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The day was going so well. Better than expected actually. Alex and Lucy were training new recruits who actual showed some promise. Kara was working on a new article about Lena’s latest invention. And by working on a new article she really meant taking her girlfriend to lunch at that new place that just opened. It serves not just kale, but also real cake much to Kara’s endless excitement.
Winn and Imra were making good progress on harnessing her physic powers to make non-lethal weapons. Carter had just got done with a good day at school and was making his way to Cat’s office. Cat had been reinstated after the end of her sabbatical, and both Lena and James were thrilled. The former back to what he loved doing most, photography. He was still going out as Guardian, but was now under the supervision and guidance of J’onn.
It was around 4 PM when the day started to domino into chaos. On the surface level everyone showing up in the same area at the same moment seemed like a coincidence. Winn and Imra ran into a snag with their invention and went to Catco to talk to Lena, who was standing talking to Kara. Kara was waiting for Carter to come out of his mom’s office so they could hang out. James came up from his office to talk to Cat about a layout, and J’onn was with him waiting to get out and train. Alex and Lucy showed up when they pinged a threat against the building.
Everyone showed up at 4:07 PM. At 4:08 PM everyone looked around curiously, like it was all planned. At 4:09 PM a big flash appeared in the center of the group, practically blinding them all. Out of the flash a figure appeared, a smug look on his face.
“Mxy?!” Kara stuttered in shock. A smile crept across his face and before anyone can make a move he snaps his fingers.
“This will be fun.”
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Alex lands on a large log with an oof and rolls off of it. She does a mental scan and is pretty sure that nothing is broken. Meanwhile, Kara falls from the sky and lands right on top of Alex. Her eyes are still closed as she groans and mutters, attempting to dislodge Kara. Everything feels out of sorts, and her shoving is pretty ineffective.
“Kara you are too heavy, get off me.” Kara rolls off with a groan of her own.
“Sorry Alex. It’s not like I had any control over where I landed.” She feels fuzzy, mentally speaking of course. The last thing she remembers was the flash of light that followed Mxy’s finger snap.
“Mxy!” Kara’s eyes snap open and she sees a giant pine tree smack in front of her. She does a quick look around her but doesn’t see him, or anyone else for that matter. She frowns and wonders if anyone else was taken and whether they landed okay. She’s mentally cursing Mxy as she looks over to where Alex should be.
She lets out a loud gasp and an, “oh rao.” Instead of her tall, red headed, human sister, she is now face to face with a dog. A German Shepherd to be exact, with a beautiful red and black coat.
Alex still hasn’t open her eyes, and Kara is stuck in her shock unable to move. When Alex does finally open her eyes, Kara can see that they haven’t changed; light chocolate brown. It’s almost unnerving to see, but it is also somewhat comforting.
Alex looks completely confused and calls out to Kara, wondering where she went. She could have sworn she was sitting right here, and where the hell did this dog come from?
“I’m right here Alex.” Alex’s eyes widen when her sister’s voice comes out of the dog sitting in front of her. The realization hits her like a train that her blonde, perky, alien sister is now a dog. A Golden Retriever with a shiny gold coat to be more precise. Alex looks closely and sees the most caring blue eyes she’s ever known, which confirms that this dog is indeed her little sister.
“Alex I don’t know how to tell you this, or if you even understand me, but....” Alex just shakes her head and is too shocked to let Kara continue.
“You’re a dog!” Kara does her signature puppy dog head tilt and Alex almost loses her shit. It isn’t until Kara feels her ears flapping against her head that she chances a look down to her hands and feet. Well, they aren’t there. Instead she sees golden paws, and starts to choke on air.
“Oh my god we’re both dogs!”
“What?!” Alex looks down quickly to see that yes indeed her hands and feet are also now paws. A quick look behind her and yep there’s a tail.
“What the hell!? How the hell did this happen?!” It only takes Alex two breaths to be able to answer her own question, “Mxy! When I get my hands on him!”
Alex doesn’t get to finish her threat before they hear a high pitched shout, or rather squeal, about 20 feet away. Running as quickly as they can on their new paws, they make their way over to where everyone else had apparently landed. A quick scan sees that no one is hurt, and that everyone is okay. Well, okay is relative, because everyone who landed in this part of the woods has also been turned into dogs.
Kara and Alex have no idea who anyone is besides each other, but there is one Great Dane, one black Husky, two Chihuahuas, a Corgi, a West Highland Terrier, one Staffordshire Terrier, and a Pomsky. All ten dogs jaws seemed to have dropped at the same time as they just stare at each other.
“Is someone going to explain what’s going on, or are we going to stare at each other in hopes it all goes away?” The larger of the two Chihuahua’s says with a trademark sass. Kara narrows her eyes attempting to figure out who it is.
“Ms. Grant?!” She gasps in realization.
“Obviously Kiera.” The eye roll easily confirms that it’s Cat, which means the smaller Chihuahua must be Carter. She seems to have reverted to calling people by their wrong names. Which is something Kara sees as an attempt at control in an uncontrollable situation. Carter seems to be scared but trying his hardest to put on a brave face, while curled into Cat’s side. Kara gives him what she hopes is a reassuring smile, but she’s unsure what it looks like in this body.
“Wait,” she looks back to Cat, “how did you know it was me?”
“Well only you and Agent Scully over there would run towards a scream, even as girlish as it was” Cat looks over at the Westie with a mocking eyebrow raise. Alex scowls at the nickname and Kara has to stifle a laugh at how ridiculous a scowling German Shepherd looks.
