Days passed and Christi's leg was fully healed. It had healed the day after her talk with Supergirl but the pain afterward was constant. Kara was gone the day before and James had to take over for her. Winn used the excuse of Kara being sick and they had all sighed in relief when Kara walked in.

Kara went straight towards James' office. Christi was really getting used to spying on these people. She had very little guilt about it. A small teaspoon of guilt. Maybe less, but it was still there. Kara, on the other hand, started going off about how some people had dragged away Alex and the Martian.

"Okay. But who is 'they'? Who did this?" James asked.

"Lucy."

Christi worded the name over in her head. Lucy, Lucy, Lucy. . . Why did that name sound familiar? Then it stuck her. Lucy Lane, sister of Lois lane. Of course that Lucy would be involved. She and her father just can't stay away from alien business.

"Okay, but where did they take Alex and Hank?"

"Some place called Project Cadmus, which I'm guessing isn't an all-inclusive resort."

Christi froze and stopped her typing. No, they can't possibly be taking them there. That place is a torture and experimental place for aliens and those who found out too much about the government. But Cadmus was mostly like Hydra, something she learned about reading comics as she looked after Clark. Kara needs to get Alex and Hank out of there.

"No. It's the reason Clark won't work with the government," James explained. "Okay so if - if the DEO is a prison, Cadmus is a dissection lab. It's a genetic engineering facility that treats aliens like lab rats. Amputated. Skinned. Drained. Injected with experimental drugs."

"Why would they do that?" Kara whispered.

"Weaponizing alien abilities for military purposes."

"What do they do to humans?"

There was silence. James didn't say anything, and Christi didn't want to imagine. She already knew.

"Does Clark know where it is?"

"No. No one does."

Christi did. And she would go back there for anything. Never again.

"I know what I have to do. But I'm gonna need your help."

Kara quickly explained how she was going to show Lucy that she was Supergirl. Christi was about to run in and yell 'no!' but she ignored her better judgment and carried on working.

Christi rushed home immediately, telling Ms. Grant it was a family crisis, that her mother was deathly ill. She was waiting for night to help rescue Alex and Hank. Until that time she planned how she was going to help. But as she was beginning her plan, her phone rang.

Christi answered it without looking at the caller ID, "This is Christi, who am I speaking to?"

"Christi, I have information, and it's not good."

Christi froze at the voice she hadn't heard from in a long time. It was a DEO agent, retired, but with connections inside. The agent, Jake, had found Christi by accident while on vacation in Northern Canada. He wanted to call her in but she convinced him otherwise when she saved him from being trampled by a moose. They had kept in contact since then, and he gave her a heads up whenever something was up or when Christi needed information.

When Christi told Jake to keep her updated on the ingoings and outgoings since Supergirl had shown up, Jake had been somewhat reluctant. But he gave in when Christi decided to give him flying lessons. Although they both knew that he would have eventually given in. Then when Jake had told Christi of Hank being an alien mere hours after her fight, she told him to tell her anything he could as soon as he could.

"What is it?" Christi asked worriedly.

"It's Hank and Alex."

"What happened? I thought they were on their way to Cadmus?"

"They're being moved in separate tucks," Jake sounded frantic. "You told me that Supergirl was going to get them out of there. I don't know if she'll be able to get them both. Hell, I don't even know which ones they'll be in or if one is a diversion. But it's happening tonight, not tomorrow night."

Christi's heart leapt into her throat. This wasn't supposed to happen. The plan just earlier that day had been to send both in just the one truck, not one person to each truck. Kara was supposed to be able to get them both, and get out of there.

"Christi, you'll have to go out there and help her. Help Supergirl, like you told me you once had to. Get out there and become a superhero if you have to! Just save those people from the fate of Cadmus."

Chisti hadn't even heard Jake's last sentence. "I don't want to be a superhero Jake! I just want to look after the girl I was sent to protect and keep her as safe as possible! I don't want to - to protect an entire city! I could just barely protect myself from Supergirl! What makes you think I could take on any other alien?" Christi could hear Jake sigh on the other end of the phone.

"I know you have been training Christi. We both know that the only reason Supergirl got the drop on you is because you weren't expecting it, otherwise you would have been better off. But start out by just helping Supergirl save Hank and Alex. If you don't want to continue, then just look out for her, like you promised," Jake assured.

Christi nodded, knowing full well that Jake couldn't see her. "Alright. Thank you, Jake."

The only reply she got was a dial tone. Jake wasn't much of a person to say goodbyes. He hated them. In his opinion, goodbyes were like the endings in people's favorite books.

When the true weight of what Jake had told her, Christi knew what she needed to do. First she needed to go to Kara's. Christi ran and jumped out her window, transforming, and made it to the apartment in record time.

She landed on a roof just in time to see Kara walk up to Lucy. She didn't like being out in broad daylight. Black, skin tight suit, snow white hair, and glowing green eyes didn't exactly keep her low-key. Christi watched as Kara got up from her chair and walked towards Lucy.

"There's something you need to know."

