Chapter 1: Kryptonian Biology/Techniques (W.B.C.U)
Summary:
A very important informational chapter of Kryptonian Biology and Techniques.
W.B.C.U = Will Be Constantly Updated.
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W.B.C.U= Will Be Constantly Updated
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Do note that the biology of Kryptonians in my Fic is different from that of Dc, no before you ask they are not weaker.
Before starting this summary is important to note that Kryptonians manipulated their Biology through many Krytoz hence not everything they possess is the result of natural evolution.
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General Biology: (Natural)
Kryptonians did not Evolve but were Created by their God Rao, when they were created they had numerous abilities.
The Kryptonian cellular structure is dense, resilient, and biologically more effective, Their blood possesses special types of particles that allow them to have extremely dense bodies with billions of tons while still staying at a small height, length, and width.
Their Bioelectric aura is what allows them to walk upon the soil and not break everything or even cause a gravitational anomaly, upon their death this Aura ceases to be and Gravity naturally gets a hold of them again.
Radiation/Energy Absorption:
Kryptonians have the ability to absorb different types of energy, depending on the nature of those energies they can go from being physically enhanced to manipulating reality on a larger scale.
Due to this ability their bodies became extremely energy efficient allowing them to waste the least amount of power to realize any certain action.
This also includes kinetic energy, something that results in any physical attack being significantly weakened when hitting their bodies and even empowering them somewhat.
One of the reasons why a Kryptonian can't simply absorb absurd amounts of energy from a star in a single microsecond and become thousands of times more powerfull is not only that light takes a long time to move compared to a Kryptonian, no, the real reason is, their bodies won't allow it.
Solar energy in itself would indeed make a Kryptonian powerful for example if they indeed only absorbed solar radiation for one year they'd be able to, using all their energy, release a total of 8 Tons of TNT from her eyes with their heat vision.
Although undeniably powerful it is nowhere close to what they can do.
So what makes a Kryptonian so powerful? Simple, every Star big or small IS Rao, and Rao being a God means that a Star is not just a luminous ball of Gas, at least not on the Immaterium side of things.
Spiritual energy, Cosmic energy, Psychic energy, Chi, Ki, and many more types radiate intensely from each star on the immaterium, Kryptonians being Rao's creation are able to absorb all of it into their beings strengthening both their Soul and body.
But there is a catch, although their souls have no absorption limit their bodies do, to avoid the unfortunate circumstance where their bodies explode from too much energy the unconscious mind of a Kryptonian does the work of regulating their energy levels.
Hence why a Kryptonian becomes more powerful the older they are, their cells due to being constantly in a process of absorbing, storing, and expurging energy become more and more efficient in doing their task, the body evolving during the Krytoz only helps them much more.
For this reason a Kryptonian with 1000 Krytoz of age and another with 10 are able to recharge their energy in a single microsecond even while having extremely different energy capacity levels.
Of course, average Kryptonians with more than 10,000 Krytoz of age will take a longer time to fully recharge those with 300,000 will be unable to recharge all of their energy even with the full power of a single star
Immaterium Absorption:
A power gifted by Rao during their creation, Kryptonians can absorb Spiritual energy, Metaphysical concepts, and even psychic energy to strengthen themselves, this is the main reason why they are so powerful since with their small body size, the atmosphere of a planet, and the energy output of a star it would be impossible for them to become so powerful.
Energy Transmutation:
A Kryptonian's body can absorb any kind of energy and transmute it into any kind of matter needed to help itself grow.
Bioelectric Aura:
To explain it in a simple way, by absorbing radiation Kryptonian cells 'supercharge' allowing them to disperse a type of forcefield around their bodies, a very small, skin-tight forcefield that they can either strengthen or weaken it in any direction they want.
That gives them the ability to bend the gravity around them, allowing them to, for example, resist powerful attacks that would normally throw them away, take gigantic objects without them crumbling around them, and fly.
This power is the Key to their speed since although their reaction speed can be massively faster than light their bodies cannot ignore the laws of physics.
Hence they cannot move at or faster than the speed of light without bending Time-Space around them or having absorbed a type of radiation that allows them to do so, another possibility is for them to be born with an ability that allows them to ignore physics.
This presents a massive weakness to them considering that a fast enough enemy could kill them instantly for even if they see them coming their nerves will be unable to activate their aura fast enough, and even if they do the bending of space is not instantaneous giving little more than a second for the enemy to capitalize on their weakness.
Their bioelectric aura manifests between 1 Krytoz (5 Years) and 1 Krytoz and 2 Zeroz (10 months)
After their Maturing a Kryptonian's Aura expands to form a bubble around their body, the initial size can vary but commonly it reaches 25 meters, inside this dome all solar energy is captured hence allowing for more energy absorption over time.
Heat Vision:
An extremely energy intensive ability, as one if not the most destructive and deadly abilities heat vision allows Kryptonians to release heat from their eyes, either normally or in the form of a beam of (Commonly) Red light.
The power of this ability can be only heightened up until the Kryptonian's energy supports, if used indiscriminately in the best case the Kryptonian's body will wilt until the point where their bones will be visible through their skin and they enter a comatose-like state until they can regain the energy they lost.
In the worst-case scenario, they will die.
The power of this ability can be incised if the Kryptonians expand their pupils allowing the energy expenditure to increase.
Black Light Vision:
Manifests while a Kryptonian is under a Yellow Sun, like Heat vision two beams of energy are shot out from -Normally- the eyes, this variant does not possess more power in the form of energy but instead possesses something its normal one doesn't, force.
With it, besides burning the enemy with both heat and energy this attack can also push anything hit by it back.
Freezing Breath:
With a combination of superstrength and invulnerability, a Kryptonian uses their lungs as a pressure vessel.
They inhale a large volume of air and pressurize it to thousands of atmospheres of pressure inside their lungs, then they actively release that pressure through closely pursed lips, increasing the pressure even more by contracting their diaphragm and chest muscles to exhale.
This massive change in pressure is the equivalent of gasses going from the heart of Jupiter to the surface of earth almost instantly, causing a correspondingly massive drop in temperature.
Muscle Fibers:
Kryptonian's muscle fibers allow them to accelerate from 0 to 100% of their maximum speed (Without the Help of Spatial distortion via Aura) meaning they have no need to bring their members back to increase the power of their strikes, a one centimeter punch as the same power of a 30 centimeter one, the only difference being the time needed to reach their destination.
Kryptonians can control every individual fiber of their body, this combined with their energy absorption can make it so even if they are standing on a single toe and receive a powerful attack they can resist and not move a single millimeter.
Bunqy:
A substance that resides inside the skin and hair of a Kryptonian allowing for both to act and feel like the Hair/Skin of weaker creatures, this substance, if covered on the body of a non Kryptonian would make the user immune to high temperatures considering the fact that it has the ability to absorb heat and not increase its own temperature.
Psionic Energy:
Kryptonians have extremely powerful minds and equally poweful souls, calling them the smartest species in the universe wouldn't be an exaggeration.
Although no Kryptonian has ever had any talent with magic and their bodies are vulnerable to it they do in turn have extreme Psionic potential from teleportation to chronokinisis Kryptonians possess an incredible psychic potential.
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General Biology: (Engineered)
Adaptative Revitalization:
While near death and even with most of their body chopped off Kryptonians enter a type of hibernation where their bodies slow down most functions and slowly heal with the help of sunlight -Preferably of a red star-
This process can take longer depending on the state of the body, for example a Kryptonian can Revitalize herself up to a body possessing only the half of a member.
The more damage the body has to heal from the more time it will consume and the waker the Kryptonian will be after the process, something that can take years to recover from.
A Kryptonian can however consume Their other body parts to recover faster.
During the recovery process after the Revitalization the Kryptonian's body will improve itself against what damaged it so much the last time.
Since the soul is what chooses what part the body will regenerate from the chances of a clone being born are 0
Kryptonian Maturing:
In the first stage of their life from 0 to 100 Krytoz Kryptonians grow mainly in the Physical part, Their muscles strengthen, their fibers multiply, and become denser.
Their bones form properly, Their 6 Brains grow, their stomachs disappear at 5 Krytoz of age, their hearts dissolve at 20 and are replaced by small bumps in their veins, they grow to their maximum height at 100 (Specific abilities can make them grow taller).
Their energy system is only fully formed and stabilized at 10, at which point they are finally able to expel stored energy through their eyes.
For those first 100 Krytoz, their Cells prepare to mutate, before that they rarely change or improve themselves but after the Kryptonian's 100th anniversary they suddenly change in a process called ᛆᛙᛆᛐᚢᚱᛆᚴᛆᚱ (Maturing) such process induces extreme pain to an untrained and unprepared Kryptonian.
During the process, their cells evolve to be able to store, absorb and spell more energy.
Their nerves change, now being able to pass information at speeds massively faster than light without the assistance of the 6 brains, 1 Localised on the head, 1 for each arm and leg, and 1 localized at the center of their thorax.
The brains now useless dissolve into a goo that sticks and spreads itself throughout their fibers storing specific types of information depending on their location and freeing the body from the danger of an instant death by the destruction of all 6 brains.
At the same time, the Kryptonian's muscles become increasingly denser reducing their size but amplifying their power by a maximum total of 10, it is important to say however that their bones do not change sizes, only their muscles, the Kryptonian stays the same height.
Their bones instead change to a different form, shielding themselves in a material capable of absorbing energy due to its soft like composition.
This material also allows for the bones to regenerate even quicker by -when they break- sliding itself between them, connecting the two sides, pushing them together, and acting as a 'glue' until the bone heals by itself.
Depending on the Kryptonian's ability they can receive mutations like different eyes, skin color, horns, claws, ears, fur and tails, the process is somewhat random but it can be foreseen with some margin of error.
Lastly and the most important the Maturing boosts a Kryptonian's Bioelectric aura to such a point where instead of their aura stating glued to their skin it amplifies forming a bubble around their body amplifying not only their speed and techniques but also opening a way to much more versatile techniques previously impossible.
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TECHNIQUES:
1: ᛆᛌᛓᛆᛚᚽᛆᚱ (Spread)
By surrounding an object with their aura a Kryptonian can spread their kinetic energy making it so that a punch that would only make a hole in the ground destroy an area in a Kilometer radius.
2: ᛙᚭᚭ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᚱᛆᚭ (Rao's hand)
Touching any object with any part of their bodies Kryptonians can spread their bioelectric aura and push a gigantic object as if a gigantic hand was holding it.
3: ᛆᛌᛙᛆᚴᛆᚱ (Crush)
Touching an object and spreading their aura through it Kryptonians can squeeze their aura hence crushing the object, through training they can ignore the external defenses of living or non-living objects directly attacking their internal parts.
4: ᛓᚱᚭᛐᛆçᚭᚭ᛫ᛆᛌᛓᛆᚴᛁᛆᛚ (Spacial Protection)
A Kryptonian's aura has the ability to redirect Kinetic energy, with "Spacial Protection" a Kryptonian can use this to hit an object with all their strength, Cover it with their aura, and redirect this energy to themselves or their own aura, hence not moving or causing any damage to the object in question.
5: ᛐᛁᛌᛐᚭᚱçᚭᚭ᛫ᛆᛌᛓᛆᚴᛁᛆᛚ᛫ (Spacial Distortion)
With their aura Kryptonians can control Gravitons and bend them in such a way around themselves that they can fly at speeds massively faster than light.
It is important to note this technique is extremely difficult to accomplish before a Kryptonian reaches their Hundredth Kryto when their abilities receive massive boosts in power and Their Bioelectric Aura reaches its second Stage.
6: ᚠᛆᚿᛐᚭᛌ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᛐᚱᚭᛚᛁᚢᛌ (Winds of Trolius)
When moving at high speeds Kryptonians use this technique to control the molecules around them to avoid Aircracks, Vaccum spaces, and Airwaves, on the other hand, this technique can also be used to do the exact contrary.
7: ᛁᛙᛓᛆᚿᛆᛐᚱᛆᚠᛆᛚ (Impenetrable)
The aura surrounding the body of a Kryptonian has the characteristic of blocking any attacks below the level of resistance of the Kryptonian's skin, protecting their clothes from being damaged.
Practitioners of this technique were able to strengthen their aura to a point where they became immune to attacks that would otherwise harm them, such a practice involves many Krytoz of meditation.
8: ᛆ᛫ᚠᚢᚱᛁᛆ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᛆᚦᚢᚱ (Fury of Aethyr)
A technique almost impossible to use before a Kryptonian Matures the Fury of Aethyr, the God of the Phantom Zone allows a Kryptonian to encase their fist in a bubble of altered space able to break the dimension the user currently resides in.
If trained properly a punch from a Kryptonian using this technique can not only shatter the very foundations of the universe creating cracks in reality that lead to unknown places inside the omniverse but also directly harm the very soul of the one hit by such an attack.
9: ᛓᚢᚱᛆᚴᚭ᛫ᚿᛆᚴᚱᚭ (Black Hole)
Considered a 'suicide' technique before a Kryptonian Matures Black Hole as the name suggests is a technique in which the user twists Gravity around them.
Such a technique is considered a Suicidal one because before the Maturing a Kryptonian's Bioelectric aura is still glued to their skin meaning they will have to sacrifice a part of their bodies to even create the black hole, the only way to survive it would be to disconnect their Aura to it, something that would, in turn, cause the black hole to disappear.
This technique demands extreme control and power, something most unmatured Kryptonians do not possess.
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BIOELECTRIC AURA - Stage 2
1: ᛆᛌᛓᛆᛚᚽᛆᚱ (Spread) Stage 2
Exercising more energy into their cells Kryptonians can massively expand their Bioelectric aura around themselves, the size depends on the energy put into it.
1.1: ᛆᛌ᛫ᚠᛆᚱᛁᛆᛌ᛫ᚠᛆᚴᛆᛌ (The many Faces)
Used in conjunction with Spread-2 the Kryptonian -if properly trained- can create wormholes inside their zone allowing them to redirect attacks to other places and even teleport themselves.
It is important to know however that they cannot open a wormhole outside of their 'bubble' and that if Space near them is being disturbed by something like a black hole this ability will most likely not work as intended.
2: ᛙᚭᚭ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᚱᛆᚭ (Rao's hand) Stage 2
Now instead of only surrounding objects with their aura, The Kryptonian can insert their aura inside an object, one that is solid and not only hollow like it was only possible in stage-1
The Kryptonian now can also go smaller reaching things as small as cells at the beginning and controlling them with true Telekinesis contrary to the previous control of Gravitons.
It Is important to say however that such telekinesis comes from the connection to the immaterium with the soul, and not a biological function
3: ᛆᛌᛙᛆᚴᛆᚱ (Crush) Stage 2
Previously the Kryptonian could only squeeze their aura to crush objects, now, with excessive training, they can blend the object imbued with their aura with space itself making the object move and act like the very dimension of Space.
A technique deadly to any living creature but extremely useful to mold metals.
3.1 ᛓᛆᛌᛌᛆᚱ (Pass)
This technique allows the Kryptonian to directly punch an enemy and send a wave of directed space centimeters away from their fist, ignoring any external defenses.
Contrary to stage 1 this technique does not need direct physical contact and can even be shot outside of the bubble or ricochet in the walls of the bubble if the Kryptonian in question controls space masterfully enough to do so.
This attack can be used anywhere inside the bubble not needing a physical movement to activate it.
4: ᛓᚱᚭᛐᛆçᚭᚭ᛫ᛆᛌᛓᛆᚴᛁᛆᛚ (Spacial Protection) Stage 2
By extending their aura like a wisp outside of their bubble the Kryptonian can 'Touch' an object and give it momentary invulnerability until it takes its wist out of it, in this case, the object's invulnerability will only last for some seconds.
5: ᚠᚭᚱçᛆ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᛙᚭᚱᚭ (Moro's Strength)
By absorbing the power of Moro, the ancient God of Strength Through prayers, something fatal before a Kryptonian Matures the Kryptonian in question gains a physical force 6 times greater than that of his besides having 4 more arms growing out of their back.
Both their reflexes, durability, and speed are also massively improved, the maximum ever recorded was that of H'el who strengthened himself to 100 times before losing his power and entering a 1-week coma due to the stress such a technique brought upon his body.
6: ᛐᛁᛌᛐᚭᚱçᚭᚭ᛫ᛆᛌᛓᛆᚴᛁᛆᛚ᛫ (Spacial Distortion) Stage 2
Now instead of only bending Space through Gravitons, a Kryptonian can 'merge' their body with space itself becoming intangible to normal means of attacks, this technique revolves more around the immaterium and the soul than biology itself.
This 'transformation' allows the Kryptonian to multiply his speed by a factor of 10 and 'see' through space-time meaning they can see both past, present, and future for in this form the Kryptonian approaches the fourth dimension with their physical body alone.
It is important to say however that without meditation the Kryptonian will only be able to see 10 seconds into the future.
Although this technique can be disturbed by high spacial anomalies the user can resist those same anomalies by using more energy or simply their experience with such situations.
It is important to note that if while using this technique the Kryptonian loses his concentration his form will dissipate and fully merge with space, destroying his physical body.
7: ᚠᛆᚿᛐᚭᛌ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᛐᚱᚭᛚᛁᚢᛌ (Winds of Trolius) Stage 2
Through prayers to the God of Wind Trolium, the Air and weather around the Kryptonian who prayed will be on his side, unnaturally strong winds will hit their enemies, redirect attacks, and even save an exhausted Kryptonian from falling.
Reports even say the wind can carry an unconscious Kryptonian to safety all the while other gusts of wind block or redirect attacks on their vulnerable bodies.
Besides the wind Lightning can also happen, hitting enemies and even recharging exhausted Kryptonians, sometimes even bringing them from near death.
A particular report also spoke of the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field being destroyed to give way to the light of a star to strengthen the bodies of Kryptonians.
8: ᛁᛙᛓᛆᚿᛆᛐᚱᛆᚠᛆᛚ (Impenetrable) Stage 2
By the gathering of many Graviton particles, the Kryptonian can twist Space in such a way around themselves that some centimeters become millions or even trillions of kilometers effectively stopping any attack unable to cross such a distance in a small amount of time or breaking the twisted space.
This is one of, if not the hardest technique to obtain in Krypton's history.
9: ᛆ᛫ᚠᚢᚱᛁᛆ᛫ᛐᛆ᛫ᛆᚦᚢᚱ (Fury of Aethyr) Stage 2
Almost impossible to use before the Maturing Aethyr's Fury becomes much easier to use after the Kryptonian's 100th anniversary becoming almost instinctive.
After the maturing this technique gains a characteristic so absurd it made it be considered the Strongest attack a Kryptonian can ever use in both life or death.
That being the Destruction of Concept, after hitting an enemy with this attack the Kryptonian's subconscious will pick one Concept of the enemy the Kryptonian dislikes or even hates, and destroys it, such a characteristic made this technique be nicknamed 'The God Killer'.
For an untrained Kryptonian hundreds of thousands of attacks will be needed to fully break the concept, but for a trained one, depending on the degree of protection of the enemy the Kryptonian can destroy a concept of his choosing with only one attack.
The training to obtain the full potential of such a technique can take up to 10,000,000,000 to 100,000,000,000,000 Krytoz to untalented Kryptonians, less if they have either the talent or an Ability able to help them.
9: ᛙᚭᚱᛐᛆ᛫ᛌᚭᛚᛆᚱ (Solar Death) {Forbitten technique}
By encasing a star in their Aura Kryptonians with extreme precision and control can direct all the energy of said star to themselves, this technique is fatal to any Kryptonian who is unable to handle the absurd amount of energy absorbed.
After succeeding the Kryptonian can gain multiple abilities like: Reality/Energy/Matter Manipulation, Soul Creation/Destruction/ Manipulation, Time Travel, Spontaneous Creation, True Physical Immortality, and many others.
This Technique is forbidden for every star is Rao, killing it means killing a part of him, a sacrilege only punishable by true death.
Chapter 2: Images (W.B.C.U)
Summary:
All the images of the fic THIS CHAPTER WILL BE CONSTANTLY UPDATED.
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This chapter will later be moved down just after the First informational Chapter, now, Enjoy
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I felt like it would be better if I gave all of you an idea of what Kara looks like in my fic so here: (The art was done by Matilda Fiship on DeviantArt):
Body Type (Kara, 2.90 Meters+)
Body Type (Carol 2.30 Meters +)
Kara's Compressed muscles: (Here)
Vers/Carol Danvers (Cosplay by Jokerlolibel)
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NOW! For the Images related to the Objects, People, and Places of this fic.
Volume 1: Suits, Clothes, Armor
Suit (Prototype)
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Objects: Ships (And places Inside them)
Kara's Ship (Chapter One)
Kara's Ship (Ch7)
Heart (Ch7)
Server Room¹ (Inside Fifth Room)
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Objects:Weapons
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Objects:Robots
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Objects:Technology (Created or Related to Kryptonians)
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Objects:Technology (Any kind)
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Places/Planets:
Skrull City:
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Creatures:
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Souls:
Chapter 3: 1- Kara Zor-El
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IMPORTANT:
I realize that for some people reading about the Protagonist's level of strength it might seem a little absurd for the MCU but believe me when I say that she is not all that strong in my version of the MCU so relax this is NOT a dumb wish fulfillment fic with an absurd op main character.
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[Earth, C-53, 7:00 Am 1995]
On the peaceful and quiet silence of the vacuum of space, more specifically at the Sol system on the Milky Way Galaxy, a fast projectile approached a small Blue planet.
Passing through some planets at an amazing speed the red projectile arrived at the blue planet in mere minutes, the planet had the name designation of C-53 or like the natives called Earth.
Most of the Galaxy didn't know of it' existence due to its complete lack of relevance but those who did knew that it is a perfect planet to hide be it something or... someone.
Stopping at the planet's atmosphere the projectile lost its blurry image, revealing a gigantic Spaceship with a syrup brown color, blue engines, thrusters, and weapons at each side of its gigantic wings that extended forward until the end of its head.
Cloaking itself and becoming invisible the Ship stayed on orbit for some seconds, when suddenly It opened one of its compartments and launched a small rectangular, white, black pod towards the small blue planet.
Entering the mesosphere of the planet the pod started to heat up, creating a red burning light in the morning sky and crashing down to the ground in less than five seconds somehow not receiving any damage.
Opening its two metallic doors the pod released a cold white mist that gradually faded away while slowly revealing a white-haired woman peacefully sleeping inside the pod, the woman stood still for some seconds when suddenly she opened her eyes and jerked awake with a big gasp.
Suddenly awakening Kara opened her eyes and took a big breath, feeling her cold body she looked at where she was while trying to get out of her pod, she is confused, she felt cold, her muscles were weak and she couldn't remember anything.
Shaking her head she lifted herself up accidentally tripping over and falling down.
Sensing the incoming collision she closed her eyes while putting her hands in front of her face and prepared for the impact, an impact that never came.
Opening her eyes, she saw the ground centimeters away from her face, she stayed confused for some seconds before relaxing and looking around herself, it took mere milliseconds for her to see her body floating in the air just centimeters above the ground
'I should probably get up, but how?'. Suddenly her body flew back, hitting one of the doors of the pod and throwing it back on the ground with a loud bang.
'Stop'. She thought and her body obeyed by stopping on the air for one second, just to fall to the ground once more on the next.
Catching herself before she could fall again Kara landed on the ground with her legs and looked around herself, only to see a desert full of rocks.
Taking a big breath she closed her eyes and started thinking about her situation, she woke up inside a pod, she was cold and couldn't remember anything, she still retained her knowledge of the world and the names of every object but nothing much, it is because of that that she knows for a fact that she was in cryogenic sleep.
Closing her eyes she tried to remember her last memory, she was inside a pod, being trow into a spaceship while screaming to someone below trying to break the glass of a window, and failing.
She remembers a cold mechanical voice speaking with her, she does not remember what it said, she remembers feeling sleepy, and then, an explosion.
Standing up motionless she opened her eyes and touched her face, she could feel her tears flowing once again, she didn't understand why but she knows she can't stay that way.
Her memory was foggy but she could somewhat remember her training, sitting on the ground with crossed legs she started to meditate.
One second she was in total darkness feeling the hardness of the ground below her, the next she was in the arms of a man, crying, she knew exactly where she was, no, when she was.
'My birth, too far.' Not bothering to hear the words of the people around her she accelerated her memories, through the tunnel of memories years seemed to pass in seconds before her eyes.
Her father Zor-el comforted her as she came back crying from school, her mother Alura taught her the principles of the fundamental forces of the universe, in school, she made her first friend, a brunette called Alrya Hu-ui.
Going through her memories she started to remember all her life, her dead parents, her world destroyed, the elders, her master's teachings, Faora's stealth training.
Her wife, Alrya Hu-Ul's death, her brief escape from Krypton, her wedding when she was thirty-one, the first time she met her wife when they were fourteen, the time before that when all the kids avoided her, the mean history teacher that hated her.
The day when she discovered her special ability to Adapt and Evolve when she was seven, her father and mother hugging her out of happiness after the discovery, the following week when she met her martial arts master for the first time, and the first time she fought him when she was fifteen to try and become his official apprentice.
Unconsciously a small smile formed in her lips, remembering the happy times she touched the red ring on her left hand, she already remembered everything she needed.
Kara started to get out of her memories and back to her body but suddenly stopped herself, turning her back on the memory tunnel she saw a gigantic while light right in front of her, not being able to resist her own curiosity she flew ahead.
Arriving at the shining white light she extended her arm and touched with her finger, the moment she did the bright light slowly dissipated as its surface became transparent while ripples moved without meaning.
"Water?"
Looking inside the water-like thing she saw a small girl that looked to be ten years old playing inside a bathroom with makeup while transforming herself and her doll into clowns.
Looking at the images Kara entered a trance, she briefly felt something covering her body as she started to see through the girl's eyes, feeling her feelings and thinking her thoughts.
"Poppy!, dinner is ready, come here, or you will get late for school, and you better not be messing with my makeup again!".
Panicking the girl started washing her face with soap, failing miserably in washing the makeup off her face and only making a bigger of a mess.
"Just give me a second mom!, I'm doing number two!"
Looking at the funny memory Kara shook her head, one second she was washing her face for her mother not to scold her, the next she was in front of a circular thing showing her mother scolding her for playing with her makeup again.
With her interest picked Kara sat down on the air and continued to see the memories of the red haired girl, staying an entire hour inside her mindscape she saw through the eyes of the girl who called herself Poppy
She stated that way until the moment the girl took a small comic book on her class, she could see the image of a giant green man with a angry face before she was violently thrown out of her own head.
Forcefully going back to her body Kara fell with her back on the ground and stayed that way for some seconds, recovering from her trance she jumped on the air and stood up again.
Looking at her hand's she started to feel weird, looking at the sun and then at her surroundings in the 'unknown' planet she discovered where she was.
"Grand Canyon, Arizona". She whispered.
Closing her arms she started thinking about what just happened, after arriving at this unexplored planet she woke up with a foggy memory and proceeded to meditate with the objective of remembering everything.
But somehow she ended up going even further back than what she wanted, the only explanation she had was.
"My past life" She concluded.
"Kryptonians always believed in an afterlife where we would rest eternally on Rao's gardens or one where we would choose to be reborn as a new life form".
"I knew the Kryptonians who were spirituality strong could meditate and see parts of their previous lives but I really didn't expect to be able to do this on my own".
'My past life was that of a girl named Poppy, cute name if I have to say, in that life I had read some comics of two very interesting universes, Marvel and Dc'.
'But something expelled me from those memories, and blocked most of then, leading me to believe that in my past life I knew a vast amount of things about the future of both universes, but now I just have a limited amount of information'.
'No future events, no weakness, some origin histories that are completely useless until I discover on what universe I'm in, and a very different Krypton'.
'Still, my memory is not entirely reliable, the Tamaraneans that I met all had the power to manipulate/absorb ultraviolet energy and shoot star bolt blasts, survive without oxygen, and fly'.
Releasing a tired sigh Kara looked at one of the mountains and without thinking she shot two red laser beams out of her eyes that exploded on contact with the rocks, pulverizing everything in a three-mile radius and creating a gigantic shockwave that broke all the nearby rocks.
"And I should probably train to control my powers, Kryptonians of this universe are much more powerful than the ones in that Dc one".
Bending her knees Kara looked up while preparing herself to jump, using a small part of her strength she jumped towards the blue sky with no intention of using her flying ability to go back down, making the calculations in her head she was able to determine her position relative to the ground, 434 miles, she literally jumped out of Earth, not surprisingly, this planet has a gravity force ten thousand times weaker than her own.
Looking at the planet below her Kara saw the entirety of the Grand Canyon, together with California and Nevada, falling back she decided to not use her flight and see if she could resist the impact on the ground, she already knew the answer to that question but sometimes a woman with superpowers could have her fun, her human memories may or may not have reawakened her childlike happiness from the first time she flew.
The moment her body hit the ground the rocky soil gave in and broke in hundreds of cracks, creating a small shockwave and destroying half of the mountain she had crashed in.
Flying out of the crater she created, Kara started to look at her body but didn't found any signal of bruises, except her slightly dirty white cryo bodysuit.
"Humm". Humming in approval Kara landed on the ground and prepared herself to run and discover her top speed but stopped herself when her feet suddenly went through the ground like it was water, she immediately stopped her fall, it was only a second later that she understood what happened.
Kryptonian bodies although externally similar to humans are extremely different on the inside, one example of this is their density that is much, much higher than any living being on planet Earth, something completely understandable for a race that can resist the force of black holes and literally fly through entire planets without a problem.
Krypton's gravity was a consistent 98km/s² in other words 10.000 times that of this planet, saying it in another way something that weighs 1kg on krypton would weigh 0.0001 kilograms on earth, if a human tried to lift said object on earth it would be easy but if he tried to lift on Krypton he would be unable to since for him that object would weigh 10 Tons while for Kryptonians it would only weigh one Gon (Kilo) of weight is after all only a force caused by gravity and mass.
Earth largely used the metric system to calculate the Weight of an object, Krypton had the same numbers, just different names for example:
Miligram= Zitrons
1 milligram on Earth = 10 grams on Krypton = 1 Zitron on Krypton
Grams= Yins
1 Gram on Earth = 10 Kilos on Krypton = 1 Yin on Krypton
Kilogram= Gons
1 Kilogram on Earth = 10 Tons on Krypton = 1 Gon on Krypton
Tons= Setrons
1 Ton On Earth= 10000 Tons on Krypton = 1 Setron on Krypton
Gigaton= Seriton
She for example weighs 12,700,000 Setrons on krypton's metric system, something normal for a young Kryptonian like her.
Making the correct calculations, on earth, she now weighs 12,700,000 Tons, she could feel the lightness of her body and the illusion of strength the low gravity gave her, she wasn't stronger, not even a drop stronger or more resistant than before, she would not fall under such illusion but... she could have some fun.
Smiling mischievously she prepared to run before stopping herself and slapping her head.
"Hellooo Kara, you can't run around the world like that, humans will panic if you do that, you dumb idiot". Using her supervision she started to search for a suitable planet unfortunately the sun was blocking her view, using her X-ray she looked past it and found Jupiter, the widest planet on this solar system.
Using her strength she jumped towards the sky and used her flight to dash towards Jupiter, passing closely by the sun she felt her strength increase even more quickly, she wanted to stay some more time to feel the warmth but decided to continue flying forward, she had no time to waste.
The vacuum of space wasn't a big problem for Kryptonians like her, after absorbing the radiation of certain stars breathing would be mostly optional, much like sleeping, the only reason her race still had a stomach is because they liked the taste of food, there are not many foods in the universe capable of satisfying a Kryptonian's needs better or even nearly as good as a Star.
Earth's star is a small one but it is still enough to give her a healthy growth, she still needed to drink water and sleep at least three times through the year but besides that her needs were minimal.
Arriving at Jupiter's atmosphere and continuing to go down, Kara stopped counting in her head and looked around herself.
'Five seconds humm, this is way beyond light speed, not surprising since my other version from Dc could do the same, probably'.
'Wait, isn't Jupiter a gas giant?, well now it's too late to do anything besides going forward, although I doubt I will find something, this planet is completely inhabitable for humans.'
Entering the planet Kara started to analyze it, something simple just to pass time.
'The wind of this planet is fast, approximately 300 miles per hour, the pressure alone is one hundred times stronger than the one on earth's surface, not only that but this entire place is dark, maybe even more so than the night, well at least for humans, light is not something needed to see.'
'430 miles and the pressure keeps increasing 1,150 times that of earth's surface, 2,500 miles down the temperature becomes that of 6,100°F'.
Curious about what the planet might have to offer she continued to go down, her clothes were starting to get slightly damaged but she could simply make another one.
'Innermost layer 13,000 miles, a pressure two million times stronger than that of earth's surface, still, it doesn't come close to that of Krypton but this temperature, the radiation this planet is producing is not strengthening my body but I wouldn't be surprised if I gained a new ability'.
'Different types of radiation equal different powers, the yellow sun is the best besides Rao but the others are nor bad, still, the temperature of this place is much stronger than the surface of the sun 11.000°F, a temperature so extreme that even the hydrogen molecules are being affected by forcing them so close together that they form metallic hydrogen'.
'This thing is trying to throw me up and down like a ragdoll'. Looking down on the planet kara decided to get out, if the atmosphere of this planet was that bad she doubted something could survive down there, but what did she expect? that thing is just a giant ball of gas after all.
Reaching the void of space and traveling aimlessly Kara started to think about her own planet.
New krypton had one of the rashest environments of the universe but the Kryptonians didn't originally came from there, her father once told her that Kryptonians had to migrate due to old Krypton being destroyed by a single being before her ancestors became a peaceful race and established themselves on her birth planet.
A nearby but desolated planet inside old Krypton's galaxy, Rao's galaxy, the only downside was the red sun and the smaller but still big planet they had to reside in, or at least that was what her ancestors though at first.
Shaking her head and going back to reality Kara started to fly towards Mars, she shouldn't dwell on ancient history, she has things to do.
Ignoring the planet's atmosphere she landed on the rocky soil and prepared to test her powers, using her heat vision she marked a line on the ground, but ended up putting too much power into it, creating a small cliff on the middle of nowhere.
'It's not like anyone will know'.
Kara bent her knees and prepared herself to run, she knew she was faster than light while flying but she didn't know how fast she was when running, at least not outside of Krypton.
"One, Two, Three!" Kara ran forward with all her strength, breaking the ground beneath her feet and creating a small shockwave that threw most of the rocks to the air.
After running for some seconds Kara started to think she was significantly slower when moving through the ground, but after concentrating on the path ahead and seeing her mark three times in a roll, she planted her feet on the ground sliding through the rocky soil and creating a gigantic straight crater through the planet before stopping centimeters away from her starting line.
