They tried to find Manchester by looking for something personal of his at his place.
Kara was able to find his brass knuckles for J'onn to use.
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At the DEO, they're interrogating all the Children of Liberty that they caught on the island and they're all saying the same thing: I am Agent Liberty.
"We offer plea deals, we tell them we're gonna lock them up, and they just keep saying the same thing." Alex says.
"Doing a Spartacus." Brainy says. "By witch the Children of Liberty all claim to be their hero."
"You're watching the classics?" Kara asks.
"I'm mastering them." Brainy says. "Would you like to discuss auteur theory and the works of Ed Wood?"
"Yeah, definitely." Kara says.
"Guys?" Peter interrupts them. "Another time. Any leads from CatCo?"
"No. But we're getting close. I can feel it in my gut." Kara says.
"Could be a probiotic issue." Brainy says. "But I do concur. Agent Liberty's presence is still a threat, even...even without..what is it?" He asks as he sees Kara staring at one of the Agent Liberty photos.
"Nia Nal saw that picture this morning and freaked out." Kara explains. "She said it reminded her of a nightmare or something."
"Nightmare? And you-you just let her go?" Brainy asks.
"Brainy, what are you thinking?" Morg'Ann asks him.
"There's no version of me telling you what I know that does not impact the space time continuum." Brainy says and starts walking away.
"Wait, you know about Nia in the 31st Century?" Alex asks and he remains quiet. "Who is she?"
"Better we don't discuss that. Future abrogation, the butterfly effect, causal looks, etc, etc. why do you think I kept this from you at Thanksgiving when I so easily, yet expertly, deduced her import?" Brainy asks. "All you need to know is that Nia Nal might be able to lead us to Agent Liberty. We must go at once."
"Okay, she's a little freaked out right now, so maybe let me break the ice." Kara asks him.
"Just go see Nia and report what you find." Alex tells them as they go.
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Kara heads to her place first with Peter and Brainy waiting for the word.
"My family is from...far away." Nia tells Kara.
"It's okay." Kara promises.
"They're from a planet called Naltor." Nia says.
"Wow...You know, you could have told me, right? I know it's not the best time to broadcast you're an alien, but..."
"I know myself really, really well. Always have. But once in a generation, some of our women get this genetic oneiromancy. They can dream the future." Nia explains to her. "My dreams aren't like you think. I can't control what I see. Most of the time, I don't even know what's going on in my dreams, and what I do it's terrifying. Last time I saw Agent Liberty about to murder a woman."
"Did you recognize her? Do you know when he's going to do it or where?"
"That's what I'm trying to tell you. If I could help, I would, but I can't."
"What if I told you I know someone who could help?" Kara offers.
"I would welcome the help."
"Great." Kara says and looks to the door. "You guys can come in now."
Peter and Brainy enter.
"Brainy?" Nia asks.
"Hey, girl." Brainy greets and puts his hand on the counter and ended up sliding down and falls flat on the floor.
"That was embarrassing." Peter says.
"I'm okay." Brainy promises.
Brainy explains that Nia can see the future with her dreams.
They sent her into her dreams and she saw a loading hook, someone she can't make out but she seemed afraid, Agent Liberty pointing a gun at the woman. That was all she saw and learned where they need to go.
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Collinwood high school.
"Welcome to Collinwood." Nia says.
"It doesn't seem so bad." Kara comments.
"What could go wrong?" Brainy asks and Peter's senses indicate there are Children of Liberty.
"Brainy, that is one question in the 21st century you never ask." Peter tells him as they keep walking.
"In retrospect, it makes sense that more than one person would have run the Collinwood 5K." Brainy says.
"Do you recognize anything?" Kara asks Nia.
"No. All I saw was the woman, shadow, and hook." Nia says as a dog starts barking at them. "Do you think we should be looking for some kind of construction site?"
"No. What you saw were probably symbols. Jungian, Freudian. Where I'm from, we call them Frungian." Brainy tells them.
"Maybe a warehouse?" Peter offers as his senses are continuing to warn him of everyone around them. "Okay, my senses really don't like a lot of the people here."
"Not unexpected." Brainy says. "My scan regional data revealed Collinwood as an early center for anti-alien activity."
"It does feel a little Purge-y." Nia comments.
"James DeMonaco, 2013." Brainy says.
"I never understood that movie." Peter tells them. "Everyone made it seem like it was really gonna happen, it was ridiculous."
"I thought you were just watching the classics." Kara tells him.
"And?" Brainy asks.
"Okay, guys, there are people and they have an alien sniffing dog, they've been following us." Peter says as he notices the people still with them since they arrived.
"Who? Where?" Brainy asks and spins around before pointing to them. "Them?"
"No! Stop it!" Kara says and spins him back around.
"I have an idea. You guys aren't going to like it." Peter tells them.
"Why?" They ask him.
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It was a stupid idea, but it worked.
Kara, Nia and Brainy were kidnapped and taken to their base and Nia had a quick vision of them raising a gun to them when Peter came in flying and used his holo-shield to stop the bullet.
"You should put your gun down before you hurt someone." Peter warns him and sends a taser Web to take the people down at once. "Told ya it'd work."
"Yeah, Yeah." Kara comments as they get out of the chains. "Next time you can be the damsel in distress."
"Hey, I needed to get the suit on without anybody noticing. I almost had my identity released once, I'm not letting that happen again." Peter says.
"Only one problem. Our only leads are now unconscious." Brainy says when Kara notices something in the dirt.
Lockwood f-mily st- -el
"Lockwood family steel? Peter questions.
