Season 4.5 Episode 5

Gotham

Katherine Kane, the daughter of retired Colonel Jacob Kane and now Commander of the Crows in Gotham, was walking the streets when she encountered a homeless woman staring off into space sitting on her box. Kate came over to her and gave her some cash.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you. It only encourages them," a male security guard told her.

Kate smirked and went back to the blond woman giving her an expensive golden watch. Kate then walked past the guard with a defiant look and went over to her motorcycle. Turning the engine on, she put on her headphones that screamed, "I'm a Womaaan!"

She then drove off into the night. The homeless woman was actually stunned by Kate's generosity. "You're going to score coke with that, aren't you?" the security guard assumed.

"You know it," Kara smiled. She had decided to become an investigative reporter for realz by pretending to be a homeless woman. She didn't collect a whole lot of useful information, but she did get a healthy amount of people to kick ass on.

As she went past the security guard, she was followed by a gang of homeless men. "Nice watch you got there," the leader said to her.

"Isn't it?" Kara antagonized knowing full well its owner was Bruce Wayne.

"Hand it over, girly," he ordered. "I want to know what time it is."

Kara found herself surrounded by homeless thugs in a square surrounded by buildings. "Over my dead body."

"That's the idea," the leader smiled.

He then struck her with his knife hand to the sternum. Kara caught his wrist and threw it back. Other homeless man grabbed her shoulder and the fight was on. Kara kept her punches and kicks to the lowest setting she could, so she wouldn't accidentally kill them all. For the fun of it, she also reacted to their own punches as if it affected her. What followed was a martial-arts brawl with her fighting back a few dozen homeless men after her watch. She then hooked her arms with two homeless men and used their bodies as leverage to kick a couple of homeless men back. She completed the flip sending the two she had hooked into backward.

Kara battled the homeless men relentlessly with punches and kicks to keep them from all ganging up on her. She tried out a number of different styles on them as she playfully sent them away from her. Finally, the homeless men managed to throw her into the air where she landed on a bench collapsing it. At one point, the homeless sent her to the ground. Kara quickly recovered but then saw dozens of more homeless people rushing her.

"Holy shit," Kara realized.

Kara increased her speed while trying hard not to actually hurt any of them. She was a hero after all. Still, she became quickly overwhelmed by them at her current level and was punched into a brick wall. Kara went for a metal pole sticking out of the ground. She took hold of it and pulled it out of the concrete floor. She then slammed the pole on one of the homeless breaking the concrete off it. With the pole clean of concrete, she whirled it around in her hands and then challenged them to come forward.

Undeterred, the homeless advanced on her. Kara leaped up into the air and landed in the middle of them beating several of them like pinatas. With her pole, she tossed many of them away from her across the square. The leader was hit to the midsection and went sailing across the edge of the square.

"More," he said insanely.

More homeless people rushed in. Kara placed the pole on the ground and then swung around it kicking the homeless away from her. When that didn't work, she swayed her body in a circle with the pole keeping them at bay. A homeless man leaped up and attacked her from above. Kara lost her pole and struggled to keep them off of her. She ended up jumping on top of the shoulders of individual homeless men as she tried to get away. The leader then leaped up and took her to the ground. The rest of the homeless people piled on top of her to prevent her escape.

"Give us the watch," the leader demanded inside the pile.

"No!" Kara refused and then used her Kryptonian strength to toss them all off of her. The homeless people cried out in slow-motion as they were thrown off.

Kara did a pose and then flew off into the air. The leader and the rest of his homeless buddies looked up into the sky. "Well...shit."

Metropolis

Kara entered her apartment and found Jessica watching TV eating a pizza. "You smell like shit," Jessica remarked.

"You would too if you lived with the homeless all day and night," Kara said shedding her clothes and entering the shower.

Kara placed the expensive watch on a counter and took a warm shower. After twenty-four hours of being homeless, she now truly felt appreciative of all the millions of dollars she had accumulated in all of her schemes and scams. As she worked her hair, Jessica came into the shower as well.

