Season 4.5 Episode 19
Alex found herself standing in a field at her farm outside Metropolis. Her flight suit was gone but her black combat suit underneath was intact. She looked over her hands and touched her face not seeing or feeling any injuries. In fact, she felt great and empowered. Looking around, she had no idea how she got there. One moment she was in space on the shuttle and the next she was on the farm.
Kelly came out of the house and ran over to Alex. "What are you doing out here?" she asked confused.
"I don't know," Alex admitted. "I need to make a call."
"You've worked long hours. I rarely see you," Kelly said embracing her.
Alex gave her an odd look as a part of her felt repulsed by her. Something in the corner of her mind told her this was wrong as Kelly kissed her. No, this would not do. She needed to find a strong healthy male to reproduce with. This woman was insufficient for the task. Alex's eyes went red as she lost herself. Kelly found herself getting hot as she kissed Alex. She tried to break away as she began to burn. Alex clutched her tightly and burned her to ash as a surge of energy went through her. Alex then walked away from the ash pile that was Kelly towards the street.
The black jet then landed on the street near her house. Brainiac 5, Nia, James, Shazam, and Garth came out of the jet and walked up to Alex.
"Thank God, you're still alive," Nia expressed happily.
"Nia, stay away from her," Brainiac 5 warned her as he read unusual power readings coming from Alex.
"He's right, you shouldn't be here," Alex said angrily, her eyes glowing red. "You and Kara fucked with me for the last time. Now, I have powers beyond anything this galaxy has ever seen. Now, I am the most powerful being on this planet, not her."
"It's not a competition, chill out," Garth said.
"I don't believe that's helping," Brainiac 5 shut him up.
"Where's Kelly?" James demanded.
"She was redundant. I have everything I could ever want except a male's seed. She couldn't provide that to me," Alex said.
"The fuck are you trying to say?" James shouted at her and then sped around the house looking for her searching the house, the barn, and the field until finally coming back. "You turned her into ash," James said picking up her ring.
"Is this true, Alex?" Nia asked naively.
"Obviously, she's under some kind of spell. I have seen weird shit like this before," Shazam said.
"Shove it. She knew what she was doing," James said angrily and rushed her as fast as he could. James shattered and was blasted apart before he could land a punch on her.
"Holy fuck!" Garth said stunned.
"Oh my God, James," Nia said covering her mouth.
"Alright, time to open a can of whoop-ass," Shazam said and then blasted Alex into her house with a lightning strike.
Shazam followed up on his attacks punching Alex through the walls wrecking the place. Alex, in turn, threw bookcases and dressers at him with her telekinetic powers and then dumped the ceiling on him. Alex then punched Shazam out of her house blasting the walls apart as she did.
Shazam fired off a lightning bolt at her, but she easily deflected it blasting apart a nearby house. Nia wrapped Alex's body with energy cables pinning her limbs to her sides. Alex easily broke them apart and then forced Nia back onto the ground stunning her.
Garth bravely charged Alex and punched her to the midsection and face. Alex merely tossed him aside where he impacted slamming into a truck. Brainiac 5 fired tranquilizer darts at her. The darts disassembled in the air becoming useless before getting close to her.
Cops then arrived at the scene. Alex turned around and used her powers to toss the cop cars on their sides. The cops came out and fired at her. Their bullets became suspended in the air as Alex raised her hand. The cops' weapons then exploded in their hands.
"We may need the big guns this time," Brainiac 5 realized.
A truck arrived on the scene with Eliza coming out. Alex stopped what she was doing as she saw her mother approaching. "Alex, stop!"
"Stay away from me," Alex said to her, her mind conflicted.
"That's never going to happen," Eliza said to her.
"Please, stop," Alex said as she tried to fight the rage and violence inside her.
"Not until I know you're going to be okay," Eliza said.
"Something is happening to me," Alex told her.
"So come home. Let me take care of you," Eliza offered coming closer to her.
"I can't...control it," Alex said struggling.
"It's okay, Alex. Kara went through the same thing," Eliza said.
"Don't say her name!" Alex shouted as rage began to consume her.
"Just listen to my voice, Alex. We're going to get through this. Just like we always have. I'm not giving up on you, Alex. This is what family is all about. We take care of each other," Eliza said.
