A New Karry

Disclaimer: I own neither Flash or Supergirl.

Note 1: This is the much-awaited spinoff to my story Karry Universe taking place after my rewrite of Worlds Finest on Earth 1 on Barry-White earth. Unlike my Karry Universe, this won't be too long – six chapters at most. I have enough going on with my main fiction to concentrate on similar here, so a shorter, more inclusive story will work just as well. Unfortunately, though, while I do this story, Karry Universe will be on hold. I'm not a miracle-worker so cannot do both at once. I hope you enjoy this nonetheless.

Note 2: Unlike Karry Universe this story will only be uploaded on Thursdays or Firdays. It's a short story that's only going to have about five chapters. If I uploaded twice a week it would be done in two weeks. Good news it that I am almost done writing all the chapters so once they are done I will continue with Karry Universe. Once I have enough in backlog for Karry Universe I will begin posting it again whether or not this story is done. Until then though my beta Terrance Sigma, as mentioned before, updates his Karry story on Monday or Tuesdays so to get a double doze of Karry weekly go to his on Mondays/Tuesdays and here on Thursday/Fridays.

A New Kara

After Iris' revelation of Kara Zor-El existing on this Earth, Barry only had one request: "Find her."

His eyes moved to Cisco and Caitlin, who seemed surprised at the turn of events. Before jumping Earths Barry focus had been solely on Zoom but now it seemed he was distracted. Harry, however, was more than happy for the distraction and gladly supported Barry tracking down a random alien girl he'd met first in another universe.

"Why are you doing this?" Iris asked Barry when the group had gone to work looking for her former roommate. "Why find her?"

"You didn't see her," Barry said thoughtfully, "the power she has. She could be a great ally."

"Is that all?" Iris asked, knowing Barry too well. "You said your counterpart was engaged to her. Are you hoping for the same relationship?"

"I don't know," Barry admitted. "That world was so weird. I mean no one could believe I did not have my own Kara. You especially." Barry smiled as he remembered the interaction of Barry-Red and his Iris. "You should have seen us. We were brother and sister. I… he was so happy for you and Eddie. You were so happy for me. You made Kara your maid of honor too." Iris didn't say anything as Barry talked, just biting her lip in concern. "It's nice to know there's a world out there where it's not us. Where we are just brother and sister and maybe me and this world's Kara won't have what they have. I'll never know unless I go and see."

"Found her," Cisco said suddenly.

"Good timing – that was fast!" Barry commented.

"Wasn't hard, really," Cisco said. "Just hacked into the college records and looked up the details of Kara Kent at the time. She's still living in the same house she was back then, even the same house in the records. It's now just her and her little cousin Kalvin – with a K not a C though. Weird."

"Where Cisco?' Barry asked, not even trying to deny the excitement he was feeling now.

"Kansas. A small town called Smallville. She owns a farm there," Cisco said and Barry instantly pulled his mask up.

"Give me the directions," Barry said and ran out.

Iris wanted to stop him but couldn't. She didn't know how to tell him she had started developing feelings for him, feeling she had denied since she'd met Eddie, since Eddie's death and Barry's time with Patty. She didn't know how to tell him she didn't want him to do this. She had been the one who had thrown his feelings out and told him to move on, after all – she regretted that decision now – as he had clearly listened to her words and had gotten over her, indeed. It wasn't fair of her to not let him try this though. Whatever 'this' was.

-Superflash-

It didn't take long for Barry to run to Kansas or to find the farm. He paused as he took it in. Kara seemed to own a lot of space here, most of the farm seemed to be maize, but Barry noticed a chicken coop, a pigsty, and a barn where he saw two horses poking their head out pleasantly.

Standing by the pigs, dropping food in the trough for the hungry animals was a familiar-looking woman, even from behind. She wore jeans and a button up shirt, which was a different look for the Kara he'd known on the other Earth. Barry had not seen the other Earth's Kara wear anything but dresses and skirts – and, obviously, her Supergirl outfit. She was also wearing cowboy boots and a cowboy hat, which looked admittedly adorable on her petite frame.

Turning around, Barry saw the same face momentarily grinning at him before the smile slowly faded as she looked at him up and down with confusion. "You're a far cry away from your normal hunting grounds," Kara said.

"Um… what?" Barry asked, not bothering to vibrate his vocal cords or similar to hide his identity.

"You're normally seen in Central, Mr. Flash" Kara said politely. "What brings you all the way out here?"

