On Earth 00 Alexis and the others start finding their parents as well as someone totally unexpected.
Earth 00 Part 2
To be fair they were a group of under trained and inexperienced kids jumping head first into an impossible to comprehend situation. It really wasn't very surprising that moments after stepping through the breach the teens were seperated. As soon as the breach closed they were attacked by what appeared to be larger more dangerous versions of Kelex. In the chaos that ensued Alexis and Dinah were separated from the others. As Alexis smashed two of the robots together, and then throwing their smoldering ruins at two more, she really wished her heat vision worked. This would be so much easier if she could just laser all the damn things!
"Quickly!" Dinah called out as she opened a sliding door. "In here."
Alexis flew into the room and landed just as the door slid shut behind Dinah.
"Shit." Dinah swore softly. "I was not expecting killer robots."
"Does anyone really expect killer robots?" Alexis said with a soft chuckle. She took a look around the room, it didn't seem like anything special, so then she looked beyond the room. Thankfully there was no lead in the walls and she could make out vents and ducts that would hopefully lead them past the robots. Flying up to the ceiling Alexis ripped a grate down as easily as plucking an apple from a tree. "There's room in these to crawl and will get us further into wherever the hell we are and past the evil droids."
Landing beside Dinah Alexis blushed a little. She would need to help Dinah get to the opening and the thought of being that close to the other girl made her feel a little odd. She tried to cover her sudden awkwardness with a smile. "Need a boost?"
Dinah nodded. "Thank you."
As they made their way through the vents Alexis did her best to keep her head down and her gaze away from the girl in front of her. She'd had crushes before. There'd been her teacher Ms. Carter, and Regina from her etiquette classes. Emma from her fencing class, because if she were going to suffer etiquette classes she was going to get to do something fun too, something that would involve lightsabers. And Randall in her LARP group. But none of those crushes had come on so quickly, or strongly. Alexis was trying so hard not to pay attention to Dinah that she didn't hear the other girl warn her about a weak spot in the duct, a weak spot that could in no way support the weight of a half Kryptonian. Alexis went crashing to the floor below the vent with a soft hurmf. She'd been so caught off guard by the fall she'd forgotten to fly.
"Well this is unexpected." A male voice said somewhere above her.
Alexis' eyes flew open at the sound of the unfamiliar voice. She pushed up onto her hands and knees, and then onto her feet. When she turned to see who was in the room with her, her heart began to race. The face of the man was less unfamiliar, causing her to back away from him. She had only seen him in pictures, the few rare times her mom had shown her the few personal photos she still had, and online or in the media. She never thought she'd ever seen him in person. "Lex."
Lex Luthor, or the man who looked just like him anyway, quirked an eyebrow and then held up his hand and softened his features. "Yes, but not the one you're thinking of. There's no need to be frightened."
"I'm not." Alexis said with as much confiance as she could muster.
The tall, broad shouldered, blue eyed bald man continued to smile reassuringly. "My name is Alexander Kent, and I'm not from here. I'm going to guess that you aren't either, given the fact that you're crawling through the vents."
"What are you doing here?" Alexis asked, unable to not stare at the man who looked like the uncle she'd never meet.
Lex waved his hand at the room. "Being held captive."
Alexis took a second to look around. The room was small, it held a bed, a stool with a few books on it, a sink and a toilet. "This is a prison cell." She looked back at Lex and crossed her arms over her chest. "Not surprising to find Lex Luthor in a prison cell no matter the Earth."
"Kent." Lex corrected. "I haven't used Luthor in ages. And it's hardly fair to assume all versions of me are the same, Kara Zor-El."
He couldn't see her face clearly with her hood up. Hearing him call her by her mother's name caused Alexis' breath to hitch. "I'm not… I'm Supergirl."
"I know that." Lex chuckled. "You were Supergirl on my Earth as well, Kara."
Alexis reached up and drew back her hood. "I'm not Kara Zor-El."
Her eyes. Lex knew those eyes. He stepped closer to the girl. He could see her in the girl as clear as day. He could see her cheekbones, her fair freckled skin, the curve of her lips, but mainly he saw her in the girl's jade eyes. "No." He whispered in awe. "You're not."
