Marvel: Just A Kryptonian Goddess

[Wednesday, 12:30 AM, United States California, Los Angeles coast, 12/3/1995]

"Vers, Vers are you ok?".

'Carol'. She wanted to shout, but that wouldn't be fair with Kara, she knew that.

"Vers please answer me".

But even so, hearing that name made her skin crawl, worse it made her want to tear someone's throat off, the only thing stopping her from doing so was the fact that she knew whatever she did would only tickle the Kryptonian, this coming from a small part of her brain that was still somehow thinking rationally despise the unnatural amount of anger she was feeling.

"Vers?". And there was it, the final drop of her patience finally gone.

It didn't matter if Kara was talking with a concerned tone, it didn't matter if she was worried about her, VERS was the name of a slave, a prisoner, and she was, no, she is Carol Danvers and she was no one's prisoner, not anymore.

Turning around Carol unconsciously activated her powers, surrounding her body in a white, blue, and yellow aura that emitted small amounts of heat through the air.

"My name is Carol Danvers". Carol said with barely restrained rage in her voice.

Hearing the venom in Vers voice Kara stopped on her tracks for one second but continued to walk forward.

"What happened to you? the explosion took a good chunk out of your nape, if it wasn't for me you wouldn't even have a head right now, did the explosion made you regain your memories?". Kara asked, worried for Ve- Carol.

"You knew?!". Carol's aura exploded with power making the ground beneath her crack and the air around her even hotter.

Seeing that Kara stopped on her tracks once again and looked at Carol with a surprised and confused expression on her face, the explosion really did leave her friend in a confused state, maybe she would have to bring her to her ship and heal her.

"Of course I did, you told me remember? your mother Mar-vell, Ask'lo's massacre, five years of training in Hala". Kara said in a confused tone.

Carol's aura immediately returned to normal, making the light in her eyes fade and the surrounding temperature to come back to normal.

"Ye-... yes I remember, I'm sorry for my outburst, the explosion made my body release some adrenaline". Looking at Kara, Carol saw her raising an eyebrow.

"So, what happened to you?". Kara asked ignoring Carol's weird behavior.

Ignoring the fact that Kara clearly didn't believe her words Carol looked down at her hands to analyze the strange energy that was surrounding her body if she had to describe it it would be like drinking an energetic, only now the energetic actually had the power of a nuclear bomb and gave her the power to do anything she wanted.

The feeling was weird, she knew that she had not just received a power boost, no, it was more like this energy was always with her, before this day she didn't know what it was but now she did.

When training with her powers she always tried to use more energy, she thought that if she could fire photon blasts from her hands after passing through the 'procedure' that gave her her powers then maybe her body produced her energy by itself.

That was the moment where she reached a dead end, she could never use more than a certain amount of energy, it was as if a filter existed inside her, only allowing her to use certain amounts of her power.

Firstly she thought that it was a safety mechanism of her body, only allowing her to drain a certain amount of energy but not too much as to not overwhelm her body and kill her in the process.

That would make sense if she was absorbing energy from somewhere else but the warm feeling on her c.h.e.s.t that emerged every time she used her powers told her a different history.

She couldn't really confirm her theory before but now she had no doubts, she was generating her own energy inside her body all this time and after the explosion, she was able to destroy her filter and drain more energy somehow.

Having a sudden realization Carol started to frantically look at the ground, immediately finding what she was searching for, she crouched down and took a small, cylindrical device, it was supposed to be a universal translator that for all rights, should have been destroyed by the explosion.

'Any normal one would have been, but this, this is no translator, it's a leash, a leash for an obedient dog to wear'.

'Having a universal translator as an implant was normal, researchers even said that 4 in 5 Kree had it, but having two like my device and interface, not so much, it was obvious that they were lying, I gave my complete trust to the empire, and in turn, they gave me a leash'.

Crushing the object in her hand while activating her powers on her right hand Carol burned the remains of the device, opening her fist she let the wind carry the dust remains of the device away from her.

'The supreme intelligence lied to me, Lawson was not my mother... not by blood'.

'The clues don't lie, the chip on my nape suppressed my memories, and possibly my powers, the Skrulls and the Kree were trying to steal the lightspeed engine, those purple sh.i.p.s on my memory were without a doubt from the Skrulls'.

