New arrivals on Earth-1, Kara has an idea people are slow to warm up to, and people start noticing the Girl of Steel is missing back home.

Enjoy chapter nine!

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Winn looked up when he heard a familiar-sounding voice from down the hall, and he blinked, looking over to the side. Yes, H.R. was still in the room, so who was he –

"So you've got even more heroes to take down the ultimate speedster, and when that's all said and done, you're going to go fight aliens in another universe?" an H.R. lookalike with more hair and glasses asked as he walked in with Cisco, a young brunette woman almost vibrating with excitement behind him.

"You left out Thawne and his gang of villains, but yeah, basically," Cisco nodded.

"Wow," Winn finally managed to say something as Ray, Stein, Felicity, and Caitlin looked up from their work. "You were not kidding about the doppelgänger thing, were you?"

"Oh, man, I couldn't make this up if I tried," Cisco shook his head.

"I think I was just insulted," Harry sniffed.

"Take it that way if you want," Cisco sighed. "Everyone, meet the Wells family from Earth-2, Harry and Jesse. Harry, Jesse, everyone."

"Very helpful, Ramon."

"Dude, I am not going through everyone's names again."

"Hi," Jesse stepped away from the bickering duo, smiling at Winn, holding out a hand. "Jesse."

"Winn Schott," he smiled, shaking her hand. "I'm from Earth-38."

"That's the Earth with the alien problem, right?"

"Well, a certain race of aliens, but yeah, that's us," Winn confirmed. "That over there," he pointed to where Alex turned away from her conversation with Amaya. "That's Alex, she's also from Earth-38. And Kara is . . . " He looked around, then shrugged. "With Barry and the others."

"Actually, just Oliver and Sara now," Barry walked in, looking extremely tense. "Thanks for coming, you guys."

"You look like West already died," Harry remarked.

"You're just overall cheery, aren't you?" Winn raised an eyebrow.

"No, that's me," H.R. raised a hand.

"Another difference between me and my doppelgänger, apparently," Harry drawled.

"Barry?" Jesse frowned. "What happened?"

Barry sighed, leaning against the console. "We know who Savitar is."

"Good!" Ray grinned, only to pause when Barry shook his head. "Not good?"

"But if you know who he is, then we can do something about it, right?" Thea looked around.

"I can't," Barry shook his head.

"I don't get it," Mick scowled. "He's your guy, Red."

"I agree with Mr. Rory," Stein looked at Barry. "How can you not do something about who is primarily your enemy?"

Barry braced himself. "Because I'm Savitar."

There was dead silence in the cortex. "Definitely not good," Ray finally mumbled.

"How's that possible?" Dig looked around.

"That doesn't make any sense," Felicity agreed. "Why would you want to kill Iris?"

"He's a time remnant," Barry answered. "Basically a speedster-generated version of me with all of my memories."

"Like Thawne," Nate realized.

"Exactly."

"Which is how he knows all of us like you do and how he knows every move we make," Cisco groaned.

"Yeah, which is why I left Ollie, Sara, and Kara to debate options for going after Savitar, because if I hear or see what they do, Savitar knows, too," Barry sighed, running a hand over his face.

"So you're basically benched?" Thea frowned.

"Yeah," Barry nodded miserably. "It sucks, but if Savitar's going to be defeated, I can't do anything."

"That's really not good."

"We get it, Haircut," Mick threw Ray a look.

"I need to tell Iris, Joe, and Wally," Barry straightened. "And probably – "

"No! Absolutely not!"

"How is it not a good idea?!"

"Oh, gee, let us think of why you're on this Earth in the first place!"

"Guys, come on, it wouldn't even be for that long!"

Barry blinked, looking behind him when he heard the raised voices quickly approaching. "I'm just gonna go do that now," he pointed in the opposite direction.

"Yeah, probably," Cisco and Caitlin nodded rapidly.

"OK," Barry hurried off.

"We haven't even faced Savitar yet, and you're assuming it won't take long?" Sara was glaring at Kara as she stormed into the cortex first, followed by Kara, Oliver bringing up the rear.

"I'm saying it wouldn't take that long to – !"

"Is Barry around?" Oliver cut in.

"Just left, actually, when he heard you from down the hall," Thea smirked.

"Of course he did," Oliver sighed.

"Guessing that's Kara?" Jesse pointed at the blonde.

"Hi," Kara waved.

"Yeah, Kara, meet Harry and Jesse," Cisco gestured to the Wells.

"Hi," Jesse waved back.

"Sounded like you guys got something," Jax looked between them.

"Yes," Kara nodded.

"No," Oliver and Sara shook their heads.

"It's a good plan!" Kara defended herself, turning to the other two. "What part of it is a bad idea?"

"Oh, let me think," Sara threw her hands up in the air. "It involves going back to Earth-38, where all the Daxamites want you dead!"

"But it's something Savitar would never expect!"

"And the Daxamites are expecting you to show up again, probably with us!"

"OK, OK, OK!" Alex hurried over, placing herself between the two blonde women. "Care to fill in those of us who have no idea what just happened?"

"Kara wants to go back to Earth-38 to get rid of Savitar," Oliver answered.

"What?!" Winn gaped at Kara.

"I want to throw him in the Phantom Zone!" Kara elaborated.

"The Phantom Zone?" Alex nearly exploded. "Kara, you've got to be kidding!"

"I'm not!" Kara shook her head. "We throw him in the Phantom Zone, and he's stuck there! The only reason I escaped was because Indigo reactivated my pod! Savitar wouldn't have anything but himself to use and possibly escape, and I would like to see him try!"

