AUTHORS NOTE: Hello friends! Thank you all so much for responding to the last chapter so positively – I appreciate your kind words so much!
This chapter is a little less fluff, but has important information for the plot! There will be some crazy changes happening in chapter 7, but everything that happens in this chapter needed to be set so the good stuff can start to happen!
My apologies for the delay in this chapter! I can't believe its been two weeks! Life just got crazy – over time at work, rush jobs with clients, friends breaking up, re-aggravating my shoulder injury. You know what they say...shit hits the fan. All at once apparently. I suspect for the next couple of weeks my updates will be a little but more scattered, as we head into the Christmas season. Once January is here I'll be back to my weekly updates, but in the meantime please bear with me! I will do my best!
Chapter 6:
Kara paced anxiously outside the door of Maggie's apartment. If it was her sisters place, she would have barged right in, but she had a feeling Maggie wasn't the type of person to appreciate that. So far she had already been to the DEO and Alex' apartment searching for her sister – Maggie's place had been her last idea. Thankfully with one scan of her x-ray vision she could already see her sister sitting on a stool eating breakfast along side her girlfriend.
"Alex..." She grumbled, knocking the door again. This time the body next to Alex moved, and Kara watched as she approached the door, and flung it open.
"Hey Kara." The brunette said, confusion at the aliens presence evident on her face.
"Hey Maggie," Kara said, pushing past the woman so she could get to her sister.
"Sure come on in." Maggie said, rolling her eyes in clear annoyance at the sudden intrusion. At the blondes invasion Alex spun towards her, frowning every so slightly.
"Kara?" She asked, even though it was clearly her sister that stood in front of her. "What are you doing here?"
"Uuuuh..." Kara mumbled, unsure how to even begin explaining the realization that the dreams she'd been having about Mon-El were real.
"You okay Kara?" Alex questioned as Maggie retook her seat next to her girlfriend. Kara mumbled again, pacing as she pinched the bridge of her nose – an action she often partook in when feeling overwhelmed.
"Uuuuh...so there's something about me...that's been happening recently..." Kara stumbled over her words awkwardly. "And...I don't know how to talk about this, but I feel like I can trust you you guys..."
Maggie furrowed her brows, leaning over she girlfriends shoulder she whispered, "Is your little sister trying to come out to us right now?"
Alex smirked at that, a rogue chuckle escaping her lips. Kara immediately crinkled, throwing a glare in the her sisters direction.
"I'm not gay." She said pursing her lips together in frustration, eyes rolling at the couple. "This is serious you guys."
"Sorry." Alex said, leaning back into Maggie, a small smirk still present on her face.
"Okay so..." Kara started speaking again, rotating her hands in front of her as she continued to pace. "So. I've been having these uh...dreams...? The last couple of nights. About Mon-El. Dreams or something like a dream where I...uh...connect with Mon-El. And at first I was like, why is my brain doing this to me. Like, I know loss can do strange things to someone, but these dreams are super intense, they feel real almost. I wake up and I can still feel his hand on mine, or this morning I woke up and I could taste salt on my lips-"
"Salt?" Maggie asked from her spot next to Alex.
"Yes, salt. He was crying last night in the dream. It hit him suddenly that both his parents had died, and he was crying. And he kissed me. And then when I woke up, I could feel his tears on my lips."
"Okay..." Alex said, becoming more and more concerned about the direction her little sister was heading.
"So in these dreams we are on like...another planet...or something. I don't even know honestly. This doesn't make any sense, but Voltor is always there, it's almost like he's brought us there. Which doesn't make any sense, because he clearly wants me dead, so why would he bring me and Mon-El together? Oh! And another thing, did you not notice that I pulled Voltor's name out of no where? I didn't though, you know what happened? Mon-El told me who Voltor was, the night before in my dream. How could he tell me who Voltor was if this was simply a dream? It just doesn't make sense."
