A/N: Sorry it took so long to update. School's been on my head, and on top of that, I have a dreadful cold.

Anyway, thank you guys for all the reviews.

Hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

Chapter 2

"In trouble? What kind of trouble?" M'gann asks worriedly as Conner slips the S symbol shirt over his head.

"Clark didn't say anything much." Conner informs. "All he said was that he got an alert from Kara on his communicator, and it was a distress signal."

"You'd better get out there as fast as you can." M'gann says, worry evident in her voice." God, what could have happened to Kara?"

Before Conner can run out the door, he stops as he sees Kelly's scared expression. "Aunt Kara's gonna be okay, right Dad?" she says in a small voice.

He bends down to her eye level, trying to keep his voice from cracking. "She'll be fine, sweetie." He says soothingly. "Your aunt is one of the strongest women I have ever known. She'll be just fine." At that second, his communicator beeps for the second time that morning. "It's coming from the Fortress of Solitude." He turns around and runs out of the door, jumping as much as he can.

"Kara, just be okay, please." M'gann prays.

The blond kryptonian heaves a deep breath. She tries turning her head but the chunk of green stone in front of her is making her knees quiver.

"Supergirl, if you will not cease resisting, you will surely cease to exist." The mechanical monster in front of her says.

Kara forces herself to look up. "I'd rather die than agree to be your guinea pig." She spits out the words and they taste like venom on her tongue.

"Kal-El resisted in the same way, Kara Zor-El." Brainiac says. "I am sorry to say that he only barely survived. I am offering you power."

"Yeah, and once you're done with me, you'll simply eliminate me." Kara pants out between deep breaths, feeling numb as the Kryptonite rays seep into her body.

"If you continue to resist, the Kryptonite rays will kill you." Brainiac tries again. "You can avoid that."

"No thank you." Kara answers. "I don't feel like being used."

"Then you leave me no choice." The green monster says. "Such a shame to lose such a young life." And he turns and walks out as Kara falls to the ground in defeat.

Conner meets up with Clark at the entrance to the Fortress.

"How bad is it?" he quickly asks.

"I'm getting Kryptonite radiations from inside." Clark says, sounding just as worried as he is. "Pretty strong too. But Kara's signal is coming from inside there."

"Then we're going in there." Conner says fiercely. He starts to go inside, anger surging through him as the Kryptonite pricks at his skin, making him feel weak. But Clark reaches out and grabs his hand, stopping him from going inside. "Hold it right there." He says. "If we go in there, we'll be killed."

"Look, Kara's in there and I don't care what the hell is inside right now, I just want my cousin to be safe." Conner says, surprised at the strength of his own voice.

"We need to find another way inside." Clark says.

"Well, you know this place better than I do…" Conner urges the Man of Steel forward.

It takes the two men about five minutes inside without being in the direct hit of the Kryptonite. Conner's first move is to go towards the radiation and find Kara, but Clark leads him to a room filled with armor suits. Conner looks at his former mentor and raises an eyebrow.

"These suits'll protect us from the Kryptonite radiation." Clark explains, tossing Conner one of the suits. "Suit up. Kara's counting on us."

He quickly slips the suit on and suddenly, he's not feeling weak anymore. "Fits perfectly." Clark comments. "Can we go now?" Conner grumbles.

Clark and Conner make their way to the main room of the Fortress. Or that's where Conner thinks they're going. Now that they're invulnerable to the radiations, Conner and Clark just simply ran towards where they thought Kara was.

When they finally arrive, Conner never even prepared himself for what he was about to see.

Kara was lying on the floor, her red cape wrapped tightly around her. Beside her was a glowing green rock. She was curled up into a ball, her arms around her stomach. Conner passes the red lining on her arm as her glove, but then realizes that it's blood. He also dawns on him that the glowing kryptonite on the blood is tipped with red blood. Kara's blood. Her thick mass of blonde hair is also red at the ends. She's shuddering from weakness and her face is much paler than usual. Clark runs to the kryptonite and throws it as far as possible while Conner rushes to her. He picks her up in his arms and almost gasps at the huge wound in her stomach. He might be panicking badly (he is), but he thinks he hears Kara's heartbeat slowing down. Clark rushes to his side, cupping Kara's cheek with his hand. Conner turns his head down to see Kara's blue eyes quickly losing the life in them as her eyelids begin to drop.

"Come on, Kara," There's no mistaking the panic in the Man of Steel's voice. "You can pull through this. I know you can."

Kara puts her blood covered hand on Clark's and mumbles something. Conner thinks she said something like "Take care of Kelly". Then, Kara's eyes close and her whole body goes limp.

Before Conner buries his face in her chest, he turns his head slightly to notice three dots set in a triangle shape connected with lines on Kara's arm…

M'gann and Kelly arrive at the Fortress as fast as they can. When they arrive, all they see is Clark at the entrance, his head in his hands. M'gann wastes no time in running to him and putting her arm around his shoulder. "Clark, what happened?"

"Kara." He simply says.

M'gann's eyes widen. "Where's Conner?"

"Inside." Clark says. M'gann runs inside to find Conner on the ground, bending over a body. She barely hears Kelly gasp as she notices the thick head of golden hair.

She goes down on her knees and puts her hand on his shoulder. Kelly runs up to them and falls to her knees when she sees Kara's broken body. Conner raises his head slightly and wraps his arms around his wife and daughter. Kelly buries her face in her father's chest as M'gann cries into his shoulder. Together, the Kent family mourned the loss of their beloved friend.

"I'll get him." M'gann hears Conner whisper angrily through clenched. "I'll get him for sure."

A/N: Hope you guys liked this chapter. Took me a long time to write it out. Honestly, I got pretty emotional writing it. Sorry it's so short; it's just a filler chapter. Next chapter'll be when the story really starts out.

And sorry about the cliché villain, I couldn't think of anybody else.

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