Well, that was officially the worst vacation ever.

To those of you who don't follow me or didn't see my message board, my long absence was because I haven't had a laptop the past two weeks. Last Tuesday, my parents and I went on vacation for my cousin's graduation. It was meant to be a vacation to relax and unwind. Instead, barely an hour after we arrived, and after we had just sat down to eat out, our car windows were smashed, and over half of our bags were stolen. While we did get the majority of our stuff back, all of our electronics were gone, which included my laptop. I now consider OneDrive a blessing, because thank goodness the majority of everything saved on my laptop was backed up. I just got this computer yesterday, and boy, have my fingers been itching to get back to writing.

So, I am very happy to say I am back to writing, but I am still on summer vacation, and I still have things to do other than write. Please do respect my time and my life outside of Wattpad, and we'll all be happy.

And also to those of you who have elements in this book or any book in The Unmatched Records series that you have liked . . . if there's something very specific to my stories you would like to use, including dialogue or a certain plot point that could be unique to my stories, please ask before you do, and if I say you can use it, I would very much like to be credited for whatever you have used. I don't like plagiarizers, and the last thing I want to see is someone taking elements of my story, or the entire plotline, and making it theirs.

With that being said . . . here we go, guys! The fight against Savitar on Earth-38, and two important rules come with it: expect the plan to go off the rails, and throw away the plan.

Enjoy!

***

It was a relatively normal day in National City. At least, as normal as it had been before Supergirl arrived.

That was until a swirling mass of blue-grey appeared in the middle of one of the streets, and a huge figure in silver armor with blue light strips crashed out, sending cars swerving.

Kara soared into the air, looking down at Savitar before turning to Firestorm, who flew out after her. "Keep an eye out for civilians?"

"You got it," Jax nodded as Ray jumped off his shoulder, growing to full size.

Jesse and Wally flashed through as Savitar got to his feet, growling. "You will not stop me!" he roared.

"Yeah?" Kara raised an eyebrow. "You're in my town now, Savitar. Watch us."

Savitar took off in streaks of white lightning, and the two other speedsters and alien gave chase, weaving through traffic and buildings. Just like Kara had said, they were in National City now, and Barry had not been there enough to know where he was going. Savitar was basically improvising as he ran.

That gave Kara the homefield advantage, and the next time Savitar whipped around a building, she met him with a fist to the head.

Savitar flipped head over heels, falling down into the park nearby, just as another breach opened above him. Nate and Amaya jumped out, Nate turning to steel, the silhouettes of a rhino and an elephant appearing behind Amaya. Their fists brought Savitar down to his knees with a roar that shook the ground, civilians appearing everywhere to record them.

Cisco jumped out of the breach as Oliver, Sara, and Alex arrived, along with several police cars blaring onto the scene. "This ends now," Oliver growled.

Savitar growled, getting to his knees. "Catch me if you can," he roared, speeding off again, sending Sara and Alex flying as he plowed through them.

"Oh, come on!" Jax complained as Wally and Jesse instantly took off, Kara soaring after them. "Does this guy not know when to stop?"

"Considering this is a version of Barry Allen, Jefferson, I believe he has the same stubbornness as our Barry," Stein remarked dryly.

Jax rolled his eyes. "I can definitely see that, Grey."

Tires squealed on pavement, making Oliver and Sara turn with frowns. "Those aren't police cars," Cisco frowned.

Alex turned as well as several black vans stopped, and as soldiers in tactical gear poured out, her face drained of color. "Oh, my God."

"What?" Oliver asked, immediately drawing an arrow.

Alex swallowed, drawing her gun. "That's Cadmus."

"You're kidding," Nate's jaw dropped. Out of everything that could have happened to them on this Earth, it was Cadmus going after them and not the Daxamites?

"Uh, looking at the green glow I can see from some of those guns?" Cisco pointed. "I don't think she's kidding."

"Guess our plan just went off the rails," Sara sighed.

"OK," Oliver seethed, looking around. "Vibe, Steel, Firestorm, keep an eye on Savitar. That speedster does not leave the city." Cisco nodded, opening a breach. Nate jumped through as Firestorm flew off, and Cisco jumped in after Nate. "Vixen, Atom, we stay here," Oliver turned to face the Cadmus vehicles. "These guys don't even get the chance to try and find Supergirl, understand?"

