Supergirl and Deity

by PowerHero432

When Deity Ann wakes up on earth after fleeing Krypton, she awakes to meet Kara Zor-El. She is a Kryptonian just like Kara, who is now expected to look after the young teenager. Together they must fight off Astra and her army of Kryptonians, but Deity has a strange and mysterious past the even she doesn't understand. Can she find a new home on Earth? (Full Summary included)

10. Childish Things

Chapter 10: Childish Things

Lying in his prison cell he waited. Winslow Schott Sr. Or as the media had dubbed him 'The Toyman'. His plan was perfect. He'd been planning it for weeks, months, and now he was finally going to escape. He was going to see him again. His greatest creation. He could hear the guard walking up from down the corridor. Show time! He thought to himself.

He lay perfectly still in the corn as he heard the tray get slapped down on the shelf that was attached to the door. There was an open gap, large enough to slide the tray with his food on through but not large enough to get anything other hand through, maybe his elbow if he was lucky. He had to waited and played the part he'd been rehearsing.

"Meal time Toyman" says the guard from behind the door. Toyman didn't move, risk giving up his play and delaying his escape. He needed him now, he need his most perfect of all his creations now. "Come on and take the damn food!" snaps the guard peering in through the tiny window on the door with three bars. He couldn't even fit his hand through that window. The bars were spaced closely together and they were extremely thick, barley enough room to look in or out. But there was enough for the guard to look in and see Toyman on the floor. "Toyman. Schott!" the guard shouted, at him trying to provoke a response but Toyman didn't give him anything. Just open the door, he thought to himself as he lay still, his body starting to feel stiff after waiting in the position for so long.

Finally came the sound of dangling keys and Toyman knew it had worked, just a few more seconds. The guard unlocked the door and pushed it open before marching in, inspecting the room which was covered with the various toys Toyman had made in the crafting department during his free time. The guard took one step towards him and Toyman flipped his arm over sending his yo-yo towards the guard. As the red yo-yo passed through the air, three metal spikes emerged from its sides turning it into some kind of throwing star yo-yo. The yo-yo hit the guard in the chest and the spike priced through him. He was dead in an instant as his body hit the ground.

Moving quickly Toyman got up himself and dragged the guard into the corner of the room where he'd been lying. He removed the guard's cloths, and his personalised yo-yo, before put them on over his white prisoner's uniform. He walked out and closed the door behind him, locking it and taking the keys with him.

Halfway down the corridor he ran into another guard who began talking to him. He was halfway through his sentence when he realised that the guard he was talking to was actually Toyman. He went for his gun that was holstered at his side but Toyman was quicker. With a flick of the wrist he sent his yo-yo across the corridor, spikes once again emerging and striking the guard in the chest. He dropped down and his gun fell from his grasp. Another flick of the wrist and the yo-yo sprang from the guards chest and recoiled into his hand.

From there he headed on to the gate, taking out another guard when he got there. There was the gate that blocked his path to freedom. Toyman undid the lock, opened the gate, and sauntered out. Finally he was free and could retrieve his greatest creation of all. And just in time for Christmas as well.

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It was a slow start to the day, much like it had been for nearly the whole last month. Kara and Deity were still depressed about the news they had heard from Astra and in the run up to the festive holidays it hadn't been great for the two of them. For one thing Deity didn't even know what the heck all these people were on about, to her 'Christmas' was just a word that had started popping up. She hadn't cared enough to ask what it meant and Kara was too depressed to tell her.

Christmas was a time to spend with family on Earth, that only made her think of her dead parents, not very festive. Normally she had been able to push the negative thoughts aside and enjoy the time with her foster family but it hadn't seemed possible after Astra had told her that Kara was a murderer.

It had been very awkward after one night When Kara had returned home, Deity was out flying by herself, and Kara had returned to find Alex inside her home with cardboard boxes out in the room. It was Kara's Christmas decorations, it had been a tradition for the two sisters to decorate a tree in Kara's apartment since she had moved to National City. But this year Kara hadn't been in the mood and just wanted to mope on her bed or in front of the TV. After an hour of arguing about this with Alex, Kara had reluctantly agreed and then used her super speed to get the decorations up in less than a minute. After that Alex had pouted until Kara withdrew to her bedroom. Not long after Deity had come home and hadn't even noticed the sparkly lights around the room or the tree beside the TV.

Suffice it to say the two weren't in high spirits. Because of this Hank had invited them out for some flight practise in the desert, far from the D.E.O. and any prying eyes that might spot them and more precisely the Martian. He and Alex had come up with the idea and Kara had agreed to it, though she hadn't been very enthusiastic about it.

"Breakfast?" asks Kara, sounding half asleep as Deity walked past.

"What is there?" asks Deity scratching her messy bed hair that stuck out in all directions, much like Kara's at the moment. Kara made a show of looking through various cupboards and glancing over shelves before pulling out a plastic bag with a few slices of bread still inside.

"Bread" answers Kara as she presented it to the young girl standing in the kitchen. Deity gave a shrug and walked around the counter to the other side while Kara put to slices of toast in the toaster. It would be quicker to heat them with her heat vision but she couldn't find the effort to do it. She and Deity had both been like this since they took back the city from Astra. In public as 'Supergirl and Deity' they kept their spirits high, but it was all a show. Inside they were deeply depressed and still hadn't come to terms with what had happened.

A moment later the toast popped up, blackened at the centre with a hard crust surrounding it. Kara took both slices and put them on individual plates before handing one to Deity. The two said nothing while they sat at opposite ends of the counter, eating their burnt toast. After that they had abandoned the plates, along with the rest that still had to be cleaned, got changed, and flew off to the meeting spot that Alex had sent them the night before.

---

Arriving at the spot, the two landed to find Hank and Alex already there leaning back against the hood of a black four by four. The two were early raisers and Kara and Deity had been anything but that over last few weeks so it was hardly surprising that they were last there...and late.

"Nice of you to finally join us" says Hank as he steps away from the car. Alex hung back, arms folded with a tablet sitting on the hood behind her, her eyes fixed on the two girls who hadn't even taken the time to comb their hair. It was decent enough from the rushing air that had pushed it down, but both girls still had the odd bit of hair pocking out from all sides.

"Sorry" apologises Kara as she rubs her forehead. In truth it wasn't really an apology, just the word she had been using every time she was late. At first it had some meaning to it, but now it was emotionless and just something that had to be said.

"I'm sure you are" replies Hank with a strong hint of sarcasm as he walks past, the two girls turning and following. "Are you ready?" asks Hank looking back at the two over his shoulder. All he got was too grants of "Uh-uh" which suggested they were. His annoyance got the better of him and he quickly shot up into the sky, changing as he did into his natural form. His head enlarging into its green shape with glowing red eyes, his full body purple suit taking form with flowing cape behind as he flew up higher and higher. When he looked back to see if the two heroes were following him he found them right on his tail. However though they were matching his speed, which did require some effort, it didn't look like they were giving it their all. So Hank increased in his speed through the air, the girls matching him and even over taking him.

For a while the three danced through the air, chasing after whoever was in front, which was mostly Deity. This went on for several minutes until eventually the two girls flew down back towards the four by four and landed on the ground. Hank followed them back down and landed beside Alex, sifting back into his human form of 'Hank'. "I didn't say we were done" says Hank sternly.

"We know how to fly, this is pointless" replies Deity folding her arms. She wasn't completely wrong. Both Kara and her had flown more than Hank and both knew exactly what they were doing. If anything it should be them helping him learn how to fly.

"Practise never hurt anyone" says Alex walking up to the three with her tablet in hand. She had been monitoring all their vitals as they flew and tracking their flight patterns as well as their form. Irritably she hadn't noticed anything that she could point out to make them realise they did need practise. Everything the two of them had done was near perfect.

"Sure it did. I saw a kid yesterday practising his driving, would have driven off the bridge if I hadn't stopped him" protests Deity in the way only a teenager could talk back to an adult with experience.

"Well it's a good thing you won't have to learn how to drive then" retorts Alex with a smile, she got one in return from Deity but it wasn't as big as her usual smiles.

"Look I've got to get to work" points out Kara but she sounded like it was just an excuse to leave.

"Go. We're done for today" says Hank, though he clearly wasn't too happy with the attitude he was getting from the two heroes. As Kara shot up into the air, hank began walking back to the four by four.

"Can I get a lift back?" asks Deity to Alex, looking up at her with a squinted eye to block out the shining sun in her eye.

"Why? Forget how to fly?"

"Nah, just feel like break after all that, 'practise'" says Deity as she walks a head of Alex back to the car. Hank had taken up the passenger seat so Deity got in the back and Alex took the driver's seat. She started up the engine and drove for the D.E.O. base, she could drop of Deity after she dropped of Hank. The logic behind this was it was a shorter trip to the D.E.O. than to Kara's apartment and if she had to sit in the car with Hank and Deity staring irritably at each other she'd rather make that time as short as possible. Otherwise she might drive off a bridge like that student driver Deity saved. A smile slide onto her lips as she thought about it and the irony behind it.

---

Sitting down at her desk Kara sighed, the same sigh she had been sighing every time she had come into work since Atra's attack on the city. She had been hping for some time off and although she got it, it had only been two days. Cat had wanted her back as soon as possible to help get the story ready for the public, the story about how Supergirl saved the city. Cat had been working her around the clock since then and since she had sighed whenever she sat down in her chair. Memories flashing back of her rushing around the officer getting various tasks for Cat done, tasks that had never ended that day until finally the article was done and published. However Cat still continued to work Kara in the same fashion and it was starting to irritate Kara. Sure she'd missed out a few hours because of Supergirl business, but she was saving the world. She deserved a reward not more work and longer hours.

She had just delivered to Cat her morning latté and croissant and was now staring blankly at her computer screen. She knew Cat had asked her to do something but she couldn't remember for the life of herself for what it was. Had she wanted to talk to James about photos? Had she wanted to talk to Lucy about something? Had she wanted her to go out and get her another Latté because the one she had brought Cat was too cold? No defiantly not the last one, Kara had never handed Cat a cold latté in her entire working life. If she had she wouldn't have lasted long in Cat Co.

"Kara" says Lucy and Kara's head shots up from her computer screen snapping out of her daydreaming.

"Yeah-what-hello?" the words came pouring out of Kara's still disorientated mouth before she could stop herself. "Sorry" Kara quickly says looking up at Lucy with a sheepish smile that made her look very silly.

"No problem. Can I bore you for a moment?" asks Lucy looking down at her with narrow eyes.

"Actually Cat-"

"Great!" says Lucy grabbing hold of Kara's wrist and dragging her out from behind her desk and leading her across the room towards James' office. Alarms quickly started sounding off in Kara's head. Why was Lucy taking her to James' office? Kara thought to herself in a panic as her facial features betrayed that thought all over. Lucy marched into the office with Kara right behind her and came to a stop in front of James' desk with Kara at her side. James had been looking down at the photos that were scattered across his desk but looked up when he noticed the two in front of him.

