Kara was able to escape her aunt although she still held the Kryptonite knife that Hank stabbed her with during the last go and she now holds something on her and followers that stops the kryptonite from harming them.
"You didn't get that knife back, by any chance?" Hank asks Kara and she didn't really have the chance. "I really liked that knife." He says.
"How come the kryptonite wasn't affecting her?" Peter asks her.
"That's more awesome. She has created a suit that makes her invulnerable to it." Kara explains to him.
"That changes the game." Hank replies to that information. "Why'd she attack you after all this time?" He asks Kara.
"She's trying to recruit me for her crazy cause, whatever it is. She said earth needed both of us." Kara explains to them. "But according to the A.I. of my mother, Astra's idea of helping people on Krypton was blowing up government buildings, so..."
"She wants you off the board. This could be the beginning of what we feared since Fort Rozz first crashed on earth, a city wide attack." Hank tells them worried.
"I'll head out there now." Kara says and starts leaving when Alex stops her.
"Wait a minute. You need at least a few hours of rest to recover." Alex tells her.
"Now is not the time to big sister me, okay?" Kara replies to her, angrily.
"And you're no good to anyone if you go out there weakened and she kills you." Hank says agreeing with Alex. "Go home, sleep. Knock her on her ass another day."
"Look, come in tomorrow, and I'll make sure you're ready to fight her, okay?" Peter tells her and Kara is okay with that and she starts leaving.
"I just hope it's a slow day at work, tomorrow." Kara states to herself.
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Kara managed to jinx herself with that when it seems Cat was hacked and information was released to the public through the Daily Bugle and the Daily Planet.
Cat asked for Kara, James and Winn to find out who hacked into her to find out who's responsible to stop more information from being released. While they were working on it, Kara returned to the DEO for her sparing session with Peter.
They're in the Kryptonite room that weakens Kara so her powers don't work well while Peter is wearing the Iron-Spider suit to give her a challenge to be prepared for her aunt but he's lowered the power of the suit so not to harm her.
Kara was able to get a takedown on Peter, but he quickly gets himself back up ready to fight again.
Kara tries punching him, but Peter's reflexes and senses were able to dodge most of them and he blocks a few punches and Kara does a roundhouse to bring to take Peter down but doesn't send the final blow.
That allowed Peter to kick her off of him and he quickly stands back up ready to go.
"Why did you hesitate?" Peter asks her.
"We're just training, and you're my friend." Kara reminds him.
"What if I wasn't your friend?" Peter asks her before using his suit to shut down the kryptonite. "Something's holding you back, what is it?" He asks her as she gets off of the fighting platform.
"Nothing. I don't want to talk about it." Kara says and starts leaving.
"Look, I think you should-"
"Don't give me the line you've been giving me about leaving it to you all again." Kara begs Peter.
"I was gonna say you should find someone to talk about it to, but there's also that. This isn't just about you being ready, you're going up against family here." Peter reminds her as he joins her off of the platform. "And no matter what you want to say, I think you still care about her."
"I don't care about her anymore." Kara informs Peter.
"That's not what I remember from the warehouse. This is war...and sometimes it means the enemy has to die." Peter informs her. "Can you look me in the eye and say if you need to, you could kill her?"
"Superman doesn't kill, you don't kill." Kara informs him.
"Not that anyone's aware of." Peter states when tears come into his eyes thinking of his best friend, Ned Leeds. "If that's your answer, then you shouldn't fight her."
"It won't come to killing her." Kara promises him, knowing Astra's better than that.
"She has shown she is willing to kill either one of us. That means you have to be the same." He tells her as Kara just leaves to think of what he told her.
As she leaves, Peter thinks back about Ned. Another one of the many people who died because of Peter.
"I thought we were friends, Peter." Ned's voice echoes throughout his head.
"You're not my friend anymore. My best friend is dead, and I'm going to avenge him, by stopping you!"
