12"Kara please just let me explain!" Alex pleaded.
"Explain!" Kara yelled. "Explain what!? That you, that all of you have been lying to me! That my whole life has been fake! That you were using me like a tool!" She screamed louder in anger. "And stop calling me Kara! It's not my name!"
"It's not that simple, we just..." Alex was quickly cut off.
"Except it is simple!" Kara stepped towards the other woman, her face showing she was enraged. "You erased my memories and replaced them!" She took another few steps closer. "My whole life has been a lie! My friends, my family, all of my achievements are fake! Everything before I became supergirl was never real!" Her eyes glowed red as tears filled them. "Even the day I became supergirl was faked, not real! You kept me locked up like a prisoner until you decided you needed a new weapon you could control!"
"I'm sorry okay! If I could change things I would!" Alex cried. "I do consider you my sister. I have for awhile."
" . .SISTER!" Kara growled out after rushing forward, grabbing Alex by the neck and lifting her off the ground. "You were never my sister! You were my jailer, my personal prison guard!" She tightened her grip on Alex's neck. "And if that wasn't enough you put a tracker inside of me!" Kara's eye's glowed a fierce red.
"K-Kara..." Alex gasped. "C-can't b-b-breath..." She tried pulling and clawing at Kara's hands.
"I could so easily crush your throat or break your neck without really even trying." Kara shook her head, her eye's returning to normal and dropped Alex to the floor with a loud thump. "Everything I thought I was, was a lie. I don't know who I am anymore." Kara's tears started overflowing. "My personality, my hobbies, everything that made me, me, was made up. All of it formed and based on lies and false memories."
"K-Kara..."Alex gasped out as she rubbed her already bruising neck.
"Maybe Astra and Non were right, humans can't be trusted." She turned to look at Alex. "I'm done, you can save yourselves from now on. Don't follow me, just leave me alone, all of you."
With a strong gust of wind and the shattering of wood and glass Kara was gone. Alex was left there on her apartment floor sore and crying until J'onn and a few other agents bursted in. Alex had hit her panic button that was hidden in her home since she couldn't reach the personal one she kept on her. The apartment was a mess not just from Kara leaving the way she did but because she also trashed it. Furniture broken or torched, holes in the walls, floor and doors, broken windows and counters. Electronics and other appliances were destroyed as were other personal affects. The main things destroyed however was any and all pictures Alex had of Kara and herself or Kara in general. Those pictures were all incinerated to ash.
"Alex are you okay?" J'onn asked.
"She remembers J'onn, she remembers everything." Alex croaked out in a cry. "Kara's gone, she wants nothing to do with us."
"Sir should we start trying to track supergirl down?" One of the agents asked.
"No." The Martian shook his head. "Let her be, we'll leave her alone as requested. It's the least we can do."
"Told you it was wrong, that we had no right to do this to her." Vazquez told them.
"Not now agent Vazquez." J'onn said.
"I'm sorry sir but I can't let this one go." Vazquez took her badge and gun and sat it on the broken counter. "We basically brainwashed her and if that's what the DEO has turned into now then I refuse to be apart of it." She turned around and left before anyone could say anything.
The next morning Kara's supergirl suit was found hanging off the CatCo building with a sign saying 'I Quiet'. It was front page news and the talk of many media outlets. CatCo was however mostly silent on the subject. Cat Grant sat on her balcony lamenting about the part she played with making supergirl. The DEO had came to her and pretty much forced her to help with the creation of supergirl. She only cooperated because of the kind of money she could make from it. They knew how much pull she had and wanted her to help keep up the appearance of Kara Danvers. The entire floor of the office was worked by undercover DEO agents including Winn himself. And James was apart of it because of his fanboyism of superman. Cat knew this would come back to bite them in the ass and she was right.
