Chapter 6
The team received the coordinates to meet the dominators soon after Barry and the others returned to the hangar.
Half an hour later, Kara, Barry, Cisco and Nate were jumping inside the Time-ship and flying toward their destination.
They had barely reached their meeting spot that a beam of light engulfed the ship. A few seconds later, they were inside the hangar of dominators’ spaceship.
“I have a bad feeling about this.” Nate stated, standing from the captain’s seat and joining the others at the back.
“Join the club.” Cisco said as he pressed the button to open the ship door.
“It’s gonna be okay, guys.” Kara declared optimistically. “We’re just going to exit the ship and greet them nicely.” As soon as they reached the opened door, they were met by a group of armed aliens aiming at them. “Or not…”
“Crap…” Barry exclaimed as one of the dominators motioned for them to follow them.
The four friends were escorted inside a room where another alien was waiting for them.
“Are you my alien pal? I can’t really tell, you all look kind of the same…” Cisco said as greetings. When he noticed Kara stare at him with big eyes, he asked. “What?”
“That’s rude.” Supergirl answered with a frown.
“Silence.” The dominator ordered. “What are you doing here, Kryptonian?”
“khap zhgam urvish, I come in peace.” The blonde announced. “My friends and I are here to make a deal. We brought you one of the human technology and in exchange we…”
“Silence!” The dominator cut her off. “Your archaic technology has no interest for us. We didn’t agree to a meeting for this reason.”
“I knew this was a trap.” Nate muttered.
“Then why did you accept to meet us?” Barry questioned.
“When we visited your Earth in 2016, we… what is the word human use for this, abduct? We abducted some of your citizens and put them into hibernating pods to conduct tests whenever we please.”
“What? How could you?” Kara growled, taking a step further. Barry put his hand on her shoulder and pull her backward when he noticed the guards approaching his friend.
The dominator raised his hand to signal the guards to stay where they were. “Don’t interrupt me again, Kryptonian.” He barked. “However, our latest experiment didn’t go as planned. Our subject seemed to be infected by one of your human diseases.”
Cisco frowned. “How does this affect you?”
“We didn’t think it was possible for our race to get ill from a human sickness.”
“But the infection spread and now you’re sick.” Cisco declared in realization.
“Why didn’t you try to contact earth?” Barry inquired.
“That’s beneath us and we have more present matters than start another war with you by visiting your physicists.” The dominator replied. “Your message was the perfect opportunity for us, that is why we agreed to meet.”
“What do you want from us?” Kara asked.
“It seems to affect us differently than you so if you can cure us, we will give you the technology you desire.” The alien answered. “If you can’t, you’ll die.”
“You brought this on yourself but you’re going to kill us for it?” Nate said in disbelief.
“Silence.” The dominator ordered again. “My guards will lead you to what you call ‘a laboratory’. You will have access to our subject and the body of my deceased scientist to run the tests you need.”
“Wait, we’re not doctors, we can’t…” Barry started to argue.
“Then bring one.” The dominator said something in his language to the guards and suddenly the team was dragged away from the room and led to the laboratory.
“Did we make things worse or is it just me?” Cisco wondered out loud.
“We can do this, it’s just going to delay us a little.” Supergirl told him.
Cisco chuckled. “Your optimism never cease to amaze me.”
“Thank you.” Kara beamed. “Lena always tells me the same thing.”
Kara and Nate were the only ones allowed to leave the ship, Cisco’s ‘dominator pal’ decided to keep him and Barry to make sure they would be back. They were instructed to only bring one person. Kara refused to leave her friends behind but after a lot of arguing and reassurance from Barry that they would be alright, they went back on Earth 1.
As soon as they were back, Kara explained the situation and after an ‘I told you so’ from Oliver, they tried to come up with a plan.
“Maybe we could ask Alex?” Lena suggested after a while.
“Who is he?” Nate questioned.
“He is a she and she’s my sister.” The blonde answered. “I don’t want to have to worry about her on top of worrying about you and…”
“Alex is more than capable of defending herself and so do I.” The CEO argued.
“I know, it’s not what I meant.” Kara stepped closer to her fiancée and squeezed her arm. “Alex has her own threats to deal with on our earth.”
