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In DEO, Lena was in conference room with Supergirl, J'onn, Imra, Brainy and Mon-El, as they were interviewing her, while Barry, Cisco, Caitlin, Ralph, Laurel, Barbara, Tatsu, Mia and Henry were observing the footage.
"Please, state your name."
"Lena Kieran Luthor. Where should I begin?"
"How long has this been going on?" Supergirl asked.
"Three weeks." Lena said.
"And what exactly have you been doing with Sam for weeks?" Supergirl inquired.
Lena took a breath. "When I suspected that Sam was more than she knew, I took her to a secret lab in L-Corp, where I conducted a series of tests. With her consent."
"When I examined her, I found nothing out of the ordinary." Alex pointed out.
"Then you weren't looking for the right things." Lena said.
"So, what did you find?" Alex insisted.
Lena took a breath. "After sequencing her DNA and comparing Sam's blackouts to Reign's attacks, I came to the conclusion that Sam and Reign were one and the same. Sam is Reign."
"So, for three weeks, you've been aiding and abetting a mass murderer." J'onn said.
"I helped a friend." Lena protested.
"And you didn't think to bring this to our attention?" J'onn asked.
"The attention of a clandestine organization that has never formally acknowledged its existence to me?" Lena sneered. "No. I'm not your employee, I've not signed a contract, nor sworn an oath. I conducted an L-Corp experiment, using L-Corp technology, on L-Corp property."
"She makes some good points there." Laurel said as they were observing the footage. "She's not obliged in any way to DEO, and technically, she did not in any way violate the law. All she did was helping a friend, with her consent."
"I doubt that J'onn and the rest will see it that way." Henry pointed out.
"This isn't any different from when a metahuman with problems with his powers would come to us, instead of A.R.G.U.S., for example." Caitlin noted. "I mean, they shouldn't have to punish her for that."
"What did you discover?" Supergirl asked as Lena paled at telling the truth.
"I was hoping to isolate the spark that turned Sam into Reign but I didn't get a chance to finish." Lena explained.
Supergirl sighed. "Weeks with Reign. Do you have any way of tracking the Worldkillers?"
"No." Lena said, to everyone's disappointment.
"Anything else?" Alex asked the Legion members.
"They have gone to ground, they're not coming up again, until they have something big to do." Mon-El replied.
"The future's fate is more precarious than ever." Imra said grimly.
"Would like to know our odds of defeating Pestilence at this juncture?" Brainy asked.
"No."
"No." Mon-El and Imra said simultaneously.
"How did you keep her contained?" Supergirl asked as Lena felt like if she was about to pull out a pin of a grenade.
"Lex kept a vault in the lab. When I took over L-Corp, I inherited all of its assets, for good or for ill. I used kryptonite." She said and everyone tensed.
"Kryptonite." Kara sighed as she walked back and forth in the room. "She had… Kryptonite."
Barry and Laurel tried to intervene. "OK, Kara, calm down before…"
"She held onto Lex's kryptonite. And you know why would he have it in his possession." Kara snapped.
"Kara, I know you're angry and you have every right to be but Lena is nothing like Lex." Barry pleaded.
"Then why didn't she tell us?" Kara snapped.
"Do you honestly believe she would ever turn on you?" Barry tried to reason as Kara turned to him. "Think about it, Lena trusts you, both as Kara and Supergirl. She's your best friend and you've had each other's backs so many times. I mean, has she ever given you any reason not to trust her?" Kara stopped herself as she looked back in the past, considering Barry's question.
Laurel stepped up. "Lex has been in prison for years and if she had her stash of kryptonite, she could have used it against you months ago but so far, she did it for nothing but helping her friend. Remember that she is nothing like Lex.
Please, just think about it before you do something you might regret and cross a line you might not be able to go back from. At the very least, give her the benefit of the doubt. So far she has given you no reason for you to mistrust her. Do you honestly believe that she would ever use kryptonite against you? What would Bruce have done, if Sam was his friend and he was in the same place as Lena was?"
Kara sighed, considering Barry's and Laurel's points before they looked outside the window to see the Moon cover the Sun as Kara groaned and….
