The next morning, Kara and Non attended a funeral for Astra before sending her off and that they have two weeks before he sends a death bath upon the earth, and Kara learnt that Cat has hired a second assistant. So that summons up her morning.
Peter's morning, is now dealing with a new prisoner, number 2444. So they've all got their issues.
"He's been hiding out in National City using a human alias, Gabriel Phillips." Hank tells them all. "Surveillance spotted him yesterday. Don't be fooled by the pretty face, this thing is nasty. Feeds off rotting flesh. Been spotted coming and going from an abandoned warehouse downtown, where we suspect he's staring his food. Proceed with caution when apprehending him. This one bites." He warns them.
"It's a good thing your skin is steel." Gwen tells Peter referring to the suit which he chuckles at that.
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They make it to the warehouse and the team, led by Alex, move in and hear someone begging for help. That where they find they were lead into an ambush with someone wearing armor attacked Peter first to get him out of the way and kidnapped 2444.
"Looks like the ambusher was wearing some advanced extraterrestrial armory." Hank states to them. "And he knew to blast Peter first, getting him out of the way."
"Well, the biggest question is, where did he take our target?" Alex asks.
"And why?" Peter wonders when Kara comes in.
"Maybe he had some beef he needed to settle." Kara suggests and looks to Hank. "Since when don't you call me?"
"I thought it might be a good idea to give you some time off." Hank states since Astra's funeral was just this morning.
"When I need time off, I'll fill out a request form with HR." Kara promises him. "Until then, if there's a dangerous alien to catch I'd like to be included. Sir."
Peter can see through what she's doing and knows she's still grieving but is still trying to put it out of her mind while putting crime fighting first. It's exactly what Peter did after he lost everyone, he lost himself in the hero business and forgot having a normal life. And he doesn't want her to do that to herself.
"Is he human?" Kara asks them.
"My scanners didn't get enough, but what it did get does suggest underneath the armor, he could be more likely alien." Peter tells her.
"Well, what would a human being want with a alien who eats rotting flesh?" Gwen wonders. "I mean, strange habits much?" She jokes.
"The vulture he captured could be wasted on a dozen other worlds for crimes he committed long before he wound up in Fort Rozz. We could be dealing with a interstellar bounty hunter." Hank suggests to them.
"Wait, you mean like Boba Fett?" Gwen asks. "Because that would be so cool! You know, as long as he isn't hurting innocents."
"I scanned everything through our database, nothing matches up." Alex says to Gwen.
"Well, if he's done this before, maybe he ran into law enforcement." Kara suggests to them.
"We could interview NCPD. See if some of their mission persons are our missing aliens." Hank replies, agreeing with Kara.
"But now here's another question that raises, where would he take the alien?" Gwen asks. "If he's a bounty hunter, he could be anywhere in the galaxy."
Hank and Alex talk to the National City police department and that he's kidnapped five different people, and has murdered them by decapitation, and they were all aliens.
Which states this could mean that there's a alien serial killer loose in the city and they need to find his next victim before it's too late.
"Based on the human aliases of our guy's victims, I think they were actually five prisoners from Fort Rozz." Gwen tells Hank and pulls up the photos taken from the NCPD and from the Fort Rozz files.
"Any connection to each other besides they're from Fort Rozz?" Peter asks her.
"Not That I've found, but I'll find it." Gwen promises. "But they're all from different planets, different crimes, none of them even at the least shared a cell." She states confused.
"The killer must be picking them for a reason." Alex states when something comes clear. "See what happens when you arrange the in the order they were killed." She asks Gwen.
"Sure, let's see." Gwen says, and she starts seeing it as well. "Oh my god, they were all incarcerated in Fort Rozz in that order. He's killing them from their time they've spent in Fort Rozz."
"Who will be the next target then?" Hank asks Gwen as she pulls up the list.
"Prisoner 2445." Gwen tells them and pulls up his file. He's someone in his older years, white hair, seems normal.
"Where can we find him?" Peter wonders.
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The bounty hunter, or as he's called, the Master Jailer, finds prisoner 2445. As 2445 is running, Kara and Peter make it and see him.
