"Can you see Glace's feed, anyone?" Y/N talked into his communicator, outside a gateway belonging to the Sol Consensus Vex, where Praedyth was currently running diagnostics with his Ghost.

"Yep, we can see" Supergirl replied, originally wanted to go with him for... Her own reasons, knowing Y/N had to go alone with his Ghost as the destination was too dangerous for non-Guardians to enter, it didn't sit quite well with her.

But... Y/N being the comforting person he's come to known for Kara, he reassured her, but he could tell something wasn't exactly right with Kara, judging by her looks, she looked pale almost which she insisted she was "fine" in short words.

"We all can, you sure you trust him, Y/N?" Nightwing bothered to ask the Guardian's trust in Praedyth, a Warlock that was once said to be a myth, in reality? He was originally erased, locked in Vex captivity within the Vault of Glass with many years going by, never to be heard from again...

Until his messages broke out of the Vault during a Taken Incursion with The Taken King making his appearance known to the Sol System...

"I do, Praedyth is a Guardian, a Warlock at best. Warlock's are known for their uh... Charisma, ask Ikora whenever you meet her".

"Ikora?"

"Long story" Y/N brushed the Flying Grayson's question off, stepping up to the portal as Praedyth took a few steps back.

"Alright" he started. "The portal is ready, this should take you to the Vex Net, the Sol Consensus's Vex Network, a pocket dimension you could call it" he explained the reasons for the portal in more detail, rather than earlier.

"You sure about this, Praedyth? Not that I'm doubting you, though some backup could be nice" Y/N questioned.

"Coming from the Guardian who's slain Gods at the Black Garden? Killed Atheon who was behind the Vault of Glass and slayer of many Gods and Goddesses afterwards? I'm sure you'll be fine" Praedyth made a good point nonetheless, if it were up to him? He'd go with him, but he couldn't.

Someone has to keep an eye on the portal, in case it ever broke down, though the Vex Technology of the Sol Consensus was more advanced than the Vex Tech, the Guardians knew about these days.

"We'll monitor your progress once you step in" Praedyth continued, the portal activating with a Vex Gatelord present, standing by the portal upon Praedyth's orders. "Hopefully you can find the source of the uh... Issue within the Vex Network of the Sol Consensus".

"Well, some good luck would be nice" Glace exclaimed.

"Good luck!" the overconfident voice of Kara Zor-El blared out of the comms. "Oh! One more thing before you go in" she then spoke before Y/N felt a gush of wind at his side, feeling a pair of lips on his cheek. "For luck" the cheeky voice of Kara continued beside him, giving him a smile.

"Heh, thanks Angel" Y/N's face heated up a little shade of red as a response to the cheeky kiss, Kara planted on his face, a gentle little peck which felt like a flower, a good feeling nonetheless as he returned her smile.

"Good luck from all of us, though we'll all be watching" Nightwing issued his vow of luck to the Guardian and his Ghost, observing through the screen with Kara returning soon after in a blur of red and blue.

"Best of luck, Guardian" Praedyth issued his vows, scooting out the way for Y/N to step forward to the portal, with the Warlock making his way back to the monitoring room where the Outsiders and Supergirl, resided within.

"So... Not the first time we're heading into unknown territory, here's hoping we don't get shot at, once we step through" Glace spoke before disappearing, her voice now within Y/N's head.

"Suppose so, don't expect me to do nothing crazy".

"Hey, there's two of us in here now. I'd rather not keep reviving you over and over again".

Y/N chuckled lightly, gun in hand as he walked up to the portal, taking a step through to the other side with his vision becoming a little shaky but visible as he went through.

Bright colors of blue, sky blue and pink suddenly flashed into his eyes, blinding him momentarily as he used his free hand to block the light out of his eyes as he looked down.

"Hell, what the heck? What's with the damn bright lights?" he complained, his voice blaring out to the others on the comms, which he was ordered to keep them open for the duration of the mission. "This the right place??"

"Is Y/N alright?" Lightning asked Praedyth who was now in the room with them, observing the screen of Glace's feed.

"He will be" Praedyth answered, still wearing his helmet, face incognito for the others still.

"Is this... The Vex Network?" Y/N's voice blared out from the screen of Glace's feed, his voice spoken through the comms, finally opening his eyes as they adjusted to the bright lights of pink and blue combining, the blue neon solid ground contacting with his boots.