…Kara was lying on the ground in dark forest, where she saw Sam and Julia wandering around…
Supergirl gasped as Alex and Lena rushed to her, while the Flash, with his mask on, knelt to her. "What happened?"
"I saw Sam." Supergirl said.
"That eclipse was like someone grabbed on the Moon and pulled. The Earth and the Moon turn on an axis and no amount of technology can change that." Lena said as they walked down the stairs with Alex, Laurel, Supergirl and the Flash.
"That's because this isn't technology." Supergirl explained.
"You should be in the medbay." Alex pointed out.
"I'm fine. This is older than science." Supergirl said.
"Please, don't say "magic"." Lena begged.
"I'm afraid she will." The Flash said.
"Dark magic." Supergirl replied. "Reign, Purity, Pestilence, they were all created by Kryptonian witches to do one thing, kill the world."
"And that's exactly what they're doing right now together." The Flash finished.
"How do you know that?" Lena asked.
"There's no apocalypse in the Book of Rao but there are parables about witches joining hands to create a blessed darkness." Supergirl explained.
"So, whatever ritual the Worldkillers are doing, it's creating the eclipse." Lena realized. "The world can't live without sunlight."
"Nothing can, including Supergirl." Alex finished as they neared the command center.
"How long have we got?" J'onn asked.
"Two hours until totality." Winn answered.
"Then what?" Supergirl asked.
"Temperature drops to 50 degrees." Lena replied.
"Maybe even more. Almost nothing will be able to live in these conditions." The Flash said.
"You said you dreamed of Sam." Alex turned to Supergirl.
"But people don't dream during a seizure." J'onn protested.
"It's the same dream I've been having for the last year." Supergirl said. "I'm in the Kryptonian valley, Juru. Normally, I see the Worldkillers but today, I saw Sam."
"You dreamt of Julia Freeman, too. She turned out to be real." Alex remembered.
"Well, it's not a dream, the valley's real." Lena realized. "When I was working with Sam, she told me about this place, it's an alternate dimension that she would go to, when Reign would take over."
"Wait but that doesn't explain how can Supergirl see that valley too." The Flash pointed out.
"On Mars, my people would share memories, emotions, experiences, sometimes, you would experience a particularly strong mind, wholly by accident." J'onn pointed out.
"Like picking up a radio broadcast?" Alex asked.
"But Supergirl just picked up an alternate dimension." Winn pointed out.
"This theory doesn't sound that far off the stretch." The Flash said, remembering how Cisco once accidentally vibed into the future.
"The Flash is right, it's possible." Lena nodded. "And if we could go in there, maybe we could wake Sam up and she could send a message to say where the Worldkillers are."
"There's still one big hole in this plan." J'onn protested. "How do we send Supergirl back into this valley?"
"We fight fantasy with sci-fi." Supergirl suggested.
"I could have brought here our equipment from S.T.A.R. Labs and rebuild the machine that helped me see the future Barry saw, where Savitar killed Iris." Cisco muttered, his pride hurt as Supergirl, Lena and Alex were talking to Brainy before they left the lab.
"I know but we're running out of time. This is our next best option." The Flash said as they were leaving.
"I'm coming with you." Lena said.
"Not a chance, it might not even be possible." Supergirl protested.
"Oh, no, it's possible." Brainy said.
"Listen, I spent the last month working with Sam and Reign, every day, I know what makes them tick. I know their DNA better than my own phone number. What's more, I know Sam and you don't, if anyone can get through to her, it's me." Lena insisted. "I get that you may not trust me right now but trust that I want to get Sam back."
"Sam's my friend too. And with the Sun darkening, your powers are gonna weaken." Alex pointed out. "You might not have any powers in that "valley mind realm" thing."
"They're right. You can't do this alone." The Flash nodded.
Supergirl sighed. "The moment everything goes to hell, you get them out of there." She instructed the Flash quietly as they left as the Flash nodded.
Elsewhere, Kara was about to dial James' number as Barry stepped up. "Kara, what are you doing?"