Looking around herself and seeing the destruction she caused her face contorted into a worried expression, it was obvious that she didn't know how to control her strength.
Kryptonians were powerful even without absorbing a yellow sun's radiation but she wasn't even one hundred years old and as such could only do so much to strengthen herself.
Her ability helped her evolve well beyond the people of her age but the maximum weight she could lift on krypton was 30 Trillion Seritons, compared with her mother and father that could lift well over one hundred times that weight she was not much.
She would become stronger the older she got but it would take twenty years to even reach her parent's level of power, less if she became a battle maniac and abused her ability to adapt and evolve, which she would totally do without a doubt.
Kara felt a little object colliding with her feet forcibly stopping her train of thought she looks down, only to see what looks like a broken rover robot, picking up the camera of the small metallic creature she started poking at its lenses.
Her memories from her past life gave her the ability to speak two earthling languages and understand their costumes to the point where she wouldn't be called an ignorant person.
But from what her past self knew the first robot launched to Mars was in 1997.
"Oh no". Kara quickly threw the lense at the ground and flew to space, landing on Mercury seconds later, the humans, at least on her past's life planet, haven't discovered any extraterrestrial life and if they discovered a God-like being like herself she could already imagine the chaos that would bring.
Calming herself she landed on a small planet and looked at her surroundings, only to see a desert, it was a strangely calm and peaceful place with dozens of craters on its surface.
'Black soil, no air, no sky, just silence, the stars, and the sun, so this is Mercury, it's my favorite planet already'.
Staying in a peaceful silence Kara looked to the stars and smiled, she loved the silence, on Krypton due to her special ability all of her senses reached a gigantic degree, her hearing was the worst of them, she could easily hear all the people of the planet, something that tormented her for a krytoz of her life, older Kryptonians could train to control it, but not her.
Her Special Anility to adapt and evolve never stopped evolving her body, making it so her speed of training never caught up with her speed of evolution, it took one year for her father to make a hearing aid that could keep up with her evolution, some times it failed and her father had to upgrade it.
She hated when that happened because she had to stay days and one time even months hearing everything on the planet.
She heard the air flowing, the water moving, creatures dying, Kryptonians laughing, people doing pervert things, she heard it all, she heard it so much that she tried to rip her ears out, the silence only lasted for ten seconds before her ability regrew her ears again, the last time she received her hearing aid she always treated it well, cleaning every day and praying to Rao for it to never fail her again, that was eighty years ago, she stayed with the same hearing aid to this day.
Lifting her hand Kara touched her left ear, her hearing aid was not there, that du-.
"-mb A.I must have had taken it off while I was in cryogenic sleep."
Standing in complete silence while not being able to hear anything Kara started to laugh, a soundless laugh, her chest rose and fell repeatedly before she started to sob, and then cry uncontrollably, she saw her tears flow up and freeze in the void, the silence she had now was the one she always wanted when she was no older than five krytoz old and only wanted to read her books in peace.
'Funny how the universe grants what people wish for, mine, it was when I already lost everything'. Kara moved her eyes and saw more of her tears floating above her head and subsequently freezing seconds later, in one of them she saw something strange, for less than a second a blue light reflected from one of her tears.
Wiping her eyes with her heat vision Kara quickly turned around, there she saw a weird hill, most of the rocks of mercury were black, more to the grey side to be more specific but the hill that is in front of her is both completely black and more...metallic.
Flying in the hill's direction she approached the black metal when suddenly she felt as if she was passing through a thin layer of water, ignoring the feeling she continued to pass through what she could only assume was a forcefield.
The moment her head passed through the forcefield the scenery changed, from a black, lifeless hill to a big garden with hundreds of plants and trees everywhere.
"What?".Kara said stupefied."Wait, did I just talk". She said again with a hint of surprise in her voice.
From what Kara remembered of her studies sound was a mechanical longitudinal wave of energy that emanated from a vibration, atoms hitting atoms until they reach the ear of someone, more specifically the tympanic membrane that vibrated at the same frequency, allowing the tiny bones in the middle and inner ear to translate the movement to energy that a brain can interpret.
So it should be impossible to hear something in space since there is only one atom by every cm³, with such a low density the energy of sound waves couldn't possibly bounce one from another.
Thinking about these facts Kara quickly came with an answer.
'This place somehow has an atmosphere, not only that but it managed to create life and even water?'. Kara looked at the small river that extended to a lake, dozens of fish and microorganisms living together in what should be an impossible situation.
Searching for the answer in her memories she came up with a possible explanation and ran towards one of the metallic rocks laying on the ground.
Picking the metallic object Kara used her supervision and started to analyze the structure of the metal, looking attently she was able to see an alloy containing carbon nanotubes.
Carbon nanotubes had the ability to absorb and store energy, in other words, the metal she is touching is vibration absorbent not infinitely but anything that could break that metal would have to be incredibly strong.
For what she could tell its tensile strength was of 2900.00 MPa and the Yield strength of YS1600.00 MPa, but the most interesting part of that metal was the white energy that circulated through its molecular structure.
Kara remembered reading about something like that one time, more specifically when she was in the Argo library, it was called a cosmic metal, a metal imbued with cosmic power that had unknown properties.
"Vibranium".Kara whispered in realization, the power cosmic could create, and destroy life, she didn't know how long this place existed but somehow the vibranium here created an entirely new habitat for life itself to florist.
While analyzing the object, the metal suddenly ejected a small electric beam that hit Kara's hand, slightly shocking her and making her eyes go blank for a mere second, when she recovered she shook her head and turned around.
"I... should come back later, now I need to go to Earth and see exactly what year is it".
Kara turned around and flew to the direction of the blue planet, she didn't know why but she had a strong feeling that she needed to get to her pod and go to Los Angeles.
Chapter 4: 2- Vers
Chapter Text
[7:23 AM, United States California, Los Angeles]
Arriving on Earth Kara landed next to her pod, the impact of her rough landing destroyed the mountain below her, looking down while ignoring the now floating pod Kara started to get worried again.
She had not used much strength in her landing, she even made sure to speed down while getting near Earth, still... it was not enough, looking down she saw the soil hundreds of meters below breaking apart.
Shaking her head she forcefully suppressed her vision, unfortunately, her special ability didn't enhance only one of her senses but fortunately, her hearing aid didn't only suppress her hearing, but that wasn't important now.
For the moment she only hoped the humans would think the gigantic crater was always there.
Using her speed Kara quickly took her clothes off, and put them inside a small drawer above the pod.
Opening a small compartment on the left side of the pod she almost flinched after seeing a black sphere, acting quickly she took the thing in her hands.
The moment the black sphere made contact with her skin it started to spread through her entire body, changing its color and becoming a dark blue and red suit with red boots, a long skirt open at the front that reached slightly above her ankle, sleeves that covered her entire arm except for her hands.
A collar with a slight opening at the front that completely covered her nape and almost all of her neck and finally an S symbol made out of a red, crimson color separated by a blue one, even in its V form one could slightly see the diamond shape forming around the symbol of the house of EL.
She barely had a moment to feel surprised as a female voice sounded out of the pod, one that made her freeze and her heart to beat faster, she didn't need to think twice, she knew who that voice belonged to, her mother.
[Hollo dear, did you like my present? These clothes are made out of unstable molecules fused with Klyntar cells, they can shapeshift and contrary to the Klyntar are resistant to extreme temperatures, in other words, Bio-suits, I know it's a while off but, Happy Birthday dear]
Not wasting any time Kara sat in the air with her legs crossed, even without using her hearing aid all she could hear is the voice of her mother, something she wasn't sure she'd ever be able to hear it again.
[Unfortunately me and your father won't be able to see you become a woman on your hundredth birthday]
This time Kara held her tears, she didn't want anything else to trouble her at this moment, her sobs would only inconvenience her now.
[We were planning to give you this present personally but, well, if you are hearing this you know why we weren't able to...]
The surroundings suddenly became silent, they stayed that way for some seconds before she heard sobbing, for a minute all she heard was her mother crying, finally, her mother came back, this time with a noticeable amount of sadness in her voice.
[Look, dear, we just want you to know that no matter where you are or where we are we will never stop loving you, what happened to Krypton to Alrya, to us, it is not your fault, it was never your fault and it will never be your fault]
This time she couldn't stop the tears falling out into her legs, she had to use all her strength just not to sob.
[I hope that wherever you are and whenever you are you are happy, don't remember us, don't let us drag you down into the future, you are, by the time you hear this message most likely the last Daughter of Krypton, so I have one last request, our ancestors of old Krypton showed the universe the worst of what we are capable of, so please, please Kara, show them the best Krypton can give]
[Just one last thing, your father, he made an A.I to take care of you, her name is Lavender, she'll take care of you after we are no longer able to, please treat her well, she will be like an older sister to you, you always wanted one after all, Kara I love you, goodbye]
Kara stood motionless in the air, even while the pod threw her hearing aid out and flew to the ship she said nothing and did nothing besides extending her hand to catch it and try to regain her composure.
{Kara? are you ok} A voice came out of her suit
Finally regaining her composure and cleaning her tears Kara smiled.
"Lavender I presume?"
{Ahnnn yes, yes! that is me} The slightly shy A.I replied.
"No need to be nervous, my mother created you, even if you are not my sibling by blood from now on we will be family, so, It's nice to meet you Lavender Zor-El, let's get along well from now on."
{Yeah, nice to meet you too Kara Zoe-El}
"Now, let's explore this world."
{An adventure together, I like it}
Nodding Kara gave a last look at herself and flew towards the city.
While flying she started to feel a weird sense of happiness, for what she could remember the Tamaraneans could fly by absorbing ultraviolet lights while also needing to feel happiness, she on the other hand just uses her bioelectrical aura.
Lowering her speed to bellow supersonic she stopped her train of thought and continued to fly through one of the roads, she would fly higher when she reached a city but for now, she could just enjoy the feeling of the air hitting her face.
Closing her eyes she turned around and started to fly on her back while looking at the sky, she wants to explore the cosmos but for what her memories told her, the planet she was in was constantly attacked by Godlike beings, planetary conquerors or the literal Satan.
She didn't know when they would come, all she knew was their powers, a not very useful set of information since the multiverse existed and she knew she probably wasn't inside one of those her past self saw or read.
Hearing a shattering noise Kara came back from her thoughts and looked bellow, only to see a car in the process of overturning with broken windows.
Dashing to the ground she quickly took the car's bumper, only to end up accidentally crushing it, taking another, but more careful approach this time she took the car by the headlights and slowly put the vehicle in the ground.
"Hey, are you ok?".Kara asked after running to the driver's car window.
Looking at the unmoving face of the driver she shook her hand in front of his eyes to try and get a reaction from him but failed to do anything in the end.
"Weird". Kara said and turned around while preparing to leave but stopped herself when she saw the glass shards of the broken windows frozen in the air.
"What?". Kara slowly approached the shards and poked one of them with her finger, only for the shard to break once again, this time in hundreds of pieces, each smaller than a millimeter.
Looking at the strange phenomenon in front of her she started to think about what could possibly have caused this situation, landing on the ground she started to walk in circles with one finger on her chin, a habit she developed when she was ten years old.
"Time stop, no I didn't absorb a green star's energy yet, and a cosmic being that can stop time wouldn't worry about me, I'm strong but compared to my Master or Faora I'm not much."
"Wait, in mars, I ran so fast I couldn't see the finishing line I had put before passing it at least dozens of times."
"Now that I think about it my sudden increase in power most likely made my brains confused."
"In other words".Kara turned around and looked at the shattered pieces of glass on the air and like she thought they had moved slightly forward.
"I'm the one causing it". She concluded.
Looking up she observed the Yellow star of this solar system, that thing could not enhance her permanently like Rao but its power is not something she can underestimate.
Lifting her hand she looked at her hearing aid, the thing is made out of Zostrox having a circular shape that could accommodate her pointy ears without a problem, separating the two parts she put it on both of her ears, her ability combined with the yellow sun could very well render it useless but she had never lost faith in Rao, it won't be today nor in the future that she will.
Looking bellow herself Kara saw the car moving forward again and the driver losing control of the vehicle for some seconds only to regain it moments later, seeing that, she gave a big sigh of relief and turned around, flying towards her destination, only slower, and higher this time.
Arriving at her destination Kara looked around herself, she wasn't familiar with the place since her past self wasn't a North American but she did know where she was, at least she did after seeing a street board.
"United States, California, Los Angeles and technically I'm here illegally". Ignoring her own ramblings Kara started to walk forward when suddenly she heard a loud sound coming from above.
Looking to the sky she saw what looked like a pod falling, various pods falling actually, using her X-ray she saw a woman inside one of them and immediately flew up, she wasted no time on the others since only the one of the woman was damaged.
Flying to the pod and taking it from fellow she slowly reduced the velocity of the object and started going down, finally reaching the ground she put the pod down and walked to the torn wall on the right side of it, looking inside she saw a woman with a green suit.
She has an triangle shaped face, blue eyes, blond hair, white skin, a strong body, 2,3 meters tall, only sixty centimeters smaller than her, she has wide lips, and a confused yet serious expression on her face, it took less than a second before she realized the woman is a soldier.
Kara extended her arm to the woman while thinking about where exactly she had seen her before.
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Vers Pov°
Vers was confused, first She saw visions of her mother inside a place she had never seen before, or maybe she had? She wasn't sure, five years and her memories were still fuzzy, then she woke up chained inside a skrull ship, then she somehow managed to escape without Talos killing her, Then she managed to steal an escape pod before the ship she was in exploded, but not before Talos fired a blast that almost destroyed her pod.
Luckily the universe seemed to be on her side since her pod had somehow slowed down, which not only confused her but also made her think about what could possibly have caused that, a question she felt would answer itself when a 3-meter tall white-haired, dark-skinned woman suddenly appeared in front of her and extended her hand.
Paying more attention to the woman she tried to discover what kind of race she belongs to, she saw the planet she is in on the pod, humans on C-53 are not as tall as the woman, at three meters and full of muscles she is sure the woman is not a native of the planet.
She has dark skin, a diamond-shaped face, her hair is made out of a shining white with light yellow at the end of each strand, her eyes are of a powerful golden color, only by looking at her she could feel the absurd amount of energy flowing behind those eyes.
'This woman, is dangerous.'
Seeing the mysterious woman's hand Vers looked at her suspiciously but decided to take a leap of faith and hold on to the helping hand.
The mission on Torfa had been a trap from the start, Soh-larr was actually Talos and the real Soh-larr was probability transformed into carbonite for who knows how long.
"ᚹᛖᛚᛚ,᛫ᚨᚱᛖᚾ'ᛏ᛫ᛃᛟᚢ᛫ᚷᛟᛁᛜ᛫ᛏᛟ᛫ᛏᛖᛚᛚ᛫ᛗᛖ᛫ᛃᛟᚢᚱ᛫ᚾᚨᛗᛖ".The woman said in an unrecognizable language, weirdly enough her mouth didn't move.
'Now my Universal translator can't even recognize this, can this day get any worse?'
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Seeing the confused expression on the woman's face Kara immediately understood what was happening she was speaking Kryptonian all this time, of course, nobody would understand her, not even with the help of universal translators.
Kara punched her chest and coughed two times, it had been some time since she had spoken English, literally a lifetime but she could probably manage.
"I asked if you can tell me your name".
Now with a much more understanding expression, Vers took Kara's hand and lifted herself up, looking at the clothes of the woman in front of her Vers immediately fixed her eyes on her chest part.
She had not noticed before but the form of the S in the woman's chest resembled a diamond.
A diamond with an S, a form nobody in the galaxy used due to the simple fact that the most feared race in the known universe used that form with certain symbols on it.
She remembers the names, everyone with minimal historical education knew Ak, Am, An, Da, Dar, Do, Em, Kann, Ko, Nor, Mer, Nu, Ran, Re, Tor, Ur, Van, Veks, Zar, Zu and the worst of all, bearing the symbol of an S on their chests contained in a diamond-shaped shield like all the others, the house of EL.
It was only when the symbol on the woman's chest disappeared that Vers realized she had looked at it for too long, she is in danger, and her words for the next minutes may either end or save her life.
Even not seeing it anymore she could already picture the S symbol on the chest of the woman, a symbol that no one has seen in ten thousand years, a symbol that in the past and maybe even today meant hope to some and certain death to others.
"Hey, HEY!". Kara snapped her fingers in front of the woman's eyes, creating a small shockwave and making her get out of her trance and look at her, with a much more cautious and curious expression than before.
Looking at the woman's expression and sensing her tension Kara became confused, she didn't know why she was afraid but she could try to relieve the tension somehow.
{'I didn't knew, I have such an oblivious sister, you'll thank me later'}
"You know, I know I'm an eye candy to many people but my eyes are up here, and please close your mouth, you will start drooling if you continue that way". Kara said in a joking tone.
Vers straightened herself and looked at the Kryptonian's eyes, in all honesty, she half expected to be killed the moment she realized that the woman is a Kryptonian.
After all, an entire race as advanced as theirs couldn't possibly isolate themselves for ten thousand years and not travel through the universe one time or another without anyone discovering them.
Seeing the still tense expression of the woman in front of her Kara started to think about what could possibly have made her stay so much under the edge.
By having to look down Kara noticed something in her peripheral vision, Lavender had for some reason wiped out the symbol of her family on her chest, somewhat annoyed she opened her chest part and created the diamond shield again, it was only when she remembered the woman in front of her that she realized she most likely knew she is a Kryptonian.
'That's why she's so scared'.
Kara almost facepalmed herself for forgetting about a particular detail, before the migration to new Krypton the Kryptonian race was constantly in wars, killing entire planets and terraforming them to expand their borders.
Traveling from solar systems to other galaxies the old Kryptonians gained incredible amounts of strength by absorbing the radiation of different stars, extinguishing entire races just to increase the size of the Kryptonian empire and gain new resources.
They were like this for thousands of years, but... something happened, and then everything changed on Decimation Day.
From what she studied, the Decimation Day was the worst day in Kryptonian history, it was the day they lost for the first time, the entire Kryptonian race fought against one being and of the 800 billion that entered the fight, only 3 billion got out alive.
The history books never said what the being they fought looked like but it was highly speculated that the perpetrator was a cosmic entity since that same being managed to destroy old Krypton and its blue star, taking the entire Galaxy together with it.
Looking at the woman Kara's confused face changed to an understanding one, it was not her fault really, after D.D (Decimation Day) the Kryptonians took everything they had on every colony and established themselves on new Krypton.
The day the Kryptonian calendar started again and her race completely changed their ways, a day that Krypton celebrated every start of a new year, calling it The birth of new Krypton or B-NK before new Krypton and A-NK after new Krypton.
Putting her hands in the shoulders of the woman in front of her Kara gave a small, reassuring smile and said in the most friendly tone of voice she could muster.
"So, you noticed".
To her credit, Vers managed to stay with a completely neutral expression, her training on Hala to control her emotions didn't have the best results but she could control her expressions to a certain extent if it didn't involve her past.
So even if she was going to die this moment she wouldn't show any signs of weakness to the Kryptonian.
"Well, I will go to the point, I am not the boogeyman, I am not a killing machine that destroys everything in sight and I am not going to destroy planets for fun". Kara said with a calm tone of voice.
She felt like she had to specify those facts since the universe probably exaggerated the strength of the Kryptonians, well, a Kryptonian like her who had absorbed the energy of a yellow sun can, in fact, destroy small planets but her race wasn't made of a bunch of barbarians like the old Krypton.
"Understood?"
"Good, so, could you please tell me your name?, mine is Kara Zor-El, Daughter of Zor-El and Alura In-Ze."
"Vers, Kree Starforce secondary category operative." Seeing the confused expression of Kara Vers specified.
"The second in command".
"Mar-vell?" Kara whispered, hearing the Kree word she remembered a person with the name of Mar-vell, a female Kree hybrid, a hero of the Marvel Universe if she wasn't mistaken.
But in that universe, the kree were a genetically engineered warrior race governed by the supreme intelligence that was in a war against the Skrulls, and neither of them were particularly good.
'Different universe then'. Looking at the Kree hybrid Kara smiled again, she had a small amount of information but she could trust the woman a little bit, not her race but she was relatively fine.
"So, Vers, what are you doing on this planet?". Kara said while walking forward and taking the pod in her arms, using her bioelectric aura she covered the entire pod and smashed it without having to move her fingers transforming it in a small metallic sphere.
From an outside perspective, she only touched the pod with her palm and it suddenly compressed into a ball.
Ignoring the show of force Vers turned her head towards the Kryptonian and said: "Nothing, I was captured by Skrulls but managed to escape by stealing an escape pod, do you have any communication device?"
"Yes, in fact, I do, but I don't want anyone knowing that a Kryptonian is living on this planet, it would bring many problems to me and the natives of Terra, but you could try to repair your interface with one those."
Kata pointed to a public telephone on the wall, when Vers turned to look at it she threw the metallic sphere on her hand to space, humans were not ready to receive the kind of technology a simple escape pod would provide, even if it was a broken one.
"Thank you for your help but now I have to contact my team". Vers turned around and walked to the direction the Kryptonian had pointed her but stopped when a hand landed on her shoulder making her freeze and then look back up at the woman.
"Yes, but I really have to make sure you won't try to tell your team that a Kryptonian is in Terra, I will stay with you until your rescue arrives."
'And get out of this planet before an entire fleet tries to invade it because of me.'
Vers only nodded and continued to walk forward, it would be pointless to try to stop a Kryptonian.
Tearing apart the telephone device the Kryptonian had told her about Vers started to take the pieces she needed to repair her interface.
Not wanting to stay silent throughout the entire time Kara rested her shoulders in the wall while looking at Vers.
"So, Vers, why don't you tell me a little bit about yourself."
"Why?".Vers asked without looking at Kara.
"Why not? if we are going to stay together for some time its best to know each other right?, I ask something, you answer and ask something in return."
'And Maybe I can identify this universe after this conversation as a bonus.'
Vers Stopped messing with her interface and looked at Kara for some seconds, after that she looked at her arm again and continued to repair her device.
"How... was Krypton."
Giving a little smile Kara said "It was beautiful before it exploded and before the council decided to drain the Kryptonite out of the planet, before that it had green lands, hundreds of different species and a beautiful red sky, sometimes Rao covered the planet in a beautiful aurora, unfortunately, the extraction of kryptonite destroyed the landscape of the planet, We will fix it later they said, well, they didn't and the planet is now no more."
Hearing Kara's words Vers felt a small twinge of sadness if it was because of the Krypronian's melancholy tone of voice or because an entire race almost died she didn't know.
In Hala, she was always the weird one, not having emotions were a big part of the military but it didn't matter how much they tried to rip them off her, it never worked, her will to purge them didn't change anything.
"How was your life in hala?"
"Normal, I arrived there half dead, trained to become a Starforce operative, didn't have any friends through, Yon-rogg always said that emotions got in the way of a warrior."
"They get in the way, they make you worry about someone else and not the mission and they make you love someone, the biggest weakness a Kree could have, so he trained me to lose all emotions and become a better version of myself."
Kara nodded, she agreed somewhat with this Yon-rogg but only partially, emotions could weaken a warrior but only if they became overwhelmed by them.
"How was your life in Krypton?"
"Not so normal, through my one to seven Krytoz of life I just studied like there was no tomorrow, mechanical engineering and programming together with hacking are my best skills today, even better than my fighting ones."
"After my third birthday, I noticed my 'friends' started to envy me because of my intelligence, at the time I just wanted to stay in silence with my books, but something changed when I turned ten and met the daughter of my master Faora Hu-ul, Alrya".
"We talked, we discovered we liked some of the same things, we studied like there was no tomorrow, we wanted to explore the cosmos, we particularly loved to change our hairstyles, it wouldn't be on my ninetieth birthday that we decided that we would marry on my hundredth birthday, Unfortunately, she got to the gardens of Rao too soon."
Vers gave a brief look towards Kara before returning to her interface.
She was trained to interrogate Skrulls and read even the smallest clues that someone was behaving differently or what they were feeling, in the Kree empire there was nothing like too much caution when you were fighting a race of Shapeshifters.
It was clear to her that this woman, Alrya, was someone important to her, much like Mar-vell was someone she admired but didn't really know, Alrya was probably the pillar that held the Kryptonian's life, just like the supreme intelligence is for her.
She knew this for one simple fact, nobody talked with that much emotion in their voice unless it brought strong feelings to them, she knew that she had done that in her first years in the Starforce.
Stopping with her repairs Vers turned around and looked directly at Kara's eyes, the conversation had turned into a much emotional one and more than anyone in the universe she could understand Kara's pain in losing not only her planet but also the person she loved the most or in her case admired.
"I... lost everything too, Aks'lo, that was the name of my old planet, I don't have any memories but the supreme intelligence told me enough to know what happened".
Kara looked at Vers, Faora hadn't ended with her training but she could read people well enough, and the only thing she could see in Vers eyes was sorrow, sorrow much like her own, perhaps, she could find a friend in her, Kryptonians were not made to live in solitude and she knew that as long as she did her mental health would only deteriorate.
"Five years ago the skrulls attacked my planet Ask'lo, they were already too deep in the society for us to do anything and just like that the moment they attacked the key figures of the government died only minutes after their invasion."
"The supreme intelligence showed me the images of the planet, carbonized bodies everywhere, no building intact, ships with gigantic holes through them and the body of my mother with a hole in her chest above me."
"I lost my memories when something, rubbles I think, hit my head the impact even broke my skull, I'm only alive today because the kree army arrived and managed to rescue me before I died of blood loss or with my brain slipping out of my skull".
"They put me inside a bacta tank but it could only slow down the bleeding". Vers opened a part of her hair on the left side of her head showing Kara a small scar.
"I'm only alive today because the supreme intelligence authorized the use of a new procedure in me, it would imbue my body with an unknown type of energy that came from a lost artifact we called the core, the process was a success and my healing factor was enhanced tremendously".
"The problem was my loss of blood, I could enter hemorrhagic shock, and die at any moment so they had to make a blood transfusion with the body of my mother, she was the only compatible one".
Hearing Vers words Kara felt an immense sense of sympathy, it was almost instinctive, she too had lost her family, and as such understood the pain of losing a mother.
"The supreme intelligence said to me her name was Mar-Vell, and now, after all of those years I discovered that she was once in this planet under the name of Dr. Lawson, the skrulls want something she had hidden here and I need to contact my team and warn them about it."
Vers almost shouted the last past, the thing she most hates in her life are the Skrulls and now they were trying to steal from her mother, couldn't they just stop when they took her life?
In her anger, Vers accidentally activated her powers, shooting a photon blast that hit Kara's feet, fortunately without causing any damage.
Looking at Vers Kara approached her and gave her a hug, it was somewhat akward due to the size difference but she managed to make it doable.
I the past Alrya aways comforted Kara by simply hugging her and staying silent, remenbering that she thought that maybe Vers only needed someone to confess to, much like she had Alrya, sometimes the mind is much more important than the body.
'Father always told me to help people no matter what, if Vers needs help, who am I to refuse it to give to her? I guess I will stay on this planet, for now, fighting against galactic conquerors and ancient Gods should be easy enough.'
"How about you tell me a little bit more about yourself while you fix your interface?"
Vers broke the hug and looked at Kara's eyes, not suppressing her feelings felt good, if she could do that with someone who understood her pain like the Kryptonian it would be even better.
"Yeah". Vers gave a small smile, she must have been worse than what she would like to admit to simply open up to a stranger, but... the Kryptonian in front of her gave her an air of comfort and calmness, perhaps the stories about her race were no long accurate after ten-thousand years.
"So there was this time I met this old man named stan...".
Chapter 5: 3- Fight
Chapter Text
[0:00 PM, United States California, Los Angeles, May 18]
"So, I was in this mission to retrieve a stolen object from the skrulls, together with Bron-char, Minn-erva, and Att-lass, midway through our mission we had to separate to cover more ground, after some minutes I managed to find the stolen object, a small cube made out of an unknown metal."
"I was ready to return to the meeting point and send the beacon from my team and the ships to meet me and take the object but the moment I turn around guess what?"
Kara put a finger in her chin and answered after some seconds.
"You found a space dolphin?"
"What?! no, of course not you crazy woman they are an endangered species, I found a Milnip, you know those with purple skin, big fangs, walking on four legs with flower-like tails and black/yellow eyes."
"And what did you do? kill it?"
"Well yes but actually no, I was getting ready to fight it and try to knock it out, you know, I don't like to kill animals, but the moment he jumped at me Minn-erva appeared out of nowhere and simply shot the thing."
"I hate her to this day, for some reason she just didn't like me from the start, she always acted like she was superior to me in every way, you should have seen her face the first time I beat her on a sparring match."
"So, you two are Rivals?"
"If we are someone is yet to say it to me, from my understanding we just hate each other, since entering the StarForce she was the best with the weapons while I was the best in hand to hand, our only middle ground was the emotion suppressing training, we both sucked at it equally."
Seeing Vers "funny and angry" face Kara had to hold herself not to laugh.
"But anyway, she shot the Milnip and I immediately shot her with a concussive blast, after that I went to try to save the Milnip but guess what, he starts to transform into a Skrull."
"They can do that?". Kara asked with genuine curiosity, biology was certainly not one of her strong points but she knew one thing or another, just enough not to be called a clod.
"Yes, years of war and we discovered that little bit of information in the most unlikely way, I still remember being called a hipster for the next two months."
"Alright, it's your turn to tell me a history, we are here for five hours straight and you didn't talk much about your childhood at all."
Kara made a weird face and scratched her head in an awkward way, after talking with Vers she discovered various things about the white skinned Kree, like how she hated green, loved white, how she was a little bit petty and somewhat vengeful, how she loved sweets but hated white chocolate.
Her favorite drink, that being odium cocktail, her favorite color, red, coincidentally the same as her.
She also discovered that as long as she wasn't thinking about her past she could make a perfect poker face, and funnily enough Vers had told her about how the orange of her hair shines in the roots during the day when she uses her powers, a curious happening indeed.
How she liked her hair short, and how she normally trained in martial arts to pass time and improve herself.
How she loved racing games and how once she even tried to fly using her powers, managing to stay on the air for exactly thirty seconds before falling and hitting her face on the floor breaking her nose on the process.
She discovered that Vers didn't care much about clothes but at the same time that she wouldn't change her boots for anything else, and finally she learned about her teammates, that in her own words, were a bunch of assholes.
"Well, there's nothing important really, just a normal Kryptonian studying and accidentally discovering that her world was in the brink of collapse".
"Kara". Vers said with a serious tone of voice, her new... friend? only told her about her life after she met her wife but nothing before that, and for some reason that greatly annoyed her.
Not that she was complaining, she did learn a bunch of things about the Kryptonian after all, maybe it was because of their similar past and present situations the reason that the two of them had hit off so well, it was not every day that she met someone who also lost their home planet after all.
It was funny how she got from getting captured to crashing in a primitive planet to encountering her first friend in five years, that friend being a Kryptonian, she also had to thank her captors for breaking her interface and allowing her to hear histories of Kara's life on Krypton.
Both their history and civilization were interesting and learning about an almost extinct race was, in various ways, interesting.
Looking at her communicator Vers frowned, it was much more damaged than she had first thought, her transmitter was not only fried but the dam Skrulls had made precautions and now she couldn't write a message because the little bastards had changed the configuration of her pad.
Up was right, right was enter and low was h, the skrulls messed so bad with the programming that now nothing made sense, it was only when Kara said that she was an engineer that she had asked for her help.
And that was one hour ago when she was telling her a history about how she almost got stuck inside a green planet with a broken ship and no supplies, not only that but she also had to hunt for food for one week before her team found her, she had the distinct impression they had discovered her earlier but she couldn't be one hundred percent sure.
On the other hand, she now knows some things about Kara, for example, she was extremely talented with technology like computing, programming, hacking, she was great in robotics and for some reason was also a seamstress.
She is an incredible inventor, one of those who can easily change a planet, of course, she was only 99 Krytoz old, she had no idea how that translated to Hala's cycles around its sun but she was sure Kara is mature enough to make her own decisions but on a planet where the ordinary life span is quite literally infinite she is considered very young.
Although Kara is an amazing inventor she is... not a good biologist, she wouldn't be able to clone an honored rabbit even if her life depended on it, she was a good geologist too and loved history, being her third favorite, just after mechanical science and arts.
She loved to write, hated when she didn't know something in her area of specialty, could fluently talk Shi'ar, Kryptonian, Tamaranean, and two other earthly languages.
Everyone in the galaxy knew the Tamaraneans ability to understand other languages by lip contact but no one knew of their alliance with the Kryptonians, that surprised her.
She was also surprised when Kara told her of new Krypton's sun, Rao, a gigantic red sun that had lived for more than 300 billion years.
Rao nullified the Kryptonians supercharged cells but in exchange, it gave them the ability to slowly grow stronger by absorbing its radiation, not temporarily like the other stars but permanently, no other red sun's ever had this ability according to Kara.
The process made Kryptonians stronger the older they got, stronger than what Kara was at the moment, her Kryptonian friend said that she didn't know if the process would be the same for other stars, but there was a very small chance of it being possible since she can adapt and evolve.
"Alright, alright, I don't get what you want to know about me besides everything I already told you but ok".
"There are some things I can tell you, like that first time when I build a spaceship and tried to travel to krypton's moon but was immediately busted, I discovered the hard way I couldn't hide a ship when my parents could see through walls".
"My first fight in school when I was eleven, totally beat those five girls, by the way, didn't come back with a black eye and sued them or anything".
Vers raised her eyebrows while making a weird expression but said nothing.
"The day I learned that I could fly in the future but got too impatient and jumped out the sixth floor of a building, or that time I went hunting in one of the small forests of Krypton when I was nine and got out with Ghol'x all over my body".
"Ghol'x?". Vers asked while finishing with the hashes, the skrulls had made unlocking the functions of her interface infinitely more difficult with each code changing every microsecond.
Luckily kara had come face to face with a similar problem in the past and was able to facilitate her entry, it was going to be only for a few seconds but she could send a message to her team.
"It is a type of liquid that when synthesized has a calming property, it is extracted from a Dophra, although some call it a Tatzlwurm, bad name in my opinion, the thing is an invasive species that came from outside of Krypton, we just kept it because of the Ghol'x, but sometimes one ot another manages to escape."
Seeing Vers confused expression Kara elaborated.
"Imagine an abilisk without tentacles, in the form of a worm with scales and a mouth that separated in three parts, sharp teeth, no eyes, spikes coming out of the top of its body and no legs."
"And you hunted that thing when you were a kid?!". Vers shouted with wide eyes, she only knew stories of the Kryptonians Kara had told her and she didn't know much about their culture but she was sure a Kid wouldn't be able to hunt something like an abilisk.
