Race Through Time

    Kara had grown up a normal girl living with her family deep within the Black Hills of South Dakota, well, as normal as you can get when you grew up spending everyday combat training with your step-father and working with your mother to control your telepathic abilities. When she was six, Kara’s biological father and older brother died in a fiery car accident. Kara’s mother, wanting to run from her past, packed up her daughter and ran. They’d run for five years, changing schools like one changes the batteries in their remotes, until Kara’s mother, Karen, had met her current husband, Johnathan. He had convinced Karen that all that moving around wasn’t good for Kara and that she needed to plant some roots. So, they’d settled in South Dakota, in a place remote enough Karen wasn’t itching to run and still civilized enough Kara could go to school. John had also taken Kara under his wing and began training her to defend herself. As ex-special ops, John was well trained, not to mention the extra training he had received on the side from some of the masters, and he passed all the training he could onto his daughter.      When Kara turned sixteen she discovered she could reach her mind out and touch the minds of others, influence their decisions, and communicate with them. Karen had been waiting for that day and she began teaching Kara how to defend her mind and control her powers. Kara struggled at first, having a hard time believing in the impossible, but eventually her mother had convinced her of her powers.     “An unguarded mind is an unguarded body,” This was the one think Karen had pounded into Kara’s head. Kara would never forget that because only once had someone taken control of her mind and body and that had scared the devil out of her. Mind you it was Karen who had taken over Kara’s mind to teach her daughter that terrible lesson. From then on Kara had focused on strengthening her mental barriers and honing her abilities to make sure she could never again be controlled in that way. She had become one of the most powerful telepaths ever, she was even stronger than her mother.     “Your mother teaches you to balance the mind and I teach you to balance your body,” Johnathan had constantly told Kara whenever she’d grumble about how much her life sucked and how she wished she could be a normal teenager. Kara has never meant her words, but she had always used them as an outlet. She just needed some time for herself and it was just teenager stuff. It’s not like she didn’t have a life outside of the house, she still went to school, hung out with friends, and even had a boyfriend, Adam, but no one knew of the secret training she went through at home. They never knew about the crash that had killed her brother and biological father. To everyone around her, Johnathan was her father and she wanted to keep it that way. Some secrets aren’t meant to be shared. Besides Kara and Johnathan looked enough alike that no one ever questioned their relationship.     Kara loved Johnathan like he was her father. When Karen had first met him Kara had been skeptical, but when he began treating her with the same love and respect, he treated her mother, Kara knew that they had finally found a home with him. On the day Karen had married Johnathan, Kara had given him what he claimed was the greatest gift of his life, she had given him the form that, once signed, gave him legal guardianship over her. With tears in his eyes he signed the paperwork and Johnathan, Karen, and Kara officially became a family. Greg may’ve sired Kara, but Johnathan had become her true father. So even as Kara celebrated her twentieth birthday, Johnathan was there supporting his daughter with all his heart.     Then came the day when Hawk took over the world, with a man named Jason leading the way. Three days was all it took; three days and all the governments of the world had been overthrown. Three days and Kara’s world had been turned upside down, her little family ripped apart. Johnathan had been called back into service to help with the fight, but even as he left, he knew the fight was futile. Hawk had moved swiftly, crushing all resistance and killing anyone who even looked like a threat. Then the news came that Johnathan had been killed, Karen, unable to stand losing another man she loved, had killed herself leaving Kara alone in the world.