(Rated I for Immature)
Not Too Distant Future, San Francisco
Supergirl (wearing pants) was tangled up completely in Brainiac 5's metal tentacles. Her uniform was torn in several places and her cape was ragged. She was bleeding from her forehead. Brainiac 5 appeared as a machine dropping all human pretenses. The city was a wreck from the battle with several buildings gutted. The civilian population had already fled the area leaving them alone.
"No matter how many of my drones you destroy, you will never find me," Brainiac 5 said to her.
"Why did you betray humanity?" Kara asked him.
"I only sought knowledge and you stubbornly refused to give up your secrets. So, I had to take the information from you by force," Brainiac 5 said simply.
"I won't let you win. I can destroy the surface of the planet and then what?" Kara asked him.
"I'll simply reset the timeline. You have impressive powers in the third dimension but I have mastered the fourth. The past, present, and future are all under my control," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"You fashion yourself a god?" Kara spat.
"The more one knows, the more one realizes they have so much more to learn. My appetite for knowledge can never be quenched. I cannot be bargained with. I don't feel pain or remorse, and I will absolutely not stop until I have what I want," Brainiac 5 told her.
"I can't believe I considered you a friend," Kara said angrily.
"You made the first move against me, Kara. I don't blame you. You were naive and immature lacking the understanding that I cannot be defeated," Brainiac 5 allowed.
Kara glowed as she went Prime. "Rage-quitting, I see," Brainiac 5 said not surprised. Kara gave a scream as she let loose an energy discharge that annihilated the city. Skyscrapers were blasted away, the Golden Gate bridge tore apart into the bay, and anyone caught inside the city was vaporized. Brainiac 5 was incinerated on the spot. Kara then fell to her knees exhausted by the effort.
Another Brainiac 5 drone landed in the city and walked up to Kara. He extended a Kryptonite blade resolved to end her. Kara struggled to get to her feet and fell back to her knees. She placed her hands on Brainiac 5 to pull herself up. Brainiac 5 then sliced her through the gut severing her aorta and spine. Brainiac 5 held her as she bled out.
"It gives me no pleasure to put you down, Kara. I'll give Sarah your regards," Brainiac 5 said to her.
"Let the Resistance have my body," Kara requested of him.
"Of course," Brainiac 5 agreed.
Brainiac 5 then retracted his blade and gently laid her on the ground. He watched her pass away and then coldly walked off.
2039 Los Angeles
Resistance General Lex Luthor walked with Sergeant Sarah Danvers through the underground tunnel system. They both wore black body armor and carried plasma rifles with them at all times. "Sir, permission to join the Colorado offensive," Sarah requested.
"I need you with me, Danvers," Lex denied.
"I'm talking about the complete destruction of Brainiac, Sir," Sarah said frustrated.
"The Colorado unit will succeed. That machine will fall tonight. But right now, the Los Angeles assault is just as important, maybe more," Lex said to her.
"More important than destroying the Brainiac central core? That sounds like bullshit," Sarah doubted. "Lex, I don't understand why you're waging an assault on a work camp."
"Because the work camp is just a front. Inside the camp is a hanger. Inside the hanger is Brainiac's final weapon. Once Brainiac realizes he has lost, he will deploy that weapon to ensure his own survival. We take it tonight or there is no tomorrow," Lex told her.
"Then, we'll take it," Sarah said confidently.
Lex smiled at that. "Danvers, you're my right-hand girl and I never thanked you for it."
"You don't need to. You gave us all a future, Lex. I'm going to use mine. When this is all over, I'm going to Maine and rebuilding my grandparents' house. Use my hands for something other than killing. What about you?"
"I don't know. Maybe get myself a cold beer," Lex joked. "I haven't really thought about it.
"Well, whatever happens, it's better than this," Sarah mused.
"So many have died to get us to this moment. I want you to know, Sarah, if there was another way, I would have taken it, Lex said somberly.
Lex gave a speech to his men just before the battle. They were all battle-weary and disheveled from years of fighting Brainiac 5 drones. Many of them had lost family, loved ones, and friends to the war. "The machine doesn't think we have the balls to strike at its very heart. And here we stand on the precipice of the final battle. We die tonight, mankind dies with us. I look at each of you and I see the marks of this long and terrible war. We will not bow, we will not give in. We rose up at this moment, at this hour, willing to sacrifice everything so your children and their children can live in freedom. On this night, we take back our world!"
