It's me again! Thank you so much for 1000 Views! Like WOW! I did not expect that! Thank you to all the followers and people who enjoyed this story so much that they favourited it. You guys make this story and I couldn't ask for better readers.
I'm trying really hard to get to the point where I can stay true to my plan of posting a new chapter each week based on the episode previously aired but since it takes a while to write these chapters, the plan might have to be delayed (Hopefully not by too much). I'll certainly try my best to post chapters quickly with the best quality that I can write. Anyway, without further a do, I give you chapter 5 of Mon-El vs Earth: Light in The Darkest Place.
****I DONT OWN ANYTHING. ALL CHARACTERS, DIALOGUE, CREDITS AND BASICALLY EVERYTHING BELONG TO THE CW AND THE WRITERS OF SUPERGIRL****
Chapter 5:The Darkest Place / Light in the Darkest Place
Where am I?
Was the first thought that came to his mind when he woke up, trapped in a cage like a rabid animal. The last thing he recalled was being shoved into a van. They must have drugged him or knocked him out somehow before they arrive here, wherever here was, and threw him into the cell. Mon-El wondered who the woman from last night was, the one who said the last things he heard before getting knocked out.
What is Cadmus? he thought Why does it sound so familiar?
From his experience with Kara, Mon-El thought it would be wise to ask questions instead of trying to break out.
"If you could just tell me why I'm here, I promise it would be a good conversation starter" Mon-El said to the guard, who watched his every move as he paced around the Daxamite's cell. "Okay I give up. What's your favourite baseball team? That's the one with the hoop and the tall guys bouncing the ball, right?"
Or is that basketball? I never know the difference
The guard stopped pacing and Mon-El saw a ring on his fourth finger of his left hand
"Oh. A courtship ring. You know, I've just learnt that there is a long-standing mating ritual here where if you like it, you should've put a ring on it. Clearly, you've been successful in the area. So... But from the looks of you, she can't be that pretty. What do you call ugly woman on this planet? Is it cats, no dogs"
"Don't think you're so important that I won't shoot you" the guard said, pulling a gun out and pointing it at him.
"Well that would be a relief from staring at your ugly face" Mon-El countered before running to the front of the cell and knocking the gun out of the guards hand and onto the floor at his feet. Quickly, Mon-El pulled the keys from the guards belt, unlocked the door and ran. He had made it so far, managing to unlock a gate with the keycard he stole from the guard before a woman and two henchmen dragged J'onn in front of him.
"Leaving so soon?" the woman asked
"J'onn!" the Daxamite exclaimed
"Mon-El. Get out of here!"
"If you want your friend to live, I suggest you don't listen to him and stand down."
"Don't listen to her. Run!" J'onn said but one of the henchmen punched him square in the face
"No! Okay. Okay" Mon-El said, surrendering himself to the woman and her goons
"Now that's a good choice" the woman said before taking him back to his cell.
It had been a few days, of him just sitting in his cell wondering what was going on in the world before something finally happened. The woman who had kidnapped J'onn earlier and had forced him to return to his cell had somehow contacted Kara as she stood in the room by his cell.
Oh no this isn't good
"Hello, Kryptonian." the woman said.
Kara must have found out who was calling her because the woman replied with "Got it in one. And do you know why we call ourselves that? Cadmus was the very first Greek hero."
What was she talking about? What is 'Cadmus'?
"I'm inviting you over. We already have a guest waiting for you. Your Daxamite friend." the woman said, looking over at the caged man "But if you tell anyone where you're headed, he dies. If you refuse to come, he dies. Come to me, Supergirl. But I should warn you. In the myths, Cadmus was really only famous for one thing. He killed monsters." the woman said before hanging up and walking out the door.
"Hey! Hey!" Mon-El yelled at the lady, but she simply ignored him and continued to walk out of the room.
It had only taken a matter of minutes before Mon-El heard a loud crash in the building.
She came
The crashing became louder and louder until suddenly, it stopped. It didn't take long for a few men to enter the room, dragging Kara's body before throwing her into the cage next to his.
"Supergirl! Supergirl!" he shouted but the Kyptonian was unconscious. There was nothing he could do but stare at her body, laying on the cold metal floor.
A few hours later, Mon-El was just about to let himself fall asleep when he heard groaning from his adjoining cell. Kara sat up and looked around, stopping at Mon-El.
"Mon-El" she sighed
"Are you okay?"Now I know how the bad guys feel when I pummel them. Yeah, I'm okay."
"They captured J'onn, too."
"That wasn't J'onn. Remember I once told you J'onn assumed the identity of a human? That's the human, Hank Henshaw. Only they enhanced him somehow."
"They tricked me." he muttered
The bastards
Kara groaned as she tried to break through the metal
"The bars are made from Nth metal from Tanager. They're unbreakable." Mon-El informed her "So, what is this place? Who are these people?"
"It's called Cadmus. It's run by scientists who want to wipe aliens off the face of the planet." she answered
"News just gets better by the second." he said under his breath "So what? I'm the, uh, the lucky first contestant?
