Right on time. Richard smiles as he takes another pull on his cigarette that was more for show than for actual enjoyment as he watched his target exit the building he'd been so obediently watching, even on a completely different Earth, she was so predictable.

Law and order. Be it from barking orders as director of the DEO or the protection of something as common as a police badge. Really, he was surprised a natural leader and a rather intelligent woman like he knew Maggie Sawyer to be would be wasting her talents at this place, but then again, he reminds himself as he flicks away the last of the cigarette no matter the Earth it would seem that Maggie had a soft spot for the 'down and outs'.

Her head is down as she hurries down the sidewalk the collar of her seeming to be customary leather jacket turned up against the wind as she starts off presumably for the warm glow of a nearby coffee shop given how late into the afternoon it had become.

He shadows her taking in the subtle but still their differences between this Maggie and the one he'd known from his own Earth. Twice she nearly spots him from his place a few steps behind her on the other side of the street as he tries to decide just how he would snatch her up. He didn't want to hurt her. Not yet anyway but he also knew that whatever he tried she would put up a fight.

The shrill sound of her phone carries over the sounds of the traffic making her pull her hand away from the door to the very shop he'd guessed she would stop at to answer it giving him the chance to slip across the street to eavesdrop.

"Sawyer."

Richard rolled his eyes. Even her phone answer was the same.

"Okay, I'll go check it out. No, it's not a problem just tell me where I'm headed," She nodes listening intently to the address her partner was rattling off. "Got it, but you owe me big time if this turns out to be some wild goose chase."

Her stalking shadow is already gone by the time she hangs up the call with a smug smile on his lips and his carefully chosen means of revenge slung over his shoulder.

This may end up being far easier than he thought.

The words played in her mind like a broken record as she sat on the barstool her head down, so her hair covered her face as her girlfriend ever so tenderly tended to her hand.

'My Maggie' 'My Maggie' 'My Maggie' 'My Maggie'

Even from another planet, she was still competing with that woman for Alex's heart. How was that remotely fair? Regardless of what Alex might say she already knows she will always be second best to Maggie Sawyer.

"Hey."

Kelly felt Alex's hand under her chin pulling her head up so the pair could look at one another properly her other hand pushing Kelly's hair back behind her ear. "What's wrong?"

'My Maggie' 'My Maggie' 'My Maggie' 'My Maggie'

The angry mantra played again in her head the longer she looked into those concerned whiskey chocolate-colored eyes.

"Other than the fact your other self isn't exactly my biggest fan?" Kelly sighs running her uninjured hand in her hair. Alex gives her a guilty kind of smile as she shrugs. "But I still like you." She offers already holding up a lollypop. 'For now.' Kelly adds in her head as she takes the candy with a soft sigh when Alex's lips press against her forehead in a comforting kiss.

"You're late" Alex accuses in a joking kind of tone as her returning sister crosses over to the refrigerator with a determined stride.

"I was doing another kind of cross over thing with Berry." Kara shrugs taking a larger than needed bite of pizza after first reheating it with her heat vision. "He says hi by the way. Where is the other darker-haired you?" she wonders looking around for the broodier version of her older sister but coming up empty.

"Still sulking about being stuck here I guess." Alex shrugs. Regardless of how upset she was regarding her twin's treatment of her girlfriend she really was sympathetic to what that other Alex was going though. Not only was she currently stuck on a completely different version of the world she knows but that she was stuck on the very day she should be celebrating an incredibly important day with the woman she loved.

She would be just as upset if it were her. If she were separated from Kelly on their anniversary, she'd lash out too. If she was being honest she would be doing so more if she were still with Maggie.

After all, it would have been around that time for their own anniversary if they hadn't broken up and had gotten married.

Maggie. Alex sighed letting her mind drift as her feet carried her toward the kitchen her hand closing around a beer the longer her mind pulled up some of the happier times with her first real love. Oh, Rao, I miss you Mags. Alex catches herself thinking in longing as she twisted the top off and downing half the bottle in one gulp.

