Hello everyone! Sorry for not having a chapter in a while! Right now, I'm caught up in my job! Tired, stress and horrible heat! I will try to finish this story quickly!

Chapter 9

Earth – 1; Central City

Alex Danvers was watching the pipeline closely, her eyes fixed on her tablet, when Killer Frost came to see her.

"Danvers. The big guy is out, - chasing down a lead on the Triplets."

"Ah," answered Alex without looking away from her tablet.

"You know, Diggle and Hill can monitor these sorry sacks from upstairs. Why don't you take the night off?"

Categorically, Alex replied:

"It's okay. I still have some work to do."

From her cell, Kara heard them talking.

"You know, that's the third time in just as many weeks I've told you to go home, and you've turned me down. You know, this sorry little pout's really bringing me down. So, why don't you want to go home? Boyfriend troubles?" Killer Frost asked curiously.

"No," Alex replied.

"Boyfriend?" Kara whispered in her cell, frowning.

What if this version of her sister was attracted to women, like the real Alex?

"No. No boyfriend presently," Alex said.

"I thought you were dating that moron computer scientist, this guy named Scott Bang or Lang," Killer Frost said amusedly. "Not impressed, by the way."

Scott Lang? Like Ant-Man? Kara found it hard to imagine her sister dating a version of Scott on another Earth.

"Okay, it was a couple of dates." Alex replied. "And now he's dating this woman Hope Van Dyne."

"Ooh. Boy's got a type."exclaimed Frost. "But why did Hope say yes? You need to leave this place. You've got to get a life."

"Look, I love what I do," Alex replied. "The work is important!"

"Well, now you sound like the big guy." Frost laughed. "And you and I both know I don't mean that as a compliment. Look, I'm sure the work we do for the city is great, but half of what we do around here is really just to prop his ego up. Truth, justice, and the American way? More like me, myself, and I."

"Hmm, yeah," Alex answered simply.

"All work and no play doesn't just make a girl dull. It turns your heart to ice. And trust me, that ain't fun."

"I appreciate the offer," Alex answered indifferently. "But I'm gonna stay just the same."

"Suit yourself!"

Earth – 38; Arctic

Finally, after various unsuccessful attempts, Barry had taught Cisco how to teleport to another Earth. Along with Thor, Oliver, and Loki, they had made it into Superman's Fortress of Solitude on Earth – 38.

"Oh, thank God we're here." Barry exclaimed, breathless.

"Finally," Thor added, huffing like an ox.

"Yeah, only took 17 tries," Oliver grumbled.

"Oh, I see. You're a comedian." Cisco exclaimed.

"So it worked?" Loki said looking at his surroundings curiously. "Are we really on another Earth?"

Then they saw Superman and Lois preparing a meal in the Ice Palace.

"Lois… Kal… nice to see you again," Thor said greeting them.

The Kryptonian and his wife approached them.

"Still Barry?" Superman asked Oliver.

"No, no…" replied the archer.

"Barry and Oliver took their bodies back," Thor explained. "But it's not over yet. Reality has changed again!"

Superman saw Cisco and Loki, then looked shocked.

"Oh no! Which of you is Kara?"

Cisco replied with a grumble:

"Mr Ramon, and he is my assistant Laufey!"

Loki waved his hand uncertainly.

"Is he a Superman from another Earth? He looks less stupid than the other."

The Latino spoke to his assistant in a deep voice:

"Do you think this guy looks like Superman? He don't even look like him. What, did they get him off the street?"

Then he approached a metal hammer.

"What's this?"

"Looks like Mjöllnir!"Thor exclaimed shocked at the sight of the hammer.

Cisco touched the hammer, immediately a bright light came out.

"Yeah, you, uh... You really shouldn't touch that." Lois said, crossing her arms.

"Hey, you could throw a party with this thing…"

Ignoring Cisco, Thor turned to the Earth couple again - 38.