"No No, they kidnapped you to get to me."
What why? How could that work? What do you mean to get to you?
But Mon-El's thoughts were interrupted by the woman walking into the room
Once I get out of here, the first thing I'm going to do is give that woman a good right hook into her evil face
"Super girl. I don't believe we've been introduced." the woman said.
Mon-El stood silently in his cell, watching the conversation unfold before him.
"I've seen you before in Lena Luthor's office. What were you doing there?" Kara asked through the bars of her cell
"I might ask you the same. I don't like the idea of you around my daughter." the woman replied.
"You're Lillian Luthor.
Lex and Lena's mother."
"I'm a lot of things. A doctor, a patriot, a mother-"
"A liar, a kidnapper, a killer. Does Lena know about Cadmus? Does she know who her mother really is?"
"And what are you to my daughter?"
"I'm a friend."
"I've heard that before. Years ago, Superman came to my son, Lex, and promised him the world. A new dawn for mankind. Lex believed him, poor thing. And then he watched as your kinsman infected this country with his propaganda, as his power became unchecked. And when Lex tried to take that power back, Superman convinced the world Lex was evil. My darling boy. My genius son. An actual Superman, behind bars for life. Because you and your kind will stop at nothing to poison the Earth."
"You're out of your mind."
"We'll agree to disagree."
"So, what am I doing here?"
"I need something from you. I need you to be human for a little while. I know from your fight with Red Tornado when you expel enough of your heat vision, you deplete the solar radiation in your cells, leaving you as helpless as any mere mortal. I've designed this helmet to absorb the radiation."
"You want me to solar flare? That's never gonna happen."
"I can't hurt you. But I can hurt him." the woman said, pulling out a gun and shooting Mon-El in the leg and he screamed in pain and fell to the ground.
"No! Mon-El!" Kara exclaimed
"Now we've been studying your friend. He's powerful, but has a very bad lead allergy. Say you'll do it and I'll let him live. Or I could just put one in his heart right now." Lillian said pointing the gun at his chest
"No! Okay, okay! I'll do it. Stope" Kara said, giving in
What?! No!
"Please. Don't." Mon-El pleaded, he knew that whatever this evil woman wanted Kara to do, it wouldn't be good
"I'm not gonna let you die." Kara said to him before approaching the door of the cell "Give me the helmet."
Mon-El watched as the woman named Lillian Luthor, unlocked Kara's cage and placed the helmet on her head. Kara began solar flaring, shooting her heat vision into the helmet until she screamed in pain and fell to the floor from exhaustion.
"Thank you." Lillian said before slapping Kara across the face.
The monster. She is worst by far, the worst monster I have ever encountered.
"Well. It worked. Take her." the woman ordered
"Supergirl! Supergirl!" Mon-El shouted as Lillian's henchmen dragged her out of the room.
Mon-El didn't want to imagine all the things that Lillian and her goons were doing to Kara at the moment. Watching her being tortured in pain like that, it was like Daxam's falling all over again. It had only been minutes since they took her but Mon-El almost reached the conclusion that they had killed her when the door swung open and Kara was thrown back into her cell.
Mon-El sighed in relief
"What did they do to you?"
"They took my blood."
"And?"
"And that was it."
"Are you okay?"
"I'm scared. Mon-El? If something happens, if If I don't get out of here, I need you to tell Alex something for me. I need you to tell her to just keep living her life on her own terms. Tell her I wasn't scared, okay?"
"Well, if I don't make it and you do, you're welcome to tell everyone I was scared out of my mind." he said and they shared a small laugh "I have to think, why me? Why am I the only one who survived Daxam? If I die in this cell, maybe I deserve to."
"You don't deserve to die. You deserve to survive. That Prince on Daxam sacrificed himself because he saw you were worth it." she reassured him
"Kara, about Daxam, there's... There's something I have to tell you." he said, he was about to confess when loud footsteps approached them and a man under a hood unlocked Kara's cell.
"Come with me." the man said
"Who are you?" Kara asked
"Kara. It's me." the man said pulling down his hood
"Jeremiah. I can't believe it." Kara exclaimed, hugging the man
"We have to move." Jeremiah replied, unlocking Mon-El's cell. His head hurt like crazy and he couldn't hold onto his consciousness any more. As soon as the gate swung open, the Daxamite fell to the floor, unconscious.
When he awoke, Jeremiah was pulling the lead bullet out of his leg as he screamed in pain, clutching Kara's hand.
Really? I couldn't have woken up after the medical attention?
"Thank you" was all Mon-El could say after the bullet had been removed.
Alarms blared loudly and red lights flashed everywhere throughout the entire building.
"Come on. We're out of time." Jeremiah said pulling the hood back over his head.
Mon-El got up from the bloodied chair and followed Kara and Jeremiah as they ran down several dark hallways.
"Go down this hallway. There's an escape at the end." Jeremiah ordered pointing into the distance
"No! I'm not leaving you. I'm not losing you again." Kara said,
"Kara, I'll be fine." Jeremiah said as he swiped a keycard across the reader, unlocking the gate and pushing Mon-El and Kara to the other side "Please. Just go. I'll slow them down. I've been here 15 years, I'll survive a little longer."