"Can I help you?" asks James as his eyes dart from Lucy to Kara, confused as to why the two woman were standing in front of him.

"I want to pick up our conversation again" demands Lucy in a non backing down tone with her hands on her hips. Now it was Kara who had eyes darting between the couple. What had she just been dragged into? She wondered.

"Can't this wait until later?" asks James shaking his head and looking down at his work.

"No" says Lucy stubbornly, glaring down at him. "We're talking now"

"Talking about what?" asks Kara leaning over to Lucy with a shy expressing on her face.

"James isn't sure if he wants me to move in with him" explains Lucy.

"What?" says a shocked Kara.

"I know" agrees Lucy, thinking Kara was shocked that 'he wasn't sure' when she was actually shocked that the two were moving in together. "See Kara gets it" says Lucy pointing to Kara with a nod.

"Kara, why are you getting in the middle of this?" asks James, still shaking his head.

"I wasn't trying-" Kara was quickly cut off by Lucy who was having non of James' attitude.

"Oh! So because she agrees with me she's getting in the way is she" snaps Lucy.

"No. I just don't see why she needs to have a say in this" retorts James, raising from his desk chair.

"I didn't say she had a say in it. I just wanted her help in showing you how wrong you are"

"I've not decided yet Lucy!"

"Because you're 'unsure' which basically means no!" shouts Lucy as their voices begin to raise.

"No it doesn't" shouts James. Kara had begun to take tiny steps back from the fighting couple towards the open door.

"Explain to me again why it makes sense for me to rent an apartment when I spend most of my nights at yours anyway!" Lucy suddenly snaps, causing Kara to blush slightly at the idea of Lucy spending her nights at James'.

"It's about privacy Lucy"

"We're in a relationship! We're not supposed to have privacy" argues Lucy who was beginning to sound a little crazy.

"Guys" Kara speaks up shyly.

"What?!" they both shout looking to her as if she had no business being in the room.

"Nothing- I was just leaving" Kara says quickly before practically running out and closing the glass door behind her. She walked briskly across the room and sat down in her desk chair before pretending to check her emails.

"Well?" comes Cat's voice from her office door way, arms crossed across her chest as she looked down at Kara in her desk chair.

"Sorry?" says Kara looking up at her boss, thinking she had missed something.

"Where's Lucy?" asks Cat. So Cat had asked her to get Lucy, woops.

"She's a bit busy at the moment" says Kara with a smile.

"Having another fight with James?" asks Cat. She got her answer from Kara's mind blown expression like Cat had read her mind. "She was doing it when she came in. But I need her so go and get her for me. Now" says Cat before turning on her heel and heading back into her office.

"Great" muttered Kara under her breath as she got back up and headed back over to James' office to pry the two apart. It had been bad enough seen them together everywhere she looked but now they were, possibly, moving in together. It irritated her. How come she could never get into a relationship like that? In her entire dating life she'd barely gotten past the fourth date. It wouldn't have been so bad if she didn't have to see James and Lucy so often. And now she was getting pulled into their couples' fights. Actually it was more like she was getting pushed in between them by Cat. How sensitive her boss could be.

---

Pushing open the door to her home, Deity walked in with her cape trailing behind her, along with Alex who quickly closed the door before someone saw the girl. They'd been lucky in the fact that no one had seen them because they were either still in bed or at work.

"You couldn't have come through the window?" asks Alex irritably as she pushed of the door. Deity didn't answer, only hop onto the couch and drop down on her back with her legs stretched out. As Alex approached Deity let out a long sigh. Alex's easily picked up on this and after being an Aunt to Deity for over three months or so now she had developed a sense for when something was wrong, much like Kara had. "My Auntie senses are tingling" says Alex, lifting her hands and wiggling her fingers in Deity's direction before she dropped back into the chair opposite the couch. "What's up Debby?" she asks.

"I'm depressed" answers Deity rolling head over so she faced Alex but she remained in her laid back position.

"Are you sure?" asks Alex with a hint of sarcasm and a raised eyebrow. When Deity didn't say anything Alex leaned forwards in her chair and clasped her hands together. "Come on Debby. I can't help if you don't tell me the problem" to this Deity pushed herself up and sat up on the couch opposite Alex.

"I'm a hybrid. Got a cure for that?" asks Deity with a tilt of the head.

"We've been over this. It doesn't matter to any off us what you are. You're still you and labelling yourself isn't going to change that. Heck Hank still looks at you as 'just another alien'" at that Deity laughed a little and Alex smiled. She enjoyed being an Aunt. She preferred to be the fun Aunt other than the serious one, but she had to play both considering the life her Niece and sister lived. After that Deity fell silent again. "I'm going to go out on a limb and assume there's something else wrong?" Deity looked her in the eye for a moment before sighing again and answering.

"It's just... I realised not too long ago that Mom and I have the same friends. Which is fine, don't get me wrong I love Winn and James. But I kind of what to make friends of my own" she says looking down shamefully.

"And you think that's a problem because?"

"I don't want to hurt Mom's feels" admits Deity and Alex lets out a shocked laugh before reaching over and putting her hand on Deity's knee.

"Debby, you're Mom in never going to be mad at you for making new friends. If anything I think she'd encourage it" says Alex with a warm smile and Deity returned it with a shy one. "And do you know what the best way to make friends is?" asks Alex and Deity leans over to listen. "By going to school" and to that Deity flops back towards the couch and sighs.

"Not this again" she moans.

"It's the best way Debby. Kid's your age are always in school and when they're not you're probably saving them" explains Alex to which Deity leans forwards on the couch to argue.

"But if I go to school I won't be able to help people. I can't exactly keep my powers secret and go to and from school whenever someone screams without being noticed" points out Deity.

"You can't save everyone all the time Debby. If you go to school you might start to learn that. Right now you've not got much of a life outside of the being a superhero. Kara has a life, you should get one too" says Alex with a mocking grin as she leaned back in her chair. "Otherwise you'll lose sight of what you're fighting for"

"But school would be..." Deity struggled to find the words.

"Dull, boring, beneath you?" asks Alex, swinging her head from side to side with each answer.

"Yes. No. Probably. I don't know" says Deity as she flops back again.

"You don't have to answer right now you know. Just think about it, ok?"

"Fine" agrees Deity sitting up. "Now, can you explain this Christmas thing to me?"

---

"I heading out with Lucy, Kira" says Cat as she walks out of her office. Sunglasses positioned on her head and held up by her hair while one arm is out stretched to hold her handbag on. "Make sure my lunch is ready for me when I get back" she says and Kara nods to her from her desk. She had just finished putting in the order. She must have been the only one in National City to order lunch and say not to deliver it until it suited Cat.

With that said, Cat took off towards her privet elevator while Lucy headed towards the normal one. Unfortunately James was coming towards Kara from that same to direction and the two caught each other's eye. Kara braced herself to hear the two once again go at it but it never came. They passed each other and all that happened was they narrowed their eyes and glared at one another before continuing on. James stopped at Kara's desk and then looked back and watched Lucy until the elevator doors closed and she was gone.

"Where's Lucy going?" asks James, his head snapping around to view Kara.

"Out for a meeting with Cat" answers Kara looking up to her friend who frowned back down at her. "Is something the matter?" Kara asks leaning on her desk and balancing her head on her hand as she looked up at the handsome photographer.

"Why'd you get in the middle of me and Lucy's argument?" James asks.

"I wasn't aware you were having one, and also she dragged me into it"

"Yeah but-"

"And before you say anything else I didn't actually say anything about the matter. I only spoke up to say I was going...and then came back to get Lucy for Cat. But that was it I said nothing more" points out Kara in her own defence. James opened his mouth to argue, but then froze, shook his head and sighed.

"You're right, I'm sorry" says James running his hands down his face.

"Apology accepted" says Kara leaning back in her chair and folding her arms. She should have left it at that but something inside her made her continue to speak. "So why don't you want her to move in?" asks Kara, quickly wishing she hadn't.

"It's a big step in a relationship to move in together" points out James as he folds his arms on Kara's desk and leans down on it.

"And you're not ready for it?"

"I'm not sure" James says honestly and Kara smiles at him. "What?" James asks once he noticed Kara's smile.

"You're just scared. You should do it, trust me you and Lucy are ready for it"

"Maybe you should take your own advise" replies James with a knowing grin.

"What do you mean by that?" asks Kara but she could already feel the first hint of blush hitting her checks.

"You and Winn. Come on Kara, everyone knows you like him. Heck Debby picked up on it after five minutes with the both of you"

"I don't know what you're talking about" says Kara looking away embarrassingly.

"You don't know about what?" asks Winn, who had suddenly appeared. He was half way around his desk with his bag slung over his shoulder when he spoke up, obviously just catching the last line of the conversation between Kara and James.

"Excuse me?" asks Kara turning to look at Winn with a clueless expression.

"What was it James was talking about that you didn't know about?" asks Winn, repeating his question as he removed his back and sat down at his desk.

"I-I-I-" Kara stuttered as she tried to quickly come up with a lie on her feet. "I-I was wondering. No! -I wasn't sure. No!-I didn't know what James was talking about" says Kara feeling proud for getting that far and falsely thinking that she had answered the question.

"What was he talking about?" asks Winn starting up his computer.

"Pardon?"

"What was he talking about? Geez Kara, are you going deaf?" asks Winn as he looks to his keyboard and finds a small soft toy lying on top of it. As Kara babbled beside him, still trying to come up with answer, Winn picked up the toy and began looking it over. No. No it can't be Winn, thought to himself as he looked over the toy. His thoughts so focused on the toy that he didn't notice Kara was still going, making up a very detailed conversation about what she and James had just been talking about. But he's in jail. How could he? Winn wondered to himself as Kara finished of her explanation.

"...And that's what me and James were just talking about" Kara finishes with a deep sigh of relief while James leaned beside her on her desk grinning away at the pair of them. "So what do you think of that Winn? Winn?" at the second mention of his name by Kara Winn looked up at her and away from the toy.

"Sorry, I wasn't listening" says Winn before looking back to the toy while James started laughing. Kara shot him a glare and James went quite, knowing Kara would get back at him if he kept laughing. And he knew exactly how she would do it as well, by ganging up on him with Lucy until he agreed to the move in.

"What's that Winn?" asks Kara looking over to him and noticing the soft toy in his hands.

"Nothing" snaps Winn before throwing the toy into the bin at the side of his desk. With that said he turn to his computer and got to work, ignoring the startled stares he was getting from Kara and James.

"Is he ok?" asks James, leaning over to Kara so that Winn didn't hear him.

