Kara found the fight by the noise of battle alone. It was so loud and there were screams and Rao she couldn't take hearing it. She wanted to fly faster, but she knew that Sara couldn't stand any faster. She was already shivering, though she hadn't said a word to Kara about being uncomfortable. Kara wasn't going to push it. A few seconds would make a difference, but not a big one. She just couldn't think about that right now.

Thirty seconds out she finally got a glimpse of the alien that was giving the DEO so much trouble. She cursed in Kryptonian and English strung together that all equalled out to the fact that she hadn't seen an alien that big before and she had no idea how to take him down. How in the world had he not been noticed before. Unless he could change size at will. At that thought Kara prayed that this was his max size and he couldn't actually get any bigger or else even she would have too much trouble with him.

"What the fuck do they feed them wherever he's from?" Sara said, looking at the alien as well through the tears the wind was pulling from her eyes. "God damn even miracle gro wouldn't do that."

Kara didn't answer, she just dived for what was clearly serving as the impromptu command station for the DEO. She set Sara on her feet and pointed at Alex.

"She'll get you what you need."

And then she was off in the air again. She clicked on her comms unit and shot off towards the big guy.

"Alex, any weak points you guys know of?" Kara asked, drawing the alien's attention away from the DEO soldiers and flitting in and out of his grasp. He was big, but the bulk was slowing him down enough that he couldn't catch Kara unless he either got lucky or she got sloppy.

"The little ones are pretty vulnerable in the normal human spots, but the big guy doesn't seem to be. We've been hitting him with all we've got, but nothing. You can try and see if that works for you, but probably not. We've got scans running to see if we can find anything else. I'll keep you posted. And really, Kara, bringing your girlfriend to a fight? What were you thinking?"

"Trust me, Alex, she'll help you guys out. Just give her tac gear and a weapon and she'll be good to go."

"She better not be lying about killing people with her thumbs," Alex muttered but then clicked off before Kara could say anything. Alex would see. She would. Because Sara wouldn't get hurt. She had to keep thinking that or she would spend the fight thinking about Sara instead of actually on the fight at hand.

Kara shook herself, dodged left, then right, then shot down towards the ground, leaving the giant a bit confused. She used his distraction to power up towards his head, aiming for right under the chin. If she could knock him out in some sort of odd uppercut, maybe this fight wouldn't have to go on so long. She flew fast enough that she heard the sound barrier break. She hoped that the humans on the ground were ok after having a sonic boom that close to them, but burst ear drums were better than dying. She hit him harder than a freight train right under his chin. He hadn't been fast enough to even get his hands close to her to try and stop her. The momentum of the blow sent him stumbling backwards. Kara gasped, he was going to land on some of the DEO members.

She shot off and pulled them from harm's way as the giant started to tip back. She felt her powers stretching, being tested, but she couldn't possibly slow down. There were too many people to get out of the way. Why did this alien have to be so big again? That increased the number of people she had to rescue exponentially.

But by the time he hit the ground she had gotten everyone out of the way. She stood on the ground beside the last DEO agent she had rescued and waited. She needed to know if he was out for the count or not. Everyone around them paused for a moment, just to wait and watch, even the little mini-me aliens. Kara prayed to Rao that that was all it was going to take, but somewhere inside her she knew it couldn't be that easy. It never was being a superhero.

And when the big buy started moving a few seconds later her fears were confirmed. She was up and in the air before he could even get his arms under him to stand. If hitting him hard wasn't the answer, well she had other powers too. Maybe freeze breath would hinder him more. No one liked being cold, and if she could freeze his joints, he wouldn't be able to move. She took a deep breath and aimed for his knees first. She felt the temperature drop around her and watched the ice form on his legs, but he didn't stop pushing himself up from the ground.

Kara blew harder, watching as he sat up fully and started to twist so he could get his legs under him. She hoped the ice would slow him down, but he just flexed his legs harder and all the ice fell off, ineffectual, and hitting the ground like boulders. Damn it all. What was it going to take to bring him down?

She flew up with him as he stood so she was at his eye level. He looked at her, a keen intelligence in his eyes and smirked at her. Some of the aliens she fought didn't quite know what they were doing beyond surviving, but this one, oh he knew exactly what he was doing. Kara's eyes narrowed and she felt the heat gathering behind them. Well if cold didn't work, heat might.

