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Warnings: Mentions and references of child abuse, scenes of torture, near death situations.
Trigger Warnings: Parts of this chapter are heavy, and have scenes of torture and near death experiences
Chapter Twenty-Five.
Krypton- 50 Years Ago.
Alura In-Ze exhaled deeply as she took to the stand that her father used to take.
This was her first time passing judgement as the judicator for Kryptonian law. For a first trial and judgment, this had been hard. She would have wished for it to be a simple case of stolen goods, or even drug smuggling such as the last case her father had overseen. Instead, she was granted with possibly one of the worst cases of cruelty and misuse that had been seen in years on Krypton.
A device, a weapon, that had once been created to help in scientific research but had been found to be dangerous and there for banned from use, had been used once again by no other than the original creator, Krin Zor-El.
As Alura looked around the room at the various faces who had come to witness the trial, she could see that to the side of the room Zor-El, Krin's husband, and Dan-El, her son, were stood watching. The boy should be no older than nine but due to the constant misuse of the weapon he was now years older than he should be at Thirteen.
"Krin Zor-El, you have been found guilty by this court of the reproduction and use of a weapon that has been banned from ever being used on Krypton. The use of this weapon was prohibited due to your own findings years ago, and since then the use of such a weapon has carried the maximum penalty of life time imprisonment on Fort Rozz," Alura began.
She paused turning to look at the room before her before turning back to Krin. "Your creation of this weapon had gone unpunished previously as it was thought you had built it to better science and the education system of our children. You agreed that it was not beneficial and was harmful to the psychological development of the children it was used on previously, including your own son- yet you have decided to re-create this same weapon and use it once again on your own son."
Stepping down the from the podium, Alura walked closer the where Krin was cuffed to the teleportation beam. "It is therefore my view that the punishment that had been set for the use of this weapon is not the deterrent it should be. In light of this- and your actions- the courts have given their blessing for a new maximum penalty to be set for the re-creation and use of this weapon."
"Krin Zor-El, you have now been by the power of the high council been stripped of your marriage entitlements and name. Which means that Krin Mal-Ron, I now sentence you to death, by banishment to the Phantom Zone- do you have any final words?"
Before Krin could even speak her son was running forward, barely stopped by his father who caught him by wrapping his arms around the boy's middle. "No!" Dan-El screamed, "you cannot sentence her to death- she did nothing wrong!"
"Dan-El," Zor-El exclaimed, pulling his son back.
"Be strong, my boy," Krin said, lifting her cuffed hands to press against the talisman she wore around her neck that held a worn symbol on it, "remember your teachings," she called as her son was dragged by Zor-El from the room, still screaming.
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Lena could hardly contain her happiness when she noticed the device was flashing and working, she could barely stop herself from jumping up and down yelling 'I did it!' like some excited child.
If it wasn't for the dire situation they were in she probably would have done so.
She couldn't though, there was no time for celebrations, only time for action. They'd planned to be ready for attack in less than five hours. When the sun rose in the sky signalling a new day, they would be moving out and by the end of the day, if all went to plan, Kara would be home, and she would be safe.
They all had work to do, and now that she had cracked the code and got the device that Jeremiah Danvers had forced Kara to interact with while she was a child, they had even more work to do. She needed to get the device to Winn as soon as possible if they hoped to unlock its secrets and try and use it to their advantage in the upcoming infiltration they had planned.
After Superman had revealed what artefacts had been stolen from his fortress the team had gone their separate ways. Currently Superman, Eliza and most of the DEO including Alex and J'onn were at an army base owed by General Lane. They had taken the Kryptonite there where they planned on turning it into weapons to arm the General's army, and the DEO ready for their planned strike. The base they were at was only one hour away from the location that Kara had been tracked too. It took three hours to get the army base from the DEO so many agents had been sent over early to prepare.
General Sam Lane was not happy about aiding in this mission, nor was he happy about Lucy's plan to also be involved but he had relented after a long and loud argument with his daughter. No one was sure what was said during- but they imagined it was not a happy talk from the anger on Lucy's face and the redness of her fathers who looked close to tears by the end. Whatever Lucy had said had obviously cut hard and deep and was enough to turn the usual unyielding man around to offer his help.
