LITTLE HALLEY'S P. O. V
The first earthquake had made them to get out of her cousin's loft, only being able to take a backpack with some of her things, Saffire in between her arms while grabbing Comet's leash as the puppy had started barking.
Kara left them at the DEO before leaving to see if anyone in National City would need her help, looking with curiosity of what one of the DEO's agents camera was recording, a huge smile on her face when she saw a dragon.
"Wow, that was so cool!" she exclaimed the exact moment her cousin was back. "You've petted a dragon!" she couldn't contain her excitement, Kara smiling at her.
"It was, huh?" her cousin ruffled her hair, picking her up.
"Why can't we have one? Like Saffire" she asked showing her the plush toy.
"I don't think it's a good idea, kiddo" Kara answered. "We don't have space for a dragon to live with us, plus we already have Comet" her cousin explained while pointing at him, who had ended up laying on the ground next to the main control after having been barking for the last few minutes.
"Comet!" she exclaimed when a new earthquake hit, the puppy trying to get under the desk, Kara leaving her on the ground so she could approach him. "Come here, boy, it's okay" she kneeled on the floor, trying to reach him.
After a few seconds she managed to get Comet out of hiding, embracing him as tight as possible, only wanting to calm him down, to show him that everything was alright.
She turned her head when she heard her cousin's tone of voice, whatever that was happening, it was serious, so she frowned while observing that J'onn was also there.
She approached her cousin, gripping Kara's hand afraid, her cousin looking at her with a little smile on her face as if she was trying to calm her down.
"Another reality wave?" Kara asked.
"Not exactly" Brainy answered. "Whatever it is, it is hurtling through space at an impossible speed" he commented. "Once it intersects again with our solar system, the results will be, in a word, cataclysmic" the agent explained, moment at which she observed fear in her cousin's face.
"Exactly when will it reach us?" J'onn asked.
"There are too many variables to calculate precisely, but if this wave isn't stopped by tomorrow night... there will be no more "us". No more future. No more anything" he explained, words that made her look away, it meant that she would be losing her best friend.
"Are there any inhabited planets in its trajectory?" Alex questioned as the main screen changed. "Argo City" her heart skipped a beat while listening those words, Were they losing Argo? "Can we warn them?" her cousin's sister asked, staring at Brainy.
"Argo's Harun-El sure makes communication difficult, but I will try" he answered, Kara nodding slightly as she sighed, trying to hold her tears.
"How much time do they have, Brainy?" her cousin asked, tightening the grip of her hand.
"Not enough" he whispered.
She let go of her cousin's hand to let her send a message to Argo, hoping for them to have enough time to leave from there safely.
Kara picked her up to embrace her as they continue watching how the anti-matter wave was getting closer to Argo, not being able to control her tears the moment they watched how it was destroyed.
"They're gone" Kara whispered in tears, her face buried in her cousin's neck as she continued sobbing.
Not only Argo was gone. Her aunt, Clark, Lois, Jon and even her best friend, Val, were gone. They had lost her family and friends.
She didn't even understand how it was possible for her cousin to be holding up all of her feelings as she knew that Kara was as broken as she was, or even more, since it was the second time the young superhero had lost her planet and family.
Kara didn't talk, just holding her tight, her hand rubbing circles on her back, trying to calm her down, but, honestly, she couldn't stop crying.
"Panic is raising out there" Alex commented. "I want every agent on the field until we get to handle whatever this thing is" the DEO director order, Kara nodding slightly once her sister was by her side. "I'll stay with her" the woman assured her sister, Kara hugging her tightly before leaving her on the floor.
"Don't go" she whispered, fear seizing her whole body, she was afraid of losing her, too.
"I'll come back, okay?" Kara grabbed her face in between her hands. "I love you, baby" her cousin kissed her forehead before getting up.
As the three of them started walking, another earthquake hit, being followed by a lightning, some of the superheroes appearing there as Kara put her arm in front of her to stop her from walking.
