And here we finally get into original content of the story! And I'm so glad I'm convincing you guys to hate Mon-El . . . that's kind of the point of the book. All the Daxamites are the enemy here, not just Rhea.

It's Team Supergirl's time to shine as Kara, Alex, and Winn try to figure out why Mon-El seems to think Kara's going to kill everyone. And, unfortunately, Kara is still a battering ram. But, just like before, she gets away, and it's off to safety for everyone!

Enjoy chapter two!

***

Two hours under the sunlamps was enough to heal the gash made by Rhea, but Kara still sat numbly under them, staring at her hands as if still seeing blood on them. J'onn was currently explaining to the President why they had engaged the Daxamite ship, and Alex was occasionally looking up from her monitor. Kara knew she was worried, she had every right to be. Her sister had just been attacked by the man who had claimed to love her . . . only for him to stand with his parents instead.

How could she have ever been so wrong about someone?

"Winn," she said quietly.

"What?" Alex looked up from her work, walking over.

"Where's Winn?"

Alex pulled out her phone and sent off a quick text message. "Hopefully on his way."

Sure enough, less than a minute later, Winn ran in through the door. "Hey," he panted, hurrying up to Kara. "Alex said you needed to see me?"

"When you . . . " She swallowed. "When you found him . . . did he seem . . . different? Did he . . . "

She couldn't say it. Even faced with what Mon-El did, she couldn't say what he did. "Trick me?" Winn guessed softly. When Kara bit her lip and jerkily nodded her head, Winn silently shook his head. "He acted just like he always had until he knocked me off my feet."

"He played all of us," Alex walked over, putting a hand on Kara's shoulder. "None of us saw this coming."

"Why?" Kara's voice cracked. "Why now, after all this time?"

"Did he say anything?" Alex looked between them. "Surely he said something!"

"All he said is how could he love the woman who was going to kill them all?" Winn answered, rubbing Kara's back.

She flinched at the words again, and Alex put a hand on her forehead, pacing restlessly. "I'm gonna kill him," she announced. "I am going to find him and put a lead bullet in his heart."

"I never did anything to him," Kara shook her head, still trying to understand. "I tried to understand him, I tried to help him find a good life here. How could he think I was going to kill him?"

"He said kill them all," Winn frowned. "That doesn't sound like it's just him he was worried about. Maybe him and his parents?"

"Surely if it was just them, he wouldn't have done it in full view of the other Daxamites?" Alex frowned. "That seems way too desperate."

"Desperate enough to save everyone, though," Kara slowly looked up. "He didn't mean his family – he meant all of Daxam."

"An entire race?" Winn blinked. "He seriously thinks you'd kill an entire race? Does he know you at all?"

"Apparently I never knew him," Kara said bitterly.

"Hey, if he sticks around, we'll kick his ass, and his parents', and every Daxamite we have to," Alex assured her.

"Uh, we may be a teeny tiny bit outnumbered there, Alex," Winn winced.

"Are you gonna let them get away with this?"

"Hell, no! But there are a hell of a lot more of them than there are of us!"

"Yeah, OK, I'm up for making sure the Daxamites don't hurt anyone else," Kara held up her hands. "But why do they think I'm going to kill them all when I hate killing?"

"I remember Mon-El seeming on edge towards the end of last year, actually," Winn tilted his head thoughtfully.

"When?" Alex asked, turning to him.

"Uh," Winn scratched the back of his head. "It was, uh . . . December? Yeah, beginning of December."

"What the hell did you do in December to scare him?" Alex raised an eyebrow at Kara.

"I don't even know!" Kara threw up her arms in frustration. "The only thing that happened in December was – " She blinked, frowning. "Was . . . "

"Was?" Alex and Winn asked at the same time.

"The Dominators," she whispered, looking up. "That was when Barry asked me to go to Earth-1 and help fight the Dominators."

"Mon-El was scared by the idea other universes existed?" Winn blinked.

Alex snorted loudly. "I doubt that."

