Karry Universe
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A Totem Connection.
-Beginning of March-
Amelia sat at the bar laughing. Crystal was on the other side and the two had been talking nonstop.
"So, I know we're doing something in Disney for your Bachelorette party, but before Disney, how about we do something small here? Me and you. Maybe some of the other girls." Crystal was saying.
"And me," it was Gary the other bartender, who liked to listen into their conversations.
"Gary, go serve customers," Crystal rolled her eyes, and Gary moved off. "Oh, there's my date..." Ava Sharpe had come in and to the bar, taking the seat next to Amelia. Amelia and Ava shared a mutual glare, however.
"Sounds great. Crystal," Amelia mumbled now. "I'll catch you later."
"Don't you have to pay?" Ava asked as Amelia finished her drink and got up to go.
"My dad owns the place," Amelia retorted as she headed out.
"Hold on a second Ava," Crystal said and hopped over the bar and ran out. "Amelia!" Amelia stopped in front of the entrance, her cellphone out. She turned at the shout. "I invited Ava so we could all hang out. She's my girlfriend; you're my best friend… I want to get this thing between you two sorted. And not just because you two are Totem bearers." Crystal lowered her voice. "I mean, you are linked. You need…"
"Crystal," Amelia said, cutting Crystal off. "I respect what you see in Ava. I have not asked you to stop dating her, but respect when I say I don't like her. She's a class-A jerk and I don't know how or why that Totem choose her. I still think it was mistake. None of the others want anything to do with her. I'll see you Crystal."
Amelia walked away as Crystal sighed, heading back to her girlfriend.
"Ava," Crystal said. "Look, can't you be a little warmer to Amelia and the other Totem bearers?" She sat down next to her girlfriend. "You're all chosen."
"They don't like me and I don't like them," Ava shrugged.
"Why?" Crystal asked. "You don't know them."
"Mick is a thug, a meat head; Speedy won't even tell me her real name; Lena thinks she's far too superior… and Amelia is a child," Ava said.
"What?" Crystal asked, not getting that last one.
"Come on, I mean a Disney wedding? Dressing up. She lives off her rich brother!" Ava said. "She has never grown up and she has the most dangerous of the Totems. There were clearly mistakes made. Mick and Amelia for a start."
"They'd say that about you," Crystal mumbled. "Look, you threw the first punch." Ava gave Crystal a look. "You threw Morgan out. Morgan is family to them. You stopped the funding for the animals. You're the reason they don't like you – for this fighting to end, you have to start it."
"Maybe I don't care," Ava snapped. "I don't understand why she's your best friend, but I respect it. I'm just never going to like it." Ava took some money out. Gary had apparently given her a drink while Caitlin had chased down Amelia. "For people whose dad don't own the bar." She remarked, putting the money on the counter. "I'll see you later." Ava got up, kissed Crystal on the cheek, and left.
Crystal frowned at the door after this, thinking.
-Karry Universe-
The next day Kara and Barry were in the Superflash cave with Caitlin and Jesse. Alura, Nora, Garfield, Jenny, Romana, and Star were there along with two bags of fan mail for Rebecca Silverton. Alura, Nora, and Garfield were tossing the papers around as Romana, Star, and Jenny did their weekend homework.
Kara was pacing the floor as she was on the phone. "Listen to me," Kara said, her voice rising with each word. "All the mail your sending Rebecca Silverton is coming to my labs." Kara paused as the person on the other end was talking. "No, I don't want to talk to John again. You've sent me in circles for over a month. I just want all this freaking mail to stop coming here!" Kara hung up the phone and threw it at the wall, breaking it and causing Alura and Nora to cheer.
"Let me get this straight. We have Zoom trying to kidnap Sabrina," Jesse said – Sabrina was on her lap, as since having her talk with Harry she had become a real mother to Sabrina much to the little girl delight. "And a serial killer killing all your saves and you're concerned about fan mail?"
"Do you know where Zoom is?" Kara asked.
"Um… No," Jesse admitted.
"And have we had any luck figuring out where the Second Chance Killer will attack to set a trap for him?" Kara asked. Setting a trap to block his meta human powers was the only solution to stopping him from teleporting away.
"No," Jesse repeated.
"Then I can't stop either of them but what I can do is try to stop this fan mail from coming here," Kara snapped at Jesse.
There was a moment of silent and then Jesse looked to Barry.
"Barry… have you gotten her pregnant again?" Jesse asked, to diffuse the situation.
Barry laughed at that and Kara even cracked a smile. "No," Barry admitted. "Not yet."
"Maybe you should have Caitlin check," Jesse suggested.
Caitlin though stood up and went to Kara, surprising Kara by poking her with a pocketknife; the knife breaking on contact. "She's good," Caitlin said and Kara did laugh at that.
