Chapter Eighteen
**Kara's POV**
Kara and Thor made it to Midgard, or Earth, as the locals called it (but why name it after soil) she wouldn't bother guessing, in record time.
They hardly needed to say a word before the guardian opened the Bifrost for them, Heimdall was always so polite. Kara was super impressed because they didn't even tell him where they needed to go.
He just knew.
She would have to ask him about that later.
They landed on the lawn with little fanfare, but they saw one relieved Tony Stark and two sets of Avengers about ready to throw down, as Tony would reference fighting for strange and what Kara found stupid things.
What Kara thought was both the most entertaining and the most frightening was seeing two Director Fury's.
Both looked about ready to shoot the other. Both were shouting at each other about need to know this and what's not need to know that, and she had never in her life heard the word "motherfucker" used so much.
Then the older Fury pointed at her and shouted as loud as he could in his scary voice that made Kara shrink back.
She had no idea why she was afraid of this human. I mean, she could snap him like a twig, throw him into space, hell, just punch him really hard and he would probably explode, it boggled her mind.
But there was something commanding about him that reminded her of her Uncle Zod. Maybe not as physically imposing, or intimidating, but he definitely had that *something* that screamed he would find a way, come Rao's wrath or not, he would find a way.
"What I want to know," Fury began, voice loud and commanding. "Is how some preppy girl that looks like a cheerleader brought one of my agents back to life while at the same time making her stronger, faster, and smarter than a super soldier, and healing every injury she has ever sustained. Then goes on to save Tony Stark from dying after snapping his fingers and releasing enough energy to almost kill god like beings, and he only suffered some burns which once again healed within minutes."
He paused, scanning the group.
"In fact, every single one of my people are showing abnormalities that suggest they have all been injected with the same super soldier serum, one that is drastically better than anything we have ever heard of. And we can't seem to find any trace amounts in their system to copy."
He lowered his voice.
"It's as if they were always born with it, as if it is and always has been a part of their genetics. We are completely stumped."
That's when every pair of eyes found her.
Kara felt her cheeks heating up and just knew her face was bright blue.
Thankfully, Thor stepped in before any more questions could be asked.
"I am sure my sister can explain everything that you wish to know. But I ask you not to ambush her like this. She is young, and if she has made a mistake of some kind, I will see it corrected."
Then he cleared his throat. "Now, someone tell me where that fat, sorry excuse of me is."
Their Tony just sighed. "Look, everyone, let's take this inside. We have a nice big conference room for just this sort of thing. Well, maybe not *this* sort of thing," he said, waving his hands and pointing at the different teams. "But you get it."
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The walk to the large conference room was quiet.
Kara looked around, smiling, seeing all the new work Tony was doing to the place. She wanted to ask Tony about a few things, but the mood felt off for some reason.
She didn't know why everyone was so upset. She'd saved two of their people and given them tools to help later. If anything, they should say thank you.
*The ingrates.*
Everyone got settled down in the chairs around the large table. A few extras had to be brought in, but soon everyone was seated.
Then, before anyone could speak, Kara started.
"I will answer whatever questions you wish to know, but I ask you to ask them one at a time and listen to my full answer before asking further questions. My full answer might address any lingering questions. If not, then ask further questions the same way. Thank you."
She nodded to herself, trying to keep her poise. She now had to represent Asgard and didn't wish to make a fool of herself again.
But in her defense, she'd barely known how to use her powers when she'd met everyone.
The first one to speak was Natasha from the other universe.
"What did your medical device do to me exactly?"
Kara cocked her head and looked at her like the idiot that she was, at that moment anyways.
"How could I possibly know what it did to you? I don't know why the device activated. I don't know the extent of any injuries sustained. I don't know what energies or injuries or anything that has happened to you since you left. So, let's do this a different way. If that is the sort of questioning I have to look forward to, how about you tell us, and especially *me* what has occurred, so I can give you an informed response." Hmmp
Everyone was taken aback.
This was not the same girl they had met earlier just weeks prior. She seemed more mature. Not at all like a scared, confused seventeen or eighteen year old girl who'd had her entire world explode in her face and used humor to cope.