"Oh," Barry said. "I'm… looking for someone."

"Well, there's not many interesting people out this way," Kara sighed.

"I wouldn't say that Kara Zor-El," Barry said meekly, Kara literally crushing the bucket in her hands at the mention of her Kryptonian name and Barry couldn't help but smirk. "I see your super strength is intact."

"How do you know that name?" Kara asked sharply, ready to react if there was danger. "How do you know about my strength?"

"It's a long story," Barry said. "May I come in?" Barry pointed to the house.

Kara looked him over in thought and then nodded, leading him directly into the house. Barry followed her, looking around as he entered her abode, noticing that the house wasn't anything special – it was no Krytponian memorial or seemingly secret hideout for Supergirl… It looked like a normal house.

"You have five minutes to explain." Kara snapped, leaning against the doorway to what looked like the living room, glaring at Barry.

"It might take longer than that," Barry verbalized, taking off his mask off, not afraid of Kara seeing his face and knowing she couldn't out him as the Flash any time soon. Kara continued to scowl, unmoved by the gesture. "Okay, so… well you see… there's this thing called the multiverse – basically millions of Earths –"

"All vibrating at different frequency but in the same space," Kara finished thoughtfully, surprising Barry. "Krypton was looking into the multiverse before it blew. My uncle was one of the researchers actually."

"That's new," Barry said, remembering the other Kara had no knowledge of the multiverse. Kara raised an eyebrow at him. "Well you see I'm fast enough to breach into these other worlds and I accidentally did and met you." Barry took out one of the pictures he had rolled back into his sleeve and showed her the selfie of the three of them.

"And apparently yourself," Kara said with intrigue now, her frosty demeanor quickly melting as she looked at the picture. "So what? You met me and figured you'd look me up?"

"My sister said you were her roommate in college, so yeah," Barry said surprised at how easy calling Iris his sister was in Kara's present.

"Your sister? I was in college for like a week and was roommates with some black girl," Kara said dismissively.

"Yeah my sister," Barry said. "I was taken in by her father when I was a kid. It's another long story."

"This doesn't seem to answer the basic question. Why are you here?" Kara asked.

"Well, all the powers I saw… The flying, the freeze breath, the super strength. Everything. Do you have all those?" Barry asked, realizing it could be different on this Earth but Kara nodded her head. "You could help a lot of people and yet you're here."

"You want me to join your rodeo?" Kara asked, moving backward into the sitting room, perching on the nearest seat, thinking she had this figured out already and resolute to deny him her powers.

"People seriously talk like that?" Barry asked, momentarily confused.

"You want me to help you fight," Kara snapped, rolling her eyes.

"No! Well yes… Well maybe," Barry said. "I guess I just want to understand why you're here and yet she's Supergirl." Barry pointed at the picture Kara had placed on the table now.

"She goes by Supergirl?" Kara asked, clearly not liking the name. "Look… What's your name? You're real name. Not the Scarlet Speedster or whatever they call you over there."

"Barry Allen," Barry answered simply.

"Look Barry, I can't tell you what makes our lives different," Kara said politely.

"Then tell me what happened in your life?" Barry asked, taking a seat himself now.

Kara looked at him in silence and then nodded. "When I was a child my planet Krypton was dying. I suppose you know this, if her story is similar," she nodded to the photo again, but continued nonetheless. "I was sent to Earth to protect my cousin, but an accident threw both of our pods off-course," Kara said. "We spent what I believe to be about twenty-four years in the Phantom Zone until we were knocked loose. We crash-landed not far from here. Right outside really."

Kara stood up and looked out the window. "That's when they found us. My human parents as I have come to know them as. John and Martha Kent," Kara said wistfully now. "They were an older couple in their late 60s. They ran out at the crash and found me, a little girl, taking my cousin out of his pod. I spoke no English, didn't know them but they were so friendly." Kara turned to face Barry again. "It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out what we were. The two older farmers figured it out right away and they knew if anyone knew about us… well, the government would take us. Simple as that. They would study us, vivisect us, figure out how we tick – they decided not to let that happen. They hid our pods in the old barn out back, but then it came what to do with us. They knew they needed to keep us but no normal adoption agency would let two elders take in young kids. They had a friend though…. well maybe friend is too close of a word. A very rich man who owed them a favor for saving his son's life. Lionel Luther set it up for Martha and John to take us in."