"You loved her more than you loved me! You let her bully me, humiliate me, and ruin my life! All I wanted to do was to protect her and she treated me like shit!" Alex raged and then pushed Eliza back away from her.
Eliza hit a broken fence post and was impaled on three wooden spikes. She instantly went into shock staring at Alex in horror. Alex ran over to Eliza regaining control of herself for the moment. She stared at Eliza's mortal wounds not knowing what to do.
"Fly away from the pain," a dark voice in her head told her.
Alex's eyes went red as she took to the skies and disappeared. Brainiac 5 ran over to Eliza and examined her wounds. She would bleed out within a minute. There was nothing he could do. "There's...still good...in her," Eliza gasped and then passed away.
Brainiac 5 gave a blank look as Nia began to cry. "We must regroup and reassess the situation. The planet is in grave danger."
Alex landed at the Green Martian colony hidden away from the human population. The Green Martians went about their work, gardening, farming, repairing equipment, and building structures for themselves. Upon arriving, the Green Martian guards gave Alex a suspicious look.
"Who are you?" a large male Martian asked her. "What are you doing here?"
"He's here. I sense him," Alex said looking around.
J'onn then flew over to her and became Hank. "Why are you here?" he asked her.
"I need your help," Alex replied.
The two went into Hank's dwelling where he lived alone as the leader of the Martian commune. "Are you hurt?" he asked her.
"No," Alex replied.
"You have to forgive them. They're paranoid as fuck and with good reason," Hank apologized.
"I thought you were dead. Now, you turn up here as leader of a Martian colony," Alex said peeved.
"I found an opportunity to restart my life. I have lived for so long that I've had to restart every few decades," Hank replied.
"I did things, terrible things," Alex said to him.
"Why don't you start at the beginning," Hank suggested.
"You hurt people," Alex said trying to create a false equivalency.
"Absolutely. What have you come to ask me?" Hank asked confused.
"How did you stop?" Alex asked.
"I've lived with vengeance my whole life, ever since my family was taken from me. So, I hurt people, evil people. Yes, killed people even before you were born. And I thought killing those mother-fuckers would help make the pain go away. It didn't, no matter how many souls I sent under. So, I stopped...made you the director of the DEO, opened my own business. I thought that would do the trick, but you people just kept bringing me back," Hank explained.
"So, I faked my own death and came here," Hank said.
"I don't know how to stop. I don't know what's happening to me. When I lose control, things happen badly to people I love," Alex said.
"Drama queen much? You're only human. It's not like you're Kara who can destroy the whole world if someone gets her latte wrong," Hank mocked. "What do you think I can do for you?"
"I don't know! Maybe erase my memory or do something to fix me," Alex cried.
"Who did you hurt, Alex?" Hank interrogated.
"Don't make me angry," Alex warned.
"I want you to be angry. It's better than you being full of self-pity," Hank said.
"I don't want to hurt you," Alex said to him.
"As if," Hank scoffed.
"We have two birds approaching, military," a Green Martian female told Hank.
"Stay here," Hank said to Alex and went outside to check it out.
Two helicopters landed filled with armed personnel. Brainiac 5 approached Hank. "What the fuck are you doing here? We had an arrangement to keep this area secluded and private from the human world," Hank said pissed-off.
"I'm not here for you. I want Alex," Brainiac 5 said.
"Piss-off," Hank said to him.
Brainiac 5 looked around and noticed a spike in energy inside one of the buildings. "She's here," he confirmed.
"What do you want with her?" Hank asked impatiently.
"She attacked a squad of police cars," Brainiac 5 said.
"You'll have to do better than that," Hank scoffed.
"She killed the Olsens," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Well...shit," Hank frowned but still reluctant.
"She even killed Eliza Danvers, her own mother. She's dangerous but together we might be able to help her. Do you really want Kara to get involved?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"Fuck no," Hank agreed. "What the fuck is wrong with her?"
"She was hit with an unusual plasma storm. It's altered her mind and increased her power," Brainia 5 said to him.
"Like Fantastic Four?" Hank questioned.
"Worse," Brainiac 5 said seriously.
One of the helicopters started moving on its own. "Is that you?" Hank and Brainiac 5 asked at the same time.
Alex revealed herself as the one manipulating the helicopter. It took to the air and began firing its machine guns and missiles at the commune scattered soldiers and Martians alike. "Holy fuck!" Hank shouted as he got to cover.
