3rd Person POV
Willow sits in the passenger seat of the car, her head resting on her arms on the dashboard as she looks at the night sky above her
Marvin drives the car through the night after having retrieved Willow from where Thawne left her in the middle of nowhere
"Its not your fault, soldier." Marvin tells Willow, breaking the silence
Willow sighs, pulling herself away from the dashboard and leaning back in her seat. "Except that it is." She wipes away a tear, frustrated
"Soldier--" Marvin tries but he is cut off
"Sir, if you are going to talk to me right now, I request that I may speak freely." Willow says, looking at Marvin
"Granted." Marvin tells her
"I am a good soldier." Willow says. "I am the best soldier at Ops. I mess up every now and then but I do my job and I do my job well. But Ops cannot look past my small mess ups. They give me repercussions, ones I do not feel I deserve...but this one? I lost Supergirl...I don't know where the hell she is. But if I can find her and save her...what are the odds that Ops looks past the fact that I lost her and realizes that I did my job to save her?"
It's silent as Marvin continues to drive. Willow sighs, realizing she won't be getting any kind of reaction from him and slouches back in her seat, closing her eyes. She should know better than to rant to a commanding officer...she was stupid and useless...she had lost Supergirl, her one task
***
"She's in STAR Labs." Marvin announces, walking into Willow's connecting hotel room with a tablet in his hand
Willow wakes up from her nap, sitting up in her bed
"What, sir?" Willow asks
"Supergirl has been located." Marvin says, turning the tablet around. "Krptonian signatures tracked her to STAR Labs. Get up, soldier, time to save the Girl of Steel."
***
Willow creeps through the empty hallways of STAR Labs in her black jacket and her mask on her face, glancing over her shoulder every now and then to make sure she wasn't being followed
"Take the next right." Marvin's voice says through the comms and Willow follows the directions
As Willow makes her way through the halls, following the directions from Marvin, Thawne experiments on Supergirl in the medical lab
"Red light saturation is complete." Thawne announces to Dark Oliver and Overgirl. Overgirl is in a similar medical bed to Supergirl with the only difference being that Overgirl was not strapped down and being drained of her powers. Thawne sticks a needle in Supergirl's arm. "She's cooked."
"And you will wake up stronger than you've ever been." Dark Oliver tells Overgirl
"I love you." Overgirl whispers and Dark Oliver kisses her
"I love you." Dark Oliver whispers, putting a mask over Overgirl's face to knock her out
"Unfortunately, Miss Danvers, we need you awake for this procedure." Thawne tells her
"My... my cousin... he'll find you." Supergirl says with no energy in her voice
"Your cousin. Really?" Thawne mocks. "Fun tidbit. I fought your cousin once. In the future. He is fast. I'm faster." Thawne holds up a medical power saw
As Thawne approaches Supergirl with the medical saw, the power goes out and alarms go off. Elsewhere, Willow looks around in the now dark hallway but still continues forwards. Dark Oliver and Thawne go to the cortex to try and fix the problem
"Just have backup power, and it's not enough." Thawne says
"Well, everyone in the building has been accounted for. Where might people be hiding?" Dark Oliver asks
Thawne speeds around, looking for other people in the building. Elsewhere, Felicity and Iris had disappeared. Willow had pressed herself into an alcove in the wall as she watches Thawne's lightening speed past her, her hair whipping with the wind from the speedster
Willow looks to where he had sped from and runs in that direction, knowing that wherever Thawne had come from Supergirl must be there
Willow runs into the medical lab and sees Supergirl and Overgirl on two separate beds with Supergirl strapped down and Overgirl knocked out. She immediately runs over to Supergirl's bed who was in and out of consciousness
"Found you." Willow whispers, relieved
However, Willow didn't check her surroundings before running into the medical lab and she freezes when the sounds of guns clicking behind her is heard
Willow slowly turns around, her hands down by her sides. In a millisecond, Willow's brain works in overdrive as she thinks: if those guards shoot, she can most definitely stop the bullets with her telekinesis. But she doesn't have super speed and her hands are down by her sides, facing in the wrong direction to shoot her wisps out of. She needed to think of something else...some other way to get out of this
Just then, Felicity and Iris drop from the ceiling, taking the guards out
'That'll work' Willow thinks to herself
"Take that you, Nazi mother...Whoo!" Felicity exclaims
Felicity and Iris look to see Willow standing next to Supergirl's bed and they both raise their guns at her
"I'm on your side!" Willow exclaims, her body still frozen
"How do we know?" Felicity asks
"Wait a second..." Iris whispers, lowering her gun. "Are you the girl with green powers?"
