At the DEO, Hank doesn't understand what's going on, but has to stay hidden after all of the agents turned against him.
The agents make their way to the basement to the prisoners to unleash them for Non. Now that there's nobody that can stop them.
"I am Maxima, Queen of the planet Almerac." One prisoner tells them. "Open this doorand you'll find out what that means." She dares and to her surprise they do just that and she attacks two agents before the last explains that Myriad has begun, and that's all Hank needed to know before continuing to make his way out to call for Kara or Peter to help him stop them all from escaping and stopping them from allowing all the prisoners to escape .
Maxima was making her way to the control room when she gets attacked by Kara's freeze breath.
"Early parole is canceled." Kara tells them as Hank is at the computers to stop the release and Peter comes flying in.
"Don't hurt them badly, they're under Myriad's control." Hank tells them as Kara and Maxima begin fighting and Peter uses his repulsers on tranq mode and knocks out the agents in the DEO.
"We could have been family, Kara Zor-El." Maxima tells her. "I once sought to make your cousin my mate." She states from above Kara when Peter sets his repulsers to maximum and sends her flying into the wall.
"That's gross." Kara states to what she said about her cousin and mating.
"Yeah, tell me about it. She tried doing the same for me once when I caught her." Peter tells Kara and helps her up.
"I was able to stop the countdown. They won't be going anywhere soon." Hank informs them.
"Okay, we have to get somewhere secure, and off the grid. Where can we go?" Peter asks them.
"Solitude." Kara suggests.
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The three of them all fly to the arctic circle to Clark's fortress of solitude.
"I wonder why the Big Man never mentioned this place before." Peter wonders while removing his mask.
"Maybe you never asked." J'onn replies in his Martian look.
"Good point." Peter replies.
"Kelex?" Kara calls out for the robot who comes flying in.
"How may I assist, lady Kara?" The robot asks them.
"Where's Kal-El? I can't find him on earth," Kara asks the robot.
"He is attending to a matter off-world." Kelex informs her.
"Kelex, I need you to tell us about Myriad." Kara asks him.
"Warning this construct is not authorized to discuss Myriad." Kelex warns them.
"Even to the prince of Krypton?" J'onn asks and looks to Peter who walks close to the robot.
"I am Ho-Ren, of the House of Ren. As the surviving leader of Krypton, I order you to tell us about Myriad." Peter commands the robot and he flies away. "Well, it was worth a shot." He states looking back at the two when a hologram appears behind him.
"My son." The voice says and Peter looks to see the same hologram from the message of his father.
"Dad? How are you talking?" Peter asks him.
"I have placed a holographic projectile of my consciousness into your pod and paced it inside the droid sent to aid the House of El. Now, Myriad was developed by Astra, of the House of El. It was created to prevent the planet's imminent destruction. We had strangled the planet's resources beyond recovery. The politicians argued, but could not agree on what to do. So that's why me and the House of El developed the pods in order to send you all to earth. But before that, Astra decided to create her own solution. Myriad. Technology that would force everyone on all of Krypton to do as she said. Including the House of Ren." Al explains to them.
"Mind control." J'onn puts together.
"When they were caught attempting to use the Myriad against the people of Argo City, Astra and Non were arrested and banished to Fort Rozz." Al finishes.
"This was their plan all along." Peter realizes. "Trying to use Myriad on Earth."
"To save it." Kara finishes. "But why is everyone afraid to talk about it?" She asks the dead king.
"Myriad could be used to bring down entire planets with one single flick of a button. If this got out into the universe of its existence, there would be chaos. It was best to be left forgotten." Al explains to Kara.
"Is there a way to stop it?" Peter asks Al.
"Myriad will not be stoped easily." Al explains to him. "But it isn't impossible, my son. We...did not tell you the complete truth in your first message. We once told you you were genetically altered, but it was your mind we altered. We placed a mental blockade to prevent you from being controlled. Your powers came from your mother, for she wasn't born on Krypton. She originated from Earth."
"How'd she end up on Krypton?" Kara wonders.
