The toy master

"I know some of you are scared. I know some of you have never done this before. I know some of you are ready to get out there and prove yourselves. But just remember why we do this. We do this for the people." Kara tells the group as they're all lined up.

For karaoke night.

"Well, now, don't you tell me to smile. Maybe stick around. Make it work your while. Got numbers behind what you can dial. Maybe it's because we're so versatile." Kara sings on the stage at the alien bar. "Style profile, I said. It always brings be back. When I hear ooh, child. From the Hudson River to the Nile I run the marathon. To the very last mile." She says before she breaks into a robot dance and everyone laughs at that.

Next up, James Olson. "What went wrong? Baby, seemed like we were going to take this further. And further. Same old song. And the juice we got from the squeeze wasn't worth it."

"Take your shirt off!" Winn screams jokingly.

Next up being Alex. "No one can move me the way that you do. Nothing erases the feeling between me and you. I drove all night to get to you." She sings and Peter was told that she and Maggie broke up while he was on Mars and she doesn't seem to be over it quite yet.

J'onn next, and this should be fun. "I get so emotional, Baby. Ain't it shocking...what love can do? Here we go. Come on, pops!" He encourages Myr'nn to join in.

"Don't you know, we're caught in a trap. I can't walk out. Because I love you too much, baby." Myr'nn sings and everyone cheers him on. Afterwards, he moves down and J'onn hugs his father who's out of breath.

"See, I told you, you had nothing to worry about." J'onn assures him.

"Karaoke is not for the weak. It requires either great courage or a complete lack of shame." Myr'nn tells them as he sits down. "But I like it."

"Hey, how about you, Pete?" Winn asks the Spider-Man.

"N, to the, O. No." Peter answers them not wanting to sing. "Not happening."

"Come on, Peter!" Kara says, tries getting him to do it and remembers how well his doppelgänger sang.

"I made it perfectly clear that you will never hear me singing." Peter reminds J'onn and Winn looks to the television to see his father the Toymaker has been found dead in prison.

-

"Winslow Schott, Sr. was a man with many demons. As we lay him to rest, we may not celebrate his life, but we can examine it, and perhaps forgive a troubled soul it's transgressions. Would anyone care to speak on behalf of the deceased?" The priest asks at the funeral and everyone is there for Winn and he lowers his casket down and Winn throws some dirt onto it in anger of his father.

As Winn looked away, he sees his mother has returned and wants to make up for lost years when Peter's senses go off and he turns to the casket and even Kara hears a chiming tune.

"Everyone, get down!" Peter yells and everyone moves out of the way just in time for the casket to explode.

Thankfully, nobody was hurt as everyone got back up.

"Bastard always wanted to go out with a bang." Winn's mother, Mary, states.

-

They bring everyone to the DEO to make sure they're okay and no head trauma, nothing life threatening.

"I hate to ask, but I have to." Kara says to Winn.

"He's dead, guys." Winn assures them. "Look, I had the warden and two separate medical examiners sign off on the body. I had them cross check his dental records and his fingerprints, just to be sure. The dude in the box was my father."

"So why blow himself up at his own funeral?" Peter wonders.

"Maybe for the headline." James guesses.

"Yeah. Toyman's last trick. Sounds about right." Winn agrees with that.

"I would read that, even if it was a Daily Bugle paper." Peter admits.

"I still think we should run a full mass spectrometry on the explosive residue, Winn." J'onn says as he approaches them. "It may tell us who's helping your father."

"No one is helping him!" Winn states. "Seriously, he was a crazy person. Crazy people do crazy things. Like, I don't know, mass murder."

"Well, I'm happy to report Mary has a clean bill of health." Alex tells them and looks to Winn. "She wants to talk to you."

"She's had twenty years to talk." Winn say as Myr'nn approaches them.

"My son, may I borrow gen of your earth dollars? The strike team tackled the delivery man when he entered the lobby, I think I should tip him well." Myr'nn asks and Peter Let's a small chuckle escape to that news, loving J'onn's father.

"I'm loving him." Peter tells Kara who agrees with that. Myr'nn is a nice guy who just needs to get used to their Earth customs.

Mary comes down to find Winn and everyone scatters to give them privacy.

"So you work with Supergirl and Spider-Man. You should sit up straight, be proud." Mary tells her son.