"I don't know" answers Kara as she got up to go and speak to Winn. She was half way over the short space that separated their desks when a guy walked by in front of her and blocked her path. In his hand he held a TV remote and was using it to turn up the volume of one of the TV's that hung from the ceiling like a chandelier. As the sound of the TV filled the room, everyone looked up to see what it was. Not surprisingly it was a news report, the tagline underneath read 'Toyman's escape'.

"Three guards were found dead at National City's Maximum Security Prison, the scene of Toyman's escape. Authorities are look for any leads, but it appears the F.B.I. maybe-" the TV suddenly went mute after Winn jumped out of his chair and snatched the remote from the man that had turned up the volume. The man shrugged it off and continued on while Winn dropped back down into his chair and threw the remote down on his desk.

"Winn. Is everything alright?" asks Kara as she approaches her friend. At first it looked like he hadn't heard her so she put her hand on his shoulder but when she touched him he once again jumped out of his chair.

"I'm fine" he snapped before storming off across the office towards the water cooler to get a drink.

"Sorry" whispered Kara, which Winn would never have heard. He was too enraged by the news.

"Special agent Cameron Chase, I'm here to see Winslow Schott Jr" announces a woman as she enters the office with three other men following her. She was dressed in a black suit much like the others with her with short brown hair. Kara froze when she saw the agent flash her bag, unsure as to why they would want Winn.

"Right here" says Winn raising his hand for beside the water cooler.

"We need to talk" says agent Chase. "Is there somewhere we can talk?"

"The meeting room is available" Kara speaks up and agent Chase gives an appreciative nod towards her. "Thank you. And where is that?"

"I'll show you" says Winn as he leads the way into the room and agent Chase follows, closing the door behind them.

"What would the Feds want with Winn?" asks James as he approaches Kara with a questioning look.

"I don't know. But I'm going to find out" says Kara as she walks towards the meeting room.

"Kara I wouldn't-"

"I know what I'm doing" says Kara casually as she waves him off. She made a show of walking past the meeting room and stopping in the kitchen, which was closer than her desk. Waiting inside, she tucked her lose hair behind her ear and focused on the conversation going on between Winn and agent Chase.

"Has your Father tried to contact you?" asks agent Chase. Why would the F.B.I. be asking Winn about his father. Had he broken out of jail? Wondered Kara as she listened. Winn had never told her much about his father. Only that he'd be arrested when he was very young. She didn't know much about his mother and assumed she had died when he was very young. Most likely before his father was taken off to jail.

"No" answers Winn bluntly.

"Have you seen him?"

"No"

"Do you know anywhere he might go? Anyone he might trust? Did he have any friends?" pressed agent Chase.

"Encase it wasn't obvious, he had no friends. Cause if he did then maybe he wouldn't have blown up an entire office and killed five people" snapped Winn. From the kitchen Kara gasped suddenly. She had never thought that Winn's father had killed people. She'd always assumed that his father had just stolen something, nothing that couldn't be forgiven. But now it turned out he was a murderer.

"That's not an answer" replies agent Chase sternly, to which Winn sighs, recomposes himself and then answers again.

"No. No I don't know where he might go. No I don't know anyone he trusts. And no he had no friends that I'm aware off" answers Winn and with that agent Chase backed off. But only for a moment, she then continued to ask him questions about his father, for most Winn's answers was 'No'. At one point agent Chase questioned him about him being non-cooperative but Winn said he was, it was just he didn't know and all he could answer with was 'no'. As it turns out, he'd never gone and seen his father since he was put in jail. He explained to agent Chase that he'd never spoken to him since he watched the police drag him away. Not because he was embarrassed but because he simply hated his father. When asked why Winn responded with "Wouldn't you hate you're dad if he killed people" After that, Winn had been allowed to leave the room, but not the building. He was fine with this and had gone straight from the meeting room to one of the balconies on the floor. Kara watched him walk across the room with his head hanging low and only followed after him once he was out on the balcony.

"Hey" says Kara as she stopped in the door frame that lead out to the balcony.

"Hey" replies Winn with a sideways glace at Kara before looking away and out over the city.

"Are you ok?" to that Winn forced a laugh.

"No Kara, I'm not ok. Not only is my father a murderer, but a free one. He's out there right now, probably making another bomb" says Winn as he clenches his fist.

"Winn" says Kara as she approaches him, but he backs away to the other end of the balcony. After that the two stood alone on the balcony for a while before finally Winn spoke up.

"I don't know what to do Kara. He's a murderer and I hate him. But he's still my dad" says Winn as he looks to Kara who didn't know how to respond. "You want to know the worst part?" Winn continues. "He wasn't always crazy. If he had been maybe it might have been easier. But he wasn't. He was a good dad"

"What happened?" asks Kara stepping closer, but not so much that Winn would back away again.

"He snapped. His boss stole his toy designs and made a fortune off of them, well as much a fortune as you can make off of a toy"

"Why didn't you dad fight back?"

"Because he was a coward. I asked him to get a lawyer but he said there was no point. But I could see how angry he was. No one else did, and I didn't think it would amount to anything. Then he blew up an entire office in an attempt to kill his boss. Didn't even get him. It was his assistant that opened the package with the bomb in it" explains Winn as he looks down over the edge of the building while Kara stood beside him, carefully listening.

"Winn. I know there's nothing anyone can say right now-" says Kara stepping closer to him again so that now she was beside him.

"Well you have a murderer in your family too so you know what it's like." jokes Winn with a light laugh to follow but Kara doesn't laugh with him. She knows he's covering his pain with humour.

"At least your dad knows to stay away from you. Astra's constantly trying to bring me onto her side, even tried to brainwash me remember" says Kara with a soft smile.

"Yeah, well. That's not entirely true" admits Winn pricking Kara's curiosity.

"What do you mean?"

"You know that toy that was on my keyboard?"

"Yeah"

"It was from my dad. It had a message on the label" says Winn as he looks away ashamed.

"Winn" says Kara in a disappointed and worried tone. "Why didn't you tell the Feds?"

"I don't know. I really don't. I hate him and I just want him locked up so I can forget about him. I tried to forgive him but every time I try I remember what he did and who he killed...I just can't do it" says Winn as he lowers his head.

"Winn you have to tell them" says Kara wrapping her arm around his back before pulling him into a hug. He hugged her back, more than just a friendly reassuring hug. She could feel it. He was scared.

"I'm going to leave an agent to watch over you, encase your father shows up" says agent Chase who had suddenly appeared at the door frame leading inside. Kara and Winn broke from their hug and Winn gave a nod of understanding. As agent Chase went to leave, Winn looked back to Kara who nodded towards the F.B.I. agent indicating for him to tell her what he knew.

"Agent Chase, wait" says Winn and the woman stops, turns back and walks back over to listen. "There's something you need to know"

---

"So do I have to get presents for everybody?" moans Deity as she made a face at her Aunt who had spent the last half an hour explaining the whole tradition that was Christmas. It wouldn't normally have taken anyone this long to explain it but with Deity constantly questioning the logic behind it every five seconds the conversation had been stretched quite a fair bit.

"If you want too" replies Alex as she sat in her chair with her legs crossed at the knee.

"Are you all getting me presents?"

"I can't speak for Winn, James or Hank. But I know me and Kara have gotten you something and my Mom will probably get you something too. In fact I wouldn't bet on Hank getting you anything" says Alex with a shake of her head.

"So I have to get something for you, Mom and Grandma then?" asks Deity with her legs crossed on the sofa, still in her superhero costume. For some reason this was really hard for the girl to understand, it was so strange to her. Then again she was an alien hybrid, what would she have known about human culture and this strange tradition of trading gift for gift.

"I'd appreciate it" says Alex half jokily. "Seriously though if you don't get me a kick ass present I'm going to be pissed" says Alex and the two laugh.

"So what should I get you?" asks Deity, once the two stopped laughing.

"Something you think I'd like" says Alex, waiting to see if the girl would ask what she liked. But she didn't, which presumably meant Deity was either confident in her knowledge of what Alex liked and disliked or she was going to wing it.

"And how do I pay for said gift?" asks Deity, that one stumped Alex. "I don't have any money, it's normally Mom that does all the shopping. I just tag along and when I ask for something she usually gets me it"

"You're starting to make me jealous" says Alex with a funny pout that made Deity giggle.

"So how do I get money then?"

"I've heard of this great thing called a job" says Alex with sarcastic enthusiasm.

"Oh, those" says Deity with loathing in her voice as she rolled her eyes. "Do I get paid to go to school?"

"You get pocket money?"

"What?"

"Pocket money. It's like a reward for being good and doing choirs" explains Alex.

"Does saving the city from an army of Kryptonians count as a choir?"

"No" answers Alex and Deity gives a huffy sigh and crosses her arms. "It's doing stuff around the house like... cleaning the dishes"

"I did that once" Deity spoke up, thinking she'd suddenly earned her reward.

"You have to do it more than once" says Alex and as she finished Deity ran across to the kitchen at super speed and cleaned all the dishes. Before Alex could draw her next breath Deity came to a stop in front of her with her hand held out towards her Aunt.

"I cleaned the dishes again. Now do I get the money?" asks Deity. Alex looked over to the kitchen, too see that all the planets had been washed and cleaned and stacked neatly next to the sink waiting to be put away.

"I'm not Kara. She's the one that decides when to give you the money" points out Alex with a grin. With another sigh Deity stomped her away around the glass coffee table and threw herself back down on the couch.

"But how am I supposed to surprise her with a gift if I can't buy one?"

"I'm sure you'll think of something" replies Alex as her phone starts to ring. Pulling it out of her pocket she saw the caller to be Hank. She answered. "Hi Hank, what's the emergency?" asks Alex, having spent enough time with the man, or alien, to know that he only called when it was an emergency or he needed her to do something to prevent there from being an emergency.

"Hopefully there won't be one" replies Hank in his usual strict voice.

"What you need me for?"

"Actually I need you and your Niece if she's available" corrects Hank.

"I'm available" Deity cuts in before Alex even asked her. Looking over to her dear Aunt, Alex gave her a glare that suggested she had been rude by eavesdropping in on her conversation. "Sorry" Deity says before pushing herself up into a sitting up position.

"I thought Kara told you to stop eavesdropping" says Alex, still glaring at her Niece.

"She did. That doesn't mean I stopped" replies Deity. Alex gives a laugh but then returns to her scowling before going back to her conversation with Hank.

"She's available, what do you need us for?"

"There's an alien running around Gotham sewers supposedly. Nothing major but I figured better to send you and Deity in just encase it turns out to be something serious" explains Hank.

"We'll be there in a few. We going by helicopter or plane?" asks Alex as she got up with Deity following her.

"Last I checked you had a flying Sister and Niece. I thought I'd let one of them fly you over"

"I can do that" Deity agree from behind, not think that Hank was joking.

