A/N: Thank you for the comments.

Guest (1) - Winn is going to get caught up in other parts of the archive rather than the history.

Guest (2) - I will probably get round to the President's reaction next chapter.

Guest (3) - Thanks! Do to the imminent end, Sam and Alex will only be friends by the end of this.

Guest (4) - I think you are giving me too much credit for underlying messages. Kara and Sam will talk in this chapter.

Guest (5) - I have no plans for James and Kara to be anything more than friends. There will be a scene between them before the end.

Superkara - Yeah, my plan is/was to finish this before the next episode. I'm not sure I will achieve that as I haven't written the end of this yet, but Monday will probably be the last chapter.

Anna - Thank you!

"What have you discovered?" Alex said walking into the command room where Kara, Supergirl and Mon-El were reading parts of the database, whilst Winn was using his computer.

"Firstly, her Fortress of Sanctuary is awesome." Winn replied. "I mean wow, it has everything. Those rocks that trapped us, the ones Mon-El couldn't move. The reason for that was that they had veins of iron flowing through them making them highly magnetic. The whole place has super powered magnets and the rocks were being held in place by magnetism. How awesome is that?" Noticing the looks the others were giving him he turned to Superman and said. "Not that your Fortress isn't great, not that I've actually been there. F.Y.I. I would go anytime you asked. But from what Kara has said about it, it is just a little under spec in comparison."

"Anything useful?" Alex asked trying to get the conversation back on track.

"Good news and potentially catastrophic news." Winn said.

"Let's start with Sam." Alex said.

"Okay, well from what I have found the signal was designed to wake Reign." Kara said. "I don't understand exactly how it works but there was a message hidden in the signal, but at a frequency that causes some resonance that was meant to release Reign." She explained. Noticing how unimpressed Alex was looking by the explanation Kara added. "I sent you a full translation so you can figure it out. After Reign went missing the hologram, who is kind of a caretaker triggered the signal. It was meant to draw Reign out. When Reign didn't come back the amplitude was increased and increased and increased."

"Hence the headaches." Alex said.

"Yeah. When Sam was trapped with the hologram the signal was ramped up to force Reign out. Which obviously didn't happen, which means Reign is gone." Kara said happily.

"Or it is an act." Mon-El said causing everyone to look at him. "She gets locked away in a room designed to awaken Reign. And she just asks the hologram to stop and it does? Can you really buy that?"

"Imra scanned her." Kara pointed out.

"Reign is a product of genetic engineering. You've read what I've read, and you know it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the signal not only released Reign, but also changed her. It could have given her the ability to block telepaths. Kara, I know you trust Sam and I know you want to believe Reign is gone. That unwavering belief in people, even when, like me, they didn't deserve it, is what defines you. But sometimes, there is no salvation. Think about my mother." Mon-El said.

"Have you found anything in the records to suggest Reign did re-emerge?" Alex asked.

"No." Kara said.

"But again we are seeing the database because Sam allowed us to. If Reign is back we may only be seeing what Reign wants us to see." Mon-El argued.

"Whilst I agree with the need for caution, what would Reign hope to achieve?" J'onn asked. "Reign has proven herself to be a formidable opponent and more than capable in a fight. Why the need for subterfuge?"

"I don't know." Mon-El conceded.

"Sam doesn't really know how we stopped and removed Reign does she?" Kara asked.

"No. We never told her the full details." Alex replied.

"But everything in the database shows our, well your, assumptions about Reign and how to stop her were correct. If Sam and Reign don't know how we did what we did, they can't have planted that information." Kara argued.

"Kara, I really hope you are right about your friend. I just think with a threat this big we need to be cautious." Mon-El said.

"I agree with him." Her cousin added.

"I'm not saying we should just release her. I'm saying it looks like we were right." Kara pointed out.

"If that's the good news what's the bad news?" J'onn asked.

"Not bad. Potentially catastrophic." Winn corrected.

"Agent Schott." J'onn growled wanting to speed him up.

"Sorry, looking through the database I found something, which I have confirmed with our own measurements."

"What?" Alex asked getting frustrated with how long Winn was taking.

"A powerful signal was sent from the Fortress just before everything shut down." Winn said.

"A final attempt to bring Reign back?" J'onn guessed.

"No, the frequency was wrong and this was way more powerful."

"How more powerful?"

"Powerful enough to communicate with another planet." Winn said.

"What planet?" J'onn asked.

"I don't know. The antenna, which was actually the surface the of the Fortress, so again awesome, is pretty broad beam so it is going to be impossible to pinpoint the target from the signal alone."

"What did you find out from the database? Did it record details on why it sent it?" J'onn asked.

"Yeah. That's where the news gets catastrophic." Winn said. "The cult that created Reign didn't just make one world killer. They made several. The signal was meant to act as a beacon to draw them all here."

"How many?" J'onn asked.

"We are still going through the archives. But over twenty pods were launched from Krypton. We have no idea if they ever reached their destination and if they did how many became world killers. But there is a chance that any that are still out there will know about us." Kara said.

-00-

"How are you feeling?" Kara asked as she entered Sam's cell.

"How can you even stand to be near me?" Sam asked. "I nearly killed you."

"I told you, that was Reign, not you." Kara said.

"Reign was me, maybe still is me." Sam pointed out.

"The Fortress of Sanctuary did everything possible to re-awaken Reign. So even if she still is inside you, you beat her. You are stronger than Reign." Kara said.

"Am I?" Sam asked. "When I stopped the hologram and the signal I wasn't controlled by good. I was controlled by anger."

"How do you mean?" Kara asked.

"The hologram said Ruby would die, that I would kill her and something inside me snapped. I have an inner darkness."

"There is nothing wrong with protecting people you love." Kara argued. "I did some things I'm not proud of when Alex got kidnapped last year. But I know if she was in danger again I would do the same thing. Ruby ties you to your human self and you used that to defeat the hologram and the signal." Kara said before adding. "Reign is gone."

"Say you're right. Say you're wrong. Either way, what does that make me? I don't know what I am." Sam confessed.

"Join the party." Kara said.

"You're Supergirl. You're a hero." Sam pointed out.

"You will always be Ruby's hero." Kara reminded her.

"What do I do now? I mean now I know, do I pretend I don't know? Do I embrace my evil side?" Sam asked.

"When I left Krypton I was kid. I knew what had happened to Krypton, I knew what I had lost. I thought I knew who I was. Then I came here and had to hide who I was. All I wanted to do was use my powers to help my cousin, just like my mother had told me to do. But my cousin was all grown up and didn't need me. He wanted me to have the same normal Earth upbringing he did. So he asked his friends, the Danvers, to look after me. The next few years I couldn't use my powers. I couldn't be a hero. I had to be a teenage human, which sucked. Everyday it felt like I was losing my connection to my family and Krypton until one day I just accepted I would never get back what I had lost. But I always had a void inside me. I never felt normal."

"Is that why you became Supergirl?"

"Not exactly. Being Supergirl, using my powers to help others, it does feel good. But it doesn't fill the void, just papers over it. I still don't know where I fit in. But I think I am finally becoming okay with that. I'm no longer afraid of figuring it out. So maybe we can figure out who we are together." Kara offered. "I mean we are from the same planet, we kind of need to stick together."

"Kara, you can say no if it's too painful, but will you tell me about Krypton?"

"Sure."

-TBC...

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