"The publishing company has been giving her the run around for weeks," Barry explained. "It seems Kara charm can work with NASA, reporters, and almost everyone but publishing companies."
"Oh, but I am getting my revenge," Kara said with a smirk on her face. "Those Beebo books Barry got copies of from Hero, well, we've been arguing back and forth on how or if we were going to get them actually published on this world. Well, I made a deal for Beebo books with this publishing company's biggest rival. That's at least a billion dollars they are losing." Kara was actually laughing a little at that. Alura and Nora yelled 'Beebo!' and moved to grab the toys from the pile in the corner.
"Beebo wuv-wuv—wuv ooh!" the toys responded to them squeezing the,.
"Kara… in another life you would have been really good as a badde," Jesse joked.
"I think Nazi World proved that already," Kara said as the back door opened and in came Crystal.
"Hey Crys," Caitlin said. "Did we have lunch planned?" Since Crystal had joined the super family, Caitlin and her sister went out to lunch regularly.
"Aunty Crys!" Garfield called out, turning into a puppy and running to his aunt to rub the bottom of her leg. Crystal picked the puppy up.
"Nah," Crystal said to her sister as puppy-Garfield licked her face. "I'm here to talk about the Totem bearers." They were silence for a moment, all waiting for Crystal to continue. "The in-fighting between those four and Ava… I mean, it needs to stop, and I know none of you like Ava, but the five of them are chosen."
"What do you want to do, lock them in a room until they get along?" Caitlin asked.
"I was thinking Watchtower," Crystal stated seriously, making Caitlin blink at the similar plan.
"Maybe you two have a link," Jesse said giggling at her own joke.
"Well Mick lives there," Barry said. "And Speedy would be easy to get there."
"I'm sure I can get Amelia and Lena there," Kara said. "But Ava…."
"I can trick her," Crystal said.
"The problem is, they might kill each other… or at least Ava," Jesse pointed out. "Thea, Amelia, and Lena get along well enough. And Mick gets along with them. It's Ava who's the target and outnumbered."
"Could leave Krypto up there," Kara thought. "He can make sure they don't attack each other." Krypto picked up his head at his name being called. "Okay, call Team Canary and get this started." Puppy-Garfield yapped in Crystal's arms at this, excited as he wagged his tail. Alura and Nora laughed at their friend, still squeezing their Beebos.
-Karry Universe-
Thea came out of the zap tunnel to see Mick sitting with a lot of food on the table. She had her full Speedy outfit on.
"What's with the buffet?" Thea asked, taking a seat and one of the burgers. "I thought we were having a Justice League meeting?"
"If meetings started like this all the time they wouldn't all be so boring," Mick remarked, taking a swig of beer as the zap tunnel opened again and Amelia and Lena came out.
"Where's Kara?" Amelia asked, looking around.
"That's what I am wondering," Thea said, suspicious now.
Another zap tunnel opened up and Ava came in. Seeming shocked and confused.
"What the…?" Ava asked.
"Hi," it was Crystal's voice and on a monitor that popped up from the middle of the table was Crystal. "So, here's the deal: I'm tired of you five fighting so you're going to work things out. Enjoy the food."
"Okay. I'm out of here," Amelia groaned. "Gideon, open the zap tunnel."
"Sorry Amelia, I cannot," Gideon's voice was heard.
"The Flash and Supergirl have now disconnected the zap tunnel system to Watchtower," Crystal continued, speaking from the monitor. "Gideon will only reopen it when we're satisfied this melodramatic fight is over." There was a bark and Krypto came running in from another part of the base, already in his Superdog outfit. "And Superdog will be there to make sure you five don't kill each other. Have fun!"
The communication ended and the monitor went back into the table.
"This is so not happening," Lena muttered sitting down. "I have a lot of work to do!"
Amelia sighed. "I should have figured Crystal would do something like this," she muttered, grabbing a hotdog from the table and a soda. "They'll let us out eventually."
Amelia then walked out of the room and whistled. Krypto jumping to follow her.
"I'm out," Mick said, grabbing another beer and burger before heading out and up the stairs.
"I'm going to train," Thea added, keeping her hood up so Ava could not see her face.
"I suppose T.V.'s pretty good," Lena said, getting up and heading out to find a place to watch TV. Ava frowned as she sat down, taking some fries.
-Karry Universe-
Barry walked into his Gideon lab where Kara had taken over things to continue her quest to stop the fan mail.
"Kara, what's happened to my lab?" Barry asked. The previous Time Vault had been transformed into Barry's A.I lab where he created Gideon and continued his upgrades to her, but this was in a different set up. "And that's my white board!"
"You didn't need it for the Second Chance Killer anymore," Kara stated, she having used it to keep track of her clues. "I figured, instead of trying to get to the publishing company I would find the author herself and get her to give the publisher the right address."
