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"Wait, Henry was working with Thawne, Damien Darhk, Snart and Malcolm Merlyn?" Caitlin demanded.
"To get the Spear of Destiny." Cisco supplied. "It was Henry from 2008, after Diggle's brother tried to kill him and took out his daughter instead. Oliver and Sara and the Legends stopped them and sent them all back where they belong and wiped their memories. I don't know how but somehow, Henry remembered some pieces and he asked me to vibe him." He sighed, still a little sick at how ruthless Henry was back then. "I didn't want to tell him… but he made me." Then, he noticed the looks on Laurel's, Barbara's and Barry's faces as he glared. "You knew, didn't you?"
Laurel sighed. "Cisco, it's not that we wanted to keep it secret from you, we were trying to protect you all. You didn't know Henry back then, he was full of grief and anger and desperate to do anything to protect his family."
"Well, maybe if you had told us that, maybe I would've known what was I getting myself into before he knocked me out!" Cisco snapped.
"Look, we can point fingers later, can you find out where Henry is now?" Barry tried to defuse the situation as Barbara picked up Henry's spare jacket that Cisco grabbed and he got a vision…
Sara was walking out of Henry's apartment in Gotham, eyes filled with tears as Henry was feeling guilty and remorseful.
Cisco sighed in relief.
"Did you find him? Where is he?" Barry asked.
Gotham City, Earth-1
Henry was drinking a glass of scotch in his apartment in Gotham as Sara entered, smiling. "Hey." She noticed Henry was looking deeply depressed as she scowled. "Are you OK?"
"Why wouldn't I be?" Henry scoffed. "Mindwiped and not remembering I did some awful things to the people I care about, oblivious of the bad crap I put you through…"
Sara paled, hoping Henry was not implying… "Henry, what are you…"
"You know, I've wondered what did you see in me, two years ago." Henry got up and turned to her. "Maybe it's because you could understand the pain I've been through after losing my daughter. After I left my family and was so consumed with anger and grief and guilt and you pretty much did the same thing after you broke up with Oliver. But then, something else hit me. Maybe, this whole time, I was just damaged goods that you thought you could put back together right from the start. After all that crap I put you and Oliver through."
"What are you talking about?" Sara asked, not understanding.
"Thawne kidnapping my daughter. Or me working with him, Darhk and Merlyn and Snart to find the Spear of Destiny." Henry said bluntly and Sara paled. "Yes. I remember, Sara. I remember everything. What happened in Gotham almost ten years ago and then France."
"How…" Sara whispered.
"It doesn't matter how. Just tell me. Was this all, ever since we met, just an elaborate plan to put back together some damaged goods? Was that all I ever was to you? Or what about Oliver? How can I be sure he wasn't manipulating me to join him, when Darhk and Prometheus showed up in Star City? Or you, when we first met?" Henry snapped. "You know, back when the Nazis and Thawne were about to gut Kara, Thawne said that he should have killed me, when he had the chance. I didn't get it until I remembered how I joined him, Merlyn, Snart and Darhk. That's what I am, right?" Henry scoffed. "Just a selfish jerk and monster that you thought you could redeem."
"Henry, you can't honestly believe what you're saying." Sara tried to reason.
Henry sighed. "I honestly don't know what to believe anymore."
"It was never a part of some kind of an elaborate ruse, I'd never use my friends or people I love like that, ever." Sara snapped. "What we have is as real to me as it is to you. You know that I care about you."
Henry sighed again. "You have no idea about the things I did to get that book, do you? I killed and tortured people… I would have made them scream and beg me for death until I got what I wanted…"
"And you think me and Ollie never did any of that?" Sara argued.
"The difference is that you were working for an organization of ruthless killers and Oliver was trying to protect you all, I was stupid, selfish and inconsiderate jerk! I didn't even care about how my actions might hurt others like my family, I was so consumed with guilt and anger, I couldn't see past my loss." Henry shot back. "I remember everything that happened in Somme and in 2008. And not just that, I know what we did to you in Doomworld."
Sara paled at Henry's note. "All I ever wanted was to do right by my family but you know what? Nicky was right. Half the time, I try to help, I just make things worse instead." He turned around, tone full of self-loathing.
