"Wait, wait, Sam is who?" Kara asked, walking closer to Lena.
"Sam is Reign," Lena repeated. "I really don't what to do now. Before I thought Reign was an evil person, but now seeing how she's using Sam... and it's Sam, for Christ's sake. We can't kill her."
Kara nodded and sat down on the desk, facing her. She let out a long sigh, "You're right, we can't kill Sam, but we can save her. We'll find a way, we always do. Where's Ruby, by the way."
"At our place with Sam. We need to keep this quiet, though, only Alex and us. I don't want her to get in the wrong hands or for Sam to think something else is wrong."
"You're right, prep the lab here and tell her to come by. I'll tell Alex to meet us here," Kara agreed as she whipped out her phone and went to the couch.
Lena sent in a message to security to let them know that Alex was arriving. She then set up unlimited access for all three women to her lab. Lena began out the door, stopping and looking back to Kara.
"Oh, there's a set of clothes you forgot at my place, bottom drawer," she told her, pointing to the low wardrobe next to Kara. "You can change in my bathroom."
Lena continued to her lab, texting Sam while she took the elevator down. Once the doors opened, Lena followed the white fluorescent lights to her personal lab at the end of the hallway. Usually she enjoyed her time in there, but with the current circumstances, she knew that this was going to be a taxing and stressful experiment. She booted up her computer and logged in, starting up a few programs. Lena opened the door, face to face with Kara.
"Hey, can I come in?" Kara asked.
"Yeah," she nodded, moving out of the way. "When is Alex coming by?"
"In 15."
"Okay. Can you help me set up the lab?"
"Sure."
They pulled around the gurney and a bed before they then moved put together a forcefield to contain Sam. It was a while later after they had set up a few monitoring machines and programs before they heard a knock on the door. Lena left the computer while Kara finished setting up the monitors to open the door. Alex stood in the doorway, slightly annoyed at having to come there. Lena let her in before explaining.
"So, welcome to our testing center. We're going to see what's up with Sam."
"Okay, so why am I here?" Alex asked.
"We think that Reign and Sam are the same person," Kara told her.
"That's a big leap. How do you know?"
"She seems to be suffering from memory loss and migraines, pain and wounds she doesn't remember just like Julia Freeman."
Alex slowly nodded, "Okay, I support this, but the moment things go wrong we need tell the DEO."
They nodded, but were soon interrupted by a cautious knock on the door. Alex turned around and opened it, letting Sam in where they explained their process for helping- without telling her she was Reign.
After three days of nonstop tests they knew for sure that Sam was Reign. From what they found, everytime she would blackout, her body seemed to change and her reaction to pain also seemed to get altered too. Her eyes would shift colors and her reaction to internal stimuli would also change. While Reign hadn't revealed herself to them yet, they just knew that that was the problem with Sam. With this knowledge, no one had thought of a new way to preserve Sam and kill Reign. That was until Alex thought of overloading Sam's body with kryptonite. They knew that the suit could focus kryptonite, and Purity still reacted to that element the same way all Kryptonians did. As they tested a device to expel kryptonite, Kara went back to her apartment to check on Ruby. Lena stood by the medical unit waiting for Sam to wake up as Alex tested a few samples.
"Relax," Lena comforted, standing just outside of the force field.
"How long was I out?"
"Only a short while."
"Tell me, what is wrong with me?"
Lena sighed and looked Sam directly in the eyes "Most of your blood tests came back as normal, but I also studied your salt replication process. There's trace evidence that your cells have undergone a mitotal mutation that I've only seen in insects. It indicates metamorphosis. When you blackout, your body seems to be changing on a cellular level."
"Changing, to what?"
Alex spoke up "To Reign."
"I'm not an alien. I don't even have special powers. I bleed. I get sick. My adoption papers say I'm from Scranton," Sam huffed, as she got up, "Look, I know you mean well, but, I don't have patience for this I have to go see my daughter."
Alex spoke up again "Wait, we thought that this might be hard for you to accept so we also compiled a timeline of the blackouts so you could remember."
Lena grabbed the tablet connected to a few monitors, "This is the first one," the attack on Edge, "and this," the One-Seven gang "and finally," she finished showing her the night Kara almost died.
"This is a mistake, I need to go see my daughter," Sam gathered herself and walked down the steps, hitting the the force field. "Are you guys kidding me? Let me out."
"We can't," Lena shrugged, "you asked me to help you, so I'm helping you."
Lena sat in bed with Kara, Ruby was couple doors further, in bed. They got Sam so far that she believes it, but Lena just felt terrible for trapping her in there. Alex was still at the lab and every now and then, Lena would check her tablet for any emails or messages from the various programs she was running. Suddenly, Kara grabbed the tablet out of her hands and put it on her nightstand.