"As I told you, reality has changed again on the other Earth. A nut has a Book capable of transforming reality. That's how he swapped Barry and Oliver. He used it again and he became Superman!"

"A change in reality?" Loki cried, stunned.

"Where's Kara?" the Kryptonian asked.

Earth – 1; Central City

Kara was trying to freeze the wall of her pipeline cell with her superblast. When Alex opened the shutter of the cell and saw the young woman trying to escape. Immediately, she activated the sound absorber on her. Kara then felt a shrill sound twisting her ears and cried out in pain.

"Alex! Please, stop!"

"He warned you." Alex replied firmly.

"I promise I won't try to escape again!"

Kara had to find a way to free herself from her cell, and only Alex could help her. She had to find a way to convince her. And she knew what to say.

She then began to speak in Japanese. Words that seemed to mean something to Alex, as Alex immediately turned off the sound damper, and looked at the prisoner, her eyes wide in surprise.

"How do you know that?"

Kara caught her breath and replied:

"Alex Danvers taught it to me. I told you, I'm not from this Earth. The Alex on my Earth spent a summer in Nagano with Jeremiah and Eliza when she was six. She was homesick. And a girl from the village helped her sneak down to one of the temples one night. She wrote a note, and she put it in a crack in the wall, hoping it would come true."

"I was seven, not six." corrected Alex. "And that little girl in the village, she taught me that rhyme. It means..."

"Pinky swear!"

Kara was happy, while Alex was confused.

"And my Alex taught it to me the first night we snuck out together to go flying. My Alex was always drawn to service. So it's not surprising that you care deeply, so deeply, about this world and all the people in it. But on my Earth? Alex doesn't just have a job. She's in charge of a place like this."

"She's in charge?" exclaimed Alex skeptically.

Kara nodded, continuing:

"She's a leader who is just and proud. When someone tells her to do something she knows is wrong, she gives them hell. And she does what's right. She doesn't have powers like I do, but she's a hero. And she has the biggest heart of anyone I know, even though she doesn't always like to show it. And she has good friends. A real family of support that she's created for herself. And she doesn't hide who she is. She wants a wife. And kids. She's optimistic that she could have it all. It's not an "if". It's a "when"."

"She sounds pretty awesome." replied Alex, shocked by these revelations.

"She is. And I know I'm not your sister on this planet. I guess my pod didn't land here, but… You're still that person. I can tell. I know it. Superman rewrote this reality to make us all his prisoners. I think you're smart enough to see through him."

Taking a deep breath, Alex turned away while discussing:

"If I were to let you out of that cell, you'd, what, stop him?"

"Pinky swear!"

Earth – 38; Arctic

Barry, Thor and Oliver explained to Superman and Lois what the Earth – 1 looked like today.

"He's changed all of Central City." Barry said. "Maybe even the whole world. Everybody thinks he's you, and we're bad."

"I mean, I am bad." Cisco replied with a sigh.

Loki was stunned by these revelations:

"And me, in the old reality, am I a good guy?"

Thor grimaced before retorting:

"It's complicated!"

Ignoring Loki and Cisco, Oliver added:

"Bottom line, Kara is nowhere to be found."

"If we get the book back, we should be able to rewrite reality again." Barry replied.

"Are we really going to rewrite reality?" Loki exclaimed, bewildered.

"Yeah," retorted Cisco not excited by the idea. "And how you gonna do that? You got a magic pen lying around somewhere behind these ice walls?"

"It's not a pen. It's just the mind." Superman replied, crossing his arms. "I've encountered books like this before. The author writes things into existence through sheer force of will. But changing the story comes at a cost."

"Do you have any idea where the book is?" Lois asked.

"I guess in Deegan's hands, that stupid Superman," Thor retorted. "It remains to be seen where he hid it."

"If I were him, I'd keep it somewhere secure enough to also hold a Kryptonian." Barry replied.

"At Star Labs," Loki replied. "The most guarded place in all of Central City. Rumor has it that he lives there."

