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Kara looks around and doesn't know where she is or how she ended up here...but she doesn't like it.
She sees nothing but darkness, sand, and destruction everywhere. When she spun around, she saw all her friends and family laying on the ground, dead or dying.
Peter has his mechanic arms out, but they're either broken or just laying on the ground with his mask shattered. Nia had her staff snapped in half, Brainy has his image inducer off and one of his lights shattered. Alex is just laying down next to J'onn. Morg'Ann has her shield sliced in half...Everyone is there.
Kara quickly runs up to Peter and feels for a pulse, seeing his mask is destroyed and he's bleeding from the head.
But the moment she checked, Peter gasped awake and grabbed her hand.
"...Y-you...could-d...h-have...saved us..." Peter tells her before he flatlines and his hand lets go. "Why didn't you do more?" His echoing voice asks her.
Kara begins to feel scared and weak when she hears chanting and looks up to see she's in the middle of a crowd of Children of Liberty chanting; earth first.
"I told you..." Manchester says and Kara turns to see him. "You're nothing to them."
She looks and can only watch as Ben Lockwood dressed as Agent Liberty walks up and steps on Peter's head before bashing it in.
Suddenly, Kara gasps awake, sitting up and looks around and sees it was just a bad dream. Looking to her right, she sees Peter sleeping peacefully next to her shirtless as she looks and sees she's wearing his shirt and their other night activities come back into her mind.
Sighing, Kara lies back down and snuggled as close to her as she could get without waking him.
Instinctively, Peter wrapped his arm around her and Kara doesn't know if she woke him up, but is happy to see even in this state, he still cares about her.
"You okay?" Peter muttered as he's still tired.
"Did I wake you?" Kara asks.
"No, not per say." Peter answers. "Wanna talk about it?"
"Just hold me, please." Kara asks him and Peter does just that as they try to get back to sleep.
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The next day, they went back to searching for the Elite and were able to find Menagerie and stop her from going after someone.
They are told by her that they're on a assassination attempt on Ben Lockwood who is being made director of the Bureau of Alien Affairs.
Hat and Manchester tried to shoot him, but Kara was able to save him.
Peter sent a laser blast at the Elite, but the second they tried to catch them, they vanished.
"I hate that hat." Peter comments.
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Later, they circled the world to try and find them, and they vanished.
They all came back together at J'onn's place now since they can't go to the DEO.
"The Elite is just as bad as Lockwood and his Liberty fanatics." Kara states, annoyed.
"Look, all that matters now is that we find them and end this, then we focus on how I'm gonna punch Lockwood without starting a riot." Peter tells them.
"A classic superhero speech. You know, minus punching him." Nia says.
"Question; what do we do about Menagerie?" Gwenyth asks as she points to the hybrid in question who's watching tv.
"Yeah, there's only so much footwear advice I can take about these military boots." Morg'Ann agrees.
They dropped Menagerie at the DEO where Alex is informed that she is being assigned to be Ben Lockwood's security detail.
Now, they're waiting for Nia to dream about where the Elite are.
"Does it usually take this long?" J'onn asks.
"The dreaming? Her handling of the dreamscape is getting faster, but the Elite could be anywhere." Kara says.
"Did anyone tell her she didn't have to wear the suit in private?" Peter asks.
"It's just a phase." Kara tells him. "I did the same when I became Supergirl. I practically slept in my suit. And let's face it the suits are pretty cool."
"Yeah." Peter admits and looks around the room of heroes and guardians. "Do you want to talk about the nightmare you had?"
Kara looks to him and then quickly away. "No, I don't really. It's not important."
"Skirt, you were shaking in your sleep, woke up in fear. That's important. What's wrong?" Peter asks her again.
"It...was all gone. Everything we did, it was all for nothing. Lockwood won, you were all dead. I saw you draw your last breath. And you asked...why didn't I do more?"
"It doesn't have to mean anything, Skirt. I just think that the Elite and Lockwood are just piling up on your mind."
"I saw you all die, and that wasn't the worst thing about it..." Kara tells him.
"What was the worst part?" Peter asks.
"I didn't." Kara says.
Gwenyth looks closely at Kara's neck seeing something.
"What?" Kara asks.
"Why is your neck red?" Gwenyth asks and Kara quickly throws her hair in the way knowing exactly what she's talking about.
"What is it?" Morg'Ann asks.
"Nothing!" Kara says and J'onn also notices it.
"Is that a hickey?" J'onn asks.
"I blame you." Kara tells Peter.
"Hey, you weren't comparing the other night." Peter flirts.
