A/N: This chapter took awhile cause I wasn't sure how to end it but this feels right. Also instead of studying, I finished this.
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
The first patrol as a team was messy to say the least. Everyone turned to Laurel and Sara to give the orders but neither girl knew much about National City so they turned to Kara. But it was a little hard to follow an alien who could fly. Nyssa soon learned what made Kara so super. The others also seemed impressed when Kara took off flying. After patrolling for over an hour and no sign of the Ghost, they decided to call it a night.
As Kara was flying back to her apartment, she noticed what looked like an arrow. She changed course and flew to over to the arrow. The arrow was lodged into the bricks of the building next to hers. She pulled it it out then flew to her apartment. The others were already back. Thea had already changed and was leaning over Felicity's shoulder to look at something on the computer. Laurel, Sara, Helena, and Nyssa were gathered in front of the white board looking at the map of the city while Caitlin and Iris took notes of there comments.
"Kara!" Laurel cried, seeing her land. "Where did you go?"
"We need comms," Felicity commented. "That way we can keep up with everyone."
Kara nodded in agreement then showed them the arrow. "I found this lodged in bricks on the building next to us."
Nyssa took the arrow in her hands, examining it. "This is like the League's arrows. Almost has a Malcolm feel to it."
"We know Malcolm isn't behind this," Thea said, walking over to see the arrow. "He may be a psycho but he said he didn't do it. And I believe him."
"No, it's not Malcolm but I think it was someone trained by Malcolm or the League," Nyssa responded. "But no member of the League knows how to travel to different worlds."
"If it was someone trained by a League member but not in the League, they could have found someone who does know how," Sara said.
"It is possible," Nyssa agreed. She walked over to Felicity who was still behind the computer. "Can you use this to track the Ghost?"
"I can try," Felicity answered, taking the arrow from Nyssa. She twirled it in her fingers, examining it. "I always loved tracking weapons. At least this one doesn't have blood on it."
Laurel snorted, shaking her head. "Alright, I think it's time for bed. We had a long day and we need our rest."
"I agree," Kara nodded. "What are your plans for tomorrow?"
"I want to go to the DEO. I would like to talk to your sister and the directors some more," Laurel responded.
"I'll go too," Sara said, leaning against the couch.
Laurel shook her head. "I don't want to draw too much attention to us. Not until Felicity can finish our ids for this Earth. After that, we can go out more and actually work some. I have a feeling we are going to be here awhile."
Sara sighed, but nodded. "Okay. I'll stay here."
"Okay, let's figure out this sleeping situation here," Kara commented, crossing her arms and thinking.
The next hour was spent rearranging Kara's furniture and moving all their bags. Kara was able to find some space for them to unpacked their clothes so they were able to put their bags up. Kara blew up a full size air mattress and put in her room, in front of the bed. Two more full size air mattresses was blown up and placed in the living room. The couch was moved closer to the kitchen to make room for the air mattress and made up for some to sleep on. A smaller air mattress was blown up by the couch.
Laurel and Sara decided to sleep in Kara's room. Thea and Felicity were on one full size air mattress with Caitlin and Iris on the other. Helena decided to take the couch so Nyssa ended up on the small air mattress. It was a tight squeeze but they managed.
The next morning, Kara woke up before everyone else. She showered quickly thanks to her super speed. She dressed in wine colored skinny jeans with a black and white checker shirt. She grabbed a pair of black flats and headed to the kitchen, careful not to wake anyone up. She had just started the coffee pot when someone knocked on her door. Kara looked at the door in confusion then made her way over.
"Hey!" She exclaimed seeing James on the other side. She gave a quick kiss, letting him in. "What are doing here?"
"I figured you would need some help feeding everyone," James answered, holding up a grocery bag that had two boxes of pancake mix and a pack of bacon.
"You're the best!" Kara stood on her tiptoes and kissed him again.
James grinned, leading her into the kitchen. The couple got to work on making breakfast, trying not to wake the others up. Kara mixed up the pancakes as James looked around Kara's kitchen. He smirked, handing her chocolate chips, blueberries, and strawberries. Kara took the ingredients and mix up three different types of pancakes. As Kara made the pancakes, James started frying the bacon.
In the living room, the girls stirred. Thea woke up first, as she has gotten in the habit of waking up early. She stumbled her way into the kitchen, rubbing her eyes.
"Something smells good," She mumbled.
