We're entering the final stretch of this story, so the next few chapters will probably be the last. But anyway, let's begin this chapter.
Chapter 12: The Murder Of One
Kara was in the middle of the streets holding her fists up towards Doomsday.
"Listen!" Kara yelled. "I know you're in there, you have to fight it!"
Doomsday did nothing but roar at Kara and at a speed rivaling that of Barry's, hit Kara, and sent her flying through the air.
Right after, a yellow lightening bolt hit Doomsday, but barely did anything. Doomsday turned around to the bolt's direction, and saw Barry.
"If you want to fight someone, fight me!" Barry yelled, and Doomsday obliged, lunging at Barry. Barry began speeding away from Doomsday, hoping to get him away from the people. But his hopes were crushed when a set of lasers hit Barry's arm, causing him to fall to the ground in pain. Barry got up, holding is arm and saw Doomsday appear right in front of him.
Doomsday roared and raised his arms to crush Barry, but was pushed back when Clark flew into him.
"Thanks for not letting me die." Barry said.
"Yeah, I tend to stop situation like that." Clark replied.
Kara flew right next to Clark and stated. "We can't hurt him."
"Try telling him that." Clark replied.
"Alex has a plan." Barry added. "Lex created some kind of kryptonite sword, and Alex wants to use it to kill him."
Kara shock her head. "No, it's Von. We can't just give up on him."
"I don't want to do that either, but we're not exactly high on options." Clark stated.
Kara pulled out her phone.
"Is this really a good time for this?" Barry asked.
"No, I need to talk to Alex." Kara replied.
DEO
Alex holding the gold kryptonite sword began to exit the DEO, when she got a phone call. She stopped and answered it.
"Kara?" Alex asked.
"Alex, you can't kill Von." the blonde replied over the phone.
Alex sighed. "I'm sorry, but it's the best option."
"No, it's not an option at all."
"Do you have any other way to stop him?" Alex replied.
"I do." Lena said walking in.
Alex seeing this said to Kara. "Sorry, I've got to go." Alex hung up and asked. "How did you find us?"
"Kara told me in case of an emergency, and I'd a giant alien monster tearing apart the city classifies as an emergency." Lena responded.
"What did you mean when you said that there was another way?" Oliver asked walking over.
"The moment he appeared, I investigated the location he ordinated from. And I found this." Lena said holding a nearly empty syringe. "This syringe contains a chemical that destabilized the serum in Von's blood. I can reverse engineer it to stabilize the formula instead of destabilizing it."
Alex shock her head. "That could take too long."
"I'll only need half an hour tops." Lena stated.
"Still too long. Kara and the others are barely holding their own against him now." Alex replied.
Oliver looked at the ground, unsure what to do.
"I guess you're the tie breaker." Alex said to Oliver. "What's it going to be?"
Streets
"You know where we would be safe right now? Aruba." Mick said to Sara, while the two were ducking for cover.
"Give it a rest Mick!" Sara responded angrily.
"You're just angry that I'm right."
"Really not the time for this." Ray said over the comns.
Ray flying in the air shot laser at Doomsday, but it appeared that it barely fazed him. Doomsday turned around and his eyes glowed red, activating his heat vision.
"I think I just pissed it off." Ray said, right before getting blasted and sent far away by Doomsday's heat vision.
Clark then flew in and punched Doomsday, causing him to be pushed back several feet. But Doomsday almost immediately lunged at Clark, and brought him to the concrete ground. Doomsday then began wailing on Clark on the ground, causing him to go through to concrete. Doomsday was then interrupted when Kara pushed him just about as far as Clark did moments ago.
"Please!" Kara tried to plead. "You have to listen to me."
But Doomsday did not such thing, and activated his heat vision and aimed it at Kara. Kara did the same thing, and the two's heat visions, meet each other. But Kara's was almost immediately overwhelmed by it. She screamed in agony, and failed to keep it up, causing her to get it with his lasers and be sent far back.
Kara got up from the ground, covered in blood, when Doomsday immediately appeared in front of her, and grabbed her with both of his hands. He then started to squeeze the life out of her. Kara tried to break free, but his grip was too strong. All she could do was scream.
"Please!" she begged. "Don't..." she was beginning to loss conciseness, when something it Doomsday.
The monster then immediately roared in agony, and dropped Kara. Doomsday turned around to see Oliver with a bow and some sort of arrow aiming at Doomsday.
"Take your medicine." he said, firing the arrow. The arrow pierced Doomsday's skin, and hit his arm.