"Pff, Of course not, I was hunting an honored serpent in the reserves with Komand'r, we stumbled on a Dophra and had to run for our lives, Komand'r wanted to fight the thing but luckily her father, Myand'r appeared, that day I got to see the best fight between a Tamaranean and a Dophra in my life!". Kara shouted while jumping and punching the air with her fist.
'Komand'r and Koriand'r rubbed on me much more than I thought they would'. Kara silently thought while thinking about her earlier pose.
"It was because of that incredible show of strength and ferocity that I decided to become the best fighter I could be, although even now in a fair fight Komand'r would still kick my ass, well, just in technique that is, she is part of a warrior race after all".
"She and her sister were the two people who stayed with me until the end, unfortunately, they were princesses so I couldn't stay with them for much time, we didn't have Phantom teleportation available to all like the old krypton, unfortunately".
Vers was about to answer when her interface suddenly opened and the neutral face of her commander Yon-rogg appeared.
"Verify CTC-39"
"GRXV-1600, I have crashed on the planet C-53, Talos and his henchmen captured me with a type of armor, some kind of exoskeleton that enhanced their physical strength".
"They have discovered something here in C-53 and are preparing to take it, I don't know what it is but reinforcements would be good".
"Underst--d, w- will take some s---s and ----".
Yon-rogg's voice became static, looking at the blurred holographic image Vers started to get worried, a sentiment that only worsened after sparks started to fly out of the interface, sensing the danger she quickly took her entire gauntlet armor piece off and trowed it to the side, just in time to avoid being harmed the now burning device.
"I thought I would at least have fifty seconds before the connection was lost".
"And you should, even if the transmitter was badly damaged it shouldn't ignite like that".
Before Vers could answer a black man with dozens of vehicles behind him poked Kara on her back, turning around with a curious expression she looked down at the man and said.
"Can I help you?"
The man stayed still with an open mouth looking her up and down, he barely reached her hips and seemed surprised to see her, that was an expected reaction, she almost reached three meters in height, not only that but her musculature could be considered gigantic by the locals.
The limit of height for a healthy human being would be 2.2 meters, for a female of the same species it would be less but hence Kara is not a human, and even without knowing this the man had a feeling the woman in front of him is not human.
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[Nicholas Joseph Fury, Lv 3 Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D]
Nicholas Joseph Fury, a very scientismic man, before working for S.H.I.E.L.D he served the army, managing to reach the rank of colonel before being honorable discharged he passed the next years of his life working for the C.I.A during the cold war primarily operating in Soviet territory, later he was snatched by S.H.I.E.L.D a U.S extra-governmental counter-terrorism and intelligence agency, tasked with maintaining both national and global security.
He had been working for this agency for seven years, besides investigating terrorist attacks and secret dangerous groups around the world that could disturb the fragile peace, he also investigated weird happenings around the globe, supernatural some would say.
He however would not, he knows that in the world there are people with amazing powers, Captain America is one such example but even so, that was due to the super-soldier serum not some kind of supernatural bullshit, the years of going around investigating supposedly 'Supernatural' occurrences made him numb and apathetic to such a word.
Science can explain everything for everything has an answer, he believed that, he still believes that, but, after getting out of his car and seeing the back of a three-meter tall, dark-skinned woman with a dark blue/red coat, bright red boots, a big, wild white hair covering her entire back, almost reaching her knees, and orange strands at the end of it.
But is not only the size of the woman and her hair that surprised him but also her muscles, muscles that would make the biggest bodybuilders cry in shame, all of that combined made his belief weaken.
Of course, only that would not be enough after all the woman could simply have a mutation that made her taller and stronger, no, what made him think this woman could be a being that can not be explained by modern science besides the camera footage is the feeling of only being around her, not only the feeling but also the air.
In his eyes -and the ones of his agents he was sure- the air was fuzzy, the landscape around the woman waved randomly, the buildings moved like waves, vortexes formed and twisted the images, even the form of the other woman talking with the gigantic... thing twisted stretched and compressed in such a way he wouldn't be able to describe her features no matter how much time he stared at her.
He could also feel the heat coming out of the woman, something weird considering that although he is sweating, he could not feel any heat in his clothes no matter where he touched them.
In the middle of the twisting world, the gigantic woman stood still not moving, only looking down, if he had to guess she was talking with the other woman, that only comforted him slightly because now he could be sure he won't be pulled apart by only getting near the woman or even being burned to ashes.
It may have been a sixth sense but he could feel the gigan- no, the colossal amount of energy stored inside the body of the woman.
She is powerful, incredibly powerful, perhaps in a way his brain still cannot comprehend, in a way it will never be able to but it still tried to.
The only reason he had not turned around and run away is because of a strange feeling inside him, the feeling that the woman although looking incredibly intimidating and dangerous would not harm him, it is only because of this feeling that he approached and poked her back.
He'd never admit it to anyone but when she turned around allowing him to see her shining golden eyes he couldn't help but think they were beautiful.
"Can I help you?". The moment he heard her voice he got out of his trance, without him noticing the twisting world came back to normal, he could no longer feel the heat, the images around him returned to normal, the only thing that stayed is the feeling that the woman will not harm him
"Umm... Yes miss, you see we got a camera video with a humanoid figure similar in stature to you flying to the sky and coming back with a UFO in its hands and another humanoid being similar to the woman talking to you getting out of said UFO shortly after"
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"Is this a joke?". Kara asked in a mocking tone.
"No ma'am, I'm afraid this is quite serious ". The man said with a somewhat awkward tone of voice, taking out what seemed to be a card he lifted it near her face.
"Nicolas Joseph Fury, level 3 agent, please do call me Fury and If it would not be too much of a problem could I bother you to come with us? We only want to ask some questions."
Internally Kara changed her expression to a serious one, Skrulls could turn into any organic being for what she could understand of what Vers had told her some minutes ago, knowing that she couldn't trust anyone besides Vers and herself.
Using her super hearing Kara focused in the hearts of all the beings around a two hundred meter radius, and just as she thought all of them had a quick heartbeat, she could have used her x-ray vision to see their biology and try to verify if they are Skrulls but that would be useless, she doesn't know what the insides of a Skrull or a human looks like, much less of a Skrull that transforms into a human.
'Are they afraid of the strength I showed or do they know what I am?'. Kara mused to herself.
Looking at the reflection of one of the cars she saw Vers tensing her body and preparing herself for a confrontation, much like everyone in the surroundings Vers could feel the tension rapidly building up in the air, and much like Kara, she knew confrontation was inevitable the only question was who would make the first move.
Birds were completely still on the rooftops, most agents had sweat running down their heads, a tense silence dwelt heavily on the air, the only sound that could be heard is that of the wind passing through the trees, shaking their leaves.
Kara looked at every agent in front of her while at the same time looking at the car's reflection with a serious expression, stopping at agent Fury, Kara gave a small, knowing smile and said. "No, I don't think I will".
Vers immediately lighted up her fists and entered a fighting stance just in time to jump down on the ground and dodge dozens of electric projectiles who passed above her, hitting the wall but not damaging it.
Looking at the rooftops Vers saw dozens of agents who surely were not there before.
"And the birds stop singing, what a coincidence". Vers said in a low mocking tone before jumping up and shooting photon blasts at everything that moved.
Kaara on the other hand extended her arm and rested it on Fury's shoulder, with a hesitant and sorry expression she said.
"I'm sorry for this." Before shoving Fury away, throwing him six meters away through the ground but being hit by bullets and electric blasts almost immediately.
'So they do care about their companions after all'. She thought happily.
Ignoring the bullets she looked at her clothes to see if they were damaged.
"No damage, good, invulnerability achieved". Kara smiled and started to walk forward, she could freely communicate with Lavender telepathically, she did it so milliseconds after pushing fury away, asking for her sister to change the molecular structure of the suit to that of Fury's shirt to see if her "Unbreakable" aura protected her clothes.
Walking forward slowly Kara used the lowest possible amount of strength she could and touched the cheeks of an agent that continued to desperately shoot her, she didn't blame the woman, her hand is big enough to hold her entire head after all.
Not wanting to frighten the woman even more Kara lowered her head and lightly exhaled a blue gas out of her mouth, the woman tried to hold her breath and started to violently shake but it was useless, her skin absorbed the venom and in less than a second she was paralyzed.
She gained this particular power after her master fough against her in a sparring match, he had gripped her neck making her unable to move, her ability helped her by creating a gland in the lower part of her mouth that could spit a gas capable of disorient her master making him release her.
Through the Krytoz her ability evolved now capable of paralyzing a living being and invade their bloodstream, draining their energy and expelling in the form of a white gas that she could absorb and recharge her own power, very useful.
Seeing the stiff body of the woman Kara smiled and gently put her down on the ground, she has to admit she is scared of the fragile nature of Earth, no, it would be better to say she is terrified.
A mishap in her strength could mean the destruction of entire countries, putting a little bit more energy on her heat vision could split the planet in half, and running a little faster could make her cross the planet multiple times smashing everything in front of her, she'd have no time to react, her haring aid lowered her reaction time and the situation just got more and more uncontrollable as she absorbed the energy of the yellow sun, her special ability just made everything worse since it inevitably made her even stronger and her cells more efficient in absorbing the radiation.
She can't use even a percentage of her strength in this stupid glass-like planet something that makes her extremely anxious but she resigned herself, she will NOT kill innocent creatures or even destroy the hard build civilization the Humans on the planet made, with her harden resolve Kara slowly walked forward, taking care to control her bioelectric aura to not let her weight destroy the ground.
Behind her, Vers was having a much harder time, she had trained for five years with Yon-rogg and in that time she had to learn how to take anyone out with or without her powers, fighting against numerous enemies coming from all sides was not new to her.
Dodging a left rook Vers punched the agent's ribs with a strong right rook, breaking his bones and getting back up while putting both of her hands on his neck only to violently force his head down and give him a knee strike that broke his nose.
Releasing the agent's head she quickly turned around and gave a Roundhouse Kick to the agent who was behind her, planting her right feet on the ground she turned to the earlier agent and gave him another kick in his stomach effectively knocking him down.
Hearing a buzzing sound coming from her back she quickly threw her body back while using both of her hands to catch herself just in time to avoid an electric blast that would have hit her nape.
Continuing with her move Vers got close to the third agent and gave a Whip Back, twisting on the air above him and locking his head with her legs, bringing him down to the ground with her weight and choking the agent until he stopped moving.
Rapidly getting out of her position she took the agent's gun and shot three other agents with it, before she could press the trigger once more two projectiles hit her back, making her drop the gun and reflexively activate her powers.
Shooting two continuous photon blasts from her hand Vers threw herself backwards, hitting the agent who shot at her with her back and knocking his head on the wall on the process.
Most of the agents were Skrulls and she knew that normally she would just kill every single one of them to avoid a possible invasion but that was a small chance that even one of those people were innocent locals and she would not kill even one single agent exactly because of that.
She knew when to kill and when not to, not every mission she had been was a good one, although she hates skrulls she had never and will never kill a child, the skrulls are monsters, and she is not like them, not now, not ever.
Looking in Kara's direction Vers saw that she was... slowly walking forward and breathing on the enemy's face?
Vers only managed to regain her composure after a plasma bolt hit Kara's waist, burning part of her suit and penetrating her skin, reacting immediately she turned in the direction of the shot and shot a photon blast at the attacker, unfortunately, she had no time to aim so her shot passed centimeters away from the Skrull's head.
Looking closely at the sniper rifle that managed to harm her Kara tried to see it's components to determine what kind of weapon it was, the form was that of a sniper rifle but she could never know for sure, not before analyzing every inch of it.
The silver weapon had a gyhofrequency tumbler on its center, a universal piece every energy weapon needed to create and control its projectiles, two extended magnetic fields on the top and bottom of the rifle, both severed to stabilized the ionized particles who got out of the weapon, preventing them from simply spreading on the air or not having enough speed to hit the target.
The rifle also had an energy cell surrounding the gyhofrequency tumbler and two others on each side of the weapon, ionized energy cells to be more specific.
'High energy consumption with each shot then, they probably have five more shots, two for each cell'.
Briefly looking at the two other Skrull weapons Kara determined that they were made out of another metal, what kind of metal she didn't know but she would find out.
Using her heat vision on her left eye she shrank her pupil shooting one red beam of energy at the skrull's weapon, not destroying it but blowing the weapon away from the Skrull's hand.
'High Energy resistance then, this shot would have melted most metals without much problem'.
Thinking about the earlier shot Kara started to get worried, her skin is extremely resistant to the point that most energy weapons wouldn't be able to scratch her, but the skrulls somehow obtained one that could, she needed to know what it was made of and who made it.
Not losing the opportunity she slowly floated towards the three Skrulls and released her toxin when she was close enough, taking the rifle she started to analyze it.
'Each shot consumes a gigantic amount of energy strong enough to make a Kryptonian bleed, high range, damage, and no recoil, made of an unknown metal and unknown energy source, I will have to capture one skrull and question him after this'.
Looking behind her Kara saw most of the agents shooting other agents with electric blasts and turning into exact copies of Vers, unfortunately for them when a skrull transforms into someone it takes time for them to copy the exact voice of the person and Kara knows exactly how Vers voice sounded like, her super hearing was useful for more than one thing after all.
Jumping from the rooftop Kara floated some meters above the ground, taking a big breath she used her freezing breath to incapacitate all of the skrulls, or at least that was what she wanted to happen.
Pushing the air out of her lungs Kara unleashed a gigantic wave of hot red fire, melting every car in front of her and burning all of the skrulls almost instantly.
Seeing the destruction she caused in just two seconds she immediately stopped her attack by putting her hands in front of her mouth.
'That trip to Jupiter wasn't useless after all'.
Ignoring the destruction she made not five seconds ago Kara once again tried to use her freezing breath, this time succeeding and extinguishing the accidental fire she made, looking at the burnt flesh of both Human and Skrull Kara felt pathetic.
At least in Krypton harming an innocent creature, one that can not even resist oneself is viewed as an act of extreme cowardice, serving only to show how much of a pathetic Kryptonian one was, shaking her head in shame she turned around and started looking around for Vers, only to find her choking... herself?.
"Vers, let's go, I can hear other cars approaching the area".
"Just give me a minute" Vers quickly gave an elbow in the skrull's gut, making him drop the disguise and lift his hold on her neck.
Taking advantage of the situation Vers took his right arm and threw him on the ground while putting her left leg behind his hand and lowering herself to break his arm.
"We should get out of here, they won't stop coming and a lucky shot could take us both out".
Nodding Kara took Vers's hand and put her on her back while taking the skrull's arm and flying away at a slow speed as to not make Vers fall.
"Where do we go now?" Vers asked while holding Kara's shoulders, she was flying slowly but if she fell at that distance she would gain more than just a few bruises.
"I would like to say mercury but this guy won't survive the trip, so we are going to the mountains on the coast, they won't be able to track us there".
Vers only nodded, C-53 could be suffering from a Skrull invasion, she wasn't sure but if they were really invading, she would have to kill every single skrull she came across.
Chapter 6: 4- Memories
Chapter Text
[0:17 PM, United States California, Los Angeles]
Kara landed on a small island in the middle of a river inside the mountains, landing on the ground she kneeled down and let Vers get out of her back, after that she threw the unconscious skrull to the ground.
"So, what do we ask him first?" Kara asked Vers.
Walking to Kara's side Vers crouched down and looked at the unconscious form of the skrull, she wanted to simply kill the thing and be done with it but she knew she couldn't.
Kara was harmed by a weapon the Skrulls had, not only that but they also infiltrated inside that S.H.I.E.L.D organization too fast, normally they would take days to do such a thing but hours? That was unheard of, even inside a primitive planet like C-53 something like that would have been noticed.
Hence the reason why she needs to question the Skrull and discover what kind of information he had, the only problem was that the skrulls didn't answer to anyone but their superiors.
In more than one case she had captured a Skrull for questioning but the moment they woke up or got captured they simply copied the face of their captors and killed themselves by stopping their own hearts, that happened with her one time, and since then she never stayed to question a Skrull.
'Four years of training for nothing, well.' Vers Looked at the body of the Skrull in front of her.
'Almost nothing'.
Skrulls could be monsters but they were still extremely honorable soldiers, even to this day she still had to see a skrull who broke their code.
Their reader Talos is the strongest among them, he is physically strong, has a strategic mind and in her personal opinion, he is a sassy asshole, she had fought with him on multiple occasions but had never won, the only thing more painful than his punches were his horrible puns and sense of humor.
Talos was fierce, could shapeshift into anything, had years of experience and on one occasion had even turned himself into a Strontian by simply drinking the blood of one, even with her powers she couldn't beat him, why he didn't kill her and her team on Torfa was a mystery to her.
Getting out of her thoughts Vers turned her head around and answered Kara. "I was trained to interrogate Skrulls, I have never done this before but I know that you only need to hit them where it hurts the most to make them talk."
Vers detached a metallic leash from her left arm and put it in the Skrull's neck, after that she took a small amount of water from the lake with her mouth and spit it in his face.
Suddenly waking up the skrull tried to stand up but stopped immediately when he felt an immense amount of pain coming from his arm.
Using his abilities he tried to move his bones in an attempted to fix them, he stopped almost instantly after feeling a gigantic amount of shock coming from all sides of his body, the pain only stopped after he gave up using his power to heal himself.
Breathing heavily he closed his burning eyes and rested his back, he stayed this way for a minute with his chest slowly rising and falling before remembering what happened before he was knocked out.
Immediately entering a state of alertness he opened his eyes and turned his head around to try to discover where he was, contrary to the cell he was expecting to see himself in, he only saw the blue sky and the two female targets he was supposed to capture, one that is 3 meters tall and the other being 2.3.
"Don't even try to do that weird ritual to kill yourself, its useless, the collar on your neck? it will stop you from using your shapeshifting ability, the only way you will get out of here alive is if you answer our questions."
The only response Vers received was the skrull spitting on her foot, followed by his failed second attempt to get up, an attempt that only served to hurt him even more.
Looking down and seeing her boot dirty Vers stopped to take a big breath to try and calm herself down before she could do something she would regret, or at least that was what Kara thought she was doing since not even a second later Vers Kicked the skrull's head with all her force, throwing him back and making him hit his head on the boulder behind him, cracking it and leaving a trail of blood behind.
Vers ran towards the skrull, ready to crack his skull but was immediately stopped by Kara who held her two arms behind her back not allowing her to move, unfortunately for the Skrull this still didn't stop Vers from shooting her photon blasts from her feet at him, missing his head by mere centimeters and burning a hole through the boulder.
"We need him alive Vers, we don't know if C-53 is being invaded or what kind of weapons they have, you said it yourself when we were flying."
Hearing Kara's words Vers stopped struggling and forcefully calmed herself down, seeing that Kara released her and walked to the Skrull's direction.
"My name is Kara, and going to the point I have only four questions for you". Ignoring the Skrull's lack of response Kara continued.
"Why is your kind here, what were those weapons, how did you infiltrated SHIELD and finally, why does your kind want to capture Vers alive."
The skrull simply stared at Kara with a serious expression without saying a word, seeing that Vers smiled and walked towards the Skrull's direction, pushing Kara back and stopping mere centimeters from his face she said.
"Your kind has some kind of code of honor right? one of them, if I'm not mistaken says that you should kill yourself if you get captured, for the good of all Skulls right?"
Looking at the skrull's face and not receiving any answer Vers got up and started to walk in circles.
"So, imagine what will happen when your friends discover that you are still alive, or maybe even worst, that you were killed after giving information to the enemy."
Turning her head Vers saw the Skrull's expression changing for only one second, going from calm to panicked to calm again.
'Got you'.
Contrary to what she had said the collar on the Skrull's neck wasn't able to block his shapeshifting ability, the only thing it did was give him gigantic amounts of pain when he tried to use it.
When they were flying to the mountains she and Kara talked about how they would interrogate the Skrull, Vers knew violence and intimidation wouldn't work, even if they had a hostage the Skrull wouldn't open his mouth.
But if they could mess with his mind then maybe, just maybe he would reveal something, so they did just that, the "leash" Vers gave the Skrull served for more than just one thing, besides shocking the Skrull each time he tries to use his ability it also messes with his brain, making him more unstable and prone to committing mistakes and in the likely case he didn't say anything Vers would simply use her photon blast to give him a quick Death.
She may normally use low amounts of energy to conserve her forces and as a result only knock out her enemies with concussive blasts but nothing is stopping her from using more power and explode the head of the Skrull in front of her, well nothing besides Kara that is.
"Your soldiers had pretty unique weapons, so unique that Vers never saw them before, not only that but your kind somehow managed to infiltrate S.H.I.E.L.D in mere five hours."
Looking at the skrull's neutral expression and hearing his breathing Kara smiled and continued talking, she knew what S.H.I.E.L.D was and she knew that for the skrulls to have infiltrated inside the organization they would have to know what it was beforehand.
In other words the Skrulls either already had infiltrated inside S.H.I.E.L.D before either of them entered the planet or they just wanted to capture Vers and whatever they wanted from Mar-vell quickly and get out of the planet as fast as possible, leaving a very confused secret organization behind.
"You know what I think is happening here? I think your kind established yourselves here on this planet, a planet isolated from the rest of the universe, technologically inferior, no meaningful resources, and a shitty solar system, a perfect place to hide something if you ask me, the perfect place to hide from the Kree."
Using her super hearing Kara heard the skrull's heart starting to beat faster, most Kryptonians would simply use their X-ray vision to look at the electrical signals inside the brain of the person they were questioning but Kara simply couldn't do that, she is horrible in biology.
Hearing the sound of the Skrull's beating heart Kara smiled slightly, with her increased intelligence due to the yellow sun's radiation and her already bright mind she was able to think as fast as a supercomputer and think of the most probable conclusion or solution to her problems with the small information she had.
The skrulls were doing something inside C-53, she didn't know what but she would find out sooner than later.
"A perfect place to establish a base indeed."
The skrull suddenly jumped up and dashed towards Kara but was immediately stopped by Vers who gave a strong kick to his stomach, sending him back on the ground and making him hit his head on the boulder again.
"So this place is a base after all, it would be a pity if a Kree soldier sent a message to her superiors warning them of the Skrull's base before they could evacuate the planet, don't you think?"
"No, of course you don't, your kind probably doesn't know love or empathy, just like animals you only work in your most basic desires, I'm impressed you can even talk."
Hearing what Vers had said Kara started to get worried for her, she knew Vers hates the Skrulls, that much was obvious, she had said that to her multiple times even but her mood shifts were starting to worry her.
Vers was a kind person, nobody besides her could see that but she could, the level of emotion she had shown when talking about her past couldn't be faked.
And if that didn't prove anything the fact that she was incapable of purging her feelings despise being trained to do so for five gears showed what kind of person she is, the kind of person who is incapable of killing an innocent living being in cold blood.
Her history about how she refused to kill a Milnip and even attacked her teammate to try and save it before discovering that it was a Skrull showed her that she is someone with great empathy.
But that changed when she dealt with Skrulls, cold, angry, and perhaps even cruel, Vers didn't have a single drop of empathy for them and yet proving she had feelings she refused to kill an infant Skrull, something a cold blooded killer would do without batting an eye.
Would she be that way if someone killed her parents too? she didn't know but she certainly wouldn't want to be.
Looking at Vers, Kara smiles while thinking about what her mother said to her once.
'Hate is never a good emotion, It clouds your judgment, breaks your ideals and makes you into something you are not, something that I know you aren't Kara, so, please never, never let your emotions change who you are my little angel.'
Remembering her mother's words and looking at Vers angry expression Kara decided to talk to her after the interrogation, five years feeling nothing but pure hate for an entire race wasn't good for anyone.
In all her life she had never felt the emotion named anger or hate for something or someone and maybe because of that she won't be able to be the person Vers needs to talk to but even so that won't stop her from trying, her... friend? needs help, even if she didn't realize yet.
'Help everyone even when you think you can't, that's what You said to me Right Alrya?'
"Just ask whatever you want and kill me, I won't beg you filthy Kree."
"How did you find us?" Vers asked while ignoring the Skrull's insult.
"Cameras, contrary to what your friend said this planet is not exactly a base for us, it's more like a meeting point". The skrull said while trying to hide his pain.
'Vers really didn't hold back while breaking his arm, I'm surprised it's even attached to his body at this point'.
"Why did you want to capture me alive?"
"I Don't know, the only thing I know is that our leader wants you alive, just that, he doesn't say the reason for all of his orders, and soldiers like me don't waste time making questions while we could simply follow the order, a soldier's purpose is to obey, not question."
"But if you want my opinion maybe he just wants to extract your memories and rip all the secrets out of you but not everyone is as 'Lively' like him in that regard, some just want to kill you and be done with it".
Looking at Kara, Vers received a nod, confirming that the Skrull wasn't lying.
'So, Talos wants me alive for a reason and I doubt It is something as simple as my memories if that was the case then Yon-rogg would be the better option, something is wrong, something is definitely wrong and I will find out what it is'.
Getting out of her thoughts Vers turned her head and looked at the skrull again, she still had some important questions. "The weapons?".
"Someone made it seven years ago, all I know Is that our leader managed to steal from them, he only uses those things when we enter a mission of High priority".
"Last question". Vers took a small purple rock from her pocket and presented it to the skrull.
"Your boss was messing with my mind and one of the devices had this thing in it". Vers took a small purple rock from her pocket and showed it to the Skrull.
"So answer me, What. Is. This?".
Vers asked in a threatening tone, the memories of her destroyed planet, the only real home she ever had surfaced inside her head, an explosion and then blackness, the only memory she had of her home and even to this day, it brought her great pain but at the same time happiness to see her past home again.
Even when everything was destroyed she could imagine how beautiful the city must have looked like before the invasion, perhaps holding on to the happiness and sadness that memory brought to her prevented her to become a better version of herself but she would be dammed if she lost the ability to smile every day after seeing her mother's face in her dreams.
Having a Skrull trying to corrupt those memories is the worst thing they could possibly do to her.
The skrull extended his arm and took the purple rock from Vers's hand, looking closely at the object he gave a small smile.
"That is a memory card, unfortunately, I can't say more unless you let me activate the device and show the stored memories".
"Can't or won't?".
"Can't".
Vers eyes at the Skrull suspiciously, turning her head towards Kara she received a nod of confirmation, turning her head again she nodded to the skrull who immediately put the stone in his interface on his right hand.
After some seconds of messing with his interface, a holographic video started playing with a black woman talking with someone in what looked like an airbase.
"What place is this?" Vers asked.
"Edwards air force base, it's not far from here".
"How many jumps to this place?".
"Zero, it's inside this planet" The skrull continued to mess with his interface while looking at the holographic projection.
"And why are you showing me this? did I took a different memory crystal, I was sure this was the one, or perhaps this thing is just broken?"
"Our memory extractor is flawless, it can even take memories someone has long forgotten, but if you want to know the best of all the things it can do? it can also self-destruct."
The skrull suddenly jumped forward and enveloped his right arm on Vers nape, before anyone could react the Skrull's right hand exploded, creating a purple, hot explosion of pure energy.
BOOM!
Dashing forward Kara took Vers's body and rapidly turned around, partially shielding her from the explosion, the sound of Vers's bones cracking due to her strong grip was lost in favor of the gigantic explosion.
Covering Vers with her body Kara hid her friend's face in her chest she did it so carefully but still used too much force considering the fact Vers blacked out instantly.
Ignoring this Kara protected the rest of her body with her clothes, making it so they expanded to better protect her friend, contrary to the rest of her suit the newly created parts aren't protected against the explosion since her invulnerability only extended one centimeter out of her body.
Fortunately for her, her clothes are made out of unstable molecules, this alone allowed her to easily alter her suit to adapt to a certain environment, thus an explosion wouldn't manage to damage her clothes.
Add the Klyntar cells to the equation and now she had a semi-conscious inanimated object connected with her brain that could alter its own form, density, and resistance at any given moment, that was the suit itself without counting Lavender who is a very much living being with her own soul inhabiting said suit.
And now that she was using her suit to protect someone Lavender controlled the newly created parts to change and expand themselves, covering the other parts of Vers's body like an immovable fortress.
{Sis are you okay?!}
'Yes no need to worry about such a small explosion, I'm more worried about her, I panicked and used too much force, I hope I didn't cause any permanent damage to her brain.'
When the explosion finally ended Lavender changed her clothes to normal once again and started to check her friend's body for any injuries but only saw one at her nape, a deep one that almost reached her bones, fortunately for both of them the wound started to quickly heal.
Seeing the bruise on Vers body Kara made an ugly expression, to save Vers she had to run at a dangerous speed, had she not transferred her "invincible" barrier through her bioelectric aura she would have passed through Vers instead of catching her, even still she flattered and craked her skull and arm because she used too much force.
Giving a tired sigh she looked at the sky, if she wanted to live on this glass-like planet without going crazy she would have to master this technique, Faora had taught her the basics of it but she didn't care much about it at the time since the technique was invented for stronger Kryptonians to save the younger ones quickly without needing to slow down and put both of them in more danger.
She'd have to say, not learning it before is her biggest regret now.
Sitting on the ground Kara put Vers's head on her lap, the explosion would have killed anyone else but fortunately, her friend had a powerful healing factor.
Leaning her back on another nearby boulder and taking Vers with her Kara started to think about what had happened.
'That Skrull would rather kill himself and ignore his orders to not kill Vers than to reveal his secrets'.
'That means that he could be lying, the leash made him feel pain when trying to shapeshift but he could very well resist and not shown his pain while trying to control his heartbeat, shapeshifters can, to a certain degree, control their organs after all.'
Two minutes later when her wounds finally healed Vers opened her eyes and jumped forward, Kara had to quickly lift her hand as to not let her hit her head, standing up Vers looked around herself.
"Vers? are you ok?". Kara got up and put her hand on her friend's shoulder, only for her to turn around and jump back while unconsciously activating her powers.
Contrary to what Kara expected Vers light didn't cover only her hands but all of her body in bright yellow, blue and white colors.
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Vers suddenly woke up, for some reason her nape was hurting as if she had slept in an uncomfortable position, opening her eyes she saw a weird woman with blond hair looking attentively at her while caressing her head.
'What?'.
She quickly got up after getting her head out of the woman's lap and jumping off the ground she stood up and looked around herself, she had a gigantic headache and was having trouble standing up properly.
'Whatever hit me must have been big'.
Ignoring the pain she looked around herself, she only saw mountains, trees, and water for as far as her eye could reach, she wanted to walk forward and discover how she got there but was suddenly interrupted by a hand landing on her shoulder.
By reflex, she turned around and jumped back while preparing for a fight, the only thing she wasn't expecting was to glow like a Firefly.
Abandoning her fighting stance in surprise she slowly brought her hands up and looked at them, suppressing her surprise she looked further down and saw the same light spreading through her entire body.
'The hell?'
Looking at the white-haired woman who had a worried expression on her face she opened her mouth to ask a question, but stopped herself when she felt a sudden tingle in her head.
Looking at the sky she started to hear dozens of voices inside her mind, she was unable to resist the sudden pain that came with it she held her head with her two hands, only for her to accidentally release the energy in her hands and blast a concussive force at point-blank range that made her scream in pain and fall to the ground.
"AH!"
"VERS!"
'Vers?'. She thought after hearing the distant cries of the woman in front of her.
'Is that my... name?'. She thought while feeling her eyes growing heavy.
Without noticing her knees began to weaken making her fall sideways to the ground, she could only feel the woman catching her head before she slowly closed her eyes, it was ok she would just take a quick nap and talk to the Kryptonian Woman.
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Vers slowly opened her eyes, only to be hit by the sun immediately after, using her arm she blocked the light rays and stood still for some seconds, after getting used to the light she moved her arm away but contrary to the mountains she was expecting to see she only saw an old woman in front of her, a very familiar one, she knew her, it was her mother, Mar-vell.
Ignoring all sense of logic she opened her mouth to talk with her, but the sounds that came out were not what she was expecting.
"Hey, he, hey, why the hurry Lawson, we can test this big girl tomorrow".
A woman's voice, similar but not equal to her's said, suppressing her rising anxiety Vers looked around herself, at least she tried to, for no matter how much she tried to turn her head the maximum she could do was move her eyes.
Fortunately, this was enough for her to see where she was, an open field with a small black ship in front of her, no one besides Mar-vell in the area, and a desert runway without any Jets or planes in it.
Looking closely at the ship that was in front of her Vers started to analyze its form to see if she could deduce what empire had build it or what planet she was in.
An unknown metal, two thrusters on its back, and one in each wing glowing with blue light, blasters on each side of its head, and two circular compartments close to the start of its wings.
"Yeah, Carol is right, they probably won't let us two test her but there's no need to risk your life piloting a jet fighter that didn't even pass the security tests yet". A black woman with brown eyes and black hair said.
"It's a matter of utmost importance that I pilot this jet, I don't have much time and lives are at stake here, P.E.G.A.S.U.S is being attacked by an unknown force and I have to retrieve the object they want to steal and escape with it before they find it".
"If I don't come back pretend I never existed and never, never say my name again, my allies will protect you two from afar, I have to go".
Lawson turned around and started to climb the stairs to enter the jet's cockpit but was suddenly stopped by Carol who held her shoulder and forced her down the stairs.
"Don't bullshit me doc, I didn't enlist myself on the air force and came here because I wanted to test some weapons and stay out of the fight, I came here because I wanted to make a difference".
"And now you are asking me to run with my tail between my legs?, no I'm sorry but you are taking me with you and both of us are going to come back alive."
Lawson stayed silent for some time, glaring at Carol as if ordering her to back down but seeing her equally stubborn look she gave up and sighed in defeat.
"So be it then, Maria, if we don't come back I want you to remember those numbers 5,6,0,9,3 bellow the control room don't say those numbers to anyone else, not even my allies, and as for you Carol, follow me".
Seeing through the eyes of the woman Vers saw her climbing the stairs and sitting on the front with the other woman who looked like Mar-vell, named Lawson, behind her.
Seeing the canopy being closed Vers tried to see the woman's reflection on the glass, the only thing she didn't expect was to see a perfect image of herself with different clothes looking at her.
'What?!". Before she could do anything the scenery suddenly changed with her inside the fighter jet already flying.
"So where do we go now Doc?" Vers asked without meaning to.
"5-2-2-9 negative 4-7 8.7-6-8, 0.2"
"5229-478.7680.2? What are those numbers?"
Looking behind her Vers saw Lawson looking outside the window with a serious expression.
"What's the problem Carol, is everything ok? are you feeling well?". Lawson asked after seeing Carol's confused expression.
Turning her head forward again Carol blinked in confusion, she was thinking about something very important but couldn't remember what.
"Yes, I'm ok my head is just a little bit dizzy from all that".
