Sorry, I was gone for two weeks, I had really important college stuff to deal with. Which was a shame since this is the part I'm most excited about in this entire story. This and the ending. But now I'm back, hopefully I'll get to go back to the weekly updates. Enjoy!
Alex didn't know what to do with the seething and immobilized blonde at her feet. She had turned her over to lay on her back, tried to prop her up into a sitting position but to no avail. Kara would just tip over or deflate into the ground like a rag doll.
She waits impatiently for the DEO squad to arrive and help Supergirl into the medic van to be transferred to the med bay, but they were taking too long to get here. The destruction around surely slowing them down but she wouldn't be able to move Kara by herself to meet them halfway.
When Lena left, Alex pretended not to see, her job was still to detain the vigilante and bring them in to be locked up and questioned but she couldn't do that. Not when she knew who was behind the mask. She kept her eyes at the retreating form as Lena walked away and tried to guide her eyes away from the sight. Lena was limping, clutching a hand to her chest and clearly forcing herself to move.
Alex's attention was pulled from Lena and to the side where a loud thud accompanied by the slight cracking of ground occurred. Another hero in blue and red walked determinedly to the two sisters and Alex's eyebrows raised in shock. It wasn't often that Metropolis' champion visited National City.
Superman quickly kneeled next to his cousin and Alex saw the frown on his face deepen. She was about to ask why he had come here but he spoke before she could. "I saw what happened on the news."
"The situation is under control, Superman." Alex said. Her heart sped up at the look on his face. She knew that he had come because his cousin's situation might've been greatly exaggerated on the news. Kara's inability to move might have led some news outlets to come up with fabricated scenarios that got Clark to worry. "Supergirl is fine."
"You let that vigilante go." He stated disapprovingly. His eyes boring into hers and Alex briefly didn't know what to say. "Why?" Clark questioned after he deemed his cousin's condition stable.
"They got away." She found her voice. "Supergirl's safety is more important than running after them."
"You chose to let them go." He stood.
"They're injured." Alex glared. "We won't have a problem finding them if we wanted. Supergirl is our main priority right now."
"They're still here." His head snapped to the direction where Lena had barely turned a corner before disappearing and Alex's heart dropped. He started advancing in her direction.
"Superman, no." Alex grabbed his arm. Two pairs of blue eyes seized her, and Alex swallowed before clearing her throat. "Just help me get your cousin to the DEO." She watched Clark's eyes narrow in suspicion before he pulled his arm back and ignored her words. His eyes staring at a building right ahead and finding a blurry figure leaning on a wall. "Kal, no-" Alex started but he had already taken off. Flying at top speed in Lena's direction. "Lena, be careful." She whispered in worry.
The area was clear, and Lena was almost to Lcorp's building. Normally she would go home taking a detour, never go close to Lcorp to avoid suspicion but right now, Lena didn't have time to worry about who might see. She needed to get there as soon as possible.
In her haste to move as quickly as possible, Lena didn't pick up the sound of a fast-moving object, or rather person, increasing behind her. Lena barely turned around before a super powered fist instantly collided with her stomach. Sending her barreling towards and through a brick wall.
The wind knocked out of her lungs and her vision gone black, Lena laid beneath the rubble in an almost paralyzed like state, struggling to breath and her limbs refusing to move and relief her muscles from the boulders weighing down on them. The sound of boots approaching seemed to snap something inside of Lena's mind and her body seized before the world seemed to pause around her. Superman frozen mid walk in front of her while she barely sees a bright golden silhouette rise from her own body.
She sees the silhouette raging and throwing a fist at what Lena could only think was an invisible wall. Lena's body trembled at the contact and a pinch of pain shot through her chest at the second punch colliding with whatever energy barrier the silhouette was attacking.
An enraged version of Lena was frantically and wrathfully delivering blow after blow at an energy barrier, separating them from the world, only able to exist in Lena's mind. Lena recognized this silhouette as the entity she met a long time ago. Back when she was learning to control her powers without fear of losing control. She and this entity managed to live together as one for so long. Lena knew that the control she held on her powers came from her bond to it and if they were to be separated, Lena was sure to lose control.
It was now slamming into the energy wall with it's shoulder and Lena could see cracks starting to form as her breath got caught in her throat. She was suffocating and a pained gasp escaped her as the entity broke away from Lena's body, leaving her in their place and taking control of her body. Lena's eyes rolled back into her head, feeling her arm move through the rocks and grabbing hold of a thick neck before her vision was enclosed in darkness.
Superman stood before the pile of broken concrete and looked beneath with his x-ray vision. Reaching down to grab the vigilante, a hand suddenly shot out and grabbed him tightly by the neck. The hint of a dark mask, now ripped and torn, peaking through along with the rest of the vigilante's upper body. Golden eyes were fixated in a furious glare and the torn fabric revealed a snarling mouth, painfully gritting their teeth with heaving breaths.
