Children of Liberty

The team were up on top a building and on a garden that Kara has planted overnight.

"Peter, we're on a rooftop garden, and we have super mojitos that will give us a tast buzz at least. Could you put the phone down?" Kara asks of him.

"Yeah, I'm sorry. Just looking at the latest news reports on the newly discovered Spider-Ghost." Peter explains and shows a newspaper that shows a picture of the new Spider based hero with Morg'Ann helping her out on street crimes.

"At least she's safe, right?" Kara looks on the bright side. "Besides, I thought you decided to leave her be."

"I did, but...a part of me still sees Gwen inside of her." Peter confesses.

"And if there is a spark of Gwen left in her, Gwenyth needs to want to know who she was, she will come to us." Kara says.

"No, you're right. You're right." Peter agrees as he places his phone away.

"Of course she's right. She's Supergirl, she's always right." Brainy slurs as he approaches the two near the edge. "She's very sagacious." He says while holding a mojito.

"Brainbox, how many of those did you have?" Peter wonders.

"The ginger juice?" Brainy asks as his head bobs around. "Twelve. You see, Peter, the ginger root kicks the booty of the immune system." He tells Peter while placing a hand on Peter's shoulder to steady himself. "It also strangely makes the roof spin. Long live the Legion." And with that, he begins to tumble backwards and they quickly go to catch him.

Nia meets everyone and has a talk about Amadaila, an alien healer and their interview, while Peter stayed with Brainy until he woke back up and met back up with everyone

"One of my superior capabilities is recovering from alcohol libation with remarkable speed." Brainy says, "Are there any more scones left?" He wonders and that's he notices Nia. "Nia Nal."

"You guys know each other?" Kara asks.

"We met once at a pizza place." Nia explains to them as Brainy takes a scone. "You know, you never found me."

"But, of course, I did. Your address is 775 Gladiola Drive, second floor corner apartment. Your phone number is 555-8010. You stop at Bob's diner every morning and order an extra super large coffee, milk. No sugar." Brainy says and everyone but him could hear how bad that sounded.

"Okay, yes that's...he's not nearly as stalkers as that just came out as." Alex tells her.

"Well, why didn't you call?" Nia asks him.

"You told me to find you, not call you." Brainy says with a mouth full of scone.

"I'd like to make a toast, here to good friends, new and old. To health and happiness and basking in the sunshine." Kara says and they all clang their glasses together.

-

Kara goes to her interview with the alien healer and watched him heal a alien child so he could walk.

They talked and he only decided to talk now is because of everything that's happening and accepted an interview with them to show how he feels about everything.

As for at the DEO, they got word of where Jensen is finally and Peter went in to answer it and Kara came to catch up.

When they got there, Jensen was about to attack a shapeshifting performer by the waterfront.

"Why don't you pick on someone your own shape?" Kara asks and goes to punch Jensen only for him to absorb her powers and life.

Jensen goes to use heat vision and Peter activates his holo-shield to protect them both.

"Alex, we have a Parasite problem." Peter warns her and Kara starts to try to get up. "Okay, let's see what you've got." He darws Jensen and goes in to punch him only to have him start absorbing his technology.

That was a new one.

Peter dropped weakened as Jensen used his hologram technology and ran off.

-

They were brought to the DEO and Alex contacted on anywhere for them to get plutonium to take down parasite and Alex doesn't want them on this mission now he's stronger.

"The three of us know the danger parasite possesses." Alex tells them.

"That he can kill me and get supercharged at the same time?" Kara asks.

"He somehow absorbed my tech? I can easily make a new firewall like when I kept that blue lady out from the first year." Peter assures her.

"And that doesn't mean I can't still fight him." Kara says.

"I know you're frustrated by this." Alex tells Kara.

"No, it's okay. Most people only have one way to fight for justice but I have two." Kara says. "I'll write and file my article, but call me if there's anything else."

"Promise." Peter agrees.

-

Amidaia's amulet, the thing that keeps him alive, is missing and has a lead on someone but they need help identifying the person. That's where the DEO comes in.

"Let me get this straight." Brainy asks as he's in Peter's lab as he finishes up a new suit equipped with one of Winn's personal shields so parasite can't absorb him again. "You want me to run a facial recognition search if you?" He asks J'onn.

"Correct." J'onn says through the computer.

"I fear something is getting lost in translation. You see, my satellite tells me the exact coordinates of you location at this very instant. So running a facial recognition search would be the very definition of red-" Brainy says when J'onn transforms to look like someone else. "Oh, that's another matter entirely."