"Oh, my god, you're okay" Kara sighed relieved as they approached her.
"Thanks to her, she appeared at the last second and brought us here" Lois explained while hugging Kara as she got closer to them, Kal-El picking her up.
"Jon?" she asked as Clark embraced Kara with her in her arms.
"We sent him off in an escape pod" he answered, getting her to close her eyes with tears being contained in them, resting her head on his shoulder.
"And my mother?" Kara asked, Clark increasing the strength of the hug.
"I'm so sorry, Kara" he whispered, her body shivering, losing the little hope that it was left in her.
"Kara? Where are we? And what just happened?" a woman asked, frowning a little when the superhero was about to hit the woman that had appeared there first.
"It's okay, we're all on the same side" Kara tried to calm things down.
"Are we? 'Cause I don't know them" the woman questioned Kara.
"But you know me" Kara answered. "And if you were brought here with all these other heroes, it's probably because we need you. I trust everyone in this room with my life, including you" her cousin explained.
"Well, I guess you should all just call me Kate" the woman said while removing her mask.
"I'm Mia, I'm Oliver's daughter" the girl next to Oliver introduced herself, moment at which she asked Clark to leave her on the floor before running to hug Oliver's legs.
"Hi, kiddo" he smiled while embracing her. "Look, at you, you're so big!" he exclaimed, ruffling her hair as she smiled a little.
"Oh, She's so cute" Oliver's daughter said, getting everyone to look at her. "I know Halley's adult version and she's so tough that it's weird seeing her now" Mia explained as she observed her, they were supposed to meet at some point in the future.
"Okay, you start talking" Alex pointed to the woman while demanding answers.
She closed her eyes for a few seconds, wanting to calm herself down, but scared of what they may learn.
HALLEY'S P. O. V
I covered my face with my hands the moment a light flashed in front of me, frowning a little when I appeared in a different place than the one I was supposed to be, the DEO. I was in front of a tower.
"Barry?" I asked while frowning when I saw him there, being observed by him.
"Who are you?" he asked confused.
"I'm Halley" I answered, not understanding what was going on. "What year is it?" I asked after observing that he was surprised.
"2019" he answered as I shook my head.
"I time traveled" I whispered upset, turning when I heard a woman's voice.
"I see you're finally here" she commented while observing me. "They need you to fight the crisis" she said.
"The what?" I asked, not remembering anything of that from when I was younger.
However, she didn't answer me, another lightning happened, appearing at the DEO, my gaze meeting my cousin's as I tried to contain my tears, but every feeling I have been battling was coming out to the surface since in my time, in the future, my cousin was supposed to be dead.
"Halley?" Kara asked while approaching me, my head down as I tried not to look at her. "What are you doing here?" she questioned me, but I didn't answer.
"You need help, she can help" the woman answered, getting my cousin to frown.
"Did you bring me here?" I asked, not understanding how it was possible for me to be there.
"The Monitor wants you here to fight" she answered, to what I sighed.
"Who now?" I questioned her again, but I didn't received an answer as the woman disappeared.
"We should talk" my cousin commented, to what I nodded, she was right, we should.
Kara took me into a room where we could be alone, barely looking at her, trying to keep my distance from her, since I knew that I couldn't let myself tell her about everything that had happened.
"New suit, huh?" she asked while sitting on a chair, so I sat in front of her while nodding. "You're a superhero now?" she tried to get me to look at her, but I just nodded again. "Okay, Do you have a superhero name?"
"Flamebird" I answered in a whisper. "How long has it been since Lex?" I asked, for the first time looking directly into her eyes.
"A few months" she answered as I closed my eyes.
"For me it's been two years" I told her, observing how she frowned. "But I can assure you that this time I haven't use Mon-El's ring" I defended myself, Kara smiling at me.
"So you don't know how you got here?" she asked, to what I shook my head.
"I had just returned from Argo, you sent us there and after a month of trying I had managed to get back home, but now..." I sighed fighting my tears while remembering Brainy's words.
