Five years later
Today marked Alex's first field mission as a DEO agent. She had dropped out of college to train, so she could find Kara. It had been five years of dwindling hope, but today could change the game.
Initially, she and her father had joined the DEO together, in hopes of fulfilling their promises to Kara. In hopes of saving her. A year after they were both officially inducted, Jeremiah disappeared and was announced dead.
Eliza and Alex wept for weeks, but Alex realized that she needed to channel her sadness and anger into honoring her father's last wish.
Finding Kara.
His death only fueled her more, added fire to her eyes. And she trained and trained. She officially became the youngest DEO agent to ever step foot into the field.
She was that good.
Once she finished gearing up, she headed to the control room, where J'onn was debriefing the team.
Alex had learned about J'onn and Jeremiah's story around a year after his untimely death. They had formed a close bond ever since, and J'onn had been working hard to help Alex.
He had promised Jeremiah to look after his girls, and promised to keep looking for Kara. He fully intended to keep his promises.
Today was the first real lead they had gotten on Cadmus in years. Five, to be exact. And it was an all important mission.
He collected his thoughts and then addressed the room full of agents.
"We have a location on a Cadmus Base. We're not sure what's in it, however to our knowledge, things could get pretty graphic in there. Brace yourselves. We will split off into two groups of ten, with Alpha Team on the first two levels and Beta Team on the last two."
He looked around to make sure everyone was following before he continued.
"Agent Danvers, Agent Charles, Agent Avery, Agent Parker, Agent Jackson, Agent Black, Agent Hunter, and Agent Rose. With me. Agent Brady, you will be leading the rest in Beta Team."
Agent Brady nodded firmly. "Yes, sir." With that, everyone broke off into their teams and prepared to load up the helicopters.
Alex's heart was beating furiously, nervous for her first field operation. Her mind was racing with a million thoughts, but most were occupied by thoughts of finally finding Kara.
J'onn noticed her serious uptick in energy and walked over to her. "Alex, I'm going to need you to calm down. I can't have you going emotional in the field. I know how much she means to you, but don't let it distract you from the real mission: gathering intel on Cadmus."
Alex nodded, and J'onn continued. "Try to loosen up and just relax. I know it's your first mission, but it's very high profile. You need to stick close to me when we get in there. I have you second-in-command today, which never happens for first-timers. I'll be trusting you to lead this team with me, and to have my back. Do you think you can handle that?"
"Yes, Director. And thank you. For letting me take charge out there. I promise I won't let you down." Her eyes shone with a sparkling resolve.
"Good. Now, let's go get on that helicopter before it leaves without us."
Alex laughed, grabbed her gear, and walked towards the helipad with J'onn.
Remote Cadmus Facility
Lillian stood in a room full of cages, admiring her work. Each cage had a different alien species inside, and she had developed a perfect weapon to neutralize each and every one of them. In some cases, more than one. Five years of work had all come to this.
She surveyed all the aliens, and her eyes landed on a pitiful blonde Kryptonian. She was about to engage in conversation with her, when Hank burst into the room.
His face was full of worry and panic.
Lillian was slightly alarmed, because most things did not offset her right hand this much. "Hank, does there seem to be a problem?"
Hank responded,"Our inside man at the DEO has just informed us of some rather unfortunate news." Lillian's face fell and the gears in her head already began turning, anticipating what Hank would say next. "He told me directly that they currently have agents on the move to raid our facility and gather intel. Agent Alexandra Danvers is among them. We need to abandon this facility, and switch to a more secure one."
Lillian nodded thoughtfully. "Alright, arrange transport for me, along with the rest of the scientists, to Facility X. And have our agents meet theirs outside. With their weapons loaded, of course."
Hank dutifully nodded and was about to exit the room when he remembered. "The prisoners? Are we moving them too?"
Lillian pondered for a second. "Y'know what, yes. No traces left behind of anything. Wipe all records and files from these computers and servers... Except for those on the Kryptonian Test Subject. Transfer those to a flash drive for me."
Hank nodded and left. Lillian turned to the bloody and battered Kryptonian girl. She was fast asleep. Lillian spoke suddenly and loudly, jolting Kara awake.
"So, after five years, big sister has finally come to play. Well, there's no better start to a game, then with a gift." She laughed maniacally, and headed for the control room.
Because she was turned away, she didn't see it. The flash of fear and anger that crossed the blonde's eyes.
Kara pounded on the bars with everything in her, screaming at Lillian to stay away from Alex.
But Lillian was already long gone.
With the flash drive containing the videos of Kara's torture, she gleefully thought to herself.
If Alexandra wants to play the game, then we shall play. Boy, those sisters sure are in for quite a treat!