick search on the internet and found what she was looking for, hopefully her first teammate. "Say, does the fortress have a shovel?"

"I'm sad to say Kal-El never felt the need for a shovel, but the fortress can easily produce one in a few minutes?"

"No need. It'll probably be faster without one anyway," Kara waved him and entered the Fortress Zeta-Tube, adjusting it to send her to New York.

As always, the Zeta-tube left her in a small, closed off alleyway where she could easily fly up, taking advantage of the night and her blank mask to keep her identity a secret.

From the air, she had to squint a little to be able to find where the Queen's was, but finding the memorial cemetery was actually pretty easy.

Making sure there were no guards around, she dropped on an empty patch of grass and tried to be as respectful as possible as she searched for one particular grave, finally she found it.

It read, in memory of Danette Reilly, 1924 – 1945.

Looking down at the ground, she used her x-ray vision and gave a sigh of relief to see the body was still inside, if a little bit deeper than she expected.

She hadn't been sure just when the woman had been exhumed and there was a chance she had come a little too late.

Considering the situation, Kara had been hoping the coffin would be closer to the surface and she could just… grab it and pull it up, but it was actually buried deep into the ground, it seems she'd have to get her clothes dirty. "I guess they did bury people 6 feet under back then."

With both her flight and the resistance of her body, a little bit of earth couldn't even inconvenience her, but she was annoyed she'd have to take a shower later.

With a sigh, she used her flight to start sinking into the ground until she could reach the coffin and pull it open, getting earth on her eyes felt kind of funny, but it didn't actually bother her, her eyes could bounce off bullets after all, and she had x-ray vision.

She quickly pried the coffin open and found Firebrand's body completely intact inside the wooden casket; pulling her up by the arm, she lifted the limp woman up and out of the hole in less than a minute.

Then she looked at the mess she had made and sighed again, the grave was less disturbed than if she had actually excavated it or pulled the entire coffin out, but there was still a large, uneven hole going down which was impossible to miss.

Lowering Firebrand's body beside her own gravestone, she considered the situation. "I do hope your problem is only a matter of hardware, I'm nowhere near as good at software stuff and I wouldn't want to mess up your personality."

Her clothes were already a mess, so she just started filling the hole she had made, then she got some grass from under a tree and laid on top of the bare earth before getting up and patting herself down. The grave was still a little lumpy, but nobody would notice it had been excavated unless they came very close.

Grabbing Firebrand's body, she smiled. "Now let's see what old man Morrow was capable of when he built you."

Kara couldn't wait to see if she could improve the woman with Kryptonian tech, Red Tornado may be one of the League's heavy hitter's but, when she was done with her; Firebrand would leave him in the dust.

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Chapter 13
So, I got some suggestions for a new name, and I quite like two of them, with another getting a chuckle out of me.

Anyways, don't be surprised if the title changes in a week or so!

Next chapter is a Batman interlude and, more importantly, enjoy the chapter!
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Kara crouched under her bed trying to find where she had put her Rao damned sunstone adapter, she just knew she had left it somewhere in her bedroom.

Then she actually remembered who she was and almost cursed. Using only one hand, she lifted the bed all the way over her head and finally found the damn thing resting just beside the wall.

"There you are," she gently kicked the device towards the middle of the room and lowered her bed back into place with a sigh.

She really should have thought more about her actions, it would have been so much better to use her cousin's Fortress of Solitude to get Firebrand back in working condition.

In fact, she had been halfway towards the building before she realized she didn't have a justification for how she knew about the android.

Now, she had an inert android on her living room and had to make do with the technology she had on hand or in her spaceship, and not all of it was capable of interacting with human technology without help, even mad geniuses' technology.

Kara grabbed the adapter and took the chance to also grab some discarded clothes lying around her room, throwing them into the washing bin. Finally, she started to make her way back towards the android.

From ahead of her, she heard the apartment door opening, then a little girl's scream followed by a shout of "Shazam!"

Kara's eyes went wide as the large superhero burst through her door, damaging the wall and breaking the wooden frame, with a worried look on his face, electricity was still cursing through his muscled form.

"Miss. Zor-El! Are you alright?" his eyes looked all over the room taking in her messy bed, the books spread around the floor and a sunstone crystal floating above a pedestal in the middle of the room with cables spread all around it. "Are you aware there's a body in your sofa?"
"Hi, Billy," Kara sighed and took the chance to mess up the Captain's hair, "It's not a body, it's an Android."

"Ah, I didn't know you could build an Android, Cool!" his serious expression melted from his face and he glanced at the damage he had done with a sheepish look, "Sorry about this then, I thought someone had attacked you."

"Don't worry about it," it really was Kara's own fault for leaving Firebrand just lying there anyways. "Is Kori with you?"

"Yeah, she invited me in after a joint training with Wonder Woman."

"Great, come on then," Kara made her way back towards the living room to see Kori looking at Firebrand's body with a curious gaze. "Hi, Kori."

"Hello friend Kara, please, was this some vile miscreant you had to take down?"

"Nope, this is Dannete Reilly, better known as Firebrand," she told them as she kneeled in front of the Android and laid the adaptor against its back. "I guess you can call her Red Tornado's older sister."

The crystal tip of her adaptor pierced right though Firebrand's false skin and connected to one of the cables inside her body. Quickly, it pressed itself against her form and started sending information directly to Kara's computer.

"So… you can't build androids?" Billy asked and Kara could hear the slight tone of disappointment on his voice.

"Billy, I can indeed build an Android," Kara bragged and started reading the diagnosis from her device. "I'm not skilled enough to create a sentient AI like Firebrand or Red Tornado, but I bet I can build a much better body than this one."

Kara hadn't completed her studies in Krypton, but her home planet had been so advanced she could be considered a genius in both mechanical and electrical engineering, and at least decent in many other fields of study, even if her studies didn't exactly translate perfectly to the technology she currently had on hand.

Not biology though, she had always hated biology.

"Shazam!" Marvel said and turned back into his 10 years old body since there wasn't anything dangerous. "Cool… so, why do you have Red Tornado's sister in your living room?"

Kara thought about her answer, how much did she want to tell the boy and how much could she get away with hiding? By Rao, they had already found her with the android in her home; it was kind of too late to hide everything.

From the side, Kori released a gasp and turned her shinning green eyes towards her. "Exultation, Delight, friend Kara, have you rescued The Red Tornado's sister from some nefarious villain and will attempt to reunite them?"

"I mean, I guess that's kinda right?" Kara said, she had wanted Firebrand as an ally, but she wouldn't keep her from meeting old friends if she wanted to. "I actually wanted Firebrand's help with something but, giving her a second chance in life was a huge part of why I choose her."

Kara had always thought Firebrand had gotten a raw deal in the show, sacrificing her life to save a friend only to be awakened several decades later, mind controlled, and forced to sacrifice herself again to stop Red Volcano.

At least Red Torpedo had gotten an entire life of his own before he was controlled by Morrow's robotic clone and had to sacrifice himself to stop his younger brother.

"Joy, I always knew you had a most righteous spirit," Kori's giant smile made Kara turn her eyes aside and blush from the praise. "Please, do you require any help?"

"Not right now," Kara took another look at Firebrand's body and sighed. "Look, can you two keep this quiet, at least for a now? I don't want too many people finding out about me or what I am doing."

"I… I don't know, are you sure you're alright Miss Zor-El, you know the League can help you."

"Aw, are you worried about me Billy? How cute," her equipment finished Firebrand's diagnosis with a flash and sent the information to her tablet. "Don't worry, Batman and some other people are gonna be helping me so I'm not doing this alone. Also, I told you to call me Kara already Billy."

"Yes Miss Kara."

"Ought I help you with your goal friend Kara?" Kori asked as she tried to read the information in the tablet. "It is avowed I am not a discrete person, but I can restrain myself if needed, and no villain yet knows of my existence, perhaps I could be of help?"

"Thanks Kori, but don't worry about it," Kara smiled at her, but shook her head. "I know you're very eager to work with the other sidekicks and learn about Earth. Plus, I actually trust you to protect and help to train my new family."

"Truly? Has The Superman accepted Superboy as a member of the family then?"

"It's a work in progress," Kara said and sighed. "He's letting me bring the boy to meet his family this weekend at least so, there's hope. Ah, his name is Kon-El by the way."

"The Superman is a great hero, yes? He will not turn the boy away, even more so as you have acknowledged your familial relationship with him."

"I certainly hope so."

Looking over the information, it seemed like Firebrand's memory was intact inside the Android and Kara wouldn't need to touch her programming, her supposed death was only a hardware problem.

Kara would need to take the heroine's body into her spaceship to do the repairs, but it was nothing beyond her abilities, or resources.

"Anyways, how goes the training?" Kara asked as she carefully settled Firebrand's body into a chair and freed the sofa for her own use.

"Giovanni is great." Billy said as he grabbed a bag of chips and started eating. "I thought he'd just lecture me, but he's actually teaching me spells even without transforming! Then we had a joint exercise with Wonder Woman."

"Diana is a great teacher! Today we went to The Mall of Shopping and partook of some of humanity ancient customs, the sharing of frozen treats and procurement of varied clothing while sharing stories."

"She took you shopping and then you had ice cream?" Kara asked, incredulously.

"Indeed, Princess Diana said my martial ability was satisfactory and we should work on acquiring social skills!" Kori said while sucking on a straw inside a bottle of mustard. "She also informed me there will be a meeting in two days with the entire team."

Well, Wonder Woman wasn't actually wrong. Taking in the information, Kara nodded. The League was probably ready to give their sidekicks some freedom in two days then.

Kara wondered if they'd still form as a black ops team after she had interfered, or would they become more like Teen Titans now that they had Kori?

"I'm gonna have to take Firebrand to the ship if I want to repair her," Kara informed the two of them as she picked up the android once again and put on her blank mask. "Ah right, Kori, do you mind if Kon-El comes to live with us sometime this week?"

"I do not, the apartment is of considerable size and his presence will be greatly appreciated."

"Right, see you later then."

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"Welcome back, Mistress Kara," said the robotic voice of her ship's AI as Kara entered the bay.

Kara had been improving her ship's capabilities a little bit every day since getting access to the Fortress and Kryptonian Tech. She may not have access to military grade equipment, but even civilian tech was an improvement over what the Psions had.

The ship was almost entirely covered in sunstone, with some of the mineral growing outwards from its side like a huge pimple. Kara had high hopes for how this particular project would turn out.

Sunstone was great like that, not only would it grow simply by absorbing sunlight, Kara could also program how it would develop, making it take the shape of a second ship attached to the Psion's vessel.

In a month or two, she'd have her own Fortress of Solitude parked on the outer side of the moon. Only, it wouldn't have her cousin's base of information and be mobile. Then she could throw the Psion ship into the sun and be rid of the last of those assholes.

"How goes the experimentation?" Kara asked, she hadn't actually named the AI, it was far from being sentient and most of its programming was still made by Psions, she didn't want to get attached.

"Seventy percent of your projects have resulted in failure, another twenty two point thirty three percent have remained inconclusive and two new wavelengths of Kryptonite have been found."

The computer informed Kara with no emotion on its voice, she'd have to improve that when she finished growing her new ship, the cold and robotic voice gave her the creeps.

"Which experiments were inconclusive?" She asked as she laid the android on top of a metal bed and started gathering the necessary tools to open her up.

"One of the Kryptonite shards is still being subjected to experimentation and the current computers can't fully monitor the changes on the Nth metal samples."

Well, seems like she'd have to get better sensors then, could she make something capable of monitoring magic too?

Cutting off Firebrand's clothes, Kara revealed the hole on her chest where Dragon King had shot her. At first look, it really was no different from a normal human.

Since she was a Kryptonian, Kara didn't even need protection equipment, she used a saw to clean the damaged section of organic material revealing the Android's red painting underneath, then slowly cut her back open and revealed a myriad of damaged cables.

Thankfully, it seemed like the energy source for Firebrand's flame control wasn't damaged; only it's connection to her central circuitry and other essential equipment.

It seemed like Morrow had made it so any large damage to her chest area that pierced her organic coating would almost immediately turn her off. It caused her body to appear dead and prevented anyone from finding out she had been an android.

"Huh, I guess it was better to just recover the android later and then change its face." Kara muttered while working. "No need to risk revealing he had been able to infiltrate the Justice Society and get their guard up against his next attempt."

Repairing all the damage was impossible and producing suitable substitutes would take time, so Kara made sure to keep Firebrand's memory and personality safe while taking out her pyrokinetick core for study.

In fact, instead of getting a substitute, she'd study Firebrand and reprogram some sunstone to be compatible to her core design.

Yes, the kryptonian technology would give Firebrand far more energy to work with and actually allow her to regenerate from damage while also making her more resistant.

A pity Kara didn't have access to kryptium or she'd truly make Firebrand a monster.

Still, with how modular sunstone was, it would be easy to allow Firebrand to change configurations. Kara's mind was immediately filled with canons and fire jets.

Wait, could she pack enough energy inside Firebrand for her to create a plasma sword? It would be hot enough to explode people like Kara had done with the Evil Eye, but Firebrand could keep it as a last resort.

She was so giving the woman a plasma sword.

Three hours later she decided to take a break from working with the sunstone and take a look at the kryptonite variations, Kara was almost done with the damaged part of Firebrand's circuitry but, she still wanted to swap everything else before waking her up into a new body.

Making sure to activate her radiation shield, Kara looked through the reinforced glass and smiled when she saw the two shards of Kryptonite she had created. It would need testing but…

A smile grew on her face as she got the perfect way of punishing Kal-El for abandoning Kon-El like that. She was pretty sure Kon-El wouldn't be able to appreciate the prank today but, in a few years, when he developed a little more?

Kara would take photos, so many photos.

Of course, she'd have to think about something worse if Kal-El didn't get his act together after their family meeting but, until then, she could take it easy on him. He was her little cousin after all.

Her phone rang on her pocked, causing her to snap back to reality, pulling out the device, she saw it was from Batman so she hurried to answer.

"Speedy will be in Star City tonight, meet us there by 7."

The Bat actually hung up on her before she could answer causing Kara to huff in annoyance. At least Dubbilex had already informed her, the G-Gnomes would be ready to work on Kon-El and Roy anytime she wished.

Satisfaction filled her, she tried not to think of the genomorphs as her minions, she really did but… it was hard.

"No, bad Kara, they're sentient beings you're currently helping escape slavery and fight against their oppressor, and you're trying to be a hero anyway," she chided herself as she looked at the time, she'd have to get moving soon if she wanted to make it. "Heroes don't have minions, they have sidekicks."

Could Dubbilex be a sidekick? He was certainly young enough for it.

Kara grimaced as she grabbed the respirator and opened the ship's hangar, as a Kryptonian, she shouldn't even need to breathe when under a yellow sun but, her damaged cells still needed oxygen far more often than she liked.

Stepping away from the ship, she started flying back to Earth.



It took some time to finally reach Star City, Batman hadn't actually left her an address but, with how good her hearing was, a little bit of concentration was all she needed to sense him and Green Arrow talking on an empty rooftop.

She gently stepped into the roof and saw both heroes waiting for her there, Batman was busy reading something on his communicator, but Green Arrow was pacing from one side to the other, his arms crossed and his fingers digging into his skin in a way Kara was sure would have drawn blood had he not been wearing gloves.

"You're here," the Bat simply said as he glanced at her. "Speedy should be here in half an hour."

"Why would he come here?"

"Across the street is one of Brick's bases of operation… Speedy is trying to gather information on his activities and will be here to install monitoring devices," Green Arrow said as he finally stopped pacing and scratched at his tired face with both hands. "He's still using some of my supply spots for equipment."

"So, are we just capturing him them?"

"You're the one who found Roy, Big Blue's cousin right?" Green Arrow said and actually warped his arms around her body in a heartfelt hug. "Thank you."

"Ah, yeah…" Kara was left without knowing what to say, she patted the man's back and looked towards Batman but he was ignoring her. "Sooooo, the Bat managed to keep you from killing Luthor?"

She really had no idea what to say.

"Yes, God knows I wanted to, but…" releasing her, the man stepped away and shook his head as if it would help dispel his anger. "I don't even know what I should do. I think I know the clone for almost as long as I trained Roy."

Kara turned her eyes away from the awkwardness of the situation, what could she say to that.

"Are we taking him to Manhunter or the Genomorphs?" She finally asked Batman, the man glanced at Green Arrow for a second and turned off his computer.

"I spoke with Manhunter, while he could deprogram the clones he informed me the Genomorphs would be a better, safer choice." Kara lifted an eyebrow at this information.

"Isn't John far stronger than them?"

"Yes and, if we wanted to break his mind, that would be useful," Batman said as he approached the two of them. "Manhunter informed me unraveling, and even finding, such commands is more about knowing the mind you're working with and being careful than raw power."

"And the genomorphs have far better knowledge of the clone's mind." Kara realized as the man explained, but Green Arrow was still unsettled by the idea.

"Don't worry, Manhunter promised he'd look over their work once it was done but, the genomorphs really are the best option in his opinion."

Not that Batman himself seemed to be any happier about the prospect, from the way his body tensed at the thought. He probably still didn't trust the Genomorphs.

"How're we capturing him?" Kara asked.

If she had been alone she probably would just use his mental commands against him, she still remembered the clone would freeze if she said "Broken Arrow", but the information wasn't anywhere on Cadmus computers so, she couldn't justify using it. She had already messed up enough no need to make everybody even more suspicious.

"I'll try talking with the boy," Green Arrow said as he scratched at his beard. "Clone or not I still trained him for years, he'll listen to me."

"In case Green Arrow fails to convince him and Speedy manages to escape, we'll intervene and subdue the boy," Batman said and handed her a small black injector. "This should cause him to pass out in a few seconds, we can't risk him escaping and warning his handlers, willingly or not."

Kara nodded and they all retreated inside the building to wait for Roy to arrive, Green Arrow started pacing again while Batman just continued reading something. Kara started thinking about her future.

