Frigid Discovery (January's Tabs)

"It looks like, for the Presidential race that all polls are in, with every vote tallied. With a whopping vote count we now present to you the President of the United States...Catherine Jane Grant!

We've also just gotten reports that the previous President Baker has been apprehended by local authorities. The list for crimes are as follows: Four counts of Larson, five counts of homicide, two counts of rape, smuggling of military weaponry, four counts of blackmail, two counts of federal fraud, three counts of tax evasion.

It appears that he was working with a criminal he'd pardoned without his council's or lawyer's knowledge nor approval. Alexander Luthor has been found guilty with a list that would make a sailor faint and grown men cry. The city, state and country is grateful for the monster behind bars."

5 Years Later..

"Lena Kieran Zor-El Danvers has worked closely with President Grant now in her second term, with Supergirl still soaring through the sky bringing us what she does best, safety and hope. Kieran and Danvers have just celebrated their 5 year anniversary. Let's give a loud cheer for the couple that have been like angels to all of us. Their daughter Rose Alexi Zor-El Danvers, just had her 5th birthday so raise a toast to her as well.

Crime rates have reduced tremendously, homelessness is down and many whom couldn't afford housing are getting the keys to their homes thanks to Miss Kieran Zor-El Danvers.

Now on the traffic report…"

"AGAIN!" Twenty new recruits for the AOD, lined up as she blew the horn. They took off toward the obstacles as the captain looked on, watching for mistakes or overachievers. This was the fifth batch of newbies that Sawyer would be putting through the ringer, to see if they were good enough to make the new Angels of Diversity agency. No longer was it just humans as agents. No longer was there any division and all that came to sign up and try out were welcome.

Maggie was impressed. This group had real potential for some of the harsher missions. She was just about to blow the horn again when she felt a buzz in her pocket pulling the device out, smiling as she saw her wife's name flash on the screen. Sawyer swiped it to answer grinning. "What's the matter baby? Are you working up a sweat Luce?"

"Ha ha ha. No. We've got our own training courses we have to take on this year. I'll tell ya, you should try to do this bitch." Lucy grumbled with Maggie smirking.

"I'd rather try our extracurricular training in the bedroom. Oh shit. HEY! Babe I gotta go."

"Go by the grocery store when I send you the list on message please. Pick me up those pastries I like. Love you."

"Love you too." The call ended with Sawyer dropping the smile, putting on the mask she learned from Danvers. "ENOUGH! AGAIN!" The recruits groaned as Maggie smirked. This was so fun to do sometimes..


Even up as high as she was, there was both a sense of peace as well as concern. This had been far too often for the latter it seemed as of late. She wondered if this darkness would ever fade from her, when she was meant to be a symbol of hope of light. With the wind blowing just enough around her, the sight before her was positively magnificent. The fall of snow always was to her. It was precious, even though it left so many creatures of this planet without much protection from a harsh chill. Yet it was necessary and plentiful.

Her ceruleans gazed over as a pack of wolves trudged through the snow before taking shelter in a cave. She yearned to swoop down for the less fortunate animals that wouldn't survive the blizzards. Supergirl had to remind herself of the cosmic order of things. Nature had to take its course. As the snow began to come down covering over much, she flew down to one of the peaks landing carefully taking a deep breath in shutting her eyes.

Sending prayers to Rao she allowed herself these moments of calm even within the storms. Sure, her wife and daughter brought her solace. All of her family did. But...the terrors had continued and they never seemed to leave her tainted soul. Some angel she was..

"Sokao Rao..Chad Khap Raogrhys.." Kara spoke into the cold rush of winter's air, begging for the strength she felt without. How long would she have to endure these demons? It's been five years, yet still she was plagued by monsters. She should be better for her daughter, for her wife. Rose and Lena were counting her as was the entire country and world for that matter. Her cousin and his wife along with their twin boys had gone to Argo to learn of the culture and introduce their children to it. The Red Daughter of Krypton had also went there, learning more of their mother that Kara couldn't give. It was better that way.

