Well, I'm glad I finally figured out where I was going with this chapter. I was literally stuck on an entire page for about two weeks before finally getting the rest of this going. Thank you, Miss Greenie, for the idea. :)

We'll probably start to get more Emerald Steel interaction next chapter. :) For now, enjoy chapter nine!

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"So who's the bitch that thinks she can get away with this?" Quentin asked as the two teams regrouped in the main hub of the D.E.O.

"Winn?" Oliver prompted.

"Meet Lillian Luthor," Winn tapped on his tablet, pulling her picture up on the screen. "Please, feel free to put an arrow or sword or bullet or whatever you come up with in her if you see her."

"Noted," Nyssa tilted her head, memorizing the face.

"If it does come to that, please, not when I'm around," Lena made a face.

"Also noted."

"Go on," Oliver nodded.

"Mother of Lex Luthor, adopted mother of Lena Luthor, former member of the Lex Corp board," Winn continued. "When Lex was incarcerated with 32 consecutive life sentences - "

"Dang," Curtis did a double take as Rene let out a low whistle.

"Mother was oh so happy about that," Lena said sarcastically.

"Anyway, after that, Lillian cut off contact with Lena and took over Project Cadmus," Winn tapped away, pulling up various Cadmus records and files, making Kara turn away. Oliver put his arm around her, letting her turn into him, ignoring James's surprised look and the look exchanged by their sisters. "And as if it couldn't get any worse, she severed Cadmus's ties with the government, using it for her own purposes."

"Eradicating all aliens," Alex nodded.

"And she's your mother?" Slade couldn't help but ask Lena.

"Not by blood," Lena snorted. "And she certainly isn't helping her case now."

"OK, so how are we going to do this?" Dig asked, looking around. "Killing her is obvious, I get that, and so is taking out Cadmus. Thing is, if we do that, I don't think it's something we can just cover up."

"Definitely not," J'onn agreed. "And I would technically need the President's permission to raze Cadmus to the ground."

"Guessing we're not getting that?" Malcolm raised an eyebrow.

"Put together an unbreakable case for doing this, we might."

"Not without doing something illegal," Maggie folded her arms. "Most of this info isn't something we're going to find without breaking the law."

"Then we don't get her permission," Alex shrugged, acting like it was no big deal.

"Danvers!" Maggie stared at her, eyes wide.

"Cadmus has been targeting my sister!" Alex defended herself. "My concern is making sure she's safe, not if the President approves of it."

"Lena and I are working on hacking through Cadmus's files, pulling everything they have," Winn said. "And what I've seen so far of their alien experiments makes me sick."

"I can help with that," Felicity put up her hand, walking over. "Just let me get set up, point to where you want me to hack, and I'll get to work."

"I might be able to help a bit, too," Curtis added.

"Sure," Winn nodded, turning to J'onn. "Boss?"

"Go," J'onn nodded, and with the permission, Winn led Felicity and Curtis over to his work station. "Do any other members of your team have powers?" J'onn asked Oliver.

"Dinah has the same ability as Laurel," Oliver nodded to the police officer. "Other than that, no." He smirked. "Powers doesn't mean someone is deadly. It's how they use their abilities."

"He's right," Kara smiled. "You should have seen them against the Dominators in the other universe. Oliver, Dig, and Mick were the only ones fighting on the ground without powers, and they held their own against dozens of them. The rest of them are just as good."

Dig blinked, surprised by the compliment. "Dominators are hard to fight," J'onn conceded, nodding. "I'm impressed."

"Mind control is awful, though," Thea grumbled.

"I'm the one who had to fight all of you while Barry fought Kara," Oliver snorted.

"Whoa, Barry was mind controlled?" James's eyes widened.

"No, Kara was," Dig pointed.

"You were?!" Lena stared at Kara.

"Yeah," she nodded sheepishly. "That was not fun."

"How did you not kill everyone?" Alex gawked at her.

"Barry," Oliver shrugged. "He was fast enough to keep her distracted while I protected Wally from the others."

"He held off Dig, Thea, and Sara at the same time," Felicity grinned. "And did awesome."

"Sara?" Maggie frowned.

"She leads that group of time travelers, right?" James asked in a bit of confusion.

"Yeah, she's an assassin," Kara nodded before looking at Oliver in concern. "Have you been able to contact her?"

"No," Oliver shook his head, worry in his eyes.

Kara chewed her lip, then asked hesitantly, "And Barry?" Silently, Oliver shook his head again. Kara's eyes teared up again as she sat on the edge of a table. "Poor Iris."

"OK, we need to cheer you up," Thea clapped, grabbing Kara's arm and hoisting her up. "I have a very important question for you, girl." When Kara blinked at her, Thea folded her arms, a very serious look on her face. "Where can you find ice cream in this city?"

