Written by LVEZZ and SLITH, written for fans to enjoy.
Lex lands with a thud onto the cold hard ground of the phantom zone, he cannot help but shudder. It isn't just cold to the touch, there's something in the air, something he can't describe, more than being cold. He stands up and briskly brushes himself off to rid himself of the feeling, looking over at Nyxly, "you!" He says thru a clenched- teeth. Seething, "I'm stuck here... with you!" He says taking in his surroundings.
Nyxly shudders from the intense feeling of the Phantom Zone, brushing her coat off, also angry. "Don't give me that! What in hell caused you to bring the phantoms into the battle?!" She yells back at him looking at the gauntlets on her arms.
" I knew you were insane and deranged! But what kind of stupid idiot brings PHANTOMS into a battle!?" She screams at him wishing her gauntlets could blast him out of her misery. Her brown eyes glinting looking like black orbs at him.
"Oh, like you wouldn't have thought of it!" Lex rolls his eyes and steps away, "enough of this, you're wasting my time," he starts walking away and goes to his watch to portal back to Earth.
"I NEVER would have brought them into the mx" She sees what he is doing and grabs hold fast.
"What're-" Lex can't finish his sentence as he goes thru the portal and comes out in National City. The feeling is drastic, such a massive flip from the phantom zone. He makes sure not to show it though, goosebumps on his arms, but thankful for his suit jacket. "Great..." he looks at her, raising his gauntlet, "it is time to finish this!"
But he didn't notice she already had her gauntlets up, firing and shooting him in both legs, breaking bones and burning him as he fell.
"I am done with you Lex Luthor!" She states running off. She did not kill him, but crippled him where he could no longer follow her.
Writhing on the floor, Lex extends his arm and shoots, not a good shot but he knows it'll still get her. After he does, he watches as his gauntlets are removed him his arm. Startled, he looks up to see Martian Manhunter standing by his side. They had picked up on the energy from the portal. Touching his ear piece, "I've got Lex Luthor, he's in bad shape, Lena. He won't be walking anytime soon."
"Good!" Was the reply.
Nyxly feels the burn in her back, falling immediately, her last conscious thought was at least she wouldn't have an eternity in the phantom zone, she saw Martian Man Hunter walking towards her, then blackness.
Lex was immediately admitted to a prison hospital, he would be charged for the murder of William Dey.
Nyxly felt awful, she awakened on her stomach in the medical bay of the Tower, as the new DEO was still under construction.
Kara had been keeping Alex out of the bay, as all she wanted to do was strangle the female Imp.
Kara sits by her side, watching over Nyxly carefully, and honestly concerned for her.
She sees Kara sitting by her, she attempts to rise.
"Stay down, you're in no condition to get up," Kara says touching her shoulders and gently pushing her back down. "How do you feel?"
"Awful!" She rasps out moaning from the pain.
Kelly holds onto Alex from barging in to confront the woman.
"Kara said no! Wait until she is better!" She pulls her back.
"Damn it, Kara! Let me talk to her!" Alex calls out angrily.
"Alex, calm down, please," Kara calls out. She looks around to see where Lena is.
"Your idea of talking is punching! And you know that!" Kelly tried to reason with her wife.
Lena has stayed away. Nyxly had accidentally shot her mother. Her anger was high at the moment.
"Kara, you don't need to be kind to me. I know I am rotten. Let me go and you'll never see me again." Nyxly pleaded to her, still lying prone and miserable.
"I need to talk to you," Kara says to her gently. "I'm aware of how things ended when I saw you last. But I also know that you were being influenced by Lex. I know how it feels to have certain emotions stronger than the others without reason."
She looks at her, not feeling well, thoughts of what all happened, swimming in her head.
"I didn't kill Lex. Someone will help him. He meant to kill me."
"Lex is gone, in prison," Kara explains, "he can't hurt you or anyone else again."
"Okay." She calms a little at that.
"My powers are drained again." She admits, "I am unable to heal myself." She feels bandages on her back.
"We've patched you up, well Lena did... I asked her to. You killed her mother and that's still fresh for her," Kara adds, "my sister... she is still angry for you taking her daughter. I'm keeping her away for now."
"I didn't harm her! I made sure Lex couldn't either! We split up over my feelings for Esme." She started to weep tears, as Alex heard this at the door.
"I saw him for the monster he was!" She defends herself.
"You... you protected her?" Kara asks, she is surprised by this.
"Yes! He was ready to cut the totem out of her- I stopped him!"
"I don't believe you!" Alex spat breaking hold of Kelly's arm and running in to confront her.
She immediately felt the steel hand of Kara stopping her.
"I understand why you wouldn't. But I grew fond of her, and I would never harm an innocent child! I am not Lex!"
"Alex... there is an easy way to learn the truth," Kara says looking at her sister in the eye.
"How?!" She is ready to strangle Nyxly.
Kelly is right by her side, taking her arm again.
Nyxly moves to rise again, realized she can't, and shifts to her side to try to face everyone.
"What are your thoughts, Kara?" Alex asks still angry.
