I'm Back! I know its been forever but I hope this wait was worth it.
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Chapter 13: Trinity
DEO HQ
After the escape of the Worldkillers, the DEO had taken Lena back to their headquarters for an explanation.
"How long has this been going on?" Kara asked, her tone cautious as if waiting for something to strike.
"Three weeks." Lena answered.
"And what have you been doing with Sam in those three weeks?" Kara asked.
"When I first suspected that Sam was more than she knew, I took her to a secret lab at L-Corp where I ran several tests."
"When I examined her I found nothing out of the ordinary." Alex added. "What did you find?"
"After sequencing her DNA and comparing her blackouts with Reign's attacks, I came to the conclusion Sam and Reign were one in the same." Lena explained.
"So for three weeks you've been harboring and abetting a mass murderer." J'onn accused. "Why didn't you bring this to our attention?
"The attention of a clandestine organization that's never formally acknowledged it's existence to me?" Lena shot back. "I'm not your employee. I've not signed a contract nor sworn an oath. I conducted an L-Corp experiment using my technology and my property."
"I wanted to isolate the spark that turned Sam into Reign but I didn't have enough time." Lena answered.
Kara meanwhile was staring Lena down barely suppressing her anger. "Weeks with Reign." Kara repeated causing Oliver to shift uncomfortably in his chair. "Do you have any way of tracking the Worldkillers?"
"No." Lena said, her voice so soft it was almost a whisper.
"Anyone else?" Kara turned to the other heroes in the room.
"They've gone to ground and they wont come back till they have something big to do." Mon-El replied.
"The future's fate is more precarious than ever." Imra added, fear evident in her voice.
"How did you keep her contained?" Kara asked though she feared the answer.
Lena paused before answering "Lex kept a vault in the lab. When I got L-Corp I inherited all of its assets for good or for ill. I used kryptonite."
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After the meeting Lena went onto the balcony to make a call while Oliver held back with Kara.
"You knew didn't you?" Kara accused. "You've always been good at masking emotion but when Lena explained everything about Sam and Reign you didn't even look surprised."
Oliver sighed. "I knew. When Sam started disappearing I observed Lena and discovered that she had taken Sam to the underground lab. I learned the truth only a few days ago."
"Why didn't you tell us?" Kara said her voice rose in anger.
"Because I believed Lena could help. She was already making progress in determining how to separate Reign from Sam. But I know Lena isn't infallible. I made her agree that if she couldn't find the answer within a set time period, I would bring you in."
Kara paced a bit, her anger still present but somewhat subdued. "Kara I never meant to."
"Oliver just… Just give me some space." Kara asked as she left to speak with Lena.
As Kara left, Roy walked up to Oliver. "How'd it go?"
"About as well as can be expected." Oliver replied.
"Thea told me a lot about Kara after we reconnected." Roy said. "She is something else."
Oliver smiled. "She sure is. I'm just upset I had to lie to her about Sam."
Roy countered. "You hid the truth to protect a friend. She might be angry now but she'll understand eventually."
"Speaking from experience?" Oliver smiled.
Roy let out a small laugh. "I screwed things up with Thea so many times but she always came back around. Trust me I think you're…"
Roy's words were interrupted by the sight of the moon eclipsing the sun as darkness fell upon the world.
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As the eclipse began to reach totality, the DEO was at full alert status. "How long have we got?" J'onn asked.
"Two hours till totality." Winn replied.
"Temperature drops 50 degrees or more." Lena explained.
"You said you dreamed of Sam?" Oliver asked.
"People don't dream during a seizure." J'onn countered.
It's the same dream I've been having for the past year. I'm in the kryptonian valley Juru. Normally I see the Worldkillers but today I saw Sam. And Julia days before."
"Well then it's not a dream. The valley's real." Lena exclaimed. "Sam told me of this same place. Somewhere she would go when Reign took over."
"Then how is Supergirl seeing it?" Alex asked.
"Telepaths on Mars could experience a particularly strong mind by accident." J'onn explained.
