I should have just stayed home and finish braiding my hair, I internally chided myself.

But for some unholy reason, I was currently seated behind the seat of a red SUV in the middle of downtown traffic panicking directly right out of my soul.

"Don't worry Kara! You got this! You're fine!

"I am indeed anything BUT fine Wally!" I tried my best not to scream at him but it was very difficult not to do so as the very hairs on the nape of my neck were standing at attention.

I didn't even know such a feeling and sensation was possible!?

"You are doing just fine Kara. Just breathe and take your hands-erh-legs, off the brakes."

Jimmy encouragingly coes at me from the back seat of the car.

The idea of taking my foot off the brake, the one thing keeping my sanity intact, freaked out so much that I cringed, froze up, and shook my head violently at the notion.

"Kara. You're doing fine. Just take your damn foot off the brakes!" Nightwing was speaking at me through a tablet device mounted on the centre of the car's dashboard. M'gann was there with him as well and was silently giving me thumbs up of encouragement.

You'd think Nightwing's words of encouragement will help steal my nerves and make me feel better, but it actually did the exact opposite and accomplished nothing but terrify me even more.

"Of all the things that terrify me today, you having faith in me scares me the most!" I point blank say back at the tablet, looking Dick dead in the eyes.

A round of chuckles resonate throughout all my gathered friends, but then I heard a sigh of frustration come out from directly behind me.

"Oh for heaven's sake-"

Then I felt the tell-tale signs of tiny fingers running up and down the sides of my abdomen, sending shivers and tingles up my spine and throughout my body as the overwhelming tickling sensation consumed me.

"BUWAHAHAHA!!!" I screamed in response to the onslaught of tickles as I released both my hands and feet from the steering wheel, gas and brake pedals to curl into myself, protecting my vital organs and parts most sensitive to the tickles.

With my foot now firmly off the brakes, the car glides forward and tips over the side of the hill, zooming through the Metropolis streets with surprising speed.

"Hands on the wheel! Hands on the wheel!!!" Dick screamed at me through the tablet screen.
Artemis, the person responsible for my tickle assault, was howling in laughter in the backseat behind me as I struggle to maneuver the car through the speeding races of vehicles coming at us.

"Are you not afraid to die!?" I literally scream at her as I just narrowly avoided ploughing through a semi-truck.

"If anything happens you know I'm the only one surviving right!?"

"Oh please, Wally will be able to get us out of here no problem!"

"Uhm, sweetheart my response rate is only 0.5 seconds. Severe bodily damage would be incurred before I react fast enough to stop or help anybody."

At the back of my mind I found it odd that we were so freely talking around a 'civilian', but Jimmy was currently screaming his lungs out in the backseat as his fingers dog mercilessly into the seat in front of him which Wally occupied.

Strange how whenever we slip up or say something we're not supposed to, Jimmy was always conveniently doing something or somebody had done something to him to prevent him from hearing what was going on.

A less observant person might just shrug it off, but the coincidences were piling on and as somebody who crashed in from space on a space-pod that got lost in a warm hole and got stuck in time and rapidly aged up, I don't deal with or believe too much in coincidences.

Once we survive this inevitable car crash, I have to bring up my concerns to either Dick or M'gann later.

No way in hell I was going to tell Kal about this, that's for sure!

"Brakes! Brakes!!!" I heard Jimmy screech into my ear from the back seat and I snap back my attention to the road.

How I managed to manoeuvre and keep us alive for so long, I'll never know.

Maybe having inhumane superhuman fast reflexes helped???

Because one too many times I felt like I was pulling off manoeuvers straight out of a high-octane speed driving movie that I see the trailers of on TV all the time performing tricks that were too unrealistic to apply to the laws of physics.

And right now the reason why Jimmy was screaming my eardrums off, which was even more painful due to my super hearing, was due to the fact that if I did not break in the next 3 seconds we would crash right through the very big, very immovable, building that was coming up fast upon us.

I slam on the brakes so hard that I feel like I crashed through the machine and my feet was scraping down the asphalt as both me and the car struggle to stop in time.

"Please, please, please!!!" I desperately plead it out loud

We made it JUST in time for the car to barely grace over the sidewalk and have innocent pedestrians run away screaming for dear life.

"Oh thank you, Jesus!!" Wally sighed in relief as he slumped back in his seat, his right arm on his door handle prepared to run out and saved anyone in case things didn't go according to plan.
"Yay, you're alive!" M'gann clapped and cheered through the tablet screen.

I had the overwhelming urged to punch through it and break the damn thing.

I must have been giving them a deathly glare because at that moment both M'gann and Dick looked away and refused to look me in the eye.

"All's well that ends well, I always say!" Artemis nonchalantly says as she shrugs the whole thing off and got out of the car.

