Season 4.5 Episode 9
At the desert DEO base, the Fatal Five considered their next move. "I've had time to think while you four have taken your sweet-ass time reacquiring my eye. It occurs to me we can stop our enemies before they even start. All we need to do is destroy their sun," Emerald Empress said to the others.
"Say what?" Tharax thought he misheard.
"Think of all the heroes this planet alone has spawned. We destroy the sun, we destroy the League, the Martians, the Vindicators, the United Federation of Planets, and the Galactic Empire. We return to our time with no one to oppose us," Emerald Empress listed off.
"And how do we accomplish this?" Mano asked skeptically.
"The Eye," she said simply. "It contains all the power of the Green Lantern battery. It will rip that star apart," Emerald Empress said confidently.
"A real fucking Death Star," Persuader said enthusiastically.
Metropolis
Kara waited for Alex to wake up in her hospital bed. "Shouldn't you be saving the world or something?" Alex asked bitterly.
"The world can wait," Kara said unconcernedly.
"You want my forgiveness for killing my son?" Alex asked.
"Not for that. For treating it all like a game. Connor could have killed you and Kelly at any moment, and I just let it happen, curious to see how it would all end. I should have killed him in his tube when we found him. Well, there's always next time," Kara sighed.
"What do you mean?" Alex asked confused.
"I can simply have Brainiac 5 send a message to his future self to tell my past self what happened here. We do it all over again but this time I'll stop Connor from even being conceived," Kara said simply.
"So, you don't really care if you win or lose. If you lose, you'll just redo it, right?" Alex asked.
"Well, if the real Barney were ever destroyed, he would never be able to send the message forward in time. Then, we would really be fucked," Kara said.
"What if someone gets to the real Barney?" Alex asked.
"Impossible. You'd have to destroy the entire planet to get to him. Not even I know where he is," Kara said.
"I don't want you to redo this. I want to learn from my mistake. I need to remember how bad of a mother I was. I put work first. I didn't see the signs. I...didn't follow your advice about a parent needing to be able to control their kid," Alex said.
Kara gave her a sympathetic look. "Barney and I decided to have Connor killed without telling you. We didn't trust you with our plan. I'm so sorry, Alex."
"You were right not to trust me. I would have died to defend him...even from you," Alex said seriously.
"The future is not set. You can still get married, have some kids, and live a happy life," Kara said to her.
"I don't think that's in the cards for someone like me," Alex said referring to her orientation.
"I thought so, too, but I was wrong, Alex. Please forgive me. I was only trying to help you," Kara pleaded with her.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Alex asked.
"You remember Bob Rickman?" Kara asked.
"Vaguely," Alex said. "He was the asshole that persuaded people out of their houses and farms for his own corporate gain ten years ago in Midvale."
"Yeah," Kara nodded. "He could persuade someone to believe anything just with a handshake."
"Okay, yeah, I remember," Alex recalled.
"Well, I had him persuade you, Alex. I had him persuade you that you were straight. Afterward, you started dating boys, you fell in love with them, and then you became a real freak in college. Like, a complete slut. I can't even count how many guys you were with. Thank God for Hank," Kara said amazed.
"Wait...you did that?" Alex asked outraged.
"You didn't snap out of it until Bob Rickman died tragically in a car accident ten years later. Then, you saw Maggie and you went back to your true self. It was like a light bulb went on in your head. You went from a sexless android to someone that wanted to get married and have a family. So, you see, it was my fault you ended up this way. It's my fault you didn't find love, get married, and have kids years ago," Kara told her.
"Why are you telling me this?" Alex asked pissed-off.
"I have a few more people to kill and then you can let me go. You shouldn't love me, Alex. You should hate me. I fucked up your life. I took your father away from you. I took away your love-life. I took away what wasn't mine. I deserve your hate and I've only made things worse for you. So, I should just go back," Kara said.
"You looking for me to say you shouldn't go? Is that what you want from me?" Alex glared.
"No," Kara said sincerely.
"Do what you need to do and just go. Get out of my life," Alex said angrily.
Kara nodded and then walked out of the hospital room.
Metropolis
At L Tower, James shuddered and then woke up. He touched his sore jaw and felt a radical increase in raw strength. "I feel like a beast," he said pleased and slightly concerned.
"You're awake," Lena said happily and gave him a kiss.
"Yeah, what happened?" James asked not remembering.
"You were attacked...by a Kryptonian. Don't worry about it though. He's dead," Lena assured him.
"Damn," James said trying to recall.
"You're lucky to be alive. The Harun-El has repaired the damage to your body. We will need to eventually extract it out of you before it kills you," Lena said.
"I'd like to test this body out before you do," James said flexing his muscles.
"How about you test it on me?" Lena asked licking her lips.
