Chapter 7
When the Time-Ship landed, Lena and Felicity were on the tarmac to welcome their friends. As soon as Kara and Alex stepped out of the ship, Felicity rushed toward them. “Did it work?”
“We’re fine, thanks.” Cisco snarled as he walked past them and went to the hangar.
“Well we came back with it so I guess it did!” Alex answered.
“Are you alright?” Lena questioned. “They didn’t do anything to you?” Lena asked.
The agent smirked. “Are you going soft of on me, Luthor?”
The CEO chuckled, used to the playful banter that had settled between them throughout the years. “I just wouldn’t want Kara to lose her maid of honor before the wedding. You know what it’s like, wedding preparation can be tedious and we would have to change everything.”
Alex laughed. “We wouldn’t want that, would we?” She gave the woman a side-hug.
Kara stepped next to her fiancée and kissed her. “We’re fine, babe, don’t worry.” She looked at her lover, noticing the change of clothes. Lena was wearing a flannel shirt and black skinny jeans. It was the woman’s outfit when she was working in her lab and wanted to feel at ease. “Did you go shopping?”
“As a matter of fact yes,” The CEO smiled, glad that her fiancée noticed. “Felicity offered to show me around and brought me to the mall.”
“But we weren’t long, I swear.” Felicity rushed to add. “Because you know, duty and all.”
“Flannel?” Alex snorted. “Could you be any gayer?”
The raven-haired woman arched an eyebrow. “You’re one to talk miss shiny boots and leather jacket.”
The agent laughed. “Touché.”
“That’s Lena’s outfit when she’s nerding around.” Kara said fondly. “I love it.”
The brunette rolled her eyes. “You love all of her outfits.”
The superhero gasped. “I do not!”
“You do not?” Lena raised her eyebrow, trying to hide her amusement.
“I mean, I do, I do, but not like. I…” Kara stuttered before taking a deep breath. “Maybe we should get inside, we have things to do.”
As they walked into the hangar, Alex watched Nate slowly drive the ship back inside to unload their shipment. They stopped in the middle of hangar. “We need some muscles to set up the machine and then we should get to work.”
The superhero shook her head in disagreement. “No, we should get to work and you should go back to our Earth.”
“Kara, come on…”
Barry arrived behind them, quickly interrupting. “Where’s everyone?” He couldn’t see anyone in the hangar and he had a bad feeling about it.
“Mmhh, well…” Felicity trailed off.
“Felicity?” Barry said sternly.
“Urgh, fine,” Felicity sighed. “They didn’t want to stay here and wait so we scanned the city to find any trace of Savitar’s minions.”
Alex frowned. From what she heard about Kara’s friends, she had a feeling they wouldn’t wait for them to come back but it could start a battle they weren’t ready to fight yet. “Why would you do that? If Savitar left you alone so far, wouldn’t it be better to take advantage of that to further our plan?”
“It’s just too suspicious.” Felicity stated. “Besides, it looks like they’ve moved out of their lair so we need to find where they’re hiding now.”
“Great, just what we needed.” Barry groaned.
“When did they leave?” Kara questioned.
“Last night.” Lena stated.
The superhero frowned, it wasn’t good. “And they’re not back yet?”
Felicity bit her lip. “No, we kind of…”
“Lost contact.” The CEO finished for her.
“Okay, one, it’s a bit weird that you two are finishing each other’s sentences,” Barry noted. “Two, what?”
“That’s not what we agreed on.” Kara knew it could happen but if they left to get intel, they should have been back by now and if they weren’t, it raised more than one red flag.
“I’m sure it’s a part of their plan, you know Oliver.” Felicity tried to reassure them. Just as she finished her sentence, they heard an explosion coming from outside. “Okay, maybe I spoke too fast.”
They all rushed toward the entrance and saw a car on fire, their friends running toward the hangar.
“What the hell?!” Alex exclaimed. Oliver, Sara, Thea and the others were running away from Savitar’s minions.
“It was a trap, we have company, get ready!” Oliver shouted from afar before turning around and shooting an arrow at the man running toward him.
