I frowned with incomprehension at the reason why my brother had made me leave high school and force me to go to the DEO, however, by the tone of his voice I knew that I should not ask, not at that moment, that I should wait for being with him in order to receive an answer,
When I arrived at the DEO, J'onn, Kara, Imra, Alex and my brother were gathered in a room, all watching me closely when I entered, mainly Mon-el, whom I looked back a few seconds before smiling slightly and directing my look towards what they were focused on.
"Is a dead bird?" A grimace of disgust was reflected on my face as I approached them. "Why are you investigating the death of a bird?" I asked with some curiosity.
"Not one, hundreds of them," Kara answered making me question her with my eyes.
"We believe that Pestilence can be behind all this" explained my brother. "And that's the reason why you will not leave the DEO under any circumstances, understood?" He questioned making me nod slightly without understanding why I couldn't, but without daring to ask anything about it. "Remember that the cure is inscribed in our DNA" he communicated to resume the conversation they were having before I arrived.
"With Brainy's help we can get it and use it as a weapon to kill Pestilence before she can become the Blight," Imra spoke coldly before turning to leave.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not going to kill her" Kara stopped her causing a look of incomprehension from the rest, who watched her carefully. "We were very aggressive with Purity and it was when things got worse, I will not make the same mistake," she complained. "There is a human part of Pestilence, we are going to find it and we are going to save her," she assured, making Imra stop in her steps.
"We've come here to end the threat in our time and that means ending her life in this time" Imra replied, which only made Kara complain even more angry. "I also didn't use to do it this way, but this are extreme circumstances" she defended herself.
Honestly, I was sure that the discussion between the two would have continued had it not been for the appearance of a stranger in the room, which caused both Alex and J'onn to point him with a gun, only calming down when my brother announced that he was Brainy, getting everyone to watch him with curiosity, even more when Winn greeted him recognizing him without any problem.
We all listened attentively to Winn as he explained that both the mayor of the city, as all those who were in the town hall were sick, moment that Imra did not hesitate to claim that it was Pestilence.
"Wait, wait" Kara stood at the door to prevent her passage. "We have sick people now, so let's run some tests while you extract the cure so that we can give it to the victims" she tried to control the situation, but Imra did not seemed very convinced.
"It won't take long, so we'll meet you there" my brother tried to mediate between them in an attempt to prevent them from going back into an argument.
"Thanks- Kara whispered. "Don't worry, we'll take her" she spoke to Imra, who only bowed her head.
At that moment I realized that everyone was beginning to leave the room, which made me look at them trying to decipher what I should do, what my brother seemed to notice, for he called me to come close to him.
"You have to stay here, okay?" He looked at me seriously.
"You made come here just for this?" I asked crossing my arms, I was beginning to believe that there were other reasons, but he just grabbed my shoulders.
"I'll be back as soon as I can" he kissed my forehead before leaving definitively.
I sighed in a way angry, what was I supposed to do all day locked here?
I stood next to Alex tired of having been waiting all day for my brother to return to the DEO, but without doing so at any time, so discovering if Kara found Pestilence or not was helping to distract me.
"Winn?" I turned my head to hear Alex ask, noticing the blood that came from his nose. "Your nose," she pointed at him making him touch it, looking at his hand stained with blood. "Kara, J'onn, you have to come back, it's Winn" she communicated seconds before Winn fell unconsciousness.
I helped to move him to the infirmary, leaving when Alex told me, place where I received the rest. Kara did not take long to ask questions about the state of Winn, answers that I could not give them, because, honestly, I did not know.
In spite of everything, Winn seemed to take with humor everything that was happening, because he did not hesitate to make a reference to a movie when Brainy asked him who had scratched him. They provided him the cure with the hope that it would work.
However, after a couple of hours and the worsening of Winn indicated that something was not going as it should, so we all returned to meet in the infirmary, surprising me enough when I saw that my brother had shown up there.
"What happened?" J'onn asked.
"The cure is designed to cure victims of the Blight, so as Pestilence is not Blight but her predecessor, the cure we have must be modified for that virus" Brainy explained.
"How do we do that?" James questioned just as confused as everyone there.
"We need her DNA" my brother replied.
"So if we don't find more people can get infected and people who are already infected ..." Kara tried to speak controlling the nervousness that invaded her.
"Yes, finding her as soon as possible would be ..." Brainy was interrupted by what happened next.
Alex fell to the floor unconscious again causing panic in the room, as both J'onn and Kara knelt on the floor, watching as the latter tried to stay as calm as possible despite not being, then after what was she had just found out it would be logical if she acted in an irrational way.
I left the room with my brother without wanting to speak to him, for I was angry because he had made me believe that he was going to come back and that he had never done it, so I distanced myself from him without even bothering to tell him where I was going I entered one of the meeting rooms wanting to be completely alone.
I raised my head to look at the one who had just entered the room, observing Brainy's ignorance that I was there inside, since when he made eye contact with me he was surprised, his face illuminated by the screen of the tablet he held.
"I didn't see you" he said quickly. "Are you doing some kind of ritual?" He asked making me shake my head, which confused him. "So, why are you alone in a room and with the lights off?" He asked curiously, I smiled slightly.
"It's called hiding" I answered him.
"Oh, and who are you hiding from?" He asked approaching, coming to sit in the chair that was in front of me.
"From my brother" I answered seeing him frown while he watched me.
"Are you mad with each other? Because if that's the case, I should stay out of the way," he said, making me shake my head."I don't understand." He shook his head, making me laugh.