"So that's how you ended up here? On a farm," Barry said, having taken in her every word, and Kara nodded.

"They taught me English and all about this world. I helped them take care of the farm. It was still their only source of income," Kara said a little sadly now. "Then, when I turned 18, I got a scholarship to college. I wasn't going to accept it – my place was looking after Kal, it was my mission after all. They convinced me to take it though, convinced me I could do good in this world so I did. It lasted a week. John had a heart attack while driving; he crashed the car and the crash killed Martha too." Kara's voice broke at this, but Barry didn't say anything, this Kara's story so different to the one he'd met and a lot sadder. "So I returned to take care of Kal and take over the farm. And that's everything."

"I'm sorry," Barry said sincerely after a moment of silence. "Most of that is an awful story. Losing your planet, losing your human parents six years later, but what they said is true. You could do great things for this world. Just like your counterpart is doing for her world."

"I don't know why she is doing that," Kara said, standing suddenly, angry at being compared to someone she clearly wasn't. "My job is to protect Kal, not anyone else. By being a hero I could put my younger cousin in danger. She's putting her cousin in danger."

"I don't think so," Barry reasoned, remembering something. "Superman." Kara gave him an odd look. "When I showed up. Kara, the other Kara, called herself Superman's little cousin. She didn't have a little cousin she was protecting."

"Well you clearly did not get the whole story from her," Kara said in annoyance.

"Well, I was sort of stuck on her Earth and giving her and me a helping hand with two metas and weird backwards-human-clone of herself called Bizzaro," Barry said. Kara took a breath and nodded.

"I guess it doesn't matter," Kara said simply. "You have your story, now go back to your life."

Barry couldn't help but glare at Kara on these words. "No. I know there has to be some part of you that wants…" A door slamming cut off Barry.

"Kara!" a young voice called, a young teenager with jet-black hair and already-defined features walked in the room. He had a backpack over his shoulder. "Ms. Anderson will be calling you."

"What did you do?" Kara asked with a sigh.

"It was an accident," Kalvin reasoned with a small groan. "I just threw the ball. It went too far and broke a window. She thinks I did it on purpose." Kara opened her arms and brought Kal in for a small hug; he clearly annoyed at not being able to control his powers, verbalizing this as she let go of her cousin: "I can't control anything anymore, Kara."

"Yes you can," Kara said, ruffing his hair. "You just have to get use to your new power level."

"Why did it get so much stronger though?" Kal asked, obviously ignoring Barry.

"Because you're growing up Kal. As you grow your body can take in more solar energy," Kara explained. "I've told you this before." Kal nodded. "And look at it this way: I went from a normal girl to full powers right away. At least you got to grow into your powers."

"And not just by being struck by lightning," Barry said quietly, Kara nearly jumping as she had clearly forgotten that he was there. Kal hadn't noticed him at this point but turned to face him.

"Oh my god," Kal said looking at the outfit and grinning. "You're the Flash! I've watched and read everything about you. It's so cool what you're doing in the city… Being a superhero. I've told Kara…" Kal paused suddenly, having said too much already.

"It's fine. He knows," Kara said, confusing Kal. "I'll tell you later."

"And what do you tell Kara?' Barry asked, generally curious.

"That we should do the same." Kal muttered, not meeting either adult's eyes. "We can help so many people with these powers. The only time Kara lifts a finger is when she…" Kara put a hand over Kal's mouth.

'Too much information," Kara said quickly. "Now, Superboy, go do your homework and then your chores. We're going to that dance later in the Town Square."

"Ah," Kal said.

"Go," Kara pointed out of the room and Kal nodded resolutely, heading up the stairs.

"The only time you lift a finger is when?" Barry asked, trying not to smirk.

"Nothing," Kara snapped once more. "Kal doesn't know what he's talking about. Now can you please go? I have work to do."

"Oh I'll leave," Barry said. "For now. This isn't the last you have seen of me." Barry put his mask up and left before Kara could say anything. He had a feeling there was more to this story than met his eyes and he was going to figure it out soon enough.

Kara rolled her eyes as she looked at the picture the Flash had left her. "I think you just gave me a very annoying Superhero problem," Kara said to her smiling counterpart in the picture, but then shrugged her shoulders. "Ah well, at least he's cute."

Post Chapter Note: hope you enjoyed the first chapter of this spin off. Make sure to REVIEW and let me know.

Karry Master Out!