Barrata: Lex being punched by Kara AND Lena? Maybe….

I won't be watching The Luthors tonight myself, as I'm not only in the UK, but I still haven't seen any of the shows fully since mid-season, I need to spend tomorrow playing catchup. So, I hope the story finale does justice to your ideas for the episode as well as the actual episode, if it does end up being good. Myself, I look forward to Mr and Mrs Mxyzptlk next week.

Lena glared at her adoptive brother as Lex smirked at her. The man seemed to be as delusional as he was the day he was carted away to Stryker's island. Lena would never forget that day.

"Lex! Please! Stop this!" Lena begged, tears streaming down her face as she looked upon her brother. No, he wasn't her brother anymore, he was too far gone now.

"Don't you see, Lena?" Lex said to her. "I can cleanse the Earth of them, the bomb will rise higher and higher and detonate, spreading Kryptonite throughout the atmosphere, they'll leave our planet or die."

"You'll kill hundreds of innocents!" Lena protested.

"Thousands." Lex corrected her as if it were reflex. "Casualties of war, they will be remembered, one and all, as heroes."

"Casualties of war?" Lena echoed, horrified that her brother could think such a thing. These were innocent people and Lex's vendetta against his former friend shouldn't extend to them.

"Exactly, it's time the world saw Superman and the rest of them for what they really are, a disease to be cleansed from the Earth." Lex's eyes danced with his insanity and Lena knew them, that no matter what happened, she would not allow herself to fall as he had done.

Her brother, her Lex, who had loved her so much and had promised her the world, was gone. In his place stood a warped, twisted, shadow of his former self, a grotesque monster using her brother's face as a mask. This was not the Lex Luthor she knew, but the one the world knew and feared. She would no longer stand by his side.

"I'm sorry, Lex." Lena whispered as the tears streaked down her face, and she turned and left the room. Lex did not notice her leave, so wrapped in his twisted fantasies of ridding the world of the only people, who, in Lex's eyes, held more power and influence than he did. The Kryptonians.

As Lena left the room, she called out, an almost silent prayer to the watchful being she hoped was keeping an eye on the Luthor family that night.

"Superman, I need your help to stop Lex." Lena whispered into the night. Before she had time to contemplate on what she had done, she saw a figure floating by the window.

"Hello Miss Luthor." Superman said to her. "I hear you need my help?"

Thinking back to that night, how she had summoned Lex's enemy, how he had brought back-up in the form of the Metropolis police, Lex's attempts to kill Superman and his failure, firing the bomb, Superman saving the city and Lex being led away in cuffs, snarling that he was the world's saviour, and that Superman would turn on them and when he did, they'd beg Lex to save them all, Lena wondered how life could have ended up taking this turn.

"Did you miss me, dear, sweet sister?" Lex asked as he broke away from hugging Lillian.

'The two psychopaths at least love one another.' Lena thought with a sneer.

"I just wish your stay in Hell had lasted a lot longer, darling brother." Lena snarled at him as Lex shot her a look of pure venom.

"I know you brought Him upon me, Lena. Why? Why betray your own brother for the scum? We could have ruled this world, its saviours, we would be revered, instead you let these devils and demons rule us all!" Lex raged at her. How could she not see the evil of the Kryptonians? Lex didn't care of killing all aliens like his mother, his hatred was purely for the Kryptonians.

"Because what you wanted was to murder thousands of innocents! I can understand, even if I disagree, if you killed just him, but you were willing to kill thousands, Lex!" Lena yelled at him. She didn't care that Lex was likely not interested in her excuses, or that it was unlikely she'd ever leave there alive, but she needed to get it out.

"I looked upto you, Lex. I. Loved. You!" Lena cried, feeling the emotions rushing over her, emotions she had tried so very hard to suppress. "I thought of you as the greatest man to ever live and you became a monster, the very thing you preached that Superman was!"