"No, no, I don't think it was universes," Kara shook her head, looking up. "He seemed tense around Barry when we were there because of the Music Meister."

"Music Meister, I love that name," Winn grinned.

"OK, so Mon-El was scared by Barry?" Alex raised an eyebrow. "I've never met him, but he doesn't sound very scary."

"He's not," Kara shook his head. "Barry's one of the kindest people you'll ever meet." She made a frustrated noise and threw up her hands. "Why would Mon-El be scared of him? Of me, who doesn't kill?"

"OK, well, clearly the Daxamites think there's something about you," Winn held up his hands. "Maybe it's just the whole Krypton and Daxam rivalry thing?"

"It's got to be more than just the war," Kara shook her head.

"What even caused the war?" Alex frowned, folding her arms.

Kara opened her mouth to answer, then closed it again, pouting like a puppy and tilting her head. "I don't know," she admitted, frowning and scratching the back of her head.

"You don't know." Alex couldn't have sounded more incredulous if she tried. "How could you not know what caused the war which caused one of the biggest planet rivalries ever?"

"Because I don't, OK?" Kara held out her arms helplessly. "Now that I think about it, none of the children growing up on Krypton really knew."

"So what, it's a case of 'I say, they say?'" Winn asked.

"Mom said she would tell me when I was old enough to know," Kara shook her head. "And she looked so sad when she said that."

"So your mother knew," Alex frowned. "But if this is so secret, I don't know if her hologram is going to be of any help."

"What about the Fortress?" Winn suggested, making both sisters look at him. "I mean, that had the information about the Medusa virus, which only Zor-El and select other scientists knew about. Maybe it has something about why the war started."

"It's worth a shot," Kara admitted. "But Mon-El and Rhea know its location. For all we know, they could track us there."

"Then I guess we better be quick," Alex shrugged.

"We?" Kara blinked, then shook her head, getting off the bed. "No. No, guys, I'm going alone."

That got two snorts out of them. "No, you're not," Winn shook his head, following after her.

"Like hell you are," Alex said at the same time, right on her heels.

***

"Well, if she didn't know before, she's going to want to now," Mon-El seethed as he paced the throne room of the ship.

"How could she not have known?" Rhea growled from her throne. "Every Daxamite knew so they knew never to trust a Kryptonian!"

"Kryptonians aren't Daxamites," Lar Gand pointed out. "Perhaps not every Kryptonian knew."

"I do not like her, but she is the daughter of one of the most elite houses of Krypton," Rhea scowled. "The daughter of one of their most respected scientists and judicators. How could she not have known?"

"Maybe she wasn't told before Krypton exploded," Mon-El turned around. "That's the only explanation I can think of." He stopped and turned around. "And maybe there was information on the prophecy in her pod."

"Or her cousin's," Lar Gand realized what he was getting at. "The Fortress could have the prophecy."

"If she finds it," Rhea shot to her feet.

"She can't," Mon-El shook his head desperately, punching coordinates into the console for teleportation.

***

Kara flew inside the Fortress, setting Alex and Winn on the ground, the two of them in their tactical suits with winter parkas, Kara in her Supergirl suit. "Oh, wow," Winn ogled the Fortress with wide eyes. "This is so cool!" He shivered, zipping his parka up tighter. "Literally, too. Geez. This couldn't have been in Hawaii?"

"We need to hurry," Alex placed a hand over her alien gun as Kara ran to the console in the center of the Fortress.

"I know, I know," Kara tapped on the console. "OK, Daxam, Daxam, Daxam . . . "

"Whoa," Winn tilted his head up . . . and up . . . and up. "How big is this place?"

"Fanboy later, Winn," Alex snapped her fingers directly next to his ear, making him jump.

"Right," he spun around and blinked as holographic Kryptonese glyphs appeared in the air. "OK, what's that?"

"Everything the Fortress has on Daxam," Kara started scrolling through everything, narrowing her eyes. "It's got stuff on the war, but only statistics. Casualties, members of the armies, nothing on an official cause!" She put her hands on the console in frustration, growling. "How can there not be a listing on the cause of the war?"