Sara sighed, realizing that right now she was pretty much looking at herself after she had tried to kill Roy, when he hurt Sin, while under Mirakuru influence. "You're not a bad person, Henry. Just… a good man, who has been forced to do bad things."
Henry sighed as he was staring at the mirror. "I don't know who I am anymore. What I do know… is that I'm not sure if I can be with you anymore. Not after what I've done."
"You're being too hard on yourself." Sara said as she held his shoulder.
"Why shouldn't I be?" Henry scoffed. "After all the trouble I put you guys through?"
"Because it never helps." Sara tried to reason. "Trust me. You're the same person you've been for the past ten years. Please… don't torture yourself like this."
Henry sighed as he shrugged her hand off his shoulder. "Just leave me alone. I've put you guys through enough pain."
Sara felt hurt that Henry was pushing her away like this… but if she couldn't get through him, there was still someone else he would listen to.
Legion ship, Earth-38
Supergirl, the Flash, Cisco, Laurel, Barbara, Alex, Winn, Brainy and Mon-El were with Imra in the room, where were the stasis cells.
"Chameleon was the first Legionnaire to fall." Imra said. "Stricken by the blade. Six more quickly followed."
"So, you put them in stasis to save their lives." Alex realized.
"It was Brainy's idea. Keep them on ice until we find the cure." Mon-El explained.
"I was wondering, why you hadn't woken them up to join the fight." Alex said.
"We couldn't risk exposing your timeline to the sickness, couldn't risk causing the very thing we were trying so hard to prevent." Imra explained.
"But we did prevent it." Mon-El pointed out. "And with Pestilence defeated in this time, they were never infected, so their vitals are back to normal."
"It is imperative that Imra return to the future." Brainy said. "We don't know that the Titan Alliance will have held, given the change to the timeline. Every second we waste could bring us closer to intergalactic war."
"Well, with the help of the Legion, Justice League, Birds of Prey and our friends…" Kara turned to Barry and Cisco. "…we defeated the two Worldkillers. I think we can handle Reign from here on out. Especially with my new cape tricks."
Mon-El and Imra smiled. "Well, I guess it's back to the future then." Barry and Cisco snickered. "Which I do know is a movie title, I just like saying it."
"Yes, honestly, what time traveler doesn't?" Brainy drawled. "Back… to the future."
Cisco laughed as the rest were staring at Brainy's misinterpretation of the movie reference as Barbara later dragged him aside.
"Cisco, can you take me and Laurel to back to Gotham?" Barbara asked as Cisco nodded, glowering.
"Oh, sure. I think he needs some talking some sense to and also, I should talk some sense into him for hitting me." Cisco snapped.
"Cisco, please, don't be too mad at him." Barbara pleaded as Cisco sighed, while opening the breach.
Gotham City, Earth-1
Cisco, Sara, Laurel and Barbara went out from the breach in front of a house as Barbara knocked on the door as a blonde woman opened and smiled.
"Hey, Nicky."
"Hi, Babs." Nicole smiled. "Is everything OK?"
"Actually… it's about Hank. He needs your help. He needs his sister."
Nine years ago, Gotham City Cemetery
Rain was pouring down as Henry was kneeling in front of his daughter's grave as Barbara and Nicole approached him, holding an umbrella as they held his hand.
"Who's leaving the flowers here?" Henry asked as he was staring at the gravestone.
"I wish I knew." Nicole sighed. "But at least you know she has a lot of friends."
"Had." Henry corrected after a pause as his sister turned to him.
"This is about letting go, Henry." She said with pleading eyes. "I know it's been hell but… you need to accept that some things you can't fix."
"I'm not trying to fix anything." Henry snapped.
"I know that look in your eyes." Nicole pleaded. "You want to find the people, who did this. But if you do that, you'll put us all in danger again." She warned.
"I won't." Henry said. "Because I'd rather be dead than let anything happen to you. Any of you. You two and Riley are the most important things in my life. And I'll do anything to protect you."
"Hank, stop and listen to yourself." Barbara insisted. "You have to let it go."
"I can't!" Henry snapped. "I… I need to understand why. Why her and not me."
Barbara and Nicole then noticed the look in his eyes. It was the look of a man with a death wish…
"You're my brother and I love you." Nicole said gently. "But Riley is everything to me and I'd rather keep you away from my son in a heartbeat than allow him to get hurt because of you."
