3rd Person POV
"That's the deal I'm creating." J'onn tells Willow, walking over to where she is sitting. "Since you've showed your face in this city, you have been nothing but trouble and a source of pain for Supergirl. I will not allow that to continue. You may have saved Supergirl's life from Reign, but you have endagered her life more times than you have helped. She has a team here, she has never needed you. I honestly do not see a reason as to why you were tasked as her protector." He spits the words in her direction. "We will take down Base Ops, save Marvin, and then the two of you will vanish. Do we have a deal?"
J'onn was angry. Willow could see that. Hell, everyone could see that. But he was right. Since Willow arrived in National City with the task to protect Supergirl, she has done quite the opposite. Every single mission she has been on has put Supergirl in more danger than if Willow were to not have interferred. Maybe J'onn was right. Maybe if she was as far away from Supergirl as possible, Kara would have a better life and be protected by her own team on missions
Willow looks at J'onn. Her eyes sting with hot tears as she tries to keep her emotions within her, trying not to give J'onn the satisfaciton of seeing her break. She clears her throat and puts her hand out. "You have a deal." She tells him
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You have a deal...you have a deal...you have a deal....Willow words ring out in her mind as her leg bounces in Brainy's spaceship. The DEO was on the way to Delaware, the ship cloaked with invisibility. The agents are all sitting in seats around the wall, strapped in for safety. Brainy is manning the ship with J'onn keeping watch of the coordinates
Alex sits next to Willow and Willow sits next to J'onn. Was this Willow's choice of seating? No. She would have preferred to be sitting literally anywhere else in this ship. 'To keep an eye on you...' J'onn had told her. He was hell bent on watching her like a hawk, as if she was going to cause some kind of trouble. Willow didn't argue. She didn't even talk. She knew better. Was J'onn her commander? No. Was he a superior? Not in her organization and not to her. But he did have power (and literal powers too) and he was pissed at Willow. Any small move she made next to him, she would see him glance over at her out of the corner of her eye. But Willow's piercing green eyes remained facing forward
And while she didn't verbally talk, her mind was running a million miles an hour. Her thoughts were mulling over everything that had happened in the DEO, the plan that J'onn had come up with to take down Base Ops, the blueprints, the tons of agents, everything. But then, a thought pierces her mind louder than anything else. Marvin
Willow winces, her face scrunching up in pain. Marvin. Her thoughts say once again. Base Ops. And she audibly groans, her face scrunched in pain, and her hands going to the sides of her head
"Willow?" Alex questions from next to her. "Are you okay?" She asks to which J'onn and Brainy look over as well. Well, J'onn had been looking at her since the moment she winced but he thought nothing of it. Now, his full attention was on her
"What's going on?" Brainy asks, his gaze back on the spaceship he was piloting over the United States
Base Ops! Her thoughts scream and Willow gasps, pressing her eyes and lips closed and pulling her knees up to her chest, almost as if she was curling into the fetal position but sitting upright
"Willow!" Alex exclaims, rushing out of her seat and over to Willow
Willow's eyes are still screwed shut as she groans through her teeth, more words puncturing through her mind: Base Ops. Delaware. Captured. Marvin. The words were repeating over and over and over again in her mind. And then, a piercing ring screeches through her mind and her thougths and Willow throws herself out of her seat and towards the ground. Alex tried to catch Willow, but the force Willow threw herself to the floor with was so much that Alex and Willow both fell down. Alex straightens up, shaking Willow's shoulders as Willow crunches fully into the fetal position on the ground, groaning through her teeth as the ringing continues in her head. She grabs at her ears that we beginning to bleed. The ringing grows in intensity and Willow presses her head into the ground, trying to get rid of the pain. But nothing was working. She couldn't bare this anymore. What was going on?
She would have hated herself for how long it was taking her to figure this out if she didn't feel like her brain was being ripped into two pieces. She could barely think enough to figure this out, the ringing sound taking up most of her focus and energy. But then...she rememebers. And not like how her photographic memory works to remember something. No, this feeling of remembering comes deep from within. And when the ringing softens slightly, Willow can hear a voice in her head. But it isn't her voice. And then, everything clicks and Willow Greene remembers how Base Ops used to communicate with their prized soldier
Willow forces herself to her hands and knees, gasping for breath. Her eyes shoot open and her once green eyes are now a vibrant green, swirling with green color. Her eyes wildly search around, trying to land on something Alex and J'onn widen their eyes, staring at Willow's intense look
"What's going on?" Brainy asks once again, his eyes still on the controls of the spaceship but his voice full of concern
"Someone's... trying to..." Willow says through gasps of breath. "Someone's trying to communicate with me." She says
***
"Are you sure you're okay?" Alex asks Willow, handing her a bottle of water which she accepts
"Yeah, I'm fine now." Willow tells Alex, taking a sip of water. "Head's fine. Ears aren't bleeding."
