People ran in every direction as another police car went flying. The NYPD cruiser slammed into the side of a skyscraper, its front end crushed. Enjoying that site standing only a dozen feet away was a woman who glowed with pink energy. Star Sapphire smiled as she sent out another tendril of energy and swatted aside a pair of officers. “Sorry boys but I have some window shopping to do.” Sapphire smirked as she floated forwards.
If people weren’t running for their lives, they would have noticed Star Sapphire filled out her dark purple and pink leotard. Thigh high pink boots and a large pink mask completed her outfit. Sapphire’s entire body shimmered with pink energy, thanks to the sapphire stone in her mask. Like Green Lantern use used the stone to store and use energy. Landing she pointed a finger at the large glass window of an expensive diamond and jewelry store. A blast shattered the window and Sapphire floated through.
“These look nice…” she commented picking up a few diamond and gold encrusted tiaras. “I’d say they’re outside your price range.” A cocky voice called out from behind Sapphire. Turning the villainess saw the newcomer.
Hovering a few feet above the ground a stunning blonde in red, white, and blue watched Sapphire with her arms crossed over her ‘impressive’ chest. The blonde had short hair and blue eyes. She wore a white leotard with blue gloves and a red belt hugged her hips loosely. Unlike other heroes her cape didn’t hang from the neck, but off her left shoulder with a gold button and cord. Her legs had the skin tone tights favored by most female heroines and large blue pirate like boots. The woman was definitely a heroine, and her pose and powers smelled of kryptonian.
“So who would you be, Super-Chick?” Sapphire grinned. The blonde frowned and uncrossed her arms. This revealed the most interesting aspect of her costume, a large ‘picture window’ of her cleavage right in the center of her leotard. “Do you see an S on here lady?” Sapphire smiled, “No, but I’m a little busy now Tits-McGee.” “Tits?” the blonde never finished as a blast of purple-pink energy shot out and slammed into her chest. The heroine flew backward and slammed into an abandoned taxi across the street.
Sapphire went back to collecting her diamonds when she was grabbed from behind and spun around. Holding her was the blonde and she had a devilish smile on her face, “the name is Powergirl” PG then punched Sapphire across the store and through a wall. As the dust settled, Powergirl shouted out, “See?”
Clutching her head and crawling out of the rubble Sapphire glared daggers at the blonde superheroine, “Pretty good, now try this.” Energy lanced out from Sapphire’s hands. PG put her arms up and blocked the shot. Pink plasma flowed around Powergirl like a rock. When Sapphire finished, PG smiled and put her hands on her hips. “That the best you can do?”
Sapphire screamed and flew at Powergirl. She smiled and cocked an arm back, “I thought so.”
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Twenty minutes later, Karen Starr, better known to the world as Powergirl was flying back to her apartment. Sapphire hadn’t lasted too long after her little charge. In fact all that the pink vixen remembered was a series of hard punches. Karen had enjoyed that little fight. She liked a good workout when dealing with criminals. Gang bangers and mafia hitmen never gave the excitement that a powered villain could. However the blonde bombshell’s smiled faded when she remembered that she needed to serve her time.
Karen had never liked having a secret identity. She didn’t know how Clark, Courtney, and Kara put up with it. If she had her way, she would have been Powergirl as long as possible. Except life doesn’t work that way, especially when one needs to make some cash and a place to stay, so Powergirl had to get a job. After many, many, many tries she found her niche. Evidently she was pretty good a computer programming so Karen worked for a software company. They allowed her flexible hours, but she needed to be on time or else. More than once had Karen though about throwing her boss out the window.
So with a sigh Powergirl headed back to her apartment to change. Heading back she flew over a series of warehouses, ones she would be returning to shortly, although Karen didn’t know it yet.
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Below inside the warehouse two young women readied themselves for the night of their lives. Kellie and Brianna Vanderbeek were running final checks on their Avatar Suits both of which were laid out on a table. “Strength enhancers?” Bri asked. “Online, anti-grav system?” Kel responded. “Good, although final check will be when we insert our power source into the system” Bri said, “We’re ready.”
The twins smiled and walked over to another table which held the most important part of their equipment. Bri stroked the large black box on the table with pleasure, “Soon we’ll get even. All thanks to this.” Kel put and arm on her sister’s shoulder grinning, “Let’s see it.” Bri smiled and opened the latches on the case. Next she slowly opened the case, revealing the bright green glow inside.