"Then I'd rather leave you to keep you safe rather than stay with you and allow you guys to be next." Henry snapped as he got up and walked away as Nicole looked at him sadly before a few gravestones away, Barbara ran to him and held him by his shoulder, causing for him to stop.
"Hank, wait. You can't blame yourself. Nicky doesn't blame you, either. But, please, just let it go. She and your nephew need you. Your family needs you." Barbara said.
"No." Henry shook his head as he brushed her hand off. "Not… not like this. I… I can't. I need to understand why it had to happen. And that's why I have to leave, Babs."
"Henry…" Barbara stopped, not sure what else to say.
"I'm not the guy you should be around. And that's why I need you to leave me alone." Henry said.
"I won't." Barbara snapped. "No matter how hard you might try to push me away, I won't leave you."
"Why won't you give up on me? It's only going to get worse for you." Henry sighed.
"Because you and Nicky are not just my friends. You're my family. And you don't turn your back on your family. Even if they turn their backs on you." Barbara said.
"And that's why I need you to stay here and look after them." Henry ordered.
"You can't change what happened." Barbara reasoned.
"But I can make sure they won't hurt you ever again." Henry said as he walked away.
"Henry. Henry!"
Present, Gotham City Cemetery
Henry was staring at the worn gravestone of his daughter as Nicole approached him from behind, holding his shoulder. "You haven't been here since you got released from Arkham and since you returned from Hong Kong."
"I honestly didn't know what was waiting here for me anymore." Henry said. "I've said my goodbyes to her already."
"I know why you came back." Nicole said as he turned to her, raising his brow. "I know what happened. And I know that you ran and remembered. Laurel and Barbara told me everything."
"Then you know what kind of monster I am." Henry scoffed. "You said it yourself. Half the time I try to make things right by you…"
"You're being too hard on yourself. And I'll admit, maybe I am too and I admit that I often let my emotions get the best of me." Nicole held his hand. "But I know one thing. At the end of the day, you'll always be my brother. And I'll always love you. And I know that you're trying to do right by everyone. Even if you may end up hurting us sometimes instead." She took a breath as Henry turned to her. "Remember, when we were kids, when you would break a glass or a vase, you'd try to fix it? And I kept telling you to let it go, because it was stupid and petty and that it didn't matter? But you were crying and thinking that Mom and Dad hate you because you almost always mess things up." Henry stared back, looking sad and guilty. "I wanted you to let go, not because you couldn't fix things, but because I wanted you around. Bad things happen and we all screw up sometimes and what matters is how can you deal with it.
I'd kept hoping you would look back and see that I'm here for you, no matter what. That you would realize that I want you around and that you would want me around too."
Henry looked at her and felt deep guilt and shame upon when he abandoned his sister and nephew after his daughter's death. "All I can say is that I'm sorry for everything."
Nicole held his shoulder. "You'll always be my baby brother and I'll always love you. No matter what happens, we all screw up sometimes, no one's perfect. So, don't blame yourself for putting us in danger. I know that in the end, you're just trying to do right by everyone, even if you end up hurting us instead sometimes and you do the bad thing for a good reason. And I'll always love you, no matter how hard things are going to get for you and for us. And that's why Laurel, Sara and everyone else wants you around too. Because we know that you'll eventually make the right choice. You may think the worst of yourself right now… but I still believe in my little brother. And that's why Laurel, Barbara and everyone else still want you around. Because they believe in you too. You think you're a bad person? Then let them help you be a better person."
As she felt Henry's hand on her own, she finally realized she got through to him as there was Cisco, Sara, Laurel and Barbara waiting nearby. As Henry approached them, Cisco punched him in the face as Henry chuckled. "OK, I deserved that."
"Well, technically, that punch should have been for Oliver for not telling anyone of us." Cisco said, chuckling as Henry smiled before he hugged his sister tightly.
"Look… Hank. I… I admit I was freaked out that Oliver dragged you into this mess again almost three years ago but… I realized that…" Nicole took a breath. "You think you're a bad person but there are people around you that still believe in you. You may think the worst of yourself sometimes but I know that eventually you'll do the right thing. And I know that more people believe in you. And they can help you be better, if you let them. I know you'll find a way to do right by everyone. Because I believe in my little brother and I'll always love him." She kissed him on his cheek as Henry smiled.
