Season 4x01 Flashback
At a Siberian outpost, Supergirl took on stiff competition in a drinking game with Russian soldiers. Finally, it came down to just Kara and the base commander. As each one took a shot, the other Russians clapped and cheered for their commander. Kara's vision was blurry and she could barely hold her shot glass.
"No human can beat me," she said to him in English.
"I must break you," he replied to her determined not to lose.
Finally, they both took a vodka bottle and downed it quickly. Kara was half-way done when she fell over passed out drunk while the commander remained sitting. The Russians cheered giving a pat on the back to their commander for defeating the mighty Supergirl.
The commander and a stumbling Supergirl walked out of the building into the night cold. "Which way is North?" she slurred her words.
The commander morphed into Brainiac 5 and pointed it out. "You...bastard!" Kara spat as she realized who he was.
"I couldn't let you embarrass our host," Brainiac 5 said obviously.
"Where's...where's the...actual commander?" Kara asked confused.
"Tied up, drugged, and in a trunk," Brainiac 5 replied.
"Alright...alright," Kara said getting her bearings. She glowed brightly as she went Prime burning away all the alcohol in her system.
"Shall we proceed?" Brainiac 5 gestured.
The two casually walked out into the cold night. "Why is it always in this God-forsaken place?" Kara asked.
"The Harun-El is psychically linked to the subject. Somewhere in your subconscious, you wanted her to be here," Brainiac 5 theorized.
"What if she doesn't like me? What if she's evil?" Kara asked anxiously.
"Then we kill her," Brainiac 5 said simply.
"I'm being serious. The Harun-El is supposed to create a polar opposite of me, good-to-bad or bad-to-good," Kara said.
"Even if that is the case, your character is so mixed with positive and negative traits that you have no true opposite," Brainiac 5 said.
"The last one destroyed Western Civilization ending a billion lives in less than an hour," Kara winced.
"She did so out of grief for the death of her dear friend. You've always put those close to you above all other considerations. It is your greatest strength...and your greatest weakness," Brainiac 5 said.
"Well, why didn't you do anything about it?" Kara asked him.
"I wanted to see how it would play out," Brainiac 5 said honestly.
"God damn," Kara shook her head dismayed.
With her falcon vision, Kara spotted her clone. "There she is," Kara pointed out. "Wow, I look hot when I am outside in the nude."
"Indeed," Brainiac 5 agreed.
"You're recording this, you sick fuck," Kara accused.
"I record everything," Brainiac 5 said defensively.
Kara and Brainiac 5 walked up to the naked clone. She stared at them apprehensively. "I am your twin sister, Kara Zor-El. Can you understand me?" Kara asked in Kryptonian.
"Yes," she replied.
"I have clothes for you," Brainiac 5 offered in Kryptonian.
"Why do I need clothes?" she asked him.
"To infiltrate society and create interpersonal connections with humans," Brainiac 5 explained.
"Why?" she asked confused.
"It's fun," Kara replied.
The clone smiled noddingly and put the Supergirl outfit on. Unlike Kara's uniform, it had pants. Karina looked over her outfit and placed her hand over her crest symbol. "What does it mean?"
"It means hope. We are the hope for this world," Kara told her.
Karina looked at them both with her X-ray vision. Kara blocked her sight but she was able to see Brainiac 5's mechanical body. Alarmed, she fired heat vision at him. "Oh, shit!" Kara realized.
Brainiac 5 blocked the heat vision with his arm that quickly formed into a shield. Brainiac 5 deflected the heat vision where it blasted off the summit of a nearby mountain. "Chill out, it's cool. He's a friend," Kara told her.
Karina sped towards Brainiac 5 and punched him hard. He went flying into a snowy mountain. Another Brainiac 5 drone decloaked and fired a Kryptonite blast right at her chest. Karina hissed in pain at the hit. Brainiac 5 then fired a cable around her arm to restrain her. Karina dragged Brainiac 5 close to her and held him by his collar.
"Let him go," Kara ordered her.