I whip around in the car seat ready to rip her blonde hair out until Wally placed a hand on my shoulder, pleading with me to spare his girlfriend's life.

Jimmy wasn't so unbothered by the situation as he frantically pushed open his car door and fell on both hands and knees to retch onto the concrete floor.

"Oh no!" I desperately cry out in worry as I undid my seatbelt and ran out of the car.

"What's going on?" Dick asked with concern.

"Jimmy's sick!" I cry back over to the car with the tablet still in it. "And not like sick sick, where you're not feeling well. But more like fluid projectiles coming out of your body sick, I think it's called being violently ill?"

I desperately tried to explain the situation to them but Wally and Artemis were already on the scene helping Jimmy to his feet and offering him a cloth to wipe his mouth.

"Ah, tell the big baby to shrug it off. He'll be fine." Dick waved off my concerns.

"You are such a jerk!" I then hear M'gann say followed by what sounded like her elbowing him in the ribs.

It must have been painful from the cry of agony that Dick emitted next.

"Now, now, this certainly won't do," the velvety charmed voice of a man out of my vision said.

But I didn't need to see who was speaking because I could already tell who they were just by the pattern of their heartbeat, but also less creepily, the sound of their voice.

"Hello, Mr Luther," I said as I got up to see him.

"Now, now, Miss Kara, I have told you multiple times to refer to me simply as Lex."

He reached out his hand offering to take my own, I give him nothing but a slight smile as I reached out my right hand to him and respond,
"But I like calling you Mr Luther."

"Well then I will just have to get used to it then because I definitely would want to accommodate you for the things that you like." The man smoothly responds.

"GAG ME WITH A SPOON!" Dick cried from the tablet monitor in the car.

He obviously had been hearing everything that was going on and the petulant child just couldn't resist the will to interrupt the moment.

"Good day to you too, Mr Richard Grayson." Lex tried to formally greet him with a small and condescending smile on his face.

"Kiss my ass! You rich, pompous-"

While everyone wasn't looking I use my laser beams to send a quick blast at the tablet screen.

Risky? Yes. But there's no way I was going to allow Dick to continue talking and humiliate me in front of Lex.

One of the benefits of having Super Speed, you could do anything you want without anyone seeing because you've already finished doing it before the human eye could even blink.

But I did see off to the corner of my eye Wally shaking his head disapprovingly at me because he had been the only one to catch my movement.

Damn that Speedster!!!

I give him a pleading look back not to say anything and then fully turn my attention back to Lex.

"So what brings you to this parts?" I asked them. Tucking a stray strand of my hair behind my ear as my southern drawl from the many months on the Kent Farm broke through.

I internally cringe at my words because they came straight from my country girl side from my time being with Ma and Pa Kent but there's no taking it back now as I fold my hands behind my back and look up at the impeccably dressed billionaire smiling down at me.

"Well I should be the one asking you that question my dear sweet Miss Kent. For you see, the building that you almost crashed into and your friend is currently vomiting on is Lex Corps Head Office in Metropolis."

I look up to confirm what he was saying and true enough, in big bold letters, the words Lex Corp Head Office were written on top of the building.

"Huh," I simply said, "I must have missed that as we were careening down the hill towards it." I awkwardly scratch my head in response and close my eyes as I giggle up him.

"You know what? I low-key ship it." I hear Artemis whisper to Wally under her breath.

I sent them a death glare as well.

"I am so sorry for the mess we've caused. We'll clean it up and be on our way!"

"Who's we?" Wally suddenly asked.

"Nonsense!" Lex then chimes in, signals to somebody out of view, and suddenly an entire cleaning crew came out of the Lex Corp building to attend to the mess that Jimmy was making.

"Wow!" I couldn't help but awe in wonder.

"Would you please stop drooling over the man?" Another familiar voice says to me, but this time I couldn't quite pin it.

"Ah! Mr Wayne, thank you for coming!" I hear Lex say a little too quickly as he whipped around to face the person approaching us.

OMG! Was I going to get to meet the Legendary Bruce Wayne of all people on this Spectacular day!?

I was going to be in the presence of not one but two billionaires today!

Who says good things don't happen to those who wait?

I turn around to face him, looking down at my feet as I waited for Lex to make the introductions.

"I believe you haven't met my acquaintance yet, Kara Kent. Miss Kent? Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne? Kara Kent."

"Nice to meet you Mr....Wayne?" My initial bubbly tone cracked to a high pitch squeal at the end.

"No, I believe we've never met before. Good day to you Miss Kent." The flirty tone of Bruce Wayne says back to me.

My brain was momentarily frozen in shock as my exterior shell smiled and shook his hand.

For you see even though I was acting all normal, internally I was screaming at the fact that I recognise the face that was currently on Bruce Wayne's shoulder.

And all the time inside my head I was screaming to the high heavens.

BATMAN WAS BRUCE WAYNE!?!?