She had been making do with asteroid mining and selling gold in pawn shops, but it wouldn't work for much longer, there are only so many pawn shops in the world before she had to find some, even less legal, other means.

There was also only so much gold she could sell before she crashed the market.

More than that, hauling gold back and forth just took too much time and felt like grunt work, there were far better things she could be doing.

Hmmm, how would she go about creating her own company anyway? She'd have to get an Earth identity and documents and then start hiring people who weren't too arrogant to work for a young woman.

There were so many Kryptonian devices that could improve life on Earth. It would still take a lot of work to adapt it so human's themselves could both understand, and produce, the technology, but she could really make a difference.

She smirked, it would be so satisfying if she could use her own company to corner the market and drive LexCorp into bankruptcy.

Better yet, she could work towards buying LexCorp and turn it towards improving the world instead of killing Superman. By Rao, with how much more advanced Krypton had been, she could even succeed.

Did she know any smart businessman beside Luthor in the DC universe? She'd need one of those as CEO if she wanted to take him on, no matter how good her tech was.

She knew she had gotten the advantage over Luthor and The Light right now, but she'd need some smart people on her corner when they started plotting against her.

Suddenly, Kara's head turned towards the side and she immediately looked through the building to see an arrow poking from the side of the brick wall, a thin rope tired too it. Not even half a minute later, Speedy came sliding down the rope, using his bow as a handle.


Green Arrow traded glances with the two of them and nodded before leaving the shadows of the building and started walking towards his sidekick.


Roy had leaned over the edge of the building and was watching Brick's employees working on the illegal building. "Hello Roy, I heard you aren't answering your friend calls?"


Roy's head turned towards his mentor and snorted. "If they want to play house with the League I won't stop them, but I have real work to do."


"Come on Roy, you know that's not what the League wanted to do," Green Arrow sighed and sat on the edge of the building. "Look, kid, you know that's not why we kept you from the space station."


Kara grimaced, noooooo, don't call him kid you idiot!


"Don't patronize me!" Roy slapped his mentor's hand and stepped away. "I don't need you cuddling me when I know I can do better. I'm tired of your bullshit."


"Roy… look, we really need to talk alright"


"There's nothing to talk about!" The boy snapped and pulled out another arrow from his quiver. "First, you keep me away from any important mission, now you're even interfering when I'm doing something for myself. Stop trying to keep me down!"


It seemed like Roy really was done talking because he shot his arrow towards a street lamp, a second rope trailing behind it and growing taunt when it hit something solid.

For a second, Kara though nobody would do anything and got ready to catch Roy herself as he put his bow over the cable, but then Green Arrow moved with surprising speed.

A second arrow flew straight at the line and cut right through it, causing the cable to snap and almost making Roy fall on his ass.

"Look Roy, we really need to talk," Green Arrow's only answer was an arrow to the face.

He dodged the projectile and closed the distance between them, using his bow as a club to hit Roy's legs and cause him to fall down.

"Stop it kid," he jumped over Roy's sweeping kick but got a punch to the stomach while in midair. "Uff, think about what you're doing, this isn't you Roy!"

Turning towards Batman Kara asked "Should we step in?"

"No, Green Arrow has it handled."

"We're just here to watch?"

"We're here in case he manages to escape, or has reinforcements," Batman said and finally turned away from whatever he was reading to watch the fight in silence.

Green Arrow and Speedy traded blows, using their bows as weapons to try and disable each other, but Kara could see they weren't trying to really hurt each other.

"Enough!" Roy managed to push Green Arrow away.

Faster than Kara thought possible for a normal human, they pulled arrows from their quivers. The kid was faster and shot his arrow at his mentor's feet, then jumped away to avoid the result.

It exploded, expanding into foam and covering a large part of the rooftop in an instant.

Green Arrow had been ready, he knew his protégée was actually a faster shot than him and was already twisting aside before the foam had covered him, then he released his own arrow which split into four ropes to encircle Speedy.

The boy was still in the air and couldn't dodge, but he still managed to interpose his bow between the arrow pieces and stop the rope from completely locking his arms.

Falling to the ground, Speedy managed to reach another arrow and started to cut the cable, but Green Arrow was faster.

Grabbing speedy's bow with both hands, the older man pressed the boy down into the ground. Roy tried a few tricks such as using gadgets in his legs or fighting dirty, but Green Arrow had taught him everything he knew and managed to overcome it all.

"Sorry about this Roy," the archer said and pulled away from his protégée, an empty injector in his hand.

"How…?" Roy asked in the ground, his voice already failing him, with a hurt look on his face, he only managed a single other word before falling unconscious. "Why?"

"Come, were taking the Batplane towards Cadmus."

"Not gonna use the zeta-tubes?" Kara asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Two risky, Speedy had access to the network, there's no way to know how compromised it is."

Approaching the sleeping boy, Kara made to grab him, but Green Arrow stopped her.

"No, let me do it," he wiped his mouth on his sleeve and got up from his sitting position, "Damn, I'm not as young as I used to be."

He looked down at Roy and sighed deeply, his face becoming a frown. "Sorry kid," With a grunt, he lifted the boy in his arms and adjusted his mask with unusual gentleness.

The flight towards Cadmus was a quiet one, Batman wasn't exactly talkative even in his best days and even Green Arrow didn't seem up to talking. Finally, Kara couldn't stand it anymore and spoke.

"Don't worry, we're fairly sure we can undo the mental commands without causing damage."

"Thanks, but what about Roy, the original one I mean?" He covered his face with both hands and quietly screamed for a few seconds. "God, this is such mess."

"You do know Kal-El's Fortress is creating a cloning facility as we speak right? Human body parts are far easier to make, Roy can have his arm back in a few months," then she tapped her metal leg with a finger causing it ring. "Until then, I can make him a substitute."

"Ugh, didn't we have enough of a mess with clones already?"

"Well, it's not really the same thing," Kara explained. "Krypton didn't deal with full on cloning of sentient beings, the religious guild came down on that really hard, but we could create tissue samples, organs and limbs for medical purposes, we used the patient's own DNA to prevent rejection."

"So, you'd just… grow him a hand?"

"It wasn't my area of expertise, but I think it was more like… building him a new hand using biological material?" She said, but it was more like a question, the entire thing wasn't really common back then, it was not like many kryptonians even needed such medical procedures in the first place. "I never really saw it in action."

"Right… sometimes I forget you guys are aliens with interstellar travel and other such things," he shook his head and lay back against the seat. "And... thanks, I'm sure he'll appreciate that."

An hour later Roy was inside one of the genomorphs pods with ten G-gnomes all around him, their little horns glowing brightly as they worked.

"How long is this going to take?" Green Arrow asked.

"Once we knew the situation, my brothers were able to locate several of the G-gnomes responsible for the initial work on the boy," Dubbilex told the worried hero. "None of us were responsible for his mental commands, but we are familiar with his mind, it will only take a few hours to undo his commands."

Turning back to Kara, Dubbilex continued speaking. "Once we are done here, it should be easy to go over our brother Kon's own mental commands, in about the same amount of time."

"Thanks Dubbilex, we appreciate it."

"One last thing, one of my brothers informed me there was yet another clone of the boy on the facility."

"What?" Green Arrow whirled around to stare at the genomorph and even Batman started paying attention. "Where is he?"

"It seems like Guardian himself was an aged clone of Roy Harper, The Light decided to use him as a bodyguard. We have already started looking over, and scrubbing away, any commands on his mind."

"Fuck!" The hero cursed and kicked the wall with his full strength, only his steel caped boots preventing his toes from breaking. "Godsdamnit!"

Batman turned away from the room and Kara decided to follow his example, leaving the incensed hero alone to vent his frustrations.

"You know what; I think I can let them recover for a week or two before I pitch my idea to them," Kara commented to the caped crusader. "As long as The Light doesn't find out we have their mole, I'm not in a hurry, and I do need some more time to improve my plan."

It was not like Kara had anything on paper yet, she had an idea she wanted to pitch to them, but it would take a long time to iron out all the little details and refine the idea into a working plan.

Without turning her way, Batman eventually started talking almost in a wondering tone.

"Over the years, I have come to trust the League, we aren't perfect, we aren't infallible, and this showed just how much such failure can cost, but I have come to trust it enough that I don't need to watch over their shoulders for everything they do."

Kara wondered why he was speaking like this, yes the Justice League needed to be better, but he didn't actually own her the explanation.

"That means I'll be trusting Green Arrow to act as your connection to the League. I'll be too busy restructuring the League to micromanage your team," he said and finally turned around to look her in the eye, his eyes were hard and filled with a newfound conviction. "That also means I trust Superman enough not to immediately disable and interrogate you, despite all your little slips and the inconsistencies in your story, don't make me regret it."

Kara gulped, despite being a Kryptonian and having all sorts of contingencies in her costume, the Bat still managed to be intimidating.

As the hero started walking away from her, Kara watched his retreating back. Remembering something else, she lifted a finger to call his attention, but couldn't bring herself to speak, Batman stopped anyway. "What?"

"Ah, I kinda need some human documents?" She told him and the Bat nodded.

"I'll hand them to Superman when I next see him."

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Chapter 14 - Interlude 2
Yo, Fic's probably gonna change names in two chapters or so, just giving you guys a warning so you don't find it strange when it happens.

I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!
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Bruce Wayne stood in front of a grave. It was a simple grave, with only a name and the dates of birth, and death, with far too few years between them.

As he knelt, he had to control himself to avoid crushing the bouquet of flowers in his hands. Releasing it in front of the gravestone, he lowered his head and closed his eyes for a few seconds.

Since when had he become so careless? So trusting as to leave matters in the hands of the authorities, not making sure they were followed through? He was from Gotham city, he should have known how corrupt the police and government could be.

He had mellowed out, working with the Justice League, people he both respected and, even rarer, trusted, had made him careless.

It would not happen again.

"Who was she?" Clark asked in a soft voice as he approached from between the trees.

Bruce sighed, he hated being so predictable that his friend could so easily notice what mood he was in. Then again, the Kryptonian missed very few things despite not being a detective himself. "Ace, she was one of Cadmus previous victims."

"You…knew about Cadmus?"

"Not the main laboratory, no," Bruce said and sighed again, but didn't explain further.

Once upon a time, Bruce had faced the Royal Flush Gang and, later, accompanied Ace in her last moments.

That particular division of Cadmus responsible for the gang had been isolated from the main laboratory, in another city and under government supervision. It had been built thanks to a government contract and, while still holding the Cadmus name, had very little to do with the current source of their problems.

More than that, Batman had made sure it wouldn't be active ever again.

Luthor had managed to escape that crime too, quickly shifting the blame onto the government and the supervisor while denying any direct involvement.

In his defense, not all of Luthor's companies were criminal in nature, and it really had been the government's fault that time. Batman had made sure of that. Not that the business tycoon hadn't managed to profit from it anyway by the looks of it, the Genomorphs themselves were proof of that.

"I'm calling an emergency meeting of the League."

"Another one?" Clark lifted an eyebrow and handed him a coffee cup.

"We need immediate changes," Bruce took a sip of the coffee and continued to look at the grave. "We also need to vote on the League's expansion, fast."

"What are you thinking?"

"We need to include normal people, delegate some duties and follow up on our work."

"You… delegating?" Clark snorted and shook his head in disbelief.

"The League has grown too big and too busy. I've started missing things Clark. I can't afford to miss things."

"Well, I can't say I don't agree. Lately, I've been acting as Superman too much, I miss just being myself," the man said and sipped on his own coffee. "How was she?"

"You were right," Bruce told him as he touched the tombstone one last time and turned away from the grave. "Her wounds weren't just from the accident."

And hadn't he made a mistake there too? The entire Cadmus situation had left him disoriented and confused and he had fallen back on old habits, threatened the girl as if she was one of his criminals in need of a shake down. Even worse, it was a mistake with so much potential to hurt his friend, his best and, perhaps only, friend.

He should have done better.

At the time, he had seen a superpowered Kryptonian far too comfortable with killing her enemies, and far too hasty on her actions, going after the clones and dealing with the Genomorph situation by herself, with no thought for the consequences of her actions.

So, he had threatened her and, only later, connected the dots. He almost immediately regretted it.

"You're sure?"

"She's fidgety, she doesn't realize it, but she flinches at small noises and keeps looking around as if afraid," he told his best friend while they walked back to his car. "She's also incredibly uncomfortable inside Cadmus, actively avoids looking in the direction of the scientists there and empathizes far too much with their experiments."

"It's not just, you know, her having empathy?"

"Not this much, she acts harshly and lets things slip when dealing with the experiments," Bruce said and looked his friend in the eyes. "She also knows more than she's telling us Clark, I won't look into it but… be careful."

"She's family Bruce, the Fortress verified she existed and its medical exams would have discovered if she was just a clone or another kind of trick," Clark sighed and looked up in frustration.

"I know, and I'm happy for you, just don't let it blind you."

"I won't."

Clark accompanied him in silence for a while, his own anger barely contained at what his cousin must have gone through. Diana's new protégée had been clear on her information about the Psions and, given her reactions, Kara must have been in their hands for some time.

"I also acted harshly. Her keeping secrets rubbed me the wrong way after everything that happened," he confessed as they reached his car and stopped.

"Ugh, this entire thing has left us all out of balance," Clark said and put a hand on his back for comfort. "You know, she's bringing the clone to our family dinner this weekend."

"I didn't, but I approve," Bruce told him.

"I knew you would, it's just so…" Despite being a reporter Clark didn't have the words to describe what he was feeling.

Bruce didn't press, letting his friend gather his thoughts. Finally, he pulled a folder from inside the car and handed it over.

"Here, your cousin's documentation, she's Kara Danvers now, adopted by an old couple, she inherited a small tech business in Pennsylvania."

"How'd you even get it so fast?"

"I already had it, it was a contingency in case I ever needed money without using the Wayne name, I have a couple dozen," Bruce told him with a smirk, he liked being ready. "I only had to make small changes to the name and gender to make it work."

"Thanks Bruce." Clark patted his shoulder for support and Bruce nodded, but his smirk fell away soon after, he wasn't felling very happy right now.

He drove home, his mind working overtime as he thought about everything he had seen, heard and read today.

Reaching his home, he went directly to his office and made sure to read about the League's activity today, after that, he also checked how Gotham was doing and if his presence was needed in the city.

A broken rib wouldn't stop him from doing his duty if it was needed.

Lastly, he checked up on Richard. The boy was still out with Kid Flash and would only be back by night. Bruce liked that, he liked that Richard still had a life outside the costume and wasn't driven by revenge, he liked that he wouldn't end up like him.

Hopefully, this new team would allow him to make friends, people he could trust at his side and that would keep him from growing bitter with the world.

Then he got to work. First was the new direction for the team. The League knew the teenagers wanted more responsibility, to get away from their mentors and work for themselves. It was also clear they wouldn't take no for an answer, they were teenagers.

Bruce wanted nothing more than to keep them under his wing for as long as possible, to protect them and teach them so they wouldn't have to make the same mistakes he did when he had started out, or face the same problems but, sometimes, that was impossible.

The team was supposed to be the League's "black ops" division, giving the teens something important to do which couldn't be done better by more experienced heroes, for the simple reason that the more experienced heroes couldn't do it.

It was important work, which the League really couldn't do if they wanted to keep their UN charter.

They'd be working on League information and their missions would be carefully chosen, so they wouldn't have to face anyone too dangerous, in theory. Batman knew how things could escalate suddenly when things went wrong.

The truth was, nobody would be fooled, the team didn't have the necessary training to remain undetected and their powers were very distinctive.

Even if they succeeded in a mission without immediate detection, it would still be pretty obvious who was responsible, the team would leave evidence behind but, so what? They weren't League members.

Of course everyone would know who sent them there, not only would it extend the League's reach without causing public or legal backlash but, hopefully, it would also stop villains from just flaunting their activity and daring the League to do anything.

It was against the spirit of their charter but, in truth, only Captain Atom would care, maybe, if he was forced to deal with it.

The League worked under the charter because it made things easier, made their arrests stick, kept their villains behind bars for longer and gave them access to more information and resources, not because they would be forced to stop saving people without it.

Now, Bruce was starting to change his mind about it.

With proof that there were entire teams of villains monitoring League activity, and some had even managed to infiltrate the League, it became too dangerous for the teens to work in the shadows.

Plus, with Kara working to make her own team, it may also be unnecessary.

No, instead of a black ops unit, he'll truly make them a team, something even better than the League.

The League, for all its ability and cooperation, was still a collection of individuals, they worked well together, yes, but they were still individuals. In a fight, the League was only as good as its members, the sidekicks could be so much more.

When he finished typing his proposal, Richard had already arrived, he took a small break from work to have dinner with him and went right back to the computer, time to deal with the League's new outlook.

The Watchtower would still have to be kept isolated and restricted only to full members, for obvious security reasons, but the Hall of Justice would have to stop being just a tourist attraction.

They'd have to hire clerks, detectives, office workers, medics, military advisers. It would take months of background checks to make sure no mole was inserted in the new chain of command, but it would be worth it.

Not only would it make the League's work much faster, it would also introduce the necessary human element to their work.

Clark may manage to keep his country boy outlook on life, but Bruce knew their colleagues could grow distant from the everyday people and that wasn't a good thing.

He worked throughout the night, typing away at his computer almost constantly, using his experience as owner of WayneCorp to create the barebones of the new League.

He knew he couldn't let things continue as they were.

He also prepared his own presentation to the League, it would be harsh, a crash course on everything they had left undone. Bruce was sure it would hit the League almost as hard as it had hit him. A punch to the gut that left him reeling, made him re-evaluate his own actions and find them wanting. It wasn't pleasant, it wasn't easy, but it was needed.

It would also force them to be better.

A gasp of surprise made him look up from his desk to see Alfred entering the office. "Master Bruce, what are you doing still working at this hour?"

