Chapter 4: The Black Rose

"ugh fucking hell that shi...aaaaaaa! Huuuaaaaaaahrts!!!!!" I yelled as Clarke was trying to get the bullet out.

"Come on y/n, it doesn't hurt that much! You might have super strength but you're still a pussy ..."

I playfully glared at her. They were always teasing me for some reason, but I didn't mind it. I always took my revenge a few days later. " Easy thing to say if you aren't the one with a bullet inside your shoulder" I replied.

"Always so grumpy y/n. You'll never get a girlfriend if you act like that" She smiled.

"I can't help it that girls can't handle my amazing humor and unique personality" I laughed. Truth was that I didn't really feel like dating anyone. Due to the Cadmus experiments my memory wasn't what it should've been, but I do remember that I had my heart broken by someone. The things that had happened to me in that place had left scars too, and I couldn't imagine myself opening up to anyone at the moment. I hadn't really told any of the girls about it.

Dinah noticed my discomfort so she quickly tried to divert the attention to herself. 

"Ok you're funny sometimes, but I'm the one with the amazing humor here. I should be the one with a girlfriend" Dinah said sassily as she did a hair flip. 

"I'll admit you're funny but... AAAAAAAAH CLARKE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!" 

She pulled the bullet out quickly and put it on the table. "I'm sorry y/n, but I had to get it out, it was stuck in a weird way. You're lucky it didn't hit any organs. If she truly ordered him not to kill, that guard must've been an absolute idiot. He could've shot you through the head, just firing blindly through that smoke."

"I know. She seemed really serious about that, so at least Lena doesn't want to find me just to kill me. I fear that she want's something even worse. If she is anything like her mother... She doesn't look evil though..."

"We will need to investigate a bit further, but we must be cautious. Lena now knows you are keeping your eyes on her. She might put out a trap in the near future. We'll have to make sure to always be one step ahead of her."

Normani came in with a bag of muffins. I could smell them the instant she walked through the door. 

"So what are we going to do now? Start 'the black rose' (name of the organization) again? I mean breaking into Luthercorp was so much fun and I missed doing shit like this." Normani spoke as she sat next to me. She held my hand and let me squeeze it, while Clarke stitched up the wound.

"I don't know, we'll have a lot of trouble getting around supergirl. Her powers are almost unmatchable, even y/n's strength won't be enough to help us against her. I was also wondering... what if y/n gets one of those attacks during a mission, we need to make sure we can handle everything." Clarke answered while I was stealing one of Normani's muffins with my other free hand. 

She playfully glared at me, but didn't take it back. 

"We can just use it as a way to help y/n. I wouldn't try to do too much at once. We can use the Black Rose to win over the people of National city. If the public backs us, we might stand more of a chance against Lena. But yeah, the question is how we will get around supergirl to do all that."

"I can create something that could make a force field around every place we go, where her hearing and special x-ray vision won't work. Maybe one for this place too." Dinah said. "I already have a prototype actually. It's has particles of kryptonite and is connected to..." 

"Can you make those in a smaller form? So we can carry them around. Maybe that wouldn't disrupt supergirl from doing her normal superhero stuff?" Octavia asked as she entered the room. She was Clarke's girlfriend, and also a former member of The Black Rose. She was one of our best fighters, even though we didn't need it that often. She could knock multiple people out in less than a minute.

"Yeah sure that's probably a better idea, I'll get started on those as quick as I can. We can make the roses again too. That adds the cool mystery vibe to our group." Dinah spoke excitedly.

We used to leave a black rose everywhere we went on a 'mission'. We all watched way too many movies together and we wanted our own Harry Potter style dark mark... except we didn't see ourselves as the bad guys. The Black Rose was about making National city a better place, but... the illegal way I suppose.

A black rose was a symbol for new beginnings, or drastic changes, and used to be a less known symbol of anarchism. That's not the reason we chose it though...  It just looks kinda cool. However to outsiders it might seem like a bad symbol, the media even called us 'dangerous gang' back in the day, while in truth we were just a group of nerds. It wouldn't be so easy to clear our name now.

