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Lena should have been happy, or content at least. She had everything she had ever dreamed of. She was the last villain standing in National City, and all of the heroes were long gone. She ruled the city, but yet… Something was missing. Perhaps she was just bored.
She scanned the monitors in her lab, each which showed various feeds from drones she had stationed across the city. They flooded her with constant footage of the goings-on throughout National City. If she was to rule National City, she couldn't allow anything to happen without her knowing.
Lena spotted a nondescript van pull up a block away from one of the city’s larger banks. Intrigued, she watched as four men came out of the van and made their way to the bank, putting on masks to hide their identities. Lena had to give them props for their bravery. No one dared to commit any crimes in National City, now that she was ruling things. She supposed she could put on her suit and teleport over there after they had their bags of money. She could easily take them down with her wrist blaster, grab the cash, and show them who was boss. It seemed too simple though. Easy, boring.
Lena sighed. She hadn’t gotten out of her lab in a long while. Perhaps some good old fist to metal-alloy suit takedown was what she needed. So Lena summoned her suit with a click of a button. Her high-tech visor acting like a mask to cover her face and identity. She punched in the coordinates of the bank’s address and hit her teleporter.
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Lena didn’t land on the street, no, that would be too risky. Instead, she materialized in the air. It took half-a-second for her anti-gravity units to kick in. She floated above the bank, turning her visor onto a thermal read of inside the building. She could make out the shapes of figures in the bank on her feed. It looked like they had gotten into the vault, which meant she had come at the perfect time. Lena swooped down and landed with a small thud on the pavement below. They weren’t very many people around, something which Lena was grateful for. She turned on her wrist blaster and blew down the front doors to the bank with a single shot. If there was one thing she loved, it was making a grand entrance.
Inside the bank, employees and customers huddled, shaking with fear on the edges of the bank. Lena glanced around, getting the lay of her surroundings.
“It’s Professor Night,” she heard someone whisper.
She walked further into the bank, her boots thumping along the floor. A mask-wearing individual came around the corner, holding up a gun.
“Professor Night!” He jumped back in shock.
Lena couldn’t help but smirk. She hoped it looked menacing from under her visor.
“Professor Night!” The guy yelled again.
He began to run back to where he had come from and Lena shot a blast from her wrist blaster at him, but it just missed. The man screamed and other men with masks came out, some holding bags which probably held money.
“Night! Get away, or we’ll shoot!” One of the men said, pointing a rather large gun at her. It shook in his hands, showing how scared he was in her presence.
“This is my city. Any villain knows better than to mess with my city,” Lena said menacingly.
“We’re just going to take the money and then we’ll be gone. We don’t mean to step on your toes.”
“Too late.” Lena raised her arm, her wrist blaster humming.
The men scurried as she let off a blast. She didn’t hit anyone, but it put a good hole in the back wall. One guy screamed dropping his bag, money flew out. The men were running to the front door, bags in hand. Lena ran after them, firing blasts at their backs. One of the guys fired his gun at her, but she raised her holographic shield and deflected the bullets. She hoped that they didn’t shoot any bystanders in the process. Even if Lena was a villain, she hated when innocent civilians died in the crossfire. She hated it even more than she hated the heroes that had once run her city.
Outside, Lena turned on her anti-gravity units as the robbers ran along the ground. She could hear the sirens of the cops closing in. She rolled her eyes. The cops in this city didn’t do shit. She flew ahead of the robbers, landing in front of them. The men stopped in their tracks, looking terrified. Lena tossed down one of her gadgets. A translucent prison formed around her and the robbers.
“Nowhere left for you to run,” Lena told them.
She could have sworn she saw tears running down one of the guy’s faces. She raised her arm, writ blaster humming.
“Please!” The robbers begged.
Lena wouldn’t show these criminals any mercy.
“Professor Night!” A voice boomed.
Lena looked up. A figure floated above her, creating a shadow in the bright sun. Lena’s visor adjusted to make out a strange woman floating in the air. Lena knew it was a woman simply because of her whole attire. Blond hair billowed out behind the new arrival. Lena couldn’t help but think how impractical that was. Her own hair was done up in a tight braid, to keep it out of the way while she was doing her job. The strange woman wore a blue crop top with a red skirt, also very impractical. A red cape flew behind her, really giving the flier a heroic vibe. Lena couldn’t help but think that while her whole outfit seemed very impractical, but it looked damn good.