'Ask'lo was possibly Lawson's hideout, she teleported to there after being attacked after all, the Kree probably discovered her while trying to track down the Tesseract's energy signature, whatever that thing is'.

'The question is how the Skrulls found her, they are a technologically advanced species but just because they steal technology like the Krolotean vermin'.

'The Skulls can transform into anyone, Lawson had allies here on Earth so they probably protected that woman on my memories... or died trying'.

'No concrete memories, surrounded by enemies and no way of knowing if I even have friends inside this planet, this limits my freedom by an unimaginable degree'.

'I can't trust anyone, my memories are nor yet complete and even a squirrel can be a skrull, until I regain my complete memories I won't be able to search for trusting allies'.

Carol gave a small glance at Kara with suspecting eyes, thinking about how she got on the planet brought some questions to her mind.

Kara was coincidentally at the exact same spot where she had fallen, it was too much of a coincidence to be possible, not only that but she had been nothing but friendly with her, even if they knew each other for less than one hour at the time.

It was possible that someone had sent her there to intercept her po-, NO!, Kara was her friend, Kara told her about her past and in turn she told her about her's, a false past but one she believed it was true none the less.

Kara wasn't her enemy, she couldn't be, she saved her from an explosion that would have literally destroyed her brain, Kara was without a doubt not a Skrull or a secret agent sent to kill her, but even with that certainty she couldn't trust her 100%.

They wiped her memories indoctrinated her, made her go to missions that would make any human vomit out of disgust, lock her in a cell after destroying the key and wipe out their own memories to forget she even existed.

She was not going to be anyone's prisoner or slave ever again, she would rather kill herself than to let anyone have that control over her again.

Yon-rogg was her captor but his teachings were useful, always vigilant, always attentive if you are not sure someone is your ally never trust them completely and always stay in guard, it's not paranoia if they are out there to get you and when skulls are involved even a rat could be out there to get her.

She had without a doubt suffered a physiological trauma because of her years in the star force but she still could think logically, and logically speaking, even now she couldn't possibly defeat a being that belonged to the most powerful mortal race of the known universe.

"I regained, parts of my memories".

Kara gave a small smile to her, a smile that clearly said how happy she was for her friend, she almost returned the smile to her but stopped herself in time, it was amazing how Kara could make her drop her guard so easily without even trying.

It was weird, she didn't think much about that before but now that she did she managed to perceive how weird it was, feeling relaxed when in the presence of being that could destroy a planet and kill her in less than a second if she even suspected she was an enemy was nothing but crazy.

"So, am I still your best and only friend or is there someone I need to look out for?".

Carol held the urge to roll her eyes, sometimes Kara was so silly.

Slap!

Slapping her own face Carol forcefully got out of her train of thoughts and answered Kara in a normal tone of voice while ignoring her question.

"I'm not a Kree, I am a human, a Kree, human hybrid, Mar-vell was not my mother, she was a Kree soldier that defected from the empire after discovering its the true colors".

"And that would be?".

"Space bullies according to someone she called Soren, they conquer other species and kill everyone who stands on their way, she hid here on Earth under the disguise of Lawson, a human scientist that created the Lightspeed engine, an engine build with the only objective to rescue and hide the other species who were being oppressed by the Kree".

"The Kree discovered Lawson's hideout and attacked P.E.G.A.S.U.S base, I asked Yon-rogg to bring a small fleet to the planet, we need to discover where the Core, the tesseract is hidden and take it from there, maybe destroy it if necessary, after that w- I will have to escape the planet".

"I will probably join the Nova Corps and fight against the Kree with their help, you should hide from them, if they discovered a lone Kryptonian living inside Earth they will not stop for nothing to try and capture you, thank you for your help Kara but for now on this is my mission".

Carol turned around and started to walk away, having Kara with her would surely help but she preferred not having to worry about being stabbed in the back, the, a Kryptonian was a threat and she needed to get away from her as fast as possible.

Seeing Carol walk away from her Kara immediately changed her expression to a serious one.

"No". Kara said with a serious voice, making Carol stop and turn around with a surprised expression, she had never thought Kara could speak in that tone before.

"Do you know? Kryptonians don't Fear Death, none of us do, if we die we will simply go to Rao's vast, eternal gardens where we will be given the choice to rest forever or be reborn in a new body, as a new being of Krypton".

