Title: to thy motions run
Fandom: Supergirl
Rating: General Audiences
Length: 378
Content note: mentions of bringing down a plane (episode one compliant)
Summary: There is such a thing as finesse. If Krypton had not recognised that fact, they would not have managed to conquer a single solar system.

Astra is not a blunt instrument. Nor is she an indiscriminate weapon. She does not choose to destroy a system when a planet will do to contain the threat she is tasked with eliminating; and she prefers a surgical strike before even that. Krypton's warriors do not maintain themselves by sheltering behind the weapons of their spacecraft. And if she has less than a full unit's worth of warriors left to her, well.  Astra has never been one daunted by unfavourable odds, either.

The crude option for dealing with her current target, an operative of the organisation locally tasked with undertaking extranormal operations, is a simple thing. She needs only loose a millisecond burst of directed heat at the propulsion systems to send the lumbering craft crashing back to the earth it so laboriously climbed above; after which she could turn her attention to more pressing matters. She does not. Would not hesitate for an instant were they all agents, yet even if the planet's infrastructure could better function with less inhabitants, she will not consign children to such a death. If it was required, she would ensure as close to instantaneous as possible.

Still strikes at the undercarriage, but only inflicts enough damage to disrupt the plane's propulsion and altitude capabilities. With the distance it has traveled from the city, the pilot will be forced to make a water landing. Even with rising levels of pollutants, the substance is far from the death sentence the same would be on Krypton. It will take only a short period before rescue craft arrive, but that period is more than enough.

The crew and occupants will evacuate, and that is when Astra will pluck the agent from their midst, while she is alone and mostly unarmed. Not that the humans have displayed the ability to inflict harm - but assuming they can not is the same as allowing the opportunity to. And it would take a distraction far greater than a rather routine acquisition mission for Astra to grant such an opening.

Cloaked from the sensors that this planet considers conventional rather than amusingly antiquated, her suit dark against a rain-grey sky, Astra moves into position. Her target will reach the optimal point in ghehn - duhv - kizh -