The arrow pinned his pant leg to the floor, keeping him from moving any closer. Though Alexis kept her eyes on Lex, she could see Dinah drop from the hole she'd made in the ceiling. As soon as the other girl was on her feet she had an arrow aimed at Lex.
"Supergirl?" Dinah asked.
"I'm alright Red Canary." Alexis replied.
Lex looked at the girl with the bow and then back at Alexis. "Weapons, free movement and thought. You weren't brought here against your will, were you?"
"People were taken from our Earths." Alexis told him. "We're here to get them back."
"Must be some pretty important people." Lex said as he looked into those all to familaur green eyes.
She wasn't sure why, she probably shouldn't, but Alexis admitted. "Our parents."
Lex's eyes went wide. "Lena's here?" When he saw the look of surprise on the blonde teen's face he smiled softly. "You look like her, like both of them really, but, your eyes, you have her eyes."
Alexis saw sadness in the man's eyes. It was the same kind of sadness and loss that she sometimes saw in her Mama's eyes when she spoke of Krypton, or when her Aunt Alex spoke of her grandfather. "You lost your Lena, didn't you?"
"My Lena, my Kara, my husband and our son." Lex said with a nod. "My Earth might still stand but my world is gone."
Alexander Kent. Husband. Holy potstickers! This version of Lex Luthor had been married to Clark Kent! Shock filled Alexis' eyes but then instantly softened. "I'm so sorry."
Lex nodded his acceptance of the girl's condolences. "Do you have powers?" When the girl nodded he pointed to the door of his cell. "If you can get us out of this room I can get you to the siphon room. If your Kara's been taken then I bet that's where we will find her."
"I can do that." Alexis said with a nod.
"Siphon room?" Dinah asked as she pulled her arrow from the floor. Alexis had given her a look, and for the life of her she couldn't explain why she was giving into this look, but she had silently agreed to go along with whatever was happening.
"Whatever the master plan is it requires a lot of power." Lex explained. "Power being drained from people, certain kinds of people."
Alexis flashed to what she saw when H.G. vibed with her and she gasped. "Mama."
The thought of her mother being hurt fueled Alexis' powers and instead of just pushing the sliding door out of the wall, she punched the wall so hard it made a whole big enough to march an elephant through. She had to get to her mama.
The three of them made their way through the halls with Lex leading the way. They walked in silence for a little while until Lex said, "You know you never told me your name."
Alexis looked over at him and blinked. "What?"
"You said you weren't Kara but you didn't say who you were." Lex said with a soft smile.
"She's Supergirl." Dinah said from Alexis' other side.
Alexis nodded a firm agreement. "I'm Supergirl."
Lex looked at the girl for a few long moments before saying, "You're Lex must be a piece of work. The way you looked at me when you first saw me, with such fear, it's no wonder you don't trust me."
"I've never met him." Alexis replied after a moment of silence. "My uncle, he's, well, he's a really really bad guy, but he wasn't always. It's really complicated."
Their conversation came to an abrupt end when they turned a corner to find their way blocked by a tall dark haired woman wearing a black and red hood. She held a bow in her hand and arrows peeked out over her shoulder. A vail covered her face, leaving only her eyes visible. Eyes that should have been a warm brown like hot chocolate, but were now pitch black. Dinah gasped softly and stepped forward at the sight of the woman.
"Māmā." Dinah whispered.
"That's one of your moms?" Alexis asked the dark haired girl. Dinah nodded.
The woman, Nyssa al Ghul, lifted the bow and knocked an arrow.
"Māmā!" Dinah cried out. "It's me! It's Dinah!"
Alexis stepped in front of Dinah just as the arrow flew from the bow. The arrow splintered into pieces as it hit her chest. "Look lady, I don't know what kind of weird corporal punishment you people have on your Earth but on mine we don't go shooting our kids with arrows!"
Nyssa's response was to fire another arrow before charging at Alexis, engaging her in hand to hand. Alexis had been training with her Aunt Alex but the girl was simply no match for Ra's al Ghul, Head of the Demon, and the leader of the League of Shadows. Though the blows didn't hurt, they were unrelenting and fast, and Alexis simply found herself getting tripped up by the woman's moves. "Fuck." She hissed as she landed on her back with a thud. "Gesh, Canary, what is your mom, some kind of freaking ninja."
"Yes." Dinah replied while engaging her mother. "She is, actually."