Kara took out a small necklace that was behind her collar and showed to Carol, it had a shiny silver chain that connected to a red ruby with the shape of a heart that appeared to be beating with red energy emanating from it every few seconds.

Even from afar, Carol could feel the heat emanating from the heart, strangely enough, she liked the feeling it gave her.

"Alrya gave this to me, a red one, my favorite color and a blue one for her, her favorite color too, Krypton had very advanced technology compared to the rest of the known universe, a lightspeed engine for example would honestly not be impossible to make with our technology".

"And it's exactly because of that that we always searched for answers independently if they are supernatural or nor, independently if they are not to be sought or not we always wanted to know the answers to the questions of the universe".

" 'To discover the mysteries of reality, that is the reason why Rao gave us life', Sah-Sha, a brilliant scientific from old Krypton, one of the many who Died on D.D once said that and ever since we lived by that moto".

Carol was Looking at Kara attentively, whatever she was about to tell her was undoubtedly important.

"One such question we Kryptonians always asked was what happens when we die, for years we didn't manage to find the answer for that question but one day a woman by the name of Jan-Al, a Kryptonian with more than six hundred years of age, one of which died before A.D.D 700 managed to accidentally find the answer by simply meditating".

"The books said that she was in such synergy with the astral plane that she managed to move her own soul through her memories, going so far back that she managed to see the memories of her own past life".

"After years of more experiments, she was able to deduce that Kryptonians who had a strong spiritual connection could not only travel through the astral plane but also through their own souls, going back on their history to see their past lives".

Stopping for one moment Kara looked at Carol as if expecting something, after seeing her friend frozen in place she simply continued to walk in circles with Carol in the middle.

"But nothing in this universe is completely harmless".

"Some could lose themselves on the beautiful memories of their past selves and never come back to their own bodies, dying with a smile on their faces, living forever on the past but never going back to their present, a beautiful but sad death".

"The first to suffer this fate was one of Jan-Al's students, 'Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards', that was what she said after her disciple, her own son died because of her".

Carol's eyes widened in surprise, the universe had thousands, maybe even millions of powerful beings like the celestials and the cosmic beings like Galactus but even with all that she didn't know where she would go after she died, almost all didn't, but some convinced themselves that they did, she didn't have the impression Kara was one of those.

The Kree believed that not only their minds but also their souls would go to the collective an agglomerate of all minds of the dead Kree that fused giving birth to the Supreme Intelligence, their spiritual leader.

But she didn't believe in that, she was a Christian, heaven, hell, God, she believed in that, after seeing the universe and its marvels her beliefs were shaken but she still held onto them but now, now she just discovered that reincarnation was a thing.

"This necklace was invented by Jan-Al herself, it works by first putting it in the neck of someone, after that the user will have to meditate in the presence of a monk who in turn will take a piece of that person's spiritual energy and put it inside the ruby".

"This process makes it so that as long as the soul of the wearer exists the necklace will never stop pulsing with energy, the closer that person's soul is to the necklace the faster it gets".

"And the fact that this necklace is pulsing means just one thing, Alrya's soul resides somewhere inside this planet".

Kara's expression slowly changed from a serious to a sad one.

"When she died the only thing that remained was her necklace and her ashes, I still remember to this day the moment when the ruby in my Necklace lost all of its warm and became cold".

"Before Alrya died she managed to send an emergency beacon, we were able to find her remains because of that, I... almost killed myself that day, I would have if my father didn't stop me".

Carol suddenly held her breath, Kara didn't even get close to telling her about that part of her life before and if she was telling her this now it meant that she had said something she shouldn't have.

"Do you think I wouldn't give everything I have to travel back in time and stay at her side at that moment, even if that meant my Death?".

Kara put her necklace on her neck and walked towards Carol, pulling her hand on her shoulder with force she locked eyes with her.

"So answer me, do you really think I will abandon you when you actually need my help? do I really appear to be such a cold and emotionless person in your eyes?".

Hearing Kara's words Carol lowered her head and put her hand on Kara's c.h.e.s.t, taking the red necklace with her right hand, she lifted head and looked closely at the shiny red Ruby in the form of a heart that burned with heat on her hand.

