Kara has started training Nia to become a hero before her and Alex stoped by J'onn's new detective agency before getting word on a car crash by a meteor.
When they arrived, Peter was already there scanning everything.
"You guys should see this." Peter called them over. "NORAD misidentified this asteroid. It's a ship." He tells them and then leads them to a man who has a hole in his chest. "And whatever was inside the ship, ate his heart."
"Happy Valentine's Day." Alex mutters.
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They bring the body to the DEO for further investigations.
"It's like the creature extracted his heart perfectly. There's minimal tissue damage. No blood loss. It's like it cauterized itself." Alex comments.
"A sophisticated killing." Brainy says. "Much like it's ship, which presented as solid rock. Also, what's interesting is this creature's shed skin suggests it unsent some sort of metaphosis quickly after arrival. Which I do find comforting. I would much rather face that than anything snake-like, which I do have a deep phobia for. As any rational being would."
"You hate snakes?" Kara asks him.
"Yes. Much like the hero of the Spielberg epic, Raiders of the Lost Ark. a terrific picture." Brainy replies. "In any event, I analyzed the DNA from the creature's skin, and made a composite of what the beast might look like now."
Kara takes a look and sees Peter's not around. "Hey, has anyone seen Peter's been acting...off recently?"
"Not really." Alex replies.
"I haven't spotted any odd behavior myself." Brainy says and gets back to focus. "If my interpretation of the data is correct, thus is what we're looking for." He shows them a picture of a snake looking eel.
"What is it?" Kara asks.
"Unknown." Brainy answers.
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Kara is helping J'onn search for an missing person case as Peter is at the DEO waiting for something to happen.
Ever since the Monitor told him he was going to die in a Crisis, he's been jumpy, scared...afraid. Everything Peter hates to be.
The feelings make him feel vulnerable, meaning he may just die before the Crisis or get someone else killed before the Crisis.
That's when he looked and sees what Brainy is doing.
"Why are you looking up Valentine's Day gifts?" Peter questions.
"Today, Nia Nal invited me to attend a Valentine's Day party. She said, it's a date." Brainy tells him. "Yet, her intentions were unclear."
"That doesn't sound unclear." Peter replies.
"It never occurred to me that someone as amazing as Nia Nal would be interested in me." Brainy says.
"Yeah, I used to think the same about Skirt." Peter comments. "But regarding your case, I think the biggest question is what do you want?"
Brainy thinks for a moment and comes to his conclusion. "I want her to be my valentine."
"Then get her a gift that will express how you feel." Peter says with a smile.
"What a bold idea from a very bold person." Brainy says and what Kara said comes into his mind. "Kara Danvers has brought it up you've been acting strangely lately."
Peter looks confused. "I...haven't been acting strange. Look, can we get back to work?" He asks, wanting to get off the subject.
"Of course. I learned amongst the death themselves, ever piece of jewelry was taken." Brainy tells him what he could find. "I understand the car were the first victim was found was involved in a jewel heist. Those jewels were also taken."
"Maybe jams and metals are nutrition for the alien." Peter guesses.
"Or potentially the alien requires the jewels as a resource for its planet. In any event, it would suggest how this alien is choosing its victims. If it's traveling on foot, it will give us a radius and a profile of victims to search by." Brainy says.
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Kara and J'onn's investigations lead them to the same place as the next attack of the alien heart-eater.
Kara used her x-ray vision and found a secret hidden safe that has acid on it.
"Brainy, we could use you." Peter contacts him and hears music. "Wait, where are you?"
"I am at the party we discussed." Brainy tells him. "It was called for happy hour. And I have to yet conversed with the person we spoke about earlier. Also it might be difficult for me to extricate myself at the moment."
Peter sighs. "Okay, well, stay put. We'll come to you."
"Hurry." Brainy pleads.
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What they don't know is someone inside the White House is working on getting Ben Lockwood out of prison.
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The team made it to Nia's party and still can't seem to find Brainy.
Alex ran into a old girlfriend and the others found Brainy inside the closet.
Peter opened the door only for Brainy to close it in fear.
"Brainy, do you plan on coming out of the closet?" Peter asks him.
"I just escaped Yvette, Nia's roommate." Brainy tells him as he opens the door. "Apparently, every song is her jam. Do you have the samples?" Peter hands it to him from his suit. "This will take a few minutes." He then closes the doors again and they spot Nia walking around.
"You go talk, I'll stay with him." Peter says and Kara goes to talk to Nia.
Peter looks around and towards J'onn who looks at him suspiciously.
"You all right, Peter? You haven't been acting like yourself recently." J'onn tells him.
Peter sighs and leans against the wall, knowing he needs to tell someone. "I was told some...disturbing news. I don't know how long I got but...J'onn, I'm dying."
"What?" J'onn asks, shocked by this news.
"I don't know how much time I've got left, and I don't know exactly what will happen. But I don't think I can stop it. There's no cure, no treatment, nothing." Peter tells him, not exactly wanting to say that it was predicted by a Fifth Dimensional being who also said that a crisis was coming.
"Why didn't you tell any of us?" J'onn asks him.
"Because...we've got a lot on our plate at the moment, I don't need to add me to the pile. And you know how Skirt will get. She will stop at nothing until she finds some way to save me. I will tell her, but..." Peter says and doesn't know how to finish his thought.