J'onn had made the decision that the General and his army were to be tasked with finding and removing- or, if needs be, destroying- the artefacts and weapon that had been taken. The DEO's task, by comparison, was simple: to find and rescue Supergirl.
The President herself had given strict orders that Supergirl was not to be harmed unless she became an obvious threat that could not reasoned with- if that happened she was to be taken down. Even though J'onn agreed it was clear to see from his face that Supergirl would not be taken down- under any circumstances.
The weapons they are creating now were going to use up most, if not all, of the Kryptonite. They weren't taking chances this time- they were going to make as much as possible with the intention to kill the Kryptonian soldiers and, if the chance presented itself, Dan-El as well.
Lena would be lying if she said she had not hoped to do the honours herself in regard to Dan-El, she desperately wanted to get her hands on him, and she knew a lot of others did too- but she couldn't stop that feeling in the back of her mind from telling her that death would be too kind to him.
Shouldn't he suffer the way he has made Kara suffer?
Shouldn't they capture him and lock him up and torment him like he has done to them and Kara?
Death seemed like almost a mercy.
Then she remembered Kara.
Kara who was sweet and kind and wanting to always believe the best in people.
She hoped that Kara would not be changed by everything that had happened to her, but she knew the chances of that being reality were near non-existent. Kara was going to carry scars, and she was going to need time to heal, she may even want revenge herself. On the other hand, she may want nothing to do with any of it, she may not be happy with the choices the DEO, her friends, her family and Lena herself made in their attempts to get her back and stop whatever plan Dan-El was trying to achieve.
As Supergirl, Kara lived by one main rule- she did not kill.
She hated to see others being killed, she hated to be a part of anyone's death.
Deep down, Lena knew that Kara may see her differently after knowing that she had helped in the killing of other Kryptonian's but right now, if it meant that by doing so she could get her girlfriend back, that was a risk she was willing to take.
She just had to hope that Kara would be able to look past that.
As she briskly made her way through the corridors Lena took notice of how empty and quiet the DEO now seemed as most of the agents had already moved out in preparation of the battle.
Before each agent left they building to move to the army base, they were sent to visit Winn to have a video segment recording taken.
Winn had outdone himself with the technology he had created this time- even Lena was impressed. He had created a program to run over the DEO's security feeds for just in case Dan-El still had access. With this program he would be able to superimpose the recordings he took of staff members to make to make it look as though they were still in the building in the hopes that it would take longer for Dan-El and CADMUS to realise they were coming their way.
It was smart and would work for a while, but Lena knew it wouldn't fool them forever, especially if her mother was watching the footage. She would figure it quicker than most, which meant that time was of the essence.
The only people now left inside the DEO were James, Winn, Lena, Maggie and a few of the medical staff who had yet to move as they were preparing to move some of the bigger pieces of equipment that might be needed. They had no idea what condition Kara was going to be in when and if they were able to rescue her. They had no idea if she would be able to fly or travel well, so they had decided to move what was needed to care for her and the main medical team to the army base that was closer to the location they believed her to be in.
After the medical team, Lena, Winn, James and Maggie would be the last to leave, taking the Guardian van- they had been told to leave within three hours but earlier if possible.
They had been waiting on Lena, to see if she could fix the device before they go as it would be a great help to them if she could, and now that she had managed to do so they would be able to leave the same time as the medical team.
As Lena entered the parking lot she started to move into a jog, quickly making her way over to the van and knocking on the door once before entering. "I finished it," she said breathlessly in greeting to Winn who was lounging back on his chair.
Her words caused him to sit up quickly with wide eyes, he had not expected her to be able to finish it that quickly. It wasn't that he doubted her, it was more that he knew her mind was preoccupied by her worry for Kara and that he knew from experience that Lena didn't work as fast under stress from when they had been working together on the Krin-Drive.
Carefully, Winn took the device from Lena as she handed it to him before climbing up the small step into the van. Winn looked over the device in his hands as he gently pulled off the one plastic end, looking at the connection wires and ports available before attaching a wire of his own to the back of the computer then to the device as well.
"I can use this to access their systems better, if it is linked to a transmitter like J'onn thinks I can use it to find it's location and get into the network," Winn explained as Lena gave him a disgruntled look while watching him pull apart what she had just spent hours fixing. "Can you use my phone to message Maggie and James on the secure network," Winn asked focusing his attention back on the task at hand, "as soon as I'm in and the Med-Team are set to go we can leave."
