Chapter 6: Call to Arms (5 PM)

Within the underground lab, quick work had been done to aid the hero in her recovery. Lena had immediately gone to work the moment they stepped foot in it barking orders to Jess whom she had contacted for additional assistance. No one had really known the genius behind her L-Corp savior. With her presence both of them could tend to the one whom struggled under unconsciousness with the sickly green invading every ounce of her body. Though they had gotten the kryptonite shield thanks to Alura's quick flight back to the DEO, and another prototype of Lena's suits, Kara was still encountering a resistance to solar light and that worried the hell out of them all. Forced decisions made Lena power down the prototype once in hopes that the lamps would start to fill her cells.

Lena was growing ever more frustrated with this. She needed to save her best friend! Why was this coming across far more difficult than it should be?! She slammed her palms down on one of her metal tables beside a microscope, in a violent frustration. Nothing was working..

Alex's shared her knowledge from since when her little sister had been brought to her door to now and explained parts of Kara's anatomy and things she'd discovered over the years she'd encountered with her. Alura too had offered insight and explained more advanced procedures in hopes of helping her daughter. Still, something was off. What were they missing?

"Why isn't her system purging with all we've used and everything we could think of with? It makes no sense!" Jess growled growing just as frustrated. She understood now why Miss Luthor had contacted her for added expertise. That, and she'd always partially considered the odds of Supergirl and Kara never in the same place at the same time and what it just might mean. Now those possibilities had been confirmed and to Jess, Kara had always been Lena's real angel. Once she had known Eve had taken leave after everything that had happened in the lab with Lena's 'other' item, she knew there would come a time she'd be called to aid. With good reason Eve had left and Jess respected that understood that. But something just wasn't right with this situation.

"It's the strength of it." Susan spoke up from her guarded position at the wall with her arms crossed. Lena, Alex and Alura looked at her as Jess and Amelia kept focusing on other scans. "Something about what was being pumped through our vents. What if…" Vasquez took a deep breath letting it out with a sigh. "...what if this strand of it has more than what the kryptonites we have encountered have? What if there are other chemicals in the mix?"

"I considered other elements, but every blood draw we've done shows nothing else but the kryptonite. I mean….particles in the air…." Lena froze at her own process of elimination. "The air…" She looked up locking eyes with Susan. "You need to get a hold of Remzi at the DEO or warn Aaron the other fans are laced too! All of the DEO has been laced with the kryptonite! It's a coating layer! Like...a liquid seal! It can't just be blown away!" That had everyone else tense. "We need to submerge Kara and use red sun lamps to do it. Alex….we need to…"

"You want to DROWN my sister?" Alex looked at her with a tightening in her chest and harsh swallow against her throat. Her mind instantly went to when she was in that chamber Rick had put her in, where her mind and body were struggling to breathe through the rise of the water intent on encasing her in it's tomb. "Lena, Kara can't breathe under water.."

"I know, I know. But...what else can we do?" Everyone looked at each other then at the one on the exam table almost fully exposed to the sun lamps that didn't seem to be healing her. But as Alex glanced from the lamps to her sister then to the lamps again, it donned on her. "What? What is it Alex?" Lena had seen the gears turning in the Director's head.

"Get the lamps off. They are further imbedding her system with the kryptonite." She shared with them her theory. "We don't need yellow sun lamps on her. We need black light lamps on her." They looked at her like she had lost her mind but with a shared look between Lena and her the woman instantly understood Alex's logic. It just might work. They had to try…

The dark sky had been littered with the tiniest sparkles of millions of stars. No clouds heeded the vast canvas, it was all so clear so beautiful and glistening with those small glows. The moon was crescent but even it's radiant glow reminded her that the darkness did indeed have beauty. Her deep unearthly blues studied the patterns amongst the sparkles searching through each constellation she saw. Her body was covered in the lightest of blue gowns, like the one she saw her mother in before the nightmares of the world killers had plagued her mind.

