Expecting to be under heavy sedation in the hands of Cadmus, Jeremiah Danvers is surprised to find himself waking up in a normal-looking bedroom.

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"Where is he?!"

Jesse Chambers had begun to nod off while she had passed the time watching an episode of Comedy Central's Drunk History when Alex Danver's query had startled her due to the fact it had come from the direction of the exterior wall where Lena and Arisia had phased both Kara and Alex from the night sky outside into Lena Luthor's penthouse. Of course, Alex was a bit unsettled, too, since her body had just phased through a solid, freaking wall! It left her wondering if there was anything Lena and her attractive alien friend couldn't do with their freaking rings.

"Your father seems to be resting comfortably in one of Lena's bedrooms, Agent Danvers," the tall blonde said. "Follow me."

Jesse led Kara, Lena, Arisia and Alex down a fairly long hallway for what was basically a glorified apartment, Alex thought grumpily, a bit envious of the CEO's opulent home. It was as plain as the nose on Alex's face the Luthor was loaded and didn't mind letting anyone who visited her home know it.

Once they'd reached the last room, the woman led them inside to find an unconscious Jeremiah Danvers lying fully clothed in the center of a queen-sized bed.

His biological daughter studied his face first and didn't know whether she should be ecstatic or wary. The pain from both his betrayal and J'onn's subterfuge of tricking her to admit she'd hold out on the DEO to help her dad was still fresh in her mind. Now she could see a few bruises and a small cut over her father's left eyebrow. Then she noticed he appeared to be breathing steadily.

"What happened to him?"

"I think he fought that Henshaw man," Lena reported. "Arisia and I found that monster standing over the unconscious form of your father. I think we both saw red in that very moment and blasted Henshaw out of the building."

"Alex," Kara murmured. "I just scanned him with my x-ray vision. There's a rather large bruise on the upper left side of his chest. However, he doesn't have any broken bones or fractures."

Lena frowned at Kara. "Darling, I don't think it's wise for you to use your powers until you've fully recovered from stopping that starship dead in its tracks!"

Kara gave her girlfriend one of her sunny smiles though it was dimmed a bit by the look of fatigue on her face. "Baby, thank you for wanting to take care of me but I'm fine. I'm feeling much better already thanks to the recharge Arisia gave me!"

"I don't know, Kara. I think Lena's right. You look a little worn out to me," Alex observed.

"See, darling? Your sister agrees with me. So, listen to your girlfriend and check your powers for the rest of the night, all right?"

Kara huffed. "Okay, Ms. Bossypants," her sister grumbled.

Lena hugged her sister and pressed a gentle kiss to Kara's temple. "That's my good Supergirl."

Although Alex had to really fight down the urge to hurl after watching the powerful business woman morph into her little sister's mothering-cuddle bunny, now she had to put aside both her current disgust and the trauma she'd suffered earlier watching the Luthor defile her baby sister aboard that damned starship to care for her father. As she moved closer to his side, Alex muttered, "You know, I wish I had my medical kit here."

Suddenly, a brisk wind stirred Alex's hair. A moment later, Ms. Chambers was standing next to her, holding out an industrial-sized medical kit. "Here you go, Agent Danvers. Lena bought this for us. Knowing her, I think you'll find it has everything you need."

She took the heavy suitcase from the other woman and placed it on one side of the bed. Then she opened it to find a well-stocked kit that was a physician's wet dream. "Ohmigod!" she nearly shouted. "I've seen EMT bags that couldn't hold a candle to this!"

"Well," Lena said with a slight shrug, "considering what we do during our extra-curricular activities, I thought it would be prudent to have something like that on hand."

Alex simply nodded woodenly at the Luthor. Man, she mused to herself, this woman had it all, brains, beauty, money, power, not to mention an alien ring that acted as her personal genie of the lamp. No wonder her sister had fallen hard for the Luthor. Truth to tell, Alex, herself, was kind of smitten with the woman, too, especially whenever she happened to gaze deeply into Lena's gorgeous green eyes. Then she shook herself from those scandalous musings and refocused on her task. She gently unbuttoned her father's shirt to make room for the stethoscope she'd found in the kit. She used the device to listen to her father's heart then his breathing for a minute or so. Next, she reached for an examination light from the kit. She turned back to her father, lifted one of his eyelids and shined the light into his pupil. "His eyes are responsive to the light. That's a good sign," she announced. "It appears he's sleeping. However, if he suffered a head injury, that might not be good for him in the long run. I'm going to wake him up and ask him some questions about his condition. Before I do that, can someone get me an ice pack for the bruise on his chest?"

A split second after she'd made her request, she felt an ice pack being slapped into the palm of her right hand. She stared at the frozen plastic before she glanced up and narrowed her eyes at her sister in annoyance. "Kara, didn't Lena and I tell you not to use your powers tonight?"

Her sister blinked at her like an owl up in a tree in the middle of the forest. "Alex, I didn't move a muscle. That wasn't me; it was Jesse!"

The DEO agent stared at the other blonde in the room with wide eyes. "Ms. Chambers—"

"Jesse, please, Agent Danvers."

She smiled at the woman. "Okay…Jesse it is but only if you stop calling me 'Agent Danvers.' I'm Alex."

"Hi, Alex!"

"Hi, Jesse. So…are you an alien like my sister?"

Jesse chuckled and shook her head. "No. I'm a metahuman. I inherited my powers from both of my parents."

"She's amazing, Alex!" Kara gushed. "She's strong enough to lift a pick-up truck over her head! And she's fast, maybe as fast as my friend, Barry Allen, from Earth One!"

"That…is…incredible," Alex agreed. Then she shot a look at Arisia then Lena. "And you two…you're both Green Lanterns?"

