On the list of places she had wanted to visit in her life the Arctic had never been one of them, besides she was pretty much convinced it was doomed, global warming was taking full effect and (Y/n) was definitely not a denier, so when Kara had grabbed her and told her they would be heading to the Arctic before they left for earth twenty-five and face this worldkiller it was pretty much a great big surprise.
(Y/n) had no idea Kal-el even had anything like this fortress of solitude Kara had spoken of, and if she had the reality would not have met her imagination.
"And this is how you enter." Kara smiled lifting the key from it's hiding place, it didn't look like any key (Y/n) had ever seen in her life.
"What is that made from?"
"It's created from a dwarf star." Kara shrugged as the icy snow covered mountain slid open and revealed an entrance, (Y/n) gasped she was fairly new to the wonder of what being a member of the House of El brought, she'd taken the bad stuff her mother and Aunt brought but this was something else.
"OMG, this is it?" She spoke with awe as she followed Kara inside it seemed to have been caved from the icy crystals, a cave within an Arctic mountain was something the chef had never imagined.
"Yep, this is it." Kara chuckled, remembering her own awe when she had first visited the place.
"And Kal-el knows we are here right, I mean if it's his we should have asked first."
"Don't worry, the things in here are just as much ours as they are his, I should have brought you here before now when you first found out you were Kryptonian it would have made you connect more with our people and culture."
"I think I was far too lost over Alex to have appreciated it then." (Y/n) sighed looking with interest at the trinkets that they passed by, each one once belonged on Krypton.
(Y/n)'s gaze was taken suddenly to the grand statues that stood in front of her, a man and a woman posed heroically, the male displayed something that reminded her of Kal-el. "Who are these?"
Kara turned to face her and take in the statue. "That is Jor-El and Lara they are or were Kal-El's parents."
The chef moved closer touching the cold stern foot of the man in stone." He was my Grandfather's twin brother."
"Yes," Kara replied sadly, the past was gone and so were they but it didn't take the hurt away. "She was an astronaut."
"No way, was she really?"
"Yes she was, Krypton for a time had a space program but it was grounded after Jax-Ur destroyed Wegthor, an inhabited moon of Krypton while experimenting with a nuclear warhead-equipped rocket."
"OMG, you say it was inhabited? So people were killed."
"Yes I think the population was around five hundred Kryptonians, he was banished to the phantom zone for his crime."
"So maybe he knew Aethyr?"
"Maybe, come on let's move on we can't keep them waiting."
(Y/n) followed her cousin her gaze still lingering on the statue of the couple before her. "Do you think there could be a way to go back in time and visit Krypton before it died? I mean I would really like to see where I'm supposed to be from, it's hard to connect if you have no idea what it is supposed to be."
Kara sighed, she didn't want to think of the possibility. "Some things should be left in the past."
"Oh, yeah I guess so."
Hard yet quiet footsteps echoed through the cave, (Y/n) glanced around frantically trying to locate the sound she could see nothing, she turned towards her cousin who had already crouched down onto the ground and was petting a white dog, his tail wagging as he yelped and barked happily at the sight of her.
"(Y/n) come and meet Krypto."
"Krypto, okay I need to tell this to Alex she has really weird taste in dog names, this is freaking cool look at this guy he is adorable." He watched her cautiously as she approached until his mood shifted and he leaped from Kara and made his way towards (Y/n) sniffing her boot first before his tail started wagging in the same friendly way.
"He likes you." Kara chuckled.
"Kal keeps a dog here too."
"He has to have someone to protect it while he is gone."
"I guess." (Y/n) stood up from making a huge fuss over the sweet little dog, her eyes burst open in shock when her eyes took in something she was unsure how she had missed. "Is that the Titanic! The actual real Titanic?"
"Yes."
"How the hell does he have that, I thought they found it under the ocean."
"Yeah they said that but they did a deal with Superman, he gave them some treasures and they had a story to distract from some political issues." Kara shrugged.
"OMG This is insane, so Kal just went out one day bored and decided to dive for the Titanic?"
"I guess."
"This is crazy."
"I know." Kara laughed moving closer in the fortress leaving (Y/n) and the dog who seemed to have devoted his new time to sitting at her feet and gazing up at her lovingly.
"I think Krypto likes me does that mean I can take him home, I'm sure Lena will love him."
"Nope, he is here for a reason, he has superpowers just like us."
The chef looked down at the sweet innocent little pooch, "Really, wow this guy just keeps getting cooler." She followed Kara walking past the giant Dinosaur sculpture that stood guard in front of the old sunken ship. Dinosaurs too, I need to spend more time with Kal-el he seems like the cool cousin, sorry Kara.
"So is that a real Dinosaur?"
"Of course not, it's just a sculpture (Y/n)."
