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[ Kara spends some time familiarizing herself with her surroundings before trying to send a message. It's all very strange, very alien, but no more so than Earth is. Once she feels collected enough to do so she turns her attention to the console. It isn’t quite like anything she’s ever used before, but the technology is close enough to what she’s used to on Krypton that after a bit of fiddling around she manages to get the video feed on and recording. She takes a deep breath and addresses the network. ]

I’m told that people are brought here from all over the place. If that’s true, and you can all understand me… [ She doesn’t really get how that works, but she sincerely hopes that it does. Otherwise, she’s on her own. Again. ]

I need to know. How many of you know the planet Krypton? And what do you know about it?

[ She almost adds a ‘please’, because if nobody here has answers for her then she won’t know anything until she returns home. If she returns home. But instead she clenches her jaw and turns off the feed. ]

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Yeah, Superman. Well he did, I mean I went with him, saw some stuff that happened with the VR thing and then was given my name.

[Aw, give the guy a break he's younger after all. Also, hey, so don't ask about the name and all will be cool!]

What's your name? [ She couldn't NOT ask. ]

Kon-El. [Oops.]

[ She's just going to. State for a moment. ]

Superman... gave you that name?

[ And he looks so pleased about it too. ]

Yeah, it's after someone back on Krypton that was part of the House of El. Supes...wanted me to have the name.

[ Uh. Wow. ] I'm sorry, you must not get along well.

Well, I mean he kinda kept his distance at first. But we get on alright. He's pretty cool.

What makes you say that?

'Kon' means abomination. It's what we call the clone who led the the rebellion, killed hundreds and destroyed the weather control tower on Krypton.

[He just happens to stare for a moment and then shakes his head.]

This guy wasn't a clone and he wasn't an abomination. There wasn't a clone rebellion...There was a rebellion because of cloning but...it wasn't--I'm not named after that.

It isn't a nice thing to call someone either way. [ Says the girl who called a total stranger that. But he WAS a clone. ]

It's my name, it doesn't mean anything bad.

Maybe...Maybe the place you're from it does but not me.

Okay. If that's what you want to be called. It's nice to meet you... Kon-el.

Like...wise. So uhm, welcome to the turtle.

Thanks. It's really... different.

There's no TV or anything fun. I guess this was what it was like way back in the day.

'Back in the day' before instant entertainment? [ See, she's catching on to these human phrases now. ]

So what do you do for fun?

Yeah. I've never not had those things. Kinda sounds really spoiled, huh? Guess I took it all for granted.

[He'd be proud of her if he knew she was learning.

Kon hums.]

Here I kind of, just hang with people sometimes or go about trying to stop the gang fights. They're not as bad as they were, but they're still there, picking of shop keepers yadda yadda.

Stopping gang fights is fun?

When there's nothing else, yeah.

That sounds a little... odd.

Well I mean, it's a rush when you do the right thing and potentially save people cause of it.

I can understand that. But do you really need to get into the middle of a fight to do that?

I don't go up to the guys and just start punching. Usually I'm trying to break something up or stop it and then they start going for me.

That sounds like the same thing to me.

Totally different.

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