They later returned to the DEO to try to find a way of finding out where Non took Hank where Alex learned that if anything were to happen to him, she was the second in command. She then ordered them to get every satellite to start looking around for him.

Peter returns to Gwen who runs and engulfed her boyfriend into a hug, happy to see he's alive after the attack.

"Don't scare me like that again!" Gwen warns him, since she was terrified.

"I can hold myself against Kryptonians, what about finding Hank?" Peter asks her.

"I'm looking everywhere that I can get into. Every satellite, every security camera, I'll do everything I can to find him." Gwen promises as she has every computer in the base scanning for Kryptonians or anyone who looks like Hank as they hear the Lord announcement and he seems to be covering up the attack.

"There's something up with that guy." Peter comments trying to figure out what he's up to.

He's interrupted when every single one of the computers start glitching and Non appears on the monitors.

"This is Lieutenant Non of Krypton. We each possess someone of great value to the other. I propose a trade." Non tells them.

"This is acting Director Alex Danvers. Excuse me if I don't take you at your word." Alex replies to him. "I need proof of life, I need to hear from Henshaw himself."

The camera then moves to Hank who is in a chair handcuffed.

"Director Danvers. Congratulations on your promotion." Hank tells her.

"I will bring you back safe, sir." Alex promises to Hank.

"Which will only happen if you do exactly as I say. I will return Henshaw unharmed if you return General Astra safely to me. You have 48 hours or your man dies." Non warns them and cuts the feed.

"Gwen, could you trace where it came from?" Peter asks her.

"No, he cut it too soon, and I can't exactly track Kryptonian technology easily." Gwen replies to him.

"Now we know why Non took Hank." Kara says. "So what do we do?" She asks Alex.

"If I turn down the deal, Non kills Hank. If I go through with it, I free a criminal with the strength of the two of you." Alex says when they see General Lane has returned.

"What's Debbie Downer doing here?" Peter wonders, retracting his mask to cover his face.

"Well, pleasure to see you again, Agent Danvers." General Lane tells him.

"Wish we could day the same, and it's Director Danvers." Kara informs him.

"Not anymore. I've been granted authority over the DEO by order of the president." General Lane tells them and hands Alex the file.

"How did you get that so fast?" Gwen asks, since Hank was taken just a few hours ago.

"Considering the stakes, Washington wants a commander in place without any personal ties to the hostage. My orders are to locate the alien garrison and return Director Henshaw safely to his post." Lane tells them.

"The base is yours, sir." Alex agrees seeing they can't do anything about it.

"Now, if you'll excuse me." Lane says and heads up to the others to get to work.

-

James made it to Lord Technologies and got that Lord said he's "doing what needs to be done," which could mean trouble for the heroes in the future.

With Hank, Non has a alien trying to read his mind and he's failing since they don't know he's a Martin.

"What are you trying to find? The location of the DEO? Send a pre-emptive strike?" Hank asks Non.

"Perhaps I should pre-emptively snap your neck." Non responds to him.

"You kill me, you kill your wife. You're nothing but a barking dog on a chain. No threat at all." Hank states when Non grabs the neck of the mind reader and breaks it. "Now I see how much more advanced you are than us savages."

-

Back at the DEO, General Lane goes down to talk to Astra alone, with two of his own men.

"I'm general Samuel Lane of the United States Army." Lane tells Astra.

"I wonder how many of your fellow humans you had to kill in order to achieve such a rank. And yet you call me a threat." Astra replies to him.

"When I was a little boy, my daddy used to take me and my sister to the movies." Lane says while circling her cell. "Saw a picture called The Day The Earth Stood Still. It was about an alien, like yourself, who came to earth and threatened to destroy it if human beings didn't change their wicked ways. I had nightmares for months. And do you know, that still, today, when I look at you, I am right back at that old theater. Afraid."

"On Krypton, It is a show of great strength to admit one's fears to an enemy." Astra tells him.

"Which is why I told you. I wanted you to know that, by your world's standards, I am a man of honor. And I take no pleasure in what comes next." Lane says when one of his men show he has a stack of kryptonite and a syringe.

They open her cell and Astra tries to fight them back as the kryptonite in the room has made her weak.

"Now, you are going to tell me the location of your base. The only question is whether you tell me before we start or after." Lane says and aproaches with the syringe when the doors open where Peter and Kara see him.

"What are you doing?" Kara asks when she starts getting weakened by the kryptonite.

"You can't just come in here like that." Lane tells them as Peter catches Kara.

"He's right. The kryptonite is weakening you." Peter says helping her stand.

"This is who you choose to stand with?" Astra asks them. "Against your own people?"