Kara's eyes lit up, and Alex laughed. "Oh, you're going to regret asking that."

"Then by all means," Thea held out her arm dramatically towards the door. "Lead the way."

Kara giggled started towards the door. Thea winked at Oliver, who shook his head fondly as she followed after the alien. "Hey!" Felicity scrambled out of her chair, nearly knocking it over. "I'm coming, too!"

Laurel rolled her eyes, but everyone saw her sneak one of the pistols from the armory and put it under her jacket before she strutted off as well, Dinah snickering as she followed. "This should be interesting," Alex remarked, taking her jacket and following. "Mags? Lena?"

The detective and the CEO did not need much convincing to follow. "Now that is an interesting group," James raised an eyebrow.

"Do I need to ask?" Oliver asked lightly.

Everyone frowned his way before looking around as Malcolm and Slade walked past, both of them slipping weapons of some sort under their coats, grabbing their duffels as they went. "Oh," Curtis blinked.

Quentin chuckled. "Those ladies are the most protected in all of National City right now."

"And I don't care if we don't have time to make a plan," Oliver said bluntly, turning to J'onn. "If they get attacked, we take Cadmus out immediately."

***

"Oh, my God," Felicity moaned as she shoved another spoonful of chocolate ice cream in her mouth. "This is awesome."

"I know!" Kara grinned, eyes alight.

"I can't remember the last time I enjoyed ice cream with friends," Laurel tilted her head as she took a sip of her milkshake. "I think it was before Oliver died on Earth-2."

"Wait," Maggie frowned. "You're from a different Earth than everyone else?"

"Yes," Laurel nodded.

"She was also a villain at one point," Felicity added.

"Until Kara set me straight," Laurel gave her a look.

Kara ducked her head, embarrassed, and Dinah laughed. "I'm guessing that gets said a lot?"

"Mmm!" Thea held up her spoon, swallowed her mouthful of ice cream, then pointed it at Dinah. "Don't forget Dad and Slade."

"Oh, right," Felicity nodded.

"Chase was a lost cause," Laurel mused.

Kara snorted. "I hated him."

"Kara 'puppy dog' Danvers, hating someone?" Maggie's eyebrows raised. "Say it isn't so."

"Oh, you missed her first year as Supergirl," Alex shook her head. "Siobhan Smythe."

"Oh, my God," Kara groaned, hanging her head. "That was awful."

"Who's Siobhan Smythe?" Felicity frowned in confusion.

"I remember you telling me about that," Lena nodded. "Cat's Assistant Number One, right?"

"I thought you were her assistant," Thea frowned at Kara.

"I was," Kara grumbled. "Then the Black Mercy happened, and I was incapacitated for a few work days. J'onn turned into me and covered my job, but Ms. Grant knew something was up. She thought I wasn't up to normal standards, so she hired another assistant and made me Assistant Number Two."

Thea scowled. "That sucks."

"And Winn dated her," Kara wrinkled her nose.

"You're kidding," Dinah stared at her.

"I'm not."

"What happened to her?" Laurel asked.

"She turned into a metahuman and became hell bent on killing me," Kara shrugged, eating another bite of ice cream.

Felicity choked. "What?" Dinah blinked.

"Hang on, that sounds familiar," Thea frowned. "That was when you met Barry, wasn't it?"

"Yeah!" Kara pointed her spoon at Thea. "That was it!"

"Apparently she 'Mariah Carey'ed you out of the building?"

"Right through the window."

"Damn," Thea whistled, leaning back. "One hell of a way to get a guy's attention."

Kara was the one who choked that time. "Oh, she knows exactly the problems with that," Alex smirked, clapping Kara on the back to help her clear her airway. "She was dealing with one at the time."

"Oh, really?" Felicity leaned forward eagerly. "Who?"

Kara was still coughing, so Alex answered for her. "James."

"Really?" Laurel's eyebrows shot up.

"Yes," Kara blushed, and Thea tilted her head, taking out her phone discretely and typing out a text: James and Kara didn't work together. Just a heads up. "It . . . didn't work."

"So we noticed," Felicity nodded, then blanched. "And by we noticed, we noticed you weren't with James. Or not in the 'together' sense."

"Felicity," Kara giggled, Thea nodding when a text came back. "It's fine." The alien frowned when Thea showed her phone to Laurel, who snorted loudly. "What did you do?"

"Nothing," Thea said innocently, Laurel looking past her to nod at the two that were outside the shop. Malcolm nodded back before nonchalantly looking back around, Slade smirking as Laurel looked back down at the Dark Archer's response: Trust me, Slade's already on it. "No problems."

Kara was about to say something when she paused. Her eyes glazed over for a moment before she cleared her throat and put her spoon back in her sundae. "One minute."

