First I want to finish this story before Midnight on Sunday to Monday.
Second, Jonn isn't the only Alien in the DEO
"More often it is suggested that "Cheyenne" derives from a Sioux word. The Sioux words most often cited have meanings related to 'red' or 'alien'. Sometimes the meaning has been given in the literature as "those who speak an alien tongue."
Kara watched over the docks scanning here and there. She didn't think they would be able to move quickly to the waterfront, but she was listening. There was another her out there and this one might be indestructible. She thought back to when her DNA could have been obtained and Kara scoffed to herself. Anytime she bled or was captive. Kara watched and noticed that cargo ship from a few weeks ago. The one Alex went missing from, and she focused her vision there. One the deck of the boat that.
"Alex, I see the alien we have been after," Kara watched as she spoke into the comms.
"Where?" Alex's voice came through the earpiece and she sighed, as she had thoughts of just getting her sister back from this brute.
"Believe it or not, the same ship you went missing from," Kara said her hands clenching, "Alex…"
"You will not engage, he is a separate matter Kara, and we will come up with a separate plan for him later," Alex gritted.
Kara could practically see Alex's hand clench. She hated to lose, she hated feeling weak, but right now James was priority. A tiny little sedan, non-descript pulled up to the ship. James got out dressed in his Guardian suit as did the wannabe-Kara in a black body suit. For Kara's sake she will start to call her Kara-2. It didn't give her that much of a head ache. Kara took out her phone and took pictures. She would get a story out of this too, and she was tired of Snapper asking about damned sources when she was the source.
"Kara-2 and James have arrived. What would you like me to do?" Kara asked and then started when Jonn landed beside her in Martian Hunter form. He looked over the area.
"I am here next to Kara in Hunter gear. Units 1 and 3 are flanking the pathways, and unit 2 are boxing in the driveway they car came down," Jonn looked to Kara, "We will await your orders," Jonn said.
"How does it feel having Alex take the reins finally," Kara asked bumping his shoulder but watching the dock. She was thinking of diversions. Bottlenecking the opposition.
"It makes a Martian father happy," Jonn said. You couldn't see the smile, but Kara knew it was there. Jonn pointed. James and Kara-2 climbed the gang plank.
"The target is boarding the ship," Jonn spoke, but just as he did there was an explosion. Kara and Jonn didn't wait. They flew to the ship.
It was chaos, absolute chaos. Bodies draped over rails or flung against walls. Kara looked around and found the Alien that beat up Alex. She zoomed to him and found him unconscious. She lifted him up and looked around. Fire was spreading quickly. She blew it back as she found Jonn hand to hand with James. James was faring well against the Martian Hunter, but it was a quick sweep of James's legs that landed him on his back. Kara went to scream out to stop as Jonn brought his fist down onto James with all his might. Then as Jonn was there about to destroy her once friend, he was knocked off of him with a thunderous crash. Kara looked at James's salvation and slowly put the alien down and then stood.
"You look like me, but can you catch me?" Kara chided and then Kara-2 zoomed after her. Kara took to the skies and looked back and wished she didn't. That one moment of distraction allowed for Kara-2 to crash into Kara. Kara, breathless plummeted to the Earth in a mighty arc. She did what she was asked. Took the fight out of the city. She wheezed for a moment gathering air back into her lings.
"Kara, come in. Are you ok?" Alex demanded in the ear piece.
"Yeah, the fight is out of the city, but you need to ask after Jonn he was hit hard," Kara said and watched the blonde in front of her. They circled. Glared at each other. Kara-2 opened her eyes wide and then they glowed red-hot. Kara's beam met hers and heat rays clashed in the space between them. Then both women turned away, spent with that show of strength. Kara didn't take the down time as she rushed toward the other Kara and slammed her into ground. She felt the arms of the woman beneath her tighten about her torso like pythons squeezing the air from her lungs. Kara grasped at the arms and slammed her fists into Kara-2's face but her grip would not relent. Kara felt something she had never felt before. She felt a rib on her left side crack, and then break.