"Stop, you're hurting her!" Kara begs Lane.

"I'm sorry, was she more forthcoming when you asked nicely?" Lane asks her.

"There's another way to save Hank." Peter states to him, seriously getting seriously angry at this guy.

"We are not releasing a combatant if this threat level." Lane tells them.

"General, we are better than this!" Kara says, trying to stop him.

"We are. They aren't. Get her out if her!" Lane says when he injects Astra with the kryptonite and Peter holds Kara back before she does something she will regret.

Kara went back to work where Cat is still trying to get Kara to prove she's not Supergirl, or she will be fired, and James decided not to share with her how Max is planing something against all of these aliens and powered people. He then asks Winn to help him break back into Lord Technologies.

-

James is at Lord Technologies now And was able to get into the facilities and finds an entire laser grid.

Winn was able to hack in and shut it all down.

"Gotta say Winn, I'm pretty impressed." James says as he's making his way through the facility where Winn found some strange lock before getting knocked out by Lord and his men.

-

Astra did in fact give up the location of the basement so everyone, including Peter and Kara are on their way to the location to save Hank. The heroes are here against the General's orders, but f they listened to every general that told them to stand down, half of them wouldn't be here.

"The entire container is laced with led, can't see through it." Kara says.

"Right, echo team. Check the containers and check your six." One of the Army men say as Peter, Kara and Alex start checking all of the containers and open one of them to see Hank.

Kara goes inside to see it's a hologram with a bomb,

"Get out!" Alex yells as they run for the exit when multiple bombs go off, sending Peter flying, but his suit protects him of anything fatal.

"My men..." the man in charge says seeing they're all dead.

"It was a trap." Peter says groaning in pain while standing back up.

"Astra played us." Alex states, who was protected by Kara's cape that is fireproof.

-

With James, Max is trying to learn who helped James he through his security.

"Human, alien, spider, super. If you go up against me, you will loose." Max tells James while swinging a wrench and destroyed his camera. "Next time, I won't stop with the camera." He warns him.

He returned to Catco where Kara has just quit, to protect her secret where she saw what happened to James and how Winn was in on it.

"You both lied to me?" Kara clarifies.

"We were trying to help you." Winn defended when Peter comes into the doorway and sees they're in the middle of an argument.

"By taking him on yourselves? Max Lord is evil. I see it now, and I will do whatever it takes to stop him." Kara promises.

"Kara, you're soundings an awful like Astra." James informs her.

"Yeah, what if she's not so wrong?" Kara asks and starts leaving when Winn and James are trying to stop her and Peter stands in her way.

"Get out of my way." Kara commands him.

"Kara, if you go out there, like this, it will only prove to him just how dangerous we are. That we are no different from Astra and Non." Peter informs her, trying to calm her down.

"What if we're not?" Kara asks him.

"If we aren't, then that means we loose, game over." Peter informs her.

"You don't understand, Peter. I feel like I lost everything. I can't stop Max. Or get through to Astra. I can't rescue Hank or salvage what I had with Cat. Even the memory of my mother, the one thing that I could always count on,...is ruined." Kara states to him and starts breaking down. "I have nothing left. I don't know what to do anymore. I have all these powers, but I've never felt more powerless." She says before dropping on the couch.

Peter looks to the other two guys in the room. "Mind giving us a minute? Bit of a hero-to-hero thing." He asks them and they leave the two.

"I know how you're feeling, Kara." Peter tells her and sits next to her. "That you're alone in the world, there's no light, and there's nothing but darkness. But when things look the bleakest, that's when we need to shine our brightest and push forward. When we are beaten down, the true show of our strength is if we choose to get back up. And we need to remind ourselves that we are never alone, and that we still have people who need us." He says while he's takes her hand.

Kara understands what he's saying, and knows he's right. She's happy to say she has a friend who understands what she's going through and decides to give Astra another shot.

-

"They sent you back to try again. What makes you think this will be different?" Astra asks as Kara returns to her cell room.

"Because now, I'm ready to hear what you have to say." Kara replies to her. "I was afraid before. But today, I got so upset, I couldn't think. I didn't want to, I just wanted to hurt someone. Because I was afraid of losing everything that mattered to me. Like you must've felt back home. But if we have any hope for the future, we can't let our fear control us. We have to be better."

"You give me too much credit." Astra relies from within her cell.

"Because I know the real you."

"The woman you knew died on Krypton."

"I still have faith there is good in you." Kara says leaning against the glas.

"I am not worth your faith."

"Everyone deserves faith, Astra. Even you. Now, tell me what happened on Krypton. The truth." Kara begs this time.