These days, for the past two years as a matter of fact, she'd needed not her armored suit. Hell, none of them really did. Alex and her wife Sam were enjoying their quiet time, even with the Director keeping an eye on things. Susan and Amelia had retired. Lucy took up the mantle of being Alex's right hand. Sam had taken the place of Amelia's as the primary doctor. Nia had taken over CATCO and Brainy had just proposed well...in the best way he could. Ruby had finished high school at 16, graduated from Harvard at 18 and got her medical degree to work alongside her mother.

"Please Rao…" Kara felt a single tear escape one of her eyes to trail down her cheek. She looked up into the sky, looking for some bigger answer to end this darkness over her. Letting this loom over her wasn't helping in the least. She was supposed to be guiding her niece for crying out loud..

It was then she heard the cries from France, as she lifted up off the mountain top to take off as quick as she could. The sound of the explosions, the crash, the howls of agrished suffering brought her completely out of her shadowed thoughts immediately. Lives were at stake. This was a job for Supergirl...


"Dammit.." Sam grumbled dropping her head on the table next to her microscope in her lab. "This is frustrating as all hell." A whistle brought her head up as she turned it to see her daughter holding a latte. "Did I tell you you're my favorite daughter today?"

"Mom...don't kiss my ass when you are hogging my new DNA toy." Ruby pointed to her mother's other side as Sam took the drink.

"I've still got six samples to analyze before you get this." The twenty year old raised an eyebrow sighing shaking her head.

"Sure. Yeah. I'll call dad." She smirked. Ruby only called Alex that when she knew she could work her for the answers she wanted.

"You are teaching Rose bad habits Rubes." Sam took a sip of her latte.

"Better me than your profanity pilot." Her mother agreed nodding. "She lets them fly like no other Mom."

"Okay...yeah you've got a good point."

"Oh you should have heard Rose the other day. Ass O' Nines Auntie Lexy.." Sam nearly choked on her drink, turning to look at her daughter dropping her jaw. "Yep."

"So maybe I need to have a few words with Ally."

"Good luck. The quarter jar had turned into a savings account with how much ya all let them fly." Ruby snickered drinking her red bull. They both hear Sam's phone go off as her daughter smirks. "Bet that's Miss Expletive now." Yet, when Mrs. Danvers picked it up it wasn't her wife.

"Nia? Nia what happened?" Sam instantly went white as a ghost as Ruby froze swallowing down the lump in her throat. "Where?! I'll be there in a minute or so." She hung up the phone looking into her daughter's eyes. "Suit up...now." Ruby nodded with them both flying out of the lab. Nothing could have prepared them for what the future Dreamer had revealed..


"Reload! DAMMIT RELOA…" Alex didn't even see him coming as five agents were tossed back like toy soldiers and she felt one hard back handed strike come at her gut. Even in her armored Phoenix suit this alien had dented it in. With the wind knocked out of her, she couldn't stop him from ripping off her helmet crushing it like a soda can to throw it aside. "Let...mmme...gg...go.." But he didn't honor that request as she saw his eyes burn with terror filling every cell in her body. Yet no heat vision came and she couldn't look away from those ignited orbs. Then a rush hit her right in the face and she gasped, her whole frame shaking as she let out the most terrifying scream.

"That's right pitiful human. In your capsule where you are helpless. Where that fuel through your veins intoxicates you." He dropped her to the ground laughing to stomp away. She nor her army wouldn't be bothering him anymore..

"Phoenix!" Both Arias-Danvers called while flying down to stop suddenly, assessing the scene before them. Several agents were down, with one of them being Alex. Yet what troubled them most was how they were all trembling along with part of the woman's suit damaged with a helmet crushed a few feet from her head.

"Alex.." Sam nodded to her daughter whom gathered the Director up in her arms to take off into the sky. "Quicker Skye...quicker baby.." Arias turned towards the agents as she assessed the damage to each and every one of them. Some injuries were worse than others, but it was the pasty white of their skin which worried Sam most of all. Just as she was about to ask the questions she needed, the medical vehicles arrived.

"I've got my team Sam...go." Aaron grumbled dusting himself off. "It's okay. Go." Remzi wouldn't take no for an answer and Sam nodded to take off into the sky toward the AOD building..