"Copy that," Ray nodded as Amaya narrowed her eyes.

Oliver turned back to face the Cadmus soldiers, drawing his arrow back. "Throw away the plan," he sighed, then released his arrow.

It hit one of the vans in the side, and with a click of a button on Oliver's bow, it exploded, tearing the van to shreds and sending Cadmus operatives flying. In the chaos that followed, Alex led the charge into the Cadmus men, Sara and Amaya running after her, Ray flying into the air as Oliver ran for higher ground.

***

Kara narrowly avoided the D.E.O. building as she dove after Savitar, watching Jesse and Wally struggle to keep up. "Guys, this isn't working!" Wally shouted.

"We can't let him get out of the city!" Firestorm shouted.

"We can't keep him in the city!" Nate argued. "He won't care who he takes out to get away!"

Kara growled, flying down and managing to get in Savitar's way, firing her heat vision at his chest. She sent Savitar sprawling, and Kara panted, trying to catch her breath, only to groan as Savitar took off once again. "Oh, come on!" Wind rushed nearby, and Kara spun around, raising her fist, but she paused when she saw J'onn hovering by her. "Oh, thank God," she breathed in relief.

"Why are you trying to tear up your own city, Supergirl?" he asked dryly.

"Blame him," Kara pointed at Savitar, who Jesse and Wally were trying to corner.

"We can't take much more of this!" Jesse warned.

Kara took a deep breath. "We need to catch him off guard, enough he can't take off again!"

"Do you need help?" J'onn asked, looking at her.

Kara bit her lip, then looked at him. "What's your plan?"

***

If there was one thing James hated being, it was being helpless. He loathed when he was helpless to do anything in the midst of a fight.

So when all the TVs in CatCo's offices started broadcasting the speedster fight tearing through the city, James ground his teeth and tried to stay focused on getting the media under control. He wasn't a metahuman like Barry, or an alien with superpowers like Kara. He would be no match for whatever this armored speedster was.

Then the Cadmus vans showed up, and James could recognize Alex in a D.E.O. uniform in a heartbeat. He didn't know the vigilantes who were kicking Cadmus's ass were, though. However, they had shown up when the speedster had, and if Alex was fighting alongside them . . .

James shook his head. "Keep covering these fights," he ordered the journalists surrounding him. "They're fighting the organization that wants National City's hero dead. Vigilantes or not, heroes or not, masked or not, that's what they're going to be known for. Going against Cadmus."

He got murmurs of agreement, and he kept his eyes on the screens, when suddenly, something in the fight against the speedsters drew his eye. He could see two trails of yellow lightning instead of just one . . . maybe it had been a trick?

But then the familiar blur of red and blur and blonde came again, and James swallowed hard.

"Kara?"

***

"One normal day," Maggie grumbled, letting her sirens wail as she drove through the streets of National City. "Just one normal day!"

Her wishes for a normal day skyrocketed when a flash of white lightning suddenly went past, followed by two streaks of yellow. Maggie swerved to the side of the road, hearing some cars crash behind her. A few seconds later, several black vans were roaring past her, heading towards a well-known park in the center of the city. Frowning, Maggie put her car in drive again, peeling away from the side of the road after them. When she arrived where they were, she froze when she heard a noise she didn't want to hear.

Gunfire.

She grabbed her gun, knowing it might be useless since she could hear machine guns, and put her car in park, scrambling out. She ducked and narrowly missed a bullet flying past her head, then heard a thunk nearby. She cautiously peeked over the hood of her car, frowning when she saw something stuck to one of the black vans. An arrow? Really?

She regretted her thoughts when the arrow suddenly exploded, taking the van – and the black-clad soldiers behind it – with it. Maggie dove to the ground, wincing as shrapnel flew everywhere. When she came back up, she saw a black woman in a black and orange gold suit pounce on the soldiers, and Maggie swore she saw a smokey silhouette of a lion surrounding her.

She heard an electronic whine above her, and she hastily ducked, watching a man in a red and blue suit fly overhead, firing blasts of blue energy at another van, knocking it off its wheels and crushing a few more soldiers. Maggie's eyes widened in horror when she saw bullets spill from one gun. She recognized the glowing green material immediately.

These weren't just any soldiers. They were Cadmus men.