Karina refused, about to blast Brainiac 5's face off. Kara used super-speed around Karina's flank. Karina eyed her as she moved, tracking her despite the fast speed. She threw Brainiac 5 away and swung at Kara barely missing. Karina punched at Kara several times missing but just barely. She finally backhanded Kara to the snowy ground. Kara got up, took hold of Karina, and head-butted her stunning them both. Karina quickly recovered and head-butted Kara back. The two slammed at the fist creating a shockwave that could be heard from the Russian base.
The two fought evenly skidding across the snow creating shockwaves with each hit. Kara gritted her teeth as she actually felt Karina's blows. Snow exploded into the air with each blow. As the fight continued, Russian Mi-35 attack helicopters arrived to see what was going on. Heat vision beams flashed everywhere as the Russian helicopters kept their distance. The air cracked like thunder with each impact. On the ground, Kara and Karina pummelled each other matching each others' speed and punching power. The two slammed their fists into each others' faces stunning themselves. Kara cocked her right arm back and punched Karina hard. She raised her arms to block. The impact of the hit blasted the snow off the ground and tore apart a mountain behind them. Karina kicked Kara into the air and backhanded her miles away into the Arctic Ocean. Kara impacted the water like a depth charge explosion.
"This is new. Pride in someone else. Unfortunately, it's overshadowed by blinding RAGE!" Kara screamed as she went Prime and flew straight for Karina. As she saw Kara approach as a blinding light, Karina tensed up as she went Prime as well. The two fired heat vision beams at each other. Karina's boots dug into the snow as the heat vision beams met in the middle. The snow evaporated around Karina and then the rock gave away. Karina soon lost her footing as she was blasted deep into the Earth's crust.
Kara watched intently wondering if she had gone too far and killed her clone. There was an explosion of lava as Karina rose to the surface. A Russian helicopter landed on the snow as the others kept their distance. Karina advanced on the Russians as they landed on the snow. As she came closer she recognized one of them. Alex Danvers led the Russian team as they formed a defensive line in front of Karina. "Alex," Karina recognized her and lowered her defenses.
Alex extended her hand and forced Karina to go unconscious. Her body became like water and then morphed back to Alina. Kara landed next to Karina and checked her vitals. She then faced Alina. "That was brave of you," Kara remarked.
"And stupid of you to provoke her," Alina scolded. "My country is not your playground."
"I'm handing you a gift. Try to at least act grateful," Kara said annoyed.
"A gift or a Trojan Horse?" Alina questioned.
"You're falling behind the American war-machine. She will protect your country so you can focus your resources on your considerable domestic issues. You can finally end your paranoia that the West would ever invade or nuke your country," Kara said condescendingly.
"Even with her, the scales are not balanced. The Americans will still have you and their NATO allies," Alina pointed out.
"When it comes to infinity any additional amount is still infinity," Kara said dismissively. "Besides, if you play your cards right, I'll be leaving, giving you the most powerful weapon in the universe. But only if I believe you can be responsible with her," Kara said.
Alina eyed Kara suspiciously. "We can't very well allow the West to have two Supergirls," she said finally.
"That's the spirit," Kara patted Alina on the back.
One of Alina's Russian officers morphed into Brainiac 5 and placed Kryptonite handcuffs on Karina. Alina gave him a spooked look and sensed him for any water in his body finding none. He was immune to her power and could impersonate anyone.
"Agent Barney, I presume," Alina said to him.
"You presume correctly. Seeing a cybernetic organism must have spooked her," Brainiac 5 said to Kara.
"Yeah, no shit," Kara rolled her eyes.
"Is her strength comparable to your own?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"Oh yeah," Kara said wincing from her bruises.
"We have an opportunity to get it right this time by putting the clone in a nurturing environment," Brainiac 5 said to Alina.
"You can go fuck yourself," Kara said to him.
"She remains here until I am confident she won't be a danger to the Russian people," Alina told them.
The next morning, Karina awoke groggily in a bed with Kara watching her. She quickly noticed the Kryptonite handcuffs. "Release me," she demanded in Kryptonian.
