4 Seasons of Uncertainty, Door 2 - Spring

by ChEsHiRe81

More than one presence, new pastures and unexpected encounters collide with their lives. After the bitter cold brushes off...what was left in it's wake. Enter the next door for the third installment of my series.

3. Chapter 3

Steering Away From Clouds (End of April)

Dressed in her updated black agent suit, the Director popped her knuckles while shifting her body some as she walked over to the detainment wing. She didn't even have to say a word with one motion of her hand and the codes were put in with the door unlocking. The two guards parted ways to let her through as she signaled the door to be shut behind her until one of them shook his head.

"No can do Boss." Alex quirked an eyebrow when she heard a woman's voice approaching them. Then the mask and helmet were removed and Danvers smirked watching her new Captain saunter over. "I've got my orders."

"Thought you answered to me Jules." She chuckled when gorgeous blues, so unlike her sister's, flicked to her browns.

"Do you have to use that nickname Director?" Julee groaned and tossed her helmet and mask at one of the guards. "Hold that." She ordered motioning for them to step inside, shutting the door behind them. "Got your key?" She asked with Alex dangling the bracelet from her wrist ignoring her boss checking out her ass. These women at the AOD..

Alex couldn't help it, studying the brunette's curvy figure but muscles that screamed agent bad ass just like she was. She'd actually laughed when this Captain of hers placed a bet to chop her own hair if she lost the hand. Oh she had lost and with no holds bar, she snatched the knife out of her boot and cut away ten inches just like that. But then she won two hands and got to shave three agents bald so it panned out good enough for her. But even at just over five feet tall, the woman bench pressed a quarter past what most of her other agents did. A force to be reckoned with indeed.

"Care to tell me why I get the privilege of your company today?"

"Because your Boss and mine don't want either of us to be thrown into the bunker for your accidental murdering of the cunt."

"Fair enough." Alex waved Julee to step in front of her. "I'm following your.."

"Is that you Alexandra?" Just the name alone nearly made her snap but she settled that anger back down.

"Alura is it..." Julee clicked her tongue standing before the glass cube. "How are those lights fairing for you? Should I get them changed for some newer ones? I think I have industrial strength ones. Guaranteed to last three times what the old ones can. Don't want them failing on you in here." Alex did her best to hide the smirk but she loved that her Captain was letting the bitch have it, in fact she was savoring it. Why couldn't she have Julee on her team when she practically beat the shit out of Arleen..

"I am referred to as a Judicator for Argo. You don't have any right to call me by that name unless you are of Krypahnium Threhk child of Rth."

"Watch your tongue here." Danvers snarled, resisting the urge to get in the box and go ten rounds with her fists on the Kryptonian's face, especially now that she had the juice to fire at this monster.

"What did...she just.." Alex didn't even let Julee finish her sentence and she stepped back when she saw a set of glowing eyes that weren't anything close to Supergirl's. "Whoa." The new Captain knew better than to talk her Director down right now and judging by the sharp darker orange tones of oncoming heat vision, she'd rather not even try.

"I would suggest you give my Captain some respect, you vile arrogant...backstabbing Khighi Yn-Ze." Alex warned Alura then looked at Julee seeing the nervousness in the woman, calming the glow of her eyes back down. "What she said was kryptonian blood and child of earth. This is her judicial lame ass method of talking down to you, about you. She doesn't care for humans that much since my mom became my sister's too and I became more family than she had ever been to her. You see.."

Alex ignored the glares of hate she was getting sent her way. "...she sent her own daughter away, when she had ignored her sister's pleas to listen about the disintegration of the planet Krypton. She sent my little sister away at thirteen to go protect and raise Kara's baby cousin because she couldn't pull her head out of her ass along with her fucked up judge council, to listen to Astra. Astra is my wife's birth mom. The term I used on this...piece of trash, is animal." It was fitting truly. "Knowing this dog...she probably fucked his dad too."

"That's fucked up and not in the bedroom sort of way." Even Julee was ready to deck this broad, use her taser on full blast or fire a couple rounds into her booted feet.

"Ain't it? Ohhhhh no...here comes the best part. All the people this judgement gang had sentenced to a prison, called Fort Rozz, to die in..had been sentenced to a dismal eternity in hell and furthermore…" Alex's eyes were burning again as she put her hand on the glass-looking cube wall. "...a place.." It still left a sour taste in her mouth at how her little sister suffered cause of all this. "..called...the Vrrosh Dokhahsh..Phantom Zone. Because of this..Khighi...,her own sister and her sister's husband were sent there...this animal's OWN first DAUGHTER sent there! Because of her, their whole planet died. Because of this filth...MY SISTER...Khuhtov Kir Aoe SUFFERED!" Alex had held back enough. She didn't know where it came from but suddenly her own palm began to heat up, feeling the strength of the thick bulletproof, shatterproof wall. "Khap-Se Chai Rrip Alura In-Ze.."

"Shit.." Julee wasn't sure what Danvers had said but she knew deep down it wasn't good. She was about to call for reinforcements, when the hand on the glass came down and the glowing orbs stopped. "Are you alright Director?" But it was as if the emotions ran from the Director's face replaced by a cold unreadable mask.

"You are indeed the perfect proof of the corruption my offspring chose her path by. Hear it for yourself Rth Dai. Before she can translate, that is Earth Soldier. What she said to me was that she would slaughter me. Too much of a temper that one."

"Director...don't let.." Julee knew Alex was reaching beyond the boiling point and she was far too away from reaching the fire extinguisher for it.

"I'm fine." Alex knew how to box things up, learning that little trick over the years training as an agent at the DEO. That ability strengthened by masterful tricks of the trade with Lena and her all business attitude. She wouldn't give this...criminal the luxury of her anger. "Did anyone tell you the story of Supergirl?" Danvers asked her Captain who shook her head.

"Not really no. I had hoped my lame ass husband would have done that but when you sent him home to me on medical leave he drove me so damn nuts I had to go out every night and leave him at the house with tv dinners." Alex laughed at that shaking her head. Thank you Julee.

"Well, Kara came to us by the hands of Superman because his pompous ass couldn't take care of his own flesh and blood since she was just..a teenager. She was brought into my home and suddenly I wasn't the star anymore. The truth is...that for quite a while I was angry at her and blamed everything on her. She made my life a living hell and school life worse. I had the weird sister that would jump at everything and be afraid to touch anyone. On top of all that, I had this little problem shadow outdoing all my math, science and language courses. Like I would study like crazy and she glanced at the line once and could write it down without looking at the piece of paper she was scribbling on. Honestly Julee...I was so damn mean to her. She didn't deserve that.."

Alex stepped back and motioned for the woman to take a seat in one of the stools close to the door. Once they had both sat down she continued. "I got really reaaaally pissed off at her one night. I couldn't go out with my friends and my parents weren't home and we had a blackout. I was yelling at her to stop her whining and get the candles so we could light the lanterns since the power had gone out from the storm. I was screaming at her, throwing a raging selfish fit because I couldn't have my way. But...but then I saw what she was doing and how she was rocking herself with her hands over her ears." That night was still fresh in her mind and Alex wondered if it would always remain that way, as if to haunt her for the rest of her life for the negativity she had shown her sister back then.

To this day, Alex would forever regret how she had treated Kara then and just saying it out loud cemented those cruel actions of hers all over again. "I learned that night, that she couldn't block out the noises and how she had heard those loud sounds before when her home planet exploded in front of her eyes, trapped in this tiny pod. I began to understand her more, then told her I was sorry for how I treated her. We breathed together and we connected in a way I never could with anyone else. She's...she's my person if that makes sense. We practically became inseparable that very same night. She started to teach me their language, kryptonese and I learned everything I could. She.." Danvers shook her head chuckling. "If I got stuck on something in class, or homework...well...I kinda cheated the system a few times. When I went away to college, she was devastated. I missed her like crazy."

Alex met her Captain's eyes once more. "I was on that plane that she had rescued, showing herself to the world for the first time. She knew I was on it and that's why she broke the rules about not using her powers. She did it to...to save me. But I would rescue her no matter what, just as she did for me and still does. I protected her from anything and anybody that would want to cause her harm and that will never change. So this trash.. Doesn't. Know. Shit."

"No wonder you are so protective of her." Julee understood all reasoning behind the Director's actions with everything now. "So how did this.." She pointed to the one in the box who she had decided to call Godzilla at this rate. "...start?" She didn't even see her Boss move. Alex slammed her hand by the control panel and turned up the lamps only to turn one bulb of green on. "Whoa." Julee then heard what sounded like the loudest fans spin as if muffling the room from other's listening. "But...won't that.."

"The room is insulated with a gas in the panels. It's sealed off so the kryptonite won't affect me. That..showed up in my ex fiance's recovery room. That thing...was wearing an anti-kryptonite shield and wielding a bloody kryptonite sword which she had the fucking nerve to unsheath in our presence. I was a newly made kryptonian practically and my wife, our daughter…they...weren't...immune..me either." It still made the rage fester right to the surface and Alex was trying like crazy to keep her eyes from burning with their glow again with the fires of hell ready to strike down that wrath at the tip of a hat, at this bitch.