“It would only be for the virus and after that, she can leave if that makes you feel better but you need to consider it. We would save a lot of time if she was helping, she dealt with foreign diseases before.” The raven-haired woman insisted.
The superhero sighed. “I don’t know…”
“If you don’t want to risk your sister’s safety, I can go.” Mr. Stein offered.
“No, it would be too dangerous.” Supergirl shook her head. “At least Alex can fight… What do you guys think?”
“Are you sure she can help?” Oliver inquired.
“Yes, she dealt with this type of situation before.” Kara replied.
“If you both think it’s a good idea, bring her.” Felicity stated. “Plus, it will give her the opportunity to meet her.” She smiled happily
“Great, another nerd.” Mick exclaimed.
The superhero nodded. “Fine, I guess Alex is finally going to have her wish granted to visit this Earth.”
Kara came back an hour later with an excited Alex. The woman was more than happy to finally visit the other Earth and helping Kara’s friends was just a bonus.
“Everyone, this is my sister Alex.” Kara announced once they were all gathered in the middle of the hangar. She quickly introduced everyone one by one so her sister could put a face to the names she had talked about along the year.
“Another hottie, we’re lucky.” Mick said.
“I’m afraid this one prefers women too.” Lena stated.
“Damn,” Mick muttered. “Is there even a straight woman in your family?”
“Kara’s mother is.” The CEO replied, slightly amused by the man’s comment.
Mick smirked as Kara approached to introduce him to her sister.
“Don’t even think about it.” Supergirl threatened. “Or I’ll send you flying into space.” She glared at him. “This is Mick, he’s hum, special...”
“Hey, watch it Skirt!”
“Skirt?” Alex raised an eyebrow as she shook the man’s hand.
The blonde waved her hand. “It’s a long story, I’ll tell you later.”
Alex finally turned to her sister-in-law. “Lena!” She hugged Lena tightly. “I was worried sick.” She broke the embrace and slapped the woman’s arm.
“Ouch,” Lena glared, lifting her hand to rub her arm. “What was that for?”
“For being stupid.” The DEO agent answered sternly. “I told you to wait for me, anything could have happened to you.”
“You would have done the same thing.” Lena pointed out, the hint of a smile at the woman’s concern for her.
“But I’m a trained agent.” Alex argued.
“And I’m a devoted fiancée with resources.” The CEO argued back.
“Urgh…” The agent sighed, knowing it was pointless to argue with her, they were both too stubborn. “Whatever. I’m glad you’re okay.” She squeezed the woman’s shoulder.
Mick stepped away as Sara approached the trio. “So, you’re the sister?” Sara smirked. “You’re cute.”
“And I’m very much married,” Alex answered quickly, squirming under Sara’s gaze.
Sara laughed. “Really, is that a new name?”
The agent chuckled. “Alex.” She extended her hand.
“Pleasure to finally meet you.” Sara grabbed the brunette’s hand and kissed it instead of shaking it.
“Right!” Alex said in a high pitch voice. She cleared her throat. “Let’s… let’s finish the…the introduction.” She grabbed an amused Kara and scurried away.
Lena chuckled. “Do you ever stop charming women, especially the taken one?” She arched an eyebrow.
“Aw, don’t be jealous, hun, you’re still my favorite.” Sara winked.
The raven-haired woman laughed goodheartedly. Somehow, she was starting to warm up to these people. She guessed she wasn’t so bad at making friends after all. Being surrounded by Kara and their friends made her realized not everyone was out there to get her. “In your wildest dream, Ms. Lance.”
“Cocky much?” Sara laughed. “But you can call me Ms. Lance whenever, that’s kind of hot.”
“Sara,” Kara called as she joined them.
“Oh, here comes trouble.” Sara smiled brightly at Supergirl despite the girl frowning at her. “I’m guessing you heard what I said.”
“Yup.” Kara leaned against Lena’s side.
“Chill Super Jealous,” Sara chuckled. “I’m just teasing.”
“Go tease Alex then, it’s funnier.”
“Kara!” Lena exclaimed, trying not to laugh at how childish her fiancé was acting.
“What?” The superhero smiled sheepishly. “You’re mine.”