"What the fuck?" Kara asked surprised.

"You're right. I should have been brave enough to explore my sexuality. Now, I am feeling things for you I've never felt with a woman," Jessica admitted.

"You're just figuring that out? Most people figure that shit out by twelve," Kara said to her.

"I guess I was too afraid to admit it to myself," Jessica said reflectively.

"Get the fuck out," Kara kicked her out of the shower.

"I don't get it," Jessica said pissed-off.

"You're not supposed to actually have feelings for me. You're supposed to be a straight woman that just wants to have fun every once in a while," Kara told her.

"Well...I don't know what I am now," Jessica replied.

"Get back to me when you figure it out," Kara said to her.

Kara then showered in peace and considered the green ring on her finger. Smiling deviously, she used her imagination to create a toy for herself. "Where there's a will, there's a way," she grinned. She then turned on her phone to her new favorite song.

"I'm a Womaaan!"

The DEO was still in ruins as Brainiac 5 placed a disc inside one of his copies. The copy became alive and looked around startled. "What is this?"

"You were killed but I stored your consciousness onto a data disc. I have now given that data disc a body," Brainiac 5 informed Jericho.

Jericho looked at his android hands. "Activate hologram program Jericho," Brainiac 5 instructed.

Jericho found the correct program with his thoughts and became himself again. "Can I use my power to possess people?" he wondered.

"Doubtful, but you can still serve a purpose," Brainiac 5 assured him.

"Yes, to end Deathstroke once and for all," Jericho vowed.

"What the fuck did I just hear?" Deathstroke asked as he came in with Batgirl at his side.

"I'll be the one to end you...father," Jericho declared. "Sword."

Brainiac 5 casually gave him one and immediately the two clashed. Alex entered the room and noticed the fight. "What the fuck is going on here?" she wondered.

Batgirl threw a Batarang that barely missed her throat. Alex took cover and fired off a magazine at Batgirl. She also took cover with all the bullets missing. Alex went for another magazine when a Batarang knocked the pistol out of her hand across the room. Batgirl then swung in and kicked Alex hard to the chin dropping her. Batgirl then engaged Brainiac 5 who simply entertained her.

Deathstroke was kicking Jericho's ass but became too overconfident. "Yield," he ordered his robot son as he was on his knees.

"Never," Jericho spat and then impaled Deathstroke with his sword.

Brainiac 5 then took hold of Batgirl and injected her with a serum that knocked her out. He then took off her cowl revealing a young Asian woman. At a disadvantage, Deathstroke threw a smoke grenade down on the floor and disappeared.

"Where am I? Who are you?" a bewildered Cassandra Caine asked Brainiac 5.

Meanwhile, at Hank's private investigations office, Inertia broke through the door and gave Hank some quick punches dropping his ass. Hank quickly recovered becoming J'onn and then Inertia's punches and kicks just went through him. Sungirl then arrived and blasted the office with fire. J'onn became distracted by the fire all around him. Sungirl calmly walked up to the fallen J'onn and blasted him with continuous fire.

"Everything burns," Sungirl laughed insanely.

A heat vision beam blasted Sungirl off her feet and into the air. She was carried over the city and into the bay where her powers were extinguished. Supergirl then blasted the fire with frost breath freezing Inertia in place. Kara then sped towards Inertia for the kill. The two moved faster than the eye could see with their quick movements. As Kara tried to get to him, she continued to breathe frost air. Inertia started slowing down and got hit a few times. He dropped an incendiary grenade and escaped. Kara took the grenade into her hand and allowed it to explode harmlessly in her palms.

"Thank you," Hank said weakly.

Kara looked at the damage to the office. "Don't worry about it. I'll get this all cleaned up," Kara promised him.

"What's the point of having your own business if some thug can just ruin it?" Hank asked looking around.

"What's the point of anything, Hank? It's about fun. It's about the chase," Kara said to him.

"You're right," Hank agreed.

"Let's get drunk. That always makes you feel better," Kara suggested.

