Supergirl ~ The Fanatical ~ Part Three

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"Should've never let Tanya go," James muttered angrily, shaking his head in frustration.

"Wait, wait," Lena held up her hands. "If they use the rock, then it will give off an energy signal!"

"Which we can scan for!" Curtis grinned.

"But if they use the rock, that means they're either making or have made a Worldkiller," Malcolm frowned.

"Don't worry," Kara assured him. "There's a reason we sent Mon-El with her. He's smart, tactical. He's a Legionnaire. If anyone can find us a signal, it's him."

***

Mon-El looked down at his now cuffed hands, then deadpanned, "Owie."

"We'll deal with you after the ceremony's done," his captor sneered, turning around to leave.

Mon-El scowled at his back, then when the man was a few feet away, he broke out of the cuffs and changed into his Legionnaire suit. "Just one question." When the man turned around and balked at him, Mon-El smirked. "Do you by chance know where I can find the Rock of Yuda Kal?" The man drew his gun and aimed at him, but Mon-El flicked his cape and wrapped it around the man's wrist, pulling him off his feet and into him. He held the man in a chokehold, tilting his head as he went limp. "So . . . no?" He dropped the man into the chair, checking him over. "You guys have no cell phones in cults?" He snorted, shaking his head and leaving to check the rest of the building.

***

"Into the flame, one oronc of Sedenach dust."

Mon-El carefully walked down the steps into what looked like a run-down auditorium, high on the second floor where he could see Tanya read from Coville's journal and Olivia pour the ingredients needed into a giant vat that glowed red. He surveyed the group Olivia had gathered, then looked among the ingredients. He locked his gaze on one he knew he could use. "Gotcha," he whispered.

"The final element is seven lak-mar of," Tanya read, trailing off when she looked up.

Mon-El nodded reassuringly to her, jumping down to the ground level behind a sheet curtain. "Of what?" Olivia asked.

Tanya refused to say, even when one of her guards pointed to her spot on the page. Mon-El sped past everyone to grab one of the crystalline-like sticks from the ingredients, then returned to his hiding spot. Only then did Tanya finish. "Nitrogen."

Olivia picked up a metal canister that billowed vapor, and she poured the liquid into the vat. She stepped back as the red glow turned to white, and she smiled reverently, putting the canister down. "Before the leaders of Krypton erased her with Rao, with their science, there was a goddess of life, of birth," she announced. "Yuda Kal. The faithful gathered in her orpheum in tribute, as we are now. And she will give us one final birth." She turned around and opened a metal box; she swallowed and seemed hesitant, yet she reached inside and removed a carved black stone in the shape of a Kryptonian goddess. "Worldkiller."

"There it is," Mon-El smiled, lifting up the crystal he found and watching it catch the light.

***

At the D.E.O., Slade frowned when he saw Kara's head whip to the side, her nose scrunched in concentration. "Little one?" he asked.

"Kryptonian Sunstone," Kara mumbled, looking around. "Mon-El found a frequency I can hear."

"Let's go!" Oliver barked, and his team scrambled to grab their weapons as Kara took off.

"Uh, James!" Winn called as James started to jog after them. He turned around, and Winn smirked as he lifted Guardian's repaired helmet from under his desk. "Safety first!"

James caught the helmet tossed to him, then laughed and ran after the others.

***

Olivia held the rock with both hands, taking a deep breath. "With the power of Yuda Kal, I will be the fourth," she declared.

Tanya gasped, and as Olivia put the hand with the rock in the vat, Mon-El zoomed forward, hoping to stop her. Olivia's free hand reached out faster than he could see and grabbed him by the neck, and Mon-El winced against the sudden super strength the blonde had. When he looked at her, he saw orange rush through her veins and make her eyes pulse with power, making Tanya whimper.

Kara landed between them and the other cultists, Oliver and Malcolm dropping down with her. Olivia turned to look at her, curling her lip. "The false god," she sneered, her voice layered with power. "Right on time."

She threw Mon-El away for her, and he smashed through several rows of seats before collapsing limply on the ground. Curtis ran to check on him as Rene and Dinah hurried through one side of the auditorium, Slade and Laurel the other. Kara looked back to check on Mon-El, then looked at Olivia as she lifted her hand from the vat, hand clenched tightly around the Rock of Yuda Kal. The orange energy sizzled through her veins in the shape of the Worldkiller coat of arms, and Kara flew forward. Olivia, however, drew back her arm and punched Kara into the air, then once again back against the wall. "Supergirl!" Malcolm shouted.

The cultists rushed the other vigilantes, and Dinah whirled her staff, smacking one in the head. Mon-El accepted Curtis's hand up, the two of them rotating to watch each other's backs. Oliver and Malcolm held off the cultists from interfering with Kara and Olivia, the two blondes exchanging punches and kicks. Kara finally grabbed Olivia's fist, stopping her from making another punch. "This is not you, Olivia," she gasped for breath. "The girl I saved was a good person."

"The girl you saved was weak," Olivia spat, forcing her to the ground. "Now I finish Reign's work."

Tanya yelped as she was pushed away from the fighting. "Move!" one of her guards ordered.

Tanya yanked herself out of his grasp and tried to run, skidding to a halt when another cultist stopped in front of her. Wind whistled above her, and Tanya looked up as James dropped to the ground, taking on all three cultists at once as Tanya scrambled out of the way, eyes wide in fear.

Kara finally flipped Olivia onto the ground and forced her fist open, revealing the Rock of Yuda Kal. she thought in relief, grabbing the rock to yank it out.

The second her skin touched the rock, her skin started to burn, and Kara screamed in horror as she lost control of her heat vision, trying to cover it with her hands before she fired it up at the ceiling. Oliver had to duck and roll out of the way of a collapsing light, and Mon-El had to reach up and grab a collapsing beam so it wouldn't knock Curtis out.

Kara collapsed onto her knees, still whimpering, and Olivia smirked smugly, standing up. "Wait," Kara held up her hand, gasping for breath and willing her heat vision to stop. "Olivia, let me just say this. You once believed in me." She finally got her breathing under control, blinking rapidly to stop her heat vision. "You thought I saved you for a reason, and I did. I saved you so that you could have a life."

"This a life," Olivia argued.

"No, this is someone else's life," Kara countered, gesturing around the room. "This is life." Olivia hummed, unconvinced, and Kara sighed, crouching back on the ground, unable to get to her feet. "I know what it's like to not know which role you have to play," she admitted. "But you have so much to offer this world, . . . and this is it."