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Chapter 13: Brother's Keeper
Kara was in her apartment, laying down on her couch when there was a knock on the door.
"You there?" Barry asked from the other side.
Kara got up and opened the door. Before she let him in, she asked. "You're not Brainiac, are you?"
Barry chuckled. "Last I checked no."
Kara smiled and let him in.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
Barry sighed. "I know what you said about us being together, but I want..."
"Let's do it." Kara stated, interrupting.
Confusion crossed Barry's face after that comment. "I thought you weren't comfortable."
"Well, I doubt I'll ever be 100% comfortable. And a friend of mine told me that life's too short not to give some things a chance."
"So, we're really..."
Barry's question was interrupted when Kara grabbed his head, and pulled him into a kiss. The two didn't separate until Kara's phone started ringing.
Hearing this, she reluctantly picked it up.
"Winn, this isn't a good time." she said through her phone.
"Alex is in a coma." Winn responded, causing Kara to drop her phone in shock.
DEO
Kara ran through the DEO, until she reached in infirmary. There, she saw her sister on a bed, attached to so many machines, and with her eyes closed.
"Alex?" Kara asked, with tears falling down her cheeks. "You can't be..."
"I'm sorry Kara." J'onn said walking in. "But she's comatose."
Kara fell to her knees, and put her hand over her mouth and screamed.
Eliza walked in with tears running down her face as well. Seeing the condition of her daughter was too much for her, and she just left the infirmary and sat down in another room, doing nothing but contemplating on what just happened to Alex.
"I'm sorry." Kara apologized, now sitting next to Alex. "I'm sorry for what I said. You're my sister, I love you. Please... come back." Kara couldn't say anymore, and put her head between her legs.
"Not to ruin your grieving, but I think there's something you might want to see." Lex suggested walking in.
Kara followed Lex into a briefing room, where J'onn,Winn Oliver and Barry were watching a some video.
"What is this?" Kara asked walking in.
J'onn turned around and sighed. "Winn pulled up the security footage on where we found Alex. And we found something... troublesome."
Kara looked around J'onn to see a video of Von brutally beating Alex.
Kara's emotion quickly evolved to anger. "Von." she said with nothing but anger and betrayal in her voice.
"Why would he target Alex?" Barry asked.
"Probably because she wanted to use the gold kryptonite on him." Oliver replied.
Kara stormed out of the room, and the rest followed her, concerned about what she might do next. She walked up to a table and lifted the gold kryptonite sword.
"How does it work?" she asked.
"Any kryptonian near the sword will lose their powers." Lex explained. "And the effects will become permanent if their stabbed with it. After it's used, the kryptonite will be rendered useless."
"Kara, are you planning to..." Barry was about to ask.
"He hurt my sister." Kara replied coldly. "No one gets away with that."
Meanwhile
Eliza was still in the room with her head in her hands, when Lena walked in.
"Hi Eliza." Lena greeted getting the older woman's attention. "I heard about Alex, and I wanted you to know I'm sorry."
Eliza sniffled. "Thanks."
"And there's something I need your help with." Lena continued.
"Why me?"
"Because you're an expert in this field."
Desert
Kara was standing alone in the middle of the desert with the gold kryptonite sword in its lead sheathe, when Von flew down.
"Why did you ask me to meet you in the middle of the desert?" he asked.
"Because I'm here to end this." Kara replied, pulling the sword out of its sheathe.
"What is that?" Von asked with confusion on his face.
"This is a gold kryptonite sword that can take away your powers forever."
Von's eyes widened. "You're lying."
"If you don't believe me, then use your powers. Oh wait, you can't while you're near the gold kryptonite."
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because you tried to kill Alex." Kara yelled.
"What are you talking about?" Von replied.
"You put my sister in a coma! You know, a lot of people said that you needed to die, but I defended you because I thought you deserved a second chance. But now I see I was wrong, and everything I told myself was because of the fact that we share blood."
"So what, you're going to kill me just because you think I did something to Alex?"
"No, I'm going to kill you because Alex was right."
Kara then ran at Von about to swing the sword at Von. But Von slide under it, grabbed some sand from the ground, and threw it at Kara's face. Kara momentarily lost vision, and when she regained it, Von grabbed the sword still in her hand. The two struggled for the weapon, until their struggle ended with the sword flying several feet from them. Von then pulled back his fist and punched Kara, knocking her to the ground. But before Von could react, Kara almost immediately got up from the ground, and uppercutted Von, sending him to the ground. Von was about to get up, but Kara got on top of him, and started sending many punches directly to his face.
After half a minute, Kara stopped, got up, retrieved the sword and brought it back to Von.
"What are you going to do now?" Von struggled to say due to the swelling around his lips.
Kara raised the sword and brought it down.
DEO
Oliver was reviewing the footage of Von attacking Alex, when he noticed something before the incident. He noticed Von looking directly at the camera before he started attacking Alex.
"Why would you do that?" Oliver asked out loud.
"Do what?" Barry asked walking in.
"Right here, Von looks directly at the camera. He obviously knows it's there and is recording, yet he still continues with his attack on Alex. He always said he wanted to be apart of Kara's life, but he would now that attacking Alex would destroy any chance at that, and he doesn't even try to cover it up."
"So you think it wasn't Von who attacked Alex?" Barry asked.
"I'm not entirely convinced, and there is one person that can make himself look like anyone." Oliver stated.
Barry's eyes widened. "Brainiac."
Before either one of them could react, a trail of yellow lightening sped at them, and threw the both of out of the room, and over the balcony. Oliver and Barry landed on the lower floor of the DEO, got up and saw it littered with corpses.