"Wait Kara, stop." Alex moved off her seat and walked towards her sister who had stopped talking at her sisters request. "Are you trying to tell me that you actually think these dreams are real?"
"I don't think, Alex. I know they are real."
"Wow Kara." Alex said, rubbing her forehead as she tried to think of the best way to bring her sister back to reality. The brunette reached forward, grabbing her sisters arm, pulling her to sit down on the couch next to her. "Look, Kara...grief can do funny things to the mind. You've been through so much this past week, lost so much. I'm so proud of how you've been handling things, so so proud."
"Wait you don't believe me?" Kara asked, her emotions getting stuck in her throat at her sisters words. Fresh teadr fell down her cheeks as she swallowed, the wave of grief that hit her making her wish she could crawl back into bed and disappear. Alex moved to take the Kryptonites hands in her own, drawing her sister close as she spoke.
"When Dad died I had these super intense dreams about him. So intense that sometimes I'd wake up and think that my dreams were reality, and my reality with you was actually a dream. I'd see him places, there were times I'd actually go up to someone, thinking it was Dad, and then be absolutely crushed when it wasn't."
"Alex..." Kara mumbled softly through her tears, feeling Maggie come to her other side and place a comforting arm around her shoulders.
"And we can look into it just to make sure, but I'd guess the Voltor thing is something you're remembering subconsciously. Maybe you heard the name when you were a kid on Krypton, and as these things happen it's all coming back to you."
Kara fell into silence as tears slipped down her cheeks onto her sisters hands. Was it possible that her sister was right? Had she been making this up just to help herself get over the loss of Mon-El?
"You're wrong Alex..." She whispered quietly.
"Let's talk to J'onn, just to make sure, but Kara this is more than likely just grief and that's okay."
Through her tears, Kara shook her head, dismissing the suggestion.
"No." She said firmly, even though her voice wobbled slightly as she spoke. "I understand what you are saying, Alex. I won't lie Alex, I'm devastated by the fact that Mon-El is gone. I would give anything for him to be here right now. I haven't hurt this much since I woke up on earth and found out my entire planet was dead, but I know this is real and I need you to take this seriously. Somewhere in the universe Mon-El is in trouble. Last night something changed...I don't really know what happened, but he has this weird black spiral on his forehead, and bruises like I do. It was like one minute he was fine, and then the next his eyes were in the back of his head and he was having a seizure of sorts. He is in danger Alex."
Alex sighed, frustrated with her sisters persistence. She still believed that this was just grief taking over, but even if it wasn't, what were they supposed to do? They didn't have a clue where Mon-El was.
"Kara..." Alex pleaded, desperate to get her sister to see things from her point of view. "Don't you see that the last time you saw him he was dying, and now in your dream he's doing the same. Can't you see your brain is trying to reconcile that?"
"Alex!" Kara yelped suddenly jumping up off the couch, her grief turning into rage. "Look, I can understand where you are coming from, but this is real and I need you to take this seriously. I can prove that this is real."
"Fine than prove it." Alex retorted back, worried what her sisters grief induced delusions would make her do next. Kara fumed as her fingers made its way to the neck of her turtle neck, which she had put on to cover this mornings discovery, to reveal the purple and pink bruise on her neck.
"Oh my god is that a hickey?" Maggie asked, jumping from her spot on the couch to get a closer look. Alex looked at the hickey, to Kara and back, confused.
"Kara what is this?" The woman questioned immediately. "I don't understand."
"Well, you know how I mentioned these dreams are happening on another planet? The trees on this planet are the exact same colour that Voltor's fists glow before he hits me. I think where ever Mon-El and I are may be Voltors planet or something, and the purple is a naturally occurring material found on the planet that for some reason I am vulnerable to...which is why he can hurt me both here and on his planet."
"Okay...and the hickey?"