"I thought masks were only big in that other city." Kara states.
"Hey." Peter retaliates, since he wears a mask.
"You're an exception." She states and they focus back on their bounty hunter.
"What's with the stormtrooper makeup?" Peter asks getting a better look at hs get up.
"You gonna tell us who you are?" Kara asks when he releases chainlike whips.
"Guess that's a no." Peter states when tiara tries to break his chains as it seems to be failing against his armor, and his skills.
Peter uses his arms to help free Kara and hold the guy back when Master Jailer sends a taser rope and wraps it around Peter, causing him to fall in pain.
Kara's limbs get separated by chains after he sent them at her but she quickly gets free of them using her heat vision. But as soon as she gets free, she sees that he escaped leaving Peter getting electrocuted.
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The two of them return to the DEO bruised and get checked up on before Hank asks them what happened and they show what the got form their fight.
"Black Star alloy. That kind of technology, this guy's definitely not from earth." Hank says looking over the chains.
"So why is he killing other aliens?" Kara asks, feeeling like something's missing.
"These victims aren't just being killed. They're being executed." Alex corrects her sister.
"And they all came from Fort Rozz." Gwen explains.
"But that Professor he just took seemed harmless enough." Kara states.
"Real name Luzano. Drug smuggler, until your mother put him away." Hank reads his file off of the computers,
"Not the week for you to discuss my family." Kara warns him.
"I'll start questioning our Fort Rozz criminals again." Hank says when an agent comes in asking to talk to Kara and it's James regarding Max Lord, who Cat Grant wants to write a piece about.
What came out of that was that James doesn't believe in the DEO's ethics and their prisoners, and how he feels like he needs to write about it. That's when Peter now sees he needs to have a word with her about her feelings.
"We ran diagnostics on the mask man's weapon from the attack. The metal baron was standard police issue." Peter tells her. "It was covered in human DNA. And we ran it through out database, and came up with a match. Detective Warren."
"That cop try interviews that hates us?" Kara asks.
"They know where he works, so it shouldn't be that hard to stop him." Peter states.
"I've wanted to catch a corrupt cop ever since I binge-watched The Wire." Kara admits to him.
"Strange reason, but it's you're lucky day then." Peter replies to that and quickly stops her. "Listen, when we get back, we need to have a talk." He explains to her and they leave.
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Peter and Kara interrupt Warren and his partner's drive and they slam the breaks and exit their car.
"You trying to kill someone?" Warren asks them.
"Detective Warren?" Kara asks and Peter does a scan to make sure he has no weaponry on him.
"He's clean." Peter tells her.
"We need to have a talk," Kara explains to Warren.
"Detective Draper, you're gonna want to step away." Peter says when Alex comes out from behind their car.
"Way do you think you're doing?" Warren asks them.
"We just need to talk." Peter explains to him.
"You're out f your mind. I'm one of the good guys!" He states to them.
"He's telling the truth." A new voice says and they turn to see Warren before starts sending shots at them, but Peter quickly used his powers to stop the bullets...But he couldn't prevent the fist to the face.
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The next time Peter awakens, he sees he's in a cage cell near Kara.
"You doing okay, Skirt?" Peter asks her.
"Not what I would call okay at the moment." Kara states and tries escaping.
"Please, I wouldn't bother." The professor tells them from his own cell. "If I were to hazard a guess, I'd say that light mimics the red sun of Krypton." He says explaining why Kara's powers won't work.
Peter tries to break the cell with his own strength but it's stronger than himself, which is bad. "My suit is shut down, the distress call would've already been sent out by now." He informs Kara meaning backup should be fast.
"Why were you in Fort Rozz?" Kara asks the professor.
"It doesn't matter how. Walter under the bridge." He tells them.
"Water." Peter corrects him.
"Yes, of course. Water. I was born on Star Haven." He infirms the two of them. "You know it?"
"Haven't left earth." Peter informs him trying to find a way out of the cell.
"I have. My father took me there when I was younger." Kara tells them. "It was beautiful. The air smelled like cinnamon."