"Great" says Alex with a shaky unsure voice as they head out the front door and down to the car. Again they were lucky not to get caught by anyone and once they were in the car they headed for the D.E.O.

---

Watching from the deck above, Kara could see Winn walking down the pier towards the amusement arcade that was underneath the wooden deck she stood upon. It turned out that the toy doll that had been on Winn's desk had been an invitation from his father, inviting him to what he referred to as 'their old happy place'. The thought of the words made a shiver run up Kara's back and she clutched herself to remain calm. After showing the toy to agent Chase she had asked Winn to attend the meeting so that they could capture him. It was going to be a simple ambush which would hopefully end in the capture of Toyman, but Kara and Winn knew that in this city something could very easily go wrong at any second. For all they knew Astra could show up at the meeting with Winn's father, or Live Wire could appear out of thin air and kill all of them. For that reason Winn had refused to go to the meeting unless Kara was nearby. Of course Winn didn't have to ask her to be nearby, she would have been any way. Only slightly higher than were she stood now.

From behind her back she could her agent Chase talking into the radio which was wirelessly connected to a microscopic ear piece in Winn's ear, along with a wire that was hidden under his shirt.

"Approaching target" says Winn into his wire, though Kara could hear as if he were standing right next to her thanks to her super hearing.

"Don't speak into the wire Mr Schott" replies agent Chase with the roll of the eyes.

"Copy that" Winn says and Kara smiles to herself before watching him vanish into the arcade and out of sight.

"You're not going to let him get hurt are you?" asks Kara, panic suddenly filling her as she turns back to agent Chase and away from the ocean view.

"Relax Miss Danvers, we know what we're doing" says agent Chase as she finished attaching her bullet proof vest, not even glancing up at Kara. Her voice hadn't been that comforting or convincing either.

"But what if-" Kara had started but then agent Chase cut her off. She lifted her head to glare at Kara, raised a hand and spoke with a raised voice. Apparently she wasn't the most patient person around which was odd considering she was an F.B.I. agent, Kara thought she would have been able to keep her cool for longer but it broke during her second question.

"Look Miss Danvers, you're only here because your friend wouldn't do this without you. Now just stay quiet and out of the way" orders agent Chase before walking away. Oh I'll stay out of the way, Kara thought to herself as she walked off into a side alley nearby to get changed. She doubted agent Chase would even notice she was gone as she stripped down to her costume, hiding in the shadows.

Using her super hearing, she listened down into the arcade and found Winn's footsteps. He was nearly half way through the large room of old games and toys when he came to a stop.

"Dad?" he asks and Kara closed her eyes, wishing she could be there to help him through this.

"Hello son" replies a voice, which Kara presumed to be Winslow Schott Sir's, Toyman. She felt her hands clench at her sides, she wanted so bad to give this man a piece of her mind. Not for his crimes against innocent people, but for what he had done to his son. His selfish actions had cost his son his childhood and had left him with deep emotion scars not that different to Kara's.

From the edge of the pier Kara could hear the F.B.I. moving in on the arcade as Winn and Toyman continued to chat as if everything was normal. They must have confirmed it was Toyman and were ready to grab him. Next thing Kara knew the metal doors to the side of the arcade burst open and a swat team of F.B.I. men ran in with agent Chase at the head. Quickly they surrounded Toyman and Winn with guns aimed at the older of the two.

"Hands up!" barks agent Chase, but Toyman doesn't move.

"Damn it dad put your hands up" begs Winn with a harsh voice.

"Winn. How could you?" asks his father with the same hurt voice as before. Winn was speechless.

"Take him down!" orders agent Chase and all the guns in the room click.

"No-No-No!" shouts Winn as he moves aside from the gun fire but it was too late. Kara may have been faster than a speeding bullet but by the time she had realised what was going on it was too late, she could hear the banging of guns and the whizzing of bullets through the air heading towards Toyman. Then she heard the shatter of glass and confusion struck her.

"It's-it's not him-he's not here" says Winn in sudden relief that he hadn't been expecting.

"I told you to come along" comes the voice of a creepy robot toy doll. As Winn and the F.B.I. searched around for the source of the sound it suddenly shouted "Run!" as over head soft toy elephants began to pump out gas. The gas quickly engulfed the room, choking out Winn and the F.B.I. They would never get out before the gas knocked them out and then killed them. As men began to drop to the floor there was a sudden smash from over head as Kara dropped down into the arcade. Acting quickly she began sucking in as much air as she could, turning around the room like a vacuum she drew in all the gas. Once she got it all, her eyes locked with Winn's and she gave the subtlest of nods. He replied with the same and then she shot back up into the sky, unleashing the gas that she held inside her mouth. Once the cloud of gas was out and in the sky she headed down to find a place to change before returning to Winn.

---

Walking down to the pier Kara's phone began to ring, she sighed. What now? She wondered as she pulled out the phone and looked at the screen. It was Deity that was calling her. Probably wanting to moan about not being invited along to help Winn out, or at least that was what Kara thought. She answered the phone and greeted her Daughter.

"Hey Debby" says Kara as she continues to walk along the pier towards the closed off air with F.B.I. agents wondering around and gather evidence. In amongst them Kara spotted Winn, his hands in his pockets with a gloom face as agent Chase threw question after question at him. Just leave him along, Kara thought to herself with a scowl at the woman but didn't dare say it. After all she was just Kara Danvers. Not someone important like Supergirl.

"Everything alright Mom?" asks Deity, picking up on her Mother's tired voice. She wasn't tired, but inhaling that much gas wasn't something she had plans on repeating. Even a Kryptonian had limits to their powers and sucking in that much gas had left Kara's throat feeling rather ichy and somewhat dry.

"Yeah, I'm just helping Winn with some things" says Kara, walking past a F.B.I. agent who held up the yellow and black boundary tape for her.

"Need any help?" asks Deity, but not as eagerly as Kara thought she would have.

"No, I think we can handle it" replies Kara, stopping and waiting for agent Chase to finish her questioning of Winn.

"Great, so can I go to Gotham City with Alex then?" Deity suddenly blurted out.

"What?!" asks a surprised Kara, attracting the eyes of a few surrounding F.B.I. agents.

"Hank's sending us after an alien that's roaming around. I'll be back before dinner he says"

"Su-sure I guess, ar-are you sure you're ok with this?" asks Kara with stutter, concern and worry mixed in her voice as she frowns to herself.

"I'll be fine Mom" says Deity perkily. "See you when I get back" and then the phone went dead and a tone began to sound through Kara's ear. She put the phone in her pocket just as agent Chase finished her questioning of Winn and walked away, mumbling to herself.

"You alright?" asks Winn turning to Kara and ignoring the suspicious stars of agent Chase.

"Yeah, I'll be fine" says Kara with a soft smile. "What about you, how you holding up?" asks Kara.

"I'm...I don't know. I just didn't think they were going to try and kill him. And now I that I do it...kind of scares me, thinking that he'll be shot when they catch him" says Winn as he looks from side to side at the passing F.B.I. agents, feeling as if he was being watched.

"Not if we find him first" says Kara confidently.

"No" says Winn instantly. "Kara, I'm not letting you put your life on the line for my stupid dad. This...this is my problem"

"-Which means it's my problem too" Kara cuts in and Winn walks around her with an irritated and heavy sigh. "Winn, just think about what you've done for me. These past few months with becoming Supergirl and helping me raise Debby, I couldn't have done any of that without you" she explains but Winn was having none of it.

"You'd be fine, you and Debby would both be fine...Alright your costumes would have sucked and you would have looked like idiots but you...You'd be fine. You don't need me. You never have" says Winn in saddening realisation.

"That's not true" Kara says stepping over to him. "I need you Winn, without you I'd fall apart, I couldn't do any of this without you" but despite her words Winn continued to deny it and just shook his head. "I know what it's like to be isolated, to have lost everything. You were one of the things that pulled me back from the isolation, from the darkness. You helped save me. And I know you're dad misses you and just wants to be with you, to make up for his mistakes. Because when I'm not with you...miss you too. Every second you're not with me. I miss you" she stopped, suddenly realising that she might have said too much. "Let me help you. The way you've always helped me?" begs Kara, recovering from her trip up of the tongue. Winn stared at her with sad eyes. He wanted her help, she knew he did, but he didn't want to put her in danger. Then Kara's phone beeped and she pulled it out to see Cat was texting her. Kara sighed and then Winn gripped her on the shoulder and she looked up.

"Alright" he says and she smiles lightly at him.

"Thank you. I'll see you at Cat Co" she says before running off to get back before Cat got really mad. Winn would have to get back the old fashioned way.

---

"Why didn't you tell me that he was the son of 'Toyman'?" demands Cat the second Kara entered her office. When she said 'he' Kara naturally assumed that she was referring to Winn. Funny how even when one of her employs was the centre of a story she couldn't remember their name. Then again Kara had been working for Cat for several years now and she still didn't know her name. Or she did but she mispronounced it constantly.

"Honestly Miss Grant, I didn't know. I don't think anyone knew because he didn't want anyone to know" says Kara as she lowers her head down so that she didn't have to look at her boss, who was giving off a little bit of the crazy vibe right now.

"Well if he wanted that then he should have changed his last name. So, when can we set up an interview?" asks Cat as she marches back over to her desk with Kara quickly following and opening her mouth to protest but before she could Cat had started talking again. "He seems like a very sensitive boy, does he know how to cry on cue?" asks Cat, the gears in her head already spinning as she thought up how the interview could play out.

"Miss Grant-"

"What is it Kira?" asks Cat as if she had somehow forgotten Kara was in the room with her.

"Miss Grant-"

"You already said that Kira. Don't repeat yourself it's very much a waste of time, mainly mine" says Cat as she started scribbling down notes, most likely for the interview she was already planning. She was like a wedding planned with interviews, everything was done down to the last detail and nothing was left up to chance. Annoyingly this was distracting her from what Kara was trying to get across to her.

"Miss Grant Winn isn't doing any interviews" Kara finally got out. Cat stopped writing. Slowly her head rose from the paper and her eyes locked with Kara's. Kara wanted to look away but knew if she did it would only make this worse for herself so she was forced to stand and stare into her bosses crazy mad eyes.

"What do you mean, he's not doing the interview?" asks Cat slowly as she lowers her pen. Kara was thankful for that. Not because it meant she now had her boss's undivided attention but because it meant she couldn't jump over the desk and stab her with the pen now that it was out of her hand. True she had skin strong as steel, but knowing Cat she'd find away to stab Kara with the pen despite that small fact.

"He's in to delicate a place right now, plus I didn't think it's fair on him. He's already getting harassed by the F.B.I., please don't make this any harder on him by pressuring him into an interview" begs Kara. For a long moment that followed, Cat said nothing. She just stared up at Kara, thinking.