"No, you are not emotionless and you certainly will not abandon me in a moment of need, I'm sorry, I should have thought about my words before saying them".

Abandoning her serious expression Kara gave a smile and put her arm in Carol's shoulder, bringing her close and gently hugging her.

"Now you can tell me what's wrong and after that, you can tell me where we will go".

Carol gave a small laugh and said. "So be it, let's start with the history about how aliens abducted me and hopefully didn't put anything inside my body while I was out".

"It started when I took off the jet with Lawson, she said some coordinates, but we were attacked by a Kree ship before we could reach the place, she ordered me to type the coordinates of Ask'lo".

"When I did that, a type of energy, the energy of the lightspeed engine to be more specific shot forward and created a portal, not a jump point, a portal, a portal that transported us to Ask'lo, the only problem was that a war between the Skrulls and the Kree was happening at that moment".

"We were shot down almost immediately, we both crashed down on the planet and almost died, Yon-rogg appeared and killed Lawson, Minn-erva was there too".

"Lawson managed to destroy the engine but the energy inside it shot towards me, I absorbed it somehow and gained my powers, Lawson didn't survive and I was abducted by the Kree, they indoctrinated me and made me their slave for five years".

"On my memory, Lawson said something about a control room on Edwards Airbase, we should go there".

Kara nodded with her head and looked at the ground with her finger on her chin while thinking about their next move.

"We need to disguise ourselves somehow, that Skrull could very well be lying but we can't be sure, I don't want an entire Skrull fleet full of warsh.i.p.s to come raining down on us, we don't have time to train your powers properly but I can arrange something".

Kara created an interface on her right arm and started to click on some buttons, immediately after that a pod crashed down behind her.

Turning around Kara reached the pod and opened it, taking out a black sphere and turning towards Carol once again.

"Take off your clothes"

"What?".

"Take off your clothes, I have X-ray vision Carol you can't hide anything from me even if you tried".

"HaHa very funny".

Kara didn't answer and simply started to look at Carol from top to bottom with a funny expression "Of course I'm 'kidding' ".

'Did I just hear quotation marks?'.

Carol squeezed her eyes in suspicion and used her powers to take off her armor as fast as possible.

"Think fast". Kata threw the sphere towards Carol who lifted her hand in reflex, catching the sphere that immediately started to spread through her body.

'That ball was almost as fast as a speeding spaceship, and Carol somehow managed to catch it by reflex, how strong are you now Firefly?'.

"The suit merges with you, forming a symbiotic relationship where he drains nutrients from your body, and in turn, you can order it to do anything you want".

"The suit itself is partly alive but has no consciousness, think it like a rock that can move for itself and needs to eat to continue moving".

"We need to blend ourselves with the people of this planet, become forgettable inside the masses but at the same time don't attract suspicion that we want to hide".

"We are playing the Skrulls game, if they can hide and act as good as you told me then they surely can detect another person trying to do the same".

To show Carol how to do it Kara gave her suit a mental command, covering her entire body in a black substance that quickly became something else.

Now she had a black tank top with a pink skull with two bones forming an x in her c.h.e.s.t, black jeans that reached up until her ankle, a black sneaker, a big, red bracelet on her right hand and finally the tip of her hair that changed from a bright blond to dark green.

"So, how am I?".

"You... look like a teenager".

"Thanks for the compliment?". Kara answered confused.

"No, before you didn't look like a woman past her twenties and now you look like an eighteen year old, it wasn't for your size and bulk I would think you are a teen".

"Why do I feel like you are accusing me of something, I am 30 years old and in case you forgot Kryptonians can live up until seven hundred years, we age very slowly, I will completely grow up on my fifty anniversary and become an old lady when when I reach my four hundred and fifty years, don't sass me".

"Kryptonians are not considered proper a.d.u.l.ts until their fifty years but like me, we can marry before that time if their parents determine they are sufficiently m.a.t.u.r.e, I married Alrya when we both were twenty".

"We were planning to have Kids when I made fifty, I would abandon my training and become a housewife while she would make part of the Kryptonians exploration unit".

Seeing Carol's confused expression when she talked about having a Kid Kara smiled.

"It's a difficult procedure you know, to have a baby between the same gender, in our case of two females the Medic would take a little piece of Alrya and me, fuse those together to create an embryo and put it inside of me".