"God damn," James said stunned.
Supergirl then entered the room and eyed James. "Back on your feet already," Kara said giving James a fist-bump.
"I feel great," James said to her.
"Kara Danvers has yet to visit you," Lena said scornfully.
"Oh, well, that's alright," James said unconcernedly as he eyed Kara.
"She's probably redecorated your office at Catco by now," Kara smirked.
"She's too lazy to do that," James doubted.
"Oh really?" Kara challenged.
Lena watched the two go back and forth. Kara then got a phone call from Brainiac 5. "The Fatal Five have attacked the desert DEO base. They have the Eye of Ekron. Satellite images show them going into space."
Kara paused realizing what that could mean. "Get yourself off the planet in case I should fail," Kara told him.
"The Vindicator Cruiser is not ready for space flight. My fate is tied to yours," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Well...shit," Kara muttered and hung up.
Kara turned to James and Lena. "I'll help if I can. I've got these powers now. I should use them," James said resolved.
"With my suit, you will," Lena insisted.
Kara nodded. "Don't underestimate these guys," she warned.
Emerald Empress formed a green bubble around the rest of the Fatal Five and shot off towards the sun. Once in position, Emerald Empress charged up her eye. "Is this really going to work?" Tharax asked skeptically.
"Let her concentrate," Mano told him off.
Emerald Empress tensed up as she collected all of the eye's powers and then fired an intense beam at the star. The green beam went into the sun and started a chain reaction that caused the sun to go supernova in short order. "The Earth's magnetic field will be stripped away, the surface will be irradiated, and then they shall suffer darkness and cold," Empress Emerald said proudly.
"Impressive," Mano complimented.
"OP as fuck," Persuader agreed.
The sun expanded outwards as it began to lose its form. The five of them then saw a white blur rotate around the sun at the speed of light even as it expanded out. "What the fuck?" Empress Emerald wondered.
The white blur zipped around the sun forcing it to stop its rotation and then it began to shrink back to its original form as it rotated backward. The sun was then returned to its previous state before Emerald Empress had fired.
"Impossible," Tharax said stunned.
"This is bullshit," Persuader muttered.
"It's her," Mano identified Supergirl.
"I will need time to recharge," Empress Emerald said distressed.
"Likely, Supergirl will be low on reserves as well," Mano figured. "We retreat to Earth for now."
Supergirl rotated around the sun and sling-shotted her way towards the Fatal Five at the speed of light. "We leave for now," Empress Emerald said creating a green portal. Kara fired heat vision to destroy them all when they all disappeared in a flash of green light. Kara then sped to Earth at the speed of light giving the Fatal Five a few minutes to consider their options.
Metropolis
As soon as they arrived in Metropolis, the Fatal Five fired upon the civilians giving themselves a perimeter while Emerald Empress recharged her eye. Tharax and Validus fired energy beams all around them blasting apart buildings, cars, and fleeing civilians. The police were quickly overwhelmed as their pistols had no effect on them. The DEO team of J'onn, Nia, Brainiac 5, and James as Steel arrived on the scene.
"The Calvary has arrived," Mano said unimpressed.
"I'll feel them out," J'onn said to the others.
Emerald Empress sat in meditation as the rest surrounded J'onn. Looking all around him, J'onn then made the first move elbowing Tharax hard and then taking to the skies. Validus flew up to punch at J'onn missing. J'onn took hold of Validus' arm and threw him back to the ground. Persuader then flew up with his ax ready. J'onn fired heat vision at him as he went farther into the air. Persuader deflected the heat beams with his ax. Tharax launched several missiles from his robot arm at J'onn creating explosions in the air. Validus, Persuader, and Tharax then hit J'onn in a coordinated strike.
J'onn got some distance from the Fatal Five in the city. Persuader and Tharax took him on in the air in hand-to-hand combat with J'onn slammed onto the roof of a relatively short building. Validus then burst through the roof of that building to get at J'onn. The three of them battled J'onn across the city as Mano looked on. Validus slammed J'onn through a building's roof destroying all of its floors inside. Validus then fired into the building blasting it apart. J'onn phased out of the destroyed building just in time.
Tharax and Validus fired beams at J'onn catching him by surprise. Hurt, J'onn collapsed in front of them. "I'll finish him off," Emerald Empress said firing an intense green beam straight at him.
"I think we should intervene now," Nia said concerned.
"I think you're right," Steel agreed. With his rocket boots getting him into position, Steel deflected Emerald Empress' beam with his hammer shielding J'onn.
Steel then went straight for Mano missing his head. Mano punched Steel with his anti-matter hand. Steel quickly swung his hammer slamming him into a building. Mano quickly recovered and engaged Steel blasting holes in his armor with his anti-matter hand. As Steel's systems began to fail, Mano punched Steel around tossing him through skyscrapers.
