Superflash:Collison Course (Volume 2)

Chapter 5: Family

(“Your husband?  Kara, I see the woman I always knew you would grow up to be standing in front of me.  I just wish I could have seen all of this with my own eyes.  I missed out on so much…I…”)

(“You promised you would come find me.  You and Father.  If you’ve been alive all this time…where were you?”)

(“Adrift in space for twenty-four years.  Argo City was all that survived Krypton’s destruction.  A fail-safe your father created…”)

(“Twenty-four years?! I was trapped in the Phantom Zone for that time!  How could you…?”)

Barry could feel the anger threatening to explode from Kara, even if he couldn’t understand what she and her mother were saying.  He desperately wanted to help, to do something to calm his wife, but he also knew that letting her get this out was the only way for the healing process to begin.

(“Kara, you have to understand, Zor and I had no way of knowing whether or not our sacrifice was successful.  We only knew; as did Jor and Lara, that we were placing all our hopes for your survival over our own.  I imagine that the shockwaves from Krypton’s destruction were the cause of your entrapment.  You have every right to be angry.”)

(“I am angry!  Angry that you didn’t do more to find me and Kal!  Angry that the reason you sent me to Earth was to protect my cousin but when I got here, he had grown up while I was still a child.  I…”)

(“…have become a hero.  You survived while I had lost all hope of ever seeing you again.  Your father would be proud of you.”)

(“Where is my father?  How is he not here with you?”)

(“Kara…your father gave his life to save Argo City.  He sacrificed himself so I could live.”)

(“So Argo City is still out there?  There are more Kryptonian survivors?”)

(“Kara…Argo is…”)

(“Gone as well…that’s what you’re going to tell me…so I’ve lost my home all over again.”)

(“If only it were that simple.  Argo City did survive the destruction of Krypton thanks to your Father and Uncle.  The last survivors of our home-world prospered and lived in peace, not making the mistakes of the High Council…”)

(“So what happened?  Something devastating must have occurred to cause you to flee the city.”)

(“The Worldkillers, they happened.  After years of drifting in space we thought that we were safe. Their ship disappeared as Krypton’s cataclysm reached the final throes. We had no idea how wrong we were. They were like a plague, and I was the last survivor. I barely escaped; hoping to find a benevolent planet that could help fight these enemies.  I had no idea that Zor’s specifications for the pods he created had a program designed to track other Kryptonians.”)

(“So the Worldkillers are real?  Kal and I have believed for many years that they were myth.”)

(“They are…or were…I can’t know for certain if they survived the destruction of Argo that they brought about.  Kara, I know my being adrift in space on Argo City is no excuse for not looking for you and Kal-El, nor is it a good reason for leaving you trapped in the Phantom Zone.  If I’d known that…I’m so sorry I didn’t keep my promise to you.”)