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Months Earlier…
In the hospital Alex finally awakened out of her deeply unconscious state. As promised Dr. Browne called Oliver.
Oliver was running on a treadmill when he got the call. He knows hospital food isn't the greatest, so he stops at a bakery instead of showering and grabs her some treats. Happy to have a great memory from their time living together. He changed his clothes instead into what he'd found at Sport Chek on sale as a quick fix. Stepping into the room with flowers from the floral shop next to the bakery and a box of goods in a bag. He taps his knuckles on the doorframe, "may I come in?" Not wanting to startle her.
"Oliver...hi. I didn't know you were called..I am sorry you were pulled away. I know you are busy at the DEO." She looked tired and very pale. Her longer dark hair pulled back in a messy bun. "Oliver I am so sorry they called you. I had no one to update emergency contacts. You are much too busy to be flying up here when you are trying to find Kara."
He walks in and sets up the flowers in their vase on a table next to her bed. "It's fine... there's nothing for me to do right now so I'm here and I'll take care of you," he sets the bag down on her night stand. "I got you your favourite treats from a nearby bakery," he says, and his eyes go downcast at the mention of Kara. But he stays quiet about it, feeling she's dealt with enough and needs to focus on recovering.
She looked at the water pitcher longingly but was too tired to pour it.
He sees her look and grabs it, pouring her the fresh ice water into a cup and holding it out for her. "I'll stay as long as you need me," he promises.
"Thank you." She uttered allowing him to put the cup next to her lips so she could quench her thirst. "That felt wonderful on my throat. It is sore from that stupid breathing tube. Did you know doctors make the worse patients?" She smirked.
He smiles at her comment as he watches her drink and refills it after. "Yes, I've heard the same thing about nurses though... that was one heck of a brave thing you did," he pats her leg as he doesn't want to hurt her back.
"What did I do?" She asked puzzled. "I don't recall how I got hurt."
Oliver realized he needed to report this to Dr. Browne. He presses the call button, "Alex Danvers is awake for Dr. Browne, please," he says into the microphone.
Shortly after Dr. Browne showed with a nurse. "How are you feeling Dr. Danvers?" She asked checking her readings.
"Okay I guess. When can I get out of here?" She asked expectantly.
"Not for a bit Alex, you almost went into a coma!"
"I'm okay now." She said, attempting to rise only to get very nauseous and laid back on her pillow. "Maybe after the room stops spinning ..." She agreed.
Oliver watches the conversation, "you took a bullet for a pregnant woman at the bank... that's incredible," he adds to try and get her to ease up. "Think of this as a bit of vacation time, okay?"
"Okay." She agreed.
He takes a seat and waits until it's just them, "I need to tell you something," he says softly, looking up at her with sad eyes.
"What?"
He watches her eyes and wonders if he should have said anything. Swallowing he closes his eyes, "we got to the place where your sister was being held. They weren't there, apparently -they escaped... took off on a ship. I got the call about you in the hospital while Agent Danvers was getting preparations made to take a ship and find them," he opens his eyes. "We lost communication with the ship and have no idea where her team is or either Kara."
"Shit!" She breathed upset. "What is being done to find the ship?"
He bends his head down, running his fingers through his hair. "Winn is trying to find them... there's nothing I or anyone else can do," he squeezes the back of his neck. "I tortured Veronica to get information out of her faster... and in the end we've lost more people to space," he looks up at her. "I'm sorry..." He takes a deep breath and stands up slowly. "You've just got me for the time being, heh heh the odds aren't in your favour."
"What do you mean the odds aren't in my favor?"
He leans against the wall and folds his arms across his chest, "your sister and her twin are missing... your twin is missing... you got shot and you're stuck with me."
"I am not stuck with you Oliver. I love your cooking, you are my friend." She thought for a moment, "Keep me posted on all of them please." She starts to drift off.
He shakes his head, "I am a bad person," Oliver says firmly. His gaze softens and he touches the top of her head, "I'll have them call me when you wake up next."
She falls asleep.
Overgirl woke to a very white room and a hard bed of satin looking sheets. The sheets were a pearlescent whitish color and Kara could clearly feel bands around her waist and wrists. "What in Rao?" She muttered looking around and panicking being restrained.