"Dammit, you should have called me right away!" Amelia growled with the young Arias lowered her second mom onto the table. Both held a deep concern when Danvers' body still shook. Her eyes were looking everywhere her teeth chattering. "What happened?"

"I saw her in some...big alien's grasp. His eyes were burning into hers and...it was like he was looking through her." Nia explained. "I wish I would have seen more." The Naltorian shook her head in frustration. "I should have been able to see more."

"No. This isn't your fault Nia." Sam walked in to walk straight over to her wife, beside her daughter. She focused her powers and scanned over Alex's body relieved when she saw nothing broken or bruised. "Alex…" They all heard a yell from the halls knowing exactly whom it was.

"Alex! Holy shit wha.." Maggie ran in with Lucy in tow as both stopped immediately after surveying whom was on the table. "What happened..?"

"Some Alien was running rampid and...Alex's team was out there. This thing took down her agents then did something to her." Ruby tried to put the pieces together herself, but what worried her most was how the Director's heart rate was which she also somehow knew Alex's BP wasn't right. "She's frantic." Skye commented. "She needs oxygen."

"Already on it kid." Amelia adjusted the tank then went to place the mask on the woman's face when her entire body spasmed arching off the table then falling back down with her tremors worse. "Shit.."

"Give it to me." Sam told the doc whom handed it over and she quickly slipped it on with her kryptonian speed just as Alex's body spasmed again. "What the hell did that thing do to her."

"Alex?" They all looked over as Supergirl flew in only to land a few feet from her sister. Kara walked closer but was suddenly grabbed to be rushed backward and slammed hard into the wall making the whole room shake. "Sam.."

"WHERE...WERE...YOU?!" Arias was beyond furious and for her sister in law not to hear her wife's heartbeat shift, had Sam in absolute rage. Kara was her target now. "You...you...fucking disappear! YOU ARE ABSENT WHEN...YOUR...SISTER...IS HURT! WHERE….WERE...YOU?!" Sam had no intention of letting Kara go as she slammed her against the wall again, with this time nearly knocking Zor-El out cold when her skull slapped back with far too much force. "Some...hero YOU are! Wuz Zygai.."

"Mom...MOM!" Ruby yanked her mother back grabbing the hand that was clenching to her aunt's throat pushing her back further. "Taking it out on Aunt Kara is not gonna solve anything." Sam growled huffing to turn away and walk back to her wife. Ruby turned to look Supergirl in the eyes. "Roof. Now." Kara nodded stumbling forward staggering out of the room not even dare looking her sister's way. Her head hurt, her body hurt. She deserved it hell...she deserved worse. Kara did her best to keep up with her niece even with her skull throbbing.

The moment they had stepped out onto the roof veranda of the AOD building, Ruby stepped closer to the edge putting her arms behind her as she crossed her hands. "This view is breathtaking. It's even more amazing at night, with all the stars glistening up there." She listened to the unsteady boot steps of her aunt. "I know where you were. I heard the praise from France at your assistance." Skye wasn't about to look at the one whom taught her all she knew of Krypton.

"I...I should have heard her Ruby." Kara wasn't dare excusing her actions. She was too caught up in her own head and that grave mistake could have cost Alex her life. "I should have."

"You had lives at stake. Sometimes we have to...sometimes we cannot.." She was searching for the right words, yet all she drew was blanks. Then it came to her. "Rrip Nim Dowahlz Vot Dokhahshr." Ruby heard a troubling heart rate but decided not to bring that up just yet.

"Yes, they grip me Ruby. The demons remind me I am just as dark as them. Yet I can't be for this city and for everyone on this planet whom has found comfort and a home here. They all expect me to be that hope. But when.." Kara put her head down clenching her fists as the tears trailed down her face. "...when my sister needed me...I wasn't there. Your mom was right. I'm nothing but a false hero."

"She didn't mean...SUPERGIRL!" Her aunt had taken off into the sky with Ruby contemplating going after her. She knew though her other mom needed her right now. Both her moms needed her to be the strength her aunt couldn't right now..