Suddenly the woman flew down and landed with an earth-rumbling thud between Lena and the robbers. Lena couldn’t help but consider it one hell of a grand entrance.
“Don’t hurt these men,” the woman warned, raising her hand.
“They’re criminals, it’s what they deserve,” Lena shot back. “Besides it’s what I do.”
Lena let off her blaster and it hit the strange new hero. At least, Lena figured that she was a hero. The girl wasn’t even wearing a mask for god’s sake.
The glow from the blast fizzled off, and Lena was shocked to find the hero still standing there unaffected. There wasn’t even a mark on her suit.
“That’s new,” Lena muttered to herself.
The translucent prison vanished around them; Lena hadn’t created it to last very long. The robbers ran off, but the new hero didn’t go for them. No, she flew right towards Lena, fist raised. The villain barely had time to raise her shield before the punch landed. Luckily she had enough power reserves to block the blow, but it was more powerful than anything she’d ever faced before.
“Who are you?” Lena asked as she fired her blaster at the strange symbol on the woman’s chest.
“My name’s Supergirl, and I’m here to stop your reign over National City.”
She flew at Lena, unaffected by the blast once again. Lena shot into the air, but the woman flew after her. She was fast, faster than anything Lena had ever seen. She would have been impressed if she wasn’t being chased by a new hero who was trying to take her down.
The new hero’s hit came full speed at Lena; her shield barely stood a chance. Her visor flashed a bright red warning. Her suit had taken the hit pretty bad.
“What about the robbers? They’re getting away.”
“The police have it handled.”
Lena powered up her wrist blaster, turning it to full power. It hit this Supergirl, but it still left no mark.
“What the hell?” Lena swore, flying off, trying to think of a new strategy.
She glanced back and Supergirl was flying right at her. Lena put up her shields, but that didn’t stop Supergirl from tossing her right to the ground. Even as Lena hit the pavement Supergirl continued to throw punches, one after the other.
The villain was thrown back and crashed through a building. She coughed as debris flew around her.
“Really, destroying public property? That’s why I got rid of all the superheroes like you.”
Lena stood up, throwing her fist at Supergirl. Not even blinking, the hero caught it and used the momentum to toss Lena over her shoulder. Lena hit the ground once again, the readings from her suit reading critical. She spat out some blood and gave a battle cry as she swung another hit, putting extra power behind it.
Supergirl didn’t even budge.
“What are you?” Lena asked.
“I’m this city’s saviour,” Supergirl said throwing one last punch that left Lena on the ground, panting heavily.
Her whole body ached; it was only thanks to her suit that she hadn’t broken any bones. She began to press the buttons on her suit, planning on teleporting away.
A second before Lena could complete the process, Supergirl grabbed her arm and crushed the controls on her suit.
“You didn’t just ruin my suit!” Lena hissed, glaring at the hero. “You’re going to pay for that!”
“You’re going to prison,” Supergirl said.
She grabbed the back of Lena’s suit and flew up. Lena screamed as she was taken into the air. Her legs flailed out below her, but Supergirl didn’t even react. Lena flung her arms around the hero’s waist. She didn’t feel safe soaring ten feet above the city, being held like a mother cat would hold a kitten...by the scruff of their neck. Supergirl kept flying, not so much as looking at her.
Lena was observing her, though. Supergirl’s powers were unlike anything she had ever seen. Lena, being a woman of science, was fascinated to say the least. Plus it did help that this new hero was drop-dead gorgeous.
No, Lena wasn’t going there.
Supergirl drooped down in front of the police station, tossing Lena onto the ground. The cops all scattered towards her.
“I have apprehended Professor Night.” Supergirl declared.
“Well done,” Lena grumbled as Supergirl pulled her up to her feet by her suit.
The cops nervously cuffed Lena as she growled at them. Supergirl flew off as though her job was done. Lena watched her go with a smile. There was a new hero in town for her to defeat, this was going to be fun.