Peter hears the conversation of their last encounter echoing throughout his head. Truth is, he had the chance to save Ned, but he knew there was no way he could get his best friend back. It was easier for him to burry Ned with the good memories than constantly needing to stop his friend who once couldn't hurt anyone hurting hundreds.
"Parker!" Hank interrupts him from his thoughts. "We're in trouble." He says and brings Peter into the control room where the news has eyes on Astra.
"An unknown woman is hovering over Catco Plaza, with it seems, the same powers as Supergirl. Does she mean us harm? Should we be concerned?" The news asks as Peter pulls out his phone and quickly calls Kara as he leaves and grab his suit on his way out.
"I saw it." Kara says through Peter's mask which is hooked to his phone.
"She's calling you out, Kara. You don't have to go, I can handle it." Peter says as he makes it outside and flies off to the city.
"You know I have to." Kara says and hangs up.
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Astra is waiting when Kara reaches her before Peter.
"Astra. No bodyguards?" Kara questions.
"No knife. No armor. No one besides you and me." Astra promises her. "Will you talk to me now? You can't say it's not fair."
"We're done with fair." Kara tells her and hits her with heat vision and starts punching her throughout the city and even through a building. The debris from the building starts falling down to the people when a blast destroys it and they all turn to see Spider-Man saved them while he's stopping the rest of the debris.
Kara and Astra continue to fight when Peter webs a piece of debris to spin it around. "Skirt, duck!" He calls out to Kara and she moves out of the way and it hits Astra to the ground and the heroes join her as Astra throws a car in their direction.
Peter and Kara use their lasers to destroy it and Astra speeds through the explosion and sends Peter flying before she hits Kara onto the ground.
"Just like Alura." Astra state to Kara.
"She was a better woman than you'll ever be." Kara informs her.
"She was a murderer." Astra replies.
"Liar!" Kara cries.
"She called me a liar, too. Had to make someone else responsible for her deception. And cruelty. And weakness." Astra says.
"Her only weakness was letting you live!" Kara states before flipping her onto the ground and starts pounding her into ground, but still couldn't finish her off. Just like Peter said, she's family.
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Kara dragged her aunt into the DEO with Peter following in case she tried anything.
"Containment, now." Hank tells the agents as they place kryptonite handcuffs on her.
"Well call you wen she wakes up." Alex tells Kara.
"Don't. She can rot." Kara says before leaving back to get to work.
But when Astra awoke, she stated constantly that she will only talk to Kara so they had to call her back in to talk to her.
"I'm glad you're here." Astra tells Kara as she enters the room.
"I'm glad you're back in a cell." Kara responds to that.
"You fought well with that arachnid." Astra keeps going on, ignoring her.
"You have two minutes." Kara says when Astra places something on the window that Kara knows as the beacon she used to contact her aunt on Krypton.
"You still have it?" Kara asks, surprised to see it after all these years.
"It's time you knew everything, Kara." Astra states. "When I went on the run, I took this with me. I would hold it in my hand to remind myself of why I was turning my back on my family, and betraying the High Council. It would all be worth it if you survived."
"Because you cared about me? Did you care about the people you and your fantastic husband killed?" Kara questions her.
"We did what we had to do. Alura is the one with blood on her hands." Astra informs her.
"My mother was the best woman who ever lived." Kara states.
"Tell that to those of us who were thrown into that nightmare of a prison." Astra replies.
"I think you went crazy in Fort Rozz." Kara says to her aunt. "I think you stared into miles of pitch black space until everything good inside of you died."
"Do you know how she caught me? That day in your room." Astra informs Kara, who remembers contacting her aunt on that one day before she supposedly left on the run again. "Was it your idea to message me with the spy beacon, or was it Alura's?" She asks Kara.
"I don't remember that." Kara tells her.
"Your mother signed the death warrants of our entire race and she used you to do it." Astra tells her.
"I don't believe you." Kara replies.
"Yes, you do. Much like Krypton, this planet is on the verge of ecological destruction. I can stop it. But the humans won't like my methods. That's why I need you. They trust you. Together we can save them." Astra promises.