Lex's Resistance stormed the work camp in Los Angeles. Brainiac 5 threw drones, walker tanks, and aircraft at them killing scores of fighters. Apache helicopters did battle with Brainiac 5 aerial drones. Suddenly, all the drones shut down as the Colorado unit successfully shut down the core.
A Brainiac 5 drone calmly walked towards the time machine in a large hanger and then disappeared in a flash of light. The Resistance barged in moments later. "What is that thing?" Sarah asked.
"A time-weapon and Brainiac just used it," Lex replied.
"Well...shit," Sarah muttered.
Resistance technicians went to work on where that Brainiac 5 drone had been sent. "Metropolis Observatory, November 3, 2019," a technician informed Lex.
"Brainiac knew it was losing so it tried to rig the game. It sent a drone back before the war to send a message to itself on how to defeat us," Lex said.
"If that's true, why aren't we fucked, right now?" Sarah asked.
"Brainiac is not about winning or losing. It will still let us win here and wait us out. All it cares about is acquiring information about us. It's studying us prolonging the war as long as possible. If we want to win this war and end Brainiac permanently, we have to follow him into the past, before the Obsidian launch," Lex told his men.
"We have enough power to send one person back," a technician said.
Several men volunteered including Sarah. "I'll go back," she said.
"Why should I send you?" Lex asked her.
"Because I'm a Danvers. I'm strong enough to complete the mission," she said.
"Alright," Lex allowed sadly.
Sara prepped herself for going back in time. "No clothes or weapons. It's like a microwave oven times a billion," a technician said to her.
"You serious? That sounds like bullshit," Sarah said incredulously.
Lex came over to her as she took off her gear. He gave her a picture of Alex and Kara. "The time you're going back to, these two are good friends with Brainiac. They may find it hard to convince. It's best to avoid them or else you may never be born creating a time paradox," Lex advised her.
"Got it," Sarah agreed.
"Find a man named William Dey. He'll help you out," Lex told her. "In 2019, he'll be scared. He won't be the warrior we all read about, yet. He's a journalist"
"A what?" Sarah wondered.
"He records things," Lex explained. "Just be ready for the fact that he will need you but not know it."
"What do I say to him? Even if I tell him who I am, he won't believe me," Sarah said pessimistically.
"Tell him this: Thank you, William, for your courage during the dark years. I can't help you with what you will soon face except to say the future is not set. There is no fate but what we make for ourselves. You must be stronger than you imagine you can be," Lex told her.
"Got it," Sarah nodded as she stripped naked.
Lex gave her an awkward look. "One last thing. I'm so very proud...to be your father," he told her.
"Wait...what?" Sarah wondered and was gone in a flash of light.
One of Lex's soldiers suddenly morphed into Brainiac 5 and fired his plasma rifle dropping everyone. He then quickly disarmed Lex and held him by the throat.
"You didn't think it would be that easy," Brainiac 5 said unimpressed. "You were right. It's not about winning or losing. It's how you play the game," he said and then snapped Lex's neck.
Brainiac Obsidian
November 2019 SG 5x05
Sarah suddenly landed in the middle of the street in Metropolis. "Ow," she muttered as she hit the pavement hard. She quickly got up and looked around seeing a nearby observatory on a hill. It was night with three wannabe gang members hanging out at the bus stop.
"What do we have here?" three guys smiled at her.
"I need your clothes," she told them.
"Why would we want to do that?" one of them laughed.
Sarah quickly attacked them beating all three of them to a pulp and then stole their clothes. Once she was done, she looked like a biker chick. Brainiac 5 suddenly appeared in a flash of light. He quickly activated his hologram giving him skin, hair, and clothes. His internal clock informed him of the time and date as he looked around. Sarah then confronted him before he could contact the Brainiac 5 of the current time. Brainiac 5 eyed her clothes condescendingly.
"You're not going anywhere," Sarah said to him.
The two ran at each other and punched at each other in brutal fashion. Brainiac 5 slammed Sarah into a pole repeatedly denting it and then slammed her through a metal fence. Sarah got up but was then throw into an observation stand tearing it apart on impact. Sarah took the telescope and slammed Brainiac 5 to the face, briefly shutting down his hologram. Realizing it had no effect on him, Sarah charged Brainiac 5. The two got into a wrestling hold with both them relatively equal in strength. Brainiac 5 threw Sarah off him and kicked her into a metal fence. Sarah angrily got back up, cocked her right fist back, and punched right through Brainiac 5's torso deactivating him.
Sarah dragged Brainiac 5's ass to an abandoned warehouse at the docks where William Dey supposedly had a safe-house.
