17Here we go! First full-length Supercorp fic starting now!
I have two plots I've been kinda going back and forth on, and finally settled on this.
A total AU, all superpowers are banned worldwide, let's see how it goes! This will start before s1 of the show, so nothing in the show canon should be taken as accurate in this fic.
I hope everyone enjoys!
"Superheroes shouldn't be above the law..."
It was the phrase that started it all. People were more united when in fear than they would let on. It had been easy to convince world leaders that allowing superheroes to have free rein, and treating them as celebrities, sent the wrong message.
"You start dedicating a day to Superman, giving him a statue, inviting him to your TV shows, and now look. Look at what's left of Metropolis."
Kara had been young when she saw how Metropolis had been completely leveled. It had been a stroke of luck that no one had died.
Well, not luck.
"Due to Luthor Corp's fantastic warning system, the people of Metropolis were saved from an even worse fate. But ask yourselves this folks: How can you allow yourselves to cheer on for someone like Superman, when he ravages hundreds of homes? And not just that, what about the families they used to house? Those hundreds of families are now huddling in community centers, churches, schools, anywhere they can find, and they're hoping they'll be able to start anew with the little they have."
It would take over a decade to fully rebuild the city, and even then, there was still plenty left to be done. But the same couldn't be said for Superman and other superheroes all over the world.
"We have survived for years without Superman. Think about it. Remember how the world was 10 years ago. We didn't have any of these...superpowered freaks wreaking havoc and trying to tout their ideologies. They are not gods. We need to take action. We can't let them destroy more of our country, our world. Some of you may say, 'well, he apologized, and he's trying to fix things!'
"I say that is nonsense! Just watch the press conference, pay attention: he can't even look at the camera. His shame should be much greater! He's blaming some whack nutjob for brainwashing him. What guarantee do we have that he won't be brainwashed again? We have to take action. Which is why I am advocating for implementing a total and complete ban on all superpowers, worldwide."
And that's how simple it was.
A well-executed speech by one Lillian Luthor put the gears in motion, and soon enough she had enough resources, money, and manpower to create a private army to scout the world and eradicate any super-powered threats.
And for ten years, the world went back to a seemingly calm state. Powerful aliens seeking to take over Earth were now avoiding the place like the plague having seen what happened to the likes of Superman.
Sure, crime was still a thing; robbers and murderers were getting away more easily as local cops could only do so much, but disasters like Metropolis were a thing of the past.
Of course, banning something didn't completely eradicate it. Superpowered beings were still helping out however they could. No one could stand by and do nothing, so they hid in the shadows and fought against would-be attackers and apprehended them, leaving them ready for the local police force to take them away.
It was the least they could do. And it was also all they could do.
Kara didn't have much excitement in her life. If you were to ask her what she did for fun, she'd say it was getting take-out with her friends, and playing trivia games in her loft.
Granted, she wouldn't easily divulge that she moonlighted as a vigilante, doling out justice and helping when she could.
Not that she had been in the game for long, only a few days. It had been a nice autumn night, and Kara had her window open as she watched TV.
Then her sensitive ears picked up on a cry.
"Help me! Someone! Please!"
Kara had scrambled to get to her window, phone in hand, ready to call the cops.
Then she had seen a gang of hooligans surrounding a young woman in a nearby alleyway, and her instincts went into overdrive.
She couldn't wait. But she couldn't exactly head out wearing her comfiest pair of pyjamas.
So she had rushed to the closet and grabbed what she could.
In the alleyway, the young woman was desperate for help. She was praying and hoping someone would come rescue her. Anyone at all.
"Hey! Leave her alone!"
The woman looked up, and saw the strangest sight. A woman was floating near them, wearing a pair of jeans and a hoodie, the bottom half of her face covered with a deep red scarf.
"Whatcha going to do to us? Fly us away?" one of the attackers had said, a shifty looking man with an entirely too confident smile on his face, and a glinting knife poised to strike.
"Oh, you wish," was the only response they got before the masked woman's eyes began to glow red, and she began to punch all the attackers, knocking them out with clean hooks and socking them where it would hurt the most.
The woman backed up against the wall watched with fascination as her hero beat up the 7 men that had been surrounding her, not even letting them get a punch in.
Soon enough, it was just the two of them, and the woman sagged against the wall in relief. "Thank you for saving me."
Kara nodded, her back to the woman she had saved. "Heard your calls for help, came as fast as I could."
Sirens were approaching them, and the other woman said, "You should go, lest you want them to detain you."
"Right." Without another word or a glance, her mysterious saviour flew off, leaving one Lena Luthor very baffled about what just happened.
The next day, Kara was getting ready for work when her sister Alex burst in through the door. "Please, for the love of everything that is sacred to you, swear to me that wasn't you."
Kara at first didn't even register what Alex was talking about. "What wasn't me?"
Alex whipped out the day's paper and slammed it on the countertop. "This!"
Approaching the paper, Kara barely held her astonishment at the headline: Super girl saves Lena Luthor.
"Lena Luthor?!" was the first thing out of her mouth, much to Alex's chagrin.
"Kara…"
Kara sighed, figuring her sister would demand a satisfactory answer. "No Alex. It wasn't me."
Alex bit her lip. "You're sure, right? I mean, it happened just a block away from here, and-"
"Oh come on! Let it go Alex!" Kara bemoaned. "Why do you keep insisting?"
"Because you're my sister and I don't want the DEO to come knocking and to cart you away."
Kara cringed at the mention of the DEO. They were what Lillian Luthor's army had become, the Department of Extranormal Operations, and they were known to be particularly ruthless, taking care of rogue supers who dared show their powers, even if they had been using said powers to save others.
"And even if that had been me, how would they even track me back?" Kara asked.
Alex narrowed her eyes at Kara's question. "They have their methods, and apparently, Lena Luthor is making a tracker that will detect any sort of superpower or abnormal functions."
"A tracker?" Kara repeated, sounding a bit worried. "Wait, how do you even know that?"
"I...hear things, and I worry about you. Maybe...maybe moving back with mom wouldn't be such a bad idea, at least until things calm down?" Alex tried, despite knowing it would be a moot point to discuss.
"No! I won't let them decide what I do with my life. So what if I have superpowers? I have a right to live. Not every person with superpowers will end up like Kal." Just thinking about her cousin made her sad. She hadn't seen or heard from him ever since that attack 10 years ago, and she hoped he was okay.
"Maybe not, but you can't let yourself be careless. If anyone ever found out you two were cousins…"
"They won't," Kara said, an air of finality in her voice. "Now, I have to go and take care of Cat Grant, and you have to mix together your science."
"Right, science," Alex mumbled, letting her sister escort her out of her loft. If only that were true.
"Agent Danvers," Director Hank Henshaw greeted her stoically once she arrived. "I'm assigning you to find out what happened to Ms. Luthor. I will give you your own squadron to run, and you will be reporting what you find out directly to me, understood?"
Alex nodded. "Yes sir. I will find out all I can."
"Good. And then capture that despicable super who thought it would be funny to orchestrate this."
And that was the first chapter!
Setting things up a bit, and I'll hopefully have a new chapter soon!
I'd love to hear your thoughts.