"Sure," Hank nodded.

Cassandra was placed in the DEO clinic with Alex and Brainiac 5 supervising her. "She appears fine now," Alex said scornfully still smarting from being kicked to the chin.

"Deathstroke drugged me. I want vengeance," Cassandra said pissed-off.

"You can start by telling them where their base is," Alex said.

"It's on Shelley Island," Cassandra replied.

"Deathstroke is using the power dampeners to his advantage," Brainiac 5 pointed out.

"Will that affect Supergirl?" Alex asked concerned.

"Not in the slightest," Brainiac 5 replied.

"Deathstroke stole your Kryptonite supply," Cassandra brought up.

"Well...shit," Alex realized.

"We are short on manpower," Brainiac 5 reminded her.

"Alright, I'm trusting you to lead us in," Alex said to Cassandra.

"As long as I get to make the kill," Cassandra replied.

Jessica rushed into the bar. "What's the emergency?" she asked ready to go.

"The emergency is that you're about to miss happy hour," Kara said obviously.

Jessica sighed and sat down with an obviously drunk Kara and Hank. "I'll have a beer," she said to the bartender.

"The fuck you will," Kara said dismissively. "Vodka martinis for everyone."

The bartender shook up the concoction and then poured it into three glasses just the way Kara liked it. "Is this...a gay bar?" Jessica wondered.

"Yep," Kara nodded.

"But they're all aliens," Jessica noticed as she used her ring to determine the species of each individual in the bar.

"Obviously," Kara said.

"But you're a strong Trump supporter," Jessica said confused.

Hank laughed at that. "What did you say about Trump?" a big alien brute got up from his table. Kara stood up to him.

"Respect the God-Emperor," Kara told him.

The alien brute head-butted Kara and then fell to the floor knocked out. Kara then went back to her table and sat down. "You just like fucking with people," Jessica realized.

"No shit," Hank smiled.

"How do you deal with it?" Jessica asked Hank.

"I used to be a hard-ass scolding her every time she came to the DEO. Then, I finally decided to let go and not give a fuck," Hank said reflectively.

"But he also changed me for the better. I'm a lot more responsible now. These days, I don't leak nearly as much classified material to reporters," Kara said.

"That's because you're in control of Catco now, so you like to keep everything close to the chest. You do realize that interviewing yourself is unethical," Hank said to her.

"I know. So, you still good for it?" Kara asked him.

"Sure," Hank rolled his eyes.

"What do you mean?" Jessica asked confused.

Hank then morphed into Kara. "I ask all the questions as Kara Danvers and Supergirl then answers."

"Only Kara Danvers can get an exclusive with Supergirl," Kara grinned. "By the way, in the previous timeline, you were really into a self-help group for aliens. You going to start one up?"

"You serious? Fuck no," Hank scowled.

"In a previous timeline, Hank worked with a woman named Fiona who had a crazy mother-fucker for a boyfriend. The self-help group got the notice of a loser named Agent Liberty. She was killed resulting in a race-war of sort between humans and aliens where a shit-ton of people got killed. You see how giving a shit just makes things worse?" Kara said to Jessica.

"Speaking to the choir. I have this awesome ring, and I haven't done shit with it," Jessica agreed.

"She's the apprentice you have been looking for," Hank said to Kara.

"I don't need a master," Jessica said dismissively.

"What a true apprentice of mine would say," Kara approved.

Nia then entered the bar and noticed the alien brute on the floor near Kara. "What happened to him?" Nia wondered.

"It's a short story," Kara said to her.

"We've found the hang-out of the East Titans. It's at Shelley Island," Nia said to them.

"I think the B-team can take them out," Kara said to her.

"Wait...am I the B team?" Nia asked offended.

"Afraid so. Take a seat," Hank offered her.

A disgruntled Nia sat down. "Watch this. It will be hilarious," Kara said taking Jessica's arm and pointing her ring at Nia. "Identify," Kara asked the ring.