Lena nodded, picking up the phone from the desk as Winn typed quickly on his keyboard, hacking his way into the system through a backdoor by using the device to mask his entrance.
Lena glanced up as she typed out a message on the secure network on Winn's phone to see that Winn had already got in and was looking through the files and servers now available to him. Finishing sending the message to Maggie and James, she placed his phone back down on the table, before resting her hands on the back of Winn's chair to watch him work.
Winn glanced back at her from the corner of his eye before continuing his search through the system, his eyes widening as he found something before quickly moving it away out of sight.
Lena's eyebrows furrowed at his action. "Wait- what was that?" she asked.
"That?" Winn asked sheepishly, "nothing we want to see, it's not what I'm looking for," he continued quickly.
"Winn," Lena said lowly, the tone in her voice taking on an edge.
Spinning around on his chair Winn looked up to Lena, "I really don't think we should look at it," he said seriously. He hadn't seen much, just a glance, but it was enough to know it was something they did not want to see.
"It looked like Kara," Lena said. "It looked like Kara strapped to a table with Dan-El near her," she continued. "Was it security footage?" she asked after a silence.
Winn only nodded.
Lena clenched her jaw, looking from Winn to the screen, "Show me."
"I don't think its-"
"Show me the footage Winn. I want to see her, I want to know what they're doing to her," Lena said, cutting Winn off.
Winn frowned, looking from Lena to the screen he had the hacked files on. He knew this was a bad idea, whatever was happening in that footage he was almost certain wasn't good. He didn't want to see that, but Lena seem resolved in the fact that she did want to.
Sighing, Winn pulled the file up before wheeling away from the screen. "I don't want to see what's happening- and I really don't think you should either," he said.
Lena paused for a moment, considering his words before steeling her resolve and moving to make the window with the footage on bigger so she could see it more clearly.
"I'll keep the sound off," Lena said softly, respecting the fact that Winn didn't want to know about whatever was happening on the screen.
As Lena watched the screen the colour drained from her face quickly as she realised what she was seeing. It made her angry, and completely sick to her stomach to see what Dan-El was doing to Kara but as she watched she found herself unable take her eyes away.
She could see Kara was in pain and was screaming and thrashing while being held down until suddenly- she stilled.
Everything stilled.
Even the beeping of the tracking on Winn's other screen stilled.
Winn gasped, his eyes going large in shock. "The tracker would be linked to her heartbeat by now- if its stopped that means her heart has just stopped," Winn said breathing heavily.
Lena didn't respond, she was still staring at the screen watching as people were rushing around Kara.
She could see Dan-El punching the wall.
She could see Lillian administrating an injection into Kara's neck at the same time that other people were pulling what looked to be portable sunlamps into the room, pointing them over Kara and turning them on.
Lena continued to watch with tears rolling down her face as her mother administered more injections into her girlfriend's neck while the metal table she was on was wheeled out of the room, people following around the bed wheeling the portable sunlamps as well until they were all out of shot.
There was a silence in the van for what could have been no longer than another ten seconds but to Lena and Winn felt like a life time- until a single beep was heard from the tracker.
Followed by another and another.
The time between the beeps was much longer than before- but the beeps were still there all the same, the tracker was active again- Kara's heart was active again.
Lena and Winn looked to each other, both with tears in their eyes and gasping breaths leaving them as they listened to the beeping of the tracker. They didn't hear the knock that sounded on the van as they continued to listen to the beeping of the tracking, nor did they hear the van doors open.
"I got your text and brought weapons…" Maggie started to say as she entered the van, however trailed off as she took in the appearance of both Winn and Lena before her.
They both looked pale as ghosts, they were crying, and they were staring at the monitors before them. Lena staring at a screen that showed video footage of an empty room that had blood all over the floor while Winn was staring at the tracking device window on the second screen. "What is it?" Maggie asked further in worry, "what's wrong?"
It was Winn that snapped out of his daze first, his mouth opening and closing like a fish for a moment, "I think- I think Kara's heart just stopped. I think she just died," he said, still in shock.
"-and I think my mother just saved her life," Lena continued for him, still staring at the screen before her.
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She groaned, rolling her head to the side as she came to. She could feel a throbbing pain in her chest and as she remembered what had happened before she knew why.