"I thought you said you wanted to help!" She shouted angrily.
"It's okay!" A nurse came in to try to calm her.
"Where's my friend? The other Kryptonian?"
"She is in another room also in the same position. We have you both strapped for your own protection. We don't want you getting out of bed and hurting yourselves."
Kara looked at the nurse indignantly. She could feel she was bare under the sheets. "Where are my clothes? My suit was not yours to take from me!" She shouted furious.
"We had to filter your system. Purge the poison. We needed access to you to do so." She pointed at the IV lines the ran down her leg and into a machine that seemed to be filtering her blood and putting it back in through a line in her upper arm near the armpit.
"It hurts!" She accused just now feeling the pain of what they were doing.
"We are saving both of your lives." She told her firmly checking the instruments making sure it was still working right.
Kara could feel the line on the inside of her thigh near the groin area. She could also feel a dreaded catheter line trailing. They thought of everything she decided.
"I want to see my friend!" She demanded.
Supergirl's eyes fluttered open, groaning at the sight of so much bright white. It takes her a moment to realize she isn't in the shelter and feels quite vulnerable strapped down. "No... no... no," she looks around in a panic.
Another nurse entered the room. "It's okay we needed to flush out your system to purge the poison. I know it probably hurts, but it will be over soon." She went on to explain. "We have you strapped so you don't get up and hurt yourself. We needed access to you which is why you were undressed." She explained.
She looks at her in surprise, "where is my friend? Is she okay?" She looks at the machines.
"She is in another room in the same position as you."
She blinks, "access? Why don't you just do a line to my inside elbow?"
"It has to be attached where it is. You probably feel the line in your groin area too. Believe me we have been fighting the poison of these plants for cycles. We have found this is the best way to treat the poison. I am sorry if it is painful."
Supergirl closes her eyes shut tight, "yeah... I've had worse... still sucks... I need to talk to the captain or someone in charge."
"Other than the pain of the treatment, you are feeling better, aren't you?"
Swallowing a lump, "yes."
"I will get you the head medic." She makes a call. "As soon as filtration is complete you can have food and water." She told her walking out.
She shakes her head, "I need a scientist... someone that knows planets..."
"The medic knows science." She told her walking off.
A few moments later the head medic came in. She recognized him from the island. "How are you feeling Kara?" He sat by her bedside. He checked her lines, making sure they were still securely inserted into her veins.
He then sat back down. "You are being treated for the Smesh plant. The toxins have almost left your body." He looked at her carefully. "You have questions?"
Supergirl nods, "I want to know if I can get back to my own planet. We have a gate there that allows for us to get across space... or a ship," she looks at him. "I've lost one planet... I can't do it again."
"There is a gate on one of the planet's here in our system. It's about a quad of a cycle from here." He looks at a translator. "You would know it as 3 months." He checked her chart. "Are you hungry? Thirsty?" He looked at her again. "You are scheduled to be finished in three more clicks." He looks at his handheld tablet. "Hours." He translated. "I can give you a water chip if you wish."
She thinks about it, "how soon would I be able to go, and could I use a ship? How long was I asleep for?"
"You were unconscious for a few clicks - umm hours. Yes, you and your friend will be taken to Gima by ship." He looks at her thoughtfully. "Normally it is very costly to use the gate." He explained. "Only the government uses it."
"I'm sorry about earlier... after being forced into slavery it was difficult to trust anyone. I understand, your friend still doesn't trust us. We have had to sedate her twice now." He peers at her carefully. "How is it that your system burns off powerful sedatives like they are nothing?"
Supergirl smiles but then grimaced at the pain, "it's the yellow sun... it heals us. On Earth I am known as a hero and when I've been hurt in a fight there is a secret agency that helps me. They have yellow sun lamps that I rest under to help me recover faster."
"I see. So, your super powers cause you to burn off the sedatives?"
She nods, "normally," she looks at the tubes, "you wouldn't be able to get that into us... how is it your plants and sea creature hurt us and how can I use the gate if it's so expensive?"
