Sorry this took a little bit longer than I wanted to, I've been debating on how some things should go in this chapter. Hope you still enjoy this chapter, let's begin.

Chapter 11: Truth And Justice

Alex and Winn took a few steps back as Despero began walking down the stairs towards them.

"There is no dishonor in your retreat." Despero stated, seeing the fear in their bodies. "It is only natural to feel fear when beholding a god."

"You're no god." Alex stated.

"The last person who told me that ended up with a dagger in their chest." Despero shot back.

Despero continued his menacingly walk towards the two, until he heard a voice from behind.

"Hey!"

Despero turned around to the voice's origin to be greeted with a punch to the face, sending the psychic all the way back of the DEO.

The DEO agents were then immediately released from Despero's influence, and lowered their guns from their own heads.

J'onn also then stopped screaming in his psychically induced pain, and looked up to see Clark.

"Clark?" Alex asked in disbelief.

"Oh thank God." Winn said. "I thought we were going to die there for a second."

"What are you doing here?" Alex asked.

"Well I was going to check up on Kara." Clark answered. "But after seeing the lack of kryptonite defenses, I knew something was wrong."

Despero then got up from the rubble and began walking back to the group.

"Okay, so what is going on?" Clark asked.

"Basically we're apparently fighting an alien psychic god or something." Winn said as fast as he could.

The DEO agents then pointed the guns at Despero again, and fired seemingly endless rounds.

After at least thirty seconds, they were all out of ammo, and Despero still stood there with flatten bullets on the ground surrounding him.

"Of course he's bullet proof." Winn said in his 'should've known' voice.

Despero's face showed he was extremely angry.

"Now you shall learn the price for attacking a higher being!" Despero yelled.

But before Despero could make good on his threat, a yellow lightening streak appeared in the DEO.

And before Despero knew it, everyone besides himself vanished.

"Pathetic." he stated before walking back to the control panel.

He then smiled as an idea came into mind.

Kara's Apartment

Kara and Oliver each stood on the other side of the bed as Kara started throwing Oliver's clothes to him.

"Alright. How about we pretend last night didn't happen, and go back to the way things are?" Kara suggested.

"Trust me Kara, that's not going to work." Oliver said, sure of himself. "I've done that more than once, it's not easy to put something like this away."

"Well trust me Oliver, this is not going to work. We are two very different people from two different universes. I sound insane just saying this. Besides, you deserve better than me anyway."

Concern appeared on Oliver's face after hearing that.

"What does that mean?" he asked. Kara sighed. "You still feel guilty about Lillian don't you."

"I murdered her in cold blood." Kara answered.

"Trust me, I'm not too good for you. If anything, you're too good for me."

"Oh come one, that can't be true."

"You'd be surprised."

Kara looked down at the floor, not convinced by what Oliver told her.

"I get it." Oliver began. "You feel as though you're a monster. I've been there, but you're wrong. Maybe you made a mistake, maybe you did a bad thing, but that doesn't define who you are. I'm going to give you some advice that took me awhile to learn: forgive yourself."

"Easier said than done." Kara stated.

"No debate there. But if you don't learn to do that sooner or later, the guilt will eat away at you and at those you love."

Kara sighed. "And that's why I slept with you. You made me feel better about everything."

Oliver lightly chuckled.

"Thanks, I don't usually hear something like that."

Just then, Kara's phone started ringing.

Kara then picked up the phone and answered it.

"Alex? Why are you..." Kara began to ask, but was stopped.

"Despero's real." Alex said over the phone.

"What?" Kara asked in confusion and disbelief.

"He's real and he's pretty powerful."

"I don't..."

"Go to Lena's, I'll explain the rest there."

Alex then hung up the phone.

"What was that?" Oliver asked.

"I'm honestly not too sure." Kara replied.

CatCo Tower

James walked up to one of the employee's desks and asked.

"Hey, did you get those reports done?"

The employee looked up and responded.

"Um, no I've been..."

His response was interrupted when Despero came flying into the same floor.

Everyone stood up and stared at Despero in shock.

"This is your planet's form of communication?" Despero asked, observing the area.

He then looked at someone with a camera.

"You." he said as he pointed at them. "Send my message."

"I don't know who you are." James began. "But we're not going to..."

James's protest ended when he and everyone on the floor fell to the ground, clutching their heads and screaming in pain.

It felt like it went on for hours, when it reality it was but a few seconds.