"What will it be miss?" She slid the tender a piece of paper with the order and the woman raised an eyebrow at her. "You sure?" Kara nodded but she still had her hesitations to serve what was requested up to her, instead leaning forward to whisper in her ear. "What is a reporter like you doing asking for something that can only get kryptonians wasted?" The blonde pulled back meeting the blues with her own. The woman looked her up and down then smirked. "It's amazing what one look can do for confusion hmm?"

"Thank you and.."

"No worries and don't worry. I'll get that ready for you right now." Kara watched the woman go around and toward the back, where no doubt what she'd asked for was. Seems that was something better left away from other's eyes. That and it could kill a human. She wasn't even aware of the taller more broadened male that approached her just as the tender came back with a glass and the bottle. "Something tells me you'll need more than one." The tender winked to leave Kara with the shot glass and the bottled concoction. She took it and threw it back easily just as her sister had showed her. Her sister..

"Well.." Kara flicked her eyes that widened as a man slid onto the stool beside her chuckling. "What's a gal like you doing firing that kinda booze like that?" She wasn't impressed with this invasion and this person was far too close for her liking. Then his darker red orbs, almost burgundy, slid into her cerulean ones. Kara didn't like the stare of the man and quickly looked away to pour herself another shot. She refused to look at him again with the uneasiness about his presence to her. "Gonna ignore me now?" She took the bottle and the glass to go to an empty booth but already felt the second shot creeping up on her. It was lowering her defenses and with it her hearing.

He read her easily and with the guilt she was serving up to him and her unsteady footing some she was an easy prey. She was making this game far better when she slid closer to the back of the bar and he wondered if she was doing it to get away from prying eyes and furthermore to a back exit. The moment she set the glass and bottle down he made his presence known snickering. She turned around to face him and that's what he'd been counting on. "What's the matter?"

"Can't you leave me alone right now." Kara added a more stern tone to her voice. She didn't want to deal with this shit at the moment. "Go back and hit on someone else okay? Leave." Yet the muscled stranger hadn't budged and the smirk she was ready to wipe off his face. "Don't say I didn't warn you." Kara swung but with that bit of booze in her bloodstream she missed only for her arm to be caught by his big hand. She tried to yank out of his grip but she couldn't. "Let me.." Those burgundy orbs began to ignite and she gasped unable to pull her gaze from his. Was he kryptonian too? Kara didn't like this one bit. But just as she thought he was gonna burn her with heat vision she felt a strange slam of psychic wave over her. Her eyes widened terrified he was just like Psi, knowing she was screwed if that was the case.

"Was it his touch that burned at you or the fear?" He smirked sending another wave at her seeing her frame trembling badly. Just as she was about the scream he covered her mouth with his other hand. "Or was it what you felt run through your veins. That drowning sensation that reminded you of when you had begun to sink from the submarine strike at you.." He easily lifted her off the ground with her body unable to move except shake. Her arms were dropped to her sides as he held her up by her neck with the hand still over her mouth. "That darkness, that rich black temptation. Those demons call you. Answer them."

He'd fed enough from her and let her go as she dropped to the floor a shaking paralyzed mess. He bent down and grabbed her by one leg and drug her toward the exit, pushing the door open walking outside with his prize in tow. He laughed as he went down the four steps dragging her down them as her head hit each one. Finally letting go with her head still on the last one he just walked away from her laughing as he left.

Kara kept shaking and when a few people ran out to yell for help with the tender and her boss bending down to check on her calling both her name and her other name, she couldn't even hear their voices.

"Call Miss Sawyer! NOW!" One of the employees ran in to get the rolodex behind the bar counter. The man looked back down as his tender checked for a pulse. It was far too fast. "Hang on Supergirl." Obviously, not everyone knew of her inside. Only some did and when word got out more people scrambled to the back surrounding the two workers to check on National City's hero. The waiter came out on his phone with the hand holding it shaking.

"Yes is this Miss Sawyer? This is Jeff at Galex Bar. Yes. It's important you come here right away. Yes. I'll stay on with you. Look, I know you are probably busy but...this is an emergency."