"Alright" she finally says, much to Kara's surprise. "But if I catch him doing an interview with Lois Lane, he's fired" Cat adds as she starts ripping up the paper on her desk.

"Thank you Miss Grant" says Kara with an appreciative smile.

"You still here Kira?" says Cat with slight surprise when she looked back up to see her assistant still standing in her office.

"Sorry" Kara says quickly before making her exit. At least that was one problem dealt with.

---

It had been so long since she'd last done this. Kara had offered to do it so many times until she came out as Supergirl, since then the offers had declined in their frequency. But doing it now with Deity, Alex couldn't understand why she had never let Kara take her out flying when she offered. It was such a rush, the air blowing in her face, her short hair waving around behind her with the sound of air pushing its way into her ears, blocking out all other sounds. It was incredible.

"Having fun?" asks Deity from above her. Deity was too small for Alex to sit on her back without it looking awkward so Deity had wrapped her arms under Alex's shoulders and hand been holding on to her tightly since they set off. Sure Hank had offered them a helicopter, by why fly in a metal can when you can do it yourself.

"Yes!" replies Alex in a shout so that Deity could hear her over the rushing wind in their faces. Despite the fact that her legs were dangling down and if she looked down it felt like she was falling, it was undeniably fun. She felt like a child again, flying over the ocean with Kara before taking off up into the sky to do a few laps around the skyscrapers. She wished they had done it more often as kids, enjoyed it while they had the chance too. Now it was all serious. Or it was until Deity came along, now they had a reason to be childish again.

"We're nearly there" says Deity as she begins to descend through the clouds. They went through a large black cloud, half expecting to enter a rain shower when they came out the other end, but once they left the cloud they saw below Gotham city. Despite the fact it was closer to lunch than dinner, it was extremely dark in the city. It was almost as if it had a permanent shadow casting over it. Lights shone form windows as Deity dove down to one of the lower roof tops. The two girls awed as they looked out over the city and saw Wanye Tower in the distance before it vanished behind another building. It's bright blue 'W' being the brightest thing in the city, almost like it held their saviour up above it, or below it. Landing on the roof top, Deity released Alex and landed next to her. Shaking her head Alex fixed her hair and smiled down at her Niece who smiled back up at her.

"God that was fun" says Alex as she laughed.

"Just wait for the ride home. That'll be a bit more lively" teased Deity with a mischievous grin on her face.

"Alright, serious time" says Alex as the laughter stops and she pulls her gun from her side, pulling back the top before it slide back into place with a loud click. She pulled out the ammo from the bottom of the handle and made sure it was full before loading it back inside.

"Hank say what we were looking for?" asks Deity as she watches Alex check her weapon over.

"He doesn't know what it is. Only a few descriptions but they don't match up. One team said it looked like a giant lizard. Almost described it as a human crocodile at one point" explains Alex as she puts her gun back in the holster attached to her waist.

"And what was the other description?" asks Deity as Alex drops to one knee and pulls the rack sack she had off her back, again checking through the supplies she'd brought with her. Most of it was medical supplies for her and Deity encase of emergency but she also had a flash light, some grenades, extra ammo, small snacks and a couple of other tools they could use against the alien should they need them. Though she only brought them encase of an absolute emergency, she didn't think she'd actually need to use them, even Hank had said it should be easy enough.

"The other made it sound like something out of a Science Fiction show" says Alex, suddenly realising that that was what her life had become. A science fiction show with superheroes mixed in. "It was a humanoid. Green skin, white eyes and lips. It wore scrappy cloths from a dumpster apparently" says Alex, having finished her check of the bag and was raising back up. "Should be easy enough" says Alex as she flung the bag over her shoulders.

"Any powers, beside the obvious shape shifting thing?" asks Deity as they made their way over to the fire escape.

"None that we know off. But then that's why you're here" she answers with a smile at her Niece, who grins back at her. It didn't take them long to get down the fire escape. Mostly because Deity just floated down beside Alex as she slide down the ladders. Once at the bottom they located a manhole cover fairly quickly in the alley that they had dropped down into. Opening it up the two instantly recoiled as the disgusting air made contact with their noses.

"Oh God" moans Deity as she covers her mouth and nose with both hands, looking away as she squirmed.

"That's disgusting" adds Alex as she too covers her moth with her arm stretched across her lower face. "Well. On you go then" says Alex motioning down the hole in the ground, without removing her arm from her face.

"You're kidding right?" asks Deity, her voice muffled from her hands that were still pressed against her face.

"You're the one with the superpowers. If he's down there waiting for you then you'll have a better chance at beating him than me" points out Alex.

"I'm also the one with the super nose. You go down first" retorts Deity, neither budging.

"I'm older" argues Alex resorting to arguing like a child.

"I agree, you should go down first"

"That's not what I said"

"No it's what I said"

"One of has to go down first"

"I could throw you down if you like"

"There's an idea" says Alex and then suddenly pushes her down into the manhole. The girl topples head first down and lands below in mucking green water face up. She made a groan and moan of pure disgust and discomfort before sitting up in the water and looking up at her Aunt who smiled down at her through the hole.

"Winn's going to kill you for that" says Deity as she pushed herself up out of the water.

"It's nothing worse than what you and Kara have done" replies Alex as she climbs down into the sewer.

"Yeah, but I never made it stink like this before either" says Deity with a disgusted look at her suit as her Aunt turned to face with a grin. The two made their way down the sewer, heading the opposite direction of the flowing mucky water. After awhile the light from the manhole faded and they descended into darkness. Before Alex could pull out her flashlight Deity raised her hand and it became surrounded in a ball of yellow light, acting as a light for the two.

"Nice trick" comments Alex, fairly impressed with how quickly Deity had mastered her new power.

"Thanks, I've been working on it" says Deity with a smile. Then a few steps latter the bubble of light around her hand burst and they were back in darkness.

"Still needs some work I see"

"Shut up" replies Deity, annoyed that she still hadn't mastered this new power after a month of training. Alex whipped out her flashlight and once again there was light, although this light was white and only shone in a straight line where as Deity's was more natural and illuminated a much bigger radius. At least they had light, which would make finding this new alien a lot easier. You know, once they searched through all the swage tunnels in Gotham City. Then they'd find him. If they didn't pass out form the smell first.

---

Kara had returned from getting herself and Winn some takeout food, two containers of food held in each hand. The office was oddly quite for the middle of the day, but then again when F.B.I. showed up to start questioning employs, suddenly everyone had something to hide and bolted. It had made Kara wonder what on earth the people she was working with did with their personal time, and it crept her out, so she quickly stopped thinking about it after her brain had come up with enough strange scenarios. As she walked over to Winn's desk to hand him his takeout food, she found him tinkering with a toy. Not just any toy, but the soft toy that had been on his keyboard when he first arrived this morning.

"Winn, what are you doing?" asks Kara nervously, half expecting the toy to suddenly explode in his hand.

"I'm just doing a bit of investigating" answers Winn as he peels back the behind of the toy, to find a small chip inside. "Bingo" says Winn as he sets down his tools and gets up to show Kara what he'd found. "Look at this" says Winn showing Kara the behind of the toy. Several inappropriate jokes popped into Kara's head but she didn't say any of them. Instead she leaned in, straightened her glasses and focused them so that she could see what Winn was pointing at clearly. In the centre of the chip that Winn had found was a tinny disc with a 'Y' engraved in it.

"It's a Y?" says Kara, not understanding the fuss Winn was making.

"No it's not. It's a slingshot. 'Slingshot' was the name of a company my dad started up long ago. He owned this warehouse down town, the bad part you know. It didn't last but every toy they made had this little chip put in them" says Winn pointing to it.

"Do you think that's where you're dad could be hiding?" asks Kara suddenly ready to go.

"It's the most likely place you'll find him" says Winn. Kara nodded to him and then headed for the roof. She was going to bring his father in, something she never thought she'd have to do. But it was better than letting the F.B.I. shoot him to death. She knew Winn had very strong feelings against his father but no matter how he felt it would all change when he died. She didn't want to let that happen to him, not to Winn. She quickly changed and headed to the address Winn gave her.

---

Landing outside of the old wooden warehouse, Kara knew Winn hadn't been kidding when he told her it was in the bad part of town. It wasn't bad because of high crime rates or anything like that, it was bad because of the ugly rundown buildings that took up the streets. Though the 'bad part' was only technically a few blocks, most of it had already been condemned by city hall for rebuilding.

ara then pushed her thoughts about real estate aside as she marched up to the old iron doors. She grabbed onto the handles and pulled the doors open, enough for her to step inside. Walking in she looked around but saw no sign of anyone. The place was definitely abandoned, dust and old blankets covering most of the objects in the room. What wasn't covered was either an unusually large toy or a wooden create, most likely containing more toys inside.

"Mr Schott" announces Kara as she takes another step inside. "I'm a friend of your sons" she adds but gets no reply. Just when Kara thought the place couldn't get any creepier, what with the old worn toys staring at her and all, the sound of two cymbals hitting each other come from the floor ahead. Kara stopped and watched as a small toy came out of the shadows. In its hands were two tiny cymbals that it kept banging together to create the noise. As it emerged Kara could see that it was a wooden toy on wheels that had been made to resemble her. It came all the way across the floor before inevitably stopping at her feet. Again, 'creepy' was the only word that came to Kara's mind. "I know you love your son. Trust me, I have the same feeling. Think about what's best for him" announces Kara again, addressing the room and waiting for Toyman's reply.

"That's all I think about" comes his voice finally and Kara looks over to see Toyman standing off to the side of the room next to a giant soft toy panda. Kara looked over to him but remained still, she didn't want to scare him off. "All this," says Toyman as he walks across the room, gesturing out with his arms. "Is for him"

"He doesn't want this Mr Schott. Please, just come with me so we can sort this out" pleads Kara. Toyman offers her a smile but shakes his head.

"No. No, no I'm afraid I can't do that. You see I have a plan, one that I've been think about for a while now, and I'm not going to have it ruined by you, the police or even the F.B.I."

"And what about Winn?"

"Oh he won't let me down. He never has" says Toyman proudly.

"I'm sorry Mr Schott, but for Winn, I'm going to have to take you in" says Kara walking over and reaching out with her hand to grab his wrist. Toyman stood still and waited, not putting up any fight. Then again he didn't have to as once Kara was close enough the giant soft toy panda swung out with its paw and knocked Kara aside. She flew back and slammed into a stack of crates that broke apart on impact, sending hundreds of miniature figures to the ground around Kara. She was about to get back up but then felt something pinch at her skin, it didn't hurt but was strong enough to be noticed. She looked down to see the miniature figures running all over her like army ants and some of them were even jabbing her with their tiny swords. She brushed them off but they just got back on. Eventually she realised she had to get off the ground and floated up into the air before brushing them off once and for all. Now with them all on the ground below her, Kara used her freeze breath and all the miniature figures turned to ice.

