Chapter 1: Casualties of War (4 AM)
They hadn't been prepared for the onslaught of savage power thrown at them with every punch every slam their bodies took against the bars and Nth metal walls of the prison room. Even with their battle suits their armor created by their brightest sun they were absolutely no match against Kayla's brutal attacks.
"Wha…" Lena was barely able to catch her breath with both her beautiful swords kicked from her hands and a surge of electricity formed into a sphere that was sent her way. Without the speed capability the bitch had undone in her suit she wouldn't be able to handle that attack. But just as she braced herself for what she knew she couldn't jump away from the impact was absorbed by another and she opened her eyes to see cerulean blues through her full head mask looking in her emeralds grunting and howling as she took the full weight of the explosive blast. "KARA!" The force of the hit began to falter the suit Lena had made Kara as a last defense.
"Pathetic. Stay down you weak hopeless mutt. I will enjoy destroying that armor of yours piece by piece.." Kayla snickered as she slapped her arm out when the Director's gold and red armored body even torched up attempted an attack at her. She smacked her away like an annoying fly to smash against the wall as Alex slid down it crumpling to the floor.
"DIRECTOR!" Vasquez let the belts loose which one wrapped around the bitch's forearm the other around her torso and she yanked hard sending full powered shockwaves through her as she fired over and over at Kayla whom howled then grabbed hold of one of the belts to yank Susan toward her. The agent barely had time to prepare herself for what was to come and when she felt a solid hand wrap around her neck to squeeze hard she felt the blackness closing in on her.
"N….o….Vas...qu...ez…" Alex groaned trying to lift her body up as she watched Susan thrown into one of the cage bar walls. As her second in command dropped hard to the prison floor her body didn't move from it's position. "Shit…"
"I think I will take the little alien with me. In fact, I'll take both of them!" Kayla laughed as she sent another lightning surge at Supergirl and this time Kara was not able to stay upright. It left Lena unprotected and she dove to the side rolling to grab one of her swords pushing herself back onto her feet. She could feel the breaks in her body where the impacts did their damage. She wasn't enough to stop this evil. "I think I am long overdue to play with you sweet Luthor." Kayla dropped Nia's body next to Kara's and descended on Lena whom only held one of her swords. The other was on the other side of the room in two pieces. Nth metal shouldn't break like that.
"I will not go down so easily bitch." Lena snarled clenching the sword handle tighter. But the woman with eyes far blacker than night just smiled at her a sinister gleam taking steps closer to her slowly. She backed up until she felt her backside press against the wall and she made a last stand a last resistance to fight against this monster.
"I would hope so. You aren't one to quit. That's alright because it will make this much more enjoyable." Kayla chuckled cracking her knuckles then neck with power surging through her bare fingertips. Lena could see the charges of immense lightning encircling her digits as if she'd willed the storm into her hands. What the hell was this woman? "First, I will give you a good old fashion beat down. Then...I will remove that helmet of yours and you and I will become such good allies so quickly you will be eating out of my hand like a good little doggy. I will enjoy disrupting your mind and molding you to my liking." Lena gulped inside her head gear and adjusted her stance preparing to take this devil out.
"Like hell I will let you use me against them!"
"Ohhhh this will be so much fun…"
"NO!" Kara rose from the ground and surged forward with half her suit in shambles and wrapped her arms around Kayla's toros squeezing tightly looking up and firing her heat vision at the exact spot where the dome light was. The housing and bulb were blasted into nothing but particles by the immense pressure of her own raging inferno. Kara pushed herself upward with her kryptonian speed and slammed both her and Kayla into the ceiling firing her heat vision again at the final layer holding them inside the DEO.
"LET ME GO YOU ALIEN SCUM!" Kayla roared but she felt her body lose its strength the higher Supergirl flew. The sun was practically burning away her power her fuel cells and with the blaze and altitude she was starting to feel light headed and nauseous. They ascended higher and higher into the atmosphere.
"No more from you...for my loved ones...EL MAYARAH!" Kara screamed and fired her heat vision into the empty sky howling through the force to continue until she felt her cells extinguished from their fires. With the last of her heat vision she felt the rest of her strength diminish and with both Kayla and her out of fuel she felt the rest of her body succumb to the pure exhaustion she felt.