“Go find cover, I’ll try to hold them back.” Kara ordered before flying toward her friends to help them.
“I’m coming with you!” Barry ran at high speed behind her.
Alex’s training kicked in and she quickly took charge of the situation to make sure the rest of them were safe. “Felicity go pack your laptop and whatever else you need. Cisco, grab whoever is still here and bring them to the ship, we need to leave!”
“It’s just us, Stein went back to STAR labs.” Felicity announced.
The agent nodded. “Okay so Cisco, help her pack up. Lena in the ship, now.”
Without turning around, Alex ran toward her bag she had left on a table and opened it to reveal a stash of guns. “Damn, I should brought my alien gun.”
“Why did you bring all that?”
Alex turned her head and frowned when she saw Lena standing next to her. “I like to be prepared and I thought I gave you an order.”
“I’m not an agent, you’re not the boss of me.” The CEO declared, her chin up in defiance. She swiftly leaned forward and reached for a gun.
The agent swatted her hand away. “No.”
“Yes.” The raven-haired woman glared, not ready to give in. “We need to protect the device and help the others, a one woman army isn’t enough, let me help.” She insisted.
“Someday this attitude of yours will get you killed.” Alex said sternly. The last thing she wanted was for her future sister-in-law to get hurt. She knew Lena had guts and could defend herself, she even saved her life once, but here they were surrounded by dangerous people and anything could go wrong.
Not discouraged in the slightest, Lena grabbed a gun and a couple of magazines. “I learned from the best.”
The agent glared. “Your charm might work on my sister but it won’t work on me.”
Lena smiled sweetly. “I wouldn’t be so sure about that.” They stared at each other for a moment.
When Alex noticed the number of Savitar’s men approaching, she complied. She knew they needed to protect the alien device since it was their best chance to beat Savitar so far and if the God’s lackeys already blew up a car, they could do the same with the ship. Kara’s friends clearly had their hands full with trying to slow this little army down so she eventually agreed, although reluctantly. She just needed to make sure no one would get near Lena. “Urgh, fine. But you better be careful or I swear…” She removed her ballistic vest and roughly put it on the woman.
“No,” The raven-haired woman quickly tried to shrug it off to prevent Alex from strapping it around her. “It’s yours.”
“Don’t argue, okay?” The agent said in a commanding voice. “You want to help, you do it my way.”
“Fine,” Lena muttered. They got along well but it didn’t mean Alex had stopped being intimidating when she was glaring at her like that. “But you better not get hurt.” She replied pointedly.
The brunette smirked. “Not planning on it.”
Suddenly, there was another explosion at the entrance and everything turned into a mess. The hangar was full of people, there were arrows flying, flames, lasers and gun fires coming from different directions.
“Felicity, Cisco, in the ship, now!” Alex shouted. They all ran toward the ship at the back of the hangar. Nate was waiting for them at the entrance to help with Felicity’s bags.
Felicity and Cisco settled inside and started talking in length.
“We need to find a place to hide, we can’t go to STAR lab, it’s too much of a target. We can’t stay in space either because we need material and a lot of other stuff.” The blonde rambled.
“Let me search for something in Barry’s estates.” Cisco started typing quickly on his laptop.
“No, they could find us easily too.” Felicity argued. “Keep looking.”
While they were looking for a backup plan, Alex and Lena were standing back to back at the entrance of the ship and shooting everyone who was approaching.
Alex took a few steps forward, punching a man hard on the jaw before taking her spot back when he fell to the ground. “You know, on my list of bonding moments with my sister-in-law, I never thought ‘shooting at bad guys in tandem’ would be on it, but I have to say it’s pretty cool.”
Lena smiled, her heart warming at the sibling type of interactions she had with Alex and also Maggie when she was there. It still took her by surprise sometimes, the fact that she had a family now, one that cared for her and that she cared about. She shook her head to focus, now wasn’t the time to get emotional. She aimed at the man running toward her, shooting him in the kneecap without a second thought. “I have to agree.”
“Just don’t get used to it, I prefer seeing you safe behind a desk reading boring quarterly reports with a lot of stuff most of us don’t understand.”