"You cannot be down here." Winn tells her.

"Please. If anyone asks, I'm just looking for the bathroom." Mary says looking around the monitor room.

"It's around the corner to the left, Okay, bye now." Winn tells her and points in the direction.

"Yeah, I tried that one, but it was closed for enhanced interrogation." Mary jokes and sees several agents look to her. "Kidding. Just kidding."

"You think this is funny?" Winn asks her.

"Oh, a little gallows humor never killed anyone. Well, except for the fellas hanging from the gallows." Mary guesses.

"What do you want?" Winn asks and waits for a response and brings her somewhere private.

"I just wanted to see your face, Winn. I wanted to hear your voice, I wanted my son back. I have spent twenty years imagining this moment and now I...leaving you, it gutted me. And I've carried that with me every day of my life, but I had to, Winn. Because your father-" Mary was explaining to him.

"Oh, let me guess. He threatened your life." Winn guesses.

"No, Winn. He threatened yours. He told me if I went near you, ever, that he would kill you. And when he died, I thought it was safe. But I was wrong, you're still in danger."

"I don't believe you."

"You saw what your father did at his own funeral."

"I saw the last grasping prank of a lunatic. And now, what I'm hearing is an excuse. Twenty years in the making, Hey, I had twenty years to think, too. You wanna know what I think about the most? It's the night dad finally snapped. And I'm sitting in the police station, freezing cold, because I'm in my pajamas. When the police came and picked me up from home, I was asleep. In bed alone. And the nice officer, he drapes the coat over my shoulders. I feel a little better. So I'm sitting there, and my cold feet are dangling in the air, and I'm waiting. I'm waiting for my mom to pick me up. 'Cause they said that they called you. They said it was just gonna be like an hour, and then they'd explain everything. Then two hours, then it was the next morning. When I lie in bed at night, staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep, staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep, I'm not wondering why dad snapped. That's not what haunts me. What haunts me is you. You, who left me, when I needed you the most and no explanation."

"I'm so sorry."

"I don't care anymore. You wanna keep me safe? Great. You know what you should do? Leave again." Winn tells her.

-

Upstairs, Peter was sensing something was coming when he and Kara go to the balcony and see...sky writing.

"What is that?" James asks, just as confused.

"It's a message for me." Mary explains as she and Winn see it.

Surrender Mary

"Is that a wicked witch?" Kara asks when Peter uses his mask to get a close look at what it is.

"No. It's her flying monkeys." Peter says as the robot monkeys swarm the DEO.

Peter and Kara get to work fast and take them all down as Winn gets Mary somewhere safe.

Peter quickly uses an EMP blast to shut most of them down as J'onn crushes and smashes them.

Kara and Peter start working back to back and use their lasers to take them down, they then take to the air in sync and spin around and punch the rest of them, destroying them all.

"This is your job?" Mary asks Winn. "This is?"

-

They start picking up the robots to figure out exactly what's happening and where they came from.

"Well, your Mom's right. Somebody is definitely helping your dad out." Peter tells Winn.

"I just honestly wish she would leave." Winn says as he drops the parts on the table. "Like, who does she think she is anyway? She doesn't get to walk back into my life after twenty years. I did not get a say in her walking out. I definitely get a say in her walking back in."

"At least you have somebody who wants to know you." Peter tells him.

"What, you think I should?" Winn asks him. "No, don't think that I should."

"Buddy, it doesn't matter what I think, but about what you need." Peter tells him.

"Even if my dad had threatened to kill me, she could have done a thousand other things. Gone to the police, the FBI. No, instead, she decided to abandon me. And now she has do deal with the consequences. If she just stayed, then maybe...we could have had a great relationship."

"Let me stop you right there, and say that what ifs are a thought excersise to make you mad at yourself and others." Peter informs him. "What if my parents never left the day that they did? They would be alive and I'd have them right here. What if I didn't walk out on my uncle and he never got shot? What if I never told my aunt my secret? She could still have had that heart attack. But I thought it was because I told her. What if I was faster that one day? Gwen would still be alive. And when she died, something snapped. I blamed myself because there was no one else left to blame. But I got over it, took some time, and me finally letting go of the past. We can't change the past, but we can alter our future. It's up to you how to change it."