"Hum, it was the same as me the first time I traveled to space too, almost threw up".
Carol laughed a little but quickly returned with her serious expression, she would die if she didn't take whatever this situation is seriously.
"Alright, where are we going Lawson, you said that you had to retrieve an object but unless we are going to the other side of the planet I don't know where we are heading".
"My laboratory, the core is there".
Carol was about to ask something but suddenly stopped and pushed the jet to the right side, just in time to avoid dozens of energy blasts coming in her direction.
"What the hell was that?!".
"Aliens, now stop making questions and fly faster".
Pressing a button on the right side Lawson turned her seat around and took a wheel who appeared out of the wall while a small screen opened in front of her and two machine guns got out of the two circular compartments above the jet.
Immediately firing the weapons with inhuman accuracy Lawson shot down the ship that was following them with almost no effort.
"What was that?!".
"Aliens like me, we don't have much time, activate the engine and go to Ask'lo, system 004 coordinates F897.BN78803+74X2"
"What are you even talking about-".
"Put the coordinates Carol! I'm not asking I am ordering".
"Yes ma'am".Carol typed the coordinates on the ship's screen and confirmed the destination, she could freak out later, now she needed to focus.
After confirming the destination, the ship propelled itself forward at a gigantic speed while at the same time shooting a blue light energy beam out of its two blasters that created a hexagonal portal with no visible light inside.
Passing through the portal Carol closed her eyes for one second, she was expecting a collision, not the chilling sensation that traveled up her spine, reacting more in instinct than actual rationality she opened her eyes again and just like that the feeling was gone, only to give space to the surprise after seeing the blue, green planet much, much bigger than Earth.
Suddenly the radars glowed red and the automatic systems forcefully moved the ship up, dodging an energy blast that would surely have hit the jet's cockpit and killed her together with Lawson.
Reacting immediately Carol started to roll the jet in a canopy roll, dodging more energy blasts and turning the jet away from the planet towards space, only to freeze at the sight of hundreds, maybe thousands of ships big and small shooting at each other, it may have been her imagination or perhaps her rising panic but Carol could swear she heard the screams of the people inside the ships who were exploding.
The small moment of distraction caused Carol to briefly forget the other ship that was chasing them, allowing the other party to freely shoot at her jet and destroy one of its wings, causing the jet to fall towards the blue planet at an alarming speed.
"Eject when we approach the ground on 74 miles!".
"No! they want to steal the lightspeed engine of this ship to travel and conquest other galaxies, if we let them take it the universe will be doomed not even the Shi'ar will be able to stop them!".
"They who? Lawson! you haven't told me who is trying to take this goddam engine and the core until now!". Carol shouted after finally losing her patience.
"The Kree Carol, my race".
Carol wanted to ask another question but was stopped when she realized how close they were to the planet's surface.
Pushing the control stick with all her force she managed to glide the jet and barely slow down her fall, passing through the clouds she managed to see where she was going to crash, a gigantic city with hundreds of buildings.
"Prepare for collision!" Carol shouted while pushing the jet's control stick to try and land in an empty street.
Falling down at a speeding velocity of twenty-five thousand miles per hour Carol finally lost control of the jet and crashed into a building, destroying the two upper wings of the jet and cutting through the entire building with a flaming ship.
Crashing on the ground the jet miraculously didn't explode but started to overturn, breaking even more of its parts.
Abandoning the control stick together with any hope of getting a safe landing Carol held her seat to avoid hitting her head and suffer any more injuries, she would need all her strength if she wanted to survive this.
The jet continued overturning forward, only stopping when hitting what looked like a car with no wheels, almost overturning again but falling back and crashing on the ground with a heavy thud.
Seeing the jet finally coming to a stop Carol removed her helmet and released her seat belt, pressing a button she ejected the cockpit and got out of the jet while at the same time checking for any injuries, although she couldn't feel any her situation was not good, both because of her persuers together with the gravity of the planet making her use a significant part lf her strength just to stand up.
Going to the back of the canopy she released Lawson's seat belt and took her out of the jet while putting her hand on her shoulders and supporting her.
"It's ok, I can stand alone". Lawson took out her arm from Carol's shoulders and turned around to the jet's direction.
"So, are you going to explain to me why we are on another planet?".
"The Kree, my race, they conquer other worlds and kill everything who stands on their way, for years I thought I was fighting on the side of the good guys but clearly, I was wrong".
"A race of heroes, noble warrior heroes, that's what they and embarrassingly enough me thought we were, but when I discovered that we were nothing but, as Soren would put it, Space Bullies, I defected and sworn to protect all the races the Kree were trying to subjugate".
"They want to steal my work, the lightspeed engine, made out from the energy of the core, the tesseract, I made it for all the other races being subjugated by the Kree to escape to a place where they would be safe, where the Kree would never find them".
"But somehow they found my location, probably by searching for the tesseract's energy signature inside the lightspeed engine, they want it to conquer other galaxies and spread their empire and they will succeed if they obtain this engine".
Lawson turned around while taking out a small disc from her pocket and put it on Carol's neck.
Entering Carol's skin the disc created small white lines that traveled through her neck, reaching her brain, and causing a small shock on her entire body.
"What was that?" Carol asked a little bit dizzy, whatever lawson had done to her had taken all of her strength away.
"I can't say, they can very well have a memory extractor like the Skulls and rip off your secrets without even needing to touch you, I wanted to give this to Soren or maybe even hide it inside goose but you will have to carry this with you Carol, I'm sorry".
Lawson turned around and took what looked like a pistol out of her belt but before she could shoot a green energy blast hit her shoulder, making her fall to the ground while breathing heavily.
"I thought you would have been dead by now Mar-vell, or is it Lawson now?".
"Y...yon-rogg".
"I'm sorry but I have no time for this, Minn-erva, Kill both of them".
Before anyone could react Lawson jumped out of the ground and dashed towards Carol, receiving an energy blast on her back but managing to turn around in time to shoot at the Jet's thruster, the subsequent explosion of Blue energy shot directly towards her and Carol.
Reacting quickly Carol turned around to protect Lawson, taking all the released energy of the explosion inside her body and blacking out soon after.
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Suddenly waking up again Carol jumped out of the ground while breathing heavily, putting her hand on her chest she was able to feel her quick beating heart, she is alive, She. Is. Alive.
"Vers, Vers are you ok?". Kara asked while approaching her friend, she stopped walking forward when Vers got up and turned around, her body now shying with a yellow, blue, and white aura.
Fully turning around Vers glared at Kara with barely restrained rage, seeing her that way made the Kryptonian extremely worried, the explosion that almost killed her friend could very well have messed with her head.
'The fact that she was knocked out also means that her brain had hit her skull possibly causing trauma and even more possibly a serious injury, I will have to use my x-ray vision to scan for any damage'.
Feeling the heat in the air increasing Kara got out of her thoughts and looked at Vers, a very angry Vers.
"My name is Carol Danvers".
Chapter 7: 5- Trust
Chapter Text
[Wednesday, 0:30 PM, United States California, Los Angeles coast, 18/5/1995]
"Vers, Vers! are you ok?".
'Carol'. She wanted to shout, but that wouldn't be fair with Kara, she knew that.
"Vers please answer me."
But even so, hearing that name made her skin crawl, worse it made her want to tear someone's throat off, the only thing stopping her from doing so was the fact that she knew whatever she did would only tickle the Kryptonian, this coming from a small part of her brain that was still somehow thinking rationally despise the unnatural amount of anger she was feeling.
"Vers?". And there was it, the final drop of her patience finally gone.
It didn't matter if Kara was talking with a concerned tone, it didn't matter if she was worried about her, VERS is the name of a slave, a prisoner, and she was, no, she is Carol Danvers and she is no one's prisoner, not anymore.
Turning around she unconsciously activated her powers, surrounding her body in a white, blue, and yellow aura that emitted small amounts of heat through the air.
"My name is Carol Danvers". She said with barely restrained rage in her voice.
Hearing the venom in Vers voice Kara stopped on her tracks for one second but continued to walk forward.
"What happened to you? The explosion took some chunks out of your body, If It wasn't for me you wouldn't even have a head right now, did the impact made you regain your memories?". Kara asked, worried for Ve- Carol.
"YOU KNEW?!". Carol's aura exploded with power making the ground beneath her crack and the air around her heat up.
Seeing that Kara stopped in her tracks and looked at Carol with a surprised and confused expression, the explosion really did leave her friend in a confused state, maybe she would have to bring her to her ship and exam her body.
"Of course I did, you told me remember? your mother Mar-vell, Ask'lo's massacre, five years of training in Hala". Kara said in a confused tone.
Carol's aura slowly retreated inside her, making the light in her eyes fade and the surrounding temperature to drop once again.
"Ye-... yes I remember, I'm sorry for my outburst, the explosion made my body release some adrenaline". Looking at Kara, Carol saw her raising an eyebrow.
"So, what happened to you?". Kara asked ignoring Carol's weird behavior.
Ignoring the fact that Kara clearly didn't believe her words Carol looked down at her hands to analyze the strange energy surrounding her body if she had to describe what it feels like it would be like drinking an energetic, only now the energetic actually had the power of a nuclear bomb and gave her the strength destroy mountains.
The feeling was weird, she knew that she had not just received a power boost, no, it was more like this energy was always with her, she had felt a wrongness in her body for a long time, before this day she didn't know what it was but now she did.
When training with her powers she always tried to use more energy, she thought that if she could fire photon blasts from her hands after passing through the 'procedure' that gave her her powers then maybe her body produced the energy by itself.
That was the moment where she reached a dead end, she could never use more than a certain amount of it no matter how long she trained or how hard she tried, it was as if a filter existed inside her, only allowing her to use a certain amount of her power.
Firstly she thought that it was a safety mechanism of her body, only allowing her to drain a certain amount of energy but not too much as to not overwhelm her body and kill her in the process.
That would make sense if she was absorbing energy from somewhere else but the warm feeling on her veins that emerged every time she used her powers told her a different history.
She couldn't really confirm her theory before but now she has no doubts, she was generating her own energy inside her body all this time, and after the explosion her filter was destroyed allowing her to drain more energy, somehow.
Having a sudden realization Carol started to frantically look at the ground, immediately finding what she was searching for, she crouched down and took a small, cylindrical device, it was supposed to be a universal translator that for all rights, should have been destroyed by the explosion.
'Any normal one would have been, but this, this is no translator, it's a leash, a leash for an obedient dog to wear.'
'Having a universal translator as an implant was normal, researchers even said that 4.9 in 5 Kree had it, but having two like my device and interface, not so much, it is obvious that they were lying, I gave my complete trust to the empire, and in turn, they chained me.'
Crushing the object in her hand while activating her powers she burned the remains of the device, after some seconds she opened her fist letting the wind carry out the dusty remains of the device away from her.
'The supreme intelligence lied to me, Lawson is not my mother... not by blood.'
'The clues don't lie, the chip on my nape suppressed my memories, and possibly my powers, the Skrulls and the Kree were trying to steal the lightspeed engine, those purple ships on my memory were without a doubt from the Skrulls.'
'Ask'lo was possibly Lawson's hideout, she teleported there after being attacked and the Kree probably discovered her while trying to track down the Tesseract's energy signature, whatever that thing is'.
'The question is how the Skrulls find her, they are a technologically advanced species but just because they steal technology like the Krolotean vermin'.
'The Skulls can transform into anyone, Lawson had allies here on Earth so they probably protected that woman on my memories... or died trying'.
'No concrete memories, surrounded by enemies and no way of knowing if I even have friends inside this planet, this limits my freedom by an unimaginable degree'.
'I can't trust anyone, my memories are nor yet complete and even a squirrel can be a skrull, until I regain my complete memories I won't be able to search for trusting allies'.
Carol gave a small glance at Kara with suspecting eyes, thinking about how she got on the planet brought some questions to her mind.
Kara was coincidentally at the exact same spot where she had fallen, it was too much of a coincidence to be possible, not only that but she had been nothing but friendly with her, even if they knew each other for less than one hour at the time.
It was possible that someone had sent her there to intercept her po-, NO!, Kara is her friend, she told her about her past and in turn she told her about her's, a false past but one she believed it was true none the less.
Kara Isn't her enemy, she can't be, she saved her from an explosion that would have destroyed her brain, she is without a doubt, not a Skrull or a secret agent sent to kill her, but even with that certainty she couldn't trust her 100%.
They wiped her memories indoctrinated her, made her go to missions that would make any human vomit out of disgust, it will take a long time before she trusts anyone ever again.
She is not going to be anyone's prisoner or slave ever again, she will rather kill herself than to let anyone have that control over her again.
Yon-rogg was her captor but his teachings were useful, always vigilant, always attentive if you are not sure someone is your ally never trust them completely and always stay in guard, it's not paranoia if they are out there to get you and when skulls are involved even a rat could be out there to get her.
She had without a doubt suffered a physiological trauma because of her years in the star force but she still could think logically, and logically speaking, even now she couldn't possibly defeat a being that belonged to the most powerful race of the known universe.
"I regained, parts of my memories".
Kara gave a small smile to her, a smile that clearly said how happy she was for her, Carol almost returned the smile but stopped herself in time, it was amazing how the Kryptonian could make her drop her guard so easily without even trying.
It was weird, she didn't think much about that before but now that she did she managed to perceive how weird it was, feeling relaxed when in the presence of being that could destroy a planet and kill her in less than a second if she even suspected she was an enemy was nothing but crazy.
"So, am I still your best and only friend or is there someone I need to look out for?"
Carol held the urge to roll her eyes, sometimes Kara was so silly.
Slap!
Slapping her own face Carol forcefully got out of her train of thought and answered Kara in a normal tone of voice while ignoring her question.
"I'm not a Kree, I am a human, well a Kree/Human hybrid, Mar-vell was not my mother, she was a Kree soldier that defected from the empire after discovering its the true colors."
"And that would be?"
"Space bullies according to someone she called Soren, they conquer other species and kill everyone who stands on their way, she hid here on Earth under the disguise of Lawson, a human scientist that created the Lightspeed engine, an engine build with the only objective to rescue and hide the other species who were being oppressed by the Kree, maybe even give them a fighting chance."
"The Kree discovered Lawson's hideout and attacked the P.E.G.A.S.U.S base, I asked Yon-rogg to bring a small fleet to the planet, before they arrive I need to discover where the Core, the tesseract is hidden and take it from there, maybe destroy it if necessary, after that w- I will have to escape the planet".
"I will probably join the Nova Corps and fight against the Kree with their help, you should hide from them, if they discover a lone Kryptonian living inside Earth they will stop at nothing to try to capture you, thank you for your help Kara but for now on this is my mission".
Carol turned around and started to walk away, having Kara with her would surely help but she preferred not having to worry about being stabbed in the back, the, a Kryptonian is a threat and she needed to get away from her as fast as possible.
Seeing Carol walk away from her Kara immediately changed her expression to a serious one.
"No," Kara said with a serious voice, her tone was so uncharacteristically serious that it made Carol freeze for a second and then turn around, not even noticing her own surprised expression while doing it so.
"Do you know? Kryptonians don't Fear Death, none of us do, if we die we will simply go to Rao's eternal gardens where we will be given the choice to rest forever or be reborn in a new body, as a new being of Krypton, this is one of the main reasons why no Kryptonian ever eats anything born on Krypton, preferring to only get nourishment from Rao or other animals brought from outside our planet, I personally never ate anything."
Kara took out a small necklace that was behind her collar and showed to Carol, it had a shiny silver chain that connected to a red ruby with the shape of a heart that appeared to be beating with red energy emanating from it every few seconds.
Even from afar, Carol could feel the heat emanating from the heart, strangely enough, she liked the... taste it gave her? No, it was more like something she couldn't quite describe, if she had to compare with something it would be the times where she thought of Mar-vell as her mother.
Love?... The craked heart connected to the chain made her taste love?.
"Alrya gave this to me, a red one, my favorite color and a blue one for her, her favorite color too, Krypton had very advanced technology compared to the rest of the known universe, an FTL engine and a teleportation device capable of reaching other galaxies for example would not be hard to make with our technology".
"And it's exactly because of that that we always searched for answers independently if they are supernatural or nor, independently if they are not to be sought or not we always wanted to know the answers to the questions of the universe".
" 'To discover the mysteries of reality and bask upon it, that is the reason why Rao gave us life', Sah-Sha, a scientist from old Krypton said that she was one of the many who Died on Decimation Day, once upon a time she said that to inspire others after receiving a vision by Rao and ever since then we lived by that motto."
Carol was Looking at Kara attentively, whatever she was about to tell her is undoubtedly important.
"One such question we Kryptonians always asked was what happens when we die, Rao had already told us the answer, we believed him, we really did but we wanted to prove it once and for all."
"For Krytoz our research didn't manage to find the answer, unfortunately magic is not a talent Rao bestowed upon us, and it is not like the Kryptonians of old could simply ask some dead Kryptonian what the afterlife was like, for that reason, our research did not gain any results for more than Three hundred krytoz."
"But, one day a woman by the name of Jan-Al, a Kryptonian with more than five thousand Krytoz of age, one of which died before A.D.D 700 managed to accidentally find the answer by simply meditating".
"The books said that she was in such synergy with the astral plane that she managed to move her own soul through her memories, going so far back that she managed to see the memories of her own past life, and even her time in Rao's garden."
"After Krytoz of more experiments, she was able to deduce that Kryptonians who had a strong spiritual connection to the Immaterium could not only travel through the astral plane but also through their own souls, going back on their history to see their past lives."
Stopping for one moment Kara looked at Carol as if expecting something, after seeing her friend frozen in place she simply continued to walk in circles with Carol in the middle.
"But nothing in this universe is completely harmless."
"Some could lose themselves on the beautiful memories of their past selves and never come back to their own bodies, dying with smiles on their faces, living forever on the past but never going back to their present, a beautiful but sad death."
"The first to suffer this fate was one of Jan-Al's students, 'Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards', that was what she said after her disciple found himself forever stuck in his own memories, her own blood, died because of her discovery."
Carol's eyes widened, the universe has thousands, maybe even millions of powerful beings like the celestials and the cosmic beings like Galactus but even with all that she didn't know where she would go after she died, almost all didn't, some convinced themselves that they did, but... she doesn't have the impression Kara is one of those.
The Kree believe that not only their minds but also their souls will go to the collective an agglomerate of all minds of the dead Kree that fused giving birth to the Supreme Intelligence, their spiritual leader.
But she didn't believe in that, she is a Christian, heaven, hell, God, she believed in that, after seeing the universe and its marvels her beliefs were shaken but she still held onto them but now, now she just discovered that reincarnation is a thing.
"This necklace was invented by Jan-Al herself, it works by first putting it in the neck of someone, after that the user will have to meditate in the presence of a monk who in turn will take a piece of that person's spiritual energy and put it inside the ruby."
"This process makes it so that as long as the soul of the wearer exists the necklace will never stop pulsing with energy, the closer that person's soul is to the necklace the faster it gets."
"And the fact that this necklace is pulsing even if slowly means just one thing, Alrya's soul resides somewhere in this galaxy."
Kara's expression slowly changed from a serious to a sad one.
"When she died the only thing that remained was her necklace and her ashes, I still remember to this day the moment when the ruby in my Necklace lost all of its warm and became cold".
"Before Alrya died she managed to send an emergency beacon, we were able to find her remains because of that, I... almost killed myself that day, I would have melted my own brain to follow Alrya if my father didn't stop me".
Carol held her breath, her... friend didn't get close to telling her about that part of her life before and if she was telling her this now it meant that she had said something she shouldn't have.
"Do you think I wouldn't give everything I have to travel back in time and stay at her side in her last moments, even if that meant my Death?".
Kara put her necklace on and walked towards Carol, pulling her hand on her shoulder with force she locked eyes with her.
"So answer me, do you really think I will abandon you when you actually need my help? do I really appear to be such a cold and emotionless Kryptonian in your eyes?"
Hearing Kara's words Carol lowered her head and put her hand on Kara's chest, taking the red necklace with her right hand, she lifted head and looked closely at the shiny red Ruby in the form of a heart that burned with heat on her hand.
"No, you are not emotionless and you certainly will not abandon me in a moment of need, I'm sorry, I should have thought about my words before opening my mouth."
Abandoning her serious expression Kara gave a smile and put her arm in Carol's shoulder, bringing her close and hugging her.
"Now you can tell me what's wrong and after that, you can tell me where we will go."
Carol gave a small laugh and said. "So be it, let's start with the history about how aliens abducted me and hopefully didn't put anything inside me while I was out."
"It started when I took off the jet with Lawson, she said some coordinates, but we were attacked by a Kree ship before we could reach the place, she ordered me to type the coordinates of Ask'lo".
"When I did that, a type of energy, the energy of the lightspeed engine to be more specific shot forward and created a portal, not a jump point, a portal, one that transported us away to Ask'lo, the only problem was that a war between the Skrulls and the Kree was happening at that moment."
"We got shot down almost immediately, we crashed on the planet and almost died, Yon-rogg appeared and killed Lawson, Minn-erva was there too."
"Lawson managed to destroy the engine but the energy inside it shot towards me, I absorbed it somehow and gained my powers, Lawson didn't survive and I was abducted by the Kree, they indoctrinated me and made me their slave for five years."
"On my memory, Lawson said something about a control room on Edwards Airbase, we should go there."
Kara nodded and looked at the ground, putting her finger on her chin while thinking about their next move and said.
"We need to disguise ourselves somehow, that Skrull could very well be lying but we can't be sure, I don't want an entire Skrull fleet full of warships to come raining down on us, we don't have time to train your powers properly but I can arrange something."
Kara created an interface on her right arm and started to click on some buttons, immediately after that a pod crashed down behind her.
Turning around she reached the pod and opened it, taking out a black sphere and turning towards Carol once again.
"Take off your clothes."
"What?"
"Take off your clothes, I have X-ray vision Carol you can't hide anything from me even if you tried."
"HaHaHa, very funny."
Kara didn't answer and simply looked at Carol from top to bottom with a funny expression "Of course I'm 'kidding' ".
'Did I just hear quote marks?'.
Carol squeezed her eyes in suspicion and used her powers to take off her armor as fast as possible.
"Think fast". Kata threw the sphere towards Carol who lifted her hand in reflex, catching the sphere that immediately started to spread through her body.
'That ball was almost as fast as a speeding spaceship, and you somehow managed to catch it by reflex, how strong are you now Firefly?'
"The suit merges with you, forming a symbiotic relationship where he drains nutrients from your body, and in turn, you can order it to do anything you want."
"The suit itself is partly alive but has no consciousness, think it like a rock that can move for itself and needs to eat to continue moving."
{Hey!}
'There's no other you there Lavender, you are a living and thinking being, you only use this suit as well... a suit for your soul, no need to get angry.'
{Humph!}
"We need to blend ourselves with the people of this planet, become forgettable inside the masses but at the same time not attracting suspicion from others that we want to hide."
"We are playing the Skrulls game, if they can hide and act as good as you told me then they surely can detect another person trying to do the same, I am... bigger than the humans of this planet but condensing my muscles is something I learned to do very early on with my master, Unfortunately, I can not do the sams with my bones."
To show Carol how to do it Kara condensed her muscles and gave Lavender a mental command, covering her entire body in a black substance that quickly became something else.
Now she had a black tank top with a pink skull with two bones forming an x in her chest, black jeans that reached up until her ankle, a black sneaker, a big, red bracelet on her right hand and finally the tip of her hair that changed from a bright blond to dark green, her image flickered until it stopped seconds later, now instead of a three-meter tall woman she looked like a normal human teen.
"So, how am I?"
"You... look like a teenager."
"Thanks for the compliment?". Kara answered confused.
"No, before you didn't look like a woman past her twenties and now you look like an eighteen year old, how did you do it?"
"Why do I feel like you are accusing me of something? I am 99 Krytoz old in case you forgot, don't sass me, and my suit can bend light, all you see is nothing but an illusion, you think you are looking at my eyes but no, you are looking at my belly, which is extremely weird."
"But that doesn't matter now, just disguise yourself and lead the way."
Carol nodded and gave the order to her suit to change, a white t-shirt, an open black jacket, small blue jeans, and a white sneaker, light bent around her until her form shrinked to that of a normal female human.
"So?"
"Good enough, now."
Kara suddenly dashed towards Carol while throwing a punch in her face, more by reflex than anything else Carol borough her hands up to try and block Kara's attack even while closing her eyes.
After staying in that position for some seconds Carol borough her arms down and looked forward, only to receive a flick on her forehead.
"Ouch!, what was that for?". Carol asked while rubbing her forehead, if she had to name that attack it would be an atomic flicker.
"Your reflexes, On human terms Mach 874.030 is the speed of light, I threw this punch at a little bit higher than one-third of the speed of light," Kara said while at the same time receiving the translation of Human terms from Lavender.
"And that means?"
"That means that much like photons, you are slower when inside a space, you probably already know that but I will explain it anyway."
"A Photon is an elementary particle which has zero rest mass and always moves at the speed of light while inside a vacuum, before I explain further remember this, light that travels through transparent matter does so slower than the speed of light within a vacuum."
"The photons inside a star like the sun of Earth engage in so many collisions on the way from its core that the energy can take about one million earth years to reach the surface, but, while in the vacuum of space those same photons only take about 8 minutes to reach the Earth."
"In other words, while inside an atmosphere your speed is reduced by a significant amount, saying that is important to note that your reflexes will probably improve while in open space too, any questions?"
"Yes, what are we waiting for?".
Kara sighed and said. "Well, before we continue I will have to tell you that in pure strength I could press roughly the weight of this entire planet."
"This... is not what I expected to hear".
"The reason why I am telling you this is that there are not many things in this world that can kill or even harm me, it would take the power of a supernova to kill me."
"And somehow the Skrulls had a weapon that could pass through my skin, you understand where I am going with this?"
Carol's eyes widened. "The risk of death is real". She said, whispering in realization.
"Yes, the energy they used in that weapon was powerful, extremely powerful, one lucky shot, and I will without a doubt die". Kara shook her head and looked at the sky.
"Have you ever wondered how the Kryptonians died if that was the case?"
"Hum? well, you said that Krypton exploded so the power generated by Krypton's destruction should be the same as a supernova right?" Carol asked confused.
"Yes, the explosion of Krypton was as powerful as the collision of two black holes but have you forgotten what I told you? Rao allowed Kryptonians to grow permanently stronger the longer they absorbed its light."
"I am far away from being the strongest Kryptonian, my master, for example, can beat me with one hand behind his back". Kara looked at Carol and shook her head with her hands up.
"Due to his training and my ability to adapt and evolve, I became stronger, in Krypton for example I was considered to be able to beat others with two times my age in pure skill"
"But even with all that I wouldn't be able to beat my master in pure strength, even if I got in a fight with him while he only has his strength from Rao and I the strength of a yellow sun I would lose".
"How old is he exactly".
"Well, he is 3000 Krytoz old, is 5 meters tall, has black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin, he had the ability to absorb more solar energy than normal making him stronger and faster, through his ability lied more in strategy and fighting skills than brute force, where was I again?".
"Krypton's destruction".
"Ah, yes, since there were clearly more powerful and resistant Kryptonians than me it would be natural to ask how did they die, the explosion of a planet shouldn't be any problem to the older Kryptonians, right?".
"Well, not on Krypton's case, Krypton itself had absorbed Rao's radiation for thousands of Krytoz, this radiation settled in the planet's molten core creating a dangerous substance, a substance that sometimes traveled up to Krypton's surface by being squeezed out, solidifying and creating a rock that we nominated Kryptonite".
"What is it and what does this thing do?". Carol asked curiously.
"A poison, Kryptonite has the ability to destroy Kryptonian cells, if the rock somehow made contact with our skin we would burn from inside out, the pain would be agonizing and if exposed by a sufficient amount of time, only ashes would remain".
Chapter 8: 6-Through the Stars
Chapter Text
[Wednesday, 0:50 PM, United States California, Los Angeles coast, 18/5/1995]
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"So, that means..." Carol asked, holding her breath as she did so.
"What it means is irrelevant, what is relevant is that we are about to fight a secret battle against the Skrulls, a secret battle that can escalate into a full-blown war against both Skrulls and Kree if we don't do everything right."
"There is a real chance the Kryptonite inside Krypton shot out from the planet, spreading itself out on the universe and getting in the wrong hands, like the Skrulls and Kree for example."
Carol nodded slowly, for what she could understand Kryptonite could possibly be one of the most dangerous substances in the universe.
If it can destroy the cells of a being as strong as a Kryptonian then it can do worst for weaker beings, what could be worst than that she didn't know and she certainly didn't want to find out.
"In other words, we need preparation, first we will test your powers, stay in front of me and give me your strongest punch."
Kara moved away from Carol and turned around, after that she spread her legs while planting her feet on the ground and closing her hands, entering this stance made her remember her training with her master.
'Spread your legs, harden your muscles, regulate your breathing, Firm your position and prepare yourself, I will pull my punches but contrary to me, you will have to give your all.'
Getting out of her thoughts Kara put her arm on a horizontal line accordingly to her abdomen and hardened her muscles while giving a long breath, she used to build up her resistance and stamina in this position while her master punched her repeatedly, after Alrya's death she would train in this position almost daily.
"Go ahead, I received punches in this position for my body to evolve and my muscle tissue to harden, go all out and don't hold back, I can take it."
Hearing Kara's words Carol froze for one second but nevertheless got up and prepared herself, powering up she entered a fighting stance and prepared herself to attack Kara, it was not every time she could prepare herself to punch her enemy but now that she had time she would give her all, giving a last sigh Carol gathered her strength and dashed forward.
Relaxing her muscles Carol rapidly punched forward but not before stomping on the ground with her right feet while at the same time using the muscles on her back to empower her attack.
Two actions that not only made her punch stronger but also faster, combined with her energy her attack was strong enough to destroy an Imperial warship.
BOOM!
But even knowing that Carol trusted Kara, she knew that she could resist her attack, but even then she was at least expecting the Kryptonian to be pushed back some meters, so after the dust her punch lifted dispersed and she saw Kara unfazed by her attack she became more than a little surprised.
Getting out of her stance and standing up properly Kara blinked and looked at Carol, although her punch was weaker than those her master normally gave her it was still an impressive amount of Strenght for a non-Kryptonian.
Going back in her memories Kara recalled the exact moment Carol hit her, she could remember every minuscule detail, be it with her vision or X-ray she could see every fiber in Carol's body moving, the mysterious energy flowing inside her also did not escape her view, Its light impeded her to see anything in too much detail but it still could not blind her completely, within milliseconds of the attack she had already deduced the level of strength Carol's punch managed to output.
With the help of Lavender who had long since connected to this world's internet, she translated the numbers to the human tongue.
{84 Quadrillion}
"Eighty-four quadrillion joules, with this level of strength pulverizing an Island with approximately Five kilometers of circumference will not be hard."
'Not nearly as strong as a Kryptonian but still, it's an impressive level of strength for her, even komand'r would not be able to take on an attack like this and get out unharmed, well at least not accordingly to the last time we met 32 Krytoz ago, by now she should be much stronger.'
"I expected you to at least move a little, what do you have on your feet, super glue?". Carol asked while holding her right arm, the impact of her punch almost broke her wrists.
"No, it's one of my abilities, the Bioelectric Aura, it's an ability all Kryptonians have, it normally manifests between 1 Krytoz to 1 Krytoz and 2 Zeroz of life of a Kryptonian."
"To explain it to you in a simple way it goes like this, by absorbing radiation our cells 'supercharge' allowing them to disperse a type of forcefield around our bodies, a very small forcefield that we can either strengthen or weaken it to any direction we want".
"That gives us the ability to bend the gravity around ourselves, allowing us to, for example, resist powerful attacks that would normally throw us away, take gigantic objects without them crumbling around ourselves, and as you know it, 'fly' ".
'Technically fly, in truth we are just pulling ourselves to one direction or standing still on the air'.
"Another use of this ability is to spread the strength of our attacks allowing us to destroy large objects that otherwise would've been impossible for us to break due to our size".
"It's this exact same ability that allows us to simply punch the surface of a planet and destroy a continent, normally this ability grows along with the Kryptonian through their life but with my Ability to Adapt and Evolve I can simply train it and strengthen it forcefully, just like most of my other powers".
"At this moment my aura is not big enough to envelop an entire planet but it will reach this level someday, for now, I would say I can only envelop your moon and fly with it around."
Kara stopped walking for one second and looked at Carol's eyes."...Something I will not do I assure you". she said after a brief pause.
"Now, jump as high as you can, don't worry, I will catch you when you start falling".
Carol nodded, closing her eyes she took a big breath and slightly lowered her knee, briefly gathering her strength she jumped up, cracking the ground beneath her and flying at gigantic speeds towards the sky.
Opening her right eye she saw the clouds getting closer and closer, although it is weak she can feel the air trying to resist her, her heart started to beat faster as she opened her other eye and smiled.
"WOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Passing through the clouds while screaming at the top of her lungs she felt water splashing across her body, she had already deactivated her power shortly after jumping so the water did not simply evaporate after entering contact with her body, and how happy she is to have done that.
Feeling the cold she did not shiver but screamed even more loudly, the feeling of absolute freedom she felt could not b compared to anything else in her life.
'Is this what Kara feels when flying? if so I want to learn how to do it even more!'
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
"YEEEEEEAAAHHHHHH!"
Looking down she saw the earth getting smaller, the clouds, mountains, forests, and cities now seemed so small compared to her, perhaps now that she has this power they are.
Slowly Gravity lost its hold on Carol, the woman only noticed she was flying after seeing how closer the stars were getting and how much her body started to shine, before she could shot up and fly through space Kara's voice stopped her.
"Nine Thousand Kilometres in one jump, congratulations Carol you reached the exosphere". Kara said in a happy tone.
Hearing Kara's words Carol smiled and hugged her friend, had a normal human done the same they would break their bones, fortunately, she is not a normal human.
"Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou! THANKYOUUUU!!!!!" Carol screamed in happiness as she spun in the air while giving Kara small kisses on her face, she would have continued if Kara hadn't pushed her away.
"You are welcome but please don't do that again."
"Yes sorry, I was just soooo happy!"
"Yes, you seem... Unnaturally giggly, now I want you to go to space and see if you can survive, if anything goes wrong you can make a spacesuit with your clothes"
"Hum?".
Seeing Carol's confused expression Kara decided to elaborate.
"The bio-suit has the ability to change its own molecular structure, it can become as weak as tin or as hard as Vibranium, well one who isn't full of cosmic energy."
"Cosmic energy?"
"We don't have time for explanations Carol just fly."
Nodding Carol looked up and shot forward towards space, Kara followed her closely just in case something happened.