The CEO chuckled. “Aren’t you sweet.”
“Shut up and shoot.”
Alex and Lena’s smiles fell at the same time when they spotted a man throwing a rain of knives in their direction. On instinct, the agent turned around and stepped in front of Lena, tucking her into her chest to protect her. She braced herself for the impact but nothing happened. Both women turned around just in time to see Kara melt the rest of the knives with her heat vision and send the man flying on the other side of the hangar.
Supergirl quickly flew closer to make sure they were okay. “You should leave, they keep coming.” She said, avoiding the kick of another lackey before punching him.
“We’re not leaving without you.” Alex interjected.
“Savitar could show up any minute, you have to!” The superhero insisted before flying away to help Thea.
The agent looked behind her and saw Nate waiting in the corridor, clearly ready to move and jump in the captain’s seat at any sign of complications. “American eagle, start the car, we’re leaving.”
Nate frowned. “Who? Me?”
Alex turned around to shoot another man so Lena decided to jump in. “I don’t mean to be rude but she has a point, you are the only who looks like the living allegory of born in the USA.”
“Your wife literally wears the same colors!” Nate argued offended.
The CEO raised her eyebrow but decided not to correct him on the wife term. “But it suits her better.”
Alex chuckled. “Luthor is in the place.” She glanced back at the man who still hadn’t moved. “Just start this thing already.”
“I’m going!” Nate shouted back. “God, I’m not sure I can handle so many women of your family at once.” He mumbled as he retreated to the main hub.
The agent called her sister a few times but despite her super hearing, the blonde seemed too busy to hear. She looked at Lena. “Cover me. If I die, I’ll come back from the dead and hunt you down. Got it?”
The raven-haired woman rolled her eyes. “And they say I’m dramatic.”
Alex ran toward Kara, noticing a few men falling on the ground on the path. She had to admit, Lena had a good aim, Maggie and her should bring the woman to a shooting range for a friendly contest someday. “Gather everyone, we’re outnumbered, we have to leave.”
Kara looked around. “But, what about all the things we have here. Barry…”
“It’s too late and we took what we needed.” The agent waited for a sign of approval and when the woman nodded, she shouted. “Everyone jump in, we’re leaving.”
“It’s about time!” Sara yelled from her spot as she knocked a man down.
“We can still hold them back!” Oliver declared.
“Oliver, come on, it’s no use.” Barry answered him. Everyone hurried to get rid of the minions around them before moving toward the ship.
Kara and Alex turned around at the same time when they heard a yelp of pain. “Lena!” They both shouted, running toward her. Kara was there first with her super speed.
The CEO brutally grabbed the man by the collar and shot him twice in the guts before falling to the ground with him.
Supergirl reached for the man and sent him flying against the wall in anger. “Lena, Baby, are you okay?” She asked frantically when she saw a knife plunged in her fiancée’s left lower side.
“He came from behind, I didn’t see him.” Lena gritted her teeth.
Alex appeared next to her. “It’s okay, sweetie, you did well.” She smiled in reassurance. “Take her inside.” She ordered her sister as their friends quickly join them inside. Kara carried her inside the main hub and gently lowered her on the floor in the corner. Once they were all there, the agent called Nate. “Get us out of here, eagle.”
“I’m on it.” Nate maneuvered the ship, avoiding a flammable projectile at the last second before flying away.
“Alex help her!” Kara urged.
“I’m… I’m okay.” Lena could feel the sting and burning in her side and see the blood on the vest but despite the pain, she was far from passing out which was a good thing, at least she thought it was. She was still high on adrenaline so it was hard to tell if she wasn’t able to feel the pain fully or if the wound wasn’t too bad.
“Okay?” Kara cried. “You have a knife stuck in your side, how is it okay?”
”Honey, calm down.” The CEO tried to reassure her fiancée. Despite the pain slowly kicking in, she didn’t want her to panic.
“I can’t!” The superhero took Lena’s hand in her. “You’re hurt, I shouldn’t…”
“Stop right there, I know what you think and this is not your fault.” Lena kissed Kara’s hand before glancing at Alex.