"Wait, Did you say Argo?" she stared at me confused, getting me to nod. "That's impossible, Argo is gone, the anti-matter wave destroyed it" Kara explained.
"What?" I started to panic. "But Clark and Lois are here... Jon? Aunt Alura?" I asked her not being able to fight my emotions for longer, ending up crying.
"They sent Jon to Earth inside of a pod" my cousin answered getting up to approach me, concerned about how I was reacting. "My mom didn't survive" she said as I stared at her, shaking my head, not wanting to believe her.
If Argo was gone in this time, it meant that it was also gone in the future, so everyone that was still there was dead. Leo and Juliet were gone.
Kara embraced me against her, trying to calm me down, but she got the opposite reaction as I couldn't stop sobbing with my face buried in her shoulder.
"It's okay, we will figure this out" she whispered, but I shook my head, my heart completely broken. "You don't remember any of this happening when you were little?" she asked.
"No" I answered. "I know there was a little problem with the Monitor, but nothing of this happened" I explained, starting to calm down.
I stared at my cousin while wiping the tears that were still streaming down my cheeks, ready to stand up and fight against whatever it would take, only to get my family back.
LITTLE HALLEY'S P. O. V
"Blue?" Mia asked her while showing her the marker, getting her to look at her. "Like the one you're holding" the girl pointed at Saffire before she looked to the drawing, nodding slightly with a little smile.
Comet ran toward them happily, putting his paws on her lap, to what she couldn't avoid smiling while petting him.
"What's its name?" Oliver's daughter asked her, gently caressing the puppy's hair.
"Comet" she answered.
"He's beautiful" Mia commented with a smile.
"What are you two doing?" Oliver asked entering inside the room, a box in his hands.
"Coloring" his daughter answered. "She loves dragons" Mia told him.
"She does" he smiled while ruffling her hair. "I have something for you, sweetie" Oliver told her while showing her a bow, her blue eyes lightning up as she observed it. "It's a little too big for you to use it now, but I know you will in the future" he commented, giving her the bow. "Someday you will be out there, just like your cousin does, and I know that you'll make a difference" Oliver said as she smiled observing the bow.
"It has my name!" she exclaimed while caressing with her fingertips the place where her name was written in Kryptonese. "Thank you" she hugged herself to Oliver, who hugged her back.
"You're so much welcome, kiddo" he whispered tightening the strength of the hug.
The moment she let go of him, she ran outside the room, looking for her cousin to show her the bow, Oliver and Mia following her as she couldn't stop smiling.
"Kara!" she exclaimed not being able to speed up with the bow in her hands, but getting her cousin's attention.
"A bow, huh?" Kara smiled while approaching them, crouching down to her height.
"Look! It even has my name written on it" she pointed at it, her cousin's smile being even wider while observing her.
"I see" her cousin nodded before tucking her dark hair behind her ears. "I'm glad you liked it, baby" Kara kissed her forehead, standing up. "Thanks for doing this, Oliver" her cousin smiled at him.
"She's happy, that's the best part of it" Oliver commented. "Hey, Why don't Mia and I show you some tricks?" he asked as Mia grabbed her hand. "Get going, I'll be there" he told them.
She smiled starting to walk, happy about having a bow of her own, one that she would always cherish, remembering the person who gave it to her, someone that believed in the hero that she would become someday.
However, the calm last barely a few minutes before they had to be reunited again at the DEO's main control, standing next to her cousin while observing the girl that was standing next to Kara.
It wasn't the first that her teenager self had traveled to the past, but it didn't mean that it was less weird as she was being able to see how she would grow up. She would be a hero.
"Jonathan's pod has dissappear from our radar" Brainy said as everyone looked at him. "It appears to have suck into a wormhole" he added staring at his tablet.
"What are the coordinates?" Clark asked.
"Star City, Earth-16" Brainy answered. "It must have been a temporal wormhole, because the pod is in the year 2046" he explained.
"I'm going after him" Kal-El said, Oliver stopping him from keep walking.
