Two days in with classes, and I'm already starting to feel the huge weight college is going to be. For those of you who read these books and also read Doctor Who . . . it might be a while before one of those books gets updated. As a music major, my days are already booked, but with being in the Honors college as well, that puts an extra weight on me in my writing seminar. I still plan to write, honestly, I do, but it's my golden rule: my education comes before my writing.

Now, to what some of you have probably been waiting for . . . Oliver finally meets Alex!

***

In a bar populated by aliens not far in National City, an auburn-haired woman bent down, eyeing down her cue. She smirked and lined up her move before taking the shot.

The white ball hit the striped ball, and it sank right into the pocket in the corner of the table. "Way to go, Danvers," the police detective leaning on her own cue grinned.

"Thanks," Alex smirked at her fiancée, moving around to line up another shot.

Before she could, her cell phone rang. "Who'd be calling you now?" Maggie frowned.

"I don't know," Alex frowned, straightening and pulling out her phone. When she saw the Caller ID, she blinked and answered. "What do you want, Luthor?"

"We found Kara," Lena got straight to the point.

Alex's eyes widened, and she actually dropped her cue. "Alex?" Maggie quickly moved around the pool table.

"You did?" Alex croaked out, sinking into a seat, clinging to the back of the chair with white fingers. "How?"

"With help," Lena answered. "Look, you'll need to get to Kara for it all to make sense."

"OK," Alex took a deep breath, standing back up. "Where is she?"

"I'm sending you the coordinates now. I won't say over the phone. But as soon as you find her . . . you need to get medical attention for her."

"Thank you," Alex swallowed, turning to Maggie. "Thank you so much."

"Get there quickly, Alex. She's not doing well."

"Alex?" Maggie asked as Alex hung up.

"It's Kara," Alex whispered, the detective's eyes widening. "She's hurt, but she's been found."

"Where is she?" Maggie asked, grabbing hers and Alex's cues and heading to the rack, putting them up.

Alex flicked through her phone, finding a message from Lena. "Here," she answered, showing Maggie the coordinates sent by Lena.

"All right," Maggie took out her GPS, plugging the coordinates in, showing Alex the way to her car. "Let's go get your sister."

***

Slade broke every speed limit to reach the warehouse Lena had given them coordinates to. He hadn't even put the van in park before Oliver was scrambling out with Kara. "How is she?" Malcolm asked, hurrying to follow.

"Well, her heart's still beating," Oliver laid Kara down on the ground, checking her pulse. "It's faint, but there."

"I called Alex while you were driving," Lena told them. "She should be on her way."

"Good," Oliver muttered, checking his watch. "I hope this D.E.O. is on standby."

"If not, Director J'onzz will get them all off their asses to make sure Kara's all right."

"He better," Laurel continued pressing down on one of Kara's deeper wounds. The normally confident blonde now looked sick to her stomach. "How much of this did they put in her?"

"Better question, how much did they surround her with?" Malcolm asked, bow held tightly in his hand; Oliver looked around quickly to see Slade had gone to the second floor of the warehouse, sniper rifle in hand. "We saw one warehouse full and blew it to dust, but even the building she was held in . . . "

"The bracelets, the bullets," Oliver ground his teeth. "It's been killing her."

"Kid," Slade warned.

Oliver looked behind him, narrowing his eyes when he heard the sound of a car speeding their way. "Malcolm," he nodded to Kara, standing up and pulling up his hood.

Malcolm nodded and stood protectively in front of Kara, blocking her from view of the door while pulling up his hood as well. Laurel shifted so she was on her heels by Kara's head, one of her hands still stemming the flow of blood, the other gripping one of her remaining knives with a white grip. Oliver took his bow and nocked an arrow, walking towards the doors of the warehouse, shifting so he was in the shadows. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Slade shift so he had a better view of the doors. Oliver took a quick glance out and narrowed his eyes when he saw a police car whip into the drive. Curiously, its lights weren't on.

Then he saw the auburn-haired woman scramble out of the passenger's seat, looking frantic.

***

Maggie quickly put her car in park, Alex getting out of the car a split second before she did. "We're not the only ones here," she noticed the van at once.

"Lena said we," Alex remembered, reaching for her gun.

"If this 'we' have Kara and are friendlies, don't be so quick to pull the trigger, Danvers," Maggie warned, even as she put a hand on hers.

They paused at the open doors to the warehouse, exchanging looks before stepping in at the same time.

At once, they heard the telltale click of a rifle, then a hissing noise. "Hands in the air," a rough voice ordered. "And give your names."

Alex instantly obeyed. "Alex Danvers," she said, her voice wobbling slightly. "Lena Luthor said my sister is here."

"Maggie Sawyer," Maggie gave her name. "Alex's fiancée. We were at the bar together when she got the message. I gave her a ride."

She could make out a man clad in black leathers towards the far end of the warehouse, aiming a bow at them. A blonde woman was crouched behind him - not Kara, but just as fierce, in black leather as well. She heard a sound next to her, then a man entirely in green appeared in front of her, a hood and mask hiding his features. "Your badge," he ordered. Maggie slowly reached for it with one hand, then held it up. The man took a look at it, then turned to Alex. "Show me the message." Alex swallowed, then took out her phone. She opened her messaging app and pulled up the coordinates, showing it to the man. He gave it a long look before relaxing ever so slightly. "Clear."

