Season 4.5 Episode 20
On the Vindicator Cruiser, Kara was told what had happened by the real Brainiac 5. Kara wiped away tears. "What does it matter though?"
"If the planet is destroyed, our plan will not work," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"I can't...kill my own sister," Kara rejected.
"She has become a very dangerous threat not just to this planet but the entire universe. You and I both know that absolute power corrupts absolutely," Brainiac 5.
"I always thought that was just for me, because, you know, I'm so fucked up," Kara said.
"It turns devils into us all," Brainiac 5 said to her.
"If what you say is true, she could be the greatest opponent I have ever fought," Kara said. "It may be time to take out the prototype."
Brainiac 5 revealed the new uniform in a capsule case. Unlike before, it had trousers instead of a skirt. "I wouldn't be doing this unless it was serious," Kara said.
"I know. Still, you have yet to test it in battle," Brainiac 5 warned her.
"Then tonight is a good night," Kara said opening the capsule.
The train moved towards a tunnel on its journey to a secret DEO facility. Brainiac 5 was at the front of the train eyeing the instruments and sensors. "They're in the tunnels," Brainiac 5 said as he saw their bodies hugging the rock with his infrared vision.
Alarms went off throughout the entire length of the train. As the train exited the tunnel, fifteen B'Daria were on the roof of the train. The two escorting helicopters put a spotlight on them as they crawled around on the outside hull.
The rear door of the last train car was thrown off as B'Daria entered all resembling humans. DEO agents fired on them with automatic rifles with little effect. The B'Daira thrashed the DEO agents without difficulty. Outside, the helicopters fired 50 caliber bullets at the B'Daria still on the outside hull blasting one of them to pieces. The others retreated inside the train tearing off hatches to get inside. One B'Dari threw a hatch at one of the helicopters taking out the gunner and damaging the helicopter. The helicopter then withdrew only to crash in the forest and explode upon impact.
A B'Dari punched out the door to the second car. The DEO immediately lit him up. He quickly regenerated from his wounds. The 50 Cal machine gun in the back then took him down. B'Dari then flooded the car taking out the DEO. The 50 Cal gunner took out one more B'Dari before he was hit by a flying man.
The Justice League then entered the train compartment preventing the B'Dari from advancing. "You'll have to go through us," Diana said to them.
"Yeah," Flash said awkwardly.
"We just want the woman. Stand aside," one of the B'Dari said to them.
A fight commenced between the two sides inside the small compartment. John Stewart blasted a hole in the ceiling allowing Shazam to fly out. With his electrical powers, he blasted several D'Bari still on the roof of the train looking to get inside. John continued to fire out holes in the train's hull sending a B'Dari off the train. Cyborg leaped up, planted his robot feet on the hull of the train, and fired plasma bursts at the B'Dari. Flash sped quickly through the B'Dari rattling them with punches back and forth. Hawkgirl slammed her mace on a B'Dari's face shattered his skull only for him to regenerate from the wound. Diana slashed up B'Dari with her sword and then slammed her bracelets together to push them all into the rear train car.
Brainiac 5 disconnected the train as he saw their signatures bundled up. John aimed his green ring at the falling away train car blasting it to scrap. Vuk then leaped off a bridge onto the train, tackled Cyborg, and slammed him to the floor as she entered. She then tore apart his limbs and chest apart aggressively destroying his vital systems. Shazam came down and blasted Vuk with electrical energy. Vuk collected the electrical energy thrown at her and blasted Shazam back with her own energy overwhelming him.
The lone helicopter continued to fire on the B'Dari still outside. One B'Dari leaped up, tore through the helicopter window, and forced it to come down in a fireball down on the tracks. Vuk walked forward not even looking at the helicopter explosion behind her like a boss. Flash looked upon the dead Cyborg and Shazam horrified. He sped towards Vuk and pummeled her all over her body in quick succession. Vuk took control of Flash telekinetically and slammed him up-and-down from the ceiling to the floor multiple times until he was dead.
"I don't want to fight you, Lantern," Vuk said to him.
"I get that a lot," John said to her and then formed two dozen green rifles in the air. They all fired green bullets all at once blasting holes in Vuk's body.
Vuk waved her hand throwing John side-to-side telekinetically until he was dead as well. She then healed from her wounds with rapid regeneration. Vuk forced open the next door and found Diana with a sword ready. Hawkgirl landed behind her with her mace.
"I won't let you take her," Diana said referring to Alex.
"You're preventing her from achieving her destiny," Vuk replied to her.
Diana and Hawkgirl went for a strike on her at the same time. Vuk faded as the two struck each other. Hawkgirl's mace hit Diana to the face and Diana sent her sword into Hawkgirl's gut. The two fell to the floor dead. Vuk eyed them both amused having used her telepathic abilities to fool them as to her actual position.