"It could have been, he does have the freaking Titanic up here, what the hell is this?" She pointed to what looked to be a city in a town, for a simple ornament the workmanship looked exquisite, futuristic citadels rose up high into the top of the glass almost touching the top until it cascaded down in a spiral.
Kara looked over her shoulder. "That is the city of Kandor."
"Wait a minute, Kandor, the Kryptonian city my mother was from? how is it here?"
"It was shrunk and stolen by a villain named Brainiac, it was the capital city before that happen, then a week or so later Krypton exploded."
"Jeez, what is going on, so there are Kryptonians inside there?"
"Yes."
"So the fact my mother and Grandmother landed on earth means my grandfather isn't in there, he was on Krypton when it exploded?" (Y/n) questioned, he couldn't be bad like her mother and Aunt, could he? and if he was alive maybe they could save him.
"He was killed."
"Oh, so he isn't in there?"
"No."
"None of our family is in there?"
"No, they all died, except the ones who fled to earth, come on we need to find what we really came here to find."
"And what was that?" The chef gave the bottled city one sad looked before moving swiftly after her cousin, Krypto following them.
"The ring."
"Oh, Kara you are going to propose to Lena that is so romantic of you." (Y/n) replied dreamily lifting her hands under her chin and swaying them around gently.
Kara rolled her eyes choosing to ignore the other woman's teasing, seeing Lena and Alex together was still a little too much for her system to handle. "It is a ring that we may well need, we are going to borrow it from Kal-el and then when we are finished we'll bring it back."
"Oh yes, Kara I like your thinking I am definitely coming back here, is that a multiscreen ed tv?" She stared at the massive screen with something like twelve screens all next to each other, how cool was this?
"Yeah, Kal likes to watch tv I guess."
"Jeez, bye bye Netflix I've got Superman's multi-screen to fall in love with."
"This ring is very important, Kal-el got it as a souvenir when he went to the 31st Century the Legions gave it to him to remember them."
"And this is important to us because?"
"You will see, I think we'll need something to fall back on, this worldkiller sounds hard to beat I want something we can have as a backup plan just in case."
"I think the coolest bit about this is my cousin went to the future, you've never told me about this before Kara."
Kara laughed. "I was trying to make you think I was your coolest cousin."
"Oh Kara you make me sing karaoke and make me cook endless potstickers, how could you ever think I believed you were my cool cousin?"
Suddenly Kara caught sight of the ring she had come here for, picking it up and placing it on her hand she shot (Y/n) a look, "Come on let's go and kick some world killer butt!"
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The portal before them seemed intimidating and foreboding, Superwoman was supposed to be a hero but she felt a little afraid, she'd flown she had shot lasers from her eyes and ice from her mouth but never had she ever crossed the multiverse.
She stood next to Alex, resisting the urge to grab her hand and hold it tightly, she couldn't let her think she was scared she wanted to prove she could be a hero, one by one they all passed through the portal, firstly Earth twenty five Alex and Lena, then J'onn, Kara, Alex and then finally (Y/n).
She took a big deep breath and closed her eyes expecting pain, instead, there was nothing.
As it turned out it was pretty easy just like walking through a door, on the other side
"Are we on Earth twenty-five now?" She asked softly.
"Yes, you are welcome to our earth." Lena smiled, and at that moment (Y/n) missed her best friend like she had never missed her before, she wished she was there with them now.
"I'm afraid we didn't get a welcome party ready for you." Alex sighed, perching her hands on her hips, the room they had walked into seemed pretty normal a sofa in the center of the room, but no tv sat in the corner, no electricals adorned the room at all, (Y/n) frowned.
"Where is your tv?"
"Really Superwoman is that your first question?" J'onn sighed.
"Well it's weird, there are no other electrical things either."
"Television is not allowed, under Reigns oppression it was outlawed, she claimed it brainwashed the masses."
"OMG, this Reign sounds so cool." (Y/n) whispered to Alex, she'd lost count of how many times she had said such a thing.
"Don't you turn to the dark side." Alex laughed.
Suddenly violent vibrations rocked the building sending them all off balance, objects would have fallen to the ground but at that moment they all realized there were none to be seen, no pictures or mementos to remember times.
"This happens a lot," Lena said sadly.
"Really?"
"Sadly yes, this was a milder one."
A door behind them opened suddenly and in walked an all too familiar blonde vision, a bright smile on her face as she faced them all. "Hey guys, did you miss me?"
All eyes were on her, Alex suddenly felt the ground give way around her, as she looked back to her girlfriend, this she really did not need.
"Hey, Alex how is the butt these days?"
"Sara Lance." Kara sounded in shock, of all people she expected to find in the middle of a war on earth twenty-five it was Sara Lance, but then maybe she was the most obvious, she certainly did pop up in the most bizarre of places.