Supergirl is picked up by her biggest fan during a fight for the world

"Ungh!"

Supergirl was clocked hard across the face, and sent crashing down to the streets below. The Justice League was in the middle of an all-out war for the world, taking place in the skies of Metropolis against an advancing **** of aliens and supervillains led by Darkseid. And Supergirl just got a taste of how strong some of those enemies could be.

"Kara!" Superman called out, disengaging from his own fight to fly over and catch his plummeting cousin, but another he was stopped by a tight grip on his cape pulling him back into the fight.

Without anybody available to help, Supergirl dropped uselessly towards the sidewalk, body falling like a dead weight. She'd never been hit that hard before, and she was still reeling from the impact by the time her mostly-invulnerable body made its heavy impact with the concrete, skidding a few feet before coming to a halt as her head smashed partway through the outer wall of an apartment building.

"Ungghh..." she groaned, head rolling to one shoulder. Her arms were limp out by her sides, fingers curled up. She wouldn't be getting up for a while after that one.

The good thing about being limp on the ground under an all-out war in the skies, is that your enemies don't have time to chase after you either. Every hero, villain, and alien was busy trying not to end up just like her, which meant she had a fair amount of recovery time at her disposal. With how much her head was pounding, she was more than happy to make the most of it. Supergirl rolled her head a bit further to the side, shifting how the rocks and rubble beneath it to a more comfortable position.

"Mmmnn..."

"Oh my god! Supergirl!" she heard a voice say. Rolling her head to the other side, she opened one eye to watch as a young girl in a blue tee gawked at her. The shirt had on the signature house of El "S" that both Kara and her cousin wore on their chest.

"Great." Supergirl groaned quietly to herself. "A fan."

Finding the strength to sit up in the rubble, she reached back to rub some rock-dust out of her usually-pristine blonde hair.

"Hey, yeah. I'm fine. You should really be inside right now, it's not- woah." Supergirl stumbled as she tried to get up to her feet, nearly falling but managing to catch herself with a hand on the apartment wall her head had dented. She took a moment to gather herself before continuing, still supporting herself on the wall. "It's not safe out here. You should really get indoors."

The young girl seemed to not really be listening, as she just bounced up and down, radiating excited energy.

"Supergirl! Oh my god! Hi!!"

Supergirl grimaced. This was going to be a problem.

When her legs gave out earlier, her first thought had been to try to fly to catch herself, but found that she was in too weak of a state to do it. She couldn't rejoin the battle like this, and while she was on ground-level, this civilian was going to stay in the danger zone. She glanced around the space.

"Where do you live? Near here?"

Supergirl frowned as she saw the fangirl frantically snapping pictures of Supergirl on her phone, as well as the gigantic dent in the side of the building.

"Hey!"

"Oh! Yes! Sorry!" she stumbled over her words. "I'm just, like, a really big fan! I came all the way over here to study at Metropolis Tech just so that I might meet you, and- wow. I'm Evie, by the way!"

"Great." Supergirl **** a smile. "And where do you live?"

Evie pointed one arm up at the top of the apartment building. Supergirl sighed.

"Alright. Well, get indoors."

Turning as if to fly off, hoping to encourage the young college student to leave by suggesting that the show was over, Supergirl hoped that Evie would buy her bluff. After a short pause, Kara peeked over her shoulder to see if her plan had worked. Instead, she saw that Evie had her phone up, filming, wanting to catch Supergirl's takeoff.

Supergirl grit her teeth. Then, with an irritated sigh, she stood upright and turned around.

"...would you like me to escort you to safety?" she asked in the most obviously-faked pleasant voice the world had ever seen. Evie's eyes lit up.

"Oh my god! Yes!! Yes please!"

With a sigh, Supergirl began speedwalking to the apartment building's double doors, to lead the young fan in. After all, she needed to take time to recover her balance and flight anyway, and this was the only way she could ensure the fan would go inside and stay inside. Besides, she'd rather not have an embarrassing failed takeoff on video. Hopefully she'd be done with this in a minute or so, be fully re-powered, and be able to jump back into the fray just like that... and hopefully this damn headache she had would leave her alone.

Supergirl walked inside and towards the stairs, Evie following closely behind. She had to keep one hand on the handrail, and the other pressed to her aching forehead, but thankfully she didn't fall down the stairs or anything like that on the way up to the top floor and Evie's apartment.