Alex watched her hurriedly leave, then rolled her eyes. "Time."

Lena nodded and pulled out her phone, pulling up a timer app and setting it going. "What?" Dinah asked in confusion.

"She has a job," Alex stressed the last word.

Felicity's mouth opened in an O shape. "Right. The ears."

***

"Bank robbery downtown, Supergirl's already on the scene," Winn announced, then blinked. "Whoa. Hold on."

"What?" J'onn asked, he, Oliver, Nyssa, Dig, and Quentin looking over his shoulders, Samantha, William, Rene, and Curtis behind them.

"I don't think this is a normal robbery," Winn swallowed."They're way too geared up for this."

Oliver narrowed his eyes. "Cadmus?"

"Or hired guns," Quentin suggested.

Another alert came up, and Winn hurried to pull it up. "Heist at a jewelry store several streets down," he said, blanching. "With hostages."

"Kara can't get there with everyone on her at the bank," Dig pointed out the several thugs that just seemed to keep coming.

"Could this be a new way to defeat her?" Nyssa asked, making everyone look at her. "Multiple problems in the city, and someone dies that she could have saved?"

"That's not going to happen," Oliver shook his head.

"Not if Kara can't get to the jewelry store," Winn argued.

"She doesn't need to be there," Oliver told him.

"What do you mean?"

Oliver just looked at J'onn. "Do you have motorbikes we can use?"

***

"Oh, frack," Felicity's eyes widened as the TV in the ice cream shop broadcasted the breaking news of the simultaneous robberies. "Please tell me one of her powers is to be in two places at once."

"No," Maggie shook her head, pulling out her phone as it started to ring. "I've got to get out there."

"Go," Alex gave her a kiss.

Maggie nodded and ran outside, everyone turning back to the screens. "Which one is she at?" Dinah's eyes flicked from screen to screen.

"There," Lena pointed at the screen showing the bank. Kara was fighting six men at once, several already on the ground around her. "Looks like they were waiting for her."

Thea's breath suddenly hitched. "They've got guns on the hostages!"

Everyone turned to the jewelry heist broadcast to see two of the eight men aiming at employees, screams starting to be heard. "Oh, my God," Dinah whispered in horror.

As if she could hear the screams, Kara fought with more effort, a panicked look in her eyes as she tried to fight, but thug after thug kept standing in her way. "She's not going to make it," Laurel realized, eyes wide.

Lena turned to look outside, then blinked. "Malcolm and Slade aren't there anymore."

Alex turned to see. All the evidence that showed the men had been there was the vacated chairs. She turned back, to see one of the thugs at the jewelry heist give an order -

And a green arrow punctured one gunman's shoulder.

Alex's jaw dropped as Thea let out a loud squeal of delight. "Yes!" she cheered as a dark red arrow followed the green one, hitting the other gunman in the hand, causing him to drop his weapon. "Yes!"

Felicity whooped in glee as Oliver and Nyssa, in their full vigilante gear, charged into the fray, Oliver taking on the two thugs as Nyssa ran to release the hostages. "They knew!"

"Must've been Winn," Alex smiled, remembering he had remained back at the D.E.O.

Lena suddenly grinned widely. "They're not the only ones who suited up."

That drew attention back to the bank robbery, in time to see two of the thugs yelp in pain and topple over, ebony arrows in their necks. That was closely followed by the glint of a silver blade downing two others. Kara drew herself up more confidently as she, Malcolm, and Slade shifted to watch each other's backs, the three of them fighting together. "Oh, thank God," Laurel breathed in relief.

Thea smiled as Dig and Rene joined the fight with Oliver and Nyssa. "Guess Cadmus needs to do more than try that again."

Alex smiled fondly as she watched Kara and her two vigilante guardians fight together. "Take that, Luthor."

***

"How did you two know?" Kara shouted to the two men as she slugged one thug in the face.

"Easily!" was all Malcolm replied with as he used one of his arrows to stab one thug, quickly firing it into another's calf, making the man go head over heels into the pavement.

"Looked like you could use a hand," Slade grunted, tripping another thug. "Or two, from some of us."

Kara stopped to gawk at Slade, her eyes wide. She was absolutely certain that underneath that mask of his, he was grinning maniacally. "That is cold," Malcolm growled.

Kara shook herself out of her stupor, using her heat vision on the last thug, dropping him. "The heist?" she asked, trying to hear.

"Covered," Quentin's voice answered through the Bluetooth she wore. "Everyone's safe."

"Take that, National City!" Curtis whooped.

Kara grinned goofily at the two men as police cars started making their way over. "We need to get out of here."

"Has she ever flown you?" Malcolm asked Slade as the cheery alien bounced over to them.

"No," Slade shook his head.

Malcolm chuckled. "Hang on."

