Kara and Lena have been monitoring the looming situation with Superman carefully. They know the news is heavily skewed, into the realm of state propaganda, but they can see through the noise to the objective truth behind it– Kara’s cousin is on a dangerous path.
Even so, they never expected that his violence would reach them in Smallville.
The annual corn festival is a favorite event of their daughter’s. They’ve gone every year since her birth, and every year Lori beams, excited by the people and balloons and street stalls. The parade is the highlight of her day, especially the corn princess who drives by in the back of a corvette.
It’s supposed to be fun– a break from the isolation of their small farm. A chance to connect with their neigbors in town, and indulge in funnel cake and caramel apples.
Not this year.
This year, Kara plans to meet up with Lena and Lori in town once she’s done at the feed store. She’s only just pulled up and parked on Maple when she hears an explosion from the direction of Main Street, and the cacophony of screams that follows.
Heart in her throat, Kara breaks into a run, casting her hearing wide in search of her wife and daughter.
“Mommy!”
There. In an instant Kara is at her daughter’s side, who’s clinging tearfully to Lena’s hand, both of them smudged with dust from the rubble.
“It’s okay,” Kara murmurs, scooping Lori into her arms. In the space of a heartbeat she’s scanned for injuries and found none, and cast her gaze to Lena, who is a different story.
One of the pillars in front of the bank has collapsed onto Lena’s legs, trapping her beneath. Part of the roof has crumbled down as well, adding its weight to pin Lena to the sidewalk.
Kara watches her wife cough, and thanks Rao for the sign of life. Kneeling, she lets Lori stand on her own feet and brushes the tears from the girl’s cheeks.
“Lori, honey, I need you to stay right here.” She tunes out the sounds of a continued battle, moving away from the city as she speaks. Still, screams echo throughout the town, proof of the devastation already wrought. “I have to help your mom, okay? Stay right here.”
Lori nods. “Okay, Mama.”
With a nod, Kara turns to her wife, giving Lena’s hand a squeeze. Dusty eyes blink up at her, focusing blearily for just a moment before nodding. She knows what comes next.
Kara hooks her fingers under the pillar and lifts, dipping into the power she’s kept so tightly controlled since she landed on Earth twenty years ago. As soon as it lifts, Lena cries out in pain, muted into a moan as she tries to contain her agony. Even as she does, she struggles to pull herself clear, dragging herself back with her arms until Kara shifts the pillar to one hand and reaches out to help with the other.
As soon as Lena is clear of the last of it Kara lets the pillar slam back to the ground. Gathering wife and daughter in her arms she speeds them all to the grassy area behind the bank, where she then pauses to scan Lena to judge the damage.
What she finds is a broken femur. No– not broken. Shattered.
“Kara…”
Kara looks up to meet Lena’s gaze. Her wife’s features are pale with shock, but her eyes carry heavy meaning they’re both all too conscious of: Kara cannot afford to stay out of the fight any longer. Looking at Lena and Lori, Kara knows in her bones she’s remained hidden too long already.
With a nod, Kara leans in to press a kiss to each of their foreheads.
“I’ll be back.”
Lena cradles Lori close.
“Come back to us.”
Not be careful. Not stay safe. Kara knows that Kara will need to abandon all caution to have a hope of stopping her cousin. Lena knows this as well.
Just stay alive.
“I promise.”
Kara stands, taking one step back, then another. With one last look to her family, Kara takes a deep breath to steel herself. Then she lifts her arms, and blasts into the air, speeding like a missile to where Superman has already turned on his friends.
Okay but I think I accidentally found Kara Danvers in the 2nd half of Injustice? Lol
Hmmm and the kid’s haircut looks suspiciously like a Lena Luthor style… perhaps??
For reference, this scene takes place in Smallville, so I would 100% buy the idea that Kara stayed with the Kents when she landed, and lived as a human bc she didn’t have an Alex to save. Instead she meets Lena when the CEO is out looking at a couple of potential testing facility sites near Smallville, and she just… never leaves? She and Kara find a farm of their own and have a daughter and brings her up in love and warmth and all the things Lena never had.
Only for their small slice of american pie paradise comes crashing down around them when Superman decides to test an experimental self-learning robot on his own hometown, during the local beloved corn festival.
Kara and her daughter are set to meet up with Lena at the festival. Kara manages to keep the kid safe, but Lena is caught under some debris. She gets Lena out, though injured, and then realizes she can no longer let her cousin run rampant.
She helps defeat the robot, but as soon as it’s down, the next Kryptonian Superman faces isn’t himself, but Kara Zor-el in full mama-bear/furious wife mode.
