Crisis On Earth-1

Couldn't Put Me Back Together Again

[Authors Note: I won't keep you guys this time, I'm sure you're all eager to figure out what happened after that cliffhanger last chapter, so I'll let you do that! Enjoy, my readers!]

"How did you get here?" Kara called out, and Reign smiled. It seemed like a perfectly reasonable question to ask a woman of your kind when you thought the rest of your race — excluding your cousin — were dead; along with your planet. She put her hands on her hips and narrowed her eyes in response, examining this Kryptonian carefully. It was only natural for Kara to be afraid, and something sinister about Reign terrified her to the core.

"I survived Kryptons death. Sent here upon its destruction."

"If that's true... then where have you been?"

"Preparing to dispense justice. I have two Earths to cleanse of sinners, and I don't have time to deal with your petty heroics. Stand down," Reign took a step forward, clenching her fists. "Or I will make you join them in their purgatory." She growled, and Kara took a step forward, matching her stance, making it rather clear.

"I'm not going anywhere."

"Mmphf," Reign scoffed. "Then I'll dispense my justice upon you."

"Take. Your. Best. Shot."

""Oh," Reign cracked her neck, grinning. "You'll feel it." Then in the blink of an eye, Reign flew right at Kara and suddenly the two women were completely out of site. Reign was pushing Kara through the skies, and the Girl of Steel couldn't do anything besides punch her in the hopes the Tyrant of Terror would loosen her grip enough to give Kara the freedom to escape her grasp. But there was no such luck, Reign held a firm grip with no signs of letting go, and Kara saw as they left the limits of Central City. But she recognised exactly where they were going, it was a path she'd flown once before, only in reverse.

Star City.

But it was in that moment Kara realised the Reverse Flash and Reign had split them up rather easily. Now they were a whole city apart, and facing their enemies alone. It was a clever trick used by predators for countless generations. Divide and conquer meant easy pickings for two individuals that would prove a challenge with their combined forces. A Speedster and Kryptonian were a formidable force together, but alone they could only do so much. She felt an intense amount of worry for Barry but she could only focus on taking down Reign for the moment, and Barry was more than capable of handling the Reverse Flash.

Reign managed to get a hold of Kara in a way that would make it easy to throw her, using her own weight against the Girl of Steel to send her flying into the concrete below; blowing a rather large hole in the middle of the road, and sending a parked car flying through the air. She flew towards the crater and threw a punch at Kara's head, sending her skull crashing against the concrete. The next punch didn't meet its mark, Kara caught the fist and used her other hand to deliver a right hook to Reign's temple. Luckily the impact dazed the Tyrant of Terror, and Kara managed to pull herself to her feet, firing her heat vision at the rival Kryptonian.

However, Reign was quick on the draw and fired back. But her beam wasn't blue like Kara had seen with every other Kryptonian, it was a deep red and it was far more powerful then anything Kara could muster. It sent her flying backwards, slamming into a building and tearing through multiple walls of glass, concrete, and steel. She pulled herself back up to her feet, seeing the confused looks of the numerous employees she'd scared the hell out of.
Offering a wave of acknowledgement, Kara was about to fly back into the street when in the blink of an eye, Reign flew inside and grabbed her by the throat, lifting her into the air and subsequently slamming her back down into the floor, over and over and over again. She tossed Kara back into the street, and the Girl of Steel's body slammed into a car, totalling it completely almost instantly.