"Not a bad idea," Barry said. "But Rebecca Silverton is clearly a pen name and the publisher will not give you her real name."
"Reason why I had Gideon hack into the publishers' servers. But they don't know her real name," Kara said. "But I had another thought. We don't get any checks, which means the money is directly deposited. So… I tracked the money to an overseas bank account, which I can't figure out who owns."
"You hit a dead end," Barry summarized.
"I'll figure something out," Kara said. "Didn't you have to bring Romana and Star to a birthday party?"
"Already did," Barry said.
"Oh, Alura and Nora?" Kara asked.
"With Rae and Connor. I told them no making out," Barry said, and Kara giggled, remembering Clark saying the same things Barry now did when he left Jason with the two of them. "And Caitlin left for the day. It is a Saturday after all."
"Totem Bearers?" Kara asked.
"Seems instead of killing each other they decided to avoid each other," Barry sighed. "Our Watchtower is a big place. We'll need to give them a few more hours." Barry sat down. "Kara, I want to talk to you about something."
Kara sensed Barry's seriousness and paused. "Okay," Kara said sitting down.
"It's about Jesse's joke about getting you pregnant…" Barry said, and Kara raised an eyebrow. "It's been a year since we decided to slow down on the third… well fifth child. And I got why you weren't ready then: we had just adopted Romana and Star, and Alura and Nora were still young and well, half-Kryptonian and half-speedster is a toughie to deal with... but now Alura and Nora are growing, we have control of them. I mean they are potty trained. They walk. They run. They understand. I mean Alura went on for over an hour yesterday of wanting a pink Beebo while Nora wanted a purple one."
"Call the pink one Beeba and make it Beebo girlfriend," Kara thought aloud.
"Not the point," Barry said, but had to smile at the suggestion, making a mental note of it. "My question is, are you ready to start trying again? Or will you ever be ready? Are you rethinking having more kids?"
"Barry," Kara said, stopping Barry and moving forward, taking his hands. "I want to have more kids with you. I want that little boy as much as you do."
"Good," Barry smiled. "But here's my other question: do you want to carry the baby, or maybe try those artificial wombs?" Barry asked.
"Barry…" Kara said started, but he continued talking anyway.
"Palmer Tech's reports are promising," Barry stated. "We had luck with small animals. Trying bigger ones before moving onto Kryptonian animals.
"Barry…"
"We could do the first humanoid and then after that we maybe could…"
"Barry!" Kara yelled, both internally and externally getting his attention. "I want to do it the old fashion way with you." Barry gave a smirk at that and kissed Kara, who returned the kiss.
-Karry Universe-
Amelia was standing outside, under the dome with Earth staring back at her. Krypto was with her, lazing around as Amelia tossed food out to the animals that lived here now – with Caitlin using her powers to grow and keep plants alive here, plus the dome providing oxygen and good weather, Kara and Barry had put a few animals in the dome – but not just any animals as they got samples of species that were going extinct and placed them here. Amelia was wondering if Kara and Barry had given thought to terraforming the moon completely and claiming it as an animal sanctuary for endangered animals. This way, Watchtower could stay hidden with no human coming. She'd have to suggest that to the two.
She heard footsteps behind her and assumed it was Lena.
"Hey Lena…." Amelia turned but stopped. The footsteps belonged to Ava. "Oh, it's you."
"As long as I am stuck here, I figured I would look around," Ava shrugged giving Amelia a look as Krypto growled her. "What's wrong with the dog?" Krypto growled a bit louder at that.
"He doesn't like you," Amelia stated.
"What did I do to the dog?" Ava groaned as Krypto gave another growl.
"Call him Superdog unless you want to get bitten," Amelia said. "And you kicked Morgan out of the DEO which in turn made Morgan upset which led Supergirl to getting another Kryptonian dog for Morgan who Superdog is not fond of." Ava groaned. She hadn't expected the superpowered dog would hate her as well. "I'm going to see what Lena and Speedy are doing." Amelia had to remember to use the hero's name since Ava did not know Thea's real names.
"Fine yeah… walk away and pout like the child you are," Ava groaned as Amelia started walking away, Krypto going to follow her, but both paused.
"What did you just call me?" Amelia asked turning around.
"A child," Ava said, not backing down. "Fine. It's out in the open so I may as well continue. You're a child in a grown woman's body, Amelia – you live off, and with, your brother, you're obsessed with Disney and you even don't need to pay for anything. You're nothing but a child – and it scares me to death that you have that Death totem. There had to be some mistake there."
