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As Barry skidded to a stop in the old meat factory he saw Lex hanging by his feet, dangling upside down. He also noticed the Batarang sticking out of Lex's leg.
"You Bataranged him?" Barry asked.
"That's not actually a thing." Kate pointed out.
"I kinda like the name." Luke said over the radio.
"I thought you said capturing him would be easy." Barry said.
"It was."
"But you threw a flying metal bat at him?" Barry asked.
"I barely scratched him." Kate pointed out.
"You and I have very different definitions of a scratch." Lex said as he hung upside down.
"Makes you wonder if our definitions of kill will be the same." Kate commented.
"You won't kill me." Lex said as he hung upside down. He then craned his neck and looked at Barry. "For starters you don't kill." He then turned and looked at Batwoman. "Now you, you kill. But killing me for Kara would be like Kara killing me herself and she wouldn't like that."
"Seeing it is to protect her family, I think she'd be good with it." Kate said. "Besides who said I'd be killing you for her. Maybe I just don't like you. The problem we have is deciding who has the biggest right to kill you."
"Please. This touching display of Superhero togetherness is nothing more then window dressing. You are the self proclaimed good guys. You won't murder me." Lex said trying to ignore the pain in his leg.
"You were a self proclaimed good guy and you murdered William." Kate said.
"Like anyone would miss him." Lex said.
"You really don't know when to stop do you?" Barry asked.
"And that is why I have more power than any of you." Lex pointed out.
"That statement might carry more weight if you weren't hanging upside down while bleeding to death." Kate said.
"My point is you aren't surprised I killed him. Let's face it he was annoying. And it's not like any of you will actually do anything to me."
"I wouldn't be so sure." Alex said walking into Lex's field of view.
"Have you come to threaten me too?" Lex asked. "I don't know why, I mean your issues are more with my mother than they are me. I mean it was mother who turned your father into a high ranking loyal member of CADMUS."
"Do you actually want us to kill you?" Barry asked.
"Like I said. You won't."
"I have killed to save Kara before." Alex said. "And I will again."
"Ah yes, poor Dr Morrow and who else? That's right good old aunty Astra. Although that one technically wasn't for Kara was it. I mean that was more of a revenge for Kara ruining your life."
"Are that that incapable of emotion that you can't see what Kara has brought into my life?" Alex asked.
"I can see the pain and the resentment."
"I think you are projecting your issues onto me."
"Dating a shrink is paying off. I'm pleased for you. Let's face it you needed help." Lex said. "Now if we are done with this, perhaps you can let me down and we can discuss the future as adults."
"Is the Batarang laced with some sort of hallucinogenic?" Barry asked Kate.
"No. This crazy is all him."
"You can't win." Lex went on unperturbed. "You have come together to help Supergirl. But Supergirl doesn't kill. She saves. Hence you can't hurt me."
"You killed Supergirl." Kara pointed out stepping towards Lex, her eyes glowing. "Then you showed me it is too dangerous for the people I care about to have you around."
"You're bluffing. A memory wipe is more your style." Lex said.
"Getting J'onn to wipe your memory is a violation of his principles. I can't ask him to do that."
"That's a shame. I mean what I haven't told you yet is there is an email waiting to be sent that reveals all of your identities. If I don't log back into the account in the next, um what time is it? Anyway, by six, the email goes to every news organisation out there. So you see you have to let me go. If you don't believe me, read my mind." He said causing J'onn to come out of the shadows.
"It could be a trap." Alex warned.
"My mind is stronger than his." J'onn said as he kneeled in front of the dangling Lex and touched his head as the other looked on.
After a moment he pulled back and said.
"It's true."
"Aren't you going to tell them the best part?" Lex asked.
"To stop the email being sent we would need to get access to a room that is impenetrable. The only way in is for a single person who matches Lex to pass several DNA based tests. If more than one person is detected or of the tests are failed it is instantaneous eradication. And they are tests I can't fool by shapeshifting. Once in that room there is a one way teleport out to somewhere. He'd be free."
"You can praise me now." Lex smiled. "Surely I deserve a round of applause."
"So we let the email out or we let Lex go and he will be free?" Kate asked.
"Yes." J'onn said.
"But even if he keeps his end of the bargain today there is no way of stopping him in the future?"
"Told you that you sided with the wrong Luthor." Lex said smugly.
"Guys, I have an idea. It's a little crazy, but I think it will work." Luke said over the radio.
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"So what's the plan?" Kate asked as they assembled in the Bat Cave.
"We release your identities into the public." Luke said.
"So your plan to stop our identities being revealed is to reveal our identities?" Kate asked.
"Yes." Luke confirmed.
"Is this cave lead lined or something because that does not sound like a great plan." Barry said.
"I'm with Barry. Preempting the email isn't going to protect our families." Kate argued.
"It will if Lex sends hundreds of emails, all with different secret identities being revealed." Luke said.
"What?" Kate asked frowning as Alex said.
"You might be onto something."
"What?" Barry and Kate asked.
"In our reality before Crisis, Lex was viewed as mad." Alex said. "He is starting to be viewed that way again. So if we send hundreds of emails out, each listing different identities no one will believe it. And the real email will be lost in the noise."
"So you are going to have hundreds of emails coming from Lex revealing our identities, only they won't be our real identities?" Kate asked.
"Precisely." Luke agreed.
"Whose Identities are you going to use?" Kate asked.
"Way ahead of you on that." Luke said passing a copy of CatCo magazine to Kate.
"I'm not following."
"You all feature in this edition. As you." He said.
"And?" Barry asked.
"All the names we link to your alter egos will also feature in this edition." Luke said seeing the blank looks everyone was giving him he went on. "It will look like Lex just took the names from the magazine. We can use it to discredit him. And if he has sent hundreds of emails all using different combinations of names it will look like he had no idea who the real names were."
"How are you going to make it look like the emails come from Lex?" Alex asked.
"Lena has helped me gain access to some of his accounts."
"But even so, if the messages don't sound right people won't believe it."
"So we get Lena to write them." Kara said looking over to Lena who nodded her agreement.
"How are you going to filter the names?" Barry asked. "I mean some names could never be us."
"You and Kara do you freaky fast thing and create a list." Luke said.
"It may be worth leaving a couple of ludicrous names in there just to add to his perceived madness." Lena pointed out.
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"All the emails are ready to be sent." Luke said an hour later. "To be on the safe side we have set up a script to release new emails randomly for the next few days so the real one will get lost in the noise." He paused before saying. "All you have to do is press this button and it will do it's thing."
"You don't want to press it?" Kate asked.
"I'm a geek, of course I do. But it's your lives so it doesn't feel right me pressing it." Luke answered.
"You okay with this?" Kate asked Barry.
"I am."
"You?" Kate asked Kara who looked at Alex, Eliza and Kelly, who all nodded. When Kara then nodded back at Kate, Kate pressed the enter key.
"Now what?" Barry asked.
"Now we wait. They will start being sent in the next few minutes." Luke explained as Kara slipped out of the Bat Cave. Seeing her go Alex squeezed Kelly's hand before leaving after her sister.
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"You okay?" Alex asked as she joined Kara on the roof.
"No. I'm worried this is going to go horribly wrong and you'll end up getting hurt."
"It's a good plan." Alex said. "And if something does go wrong I know you'll look after me."
"Always. But I'm still scared. I can't lose you again."
"You are not losing anyone." Alex assured her.
"How can you be so sure?" Kara asked.
"Because we are Danvers." Alex said hugging her.
TBC...
A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.