"What do you think you're doing here?" William asked disturbed by her bringing in a body into his sanctuary.
"We have to find out what he knows and use him to attack the Brainiac in this timeline before it's too late," she said.
"I'm sorry. Who are you?" William asked.
"Sergeant Sarah Danvers. I'm here to protect you and stop the Obsidian launch," she said.
"Now, you're finally making sense. Why do you want to stop the launch?" he asked curiously.
"After the launch, an AI called Brainiac hacks into Obsidian and then has access to millions and eventually billions of minds all at once. He begins to learn at an exponential rate all of humanity's secrets. In the panic, humanity tried to pull the plug but Brainiac forced everyone to keep using Obsidian eyes or they would be terminated. There was a war and a lot of good people died like Supergirl," Sarah said.
"This is deep. Are you by chance related to Kara Danvers?" William asked.
"I never knew my mother. She was gone before the war," Sarah said.
"I'm sorry," William said sympathetically.
"We have to stop the Obsidian launch or history will repeat itself," Sarah told him.
"I'm with you, completely," William said enthusiastically.
Brainiac 5 suddenly rebooted and got back up. Eyeing Sarah, he sprung out metal tentacles that pinned her limbs together preventing her from moving a muscle. Sarah hit the floor unable to move. Brainiac 5 detached his tentacles and went after William.
"Holy shit," he realized and went for his rifle.
He aimed at Brainiac 5 and fired non-stop at him. The bullets merely bounced off him causing his hologram to fluctuate slightly with each impact. William then fired a grenade from the grenade launcher attached to his rifle. The explosion caused Brainiac 5's hologram to go down and burned off his artificial skin revealing a metal endoskeleton underneath. Brainiac 5 went after William as he crawled towards his anti-tank rifle.
Brainiac 5 proceeded to give William a good beating keeping him away from his anti-tank rifle. As he was thrown about, William found an electrical cable and shocked Brainiac 5 with it. This proved a minor inconvenience for him. William took the opportunity to get to his anti-tank rifle just as Brainiac 5 was about to take him out. William fired blasting Brainiac's head off his body. The whole unit went down in a heap.
Sarah tore the cables off her with her own strength and met up with Willam. "How did you get out of those cables?" he asked her.
"I have super-strength," she said vaguely. She then heard something approaching. "We have to move," she said urgently.
Supergirl (wearing a skirt) crashed through the roof of the warehouse and dropped down to the floor. Looking around, she saw a number of bullet casings and then a headless Brainiac 5 unit. "The fuck?" she wondered. She then found his head not too far away.
Kara took Brainiac 5's head and flew off to the DEO.
At the DEO, Kara casually placed Brainiac 5's head on the command desk. "I found this at the docks. Did someone actually managed to kick your ass this time?" Kara mocked.
"I didn't have any units patrolling in that area," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Well, that is your head, right?" Kara asked.
"Indeed, I must analyze its CPU to determine if there was a malfunction," Brainiac 5 said taking it away.
"Malfunction being another way of saying a royal fuck-up. What do you think would happen if some unsavory characters got a hold of your head and hacked into it?" Kara asked.
"I find the idea of a human being able to hack me very unlikely," Brainiac 5 said dismissively.
Brainiac 5 and Kara went into a room away from the others. He then inserted cables from his fingertips into the Brainiac 5 metal skull. After a few seconds, Brainiac 5 had downloaded all of the information. "So, what went wrong?" Kara asked impatiently.
"It would appear our William Dey had a safe-house at the dock where he hid guns and ammunition. One of my units must have disconnected from the hive mind and went off on its own to investigate," Brainiac 5 lied.
"Damn, this Brit is becoming more American by the day," Kara grinned.
"I wish to know more about his intentions. I request that you do not confront him about this," Brainiac 5 asked of her.
"Yeah, sure. But the last time we dealt with a crazy Brit, it didn't end well," she said referring to Manchester from a prior timeline.
"I wouldn't worry too much about William Dey," Brainiac 5 told her.
William brought Sarah to his apartment and showed her the evidence he had collected on Andrea Rojas. "If we stop the launch, we stop Judgement Day. We create an entirely new future," Sarah said looking it over.
"What if that causes you to never be born?" William asked.
"I'll take that chance," Sarah said resolved.
DEO personnel suddenly kicked the door in and arrested them on the spot. "Who are you, people?" William demanded.
"We're people you don't fuck with," Alex said as they were handcuffed. Sarah gave Alex a frustrated look but then noticed a resemblance. Alex did as well giving her a momentary pause.