"I'll go" Lois volunteered herself ready to leave.
"I'll back you up, I know the terrain" Sara, who she knew from Iris and Barry's wedding, said.
"As will I" Brainy told them. "I happen to be excellent with children" he added, getting Kara to laugh while shaking her head.
"You can't even look after Halley" her cousin pointed out.
"Because she's super intelligent and she knows how to sneak out" Brainy tried to defend himself, Kara grabbing her hand to approach Lois.
"I want Halley to go with you, I it's the safest way for her to get to Earth-1" Kara said as she shook her head, her cousin staring at her with sadness before kneeling down in front of her. "It will be okay, kiddo, we'll see each other at Earth-1" her cousin brushed her brown hair away from her face, Alex giving her her backpack.
"Saffire is inside, okay?" Alex told her, to what she nodded while staring at Comet.
"Comet?" she asked, her cousin asking her sister to approach the puppy.
"He's going with you" Kara smiled as Alex gave her the dog's leash. "I love you, baby girl" her cousin kissed her forehead before embracing her.
"I love you, too" she whispered with her head buried in her cousin's neck.
Once they pulled away, Lois offered her hand for her to hold, waiting for Brainy and Sara to leave, a few tears threatening with escape her eyes when she looked at her cousin, who was almost crying.
"Don't worry, Kara, we'll keep her safe" Sara said, getting Kara to nod.
She held Comet's leash tightly, the oppression on her chest increasing as she tried to control the panic attack, but she was afraid of losing her cousin, of losing everything she knew.
HALLEY'S P. O. V
I stood by my cousin confused, not understanding how we were supposed to defend that tower from an army, but being ready to fight.
"Go, we got this" Oliver's daughter, Mia, said when a new earthquake hit.
"I'm staying" I told my cousin.
"Okay, be careful" she looked at me, to what I nodded shortly before Clark, Barry and Kara left.
"Let's go inside" Oliver said, getting all of us to follow him. "Stay close, Mia" he told his daughter, getting all of us to look at him, it was weird seeing him act like a parent, much more when neither of us knew that he had a daughter.
I shook my right hand, the bow slowly materializing in my hand as the quiver with the arrows appeared on my back.
I turned after feeling observed by Oliver, who approached me while staring at the bow that I was holding.
"It's weird, I've just given it to the eight year old you" he commented. "But I'm glad to know that your cousin let you use it" Oliver smiled at me.
"Well, she wasn't really into it at first" I told him with a little bit of sadness, getting him to laugh.
I sighed while focusing on what was happening in front of us, an army of demons to fight, so I shook my head and prepared to attack.
It wasn't being easy, we were getting tired, but relaxing a little when Clark and Kara went back. However, the demons were winning as the sky was turning red, which meant that the anti-matter wave was getting closer.
"Kara, Kal, Halley get to the roof, get the tower operating again" Oliver told us, so the three of us flew to the roof.
I followed what my cousin was doing, using my heat vision to get the tower to work again, at least for them to have enough time to take every people of the planer out of there.
I lost all of my energy, falling to the ground, being stopped by Barry, who helped me to get into my feet before he did the same thing with Kara.
We didn't have time to stop, to relax, since we had to protect that tower no matter what, so, even though we were tired, we kept fighting.
"The battle is lost" The Monitor appeared there. "We must retired and save our resources for battles yet to come" he explained as I started to observed how some of the heroes were disappearing before it happened to me, staring at my cousin confused.
"We're on Earth-1" Barry said. "Oliver" he whispered getting all of us to run toward the table where Oliver was laying covered in wounds and blood.
"He fought to his last breath, knowing every moment was another life saved" the Monitor told us, observing how Mia was clinging to his arm while crying.
"Saved?" Kara asked.
"Your universe is no more" The Monitor answered, Kara frowning as I closed my eyes, I had lost everything. "Of 7.53 billion... three billion souls made it to Earth-1 on the armada of ships" he explained. "I calculate one billion souls survived due to his noble sacrifice"
"Nash?" Barry asked the moment another man appeared there.