With Steel disabled, Mano went after J'onn. Brainiac 5 intervened just in time holding two laser pistols. He fired continuously at Mano with little effect. Persuader and Tharax rushed in to defend Mano. With his ax, Persuader slashed Brainiac 5 in two while Tharax blasted half of Brainiac 5's face off. Still, Brainiac 5 persisted firing on Mano's dome head in an attempt to break it open. Empress Emerald formed a protective shield around Mano to protect him from Brainiac 5's assault. Tharax and Persuader tore Brainiac 5 apart permanently disabling the unit.
Tharax and Persuader were suddenly stunned by an explosion underneath them as Nia let loose an energy attack. Nia focused on Emerald Empress, the true threat. "You're mine, bitch," Nia said as she wrapped energy cables around her body. Nia then flew towards Empress Emerald and blasted her into the sky. The two fired energy attacks in the city at each other causing a number of buildings to get hit. Emerald Empress quickly overpowered Nia with energy and physical attacks. The beaten Nia then fell to the ground devastated.
"Maybe fighting them one at a time was a bad idea," Nia said before she passed out.
J'onn tried another round only to get cut up by Persuader's ax, blasted by Tharax, and punched around by Validus. As J'onn phased to protect himself, Mano placed his anti-matter hand inside J'onn's body and waited for him to materialize. When he eventually did, Mano charged his hand causing eternal damage all over J'onn's body. J'onn then fell to the ground barely alive.
"Finally, I can charge up my eye in peace," Emerald Empress said annoyed.
The Fatal Five then came back together to form a perimeter around her as she meditated. Kara cracked the air as she slowed herself down through Earth's atmosphere and then created a crater in the city square as she landed busting up the pavement all around her and throwing debris into the air. The Fatal Five took positions around her for a coordinated attack.
"There's only one of you and five of us," Empress Emerald told her.
Kara motioned for them to come at her. Validus and Persuader came at her at the same time from two different approaches. Kara extended her arm out cutting Validus' body in half at the midsection disabling the beast. She then leaped up and kicked Persuader in half at the midsection killing him instantly.
Kara then turned to Tharax and fired heat vision beams into his arm cannon. It exploded as it hit blasting away the right side of his body. The disarmed Tharax backed away fearfully. A disgusted Emerald Empress blasted Tharax through the back killing him.
Emerald Empress then leaped up and fired a strong green beam down upon Kara. The area exploded as it hit but Kara remained standing as the dust settled. Mano rushed Kara at the same time cocking his right glowing fist back for a strike. Kara dodged his right hand and punched him through the gut and out the other side. Mano fell to his knees devastated. Kara then punched through the dome on his head and tore the skull out. The skull screeched as it was exposed to the outside air. Kara crushed the skull in her hand and then focused on Emerald Empress.
"One to go," Kara taunted.
"I will kill you!" Emerald Empress shrieked and then fired all of her remaining power at Kara. As the green beam came closer to Kara, she met it with her own red heat vision. The two beams met in the center and then Kara quickly overpowered her incinerating her completely. Kara's heat vision went straight into space where it finally dissipated.
Kara walked over to Emerald Empress's remains finding only ash and the broken Eye of Ekron. Kara picked up the eye determining that it was no longer functional. Kara then went over to Validus' brain trapped in his broken robot body. Kneeling down, Kara punched through the dome splattering the brain.
Pacific Ocean
After the battle, Kara and Jessica took a stroll inside a mountain cave on an uninhabited Pacific Island. "So...the Green Lantern Corp fired me. They said I didn't have the will to sacrifice a few for the greater good. They're right, you know," Jessica said bitterly.
"Yeah," Kara agreed.
"Just as well," Jessica said sadly. "What's one more failure."
"It's because of your failure that I brought you here," Kara said as they moved deeper into the cave.
They came upon a facility constructed inside the cave. Kara turned the lights on and showed Jessica around. On a pedestal was a gauntlet with all the Lantern rings of the different spectrums. The five fingers had the green, yellow, blue, indigo, and orange rings. Three holes were carved into the back of the gauntlet's hand where the red, violet, and black rings were placed. Jessica stared at the gauntlet in amazement.
"It took me a while to collect them all," Kara said reflectively. "In the future, all the Lantern Corps are gone. All that remains of them are these powerless artifacts."
"But their Corp batteries exist in this time. This gauntlet would be extremely powerful," Jessica figured.
"Almost as powerful as me," Kara admitted. "When you put all the rings together, it creates a White light. White light is the source of all colors. It's only when White light is fragmented that you get colors," Kara said.
"But there is no White Lantern battery," Jessica said confused.
Kara took Jessica deeper into the facility where the White Lantern battery hummed glowing bright white. "What is its source?" Jessica asked amazed.
