Part 12
Caitlin woke in the morning to someone bringing in a tray with her breakfast. There was something familiar about the woman. But she knew that it was not because she was someone that team Flash had dealt with. Then it clicked it was someone Supergirl had fought. The woman Lex told her about Psi.
"Don't bother trying to get into my head. Supergirl told me about you. You find someone's fear and force them to relive it over and over. It won't work on me. I already lived my worst fear and it no long has any control on me." Said Caitlin
"We will see about that. But that can wait."
Psi left and Caitlin looked at the tray. Dry toast and runny eggs. It didn't look good. Not that anything here did. It made her wonder if Iris was personally making her meals. She knew that woman had not inherited Joe's skills in the kitchen. Caitlin took a bite of the eggs and spit it out before it even left her mouth. The door opened again and two guards grabbed her dragging her to the room that felt like it was kept at over ninety degrees. Iris walked in with Psi a minute later.
"This time you will do as you are told Killer Frost." Said Iris
"Don't call me that." Said Caitlin
"Why not? That is who you are destined to be. Savitar's cult told you that." Said Iris
"Savitar was an insane time remnant of the Flash. That if I remember correctly you killed before he was erased from existed. With the expectation of some freak Nazis that crashed your wedding to Barry and some parademons I never killed anyone."
"You were willing to help kill me. You are the reason HR was killed."
"If you think you are going to change me you got another thing coming. I will never kill for you."
"I think you will."
Caitlin looked at Psi and knew she was playing with Iris's mind. But from what Kara had told her while Psi could amplify someone's fears she could also control their mind to a degree. But not beyond what they normally would feel. So she knew that Iris wanted to destroy her.
"It's not going to work. Psi's strongest ability is to bring someone's biggest fear to out. I faced mine years ago. It no longer has any power over me. Between all the hell I have been through in my life there is nothing that she can make me see that will break me."
"Well I will just have to go with plan B then. Are you aware that there is a race of aliens that can control others minds?"
"That doesn't surprise me. You find one of these beings? Did you promise them freedom if they do what you want? Too bad they will learn that was a lie."
"Of course it was."
Iris opened a case and a small worm like creature crawled out and attached itself to Caitlin just behind her left ear. Iris smiled when she saw Caitlin's eyes flash gold for a second before returning to normal.
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Bruce Wayne smiled as his dinner guest walked into the private dinning room of one of the fanciest restaurants in Washington DC. He stood and pulled out the chair for his guest.
"What brings you to this rats nest Bruce?"
"Cat Grant, always straight to the point. I need your help." Said Bruce
"What kind of help?"
"Well as you know MARA is hunting down those with powers weather they are alien or meta."
"Yes I know both Supergirl and Superman are on their list of wanted. A long with a few of their friends."
"I have come across evidence that the director of MARA is mistreating certain prisoners, even black ailing them to hunting and possibly even killing associates of the heroes."
"Bruce with all the money and power you have why don't you go after them yourself?"
"I thought you might like to be the one to break the story while I get the right people involved to stop the mistreatment."
"Why not just have Lois Lane or Clark Kent or even my former assistant Kara Danvers write something?"
"I believe it would be better received if it was written by the Queen of media. Besides it is well known you remained a supporter of former President Marsdon even after she was exposed as an alien."
"I will need to see this proof of course."
"Wouldn't expect anything less."
"But business can wait until after dinner."
Bruce smiled. Getting Cat on their side will be easy. He would work on the oversight committee for MARA.
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Kara flew over Central City looking out for trouble. She knew that not everyone agreed with MARA. In fact there were a number of cops that let the heroes do their thing and help stop crime.
"Supergirl, report back to the hall. We got the next location where they are sending Frost." Said Oracle
"On my way."
Kara arrived back a few minutes later and went into the command center. She found Barry, Cisco and J'onn waiting.
"So what is going on?" asked Kara
"Caitlin is being sent after Kendra Sanders and Carter Hall." Said Barbara
"Hawkgirl and Hawkman." Said Barry
"They are in Midway City. She is going with Mark Mardon."
"Weather Wizard." Said Cisco
"He anything like Weather Witch?" asked Kara
"He is her father. He is a meta that can control the weather, a known killer. He had a brother Clyde that had nearly the same powers. The two brothers got their powers the same way Barry did. Clyde was the first villain Barry went up against. Joe ended up killing him." Said Cisco
"There is one thing you need to know. Felicity said that when Psi couldn't get into her head that Iris decided to use some alien mind control worm on her." Said Barbara
"Most likely a Shardorion tapeworm. It binds to a host's brain behind the ear and forces them to follow the orders of it's master. In this case Iris is the master. Caitlin will not be able to fight the mind control and will follow her orders even if it means hurting her friends." Said J'onn
"J'onn can you counter this tapeworm thing?" asked Barry
"I can try. But what I fear might happen is that it could cause the merge personalities to unmerge." Said J'onn
"Would that be a bad thing?" asked Cisco
"Not necessarily. But if she is ordered to kill someone while it will not be her fault the guilt will eat her alive." Said Kara
"What do you mean?" asked Barry
"The reason she left after the defeat of Savitar was not only to find a balance but the guilt she felt over HR's death. On top of the guilt she felt for plotting to kill Iris." Said Kara
Barry and Cisco nodded as they headed off to get ready to try and stop their friend.