"I'm calling James." Kara said.
"Why?" Barry asked before it hit him. "Don't tell me you're gonna use him to spy on Lena." The look on Kara's face answered his question as Barry glared. "Kara, you're asking one of your best friends to betray another, and both of them are in a relationship and it's a big line you're crossing."
"I need to know if she has more kryptonite, Barry." Kara said before Barry snatched the phone from her hand as she glared.
"Kara, you're about to cross a big line, one that you may not even be able to come back from and it will be a cold day in Hell before I let that happen." Barry snapped. "I understand you're afraid that she has the one thing that may be lethal to you but she did nothing to be a threat to you. She's done nothing but having your back, every time she could. Besides, since when is possessing kryptonite a crime? Remember what the League discussed with you, after the Dominators and the Daxamites and when our evil twins attacked my Earth?"
Kara winced as she remembered the conversation she had with Bruce after Laurel's and Oliver's wedding.
A year ago, Batcave, Earth-1
"Why do you need to know what are my weaknesses?" Kara demanded.
"Kara, you almost killed your teammates, when the Dominators took over yours and the Legends minds and of Team Arrow." Bruce said bluntly as he and Victor were examining her. "What if that had happened to Diana, or Hal? You need to understand that people with powers like yours are too dangerous to lack a failsafe against possible abuse of powers. If you had fallen under mind control again and we didn't have a contingency against that, we'd all be dead already."
Kara tensed, looking down in shame before she reluctantly rolled up her sleeve, while Victor turned on the red sun lamp as Bruce drew some blood from her vein.
Present
"Don't tell me that you would stoop so low that you would use your best friend to spy on another best friend, when both of them are in a relationship." Barry snapped. "Only a heartless person with no remorse, like Lex, would do that. Lena has had your back so many times and the least you owe her is benefit of the doubt. Think about that before you cross a line you may not come back from."
Kara looked down in shame as she let Barry's words sink in, while he took away her phone.
Later, Legion ship
"How's it coming?" Supergirl asked as she and the Flash entered.
"The eclipse is diminishing your strength severely." Brainy explained. "I can send you into this dark valley but adding the weight of three more minds to yours will weaken you further. Your biology is impressive but even you weren't built to be in an interdimensional portal."
Supergirl swallowed before nodding. They all sat on their seats as Brainy sent Supergirl, the Flash, Lena and Alex into the mindscape.
Around Supergirl, the Flash, Lena and Alex was dark forest as they gasped and got up on their feet.
"This is impressive." Lena said.
"This is Juru." Supergirl said as Alex picked three pieces of sticks and handed it to them. "Is this for Julia?"
"It's for whatever might be around." Alex said.
"I don't even know if anything here can get injured." Lena muttered before Alex poked her with her stick as Lena groaned. "Ow."
"We're good." Supergirl said as she cut herself in her hand with her stick. "Yep, this place bites."
The Flash noticed a dead corpse on the ground. "Guys."
"Oh, my God…" Alex whispered.
"That's Grace." Supergirl said.
"Who?" Lena scowled.
"One of the human forms of the Worldkillers. Just like Sam and Reign." The Flash explained.
"She's dead." Alex murmured.
"We need to hurry. Who knows how much time Sam and Julia might have." The Flash ordered.
"Yeah, they headed in this direction." Supergirl said as they walked down the forest as she sighed, while the Flash was glancing at Supergirl and Lena and Supergirl sighed, while the Flash was giving her an imploring look. "Lena, I… I owe you an apology."
"For what?" Lena asked.
"I may have overreacted earlier and I shouldn't have misjudged you for having kryptonite." Supergirl turned to her. "It's just that… I let my past experiences with kryptonite get the best of my emotions and… I just wanted to say I'm sorry. A…" She glanced at the Flash. "A good friend reminded some things that I've forgotten and made some good points and… I'm sorry for mistrusting you."
"It's alright. I understand." Lena nodded and smiled but before she could speak up, they heard a sound from another part of the forest as the Flash scoured the area and sped back. "There's something that way. Come on."