"Naltorian/human hybrid, male," the ring answered.

Kara clapped her hands amused. "Must be something wrong with it," Jessica said confused.

"I'm transgender," Nia explained.

"Oh, I've never seen one in person," Jessica said suddenly interested.

"We're actually more common than you think. You might have met one and not known it," Nia said.

"They could be anyone," Kara said spooked.

"Good thing I got this ring to tell me," Jessica said.

"You're a Green Lantern," Nia realized.

"Yeah," Jessica said nonchalantly.

"Naltoria warned the Guardians about Parallax and they dismissed our warning because we were women," Nia said seriously.

"Oh shit," Kara said amused.

"I just work for them, alright," Jessica excused.

"Well, I'm not going to judge you for the actions of the Guardians," Nia allowed.

"Especially when there are so many other things you can judge her for," Kara mocked.

"Well, I have to get going," Nia said taking off.

The "B Team" assembled at Shelley Island composed of Nia, Jericho, Batgirl, Alex, and Steel. "How you feeling?" Alex asked James.

"I got this," he said confidently.

"Where's Supergirl?" Alex asked Nia.

"She said the B-team could handle it," she said.

"B-team? What the fuck?" Alex wondered offended.

A DEO helicopter approached the lighthouse of Shelley Island. "Surrender East Titans," the helicopter ordered.

Deathstroke fired an RPG at the helicopter. The helicopter fell into the water in pieces. Alex winced at the destruction. "Let's move," she ordered.

Brainiac 5 watched the battle from the DEO but then noticed a disturbance near Kara's location.

As Kara, Hank, and Jessica had another round a large monster charged into the bar. "What the fuck is that?" Jessica wondered.

"Validus," Kara identified.

The monster was twice the size of a normal man in an armored suit with its over-sized brain in a dome. Validus roared at them with massive jaws with multiple rows of sharp teeth. An energy beam from Validus' forehead targeted the three of them. Jessica put up a green shield to block the beam but the bar was completely destroyed.

"Unnecessary but thank you," Kara said appreciatively to Jessica.

"I got this," Jessica said confidently and then flew towards Validus. The beast took hold of Jessica and slammed her to the ground multiple times. Kara winced as Jessica got her ass kicked. Validus then threw Jessica aside and fired another beam at Hank. He phased just in time allowing the beam to go through him.

Kara then appeared as Supergirl and emerged from the smoke. Validus' brain pulsed with anger upon seeing her. "Remember me?" Kara smirked.

Validus threw a car at her. Kara sliced the car in half with her heat vision letting the two halves to fly past her. Kara then leaped towards Validus and punched him down the street uprooting the pavement as he did. Kara continued to punch at Validus' midsection creating punch marks in his armored suit.

"Come on, where's your friends at?" Kara said to him.

Validus let loose an energy beam from his forehead at her. Kara didn't even bother to block it. It went around her roasting the street around her. Kara burped drunkenly and walked up to Validus. The beast punched at Kara missing several times. Kara swayed while putting her hands up in the drunken boxing style. Finally, she punched a hole through Validus' midsection dropping him. Kara took hold of the dome that was Validus' head and ripped it out of his mechanical body.

"I know just the person to crack you," Kara grinned to Validus' brain.

At Shelley Island, the B-team and East Titans squared off. A vengeful Batgirl went after Deathstroke with them clashing with their blades inside the lighthouse. The two leaped around the lighthouse using cables to swing from floor-to-floor. Inertia sped around Steel at fast speed antagonizing him. Steel then extended out his hammer tripping Inertia. Steel then let loose a flame thrower from his suit. Sungirl jumped in and absorbed the fire protecting Inertia. She then fired back at Steel. James tensed up as his suit worked overtime to keep him cool. Sungirl kept up the heat until energy ropes wrapped around her body. Sungirl struggled with the energy restraints and was then thrown into the sea by Nia. Interia ran towards Nia to attack her. He went through a projection of her and smacked right into Steel's hammer knocking himself out.