"What did you mean when you said someone was trying to communicate with you?" Alex asks, sitting next to Willow.
"When I first arrived in National City, I would get my orders through my mind." Willow says. "I have telekinesis, not telepathy, let's start there. But we have a saying in Base Ops that telekinesis is a form of mental magic." She explains...or tries to explain because Alex was trying to follow along. J'onn and Brainy were listening, both of them having about the same amout of luck as Alex to figure this out. "Through this mental magic, I have a link that I can be communicated through."
Alex, J'onn, and Brainy stare at Willow. "That made no sense." J'onn says
"Look, I don't know the science behind it--" Willow tries to defend
"I don't think there was science behind that." Brainy points out
"Are you saying you have like a psychic link?" Alex asks
"Kind of." Willow says. "It starts out as a ringing sound and slowly escalates in volume and pitch until I answer it."
"How do you answer it?" Alex asks
"I have to be at a mirror or any reflective surface." Willow answers
"That sounds like the worst possible way to communicate." J'onn grumbles, his arms crossed over his chest
"It was how Base Ops did it." Willow says with a shrug. "It's how they made sure I would open the communication so that they could give me my mission. I rarely missed them because if I did..." She trails off
"What?" Alex asks. "What would happen if you missed them?"
Willow clears her throat. "Repercussions." She answers shortly, her gaze steady on the ground and not noticing J'onn's look soften. "But enough on that." She says quickly and looks past the others to Brainy. "How much longer until we're there?"
"We just arrived." Brainy says, pushing the control forward as if to put the spaceship in park. "Hovering above Delaware right now."
"Great." J'onn says. "Let's get the team ready, go over the plan, and take to the ground." He tells Alex. "Let's--" But he is cut off because the ship shakes, lurching the group to the side and they all grab onto something. "What was that?" He questions, looking around as the lights spark and then go out
Brainy types on the console and then looks over at the group. "We're being attacked." He says
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"Who's attacking us?" Alex questions as the ship is hit with another explosion. "Are we not invisible?"
"We are invisible." Brainy tells her as the ship is thrown to the side once again by another explosion
"Then who the hell is attacking us with explosives?" J'onn yells his question, grabbing onto a chair to steady himself
Willow's heart pounds in her chest as she realizes, her blood going cold. "Base Ops." Willow speaks, looking around as the others look at them. "It's Base Ops. It's gotta be."
"How do they know we're here?" Alex asks
"Probably because of the kryptonetic girl we have on board." J'onn tells her
"J'onn--" Alex starts
"No, he's right." Willow says, looking at Alex. "They can probably sense my kryptonite on board the ship." She looks at J'onn. "We gotta go down there. Now."
"We can't." J'onn tells her. "We've lost the element of surprise. I'm not taking my team down there to be slaughtered."
"We have to save Marvin!" Willow pleads, her eyes widening in distress with tears
"It's a damn suic*de mission!" J'onn tells Willow as the ship gets hit again with another explosive. He looks at Brainy. "We have to retreat."
"No!" Willow yells to Brainy. She looks at J'onn. "You wanna retreat, fine. But I'm going down there because I have to save someone who means a lot to me." She says, pushing herself from the chair she was holding to steady herself. "If I'm off the ship, they won't attack. Brainy, get me an entrance point."
"That is a horrible idea." Brainy tells her, flying the ship higher into the air and away from the explosives
"Do you have a better one?" Willow asks
"Actually, yes." Brainy says as the ship steadies in the air. There were no more explosions against the ship because they were too high in the air. The small group convenes in the middle. "We need to ditch the ship and take to the ground." He says
"Why on earth would we do that?" J'onn asks
"Will's right." Brainy says. "We need to save Marvin and the only way we can do that is if we're on the ground." He explains and then he looks at Willow. "Do you have the amplifiers?" He asks her, putting his hand out
"Yes." Willow says, pulling the amplifiers from her pockets and handing them over to Brainy
"I can rewire these quickly." Brainy says, taking the devices apart and rewiring them
"To do what?" Alex asks, watching
"These work by amplifying Willow's kryptonite within her." Brainy says. "We've realized that combined with her power, she can turn herself invisible with the amplified kryptonite. But, in the opposite way, instead of an amplifier, I am making it into the reverse, almost like an inhibitor." He says as he puts the devices back together. "That way Willow's kryptonetic signature will be hidden and we..." He says, placing the devices on the sides of Willow's head and activating them. "...will have the element of surprise back."
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