Savior of the Luthor bloodline.
Flashback - September 15, 2037
CatCo kept the essence of the first Queen of all Media, Cat Grant. The small details in it were what made it different. Even though the technology was in every corner of the building the same old fashion antics were kept by Cat Grant’s apprentice then and now Editor in Chief, owner of CatCo, and currently heiress of the nickname, Kara Luthor Danvers.
The strong sunlight coming from the large windows of the building. The usual smell of coffee covered the place. The sound of multiple voices on each side of the place, with different topics, was clear. Screens on every wall displaying CatCo’s latest articles, issues, and news. The same logo standing with pride on the reception and the same chaos that never leaves the place.
The young Luthor walked out of the elevator, her right hand clenching the latest CatCo issue. Two rings in her right hand contained two symbols that only a few people could distinguish. Her blonde hair down with small waves, a grey crew neck tucked in dark blue high-waisted khaki, and a tall white converses.
Her black glasses perfectly placed on her nose as she walked furiously bringing an unease tension to the staff on the floor. People stared at the blonde as she walked firmly to Jeju’s office. The face of the young half Kryptonian was blank, not showing any type of emotion, the same expression the blonde had inherited from her mother.
Lizzie made it to the office where she saw the blonde Kryptonian at her desk. The office now has half-opened blinds, the same pattern of the TVs behind the desk, the same bar Cat once had on the right side of the office. Family and friends pictures, issues where the Luthor-Danvers were featured.
The office kept a minimalist style but there were the comfort and essence of Kara. Lizzie entered the office, closing the two doors behind her as she did. The blonde woman didn't even look up to her, instead kept typing as she talked. “Morning Lizzie”
The blonde woman didn't even look up from the screen until the blonde interfered with the connection showing a specific article. Sighing as she rubbed her temples, reading the headline of the issue with her daughter's photo on it.
‘Elizabeth Luthor Danvers in a disappointment road?’
‘Written by Alexander Luthor Danvers. Edited by Astra Luthor Danvers.’
The older blonde kept quiet when Lizzie changed the page where the article was featured. The blonde whispered yelled in Kryptonian, her lips trembling as she finished talking, eyes with tears invaded them as she tried to contain them.“nahn voiehd shokh?”
“nahn iovis ta- rrip skilor khap?” The older Kryptonian went to answer but was interrupted by the blonde voice again, this time more as a whimper, the same crinkle she had on her daughter's forehead and the same tone Lena would use when she tried so hard to not be fragile.
Lizzie stood up looking at her mother waiting for her reaction blurting again, this time the anger in her voice was the one that could be noticed. Her heart started to beat faster, the flare glare of the green-eyed girl directly into her. “Tell me!”
Neither of them noticed the black-haired woman walking in. With her arms crossed over her chest, Lena spoke with a motherly tone of determination. “First of all, you don't speak to anyone like that, and even less your Jeju. And second of all it just an article, writing that I'm sure it doesn't matter”
“Okay I'm sorry, I'm sorry I'm infuriated because I worked my ass off to do this thing I could finally make and show it to the world which would make you proud and a week later I find an article written by my older brother and edited by my younger sister, featured in the company my Jeju owns” Lizzie looked between the two women back and forth before speaking again.
Before Lena could speak, Kara started this time with her Superhero voice, and posture, the blonde took a step closer to the green-eyed girl with a disapproving look. “Tone it down to a 2, it was what CatCo needed. It's the business world, if we wouldn't have published anything about it, I would have been showing favoritism”
“Are you serious?” Lizzie asked, this time the sentiment could be her in her voice. There wasn't any anger, there was hurt and the feeling of betrayal coming off it. She forced a laugh as she cleaned the tear that came down from her left eye.
The blonde stated, walking away from the pair when the green-eyed woman walked closer to the young girl. Lizzie’s voice trembled as she spoke, her face remained neutral and the two mothers looked at each other when the young girl spoke.“My whole life I have heard stories of how mom and supergirl saved the world one more time, years passed and then it was all of my siblings, my family, and I was looking down on as less than all of you because I don't accustom the idea that the world can be save and needs to be safe! There is good in the same and vice versa”
The half Kryptonian looked down to her feet as she felt her lip trembling and her vision became blurry. Her voice got heavier and her hands fidgeted with themselves as she searched a way to ground herself before speaking again.
“All of these stories give out all the good the Supers and Luthors had done. But if I remember correctly there was a time when Jeju was infected with red kryptonite and even then after throwing her off a building, aunt Cat refused to write something of this level for her” Lizzie sighed, after letting out a sarcastic laugh. Her hands pointing at Kara as she told the story.