“Besides only sunny and eternally happy Kara Danvers would be turned into a Golden Retriever, the loveable all American dog.”
Kara’s face lights up at that and she practically squees in excitement, “I’m a Golden Retriever!?”
“Yes.” Alex says sharply, “Great now… wait what am I?” Alex asks attempting to look down at her body.
“You’re a German Shepherd, red and black.”
“Yep that fits.” She nods once.
“Great two down, now who’s who for the rest of you?” Cat says taking charge of the situation, while Carter continues to curl into her side.
“Hello, my name is Lucy Lane and I’m a dog.” This causes Alex to snort and start to laugh a full bodied laugh.
“This isn’t AA Lucy, but in case you are wondering you’re a Corgi.”
“Queen’s Corgi? Or sweater Corgi?”
“Ah the important questions,” Cat drawls.
“Queen’s Corgi.” Kara answers. Lucy nods her head in what appears to be pride.
“Small and Sassy, yep that seems right.”
“Okay, next?” It’s Alex this time, and Cat just gives the bigger dog an eyebrow raise. The Great Dane just walks up calmly and sits.
“Well that’s obviously J’onn.” Kara says lifting her paw in a dramatic wave, “Even in dog form he’s strong and silent.” J’onn’s mouth quirks up in a small amused smile.
“I’m Imra.” Imra just lifts a small paw in the air like it’s a roll call.
“Really?” Alex asks somewhat surprised that Imra would be a Pomsky. She would have put good money on her being the Husky.
“Small but fierce.” Imra shrugs her shoulders and gives Lucy a high paw when offered. Alex shakes her head. The entire situation starting to feel surreal, and everyone seems to be much calmer than she had felt 10 minutes ago. Although the serious way everyone is taking their assigned dog breeds makes her roll her eyes.
“Next?” Kara says when it's clear Alex is stuck in her own head and Cat is comforting Carter. A West Highland Terrier steps forward next.
“I’m Winn?” He says like he isn’t quite sure.
“Either you are or are not the IT hobbit, which one is it?” Cat snarks.
“Winn.” He says in a small voice and scooting back nearly tripping over his back feet. Imra nudges him comfortingly, and he shoots her a small smile.
“Ok that just leaves Lena and James.” Alex says looking over at the two remaining large dogs.
“Lena is the Husky.” Kara says, “She’s elegant and strong. Plus I’d know those green eyes anywhere.” She looks over dreamily at the other dog, who has a smug look on her midnight black face.
“Which makes that James.” Alex motions with her paw over to the large black Staffordshire Terrier.
“Yep.”
“Great,” Cat says sarcastically, “now that everyone’s tails have been accounted for, would anyone like to clue me in as to why we are all dogs?” Everyone is silent for a few moments, just looking around at each other.
“Well…” Kara decides to start speaking after a pointed look from Alex, “It was Mxy.”
“Who?” Is said practically in unison.
“Remember when I got thrown into a musical?” Some nod, while others just look more confused by the second. “Well this is the same guy. He’s a fifth dimensional being that wanted me to marry him at one point.” Lena scoffs, “ As well as trapping me and Barry in a musical. I have no idea why he did this, but it’s not that bad!” Kara attempts to stay positive, while Alex just gapes at her.
“Not that bad! Kara, I have a fur coat and a tail!” Alex practically yells even though her sister is right next to her. The sheer volume makes Kara flinch.
“I know, but at least we are all together, even if we are dogs. I’m sure we can figure it out.” Kara looks down sadly, and Lena walks over nuzzling into her. Kara looks up to see green eyes looking softly at her.
“Kara is right Alex. We will be fine. But first things first, where the hell are we?”
“A forest.”
“Thank you for that Lucy.” Alex says sarcastically.
“You’re welcome Danvers. Always here to help.” Lucy gives her a cheeky smile. Small and Sassy is right.
“So we narrowed it down to… a forest.” Lena continues with some humor in her tone, “But what forest?”
“Well,” James buts in for the first time, “I think we should attempt to make camp for the night before it gets too dark. J’onn, Winn, and I can keep watch while you guys gather stuff up for the camp.” His attempt to take charge of the situation is met with nine pairs of eyes looking anywhere from exasperated to humored to just throwing him daggers.
“As I was saying,” Lena continues like he hadn’t even said anything. “I think we need to figure out where we are before we figure out our next plan of action. No reason for us to stay in a forest if we are but a few miles away from National City.” She says pointedly looking at James who looks a bit sheepish at being taken down a peg. “There seems to be a trail we can follow over here.”
Lena leads them through the trail with Kara right next to her. Cat and Carter are right behind them, with Winn and Lucy not far behind. James is moping next to J’onn in the middle, and Imra and Alex bring up the rear. They walk for about 15 minutes until they seem to reach a clearing made for campers or picnics. There’s a large sign with a map of the whole forest and it’s trails. At the top in large letters the words: Willamette National Forest.
“Oh Rao.” Kara says and looks over to Alex who has just walked up.
“Does that say what I think it says?”
“Yep.” Kara pops the P.
“You guys know where we are?” Surprisingly it’s Imra who asks first.
“Yep.” Alex intones.
“So?” Cat asks impatiently, while Lena just frowns at Kara.
“So,” Kara sighs, “we better start that camp, because we are in the middle of Oregon.”