Bruce looked through his windows to see the sun already rising through the curtains, he squinted his eyes and turned back to Alfred as his old friend handed him a light breakfast and his pain medication.

"I am capable of waking up early Alfred," Bruce tried to lie, but he knew it wasn't going to work on his old friend.

"Master Bruce, only a vampire is more averse to the sunrise than you," said Alfred with a frown while standing beside him, looking him over with a judgemental gaze. "Go to sleep, Master Bruce, or do I have to drug your drink again?"

"Fine Alfred, I can finish this later."

Alfred still kept checking up on him as he took a shower and only stopped when he was properly in bed, refusing to hear any of his protests and promising to take Richard to school in his place.

His mind was still working like mad when he laid his head against the pillow but, despite that, he felt his eyes growing heavy almost immediately. His last thought was that: he wasn't entirely sure Alfred hadn't drugged his breakfast after all.
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In a nearly empty room, Lex Luthor stood in front of the images of his fellow conspirator. Their true faces were hidden, but he knew them well, he wouldn't get involved with them without first knowing who he was dealing with.

Vandal Savage, a man he could respect, to a certain extent, the nominal leader of their little cabal, the immortal thought he was in complete control and Lex allowed him to continue such misunderstanding.

Klarion, some kind of manifestation of chaos, a childish and distasteful ally, but also a magical powerhouse nearly without equal and necessary if they wanted to remain beyond discovery.

Ocean-Master, an arrogant man that the rest of them barely tolerated, his contest of Aquaman's control over the oceans all that guaranteed his place amongst them, his lack of intellect only surpassed by the next member.

Queen Bee. In truth, Lex could barely tolerate the woman's stupidity, but her complete control over her country was useful and any other puppet they put in her place would probably suffer from the same failings.

No, he could accept the woman's ego when he knew she was the one taking the greatest risks, and the one they'd all throw to the wolves in case anything went wrong.

Ra's al Ghul, the ancient assassin, another man Lex could almost consider a peer, a pity their goals didn't really align. Lex stood for progress, while the old immortal kept to the past, as if it was somehow better.

Finally, The Brain, an impressive scientists, if a little too happy to take shortcuts on his studies, Lex would happily employ the man of given the chance. He was also the only one Lex wouldn't eventually have to deal with.

Truth be told, Lex highly disliked their little group, Savage was an arrogant and condensing leader who thought he could fool him with some fake rhetoric with no substance.

Ra's, clinging far too much to the past for his liking, they both believed in humanity, but Ra's thinking was far too primitive, too focused on nature and too little on what humanity could achieve.

The others weren't even worth mentioning, to stupid or too chaotic for his comfort.

Eventually, he knew he'd have to get rid of them all but, until then, he could use the group to finally eliminate the damn alien.

Superman really was so terribly annoying.

For a second, Lex considered just eliminating his companions now, if some of their true goals were successful they could grow into a real treat, he knew he could do it, even Klarion wasn't beyond his reach.

But no, that would be such waste when they could still be of use. And he did dislike the alien slightly more than he disliked pretending to respect Queen Bee.

"So, the League discovered the clone, did they find out anything else?" Vandal asked.

"No, the safeties against them worked well enough until I could get the authorities involved," Lex told him dismissively, the legality of the League's actions was a tool he was an expert at using.

"Good, did Wotan escape after the fight?" Was the immortal next question, the sorcerer's escape wasn't necessary, but it would be good to be able to use him again.

"The old mummy is very cunning. He managed to slip out in the confusion," Klarion answered while petting his damn cat. "Plus, I lent him a hand."

"The planned assassinations were all successful without the League to interference," Ra's revealed and all of them turned to their last goal for this particular action.

"Did the deal with our partner go well?"

"Their technology is still being calibrated, but Simon informs me we should have steady trade in a few months," Queen Bee said with a wave of her hand, her imperious voice almost making Lex wince.

Another thing Lex didn't like, deals with technologically superior estates never went well for the natives, and he had no doubt he was being handed the equivalent to shiny trinkets from their "partner", but he did need the information such trade allowed him to gather.

"Gentleman, our plans are going well and I have managed to contain any information leaks from Cadmus," Lex told them. "I'll send our employees the latest data on blockbuster's effect from Desmond desperate act but, if you'll excuse me, I have work to do."

They nodded to him and he stepped away from the monitors, the smile leaving his face.

All monitors turned off and, not even a minute later, Mercy walked into the room with the information about the assault on Fawcett city.

The others didn't really care about the city, or the villains responsible, but Lex had been alarmed to find the League had made two arrests and allowed another three to escape.

That was five supervillains working together, would their little Injustice League trick still work when someone else had done it first? Would the Bat be able to come up with countermeasures until then?

Sitting down, he started reading the report about the location of the final fight, reports of two new flying heroes, one of them capable of using sonic attacks, putting out flames and getting thrown through buildings, how… interesting.

Relaxing against his chair, Lex tapped his finger against two particular pictures, one of a dead Evil Eye, it's body exploded from a sudden discharge of heat, the second was of a single, thin, scorched line in piece of rubble, a very familiar scorched line.

"Hmm… is there another one of those damn creatures on the planet?"
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Far away from there, in a completely different plane of existence, a blonde being in the shape of a man sat on a throne of skulls, he wore tight, white clothes and a green cape that billowed out from behind him in a dramatic fashion to fall over his shoulders and down towards his legs.

He looked exactly like a typical supervillain, with sharp eyebrows and eyes that shone with green flame. Green flames also sprouted to life around him as he scratched at his chin in thought, he did not like the way things were going.

Originally, he was supposed to have plenty of time, his target would remain unprepared, his potential untapped, but something has changed. His target was learning much faster than he expected, growing in unexpected ways.

The being was still confident he could succeed, and time would make his eventual success better, but there was always a risk his prize would no longer be worth it if he took too long.

Innocence was such fragile thing after all, so easily lost.

With deliberate consideration, the being willed into existence five candles, five unlit candles.

Looking up the man started searching for just the right people to ignite them up.

Behind him, Satannus and Blaze traded glances, a barely contained eagerness on their faces.
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In a hidden base on the surface of Venus, Doctor Thaddeus Sivana watched over his old companion, the worm was grievously wounded, part of its body was missing from where its voice box had exploded, and there were burns all over its skin.

The single ally Mr. Mind had been able to escape with had also died. Once disabled, the spirits that powered Ibac had fled his body, leaving only Stanley behind and his body was only human.

The heat had burned his flesh and Sivana hadn't cared enough to save him, paying far more attention to Mr. Mind himself.

"I should have killed the boy," Mr. Mind confessed from his regenerating pod. "I wanted to find a way to drain the other aspects of his power, but I should have just killed him."

"My old friend, I confess that, now that I know Captain Marvel is just a kid, I am no longer as interested in him as I used to be," Sivana told the worm while playing with the storage of magical power they had recovered. "Not that I have anything against hurting children, mind you, but I just don't find him a worthy challenge anymore."

"Thaddeus, I'll have my revenge, I'll destroy both him and that cursed Kryptonian," the worm coughed into the minuscule microphone amplifying its voice. "Right after I destroy everything they have ever loved!"

"I suppose I still need something to test my inventions against," Sivana said and finally managed to settle the box containing part of the stolen power of Zeus inside one of his machines. "And I have never studied a Kryptonian before, would their flesh still be as resistant even when separated from the rest of the body?"

Unable to help himself, Mr. Mind's telekinesis rattled the little pod he was in with his anger. "Another one who will feel my wrath!"

"Still, we will need to gather the rest of the Society if we want to enter the game, my friend," Sivana said as he put on his goggles and started studying the magic. "Vandal is very protective of his little planet and, failure that he is, he does posses impressive allies."

Bent over the information on his computer, Sivana couldn't help but appreciate all the data on the device, despite his failure, Mr. Mind hadn't left the place empty handed.

Magic really was an interesting source of power, so versatile and yet so potent. He'd have to better study its effects and rules.

"Very well, old friend, perhaps I have been away from Earth for too long," he told the worm and approached the healing chamber and smiled down at the worm. "I have already sent out a call for our allies, Both the Justice League and The Light are just so filled with interesting specimen, I can't wait to get my hands on them heh, heh, heh."

Stepping away from the recovering work, Sivana turned towards the square box suspended inside another of his experiments, there were thousands of cables connecting to the device and part of its edges had been greatly damaged, but it still worked.

Pulling out a controller, he started pressing buttons causing the captured father box to spark, release a loud whine and, with a loud explosion, a boom tube formed in front of him.
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Far away from Earth, in a small corner of the Vega system, one of the myriad of Psion searching vessels finally retrieved the small beacon lodged into the side of an asteroid.

Quickly, the man-sized cylindrical device was grabbed by the vessel and brought aboard the larger Psion ship waiting close to the remains of their research station.

As fast as they could manage without damaging the thing, a team of the lizards started working on retrieving the information inside.

Months ago, this particular ship had received the distress signal from the research vessel, but it had been too far away and arrived far too late to render any aid.

It had scoured that particular part of space to gather all the destroyed pieces of the station, but the loss of data had been complete, someone had made sure all their computers were destroyed beyond any ability they had to repair it.

Still, the Psions hadn't completely given up, it was normal procedure to release several dormant devices containing copies of important information in case a Psion vessel was in danger of being destroyed or taken over.

If there was one thing Psion's hated above all else, it was the destruction of valuable information.

With how big the research station had been, there was no way any such device could store all information inside, but it could have valuable data and contain clues about what happened to the vessel.

Finding such devices in the emptiness of space was almost impossible, at least until they started broadcasting their signals, years later. It was actually an integral part of their survival strategy to prevent the attackers from finding them, but this particular one had gotten stuck on a nearby asteroid, such things weren't uncommon since the station had probably released thousand such data caches in every direction.

With a beep, the beacon received the correct password and started dumping its information all over their computers. It was exactly what they were searching for.

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Chapter 15
Yo, chapter 15 here, really like the interactions in this chapter and I hope you guys enjoy it too.

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Kara approached the door at a slow pace, she could hear Krypto barking inside the house and Kal-El talking with his mother, her steps faltered as she thought of that, would they like her?

She still found it hard to conciliate Superman, THE hero, with her little cousin, the same baby she had held in her arms and swung around before getting scolded by her uncle.

Quickly, she stopped paying attention to her increased hearing so as to give them at least some privacy. It wasn't an active power, so she couldn't just turn it off, but she had learned to shift her attention towards something unimportant and, as a result, whatever she didn't want to hear just faded into the background.

Finally, she turned to her companion.

Kon-El looked great, she hadn't managed to get him wearing formal clothes, but his wardrobe already included more than just superman t-shirts, Rao, she had even managed to make him wear an elegant black shirt and jeans.

Kara took a moment to adjust his collar. Holding him in place, she combed his head with her fingers, weaving them through his hair and causing him to grumble, she just smiled.

"Do you have to do that?" He asked in an annoyed voice, an improvement from his constantly angry one, and tried to wave her hand away.

"Yes, yes I do," she laughed as she pulled the boy closer. "Come on, they're waiting for us."

Finally, she knocked at the door and felt some butterflies on her stomach.

"Don't worry, I'll get it," said a male voice from inside. A few seconds later, the door opened to an older man, he looked at both of them smiled. "God, you really do look just like Clark, come on in."

"Excuse-me," Kara said and started walking inside when Krypto's white body flew right into her chest, the kryptonian dog actually made her take a few steps back as it licked her face causing her to burst out laughing.

Putting the dog down, Kara cleaned her face and stepped inside, Krypto having smashed through all the tension on her body. "Thanks for having me," She told him as she walked inside.

"Nonsense, you're family," Martha called in from the kitchen. "Come in dear, I heard you liked my pie?"

"I did," She nodded.

Kon-El followed her inside, his head waving from one side to the other as if he couldn't believe where he was.

"Kara, Good to see you here," Kal-El appeared, causing Krypto to immediately dash to his side; he scratched behind the dog behind his ear. "You know, I always dreamed of something like this happening."

Kara looked at him, there was a smile on his face and the usual tension was gone from his shoulders, his posture completely relaxed even as he briefly glanced at Kon-El, he really was at home here. Good.

"Kal-El," she greeted him with her own smile. "Hope we aren't late?"

"You know you can just call me Clark right, or Kal if you prefer," he said as he walked closer, taking a second to see she was feeling fine.

"I… Krypton wasn't exactly an informal place," she confessed, sheepishly. "I have no problem with human names, but it just feels odd to use only first names for Kryptonians, I don't think I did that even for father."

"I see... well, you can take as much time as you want," Kal-El hugged her with a wide smile on his face, she managed to hug him back, but soon pushed him away and glared at him, causing the Man of Steel to tense, finally, he turned to the clone.

"Kon-El right? I…" taking a deep breath, he released a long, slow breath of air and laid a hand on Kon-El's shoulder. "I'm sorry for how I reacted on our first meeting; I hope you know you're welcome here."

"I… I am?"

Kal-El just starred, his eyes shifting away from the boy's with embarrassment. Finally, as he looked at Kon-El's face, filled with both hope and fear, he drew another breath and managed to smile, it was a true smile. "Of course you are, as Kara told you, you're family. Now come on, help me put on the table."

Warping an arm around the boy, Kal-El pulled him further inside the house. Kara just smiled as she saw the both of them walking together and then she looked to the side to see Jonathan smiling too, his face full of pride. "I'm glad to see the kid managed to get over it."

"You raised him right," she told him and then took both of his hands in hers and bowed her head. "Thank you, thank you so much."

For a second, the old man didn't seem to know how to react, then Martha poked her head out of the kitchen and scowled. "Jonathan Kent, what do you think you're doing treating the poor girl like that?"

"Ma, I just…"

"Come here girl, have you been eating well? You look a little thin."

With a smile, Kara let herself be swept in the moment. Kon-El seemed almost completely lost as Kal-El and Jonathan started getting the table ready, a small, confused smile on his face while Kara started helping Martha prepare lunch by cutting vegetables.

Later, after she helped wash the dishes, they all sat on the porch and just talked, one of the cows on the farm was eating nearby and Jonathan pointed it out to them.

"They're used to it now, but you should have seen how confused the cattle were the first time the Kid lifted it up in the air as if it didn't weight anything," he joked, as he balanced himself on the chair. "His strength was still spotty back then and it slipped, dropped right on top of him and almost scared me to death."

"Was he hurt?" Kara couldn't help but ask.

"Only his pride, he wanted to show off so much and fell face first in the mud, I think we still have the picture I took," The old man laughed out loud. "I think he glared at that cow for a week straight after that."

"Oh, pictures, can I see them?" She tried to disguise her eagerness but, by the looks on the old couple's face, she wasn't having much success.

"Of course, I'm gonna go get them," Martha said with unusual cheer and walked inside the house.

"Alright, I think that's my cue," Kal-El pushed himself up and looked at the farm. "Say Pa, you still wants that old tree gone?"

"Yeah, the new farmhand we hired killed the poor thing," Jonathan sighed with regret.

"Pa, you know you can always call for help, it wouldn't take me more than an afternoon to help."

"Ah, you're busy boy, plus it helps the local folk to hire from here," He waved... Kal off, Kal just shook his head and stretched his back.

Kara took a second to adjust her thinking, calling him Kal had felt so strange, to be so informal with another kryptonian. She still loved Krypton, but she could admit it, the planet had been very cold.

"Come on Kon, help me out here," Kal called out, causing Kon to almost jump out of his skin.

Kal was still a little uncomfortable with the boy, but he was trying, he really was.

Kon turned to her and Kara nodded with a smile, causing him to jump to his feet and follow Kal, waving around the cows and further into the farm. Jonathan waited until his wife was back before turning to her. "You know, we talked about it, but we wanted to hear your opinion first before we made it official."

"What?" Kara asked with curiosity.

"When Clark told us somebody made a clone of him we were surprised," Martha said as she handed her the picture album and sat beside her while looking around for the boys. "But we talked about it and are considering adopting the poor boy."

"If you agree, of course?" The old man amended in a hurry.

Kara didn't know what to say, she had plans to get things ready for Kon, get him into school, find him a therapist to help develop his feelings and everything else, but she couldn't deny it felt… overwhelming.

Being sent to take care of Kal had also been overwhelming but, at the time, the imminent destruction of her home world had left her numb, to the point she couldn't even think about it.

Could she let the Kent's raise another member of her family? What would her parents think of letting a human raise a member of the El house, again?

But… the Kent's had done such good job with Kal, could she be even half as good with Kon?

"Honey?" Martha called out as she laid a hand over her own causing Kara to turn towards her. "Honey, we know you just arrived on the planed, you're just getting your life in order. I know you want to take care of him, but we're here."

"And you don't have to stay out of his life, you know," Jonathan said with a kind voice. "We can provide him with a human identity and a place to stay while you teach him about your planet."

Could that work? It was not like she couldn't fly here in less than an hour, from anywhere in the planet, really. In the end, she nodded, Kon had the chance to have parents, real parents; she couldn't take that away from him. "If he agrees."

"Of course Honey,"

Whoosh!

Attracted by the sudden noise, Kara turned her head to see a large tree flying up in the air and towards the horizon, a few seconds later, Krypto almost broke the sound barrier as he flew after it, barking like mad.

"There they go again," was all Jonathan said before completely ignoring the wooden missile.

"Boys, right?" Martha commented with a sigh.

Concentrating, Kara looked thought the cows to see Kal patting his hands with a satisfied smile while Kon was starring after the dog.

Then Krypto came flying back with the tree on his mouth, the enormous missile was so large he couldn't even see where he was going and smashed into the ground, causing both Kal and Kon to wince.

The dog dropped the entire thing at their feet before flying around the both of them, barking again, his tail wagging so fast it caused a small wind to blow on the grass.

With a laugh, Kal pushed Kon towards the tree and nodded, Kon looked between the tree and the dog a few times, then his fingers found purchase on the wood, he lifted in up on his shoulders but Kal stopped him.

"No, throw it point first to avoid air resistance, like this," the older man adjusted the tree on Kon's grip and nodded.