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Kellie and Brianna were the daughters of James Vanderbeek. He had founded Avatar Technologies, a high tech defense company. Avatar was responsible for a number of the future combat systems coming online for the U.S. and Western militaries. Adaptive camouflage, ablative armor, coilguns, and particle weapons had all gotten their start under his brilliant mind. He also had a close relationship with LexCorps. As a result Vanderbeek got involved in the bald headed businessman’s more shady dealings.
One of these dealings was the development of the Avatar Suits. High tech powered armors, they were originally designed for use by Special Forces, but the military considered 2.1 Billion for each suit a bit excessive. Luthor decided that since the U.S. didn’t want to shell out the cash for the suits, maybe some dictators with deep pockets would. Vanderbeek went forwards with the idea. However the deal never went through. The ship carrying the prototype suits was ambushed by Supergirl.
She stopped the shipment and since the equipment, ship, and suits were all property of Avatar, James Vanderbeek took the fall. Lex had keep his hands off the deal just incase this happened. So Vanderbeek went to jail. In order to carry a shorter sentence and keep his daughters from being cut off from their trust funds, James agreed to sell out Lex. The deal insured two things, James’s daughters were taken care of, and he had a short time left on Earth. Vanderbeek was ‘accidentally’ stabbed in a jail skirmish before he could testify.
Kellie and Brianna had known of their father’s activities, they weren’t idiots, but they never learned of Lex’s involvement. They both blamed Supergirl for his death. Using some contacts they learned that two of the Avatar suits had not been picked up by the Feds. After acquiring the suits, they then went to Mr. Luthor to see if he could help them acquire another item.
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Bri and Kel basked in the glow of their two chunks of kryptonite. Luthor had given them the samples. Once they told the man their plan he was more than happy to help. Kel and Bri would kill Supergirl tonight using the kryptonite powered Avatar suits. Each suit would radically enhance their strength. Anti-grav devices built into the suits would allow them to fly. In addition to given the girls powers to challenge Supergirl, each Avatar suit boosted numerous weapons. Dark Light lasers, sonic disruptors, and energy beams would all be at the girls’ fingertips.
“It won’t kill her outright right?” Bri asked. Kel shook her head, “No, most of its energy will go to powering our suits. However whenever super-bitch gets within a few feet of us, she will become weak. Our attacks will have plenty of affect.” “Good.” Bri was looking forwards to bashing the life out of Supergirl. “Let’s suit up.” Kel advised.
Kel and Bri were not like other heiress. Both girls took their studies and family’s business seriously. Each girl had huge IQs, and ran smaller companies on their own. In addition the girls were fine athletes. Bri was a first class gymnast, while Kel had taken on numerous martial arts. Years of activity had given them great bodies. One could see this in the dark grey skinsuits they wore. Covering them from neck to toe, the skinsuits provided protection and connection to the Avatar suits. Next the girls began putting on the tougher and more harden suits.
Each Avatar suit was a dark metallic blue color. To distinguish each other Kel had a purple marker and Bri and red marker on their suits. After that the suits were identical. They had wrist mounted weapons and energy projectors and a belt which held the power compartment. To control the suits, the twins had powered goggles over their eyes. The goggles acted as thermal sensors and NVGs. In addition, the goggles controlled the suits functions through eye movement and blinks. It had taken weeks of training by Kel and Bri but they mastered the control system. Headsets provided communication for both sisters and some backup control if they lost their goggles. Their last act was to install the kryptonite.
Kel and Bri took their small bricks of the deadly ore and placed them inside the circular power stations on their belts. Immediately each suit powered up, and the twins could feel the power. Bri took the lead box off the table and crushed it in her hands. “Oh yes this will be sweet.” “You think that’s cool, watch this.” Bri heard. Turning her head she saw Kel flying. Her suit had a green glow associated with the anti-grav system. “Supergirl doesn’t stand a chance.” Kel smiled.
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“So then they told me I had to go to payroll and after I got to payroll they told me to head back to human resources…and Kelly still has my stapler!” Bob droned on.
Karen Starr aka Powergirl just stared at him with a blank look. If I put a pen in his eye…would any court convict me? Or maybe I should just knock him out and fly out of here…god if I ever wanted an emergency it would be now! Karen was just bored out of her mind. Bob was annoying however she usually didn’t want to hurt the overweight oath. PG just felt caged. She wanted to get back out as her regular self and kick some ass.