"Laufey and I, did time there once." Cisco added.

"Hey, so did we," Barry and Oliver replied.

"Not me," Thor retorted. "You don't imprison a God like that!"

"You, fatty, are you really a God?" laughed the Latino. "You should be on a diet, that would be very good."

Superman looked at Lois, realizing that Earth – 38's hero had to come to Earth – 1.

Earth – 1; Central City

Alex had made up her mind to free Kara from the pipeline. The two were trying to flee Star Labs, when they come face to face with Maria Hill, John Diggle and Killer Frost, with Deegan in black Superman at their center.

"Well, well, well. A traitor in our midst." the fake Superman muttered. "I see there is a traitor among us."

"And I thought Danvers was crazy going out with Lang," Hill cried.

"You know, when I said you should get out there and start dating, Danvers, this isn't quite what I had in mind." Frost added.

"I warned you," Deegan said threateningly.

"No, I tricked her into opening my cell." Kara intervened. "We don't know each other."

"Yes, we do," replied Alex in a loud voice. "She's my sister."

Kara was touched by this attention from this Alex Danvers from another reality.

"Well, then you can burn together." Deegan replied, preparing to use his heat vision on the two women.

It was then that an interdimensional breach came out of nowhere, and then, Thor, Barry, Oliver, Superman, Cisco and Loki arrived at Star Labs.

All delighted, Superman greeted the enemies, as to old friends.

"Hi. Nice suit." he told Deegan, eyeing his dark Superman outfit.

"It's over for you, Deegan!" Thor said threateningly. "This reality will disappear, and so will you!"

Oliver and Barry were ready to retaliate, while Cisco and Loki stepped back.

"Doctor, can I have a word please?" said Superman in a calm voice.

Immediately, the two Supermans clashed, taking flight and demolishing the roof of the laboratory.

Cisco, scared but doing everything to hide it, left the group.

"I'm out. You ladies have fun."

And he disappeared through a breach, leaving alone his sidekick Loki, who was distraught.

"Mr. Ramon, you cannot left me!"

Next, Diggle, Killer Frost and Hill came to confront Oliver. The four of them fought with their bare hands to the elevator.

"Barry, Thor, go get the Book!" the archer yelled as the elevator doors closed behind him and his assailants.

Barry and Thor turned and faced Kara and Alex.

"Kara, thank goodness you're all right," Thor replied cheerfully.

"Alex?" Barry exclaimed. "What are you doing here?"

It was that Alex grabbed the young man in a choke hold.

"Hey, slow down, we are on the same side!" exclaimed the Asgardian.

Even Loki stood back, raising his hands in the air, fearing the woman would attack him.

"Please, my little lady, don't hit me!"

"No, he's fine," Kara added.

"Yeah, and I'm fine too," Loki added.

Immediately, Alex released Barry apologetically.

"We don't have time to waste," Thor said. "Where would Deegan… well, Superman, keep anything valuable?"

"Anything of importance to him, he keeps in a place called the Fortress of Solitude." Alex explained. "I'll take you there."

"We just came from the Fortress of Solitude." the speedster muttered.

"Stop whining, the scarlet speedster," Thor replied with amusement.

"What is the Fortress of Solitude?" Loki questioned, frowning. "Who invented this thing?"

And Alex led them through the halls of Star Labs.

Meanwhile, Superman and Deegan flew through the streets of Central City, knocking down a helicopter from the sky. Superman grabbed him, set him on a helipad, while Deegan attacked him. He slammed the Man of Steel into an office building.

Once on the ground, the fake Superman grabbed his opponent by his cloak and dragged him to the ground. He grabs him.

"How does it feel to be the villain for once?"

And he sent him through a window, throwing him out of the building.

Alex had led Kara, Barry, Thor, and Loki to Deegan's secret location, which turned out to be Star Labs' time vault. They saw the Book of Destiny, placed on a pedestal.