She looked back over to where Toyman had been standing but he was now gone, only the panda remained. Kara attempted to use her X-ray vision to find Toyman but she didn't get the chance as the soft panda tackled her out of the sky and pinned her to the ground. Despite its unusual strength, it was still just a soft toy and Kara broke clean through it with her heat vision, splitting the thing in two halves before kicking the remains off of her.

Again she tried to use her X-ray vision but then a scream came from above, the scream of a young girl. Kara looks up to see an old trunk hanging from the roof, the sound of a panicking girl coming from inside. Suddenly the trunk holding her dropped and started plummeting towards the ground. Not thinking twice Kara stopped what she was doing and shot up into the air to catch the truck with the young girl inside. "It's ok, I've got you" says Kara once she had a firm hold of the trunk, but still the girl screamed from inside. Kara didn't waste any time in lowering the trunk to the ground and then breaking the lock with her hand. Shock took over her face as she opened the trunk, realising it was just another of Toyman's dolls inside. It had been a trick. He'd known the panda and the miniature figures wouldn't be enough to slow her down so he recorded the voice of a screaming girl and used it to distract Kara. "Damn it" Kara mutters to herself as she kicked the trunk away. She'd let Winn down. And right when he'd need her the most, she'd failed him.

---

They'd been searching for what felt like hours now, though that might have been because of the smell more than anything else. Every time they'd turned a corner it had felt like they were walking around in circles. They must have walked for miles, Deity assumed as she and Alex continued to march through mucky water. At this point Deity' bright yellow boots had turned into a mucky green yellow colour with a slime like substance slithering down them every time she lifter her feet out of the water. But she kept thinking positively, at least it wasn't on her skin.

"How much longer is this going to take?" asks Deity finally after turning around another corner. She and Alex had been chatting away for most of their search, but during the last few minutes the flame of conversation had died out and now Deity was bored.

"I don't know Deity" groans Alex in response. She like Deity, just wanted to get out of the sewer, go home and have a hot shower before dropping on her bed for some much deserved sleep. But they couldn't leave until the job was done, so they kept going.

As they walked for another few paces, Alex felt her foot hit something under the water, but it was too dark too see what it was. "Watch your step" says Alex as she steps over the obstacle, Deity following her Aunt's feet placement so that she didn't trip. They continued on another few steps until Alex abruptly stopped and raised a hand in front of Deity.

"What is it?" asks Deity when Alex didn't say anything.

"You hear that?" asks Alex. Deity focused her hearing but all she could her was the small waves of the green water beneath her, along with some drops of water hitting the stream from behind them.

"Nope, just water" says Deity and Alex gives her a questioning look. "Who's the one with the super hearing here?" asks Deity with a tilt of the head and raise eyebrows, irritated that her Aunt was questioning her hearing abilities.

"Alright, let's keep moving" says Alex and they start walking again until they come to a fork in the tunnel. One leading to the left and another leading to the right. Alex stood in the intersection, looking from left to right trying to decide which way to go. After taking more than ten seconds to decide, Deity sighed and walked over to the tunnel wall to lean against.

As Alex continued to think, Deity heard something from behind. It was the dripping of water she'd heard before, but it was getting closer. Moving towards them. She looked back down the dark tunnel trying to think why the dripping would be following her and Alex. Then she saw why.

"Huh, Alex. Can you describe the alien to me again?" asks Deity as she pushes off the wall and walks backwards towards Alex.

"I already told you, there's two descriptions" says Alex as she continues to look from left to right, but not behind to were Deity was.

"Let me save you some time. Does it look like that?" asks Deity pointing back down the tunnel towards the green bulky thing that was staggering towards her and Alex. Alex turned around and yelped in horror when she so the thing coming towards her.

"Yep, that'll be it" says Alex, regaining her composure and drawing her gun, flashlight still in hand. As the light hit the creature that stood before them, they got a much better look at it. It was bulky, but only from the top, it legs looked like that of tooth picks that were trying to hold up a match box. Shaking from the weight of the muscular mass above. However as it got closer, they spotted it didn't have only two legs but several, all shaking as it held up the large top half. It's skin was green, though that could have been because of the sewage water that had formed a blanket around it and that was slowly dripping away. Only his eyes and lips were noticeable through the thin wet blanket, chalk white and clear as day, sharp black teeth showing between the part lips. As for the eyes they were large and round, almost the size of a small child's fist and took up most of his face. As for the arms, he had two tentacles like arms that parted in the middle where the elbow should have been and broke off into two separate tentacles. So he had four stubby tentacle hands.

"I think you're guys need to get their eyes tested. What part of that looks humanoid?" asks Deity as she recoils at the sight of the advancing alien.

"Freeze" orders Alex but the alien kept coming. When he was close enough to attack them, Alex fire a shot and the alien caught it in his shoulder. Or at least what the girls assumed to be its shoulder, you never could really tell with aliens, especially non humanoid ones.

Lashing out in pain the alien swung with his two of his tentacles and the girls ducked under the attack. Though in hindsight it might have been better to take the hit, at least then their noses wouldn't have been so close to the stinking water. The slimy tentacles passed over head, missing the girls and slammed into the side of the tunnel. As they pulled away, they left a clear dent in the side, a few bit of rubble falling away as the tentacles slide back over to the creature.

"That's disgusting" comments Deity as she straightens up along with Alex.

"He's not that ugly" jokes Alex as she aims her gun.

"No not that, I got some of the water in my mouth" says Deity before scratching her tongue, desperately trying to get rid of the taste in her mouth. Alex ignored her and fired another two shots at the alien. This time though the Alien dropped on its side and dodged the attack. Then its legs shot out, zigzagging across the room and knocking the gun from Alex's arm before entangling around her. Alex tried to break free but the lower half of the alien's tentacles had to good a hold on her as they continued to wrap around her body like wild vines.

"Little help please" says Alex as the tentacles start to drag her back towards the body of the alien. Deity stopped scratching her tongue, lifted up off the ground and shot past Alex towards the alien's body. Deity slammed her fist in the chest of the alien but it didn't seem to have any effect on it as it continued to pull Alex. Deity tried another punch but still nothing. She was about to have a third go when two large tentacles came up behind her and wrapped themselves under her shoulders and around her arms.

"Let go off me!" shouts Deity as she struggles against the aliens grasp. Her eyes then begin to glow bright yellow and her energy vision shoots out and hits the alien directly in the face. It makes a groan of some sorts, which sounds painful, and then drops Alex. However its grasp on Deity only tightens, recognising her as the threat. As its tentacles continue to tight, Deity could feel her hands loosing feeling and going numb before feeling the pain of a possibly snapping arm took over. She hit the alien again with her energy vision but it only made things worse. Deity groans aloud in pain, managing to bite most of it back. Then two shots rang out through the tunnel as Alex shot the alien's two tentacles that held Deity. It made another groan of pain and loosed its grip on Deity. It was enough. Deity's hands light up as golden spheres surrounded them and she swings for the elbow of the tentacles, were they split in two. Her fist connects and then she drops down into the water as the alien realises her.

Pushing out of the mucky water, Deity only had a second to recover before another tentacle shot out and slammed into her throat, sending her back down towards the fork in the tunnel. Another tentacle had knocked the gun from Alex's hands and was now trying to land a hit on her while she dodged from left to right. She swung an occasional punch at the tentacle but it didn't seem to have any effect. Then Deity was back in the battle as she flew past, hands once again covered in a golden glow. She blocked an oncoming tentacle with her left arm and jabbed into it with her right fist. It wasn't enough to hurt the alien, but it got the large tentacle out of her flight path and gave her a clear shot at the alien, who was now back on his shaking tentacle feet. She lunged forward with her left fist, then swiftly followed through with right before breaking out into a frenzy of punches. As she hit the alien repetitively, it stumbled back, with each step back it threatened to fall over like a tree that was being cut down from the base. After pushing it back nearly three meters the alien finally dropped on to its back and down into the water. It made one last attempt to try and get up but Deity finished it with a swift kick to its, or what looked like its jaw line. Its head flopped backwards and hit the water with a splash and then it stopped moving all together. It was unconscious.

Realising this, Deity let her hands relax. He fingers dropped out of the fist form and the glow around her hands faded just as Alex stopped beside her, placing a comforting hand on Deity's shoulder.

"Nice work" says Alex with a tired sigh. "Now all we have to do is get him out of here" To this Deity rolled her head and looked up to Alex with half closed eye lids.

"Get someone else to do it. We've earned a break" says Deity moodily and Alex laughs.

Alex had then called the D.E.O. who sent out a chopper to pick them and the prisoner up. Upon Deity's refusal to go back into the sewer, several 'brave' D.E.O. agents went down to get the alien and then hauled him up to the surface. After they pulled him aboard the chopper, Deity and Alex had gotten on and they took off for home. Alex making jokes about how Deity had promised her a flight home. Deity then pointed out that she had one and if she didn't like it she could walk home, to which everyone in the chopper laughed. Of course none of them had noticed the two shadows watching them from the roof tops.

"What you think" asks a female voice, young but past puberty. Young adult. Perky.

"They've dealt with it. No sense getting involved" says another voice, this one harsh and older. A male's voice. Serious.

"I mean the girl" says the female, giving the dark figure beside her a look of amusement and mischief.

"Not our concern" replies the male, glaring down at the female next to him.

"Come on. You're not even a little curious?"

"No... We came here to find Croc. Now let's move" says the male dropping down into the ally and quickly descending into the still open manhole, like a shadow running in the night. The female smiles to herself before following. Again, like a shadow. They had work of their own to do.

---

"I should never have let you go" says Winn in self loathing as he paces about Kara's apartment. After searching around the building and finding no trace of Toyman Kara had called Winn and asked him to meet her at her apartment. There she had told him everything that had happened and now he was in self blame mode, even though Toyman hadn't done anything to harm her. That said she was feeling the same because of Toyman's escape, she'd let Winn down and it was hurting her. Worse than anything Toyman could do to her. "If he had hurt you, in anyway-"

"Winn, I'm fine" says Kara reassuringly, having changed out of her costume and back into her casual clothes. It was then as she looked at him across the room that she saw he had his phone out. "Who are you calling?" she asks sitting up at the counter where she was sat.

"Agent Chase" answers Winn, to which Kara jumps out of her seat and dashes across the room.

"No-no-no" says Kara as she snatches the phone from his hands. "You know they'll kill him" she points out, setting the phone aside on the counter out of Winn's reach.

"Let them" says Winn angrily. "The world would be better off without him" he adds turning to start pacing again.

"You don't want that on your conscious. I will find him and I will hand him back over to the authorities.

