Kara returned to the DEO to find exactly what happened and what is wrong with her when she talks to the hologram of her mother and she explains that the fight with Red Tornado drained her of her powers for a while, but thanks to the help from Peter during the fight they'll only be gone momentarily.
"This happened to Superman a lot of times, you know." Peter tries assuring her. "He would loose his powers for a couple of days, and they'd come back."
"Yeah, except it's been a whole day, and I don't feel any different." Kara states angry to say.
"Well, now you get to go out into the real world and see what it's like to be human for a while." Peter replies to her.
"Might learn a thing or two about what it's like for the rest of us." Hank informs her as they notice him. "How you feeling?" He asks Kara.
"Fine." Kara responds. "If this is what fine feels like."
"Kara was heading to work, I was just walking her out since she's been stuck in here the past weekend." Peter tells him.
"I was taking Agent Danvers to deal with an unruly guest. We could use maybe your help when you're done." Hank asks him.
"Sure, happy to help." Peter says as Kara leaves for work.
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Alex, Hank, Gwen, who was brought down to check the technical equipment, and Peter, who took the time to grab his suit, went down to the detention floor where they keep all of their most dangerous and most powerful criminals.
"Worn yourself out yet?" Hank asks the criminal as he's using some gem in his head to shoot lasers at the container he's in.
"Bow your head as you approach me." He warns them. "I am Jemm, master of the facelsss hunters!" Jemm informs them.
"Is Jemm spelt with a G-e-m, or a J-e-m?" Peter asks him.
"Conqueror of-"
"Twelve worlds." Hank interrupts him. "Yeah, heard you the first 10 times. It's not getting any more impressive." He informs Jemm and he just stares at Hank. "Trying to use your psychic powers, aren't you? Take control of my mind, force me to let you out? Hate to break it to you, Jemm, but your cell has neural shielding. Your powers are useless."
"Then deactivate it so that I may expose your true identity as a coward." Jemm says and the others are confused to what he's saying. "I will grind your loved ones to dust."
Hank looks away sad hearing about his loved ones since everyone knows he lost his family.
"There are none left to grind." Hank tells him and turns to the others. "Jemm's fish tank is in need of its monthly cleaning and tech support." He explains to them why they're here and leaves them as they leave the room to stay.
"Initiating prisoner airlock." Gwen says when a powerful earthquake comes and destroys the power.
"Switching to emergency power." Alex says trying to stand through the shaking.
"Get me eyes on the prisoner!" Hank yells to them.
"System is rebooting now." Gwen says when the power comes back on and they see he's escaped.
"Secure the base!" Hank commands as Peter locks down the base.
This means they're locked in the base until the criminal is apprehended, which might be difficult with him being a telepath. Hank brings some agents into Kara's holographic room with her mother's projection. And Peter is surprised since he's never seen this room before.
"The situation you face is dire." Alura tells them. "Jemm was one of the most ruthless criminals ever to be banished to the Phantom Zone. His psychic abilities surpass any living species, able to read and control minds against their will. Your only chance at survival is my daughter, Kara. Humans cannot-"
"Shut it off. First order of business is to make sure Jemm doesn't read our minds in the field." Hank tells them and Gwen pulls out a large suitcase.
"We developed these neural disrupters, basically portable versions of the energy shield we used to block his powers when he was in his cell." Gwen explans to them.
"And we only have three disrupters left, so Tsung and Reynolds, gear up. Parker, get your mask up." Hank say since Peter's mask was built to do what the disrupters do for the agents, along with a few other things.
"Sir, I have more experience than them combined." Alex defends.
"Which is why I need you to remain behind to protect the others." Hank tells her. "I have to know I'm leaving them with people with someone I can trust. Unless you're implying you and I have a problem."
"No, sir." Alex responds to him.
"Good. Glad to hear it." He says before leaving.
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They make it to sector 12 and can't find anything.
"Cameras are clear. Heat sensors, negative." Alex informs them.
"But we're getting some kind of interference on our end. The earthquake might've damaged the circuitry." Gwen warns them.
"On me." Hank says to the agents as they follow him down the halls when the lights blow.