She turned back around to see who they were fighting, and finally saw the archer who had fired the exploding arrow. It was a man in a suit of dark green leather, reinforced with what looked like Kevlar, alternating between using his bow like a staff, launching smaller dart-like arrows attached to his gauntlets, and firing more arrows. Watching his back was a blonde woman in white, twirling a silver staff expertly and taking out Cadmus men every time she struck, her blue eyes alight with fury. And just past her, firing at soldiers who weren't paying any attention to her –

Maggie swallowed, eyes wide. "Danvers?"

***

"OK, this had better work!" Cisco bent over double, panting as he jumped out of yet another breach.

"No kidding!" Nate agreed.

"It'll work," Kara looked at J'onn, who nodded supportively. "Is everyone ready?"

"Ready," Wally nodded from his place on Kara's other side.

"Ready!" Jesse called, looking down from her place atop L-Corp.

"Ready," Nate confirmed, bending down and preparing to run.

"Ready," Cisco nodded, straightening back up, rubbing his hands together.

Kara took a deep breath. "Go."

Wally sped off, Jesse running after him. They caught up to Savitar at the same time, starting to run in circles around him. "You take him head-on, he can counter," J'onn had said. "Attack him directly, he can attack directly back. Play with him, avoid him, taunt him, he'll grow more angry. Anger can make him lose his head. If he loses his head, he's yours."

"Hey, Savitar!" Wally stopped, grinning and waving. "Yoohoo!" Savitar ran in his direction; Wally skidded out of the way, but he didn't run off again. Instead, he stopped a few feet away, tilting his head and clicking his tongue. "Dude, you're awful at this."

Savitar jerked slightly when Jesse ran into him, smacking him in the shoulder. "You're it!" she cheerfully called. Savitar roared and ran to catch her, but Jesse ran out of the way. She stopped atop a bench, laughing. "You really don't know how to play tag?"

"Man, you are not good at this," Firestorm laughed as well from where he was watching a few feet above.

Savitar roared angrily, taking off again, and this time, Wally and Jesse ran at the same time. Savitar whipped back and forth, trying to choose between two targets, and J'onn nodded at Kara. "He's yours."

Kara nodded back. "Thank you," she told him gratefully.

"You're welcome," J'onn nodded. "Save the city, Supergirl."

Kara smiled, then turned around. "Now!" she yelled.

Wally and Jesse turned tail and ran off the same way, Savitar giving chase. Kara flew down after them, then blew hard. The road slicked with ice from her freeze breath, and Kara soared back up as Wally and Jesse turned the corner, going to the sidewalk to avoid hitting the road. When Savitar came around the corner, he ran onto the road, slipping. He crashed onto the road as one of Cisco's breaches opened up, and Nate jumped out as Kara flew down. Their fists hit Savitar in the head at the same time, and Savitar went limp.

Taking no chances, Kara blew again, covering Savitar with ice. When he was coated, she bent down and took a firm hold of Savitar's arm. "Good luck," Jax told her.

Kara nodded, taking a deep breath, then launched into the sky, heading straight up. She flipped the portal device into her hand, gaining speed.

***

Oliver turned when he heard a breach open, and Cisco jumped out, panting heavily. "Savitar's going up, up, and away," he reported, looking around. "Man, how many of these guys are there?"

"Too many," Sara grunted, bashing one soldier in the face and kicking him to the ground.

Oliver gritted his teeth, then reached up to the comms device in his ear. "Can you guys see Supergirl at all?" he asked.

"No," Jax's voice answered. "The portal just opened up."

"Keep an eye out there, just in case," Oliver ordered, then he turned to Cisco. "Get back to Earth-1 and get us another speedster."

Cisco's grin nearly split his face as he opened another breach and jumped through.

***

"You're gonna wear a hole in the carpet, Barry," Joe watched Barry pace restlessly.

"They're fighting Savitar right now, and I'm supposed to be calm about this?" Barry snapped.

"They have a chance since you don't know what they're doing," Iris told him, but she, too, was fidgeting anxiously, biting her nails. If this didn't work, she still could die.

Barry sighed, running a hand through his air. "I don't like doing nothing," he grumbled.

"I hate not being there to see them kick Savitar's ass, too," Joe put a hand on his shoulder. "But if it means he'll be gone, then I'll stomach it."

Barry nodded in agreement, then a breach appeared in the center of the living room. Iris scrambled up anxiously, then Cisco jumped out. "Is it over?" Barry immediately asked.

