Survivors

Chapter 38: With all her strength

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Alex squeezed Kara's hand and chanced a look at her face. She expected to see tears, but instead Kara just looked blankly at her mother with no emotion. Alex took in the woman, having never seen her before. She had seen her likeness in Kara's drawings but to see her nearly real, as if she was really standing there was shocking. She seemed clearer than Jor El's hologram had been.

"Kara, my brave daughter. By now you have become the woman I knew you would grow up to be. And though you were sent to Earth to protect Kal El, your destiny is not tied to his. There is no correct path in life. You will lose your way many times. What's important is that you find your way back to the brave girl you always were. Be wise, be strong, and always be true to yourself."

The hologram disappeared.

"Thats it? Thats all she has to say? Some pep talk? Wipe the message, Kelex." Kara ordered coldly.

"No!" Alex shouted. "Do not wipe that message or I will take you apart myself!"

"I must follow..." the robot started before Alex struck Kara in the back of her head.

"Tell it to stop now! If you never want to see it again that is fine, but you aren't destroying it!"

Kara took a breath and hoped Alex hadn't broken her hand. Alex knew Kara hated it when she slapped the back of her head.

"Disregard that order Kelex. Keep it."

"This is just like when you wanted to flush your mother's necklace. You make these quick decisions that you might regret the years from now or even tomorrow. Use your head!"

The blonde's shoulders dropped.

"Kelex forget what I said about the temperature being 74. I think 55 would be better."

"No! It stays at 74, Kleenex. Kara, stop playing."

The girl cracked a grin and nodded. "Fine, 74 it will be but I am dropping it five degrees every time you slap my head. Kelex, tell me about Myriad."

"Myriad was a weapon designed by the Culuon Vril Dox..."

"Brainiac 13?! Damn it!" Kara shouted. "Is he here on Earth?"

Alex had just seen Kara watch a message from her long dead mother without showing any emotion. The fact that she was freaking out about this Dox guy worried her greatly. The thought of Non made her angry. She sounded very frightened right now.

"I am not aware of him being on Earth. After he was exiled from Yod Colu, he along with another Coluon who called herself Indigo, traveled to Krypton in an attempt to annihilate the planet's inhabitants. He believed Yod Colu would face an annihilation by what English speaking humans would call the Multitude. His goal was to eradicate life on Krypton so he and other alien races could inhabit the planet, use its core for power and launch a counterattack against the Multitude."

"Okay...what did the weapon do?" Kara asked.

"The weapon was a large space deployed object that connected all the satellites circling Krypton into a mind control device. After he was stopped, Astra attempted to steal the plans for Myriad. She did not know that Krypton's destruction was irreversible. She believed if the populace could be controlled, the wasting of resources would stop and the planet could be saved. Her and her followers killed many in an attempt take the plans."

"So that is why she wanted it and was sentenced to Fort Rozz. Why would Brainiac 13 want a mind control device if he wanted us annihilated?"

"In a strong enough setting, the Myriad signal would conceivably be powerful enough to kill every being, natural to a planet. The signals act as a conduit to the brain. Aliens from other worlds would be safe, Kryptonians dead."