"Where was Rose during all this?" Julee wanted all the pieces before she could put the bigger picture together, knowing none of them would put a defenseless little girl in any form of danger. Roselyn was only five. She shivered at the thought of godzilla risking a mere child's life just for what? Payback? Anger? Some...some sickening kryptonian bullshit?

"Luckily, with Suz and her wife, Nia and her fiance Brian. I think even I would have lost my shit in there if it wasn't for Kar. But this tyrant and her glowstick she was waving around, had no business even coming anywhere near any of us with that. Long ago I..fought Kara's own aunt. It ended up with me…." Alex took a deep breath, making her way back to the stool she had been occupying before. "I was the one to send Astra to her death. My wife's own...own mother. I did that. She was gonna kill J'onn and..I just reacted out of both fear and...hate. When she was going to kill him she said she would give him a honorable death. To save him I drove my...my kryptonite sword through her back. I had thought she was the only family Kar had left besides Kal-El. At first...she didn't know it was me. She didn't hate me the way that I had at myself for killing Astra. Ironically...Astra already had a nickname for me, 'Brave One' and...I stabbed her in the back, literally."

She knew Alex had more to tell her. She could wait to get answers. But she could see how much weight even talking about this Alex still carried on her shoulders. This fierce Director looked absolutely broken. "There was an incident that...Astra didn't know until it was too late. Her own husband had sent this...thing called Black Mercy to Kara. He had left it in her place. I went to her place and.."

Alex lifted her head up letting her back fall against the wall still on the stool. "It's a life form that...attaches to a host. It slowly drains everything out of the person. They can't even fight it off. Not even a kryptonian. You can't pull it off of the person. I was...I was with James and Winn after they called me frantic and worried. Kara hadn't come in to work. So we met up at her apartment. I kicked the door in and this hideous looking plant was wrapped around my sister. When we got her to the DEO and this thing had tightened around her with over one hundred pounds of pressure if not more."

The Captain felt as if this thing the Director was telling her about was constricting around her own chest. This had been Astra's husband? Julee noticed Alex shut her eyes studying the rise and fall of her chest. "There was this...the AI of Alura at the DEO. I went to ask, to get answers. We tried to pull the thing off her and was using the strongest of machine claws to it. It made it worse. That...that pathetic excuse of an AI didn't give me shit for answers. It was Astra that did. I was falling apart looking at a picture of us as kids. I was breaking when I needed to be the strongest. Astra showed up and even if we didn't see eye to eye, she loved Kara like her own daughter. I tried to shoot her and she rushed at me grabbing me by the throat. She could have killed me, but she didn't. She told me what it was and what it did. This monstrosity of a plant traps its victim in lifelike hallucinations. Her.."

"I'm here Alex. I'm listening." Julee felt like if she could ground them both it would help Alex.

"Astra didn't know her husband had done this until it was too late. She was just as scared as I was. I had told her it was like she was in a come but...everything showed up on vitals like she was conscious. It makes you see the perfect world. I didn't know what to do. We figured out a way to send me into where she was. I woke up on Krypton. My sister...she had everything I knew she wanted deep down. Yes, she was happy with me and Eliza and Jeremiah...when he wasn't the bastard that tried to kill us all off. But deep down, a part of her was always empty. I was almost killed in that place and I did everything I could to show her it wasn't real and that I needed her now more than ever. I got through and then she got angry for the first time in all the years I've known her. She went after Non. Then Non got to me and I almost killed my little sister. Before he did, I killed the person who had helped me save her. How sickening of fate's game to throw at us."

"So she never took it out on you?" Julee was too engulfed in the back stories here, ignoring the groaning from the box not paying any attention at all to it.

"She kinda...verbally did. That was only due to an exposure the asshat Lord's mettling did to her. The whole fall from grace thing everyone blamed her for."

"That Red K incident?" Alex nodded.

"Oh she blamed herself for that even when I told her there was some truth to what she had said under the effects. She wasn't angry with me ever again really after that. But then Astra's slimy husband.." Alex smirked for a second shaking her head at the little thought. "..if I could have trapped Maxwell and Non in a red sun box I would be curious to see who would have been the bitch in that relationship."

"I don't know which is deadlier Danvers, your mouth or your right hook." Julee chuckled, but quickly pushed the humor back. "What happened? You said that Non had made you try to kill her?" She apparently couldn't shut up at all continuing with the questions in more of an interrogating tone.

"There was that whole Myriad thing and...he had someone working with him. This bitch, another one of the wronged of its sentencing, had a power that could...well let's just say I was suddenly on the other end of it. She practically destroyed my mental state with her little hostile takeover of my brain. That's when the shit really hit the fan and I had no fucking control. They sent me out in this hideous kryptonite armor and the same sword I had..I had murdered my sister's aunt with. He was gonna force me to kill my person or for her to kill me. I nearly did and I...it was far too close." Another memory that Danvers would never be able to shake free.

Both heard the vibrations from Alex's back pocket making the Director just shake her head and stand up to walk over to the other end of the room. Julee noticed the stance when her Boss answered the phone, then the sudden halt and tension after taking the call. "This is Director Danvers speaking."

"Is this a bad time Phoenix?"

"Tul Bem Chahv Dendahr." Alex told him, looking at her Captain. "Mind if we continue this after?"

"Need to take that without me here Director? I can step out if you want."

"I'll just be a few." She assured Julee, who stood and waved her off some. "Gonna take after me in every little bad habit aren't you?"

"Nah. Not all." She said going to the door knowing just as well where the woman's eyes were. "Stop checking out my ass or I will tell your wife." Alex watched the door shut after she'd put in her own codes, returning to the stool to sit down once again.

"Talk."

"Now now Alektrah.." A growl ripped right out of her throat at the name.

"You don't call me that. Understood?"

"Forgive my rudeness. How is dear little judge and jury Alura doing?"

"Breathing still. At this rate though, not for long."

"Good good. That's good. It's a good thing someone as skilled as a warrior with the fierceness of a tiger has donned a name like Phoenix. They say that she is like the ashes of hell that rose from the.."

"Enough flattery. Talk."

"I've taken care of two. I would really like to take the third off your hands, since I'm the fourth. There is one that appears to be missing." Alex recalled the conversation about twelve. Six were accounted for. She was the sixth, newly changed. The monster that Jehna had once called Uncle made seven. The bitch in the box was eight. So there really was one more left if he had dealt with two on his side. "Are we counting heads?"

"Humor, thee name isn't. Who were the two?" Alex heard the sigh as clear as day.

"One that she sat beside, one that became security for Fort Rozz. The one she sat beside, she was sucking off when not seated on her throne."

"Eew. Something I could have really been happy not knowing." Alex wanted to hurl.

"My apologies again. You will be receiving a knock shortly. When you do, accept the agent."

"Why would I.." Danvers heard the two hard knocks, looked the direction they came from, then at her phone. "Hold on. Coming!" Alex set the phone down on the other stool and went to where the knocks came from. Grumbling, she punched in her codes and unlocked the door. "Did I keep you out too long?"

"Actually...I had something to tend to but...I really want a raincheck for our discussion if that's okay. No, the reason I was knocking was the agent you had transferred to this wing just punched in." Danvers rose one brow curious as to this supposed agent she had requested. "I think you went over his credentials last week. I just happened to see him come this direction when I was taking a call from...the um...hubby." Alex smirked. "Do not tell Aaron I called him that."

"Lips are sealed." She held out her hand. "Forgive the brain, not everything computes properly. Director Danvers." Alex looked right into a set of blues that looked nearly purple in shades under the minimal lighting.

"Calehb Ogra." The clean shaven, jet black haired man said as he shook her hand.

"Well, I guess I will leave you two to chat about the regulations for the wing. Nice to formally meet you agent."

"Likewise." He held up the phone in his other gloved hand with Alex's eyes darting from it to him. "Shall we?"

"Sure." Boy..she sure hadn't expected this change. She waited until both of them were inside and shut the door quickly locking it growling. The moment she spun to face him she was met with a pair of violet glowing orbs. "Explains the almost purple eyes."

"She passed out from the kryptonite." Alex was ready to kick herself. "Don't bother reducing it. Now...ask away."

"Where have I heard that line from before.." Danvers wasn't at ease just yet. "Ogra?"

"It's actually Vur-El but I thought that Ogra would be fun." She didn't find this amusing but then she thought about the last name he gave.

"Ogra. Argo. Cute. Originally we discussed twelve. You told me you dealt with two. Who are you to that...thing.."

"I was on the first court of Krypton. I sat on the side of judicial war so to speak. When Astra came to us, she brought up the points of how our home was in danger. Four of us that sided against her sister, ended up on the wrong end of politics. I had pleaded with the other High Council members to see the dangers of ignoring what Astra had told Alura. So when they chose not to listen to reason and then that had sentenced her sister...I stepped down. The minute I did, myself and three others were disbarred from anything involving the Council."

"You watched it burn." Alex spoke as respectfully as she could as he nodded.