"What's the point" snaps Winn suddenly, turning to face Kara again. "There's clearly something wrong with him and it can't be helped"

"He can be helped Winn, you can help him. You taught me not to give up on people so I won't give up on your dad even if you want to. We can save him" says Kara firmly.

"No, no he's beyond saving" protests Winn.

"No one's beyond saving Winn" says Kara and then Winn turns away, running his hands down his face. Kara watched him for a moment as he rubbed his eyes, something else was wrong, she just knew it.

"There's something you're not telling me" says Kara and Winn lets out a forced laugh.

"Yeah, there is" he says and turns around to face her, a scared look in his eye. "I'm scared of becoming like him"

"That will never happen" protests Kara taking a step over towards him.

"What's to stop it then?" demands Winn, tears now falling from his eyes. There was a pause and then Winn sighs. He walks over to the couch and sits himself down, Kara then slowly walks over to join him. "It's scary. How similar we are. We look the same, talk the same, we're good at the same things. It's just scary how similar we are" says Winn.

"You're not the same" protests Kara, sitting herself down and putting her hand on his knee. Rubbing it in hopes of comforting him, but it didn't work. Another pause.

"I feel like...I'm a ticking time bomb. Just waiting to blow up and suddenly become him"

"That will never happen. You're a good person Winn" says Kara looking at him, but his head was turned away from her. Then he turned, hurt in his eyes.

"That's what people said about him. And then he killed five people. And now every time I start to get angry, I wonder. Is this it? Is this the day I become like him?" says Winn, tears still rolling slowly down his checks. Kara continued to rub his knee but he didn't seem to notice. She stopped and wrapped her arm around him, pulling him into a hug.

"You're not going to become like him, Winn. I know, because, I know you. You are a good person" as she talks she stops hugging him and takes his hand in hers. "We're linked. We're both good, kind people. That's why we're such good friends. That's why I know, no matter what..." she stopped talking. Kara could feel herself leaning in towards him. Her lips parting as she edged closer and closer towards him. She tried to stop herself but she could. Her brain told her, shouted at her to stop but the rest of her body kept going. Her brain was being over powered by her heart. It was only when her lips were millimetres from Winn's was it that she finally stopped. She'd been looking down at her own lips and not Winn's. But now she could see that they were poised in the same shape as her own, ready for the kiss. Kara's eyes then drift up to Winn's and they connect. She wanted nothing more than to continue, to kiss Winn. She'd wanted it for so long and now that the moment had finally come she couldn't do it. It wasn't the right time. "I'm sorry" her voice escapes her lips as a whisper but it couldn't have been louder in Winn's ears.

"It's alright" says Winn, clinging to hope that she'd still go through with it.

"No, you're in a delicate place right now. I can't" says Kara as she pulls away. Then her urges took over again, she could feel herself leaning back over for the kiss. Desperate to steal just one. But before their lips could connect her phone started to ring. Damn.

She lifted up her own phone from the coffee table and saw it was Deity. She would be kicking herself when she found out it was her that had stopped Kara and Winn from kissing.

"I...I think...I think I'm going to go" says Winn getting up to go as Kara throws the phone aside.

"You don't have-"

"It's fine, Kara. I'll see you tomorrow at work" was all Winn says before vanishing out of the door, closing it behind him. With the door closed Kara let out the heaviest sigh she'd ever let out. A sigh of hopeless disappointment mixed in with longing and lust and sadness. The phone continued to ring behind her. It stopped. Then started again, breaking Kara from her dreamy stare towards the door. Waiting for Winn to burst back through and kiss her. It didn't happen. So she answered the phone.

"Yes?" Kara says into the phone, her voice highlighting her depression.

"Whoa, what's wrong with you?" asks Deity down the phone, wind also blowing down the speaker and into Kara's ear as static background noise.

"Nothing, why are you calling?" asks Kara rather quickly.

"Just to tell you I'm on my way back with Alex" at Deity's answer, Kara gripped the bridge of her nose in between her thumb and index finger. That was what had ruined her romantic kiss with Winn. A phone call from her Daughter to tell her she was coming home. Seriously.

"Good to know" replies Kara, fighting the urge to scream as she squeezed her eyes shut. "I'll see you soon then, bye" before Deity could reply Kara hung up and threw the phone down on the couch. She sighed again, another heavy sigh and walked into the bedroom. She removed her glasses and dropped them on her nightstand before falling face first onto her bed. Another heavy sigh of disappointment. So close, she thought. So close.

---

The next day at Cat Co, Kara was waiting at her desk for Winn to arrive. She'd gotten in half an hour early in hopes that he too would come in early. He hadn't. As a result Kara had spent the last two hours sitting at her desk leaning her head on her arm waiting for Winn to arrive. But now he was officially late, something that Winn rarely was. Unless he had called in sick to avoid her. No, Winn wouldn't do that. Would he?

As Kara contemplated Winn's ability to fake a cold and get out of work, she didn't hear the elevator behind her ping and open up with Cat inside. Cat marched over to her assistant's desk and glared down at her once she realised that her assistant hadn't noticed her presence.

"Kira?" Cat says, alerting Kara to her presences. Her voice nearly made Kara jump out of her seat in fright. She'd completely forgot about Cat and everything she was supposed to get done before she arrived at work.

"Miss Grant I-I-I-I-" Kara stuttered in panic as she tried to come up with an excuse to a question she hadn't even been asked yet.

"Calm down Kira. Follow me" orders Cat with a wiggling finger that rolled in towards her palm before extending out and repeating the process. Kara got up from her desk and followed Cat into her office, but her eyes continued to look out across the office for any sigh of Winn before she was fully inside her boss' office. Turning back to Cat, Kara found that the woman had already walked around her desk and was seated waiting for Kara to approach her. Kara did this and stopped on the other side of Cat's Desk, looking down nervously at her boss who's eyes were locked with her own.

"Alright, let's hear it" says Cat as she clutches her hands together and sets them down on the desk, looking up at Kara with what resembled a caring smile.

"Excuse me?" asks Kara in confusion.

"What's the reason for you staring dreamily across the office?" demands Cat, awaiting Kara's explanation.

"I-I-I-I-" Kara started to stutter again.

"Kira, I'm giving you one chance to explain yourself before I unleash my full, 'furry', on you. So I suggest you take it before I do so" says Cat in a calm voice as she continues to stare up at her assistant.

"Well I-I-I-I-"

"Get to the point Kira" Cat finally says, fed up with Kara's continually stuttering.

"I was waiting for Winn" Kara blurted out, her cheeks turning hot red form the moment that she said it.

"Why?"

"Because..." she froze.

"Because you like him" states Cat and Kara's jaw drops slightly. "Oh, please it's hardly a secret. Now look Kira I'm all for the office romances, in fact that's half the reason I hired Lucy, but that's beside the point. You and Winn can do whatever it is you're doing, but if it gets in the way of your job then I'll have to find a new assistant is that understood?" Kara nodded. "Good. Now get my latté and breakfast before I decide to fire you any way" says Cat and Kara dashes out of the office. She raced back to her own desk and only looked up to see if Winn was there. When she saw he wasn't, she quickly ordered Cat's breakfast and started for the elevator. Unfortunately when she got in, the doors didn't close before Lucy and James jumped in beside her.

"Hey Kara" says James with a smile.

"Morning" adds Lucy in a perky voice as the doors closed behind them. As the elevator descended the two continued to stare at Kara with wide smiles, almost waiting for her to ask way they had them. She didn't. She wasn't in the mood for a happy couple. Not with the romantic luck she was having recently anyway. Eventually the power of their irritably happy smiles and stares wore her down and she asked the question they wanted to hear.

"What's with the smiles?" asks Kara, faking her interest.

"We decided to move in together" the two answer, loudly, in unison as the embrace each other. Kara just smiles and nods as they two hug each other. Then elevator door opens and Kara slides around them and makes her exit.

"We'll see you back up stairs" says James as the doors close and the elevator makes its return trip. Kara sighed, why did they have to do that? Today of all days. She just needed a break from the lovey dovey stuff, at least until she sorted things out with Winn. Then Lucy and James could make all the romantic gestures they wanted in front of her. She just wanted to talk to Winn. Where was he?

---

As the blur in his eyes faded, Winn felt a groan escape his throat. He knew who was standing before him, long before his vision cleared. Who else on Earth would want to kidnap him other than his psychotic dad?

"Don't be scared. I just need you to listen" says Toyman as Winn begins to get feeling back in his body. He went to move, to rub his hands against his face, but found them to be tied down by the wrist. His legs had also been tied down to the chair legs so he couldn't move them either.

"Oh god" groans Winn, rolling his head back as he realised what was going on. "Why dad, why?"

"Now that doesn't sound like listening to me Son" says Toyman. Winn let out a sigh of annoyance before looking his dad in the eye, waiting for him to explain himself.

"That's better. Now, we both know who's fault all this is"

"Yours" snaps Winn hurtfully and his Father lets out a chucke.

"No, it's Dunholtz's fault, and we're going to make him pay" says Toyman as he rubs his hands together in excitement.

"Not this again dad. Let it go. He only stole your toy designs"

"No!" snaps Toyman, leaning in towards Winn with his snarling angry glare. "No he didn't. You see. He also stole you from me, for over a decade. He locked me up and took you away from me. But don't worry. I have a plan on how to fix, everything"

"You're going to kill him?" asks Winn, eyes following his father as he paced back and forth in front of him.

"No" says Toyman, almost hurt at the obvious answer. "I'm not going to kill him. You are" explains Toyman with a proud smile now on his face.

"No" replies Winn stubbornly with a glare. He wasn't scared of his dad, he knew he'd never hurt him but it was the other innocent people Winn was worried about.

"Don't say that. You haven't even heard the rest of the plan yet. Now, today is the start of the National City Toy convention, or 'Toy Con'. And I've made you-" Toyman then pulls out what resembles a plastic toy gun from his jacket. He holds it out towards Winn. "-this special gun. You can take this through the metal detectors and right past security. You can also take it on stage where Dunholtz is going to receive his award for toy of the year. Then, you'll walk up onto the stage, point the gun right between his eyes" at this moment Toyman shows him how he'll do it by pointing the gun at Winn's head. "And then you'll kill him"

"It's not going to happen dad!" snaps back Winn, in angry rage at what his father was suggesting.

"I know. I know you won't. That's why I'm taking the decision out of your hands" explains Toyman as he sits down on a chair opposite Winn's. "Now I've planted ten bombs, in ten different toys at the convention centre. You won't know where they are and if you don't kill Dunholtz, I'll set them off"

"Dad please. There will be hundreds of innocent people there – children! They will all die"

"No, no they won't. Cause you won't let that happen. Because you 'will' kill Dunholtz"

"But then we'll both end up in prison" Winn says, noticing a hole in his father's grand plan and hoping it would be enough to make him stop it.