"Like picking up a radio broadcast." Oliver simplified. "Can we pick this dream world/alternate dimension again?"
"It's possible." Lena answered. "If we went in there, we could wake Sam up and she can tell up where they are."
"But how do we sent Supergirl back to the valley?" J'onn asked.
Kara then got an idea. "We might fantasy with sci-fi."
Brainy began. "Let me get this straight. You want me to broadcast your consciousnss into a magically dark valley using 31st century technology, the same technology I used to wake you up from the coma Reign put you in, technology not designed to enter alternate realms all before the eclipse achieves totality in less than two hours."
"Yes." Kara answered.
"Ok, no problem, sounds fun. To the Legion Cruiser." Brainy announced as he led the group out.
"Let's do this." Kara replied.
"I'm coming with you." Lena said in a tone that didn't invite an argument.
"Not a chance." Kara shot back. "Besides if anyone else is coming with me, it's Oliver."
"I didn't exactly volunteer for this mission." Oliver retorted.
"I spent the last month working with Sam and Reign. I know their DNA sequences better than my own phone number. What's more I know Sam, you don't. If anyone can get through to her it's me."
"She has a good point." Oliver replied. "She'd be more useful on this mission than I would."
"I know you probably don't trust me right now but trust that I want to get Sam back." Lena finished at the verge of tears.
"I guess we're all in this together." Kara said forcing a smile.
"You sure about this?" Oliver asked.
"Lena's right about Sam, she's been working with her for weeks and this gives us the chance to check up on her story." Kara explained.
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Legion Cruiser
After preparations were made, Kara, Lena and Alex were all sent into Juru using Kara's subconscious as a portal. Oliver remained on watch briefly around the girls before Mon-El broke off from the group.
Oliver went to follow him. "Mon-El."
"She just looks so breakable in there." Mon-El admitted.
"She's strong. They all are." Oliver replied.
"I just want to pull her out of there." Mon-El continued.
"I know and so do I. I wish I was the one who was doing this mission instead of her. But you know we can't." Oliver replied.
"I know I can't. I can't do that, I can't help her, I can't hold her." Mon-El said as he began to spiral down. "But I can't hurt my wife. What can I do?"
Oliver smiled. "I'm hardly the poster child for relationship advice. But let me ask you something. Do you love Imra or do you love Kara?"
Mon-El was about to answer when he went silent. "I don't know."
Oliver nodded. "Then I think you need to find out which one of them you do love. Then tell her that. But only say the words when you're certain. For now they're nothing you can do."
Oliver's cell went off. "Yeah James? I'll be over there as soon as I can."
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CatCo Worldwide Media
Upon arriving outside CatCo, Oliver met with James in the office. "What did you find James?"
Before Kara went under, she'd asked both James and Oliver to check and see if Lena was lying about having any more Kryptonite. James had been the one to break in.
"I found nothing." James said though Oliver doubted him.
"Nothing?" Oliver replied skeptically.
"You sound surprised." James said.
"I've had more than a few friends betray and try and kill me. It's just kind of surprising when one is actually telling the truth." Oliver admitted. "You know I've got the return to the Legion ship. Let me take the pulse bomb back to Winn."
James nodded and handed off the mini pulse device back to Oliver.
Oliver left CatCo but instead of heading back to the DEO, he took a detour to L-Corp.
Clad in hid Green Arrow gear, Oliver jumped back into Lena's hidden lab. Oliver had wanted to trust both James and Lena. But the two were dating and as Oliver knew, love blinded people.
Upon reaching the vault, he tapped his comms. "Thea, Roy, you there?"
"Hearing you loud and clear Ollie. What are we looking at?" Thea asked.
"Looks like James didn't even open the vault." Oliver informed Thea and Roy.
"Looks like your hunch was right. James was holding something back." Roy sighed.
"I'm gonna apply the pulse device and take a look." Oliver replied. As Oliver placed the device, it activated and the vault doors began to slowly open.
"So why are you so dead set on trying to find out if Lena has Kryptonite? You have Kryptonite." Roy asked.