"That's enough babe, we still have tomorrow," Lena nodded and took her head in her hands, she sighed and Kara slowly pulled her closer. "It's okay, we're all scared. We'll find the solution."
Lena nodded again and choked out, "Could you tell me about Krypton?" Kara started to talk about her old home, about her family, about the science division. Suddenly Lena piped up "Wait! You said you were destined to be in the science guild. Why?"
"I," Kara sighed "Generically made for it. It's written in my- DNA- Lena you are genius! We just need to find a way to change Sam's code. We... we could go to the fortress tomorrow and search for whatever we can find on the matter." Finally, they found the way- the safest way- to change Sam back.
The next morning, the two women went to their tasks. Lena sat down in the dining room with Ruby- eating pancakes- while Kara escaped to her cousin's Fortress of Solitude, searching for whatever information they had on decoding a Kryptonian.
"Aunt Lena?" Ruby asked.
"Yes?" she asked with a pleasant smile.
"When do you think mom'll be back? It's not the same without her."
Lena nodded and explained "She'll be back very soon, Alex and I are working on the cure and Kara's out doing some extremely important research. If Kara finds what we're looking for, we could finally have a chance at saving her."
Suddenly the front door swung open as came in Kara exclaiming, "I got it!" She rushed over above normal human speed in her excitement and roughly kissed Lena. When they parted, Lena chuckled and looked up at her.
"You found it?" Kara nodded enthusiastically to Lena's question. Lena turned to their guest and cleared her throat. "My chauffeur will take you to school in 20 minutes, make sure you're ready."
She turned back on her heels and went to change into day clothes. Once she was down, they both hugged Ruby and raced to the elevator, waiting the seemingly long ride until they got to the garage and hopped into one of Lena's cars. When they finally arrived, they saw Alex sleeping on the couch in the lab and Sam in bed, which meant nothing went wrong. Kara woke Alex up while Lena sedated Sam again, making sure she stayed down.
When Alex was able to normally operate, she asked, "Why do you need to wake me?"
Kara chuckled and she almost jumped up and down while exclaiming "We found a way to save Sam!"
Alex quickly stood up and asked in disbelief "Really?"
Kara nodded enthusiastically and said, "The Fortress of Solitude has more than I expected. It has a birthing pod and something to transform humans into Kryptonians and vice versa. So, we found a way to help Sam!"
"What is your plan?"
"I'm gonna fly Lena and Sam to the fortress while you update J'onn, you know so he doesn't think we don't trust him." Alex nodded and accepted some black coffee from Lena.
"Well, so, since I have my coffee, what are we waiting for?" Alex nodded.
Kara laughed in excitement took one a tablet to turn off the force field. She picked pu Sam and had Lena hold onto her as she changed into her new suit, flying to the Fortress of Solitude. In the middle of the snow they landed, in front of them was a building completely made of crystal and ice. Kara laid Sam down on the ground and Lena got off. Kara grabbed wiped off a panel of crystal and placed her hand against it. It left a few specks of blood before an entrance revealed itself to the three women. Kara quickly grabbed Sam and walked inside with Lena at her heels.
They were greeted by the low inviting voice of an AI, but Kara kindly requested, "Kelex, I won't be needing any further assistance, thank you."
Kara walked to the corner of the fortress and pushed a button which revealed a staircase. Kara walked down- with Sam in her arms- and a side room. She placed her in an alien machine and closed the door. She began typing a program into the machine's door.
After a couple minutes she stepped to the side. "Lena can you take a look at this if it is right?"
Lena nodded and looked at the screen and flipped through the different numbers that were input before agreeing, "It looks good. Should we start it?"
Kara nodded, so she pushed a light grey button, listening as the machine started to hiss and locked Sam in the podA strange pink fluid filled the container that held their friend. Minutes passed as the machine worked before it suddenly stopped, drained itself, and opened with a loud popping sound. Kara reached in and grabbed Sam- who was drenched in the pink liquid.- out of the machine and walked out of the fortress. She waited for Lena to hold onto her before flying back to L-Corp.
Once they got back to the lab, Lena injected an adrenaline in Sam's arm and waited, watching as she awoke. From what they noticed, the pod only exacerbated Sam's powers, meaning that at the slightest provocation, she could blast at them with heat vision or kill them with one hit. Alex went out for dinner while Kara rested on the couch.
"Hey Sam, you'll be here for some time so we can control Reign's power, but we fixed it," Lena grabbed her tablet and turned on the red sun lamps "From now on you have powers like Supergirl, so we ask you to assist us with getting the two other Worldkillers. For now, I put some food on the table, enjoy."
Sam gratefully nodded and asked "You really did it?" Lena nodded "That- wow- how? Nevermind, I won't understand. Just... thank you for everything." Lena smiled and grabbed a chair and she sat next to the medical unit with her until the early hours of the next morning.
Edited by: AFY2018