"A story for another time. If Myriad has been released on earth, you need to stop it as fast as possible, you just to tap into your encoded powers." Al tells Peter.
"Well, that's vague." Peter states.
"That's all the help I can give to you." Al finishes and they know they're on their own now as the hologram shuts down.
"That explains why I couldn't read your mind and why your powers are different from theirs. Because your biology is completely different." J'onn realizes.
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Kara and Peter flies to Catco to try to get through to anyone as Hank goes to the DEO to see if he could free Alex or Gwen from their min control, but they learn they're doing something to do with Kryptonian from the computers. But what surprises her when she sees tha Cat Grant hasn't been turned like the rest of them.
And she hasn't even noticed what happened.
"I'm sorry. How could you not notice they're acting like mindless drones?" Peter asks looking around the room.
"Everyone in the city is being affected by this alien signal. They're acting like automatons." Kara explains and that's when Cat looks around the room to see they're telling the truth.
"They are a bit more quiet than usual. Maybe my reign of terror has finally reached its leaped effectiveness." Cat tells them when Peter's mask gets a message along with Kara and they see it's from Clark.
"Oh, the two of you do have cell phones. Could I get those numbers?" Cat asks them.
"He's here." Kara says and they run to the balcony where they see Clark flying in but then he immediately flies to the ground.
"Damn it!" Peter yells, seeing it's also affected Clark. "Myriad has Superman." He states wanting to rip his hair out.
"If it's affecting Superman, are any of us safe?" Cat asks them.
"Well, I many not be Superman, but..." the voice of Maxwell Lord tells them and they look to face him. "I do have my moments."
"Is the universe playing some elaborate joke on us?" Peter wonders since it seems to be the strangest collision of survivors.
"Do Kryptonians gloat?" Max asks them. "Because I'll bet wherever he is, Uncle Non is feeling pretty good about himself."
"Why am I not surprised that your brain is intact, Maxwell?" Cat wonders.
"Maybe it's because he has no mind to control." Peter guesses.
"Happy to see you too, Spider-Man. You look lovely today, Cat, considering the end is nigh." Max tells them.
"Why aren't you being affected?" Kara asks him.
"Ion blockers. I realized the kryptonians were using my LET interface system. That's why they broke into my lab when Spider-Man and you stopped them. They're using my satellites to send neural signals directly into the minds of everyone in National City." Max explains and shows the devices behind his ears. "They scramble the signal before they reach my brain."
"Clearly not everyone needs this ear-wig thingy," Cat tells him, "because I don't have one and my brain is perfectly intact."
"Actually, my scanners are picking up technology in your ears." Peter informs her and Cat feels the earrings she's wearing.
"You're wearing the earrings I sent you last night." Max tells her.
"Ion blockers in the diamonds." Cat realizes. "So many karats and so functional."
"Okay, we may be the only five unaffected." Peter tells Kara. "We need to find a way to get them out of this."
"Remember what Al told you about the power being in you." Kara reminds him.
"Yeah, because that's not hard to understand." Peter replied sarcastically. "But if that's so, why did it affect Superman?" He asks Maxwell.
"Nature versus nurture. He may be an alien, but he grew up on Earth." Maxwell explains to him. "Seems like environmental factors, being raised by ordinary people, made his brain more human. The man of steel brought to his knees because he went to kindergarten and watched Sesame Street."
"There has to be a way to stop them. Don't you have a way of stopping the satellites?" Peter asks the man.
"I tried. But there's some sorta force field around it." Maxwell tells them.
"You're always 10 steps ahead, Max. I know you have a plan." Cat tells him and he does.
"Of course. We kill them all." Max tells him the plan.
"You mean the Kryptonians or humans?" Peter asks, knowing he could mean it both ways.
"Kryptonians, obviously." Max clarifies to him. "I'm not a monster."
"And how exactly do you plan on killing an army of Superman's?" Cat asks him.
"I'll tell you the plan when you're on board." Max promises, "Can't have these two trying to stop me."
"Killing is never the solution." Kara tells him.