"I watched the two pods sent off. I watched the explosion hit your sister's pod. I was at my studio and glanced in the telescope and saw exactly what direction she was headed. I knew all it would take was one or two more explosions to send her to that abyss of inescapable nightmares. I ran to my son's room and told him to get to the High Council as quick as he could. In haste I ran after him when I saw the next explosion. I heard screams. I heard.." She saw how much agony was in those violet blue orbs and resisted the urge to actually give this man a hug. "I heard my son's scream and when I got there..he was on the ground on his side, half of his body scalded…"

Calehb turned his head to look directly in the Director's eyes. "They hadn't seen me. I saw them though. The ones of the High Council had built a dome for their members. Using Daxam and Mars technology they had taken and enhanced...they created what your Earth calls a safe room. That.." He pointed a hard finger accusingly at the monster in the box. "Watched my son burn to death! He had figured out they were there. He had cried out for help and they just stood in their little safety bubble. Do you want to know who else burned Alex?"

Part of her didn't want to know anymore, for it was just making her want to slaughter the cursed thing with an even greater disgust. Yet...for Kara..

"Tell me." Alex made the decision and watched the hand come down from where it was positioned pointing at the box. "Tell me Calehb."

"Do not let your eyes leave mine." He instructed her as his shifted to the darkest of violet hues and in a feat of power her own began to emulate the shaded orange, turning to pure waves of rich amber. Her slight nod made him step closer, knowing she couldn't break the hold of his burning orbs if she tried. Calehb knew what his mother's power could do, but he would not use it especially on this brave warrior. "She stood there, in her perfect and safe little bubble...as...her own husband...burned.."

"WHAT?!" Alex felt the power in her eyes ignite hotter and she knew if she didn't get a grip on it she would fire her heat vision at something if not him. She screamed out, losing the will to fight what was going to happen. But then a strong hand cupped her chin, holding tight to it as she felt her back hit the wall. She couldn't push herself from the hold and gasped when she looked into the smoke of velvet purple fires.

"You and I aren't much different Alexandra and I know you know that too." He waited until the glow began to subside from her eyes, retracting his own but not the smoke. Calehb kept her in them as he let go of her chin. "You want for Alura to pay for her crimes. I want her to as well."

"If...my sister.." Alex didn't even realize she was sitting back down on the stool until his gaze left hers finally. "This..will kill her."

"I know." He turned away from her hearing her heavy gasped breathing. "Forgive that invasion some Alex." Calehb sat back down on the other stool. "I used to watch over her when she was little and piecing together the missing formulas in her father's lab. She was so eager to be a great scientist like him. She had surpassed every other child her age and all at nine. Such a brilliant little mind but a heart of gold. She had once asked me, while we sipped our hot beverages, why there was a Matrix and how come people couldn't wed for love. I didn't know how to answer but her father did."

Alex had been curious about so much, regarding Kara's father. Now she had this opportunity to know more and jumped at the opportunity. She just remained silent and let him keep talking. "He told her…'Kara my dearest little heart, no star is too high to reach and in time we will find a way to that one too. Not all is bound with science. Some is bound with the heart that you have. Just you wait. You will find a way to reach that star.' Zor-El had his reasons for everything he said."

"Her father's name was Zor-El?"

"Yes. Not many know this but his real name is Kenneth Zor-El. When he was established in the houses, he became simply Zor-El. He was a great man Alex. He...he….he was...my best..friend."

Alex reached up and wiped a single tear that streaked down his face. "You are far too kind for your own good." Calehb had to look away but when he did, his gaze had met the one huddled in the corner. He felt no empathy when he saw the murderer. Then he turned back to this warrior of might and heart. He saw it clear as day and was grateful Kara had been placed in her care.

"It's a trait that Kar taught me. I take it you heard the little story about what I told Julee." He nodded. "I wasn't always that good to her. I won't make that same mistake twice." Alex had a feeling she knew why this man had sought her out. "How long have you been working with us? Were you at the DEO too?"

"No. Here." Calehb quickly snatched Alex by one of her wrists then brought his other hand above her open one, dropping something in the palm of it. "Wear this when we train." He released her wrist and immediately gauging her reaction to the gift he'd bestowed.

"What is.." Alex studied the unique design, reminding her of a celtic knot but far different. Then she thought about how elven it looked actually and it strangely made her think of Lord of the Rings. The inscriptions for some reason didn't appear as foreign apparently. She hadn't even noticed her eyes glowing a tad darker amber. Her companion did, but remained silent about it. "Familiar.."

"When it is over your finger, you will be protected from any psychic aura. No one can read your thoughts or turn them. It can protect you from others knowing what runs through your veins. You could walk through any detector and not appear anything but human. This is how I was able to get through undetected in the tests and entry. This is how I made sure I was not seen or heard as anything but a child of Earth. This is how I pushed back the force of the impact to this planet when her pod crashed here. If I hadn't slowed the trajectory down...she wouldn't have survived."

With the last words spoken, Alex didn't wait another moment and slid the ring on and gasped as it adjusted to its wielder fitting perfectly as if it was made for her. Then she noticed the design changing. "Consider it a safety precaution so it can't be detected as anything else but a simple ring." Alex's scientific mind was reeling at this information, as her own ways of manifesting something similar to it for her agents came to life in her head. But once again, history kept her from believing this wasn't for nothing. There was always a catch.

"What do you want from me." Alex attempted to use her best Director, take no bullshit agent voice.

"Have you been getting more than headaches?" Now, he had her attention in a different way and she slightly nodded believing he wasn't done. "Your hearing and vision slam to a halt for a minute or two?" She nodded again. "Tell me Alex…" 'Do you hear this?' Danvers felt her heart stop beating in one swift strike of those four words spoken through the mind. His slight shift in his eyes, returning the glow, had everything else turning off. 'Let me in Alex.'

"Yes." Calehb considered the options here. If he wanted, she would be powerless to his telepathic suggestion while she wore his gift. But he was nothing like the one in the cage. He had watched little Kara play with toys he had bought her when she was barely walking. He forever would see her as someone he thought of as a daughter. Calehb would not do wrong by her sister.

"Do you trust me?" He kicked himself for his choice of words before because absent minded she nodded, still dazed by his thoughts to her. He snapped his fingers watching her head shake slightly and gasp, shaking as she came to. "Do you trust me?"

"Yes." Alex gasped at the sound of her voice again, still a little tense but knew that this kryptonian had more power than any she'd come across of all the planets she had encountered beings from. 'Rao give me strength here..'

"Then in my presence you will keep it on. It is your choice what you do with it away from me." 'We need to go somewhere away from this all high and mighty disrupt..'

"ALEX! Alex if you have your com or radio on...please get back here! It's Kara!"

Danvers looked at Calehb who nodded and mouthed go. 'Alex, go. Keep that on and we can communicate. Trust me and go to my niece.' Alex touched his shoulder briefly then quickly undid the locks, codes to get the hell out as quickly as possible and to her sister.

"I'm on my way. Keep her calm if you can.." Phoenix knew something was wrong but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. 'Calehb...I am trusting you here. Do NOT betray that trust or I have no problem doing what my sister can't.' Alex issued that warning, still unaware of how she did it. Right now, only one thing matter….Kara..

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"What happened?" Alex practically flew in, far faster than she'd ever seen Kara accomplish, to worried faces and screams of her sister. "KARA!" She drove forward only to be stopped by Sam who held out her hands signalling her to wait. "I need to get to her Sam." But her wife wouldn't budge. "Sam." The tone was leering dangerously toward demanding.

"Danvers hold on a sec would ya?" Maggie walked over with Lena at her side. Alex spun her head to the left watching them approach. "She's sleeping Alex."

"You're wrong." Alex was losing her patience fast. It was the second scream from her sister that shook her to the point of needing to get to Kara..now..

"Alex." Sam kept her hands out not meaning to look defensive or threatening but to tell her that their sick blonde was resting. "Alex...she's okay. She's sleeping." She had thought she had gotten through to her wife until Alex's entire body went tense and her jaw clenched. "Alex?"

It was the way that she had said Danvers' name that had Ruby, Lucy and Lena filled with a nagging sensation they couldn't quite place, but it scared them nonetheless. "Alex she's asleep babe. Let her rest."

"Don't you hear her screaming? She's crying and scared and screaming and.."

"Babe. I think that right now we need to sit down and discuss.." Sam's eyes widened when she saw brown eyes she loved oh so much, begin to glow and emulate a dark amber shaking her to the core. "Alex..baby you need to.."

"Don't you hear her screaming?!" Sam noticed her daughter slowly come to the side and heard the flick of a snap unclipping at Sawyer's belt. Her eyes were once again on the other end of one furious woman with a dangerous kryptonian strength. But when Alex stepped forward, her eyes burning darker, Sam froze even with her hands still out. 'Get...OUT of MY WAY!' Artemis jumped to the side and watched her wife rush past her, into the bedroom where Kara was resting.

"What was.." Lena tried to talk but Sam slapped a hand over her mouth, motioning the rest of them to the couch. Kieran was confused but nodded with her sister in law's hand pulling away. Sam pointed to her phone and held it up after typing something them all.

Turn off your ringer and vibration. I will send you a message okay?

Maggie looked over at the woman's screen and grabbed her phone, as did the rest of them. When all their phones were put on silent, Sam started building a group text then typed out her response sending it.

Did any of you hear her tell me to get out of her way? She waited until each of them got the reply then looked at it and her funny. I take that as a no.

What did she say exactly? Ruby asked, far beyond confused.

She said "Get out of my way" rather loud, to the point my ears were ringing and hell my skull felt like someone had shook it like a magic 8 ball. Everyone looked at one another and then at Sam as if she had lost her mind, no longer finding any amusement at what she had just texted them.