Nyxly's eyes betray the pain she is still in.
"The alien, truth seeker? You used it to show Esme your true feelings towards her, you can use it with Nyxly," Kara offers calmly.
"Or? Esme was there. She heard everything." Nyxly admitted painfully.
"I liked your daughter a lot. We were trying to figure out how to get the totem. As it turned out- my act of saving her out of love for a child- brought it directly to me. I took her away from Lex, you know the rest. We fought because he was a monster and wanted to harm her." She admitted getting weaker by the moment.
Lena had slipped in quietly listening to everything.
Alex stood startled by that, no longer wanting to kill her. She had saved her daughter!
"I am sorry for all the pain I have caused you all." She admitted.
"And you tried to kill Lex, and Lilian took the shot..." Kara frowns looking at Lena. It wasn't intentional, but knowing the truth about Lex does bring clarity.
Her vitals were lower as the monitors displayed her worsening condition.
"Yes, I ...didn't mean to hurt her mother...only Lex." She starts to go under again.
Lena heard, rushing over to see what she can do.
"Kara! She needs your heat vision now!"
"It's like a human shocking their heart back."
"She has no powers," Kara comments not wanting to hurt her further.
She places a special heat conductor onto Nyxly who is moved back to her stomach.
Kara uses her heat vision carefully.
"The conductor on her back will shield the burn, but give her the energy she needs." She explains quickly.
Alex and Kelly are watching intensely.
"Shoot her with the heat vision on this conductor shield."
Kara stands firm, focusing her heat vision on the shield.
Kara noticed it was similar to the K shield she had worn.
Nyxly is jolted awake, screaming from the pain, but also getting the much needed energy from Kara.
"Okay stop."
Lena orders, as she sees Nyxly start to glow.
Kara stops on command, standing back.
Alex and Kelly still watching.
"She's healing herself. She will want these back." Lena hands her Nyxly's long coat and garments.
"You can talk to her more when she is changed and better." Lena tells Alex and Kelly, taking their leave for now.
"I wanted to kill her...it would have been a terrible mistake!" Alex admits to Kelly.
She is shaking her head.
Nyxly finishes the glow as it dissipates to nothing.
Kara steps aside, "I'll be on the balcony if you need me," she says to Alex.
She is healed, she gets back up off her stomach, rising to a sitting position.
"Kara!" She calls for her quickly, as Lena sets her coat and garments in her lap. "You should change. I had to bandage your back for the third degree burns you had. So yeah, had to put you in that gown.
Nyxly nods and goes to the nearest bathroom to change.
She comes out quickly, Lena leads her to the balcony to talk to Kara.
She is tall. She dwarfs Kara and Alex at just under 6 ft tall.
"You healed me. Thank you, Kara." She smiles at her.
"I never noticed how tall you were before." Lena states quietly.
"Mxy was short I recall." Alex admitted, joining them with Kelly.
"Of course... I felt guilty for not trying to reach out to you again... I failed and things spiraled," Kara admits to Nyxly.
"Right. Lex certainly didn't make things better. I am sorry for your mother Lena. It was my attempt at ridding the world of Lex that she stopped. It was never supposed to be her." She is saddened for her part in Lillian's demise.
Lena nods quietly.
"What do you plan to do?" Kara asks curious. Hoping it isn't back to her plan for revenge.
Esme walks into the room, looking for her mothers, but startled at seeing Nyxly again.
"I don't know." She too sees Esme, and immediately squats down at her level. "Hi little lamb." She says smiling.
Esme smiles at that and walks over to her.
They take each other's hands.
"I told you before I was sorry listening to the bad man and taking you. Will you forgive me?" She smiles begging forgiveness to six year old.
"Apology accepted." She smiles back, still holding hands. Still with Nyxly squatting to her level.
Alex and Kelly giggle at that.
"They do like each other!" Alex gasps at Kelly.
"Yes, we bonded. I protected her." She stood up again, still holding one hand of the girl's.
"Kids are a great judge of character," Kara smiles fondly at her niece. "You've been gone a while," she adds.
"You know time goes by slowly in the phantom zone." Nyxly admits unhappily.
"I am sorry Nyxly, I was wrong about you. I honestly thought you wanted to harm her. You actually saved her!" She grabs Kelly's hand emotional.
Nyxly nodded. "I was awful- I admit that, in my need for mindless vengeance. But no, I would never hurt a child. Never!" Nyxly looks determined.
She lets go of Esme's hand to trot back to her mothers.
"I am sorry...so sorry to have harmed you all."
"It sounds like my monster brother is what turned you. You were vengeful before but never a killer." Lena admits truthfully. " He actually wanted to harm Esme?". Nyxly just nodded solemnly.
"You tried to kill me and my sister!" Nia shows up out of her suit.
"Nia..Dreamer. I am sorry. I know I got caught up in the power play. That was awful of me."
"You we're giggling as you were blasting me!" She yells furiously. Brainy steps up to calm her.
"I have a lot to atone for I know. I AM sorry."
"Sorry?! You're sorry for nearly killing me and my SISTER!" She yells furiously.