Soldiers aimed their rifles at her only to have them taken from their hands into a nearby pond. Brainiac 5 fired out cables to restrain her but they stopped in front of her. Hank became J'onn and went for an attack. Alex forced him back with a wave of her hand slamming him into a building. Fires then erupted all around the commune freaking out the Martians.
"Your race was designated for extinction. I'm here to finish the job," Alex said to Hank.
"The fuck?" he wondered.
Brainiac 5 took out his laser pistol and fired at his own helicopters causing them to crash. Alex was on him in a flash and blasted him to pieces. Flames roared around Alex as she turned the commune to ash killing soldiers and Martians alike. Hank barely escaped throwing himself into a lake to escape the fire. Alex then flew away.
Metropolis
After killing her friends, family, Martians, and her former DEO men, Alex needed a drink at the alien gay bar in Metropolis. An older blond woman took a seat next to her. "You want to go away," Alex said to her.
"You can't control my mind like the others. I'm not like them," Vuk said to her.
"How did you find me?" Alex asked surprised.
"Let's just say I have friends in high places. Get it? I'm an alien," Vuk smirked.
"Well...no shit," Alex said looking at her albino complexion.
"The question is: Are you a scared little girl that is merely a sidekick or are you the most powerful creature on the planet?" Vuk asked.
"I'm listening," Alex agreed.
"You're the girl everyone takes a giant shit on. When are you going to take charge of your life and take a giant shit on them?" Vuk asked her.
"How?" Alex asked her.
Vuk brought Alex to an affluent home in Metropolis. There, she met Vuk's four associates. "They're not afraid of me?" Alex wondered.
"The only one afraid of your power is you," Vuk told her. "Let me show you something," she said leading her upstairs to her bedroom.
"This is what you wanted to show me? Sorry, but I don't fuck on the first date," Alex said rudely.
"This is what I want to show you," Vuk clarified showing her a visual illusion of the several galaxies in space. "What entered you in space was not a solar flare and it was not an accident. It was drawn to you," Vuk said.
"What was it?" Alex asked seeing the plasma storm bond with her in the shuttle.
"A pure incomprehensible cosmic force called the Phoenix. We saw it enter you in space. We were there, Alex, following that force," Vuk explained showing her ship witnessing the event.
"Why?" Alex asked.
"Because it is the spark that created life in the universe and the flames that consumed my world," Vuk said showing her planet's destruction.
"What remains of my people searched the stars for the Phoenix, to control it, but it destroyed anything it came into contact with...until you," Vuk said intrigued.
"Why me?" Alex asked her.
"You're stronger than you know, Alex. Because you're special, Alex. With my help, you could control what is inside you, harness that power to create whole new worlds, turn dust into water, water into life. It's your destiny, Alex. To become something greater. To evolve into the greatest force in the galaxy," Vuk said to her showing a dead planet being terraformed into a paradise.
"No one can understand you as I can, Alex. Your sister squanders her magnificent power, because she is afraid of it, of herself. Where she only causes death, you can create life. It's what you always wanted to do, Alex. To have children of your own. Now, you can seed life throughout the universe as you see fit," Vuk enticed.
"I...killed my own mother," Alex said tearfully.
"It wasn't your fault, Alex. On the way to controlling your power, there will be some collateral damage along the way. But if you truly wish to honor your mother's work, a work that involved healing and life, then this is your path, Alex," Vuk told her.
At the DEO, Hank took charge. "The target is former DEO Director Alex Danvers. Her energy signature is in downtown Metropolis. She's likely using the civilian population as a shield. We cannot allow her to fully develop her powers. She has the Phoenix force, a powerful living energy entity that could destroy this planet. It is the same force that destroyed nearly all life on Mars making it a wasteland. Make no mistake, the Alex Danvers you know is gone consumed by the Phoenix force. For the good of the planet, she must be contained and if necessary eliminated," Hank told his men present.
"Gear up," Hank ordered.
The DEO army came upon the house where Vuk, her associates, and Alex were staying that evening. Included were Shazam, Nia, and a new Brainiac 5 drone. The DEO parked their vehicles in a way to block all traffic down the busy street.
"Form a perimeter around the building. Nothing better escape," Hank yelled at his men. Hank then phased through the door to the house and confronted Alex and Vuk.