Willow nods, slowly lifting her hand up and her green wisps dance across her fingers as she displays her powers to the two women in front of her, never letting her gaze shift from the gun in the blonde's hands
"She's with us." Iris says, lowering her gun and Felicity does the same. The two run over on either side of Willow and Iris shakes Supergirl awake. "Hey, hey, hey. Come with me if you want to live."
"Get me... to the sun..." Supergirl whispers with no energy
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." Iris says
The three help Supergirl out of the bed. They start running down the hall, Felicity and Willow on each side of Supergirl and supporting most of her weight
Iris runs towards the elevator ahead of the group, pressing the button
Supergirl lazily looks over and sees Willow helping out, still masked with her identity hidden
"Thanks for...for coming, Green." Supergirl whispers
"Of course." Willow says as they continue to run forward
They get to the elevator
"We gotta go." Felicity urges as they wait for the doors to open
The doors open and Metallo, in the elevator, shoots Supergirl backwards. Willow whips around, throwing her green wisps forwards and catching Supergirl in the air about 6 feet off of the ground
Metallo shoots Willow in the back and she is thrown forward, her wisps failing and Supergirl falls out of the air and to the ground
"I don't believe Mr. Thawne is done with you yet." Metallo says to the group
Willow pushes herself off of her chest from the ground and kneels, looking at Supergirl as armed men run through the halls to get the four women
***
Three guards hold Willow (with her mask still on), Felicity, and Iris in the corner of the cortex. Supergirl was back in the medical lab in the bed as the group stands in the cortex with Thawne typing on a tablet
Willow twists and turns her wrists that were restrained behind her with metahuman cuffs
"What the hell...is on my wrist?" Willow asks in a very quiet whisper through her teeth, turning her wrists behind her
Iris, next to Willow, glances slightly to Willow's wrists without moving her head
"They're metahuman dampening cuffs." Iris whispers very quietly. "They stop you from using your meta powers."
Willow turns her head slightly, thinking: 'I'm not a meta...I'm an alien...'
"Report." Dark Oliver says, walking in
"Good news." Thawne says. "The Wellenreiter's made the transition to this Earth."
"Kara is all that matters." Dark Oliver tells him
"That red sunlight we're flooding her with, that's burning off." Thawne says. "So pretty soon, her cells will be so desaturated, we cannot perform the surgery."
"Fix it." Dark Oliver says
"I can't." Thawne says
"This is your city." Dark Oliver says through his teeth. "This is your facility. So turn the power back on!"
"I can't because the system has been encrypted." Thawne says
"By who?" Dark Oliver asks
"By Miss Smoak." Thawne says, looking at Felicity
"Felicity Smoak. Turn the power back on." Dark Oliver orders
"He said..." Thawne starts. He speeds over to Felicity, grabbing her in a choke hold as the other two guards grab Iris and Willow
"Felicity!" Iris yells
Willow resists the urge to use her powers to save Felicity in order to keep the element of surprise for later in case Supergirl was in harm's way. Was it a little mean? Sure. But Willow's mission was to protect Supergirl. Plus, Willow's intelligent mind figures that they won't kill Felicity, they can't... they need her
"Turn the power back on." Thawne orders
"Sorry, Eobard." Felicity gasps through breaths. "Eobard?"
"Eobard." Thawne confirms
"Eobard." Felicity repreats. "My God, the future sounds weird."
"That's funny." Thawne taunts. "Sometimes we think we're more clever than we are. Because where I come from, the history books are filled with stories of this Age of Heroes: Green Arrow, Black Canary, The Flash." He lifts his vibrating hand to kill her. "And yet no one no one has ever heard of Felicity Smoak."
"Stop!" Supergirl exclaims, stumbling into the room. "Stop. Stop. You came here for me, so just take me, please. Please don't hurt anyone else. Give them the code."
"If I do, they'll kill you." Felicity says
"It's fine." Supergirl says. "Nobody's gonna die because of me."
"Damn it." Willow whispers
"Latte, Ada, Jonas, 1-1-9-0-0." Felicity says
"Latte?" Thawne taunts. "Cute."
Thawne lets go of Felicity and she cries as the guard grabs her
Thawne types in the code and the power turns back on
"Let's go." The guard says, pulling the other three away. As Willow takes one step forward, everything slows down as her mind works in overdrive again: Supergirl is her mission. She has to save Supergirl. She was about to be split away from her mission, yet again. But she can't let Iris and Felicity die...but she also didn't know the two women. She had just met them...not even met them, they'd been together for all of 8 minutes. But heroes save everyone. "You are not a hero...you are just a girl with powers" Marvin's past voice whispers in her mind as a reminder. What was she supposed to do?
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