Garth then charged with his trident. Vuk summoned Diana's sword and Hawkgirl's mace into her hands. The two dueled with their weapons in the confined compartment sparking electricity off the hull. "You say you control water? So can I? You just lack imagination," Vuk said and then caused Garth to explode into a fountain of blood as the water in his body was forced out of him.
The blood on Vuk's body and clothes dissolved away as she went to the next compartment on the train finally finding Hank and Alex. Upon seeing her, Hank fired heat vision at her. "Please," Vuk mocked blocking the beam with her hand and pushing it back against him. Vuk then withdrew the restraints around Alex. She began to wake up.
Hank put his hands on Alex's face in an attempt to keep her incapacitated with his telepathic powers. Alex's eyes glowed red as she overpowered Hank's mind and then lit him on fire. Hank kept his hold on her in a vain attempt to restrain her. The fire became too much for him as he disintegrated.
"Many have lost their lives on both sides over you. I hope your resolve has not been shaken," Vuk said to her.
"It hasn't," Alex replied.
Alex aimed her hand at the front train door and blasted it off. "Oh dear," Brainiac 5 said as she entered. Alex pushed him out the window and allowed the train to run him over.
The train then initiated a self-destruct sequence from Brainiac 5. The train exploded and then derailed flinging B'Dari off it. Once it settled, Alex and Vuk emerged unharmed. On a hill overlooking the tracks, Nia and another Brainiac 5 drone looked over the crash.
"Are you still sure about this?" Brainiac 5 asked her.
"It's how I saw it," she said.
"Very well," Brainiac 5 allowed.
Alex, Vuk, and the remaining B'Dari assembled together. The air cracked as Supergirl landed creating a crater in the ground in her new uniform. "We must leave," Vuk said as her smug expression disappeared.
"No, I want to see what your people can do," Alex refused.
Kara motioned for the B'Dari to come at her. After a moment's hesitation, they rushed her from different angles. Kara swiped the arm off of one as he went past her. She then blasted the one in front of her with heat vision incinerating him. She then sped forward swinging her arm up tearing the first one to pieces. She then blasted the third one with frost breath shattering him. Kara then engaged two of them at the same time punching a lethal hole to the gut in one and then kicking the other in half. The last one tried to impale her with a metal rod. It broke on impact. Kara turned around and blasted his head off with heat vision.
"Protect me," Vuk said fearfully as the last of her men were killed off.
Alex eyed Vuk unimpressed. "You tried to use my power to your own ends. For that, I destroyed your world. Yet, you continue to repeat your same mistakes."
"Alex, remember our dream? Remember what we could do together," Vuk tried to reach her.
"Alex is gone. There is only Phoenix," she replied.
Vuk gave her a horrified look and then turned to Kara. "I'm so sorry. I've doomed your world. Please forgive me," she said to her getting on her knees.
"I forgive you," Kara said softly.
Alex swiped her head off leaving them alone. Kara turned to Alex as energetic flames surrounded her. "It would appear we have some issues to work out," Kara said as they circled each other.
"You destroyed your world without needing my intervention. I have no conflict with you, Kryptonian," Alex said to her.
"This world belongs to me so piss-off," Kara said to her.
"This planet has the exact conditions for you to thrive. It gives you powers beyond any other living being. It even rivals my own," Alex said.
"If you say so," Kara smirked.
"Should a colony of Kryptonians gain a foothold here, you would become too powerful to manage. You might be able to escape the power of death itself," Alex said.
"I know, right?" Kara said not taking her seriously.
"Do not worry. For every world I destroy, I create a new one," Alex assured her. "The universe must be perfectly balanced as all things should be."
"Only if you beat me," Kara challenged.
"You? I have all of Alex's memories. I know your strengths and weaknesses. You will not lay a finger on this body," Alex said confidently.
Kara sped towards Alex, cocked her fist back, and punched to the midsection hard for a killing blow. The trees behind Alex were shattered by the shockwave from the impact. Kara withdrew confused as Alex didn't suffer any kind of injury from her attack.
"You surprise me, Kara Zor-El. Perhaps, we can have a decent fight, after all," Alex smiled.
Alex kicked Kara hard sending her through the atmosphere into outer space. Kara closed eyes tightly in pain as she coughed up blood. Before she could recover, Alex punched her hard sending her away from Earth towards the sun. Kara fell through the acidic clouds of Venus and hit the hard rocky ground creating a crater. Kara groaned as she struggled to get up. The Venus surface temperature was over 900F, the surface pressure 90 times higher than Earth crushing any submarine, and lacking any oxygen in the air.