"Isn't S.T.A.R you know his territory?" Kelly questions pulling Alex back into the conversation, but again Kara shrugs as she drops onto the sofa. Her hair wet from a shower and her clothes changed from her super suit to more comfier clothes with at least four of the pizza boxes Alex had set aside balanced against her lap with another three each from one of various take out options waiting on the coffee table.

"Yeah but like I've already said since what they thought was taken was something Kryptonian he dropped the superhero jurisdiction thing and asked me to come take a look." Kara corrects now channel surfing at a rapid pace as she finished off the second box of pizza.

"I thought the DEO had dibs on all things 'Super' related." Alex gaped like a child just now finding out she'd lost the chance to have ice cream for actual dinner instead of just dessert as she pulls a second beer for herself and a bottle of water for Kelly out of the fridge her mind still filled with thoughts of where Maggie was now, was she alright? Was she safe? Was she happy?

"On ours, yeah but this isn't just ours anymore remember?" Kara reminded gratefully taking the bottle of soda Kelly slid across the table toward her "Come on all the tv channels in the collective Earths and there is still nothing good on." She complained around another bite of pizza.

"So, what happened at the S.T.A.R?" Alex pressed pulling Kelly into her lap once she'd settled in on the only other comfy piece of furniture in the place letting Kara stretch out completely on the couch

"One of the officers the NCPD had scheduled to do some complicated lab thingy didn't show up and apparently had sent in some other guy out of the blue to cover for him." Kara stars in after washing down the third container of chicken broccoli loaming "None of the S.T.A.R squints knew who he was but they let him into the lab anyway because they needed help on this project and it was too late to call it off or call in to have NCPD send someone more trustworthy." Kara explains

"So, they just let this guy walk into a secret government facility known for containing metahumans in the basement and help out with a science project?" Kelly clarifies just as Alex lets out a groaned "How many times have I asked you not to call lab techs 'squints'?" as she nuzzles her head against Kelly's shoulder. 'She uses the same shampoo Maggie had.' she realizes taking an even deeper breath of the scent.

"Apparently." Kara nodes as she sunk even deeper into the cushions of the couch finally decided on a new channel now covering a report on a wildfire being put out by National City's newest superhero. "Hey, Ally look. It's you." Kara giggles pointing from the screen to her sister and back again.

Kelly laughs catching sight of how 'Super Alex's' head had tilted to one side a smile seeming to grace her lips as she blew out another part of the mini inferno while the firefighters attacked it from the other side with water hoses. "I think she heard you babe." She comments earning a hard glare from the on-screen super now turning to look directly into the sightline of the hovering news chopper.

"Taking a page from Dreamers book huh?" Alex commits with a grin seeing her now masked twin give a nearly invisible shrug as she turns her attention back to the blaze.

Surprisingly the only thing running in her head was how very Harry Potter-like this night was turning out to be. 'So, this is what it's like to be in one of those body bind curses huh?' she commented to herself as she tried once again to get her frozen limbs to move.

If she could just get to her spare key for her cuffs, then maybe?

She soon was reminded why that was a bad idea then the invisible band this new meta had used to not only overpower her but also left her more or less hogtied on the floor of the bank once again contracted around her like an unforgiving fist around her throat and her heart chocking off her air from the inside out.

"Would you stop doing that?" the meta groaned over his shoulder as the bands loosen allowing a defenseless Maggie to catch some of her breath back whilst her supposed 'back up' continued rummaging around in the bag he brought with him. "I can't very well have my revenge if your already dead when she gets here." He reasons sliding something into the pocket of his vest before he straightens up to his full height.

The light caught on the white letters 'NCPD' on his vest mocking her as he strutted around her setting the stage for whatever sick trap he had in mind clearly thinking to use her as the bate.

But why her? Why come after her now?

She hasn't spoken with anyone from her old 'super friends' life since she'd had Alex say those heartbreaking words and had dragged herself out of her life to make room for the child the woman who she'd conclude long ago would forever hold her heart so desperately wanted. Even Eliza the mother figure she'd so longed to have since she was fourteen and she had purposefully avoided anything to do with Supergirl or the DEO on top of that.

"Now one last touch."

