Kara floated down beside him, eyes narrowing. "You're kryptonian , you're one of us ."
He gave a small smirk, brushing dust off his shoulder. "I am one of everybody."
Before she could question him further, his form shimmered with green light- his body contorting flesh and bone reshaping to his human form, leaving kara visibly stunned
There is a moment of hesitation before, she asks sharper than intended " how did you do that? Did you just transform from a kryptonian to this"
She asks unsure what species he is now
" a Human " he said
" and for the transforming part, it is this thing that did it" he chuckled softly, tapping the device strapped to his wrist " it's called the omnitrix, and for transforming to kryptonian, that's not the only species that it can transform to"
She looks the device intrigued she thought that ' even the science council from krypton don't have that kind of technology, not that they are competent to use science to avoid catastrophe' thinking about them annoy her
He patted his pockets, searching for something. Finding his battered phone, he sighed in relief seeing only a cracked screen. He quickly opened an app.
"Hang tight. I'm calling my RV to pick us up," he said, glancing up at her with a reassuring smile.
"while we wait for my vehicle, maybe we can introduce our self my name is Rafael Thorne of earth, wielder of the omnitrix"
" i am kara zor-el of krypton, " she said with her eyes misting like it trigger a memory that she rather forget, " what is the use of it"
" the use of the omnitrix? "He said like he is about to question himself, he thought about it for a moment before answering " its a device that collect the DNA of species living in the universe that allow me to transform to them well if would explain it in short it's like a vault that is used to preserving species that catalogued as rendered extinct"
" I would say that kryptonian is in that category seeing that I have only known 2 kryptonian. You and superman, i think you would know him as KAL-EL" he continued
" KAL-EL is here" she said, cracked could be heard from her
" yes he is here, he has been for a long time" his answer confused her making her eyes brow raised in confusion
"but let me continue our discussion later my rv is arriving, and i think you would rather rest" he said as the RV closing in his location the hum of machine is heard closing by and stopping beside them, with a smirk he said "unless waking up straight to fighting is your normal morning routine"
Kara flushed, glancing away. She hated to admit it, but her legs felt unsteady, and her hands were trembling slightly from exhaustion. She wordlessly followed him into the RV.
Inside, the RV was surprisingly spacious. It radiated a functional, but cozy vibe. A cushioned sofa sat in the middle, bolted to the floor, with a small kitchenette and a row of high-tech monitors lining one wall.
"You can crash here," Rafael said, pointing to the sofa. "Give me a second, I'm going to clean up outside a bit. We left quite a mess."
Kara hesitated, instinctively wanting to help, but her body wouldn't cooperate. She sank onto the sofa as Rafael flashed a thumbs up, assuring her it was fine.
Left alone, she gazed around the RV, noting the strange mix of what she put as Earth technology and alien enhancements, a clear reflection of its owner's life.
Moments later, Rafael returned, wiping his hands on a cloth. Curious, Kara peeked out the window and her eyes widened. He had efficiently piled the shattered robot remains into neat heaps, with her escape pod carefully placed beside them.
He flopped onto a bed near the back, groaning.
"Ugh. Cleaning up after a fight? Definitely the worst part."
Kara gave a small smile. She could agree with that, though she was still puzzled why he felt that he needed to clean up after battle.
As he caught his breath, Rafael seemed to remember something.
"Oh yeah, about Kal-El... Let me show you something."
He grabbed a tablet from the bedside table and with a few taps, cast the screen onto a larger monitor mounted to the ceiling.
A newsreel flickered to life a footage from the Daily Planet.
Superman, a blur of red and blue was seen wrestling what looked like a genetically-engineered dinosaur, shielding civilians from debris, and finally, after he subdued it he landed to help the civilian and cleared the debris before flashing a warm smile directly at the camera.