Alex landed gracefully on the surface unaffected by the hellish conditions. As she landed, nearby volcanos began to erupt spewing lava onto the surface. "Is this acceptable for our battle?" Alex asked.
"Venus, huh? Mon and I often work out here," Kara said unimpressed.
Alex's flaming aura flared in irritation. "I'm going to have you begging for death."
"Don't make promises you can't keep," Kara smirked.
Alex sped towards Kara with combat moves she had learned from Jeremiah and refined by the DEO. Kara struggled at first but then matched her speed and moves. Alex powered up as she tried to finish Kara. "Prime," Kara smiled as her body glowed. Kara then took the advantage, getting strong blows on Alex to the face and the torso ending with a kick that slammed Alex into a rock formation.
"We were both taught by Jeremiah, remember?" Kara said snidely.
Alex glared blasting the rock formation apart with her aura. Kara became white-hot as she let loose a hydrogen bomb explosion of power that turned the Venus rocks red-hot. Alex remained unphased as the light faded. Kara frowned wondering the extent of Alex's power.
Alex retaliated slamming Kara through the Venus crust and into a magma chamber. The surface exploded with lava from the impact. Kara slowly emerged from the lava unharmed. "You're holding back," Alex realized.
"Yeah, what's your excuse?" Kara asked her.
Alex raised her hand and fired a red beam at Kara as her aura flared. Kara met the beam wth her own heat beam. The two dug in as neither one could get supremacy. The rock underneath their beams turned to liquid from the extreme heat. The ground then exploded in a lava plume ending their beam war. Kara flew through the lava and attacked Alex with punch and kick combinations. As she did, she increased her speed. Alex kept up with her blocking and attacking back. Kara then backed off.
"Amazing, Alex. Despite my superior memory and intelligence, we are still equal," Kara complimented.
"Alex is gone," the Pheonix told her through Alex. "She tried to control me but like all the others she eventually lost to my overwhelming power."
"Why did you choose Alex?" Kara asked.
"Her family bloodline is susceptible to receiving great power as shown by her cousin, Carol," Alex replied.
Kara rolled her eyes. "I'll show you real power," she said as she increased her level.
The two clashed at the fist creating a crater in the hard ground. The two went higher into the atmosphere punching and kicking at a fast speed as lightning struck around them and acid rain hit them. The two traveled along the entire surface of the planet creating powerful shockwaves with each hit. The two continued to go higher into the atmosphere until they reached space. Alex cocked her fist back struck Kara hard. Kara put up her arms to block. The impact blasted off the entire Venusian atmosphere into space. The Venusian atmosphere spread out in space and dissipated leaving Venus a dead naked rock.
"Holy fuck," Kara said wide-eyed.
Alex gave Kara an odd look. "Don't tell me that was your best attack. Let me show you how it's done," Kara said getting behind Alex and backhanding her back towards the planet. Upon impact, the entire planet shattered. Alex put her hands together as she forced the dust and debris back together to form a new planet. Alex's flaming aura covered the planet, forming a new atmosphere. Kara landed on the ground in front of Alex feeling a slight sting being so close to her.
"You going to take this seriously?" Alex asked Kara.
"Why? Do you have a deathwish?" Kara wondered.
"I will wear you down. You can't bring yourself to kill your adopted sister," Alex said to her. "Behold what I can do."
Kara watched intrigued as the atmosphere became more like Earth, water appeared on the surface, and then life sprouted across the surface of New Venus. Within moments, Venus was a paradise. "Tell me, Kara, can you do this?" Alex asked.
"You got me beat in this department," Kara admitted.
"Now, you see how necessary I am for the universe," Alex said to her.
"I have no problem with your seeding life. It's actually quite admirable. But there is no balance or rules that need to be followed. Just let life live and die on its own terms," Kara argued.
"There would be chaos," Alex replied.
"And who gives a shit? If God doesn't, why should you?" Kara asked.
"I am the god of the universe," Alex said to her.
"And here I thought I was pretentious," Kara mocked.
Alex changed the land once more creating giant mountains and valleys across the entire planet with Kryptonian crystals. The crystals then turned green turning into Kryptonite. Kara fell to her knees devastated by the Kryptonite planet. Alex then changed the atmosphere making Kara even sicker. She spat out blood as she fell on the glowing green ground.
Kara then reached out with her hand. Alex gave her a dispassionate look as Kara was dying from the extreme Kryptonite radiation. A white ring suddenly shot towards Kara and fell on her index finger. Her suit immediately turned a bright white with a white energy field around her. Kara got back to her feet as her suit and aura blocked out the Kryptonite.
"What is this?" Alex asked bewildered.
"I'm a White Lantern, didn't you know?" Kara smirked.
