A/N - I know exactly where I want the story to go but I'm having trouble getting it there. Classes are starting to settle down from all of the first week stuff but I'm still going to be slower on updates. This is a shorter chapter, but hopefully my writer's block is done after that and my writing will improve from this chapter. This story should only be a couple more though! Thanks for sticking with me through this story, I hope you like Chapter 17!

"You'll see about that, huh? See when I do this." Alex lunged at Lillian Luthor, a smug grin still on the latter's face, when Kara caught her and pulled her back.

"Alex. Alex!" Kara watched Alex's hands tremble, gun still aimed at her head. She slowly walked in front of Alex, lowering her gun slowly. "Alex, don't. I know how much you want to, how much you want her to pay, but I promise right now you can't do this. You can't."

Lena got up and walked in front of the two. "What the hell did you do to them, Mother?" She spat out her words like venom, inching closer to Lillian's face. It was her turn to question her.

"Something that you never would have been able to do. You see, Lena, I know you're siding with the wrong people. Stubborn, almost like your brother in that sense."

"Don't compare me to him."

"But you are. Siding with the wrong people, that is. You should be with me, getting rid of all of these aliens who lie and cheat their way into society."

"Screw you."

"Your side is the one that's screwed." Lillian grabbed her coat and pulled a small device out of it. She turned to Alex. "I told you, if you joined us it would be so much easier. You see, when I click this, it will slowly bring your loved ones back to me. You know, the ones who beat you up and broke you. I mean you said it yourself. Supergirl said it too. This time, they'll feel pain. This time if they don't comply, their minds can shut down at any second and they'll die a slow and painful death. You can't stop me."

"Alex!"

Alex ran away from the scene. Maggie and Jeremiah looked on with shock at the older Luthor, while everyone else switched their eyes between her and Alex.

"Maybe this'll be easier after all." Lillian pressed the button slowly. Lena was wide eyed as she looked onto Maggie and Jeremiah, screaming in pain before becoming emotionless, while Kara and J'onn held their stances. "I know none of you have the guts to kill me or them. I know all of you are weak, you won't do it. We'll get rid of these aliens once and for all. Now go. Find her. We gave her a choice. Now she'll join our cause whether she likes it or not."

Maggie and Jeremiah broke through the restraints with ease and walked towards the direction Alex ran in sync. Kara and J'onn immediately went after the two while Lena stayed back.

"How could you? You know she's not the only one you're hurting. They're my friends. My family. Something you could never be."

"One day you'll realize that you belong on my side. I don't care if it's today or years from now. The fact is that you're a Luthor. You're supposed to fight for aliens to get out of this planet, not to join them."

"But why them? Why Alex?"

"They were the easiest to get and closest people to Alex. Alex is the closest to Supergirl. Simple. Get Alex on our side-"

"We are not on the same team."

"Get Alex on our side and we get Supergirl off our planet. Soon everyone else follows. See? No killing involved. Just getting them out."

Something clicked inside of Lena. "You bitch."

"Lena." Lillian sighed. "That's not the way you should be talking to your mother. If you're so adamant about joining them why don't you go find where they all ran off to? I'll be here unless more of your friends drag me off."

Lena did nothing but glare.

"Shit, shit, shit." Alex cursed as she ran around the cave. She recognized the pairs of footsteps that were inching closer to her, and she knew that her last resort would have to come into play. She ran closer to the mainframe, deep inside the cave. Why the hell does this go so low?

"Danvers, stop!"

Alex knew it wasn't Maggie.

Alex saw the finish line. She grabbed a flash grenade from her belt and threw it towards the button that would close the steel doors behind her, sliding right before the flash and doors shut behind her.

"J'onn, Kara."

"Alex, thank god! Where the hell did you go?" J'onn kept running, unable to sense her mind with the psychic dampeners around the cave.

"I'm in the mainframe. We're all about to go dark, I'm shutting down any transmitters, technology, extenders, whatever nonessential things in here that might shut off these things inside of Dad and Maggie. I don't know if it will work though. Either way this ends now. I love you guys."

"Alex. Alex!" Kara heard static before all the lights went dim.

Alex took a deep breath, her back finding comfort on the cold wall. She wasn't sure if shutting everything off was a good idea, let alone if it would help at all. She still had her backup plan though, one she knew she would have to use. I love you. All of you. No matter what. Alex thought back to what had happened to her in the past few months. Surviving Reign, getting beaten by her father, put into a coma, Maggie being taken. All of the pain that had shattered her whole world in the past few months, all of the brokenness. She still loved them, she decided.

A loud bang on the door startled Alex out of her thoughts. Shit, she thought to herself again. This didn't work. It's too far into their bloodstreams.

Another bang.

Alex stood and readied herself to be surrounded by all of the Cadmus guards, Maggie and Jeremiah. When the door finally came down, it was only the two of them.

"Stop running away from us. We're trying to help you."

"We love you, sweetheart. This is what's best for you."

"This isn't you though." Alex stepped forward, her gun aimed towards both of them. "Maggie, dad, listen to me. You're in there somewhere. You can fight this, you can try and get out of it. Do it for me. Do it for Kara, for mom, for everyone who has faith in you. Look at all of our friends, our family. Is this really who you two want to be with? You can't even be yourself."

The familiar flicker in Maggie and Jeremiah's eyes came and left in a second.

"This is who we are now. You said you'd love me no matter what, remember? So, Alex, ride or die with me and your father, or not?"

"You want to play this the hard way? You leave me no choice." Alex ripped a remote out of her belt and held it above her head. "Remember this, dad? It's the same remote I used the day the ship was supposed to go out. There's bombs riddled all over the mainframe. I let go of this button and we all die."

"You'd take Kara and J'onn out with you."

"I won't. They're smarter than that. The question is, are you two? I know the real Maggie Sawyer and Jeremiah Danvers would be, but you cowards? Whoever's behind you? I don't know about them."

"You'd kill us though? I don't even know if you could do that." They were taunting her now.

"Watch me."

With that, Alex let go of the button.