"Thanks, Nicky."
"Just be careful, OK?"
"I will." He said as she left before he turned to Sara, still looking guilty and ashamed. "Look… about what happened and what I said…"
"I don't blame you." Sara assured him. "You didn't say anything I haven't said to myself when I broke up with Ollie or… when we brought you back home."
"And… what happens now?"
"That's up to you." Sara said. "I don't want to give up on you or what we have."
Henry looked down, ashamed and unsure. "I… don't know how to be with you after knowing what I did."
"Start by trying to forgive yourself." Sara advised, speaking from experience. "You shouldn't have to blame yourself anymore. If you let your past actions define you… you'll never find out. And don't push away the people that you love. Because they won't leave you no matter how hard you try. And I know that you can be better." Henry considered her words before Cisco opened the breach as she kissed him. "Maybe it would be a good idea if we came to help too."
"I better hope Helena and Selina are back too." Henry pulled out his phone.
Lena's apartment, National City, Earth-38
Supergirl, the Flash, Winn, J'onn and Alex were looking around the trashed apartment.
"Why would Reign go after Lena?" Supergirl questioned.
"Well, Lena did imprison Reign and then, you know, experimented on her a little bit." Winn quipped.
"But revenge isn't Reign's M.O." Alex pointed out.
"I agree." J'onn nodded.
"She must have been here for something else. Or someone." The Flash deduced.
"You're right." Lena said upon entering with James. "Reign was looking for me. She was looking for Ruby."
They all looked worried upon hearing the news. "Is she…"
"Reign won't find her." Lena assured them. "Ruby's safe, I promise."
"And are you OK?" Supergirl asked.
"Fine." Lena nodded.
"So, Reign is after Ruby and she started with Lena." J'onn said.
"That can't be her only clue." The Flash pointed out.
"Where else might she look?" Alex inquired.
"Sam's mother, Patricia. She's got a farm outside the city." Lena said.
"Supergirl, the Flash and I will go get Patricia to safety and then wait for Reign to attack." J'onn ordered before turning to Lena. "Anything you've discovered while studying Reign that you think we should add to our arsenal?"
"Electricity." Lena suggested. "It's how I was able to wake Reign up and force her back down."
"Ooh, I can retrofit something." Winn said.
"I think we can help with that too." The Flash said.
"I need to get to Ruby." Alex pleaded with Lena.
"I told you, she's in a safe place." Lena assured her. "And the less people that know about that, the safer the place will be."
"I understand that but she's probably afraid." Alex pointed out. "Lena, please, let me just get to her, just in case."
"Where Ruby is, Reign will never find her." Lena pointed out. "It's not on any map, no one can see it from space, nobody knows about it, except for me and my brother."
"And how does Lex know about it?" Supergirl asked.
"Because it's his mansion." Lena said as later, Alex went on her bike and drove towards the location with Barry, who was running with her as Alex noticed a keypad and punched in the code, revealing Lex's mansion that was camouflaged.
Patricia Arias' house
Supergirl and J'onn knocked on the door. "Patricia Arias, we need to talk to you."
There was no reply, so Supergirl and J'onn, with a duffel bag, entered. "Mrs. Arias?"
They heard an elderly female voice from the door at the kitchen. "Francis Pierce, I told you that the next time I caught you in my house looking for pills, I was gonna put a hole through your thieving hand!" Patricia went out, aiming a shotgun before Supergirl stepped up in front of J'onn, shielding him. "Supergirl…"
"We're sorry if we startled you, Mrs. Arias. This is John Jones from the FBI." Supergirl said as J'onn showed his badge.
"We have reason to believe that Reign is on her way here." J'onn explained.
"Which means this house isn't safe. We need to get you out of it." Supergirl finished.
Patricia gapped and took a breath as sadness and realization dawned onto her. "She's her, isn't she? My Sam is Reign."
"How do you know?" Supergirl asked, surprised before Patricia accompanied them to Sam's childhood room.
