Author's Note: This chapter has been redone to fix some issues with the story.
Alex arrived quickly to L-Corp and saw Lena's security guard dead on the ground. She pulled out her gun and made her way up to Lena's office hoping she wasn't too late. As the elevator opened Alex could hear yelling coming from the CEO's office. Alex hurried into the room and saw three men all holding guns while Lena stood her ground.
"Just give us the information we want, and we will be out of your way." One of the men yelled as Lena noticed Alex out of the corner of her eye. The three men still hadn't seen Alex as their backs were turned to her. "Look these files hold information to many weapons and I will not let you have access to them. I will not be responsible for innocent people being hurt by whatever you are planning to do with those." Lena said and instantly felt more confident when she caught sight of Alex. The men still oblivious to Alex behind them began to inch closer to Lena. Alex felt a slight tap on her shoulder and noticed Maggie had arrived and seemed to understand she needed to keep quiet. Maggie and Alex were slowly approaching behind the men with their weapons and were almost to them when one of them men suddenly turned around and fired his gun. Alex heard the bullet and prepared for the impact but felt nothing at all. Fearing Maggie had been the target instead she turned expecting to see her girlfriend on the ground but instead saw her sister fly by blocking both of the girls. "Dammit" Alex muttered under her breath wondering how Kara figured out what had happened. Alex didn't have much time to think as her and Maggie were pushed behind the desk by Kara and heard the girl saw she would be right back.
Lena had been waiting for Alex's signal to take out one of the men. Alex and Maggie had been slowly approaching the men as Lena tried to keep them distracted. She saw the two girls right behind the men and was getting ready to grab the gun from the man closest to her when she heard a gunshot. Realizing the man who had shot was not facing her she waited for one of the two girls in the room to drop. What she was not expecting was to see Kara dressed in her suit flying through the window and blocking the bullet meant for one of the two girls. Kara the pushed Maggie and Alex behind the desk to give them some cover and before Lena knew it, she was picked up and flown out the window towards the ground.
"Lena, I need you to send the DEO agents up to your office when they get here." Kara said as she knew they would be arriving to the scene shortly. She had heard Alex assemble a team before she had left. "I also need me to promise that you will stay down here and not try to come back up and be the hero. I can't stay focused if I know you are in any danger. It is bad enough that Alex and Maggie are up there and if you are up there to then I won't be able to keep them safe." Kara pleaded before she headed back up to help the two other girls. Lena wanted to ignore everything Kara had just said and head back up to help but she also thought about Alex and Maggie. They had grown close to Lena in a way very few people had in her life. They both were weary of Lena at first but once they got to know Lena, they had changed their minds and quickly welcomed her into the family. Lena knew that Kara was right, and she shouldn't go back in, but she also knew she had to do something to help. Lena went back into the building but instead of heading back up to her office she went down to her labs, looking for a weapon that would help.
Maggie and Alex had both seen Kara fly Lena out of the building and were glad for the time being both the younger girls were safe. Maggie reached over and squeezed Alex's hand before they heard gunshots again. Both women knew that in their line of work that there was a chance they might not make it home but were both determined to make it home tonight. Nodding at each other they both waited for the brief moment where the gunshots ended and peaked around the desk to fire back. The three men had also found cover behind the couch in Lena's office and the girls knew it wouldn't be easy to get a clean shot at them. Thinking she had a clean shot Maggie stuck her head around the desk and aimed for the man. Her and the man both got shots off and Maggie tried to quickly pull back but realized she wasn't going to be fast enough. She closed her eyes waiting for the bullet to hit her. Instead of feeling the pain of a bullet ripping through her skin she was thrown backwards with a force she knew could only come from Kara and felt her head smash into the back wall before everything went dark.
Alex had saw Maggie lean her head out to take a shot and before she knew what was happening Maggie was thrown behind her and knocked unconscious. Looking around she saw Kara heading towards the three men. She seemed to have the upper hand until one of the men reached into a box and pulled out kryptonite. Kara felt the pain from the kryptonite before she saw the glowing green coming from one of the men's hands. She instantly felt her powers draining and tried to get back to the desk by Alex but was grabbed by the man who had tried to shoot at Maggie. Alex took a brief moment to make sure Maggie was still breathing and once she knew she was just knocked out turned her attention back towards her little sister who was suddenly losing the battle. She stood when she saw one of the men grab Kara and throw her onto the ground. The man was twice Kara's size and without her superpowers easily threw the girl on the ground. Kara's body was thrown down at an odd angle and felt her leg twisting at on odd angle before she heard the pop and felt the pain in her hip.
Alex heard the pop in her sister's hip followed by a scream coming from the young girl. Alex stood up knowing she had to get back to Kara and help her sister. She quickly pulled Maggie closer to the desk so that she was covered and stood back up. In the time it took to drag Maggie she could see that Kara was knocked unconscious and had blood dripping from her head. Alex stood back up and took a shot hitting one of the men as he fell to the ground. The other two men were surrounding Kara. One using his boot to crack the hero's ribs while the other pulled out a Kryptonite blade.
"I was hoping I would get a chance to use this tonight," the man said as he pulled the knife out and got ready to bury it into the girl's chest. Before he got his chance, he was hit in the head from behind. Alex had come up behind the men while they had their attention on Kara and struck him in the back of her head with her gun. The man dropped the knife in pain and grabbed the back of his head. The other man started to fight with Alex and got a few hits against the agent before she was fighting back. Eventually Alex got the man knocked on the ground. While he was temporarily down, she turned her attention back to the man who she had hit over the head. Noticing he wasn't on the ground anymore she looked over to the other side of the room and felt bile rising up in her throat. The man was holding a gun up to her girlfriend's head who was still unconscious from being knocked backwards by Kara.
"Take one step and I will pull the trigger," the man said as he noticed the fear in Alex's eyes. Alex knew she had to do something and reached for her gun until she remembered it was on the ground by Kara having been knocked out of her hand while she was fighting. Cursing under her breath she took a deep breath coming up with another plan in her head. What Alex and the man with the gun to Maggie's head hadn't seen was Lena slowly coming around the corner after finding a gun in her lab downstairs. Lena knew she didn't have time to think and took the shot hitting the man in the back of the head and instantly killing him. Alex turned to Lena to thank her when she noticed the panicked look in Lena's eyes. While they had been distracted dealing with Maggie's life being threatened the other man that Alex had temporarily knocked down had grabbed the knife and before Lena could get another shot off plunged the knife into Kara's stomach. Lena took another shot and killed the other man, but the damage had been done. Kara cried out in pain as blood began to pool out of her stomach and she passed out once again.