The clicking sound came again, and Maggie turned to her left. She could barely see flashes of orange as a figure stood, then heard Alex gasp. She turned back to see the man in green remove his hood, followed by the mask. It was a rather handsome blonde man with piercing green eyes. "You know him, Danvers?" Maggie asked, seeing the man in black leathers behind him remove his hood as well. Unlike the man in green, he had no mask. Right away, she saw his black hair and ice blue eyes.

"I've heard of him," Alex swallowed. "You're the Green Arrow. Oliver Queen."

The name meant nothing to Maggie, but the man nodded. "Yes, I am. I'm sorry we had to meet like this, Alex."

"I'm sorry, too," Alex bit her lip. "But . . . Kara?"

Oliver stepped to the side and nodded at the man in black. He, too, stepped aside, and Maggie's eyes bugged wide when she saw the blonde alien sprawled on the concrete ground. "Holy shit!"

"Kara!" Alex burst forward. "Oh, my God!"

"What did they do to her?" Maggie turned to Oliver as they followed Alex over.

"We don't know everything they did," Oliver answered, watching as Alex fell to her knees by her sister, the other blonde woman easing back slightly, Alex helping her try and stop more of the bleeding. "What we do know for sure is that she took several Kryptonite injections, and one of the warehouses we blew up was packed full of Kryptonite."

"Not to mention the bracelets worn by the scientists we took out, and the Kryptonite bullets in their guns," the man in black added.

"It was a living hell for her," an Australian voice from behind said, and Maggie turned to see the man with the sniper rifle approach. "And I am glad we got her out of it."

"Kara," Alex whimpered, reaching with a trembling hand to check her sister for a pulse.

"Alex, we need to get her to the D.E.O.," Maggie told her gently. "They can help her."

"I hope so," the blonde woman muttered.

Alex frowned at her, but Oliver shook his head. "I should warn you, Alex, that the four of us here especially have varying forms of trust issues," he told her. "When I asked Kara for her help, it was because I needed someone I absolutely trusted to help me. Not only did she come with barely any information other than that, but she saved every single one of us. My sister, my son, my team. And the three people I brought with me all owe her for having a second chance to prove themselves. We came here to make sure she was safe." His green eyes hardened. "I promise, Alex, I will not leave until Cadmus is utterly destroyed."

"Kid speaks for all of us," the Australian nodded. "We're not going anywhere."

"Thank you," Alex swallowed. "Uh . . . "

"Malcolm Merlyn," the man in black introduced himself.

"Slade Wilson," the Australian nodded.

"Laurel Lance," the blonde finished.

"Right," Alex took a deep breath. "I'll call J'onn. We need to get Kara to the D.E.O."

"I can take her there in my car right away," Maggie volunteered. "Lights and everything. We're not all going to fit, though."

"So then we just follow behind you," Oliver shrugged. "Not that hard."

Alex chewed her lip, and Maggie put her hand on her shoulder. "It'll be OK, Danvers," she said quietly. "I'll get her there, I promise."

"I know," Alex mumbled. "I just don't want to leave her."

"Slade, Malcolm, go with Maggie, stay with Kara," Oliver looked at the two men. "Don't even budge from her side. Laurel and I can follow behind, with Alex."

"Got it," Malcolm nodded as Slade bent down to carefully lift Kara into his arms.

"As fast as you can, Maggie, please," Alex pleaded.

"Then we better get moving," Maggie started walking backwards. "See you there, Danvers."

She took off into a jog, Malcolm behind her, Slade bringing up the rear, careful not to harm Kara. "They won't let anything happen to her," Oliver promised Alex, helping her stand.

"I'd like to see anyone try to even put a hand on her," Laurel snickered as they headed out the door, already hearing Maggie's sirens start.

Oliver looked down when his phone rang, and he frowned but answered it. "Mayor Queen."

"Oliver, it's me," Thea's voice said. "Quentin's with me."

"How's it going?" Quentin asked in concern.

"I'll call you back in a few hours or so," Oliver answered, sliding into the driver's seat of the van, Alex climbing into the passenger's side. "We've found Kara, but . . . " He took a deep breath as he put the key in the ignition. "It's bad."

There was silence on the other line. "Please tell me she's alive," Thea whispered.

"She is," Oliver turned the van on, backing out of the drive. "But barely. We're heading to see how she's doing right now."

"Keep us updated, Oliver," Quentin told him.

"Should we tell the others?" Thea asked.

Oliver considered, watching Alex fiddle with her phone. "Tell them we're here," he finally said. "Don't tell them about Kara until I call back."

"Got it, Ollie."

"Give her our best," Quentin added.

"Thanks." Oliver hung up without further ado. "Where are we going?"

Alex took a deep breath, then started giving him directions. Laurel saw her hands shaking, then turned her own attention back to National City. If they were going to be there for a while, she might as well get a sense of where everything was. Alex finally put her phone to her ear. "J'onn?" she said. "It's Alex." She closed her eyes. "J'onn . . . it's Kara."

***

And there's chapter four! Apologies that it's a bit shorter, but I think I cut it off in a good place.

Next chapter - the D.E.O.! How are J'onn and Winn going to take the appearance of not just one vigilante, but four? Might also pop back over to Earth-1 and check in with the rest of Team Arrow. As you all can see, the cast list has been updated . . . yes, every single one of those people mentioned will be making an appearance. ;)