Kara - 2

"You can't be here!" The mortician tried to block her, but Kara just tossed him aside. Not violently, as gently as she could while subduing him. Then she moved towards the table where Lena was slayed open like a frog in a high-school biology room. Her organs were removed and her skull sawed open. Her beautiful brain was sitting on a scale.

"Who authorized an autopsy?" Kara glared back towards the poor man cowering next to a wall.

"Standard procedure in a shooting." He stammered out.

"You will make her look like none of this was done. Not some funeral parlor. You. Is that understood!" Kara's eyes were wild and dangerous, she wasn't just furious she was physically imposing. Never in his wildest dreams had he thought Supergirl would be accosting him. Had he known who was on his table, he might have delayed the work. Lena Luthor was a well known ally and friend of the Girl of Steel.

"I don't know how to do that kind of work." He held up a hand defensively, and she batted the hand away and picked him up by his lab coat.

"Then find someone to help you do it. She will not leave this place until she looks untouched!" She shouted at him, eyes briefly glowing with anger. He began to nod emphatically, and she dropped him.

Kara then turned to stare at the body. She lingered over her for a long time, her eyes never roaming over Lena's intimate areas. She knew she couldn't let her grief out for long, she had to maintain her rage but she allowed several tears to escape as she traced the lines of Lena's face and then leaned forward and hovered her lips over Lena's.

"You're gone." She whispered, and then stepped back. Then she picked up Lena's heart, holding it gently and looking at it for a few seconds. She had listened to this organ beat for years, a foundational sound in her life. Now it was just meat, cold and dead. Without another word she put the heart back in Lena's chest and pulled out a lock of her hair, wrapping it around her finger and sniffing it. A bit of Lena's scent still lingered and Kara almost lost her composure again, instead she took off out of the building and directly out of the city.

The fortress was dark, but as she closed towards it lights began to illuminate in the handful of windows scattered around the structure. The massive door was bypassed quickly, and Kara landed in the main altar room within seconds of entering the fortress. She placed Lena's hair on the scanner.

"Kelex, create a profile of this genetic material and send it to the birthing matrix, match it with mine. I want our daughter." Kara sounded different to Kelex, but he couldn't quite process the change. Her body movements were aggressive, and her expression was anything but friendly. He had known Kara Zor-El for over a decade, and in that time he had never had a harsh word from her.

"I don't understand what has happened, Kara Zor-El? I am unfortunately unable to comply with your request, it is against protocol. Kal-El does not agree with this approach to genetic offspring." Kelex sounded remorseful, but Kara knew that was just smart programming and turned to glare at him.

"Kal-El is dead. I order you to do as I ask!" Kara shouted, slamming her hand down on the altar crashing the surface. As much as the fortress was designed for a Kryptonian, most of the material was from the earth.

"Understood, transferring authority to Kara Zor-El." Kelex shut his robot eyes, this news was not expected by his predictive algorithm. Something must've happened.

"Update records, I am to be known as Kara-El or Superwoman." Kara barked out the order, and Kelex just bowed in subservience. He could detect the change in personality in Kara, and could see the beginnings of something hard forming in her demeanor.

"Understood." He said simply, removing intonation from his speech patterns.

"Establish a connection with Argo." Kara demanded, then took a few deep breaths while Kelex dialed up the connection. She tried to find the sweetness she used to feel, the kindness, the love she once felt for everything and everyone. But it was gone, so she shifted her shoulders and put on a fake expression of concern for her mother.

"Sending signal, received." Kelex relayed, hovering back to keep out of the way.

"Kara, it is so… Kara? What's wrong?" Alura asked, her expression worried.

"Kal is dead, Argo is in danger. I am sending you coordinates to a safe location, have the city moved as soon as logistically possible. The red sun there should sustain your ecosystems and bio-habitats." Kara couldn't quite keep the anger out of her voice, but that just seemed to help sell her concern and found her mother nodding in agreement.

"Receiving, but Kara. We'll never see you again that far out." Alura was examining the coordinates, and looking at her daughter with longing. Kara felt a pang of something, but shut it down without showing it on her face.

"It can't be helped. I have to remain to protect Earth. I wish there was another way." Kara lied easily, which felt strange. She had never been good at lying before.

"We'll work on a ship, that way we can stay in contact." Alura drew up the blueprints of the ship they had been planning to build. The idea was to orbit around a mineral rich moon or planet they could harvest. She pulled up the system Kara chose and found it had several options.

"That will take years, I have better resources here. I'll make it happen." Kara countered, and Alura gave her a strained look but nodded. Agreeing now, and working on the craft anyway seemed like the logical choice.

"I wish we had more time, are you sure the danger is not something you can defeat?" Alura asked, wondering what could possibly have killed Kal, a loss that she hadn't even fully processed yet. Her nephew was gone, and why wasn't Kara inconsolable?

"I will eventually, but I cannot risk you." Kara said, letting some of her grief show, causing tears to begin to form in the corners of her eyes. Alura let go of the breath she was holding, of course her daughter was putting up a brave front for her.

"I love you Kara." Alura said easily.

"Me too mom." Kara said, and ended the transmission. Her expression fell as soon as the image of her mother faded. She used a finger to wipe away the tears and then turned to glare at Kelex.

"I have created the genetic profile you requested and it has been sent to the birthing matrix. We will have confirmation of fertilization success in ten hours." Kelex advised, still keeping his personality protocols repressed.

"Good. I'll be back." Kara said, already starting to rise up.

"Understood Kara-El." He said to confirm compliance, then moved towards the satellite relays to monitor external communications.