"Lights are out." Peter warns as they activate their lights and Peter's mask begins to glow. "Director Henshaw?" He calls out.
"We can only see the three of you." Alex says, confused where he is.
"I don't see him. He's gone." Reynolds tells them as they look around to something moving around.
"We're loosing visual." Gwen warns them.
"He's all around us!" Reynolds says as Peter's senses help him fight him off but he wasn't able to save the other two.
"Gwen, you there?" Peter calls out and gets nothing but static. "Great." He mumbles to himself.
"Parker." Hank calls out, causing Peter to scream and jump around to see him. "Let's go." He tells him before walking back to the projection room.
"Can we pretend that didn't happen?" Peter asks while running after him, not wanting to be down here with some lunatic with telepathic powers.
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They make it to the door, only for it to opens and see Alex aiming a gun at them.
"Mind lowering that?" Peter asks her.
"What happened out there?" Alex asks as they enter the room. "We lost visuals."
"That was interference from Jemm's psychic powers. He ambushed us." Hank explains to them. "Tsung And Reynolds, they're gone."
"I'm loaded, I'm ready to go." Alex tells Hank.
"You can't. There's only one disrupter left and Parker needs his suit to help me." Hank explains to her, knowing he's gonna need someone to watch his back. "I need you to do what I say, when I say, because our situation just got a whole lot worse."
"Yeah, it was like a scene from a Hitchcock film." Peter states, knowing he's gonna have nightmares for a while. "I mean, I saw Reynolds skull. He now knows everything Reynolds did."
"He was head of security." Alex replies.
"Which means he now knows how to open every cell in this prison. So I'm gonna need Peter to keep them back. So, I'm ordering you to stay here. You've got to trust me." Hank asks her and Alex doesn't know if she can or not when Hank and Peter leave.
"Sooner or later, Jemm is gonna find us in here." Alex tells Donovan.
"You don't think Director Henshaw will come through for us?" Donovan asks.
"I don't think relying on him is in our best interest."
"You don't trust him?"
"This isn't the first time that he's been the sole survivor of a bothched operation. And the details of that story see just as sketchy as this one." Alex explains why she doesn't trust him.
"So what do we do?"
"We go out there. But we don't have any inhibitors left to protect us from Jemm."
"I'm in." He replies and heads out.
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In the halls, Peter and Hank are wondering around.
"So, is there a plan with moving through this place?" Peter asks Hank.
"Like I said, we need to stop him from releasing the other prisoners." Hank tells Peter as he's scanning the area to make sure they don't run into Jemm.
"Can I be honest and say I'm a bit scared?" He admits to Hank.
"You're only human. Well, you know. Partially." Hank corrects himself since he knows he's Kryptonian.
"Gwen told you, huh?" Peter asks him.
"Accidentally." Hank defends her as they make it into the power grid room when Peter's senses go off and senses Alex.
"Oh, great." Peter mumbles before webbing Alex and dragging her into the room.
"Alex, what are you doing?" Hank asks seeing her.
"Donovan and I were looking for you." Alex explains.
"Then Where is he?" Peter asks, ready to go back out there.
Alex doesn't answer and they know what that means. "You lost him." Hank guesses and knows he's right. "Damn it, that's why o told you to stay with the others!"
"You also said the inhibitors were destroyed. You lied." Alex replies and Peter is confused why he would lie about that.
"Because I didn't want anyone doing something stupid like this!" Hank states to her.
"Agent Danvers, come in." They hear Donovan in their comms.
"Copy, Donovan. What's your status?" Alex asks, but Hank and Peter knows he must be under Jemm's control.
"I'm okay. But I'm out here all on my own. Where the hell are you?" Donovan asks.
"Rendezvous with me-" Alex was gonna say but they both stop her.
"Don't." They both say to her.
"It's not Donovan anymore." Hank explains. "Jemm, I know it's you."
"You've only delayed the inevitable." Jemm's voice now fills their comms. "I will free the prisoners and break through to the surface. There's no escape for you."