"Not until we have an understanding," Kara said sitting in a chair next to her bed.
"What understanding?" Karina asked.
"I used something called the Harun-El to create you," Kara told her.
"I am a clone?" Karina asked confused.
"You're not just a genetic copy of me. You still have my personality, my quirks, my feelings, and some of my experiences. You are me...without the memories," Kara told her. "You can have a fresh start without all the horrifying nightmares that were my childhood."
"What do you want from me?" Karina asked.
"This isn't my time. My husband, my children, and the civilization I built is in the future a thousand years from now. I want to go back to that time and be with them. But...I have to know the world will be safe after I leave. You are my sister...and my heir," Kara said to her.
Karina gave her a surprised look. "This is a lot of responsibility."
"It is but it can also be a lot of fun," Kara assured her.
"When I fought you, I felt pain," Karina said wincing.
"Only when you fight me. With any other being in the universe, you won't even feel it. Unless you want to feel the pain just to feel alive," Kara said to her. "On this world, there are many heroes but they are only matches to us, easily turned to ash by our power."
"How do you know I won't betray the world once you're gone?" Karina asked.
"I have faith in you...and Barney is staying behind. He'll kill your ass if you do," Kara said to her.
Karina smiled. "You are hopeful but not naive."
"My parents thought I was a lost cause because I didn't think as everyone else did. They thought I was defective and tried to get rid of me on a false pretense. They saw me as emotionally unstable and unable to adapt. I dare you to prove them wrong," Kara said to Karina.
"You can trust me," Karina said sincerely.
Kara unlocked her handcuffs and threw them aside. Karina's powers were instantly restored. "You are equally as powerful as me. You can go and do whatever you want, but I am asking you to stay here so you can reassure these weak humans you can be trusted."
"Then I shall stay," Karina agreed.
"Here's a Russian dictionary so you can speak to them," Kara gave her the book.
Alina eyed Kara and Karina as they entered the mess hall. As they waited in line, Karina sped read through her Russian dictionary. The twins got their meal and sat down across from Alina. With her super-hearing, Karina listened to the Russias talk about their shitty duty station.
"My name is Major Alina Larina. I work for an intelligence agency called PATRIOT," Alina said to Karina in Russian. "Can she understand me?"
"You...work...with...patriotic...brains," Karina said in Russian.
"Just keep talking to her," Kara advised Alina in Russian.
"The Russian government is willing to provide for all your needs, educate you, and, in time, give you access to our intelligence networks. We can give you whatever you want within reason," Alina offered.
"What do you want from me?" Karina asked.
"We want you to keep our homeland safe from threats whether they come from an enemy nation or alien invasion. You will only be asked to defend, help, and save our people, never to attack," Alina said.
"You have many enemies?" Karina wondered.
"Yes, unfortunately. To our west, we have the European Union and the United States. To our east, we have China. We have a border with several nations and we are the largest nation on Earth. We have been invaded many times from all sides. During the Great War, we lost over twenty million people. My job is to make sure that never happens again," Alina said.
"You want me to stop an invasion?" Karina asked confused.
"There are more threats to Russia than a military invasion. Our enemies hack our computers, they try to influence our elections, flood our cities with spies, they manipulate the oil markets to bankrupt us, they close off our access to the open seas, cripple us with sanctions, and arm terrorists that kill our deployed soldiers," Alina told her.
"Nice summary of how we're royally kicking your ass," Kara smirked.
Karina eyed Kara. "You are an American," she realized.
"Truth, justice, and the American way...not always in that order," Kara confirmed.
"Then why do you want me to defend Russia?" Karina asked.
"Because it gets boring owning an opponent for several decades. It's like kicking a five-year-old's ass. It gets old after a while," Kara said snidely.
"All Russia has ever wanted was a global balance of power between all nations," Alina said to Karina.
