"I embraced who I am, and I don’t want to stop."

“Wow. I don’t know any other languages. I regret not taking any languages in school,” Barry said letting out a puff of air.  “So you get your powers from the sun? Sounds kind of like the fire benders in Avatar,” he said with a small smile. “I’m sorry that you had to grow feeling like an outcast though.  I’m sure we would have been friends had we gone to school together.” 

Barry nodded. “Here, I’ll show you some of the suits he made,” Barry said walking over to a computer and pulling up some of the pictures of Cisco’s final designs of his suit, the suit Iris used when she had Barry’s speed for a day, Cisco’s Vibe suit, and Ralph’s Elongated Man suit. “Here’s some of what he’s designed over the years. He’d probably work with you to see what you lean more towards.” 

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“I’m sure we would have been friends too, Barry. I already feel so comfortable around you now...I think having a friend like you back when I was getting used to life on Earth would have made things even better,” She says as she goes to Barry and pokes his arm gently before she leaned in to look at all the suits that Cisco has made, and she smiled at seeing them.

“You know...I do like blue and Red if that helps? And I hear capes help with flying...” She sits down next to Barry and seems to think on things a bit, “Could he make a suit like what the other Supergirl wears? Just add some red gloves to it and any other things he feels would work?”

“Pretty much. There’s not much that goes on with metas we don’t know about,” Barry said with a nod. “It original was just the satellite but it grew,” he shrugged. 

“El mayarah,” Barry repeated. “I like that. So does Krypton have it’s own language?”   

Barry couldn’t help but laugh at the nervous look on her face. “Don’t worry, he just love creating suits for people and giving our meta rogues names. Hell, he even gave the Green Arrow an upgrade for a while. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t have some sort prototype thrown together right now.” 

“It does. I learned English in my Pod while I was being sent here. My parents didn’t want me standing out because I didn’t know the language and couldn’t communicate,” She says with a small smile though that faltered a little, “She knew I’d have other challenges that would likely make me an outcast growing up, with how the sun affects Kryptonians here.

“As for Cisco....I guess if he wants to make a suit, I’d be willing to try it on, so long as it’s not too cheesy, you know?” She says as she smiles at Barry, happy to see the other smile and laugh

“I just react faster than most. And I already got attached to Flash.  Although I’m pretty sure I heard mention of a speedster in the future named Impulse, but then again that could change,” Barry said with laugh.   

“Yeah, and it’s own satellite that monitors for meta attacks, and it helps that Iris is a reporter, Joe is the police Captain so we get news of crime pretty quickly,” he shrug. “If I know Cisco he’s already thinking of ideas. Give him a day or two he’ll have something thrown together.  But I will let him know about the house symbol. It mean something on Krypton, doesn’t it?” 

“It’s the best way to learn, that and start on small things and work your way up.”  

“So satellite, wife, and reporter, all get you the info you need. Huh. I would have just thought the satellite at first before meeting you,” She says with a laugh before leaning against a wall.

When he brought up Krypton and her house symbol, she sobered up a little, looking a bit sad, but also happy to tell her family’s motto.

“The ‘S’ as you guys call it, is the symbol of the House of El, and on Krypton the phrase ‘ El mayarah ’ it means ‘Stronger Together’. It’s a good symbol to wear for someone wanting to be a hero, and bring people together like what my cousin does....and what do you mean Cisco has a few ideas? Why am I suddenly a bit nervous?”

“Yeah, that would be a bit tricky. In my first year of being the Flash I had the issue of sometimes I’d start vibrating if I got…excited. It made keeping my identity as a meta and the Flash a secret a bit difficult,” of course he knew it wasn’t that at all that made people realize he was the Flash. 

“Understandable. Sure Batman had his reasons. And it’s good that your cousin keeps that for him,” Barry said with a nod. He knew he’d keep his friends’ secrets way better than his own. It wasn’t his place to give away other’s secrets. 

“That would work. Slowly gain the trust of the people and whenver you want to work with me just let me know. Nah, not everyone I work with are speedsters and yet I can work faster with them,” he said. Even when Ralph started his own hero journey he didn’t really slow Barry down, even if they did fight over method a few times.  “Only thing that tends to slow me down is my own impulsiveness.” 

“You? Impulsive? Yeah I can see that. You should have called yourself Impulse then instead of The Flash,” She says with a cheeky smile before shaking her head fondly, and she really had to keep from making a bad joke when Barry said he vibrated when he was excited back then.

“So...I take it this place has a line with the police dispatch?” She asks as she looks around some more and then she looks back to Barry, “And what am I going to do for a costume? All I know is I want my Kryptonian house’s symbol on it somewhere.” She says softly now. She wanted to help, she wanted to train. She wanted to save people like Flash, like Barry did.

Barry’s eyes widen when she mention Batman and a wide smile spread across his lips.  Of course he knew Batman existed, unlike Oliver who still was pretty sure the Cape Crusader was a urban legends despite meeting Batwoman. “You met Batman? I’m so jealous. I’ve only met Batwoman and she told us to get out Gotham after I asked to ride in the batmobile,” he laugh. 