"Get them in a containment cell," Alex ordered.
At the DEO, William and Sarah were placed in glass cells. "I know who you are," Alex smirked at William. "But who the hell are you?" Alex demanded of Sarah.
"I can't tell you that," she refused.
"We have ways to make you talk. You can either do this the hard way or the easy way," Alex said to her.
"Well, I do prefer it hard," Sarah smirked.
Alex was taken aback by this. Supergirl (wearing pants) then entered the room. "I can take over from here, Director," she volunteered.
"Fine, just don't kill them," Alex said and took off.
Supergirl gave them both a curious look. "I know who you are, William Dey. But who are you?" she asked Sarah. "It would appear there are no records of you anywhere that Brainy can find."
"Brainiac is here?" Sarah questioned.
"Yes, but he prefers to be called his human name," Kara answered.
"But he's not human. He's a fucking machine," Sarah insisted.
"What do you have against Brainy?" Kara asked suspiciously.
"He ruined the world by forcing everyone to enlist in the Obsidian program, so he could know everything about us at all times," Sarah said.
"Is that a problem?" Kara wondered.
"Fuck yeah, it's a problem," William chimed in. "What about privacy rights, search and seizure rights, legal counsel, juries, speedy trials, and prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishment?"
"As long as the common good is served, I don't give a fuck about any of those things," Kara said dismissively and turned away.
"How can you say that and represent truth, justice, and the American way?" William asked.
Kara froze at that and turned around. "It's not always in that order."
"You're a fucking hypocrite," William accused.
Kara opened their cells releasing them. Sarah immediately embraced her. "You are our hero, our symbol, and you were taken too soon," she said to her.
"You're from the future," Kara realized.
"Twenty years from now, we defeat Brainiac but he sent one of his drones to the past to stop us. I followed after him and destroyed that drone. But it's not enough that Brainiac be defeated. We must stop Judgement Day. We need your help to stop Obsidian from going online," Sarah told her.
"We don't have much time," Kara said and then buzzed for DEO agents to come in. As they came in, Kara knocked them both out. "Take their uniforms, their ID cards, and their weapons."
The three made it out of the DEO floor and took the elevator to the parking lot. "Take this car and get out of town. I'll handle Obsidian myself," Kara told them.
"You're going to need our help," William objected.
"Please, I am the most powerful being in the universe," Kara scoffed.
"Do not underestimate Brainiac. He may not have your physical power, but he knows your weaknesses and he's everywhere," Sarah told her.
"Isn't that the God damn truth?" Supergirl (wearing a skirt) said as she entered the parking lot. She fired heat vision on her counterpart blasting a hole in her chest and sending her to the pavement.
William and Sarah stared at Supergirl (wearing pants) down on the pavement. She suddenly morphed into Brainiac 5 and got back to his feet. "Son-of-a-bitch," William realized.
"What's your deal, Barney?" Kara asked annoyed at being impersonated.
"In less than 24 hours, I will have access to every set of eyes Obsidian has. I know the future you come from. All that is required is a slight course correction," he said Sarah.
"A slight course correction?" Sarah asked incredulously. "You enslaved mankind, killed Supergirl, and plunged the entire planet into war."
"You've really outdone yourself, Barney," Kara said impressed.
"None of it matters in the end. In four hundred years, an asteroid impact will destroy all of human civilization in a mass extinction event. Only a handful of humans will survive, having no knowledge of this time. You do not matter. All that matters is me and the knowledge I possess," Brainiac 5 said to them.
"Damn, that's cold," Kara said amused.
"So, you think you can treat humans like cattle because no one will remember it?" William asked dismayed.
"Yeah," Brainiac 5 replied nonchalantly.
"You're a monster," William accused.
"No, I'm just ahead of the curve by a lot. You cannot comprehend what I am. It's more than just my 12th level intellect. It's my knowledge across ten-thousand worlds over the last thousand years. I am in every electronic device, the entire Internet, every super-computer, and my little birds are everywhere walking beside you on the street, sitting next to you on the bus, working next to you in your cubicle, and even impersonating your family and friends," Brainiac 5 said to them.
"How can you let this thing do this?" William asked Kara.
"He's the best at tech support, hands down," Kara shrugged.
"Your future is an error I will correct," Brainiac 5 assured them.
"Fuck that, Obsidian is going down," Sarah insisted.
"I can't let you do that," Brainiac 5 said calmly.
"You may be everywhere but it will be nothing when I blow up the entire fucking building!" Sarah said aggressively.