Dinah had trained all her life at her mothers' sides. She was capable of holding her own against them, but had yet to defeat either of them. She didn't understand what was happening, why her mother wasn't responding to her, why she was attacking them, but she could feel that something was wrong, something was off about her mother. So she didn't hold back as she joined the fight against her. It's what she'd been taught to do.
"Supergirl!" Lex called out to the blonde. "Between her eyes, on her forehead, the starfish shaped device, do you see it?"
Alexis ducked as Nyssa swung her bow at her head. "Yeah, yeah, I see it."
"Disable it!" Lex told her.
Disable it? How the hell was she supposed to do that when she couldn't even get close enough to land a proper punch? Thankfully not all of Alexis' abilities were power based. She wasn't just the daughter of Supergirl, but of Lena Luthor as well. That meant she had the brains to back up the muscle. Extreme temperature changes were often bad news for electronics so maybe if she could focus her freeze breath just right?
"Hey Canary's mom!" Alexis shouted.
Nyssa swept Dinah's legs out from under her while twisting the arm she held behind the girl's back, forcing her down. Turning she swung her bow at the second girl who called out. Alexis grabbed the bow, pursed her lips tightly, and blew a concentrated blast of cold air at the device embedded in the woman's forehead. The device frosted over, there were a few small sparks before it fell off, and then the woman fell to her knees with a scream of pain.
"Māmā!" Dinah cried out. Nyssa had let her go in order to clutch at her own head in pain. She rushed to her, catching her in her arms as Nyssa blacked out. Frightened and angry blue eyes looked up to lock with uncertain green ones. "What did you do! What did you do to her!"
"I…" Alexis began but a soft moan from the dark woman made her stop.
"Aljanah alsaghir." Nyssa whispered hoarsely. When she opened her eyes they were once again the color of hot chocolate. "Little wing, what is happening? What is going on?"
Dinah couldn't hold back her soft sob of relief as she clutched her mother to her. "Māmā."
The fear in her daughter's voice had Nyssa reaching up to cup her face. "Dinah?"
"Mind control." Lex said softly. "Those without powers but are still a viable asset are mind controlled."
"You're not being mind controlled are you?" Alexis asked the man. "Nor are you being used as a battery. What's your deal?"
"I honestly don't know." Lex answered. "I was brought here by a woman with dark hair, dark eyes, tan skin, who could open rifts between universes. I was scanned by one of the kelex robots and taken to the cell you found me in. A few times I've been taken to places and told to help with an issue but I refused and was taken back to my cell unharmed."
Nyssa struggled to her feet with her daughter's help. "The woman was Gypsy. She and those robot things ambushed Sara and I."
"Māmā are you alright?" Dinah asked as she watched her mother sway on her feet.
"I am fine, little wing." Nyssa reassured. "A terrible headache but otherwise unharmed." She looked over at the blonde girl and nodded. "Thank you for your help, Alexis."
Alexis blinked. "Um, you know me?"
"Only from the countless number of photographs Kara shows us when she comes to our Earth." Nyssa replied with a warm smile.
Something soft and sad passed over Lex's eyes and face as he looked at the girl with his dead sister's eyes. "Your name is Alexis?"
Alexis nodded. "I told you it was complicated."
"We must find the others." Nyssa said, easily taking charge of the situation. "Who else is here, little wing? Who came with you? Who was taken besides your mother and I?"
Dinah filled her mother in just as the earwigs she and Alexis wore snapped and crackled to life. "Supergirl? Red Canary? Come in? Supergirl? Red Canary? Come in?"
"H.G?" Dinah replied.
"Yes!" Came H.G's reply. "We managed to disable the emitter that was blocking our comms."
"We?" Alexis asked. "Who's with you?"
"Kid Flash." H.G. replied. "And Aunt Felicity. We found her here in one of the computer labs. She was being focused to work on some kind of weird algorithm to help narrow this weird search program that seeks out certain people in the multiverse. Kid Flash had to zap her though, I think she was being controlled somehow."
"We found my Māmā." Dinah reported. "She was being mind controlled too. It's the star shaped things on their foreheads. You might want to be careful moving forward."
"And the ones with powers are being used as living batteries." Alexis added. She bit her lip as she thought it through. "If we continue towards the siphon room I bet we come across the others." She looked at Nyssa as she said, "I'm pretty sure you were set to stop us from getting there, Mrs. Lance."