They cut her open again, using that Kryptonite knife. They sliced her open and then they cut something out. They didn't even bother to gag her this time, they just laughed as she screamed in pain while holding her down. They didn't even bother to inject her with the serum that causes her body to become paralyzed- and still she couldn't move. She could still feel the Kryptonite in her system, she could still feel the blade cutting into her skin, and she could still feel the saw cutting her open- all the feelings making her sick to her stomach that was clenching and churning painfully.
She was hungry, but she didn't dare say so. She didn't want their food.
She could hear voices around her, they sounded distorted and she found it hard to make out what they were saying. She could pick up a few phrases such as 'Kryptonite poisoning' and 'too much' but that was all. One of the voice sounded familiar, she remembered hearing it before over her screams. She remembered the voice saying they needed to stop because she was crashing before everything had gone dark.
Groaning again, she shook her head to one side, tiredly blinking her eyes open to see that she was in a room she did not recognise. There room seemed lighter, though as she turned her head again she knew that was probably due to the sunlamps shinning on her. Squinting at the walls, she could see the symbols from before were gone, as was the blood, and Dan-El's 'toys'.
This was definitely a different room- but it still didn't feel safe. It wasn't warm like at the DEO, it wasn't filled with reassuring voices, or warm hugs.
A sharp prick to her neck caused her to jump, and for her eyes to snap upwards seeing the face of someone she knew.
"Now, now, Supergirl- don't panic. This one won't kill you- he still wants you alive," Lillian taunted as she stepped back looking down at Kara. "We have managed to mimic the medicine your adoptive mother gave you to help your body fight of the Kryptonite. It wasn't my idea, but he was rather insistent that he needs you alive."
Kara groaned again at the stinging the needle had left in her neck as the words registered in her confused mind. "Why are you still helping him?" she said with a whimper, the strength she had found the other day nearly non-existent now. The pain in her chest as bad it felt as though the skin was knitting back together, and she knew if she looked at her chest it probably was.
"When you work with someone, Supergirl, you do tend to help them," Lillian replied as she turned her back to the girl, placing the injection device she had used down on a small table behind her.
Kara tried to move on the metal table she was on, but the pain from doing so caused her to stop, "What about keeping people safe?...and Lena's sweater?...you- you were having doubts and didn't want any more death…" Kara slurred out, the words and thoughts hard to form through the pain and fog in her mind, she tried to move her one arm but found she couldn't. Moving her head slightly, she could see she was still restrained to the metal table.
Lillian chuckled as she turned back to Kara, causing Kara to frown in confusion a shiver running down her spine as she began to think the conversation she thought she had with Lillian yesterday was all in her mind.
"She's clearly delirious," Lillian remarked to a CADMUS agent in the room, looking down at Kara with disinterest, "we should probably administer some fluids as well, hook her up to a drip- the non-Kryptonite kind."
When the agent she had ordered had yet to move, she continued, "we can't afford to waste any more of the serum on keeping her alive if the Kryptonite overwhelms her body again. Get the drip set up."
Kara groaned again, turned her head slightly to look up in Lillian's direction in confusion, she couldn't understand what was going on.
Her mind was too hazy, and everything hurt.
It was like last time when she had been left at the DEO; she was cold, she felt as though part of her was not here and it hurt- badly.
She could hear Lillian talking and tried to focus on what the woman was saying.
"Your brother asked us to make you all something in case of an attack, something to make sure the DEO cannot harm any of you with green Kryptonite- it took my boy a while to figure it out, but he did. The problem was making sure we got the right balance and making sure it was strong enough to not be overruled by other forms of Kryptonite. You, I'm afraid, were the test subject to the batch that didn't work. We have it perfected now though- so thank you for your assistance, Supergirl, even if it was unwillingly," Lillian said with a smirk, watching as her agent was preparing the drip she had ordered.
Checking behind her and looking to the door first, Lillian leaned in close to Kara before whispering, "move you head to the left if you can hear me."
Kara groaned as she moved her head slightly to the left, the crinkle present, showing her confusion at the instruction.
"Now to the right and down," Lillian whispered again.
Kara did as she was instructed with a confused look on her face.
"Keep moving around and look distressed," Lillian ordered, still whispering, waiting until Kara began to do as she asked before continuing, "I saw him send someone through earlier, without the use of the second artefact he has and the Cannon- it's not needed to enter so I take it he plans to bring something back through with him?" Lillian asked in a whisper.