"I got to put you down, Alex," Hank said emotionally as he floated to her eye-level on the second floor.
"Side with me, J'onn, and I'll make Mars a paradise with oceans, jungles, and snowy mountain. I'll wipe out the White Martians once and for all. Join me, and I'll make it happen," Alex offered him.
"You can't control it," Hank sensed.
"But I will," Alex said confidently. "With the right guidance," she said turning to Vuk.
"She will turn you into a weapon of mass destruction. With great power comes even greater risk. You could end up destroying this planet and countless worlds in the galaxy," Hank said to her.
"He fears your power. He fears what he does not understand," Vuk said to Alex.
"Kara was right to restrain herself. She knew she could lose control," Hank said to her.
"Kara was lazy, apathetic, and didn't give a shit about life. It was all a game to her. We knew better. We knew the importance of life and what we would lose if we lost," Alex said angrily.
"We've already lost your mother, Alex. If you could kill her, what stops you from killing anyone else?" Hank asked.
"You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet," Alex said coldly.
"This isn't you, Alex," Hank said to her.
"What is Alex Danvers? A woman manipulated and disrespected by all those around her? I finally have power now, and you're trying to take it away from me. I should be the one with the power. I should be Supergirl, not Kara," Alex said to him.
"He's invading your mind," Vuk informed Alex.
"Is that what you think you're doing? Let me show you how it's done," Alex said angrily as she invaded his mind flashing visuals of his family burning to death. Alex then cast him out the window where he fell in the streets dumbfounded.
"Get me into that house," Brainiac 5 requested of Shazam.
"Got you," Shazaam said flying them through the broken window into the house.
"You here to kill me, too?" Alex asked Brainiac 5.
"I would never consider such an option," Brainiac 5 lied. "Nia has already dreamed of your defeat, your death, Alex."
"You're bluffing," Alex spat.
Alex cast Shazam to the floor stunning him. She entered his mind and forced him to say "Shazam". When he did so, he reverted back into a kid.
"You're the worst, Barney, manipulating everyone for your own goals," Alex sneered.
"I am an equal opportunity offender, Alex," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"I know destroying you here won't end you for good, but it will give me some satisfaction that I inconvenienced you," Alex said to him.
"The D'Bari cannot be trusted. They tried to harness the Phoenix and destroyed themselves. It was not a random attack. They don't have the knowledge and experience I have, Alex. I can guide you through the stars seeding life. Where my father tried to snuff out life, we can create life for all eternity," Brainiac 5 said.
"Don't listen to this drone. He's just like his father. He will use you to create mass genocide. He has no conscience or empathy," Vuk told her.
"I have never deceived you as to who I am, Alex. Can you say the same for them?" Brainiac 5 asked her.
"Maybe you are the best one to guide me, Barney. But the difference between you and Vuk is that I know I hate you," Alex said and then forced Brainiac 5 up the stairs like he was a puppet.
"You're sadly mistaken if you think this humiliates me," Brainiac 5 said unconcernedly as his body was forced up the stairs towards her.
Brainiac 5 then activated his left eye as a projector creating a hologram of young Alex with her parents. Alex shed a tear as she saw the images Brainiac 5 was showing her. "He can only show you your past. I can show you your future," Vuk offered.
A white beam suddenly hit Vuk blasting her through the ceiling window and slamming her up against a wall knocking her out. Nia then formed energy cables around Alex pinning her limbs. Brainiac 5 quickly put a metal collar on her forehead stunning Alex to the floor.
"You shouldn't have doubted me," Brainiac 5 said to Alex.
Brainiac 5 took Alex away on a fortified train out of the city. Meanwhile, Vuk quickly regenerated from her wounds and called up her associates to her aid.
Hank shook his head haunted by the psychological attack he had been through. "Can you continue, J'onn?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"Yes," Hank nodded.
"Why are we taking her by train instead of a helicopter?" Nia asked.
"Too risky. Besides, we want to lure out the D'Bari," Brainiac 5 said.
"Are you sure we can beat them?" Garth asked.
Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Cyborg, Flash, Shazam, and Hawkgirl appeared near the train. "I like our odds," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Arthur wanted you to have this," Diana said giving Garth a bad-ass trident.
"Nice," Garth said pleased.
"Let's move," Hank said getting the train underway. The train then moved out of the city limits with two helicopters acting as escort.