Season 4.5 Episode 3
In 3024, seven years after the arrival of Kara Zor-El and Mon-El to this time, a Sun-Eater threatened Earth's star. A giant cloud of gas and energy, the Sun-Eater made its way through the Milky Way Galaxy consuming stars becoming ever larger and more powerful. At first, the Vindicators did nothing citing how it was "not their problem" but finally the Sun-Eater was now at their doorsteps. Action had to be taken even if it seemed radical.
On the moon, at the prison facility, Mon, Kon, Mara, and Brainiac 5 looked over the depowered super-villains they had defeated countless times before finally putting them on death row. Mon and Kon were in matching Insane uniforms, Mara was in a black suit with her mother's crest on her right shoulder, and Brainiac 5 was in a similar uniform only with the three-dot Brainiac insignia on his right shoulder.
The Fatal Five had been effectively neutered. Tharok's left side of his body had been removed placing him in a wheelchair, the Persuader was demasked revealing a scowling Japanese face, Mano had his right hand removed but was otherwise the same, Validus was merely a brain in jar disconnected from his body, and Emerald Empress was merely human without her all-powerful eye.
"As part of your rehabilitation, you will work together to solve the problem that is the Sun-Eater," Mon told the group.
"Can't you destroy the Sun-Eater yourself?" Emerald Empress asked.
"Well, sure, but this is a lot more fun," Mon smiled.
The Fatal Five looked at each other dumbfounded. "What if we should fail?" Mano asked.
"Then we will destroy the Sun-Eater ourselves and kill you," Mon said simply. "However, should you succeed you will be given a full pardon," he lied.
The Fatal Five nodded to each other. "We are in agreement," Mano said.
Brainiac 5 brought Tharok into the lab still at the prison facility on the moon. His mechanical parts were reinstalled onto the left side of his body. "Of the Fatal Five, you have the superior intellect, a low-bar, mind you," Brainiac 5 said. "You may use the computers as you see fit to run simulations."
"But you have already figured it out already," Tharok figured.
"Of course. Your cybernetically enhanced brain makes your intellect superior to your fellow humans, but it cannot compare to my vast network of knowledge and processing power. You are here to show us that you are capable of being a productive citizen," Brainiac 5 said patiently.
"Very well," Tharok accessed the computer.
"It was not my desire to have you be freed. If I were in charge, I would have you killed and your brain dissected," Brainiac 5 reminded him.
As Tharok worked in the lab, Mon had the rest of the Fatal Five fight each other to demonstrate their powers. They were all given back their weapons and bodies. Mon watched intrigued as Mano and Persuader battled. Mano powered up his right hand for a powerful strike but Persuader used his ax to try to cut his hand off. At the same time, Emerald Empress used her eye to fire beams of green light at Validus keeping the beast at bay.
"Wicked," Kon said enthralled by the battle.
"This is savage and pointless," Mara said bored.
"Why do you have to be a hater?" Mon asked her.
"Someone has to stand for morality," Mara replied.
"I'm giving these people a chance to be productive citizens for the greater good," Mon said.
"We both know what you will do with them after their task is over," Mara said darkly.
That night, Mano came to Empress Emerald's room for a chat. "Together, we can rule the galaxy. With my anti-matter powers and your eye, we would be unbeatable," he said to her.
"Mano, you're an asshole. It would never work out. We would do nothing but fight each other," Empress Emerald denied him.
"You bitch. Take this," he said and then tried to destroy her with his hand.
Empress Emerald fired her eye at him blasting him through the wall and into the air a good distance away. Kon then came into the room to investigate. "Is there a problem?" he asked.
"None at all," Empress Emerald said to him.
Kon gave her an uncertain look seeing the massive hole in the wall. "I have admired you from afar," Empress Emerald told him.
"Oh really?" Kon smiled.
"I like the way your hair changes color when you get mad. I like the way you penetrate with your sword. I want you to forget about this futile mission against the Sun-Eater and rule my home planet by my side," she tempted.
"That would be tempting if I actually gave a shit about such things," Kon smirked.
"What?" Empress Emerald asked surprised.
"I am incorruptible because I don't give a shit. I don't want anything you could give me. You're also way too old. I'm only seven, lady," Kon said.