Kara hesitated before pulling her button-up shirt away, revealing her family crest. Although to others it meant something other entirely. Lucy gave a small gasp as her jaw dropped in realization. Kara looked down before pulling off the glasses she didn't really need and looked back at Lucy. Lucy's only response was a glance at James.

Lucy looked down before beginning. "It all makes sense now," she said. "I just didn't wanna put it together. I didn't want it to be true."

Kara sighed, "I'm sorry you had to find out this way. But you are the only person that can stop Hank and Alex from being sent to Project Cadmus."

"Why would I help you? You and - and Hank. Why do you all lie?"

Kara looked around, giving a small nod. "When you are an alien, and you've lost your world and you're dropped into a new one, you don't have a choice. When you are an alien, you're willing to sacrifice anything, everything, betray your fundamental instincts just to fit in. To belong somewhere, to find your place in this world."

Christi looked down, her mind filled with the images of her lost planet and Krypton. This, losing a planet, had happened twice to her. First her planet, then Krypton, and now she's on Earth. Christi had changed so much that it wasn't surprising Kara hadn't recognized her in the time they spent together.

On Krypton, before her planet was gone, Christi had been so open-minded, and open to anyone who asked her questions. Then after her planet was gone she became closed off to many, besides the house of El. Kara's mother, Alura, had become like a second mother to her. Despite their few hundred year age difference, Christi smiled. When Krypton was gone it wasn't surprising that Christi went into hiding and stayed distant from Kal-El rather than taking care of him herself.

"If you have a problem fitting in, it's because you lie to people about who you really are," Lucy snapped back at Kara.

A resounding growl could be heard by just two. Kara, and the one from whom it came from. Without a warning Christi jumped the distance between the roof she was on and Kara's open window. It was a bit of a long jump but she made it no problem. Lucy and James jumped back at the sudden appearance of the woman. Kara however had taken a defensive stance. Lucy had drawn her gun.

"The only reason we aliens lie is from what we fear may happen," Christi's voice filled the room. "An alien just can't walk up to someone and say, 'Hey, I'm an alien but don't treat me differently or try to kill me. No, I come in peace' now can they?" Christi pranced around the three in the room in a sarcastic manner. "Exactly how many times was that actually true in a movie? We stay quiet and try to fit in as best as we can. Those that look different either hide or play off their strange looks as born this way, or markings are just a tattoo. We try to fit in because that's all we can do. Fit in, keep our heads down and hope to god that the damned government doesn't come knocking at our doors!"

"Kara?" James asked, sending a questioning glance at the Kryptonian.

All eyes went to Kara except for Lucy's, whose eyes were still trained on the woman in black in front of her. Kara was looking at Christi with a guarded gaze, watching for any sign of hostility. When she found none, she switched to a relaxed yet still ready to fight stance.

"She won't hurt us," Kara announced.

"You don't need that," Christi nodded at the gun, Lucy's gaze still didn't waver. "Alright then, fine. But I need to speak to you Kara."

Kara hesitated. "Why?"

Christi looked James and Lucy over before nodding. "They plan to move Alex and Hank later tonight instead of tomorrow night."

All figures within the room stilled. "How do you know about that?" Kara asked.

"I know people. But that's not the point! The point is that they're moving Alex and Hank tonight, and you're going to need help."

"Why would we need help?"

"Because the army is putting them in two different trucks. One going East, the other, West. Do you know what that means? Either they're separating Hank and Alex, or one of the trucks is a diversion."

"Oh my god," James muttered. "They think that Kara is the only one going after them. So if Alex and Hank really are being separated, then they know Supergirl can't save them both. It's one, or the other."

James, Christi and Lucy all watched as Kara took a seat. "Oh this is bad. This is really, really bad. I just can't choose between Hank and Alex."

"Kara - Kara! Calm down, take a breath," Christi tried to soothe the stressed Kryptonian. "I don't know this for sure but it is a great possibility. That is why you will need both Lucy and I for this."

"Wait who said I was going?" Lucy asked, her gun long since put back into its holster.

"Lucy, are you really willing to let Hank become a science experiment? And who knows what they have planned for Alex?" James asked.

Lucy looked down before nodding. "Alright. How do we do this?"

Kara smiled and looked at Christi. "How are we going to do this?"

Christi gave a wolfish grin. "We're going to need black suits, and some motorcycles."

"Wait a second. Just how reliable are the people you know?" James butted in, giving Christi a suspicious look.

Christi's grin only grew larger. "Well, I found him while in hiding from the government, DEO and every other organization on this planet. I've been here since just before Superman came to Earth."

Lucy gave a look. "You've been here that long?"

Christi nodded, "Now, the plan. We'll need to split up. I can take the truck heading East while you two, Kara and Lucy, take the one going West. If one of them is a diversion then we need to book-it straight over to the other one. If Hank is in one and Alex in the other, just work on getting that one person out."

Kara and Lucy nodded along, and the three of them spent the next few hours planning. Occasionally James would input something. Usually a small flaw in the plan that the girls three couldn't foresee.

Finally, the time had come. Christi, Kara and Lucy had gone their separate ways. Each tracking the truck they were assigned to. Each was given an earpiece for communication.