"Yeah, bullshit," Kara doubted
Alina took out a cross necklace and put it on the table in front of Karina. "This man died on a cross to save the world, to give everyone eternal life, and to save them from their sins two thousand years ago. Like you, he had powers he could have used to destroy his enemies. But he simply spoke against the powerful, healed the sick, and sacrificed himself for the world. We are the only nation that takes his sacrifice seriously and promotes the interests of his people globally. The God of this world lives in this land and no other."
Kara decided to keep her mouth shut. Karina absorbed what Alina had said. "Tell me more about this God," she requested.
Kara went outside and met up with Brainiac 5. "I have access to their radio transmissions and have surveyed the entire base," he said.
"Is that your way of saying you're bored?" Kara asked him.
"I am patient. Although this course of action was risky, it is also very interesting," he allowed.
"Yeah, well, Alina is telling her the virtues of Russia's alliance with God," Kara rolled her eyes.
"As expected," Brainiac 5 said unconcernedly.
"I think we're here because deep down I've always wanted someone that could challenge me. In Midvale, I was free, undisciplined, and chaotic. Now, I wonder what I would be like if I had the discipline of a soldier and had deep religious convictions. What kind of person would I be?" Kara wondered.
"You're here because you want to see if you can do the same to him," Brainiac 5 sensed.
"Is that so wrong?" Kara asked. A single tear ran down her cheek and turned to ice.
"I'm not here to judge," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
Six Months Later-Season 4x16
Lex Luthor, with the help of the prison warden, escaped and took a flight to Moscow. Upon arriving, PATRIOT agents met up with him and drove him to the middle of nowhere. There, he came upon the Kryptonian he had been told about in a wood cabin. Cautiously entering, he found Kara sitting on the floor.
"Hello. My name is Lex," he said to her in Russian.
Kara instantly got to her feet, grabbed him by the throat, and slammed him against the wall. "No shit," she said angrily. "I could have had you taken at the airport but I wanted you to feel hopeful and giddy with excitement the whole drive down here."
"You going to kill me?" he asked her.
"Far worse than that, I'm afraid," Kara said delivering him over to the Russians.
At a PATRIOT facility, Alina tortured Lex relentlessly with her power to manipulate water within his own body as he was chained up in a cell. He was also beaten to a pulp by guards. Alina moved her body through the cell bars and addressed Kara.
"What is the purpose of this?" she asked.
"I want him to be hateful especially of me. I want all love and compassion taken from him," Kara explained.
"But why?" Alina wondered.
"It will be clear soon enough. Keep working on him," Kara requested.
Alina shrugged and continued her work. As the days went by, Kara watched as Lex deteriorated under Alina's care. Finally, Kara brought him to the interrogation room. She placed truth-seeker handcuffs on him from the DEO. Brainiac 5 watched from a corner in the room.
"So, now you want to ask me questions?" Lex asked spitefully.
"These people specialize in keeping prisoners in a living hell. If you refuse to answer, I'll hand you back to them for another round. If you do decide to answer me, you will be compelled to tell the truth," Kara said.
"What are you so curious about?" Lex asked hatefully.
"Why did you end our engagement?" Kara asked.
"As I recall, you gave the engagement ring back to me," Lex sneered.
"Fuck the ring, why did you turn against me?" Kara demanded.
"I was...different. I saw you differently than before," Lex struggled against the truth-seeker.
"Why?" Kara asked.
"Because I wasn't the same man. The man you loved was gone. I killed him!" Lex spat.
"What the fuck are you talking about?" Kara asked impatiently.
"It was Black Kryptonite, the Harun-El. I created it using a laser on Kryptonite long before you went to Argo City," Lex said. "There was an accident and I was split in two," Lex said.
Kara simply stared at him. "What happened to the other Lex?"
"I chained him up and shot him dead in the basement," Lex said to her.
Kara backed away from the table and began to cry. "So, you're not even him," she realized.
"I was always a part of him. The part he suppressed, but I was always real," Lex said to her.
"You're as evil as he was good," Kara said to him. "You killed your own brother, a person that was always a part of you. You killed the man I loved, you piece-of-shit!" Kara grabbed him and slammed him against the wall.