“And you’re mine…” The CEO whispered, kissing her cheek tenderly. “As much as I appreciate this chit chatting, we should finish briefing your sister so you can go.”
Kara nodded. “You’re right.”
Soon, Kara, Nate and Alex arrived on the dominators’ ship. They were lead to the laboratory where Cisco was studying what looked like medical equipment. He and Barry had busy themselves by trying to translate a document about the general dominators’ anatomy.
After introducing herself, Alex opened a big bag full of supplies she had brought with her and got ready to work. She put on a protective suit and went inside the room where the human body was. Kara assisted her as she took blood samples and checked the body for any type of visible injuries.
“It’s Chickenpox.” Alex announced once she was done running tests.
Cisco looked at her in surprised. “Seriously? I was expecting something …”
“Worse?” Barry suggested.
“Well, yeah.” Cisco shrugged.
Kara frowned. “I thought it was more of children's disease.”
“Yes, but grownups can have it too and in that case, it can be deadly.” The agent answered.
“But he didn’t have a rash or anything.” Like her friends, the blonde was surprised by the results. As a Kryptonian, she had never given too much thought about human diseases since she was immune but it was still weird. She would never have imagined an alien, especially not a dominator get sick from that type of illness. Maybe it had evolved after they gave him something, after all, they didn’t know what type of experiments they were running on the humans they had abducted.
“Symptoms usually begin ten to twenty-one days after exposure to the virus so he looked healthy enough to be taken by the aliens I guess.” Alex explained.
“So, what do we do now?” Supergirl questioned.
The agent removed her gloves and run a hand throw her hair with a sigh. “Now I need to do an autopsy on the dominator’s body to try and understand how it affects them but seeing how we don’t know much about them, it’s probably gonna take a while and requires some of the materials you were checking earlier.”
“So if I understand this correctly, we only did the easy part.” Barry said warily.
“Pretty much.”
“Great…” Cisco muttered.
It turned out the dominators had injected the human body with a mutagenic agent and since the subject was already sick, it mutated into a contagious virus.
Alex knew that finding an antidote would take more time than they could afford if she was doing it in a regular way so, after careful consideration, they decided to use a bit Barry’s blood mixed with mutagens for the development of a serum. The plasma in Barry’s blood would allow them to accelerate the process and hopefully, give them a suitable enough cure. Desperate times calls for desperate measures.
It took them almost a day and some team up with a dominator to finish the chemical cocktail. After that, they were sent to another room while the alien went to test the serum on one of their sick comrades but not before Alex made sure to destroy every sample so they couldn’t be used later by the aliens. They nervously waited for a couple hours until Cisco’s ‘dominator pal’ entered the room.
“It seems that you humans aren’t as useless and primitive as we had thought.” The alien announced.
“Jeez, thanks.” Cisco answered sarcastically.
“Did it work?” Kara questioned.
“Yes.”
Alex smirked and bumped her sister’s shoulder. “Told you, I’m that good.”
Kara chuckled before turning her attention to the dominator. “So, do we have our deal?”
“I am ready to hear your request now.” The dominator stated.
“Really?” Nate declared surprised. “No backstabbing? I’m surprised.”
“While most of my crew think we should eliminate you, I decided to show mercy. Some of you could come handy in the future…”
Cisco snorted. “You’re too kind.”
“So, can we have your little dream machine you stuck my friends into last time?” Barry inquired.
“Is that what you came here for?” The dominator asked.
“Yes” They replied in unison.
“Very well.”
Alex arched her eyebrow doubtfully. “It’s that easy?” She knew the only reason he kept them alive was because if something ever happened again during their experiments, they wouldn’t hesitate to capture them and forced them to help but she was surprised they would agree to give them a part of their technology.
The alien turned toward her. “Out of this ship and with your pathetic knowledge, I doubt it will be of any use.”
“That explains it…” The agent rolled her eyes.
“Seriously, dude?” Cisco exclaimed. “After your last compliment, I thought we were starting to build something, I’m hurt.”
“Silence, human. We are done here. My guards will escort you to your ship now with the device.”
“Alrighty, guess not.” Cisco muttered.
The dominator talked in his language to a guard and the group of her friends soon found themselves back in their Time-ship.