I am so unsure about how I feel about this, I don't think it is very good but happy holidays everyone!
The city was quiet for the next few days, scarily quiet and Lena know everything was about to come crashing down around them.
Sam had come over that day, telling her about the lab they had raided that was full of quantum technology, and Lena didn't know what to make of that, the last thing she needed was for Lex and James to have access to quantum tech.
"There was something called a 'dark matter drive." Sam said as they ate dinner. "I thought dark matter was a theory."
It wasn't, Lena had helped Lex work on it before he want crazy and she started her own company. It was powerful, and Lena knew she wouldn't stand a chance if they had tech powered by it.
Sam fell asleep against her that night, and Lena spent her time trying to come up with a plan on how to deal with Lex.
Lena was brought out of was daze by a light knock on her door. Frowning, she gently lifted Sam from where she was leaning on her and settled her on the sofa before going to answer the door.
She fully expected Kara to be there, or even Barry, what she didn't expect was to open the door to Nia Nal, sporting a soft smile and dark circles under her red-rimmed eyes.
"Nia?" Lena frowned, moving aside to let her in. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yes, I'm okay." Nia assured, and Lena knew better than to believed her.
"I don't believe you," Lena said. "What happened?"
"It's just James," Nia sniffed, "It's actually why I'm here, Kara got some bad news and she needs someone. Alex and I agreed it should be you."
"Me? Why me?"
Nia gave her a pointed look. "I think you know why, Lena."
"I- I don't, at least not on her end."
Nia looked exasperated. "Just go, Lena. She needs you."
Lena nodded, looking down at herself unsurely.
"You look fine, go." Nia gently hit Lena's arm.
"Okay, I-" Lena grabbed her keys. "Do you need a ride?"
"No, I'm going to see Brainy."
"Okay," Lena nodded.
"Lena," Nia called after her. "She'll try and push you away, you know what she's like. Don't let her."
"I won't," Lena smiled, "thank you, Nia. You can stay and make yourself coffee if you want, I will see you on Tuesday."
Kara wasn't in her apartment when Lena got there, but Lena knew her well enough to know her next port of call.
She spotted Kara at the edge of the roof, her arms on the wall as she over looked the city.
"I just heard," Lena whispered softly, coming up along side Kara. "I'm sorry, Kara."
"I knew something was off with him, he has been sick for weeks but I didn't think-" Kara swallowed thickly, turning to Lena and burying her face in her neck as she hugged her. "That's not the same man I knew, Lena."
"I know, Osborne must have done something to him." Lena whispered.
"He's been visiting your brother, Lena. I don't know what they're planning but it's big." Kara said. "Who told you? Sam?"
"Nia, actually. She stopped by."
"Nia?"
"Yeah, she said she and Alex thought It should be me to stop by, and that I should know why." Lena said. "Should I?"
Kara let out a watery laugh against her neck before pulling back. "I don't know, depends how oblivious you are."
"Kara, I-" Lena started, but then Kara was leaning in, taking the fact that Lena was staring at her lips as a go ahead.
"Can I- I just want to try something."
"Kara," Lena breathed, their foreheads touching and her hands braced against Kara's chest to stop her. "I need to tell you something."
"Now?" Kara huffed.
"Yes, because you don't have all the facts." Lena played with the string of Kara's hoody, not looking her in the eyes. "I want to, so much, you have no idea, but I can't without you knowing."
"Knowing?" Kara frowned. "Knowing what?"
"I-" Lena was cut off by a loud explosion sounding from off near the docks, prompting both Lena's and Kara's head to snap in that direction.
"That's Van Kull." Kara breathed.
Lena felt her heart sink, because now she knew what he was planning, now she knew what the end game was, at least part of it. "That's where Lex is."
Lena quickly stepped back, moving to the edge of the wall. "Lena, What are you doing?"
"I don't-" Lena glanced back, noting the smoke already billowing from the building. "I think it's better just to show you."
"Show me," Kara frowned, watching as Lena pressed her suit against her chest, her lips parting in surprise as the nanites expanded across her skin.
Kara followed it as it crawled over her chest and up over her neck, it only really clicking with her who Lena was when the mask moved from the back of her head to join in the middle of her face.
"You're-"
"I'm sorry, I will stop by after, I will explain everything."
"Lena, you can't just-"
Lena didn't let her finish, jumping over the edge of the building and swinging toward the site.
"Sam," Lena murmured, clicking on the coms.
"On our way,"
"Me too." Lena said. "Lex is in there, Sam. James has been visiting Lex."
"I'm patching Barry in," Sam said, and there was a beep before Barry's voice came through.
"I'm running there now," Barry said.
"James is powerful, Barry, please be careful."
"I'm always careful."
"They won't be at Van Kull anymore," Winn's voice said, and Lena frowned.
"Winn? How did you get in?"
"I brought him in," Sam said. "He is keeping an eye on all of the labs across the city."
"They have to be going to one of those, but none of the cameras are working, we can't track them."