"We have to move to a secure location before he gets to us." Peter tells them and Hank agrees when Alex raises her gun at him. Peter then aims his repulsers but places them on stun for now.
"Back away from the door." Alex tells Hank.
"Put the gun down." Peter tells her.
"Alex, what are you doing? I'm not the enemy." Hank reminds her.
"Is that why you didn't tell me about my father?" Alex asks him. "I found out he was DEO. And that you blackmailed him to serve under you." She states and Peter is shocked to hear this.
"Your father believed in me. He was a great man." Hank tells her.
"You don't get to talk about him!" Alex interrupts.
"Guys!" Peter interrupts them. "I don't know what's happening, but we need to stop a psychic psycho who's on the loose. We need to work together if we're gonna survive." He tells them and Alex gets what he's saying and lowers her weapon.
"Jemm, this is Agent Danvers, if you want out of here you don't need to release the prisoners. All you need is me. I'll be waiting for you by the control room." Alex says and the two of them see she's got a plan. They can use the location to stop him, but they need to blend in the darkness the base is giving them.
Jemm makes his way to the control room with Alex waiting by the controls. Above them is Hank and Peter ready to take him down.
"Codes are in for your way to the surface." Alex says and Jemm aproaches her to see nothing on the monitors. He is confused when a repulser sends him flying backwards and Hank uses his gun to shoot the gem off of his head.
"It's gonna take more than that to kill me!" Jemm states to them and gets ready to fight when Peter uses his webs to trap him and Hank punches him hard in the face, knocking him out.
"Nice work." Peter tells Hank, not knowing he could hit that hard before.
"Get the power back up." Hank says to Alex as the two of them are bringing Jemm into his cell where he hopefully won't escape again.
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Once they get the operation back up and running, Peter decides it's time to have a word with Hank.
"You're wondering how I knocked out Jemm while you couldn't with super strength?" Hank guesses.
"A small bit." Peter admits.
"You sure you want to burden yourself with the truth?" Hank asks him.
"I've been burdened with a lot, one thing won't make much of a difference." Peter states since he has more secrets almost than people he's saved.
"You can't tell anyone this. Can you do that?"
"I don't have anyone to tell." Peter says but starts thinking of Gwen, but this would be the only secret he'll keep from her.
"I am not Hank Henshaw." Hank, or whoever he is apparently, starts off.
"He died the same night as Alex's father. The DEO had been pursuing an alien for months. Not one of the Fort Rozz prisoners, but an innocent one stranded on this planet. With the help of Jeremiah, the DEO tracked the alien to a remote location in Peru. Henshaw lead the squad to terminate him. He was a good man, who realized the alien they were hunting wasn't a threat. He was a refugee, just like you and Supergirl. Sole survivor of a lost world. Jeremiah tried to stop the mission, but Henshaw was obsessed. He'd finally trapped the alien he'd been hunting for so long. So, Jeremiah made the ultimate sacrifice. Gave his life to save that alien."
Peter takes in the new information about the man he worked with for a decade and sees he's been living a secret life. "If you're an alien, how do you look like Henshaw?" He asks him.
"I am a shapeshifter. When Hank Henshaw died, I assumed his identity to reform the DEO. But I also made him a promise that I would take care of his daughter. I recruited you when I learned that you might also not be from this world, that's why I pushed you to be the best hero you could be." Hank explains to him, and everything makes sense with their relationship with now. "I took care of you like you were my own son."
"If you're not Hank Henshaw, then who are you?" Peter asks, done with the lies when he sees Hank's eyes are glowing red.
"I am the sole survivor of my planet. The last Son of Mars." Hank says before transforming into an alien with green skin and a dark suit with a red X across it. "My name is J'onn J'onzz." He introduces himself.
Peter looks in shock, and tried not to say something stupid but it just slipped out in the confusion.
"Is there something about aliens having strangely pronounced names?" He asks and gets a confused look from J'onn.
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As for Kara, she was flying through the city after the earthquake that happened and her powers returning in the middle of it, when she was shot out of the sky and was met by her aunt, Astra, and a few of her followers.
"My dear niece. Did you really think this was over?" Astra asks her and Kara can see she's in trouble.