"Except were way past villains of the week and kittens stuck in trees. We're at war. And the only way to win is to kill the enemy before they kill you. So, it's time to put on the big girl cape."
"Looks like someone made it past security." Cat says and they look to see Non coming in with Gwen next to him.
Peter quickly reacts and aims his kryptonite missile he has for emergencies like this.
"The son of Jor-El has already knelt before me. Soon the two of you will too." Non tells them.
"Or I can blast you right now. One Kryptonite missile to destroy them all." Peter states to him.
"I don't want to fight you." Non explains.
"Afraid to loose?" Kara asks him.
"You've already lost. Accept it and the glorious fulfillment of Astra's vision. In the end, she defeated you." Non replies to them.
"This doesn't look like victory to me." Kara states looking around to everyone who's still facing their computers. "And all you're doing is betraying her. I was with Astra in her final moments. We forgave each other, we paid respect to our blood bonds. She didn't want this."
"Of course she did. It's what everyone wants, isn't it?" Non asks.
"To be controlled?" Peter asks, waiting for him to get to the point before he blasts him.
"Peace on earth, goodwill towards men." Non states.
"It's a lot less like Christmas out there and more like Dawn of the Dead." Cat informs Non.
"The human race finally has a chance to live. Or it would suffer the same fate as Krypton. And the same thing is happening on Earth, with a populace more interested in reality stars and political circuses than working together to solve the world's problems." Non tells them
"So mind control is the answer to global warming?" Max clarifies to Non. "Why didn't I think of that?" He asks sarcastically.
"Thanks to Myriad, there are no more racial divisions, no republicans, no democrats. Only one people, working with one purpose towards one goal. To save the world." Non states.
"All you've done is ensaleved the people we care about." Peter states while circling with Non, keeping him in range of his missile. He only has one shot with this, and needs to make it count.
"Humanity is better than this." Kara tells him. "If you really wanted this planet to avoid the fate of Krypton, then work with us."
"With these people?" Non asks, looking at Peter, Cat and Max. "These are the best of your world and all they do is help the populace amuse themselves to death." He states.
"You've already turned us into drones." Gwen tells them and they're shocked to hear her talk.
"Your inventions have drowned out sense and turned it into nonsense." James says as he walks into the room.
"But now everyone is united," Winn tells them from his computer, "everyone's creativity and thought dedicated to eradicating famine, disease, climate change."
"You're harvesting their brain power of everyone in the city to solve the world's problems? National City is a giant think tank?" Max asks him.
"This is not the way to solve the world's problems." Kara states.
"Your heroics have done nothing to help save this world." Gwen tells her. "With Myriad, no secrets are being held, no lies." She states and confuses Peter.
"You never knew why me. Stacy was interested in you, did you?" Non asks Peter. "She was asked to watch you, document you, repot you. She never had any true feelings for you." He states.
Peter retracts his mask, not caring who sees his face anymore. "You don't know her. You just have control of her mind." He states, not wanting to believe him.
"Let them go." Kara tells Non, referring to her friends and Gwen.
"I've have lived with loss. Allow me to return the favor." Non says as Winn, James, and Gwen start walking onto the balconies.
"What are you doing to them?" Peter asks and places his mask back on.
"Non has ended crime in National City in one day. One second." Winn tells them.
"Which is more than the two of you have done in the span of ten years." James tells them.
The three of them then stand on the railing and look back at the heroes. "Catch." Gwen says and the three of them drop.
Kara and Peter race after them, not caring about Non anymore and fly to save their friends.
Kara files fast and catches Winn and James while Peter shoots a web at Gwen and pulls himself toward her fast and activates his arms to cushion the fall and they roll down the ground.
"Everyone you know, love and care for will die. Accept defeat." Gwen tells Peter.
"I don't know if what he said about you spying on he was true, but I know you Gwen. And you know me." Peter states and removes his mask to look her in the eyes. "I love you. And I can't save the world without you. You're the only one that I have left to care about." He states to her and places his head against hers as tears form in his eyes and a spark of electricity flows through his head onto Gwen and she gasps for air.