"I… never told her where she was from." Patricia said uncomfortably. "I… I just wanted her to be normal and when she was ten, she started doodling all over her books. It was like something inside her just needed to get out… and I punished her for it. I grounded her and I tore up the pages." She walked to the wall and ripped off the wallpaper as they saw the Kryptonian symbol of Reign on the wall drew in black. "So, she drew it on the wall to spite me. When I saw the same mark all over the news, I knew."
Supergirl nodded in understanding how painful this must have been for the elderly woman. "All I ever wanted was to protect her." Patricia sighed as she picked up one of Sam's childhood photos. "That's all I ever wanted." She turned to them again. "When we bury things… and I should've known this but… when we bury things, they come at you even harder."
"What Sam's become, has nothing to do with the way she was raised." Supergirl assured her.
"I was an awful mother." Patricia said with eyes filled with tears. "I kicked her out. I've never even met my granddaughter."
"We need to get you out of here before she comes." J'onn interrupted.
"No, if she's coming here, I wanna be here when she does." Patricia protested. "I kicked her out, when I should've helped her. I am not gonna turn away from her now."
J'onn turned to Supergirl, who nodded reluctantly.
Lex's mansion
"Not much further." Mrs. Queller told Alex and Barry.
"We're good, Mrs. Queller." Barry assured her.
"Of course you are, Mr. Allen. You and agent Danvers are in much better shape than me. You don't have these knees I have to contend with." Mrs. Queller said. "You know, it took me weeks to get used to the distances in this place. The step count from wing to wing, five thousand. Slightly bigger than my townhouse."
"Well, I'm in a studio, so…" Alex sighed.
"And the creepy decor." Mrs. Queller turned to the portrait of Lillian Luthor as Barry and Alex tensed and glared at the painting. "Ugh, this one. Worse than a Mona Lisa. Her eyes follow you everywhere. Not in a good way."
"Whoa. We're lucky this place isn't haunted, are we?" Barry laughed nervously as Mrs. Queller and Alex made a nervous laugh too.
"Indeed we are." Mrs. Queller said before she and Alex and Barry approached Ruby, who was at the table, with headphones on, eating breakfast and watching something on her tablet before she put her headphones down, turning to the maid. "Ruby Doll, look who's come to pay you a visit!"
"Aunt Alex! Uncle Barry!"
Barry and Alex hugged her tightly.
"We're so glad you're OK." Alex sighed in relief.
"Is my Mom with you? Or Uncle Henry?" Ruby asked.
"No. She's still sick. And Henry… he's on his way." Barry promised.
"What's wrong with her?" Ruby demanded. "She won't tell me and Lena won't tell me, do you guys know?"
Alex sighed. "No. We don't."
"I haven't hurt from her in days and on the news, there are stories about the Pestilence outbreak." Ruby said. "Is that what this is? Was my Mom infected?"
"No, Ruby, no." Alex assured her.
"I'm 12 years old, I can handle anything." Ruby pleaded. "Just tell me what it is."
Barry held Ruby's shoulder. "Look, Ruby… it's a little complicated and honestly, even we're not sure if we understand what's happened to her. But please, trust me when I say that we're doing everything we can to help your Mom."
"Everything is set." J'onn said as the night was nearing, while he entered the kitchen.
"Patricia's in the safe room." Supergirl said. "She said we could grab anything out of the fridge if we want. She said there's pudding."
"No, thanks." J'onn declined as he and Supergirl chuckled.
"Mon-El and everyone missed you this morning." Supergirl pointed out.
"Oh, yeah, sorry about that." J'onn said. "I was… dealing with my father." Supergirl looked at him in sympathy. "Since the incident at DEO, he has become increasingly depressed. Irritable if I push him."
"Can Alex or Caitlin prescribe something?" Supergirl asked.
"I'm giving him Martian medicine, which helps." J'onn replied. "But reality is, with the psychic dampener on, there isn't really much he can do." Supergirl narrowed her eyes. "Yeah, I know I needed to protect him, protect all of us but I still wish there was some way I could make him feel useful." J'onn leaned onto the fridge, looking sad. "There are moments, when he doesn't seem to remember who I am. Thinks I'm someone from his past."
"I'm sorry, J'onn." Supergirl said.
"It's funny how his past memories are so clear to him, yet his present thoughts are chaotic." J'onn pointed out as Supergirl patted him on his shoulder before they heard rustling outside and they realized that something bad was about to happen before the flowers on the window withered quickly.