"You're never leaving this cell." Kara replies to her, wanting to get out of here.
"I am begging you. Please help me." Astra begs Kara as she leaves to get her anger out.
Peter watches the footage of their argument and feels sorry for her, knowing how she feels right now about someone you one knew becoming a criminal, and loosing them to the opposite side.
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On Kara's work side, she was able to get proof of one of the board members trying to take ms. Grant's job.
The police were able to get him into custody and were able to save her job.
-
"How's she doing?" Hank asks Peter as he approaches him and Gwen who's searching through the footage the Iron-Spider was able to catch about the fight.
"Heartbroken." Peter answers.
"She can't afford to be right now." Hank replies to that.
"Something isn't adding up here." Peter tells him while looking over every inch of footage. "Nobody has come looking for Astra, and during the fight, Astra was able to beat Kara twice but at the end she just drops like a bag of potatoes."
"Yeah, somethings off and I can't read Astra's mind to find out why." Hank says and Peter looks to him in shock to that new information. "Kryptonians are impervious to my telepathy, which Superman finds hilarious."
"You can read minds?" Peter asks in a hushed tone. "Can you read my mind?"
"Not exactly, I have to concentrate hard enough. Your DNA is still Kryptonian in its core." Hank tells him.
"Wait, look at this." Gwen interrupts them and they look at the screen.
"What are we looking at?" Hank asks.
"Astra stepping over Supergirl." Gwen says and Peter understands where she's going.
"That is the most open and weak stance you can do. And she should obviously know that...she wanted to loose." Peter now realizes and knows that they're in trouble.
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They go down into Astra's cell to see her laying on the floor and Peter has his suit back on for if she were to try anything.
"You let Supergirl beat you." Peter starts off.
"Your troops haven't come to rescue you. There's only one reason for that. Those aren't their orders." Hank adds on. "You wanted us distracted while they carried out their real plan. What is it?"
"And let me make it clear that you're weaker in here, I'm not." Peter reminds her.
"Your DNA has been altered so that you would blend in with the humans, you have their weaknesses but the strength of a Kryptonian." Astra says and sits up. "I like you. But it's too late."
"For what?" Peter asks.
"To stop what's happening right now." Astra tells him.
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At Lord Technologies, all of her men are flying in while at Catco, Cat has put everything together about Kara being Supergirl with the coincidences that have been occurring too often. That's when she got the call about what's happening and takes off.
Peter makes it to Lord Technologies first with Hank and his men behind him and stays hidden when he watches as Mr. Lord uses some weapon and shoots one of the Kryptonians and it takes him down.
"What do you know, it works." Lord is happy to say.
"You are a champion of this world?" Non, Astra's husband, ask Lord.
"I have my moments." He replies ready to fire again when the leader of them speeds up and takes down his men and raises him into the air.
"You have had your last." He informs lord when Peter comes and blasts him away from lord and Hank with the other DEO agents come in.
"Kill then all." The leader says to them and the prisoners starts fighting the agents all off and Peter is trying to save as many as possible but even his kryptonite blasts aren't doing anything to affect them until Hank was able to rip off one of their chests pieces making him vulnerable again.
Peter is fighting off the leader but Peter is no match to his strength when Kara comes flying in and helps get him off of Peter.
You remember me, little girl?" Non asks Kara.
"Astra's husband, Non." Kara replies to him.
"Oh, great, another family dilemma." Peter states, getting annoyed by these people.
"To think you are the last of the great House of Ren." Non replies to Peter.
"Were I'm gonna make you wish you died with the rest of them." Peter says as he and Kara fly at him, ready to take him on.
They crash into each other and continue to fight as they fly into the air.
Peter uses a web and spins Non around before he reaches Kara and she punches him into the ground, where Hank was waiting and was ready to use the kryptonite gun when Non grabbed Hank and took off before Kara and Peter could have reached him.