Kara made a nod like movement making eye contact briefly. "That something is what you tried to warn me about?" Lillian asked further, glancing up as she saw movement. Glancing back down again she could see Kara nod in confirmation once again.
Lillian straightened back up as the CADMUS agent came back over with an IV line and drip bag, quickly the agent set up the IV, administering it, though not as gently as Alex had done when Kara had been in the DEO. Once the agent had finished, she left the room.
Kara's eyes lazily looked around the room again, noticing it was empty apart from Lillian who was over in one far corner.
She felt her eyes begin to droop as tiredness began to overwhelm her. She had felt like this before the other day when at the DEO. Then she thought it was the stress of the situation and everything she had been through but now she was beginning to wonder if it was the way in which the medicine she had been given worked.
Kara flinched as felt herself being covered with something warm, something that had a familiar smell to it, as more words were whispered in her ear.
She found herself relaxing as she realised whatever she had been covered with was soft, and almost comforting. She found she couldn't concentrate fully on the words that were being spoken into her ear as the smell that was under her nose distracted her.
It reminded her of safety and warmth. It reminded of Lena.
It made her give in to the tiredness she could feel, making her eyes droop as she slowly fell asleep while her unconscious mind took her to her safe place and to Lena once again- just before she fell asleep she realised what the smell was and why it was so comforting. It was the same smell that comforted her when she wore Lena's sweater- it was the smell of Lena's perfume.
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Jumping from the last few steps on the ladder, Lena's boot splashed in the small puddle of water below her as she landed on the ground next to Maggie and James suited up as the Guardian. As she looked back up the ladder she could see Winn making his way down, tablet in one hand.
Lena sighed as she thought about Alex and the other members of the DEO who were most probably preparing for battle right now. She hated being left on the side-lines, and as she looked to Maggie and James she could tell they did too from the way they stood.
Stiff posture, impatient eyes, guarded expressions.
They wanted to be out in the field with the others but had been denied just as she'd been.
J'onn refused to let anyone who wasn't DEO or army attend. He had sent them off on a side mission, with Winn as their agent in command being the only DEO member.
This mission was important, they knew that- but still it wasn't where they wanted to be.
It wasn't where Maggie wanted to be because she wanted to be fighting alongside Alex. Ride or die, she had said, and now she feared that if Alex did die out there she would be none the wiser stuck in these tunnels.
It wasn't where James wanted to be as he felt the Guardian would be more use up there, trying to stop whatever plan Dan-El had and fighting alongside Superman and his other friends.
It wasn't where Lena wanted to be because she wanted to be there when they got to Kara. She wanted to be there to hold Kara and tell her everything was going to be okay now. She wanted to see for herself that Kara was safe and alive after what she had witnessed before, not just hear it over the comms.
Instead, even though no one- other than Winn it seemed- really wanted to be down in these tunnels working on this smaller mission, that was exactly where they were.
It had been J'onn's plan all along for them to sneak into the CADMUS underground base when they had managed to locate its entrance, while the DEO and General Lane's army handled the Kryptonians.
He had planned for the team of four to infiltrate into the base and find the control room where they believed Dan-El must have a transmitting device that was allowing him to control and manipulate the chip inside Kara's mind. This, of course, had only been a theory until Lena had managed to fix the device she had been working on. With that device Winn had managed to hack into the CADMUS underground base security and networking system and had indeed found a transmitting signal confirming J'onn's suspicions.
Their mission was to get to the transmitter and disable it so that Dan-El had no hold over Kara.
They all knew the rescue mission would be pointless if they couldn't move her without it causing her immense pain by the shocking device in her mind. Disabling the transmitter would solve that problem. The fact that Lena had now managed to fix the device Jeremiah was using was a bonus, as hopefully it would make the process a lot quicker in disabling the main transmitter.
As well as that, it allowed Winn to pinpoint its exact location, so they could get in and out quicker.
Maggie and the Guardian had been sent to accompany them on the mission, a detail protection as such, that, and to help them feel useful. J'onn knew if he didn't send them on this mission they would have found a way to sneak in with the rest of the DEO on the field.
Not that Lena needed protection, she had proven more than once she was more than capable of wielding and using a gun- and she had impeccable aim.
