They should have known this was coming. It was just typical, for the first time in ages things were going perfectly. At least they were until Kara was outed as Supergirl on the nightly news. Almost immediately stock prices dropped, protesters appeared to picket L-Corp and Lena and Kara's apartment, and a federal indictment was laid against Kara for charges of perjury, giving a false statement and several other more heinous crimes, but worse than all that a judge annulled hers and Lena's marriage.
It seemed that when it rained it stormed. It took only a hour before General Lane appeared at their door, an entire division behind him. Kara had no choice but to go with them willingly less she risk the lives of others. She was violently loaded in the back of a APC and driven away into the night as dozens of protesters screamed curses at her.
In a stunning move the next day Lena was ousted from L-Corp the board stating that because of her close link to Kara and the damage she had wreaked upon the company's stock prices she was out. Never to be one taken down without a fight Lena enacted a protocol she had hoped never to use. She had created it when she feared her brother's escape from prison and so it was that every scrap of L-corp's research and data was uploaded to a private server in a hidden facility and then deleted, not just from L-Corp, but from every other database in existence. All of L-Corp's employees received severance packages and then everything else disappeared. In less than 3 hours a company formerly worth 100 billion dollars was worth 10 cents and a mysterious shell corporation picked up all the former L-Corp facilities for about $10.
As for Kara the idea of her indictment was preposterous, to have Kara Sunshine Danvers accused of all these heinous crimes , it boggled the mind. It takes the General about ten minutes before he is trying to use extraordinary rendition and move Kara to a blacksite. If not for Kara's abilities he might have succeeded, as it stands she was able to resist just long enough for Lucy to interfere and have a DEO force takeover citing jurisdiction over all alien matters. Resulting in one utterly furious US General and a smirking DEO director.
This leads to the one thing the Xenophobic senators on the capital hill never expected, a wave of black clad agents sweeping through their ranks and the ranks of the Armed forces, black bagging dozens on charges ranging from hate crimes to conspiracy and wilful deprivation of liberty, and even war crimes.
Kara barely takes two steps into the federal courtroom before the president's aide arrives carrying a green card and a presidential pardon. It is true what they say having friends in high places really does help.
This doesn't mean it is smooth sailing by any means, in the hours since Kara's identity had been revealed someone had attempted to firebomb her and Lena's apartment. Most surprising of all though was the fact that not even 45 minutes after the attack a group of National City's most hardened and wanted criminals dragged the perpetrator all the way to 1 Police Plaza and left him tied naked up side down to the flagpole with his signed confession taped to his balls.
As they were leaving they were cornered by a journalist from The Daily Planet and when asked why they had done it they told tales about how Kara Danvers and her entire family were not to be touched, about how she helped anyone and everyone she could, both as Supergirl and as a reporter. She had made sure those who went to prison deserved it, and that even though they were serving their time they still got to be a part of their family's lives, Kara making sure they got to go to children's soccer games and school plays, even going so far as to take them herself where necessary. And often investigating and exposing the corrupt and violent corrections officers and police that had used their power to abuse those under their care for all to see.
She had truly built up a repertoire of goodwill and they weren't going to let some Xenophobic homophobic assholes hurt the ray of sunshine that was Kara Danvers.
As for L-Corp, the company was no more, Lena buying out the entire company and using her funds to rebuild it anew as the newly minted Sunshine Enterprises. Even going so far as to find jobs for 95% of the employees who had lost their jobs. But the best part for her was that for the first time in history she was finally able to free herself from the shackles of her adoptive name. And the way she structures the company ensures that never again will someone like Lex be able to use her company to target the alien refugees and other innocents of this world.
For several days things seemed to be going well, until Lena and Kara attempted to make their way to a courthouse to have themselves remarried. As soon as they got close a mob appeared to block their way literally barricading the courthouse. When they stop they are pelted by rocks and all forms of other material. Kara is forced to exit the car and stop the demonstrators, but as soon as she does she is surrounded by Cadmus agents.
Dozens of Cadmus agents are around her, the culmination of all the surviving cells here now for one final chance to kill Kara. They draw Kryptonite weapons and Kara is suddenly in the presence of more Kryptonite than she even knew existed. In seconds they are on her, bullets flying, lasers blasting. The bullets just fall uselessly to the ground and the lasers glance off into the sky as Kara begins to fight those around her. They quickly abandon their guns and try for knives and short blades.
It doesn't help them, before long Kara is standing amidst a small army of unconscious attackers. She turns smiling until she sees one standing beside the car a blade to Lena's throat and before he can do anything it seems Lena borne from adrenaline and stress exhibits the powers that have been progressively growing stronger and she elbows him so hard he flies thirty feet backwards into a police car that has just arrived on scene.
As they move toward the courthouse people move out of their way, it is one thing to be part of a mob, the protection it offers more than enough to give many the chance to do things they otherwise would not. But standing face to face with a Kryptonian bond pair whom have just dispatched a small army with ease, the feeling soon dissapates and they scatter.
Finding a judge willing to remarry them is even harder, the courthouse staff decidedly unhelpful even going so far as to physically block them from entering the building. But after Alex arrives, Maggie and a combined NCPD and DEO HRT/SWAT team in tow they soon begin to comply. Having found a judge it takes only moments to learn that because neither of them had filed for annulment and the charges against Kara were essentially non-existent then they were still married, they had been forced through this entire circus for nothing and honestly all Kara wants to do right now is fly home with Lena and curl up on the couch watching a movie with their favourite Chinese takeaway.