It didn't take long for National city to fall into chaos with no supergirl to help. The NCPD and DEO were overwhelmed by the number of human and alien crimes being committed. It only took a few weeks for the city to start being compared to Gotham. Cadmus had tried to make an appearance and play the hero now that Kara was out of their way. However, Cadmus and even Lilian and Henshaw had been overwhelmed with many ending up dead. Henshaw was torn apart by aliens and Lillian nearly suffered the same fate but was saved and locked up in a DEO cell. Apparently without supergirl there was no one to stop the full on witch hunt against Cadmus by both human and alien alike. Kara was the lynchpin keeping the balance and with out her the balance no longer existed.
It took a few months before things were fixed and cleaned up and it was thanks to Lena Luthor. Lena poured a lot of money into the NCPD so they could hire enough man power to deal with things. The DEO however Lena gave them nothing. Lena had found out what they did to Kara and it pissed her off. They had no right to treat anyone like that. Lena made it her mission to ruin the DEO in National City as well as the people involved with Kara's deception especially Alex Danvers. Kara trusted Alex more than anyone and she didn't just break that trust she shattered it. Kara was Lena's best friend and the only one to truly care about her and look past her last name. Kara trusted her enough to tell her she was supergirl and work along side her to make things better.
When she had disappeared Lena tried getting information from Alex and others at the DEO but no one would tell her. She ended up finding out from Vazquez who had quit the DEO. She was hesitant in telling her anything since she was still under an NDA but Lena assured her she'd be protected. As it turned out Kara was not Superman's cousin, they were distantly related but only by a marriage. Kara was not from the House of El either. When superman found her he did the same thing everyone does to Lena herself, he judged Kara by her last name. They all judged her by her name and who her family was. She was only 13 and had never done anything wrong but was still locked in a cage. And then when they needed someone strong enough to help them they erased her memories and completely replaced everything.
Vazquez even said that many of her daily life events were fakes. For example, many of the arguments between Kara and Alex were started so that they could enforce the codependency Kara had with Alex. They wanted Kara tightly wrapped around Alex so they had more influence and control over her. Even her decisions to stay at CatCo even when she was being treated horrible was manipulated. The DEO made sure Kara would never get job offers or be hired if she applied somewhere else. They had Kara right there where they could best keep an eye on her. Even Kara's girlfriend Donna Reiff was a DEO agent. That part had made Lena even more pissed off than she already had been. Knowing that explained why she noticed Kara having relationship problems in her new city. Kara simply didn't trust anyone anymore.
Supergirl may have been gone but Lena was going to keep making things better and make her friend proud of her. Lena knew where Kara was and what she was doing. She wanted to make sure she was okay, so she kept an eye on her the best she could. Kara was no longer going by either Kara Danvers or Kara Zor-El instead using her real birth name. There was a few times that Lena tried talking to her but she would always get belligerent and yell at her. Lena never took it personally, she knew Kara was filled with a lot of anger. So she let Kara have her space and simply made sure she stayed out of trouble the best she could. The things Kara was doing to herself though was painful for the Luthor. Lena missed her best friend and wished she could have her back.
Two year Later
"I SAID GET OUT VALORA!" A strangely voiced woman shouted.
"Come on Shikari don't be like that!" Valora or rather Kara slurred out.
Kara was arguing with her on again/off again girlfriend Shikari Lonestar. Shikari was an alien, a Kwai to be exact. The Kwai are a humanoid-insectoid race. They tend to have a slate-grey skin color with black marks that look like tattoos, along with dragonfly looking wings. They also have retractable armoured exoskeletons. The two women started dating a few months after Kara left National city. Once they started dating they would frequently break up and then get back together. It was always Kara who kept coming back with apologies and promises of getting sober. However Kara never kept her promises and was never around when Shikarai needed her.
Kara had become an unrealiebal drunk that would make false promises and lie constantly. She no longer trusted humans or Martians and especially came to hate any thing government related, including law enforcement. She had a bit of a reputation with the local police because she was always getting in trouble, usually for petty and stupid things. She never kept a job for more than a week and spent most of her time in bars or clubs. Her powers were always coming and going because she was blowing them out from over use. Shikari though had suspicions that Kara was on more than just alcohol but was never able to prove it. The suspicion came about because at times Kara would have her powers one minute but then not have them the following moment.
