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Story Title: Supergirl: the Rise of Valor

Chapter 1: The Terrible Truth

Legion Ship – Control Room

"What mission?" Mon-el asked his voice filled with anger and betrayal.

Imra wore a pained expression; one filled with guilt and sadness. The look in Mon-el's gray eyes broke her heart. "We planned to go back in time. Brainy and I used the Blight mission to get us here."

Mon-el shook his head. "What about the Blight? What if we never make it back? What happens to the galaxy?" Mon-el began to pace back and forth his brow creased in worry.

Imra looked down at the ground her eyes were closed but she had already begun to tell the truth; she knew that nothing would be the same after she finished. "Brainy already sent the information to the Legion."

"What?" Mon-el stopped walking. He turned to look at Imra his gray eyes narrowed. "You lied to me."

"We had a mission. We weren't supposed to tell you."

"Why? I'm your leader."

Imra frowned. "This mission was planned before the Legion was formed. Garth, Brainy and I had this planned, waiting for the right time."

A painful expression flickered across Mon-el's face. The death of Garth had hit them all hard, but Imra and Mon-el were hit the hardest. Garth had been Imra's fiance and Mon-el's best friend in the future. "What were you waiting for?" Imra's expression told him all he needed to know. "Me, you all were waiting for me." Anger flared across his mind. He grabbed Imra's forearm.

Imra struggled to get out of his grip. "You're hurting me," she said.

Mon-el's eyes widened before he let go of her. "You brought me to the future. You're the reason I was taken from my own time."

"Mon-el, it wasn't like that. We had information from the past. We knew when in the past you would leave Earth. You were needed to form the Legion and to get us on the path back to the past. We can stop Reign and the Worldkillers. We can save Supergirl and the future."

"Save Kara, what do you mean?" he asked quickly not really registering the other part of Imra's statement. "What happens to Kara?"

"Reign kills her. She and the others kill everyone, except for J'onn."

Mon-el stumbled backward his mind reeling at what he just learned. He fell into one of the seats in the control room. His eyes were closed as an image of Kara lying beaten and dead flashed through his mind. He fought to keep the tears out of his eyes. He took a few deep breaths. "This information from the past came from J'onn, didn't it?"

Imra was a little shocked that he figured it out that quickly, so she only nodded in agreement. She steadied her resolve. "He told us what happened. He escaped to Mars for a while before the Worldkillers came there. His message was sent through a portal to the future. His last act before he and everyone on Mars were killed."

Mon-el nodded. His mind reeling with everything that he had learned. He felt so much betrayal and anger toward Imra and Querl. He was even mad at his dead friend, Garth. "I trusted all of you," he said softly. "I was this lost soul in a new and foreign world. I trusted all of you like I did Kara, Alex, and Winn. How could you string me along all this time knowing that you all brought me to the future? That you took me away from my own time, from my friends, from…"

"Kara," Imra said her eyes tearing up as she finally realized where all this anger was coming from.

Mon-el looked up. "You knew this even when I made the deal to marry you, even after I said I loved you."

"Clearly you love Kara more."

Mon-el stood up his anger flaring. "Kara never lied, never betrayed me the way that you and the others did. She never stole me away from my own time and placed me in a war zone. A battle that wasn't my own, but one I took upon myself to fight. I lost friends and teammates. I suffer from post-traumatic stress. All because you, Querl, and Garth found some message from the past."

Imra had stepped back his anger nearly overwhelming her psychic abilities. "Mon-el, we all care for you."

"I find that hard to believe." A sudden thought came to his mind. "We came back to change the past to save the future. You did this to save Garth."

"Of course, we did it to save everyone from this war. A war that didn't need to be fought."

"Yes, a war that took the love of your life away from you."

Imra nodded not realizing the mistake she just made. "Yes, he was your friend too."

"You're my wife and you're pining over my dead best friend. A best friend that betrayed me, that lied to me about everything." Imra shook her head before reaching out to grab Mon-el's hand. "Stay away from me and don't you dare touch me." He turned, running out of the room at full speed.

Imra slumped into the chair that Mon-el had been in, realizing what she had said and what it meant to her marriage. It was over, nothing would make Mon-el love her again. Her lies and her conflicted heart had ruined it. She just hoped that it didn't doom their mission to failure.

DEO Headquarters – main conference room

J'onn, Alex, Kara, and Winn sat around the table, discussing the latest events regarding Reign and Purity.

"We have no means to track the energy signature of the crystal," J'onn asked.

Winn frowned. "I have a cursory scan of the crystal and a broad idea of the energy involved. It will take me a while but I should be able to refine a sensor scan for the crystal."

J'onn frowned. "Is there anything we can do to help speed up the process?"

Winn smiled. "Well, if I only had access to some future technology that could help me."

Alex grinned, catching on to Winn's line of thought. "Yeah, like a ship from the future."

"Do you think that Brainiac Five would help us?" Kara asked.

"Mon-el will help," Winn said confidently.

Kara frowned. "I don't know Winn. He has a lot on his plate."

Alex elbowed her sister careful not to hit the Girl of Steel too hard. "He'll help, you know he will."

Kara sighed. "I can ask him if you want."

J'onn frowned at the uncertainty in Kara's voice. "Are you sure? I can ask if you want."