"KARA!" Alex and Lena screamed and the Luthor looked to the staggering Director.
"Alex.." She began.
"I will not let her hit the fucking ground again!" Alex gathered all the strength left in her and pushed out the wings her sister had made her. With the last remaining power she had in her phoenix suit she shot through the massive holes her sister had made soaring higher and higher watching as Kara's grip on Kayla loosened and both women began to fall fast toward a plummet that would end both their lives if they were to hit the ground. Alex was not going to let that happen to her beautiful little sister. She pushed more speed through her suit and with the force of her thrust upward she held out her arms which caught hold of her fallen angel and the force of the weight pushed Alex's wings to cave.
She held her baby sister tightly and retracted her wings just enough as they both began to fall at a dangerous speed. Alex shut her eyes to try to clear the nausea and light headed waves hitting her hard but when she could hear Lena's voice scream out she opened her brown orbs and clenched her jaw releasing her wings which slowed down their descent.
Lena stumbled out with Remzi and his team bringing Susan out whom has slowly came to and Nia was last to stumble out collapsing to her knees with agents all around watching as their Director flew down carefully with her precious cargo. Slowly another figure approached and when Alex touched down she removed her full head armored mask with her eyes meeting Kara's mother's.
"Supergirl?!" Nia yelled with her brown eyes locked on the brutal injuries the damage of Kayla's attacks did. Now she understood why she couldn't see beforehand with that woman. Kayla was a metahuman. It all made sense now.
"We're here Director!" Amelia shouted with medics and other agents running over with a few stretchers. Hamilton watched Alex lower her sister on one of them and moment she stepped back her body gave out dropping only to be caught by Alura at full strength now. "Alex?"
"She's not breathing!" Alura announced and when she noticed blood on her suit when she set the Director on the stretcher she looked to Amelia. "She's wounded.." Hamilton got started on compressions and with two rounds the nurse had her breathing through a mask again.
"Shit…" Lena's consciousness failed her and her body too collapsed to the ground. Susan wasn't far off and Nia had hit her knees clenching her jaw gripping her head but somehow she was still awake.
"Check...Alex's...lower...left...side...back.." Nia pushed the words out coughing as she spit up blood. What had Kayla done to her? She had to push that aside for now. She knew that her destiny was tied to Kara Zor-El's and she was not going to stand back and do nothing. She needed to continue to help.
"Vasquez somehow had awakened again but her body was laid out on a stretcher to be secured on it as she was wheeled inside along with the rest of them. Susan's eyes met Alura's and she mouthed Kara's neck to Supergirl's mother and Vasquez with the aid of two agents pushing the stretcher made haste to the med wing.
"I want both those prisoners moved to the other cell and both secured the same way as we have Olsen. I want two teams on patrol and everyone scanned again also wearing our new noise cancelling coms logged into this frequency." Aaron explained to his number two with Gregory walking over to him. "Keplur?"
"I'm here Cap. I would rather stay at your six for the time being. I've had enough field work for now." Gregory shared as they both nodded chuckling. "I owe them all, especially Supergirl. Whatever I can do, I'll do it."
"I'll ask my Boss when she's better to have you transferred to my team. You know me and my boys don't blame you either right?"
"I know but...I will blame myself for a while. Are they all gonna be okay?"
"I hope so." Remzi sighed as they followed everyone back to the med bays. Both of them watched as med teams jumped all over the wounded and their status and injuries were quickly tended to. Aaron met Susan's eyes and walked over with Gregory beside him on guard. "Co-Director Vasquez?"
"Aaron...Susan for now.." She spoke with an oxygen line put over her face. "You are in charge until…" Remzi nodded.
"You can count on me. Rest Susan." Aaron smiled with the agent smiling back as her eyelids closed. Remzi had a job to do and walking from the fallen he and Keplur began to work out a plan of action while he barked orders to everyone with them heading to the command center. Aaron heard his watch go off looking at it and sighing seeing 5 AM. It was gonna be a long Thursday...