"Let's go, already. We have a meeting," Mara interrupted.
"Another one," Kon sighed leaving the room with her.
At the meeting, Tharok revealed his genius plan. "The three of you will lure the Sun-Eater to the moon base. Once it arrives, we will use our combined powers to destroy it."
"This is what you've come up with after all this time," Mon said unimpressed.
"It is unknown whether your combined powers will be enough to destroy the Sun-Eater," Brainiac 5 doubted.
"I have a plan for that, too. We shall use your meditation chamber, so we can reach our full power," Tharok said.
Mon shook his head. "Fuck it," he scoffed. "I'm going to bed."
Once the Vindicators were gone to bed, the Fatal Five came together. "During the battle, I say we murder the Vindicators and then share the galaxy between us," Tharok said villainously.
"That seems to be the only way since cooperation is out of the question," Mano said bitterly to Empress Emerald.
"There is no time to sleep. We must all reach our full potential in the meditation chamber," Tharok told them all.
The next morning, the Fatal Five and the Vindicators came together inside the giant dome of the moon base. Mon tensed up and went Super Insane level 2 creating a powerful discharge. Kon and Mara likewise went Super Insane. The Sun-Eater stopped its approach towards the star and went for the moon.
The Sun-Eater slammed through the energy force-field of the dome and landed with a thud. He appeared as a humanoid of pure light. Persuader attacked first with his ax slicing the Sun-Eater up into pieces. Validus then used fired an energy beam from his brain tank at the pieces shattering them further.
"Well, that was easy," Mano said unimpressed.
The Sun-Eater quickly came back together. Validus fired once more but this time the Sun-Eater fired back. The two beams met in the middle with Validus quickly overpowered. Kon came in with his sword. The Sun-Eater took hold of his wrist before he could swing down and absorbed the solar energy within him. Empress Emerald and Mara fired on the Sun-Eater forcing it to release Kon. As Kon scrambled away, Empress Emerald and Mara continued to fire at the Sun-Eater without success.
Mano then charged the Sun-Eater attacking with his anti-matter hand. As he made contact, there was a powerful energy reaction. Mano fell to the floor with his hand severely burned. Mon then engaged the Sun-Eater punching deep inside his gut. Mon looked for some kind of core even as the Sun-Eater resisted him. The Sun-Eater then threw him back.
"Power down," Mara said to them all.
"That's crazy," Persuader objected.
"Do it," Empress Emerald ordered her team
They all powered down to near nothing. The Sun-Eater focused on them and then departed from the moon no longer interested.
Back in the conference room, Brainiac 5 looked over Tharok's new weapon. "According to my calculations, you fed the Sun-Eater rather than weaken it."
"If that's the case, maybe it won't need to consume our sun," Mara figured.
"Your optimism amuses me," Brainiac 5 said condescendingly. "It's on a current course to the sun and will arrive shortly. The process to destabilize the star is unknown."
"My absorbaton bomb should do the trick. However, the explosion will be so powerful that the one who delivers will perish with it," Tharok warned.
"I'll do it," Mara said after a long pause.
"No, you've already sacrificed yourself to save the world. You don't get to it again," Mon rejected.
"Wait...what?" Mara wondered.
"I'll do it. I can simply use my instant transmission to escape the blast," Mon said obviously.
"Very well. The bomb is ready for you. Press this button to begin the countdown," Tharok told him.
Taking the bomb, Mon used his instant transmission to arrive close to the Sun-Eater. Using a powerful heat shield and his own energy shield, Mon could withstand the full intensity of the sun's power. The Sun-Eater expanded dramatically in the form of a large energy cloud as it absorbed the sun's power. Mon instantly went inside the cloud and armed the bomb. He waited patiently for the countdown to get near zero. The Sun-Eater core became aware of the bomb and tried to get to Mon. Once the countdown got to five, it suddenly exploded. The cloud dislodged from the sun as the explosion hit it.
"You programmed the bomb to detonate prematurely," Brainiac 5 accused Thorak.
"I did," he grinned.
Empress Emerald suddenly created green handcuffs on the rest of the Vindicators. "You betrayed us," Mara said to them.
"Of course we did. We're super-villains," Mano reminded them.
"I'm having second thoughts about this rehabilitation idea," Kon said dryly.
