Supergirl ~ Of Two Evils ~ Part One

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Kara woke up with a gasp, shooting straight up in bed, her heart racing in her chest. She swallowed hard, taking in gulps of air as she looked around fearfully.

The sheets next to her rustled, and Kara jumped when she felt a hand on her arm. "Kara?" Oliver frowned as he sat up, blinking sleep out of his eyes. Kara looked around again, her heart settling as she recognized her bedroom back on Earth-38. Nothing was burning, and it was still dark outside. Kara closed her eyes, exhaling slowly. "Breathe, angel," Oliver rubbed her back comfortingly. "What happened?"

Kara took a few deep breaths, reaching for his hand. Oliver took it with his free one, and Kara scooted closer to him. "Nightmare," she whispered. "It was the Worldkillers."

"Plural?" Oliver raised an eyebrow.

Kara nodded. "I saw three of them."

"Power, Pestilence, and Purity," Oliver recalled from what Kara told him the priestess had declared.

Kara nodded again, leaning her head on his shoulder. "I couldn't make out one of them at all," she said. "The other one didn't wear a mask, but I couldn't recognize her."

"We'll get to the D.E.O. in the morning and figure it out," Oliver stroked her back. "OK?"

"OK," Kara agreed, her breath finally evened out.

"OK," Oliver nodded, pressing a kiss to the top of her head. "It's all right, angel."

Kara swallowed again, working moisture back into her mouth as she laid back down, Oliver settling next to her. She rolled over into side, and Oliver wrapped his arm around her waist, tugging her closer. Kara rested her head on his chest, taking a few deeper breaths, Oliver's heartbeat strong and comforting in her ear, lulling her back to sleep.

***

"You OK, Oliver?" Mon-El frowned, he and the archer meeting each other as they came down opposite stairwells.

"Yeah," Oliver nodded, pinching the bridge of his nose. "Just a bad night of sleep."

Mon-El winced sympathetically. "Those suck."

"Tell me about it," Oliver agreed as they headed to where Kara, J'onn, and Winn were.

"The Worldkillers are still out there," Kara was saying.

"The city has been quiet ever since your mission to Fort Rozz," J'onn shrugged.

"Yeah, I mean, we've been trying to track Kryptonian heat signatures, but all we're coming up with is you and your cousin," Winn nodded. "Which, I will say though, is nice, because I know where he is."

"They're not reading like Kara?" Oliver frowned in confusion.

"Probably because they're not like her," Mon-El theorized. "They may have been created on Krypton, but these Worldkillers are not, strictly speaking, Kryptonian."

"Mon-El's right," J'onn nodded. "Nothing about them follows a pattern we recognize. Reign didn't need a yellow sun or a Fort Rozz to retain her powers."

"Yeah, and the way she just shrugged off that Kryptonite?" Winn added.

"Don't remind me," Oliver grimaced, Mon-El patting his shoulder sympathetically.

"Sorry, man," Winn winced as well, then perked up. "Hey, maybe they were genetically modified?"

"Now that's possible," Mon-El nodded thoughtfully. "The Legion's fought many hybrids that were created in labs designed to have maximum destruction."

"Well, Reign said she left Krypton right before it exploded," Kara frowned. "If they've been here all this time, what have they been waiting for?"

"Maybe . . . " Winn tapped a few keys, and a chill went down Kara's spine as the image from Mon-El and Imra's battle with Reign came up on the large screens. "For

"You know, when Krypton exploded, pods weren't the only thing that rained down on Earth," Mon-El paced, speaking as he thought. "So did Kryptonite." He nodded, settled with his thought. "Yeah, Brainy had to track some of that green stuff down when the Legion battled Zod."

Kara did a double take, and Winn jumped from his seat. "Um, rewind," the techie said nervously. Superman killed him."

"Resurrection is possible," Oliver said grimly, thinking back to the Lazarus Pit. "Wouldn't surprise me if Kryptonians had some way of it, too."

"And he was resurrected," Mon-El nodded.

"But that's the future," Winn bit his lip, nodding and trying to reassure himself. "We talked about that. So you're saying, basically, that the Kryptonite and the pods came at the same time?"

Mon-El nodded in confirmation. "Agent Schott, see if you can pull our records of those meteor showers and map their spray pattern," J'onn ordered. "There might be a way we can locate exactly when these Worldkillers first arrived."

"On it," Winn nodded, heading back to his station.

Kara sighed, looking up at the footage again. "Reign will be back," she said quietly. "Soon."

"What's she waiting for?" Oliver frowned.

"Or what's she doing?" J'onn thought as well.

"Well, wherever she is, she's planning her next move," Kara shrugged.

***

"So you were a doctor before you joined the FBI?" Sam asked to cover her nerves, dressed in a medical gown.

"Yeah," Alex walked in behind her, leading her towards the MRI. "I was gonna be a researcher, so I had a job, actually, up in Seattle for a while. And then, as it turns out, I needed a little more action than just a microscope and an Excel spreadsheet."

Sam smiled as she sat on the bed, Alex putting a foam pillow up by where her head would be. "Well, thank you very much for doing this."

"You're sure it's OK that we use the L-Corp lab?" Alex asked for clarification.

"I am," Sam nodded. "No one will be here for a while." Alex nodded, turning to get set up. "Sorry, I just don't like hospitals. Hate being sick, hate tests."