"This isn't a fortress of anything. This is the time vault." Barry said.

"The what?" Loki muttered.

Ignoring the two men, Thor stared at the Book on the plinth.

"The Book's here," he said.

"And it's unlocked," Kara added.

They all approached the Book.

"Can this Book really change reality?" Loki exclaimed stunned.

'Yes,' Thor replied.

" All right, well," Barry said. "How does one go about rewriting reality?"

"Well," answered Kara simply, who didn't know more than he did.

She opened the book, several beams of energy crossed her. But the effort was too much for her. She closed the Book immediately.

"Kara, are you okay?" Thor said worriedly.

"She must still be weak from the pipeline." Alex explained.

"I don't know how Deegan did it." asked the Kryptonian.

"Good question," Thor said, looking at the Book haughtily.

Loki stepped in between them.

"Thor, didn't you say you were a god? You couldn't do something…"

"I can't! I've no powers in this reality! I'll never get there," the Asgardian muttered before realizing. "But Superman could do it."

"The Superman who tried to kill us?" asked Alex.

"No, not him, not Deegan, the real Superman. He said he's seen Books like this before. He alone could change this reality."

"Let's bring him the Book!" Kara said taking the Book in her arms.

Outside, Deegan had the Man of Steel knocked down. He was about to deliver the killing blow when Kara came up to him with the Book.

"Superman!"

She fired a beam of heat vision that pushed the fake Superman away. Then she joined her cousin by running and giving him the Book of Destiny.

"Clark, we need you to open this. Fix things."

Superman opened it, sending forth several amounts of cosmic energies that changed reality. Kara became Supergirl again, much to her delight.

Inside Star Labs, Thor was with Barry, Alex, and Loki, when multiple beams of energy surrounded them. Barry then became Flash again, while Thor regained his Asgardian armor.

The elevator doors opened. Diggle, Frost and Hill were all three unconscious, while Oliver had reverted to Green Arrow.

The three heroes looked at each other, delighted at the return to normal.

Smiling with satisfaction, Thor flashed a few lightning bolts from his hands, then summoned Stormbreaker. Immediately his ax, coming out of nowhere, returned to his hand, under the astonished gaze of Alex and Loki.

"My God!" exclaimed the young agent.

"Who the hell are you?" Loki added shocked.

"I am Thor, Son of Odin and God of Thunder!"

Flash disappeared at super speed. Then Thor flew off with Stormbreaker, glad he had regained his powers.

The two joined Kara with her cousin. The latter was using the Book of Destiny to fix reality.

"It works!" Thor exclaimed happily.

"He's doing it." Barry added.

Supergirl looked at her two friends with glee.

It was then that Deegan appeared who grabbed Barry by the body and grabbed his neck.

Supergirl used her heat vision, while Thor hurled lightning at him. But Deegan managed to ward off their attacks with his heat vision.

"Make him close it, or I snap his neck." he ordered, holding Flash by the body.

Thor brandished his ax, as Oliver arrived and pointed his bow straight at his foe.

"No!"

"Then your friend dies," declared the false Superman.

"Let him go, Deegan!" Thor intervened, brandishing Stormbreaker.

"Not if I kill you first." retorted the archer, drawing his bow.

"Oliver, Thor, don't!" Flash cried. "You don't have to do this, both of you! Oliver, you don't have to channel your darkness. You can overcome it. You can be different. You can be better just like you, Thor! You wanted to become the hero you once were again. Don't kill Deegan for me! Maybe that's it. Maybe that's the Monitor's test."

As Oliver and Thor hesitated to take down the fake Superman, the latter released Barry, and clapped both hands, creating a powerful shock wave that unsettled our five heroes. And in super speed, he took off carrying the Book that Superman had dropped. He disappeared into the sky, under the bewildered looks of Oliver, Barry, Supergirl, Superman and Thor.

"We must stop him before he destroys reality!" Thor exclaimed, horrified.

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