"Enough!" roared Lex as he approached his sister, backhanding her across the face.

'How dare she compare me to the monster!' Lex screamed in his mind.

"DON'T YOU SEE! I AM PROTECTING THIS WORLD!" Lex yelled at her.

"No, Lex, you're protecting your ego." Lena spat at him, her cheek stinging from his hit, she was glad to see she had gotten under his skin, an irrational Lex may be more dangerous, but he'd be easier to defeat as he'd make sloppy mistakes.

Lillian intervened before her two children could come to blows.

"Lex, darling, go inside and prepare yourself. Guards, take Lena inside and ensure she begins to work on synthesising the substance. We will reveal the true nature of the Kryptonians, and through it, we will save the world. Maxwell Lord had deleted most of the files on it, but we recovered enough to make a starting point, as well as the name of the substance." Lillian informed Lex as Lena was dragged away to begin work in it.

"The substance to destroy them all?" Lex asked her.

"It won't destroy them, it will reveal them to the world, and then the world will beg you to destroy them, my son, and it will beg you to lead them to a new golden age."

"What is it?" Lex asked, a gleam in his eyes as he thought of the power he could wield once he removed the threats to the world's security.

"Red Kryptonite."

/

Kara and Kal landed back at the DEO with Kal quickly heading off to see if he could help them track Metallo's Kryptonite radiation, whilst Kara went to speak to Alex.

"Kara!" Alex called as she saw her sister, rushing over to Kara, she quickly hugged her. "Are you ok?"

"I'm fine, Alex, it's Lena I'm worried for." Kara sighed.

Alex frowned but said nothing. She was sure Lena was guilty, but if Kara was adamant that she would protect Lena, then Alex would bite her tongue, and if Lena was innocent, Alex would be the first of what she suspected to be many to apologise.

"Lena can handle herself, don't worry." Alex smiled, trying to reassure her sister.

"I'm worried though Alex, Lena is such an amazing person and she doesn't deserve any of this at all." Kara rambled off, a tinge of pink appearing on her face.

"Lena. Will. Be. Fine." Alex tried to reassure Kara, knowing that if Lena was taken unwillingly, like Kara believed, then she would probably be anything but fine, but she needed to make sure her sister got better, she needed to be at peak condition if they were going to stop Lillian, Metallo and Henshaw.

"ALL AGENTS, REPORT TO THE COMMAND CENTRE!" J'onn's voice rang out over the intercoms, rushing to where everyone was gathering, J'onn looked at Kara and Kal with a look of concern before addressing everyone.

"We've received word, that yesterday evening, there was an escape, from Stryker's Island."

"Nonono." Kal started muttering to himself, it would be him, who else would it be?

"The escapee was Lex Luthor." J'onn gravely finished, confirming Kal and Kara's worst fears and with just those words, the DEO knew how serious this was. Lex's attempt to wipe out Superman was still fresh in the minds of the people of America, and they knew he needed to be stopped, quickly.

"Kal." J'onn started before Kal took off into the air in a rush, Kara throwing an apologetic look at J'onn and Alex before she too took off, hurrying to catch upto Kal.

"Kal-El!" Kara yelled as she flew higher and higher into the air, chasing after her cousin.

"I need to end this, Kara." Kal said, stopping to let her catch upto him momentarily.

"I know, Kal, but we can't rush into it, we don't even know where they are." Kara told him.

"I'm just so angry, Kara. No matter what I do, no matter how many lives I save, Lex will always be there. He's already killed thousands before to try and take me down, and he'll kill millions more if he gets the chance. He won't rest until either he or I finish the other." Kal told her.

"You're not a killer though, Clark, and you never could be." Kara reminded him, appealing to his human nature, to Clark Kent, son of Martha and Jonathan Kent, not to Kal-El, last son of Krypton.

