Supergirl ~ Wake Up ~ Part One

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Sam stood over a pot of boiling water, rolling her head around, wincing slightly. "Mom?" Ruby asked from the island. "Are you OK?"

"Yeah," Sam responded after a moment. "Yeah, babe, I'm fine. You wanna set the table? This won't take long to cook."

Ruby walked over, and Sam walked over to the pot to put the pasta in, stopping for a moment and staring at the boiling water. She looked over her shoulder to make sure Ruby wasn't paying attention before slowly dipping her hand into the water.

She pulled it out to find nothing wrong with her hand at all. She made a fist just to make sure, but her hand was completely fine.

"Mom?" Ruby asked, and Sam turned to her. "Can I watch a movie tonight if I finish my homework?"

"Um," Sam said slowly, looking down. "You know what, I just realized I have to go back to work for something. Can you go over to Tess's for dinner tonight?"

"Mom, do I have to?" Ruby sighed.

"Ruby, this is not a discussion," Sam narrowed her eyes. "You're going to Tess's."

"OK," Ruby whispered, leaving to find her stuff, and Sam looked back down at the pot of boiling water in shock.

***

Winn was walking through the D.E.O. when he caught sight of a familiar face walking around, looking confused. "Hey!" he called, seeing the man turn around. "Hey, Mr. J. You, uh, looking for something?"

M'yrnn looked relieved to see him and walked up. "I would like to find the b'rahh alcom."

"Oh!" Winn snapped his fingers. "Oh! You know, I've been brushing up on my Martian. B'rahh . . . library!" M'yrnn frowned, and he winced. "No. Bathroom!"

"To relieve myself," M'yrnn nodded.

"You don't know where it is?" Winn asked in surprise. "Haven't you been here for, like, three weeks?"

"And four days," he confirmed. "Precisely."

Winn stared blankly at him before pointing past him. "Yeah, it's down the hall, around the corner, third door to your left. We really, really should put up signs," he muttered to himself.

"May I go?" M'yrnn asked.

That really made Winn stare. "Yeah," he said, surprised he had to ask.

"Thank you!" M'yrnn smiled in delight, walking off.

Winn watched him go, then shook his head and turned around. "OK," he nodded, heading back to the main room.

"Shut down those systems so there's no possibility of infiltration," J'onn was ordering when he walked in.

"Yes, sir," an agent responded.

"Um, boss," Winn hurried up to him. "Hey, can I chat with you for, like, a hot sec?"

J'onn looked up from his tablet and raised an eyebrow. "A hot sec?" he repeated.

"Oh, my God, never mind," Winn sighed. "Listen, your dad just asked me for permission to use the bathroom."

"Yeah, well," J'onn passed his tablet on to a passing agent. "He's still getting used to things around here."

"Sure," Winn nodded, understanding that. "But it was kinda like the way he said it, like he was a prisoner or something."

"Well, he a prisoner for over three hundred years," J'onn reminded him.

"Exactly why I think that you might wanna take him out," Winn told him. "Like, into the non-D.E.O. world."

J'onn blinked, then said slowly, "I run a complex and highly sensitive government operation here."

"Yeah, yeah, fine," Winn sighed, slumping against the center console.

Kara flew in suddenly, landing in the middle of the room. "Winn? I got your message."

"Yes!" Winn perked up. "Yes, of course. So, I'm not really quite sure what to make of it, but I thought you guys should see this. This is an incident that happened this morning."

"What is it?" J'onn frowned.

"So, the city sent out an exploratory team to investigate the effects of the submarine attack, and you can see they found something strange in the bedrock, so they went to check it out," Winn pointed to the screens overhead, playing a video feed. "And . . . "

J'onn narrowed his eyes, seeing what appeared to be a spacecraft of some kind fired at the submarine, shorting the camera out. "It got attacked," he said in surprise.

"Yep," Winn nodded. "I mean, luckily, their emergency systems kicked in and they made it to the surface, but they could have easily just been taken out."

"What else can you find out?" J'onn asked.

"Oh!" Winn straightened, typing on his computer. "The USGS geothermal scans, we can pull up one of those to find these coordinates." Kara and J'onn turned to the screen, blinking when they saw the red scan that showed up. "OK," Winn said slowly, standing up. "Well, I can tell you two things right off the bat. One, according to the rock layers, that ship has been under there for about twelve thousand years. And two, whatever metal it's made out of, is not on the periodic table."

Kara and J'onn shared concerned looks before turning back to the screen.

***

"OK, slow down, slow down," Winn hurried to catch up with Kara and J'onn as they walked down the sidewalk. "We're getting close, we're getting close . . . " His tablet rapidly started beeping, and he stopped. "Wait. No, hey, wait . . . " He moved around a bit before stopping. "OK. Ship should be right under us."

"OK," Kara nodded, turning to them. "All right, stand back. Everyone, stand back!" she shouted, then turned around. "I saw Clark do this once."

"Get back!" Winn added as Kara twisted her body.

"Wait!" J'onn held up his hands, and Kara looked over her shoulder, confused. "Wait, wait. There's a way of doing this without destroying public property. Let's go."

"Aw, man, I wanted to see that," Winn pouted, running after them. "Awesome."

J'onn led them between buildings, then nodded and put his arms around their shoulders. "All right."

"What are you doing?" Winn blinked, Kara wincing as J'onn pulled them in tight.

"This might feel a little weird," J'onn warned.

Red light warped over them, and Winn screamed as they fell through the ground. "Oh, no!" They landed inside the ship, completely black except for a few lights. "Oh, God, that was horrible!"