These Children of Liberty's attacks are becoming more frequent and more dangerous.
Peter and Kara just stopped a hostage situation with Manchester helping out.
"So what did you and your partners want with the fission rods?" Kara asks the Child of Liberty they caught.
"Tell them what you told me." Manchester tells him.
"I don't know anything." He quickly lies.
"Lie." Peter says, monitoring his heart rate.
"Look, you're getting in the back of a police car anyway so just tell us the truth." Kara tells him.
"I swear I don't know any more. I said I wanted to help and they gave me two options. Head up here and steal some fission rods, or hang out waiting for some cargo shipment." He says and the police take him away
"What cargo shipment would they be waiting for?" Peter wonders as he and Kara start leaving.
"Hey, partners. Wait up." Manchester tells them and catches up with them.
"Look, we appreciate what you're doing, but we can take it from here." Kara tells him.
"Meh, give or take." Peter admits his feelings to the guy. He both has and doesn't have a problem with this guy.
"Look, Agent Liberty took everything from me." Manchester tells them. "I will do anything to see him brought to justice. Anything. Just let me help. I'm resourceful. I tracked them here, didn't I?"
"I'll call you if we find anything." Kara promises and they fly off.
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They return to the DEO where Alex shows them that Ben Lockwood now has his own show called the Lockdown and he's talking about how 'peaceful' protesters were attacked on Thanksgiving and are now missing. Not only that, but are now blaming Supergirl for saving people and Spider-Man for siding with her.
"When this is over, I wanna punch him. I don't care if it's Spider-Man or Peter Parker who does it." Peter tells her.
"I might just help you." Kara says when she gets a call from J'onn and he says Manchester found out about the cargo shipment.
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They met up with Manchester in a cargo shipment and find a shipment from DISL.
"I nicked the logs from the shipyard foreman, did a little cross referencing and found our prize." Manchester says and punches the doors. "So shall we see what's behind door number one?"
Peter blows the lock off and Kara opens it to see nothing.
"It's empty. And freezing." Kara says.
"Whatever was shipped in here was kept at sub-zero." Peter tells them as his suit does a scan for any trace of materials or leackage to lead to what could've been in here.
"Now gone without a trace." Manchester says when Peter spots something underneath.
"Skirt, life the container, please." Peter asks of her and as she does, somebody tries running and Manchester stops him.
Peter looks at the thing Kara found underneath it.
"It looks like part of a shipping label." Kara says and Peter stops Manchester from beating the supervisor.
"He must know where the shipment must've gone." Manchester says when the man runs off.
"We don't hurt innocent people. What is wrong with you?" Kara wonders.
"Okay, look, sorry. Sometimes I just get a little...I had a rough couple of months." Manchester tells them.
"Yeah, well, maybe you should take a few more and cool down." Kara tells him.
"I said I was sorry." Manchester tells her.
"This was a mistake." Kara says and flies off.
"Sorry." Peter apologizes and flies after her.
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Peter runs to the DEO and has a chat with Brainy about the shipping label before going to Kara's place and sees she's stress cooking.
"Oh, boy. It's one of those times." Peter sees.
"What times?" Kara asks.
"Where you try to calm yourself by cooking and accidentally burn everything." Peter tells her.
"It's accumulating flavors." Kara corrects him.
"Well, I have some news. Not exactly good news. Brainy's still searching for the shipping label origins, and they found the Children of Liberty that went missing. They're dead." Peter informs her.
"What?" Asked Kara.
"Yeah, it was brutal. Busted skulls, broken jaws, and if that wasn't enough, gunshots." Peter tells her.
Kara thinks for a minute about what happened earlier. "You think brass knuckles could cause that much damage?"
Peter thinks for a minute and understands where she's going. "You don't think it was Manchester, don't ya?" He asks her when there's a knock and they see J'onn come in with a hat straight from a '80s detective movie.
"I thought you guys might be reheating, so I brought wings." J'onn says.
"Thank goodness." Peter whispers as he takes the wings from him. "No offense on your cooking, Skirt."
"Offense taken." Kara tells him.
"Love you, too." Peter smiles and pecks her cheek before taking the bag to the couch.
"I saw Manchester at the bar when I was grabbing dinner. He wanted me to tell you how sorry he was." J'onn tells Kara.
"J'onn, you told me Manchester was on the path of peace, like you." Kara asks him, hoping he could help.
"We share a similar struggle, yeah. So I understand how much he wants to feel like he's doing something. And how hard it is for him to resist his more violent urges." J'onn tells her.
"You don't think he's capable of killing five Children of Liberty, do you?"
"He is angry. But under the anger is a lot of pain. Fiona's death just rocked him. Manchester has a good heart. I'm not ready to give up on him just yet. I mean, he's been on our side every step of the fight. He's resourceful and stubborn. And if he wants something he'll go after it. He could be useful." J'onn says.