"The what?" Caitlin blinked.

"Who did what?" Amaya looked around in confusion.

Kara sighed. "The Phantom Zone is the reason I didn't grow up watching my cousin," she answered. "When Krypton exploded, I was thirteen years old, and Clark was a baby. However, when Krypton was destroyed, it produced a shock wave that knocked my pod off course. I landed in the Phantom Zone, a region of space where time is frozen. I was there for twenty-four years, and I didn't age at all. It doesn't matter who Indigo is, what matters is that she reactivated my pod, and I escaped the Phantom Zone and crashed on Earth, still thirteen years old while my cousin had grown up. If we throw Savitar in the Phantom Zone, he'll be frozen forever. He won't have anyone to help him get out."

"That's not bad," Nate admitted.

"Except that it's on Earth-38 where there are Daxamites waiting to kill her," Sara ground out. "Did that just escape everyone's minds?"

"All I need to do is find a device in the Fortress that allows me to open a portal to the Phantom Zone, and then get Savitar through it," Kara shook her head. "It doesn't even have to be in the same trip! I can visit the Fortress, come back, and we deal with Savitar here. I can go back to Earth-38, activate the portal to the Phantom Zone, throw him through, and come back."

"And if dealing with Savitar isn't that simple?" Oliver raised an eyebrow.

"Because it definitely won't be," Cisco warned.

"He could take on Barry and Wally and Jay," Caitlin added. "We'll only have Wally, Jesse, and Kara."

"But one of them is a superpowered alien with so many more ways to take on Savitar than speedsters," Ray pointed out.

"Yeah, and if he's stunned enough, Amaya and I can use our powers to make sure he stays that way," Nate nodded.

"Thank you!" Kara gestured to the two Legends agreeing with her. "See? We can do this!"

"And the Daxamites?" Sara scowled.

"They don't have all the powers I've got. All they have is super strength, and they can be hurt by lead."

"So Gideon could potentially make lead versions of all our preferred weapons, and they'd work on the Daxamites," Jax nodded along.

"Gideon?" Alex asked in confusion.

"The Waverider's AI."

"You guys have an AI?" Winn squeaked, eyes wide.

Sara closed her eyes, sighing and pinching the bridge of her nose. "I don't like this."

"I don't, either," Oliver shook his head.

"Does anyone have a better idea?" Kara held out her hands helplessly.

"No, but it takes us to your Earth," Oliver pointed out. "They know you're here, they saw Cisco bring you here. They've got to have some kind of way to tell you're back."

"The only good side I see of running into Daxamites is that we'll be able to see what we'll be up against," Dig brought up. "Kara can speak for the royal family, and I imagine their soldiers all have the same style of training. Not all of us have to go over with her, either. Limit who goes, limit their knowledge of who they're up against."

"It's the only kind of plan we've got right now," Felicity shrugged.

"Will it work?" Caitlin asked Harry.

"I'm not an expert in what happens in space," Harry held up his hands. "But it sounds like if you put him there, he's not getting out."

"Which means he can't kill Iris," Stein sighed. "As much as I dislike the possibility of Kara being hurt more than she already has been, this plan could certainly end the threat of Savitar."

Sara slumped slightly. "It would," she admitted.

"So we're doing it?" Kara looked around.

Oliver walked closer to her, speaking quietly so only she could hear. "If we do this, get what you need from Earth-38, and that's it. The less time you're there, the less of a chance the Daxamites know you're there. Any longer you spend, there's a greater chance you get hurt. That's something we don't want to happen to you. I don't want it to happen to you."

Kara nodded. "Deal."

Oliver nodded back and turned to the others. "We'll spend the rest of the day figuring out who's going to Earth-38 with Kara and getting lead weapons made just in case," he said. "And not a word about any of this around Barry."

"I can't believe we're already going back," Alex closed her eyes.

"I can't believe I got people to agree to it," Kara freely admitted.

"Why do I feel we're gonna regret this?" Sara sighed.

***

Supergirl had been missing for almost forty-eight hours. It was the same amount of time Kara had been missing.

If Lena hadn't been sure they were one and the same before, she knew now.

She pursed her lips and turned off the TV on the wall, which had been broadcasting the news, which was more about wondering where Supergirl was. Thankfully, she hadn't had any visits from Mon-El, which meant she could keep investigating in peace.

Not that she was getting anywhere.

No match found flashed on her screen, and Lena sat back, scowling at another failed attempt to find whoever Barry was. She couldn't find any matches to a Barry in the National City area, and from what she could tell from Kara's work, she couldn't have interacted with the several hundred variations of Barry that were in the country.

Granted, if she had a last name, it would have been much easier, but still . . . she wasn't getting anywhere, Kara was nowhere to be found –

"People of National City."

Lena froze, then turned to her computer when it came back on, the digital frame of a human head speaking. "Oh, you've got to be kidding," she breathed.

"One of the gods has fallen," the message of Cadmus began, Lena watching with wide eyes. "The poison has begun to fade. With one toppled, the rest will soon fall. Humans will again have the Earth instead of false heroes. We are everywhere, and we have just begun."

And now her mother was falsely claiming she had taken down Supergirl. As if Lena's day couldn't get any worse.

The CEO dove for her cell phone, picking it up and dialing Kara's number, which she had dialed and texted countless times already. Like every single time before, she got Kara's voicemail, and gritting her teeth, she left a message.

"I know you're Supergirl. Whenever you show back up, we need to talk. You're in more danger than you think."

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Oliver and Sara going back with Kara is kind of a given. Who else do you guys want to see go with?