They entered a cavern as Supergirl closed the metal door behind them as they heard Julia whimper and she was leaning onto a wall, staring blankly.
"Julia. Julia."
"Julia, it's Supergirl, the Flash and agent Danvers. Can you hear me?"
"We're here to help you."
Lena noticed on the walls written things like:
"MY NAME IS SAM"
"MY NAME IS JULIA"
"MY DAUGHTER IS RUBY"
She noticed Sam leaning onto the wall, trembling and frightened. "Oh, God."
"I killed them." Sam whispered before noticing Lena, Alex, the Flash and Supergirl. "You're here."
"Of course we're here, you think I'd forget about you?" Lena assured her.
"Lena… Alex… Supergirl… the Flash…" Sam murmured as she looked at them. "I killed you too, I'm sorry…"
"No, no, Sam, we're not dead, we're real." The Flash assured her.
"We're here to help you." Alex said.
"We're gonna get you out of here." Lena tried to reason.
"The people I killed are coming." Sam said, as if she was looking at ghosts haunting her.
"Reign killed, not you." Supergirl pointed out.
"We're gonna make sure Reign never hurts anyone again." Lena told her.
"But, Sam, you have to wake up. You have to go back to your body and send us a message, tell us where the Worldkillers are." Supergirl insisted.
"Don't let them in, they're coming for me." Sam begged. "I killed them."
"Sam…" The Flash knelt down. "This wasn't you, it was Reign, none of what happened is your fault."
"You're not a murderer." Supergirl said before she collapsed onto a wall.
"We're running out of time." The Flash realized.
"He's right, we have to get you out of here." Alex nodded as she held Supergirl.
"Not yet. Sam?" Supergirl turned to her.
"Hey, you are Sam Arias, you're the woman I would trust with anything." Lena said.
"You're good."
"You have friends."
"You're a fighter."
"You're a mother."
"Remember Ruby? Ruby's just waiting for you to come home."
"Sam, you have to think of Ruby."
"Remember Ruby?"
"Your daughter misses you. Come back to her, she needs you."
Suddenly, Sam's eye glowed red as she grabbed Lena by her throat and got up as Lena choked.
"Let her go!" Supergirl yelled.
"I'll break her neck!" Sam growled in Reign's voice, causing for them to stop.
"Take me. Take me instead, please!" Supergirl begged as Reign turned to her.
"You. You are nothing, you've always been nothing. Only one of equal strength can defeat me. You are driftwood in the face of a hurricane."
Suddenly, Supergirl, the Flash, Alex and Lena disappeared…
…as they woke up back in the Legion ship.
"It worked?" Supergirl asked.
"Like a charm." Mon-El nodded.
"Are we still talking about dark magic?" Brainy asked.
"You should rest some more." J'onn said.
"Since when has that ever stopped me?" Supergirl asked.
"Wait, Supergirl, he's right." The Flash protested.
"This might be our only chance." Supergirl snapped.
DEO
Laurel entered the room, where she saw Cisco lying on the floor as she knelt to him and woke him up as she saw the bruise on his face. "Cisco, what happened?"
Cisco groaned. "Henry… he… he knocked me out. Right after he forced me to get him back home."
"What? Why?" Laurel demanded.
Then, the comms went off. "Guys, we found the Worldkillers, we need your help now!"
"I'll tell you later, right now they need our help!" Cisco snapped. "Speaking of which, I should get some backup!" He opened another breach.
Elsewhere
Supergirl, Mon-El and J'onn and the Flash were fighting the Trinity as Supergirl slugged Reign. "You are weak." She tossed Supergirl against a wall before she attacked again but Supergirl blocked her punches. Reign, however managed to throw her down on the ground again.
The Flash, Imra, J'onn and Mon-El were fighting Purity and Pestilence. The Flash threw them both on the ground before a breach opened and Vibe entered with Wonder Woman and the Green Lantern and Red Arrow, who fired an arrow that exploded in red blinding light, weakening the two Worldkillers, while Wonder Woman knocked Pestilence on the ground and Alex aimed her gun at Purity.