Ravager and Jericho fought inside the lighthouse with their swords. "You shouldn't have betrayed father," Ravager told him.

"He betrayed us first," Jericho spat back.

Ravager took her two swords and sliced off Jericho's robot head. Meanwhile, Alex fought off Enigma and Harlequin at the same time in hand-to-hand combat. On the top of the lighthouse, Batgirl got the better of the fight kicking Deathstroke's mask off. Putting a Batarang blade to his throat, Batgirl intended to kill him.

"You made me your slave, you bastard," she said angrily.

"Do it," Deathstroke told her.

Alex came to the top of the lighthouse with her gun out. "Don't kill him. We'll take him in for questioning," she said to her.

Batgirl hesitated at that. "He'll never talk."

Bombshell fell from a helicopter and landed near the lighthouse. Lena looked on from the helicopter as her creation targeted the lighthouse. "Let's see what she can do."

"Make way," Bombshell said to Steel and Nia.

"There are still some of our people in that lighthouse," Nia told her as she saw Bombshell powered up her palm.

Bombshell ignored her and blasted the foundations of the lighthouse away with her palm. "Holy shit!" Alex shouted as the lighthouse collapsed underneath her.

"There were our people in there," Steel shouted at her.

"Necessary losses," she replied coldly.

"Not to me," Steel said and then swung his hammer into her gut. The hammer vibrated as it abruptly stopped. Bombshell disarmed Steel and then punched him continuously cracking his armor. Steel fell to the ground stunned by her strength. Bombshell powered up her palm to blow his head off.

"Stop! That's an order," Lena said to her already on the ground.

Bombshell powered down her palm. "Go back to base," Lena ordered Bombshell and then looked over Steel. She took his helmet off and found James gasping for breath.

"I'm so sorry, James," Lena said to him.

"I'm sorry, too," James said disappointed in her.

Alex came out of the rubble with dust all over herself. "What the fuck was that?" she asked outraged.

"The military saw an opportunity to test its new weapon: Bombshell," Lena said.

"Yeah, well, we lost Deathstroke," Alex said peeved.

"How could he have survived?" Lena asked incredulously.

"Sometimes, a precise strike is what is necessary, not loud explosions," Alex lectured.

Lena rolled her eyes and left the scene.

An oblivious Kara arrived at the desert DEO base that was still functional and handed off Validus' brain to Brainiac 5. He immediately plugged the brain into his own computer brain and started reading the information. "All five of them are here, but he does not know where they are now except for the eye of Empress Emerald," Brainiac 5 said.

"Where's it at?" Kara asked.

"A prison colony controlled by the Green Lanterns," Brainiac 5 replied.

"So, they want Jessica to get their eye back," Kara figured.

"It would be best to take Jessica's ring from her," Brainiac 5 advised.

"Without that ring, she's a dead woman," Kara reminded him.

"I know," Brainiac 5 said unconcernedly.

"Well...shit, I kind of don't want to do that," Kara frowned.

"Your attachment to one individual will lead to a multitude of death," Brainiac 5 said.

"Where would we store this ring? She can summon the ring to her finger whenever she wants," Kara asked.

"In the vault here. Have Jessica drain the ring of its power and then take it from her," Brainiac 5 suggested.

The DEO alarms then went off. Brainiac 5 turned the TV monitors to Shelley Island. Using cameras from the lighthouse, they saw Bombshell blast it to pieces. "Really?" Kara shook her head as she saw Bombshell's metal body.

"She does not appear to be a foe," Brainiac 5 said as he saw Lena arrive. "Her energy levels rival your own."

"Get the fuck out of here," Kara scoffed.

"Well, when you're in your normal state," Brainiac 5 allowed.

"That's better," Kara said scornfully.

Kara then noticed Alex emerged from the destroyed lighthouse covered in dust. "Oh shit," Kara realized.

"Her injuries do not appear to be life-threatening," Brainiac 5.

"None-the-less, it would appear I need to put down Lena's new toy," Kara concluded.