"There is no such thing," Alex spat.
"You're right. I created the white lantern battery with my own power. Now, you can't defeat me using my bullshit weakness," Kara said smugly.
Kara, stronger than ever, fired white chains around Alex's body pinning her limbs and keeping her feet on the ground. Alex struggled and then screamed like an animal as she resisted Kara's hold. "Impossible!" Alex screamed at her.
"Nah, just improbable," Kara mocked. "In the future, I took a chance and exposed myself to the gamma radiation of an exploding star that gave me more radiation than this sun's total converted radiation in its entire lifetime."
Alex gave her a horrified look. "Someone like you could destroy galaxies. You should not exist."
"Yeah, I would agree with you if I was like you. But as I always say, 'Ambition ends where happiness begins,'" Kara said to her.
"How can you do nothing but frustrate progress?" Alex raged.
"That's like hating on gravity because you can't soar like an eagle. The fact is, I'm necessary to keep so-called gods like you in check," Kara said
The Phoenix then escaped Alex's body and went straight for Earth. Kara quickly created an energy field around Alex, so she could breathe. "What the fuck have I done? I killed all those people. My own mother," Alex said stunned.
"It's going to be okay, Alex," Kara said embracing her.
"The Phoenix," Alex turned back towards the Earth, a small blue dot far away.
"I got it covered," Kara assured her.
A dozen White Lantern Corp members raced towards the Phoenix and fired white energy chains to bind it up. The Phoenix, taking on the Phoenix shape, flapped its wings and struggled against the chains. As it was bound up, the White Lanterns created white constructs around the Phonix building floors and walls until the Phoenix disappeared inside a giant white Death Star incredibly detailed as if it were the real thing.
Jessica Crews then fired a white burst that went down the Death Star's shaft and caused the whole thing to explode destroying the Phoenix inside. The powerful explosion could be seen from New Venus. "Good work, team," Kara said, proud of them.
Alex then collapsed on the ground. Kara eyed her internal organs and noticed she was suffering from extreme radiation poisoning. "Okay, back to Earth," Kara said to her.
"Kara, I can't go back after this," Alex told her.
"I'll hide you away in some cottage until this all blows over," Kara told her.
"I need to atone for what I did," Alex said filled with self-pity.
"Someone already did that for you, Alex. Just live," Kara said.
"I have nothing to go back to. Everyone I care about is dead because of me," Alex said tearfully.
"You still have me," Kara reminded her.
"No," Alex shook her head. "I'm done. I'm finished."
"Well, then I'll stay with you until the end," Kara offered.
"Thanks, Kara," Alex said weakly laying against a rock. "I'm scared," Alex said as she started to fade.
"You won't be alone," Kara told her.
Alex gave her a confused look and then passed away. Kara then took off her ring subjecting herself to the lethal Kryptonite radiation. "I'm so sorry, Alex. Maybe next time...I'll get it right," Kara said as she leaned next to Alex and fell asleep. Kara and Alex then disappeared in a flash as the timeline abruptly ended.
End of Season 4.5
Season 5 Episode 0
Kara and Brainiac 5 casually walked towards the Danvers' house overlooking the beach. "Well, everyone that needed to be killed was and everyone that needed to live is still around. You think we got it right, this time?" Kara asked optimistically.
"Our odds are not good," Brainiac 5 replied pessimistically.
"Don't be like that. What could threaten the world this time?" Kara wondered.
"We shall see," Brainiac 5 said intrigued.
"You know what? I think technology will end up being the enemy this time. Yeah, fuck technology. The Dark Ages were awesome," Kara expressed.
"I'm still here," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"And social media," Kara added. "Twitter will end us all."
"I think you exaggerate the threat," Brainiac 5 said declining to tell her he had thousands of bots working for him on social media to manipulate mankind towards his line of thinking.
"I'm super-serious. I think it really could be my greatest challenge yet," Kara said super-serious.
"Well, in that case, I created a new uniform for you. Instead of the skirt, it now has trousers," Brainiac 5 told her.
"I knew I could count on you for everything," Kara said appreciatively.
Alex came out of the house and walked up to them. "Come inside. A storm is coming," she warned them looking at the dark sky.
"She's not wrong," Brainiac 5 agreed and then walked off in the other direction disappearing in a cloak.
"He'll always creep me out," Alex shook her head at him.
"Damn it, I forgot something to fix," Kara frowned.
"You fucked up the timeline again?" Alex asked incredulously.
"That's putting it lightly," Kara admitted.
"What's wrong this time?" Alex asked impatiently.
"Lena knows," Kara said.
"Well...shit," Alex realized.
Ambition ends where happiness begins
Thomas Merton