Whoosh! The remaining of the tree flew again, a little slower, but still flying out into the sky for quite a few kilometers. With an eager bark, Krypto flew after it.

Kara turned back to the older woman and nodded. "Boys."

"Now, let me show that time Clark decide he was the second coming of the Flash."

From the corner of her eyes, Kara caught the sight of Kal stumbling on the empty field.
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Kon decided to stay with the Kent's, they still had Kal's bedroom ready to receive the boy and, since he still wasn't certain what to do, Kara convinced him to try and stay with them instead of being alone on the mountain.

Together, she and Kal flew away from the farm and up towards space, they flew close to each other, so close that Kara managed to smile at him and speak.

"You may have redeemed yourself, but you know I'll still have to punish you for neglecting the kid, right?"

"What?"

"Yep, it's my prerogative as the older one," she nodded with a smile. "I get to punish you when you do something stupid."

"You're serious, but I…" Kal looked at her with amusement and then it became worry. "Wait, what kind of punishment?"

"I guess you'll have to find out."

"Kara…" he said in a warning tone, but she ignored him. "Seriously, what kind of punishment?"

She just ignored him and accelerated quickly, breaking through the clouds and further still, until their presence couldn't possible bother any planes, a second later Kal stopped beside her.

"Wanna make a stop at the fortress?" he invited, "I gotta leave something there first, but then we can stop on Metropolis for your documents, Batman left them with me."

"About that, did Batman talk with you?" She asked him with an uncertain voice, her face changing from amusement to a far more serious look.

"About what?" he asked back.

"I went to CADMUS after discovering Kon's existence," she scratched at her neck and decided to just say it. "There was a second clone, Kal."

"What?" he just said with a stunned face, his body dropping a few centimeters in the air before his flight stabilized. "No, I searched the place."

"They made sure you and the Flash couldn't find it easily."

"What… what happened to it?" he asked, almost afraid to know.

"It was… a prototype, they couldn't get Kryptonian DNA right and he was deteriorating quickly, I left him on a healing chamber in the Fortress, but the facility doesn't have the information needed to heal him."

They floated there in the air, Kal almost frozen between fury and horror, finally, he gathered himself and asked. "Is there anything we can do?"

"I'm looking into it, if you know a genius geneticist you can ask him," she said and took the chance to embrace him, he let her. "I can already think of several people that could help, he's gonna be okay."

"I… I'll see if anybody can help," he said after a few minutes. "Will you be coming to the Fortress with me?"

"You're still going?" Kara said surprised.

"Yeah," his voice had a newfound conviction as he starred down towards his home, and towards Kon. "I'm not running away from this anymore."

"Good," Kara released him and looked him in the eye. "You really make your parents proud, the two sets of them."

"Thank you, are you still coming with me?"

"No, I have a different meeting waiting for me in another hour."

"See you tomorrow then?" he asked and she nodded.

"I'll drop by your house or work to get my documents."

With that, they said their goodbyes and Kara watched Kal flying towards the Fortress, his acceleration almost immediately breaking the sound barrier with barely an effort until he was beyond even her sight.

Kara sighed, if he continued to make her this proud she'd have to rethink her prank.

Putting on her mask, she followed his example, exploding into action, going from zero to a hundred in barely a second as she made her way towards New York.

It wasn't that she was in a hurry, or showing off. Even wounded she was just that strong, the only thing keeping her from flying faster was the atmosphere of the planet, the heat generated by the air resistance wouldn't actually hurt her, but it could hurt things around her.

Eventually, she lowered herself gently in front of a cemetery, a large, old house just beside it; it was at least four floors high, made of wood and looked almost like a castle.

Looking at the old monstrosity Kara thought it wouldn't be out of place in a Scooby Doo cartoon.

Approaching the front door, she saw the sign that read, 'House of Mystery'.

Kara wasn't familiar with the name, but she briefly wondered if it had anything to do with the 'House of Secrets' from DC. She didn't remember it correctly, but there was an episode on the… first season? Where it had showed up.

Making sure nobody was watching her, she took off her blank mask and made her way towards the house and then climbed the wooden steps and knocked.

"Come in, Miss Kara, your companion is already waiting for you inside."

Kara immediately activated her X-ray vision, her hackles were immediately raised when she couldn't actually see through the walls, they weren't coated with lead but, even with her vision activated, she could only see the wooden door in front of her.

With a tap of her finger, her radiation shielding went up and the device input a communication signal towards the device on her bedroom, it sent a pulse towards the device every two minutes revealing her location and, if it stopped transmitting for more than half an hour, it would alert the entire League with her last known location.

Finally, she took a breath and entered the house.

The man who received her was short, he had brown hair combed up as if to make two horns on each side of his head, he had a pair of small glasses and held an oil lamp on his hand.

"I'm sorry, Miss Kara, but I'm afraid the house current lacks electricity," the man smiled and waved her inside. "Still, I think we make do."

From inside, the place was enormous, it's lavish wooden floors shone with care and there were large candles on the wall giving everything an orange light.

In the middle of the entrance, there was a large set of stairs going up the first floor and, at both of its sides, were three sets of doors leading inside the house.

Kara caught a glance from one of the open doors and saw an old woman carrying a tray of food towards someone in a bed, then she looked again.

The old woman's face had cracks in it, cracks from which Kara could see a dark shadow almost leaking, her skin seemed as grey as granite and Kara swore something moved under her wrinkles.

Kara gulped and started preparing herself.

"Please don't, dear Alice is terminally ill, I'd hate to bother her with your fight."

"But that's…" She said and shivered.

"Her housekeeper, her only desire is to heal," the man said and led her up the stairs. "A very interesting story, that one, but we're here."

For some reason Kara believed the man, still, she dropped a couple of surveillance drones while he wasn't looking and sent them towards the room.

He opened the door to a huge room; there was a fireplace lit and a single occupant sitting on a comfortable seat, a large cigar in his mouth and half a bottle of alcohol resting at his side.

"Come in, it's good you've arrived early," he said and glanced towards the bottle. "I was trying to think of twelve good reasons not to finish the bottle, but could only come up with seven."

Kara walked inside the place and couldn't help but stare at the figure before her; he was large, much larger than she expected, to tell the truth, he was also a chimpanzee, a talking chimpanzee wearing an old detective costume, cap and all.

"Go ahead, stare all you want, not like it hasn't happened before," the chimpanzee mumbled and took another eager glance towards the bottle.

"Sorry, I know it shouldn't really surprise me but…" Kara shrugged and took a seat beside the chimp.

It really shouldn't surprise her, she had seen stranger things since arriving on Earth.

"Story of my life," the chimp shrugged and dragged on his cigarette, then he spilled it out. "So, what did the furry send you here for?" Even as he asked, the chimpanzee's eyes were taking everything in, paying very close attention to her body posture and reaction.

"Furry?" she tilted her head in confusion.

"Tall, dark, likes to pretend he's a bat," he said with a tired voice. "Should leave being an animal to those born into it, if you ask me."

Kara snorted and relaxed back against the chair.

"Alright, I'm Kara Zor-El, pleased to meet you," Kara said. "I'm in need of a team; I guess Batman thought you could help me with that?"

"Well, I'm not much of a hero mind you, but, if you have someone in mind, I can definitely find them for you," he said and finished his cigar before straightening his back. "Bobo T. Chimpanzee, but you can call me Detective Chimp. The Bat may be the best Human detective in the world, but I'm better, it's just fact."

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Chapter 16
Yo, that's right guys, Reject the Bat, return to monke!

Kara is just starting to get her own team ready and, soon, her actions will start having reactions on the rest of the world.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!
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"'Better than the Bat', huh?" Kara lifted an eyebrow at that, she had only been vaguely aware Detective Chimp existed in the DC universe and had no idea what kind of ma… animal? He was. "Well, you'll understand if I don't just take your word for it?"

Bobo just shrugged as if he didn't care, and maybe he didn't.

"What does the Bat want from me anyway, sending someone with superpowers like you?"

"And how do you know I have powers?" Kara asked, brimming with curiosity and trying to come up with a way to test the chimp.

"Alright, guess we're doing this then," his large hand grabbed the bottle and he took a swig, whipping his mouth with a hairy arm, he leaned forward. "I could smell grass and farm animals as soon as you entered the room; it's far too recent of a smell for you to have come from anywhere near here the conventional way."

"That means you either flew, ran or teleported here, I could see you arrived from the direction of the cemetery, yet there isn't a paved path between the graves and yesterday was a rainy day, since your boots aren't completely covered in mud, I tend to think you're capable of flight."

The chimp released the bottle and put a hand under his chin.

"There's some kind of field around your body disrupting the refraction of light, yet I can still smell you. You aren't floating above the chair and you're wearing metal, which means you wanted protection when you entered the building, but your shield doesn't fully block 'mundane' particles or protect against physical objects, even metallic ones."

"It's possible that the field blocks bullets and other such kinetic projectiles based on the speed they're moving, but why would you use such a specific shield when you could block far more and be far safer with a more generic protection?"

"The most logical explanation is that this shield blocks a particular form of attack, probably mental, magical or a unique weakness. Given that you're paranoid enough to activate it before even meeting me, but equally unworried about the protection not blocking physical attacks, I would say you don't fear them."

"Following flight and fearlessness towards bullets, the most likely complementary power would be super strength. And since you aren't carrying a weapon, you believe you're strong enough to face any human you may encounter without one. You could arguably do this with martial skill, yes, but your overall movement and posture nullifies that notion almost outright."

"A slight bulge in your clothes indicates a mask of some kind, but you aren't wearing a costume under your clothes, even a temporary one, and your body doesn't match any of the well known heroes. You're clearly new to the business, but since the Bat himself sent you here, you're probably a heretofore secret relative of one of the League's members… most likely Superman, Wonder Woman or the Martian."

Lying back against his chair, the chimpanzee looked at her with a smug smile to which Kara could only respond with a sigh.

She had to get better at hiding things if there were people like this just running around in DC.

"Impressive." She said and thought about her situation.

Had the chimp approached her of his own accord, she'd probably be getting really paranoid and would start to consider silencing the guy, but she was the one looking for help.

It seems like Batman couldn't directly help her so he sent her to someone with a similar skillset. She could use that, particularly against people like Luthor or Queen Bee, both of which hid behind the law to block the League's actions, investigation and public exposure was the most straight-forward counter.

As soon as she got out of here she'd have to do a more in-depth search on Bobo, but she decided to outline about her goals without revealing too much of her hand.

"Alright, I'm creating a team, people who can be discreet, but hold their own in case they're discovered." She began while watching the chimp's reaction.

"Hmmm… the Bat finally decided he'd had enough, did he?" Bobo said and scratched his face. "Must be annoying, having to keep to the charter."

"More like, I decided I'd had enough, and Batman agreed with me." Kara answered, frowning at him, the chimp nodded, conceding her point. "The way I see it, it's not that the League is unwilling to deal with the problem, just that it's best they don't have to… problems like this one could easily spiral out of control and set their cause back by decades."

"Alright, and how exactly are you thinking of… dealing with those problems?"

"I'm not looking to form a team of cold blooded murderers. Arresting people will always be the preferred option." Kara sighed and thought about the situation. "But I don't want the law stopping us from doing what's right."

"No boy scouts then, do you already have anyone in mind?"

"I already have a member, and maybe two more, but I could use your help looking for some of my candidates." She said and squinted her eyes. "You can find people, right? It's not just pretentious presentations of your logical prowess?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm a fully trained private eye." The chimp pushed himself up and pulled a pack of cigarettes from under his seat, then put it in a pocket in his chest for easy access. "Want to give me a hint as to what we'll be dealing with?"

So, Kara started talking, she didn't tell the chimp everything or even every name, that would require more trust than just a referral, but she did talk about the Light, a cabal of supervillains working and manipulating things from the shadows.

Detective Chimp had questions, a lot of questions, eventually, she ran out of things she was willing to divulge without doing further research on the hero.

From the look on his face, Kara had no doubt he got far more from her than she did from him. But then again, she couldn't really be blamed for having a lot of trouble judging his reactions since he was, well, a chimp.

"I'll start asking around." He told her when they were done talking about the team and its goals. "Something like that doesn't start from nothing."

"You sure you want to risk it before I get the team ready?" Kara asked with worry, the Light were quite capable of silencing the chimp. "I can only provide so much protection by myself."

"Kid, I've been doing this for a very long time and if there's one thing I have learned, it's that criminals don't like being controlled." He took a drag from his second cigarette and blew it towards the fireplace. "The fact these characters have stayed hidden for so long means there's some powerful people involved, but it also means their minions will be all the more eager to backstab them at the first chance."

"Well, at least take this." She handed him one of her drones, "squeeze it and it'll send a signal to me with your location."

The chimp rolled the little metal ball between his thick fingers and brought it close to his eye, critically looking at all its little details, then shrugged and put it in his pocket together with the pack of cigarettes.

"Hah, it's not like I'll go around asking for this Light of yours by name, Kid, I'm sure the bastards won't say anything about a shadowy secret organization, but they'll still be eager to point me at their Bosses in hopes of stealing their places."

With their meeting concluded, Kara shook the chimp's hand and made her way down the stairs. Alice's door was closed and Cain was nowhere to be seen.

Kara swore there was something watching her inside the house, but, even with her improved senses, she couldn't find anything.

Feeling goosebumps starting to rise on her skin, she hurried out of the house. The sun had just set and the lights on the street were already on, but the cemetery itself seemed much darker than the hour indicated.

The feeling of being watched vanished, but she still hurried to follow the path out of the damn place, her steps becoming faster and faster as she walked.

"Leaving so soon, Miss Kara?" Said a voice from her side causing Kara to jump up in fright and turn around.

She had been focusing on the house so much that she hadn't been paying attention to the rest of her surroundings.

Cain appeared from between the graves, a small smile on his face and a shovel in his shoulder.

Kara's eyes narrowed as she saw old, dried blood on the shovel, but she couldn't tell if it was just some animal blood. He did interact with a heroic detective fairly often so it probably wasn't nearly as bad as it looked.

"Yeah, I don't think the house likes me very much." She joked.

"It likes collecting stories," Cain said while looking back at the house. "Maybe tell it a story next time you come?"

"I'll keep that in mind." She said, and hoped it would never come up.

Finally, Kara left the property and released a sigh of relief. She walked a few blocks away from the place before finally deactivating the beacon on her leg.

Then she pulled out her phone and started watching the images recorded from her drones.

Despite its looks, the thing pretending to be an old woman really was acting as a nurse and housekeeper to the woman inside the room.

Her devices still managed to start mapping the house, but, despite how long she had been talking with Detective Chimp, they just weren't done, and the information they had gathered made no sense.

Kara tried to retrieve the drones, but, as they followed exactly the same path they used to explore, they ended up in new rooms in the house.

After waiting for ten minutes Kara was forced to order them to self-destruct, only then did she release the breath she had been holding.

Magic, she hated magic.

Kara started walking again before releasing a frustrated sigh.

No, she didn't hate magic, it was actually incredibly cool. But, as a Kryptonian, things would be so much easier if it didn't exist.

Getting into a little coffee shop, she ordered a cup of it and started looking at the information on her phone again, deciding if she should approach her next meeting or ditch it for another day.

She was confident she could escape in case things went sideways, but this recruit was a powerhouse, and hadn't always been on the side of the angels.

Also, as Detective Chimp just showed, her identity was far too vulnerable.

She had planned to appear as just a normal human, someone completely independent from her heroic persona but, if Detective Chimp could determine she had powers with a simple glance…

Not like there'd be a lot of detectives on his level, at least if his claims of matching Batman had any validity but the concern remained.

In the end, she decided to go. She didn't know if she'd have any chance of another meeting if she ditched this one, and the man wasn't only a powerhouse, but also provided incredible utility. She'd just have to wear her mask while there and hope it was enough for the time being.

Paying for the coffee, Kara found an empty spot on the street, she put on her mask and flew directly up, too fast for any humans or common cameras to register more than a blur rising through the air.

Then she made her way towards Opal City. She had a meeting with a certain Richard Swift and his girlfriend Hope O'Dare.

Kara's search hadn't turned up any criminal activity for the Shade at this time, but her computer had found some suspicious historical records that indicated he had been active, using his powers on and off again around the world for hundreds of years now.

She wasn't entirely certain it was him but, even if he was only a metahuman in this version of DC, getting access to his powers before the Light would be a win.

Still, he did have a record of pretending to be weaker than he actually was and having fun by playing the villain, or hero, from time to time.

At least she had spoken with his girlfriend and confirmed the woman would be there during the meeting, it was unlikely he'd try to kill her with a loved one close by, and O'Dare didn't seem hostile to her. Quite the contrary in fact.

As she approached the city, she made sure to activate her beacon once again, then reconfigured the sunstone on her leg to act as an emergency teleport in case the man did turn out to be hostile.

It would ruin her prosthetic if she had to use it, but better it than her really.

O'Dare's home was a loft in a quiet corner of the city, Kara knocked on the door and the beautiful redhead answered. She was around 35 years old and still extremely fit, wearing a white shirt and common jeans. "You must be the one who called about Richard."

"What gave me away?" Kara asked with some amusement as the woman led her inside.

"I don't know, maybe the mask?"

"I'm surprised he even agreed to speak with me." She only knew the man from what little information she had gathered, and from her previous life, but he didn't seem the type to entertain a stranger.

"He didn't."

"Then… why am I here? Why invite me inside?" Kara could see the woman didn't have any animosity towards her, but springing a surprise superhero on someone like The Shade was never a good idea.

Maybe she really should leave, then again, Shade never killed a good superhero before, at least none that she could find. The man seemed to actually admire them.

"He's getting restless again, he thinks I don't see it, but he's been out of things for more than a decade now." O'Dare offered her a chair and sat in front of her at the table. "If he's gonna go out there again, I'd prefer he gets to adventure for the good side this time."