"And that's the best part. Because whether we escape or get caught" Toyman pauses and smiles. "We'll be together"

"How did this happen to you?" asks Winn, feeling the tears returning.

"It's ok Winn" says his father reassuringly as he wipes away the tears with his hand, making Winn roll his head away. "I won't let them separate us again. We belong together. Because you and I, we're the same"

"I'm nothing like you" snaps back Winn.

"Don't underestimate yourself" says Toyman with a reassuring pat on the knee. He then gets up and starts undoing the ropes the tied Winn down to the chair. "Oh and I wouldn't try to run. Cause if you do. I'll set off the bombs before you're even outside the building" adds Toyman. Just to make sure Winn wouldn't try to spoil his perfect plan.

---

As Kara walked out of the elevator, having returned with Cat's late breakfast, she noticed agent Chase and several other F.B.I. agents rummaging through Winn's stuff. Walking up to them, she sat aside Cat's breakfast on her desk and approached agent Chase.

"What are you doing?" Kara demands, which gets her a harsh look from agent Chase.

"We're searching for evidence that Winn and his father were communicating" explains agent Chase as she opens other draw filled with Winn's stuff, this one mostly contained computer games. Agent Chase rolled her eyes. Knowing she had to inspect each of the games individually to make sure there was nothing inside them that could be used to contact Toyman.

"Why would you... Wait, where's Winn?" Kara asks, remembering the fact she hadn't seen him all day.

"He's missing. And with it being today it can't be a coincidence" says Agent Chase as she looks up to another agent. "Make sure the teams at the convention centre are ready encase Toyman shows up!" agent Chase shouts across the room. The agents nod, as several reports run for the elevator. Probably shouldn't have yelled that across the room of a media corporation, but too late for that now. Kara watched as agent Chase grimaced. Know she had reports to worry about as well, great.

"What's happening at the convention centre?" asks Kara.

"Toy Con" answers agent Chase before closing the draw, sick of looking at the game boxes. "Someone else take over here, I'm heading to the convention centre!" announces agent Chase as she walks away. Coincidentally, so was Kara. She made her way to the roof, pulling out her phone as she went. She dialled Deity's number and put the phone to her ear. Two rings and then she picked up.

"Debby" says Kara as she closed the door to the stairs behind her. "I need you to get to the convention centre as fast as you can. I think the F.B.I. are going to kill Winn and his father"

---

He had to do it now. He was running out of time. Wait any longer and his father would set off the bombs. Better to kill one man than kill hundreds, he couldn't help but think of Star Trek at that moment. He took a deep breath and looked over to a small child holding a very large teddy bear. He was doing it to save the children, that was how he had to think of it otherwise he'd never do it.

He made his way towards the stairs with the toy gun, which was actually a real gun, in his hand. Dunholtz was already in the middle of his speech, he had to kill him before it ended. Winn walked up the small stairs that lead to the stage and everything went into slow motion for Winn.

"Who the heck are you?" asks Dunholtz as he looks to Winn standing on the stage.

"I'm sorry" says Winn raising the gun and aiming it at Dunholtz. Despite the fact that it looked like a toy, the crowd quickly started to scream and panic, thinking it was all really. Just then F.B.I. agents in swat gear filled the room, all guns tried towards the stage and Winn.

"Don't move!" shouts agent Chase, once again leading the team. Winn panics, lifts the gun upwards and fires it towards the roof. The crowd runs and the F.B.I. fire. Bullets hurdle through the air towards Winn and then the roof above him breaks through. Kara drops down, like his guardian angel, and lands in front of him. The bullets hit her instead and ping off harmlessly. Then everything stops and Kara turns around to Winn.

"Are you ok?" asks Kara, putting one hand on his shoulder.

"He's planted ten bombs" explains Winn, panic in his eyes. Kara only give him a nod, reassuring him that she'll handle it. As she turns she sees agent Chase and two other agents coming up onto the stage towards her and Winn.

"Out of the way Supergirl, that man is-" starts agent Chase but Kara pushes her back and the two other agents catch her.

"Shut up" says Kara as Deity floats down through the hole in the roof.

"What's happening?" asks Deity as she looks around at the panicking crowd.

"There's ten bombs in here" explains Kara looking up at her Daughter. "Don't know how long we've got" she adds. Deity nods, showing she got all the information and the two then shot off at super speed, whirling around the convection hall. Streams of red and yellow forming around the room faster than they would fade. The two ripped apart every toy they could get their hands on. They had only found and disarmed two out of the ten by the time the ticking started.

"Ticking!" shouts Deity from across the convention hall.

"Listen!" replies Kara. The two focus on the ticking and quickly locate the other eight. With no time to disarm them, the two heroes grab four of the toys each and head upwards and out the hole in the roof. Throwing them up into the air they watch as they explode as harmless fireworks.

"That was too close" says Deity with a stress relieved sigh.

"Tell me about it. Winn" says Kara suddenly remembering him in the convention hall. She shoots back down and lands beside him. "Is everyone ok?"

"Yes" answers Winn.

"Where is he?"

"I don't know" answers Winn in panic.

"You're coming with me!" snaps agent Chase as she grabs hold of Winn's arm. Then she felt the grasp of a teenage hand on her wrist.

"I don't think so" snaps back Deity with a glare. As for Kara she was scanning the building with her X-ray vision trying to locate Toyman. She finally did in the basement below.

"Basement" Kara says as she looks up to Deity before super speeding down the stairs.

"Don't go anywhere" says Deity with a grin towards agent Chase before following her Mother towards the basement.

They got down just in time. Toyman was making a run towards an open door when Kara appeared in front of him. He jumped, turned and ran the other way. Though he only got a few meters before Deity appeared in front of him.

"Hi. Don't think we've met, I'm Deity" says Deity with a grin and a taunting tone. Toyman turned back to Kara, just as she swung a fist at his face. Knocking him out easily. He dropped down on the ground out cold. "Bit harsh don't you think?" asks Deity, looking up to her Mother.

"No. No it wasn't" says Kara with a cold hard stare down towards Toyman. Considering everything he'd put Winn through, she thought he deserved a lot worse than a knockout punch from a Kryptonian.

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After that they had handed over Toyman to the F.B.I. and police who took him away to another maximum security prison. As for Winn he was let go, considering he was being blackmailed into doing it, Kara was hardly surprised. Though the process seemed to move a lot faster after agent Chase's run in with Supergirl. Though in Kara's opinion she got what she deserved for thinking Winn was a criminal. Despite her personal feeling though, she did visit agent Chase as Supergirl and apologize for her actions, which agent Chase understood. Kara had thought that would be the end to her day and that she'd just go home with Deity, but instead Deity had run off muttering something about doing something with Alex. Kara was too tiered to question it and just went home.

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A knock at the door made Kara frown as she exited her bedroom, having changed out of her Supergirl costume and into her nightgown. She zipped back into her bedroom, put on her glasses and then answered the door. She had been wondering who would call at this hour but when she saw Winn standing on the other side of the door she didn't care anymore.

"Winn" says Kara with a smile.

"Can I come in?" asks Winn, holding in his hands a small teddy bear with a Supergirl t-shirt on.

"Of course" says Kara, letting him step past her and into her apartment. Closing the door she turned back to Winn to see him offering her the bear.

"Here you go. It's a 'thank you' for today" says Winn as Kara take the bear and give it a cuddle.

"Thank you Winn" says Kara as she looks up at him and gives him a smile. She then takes his hand and leads him over to the couch where they both sit down, the bear sitting in between them. "What a day" comments Kara as she removes her glasses.

"Tell me about it. I've got to say I didn't know how it was going to end for a moment" says Winn with a worried pale look.

"What? Didn't you think I would save the day?" asks Kara with a grin.

"Of course not" replies Winn with a smile. "It was before you showed up, that I wasn't sure. I didn't know what I was going to do"

"You're dad gave you an impossible choice"

"And thanks to you I didn't have to make it" says Winn smiling at her. He reaches over and puts his hand on her knee, still smiling at her. "Thank you" he says as the two stare into each other's eyes. Then it happened again. Just like before. They felt their bodies lean in, lips parting. The day was over, they'd defeated the bad guy and now they could do it. They could do what they had wanted to do for so long. They could kiss. Winn tilted his head to the side and their lips met, opening up as they passionately kissed one another. Winn's hands rushed up to Kara's face and Kara's the same, only she had a hold of him before he knew what was happening. They part, but only for a second to catch their breath. They close their eyes and they kiss again, this time it was for longer and with more passion. Then as they stop, ready to kiss for a third time, the door unlocks. The two freeze in their action and look towards the door as it swings open. Deity walks in then with two bags in hand. Alex follows her with only one. They two freeze, quickly assessing the situation, their jaws dropped in shock. Kara smiles back at them, but Winn's face turned to that of self shame and disappointment. His eyes connected with Deity's and he got up, pushing himself away from Kara.

"I'm-I'm sor-sorry" Winn stutters as he walks away from Kara, his head moving from Kara to Deity.

"What are you talking about Winn?" asks Kara, leaning over the side of the couch that faced the door. Winn didn't respond, he kept going past Deity and Alex and out the door, closing it behind him. Deity and Alex had watched him leave but once the door was closed their heads snapped back around to Kara who was now looking very sorry for herself. Her eyes had a thin layer of water at the base and her lower lip was trembling.

"Kara-" Alex started to say but before she could finish Kara was up off the couch and inside her bedroom, face down on the bed. How could her first kiss with Winn end so...wrong. She started to cry into her pillow while Alex and Deity watched from the door. Looks like their surprise Christmas shopping hadn't end how they thought it would. They sat up with Kara, comforting her until she finally fell asleep. Then Deity fell asleep and Alex took the couch. She smiled as she spotted the teddy bear from Winn on the couch. She took it back through and tucked it underneath Kara's arm, letting her cuddle it as she slept. Probably not what she wanted to be hugging right now, but it was a good substitute. Returning to the couch, Alex fell asleep and three slept peacefully. On the up side...only eighteen sleeps till Christmas.

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Message for you

First off, sorry for this being late. I've just been hitting a bit of trouble with the recent chapter and I wanted to change some stuff in this chapter before uploading. I hope this didn't bother you too much and I hope you enjoyed the chapter. As you can probably guess Toyman wasn't the main reason I was excited to write this chapter, but I will probably bring him back in the future because I do like him as a villain and I didn't feel like I used him as much as I could have. I also hope you enjoyed the little teaser in Gotham. More on that later...
And Tenth Chapter shout out! I just wanted to recommend a FanFiction I've read called 'Flash Fire' by 'DarkElements10'. Trust me. You want to read this...
Will try and update soon as possible because there is some other stuff coming up that I'm really excited about!
See you soon RC.