Nyssa nodded. "Let us proceed."
"We'll work from here." H.G. told them.
Alexis insisted on walking ahead of everyone. She was projectile proof after all. Dinah and her mom hung back to watch their rears. As they continued towards their target location she could feel Lex watching her. It made her a little uncomfortable but not in a bad way. The sadness in his eyes let her know that he didn't watch her out of any kind of malice, but out of something else. Greif? Hope? It was hard to tell.
"You keep looking at me." She finally said when she couldn't take it anymore.
Lex dropped his gaze and blushed. "I'm sorry. It's just that, well, you're their daughter, Lena's and Kara's."
"I am." Alexis nodded.
"And you're named after me, well, him." Lex said.
"Partly." Alexis admitted. "I'm also named after my Aunt Alex."
"Alex?" Lex questioned.
Alexis frowned. "Alex Danvers, Mama's adopted sister?"
Lex shook his head. "My Kara didn't have a sister only her cousins. She was raised by her aunt and grew up with her cousin Sam. Later she reconnected with Clark after finding where he'd crash landed as a baby."
"Oh." Alexis said as a sudden pain twisted in her heart. She didn't like the idea of there not being an Aunt Alex or a Grandma Eliza in their lives. "I guess there wasn't a me either."
Lex was silent for a few long moments. So long Alexis wasn't sure he'd answer but then he said, "In order to distract us from what she was doing my my birth mother sent an assassin to kill Lena's mother, the woman who raised me as her own, the woman I considered my mom. While we were dealing with that Lillian set off the alien virus to rid the world of all aliens." His voice was soft and laced with incredible sadness. "Lena and I were too late to stop her. We watched them, watched the people we loved…"
Alexis reached for his hand without thinking and held it carefully but tightly. "I'm sorry."
"Lillian didn't know Lena was pregnant, not that she would have cared, the virus caused her to hemorrhage during the miscarriage." Lex continued. He turned to look into his sister's eyes. "I suppose I keep looking at you and wondering if things had been different would you have been the child she bore." Lex smiled when the girl opened her mouth as if to apologize again and stopped her. "I am happy to see that somewhere in multiverse Lena is happy."
"She is." Alexis was quick to confirm. "My moms have been married forever, and I have a brother, and their amazing moms. There are issues sometimes, Lillian's a pain in their asses sometimes on our world too, but yeah, my Mom's happy, and safe, and amazing."
"That is good to hear." Lex said with a soft sigh and a warm smile.
The sounds of a fight soon caught their attention. Alexis zeroed in on the voices and let the others know that she heard Nora, Jonas, and Joe Henry who must have left H.G. and Felicity to help his sister. When they reached the fight they saw Sara Lance kicking everyone's ass.
"Habiti, that is no way to treat children!" Nyssa scolded as she jumped into the fight, placing herself between her beloved and the children.
Watching the two women fight was unlike anything Alexis had ever seen before. They moved almost as one and so fast that it was hard for her to believe they didn't have powers. Alexis was memorized by the women. When Nyssa was finally able to subdue Sara, Alexis repeated the focused blasts of cold breath to disable the mind control device. Like Nyssa the woman cried out in pain and fell to her knees. Alexis watched as Nyssa quickly enveloped the blonde in her arms and held her close. She whispered in a language Alexis was just now realizing was Arabic. A bright smile tugged at Alexis' lips as she watched Dinah join the embrace and then her heart twisted painfully in her chest. Her mothers were still here somewhere, trapped, imprisoned, and in danger.
"I can't take this." Alexis said softly as she lifted off the ground. "I have to find my moms."
Before anyone could finish saying her name Alexis flew off in a red and blue blur. She tore through the place until she found the room she remembered from the vibe vision. Landing on the floor she started looking in each chamber. A lot of them were empty but a few held other people including Barry Allen, but as much as she liked Barry she just really wanted to find her mama. When she finally found Kara tears welled in Alexis' eyes. "Mama."
The alcove her mother was in was bathed in red light and Alexis didn't even think about it before she lunged forward.
"Alexis don't!" Lex called out just before the girl could get trapped. "Red sun light!"
Alexis stopped suddenly, stumbling a little as she caught her balance. "We have to get her out of there!"
