Again, this chapter took longer than I wanted it to. It's just that inspiration wasn't very good for me with this one.
Hope you still enjoy it, let's begin.
Chapter 4: Save Yourself
Kara walked to the checkout aisle of the grocery store, with a cart full of groceries.
"How's work?" she asked Von who was standing in front of the cash register, wearing a grocery clerk outfit.
"There are like three other lanes open. Why did you come to mine?" Von asked unamused.
"I just want to make sure my little brother is earning his money." Kara responded smiling.
"I hate you so much." Von stated as he started scanning and bagging Kara's items.
"You look very... professional." Kara said.
"I look stupid." Von replied immediately.
"Well I'm sorry you don't like your job. But this was one of the few jobs you could get."
"I told you, I can totally be a lawyer." Von insisted.
"No one's going to want to hire a lawyer who didn't even graduate high school."
Von rolled his eyes. "Can we talk about something other than the fact that I'm a failure, who is making 8 bucks an hour, just to sleep on the couch of his sister's apartment?"
"Alright. Do you have any plans to talk with Lena?"
Annoyance was the only expression that could be used to describe Von after that question.
"On second thought, let's continue talking about my failure of a life." Von said.
"Are you really that desperate to avoid talking about Lena?" Kara asked with a small grin.
"Your total is $28.19." Von said as he handed Kara the receipt.
"I'm going to take that as a yes." Kara said.
Unknown
A group of several armed men were patrolling outside of a small building. When suddenly, a streak of red lightening zoomed at all of them instantaneously, sending to the ground.
The red lightening then entered the building, and stopped in a room where a group of people sat around a table.
Out of the red lighting came a blonde haired man wearing a weird yellow suit.
"Who the hell are you?" one of the men asked.
"I've been called many names. But, you can call me Eobard Thawne." He said, introducing himself.
"Why are you here?" another asked.
"Let's just say I want to hire you and your men for a little project me and my friends are working on." Thawne vaguely answered.
"And what do you have to offer us?"
"Your lives." Thawne answered, getting laughs from all of them. "Have it your way." Thawne then sped at one of them, and immediately snapped his neck, ending the laughter. "Now, have you reached a decision?"
The group looked to each other before one of them spoke up.
"What exactly do you want us to do?"
Thawne smiled.
CatCo Tower
Kara walked into Lena's office, who was greeted with a smile from the brunette.
"Kara, it's good to see you." Lena began. "You're not planning on parent trapping me with Von again, are you?"
Kara chuckled at the question.
"Maybe another time." Kara replied. "But I would like to talk about your date with... Simon was it?"
Lena sighed. "Why do I have a feeling you're going to worm Von into this conversation?"
"Come on. You guys were cute together." Kara pleaded.
"Stuff happened, things changed." Lena responded.
"Then let's talk about it, see if we can't fix some of those things." Kara suggested.
A small laugh escaped Lena's lips.
"Alright." Lena submitted. "But you have to do something for me first."
"What is it?"
"What happened between you, Barry, and Oliver?"
Kara frowned at the question, but Lena's face lit up.
"Oh my God, you slept with them?!"
"Not in what I believe you're thinking of." Kara responded.
"What. When you told me you slept with a friend..."
"That was Barry." Kara answered.
"And Oliver?"
"A couple months after."
Lena laughed. "Well, well. Look at you. Love them and leave them."
"Shut up." Kara said with a small smile.
"Do you have any feelings for either one, or both?" Lena asked.
"I don't want to talk anymore about my love life." Kara stated.
"That's a yes." Lena concluded.
"Back on topic, how do you feel about Von?" Kara said, changing the subject.
Lena again sighed. "I felt a connection with Von that I never encountered before. I felt like he saw me as something more than Lex Luthor's sister. I mean, no offense Kara, you've been a fantastic friend towards me. But with Von, it was something more. But after the whole pregnancy thing, it seemed like he didn't really care too much. I don't know. A part of me will always care for Von, but I can't be in a relationship with him if the only reason he cared about me was because I was pregnant with his baby."