"The only mistake was you," Amelia snapped at this. "You're a heartless bitch. You think you're so just and know everything, but you know nothing. And not that it's any of your business, but the Death Totem chose me because I understand and don't fear death – I battled brain cancer as a child and nearly died. So, excuse me if I enjoy having fun." Ava seemed stunned at that, not sure what to say. Amelia stepped back and paused again. "And also, not that it's any of your business but Kara and Barry asked me and Winn to live with them so there was always an adult home for the kids when they couldn't be. Because they trust me to be a responsible adult for their children. Their opinion means a lot more to me than yours."
Amelia and Krypto walked into Watchtower as Ava sighed, taking out her cellphone and glad she could still call out.
"Hey, how's it going?" Crystal answered.
"You could have told me Amelia nearly died from cancer as a kid," Ava said. "She hates me even more now and hell, I would too if I was her."
"Then that's a good step forward," Crystal chuckled. "You're understanding her. Now you have to make it up to her." Ava sighed, getting Crystal was not letting her out of this so easily.
….
Amelia had gone into a side room where Lena and Thea were watching TV. Thea had taken her hood off but when she heard Amelia, she went to put it back up.
"Don't worry, it's just me," Amelia called, and Thea let out a breath and lowered her hood again. "What are you watching?"
"Just checking out some of the other Earths TV shows," Lena said. "SuperFlash Earth had a few seasons of Firefly."
"Seriously?" Amelia asked. "I'd watch that… although didn't realize you were a Sci fi nerd."
"I'm not," Lena said. "But Nathan Fillion is cute." Amelia giggled at that.
"Where's Mick?" Thea asked after a moment of silence.
"I think in his room," Lena said.
"Come on, let's get him," Amelia said with a smirk, heading out of the room and up to the stairs, with Krypto following. Lena and Thea gave each other a smirk, Thea throwing up her hood again to follow Amelia out.
"Amelia?" It was Ava walking back in. "I need to… well…."
"We're getting Mick," Amelia said, cutting Ava off but not looking at her as the three girls and one dog went up the stairs. Ava shrugged and followed them up the stairs and to the room where Mick was currently living.
"Mick!" The three girls, minus Ava, started calling, playfully.
"Go away," Mick yelled out.
"Get out here!" Lena yelled back.
"No," Mick replied.
"Okay, we need to get him out," Thea mused. "I could kick down the door."
"Let's not damage Watchtower," Amelia paused. "Even though that would be nice revenge for this."
"I could pick the lock," Ava said making the three turn to her. "I am a trained agent. Just need something like a bobby pin. Anyone…?" The three looked at each other but Thea went into her weapons bag and took out a thin knife.
"Would this work?" Thea asked.
"Not bad," Ava said, taking in the knife and Thea handed it to her; Ava going to the door and working for a moment before she was able to turn the handle and open it; much to Mick's surprise, who jumped up from his desk.
"Get out!" Mick said with a grunt.
"No," Amelia smirked, walking in.
"What are you doing anyway?" Lena asked, walking in to see the typewriter.
"Nothing," Mick growled, trying to hide the papers. The girls look at each other and smirked as Thea and Ava got Mick away from the desk; Lena and Amelia went over and took the papers. "Put that down!"
"What is this?" Amelia asked.
"Looks like a book," Lena said. "A romantic sci fi novel… Wait, this is Rebecca Silverton… I read the first book. I know the style."
"It's fanfiction," Mick grunted quickly, but Lena knew better.
"No," Lena muttered. "This is the sequel book! It's not out yet."
"Sci fi romance?" Amelia said, with a smirk.
"It's a guilty pleasure," Lena shrugged.
"First Firefly and now this. I like this side of you," Amelia said. "Wait… If this is the sequel, then that means…"
All four girls looked at Mick as they said together: "You're Rebecca Silverton!"
"Don't tell anyone," Mick threatened, with a grunt.
"You better hope Kara does not find out," Amelia stated, making eyes turn to her.
"Is she a fan?" Mick asked, wondering – having an Allen give a good book review could increase sales.
"No, I am pretty sure she wants to kill you," Amelia stated. "You put your address down as STAR Labs. All your fan mail is getting sent there and it's driving Kara nuts."
"Fan mail?" Mick asked, seeming shocked.
"But," Amelia said. "We're not getting out of here unless they see us being nice to each other. So, we're going to go downstairs, sit, and watch TV. Hopefully a few hours of us not killing each other will get us out of this. And no one needs to talk or do anything but look at the TV. Deal?"
"Sounds like a plan," Thea said, and the other nodded. Ava though, bit her lip.
….
"Okay just watching TV is not doing it," Amelia groaned; the group had spent hours just sitting in the main room, eating, and watching TV, but had not been let out yet. "I don't know what the hell they want."
"Do they really think locking us in a room would work?" Thea added, giving Ava an eye. "Supergirl and the Flash wouldn't want to be with her either." Ava gave a sigh but choose not to comment as Mick drank a beer and everyone else ate. "Hey Amelia, truth or dare?"