"Woah" Boomer established in a form of amazement. "It's like a neon-playground from the looks of it".

"Yes, but dangerous" Praedyth added, brushing past Grace who had her arms crossed. "Guardian, welcome to the Vex Network. At least the Network belonging to the Sol Consensus".

"It sure looks like to be whatever those kids call it... A uh... Seeing colors zone or something?" the Guardian innocently said, not knowing the truer meaning behind it. "Or whatever it's called, overheard some young high schoolers talk about seeing colors".

Kara was the one to face palm, not in pure embarrassment, but of pure cringe, the kind of cheesy cringe that made her giggle while the others looked at each other with nothing to say.

"Ahem... Well, if you've stopped observing the beauty of the Vex Net, I'd advise you move on forward" Praedyth put his foot down on the matter alone. "You're timed on this, exactly thirty minutes before the Gatelord has to pull you out".

"Thirty minutes?" Y/N questioned. "Could've said something earlier, that would've been nice".

"Get going, we'll continue to monitor your progress from hear on out".

* *

Elsewhere, years and years ago... A minute before the beginning of the...

Everything was just right... Laughter filled the entire streets, a festival being held, dancing, laughter amongst friends and family were seen and endured. It was all...

Just perfect...

Even for the young girl herself at the time, 16 years old, being the daughter of two important individuals in her family and the cousin of her infant cousin who was just born not so long ago. A festival was held in honor of the family Houses.

She was happy, happy to be apart of the festival... Like she always had been...

Until a loud crackling of thunder roared out, the clouds in the sky darkened... As unidentified, dark colored shaped ships entered in the planet's atmosphere, glowing with a lighter shade of orange on the ships alone, big, medium and small sized ships that had a pointy edge for its bridge of the front of the ships alone.

A screeching sound roared out loudly that everyone heard as confusion and little skepticism spreaded across the people, wondering if this was supposed to be apart of the festival, as some began to panic a little at the sudden arrival of these never before seen ships... Similar to how the last invasion went with a skull looking ship.

Before the young girl knew, the ship that first entered, began to do something that would look incredible... But only in the eyes of some who sided with these... Particular, shaped ships. The ground began to strain beneath them, the world began to... Shake all around them as more smaller probes that zoomed into thin air arrived above the buildings in between with the smaller shaped ships making their way down near the scrapers of the city.

Screaming and panic ensued as everything turned from happiness...

To a complete and utter disaster...

The girl found herself running with her parents as buildings began to collapse, the ships began deploying very strange creatures, speaking an unknown language but wielded scythes and strange purple energy, their bodies consisting of a green and red color as they had a strange shaped head.

While more forces dropped in, three eyed forces that these people had never seen, a new race? Invading their planet and killing everything and everyone around.

The law enforcement and defenders of the planet could not defend themselves properly against new odds, not like the last invaders which they failed to comprehend, these forces were unlike anything they've seen before.

More of these ships entered all around the place within the sky, as they had a storm building up underneath, causing a magnetizing pull of force that caused tremors, meteors began falling from the sky and destroying buildings and people.

Panic ensued, picked off one by one by the invaders.

A wave built up which pressurized the surrounding area, pushing out with an orange energy source, combined with orange and black that wiped out many city blocks within range...

A screeching vibration roared out as more scales of the ships arrived, deploying more units to decimate the area, destroying everyone in their rampage at the orders of a higher being... As the first wave of tremors and a pull of a magnetizing force, laid waste to anyone caught in the wave.

The girl, together with her parents, Alura In-Ze and Zor-El, managed to survive the first wave...

Before a second wave struck out...

* *

Present day

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"Gotta say... This place does look beautiful in its own right" Y/N complimented the Vex Network's environment, jumping from platform to platform, though dangerous as it sounds, he didn't seem to struggle with the navigation.

"The Vex Net is... Gorgeous in its own right, but it's still dangerous... Very dangerous" Praedyth answered Y/N's compliment, unfazed by it.

"Can't you tell those Vex of yours to make it... Y'know? Less dangerous for him?" Metamorpho asked the Warlock as the man shook his head at the question.

"It's... Not as simple as you think, the Sol Consensus may own this batch of the Vex Net, but the reason for these obstacles is for security and to keep invaders out" he explained.