I didn't hear that Sam. Lena replied.

I sure as hell would remember Danvers saying something like that. Maggie stated.

What the fuck is going on Mom. Ruby was beyond over the edge with worry.

I know this is gonna sound crazy, but considering what Brainy and Nia can do it's not as far fetched as you think, but...one of you tell Alex THROUGH your head as if thinking it to her, to get in here. More glances her way made her swallow the lump in her throat.

Sam wanted to know if her theory on this was correct because if it was, they were in deep shit. Her thoughts went back to Reign who seemed to be responding to her in a rather disturbing way. 'Careful how you go about this Samantha.' It was a sure fire warning and somehow Sam knew she could speak to her. 'The other two World Killers Reign.' Hopefully no one was gonna think she was bat shit crazy at this rate but what did she have to lose..

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She held a little tighter, once again, to her fragile little sister rolling the ring around her finger with her thumb. Alex heard the even breathing but occasionally it became shakes and a rough cough coming from Kara's throat which brought a grave fear digging at Danvers slowly. How odd it seemed that even holding Kara this way, she couldn't help but let her mind wander to this song she had heard on the radio Anti-Everything and somehow at that very moment it seemed to oddly fit.

Alex was curious to the power of this strange gift from Calehb and took a chance, reaching out through her rumbling mind. 'Calehb, Kara grows far weaker than she should be.' Perhaps she was going insane, that was until she did in fact get a response. 'Our rings allow us this joint conversation. What ails her?'

She shut her eyes and focused on her sister and her split thoughts. It terrified the hell out of Alex now with her tremors growing stronger. 'She calls for me. She screams my name in such a way it breaks my heart Calehb. It's as if something has her cornered, even trapped. Why can I read her thoughts like this?' She had prepared to push a little harder against the brittle door she had come to in her sister's head, until another voice rang out. 'Alex...COME IN HERE FUCKING NOW!'

Alex carefully slid away from her sister, covering her with the blanket and took a deep breath and walked into the living room ready to give all hell none of them would recover from with how furious she was. She clenched her fists tightly and stepped before the group sitting on the sectionals of the couch. She hadn't even felt her eyes begin to burn far past the amber waves, drifting into a darkness she felt at the moment.

"WHAT!" She growled out, showing just how much anger in the tone of her voice. Alex barely saw Ruby rush past her, blocking her from going back to Kara. "You better have a damn good reason for pulling me away from Kar." She watched as Sam and Lena stood first, followed by Maggie and Lucy. "Are all of you gonna cock block me?"

"No Danvers." Sawyer was first to step forward. "Watch my lips." She saw the royal confusion yet curiosity in her ex's eyes. 'Can you hear me now?' It was the most stupid of thought deliveries and she promised the next time she heard the fucking commercial she'd blow up her own tv. But in that moment, the glowing stopped abruptly and Alex took two steps back with huge shivering chocolate brown hues looking at her. "Can you?"

"Yes." She had been discovered and she wanted to know how so she asked and when she did, Maggie handed over her phone. Alex read over the conversation and when she did her hand began to shake and she almost dropped the phone. 'Shit. Calehb…'

"I want you to hear me out baby. Can you do that?" Alex nodded. "Sit please." Her wife listened and sat down when Lucy moved to give her more room. Sam took a few steps until she was right in front of Alex. She put her head back giving herself over to that shadow that had remained with her since her and Ruby had returned, before Rose was born.

"Sam?" Lena didn't like what she was feeling and it stirred her wonder how she could even do that. Kieran saw her sister in law's head come down and immediately stood up and backed away, practically falling in Sawyer's lap. "Sam?"

"No." They all resisted the urge to get into defensive postures. But the kryptonian ignored them all, including her daughter, snatching their wife by her chin when she knelt down. "You are playing with fire Alektrah In-Ze and I know you know that. Come on out and stop hiding behind those rings of both of yours." Reign wasn't a fool and this kryptonian had quite the nerve to be carrying on a secret chat with Alexandra. She stood straight up and turned to carefully step over Luce.

As if hearing her as clear as day Calehb touched down at the balcony, walking towards the slide doors he pushed aside stepping in. He watched each of their expressions as well as their body language toward him, somewhat ignoring them when he saw a set of darker orbs.

"Why am I not surprised you survived Reign. Have you been building up your strength within Samantha In-Ze so you can take over her body again?" Calehb heard the deep growl but turned away from her, practically bumping her shoulder as he walked past her. "I am Calehb Vur-El if that is suff.." He easily heard her rush at him slamming her feet down on the floor, shaking the walls and everything within them. "Jehna Zor-El such a pleasure again."

"How did you survive Uncle?" Gasps were heard around them.

"If you must know, I came when she did." Calehb pointed to the bedroom and just as he did, Ruby landed right beside her mom. "I would never harm her Ruby In-Ze. She is like a Niece, hell a Daughter to me. Her father and I were best friends and I used to watch her when she was just a kid."

"Fuck.." Sam muttered back in control of her body and before her knees could buckle, Alex was up and catching her to sit her beside her for now.

"I am not here to harm either of you. It's okay Alex." 'Remove it.'

"Yes." They all looked from the man with the violet glowing orbs to the waves of amber in Alex's, along with the word spoken that sounded almost as if under some sort of trance. But their eyes landed on what she removed and set on the table as he came forward and set his beside hers. Both their eyes quit glowing as Alex took a deep breath in to slowly shakingly release it.

"I gave that to help her. Those rings allow anyone with another blood other than human DNA, to be undetected. I wore mine to get through the training and assessments of the AOD agent recruitment. I did it to try to protect those I consider family. I will not fail Zor-El like I failed to save him or my son. I had been the one, before Superman, to discover the incoming pod. I flew up and pushed against the brutal force of prejectory which if it had crashed at that speed...she wouldn't have survived. I want to apologize that I was absent through everything she and all of you have been through."

"If I may ask...where were you then?" Lena knew there had to be a much greater reason as to why he was unable to come to their rescue.

"I...my other child...had been...slaughtered.." Everyone watched Jehna collapse to the floor onto her knees. Tears escaped her eyes and ran down her face, with a pain in her face nothing else could compare to. "I'm sorry Jehna. I...I failed her.." Calehb knelt down to his other niece and pulled her into his strong arms, letting her fall apart. "Thank you." 'Thank you for ending that evil devil's life.'

"C...cale…" Heads turned at that voice, watching their weakened angel stumble in, leaning against the wall as she moved forward. Before her body could cave, her sister was at her side. Kara looked at Alex. 'Lexy.' She now understood why she could share that telepathic connection with her little sister.

"She and I can speak to one another in the way our rings allow us to conversate, because of the blood through our veins." Then it hit her as to why. "The other World Killers.."

"Yes Alex." Calehb still held his niece even though her tears had lessened. "The trials she attempted, had the DNA of the three World Killers. Because of that, you and Kara are linked beyond anyone else you have these strong connections to. The main reason I came to you first, is because...you know what I have done."

"What do you mean by that? Please, we are grasping for answers and things are so fucking confusing I can't see straight anymore." Maggie spoke up, on the verge of screaming from frustration. "We've been through way too much shit Calehb and...I'm sorry about your daughter."

"Non used one of his lackies to set her up for a crime punishable by sending her to Fort Rozz. The one he used was Jaekob, his brother. They killed her. I didn't have proof until I found your training camp Jehna. I heard two guards talking about the blood born brothers that sent Feora to her death. I had searched other planets for answers, I even went to Argo City and nearly got caught by the bitch of a mother to you two."

"Speaking of...and my apologies for interrupting you Uncle Calehb, where...where is she.." Jhune had leaned back, out of the man's arms and he knew to step back as well. She stood with his assistance, then the fires of fury filled her darker blues.

"If I may sis.." Alex gathered her wits about her, knowing this would be far more difficult for them all to grasp but first.. "Where is Rose?"

"Safe. Dreamer has her settled in the playroom down on the first floor. Painted lead walls. We're good." Ruby informed her other mom.

"Good. So you know that what Amarah had said, Kara had said right?" Danvers turned for a moment, seeing that her little sister had passed out on the rug. She was about to lift her when Ruby took on that task, setting her down on the lounge part of the couch. "Thank you." Her daughter nodded then waved her hand for her to continue. "There are twelve. My sister and I make two. Sam and Jehna make four. Ruby and Rose make six. The scum of the earth in the kryptonite box makes seven. Non...good riddens. He makes eight. Jaekob, that bastard makes nine. Calehb makes ten. He has been searching well...hunting for the other two."

"Alex.." Lena stepped forward, reluctantly leaving her wife's side but she needed as much data as she could get to formulate a plan. "Calehb." She stepped right up to the kryptonian, without so much as a flinch at the power she knew he possessed. "Why did you really come to Alex...I know it isn't just the bond my beloved and her share by blood."

Calehb knew this was coming. He had prepared for it and calculated what reactions it could bring to this rather tight knit group of what he viewed as one, as family. Side stepping for a moment he went to reach for the ring, but it was this raven haired emerald eyed woman to snatch it first. "No." She held it in a closed fist, not tightened but merely shut.

