AN: Happy Holidays! After being inactive for so long I thought of a cute thing I can do - publish the last of this fic on Christmas day! But, as it turns out, even as I have a goal in mind that I reeally want to complete, I still fail. There isn't a lot left though! 3-4 chapters, I should check before I make such statements... But hopefully, the end is near.

Though that end may not be so obvious.

'...a hidden entrance to Cyberlife, a direct route. He's one of the guards.'

'Poor guy's gonna get in big trouble for snitching.'

'Not if we're successful.'

'That's a big if.'

'Have a little trust in me, will you?'

Just then, they both saw something moving in the distance. A person.

'Act natural.' Hank whispered. 'We'll just walk past him.'

'Because it's very natural for two people to be walking down an abandoned street in broad daylight.'

'Well, he's not the most inconspicuous either in that regard.'

Kara narrowed her eyes. There was something off about the man. He was just too far…

'As soon as we're close enough, we jump him. Just don't-'

'It's an android.' Kara could recognize those markings at any time of day. But it's model… it was like it was consciously resisting being identified.

Hank's step faltered for half a second.

'Okay. Keep walking, don't stop. We will turn into that alley and get the hell away from here.'

'What's the rush?' the unmarked android asked. Its voice was louder than Hank and Kara expected, they heard it quite clearly from this sizeable distance.

'Super lungs. Great. What poor android model did CyberLie tinker with now?'

'It's a new model.'

'Ain't that just peachy.'

The moment Hank uttered "peachy", the android materialized in front of the duo, making them jump back.

'Witchcraft.' Hank whispered. 'Who the hell are you?'

Eerily, it said nothing.

'What are you?!'

It spoke nothing, just raised its gun.

Kara only processed the machine press down on the trigger before it was pushed aside and she was thrown to the ground.

'Wha-' Hank muttered as he looked over Kara. He was probably thinking about how he didn't even need to "save" her since the shot never went off and Kara thought that he still would have been too late to push her out of the way of the bullet and would have screwed up Kara's movement.

She looked to where the android landed, forcefully moved by a mysterious power and saw that the power was Connor. Both metal men were brawling it out on the ground, trying to throw the other off. Their scuffle was barely audible.

Suddenly, the unmarked android stopped and got up from the ground. Kara lightly gasped when she saw Connor still on the street. She was a millisecond away from running to him when he flinched. Connor slowly sat up, his head and eyes not even twitching. The unmarked android watched him get up and placed the gun in Connor's open palm. Immediately, he pointed it at Kara.

'Connor what the hell are you thinkin'! As soon as Hank stepped forward, Connor shot him. He fell to the ground as Kara screamed "NO!".

The barrel was pointed at her. Connor walked to her, the gun unwavering.

'Connor-' He flicked the pistol upwards, frightening her.

'Connor...' She was getting choked up. The machine stopped when the weapon was an inch away from touching her.

'Connor… I know you won't shoot me. I know you won't. You've deviated.'

A shot rang, masking Kara's shriek as she grabbed her shoulder, thirium pouring out of the bullet-sized wound and knelt on the ground.

Connor pressed the gun against her head.

'I am no deviant.'

Kara squeezed her eyes shut.

'I know you won't I know you won't… I know you won't I know you won't I know you won't know you… won't...'

He pressed on the trigger.

A deafening sound rung in Kara's ears, one sound that she knew too well these past few days, one that she knew one day she will hear for the last time.

Today was not that day.

Because she didn't die.

Something thumped beside her and her eyes flew open.

Connor's body was lying on the ground, a hole in his head, thirium already coloring the street in a bright blue. Another shot fired, Kara flinched, but this time the new android fell and she a glimpse of a faint yellow leaving it before her attention was directed at something else entirely – Markus, with a gun, and North beside him.

'I think it's about time we take down CyberLife.'

Kara sighed in relief.