"So he is immortal then?" She asked in curiosity, trying to confirm if her information about his actions was correct.

"I don't know, but he hasn't aged a day since we first met." She sighed and supported her face with a hand. "It's hard, aging and watching him remain the same."

Kara didn't know what to say, then the room suddenly became a little darker, flakes of darkness started behaving as if they had mass, gathering in the shape of a man in the middle of the room, finally, The Shade teleported inside, his eyes hard as he stared at Kara with barely contained malice.

Then he looked at O'Dare and seemed to understand the situation, he sighed causing Kara to relax the grip she had on her teleport device.

Richard Swift looked like a slightly pale, but not unnatural 40 years old, he was well muscled and his hair was darker than any Kara had ever seen, his eyes filled with affection, and frustration, as he looked at his lover.

He was only wearing an overcoat over a simple black shirt and didn't have his signature top hat or cane, but Kara's eyes caught the sight of tendrils of darkness quickly retreating down his coat and out of view.

"I see you're having guests today. Hope, you should have informed me."

"Would you have come?" she huffed.

"For you my dear? Yes." He sighed and took off his jacket. "I feel more and more alive with every second I'm with you, I wouldn't pass it for anything."

He bent down and gave a light kiss on the woman's forehead before elegantly sitting down at the table with them.

"I know you've been itching to get out, to have fun like you used to do in the past." She glared at him.

"Hardly like I have done in the past, no. I was thinking of acting as a metahuman in another five or six years, one of the ones whose powers change their bodies, they're such convenient justification." He replied with amusement and turned towards Kara. "What do you think, white skin and black eyes to go with the shadow motif? I don't think I have clashed against any of this current Justice League yet."

Right before Kara's eyes Shade's skin lost color, darkness filled his eyes and it consumed even his eye sockets until they became round circles with red dots in the middle, his hair was covered with shadows and his cheeks sunk into his head until he resembled a skull.

"See, I knew you were eager to start your little games again!" O'Dare accused and with an amused laugh, Shade reverted back into his original form and combed his hair back.

"I can't deny that." He said and adjusted his perfect posture. "I thought I'd handicap myself, not use constructs very well and limit my portals to a certain weight or size?"

"How about a different game then?" Kara interjected, if she could get him interested… "I'm creating a team to fight against certain villains. They call themselves The Light."

"Ra's little group, yes. I'm aware of them." He told her and appeared to consider it before smirking. "It's just not the same… facing against a hot blooded hero, one filled with conviction and an iron will… I miss that."

"Well, the team isn't exactly supposed to be well known so, you can still play with the heroes if you want?" she offered. She didn't really want to condone villainy in any form, but The Shade always seemed to take it easy when playing around, and it could make for good training for Kori and the sidekicks.

The Shade looked towards his lover and O'Dare laid a hand over his own, nodding her head with a smile, he smiled back. "I suppose it could be interesting to fight without restrictions for once, and Ra's little group includes many who could face me even at full power. Do you have a way for me to contact you?"

"Here," Kara tossed him another of her drones, "You can get in contact with me by just squeezing the metal ball."

"Very well, I suppose our meeting here is concluded?" He asked and, after Kara nodded, got up and offered O'Dare an arm. "Come my dear, you did offer me a relaxing walk in your company, didn't you?"

Kara went out of the loft and watched as shadows covered the couple, then it dissolved like ashes, leaving no signs of where they had gone. Not believing her luck she deactivated the beacon once again and flew back to Fawcett City.

The Shade was a little more cold blooded than any of her other candidates, and perhaps a little too much even for her goals, but he also had standards, and she may need someone of his caliber to take on the Light.

She arrived home and, seeing as there was nobody inside, took a quick shower before going directly to work. Using the Kryptonian crystal in her bedroom as a computer, she searched the internet for information on Detective Chimp.

What she found was… promising. He was far less known than Batman but, amongst certain groups, there was serious discussion about whether he, the Bat or the Question was the best detective.

It quickly became clear the chimp was a hopeless alcoholic, sometimes incredibly rude, but also incredibly competent and trustworthy. Not ideal, but workable.

It also seemed like he was actually more experienced than Batman in dealing with magical mysteries.

Coupled with the Bat's support, Kara decided to give a little more trust to the ape.

Her computer had also managed to get the information for several addresses for people she had flagged as interesting.

Victor Stone was still a kid, Ted Kord was a business magnate with no interest in heroics, Maxwell Lord showed no signs of supervillany… yet.

More importantly, she had found the location of the Tower of Fate. Doctor Fate was an essential force of the universe, a natural enemy to Klarion, and, in the worst case, someone capable of helping Match.

Plus, Kara couldn't help but want to ask a few questions about her own state of being from the Lord of Order.

She also found the address for the future Elongated Man. The guy actually lived in the same city as The Shade.

A pity that he was still just a kid, his ability to shape his body was second only to a Martian, and the Plastic Man. Perhaps she could get Plastic Man involved instead, he still wasn't a member of the Justice League, right?

Still, there were a lot of names she couldn't find and she had no way of knowing if it was for lack of information or just because they didn't exist in this universe.

"Friend Kara, are you home?" Kori called from the living room as she arrived back from her training with Wonder Woman.

"In the bedroom, just a sec." Stretching her back she noticed she had been reading for two hours and decided to take a break.

Turning off her screen, Kara floated up in the air and to her feet, she stretched her neck and opened the door with a wide smile on her face.

"Welcome home Kori. How was the training?"

"Wonderful! Friend Troia finally managed to best me in a contest!" the redhead informed her with a nod, "it was a truly inspired match, I am proud of her improvement."

Kori had already taken off her boots and hung a coat at the door leaving her dressed in a comfortable set of shirt and pants.

"So, you don't have anything else to do right now?" Kara asked with some amount of hope.

"I do not."

"Come on then, let's relax and watch a movie or something."

Kara's visit to the House of Mystery, then facing someone like The Shade… it had left her exhausted and she needed to recharge a little.

Having lunch with Kal's parents had been wonderful, but it hadn't been very relaxing for her, always wondering if she was leaving a good impression.

"What a great idea, I will prepare buttery explosive grains while you choose the movie."

"It's called popcorn Kori!" Kara shouted after her and started looking for something to watch on the internet.

Eventually, she decided a silly horror comedy was just what she needed, the House of Mystery had left her rattled and making fun of something scary would help her relax.

Soon, Kori came floating from the kitchen with a bucket of popcorn and sat down on the sofa.

Kara stopped thinking about supervillains, or anything really, she just decided to relax, take the rest of the night off.

Kicking off her own boots, Kara threw herself on the couch, her feet hanging off the side of the sofa while her head tested on Kori's lap.

It made for a surprisingly comfortable pillow.

"So, when is the new sidekick meeting taking place?" She asked as she lifted her arm and stole a handful of popcorn from Kori's bucket.

Kara couldn't remember any of the show's exact dates even if her life depended on it, but she knew the team formed very soon after Kon's rescue.

Now it had already been over a week and there was nothing.

"The Batman has asked us to meet in nine days." she said and lifted her bucket to keep it out of Kara's reaching hands. "I am most excited to start training with them, the joint training with Billy was very enlightening."

Pointing the remote at the TV, Kara started the movie and adjusted herself, turning her face towards the screen and curling her legs until they fit on the sofa.

Kori dove into her popcorn, her nine stomachs working overtime to consume the entire bucket. Kara still managed to steal some every now and then, but Kori ate like her life depended on it, finishing the entire thing in less than ten minutes.

She wiped her hands on a tissue and turned towards Kara, eyes shining with interest.

"Friend Kara, may I perform braiding maneuvers on your hair? Diana informed me it is a common form of bonding between sisters, but I have never had the opportunity with Komand'r"

Kara glanced at Kori's fingers and, after checking if they were clean, nodded. "Sure, go ahead."

She too had never been this close with a friend, it would be unthinkable on Krypton and just… not something she had been interested in as a man.

As she felt Kori's gentle fingers running through her hair, Kara felt the last amounts of tension leaving her shoulders.

Releasing a breath, she closed her eyes and just enjoyed the sensation, the atmosphere. She felt safe, welcome, her body wasn't even hurting that much at the moment.

As Kori separated her hair and started braiding it without much skill, Kara actually fell asleep.

Almost an hour later, Kara woke up feeling better than she had… ever.

Her body wasn't in any amount of pain, she had a sense of peace around her and there was a pleasant scent in the air.

Hearing the TV still on Kara remembered where she was, without opening her eyes she asked. "Sorry about sleeping on you like that. How goes the movie?"

"I do not know, I dare not open my eyes!" Came the squeak from above her causing Kara to glance up.

The movie was right at its climax, with zombies running after the main characters and tension filled music.

Kori had a hand over her eyes and her shoulders were stiff with tension while her other hand gripped the sofa's arm, almost pulverizing its wooden frame.

Kara wanted to laugh out loud at the sight, but instead she carefully grabbed at one of her new braids, one of the more well made ones.

Slowly, she brought the end of her hair up and towards Kori's trembling face, then she tickled her.

With a scream, Kori jumped into the air until her body hit the ceiling, her movement throwing a laughing Kara to the ground.

The shining green glare she received back only made Kara laugh harder.

Kori attacked, her fingers finding purchase under Kara's clothes and starting to tickle her.

Oh, it was on.

Fifteen minutes later the both of them lay on the ground breathing hard and the house was a complete mess.

They had managed not to break anything, but it would still take quite a while to put everything back into place.

Kara's hurting lungs took a little bit of the joy away from her, but not much, and she still had a huge smile on her face when Kori floated up.

"Humph, now I will have to take another shower." She complained, but there was no bite to it. "I shall forgive you if you assist me to put everything back into place"

Kori extended a hand to help her up, which Kara ignored.

"Don't wanna." Kara denied, the carpet was incredibly comfortable and she wanted nothing more than to fall asleep again.

"Kara Zor-El!" Kori scolded, causing Kara to release one last snicker and float up to her feet.

"Fiiiine." She said to show how reluctant she was, but, when they started working together, they finished surprisingly fast.

When they were done, Kori took her shirt off revealing her white bra and sweat filled chest, Kara gulped and averted her eyes, not wanting to perv on her best friend but, after she turned around and started walking towards the bathroom, she couldn't help staring at her back as she went.

Unlike Kori, Kara had better resistance even wounded, she hadn't managed to sweat quite so much and decided to take her bath in the morning.

With a happy smile, she went to sleep.

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New Name for the fic.
Alright, the explanation is a little large: in short, the name of the fic is gonna be changing soon, but only here in SV. You can skip the rest of this announcement, and I'll be posting a new chapter shortly after.


So, I finally put things to vote on my Patreon, to be honest, I'm pretty sure they're gonna vote for keeping the present name, for several reasons. So I probably won't be changing it in the other sites I post this fic.

But, here, I only have around 100 watchers, which isn't a small amount, but it's still not all that big, so I feel like I can make the change fairly easily. And it will allow me to test how the new name is accepted.

As I have commented before, I was hoping to change the name of my Supergirl fic, it always felt kinda generic, but it was always very fitting. Still, the name has grown on me and, in most places, my readers have grown used to it, they even like it, there IS such thing as branding, so I feel it would only cause confusion to change it everywhere.

I mean, the current name is simple, but it does explain the premise of the fic very well. As always, I'm really in doubt about what to call this now and put it to a vote on my patreon. (As I said, they'll probably vote to keep the current name, but I'll be using the second most voted option here.)

To give you guys some background information, this fic was born because I wanted an MC to outvillain the villains, not in the sense of being more evil, but in the sense that they'd use the villain's own bag of tricks against them.

Villains always work from the shadows, forming secret societies and plots, while heroes are in the light and have to react to them, investigate and such. Villains know the heroes powers, the heroes morals and goals, while the heroes, most of the time, have to strugle to find those things out.

This fic was born to flip that, with Kara working from the shadows and the villains having to adapt to her.
That's mostly the real reason this is a reincarnation story, because I wanted Kara to know about the villains so they'd be in the light.

Another reason I started this was because I always hated how the villains rely on the heroes being... well, heroic, for a lot of their plots.

Like how Luthor rely on Superman not just killing him for a lot of his plots, despite claiming to believe the Kryptonian is gonna turn evil. That's probably why I always liked the idea of the Justice Lords and Injustice Superman. (even as I truly believe it to be very, VERY out of chatacter.)

I mean, that kinda thing is acceptable from Joker, because he'd love nothing more than for the Bat to kill him, but Luthor isn't suicidal, yet a lot of his plans rely on Superman not fighting to kill him.

As a result, some of my first alternative names were:

Secret Society of Superheroes.
Fuck around and Find out: Kryptonian edition.
Supergirl: Not quite a hero.

Right now, some of my ideas no longer apply, turns out that, while some of the things I planed still happened, some didn't and even those that did are no longer really the focus of the fic.

Also, names like 'Supergirl: Not quite a hero' were never too different from 'Reincarnated as Supergirl'.

Some names that I have found interesting right now are:

1 - Space Lizards Stole My Spleen: A True Story -

This is mostly a joke, but it is actually partially accurate, and it does give a feel of how I view the story.

Something terrible hapened to Kara, it's still terrible, and it left a scar, but she's not focusing on the pain, and she's having fun on Earth with her friends and inventions.

It's also something a crazy person would say, and Kara is a little odd, in a mad scientist kind of way.

Even better, it reminds me of conspiracy theories, and thats still something this fic is about. With The Light, The Monster Society, Neron, Kara's team. DC's secret societies manipulating things from the shadows.

But, in the end, it is a joke, and I'm not certain it would be a good title, it also doesn't really give you a sense of the fic, despite how it feels to me.
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2 - Kintsugi: Sunstone Inventor. -

Kintsugi, the art of fixing ceramic with gold dust.

I find this name very interesting, not only because Kara is missing pieces of herself and was fixed with a diferent organs, which probably made her even stronger than before, but also because of the philosophy.

To stay optimistic when things fall apart, to face what happens to her and actually grow stronger from it.

It really fits with the theme of her recovery, her growth and surpassing her trauma to become better.
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3 - Metempsychosis: Supergirl -

It's basically the same name, but I liked the new word far more than just 'Reincarnation'.

Really, it is, in effect, 'reincarnated as supergirl' said in a fancier way, not very creative, but it does feel better, less like a random, low quality, translated novel.
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4 - All those pesky villains -

Again, a more joking title, but it does hint at Kara's supervillain tendencies and her mad scientist vibe while also staying true to the theme that started this fic:

Flipping the dinamic between superheroes and villains. Making Kara seen like some kind of Last Boss for the villains to defeat as they scramble to fight off her devious plots.
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I feel like I'll probably be using the Kintsugi one but, as I said, the name will be decided by my patrons. It will probably change after I post chapter 18, in a little less than a week.
 
Chapter 17
So, as I said in the previous post, fic is changing names when I post the next chapter!

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this one.

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The next day she woke up late, taking a few minutes, she stretched her limbs and took a quick shower before looking for Kori, but the girl had already left the house, her training keeping her busy almot every day.

She decided to start her day by visiting her cousin while he was at work and finally get her documentation in order before she started recruiting again.

And maybe get his permission to look at the Fortress military tech too while she was at it.

Also, she wanted an excuse to see the famous Daily Planet and meet Lois Lane.

She also had to get her power armor ready, even if it was only the civilian version.

She had thought she could get by as a normal human, but Detective Chimp had guessed her powers with barely a glance so she didn't want to risk meeting anyone else without hiding her identity.

As she stepped out of the Zeta-tube in Metropolis she made a note to see if she couldn't crack the teleportation network and make her own version. It was just too convenient.

She'd probably get rich enough to be able to buy the entire LexCorp if she made teleportation affordable to the common people. That, or get assassinated by the transport industry.

She smiled as she saw the enormous skyscraper with the globe rotating on top of it marking the headquarters of the Daily Planet.

Kara walked through the doors and paused to look at the building's interior.

The entrance was an enormous open floor with panels showing prize winning reports written by the journal's own reporters, dozens of workers walking purposefully to and from the stairs and elevators.

From behind her, a young man came running inside the building. Kara heard him approach and stepped to the side, but the guy still managed to hit her back and bounce off, falling on his ass.

"Hey." She scolded, turning around to see a young redhead with a photograph camera around his neck.

"Sorry, I didn't notice you…" he sheepishly apologized as he looked at her face and flushed.

Kara smirked, she hadn't been bad looking in her last life, but she did enjoy her new and improved looks too.

Extending a hand, she helped pull the young man to his feet.

"Thanks. Jimmy Olsen, photographer," he introduced himself as his flush faded. Checking his camera to see if it was still okay, the man looked back at her. "Sorry for running into you."

"Don't worry about it." So, this was her cousin's famous friend, he was surprisingly cute. "You know, maybe you could help me find my cousin?"

"I'm sorry, who are you again?" He asked in confusion.

"I'm Kara Danvers, Clark's cousin." She introduced herself as the two of them walked further into the building and stopped blocking the doors.

"What? I didn't know Clark had any more family!" He exclaimed in surprise, clearly confused by the way things were turning out. "You're talking about Clark Kent right?"

"Yep, you know Clark's adopted right? I'm his biological cousin." Usually she wouldn't be so open, but she was in a great mood and felt like she knew the man from the comics. "We reconnected a few weeks ago."

"Huh, you know what, sure. Come on." He pressed the button to call for an elevator and turned towards her with a smile. "So, are you his only family, or is there a whole Clark clan out there?"

Kara thought about the question, and about both Kon and Match, then avoided his eyes and shrugged. "It's… complicated, I guess it'd be better to ask Clark about that."

"Yeah, I get that; don't wanna step on his toes or something right?" He nodded and dropped the subject.

"Hey, what kind of photos do you take? Is it just people for the Planet?"

"Yeah, I mostly take photos to go with the articles, but I love to take art photos and nature shots."

"No nudes?" She teased, causing the young man to swallow wrong and start to cough away from her, his face becoming red.

Heh, teasing people was surprisingly fun.