"Run the algorithm." J'onn says and they do just that and get a result.

"Elizabeth Hawkings. 21670, Cornelian Road." Brainy tells them.

-

They go check on Elizabeth only to learn that she is his daughter and they never met, confusing them.

Peter later showed up at her place with pizzas while Alex and Brainy are looking into tracking Parasite 2.0.

"I brought pepperoni and mushroom." Peter says and hands them the pizzas.

"What's going on with Jensen?" Kara wonders.

"As of right now, he's in the dark and we're searching for him everywhere." Peter answers. "So hows it going with your friend?"

"Well, we started with the assumption that Amadei was spotless. We'll retrace our steps." Kara says.

"Amadei hasn't given an interview in over 20 years, but let's see what he said the last time he did speak to the press." J'onn asks and Kara gets the interviews up.

"Lexus Nexus. Wow, Amadei gave lots of interviews then, over the course of years." Kara says and sees something interesting. "And look who's next to him in all of them."

"A woman who claimed to have met him once." J'onn says.

-

The two of them returned to the home and see her mother as Peter went back to the DEO to prepare to finish off Parasite.

"You two. You ruined my daughter." She tells Kara and J'onn. "She read your article. Amadei's goal was to heal the human heart. You mean the alien heart, because I'm human, and he broke mine."

"And you took it out on your daughter by keeping them apart." J'onn says.

"I never wanted her to know about him. But then she found out from my sister and started writing him. Yes, I made sure she never got a response. You think I would let him get into her head after how he ruined me?" She asks them and starts picking up, the mess on the floor.

"The Image in Amadei's mind came from Elizabeth's letters to her father. He wrote back, didn't he?" J'onn guesses.

"After you two left, she tore the house apart. Found where I hid his letters. She said I betrayed her. I made her deny the alien power of her, which made her feel like even more of an outcast."

J'onn sees some of the letters on the table and takes a look at one of them.

"The Children of Liberty are right. All roaches do is bring misery."

"What are you saying?" Kara asks. "Who are the Children of Liberty?"

"A group of people who know our country is overrun with aliens, and it's time to fight ack. They needed help online, I answered."

"We need the amulet. You will only hurt our daughter more if you let her father die." Kara tells her.

"I gave it to a child of Liberty."

"For what?" J'onn asks.

"To give it to a human who can take away a roache's power, turn it into a husk."

"Jensen." Kara realizes.

-

"Her mother stole the amulet so Jensen could use it and keep the powers he takes." Kara tells him.

"How'd she know about it?" Peter wonders.

"She found it on the dark web. A group called Children of Liberty." Kara replies.

"An anti-alien group with an agenda to kill as many aliens as possible and absorbs as many powers as possible, thereby making himself invincible." Brainy configures. "I believe the most logical place for him to show up next would be.."

"Amadei's vigil." Peter says.

"Do you have anything that can help you stop him?" Morg'Ann asks Peter.

"Well...there is one thing that I've been saving for a rainy day. And today seems to be the most cloudy." Peter says and gets kinda excited.

-

Jensen appears at the rally as do Kara and J'onn and they spot him.

The DEO activates a dome to keep Jensen inside and start searching for him.

Jensen gets more powers and tries to fly out of the dome and that doesn't work. He tries to attack the floor level and that fails as Morg'Ann is there and shields people.

A powerful blasts takes Jensen down and that was supposed to be enough to take him down, except the amulet allows him to heal fast and he eats up to see a giant bulking Iron-Spider suit that towers at least two stories tall.

"Stand down, now!" Peter warns Jensen. "Yeah, I've been waiting years to use this suit for years. We ended up scraping her when we found stronger metal instead of bulking it out. But I kept her ready for an occasion like this. That and because we never really had the time to assemble this thing for a crisis." He admits, since this thing takes time to come together, and time was never their friend.

Jense doesn't listen and sends a powerful charge at Peter and sends the suit flying.

"Okay...now the fun begins." Peter says and Kara gets the dome evacuated when Jensen spots her.

Jensen charges a fireball and Morg'Ann blocks it as she runs in and shields Kara before throwing the shield at Jensen.

Peter comes back in and grabs Jensen and smacks him across the dome.

Jensen comes flying back and slams into Peter who shoots a giant web at him and slams him into the ground. "Going down!"

Peter crashes on top of him and starts beating him with his retracting fist.

Jensen destroys his fist and punches his suit's arc core and damages the suit.

"Even if you defeat me, he's still out there." Jensen tells him and blasts his suit into oblivion.

-

Back at the DEO, Peter closes his eyes as his suit is destroyed and his teeth are clenched.