However she still had to finish this program. Even if Bob wasn’t hovering over her cubical watching her, Karen couldn’t work much faster. One time she tried using super-speed on the keyboard, but the computer couldn’t keep up. It didn’t process fast enough. Just as she added another line of code her hearing picked up something strange. It wasn’t a silent alarm or scream it was almost like a buzzing. Karen tried to focus on the sound, but it wasn’t easy. The sound kept changing and sometimes disappeared. This is too strange I have to check this out the heroine thought. Even if it turned out to be nothing, it gave Karen an excuse to get out of the damn office.
“Sorry Bob I’ve got to run. Just remembered something.” PG explained as she picked up her coat. Bob could care less; he shrugged and moved onto Jimmy’s desk to share his woes.
Karen walked over towards the elevator. It was out of order. Quickly looking over each of her shoulders, Karen opened the door a crack. She saw the shaft was empty. Without even thinking twice, she stepped out into thin air and closed the door behind. Floating in the empty shaft Karen stretched her arm out above her and went straight up. As she flew, Karen spun and changed from a simple office worker to a blonde bombshell.
Powergirl flew out of the building a short while later. Using her super-ears Karen found out a direction and headed towards the mysterious sound.
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Back in their warehouse, Kel and Bri worked out the final knick in their suits. One of the small problems was Kel’s sonic weapon. “Kel have you fixed that damn thing yet?” Bri complained holding her ears. Kel swore and looked at her twin, “Hey I’m got it now.” “Why did you even turn it on? It’s not like we plan on luring Supergirl out with it.” Her sister shrugged her shoulders looking at Bri, “I just want all our options ready.”
As the two girls talked, Powergirl watched from above. Using her x-ray vision and hearing, she picked up two things. One they planned on finding Supergirl and two they didn’t have anything nice planned. “Alright its time to pay these girls a visit.” Karen said.
Bri and Kel were about ready to go when their roof exploded and a white figure landed in the middle of the warehouse. “What the hell!” Kel cried out. “Ladies can’t your resident superheroine just stop by and say hi?” PG smiled, “Actually I was wondering why you two are so anxious to see my friend Supergirl?” “How did you find us?” Bri asked. “It doesn’t matter get her!” Kel screamed. The young woman threw herself at PG.
Powergirl brought her body up and the attacking lady flew right under her. Bri fired off her kryptonite powered lasers. Twin beams of green energy lanced out and struck Powergirl and knocked her down. She hit hard and kicked up a huge cloud of dust and bits of concrete. “Good work! She’s a krypt, so the green-K should affect her.” Kel complemented as she got up off the floor. Bri smiled, “Thanks I’ll hit her again just to be….OHHH!” the twin was struck by a pair of red beams. Rising from the dust cloud Powergirl’s eyes went from red to her normal color, “Seems I can do that too.” Although Bri and Kel were right about Karen being a kryptonian they forgot one small thing. Unlike Kara and Kal, she was from an alternate reality. Since she wasn’t from our universe PG wasn’t affect by regular kryptonite.
Bri and Kel went for the more direct approach. Both girls charged PG intending to beat her into a pulp. Karen spun on her heels and let the twins crash into each other. She then grabbed Bri and Kel by the back of their power armors, “Well let’s see how tough these suits are ladies.”
PG tossed Kel into the air and while the woman was flying skyward, she let a controlled punch fly into Bri’s stomach. The brunette doubled over, her suit providing physical harm but the superpowered blow had knocked the wind out of her. PG smiled but then was struck from behind. Kel had managed to activate her anti-grav system while flying. Now covered with a green glow she slammed both her feet right onto Powergirl’s shoulder blades.
Karen slammed into the ground with a grunt; Kel grabbed PG by her cape and pulled her up, “My turn!” The woman pulled on Powergirl’s cape and tossed her across the building. The blonde bombshell crashed through a concrete wall and out onto the street crashing into a bus. Luckily it wasn’t filled in the area Karen had crashed. Pulling herself out of the bus she blew a stray piece of hair out of her face, “Okay now I’m mad.”
The two battle-suit equipped twins stepped out and armed some of their Avatar suits’ toys. Kel fired off a mini-grenade at Karen. Without thinking twice, PG picked up the bus that she had collided with and lifted it out of the danger area, seconds before the grenade exploded. Placing the bus a ways away, she turned to head back to the twins when she was hit with a laser blast. Bri and her sister had taken to the air as well and chased after Powergirl. Once getting into range, Bri poured on the dark light laser beam.