"Lena.." Alex didn't mean for that one word to come out too close to hostile. However...her rather brave, brilliant at the same time idiotic sister was treading on thin ice. Kieran chose to ignore her because something told her even Danvers didn't know. She decided to test that assumption. 'You don't know why do you?' Her flickering hues caught the shift in Alex's jaw. She didn't know at all.

"Set that down please and I will explain as to why I gave her that and why I came to her first." He watched the woman reluctantly set the ring back on the table next to her sister in law's. "I cannot find the other two. I've tried. I came…" Calehb had to turn away from all of them but instead of removing all eye contact, he was met with the one he had approached without a second glance and realized what was already over her finger. "I came…" 'I came to train you in the ways I know. I came to show you what it took to be a kryptonian soldier, a warrior of our planet. I want YOU to be the one that is beside me when I take both sisters down.'

"Alex? Babe?" Sam saw the far away look in her wife's eyes and knew what that meant. Her hazel green orbs lit up quickly in blood reds glowing dangerously, feeling Reign's fury that so perfectly matched her own. "Alexandra." One shake of the head and shivering chesnutt browns confirmed she'd gotten through to her. 'What did he say to you Alektrah In-Ze'..."Tell me."

"No need for.." Calehb knew how much he had overstepped and with one raging previously titled World Killer in his face, he chose to cave to the demand he saw in those glowing red fires. "She is a skilled fighter and from what I have gathered a force to be reckoned with by this entire AOD. Then, as well, when she wore the rank of Director at the previous DEO."

"No." Skye snarled, now clenching her fists with realization hitting her square in the gut, intending to fold her over. Eyes flew to her movements, but she really didn't care. Ruby attempted to calm the darkness, keep it at bay. So she turned slightly and pointed to her aunt. "She is the reason we have become one team and one force. She is the reason for us to fight. My Moms...both of them, are skilled and fierce warriors. I know exactly what you mean by training her." No one had noticed what Ruby had over her finger. His ring…

The conversation had grown far more restrictive, aggressive and unnerving but still...answers were still not provided to calm the rather tense atmosphere around them. But just as the energies slipped into a dismal course, a knock at the main door had them all turning to who would be intervening. Sure enough, coincidence seemed to fill with a different set of epiphanies along with a kicked in door.

"Mind if I butt in?" Dressed in her signature cream colored assassin suit, her batons criss crossed over her back and several knives sheathed around her belt along with sides of her legs. Her silver blues locked onto one set of hues first, walking right over to someone she knew all too well. "Danvers.." Sara lifted one smooth set of fingers stroking them down the side of Alex's face. She easily heard a few growls, ignoring them leaning closer. 'Such animosity from your companions Danvers. Such struggle in those beautiful chocolate browns of yours. How long have you been able to take in the thoughts others push to you?'

"I...not long at all." Alex wasn't sure what to make of this, but wasn't surprised at whom wasn't happy by the physical contact her former one nighter provided her. Strangely though, it calmed her beyond anything else. "How did you get.."

"Dear little caper left her portal key when she had come to deal with all the bullshit from Deegan. My uh...an un-caped hero gave it to me. You know him, wearing his condom tight red spandex suit as fast, if not faster than your sister." Sara walked casually over to the Captain, completely aware of who she was no thanks to her friend. "Katie says hi Sawyer." Oh how that jaw did drop at mention of her ex before Danvers. Sara then noticed the only man before them and stepped right up to him without a worry or care in the world. "Did anyone ever tell you the colors of your eyes reminds them of Barney?"

"Daaaaamn.." Maggie never could compare in ass o' nine sarcasm when it came to Lance. But it wasn't just the smart ass little comments Sara made. No...it was the fact the White Canary was in no way phased by the rather powerful kryptonian. "Hey Lance?" Sawyer swallowed hard when the woman didn't even flinch. Even in that skin tight mighty fine attire and stunning great ass, the shift in the woman's muscles was evident.

"So you are the one that wants to make Danvers an executioner. Right?"

"Sara.." Alex attempted to pull the woman back and felt her body become heavy, her vision swim. She gave in to the exhaustion dropping but before hitting the floor, her wife caught her and brought her over to her sister.

"She is far too weak to handle that shit. I don't care who the fuck you are...but you are NOT turning her into that." Her icy blues grew colder and without even him noticing, she drew two of her knives swinging her arms up as she put both knives to the sides of his throat. "If you think you can just snap these into pieces like a child's toy...think again."

"A brave one you are to wield your little blades and threaten me with them." Calehb let the glow fill his orbs, shifting the shades of purple with more and more power. "You messed with the wrong kryptonian Earth girl." He didn't care for this one's little antics and he would show her exactly who she was messing with. 'Big mist..'

"I hate the arrogant telepaths." Sara smirked raising up her leg as the bottom of her booted foot landed at the brute's gut kicking him with full force, knocking his heat vision right off as he hit the floor with a grunt. Lance slipped the knives back in their sheaths, cracking her neck along with her knuckles then stepped back to lean against the wall next to both Danvers sisters. Sara crossed her arms awaiting him to get back on two legs after she tossed Sam and Ruby bracelets and nodded as they both slipped the metal cuffs over one of their wrists, gasping as they adjusted to fit them. "Anti-kryptonite elements. Speaking of.."

The White Canary knelt down and slid a bracelet on one of each of the sisters' wrists, allowing the protective metal to form to where they sat. When she knew both were safe she stood back up then laughed. The moron was out cold. She walked over to the fridge and went for a beer. "I hope you don't mind. Traveling makes me parched." Sara wasn't surprised over the shocked faces that watched her, dumbfounded by her actions. "Demented prick."

"Wai...how...uh….." Maggie was completely flabbergasted and she wasn't the only one.

"You're hired." Lena had to get this incredibly good looking and gifted in the forms of all arts bad ass on her payroll. The blonde just laughed, taking a long sip of her beer she had used one of her knives to pop the lid off easily making it fly right into the garbage can, walking back over to the sisters. But her smiles and snickers were short lived as she set her empty bottled drink down on the table getting on her knees to check on the two out cold.

"He's gonna be unconscious for a while. The soles of my boots are laced with a little stronger of a kryptonite that drained his cells. It wasn't that easy to resist his little glow bugs too. I've got an amulet on that reduces that little trick's power. I don't need hot flashes thanks. I've come, not only because of a friend that happens to be part oracle, to protect the Danvers duo. Alex has been recently adjusted in blood correct?"

"Correct. We had to...she would have died.." Sam struggled to get the words out, with that sickening thought of her love, her wife, her everything leaving this world with no way to return to her or even Ruby. "What is wrong with her Lance?"

"They are connected by blood correct?" Sara asked the group, with a few of them nodding. "Along with the bloods of not so kind individuals?" More nods gave her everything she needed to continue. "Alex's body is changing, forming to what is in her. Kara's on the other hand...her solar cells have been so depleted that it will take quite a bit of time to gain that absorption ability back. She also is.." Her now softer ice blues trembled from the knowledge of what was happening.

How could the assassin tell this tight knit group of supposed family, that...the Kara they all knew had been drained of more than her strength..

"Oh shit...JEHNA!" Ruby rushed forward as her aunt hit her knees gasping. "Sara? Do you have another of those bracelets?"

"There's another of you?" Lance slid down the zipper of her jacket and reached in for the last of the adult size bracelets, pulling it out and throwing it to the younger kryptonian. "That should do."

"Jehna...there we go." Ruby slipped it over her aunt's wrist and immediately saw the color return to her face. Her aunt looked at Lance and nodded smiling. Skye helped Jhune stand barely even needing to do just that. Jehna appeared stronger than she had been in a while.

"Ruby, I suggest you destroy that ring and oh.." Sara threw the second ring to her. "Go turn both of them into tiny particles of glitter dust. I'm sure you can make a few fairies happy."

"How did you even.."

"Skill. Besides...I got something none of these wannabe buddies that try to enter your club house have." They all rose an eyebrow in both confusion and aching to know. Sara smiled brightly and deviously. "I've got class. I wish I had come on better terms though." The grin left her lips and reluctantly she stood to leave that closer range with the Danvers. She knew this would absolutely destroy them all. "I suggest all of you sit down. Is this everyone?"

"No. Our friends Susan and Amelia, Brainy and Nia and Kara's and my daughter Rose aren't here. I take it the smaller bracelet you have fiddled with twice is for our Little One?" Lance nodded. "Should I call them to come here?"

"I could get them on conference call if that works. With dickhead over there that...is he snoring? Wow. No words there. I think it's best that we avoid that interaction as much as possible. Are any of the others coming here Sara?" Maggie asked.

"My crew on the Waverider are handling some...off duty missions. They need personal time and my girlfriend is a bitch that cheated on me so I am flying solo here. That will teach me to bed blondes that have no real chemical balance of brain activity. Nothing against our caped friend there." Lance got back to the conversation that she dreaded to have but had to for the sake of fate. "Sit down and call the others. Make sure it's on secure lines and.."

"Make sure it's on a private line? Yeah. Got that covered blondie." Sara wanted to throw one of her knives at the phone she recognized as the Major's.

"I have a feeling there is more to my visions than I thought."

"You have a vision Dreamer?" Sam chimed in, curious at what the Naltorian had to say.

"Guys guys guys..shut up and listen." Lucy smirked at Susan's take no prisoners attitude. "Go ahead White Canary." Sara rubbed her face with one of her hands then walked over to the kitchen.