When the doors finally opened, a flustered Jimmy practically ran away from the enclosed space, buying himself time for his embarrassment to fade.

Using her vision Kara looked through the walls until she found her cousin bent over a table, discussing an article with Lois and an older male inside a private room.

Kara smiled, she just knew he'd be with Lois.

"You alright Jimmy?" She asked as she patted his back.

As soon as she spoke, Kal's head twitched, then he briefly turned towards her, even through the walls she saw him giving her a small smile and motion for her to wait before turning back to Lois to finish their talk.

"I'm fine." He said and glared at her, but there was no heat to it. "Come on, Clark should be at his desk right now."

She followed him inside the building, entering a wide open space filled with individual desks; Jimmy frowned when he didn't see Kal anywhere in sight.

"Come on, which desk is his?" Jimmy looked at her eyes for a second, but shook his head.

"Sorry, could you just… wait over there." He pointed to a comfortable waiting chair close to the wall. He was still in a hurry, but didn't want to just leave her alone at Clark's desk without supervision.

"Sure, I sent a message right before I arrived so he should be here soon anyway." She lied, glancing back towards Kal, she saw he was almost done with the discussion and decided to wait on her feet.

Jimmy seemed conflicted, looking between her and a room further inside the building. "I'm really sorry to just ditch you like that without Clark, but I really am late."

"Don't worry about it." Kara waved his concern away with a smile and watched him dash away towards his employer.

Not even a minute later Kal left the room, followed by Lois Lane. Miss Lane seemed completely distracted by something she was reading, but Kal motioned for her to come over as they walked towards their desks.

"Kara, good to see you!" he gave her a hug and turned towards Lois as the reporter raised an eyebrow and looked at him suspiciously. "Lois, this is Kara Danvers, the cousin I told you about. Kara, this is Lois Lane, one of the Planet's star reporters."

"So you're the famous cousin?" She took a moment to look Kara from top to bottom with a critical eye. "Yeah, I can see the resemblance. Weren't you in the hospital?"

Lois seemed to be really suspicious of Kara, her gaze never leaving Kara's face, as if searching for any signs of guilt.

Kara couldn't blame the woman, a new relative turning up out of nowhere with a medical emergency was suspicious even on her previous world, much less this one that was filled with supervillains and other ridiculous plots.

"I got better, still have to get treatment, but I don't have to stay in the hospital anymore."

"Expensive treatment, I take it?" The reporter squinted her eyes, her feet tapping against the ground as she thought Kara was taking advantage of her… wait, were they already married?

Kara remembered they had a son together but, since the focus was never on Superman, she didn't remember in which season they'd gotten together.

"Lois! Don't be like that." Clark begged while covering his eyes with a hand.

"It's fine Clark, I can see why your girlfriend would be worried." Kara patted Clark's back causing him to trip, almost dropping the papers on his hand. "And I guess you could say it's expensive, but I have the money."

"Oh, tell me more." Lois tried to shoulder Kal away and get to her, but her cousin grabbed her by the shoulders and gently guided her away.

"Lois, she's not here for an interview." Lois frowned at him, but still let him guide her towards her desk.

"Fine, I'll drop it." Rolling up one of the papers in her hand, she used it to hit him in the forehead to show her displeasure before walking away. "But don't you dare do that again or there will be consequences, Smallville."

Kal had a small smile on his face as he watched her go, then he turned towards Kara's smirking face. "Not that I'm complaining but, what're you doing here Kara?"

"Getting my documents back, mostly. I'm just starting to get my life in order and I kinda need them to even get started." She told him as she continued to look around the place with interest. "By the way, you and Lois? I tentatively approve."

Kara still hadn't had time to properly get to know Lois Lane, but what little she had seen was promising. The woman did seem to care about Kal and was very protective of someone she thought was taking advantage of him.

"Things with Lois are… complicated." He told her as he guided her towards his table, "I actually brought everything here since I was thinking of finding you later today."

Pulling one of the drawers, Kal handed her a thick folder, Kara took only a few seconds to check everything, but she trusted him and Batman to have things in order.

It seems that things would be even easier than she had first thought; her new identity already had an established tech company in her name, one that was seeing at least moderate success in the communication field.

"And Bruce's just giving me this? The factory alone must be at least twelve million and, from what I can see, there's quite a lot of cash available to my name."

The amount of money here was spare change compared with something like WayneTech, but Kara hadn't expected Batman to just give away millions.

"The… factory only exists on paper, or well… there's a building but it's really in need of repairs." Kal explained and looked around to be absolutely sure nobody was listening. "Bruce said the money in the accounts could be paid off some of the metals you already mined. Batman sometimes needs that kind of procurement done off the books."

She just nodded, Batman could have afforded to just give her the money anyway, but she didn't mind paying him back with the material she had already harvested. He probably didn't need it, but it would make her feel better not to owe him more than necessary.

"Right, thanks anyway. And about the access?" She probed.

"Kara… Krypton was very advanced, their military tech was dangerous." He said as he sat down, Kara bristled at his tone.

"Does that mean you won't give permission?"

"Look, I have yet to go through everything on the database, but I know there are some things in there that are just better forgotten or destroyed… or at least sealed away." He sighed and adjusted his glasses. "How about this, I'll give you access to anything defensive and, later this weekend, we can go over everything else together, then you get access to anything you can convince me you can safely use?"

Kara frowned; she hated how patronizing he sounded despite trying his best to be diplomatic.

Taking a deep breath, she tried to think about things from his point of view. Krypton was an advanced civilization, its military probably had access to planet bursting weapons and she was only 17.

More than that, she hadn't been on Earth for even half a year, he barely knew her really. It was still incredibly annoying, but she too wouldn't give a seventeen year old she barely knew access to military gear, even if they were family.

"Fine." She huffed in exasperation and glared at him. "I was already planning on working on my armor first anyway."

Kal stared at her with a strange look on his eyes as she said that. He started to say something, then closed his mouth as he thought better of it.

Shaking his head, he got back up and gave her a hug, holding her tightly against his chest. Kara was confused, but she did hug him back.

"I know it wasn't exactly what you wanted to hear, thanks for understanding." He finally said as he released her and sat back down.

"So, how's Kon taking living with your parents?"

"Surprisingly well." Kal told her, his face going back to the happy smile he usually had. "Bruce is helping with the adoption papers and he seems to enjoy helping out on the farm."

"What human name did he settle on anyway?" Kara asked with mild curiosity, with the way things were going he'd probably end up with the same name after all.

"Connor Kent. It's close enough he isn't likely to get confused." Kal glanced at a calendar on his table and tapped his finger against the table for a few seconds. "Say, do you have anything on the twenty first?"

"Not really, why?"

"I'll have to cover something with Lois so I thought you could take Connor to his meeting at Mount Justice." He told her with a sheepish smile.

"You couldn't make it?" Kara lifted an eyebrow in annoyance.

"I mean, it would be a little tight, but I could do it." Scratching the back of his neck he avoided her eyes, but continued to speak anyway. "I just thought, maybe you'd like to spend more time with him and meet the entire team together?"

"...You know what? Sure, I'll bring him there." Kori would be there too, and she could take the chance to find out what kind of changes Batman was making.

"Great, I'll update your Fortress access as soon as I'm done with work then."

"Right, thanks Kal, guess I'll leave you to your work now." She said her goodbyes, took her documents, then kissed him on the cheek and turned around.

While she was leaving the floor she caught sight of Jimmy getting yelled at by a fat guy and happily waved him goodbye.

As soon as she was out of sight she properly read all her new documentation, then decided to check her new property personally.

Her new headquarters was in a small rural town in Pennsylvania. The building itself was one of the biggest in the city, but it was currently almost empty, with only a couple of office workers dealing with some documents inside.

Kara would have to take some time to find out what really happened, but apparently, without any oversight, the CEO had stolen as much money as he could and fled, leaving management of the company, and the fallout, for someone else to deal with.

Without access to the money left from the owner's accounts, whoever was left was just doing their best to delay declaring bankruptcy.

Bruce probably didn't have the time to manage such a relatively small business and may have even forgotten he had acquired such a fake identity until Kara had asked for it; he probably had hundreds of covers he could use. It wasn't the end of the world if one was burned.

After checking on things Kara made sure she had access to the computers still within the building before she went towards the second building she now owned.

Her new factory was really just a huge abandoned building, most of its heavy equipment had been sold off or stolen and the remaining machines were just gathering dust while locked inside the expansive, mostly empty building.

It would take a bit of effort, but the location was good and Kara could already see the bare bones of her future technological empire here.

Kara had been thinking about her future a lot, as a Kryptonian she had access to incredibly advanced technology, but just giving it out didn't sit well with her. Just the thought of freely distributing crumbs of her knowledge like a benevolent overlord left a bad taste on her mouth.

It'd also probably cause damage to human society, making it dependent on alien knowledge and materials they couldn't even produce.

No, she wouldn't just give away her technology; instead she'd focus on getting a great team and have them reverse engineer various 'safe' items until they could be easily replicated.

Breaking things down until even the average human not only could understand and use her products, but also replicate them without her exotic equipment, materials or even her input.

She refused to follow the 'Reed Richards is useless' trope. Any improvements she made wouldn't just stay with her and die out if she was gone.

It would take far more time to get everything in order, but it would also allow her to make long lasting changes without causing damage.

And maybe, if she made some of her tech accessible to the common man, other advanced scientists would be forced to adapt in a positive way unless they wanted to go bankrupt.

For Rao's sake, Cadmus had been able to clone people and even create entire new species. But no, instead of working on making it cheaper so the average person could have access to the obvious medical uses, they just spent their time trying to clone Superman. What a waste!

In fact, it was the first order she had given as the new controller of Cadmus. Her own experiences and situation made transplants something of particular interest to her, so she had gotten most of Cadmus working on adapting its clone technology into developing affordable to produce transplant organs that wouldn't have a chance of rejection.

Strangely enough, even with cloning, transplanting a limb was still harder than an organ.

Limb transplanting wouldn't really save lives like producing a heart would, but it was the second priority for Cadmus anyway.

Using her vision Kara started surveilling the land surrounding her factory, making sure it had solid bedrock foundation; she was surprised to find there wasn't any water or mineral deposits anywhere close to her property.

With her technology, the entire thing would make for a great underground facility, just like Cadmus. Now that was an interesting thought.

Eventually, the Light would find out about her takeover of Cadmus and it would be good if she already had an alternative place for the Genomorphs by then. This small town was almost ideal.

A safe place to stay, a safe job at her factory so they could start their new lives and trustworthy employees she could use in her secret base… Who knows, depending on the people of the town they may even be able to integrate without much trouble down the line when Bruce's Lawyer got the Genomorphs' legal situation in order.

Until then, Dubbilex and the other G-gnomes could hide with illusions or she could give them holographic disguises.

With a smile, she made the call.

Dubbilex seemed eager for the chance, some of his more active Genomorphs were just begging to leave the facility and start exploring the outside world, even some of the G-trolls which would make things… complicated.

Most Genomorphs wouldn't have much trouble if they had a holographic disguise, but G-Trolls couldn't even leave Cadmus, the upper floors were just too small.

Kara promised that she'd have a teleportation device ready to bring them out of Cadmus without having to destroy the upper floors as she was sure she could get temporary access to the Zeta-tube network in a few days.

Damn, she had so much work to do.

Looking around herself, she dropped a handful of her drones on the property and ordered them to act as sentries. It wasn't really necessary yet, but the little devices were easy and cheap to make so it wasn't a loss and she thought it was better to be safe than sorry.

Finally, she found the phone of the one currently in charge of the company, a Mr Derrick Blackwell, and left him a message to set up a meeting.

She thought about getting a head start on getting things in order by using her superspeed to clean the place up a little, but… fuck it, she hated cleaning things up and she had more important things to do.

Like… eating lunch.

Finding a small restaurant in town, Kara sat at an empty table and started working on the future of her company. After thinking about it a lot she had decided to start with something that Krypton had been particularly good at, solar energy.

Kara was pretty sure she could improve a contemporary Earth solar panel by at least 200% using only human technology and without making it too expensive to produce, creating clean and cheap energy while making a killing and dominating the market.

The only question was, did she start slow… use only the money she had available to build up her resources with the panels before branching out, or did she start with a bang? She could probably get a loan from Bruce or at least a huge contract with advanced pay to supply some of his companies.

Who was she kidding? Of course she'd get Bruce's help, it would make everything from capital acquisition to recruiting to distribution so much easier and she wouldn't even feel like she was taking advantage since she'd make sure her tech was worth it.

In fact, she'd make it so it was Bruce who got the better deal. Her pride as a member of the El family wouldn't let her do anything less.

She laid back on the chair and started composing her proposal. She had to do things by the book if she wanted her company to work within the law, and so anybody looking wouldn't find it strange.

She didn't want to build a secret base and get it found out because she cut corners.

Jumping through the hoops necessary to get a meeting with Bruce and secure his support was annoying, but it would also put a certain distance between them in case anybody discovered her identity, or Batman's.


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As I have commented before, I was hoping to change the name of my Supergirl fic, it always felt kinda generic, but it was always very fitting. Still, the name has grown on me and, in most places, my readers have grown used to it, they even like it, there IS such thing as branding, so I feel it would only cause confusion to change it everywhere.

I mean, the current name is simple, but it does explain the premise of the fic very well. As always, I'm really in doubt about what to call this now and put it to a vote on my patreon. (As I said, they'll probably vote to keep the current name, but I'll be using the second most voted option here.)

To give you guys some background information, this fic was born because I wanted an MC to outvillain the villains, not in the sense of being more evil, but in the sense that they'd use the villain's own bag of tricks against them.

Villains always work from the shadows, forming secret societies and plots, while heroes are in the light and have to react to them, investigate and such. Villains know the heroes powers, the heroes morals and goals, while the heroes, most of the time, have to strugle to find those things out.

This fic was born to flip that, with Kara working from the shadows and the villains having to adapt to her.
That's mostly the real reason this is a reincarnation story, because I wanted Kara to know about the villains so they'd be in the light.

Another reason I started this was because I always hated how the villains rely on the heroes being... well, heroic, for a lot of their plots.

Like how Luthor rely on Superman not just killing him for a lot of his plots, despite claiming to believe the Kryptonian is gonna turn evil. That's probably why I always liked the idea of the Justice Lords and Injustice Superman. (even as I truly believe it to be very, VERY out of chatacter.)

I mean, that kinda thing is acceptable from Joker, because he'd love nothing more than for the Bat to kill him, but Luthor isn't suicidal, yet a lot of his plans rely on Superman not fighting to kill him.

As a result, some of my first alternative names were:

Secret Society of Superheroes.
Secret Society of Superheroes is your best one. Joke titles don't fit as it's not a comedy and titles with colons ":" are too similar to generic WN title scheme which is the main reason to change the title. To be blunt, it's better to avoid association with dumpster fires and Reincarnated as Supergirl sounds like an average WN fic/novel. Said average WN is literally 4/10 while your fic is 8/10, maybe even 9 and the title should reflect the quality and originality.
On WN you can count 8/10 fanfiction that isn't crossposted on the fingers of one hand.
I get that some readers have grown used to the title, but to me it's just a place holder. A title is a name which can also be a descriptor, in this case it feels like descriptor only.
 
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So, I changed the name, it's probably not the best name I could have used, but I really like the philosophy as it relates to the story, I think it fits pretty well and it is the second most voted on my patreon. (The first was to remain as Supergirl.)

Well, the voting is still going on there, but I think the people who are gonna vote have already done so.

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy the chapter!
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"Thanks for bringing me here Miss Kara." Billy said for the third time, a bouquet of flowers held firmly in his hands. "I know you may not like her after what she did, but Amber really wanted to meet you and apologize."

"Don't worry kid." Kara said as she handed the guard their day pass and identification, the man checked their information on his computer and nodded. "Besides, I'm not heartless. I can give people second chances if they're working to get better."

The kid gave her a huge smile at that, a second later they stopped in front of a metal door and waited until the guard buzzed them through.

STAR Labs wasn't exactly a maximum security prison, but their preparations to protect their research were very thorough, and they did work with the Justice League to monitor and help meta-humans with dangerous or uncontrollable powers.

Seeing as Amy was still underage, had willingly handed herself over when rescued from Mr. Mind, and Billy had vouched for her as Captain Marvel, the law had allowed her to stay in one of STAR Labs' facilities if she also went through mandatory therapy.

"Hello, you must be Kara Danvers." said a middle aged woman as she saw them approaching. "I'm Sharon Banks, Amy and Amber's psychologist. I'm glad you could bring Mister Batson here, they both greatly enjoy his visits."

"They're still separated?" Kara asked as she shook the woman's hand.

"Yes, Amy was able to absorb the other two personalities we identified as her Id and Inner child, but Amber is still separated." The doctor said and stopped in front of a thick metal door. "Billy, why don't you go ahead and meet with them while I talk with Miss Kara?"

"Right, thanks for letting me see her Mrs. Banks." Billy took a breath and entered the room, his flowers in front of him. "Hi Amy, Amber."

"Billy!"

"Hey pipsqueak, about time you showed up again."

The door closed behind him leaving Kara alone with the psychologist. The woman seemed to be watching Kara's face in search of something so Kara just lifted a quizzical eyebrow and decided to wait her out. Finally, the doctor sighed.

"Right, I was told Amber had hurt you before. As her doctor I must know, are you here to yell at her or blame her?"

For a brief moment Kara just looked at the closed door and thought about it, did she blame Amber for her actions? A little bit, but the girl was only fourteen and had been abused by her parents.

Kara wasn't exactly the forgiving type but, surrounded as she was by people like Billy, Kori and her cousin, she couldn't help but want to be a better person.

She hadn't lied to Billy earlier, she was willing to give the kid a second chance. The girl hadn't even caused any deaths before she was controlled by Mr. Mind.

"I haven't exactly forgotten what she did, but I'm willing to forgive it, once." Kara confessed, to which the doctor smiled at her.

