Time to play my next favorite game - resolve the cliffhanger and scare everyone! :P

Seriously, though, this is a really slow chapter. It's a lot of words, but not a lot actually happens. A lot more action will be in the next chapter (hint: we get a really pissed Oliver), but hey - a few new additions to the cast list, everybody! ;)

Also, creative genes hit yet again this week, and I came up with this beauty, which I will let everyone try and figure out.

Hint: it's kind of obvious who the "big bad" in this crossover is. }:)

I also mentioned on my profile earlier today if people wanted Sanvers or Agent Canary in the next two fanfic ideas I have. There would be no harm done to Maggie to make her hateable, just Sara and Alex being badasses.

And beautiful. Seriously, I was extremely proud of this banner.

And now, to find out dear Kara's fate! Enjoy chapter twelve, guys!

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"So you're a reporter?" Samantha asked as Kara led her and William to her part of CatCo.

"That's me," Kara nodded, laughing as she sat down at her desk, patting the chair next to it for William to hop into. "I'm actually the Supergirl correspondent."

"You're kidding," Samantha grinned at her.

"I know!" Kara chortled as she booted up her computer. "But it's what my boss is happy with, so it's what I do."

"Is it difficult?" William asked as he went through his backpack. "Doing articles about Supergirl?"

"It's definitely weird," Kara admitted, clicking through emails as Samantha sat on the other side of her. "But at least I know my articles are credible."

"Even if Snapper is constantly on your case about getting a source other than National City's hero," Cat said dryly as she walked up.

"Miss Grant!" Kara jumped, startled, hastily getting to her feet. "Hi!"

"Kiera," Cat nodded to her before looking from Samantha to William. "I wasn't aware you were having guests with you this morning."

"Ah, we came for a surprise visit," Samantha smiled nervously, looking at Kara. At least it was kind of the truth. Neither Kara nor Oliver had been expecting her and William to come.

"Miss Grant, this is Samantha Clayton and her son William," Kara introduced them, desperately hoping Cat wasn't going to pry. "Samantha, William, this is Cat Grant, the CEO of CatCo."

"Hello," William said politely, not sure how much he should say after that.

"It's nice to meet you," Samantha shook Cat's hand.

"Considering the both of you look like fish out of water, I assume it's your first time in National City?" Cat raised an eyebrow.

Kara flinched, absently scratching the back of her head. "Uh, yes," Samantha looked at Kara worriedly. She had heard before that Oliver and his team didn't exist on this Earth, so did that mean – ?

"They're from Star City," Kara told Cat, nodding at Samantha.

The woman relaxed slightly. OK, so at least the city still existed. That was good to know. "We thought we'd surprise Kara with a visit," she told Cat with a smile.

"Good," Cat nodded, surprising Kara. Her next words, however, made her barely refrain from rolling her eyes. "With all the moping she's been doing, you would think she had been turned into a puppy who lost their mother."

"Thanks, Miss Grant," Kara smiled despite herself.

"However, you have been improving slightly since you were rescued," Cat tilted her head. "My, my, Kiera . . . did Mr. Merlyn have anything to do with that?"

"Kara and Malcolm?" William's eyes widened. "Really, Mom?"

"No, William, I don't think that's the kind of relationship they have," Samantha shook her head, only to blanch. "Oh, that might have come out wrong."

"No, Malcolm and I are not together," Kara quickly assured her. "He's more like a protective older brother, though."

"The way he and Slade act sometimes," Samantha rolled her eyes. "It's like supervising children."

"Some other friends of Samantha's came with her from Star City," Kara told Cat, watching as the mail carrier came around. "Let's just say . . . several of them are rooting for me and someone else."

"That's an understatement," Samantha smirked. "Did you know there are bets going on?"

Kara gawked at her, stunned. "You're kidding."

"I kid you not," Samantha shook her head, laughing as Kara shook her head, taking a manila envelope from the carrier. "I think I heard something about Quentin winning?"

Cat, meanwhile, was frowning. "Are you new?" she asked suddenly.

She said it just as Kara ripped the envelope open. A cloud of green dust blew out, and Kara immediately started choking, grabbing for her throat, her skin draining of color. "Kara!" William cried.

And the carrier suddenly lunged forward and buried a glowing green blade in Kara's chest.