"Hand on Kara. We are getting help for you. Just hang in there." Still she couldn't hear anyone as she swallowed down the lump in her throat tasting something other than the liquor she'd had. Nothing was stopping her tremors. Kara was trapped in her own personal hell with no escape.

Two women armored beings touched down with one in darker blues and burgundy with symbol similar to Supergirl's and one in black with a silver tiger on her chest. Both instantly ran over to where Kara's body was. What they saw terrified them badly. Cerulean orbs were shaking and barely even blue. They were grey and empty. Her skin was a ghostly white.

"Thank you for calling me." Maggie spoke behind the head gear. Sam slid her hands under her sister in law's body carefully lifting her up. She felt responsible for Kara being here in the first place. "We will take her someplace safe, I promise you." With that Maggie hung on to Sam whom cradled Kara to her chest with them taking off into the sky. Somehow both knew that Supergirl would be cold to the touch. Even Mrs. Danvers could see that the suit was missing under Kara's button up darker shirt with the two buttons ripped off revealing part of her shoulder. Sam increased her speed knowing Maggie wouldn't fall, hanging on a little tighter to her waist.

Something had happened and with both Danvers sisters down, the odds weren't good..


Lena had just finished some business presentations at her company when she got the call sending a gastly shiver down her spine. She quickly grabbed her bag, locking her computer screen with password to dial up James whom was running CATCO at the moment, with Nia out to a conference. There were two rings when he picked up and she steadied her voice as best she could.

"James...it's Lena. Listen I need you to have reporters go out and find out anything they can regarding the attack and get a hold of Nia and Brian her fiance." She rolled her eyes for a moment at the transition that Brainy had picked.

"What happened?"

"The Director and her team were attacked across town. Supergirl was attacked at a bar."

"WHAT? I'll call them both right now. Take care of them Lena."

"Shit.." Lena called Hamilton as another answered the phone. "Susan? Hey, I'm on my way right now." Kieran ran out waving to Jess as she went yelling to her to cancel all other meetings for the time being. She had to get to the AOD...now..

Nia and Brian were observing from the window, not liking what they saw. They heard the sound of heels as Lena ran over surprised to see Dreamer already there. Emeralds locked on both women on beds with IVs connected to them. She made her way into the room with haste to stand before Amelia and Susan.

Maggie and Lucy were in chairs close to the Danvers sisters with their bodies tense from nervousness.

"Both of their vitals are running practically the same." Hamilton explained sighing.

"What do you mean the same?" Lena felt a nagging fear run through her.

"They haven't gained consciousness. Their bodies won't stop trembling. The tremors have calmed but both their heads trash every now and then. We've had to even put my aunt on oxygen. She shouldn't need that." The CEO felt her blood run cold. Had Kara solar flared?

Suddenly both women's bodies began to tremor again and this time two frames curved up only to drop back on the beds, with their heads flinging side to side gasping only for a scream to erupt from both their throats.

"NO!" They all yelled at once with vitals spiking far too high. Sam quickly took over for Amelia as Ruby too jumped in. They didn't want to result to their back up serums, but right now they didn't have a choice. The kryptonians fled different directions to the fridges where what they were looking for was stored. Ruby brought the syringe to her aunt's IV as Sam prepared to inject the serum into her wife.

"Do it." Skye told her mom as they pushed the plungers down to push the liquids into the lines. They watched the serums roll down and into the sisters' bloodstreams. Now it was a waiting game with their eyes on the machines watching the numbers on the screens.

"C'mon babe.." Sam was nervous as hell and she turned her head for a moment as Lena slid one of her hands into her wife's with Ruby next to her. Maggie had stepped forward with her wife beside her to Alex's other side. Nia was gripping Brian's hand tightly. Susan and Amelia were back some with Vasquez holding little Rose. They were all waiting for both the Danvers' sisters to be alright, praying to Rao for his blessings.

Both of their frames quit shaking completely as their vitals evened out. Everyone let out a heavy breath they'd all been holding. Alex and Kara were okay..


"Sa...Sammm.." Alex groaned with her head turning to the left weakly squeezing the hand in hers. "Sa…mm.." She pushed her vocals louder and with that success her wife lifted her head opening her eyes to see beautiful browns looking at her.