"I might start complaining now." Kara dares.
Peter was about to respond when they saw Lockwood on the tv and now is talking about repealing he Alien Amnesty Act And he is going to form a rally tomorrow for the repeal.
"He can't do that!" Kara states.
"Please tell me Ben Lockwood can't repeal a congressional act." Gwenyth pleads. It's bad enough that someone who's a murderer has power this far, going further is just insane.
"No, but he can try and sway the will of the people." J'onn tells them.
"He's just begging the Elite to take another whack at him." Kara comments.
"I wouldn't blame them." Peter admits, kinda wanting them to do it.
"And we need to find them before the rally." Morg'Ann says. "But where do we look?"
"The balcony." Nia tells them as she wakes up. "Across from the Alien Affairs building."
"The same place as last night?" Peter asks.
"I saw it in my dream. And returning to the scene of the crime is a classic bad guy move." Nia says.
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Kara, J'onn and Peter make it and see nothing.
"Dreamer said they'd be here." Kara says.
"Dreamer?" Peter asks. "Is that really what we're going with? A little on the nose."
"Says Spider-Man." Kara replies.
"Touché." Peter admits.
"Dreams are interpretive." J'onn says. "Maybe something about them is here."
Peter does a scan around the area, but Kara beat him to it and she finds a part of Morae's claw and J'onn can use it to find them.
They found them at the Fortress of Solitude.
Sadly, they're a bit late as Manchester and the Morae already started robbing the place.
Gwenyth and Nia found the invisible Morae and Gwen webbed him up.
"Yield or die." Nia says and has a glowing sphere of her power in her hand.
"Dial it back to a seven, Okay?" Gwen asks of her.
"Yield or else." Nia goes with and the Morae tries escaping.
Nia blasts it as Gwen webs it to the ground so it can't get away.
Morg'Ann, Kara, and Peter found J'onn and Manchester when he ran into a secret room with a glowing light.
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At the DEO, even Brainy is taking a stand by putting together a peaceful march to counter the rally Lockwood is putting together.
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The six heroes return to J'onn's place after what happened.
"He just ran right into the room." J'onn says.
"What was in that room?" Morg'Ann wonders.
"A baby sun-eater." Kara says. "Kal's. It feels on the chemical mass of small stars, so it's a living bomb, basically."
"Why does he have that?" Peter questions.
"I usually can feel Manchester, but I can't anymore. Almost like a weight has been lifted." J'onn says.
"Sometimes we don't realize the impact people have had on us until they're gone for good or bad." Nia tells him.
"Thank you. All of you." J'onn says to the group. "Maybe now he can find some peace. Still, Hat's out there, and we have a job to do. I may not have a totem, but I can still try searching for him psychically." He gets up and leaves them.
"So what do we do?" Gwenyth asks.
"We monitor the news and see if anything pops up." Kara offers.
As time passes, they see the anti-Lockwood March is staring and everyone is peacefully protesting as Brainy joins them.
"Brain box." Peter greets him.
"Why are you still in your suit?" Brainy asks Nia as she's the only one still wearing her suit.
"Breaking it in." Nia tells him.
"I have nothing." J'onn says as he returns. "Hat must be hiding in the Fifth Dimension. The energy there makes him untraceable."
"Yes, I heard about Manchester's passing." Brainy says and looks to the tv and sees the march. "Ah, the march is today. Will you all be joining?" He asks the group.
"You know, I think we could all use some peaceful protest today." J'onn agrees. "I'll be there."
"Wonderful." Brainy has and looks to the others. "What about you?"
"Yes, I definitely think we should be there. To patrol." Kara tells him.
"Patrol?" Peter asks, kinda aboard with marching.
"I think it would mean a lot to have Supergirl march today." Brainy tells her.
"I wish I could, Brainy, but I think it's more important to patrol in case anything gets out of hand." Kara says.
"They won't. I am AmericanAlien." Brainy tells her. "Hashtag AmericanAlien."
"You organized this? Peter asks.
"I did what I thought would help try make the world a better place. Everyone answering the call to stand up and be heard." Brainy explains to them. "El Mayara. Stronger together. Just because we're superheroes doesn't mean we forget who we are."
Kara is still against marching, but Peter, Morg'Ann and Gwenyth are on board.
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When the time of the march came, Morg'Ann got back in the uniform, Peter brought his suit, all except Gwenyth who came as herself.
"We are gathered here today to unite. To unite as human Americans to take back our land, and that all starts with the repeal of the Alien Amnesty Act." Lockwood says.