"Maybe it was too secret to be kept on the official record?" Alex suggested.

Kara took a deep breath, then backed out of whatever she was looking at. "OK, what else is there on Daxam?" She scrolled through before blinking and narrowing her eyes. "OK, what's this?"

"What's what?" Winn walked over. "Hang on, that's blinking red."

"What does blinking red mean?" Alex looked at Kara.

"Clark told me it should never be accessed unless there was no other choice," Kara frowned, tilting her head and reading the glyphs. "The Daxam Four . . . "

"What the hell is the Daxam Four?" Winn asked.

Kara shook her head, tapping on the console to open it. Another glyph came up, this time flashing black as well. "Is that good or bad?" Alex narrowed her eyes.

"What is with this?" Kara scowled, pressing her hand on the palm scanner. "It's locked on a high security clearance. It needs me to identify myself as one of the members of the House of El."

"OK, that's either really good or really bad," Winn winced.

The scanner lit up green, and the flashing glyph morphed into a smaller line of glyphs. Kara narrowed her eyes, mouthing the words to herself, and Alex and Winn both watched her face drain of color. "Kara?" Alex asked quietly. "What does it say?"

Kara swallowed. "I know why Mon-El thinks I'm going to kill him, and why he's scared of Barry."

"What is it?" Winn looked up at the Kryptonese.

Kara took a shaky breath before tapping something on the console. The glyphs twisted and turned into English, and both Alex's and Winn's eyes widened when they saw the ominous words shining in the air in front of them. "The reign of Daxam shall end at the hands of the last daughter of Krypton and the last survivor of hell with the aid of the son of speed and the woman twice dead," Kara recited.

"You and Barry," Winn breathed in understanding.

"Mon-El thinks you're gonna kill him because of this?" Alex waved a hand at the words incredulously.

"Alex, this dates back to before the war between Krypton and Daxam," Kara swallowed. "This has got to be the reason they went to war. And it makes sense. Clark and I are the last living children of Krypton. I'm the last daughter of Krypton. And Barry is a speedster – the son of speed."

"So Mon-El is scared of a prophecy," Alex snorted. "Yeah, that makes sense."

"Barry and I aren't killers," Kara shook her head.

"What about these other two?" Winn gestured. "This last survivor of hell and the woman twice dead? How can a woman die twice? And she's still alive?"

Kara chewed her lip, narrowing her eyes as she looked at the words. Last survivor of hell . . . why was hell sticking out to her? "Why?" she asked out loud.

"Why what?" Alex asked.

"The last survivor of hell," Kara knitted her eyebrows. "I feel like I should know that . . . "

"Well, look, we know Barry's part of this," Winn gestured to the words. "And unless the Daxamites can breach between worlds, you'll be safe there until we figure out what to do about them."

"Winn's right," Alex nodded. "Take this and get to where they can't – "

The sound of a teleport hissing made them spin around, and they found themselves face to face with Mon-El, his father, and a half a dozen Daxamite guards, father and son armed with pikes like them. "You were saying?" Winn squeaked as Kara backed up against the console, tapping something on it quickly.

Mon-El took one look at the words twirling above them, and his face darkened. "Kara – "

"I didn't know," Kara shook her head. "I didn't know until you helped Rhea try to kill me!"

"Is that why you placed the bounty on her?" Alex growled. "You were trying to get rid of someone who doesn't kill?"

"For centuries, our planets were at odds because of the prophecy foretelling Daxam's end," Lar Gand narrowed his eyes. "How could we not fear for ourselves when we learned there was one daughter of Krypton left?"

"I don't kill!" Kara insisted, holding up her hands. "I don't!"

"I couldn't take that risk," Mon-El shook his head, activating his pike; unlike before, this one glowed green, and Kara balked, pressing further up against the console as Alex drew her gun, Winn looking back and forth between the two parties like he was watching a tennis match. "I'm sorry, Kara, but Daxam comes first."

"How could you do this?" Kara sobbed, looking at him. "I loved you! Did you ever love me?"