"Well you will have to talk to the authorities of Gima. And the creatures destroy most humanoids so if they destroy upon attacking and you are nearly invincible then that would explain how they got through your skin. We weakened the two areas that the lines were inserted with radiation. A form of red sun."
Supergirl nods and closes her eyes for a moment, "can... I please sit and still do the transfusion? This is really not comfortable."
"Your friend needs you to talk to her. Her transfusion is longer- and she is fighting it."
Taking a deep breath, "I need to see her... please."
"No, you must be lying down. But I will release the straps as long as you promise to stay still. We will have her brought in. Perhaps you can calm her down."
She nods, "Yes, please I'll stay still."
He first removes her shackles, then the strap over her waist. He placed a call and soon Kara Queen was rolled in, bed and all into the same room as Supergirl.
"Your friend is in this room. No concern to be worried. We are not taking you anywhere to be experimented. What nonsense! You are not an animal!" The nurse told her using a cool cloth to soothe her brow. "Open..." She instructed holding a chip.
Overgirl opened her mouth and took the water chip.
"And one for you." She waited for Supergirl to open her mouth to take it.
Supergirl takes the chip, "sounds strange to have people treating us like human beings and not like property," she admits and flexes her arms. "How're you doing Kara?" She asks and is relieved to see her.
"No moving your arms." The nurse scolded.
"How is it you aren't restrained?" Kara asked her twin bitter.
Supergirl frowns, "I promised not to move," she casts a glare at the nurse. "Come on... I've been lying here for hours, can't flex?"
"As long as you don't move those arms."
"Okay..." Supergirl concedes, "are you okay Kara?" She looks over at her.
"No! It hurts, and they swear they are not treating me as a specimen, but I certainly feel like it exposed and hurting!" She pulled at her shackles again. "Release me!" She shouted now getting angry.
Sighing, "you need to calm down... they're not going to hurt us."
"How do you know? They are hurting me now! Putting invasive lines in me! I cannot even use their facilities!" She struggled again pulling at the straps.
"Kara! We can and will sedate you again!" The head medic called out.
Supergirl fights the urge to not get up, "Kara... they're helping us... why else am I freed? Please, if you stop then you'll be freed like me."
"They won't free me! They only want to hurt me!" Her eyes started glowing gold.
Supergirl looks at her concerned, "Kara... stay with me please, I'm hurting too but I'm not strapped down."
Kara could tell the heat vision was coming.
Supergirl looks at the nurse, "steer clear... she might release her heat vision."
Overgirl bit back the pain and closed her eyes trying to calm her raging temper.
"Heat vision?" She stood back. The head medic stepped back too.
Kara Queen felt power surging through her and she exploded off the table taking the lines off her and grabbing the sheet around her.
"Where is this place?" She snarled.
She groans to herself, "Kara please... the Sorceress will come out!"
"Where am I?" She demanded flexing her hands feeling the energy surge through.
Supergirl looks at her and looks at the staff, "sorry but I've gotta move now... that's not Kara anymore," she stands up but keeps the sheet on. "Give me clothes now," she looks at Overgirl and steps over to her. "Listen... you're not on Earth anymore."
"Where am I?" She demanded, and where in Rao are my clothes!"
A nurse hands her a set of something similar to the pearlescent sheet, only in scrubs form. They stay away from the other Kryptonian.
"Give me my suit!" She growled out extremely angry.
Supergirl speeds into the outfit in a second. "You're on another planet, Kara Queen was kidnapped... you and I were both slaves but we escaped and now we're on a planet and I'm still learning about everything."
Overgirl lowered her hands, the energy dissipating. She started to stumble, and then fell to her knees. She held her hands to her head, crying in extreme pain.
"The poison! It's not completely out of her system!" The head medic told Supergirl.
"Oh Rao!" She rushes to her side and rubs her back, "please, it's her again!"
Overgirl collapsed to her side, curling in on herself in a fetal position. The sheet held tightly to her chest. Supergirl noticed she was convulsing through the sheet.
Supergirl lifts her up and sets her onto the table, smoothing her hair back to try and help calm her. "Help her please!" She tells the staff.
"We cannot re-insert the lines with her thrashing the way she is." The head medic told her standing back.