When she wasn't staying with Shikari because of one of their break ups, Kara was either sleeping out on the streets or shacking up with other women. Kara didn't really seem to care about much anymore, not like she use to. Gone were the days of that happy cheerful woman with a sense of truth and justice. She was conflicted in many ways, her real memories and her fake ones messed with her on a regular basis. Instinctively she wanted to help people and be that hero she used to be, but that was who they made her into. She wanted to be her own person not the person they made. Kara didn't really know who she was anymore. Was she the hero that the DEO made her into? Or was she still the same girl that was following in her parents foot steps. The girl who was the youngest ever to enter the warriors guild back on Kryton? Or perhaps she was a mixture of both?
When she started getting her memory back it was slow and started when Astra called her Valora instead of Kara. At the time she thought it was simply a slip of the tongue but as time went on she wasn't so sure. Memories swam in her head when she was asleep but to her she thought they were simply dreams, that was until she started getting them when she was awake. As time went by the past 2 years she had discovered that even her hair color was fake. Apparently Alex had somehow been slipping her something that would change her hair color. The realization that her whole life she thought she had was a lie messed with her mentally. Kryptonian's may be nearly invincible physically but mentally they are just as vulnerable as everyone else.
"No! I'm tired of this shit!" She shook her head. "Hell you can't even talk with out slurring you're words and it's only 7:30 in the morning!"
"I'm just-tired okay that's all." Kara slurred.
"Bullshit! It's the same excuse everytime! Your drunk, your always drunk." Shikari said with saddened anger. "I took you in when you needed a place to stay, you needed help so I helped, I felt bad for you."
"Felt bad for me?" Kara ground her teeth a bit. "So I was just a charity case? Well I don't need your pity!" The black haired woman yelled.
"That's not what I said! There you go putting words in my mouth again! Look, just leave!" Shikari stood there with the door open, Kara's bag already having been tossed out.
"Shikari please I'm sorry!" Kara pleaded. "I-I can change, I can get sober!"
"That's what you always say and I don't believe you anymore." She was adamantly standing her ground this time.
"And what about Shina!?" Kara yelled
"What about her?" The insectoid woman crossed her arms with her brow raised.
"You know what forget it." The kryptonian said.
"Of course you'd say that." She hissed. "You don't care about anyone but your god damn self Kara!" At that moment Shikari realized her slip of the tongue.
"DON' . !" Kara shouted. "That's not my name! It was never my name!" Kara in her drunken anger went to grab Shikari but found her self in a very painful arm lock. She was thrown out into the hall, hitting the opposing wall and landing on her ass.
"I care about you Valora but I'm done with your shit. If you keep burning bridges like this your not going to have anyone left." Shikari told her.
"I don't need anyone!" Kara responded as she was finally managing to get up.
"You need help. There's a rehabilitation center across town and..." She was cut off.
"Go fuck yourself Shikari." Kara grumbled out before turning around and leaving.
"Well fuck you to!" Shikari yelled as she watched the dark haired girl leave, barely able to keep herself upright.
"She's not coming back this time is she?" A small Kwai child asked.
"Not this time honey." She shook her head." Let's get you some breakfast."
Kara walked out of the apartment building stepping out onto the sidewalk outside. The architecture of the city was a mixture of human and other alien species. The sidewalks and streets filled with alien and humans alike. Kara lived in Mosaic City which was sort of like an American Indian reservation. It was located on the east coast just inside the boarder of Florida. The city had a council that was a mixture of human and alien members that governed the city. The city's police force and other groups were the same, being a mixture of species. The place was decent enough but had issues with crime because of a lack of funds and manpower for the MCPD.
Kara was dressed in worn, torn and faded blue jeans with a pair of old black boots. She had on a equally worn out grey hooded black denim jacket. Her undershirt was a black tank top with her real family crest on it. Her family crest to a human would look like an upside down sickle inside a simple diamond shape. The crest was colored a grayish sliver.