"That's different." Oliver retorted. "I've got no intentions of using it against her. But anyone else on this planet who owns Kryptonite will only use it for one purpose. Killing Kryptonians."
"You know it is kinda sweet. You being Kara's knight in green leather, protecting her from all the evil Kryptonite keepers of this earth." Thea said though Oliver could tell she was smirking behind the comms.
"I just want to keep her safe." Oliver retorted though it wasn't as convincing as he'd wanted it to be.
"Keep telling yourself that." Thea laughed.
Oliver's tone went back to business. "The door's open."
"What do you see?" Roy asked.
"The room is definitely not empty. No kryptonite in sight but there is a lot of lab equipment here. Can't tell what half of it's for." Oliver explained as he surveyed the room taking pictures.
"Any guesses?" Thea asked her tone serious again.
"I'm no scientist." Oliver sighed. "Where's Team Flash when I need them?"
"Send me the pictures." Roy requested. "I can bring them back to Earth 1 and have Barry, Cisco and Caitlin tell us what they're for.
"But there's no Kryptonite?" Thea asked.
"Only a small amount of green dust. My best guess says it's just dropping from when the Kryptonite was cut and divided. This amount is barely enough to give Kara vertigo let alone any serious harm."
"Alright come back when you're ready." Roy said. "You just got a message from the DEO. They found them."
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Fortress of Sanctuary
Oliver joined with the Legion ship as it went into the desert to hunt down the Worldkillers just as Kara woke up. "Did it work?" She asked.
"We got a location. We're here now." Oliver said.
"Let's go." Kara said trying to stand up.
"You should rest." J'onn warned her.
"Since when has that stopped me?" Kara asked.
"What about me?" Lena asked.
"Help Brainy." Kara requested as the heroes all departed for the Worldkiller Fortress.
As the team rallied, Imra held onto Oliver as they descended into the Fortress. In front of them stood the three Worldkillers, pissed and ready for battle.
The powered heroes closed the distance while Oliver and Alex stayed back and fired when they had clean shots.
"You are weak." Reign gloated as she faced Kara. However she was unprepared for a Kryptonite arrow to skim past her and slice her clavicle. This gave Kara the opening to slam her into the rock wall and separate themselves from the main battle.
"Go! I've got this!" Oliver ordered Alex. Alex broke off to help her sister while Oliver turned his attention to Pestilence.
Pestilence knocked both Imra and Mon-El to the ground but as she tried to strike again, a Kryptonite arrow embedded in her chest. She screamed in pain but quickly removed the arrow and threw it aside.
"You don't know what you're becoming." Mon-El warned Pestilence.
"I've already become death. And I choose you first!" She yelled trying to strike Mon-El but he punched her into the sky following her with Imra hot on his tail.
Meanwhile J'onn was having problems with his Worldkiller. She had him pinned on the gorund.
Alex then reemerged. "Julia! I know you're in there. You gotta rise up and fight it." However Purity fired off a sonic scream as Alex fight a shot. The blast sent both of them to the ground.
Just them Kara came flying through the rock and smashed into Oliver hard, sending both of them to the ground.
Reign kicked Kara hard. Oliver tired to reach for one of his last Kryptonite arrows before Reign grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up.
"Oliver no!" Kara cried trying to stand but too weak.
Reign then threw Oliver over to where Kara was just as Pestilence threw Imra and Mon-El down hard as well.
"Julia. Julia Please." Kara pleaded with the downed Purity.
As Purity stood up, her eyes turned back to normal and Julia took control. "Come at me witch!" Julia said to the other two Worldkillers before unleashing a powerful sonic scream.
Reign went down but Pestilence dodged the attack and stabbed Julia from behind.
"I always knew you were weak." Pestilence gloated.
Julia, in her final breath unleashed one more powerful sonic scream right in Pestilence's face. The shock of the blast was so strong that Pestilence suddenly collapsed along with Julia.
As Kara and Alex came to Julia as she died, a glow emerged from her body and Pestilence's. It flowed over to Reign and merged with her as she fled. However at the same time, the fortress began to collapse.