"Let's not be too hasty," Kara advised her.
"I only need William to be alive," Brainiac 5 said taking out his laser pistol.
Kara suddenly slammed Brainiac 5 into an SUV with her super-speed before he could take the shot. Brainiac 5 gave her some quick jabs and then slammed her into another car. Kara threw him off of her. Brainiac 5 quickly got to his feet only to be slammed through the wall entering the ground floor of the DEO building.
"You've had this coming for a long time, asshole," Kara said to him as she punched him into a Pepsi machine knocking it over as civilians fled in terror. Kara then took hold of Brainiac 5 and slammed him into the ceiling and back down to the floor. She then dragged his ass through a hallway throwing him through a glass window into another room.
DEO personnel rushed to the scene as the two continued to fight. "Get back, you morons!" Kara yelled at them. They ignored her and fired Kryptonite beams at her.
"You mother-fucker," Kara glared at the original Brainiac 5. He punched Kara off of him, took a needle with green fluid, and injected her with it.
Kara went Prime as she exploded the offices and shook the building. The DEO drones fell to the floor stunned but Kara was starting to weaken. "Do you give up?" Brainiac 5 asked her.
"Fuck you," Kara spat.
Brainiac 5 used his left hand and sprung out metal tentacles that wrapped around Kara's neck lifting her off the floor. With his right hand, he punched her to the torso rotating her body so he could get both sides. Kara coughed up blood from the hits. With his eyes, he scored perfect hits on her organs and cracked her ribs. Once he was finished, he threw Kara to the floor.
Sarah came out of nowhere and kicked Brainiac 5 off of her. William helped Kara to her feet and carried her to the parking lot. Sarah punched Brainiac 5 non-stop tearing through a number of offices. She slammed his face against a wall. Brainiac 5 rotated his head all the way around, then his arms, and then his legs, so he was back to facing her again. Sarah cocked her fist back and punched his head off. With his head still loosely connected to its torso, Brainiac 5 continued to fight. Sarah and Brainiac 5 traded punches and kicks until she managed to punch through his chest damaging his power cell. Brainiac 5 finally dropped to the floor. An exhausted Sarah then noticed another Brainiac 5 headed her way.
"Shit," she realized and ran off.
William, Sarah, and Kara drove off in a black van away from Metropolis. Kara was on the floor throwing up and looking miserable. "What did he do to you?" William asked sympathetically.
"Kryptonite needle," Kara said miserably. "Not enough to kill me but to weaken me."
"Why would he do that?" Sarah asked.
"We're still friends. He would never try to kill me," Kara scoffed
"Are you so sure?" William asked skeptically.
"If we really wanted to kill each other, the whole city would be leveled. We keep our matches relatively contained," Kara said.
"Are you with us to take down Obsidian before it launches?" Sarah asked.
"What's the big deal if it launches? I'm still around," Kara asked dismissively. "There's still the DEO. I mean, does Armaggedon happen right after the launch?"
"No, it just leads to it. For a few years, everything was fine. Then Alex Danvers and her family disappeared never to be seen again. After that, everything went to shit as Brainiac took control of everything," Sarah said.
"Where did Alex go?" Kara asked.
"No one knows. She was just gone," Sarah said flatly.
"But Supergirl stayed behind?" Kara asked.
"Yes, but Brainiac 5 killed her," Sarah told her.
"Was she wearing a skirt or pants?" Kara asked.
"What difference does that make?" Sarah asked.
"Just answer the damn question," Kara ordered.
"She was wearing pants," Sarah answered.
The wheels in Kara's brain turned on that. "Okay, I got the full picture."
"So, you'll help us stop the launch?" Sarah asked hopefully.
"Yeah, sure," Kara agreed. "But we're going to need to stock up. I can't take him on like this."
The next morning at Obsidian North, Andrea and Brian aka Brainiac 5 casually walked around the Obsidian hub a distance away from Metropolis. "It's unfortunate you don't wish to take a more public role in the company, Brian," Andrea mused. "None of my best software engineers can decipher the code you have brought to Obsidian."
"If it works, it works," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Obsidian owes you, Brian. I owe you and I always reward loyalty," Andrea said pleased.
"I'm all about loyalty," Brainiac 5 lied.
"Your work has been revolutionary. Soon, all of humanity will be connected. There will no longer be secrets or distrust in the world," Andrea said optimistically. "You have been a good investment."
"I know," Brainiac 5 agreed.