"Pestilence…" J'onn realized.
"How?" Supergirl gapped.
Reign was walking down the road as the leaves fell off the trees that withered before she entered the house. "Patricia… are you home?" She asked in Sam's voice before she found someone upstairs with her X-Ray vision and went upstairs and entered her childhood room. "Ruby? Sweetheart, it's Mommy… I know you're scared. But I've come back for you." She turned to the closet. "Did you miss me?" Reign opened the closet as Supergirl smirked.
"So much." She fired from the weapon in her hands as some electric bolas wrapped themselves around Reign, restraining her and knocking her out from the room as the window crashed and she fell down on the ground.
J'onn and Supergirl went out as Reign freed herself from the restraints and unleashed Purity's sonic scream on them as J'onn's ears bled, while Supergirl was stunned. J'onn dodged as Reign fired her heat vision and hit a tree, igniting it.
Reign pulled out Pestilence's claws, while Supergirl was incapacitated before Patricia went out, facing Reign, trying to reach the human side inside of the Worldkiller. "Sam! I know you're in there! I know my daughter's in there! And I need her to understand, you are not this monster! You are kind and good, you are everything that I wasn't. You're not this. Honey, if you're listening, if you can hear me, I need you to rise up! Not for me, not for me, Sam, this is for Ruby. For your daughter." She showed Reign the photo of Sam and Ruby as Reign stared at it blankly before glaring at Patricia.
"What did you do for your daughter?" She drove the claws though Patricia's chest as Patricia gulped.
"No!" Supergirl exclaimed.
"I love you, Sam. I forgive you…" Patricia whispered before Supergirl fired her heat vision beams, knocking Reign away from Patricia and throwing her towards the upper level of the house.
Then, Supergirl and J'onn approached Patricia lying on the ground. "She's dying."
"Reign has all the Worldkillers' powers." J'onn realized. "Let's get her out of here, we gotta go."
Later, DEO
J'onn and Patricia were both on beds in infirmary as Supergirl neared her. "Patricia. Hey. Stay with us."
Patricia slowly opened her eyes. "When you see Sam, you'll tell her that I'm sorry. That I should have held her closer. And tell Ruby… tell her that her grandmother loved her." She murmured, crying. "Promise me."
"I promise." Supergirl nodded, holding back tears as Patricia's heart monitor flatlined.
Lex's mansion
"That's horrible." Alex sighed heavily, while talking over the phone with Kara. "Yeah, no, no, thanks for calling." She hung up as Ruby showed up.
"What's wrong? Who needs your help? My Mom?" Ruby asked as Alex turned around, surprised.
"No, no, no one." Alex said before they heard beeping and then Alex tensed.
"Hello?" Henry called out as Alex sighed in relief and felt herself deflate.
"Over here!" Alex shouted as Henry approached them and hugged Ruby tightly.
"Hey, peanut."
"Uncle Henry." Ruby smiled. "Is my Mom OK?"
"Ruby… don't worry about her, OK?" Henry promised.
"Please, just stop lying to me and tell me what's going on." Ruby insisted.
"She's fine, Ruby, we promise." Alex assured her as she held her shoulder. "Let's go watch a movie, OK? I'm going to go talk with Mrs. Queller and she'll hook up us with popcorn and ice cold soda and Gene Wilder, I mean, come on, this is going to be amazing, you just hang tight." She said as she walked out with Henry and Barry.
"Thank God you're fine." Alex sighed in relief as she hugged Henry. "You really had us worried."
"I'm fine, really."
DEO
"You should be resting." Supergirl said as J'onn went out from the infirmary and groaned.
"I need to be on my feet, lying down is so boring." J'onn said.
"I told Patricia I'd give a message to Sam but… I don't know if I'm ever gonna see Sam again." Supergirl sighed. "Even with everything I've learned from the Justice League and Mon-El, Reign has me outmatched on every level. J'onn, how am I going to fight her?"
"Usually, your secret weapon is your heart, Supergirl." J'onn pointed out. "But I didn't see any glimpse of humanity in Reign that you could reason with."
Supergirl scoffed before a thought occurred to her. "White Martians are soulless as Reign. When you battled them, were you ever able to get through to them?"