Karen shrugged off the blast and flew up at her attacker. Bri was caught off guard by the move and took a left hook to the face. She was knocked away only to be replaced by Kel who tried to take Powergirl from behind. Wrapping her arms around the superheroine, Kel squeezed with her enhanced strength. Karen grunted as the pressure was applied to her chest. The avatar suit was giving her a run for her money; however PG managed to summon up the strength and broke free from the hold. Turning, she then nailed Kel in the face.
“Come girls I’ve have better workouts against sim bots at the League headquarters.” Karen mocked. Kel fired off her lasers while Bri charged to try and take Powergirl from behind. PG rolled to avoid the lasers and managed to stop Bri with a kick into the twin’s chest.
Kel was desperately searching for something to use on Powergirl. Their kryptonite had no affect and so far their attacks were useless as well. As she went through her list of weapons on the HUD covering her eyes she found something they hadn’t tried, the sonic disruptor. Deciding that it would be at least worth a shot, Kel turned it on. She was surprised by the result.
PG smiled at the ease she had handled the last attack when suddenly her ears began ringing with pain. “Ahh!” she cried out. Karen’s gloves went to cover her ears but it had no affect. Next the heroine tried to switch what she was listening too. However it didn’t work at all. Powergirl couldn’t take it she had to descend onto the top of a building. Kel and Bri were shocked.
“What’s wrong with her?” Bri asked. Kel looked at her sonic weapon, “It must be the disruptor. It’s affecting her mind, she can’t focus.” The twins looked at each other and smiled.
Powergirl was on her knees the buzzing and ringing causing her too much discomfort to notice the approaching girls. Each twin took an arm and lifted up the disoriented heroine. “Now we have some fun Powergirl.”
Kel took PG by her arms, holding them behind her back. Bri stood in front of the weakened Karen and let a powered punch slam right into PG’s chest. Karen exhaled all the air in her lungs as the battle-suit enhanced blow dug into her. The punch was followed by more across her face and abs. To add insult to injury, Bri finished with a knee to the ribs. Kel tossed the battered Powergirl across to her sister.
“My turn bobie-girl” Kel snickered. She slammed an elbow into the face of Powergirl. Karen had enough and managed to focus enough to jump up and kick Kel right as she went in for another punch. Bri was caught off guard and managed to lose her grip on Karen. PG free tried to attack but couldn’t focus. Kel saw Powergirl recovering and turned up the power of her sonic weapon.
Karen cried out in pain, covering her ears again. She sank to her knees and then fell to the ground on her side. Still covering her ears, Powergirl curled into a ball wishing the noise would just go away. Kel and Bri walked over and looked down at the helpless heroine. “She’s finished let’s go.” Bri said. Kel shook her head, “No.” “What?” Kel explained, “We can use her to bring Supergirl to us. They’re friends and with PG helpless under my sonic weapon she can’t interfere.” “Okay, let’s take her to the site.” Bri nodded.
Powergirl was pulled on her feet. She tried to focus and put up some resistance but it was futile. Kel wrapped her arms around Karen’s neck and applied a viscous sleeperhold. Unable to fight back, Powergirl was slowly knocked out. After a few minutes, Kel dropped the unconscious heroine to the ground. The twins looked down at the defeated girl of steel and celebrated with a high-five.
Supergirl was soaring above the Earth. Performing a night time sweep of the eastern U.S. she had stopped at a few places to help out prior to this. First Kara had prevented a landslide from wiping out a Boy Scout camp in California. Next she stopped an Intergang raid on not so secret military base in Nevada. After that she helped Batgirl and Robin subdue Killer Croc and some of his new friends, Kara having tangled with two mutated fem-lizards. Finally Supergirl saved an airliner that lost power over Washington D.C. All in all it was a busy day.
So Kara took the time to relax and enjoy a few minutes of worry free flight. As she was floating suddenly a sharp screech went through her ears. Stopping, Supergirl grabbed her ears and swore. However the noise dissipated, replaced by an electronic voice.
“Hello Supergirl. We know you can hear this.” Kara listened intensely trying to gather information and the source of the high frequency signal. “You may know or don’t know that a friend of yours is our prisoner.” Supergirl then heard a scream, “PG…” the heroine mumbled. “Powergirl will be suffering more if you don’t do exactly as I say.” The voice continued.
