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Chapter 15:
Mia caught her breath, while concentrating on her escape plan. She was still shocked by the emotional torture of the White Martian. Seeing all the faces of her loved ones in the guise of the alien had been horrible to bear. Despite her emotions, a thought worried her: Diaz had forced Supergirl to reveal her secret identity to her entire city or else, he would kill the girl archer. Mia couldn't accept that her new friend would sacrifice herself for her. The memory of her father being treated as an outcast in the future came back to her. Supergirl didn't deserve this. She was a hero who had saved the world more than once. Even alongside her father and the Flash. It was necessary at all costs to prevent Kara from making the mistake of revealing herself.
But even if she freed herself from her shackles, how could she be contacted?
She looked around, watching her chains connected to a large pipe above her head. Her gaze then fell on her jacket placed on a chair in front of her. An object caught her attention. Something sticking out of a jacket pocket. By squinting, Mia saw that it was a watch. Intrigued, she wondered what this watch was doing on her, and then she remembered. It was a watch that Supergirl had given her before they went to rescue William. A watch that could send a signal to alert the Kryptonian. A kind of cry for help to Supergirl. If she could get free, she could use the watch and call Kara before she shows up in public. Mia was reluctant to have this watch, but nevertheless decided to keep it anyway. Fortunately, she had the brilliant idea to keep it. She had to alert Supergirl as soon as possible. Hopefully it is not too late already.
She had to free herself. Diaz and the White Martian were gone. For how long? Not dragging, Mia swung her legs up, clung to her chains, while hoisting herself high enough, and dropped. The big pipe gave way under her weight and the chains fell with Mia.
The girl archer was free to move. But before she could make a move, the door opened with a rumble.
Diaz and the White Martian had returned.
"Did you think you could get away so easily?" sneered the criminal.
Mia rushed to the chair where her jacket was, while Diaz grabbed one of the chains lying on the ground, pulling the girl from the future to the ground. Mia had barely had time to reach for her jacket.
I have to catch this watch! Come on Mia!
She got up and grabbed her jacket pulling her towards her, while Diaz pulled on the chain, dragging the girl archer. Mia lost her jacket and dragged on the ground like a dog on a leash towards the criminal penguin.
"As you know, kid, my friend Martian can read minds. He read in your father's and yours. He told me you were planning an escape. You see, I had anticipated all your actions! I have a whole stock of alien weapons and even a lot of Black Mercy to knock you out. You're doomed, little girl! You can't escape from me!"
He grabbed Mia by the collar of her shirt and spat on her face. But the young archer kept a sly smile.
"Who said I wanted to escape?"
With these words, she activated the watch hidden in the hollow. Luckily, she had had time to grab the watch before losing her jacket. Immediately, the Kryptonian signal was triggered.
In the DEO, as Oliver hugged Kara, the Kryptonian suddenly jumped, as if she had taken a discharge. She heard the ring of her watch.
"What's the matter?"Oliver asked, frowning.
"This is Mia's signal. Oliver, you were right, your daughter sent me her position… I know where she is!"exclaimed the Kryptonian.
Oliver nodded and put both hands on Supergirl's shoulders. That didn't matter how Kara knew it, the explanations would come later. Mia was the emergency.
"Take me with you!"
His friend agreed and stood at the archer.
"Hang in there!" she said before taking off like a missile out of the building.
As Supergirl flew over National City buildings with Green Arrow in her arms, she contacted by her headset.
"J'onn, I'm going to need you. I'm sending you GPS coordinates."
Diaz had managed to grab Mia by the collar of her shirt, and lifted her to face him.
"I will continue to make you suffer, and twist Super Cousin's arm so that she decides to reveal herself in this city. When she will completely broken, you, your miserable existence will no longer have any value, because you will be…"
A gust of air pushed him back, freeing the young girl archer. Mia got up to see Supergirl and Green Arrow, ready for action. Satisfied, the girl of the future ran to join the Kryptonian, showing her her chain cuffs around her hands.