"Besides M'gann, no." J'onn shook his head. "But I just used my skills as a warrior, like you." Supergirl sighed. "But there was one amongst us, who thought they could reason with them. And he did. He got them to spare his life."
Supergirl then remembered who was J'onn talking about.
J'onn's apartment
"Father?" J'onn asked as Myr'nn was meditating, with his dampener on as he turned to Kara.
"Ursula, you should not have come." He said, to Kara's and J'onn's dismay as he didn't recognize her. "When I told Kemler I didn't agree with his position on the Eradicator project, I wasn't looking to be persuaded."
"Father, this is not Ursula, this is Kara, my friend." J'onn said.
"Of course you are." Myr'nn nodded.
"We came here because we could use your help." J'onn explained.
"I'm of no help to any being. Please, leave me be." Myr'nn declined.
"Father, I just need to…"
"I said "no", J'onn!" Myr'nn snapped.
"Dad, look, I know you cannot journey through your mind like you once did, I know that. But your memories are still intact. None of it has been lost since you've been doing the Ta'ar Ka'riq." J'onn assured him. "You just need help to access it."
"I can do nothing for you." Myr'nn protested. "I've had enough failure."
J'onn walked past the couch, sighing as Supergirl sat next to Myr'nn. "J'onn told me that when the Greens chose to fight the Whites, you pleaded with those in charge to have open talks, is that right?" Myr'nn nodded. "Everyone else just saw their aggression but you saw something you could reason with. What was it?"
"I don't remember." Myr'nn said as J'onn turned around, an idea forming in his mind as he shapeshifted into a White Martian.
"Father."
"Do not play tricks on me." Myr'nn said as he looked away from his son.
"Just look at me in this form, father, like you did when you saw Ursula. You remember exactly your past conversation. Now, look at me and tell me why you think you can get through to me." J'onn ordered.
Myr'nn got up from his couch as he was glaring at his son and scoffed. "Get through to you? You are as stubborn and righteous as Phobos. I can't persuade you of anything you don't already believe in."
"Whites kept you alive, why?" Kara demanded as she got up.
"Because I knew that the sacred scrolls were important to them." Myr'nn explained. "And inside my mind, I had all the knowledge and secret of those scrolls."
Kara nodded in realization. "And if they killed you, that knowledge would be lost to them forever."
J'onn returned back to his human form. "You abandoned your own beliefs and appealed to theirs. To their code."
"And Reign has been pretty clear about her code of justice." Kara said as she and J'onn realized that they just had a clue to getting through to the Worldkiller.
J'onn patted Myr'nn on his shoulder, chuckling. "Father, you might just have saved us today."
"I have?" Myr'nn asked, confused.
"You have." J'onn nodded as he and Kara shared a laugh.
Later, DEO
Lena entered with a briefcase as Supergirl approached her.
"Lena."
"Supergirl. I have something for you." Lena handed her a briefcase. "But don't be alarmed. It's in a lead-lined case."
"Is that kryptonite?" Supergirl asked.
"To help you fight Reign." Lena explained.
Supergirl felt some disgust over Lena lying to her but remembering her conversation with Laurel, Barry and Bruce made her calm down as she nodded and picked it up reluctantly. "Thank you… and… I'm sorry for… for how I've been acting towards you lately."
"Just get Sam back. Please." Lena said as Supergirl nodded.
Lex's mansion
"Alright, I think I got the projector working." Alex said as Ruby was sitting at the table. "You ready?" She, Barry and Henry then noticed how nervous Ruby looked. "You OK?"
"Yeah." Ruby said before nervously turning to her phone on the table, like if she was just caught with her hand in a cookie jar as Henry picked up the phone and sighed.
"Ruby, tell me you didn't try to call your Mom."
Ruby squirmed as Barry, Henry and Alex groaned before an alarm bleeped in the mansion. "What is that?"
"That's Reign." Alex realized. "Get downstairs now, go!"
DEO
"It's Reign, she's at Lex's mansion." Winn said as they saw the alert on the screen.
J'onn groaned. "Which means she knows Ruby's there."
"And Barry and Henry and Alex are there too." Kara realized.