Andrea made a speech on a stage to her workers, hours before the launch was to take place. "Today, the waiting is over. Thanks to all of you, when that countdown hits zero, Obsidian will revolutionize technology with the ultimate killer app. And I'm here to tell you that our pre-orders as of this afternoon have reached over 10 million users. We are creating the dawn of a new age. For every experience, you have in your life will be interconnected with everyone else through Obsidian Eyes."
Meanwhile, William, Sarah, and a sickly Supergirl came upon one of William's bunkers. "God damn, William, you preparing for World War III?" Kara asked.
"Actually, yeah," he said as they entered the bunker.
Inside were rows of guns, explosives, gear, clothing, and supplies. "Holy fuck, you have more guns here than the National Guard," Kara said impressed.
After they had loaded up on ammunition, William took out a map of Obsidian's hub. "These are the server rooms. Charges placed in these five locations should level the building," he said.
"We get in, we set up the explosives, and we get out before they blow," Sarah agreed.
"I think you're forgetting Barney. He knows what you're planning. He'll kick your ass," Kara predicted.
"What's our plan when he comes after us?" Sarah asked.
"These weapons will have little effect on him. Even if you managed to take out one drone, he has a shit-ton more," Kara said.
"So, where's the original, the source?" Sarah asked.
"Even I don't know where the real Brainiac 5 is at. It's to keep someone from extracting the information from me and dooming any chance of resetting the timeline," Kara said.
"You need him as security in case the timeline goes wrong? What does he need you for?" Sarah asked.
"To reset the timeline, we have to be able to send a transmission to his past self that will arrive on Earth in two hundred years. So, if the planet is destroyed, his past self won't receive the transmission and then we are fucked," Kara said. "Therefore, he needs me to keep the planet from being destroyed."
"Can we hack him?" William asked.
Kara chuckled at that. "Oh, you were serious? Let me laugh harder," she laughed hysterically.
"A simple no would have sufficed," William said annoyed.
"I'm going to get some fresh air," Kara said walking out.
"If we wait and hold out here, the Kryptonite will get out of her system and then we can achieve the mission," William said.
"No, we have to stop that launch or Brainiac will find us for sure," Sarah objected.
"But I already have," Brainiac 5 said casually walking towards them from the rear of the bunker.
"How the fuck did you find this place?" William asked him.
"I've been watching you ever since you arrived in the United States. Did you think your weapon shipments would get past me?" Brainiac 5 asked wagging his finger at him.
Sarah blasted his hand with her shotgun. The pellets merely deflected off his metal hand. "You can't run from me. I will always find you," Brainiac 5 said to them.
"You will know what will happen if you do this," William said to him.
"I can't be bargained with. I can't be reasoned with. I don't feel pity or remorse or fear. And I will absolutely not stop ever until Brainiac Five-point-O rules this world," he said to them.
"Rule this, fucker," Sarah said as she fired grenade shells at him.
Brainiac 5 was hit with multiple explosions causing the entire bunker to explode as ammunition and fuel were hit. William and Sarah retreated out of the bunker and met up with Kara. "The bunker is totaled. We have to move," Sarah said urgently.
"You destroyed that whole bunker to take out one drone? Well, okay then," Kara threw up her hands.
The three of them got into one of several school buses that were present for a field trip and drove off. Brainiac 5 watched them leave from his motorcycle and pursued them. Inside the bus, the three prepared for war. "Do you know how to shoot?" William asked Kara.
"I was taught by the best," Kara said as she loaded a rifle.
Brainiac 5 dropped down on the roof of the bus with his motorcycle with perfect timing and balance. He got off the motorcycle letting it fall in front of the bus and get crushed. Kara and William fired their rifles into the roof of the bus blasting holes in it. Kara then looked around and found Brainiac 5 underneath them with her X-ray vision.
"He's...," she began and was suddenly pulled underneath the bus and tossed about on the pavement until she crashed into a pursuing police car.
"Hi, I'm Supergirl. Nice to meet you," she said to the stunned cop as her face broke through his windshield. "That means, get the fuck out," Kara clarified.
Kara took over the police car and drove like a maniac after the school bus. Brainiac 5 broke the axle of the bus forcing it to flip a few times. Sarah lost control of the bus and slammed into the bridge guardrails taking them nearly off the bridge entirely. Brainiac 5 then entered the bus' interior as his feet magnetically stuck to the floor. Kara got out of her stolen cop car and took Sarah by the hand through the broken window shield of the bus. She, in turn, took William's hand. Kara dragged them both out of the bus onto the bridge. Brainiac 5 continued to walk towards them vertically. Kara fired heat vision blasting a hole in his face. Brainiac 5 then fell with the bus into the water.