Astra explains how Alura did believe that Krypton was dying but she was condemned because she was killing people and Alura promises to try to save Krypton with help from the House of Ren to stop it from dying.

"Your mother never stopped believing in me. You are so much like her, Kara." Astra tells her while they both cry.

"It's not too late, Astra. Please tell me where Henshaw is."

"The only way to save him is to make the trade. The humans will never agree to that." Astra tells her.

"Then it's a good thing we're not human." Kara says when Peter walks in ready to help.

-

The two of them, along with Alex and a few others, make their way with Astra in kryptonite cuffs to the control room.

"What do you think you're doing?" Lane asks them.

"Making a prisoner exchange." Peter informs him.

"The hell you are." Lane says as his men aim their weapons and they all do the same.

"Let us pass, General." Alex tells him.

"That alien is the enemy, Agent Danvers." Lane reminds them.

"You're here on orders to bring Director Henshaw home. That's what we're doing." Kara states.

"You take one more step and my men will put you down." Lane warns them all.

"Really?" Peter and Kara asks when the second in charge who Peter saved back during the bombing makes them lower their weapons and Lane is left alone as they walk past him.

"How do you know Non and his army won't betray you?" Lane asks as they leave.

"I don't, but I have faith." Kara says as they leave.

-

At the rendezvous point, they make it first and wait for Non's people when they appear and Alex removes the handcuffs from Astra and she walks over to Non while Hank moves over to his team.

"When I get out of here, I'll remind you both of our policy against negotiating with terrorists." Hank tells Alex and Peter. "Until then, I'll just say thanks."

"Meh, didn't bother me the first time. You'll be wasting your..." Peter was going to joke when dozens of Kryptonians surround the place.

"We have a problem." Alex states and they see there's nothing they can do.

"Stop! Stand down!" Astra commands them all. "Honor the agreement, Non. There will be no more battles today." She tells Non and he agrees to honor it and withdraws their men and they all leave.

"Do not mistake my compassion for weakness." She warns before taking off.

"No, but it's a start." Kara states to her, knowing she can hear them.

-

Kara returns to Catco, as Supergirl to convince Cat she's not her with the craziest plan.

"And I never realized how absurd you look in that ridiculous outfit." Cat states looking over Supergirl.

"I'm sorry to be bothering you, ms. Grant. But James Olsen said you believed that your assistant was me?" She asks Cat.

"Oh, for God's sake, are we gonna keep playing this tiresome game?" Cat asks when Kara suddenly walks in.

"I told you, it wasn't a game, ms. Grant." Kara says to Cat who's shocked to see the two of them.

"Sorry to say I can't stay long. Need to get back out there, people who need me." Supergirl apologizes, who in reality is Peter using holographic technology curtsy of Gwen Stacy, to create a holographic version of Kara on top of his Iron-Spider suit. "Nice to meet you, by the way."

"Nice to meet you, too. I really like your outfit." Kara tells Peter as they shake hands.

"I like your glasses." Peter says to her.

"Thanks." She replies.

Cat clears he throat and sees she was wrong. "We're finished here. Kieara, stop treating Supergirl like she's your personal assistant. She has important work to do, as do you. This bottle will not refill itself."

"Good night, ms. Grant." Peter says and starts leaving before waiting for them to turn around as his thrusters are partially visible and takes off to the ceiling.

-

Kara joins him on the ceiling as he turns off the hologram, revealing himself.

"Thank you." Kara tells Peter.

"You're welcome." Peter replies to her and crosses his arms before retracting his mask. "But, you know, we wouldn't mind if you wanted to work for the DEO. The payment is amazing, and fewer distractions."

"I can't leave this place." Kara admits to him. "It's not just a secret identity to me. I almost did something I would've regretted the rest of my life if it weren't for you."

"What are super friends for?" Peter asks her and she laughs at his reply.

"I'm glad to have a friend like you." Kara admits knowing she wouldn't be able to help people this well without his experience.

"Pleasures all mine, Skirt." Peter tells Kara and she engulfed him into a friendly hug.

Peter hasn't been given many hugs over the years, so he was a bit surprised by the action but quickly returns it.

"You really need to get out of the DEO more often if you don't know how to respond to a hug." Kara informs him as she walks back inside but quickly stops. "Hey, earlier today...have you ever killed anyone?" She bluntly asks.

Peter stops and looks over to her. "Once. It was my best friend...he turned into a monster that needed to be stopped. So I stoped him." Peter tells her before taking off into the sky to take the night shift on superhero-ing.

-

But what neither of them know, is Maxwell Lord has two people in the containment room, and he has big plans for them.

One being a Jane Doe has blood being planted, while the other being a corpse of Ned Leeds and is being infused with an creature that resembles black ooze.