"Good. I wasn't completely certain if you should meet with Amber yet. It could do a lot of good to the girl, yes, but it could also set her back by a lot." The doctor looked at the door with a frown on her face. Turning back to Kara, she took a deep breath. "It's not a chance I would have taken myself, but I was overruled by Doctor Wilcox. Still, I'm glad my fear appears to have been groundless."

Kara prepared herself to enter the room, but decided to give Billy a little more time alone with the girls. "Say, do you know why they're still separated like that?"

"Doctor Wilcox believes it's something in her meta-gene reacting with Captain Marvel's powers. Amy and Amber were the only ones to retain their powers when separated. The Doctor believes their power has taken over and changed after getting super charged by the Captain's and is fuelling their separate existences."

"And you?" Kara had to ask, the woman really didn't seem happy with her superior's decisions.

"I believe they don't want to be united." Retreating from the door the Doctor sat down on a couple of chairs in the hallway then leaned back against the wall. "Amber's personality was formed as a way to protect Amy from the rest of the world; I believe she's refusing to unite with the original because she wants to protect Amy from the guilt she feels about what happened."

"Wouldn't it help if I forgave her?"

"Possibly, but not forgiving her could do far more damage." Lifting her glasses and scratching at her eyes in frustration the Doctor continued. "At this point I'm not certain they can ever be joined. We have been keeping the both of them in the same room and going through the same procedures, but they have been separated for such a long time their experiences have greatly differed."

"Is that a bad thing?"

"That's just it, we still don't know. I'm a psychologist and even in my area of expertise I'm not certain. They're the first known case of split personalities also having split bodies and her condition doesn't really have a cure." The doctor gave Kara a bitter smile. "The standard treatment is usually just tries to integrate as much of the personalities together as possible into one while finding a way to manage the dissonance, but they have diverged so much and are acting so independent from one another… It could be best to just stay as they are now."

"I take it that's not the healthiest option?" Kara had to ask.

"Again, we don't know. Can she even stay separated indefinitely or is their independence only gonna make it worse when it ends? That's not even considering the possible physical side-effects. We're doing our best, but her case is complicated."

Kara didn't know what else to say and the Doctor seemed to realize she had said too much leaving an awkward atmosphere between them that stretched for almost a full minute.

"Alright then, I think I've given them enough time alone." Kara finally broke the silence and opened the door.

Both Billy and Amy sat on her bed, their legs crossed while Amber was sitting beside them and pretending not to be interested. Billy had a cell phone out and was showing them some pictures while telling her about his latest training session with Zatara.

Beside the bed, Billy's bouquet of flowers rested inside a jar of water where Amy had put them.

All three of them lifted their heads and looked at her when she entered, Amy smiled at her, but Amber just avoided her eyes. "Hey, I heard you girls were receiving visits already."

"Yeah, Doctor Wilcox said we should start interacting more," Amy said while leaning over Billy. "He's even going to start letting us out of the lab for exercise."

"Yep, guy's an asshole, but at least he knows we're getting fed up with being lab rats."

"Amber!" The original twin scolded but Amber just shrugged.

"What? Are you gonna tell me he isn't an utter asshole?" Amber looked at her twin with annoyance. "Bastard tries to separate us every chance he gets."

This time it was Amy who avoided her twin's eyes, too polite to answer the question.

Kara frowned, wasn't STAR labs trying to keep them together to avoid deviating their personalities and experiences even more? Guess the good doctor decided they were better off separated. Either that or he was a complete bastard only interested in research data. Something to follow-up on later.

Grabbing a chair, Kara pulled it closer and sat together with Amber so they could hear Billy's story and watch him cast a very basic ball of light. Kara immediately looked for any cameras, but it seemed like the girls weren't monitored while in their room.

Amber seemed incredibly on edge with her, but she eventually relaxed and became much more focused on Billy's fledging magical abilities.

Kara thought the three of them looked incredibly cute together. Despite being older, the two girls hung on Billy's every word with Amy leaning over his body, their shoulders touching and Amber herself squeezed on top of the bed with them while peaking over her twin's shoulders acting incredibly interested in his fights as Captain Marvel.

An hour later, the Doctor knocked on the door and poked her head inside, warning them that visiting hours were over.

Billy hugged Amy under Kara's amused eyes, then he went towards Amber and the rebellious teen looked at Kara, then towards her twin and back at Kara. With a long suffering sigh, she let the boy hug her, her face flushed with embarrassment.

Kara managed to keep from snickering.

Just before they left the room, Amber grabbed at Kara's shirt, causing her to stop and turn towards the girl again. "What is it?"

"Are you alright?" The girl asked with a tiny voice, her eyes meeting Kara's with a desperate need. "Shit, I don't know how to do this. Look, I'm really sorry about what happened; I didn't mean to hurt people so much."

Kara looked at the girl again and saw deep regret. Putting a hand over her head she messed up her hair. "Look kid, I'm not gonna say it was nothing, but most of it wasn't really your fault. 'You' didn't kill anybody, or even hurt me that seriously. Just don't do it again and I can forgive you."

"I'm not a fucking kid," Amber slapped her hand away. "And I won't, I swear I won't."

She glanced back towards Amy, her face turning into a protective smile.

"Then don't worry about it. Just try to find a way to make up for the damage you caused when you're out of here." Kara told her and saw the Kid nod in understanding.

"Could you… could you find that little kid's name? I know I fucked up and hurt her family so I wanted to…" She swallowed hard as she seemed to gather herself. "To apologize."

"I'll find out." Looking towards the hallway Kara saw that Billy was already waiting for her at a corner. "I'll visit again next week, alright?"

"Yeah… thanks."

Kara and Billy stepped out of the building and made their way towards the Zeta-Tube, Kara still had a meeting with Kori and Wonder Woman for some training, but she wasn't in a hurry, it wasn't even three in the evening. Kori trained with her mentor until eight.

"Thanks for coming, Miss Kara." Billy said as he squeezed her hand. "I know I could come as Captain Marvel, but Amber is always on edge when I show up like that."

"It's fine. We wouldn't want your little girlfriend to be uncomfortable, now would we?" She smirked.

"Ack. That's not… nevermind." He just gave up when he saw the amused smirk on her face causing Kara to laugh out loud.

"So, which one do you prefer: the delicate one or the tomboy?" She couldn't help poking at the kid.

Once they were completely out of sight Billy checked his phone and got excited, releasing her hand he stepped back from her. "I'm sorry Miss Kara, but the League is calling for me. Shazam!"

With a flash of lightning, the little kid was gone leaving a large man in its place, Kara snickered again. "I can't believe you're fleeing in terror from me."

"Sorry, can't hear you, have to go." He said while avoiding her eyes, then he flew away as fast as he could, leaving a highly amused Kara behind.

Half an hour later Kara stepped onto Wonder Woman's private beach in Greece. She quickly made sure there weren't any cameras or surveillance devices turned her way and pulled her mask away from her face.

From further into the beach Kara saw Kori waving at her before taking a punch to the face for her distraction. Quickly refocusing, the princess started fighting back against Troia, their bodies floating a few centimeters above the sand as they traded blows.

Wonder Woman herself turned towards Kara and smiled. "Kara, Starfire said you'd be coming over today."

"Hello, and thank you for the invitation. Is that what she's gonna call herself now?" She asked, somewhat surprised despite herself.

Kara had already changed things so much she half expected Kori to call herself Wonder Girl or something.

"Yes, Princess Koriand'r decided to use the translated meaning of her name while acting as my apprentice." Wonder Woman replied. Lifting an arm in front of her face almost faster than Kara could react, the heroine deflected a starbolt towards the sea causing it to explode and shower them in a thin mist. "Do not aim towards the spectators. Not all of them are going to be as powerful as me and it creates a bad habit!"

"Apologies!" Kori shouted back while dodging a kick aimed at her head.

"They seem evenly matched." Kara commented and Wonder Woman shook her head.

"No, Starfire almost matches me in skill, she holds back to allow Troia to grow."

Looking at the fight going on, Kara couldn't really see it. Then again, both fighters were far more skilled than her.

Watching as Kori put Troia's arm in a joint lock and dropped the both of them violently towards the sand Kara considered how she'd fight them.

Well, besides turning hundreds of drones into teleporting bombs like her prosthetic eye or bombarding them with heat vision from a kilometer away.

Even wounded, Kara was clearly still far stronger, faster and more resistant than both of them. Her best strategy would be to take a few hits and get close enough to use strength to end the fight in a single hit.

She could probably take four or five blows for every one she dealt and still win the fight.

Unable to escape from the joint lock, Troia tapped out on the sand. Wonder Woman nodded towards Kara and went to talk with her sister letting Kori fly closer and give her a back breaking hug.

"Friend Kara, you came!"

"Told you I would," She said as she hugged her friend back. "Punching my problems away may not be my preferred method, but that doesn't mean I can't see the advantages of knowing how to do so."

"It is wonderful to have you here." Kori finally released her and floated away, "Please, would you like to do the sparring with me?"

"Starfire." Wonder Woman called as she helped Troia back to her feet. "Sorry to interrupt, but I was thinking of testing Kara's skill before anything else."

"It is not a problem. I have only taught Kara for a short time, but she is a most adroit pupil."

"What do you say, Kara? Feeling up for a spar?" Wonder Woman asked with a jovial tone as she waited at the same spot Kori and Troia had been fighting.

"I guess." Kara said and started stretching her arms as she walked towards the heroine. "You know I had no martial training before meeting Starfire less than three months ago, right?"

"Don't worry. I just want to get an idea of your condition. I'll hold back."

"Fine, just say when."

"I'm ready when you are." Wonder Woman answered with a kind smile.

"Fight well Friend Kara! I am sure The Wonder Woman will refrain from breaking too many of your bones!" Kori oh-so-helpfully cheered from the sidelines.

Well, she had been considering how she'd do in a straight up fight. Guess it was time to find out.

Without warning Kara accelerated as fast as she could and tried to punch her opponent in the face with a surprise attack, she tried to put everything behind the blow and end the fight as soon as it started. Fair fights were for idiots and people willing to lose after all.

Wonder Woman punched her back, her fist hitting Kara's with enough strength to cause a shockwave. Not exactly prepared for the collision, Kara was sent flying back, her feet digging into the ground and sliding back for almost two hundred meters before she managed to stop herself.

Her entire arm had gone numb from the collision and she had to shake it a little to regain the feeling, opening and closing her fist. Kara finally used her flight to float up and pull herself out of the ground she had sunk into.

Looking back towards the hero, Kara saw the woman hadn't moved from the spot, her body relaxed and only an eyebrow lifted at her. With an amused smile the Wonder Woman asked. "What was that?"

Kara considered her answer. Did she really think she could sucker punch Wonder Woman, or that she'd be stronger than her for that matter? Yes, yes she did.

"'Arrogance', I guess." She said with a sigh, Looking at the undisturbed sand under Wonder Woman's feet she couldn't help but frown. "Damn, you didn't even move."

"Kara, we can fly just by thinking about it, pushing against the ground for leverage is almost never the right option."

"Right, I knew that." Kara grumbled, then got serious and started using what little Kori had taught her.

At first she tried to bombard Wonder Woman with short blasts of her heat vision, but the heroine deflected them all with her bracelets and it seemed like doing any damage that way would cost far more than Kara was willing to use.

Her heat vision was one of her most costly abilities and she didn't want to waste it, she also didn't want to use her shouts or ice breath when she anticipated they wouldn't really do any damage and only cause her pain.

The two of them clashed with incredible strength. Moving as fast as she could, Kara delivered an overwhelming series of blows which Wonder Woman either dodged or blocked before striking back and forcing her to defend herself.

At first the Heroine's blows sent her flying back for dozens of meters or caused her to sink into the ground but, after only a couple of exchanges, Kara started to get the hang of things. Eventually, she only had to take a few steps back every time she was hit.

Then Kara started using her heat vision while in melee range, making Wonder Woman have to always keep track of her eye.

In truth, at their level, the ground was more a suggestion than the actual field of battle. Both of them could easily sink several kilometers into the ground without even making an effort if they wanted to.

The answer then on how to prevent being sent flying was, obviously enough, to use her flight ability. The only reason Wonder Woman didn't fly back or sink into the ground for hundreds of meters with every blow was because she was stopping herself from doing so.

Unfortunately, that also meant you had to take the full brunt of the blow every time, absorbing it all instead of dispersing it or turning it into momentum.

"Good, you really do learn fast." Wonder Woman complimented even as she leaned back, dodging a punch and making Kara overextend before kicking at her exposed ribs. "Sometimes, if you have the range, you'll still want to let yourself be sent flying. It gives you a few more seconds to counter the force of the blow or take a breath, but we're often fighting in a populated area so it's best not to count on that being an option."

Breathing hard and with her clothes soaked in sweat, Kara held her aching ribs and nodded towards her sparring partner.

Wonder Woman herself wasn't completely unscratched, Kara managed to get a few lucky hits in and the heroine had a new bruise on her cheek. She also had a light coat of sweat and a few strands of hair falling over her face.

"Ha, that was a great warm up," Wonder Woman laughed when she saw the disbelief in Kara's face, she waved a hand through her hair tucking the stray strands back and continued. "Don't worry, we're not sparring anymore, you wouldn't benefit from it anyway."

"Oh thank Rao! I don't think I could go for another round."

"Have to say, I didn't think you could last so long Blondie." Troia commented from the sidelines. "Not much skill there, but still much better than I expected from someone with so little training."

"I informed you of her prowess, Friend Troia." Kori stated happily while bringing a cup of water for the two.

"Yeah, I suppose you did." Troia nodded and looked at Kara with newfound respect. "So, are you gonna be joining us for training from now on?"

Kara grabbed at the water and drank it all in a single gulp before pushing against her knees and straightening her body again, considering things a little she breathed out and nodded.

"Yeah, I can't do this every day, but I think I'm gonna start coming at least twice a week from now on."

After that Wonder Woman started teaching them how to fight against stronger opponents and having them test their moves against each other.

In her last life, Kara had always heard that footwork was one of the most important things in a fight, but that meant less than zero when you could fly.

In fact, most of what the Amazon was teaching them was about how to avoid causing destruction and, if you were pushing against the ground and using footwork, you were probably causing a lot of damage to the streets.

Also, being hit through a building was surprisingly dangerous for the building, and for everyone inside it. No matter how often Kara had seen it in comics and cartoons a significant part of her lesson was reserved for how to avoid becoming a person shaped wrecking ball.

They only stopped an hour after the sun had set. Wonder Woman's house had half a dozen showers and, after washing themselves, they had a nice meal prepared by a chef she employed and trusted.

Outside of combat, both Diana and Troia wore comfortable white dresses with no sleeves. Kori herself wore only a tank top and gym shorts that hugged her body and left most of her legs and belly exposed.

Since her own clothes had gotten soaked with sweat, Kara had borrowed one of Troia's dresses with leather shoulder straps that was surprisingly comfortable, and fit her incredibly well.

She still preferred to wear pants, but having a few dresses wouldn't be entirely bad.

After dinner Troia threw herself down onto the sofa before starting to look for a movie to watch and Kori followed her out of curiosity.

Seeing as they were left alone Kara decided to take the chance and ask the woman about something.

"Say, Miss Diana…" Kara started to say.

"Just Diana outside the costume Kara." The older woman interrupted with a smile as she drank a glass of wine.

"Right, Diana, do you know how I could get in contact with Bruce in my civilian identity?" She asked, Kara could probably find out a way to do it herself, but there was no way to know how long that would take. "I wrote a business proposition I know he'd be interested in, but I'm not sure how to approach him without being suspicious."

Diana looked at her with some curiosity, but didn't ask how she knew Batman's secret identity. Looking at Troia and Kori busy in the living room she thought about the question.

"Well, Bruce does have a reputation as a playboy." She finally said with some hesitation. "There's gonna be a fundraising event in Gotham two days from now, the best way to approach him would be as a beautiful woman there."

Kara lifted an eyebrow at her in disbelief. "Are you saying I should…?"

"Well, you did ask and it is the easiest way." She smiled at Kara with amusement. "It definitely wouldn't raise any alarms about why he might be interested in your proposal."

"Ugh… just, ugh."

Damn it. Kara supposed Bruce Wayne was handsome enough, but he was her cousin's best friend… and old compared to her.

Although… now that she thought about it, that last part didn't weight as much for her, considering her previous life and all.

"Fine, I guess it wouldn't hurt." She said after considering the matter for a full minute. "Still, letting people think I got a deal because of my body just leaves a bitter taste in my mouth."

"Then don't do it. It's not a matter of life or death, is it?"

"No, I suppose it isn't." Kara sighed and took a glass of wine herself.

"Don't tell Clark I let you do that." Diana joked as she filled her glass.

"What? We're in Greece and I'm already 18 anyway, it says right there in my documents." Kara answered back smugly and traded amused smiles with the Amazon.

Soon, all four of them were sitting comfortably on Diana's giant sofa, even Diana had taken off her shoes and lay sprawled between a little mountain of pillows.

This time it was Kori that laid her head over Kara's lap as they relaxed while watching DC's version of the Lord of The Rings.


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Chapter 19
Ugh, not a single comment since last chapter, sniff.

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Kara read the information on her computer one last time and sighed. Dropping the device on top of the table she scratched at her good eye before looking at the android still on the bed.

Fixing, and improving, Firebrand had been a very interesting project. The android's new sunstone batteries more than tripled her previous output, the new alloy improved her armor by 54% and her new wiring should make her reaction speed nearly twice as fast.

Despite all that, Kara just couldn't reactivate her. It seemed like Dr. Morrow had put a failsafe in order to prevent anyone else but him from turning the android back on.

Kara's computers could brute force it, but the risk of activating another failsafe and damaging Firebrand's programming was just too high. Kara had wanted to rescue the woman and give her a second chance, not finish killing her.