"Since both of us only had a pair of X chromosomes the chances of being a boy were low, a pity since I always wanted one".

"But, as you know it, she died before we could accomplish that and ou dream was torn into pieces, seven years together, thirteen years after we met each other and everything simply disappeared like that". Kara snapped her fingers and sighed in exhaustion.

"But that doesn't matter now, just disguise yourself and lead the way".

Carol nodded with her head and gave the order to her suit to change, a white t-shirt, an open black jacket, small blue jeans, and a white sneaker.

"So?".

"Good enough, now".

Kara suddenly dashed towards Carol while throwing a punch in her face, more by reflex than anything else Carol borough her hands up to try and block Kara's attack.

After staying in that position for some seconds Carol borough her arms down and looked forward, only to receive a flick on her forehead.

"Ouch!, what was that for?". Carol asked while rubbing her forehead, if she had to name that attack it would be an atomic flicker.

"Your reflexes, Mach 874030 is the speed of light, I threw this punch at 23,018,074 miles per hour, in other words, Mach 30000, a little bit higher than 1/3 of the speed of light".

"And that means?".

"That means that much like photons, you are slower when inside a space, you probably already know that but I will explain it anyway"

"A Photon is an elementary particle which has zero rest mass and always moves at the speed of light while inside a vacuum, before I explain further remember this, light that travels through transparent matter does so slower than the speed of light within a vacuum".

"The photons inside a star like the sun of Earth engage in so many collisions on the way from its core that the energy can take about one million years to reach the surface, but, while in the vacuum of space those same photons only take about five minutes to reach the Earth"

"In other words, while inside an atmosphere your speed is reduced by literally millions of times, saying that is important to note that your reflexes will probably improve while in open space too, any questions?".

"Yes, what are we waiting for?".

Kara sighed and said. "Well, before we continue I will have to tell you that in pure strength I could press 6 s.e.xtillion tons, in other words, the weight of this entire planet".

"This... is not what I expected to hear".

"The reason why I am telling you this is that there are not many things in this world that can kill or even harm me, it would literally take the power of a supernova to kill me".

"And somehow the Skrulls had a weapon that could pass through my skin, you understand where I am going with this?".

Carol's eyes widened. "The risk of death is real". She said, whispering in realization.

"Yes, the energy they used in that weapon was powerful, extremely powerful, one lucky shot, and I will without a doubt die". Kara shook her head and looked at the sky.

"Have you ever wondered how the Kryptonians died if that was the case?".

"Hum? well, you said that Krypton exploded so the power generated by Krypton's destruction should be the same as a supernova right?" Carol asked confused.

"Yes, the explosion of Krypton was as powerful if not more powerful than a Supernova, but have you forgotten what I told you? Rao allowed Kryptonians to grow permanently stronger the longer they absorbed its radiation".

"I am far away from being the strongest Kryptonian, my master, for example, could literally beat me with one hand behind his back". Kara looked at Carol and shook her head with her hands up.

"Due to his training and my ability to adapt and evolve, I became stronger, in Krypton for example I was considered as strong a Kryptonian twice my age and able to beat others with five times my age in pure skill".

"But even with all that I wouldn't be able to beat my master in pure strength, even if I got in a fight with him while he only has his strength from Rao and I the strength of a yellow sun I would lose".

"How old is he exactly".

"Well, he had 315 years, was 9,2 foot tall, had black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin, he had the ability to absorb more solar energy than normal making him stronger faster, through his ability lied more in strategy and fighting skills than brute force, where was I again?".

"Krypton's destruction".

"Ah, yes, since there were clearly more powerful and resistant Kryptonians than me it would be natural to ask how did they die, the explosion of a planet shouldn't be any problem to the older Kryptonians, right?".

"Well, not on Krypton's case, Krypton itself had absorbed Rao's radiation for millions of years, this radiation settled in Krypton's molten core creating a dangerous substance, a substance that rarely traveled up to Krypton's surface, solidifying and creating a rock that we nominated Kryptonite".

"What is and what does this Kryptonite do?". Carol asked curiously.

"A poison, Kryptonite has the ability to destroy Kryptonian cells, if the rock somehow made contact with our skin we would burn from inside out, the pain would be agonizing and if exposed by a sufficient amount of time, only ashes would remain".