Chapter 5
Kara was flying through the city, seeing if there was anything she could help with before realizing that there were red dots on her skin. She followed the line of the lasers, narrowing her eyes when she realized that she was being tailed by a drone. She chased after the drone and quickly disposed of it with her heat vision, taking the remains back with her to the DEO to find out who was trying to spy on her.
"Was this some sort of test? Because I thought we trusted each other enough for you not to have to spy on me." Kara said angrily. Placing the drone on the table. Leo stepped out of his lab when he saw Kara walking in and replied before Hank could.
"This isn't one of ours. We don't use drones of this design. I can tell you that it's human made though. Only a few companies would have tech like these." Leo answered, examining the piece of the drone Kara had brought.
"The DEO will handle this matter Supergirl. Rest assured we will keep you updated if we manage to find anything." Hank said.
"Kara, I think you should get back to CatCo. Winn's having some trouble covering for you right now." Leo suggested. Kara nodded and took off to get back to her work.
"Congratulations on winning a Siegel award Ms. Grant. I'm working on getting you a flight to the ceremony now." Kara said, walking into the office when she was called in.
"Yes, unfortunately, I'm not able to attend the ceremony as I don't have anyone to watch my son Carter while I'm gone. I would also like you to get my lunch now." Cat said.
"I can watch Carter for you during the ceremony. I'm sure Leo won't mind helping me out too. If you're okay with it that is." Kara suggested.
"What do you want? You think by doing this that I would owe you something? This is the first time I've seen this in you. I like it. You might just get that promotion after all. Now my son, Carter, he's not normal. He's smart and curious but as smart kids tend to be he is very shy. But knowing that you've had experience with Mr. Titus and that he will helping out does reassure me somewhat." Cat said, before shooing Kara off to get her lunch.
"So, run this by me again, I have to babysit Cat's son. Because you offered and somehow roped me into this without asking me first? Considering the fact that we have a case involving bombs, drone and Lord Technologies?" Leo asked with a raised brow as he drove the car towards the place where they had to pick up Cat's son.
"Do it for me please. It's time we get to spend together too." Kara pleaded, giving Leo a soft look that caused him to cave.
"You know I can't say no to you. Besides, it'll be good practice for when we have our own." Leo responded with a smirk, causing Kara to blush as she realized the implications. They reached the place where they were supposed to pick Carter up, Kara getting out of the car so that she could receive the boy.
"Hi Carter. My name's Kara. I'm going to be the one watching you for Ms. Grant." Kara said, introducing herself while leading Carter to the car.
"Hey there kid. The name's Leo. I'm Kara's fiancé who somehow got roped into watching you. That sounded much better in my head. Speaking of which, did you see the new Lord tech train?" Leo greeted from the driver seat.
"It sounds so cool. Hey can we go see it?" Carter asked, finally giving some response. Leo was about to say yes only to be shot down by a glare from Kara.
"Sorry Carter but your mom left me instructions to bring you to her office and then send you home for the night. And since Ms. Grant left such instructions, those will be what we will do, isn't that right dear?" Kara said sweetly.
"Of course. Since your mom already said you can't go I guess you can't go kiddo." Leo said.
Once they got into the office, Leo sat down in front of Kara's desk while Carter settled himself next to her. Kara tried asking if he wanted anything but the boy didn't respond. She tried striking up conversation by talking about phone ownership but was again ignored. Leo was the one who managed to break the ice by asking Carter if he played any games on his phone and it quickly devolved into a chat about which character or item was stronger in the various games that they had in common. Kara nearly wanted to flip out at how much trouble she had interacting with Carter when Leo could do it so easily.
"Alex? Aren't you watching Maxwell Lord?" Kara asked after answering her phone.
"We have a problem. There's a bomb here and it's about to blow in 1 minute. We need you here now." Alex said. Kara hung up the phone and looked at Leo who nodded at her to go.
"I have an urgent errand I need to run. I'll be right back." Kara said before rushing to get to a secluded place.
"Now that the lady is gone, why don't we go see if we can get a game going in your mom's office?" Leo said, motioning for Carter to follow him into Cat's office.
"Are you sure that's okay? She doesn't seem like the type who would allow it." Carter asked.
"One tip for your life kid. Always agree with the woman. Then once they leave, do whatever it is you were going to do anyway. Just make sure you don't get caught or get caught at a point where they can't stop you. All of which you didn't hear from me by the way." Leo said, tinkering with the equipment before finally managing to get it to work, the game coming to life on the many monitor.
"Had some trouble with that errand dear?" Leo remarked, turning to look behind him as Kara entered the office again.
"Why don't you go a few rounds first and then I'll come and join you? Let me go see if Kara's okay first." Leo said, hitting pause on his game. Carter nodded and kept playing his game on the monitor.
"I got disorientated by a bomb. Alex says I should take it easy and that I'm stretching myself too thin now." Kara said with a sigh.
"She isn't wrong you know. You're trying to balance everything you have. Your work, your life as Supergirl and everything else. Life is about balance Kara. You have to give some things up in order to be able to other things. You need to learn to cope with things already on your plate before adding more to it. If not, it'll spill. But if anyone can do it, I know it's you Kara." Leo answered, giving her a hug that she gladly drew comfort from.
"You always know just what to say." Kara said, breaking the hug.
