Kara groaned as she woke up in the Solarium of her Island, feeling its yellow sun radiation hitting her full blast, healing her injuries from her battle with Red Daughter and then Darkseid himself. The pain slowly dulled to a mild aching sensation.

"Welcome back." Lena said with a smile from her chair outside the solarium, since while she wanted to be holding Kara's hand, it wasn't safe for normal humans to be inside the Solarium while it was active.

"Hell of a way to spend my birthday." Kara said and Lena chuckled.

"Which is why I told the rest of the League that you are off duty for the rest of the day. Any missions they can handle." Lena said as she watched the injuries on her fiance's face fade away as the Solarium beeped and shut off, indicating that it was done and it opened and Lena proceeded to catch Kara as she fell.

"Here." Lena said, handing Kara a change of clothes to wear, since her suit had been trashed in the fight and had been burned off by the chamber so that her entire body could receive full exposure to the sun's energy. Which was why Lena was the only one allowed to sit at Kara's side.

"Thanks." Kara said as she sped into the clothes Lena had brought her, so she was now wearing a bright white top and blue jeans.

"Guess it's a good thing today's your birthday, because you're going to need a new suit, since your old one is pretty much history." Lena said and Kara chuckled as she put her glasses on as she felt her energy fully return as the residual solar energy kicked in.

"Please tell me that there's enough food to help me recover." Kara said.

"Considering the size of the buffet we'll have at your party tonight, you'll be fine. But the rest of the league who responded to the SOS are waiting in the main room to discuss the attack, since from what we know about Darkseid, he doesn't do anything without a reason." Lena said.

"Then let's not keep them waiting." Kara agreed as they headed out to the main room.

"Kara, thank god." Alex said when her sister entered the main room of the Island where she, Felicity, Clark, Diana, J'onn, Krypto, Hal, Carter and Shayera were waiting as Krypto rushed up to his mistress and jumped on her and began licking her to indicate how happy he was she was okay.

"Okay, down boy." Kara laughed, since she knew Krypto could get a little rough sometimes and she wasn't ready for that right now.

"Krypto, it's my turn." Alex said as she pushed the dog aside gently to hug her sister.

"I'm okay Alex. Just a little drained. Thank you all for coming." Kara said.

"It's just a good thing you have the Watchtower scanning for Boom tube signatures, so it sent out an automated alert." Carter said.

"Yeah. I think I need to get my hands on a mother box so I can see if I can figure out how to develop a shield to keep people from boom tubing here without authorization. I'm already working on something like that for our zeta technology to make sure none of our enemies can hijack it." Kara said.

"Wait, no work talk today. Even the briefing you want to hold about the attack can wait until your next official meeting, since we have a party to get ready for." Lena said, since she was not going to let Kara's birthday be derailed anymore than it had been.

"Especially since my parents are going to be arriving through the Island's teleporter soon, since there's no way they're missing my birthday after missing so many." Kara said.

"Yeah, your sister Sam is really fitting in well in Coast City." Hal added.

"I've noticed. I'm looking forward to catching up with her at the party and apparently she's bringing a date." Kara said, looking forward to meeting her sister's new boyfriend.

"By the way Hal, I've noticed you've been around more. Coast City no longer feels ghosted." Alex said, since Hal was on Earth a lot more often now.

"Yeah, I've been reassigned to Earth duty, since in addition to requesting it, the Guardians are aware of the amount of extraterrestrial threats Earth has been facing and even with Kryptonians, Martians and the entire Justice League protecting it, they wanted another Lantern on Earth to help Alex protect it. Not to mention they also want both of us to keep tabs on Earth's growing metahuman population to make sure that they don't become a threat to the rest of the universe." Hal said.

"Same reason Chay-Ara and I were stationed here on Earth, to make sure that Earth's meta population doesn't become a threat to our homeworld." Carter said.

"Not to mention the Guardians are also concerned that Felicity's scarab might attract the Reach, though if that happens, they might finally have proof of the Reach's breach of their treaty." Alex said.

"Thanks for that reminder." Felicity said.

"Earth is slowly being forced into the Galactic spotlight. It started when Clark became Superman and it only happened faster after we formed the league." J'onn said.

"He's not wrong. But that's part of why we formed the League. To respond to threats like that." Kara agreed.

"Anyways, the Guardians allowed me to take on more Earthly duties like Alex, only being called in for big situations." Hal said.

"Sounds good to me. The more help we have here on Earth, the better. But for now, we all have places to be." Kara said, eager to go home and get ready for the party she knew Lena had been planning for months.

"Yes, those of you not invited to Kara's party need to prepare to cover for those of you who are." Lena said.

"I guess that's our cue." Hal said with a chuckle as he and the Hawks flew out of the Island, since obviously Alex, Felicity, Clark and J'onn were invited, but so was Diana, along with the other founding members of the Justice League, since Oliver and Laurel were back from their honeymoon.

"And we need to go see how bad the damage is to our house and get Kelex to fix it." Kara said, since her helper robot could fix the hole for free as Alex checked her phone.

"Actually, Courtney's been trying to call me for hours. And I bet she's been trying to call you too." Alex said as she called Courtney back.

"I wonder what's so urgent, since it's not like we won't see her in a few hours, since she and her family were invited to the party." Kara said as Alex got off the phone.

"Her dad's alive." Alex said.

"Wait, what?" Kara asked and Diana also looked interested.

"Yeah, apparently Starman somehow survived the attack thanks to that staff. He's at Titans Tower right now." Alex said.

"Wow. It seems to be an epidemic of parents coming back from the grave. First Jeremiah, then my parents and Clark's parents from Krypton and now Courtney's dad." Kara said.

"Still, it's a good thing. We'll have to get the details from her at the party." Lena said and Kara nodded.