Kara stopped a few miles from the fortress and fitted a band around her wrist that enslaved the Fortress's vast resources to her command. Then pulled up a holographic interface to show her the physical location of all the remaining deposits of Kryptonite. They were all stockpiled in very different locations from where they were promised to be held. Kal had accepted those lies without proof.

"Predictable." She muttered and took off towards the first site faster than the speed of sound.

Several hours later she landed on the balcony of the DEO, the last place that housed Kryptonite. Alex was in the command center looking somewhat frantic, she turned to Kara with concern as she made her way into the base. Her senses on full alert, ready for them to make an attempt to contain her.

"Alex, has anyone from L-Corp reached out about Lena?" Kara started, hoping to disarm her sister without hurting her.

"Something about her body being delivered to a funeral home. Lena's assistant is coordinating the funeral, apparently Lena's lawyer wants to talk to you." Alex said as she moved over to Kara, her body language was open but her expression was guarded.

"Did he give a contact number?" Kara asked casually, as though this was just a normal sisterly exchange.

"Yes, you seem alright." Alex paused, then gritted her teeth and gave her sister a hard look. "I've been hearing rumors that you had a confrontation with Superman in Prague. Then we just had confirmation of several attacks on government sites throughout the world. All housing Kryptonite."

"So that's where we were?" Kara said with a small chuckle.

"Then you told Lois that he was dead." Alex continued, her mind warring between caring for her sister and mentally preparing for a confrontation with an out of control Kryptonian.

"He is, I yeeted him into the sun. It was almost funny, the expression on his face. After I destroy this last stockpile of Kryptonite I can protect the planet properly." Kara's eyes rolled around the room, marking each point where an agent had positioned themselves. Then she focused on her sister again.

"Kara, I can't believe you. Losing Lena is impossible, but you can't lose yourself." Alex knew her plea would probably fail, there was something broken in her sister's eyes. Something raw and dangerous.

"I've killed three people, I've already lost myself." Kara's shoulders fell, but her expression didn't change. Alex could see a flicker of her sister remaining, but she had no idea how to fan that flame without snuffing it out.

"You don't kill. I don't understand." Alex took a step back, she had heard from J'onn that he suspected Kara had killed Lillian, and there was the guy found dead in Prague but it was assumed he was collateral damage from the confrontation with Superman. Then if what she had said was true, the third was her cousin. She couldn't believe this was Kara. Was losing Lena that damaging to her psyche? If it was, and they failed to protect the Kryptonite stockpile here, there would be no stopping her.

"You heard me. Alex, don't pretend you wouldn't have done the same to Lillian." Kara practically spat back at her. The vicious snarl on her face was completely unexpected and terrifying. Kara rose up then and in less than a second had destroyed the weapons of everyone that was surrounding her. Then she crashed through the floor, and a minute later there was a rumbling as the entire vault containing the Kryptonite burst through the command center. She pushed it through the roof and out of the atmosphere, hurling it at the sun. Then she drifted down to stand in front of her sister, crossing her arms.

"What is wrong with you? You know for a fact I would never kill in cold blood." Alex's jaw was trembling, as she tried to retain her composure. J'onn had commed that he was on his way, but Alex knew that he didn't stand much of a chance against Kara. Not when she was clearly no longer holding back her power.

Kara began to pace, "what's the difference? We put these monsters like Lex behind bars, only to have to chase them back down again when they escape. Lena had it right, she killed her brother because he was too dangerous to be left alive."

"Is this why you fought with Superman?" Alex asked, trying not to say the words that she had killed her cousin.

"It is why I killed him, he would never agree to my methods now. He would constantly stand in my way, and I couldn't have it." Kara stopped to stare into her sister's eyes, daring her to threaten her.

"Don't do this, or we'll be forced to stop you." Alex tried, although the threat was hollow. Not only because she couldn't hurt her sister, but she had no idea how to fight Kara without Kryptonite.

"You can't stop me now." Kara said with a wide almost maliciously playful smile.

"You're not my sister. Kara Danvers would never act like this. She would be in pain, grieving. She wouldn't be killing and threatening to take over the world." Alex felt her heart miss a beat as she spoke, saying those words to Kara felt like a massive chunk of her soul had been ripped out of her.

"I don't want that. I just want to protect the world. As for Kara Danvers, she was a wet blanket. Weak and miserable. She couldn't tell the woman she loved how she felt until it was too late. She didn't stand up to her sister over a lie that was pointless to withhold. She couldn't stop Reign without help, because she refused to kill when the entire world was in danger. She let Lex fucking Luthor play games with everyone's lives when a simple beam through his miserable head would've ended it. I'm done playing games!" Kara shouted, gesturing around wildly. Then to put a point on it she turned to Alex and leveled her a dangerous glare, "as I told Lois, Kara Danvers is dead. So is my life pretending to be your sister and writing tiny little articles that have no significance or relevance to anyone anymore."

"Lena wouldn't want this." Alex tried one last time.

"Lena has no say in the matter, and if you or J'onn or Nia get in my way, I will hurt you. Do it again and I'll kill you. Understood?" Kara's threat took away Alex's last hope, a single tear falling down her cheek as she held herself together in front of the person she once cared about more than anyone.

"Yes." Alex said sternly with a curt nod. Kara rolled her eyes and took off without another word. Alex stood for all of ten seconds before her legs collapsed from under her, her entire body racked with uncontrollable sobs. J'onn was there seconds later, picking her up and holding her.

"She's gone, my sister is gone." She muttered into his shoulder, and all he could do was hold her more tightly.