"I would need your great fists," she said to her.
Supergirl immediately broke Mia's ties, finally freeing her. Earth – 1's archer advanced towards his daughter.
"Are you okay?" he asked her.
"I'm better now!"
Diaz got up and saw in disgust the two heroes who accompanied Mia.
"Do you think you can hide from us?" replied Supergirl in a loud voice.
"You have failed this city!"shouted Green Arrow with his filtered voice, brandishing his right bow at the criminal.
"You're just arrogant idiots," Diaz roared, walking towards them. "I have a whole arsenal of kryptonite on me. I can break you without blinking, Super cousin!"
"I know," replied the Kryptonian still in a firm voice. "That's why I came equipped."
She pressed the S of her suit, immediately an armor covered her whole body, with a large helmet that wrapped her face.
"Lex made you a metal arm, Diaz, I have this entirely anti-kryptonite armor. Courtesy of Lena Luthor!" she exclaimed.
Mia and Green Arrow watched the superhero in her blue armor with admiration.
"Do you really think you can defeat me?" replied Diaz angrily. "I have allies including my friend White Martian who can break you!"
"We too have a friend from Mars who has agreed to help us" Green Arrow added with a cheerful smile.
It was then that J'onn J'onzz appeared out of nowhere, and landed next to Supergirl, Mia and the archer.
"I'm not late?" he asked.
"No," said Supergirl.
The White Martian roared, while J'onn took his Martian form. He and Supergirl rushed to attack the white monster.
While Diaz made extend his metallic arm like a snake and used it to strike the archer and his daughter. Both dodged his metallic member, then Mia fought the criminal with her bare hands.
"I broke your bow, you have no weapons on you, little girl, while I have a large stock!" roared Diaz.
"I don't need my bow to beat you up!" shouted the archer, hitting the criminal with her fists.
Diaz pushed the girl away with his metal arm, to be hit by Green Arrow, who beat him fiercely. The archer hit him, repeatedly on the faces, screaming in rage. Green Arrow still had the Black Mercy experience in mind, in more, the video where he saw his daughter being tortured by this shabby gangster. He continued his fight against Diaz, beating him relentlessly in the face with his fists.
"Do you have any idea what you did to me?" roared the archer of Earth – 1.
He wanted to hit Diaz again, but the metal arm blocked his hand, and the criminal sent Green Arrow flying through the air, before falling to the ground. He walked over to the archer, sneering.
"I fashioned a prison that you couldn't leave without sacrificing your heart's desires!" he shouted with an evil smile. "And I imagine it must have been like tearing off your own arm. You now know how I feel when I see these Kryptonian bastards."
Green Arrow stood up, staring at the criminal with a fierce look.
"I'm not Superman, and what I'm going to do to you will be so worse than losing an arm! You have no idea what the hell I went through before I met you! You will regret having attacked me and my children!"
"You're just a lousy archer fighting his demons. I know everything about you, Robin Hood!"replied the criminal.
"If your friend Martian has read my mind, he must have told you about the Crisis that will come soon," replied the archer.
"Oh yeah, he told me about the Crisis, the end of the worlds, but I don't really care. If the multiverse is doomed, so enjoy the little time that remains to destroy the dirty Kryptonian. I would be a satisfied man."
He held his right metal arm up on the Green Arrow and fired several shots at him. The archer avoided the shots, and ran to join his daughter.
Supergirl and J'onn were fighting the White Martian. Supergirl crossed her hands and struck the creature with all her might. J'onn used his strength to repel his enemy. He spoke to him in the Martian language:
"It's between you and me. Why do you associate yourself with this fool of a criminal?"
"To make you suffer, Green Martian!" answerWhite monster Martian language. "I see clearly in your mind. I see your father, your children… your old life on Mars… The last Green Martian will die…"
The two Martians flew into the air and fought with their bare hands. Supergirl also flew away and joined J'onn in his fight. The White Martian punched Supergirl away and fought J'onn again. It pushed his two opponents to the ground, creating a crater, causing an earthquake that shook Diaz, Green Arrow and Mia.