"We have to secure Van Kull, at least until we have a location on the other two." Lena suggested.
"I'm here now, I will start cleaning up." Barry said.
"I'm about half a minute away." Lena added, the left side of her display lighting up with Kara's name and the picture of the two of them. "Shit,"
"What?"
"I'll be back with you guys soon." Lena said, quickly switching called. "Hey, Kara."
"Lena, you're-" Kara sighed. "I'm mad, and we are talking about this later but please be careful."
"I will be," Lena swore. "Kara, if he is working with my brother then they are planning something bad, I'm going to try but-"
"He is not the man I know, I will always hold the James in know with me but he's gone." Kara swallowed. "If he can be saved then that's great but do not put yourself at risk for that."
"Okay," Lena agreed. "Kara, just in case I wasn't clear before, I want to kiss you, but I needed to you know, I couldn't keep this from you anymore."
"I'm grateful for that, and I'm more mad at you for just taking off." Kara laughed. "Go save the world, then come see me and we'll talk."
"Okay," Lena hummed. "See you later."
Lena patched herself back into the coms with Barry, Winn and Sam just as she landed inside Van Kull.
They rounded up the prisoners, Lena incapacitating them before Barry ran them back to any useable cells.
It was ten minutes before Winn got back to them.
"There is activity from the lab in Main Street." Winn said, and Barry scooped Lena up and started running. "I'm- it is giving out gravitational energy, like- I don't know, a supernova or black hole."
"We are on Main Street." Sam said.
"And we will be there in a few seconds."
"Kara is there, she called Alex, apparently she saw them entering the building." Sam said, and Lena felt panic rise in her chest.
Sure enough, Kara was there when they got there. "Kara, what the hell are you thinking?"
"I was heading to Van Kull when I saw them go in here."
Sam and Alex pulled up then, both scrambling out of the car, Alex heading straight for her sister.
"You guys have to go, this guy is-" Lena trailed off when the building in front of them rumbled, then a beam exploded from the top, shooting directly into the sky. "Shit,"
The beam hit the stratosphere, causing a hold to appear and grow.
"What are they-" Alex said.
"That's a wormhole." Lena whispered as the hole got large enough to rip the roofs from nearby buildings.
"A wormhole?" Barry clarified, "we have to shut off that machine."
"That won't help, it will stop it from growing but it won't close it." Lena said, digging through her previous research and experience with wormholes, when it clicked. "The dark matter," She whirled round to Sam. "Where is that dark matter?"
"At the station,"
Lena nodded, turning to Barry. "Go get it, I will go shut off the machine."
Lena pulled herself toward the building, scanning as she ran up the side to figure out where James and Lex were, getting a heat signature on the top floor.
Both men turned to her as she smashed through the window, releasing her drones and dodging the shots James took at her.
"What are you both up to?" She asked.
"We are going to kill more supers, in all the dimensions." Lex smirked, which made Lena's stomach bottom out.
Lena took on Lex while James was distracted by the drones, which was easy enough, turning off the machine and ripping out the power supply.
"That's not enough, that big enough. They're coming." Lex smirked.
"Who? Who is they?"
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you," Lex said. "But you'll see."
"Spider, I got the dark matter."
"I'm closing this thing." She growled, punching her brother once before rushing back to the window, taking a shot from James just as she jumped, causing her to tumbled and just barely catch herself as she landed on to ground.
"I need you to get me up there." Lena said to Barry motioning to the hole
"What?" Kara snapped. "No, are you crazy?"
"The dark matter drive, it will cause it to collapse in on itself." Lena said. "Barry, run me up there, and then I can web myself from surface to surface."
"You can't get close to that thing," Kara said, catching Lena's arm. "It will pull you in."
"It is our only option." Lena whispered, having the nanites around her mouth retreat before she placed a kiss on Kara's cheek. "I will see you after this is over."
Barry grabbed Lena then, running her up the building and throwing her as best he could when he got to the top, and Lena thwipped herself from broken concrete to broken concrete, giving herself one last hard push when she got to the last piece, sending her into the middle of the wormhole.
She threw the dark matter up in front of her, and after a few quiet seconds it quivered and rumbled, before breaking open with a shockwave that shook Lena to her core, almost knocking her out.
The wave knocked the fight out of her, leaving her to be sucked in, and when she finally did come back to herself she turned back to the hole, everything else black bar the quickly closed hole that lead to her world.
Lena could see it close, faster the smaller it got, and she knew she wasn't making it back in time, and when the hole did close the shockwave hit Lena, sending her backward, then she was... falling?
Lena could feel herself beginning to fade, the shockwave having rattled all of Lena's internal organs, but what she could tell was that she was falling through a city that looked an awful lot like her own.
She tried, she knew she had to get her baring because she was plummeting to the ground at terminal velocity, which would kill her, but she couldn't, there was not an ounce of energy in her.
But she never hit the ground, instead something caught her and when she managed to crack her eyes she was met with a red S emblem on the chest of whoever was carrying her, before she blacked out completely.