Kara pulled her black hair up into a snug ponytail and brought her hood up. She pulled a flask out from inside her jacket and knocked back a swig then put it back. Slinging her backpack over her shoulder she started walking to the closet bar. Her fight with Shikari had sobered her up a bit and she didn't like that. She needed something harder than what she had in her flask. Well it was more like she wanted it rather than needed it. But if you were ask her she would say she needed it. She was an alcoholic, not that she would ever admit it, just like she would never admit to being on drugs. While she was thinking about it Kara realized she was out of her poison of choice.
Kara pulled out a phone, making a call to her dealer and set up a met. She figured do it now while on her way to the bar. After 15 or so minutes she met with a greenish colored alien woman who handed her a small brown paper bag. Kara discreetly slipped her some cash and left, making her way to the bar. Slipping into the back alley she took a seat on a crate. She pulled the contents out of the brown bag, a medical arm tie, and a syringe filled with a glowing green and red substance. She tied the band around her arm and looked for a vein. Finding one she took the syringe and inserted the needle into her arm injecting the contents into her body. Her skin crackled with green and red veins as her eyes glossed over. The feeling was painful but also pleasurable, it calmed her but also hyped her up. She felt more confident, more invulnerable more, pumped but also weak and tired.
She fell asleep for awhile but woke up after about an hour. Quickly waking herself fully and regaining her composure she disposed of of her trash. Standing up she walked around to the front of the bar and went inside. Taking a seat at the bar she ordered a drink and just relaxed as she drank her problems away. It was a few hours later when a man who was a Khund came up behind her.
"I know that symbol on your chest." He told her. "I know who you are."
"So?" Kara responded.
"I know who your father is as well." He said.
"Again, so?" She took a drink.
"He killed many of my people." He raised his voice slightly.
The bartender as well as a few others slowly moved knowing what was going to happen.
"He was simply putting down rabid animals." Kara smirked as she took another drink.
The Khund man was furious as he grabbed her, lifting the smaller person up off the seat and floor. He pulled his arm back making a fist and went to hit her. With another smirk Kara grabbed the the collar of his clothes and pulled her head back. With a hard thrust forward she connected her head with his nose. An audible crunch could be heard as the man grunted in pain as he dropped Kara and stumbled back. In anger he went to try and hit Kara again but she was faster and her fist connected with his chin. As he stumbled she quickly jumped up, grabbed him by the back of the head and brought it down as she brought her knee up. After her knee connected he fell backwards landing on a table and breaking it.
Apparently a few other Khund's that were in the bar didn't take very kindly to this. They stood up and ran at Kara, they ganged up on her as she found her self surrounded. She cursed under her breath as the crinkle formed on her face. If her powers weren't always on the fritz this wouldn't be an issue. Two of them came at her at the same time, a male and female both with angry faces. The first one who reached her she grabbed his arm and using his own momentum against him flung him over her shoulder into the female Khund. A fist from one of the other connected with the front of her jaw and busted her lip open. And just as swiftly she felt a bar stool being broken across her back knocking her forward into the bar.
She quickly grabbed a heavy whiskey bottle and smashed it across one of their heads and immediately tackled one of the others into a wall. Kara threw punch after punch into Khund that she was pinning to the wall and then elbowed other in the face who tried grabbing her. She was immediately grabbed by two of them and pulled off the other. When one approached her from the front she kicked him through the nearby window but was immediately met with a punch to the stomach. What followed was her being beaten down by the group, that is until the door flew open with police yelling at them. They dropped her and scattered, it took a moment for her to get up. When she did get up she quickly pulled her hood up, grabbed her bag and ran out the back door. She was followed by a few of the officers though so she quickened her running pace.
She darted from alley to alley even weaving through some minor traffic. These two cops just wouldn't give up and it was pissing her off. And why were they so god damn fast she thought. From the glance she briefly got she knew one was human and she recognized the blue skinned alien known as Merayn Dethalis. Okay so maybe it wasn't that they were fast but because she was slower than normal since she got the crap beat out of her.
