Reincarnated as Supergirl (YJ / Kara Zor-El (Comics))

Chapter 45

Kara appeared a few kilometers away from the city, her platform sparking as some kind of energy field seemed to have blocked and re-directed her teleportation, the very fabric of the world appearing to bend away from the city.

For a second, she just stared at the being slowly pushing its way into her reality, her mind growing foggy at the sight. Grabbing her head, she managed to turn away and regain her bearings.

What in Rao's name was that? At least she had seen that the fighters were mostly safe for the moment. All of them were still locked in battle, but none seemed truly hurt. Kara was quick to look for her friend and found Dani fighting from atop of one of her shields, releasing blasts of fire or cutting away with her sword when a tentacle got too close.

Taking a breath, she looked again. This time she braced herself and what she saw seemed to lose a lot of its power, the tentacles and spots of light no longer mesmerizing to her. Stupid cognitohazards.

Above the city, surrounded by clouds, was a large, sickly green portal from which several tentacles stretched down. Some of said tentacles seemed to grip the edges of the portal, constantly trying to stretch it wider, but most struck down at the struggling heroes.

Dani, a Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Doctor Fate and Red Tornado were fighting it off, doing their best to destroy the portal while being harassed by Klarion and two demons Kara didn't recognize.

At the city's edge, Kara saw Jay Garrick running around. While he could probably reach the fight somehow, he wouldn't really be as effective without flight, so he was doing his best to save as many people as he could and was prioritizing getting them out of immediate danger. Unfortunately, even with how small Salem was, there were just too many civilians to move.

What... was she supposed to do? Kara had been in several spars, she had been in two life or death fights and she had been working on getting used to acting like a hero, but this was just too much. Screams of terror filled her ears as humans desperately fled the fight or hid from it, crying like children, some WERE children.

She had thought that Mr. Mind's attack had been bad, his lightning bolts had done a lot of damage and set buildings on fire but, despite how things appeared, because she and Kori had been in the city, there hadn't actually been all that many casualties.

This was much worse. The only saving grace was that Salem was much smaller than Fawcett City, with less than a 100 thousand people. But the creature that was pushing itself out into reality was so massive the destruction had started to spread to nearby towns.

With another command from her armor, the larger teleportation platform used by the Genomorphs appeared at her side filled with drone boxes. With a single order, five thousand drones took flight, going straight towards the city to help with evacuation.

She had considered calling on the Karabots, but most of their battle programming was still a result of code she had reused from Morrow's work and she didn't trust them close to civilians. She'd have to fix that soon.

The drones wouldn't be able to block even a stray shot from one of the powerhouses battling, but the resulting debris? The aftereffects? Those were just as dangerous to a normal human and they were more than capable of dealing with that.

Looking at the cloud of drones, Kara knew it would not be enough. She had thought she had made too many, going way overboard on their production to create a long term reserve for the League, but it wouldn't be enough.

Stepping forward, both platforms teleported back and Kara burst into action, having finally shook off her indecision and flying directly towards the city. At the midpoint, while hidden from view by one of the larger buildings, she opened the armor, separating from it and continuing to fly wearing only her Supergirl costume.

The armor immediately fell heavily to the ground, its front closing again as it cracked the street under its weight. The limited AI assumed control and started modifying its main weapon. Usually, it would act as a powerful railgun but, thankfully, she'd had the foresight to develop equipment meant to fight off anything from an alien invasion to freaking Eldritch Kaiju.

Changing into her teleport gun would only take a few seconds, but the more devastating forms took longer, both because they were even more complex and as a safety measure. She didn't want anyone getting trigger happy with some of the configurations available... even herself.

Without Kara in the driver seat, the armor was only 36% as effective, but she only needed it to guard the cannon while it was being deployed. She was gonna bring out one of her recently acquired trump cards.

Unfortunately, most of her heavy weapons' capabilities couldn't really be unleashed inside the atmosphere thanks to certain safety devices she'd put in, others would need far too much time, but she had been waiting to test something new.

Kara had made improvements after her raid at Infinity Island and she was eager to deploy it in a real battle. She had tested the device extensively, but never at this scale.

Without pause, she burst into a house, not so much breaking the walls as just... pushing them out of the way as a human would push water. One hand caught a barking dog by the waist while another grabbed a young teen and cradled him to her chest before bursting out.

Not even a second later, one of Klarion's blasts of magic hit the house, causing it to explode and rain debris all around the street. The boy was screaming the entire time, but she didn't actually have time to calm him, just dropping the kid on top of a shield and moving on.

Above her, she saw one of Klarion's magic spells turn into a claw, it enlarged itself and grabbed an entire hospital, ripping it out of the ground and throwing it up with a maniacal laugh.

It seems like the bastard had given up on harassing the heroes and, instead, started trying to force them into prioritizing civilians. At the same time, both demons disengaged and flew down, releasing red blasts of power towards the small city.