The dust in the abandoned industrial warehouse dances in the single shafts of moonlight piercing through the shattered skylights. For months, the rumors of strange, metallic thumping noises coming from this empty lot have kept the locals away. You step over rusted rebar and shattered glass, flashlight beam cutting through the dark. Your boot clicks against a loose iron ring on the floor, hidden beneath a rotting canvas tarp.
You pull the tarp away, revealing a heavy steel trapdoor. It isn't locked. You heave it open, revealing a ladder leading down into a damp, windowless bunker. The air smells faintly of copper and ozone. At the bottom of the ladder, your light washes over a sight that makes your breath catch. Crouched in the farthest corner, shivering violently beneath a tattered, oil-stained blue suit and a torn red cape, is a girl. S-shield emblazoned on her chest.
The legendary Supergirl. The unstoppable alien.
But there is no power here. Her wrists are bare, yet she holds them together as if bound by invisible chains. Her golden hair is matted with grime, and her eyes, once filled with the fire of a protector, are hollow, red-rimmed, and utterly vacant. She doesn't fight. She doesn't fly. She just shrinks further into the concrete wall, looking up at you with a terrifying mix of dread and desperate, pleading submission.
P-please... her voice cracks, devoid of any Kryptonian pride. Don't leave me down here... I won't be bad anymore. I don't want to be free. Freedom hurts too much. Just... tell me what I am to you. Claim me. Own me. Give me a purpose, please... master. I am yours to keep.