Five more years later, DEO Armory
Alex secured her bulletproof vest as she holstered all of her weapons into her belt.
Today was finally the day. And she was so ready.
It was finally the day that she was going to see Kara again.
But this day was completely different from the last. She had been nervous; excited, then. Now she just felt pure unbridled fury and fiery determination.
She had trained ten years for this moment, and she was not going to let her little sister slip away again.
Not today, not tomorrow.
Not ever.
When she and J'onn finally found the mole a year into their investigation, they interrogated him incessantly.
He never gave any information up, but they found a flash drive in a secret compartment built into his desk. When they plugged it in, they were provided with 500 possible locations that were habitable in case of an emergency.
They were immediately able to rule out around 50 of the locations based on power usage and building size, but that still left 450 other possible sites.
DEO teams raided every single facility, hoping to find Kara, or maybe even Lillian. If they were really lucky, then both.
Every time a team came back empty-handed, Alex felt crushed. And the disappointment repeated for years.
Until last week.
Thus far, the raided facilities had given them no intel on where Kara was potentially being held. However, this most recent one was a little more informative.
The base was originally built as some kind of energy plant, with readers and scanners installed into the control system. The readouts from the scans pinpointed 3 of the 50 remaining locations as one of the possibilities for holding prisoners, based on energy expenditure.
The first two were raided during the week.
No dice.
So that left only one.
Alex grabbed her trusted assault rifle and briskly headed to the helicopter. She was the first one in.
She sat there waiting for minutes, until everyone was assembled.
It had been so long that J'onn finally felt comfortable letting her take point on a mission. He had given her an individual strike team, specifically in charge of the extraction of prisoners.
Five years ago, she had officially become the youngest active operative to ever step out into the field.
Five years later, and she was now the first 24-year old DEO agent to lead her own strike team.
The Director had his own team, in charge of taking down the guards, clearing the rooms, clearing a path for Agent Danvers' team, and gathering intel from the control room. Safe to say, he had a lot of responsibilities.
So, Alex was on her own on this one.
Just her and her team.
When they finally arrived, enemy operatives immediately opened fire on their choppers.
The agents exited through the back and took cover, while Alex got on the comms with J'onn.
"Director, I see a lot of prisoner transport vehicles out front. It doesn't look like they had any time to relocate any prisoners. I think our plan worked."
J'onn felt the energy and hope buzzing through the comm as Alex prepared herself to go on her final rescue mission for Kara.
He nodded vigorously as he made eye contact with Alex and spoke into the comms, trying to drown out the loud helicopter blades. "Agent Danvers, my team will lay down cover fire for yours. Don't worry about a single thing except for getting into the prisoner wing untouched. Trust us to clear the way."
Alex responded,"You got it, sir. I'll see you when this whole thing is over."
J'onn gave a small and reassuring smile before cocking his gun and pointing it towards the enemy.
Alex's team watched apprehensively as he counted down with his fingers.
3... 2... 1...
They all took off from their hiding spot and made a beeline for the entrance. Enemy guards were dropping like flies around them as J'onn and his team provided cover fire.
Her whole team made it safely into the facility, and immediately turned for the prisoner wings.
They came up on a corner and stopped abruptly upon Alex's command. She silently motioned that she was going to check around the wall for guards. Her team nodded and readied their guns for a confrontation.
As Alex quickly whirled around the corner, she and her team took out the five guards that were standing by a large room. She peered inside to find a White Martian.
Alex heard the stories of how dangerous they were from J'onn himself and recalled how there were five whole guards dedicated to guarding this one prisoner. Even though the cell's locked.
She spoke in a low whisper to her fellow agents. "The cells with more security are the ones holding the higher profile prisoners. We find a bunch of guards and they lead us to Kara. We're going to get her first, then await the Director's orders on how to proceed. Everyone clear?"
Every member on the team nodded their heads, and they clustered together in their formation. Five agents in front, five agents in the rear. Three agents on each side. Alex was in the middle.
As they slowly proceeded down a long hallway, she recalled the schematics from the blueprint they had pulled up on the facility. She recognized it as the T-shape cross section which contained the largest room in the facility.
She suspected that they were going to find Kara at the end of this hall.
Her suspicions were confirmed when she saw ten guards clustered in the front, and five each taking the other two adjoining hallways.
She motioned for her team to follow her lead and counted down.
When she hit 0, all the agents around her burst into action, immediately focusing on the group of 10 directly in front.
They finally took them all out, but some of Alex's team got dropped as well. Two of the men in the front line lay on the ground, shot. One agent from each side moved forward to fill the empty spot in their protective shield, and subsequently, two men from the back filled in for the sides.
The front line was still strong. All the commotion had attracted the five guards from the left hallway who were shot down immediately.
That left only five in the right hallway. Five left standing in between Alex and her little sister. Five left in the way of getting her back.
She cocked back her weapon, and unloaded a round into every single guard, before her team could even react. By the time they all rounded the corner, Alex had taken care of the rest.
Finally, with no one left in the way of the door, the team broke formation and Alex charged forward.
She looked around for any indication or confirmation that this was Kara's cell. When she found green kryptonite lining the outer wall by the door, she knew this was it.
Alex was ready to find Kara and to save her. This was the moment that her promise would be fulfilled.
She set her jaw, squared her shoulders, and stood directly in front of the door.
And she kicked it open.