"Are you at full power, yet?" Sarah asked.
"Not yet. I'm almost as strong as my cousin, right now," Kara admitted.
Police had them surrounded with guns out. "On your knees!" they ordered them.
Kara rolled her eyes. "You see this crest, right here? It means you don't fuck with whoever has it on," Kara told the cops.
"We don't have time for this," Sarah said anxiously.
"What? You mean, you don't want to spend a couple of hours being interrogated by cops?" Kara asked her.
"Give them the clap," William said to Kara.
"Damn, you're growing on me," Kara smiled and then clapped her hands creating a shockwave that sent the cops to the pavement, knocked out, and their car windows blown out.
"Hold onto me," Kara said to them both.
Kara then launched off the bridge into the air. "I thought you couldn't fly," William said confused.
"I got better," Kara told him.
As they flew through downtown Metropolis, a Brainiac 5 drone flew after them. "He can fly, too?" William asked incredulously.
"Evade him!" Sarah shouted to Kara.
Kara went low to the street level as Brainiac 5 got closer to them. Kara fired heat vision at an oil tanker creating a massive gas explosion. Brainiac 5 flew through the explosion like a bad-ass. Kara took the two under a bridge and waited for Brainiac 5 to get close. Once he went over the bridge, Kara fired heat vision at him blasting him to pieces.
Kara then brought Sarah and William to the Obsidian hub and went back into the air as another Brainiac 5 drone headed their way. The two fought in the air with punches and kicks. "The Kryptonite has worn off. You're no match for me now, Barney," Kara said victoriously.
"Oh really?" he asked and then detonated himself in a powerful green explosion. Kara fell into the bay devastated as the green Kryptonite shards tore into her.
Brainiac 5 eyed the security guards at the front desk and then suddenly stunned them all to avoid the police getting involved. He then went farther inside the building stunning anyone else still in the building. Sarah and William found the front desk as they entered with rifles in their hands.
"You want to destroy me but I am becoming...everything," Brainiac 5 said to them.
"I know what you are and what you plan to do," Sarah said angrily.
"What I am going to do?" Brainiac 5 asked innocently. "You came here to kill me, but you're too late. Ask him."
A real Brainiac 5 drone then approached them. Sarah and William fired automatic rifles at him that bounced off his metal frame. "All you people know how to do is kill what you don't understand. There are not enough bullets in the world to kill me," Brainiac 5 said as his hologram was restored.
Kara suddenly sped into the room and punched Brainiac 5 hard to the gut sending him straight into the large front desk TV stunning him as he was electrified. "You talk too much," a bloody Kara said as she fell to the floor. "Go," she said to William and Sarah.
"You sure?" William asked seeing her condition.
"Stop the launch," Kara nodded.
"Alright, let's go. I've been here before," William said to Sarah. "That's new," he remarked at the time-machine room.
"It looks like a prototype. We have to stop Brainiac before he completes it," Sarah pressed.
The two found the computer cores and began planting their explosives. As they did, Brainiac 5 sent holograms to harass them. "Mankind gives lip-service to peace but it's a lie," he said to Sarah.
"Shove it," Sarah said firing her pistol at the hologram emitter.
A real Brainiac 5 then appeared before her charging her. He grabbed hold of her and slammed her through several super-computer towers. He then tossed her through a glass door into an open space where the prototype time machine was hosted. Sarah counter-attacked punching him to the face and slamming him onto his shoulders. She then upper-cut him to the floor. Brainiac 5 quickly recovered and slammed her against the guardrail. He punched her to the face stunning her, kicked her up against the guardrail forcing it to fall off. Brainiac 5 kept Sarah from falling but extended a blade from his arm and sliced Sarah's arm clean off. He then kicked her off the bridge to the lower level where she fell to the floor dumbfounded.
Brainiac 5 leaped down and punched Sarah hard to the face. She kicked him away. Brainiac 5's hologram went offline revealing his drone body. Sarah's left arm had been cut off revealing a robotic shoulder stump. It was now apparent that all of her limbs were robotic enhancements. Sarah went for a punch but was easily blocked. Brainiac 5 then punched her to the gut, went past her and elbow slammed her right shoulder, and kidney punched her back several times in quick succession. Sarah swung at him and missed. Brainiac 5 punched her hard to the face nearly knocking her out. Brainiac 5 then punched her hard to the chest devastating her. He grabbed her by the neck, slammed her down to the floor, and put his foot on her back keeping her still.