"So... Y/N and Glace are in a way, invading?".

"Not necessarily, but I do see what you mean" Praedyth answered Lightning's question. "Short answer is... The Sol Consensus had this already in place, it would take some time for them to change it all up, but that could worsen the situation and cause whatever has invaded, to spread further into the code of the Vex Net...".

"Causing more damage" Nightwing continued for Praedyth. "Babs would have a field day with this type of stuff".

"Someone you know who's into this sort of thing?".

"Yeah, she's a genius at hacking and computers, goes by the name Oracle" Nightwing answered.

"Oracle?" Praedyth seemed to recognize the name. "That name has come up from the Vex Net before something intruded into the Network, whatever it is? I hope that the Guardian finds it, and destroys it".

"Uh... Fellas?" Y/N's voice suddenly spoke. "You seeing this?" his Ghost captured what appeared to be a ball of black energy...

Taken Energy in the form of a Blight.

"Taken?" Praedyth questioned with surprise in his voice. "How did the Taken breach into the Vex Network? I thought this impossible".

"With the Taken? Nothing is impossible. No doubt this has to do with that Taken Queen, the I've been hearing about" Y/N answered Praedyth's wording.

"Destroy it!" he ordered brashly. "Prepare for any reinforcements the Taken send!".

"Don't have to tell me twice" Y/N sighed before grabbing his shotgun to wipe the Blight out with just a few shots, destroying the Blight as a thunderous sound roared out.

"And here comes the Taken" Glace called out.

"Some things to kill finally" Y/N smirked as Taken Phalanxes and Psions spawned in. "Great... Phalanxes, my worse enemy".

Taken Phalanx

Taken Psion

"Why?" Lightning asked curiously, knowing that Y/N in particular had no problem in killing Gods before, but a singular Taken Phalanx is his enemy?

"They booped me off a very, very high part one time on Venus, not gonna forget falling to my death that day... It was horrible." he shuddered. "Ask Glace, she was livid about it" shotgun in hand still as he got to work, jumping over the Taken Phalanx to shoot it in the back.

Taken Psions began maneuvering, splitting themselves apart as they made clones of themselves to surround and overwhelm the Guardian, as a few shocked expressions were left on some of the faces of the Outsiders... As they've never seen a Taken Psion before, let alone Nightwing who faced a few in Blüdhaven some weeks ago, with Y/N helping him out.

"Did... Did that one just create a clone of itself?!".

"Yep, those are Taken Psions, formerly Cabal, same goes with the Phalanx" Y/N answered, continuing in his fight as he tanked a few shots from the majority of Taken Psions, individually taking them out with his hand cannon.

The next thing happened afterwards was the feeling of being pushed with force by a wave of Taken energy, coming out of a Phalanx's shield as a groaning Y/N was heard on the comms, with Glace looking overhead.

"Damn Phalanx!".

"You alright?" a concerned Nightwing asked the Guardian, considering on Glace's perspective, Y/N seemed to be getting back up after being thrown five feet away from the Phalanx.

"I'm fine... Nothing out of the ordinary" he aimed his gun at the Phalanx's foot before shooting, stunning it momentarily for him to throw a fan of flaming knives at the Phalanx, making it ignite in flames and exploding in Solar Light, killing nearby Taken Psions amongst the many that spawned in.

More Taken reinforcements spawned in, residing Taken Vex Goblins and Hobgoblins and Hive Knights as they spewed fire out of their faces.

"Nothing more than I can handle" The Guardian sighed. He was about to ask how Kara was doing, considering she hasn't said anything in the last ten-fifteen minutes he had been within the Vex Network before he was fired upon.

As for Kara?

She was in her little trance at the moment...

* *

Years and years ago

The second wave crushed in, the sky darkened further as the planet began to shift and shake, explosions and destruction heard from the distance as the world around them...

Was crumbling to dust.

The ships continued the assault, releasing wave after wave, a magnetizing storm as the air would thicken around them, a whirlwind of chaos ensued.

However... The ships weren't alone...

A skull ship entered the fray, the same invader from before, aligned with the new attackers, Brainiac had new allies in play for his second assault.

The skull ship was recognizable but the other ships?

They weren't of his design...

But a design of something higher than Brainiac... Something more powerful than him.