Kara let out a strangled cry, grabbing for the "carrier's" wrists, Cat calling out her name as William screamed, terrified. "Night night," the Cadmus assassin grinned at her, all of the CatCo employees in the area on their feet, some unable to move, some lunging for cameras.

"Please," Kara could only mouth, already starting to sink her knees.

Then a blue-grey breach snapped into existence, and out through it came streaks of dark yellow lightning. The Cadmus agent was literally thrown across the room, and a young black man in a yellow and red suit that hid his face skidded to a halt, staring down at Kara with an expression of utmost horror, a lightning bolt emblazed on his chest. "Oh, my God," he stammered.

Next through the breach came a man in dark red and black, gold accents on his suit, eyes shrouded by goggles with a blue tint. "Get her out of here, now!" he shouted. "Go!" The same lightning crackled in the man's eyes, and he carefully lifted Kara up and took off, papers spinning in tornadoes as he left. The other man, who Samantha finally recognized was the meta who had transported them to Earth-38 in the first place, hurried over to Kara's desk, carefully picking up the envelope that had the Kryptonite dust in it and placing it in his jacket. "What happened?" Cisco asked, looking from Samantha to William, to Cat who was still staring after where the speedster had gone.

"Uh, that guy, he just handed her the envelope and waited for her to open it," Samantha gulped, one hand over her mouth, tears in her eyes. "When she did, she must have inhaled some of the dust, and then – and then – " She choked out a sob, William running to hug her, tears of his own already going down his face.

"They just tried to murder her in her own office," Cat said with barely held back disgust, making the three from Earth-1 look at her. "Where she should be safe."

"Where did he take her?" William asked.

Cisco seemed to collect himself. "I'll get you there."

"If I see one video or photograph leaked, everyone is fired!" Cat shouted at the employees, all of whom were in a sudden hurry on their phones.

Cisco swallowed, then opened up another breach. "Go!"

William scurried through, Samantha and Cat running after him. Cisco took one last look around the office, staring down at the blood pool on Kara's desk before curling his lip, hauling the Cadmus assassin up, and throwing him through the breach, jumping in after him.

***

"Come on, come on, come on," Felicity hissed to herself as she dialed on her phone, Winn's fingers moving a mile a minute as he typed on his tablet. "Come on!"

They were interrupted by the sudden gust of wind blowing through the D.E.O. Winn hurried to grab papers that were blowing –

Thea screamed.

It was enough to make him abandon everything and look up. "Oh, God!" he clapped a hand over his mouth to avoid retching.

"Wally!" J'onn immediately ran over to the speedster covered in blood, Kara absolutely drenched in it.

"Where's medical?" the speedster, named Wally, asked in a panicked voice.

"There!" Rene pointed.

Wally was there in a second, laying Kara down on one of the beds. "Oh, no," Quentin closed his eyes, seeing the jagged green blade still in Kara's stomach.

"That needs to go," Nyssa narrowed her eyes.

"Kara!" Alex's voice suddenly shrieked, and everyone scattered as Alex barged in, rushing to her sister's side, shaking all over. "No!"

"When did this happen?" Malcolm demanded, Oliver and Laurel halting in their tracks, eyes wide in shock.

"Literally just a few minutes ago," Curtis swallowed. "Felicity got a call from Cisco, and then the next thing we knew – "

The crackling of a breach opening made most people turn, and William stumbled out. "William!" Oliver ran over.

"Where is she?" William asked frantically, trying to see past his father. "Is she alive?"

"William," Oliver swallowed. "It's bad. Listen – "

"Miss Grant?" James stared in surprise.

Oliver blinked, looking up when Samantha tripped out, followed by an older blonde woman. "Kara's boss?" Dig blinked in surprise.

"We couldn't stop her if we tried," Samantha said apologetically.

"Where is she?" Cat demanded as she stormed forward.

"Miss Grant," J'onn began.

"One of my best reporters, my former personal assistant, was stabbed right in front of me, and yes, I know who she is," Cat snapped angrily. "So don't tell me I can't see her!"

Samantha yelped suddenly, and everyone turned to see a man get tossed headfirst through the breach, landing with a crunch on the D.E.O. floor. Cisco was out last, and with a curl of his lips, he used his powers to throw the man to Oliver's feet. "Got a gift for you."

Oliver's eyes narrowed to slits. "Slade. Malcolm. Put him with the other one." One look at the Star City vigilante's face, and both men didn't argue. They just roughly handled the limp assassin out of the area. "You called Felicity?" he asked Cisco sharply.