"Can't tell you right now," Cisco shook his head. "But Oliver needs a hand with Cadmus."

Barry perked up. "Does that mean – ?"

"Get your suit," Cisco nodded.

***

"Seriously, where are all of them coming from?" Ray looked around, firing another blast at a Cadmus van driving their way.

"Any time now, Barry," Oliver seethed, he and Sara standing back to back as Alex loaded another cartridge, clenching her teeth.

As if on cue, a breach opened up in front of them, and dark yellow lightning raced out, and Cadmus soldiers yelped as they were tossed head over heels, guns and Kryptonite weapons disappearing from their hands. Barry stopped in front of Oliver, looking down at the mass of weapons in his arms, then shook his head. "These guys are maniacs," he said in disbelief.

"Yeah, that's Cadmus for you," Alex grinned.

"Get those out of here," Oliver ordered, pointing in the opposite direction Savitar had gone, and Barry nodded, running off. "Now," he turned to the now unarmed soldiers, spinning his bow to his side, Sara and Alex flanking him with Ray, Amaya, and Cisco behind them. "What do we do with the rest of you?"

***

Kara finally reached the point where she was struggling to breathe, and she hauled Savitar up, looking into the eyes of his suit. "One way trip," she told him. "Enjoy space."

She activated the portal and flew into space, then threw Savitar as hard as she could, sending him spiraling into the Phantom Zone. She flew back down, closing the portal behind her, and raised a hand to her comms. "It's done!" she announced.

***

"Savitar's out!"

Alex sighed in relief as Sara grinned giddily. Barry looked between them, confused, and Oliver turned to Barry and gave him a smile. "There won't be a murder on Infantino Street now."

Barry grinned widely. "You did it?"

"She did it," Oliver confirmed.

"We're on our way," Nate called.

Oliver nodded, then turned to the Cadmus soldiers, who were starting to inch away. "You're lucky," he told them, freezing them in their tracks. "We don't have any more business here right now."

"But you didn't need to show up," Sara walked forward to stand by him, lifting her chin. "You're just an annoying fly we'll swat if you get in our way again."

"And if you do, we will retaliate," Barry added. "You've seen what some of us can do."

"You came here to hurt Supergirl," Oliver growled. "Go after a member of our team, we'll go after you."

"And trust me," Sara grinned like a shark. "We'll be much worse the next time you think this is a good idea."

Wordlessly, Cisco opened up another breach, and Ray and Amaya went through first. Sara found Alex look in the direction of the gathered police, and she tilted her head as Firestorm flew down, accompanied by Wally, and went next. "Coming, Danvers?"

Alex took a deep breath, then straightened. "Yeah," she turned around. "I'm coming."

Sara nodded as Jesse sped in with Nate, and Alex walked through the breach, Jesse and Nate going with her. Oliver watched them go, then looked up when he heard a rush of wind. As Kara landed on his other side, Oliver turned to the Cadmus soldiers and smirked. "Tell Lillian Luthor we send our regards."

Sara gave a salute with her bo staff and walked through the breach, Barry smirking and going in after her. Oliver held out a hand silently, and with a nod of acknowledgement, Kara followed. Oliver was the last through, accompanied by Cisco, leaving stunned silence in their wake.

***

Everyone ran into the breaching room as the heroes piled out. "Well?" Caitlin demanded, the first one in, followed by Winn and Felicity.

"Well, the plan went off the rails a little bit," Sara grinned. "Threw a bit away, but . . . "

Barry grinned as he pulled off his cowl. "It's over."

"Yes!" Felicity cheered, Winn whooping in delight as Lena grinned. "Yes, yes, yes!"

Caitlin ran forward and hugged Barry tightly, and Cisco pulled Jesse and Wally in to do the same thing. When H.R. joined, Harry rolled his eyes, but he was smiling just the same. "Nice work," Mick smirked and nodded at them.

Kara turned to Oliver and smiled. "One down."

"Two to go," he nodded, smiling. "Nice job, Kara."

"You, too," Kara beamed.

When she hugged him, Oliver didn't stop her; he hugged her back.

***

Might be rethinking that number soon, Ollie. :)

But ding, dong, Savitar is gone! Huzzah! :D

Like I said, Ollie needs to rethink that number . . . because it's off to Star City next for the Prometheus arc!