"Jesse, I thought you said they were dead." Bart snapped

"I thought they were!"

"It'll take a little more than a static shock to kill us." the female said

Jesse was sure they had weird names too like Clark did. She didn't even want to bother asking.

"Then more you'll get!" Jesse yelled furiously

As several currents ran through the air it was all like Bart saw it happening slowly. Blue lightning like currents erupted from her.

"Jesse no!" he yelled

It was too late she'd struck the woman with everything she had. It was unrelenting, and Jesse could feel herself losing it all within herself. Bart moved quickly as the male went after Jesse, and knocked him over. Looking back at Jesse, he saw her eyes were lightning blue, and it was crawling all over her. He was afraid to touch her. The female screamed in agony.

Bart could see Jesse starting to struggle as the electrical storm that was in her started whipping out of control as the cloak on her shoulders fanned out. Trying to dodge getting hit he moved towards her and tackled her to the ground. She started fighting him next and cracked him across the jaw. The voltage went down, but her eyes still glowed.

"Jessica!" he yelled trying to pin her

Coming to Jesse, she looked around then shoved Bart off. She looked over and saw the two dead bodies. She knew they were dead because they were extremely burnt. Unrecognizable.

"I did that." she trailed off

Scrambling to her feet she walked over and kicked the bottoms of their feet. They didn't budge. She was trying to make sure they were dead or maybe was hoping she didn't just kill them.

"Jesse we need to get out of her." Bart said

She knew why. Something else had found them now. Something that was as black as shadows. Bart took her hand and dragged her off even as she still stared at the dead beings. She was still dazed from her frenzy.

He quickly darted behind a rock and held her there.

"Snap out of it." he growled at her

"I'm fine." She said dizzily

He didn't loosen his grip on her hand as they saw several black movements around them. She wasn't fine though. She felt ready to keel over. her whole body ached and it was her side the most that hurt.

"We're trapped." Jesse said hating that she felt defeated.

She looked back at him and he nodded.


"They're surrounded." Kara said "I can't open it. If I do more could get out besides just them."

"Kara!" Oliver yelled

"Oliver, I can't!"

"Well you better." Connor growled as he held his bow up at her

She cringed horridly. The tip of the arrow glowed its eerie green color. It was Kryptonite. He' s used it before on others that had problems with the meteorite.

"Connor." Clark warned

"Fine." Kara gasped

She kept her hand over the alienated machine and her eyes changed. They glazed over and Connor aimed at the now small flashing gateway trying to open.

"Get ready!" Oliver called to his team


"You know…I'm glad that when I got stuck here…it was with you." Bart told her and he squeezed her hand

"We're not dead yet." Jesse said

"Ready to run?" Bart asked

"We won't make it far." Jesse responded barely

"We can still try." Bart insisted

Then all of the sudden there was a repetitive flash before their eyes. Jesse gulped as she held onto his hand even tighter.

"Time to go." Jesse said

As several phantoms came at the two, Bart grabbed her around the waist and ran for the light. He didn't know what it was, but it had to be better than where they were.


In an instant two figures came through the gateway and Kara let go, but one made it through. It didn't get far as Connor immediately release the arrow and it hit the phantom dead on. It screeched deathly and fell to the floor and disintegrated.

Bart and Jesse hit the floor breathing heavily. They just laid there looking up at the ceiling, Bart still with a hold on her. It didn't escape Connor how he was holding her though. Jesse Was barely awake and knew that soon she would pass out from the blood loss.

"We alive?" Jesse asked

"I think…" Bart replied

Jesse stood quickly and looked around swaying a little. Both Bart and her were torn up and bleeding. Jesse froze as she saw Connor. Her eyes grew wide with surprise.

"You're alive?" Jesse breathed

Letting go of Bart's hand she was instantly in Connor's arms. He hugged her tightly and she could feel tears flooding her eyes. All the pain she felt right then meant nothing as she held him.