"I did calculate that the odds were good something like this would happen," Brainiac 5 said.
"Shut up, all of you," Empress Emerald ordered.
"Validus, you're not just a monster with a brain inside a jar. You're still a person. You can decide your own fate. Don't let Tharok control you," Mara said to him.
"Don't listen to you. You're mine now," Tharok said to Validus.
"What the fuck?" Persuader wondered.
"I took control of his mind. He was just a beast before but now he serves me," Tharok revealed.
"We're supposed to be the Fatal Five with each one of us having our own goals," Mano said unimpressed.
"We've won because of me. So, stop your bitching," Tharok said.
Validus went from looking at Tharok to back to Mara to back to Tharok to back to Mara. Finally, he fired an energy bolt at Persuader's ax that stunned all of them to the floor. The energy cuffs around their hands disappeared. "I knew you could overcome it," Mara said giving Validus a hug.
Validus then fell to the floor as well from a stun blast from Brainiac 5. "The Sun-Eater is still active," he said.
Mon was a bloody mess as he was taken away from the sun by Kara. "That son-of-a-bitch fucked me," Mon said annoyed
Kara rolled her eyes. "Next time, have me handle everything."
"You can't have all the fun," Mon smiled.
"Use your instant transmission, so I can kick this thing's ass," Kara told him.
Mon put two fingers to his forehead and disappeared back to the moon base. Kara then raced towards the recovering Sun-Eater. Going through the cloud, she reached the core of it. "You like to absorb sunlight? Well, I do, too," Kara smirked as she absorbed the Sun-Eater's power through her cells.
The Sun-Eater tried to resist her without success and slowly but surely its entire solar form was absorbed by Kara. "Wow, that felt good," Kara said pleased by the power-up.
Once Kara arrived back to the moon base, the prison was in ruins. "What the fuck happened?" Kara demanded.
"The Fatal Five escaped and went back in time," Brainiac 5 reported.
"When?" Kara asked impatiently.
"2019. We don't have an exact date," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Why haven't we all been affected by this?" Kara asked.
"Nothing that occurs on Earth has any significance past the 2400s when all life on the planet was nearly extinguished," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"So, nothing I did for two years before I went forward in time has any impact on today?" Kara asked.
"That's correct," Brainiac 5 replied. "But you're in good company with all the super-heroes and historical figures of that time period. None of what they did has any impact for today."
"Well, that does make me feel better," Kara said knowing the Justice League was completely irrelevant.
"Still, the Fatal Five could endanger Alex," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"Well...shit," Kara frowned. "So, I have to go back in time to 2017 and fix all the weird-ass shit the kids caused and then deal with this nonsense."
"Indeed," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Good thing you're coming with me," Kara smiled.
Kara had a chat with Mon after a long love-making session in bed. "Mon, I have to go back in time and correct some serious shit."
"Like what?" he asked.
"We both die, Lex Luthor comes back, and my clone nearly destroys the world," Kara told him.
"That does sound serious. I think I should come with you," Mon said wanting a good fight.
"Not this time. I can't risk anyone I love getting killed...again. I died of a broken heart when you were killed. The enemy used our family against us. I'm stronger alone," Kara said.
"Will you be coming back?" Mon asked.
"Of course. Once Alex is out of danger, I'll go into cryo-sleep and I'll be back before you know it," Kara said.
"What if you die?" Mon asked concerned.
"Then Brainiac 5 sends another message to his future self on what went wrong, and we do it over again," she said.
"This time-travel business confuses me," Mon admitted.
"Is it too hard for your Insane brain to comprehend?" Kara teased.
"For me, it will be like you were gone only for an instant but for you, it will be years," Mon considered.
"So?" Kara wondered.
"Will you still be the same Kara I've come to love? Or will you become a hippie pacifist?" Mon asked.
"I will always be a bad-ass killer," Kara assured him.
"You'll have needs you'll want to satisfy," Mon realized. "Sexual needs."
"I can be celibate for however many years it will take," Kara said.
"Bullshit," Mon doubted.
"Okay, let's compromise on this. I won't have sex with any man while I am in the past," Kara said.
Mon gave her an odd look. "I want pics and video."
"Deal," Kara agreed.