A Whole New Multiverse: Supergirl

Chapter 4

When Kara returned to her apartment, she found Alex waiting there and Alex was shocked by what she saw her sister wearing.

"Alex, what are you doing here?" Kara asked.

"Uh, did you forget?" Alex asked as Kara looked around the apartment and she realized what tonight was.

"Our movie night. Rao, I'm sorry Alex, I totally forgot." Kara said.

"Never mind that, what the hell do you think you're wearing?" Alex asked, referring to Kara's suit.

"It's my new supersuit. Cool huh." Kara said as she flourished her cape a bit.

"No, not cool. Why the hell would you get a super suit." Alex asked, desperately hoping Kara wasn't doing what she thought she was going to do.

"Because I'm tired of hiding who I am Alex. I did not travel 2,000 light-years just to be an assistant. What if people figure out who you are? What you are? You can't seriously be thinking about doing this. You're not him Kara." Alex said.

"I know that. You, Eliza and Jeremiah made it very clear that I'm not him. But I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not so much because you're trying to protect me, but because you think I'm not as good as him." Kara said angrily, taking Alex aback.

"What, no, Kara it's not that. You wanted a normal life." Alex said.

"No, you and Eliza wanted me to have a normal life, but get this Alex, I am not normal. My normal life ended the minute my pod left krypton. I know more about math and science than most scientists do, I've visited at least 12 different planets before I came here, I have 12 different super powers, what part about me is normal on this planet. I'm not normal and I'm done pretending to be. It's my choice. Not your's, mine." Kara said.

"Kara, I'm trying to protect you." Alex said.

"By telling me not to be who I really am. This person you want me to be Alex, she's not me. Not the real me anyways. She's a persona I created to avoid drawing attention to myself. But the person I am in this suit, that's the real me. And if you can't see that, then maybe you should just get out." Kara said angrily.

"What?" Alex asked.

"You heard me Alex, either get off your high horse, or get out of my apartment." Kara said, since honestly, this was anger she'd been harboring towards Alex even before she was sent into a new multiverse.

Alex looked at her shocked before grabbing her things and leaving the apartment, causing Kara to turn around and wipe tears from her cheeks, since while she'd been wanting to say to Alex for years, that didn't change how hurt she felt from Alex's lack of faith in her.

"Agent Danvers, wasn't expecting to see you here so late?" Hank Henshaw said when he saw Alex walk up to him at the DEO.

"We need to talk." Alex said.

"About what?" Hank asked.

"My sister, she's planning on putting on a red cape and flying around like her cousin. I'm hoping that maybe if we bring her here, I can talk her out of it." Alex said and Hank sighed, since he knew it was only a matter of time until Kara decided to follow in her cousin's footsteps.

"We're going to have to bring her in soon anyways, so fine." Hank said, not knowing that doing so would put his secret at risk.

"Thank you Hank. I'll take a team in to bring her here after she falls asleep tonight." Alex said.

"You really think that's a good idea? If you abduct from her bed, she'll never forgive you Alex. Especially considering you know what you'll have to use to subdue her." J'onn said.

"I have to keep her from doing this. She's going to get herself killed." Alex said, right as they heard a cape flutter and turned to see Superman fly into the DEO.

"Who's going to get herself killed?" Superman asked.

"Superman, what are you doing here?" J'onn asked, since Clark already knew who he really was.

"Kara called me and me about Alex's less than enthusiastic response to her decision to become a hero and since I've known that Alex has been working for the DEO since day one, I thought I'd come here and try to talk some sense into her before she used kryptonite on her own sister." Clark said, since he knew that both Hank Henshaw and J'onn had known about Kara already.

"I actually tried to rein her in, but you know as well as I do how stubborn Danvers women can be." Hank said and Clark nodded.

"Well, maybe I can get through to her. Is there somewhere we can talk privately?" Clark asked and J'onn nodded as he pointed out an empty training room that he and Alex could use.

"Thank you." Clark said as he pulled Alex with him into the room.

"Clark, you can't seriously be okay with her doing this can you?" Alex asked.

"I've been trying to encourage Kara to do this for years. She was meant for more than just being bossed around by Cat Grant and you know it Alex." Clark said.

"Clark, you brought her to us so she could have a normal life." Alex reminded him.

"A normal childhood. Which she did. But now she's an adult and if she wants to put on a cape, then it's her choice to do so and we should be supportive. Especially considering how much of a hypocrite we'd both be if we tried to stop her." Clark said.

"What?" Alex asked.

"Alex, you and I both do the same thing you're trying to keep her from doing. Save people and fight aliens. Kara doesn't need you to protect her anymore. She needs her sister to have her back." Clark said.

"I can't risk losing her Clark." Alex said.

"I know, I don't want to lose her either, but this is her purpose. It always has been. Kara has the heart of a hero and we shouldn't condemn her for wanting to be one." Clark said.

"She has no training, she's inexperienced." Alex protested.

"So was I when I first started out. Only difference between me and her is that she has someone to teach her, but you won't do it." Clark said and Alex sighed.

"Kara thinks I don't have faith in her as a hero. But that's not true." Alex said.

"I know that, but she doesn't. You need to make things right with her if you want to help her, since she'll need you at her side if she's going to stand a chance." Clark said and Alex sighed, since she knew Clark was right.

"I'll talk to her tomorrow, could you please convince her not to reveal herself until I get a chance to talk to her?" Alex asked.

"You got it." Clark said with a smile as they walked out of the training room.

"See you around." Superman said as he flew out of the building.

"You okay?" Hank asked Alex.

"Yeah, Superman, he helped me see things in a new light. But I am going to need something else from you." Alex said as she told Hank what she wanted.

Hank sighed, since he knew she was asking for something big, but he knew it would also help him win favor with Kara, so he agreed.

"Thank you." Alex said as she walked away from him.

This version of Superman is still friends with J'onn, despite using Kryptonite, since honestly, one thing I disliked about both Superman and Supergirl was how they treated people who used kryptonite. They say they're not goods, but they want to be the only ones in possession of the only thing that can hurt them. Kind of hypocritical. This version of Superman understands that the DEO has kryptonite to stop him if he ever went evil and while he doesn't like that they have it, he understands why they do and knows J'onn would never let it be used against him or Kara intentionally unless there was no other option.