Mad scientists were such bullshit, there was no way T. O. Morrow should have been able to block a hacking attempt by a Kryptonian program. Unfortunately for Kara and Firebrand, nobody had told that to Dr. Morrow, so the old man had done it anyway.

Once again, Kara cursed herself for having morals. Things would have been so much easier if she didn't care about the android's memories and personality.

Pushing her chair back, Kara let her computer continue attempting to find a weakness on Dr. Morrow's programming without risking her core and decided to focus on something else, namely, giving her better senses.

Kara had wanted to turn her on as soon as possible but, since that wasn't going to work out, she could start developing the necessary equipment to give her an actual sense of touch and taste. Both things that Dr. Morrow had neglected since it didn't affect her fighting ability.

Integrating a complete synthetic somatosensory system under Firebrand's synthetic skin would take another full week, and that was only because Krypton already had such things so Kara didn't have to invent them, just adapt them to work with Firebrand.

The annoying beep of Kara's alarm finally made her stop and look at the time. She was almost late for Bruce's party.

Stepping away from the chair Kara made her way out of her ship and looked towards her newly grown moon base, it was still only two small rooms right on the surface and had already delayed the completion of her ship by a week, but… moon base!

She sighed. It was such pity that she hadn't been able to get her own teleportation network working yet. Krypton had had teleportation technology, but it required some pretty rare materials and she didn't have access to them while on Earth.

Rao, she didn't know if Earth even had them to begin with.

An hour later she arrived at her apartment, she tidied her clothes and grabbed the door, with only a second of hesitation Kara opened it.

Kori was already waiting for her, a huge smile on her face and her eyes shining with unholy light. Kara froze, shivered and tried to close the door.

"Excitement! Ecstasy! Euphoria!" The Tamaranean princess almost shouted as she tackled Kara and forcefully dragged her inside the living room to stand amongst more than a dozen different dresses. "Friend Kara you have finally arrived, Master Diana and Friend Troia have left a large amount of clothes for your discretion. Let us start with 'The Dressing Up', yes?"

Kara looked at the room filled with dresses and outfits of all shapes, colors and sizes, most of which left entirely too much of her skin exposed, she shuddered.

"Ah, I was thinking I'd just wear a sui…" she stopped talking as she looked at Kori's huge, puppy dog eyes.

"Please, what is the quandary bothering you?" Kori asked as she put her face uncomfortably close to Kara's.

Taking a step back Kara looked at the… she counted them, the 18 dresses arrayed around the room. She looked back at Kori's eager face and shinning eyes. Admitting defeat, she dropped her shoulders and breathed out.

"I guess I just don't know where to start." She didn't even finish the sentence before Kori was holding a red high slit dress in front of her body. "Alright, let's get this over with."

Using her speed she grabbed the dress and went to her bedroom before putting it on in less than a minute. Standing in front of the mirror, she lifted an eyebrow as her image starred back at her.

It looked incredibly good.

Stepping back out she saw Kori waiting for her, feeling slightly embarrassed Kara opened her arms and slowly turned in place, when she completed her turn Kori was already holding a second dress.

Kara just took it. She knew when she was beaten.

In the end Kara had to test every single dress there, the only surprise was the fact that it wasn't a completely unpleasant experience. With her speed it hadn't been that much of a time waste and she had enjoyed Kori's reactions.

Kara suspected she'd have enjoyed it far more if their roles had been reversed, but Kori wasn't going with her this time.

In the end, she chose a black cocktail dress with a single strap over her left shoulder, it was unexpectedly comfortable and left her feeling… elegant. She liked it.

"Sorry you can't come with me Kori."

"Do not worry. We can most certainly do 'The Clubbing' at another opportunity."

Kori waved her goodbye as Kara grabbed a drive with her business proposal and made her way towards the Zeta-tube. Getting to Gotham City, she called for a cab and let it bring her towards the party.

Gotham's newest fundraising was actually being organized at Wayne Manor, so she was absolutely sure to meet with the billionaire at least once without attracting unwanted attention or suspiciousness. Even if one of their identities was found out it wouldn't splash on the other.

Stepping out of the cab in front of the huge gates, Kara could already see nearly a thousand people in fancy clothes partying. She wondered just how many of them were part of the court of Owls.

With her senses it was pretty easy to find Bruce, she also found someone else of interest amongst the guests. Selina Kyle fitted perfectly with the fancy nobles on the property.

Kara briefly considered which one to approach first. Bruce seemed to be really busy receiving guests while Selina didn't seem able to stop herself and already had a large jeweled ring hidden in her purse.

"Hello Selina, ditched the leather today?" She called from behind the cat thief, almost causing her to jump out of her skin.

Giving her a death glare, Selina grabbed a drink from a nearby waiter and drained it halfway in a single gulp. Narrowing her eyes she asked. "What are 'you' doing here?"

"Trying to hand in a business proposition to the host." Kara said, she had already revealed her identity to the woman anyway.

"Haaa… I didn't think you would be after the Wayne's fortune too. You didn't seem the type." Selina gave her an appraising glance, looking from her elegant shoes to the top of her black dress. "Shows what I know I guess."

Kara made sure nobody was paying attention to them before answering truthfully.

"I'll have you know I'm not after his fortune, I'm after my own." Kara tried to get her own drink only for the waiter to deftly avoid her hand and give her a disapproving glare. "Right, we're in the United States. Anyways, I have a proposal Wayne can't refuse, but it'd help keep my identity a secret if people think they know why I got the deal."

"Well, who am I to judge, it's not like I don't use my body as a distraction too." She laughed and leaned against the table while finishing her drink. "Have to say, I would definitely recommend getting to know Bruce Wayne. He's wonderful in bed you know."

"Spare me the details..." Kara looked at Bruce again and had to admit, the man did fill his clothes well. She thought about Kori and sighed. "But no, I'm kind of interested in someone already."

"Well, good for you." Selina said and continued to look at the guests. "Are you gonna be stopping me today?"

"No, no I don't think I will." Kara answered after only a brief moment of thought. "Just try to target people who really deserve it, it shouldn't be hard in this crowd."

"Sure, just avoid the waiters then."

"That seems about right." Kara cringed at some of the things she was hearing from the conversations around her. "You know what, want to dance a little?"

"Sure, why not."

Relaxing a little Selina pulled her into the middle of the dance floor. Despite Kara taking the role of the male it was Selina who controlled the dance, being far more experienced and skilled.

She made sure to guide them closer to the older dancers or the ones who seemed most distressed at their presence, making sure to be particularly sensual around the most prudish of the lot even as she stole from their pockets.

Kara was actually having fun for a while when she finally noticed the important guests stop arriving and Bruce being freed from his responsibilities. "Say, wants to introduce me to the owner of the house?"

"Well, if you want people to believe your proposal was accepted because you were a good lay, a threesome would probably do it."

Kara snorted, but didn't deny it. Mostly, she was amused to see Selina still didn't seem to know Batman's identity despite having dated Bruce before.

The man himself was inside the building talking with a kid Kara had never seen before. The boy was about 13 and looked somewhat small for his age, wearing a fancy suit and a tie.

Hmm. It seems like Richard Grayson was on the house.

Bruce caught sight of them approaching and lifted an eyebrow at Selina, then a second one when he recognized Kara in her arms. "Hello Bruce, wonderful party you're throwing, have you met Kara before?"

"Selina… good to see you too, and I can't say that I have. It's a pleasure to met you." With a smooth smile Bruce held Kara's hand and lifted in to his lips laying a light kiss on top, Robin grunted in disgust causing Bruce to introduce him. "This is Richard Grayson, my ward."

"Kara Danvers. It's an honor to meet you Mister Wayne." Kara said with her best smile, and then turned towards the boy. "And you too Mr. Grayson."

"Ugh, you can just call me Dick, everyone does." Robin dismissed her greetings under the disapproving glance of his mentor.

"Oh, I'm really sorry." With the kindest smile she could manage, Kara put a hand on the boy's head and bent down, making sure to accentuate how much taller she was. "Frankly, I know kids can be cruel, but there's no need to call you names Richard. Hang in there young man."

Selina snorted and even Bruce had a glint of humor on his eyes as Robin was left speechless. Before he could recover Kara got up and turned back towards Bruce.

"I really wanted to talk with you Mr. Wayne, I'm sure I can manage to make it worth your time."

"I see. I can definitely make some time for you after the party."

"UGH! This is totally not whelming." Turning away from them the boy wonder lifted his arms and started walking further inside the mansion. "I think I'm done here, I'm going to my room."

Once mostly alone, Selina almost threw herself on Bruce's arms. Leaning on his chest she kissed him on the cheek and smiled. "Well, my work here is done so I'll leave the two of you alone to talk. See ya later Bruce."

The both of them watched as the woman walked away with a distinct feline movement to her waits. Finally, Bruce turned back towards Kara. "I'm surprised you know Selina."

"I can't say I really know her, but I liked her club and met her in the party." Still starring at Selina's back Kara commented. "You know, I think she's planning to steal from everyone in the party."

"What are you here for Kara?" Bruce questioned while ignoring her and dropping the pretense of a Casanova.

So he already knew she was Catwoman… interesting but not surprising.

"Exactly what I said, I wanted to present you a proposal without having to wait years and your reputation gave me a good excuse." Kara replied. Fishing inside her own purse she pulled out the drive with her proposal and handed it to him. "Don't worry, this is strictly business related."

"I appreciate you trying to keep both things separated but, next time; just send it through your cousin." He told her as he pocketed the device. "If an alibi is needed I'm far better prepared to create it."

Well shit, Kara could see he was kinda right. Not that her own excuse was bad, but Batman had trained his entire life for it and, if she remembered right, even Alfred had been a secret agent before.

"Fine by me, didn't really like doing it like this anyway." Passing a hand through her hair she adjusted her dress and sighed, "Should I stay until the end of the party now?"

"No, you're not important enough for people to pay attention to you and, even if they do, they'll just assume I had you over another time. I have let them believe that often enough."

"Fine, do look at it, I'm sure you're gonna find it lucrative."

Leaving the mansion Kara made sure to keep a wide smile on her face. It wasn't very hard since her memory of meeting Robin was still fresh on her mind.

Damn Shorty making eyes at Kori… in the future… probably.

Shaking her head to dispel that strange train of thought, Kara considered how to get home, deciding to go for a short walk towards the teleport instead of just flying there.

Gotham City may be incredibly dangerous at night, but not for someone like her. In truth she was kind of disappointed, she had half expected some disaster to hit the party while she was still there and start a crisis for Batman.

Guess even in DC those things don't happen every day, it just seem like it when you're reading from the comics. There probably wouldn't be charity galas in Gotham if every one of them got attacked by madmen.

In fact, after the way things had turned out as soon as she got to the planet, Kara had been expecting to constantly get attacked every time she looked out of the window.

Kara knew her luck would run out eventually, but she was enjoying the peace and quiet in the meantime.

Walking through the city she couldn't help but hear cries for help and stopped four muggings and a shootout by using her speed to just steal the weapons involved and stun the criminals with a VERY light tap to the head without anyone even seeing her.

She briefly wondered what people would think the next day? That the Flash had been in town?

Then she heard two punks laughing and joking as they hit something, stuffed it into a bag and were walking towards the bridge to throw it.

Rao be damned, she hated animal cruelty.

She arrived at the bridge and watched the bastards from behind, turning her head sideway to consider how she'd deal with them.

"Damn, this cat's going crazy man! Ahahahaha."

"Come on, you think it's gonna die when it hits the water or when it drowns?" one of the assholes filled with too many piercings asked.

"Who cares, just throw it." The second one said and grabbed for the bag.

"I do." Kara finally interjected as she kicked the idiot off the bridge and watched him sailing down. "I don't think its high enough to kill him, but do you think he knows how to swim?"

"What the fuck are you doing bitch!" The remaining asshole shouted looking from his belly flopping friend towards her face with a hateful glare.

"Yeah, I agree you should totally go help him."

Grabbing the bag out of his hand, Kara lifted the second idiot by the collar and flung him out of the bridge. "Hmm, I guess both of them can't swim."

Kara gently opened the bag to find an extremely angry, light blue cat, the kitty immediately went wild trying to scratch her but Kara ignored its attempts. "Shhhh, it's alright, the bastards are gone now look."

The cat just tried to take out her eye, its claws bouncing off her fake one without leaving a scratch. Kara held it close to her chest and slowly started petting it while looking at the two bastards desperately trying to survive on the river.

Eventually, one of them managed to reach the riverbank and drag himself out of the river, but the second one finally lost his strength and started to truly drown. Kara waited a few seconds then sighed and saved the bastard.

Grabbing both assholes, Kara saw they had soaked drugs inside their pockets and dropped them on top of a police car.

The cat had finally calmed down and was actually starring at both guys as if it held a grudge, his sharp claws digging into Kara's arm with barely contained rage, she petted it again until it relaxed and calmed down.

"Ah, you're a good kitty after all." She called out in a stupid voice as she looked at its collar, a little metal plaque in the shape of a fish with its name and owner phone. "So you're Dexter, come on let's see if we can't find your owner."

Finding Dexter's owner was easy, Kara just called the number and got the address. Unfortunately the woman was dead and it had been a policeman who took the call.

Kara let the cat see its owner one last time and managed to convince the Police to release some of its things that weren't in the same room the crime had happened, but the cat couldn't stay in a police investigation.

Kara looked at the exhausted cat as it slept in her arm and couldn't bear to leave it. New cat in hand, she had to fly back to Fawcett city since he wasn't recognized by the zeta-tube network and then spend the rest of the night getting it adjusted to the new apartment.

The next week was busy but otherwise uneventful. Dexter got into a few fights with Kori, but the Tamaranean eventually won the kitty over and he seemed to be getting better. Still incredibly aggressive, clawing at everything he could reach, but also incredibly needy when sleeping on her bed.

Kara trained with Wonder Woman another two times, both of which were entirely focused on diminishing collateral damage and protecting civilians.

Bobo called her and said he had some new information about The Light, but The Shade hadn't contacted her and Green Arrow had asked her for a little more time for Roy and his clone. With Firebrand still out of commission Kara didn't mind the delay so much.

She had gotten the detective trying to locate Dr. Morrow's location, but that too would take some time.

Even better, Kara and Kal had spent two entire days going over the information on Kryptonian technology and Kara had managed to convince Kal to not destroy every doomsday weapon in it. He had refused to build anything too powerful, but if a planet eating monster showed up they could make something useful in only a day or two.

Kara had also gotten the Fortress building her an emergency armor, nothing too impressive since the Fortress only had a very limited amount of the materials needed and Kara wanted to keep it in reserve in case it was needed for something else.

Her company was getting back on its feet. With access to new founding Mr. Blackwell turned out to be a surprisingly competent manager.

They had an appointment in a few days to harsh out the details, but Kara could already see it was gonna work out as soon as Bruce finished analyzing her proposal, maybe she'd get Dubbilex involved too. It would be mostly his people working there and his management could make her life easier until she found a fitting CEO.

"Mrraw!" Dexter protested and tried to sink his claws into her tights as Kara tried to move him out of her lap. He couldn't hurt her, but her clothes were paying the price of angering the little overlord.

"Sorry Dexter, I have to take my little cousin to a meeting today."

She finally pried the cat away from her pants and he hung bonelessly from her arms. His first plan thwarted the kitty looked at her with huge eyes and started purring, almost forcing Kara to put him back down and accept being late.

Fortunately, Kara resisted his mind control powers and let him down on the sofa while getting up. "Sorry, I really have to go."

Taking the closest Zeta-Tube to Smallville Kara put on her mask and started flying the rest of the way towards the farm. Kon had his first reunion with the sidekicks today and Kara had promised Kal she'd be there for him.

Well, with everything going on, she had forgotten to make a public costume so she wouldn't be meeting the rest of the team herself, but she'd at least bring him to Kori and the two of them could arrive together.

Approaching the Farm she started concentrating on the noise coming from there, quickly locating Martha, Jonathan and Kon talking about the day he had ahead of him.

Kon really seemed to love the Kents. He found the farm's lack of noise calming and farm work to be very relaxing. Having already raised one super-strong kid they had experience with his problems and Kon seemed calmer and calmer every time Kara visited.

Seeing as she was a little early, Kara slowed down and just enjoyed the sensation of flying, there was nothing better than the sheer pleasure of the wind passing through her body at high speeds, or even just letting herself drop in freefall then recovering at the last second and flying up again.

Her mind was concentrating so much on the farm she only heard someone approaching her from behind when it was too late.

A shiver on the back of her neck was Kara's only warning, she reacted on instinct, turning around and protecting her head with an arm just catching a brief glimpse of a long chain as it hit her in the shoulder with so much force it shredded her jacket and made her cry out in pain.

The chain wrapped itself twice around her body until the sharp point of a hook hit her just above her collar bone, unable to break through her skin it still left a bruise and made her lose control of her flight. Suddenly, her enemy whipped the chain down.

She hit the ground with a bang, immediately using Wonder Woman's teachings to try and stop herself, but still creating a hundred meters wide crater.

Furious at the cheap shot, Kara grabbed at the chain with both hands and, seeing as they were in the middle of nowhere, returned the gesture, whipping whoever had just attacked her down into the ground and creating a second crater, one twice as big as her own and lifting another cloud of dust into the air.

From the middle of the dust cloud she could hear a very amused male laugh, then the owner of the chain started pulling on it to drag her closer.

Gathering her will, Kara put everything she had on her flight and tried to resist the pull, when that didn't help she got worried.

Finally, the cloud dispersed and she could see who was attacking her, there was only one thing she could say. "Ah shit."

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Nice chapter, despite the cliffhanger, which I despise on principle!

I understand why comics can't let all those geniuses with access to various supertech, alien tech and future tech spread it around, as it would change the world so much that it would be harder to write the comics, but I like that you are letting Kara do so anyway. Seing a Kryptonian use her brain instead of only relying on her brawn like her cousin is nice.

One quibble, you wrote: "They had an appointment in a few days to harsh out the details...", and this should of course be "hash out"
 
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