Maggie paled at the voice now tickling her ear as she felt herself being ever so carefully rolled over onto her back. Up until then, he'd been wearing some kind of high tech-looking full-face mask, so she hadn't been able to really hear his real voice. Now she could hear it loud and clear and please Rao did she want to be wrong about who it sounded like.

It can't be.

"Hello, Director Sawyer." He greets as if they were old friends. "Oh, sorry I guess its Detective Sawyer here isn't it?" he corrects with a laugh as he brushed a stray strand of Maggie's hair out of her eyes for her.

It was.

"So, you do know me here." Rick Malvern smiles as he pulls a lip gloss like tube out of the pocket of his vest as he looms over her. "Well, you know a version of me that is." He corrects himself again unscrewing the cap with a thoughtful expression.

Maggie wanted to squirm away or at the very least punch that boyish smile from his face "It's kind of amusing don't you think? That you are going to be the reason for her downfall when really your one of the reasons she showed the world who she was in the first place." he tells her as if Maggie should know what he was talking about as he paints her lips with a thin layer of the green-tinted liquid before returning the tub to his vest pocket.

It was when he stands again that Maggie notices the news channel, he'd pulled up on a nearby tv.

The latest hero to hit the city putting the finishing touches on helping put out an inferno somewhere that wasn't National City.

"She isn't the only Supergirl." Maggie wheezes out not liking how the apparent copy of Rick Malvern was watching the black and blue clade hero.

"But she's the one that matters." He summarizes with a deadly edge to his voice as his eyes once again fix on his captive. "Lucky for us…or just for me I guess…the Danvers women are boringly predictable in their choice of partners."

The tight band around Maggie's heart closed in again but it had nothing to do with this new Rick using his powers on her as the cop could do nothing but lay defenseless on the ground and listen to the snips he was tossing out in regard to whatever twisted scheme he was cooking up.

"And here she is." Rick announces changing the channel to a live broadcast of Lena Luthor's latest charity event., "Our second lady of the hour."

Lena had just arrived looking radiant and take charge as ever as she smiles for the cameras.

"I guess the stage is complete," Rick concludes somehow splitting the screen, so it played both new channels at the same time as he turns once again toward Maggie his burner cell phone in hand and a pleased smile on his lips.

Whatever he'd painted on her lips had dried by now leaving only a light tingling behind as her invisible bonds loosen even more allowing her sore limbs to fall at her sides like a broken puppet. That's certainly how she felt right now.

"Well almost." He sighs pulling out the weapon he'd taken from Maggie's belt and leveling it at her as whoever he was calling picked up on the other end of the line.

"It's showtime." Was all he said before the scene at Lena's charity event turned into total chaos.

As soon as the familiar blur of blue and red showed up on the screen a single shot rang out in the vacant building around them.

Shot by my own gun. Figures. Maggie sighed determined to not give him the satisfaction of hearing her scream as the pain ripped into her shoulder.

"And now to cue in our leading lady." Rick hummed like some sick director on a movie set as he brought Maggie's stolen radio to his lips his eyes like Maggie's trained on the second news report where the hero in black was still hovering on guard.

"Shots fired, shots fired. Officer down. repeat officer down."

Maggie's vision started to blur at the edges as she watches the super's head tilt to one side as she like Maggie listened to a rather believable fatigued sounding Malvern rattle off her badge number over the radio while the metahuman's invisible hand closed for s fifth time around her throat once again slowly but definitely choking off her air from the inside out.

That seemed to catch the listening hero's attention while Kara also seemed to catch it but as Rick had planned she was too busy with his party going goons to do anything to help as a pleased Malvern followed up with the address of the building they were standing in.

"And now for the best part." her deranged attacker beams like a kid in a candy store as he brings the radio back to his lips to put the final touch to his bated trap. The call that would have the Alex Danvers from his world racing into the sky like a missile right before his eyes.

"I repeat again. Officer Maggie Sawyer is down...shots fired at..." but he let the sentence cut off as the radio fell from his hand to be broken under his foot seconds after it hit the floor.

The poor news quality didn't catch the percussive sounds of the full speed of the hero's exit, but it did catch an image of how upset she seemed to be before she'd shot off into the sky.

And just like that, his plane to bring down his world's indestructible 'Supergirl' was set in motion.