"I'm just so angry, Kara, Lex was my friend and he betrayed me, and then he goes and endangers the lives of countless people, just because insanity took hold of him. What do I do? I have to stop him, it is my duty, but how do I stop him and ensure he never breaks out and harms anyone else again?"

Kara was silent as she pondered this. All Kal could do was try his best to make sure Lex never escaped again, but there was no real way he could always ensure Lex would be locked up, and Kal could not, would not, ever resort to killing his enemy. There was always a better way.

"Come on, let's get back to the DEO." Kara told him. "We need to work out a plan to deal with them all."

When the two of them touched down back in to the DEO they saw the agents rushing around, getting ready to go out, with J'onn in his Green Martian form.

"What's going on?" Kara asked.

"Do we have a lead on Lex?" Kal demanded.

"We've picked up a radiation signature matching Kryptonite at a factory about ten miles from the city. We're also picking up a few other signatures too from the same place. We think there is an additional source of Kryptonite there."

"It'll be Lex." Kal explained, allowing that to be the only explanation needed for this.

"So, what's the plan?" Kara asked.

"We go there, we hit it with everything we've got, we take them all in, preferably alive, and we find out whether or not Lena Luthor truly was framed." Alex stated, smiling at Kara. She'd give her a chance, one chance only, for Kara's sake.

"If she isn't?" Kal asked, looking towards Kara with a frown. He believed Kara, but if Kara was wrong, he knew it would crush his cousin.

"If she's working with them of her own accord and was behind Lillian's escape, she'll join them on Stryker's Island." J'onn explained grimly, as Kara looked in shock. She knew she was right, she had to be.

/

Lena was working in the lab, guns trained on her at all times. She knew if she refused to work, she'd be killed. Lex was easily smart enough to work this out on his own, but he was too busy playing with his old toys again, and Lillian would want Lena working on this purely to torment her further. That was why she'd been framed, why she was taken here, purely to add to the torment that Lillian was inflicting upon her. She was going to take everything Lena loved, especially Kara, from her, and then, when Lena had nothing left, Lillian would kill her. Lena knew that was her supposed mother's goal. She cared nothing for her adopted daughter at all.

"Kara…Forgive me." Lena whispered as she continued to work to create the new Red Kryptonite. The strain she was working on would only last a single day, but Lillian hoped within that day she could get the Supers to do enough damage that the people of Earth would never forgive them, that the Supers would flee back amongst the stars, or they'd stay and be hunted like dogs. Lillian was hoping for the latter.

As she worked on the Kryptonite, planning to do damage to Kara that she hoped she'd be forgiven for, Lex was working in another part of the factory. Inside the room with him were some of his old toys, his Kryptonite war suit and his atomic axe that could cut through any material.

As he familiarised himself with his weapons once more, Hank Henshaw waited at the side of the room for him.

"Are you ready to battle, Luthor?" Henshaw asked him. He had no love for Lex, but since Lex was his employers' son and she wanted Lex trained up quickly, he would grit his teeth and work with the megalomaniac.

"Bring it on, Henshaw." Lex smirked as he flexed his fingers, feeling the raw power of the suit once more. Once He came, Lex would have the battle of his life, and he would liberate Earth from the oppressive aliens. It was his destiny.

As Hank charged towards Lex, Lex raised his atomic axe and swung, slicing through Hank as if he was nothing. Henshaw's eyes widened in shock, he assumed Luthor was going to only fight hand to hand.

"No loose ends for when this is over." Lex told Henshaw as his eyes found him and a look of betrayal came over his face, but Henshaw slumped to the ground, dead.

Lex looked on the cyborg corpse with disdain before he moved out of the room. It seemed he hadn't lost his reflexes, and before the day was out, he would take Superman's head.

Lena looked down on her work as she heard her mother and Lex come into the room, she knew it was them from the heavy stomping of the exo suit that Lex was encased within.