"Let's get the hell out of here." Oliver requested as the team rallied and retreated to the Legion ship just as the totality disappeared and sunlight returned to Earth.
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Queen Residence
Returning home, Oliver was greeted by an ecstatic Evelyn and William. After regaling them with the tale of how the world had been saved once again, Oliver put William to sleep.
"You know next time you go out there again, you're taking me with you." Evelyn stated.
"Is that a fact?" Oliver said amusingly.
"Hey I helped you fight those Nazi bastards a while back." Evelyn countered.
Oliver took a moment to think. "I might be amenable to you joining. But there are a few conditions. One, you will train with me every day before I take you out again. Two, when we're in the field you do exactly what I say. Three, you make sure this vigilante work doesn't negatively impact your grades.
"I can live with that." Evelyn replied as she tucked herself into bed. "Goodnight dad."
Oliver gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Goodnight sweetheart. Sweet dreams."
As Oliver left Evelyn's room and went onto the balcony, he heard the distinct sound whoosh of Kara landing beside him. Without even turning he said. "Evening Kara."
Kara chuckled at Oliver's keen senses. "I'll never be able to sneak up on you will I?"
"Not with that cape. It makes way to much noise." Oliver joked. "How are things with you and Lena?"
"Better. It's good to know Lena doesn't have any more Kryptonite. Thank you by the way for finding that out for me." Kara admitted.
"You're a friend Kara. You can always rely on friends when you need help." Oliver said.
"Lena knows you're the Green Arrow?" Kara asked though she knew the truth.
"She does. I revealed myself so she would trust me when I broke into her lab. Sam also knows." Oliver explained. "But you still haven't told her?"
Kara sighed. "I've wanted to tell her. At first it was because I barely knew her, then I wasn't sure if I could trust her. Then suddenly it's been over a year and I still haven't found the time to tell her."
"Do you trust her?" Oliver asked.
"I've always been the first to tell people to trust Lena even when the world was against her. But for a while today I couldn't. Then you and James tell me that Lena wasn't lying."
"And you feel bad for assuming the worst?" Oliver guessed.
Kara nodded silently. Oliver continued. "Kara, I've had enough friends betray me to know that trust is difficult. No one can fault you for asking the hard question."
"But how do I move forward?" Kara asked
"Let me ask you again. Yes or no, do you trust Lena?" Oliver asked.
"Yes." Kara said, her voice filled with conviction.
"Then next time you see her, tell her the truth. Tell her Kara Danvers is Supergirl" Oliver said.
Kara shook her head. "I've lied to her for so long. I tell her now, she's going to lump me in with all the people in the world that she can't trust."
"You're right." Oliver replied. "She might do that at first. But I'm certain she'll come around. Especially if you're the one to tell her. If she figures it out from someone else, then you'll lose her forever."
Kara sighed and took a moment to think. "You're right. I'll tell her. You know, I can see now why Barry calls you the all knowing mentor."
Oliver smiled. "Well you learn faster than he does. Plus you're more fun to teach."
Kara pulled Oliver in for a hug, one that he returned. As they started to break apart, Kara and Oliver both still had their arms wrap around each other. In that moment, Kara's instincts took over and she planted her lips right on Oliver's. The kiss only lasted a very short moment but to her it lasted an eternity.
As she kissed him, she quickly realized that he hadn't moved. Feeling embarrassed, Kara broke the kiss and pushed back to see a very stunned Oliver in front of her. Feeling the heat rush to her face, Kara pushed herself away and bolted into the sky.
It took Oliver a full minute before the shook wore off and he realized that Kara had just kissed him and that she was gone. As he walked inside, he tried to sleep but his mind was running a million miles a minute with every single thought about Kara and that kiss.
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Once again I apologize for the delay in updating. I've had zero inspiration for a while but I think I've gotten it back. I've got hundreds of story ideas swimming in my head for both the Arrowverse and other shows as well. Hopefully those will be up soon as well.