Kara looked away from the stars and looked down to find no city, no flashing lights or sounds of the bustling of her home. All she saw was a vast terrain of luscious green, trees for miles and rivers even a waterfall. It was so very beautiful. No sirens or flaring dangerous sounds. No real noises except the ones mother nature provided. A gentle breeze made her shiver slightly but it wasn't an uncomfortable one. She lost herself to the serene landscape unaware of another's company in her midst.

"Quite beautiful, isn't it little one?" Kara knew that voice and turned her head instantly to see her aunt approach. Dressed in a gown similar but a dark that reminded her of her suit as Supergirl, she still held a beauty all its own. "Do you remember our nights looking out at those stars?"

"Astra…" Kara hadn't expected this reunion. Her eyes widened. Was she…

"Easy Kara. You have not passed on." Astra told her as she stepped beside her looking up to the canvas of the night's mural. "Such things you shouldn't worry yourself with right now."

"Are you…" She was almost afraid to ask, afraid of the answer. Kara stared at her as if storing away every detail of her aunt's features.

"No. As much as I would like to be little one. Rao has kept me safe, you need not fear I do not have peace. I do." They both let their eyes wander the trinkles of an untouched glow.

"I must get back Aunt Astra. I must return to help my sister, my best friend...everyone." Kara told her. "How can I get back there?"

"You trust in those you've protected all your life. You trust that they have the keys to unlock your prison. Your concerns are understandable but do not make them so great that they consume you." Astra reached out with a solid hand and took her niece's own. Their hands gripped one another.

"I need to apol…"

"You needn't to little one. I know. You need not nor the brave one of Earth. Her actions were the only way to set me free from Non's hold. I turned on family, when I should have understood why I was sent away. My own angers caused my fate. Your sister did not."

"Will you...will you stay with me for now?" Kara felt the tears spill from her eyes sliding down her cheeks. How badly she missed her aunt, how she longed to feel her arms around her and tell her everything would be okay.

"Oh course I will. I will never not be with you Kara." Their heads turned their eyes met and their hands stayed together to look back up at the stars.

"Holy…" Lena cupped a hand over her mouth with a group of gasps when they'd flicked the black lights on leaving their glow to cover the hero's body. It was more than just one thing in her veins that lit of that green, and it wasn't just one shade of kryptonite green either. Three separate hues of the color shown in her pumping veins. This wasn't what they expected at all. "How could I not see…"

"We see what are minds tell us to. We do not see beyond the scope of our perspectives. I'd used other lights, lamps on her before. I had seen some as a teen, when I had posters up and projects. I just factored in there are other ways to see things our naked eye can't." Alex did her best to explain. "The problem is, we don't know what these three are."

"Amelia?" Lena looked to the doctor. "What other databases does the DEO have regarding catalogs and such for...venoms?" Alex gasped at that and she turned to look back at her. "Kryptonite is the greatest cause, but what if with her system exposed to it she is susceptible to other poisons? Think about it! With her system down from the kryptonian protections, she'd be fully vulnerable to ALL toxins!"

"Lena…..can we link our systems?" Jess asked skipping normal formalities with her boss and friend. "If we can into one database then maybe just maybe we can figure out the other factors here."

"Exact…" Everyone felt everything around them and under them shake hard not contemplating the meaning of it until the doors to her lab had been blasted open with one figure walking in, a suit all too familiar. "What the…" Alex began to say.

"James?" The man tilted his head slightly with his guardian head mask his suit a much darker grey almost black, a symbol far different than any they'd seen on his chest. He crossed his arms with spikes erupting from the gauntlets and each one glowed with a sickly green color. Then his symbol began to glow of green as well along the with visor of his mask as two knives slipped into his gloved grasp. "GET OUT OF HERE!"

"Give me the alien. Stand down and I will not have to hurt any of you, except the other alien amongst you!" He told them, a warning to stand back and do as he ordered.

"Like hell we will." Alex snarled stepping into a fighter's stance. Lena and Susan did the same and Alura shot in front of them in the same pose. "Alura?"