"Yes," Arisia said. "We are members of an intergalactic law enforcement organization. There are thirty-six hundred Corpsmen. We work on the behalf of the eldest race in the cosmos. They created these rings to tap into the virtually unlimited power battery on their homeworld. The Lanterns wield this power to protect the innocent and to bring those who seek to seriously harm people on an interstellar scale to justice."

"See, Alex?" Kara beamed at her. "We're all heroes, just like you!"

After all they'd been through, even after she'd killed Kara's aunt, Kara still looked up to her. Alex felt choked up inside by the unshakable pride her sister had always felt toward her. "That's nice of you to say, sis. But, tonight, you and your friends were the real heroes. So, on behalf of my father and myself, thank you all from the bottom of my heart."

When the four women regarded her with shy and awkward glances, she shook her head sadly. Kara had almost died saving the world from Myriad and stopping that starship-Arisia and Lena had saved people both on Earth and on alien worlds-Jesse had brought down the evil speedster at the airport, saving at least hundreds of lives. Yet, here they stood, gob smacked when someone earnestly thanked them for all that they'd done. It was a sad state of affairs that they'd rarely received any accolades for their selfless and heroic acts, she mused while she reached for a smelling salt capsule inside the medical kit. Once she had it, she snapped the capsule in half and waved it under her dad's nostrils.

Soon, he winced and jerked his head away from the capsule's pungent odor.

"Dad. Dad! Please, wake up. You're safe now."

"What…" he muttered, slowly moving his head side-to-side. "Where?"

"Dad, it's me, Alex. Kara is here with us, too."

He blinked several times before he fully opened his eyes and seemingly focused on the face of his devoted daughter. "Alex?"

She smiled a gentle smile. "Hey, Dad. Welcome back. How do you feel?"

He winced then groaned. "I feel like I've gone a few rounds with the Cyborg Superman."

At that moment, the smile ran away from her face. "Henshaw! He was the one who hurt you?"

"Yeah," he admitted then smirked. "I also got in a few good shots on him, too. That is, I did right before he zapped me with that eyebeam of his."

"He hit you in the chest with it?"

"Yes…yes, that's where it struck me."

"Hmm," she noted in her 'science!' voice. "Fortunately, it didn't cut into you like it had with Maggie. For some reason, it appeared to hit you like an impact rather than how a laser would normally pierce flesh. Maybe the ray he fires acts more like a particle beam."

"That sounds about right," he agreed. Then he turned his gaze upon his youngest daughter. "You rescued your sister and the aliens from that Cadmus ship?"

Kara gave him one of her sunniest smiles and nodded.

"Good girl!" Then a somber expression clouded over his face. "Kara…Alex…I'm so sorry for everything that I've done. I can only say I did it to protect you both and Eliza from harm. They told me that if I didn't help them or if I tried to reach out to you, they would have killed your mother and you."

"Shh, Dad," Alex cooed. "Cadmus and its threats are all in the past. We're going to take care of you and we'll protect mom and you from them. We're going to make certain those bastards never get a hold of you ever again!"

Then she hugged him close and began to weep softly. While he held his eldest daughter in one arm, he shot a look of longing at Kara over Alex's shoulder and his adopted child bounded over to him like a puppy to wrap her sister and him in a big hug.

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As he basked in the warmth of being held by his children, he noticed the three other women in the room. They were slowly moving toward the door, apparently leaving to give him and his daughters some privacy. For some reason, though, he had a hunch it would be better for everyone if they stayed. Maybe they could clear up a few things for him because, frankly, he was stunned that he wasn't in a Cadmus truck heading for God-knows-where strapped down to a stretcher and under heavy sedation.

"Ladies, excuse me," he called out to the women. "If Kara was helping Alex get off of that spaceship, who were the people who rescued me from that Cadmus facility?"

A beautiful brunette with green eyes that glowed like jade and a strong jaw-line that looked razor-sharp answered him. "We rescued you, Dr. Danvers."

He blinked at that. Although they were all lovely, unless they were aliens with powers like Kara's, he had a difficult time believing that they, alone, could have gotten him out of that compound filled to the brim with armed and dangerous men. "How were you able to do that?" he whispered.

"We have…abilities…I guess you can say powers. Although we're not as powerful as Kara is, we had enough firepower to handle Henshaw."

"What did you do to him?"

The petite blonde with the great tan smiled brightly at him. "Oh, we just blasted him through a masonry wall! He wasn't any trouble at all after that!"

He couldn't help but smile back at her. "You don't say? Well, I must admit I'm sorry I wasn't awake to see you kick that man's prejudiced ass to the curb!"

"We could show you a recording of it from our rings, if you like," the pixie-like woman offered.

He grinned. "Oh, I think you three and I will get along just fine," he mused. Then he gave them a look of gratitude. "Thank you for getting me out of there and bringing my girls to see me."

"No need to thank us, sir," the tall blonde said. "We save people from those who'd seek to harm the innocent. It's kind of like a job but with no pay, which, when you think about it, kind of sucks big time," she teased, the self-deprecating smile plain on her attractive lips.

"Even so, I shall always be grateful to you."

"Jeremiah," Kara said as she crossed over to the three women, "this," she then hugged the tall blonde, "is my friend, Jesse." Then she moved to hug the petite woman. "This is my friend, Arisia." Finally, she hugged the brunette woman and gently pressed her forehead against the slightly shorter woman's forehead. "And this is Lena. She's my best friend and the love of my life."

Interesting, he thought. Both of my girls are in love with other women.

That's all right, he then mused to himself. That means I now have four daughters I need to do whatever I can to love and protect while I hope Eliza can find it in her heart to forgive me for everything I've done to harm our family.

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