This planet was blessed by a God before, this God these ships were once chasing down...

They called it...

It blessed them with gifts unlike any other, as the species would evolve even further with the gifts it brought upon them...

But if only they knew of it's enemy...

A species it once blessed before they tried to use it's gifts to perfect...

A 

FINAL 

SHAPE...

"Krypton is dying" Zor-El exclaimed. "Your Uncle and I have been trying to convince the Council about this for a long time, due to the last invasion of Brainiac, causing collateral damage to Krypton's core. Now he's come back to finish what he started, with new allies of his" the scientific genius Zor-El continued to his ever-loving Daughter...

Kara Zor-El...

"Which is why your mother and I have built a pod for you to go within, to travel amongst the stars to a new planet, a planet that is bathed within the yellow sun, which grants you extraordinary powers, powers beyond your understanding, but don't worry. The pod will have what you need to learn how these powers work according to the research your Uncle and I have done" Zor-El proscribed the golden looking ship that could fit only his daughter.

Kara looked at her father and mother in a shock of fear, knowing what they were going to do.

"But... B-But what about you two? I-I can't-"

"It's okay my dear" Alura bestowed her comfort to her daughter, hugging her as the girl in her arms began to shed tears. "We will be right behind you, your baby cousin will go with you too".

"K-Kal too?".

"Yes, you will protect him with your life, raise him, teach him. We will be right behind you, I promise. Your mother and I have a pod each, we will take ours after you and Kal leave" Zor-El explained, comforting his daughter as the place around them began to shake.

More following sounds of screeching roared out, like a machine being stretched and compressed.

The smell of wet ground uplifting further as the air thickened, corresponding in the parents helping Kara Zor-El into the ship before it closed.

Kara's hand was on the protective glass as her parents backed up, tears in her eyes as her ship was about to take off.

"Mom... Dad..." she mouthed, her vision watering up due to the many tears falling down from her eyelids as the explosions got louder and louder along with many distorted voices from the unknown attackers, resulting in her parents running off as her ship took off.

Before she could even fathom of where they went, a puff of smoke began to sprang out into her ship which began to make her blink slowly, her vision began getting blurry...

And then?

She was out...

* *

Present Day

Supergirl began blinking a few times at the sudden explosions heard from the screen, Y/N was causing some mayhem within the Vex Network still with many Taken trying to stop his advance.

The Outsiders watching were on edge from just watching through Glace's perspective, knowing Y/N was alone in there, Praedyth would've went with him but he had to stay behind, just in case if anything were to go wrong with the Gateway to the Vex Network, Y/N's only source of getting back from the Vex Net through the Sol Consensus Gatelord.

"Keep pushing! You're almost at the source!" Praedyth gave Y/N the heads-up, encouraging the Guardian to press onward.

"I'm trying!" Y/N said with struggle, leaping up into the air to throw a barrage of Solar explosive blades, eliminating multiple Taken in his way. "With this many Taken? They're definitely defending something".

Kara continued to watch on normally but... There was a few times she heard a voice in her head, a familiar voice lecturing her of what she was currently doing.

All the while?

She began to remember what really happened before she left Krypton, memory was still blank of it, but the attack... Wasn't.

Her head thudded with little pain, as it would usually start, she knew this was the Kryptonite Poisoning that she was diagnosed with after she went to her cousin about it, about hearing her father's voice, tell her to... "Kill Kal-El", although she never wanted to do such a thing was to kill someone from her own family, let alone?

A good soul...

She had that check-up, confirmed to have a diagnosis of a form Kryptonite within her body, unfortunately? The Fortress didn't have anything that could extract it from her body.

Kal insisted he'd work on a cure as soon as possible, relieving but worrying Kara since it could get worse.

This was but eight weeks ago...

And in those weeks? She hasn't told Y/N yet, she feared to tell him. Kal insisted she'd tell Y/N, although? Every time she was around Y/N? She wouldn't hear her father lecture him, nor would have those strange trances of killing her mother, doing all sorts of atrocities with her father.

She would have bad dreams of doing such things...

But for some reason?

When Y/N was near her??

It would be relieved... Numbed... Like she never felt anything.

Her mind wasn't exactly in the right place, she still found it hard to find herself mostly, to find her place on Earth, but she hoped with her boyfriend's help? She'd find it sooner.