"Alex, help," Kara wheezed into the comms. She pushed and shoved and then she finally gained purchase and wrapped her legs around the other Kara's abdomen and squeezed and hard as she could with all the force and strength that Rao could give her. She felt her world darken, and then in a last-ditch effort slammed her fist into the woman's chest. She heard something crack, and the clone's strength began to ease. Then she looked at her hand and then her vision blurred. Her hand came from the black body suit with shards of glass, and that glass dripped in a liquid form of the element that Kara knew of intimately. She ripped the suit open and saw a metallic object implanted in the chest of the clone, just like Metallo's. Then her world went black.
She didn't know what happened, but she was on the sunbed, and her hand was wrapped in bandages. She tried to sit up but her left side screamed out in protest. Dear god the pain! She looked around and blinked as she saw a shock of blonde curls siting in a chair. Kara felt the hand in hers and then squeezed gently. Cat's eyes jumped open and then fell on the woman in the sun bed. She smiled a watery grin, and let tears slip from her eyes.
"How often does this happen?" Cat asked, and Kara frowned.
"Not often, and usually when there is kryptonite involved," Kara answered truthfully. She pulled Cat closer but there was a frown on Cat's brow. She raised her hand and thumbed the crease between her eyebrows.
"What's wrong?" Kara asked.
"It was a diversion," Cat rasped as she swallowed back her emotions. "Little Luthor was taken from right under the DEO's nose," Cat said. Kara bolted upright.
"HOW?!" Kara yelled as she tried to stand but kryptonite still flowed in her system. Cat pulled Kara back to the bed.
"One moment, it was all it took. You didn't know who the Mole was," Cat looked away. "James never left the DEO," Cat said, and Kara's eyebrow flew into her hairline.
"He was disguised with one of those cheesy movie masks. The James you tracked was also an imposter. The only reason why we know it was James if because your computer friend traced back the activity of the people coming in or out of the DEO. It was James's code," Cat told Kara all she could.
"How did he get out of the cell?" Kara asked.
"From what I can hear there was a prisoner transport and a mole, but they must have switched in a blackspot with the camera's," Cat supplied, "But that is hearsay dear. I don't know how any of this happened," Cat said as she smoothed the hair from Kara's eyes.
"We have to save her," Kara gritted.
"I am sure the entire DEO is looking for Lena," Cat said with a knowing smirk. She stayed with Kara until Kara slipped into a restless sleep. The CEO walked from her lover's room, and walked up to Command Center, right up to the Brunette standing like a vengeful warlord. She grabbed Alex's arm, and yanked the woman to the very office that Lena and Alex sat in hours ago. She threw the woman, manhandled her into the chair and leaned over her.
"STOP… THIS… NOW!" Cat grit in Alex's face.
Alex saw red. She was about to swing and take off the idiot's head that dared to treat her in such a manner until she saw Cat Grant throwing her around. She lifted slightly, mere inches from Cat's face.
"You have no idea how lucky you are that I love your manipulating ass, but if you touch me like that again I will…"
"What!? You will beat the shit out of me? You will kick me out? You will abandon our friendship?" Cat shouted in Alex's face. Cat stood back and hugged herself tightly as those words struck cord in her own heart. She looked down to Alex. Alex's jaw clenched, fist balled up ready for a fight. Then she saw Alex rub her knee massaging it, and her shoulders fell.
"Alex, I'm sorry…" Cat began as she reached out, but Alex stopped her.
"You have no right to come in here and order me, tell me what to do," Alex ground out between her teeth, "You didn't lose Kara from right under your nose," Alex looked to the side refusing to meet Cat's brown eyes.
Cat was ever thankful she chose workout pants and jogging shoes she would wear to spin class when she was in DC. She crouched down in front of Alex. She wormed her way between Alex's knees and invaded Alex's space. She pulled the woman to her, crashed them together. She wrapped her hands around Alex and rubbed soothing circles into her back. She felt Alex tighten, clench and then her muscles along her shoulders shift. Cat felt hands on her back ever so lightly. After a moment she pulled away, that was all she would get from Alex. When she found those brown eyes part of her heart clenched. She cupped Alex's chin as she stood. She tilted the chin up and kissed her forehead.