"Clear evidence that what is happening in this dream reality is real, and effecting the current reality. Last night before Mon-El passed out he and I were-"
"Oh god. Stop." Alex gagged, not wanting to picture her little sister in that sort of position with any man—or in this case alien. "I get it."
"So you believe me then?"
"Uhk, yea..." Alex said barely able to make eye contact with Kara. "Well come on let's go then."
"What?" Kara asked. "Where?"
"To the DEO. We need to tell J'onn about this." Kara's eyes bugged, as Alex grabbed her sisters wrist and dragged her towards the door, Maggie following closely behind.
"What? I can't tell J'onn about this."
"Well, you're gonna have to."
"Alex...no..."
XXX
"Oh God." Were the first words that tumbled out of J'onn's mouth when Kara and Alex explained Kara's current perdiciment, his eyes rolling in clear annoyance. The sisters had arrived about half an hour ago, and it took them that long of bickering back and forth for Alex to convince Kara to show him the...evidence. Upon seeing the bruise, J'onn straightened his back, hands moving to his hips as if it would make the situation more comfortable for him. He really wished he'd just taken Kara's word when she said been having the dreams, and believed there was some sort of connection to reality. Who needed solid evidence anyways?
"Well..." The martian said clearing his throat. "Alex go talk to agent Schott and see what he can dig up., Kara you go see if your mother has any information about aliens that can create cybernetic links, and why they would target you and Mon-El specifically. Maybe there's some history there."
"History between Daxam and Krypton? Other than the fact that we hate each other?"
"There are many things in this universe we don't know Supergirl. Perhaps things that got pushed to the past because of hate. You never know the full story until you've heard it all."
"Well how do you know when you've heard it all?"
"Exactly, Supergirl."
"Alright, I'll ask..." Kara said, certain there wasn't anything her mother could reveal to her about Daxam that she didn't already know. With the nod J'onn released them and the sisters moved swiftly in their separate directions. Kara entered the room Alex had gifted to her a couple years ago, pressing the button to make her mothers hologram appear.
"Hello Kara, are you well?" Her mothers picture spoke, roboticly but in such a familiar soothing tone.
"I'm..." Kara began, unsure how to answer the question. For a brief moment she wondered what her mother would say if she was honest. If she told her that she'd fallen in love with the prince of Daxam, and she was now simultaneously grieving him, while trying to figure out where in the world he had ended up. She smiled to herself slightly, thinking of the time Mon-El had walked in on her here, causing Alura to spew the only she truths she knew about Daxam out in front of them. "I'm fine...I am in need of some help."
"Of course daughter, what can I help you with?"
"Earth is currently dealing with a new threat, we have reason to believe it has the ability to create a cybernetic link between aliens. Do you know of any alien species that can do that?"
"Yes Kara, there are 22 alien species that can create mental links between other species."
Kara pondered this for a moment, trying to think the next best question to try and narrow it down.
"Do any of these species have any tie to Krypton and Daxam?"
"Information Redacted for your safety." Her mother answered monotone, causing Kara's brow to crinkle. She would need to ask the question differently.
"Was there any time in Kryptons history where we fought along side the Daxamites?"
"Information redacted for your safety." Kara huffed, furry rising in her blood.
"This is a life or death situation, can't you just un-redact it?"
"I am not programmed to answer your question." Kara clenched her fists in frustration. Her mother had clearly known something about the creature that was attacking them.
"Are there any planets that contain a yellow sun, red soil, and purple trees?"
"There are three planets. Montellion, Voximo, and Crepidozia." Ah, finally something.
"Do the species in any of these planets have the ability to create cybernetic links?"
"Yes, Crepidozia."
"Great!" Kara breathed, relieved that they were finally getting somewhere. "What can you tell me about Crepidozia?"
"Crepidozia is a planet of heathens. Though their world is beautiful, the people are not. They target people and planets, keen on taking over their resources and selling people into slavery."
"How?"