"Lena, I can promise you, Von's not exactly the most... stable of individuals. But I know he loves you." Kara stated.
"I don't know. Besides, a Luthor and a Kryptonian would not mix." Lena said sarcastically, getting a small laugh from Kara. "Let's talk about something else other than our sad love lives. What's going on with you?"
Concern appeared on Kara's face after Lena asked that question.
"Well, there is one thing." Kara began, getting Lena's attention. "Remember Kent Nelson?" Lena nodded. "The other day, he came to me, claiming that he could see the future." Already, doubt appeared on Lena. "And, he claimed that by the end of the year, me and my family would be dead."
"And you believed him?" Lena asked, shocked and confused.
"You weren't there. You didn't see what he could do. And plus, after the past year, would the ability to see the future really be out of the question?" Kara argued.
"Maybe not. But I find it hard to believe without at least more proof." Lena stated.
"I don't blame you." Kara agreed. "Alex and Winn are looking to see if they can't find someone who can..."
Kara's explanation was interrupted when the two heard gunfire in the building. Both Kara and Lena got out of their seats and turned towards the origin of the gunfire. But they were both surprised when a streak of red lightening, similar to that of a speedster they knew entered the room with the two.
Thawne grabbed the two from the back of their necks and whispered to Kara.
"I know you're Supergirl." This caused Kara's eyes to widen in shock. "If you don't play nice, I'll make sure everyone knows who you are."
Thawne then dragged both Kara and Lena out of the office and into the hallway, where they were both forced to sit down among the other workers as hostages.
"Get a camera rolling, and tell the city I want $10 million. And each half an hour they delay, I kill a hostage." Thawne ordered one of the henchmen, who nodded.
DEO
"Did you see what happened?!" Alex asked J'onn and Winn, who were watching the demands on the TV.
"Yep. And it's not too good." Winn commented.
"We have to go in there." Alex demanded.
"The DEO's job is to catch aliens, not hostage takers." J'onn replied.
"Well Kara can't stop them, because she's one of the hostages." Alex pointed out.
"And James, or rather Guardian can't, since he also works at CatCo and is one of the hostages as well." Winn also pointed out.
J'onn sighed. "I'm sorry. But the DEO can't interfere with this."
"Damn it." Alex cursed.
Grocery Store
Von was standing alone in his aisle, when he attention was taken be the news reporter on TV.
"We received video footage of the suspects in the building, who are demanding $10 million. Police have not attempted to enter the building yet, and with no sign of Supergirl, we are left wondering, what might the outcome of this situation be?" the news reporter explained.
Von shook his head at the TV before he said to himself.
"Damn it Kara."
Von left his aisle, took off his apron, and entered the bathroom, pulling down his shirt to reveal a darkened shirt with the crest of El on it.
CatCo Tower
The criminals began patrolling the hostages to make sure no one does anything to escape.
Kara just wanted to stand up and take all of them down, but she knew that she would expose herself as Supergirl if she did that.
"It's been 30 minutes." Thawne stated as he walked up to the hostages. "Kill one of them."
One of the henchmen nodded, and aimed his gun at Lena. The hostages screamed as he did this.
But before he could pull the trigger, Kara walked in front of the gun.
"Don't do this." she pleaded.
Thawne rolled his eyes before he grabbed Kara and threw her back to the ground.
"Just do..." Thawne was about to order, until he was interrupted by gunfire on the walkie-talkies.
He grabbed one of them and started speaking into it.
"What's going on down there?" he asked, but got no response.
Just then, the elevator dinged, and began elevating to their level.
Thawne then ordered his six men to stand at the elevators with their guns pointed at it, and shoot anything that's in there.
When the elevator arrived and opened, the henchmen fired for several seconds, until the gunfire ended, and there was nothing in there.
"Why was..." Thawne asked aloud, but was stopped when Savior entered the level through the window.
Savior then kicked a table at the seven of them. But Thawne sped out of the way. However, his six henchmen failed to dodge, and fell to the ground in too much pain to move.