Supergirl listened as it gave instructions for her to fly to a deserted location outside Metropolis. It was a trap, and it wouldn’t take her to Karen. However Kara was able to track down the source of the signal. As she started to pick up speed, Supergirl wondered what they could have done to Powergirl. Kryptonite was out of the question, so what was left?
Breaking Mach 5 the Girl of Steel broke off her random thoughts and headed off to rescue her friend.
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Kel and Bri were watching the captured Powergirl. The Maid of Might was secured to a pole inside a lead lined room with meta-restraining bands. Each one was drawn tightly across the crime fighter’s body. On her head was a set of earphones. They were connected to the sonic device which lay only a few feet away. Karen was barely concisions from being continually exposed to the brain disrupting noise. Her head was hovering near her chest and occasionally Powergirl moved it trying to shake off the affects of the device.
“Are you sure she won’t get out of that?” Kel asked. Bri shook her head, “No, but it’s better than anything else. Remember the knock out stuff didn’t work, and even though she is disoriented by the noise her powers are fully intact.” Kel wasn’t satisfied, “Still I’d feel better if she could be affected by the kryptonite or powered down permanently.” “Sis don’t worry we’ll take her out as soon as we finish with Supergirl.”
The twins’ conversation was interrupted as an alarm sounded. Kel checked her HUD and smiled, “Radar has Supergirl. The price we paid to get her IFF code was worth it.” “How long?” Bri demanded. “Only a few minutes, let’s get ready.” The twins dispersed.
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Supergirl approached New York at high speed. Immediately she started scanning the buildings and warehouses the lined the Jersey and New York areas. Sweeping each building quickly, she didn’t see any signs of Powergirl. After ten minutes, Kara finally hit pay dirt. A warehouse had a room she couldn’t see through, lead lined. Figuring it was a trap, Supergirl decided to land outside the lead building. For all she knew there was a piece of kryptonite in there with her name on it.
She slammed into the roof of the warehouse a few seconds later. Although she had blasted her way in, Kara landed with the grace of an angel. As always the Girl of Steel looked stunning in her costume. A royal blue leotard that had its collar and sleeve ends lined with some yellow and of course the famous S shield in the center. On her back was the red cape followed by matching boots and a red skirt held by a yellow belt. With her hands on her hips she scanned the room for any intruders.
Much to her surprise she didn’t find anyone, nor did Kara find more lead which could be hiding them. ‘Maybe they headed off to that location?’ Supergirl thought. However they should have left someone to look after Powergirl. Carefully Supergirl went towards the lead lined room. Right as she was about to smash the door open, a laser struck her across the chest. The blast didn’t knock her over or even really affect her, but Kara had been taken by surprised. Turning to face her attacker Kara found nothing. Again she was hit, this time from the opposite side. As Supergirl was about to move something slammed into her side.
The blow knocked Supergirl to the ground. Looking up Kara finally got a view of her attacker. It was a tall athletic woman, brunette wearing some sort of techno-suit. “What’s the matter Supergirl, couldn’t find me.” The woman taunted. “No, just needed to get my bearings.” Kara replied rushing her foe at super-speed. She slammed into the woman, and sent the attacker flying. Landing with a loud ouff! the girl looked back at Supergirl, who stood in her power pose looking down at her foe.
“Okay, want to do this the hard way or the easy way?” Kara asked. She didn’t get a response as Supergirl was grabbed from behind and squeezed in a bear hug. A second woman has appeared. “Well how about our version of the easy way Supergirl? If our stealth systems fooled you so easily, then our other toys will make this quick.” Kel whispered into Supergirl’s ear. The Girl of Steel could feel the pressure being placed on her a sign these girls could be a real problem, “Okay…” Kara replied and then head butted Kel.
The other woman released Kara and grabbed her head. Kel had forgotten the Avatar suits didn’t protect exposed flesh. Supergirl landed on her feet, pivoted and punched Kel in the gut. This sent the woman down to the ground as she tried to catch her breath. This gave Kara a good chance to take a long look at her attackers. They both had similar features, suggesting a family connection. In fact they looked really familiar to the Girl of Steel. It hit her seconds later, “Vanderbeek’s daughters?”