"Though it is not fully known how, Crepidozian's find a host, and take over that person, controlling them to do their bidding – making them extremely dangerous to anyone who they come across."
"How do they take over a host?"
"Information Unknown." Kara's hands flew to her face in frustration. Clearly something had happened between Crepidozia, and Krypton – clearly something that also involved Daxam. For whatever reason her parents had thought it best to leave this information out of her motherss programming, leaving her in the dark.
"Can you describe to me what a Crepidozian looks like?" She asked, hopeful that her mother would at least be able to confirm Voltor's identity.
"Information unknown." Kara let out a frustrated scream, hands thrown into the air in annoyance.
"This is just useless." Kara muttered, her hand moving to press the button that would turn her mothers hologram off. Sensing her movement Alura paused, looking at her daughter.
"Daughter." Alura spoke, looking at Kara in what the alien believed was supposed to be programmed empathy. "If you are up against a Crepidozian, I suggest you run. Even with your powers, they are too dangerous. They will get you before you know it – and then it will be too late."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Information redacted for your safety." A huff escaped the Kryptonians lips, as she angrily pushed the button, and her mother disappeared from the room.
"If you wanted to keep me safe, you should tell me what I'm up against." She muttered under her breath in annoyance. The blonde left the room, in search of Alex – hoping she and Winn had gathered more information than she had yielded.
"Alex." Kara called out, strolling up to the computers that she and Winn were staring at. "Find anything?"
"Not much." Winn admitted defeated. "There are 20 species of aliens that can create cybernetic links that we know of."
"22 actually." Kara corrected, causing them both to look at her. "That's what my mom said."
"Well, it sounds like you were more fruitful than we were. What did you find out."
"Not much." She signed, sharing the small pieces of information she had retrieved. "I think Voltor is from a planet called Crepidozia." Winn started typing, hoping to find any information on the planet and species. "It's the only planet of aliens that could create mental links, that matched the description I gave my mom. Apparently they seek out hosts, and control them. Everything else seems to be unknown, or unavailable to me."
"Unavailable?" Alex asked, folding her arms across her rib cage.
"It seems a lot of information has been redacted for my safety." The blonde sighed again. "Which makes me think something really big happened here – there is obviously something that my family didn't want me to know about my own history here."
"Ah ha!" Winn nearly shouted, his hands hitting the keyboard in victory, as a page on Crepidozia appeared in front of him. Their eyes scanned the screen, each possible category on the planet blank and without information. "Or...never mind."
"I cant deal with this right now. I'm going to go train." The blonde turned, cape swishing behind her as she stepped, leaving Alex and Winn to stare at the monitor in confusion
XXX
Kara was about to leave the DEO when Alex ran into the room, shouting her sisters name.
"Kara! There's another attack happening on 5th and Plight Street."
"Voltor?" The Superhero clarified and Alex nodded.
"Kara, I don't think you should-" Alex began, but before the agent could tell her sister that recent discoveries made her think it was best if she stay in the DEO, a gust of wind moved past her and the blonde was flying in the sky.
"Crap." Alex muttered before turning to her agents and barking out orders. "Okay everybody! Let's get a team together and go back up Supergirl. We don't know what this Crepidozian is after – and Supergirl is vulnerable to him. Let's be on full alert. Let's hustle people!"
XXX
Kara hit the ground harder than she would normally allow herself too, the pavement cracking slightly under her feet.
"Voltor!" She yelled, walking towards him furry evident in each step. The monster turned to look at her, and smiled. "Everyone get out of here."
The civilians in the area looked at her, afraid to move in the presence of the Crepidozian
"NOW!" She yelled, her commanding voice causing them to scatter from the area.
"Well well well, looks like my favourite Kryptonian is a little upset with me today."
"Tell me where he is Voltor. Now."
"What's the point Supergirl? By the time you get to him, there will be nothing of him left. He will be all mine. "
Kara clenched her fists at her side as she walked towards him a fury.