"You don't want to burden her with your troubles." J'onn guesses, knowing Peter all too well.
"Yeah. And please...don't tell her." Peter asks J'onn. "I will tell her. I have to. I just...I don't know what to do. Should I distance myself, make the pain easier?"
"I would suggest the opposite." They hear Brainy from inside the closet when he opens the door. "Give her the most memorable memories so when you're gone, she will be able to remember you."
J'onn and Peter actually think that's some good advice and didn't know that he was listening in.
"There is no radiation signature. But I did find human DNA in the sample." Brainy tells them, getting into the real issue. "I found a match in CODIS. Pamela Ferrer. But according to NCPD, she's yet to be reported as missing."
"We have her address?" Peter asks.
"Is a Klamarian yellow?" Brainy asks.
"Think that means yes." J'onn guesses.
"Obviously." Brainy says. "Her home is a few blocks away."
"I'll get Skirt." Peter promises and walks off.
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On their way, they picked up Morg'Ann and Gwenyth to help.
"I'm Pamela Ferrer. Is there a problem?" She asks as the enter her home.
"There is very much a problem." Brainy says and kicks the girl down. "Her DNA was commingled with the alien venom we found. They were linked. Mandating contact. She should not be alive, let alone unharmed. With Valentine's Day, I must've been more preoccupied than I thought. Because the only logical conclusion is that snake didn't morph into that creature, but merged with the woman.'"
"The alien is another symbiote?" Peter asks, not wanting another Venom on their hands.
"I am 98.9% certain that she is the beast we're looking for." Brainy says.
Peter's senses go off as the woman gets up and kicks Peter across the room.
"Make that 100%." Brainy corrects.
"Pamela, we just want to help." Morg'Ann promises but keeps her shield up for safety.
"There is something inside you making you do this." J'onn tells her. "If you try to fight it..."
"Fight it?" Pamela asks. "Why would I fight it? This is the most powerful I have ever felt. I am not Pamela. We are Menagerie." She says as the parasite leaves her shoulder and looks like a mix of a snake, the picture Brainy showed and a cockroach.
Gwenyth dodges as a bunch of snakes come off her and Brainy leaps to the ceiling.
"I hate snakes!" Brainy shouts.
Morg'Ann uses her shield to cut off their heads and Kara tries to stop her with cold breath when she speeds out of the room.
They learn that Pamela is stealing the jewels for herself and the hearts are for the parasite.
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The Children of Liberty later came and sees that Pamela returned and she plans on heading to the Heart Association's Masquerade Ball.
And they plan to use that to get Ben Lockwood out of prison.
Unknown to them, Peter hijacked their system and also learned about it.
The heroes are at the ball waiting as the Children of Liberty show up and start a panic.
"Hello, boys." Gwenyth greets them as the snakes start to scare them off.
The snakes try to get away and the heroes keep them back.
Morg'Ann keeps the children back as Kara takes Menagerie and she uses her snakes to keep them back.
"You should have better taste than to protect those people." Menagerie tells Kara.
"I protect everyone." Kara says when Nia comes and she's in her blue and white suit.
Peter uses a taser web to shock the snakes off Kara.
The three of them stand up and are ready to stop this snake freak.
"However many symbeasts you unleash, we have the power to stop them." Kara tells her.
"You Kryptonians think you're so powerful on your own." Menagerie says. "You know nothing of the symbiosis that-"
Peter shot her with a taser web that wrapped around her, taking her down.
Nia and Kara look to Peter confused.
"What? She was droning on." Peter tells them, seeing they had an opening while she was giving that speech to stop her.
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They welcomed Nia to be a hero with them, Brainy offered to help train her, and Peter lisneted to the guys' advice from earlier.
Kara was at home and got a message from Peter.
'Meet me here' There was a location that was attached to the message.
She went and feeling like this is something to do with Valentine's Day, she dressed herself in a dark blue dress and did a bit of makeup and found Peter in a clearing at a nearby field.
"What are we doing up here?" Kara asks as she sees Peter dressed up for the occasion as well.
"Well...I guess I've been coming off as a bit strange recently according to J'onn and Brainy. That was because I was...afraid." Peter confesses as she sees he set up a place for them to eat out here. "Afraid about messing this up. It's been a rough year. Lockwood, Lane, Elseworlds, Gwenyth, everything. I wanted to try and make today perfect, then we had to deal with an alien human psycho. I then realized I was trying too hard when they pointed it out. I just want to ask you one question today, after everything I'm sure of it."
"And what's that?" Kara asks.
Peter walks up to her, and wraps his arms around her waist as she puts her arms on his shoulder.
"Kara Danvers...Will you be my valentine?" Peter asks her.
Kara smiles and pulls him into a kiss, and on que, a few fireworks flew into the sky.
"Yes, I will." Kara answers and sees the fireworks. "Did you set this up?"
"I may have asked Brainy, Morg'Ann, and a few close friends to help." Peter says honestly and he then plays some music on the radio and they hear Pretending playing and Kara drags Peter into the open field to dance.
Just the two of them, against the world.
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Sadly, that seems to be exactly the case as the Vice President found a way to free Ben Lockwood from prison and he's back to cause more damage believing its right.