"Dare," Amelia said without thinking.
"I dare you to hack into the DEO servers," Thea said the first thing that came to her mind.
"Impossible," Ava laughed as Amelia took a laptop and started typing. "The DEO has the best security. You can't…"
"I'm in," Amelia said, stopping Ava and giving Krypto, who had been sitting next to her, a pat.
"What?!" Ava asked, taking the laptop. "What are you some, type of hacker?"
"Hell no," Amelia said. "Winn uses the same password for everything. All I had to do was get to the DEO mainframe and plug in his username and password."
"I think I have to have a word with Mr. Scott about his password," Ava said, but chuckled regardless.
"My turn," Amelia said. "Ava, truth or dare."
"Truth…?" Ava said cautiously, a bit fearful of what Amelia would have her do if she picked dare.
"What's with your attitude?" Amelia asked, and Ava blinked. "I mean kicking Morgan out of the DEO, the animals, all that before outside with me. Why are you like this? Did someone not get hugged enough as a kid or something?"
"Something like that," Ava mumbled. The truth being she had no childhood to speak of, being a clone and Rip taking her to this time… any memories she had of a life were fake. "Look, I like order. I like things in a certain way. Morgan was not that way. And the animals were taking up money I thought could be useful elsewhere. It all ended up working out."
"Because my brother and sister-in-law jumped in and fixed it," Amelia pointed out.
"True," Ava nodded. "And I am grown up enough to admit when I made a mistake and that's not Morgan or the animals, but what I said to you outside was wrong. I shouldn't have judged you based on my little knowledge of you. I didn't know your life."
Amelia gave a nod. "Thank you. Your turn," Amelia said.
"Lena, truth or dare," Ava said.
"Truth," Lena said.
"How did you get away from your family's legacy so easily? They were villains but here you are… a Totem Bearer, running a highly successful business without an evil tendency," Ava said.
"I'm not them," Lena stated simply. "I just stayed true to my real self – and had great friends and family." Lena gave Amelia a smile at that, and a playful hit to which Amelia laughed to. Ava frowned but nodded. "Mick," Lena now turned to the man, "truth or dare?"
"I'm not playing," Mick grunted.
"Yes, you are," Amelia said, and Mick opened his mouth, but Krypto gave a growl before he could say anything. "Or answer to him."
"Fine, dare," Mick said.
"I dare you to…." Lena paused as she thought of something good that wasn't kissing the rest of them, "read us a section of your new book." Mick had brought some of the papers down with him now that everyone here knew he was the one writing it.
"No," Mick snapped, defiantly.
"She dared you, you have to!" Amelia called out, and as if to reassert this, Krypto growled once more – even lighting up his eyes at this.
"Urgh, fine," Mick muttered, putting on his glasses as he grabbed one of the pages nearby and started to read: "Garima knew what she had to do as she parted from Buck for the last time. This was a separation that would save the universe, she knew, but the heartache was real. It was time for her take up a new adventure, like she used to do before Buck came into her life…"
"You're breaking up Garima and Buck?!" Lena gasped as Mick stopped.
"He was holding her back," Mick shrugged, to Lena's remaining shock.
"Damn. Maybe I'll have to read this now," Amelia chuckled. "Okay. Your turn Mick."
"Lena," Mick smirked now. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare," Lena said, shaking off her shock and deciding to go for the dare this time.
"I dare you to kiss Amelia on the lips for at least 5 seconds," Mick said.
Lena and Amelia both gave him a look at this but shrugged. Lena leaned over and gave Amelia a kiss on the lips, waiting for Mick to finish counting to 5 before separating.
"Happy?" Lena asked Mick.
"I think I have to add two new characters to my story," Mick said. "Lesbian couple from far off planet. One who can talk to the dead and the other who controls the wind." Amelia and Lena giggled deciding not to point out they weren't a couple.
"That's a little offensive," Ava muttered, to a glare from Mick, Lena and Amelia. "What? Adding in lesbian characters just because two straight women kissed in front of you."
"Ava…" Thea groaned at that.
"If this gets made into a movie Katie McGrath should so play Lena's character," Amelia spoke up, deciding to ignore Ava's comment. "She's from the British TV show, Merlin. You look just like her."
"Thanks," Lena said, deciding to take the compliment. "I used to think you looked like the girl from Star Wars… Daisy Ridley, but now I think you look more like a young Rose McGowan – from when she was on Charmed. Not now."
"I'll take the compliment," Amelia grinned. "Your turn."
"Speedy," Lena said, and Thea smiled to be finally called on. "Truth or dare?"
"Truth," Thea said.
"Who do you think is the worst villain Supergirl and the Flash have ever faced?" Lena asked, and others turned curious for the answer.