"Get your suits on, I'll hold him off.." Alura told the Director with her suit and armor from Lena on as well as a cloaked replica of the anti-kryptonite shield her sister had once wore. "You will not touch my daughter, nor anyone here. Surrender now, and I will go easy on you." She attempted resolution but this man's posture showed no give. "You left me no choice then.." She rushed up to him only for his own movements to catch her off guard. He was faster than she had expected and stronger at that and she had to side step several times to avoid his strikes.

"NO!" Alex had her phoenix armor on igniting the sparks and her torched body flew at the man to shove him back a few feet and begin in a more hand to hand combat with him. She wouldn't let the mislead Olsen hurt her baby sister or any of them for that matter. She would fight til the very last breath that left her body, not wavering when it came to protecting those she cared for. But this Guardian was faster and much stronger than she'd ever encountered of the times they'd fought together. He'd been enhanced and instead of wearing him down she started to sweat some by his strikes and his deflects.

Lena and Susan hadn't wasted anytime and with their weapons and abilities of their armor they joined in to counteract James' attacks at Alex. With three on one his movements were faltering and it was what they had counted on. As much as his strength and speed had been increased the advance of the three warriors was far too much for him. He was losing ground and fast and with one solid punch and two precise kicks the knives had been thrown from his hands and his body dropped forcefully to his knees. He rose regardless refusing to give up.

Alura took the opportunity and dashed over to Lena's control panel studying the principles of her technology and with a few questions at Jess they'd gotten up what they knew would hold this enraged out of control Guardian.

"LENA...GET HIM TO THE LEFT CORNER!" She hollered and all three women began their united attacks to force James back and to the side of the room that Alura was wanting them to kick his ass to. "C'mon….almost there…" She was just about to activate the forcefield when a burning explosive pain shot through her back and into her chest sending her whole world into a powerful blackness.

"NO!" Alex had heard it as did the rest of them and with her head turned Guardian struck her in the head far harder than what she'd expected him to punch with knocking her backward with Lena and Susan trying to hold the man back having struggle in doing so. Alex was seeing stars and stumbling back she had no choice but to take off her head gear. The impact had dazed her and as her body began to tumble to go down she saw a figure so very familiar walk right up to her sister then her own world went as black as Alura's.

"ALEX! Shit….dammit! NO! KARA!" Lena felt her body slammed hard into one of her lab's metal walls and much slower to recover she saw Vasquez trying to hold her own against the powerful Guardian. But her eyes were not on the fight but whom was approaching her best friend. Kara was completely helpless and in grave danger. "Like hell you will!" Lena forced all the power in her armored suit HER kryptonian had made her and she rushed at the man whom held a dangerous knife above Kara's unprotected chest. She would not lose her best friend today, not ever would she lose her again.

The man paid no heed to the activity around him raising the black and green knife above the animal that ruined his life and his daughter's. This monster would pay and Jeremiah would enjoy bringing this unholy thing to an agonizing and so very slow death. But he didn't even have the opportunity to see Lena's fast approach and as he brought his hands down holding the knife he was violently knocked sideways to crash hard into the wall to the right of him. The knife slid far away from the man and he barely saw when the armored bitch walked over. His lights were going out and there was nothing he could do.

"DAMN YOU!" Susan had watched the woman approach at quite the unimaginable speed but with the force of her collision into Guardian James was catapulted into the far wall to drop like a box of rocks to the floor. Vasquez turned to see a familiar face and when Nia walked away to check on first Alex then a very wounded Alura she stood with aid of Lena and Amelia and Jess had rushed over to the two women unconscious with one coming to.

"Nia?" Susan hadn't known the power this savior held but something told her no one had a clue.

"Call me Dreamer." Nia spoke up and walked over to Kara's unconscious still body and softly put a hand on her face. "Let's get her taken care of shall we?" With the Director coming fully to finally, she looked up to see Nia amongst them looking to the two men down that would not awaken anytime soon. "Get them into the force field cage of yours Lena. I will help get Supergirl back to full strength. You need to check Alura's body for traces of the kryptonite bullets that pierced her suit. As for Kara, this is what we need to do…" Amelia and Lena went to action on Alura and everyone listened attentively to Nia, to Dreamer, holding onto every word the newest hero had to say..