Contrary to what she expected when reaching the space outside Earth's atmosphere she, fortunately, didn't choke or froze to death.
'At least this is out of the way, now, let's see how much time I can stay without oxygen.'
Wanting to test her limits Carol landed on the moon and held her breath she played in the low gravity without breathing for thirty minutes before finally ending her experiment, she had so much fun she didn't notice Kara behind her the whole time.
'Do I still need to breathe?'.
Stopping with her experiment Carol shot up and flew through space while thinking about her situation.
'Maybe like Kara I only needed my energy to survive, buuut... does that mean I don't need to eat anymore?'.
Looking at Jupiter just behind the sun Carol shot forward at her maximum speed, behind her Kara continued to observe her actions attently.
'300 thousand kilometers per second, a little above Light Speed.' Kara though while silently following Carol, contrary to what most would think flying through space involved more than just jump points or being a good flyer.
The Kryptonian or alien in question would have to have eyes capable of seeing with minimal light or even without the presence of it, the Kryptonian in question would also have to develop a sixth sense capable of feeling danger or distortions in gravity.
Black holes absorb light, they don't reflect it after all, an oblivious flyer like Carol could very well be flying to her death and not even realize it hence the need of her staying close to her untrained friend, well, although she didn't believe Carol would miss the event horizon it didn't think a little caution would be bad.
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Carol started to feel weightless, not that she wasn't feeling like that before but now it was as if she truly doesn't have anything holding her down.
She knew her energy protected her from all external forces and factors when flying, especially when flying at the speed of light, but she certainly didn't know what was the full extent of her abilities, of this she is certain.
She knows light isn't instantaneous and that it actually takes time to bounce off an object and reach the eyes of someone, in simple words that meant that someone is never really seeing the present but the past, to be more clear that means that all creatures sees where the light was and not where it is.
That also means that if someone who doesn't have her powers travels at the speed of light their field of vision would amplify since that person would see the objects as they were relative to them in the past.
Fortunately, her new powers gave her the ability to see even without light being present, no, the way she sees the world is not limited as before, she now can see through space, every ripple, every movement of every graviton in a five hundred thousand kilometer radius can't escape her.
She can't see colors this way but she can see shapes much, much better than before, so much so that she has a hint that if she saw a ball this way it won't look as round anymore.
Carol didn't know what she would 'see' after looking at a black hole but she is excited to try.
'Wait, isn't there a black hole in the center of the Galaxy? For that matter don't all Galaxies have one at their center?'
Coming back from her thoughts Carol flying, she may be able to fly slightly above the speed of light before such a vast Universe that meant nothing, contrary to the Lightspeed engine she couldn't create Jump Points from anywhere and go to any place as she wishes.
Suddenly feeling someone taking her hand she looked back, only to see Kara pointing somewhere with her thumb, noticing her expression she asked herself how much time she was flying, perhaps time dilation did affect her to a certain degree.
Not wanting to wait for her friend to reach her later Kara took Carol in her arms and flew towards Mercury, her friend can fly at speeds beyond Light but she is still faster.
Reaching the planet's surface Kara put Carol on the ground and flew towards the oasis while signaling for Carol to follow her.
Seeing Kara walk Carol briefly froze in shock after seeing her body slowly disappearing before her eyes, recuperating from the shock she ran towards Kara in an attempt to discover what happened to her.
Jumping above the black rocks she felt something weird if she had to describe it it would be like passing through a thin layer of water, a thin layer of water that slightly shocked her and made her close her eyes more by reflex than anything else.
Finally passing through what she could only guess was a forcefield Carol opened her eyes and looked around herself, only to freeze at the impossible sight.
In front of her she saw trees, rocks, grass, lakes and even fish swimming through the water, she became so transfixed by the scenery that she momentarily forgot about Kara.
"I was confused the first time I came here too".
"How, is this possible". Carol asked without taking her eyes out of the lake, her shock was so great that she completely forgot to ask Kara how they were able to talk or even breathe inside this space.
"Do you know what Vibranium is?". Kara asked while sitting in the ground and resting her back on a tree.
"No, but I've heard this name before, I think."
"Well, to simplify, vibranium is one of the strongest metals on this universe, there are three types of this metal but before I say anything more I will have to tell you a history."
Finally taking her eyes out of the lake Carol looked at Kara with expectant eyes, the reality of her situation slowly catching up with her.
"Ten thousand years ago a gigantic meteorite made of a sound and energy-absorbing mineral, struck the continent of Africa, affecting not only the plant but also the animals that lived there."
"One day five tribes of Humans settled in that place, calling it Wakanda, those tribes fought each other for years until a man, a warrior received a vision from the panther Goddess Bast, a vision that led him to the heart-shaped herb."
"A herb that when consumed gave him superhuman capabilities, more strength, agility, and instincts, with this new power the warrior united the tribes and became the first Black Panther, the protector of Wakanda."
"The Four tribes agreed to live under the warrior's rule, their new king's rule but the Jabari, one of the tribes refused and isolated themselves in the freezing mountains, thousands of years would pass and using Vibranium the Wakandeans made technology more advanced than anything on Earth."
"Prospering in a new age of peace and harmony they created the most advanced nation on Earth, never abandoning their customs and never forgetting their roots."
"But while they lived in peace the world burned around then, wars and genocides were just some of the things that happened and the most common one's roo, seeing that the wakandeans decided to hide in plain sight, protecting their Vibranium from anyone who would wish to do harm with it hoping that one day the world would achieve peace as they did."
Carol looked at Kara attentively, in less than one hour she discovered a secret country inside her own planet, a Kree conspiracy, and that more than one God existed, thinking back on her life she noticed that going with Lawson inside the Jet was the worst thing that happened to her but after meeting Kara she started to think it is quickly becoming the best.
She suffered in the Kree's hands for years but just like Lawson said, the brightest stars shine in the darkest nights, and she is starting to shine very brightly now.
"Wait, how do you even know this?". Carol asked genuinely curious about how Kara knew so much.
"What do you think I was doing while you were messing with your Interface? playing games with mine?". Kara raised an eyebrow while looking at Carol skeptically, perhaps she has forgotten the fact she is a Kryptonian?.
"I was Hacking everything I could to gain information on this planet, I ended up accidentally finding Wakanda and started to read about their history, unfortunately, because of that I don't really know much about the rest of the planet."
Seeing Carol's doubtful expression Kara decided to explain further.
"I can think as fast as a klyntar colony Carol, talking to you and secretly learning about the most advanced nation on Earth was honestly easy, for example now I know how to put an energy shield in my bio-suit without wasting my battery at every second and how to make clothes out of vibranium".
"I was studying symmetry, energy and advanced mechanics before Krypton exploded, I didn't have much time to study Bio-Mechanical theory."
Carol made an unreadable expression and simply nodded, Kryptonian culture is still a mystery to her.
"So... what are the types of Vibranium".
"Well, first there is the Antarctic Vibranium, located in the savage lands on the Antarctic, this Vibranium who is also known as anti-metal emits vibrations that cause the atomic and molecular bonds to weaken, a process that liquefies and destroys all metals, hence the name anti-metal."
Kara stopped talking for one moment and looked at Carol to see if she had any questions.
"This can destroy an entire empire if it falls on the wrong hands".
"Yes, yes it can, and that's exactly why we won't say anything about this to anyone else".
"Agreed".
"Continuing on, Wakanda Vibranium has the ability to absorb not only vibrations but also energy".
"It's important to say that while vibranium does absorb kinetic energy it doesn't absorb 100% of it, if it did someone would be able to throw a ball at the metal and it would stick on it, but as I know it this doesn't happen since the ball would simply hit and fall to the ground without bouncing off."
"What this means it that Vibranium can absorb almost all of the kinetic energy thrown to it but not enough to stop the momentum of an object completely."
"People have mass, so imagine that someone with for example a vibranium armor gets hit by a bullet, would the moment of this bullet affect him? no, it will not."
"When someone has mass they create a frictional force at their feet that is enough to resist the impact of certain objects, bullets? yes, tank bullets? no."
"Why are you telling me this in such detail exactly?"
"Because, if I give you a bio-suit that can mimic the atomic structure of vibranium I want you to know that you will not become invincible". Kara said with a serious voice.
"And now the third and most powerful type of vibranium, the same vibranium who is allowing life to flourish in this planet, Cosmic vibranuim."
"Cosmic?"
"We don't have time to explain what the Power Cosmic is but as you probably know this Galactus uses this energy, you have heard the name but doesn't know what it means right?"
"Yes, most people don't."
"I will explain this to you later but for now let's go back to cosmic Vibranium, this metal as the name implies is Vibranuim imbued with the power cosmic."
"When a being has the ability to tap or even make cosmic energy by himself they gain many abilities, one of which allows them to imbue their power on objects and change their molecular structure."
"A very useful skill to have since if the being in question has an in-depth knowledge of atoms they can manipulate atomic structures and create the strongest metals of the universe, I do not know which entity or even person made this type of vibranuim but they did a very good job since not even I can break this thing with my bare hands."
"Dare I say I would break my bones if I tried".She whispered.
Carol looked at the ground and took a piece of Vibranium, throwing the metal up she used her power and tried to smash the thing with both of her fists.
Fortunately for her Kara managed to take the metal out of her reach before anything could happen.
BOOM!
Carol's fists connected resulting in a small explosion.
"Unless you want a broken hand I suggest you don't do that again". Kara said, almost shouting at Carol's face, apparently her friend can make explosions just by colliding her energy-coated fists.
"This type of metal can only be molded with brute force by beings who have enough power to destroy entire Galaxies with their physical strength alone but fortunately for us I have another way."
"Now, before I explain my way I have to explain another thing first, every Kryptonian has a certain ability that is more powerful than the others, mine is heat vision, normally an average Kryptonian could reach 2 billion Kelvin with their heat vision."
"And how powerful is yo-".
Kara sent a glare that immediately made Carol close her mouth, she is a patient woman but much like Alrya she did not like being interrupted when speaking.
"As I was saying, my heat vision is my most powerful ability, and as such my most taxing one, now before I continue speaking I have to explain something VERY important to you, contrary to what many would think and what we tell other Races we Kryptonians do not in fact only take energy from a Star and other Celestial bodies to be as strong as we are."
"But you said a yellow star gives an absurd amount of energy to you, strengthening your body who in turn not only uses this energy to improve itself but also to permanently strengthen your body."
Kara breathed deeply and spoke calmly.
"Yes, our bodies have this capacity, although only Rao can strengthen me permanently that is only because the star IS Rao given form, Allow me to tell you a history."
Kara coughed and straightened her form.
"At the birth of the universe, the beginning of everything, Rao was born, in a Dark Universe he was the first light to shine, the first star to ever live, in the beginning, he stood still, doing nothing, so Millions of years passed, he who once was one now became many."
"Unknown to all but the Immaterium beings HE who was supposed to only be a cosmic Event, a simple cog in the machine of the Universe gained consciousness, the first spirit was that of the Sun, He who gave light and Life woke up, powering every version of himself with his soul, thus immortalizing his mortal form."
"In every Star in the Universe, no matter how big, small, or how far away they all ARE him, so, they all have his will, his spirit, we Kryptonians not only possess the ability to absorb HIS energy but also his spirit through our own souls allowing us to pass this energy to our bodies and strengthen us to an absurd degree."
"Carol you are not a fool, your eyes can see that this star is not Yellow but White, the thing is, your eyes cannot see the Immaterium, the shape and color of his will is what gives us power, be it a simple improvement in our bodies or the ability to control space, his spirit is what allows us to do it."
"This energy is stored in our bodies and cannot be made, meaning that if I lose too much energy I will only be a woman with a gigantic amount of strength, no heat vision, no flight, and no cloth invulnerability, what I am trying to say to you is that my heat vision is strong, absurdity so even for my Race."
"This is due to my ability to adapt and evolve, even while being suppressed by my ear aid it still made my heat vision stronger each time I used That means I will spend an absurd amount of energy in very little time."
"200 TeraKelvin is my absolute limit, as a result, I can only use my heat vision for one second before I spent all of my energy and enter a coma not a second later, even still it will take at the very least three Krytoz for me to melt this thing and make it into something usable."
Carol looked at Kara with a surprised and perhaps a stupid expression.
"Oooook, this doesn't sound like a problem, why do we need this metal anyway?"
Kara looked at Carol's face with a disappointed expression.
"Why do we need this? Let's see Carol, this metal here can protect me and you, specifically you from those weapons the Skrulls have, I can make an armor capable of storing gigantic amounts of energy inside it for me to use it later in case of an emergency, and the most important of all Carol, we can make weapons with it, weapons that will fight against an army of Kree without letting them know just by looking at them that they are Kryptonian weapons and send a whole army to get me, just this simple thing Carol, nothing more."
"Ok, Ok dumb question, no need to be ironic I understand."
"Good, now, let's go to my ship." With her patience already lost Kara took Carol's hand and flew directly to her ship, she did not stop to see the small droids flying to the small planet to collect the Vibranium.
Carol flinched after seeing a round door appear out of nowhere, her spacial senses had not detected anything, after understanding that the door is nothing but the entry to Kara's ship she smiled and entered inside, she only deactivated her powers after she heard the gate closing behind her.
Without making a noise Kara walked forward, Carol following not a second later.
Looking around herself Carol started to feel uncomfortable, the walls of this place are quiet as if no one passed through it for a long, long time, getting restless because of the silence she closed her eyes and started to see the world through her spacial sense.
Weirdly enough her senses became inconsistent, she could see a hall to the right that was 700 meters away but she could only see the ground up until 200 meters to the left.
Ignoring the strange happening she concentrated on the rooms of the ship, she stayed that way for some minutes until she found a room full of beds.
'Probably the place where the crew would be, where it should be'. Thinking about the ship's size carol started to feel... Weird, seeing the doors and not hearing any noise besides her's and Kara's footsteps was making her even more uncomfortable, she was starting to think that maybe Kara isn't supposed to be the only Kryptonian aboard.
{Hey sis could you ask for your friend to STOP TRYING TO SPY ON THE SHIP?! We are only at 21% of Energy and waisting to play a game of hide and seek IS NOT APPROPRIATE}
'Only 21? Did it not fully recharge before Krypton Exploded?'
Kara sighed and glanced at Carol, she'd ask "What is stopping you from seeing the Ship is the psionic energy contained inside the metal of the hull being controlled by J.A.N.A.I." Kara walked over to a door and stopped without doing anything.
"Who's J.A.N.A.I?".
Before Kara could answer the door opened itself and a feminine robotic voice started talking.
[Welcome aboard Miss El, do you wish to read the reports on the cryogenic sleep?].
"No, but thank you J.A.N.A.I, please guide us to the forge."
[Understood Miss El]
"She is an A.I My mother created, but between you and me she is much better now, before this day she would try to restrain anyone who wasn't in her database but that's how mom made her, learn and evolve, just like me and J.A.N.A.I is an Abbreviation, her full name is Janex Analytical Natural Artificial Intelligence."
"Natural?" Carol asked confused
"Of course, she was born, not made after all." Kara said while calmly walking forward.
Freezing for a second Carol continued to walk through the ship, minutes later Kara suddenly took her hand and turned to the left, exactly where a solid piece of wall was.
Carol tried to warn Kara but stopped when both of then suddenly passed through the wall as if it was not even there in the first place.
"What?". Carol looked around herself, only to see white hulls with octagonal grey doors and blue holographic screens that had words written in a language she didn't understand.
"The psionic energy contained inside the ship controlled by J.A.N.A.I allows her to create illusions inside the ship that for example can confuse intruders."
"Or maybe even make people believe that there isn't a gigantic ship in front of then, Lavender can also send a mental order to make it so that any oblivious passby doesn't try to pass through the ship and accidentally discover it."
Kara suddenly took Carol in her arms and started to run towards her destination, she was in a hurry and they had lost too much time already.
"Eep!". Carol screamed in surprise, she really didn't have the same level of reflexes without her powers activated.
Stopping in front of a metallic gate Kara put Carol down and walked forward, after that she struck both of her hands on the middle of the gate and started to forcefully open with all her strength.
"Pass, now!"
Carol ignored Kara's weird behavior and rushed to enter the room, if she looked back she would see Kara struggling to open the gigantic metallic gate and enter but after the lights turned on she got a good look at what is in front of her, she has to admit the forge deserves its name.
Hundreds of tubes on the walls, floor, and ceiling going directly to a single point, the center of the 'forge' as Kata called it where what she could only describe as a gigantic reactor was.
A single N shaped stair was all that connected the circular platform to the ground, she had to admit the structure is rather impressive, the thing in front of her had at the very least one kilometer of radius, and although she could see some kind ob blue light behind it she couldn't see anything due to how big it is.
Looking up at the structure she saw a cylindrical tube aiming directly at the center of the structure where a circular metallic structure that allowed someone to climb it through the stairs and watch whatever was happening in the center down below, for some reason Carol had the impression there were things bellow the ground.
Looking up once again she saw the cylindrical structure connected to the walls by gigantic columns, she could also see droids cleaning the insides of the columns through the windows, but by far the most interesting thing she saw is the enormous Golden Sun at the top of the structure.
Wisps of golden light escaped the sun as it entered hundreds of different tubes, seeing the Titanic sun being drained both amazed and terrified Carol so much she unconsciously started to fly upwards, she would have continued if a gigantic metallic noise didn't sound behind her, she turned around to see what had happened, but only saw a worn-out Kara and a closed Gate behind her
Before she could ask anything Kara passed her while looking intently at the Golden Sun.
"Some doors can only be open with brute force, a clever security system that not only slows intruders but also serves to block the entrance for certain Kryptonians that shouldn't be entering in certain places."
Carol only nodded in response, she wanted to answer 'but you are the only Kryptonian here' but she realized It would not be wise to say such a thing.
"This is the forge, well, if something was being done you'd see hundreds of robots working here, hammering metal, bending space, and sharpening blades, but unfortunately it is a quiet day."
Kara opened her arms as if to show the entire place to Carol.
"THIS!" She shouted while pointing at the cylindrical platform "Is where the residual energy is stored, the entire ship has a total of five hearts but at the moment only this one is active since the energy is low."
"And why is this place called the forge?"
Kara simply smiled and floated towards the platform, Carol followed closely behind, landing Kara briefly looked back and ran forward, already accustomed to Kara's speed Carol ran behind her.
Seconds later Carol saw the landscape change, from a black floor with thousands of tubes below it she now saw gray floors with blue lines at the borders, the place itself is more open, contrary to before she now could see kilometers away, be it machines, flying droids or even rays of energy being shot, she could see everything.
If she had to compare the place with something it would be a children's park, she saw chaos everywhere she looked and some truly weird things like what looked like a butler hamster serving food to what looked like a fusion of a T-red and an armadillo, admittedly the little thing is extremely cute but she still asked herself what the fuck is happening in this place, even space felt weird here for God's sake!
Even without her spacial sense activated she could feel the space twisting, compressing, and somehow expanding at the same time.
"The space around this chamber is bent in a way where everything is expanded, my father and my mother made this ship, it was the project of their lives, they started even before I was born."
"Unfortunately they couldn't build a ship with more than five kilometers in length and 3 in Width, the things they wanted to put inside the ship were too many for such a small space so they made spacial destabilizers to expand their opinions, hence this place exists."
Carol still with an awestruck expression asked. "And that hamster serving food to that cute... thing there?"
Kara made a confused expression and looked to where Carol was pointing at, after seeing what was happening, she laughed, maniacaly.
"AHAHAHAHAHA, They, HAHAHAHA, They are my friends, HE-HEHEHEHAHA! They are just playing house, My parents made this place for me because I liked to make things, except for the floor and the forge I made everything here."
"Wait wait wait, everything, everything? Even those animals?"
"Oh no, as I said before I adopted them when I was just 3 krytoz old, I had SO many pets our house couldn't take anymore so Instead of giving them to other families to take care ai Hid them here but they couldn't stay here unsupervised so I made a bunch of droids to take care of them, but then I thought, they can't stay here all day, so I took one of my mom's spacial destabilizers and made a portal to another dimension, unfortunately it was an empty dimension and I wasn't confident enough to steal another destabilizer without mom catching me."
"Wait Kara you don't nee-" Before she could speak more Kara covered her mouth with her hand, the Kryptonian was already fed up with her friend interrupting her.
"SO! I had to make a risky move, I called Komand'r and told her my Genius plan, One Sirtry later I was on her father's ship going to Tamaran, her Father's name is Myand'r by the way, now, I only had 1 Zekoz to complete my plan."
"With nothing but one spacial destabilizer and my X-ray vision I and Komand'r managed to replicate the thing in half a Zeko, the next Sitrys we made thousands of them, well to be more specific we made hundreds of droids and programmed them to make the destabilizers, fortunately, Komand'r knew of an abandoned factory otherwise we wouldn't be able to make so many of them."
"Finally on the last Sitry we sneaked on the cover of the night and 'stole' a ship, after that, we traveled to a planet millions of light-years away, it was a small one, a little bigger than your Earth, it orbited a black star and took half a Krytoz to do it."
"We spread more than two hundred thousand destabilizers through the planet but there were still problems, mainly energy and most importantly, the sun."
"First although we replicated the destabilizers they weren't meant to cover something as big as a planet no matter how many of them we had so we would have to supercharge each of them so that they could take the whole planet and not just everything within sea level."
Kara took her hand out of Carol's mouth and started to float in circles, sighing Carol decided to sit and just hear her history, apparently her friend entered a trance each time she told a history.
'Is it my impression or is that hamster moving in slow motion?'
"The second problem was a challenge even bigger than the last, if we managed to teleport the planet into the other dimension all life on it would perish, there would be no sun, after all, they'd die, BUT! in a stroke of genius Komand'r made a plan that would solve the two problems at the same time."
"We retrofitted our Phantom projector combining it with three destabilizers to form a hyperdrive capable of transpassing the microverse, in other words, we now could transport anything to other dimensions or universes as long as we had the coordinates, and well, we had the coordinates to the center of the black star."
Carol's eye twitched, did she just hear it right? did Kara tell her that two children surpassed the technology of galaxy-wide Empires just because they wanted to hide their pets?
'What the fuck?'
"You see a planet disappearing would not be that concerning Different empires regularly take some random ones to either transport them to a place where it will be possible for it to grow life or to dismantle it for its resources, of course, the second is most normally used in times of war but then again those idiots are always in some kind of war."
"But the problem was the Star, if we stole a star and either our parents or worse, Rao noticed it we would be in BIG trouble, and I mean in a level of which I was not sure we would get out alive."
"So we did something insane, we made a wormhole directly at the center of the star and threw a modified destabilizer there, what it did when it was there was simple, it made a vacuum where time-space did not exist in which we put two acausal bubbles of semy no existence to stop space from filling itself again, inside there two small blackholes infinitely moved towards each other but never quite collided the gravity in the middle of those black holes was so strong that it punched a hole to the fourth dimension."
"The atoms inside the star entered the bubble who in turn 'coated' them in a smaller bubble something that allowed them to be unaffected by the gravity if only temporarily, we had to make very, very precise calculations so that the bubble would only pop the exact Planck in which the atom would enter the hole to the fourth dimension."
"You see the reason we had to do this honestly extremely complicated thing is that the moment that that single atom passed through that hole it now could go whenever it wanted that is, it would have had we not trapped it by putting another destabilizer connected to the exact place where that single atom arrived, for this step we had to transfer and alter the ship's V.I into the destabilizer."
While Kara continued talking Carol only looked at her with soulless eyes 'I want to scream, honestly, why was a child messing with higher dimensions, I understood absolutely nothing she just said, am I an idiot? Are all Kryptonians this ridiculous How did they fail to conquer the Universe?'
"-hat way the destabilizer managed to replicate the functions of the 5th dimension where parallel timelines existed, in doing so it multiplied that single atom infinite times throughout infinite timelines, after that the destabilizer only had to constantly 'suck' those atoms of those timelines around itself and voila! We replicated that Black star in the other dimension."
'No wait, she did that before too, first when we met second when I regained my memories now it's the third time she started babbling, humm, now that I think about it she always talks about funny things she did with others, the first her family, then her classmates, then her wife, then her master and now for the second time, her friend.'
"- to the star and transported the planet there, nowadays the planet is full of life and I Am full of happiness because of it."
Carol's eyes widened. 'She's... sad, maybe even depressed, considering the fact her race most likely never forgets what they saw she probably only needs to think about a face, a specific date, or a corresponding word for her brain to show her memories, much like an archive.'
"-ytime is over let's make something with this thing."
'She most likely talks about her happy memories to come back to the past and distract herself, not to mention how open she is to me, someone she just met five hours ago, combining this with my situation and history she also identified with me.'
"Carol heyyy Carooool."
'And I think I identified with her too, losing everything, even my memories made me a wreck, maybe that is what we need? Two sad people together may just be what we need to be a little happier.'
"Hum* Why are you smiling."
"Nothing, I just realized something."
"Oookay then, let's go." Kara said while turning around, but before she could move she felt Carol hugging her back.
"What is up with you, you're acting weird, did you eat too much gobgorn or something?"
"No, I'm just happy to have such a cool friend."
Kara did not respond, opting to only turn her head forward and walk toward her destination, seeing the Kryptonian's lips move up only made Carol smile more.
'Yeah, I'll be your friend alright.'
Chapter 9: 7- Invention
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[Wednesday, 0:54 PM, Space, J.A.N.A.I, Forge Section]
Kara walked calmly as if she had all the time in the world, having Carol on her back made things somewhat weird but she could manage without any problems.
While she walked calmly Carol kept looking around herself she had not noticed before but both the ground and the ceiling moved, most of the place is completely open allowing her to see some very weird things and other truly amazing ones like a 10-meter tall gigantic robot arranging the Cosmic Vibranium into a shelf inside the wall with its metallic tentacles that were constantly changing in shape.
Before she could see anything else a metallic wall suddenly blocked her vision, looking forward she saw a closed corridor, wanting to have a better vision she climbs Kara's back and sits on her shoulders, the Kryptonian not once complaining.
"I'd call you a ᛓᛆᛓᚢ but I don't think you are going to care much."
"Call me a what? and how are you speaking without moving your mouth?"
"ᛓᛆᛓᚢ, baby, childish, normally I'd say you act like one but considering the small life expectancy of your species I can understand your demeanor, for the second question I only need to expel air out of my skin and vibrate the air particles with my aura a certain way for you to hear me, aaaand we arrived."
Kara took Carol by her arms and put her on the ground, the small spin in the air almost disorienting the Kree hybrid.
Shuddering, Carol shook her head and looked forward, sometimes she forgot how powerful her Kryptonian truly is, for some reason she started thinking of the word Gentle giant when thinking about her.
Turning her eyes towards the end of the corridor Carol's mouth hung agape, there she saw three pentagonal platforms, each connected to a corridor, the walls are of a green/grey color, not speaking about the lights of the hundreds of equipment and cables behind them but that is not the most impressive thing, no, the most impressive one is the object at the center of it all.
From above there is a structure connected to the ceiling, the end of it shaped like a circular triangle, the same as the lower part, lighting craked at every second, if she had to guess it she'd say both of the triangles served to transfer energy to the blue ball of metal full of circular holes.
'And that for some reason is acting like water.'
"This is the matter reconfigurator, the structures below and above transfer energy to the ball at the center, it may look flat from here but I needed to compress the space around it just for this thing not to take the entire space, the inside of it is filled to the brim with the best technology I could make, its made completely out of Zostodo, perfect for storing enormous quantities of energy without heating up, made to last."
"And those things?" Carol said while pointing toward the structures getting out of the triangle's sides and pointing its curved surface at the metallic ball.
"Oh those, I made them after analyzing and improving the stabilizers, they are there to keep the space stable and the energy inside, the amount of power necessary to keep this thing functioning is insane even for me, 5% at all times, it may not seem like much but those 5% by themselves could even cause irreparable damage to what used to be new krypton."
"I imagine that is much?"
"Yes... it is."
"So, what do we do now? our little adventure already took an hour out of our time."
Suddenly Kara stopped, taking her eyes out of the Matter reconfiguration she turned her eye towards Carol.
Feeling the gaze on her she turned around, only to see Kara looking at her with a weird expression.
"...Did I say something weird?"
"Carol, since the moment you gained your powers only-"
{4 Minutes}
"Four minutes have passed."
Carol's eyes winded. "What, no, I remember very vividly having to hold my breath for half an hour in the moon."
"Carol, you just kept walking around on the moon for two minutes, I didn't say anything because I felt like you were happy, but... now I think I understand what is happening, from what I gathered your powers allow you to fly at the speed of light in a vacuum, but there is something more, while flying I noticed how your power twists space around yourself."
"Wait it does that?"
"Yes, I suspect the energy Inside the ship that shot towards you gave you more than just the ability to drain energy from who knows where, fly and shoot blasts, You said to me that ship could create stable wormholes capable of transversing entire galaxies in only one jump right?"
"Yes..."
"That energy, I don't know where it came from, I don't know what this 'Core' even is but if I am correct It gave you the power of Space and most likely light itself, I've tried to use my X-ray vision on you when you had your powers activated and deactivated, I couldn't see anything, something is blocking my vision, all I could see was light, it was like you didn't have a body."
Carol's heart started to beat faster. "Should I worry about it?"
"No, that explosion proved to me you are indeed made out of flesh and bone, the most likely thing happening is that something inside you is either producing more of that energy and spreading through your body or that something inside you is draining energy from somewhere."
"I think it is the latter, you see when you flew in space I sensed a bubble forming around you, very similar to my bioelectric aura but much, much stronger, you were twisting space around you to make yourself faster so instead of a 4-minute journey you arrived in only one second, you are, significantly faster than me, 2,5 times to be more precise, almost thrice faster."
"Really, you are not kidding me, right?"
"No, but do you realize the implications of that? before warping yourself in a bubble you were going at the exact speed of light, I can't do that without my bioelectric aura, I'd kill myself if I tried, but you did, meaning your body acted like light, like photons, In other words, you can transform your body into light."
Carol smiled, the only reason her mouth didn't open more was that it was physically impossible for her to do so, she is excited, extremely excited, having powers? cool, super strength, velocity, reflexes, resistance, and having the ability to shoot energy blasts? Awesome but not so much, yeah she could do that but, she could still fly in a jet, shoot bullets and strength? yes, it is cool but it just enhanced what she had, not that special.
But twisting space? Becoming light itself, oh yes THAT is a cool superpower, the only reason she isn't testing it is because Kara is still talking to her.
"With more training, you could even transport your body to another dimension making it intangible while also letting a small movable wormhole behind to make a non-physical projection of yourself of light in which you could still leave your brain, also made of light there, each time you attacked you could simply bring that body part back accelerate its movement with bent space and attack, this way your enemy can't touch you but you can touch them."
Blinking Carol became confused but decided to continue hearing Kara, she probably should ask something just not to appear as an idiot shouldn't she? "Wouldn't it be easier to just become light, who would be able to hit me like that?"
"No, turning all that mass into light will take an absurd amount of energy, having only your brain that is connected to your body in another dimension turn into light will reduce your energy usage tremendously, not to mention the projection will only be skin deep, if you manage to make it look like yourself, movements, expressions and all? nobody will know that is only light and will think you have the power to become intangible, misdirection is the best weapon in a fight."
Seeing Carol's happy expression Kara sighed she knew what was about to happen.
"And yes, you can train with it now, but not here, Go elsewhere, preferably the empty room two Kilometres east, and be careful, I'll see you in thirty min-"
Before Kara could end Carol activated her powers and flew at her maximum speed towards the empty room.
"Sigh* J.A.N.A.I, Register Her as a guest and give her a droid to guide and show her the time please."
[Yes miss El]
Kara tapped her hearing aid twice making a hologram appear in front of her, she didn't know when but her mother had altered the thing so she could connect to the ship's interface even without being on the bridge, had it not been for Lavender she'd never know that, controlling everything mentally she brought a panel closer to her and frowned.
According to the reports, the droids could only take the vibranium that was detached from the other parts, the energy wasted to cut other parts out would be too much for their current reserves, they'd waste at the very least 16 to 17% to collect everything, it isn't something viable, not with only one heart activated.
The problems didn't end there, even with the little they managed to harvest everything together would only be able to make a ship 30 meters in length even then the energy necessary to mold the metal would exceed 14% The act of molding being much more expensive than just cutting the metal in its weak spots.
{Weeell... At least there is good news, there is just a little bit of Vibranium left, just enough to make you a weapon.}
"What good is a weapon like this Lavender, I swear if they didn't recognize our technology just with a glance I'd send the Androids at them and be done with it."
{Not a very good course of action, after our retreat 2.000 Krytoz ago the Empires realized the potential in Genetic engineering, the average Sovereign for example now live past their 1000 Krytoz and lift over 10 Gons, their military is much stronger and their leader Ayesha even more}
"How do you even know this, oh right the mission reports, dad probably stored them somewhere on the bridge."
{The galaxy changed, your mere presence can scare them but it can also present an opportunity in their eyes, if they manage to discover how your body works they will be able to conquer the known universe, your only way to avoid this is to show absolute strength, something you are not capable of doing now}
"The way you say it... it makes it look like my future is bleak."
{It isn't, at least not if you make the right choices, after the matter reconfigurator ends its work in 6 Sy I will personally oversee the installment of the equipment inside the ship, after that, I will make a weapon for you, The best I can}
"So be it, now, it's time to design this thing in a way it doesn't scream Kryptonian."
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[Wednesday, 1:33 PM, Space, J.A.N.A.I, training room Section]
Carol dodged as the droid tried to hit her, something she had not wanted to do.
"Tch, again."
Maybe it is her subconscious mind acting but she just isn't able to stand still and take a hit to test her intangibility, the only time she was hit was in the first minutes of her training, even while thinking at light speed and having reflexes just as fast she could still be hit, who'd have thought?
She almost died in the first minute, the droid had penetrated her stomach with one of its tentacles, apparently, it was still in a training mode designed for Kryptonians.
'Well, at least Yon-Rogg was right, while near-death a Kree does gain more focus, at least I did, absorbing the droid's energy, condensing it, and healing myself while in my light form is not something I'd have thought of for at least some years.'
And so, she saved her life, and also raised some questions like, If she gets older can't she simply 'heal' her cells, change the old energy to a new one? Repeat this cycle until she is bored of living? Or maybe she won't age at all? Kara seemed to know many things about her ability, how did she know so many things?
'Well questions for the future me.'
Dodging yet another punch Carol groaned, what is with this reflex of hers?! Before she could steel herself for the next attack the droid stopped.
{Miss Carol, I regret to inform you our time is over, Lady El has just completed her ship and organized the gadgets needed to infiltrate the Base, please follow me.}
"Is it really necessary for this? I mean humans are not that technologically advanced, we can very well just sneak past everything."
