Deirdre went over to The Tower's main computer and slid the disk inside the DVD player. Once entered, Deirdre's hand hovered over the play button. She looked toward the group. "Are you guys sure?"

Just then the elevator dinged and Nia stepped out. Alex had called her a few minutes prior and asked her to come right away. She came to stand between Kara and Alex. Alex smiled and looked from Nia to Deirdre. "We're as ready as we'll ever be."

"My friend downloaded two different security tape footages from the warehouse and Carly's apartment building after Kara left that night." Deirdre said, looking at the group. "This is what he found."

It started out as a blue screen which transformed into a security camera's footage. Luckily, these cameras had audio, if you count that as lucky. The first thing they see is me on my roof, smiling. I was looking off the balcony and a figure came up from behind. He placed a hand over my mouth and held me against him.

The group only saw his back, but what I said next scared them. "How are you alive, Remus?"

Kara paused the video and eyed down Cillian. "I thought you killed him."

"I did." Cillian reassured the group. "He was dead when we escaped a few months ago. There is no way he should be walking around. I promise, I staked him myself."

J'onn shook his head. "My guess is another consequence to this new universe."

Deirdre chipped in. "My father may have kidnapped Carly, but he's not the mastermind." She shook her head. "He wanted to hurt Carly while I watched. This time he never even came to find me, which is telling me he wasn't doing this for himself, but for another. He was collecting Carly for someone else."

The group nodded and Deirdre continued the video, forwarding it to the more important part. She pushed play and I was struggling against Remus. "Do you really still want to hurt Deirdre? Is that what this is? Kill me so she feels my pain?"

"No, not this time." Remus said with annoyance. "Originally, that was the idea, but then I made a new friend. He's going to help us vamtronians get back on our feet after you and your friends messed with everything. He wants you and I don't really care what he does with you after that."

The group looked at one another knowing what name Remus would spout. Sadly, he affirmed their fears. "Lex, made a hell of a bargain and I just can't refuse. Besides, I'll be leaving you with a gift. Deirdre will sense what is about to happen and then she'll go running to your friends. My last gift to you before me and my people leave town for good."

I scoffed. "So how are you going to send a message to Deirdre? Break my arm? Stab me? Maybe, tear something off?"

"No, I was thinking something a little more personal." Remus whispered in my ear. "Don't worry, I'm not supposed to kill you."

He tilted my head back and sunk his fangs into the side of my throat. I screamed a hollow pain-filled scream, causing Kara to cringe. She was angry already and she hadn't even seen the worst part yet. Nia noticed Kara's anger and tried to distract with a question she had.

"I thought vamtronian bites were supposed to be pleasurable. Like better than sex?" The group looked at Nia with scrunched faces and she shrugged. "What?! That's just what I heard."

Deirdre cleared her throat. "Yes, usually that's how it is. Our bite gives pleasure to the victim so when they die, they die without suffering, but as you saw with Carly some vamtronians have special gifts. My father can inflict pain to others with just a touch. Carly can take pain and my father can give it. He can choose to make it pleasurable or painful, for Carly he chose pain."

Alex crossed her arms. "What did your friend get off the warehouse footage?"

"He got the day after she was kidnapped and the first look of her powers. I'll show you the powers one first as the other is quite graphic." Deirdre explained

She went onto the disk and forwarded to the training footage. The video loaded up of me fighting a prisoner. The man grabbed at my throat and slammed my back into one of the glass walls, shattering it. We fell through the hole with him pinning me to the floor.

His hands wrapped around my throat and he tried to strangle me, since I didn't need to breathe, it had no effect. I grabbed both his hands and pryed them from my neck, headbutting him. I got to my feet as he slowly did the same. He lunged at me, causing me to throw him across the room. I kept yelling for him to stop, but he wouldn't.

He lunged at me for a third time and this was my last shot to put some sense into him. He grabbed at my shoulders and my hands were on his. I pleaded. "Calm down!"

The group watched as the man's body loosened and my body tensed up. They looked at one another with surprise as Lena asked the question they all wanted the answer to. "What did you just do?"

The man let go of my shoulders with a peaceful smile on his face. I looked from him to Lena. "I...I...don't know. I just touched him and pleaded for him to calm down. Then he did."

Deirdre paused the video again. Alex asked the obvious question. "Why was she fighting a prisoner?"