"I'll only ask once more." Her voice was filled with a rage unheard on her tongue before. "Where is he?"
The humanoid bird huffed at her, stacks of smoke escaping his beak. Kara's eyes grew dark as she slowly and calculatedly walked toward him. He was twice the size of her, but under her current gaze the Crepidozian felt small as she cane to stand in front of him.
"Have it your way then." She said, pulling her fist back before sending it into his stomach at full strength. The monster slid backwards, sliding into the building behind him at impact. As he hit the wall crumbled to the ground, he hit the floor with a mighty thud.
"Looks like you've been holding out on me Supergirl." He gasped through the dust of the rubble that was still falling around him. Kara stepped forward, strength emanating off her with each step.
"I'm always holding back, but not anymore. Not for you."
The blonde came to lean over him, dwarfed by his size but crushing him with her power. Her hand came to his face, forcing him to look at her.
"What have you done with Mon-El of Daxem?" She asked quietly enough that none of the onlookers that had reappeared could hear. The monster tried to move, but even as he breathed fire over her frame she held him to his place on the concrete. Voltor let out a hearty laugh, one that sent chills down her spine.
"Even if I told you there'd be nothing left by the time you got there." He smirked, and his insolence caused her brows to furrow in anger. The Kryptonian let out a low scream, before bringing her fist to his face, punching repeatedly.
"Tell me now." She said so quietly that he would've missed it had he not been right next to him.
"Your prince will die to you before you ever have a chance to find him." He whispered back. Kara continued to hit his face, each blow releasing the feeling of grief and anger that had consumed her the last week. Her breath was growing short in the chest, but her focus continued to zero in on the blows that she was driving into her face. Everything around her ceased to exist. She missed the onlookers watching in shock as their hero beat this monster into the ground. She didn't noticed when a group of DEO agents and police arrived, the chaos of the situation echoing in their commands behind her. She missed when Voltor exhaled a small black creature, which made its way through her suit and embedded itself into her left shoulder.
"Supergirl!" A voice she barely registered as Alex yelled behind her. Her fists kept moving, Voltor's skin and beak cracking and bleeding beneath her knuckles.
"Stand down!" The same voice yelled, but Kara continued, revelling in the release of pent up emotions.
"Kara." A quiet voice said from behind her, bringing a hand to her wrist. Before she could register the contact she pulled her arm back, hitting the person – sending them flying into the pavement behind her.
"Supergirl!" Another voice said. "Stand down now." This time the worry in the voice tore Kara from her emotional breakdown. The blonde looked back to see Maggie hovering over Alex, who was huddled on the ground clutching her arm. Kara's heart leapt into her mouth, horrified that if she'd hit her sister wrong, the woman could be dead.
"I never want to see you again." She said to Voltor, picking up the Crepidozian by the neck. "Get out of here."
She pushed him into the air and the alien flew off into the distance, blood dripping onto the streets below. As soon as she was sure he was gone Kara ran towards her sister who was still on the ground behind her.
"I'm so sorry Alex." She said coming to kneel next to her sister.
"It's okay." Alex grimaced, trying to adjust herself into seated position, but failing miserably.
"What hurts?" Kara asked.
"Everything. But I think my arm and a few ribs are broken."
Kara frowned, feeling dampness appear in her eyes, but knowing she couldn't let her emotions get the best of her in public. Seeing her sisters hidden tears Alex reached her uninjured arm to Kara's bicep comfortingly.
"Hey it's okay." Alex said reassuringly. "It was an accident."
"These kind of accidents shouldn't happen. They can't happen" She responded before getting up so she could talk to Dana.
"Are you able to take care of the situation here along with the police? I need to get her to the med-bay."
Dana nodded, assuring her that they would clean up the mess made during the attack before Kara crouched back down next to Alex.
"Can I pick you up?"
Alex nodded, allowing herself to fall into her sisters arms. Despite what had just happened she knew she'd always trust the alien. Kara stood, holding Alex close to her.