"I vibed Kara being killed," he nodded, taking off his goggles. "I didn't know if you would have time to get there or not, and when it sounded like none of them would, I sent Wally through."

Oliver closed his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose, listening to monitors wail and Alex's sharp orders as D.E.O. doctors ran about trying to save Kara. "Thank you," he finally said.

"No problem, man," Cisco shook his head at once. "J'onn!" he called, and the Martian started, looking over. "Got two others waiting to come through, if you don't mind?"

"I doubt I could stop them," J'onn said dryly.

"The more support for Kara, the better," Maggie nodded, and Cisco nodded back, jumping through another breach.

An inhuman scream suddenly came from the medbay, making everyone spin around. "Oliver!" Alex shouted.

He immediately pushed through the small crowd in front of the medbay to get to Alex's side. "Kara?" his eyes widened, seeing she was wide awake.

"Oliver," she choked, blood coating her lips as she tried to draw in air to breathe.

"I'm here," he promised, brushing her hair away from her face. "I'm here." He glared at the glowing green blade that seemed to be taunting them. "When can we get that out of her?"

"That's what I need you here for," Alex admitted. "It's going to hurt like hell, but the sooner it's out, the sooner we get the sun lamps on her."

"And the sooner she heals," Oliver nodded, wincing. "Do it."

Alex nodded, pulling on a pair of gloves. "Got it." She chewed her lip. "Can someone help me with the vitals?" she turned and asked, just as Cisco's breach opened again.

It wasn't Cisco who came out first. It was Iris West, a squeak coming from her mouth when she saw the amount of blood already starting to stain Oliver's hands, Kara's clothes so drenched they were dripping onto the floor. "Oh, no!"

The man who came out with her, clad in black with glasses, was not so frozen. "What's normal for her?" he asked, pushing through the others.

"Just let me know if anything spikes or drops dramatically," Alex answered, and he nodded, standing by the computers behind her. "Mags, I need the rest."

"H.R.?" J'onn asked in surprise as Maggie moved around, gathering supplies to help clean Kara up after Alex was done.

"Not quite," the man shook his head.

"Meet Harry, the Harrison Wells of Earth-2," Iris told J'onn before seeming to realize who was practically right next to her. "Black Siren?!"

"Who?" Harry's head shot up.

"Save her first!" Laurel snapped, pointing at Kara, who was whimpering as Alex started cutting away her shirt to get to the blade easier.

"You're gonna be OK," Oliver assured Kara, swallowing when he saw just how gruesome the stab was. Oh, he was going to butcher that assassin when he got the chance.

"Hurts," Kara whimpered.

"I know, Kara, I know."

"OK," Alex took a deep breath, grasping the handle of the knife with one hand. "Three, two – "

Oliver felt Kara tense in preparation for the end of the countdown, but Alex pulled the blade out on two. She screamed in pain, sounding as if it was ripped from her. One of her hands immediately flew towards the wound now gushing blood, the other scrambling to find something to hold on. Without thinking, Oliver grabbed hers with his. He did cringe at how tight she held on, but it was nowhere near as bad as it could have been.

Then again, he did have the Kryptonite to blame for that. "Get that thing out of here!" he nodded at the blade.

Wally snatched it from Alex and sped away, Maggie running forward with a few towels. "Stem it as much as you can," Alex ordered, and Maggie nodded, leaning forward to help. "Get those sun lamps up!"

Winn, Felicity, and Curtis all ran in to help set them up, just as Slade and Malcolm hurried back in. "What did happen to the other guy?" Dinah suddenly asked.

"You don't want to know," Malcolm said grimly.

"How is she?" Slade asked.

"They got the blade out," Dinah answered, clenching one fist as she watched the sun lamps start to power on, Alex and Maggie catching as much blood from Kara as they could, Oliver trying to comfort Kara as much as he could. "Knowing she was hurt is one thing . . . but to see her bleed that much . . . "

"This was scarier than when we found her at Cadmus," Laurel admitted.

That gained Iris's attention. "You guys got her from whoever did this to her?" she asked.

"Me, Slade, Malcolm, and Oliver," Laurel confirmed. "And . . . " She closed her eyes. "Well. They certainly had enough Kryptonite to torture her with."

"Needless to say, we blew up what we could," Malcom smirked darkly.