The agony then ended and James looked up at Despero who was staring down upon him.

"Next time you try to resist me human, I will turn your brain into mush." Despero threated.

Lena's Apartment

Kara and Oliver entered Lena's apartment to see J'onn, Winn, Alex, Barry, and Clark gathered in a circle, discussing the situation.

"A psychic alien god?" Clark asked in disbelief.

"I know it sounds crazy." Alex admitted. "I didn't believe it myself either, but after seeing what he could do to dozens of agents and to J'onn... it's hard not to believe in anymore."

Lena walked up to Kara and asked.

"What exactly is happening?"

"I was wondering the same thing." Kara replied. "You let them in your apartment?"

"More like they let themselves in." Lena responded. "Because it's not like Lena Luthor has a life or anything." she said sarcastically.

"Kara." Alex cried out approaching her sister.

"What happened?" she asked.

"Despero happened." Winn answered.

"Looks like I was right about Despero." Kent stated proudly as he walked in.

Alex rolled her eyes.

"Fine." she reluctantly stated. "You were right. How did you even know what happened?"

"I made the conclusion after watching this." Kent answered as he turned on Lena's TV to reveal Despero on the CatCo news network.

"Greeting humans, I am Despero." Despero began. "I am here to begin my reign across the entire universe, and luckily for you, it will begin on your planet. Naturally you may wish to resist me, to stand up to me. You may believe that because you've avoided an alien takeover once or twice that you can stop me. So I will give you one warning: I am no alien general or queen, I am a god. And you cannot defy a god, you can only surrender to them. If you fail to head this warning, I will take your allegiance by force. Goodbye, for now."

The transmission then ended, and the TV went static.

"Why would Despero do this?" Kara asked. "What is his plan."

"According to legend, Despero plotted to build a new universal order under his rule." Kent began. "If the legend is real, he'll not just stop with Earth's downfall..."

"But he'll continue his rampage until the entire universe bows before him." Clark said, knowing the answer.

"Well then I say we find something that can kill him, and put it between his... uh... three eyes." Alex suggested.

"That might be a little bit hard to do." Winn stated.

"Why?" Barry asked.

"Because of that." Winn pointed outside Lena's window to the streets to reveal many different species of aliens running and destroying the streets.

"Despero must've released them from the DEO." J'onn said.

"Then we need to take them down along with Despero." Barry added.

"What we need is time to regroup and retaliate." Clark suggested.

"Where are we going to do that?" Alex asked. "The DEO's overrun and we can't get far with an army of aliens out on the streets."

"I actually might have a solution." Lena said grinning.

Later

The group followed Lena to her basement, where they encountered a familiar gateway.

"This is a smaller version of the gateway I built with Rhea." Lena said.

"Where does it lead?" Kara asked.

"Not to our deaths right?" Winn asked.

"No... probably not." Lena answered.

"That does not sound as confident as I would like." Winn replied, concerned.

"If it makes you feel better, I'll go first." Lena offered as she turned on the gateway.

Lena then walked up to the gateway, turned around to face the group, and walked backwards, going through the portal.

"She's not dead right?" Winn asked.

Lena then pocked her head back to their side.

"No I'm not." she stated.

"Just wanted to be sure is all." Winn replied.

The group then entered the gateway and walked into some sort of base.

"Where are we?" Alex asked as she looked around the base.

"Are we underground?" Kent asked.

"Not exactly." Bruce answered as he walked up to the group.

"Bruce?" Kara asked surprised. "Why are you..."

"Me and Bruce worked on this after he got you out of jail." Lena answered.

"Work on what exactly?" Barry asked.

"Follow me." Lena said, leading the group up a flight of stairs and to a giant window.

The group then stared at amazement at the sight.

"We're... we're..." Winn was speechless.

"We're in space." Kara finished as she looked at the planet Earth from the space station.

Forest

Von woke up laying down next to a fire with his shirt off.

He tried to stand up, but felt pain throughout his entire body.

He then noticed that a bandage was placed on his chest.

"Lay down." a woman with black hair and in her early twenties said coming up to him. "You are still recovering."

"You know, if you wanted to see me without my shirt, you could've just asked." Von said with a small smile.

"Well at least your funny bone is intact Von." the woman said sarcastically.

"Wait, how do you know my name?" Von asked.

"I read your mind while you were asleep. I learned everything about you." she answered.