Kara turned around, quickly. "Thea! Did we wake you?"
"No, I'm use to waking up early," Thea answered. "Are those chocolate chip pancakes?"
"Yes, they are," Kara answered. "Coffee is ready if you want some."
"Yes, please," Thea walked over to the coffee pot as Kara pointed to the cabinet with mugs. Thea got a mug and poured a decent cup of coffee. "Ah, I'm so glad this Earth has coffee."
"What Earth wouldn't have coffee?" Kara gasped.
"You would be surprised," Caitlin mumbled, appearing in the kitchen.
Thea pulled out a mug and handed it to Caitlin.
Caitlin thanked her and went to fill the mug. "I think we need to make another pot. Where's your coffee, Kara?"
"It's in the pantry," Kara pointed it out to her, flipping the blueberry pancakes.
As Caitlin starting making another pot of coffee, the others starting waking up and making their way to the kitchen. Felicity stumbled into the kitchen, her glasses crooked, mumbled about coffee. Iris pulled on a sweater before sitting next to Felicity on the island. Helena and Nyssa seemed to be the odd ones out, standing away from the others until Laurel and Sara came out, both dressed for the day.
"Something smells good," Laurel commented. She smiled at Helena before motioning her closer to the island.
Sara grabbed Nyssa's hand, leading her to the island. Sara leaned against the island as Nyssa stood awkwardly next to her.
Laurel went to help Caitlin with the coffee, pouring everyone who wanted some a mug. "Thanks, Kara. You've been so great to us."
"Of course!" Kara smiled, setting down three plates of pancakes on the island. She went over to the pantry and grabbed the syrup as James placed two plates of bacon on the island. "We made blueberry, strawberry, and chocolate chip pancakes with bacon. Enjoy!"
"Yum!" Thea exclaimed, going to make her a plate. "Laurel, do you want blueberry?"
"Yes, thank you, Thea," Laurel nodded as Thea made another plate for Laurel and then for Sara.
"Hey, why did you make Laurel and Sara a plate but not the rest of us?" Felicity asked when Thea sat down with her plate and didn't make anymore plates.
"Because they are both dressed which means they have plans," Thea answered, motioning to Laurel and Sara's outfits.
"Do you have plans?" Felicity asked, turning towards Laurel.
"I do," Laurel said. "Like I said last night, I want to go to the DEO and talk to Alex."
"Oh right," Felicity mumbled.
"I'll take you before I head to work," Kara nodded as she started digging into her pancakes.
"And we are going to finish those ids and everything we need for this earth so we can go out and about," Sara told Felicity. "Are you up to that, Smoak?"
"You know I am, Lance," Felicity smirked.
"That's my girl," Sara smirked, bumping shoulders with Felicity.
"And don't try to go outside of the apartment," Laurel told them. "We don't want to attract him but we do need to try to find him before he starts killing."
"We're going to find him," Iris assured her.
Laurel smiled at Iris. She knew she put together the right team. They were all so determined to find this guy and do what Laurel recruited them to do.
After breakfast, James kissed Kara and left for work while Laurel gathered up the file of the Ghost. Kara put on her shoes, grabbed her jacket and purse, and asked Laurel if she was ready to go. Laurel told the rest of the team bye and followed Kara out. Kara took her to downtown National City to a tall building. Kara explained how the DEO had two locations. One was in the desert were they forced Kara to go to for almost a year to make sure she was well trained and the one in the city. They just told her about the one in the city a few months ago. Kara cleared them through security and led them to the main control room.
"Lucy!" Kara called a small woman in all black over. "This is Laurel Lance, Barry Allen's friend."
"Ah, yes. Alex was telling me about you and your team. Nice to meet you, Laurel," Lucy said, shaking Laurel's hand. "What can I do for you? We are fully prepared to help you and your team find the Ghost."
"Lucy is co-director of the DEO now," Kara grinned, bumping her shoulder against Lucy. "And she's awesome at it."
"Kara," Lucy grinned.
Laurel laughed, shaking her head at Kara's silliness. "We need a training facility. Kara's apartment isn't big enough and we need something to do in between tracking this guy."
"Of course. Whatever else you need, it's yours," Lucy agreed.