"Got anything stronger than beer Lena? I hope you do."

"Second cabinet on the right side of the fridge. You might need a stool or.." Emeralds glanced up when the woman jumped onto the counter, opening the upper door and finding a bottle of her liking. "That works."

"Anyone want a shot of this?" Lance asked, offering with a politefulness she saved for moments like this. Especially when she was about to drop a whole other issue into their laps. When no one popped in with a request, Sara opened the bottle and started drinking right from it. Fuck the shots when she was about to shoot them all right through the heart..

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Three days had passed since Lance had come to their aid. Three long days and nights with Danvers looking after her sister, as they all did. Hours of prayer, anger, sadness, fear and so much more plaguing them. Mental states fractured, bodies weak and their hearts cracking when Sara had told them why she had really come.

Alex felt her body ready to drop but still she stayed upright. Anyone looking at her knew she was practically sagging against the wall if not slowly slipping down it. Her wife and daughter had to force her down for at least a couple hours to rest before she was absolutely no good to even herself. Yet again...Sara's words struck her harder than anything else she had endured by her sister's side. The whole conversation had been grim..

"What is going on Lance?"

"This isn't going to be easy for any of you. I know you want answers and when I start I CAN'T have you interrupting. Got it?!"

"Spill Canary."

"Ugghhh...head wants out of vice."

"Nice to have you back with us Danvers. Whyyyy am I not surprised you woke up when you did?"

"Drop the smart assness Lance. Spill it."

Alex could still feel the hands on the sides of her face when Sara put her hands there. She remembered perfectly with such fractured agony when she had looked into those icy blues. Danvers hadn't even realized she was crushing the metal iced beverage cup, that not even her sister, wife or daughter could crunch. The Waverider Captain's body had been shaking some. But it was as if keeping Alex's eyes locked with her own was the only way. It hadn't done them any good when the words began..

"Alex.."

Tears rolled down her face, recalling when they had done the same on the fierce assassin. How Sara had fell apart the moment the words left her mouth.

"Lance? What is going on here? I need answers dammit! That's...my...SISTER!"

"Evening Reign. Is it because I am on my knees in front of your.."

"Sara."

"Alex...make sure all of you keep those bracelets on. I have one for your littlest kryptonian. I also...brought one for you Lena. I know you want to turn to protect your wife. What all of you will and can do, you already are doing."

"Lance. Yes..it's me. It's Reign. Sam is here. That is our sister of Krypton. Please. What is it you are afraid to say."

She shut her eyes and gripped the cup tighter. The tears wouldn't leave Alex. That raspy weak voice she knew far too well, but it still destroyed her to hear it that way.

"Ie..Vokai..Kha..p..Nahn...Ud..Udolkhehdia. Ehl Tulem.."

"What is she.."

"That's not the usual term for sister. It's..it's Aoe not Ie Alektrah. She said 'sister help, I'm scared' but...sun need? Her words are jumbled."

"What do you mean?!"

"Lena..calm.."

"Fuck you Samantha! That's MY wife! Now...WHAT is going on White Canary?"

"Ud..Udol k...hed..Ie..Khahsh..sh…"

"Kara. Kar it's me. It's Alex."

Alex had never seen her sister look at her with full blown confusion like that. That fear and confusion. Those cries, thrashing and screams. No matter eyes open or closed, that look said it all.

"K...k..ktrah..Ie...Voikir Vokai..Ehl.."

"Dammit. I need to learn this shit."

"I think she said Alex, sister...then...save? Help? Sun?"

"You got it Lena. Something's wrong. Guys, slowly come here."

"Hey Little Danv..whoa!"

"VOKAI KHAP!"

How the broken and hurt look on her ex's face, the moment her sister had seen Maggie's firearm at her side when Sawyer had knelt down...it destroyed her. Then Lucy had tried to console her wife with Sam trying to bend down with the gesture to take her hand. Her sister had screamed in absolute fear. Then Ruby..

"Mom, get back. Whether the darker or lighter side of you, step back. Let me try. Kara, Aunt Ka.."

"VOKAI Zo Ze-In.."

"We need to calm her down Danvers. She's not making much sense is she?"

"Kara? Kar. I love you. I'm here little sis."

"Darling? Kara, it's me. It's your wi...fe..oh my god.."

The assassin had explained there was nothing that any of them could do. That their angel that had saved them all...half of her was gone. Words were jumbled, speech in shambles. One day is what it took for her sister to recognize her own daughter. Two days before Kara even knew her own wife. Alex had made the mistake of losing her temper and when her eyes glowed in front of Kara, she screamed. It was hours before she would even come out of the bathroom. Danvers had sat by door knowing Kara needed her at her side.

"I'm sorry I couldn't come sooner." Alex took the mug of tea, grateful for something other than coffee. She watched Sara sit down in one of the gliders as they both looked out into the rain. "I had hoped I would get here before. I had hoped that...I...could have.."

"You weren't in her life, every day. You weren't by her side yet too stupid to see your own sis...fuck Lance I.."

"Please don't apologize Alex. I have learned to understand, however stupid and painful it gets. You can't blame yourself for this. You didn't know." They both sipped their tea returning their gazes towards the rain. "There is a saying that goes like, 'to look within the storms you learn more than you would when it's clear.' So..what is this whole twelve on Earth thing?"

"I recounted. Me and my wife. Our daughter and niece. My sister and my other sister. That fucking dick Non. The lying deceitful asshole Jaekob. The lying trickster in the cage that.."

"Don't blame yourself for that either Danvers. You didn't know. Honestly, I don't think he's evil per se. I think he's overly misguided, a little bit of an ole..fashion pound fists against chest ape...but hey who's counting. I think he really did want to make you that ice cold soldier and I think, not intentionally, he did it to protect your sister. He told you he took care of two."

"Yes. I think.."

"If he..is not the bad one here.." Sara saw something akin to pure unbridled horror in her on night bed fellow's chocolate hues. But that fear shifted and suddenly she found herself a spectator of pure unadulterated rage. "Alex?" Lance watched chocolate rivers become burning fires and she skidded off the chair toward the sliding door pounding on it catching the attention of those inside. Sara pounded again about to reach for a kryptonite lined dagger-like knife until she realized exactly what she had given both Danvers the other night.

"Thinking about this?" Alex shook her wrist as the metal jangled flashing the bracelet. 'A beautiful accessory Sara. Are you intending on stopping me?' Danvers searched the assassin's eyes and saw shivers in them, knowing it was fear. "Do not stop me Lance."

"Don't. Don't become like her. Don't do what your sister never would, never could." Sara smacked her closed fist against the glass again, harder this time and heard the screams the pounding at the door. Lance felt the heat radiating off it knowing the wife and daughter of Danvers' was firing their vision at the glass, the frame..anything they could. "She isn't worth.."

"My Aoe is suffering.." Alex wasn't her normal Director self at that moment. She was Artemis and Alektrah using both of those to bring forth fire and fury aimed at one and only one life force. 'Hear..me...NOW! Alura Yn-Ze! Rrup Zhahveihb Ni Kehp Inah!' That..animal KNEW what THAT Iuskirn would do! Her own flesh and blood.." One punch and glass rained down just like the stormful force of nature.

"ALEX!" They all screamed, but when the Director's boots crunched the pieces of glass with each step as she walked back into the living room, something was dangerously off about Danvers. Maggie and Lucy unclipped their weapons on their sides but Alex smiled shaking her head. Her orbs were the darkest of burning ambers.

"Alex." Lena put a hand on each of the married agents for them to remove their hands from the holsters. "Alex, it's Lena. What's wrong sis." Kieran didn't flinch as Danvers walked up to her with eyes still radiating their powerful glow. "Breathe Alex." There was progress, Alex's expression went from a sinister smirk to a serious tremble of something akin to anger and regret. "Talk to me."

"Alura In-Ze on Tuv Podh." Alex bore teeth, tightening her jaw and her muscles. "She was..the cause."

"What?" Maggie didn't understand and she wasn't the only one.

"Alex." Sara said firmly but smoothly. She watched the fuming woman walk up to one of the walls in the room putting her back against it. 'Can I explain to them?' Lance didn't wanna piss off the woman, careful of triggers. 'Go ahead.' Sara looked into Alex's eyes, no longer amber and back to those beautiful chocolate browns. 'If I try I might hurt someone accidentally. Please Sara...help my baby sister.'

"Alektrah In-Ze.." Sam walked up to her wife, aware of Reign centering her as best as the darker kryptonian could. Alex turned her head just as a soft tender hand touched the side of her face. "I am here love." She smiled as their daughter took one of their Phoenix's hands. Sam looked back at the White Canary.

"You might wanna consider a different last name, or kicking the bitch to the curb so hard the letters are lost forever."

"Damn Lance." Sawyer and her wife took a seat. Kieran however remained standing with arms crossed. "Say it."

"Are you sure?" 'Alex, I don't want to overstep here.' Sara should have known how quick the bad ass would retort. 'Not overstepping White Canary. Say what you feel is right to.' "I..reaaally suggest you ban the bitch in the box from ever using the In-Ze name again. That..'hideous'?"

"Throhkrep." Lance flicked her eyes to Danvers then back to those around them.