"My friend said that Lex had Carly retrieve him from the local prison to be a part of the human trials for Lena's new set of contacts. The plan backfired and caused him to become very violent. Carly tried to compel him to calm down, but it didn't work. So they fought and she accidently took his anger." Deirdre explained

J'onn knew the answer, but wanted confirmation. "Are there any other powers she gained from all of this?"

Deirdre nodded. "The sun no longer burns her, she can fly, and she can compel others, kind of like mind control. Some minds are harder to crack while others she can just slide in. Carly could force them to do something or cause them to forget entire memories."

"Can we see the moment she was transformed?" Everyone turned to look at Kara. Her mouth was a thin line, but she knew she had to watch it. "I want to know what Lex did to her. She is so ashamed of it that she runs. I want to know so when I find her I can understand her situation. Show me."

Deirdre looked at the rest of the group for confirmation. When they all agreed she pushed play. The first thing they see is me being held by Lex's goons while Lex was holding a crying girl, the group watched in silence.

"You remember how a half vamtronian becomes whole, Carly?" Lex asked, moving hair from the girl's neck. "You have to kill. Life for a life. You kill her and your human side dies too."

I shook my head. "I won't kill her."

Lena stepped between us. "Lex, you never told me you were going to do this. You said you were taking her and injecting your refined serum of my work into her. That was bad enough, but this...you're going to force Carly to transition into something she never wanted, while killing an innocent girl. I might be cruel, but this is going too far."

No one in the room was surprised Lena was there. Kara had really hoped she would have listened to her about Lex. She knew Lena hated her, but Lena also knew what Lex was capable of. Lena was slowly becoming the bad guy she was trying to stop.

"Sometimes to win you have to do bad things." He said as a goon grabbed Lena's arms. "Isn't that something you said once, sis?"

Lena shook her head. "I didn't mean this. I never meant this."

Lex turned his attention back to the girl and I. He pulled out a knife and quickly cut the side of the girl's throat. Not enough to kill her, but she was bleeding quite a bit. I saw the blood and gritted my teeth. Kara and the others winced at this, knowing holding back was causing me great pain.

Lex smiled. "Daniele Lanzarotta once said bloodlust was a disease that makes us the monsters we are known to be; it is what wipes away the last of our humanity. Let's test that theory."

The goon holding the girl brought her forward and pushed her onto her knees. The goon holding my arms did the same thing to me. I exhaled a breath and sunk my fangs into the girl's neck. My razor sharp teeth sliced through the girl's skin without resistance, penetrating deep into the flesh of her throat. The girl grasped the back of my sweater, moaning quite loudly.

Alex cringed back as I latched onto the wound with my entire mouth, greedily sucking upon it like a ravenous beast. J'onn, Nia, Kara, Alex, Deirdre, and even Cillian had eyes filled with tears. They all knew this was my worst nightmare coming true. I never wanted to be a full vamtronian and now it was happening against my will.

Kara began to silently sob as she noticed how badly I was crying as well. She wanted to come rescue me, but there was nothing she could do but watch. I drank and drank until the girl's arms fell to the side. I dropped the girl on her back, her blood dripping down my chin. That's when pain erupted throughout my body.

When the pain ceased I slowly sat up. I sat there for a moment before opening my eyes. When I did, it revealed my now blood red eyes. Kara gasped aloud when she saw four fangs instead of two. Kara was getting angry and she wanted to break something or someone in half, preferably.

I tried to lunge at Lex, but his goons grabbed me. I threw one across the room and knocked the others on their ass. I walked toward Lex again when the door opened. I looked over and was shocked to see who was standing there.

The entire group looked at one another with wide eyes. Some with shock, others with pain, and others still with anger. Nia gasped aloud. "Brainy…"

The goons grabbed hold of me once again and this time I didn't fight. Brainy came to stand beside Lex as he handed the syringe to him. "You may do the honors."

Brainy took the syringe in his hand and approached me. His eyes met mine and he could see how much this hurt me. "Brainy, how could you?"

"It's the only way to save the future. I'm sorry, Carly."

The screen returned to blue just as Brainy injected the serum into me. The group was in tears, both for the fact Carly had to go through that and that Brainy was working with Lex. How could he work with a murderer? How could he do such a thing to Carly?

J'onn tried to stay level-headed. "What did he inject into Carly?"

"It's a more potent liquid form of Lena's contacts. When he gives an order Carly must follow through with it or…" Deirdre swallowed the spit in her throat. "It will cause her immense pain. If she continues to resist, it could kill her. That is why she couldn't tell any of you because she would be on the floor screaming."