Clark reached to grab the wrist clutched beneath his neck, but the vigilante suddenly sprung from the rubble and stood above the rocks, levelling with Clark's face and tightening their hold on his neck.
His face twisted in shock and his hand raised to punch Lena in the face, but her neck twisted to the side, and her eyes widened forcing his hand to stop mere centimeters away from her cheek. Clark's eyes filled with fear and horror as his hand suddenly moved, forcing his entire arm to jolt away from Lena and twist into a position that he feared might break it.
A wave of water pushed him upward and slammed him into the ground while another carried Lena above it and moved her closer to him. Her fist moved to collide with his face and Clark was helpless to stop it. He couldn't move at all. He could only just lay there and take whatever attack the vigilante was going to throw at him.
Lena's hand raised and a giant ice boulder floated above Superman's immobilized body, the arm waved down and the ice followed the command to slam into the Kryptonian and drop on him. The ice shattered and the Kryptonian's body rose from beneath the shards like a puppet on a string. Superman gritted his teeth and glared at the Atlantean with eyes heated with lasers. Lena twisted his neck away from her direction, effectively evading the lasers.
The DEO had just arrived at the scene and Supergirl was thankfully carried to the van and on her way to the headquarters where she should be treated. Alex had run into the direction of the confrontation and froze in her place at the scene.
Superman was now on his knees, his face scrunched in pain as he received blow after blow from the Atlantean before him. "Clark!" Alex gasped. And the distraction was enough for the Kryptonian to break free from Lena's hold. Using his super speed and ramming her into a wall. Clark grabbed Lena by the throat and delivered two punches to her gut before she pulled his feet from under him with a water whip.
Alex couldn't comprehend the fight she was witnessing; Lena was somehow holding her own against a Kryptonian. The director knew that any fully powered punch could actually kill her if she wasn't careful enough. The ear communication piece in her ear came to life with a familiar voice calling to her in a hurry. "Danvers here." She replied tensely, her eyes never leaving the fighting pair before her.
"Danvers, It's Tess." The voice replied, causing Alex's eyes to widen in shock. "Listen, you need to get Superman away from Lena. Right now." She ordered.
"You hacked into the DEO's communication channel?!" Alex asked loudly.
"Yes. Now shut up and do what I tell you to do." Tess said in annoyance. "Lena's lost control, she can't see anyone, she can't hear anyone, and she can't be communicated with in this state." Tess said quickly. "Find a way to get Superman out of there and DO NOT attempt to get close to her." She stressed. "Do you understand?"
"How do I get him away without interfering?!" Alex asked in panic.
"Call him to you but make sure Lena can't see you." Tess replied. "She's unable to differentiate who's a threat and who's not and she WILL attack you on sight."
Alex looked around frantically, desperately searching for something that might aid her, but everything's destroyed or falling apart. She anxiously ran a hand through her hair as her gaze turned back to the two who were still fighting viciously in the middle of the area. Superman had somehow managed to break free of Lena's blood bending and was now delivering powerful strikes to a water shield that Lena had surrounded herself in. Water was springing from the surface of the water bubble around Lena and pushing Superman back. Alex's heart sped, she didn't know what to do, they were going to keep fighting till one of them fell.
The director pulled her hand away from her head shakily, only for a strand of hair to get caught in her wristwatch. Alex's eyes widened and she hurriedly opened the lid of the watch revealing a house of El shaped button. Only a Kryptonian would be able to hear the signal. She pressed and hid behind the wall of a building.
The distress signal made Clark look away from his target for a split second and Lena didn't hesitate to break her shield in that moment to wrap its entirety around Superman and freeze it around him. The ice didn't last long against Superman, he managed to use his lasers to thaw it before Lena could throw any attack his way, but she was already waiting for him to break out. Lena was now standing on a water pillar, waiting with ice encased boulders from the remains.
Superman flew away and to the source of the distress, barely evading any projectile heading his way.
"Alex, what's wrong?" He asked once he saw her.
"You need to get away from the vigilante." She said, her eyes faltering to the side where a stream of water slowly moved across the floor around the corner. "Disengage and get away."
"I can't do that." He replied quickly. "We need to- " His words were cut off with him being dragged across the floor back to where Lena stood seething and angrily looking around. Alex was about to run behind him but a shrill 'no' came through her communication device.
"I have to go after him!" Alex yelled.
"No!" Tess yelled back. "I already called for help; you should just stay away until it gets here."
"What do you mean you've called for help? Who did you call?!" Alex leaned on the wall and tried to peak around the corner. Tess didn't reply but Alex could hear shuffling on her end of the call.