"I thought you were dead." she whispered

"Came close." he replied

Bart turned away from the reunion of the two. He didn't want to admit that he was a bit disgruntled about it.

"Who's that?" he asked Victor

"Oliver's son." Victor answered

"Great…another one lost to yet another Queen." Bart mumbled under his breath

He looked back at the two.

"I'm going to go get cleaned up." he said to Victor as he walked out of the room

Jesse looked around and didn't see him. He'd left. She wondered if he was okay.

"Hey, I'll be right back. I 'should go get fixed up a little. I'm not in the best shape." She told Connor as she gestured towards herself and the bleeding to have slowed only a little.

After looking around even more she noticed something else was wrong. There was just something missing out of the people that were here. There were others missing.

"Where's Chloe and Dinah?" she asked confused at their absence


"You okay to walk?" Dinah asked Chloe

"I'm fine. Even better than fine actually. I have something that's going to stop Helios in his tracks." Chloe said pulling out the piece of lead she stuck in her back pocket

"How is that going to help?"

"I knew a girl who could teleport." Chloe said remembering Alicia "She had her ways of stopping it. Her way of rehab that didn't work."

Dinah just nodded.

"We need to move and find the main road." Dinah said

Chloe stood and looked around. As they walked through the woods they made sure to stay quiet in doing so. They were still within range of the facility. When they made it out onto the road Chloe froze.

"What is it Chloe?" Dinah asked

"I know where we are." Chloe replied "I can't believe I didn't recognize it sooner. I must've been away for far too long."

"Well?"

"This way." Chloe said as she changed direction

"You got it boss." Dinah said

Around sundown Chloe had breathed a sigh of relief. It took hours to get here and dodging moving vehicles so they weren't seen, but they managed it. Chloe rushed up the drive and into the house with Dinah following hastily behind.

"Take a seat we're safe here." Chloe said as she gripped the kitchen counter

"What makes you say that?" Dinah said still on edge as she sat down on a dining room chair

"Just trust me."

Chloe turned away and grabbed the phone quickly and dialed her best friend's number. After a few seconds she got an answer.

"Clark?"


"Chloe where are you?" Clark said quickly

Both Oliver and Connor turned to the sound of the name. Their faces were alert with relief knowing she was alright.

"Just stay there." Clark told her

Clark hung up.

"She's fine." He told them "They'd both escaped and she's at the farm."

"How'd she get there?" Oliver asked

"I don't know Oliver, but I plan on asking her if you'll stop questioning me and let go." Clark responded

Before Oliver had a chance to say anything more Clark was gone. A.C was making sure Kara was okay while Emil boxed up the machine and crystal. Everyone seemed to be doing something.

In the other room Jesse walked in on Bart attempting to clean up his shoulder. It was bleeding as if something had dug its nails into him.

"Stop." she said as she took the cloth from him "You'll make it worse or more painful than it needs to be."

He huffed. She could read the irritation clearly on his face. So it wasn't hard to tell he was bothered.

"I can get it myself plus you should be reuniting with your boyfriend." He said

"I am extremely single. Have been for the past…well, for the past nineteen years. Granted I've had my flings here and there, but nothing serious." Jesse said as she concentrated on his shoulder while also thinking about the fling with Lucas Luthor.

"Could've fooled me."

Jesse sighed and rolled her eyes. He was being an idiot. It was something new to her too because it also registered as jealousy and she'd never seen it from him before.

"It was an 'I'll never see you again' thing." she said as she started up on his arm

"Really?" he said sarcastically

She poured a little extra alcohol on the wound making him cringe and squirm.

"That hurt." he said

"And you're being and idiot. Honestly, you're so worried about a love life you don't have instead of the future." Jesse said

"I can think about both." He said hissing

"Good luck with that." she smirked

After having cleaned him up she walked over to the mirror and cleaned up her face. She had a cut on her cheek and above her eyebrow. Then she pulled her shredded cloak off and lifted up her black tank top to show her abdomen.