The blonde Kryptonian mom crossed her arms and kept quiet as her daughter spoke, Lena, who was beside her wife. Looked at her daughter with caution as she spoke. “And there was a time when mom was trying to prove herself to the world after Lex’s acts and even then Jeju gave you one benefit of the doubt and except doing what others were writing she wrote an article that made the world know who Lena Luthor was for the first time”
Lizzie stopped only to let a small wet laugh, as her tears kept coming without any hesitation. Looking between her mother's as she threw her hands to the air and running them through her hair as she whispered loudly enough for them to hear. Her voice broke and the blonde scoffed trying to hide the obvious change in her. “So the least I'm hoping from my family is that they support me, not throw me under a bus that I didn't even deserve.”
The teenager did not wait another second before stepping out of the office as fast as she could. With two small touches on her glasses, they immediately became black sunglasses, not showing any emotion as she walked out of the room leaving her mothers both with unseased minds.
The young Luthor walked out of the building finding her family driver’s black suburban parked right where she was dropped off. The blonde walked to the car without hesitation ignoring the way her eyes ached as she did. Anger and Sadness overwhelmed her mind, as she tried to keep every insecurity and fear inside.
The blonde hopped into the car, with a trembling lip as she spoke only for silence to succeed. “Thank you for waiting, Mr. Montgomery. Can you drive me to the penthouse please?”
The Luthor girl furrowed her eyes, immediately with a single touch her glasses changed back. The blonde teenager immediately asked for the window open by her A.I. only for it not to work.
Clenching her fist the young girl punched the black window and as all of the glass came down letting a green gas enter the back seat. Lizzie desperately grabbed the handle and started to kick the door and windows only to notice, they wouldn't break.
The Kryptonite started to get into her lungs which made the half Kryptonian girl start coughing violently. Alerting her watch only to find it nonresponsive at her commands, the device her mom had created to eliminate kryptonite in less than a minute wasn't working, and neither were her glasses.
The last thing the blonde felt was the torture of the sickening acid running through her system. As she felt each part of her lose consciousness and control. The last thing the blonde felt was the way she felt her own life begin taken away and how darkness surrounded her.
Flashback ends.
Lizzie sat on the white chair, with her arm extended on the armchair. Her face pouting as she spoke. Lena rolled her eyes at the young girl's tactics as she walked with a tray that holds the blood test essentials. “Do we really have to”
“Take blood tests?” The blonde finished as she scratched her wrists. The older woman looked at the girl curiously before putting the tray on the side, the nervousness of the young girl was being noticed by the younger version of her mom.
Lena responded softly, in an attempt of reassurance to the young girl. A small sarcastic laugh came out as she said the last part, remembering what Lex had told her after her fall out with Kara. “Well as much as I believe because you look quite kindred to me. There are indistinguishable similarities you have. And also perhaps you should know that a Luthor-”
“Never trust” Lizzie interrupted evading eye contact when she noticed the green-eyed woman glanced at the girl suspiciously, mostly with worry in her eyes but kept silent as the blonde’s scratching in the writs got worse.
Lena nodded before grabbing the needle and walked closer to the girl, noticing the way her future daughter had flinched away from the needle immediately. The green-eyed woman started to talk about her latest project distracting the young girl.
“Hey, hey. What am I missing?” The older Luthor said when the girl laid eyes on the needle which she had in her hand. The blonde immediately clenched her arms and her eyes as she did.
Lizzie rambled out, Lena only smiled when the young girl kept talking and she started to draw out the blood without the half Kryptonian noticing. “A stronger source, and maybe a change in the goal. Except to eliminate you, calm it down, you need to keep a balance so the body gets used to it and it doesn't have an overload...”
The green-eyed woman stepped aside when she had the vial done. Watching in amazement as the blonde rambled out different reasons and changes that the chip could have, completely losing herself in her scientist and innovator mode.
When Lena started at the girl's wrist there was a small scar covering it. It wasn't until she was caught by the blonde's glance, that she pulled away worriedly when her future daughter started to scratch her wrist this time stronger.
Lizzie waited for Lena to walk away with the tray that carried her blood sample. Looking down, rolling her sleeves, the blonde noticed the green lines inside her brains giving her a small ache in her eyes. Immediately looking away when Lena came back putting down the sleeve in an auto mode, hiding her arms inside the long sleeve sweater.