"You should've done what I've tasked you to do, by now" Zor-El's echoing voice spoke in Kara's mind, making her scrunch her face up in little pain.

Kara flinched a little at the voice in her head, tilting her head slightly before trying to ignore the voice residing within.

"Kal-El must die... It is your purpose, Daughter".

"No... Stop it... He..." Kara held her head, the pain turned into a throbbing sense of waving pain, thumping in her head as she closed her eyes, clawing at her hair as she let a few whimpers out. "You're not real" she denied his words. "My father would never tell me to do such a thing".

"The House of El must fall, leave those 'friends' of yours, let the Guardian die as within Light... There is only Weakness, only Failure, only Death" Zor-El continued to torment his daughter, with another quieter voice backing up his vocals...

Weakness...

Failure...

Death...

The Light was all those things according to that voice in her head. 

As many other quieter whispering voices done the same, began backing up Zor-El's false voice, as if it spoke at the same time, in a whispering, monotone voice with echoes after every word spoken.

"Without your purpose... You have no meaning... I gave you meaning... Take it, kill Kal-El of Krypton, fulfil your destiny".

"Stop" she begged, clutching her head harder, her cried pains now heard by Boomer who heard her first, wondering why Kara was clutching at her head, with the thumping pain worsening as a fit of dark laughter . "Stop it... He isn't worthless! Please stop!! STOP!!!" she shouted at the top of her lungs, blocking out her father's false voice as she then collapsed onto her knees with a nauseous sense of feeling, her vision blurry, her hearing went out like a flashbang.

"Supergirl!" a concerned Boomer Jr rushed to her side, as so did the others. Praedyth stood behind to observe after the sudden outburst from Kara, knocked over objects, shook the room and caused many to look at Kara with worry as she collapsed onto her knees in pain, whimpering away.

"Kara?" her hearing was still good enough to hear a concerned Y/N speak through the comms channel, connected to the screen. "Is Kara alright? I *exert* heard her shout" from Y/N's tone alone? He was worried as it is, fighting Taken at the same time, along with hearing some commotion in the comms. "Anyone there?! Is Supergirl alright?!!" he asked again after some time went by, worried out of his mind.

"She's..." Praedyth answered after a minute passed by, looking back at the Super who was on her knees still, the Outsiders checking on her as she let her hands free from her head, groaning and whimpering still, taking breaths in between as the others asked what caused her to have an outburst. "She's having a form of trouble-".

"I'm okay" Kara finally spoke, approaching the screen while supporting herself. "I promise to tell you once we get back, I just..." she collapsed again, still feeling nauseous. "Need some sunlight" she finally spoke after a few seconds went by.

"Katana, Boomer, help her get some sunlight in her" Nightwing ordered, the two followed his order without question, getting Kara's arms over each other's shoulders to help her walk out.

"Dick, what happened?" Y/N asked again.

"She wouldn't tell us" Nightwing answered. "she shouted 'stop' and fell on her knees from what I seen and heard".

"Praedyth, are you able to take over?" Y/N desperately asked the Warlock who looked shocked, even with his helmet on. "I need to see her".

"What? No! You're close to the problem! If I take over, the Taken could spread since it opens a backdoor into the Vex Net, this is our one shot at taking out this Taken Incursion" Praedyth denied Y/N's request.

"Guardian, Praedyth is right" Glace agreed with the Warlock. "If we leave? The Taken could spread further, causing more issues for us to deal with, the Sol Consensus alone could be Taken next".

The Guardian sighed. "I suppose so... Is gonna be alright?".

"She will, she's getting some sunlight the now" Nightwing answered.

* *

Five Minutes later

"There! The source of the issue!" Praedyth cried out. Eying a special Taken Hydra that resembled to have arms.

"Wait... That's not any Taken Hydra we've seen before" Glace called out.

"It's a replicant of Quria, Blade Transform! A copy! Its name is sprung around the Sol Consensus Net" Praedyth shed some information toward the Guardian and his Ghost. "Destroy it!".

Y/N made his appearance known to the Replicant of Quria who immediately saw him making his way over, a metallic screech left the Replicant as is formed its body to normal shape, flowing with a strange yellow Taken substance as it summoned Taken reinforcements to assist.