Lena laid on the ground in the midst of the fight, her mind foggy and her body numb, she couldn't feel anything other than a cool sensation washing over her. There were muffled sounds around her, loud and booming but Lena couldn't understand where they came from. The sky was dark above her and droplets of water fell on her face. Was it raining? It didn't feel like rain, the water fell over her from various angles and Lena feels cold as they pass right through her body.
Right through her body? Lena manages to lift a hand up and move her head to look at it. Her hand is clear and see through with a golden tint. Lena's eyebrows furrow in confusion. It's too painful to sit or move to her side so she moves her head to look to the side. A fight was ongoing between the man of steel and… herself? Lena watches with a startled look and a slightly open mouth. Shallow breaths escape her, her throat and neck hurt, and her head moves to lay back on the ground. She closes her eyes and swallows thickly.
She hears collisions but she doesn't see them, doesn't feel them. All she feels is tired and weak and its growing by the second.
Alex holds out for a maximum of ten minutes before she couldn't take standing by anymore, she had to help Clark or else one of the two will surely die. She sees the condition of the two and she instantly feels regretful that she allowed this to continue without intervention. Clark was bleeding through his nose, his face and hands held bruises that chilled Alex to the core. He was supposed to be the invincible one, he was the man of steel! His cape was torn from his suit and Alex could see it stuck beneath a fallen pillar.
Lena was the worst of the two, to no surprise. Her mask was simply a rag at this point, threads and tears exposing her face and hair beneath it. Her hands were uncovered, gloves no longer on them and covered in blood, cuts and bruises. Her suit was mostly fine, but Alex could see that the faint green glow that it held was barely there. Lena had nothing more than her own body and powers to help her through this. Her suit could no longer absorb whatever impact landed on her body.
"Go to the waterfront." Tess stopped Alex in her tracks. "Bring Vulko and Arthur to Lena and they'll be able to stop her." Alex's eyebrows furrowed in confusion. How did Tess manage to get a hold of Aquaman? As Tess said, the two Atlanteans were indeed at the waterfront, Alex sees them leaving an Atlantean vehicle and catches Arthur's eyes, solemnly nodding her head in the direction of the fight.
"What happened?" Arthur's voice is deep and quiet, he looks tired and exhausted.
"I honestly don't know. I've never seen her like this before." Alex replies as they walk back. "Not even when she had to confront Lex." She wonders if this is anything like what happened with Lex before. Alex had a sneaking suspicion that Lena might've actually killed him, seeing as he never came back to the beach with them and since he was never seen after, but Alex was too distracted to notice what happened. Kara was injured and in need of help and trying to catch a glimpse would be useless anyway because of the thick fog that surrounded the two Luthors.
Lex Luthor was a very well-known criminal and his disappearance didn't go unnoticed but there was nothing Alex could do since Lex wasn't an alien, therefore not the DEO's responsibility and there was no proof against Lena to prompt an investigation either. Alex thought it was best not to bring it up with Lena.
"It's happened before." Arthur frowned deeply. "More than once."
"Can you stop her?" Alex questions as they stand where she hid before. "She's… not herself anymore."
"We can." Vulko nods. "But it'll be very hard… and painful for her." He says. "She might not recover very well."
"What will happen to her?" Alex asks anxiously.
The two men look at each other briefly before turning back to the director. "Depends on how her mental condition is." And Alex grimaces. She leads them to the still ongoing battle and Vulko exhales and shakes his head. "This is bad."
"Really bad." Arthur nods. "Superman might be one of the most powerful beings on earth but Lena's not to be messed with like this. She could very well kill him." Arthur sees Alex's breath gets caught in her throat and the expression that overtakes her features and turns to walk closer. "I'll have to go and join their battle, take Superman away and hopefully by then, Vulko will have dealt with Lena."
"What will you do to her?" Alex demands.
"Lena's spirit has left her body, in order to stop her, we must force her back into it." Vulko said. "It'll be very difficult though, the more hostile the body is, the weaker her spirit becomes. Forcing them back together will have a serious impact on Lena's mind, she might not even survive the merge."
"Isn't there a different way?" Alex asks desperately.
"There is one but it's much difficult than the previous one." Vulko says. "Though it's safer for Lena to endure."
"What is it?!"
"You have to get Lena to go back to her body on her own." Vulko looks back at the Luthor. "Though I can tell you right now that the entity who lives within Lena has no plans of backing down. Alex swallows, having Kara's ability to give great pep talks would be very useful right now. Or maybe having Kara here will be more useful than anything Alex could do. "If you feel like you'd be able to get through to her, we can hold her back for you." Vulko says.
Alex looks down and shamefully shakes her head. "I can't." She whispers. "I can't do it."
Poor Lena lol
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