"Honestly, this Second Chance Killer," Thea said, surprising them all. "Maybe not as powerful as Darkseid, but he is going after past saves. Others went after them. Its low trying to undo their saves."
"Yeah," Amelia said thinking as she looked at Lena. "Lena, truth or truth?"
"Um… it's Speedy's turn. And that's not how the game is played," Lena said.
"Just go with it," Amelia said as Thea shrugged from the interruption.
"Okay, truth," Lena said.
"Haven't Supergirl and the Flash saved you very publicly several times?" Amelia asked.
"Yes," Lena said.
"So, if you were to make yourself an easy target, the Second Chance Killer would go after you," Amelia said.
"Yes…" Lena said, getting where Amelia was going.
"And if we were to set up devices to block meta human powers on a wide scale, it wouldn't depower us with our Totems," Amelia concluded, knowing her telekinesis and astral projection would go down under that scenario.
"By George I think your right!" Lena said. "Hey everyone, dare or dare?"
"I think we're dare," Thea said with a smirk.
"Let's trap a serial killer," Lena said. Amelia took the box with her Totem out and put it on her hand for the gauntlet to form.
Ava gave out a whistle.
"Hey! You're all forgetting one important thing: we're still trapped here," Ava pointed out.
"You know what," Amelia said. "I think I can take care of that." Amelia took the laptop back and starting typing with one hand, since her Death Totem was still on her right. "Okay, I'm in." The four weren't sure what she was talking about. "And I've disconnect Gideon for a bit... so now, portal open." As Amelia said that line the zap tunnel turned on. "To National City!"
"How did you…?" Ava asked.
"Oh, Winn is not the only person who uses the same password for everything. The Flash does as well," Amelia said, surprising Ava there.
"You could have thought of that five hours ago," Thea pointed out, getting up and heading for the zap tunnel.
"Yeah," Amelia said, dismissing that. "Superdog, you're with us." Krypto gave a bark, getting that this babysitting duty had turned into real superhero duty and excited. "You too, Mick." Lena and Ava had already gone through the zap tunnel.
"I'll pass," Mick said.
"Krypto…" Amelia said, and Krypto gave a bark and then went to grab hold of Mick, pushing him through the portal as Mick was yelled out. Amelia was the last to leave Watchtower.
-Karry Universe-
Kara and Barry came into the Penthouse with Romana and Star behind them. They had gone to pick them up from the party and came home to find Rae giving Alura and Nora food.
"What did you cook?" Barry asked. "Something on a stick?" Barry could see the stick on the plate. Star and Romana who had ate at the party ran in to play.
"Barbeque Chicken Skewer," Rae said. "And a couple of other finger foods. These two will eat anything."
"You're having fun cooking," Kara said, noticing the cookbooks they hadn't had before. Rae must have used their account to buy them and research new recipes.
"Working for the speed force, well it's been a long time since I had access to a kitchen like this," Rae explained. "Connor's coming back with ingredients for zeppolas for dessert. And don't worry, I had them eat their vegetable as well."
"Thank you," Kara said with a nod.
"How did you get them to eat broccoli?" Barry asked, noticing the remnants of the vegetables. The girls were good about eating anything, but for some reason seemed to refuse that one vegetable.
"Three words: peanut butter sauce," Rae said making Kara blink. "Try it."
"I'm in," Barry said, taking some broccoli and one of the chicken skewers. What? Barry thought to Kara. It might have peanut butter in it but it's still the vegetable. They got their vegetables.
True, Kara thought back, taking some food herself.
"One of these days I am going to go Chopped you," Barry said, and Rae shrugged not sure what Barry was talking about. "The show with the baskets that have random ingredients in it, and you have to make a meal from it." Rae shook her head. "Guess was not on your Earth. Look it up."
"Creator," it was Gideon's voice. Rae jumped, still not use to the A.I. herself. "The Totem Bearers have escaped Watchtower."
"How?" Kara asked.
"Amelia Allen used Barry's password to disconnect Watchtower Gideon from the zap tunnel and open it up," Gideon explained, and Barry started to cough as Kara laughed.
"Gideon, alert whoever won the bet," Barry said – when the super family heard of the set-up, people started betting how long the Totem Bearers would last. Gideon was keeping track of the bets and money.
"There is more you should know," Gideon said. "It seems the Totem Bearers have decided to set a trap for the Second Chance Killer."
"How they don't know who he'll attack?" Kara asked, more alert now.
"By giving him bait," Gideon said, and the TV turned on at that, the two seeing Lena Luthor talking to reporters: they had apparently got a tip Lena Luthor was going to release something related to L-Corp, but Lena was saying she was going away for the weekend to a cabin. When specifically asked if she was worried about the Second Chance Killer, some reporter who remembered Supergirl had saved her numerous times, Lena smirked, looking at the camera.