{That would be the case Miss Carol but there is a high probability the base is not only infested with Skrulls but heavily fortified, any armor given to both of you, if seen would bring extreme risk to not only your lives but also those of the beings in this planet, and Lady El will NOT be responsible for the enslavement of an entire species just because she wants to go a little faster}
"I guess I didn't think like that." Ignoring her the Droid walked away, she soon followed, one minute later they arrived at their destination.
{We arrived} The droid said and soon after turned back, going whatever it needed to be.
Walking calmly Carol reached the platform and leaned her body on the rail, she has to admit, the visage in front of her is incredible.
The matter reconfigurator had somehow expanded at least three to four times, it's light is now less bright but still powerful, at the center of it billions of rays of energy struck the metal.
She remembered having asked the droid how Kara was doing after ten minutes, she received a bigger answer than she expected while dodging its attacks.
Apparently such energy is needed merely to push the cosmic forces away, and still for less than a single zeptosecond were just a single ray could alter the form of the metal.
Such a process would be impossible without Kara's reflexes, still, she had only 2 zeptoseconds to react so she needed the help of the System's V.I not to miss, still, everything took 30 minutes to finally end, at least an idiot would say that, something Carol is not.
She knew that for Kara it took... Well, a very, very long time, fortunately for her friend, her race has the ability to concentrate on a single thing and keep doing it until perfection, ignoring everything else, even time.
Meanwhile, while Carol looked at the matter Transfigurator Kara thought about her work, she improved many things, velocity, form, equipment, energy expenditure, dimensional Transfixers, energy absorption, protective shields, and much more with her and Lavender's changes, she managed to make the ship so advanced the celestials wouldn't call it garbage, maybe they'd even rate it as acceptable.
The ship itself has a V shape with a horizontal circle connecting the two ends, a straight line formed from the head of the ship to the end of it connecting to the circle, another circle this time a vertical one is inside the horizontal circle, the object's main function being to protect the ship against interdimensional attacks, not allowing any type of space-time manipulation to occur in a bubble surrounding the ship.
It also served as a universal transmitter and radar being able to emit space quakes through the entirety of the known universe in less than a Terran day, although without the Still incomplete Artificial Intelligence the ship is not capable of reporting its findings in the form of a Star Map, at least nor in a detailed form.
The cosmic energy inside allows it to read the minds of any being hit by the spacial quake and report it through its interface, or at least it will when the Artificial Intelligence is complete, combined with the Biological archive module she'd be able to kill any creature inside the reach of the space quake by only selecting it's DNA/RNA, that particular part was specifically installed in case a Fast Maliciosu Reproducing Hostile Creature (FMRHC) spread itself through the universe in an alarming rate, her human self had seen Marvel Zombies, she'd be sure to be ready in case something like that happened.
The transversser module and the weapons are even more impressive, able to travel up to the seventh dimension without being affected the SpaceShip, not to mention the ability to sever its connection with the Timeline making it impossible for beings below the fifth dimension to see, interact and touch it, this also allowed it to unfold itself and somewhat exist in multiple universes at the same time, making it impossible to destroy it unless every version of it is destroyed at the same time.
The weapons were made with the objective of fighting Gods, It's cosmic rays could transverse realities and lock into any target just by having its name, even if the target wasn't close or even in the same universe the attack would travel through multiple dimensions and hit instantaneously, depending on the ray it could do different things.
Alter causality to cause certain death, trick the universe into believing the target is an Error and let reality correct it by erasing it from existence or simply transporting the target to the in Between, unescapable bugs in reality where all manner of truly terrifying abominations the one above all refused to unleash upon reality live.
Even still with all that the thing Kara is most Proud of is the analysis module, able to see the very stings upon which the universe is built the analysis module can copy any technology it comes across, not only that but it can also analyze the very state of existence of beings, living or not and make simulations to either find a weakness or copy its abilities.
The ship is capable of much more than just that of course but Kara has not the patience to explain all of them, so when she felt Carol behind her she just threw her pad toward her.
"What's this?"
"The details of the ship, I've spent way too much time making this thing, my patience is already spent."
Reading the translated text Carol's expression gradually changed to one of absurdity, they were going to fight the Kree not a fucking God.
"How much time did you spend on this exactly?"
"The time I spent thinking about how to improve the craft and making those improvements can be counted in only 5 digits, the time I had to spend on molding this metal through extreme precise energy strikes? I will only say the number is a little bit too much for your brain to comprehend."
"...I feel offended."
"Irrelevant, now, follow me I will explain our roles in this mission." Kara quickly flew away and entered a corridor, not wasting time Carol soon followed.
Less than five seconds later they entered a white room, looking around Carol found some interesting things, the first being a shooting range where different robots were testing different weapons, curiously even after the target exploded from the impact of the bullet she heard nothing.
The second thing she saw somewhat amazed her, three rectangular, circular, and quadrangular tables, the first showed the map of the solar system, most likely in real-time, the second seemed to be showing holograms of different objects disassembling and assembling constantly.
'Most likely simulations.'
The third... doesn't have anything besides some objects above it, before Carol could see more closely she felt Kara poking her shoulder.
"Here" She said while walking towards the quadrangular table.
"Now, pay attention, I ordered J.A.N.A.I To make these, this." Kara said as she held what looked like a pistol, the difference being that it is completely different from a normal one.
It had two barrels one up and down connected by the grip on the back while the front connected the two barrels with a curved structure that emitted blue light in front of it.
"This, is not a weapon it's a Hel-ray, all you need to do to use it is to point it to a wound in your body and push the button, first it will scan your body so don't get too scared when light starts to get out of it, then it will directly transfer Globki to your wound, as long as something like your limb doesn't get destroyed you only need to re-attach it and it will be healed."
"Hummm, Kara?" Carol said uncomfortably.
"Yes?"
"I don't think I need this, when I was training with that droid it accidentally pierced my stomach all the way through, I thought I was going to die but I had the idea of transforming my body into light and absorb energy to fill that hole, surprise, surprise, I healed myself."
Kara looked at Carol with an unreadable expression and put the Hel-ray on the table. "Well, bring it with you anyway, you may be able to heal yourself but maybe you will need to heal others, and who knows you may be too exhausted to heal yourself with your powers."
Taking what looked like a mini-computer, the keyboard resides below the screen who in turn can be flipped to look like either a computer or a phone.
"Do not be mistaken by its appearance, its design is purposefully bulky, there are two reasons for this, first I do not want anyone coming even close to thinking this was made by a Kryptonian so I used ordinary metals, second the most important thing is what is inside."
"On the back there is a place where you put slight pressure to open, it will silently read your fingerprint, eye, voice, and your energy, all at the same time to prevent a Skrull from stealing it, after this the back will open, next you only need to retrieve the object, that being a small metallic ball, press the button above it and stick it in whatever place you want, now, pay attention you will have to run from that place in less than one minute and thirty seconds, if you don't, you and whatever place you are will be vaporized in a six-kilometer radius."
"The gadget itself serves as a hacking device, it detects electrical and radial signals, point to a camera for one minute and it will analyze its recordings, then it will build a video based on it, be careful, if the person who is watching the cameras communicates with someone the device will not be able to make a video in real-time based on the interaction, you can alter its code to serve in other ways, if you make a mistake just reinitiate it and it will come back to normal."
Carol nodded. "Understood, I will have to be fast then."
"Yes you will, now." Kara extended her arm horizontally and stood still as if waiting for something.
"Hmm what are yo-" Before Carol could end her phrase she saw a small silver point landing on kara's arm.
"This." Kara moved her arm closer to Carol. "Is a mechanical mosquito, a fairy common creature on earth, as you can see it carries a blue 'liquid' inside its back, this is not something as simple as a mere liquid though, it is a swarm of... well the closest word I can find it to describe it is a Gel Nanomachine."
"In other words it is a gel capable of connecting to mechanical devices and not only steal but also destroy anything else while doing it so, you do not need to hide it, it will follow you whatever you go, but you can just put it inside a container if it makes you feel safer, just point towards a computer and say, destroy to, well destroy everything inside it or say steal to take every single scrap of information from it, if you want to do both just say that two words, your 'Mini-computer' can also connect to it and control all its functions manually."
Kara shook her arm making the mosquito leave and land on Carol's right shoulder.
"For the Penultimate we have this little guy." Kara poked a small metallic ball who in turn jumped into the air and floated there, when Carol saw it suddenly open its two mechanical eyes she jumped towards it, only to hug the little thing.
"Oh my god! It's so cute, It's so cute It's so cute, It's so cute, It's so cuteeeeeeeeee!" While Carol hugged it the little thing seemed to be making small desperate noises.
"Please let Free-zi go."
Carol released the small metallic ball who immediately ran to stay behind Kara's back, Carol could see the little thing shaking a little.
"Sorry."
Kara rolled her eyes."As I was saying Free-zi here can shoot freezing rays, use him only when you have already been discovered, at this point many Skrulls will probably try to block your way, Free-zi here will freeze them so you don't need to stop running or waste your energy attacking them, he also has small projectiles above his head, made specifically do destroy incoming missiles."
"Cool, no pun intended." Carol's eyes brightened as she looked at Free-zi.
"Now the last thing, and the most important one." Kara walked toward two mannequins, Free-zi and Carol followed closely behind her.
"This, will serve as your stealth suit, my bio-suit is already capable of copying most of its functions, I just have to add some equipment to it."
"Impressive." The suit in front of Carol is made of a stretchy material, in various important parts it is covered by metal-like plates, the color consists of a dirty white with grey patterns, the metallic parts though are of a gold color with purple lights slightly shining through.
On the back of both hands there is a small circular triangle with a hole in front of it while a lozenge object is connected to the back.
"No, it is not, this suit does not have one-tenth of what the final product has, unfortunately, I was using most of the energy to make the ship so you will have to contend yourself with... This."
"I ordered J.A.N.A.I to create the fabric with the technique the wakandean people use to fuse their clothes with Vibranium, it is shock absorbent, even if you kick a wall the only sound the Skrulls will hear is that of bricks hitting the ground, the suit itself also adapts its temperature to make you invisible to any heat detectors."
"I don't know if they can detect your energy but just in case they do I made the gloves capable of sticking to plain surfaces, just clap two times to activate and then other two to deactivate it."
Kara closed the mannequin's right fist causing a purple ray of light to get out from the object on the back of the hand.
"YOU MADE A LIGHTSABER?!"
"... What?"
"Ugh, I'll have to introduce you to some earth culture, but never mind what can this thing do?"
"Well, firstly, you can control how much energy you want to put into the blade by how much you close your fist, there is an interface between your brain and all the equipment so don't worry about accidentally activating it, in the first level the blade can't cut anything, not even paper, but, it has a very useful ability."
"It can shut down the connection between any living being's brain and their body just by touching, well, as long as the body is not too dense or tick, in the second level you can cut down most earth metals, all the levels above are just an increase in power, don't worry about not knowing which level you are you will feel a click in your hand each time you pass through one."
"Now, the most important part, see this thing on the back? If activated it can do three things, you just need to choose which one with your mind, first it can disconnect you from the timeline and put you one second into the future, while still being in the same timeline, this will make you virtually undetectable but be careful it consumes too much energy."
"Second, you can choose any time you want from one minute to thirty to 'rewind' yourself going exactly when you were in that time, this allows you to heal yourself from life-threatening injuries and if used correctly, greatly surprise your enemies."
"Finally, third and last, you can make a bubble around yourself and set a timer, inside this bubble you can see what happened in the past or what will happen in the future, the energy inside the gadget is the only limiting factor, remember that."
"Yes, yes, got it, so what now?"
"Now? now we invade a military base."
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Chapter 10: 8- Infiltration (Kara)
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IMPORTANT WARNING: All images of this fic can be found in the Extra/Auxiliary chapters, want to know how something looks? Just go there.
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[Wednesday, 1:40 PM, Outskirts of Edwards Air Base]
Kara observed the constant flux of movement inside the airbase, looking inside a Skrull's body when they are transformed is still not a viable way of discovering who is or not a human, at least not yet, she'd have to study their biology to do such a thing.
"So, let's go through the plan again."
"Right." Kara opened her interface and showed a satellite image of the base.
"As you can see we are close to the entrance, coming from anywhere else but here is impossible, with my X-ray I've managed to identify 126 turrets, some invisible above the buildings and most below the ground, each most likely powered by that same energy that managed to harm me."
"There are many cameras, each capable of detecting us through different means, sound, heat, vision, vibration, both spacial and terrestrial and energy signature without speaking of how many mines this thing is surrounded by, and don't forget the satellites, and this us only on the place I have to go, yours is much worse, but I couldn't just put you there, too heavily guarded."
"I've already sent a droid to hack them and take ourselves out from the lens but since I don't know the capabilities of the Skrulls I will only keep it activated for five minutes."
"More than enough time for me to reach the research station 600 meters away, now, your objective is different from mine, 6 kilometers away there is a control room where the humans contact and give instructions to any aircraft arriving, there is... something there, something weird, but I can't see what it is, the space around there seems... wild."
"Now you have two options, One, use the time-splitter on your back and run as fast as you can, by the time you arrive you will have consumed at the very least 40% of energy, Two, dig a hole underground with your powers and go there, I wouldn't recommend it, they most likely have something to detect you."
Carol nodded and continued to see the map in front of her, the markings helped her understand the situation much better.
"A human's average walking speed is 85 meters per minute meaning most people here will be walking at this speed, If you try to use the light refractor to disguise yourself you will only manage to walk 425 meters before the droids cease their hacking, in other words, we can't be seen and we have to be fast."
Two blue lines formed on the map, one going to a building with a black roof and the other going much farther away, almost at the end of the runway.
"As you can see we will have to split."
"But, why are you going there again?"
"Simple, while your mission is to find what Mar-vell hid in this place mine is to find what the Skrulls are planning, know what level of technology they have, their bases, secret weapons, how deep they infiltrated this planet, and most importantly of all, the energy 'That' weapon uses, progressing without this kind of information is simply too dangerous."
"Hm, I understand."
"Good, now go, and remember, do not contact me unless it's an emergency."
Carol nodded and together they ran, nearing the entrance both activated their light refractor, making themselves invisible, while Kara took cover behind the welcome Singh and activated her drones Carol activated her blade, and ran towards the guard post as sneakily as she could while taking the mini-computer out of her hip and hacking the cameras to only show a frozen view.
Arriving behind the guard she sliced his neck resulting in the woman falling to the ground.
'This thing is non-lethal Carol, stop going back to your training, there's no need to kill anyone now.'
"How long is this thing going to last?"
"Two hours, the energy cuts the connection of the brain with the rest of the body almost completely, leaving only the needed functions for survival, for now, she can't feel, see, hear or smell anything, by the time she wakes up her brain will do a type of reboot, she'll probably think she fell asleep on the job."
"Good, now I'll go, good luck," Carol said as she activated the time-splitter disappearing from Kara's view.
"~As if we need luck~"
Kara sighed and shook her head, with a serious expression she got up and ran forward, due to the shock-absorbent suit she didn't need to worry about rising dust in her wake.
Arriving at a small building Kara became confused, why is there a house in this place? Crouching down she looked through the window, it is empty.
{Weird, I cannot detect any Singh of life, there are some cameras but they can be considered just home security, it is clear someone lives here due to the plates on the sink, one to two adults, and one child, do you want to investigate?}
'No, I came here to discover what the Skrulls are capable of and how deep they have invaded this planet, let's go, there's no reason to stay here.'
{Yes sis, and don't worry about the cameras, I'll deal with them, you just need to trust me, take the meat bags out while I take care of the mechanical ones, just don't fly you'll be much more exposed if you do)
Kara ignored Lavender and continued to run forward, barely thirty meters later she had to stop, very slowly she floated down with her stomach on the ground, just in time for a small, almost invisible red dot to pass through the place she was.
{Didn't I tell you that flying would be a bad idea?}
'You did, now stay silent, how was I supposed to know they'd have a spacial anomaly detector?'
{Oh, I don't know, maybe the same way you should know that this soil is infested with light pressure plates?}
'What?!'
{Easy to ignore right? Had you crawled forward a little bit more they'd catch you, this thing is almost undetectable to the small burst of energy we shoot out of our eyes to see through objects}
{When seeing the insides of something your brain ignores all the molecules and atoms in front of you, these pressure plates seem to be put in this place above the turrets purposefully as to replicate such a situation.}
'They know my abilities?'
{Ehhhh, no, these things were put here Krytoz ago, they probably put these plates here in case someone who saw turrets are down here with some kind of energy detector, or a simple x-ray camera tried to meddle with them manually, They are put perfectly above te turrets so if someone somehow managed to see through they'd think it makes part of the turret itself.}
'That... makes no sense.'
{You misunderstood, what I mean is if someone hacks these turrets and, for example, a platoon of soldiers passes here the plates will forcefully activate all the turrets}
'In other words, all of the people here know about these traps, Lavender, how risky will it be if I order the droids to analyze the recordings of the satellite and make a timeline of where everyone inside this base passed and avoided?'
{37% chance of someone finding something wrong with the system, these changes grow the more back we look at the recordings.}
'Too high, I'll do it the old way then.' Kara pushed her body up and floated forward very slowly, she is very careful not to touch the ground while at the same time looking forward to see if anything is wrong.
Kara frowned, in front of her there are two small, gray hangars, the problem, however, is in what is inside them, more specifically a man sitting on a metallic balcony three meters above the ground, the problem itself is not the man but what he is doing.
In front of a computer, the man wears a headset and looks attentively at the screen that shows the image of the surrounding plains, Kara did not need to use her peripheral vision to see the cylindrical object with three metallic legs rotating at constant 380 degrees, even worst, she didn't need to see the almost invisible vertical and horizontal red lines getting out of both sides of the thing, mapping the entirety of the place like an eye who sees it all.
'Now that is a problem, I managed to reach the camera's blank spot without knowing but the other one on the opposite side sees things horizontally from bottom to top.'
{I already said to you I'll deal with the cameras, just... let me take care of this and make it seem like an accident ok?}
'No, a cybernetic attack no matter how disguised it is will be too suspicious they will enter high alert immediately but... I have an idea, when I say Go fry that camera, if everything goes right security will be running here, letting the doors of that building unprotected.'
Without waiting for Lavender's answer Kara closed her eyes and very carefully touched the ground with her index finger, suddenly she could 'see' everything, her bioelectric aura at the moment can only be expanded through touch besides allowing her to hold gigantic objects and spread the damage of her attacks she can also 'see' and feel through it, and that is exactly what she is doing.
100, 400, stopping in a 400-meter radius Kara concentrated, she had done this many times but controlling small objects is still something hard for her.
'Looking' at the man's table Kara formed a plan, below him, on the ground she saw a tool table, more importantly, she saw a used can of paint being used as a box, smiling she got to work.
Locking the table's wheels she covered the can of paint with her aura, manipulating gravity she levitated the object very slowly as to not crush it, reaching the border of the table she slowly put the can down and waited.
Not three seconds later the can fell, surprising the man with the sudden loud sound contrary to the calm silence he was in.
Immediately he turns around while flinching just enough for Kara to gently push his fingers wide enough for them to hit his coffee cup who 'coincidentally' fell just in the right angle to spill its contents on the weirdly, semi-connected power plug.
Finally, the coffee hit the brass pins causing what would only be a small shock in its circuits, that is if.
'Now!'
Lavender didn't fry the turret causing it to short circuit and explode.
BOOM!
The sound attracted not only the attention of all who could hear it but also their curiosity, not ten seconds after the explosion, almost all people who were walking outside ran towards the origin of the sound.
Taking her chance Kara lifted her body up and with minimal strength and some help from her bioelectric aura, she jumped, 1, 2 times, the first on the roof of the second hangar and the second just outside the entrance of the scientific research facility.
Coincidentally, a woman who heard the sound came bashing out of the building, slamming the door open wide enough for the still invisible Kara to enter the facility.
Crouching down Kara had to suppress her annoyance, humans are surprisingly small, she should have expected small buildings too.
Frowning Kara concentrated on her body, not a second later her muscles started to shrink to a point where they became less than two-thirds of what they were, after ending her transformation small quantities of steam escaped from her body and her mouth.
If a human saw her at the moment, judging only by her body form they would simply think of her as a woman with giantism.
{Are you alright Kara?}
'Yes, I just feel... trapped I used to compress my muscles when training for my bones to crack and my fibers to rip themselves apart and let my ability improve my body more efficiently, now I'm using it just to enter a building made for dwarfs.'
{Well, Kryptonians would be considered giants in the eyes of humans, but, why are you so uncomfortable, Krytoz of training if this form should have made you somewhat immune to its side effects, at least mentally speaking}
Kara stayed silent and started walking forward, fortunately, the place does not have many people moving around at the moment.
'Yes, had I been in a normal situation I would not be so bothered, unfortunately, I am in a solar system with a yellow star.'
Kara used her X-ray and looked around the building, finding a room with numerous screens and a man sitting on a chair she started walking.
'You have to understand something lavender when I arrived on this planet my bioelectric aura could cover an area of 23 million square kilometers, seconds of being exposed to the sun's radiation It expanded to 40 million, now? less than 2 Kaz later? I can cover more than 500 million square kilometers on land.'
{This is... worrying, this level of growth for someone your age and even with your ability is unheard of, there is something wrong this is illogical.}
'No, this is absurd, I do not know my own strength anymore Lavender, my ability is helping me calculate the power of my movements but this is making me insane, it's like living in a world made out of glass.'
'I am not worried about the weapon that Skrull used anymore, my caution comes from the fact I believe they have more things hidden, if not for that and the possible traps I would have had already ran through this entire planet and solved this mess in less than a Sy!'
{Please calm down Kara, the energy absorption will stabilize, contrary to Rao this star most likely only strengthens you massively at the beginning, with time your energy absorption will decrease and stabilize, I am sorry but until this happens you will have to wait, any kind of training until then will be pointless.}
Scoffing out of frustration Kara continued walking silently, it didn't take long for her to reach the door leading to the camera room, using her X-ray Kara saw the door closed, the only way to open being from the inside.
Ignoring the discomfort of her bones and the small cracks she could hear Kara sat on the floor and closed her eyes, none of her physical abilities had the power to do what she wanted to accomplish right now, no, she needs her soul for what is about to happen
Dozens of seconds passed as Kara concentrated on the bond between her Soul, Spirit, and Body, the soul of any living being is more powerful than what they can possibly imagine, for example, her soul is connected to her body through the help of her spirit essentially using the body as a puppet, the fact she is connected to only one body does not mean that this is her limit
Had her, in her true, Soul form wished to connect to the universe itself she would have become a reality bender, any creature capable of connecting to their soul would be able to do such a thing.
But putting it in other words, if she did that as her true self she'd just be acting like an immature child of the seventh dimension to play with the third dimension animals, something quite... pathetic.
There is a reason the body has little to no connection to the true self, all life in the third dimension is simply composed of higher dimensional beings pretending to be animals, something to get a good laugh at when their mortal avatar dies, or maybe something that invertible changes them forever when they come back.
This realization is one of the many reasons why Kryptonians do not take death seriously in any way, there is no reason to, after all, still, she is young and immature her death would not bring her any sadness or anger but the death of others, even knowing where they'd be would, it is illogical she knows that but just like logic does not care about emotions, emotions too do not care about logic.
Concentrating more on her mortal self Kara controlled the quantum state of every particle in her body.
Ziiiiiiiiiiii*
Opening her eyes Kara found herself inside the room, rising to her full height she frowned, something felt wrong.
'Weird, this place...seems to have expanded, but I didn't see any spacial anomaly.' Suppressing her curiosity Kara activated her blade and slowly walked behind the guard, with a swift motion she slashed his neck, making the man fall to the ground motionless.
Deactivating her light refractors Kara's body turned visible again, without needing to say anything a white tentacle got out of her chest pushing the man and his chair away from the screen.
Looking at the small keyboard Kara's eyes twitched, the object is remarkably similar to a toy she had when she was 1 Kryto old.
{Relax sis, I'll handle this}
Two white, liquid-like limbs appeared out of Kara's shoulders, moving toward the keyboard they split dozens of times until at least one piece covered each key, then, they started typing.
{Humn, This is... interesting, and worrying}
"Care to share your thoughts?"
{Yes, yes first, they have somehow managed to alter the space of the walls themselves without altering their appearance outside, this is... weird, normally to expand space someone would need to restrict its area to a little before it touches the walls, this way the objects inside would seem to have shrinked when in reality they stayed the same size.}
{The space simply expanded, people inside would have seen the walls, roof, and floor as if it had expanded or created more of itself but in reality, the space inside the room would just have been bigger}
{But they didn't do that here, no, they included the walls on the area of altered space, this should have made everything seem stretched but it somehow didn't, the only place I saw that happening was inside your home inside the spaceship and even then it was just because it is connected to I'noxia}
Kara turned to her right and touched the wall, spreading her bioelectric aura she almost gasped, instead of covering the place instantly her aura barely moved a centimeter out of her hand.
Taking her hand out of the wall she looked at the anomaly more closely.
"Ah, I understand now."
Still typing Lavender asked {Understood what?}
"The space inside the walls is constantly shifting, there is a pattern to it but the object of such a thing is to impede any signals, teleportation, or objects to enter this space, to enter here I had to quantum tunnel myself in, had I tried to do it any other way this space would have noticed and..."
{And... what Sis?}
"And destroyed itself, I would have not survived" Kara's body trembled. "I... do not fear death, there's nothing to fear from her but, I am the last of my race, I can't die before leaving an offspring, Billions of Krytoz of history can not die with me Lavender."
{And they won't, remember I was born to take care of you, as long as I'm here you are safe!}
"And I thank you for that Sister, I truly do."
{You'll make me blush, buuuut anyway, while we talked I already took everything I needed from here, the Skrulls most likely believed nobody would manage to invade this place so the computer here is like a hub for the entire facility, everything passes through here, meaning I can also connect with everything in this base without looking suspicious}
{And let me tell you something these Skrulls have some heavy weaponry, including something called Titan-X, well, they also seem to be protecting a woman called Maria Rambeau and her family, but let's not speak of this here I'll tell you everything when we are out of danger.}
"Hmn, now I just need to escape this place." Kara was about to meditate before Lavender stopped her.
{Wow, wow! wait a minute there sis, I may not like that woman Carol very much but we can still help her from here, you see, this spacial distortion in the walls allows not only other people to transport themselves to this room if the "guard" allows it but It can also create other wormholes to any place in a 7,000,000-kilometer radius}
{Normaly using our teleporters would bring too much attention but I have seen the recordings in this computer the Guard here opens and closes portals every day, I can open a Portal to Carol's location and allow her to escape more easily, not only that but we can also contact her with the systems here without the risk of someone overhearing us.}
{After everything ends all we need to do is "shake" this space up, destabilizing everything and making this place collapse on itself, They may suspect sabotage but they won't have any proof of it, everything will be destroyed, our traces also included}
"Hmn..."
{I know, I know I will transport the guy somewhere safe like the entrance to a hospital, in Canada, This country we are in has some costly healing facilities}
Releasing her muscles Kara sat on the ground in front of the screen and stayed silent, The images of a white blonde woman sneaking through the facility showed in front of her, if her friend found trouble she'd help her out.
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IMPORTANT WARNING:
So! I will have to study very hard in the coming months because of Enem 2022 basically a test I have to do to go to college and I'm going to study to become a lawyer, in other words, I'll have no time to write this fic BUT I have a plan.
I'll end writing ALL of volume 1 I WILL do this and then there will be a hiatus where I will write the ENTIRETY of volume 2 in my very small free time and only when I end writing everything will I release one chapter each week.
Considering there will surely be more than 10 chapters (2 months or more) I'll be able to calmly write Volume 3 but for that to happen there needs to be a hiatus after Volume one.
Chapter 11: 9- Infiltration (Carol)
Chapter Text
[Wednesday, 1:40 PM, Outskirts of Edwards Air Base].
"Good, now I'll go, good luck," Carol said as she activated the time-splitter, for a moment the world became a blur of colors and sounds before it suddenly snapped back to normal.
Looking at her body Carol almost gasped, each time she moved a spectral image of herself followed, she could feel a small pressure all around her body, it was as if something wanted to squish her, remembering Kara's explanation of how the device worked made her confirm her thoughts.
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Flashback:
"The time splitter does exactly what it says, It splits you outside of the timeline while still leaving a very small part of you back as an anchor, imagine it like this, there is a sheet of paper, it is shaped like a rectangle, an infinite rectangle, let's call this rectangle 'Time', now, there is a painting inside this Rectangle, Let us call this painting 'Carol'."
" 'Carol' takes something called the Time-splitter and uses it."
Kara takes a small cut-out painting of a woman and puts it above the sheet of paper.
"Now 'Carol' is above 'Time' buuut 'Time' is relative and as such moves forward for beings of the third dimension, 'Time' has lived with 'Carol' since the beginning and it doesn't want to separate from her so it tries to squish her back into itself annnnnnd."
Kara picks the cut-out painting of Carol and throws it upward, seconds later it falls twenty centimeters away from where it was, still above the sheet of paper.
"Unfortunately for 'Carol' time is a cube, everything happens at the same time but due to her view she sees it as if it was linear, due to this 'Carol' is now 31,964 years into the future.'
"BUT! what if the amazing Kryptonian who created this device also created a suit capable of resisting 'Time's' attempt at squishing 'Carol' back? Even better what if she made it so the Time-splitter left a little, very not important part of 'Carol' back in her proper time stream so even IF something unexpected happened 'Time' would squish her back to the proper time period."
"Not only that but what if that thing she left behind served as an anchor, only letting 'Carol' be pushed One second into the future?"
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She had to admit Kara is truly the most intelligent person she has ever known, perhaps even more than the Supreme Intelligence.
Turning her head forward Carol came back to reality and used all the power she could without starting to glow, if there is something she understood about her power is that it involves both Light and Space, she knows Time and Space are connected, and not wanting to risk having her energy signature detected she decided to just drain upon a small percentage of her energy.
Using all her strength Carol shot forward at a speed slightly below that of sound, it took her 14 seconds to run through the entire road and hide inside a small building beside a bigger building.
"Five kilometers in 15 seconds, not bad, now..."
Carol touched the top of the Time splitter twice making a small ball jump out of it and float in front of her, a second later the metallic ball opened its light eyes almost making Carol hug it out of excitement.
"Ok, Free-zi I want you to always stay near me, only speak to me if it is an emergency or you need to point something I didn't see, more importantly, If I'm in extreme danger and I don't realize it, shoot me."
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"Wow, wow, calm down, even while I'm like this nothing less than a 30-30 can seriously harm me."
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"You... don't know what that is do you? Never mind, just protect me, do not go more than twenty centimeters away from me, and most importantly, do not get caught."
👌
Carol rolled her eyes and got up, deactivating the light refractor around her eyes she, took the mini computer in her left hand and opened the screen, immediately after she started typing, seconds later an almost unnoticeable frequency spread all through the base, after that, a map formed on the screen.
"178 cameras, more than 3,000 people, and 300 vehicles, not to mention the turrets, if They see me I'm dead, Luckily the control room is less than a kilometer away."
Marking every camera Carol made it so the device would only activate the moment a camera's view looked at it, in other words, every camera looking at her will see nothing but the landscape.
"Can't do that with people, unfortunately."
Re-activating the light Refractor Carol opened the door and got out of the small building after carefully looking around, even with her light refractor still active and her suit actively giving the illusion of her body temperature being the same as the air she didn't let her guard down, Skrulls can actively change their biology allowing them to see the world through different eyes, she knows there is a Skrull that can see her even while being this protected, she just doesn't know where it is.
Crouching down Carol hid behind the cars in the parking lot and looked at the street full of people in front of her, the building she was in was most likely a place where the workers kept their belongings or maybe a place where they kept their emergency tools, Carol didn't know, the light refractor made it impossible for her to see with her eyes after all.
Much like when flying through space when using the light refractor Carol 'sees' through the movement of space, something that reduces some of her senses but in exchange allows her to 'see' on a much larger scale, although she still can't see inside something that is completely sealed, like a coffin for example.
'More than 67 people with a clear vision of me, the only way to securely pass is through empty spaces where the cameras normally are.'
Finally committing to a plan Carol, rose to her full height and threw her entire body behind a car not five meters away from her, she kept jumping through the air and landing behind the cars each time, fortunately, nobody looked in her direction, this way she managed to arrive behind the building without much problem.
Reaching the corner of the building Carol looked at her right and left sides, not finding anything she lightly jumped at the bigger building's wall sticking to it, and crawling to the top.
Holding the flat roof she pushed herself upward jumping little to ten centimeters above the roof and landing without a problem, looking around herself Carol widened her eyes, in front of her what looked like a cylindrical... thing spun around itself with two, almost invisible red lights scanning anything it touched.
For a moment Carol froze, she didn't know what to do, activate her powers and run away from the light or shoot a photon blast at it and warn the entire base of her presence.
In the end her indecision cost her, the red light was now millimeters away from her body, it was too late to activate either her powers or the time splitter.
Boom!
At that moment a sudden explosion occurred taking the attention of everybody at the base away from what they were doing to look at the origin of the noise, including the operator of the Camera who after seeing her coworker suddenly get up from her seat took out her headphone and did the same, just in time to miss the warning in her screen and the alarm going inside her headphone, the sound too stuffed to reach her now.
Above the Building Free-zi reacted rapidly and threw a jat of freezing mist that froze the camera, not satisfied the ball of metal threw himself at the thing breaking it into dozens of pieces.
Reacting rapidly Carol ran forward and jumped the highest she could after reaching the corner of the roof, whatever Kara had done took the attention of everyone out of what they were doing, she could see that no one was looking upwards and took the opportunity to jump towards the hangar 120 meters away from her.
The people below her didn't hear or see anything related to her actions and so, she landed safely above the roof, her suit nullifying almost all the sound such a fall would make.
Unfortunately, her fall was too powerful, even while using her power at the last moment she didn't manage to absorb all the force resulting in her left foot penetrating the metallic roof.
Reacting rapidly she took her leg out of the hole, but unfortunately, a piece of the roof finally snapped, falling to the ground, more by reflex than anything Carol closed her fist and shot a blast towards the falling piece in hopes of disintegrating it, what happened was not what she expected.
When the light touched the object instead of destroying it, it instead enveloped it stopping its fall.
Widening her eyes Carol regained her balance, looking at her hand she saw a streak of light connecting the object to her, understanding what happened she smiled and moved her arm back bringing the object closer to her, she tried other ways to move it like using her mind but apparently, the most effective way was to open and close her fingers repeatedly.
Finally taking the object in her hands Carol remembered where she was and disintegrated the thing with her powers, turning forward once again she made one last jump arriving at the door of the control tower, it was then that she found something weird, her senses who had only sowed her a small tower changed abruptly now showing her a tall building of approximately 70 meters surrounded by trees and similarly shaped mountains.