Kara grabbed Malcolm and Slade by the back of their uniforms, taking off into the sky, heading back to the D.E.O.

***

"OK, I know Kara said you guys were awesome, but that was badass," Winn grinned as Oliver, Nyssa, Dig, and Rene returned to the D.E.O., Rene grinning as they removed masks, hoods, and - in Dig's case - helmets.

"Thanks to you telling us where we were going," Oliver nodded before looking at Quentin. "Kara?"

"Malcolm and Slade got there a minute or so after you showed up," Quentin answered. "They should be back here soon."

The words had barely left his mouth before there was a rush of air, then Kara swooped in through the balcony, Malcolm and Slade in her grasp. The moment their feet were on the ground, Slade removed his mask and Malcolm removed his veil, Kara immediately running down the stairs. "Thank you!" she grinned at Oliver, hugging him so hard he stumbled backwards slightly. "Thank you so much!"

Despite his usual seriousness, Oliver couldn't hold back a chuckle and a smile as he hugged her back. "If we're going to help save you, might as well help save your city while we're at it."

"That was way too many people for a normal bank robbery," Malcolm said as he walked up, running a hand over his hair to try and get it back to normal. "They just kept coming."

"Someone wanted to keep Kara there," J'onn deduced.

"Why would they do that?" Samantha frowned.

"Psychological," Slade answered simply.

"They can't hurt her physically, they do it mentally," Dig nodded. "That was the point of the jewelry heist."

"Supergirl can't be in two places at once, so while she's stuck working on the bank robbery, there's a jewelry heist going on with hostages, and if they get killed, that's on Supergirl's conscience for not being able to save everyone," Curtis realized.

"Exactly," Oliver nodded.

"So this was Cadmus?" Quentin scowled. "Can't they leave her alone for one damn day?"

"Apparently not," Slade grumbled.

Kara tensed in Oliver's arms, and he squeezed her comfortingly. "Well, now they know that she's got more than just the D.E.O. looking out for her now and won't be that stupid again."

"So much for relaxing," Kara mumbled, chewing her lip.

"Even Supergirl needs to take a break some days," J'onn told her.

"And now that my team's in the city, we can help break up a few crimes here and there," Oliver nodded. "After these Cadmus bouts, you deserve a bit of a break, Kara."

"I know," Kara nodded, leaning against one of the consoles, Oliver doing the same next to her. "It's just . . . I feel like I need to keep looking over my shoulder. I've never had to do that before."

"Hoss keeps doing that all the time," Rene smirked.

"It's what keeps me alive," Oliver countered. "It still does." He took Kara's hand and squeezed it. "When we're through with Cadmus, you won't need to look over your shoulder for them again. I promise."

Kara smiled. "Thank you."

Oliver kissed the top of her head, ignoring the knowing looks Dig, Nyssa, Malcolm, and Slade gave him. "So get out of your suit and not worry about saving the city for a bit."

"We can hold down the fort here," J'onn nodded.

"Yeah, you were nearly killed by these psychos several times," Dig added.

"Oh, notice from Alex," Winn waved his phone. "She said pizza and potstickers party at your place."

Kara's eyes widened, and Oliver laughed. "Guess your sister's got the same idea."

"Go, little one," Slade chuckled. "Let others do the saving the city for a day."

Kara blushed at the nickname before nodding and looking at Oliver. "My place it is."

Oliver nodded, and Kara grabbed the back of his suit before taking off. They watched her go before Rene finally snickered. "Five bucks says they're together by the end of this mess."

"Ten says it's in the next three days," Dig smirked.

"I'm with Rene," Winn raised his hand.

"You're betting on them?" Samantha looked at them with wide eyes.

"I'm with Dig," Malcolm grinned.

Slade shook his head, walking over to where Nyssa and Quentin were watching with J'onn in amusement. "I think the kid's been smitten with her since the island, to be honest."

Nyssa and Quentin nodded before the deputy mayor spoke up. "Five says something happens by tomorrow. Maybe not together, but just something."

"You gonna offer that to them?" Slade nodded towards the four men discussing the bets.

"No," Quentin smirked.

"I wouldn't mind," William shrugged. "Dad likes her, and I like her."

Samantha laughed. "I guess that practically makes her family already."

"She was when she saved everyone on the island," Nyssa said softly.

J'onn turned to see everyone seemed to sober at the statement. "Kara mentioned she went to your Earth to help Oliver. She never told the entire story."

Slade nodded. "Got any beers?" When J'onn raised an eyebrow, he snorted. "We're gonna need them."

***

Longest chapter of the story so far, but I don't think it's my best. :/ But at least there's a bit of Team Arrow action.

Hopefully it won't be as long of a wait to get the next chapter up. Please, don't push me for updates. It's midterm week next week, which means exams. I'll need all the time I can get to study.

Until next update! :)