"Well...That could've gone better." Peter says when Brainy enters.

"I believe that suit was a waist of taxpayers money." Brainy says.

"Yeah, tell me something I don't know, Brainy." Peter tells him.

"A Hippopotamus' milk is pink." Brainy tells him and Peter sees why he said that.

"You're right. I didn't know that." Peter admits.

-

"Who's he?" Kara asks him, wondering who these Children of Liberty leader is when Jensen removes the amulet from him that suddenly killed him.

Morg'Ann approaches him slowly, wondering if he's faking it and picks up the amulet.

Amadei was saved, but these Children of Liberty seem to be growing bigger.

J'onn gets an idea to become a private investigator.

-

After everything calmed down, Peter and Kara sees this might be the only time to at least go on a normal date.

Peter and her planed this once, and then the kryptonite air ruined their plans. But now with everything as calm as they can be, it's the perfect time as any.

Kara was at her place, looking for anything to wear.

She speeds into one of her outfits, a white dress that kinda looks like a nightgown.

"No." Kara says and speeds out of it and puts on a black and white sundress.

She disagreed with herself and speeds on a red dress and thinks this looks okay enough when there's a knock on her door.

Quickly speeding to it, she looks and sees Peter wearing a nice outfit, he wanted to look his best for her, and he's carrying a rose.

"Hi." Kara greets him.

"Hey." Peter greeted and held the rose out for her. "This is for you. I know you don't like big bouquets."

"That's generous." Kara says and takes the rose.

"Ready to head out?" Peter asks.

"Just us?" Kara asks.

"No interruptions." He promised, grabbing her hand as he led her out.

"Right..." She agreed sarcastically, though her smile betrayed her.

-

Peter and Kara didn't want to go anywhere too...fancy or anything.

So Peter found the perfect place for for them, and held open the door. "Ladies first."

She shook her head, but ducked into the restaurant. The mouth-watering smell of fried food hit her, and she immediately realized how much she wanted french fries.

"Table for two, please." Peter told the waitress, and she led them over to a small table in the corner.

Peter pulled out her chair and Kara laughed. "Thank you, Peter, but I have been sitting down by myself for most of my life. I think I have it covered."

He shrugged and sat down across from her. "Just being a gentleman."

Kara laughed at that and picking up a menu and glancing at it. "What are you getting?"

Peter smiled. "Can I read the menu first?"

She flushed. "Right, sorry."

Peter grabbed her hand from across the table and squeezed it, then she started looking over her own menu.

"I want something with french fries." Kara tell him.

"We could get a side of french fries." Peter suggested, already having decided what he wanted.

"If we do that, you'll eat all of them before I get the chance." Kara teased playfully, knowing how he loves fries. "I think I'll get the lobster grilled cheese. And fries. What are you going to have?"

"I'm going to get the fish plate." Peter told her. "It's very big. I came here with my uncle Ben before, and we ended up just getting the fish plate to share."

"That should be perfect, then."

The waitress walked over then, and smiled at the two of them. "Hi, I'm Darcy, I'm going to be taking care of you tonight. Can I start you off with some drinks?"

"Drinks!" Kara exclaimed. "I always look at food first, even though restaurants never fail to ask for drinks before food. Let's see..." She quickly analyzed the menu. "I'll get the house brown, please."

"Could I try the ginger brew?" Peter asked and the waitress nodded and quickly walked off.

The two of them just sat in silent for a moment.

Then Kara started laughing out of nowhere. "You know, weird is so normal for us now...that normal seems weird."

"Oh..." Peter looked disappointed. "You think this is weird?"

"No!" Kara cried quickly. "No, of course not. But we're just trying to force ourselves to not be our normal, super selves and it's not really working." With that in mind, they fell into an intense discussion of different things that they could think of to keep the silence away.

They were so engrossed in their conversation that they didn't noticed the strange man wearing thick armor and has two giant mutton chops on his face watching them from outside the window.

Once their food had arrived, they were silent to eat. Peter inhaled his pile of fish and Kara munched down her fries quickly.

"Maybe we should have to get desert!" Kara said happily, and ordered chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream when the waitress came back.

After finishing it, came to the matter of the check.

Kara glared at him when he offered to pay. "I can pay for my own meal."

"No." Peter exclaimed. "I mean, it's kind of a thing for the guys to pay. Please..." He gave her his most adorable puppy dog eyes and she sighed, and reliantly agreed.

They walked out of the restaurant both very full, and hand in hand. They were so engrossed in each other that they still failed to notice the man who had been watching them.

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