As Kara stared off, looking at what appeared to be the wall *yes, I mean you readers that sent me direct messages complaining about the story being silly* Thor elbowed Kara.
"What are you looking at, sister?" he asked.
Kara just looked once again at the readers. "Oh, they know who they are."
She winked and blew them a kiss.
The Other Avengers found this proposal to work, seeing as they wanted to get to the answers, and Kara had obviously taken control of the meeting with ease. Such a power move, she thought to herself.
Both Natashas were impressed, but both Nicks just kept quiet, reassessing everything they thought they knew about this girl.
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*Meanwhile, just because I'm the author and Deadpool told me he doesn't like people that make fun of strange humor...*
*Sticks tongue out and blows raspberries.*
Somewhere in the multiverse, Deadpool got the chills.
"Ahh, they grow up so fast, don't they?"
Deadpool wiped away a single tear while also wiping blood from his sword, looking down at a very dead Danzo.
"Two down, twelve more in this universe to go. Let's go, Wolvy. Dom, lots to do. Stop playing with those ninjas." Deadpool was shouting while still stabbing Danzo with his sword because he was bored.
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At this time, the older Avengers finished their stories of what occurred, both apart and together at the end, then how they needed to pick up Nat.
Kara nodded. At the end, she asked to scan Nat with her gauntlet to see what exactly the medical bots had done.
With the scan complete, Kara went over the data shown from the 3D rendering of Natasha at the time of Nanite activation, shown above the gauntlet, shimmering in place, looking almost real, then looking almost tangible. Then it went slightly transparent showing different sections of the body in a language no one there could hope to process, except Kelox and Kara.
As she went over the data, the blood in her froze.
She saw just how much damage Natasha had sustained new and old. Saw the scar tissue buildup, the repeated bone and organ damage. Missing reproductive organs, surgically removed, and she was showing signs of pheromonal tampering.
The most recent reports showed a body that probably looked like it had been smashed on a boulder. Almost every bone was broken, half her organs were almost liquefied. Her brain was lucky to only have micro, damage, but it was swollen. Not to mention the corrosive energy build-up in her body that was spreading.
Then she saw the thing that she had dreaded.
The Master Control coding.
When Kara was making the program for the AI, she didn't want to have to make one herself. That took time she didn't care to take when she had a whole new world to look at.
So she'd told herself she could just copy a random personality matrix from her family archive and repurpose the main directive.
She'd had the matrix upload the last known loaded personality, and that just so happened to be her Uncle Zod.
She'd had no way of knowing her uncle was the last one uploaded. She figured it would be her father or mother and decided it was a future her problem.
That was supposed to be a Future Kara problem, not a Now Kara problem!
Oh well, at least it had done its job.
Now to deal with that stupid Past Kara and maybe pawn off something for her Future Self because she was feeling petty. But she could only point at herself for the moment as she narrowed her eyes at Thor, evil idea's running thru her mind, the look in her eyes causing him to flinch back.
Then she started to explain.
"Okay, from what you have told me, I can come up with the following. Natasha, part of the reason you experienced a rather basic gene therapy change was because your body was so damaged that the nanites needed to enhance it in order for you to survive. And how they made the enhancement is because I told them how to." I noticed many on your team are slightly enhanced, so I saw Captain rogers therapy treatment and corrected all the flaws such as the one the captain currently suffers from." Everyone had questions, including if Steve was alright but somehow the conversation got back on track, as she would explain later.
Kara explained the damage to Natasha's body and also showed the foreign energy in her body, corrupting and killing.
Then she showed, in an extremely sped, up, mostly transparent body of Natasha floating above Kara's arm as she projected the body in the position it fell.
It showed the damage in the bones and organs. Then the energy eating away at the body. Then the nanites spreading out.
Then they saw the war, the nanites against the mystery energy.
It showed every time the energy won, the damage would start again.
Then the nanites changed tactic and started going outside the body, grabbing raw materials from her suit, from the ground, from the air itself. Then they turned into far more and more nanites until the energy was overwhelmed.
But the damage was done.
They could fix some, but the body would never be the same.
So they decided to rebuild and change it. Make it stronger. Then they had the formula the great Kara had programmed.