Christi flew along, keeping pace in the night sky as her eyes tracked the truck below her. Then Kara's voice came through on the comm.

"Alex is in this one. You've got Hank. And good luck," Kara said.

Christi didn't bother to reply before diving towards the truck. Wind whipped around her as she flew past the large truck. She landed in front of the semi, giving it enough time to immediately slam in the brakes. The semi halted mere inches from her.

Two men in army uniforms climbed out with guns at their sides. They slowly crept around to the front, only to find nothing there. One of the men nodded to the other to look under the truck. Once Soldier 2 had looked and found nothing there, he looked questioningly at Soldier 1. Then a voice coughed above them.

"Ahem. You know, if you're gonna relocate a Martian don't do it with no one around."

The two soldiers looked up and saw the woman staring back at them from the top of the truck. They started shooting at Christi but she dodged the bullets. She immediately attacked Soldier 1. Christi knocked him against the front of the truck and threw her weight into him, the man's head smacking the front and knocking him out cold. The next soldier went as quickly as the last one.

Inside the truck Jim Harper pulled out his pistol and pointed it at the doors as loud scratching could be heard from the other side. Suddenly the scratching stopped. Jim shot a quick glance at J'onn before moving towards the doors. He slowly unlatched them, and opened them as quickly as possible. Jim backed away to J'onn even quicker. They waited in bated silence.

Then a woman's head popped up from the bottom with a cheerful voice of, "Hey!"

Jim didn't waste a second and shot at the woman who disappeared below with a scream. J'onn glanced at Jim.

"I think you hit her."

Jim Harper slowly made his way towards the doors once again and looked down. He supposed he wanted to find a dead woman. Sure enough, a woman was laying on her side, facing away from him.

Suddenly Christi jumped up, punched him in the face, and slammed his head into the side of the trailer. Jim was down for the count. J'onn watched with interest as it occurred. Then the woman turned to him, hopping into the trailer.

The woman walked up to him and tilted her head, curiosity evident in her gaze. Christi then looked down at the remote for J'onn J'onzz' handcuffs before stomping on it, shattering the controller. J'onn, now currently in the shape of Hank Henshaw, broke the cuffs and stood.

Christi nodded at him. "Supergirl needed help with the rescue so I came." She then walked over towards the unconscious Jim Harper, and backhanded him, jerking him awake.

"Jesus!" the man screamed as he awoke, cradling his cheek.

The woman grinned, "Nope! I'm just a girl." She gave the man below her a wink. Christi stood and looked at J'onn, or Hank Henshaw as most knew him. "I assume you need a minute with this one?"

Hank nodded and walked towards Jim Harper, placing his palm on Jim's forehead.

"Do it! Do it, Martian. Be a monster. Prove me right." Jim taunted.

"I'm not gonna kill you, Colonel, I'm just gonna make you forget what happened here tonight." Hank's eyes glowed red as if further supporting his claim. A second passed as Jim screamed and Hank gasped, pulling away from Jim and stumbling back.

"Hey, hey! You okay?" Christi asked.

"I saw into Harper's mind. I saw him," Hank panted.

"Who?"

"Jeremiah Danvers."

Christi held her breath. "We need to get you to Alex and Kara, now. I'm assuming you can fly?"

Hank nodded, and his body glowed as it had nights ago. Once again he was a Green Martian. He then flew outside of the truck and hovered only feet off the ground. The woman nodded before taking a running jump out of the truck, catching the air beneath her, and shooting up to join him.

Christi tapped the comm in her ear. "Supergirl can you hear me?"

Kara's voice came through the end, "Loud and clear. You have Hank?"

"Yes. Alex?"

"Yes. Get here quickly, reinforcements are likely on their way."

"Got it. See you in a few."

"Over and out."

Christi swore she heard Kara say something along the lines of 'I've always wanted to say that'. She looked at J'onn before flying away, knowing he was following. In the corner of her eye she saw the Martian flying there.

"I'm assuming Supergirl doesn't know who you are?" J'onn spoke up.

"No. And she won't know until she is ready."

As Christi looked down she saw Kara, Alex and Lucy waiting for them. They flew down and landed, Chisti going much faster than J'onn. As she landed at high speed, her legs absorbed the shock. Supergirl gave Christi a look of thanks as all the women watched J'onn transform back into Hank. They rushed forward and hugged him.

"Look," Christi began, "as much as I hate to cut this reunion short, I need to get back." The few people around her nodded in understanding. "So I'll see you around someday."

Christi went to fly away but stopped as Kara spoke. "Thank you, by the way," she said. "We couldn't have done this without you."

Christi nodded, "It was my pleasure, Kara Zor-El."

Christi lifted her right arm and held it against her chest before holding it out to Kara and letting it fall to her side. It was a sign of respect.

She made quick work of the flight home, making sure Kara hadn't followed her. When she landed she immediately transformed back to her normal self. Christi pulled her arms above her head and stretched, a few bones popping. She skipped the shower and headed straight to bed, eager for sleep. Only to curse at the alarm in the morning.

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I feel like I messed something up in here. Tell me if I did.

Edited 4/5/18