"Yeah, cause that's not creepy at all." he said sarcastically.

She then rolled her eyes.

"I'm not going to hurt you, in fact I need you." she stated.

"Why?"

"Because you may be the only one who can stop Despero."

"Despero!" he shouted, angry that he forgot what happened. "He made me stab myself with the dagger."

"Yep. Luckily I was able to teleport to you before you died."

That sentence got Von's attention.

"Teleport? Who or what are you?"

"You can call me Zatanna." she answered.

"Zatanna? And people ask me what kind of name Von is."

Zatanna rolled her eyes at the comment.

"I'm a magician."

"Really?"

"Yes really." she said unamused. "Look, I don't normally get involved in situation like this, but when I sensed Despero was free, I knew that I couldn't just sit back and watch this unfold."

"So what do you want me to do about it?" Von asked.

Zatanna then handed him the dagger.

"This is the only weapon on the planet capable of killing him. You need to shove that dagger through his heart, or else he will enslave not just humankind, but every species and race he encounters."

"Good to know." Von said, standing up. "But his mind control is pretty damn powerful."

Zatanna then handed him a cup of tea.

"This a special and rare tea that will prevent Despero from entering your mind." Zatanna explained.

"Thanks." Von said as he took the cup and started sipping it. "It really sucked. I never knew mind control was such a an uncomfortable experience. It does however explain why my sister hates me so much."

Von then finished the tea and handed the empty cup back to Zatanna.

"What about you?" he asked. "What are you going to do?"

"If you fail, I'm going to make the necessary arrangements for humanity's defense against Despero." she answered.

"So basically, while I'm out there possible dying, you're going to just hide in the corner?" Von asked, disappointed by her answer.

"It's to insure that even if you fail..."

"Got it, whatever." Von said as her put on his shirt and flew up into the sky.

"Why do I get feeling I'm going to meet you again?" she asked herself as she stared into the sky.

Space Station

Kara stared out the window looking down upon Earth, doing nothing put contemplating.

"Hey." Clark greeted as he stood beside her. "You okay?"

"I'm really tired of people asking me that." Kara said.

"After what happened with Brainiac, the gold kryptonite, can you blame them for being worried?" Clark pointed out.

"It's not them I blame."

"It's yourself." Clark said, knowing the answer.

Kara sighed. "You once told me that Kara Danvers was just as important as Supergirl. But it's hard to believe that after doing all these amazing things, inspiring hope for people, and then watching it all fade away after losing my powers."

"I'd being lying if I said Supergirl wasn't inspiring, but that doesn't mean Kara Danvers isn't either."

"Kara Danvers didn't inspire people to override a Kryptonian mind controlling system, that was Supergirl. Kara Danvers also didn't inspire people to fight back during the Daxamite invasion, that was also Supergirl."

"Maybe, but Supergirl didn't save Alex from drowning in alcohol, that was Kara Danvers. Kara Danvers also showed someone named Winslow Schott that it doesn't matter who your father was, what matters is who you choose to be. I think you've been so caught up in Supergirl's powers, you haven't realized Kara Danvers's powers."

Kara then looked at the ground, thinking about what her cousin just told her, until her thoughts were interrupted by Barry.

"Hey guys." Barry announced to Kara and Clark. "I think we're ready."

Kara and Clark followed Barry into the room where the group surrounded a table with the letters JL inscribed in the center.

"JL?" Kara asked. "What's that suppose to mean?"

"Justice League." Lena answered.

"The name you gave us after we stopped Brainiac?" Oliver asked.

"I've heard about your adventures where you came together to fight whatever force there was. So I figured I might as well give you guys a name and a base of operations."

"And what do you call this place?" Clark asked.

"The Watchtower." Bruce answered.

"Not bad." Barry complimented.

"Can we get down to the business at hand?" Alex asked.

Everyone nodded as they took their positions around the table.

"Nelson." Alex said turning her head to the archeologist. "How do we kill Despero?"

"Well... unless you have the dagger, you can't."

"Dagger?" Clark asked.

"It was this magical dagger that could apparently kill anything." Barry answered.

"It probably would've been on Kenny, but I searched his body and I didn't find it." Oliver stated.

"Back at the DEO, Despero mentioned something about sending a dagger into someone's chest." Alex contributed.

"I hate to say it." Winn began. "But it's possible Despero was referring to Von. He might've been in the caves when Kenny resurrected Despero.