“I don’t think any of us will figure out why he disappeared or where he went. Probably the only person who knows that his well Batman. But who knows, life has a way of surprising,” he replied.  

“Of course. You did look like you could handle yourself. Honestly I didn’t question that, if I run fast enough I can run across water so nobody got wet or risked drowning if they didn’t know how to swim. And I get that, I hid as the Flash until Leonard Snart and Mick Rory forced me out in the open. I mean Iris wrote about the Flash on the blog but I don’t think many people believed in the Flash until Snart and Rory got me reveal myself to the police,”  Barry thought about the days when the Flash was just first being reported on. “It gets hectic when they first get whiff of you, I remember every incident had a bunch of reporters and cameras. And there were times they almost messed things up by trying to get exclusive interviews with Central City’s hero,” he shook his head.  “Well yeah, that goes where you are looking, right?” 

“Yeah, it is heat vision after all, just a matter of making sure I can turn the heat off inbetween without accidentally hitting someone while I’m trying to be intimidating, you know? Or while looking for the person i was using it against. Like...making sure the dam doesn’t break free at the wrong time kind of thing,” She says sheepishly

“And no, Barry, my cousin knows why Batman left Gotham, like i said, he just refuses to say why.” She smiles a little sadly before she thinks on what he said, about how he got the passengers to safety and his own story about trying to stay in the shadows for a while when he first started off.

“Well...maybe I should start small....stop robberies or something, show what I can do slowly but surely and then...do stuff with you, I guess? Though I feel like i would slow you down,” She laughs

“That’s true. Although I’ve learned how to run through walls,” Barry said with a grin.  “I might. Definitely have a room full of targets for you shoot at with your heat vision, and super breath. We just need figure out something to stand up to your strength,” Barry said as he thought a bit.  “Maybe it’s something you’re more tuned too. Or when I learned to phase through solid objects…I had a bomb strapped to my wrist. Sometimes life or death situations can help you learn…” he paused realizing what it sound like he was suggesting. “Not that I’m saying we should try and kill you to bring them out…just something I observe with discovering my own abilities and tricks.”  He paused again thinking some more. “But we can try different things. I know the other Kara I know has a bit of training in fighting with fists, I think her adoptive sister trained her. But I’m not too good with that stuff myself.  The Green Arrow tried to train me and it ended with him kicking my ass and shooting me with a bunch of arrows.” 

“Oh I already know how to fist fight. My cousin and I spend a lot of time getting me to learn what abilities I do know how to do and he had a friend of his come over and teach me how to ‘properly fight’ as he said it. Weird thing is the guy knew how to speak my native language too, my cousin said it’s cause he’d worked with him for long enough he knew he could trust the guy, even if the guy was hesitant to give his own trust. He went by ‘Batman’ or something like that? I don’t know. He disappeared two or three years ago, though and my cousin won’t tell me why.” She smiled at Barry, seemed Barry was lucky he didn’t have to do that kind of training with her. Though she may or may not be imagining him getting his ass handed to him by the Green Arrow and she had to fight back a laugh.

Barry ran as fast as he could hoping that he could push Kara to do her best.  He didn’t know if he could get her to go any faster or not but who knows many with some training he could.  

The whole time they were running around he refrained from saying “On your left” everytime he passed her.  Although it would be pretty ironic for a superhero to reference a superhero movie, wouldn’t it? 

“Not by much, but to fair you have more than just speed with your powers. His only power is speed,” Cisco said as Barry came sliding to a stop beside her.   “Nice, run, definitely think I can’ teach a trick or two.” he grinned. 

“okay, good point....and I do have flight to combine with speed so I dont have to avoid any buildings,” She grins as she smiles at Barry and Cisco before  she looked back to Barry, “So...these new tricks...think you could help me with my super breath? Or at least give me things to target and try it out on? It’s rather embarrassing I can’t figure it out and yet my cousin has...though I did beat him with figuring out how to fly within days of arriving when it took him years,” She says with a grin

“I wouldn’t recommend it. Although somethings can be changed without much issues and big events like say the death of my mother, it makes trouble,” Barry said with a shrug. “I think Doctor Who described it best as fixed events and changing them makes paradoxes that could destroyed universes if they are big enough,” he shook his head. 

“Alright,” Barry smiled pulling his cowl back over his face. “Count us down Cisco,” he called as he got ready. Cisco pressed a few buttons. “Okay, start in five, four, three, two, one..” he said and Barry took off as soon as Cisco said one. 

Kara grinned at the Doctor Who reference. That was one of her favorite shows, and now she was glad to have someone to geek out over it with...and she was about to say something when the countdown began and she let out a “Meep!” And ran after Barry. She ran as fast as she could without just leaping up to fly.

It was rather....freeing, she found, and she loved feeling like nothing in the world could bother her if she just kept running. It felt nice to know that she didn’t have to hide her powers here. She could have people besides Clark that she could share things with. People to train with and to help. This...this felt nice.

She ran for about three minutes before coming out of the speed lab entrance and she laughed as she came to a stop, looking to Cisco

“I definitely saw Barry pass me a lot. I’m slower aren’t I?” She asks, smiling despite herself cause she really didn’t care in this scenario