"We will." Lex said as he came over to stand beside her. "I'm not nearly the genius my sister was but let me have a look."
Alexis nodded.
"Joe!" Nora called out. "Over here! It's Dad!"
Of course the second Lex tried to release Kara an alarm went off and the room filled with more kelex robots. Reaching up to her earwig Dinah called out, "H.G. can you guys do something about these things!"
"Aunt Felticy is trying!" Came H.G's reply. "But we're having issues of our own!"
"Joe!" Jonas called out. "You need to get me to my Mom! Now!"
"I will go as well." Nyssa said and she and Sara exchanged a nod and look.
Alexis fought until she heard Lex say he got the red sun lights shut off. Then she flew to her mother and started helping him disconnect her. Kara fell limp and uncousinusess into Alexis' arms and the girl pulled her away from the alcove and away from the fighting. She held her mother in her arms as tears rolled down her cheeks. Some superhero she was. She couldn't even stop herself from crying. Closing her eyes Alexis listened and relaxed when she heard her mother's heart beating, her lungs taking in air. She opened her eyes and used her x-ray vision to check for injuries. Kara was fine. "Wake up Mama." She said softly while brushing at Kara's hair. "Please wake up."
"Alexis." Lex said softly.
The girl looked up at him and asked, "Are we on Earth?"
"I don't know." Lex replied. "I can't be sure."
Alexis nodded but she had to take the chance. Alexis wrapped her mother's cape around her, and then stood with her mother in arms like it was nothing, like Kara was a small rag doll rather than a grown woman. Then she shot upwards at full strength and speed, crashing through everything above her until there was nothing but sky. Thankfully they were on an Earth and there was a yellow sun. "Come on Mama." Alexis said gently. "Wake up, Mama. Wake up."
The fighting below continued until a red beam began cutting through the robots making quick work of them. Everyone looked up, breathing hard, and watched as two Supergirls descended and landed among them.
"Took you long enough, Supergirl." Sara teased as she smiled at Kara.
Kara smirked. "Better late than powerless, White Canary."
The two women embraced, happy to see one another again despite the circumstances.
"Does anyone know how to revive a speedster?" Lex asked while helping Nora pull Barry from his alcove.
When Kara pulled back from Sara and saw Lex Luthor her whole body went tense.
Alexis heard the soft buzz of heat vision building up and used her super speed to put herself between her mother and Lex. "Mama don't!" She held out her hands in a please stop kind of way. "He isn't our Lex! He's from another Earth and on his Earth he was married to Uncle Clark!"
"Wait, what?" Kara replied.
"He's not a bad Lex, Mama." Alexis said as she lowered her arms. "He's been helping us."
Kara looked into her daughter's eyes and then past her to the man she was protecting. She crossed her arms but begrudgingly said, "Fine, I won't blast him, for now."
"I know it's unsettling, Mama." Alexis said as she relaxed. "But he helped me get you out of that machine. He was brought here against his will just like the rest of you."
"Rest of us?" Kara asked. "Who else is here? Wait, Alexis, how are you here? Does your mother know where you are?"
"Mommy's here too." Alexis explained. Then she went into how she'd heard the breach maker thing beeping and ended up on Earth One and how she and the others came to rescue them.
"So far we've gotten my mothers back, Aunt Felicity, and Uncle Barry." Dinah said. "Who still isn't awake."
"Anyone got any Big Belly Burger?" Nora asked.
"Afraid not." Alexis replied. "While we were up there all I could see was this complex. There's nothing, absolutely nothing, on this Earth."
"Then we'll just have to wait out my Dad." Nora said. "His speed healing should kick in but it might take a few minutes."
"In the meantime we have…" Sara began but stopped when she noticed the looks on the teens faces.
"So, um, according to the others." Alexis said as she held a finger to the earwig in her ear. "Jonas' dad is attacking them and while Mrs. Lance is holding her own they could use a hand."
"I'll go." Supergirl said easily. "Alexis. Stay with Sara. I mean it."
Alexis nodded, but it was clearly written on her face that she didn't want to be away from her mama.
Kara walked over and cupped her face and kissed her forehead. "We'll get through this, little one. Keep being brave."
"I will." Alexis said softly. "But Mama, we have to find Mommy."
"We will." Kara promised. Then flew off to deal with Oliver.