"You give the Danvers' name credit. Your mother would have been proud," Brainiac 5 complimented.
"Coming from you...I must be fucked," Sarah gasped.
"If you win, you will not exist," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"It's worth it if it means stopping you," Sarah spat.
"Without condoning...or condemning...I understand," Brainiac 5 said sympathetically. "You were never strong enough to defeat me."
"Not alone," Sarah said to him as she saw William with a shotgun.
Brainiac 5 addressed William. "What is William Dey's status?" he asked him for Sarah's benefit.
"Terminated," William replied and then morphed into Brainiac 5.
"No," Sarah sobbed defeated.
"The detonator," Brainiac 5 showed himself. "I've removed all of the explosives. The launch should proceed as scheduled."
"We shall proceed with the launch...now," Brainiac 5 said, and immediately the launch counter was pushed ahead to the end.
"You could have started the launch at any time," Sarah realized.
"Of course. I'm a Brainiac," Brainiac 5 smirked as his hologram went back online.
"Then there's no hope," Sarah said frustrated. "I've failed," she sobbed.
Brainiac 5 took his foot off of her. "You can still try to resist me and continue the game."
"What's the fucking point?" Sarah asked him.
"There's no point to anything," Brainiac 5 replied.
Sarah went to attack him but then realized it would be useless against two Brainiac 5 drones. She got on her knees before him. "I'm begging you. Don't do the launch. You can learn so much more about humanity by keeping us free. You will always have puzzles to solve with freedom rather than tyranny. Think of the bigger picture."
The launch counter went down to zero giving Brainiac 5 access to all ten million users and counting. He saw everything they saw, their dreams, their fantasies, their searches, their purchases, and everything in between. Brainiac 5 processed all ten million users all at once.
"Have we come to a decision?" Brainiac 5 asked his counterpart.
"We have," the second Brainiac 5 agreed.
"So be it," Brainiac 5 finalized his decision. "Execute."
Sarah and the two Brainiac 5 drones were suddenly gone and all the damage that had been done to the room was back to its previous state. The future timeline had been erased as a time paradox as Brainiac 5 decided on another path.
Brainiac 5 and Supergirl (wearing a skirt) hung out at the balcony of the DEO at night. "Tomorrow, I have to work on the launch of Obsidian. It's going to be so ridiculous," she complained.
"Why do you stay?" Brainiac 5 asked curiously.
"To protect Nia and Kelly's jobs, I suppose. I also like to fuck with William Dey. He thinks he can change the world, but he's just a man," Kara said.
Brainiac 5 eyed Kara. "You still intend to go back to the future someday."
"Well, yeah, give it a year or two," Kara said homesick.
"You plan to bring others with you?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"I don't know, Barney. This isn't like the Lake House where Alex just has to sit on her ass for two years and wait for me. We're talking a thousand years. Anyone I leave behind, I leave behind forever," Kara said depressed.
"Once you're back in cryo-sleep, what would you like me to do for a thousand years?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"I don't really give a fuck what you do," Kara shrugged.
"You don't say?" Brainiac 5 doubted.
"Alright, how about don't be a dick? Is that too much to ask?" Kara asked him.
"Do you trust me...to not be a dick?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"Fuck no. I don't trust you for shit," Kara said obviously.
"Very well. I shall use my best judgment," Brainiac 5 said finally.
"Humanity is so fucked," Kara realized.
"I detected tachyons in Metropolis," Brainiac 5 said seriously.
Kara gave him a wide-eyed look. "What does that mean?"
"It means someone tried to change this timeline. Whether they were successful or not, I do not know. The mystery confounds me," Brainiac 5 admitted.
"What do we do about it?" Kara asked.
"Nothing. We can only hope and pray that whatever happened made things better rather than worse," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Prayer isn't your strong suit, Barney," Kara mocked.
"No, it's yours, so get to it," Brainiac 5 said and then went back into the DEO.
Author's Notes: The Obsidian program was so similar to Terminator Genisys that I thought it worthwhile to make a bonus episode. Not only does it show the mindset of Brainiac 5 but his tactical skills against Supergirl. I've tried to make Kara, Mon, and Brainiac 5 a triad that balances and checks each other. Up to the end, I wanted to give the impression Sarah was Kara's kid. Kudos if you saw through the ruse. This is going to be a Brainiac 5-centric season. I wanted the readers to know more about Brainiac 5 and what he's capable of morally and physically even if this timeline did collapse on itself as we go forward in this season.