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"And it has called reinforcements? Fun" the Guardian said sarcastically, beginning to fight the reinforcements as the Replicant began shaping the platforms around the place to its advantage, setting up lasers and trap walls to combat the Guardian.

The Guardian jumped over a few Taken Thrall to gun down some Taken Vandals who took far positions, one summoning a bubble dome around itself upon being shot at, while more shot at him.

The Replicant of Quria called upon more reinforcements to its aid, spawning in Taken Psions, Knights and Goblins to combat the Guardian further, using its Aeon Maul to fire at the Guardian also, firing a Taken substance along with it.

"I've never fought a Vex Mind like this before!".

"Quria's existence is still a mystery, but the Vex Mind was once Taken by Oryx after invading his Throne World, was said to be gifted to one of his sisters as a bargain of some kind, that's all the Sol Consensus has on Quria, Blade Transform" Praedyth explained the origins. "It is simply no longer, Vex...".

"But Taken now..." Y/N finished Praedyth's sentence. "The Vex on Io? That was Quria's doing? Taking those Vex?".

"All points could lead to it" Praedyth answered. "I may not have been around for the Red War or anything afterwards and before... But I have witnessed and watched, though I couldn't help within the conflicts... Tear that Replicant down Guardian, show these Taken that the Sol Consensus Net, is not for their conquest" Praedyth continued, motivating the Guardian who hid behind a construct to hide from incoming fire.

Y/N didn't reply, his actions would be enough however as he threw a fan of knives at a few Taken Psions that rushed him, gunning down a few Taken Knights that spewed fire at him.

Using the Void, he constructed a bow out of Void Light and fired an anchor arrow at a group of Taken that imbedded into the ground, immediately tethering the group then and there as he fired one shot at one of them, making that Taken enemy explode in Void Volatile Light, killing each who stood in its blast radius as the tethered enemies all blew up in Void Light.

The Replicant of Quria witnessed the Guardian beginning to gain an upper-hand with taking out the smaller reinforcements, quickly throwing a grenade at the Replicant to stun it momentarily.

Before long? He summoned his Golden Gun, empowered by Celestial Nighthawk and fired right into the Replicant's yellow eye, spewing Taken energy once the Solar Light went straight through the Replicant's head.

It's blackened, mechanical body, oozed with Taken energy, yellow in substance which was an out-ordinary color for a Taken still.

(Music ends... If you played it)

"That was... Quick" Nightwing said with a surprised look on his face. "Didn't take that long to kill it".

"The Replicant must've been weaker, however... The real deal wouldn't be weak... This was just a copy of Quria, there's bound to be more, powerful or weaker" Praedyth thought loudly. "Good job Guardian, let's hope the Taken don't plan to carry out more invasions like this".

"Well... At least it's over for now..." Y/N breathed out. "Now please... Get us the heck out of here".

"Working on it... Stand by" Praedyth answered, tuning out the comms.

* *

New York City, US

It was quiet... Too quiet in other words on the way back home... Supergirl vowed to fly him back to their apartment.

After coming back, Kara was waiting for him outside the Vex Fortress, bathing in the sunlight which she stopped to hug her boyfriend, quietly with a small little whimper that Y/N caught onto when she did so.

Boomer said she hadn't said a word since they brought her outside, which was very concerning... Kara loved striking conversation, even when in awkward situations.

Some would say the ride back home was awkward, knowing Y/N and his Ghost heard a snippet of what Kara shouted over on the comms in the background, but falling on her knees part?

That concerned him the most...

"Well... The problem is fixed now" Y/N was in the middle of explaining on what happened during her absence. She asked on what happened when she stood away to take in some sunlight, the source of her power. "Took down a Replicant of a Taken Vex Mind, wasn't a big of a deal but... Was outnumbered though".

"Mhm" Kara only hummed, as she has been doing since she asked. She in a way, looked tired but still had some energy in her.

The girl finally flew on in through the shared apartment window, setting down her boyfriend on his feet as he took in Kara's appearance, obviously showing worry for her.

"You sure you're okay?" he asked as Kara slightly smiled.

"Yeah" she nodded her head slightly, lying to him and herself floating over to the couch next before setting herself down/ "Can I have a glass of water, please?" she asked kindly.