Kara's eyes widened at the vigilante that had her family's coat of arms on his chest. She couldn't help but wonder to herself, 'Who is this guy?'
Thawne looked at the vigilante and chuckled. "I have to admit, that was pretty smart of you. But you're a fool if you think you can beat me."
"Funny." Savior spoke up. "I was about to say the same thing."
Thawne frowned, and sped at the vigilante and put him against the wall. With one hand around the vigilante's throat, Thawne used the other hand to vibrate at an inhuman speed, and was about to send that vibrating hand through Savior. But before he could manage, Savior head butted him, causing Thawne to let go, and take a few steps back. Savior then wrapped his hands around Thawne and threw him further back. Thawne got up from the ground and Savior ran at him, picking up a pair of scissors from one of the desks in the process, and when Savior reached Thawne, he sent the same scissors into Thawne's stomach. Thawne roared in pain, and pushed Savior back and pulled out the scissors from his stomach, and threw them at Savior, who got it with one hand.
"This isn't over." Thawne stated right before he sped out of the building.
The hostages/workers looked to each other in utter shock, and Kara looked at the direction of the vigilante, but he was already gone.
DEO
Kara walked into the DEO to be greeted by her sister, Winn, and J'onn.
"Kara." Alex said as she walked up to the Kryptonian. "Are you okay? What happened?"
"I'm fine. It's just that it all happened so quickly." Kara answered.
"Who was the guy responsible for this?" J'onn asked.
Kara shook her head. "I don't know. But I do know he bared a strong resemblance to Barry. He had his powers, a similar suit. I don't think it possible Barry couldn't know who this is."
"So, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Winn asked with a smile.
"You want to get the rest of them here." Kara concluded. "I just don't know."
"I agree with Winn." Alex stated. "Even if I didn't believe that we needed help with this guy, I wouldn't mind having them to help us with this prophecy crap."
Kara sighed in defeat. "Alright."
Unknown
Thawne sat in a chair, applying pressure to his injury, when Lex and Simon entered the room.
"What was the point of today?" Thawne asked. "Between the two of you, I doubt we needed the money, so what was the real objective?"
"Simple." Simon stated. "We get the rest of them here."
"You mean the Flash, Green Arrow, Legends, that whole gang?" Thawne asked. "Well, better wish us luck against them. They may be predictable, but they're resilient."
"Perhaps. But with the right kind of help, nothing is invincible." Lex stated.
A look of curiosity crossed Thawne's face.
"What do you two have in mind?" Thawne wondered aloud.
Kara's Apartment
Kara walked into her apartment to find Von sitting on her couch, watching TV.
Von turned to see Kara, got up and hug his sister.
"Hey." he said to Kara. "I heard what happened. Are you okay?"
"Of course. I'm Supergirl." Kara replied, getting a light chuckle from Von. "So, how was work?"
A look of concern appeared on Von's face after that comment.
"Yeah, I kinda got fired today." Von answered, getting a look of shock from Kara.
"Are you serious?" Kara asked. "Why?"
"Apparently going to make sure your sister isn't dead while being held hostage is a deal breaker." Von said, somewhat telling the truth.
Kara sighed. "Look, I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I hated it anyway. I'll find another job that I don't despise."
A small smile appeared on Kara before she asked another question.
"Do you still love Lena?"
That question really got Von's attention.
He took a minute before he answered.
"Yes."
Kara shook her head in disbelief.
"Then why don't you get back together with her. I know she'd want that."
"I have my reasons." Von answered vaguely.
"Damn it Von. You're an idiot." Kara stated.
"I guess it runs in the family." Von replied, getting a smile from Kara, who grabbed a pillow and hit Von with it. Von fought back by grabbing another pillow and hitting Kara with it. And before either one of them knew it, the two were engaged in a pillow fight.
Cute fluffiness at the end there. Anyway incase there's any confusion, Crisis of Earth-X is not canon to this story, so Kara would not recognize Reverse-Flash.
Anyway, going to bring in some more old villains soon, who would you like to see?
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