"Once upon a time, not anymore" he answered. "Now, I'm simply a man serving his penance" he added.
"Penance for what?" Kal-El questioned him.
"I've freed the Anti-Monitor from his confinement only to become a... Pariah" the man answered shortly before a portal appeared there.
I smiled a little when I observed how my younger self ran toward Kara to hug her legs, afraid of the scene that was happening in front of her. I would always do that, even at my age I was still seaking for my cousin's protection.
I knew that Oliver was going to die, that he would sacrificed himself for the Earth-38, but when I lived all of that, he managed to get it, the Crisis stopped there.
However, knowing what was going to happen didn't mean that it would be easier, since I could feel the tears that were being contained my eyes as well as the lump in my throat.
"I gave it all up for you and Kara" Oliver whispered, feeling how my cousin tensed, since she would sacrifice for everyone, but she wouldn't let anyone do it for her. "I mean the two of you be the ones to save us now" he told them.
I looked away not being able to keep watching what was happening, wiping the first tears that had managed to escape my eyes, gripping tightly the bow that I was still holding.
Mia's sobs filled the room as the rest of us remained speechless, not knowing how we should react or what we should tell her to make her feel better.
"It was not supposed to be like this" The Monitor told us.
"Things are turning out differently than I expected. But one thing is certain. Everything we know... everything there is... and everything there ever was... is doomed" Pariah informed, moment at which I shook my head before I started walking, just wanting to be alone.
"Hal. Halley" Kara called me, running after me, so I speeded up, until I found a quiet room. "You okay?" My cousin asked once she could reach me.
"How am I supposed to be okay?" I looked at her with tears in my eyes. "I would have preferred to die" I told her.
"What? No, don't say that" she shook her head.
"Our Earth is gone, there's no future, I have no home, Kara" I answered her, my cousin frowning.
"We will figure this out, Hal" she said, trying to touch my arm, but I moved away, to what she observed me confused.
"There is nothing to figure out, it's gone" I was starting to get upset. "You sent us to Argo and broke the portal, we've been there for a month!" I snapped at her, Kara really trying to calm me down. "When I finally came back, I learned that you were dead and I hadn't been there to say goodbye to you" I couldn't avoid sobbing. "But now I've lost everyone... Mon-El, you, the kids, Val, my parents, your mom..." I let her embraced me, my head resting on her shoulder.
"Did you say your parents? Your mom?" Kara asked me, still keeping me embraced, nodding slightly while pulling away from her.
"It's a long story, but she was alive" I answered. "I was so mad at her for abandon me..." I admitted in between sobs.
"You have to calm down, okay?" Kara grabbed my face in between her hands, gently wiping the tears from my cheeks. "I don't know what will happen in the future, but I do know that if I sent you to Argo, it was because I wanted to keep you safe" she looked directly into my eyes. "Even if you are a hero, you will always be my baby girl, I would do anything to protect you, Halley" my cousin kissed my forehead before embracing me again. "With you by my side, I know that we will fight this" she whispered in my ear.
"Always" I murmured.
"Always" she smiled, for the first time in a while feeling a little ray of hope.
Hi!
OMG the Crisis! I don't know where to start, it has happened a lot of things in just three episodes.
So I included Teen Halley, that was what Kara's words teased, but I wasn't sure if it would work out well. I think it did.
Writing both Halleys is not easy, they're in different points of their lifes, so they have like different reactions, which will be a lot more significant when they will meet Lex again.
Mia and Halley's relationship. I wanted it to be like a big sister-little sister relation, so, even though neither of teen Halley or her younger version knew about Mia, I can't wait to write more scenes between the three of them.
I think that Oliver will come back to life by the last episode of the Crisis and that Kara will manage to get back Earth-38, as well as all the others Earths.
I'll be writing another chapter that will involve part two and three.
Thanks so much for reading, let me know what you think,
Ayrin