Author's Note: Welcome to the first chapter of Alien 50. This is basically an alien Hunger Games. Fifty aliens, including Supergirl, are taken, controlled, put into an arena, and forced to fight. Alex has to rescue her sister by breaking into the arena, finding Kara, and taking her home. However, that's not so easy with mind-controlled aliens trying to kill her at every turn.
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Everything went black. The last thing she remembered was Lilian Luthor talking, but she was too tired to pay attention.
Suddenly, she was here. It took too much effort to open her eyes, so she settled on using her sense of touch.
There was something under her. It was cold- probably metal.
From the light coming through her eyelids, she assumed it was midday.
There was a slight breeze- wait. The sun and breeze could only mean one thing. She was outside.
With great effort, she pried open her eyelids.
She was right. She was standing on a small, round metal pedestal, and she was outside. But how was she standing? She could barely focus on where she was.
As if to answer her question, a voice rang out in her head.
"There is an electric current going through your body, keeping you frozen in place. In a moment, the current will stop. When that happens, you will stand and follow my instructions.
Surprisingly, Kara felt herself nodding groggily. She wanted to follow the voice's commands. She needed to follow the voice's commands.
"Look up, alien."
Kara immediately did so. What she saw amazed and appalled her all at once.
"Before you are a multitude of alien weapons, each one a different alien's weakness."
Even before the voice had said it, Kara's eyes had fallen on her weakness. Kryptonite.
The sword was laid neatly on top of a sheath of sickly green arrows.
"Many of you won't need the weapons, considering your alien abilities, but nevertheless, they are there… Look to your left and right. You'll see others. You are going to fight them… You are going to kill them."
Suddenly, the ground was rushing up to Kara, all too fast. She was falling. She hit the ground with a thud. Due to her abilities, she did not feel the pain. But based on the groans that from various locations in the circle of aliens, she knew some of them felt it.
"Aliens, this is your purpose. Reveal your true selves. Fight."
Once again, Kara felt compelled. Even in her lethargic state, she pushed herself up.
She was going to end this.
Around One Week Earlier:
Alex was woken up early by her phone ringing. She grumbled and looked at the caller ID.
It was Kara. She picked up immediately.
"Kara?"
"Hey, Alex. I'm outside your window. We need to get to the DEO."
"Another one?" Alex asked.
"Yeah… I'm here."
Then, a thud from the living room and the dial tone signaled her sister's arrival.
It was enough to wake Alex's wife, Maggie.
Instinctively, she reached for her service weapon.
Alex laid a hand on her lover's arm.
"It's just Kara," Alex explained. Maggie looked from the clock back to her girlfriend, a look of confusion and agitation plastered on her face.
"What's your sister doing here at two A.M.?" she asked.
"Emergency at the DEO," Alex said, pulling on her uniform. She looked over and admired her half-asleep wife, who looked beautiful, even in her confused, tired state.
"Alex, we've got to go!" Kara called. A second later, she was in the bedroom.
"Oh…uh, sorry. I. I'll wait outside," she stammered. This brought a smile to Alex's face. Kara was so dorky and awkward. Alex suppressed a laugh.
"No, I'm ready." She bent down and kissed Maggie before giving her a quick hug and going to the living room.
Kara picked up Alex with ease and hopped out of the window. They flew over the quiet city, taking in the beauty their home, National City.
In the heart of it all sat the headquarters for the Department of Extranormal Operations. It was the top floor of a large skyscraper, hidden in plain sight.
When they arrived, they were greeted with a frenzy of tired, over-caffeinated agents. Finally, they made their way to the director, J'onn J'onz.
"Another alien, sir?" asked Alex.
J'onn opened his mouth to speak, but the computer nerd, Winn Schott, was too fast.
"Yup. Her name is Talia Rayalla. Research didn't come up with much, but she's a librarian at National City Public. No crime record. No family… This girl's literally nobody."
Winn turned back to Kara, Alex, and J'onn with an impressed look on his face.
"But check this out… Her powers are so awesome! She's got wings! Actual wings! And she can control the weather. How cool is that!"
"Agent Schott," J'onn warned.
"Sorry… She was taken a few hours ago. No leads accept a small scuffle outside the alien bar. Whatever took her, got her quick and clean. But, I did a little digging, and not to toot my own horn or anything, but I found a possible location. Big surprise, it's the waterfront warehouse we've been monitoring for the past couple weeks."
"Good work, agent Schott."
There was a short pause. J'onn turned to his second-in-command.
"Agent Danvers, assemble a strike team. We move in 10." He ordered.
"Yes, sir." Alex complied, moving to fulfil her assignment.
Winn turned to Kara. "Baddies love their melodramatics, huh?"
Kara sighed at her friend and rolled her eyes, walking to join the convoy, which was already forming.
Once the convoy had arrived at the warehouse, accompanied by Supergirl, the strike teams spread to cover the perimeter.
