Prompt: "You have to choose now."


Supergirl was frantic, looking back and forth between two loves of her life. On one side of the warehouse, Alex was suspended from a rope, gagged and bloody, over a container of acid. On the other, Lena was in a similar situation, except she was unconscious.

"You have to choose now," the villain stated. "I'm not sure even the Girl of Steel is fast enough to save them both."

He laughed maniacally and started to count. "Five, four…"

Supergirl was already across the room burning through the rope with her heat vision and catching Lena in her arms.

"Two… one…"

Supergirl was almost to Alex when the rope broke and she grabbed her sister in mid-air, just as the tip of her boot submerged into the corrosive chemical. The hero had her on the ground and her boot off before it could do any serious damage. She kissed Lena's lips and then Alex's forehead before turning her attention on her wannabe nemesis.

He gulped hard and then screamed as she picked him up and turned him upside down, moving to hover him with the top of his head barely an inch above the acid line. "How do YOU like it, you son of a bitch," she growled. "Maybe I should make YOU choose. Live or die."

"Live!" he screeched. "Live!"

"Wrong answer," Supergirl replied and then tossed him into the air. He screamed in earnest and his arms covered his face as he plummeted toward the chemical but, at the last second, Kara caught him by one foot and saved him from a very painful death. "You're lucky my girlfriend is the forgiving type."

Lena lowered her hands and smiled widely. "Love you!" she called.

"You're going to prison for a very long time, Buddy," Alex said as her sister deposited the villain next to her. "Let's see if you survive that!"