Superflash:Collison Course (Volume 2)

Chapter 3: Revelations

“I wasn’t sure what to think as Barry and I looked at the needle Alex had used in her attempt to take a blood sample from my mother.  A thousand thoughts ran through my head: where was she all this time, how did she survive Krypton’s destruction, and the hardest one to process: if she was alive all these years, why did she never try to find me?  I was sure Alex immediately knew that her patient was my mother from the recordings we both saw of her.  But to avoid what I felt would be an awkward and unpleasant conversation; I bolted from the room as fast as possible.  There was only one place in the D.E.O. I thought I could go to get answers, at least until my mother wakes up to tell me personally.”

“Kara…?”

“I could hear the worry in Barry’s voice and I although didn’t want him to feel like I was pushing him away just two days into our marriage, this was something I felt like I had to do alone.  So I ignored my super-hearing and was glad that he and I weren’t telepathically linked at the moment, even if deep down I knew I was being foolish.”

“What was that Barry?  I’ve seen Kara through some rough times, but this…she should be happy that her mother is alive.”

“Alex…you know…?”

“There is a certain resemblance even if she appears younger than she should.  Besides, I fought Kara’s Aunt Astra.  I’d be a lousy agent if I couldn’t see that this woman is her twin.”

“I…I’d better go find Kara.”

“I walked away from Alex, immediately worried about what Kara was thinking and feeling in this moment.  If I found my mother alive after all these years, I wouldn’t know how to react either.  Even my trip to Earth-2 with Harry and Cisco was only the tip of what I could have felt when I talked to her on the phone.  And that Nora was another Barry’s mother, a version of me who had never become the Flash.  It didn’t take me long to find Kara as I heard her voice coming from a room off to my right, and another voice answering her but only with what seemed to be prerecorded responses.”

“All this time you were alive!  All these years I’ve spent on Earth and you never came to find me!  Where were you?”

“I am sorry Kara, but I am only a recording, made in the years before Krypton’s destruction.  I made these so you would know that your father and I love you.  That we didn’t want you to die with us.”

“But you promised you would find me!  I spent twenty-four years trapped in the Phantom Zone!  The very reason you sent me to Earth was to protect Kal!  I got here and he didn’t need my protection!”

“Kara…”

Barry watched as Kara slammed her hands down on the projector plate, deactivating the hologram of her mother.  He heard and could almost feel her anger, instantly rushing forward to hold her.  In his embrace, she turned, wrapping her arms around him and buried her face against his chest.  As Flash and Supergirl, he knew she wouldn’t always need him to come to her rescue.  But right now she was just Kara and she needed the comfort of her husband in an emotionally trying time.

Across the country Clark had just returned to Metropolis for Lois’ doctor’s appointment.  He had been in the Arctic when all of the Fortress’ sensors lit up alerting him to the multiple breaches of Earth’s atmosphere.  One fireball had come streaking across the northern skies and he followed until it crashed deep into the ocean floor off the coast of Greece.  While he could hold his breath for long periods of time, he found no trace of the object and thought that it must have been a meteorite that got caught in Earth’s gravity.