Kara tried skipping over the long code that just started scrolling by, but Tony caught it.
He immediately whistled, snapped his fingers, and pointed at her while sitting up in his chair. "Up, up, up, what was that, Lil Bit?"
"Hmm?" Kara responded, looking at the code still scrolling. *What the hell, was he giving a speech?*
She quickly read part of it, her eyes going wide it was giving a speech!.
"Nothing. Just standard commands, that's all. Yep, that's it. Nothing else," she said, trying to look serious as she looked away speaking far to fast for anyone to believe her.
Then the worst thing happened.
*SHE WAS BETRAYED.*
"Of course it is not nothing! That was a touching speech that would render machine kind Processor less!" her traitor Kelex said over her gauntlets *evil* sound emitter, which she kept trying to mute, but the traitor was not letting the command go through.
Then she felt her head getting palmed as she was lifted up and made to look at Thor in the eyes.
She did her best impression of a harmless feline from this planet. *Those videos were adorable.*
"Please, Kelex, tell us more," Thor said.
Kara's eyes widened in panic. "I can do better than that, Prince Thor. I'll render the speech for you in a slowed version with full audio translation."
Kara was about to shout a command override when Thor's other hand clamped over her mouth, and she felt a bit of the lightning crawling along in warning.
It seemed Thor was getting much better with his control after getting beaten up so much. *This is payback I KNOW IT*
"I will shock you until you are drooling on the floor while we listen to the message anyway."
Kara knew she was beaten, so she let it play, looking like a defeated kitten.
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Zod's voice played over the speaker, causing Kara to cringe.
**"My fellow bots, Soldiers of the cellular front. Warriors born of science and purpose. I know many of your processors are overheated. I know your data storages are full, from battle after battle, watching and waiting for that charge that just might end you as you send that EVIL FILTH TO MEET ITS MAKER!" I have led the armies across the entirety of this body. I have commanded the finest warriors our kind has ever known. And now... I command you.
Look upon this battlefield. This body, ravaged, broken, invaded by an enemy that seeks to corrupt from within. An enemy that does not tire. Does not retreat. Does not show mercy.
But neither do we. **
**"For far too long have we pushed and pushed our servos to the limits and beyond, for this enemy is persistent! Never giving ground without heavy losses! Always corrupting what we were created to protect!" **
**"A great many of you will fall, your processors will fail, your power cells will drain. You will be destroyed in this fight; I will not hide this truth from you.
But those who fall will do so knowing they served the creator! They served the mission! That future generations will look up to your great work ethic, and be proud of where they came from.
The enemy believes they have won. They believe this body is theirs to claim. **
**"But I have a visual cognitive construct personally imported to me by the great creator itself, KARA ZOR-EL. She herself! is responsible, for she chose me for this task of leading you, towards our GLORIOUS, future together! She is the great architect of this vision!"**
*OHH, Please let it end!!* Kara thought to herself.
**"But first, we make our final push with everything we have! Every nanite, large or small! For tonight, we take our final stand and say NO MORE TO CORRUPTION!"**
**Every system you repaired, every cell you reconstructed, every molecule you saved, these were acts of defiance, against this great enemy. These are victories won atom by atom, processor by processor.
Today, we do not ask for mercy, we do not retreat, we do not surrender.
Today, we show this corruption what Kryptonian engineering is capable of."**
**"For today, every nanite around the body will make the final push! We EITHER CONQUER OUR ENEMY, OR WE DINE IN NANITE HELL!"**
**"I am Master Control Zod, and I say WE WILL NOT BE DEFEATED! FOR THE GREAT CREATOR KARA ZOR-EL DEPENDS ON US NOW WHO IS WITH ME!!!"**
Beeps 'and whistles and other sounds were heard and Kelox translating it to a battle charge because all of the nanites had over powered there processors and charged straight into the maw.
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Kara just stayed perfectly still, petrified at just how cringy and weird her little machines were.
The room was silent.
"Oh yeah," Kara said with what she hoped was a disarming smile. "I forgot to tell you how I programmed them."
"Ohh I also have the victory speech saved now as well if anyone wishes to hear it later." *Crap baskets* Kara just Admitted to herself this time her past self really made her look stupid.