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re: Origin of PowerGal
 by Powergal on Sun Jul 08, 2012 10:12 pm
I hope this take on Supergirl/Powergirl works well. Kind of a "what if" supergirl launched before superman and landed on Themyscira, while mans world raged war and destroyed itself.
The origin of PowerGal!
Several years have passed since the events on a distant planet of Krypton. The readings coming from the red sun in the solar system spoke of the end of all life. Mere weeks in the future would the planet and all planets orbiting would be gone. The vast science, heritage and fingerprint of existence of the Kryptonians would forever be lost. Jor El peers over the data he has read. His greatest fears are true. A dire meeting with the council of Krypton becomes a joke. The end of Krypton is impossible, never again will they be forced to hear the ramblings of a madman, he is stripped of all his equipment and rankings. He rushes to his brother, another man of knowledge. They peer over the data. Zor el, slightly older and a recent father, has the grip of fear at his heart.
Kara Zor el has just come into life. She is but a babe, yet the entire future of her kind rests on her tender shoulders. Her father looks over her with love in the eyes of destiny. Over the course of several days the two brothers retrofit an exploration satellite to support her life. Filling the small craft with mere data of Krypton and the life of her family, there is room for nothing else, save a small crest locket to mark the house of El.
The sun begins to flicker as the planet trembles. The brothers rest the small baby into the craft, launching it into the atmosphere at incredible speed. Slowly the planet settles and the witness a flare across the horizon. The red sun pulsates like the beating heart of a giant, no sooner does it come to rest. Screaming crowds that panic and run for safety suddenly come to pause. The planet yet lives....at least for now. The brothers question their actions to send not even yet a child to the stars of life. The people of Krypton stand alive and rejoiced, however that will come to change in the next decade. No one will warn them again, no one will come to their aid when the sun goes dark, never to light again.
Far from the shores of Themyscira, man has destroyed their world. War has ravaged the lands and enslaved the people. There are pockets of society that is safe from the radiation that decays the land and poisons the people. Each society hungry to hold on to what they have, and fast to war with those that are foreign. The radiation changes some few, imbued with powers beyond mortal men, and corrupting them all the same.
Hippolyta lays with her newborn daughter far away from mans world. The island of the amazons, blessed by the gods and a place where no man shall walk. Her daughter lays with her, bore half amazon and half god. Diana, the future of her kind and the next chapter in the legacy of Themyscira. Guards hold steadfast at her door as the fear of mans war having arrived at their doorsteps! The candles that fell from the sky and destroyed their lands appear to be in route to them as well. A single fire in the sky with their sacred island as its target, leaves a trail of fire behind it. The small craft that carries the last seed of Krypton crashes along the shores. Prepped for battle, the amazons discover a sparkle of hope beyond the shores, a small babe gasping for breath and yearning for life. They take her in as one of their own and discard the construct of her arrival, far from even the eyes of man.
Years pass as the young babes grow together. Raised under the same house, same mother and viewed both as equal rights to the heir of Themyscira. Imbued with powers of the gods, Diana is the mightiest warrior and the boldest leader. A gift from the gods, Kara is of equal power, and wise beyond the shores. They love as sisters and both willing to lay their lives for each other and for the amazons that stand with them. They strive to hold on to the last safe haven in the mortal world, and keep it out of grasp and sight of mortal men. A task yet impossible to complete forever.
A young mage Faust, a betrayer and power hungry man has found himself in partnership with a man of godlike power and desire for conquest, Black Adam. They travel the world, destroying man and defacing the world as they wreck havoc through the wastelands. Paradise is nowhere in mans world. The lands are diseased, the people no challenge, and no suitable throne to sit apon. Then a woman is found, remarkable beauty and power. Firm and unbroken by the wars of man. She lasts weeks with them. Torturing her at every turn. The pain she can endure no further. She is but a scout of the amazons, to monitor the land man has destroyed. An island of amazon warriors, now this is a place truly worthy to place a throne!
The men strike the island of the amazons fast and hard. The amazons hold little resistance from the magic and might of Adam and Faust. All but two. Diana and Kara hold the men at bay with little effort, pushing them back as they battle as one, one with the gods. The men combine their magical blows, with no effect. At least, none to Diana. They find a weakness in Kara, pounding her back and forth with out mercy, yet she pushes back. Desperate to save her sister, Diana lunges at Adam with the a force that would rumble Olympus itself. They fall to the ground, both taken out of the battle, leaving Faust to deal with Kara himself. A mere man of magic to battle a goddess from the heavens, trained as a warrior, raised as a defender. The fight is not long and is over quickly. The men are jailed just long enough for their trials to be decided, that night. They are to be executed by the hand of Diana.
The men are taken to the center of the island, bound and broken. No man shall stand on this land, nor lay beneath it, yet the code says nothing of their heads. She raises her sword above Adam, giving him one final word. “Do you expect mercy little man?”. He grins up at her, the bruises show him to be beaten, but his expression tells another story. His mouth opens and speaks the final words Diana will ever hear. “SHAZAM!!!”. The entire island shakes, every amazon blinded by the light of the sun, every soul feels a shock wave of horror. “SHAZAM!!” Yet again! Dust settles and debris lays everywhere. Kara peers up to see Adam standing over Diana, her sword holding her body to the ground with his had at the hilt. Tears fill her eyes as she flashes toward him at lightening speed! Faust channels a power of unknown origin, opening a rift through time and space around Kara. Helpless to his magic she still tries to push toward Adam. Then all goes dark.
Awakened by sounds and lights she has never seen, Kara awakens in a room. A room not built by amazons, in a world not found in the archives of Themyscira. “Easy there, you have been out for days” a warm soft familiar voice tells her. She clears the fog from her eyes to see her sister at her side. “Diana!” as she hugs her sister. The two hold tight. One, curious on how her sister is alive, the other, curious how she holds amazonian trinkets. They reflect on their pasts and where they are now. Kara discovers that she is not where she once was, and that there is “another” Kara here, like the other Diana. They travel to the watch tower, there she learns about this world and its heroes, and its villians. She finds Supergirls, Powergirls, Matrix's and other versions of herself and other dimensions. Amazon at heart, she finds that she is also Kryptonian. As she tries to piece together her new life, she does so with one mission. Find this worlds Faust and Black Adam. When she finds them, they will pay at the hands of PowerGal.
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