"With all three Worldkiller powers in Reign's possession, they don't stand a chance against her." Cisco paled. "We need to get everyone here now!" He opened a breach.
Lex's mansion
Reign was scouring the mansion with her X-Ray vision before she found something below her as she drilled her way to the catacombs underneath, while Barry, Henry, Alex and Ruby were running towards the metal door that protected them from Reign's heat vision.
"Alright, come on, I want you to go back over there and stay there with Uncle Henry and keep your eyes closed!" Alex ordered.
Reign was walking down the corridor towards the door as Lex's defenses didn't even faze her, while Alex readied her gun and heard a loud 'bang' as Reign was punching her way through the door as Barry was getting ready as the door flew out from the hinges while Reign entered.
Henry covered Ruby's eyes, while from the ceiling went out machine gun, shooting at Reign as Alex fired red sun bullets at the Worldkiller but she took cover as Ruby was about to take a look but Henry covered her eyes.
"No, Ruby, don't look."
Reign unleashed her sonic scream as the turret above Alex was about to fall on her but Barry pushed her out of the way as Supergirl and Mon-El entered, while from the breach went out Vibe, Green Arrow, Speedy, Arsenal, Spartan, Black Canary and White Canary, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Red Arrow, Huntress and Killer Frost.
Reign was nearing Henry and Ruby, while he was hugging her tightly.
"Reign!" Supergirl flew towards Reign.
"Supergirl!" Ruby exclaimed as Supergirl tossed Reign as she slid down the floor, while Mon-El opened the case to reveal kryptonite rock that seemed to weaken Reign but she knocked the case away from Mon-El before Green Arrow, Arsenal, Speedy and Red Arrow fired arrows that exploded into red light, weakening Reign as Supergirl and Mon-El used their capes to restrain the Worldkiller, while Alex fired a bullet that exploded into an energetic net, subduing Reign.
"I want one of those too sometimes." Spartan quipped before Reign destroyed the net and knocked down Supergirl and Mon-El.
Huntress fired a kryptonite bolt into Reign's shoulder. Green Arrow and Arsenal fired two arrows that exploded into a rope net with kryptonite on its edges but Reign burned right through it as Green Lantern formed an energy chain to restrain Reign but she was too strong as she freed herself before Wonder Woman bashed her with her shield, knocking her down, while Reign's mask fell off her face.
When Reign got up on her feet, Ruby put Henry's hand away from her eyes and stared in shock as she saw the Worldkiller's face. "Mom?" The painful realization hit her like a truck as she broke down. "No…"
"Ruby, don't look." Henry covered her eyes again as they, with Alex hid under a table.
"Get down."
Reign was approaching them before Supergirl stepped up. "No, you can't!"
"You would stop me?" Reign challenged.
"I don't have to." Supergirl said. "You have a code, a purpose. You fight against evil and you dispense justice. You're here to make a better world. One without sin in it but this girl has not sinned." Reign turned to frightened Ruby, with tears in her eyes as her face twitched, a moment of sadness and guilt taking her over before she turned to Supergirl again. "You can't kill her. You won't."
Mon-El crushed the kryptonite in his hand and loaded the turret as Reign turned around and Mon-El fired, weakening Reign as she collapsed on the floor, unconscious, while Ruby was sobbing hysterically in Henry's and Alex's arms.
"It's OK, honey. It's OK."
L-Corp
Reign was restrained to the bed in Lena's private lab as Supergirl talked to Lena. "Thank you. For your help. And… I'm sorry for how I was towards to you earlier."
"No harm done." Lena smiled.
Alex's apartment
"That was her." Ruby sobbed out. "I saw her face."
"It looks like her, I know." Alex nodded.
"But Ruby, that wasn't your mother that you saw back there." Henry assured her. "Just a monster wearing her face."
"Why should I believe you? You promised that she would be OK." Ruby said, tears filling her eyes.
"We know and… now we see that it was a mistake." Henry held her shoulder. "We should have been honest with you but we were trying to protect you. But I promise you this…" Ruby turned to him with sad eyes as he smiled. "If there is a way to save your Mom, we'll find it. And if not… we'll do whatever we can to protect you." He hugged Ruby tightly as he was thinking of his own deceased daughter. "I promise you, honey. I won't let anything bad happen to you, ever again."
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