Diaz managed to get up and used his metallic hand and aimed at the face of the young archer of the future.
"I will kill you, little girl Robin Hood, and then it will be your father!"
Mia glared at him, but before Diaz could shoot, an arrow hit her metal arm, causing an electric shock, destabilizing the criminal. Mia looked at her father, who looked happy.
Diaz managed to pull the arrow out screaming in rage. He looked at the father and the daughter with fury and wanted to attack them with his arm… but nothing happened. Stunned, the criminal looked at his arm. He was completely inert. He couldn't even move his fingers. His metal arm was completely still.
"What's wrong? It's dead?" grinning Mia with sarcasm.
"What…" Diaz exclaimed, trying to move his metal arm in vain. "Why it doesn't work?"
He picked up the arrow that had hit his arm. He noticed that the tip of the arrow had a strange component.
"Courtesy of Curtis Holt, a friend of mine from Earth – 1," replied Green Arrow triumphantly. "Your metal arm is no longer useful to you now. It's nothing more than a simple harmless prosthesis. You have become an armless man."
Roaring in rage, Diaz used his metal arm like a bat and wanted to strike the two archers with it. But Green Arrow and Mia dodged his shots.
"You should have stayed in whatever happy fantasy the Black Mercy granted you!" roared the criminal to the archer.
He tried to hit the archer again with his metal arm.
Supergirl, who had just gotten up after a terrible confrontation with the White Martian, saw Diaz trying to use his metal arm to attack Green Arrow and his daughter.
She rushed at super speed towards him.
"Want some ice cream?" she shouted.
And she used her breath on the metal arm of her enemy, covering him entirely with ice. With her super strength, she hit the metal member, destroying it in pieces of ice. Henceforth, Diaz was only a criminal with a crippled arm, under the delighted gaze of Green Arrow and his daughter.
"Too bad your White Martian did not seen this!" grinning Mia to Ricardo Diaz with a sly look.
"Game's over, Diaz! You lost!" said Supergirl.
"Do you really think I'm going to surrender? In your dreams!"cried the criminal, activating a transmitter from his pocket.
Immediately Dominators came out of nowhere and attacked the heroes. Mia pushed them away with her bare hands, while Green Arrow shot his arrows at the aliens. Supergirl pushed them away with her super-strength.
Diaz took the opportunity to go to a huge container. Two Black Mercies came out of it which came to life and crawled on the ground.
After a bitter struggle, J'onn managed to completely neutralize the White Martian and left to join his friends to fight against the Dominators.
An alien managed to damage Supergirl's armor. Diaz took the opportunity to join her with a dagger with a greenish blade. He planted his dagger in the damaged part of the armor, causing the Kryptonian to cry out in pain.
"Supergirl!"exclaimed Mia, horrified.
She got rid of the Dominator and rushed towards Diaz, throwing herself on him, moving him away from the Kryptonian. She punched him in the face, with fists.
But the criminal succeeds in repelling she as an object, far from him.
"I've had just about enough of your dirty games!" he roared as he stood up. "It is time to finish it."
"I agree,"said a filtered voice behind him.
He turned to receive a punch from the Green Arrow in the face. Mad with anger, the archer of Earth – 1 beat up the criminal with his fists, screaming in rage.
"You are no different from the Diaz that I defeated on my Earth! He was as arrogant and pretentious as you! This is what caused it to be lost! And you hasn't close to him! You are even more pathetic than him!"
"And you are a fool, if you think you can stop me, stupid archer!" cried Diaz, mad with rage.
The two fought with bare hands.
Mia helped Supergirl to get up. The archer had torn the dagger from the armor. Kara took the opportunity to catch her breath.
"Are you alright? asked Mia.