"If I leave you here, Alex will never forgive me." Kara said to Jeremiah through the metal bars
"Kara, if you die here, there will be no one to forgive."
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
"Now go. Go!" Jeremiah yelled and Kara directed her and Mon-El through the hallway
It took them quite some time of running but they had managed to reach the exit of Cadmus. They emerged onto the dark streets of National City.
"How are we going to get back to the DEO?"
"Can you run?" Kara asked him
As much as it would be nice to use his super speed to get to the DEO, a bullet had just been removed from Mon-El's leg and he didn't want to be put into any more pain.
"I doubt it" he asnwered
"I could carry you and fly us over."
"That would be embarrassing" he replied
"Yeah-"
"But I've already admit that I was scared enough to pee myself so this shouldn't hurt my self esteem to much" Mon-El finished
"Okay then" Kara said, picking the Daxamite up and flying through the sky and towards the DEO.
When they arrived, Kara helped Mon-El walk to his room and lay down on his bed. Before he knew it, his mind crashed and Mon-El fell asleep, exhausted from the events from the past week.
The next day, Mon-El barely got out of his bed but Kara had insisted that he come over to her apartment to 'hang out' with her, Winn, James and Alex.
Mon-El knocked on her door and in a matter of seconds it swung open.
"Mon-El! Come in!" Kara said as she opened the door wider so that he could get through with his crutches. "Feel free to sit on the couch" Kara said as she went into the kitchen
Taking Kara's offer, he plopped himself onto the soft furniture and propped his injured leg up on a nearby foot rest. Kara came back with a cold bag and placed it on his injured leg
"Ow. Ow" he exclaimed at the sudden cold temperature on his leg.
Suddenly, the door flew wide open as Winn, James and Alex walked through the door frame, carrying boxes food.
"Who's hungry?" Alex said
"Yes! Comfort food!" Kara exclaimed as she practically ran up to her sister
Mon-El watched the TV as a story of the 'Guardian' popped up onto the screen.
'Guardian has been cleared of all charges and hailed as a hero for assisting in the arrest of serial killer Phillip Karnowsky.'
"All right. I admit it. I was wrong about Guardian. I'm really glad he was there to help you, Alex." Kara said as they gathered around the television
"Well, I hate to say "I told you so," but-" James said
"You love to say "I told you so." Kara scoffed
"Hmm, I do." James admitted
"I still wanna know who's under that mask though."
"Oh, I'm sure he'll reveal himself soon enough." Alex said before heading back into the kitchen
What was that all about?
"Mmm?" Kara said as she offered Mon-El a pot sticker while sitting next to him on the couch
"Oh, yes. Thank you.
"It's good to be home."
"You didn't find our adjoining cells cozy?" Mon-El said making her chuckle.
"You were really brave, Mon-El."
"I told you I was scared."
"Well, you could still be scared while being brave.
Maybe there's a hero in you after all."
"Well, any, uh, any courage I do have, I learned it from you." he replied
"Kara! Hey, uh, Alex said that the oven's taking too long, she needs your help heating up another pizza." Winn interrupted as he approached the two of them
"Yup. A superhero's work is never done." Kara said as she gave the box of pot stickers to Mon-El before getting out of her seat to aid her sister.
Min-El's eyes followed Kara as she stood in the kitchen and talked to her sister. At some point in their conversation, Kara started laughing. There it was again, her laugh. To Mon-El it was one of the most beautiful sounds that he's ever heard. And her smile? Man, he could see that smile all day and never get tired of it.
"Is Kara mated to someone?"
"Say what?" James said as Winn let out a small laugh
"On Daxam, we had arranged marriages, chosen for you at birth. You reach a certain age, boom. You're latched to that person. Is that how it works here on Earth? Or-" Mon-El asked Winn and James, who had somehow appeared at his side.
"Uh, well, here on Earth, we call it getting hitched, not latched. And nowadays, you pretty much choose your own mate." Winn answered
"Has Kara chosen?" he asked, looking over at Kara once more.
"No, she has not. Why do you ask?"
"Just studying Earthly customs." Mon-El answered, but that was obviously not the reason why he was asking.
For the rest of the night, he couldn't stop sneaking glances at Kara. Hearing her laugh and seeing her smile brought a warm fuzzy feeling in his chest, something that he'd never experienced before... But for some reason, he liked it.
When he returned to the DEO, the Daxamite lay on his bed and stayed up thinking of ways that he could make Kara smile and laugh the way she did that night. He also wondered what that warm feeling inside of him was. Eventually, Mon-El had fallen asleep , dreaming about the blonde girl and her dazzling smile.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! It was really hard for me to write due to the amount of scenes which involved Mon-El, but I did it!
If you liked this chapter please favourite, follow and review. Suggestions, correction or basically anything is acceptable.
Thank you! Until next time...
-TheFearlessDreamer