Thump. thump. thump.
Her Heartbeat accelerated, through her senses, she could clearly see the insanity that is the space she is in, she doesn't know how but the Skrulls somehow managed to create perhaps the most secure place in 4 galaxies.
She couldn't find words to describe what they did exactly to the place, it was like she was outside of the universe, she could feel space around the building but not outside, if she had to guess she'd say the Skrulls somehow made a "Teleporter" in a cylindrical shape surrounding the control tower.
Judging by the reaction the spacial barrier had with her energy she would say a "Key" was needed to be transported to this place, but she had not felt the spacial barrier before, her senses did not warn her about anything, but... Kara saw something, she said it herself the space here seemed... wild.
Could it be... someone used the barrier to transport to this place the moment Kara looked at it?
'Yes, this makes sense, The Skrulls most likely have an automatic system that only responds to people carrying the same energy signature as the 'Core' meaning the weapons they have are powered by the energy of the Core, Lawson traveled to another planet to obtain that object but the Skrulls could very well have stolen it and brought it to this planet.'
'The most likely reason why they are here is to steal Lawson's research, but she hid it somewhere 56093 she said it for me not to forget these numbers, they are a password, to open... something, no, not only that but that, disc she put inside me should serve as a second key, most likely to allow anyone who wields it to gain something like an administrator privilege to a system.'
'If I am right she hid her research somewhere on this planet, she probably put heavy defenses around it too, that is why the Skrulls are trying to capture me alive, they want the key.' Coming to this realization Carol became excited, finally, she knew why she was here she knows what is her mission.
With an objective clear in mind, Carol became more determined, all she needs to do now is discover where Mar-vell hid her research and secure it, then she can give it to Kara, and together they will save billions maybe trillions from tyrannical empires.
Her friend would never give technology from her own race of that she is certain but she will undoubtedly help her re-create Mar-vell's technology.
Steeling her resolve Carol walked closer to the transparent window, hiding behind a wall she deactivated the Light refractor and looked inside the building.
There she saw dozens of Skrulls entering the elevator and one getting out of it, she thought about how she would enter the place before a Skrull changed her form to a human and opened the doors.
Reacting rapidly Carol re-activated her invisibility and entered the tower after the Skrull passed through the door, not wasting any time she jumped and stuck herself to the roof, fortunately, the entire floor had four meters in height, and the Skrulls didn't have any reason to look up.
'One Skrull at each elevator, 2 cameras, and one attendant, I could simply walk in, they most likely consider this a secure place and don't shift their eyes as much as the ones outside but I can't risk it.'
Taking a small cylindrical container from her pocket Carol brought it closer to her mouth, opened it, and whispered.
"Steal."
Flying outside its container the mechanical mosquito flew towards the attendant's desk landing behind the computer and sticking its proboscis into it, releasing its nano-gel it spread throughout the computer's internal system deactivating its protections and copying every bit of information inside it.
After one minute the mosquito re-absorbed the gel and flew once again towards Carol who in turn caught it and stuck its proboscis into the mini-computer.
Receiving the information in a 3d model of the facility detailing everything Carol smiled, she could see everything in real-time through the motion captors and the cameras, looking at the temperature detectors Carol sighed in relief thanking Kara for making the suit.
Hacking the cameras of the first floor Carol programed the mini computer to give it false images, with that being done she got 'up' sticking only her feet on the roof and activating both of her blades.
Jumping down she slashed the two Skrulls heads making them fall limp on the ground, or at least they would have had she not touched their bodies and crushed them to a size smaller than an ant, the distorted space blocked the cracking sounds of the bodies as the attendant blissful unaware of what had happened continued to type in her computer.
Carol considered killing him but decided not to, her hate aside there was no reason to kill more than needed.
Looking back at the mini-computer Carol made 3 things, first, she called it to her floor, second, she deactivated the lights, camera, and sound of it, third, she analyzed its internal structure, and finally, when it arrived, she smiled.
Entering the elevator and closing the doors the fastest she could Carol looked at the left side of the metallic wall and smiled, pressing the metal with a minimal force she bent the steel until she heard a clicking noise and took out her finger.
2 seconds later the wall repaired itself, coming back to its original shape as if nothing had happened, smiling internally Carol pressed the wall 4 more times, each time she'd whisper a number
"6, 0, 9, 3."
When the last number was pressed The elevator suddenly started to fall at an unnatural speed, the action was so sudden Carol was thrown upwards, hitting the ceiling and shattering the glass.
The halt, just as abrupt as the fall threw her to the ground, this time Carol was prepared and activated her powers, negating gravity and floating with her body horizontally, standing still for one minute Carol deactivated her powers and fell with her feet on the ground.
Turning off the Light refractor she cracked her shoulders, suddenly the elevator's doors opened revealing a gigantic base with hundreds, maybe thousands of Skrulls walking around.
Carol saw metallic doors leading to rooms where she could see Skrulls sitting and watching Tv either alone or with other Skrulls besides them, she saw metallic bridges connecting the right and left sides of what she could only describe as a city, either by looking up, down or to the sides she could not see the end of the city, not even with her spacial senses.
In the air, small boat like ships flew transporting Skrulls to different places, there were gigantic screens stuck to the walls with Either humans or Skrulls reporting the news, one even had a soccer game playing that particular one had a bunch of Skrulls screaming while looking at it.
"Hey what's wrong with this thing?"
Hearing the Skrull's voice or her side Carol almost had a heart attack and reflexively activated the Time-splitter.
"I don't know, the lights are off, the camera is down and the glass is broken, maybe the energy reactor blipped?" The Skrull answered as she walked to the front of the elevator and looked inside.
"You know how it is, only one generator for a continent-sized pocket dimension tends to fail sometimes, this elevator, like all the others that go outside automatically, shuts itself down and falls when something happens to the energy, someone tries to invade by hacking or the operator forcefully turns it off in the case of an emergency."
"The lights would be red if it was the last two but since they simply shut off it means the energy blipped for one second and it fell, now we just have to fix this, can't have one of these offline in case of an emergency, now Myconid, bring me my toolbox."
"Yes father."
Carol heard their conversation from afar as she ran with all her might while looking at the mini-computer's screen that showed her a document describing how to enter New-Lo, the continent-sized city inside the dimensional space she was currently in.
Landing on a metallic bridge she jumped up reaching and standing above a rod holding the Skrull flag, after that she jumped down entering perfectly inside a small house through the open window.
Deactivating the Time splitter she breathed a sigh of relief, that single piece of technology is her absolute trump card but the amount of energy it consumes is astronomical.
Not wasting any more time She closed the window with the curtains and walked through the house, living room, toilet kitchen she kept walking until she found a computer in what seemed like the Skrull's bedroom.
Releasing the mechanical mosquito she took the mini computer and plugged it into the computer of the Skrull, connecting to the mosquito through it she gave more specific orders to invade the network and steal the map of the city while she, through the mini-computer helped it hide its movements.
She kept typing for one minute before she had an idea.
'Can Free-zi help hack this thing?' Thinking about her own question for some seconds Carol looked back to test her theory, only to see nothing.
"Eh? Free-zi, Free-zi where are you?" Carol's heart beat faster as she ran through the house and even used her senses to try and see where Free-zi had gone.
'Wait, wait, wait, THE SPACIAL BARRIER!, It let me go through it because I had the Core's energy inside me, Free-zi was too far away and probably only managed to enter the airport's control room, that poor thing must be so afraid without me, should I come back? No, no, I can't I have to find where the Skrulls hid her notes.'
Running back to the bedroom Carol sat on the chair and kept typing, she has to find where Mar-vell's research notes are, she can't let the Skrulls keep it for themselves even if it means dying... and leaving Kara alone again.
Oh, nonononono, she can't do this, there are 4 things she absolutely can't do, 1 Abandon earth to its fate, 2 Not find Mar-vell's legacy, 3 Not help the races being oppressed and slaved by tyrants, and 4 Abandon Kara, she knows her friend is not in a good place, the fact Kara tried so desperately to get closer to her is proof enough, not to mention how she always tried to distract herself with something.
Talking about her past, explaining complicated mechanisms, making insanely advanced technology, or even fighting for beings she could rightfully call little ants.
No, Kara will be even more unstable if she leaves her, she can't die, she has to complete this fucking mission, protect the planet and bring Kara with her, she can't forget that, after this, she has to find a nice planet, study psychology and very, very slowly help Kara out, and maybe she'll stay with her after regaining her stability, just... maybe.
Aggressively Shaking her head Carol looked at the screen again when suddenly it became static, before she had time to be surprised Kara's face appeared st the screen.
"Finally found you."
"Kara?"
"Yes and before you ask, On that small iland in the middle of the lake I told you about my necklace and how Alrya's soul is somewhere inside this galaxy, my wife's full name is Alrya Hu-ui my father's name is Zor, And my mother's name is Alura."
"No need for more I understand it is you, but first did you find me and how are you talking to me right now?"
"Well, you have to thank this little guy here." Kara took something outside of the screen and put it on her lap.
"Free-zi?!"
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The Little ball shook himself in excitement screaming in a weird robot? way.
[Wuuuuoooooooooooo!!!]
"Anyway, I entered in an interesting place, almost died too but we don't have time for this, listen from what I can take the Skulls have Mar-vell's notes but they can't get them, there is a safe somewhere inside this pocket dimension apparently the security of this pocket dimension is so good they put most of their civilian population there."
"Here's the thing the safe is 2000 Southeast kilometers east of your position I will open a portal and you will go and take that thing, don't worry about being caught I can evacuate you in a blink of an eye, I will open the portal right aboooout, now!"
A golden portal opened beside Carol who immediately jumped in without even looking at what was beyond it, stepping into the metallic ground her soles made a clicking noise that echoed through the empty hallway.
"YOU IDIOT!" Kara screamed through Free-zi who had just been teleported to Carol's side. "YOU COULD HAVE DIED IF I DIDN'T DEACTIVATE THOSE TURRETS!"
Carol started giggling as she looked at the various turrets inside the walls, it was funny how despise being a super-intelligent alien she could still act like an idiot sometimes.
"WHAT ARE YOU LAUGHING AT YOUR IMBECILE DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE FUNNY SEEING YOU FULL OF HOLES?!" Kara screamed even more as Free-zi's face, or more specifically, his eyes turned into a crimson red color, something that made Carol laugh even more.
"YOU IDIOOOOOOT!" Kara screamed even more as she made Free-zi start to beat himself into the Kree hybrid's body.
With Carol falling to the ground and holding her stomach, laughing as she begged Free-zi to stop Kara somehow became even angrier, she was about to open a portal and talk to Carol herself when she realized something and forcefully calmed herself down.
Why did she become so angry? It was a mistake she shouldn't blame Carol for such a simple thing, yes had the turrets shot at Carol's head she wouldn't be able to transform into light and regenerate but something like that didn't happen so she didn't need to scream with Carol.
But if it had she would be responsible for the death of the only thing keeping her company in this universe, Lavender is with her sure but she doesn't have a body, and at least as of yet every time she hears her voice she remembers her mother.
If things kept being as they were with her alone and having random moments of depression she'd probably become suicidal, the only things keeping her from doing it would be Lavender and the will to not let her race go extinct.
Calming herself completely Kara pressed a button, she was ready to talk to Carol again when the Kree hybrid interrupted her, stopping her laughter and speaking in a serious tone of voice.
"Oh God, you are funny Kara, really," Carol said as she lifted herself up, finally managing to control her laughter, Looking directly at Free-zi's eyes her face morphed into a serious expression and she said in a serious tone of voice. "Understand this once and for all, I trust you with my life dumbass."
Kara... froze, no it is more appropriate to say she became silent, perhaps out of surprise or shock, she didn't know, the surprise of what Carol had said to her was simply too much, even more so considering she heard nothing but honesty in her voice.
She herself didn't trust Vers to a point where she would entrust her life to her, she would undoubtedly risk her life to save her but that is just how she was raised, not to despise any form of life no matter how tiny it may be.
Granted she doesn't think a life in the physical world means much considering the fact the afterlife exists but that doesn't mean she will ignore the suffering of someone just because their journey won't end, one of the few reasons she herself doesn't think about suicide is because Rao himself said in the Raost, his Bible, that after giving Kryptonians free will he would also let them deal with any consequence of their actions.
He could help sometimes but he'd never fix the problem, in other words, If she dies Billions of Krytoz of history and culture go together with her.
"Sigh* Just... all I'm asking is for you to be careful Carol, If you die because of me I'll never forgive myself."
"Sorry but not Sorry you are too intelligent to let me die, but ok, I will Look both ways before passing through a portal."
Kara sighed and stayed silent, she decided to just look Through Free-zi's eyes for the moment.
Walking forward Carol mentally retracted the gloves out of her suit, seeing her hands starting to get covered by small white cubes she became surprised for but one moment.
'Matter reconfiguration? I just expected it to open itself, how much many surprises have you put in this thing?'
Returning her attention to the gate in front of her Carol touched the gate with both of her hands, she couldn't see anything happening but she could feel... something slowly passing through her entire body, when it finally ended the Gate in front of her opened horizontally.
{Welcome Administrator-A.K}
Ignoring the Robotic voice Carol entered the room, there was nothing inside it, nothing besides a floating Platinum, Metalic Triangle with white lines forming strange symbols over it.
Carol took it in her hands and brought it closer to her face, she felt a small amount of resistance that quickly disappeared when she pushed the object.
Turning it all around she saw a small circle on its base and poked with her finger, the exact moment she did that the triangle opened with each side separating into three smaller parts all floating centimeters away from the light-blue gem on the center.
Carol only had to look at it for a second to recognize what it was.
"A memory crystal?"
Taking the gem with her two fingers Carol looked at it briefly before putting it inside her pocket, after that she closed the triangle and put it back where it was, turning around she saw the portal change to an image of Kara Sitting on the ground in front of a screen.
Looking both ways while smiling like an Idiot she entered the portal, she pretended not to see Kara rolling her eyes but she couldn't stop her smile to widen even more.
"Now, I will teleport us to a desert in chile, from there on we will fly to the Ship."
Carol nodded and waited in place, less than three seconds later a circular portal opened in front of her, once again she looked both ways before entering, not missing the sigh Kara let out.
"I'll never live this out will I?" The Kryptonian whispered but not low enough for Carol not to hear.
"No you will nooot~"
Stepping on the rocks below her Carol looked around the desert, strangely enough, there is a giant hand some meters in front of her.
BOOM!
Flinching at her sound Carol looked upwards and say Kara already flying towards the ship, understanding her call she shot up and followed closely behind, they were finally going to know the truth.
Chapter 12: Mcu Timeline (W.B.C.U)
Chapter Text
B.C= Before Christ
A.D= Anno Domini= In the year of our Lord
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Before 13,800,000 B.C:
Dark Elves originate from the vast primordial Darkness that existed prior to the creation of the manifest universe where they ruled unchallenged.
Celestials are born, the exact date is unknown, Arishem claims they created the cosmos, the very first stars, the truth of such a statement is of yet unknown.
The big bang occurs and with it, 6 singularities came into existence, the universe gave form to them, in the future sentient beings would come to know these singularities as Infinity stones.
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After 13,800,000 B.C:
Unknow to the exact time the Grandmaster and the Collector are born making them one of the oldest living beings in the universe.
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4,500,000 B.C:
Earth and its solar system are created by the Celestials with the objective to seed the planet in the future for the birth of Tiamut the Communicator.
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1,000,000 B.C:
The Celestials Create the Deviants to ensure sentient life in a world can grow by eliminating the apex predators to ensure the Celestial Seed to grow by absorbing the energy of sentient life forms.
Unfortunately for the Celestials the Deviants evolved themselves and became the Apex predators of the worlds they were sent to.
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1,000,000 to 500,000 B.C:
The Eternals are built and programmed by the Prime Celestial, being mechanical life forms they were incapable of evolving hence being more easily controlled.
The Eternals are sent to planets with Celestial Seeds with orders to protect and help evolve sentient life forms after the failure of the Deviants.
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80,000,000 B.C:
A being of the Celestial race named Eson the Searcher cane to the possession of the Power stone and used to destroy a planet filled with life.
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50,000,000 to 80,000,000 B.C:
Ego awakens and comes into existence as a flickering brain-like organism floating through space slowly manipulating the molecules around him for millions of years to become a planet.
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25,000,000 B.C:
A meteor made completely out of Vibranium falls into the continent of Africa altering the life around it.
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1,000,000 B.C:
The exact date is unknown but the Kree turned into a Space-Faring Race and started to become an empire, for them this time is known as Kree year 1.
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50,000 B.C:
The celestial Seed is planted on Earth.
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10,000 to 20,000 B.C:
Kro and a group of Deviants are Trapped in the Ice of a Northern hemisphere, a result of the Ice age, they are trapped for countries until before the events of Eternals and the emergence of Tiamut
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10,000 B.C:
Wakanda is formed as a result of 5 tribes of men settling close to the location of the Vibranium meteor.
Wakanda develops technology faster than any other place on Earth at that time
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7,353 B.C:
The Asgardian Royal Family is established by Bor the first King of the Aesir, during this time Asgard gained a reputation as the protectors of the Nine Realms.
Niflheim: The last of nine worlds, a place into which evil men passed after reaching the region of death (Hel).
Muspelheim: Realm of Fire, home to the Fire Giants and its King Surtur.
Asgard: The realm of the Aesir.
Midgard: The realm of Men/Humans.
Jotunheim: The realm of the Frost Giants.
Vanaheim: The home of the Vanir gods. The Vanir gods are an old branch of gods, masters of sorcery and magic. They are also widely acknowledged for their talent to predict the future.
Alfheim: Alfheim is a monarchy ruled by Queen Aelsa Featherwine of the Fay, home of the Light Elves.
The realm was formerly ruled by Lord Frey and his lady wife, Gerd. Alfheim is represented in the Congress of Worlds by two Light Elf senators, one being Milkmane. Ayelah represented her world on the council for a time. (Information from the Comics)
Svartalfheim: It's the home of the dwarves, the master craftsmen of the Norse tales.
Helheim: An underworld realm of the dead, where those who did not find themselves in Valhalla, the afterlife of brave warriors, were destined to spend eternity.
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5,700 B.C:
Agamoto the first sorcerer supreme of earth creates and founds the masters of the mystic arts beginning to train humans in the art of magic, later he discovered the time stone and created the eye of Agamoto.
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5,000 B.C:
The synthetic beings known as Eternals arrive on Planet Earth with their spaceship known as Domo to protect and evolve sentient life.
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3,460 B.C:
A young Odin defeats Surtur in battle who retreats to Muspelheim to recover, waiting for Ragnarok to come and destroy Asgard.
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2988 B.C:
The convergence led to Malekith and the Dark elves to attempt to use the Reality Stone to turn the universe back to darkness, this attempt was stopped by Asgard's army in the battle of Svartalfheim.
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2,000 to 3,000 B.C:
Another realm called Ta Lo located in a pocket universe prospered and reached a great degree of progress in civilization and technology.
Ta Lo is a dimension within the Multiverse only accessible through a portal on Earth, protected by a constantly changing bamboo maze forest, which opens a safe path every year at the start of the Qingming Festival. It is inhabited by humans, Dijiang, Fenghuang, Jiu Wei Hu, Qilin, Shishi, and the Great Protector.
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2,000 B.C:
The people of Ta Lo prospered in peace until a dweller shrouded in darkness who is a monstrous dark entity and his army of soul eaters attacked and almost escaped to Earth.
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659 B.C:
The subjugation of the Nine Realms starts, a conflict orchestrated by Odin, Hella, and their army in an attempt to conquer the nine Realms and establish an empire.
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575 B.C:
The battle of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamia during the neo-Babylonian empire was fought between the Eternals and the swarm of Deviants who attacked the city due to its constant expansion and development.
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79:
Loki and Mobius time travel and witness mount Vesuvius the eruption and confirming the theories that interferences of time traveling in such an impending doom would not change the timeline.
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400:
Ikaris Marries Sersi
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950:
Hella massacres the Valkeryes in an attempt to escape from Hel, leaving only Brunnhilde alive and forcing Odin to intervene and seal her again.
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964:
The frost Giants with the Casket of ancient winters attack the Nine Realms, including Earth in Tensburg incurring the wrath of Asgard, the war ended in the battle of Jotunheim with the Frost giants defeated.
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1,000:
The Skrulls refuse to submit to Kree ideologies hence starting the Kree, Skrull war who continues to this day.
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1,316:
The Ancient one is born, she would later on become the sorcerer supreme and use the powers of the dark dimension to continue living.
Although her name is unknown in the comics the Ancient One was an ancient Tibetan magician named Yao, and the previous holder of the title of Sorcerer Supreme.
He transcended into the spiritual plane after his death, becoming a minor cosmic entity.
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1409:
Odin hides the tesseract in Norway.
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1521:
The Eternals witness the fall of the Aztec empire by the Spanish invasion.
Eternals grow weary of their mission due to Arishem not contacting them for a long time.
The Eternals disband
Ajak believes that the Deviants have been eradicated
Druig disobeys Ajak and mind controls both the Aztec and Spanish armies
Thena is afflicted by the psychological condition, 'Mahd Wy'ry'
Gilgamesh and Thena leave so he can keep watch over her
Druig remains in the region, living in the Amazon.
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1693:
Agatha betrays her coven
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1914:
First World War.
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1917:
Bucky Barnes/ Howard Stark is born.
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1918:
Joseph Rogers (Steve Rogers Father) Dies/ Steve Rogers is born.
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1933:
Johan Smith Searches for the tesseract.
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1939:
Stark Industries are founded.
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1940:
Red Skull becomes a super-soldier.
Steve tries to enlist himself is the army 4 times.
Steve becomes a super-soldier.
Peggy Carter becomes an advisor for the Strategic Scientific Reserve, S.S.R.
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1945:
Steve is trapped in ice, the plane crashes on Greenland
Phastos witnesses the aftermath of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima Japan and blames himself for helping humanity's technological growth
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1946:
Howard is accused of selling weapons for the black market.
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1949:
Peggy and Howard found S.H.I.E.L.D.
Hydra's ex-agents find Bucky and transform him in the winter soldier.
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1955:
Yondu is sold as a slave as a child for the Kree empire.
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1963:
President John F Kennedy is killed by the winter soldier.
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1967:
Aton Vonko is Accused of spying and is deported to Silveria were he stays in prison for 20 years.
Howard Stark Assumes the credit for the arc Reactor.
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1970:
Tony Stark is born.
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1972:
Arnin Zola dies and transfers his mind to a computer.
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1975:
Yondu is freed from slavery and it's adopted by Stakar Ogord
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1979:
Ego plants a seed on Midgard and falls in love with Meredith Quill.
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1987:
Thanos kills gamora and nebula's family.
Adopts them.
Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne tried and succeeded in stopping a soviet missile.
Janet is lost in the Quantum Realm.
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1988:
Meredith Quill dies
Peter Quill is abducted.
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1989:
Carol Davers pilots a secret aircraft together with Doctor Wendy Lawson (Mar-Vel)
Hank Pym resigns himself from S.H.I.E.L.D.
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1991:
Howard and Maria Stark are killed by the winter soldier.
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1992:
T Chaka kills his brother
Erik Killmonger is left behind.
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1995:
Capitan Marvel Film ( Avengers Initiative Is created)
24 of July Natasha joins the espionage program on Russia.
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1999:
Tony travels to Bern in Swiss were he meets May.
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2005:
Bruce banner becomes The Hulk and escapes the army for 6 years.
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2007:
Aldrich Killian injects himself with the virus Extremis curing himself.
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2008:
Aldrich recruits soldiers to be tested as guinea pigs.
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2010:
Tony is captured by the 10 rings (Iron Man Movie).
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2011:
Iron Man 2.
First Thor Movie.
Loki is banished and encounters Thanos.
Nick Fury Starts to study the Tesseract.
Hulk vs abomination.
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2012:
S.H.I.E.L.D encounters Steve Rogers.
Avengers Movie.
Vulture Is created.
Tony starts to become paranoid.
Iron Man 3.
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2013:
Thor The Dark World.
The collector obtains the Reality Stone.
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2014:
Capitan America and the winter soldier
Coulson in named the S.H.I.E.L.D director
Guardians Of The Galaxy 1 And 2.
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2015:
Avengers Age Of Ultron
Ant-Man
Peter is bitten by a spider.
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2016:
Civil War.
Doctor Strange.
Ant-man and the Wasp.
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2017:
Thor Ragnarok.
Black Panther.
Infinity War.
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2018:
Tony is rescued by Carol Davers
Thor kills Thanos.
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Time Travel:
2012: Hulk, Capitan America, Tony and Ant-Man.
1970: Capitan America/ Tony.
2013: Thor and Rock.
2014: Hawkeye, Natasha(Volmir) - Nebula, War machine.
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2023 October 5 to 17:
Endgame
Hulk Snaps his fingers.
October 17 the final Battle against Thanos occurs.
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After End Game
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2023:
27th October: Peter Parker Returns to Midtown School of Science and Technology.
28th October: Wakanda celebrates the return of everyone and their win against Thanos.
30th October: Thor crowns Valkyrie as New Asgard's ruler as he goes to space together with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
31th October: Wanda goes to S.W.O.R.D headquarters demanding to see Vision's body.
Heyward then shows his deconstructed body being worked on upsetting Maximoff who couldn't feel him.
5th November: Wanda uses her chaos magic to create a hex around Westville and control its residents, her powers also create a new version of Vision and they start a new TV-like life there.
10th November: Wanda defeats Agatha Harkness, absorbs her power, and mind controls her.
White vision regains his memories making him leave abruptly.
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2024:
Early 2024:
Valentina lies about Hawkeye being the cause of Natasha's death to Yelena Belova making her swear to kill him.
Late March: Attack on Shang-chi by Ten rings operatives led by razorfist to find Shang-chi and take his eye of the dragon.
Early April: Shang-chi travels to Ta Lo and with the help of the people there alongside the great protector he manages to kill dweller in darkness by using the Ten Rings.
17th April: Sam Willson gives up Captain America Shield to the Smithsonian museum declining the chance to become the new Captain America.
19th April: John Walker, a soldier is named the new Captain America.
7th May: John Walker injects himself with a new Supersoldier serum, he defeats and brutally kills one of the flag smashers in public.
18th May: Sam Willson saves the Grc Global Reparation Council from the flag smashers attempt to kidnap them and use them for ransom.
Sam Becomes the new Captain America.
20th June: Talos and Soren disguised as Nick Furt and Maria Hill arrive in Mexico in response to a report of a cyclone with a face thus starting the events of Spider man far from Home 8 Months after the Blip.
10th Jully: J.J Jameson reveals Peter Parker's real Identity.
Jully - October: Eternals
Sersi kills Tiamut.
Arishem decides to judge Humanity in the future.
Later November: Peter parker requests the Help of Doctor Strange who accept and casts a spell for everyone to forget that Peter Parker is Spiderman, Due to Peter's interference the speel pulls people from other universes that know peter parker is spider man to their universe.
19th December: Start of Hawkeye.
Kate Bishop intervenes in the robbery of the black auction market, her adorning the costume of Ronin causes a chain reaction with the Russian mob hunting her.
24th December: Ending of Hawkeye in the Battle of the rock fellow center where Yelena and clint make peace after knowing the truth.
Kate Bishop defeats the Kingpin.
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2025:
Early 2025: Multiverse of Madness
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2027: Loki Escapes with Sylvie to the moon of lamentus 1 which is said to be destroyed when a neighboring planet is on a course of collision with it which will cause the death of the Lamentings people
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2050:
A rock Scott Mall located in Heaven Hills in Alabama is wiped out by a hurricane, Despite relief efforts the TVA Time Variance Authority classifies this as a class 10 Apocalyptic event, this coincides with the bombing of the Sacred Timeline
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End of Time: ??????
A Place used by the TVA to send Anyone that is Pruned, inhabitants there do not age due to the inexistence of time.
This is also the location of the Citadel where He who Remains resides, awaiting Loki.
Chapter 13: 10- Friendly fight, and The teachings of An Old master
Chapter Text
Before saying anything about inconsistencies in the character's words, do remind yourselves that they can lie, have feelings or simply want to do something and need a lie to get there.
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[Wednesday, 1:40 PM, In a place close to Mercury]
Nearing the Ship, not A hundred thousand kilometers from the sun Both Carol and Kara entered through the top, entering directly into the Forge, from then on they had to fly to the other side of the place into the expanded space.
Flying quicker Kara entered inside the wall, seeing this and already knowing the wall must've been an illusion Carol followed.
Entering inside Carol was blinded, not by light or the lack of it but in her senses, she couldn't see, hear, smell or feel anything, it was a weird feeling, one she certainly didn't like, expanding her senses she tried to look around it was at that moment that the strangeness became even bigger, she knew her powers were functioning without problem but at the same time, she wasn't receiving any feedback, it was then that she realized what was happening.
'Psychic energy, something more terrifying than I thought.'
Suddenly Carol's senses came back to normal, the first thing she saw was Kara snapping her fingers in front of her face.
"Carolll~ Are you ok?"
"Yes... what was that?"
"The Psychic energy imbued on the ship acts in different ways all throughout this place Unless you have special permission, know all the traps, or are trained to resist it you will eventually fall victim to one of those, had I not pushed you around You'd fly straight to a triturator."
"But... I, wasn't moving?."
"You were, the Psychic energy influences your mind, more specifically your unconscious, any intruder would probably kill themselves after some time and not even realize they are doing it."
Carol trembled slightly, Kara is a very kind woman but her race is very scary.
"I expected something more after knowing you were so close to deaaa-aaand you already said you trust me with your life, forgot about that for a Ly."
Shaling herself out of her state Carol smiled smugly and pushed her tongue out. "Make sure you don't forget it again."
"Sigh* Whatever, let's go, and before you ask, THIS! is my room," Kara said as she landed and walked forward.
Following her, Carol started looking around, for an almost 100 Kryto old Kryptonian Kara does have a cute place.
On the first roll of stairs, just after it behind the second, on the ground, there is a transparent glass with a pink border, below the glass, Carol could see water, very deep but somehow still clear water, there were... weird creatures below it.
One, for example, had a head similar to an axolotl, small eyes, grey skin at the top and pink at the bottom, its forearms were... big, the creature seemed to be able to walk in both two or for legs, it didn't seem to be fast in the water but then again Kryptonians could fly what to say about the other residents of their planet.
"It's a Xo'xh-id, very powerful creature, they have strong forearms and powerful jaws, the 'antennas' on their heads serve to detect sonorous waves and disruptions in the air."
"Why is it here?"
"My room has a connection to I'noxia, the planet I keep my pets, for a time it was just that but through the Krytoz more animals that belonged to Krypton kept mysteriously appearing on it, not only that but the planet itself started to become more like Krypton, honestly I think my parents put them there in case something happened to our planet."
"Maybe they knew something I don't, they started building this ship shortly after my tenth anniversary after all."
The room stayed silent, both Kara and Carol said nothing as they looked below, observing the life of the strange creature.
"I... don't know if I ever said this to you but after being reborn a Kryptonian doesn't always come back as another Kryptonian, sometimes, no, most times, they come back as creatures, this is why our culture prohibits us to eat any animal native to Krypton."
"We do have some reserves where we bring different animals from the universe and use them for various things but almost all Kryptonians never eat meat through their entire lives, I've personally never tasted it before."
Carol smiled and turned her head towards Kara. "Well, I'll be sure to introduce you to some Terran cuisine then."
Kara nodded and lifted herself up. "Let's go" She said as she rapidly walked to the left side of her room, opening a door she entered another room, with Carol following close behind.
The small journey was... interesting Kara kept walking rapidly through various rooms, unfortunately for her, they were running too quickly for her to have anything else but a brief look, the first room after Kara's bedroom had some... very weird things in it.
Besides looking extremely steampunk-shi Carol also saw some weird contraptions, a particular one looked like a metal wand? She didn't know she got to the second room too quickly.
The third room was much, Much bigger than the last two combined, here she saw a double bed, a window looking into the starless night sky, shelves with dozens of books, two couches, one in front and the other to the right of what seemed like a Tv.
Far away Carol could see the entrance to what looked like the kitchen while running she saw two clean plates on the table, on the left side of the entrance of the kitchen she could also see the door to the bathroom and finally a stair towards the second floor, she didn't manage to see anything besides that since Kara took her hand and ran even faster towards the fourth room.
The fourth room could only be described as a library, a very, very big library, with thousands of books lined up on shelves, some with dozens of meters in height, the rooftop was completely made out of glass allowing a clear view of the sky and the frankly terrifying black star the planet orbited, honestly Carol didn't want to stay even a galaxy close to whatever that thing is.
Coincidentally floating in the air on the inside of the library there is a model of what Carol assumed to either be Krypton or I'noxia, considering the four moons that orbited it she thought it was the latter.
Suddenly Kara stopped and released her hold on her arm, taking her eyes off the beautiful room and looking forward Carol saw Kara entering what looked like an elevator, not wasting time she quickly entered inside herself.
At the closing of the doors Carol decided to look around once again, she thought that maybe she would never be able to enter this place again so she should emblem the image on her mind.
It was during that point that she finally realized that even while being 2.3 meters tall, an enormous height for normal humans she still feels as if everything is bigger than her, lifting her head and looking at Kara's eyes she simply looked forward and decided to ignore her situation.
The doors opened as Kara walked forward calmly, following her Carol looked around the new room, contrary to most this room was small, with black walls and shining blue lines it looked like a typical room from earth, just more sci-fi-ish.
In front of her, there is an escalator, not four meters in front of it she saw a couch facing what she assumed to be a holographic projector above a table with various... action figures?
Behind the couch, she could see a glass shelf with what looks like toys, more action figures and... plushies? Even weirder was the vending machine on the aide of the shelf, curiously there were only drinks on it.
In front of the shelf the is a table with another holographic projector a keyboard and drawers on both sides of it.
"We've arrived" Kara said as she floated down and sat on the table, activating the holographic projectors various screens appeared in front of her, briefly Kara looked at Carol on her side and pointed to a door in front of her.
"Take the crystal, go there, and put it inside one of the servers."
Carol nodded and took the crystal from her pocket, walking to her destination the door opened automatically allowing her to see the inside.
Contrary to the room behind her the Server Room walls are completely silver with transparent tubes with some sort of blue goo inside them.
'Is this that nanomachine gel thing?' Carol asked herself as she approached what looked like to be a server, being rectangular in form she only managed to differentiate it from a simple object because of the small horizontal lines in it that allowed her to see the blue liquid inside it.
Extending her arm she touched the surface of the server with the crystal, not a second later the metal deformed as it absorbed the crystal inside it.