The agent kneeled down and looked at Lena’s side to assess the damages. “Fuck, I told you to be careful!”
The CEO forced a smile. “And I told you, you’re not the boss of me.”
“You two with your ‘be your own hero motto’, you’re gonna be the death of me.” The brunette sighed in frustration.
Sara stepped behind them, looking at Lena with a concerned look on her face. “You’re okay there, Lena Croft?”
“She better be.” Supergirl growled, slamming her fist against the wall and leaving a dent behind.
“Kara.” Alex warned.
Sara’s eyes widened at the outburst. “Easy tiger, let’s not destroy our only safe place right now.” She put her hand on the woman’s shoulder. “Let’s take Lena to the medical bay. We have our own magic chair and before you know it, your girl will be back on her fancy heels.”
Lena glanced at Thea and Sara and noticed they were bleeding. “But you’re also hurt, you should get checked up too.”
“Don’t worry, hun, we’ve seen worse.” Sara winked.
“It’s really thoughtful of you but she’s right, it’s not our first rodeo, we can wait a few minutes.” Thea said with a smile.
Kara lifted Lena off the ground and carried her to the medical bay.
Lena settled in the medical chair and the Danvers sisters watched in awe as Gideon, the A.I of the ship took a sample of Lena’s DNA before a laser scanned over the CEO’s body and stopped at her injury. The women stared as the wound slowly closed and disappeared.
“Well shit, that’s awesome.” Alex exclaimed. “I wouldn’t mind having one of those.”
Sara chuckled. “Who wouldn’t?”
Once Kara was sure Lena was okay, she left to find some food. She couldn’t help it, she was stressed and needed to eat. Lena decided to stay and watch the chair fix the super gang’s wounds one by one.
When it was Mick’s turn, the CEO knew the man wouldn’t miss an occasion to tease her if she stayed. At least, Alex had joined her back in the room.
Mick had a wound on his back. As he removed his shirt, he turned around and smirked Lena. “Hey Ice queen, don’t sneak a peek okay? I’m not an easy guy.”
The raven-haired woman snorted. “You wish.”
“If I had feelings I would be hurt.” Mick replied, lying on the chair so it could do its work.
This time it was Alex’s turn to snort as she watched another wound disappear from someone’s body.
“What you did was pretty badass.” Mick said to Lena. “You too.” He added in Alex’s direction. “But it’s more impressive coming from miss precious over there because let’s be honest, she looks more like the snobby type who drinks tea with her pinky up than a bitch who gets shit done.”
“Should I be offended?” Lena raised an eyebrow. “I almost thought this was a compliment.”
Mick shrugged. “I’m just keeping it real, sweetheart.”
The CEO rolled her eyes. “Whatever you say, Mick, whatever you say.”
Once everyone was patched up, Alex and Lena were the only ones in the room.
“So what are they planning to do now?” The raven-haired woman questioned.
“They’re still looking for a safe place to settle right now. Apparently, they fell into a trap. Savitar never really left the building, he just wanted us to come out of our hiding place so he could retaliate.”
“That’s actually smart, in a… evil way.” Lena replied.
They settled into a comfortable silence until Alex spoke again. “You scared me, that's twice in one week.”
“I’m sorry but in my defense, it’s not like I was planning on getting stabbed this morning.” The CEO smirked.
“Smartass.” The brunette chuckled before becoming serious. “You got lucky so just… please be careful. Between you and Kara, I have filled my quota of worrying for at least the rest of the year. At this rate, my hair will be gray before my 40’s.”
“Thank you.” Lena didn’t say why and Alex didn’t ask, they both knew it was for more than one thing.
“I need an update on the situation.” Alex stated. “Let’s go find Kara before she eats all the ship food supplies.”
Lena chuckled. “She would.”
Later that day, Kara and Lena found a quiet spot to watch the view from space and talk. The CEO was in awe at the sight and Kara was eager to share stories. In that moment, they felt more connected than ever, like they had reached a new level of understanding that wasn’t possible until they were both into space.