"I admit, I was bad. But you defended against me and were too powerful. I couldn't have done it."
"Only because of my mother's necklace! It gave me the extra strength I needed! If not for that you would have killed us both!"
Brainy held her back.
"I am sorry. Anything you want is yours if I can grant it." She offers.
"You'll just give me something?"
"Yes." She nods.
"I will have to think about that."
"Okay. I owe you and you deserve to be happy." She tells her honestly.
Alex Kelly and Esme leave to let the others talk to Nyxly.
"I won't burden you further, a lot has happened and you've got a lot to catch up on," Kara says. "The world knows I'm Supergirl."
"No...we should talk. I did see you as a friend Kara. I thought...well I was ruthless trying to get home and I am sorry for harming your father too."
"As I said...I have a lot to atone for." She admits.
"I'm sorry about your father Kara, I owe you too. Anything I can give you." She looks distraught at her.
"I made a mess of everything!" She looks over the rail shaking her head.
Kara touches her shoulder, "there is nothing I want, I was honestly just dealing with an identity crisis," she smirks. "He's alive, my sister is married with a daughter, I'm still Supergirl and now back at work... I'm just trying to figure my life out still."
"I didn't used to be like this! I told Esme I too drew and colored for hours as a little girl. My father said it was wasting time and threw it all away. His awful treatment of me twisted me. Then Lex twisted me more." She looked extremely sad at Kara, a tear running down a cheek.
Kara rubs her back, "I thought I needed to fight power with power, we all get consumed by our emotions and caught in the moment. It drives us to do scary things... and it takes something special for us to snap out of it," she explains recalling from her own deeds.
"I am deeply sorry for absolutely everything I caused. I hope in my desperate need for revenge I didn't accidentally kill anyone else." She frowns.
"And that dragon! I could have caused you to die from that! That was all me trying to get hold of Mxy. Did he go to the future?" Kara nods.
"I was a monster!" She slides down to the floor of the balcony. Her black coat flowing out from her.
She is now sitting, with her long legs pulled up against her.
Kara kneels down with her, "work with me, the only way to get thru this is to atone. Do right by the people of NC, do good, actions speak louder than words," she smiles.
Nyxly was feeling the deep guilt of her actions. "Work with you? To do what?" She looks at her confused.
"I am not going back to my dimension. I am not wanted by my father the King. I was banished. Doesn't matter if I am a Princess.
"Be a hero," Kara answers.
"A hero?" She chuckles, "I am no hero, Kara. That's you."
"And I am no longer feeling the burning need to kill him in revenge."
She looks down, now tearing up. "There has been enough death."
"That's why I'm saying be a hero, you feel bad for what you've done to my friends and I and the city. Go out with me and help me in the city," Kara offers.
"When do you do that?" She looks up from the floor, wiping her cheeks quickly with her sleeve.
"When I hear something, keep an eye on the news, if the people of NC can't handle something then I jump in," Kara smiles.
"Well I have nowhere to go." She admits embarrassed.
"Stay here in the tower, my place... new DEO is still being worked on," Kara says.
"I can only fly with the gauntlets, when I was battling Lex. So...I can't fly with you. I can portal of course, from one place to another, but Imps can't fly. Only portal.
She looks at J'onn looking at her from in the room.
"I don't think I should stay with Martian Man Hunter. He really doesn't like me." She admits to her.
"You can stay with me," Kara says.
"You would do that for me?"
"In my eyes you're showing you want a second chance and I'm big on second chances," Kara smiles at her.
"Can I get my gauntlets back, so I can fly with you? It has the stone that makes you all powerful in it." She explains.
"But I would only use it to be able to fly with you." She clarifies.
"Would the all stone not influence you if you use it?" Kara asks.
"No. I won't let it." She frowned. "I welcomed the power, I will only tap on it to fly, not for anything else. I promise."
"Kara, a word?" J'onn speaks up.
Looking up, "just a moment," Kara stands up and walks over to J'onn. "What's wrong?"
Nyxly stands up from the floor, quickly brushing herself off.
"I don't think it's a good idea to give her the gauntlets. You know it yourself, she manipulated you and Nia once," J'onn points out quietly.
Nyxly can hear, but stays quiet. She knows she was bad. And she knows everyone knows it.
"J'onn... I believe in her," Kara says, "she isn't the same person as before." She watches his eyes shift over to Nyxly. "I can call if I need help."
Nyxly inwardly sighs. She knows it's going to take a very long time for her to atone.
J'onn crosses his arms, "I'm trusting you Kara, you've been thru enough," he frowns. He truly doesn't want anything to happen to her.
Kara smiles softly, "thank you," she touches his arm before going over to Nyxly. "Okay, gauntlets."
"Yes?" Nyxly looks hopeful she will get them back.
Kara takes the gauntlets out of their storage case and holds them out to her, "I am trusting you," she says in honesty.
"I am in your service." She bows, taking them and slipping them on.
"Where to?" As she puts a hand on her shoulder, and looked out from the balcony to the city.
Fade to black
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