The next chapter after this is all about the psychic alien, so we'll find out all about him and his reasons. I hope you like the chapter! -Brielle
"How are we supposed to catch this alien?" Alex asked, walking into the DEO.
"I'm not entirely sure," J'onn said. "But I have an idea, and you're not going to like it."
"Why? What is it?" Alex asked, her hands on her hips.
"Let's go talk to Kara about this together," J'onn said. "Mr. Schott," he motioned with his fingers to join them and Winn jumped up, stuttering about something under his breath.
"Supergirl," J'onn said, walking into the recovery bay. "How are you?"
Kara was dressed in her supersuit and was walking out as they were walking in. "I was just coming to find you guys."
"How are you feeling?" Alex asked.
"I'm good," Kara nodded, but Alex didn't believe her.
Alex put a hand on her shoulder and asked again, but Kara grimaced away from her touch. "Kara," she warned.
"I'm fine," Kara insisted. "I have my full strength back, but my shoulder is just a little sore."
"Well, with what I have in mind, I'm hoping you won't have to do much," J'onn said to Kara.
"What are you thinking?" Kara narrowed her eyes at J'onn.
J'onn looked at all three people around him, hesitating before he spoke. "I think we should let this alien have Alex's mind again."
"What!?" Alex and Kara both gasped together.
"Hold on, listen," J'onn raised a hand. "If we let this alien in again by taking off the Neuro-scanners, I might be able to trace the psychic activity back to them."
"Yeah," Winn said. "Almost like a psychic cookie trail."
"Not quite the words I would have used, but yes, Mr. Schott, exactly," J'onn nodded.
"How sure are you of this?" Kara asked.
"I'm more confident in this plan than any other I could think of," J'onn said, his arms crossed. "Now, we're not just going to let Alex free with this alien in control of her mind, so we're going to have to contain you," J'onn shrugged sympathetically.
"I don't blame you," Alex said. "I am not going to hurt you again," she spoke to Kara. "If something were to happen that I get free, please, stop me. Protect yourself. Knock me out, anything," she begged. "Promise me."
Kara looked down at her feet for a second before she nodded. "Alright," she said. "I promise."
"Thank you," Alex sighed, reaching over and hugging Kara.
"Ready?" J'onn asked them.
"Let's do this," Alex said, her jaw set.
Kara took Alex to one of the nearest support beams and showed her the pair of DEO handcuffs. Alex nodded, turning around and waiting for Kara to secure them on her wrists. Once they sealed into place, Kara reached up to Alex's head. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Alex sighed. "If I don't, then we won't catch this guy," she paused. "Just know, that whatever I say, I don't mean a single word of it. I love you, Kara, and no matter how angry I get with you, you will always be my little sister."
Kara gave her a soft smile. "I love you too, Alex." Then she steeled her nerves and removed the neuro-scanner from Alex's temple and they waited.
J'onn stood across from Alex, noticing her every move and reading her brain activity. After a while, Alex's brain activity began to darken and shift. J'onn felt Alex's psyche get pushed down and another thing replace it.
"What are you staring at?" she glared at Kara and J'onn.
"We're just making sure you're safe," Kara said, eyeing J'onn who nodded in confirmation.
"Why am I restrained?" Alex asked, pulling at her wrists behind her back.
"We don't want you to hurt yourself," Kara said.
Alex chuckled, but it didn't sound like a sound Alex would make. "Oh no, you're scared that I am going to be the one to hurt you again."
"I promised Alex that I wouldn't let her hurt anyone," Kara folded her arms and looked over at J'onn who tapped his ear. She listened with her heightened hearing as he said: "Keep her talking while Mr. Schott and I go find this alien. Be careful."
Kara nodded curtly, bringing her attention back to Alex after J'onn left.
"You don't have help this time," Alex snarled, yanking at her bonds.
"I don't need it this time," Kara growled, reminding herself over and over again that it wasn't Alex she was talking to. "I don't want to hurt you, but I will not let you hurt anyone else."
"And what about me? Huh?" Alex tilted her head. "Can you stop me?" With that, Alex grunted, yanking her hands behind the beam and tearing her shoulder loose from its rotator cuff.
"No!" Kara cried, but she couldn't do anything.
"What's going on?" J'onn's voice pierced through her comm.
"She's hurting herself!" Kara cried, holding her hands out futilely.
"She needs to stay conscious! I need her brain activity to stay connected to the alien's or else we'll lose the trail!" J'onn said. "We've almost got him."
"Alex!" Kara cried,
She calmed down a little and stopped thrashing about long enough to glare at Kara.
"Stop hurting yourself," Kara begged. "Please, Alex, just focus on me. It's me you hate, so hurt me if you want, but not yourself."
Alex laughed, shaking her head. "You're so stupid, Kara. You know the only reason you have any friends at all is because they're all scared of you, right?"
"That's not true," Kara whispered.
"You act like you care about all these people, but we all know you would rather punch your way out of any situation instead of negotiate."
"Sometimes it's not that simple," Kara said.
"No, what's simple is that fact that you're just like Non," Alex spat. "You try and try so hard for people to see past the fact that you're an alien, but then you do something to remind them all over again that they left their city in the hands of a monster."
"I am not a monster," Kara sneered. "And I am nothing like Non."
"You're both blind to the truth that Earth doesn't need aliens," Alex said. "We were fine on our own, but you had to land here and plague the land with your criminal kind."
Kara turned away, thinking it would be best not to refute her since what she was saying was lies.
"Don't turn away from me, Kara Zor-El!" Alex cried. "I want to see the defeat in your eyes when you hear that everyone you love fears you for who you are! Eliza tried to keep you away all these years because she didn't want to believe the mass destruction you could produce, Jeremiah wanted to ship you off to Cadmus to be dissected, and me, well, let's just say I was happy being an only child."
Kara glanced at Alex, hearing the words which brought old fears to the surface. At one time in her life when she was little, she thought that nobody would ever love her for who she was. She was convinced that Alex hated her, and she didn't feel safe for a long time. The Danvers' had helped her feel at home, safe, and loved on Earth.
Alex laughed again, her eyes cold. "That's the look I wanted."
"Shut up," Kara muttered.
"I'm not so easy to shut up, am I?" Alex asked, beginning to pull at the handcuffs behind the beam. Kara saw how her shoulder joint was sticking out awkwardly, and she knew that if Alex were in control, she'd be in so much pain.
"Alex, stop," Kara said, walking towards her, but Alex kept struggling, yanking back and forth. "Stop!"
Alex yelled like a maniac, throwing her body this way and that, and Kara thought she heard her wrist snap, but she continued on. Kara didn't know what to do. She wanted to stop Alex, but J'onn needed her awake. She couldn't let Alex harm herself any more.
"Stop, Alex!" Kara yelled, pulling back her fist and connecting it to Alex's temple quicker than the blink of an eye. Alex's yelling ceased and she sunk to the ground slumped over. Kara breathed heavily, knowing that Alex would forgive her for punching her in the face.
"Supergirl," J'onn's voice startled her.
"What is it, J'onn?"
"We got him," he said and Kara sighed, putting her hands on her hips.
"Thank God," she gasped.
"Bringing him back for containment."
"Is it safe to release Alex?" Kara asked.
"Yes," J'onn answered. "We've got a psychic shield on him so he can't do anything."
Kara went behind the beam and unlocked the cuffs, and Alex slid the rest of the way to the floor, her arms falling limply at her sides.
"I'm so sorry, Alex," Kara whispered as she lifted Alex from the ground, careful of her shoulder. "But people are safe from the alien, but most importantly, you are too. You don't have to worry about hurting anyone again."