"I did place one in lena's office before we left" Normani smirked. "Still had a few lying around"

"Nice!" Dinah spoke as she high-fives Normani. Dorks. 

"She probably won't tell the media, since what she's doing is pretty shady." I spoke. "I mean... She's illegally taking all the experiments' information. She told us she wouldn't involve the cops, and I think she won't be able to. Not for her shady business anyways.

...

The next day we were all sitting in our old base, aka an old underground warehouse.To my surprise Dinah and Normani had already renewed everything there. We had new pc's not the old big boxes, new bikes instead of our rusty old ones, training equipment, weapons... Of course the place was covered in movie posters and figurines of everyones favorite series and Normani's popcorn machine stood in the middle of it, fully functioning again! Every room had a theme: Harry Potter, Lored of The Rings, DC, ... It made me question if Dinah and Normani had been planning this for much longer.

The place was pretty awesome. All of us used to live here before, but after a while we all went our separate ways. Maybe we'd move back in?

I walked over to the giant red couch in our living space, where Octavia and Normani were watching the news. Suddenly a picture of Luthercorp came on.

'New project' yeah, of course she lied. Now we just looked like ordinary criminals.

She said smirking at the camera.

But I knew that message was directed at me and not all of us. She now knew that I was part of the group. 

"Shit y/n, I hope she doesn't." Dinah spoke. She was apparently standing next to me, but I didn't notice her before.

"I hope so too... but I've got a bad feeling about all of this. That woman is very powerful. She's got half of the city wrapped around her finger."

"Here" Dinah spoke as she handed me a small metal device with a little switch on it.

"What's this?" I asked.

"My supergirl 'x-ray vision and super hearing- blocker'. If you switch it on, a blue light will appear. But if you don't need it you better keep that thing off. Otherwise she can't save the people around you from crime."  

"woah, cool. Thanks Dinah!" I exclaimed. I loved cool gadgets. ... Nowadays technology was even more compact. I remember when dinah used to give us gadgets the size of a brick.

My phone rang as Kara's name appeared on the screen. Why would she call so early?

-"Hello Kara?"

"Yes! Am I talking to y/n?! "

-"Oh Eh yeah sorry, yeah it's me! Hi Kara how are you? " Oh god, I why was I so bad at phonecalls...

"I'm doing great! So the article is out! which you probably already knew! I really hope you liked it."

- "Oh really, I actually didn't know it was out already. That early? I'm sorry I haven't had time to pick up the magazine yet."

"Yeah and one of my friends read it! She's right here!"

-"Uh that's great! What about her?" 

"She wants to meet you! She is the CEO of a huge company! She wants you to work for her! She has multiple projects in mind and she'd like you to help her! She wants to meet as soon as possible to discuss it!" I suddenly felt butterflies, I was so nervous and excited at the same time. I never thought I'd ever collaborate with any major company.

-"Really!!! that's awesome! I'm in! I'm free all week!" 

"Great she really loves  your work and is excited to meet you! "

-"Wow that's great, thank you Kara that's an amazing opportunity! You already did more for me than I ever expected, I'll go pick up the magazine today! By the way who is this friend of yours, do I know her?"

"Lena Luthor, CEO of Luthercorp. You probably know her! She's a really nice person. Unlike those rich people you make art about! She's really down to earth and she's one of my best friends. I think you two would really get along! "

-"Oh... that's great Kara! I'd love to meet up, but there's something I have to do now! See you later?" I tried to keep the excitement in my voice, but it was soon replaced by fear. What if the reason Lena wants to meet is cause she knows?

"Bye y/n! I'll text you some more details!"

-"Bye and thank you Kara!"

...

Oh god I think I fucked up. Maybe I could call her and say I changed my mind or something... That would seem suspicious though! I'd have to meet up with Lena, with the risk of being recognised or worse being caught.