"Alex..thank Rao." Sam leaned forward in the chair she'd fell asleep in to kiss her wife on the forehead. "Babe..you scared the hell out of me." Alex gave a slight smile. "How are you feeling?" But when those chocolate rivers trembled she squeezed her hand a little tighter. "Baby what is it.."

"Don't let me go back there." Alex felt the tears run down her face. "Please.." Sam was both confused and worried. She brought her other hand up to Alex's head to drag her fingers through the short auburn locks. Yet when she looked over to see her sister in law crying too she knew something had happened to both of them. Something bad.

"Darling I'm right here. What is it baby." Lena spoke softly with as much comfort as she could. Both of Kara's hands were clenching the bed yet the frame wasn't scrunching like the kryptonian usually could cause. She ran one hand along the blonde's arm with the other softly stroking her face. Lena met Sam's gaze with grim expressions on both their faces.

"It hurt...fuzzy...warm...felt good...was...was scared…" Kara was shaking again sobbing from something and Lena wasn't sure what. Then it came to her and from the look on Sam's face she'd figured it out too.

"The chamber." They both said at once. Lena looked in Kara's unbalanced eyes as Sam looked into Alex's shivering ones. Hazel orbs looked into her wife's own with Emerald gazing into fearful ceruleans.

"You are safe baby."

"You're with us darling."

"You're safe from that place...that monster.." Both women said to their wives with as much determined assurance as they could muster. Neither of the Danvers sister would endure that ever again..

"How are they?" Maggie spoke up first to ask the question that was on all of their minds. Lena sighed with Sam beside her. When she saw the head shake from the kryptonian the Captain knew something was wrong. "What is it."

"They were both cast into something that made them trapped in that hell again."

"You mean the chamber?" The Co Director chimed in curious but concerned. Lena nodded. "Fuck." Lucy looked away feeling the chill from the news. When she looked back at both women she knew exactly what they needed. "We need to call J'onn."

"Agreed." Ruby glanced around at everyone in the room then towards the doorway where both sisters were resting. She told her mom she'd be back as she went to Susan and Amelia whom were watching over Rose, playing with puzzles. The young kryptonian was already surpassing normal human intelligence at five years old. She kissed the top of her head then walked out and down the hall. It was time for Skye and as she clenched her fists with her eyes burning orange to red in a matter of seconds, she knew exactly where to start. She'd find whom did this to her other mom and aunt and make them pay..


He laughed all the way through the townhouse and up the steps to open the door, making his way inside. Even up to the stainless steel fridge to grab himself a beer, he couldn't stop the amusement he felt. They had been far too easy to suck dry and leave in suffering nightmares. He cracked open the brew to bring it to his lips smirking.

"You should have seen it.." He took a few heavy gulps enjoying the flavor tremendously. "Damn this brand is good." A few more long guzzles brought him back to his proud state. "One of them screamed. Actually both of them were shrieking like a couple helpless babies."

His patron that had paid him generously began to chuckle, stepping into the dim kitchen lighting. The slick black suit with the outlined blood red shield bearing the familiar grey symbol resting over the right side of his chest became visible to the alien chugging his beer. "What now?" He opened the fridge for another throwing the empty bottle into the trash can beside the cooler.

"Now...we wait. The fools have been too occupied with their own lives and the lives of their offspring to pay any attention to what's been happening outside of the Earth." He drug both unconscious wounded kryptonians over letting them go to tend to his own thirst. The bodies of Alura and the Red Daughter lay motionless just a few feet away from both of them. "Argo has lost both weaklings. My revenge has been sated for now." Non broke out in his own wicked laughter with his chosen ally. After all, it had been his people that had brought him back from the dark valley demons. Now resurrected...he'd have every chance to cast them all to the clutches of ghouls. His perished ex wife's niece and the one Astra had nicknamed "Brave One" had been brought to their knees. It was time to focus on the rest of their little merry group of oblivious weaklings..


* Welcome back folks! This will be the third installment in my series and I hope you're ready for another intense roller coaster. Drop me a PM or any comment you have on here for ideas you'd like to see me incorporate into my tale. Enjoy. :)

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