"I am not scared of this pathetic serial killer," Lena stated on the screen. "In fact, I dare him to try me."
Barry and Kara gave each other a look.
"Gideon, bring up my probability for Lena being attacked," Barry said. "And add in her being alone and challenging the Second Chance Killer."
"Lena Luthor's risk of being attacked has gone up to 99 percent, Creator," Gideon stated. "More than likely tonight, after the sun goes down."
"It's not a bad plan," Kara mused after a moment. "They are luring him to a place they can control. They can easily put up a meta human trap for him to stop his power."
"And they also have Krypto," Barry said, but Hex gave a meow from her position on the couch. Nala was with her and the mom was cuddling with her kitten; but at that Hex jumped up. "They could probably use us."
"If this Second Chance Killer is going down, we're not missing it," Kara said, looking around. "Is Winn here?"
"Nope," Rae said. "With Ava not at the DEO, he's taking care of some crisis… I don't know. He didn't tell me. I didn't ask."
"Mind sitting this one out and staying here with the girls?" Barry asked.
"Your Serial Killer is not my mission and I'm still waiting for Connor with ingredients. So, have fun," Rae said, waving them off. Barry and Kara gave her a smile, and both changed into their costumes and getting Hex into her cape, all three leaving.
…
A minute later, Connor came in with bags in his hand. "I got everything," Connor said dropping the bags on the floor.
"Nice," Rae said going to get the bags. "Hey, Connor ever heard of a show called Chopped?" Connor raised an eyebrow and nodded.
"I'll see if it's on," Connor said, getting what was going on and grabbing the remote to change the channel off the news, not paying attention to the headline.
-Karry Universe-
Lena was sitting on the chair in the cabin looking at the fireplace.
Her part was bait; Amelia was in the bedroom with Krypto; Mick in the bathroom; Thea was just outside the back door, while Ava was at the front door. Before the sun went down, they placed their trap and sensors. Just then her phone gave a tiny bing: The serial killer had teleported in. Lena pushed the button to activated the trap as she could practically feel him coming towards them.
Lena activated her Totem and stood up, holding out her hand as the Second Chance Killer bust in, and threw the Second Chance Killer back with a blast of air.
"Not so defenseless!" Lena said, seeing the confusion. "You're not teleporting out of this one."
The Second Chance Killer turned towards the front door, but it opened, and Ava came in – her totem glowing and the very Earth beneath her feet rose and flew toward the Second Chance Killer, knocking him further back.
"Not this way," Ava said, closing the door and standing in front of it, blocking an escape.
At that, the Second Chance Killer went for the back door, but Thea came in, throwing water at him with her own Totem. Mick came out of the bathroom now, blocking him from escaping that way with a wall of controlled fire while Amelia out of the bedroom – her eyes glowing from the Death Totem, which allowed her to summon powers of dead heroes for a limited time.
"Seems without having an easy escape and an easy target, you're useless," Amelia said as she summoned a familiar ghost, who grabbed hold of the Second Chance Killer; Krypto growling and lighting up his eyes going closer.
"Let's see who you are," Lena said as Mick went and took off the mask he wore – It was a man with dark hair and a short beard. Thea took a picture of his face.
"This is not over!" He yelled as he took his arm and threw something on the floor. There was a bright white flash that broke everyone's concentration – even Krypto whined as he was temporarily blinded.
The ghost disappearing as the Second Chance Killer jumped out a window and escaped.
….
It had taken Kara and Barry a while to find exactly where Lena had rented a cabin for the weekend. They then decided not too to interrupt the plan but monitor from the outside – giving unknown extra protection. Besides, the meta human trap could affect Barry's powers.
When they saw the flash coming from the cabin, and heard the window break, Kara landed right in front with Hex, who hissed.
"I don't think you're going anywhere," Kara said, as Barry ran up.
"So nice to see a face, finally," Barry added.
"This isn't over!" the Second Chance Killer shouted, angry, and before the two could react he had teleported out.
That was when the Totems Bearers started slowly walking outside.
"The meta human trap was only inside, wasn't it?" Kara asked them.
"Yeah," Amelia said with a nod.
"Should have figured that out," Barry said, a little disappointed he had chosen to make a comment instead of knocking out the man; he had thought there'd been a little bit of cover outside too before he could teleport. "You okay?" He could see them rubbing their eyes and blinking.
"We didn't expect the flash bomb," Thea said.
"Very blurry vision here," Amelia stated, as they were all stumbling about after all.
"Our vision should return to normal soon," Lena stated, confident in her self-assessment.
"Well that wasn't a total loss," Ava pointed out, pleasantly. "We did get a photo of his face." Thea nodded, handing out her phone to Kara and Barry, who took it. Barry sent the image to Gideon to identify.