She screamed and let her heat vision go, watching as the lasers crossed the distance between them and hit him square in the face. The roar that elicited told her that she was on the right track. She sent up a prayer of thanks to Rao that she had figured out a weakness finally and kept on. If she was heading straight for a solar flare so be it.

The alien reached out, trying to swat her with one hand and protecting his face with the other. Kara bobbed and weaved, trying to find the best angle to shoot around the hand on his face and avoiding the one trying to swat her out of the sky.

"Come on, come peacefully to the DEO and this can end!" Kara called, rotating through every single language she knew hoping that the alien knew at least one of them. She wondered for a moment if the DEO even had a cell big enough for him, but that was neither here nor there at the moment. She had to beat him first for that even to be a problem.

His hand flew out again, seeking her, but he threw himself off balance in the process and started to fall forward. Kara couldn't stop her assault this time to help people get out of the way, she needed to keep the pressure on him to surrender. She hoped that everyone would be ok. They were capable agents, they kept an eye on everything while fighting. That still didn't keep her from feeling guilty for not doing more though.

The giant landed on one knee, hand protecting his face coming down to stop him from falling even further. Kara took the chance and moved her heat vision close to his eyes in a warning. She didn't want to, but if he kept fighting she would to protect everyone. Sara and Alex were down there somewhere and the longer this went on the larger the odds that they were going to get hurt. And Rao, if this alien made it into the city...she couldn't even imagine the destruction. So she would make the hard decision if necessary.

He reached for her again, faster this time in his desperation and almost clipped her.

"Just give up!" Kara called. "I don't want to hurt you anymore!"

His eyes landed on her again and she saw so much hate. This wasn't going to end anyway but injury. She could see that now. She clenched her fists, cursed the world for an instant for being this way, and shifted her gaze just a fraction of an inch until it hit him dead in the eye.

The scream was terrible. Kara felt her heart stop in her chest at the sound. She had caused it. Rao, she hated this part. Kal-El tried not to hurt anyone and never, ever killed anyone. And Kara tried to emulate him for the most part, but Kal had not seen their entire world blow up. She knew, watching the explosion in her mind's eye, that sometimes the hard choice was the only right one, as much as she hated it.

But even that didn't keep the giant down. He stumbled to his feet and aimed a kick at Kara. She dropped to the ground like a rock to avoid it, landing in a crater of her own making before shooting off again. She felt her reserves lessen as she flew around once more. She needed to end this quickly. She debated for a second if taking out his other eye was a good idea or not. If she did he wouldn't be able to see and that would be both a good and bad thing. He wouldn't be able to see where he was going and that might be even worse. At the same time it was the only way she'd found to affect him so far so it might be her only play.

"Shit foot coming at us!" That was Alex's voice, the only one that could penetrate the shield around her senses no matter what. She spotted the giant's foot heading towards Alex who was back to back with Sara, both of them fighting a hoard of the mini-me's without a clear escape path. The horror that washed over Kara was blinding. She couldn't feel the sun that was beating down on her. There was no heat, no light, nothing but terror.

And she reacted. She flew towards the giant and hit him so hard in the chest that he went flying back a hundred feet. She followed after him at top speed, giving everything she had left into this last bit of effort. He hit the desert hills behind him and flipped over once, twice, before skidding along the earth. Kara hit him in the nose hard. She felt the bones crack under her, the noise loud enough to hurt. The giant pressed his hands towards his face, kicking and screaming as he started to bleed, blood a deep violet instead of red.

Kara could tell the instant his body really registered the pain. He tensed up under her, body bowing. His breath came out in pants and his eyelids fluttered so much that Kara actually felt a breeze. She'd seen people react like this before right before they passed out. She held her breath. Maybe, just maybe, Rao, please, let it be over.

He tried to reach up to his face to swat her off from where she stood amongst the remains of his nose. Kara was ready to run, but she didn't need to, before his arms even got halfway up his body went slack against the ground and his eyes rolled up. The earth shook as he collapsed back against it. Kara didn't move for a long, long moment, seeing if the giant was going to move anytime soon, but he didn't.

She let out a breath. It was over. Thank Rao it was over. She slumped forward, tired. She needed a nap and a lot of food.

She shot straight up. It wasn't over. Alex and Sara and the mini-me's. She was moving in a second, flying back towards her girlfriend and sister.