"Alex we have to go in!" Kara told her sister as they stood in front of the enormous bunker.

"No way there's kryptonite inside Kara!" she retorted.

"Well I'm going in and I don't care if it makes my vulnerable." Kara said then approached the door and kicked it open.

"Kara!" Alex cried.

"Shhh Alex. There could be CADMUS operatives."

Kara and Alex slowly and quietly made their way into the bunker.

"Supergirl be careful." Alex whispered as Kara made her way down the stairs.

"I'll take the levels below and you check out the levels upstairs." Kara told Alex

"Be careful." Alex told her.

"You too." Kara said then made her way downstairs.

She looked around, it was a weapons' room.

"What the hell?" she said as she examined a lead box. She carefully opened it but fell to her knees suddenly, vision blurry and body weak. She immediately shut it.

"I see you've found my little surprise." A voice rang out behind Kara.

She turned around, still weak from the kryptonite exposure.

"Henshaw." she growled.

He smiled maniacally and kneeled down so he was face to face with her

"The girl of steel, brought to her knees by a piece of rock. How ironic. Well, you won't be getting up again anytime soon I'll make sure of that." he told her then took out a glowing green knife and thrust it in her abdomen.

Kara felt white hot pain rip through her abdomen and she clenched her teeth, trying not to scream but when Henshaw stabbed her again in her leg and again in her abdomen, leaving the knife there, she couldn't stop the pained scream from escaping her lips.

"I won't kill you just yet. Have fun recovering. Oh and the sun won't work on healing you in a few hours. See this is a power dampening technology that prevents your healing powers from working." he said taking out a syringe and injecting the contents in Kara's arm. Then he stood up and walked away.

As Kara lay there, tears escaping from her eyes because of the pain, blood trickled from her wounds. Alex suddenly barged into the room, holding her gun outwards as she had heard Kara's scream. She scanned the room before she saw her little sister on the floor in a pool of her own blood.

"Kara!" she gasped, her heart hammering. "Oh no no no."

She knelt next to her sister and pulled her phone out

"J'onn I need a med evac in the old bunker I told you about. It's Kara she's hurt and bleeding out. Please hurry." not bothering to listen for an answer shshe closed the call and turned her attention on her sister.

"Hey Kara. Kara! Stay with me baby. Stay with me." she said as she tried to stem the bleeding without pushing the knife pirther into her sister.

"Alex." Kara slurred, her gaze unfocused.

"Yeah baby, I'm here. Eyes on me, stay awake."

Kara closed her eyes for a brief second "Too tired.. Wanna sleep."

Alex kept her pressure on Kara's wound

"Plenty of that at the DEO. Right now you stay with me ok pretty girl. Tell me something. Hmm tell me about that new restaurant you discovered." she said trying to distract Kara into staying awake.

"It's like a salad bar but for burgers and sandwiches. And it has potstickers and everything." Kara told her, her voice weak.

"Yeah you have to take me there next week." Alex told her.

"Alex in case I don't.. you know.." Kara started but Alex cut her off

"No Kara. I will have none of that. You're going to be just fine. The lamps will see to that." Alex said her voice trembling.

"No Alex, he gave me something to stop the lamps from working."

Alex frowned "What do you mean?"

Just as Kara opened her mouth to speak, there were voices yelling and materials clattering on the stairs

"DEO Clear!" J'onn's voice rang out then he spotted Kara and his expression solemned

"Hey Kara. Hang on for us will you." he told the girl who became a daughter to him as she was loosing her battle against consciousness.

The medics rushed forward and lifted Kara then placed her on the gurney. They started attaching wires and tubes to monitor her vitals and replenish her body. That's when Kara drifted into unconsciousness.

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She's been in surgery for 4 hours now J'onn! "Alex cried.

" Alex calm down and let the medics do their work. She was in bad shape. Nothing the lamps won't fix. "

Alex remebereremembered what Kara told her

" But J'onn she told me that Henshaw gave her something that will stop her healing powers or something."

J'onn frowned" A power dampening solution. "

" Yeah do you know what are its effects? "

J'onn sat down" DEO started developing it a few years back, in case superman turned against us. It stops a kryptonian's healing power from taking place. It allows them to heal at a human rate. "

" Is there any way to reverse it? "

J'onn shook his head" She's going to be in a great amount of pain. But we'll be there to ease it. "

Alex nodded" Of course. "

" Did you call your parents? "

Alex's eyes widened" No I forgot. But they're not in the US at the moment. I'll call them though. "

Just moments after Alex returned after making the call to her parents, Dr. Hamilton came out of the double doors

" Give me the roll Hamilton. " Alex demanded.

" We managed to stop the bleeding from both wounds but she wasn't healing so we stitched her up. She was exposed to a lot of kryptonite so it's going to take time to recover even though we tried to filter it out of her system. " Dr. Hamilton informed them.

" Henshaw injected her with a healing power dampening solution. " J'onn told her.

" That would explain why she isn't healing. She's going to be in a extraordinarily amount of pain until she heals and she will be prone to every single infectious disease out there. "

" Can we see her? " Alex asked.

" Of course, her room is just down the hallway. "

Alex and J'onn walked side by side until they reached Kara's room. They opened the door and Alex nearly cried at the sight of her sister in a hospital bed with an IV in each hand and a nasal cannula feeding her oxygen. She was attached to many machines monitoring her steady vitals.

Alex and J'onn both took places on either side of her bed and held her hands, waiting for her to wake up.