Doomsday began making his way towards Oliver, but was doing far slower than normal, and was appearing to be extremely weak right now. Then something unexpected happened, he began to change. The spikes, the size, the grey skin was starting to fade into what appeared to be a normal human body. Before long, there stood a naked Von instead of Doomsday. The kryptonian then fell to the ground unconscious.
Kara got up and walked next to Oliver. "Did you bring the kryptonite from Krypton back even though I asked you not to?" she asked.
Oliver stood there unsure what to say. "Sort of. But to be fair, I choose to save Von instead of using the weapon."
She chuckled. "Thanks."
"You're welcome." he replied. "But it's really Lena you should be thanking, she's the one who made the cure."
"I'll keep that in mind."
DEO
Von was in the infirmary getting ready to leave, when Lena walked in.
"Hey." she said.
Von looked up and replied. "Good to see you."
"How are you feeling?"
"Fresh as a daisy." he said smiling. "While you're here I want to ask, why did you go so far out of your way to help me?"
Lena sighed. "Because I see a little bit of myself in you." Confusion struck Von's face. "I was also the illegitimate child, my adoptive mother never really like me. But most of all, I feel like there's this darkness inside of me that I can't control forever."
"Would you think that if you weren't a Luthor?" Von asked.
"Maybe I wouldn't, but that doesn't change the fact that I am a Luthor."
"Lena, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that you aren't your parents. They may help mold you into who you are, but at the end of the day, that choice is ultimately your own."
Lena smiled. "You know, that was actually pretty wise."
"I've been around the world a couple times and learned a few things." Von stated. "Well, I think I'll be going."
"You're not going to wait for an examination?"
"Nope. Plus, I kinda don't trust doctors." Von said leaving the infirmary.
Unknown
Brainiac was in front of a computer.
"While the chemical succeeded in rupturing the stability of the Doomsday serum, it appears that an antidote was created to combat this. And while it appears I'll have to fall back on Morpheus to save Earth, I have now perfected the body. Now that Von's DNA is stabilized and incorporated, there is no reason to wait any longer."
Brainiac then turned around to see a body in some sort stasis.
"Now to upload myself into the vessel."
DEO
Alex was in the lab working, when Kara walked in.
"Did you tell Milton to let the Black Mercy kill Von?" Kara asked.
Alex hearing this sighed, turned around and responded. "It was the only option."
"No it wasn't!" Kara yelled.
"No prison can hold him, no mineral can weaken him. The best option was to just get rid of him."
"What if that was me? What if I was the unstoppable alien, would you then kill me?"
Shock appeared on Alex's face after that comment. "No. But unlike Von, you're a hero, a good person."
"Von has been through so much. His mother hated him, our father never raised him, he never felt loved. If I went through what he did, I could've turned out like him."
"No you couldn't have."
"You're wrong. And so was I when I believed that you only killed when you had to."
"Kara..."
"When you killed Astra, I forgave you because to told me it was either her or J'onn. But you had a choice with Von in Lex's lab, with the Black Mercy and with what just happened. You didn't have to kill him, you just wanted to."
Tears were beginning to sprout in Alex's eyes. "Kara, I'm sorry if I hurt you, but you have to understand, I only did all of that because I wanted to protect you."
Kara sarcastically laughed and said. "Protect me from what, my real family?!" That comment did it, Alex was now crying. "I want you to know that we maybe coworkers, but as of right now, we are no longer sisters."
"I'm sorry." Alex apologized, with her face overflowing with tears.
"I want to forgive you, but I can't." Kara said, leaving Alex sobbing in an empty lab.
Streets
Alex was walking alone on the streets, with a few tear stains on her cheeks, when something grabbed her and sped her to an alleyway.
Once Alex contemplated her surroundings, she looked to who did this, and saw Von.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Well, after hearing about the gold kryptonite sword, I'm here to kill you."
Alex's eyes widened at the comment. Before she could react, he punched her in the face, sending her to the ground.
Alex spit up some blood, looked up and said. "If you do this, Kara will never forgive you."
Von smiled. "Last I checked, she disowned you as her sister." Von then set another punched to Alex's head. This time, Alex collided with the concrete hard.
"Actually, you're right. When Kara realizes what happened to you, she'll want blood. But I'm counting on it." Von stated.
Confusion crossed Alex's face after hearing that. "Why?" she asked.
Von then stood her up and replied. "Because I want her to waste the sword."
Von then sent a hand through (yes through) Alex's chest. The girl hemorrhaged blood when he removed his hand, and dropped Alex on the floor like she was nothing.
All Alex could do was watch Von walk away, before she exhaled her last breath.
Now this was a chapter. If you think I'm a monster for ending the chapter like this, then you really don't know me that well. If you enjoyed leave a review, fav, follow and I'll see you in the next chapter.