"Well' I need to know how to keep my partner happy don't I? So, want to tell me what we are dealing with?" Leo asked.
"One of Lord's former employees is the bomber. He was fired a few months ago. That probably explains why the targets have mostly been Lord Tech stuff. Alex is trying to convince the him to stop the launch of the train. Doubt she'll have any luck there." Kara said. Leo seemed to contemplate his words carefully.
"I think I should take Carter to the train ceremony." Leo suggested, raising a hand to silence Kara's protest so that he could elaborate.
"If what you said is true, then the guy is probably targeting Lord tech stuff. Unfortunately, that's a lot of locations to cover in this city. If I go on the train, I can keep an eye out for the guy and if he is there, you can come in and stop him. If we keep waiting for bombs to pop up, this'll end up becoming a never-ending goose chase. We can do this Kara. We need to work together. Partners remember? I'll keep Carter safe. I promise." Leo explained, taking Kara's hand in his. Kara took a deep breath before choosing to concede to Leo's suggestions.
"Hey Carter, how's the game going?" Leo asked, taking his seat next to Carter who was still grinding away at his game.
"Great! I managed to complete the round without you. But I need your help now to clear the boss fight." Carter said.
"Awesome. Kara went to get us some lunch. Speaking of which, I managed to convince her to let me take you to the train ceremony later. Just the two of us since she has some things she needs to do." Leo said.
"Yes! You're the best watcher ever! You think Supergirl might be there with all this talk about terrorist attacks?" Carter asked.
"Who knows buddy. But don't stop hoping. Anyway, the game?" Leo pointed out before the two got engrossed in playing their game.
"I saw our bomber aboard the train. He's making his way to the front of the train now." Leo said over the comms to Kara who had been flying towards the airport to deal with a bomb the DEO had located.
"I can't be in two places at once. You guys can deal with the bomb at the airport. I'm ending this making sure that he can't hurt anyone else." Kara said before flying towards the train. She landed in the same carriage that Leo, Carter and Maxwell Lord were.
"The bomber is on this train. You need to stop it immediately." Kara said to Maxwell Lord.
"I can't the train is automated." Maxwell Lord responded.
"Are we all in danger? You'll save us, right?" Carter asked.
"I will but right now I need you to be a hero as well. I need you to help me get everyone to the back of the train. I know you can do it. You have a brave heart. Will you help him?" Kara said to Carter, directing the last part to Leo who nodded.
Leo and Carter got to work together with Maxwell Lord to move the passengers of the train towards the rear while Kara searched out for the bomber, finding him making his way to the front of the train. Kara gave chase, confronting him at the front of the train. She tried to talk him down from his attempt at bombing the train, appealing to the fact that he had an ill daughter. Leo all the while listening to Kara's plea. However, the man seemed resigned to his fate, activating the bomb strapped to his body and asking Kara to save everyone else. Kara split the front of the train from the rest using her heat vision before using her super strength to manually stop the train, creating distance from it and the explosion.
"Mom!" Carter shouted before embracing his mother when he came out of the lift.
"I met Supergirl! She's so much prettier in person!" Carter exclaimed.
"She's also smart, courageous and several other adjectives. But tell me what you think makes her a hero?" Cat asked.
"Her legs. Definitely her legs. Just kidding. It's her heart mom." Carter replied. Enjoying the flabbergasted look on her face for a moment.
"Oh, you made a joke. That's amazing. Now you need to get to school. The car's downstairs." Cat said, picking up Carter's bag and handing it to him. Kara came rushing out of the office towards them.
"Bye buddy." Kara said with a smile and wave.
"Bye Kara." Carter said, giving her hug.
"Can Kara and Leo watch me again? I had a great time." Carter asked.
"I think you should hold on to those happy memories." Cat said before shooing Carter off to get to school.
"I'm so sorry Ms. Grant. I shouldn't have let him go to the train it's just that I had some things to do and Leo said he would be safe and convinced me to let him go. I don't know how you do everything. Without Leo I wouldn't have been able to take care of Carter." Kara said as the pair walked into Cat's office.
"You learn Keira. You juggle one ball first then add another. Too many women struggle with family and their careers at the same time. That is how you can have everything. But Keira, you have something I never had. A good man willing to stand by your side. You should be grateful for it and make full use of what you have." Cat suggested before throwing work at Kara.
Down to votes again!
Build Genius will be the endgame form this is confirmed after the recent episode with the form in action although I will be tweaking its capabilities as more is revealed about what exactly it can do. But there are still other things to vote for.
1) To Feature Cross Z Magma.
This form will serve as a bridge before Leo gets the Evol Driver. I'm leaning to feature it in but it will depend on the next vote.
2) To move Crisis on Earth X to post Reign Arc.
I want reader's opinions on whether or not I should move the Earth X to post Reign. Still debating on that. If it stays as per canon timeline, it's unlikely that I will add an enemy for Leo to square off again (I might fit in Mad Rogue and an Utsumi esque character if I feel I can make it work.) Moving it to post reign will probably mean I will add an Evolt type enemy for Leo to fight. So, let's hear some opinions.
3) Mid Story Baby
Any opinions on Kara and Leo having a kid within the story? Somewhere in early season three? Or maybe even end of season 2? Let me know your thoughts.
Till next update!