She gasp in surprise, seeing his cousin that she was supposed to keep safed being super strong and look like he was someone to look up to, the feeling in her chest now feels complicated the last wish that her parent and kal parent want that she is the one that will took care of him
Well she failed in that point, but she was glad that he is safe and thriving even if the feeling of disappointing his parent still linger in her chest
"What did this thing said" she pointed to the text scrolling in the news clip
" ah yeah i almost forgot" he skipped to his desktop table before typing something in the keyboard, while he type he continue " its english, its a language that is spoken in this area of the planet and somewhat an international language"
" so how can you understood me" she asked
" it's the omnitrix, it has a built-in universal translator" his finger continues flying from one key to the others. With a last click he uploaded the file that he just make to a tablet that are connected to a magnet beside the main monitor
" Here " he passes the tablet to kara, she takes it with a questioning eye " its a language learning module for language on earth. I have uploaded a couple of language that you might found useful, i have to get the translation to kryptonian language from what i can manage to decode from your pod"
She opened the page. It has several languages such as English, French, Mandarin and spanish. She tapped the screen, choosing english. Now it shows how to learning english in differing difficult
" you should start from the beginner level" he said pointedly like it's the most obvious thing in the world
" yes yes i get it" she said
" ok then while you look that up" he grabbed a bags of tool from a cabinet " i'll be outside there's a treasure trove of technology out there "
His voice slowly faded as he got out, kara seems to not bother her head is buried from the beginner level module
⧪⧪⧪ Chapter Break ⧪⧪⧪
It has been quite the hectic day, he didn't think that all of this action will come his way this soon but what would one do in dc without some of the excitement
He scoff at his thought, he walks down the staircase, he start looking down at the wreckage, this think will be quite valuable, greymatter could reverse engineer so many thing from this thing
His hand began to pick the thing apart, categorizing which one is useful and which is just a piece of alien metal. His movement began to start a rhythm while his mind goes elsewhere
He has some ideas of who sent this robot army chasing supergirl, brainiac is totally the main suspect he is notorious for chasing supergirl
Wait is he confusing this with someone else, he remembers in one of the animation show or movie that supergirl get with brainiac ' ok that was something else'
The thing that he is searching for in his mind is that Brainiac has the city of 'Kandor' in his collection of cities.
And if he is not wrong that where she come from 'or is it argo city', he groans aloud 'not having wikipedia or the fandom website is such a drag'
Back to the point he is successful in acquiring what looked like power source from the remains, and a still functioning weapon from the hand of one the robot, arming the rv with one of this will be amazing
If brainiac is a possible enemy that he will have to make sure that any tech from this pile does not have some spyware inside of it,
He turned to what looked like a black poodle with a green line painted on it, he quickly merged with the useful pile that he already separated, millions of foreign lines of code shows itself to him.
The embedded system that operated the machine previously is laid bare before him. He has no time to search from what looks like millions of lines for specific lines that could have the possibility to be a spyware.
He wouldn't underestimate a possible 12 level intellect enemy, he scrap all the line of code resetting the whole thing, and from what he learn from the previous code he code his own system that run with his programming language that he has been using to code all his app
He spend quite a few hours outside, cleaning and rewriting all the embedded system
He pulled out a huge covering from one of the storage on the side of the rv to cover all the unusable parts while putting the one that can be in use to the storage.
He would say that this is quite a productive day if what you say is a productive day includes a killer robot gunning you down and a gorgeous kryptonian falling down from the sky.
His brain seems to not compute all of the thing that is happening to him, he is too tired to cope
He gets inside the RV to take a quick bath before going to sleep, he doesn't even realize until after he is done with a quick bath that Kara seems to have fallen asleep on the sofa with the tablet on top of her hugged with her two arms.
A small smile adorned his face, he grabbed a fresh pair of blankets and covered her with it. And finally after all the think that happen today he can rest and fell asleep
And he slept the comfiest sleep that he got after he wake up in the dc multiverse
[if brainiac is a level 12 intellect what level would greymatter or a galvan be. (what about azmuth)]