"Julia. You're in there, I know it. Come on, you gotta rise up and help us."
Purity unleashed her sonic scream as Alex fired and the two energy blasts exploded upon impact, knocking them both down on the ground.
Supergirl and Reign were using their heat vision power against each other as the beams impacted before Supergirl lost her power.
"The eclipse is full. No more powers." Reign smirked smugly. Supergirl threw a punch but Reign grabbed her hand and blocked the attack as Supergirl groaned and fell down as Reign kicked her back and knocked her down on the ground.
"Stay away from her!" Green Lantern shouted as he fired from his ring, knocking Reign down but Pestilence stood next to her as she got up, while Purity was lying on the ground.
"You'll have to go through us first." Wonder Woman said.
"No matter how many powerful friends you have, you will not stop us." Reign sneered and Supergirl was worried that they might beat them, just like Reign beat Supergirl around Christmas before she turned to Purity.
"Julia, please, help us."
Julia came to as she got up. "What did you say before? That only one of equal strength can beat you." Her eyes turned normal. "Come at me, witch." Reign and Pestilence turned to her as she unleashed her sonic scream, stopping both Worldkilllers before Pestilence got behind Julia and stabbed her with her claws and in that moment, Wonder Woman stabbed her in the back as Reign screamed.
"No!"
Both Worldkillers collapsed on the ground as the fortress collapsed, while they disintegrated in glow of light as Reign absorbed them both, screeching.
"That's not good." Green Lantern grumbled as Reign flew away.
"Cisco, get us out of here, now!" The Flash ordered as Vibe opened a breach, through which he, Alex, Wonder Woman, the Flash and Red Arrow escaped, while Supergirl, Green Lantern, J'onn and Mon-El and Imra flew into the ship.
Later, DEO
"Hey, Lena." Supergirl approached Lena.
"Nice work back there." Lena smiled.
"Yeah, you weren't bad yourself." Supergirl nodded.
"Yeah, we couldn't save Sam." Lena said sadly.
"But we saved Julia." Supergirl pointed out. "And if Julia can overcome the demons inside of her, then Sam has a chance too."
"I hope you're right." Lena nodded.
"Why did Henry attack you?" Caitlin asked as she looked at the bruise on Cisco's face, while she, Barry, Laurel and Barbara checked in on him.
"I guess we found some skeletons in his closet that even he didn't know he had." Cisco muttered. "Oliver and Sara knew."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Caitlin asked and Barry, Laurel and Barbara paled, already suspecting what happened.
Earlier
"Cisco, I need you to vibe me. Please." Henry asked as Cisco touched him on his arm.
"Just walk away from it while you still can." A man asked as he was kneeling and bleeding from his hip. "You have no idea what kind of power you want to release."
"Some things you can't walk away from." Henry said as he pulled out his gun and shot the man in his head before taking the book.
"Well done." Malcolm Merlyn said as he approached Henry, who looked… remorseful as he looked at the man he had just killed. "Don't feel sorry about him, Fyff, this power will help us undo all the bad things done to us and it will bring your family back. You have my word. No price is too high to achieve this."
"I hope you're right, Merlyn." Henry said.
The next vision showed Malcolm, Damien Darhk, Eobard Thawne, Leonard Snart, Mick Rory and Henry holding the Spear of Destiny…
The next vision showed Henry shaking hands with Oliver and Sara before he left the Waverider and swallowed some pill.
As Cisco looked frightened, Henry grabbed him by his hands. "What did you see, Cisco? What did you see?!"
Cisco gulped, already knowing that if he would tell Henry, he would hate himself forever but if he didn't, he saw firsthand, what was Henry capable of, when he was angry.
As he broke the news to him, Henry looked ashamed and disgusted as he looked down before turning to Cisco with a look full of hate. "Take me home, Cisco."
"Henry, I know you're mad but please, you're not that person anymore…"
"Take me back home, now!" Henry exploded and Cisco reluctantly opened the breach as Henry sighed. "I'm sorry about this, Cisco."
The last thing Cisco remembered was Henry's fist nearing his face before world went black.
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