"How come she could tell you?" Nia asked

Deirdre shrugged. "A loophole, I guess. He specified Super Friends and I am not one of them. She told me to keep her secret until she could figure out a way to remove his control over her."

"Why doesn't she just kill him?" Alex asked, honestly

"Because it could kill her." Cillian chimed in. "Lex set up a killfire switch. If he dies, Carly's brain is flooded with ashwood particles so small that by the time they could all be removed she would be dead."

Kara was holding her phone in one hand and crushed it into a bicycle handlebar shape. Her anger boiled over and she snapped. She looked over at Deirdre with fire in her eyes. She appeared in front of Deirdre, wrapping her hand around her throat, and lifting her into the air.

Kara was mad. "Why didn't you stop Remus that night? Why didn't you tell us sooner? I could have stopped her from almost killing that drunk man or better yet figured out why in the hell Brainy is working with Lex! Why didn't you tell us?"

"The night my father took Carly, Lex had drugged me. If I was awake I would have felt her pain." Deirdre pleaded. "And I didn't tell you because Carly promised me not to. She didn't want you to blame yourself for what happened. I promise."

Kara was filled with anger, but she knew deep down she wasn't truly angry at Deirdre. She was mad at Remus, she was mad at Lex, and she was mad at herself. If she had just stayed a little longer, Remus wouldn't have taken me to Lex. Kara's grip tightened around Deirdre's throat.

Cillian appeared beside them, placing his hands on Kara's. He was prepared to pull her off when he looked into Deirdre's eyes. She shook her head and he removed his hands. "Kara, listen to me. The first thing I wanted to do was tell you guys about what happened, but Carly didn't want to worry you. She didn't want you to see her as a monster."

Kara didn't loosen her grip so Alex stepped forward. "Kara, I think she's telling the truth."

Kara gritted her teeth and slowly set Deirdre back on her feet. She wiped her eyes and went onto the balcony for some fresh air. Alex was about to follow, but J'onn held her back. Instead Deirdre followed after Kara. When Kara saw her, she frowned.

"Look, I know you have never liked me…" Deirdre began

Kara interrupted. "Maybe, I don't like you because you almost killed Carly and then turned her. Plus she got kidnapped by Lena originally due to you and then given to your father where she almost died again because of you."

Deirdre sighed. "Kara, I've caused a lot of pain and I'm so sorry. I never wanted to condemn Carly to this life, but I lost control. I let my anger get the best of me and look what happened. I've caused Carly a tremendous amount of suffering and yet she forgave me somehow. I know you will never truly trust me, but Carly left this for you."

Deirdre reached into her bag and pulled out an envelope with Kara written in big letters on the front. She handed the envelope to Kara and Kara was confused. "What's this?"

"Carly met me downtown this morning and gave me this. She told me to give this to you when I finally told you everything. I think you should read it and maybe, you'll understand why Carly did what she did." Deirdre explained

She nodded and went back into the main room with the others. Kara stood there staring at the envelope for what felt like hours. The note stared back at her and she was terrified. She took a deep breath and ripped it open. This is what it read:

Kara,

If you're getting this then that means Deirdre told you everything. I just want you to know that this is not your fault. Lex was going to try and take me eventually. I'm a full vamtronian now, which comes with a whole bunch of new problems. I cannot go against Lex or I could die. I have to stay away because if he orders me to kill you, I don't know what I'll do. I have this ability where I can take others emotions into myself, which is crazy and scary all at the same time.

I almost killed a drunk man this morning and I actually got drunk, which I didn't know was possible, but that isn't the point. I'm doing things that scare me, Kara. I killed an innocent girl named Sara, took a prisoner from a prison to be experimented on, and now I've almost killed another. I don't want to be a monster, but I think these urges and Lex's control are slowly turning me into one.

I've been talking with Lena and she's going to try to find an antidote. If...when she finds one...I will come home to you...if you still want me there. I know I've been distant, but I couldn't tell you and it was tearing me apart. Just know I never wanted any of this to happen. I love you Kara, forever and always.

From,

Carly

Kara looked down at the note as splotches of water appeared on the page. She felt a hand on her shoulder to find Alex standing there. Kara lost all composure and dug her face into Alex's shoulder, Alex wrapping her arms around her. "It's going to be okay, Kara. We'll get her back, kick Brainy's ass, and defeat Lex. We can do this."