A/N: thanks Anna.

"How's the head?" Alex asked as she handed Kara a bottle of water.

"Makes me understand your need to get hungover even less." Kara said before looking at Astra and asking. "Any sign of your powers?"

"No." Astra stated as the door opened and Oliver, Barry and Winn entered.

"Hey Kara." Barry smiled. "Don't worry, it's really me."

Seeing the fear that washed over Kara, Astra assured her. "Do not worry he is definitely not the Barry Allen of this Earth. This one is the Deluded One."

"Why Deluded One?" Winn asked.

"Based on the discussion in the..." Astra started, pausing to think of the correct word, "car, he thinks he is faster than my niece." Astra responded.

"He thinks a lot of things that aren't true." Oliver agreed before turning to Barry and saying. "The name suits you."

"Funny." Barry said before looking at Alex and saying. "We have a lead."

"Really. Let's go." Kara said trying to stand again.

"Easy." Alex warned trying to get her to sit down again. "Ignoring the fact you are still weak, don't forget they have Kryptonite." Alex reminded Kara.

"You still don't have a defence?" Astra asked concerned.

"I did make one, it wasn't as good as yours." Winn said. "But we don't have it here."

"Actually I can help with that." Vasquez said from the doorway.

"You can?" Alex asked.

"We have the suits her soldiers wore." Vasquez explained looking at Astra, her distrust obvious.

"How many?" Alex asked.

"Three."

"Good, both Kara and Astra will have protection." Alex commented.

"You are taking Astra on the mission?" Vasquez asked surprised.

"Yes. Do you have a problem with that?" Alex asked.

"I'd advise against it, ma'am." Vasquez said.

"Why? Because she killed me?" Alex asked.

"And Director Henshaw." Vasquez replied eyes wide over the fact that Alex knew. An expression similar to the one spreading over Kara's face.

"I know. She has already told me. But right now the only things I am sure of is they want to save their Earth." Alex said pointing at Oliver and Barry before pointing at Astra and saying. "And Astra wants revenge on Max. So for now we are on the same side." When Vasquez didn't move Alex asked. "Something else?"

"Can we talk? Off the record?" Vasquez asked as she shut the door.

"What's wrong?" Alex asked.

"I thought you might need a briefing on how things work here." Vasquez said. "You said on your world that aliens and humans fight side by side?"

"I assume that's not the case here?" Alex asked.

"No. After the director was killed his heritage was revealed and a witch hunt started. General Lane took over and refused to work with Supergirl. She was broken after your death, but she kept fighting with everything she had. But she got no support. After Myriad and Non were finally stopped Lane persuaded the President to give him permanent control of the DEO and he turned it into a facility designed to kill aliens."

"But you stayed?" Alex asked.

"I was about to resign when the first Metas appeared. Lane decided they were in the same class as aliens and now hunts them as well. I know most are damaged from the Myriad signal and are a danger to this planet. But they are not all like that." Vasquez explained.

"Why are you telling us this?"

"I work here because I am trying to help the ones that don't pose a threat. But you are trying to create weapons that can be used against the Metas." Vasquez said looking at Barry.

"Yes."

"Please don't hand the technology over to the DEO. If you do many innocent Metas will be slaughtered." Vasquez said.

"Well no offence to you, but none of you are high on our trust list at the moment." Oliver said. "The last thing I want to do is make you even more dangerous by giving you weapons."

"Thank you." Vasquez replied before adding. "I should go before my presence here draws too much attention."

"Why are humans so incapable of being honest about their intentions?" Astra asked as she sat down.

"So what exactly did you find?" Alex asked Barry and Winn ignoring Astra.

"Okay, so using some really clever signal processing," Winn started only for Barry to jump in.

"It was really clever."

"Bask in glory later." Oliver growled.

"Right, so as I was saying, using some really intelligent signal processing, Max and Barry and potentially every other bad meta-human are at this former test facility in the desert." Winn said pointing at a map. "According to the scans it looks like they have set up operations in this bunker." He went on. "What we don't know yet is how close they are to opening another portal. We are doing further scans and within the next hour we should know exactly how many Metas are there, but not what powers they have."

"Okay, Winn get as much intel on that base as possible. We need to know exactly what we are up against. But make sure you delete all traces of how you are tracking the Metas when you are done. We will have DEO resources available to us and we'll be expected to use them. But as we can't necessarily trust them we need to make sure their placement is not putting us in danger." Alex said before looking at Barry. "You know more about portals than anyone here. You need to figure out how close they are to opening another one and have a plan for how we can deactivate it if needed. Oliver work with Barry to make sure he has the resources he needs. Barry, if you can give me information about what can be done to stop Metas I'll see if I can come up with a weapon."

"Look I followed your plans because I know how hard it is when a little sister is in trouble. But this isn't a rescue mission anymore. We are now fighting to save our world from annihilation. Barry and I have a much bigger stake in that than you do. So who exactly put you in charge?" Oliver asked.

"The President." Alex said.

"Of this world, not ours." Oliver countered.

"Do you disagree with any part of the plan?" Alex asked.

"Well, no." Oliver conceded.

"I know you have trust issues and change issues, but Alex is a complete badass. And you know how you have never managed to beat me in a fight?" Kara interrupted.

"Yeah." Oliver reluctantly confessed.

"Well Alex has. And she's the one who taught me how to fight." As Oliver looked in surprise from Kara to Alex, Kara went on. "Alex is also a genius and she is our best hope. But we need to work together. Who knows how many metas we will be up against."

"Fine." Oliver said before looking at Barry. "Let's go."

"You didn't mention we were in a Kryptonite room." Alex commented after Oliver had gone.

"Didn't want to overwhelm him with detail." Kara smiled.

-TBC...

A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.