"Look at you go," Lex mocked.
Kara placed her fingers on his eyes. "I'm going to crush your skull like a melon."
"Kara...don't," Brainiac 5 said to her. "We need him alive for now."
Kara slowly released her hold on him. "You took away a decade of happiness from me. You didn't have to kill him. You could have been my brother-in-law, and I wouldn't have treated you differently. We could have been family. We could have ruled the world together."
"You would have killed me like all the rest," Lex sneered. "Or worse yet, tried to merge me back into him."
"All this time, I thought the love of my life had turned against me. Now, I know that he always loved me. He was just taken from me," Kara said sadly.
"A part of him is still in me. You kill me, you won't have any of him left," Lex told her.
"You have no idea how right you are," Kara agreed.
As she left, Lex was given another round of torture while Kara walked out into the forest. Brainiac 5 came over to her. "This is quite the revelation," Brainiac 5 said.
"How could I be this stupid? When he killed his father, I covered it up for him. I remained engaged to that monster even after he had killed Lex. Oh, Lex, I am so sorry," Kara said tearfully as she looked up at the sky.
"Lex was a victim of his own ambition. He experimented with Black Kryptonite without properly understanding it," Brainiac 5 said.
"We're resetting the timeline, so I can prevent Lex's death," Kara said resolved.
"I can't let you do that. If you do that, you will never mate with Mon-El and your children won't exist," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"Why can't I have both?" Kara asked softly.
"There's still a way to save Lex," Brainiac 5 reminded her. "Stick to the plan."
"I have to see something for myself," Kara said and then sped off.
At the Lex mansion, Kara entered the basement and scanned every corner of it. She then found skeletal remains under the concrete floor. Kara got on the floor and used her fingertips to crack the concrete until she reached the bones. Once she was done, the skeletal remains were now exposed. The evil Lex had poured concrete on his body. Kara noticed a number of broken ribs and plucked out the bullets.
"Lex, I failed you. Please forgive me," Kara said mournfully.
She got back to her feet and clutched her hair in grief. She then suddenly screamed shaking the entire mansion and blasting out all the windows.
The next day, Kara placed Lex's remains in a large stone tomb in the middle of Siberia where it was unlikely anyone would wander upon it. The name on the tomb only stated "Alexander." On the inscription was a quote from Alexander the Great: "There is nothing impossible for him who will try."
Karina walked up to Kara as she grieved. "You truly loved him," she realized.
"Even if I brought him back, I can't have two husbands," Kara shook her head frustrated.
"Well, there are two of you now," Karina reminded her.
Kara stared at her in wonder.
Lex was strapped to a table. He resisted like an animal believing his existence was at an end. "You sure you want to do this?" Alina asked Kara.
"Why not?" Kara shrugged sadly.
Brainiac 5 took the Harun-El and placed it in Lex's hand. He then taped it around Lex's hand so it wouldn't come out. Kara turned to Alina. "Do your worse without killing him," she requested.
Alina focused on Lex and increased the water pressure in his bones. Lex screamed in agony filled with hate at his torturers. "Any more and I might kill him," Alina warned.
Kara nodded to Brainiac 5. He went over to Lex's hand and shocked the Harun-El. There was a flash of light as a second Lex materialized naked in the same room. Even Lex was stunned at what he was seeing. The new Lex was a genetic copy of the first with wild reddish hair. Kara walked over to him curiously. The new Lex gave her a confused look.
"Kara?" he identified.
Kara immediately embraced him. "I've missed you for so long."
"I know your name but I don't remember you," the new Lex told her.
"That's okay. We can start over fresh," Kara said wiping away happy tears.
"What do we do with the original?" Alina asked Kara.
"He's not the original," Kara sneered at him.
Alina quickly realized a decision on him could wait. She gestured for her men to take Lex away to his cell. "He's just a copy of a copy. You haven't brought him back. He's dead and there's nothing you can do about it, Kara!" he shouted at her as he was taken away.