Alex was head of Alpha team. They would breach the main door with Supergirl and clear the warehouse. Beta and Charlie teams would join them afterwards, with Delta still manning the perimeter.
Piece of cake, Alex thought. She raised her hand to her coms unit. "Beta, Charlie, Delta. Status report."
Once Alex had the all-clear, Kara kicked in the door and followed the agents into the warehouse. It looked relatively empty.
They cleared a small hallway to the left of the entrance and moved on to the main room. This building had been a factory, so there was one main room, which would've been filled with machines. To the left was the administrative wing, and at the end of that hallway, there was a staircase.
The stairs led to a wraparound balcony overlooking the main room. Alex sent her four most trusted men, Morales, Hardy, Bailey, and Rodriguez to the balcony. She had full confidence in these agents.
Once again, they breached the double door to the main room and stormed in. This was the last room of the simple building, and so far, they saw nothing.
Ha! Winn was wrong! I can't wait to see the look on his face, Kara thought.. She used her X-ray vision, only to have it fail. Lead.
"Alex, the walls are lined with lead," Kara informed her sister.
Alex only nodded in response. She was in full-on agent mode. Suddenly, a hole in the decaying ceiling brought them all to attention.
The agents frantically scanned for the cause of the disruption, but they couldn't find anything.
But there had to be something. Holes don't just appear like that.
They found the culprit when a figure stepped into the moonlight from the hole, which shown perfectly on the middle of the balcony. Lilian Luthor.
Of course, Kara thought. Of course I had to see her tonight.
"A little dramatic, don't you think?" asked Kara, fully displaying her superhero bravado.
"Well, what can I say? A girl's got to have a little drama."
Alex motioned for two agents take the stairs and capture the woman. Where are my other agents?
"I wouldn't do that if I were you. It didn't turn out so well for the other four."
Four bodies hit the floor with one resounding thud. Alex's vision went red… That woman had killed her best agents.
She charged the balcony before Kara could even figure out she was moving. She would scale the damn wall if she had to.
Lillian picked up a remote, and before Alex knew what had happened, she was on the ground. She wasn't in pain, she just fell. What the hell?
Kara rushed up and hoisted her big sister up, helping her stand. Once again, Alex tried to resume her charge. This time, Kara didn't stop her.
Feeling confused and somewhat embarrassed, she turned back to her sister. Her eyes fell on her face. Her blue eyes were as wide as she had ever seen them before.
Trying to figure out what was wrong, she had a quick look at her sister, stopping when she saw at least twenty small green lasers over her heart.
"Kryptonite," Lillian voices Alex's thoughts. "You move, and all my agents fire."
Alex turned slowly, hands up. Lillian smirked at her. God, if I could punch that woman in the face right now.
Alex was filled with the familiar feeling of the sensation being drained out of her body. This time, though, she didn't fall. She was frozen. What was going on?
Suddenly, masked figures were walking all around them.
This is it, Alex thought. They're going to kill us all. God, I wish I could call Beta and Charlie.
Previously, she had instructed them to remain off the coms. "Only for absolute emergencies," she had said. It helped her focus when it was silent.
Alex turned her attention back to the figures, who weren't actually killing the agents. They were headed towards Alex.
No, not me, Alex realized. Kara.
She turned her eyes to look at her sister, surprised to see her on the ground, rather than standing frozen.
She expected Kara to get up, just as she had done, but she didn't budge. If it hadn't been for the situation and her limbs bent at awkward angles, Alex would assume she was sound asleep.
She watched in horror as the figures cuffed her with kryptonite. One of them carelessly threw the incapacitated superhero over his shoulder and moved to the balcony.
Every muscle in Alex's body was screaming. She had to save her, but she couldn't. She couldn't even twitch her finger.
The figures left through the double doors, only to return on the balcony.
Then, a transmat portal opened. After Kara and the agents had gone through, Lillian turned back to the frozen agents.
She clicked a button, unfreezing only Alex. She wanted to charge her, but based on her previous attempt, she assumed that there were still agents in the balcony.
"What did you do to her?" Alex asked, her voice hoarse.
"Just what I did to you, Alexandrea. Only to a higher degree. See, electromagnetic pulses can freeze a person, if increased to the correct voltage. Similarly, they can kill, produce headaches, put people in comas, or in her case," Lillian explained, gesturing at the active purple portal. "Make someone unconscious."
Lilian turned back to the portal.
"Sorry we can't talk for long, dear, but I'm a busy woman." She waved goodbye over her shoulder. "I got things to do."
She left through the portal, followed by the rest of her agents.
The DEO agents all unfroze, murmuring nervously or patting their body to make sure they could still fear.
Alex reached up to her ear.
"She's gone. They took her." Alex said, informing her boss.
"Alien number 50," J'onn said back. The emotion in his voice was indistinguishable.
"Alien 50," Alex confirmed, the emotion clear. She was pissed.