Concern appeared on Kara and Clark's faces after hearing this.

"We'll be sure to mourn him after Despero is taken care of." Alex stated, not wanting to waste time on grieving Von. "When he attacked the DEO, he was able to incapacitate J'onn and dozens of DEO agents without so much as a sweat. If his psychic powers are that strong, we'll need something to block them."

"We probably have something here that can interfere with Despero's psychic connection." Lena contributed.

"Alright." Alex said pleased. "So how can we stop him?"

"Despero's immortal, so without the dagger you don't stand a chance at killing him without that dagger." Kent stated.

"Despero isn't the only problem." Bruce added. "Aren't we forgetting the aliens he released?"

"Bruce is right." Clark agreed. "We need to deal with them before they hurt anyone."

"I think the wisest approach is to divide into groups." Oliver suggested.

"I agree." Alex stated. "How about this, Clark is the strongest one here, so I think he should deal with Despero while the rest of us round up the escapees."

"If Despero was able to defeat Von, I don't know what my odds against him are to be." Clark confessed.

"I have an idea." Winn began. "Before Despero attacked, I discovered that Kate's necklace was emitting a lot of energy. So I theorized that if that energy could be property harnessed, it could shock Kara's cells to absorb the radiation of a yellow sun again."

This got Kara's attention.

"Would it work?" she asked.

"In theory." Winn replied. "But the problem is that we don't have anything to properly transfer the energy from the necklace to your cells. If we try to dump all of the energy in you... well... with lack of better words, kaboom."

"The fortress might have something to help." Clark suggested.

"That's a good idea." Kara agreed. "Alright, if we do this, we'll have two Kryptonian instead of one."

"Kara, this is extremely risky." Alex said, worried for Kara.

"If it means saving the world and stopping Despero, then it's worth the risk." Kara said, with no intention of changing her mind.

"Fine." Alex accepted she wasn't going to change Kara's mind. "But I'm going with you."

"So will I." Winn stated. "You'll need the person who theorized this. Plus, I always wanted to see the Fortress of Solitude."

"Well if everyone's going back to National City to deal with Despero and the aliens, how are we going to get to the Arctic?" Alex asked.

"I could probably set the gateway to open a portal by the fortress." Lena offered.

"I still think this is a bad idea." Alex stated.

"We're not exactly high on options." Kara pointed out.

"Well, we've all got jobs to do, so I say we head out and try to save the world." Oliver stated.

Fortress of Solitude

Kara, Alex and Winn walked into the fortress and approached the main computer.

Kara then put her hand on the computer, and it began to speak.

"Hello Kara Zor-El, what can I do for you?"

"I want to insert a new power source and have you safety transfer the energy into me." Kara stated.

"Of course." the computer responded as a hole opened. "Insert the power source here."

"Are you sure about this Kara?" Winn asked. "Because if you do this and something goes wrong, there's no going back."

"He's right." Alex agreed. "You don't have to do this to feel important. You're already the most important person in my life."

"It's not about that." Kara said. "After everything I've endured with losing my friends, my family, my planet, it has to mean something. The only way I can think of honoring them is by being Supergirl. I have to at least try."

Kara then dropped the necklace in the hole the computer opened.

The computer closed the hole, and Kara took a step backing waiting for something to happen.

"Error... error... error..." the computer kept repeating as the entire fortress began to shake.

"Computer! What is happening!" Kara yelled as she stood in the middle of the shaking ice fortress.

"The power source contains to much energy for this console to handle." the computer answered.

"Then get rid of it!" Kara yelled. "Transfer the energy to anything, just..."

Before she could finish, a powerful shockwave of energy emitted from the computer, and sent the three to the floor, knocking them all out in the process.

Well this was quite the chapter. I was going to add the Clark vs. Despero fight scene in this chapter, but after seeing how long it already was, I decided to save it for the next one. Originally, I was going to have them meet up in the hanger from the Dominator episodes. But I figured now wouldn't be a bad time to introduce the Watchtower.

Remember this scene, because it's going to cause some events that you probably can't predict (that's all I'm going to say).

Do you think Kara was right to try and get her powers back, despite the risks and what was happening?

Do you think she has her powers?

Do you think Clark and/or Von can defeat Despero?

If you enjoyed and the questions above in the reviews, I always enjoy reading your comments, and I'll see you in the next chapter.