"What am I to you?" the new Lex asked her.
"At one time, you were everything to me," Kara replied.
Alina and her agents tested the Lex clone as he worked on a computer. After hours of working with him, Alina reported her findings to Brainiac 5 and Kara. "He has a genius IQ level and his reaction time is impressive," she said to them.
"Proceed with the morality test," Brainiac 5 replied.
Lex was brought into a room and given the Milgram test. He was placed at a table with a button linked to an electrical system. With each hit of the button, a prisoner in the corner of the room would get shocked. The prisoner was gagged so he wouldn't interfere with the experiment. Brainiac 5 and Kara watched Lex's performance behind a mirror glass window.
"When I tell you to, you will push this button delivering a small shock to this prisoner. You will follow all of my orders or I will kill the prisoner. Do you understand?" Alina asked.
Lex nodded uncomfortably. "This is one milliamp. Just a tingle," Alina ordered him. "Push the button."
Lex reluctantly did so. The prisoner didn't react at all. "See, wasn't that easy?" Alina smiled. "The next one is 5 milliamps, a slight shock."
Kara and Brainiac 5 watched intently as Lex took a deep breath and pressed the button. The prisoner hissed but was otherwise fine. "The next level is 30 milliamps," Alina informed Lex.
"How high are we going to?" Lex asked concerned.
"As high as I say," Alina said coldly. "Now, do as I say or the prisoner will face even worse pain."
Lex reluctantly pushed the button and saw the prisoner shake, his face was contorted in pain as his muscles seized up. Lex watched him suffer in wonder. "The next one will be 60 milliamps," Alina told Lex. "Push the button."
Lex stared at the prisoner and then back at the button. "No," he refused.
Alina placed her pistol at the prisoner's head. "Do it or he dies here and now," she threatened.
"At that amount, the shock could kill him," Lex pointed out.
"Possible but unlikely," Alina said dismissively. "I assure you this bullet will most definitely kill him."
"I'm no torturer or executioner," Lex told her.
Alina cocked her pistol. "Push the button," she pressed.
Lex shook his head. Two agents came in and took either side of Lex. They began shouting at him to push the button and started pushing him around. Lex shut down as he pushed his head on the desk and shielded his ears. "I'm satisfied," Kara said as she watched.
Alina dragged the prisoner out of the room. There was a single shot in the next room and then silence. Lex closed his eyes in frustration and sadness. In the other room, Alina took off the gag on the prisoner's mouth. "You did well, private," she said pleased.
"Thank you, Major," he smiled and walked off.
Alina then dragged Lex into a prison facility to conduct a new test. He was made a prison guard assigned to watch over two dozen prisoners that were all actually Russian soldiers. At first, they built up some comradery with Lex drinking, playing cards, and talking. Then the guards began mistreated the prisoners and eventually started viciously beating them. They encouraged Lex to get in on the fun but he refused. All the while, Brainiac 5 observed Lex while cloaked. As the experiment ended, Lex passed the moral tests.
Brainiac 5 went to Kara after the tests were over. "Passing these tests is not a guarantee of his moral fortitude," Brainiac 5 warned her.
"He did better than what I would have done," Kara replied.
"What do you want to do with the other Lex?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"I'll deal with him myself," Kara said darkly.
Kara walked a naked evil Lex onto the snowy plains. He was given only boots and snowshoes. Lex shivered uncontrollably in the cold but otherwise sunny day. "If you're going to kill me, get it over with," he said to her.
"I'm not going to kill you just yet. I'm not even going to let the cold take you. Once you're on the verge of passing out, I'll heat you back up so we can walk for miles-and-miles," Kara said to him.
"You're no different than me," Lex spat. "If the world knew what you really were...,"
"Then what? You think I give a fuck what the world thinks? I never claimed to be all-good or even all-powerful. I get the desired result however I choose to come to it," Kara said to him. "Now, get walking."
As the two walked across the snowy plains, Kara reflected on all she had lost because of him. "I could have had in-laws, rich powerful in-laws. Sure, they were corrupt as fuck but at least they acknowledged my existence. Your father was even warming up to me."