"Yes!" Gwen says, when she looks to see they're not on the bridge anymore. Peter just looks at her in shock that she was able to speak, and he found Non wanted her to say that. Gwen just looks up to him and Peter waits for her to say something else on her own. "Please tell me I didn't faint when you proposed?" She begs him when Peter just laughs and pulls her into a hug.
"You're not under his control anymore." Peter says, happy, but still confused to how she's free.
"I was under control?" Gwen asks, confused.
"I'll explain everything, but we need to join the others." Peter says and drags her inside Catco.
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"So your ability is like a virus?" Kara asks Peter.
"Apparently when I touched her head, it created a mental block so she can't be affected again." Peter explains while Gwen is waving her hands in front of Winn to try to see how he reacts.
"Well, we have a way of changing everyone back then. But we still need to stop an army of kryptonians." Max states and looks them. "You ready to do what needs to be done?"
"What's your plan?" Kara asks, as Peter is also on board.
"Before you and I sang Kumbaya and decided to be friends, I was working on a weapon to use against the Kryptonians. All of them." Max says, and looks directly at Peter.
"What is it?" Peter asks.
"A bomb. That's filled entirely of kryptonite dust." Max explains, and they know that won't affect Peter like it will the others. "It'll irradiate the entire city. Choke them all. Then if needed, we can use your mental block to stop Myriad." He says looking to Peter.
"Forgive me, but won't that kill Supergirl and Superman?" Cat asks.
"My question exactly." Peter states agreeing with her.
"Not if she flies up and detonates it over the city center." Max explains. "Then she and he skedaddle. She won't be able to return to National City for roughly 50 years, but that's a small price to pay to save the world, right?" He asks.
"What about the people?" Gwen asks the most daring questions. "Will anything happen to them?"
"The concussive force properly displace the kryptonite dust will result in some losses." Max admits to them.
"What exactly are we talking about losses?" Cat asks him.
"8% of the population." Max tells her.
"8% of four million people? That's over three hundred thousand people." Peter informs him.
"Versus the seven billion on the planet that Non wants to turn into zombies." Max tells him.
"If this spreads from National City, the planet will be on its knees. And I highly doubt Spider-Man wants to spend ten to fifteen years going literal head to head with everyone on earth." Gwen tells them.
"I won't let that happen." Max promises. "I swore to save this world. That's exactly what I'm going to do."
"What if we tell Non we have this weapon? Force him to see reason?" Kara asks.
"Tell that to Gwen, the office skydiver." Max says pointing to the tech girl.
"Hey, I don't even remember doing it." Gwen informs him. "Which I'm kinda thankful for." She mumbles to herself and looks over what they're all typing on the computers.
"Look, every second we waste, we risk the end of humanity. Time to save the world, heroes. Are you with me?" He asks them.
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Having a moment to themselves, Peter takes Gwen to the enclosed room to talk.
"Did you start talking to me when I first came to the DEO because you liked me, or because you were told to?" Peter asks her, hoping Non was lying.
"I knew it would have to be said sooner or later." Gwen admits and looks to him. "When you frist come to us, Hank asked me to make sure you were good enough to be a DEO Agent. What better way than to get to know you personally?" She states and that doesn't help Peter now.
He thought after everything, the one person he could always count on was Gwen. Now he doesn't know how to feel.
"But that was only for a little while. He asked me to stop when you became an agent. I stayed with you because I liked you. I loved you. You lost so many people in your life, and you always pushed forward to save others so they don't loose people like you." Gwen says as Peter drops onto a chair to aid in the new information.
"I need some time to think." Peter tells her.
"I understand." Gwen says, knowing she messed up by not telling him earlier when J'onn comes flying in to see them.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Peter asks him.
"It was for her to tell you." J'onn tells him. "And she was afraid of loosing you, so she didn't know how to tell you."
"I don't know what to think anymore." Peter states to him before walking out to find Kara to meet up with Max regarding the bomb.
J'onn looks to see Gwen and quickly changes into Hank to talk to her.