Each twin stood up and assumed fighting stances, “Yes Supergirl, we are James Vanderbeek’s daughters.” Kel said with anger. Bri continued, “You ruined our father and now we will ruin you.” Now things were really bad, these girls had superpowered battle-suits and a bone to pick. Maybe Kara could talk them down. “I didn’t kill him and he chose his own fate by dealing with men like Luthor.” Logic would never outweigh emotion in either of the twins’ minds. Bri’s eyes narrowed, “It was you who placed him in prison and where he needed to testify. You think Lex would have ever let him see a court room! YOU SHOULD OF JUST STABBED HIM YOURSELF!!!!” “You killed our father Kara Zor-El and now we are going to kill you.” Kel finished.
The twins charged Supergirl once more. Kara spun in place and used her faster than eye motion to strike both attacking girls as they closed. Each of the twins was knocked to the ground by the blows but they quickly recovered. The twins switched to using their weaponry. Kel unleashed some lasers while Bri fired off a pair of micro-grenades. The lasers didn’t affect Supergirl but the two grenades stunned her as they exploded across her arm.
Bri used Kara’s pause to her advantage, closing the distance and then slamming a punch into Supergirl’s gut. The blond heroine went flying skyward as the meta-level blow knocked her into the ceiling. However she didn’t fall, Kara hovered in mid air and decided to lead the two girls on a little chase. With ease she punched through the roof and shot skyward. Sure enough, Kel and Bri followed close behind.
Supergirl picked up the speed heading west. Fighting in downtown Manhattan would put thousands of people at risk. So she decided to put herself above a deserted stretch of Long Island shore line. It was far enough out of the way of anything man made and nobody was out at this time of night so there was no risk of hurting anyone else. Since she had a speed advantage Kara had to wait a few moments before the girls showed up. As they closed Supergirl noticed the suits the women used were causing a green glow. Unfortunately she didn’t think much about it.
“This is the last chance to end this peacefully girls. Turn off those suits or suffer the consequences.” Kara shouted out once the girls were within earshot. Both of the twins had smiles on their faces as the pulled to within a few feet of Supergirl, still glowing green. “Why would we do that?” Kel said disturbingly. Bri had a wicked smirk as she spoke, “Especially when this fight is about to go our way.”
Kara didn’t hear the last part. She was starting to feel woozy and weak. Her flight was no longer stable. Bri floated closer and the feeling only got worse. Supergirl was struggling to stay airborne when Bri grabbed onto her and pulled Kara in close. “What having trouble flying? Here all you need is a little push.” Bri shoved Supergirl away and watched as Kara fell from the sky.
Supergirl slammed into the desert right on her back between the shoulder blades. A huge could of sand was kicked up and Kara cried out with a yelp of pain. Rolling off her painful back she mumbled, “…Kryptonite…damn it…I should have….seen it…coming...” Kara started to rise when a green-K ray struck her in the back. Shoved forwards she slammed into a sand dune covered with grass.
Bri and Kel floated down to the ground and enjoyed every minute of Supergirl’s suffering, “See Supergirl you krypts just don’t get it.” Slowly walking over to Supergirl Bri’s suit continued to glow green illuminating the beach. Kara struggled to get up when Bri’s boot slammed her back down. “Always look before you leap!” Bri screamed as she kicked Supergirl airborne.
Supergirl went flying only to be caught by Kel. The other enraged sister caught Supergirl and placed the Girl of Steel into a bear-hug. Kryptonite energy radiated from Kel’s suit and Kara winced as she had the life squeezed out of her. “This is how its going to work Supergirl. We are going to beat you, smash you, and once you’re a bloody pulp maybe we’ll consider letting you die!” Kel snared. She released Supergirl and watched Kara land on her knees and simply fall over onto her side.
The twins both circled Supergirl and fired off kryptonite beams from their wrist mounted weapons. Kara curled into a ball and closed her eyes as the rays washed over her body. She was feeling nauseated and weak, her life being drained away. Her skin felt like it was on fire from being bathed in the rays. Just when she though couldn’t take much more, the rays stopped.
Weakly she opened her eyes and looked around. Both twins were gone. A new figure stood over her, “Jezz Kara what have I told you about getting into brawls?” Supergirl smiled. Powergirl was standing over her. Karen helped Kara up and held the weakened Girl of Steel steady. “Looks like I got her just in time.” Powergirl remarked. Kara tried to shrug her shoulders, “Well…I had…them almost…where I wanted them…speaking of that…where are?”