"If you push too hard, you will burn out before you find her. If you push your people too far and too hard, they will mutiny," Cat looked down into Alex's eyes and smoothed hair from Alex's eyes, "Find your balance. When you do you can see clearly what had happened, how it happened, and where things will possibly take you," Cat walked from the office leaving Alex. Before the door latched shut she heard a gasp and a choking sob.
Epiphany…
Alex listened to the woman's words. They were wise and believe it or not highly welcome. She needed that ass kicking. She had been a complete bitch to everyone. First Kara comes back broken, then Lena is missing, and no one knows what the hell happened or where they went. Alex thought about it until her mind began to run scenarios that involved not finding Lena, or finding her bloody and lifeless. No, Alex thought too much and was too close to this mission, and she should hand it over to Jonn, but part of her knew, she knew something would happen or she would find the solution. Alex lifted herself from the chair and limped out into command center.
"Can someone bring me a large dry erase board. I have an idea," Alex said and with that tone, commanding yet forgiving, softer, the DEO soldiers turned back to their leader once more. When two men rolled in a huge dry erase board near her, she put it behind her and Winn. He would man camera's and surveillance and anything that would pop on the radar she would be notified. Right behind him she went to work.
What did he like? What where his hobbies? Who where his affiliates? Home? Possible safehouses? She created a list, the longer it got it seemed the team read her mind and another dry erase board was slid right next to her own. She began on what she knew about Lena and found it very lacking, she wished Kara was there, but she shoved that out of her mind until her sister could wake up. After a while she felt like one of those crazed geniuses in the movies writing everything down, looking for a pattern, an overlap.
"Don't forget the roof," Winn said. Alex turned around and looked at him with her head tilted.
"They had their first dinner on the roof of L-Corp," Winn said and then Alex looked at the board and then back to Winn. She lunged at him, kissed his cheek and leaned over the computer.
"You bastard, I love you, is there a camera feed on the top of L-Corp?" she asked as she felt her breath shallower, and her heart beat quicken. Winn nodded, and then found the feed. Alex's excitement plummeted when she saw the scene before her. Lena was strung up from a crane over the side of the L-Corp building. In huge red painted letters on the helicopter landing zone read, 'Only Alex.' Alex sighed and then turned around and went to medical bay.
"Put me in a brace that will allow me to fight," she ground out at the doctor.
"Now Agent Danvers, I don't think…" The doctor began and then Jonn came into the room learning of the predicament.
"Fit her up, we have a life to save," Jonn ordered and then looked at Alex. "I will be there to catch her if anything should happen. Which brings me to one request earth daughter," Jonn said softly. Alex nodded slowly as the doctor fitted her with a slim mechanical support. She stood and bent her knees. She nodded, only a twinge, but she can work with a twinge.
"Now put some big ass monstrosity over this one," Alex said.
Jonn smiled, "Camouflage?" Alex nodded as she pulled black leggings over the slim fit knee support.
"My request, Alex," he made her look at him, "Do not die on me," Jonn said sharply, "I know you would die for this woman, for your lover," he said and turned away, "As would I, but do not die," he said, "Call it my last order before you become director." The doctor looked up to Jonn and then Alex, then minded his own business. Alex nodded and saluted her superior officer as soon as the bulky knee brace was fitted to her. She marched to tactical to get outfitted. Jonn and the Doctor watched the woman.
"She is impulsive Jonn Jonzz," the doctor said, and then Jonn looked to the doctor.
"That she is, but she is the best we have, and she will be even better than me," Jonn said as he watched over command from the medical bay door.
"I will watch over her when you leave," the Doctor said and then Jonn smiled.
"I know, Cheyanne, but there are a few introductions to make to her before I leave, and one of them in you to Alex," Jonn smirked. The doctor smirked.
"True, not many from the Vega system have crashed on Earth and were raised by the Sioux about 175 years ago," the doctor smiled, "I know too much, have seen too much, and can feel all too much," then the Doc sighed, "Damned empaths we are. I am glad you found her and If you didn't claim her as your Earth Daughter I would have, wonderful mind, especially in the medical field," Cheyanne the doctor walked from the doorway and into the labs leaving Jonn chuckling after him.