Mon-El's gaze hardened. "No."

"You son of a bitch," Alex snarled, raising her gun and aiming at him as Kara sank to her knees, Winn dropping down to try and comfort her; she saw Kara push something into his hands and saw him blink, but she kept her attention on the bastard who had broken her sister's heart. "You really are everything she said about Daxamites, aren't you? You couldn't have at least tried to care, could you?"

"I do care," Mon-El snapped. "I am trying to keep my family alive, my people alive. How hard is that to understand?"

"Extremely hard, considering this is my sister, the most selfless person in the universe, you're talking about who, again, does not – "

Before Alex could finish her sentence, Kara whipped something silver out of her boot and made a motion behind the console. A swirling portal of blue and silver materialized, and Mon-El blanched. "No!"

"Go!" Kara shoved Winn in the direction of the breach. "Go, go, go!"

"Stop them!" Mon-El yelled, and the Daxamite guards aimed with their pikes.

Kara immediately flew in their direction, smashing into the first three and grabbing one of the pikes. "Go!" she yelled back as Winn scrambled behind the console, ducking blasts from the pikes. "Get out of here!"

"Not without you!" Alex shouted, even as she ducked behind the console for cover.

Kara fired off a blast from the pike she held, blasting another guard back. "And I'm telling you to go!" She blanched when Mon-El and Lar Gand turned to her, both of their pikes glowing ominously green. "Oh, Rao."

Mon-El swung first, and Kara just narrowly ducked underneath. She had to somersault on the ground to avoid being clubbed by Lar Gand, and she nearly collapsed on the ground, feeling her veins burn as Kryptonite kept getting closer to her. A quick look at her hand showed sickly green showing in her veins, and she swallowed. "Go!" she croaked.

That was all the encouragement Winn needed. He swallowed, then wrapped his fingers tightly around the circular device in his hand, running for the breach. He jumped through just before a guard shot him. Alex returned fire, a lucky shot knocking the pike from his hand. "Kara!" she insisted.

Kara grabbed Lar Gand's wrist before he could hit her again, and she desperately reached out to grab Mon-El's arm and knock his aim off, only to get a Kryponite blast in the side. She screamed, feeling her muscles protest, and she sank to her knees. Lar Gand and Mon-El both aimed their pikes down at her, their weapons powering up, and Kara ducked her head, waiting for the inevitable.

"Hey!" a familiar voice shouted, and Mon-El's head jerked up. "Get away from her, you son of a bitch!"

A second later, a blast of blue energy hit him in the chest, catapulting him back. Startled, Lar Gand looked up, only for Alex to repeatedly fire into his chest, forcing him away from her sister. As Mon-El struggled to his feet, Kara weakly turned around, eyes wide as her savior ran to her. "Cisco?"

"Your friend made it through," he told her, gently helping her up. "Let's – "

Another Kryptonite blast hit her again, and Kara went flying back into the console. Her head smacked against it, and her vision swam. She groaned, sinking to the ground. "Kara!" Alex's voice sounded far away.

"I've got them, get her through!" Cisco yelled.

Kara swayed as Alex helped her out. "Come on, Kara," Alex whispered, putting her arm around her shoulders. "Just a few steps and you're safe. Come on!"

Kara heard Cisco blast someone again, then felt the whoosh of entering the breach. The moment she stepped through, she heard shocked exclamations, but she immediately pitched forward, away from Alex.

She knew it wasn't Alex or Winn who caught her when she fell forward, though. She had enough time to register Barry's panicked eyes looking down at her before her vision went black.

***

And hello, Earth-1! :D

The reason Kara thinks the last survivor of hell sounds familiar is because I like to think Barry told Kara a bit about Oliver's time on Lian Yu, but not all of it (because it's not his story to tell), so it sort of sounds familiar. And I doubt Sara's first death would have ever come up, which is why Kara doesn't think anything about it.

But Team Supergirl is in Central City next, and a certain metahuman is not going to be happy when he hears why his friend is in trouble.