"It did, didn't it?" The Professor asks her. "After a strong storm season, one of my wives fell ill. The healing expenses were too much. And so a simple man entered the complicated world of interplanetary drug smuggling. Caught on my first run and sentenced by the queen to eighteen years in Fort Rozz."
"I suppose you hate her like all the others." Kara guesses.
"I did." He asmits. "At first. But over time, I understood. One tragedy cannot be undone by committing another. So when I crashed on earth, I sought only to lead a good life. Became a professor,and taught the only I knew better than anyone else. The stars."
"My mother always talked to me about the stars." Peter admits, and thinks back to his family while sessions for a way out.
"I'm gonna get us out of here." Kara promises when Peter's senses go off as the Master Jailer has returned.
"Justice has finally come for your friend. Pray it hasn't come for the two of you." He tells them.
"Why don't you lose the mask?" Kara asks him. "You're not as scary as you think." She infirms him and he does as she asks.
"I've been watching the two of you for some time, Prince Ho-Ren, and Kara Zoe-El. Your families would be proud you've chosen this life. Delivering punishment to those who sin." Jailer tells them.
"We're sorry that's what you think we've been doing." Kara states.
"We could be colleagues." He replies. "Your families dealt out true justice against the scum of the galaxy. Fort Rozz was the paradise of Alura's design. And I'm carrying on her work."
"All you've been doing is dishonoring their memories." Peter states.
"What I've done is protect this city. This world. Humans understand little of justice. Justice must be absolute." He tells them and opens the professors cell. "Poisoner 2445, judgment is upon you."
Peter's senses then go off, revealing the arrival of the DEO. The ceiling of the craft explodes open and several agents come in and start fighting off the Master Jailer when Alex shoots the roof which causes some of the earth's son to hit Kara gaining her powers back. She breaks out and fights with the Master Jailer herself.
"Sorry I was late." Alex apologized to them.
"Right on time." Kara tells her.
"Excuse me, You've got a caged spider that'd like to be set free." Peter interrupts them.
"Hang on, I got you." Kara says and rips the cell apart.
"Pardon me, what's going to happen to me now?" The Professor asked them.
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Kara dropped him off at the university, before returning to the DEO and Kara talks to Alex about letting Maxwell Lord go. It wasn't easy and they've threatened that if he tells the world about their organization, he goes to prison for life on what they have on him.
If they go down, he goes down.
And when Kara tried asking her mothers hologram about the Myriad and it threatened to self destruct if they continued to ask.
"What could be so bad that even the holo-deck doesn't want to talk about?" Peter wonders, fearing the worst might be coming.
"Seeing that hologram used to remind me of my mom. And now all I can think of is Astra." Kara tells him.
"Yeah, I've been meaning to talk to you about that." Peter tells her. "Look, Kara, I know what you're doing. Drowning yourself in work, trying to not talk about it, avoiding the conversation. It doesn't help. Take it from someone who's already been there and done it. It doesn't get rid of the pain, but it pushes the people you care about away. It makes you loose the chance to go back to your friends, and anyone who still cares about you."
"What do you want me to do? I lost a family member, have you ever needed to kill someone close to you?" Kara questions him.
"Yes." Peter admits that surprised Kara. "His name was Ned Leeds. We were so close that we were basically brothers. Then one day, something inside of him snapped. I don't know how, or why...but he went rogue. Took a handful of our equipment, and terrorized the city. I tried talking him out of causing more harm, but it was no use. At the end of the day, I had to kill my best friend." He explains to her and tears form him her eyes. "To this day...I haven't forgiven myself for allowing him to turn evil. Then he seemed to have came back as Venom. So when I stoped Venom, it was like loosing my best friend all over again."
Kara doesn't know what to say and hugs her friend. Leaving it silent until Peter finishes.
"Then all I did wa asked Hank about my next assignment, my next mission, next alien, next prisoner. By the time I calmed down afterward, it was too late for me to be anything other than Spider-Man. It's the only thing I've got left other than Gwen." Peter explains to her.
"You've got me also." Kara reminds him. "I'm your super friend, I'll be there for you as much as you've been there for me." She promises him.