"It is ready." She told them, silently wishing that something, anything, had gone horribly wrong with it. She'd tried her best to mess it up, but with all the attention on her, she knew she had to make it convincing. It probably wouldn't do the job her mother hoped for, but would it hurt the Kryptonians? Probably.

"Kara, forgive me." Lena pleaded once more as Lillian looked on the Kryptonite with pride and Lex grinned maniacally at his sister.

"Once I have slain the two monsters, I'm coming for you, dearest sister." Lex promised as he picked up the Kryptonite and stormed out of the room. By now, they should have picked up the trail and should know where Lex and the rest of them were. It was time to end this.

"Take my daughter to an office and lock her in." Lillian told one of the guards.

"Before the day is over, one way or another, this will all be over."

/

Kara flew silently with Kal as the DEO followed behind, heading towards the old factory. Lena was here, she just knew it.

'I'm coming for you, Lena.' Kara promised. She would free Lena and prove her innocence.

"When we get there, we quickly stop Henshaw and Metallo." Kal told her. "Then you rescue Lena, whatever you do, do NOT interfere. Lex is mine."

"Kal, I can't let you."

"No, Kara. You need to save Lena, don't worry about it. Lex is my responsibility. I must be the one to stop his madness." Kal told her, seemingly trying to reassure himself more than Kara.

As the two Supers arrived outside of the factory, they saw a man waiting for them outside, a man with a green glowing chest.

"Hello Super freaks." Metallo sneered at them. "Come to die?"

"Believe me, Metallo." Kara shot at the villain. "This will hurt you a lot more than it's going to hurt us."

Metallo responded by firing a beam of Kryptonite at the two heroes, who both dodged out of the way, firing heat vision towards him, not expecting such a direct attack, Metallo dodged Supergirl's attack but was blasted full in the face by Superman's. He fell to the floor, a look of horror, pain and shock on his face. He was dead. (I just don't really think Metallo contributes much and let's face it, the real fight you want to see here is Lex vs Kal.)

"Oh God, what have I done?" Kal asked as he landed next to Metallo, before feeling himself getting weaker with the presence of the Kryptonite. Kara flew down and pushed Kal away from Metallo, before she crashed to the ground with the weakness from the Kryptonite.

"Oh, already giving up?" A new voice came, and she heard a thumping on the ground. Looking up, she saw Lex Luthor himself stood above her, wearing a giant green suit with a green glow in certain areas. Kryptonite. In his hands he held something else, something that made Kara's blood run cold.

Red Kryptonite.

"I wanted to see you die with some fight." Lex grinned at her before he lifted her into the air with one arm, holding her limply there. With the presence of Kryptonite, there was little Kara could do but wait for death.

/

Lena looked in shock out of the window as she saw Metallo get roasted by Superman's heat vision, before he fell to the floor, she saw Supergirl move him out of the way before she too, fell, and she saw Lex march over and lift Kara by the throat and gloat.

"Come on, Kara, fight him, I'm here!" Lena called before she was struck in the side by one of the guards.

"Shut up, your time will come soon enough." He growled at her as Lena glared at the man for striking her.

"I'd be more worried about what they'll do to you when they don't need you." Lena shot at him and she was pleased to see a look of fear pass his face. What use would they have for him before long? He was just a grunt.

Lena looked down to see Kara had broken out of Lex's grasp and was facing off against him, with Superman also stood there, ready to stop Lex. She knew, whatever happened, that this fight would not end with all three of them walking away.

/

Kara felt the life leaving her body as Lex dangled her in his arm, Kal was struggling to his feet, but he couldn't get close otherwise he, too, would fall to the Kryptonite.

"So naïve, so foolish. Don't worry, Kryptonian. I will save the world with your death." Lex tried to soothe Kara.

"Come on, Kara, fight him, I'm here!"

'Funny.' Kara thought. 'That sounds like Lena.'

The voice may have been just in her head, but hearing Lena's voice gave Kara hope. She would NOT fall here, not now and never to Lex Luthor. Drawing upon any vestiges of strength she had left, Kara kicked out, surprising Lex who dropped her to the floor.