"What happened?" Oliver asked.
The two heard a whoosh from behind them, turned around and saw Brainiac disguised as Milton Fine behind them.
"That would be me." Brainiac replied.
"How did you do the thing with the..." Barry asked in awe.
"I created this body from every meta-human and alien DNA I could access, including yours Barry Allen."
Brainiac then grabbed both Barry and Oliver by the throats and lifted them in the air.
"Goodbye, and thank you for everything." Brainiac said, preparing to kill them. But was interrupted when J'onn flew in and punched Brainiac, sending the AI out of the DEO.
"Are you two alright?" J'onn asked. They both nodded. "Good, then get your stuff, we're going to war."
Desert
Kara raised the sword and brought it down. But something unexpected happened, Von caught the sword using both his hands.
Kara's eyes widened, and Von stood up and said. "You believed you could defeat me in anger, but you failed to realize that my anger is unending."
Von then pulled the sword out of Kara's hands, put it and one hand, and brought the other hand back and hit Kara across the face, sending her to the ground. When she tried to get up, Von kicked her in the stomach, repeatedly, until she fell over.
Von then held the gold kryptonite sword at Kara's head.
"Damn it!" he yelled tearing up. "I can't do it." He then dropped the sword.
Kara looked up and saw the tears in his eyes, and said. "You really didn't do it, did you?"
Von shock his head, offering Kara a hand. She took it and her lifted her off the ground.
"Then there's only one person who could've, Brainiac." Kara stated grabbing the sword and sheathing it. The moment she did that, the two kryptonians started to heal from the injuries they inflicted on one another.
Just then, the two heard and saw an explosion coming from National City.
Kara realizing now the situation, stated. "I've got to stop him."
"But before you do, I want the sword." Von demanded.
"What, why?"
"Because I don't want anyone to have a weapon that can kill me." Von replied.
Kara rolled her eyes and handed the sheathed sword to Von. "Are you going to help us with Brainiac?"
"Thanks, but I'm alright."
Shock appeared on Kara's face after that comment. "What about all the people he's going to kill? I thought you were becoming a better person."
Von sighed. "Don't try to make me into a hero Kara, I'll only disappoint you."
"Fine. I'll deal with Brainiac on my own."
Kara then flew into the air and started heading to National City.
Streets
J'onn, the Legends and many DEO agents were on the ground, either dead or knocked out. Clark was fighting Brainiac, but was losing badly, has the AI had a kryptonite dagger in hand. He drove the dagger into Clark's side, causing Clark to fall to his knees, screaming.
"When you're reunited with your people in the light of Rao, let them know that unlike Krypton, Earth shall be saved." Brainiac said, removing the dagger and about to send in through Clark's heart, until Kara flew in and knocked Brainiac off of his feet.
Brainiac got up from the ground, and Kara landed directly in front of him, and asked. "How did you get so powerful?"
Brainiac smiled. "This body is equipped with the DNA of 363 alien and meta-humans from Earth."
"Why are you doing this?"
"It's what your father and uncle programmed me for."
"They wanted you to save people."
"The people cannot be saved. Do you know why you and your cousin could not truly save this planet? It's because you keep nurturing the problem! The only real solution is to remove as if it were a tumor."
"The human race is not tumor!" Kara yelled.
"Really? Because I can't see the difference. After all, humans and kryptonians are very similar."
After hearing that, Kara sped at him, and landed a punch across his face. But it did nothing.
Brainiac smiled and said. "My turn."
He then uppercutted Kara. She was about to go flying into the air, until Brainiac caught her foot and brought her down to the ground.
Kara got up, barely able stand.
"You can't beat me Kara." Brainiac said. "Your kind failed to end me, what makes you think you can now?"
Kara turned her hand into a fist, and replied. "Because I won't let you destroy Earth."
She sent her fist flying to Brainiac's face, but he caught it with ease.
"You never learn, do you?" He hit her in the gut, and she fell to the ground, coughing blood. "You will die a better honor than your parents."
The man then raised a kryptonite dagger and was about to bring it down on Kara, but a yellow lightening surrounded her, and before he could react she was gone.
The next thing Kara realized, was that she was in some store.
"Please try not to do anything stupid." Barry said.
Kara smiled. "No promises."
He smiled back at her, but then Oliver full of worry on his face went up to Kara and asked. "Any suggestions?"
"Well, he doesn't appear to feel any pain, he has a billion powers, and so far no weakness. So... no, not really." Kara responded.
"Get down." Barry yelled as he grabbed Kara and Oliver and pushed them down, avoiding two lasers over their heads. "Why is it always laser eyes?" he said semi jokingly.
The lasers stopped, but was soon replaced by Brainiac speeding into the store in yellow lightening.
"You can't hide from me." he said.
Barry then punched him in an instant, but immediately regretted it as he held his hand in pain afterwards.
"Really?" he asked. "Such a disappointment." He then pushed Barry so hard, he went through the wall of the store. "Honestly, how do you expect to beat me?"
Oliver then lifted his bow and brought it down on Brainiac, but it broke in half upon landing.
Brainiac then turned towards Oliver, grabbed him by the neck and threw him through the large window in the store.
Kara watched in horror as her friends were being picked of one by one. She got up, but immediately felt ill as Brainiac once again brought out a kryptonite dagger.
"Don't be afraid child." Brainiac said bringing the dagger closer to Kara. "Nothing can last forever, not even Supergirl." he then lifted the dagger and brought it down on Kara.
And we've just about come full circle. Next chapter will be the last one of this story. Say what you think will happen next chapter in the comments, and I'll see you then.