-

Winn decides to give her a chance and the two of them start to find their way through the monkeys to see who made it.

They kept taking it apart when Mary goes to take a break and nobody believed that and later a video message comes in.

"I have your mother, but you can trade your life for hers. She's hanging Alejandro at the old Wiggins Game Company factory. But hurry, junior, the pressure is on." Someone says and they see Mary's trapped inside some claw.

"Winn, don't come here." Mary tells him when the camera shuts off.

"We'll go." Peter says and Kara is all for it.

"Not without me." Winn says.

"That's what she wants." J'onn reminds him.

"That's my mother, I have to help." Winn says. "I've been fighting the part of me that's my dad, but now I can use it."

-

They make it to the warehouse and see a lot of toys everywhere.

"Any ideas?" James asks.

"She was in the claw apparatus. Suspended from the floor." Peter says as he goes over the footage as they walk through the halls and his senses go off.

They turn and see airplanes flying at them and it explodes, sending Winn and James flying.

"We've got this. Find Mary." Kara tells them and the two use their lasers and strength to fight them off.

"Welcome, Welcome. To the Willard Walter Wiggins Game Company." The woman from the video says through the speakers as they finish the planes. "So glad junior brought his friends." She says and Kara spots her.

"I see her." Kara says and walks towards her.

"Heat vision, freeze breath, and so many points of articulation? I think I'll keep you." She tells Kara when she gets trapped in a package. She tries using her powers to get out and it doesn't work. "It's so rare to find a vintage superhero in mint condition."

Peter goes to help her when his senses go off and he turns to see a lifesize T-Rex. "Seriously?!" Peter asks, not seeing how that's possible even for a toy.

The dinosaur goes in to bite him and Peter dodges the attack.

He shoots out a web and tries to pull the Rex but it's too late as it spins and sends Peter flying around, upside to that he was knocked into Kara, getting her out of the packaging.

Peter gets a new idea and shoots a web before passing it to Kara. "You remember that one scene in Empire strikes back?" He asks her and Kara understands his plan as she and him spin in opposite directions and tie the dinosaur up by the legs.

By the time they found Winn, he saved his mother and took down the crazy woman.

"Oh, hey." Winn greets and they see his hand is cut.

-

After that, they're all back at karaoke night as Winn and Mary are singing Take on me together and everyone is still begging for Peter to sing.

"I can be drunk out of my skin, and you still won't talk me into it." Peter informs them.

"How about we do duets?" James asks.

"Not on your life, Shiny." Peter tells the man, giving him a Guardian nickname.

"Come on! I'll do it with you." Kara offers and gets up to drag him with.

"Ooh, I have the perfect song." Alex says and gets up.

"This is gonna go badly." Peter predicts and finally gives in as he and Kara climb up on the stage.

As the song comes up, Peter decides to start them off. "Face to face and heart to heart. We're so close, yet so far apart. I close my eyes I look away. That's just because I'm not okay."

"But I hold on, I stay strong. Wondering if we still belong." Kara does the next verse.

"Will we ever say the words we're feeling. Reach down underneath and tear down all the walls. Will we ever have a happy ending? Or will we forever only be pretending? Will we always always always be pretending?" They both sing together and Peter is getting into it.

"How long do I fantasize, make believe that it's still alive. Imagine that I am good enough. And we can choose the ones we love." Peter sings.

"But I hold on, I stay strong. Wondering if we still belong." Kara sings again. "Will we ever say the words we're feeling? Reach down underneath and tear down all the walls. Will we ever have a happy ending? Or will we forever only be pretending? Will we always always always be..."

"Keeping secrets safe. Every move we make. Seems like no one's letting go. And it's such a shame. Cause if you feel the same. How am I supposed to know?" They both continue singing.

"Will we ever say the words we're feeling? Reach down underneath and tear down all the walls. Will we ever have a happy ending Or will we forever only be pretending?" Peter sings and then starts to read the lyrics a bit deeper and realizes what Alex was saying but doesn't focus on that.

"Will we always always always be (pretending)? Will we always always always be (pretending)? Will we always always always be pretending?" They both finish off.

Surprisingly to the group, Peter's voice is not half bad when he sings and everyone applauds the two of them.

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