"That's going to take a while to heal." She mumbled to herself as it still trickled down

"Let me see." Bart's voice echoed silently

Turning around she found herself face to face with the speedster. He looked down at her stomach and she flinched as he touched around it.

"It's needs to be disinfected or else it'll get worse." He said as he picked her up without warning and she just wrapped her arms around his neck

He set her down on the metal table nearby that he had been on earlier and grabbed a fresh wash cloth.

"Everything alright in here?" Oliver said walking in

He looked away as he saw her stomach. Guilt swept over him having seen it. She was torn up. She knew him in the future and was an important part in her life and she looked nearly dead now.

"Yeah." Jesse said sounding lively as Bart was concentrating on cleaning her up "Nothing that won't heal."

She smiled at him like nothing was wrong and that only made him feel worse. She should be doing this with her life.

"I-I'm sorry." Oliver said barely able to even get out the words

"Don't be. The only time you'll ever have to be sorry is when I'm dead." she said with triumph

Oliver chuckled a little even though he found nothing about it funny.

"Who told you that?" he asked

"You did." she said "I'd always say sorry when I first moved in with you and…"

She paused and Oliver just raised his eyebrows at her while Bart seemed to still be concentrated on making the bleeding slow down on her stomach and to lessen the bruising. Jesse bit her bottom lip.

"Me and who?"

"Connor." She said averting the answer

She was still reluctant to tell him most things. She was afraid of upsetting important things.

"You can tell me. There isn't much we don't already know."

"If I tell then it could mess things up for Connor and I." Jesse said

Oliver huffed knowing she was right. Jesse jumped then all of the sudden from an extremely tender spot and so did Bart.

"Ow! Shit." He hissed sucking at his fingers from the shock he'd received

"Sorry." Jesse mumbled "It's a defense thing."

Seeing that he wasn't getting much farther Oliver left the room. As he walked into the main room he saw a messy Dinah walk through the doors.

"Mom!" Connor shouted as he brushed past her and took the foot and a half shorter Chloe into his built arms

Chloe stood there frozen still in his arms with wide eyes. Mom?

"Mom?" she said confused as he let go and looked at the young man up and down

"Did I give birth when I was away?" she asked jokingly

Victor chuckled nervously.

"What happened to you?" Chloe asked Victor seeing his arm

"Oh." He said looking down

Had no one noticed?

"Ummm…" he started "Oliver will explain. I think I'll go work on it."

Victor looked back down at his arm which had circuits ripped up from his shoulder from when that thing flew out of the glowy gateway behind Bart and Jesse.

"So where are we now?" A.C chimed in

"Back at square one only with extra players and more questions." Oliver said not directly looking at Chloe

She gave him a curious look. He just turned to the computers without looking at her. After all the worry he had for her, he couldn't even look at her now. She couldn't get anything out of him.

"Actually, I think we've moved on." Chloe said holding out her little piece of treasure

"What's a piece of lead going to do?" Connor asked

"It's going to stop your travelling friend from travelling." she said

"Well, at least we're taking a step forward." Jesse said coming into the room with a bandaged stomach

"It's small, but yes." Chloe agreed

"Good. I'm going to go keep myself busy and patrol for a little bit. That is if it's okay." Jesse said looking at Oliver

He looked at her then waved her off. He didn't to care so much now that he had his mind set on something new and obviously Chloe and his son.

"Just be nice. Not everyone has that extra touch that you do." Oliver chuckled

That was the Oliver she knew. He joked with her. Jesse couldn't really remember the last time he had done so. There were a lot of memories she didn't remember too well. But he was a strong one.

"I'll go with." A.C chimed in

"Same here. It's all stuffy here." Bart said

"Me too." Connor said

"Oh no you don't." Chloe said to Connor "You have a lot of explanations of your own to do."

Connor and Jesse looked at each other. Mom orders. That was something that couldn't be argued with.