"What you need me to pin her down or something?" She looks at them.
"There is nothing we can do." He told her, clearly afraid of her.
Suddenly just as fast as the seizures came, her body went deathly still again.
Kara could see she was no longer breathing. Supergirl turns to him, "look! She can be scary, but I love her and that thing you saw? That comes out when she's really angry, now she is just like me! Please help her! I won't let her hurt you!"
They come over and immediately insert a tube down throat. Kara recognizes it as the intubation tube that had been used on her before. They hurt she recalled. A whole slew of sensors were immediately attached to her exposed body to try to save her.
Supergirl sits down in a nearby chair and rubs her face with her hands, she hadn't even noticed the tubing having come out of her own leg. "Kara... you and that temper of yours..." She keeps her face in her hands and knows she'll need to be set up, again.
The doctors immediately set her up with the lines- inserting them in her groin and hollow of her arm pit.
Supergirl lifts her face to look and watch from the brim of her hands. "Don't give up on me Kara... please stay with me," she whispers.
"On the bed with you now." A doctor told Supergirl while two ordered help her to her bed again. She is also set up, immediately disrobed again and lines re-inserted. "You have to finish your treatments." He told her. "We will do all we can for your friend."
Supergirl groans as she lies down again, "I know..." she looks at her twin. "There's quite the story behind her... she sacrificed herself so another could live." Kara felt the painful needles puncture her skin. She grimaced, "damn it... how much longer?"
"Three of your hours." a nurse told her giving her another water chip.
She groans but takes the chip, "can you knock me out? This isn't comfortable and I'll probably drive you nuts with questions otherwise and not fall asleep."
She watched as Overgirl was restrained again, this time her ankles and legs were restrained, and two straps, one just under her breasts and over her waist.
"It will have to be strong. And you will burn it off within clicks. But you only have 3 clicks left."
Supergirl shakes her head, "if she recovers and the other side of her comes out... that will break like an elastic band." She warns.
A medic comes over and injects her in her thigh.
"What do you suggest?" The head medic asked getting angry.
Supergirl rolls her eyes, "keep her sedated till she's healed and keep me with her. Don't strap her down so much or you'll just anger her more."
"She keeps burning off the sedative. The radiation of the red sun weakens you. Perhaps if we use those to control her?"
Kara can feel the red sun emitters they just set up her eyes are getting heavy.
"Sleep Kara." The head medic told her soothing her brow with a cool cloth.
Supergirl nods, "yes... that'll work... please don't keep me near them. If she gets loose you'll need me to handle her." She fights to stay awake for just a moment longer.
"Okay. We will leave them on her." They redirect them to bathe only Overgirl in the red sunlight.
"Get some sleep."
They release the leg strap and the strap just under her breasts. Then they leave both Kryptonians in peace. Hours later both Kryptonians woke up. Kara Danvers was finished with her treatment and was resting peacefully under her sheet. She spotted her twin still hooked to the machine.
A nurse stepped in "Your treatment is complete." She handed her the suit and pants she had been wearing. "You can change in there." She pointed at the bathroom attached to the medical area
"Your friend, the other Kara will be finished in a few clicks."
1 Year Later…
The pilot is trying to find the window back to the warp. The entire team of agents realize there is a time problem for them, and that quite a bit of time will have gone by...
"Is there any way you can get us back closer to our timeline?" She asked the pilot.
He shook his head. He was an older male humanoid who was used to charter flights.
"No, it will be hard enough to get back. Timeline won't be the same. Sorry. "
He turned some dials and programmed the flight system. "If I manage to find the window we are still moving thru time. I can only hope for the same cycle as your planet."
Alex calculated quickly in her head. He was talking about a year. At least a year would go by back on Earth. "Kara..." She spoke silently anguished.
Well the last episode we had gave us great insight as to why the new villain really doesn't like aliens. I would have liked to have seen more of Supergirl and I hope that with Kara being forced to wear that suit that she'll finally be able to reveal to Lena who she really is. I am really looking forward to seeing developments on the Dark Kara as we had no glimpse of her in the last episode... nor the prior one I think.
Anyways, please review, the majority that will come in this will be light, no more torture.
-SLITH/LVEZ