"I'll be all right!" replied Supergirl, leaning on Mia.
Several Dominators threw themselves on the two women, separating them. Mia fell to the ground, and looked horrified to see a Black Mercy crawling in her way.
"Oh no, you're not going to touch me!"she shouted, crawling.
She got up and ran, wanting to escape the alien plant that was chasing her. She had no bow, not knowing how to beat this thing. She saw her father fighting Diaz with his bare hands, and seemed horrified to see a second Black Mercy crawling in the direction of Green Arrow. Her father was so busy with Diaz that he wouldn't see the plant coming to attack him from behind. Above all, her father shouldn't find himself trapped again by the Black Mercy.
She turned around, still saw the alien plant crawling towards her.
This damn thing isn't going to let me go! And I don't have a bow or arrows to push that away! How do I get rid of it?
Then she ran to join the two men who were fighting hand to hand. She did everything to get closer to Diaz and began to scream:
"DAD, BE CAREFUL OF THE BLACK MERCY!"
Green Arrow turned and saw in horror the alien plant crawling in his way. She was getting dangerously close to him, being only a few meters away.
Taking advantage of the surprise, Diaz knocked in the face of the archer knocking him over the ground.
"You should know that I am always the strongest! You can't do anything against me, Queen! With or without my arm, I am always dangerous!" he replied with a sneer.
"Not today," replied Green Arrow with a sneer.
Supergirl destroyed Dominators with her heat vision, and saw the danger threatening Green Arrow and his daughter with the two Black Mercies.
"I will kill you, Queen, then it will be your daughter and Super cousin!"sneered Diaz, brandishing his dagger in the air.
Green Arrow stared at his enemy for a moment, feeling the Black Mercy approach him. Mia then understood what her father had in mind and joined Diaz.
Then the two Black Mercies leapt into the air to attack.
"MIA, GET DOWN!"yelled Green Arrow.
The girl dived to the ground, avoiding the Black Mercy which passed over her. The Earth – 1's Archer barely stooped, while the second plant passed just above him. The two plants met and rushed straight towards Diaz, whose sly smile faded.
"Oh no!" he cried, horrified.
He screamed in horror, as a Black Mercy clung to her belly, and the second clung to her leg. The tentacles of the plants wrapped around the body of the criminal who was screaming in horror, struggling with all his might in vain.
"No… NOOOOOOO!"
Supergirl joined her archery friends and looked with them, Diaz caught with two Black Mercies on his body.
Diaz felt his eyes close, and saw the cheerful face of the archer muttering to him with his filtered voice:
"Sweet dreams!"
Diaz closed his eyelids and collapsed to the ground.
Satisfied, Green Arrow watched Diaz unconscious with his two plants clinging to him. It was an appropriate punishment for what he had done to him. Now his enemy was trapped in his fantasy world which made him believe that he enjoyed great happiness. To believe in imaginary happiness was an even worse torture than death.
J'onn got rid of the last Dominators and joined our heroes. All were staring at inert Diaz on the ground.
"Two Black Mercy on one person! Does anyone want to wake him up?"said Mia with a sly smile.
"No!" replied Supergirl and Green Arrow in chorus.
"He fell into his own trap," J'onn commented.
"I wonder what he's seeing," said Supergirl, staring at Diaz.
Green Arrow knelt on the ground to contemplate the inert body of the criminal penguin before retorting in his normal voice:
"Whatever it is. It's too good for him."
He looked at Diaz, while imagining what his enemy could dream of as a dreamworld. A world where he is a truly gangster with both hands, where he thought he was happy… Unaware that he was living a great fiction.
Miles from here, Margot stood on a desk, meditating, when Gemma Cooper joined her.
"We've a problem. Ricardo Diaz failed! He is in the hands of DEO now! The kids of the future are now untouchable!"
"In this case, let's leave them and focus on our future projects," replied the old lady lost in thought. "We will have other opportunities to defeat the Kryptonian."