"I cannot believe I'm having a halfway decent conversation with supervillains," Iris mumbled faintly, turning back around.

Laurel raised an eyebrow. "Not too bad, is it?"

Before Iris could answer, there was a nervous "Kara?" from Alex.

"No, no, don't," Oliver shook his head when everyone started to worry the moment they saw Kara's eyes were closed. "She's just exhausted, and in pain."

Alex slumped, leaning on the bed. "Relax, Danvers," Maggie rubbed her back. "I can bandage her up."

"Let me help," Nyssa offered.

"Alex, come on," Oliver reluctantly stepped away from Kara.

As if on automatic, Alex shuffled after him, Nyssa stepping up to help Maggie. "How bad is it?" Quentin finally asked.

"I don't know how long it'll be until she gets her powers back," Alex admitted as Harry joined them. "That blade was in deep, and she lost a ton of blood."

"She inhaled this," Cisco pulled an envelope from his jacket, handing it over.

Alex opened it and peered inside. As soon as she saw the green dust in the bottom, she closed her eyes. "They ground up Kryptonite?"

"Never mind monsters," Slade shook his head. "They're idiots."

"She'll be in hysterics when she wakes up," Oliver warned.

"She'll want you there when she does," Alex added.

"I know." When everyone gave him varying looks of curiosity, he sighed. "Kara told me what happened to her," he admitted. "And none of it is good."

"How bad?" Dinah whispered, Samantha and Cat bracing themselves.

"It got to the point where the point of making her bleed was to see what made her bleed most," Oliver said bluntly.

Iris narrowed her eyes, her temper rising to the surface. She'd never met Cadmus, but she'd heard a bit about them when she'd last seen Kara. They hadn't been a group Iris liked, and this took the cake. What she was most surprised at, however, were the growls coming from not only J'onn and Dig, but also from Malcolm and Slade. "That's it," Laurel threw her hands up, clenching her jaw as she started to pace restlessly. "I need to punch something before I go find them and bring their roofs down on their heads."

"And you trust her?" Harry asked Oliver with a raised eyebrow.

Oliver raised an eyebrow back. "She owes Kara. And considering none of us are dead after three months of her being in Star City following Lian Yu, I'm trusting her."

"So either you deal with me being here, or you head back to Earth-1," Laurel glared at Harry. "I'm not leaving."

"Actually, that was the plan."

"What?" Felicity blinked.

"Joe and Julian are back in Central City covering for us right now," Cisco explained. "I had no idea what exactly happened to Kara, so I asked Harry to come along just in case his help was needed. He and Wally are going back. Iris and I are staying." Alex opened her mouth to say something, but Cisco shook his head. "We're doing this for Barry, and because we want to."

She swallowed, barely holding back tears. "Thank you."

"Of course," Iris nodded, smiling through tears. "She was like a sister to him. That makes her family to us, too."

Alex smiled back through tears. "I never knew Barry, but . . . if it's worth anything, I'm sorry."

"Well, I know who definitely is sorry," Malcolm gave Oliver a knowing look. "Or soon will be."

Oliver's eyes darkened. "I won't need you this time."

"Didn't expect you would, kid," Slade nodded.

"What's he doing?" Cat whispered to James.

"You really don't want to know," James grimaced. "Trust me, you don't."

"If she shows even a single sign of starting to wake up, say something to pull me out of there," Oliver ordered, taking off his jacket and throwing it on his bag.

"Say what?" Thea called after him.

"The same thing I said to call her to the monastery," Oliver shouted back.

"What was that?" Curtis looked around.

"El mayarah," Rene recalled.

Alex let out a small laugh at that. "Stronger together."

"OK, if that doesn't give him away, I don't know what will," Thea folded her arms triumphantly.

"Are we seriously having this discussion right now?!" Winn gestured to a limp Kara.

At Team Flash's confused looks, Dig sighed. "This might take a while."

***

Yes, Kara is going to be OK. Did you really think I was going to make her die?

So, brief cameo from Kid Flash and Harry Wells, and Cisco and Iris are sticking around! I would add the Legends if I could figure out how, but sadly, that will have to wait for the two other series I have planned. And trust me, the Legends will have a huge impact on Kara, whether there's Agent Canary or not. White Steel sibling relationship is guaranteed! ;)

So I'm hoping the next update won't take too long, and I plan on actually handing Kariver out on a silver platter some time soon, so keep an eye out, guys! It's starting to get to the end!