They knew for certain the Kryptonians were not inside, Winn's heat signature scanner had picked up a mass of Kryptonian energy in a field two miles in the other direction of the base, they had been there for the last hour and appeared to be static. The thought was that they would not move anytime soon, as where they were was also where satellite images could see the Cannon, which was spotted only minutes after the heat signature was picked up.
As Winn finished climbing down the ladder, he stood next to Lena who looked over his shoulder at the tablet watching as he brought up the security feeds he had hacked into.
They could see some CADMUS agents in the building, but from the looks of the cameras they had seen so far, no sign of her mother. They agents they could see appeared to be rushing around aimlessly. Lena was unsure her mother not being present was a good or a bad thing, especially after she had witnessed what looked to be like her mother saving Kara's life hours before- but for now she put all thoughts of that to the back of her mind.
She had a mission to carry out.
Kara's life may very well depend on whether or not she succeeds.
"It's clear up ahead, the CADMUS agents seem to be in the main hub of the base, but I think I can get us there without alerting them as they seem distracted- lets go," Winn instructed, stepping forwards in the tunnel.
As he walked ahead of the group, the Guardian was at his side pointing a flash light, lighting their way while Winn typed away on the tablet in search for any cameras he may need to hack a footage loop into. It's what he had done so they could enter the base undetected.
To their knowledge so far, no alarms had been tripped- but this was only the start. They had just under a mile worth of tunnels to go through before they entered the main hub of the base, and security did seem to be more advanced the closer to the hub it got from what Winn had seen on his tablet so far.
Taking a deep breath, Lena began to follow them, smiling in thanks to Maggie who squeezed her shoulder reassuringly as they began to walk.
A silent promise of we are a team and we will see this through together.
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Touching down quickly in the woods, J'onn transformed out of his Martian form back into the form of Hank Henshaw before turning to face both Lucy and Sam Lane.
This was it.
Everybody was in position.
Now they were all just awaiting the signal from Superman as to when to strike.
As J'onn looked into the distance he could see the Positron Cannon standing tall not far from where they were, up ahead in the clearing in the woods. It had been even closer from where he stood with Alex's team and the rest of the DEO before leaving them to join Lucy's team.
He had left Alex in charge of the main DEO team, knowing that he could trust her to stick to the plan.
He trusted Lucy too as well, but he did not trust General Sam Lane.
He knew that given the opportunity General Lane would even incapacitate his own daughter to get what he wanted given a choice, which is why he was going to work with this team. The DEO held rank over the General's army, and with both directors on the same team he was ensuring that the team did as the DEO commanded.
For this to work the plan had to be carried seamlessly, everyone had to play their part, and everyone had to stick to the mission at hand.
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Kara winced as the blade dug into the flesh on her palm, slicing into her skin and drawing blood, the look on her face causing Dan-El to chuckle as she glared at him. "Thank you, sister," he said mockingly.
Roughly he took her hand in his own and squeezed it tightly over the Crystal of El.
"Start the Cannon," Dan-El ordered, pulling both himself and Kara away from the line of fire at the last second as the Cannon released a beam of light straight for them.
As they moved back the light instead hit the Crystal of El and continued to beam into the Trans-Portal Window opening a portal showing a barren wasteland in the oval shaped, tall device.
Dan-El smiled triumphantly, before turning to his sister. "You were asleep for most of your last visit weren't you, Sissy?" he asked with a smile, "It's time to see if you're right to fear what you cannot even remember." He whispered.
Turning to look at the portal he watched as a dark blur shot past the doorway he had just created.
"Unless they come through with myself and Kara, kill anything else that attempts to escape," Dan-El ordered Gor who was stood to his side, "should any attempt to stop the mission, take the shots we spoke of and destroy them all."
Grabbing Kara's arm roughly he pulled her towards the portal, not noticing the limp from her one leg as she walked with him reluctantly.
As they stepped up to the doorway Dan-El turned back to his soldiers one last time, "Above all else you keep this portal open- with your lives if needs be," he instructed, "for Malron."
"For Malron!" The soldiers repeated in unison.
Turning back to the portal, Dan-El gripped Kara's arm tightly as he walked them both through doorway and into the one place Kara had hoped to never have to visit again- The Phantom Zone.
AN: ... what did you think?...