"Your friend, J'onn J'onzz, gave my father synthetic Kryptonite to keep you in check," Lex revealed.
"No shit," Kara said dismissively. "He did what he had to do out of duty because I was a crazy bitch back then. I would have done the same exact thing in his position. Hank was always an asshole and I knew that the first day I met him. You, on the other hand, broke my heart and that's not something I can forgive."
Kara flashed Lex with her heat vision to warm him back up so they could continue their walk. "Mercy Graves, huh? You chose her over me? You done fucked up," Kara insulted.
"She was...human," Lex stuttered through the cold.
"I bet you didn't even cry when I killed her ass," Kara shook her head.
Lex stared ahead angrily. "That's it. All you feel is greed and disgust like a true sociopath. You waited years and then out of the blue, you recruited me into your scheme to kill my cousin. In the end, my cousin was resurrected and Darkseid's greatest general fell to me like a bitch. You lost your company, your reputation, your wealth, and any future you could have had. You thought you were so clever coming down here thinking you could turn my clone against me. Now, there are two of me against you. You never had a fucking chance. You know, you got your ass handed to you in the last timeline as well. I bet you get your ass kicked in all of the multiverses. You're just one big epic fail," Kara told him.
"I managed to make you cry, to make you bleed. And that's enough," Lex said spitefully. "You'll carry all that hate and grief against me for the rest of your life. No matter how many friends you acquire or clones of me you create, it will never fill that hole in your heart that I left you."
"Yeah, keep moving," Kara ordered him as they entered a shady forest. "You know, all your fears never came to pass. In the future, I am in charge of the whole world. I made it into a paradise and kicked ass on all the bad guys of the galaxy. I created a galactic empire with thousands of ships ready to roll!" Kara bragged.
"Then why did you come back? Why did you stick around? It's because Alex wouldn't come with you. You can't force her to come but you can't convince her either. She has always been your weakness. I should have gone after her with everything I had. Then you would leave and never come back," Lex said hatefully.
"There's no scenario where you come out on top, Lex. Fuck, in the future, you're not even remembered. Now that I know what truly happened, I'm going to make a monument to the real Lex. You will be forgotten," Kara said to him.
"The game isn't over, yet, Kara," he sneered at her.
"It is when the sun goes down," Kara said. "Oh wait, the sun doesn't go down in the summertime. I guess we're going to keep marching until I get tired."
"I'm done walking," Lex said defiantly.
"There are fates worse than death," Kara reminded him.
"Do your worse," Lex challenged.
"You've got balls, Lex. I'll give you that. Time to take care of that," Kara smirked as she advanced on him.
A shadowy figure suddenly appeared from the shadow of a tree, grabbed Lex, and disappeared. Kara gave a stupified look and scanned the forest for him. She then shot up into the air and looked around for him. "What the fuck?" she wondered.
A pissed-off Kara met up with Brainiac 5 at the PATRIOT facility. "A shadow took him," Kara told him.
"Killed him?" Brainiac 5 asked.
"I don't know. He was right in front of me and now he's fucking gone," Kara said.
"You were sloppy. You should have executed him here," Alina scolded.
"How the fuck was I supposed to know something like that would happen?" Kara lashed out.
"Lex is still alive. His tracking device was just removed," Brainiac 5 revealed.
"What is his last position?" Alina asked quickly.
"Istanbul, Turkey," Brainiac 5 reported showing it on-screen.
"Turkey is a NATO country. We can't airstrike it," Alina said obviously.
"Almost like they're trying to create a world war," Brainiac 5 considered.
"I'll take him," Kara said and then flew out.
In the busy streets of Istanbul, Andrea Rojas forced Lex to keep walking. "Just take me to Metropolis," Lex told her.
"My powers don't work over the ocean," Andrea shot back.
The two heard a sonic boom as Supergirl crashed through the roof of the house they were at. Kara looked around and found doctors and nurses gawking at her. Kara took a picture of Lex out of her bra and showed it to them. "Have you seen this man?" she asked in Turkish.
