Chapter 21

"Did you think that prison would hold me?!" Reign shouted as Kara burst into the room. The Worldkiller had in fact managed to get out of her cell, though how was still a mystery. Kara just narrowed her eyes at her foe and fly at her at top speed. She was surprised to find that she could knock the woman down to the ground so easily. Then it would appear so was Reign. She coughed as the air had been sucked out of her lungs and that's when they both noticed the blood. Reign's was green, not red, a product of no longer being part Kryptonian.

"How…" the sentence was never finished as Kara punched her in the face knocking her unconscious. The sound of footsteps drew her attention away from Reign and back toward the door.

"I need a medic!" Kara shouted. They quickly rushed to the blonde thinking it was for her but she shook her head.

"It would seem removing the Kryptonian part makes her vulnerable," she said looking down at the unconscious woman. Kara could feel Mon-El's presence beside her and she turned to look at him.

"She was still strong enough to break out of there and her power dampeners. That would mean strength isn't a power, it's just something she has," he said.

"Winn, would you run a blood sample through the system? Maybe we can identify which alien species she is and adjust our holding facility," Kara looked over at her friend.

"On it," he was off running down the hall after the medics. They were moving the Worldkiller down to the secure medical lab for treatment.

"I'm going to check on Purity," J'onn spoke up, now concerned that the second Worldkiller may have a way out of her cell as well.

"I leave for five minutes and you guys just can't keep out of trouble," Alex said as she walked into the holding room. Maggie was with her and she shook her head, taking in the mess that Reign had caused.

"Turns out once you remove the Kryptonian, these guys aren't so tough," Mon-El told them. Alex gave him a look considering the state of the room and the Plexiglas cube that the Worldkiller had been held in. He quickly explained to the two latecomers. They weren't paying much attention to Kara who had turned her focus onto the cube itself.

It was quite apparent that Reign had used her fists to break the strong material but not before she'd managed to break her power dampening bracelets. The blonde noticed that there was green blood on part of the Plexiglas. Perhaps Reign had been so focused on getting out that she hadn't noticed she'd cut herself. Carefully, Kara reached out to touch it and immediately felt a burning sensation in her fingers. She cried out before wiping her hand on the furniture, effectively wiping the blood off of her. The burning sensation stopped and she looked at her fingers. There were tiny scars that soon vanished thanks to her abilities.

"What happened?" Mon-El took her hand to take a look at it.

"Reign got some blood on the cube and it singed my fingers," she said.

"Her blood is caustic to Kryptonians? How did she not explode when they combined the two DNA sequences?" Maggie asked.

"Just because it's caustic to Kara's skin doesn't mean that when combined with DNA that it would remain so. It's possible that the Kryptonian DNA stabilized her instead," Alex spoke up.

"So does that mean she's a ticking time bomb or that Kara had better make sure she doesn't touch her?" Her fiancée wanted to know.

"I'd like to run some tests," the redhead admitted.

"Better go find Winn then…" Kara started and then suddenly the room shifted and instead of being at DEO headquarters she was in the air, the sky was darkened by smoke, the smell that reached her nostrils was acrid, everything was burning.

"You can't hide from me forever. I will find you…" a voice said. Kara whipped around, not seeing anyone. Then suddenly she found hands around her neck, trying to choke her. She fought back but found herself getting weaker when she heard,

"No one can survive my Pestilence."

To Be Continued…