"I can't fucking pronounce that. Anyway, that hideous judicial bitch that was swinging around the uh...glow stick.." Another glance told Sara she chose the right word. "The glowing baton had something I think you all should know about." The assassin watched everyone including Alex, gather around where she dropped the reports she had snatched up from the main lab. "You have some pretty good scientists and doctors here Danvers." There was no humor, no emotion. Nothing..

All eyes were on the findings, the results from the particles left on the floor of the room Sawyer had been occupying while recovering. The same room where the chaos had ensued.

"What is…" The moment she had taken the top paper, one hand came over her mouth and she shakily dropped it back on the small pile of reports. Lena already knew she had started hyperventilating, hearing other ragged breathing indicated she wasn't the only one.

"That Khighi is Dhehraogh." Burning amber fires returned along with a strange powerful aura that none of them had felt before, even with Reign. Their shaken family all stepped back, even Ruby. Skye felt the sheer power coming off her other mom and it terrified the hell out of her. But she knew if she didn't stop the newly fueled kryptonian, there may not be a way for the leader of warriors to come back from it. "Mom." She had to do something and fast. "Mom." Ruby saw her mom start to step closer but shook her head, returning her stare to fire filled fury. 'You asked for it.' Skye let her own eyes fill with fire, shifting them right past orange to blood reds.

"Litt.." Maggie was ready to step in until another blocked her. Browns flicked to the right to icy blues. "Move Lance." Sara wasn't going to budge.

"I'm fine." She slipped her hands into the pockets of her jeans, purposely pushing her finger into the metal ring. 'You aren't going anywhere.' Skye forced the darker part of her forward and directly into her glowing blood red orbs. 'No more fires.'

Alex gasped stumbling back looking up feeling the strength in them leaving her. She couldn't even recover from the forced shut down of that power. Danvers put her head forward again with her eyes widening. Her daughter's eyes continued to burn as she stepped closer now standing over to Alex on her knees. 'Did you REALLY think I would destroy that? Oh I destroyed yours. I kept his.'

She tried to call out, to warn the rest of them but it was as if her voice box had been put in a vice. She turned her head to her ex, trying to convey the message until she was hit with a heavy punch inside of her skull. Her body fell forward with the wind knocked right out of her. "Don't try me again Mom. Calm your fucking ass down. You think you are the only one here that is ready to blow?" Ruby roared out and let the full weight of her own power absorb her in a way she'd never allowed. She shut her eyes took slow steady breaths opening them up, revealing nearly solid black ones.

"Rubes?" Lena wanted to step forward but couldn't.

"She won't be going off half-cocked now." Skye's voice sounded deeper, fueled with something none of them could comprehend. She dropped the ring by her other mom's hand and walked right out to the balcony. Before any of them could scream her name she'd taken off into the night sky amongst the dismal clouds of a storm.

"She...she was…" Sara marched right over dropping down just enough to snatch up the ring before Alex could. "She didn't destroy it."

"Where were you gonna go Danvers? Hmm?" Maggie wanted to know what the hell was going on.

"T..to..to.." Alex rolled onto her back looking up at her family with hazy vision. "I was gonna go attack Alura."

"Why?" Lucy wasn't sure what would have Danvers this furious.

"Get...me...to couch.." Sam was about to lift her wife but it was the ex that did so. "Mags.."

"Where is she going Danvers."

"Fuck.." Sam knew exactly where her Ruby was headed. "Stay with her." Artemis flew to the open balcony door taking off into the darkened sky crashing with thunder. Sam couldn't afford to be wrong with this..

"Alright. Talk." Alex was about to, but it was Lena who put her hand out to silence her.

"The chemicals, the elements, the toxins...what was found in your room Maggie was.." Kieran had to sit down before she dropped, listening for the whimpers or call outs of her wife. Luckily she didn't hear a thing and judging by how much Danvers was concentrating, she didn't either. "The kryptonite sword had a coating of a drug, not common to our planet. Luckily, between Alex and I we have been able to gather a strong enough database to register certain things when certain things come up in the system. Kara's...own mother used something on the sword. She had probably been counting on her daughter coming at her."

"Wait wait wait. Are you saying that she purposely came into my.." Maggie wanted to hurl. "It was a trap."

"Shit." Lucy was just as stunned as her wife.

"It was too convenient." Lena knew what this meant. "Jaekob had been working for.."

"Son of...a…" Jehna was about to explode. "My...OUR...own...mother.." Jhune dove to side, hitting her knees as she grabbed a small trash can puking from the realization.

"We need to get a hold of Sam and Rub.." Both mother and daughter touched down and walked back inside. "Where did.."

"Luckily, Danvers had taught us both better. We heard."

"My sister.." Alex put a hand up to her face unable to stop the tears once they started. Her body shook with heavy sobs.

"She waited until Kara came at her. If I had to guess, she wasn't intending on stabbing her. I think..here goes another theory. I think, that she was counting on her touching the blade. I think she knew about the resistance. What Supergirl did, had only turned it to dust. Let me guess..freeze breath, heat vision and...kryptonian strength." Sara was sure her hunch was right. "The report says traces were still on the floor. It had already entered her, probably by skin contact, infecting her right away. Remember, no matter burned or blown up or washed off or any of it...there is always a trace of it left. It can be just one little fleck and that's enough."

"She's right." Maggie added. "We used to do crime scenes, especially when it involved abuse or murder or any of that. I had a forensic gal explain to me that the reason they push evidence to places like out of city and state labs, is because local authorities and analysis companies just don't have the technology or tools to do what the FBI and such can. I mean shit, didn't Danvers tell us about how far in the future kryptonians were compared to all of us on Earth?"

"I never...oh my god.." Alex began to cough and no sooner did it get worse, did a glass be put in her hand. "Thanks Rubes." Her daughter and wife helped her sit up. "We didn't even think about how far advanced they were to us. "I should have thought about this first, considering I was telling Jules.." Alex saw the look her wife was giving her. "Julee, about how I used to kinda...cheat in school since my sister is a genius." Danvers took a few long sips leaning back against the couch. "We wouldn't have ever been able...to.." Brown met icy blue. "How did you know?"

"I run a ship called the Waverider Danvers. We go forwards and backwards in time. We visit other Earth's. Did you think I didn't have my oh...own database? Always come prepared Danvers." Sara contemplated what she said and was about to backtrack it.

"Eye fuck everyone later Lance. Okay. Okay. Okay...so what do we do now?"

"You hold off on everything." Their eyes landed on the open door then the clicks of disengaged firearms. "Gampil the 'Brave One' and Epol Dovrrosh with us. The rest of them..keep them back.."

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Automatically, both Skye and Artemis got into a defensive position as their eyes filled with blood red fury. Tijrea and Luvrii had their twin alien guns aimed at the unwelcome intruders. Phoenix, with the help of Kieran, stepped forward as Lena unsheathed her twin daggers and Alex letting the fires of her hellish rage ignite her strength. Making quick work in from the balcony, Dreamer joined them.

"None of us are going anywhere Chaiahm of Kryptahn." Alex snarled hearing the swipes and clicks of metal, glancing over to see Sara's two extendable batons formed to one staff as she tossed Phoenix the ring Skye had held onto. Confusion filled the Director's face but she knew that White Canary had a reason behind everything and she trusted that, trusted her. Glancing back into the cold eyes of the judicial bitch, she was glad she called her a murderer of her home planet.

"Ruby." Lance spoke, knowing their younger fighter would hear her. 'Thanks for hanging onto them. Got the other one right?'

"Affirmative."

"Kill them." Alura let her own eyes light up as the four guards came forward. Two more dropped a body by her feet, covered in blood. She watched her tainted daughter's choice of family slammed with the loss of the life she had ended with her bare hands. "It is incredible how one bright light can bestow such a gift to me. Also your little devices that render a kryptonian traitor powerless. It made snapping his neck so much easier. One Giehrahv sentence carried out. Your turn."

"WAI AOE!" The guards stopped, Alura turned her head but the angels didn't dare budge. "Rrov...Odhoz Calehb!" Kara let out a blood curdling scream crying out, unable to stay upright but she didn't fall. She looked up at her sister. "Aoe.." She buried her face into her sister's chest sobbing from the death before her.

"You killed...killed…" Jehna knew that her mother had done wrong in the past, knew she was severely deranged. But finding out their own mother had done what she did to her baby sister then to who they both called Uncle and saw as a father figure murdered in that way, set the tone. Her eyes began to glow the blue like Supergirl's, someone she looked up to, then grew darker and darker. "How COULD YOU!"

"Calehb was a traitor to our Council. His son was fruit from a poisonous tree. His wife a traitor to Krypton. He was not given anything close to an honorable death. I made sure of that personally. Just as I did...your father." Jehna suddenly lost all strength then felt her body weakening. She heard a groan and saw Alex, Sam and Ruby struggling to stay upright and then she saw her little sister's body grow weaker. She looked at her mother gasping when Alura and her soldiers removed their cloaks revealing anti-kryptonite armor. "Rutehn Fah or I will make you join them in their purgatory." She unsheathed yet another glowing green blade and with it Jehna already knew the intention of it.