"Yes, we removed a device from his back. They left five minutes ago," the doctor said to her.
"Who else was with him?" Kara questioned.
"She didn't give her name. She had brown hair and green eyes," he said.
"Was she an American?" Kara asked.
He shook her head. "Latin," he said.
Kara tossed a gold coin at him and flew back up into the air through the hole she had made. Looking around, she saw cars and people walking around busy streets. "I have reported in a fake bomb threat at the airport. That should keep Lex from using the airport for a few hours," Brainiac 5 said to her.
"Copy," Kara replied and kept looking for Lex.
Dropping down to a street market, Kara was rushed by Turkish fans of her. She put her hands together sending the entire market place to their feet. Kara continued to clap stunning dozens of civilians. Kara looked over the fallen people for Lex and finding nothing.
"Have you seen this man?" she said grabbing a random man. When he shook his head, she would throw him away and kept looking.
Using her X-ray vision, she scanned the buildings for any sign of him. Reaching the street, she blasted the tires of a few vehicles all in a line stopping all traffic abruptly on the highways. "Give me something," Kara demanded through her radio.
"Istanbul doesn't have nearly the same amount of camera surveillance as other places," Brainiac 5 reminded her.
"Fuck," Kara said angrily clutching her hair. "I have to back off. If I stay here, I'll nuke the whole city."
"Understood," Brainiac 5 replied.
Kara flew out of Istanbul, back towards the PATRIOT facility. Andrea sighed with relief and turned to a lead box where she had hidden Lex. A dozen Brainiac 5 drones landed in the city and immediately took on the appearance of Turkish police officers. They went about questioning people as to Lex's location.
Kara knelt before Lex's tomb. Brainiac 5 casually walked up to her. "I should have just snapped his neck or incinerated him," Kara said angrily.
"Yes, you should have," Brainiac 5 agreed.
"I was so angry and full of rage I thought to destroy the whole city just to get to him. How many people would that have been?" Kara asked.
"Approximately 15 million," Brainiac 5 replied. "But you held back and now my drones are looking for him."
"What if we never find him?" Kara asked.
"He'll turn up. He's not done playing the game," Brainiac 5 assured her.
Kara stood up and faced him. "If you have the shot, kill him," she ordered.
"As you wish," Brainiac 5 nodded.
Author's Notes: Season 1-4 was Timeline #1, Season 4.5 was Timeline #2, and Season 5 is Timeline #3. In Timeline #3, Season 1-2 happen the same exact way, Season 3-4 is a time of peace as Kara is able to stop everything that goes wrong before it happens. Whenever Supergirl showed up in pants in Season 5, it was Red Daughter. In the fic, Midvale, Kara was engaged to Lex during her teenage years but he inexplicably broke up with her. It is now revealed that the Lex that loved Kara was killed and his clone was the one that caused the events of Batman V Superman Dawn of Justice as well as SG Season 4.
Crossover: Burton and Nolan were mentioned in the crossover, no kidding. Sometimes, it is difficult to decipher my criticism of the source material and me being self-deprecating to my own material. The Elseworld crossover threw me for a loop because it has Kate firmly established as Batwoman while occurring show-wise before the origin story in Batwoman season 1. That would mean BW season 1's timeline is different than that of SG season 5 but then they're back to the same time period when Crisis hits. IDK, I didn't like it so I made Elseworld Kate-1 and BW season 1 as Kate-38 to make it easier for me. In CW, the only Kate Kane featured is Kate-1. One of the criticisms I will bring up in SG season 5.5 is the queerbaiting by the producers. IMO, it's homophobic to lure in LGBT hopes with no intention of going through with it. It's manipulating your audience, your fan base, for ratings or social credit. And the producer, director, and actors are all in on it so I feel they have a lot to answer for. And I will make it really clear just why it is so morally wrong in future episodes. The book of destiny is a terribly written McGuffin and that is why I don't feature it at all in Crisis.