Survivors

Chapter 30 First Kills and Kittens

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"Alex and Kara started college." Connolly told his Martian boss, walking into the alien's office.

"I am aware. Dante is moving into the building they are living in. Why are you telling me things I already know?" J'onn asked.

"Because I don't think you realize how short time is. We need to have a plan. As of right now, we have captured or killed thirty two Rozz escapees and none of them are talking."

"Especially the dead ones." J'onn pointed out. Connolly and his team had still not learned restraint or subtly.

"The live ones don't know anything. According to you, Astra is keeping whatever she has planned a secret from damn near everyone. She is setting up cells all over the world and one doesn't know what the other is doing. She is operating like Al Qaeda. We are running out of time and we need to look at contingency plans."

"Plans for what, exactly? We don't know what we are facing."

"Exactly. In four years, Alex is going to graduate college. I need her on my team. She joins us and we support Kara. Only Kara can bring Astra out of hiding."

J'onn took a look in the man's head and only saw automatic guns and Jessica in a blue bikini.

"Stop reading my mind, Director. I recognize that look on your face and I am well aware how to protect my thoughts."

J'onn sighed and leaned back in his chair.

"Alex will never join the DEO. She won't take orders from us because Kara won't take orders from us. You really want someone like that on your team?"

Connolly laughed a bit. "You can say that about every one of my guys. Besides she won't have to take orders because my team's primary purpose is going to be to work with Kara."

"Kara does not listen! She is not disciplined! She is reckless and emotionally unstable!"

"People said the same thing about me."

"And they were right!"

Connolly took a seat, taking in the Martian who was normally cool and collected at all times. If there was one subject that could make him lose his cool quickly, it was the Danvers sisters.

"Maybe they were right, and I know Kara won't take orders...from you. But she does listen, she wants to get this done and she will work with me, not for me. That is a huge difference in her mind. She just needs to be handled right. I have been managing a team of Alphas for years now. I can work with her, get her to see reason and teach her patience on the battlefield. Alex will listen to me. I've been training her for years. My team either supports Kara when she gets ready to go public, or I lose half my team. Judging by the agents you have working here, I think we both know we can't afford to lose one. Jack is doing the best he can but half of them piss their pants when we come up against an actual hostile alien."

J'onn shook his head. "What do you mean you lose half your team?"

"I only got four guys, J'onn. Dante will quit and back the girls and so will Hawk. They have told me this. We either back the girls or Kara and Alex go off with two of my guys and we are out of the loop.  To be honest, Ty will follow them and working without Ty isn't as fun and Jack knows you will dump even more work on him if I leave so he is coming too. Then its you and a squad that is barely better than the one you inherited. Oh Vivian is ours too. You get on her nerves more than I do somehow. If I can get Alex as an agent, she could be invaluable. She is smarter than anyone we got now. Ma and Pa Danvers would be on our side and you know how brilliant they are. We don't have anyone who could understand how aliens work and figure out ways to stop them that would be in their league. What is your problem with Kara? I get that she almost killed you but in this body and that face, c'mon Director Henshaw, you had to have suspected that reaction."