Gasping, Kara stood as quickly as she could and backed away from Lex, who growled and raised his atomic axe in the air.

She moved next to Kal and together the two Kryptonians rose into the air, facing off against their greatest adversary.

"Today, one way or another, this ends." Lex promised them as Kal and Kara's eyes lit up and Lex activated his Kryptonite to its fullest levels and charged at them, swinging his atomic axe.

/

Lillian saw her son holding Supergirl in the air and cursed his hot-headedness.

"You are supposed to use the Red Kryptonite and let the aliens attack the city!" Lillian yelled at her son from the safety of a security room. "We need them alive until the people beg us to rid them of the pests."

Looking at the other cameras, she saw Lena was backhanded by a guard before the guard looked in fear, watching her daughter, she frowned when she saw Lena's hand snaking around a guard.

'What are you doing, Lena?' Lillian asked herself as she headed off to where her daughter was being held. It was time to deal with her.

/

Lena watched as the guard backed away in fear and she noticed his gun was largely free from its holster. It would be easy to steal it from him. Walking over to him, she snaked her hand around him and grabbed the gun, raising it in the air and aiming at the guard.

"Open the door or die." She threatened, the man looking at her in shock.

"Alright, Alright." He promised, heading over to the door and unlocking it.

"You'll never get out of here alive though." He promised her before she hit him in the head with the butt of the gun, knocking him to the floor.

"Lena!" Came a voice from further down the corridor. It was Lillian.

"Hello, Mother." Lena growled at her as Lillian noticed the gun in her hand.

"Now, Lena, we can talk about this." Lillian tried to placate Lena as the latter raised the gun and aimed it at her.

"Oh, we're past that. Now, you will take me to the exit, and you will turn yourself into the authorities upon their arrival." Lena instructed her mother.

"Or what? You'll kill me?" Lillian scoffed, before her eyes filled with fear when Lena cocked the gun.

"Don't tempt me."

/

Alex and J'onn were in the lead truck as they headed down the road towards the old factory, but they were still several minutes out, by now, Kara and Kal should have engaged Metallo and Henshaw, they only hoped they got there before anything truly bad could happen.

"J'onn, what do we do if one of them is dead?" Alex asked, praying she wouldn't need to find out.

"We put them down." J'onn simply stated, the risk to life was just too great.

"Even Lena?" Alex asked, knowing that if they killed Lena, and Kara survived, she'd never forgive them.

"If Lena is with them, and there's a huge threat to life, then, yes." J'onn admitted. He really hoped Kara was right about Lena, and that the woman was innocent. He didn't want any bloodshed if possible, but he knew if the woman died and Kara made it, she'd never forgive them for Lena's death.

/

Kara and Kal's eyes fired off their heat vision beams, knocking Lex to his knees, but not seemingly causing much damage. The man stood up with a grin and spat on the floor.

"Not bad Clark, I see you've improved. You too, Kara." Lex grinned as they looked at him in shock. "It's obvious that you're Kara Danvers, Kara Zor-El. Even my sister, dense as she is, knows the truth." Lex stated, taunting Kara whose eyes widened even further.

'Did Lena know she was Supergirl?'

"It's over, Lex." Kal told him. "Surrender and we can end it here."

"It's over when you show the world what you are! A MONSTER!" Lex screamed as he threw the Red Kryptonite towards the two Kryptonians. Kara dodged as it hit Kal and Superman fell to the floor with it, its power influencing him, red light running under his skin.

'It must have been set to only work when coming into directly contact with us.' Kara thought, wondering why it hadn't already affected her before now.

"Now, show the world your true self!" Lex called as Superman rose into the air once more, his eyes burning red.

"No, Lex. It's time I showed you my true self." Kal glared as he began to slowly approach Lex.

/

Lillian looked at her daughter as Lena aimed the gun towards her.

