Chapter 62

"Why exactly did you call this team meeting?" Alex asked her sister as they, J'onn, Brainy, Lena and Felicity all gathered on the Island, since this didn't require the proteges and Zatanna wasn't an official member of the team.

"I wanted to talk about this." Kara said as she brought up news footage on National City's newest hero, a woman wearing a bright blue and silver costume with brown hair fighting some standard robbers.

"The Dreamer as she calls herself." J'onn said and Kara nodded.

"Real name Nia Nal." Kara said, shocking them all.

"How do you know that?" Alex asked.

"I overheard her talking to William Dey about having powers and wanting to be a hero at the Christmas party. She's doing these heroic acts to get my attention." Kara answered.

"According to M'gann, Dreamer is trending on social media. Everyone in school is talking about her." J'onn said and Kara nodded.

"Karen told me the same thing. And I think that Nia has what it takes to join our ranks and maybe even one day join the Justice League." Kara said.

"And I hope that you can say the same thing about me considering all the training I've been putting in with my scarab." Felicity said and Kara smiled at Felicity's eagerness.

"And the scarab agrees with me." Felicity added and Kara grinned.

"You've come a long way in a very short period of time, but you still have a ways to go." Kara said and Felicity pouted, but nodded, knowing that Kara had final say on this.

"Anyways, what are we going to do about Dreamer?" Alex asked, getting them back on topic.

"For now, we observe her. Make sure that she's not doing this just to look good for the cameras. We'll take shifts watching over her, see if she notices and if she does, if that affects the way she operates. Once we know that her intentions are genuine, we'll focus on recruiting her." Kara said, since it was too soon to just blindly bring Nia, since while Kara believed in her intentions, they had to be sure.

"Sounds like a plan." J'onn said.

"I'll take the first watch shift, since my schedule is probably the lightest." Brainy said, since he was an established hero in National City now, though it had taken some time to get people to not assume he was like his ancestor, Superman's enemy, the original Brainiac.

"Agreed. One of us will relieve you in a few hours when we head out on regular patrols." Kara said and Brainy nodded.

"If that's all, I think we all need to get back to work. Especially since I need to catch a flight to Metropolis to oversee the final setup of our new headquarters there. I still love the irony that you chose to turn the old LexCorp building into our new Metropolis headquarters." Lena said to her girlfriend, who smiled.

"Call it poetic justice. Lex spent his life trying to kill my cousin and I, so now I'm using his own building to help the world for my company." Kara said.

"What kind of research does your company do in Metropolis, since I know that National City is the main branch, that in addition to all the corporate business stuff is also where your company does experiments in energy and AIs, Ivy Town is your robotics division, Central City is your new zeta and metahuman research division, Coast City is your entertainment division, Hub City is your weapons and defenses division and Keystone is your engineering department." Alex asked.

"Sorry, that's top secret information until the debut next week." Kara said with a smirk, which Lena and Felicity shared, since they were the only ones who knew what the Metropolis branch of Argo Enterprises would focus on for now.

"Fine." Alex said, though she was pouting a bit.

"Sorry, but we can't risk leaks." Lena said.

"Can I at least ask who's going to be running the facility, since Lena's staying here in National City?" Alex asked.

"It's an old friend of mine from before I left Luthor Corp. Her name is Samantha Arias and she's one of my closest friends. I'm planning on having dinner with her and her daughter while I'm in town." Lena said.

"And Lois wants you to have dinner with her family while you're in Metropolis and she promises not to let Clark bail on it." Kara said with a smile.

"I thought he'd come to terms with Lena?" J'onn asked.

"He has, for the most part, but sometimes he can't help himself. Which is what Lois is for. She and I are the only ones who can knock some sense into him." Kara said.

"Though only you can do it literally." Alex pointed out.

"And yet he's more scared of his wife than me, as he should be." Kara said as they all chuckled.

At the same time that morning, as a fog was rolling in, a man carrying a briefcase walked into National City from the airport.

"She's here. After spending 500 years searching, I believe we have finally identified his magical signature and traced it to his new form." the man said as he held up a glowing orb.

"No, we can't confront her yet. We need to observe her, make sure that we're right and this isn't another false trail." the man said as the orb flared.

"Remember, stay out of sight. The sight of you in this city will trigger an attack by Supergirl and cause us to lose any chance of gaining our target's trust. She's the only one who can give us what we want. Can free us from each other." Jason Blood said before the orb flared again, promising to behave.

"Fine. Just don't get us caught. Observe her, but don't engage. Once we know she's who we're looking for, I'll make contact and once I explain things to her and her friends, then I'll introduce you, but for now, I'll let you out, so long as you stay out of sight." Jason said and the orb flared again, agreeing as Jason walked into an alley and looked to make sure the coast was clear before he took a deep breath.

"Gone! Gone! The form of man. Rise the demon, Etrigan." Etrigan said as Jason Blood turned into him before he took to the skies, though making sure to keep out of sight.

Jason Blood/Etrigan is played by Orlando Bloom.

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