"I'll loop around and cut her off!" The human officer said getting a nod out of the blue skinned partner.
With a brief glance back she figured the human must have given up which made her laugh. But as she laughed she found herself being blindsided by the human slamming into her from a side ally. God she wished her powers were working right now. Not only was she hurting but now she was sure she might get caught...unless.
"Don't come any closer! I have a Coluan thermal detonator!" Kara said with as she gripped a round object in her hand.
"Valora that's a rock." Merayn face palmed.
"Are you sure about that?" Kara said while making fake clicking and beeping noises.
"This isn't Star Wars Valora! Thermal detonators don't exist!" The blue woman deadpanned in annoyance. "Your a drunken idiot and that Han Solo movie sucked."
"Fuck you knife ears!" Kara shouted referring to the other womans pointy ears. "That movie was a masterpiece! You hear me a MASTERPIECE!"
"I'm so done with this already." The alien officer pulled out a stun gun and zapped Kara dropping her to the ground.
"BITCH!" The Kryptonian coughed out.
"Was that really necessary?" The other officer asked.
"Yes it was. Trust me she's an idiot, a drunk and a real announce." Merayn said as she cuffed Kara and picked her up.
"That was a cheap shot and you know it smurfette." Kara tryed laughing while she was coughing.
"Shut it!" The blue alien punched Kara in the gut dropping to her to her knees in a coughing fit.
"Whoa, whoa! What the hell Merayn!" The other cop called out. "That's way out of line! She's already subdued, you can't just do that!"
"What ever." She rolled her eye's "Valora Dru-Zod, You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to consult an attorney before speaking to the police and to have an attorney present during questioning now or in the future. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you before any questioning if you wish. If you decide to answer questions now without an attorney present, you will still have the right to stop answering at any time until you talk to an attorney. Do you Know and understand your rights as I have explained them to you? Are you willing to answer my questions without an attorney present?"
"Screw you Dethalis. Actually that's a good idea, you are pretty hot for a smurf, always wanted to sleep with one." Kara laughed as she was met with a fist to the eye. She went to hit her again but she was stopped when her partner grabbed her wrist.
"MERAYN! That's enough!" The partner pushed Merayn back. "Go get the car! You need to cool off! And don't think I'm not going to report this!" Looking at Kara as she helped her get back up. "Are you okay?"
"Why do you care?" Kara hissed.
"Why wouldn't I?" The cop said with a familiar voice that Kara was trying to remember. But as Kara was thinking the human officer pulled Kara's hood down and went wide eyed. "Little Danvers!?"
"Don't call me that!" Kara seethed. "It's Valora Dru-Zod! Not that pet name all of you gave me!"
"They? Pet name? Zod." Maggie questioned as she was confused. "Kara what are you talking about?"
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" She screamed.
"Okay, okay, just calm down. No need to yell." Mags calmly told her. "I don't really understand what's going on."
"Tsk, course you don't." The blue eye'd girl rolled her eye's. "Your just like them, liars, manipulators, always trying to control me." She rambled.
"I don't understand, your not making any sense." Maggie shook her still in confusion.
"Sure you don't." Kara hissed as she glared at the other woman. "You were part of it, I know you were, everyone else was." She trailed off.
"Ka...Valora..." Maggie corrected herself. "What's going on? Because I honestly don't know what your talking about." When Kara stayed silent she spoke up again. "Come on, you can talk to me."
"Isn't this the part where you get me a lawyer?" The dark haired girl said.
Maggie sighed. "Is that what you want?"
"Yes." Kara turned away. "Now just leave me alone human."
Maggie didn't know what was going on or what Kara was talking about. What confused her even more and even hurt a bit was Kara calling her 'human' instead of her name. Kara looked so different and especially acted different. Why was she here? Why was she getting into a bar fight? Where were her powers? What the hell was going on? She figured she would try and find out later, but for now she didn't have any choice but to take Kara to the station.