A month on Kara's earth flew by and the team had no luck. With access to a training facility and their new ids, the team was able to explore Kara's Earth along with trying to track the Ghost but Lyla was right. The Ghost was almost impossible to track. Felicity was working the DEO to try to track him with no luck. Every night, someone went on patrol. Two people were usually sent out now per Lucy and Alex's suggestion. But even with patrolling and tracking, they had nothing.
Not only could they not find the Ghost, they were out of money. Iris started freelancing more and more while Sara and Helena found a local bar to bartend at. Laurel was able to work a few small cases at a law firm. Nyssa decided it was probably best for her to stay in so she spent most of time training at the DEO. Caitlin, who back on Earth-1 is an expert in meta-humans, decided to put her talents to use at the DEO. Alex was thrilled to teach Caitlin about alien physiology.
The days on Earth-38 seemed to blend together as the team's spirits on finding the Ghost dampened. They tried to think of ways to draw him out but they came up with nothing. On one particular day, the team was ready to give up and head back to their Earth.
Laurel paced back and forth in front of the whiteboard as Sara read off for the fiftieth time everything they knew about the Ghost. Nyssa was sitting on the chair, watching the two sisters. Felicity was trying her best to track him while Iris had every article written by this guy up and was rereading them. Thea and Helena were out for patrol while Caitlin decided to keep her mind off everything and help James and Kara cook dinner.
"I hate this!" Felicity yelled, slamming her hands against the counter. "I can track almost anything but I have absolutely nothing on this guy!" She groaned, laying her head against her laptop.
"This is getting really frustrating, Laurel. I say if we don't find him soon, we head back to our Earth," Iris said. "We've been at this for a month and all we have is an arrow."
"Lyla said this would be difficult, almost impossible. We can't give up. Not when he was killed," Laurel reminded her. "And he hasn't killed here. We can't leave."
"Laurel, I love you, but Iris has a point," Sara said, crossing her arms. "And it's not like we're living National City unprotected. Hello, Kara." Sara motioned to Kara who waved at them with a spoon.
"Lyla trusted us with this mission. I'm not leaving until the Ghost leaves," Laurel defended, crossing her arms.
"Felicity!"
The earpiece Felicity was using to keep in touch with those on patrol went off, Thea's voice filling the room. Felicity grabbed the earpiece.
"What's wrong, Thea?"
"We found him! Send the others out now!"
Felicity spun around in her chair, eyes going wide. "Thea and Helena found him. Go suit up and meet up with them as quickly as possible!"
Kara dropped her spoon she was cooking with and yanked off her button down, her suit underneath. The others pulled off their regular clothes, revealing their suits. They took notice of Kara wearing her suit under her clothes when they first got to Earth-38 and decided to follow her lead. Laurel, Sara, and Nyssa grabbed their masks, weapons, and earpieces and took off out the window with Kara.
"Speedy and Huntress are downtown, close to the bar where White Canary works. Hurry!" Felicity's voice cried out over the comms.
Supergirl took off flying as fast as she could, arriving to the scene first. She gasped at the sight of the Ghost. His suit was a similar style to Nyssa's suit. While Nyssa's had a tint of red in it, his was all black and covered every inch, revealing no skin. He had dark pants on and a leather jacket over a dark shirt. His face was completely covered with a hood over his head and a mask that covered his whole face. Speedy and Huntress were trying their hardest to hit the Ghost but he was just too fast for them. Speedy shot arrow after arrow but he dodged them every time. Supergirl flew towards him with all her strength but instead of hitting him, she flew straight through him and hit a hall.
She groaned, struggling to stand up. Speedy yelled at her, making sure she was okay before trying to hit the Ghost again but he took off into the night.
"He's on the move!" Speedy yelled into the comms, running over to her bike and following him with Huntress quickly behind her. "He's heading towards the bank!"
"We're on our way!" Black Canary yelled.
Supergirl stood up and immediately started flying again. She followed the Ghost through the air. He stopped, changing paths, going towards an alley. Supergirl informed the others and followed him, flying lower. The Ghost ran into another alley where a homeless slept and pulled out his bow. Supergirl screamed, landing behind him but it was too late. He had shot the man. The Ghost turned to her, holding up a finger. She screamed, going to punch him but he turned around and disappeared.
"NO!" Supergirl yelled.
"Supergirl, what's wrong? Did you get him?" Black Canary asked.
Supergirl bent down to the man, checking his pulse. "He's dead."
"Who's dead? Supergirl, answer me!"
"The Ghost killed his first victim in National City."