"Could Ben Lockwood be..?" Kara wonders.
"Phone, please." Brainy asks and Kara hands it to him and Brainy does his thing. "Ben Lockwood's family company, Lockwood Family Steel, went bankrupt during the terraforming events which destroyed this factory and killed Ben's father."
"I'm gonna get help." Kara says and takes her phone to call Alex and told her what they found and who Agent Liberty might be.
Alex tries using the name on one of the Children they have and they confirmed it.
Peter flew off and got his address and landed outside his place only to see the doorway to the basement open and nobody inside.
Doing a scan, he sees nobody there but finds blood matching Manchester's from the database he has.
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"Supergirl." J'onn contacts Kara at the factory. "Manchester's on a warpath. I couldn't see for certain, but I think he's with Agent Liberty."
"Peter, you get that?" Kara asks.
"Following the blood trail, but it seems to be leading back to you." Peter warns them.
Nia looks around the factory and recognized it from her dreams.
"Nia Nal, you contain greatness. I can't tell you how I know, but we can stop this." Brainy comforts her. "You can stop this."
"I can stop this." Nia repeats and has another vision of what's about to happen.
They hear Manchester yelling and Kara flies at him and tackles him with her suit on.
"I came here to stop him. Don't make me stop you." Kara warns Manchester.
"Is this the part where you tell me violence won't change anything?" Manchester guesses and tosses her a grenade of moon dust that exploded in her face.
"If you kill him, what does that make you?" Kara asks.
"The intolerant left." Manchester says.
"If we want to win this, we have to be better." Kara tells him, just trying to buy Peter some time to get here. "Let me take him to prison, show people who he really is."
"Don't be daft! Those people hate you! You can put on a cape, suit, a shield, say you're a superhero, but to him and others like him you'll only ever be an alien." Manchester says and pulls out a taser. "A roach!"
Suddenly, he gets hit by a shield and it knocks the staff out of his hands. They look towards the entrance and see Spider-Ghost and Miss America.
"Spidey called, said you might need the help." Morg'Ann tells her.
They look and see Lockwood is gone and they all start looking for him.
With Nia and Brainy, she gets another vision and an idea.
Manchester was the first to find Lockwood and Linda, his wife, and was about to kill her when Brainy and Nia throw the crane at Manchester.
"Hook." Nia says.
"Spielberg, 1991." Brainy says back.
Lockwood tries to escape when both exits get blocked off by Spider-Ghost and Captain America who handcuffed Manchester.
"It's over, put the gun down." Gwenyth tells him.
Lockwood gets ready to fight them off when Kara and Peter fly off from of his left and right sides and keep him surrounded.
-
The police come and arrest both Manchester and Lockwood.
"Think it's over?" Kara asks Peter.
"No, what he started isn't over. But it's a start to cleaning up his gigantic mess." Peter says.
"At least they'll see what he really is now." Kara says as Lockwood is brought to the police.
"He's not a movement, he's a butcher." Gwenyth comments. "And now he'll finally pay for it."
Then the press ash Lockwood for a comment.
"I don't know, look at my face. Look what they did to me. No, I wore that mask to protect me and my family because there are lines who don't like to hear what I believe, don't like to hear the truth, so I'm cards up. What about all of those freaks?! You know who I am. Who are they?" Lockwood asks as they take him away.
"It's a shame we didn't get to punch him." Peter says, kinda upset. "But I'm happy someone did." Even if it was Manchester.
-
Peter and Kara return to the DEO where they have a surprised visitor.
"General Lane?" Kara asks.
"Hello, Supergirl, Spider-Man." Lane greets them.
"Been a while since we've seen ya round here." Peter comments when Lane shows them the paper.
"Humans rights activist Imprisoned. Their words not mine." Lane says.
"Human rights?" Peter asks.
"Yeah, a lot of people, lot of diners are asking how can we tolerate this in a government that is supposed to be for the people." Lane says and faces Alex.
"That meant to say that aliens aren't?" Kara asks.
"Aren't what?" Lane asks.
"People." Peter says, getting annoyed with this guy.
"Of course not. But you two, employees of the government. And as such we need to make sure we're swerving all of the people of this country, not just the ones we agree with. Which is why for reasons of National security, for now on, the DEO will require full transparency from us assets. We need your identidies." Lane tells them.
"No." Alex interrupts. "We keep them off the books for that reason, Spider-Man's identity was almost compromised and everyone went mad. They can't tell you their identities."
"Lockwood just shined a huge spotlight on the fact that you are withholding who the four of your assets are." Lane says. "Keeping that secret inflames things. Gives the public more reasons to distrust the government."
"It also keeps everyone we know and have ever been in contact with safe." Peter tells him.
"No one should be above the rest. We put country first." Lane tells them.
Everyone looks at the two and they're not giving their identities.
"Then, I thank you for your services, but you're dismissed, effective immediately." Lane tells them. "The United States doesn't want a war with its heroes."
"As we trust that you won't start one on us." Peter states with anger fueling his hatred for this man as he leaves.
"Just give me time, I'll talk to the president, they can't do this." Alex says and the two aren't as optimistic of their chances and they leave.
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Earth-90
The Monitor has just recollected his Book of Destiny after testing this world and it's heroes and they've failed him.
This universes Barry Allen crawled towards him and the book as he picks it up.
"You've failed." Monitor tells Barry.
"Why are you doing this?" Barry asks him.
"You did this to yourself. And now all of you will perish." Monitor says as he reopens the book and Barry speeds off.