"We'll meet you back at the DEO?" She asked Maggie, who nodded, before leaping into the sky.
XXX
"Is she okay?" Kara asked anxiously, peaking into the examination room Alex was currently lying in. After pacing around for 30 minutes the doctor, Sara, had forced Supergirl to leave so she could focus on her work. That had been almost an hour ago, and Alex still wasn't free to leave.
"Hey come here." Alex called to her, Sara having just finished wrapping a bandage around her ribs. Kara cautiously stepped into the room, red cape swishing behind her as she stepped.
"How is she?" Kara asked the doctor, unable take her eyes off the bandages that covered her sisters body.
"Nothing a little time won't fix." Sara assured her with a sad smile, sensing the Kryptonians remorse. "She's got a broken hand, femur and dislocated shoulder – which popped back in easy enough. And three broken ribs."
Kara stood at the edge of her sisters bed, too anxious to allow herself to get any closer.
"Kara." Alex said noticing her sisters hesitation. "Please come here."
The agent opened her good arm to her sister clearly gesturing she wanted to offer the girl a hug. Kara's eyes drifted to the floor, shame covering her as she refused to move from her place at the end of the bed.
"I'm so sorry Alex..." She said quietly. "I shouldn't have let my emotions the best of me like that. I can't afford to be so unaware."
"No, you can't." Alex told her honestly. "But I forgive you – I know you are too good a person to ever hurt me on purpose. Now would you please come here so I can give my sister a hug?"
Kara nodded, coming to sit next to Alex on the bed, still not ready to accept her sisters embrace. She shuddered back her emotions, staring at her hands intensely as she willed tears not to fall.
"Hey Sara, could you please give Supergirl and I a few minutes alone please?"
The doctor smiled, agreeing before heading out of the room to give the two women some space to talk. Even after the doctor left Kara continued to stair into her hands, unable to stop a rogue tear from slipping down her cheek.
"Talk to me. Please, Kara." Alex begged, unable to stand the sad look on her sisters face anymore.
"I just want it to stop." Kara admitted sadly, the silent tears now flowing freely down her cheeks. "I don't know how to do this without him – I didn't realize how much I needed him until he was gone."
"Hey, were gonna find him Kara, Winn is doing everything he can to track the pod."
Kara shook her head, looking her sister in the eye for the first time since she hurt her.
"You can't promise that Alex. For all we know he could be dead already. There's no guarantee of
Anything. I don't know if I can do this anymore. I keep waking up every morning promising myself that I'm going to try to move on, but it feels like I can barely breath and I just – I don't know-"
Her voice cracked on the last few words, shoulders shaking with sorrow.
"Oh Kara." Alex said sadly, wrapping her uninjured arm around Kara's shoulders, bringing her head to rest on her shoulder. "You're going to get through this."
Despite the pain it caused, Alex moved to stroke her sisters arm reassuringly. In all the chaos that had happened this week they hadn't really had a chance to talk, and Alex found herself carrying guilt that she hadn't been more present to help her sister through her grief.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Kara mumbled through her sobs, the sound getting lost in Alex shoulder.
"I forgive you Kara, I'll always forgive you. That's what sisters are for."
XXX
That night when she closed her eyes, too exhausted from the day to get ready for bed – even with super speed, she found herself on another world again. Their bed was still lying in the red sands, overlooking the purple forest on the planet she had now come to believe was Crepidozia. Her heart shuddered with worry when she saw him, unmoved from their position yesterday. The blonde jolted over, coming to sit on the edge of the bed next to him. In a strange way he looked so peaceful there, almost like he was asleep. Lying on his back, un-moving, skin an unhealthy shade of grey. Kara's heart pounded it her chest as she reached forward to touch his face. At his warmth she let out a sigh of relief. Mon-El was alive, at least for now, and that's all Kara needed to hold onto hope today.
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