"I know you won't do it, Lena, so let us drop this pretence. Join us now, it isn't too late!" Lillian called on her. Lena was a Luthor, despite whatever she said, and she knew she'd choose the right side, the side of humanity, in the end.

"I know you're thinking, she's a Luthor, she'll prove she's a Luthor, and you're right, Mother." Lena remarks as Lillian looks in surprise. Lena will side with us?

"It means I'm willing to do whatever it takes to keep the ones I love safe." Lena stated as her glare hardened, and as the DEO trucks pulled up and as Kal and Lex faced off, Lena pulled the trigger.

Lillian Luthor dropped dead on the floor.

/

Alex, J'onn and Kara heard the gunshot as the DEO began to pile out of the trucks as Lex dropped his axe and Kal stopped his heat vision, the two of them going at one another fist to fist, the rage and the lack of inhibitions within Kal stopping him from dropping at the feeling of the Kryptonite, the punches of the two men are so powerful that the ground shakes as they throw one another and the DEO look around, wondering if they should open fire or not.

Alex enters the building as J'onn and Kara flew into the air and through the window of the office where Lena was being held, as Alex entered the corridor where Lillian laid dead, Kara and J'onn came from the other side, to where Lena was holding a still smoking gun.

"Lena…" Kara pleaded with her. "Give me the gun."

In shock, Lena turned the handle of the gun around and handed it to Kara, as Kara passed it to J'onn, she was surprised as Lena rushed forward and wrapped her in a hug.

"Oh Kara, I'm sorry, I had to do it, I had to save you and stop her." Lena sobbed as Kara patted her back, whispering soothing words into her ear. She looked at Alex and J'onn, who moved to take Lillian's body away.

"Oh Lena, it's all going to be alright." Kara smiled at her. This was it, they knew now that Lena was being held by them, she was sure they could see it now. It was over, at last.

/

Kal and Lex faced off against one another as the DEO piled up around them. The agents had no idea if they were to take Lex in alive or not, and Superman looked too angry for any of them to wish to intervene against him.

"Lex, give up now or this will be ended." Kal warned him, rage in his voice as Lex smirked.

"Do it. Prove me right." Lex stated as he turned off the Kryptonite emitters in his suit before he charged at Kal, grabbing the atomic axe and swinging it, planning to finish Superman once and for all.

As Lex charged towards the superhero, Kal felt the rage overtake him and throwing his arm forward, he ripped through Lex's suit and sent the man flying. As he stood over his foe, Lex was injured, bleeding from several wounds.

"End me." Lex begged him, before Kal could oblige, Lex was punched in the back of the head by Kara and he fell forward in a slump.

"Kal that's enough!" she roared. Kal looked at her in confusion.

"He is mine to deal with, Kara." Kal warned her.

"Kal. It. Is. Over." Kara promised him as Kal rose into the air with a snarl and flew away, heading, Kara hoped, to the Fortress of Solitude to calm himself.

As Kara bundled Lex into a DEO van, to be taken back to Stryker's island, she saw Alex and J'onn approach her and Lena.

"We found video footage proving that Lena was framed." Alex smiled at her sister. It turned out Kara was right this time, yet Alex would continue to worry about her.

"All charges are dropped Miss Luthor." J'onn told Lena who smiled at him and thanked him for his time, before she walked over to where Alex and Kara were speaking.

"I'll give you a minute." Alex said and she walked off, leaving Kara and Lena alone.

"Lena, I-" Kara began before suddenly she felt her lips being smashed into by Lena's, Lena pressing her lips against Kara's forcefully and passionately, the two women remained in one another's embrace for a few moments before breaking apart, both of them bright pink from embarrassment with matching dopey grins on their face.

"Want to talk more about it over dinner?" Kara asked Lena with a smile.

With a smile that could outshine stars, in Kara's mind, Lena replied.

"I wouldn't want anything more."