"STOP!" The dark rage of one voice halted the movements of their attackers, the angels and her own daughter. "YOU...would use words used by me to prove your malleus point? You who created the World Killers." Both Alex and Ruby looked at Sam and noticed the dark eyes that were nearly black with power. "Our mother held more honor than you devil. Your daughter has FAR more honor than you ever could. Will you tell her how you sent one of your own to kill her sister? Will you tell her of your attempt to murder her blood sister?" Reign would not stand by and let this monster cause this havok. "Zor-El wasn't the one who created us."

"Mom." Ruby knew what would happen if the darker side of her mom won out, but she prayed to Rao to protect them both.

"Will you tell my daughter how her mother was born? Will you tell her of how you forced your own brother to rape your sister, forcing the birth of Samantha then forcing your vile Juru shit down our throats?!"

"What.." Alex hadn't even contemplated.. 'Reign...what was her intention with my sister.' She was hoping, wishing, praying and begging it not to be what she thought it was. 'I'm sorry Alexandra. She was coming to take you and our daughter, force you before her new Council and then drag Kara back to Argo to do the same thing to her what Alura did to her own sister. There is another child.'

That had done it and before she realized what she was doing she was unleashing a hellish howl, like some enraged beast flying right towards the guards which she sent crashing through the walls. Alex kicked Alura hard in the face then slammed her fist down on her skull, sending the monster to the ground. Phoenix wasted no time, ripping the shield right off along with the two gauntlet style bracelets, using her covered foot to kick away the sword and finally snatching the necklace gripping it tightly. Alex kicked her as hard as she could in the face then turned around walking over to her petrified sister.

"Kir Aoe, Rrip Nahn Voi." She knelt down to Kara and held out the necklace. "Safe sis. Look. Remember this? Your Aunt Astra gave this to you. Kir Aoe."

"Voi?" Alex nodded smiling, grateful the glow had stopped in her hues. "Voi. Safe."

"I got the lowlife and her lackies Danvers." Sara growled, pleased when Maggie and Lucy joined her.

"Nia? Is Rose.."

"She's napping on a napping fiance of mine. Susan and Amelia are with them. They are safe. Alex..I.." Dreamer hated when she couldn't see these things until it was too late. Nia watched the dangers dragged away giving Aaron a thumbs up along with Julee.

"Don't put that guilt on yourself. You need to not be so hard on yourself." Nia nodded and looked at Maggie who approached her.

"C'mon Dreamer, we need to have a chat." Sawyer threw a hand over the angel as Lucy put an arm around Nia's lower back.

"Aoe." Kara cried with her entire frame shaking badly. Alex looked up at her older sister then at her wife, their daughter and finally her sister she held. "Aoe...Udolkhehdia.."

"I know. You don't have to be scared anymore sis." She took both of her fragile sister's hands and set one into Lena's and the other into Jehna's. "You are safe. Voi Aoe."

"Voi Zrhueiao. Voi darling." Lena reached up and brushed blonde strands out of her wife's face. Kara's eyes met her emerald ones and she smiled softly relaying all her love on her face in her gaze.

"Voi. Zrhueiao. Beautiful love." Kieran felt herself choking up doing her best not to cry.

"Voi Jehna." Jhune had lost it then and there, lunging to hug her sister startling Kara some but it didn't take long for Jehna to feel soft arms around her body. "Safe...Jehna..sister.."

They all embraced their shaking angel, providing comfort and love to Kara as she cried. Alex waited until she knew exhaustion has set in, relieved that Lena could hold her wife now, standing up to look over. She pushed back the urge to light up her eyes again, noticing the sword. 'How many more are out there?'

Ruby heard the thoughts of her other mom, grateful for the ring. She too noticed Kara asleep as both her and her mom stepped forward beside Alex. 'I hope that is the last Mom.'

"I think I know why she did what she…it did. I figured it out." Both her wife and daughter looked at her then noticed the darker orbs, seeing exactly who was front and center.

"What is it Reign." Alex had no reason to fear the darker side of her beloved in any way.

"Kara was sent to Earth. Sent to protect Kal-El. Sent to protect another of Krypton. She sided with humanity." Reign paused, unable to stop the tightening of her fists. She turned her head and reached up to cup their wife's chin. "It was Zor-El who programmed the pod, programmed the languages and cultures of Earth."

"Tell me Reign. I can handle whatever it is."

"Mom?" Ruby turned to face the darkness within her mom.

"If you had not taken the AI from the pod and Kara Zor-El would have found it first.." Reign pushed all of what she knew into Sam, allowing her back in to ward off some of the darkness in her eyes. "I will kill that monster." Artemis took the hand from her wife's chin, but before she could turn away Alex did the same to her and tightened some. "No Alex. It's...it's bad."

"Tell me." Sam took a deep breath and attempted to steady the shaking in her voice.

"The AI was meant to have her listen to the dangers of Earth's inhabitants. She had put some form of a chip in the pod's programmed teaching. Alura was aware of what her husband had done. She had intended to brainwash her own daughter, to hate humans. If her pod hadn't been knocked off course and had arrived here at the correct time, she would have taught Kal-El to kill those of Earth."

"She...my sister.." The blow had been dealt right there, learning that her bubbly, warm, caring, loving sister could have been turned into a ruthless monstrous soldier. Alex let go of her wife's chin only to be held up by Reign.

"When she had come to Earth to aid in everything done to Kara, she left these." Sam let the metal chips fall at their feet. "She knew that Lena would figure out ways to use the Harun-El and knew what that could entail."

"Sam...what do you mean.." Lena had heard her name, reluctantly looking away from her wife to her sisters.

"These are.." Jehna knelt down and took one of them with her eyes widening. "Where did you find these Sam?"

"In the microscopes, two monitors, hand scanner at her office, her personal work computer, the new machine my daughter invented and..her favorite bike." Sam wasn't present and they all heard Reign's voice. "She had intended to do the same to you Kieran. What she had programmed in the pod, to turn Kara into.."

"Brainwash me?" Her emeralds shook in pure shock, fear and building nausea. 'How long would it have taken..' She forced the thought to Alex who then looked at her wife, bringing her hands up to the sides of her face.

"Alektrah." Reign didn't want to provide the answer, neither of them did. 'How long.' Alex nudged seeing the grim expression. All hell was about to break loose and both of them knew it when two words left her lips. "Duhv Zehvh."

"Seven...days?" Lena held her wife a little tighter. "How long has she been doing this?"

"Since her last visit." Sam explained, hearing Reign's responses to questions.

"I will help you Lena. Have you been having headaches more and more?" Kieran nodded, admitting the truth instead of keeping it hidden. The older of the sisters came closer and placed a hand over the top of her head, a gesture of importance to Jehna for Lena.

"Kal-El, Lois and their twins are on Argo. We need to find a way to contact them." Alex explained, doing her best to focus for her sister's sake. "We have to get them back here."

"Director?" Head turned to the male voice, watching Aaron walk over bending down with a long rectangular gift box in his hands. He set it beside the sleeping Super. "This was made by Brainy." Remzi handed his boss's boss the strange looking puzzle key. "You are Alex are the only two that can access this. When she's better and well enough for what it's meant for, have her use it."

"Wait what is it?" Sam and Ruby sat down beside Lena and a sleeping Kara. Emeralds looked at warm browns and handed her sister the small key, watching Alex figure out the placement of the pieces. Once done, Danvers placed it over the center of the box as the metal strands retracted into the intricate oval orb. "That's new."

Alex took off the cover and gasped at the sight. The blues and reds of her sister's suit had been replaced by white and silver. The House of El symbol still there but in crisp silvers and the lightest of blues outlining the crest. But it was the material of it which had her running her fingers over it. "It's the same colors as.."

"As yours." Alex looked up at Lena. "This material. It's kryptonite armor. Brainy made a suit to protect her from any exposure to it."

"It's beautiful." Sam said then watched her daughter trace the crest until something caught her eye. "What is it Rubes?"

"It's Brainy's ring."

"What?" Alex was floored. "There's a note?" Ruby nodded and handed it over to her other mom. Danvers untied the rope around the rolled up paper.

Kara Zor-El,

Beautiful hero, I could not let you lose your wings Solae Angel. I understand the ramifications of meddling with future's events. You were the first to embrace me into your culture and teach me your ways. Your death had been fortolled. The destiny's cage meant to trap you. Rao wouldn't want you to lose anything of yourself. I bestow to you my Legion ring. If you cannot fight as Supergirl, rise to fight as Solaeris. My emblem does me nothing for the future. I live in now, remain in here. You live in now and now also in the future. El Mayarah.

- Brainiac

"Give me a radio." Alex spoke with her firmest of Director tones. Without hesitation she felt one slapped into her hand, turning into shivering emeralds. She pressed on the sides bringing it to her face. "Captain Sawyer. Captain Remzi. Co Director Luvrii."

"We're here boss."

"I need a hazard team brought up. Make sure they are in TK-522 suits. A chemical compound in the form of a sword is up here. I need it extracted from the premises immediately." Alex looked across the room then at Lena. 'Do not touch it. Use a bar to push it outside if you can.' Kieran nodded leaving her wife in the arms of her blood sister.

"I don't understand babe." Sam was confused, so was Ruby. They weren't the only ones as they heard noises indicating the weapon was away from them all. Lena walked back over sitting down as Jehna set her sister in her wife's lap. "What are we missing.."

"Oh Kar.." 'I'm sorry Aoe.' Alex flicked her gaze up to bewildered nervous faces. "Alura turned Kara...human.."