"Me," Kara smiled.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me," Jessica doubted.
"I shit you not. I have more power in my being than all the Lantern Corps combined," Kara said proudly. "I gave a fraction of my power to create this battery. You see, none of the emotional spectrums fit me very well. I never gave a shit to have will-power. I never felt fear or a need to have others fear me. I found hope and compassion to be a load of crap. I hoarded money but not excessively so. I tried to join the Violet Corp but they said I was too crazy for them. I was a Red Lantern for a time, but I never felt rage about anything. Finally, death freaked me the fuck out," Kara said of the different spectrums.
"So, what emotion is White?" Jessica asked.
"Peace, joy, tranquility," Kara smiled. "It's my own version of heaven. It is the total lack of emotion, only complete bliss. It's what I have been looking for my whole life. To end the sadness in my heart. I could never find it within one of these rings, so I created my own ring. I discovered that only I could give myself peace and harmony from within," Kara said reflectively.
"Pretty cool," Jessica said impressed.
Kara reached into the White Lantern battery and took out the White ring. "The White Lantern Corp has only one rule: Don't be an asshole," Kara said handing it to Jessica.
"Why me?" Jessica wondered.
"The stone that was rejected becomes the cornerstone. There's no better way to piss off the Guardians then to have their greatest failure be the most powerful Lantern in the universe," Kara smiled.
"Fail upwards, huh?" Jessica figured.
"That's right," Kara agreed.
"What are your orders, Ma'am?" Jessica asked giving her a mock salute.
"No orders. Be free. Save the universe or do nothing at all. It's all the same to me," Kara said to her.
"I just have one last thing I want to do before I leave for the cosmos," Jessica said seriously.
"Sure," Kara allowed.
Jessica then kissed Kara passionately. After a moment, Jessica broke from Kara. "It's not me," she realized.
"It's not for everyone," Kara said amused.
Jessica slowly placed the ring on her finger and immediately felt incredible power. A white energy suit formed around her clothes and her eyes became pure white. The suit was blinding inside the room until Jessica calmed it down. "Jessica Crews, I hereby knight you a White Lantern," Kara said to her.
"This is incredible," Jessica said amazed. "I feel great. I feel like all my worries are gone. It's so peaceful."
"I know, right?" Kara smiled. "In case any other Lantern gives you shit remember this: It's okay to be White."
"Sure," Jessica rolled her eyes.
"Have fun," Kara told her.
"I will," Jessica assured her and then flew out of the cave to test her abilities out in the vast cosmos of space.
DEO Desert Base
Lena went to see General Lane at the ruined DEO site stepping over dead bodies and broken equipment. "Supergirl defeated the Fatal Five without breaking a sweat. She can't be beaten," Lena said defeated.
"So what are you suggesting? We shut down the meta-human project?" Gen. Lane asked.
"No, general. We can't defeat Supergirl with raw strength, but she's no hero either. We bring out our own version of Supergirl, one that has discipline and true compassion, and the public will love her," Lena said.
"I have just the girl in mind," Gen. Lane smiled.
"You called for me, Sir?" Lt. Col Lucy Lane asked joining them.
Lena and Gen. Lane merely smiled at her.
Metropolis
Kara sat alone in her apartment watching TV and eating pot-stickers. She heard a creak down the hall. Turning the TV off, she waited for the inevitable knock. Finally, there was a knock on her door. Kara opened the door already knowing who it was. Alex gave Kara a frustrated look. "What you did to me was beyond fucked up," she said.
"I know it was," Kara admitted.
"But it's also true that you've saved my life countless times. You were the reason my father had to leave, but you brought him back to us," Alex said.
"I suppose," Kara said wondering where she was going with this.
"So, that's why I'm not shutting you out of my life forever. You're not allowed to leave until you have set everything right," Alex ordered.
"Alright," Kara allowed. "Want to come in? I can cook up a pizza."
"Not this time. I have to go home to someone I actually trust," Alex said burning her.
"I see," Kara nodded.
Alex shook her head and walked away. Kara closed the door and shed a tear. Hyperventilating, Kara began to sob. She reached into her pocket and placed the White ring on her finger. Immediately, she felt relief. "That's the stuff," Kara said shuddering from the joyful rush.
Calming herself down, Kara went to bed and slept peacefully.
Author's Notes: Alex's sudden sexuality revelation in Season 2 is finally explained here. It's a reference to Midvale 1x12 The Persuader. It's one of the reasons why Kara is not surprised or sympathetic when Alex does come out in 2x06 as she knew all along. The main conflict of Adventures of Supergirl is how much can Kara get away with just because she saves the world. When does it become too much? This ends the Fatal Five and Brightburn story arc and now it's off to the second part of this season.