"You okay?" Hank asks Gwen.
"I messed up, Director." Gwen admits to him. "I should've told him when I had the chance."
"Peter will understand, he just has a lot on his plate as of now, you know he'll always come back to you." Hank tells her.
"He asked me to marry him not five minutes ago to me. He proposed, the next thing I know, I supposedly took a dive off a building." Gwen informs him and realizes something. "Wait, why isn't Myriad affecting you?"
Hank tries to come up with a good lie, but knows Gwen can keep a secret and it's about time she also knew. He quickly changes from Hank back to J'onn and Gwen looks surprised.
"I'm not Hank Henshaw, Gwen. My real name is J'onn J'onzz, the last Son of Mars." He introduces himself to Gwen.
"...you're a Martian?" Gwen asks, completely surprised.
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Cat, Peter and Kara go to Max's office to find him with the bomb.
"For the record, I seriously thought the two of us would be having a lot more fun during Armageddon." Max tells Cat.
"We're not here to talk about your bomb." Cat admits. "The heroes have a plan."
"Okay, amuse me. What's your plan?" Max asks them.
"Hope." Kara tells him.
"You know what? I'm gonna go with the plan that has the bomb and kills the bad guys instead." Max tells them.
"No bomb. Nobody is going to die." Peter tells him.
"You think I wanna do this?" Max asks him. "It's the only way to win."
"What are we winning?" Kara questions him. "Causing more chaos? More destruction? More lives lost?" Kara asks him. "You hated us for months and years, because you thought I'd use my power indiscriminately, kill people with no regard for their lives. That exactly the choice you're making using this bomb."
"You first feared me. Then Skirt. Now you're afraid of Non. We understand what fear can make us do. What we are willing to do to stop it. But we have to make better choices." Peter tells him.
It takes Max a minute before he goes in. "I'm listening." He tells them.
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They head to Cat's radio station to work on their plan.
"Will any of this equipment work?" Kara asks as they enter the place.
"Well, no reason why it shouldn't." Cat tells them.
"So, you fought us to your very first, very out of the way TV station so we can...dust off your daytime Emmy?" Max asks them.
"We are here to inspire. Show them a symbol. One of optimism, Love, and hope." Cat tells him. "A site so undeniable, that people will recognize it even under this spell."
"Where do we start?" Max asks and gets to work.
"Think you can do it?" Peter asks him.
We can't stop the Myriad signal, but we can piggyback off of it." Max tells him. "You're lucky this station is old. It's old enough to be using broadcast technology instead of digital. We can transmit a signal by calibrating If to Myriad frequency, without leaving any online fingerprints."
"Take that, Indigo." Kara states.
"It'll ride the wave without anyone knowing it." Peter finishes.
"Quick question. The earr, how did you know I would wear them?" Cat wonders.
"I didn't. I guess..I just had hope." Max admits to them when they hear something on the roof.
"I'll check it out." Kara says and leaves them.
Kara walks out and finds Alex wearing the Kryptonian-Slayer while still under Myriad control.
"I warned you trying to go against me." Non says through Alex. "I created your ultimate opponent. One that knows you're every weakness."
"I am not going to fight my sister." Kara states. "If you wanna fight me, come out and do it yourself. I'm not gonna hurt her."
"You have no choice." Alex tells her. "Kill Alex Danvers or let her kill you. Either way, you loose." She says and pulls out a kryptonite sword.
Kara is torn knowing she has to stop Alex, and can't let her get to the others. The two run at each other and Alex was able to cut her with the sword and starts blasting kryptonite at Kara.
Kara takes to the air and tries to fight off Alex from above when a web attaches itself to Alex. They both look to see that Peter is on the side of the building and is holding the webs on Alex's hands and sends a web grenade to wrap her up.
She starts breaking out of the webbing when Peter leaps down and retracts his mask.
"This is gonna look weird, Alex." Peter admits before placing his head against her's like Gwen and the same thing happens as a spark of lightning leaves his head to Alex's.
"Peter?" Alex asks and Peter sees its worked as she's free.