"How about we take you all back to Watchtower until your eyes get back to normal," Kara said, seeing her dog. "Oh, poor Superdog!" Krypto whined as Kara went and picked him up and kissed his head. "Your eyes will heal faster." Hex meowed and rubbed against Krypto. "I'll bring you home and call Prime to send Powie for you – although something tells me she might already know." Krypto whined happily at that, so Kara flew off with the animals as Barry started running the Totem Bearers to a zap tunnel to send them back to Watchtower.
-Karry Universe-
The next day, all the Totem Bearers' eyes were back to normal and they were at their respective homes, although hadn't remained on lockdown upon their return previously.
That was when Amelia got a text message and a photo from Thea.
'What is this?' Amelia texted back, seeing it went to all the Totems Bearers – even Ava. They had all spent the night in Watchtower as their eyes healed from the flash and it seemed the plan had worked – all five Totem Bearers got along now and Thea even let Ava in on her true name, but somehow the woman didn't connect anyone else to their superhero identities. There was also talk about Amelia, Ava, and Lena getting superhero names with ideas were going around while someone in the group had contacted Michelle to make costumes, much to Amelia, Lena, and Ava rolling their eyes but saying nothing.
Thea had sent six pictures. All were the same of six tiny circles encompassed in a circle. On each of the photos, one of the circles was colored in a different color and the name of a Totem was under them. Amelia paused at the Death one – the circle was colored in black.
'Tattoo ideas I've had for a while. Now that we all get along, I thought why not,' Thea had sent back. 'We can get them on our ankles,' The next text message came in.
'I have two tattoos already. That's enough,' Amelia typed back. She had never seen herself as the tattoo person, but the phoenix one had been too important to her and so had the one related to her home earth.
'Come on. It will just be a little one,' Thea texted back.
'I'm in,' it was Lena who joined in the group chat.
'Sure, why not,' Mick added.
'I'm in,' Ava texted back.
'See Amelia, please we need everyone,' Thea reasoned.
'Tantu?' Amelia questioned. Tantu was part of this new group chat, but she alone hadn't seen any messages – not able to while out in Zambezi.
'We'll get her when she comes back from Africa,' Thea texted again.
'Okay, fine, yes,' Amelia texted, chuckling to herself. 'But this is the last one. I know a guy here in Central. I'll call Len and we can go later.'
'Why exactly do we need Len?' Was texted back by multiple people.
'It's tradition,' Amelia texted back. If she was getting a tattoo, Len was always there.
-Karry Universe-
"Tell me some good news," Kara said as they came into the Cave. She had Hex with her and was petting her; Powie was there too with Krypto – she had spent the night on Karry caring for her injured mate and had indeed, been waiting there the moment Kara and Krypto had arrived last night. Barry was in the Cave as well, playing with Garfield, Alura, and Nora.
"Gideon figured out who the Second Chance Killer is," Caitlin said. "Meet Connell Crowley." Caitlin brought up a better picture than the one Thea had taken the night before. "Get this, he was in the same lab explosion Karen was in."
"So… we saved him?" Barry asked.
"No, you didn't," Caitlin said. "You missed him. He was found in the rubble the next day. There was led-lined wall over his area, so Kara couldn't see him, and his heart was barely beating. It was a miracle he was alive, but he's been in a coma since then until he disappeared from the hospital not long before the Second Chance Killer started to attack."
"So, he wakes up from a coma and starts killing our past saves because we didn't save him?" Kara asked, confused. "There's something we're missing here." Caitlin shrugged. "Send the face to the media. Let the public and authorities know the Second Chance Killer has been identified. We're finally a step forward."
"Finally," Barry agreed, a smile at this as Kara's phone binged. She grinned at what she saw.
"Kara…?" Caitlin asked.
"Oh, I just figured out who Rebecca Silverton is," Kara stated.
"How?" Caitlin asked, honestly curious.
"She made a deposit from her account and had to pick the transfer up from a bank here. I had Gideon get into their security system and get me a face," Kara said as she clicked the link to open a picture.
"That's pretty illegal," Caitlin said, but paused at Kara's face. Even Barry was confused at what he was getting from Kara's mind.
"Gideon, zap tunnel to Watchtower please," Kara said surprisingly pleasantly as a zap tunnel was opened. "Now… I'm going to kill him." Kara went through the tunnel as Barry laughed finally getting it.
"What?" Caitlin asked, taking the phone Kara left behind and seeing the picture. "Oh. Well, he is used to doing illegal things," Caitlin started laughing at the image of Mick Rory as well.
Post Chapter Note: Well, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Next week will be the Karry Anniversary chapter!
Next Time on Karry Universe:
A Very Karry Legacy- Jesse has a plan to be able to defeat Zoom but needs some very special objects. Barry and Rae recruit themselves to get them for her, considering they're scattered through Karry Universe's own timestream.
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