Kara shook her head. "I'll go to the ship." Kara stood up before exiting the conference room.

Once she left J'onn turned to Alex. "How is she?"

"Physically she's fine, but working with Mon-el has taken a toll on her. I don't like it when he's around. It's too much for her."

J'onn sighed. "We can't blame Mon-el for that. He didn't ask to come back to the past. He never asked to go to the future either. I hope you aren't treating him badly."

Alex frowned. "Treating him badly. He's the one that came back with a wife. He's the one that abandoned Kara."

Winn frowned. He loved Kara like all of them, but Mon-el was his friend too. "You're not being fair Alex. Its not his fault. It's been seven years for him. He had to move on sometime."

J'onn cleared his throat. Alex narrowed her eyes at the uneasy look on J'onn's face. "You know something."

"Alex, it's not my place to tell."

"Tell what?" Alex asked pointedly.

J'onn knew it was too late to try to get out of the situation. Alex wouldn't leave it alone until she knew. He sighed. "Their marriage was arranged. Mon-el married Imra to unite Earth and its allies with those of Titan."

Alex's brown eyes widened. "Does he love her?"

J'onn frowned. He was not comfortable with this kind of talk. "He said that he grew to love her, but they had always been friends. Imra's fiance had died and he was Mon-el's best friend in the future. They both became friends because of their grief over lost loves."

Winn sighed. He was sorry for his friend but also proud of him. He had grown up a lot in those seven years in the future. He sacrificed much for others. "I can see the sadness in his eyes. He's not the same Mon-el that left in that pod."

Alex's eyes were sad. She had been so mad at how Mon-el returned she never thought about what he went through during those seven years in the future. She felt bad for being angry with him. Now she was just angry at fate. At the thought of how much her sister had been affected by his return. "What brought that conversation up?"

J'onn frowned. "We talked over some Martian moonshine."

Winn frowned. "I can't believe you drink that stuff." J'onn frowned. Winn raised his hands. "Yeah, it must be really good."

J'onn sighed but a smile crossed his face at Winn's antics. "Mon-el and Imra have been at odds lately. Mon-el didn't know it would be so hard for him to be around Kara. He says that these emotions that he thought were gone keep coming up to the surface. He thought that they were long gone."

"He still loves Kara," Alex said.

"Now, he didn't say that exactly," J'onn defended.

Alex smiled. "You know he still does."

Winn smiled. "Yeah, you can see it sometimes when he looks at her when he thinks no one else notices."

"We don't need any love triangles with Reign and Purity flying around," J'onn said.

"Supergirl to J'onn," Kara's voice could be heard over the intercom.

J'onn touched the button on the intercom. "J'onn here," he replied.

"Mon-el isn't here on the ship. Querl says that he stormed out a few minutes ago," Kara said her voice betraying her worry.

"Did he say what caused it?" J'onn inquired.

Kara was silent for a moment. "He says that Mon-el had an argument with Imra."

Alex and Winn looked at J'onn expectantly. "Is Imra okay?"

"She's in her quarters and won't come out. Brainy says she is physically fine," Kara replied.

"Okay, you should come back here and then we can go look for Mon-el," J'onn said before shutting off the intercom.

Winn stood up, walking toward the door to the conference room. "I have an idea where he'll be," Winn said.

Alex stood up as well. "Do you need some backup?"

Winn shook his head. "I'll be fine. Just keep Kara away from the alien bar," he said before he closed the door behind him. Alex and J'onn traded worried expressions.

Alien Bar

Winn stepped into the alien bar. It was a little painful for him since his breakup with Lyra, but he was here for his friend. He walked around the bar until he spotted Mon-el in a corner booth, drinking a familiar amber colored liquid; one of the few drinks that could get a Daxamite or a Kryptonian drunk. He walked toward Mon-el's table stopping by the edge of the tabletop. "Well, you look like a sorry excuse for a hero."

Mon-el looked up his eyes were bloodshot and it was clear that he wasn't used to drinking this much. Those seven years in the future really did change him, Winn thought. "What do you need Winn?"

"I don't need anything," Winn said before he slipped into the booth across the table from his friend. "I heard you had a little marital spat."

Mon-el laughed darkly, it was a sound that sent a shiver down Winn's spine. "It's over Winn."

"What's over?"

"Everything, my time as a hero, my faith in friends, my marriage, my life in general."

"Wow, now you're being dramatic."

"You don't understand Winn. They all lied to me for years. To my face, they lied to me. People that I cared for. They ruined my life and I'm supposed to just thank them for it."

Winn looked at his friend oddly. "What's going on?"

Mon-el took the last swig of his drink. "Imra and Querl; they're the ones that brought me to the future. It was part of some mission that they had before the Legion was even formed. They sent us back here on purpose. They never told me any of it. They lied about everything."

Winn was shellshocked. "What? Why would they do that?"

"That's what I asked. Imra said that they received a message from the past; a message from J'onn."

"J'onn sent a message to the future?"

Mon-el nodded. "Their mission is to come back and stop the Worldkillers before they kill Kara and before they end this world as we know it."

Winn sat back his head resting on the wood part of his booth. He looked back at Mon-el his eyes filled with worry. "I think I need a drink too."

AN: With this long and terrible nine-week hiatus, I just wanted to write my version of what happens next after episode thirteen.