"It's just that I don't want to talk to him, for now, he hasn't worried about me all day" I explained seeing him nod slightly. "According to the conversation we had yesterday, I was supposed to trust him to tell him anything, but now I'm not so sure," I explained feeling the need to talk to someone.
Brainy nodded again, watching me closely, which made me start to feel uncomfortable, because it was as if he were analyzing me.
"You know, your brother adores you, I'm sure of that and I don't understand much about the emotions" he began to explain. "If we lie to him to be able to come to this time it was for fear that he would refuse to do it" he said getting me to look at him without understanding what he was referring to. "I don't think you knew it, right?" He looked at me for a few seconds. "Imra and I planned this mission without counting on him, we knew he was going to say 'no' because it implied returning to see you, to return to have the same feelings that tied him to this time," he explained helping me to understand that that was the reason why they were angry with each other. "This mission is important for Imra, if we kill Pestilence, her sister will live... and I shouldn't have said that" he ducked his head while I tried to react to the news I had just received.
"Imra has a sister?" I questioned in a whisper to myself.
"She had, she died infected by the virus" he responded by making me lower my head feeling sorry for it, without being able to believe what I was listening to, unable to mutter anything else. "Ah! Your brother has left with Supergirl in search of Pestilence" he said making me look at him. "I should have said it before" he murmured at the same time I nodded, yes, he should.
Even so I kept sitting in the chair without wanting to leave that room, feeling as he returned to observe me with fixation for a few seconds, again analyzing me.
Without a doubt, it was hard for me to believe that my brother had not wanted to return after telling us that he tried, but he could not and yes, I understood perfectly that he did not want to go through the same thing again, a farewell without knowing if he would see us again.
"Do you think you will be here for much longer?" Brainy asked curiously, making me shake my head.
"Do you think they'll winn?" I asked in just a whisper.
"Based on their combat techniques, there is a high percentage of them doing so" he answered as if he wanted to calm me down. "Mon-el's little sister, you should also be out there" he commented.
"No, I'm not ready" I answered. "And Brainy, you can call me Mya" I assured him with a slight smile getting him to nod in agreement.
I only got up from the chair at the moment I saw J'onn running followed by two doctors, because that could only mean that some, if not all three, was injured, so I did not hesitate to run behind, starting to worry when I noticed that my brother was holding Kara, who had several scratches on her face as well as blood on her nose, it had been Pestilence.
Everyone seemed to move quickly and, again, I was alone, although this time for a few seconds, because my brother returned to the place where I was wondering if everything was going to be okay.
"Mya, hey, look at me" he asked placing his hand on my chin. "Everything will be fine, we have her DNA, we can make the cure" he explained at the same time I nodded without wanting to look him in the eyes. "What's wrong with you?" he questioned after realizing that I was separated from him.
"Nothing," I answered, lowering my head. "You made me leave high school for this, to keep me locked up here and that's it, you didn't even come to see how I was doing," I complained.
"I just want to protect you, Mya" he said grabbing my shoulders. "Pestilence is much stronger than we think" he said getting me to look at him, understanding his fear, because he feared I could be infected as Imra's sister was, as it had been Alex or Winn, he was afraid of losing me without being able to stop it.
"I know, but maybe if you explain everything to me from the beginning, I could understand it, don't you think?" I looked at him seriously.
"Did Imra tell you?" He questioned surprised.
"No, Brainy" I answered. "We had a conversation full of sincerity" I commented observing the confusion on his face, but he ended up ducking his head.
"It's not that I didn't want to go back, but to do so meant to tie me emotionally, at this time, to ..." his voice cut short without saying her name, but he did not need to do it, I knew who he was talking about . "I didn't t even know if I had arrived in time to save you and now I refuse to lose you, it is something that I could never forgive," he explained, looking me straight in the eye.
I looked at him for a few seconds before daring to hug him, feeling as he put his arms around me to offer me all his protection, which made me close my eyes to try to relax before the nervousness that had invaded my body minutes before.
"By the way, I like your new suit" I smiled at him, noticing how he smiled back. "It seems familiar" I laughed as he embraced me again.
I remained completely silent next to my brother, listening attentively to what Winn and Brainy were explaining, because according to what they were saying, Purity had a tracker, which allowed us to detect where she was in National City. However, I think none of us expected her to be there at that time, let alone addressing L-corp, so the panic did not take long to appear.
"Can I go too?" I questioned getting everyone to look at me before moving on to look at my brother, who shook his head at the possibility of the idea.
"You need help, Mon-el's little sister ..., uhm, Mya, is ready" said Brainy, being able to appreciate how Kara nodded slightly.
"She's coming with us," J'onn said, making my brother complain that I was young. "It's an order, Mon-el" he interrupted, so he could not do anything but shut up.
When we arrived at L-corp, I think none of us did not expect to see that room in which Sam was locked, so we could not stop Kara when she approached.
We were all affected by the wave that expanded the moment the doors flew open, falling to the ground in a daze, watching as J'onn got up at the same time that Kara fell to the ground, which gave me my courage to do it too.
As I did the other time, I interrupted her heat vision with mine, preventing her from hurting J'onn. At one point it was her who looked away, but without attacking again, only grabbed Purity and Pestilence's hands while the rest finished rising from the ground.
My brother grabbed my arm to get me close to him seconds before we could not move because of the earthquake, having the three Worldkillers of the prophecy.
"Don't worry, daxtonian, soon you'll be where you should" Reign or Sam, placed her hand on my chin while looking me straight in the eyes.
When they left we were able to move again, feeling my brother hug me without giving me time to react, forcing me to rest my head on his chest.
I closed my eyes as I remembered her words, were they going to kidnap me?
Thanks for reading,
Ayrin