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Kara went to make things right with Manchester and Peter went to see what they found at the DEO.
"Brian, did you get anything on the contents of the container?" Peter asks him as he approaches the monitors.
"The label itself was too destroyed to interpret. But I found the residue of it to be 80% glue and 9.37% ink. The rest is Nalcyite." Brainy says.
"Table salt?" Peter asks.
"Nalcian table salt, however on earth it could be quite volatile." Brainy corrects him. "Under the right conditions, it has an explosive factor of 8,000 joules per gram, the same of a tiny precise nuclear explosion."
"I'll tell Skirt." Peter says and gets his phone out and fills her in.
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"Thanks for the heads up, call me with any updates." Kara says after Peter filled her in and turns to Manchester. "I have to get back to the DEO."
"Wait, they're already doing their part, looking for the bomb. So maybe you and I can crack something here." Manchester says nodding to the work he's been doing himself. "You told your friend to call if he finds anything else. Right?"
"Right. Okay." Kara agrees.
After a while of searching, Manchester has a thought.
"I keep coming across this problem. The container was empty when we got to it, which means they had to get rid of the cargo somewhere. But the logs say the shipment just arrived. They didn't have time to unload there or to make land at any other docks."
A thought comes to Kara. "At least not on the mainland. They had to have stopped at an island. That's the only way. The missing alien fission rods...they're on Shelly Island."
"That's where Fi came through." Manchester says. "I thought it was recently defunct."
"It was, but it runs on alien fission rods, just like the ones that were stolen." Kara tells him.
"They're turning the island back on." Manchester says.
"I have to alert the others." Kara says and gets up.
"Wait. Hey, if this is their home base, and they're planning something, Agent Liberty will be there."
"Which is why we need backup."
"No, it's why we need to be smart." Manchester tells her. "A guy like that will be able to spot someone like Spider-Man or the DEO a mile away. If we go in blazing, they'll hit the trigger or worse. We need to sneak in. You know, your way."
Kara thinks about it and sees it might be a smart move if done correctly.
"But there are power-dampening pylons on the island. We have to be careful. But luckily. I come prepared." Kara says and shows a yellow sun grenade. "It boosts my powers. Think of it like a multivitamin."
Manchester takes a look at it and hands it back to her.
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The two fly to the island and see it's abandoned.
"It's beautiful." Manchester says looking at the alien Statue of Liberty hand that was made.
"You should've seen it when it was fully operational." Kara tells him as they make it through the power dampeners.
Kara throws the grenade, but it doesn't go off and she feels weaker.
Suddenly, there surrounded by children of Liberty and Manchester shows he took something from the grenade to stop it from going off.
Kara tries to get away, but ends up getting wrapped up in chains as she gets weakened.
Now she wishes she at least told someone where she was going.
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Night falls and James is being forced to give a motivational speech to the people to encourage more Children of Liberty as Kara is tied inside the statue they plan on destroying.
"And you're sure there's no one in that monument?" James asks.
"Cross my heart." One of the Children promises, lying through his teeth. "Now stand in front of the detonator and say cheese."
Kara was able to use the minimum of her powers to escape the chains and sees the entire place is going to get destroyed and crumble on top of her.
She tries flying out and sees it's useless but is able to use her strength to copy Peter's climbing abilities and reaches the window where she sees James at the waterfront about to destroy the place.
"My name is James Olsen. And I believe in the Children of Liberty, and everything they stand for. Only humans belong on earth." James reads what they tell him to say and get ready to detonate and Kara tries to call out and sees it's useless.
James was about to pull the trigger when music starts playing all around the place.
"What is that?" James asks.
"It's called Elevate." Someone says and they look to one of their men who is holding his head down and raises it to reveal Spider-Man.
"Surprise, Children! Go ahead, raise your guns at me if it calms you." He offers and all of them do raise their guns to him. "Typical."
As the music keeps playing, Morg'Ann comes charging in and throws her shield at several of the children as James gets his helmet on and shield out as Spider-Ghost comes swinging in.
Peter takes a note about her powers working even with the dampeners. Suddenly, his senses go off and he hears a countdown. He looks to the monument and sees the tracker he placed on Supergirl is coming from there.
Working fast, he uses an EMP to shut down the dampeners and Kara flies out with the bomb and throws it into the air.
She flies back down to the ground where the others are waiting.
"How'd you know I was in trouble?" Kara asks Peter.
"I...may and or may not have placed tracking devices on both of your person." Peter confesses to James and Kara.
"What?" James asks.
"I don't track you guys 24/7, but when I can't contact you guys after several hours, I start to get worried." Peter tells them. "And when I saw you both on Shelly Island, I had my suspicions."
"Well, it's a good thing you got here when you did." Kara says, but now she wonders exactly where he placed the tracking device on her.
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Manchester found out who Agent Liberty is and was on his way to find him when J'onn ran into him and he did something to him to make him feel his pain he's feeling.