An explosion sounded the arrival of Kel and Bri. When Powergirl showed up she had hit both twins at full speed and slammed them into a nearby hill. “How the hell did you get here?” Kel demanded. PG smiled, “Funny you should ask that…”
TBC
A Few Minutes earlier…
As Supergirl, Kel and Bri duked it out; Powergirl struggled with her own problem. She was still locked up, suffering from the affects of the sonic disruptor. The noise was making Karen feel like her brain was on fire and never ended thanks to the headphones covering her ears. Unable to focus she couldn’t use her powers. Some people might feel helpless or even give in at this type of situation, Karen got pissed. There was no way she was going to be beaten by a couple of trust fund twins.
Using up every last bit of concentration, she focused on pulling free of the meta-restraining bands around her. Designed to hold powered criminals they were keeping Powergirl prisoner in her weakened condition. The bands bent but they refused to break. Collapsing back, Karen caught her breath. The noise in her ears was too much. Then it hit her, get rid of the noise.
Titling her head slightly, Karen then smashed it as hard as she could against the pillar she was secured to. The headphones she was wearing stayed on but they were damaged. Again she smashed her head against the pillar. This time the left earphone broke; with the noise diminished Powergirl moved her head radically to the right. What remained of the headphones flew out and slammed to the ground, the noise was gone.
Taking a minute to clear her head Karen then pushed her arms out from the pillar and easily snapped the bands that held her. Freed, she then turned and saw the sonic device lying a few feet away. PG used her heat-vision and torched the device, melting it into slag. “I’m back, and now its time to kick some ass.” Karen growled.
Bashing the door of her cell open she saw the area was deserted. However she noticed the damage indicated from people with superpowers fighting. Flying through the hole in the ceiling, she paused over the building to try and spot where the twins had gone. As she searched a cry reached her ears, one she recognized… “Supergirl.”
Seconds later she flew off at full speed.
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“So that’s how I escaped, now time for some unfinished business.” Karen said.
The two Vanderbeek twins charged Powergirl and the weakened Supergirl. However instead of fighting, Karen took off. This resulted in the girls crashing into one another. As they gained altitude Karen looked Supergirl in the eyes and asked, “Are we far enough away yet?” Kara blinked a few times and then pushed off Powergirl. Flying on her own she spun around and felt like a reborn woman, “Yep. Let me head up to recharge just a bit.” “Fine by me, I’ve got a lesson to teach those two.”
Powergirl and Supergirl separated. Karen dived for the earth and saw that the two girls were coming up to meet her. Both Kel and Bri glowed green with their kryptonite anti-gravity systems, but it wouldn’t affect Powergirl at all. Which the Maid of Might demonstrated by dodging both girls’ beam attack and then replying with two punches straight into each twin. PG’s blows knocked both Kel and Bri to the ground.
Landing in between them, PG smiled, “Ready for more?”
Kel got up first and super-sped behind Powergirl. Seizing her by the neck, Kel tried to choke PG. Her sister followed this up by giving Karen a punch across the face and then proceeded to go to work on Powergirl’s abs. Although she sank from the punches and Kel on her back, PG wasn’t going down. Grabbing Kel’s arms, Powergirl flipped the girl over her own head and right down onto Bri.
Both sisters collapsed to the ground as Karen then grabbed them by their legs. Picking each girl up with ease, Powergirl spun in place and gave the girls the ride of their lives. Even with the protection offered by their Avatar Suits, the twins could barely handle the g-forces being placed upon them. Right before they were about to pass out Powergirl released them and watched as they slammed into a nearby hill.
Lying on the ground, both Vanderbeek twins were helpless. Karen floated over them and shook her head, “You girls really need to do some time in a G simulator. That was only 9 Gs, Supergirl and I have done what…20, 44? Kara help me out.” Flying a little bit higher out of range of the kryptonite radiation, Supergirl answered, “Oh definitely at least 44. You know those high speed turns and sudden stops are a bitch. May I?” Kara then gestured with her hands. PG shrugged her shoulders, “Sure.”
Supergirl narrowed her eyes and sent two bright orange beams from them down to the girls below. With the precision of a fine surgeon, Kara used her heat-vision to cut out both twins’ power sources. Only a few seconds after her incisions were made, the kryptonite chunks were visible. Karen pulled both rocks out and then, after checking to make sure Supergirl was out of the way, tossed them into orbit.
Kel and Bri felt their suits lose power and then looked up at the two Girls of Steel. Both of them were in their power stances and said a single phrase, “Game Over.”
Hope everyone enjoyed this little short. Might have to have PG and SG get together again in the future