Everyone begins their march lead by Brainy and J'onn. Others are holding signs saying things as; justice for all. Aliens are not the enemy. My land is your land. Others like that.
But as they walk, they get hate messages by everyone but they ignore them and keep marching peacefully.
"We've got some hecklers on the south end, alongside the march." Kara says as she sees someone she saved is even there.
She flies down where he sees her. "Supergirl."
"What are you doing here?" Kara asks him.
"We're here to show our support for the repeal of Alien Amnesty."
"But that Amnesty gives these aliens their rights." Kara tells him.
"Why should they get any rights? They're just here to hurt us."
"They're not...look at them. They're not here to hurt anyone. Most of them are fleeing war and violence, just like I did when I first came to Earth." Kara states.
"They're not like you. You're a superhero."
"No, you're wrong. I am just like them." Kara says and now sees what Brainy was saying.
"Were you aware that these aliens intend to march on this rally today to quiet us, to silence you?" Lockwood continues his hate speech. "Do they have the right to do that? I didn't think they had a right to do that. But we're all learning. We're learning. We're slow, but we're learning. We're learing from them. We're learning that it is us or them." That's when several Children of Liberty joined him on the stage.
Everyone then starts chanting us or them.
As they continued to march in the streets, Kara came down and was wearing her normal clothes they got from Argo.
"Supergirl." Brainy greets.
"It's kara Zor-El, citizen of earth." Kara says as she joins them.
"Nice of you to join us, Skirt." Peter says as Nia comes up without her suit and joins as they continue to march and reach the rally.
"Amnesty is not the same thing as empathy. Allowing these aliens to come to our world is not an act of kindness, it is an act of species-wide self-sabotage. If we do not repeal the Alein Amnesty Act, they will not be our undoing. We will have done that ourselves! You see? Right there. Us or them!"
Everyone starts chanting at them again as they walk inside.
"What are they doing?! They have come to take your planet from you! Today, we say no! We take our planet back from them!" Lockwood yells and people start throwing things.
"Stay peaceful!" Brainy tells the people.
"Don't drop to his level. Be better." Peter agrees.
Alex then sees its time to get him off the stage now and she twists his arm to get him away.
Peter and Gwen's senses go off and they turn and sees Manchester is alive and there's 1, 3, 5...ten of him?
"Aliens of this world, these pigs want to kill you." Manchester says. "And what? You're gonna take it lying down? I say it's time we rise up and take them to the slaughter. So find the nearest alien-hater, and kill them!"
"This is bad." Morg'Ann says when Manchester then flies up, probably something from the fortress and his copies follow.
The entire room then breakers into a fight of peaceful protesters and alien-haters.
Most people run out, trying to escape but the Children go after them.
"The revolution is now. Take your power back." Manchester continues.
"Hat must've saved Manchester in the fortress and hid in the Fifth Dimension." Peter guesses.
One Manchester flies at Brainy and it turns out to be a hologram.
"Brainy, Cap, Nia, Ghost, clear the area." Peter tells them.
"Leave Manchester to me." J'onn says as he flies off.
"Okay, then the two of us will look for Hat." Kara says.
Hat was handing out weapons to the protesters when Peter found him.
"I'd tip my hat to you, but I have to take your hat to do that...Hat. Is that really your name or a code name?" Peter finally asks. It's been bothering him this whole time. "What do they call you without the hat?"
"Well, if it isn't Spider-Man." Hat says as he reaches into his hat, but Peter webs his hand out of it before he could grab anything and the two start fighting.
Kara comes flying in when Peter was taken down as a distraction and she handcuffed him.
Brainy takes Hat and the others start evacuating everyone.
The Children start ganging up on people.
"Go back to your planet, roach!" A child says about to hit a human who was actually agreeing with them when a shield flew through the air and smacked him back and returned to Morg'Ann.
"Go back to your home, Citizen." Morg'Ann mocks him and he runs off.
"Thanks, uh.."
"Miss America." Morg'Ann greets.
"Nice to have more superheroes in town." He comments as Gwenyth swings in and helps fight back these Children.
The holograms start to disappear and the people keep fighting.
The people try their best and help each other as best they can.
The heroes try their best to keep everyone as the police show up and everyone helps one another.
Even some people who agreed with Lockwood have a change of heart.
And in the center of it, James was able to capture everything with his camera.
But the question here is...
Who won?
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Everyone saw James got everything and how everyone was able to change and Lockwood even gave a speech to stop his repeal on the Amnesty Act for now.
But that night, James was attacked and shot at CatCo.
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