"Oh yeah, that's definitely your mom." Jesse smirked

"Go fall off a building." Connor shot at her

"Gladly." She said perkily as she zipped out of the watchtower

It wasn't as if she had never jumped off of one before. Usually she could zip off right before the ground and land perfectly elsewhere. That was the good thing. Lightning didn't always touch the ground.

Standing up on the Luthor Corp building she sat on the edge and looked down. All the people down there looked so tiny.

"You aren't going to gain control Lex." Jesse muttered to herself "I'll die before I let you."

"Talking to yourself?"

Jesse turned and rolled her eyes. Bart walked up beside her.

"Do you like stalking people?" she asked "Cause you're never like this."

"I only stalk my favorite people."

"I'm a favorite so soon?"

He laughed.

"What can I say? Not many people can keep up with me let alone kill me." he said

"Not funny." She said quietly

"It's not a big deal."

"It is. If you had stayed dead then I wouldn't be here. You and Oliver both died to get us as far as we got." She said "After you two, Connor and I were all that's left."

She paused and looked out over the city. She didn't like thinking about it. It was hard for her.

"When the future changes…I figure we'll change. I know something will happen." She said

She looked at him for a moment.

"It's good that your friend is alive." He said

She smiled. It was good. She'd been terrified for him.

"Yeah, Oliver and Chloe should be ecstatic to know that they have a son." She laughed "He even takes up the family business."

Bart chuckled a little as well. Family business didn't mean Queen Industries completely.

"What about your family? Have you seen them yet?"

"No. I don't think I will either." she replied

Standing Jesse made her way to the stairway that led off of the roof.

"I think that for right now I'm just glad to be home." She said

Bart nodded and followed. When they reached the bottom a few seconds later both of them heard screaming. Jesse was there first and threw the thug attacking a man aside. The thug turned on her and laughed.

"A little girl playing out at night?" he questioned

Jesse was familiar with the laugh. It was the one before the scream of terror. Bart stood off to the side watching and grinning. The guy had no idea what he was getting into, so it was entertaining.

"Who's that?" the thug gestured "Your sidekick?"

That time Jesse laughed and Bart just glared. She thought it was hilarious. The teacher being called the sidekick.

"Look, I'm going to be nice and ask you to go." Jesse said after she was done laughing

"Or what?" the thug challenged

Jesse looked up at him and heard the woman and man gasp while the thug's eyes got wide. Her fingers glowed and the small electriacl surger crawled along her hands.

"You're some sort of…freak!" he yelled

His knife clinked to the ground and he ran off. Jesse laughed.

"It's been a while since they've just run off." she said

"I am not a sidekick." Bart protested

"Awe." Jesse pouted "Why not? It has benefits."

"No." he said jokingly as he wrapped an arm around her neck

"Who are you?" the woman asked

Jesse blinked blankly having forgotten they were there. When she really looked at them her eyes got even wider. She knew them. They were her parents. these people she'd just saved were important. Everything went blank now and she didn't even know what to do. What would she say?

"Ummm…" she started

"Jessica. Her name's Jessica." Bart answered for her

The woman just nodded and smiled.

"You are truly gifted to do something so dangerous." The woman said "My child will know your name. You an amazing hero to do something like that."

Before she could keep going Jesse's father put an arm around her and shuffled off. He was the one that was nervous around her. The woman looked at her like an angel.

"You okay?" Bart asked looking down at Jesse

"I always wondered why my parents named me Jessica." Jesse said

"Oh?"

"They named me after…me." she said

She looked up at him. Bart smirked at first then started laughing.

"It's not funny." She said as they started walking off

"You just don't have one ounce of normalcy in your life." He chuckled

"No I don't." she sulked "It's depressing."

"Eh. It can be a good thing." he said shrugging

"I hope so."

"Oh trust me. When it's all over I am going to show you normal." He said

"Oh really? How of all people are you going to show me normal? You can't even stay in one place for long." she asked

"A date."