Carol shivered and walked back toward Kara's side, looking at the constant stream of letters and numbers in an alien language she came to the conclusion she should ask Kara to transfer her language to her memory chip.
"Sooo... whatcha doing?" Carol asked after a feel minutes of silence and Kara's constant changing expressions.
"Huff* More than 2000 Krytoz ago, that is before Decimation day when we Kryptonians conquered our galaxy and moved on to others after Krytoz of cyber conflict of which we won most of it, all the galactic civilizations with inferior technology adopted a very... efficient way of protecting their information."
"By deliberately creating only one path towards their data and putting billions of traps along the way, all of which consisted in destroying their own data in case of an attack they managed to significantly slow down our hacking methods who lasted mere ly's to now taking up to 3 Kaz."
"Yeah about that you keep saying those words But I don't really understand what they mean exactly."
Kara looked Directly at Carol's eyes and blinked. "Ah, yes I suppose I didn't explain the time notations of Krypton, pay attention I will not repeat this a second time."
"1 Krytoz Equals 5 years this is the time Krypton takes to fully rotate around Rao who in itself is bigger than your solar system, 1 Zeroz equals 5 months, as you can already guess you can simply multiply the time notations of Terra by five to arrive at ours, 1 Ziz equals 5 weeks, 1 Sitry equals 5 days, 1 Kaz equals 5 hours, 1 sy equals 5 minutes and finally 1 Ly equals 5 seconds."
"Wait so that would mean, ten, twenty, thirty... YOU ARE FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OLD?!"
"Well, no, but I will be, in the time I was in cryogenesis my 99th birthday passed, there has been, in your human time notation 6 months and 30 days, it will take 4 years 5 months, and 1 day for me to reach, 500 years on age."
"Wow, so you are like a grandma, should I be worried? Is it considered the P-word if you perv on me, or is it considered elder abuse if I do i- Ouch!"
Kara punched Carol's arm before she could end her words.
"By your earthly standards I am still only a teen who closes in on adulthood."
"So, phedophi- OUCH! Ok, Ok! I'll stop." Carol screamed as she held her leg while floating in the air.
Kara huffed and looked at the screens again, she is an expert in matters related to technology but she is not foolish enough to try to hack a system she has no experience in instead of allowing an A.I with historical records of it do it.
Sighing Kara got up from the chair and walked toward the Elevator.
"J.A.N.A.I will resolve this issue, in a little more than a Kaz." Entering inside she waited for Carol and mentally asked Lavender to bring her to her destination.
"He will organize all of the information available and give the complete report to us, we could wait for him to decipher everything and read it along the way but I have a feeling this will make you somewhat... anxious."
Carol nodded and kept silent.
"Instead of this, we will go to the arena, I believe we both need to get a more, precise control of our strength, I am tired of having to treat everything like glass."
"Is it that much of a problem?"
"Contrary to you I cannot deactivate my powers and living on a planet where my sneeze can create an abyss is not adequate, there is a technique my people invented called ᛓᚱᚭᛐᛆçᚭᚭ᛫ᛆᛌᛓᛆᚴᛁᛆᛚ, Spacial Protection in your language if mastered it will allow me to, with my aura, redirect all the energy of an attack or movement towards another place."
"Hence I will only need to hold something with my normal strength and redirect all the kinetic energy towards my entire body to offset my strength hence not going insane after constantly having to hold back."
As the door opened both of them walked forward to the end of the closed corridor.
"Won't that hurt you?"
"Think it like this if an average member of your species spread all the strength they use to hold a cup throughout their body would they harm themselves? Would they even feel anything?
"Yeah, now that you say it like that it makes me seem like an idiot."
Kara put her hand on Carol's head as they continued to walk and said. "My father once said something that I remember to this day, it happened after a teacher snapped at me for asking an 'obvious' question."
Carol turned her eyes and looked at Kara.
"It goes a little bit like this, 'Do not apologize for seeking knowledge none were born with wisdom, they attained it through their Krytoz, some took a little bit longer than others but that does not make them worse, you are... young so it is understandable that you don't know things outside of those you didn't experience yourself."
" 'Do not let anyone discourage you from knowing more, attaining more for your life, these little things, your curiosity, the way you see the world and even your ability are things that together make you... you, there is no problem in adding more things to your own self, and shouldn't convince yourself there is just because os some harsh words from some ignorant people."
"... That's deep."
Taking her hand out of Carol's head Kara laughed a little bit. "I suppose so, Father was both a Philosopher and an artist, he saw the world in a way that maybe I will never understand, but if I am sure of anything is that he loved me more than anything else."
"... I remember it you know, for me it has been mere Kaz since my parents forced me into that cryogenic pod, I tried to resist, I swear for Rao I did, I cried, I screamed and I kicked them the hardest I could, but they wouldn't stop, they pushed me inside that damn pod and ignored me the entire time."
Kara's eyes wetted as her voice cracked, seeing this Carol started to feel like the walk towards the end of the hallway was getting slower.
" 'Stop mom, dad please, stop'," Kara said slowly emphasizing the end of each word.
"5 words, I screamed those simple Five words with all my might until my skin began to bleed, The planet was suffering from earthquakes all around, J.A.N.A.I was preparing to leave but nobody else was there with me."
Kara sighed and burned the water on her eyes. "Mom and Dad turned back, the last thing I saw when the Pod was flying in the air, just before I blacked out was the two of them flying straight through thousands of droids."
Carol's eyes widened as she looked at Kara's own but she decided to keep quiet, talking now would not be a good idea.
"I don't know what happened, why did Krypton really explode? Why did no one escape with a pod or simply flew away? What were my parents fighting against? Was Krypton's destruction a planned attack? If so, by whom?"
*Sigh* "I will have to discover the answers to those questions later, for now, we should train." Suddenly a strong light penetrated Carol's eyes making her flinch and look at where it had come from, looking at the source her eyes widened.
In front of her, there is what she could only call a gladiator's arena with a big quadrangular area at the center and 4 other smaller ones connected to each side.
The ground is completely metallic, composed of silver, light gray, and blue colors, as she entered one arena she briefly saw the force field surrounding the area.
"Now," Kara said at the center of the arena taking Carol's attention.
Kara's suit began to change, at the bottom what looked like two Black and Orange Shaolin monk shoes appeared together with black loose pants that have orange lines on them, together with a belt that has small pockets on it.
More at the top Kara's stomach is uncovered with her chest having an X shaped black bra on it connected to an orange fabric shaped like a sports bra, her arms have a black, orange protection armor in them, finally, she has a small cloth around her neck and her hair is tied with a ponytail, with a sudden BOOM and a small CRACK Kara's muscles compressed.
Kara's hearing aid flattened and expanded outwards covering the back of her head it expanded upwards forming a tiara, it also covered the entirety of her jaw and her cheeks leaving the rest of her face uncovered but coating the entirety of her neck and nape, Carol couldn't see where it ended because of the shirt.
With the orange in her hair burning and an uncharacteristically serious expression Kara looked at Carol as if she wanted nothing more than to beat her, the Kree hybrid wouldn't admit it to anyone but for one single second, she thought the person looking at her couldn't possibly be the same Kryptonian crying not ten seconds early.
"Let us fight."
With a neutral expression, Carol moved forward, while she did so small white cubes covered the entirety of her body, when they finally faded her suit had long since changed.
She now wore black boots, a green army cargo pants, she wore a blue sleeveless shirt, and two fighter gloves.
"All right." Activating her powers Carol entered her stance and prepared herself, she didn't think she'd be able to dodge now. "Let's do this."
With a small smile Kara shot toward Carol, no sound or air crack was made even though she had clearly broken through the sound barrier in less than a second.
Carol wasn't able to react quickly enough, one moment her eyes started to widen, the next Kara shoved her open palm through her chest, literally.
Not giving time to Carol, Kara takes out her bloodied hand, pulls her guard back, and throws a lower kick to her Achilles, this time a small sonic boom was created disorienting Carol even more and preventing her from concentrating.
With her feet connecting Carol flipped in the air, not losing the opportunity Kara brought her leg back and hit Carol's stomach with her knee throwing her back, had this been a real fight Kara would have punched Carol's jaw with all her strength after her first attack, fortunately for both of them they had no reason or motive to kill each other.
Hitting the forcefield Carol fell to the ground, she threw up some blood as she tried to breathe, before her brain could come back to normal she felt a warm sensation running through her chest, suddenly she could breathe again, even better the pain was gone.
Turning around she supported her body with both her hands and legs, looking at the yellow light running through a spital in the metallic ground she suddenly remembered something and shot upwards.
"KARA WHAT THE FUCK?!"
The Kryptonian in question only looked at her friend with the same serious and maybe angry expression as before and said.
"Fool, don't you realize what you are?"
Carol's expression turned confused as she heard Kara's angry words.
*Sigh* "You don't need to breathe why were you trying to do something so unnecessary when you thought were so close to death? Even worse the damage I caused to you could not only be ignored but also the pain!"
Kara thickened her tone even more as she angrily scolded Carol.
"Your ability to turn into light does indeed limit your speed and impedes you from twisting space for some zeptoseconds but you could very well have turned your nerves into light and still use most of their functions, all you needed to do was remove the pain signals and attack me."
"While doing so you could slowly absorb the honestly gigantic amount of Energy of the forcefields and heal yourself very slowly, the damage I caused you was almost non-existent but you still act like you are a normal Human being Carol, this mentality will not only kill you but also imped you from utilizing your full potential."
*Sigh* "Honestly Carol I just wanted to stay with you here for some time but you clearly need my help more than I realized."
Carol stayed frozen in place without saying anything, never in her life had she thought she'd be scolded for not brushing off having a hole in her chest.
'Is this the life of a super-human? Never thought it would have problems like these, this situation kinda reminds me of the words 3° world problems and first world problems, then again I should have expected a 495 year old Kryptonian to be a specialist in martial arts.'
"Had this been a real fight I'd have been able to kill you two times already, let's not even speak about your reaction time, you should have known a yellow sun powers me up immensely, when I arrived at this planet I could fly more than 72 times faster than light, mere minutes allowed this number to rise to 96."
"Although my strength as resistance is what most grows and my other abilities are being lesser improved you should have expected me to be massively faster than the time we tested your powers."
Shyly lifting her hand Carol looked at Kara nervously.
"Yes, Carol."
"I... didn't really read many things about your race before sorry."
"No, no, I'm... sorry I shouldn't have said these things to you, it's obvious you wouldn't have a high knowledge of my people, you were a soldier it wasn't expected for you to know these things."
"Now, I'll explain some things to you, Earth's magnetic field reduces the sun's radiation immensely so it is obvious that when outside of a planet the energy available will increase, but the closer to the sun The more it is, and We are very close to the sun right now."
"Without any kind of training, you were able to instinctively manipulate space, a feat so absurd you managed to be 240 times faster than light the first time you flew, but, just like me you have an immense disadvantage, that is until you activate your powers you are as resistant as a bear and strong enough to lift over 120 tons with all the strength of your body."
"The only reason your body doesn't break itself is because most of that strength is being backed by the energy always present in your body independently if you activate your power or not."
Carol nodded, having an old teacher reminds her of all the kung fu movies she has seen before.
"Now, We will fight, for a very, very Long time, for those with minds like ours a single second can extend itself to 3,170,979,198 centuries."
"That's... absurd."
"No, it is not, for a simple-minded creature like a human the universe has a total of 13.8 billion years, if one lives according to seconds that would be true, but remember what I said to you, Time is relative, for someone living as a human for most of her life you will experience various stages of mental instability on the first centuries, so we will not be using our brains to their maximum capacity."
Carol gave a relieved sigh as she smiled, those movies with mortals defeating God-like beings now seem like absolute bullshit.
"For your own good we will accelerate the second by a total of 87,600 times, making it so a single minute extends to a total of 10 years."
"What?! So, like One hour will be 600 years? And didn't you tell me you were 500 years old, were you born less than 7 hours ago too?"
Kara's eye twitched as she took a calming breath.
"Firstly, yes you will train with me for the entirety of this time, Secondly, no Carol I was not born seven hours ago, my people calculate the Krytoz by the time of which New Krypton takes to circle around Rao, a star bigger than this solar system."
"Ohhh~ I'm loving this Kryptonian lore you know, but I have one last question, If time is relative then can't you just use your brain to the maximum and absorb The sun's radiation, or that will thing?"
"No Carol I Can't, my people are born with human-like reflexes, this is due to the fact that a Baby and a Child are helpless and extremely vulnerable so our brain avoids passing that time by letting us live in the seconds until we reach our 2 krytoz of age."
"After this age, our reflexes and perception start to improve, but that does not mean light moves faster even in a bubble of accelerated time created by the aura of a Kryptonian light still can not fully reach us due to the bending of space, we may be able to get 1 to 4% of the energy but really it is still almost nothing, specifically for older Kryptonians."
"Now, about the sun's radiation unless I use a technique called ᛘᚬᚱᛏᛅ᛫ᛋᚬᛚᛅᚱ, Solar Death I won't be able to absorb any meaningful energy, this technique works by surrounding a star with our bioelectric aura and ONLY twisting space in a way time in accelerated AND the energy is directed towards our body."
"This technique is prohibited because of two reasons, 1° This can kill the Kryptonian using it, depending on their age and ability they can quite literally explode from the energy absorbed, the lucky ones will die instantly, the unlucky ones will feel every cell on their body explode like mini fireworks."
"2nd If, and that is a big if, the Kryptonian with enough energy capacity and control of their aura manages to perfectly use this technique, they will indeed become absurdity powerful, Reality alteration, Molecular, and Astral manipulation, Soul forging, Resurrection, Mind control, Truth Sight, Future Sight, Time control, Spontaneous Creation and many, MANY more powers can be obtained by absorbing only One star, depending on the type the user will gain different powers but you understand what I am trying to say right?"
Carol nervously nodded.
"Right, the reason why we do not do this is very simple, Rao is EVERY star in the universe, Killing one would mean killing a part of him, a sin of the highest order only punishable with a complete soul obliteration."
Carol whistled. "Your religion really is something else, I mean we humans, well, most of us believe God exists but we have no way to prove it exists or that it doesn't, but from what you said Kryptonians always had Rao, It makes me ask myself if Humanity would be better had we had a God to guide us too."
"What ifs, there is little to no reason to think of them, concentrate on the now Carol, I need you to stay with me."
Smiling Carol walked closer to Kara and asked. "So, how are we going to do this?"
Sitting on the ground and crossing her legs Kara said. "Sit in front of me the same way I am and relax your body, I will do the rest."
Chapter 14: 11- Higher Self, and The Importance of Living
Chapter Text
[Wednesday, 1:50 PM, In a place close to Mercury, J.A.N.A.I Coliseum, Year 0]
Sitting on the ground and crossing her legs Kara said: "Sit in front of me the same way I am and relax your body, I will do the rest."
Carol walked toward Kara and sat in front of her as instructed, taking deep breaths she relaxed her body, the light of the power inside her diminished as she felt her body losing strength.
Almost immediately after feeling herself weakening, she snapped her powers back in place.
"Ugh*"
Carol grunted in pain as she felt her power burning her body for the first time, followed by a painful impact all over her skin and an explosion of light that almost blinded her even with her eyes closed.
Jumping in fright Carol opened her eyes, only to see Kara still sitting with her legs crossed and her eyes closed, her skin absorbing the golden energy around her.
Without either opening her eyes or lifting herself Kara spoke. "Sit again, your energy has been flowing inside your body for years, and with the help of that Kree chip it was filtered, your body has already accustomed itself to it."
Kara hummed as if in thought. "Relaxing your muscles made it so your body weakened to its normal state, still vastly stronger than a normal human but not durable enough to resist you suddenly supercharging it."
"Your muscles withered when you took your energy out and before allowing them to adapt you suddenly brought it back twice as powerful."
"Oh... but why didn't this happen the first time I used my powers? I mean even though I could take much more energy, and I did, My muscles didn't burn like this." Carol sat in front of Kara and closed her eyes once again.
With a neutral expression, Kara responded. "I really have to train you properly, don't I? Carol, at this moment we are talking and moving at a speed where the human eye is unable to see anything, that is a little over fifty times the speed of sound."
Carol's eyes widened. "Wait, really? Then how can I hear you right now?"
"Communication between two people traveling faster than sound can take many forms, personally I am covering both of us with my aura and twisting space in such a way my voice can reach you, do avoid talking this way when close to weaker beings when you learn how to do such a thing."
"If you do not contain the sound inside your aura then the drastic difference in speed will cause air cracks anyone close to you will most likely explode if you are not careful."
"Right... now what?"
Kara stayed silent confusing Carol who was about to use her senses before she could however she felt a hand touch the back of her head and gently push it forward until she touched something, had it not been for the indistinguishable warmth of Kara's skin she would have jumped.
"Pay attention to my voice, I will manipulate your mind into perceiving a faster time period as its normal state, do not resist."
Carol heard and prepared herself, the next second strange things happened, she felt weightless as if nothing held her down to the ground, which was weird, she could still feel the ground below her, but at the same time she could feel that nothing was there, at least not until... something hugged? yes hugged her.
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"Kara?" She spoke without a mouth.
"Is that you?" She saw without her eyes, an entity? composed of so many colors she couldn't even perceive before, moving in so many new directions that for a moment she asked herself if she was insane.
How could she not, whatever place she was brought nothing but insanity to her mind.
'No... wait.'
'Carol' stood still looking at the thing in front of her, something happened at that time, wait, no, time does not exist here, just by observing she started to understand, the confusion dissipated for a brief moment, there in front of her was Kara, Really Kara not what was down there but... her, waiting for her to come back to normal, ah yes she understands now.
'I see with no eyes, Talk with no words/mouth, Move without a body, and Think without a mind, I am yet I am not... Myself.'
In a dimension beyond Matter, beyond Time, one being indescribable to those of a lower form of existence hugged the other, and looked intently at its form.
The smaller one was previously confused, but now it was happy after finally seeing a true companion, its form was confused as to why the other was so much bigger and more lively than itself, but it shrugged it off, it was happy, so much that it hugged the other.
It was alone for a looong time, or maybe not? the lower one was confusing it.
In its vision the other was humanoid, it knew the other was simply molding itself according to a form familiar to its lower self, she? yes, it was she, for now, appreciated the gesture.
She felt giggly at being so close to another, And it wasn't just one of those who just passed by and Ignored her even though she called them! Well... she had to stop because of those demons but with her new B.F.I.T.W.U -Best friend in the whole universe- that wouldn't be a problem anymore... She hoped.
The other smiled and finally stabilized her form, humanoid and female in shape she looked like her lower self yet much different, her 'hair' was braided with a headpiece stuck with a hair stick that separated into five pieces were oval-shaped red rocks with a rune each flew around deceivingly randomly.
On the other's forehead, she could see a circular yellow/orange circle, from the other's nose the same color spread in a V shape nor catching her eyes but spilling a small bit below them, Wait a minute! The Sun, The runes, The warmth, she knew where the other came from, IT WAS THE BIRD! The flaming one!!
"~¢√^π~¶!!!" She screamed, the other seemed to be confused as she looked at her weirdly, and a little bit offended?
No, wait! Maybe it wasn't the bird? but she looked so much like it, no, no, no no no no no no even while hidden she could see the feathers, the wings! the six eyes! no wait not only six there were more under her wings! and that gorgeous crown with those beautiful colors, soooo preeeetty~~.
It was so pretty she just wanted to hug the other more and more, honestly if she wanted to explain how pretty it was she'd probably take an entire ¥€¢£\©®℅™∆§×÷÷Π√♪|`~ to do it, it was even prettier than that really cool humanoid form, but reaaaally~ The Other made herself very... exuberant, what's that word for ×°| again?
'Ah Yes, dummy you don't need to make sense, that's for lower life forms.'
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The other flinched and widened her eyes breaking off the hug, taking advantage of the situation 'It' jumped
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Ah yes, she should cut her connection to the lower one, she met some mean people down there, especially that many-in-one, it was really weird.
She prepared to do it but the other gently put its hand above her head, stopping her from doing it.
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It was confused, what was there to like about that place, there were like so few colors to see, and everything was so tiny and fragile, the only reason she even bothered to go down there was because nobody wanted to be her friend here.
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But that changed now, she couldn't even go to another universe because of that STUPID wall anymore! And the Other was kind like a Big One so they could explore everything and beat up any meanie coming their way!
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Anyway! not that it matters now right, suddenly everything became a blur and not a §×÷÷Π√♪|`~ later she was back down.
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[Wednesday, 1:50:00 PM, In a place close to Mercury, J.A.N.A.I Coliseum, Year 0]
Carol opened her eyes and looked around herself, she was... standing? When did she get up? More importantly, what was that? wait what was what again?
Her head hurt as she tried to remember... something it was there — It Was There somewhere, on the tip of her f¥ng£π?
Uuugh* She groaned as the pain became worse, her legs losing sense as she continuously tripped never falling and catching herself at the last §×÷÷Π√♪|`~.
Suddenly two hands touched her head, she felt something touch her forehead and then the pain stopped.
"Stop, please, no matter how strong you are your mind is fragile, do not try to remember, just focus on me ok?"
Carol tried to open her eyes but they seemed to be glued together.
"K-kara? I ca-can't open my eyes, what's happening?" She asked as her heart began to beat faster, everything was weird, she was a little bit afraid she knows that much, what she doesn't know is why she thinks she should be happy, and excited and #@∆°★!
Carol felt herself being pushed down and then forward, in just a second she was on her knees with her head touching something soft.
"It's ok, just calm down, concentrate on my voice, nothing else matters, just me, look at me."
Carol felt something touching her head and moving slowly up and down, was... was Kara caressing her?
When she was about to lift her head something covered her eyes, she felt... something she couldn't quite describe run through her face, when the feeling ended she saw again, the thing blocking her vision long gone before she did so.
She blinked for a while, the pain in her head gradually decreasing as she did so, when her vision finally came back to normal and the tears left she finally saw where she was.
Kara, the bestest $&%!*∆© in the whole √π|√£∆¢¥, NO! her BESTEREST $&%!*∆© in the whooooleeee √π|√£∆¢¥ stood -or more specifically crouched- in front of her, her hands hugged her head who in turn was lying on the Kryptonian's breasts.
She felt a small amount of pain in her head, undoubtedly born from the incomprehensible gibberish she was thinking before suddenly, everything became more clear, and something... Big moved away from... Somewhere leaving a feeling of emptiness and... Blindness behind.
In a split second she escaped from Kara's hold and got up, she wasn't used to any intimate contact not started by her just yet.
Bumph.Bumph.Bumph.Bumph
"So..." Carol said awkwardly while Kara slowly lifted herself up. "What was that?"
Sighing Kara put her arms behind her back and walked toward Carol.
"That, was you, and me, The real you, and the real me that is."
"I... don't follow."
"Of course you don't, it would be weird if you could, I am not insulting you, I don't do that, I am merely stating a limitation any mortal being has, Let me explain it in a way you may understand, Through meditation, I was able to connect with my, how do I say it... soul."
"A soul belonging to any and all living beings is an entity of a higher dimension, commonly the Fourth, by touching your forehead with mine, I was able to locate your true self and ask a favor."
"That being allowing you to see the universe through a different perspective, that is to say, your brain now considers your normal perception of time to be 87,600 times faster, meaning that unless you manage to control your own brain you will forever be stuck in this state, a single second, extended to two entire months."
"Kara, what the fuck?"
Truly, what the fuck, Carol has been confused, surprised excited, and even stupefied by the things Kara had said or done but this was by far the most absurd.
The Kryptonian Talked with her soul, and... touched it? Well not like that but it must mean something right, those romance books didn't lie to her right? Was that soul bond shit real, she hopes not, that shit was just too cheesy for her, she swears she'll kill herself if it is real, Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait... Romance?
'I remember? I read that book when I was a teen, what was the name again? The man with two souls, or something like that? No, it doesn't matter, what matters is that my memories are possibly coming back?' She asked herself while her expression changes to a contemplating one.
Ignoring her question and the weird facial expressions Kara kept walking around Carol.
"You were quite happy to see me actually, the fourth dimension is... boring, too big, and hard to find other entities, at least outside of a God's domain but even if you did they just may want to beat and consume you in hopes of ascending to the fifth, so congratulations Carol I'll be with you even after Death, If Rao allows it I will bring you to his garden."
Kara stopped moving. "Oh, and I know you don't remember saying it but." She approached Carol very closely and glared directly at her eyes.
"I. Am. NOT. That Bird's Daughter, Got it?"
"Umm, o-ok?"
Jumping up and clapping her hands Kara smiled. "Good, now we can finally start your training."
"No, no, no, not this time You can't just tell me you can connect with your soul and not explain it like, I am sorry if I'm being insensitive but can't you just go to the afterlife and meet your parents."
*Sigh* "No carol I cannot, firstly I can only connect with my soul for a small amount of time, the fourth dimension may not be affected by time but the connection to my mortal body makes it so the Laws of the universe force the concept of time into the real me."
"Those same laws state that a body who has a soul, if by any means loses it, will die immediately, so my window of time is small, the deeper the connection the shorter my time is, Understand?"
Carol nodded while seeing Kara slowly walk towards the corner of the arena.
"Secondly, I have no idea where it is, The amount of memories I can remember will impact my mortal body when I come back, simple flesh and bone cannot handle the existence that is the fourth dimension as you know and experienced."
Kara smiled and said in a joking tone. "That being said I could just kill myself and meet my parents right?"
"NO!" Carol screamed with a ferocity that managed to surprise even her.
"Please, Please don't, I'll admit, sometimes I forget you aren't a human, and when I remember I also realize I don't understand how you think.'
"But, look, I understand the knowledge of the existence of an afterlife must have changed the way your entire species looks at the universe, maybe you don't think it is worth staying in this place because you lost everything but there must be something right? Something worth keeping you here."
Having already turned to look at Carol, Kara opened her mouth to speak but was interrupted by Carol who kept talking in a desperate tone.
"And, and even if you don't just, just, just stay for some time ok! I may be just an Ignorant human or maybe even just a weapon to be used but I can, I can show you it is worth moving forward."
"I mean, just because there is something waiting for you on the other side it doesn't mean life is not worth living, and even if for you it isn't worth it, maybe I- no maybe someone can make it so it is."
Carol's breathing slowed down, her heart kept pounding in her chest while she thought of something else to say, her intentions aren't selfish but she doesn't want to stay alone anymore, not after everything that happened, not after meeting someone so much like her.
"Life... Is meant to be taken one step at a time, maybe the road is a little bit worn or even broken but to reach the other side you have to step on some mud right? One step at a time, always moving forward."
Kara looked at Carol amusingly during the entire time, she was just kidding, she, killing herself? Her mother would spank her the moment she arrived at Rao's garden, who would also not be very happy with her.
She was ready to interrupt Carol's speech but when she heard those last words, she flinched, her eyes widened in surprise as she seemed to remember something.
Kara slowly moved her head around as if looking for something.
"Ah." A simple word, said in a small tone but still loud enough to be heard by the desperate human on the other side of the arena, and meaningful enough to make her stay silent.
"Yes... moving forward." Putting her arms behind her back once again she straightened herself.
"You know You don't have to worry about me Killing myself, maybe if I was alone I would do it but, you are here aren't you? Even if you don't realize it yet Carol, you changed the way I look at life."
She sat on the metallic step of the stairs. "After Alrya died I felt... alone, I had no friends besides mine and Alrya's family, had it not been for them I would not be here now you know, we tried to speak with her soul but... Something was wrong, she wasn't in Rao's Garden."
"... After some, no, after a long time of 'investigation' we were able to determine something, an artifact of some sort was responsible for her death, my necklace didn't shatter at the time so her soul couldn't possibly have been destroyed, but it had been affected somehow."
Kara stayed silent for some time, opting to just look at the ceiling. "You remember what I told you about what Kryptonite does to a Kryptonian don't you?"
Carol looked attently at Kara's face, even while looking upward she had no doubt the Kryptonian could see her perfectly, then with some hesitation, she nodded.
"And you do remember what I said about how we found Alrya right?"
Carol gave another nod.
"You thought she was killed with Kryptonite, but honestly that is very unlikely, this... Thing is by far the most destructive object we as a species have ever found, it corrodes everything that gets near it, Everything."
"Making a weapon with it although not impossible would be highly inefficient, we'd have to create a space bridge so resilient not even all the energy inside our Super galaxy cluster would be able to maintain it for more than a fraction of a fraction of a picosecond."
"Space, Time, Energy, Matter, Tangible or Intangible, it corrodes everything, except souls, I had no chance to do it but my Father worked with other scientists on the Kryptonite Analysis project, he didn't tell me anything, I was barely 5 Krytoz old at the time but I remember him speaking with Mother."
"From what I can remember Kryptonite was said to be able to slightly damage the connection between soul and body but nowhere powerful enough to actually erode a soul much less sever its connection to Rao's garden upon death."
Kara sighed.
"We were all worried, Faora made continuous expeditions outside the planet to find Alrya's soul, my master did the same, I on the other hand, I had to go a therapy, What. A. Joke."
"A Kryptonian needing to seek help because of psychological Problems, I was embarrassed you know, so much so that I refused to go, fortunately, I have, Had an amazing family, my dad gave himself the trouble of learning all he could About the El's psychology and became my own personal doctor."
Throughout Kara's history, Carol had pushed herself closer to the Kryptonian, by now she was already touching the giant woman's arm with her own.
"You know, everything was getting better, it took time but I lost my suicidal thoughts, stopped making crazy plans to escape Krypton, and even reduced the times I snapped at anyone who got too close, it wasn't perfect but it was getting better, I had even started to smile more you know, laugh at silly jokes and all that.'
"I even made plans for when we eventually found Alrya, I just needed to make a clone body and connect her soul to it, sure I'd spend some Krytoz on leave from all my machines and they'd probably force me into a blue pod but really, to have Alrya back it would be worth it."
"Then destiny decided to play a cruel joke on me and my planet blew up." Kara said with a heavy voice.
Lifting herself up the Kryptonian walked down the stairs to the center of the Arena.
"I'm still considered Immature you know, culturally speaking Death is not taken seriously, the afterlife is already there what's there to miss? You may think the contrary because of me and the histories of my family but my race is, well we don't feel as much as you humans do, different brain chemistry, besides soul stuff and all that, but... my family is different, we feel much more than what we are supposed to."
Kara sighed as Carol looked at her with even more attention and curiosity than before.
"Supposedly it's the fault of experiments our clan passed through on the Cosmologik Wars, These experiments are what gave Kryptonians so much power, well, more than what we already had, the unique abilities of every Kryptonian surged because of them."
"Mourning the loss of a friend or a family member should take at the very maximum one Kaz In relative time." Suddenly Kara stopped and turned towards Carol.
"You understand I'm speaking about relative time right?"
Somewhat confused Carol nodded.
"*Humm* even then it is only because of the time the funeral takes, fast and nonsensical as to let the living go back to their lives and the Dead to Rao's garden."
"Still, I'm not even an adult, being an El above that made everything worse." Kara once again looked up, her expression slowly morphing into an angry one.
Suddenly she closed her fist and punched the pillar on her side,
*BOOM*
The strike caused an explosion of sound that permeated through the whole arena, ripples passed through the construct, and even with it slightly shaking aside from the first, no sound was made during the process.
"irresponsible." A punch. "Entitled." Another punch. "Unstable". And another. "CHILDISH." And another. "LITTLE!." And another. "KRYPTONIAN!!"
*CRACK*
A deafening sound spread through the arena as cracks the same size as Kara's fist spread throughout the forcefield surrounding the construct, not quite breaking it and slowly fixing itself.
Carol watched as Kara brought her bloodied hand to her face looking at it as if seeing something curious, she heard small cracks as Kara's wrist forced itself in the right way, her, black? blood was absorbed into her skin as her wound healed at a quick pace, the blood sticking to the energy field evaporated into a black mist as it flew towards Kara's skin and entered her body.
Turning to Carol, Kara wore a neutral expression on her face, with an unnatural calm tone of voice she said. "Unfortunately this also resulted in rapid mood swings, one time I can be happy, the next I may just want to kill something, no rhyme or reason for it."
She sighed. "You do not need to worry about anything, it is not so severe as me suddenly attacking you, I like you Carol, I would be saddened if you suddenly started fearing me."
Spreading her arms and smiling the Kree Hybrid spoke. "Well... no need to worry about that, as I said before, I trust you with my life."
Kara gave a small smile as she started walking back and forth, Carol recognized this as her friend going into 'Lecture Mode'.
"In older generations that, the sudden attacks I mean, may have happened but we fixed most of it, my mother wasn't originally an El, no she married my father who was part of the family, and had me after some hundreds of Krytoz, she was the typical Kryptonian woman you know, short, to the point, nonsensical hated any form of weakness, her heart as closed as an Esh'kre."
"But then my father came along, a bubbling idiot by my Race's standards, still, even with her thinking of him as a clown he was able to soften her heart with time, he had to train very hard for it, only had enough courage to ask her out after beating her on a racing match."
"I'm thankful for my mother, the time she spent with my dad made it so she knew exactly how to take care of an El, she taught me, you know, how to be normal, she said even though I was smart my way of being would never sit well with others."
"Fortunately between all those idiots in school I was able to find Alrya and she helped me, it was only after meeting her that I gave up trying to fit in, 14 Krytoz of pretending, the only times I could breathe were when I was with Komand'r, I didn't want to disappoint mom with my weirdness you know, I never told Komand'r or Koriand'r about that, I didn't want them thinking I was weird too, I know, stupid, but I was just a child then."
"Everything changed when I met Alrya, she was very pretty I didn't have a good enough control then so every time she tried to help me I lashed out at her, but she didn't give up, and just like my Father did to my Mother she softened me."
Kara stopped and started walking toward Carol.
"It was after that that I gathered enough courage to tell my mom I just wanted to be myself, do you know what she did? She smiled at me and said for me to keep moving forward and don't look back at her, I know she was sad, I could feel it but, I was happy, I was myself, never managed to make any other friends after that but you know fuck them, I was happy with everything and that's what important."
Arriving in front of Carol she opened her arms and hugged her.
"Thank you for reminding me that even though my race is gone I still can move forward, not just for them, but also for myself, there will be people that will be sad if I go, you, Komand'r, her parents, and honestly most of the servants of the royal family."
Kara broke the hug and quickly walked to the corner of the arena.
"But I think we've delayed it by long enough, now, let's train."
Carol shook her head and gave a nervous sigh, she'd continue her conversation with Kara after this.
"So, what will we train first?"
Kara smiled widely. "Martial Arts, without powers of course, Not to worry I will adjust my strength with the help of both my suit and the arena, our speed will be the same, so just fight me and I will correct you ok, the arena will do the rest."
"Okay, if you say so."
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