Touching softly the side of her glasses making her black watch to eliminate the pressure the blonde had put on since the morning. Feeling the strong control and pressure of her powers coming back to her as the red button on the watch instantly changes to yellow.
Flashback- September 16, 2037
Darkness. Darkness was the description of what an overwhelm would feel for the half Kryptonian. Everything would feel like the color black, everything mixes and becomes one, stronger than ever and complex to break.
“Finally thought it would take you less time, but people disappoint” Was the first thing the blonde heard as her eyes adjusted to the green light in front of her. Pain running through her body as she woke up.
The voice was strange, it felt familiar but distant. This was something that the blonde couldn't point out until she finished waking up.
The first thing she noticed as she tried to move was the bracelets on both of her hands, aching her wrist as she tried to move. The blonde was met with the sight of a bald familiar man in a grey suit with a control in his hand, looking at her curiously with a sarcastic smile.
“Uncle lex? You are supposed to be dead” Lizzie started looking at him curiously.
Lex responded walking back and forth in front of the blonde, with a perfect posture and professional tone. Clicking his tongue as he spoke as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. “Elizabeth, time travel its complicated thing for ignoramus but you understand it perfectly, so with that, I do believe in the fact that there are stupid questions”
“Don't you start a war you cannot fight, asshole” Lizzie claimed to smile sarcastically as she tried to get out of their bracelets. And the blonde started to try to break them only for the bracelets to gain more pressure in her wrists changing to a green color.
The blonde looked up as the Kryptonite came into her body, feeling everything painfully, aches and the throb coming into her head felt heavier. The blonde looked up to see the once pastel green lamps became a brighter green, a toxic green that felt stronger into her body.
“Haven't my sister taught morals? We are high-class people, Elizabeth and we need to act like one” Lex stated without any hesitation as he watched his blonde niece cry into her knees clenching her fits as the pain invaded her.
The girl murmured under her teeth threatening the bald man “Just wait until I get out of these, I will teach you what a Luthor with powers does.”
“My dear niece, you are going to be the savior of the Luthor bloodline. Our come back to master this world” He claimed, clicking the control as the girl felt the relief when the kryptonite started to become more bearable.
Lex finished before walking out of the room. “Good night, Elizabeth. We shall begin your progress tomorrow but today you are going to have your introduction, enjoy it”
In her knees the blonde shocked her head at the man’s statement, still feeling the strong ache and throb in her head. Her skin becoming paler, her green eyes with the red throbbing lines inside of them, her hands having lines running through them. The way her body felt burning from the inside out made her cry out.
A robot voice started loudly making the girl move her head trying to find the source except for finding none. “Do you blame yourself?
“What?” She breathed, shaking her head at the feeling of the kryptonite burning her wrist.
The voice started again more questioning than stating. “Well it's quite common in this situation, for a patient to feel kind of guilt or anger”
“What's the situation?” The blonde responded quietly, as she breathed in the air. Harder than usual and heavier. Her throbbing mind and blurry vision didn't notice the change of scenery until Lena had appeared in front of her
The blonde started to scream, as the green-eyed woman stood in front of her on the top of LCorp. Lena stood in the middle of the floor looking directly at her. “Mom?”
“Mom? Can you hear me? Mom please, please!” The blonde started to beg as Lena tilted her head at her. A blank look in her eyes as she did. The blonde only cried harder somehow making the pain increase.
Lizzie pleaded as she tried to walk forward her mother only to not be able to, everytime she would get closer it would appear Lena got farther. “Mom, I'm here! Help me! please!
“Mom, it hurts, it hurts so much. Please!” The older Luthor started to walk to the end of the building, as the girl cried. With trembling hands and legs the blonde tried to move only to feel the kryptonite run in her body. Aching, burning, racking, and more. The tortuous feelings on every part of her.
The blonde looked up as the tearing pain became worse, her cries began to get harder, heavier, and stronger. The gut feeling as Lena turned around on the end of the building and launched herself into the air, making the girl sobbed as she ran there. “NO! NO! NO!”
The blonde tried to run, to fly, to move but it all felt impossible until there wasn't an opportunity to save her. She crawled painfully to where Lena had jumped looking down, finding her mother on the floor with a puddle of blood behind her head.
Falling into her knees, the young girl felt everything, the grieving pain emotionally but the torturous and unbreakable pain that was eating her inside out. The feeling of losing every part of your body at the same moment. The girl sobbed in pain and agony, and in anger and despair until she couldn't anymore. Overwhelming was everything and she couldn't handle it.
Flashback ends