Y/N could tell she was lying, he could see it on her face but... He knew she'd tell him sooner than later, as she'd promised. "Coming right up" he smiled, Glace appeared and floated over to Kara who also looked concerned for the Girl of Steel.

"There's something you're not telling us" Glace spoke to her with a concerned voice. "You said you wanted to tell my Guardian about what happened earlier, yet you haven't" she continued with her serious analogy.

Kara only stared at Y/N's Ghost before sighing with a sense of sorrow, the bottle began opening up within her. "Yeah" she only replied, looking away from Glace for a moment to think as her many thoughts clouded her.

"There's something in your body..." Kara's eyes shot toward Glace.

"I know... I wanted to-"

"Hey so, you wanted to tell me about what happened earlier" Y/N came strolling on in with a glass of water, setting it down on the coffee table in front of her as he sat down next to her. "So for real... Is everything okay? And I'm also talking mentally, not just physically" she swore to not smile but she did, his caring nature was what she cared most about.

It was like he could read her like a book nonetheless.

"And to be honest? I can tell there's something wrong, you had an outburst earlier, telling someone to stop or something like that" he got closer to the truth as it was, Kara wouldn't look at him but only listen as she had her eyes closed.

"Yeah" she replied, agreeing with his words as he looked a little shocked. "Don't pretend to act shocked, you knew" she couldn't smile anymore, her stomach arched in a little pain just thinking back on what happened.

"So then tell me everything then... Glace thinks there's something up with you, within your body, she can't tell what it-"

"It's Kryptonite..." she blurted out without second thought, opening her eyes. Causing the Guardian to drop his jaw slightly as his heart dropped.

"Wh-What?" he looked flabbergasted.

"It's..." she took a pause for a brief moment to collect herself, knowing this was going to be hard to talk about. "It's Kryptonite Poisoning... Poisoning that effects my mind which I got from my pod when I first came here to Earth. Had a check-up with Kal at the Fortress after I began hearing voices".

"Voices?" Y/N asked, as Kara went silent again, keeping her eyes away from Y/N as he took notice. "Kara... Hey..." he grasped her hand, using his thumb to run circles on her hand. "You can tell me, It's just us... And Glace" he comforted her, hearing a small whimper escape her throat.

She turned to look at him, tears forming in her eyes, she looked pale, pale as if she was scared in some form... Which was not far from the truth.

"I heard my father..." she croaked. "Telling me to kill Kal-El... That the House of El must fall, every single time, I could hear him whenever you weren't around me and for the last eight-to-ten weeks it's been nothing but that" she continued, trying to hold back her tears and be strong enough.

However?

She was vulnerable, only around Y/N, or Kal... Or anyone she trusted...

But Y/N was her Kryptonite in a way...

A comforting Kryptonite in fact.

"And I'm starting to remember what really happened before I left Krypton-".

"Woah-Woah-Woah, your starting to remember what happened before leaving your planet?" he asked with a sense of concern, she nodded her head quietly, letting tears shed down her eyes. "But I thought you-?"

"I wasn't sure at the time" she spoke through a bubble in her throat. Looking away again. "The past few weeks have been nothing but waking up from the same nightmare. Every. Single. Night" her croaking voice continued to break, letting her emotions out toward the person she cares most about. "I had dreams of me k-killing my mom, Zor-El e-experimenting on me, making me do h-h-horriblethingsthatI-"

"Kara..." Y/N said her name again, trying to calm her down, making her look back at him as she continued to let her tears flow down from her eyes, her breath was shaky, she was... Shaking. "Come here" Y/N pulled the crying Girl of Steel into him, she dug her face into his chest as she silently whimpered.

"I don't know why but..." her speech was muffled, but she didn't care, she felt his warm embrace nonetheless. "I never hear his voice whenever I'm around you... Don't... Don't leave me" she begged for him to not let go.

Kara was clingy at times as Y/N allowed her to be, but this? This situation now is now making Y/N understand why Kara is clingy around Y/N at times.

"So that's why you're always wanting to be around him" Glace began to connect the dots. "Because... My Guardian is a form of your comfort?" she bothered to ask Kara, a muffled yes and a nod of her head said so otherwise.

"Oh you poor thing" Y/N sympathized. "Why didn't you tell me this sooner?".

"I was scared" she said her excuse.

"Supergirl? Scared?? Never thought I'd-" Y/N stopped himself from trying to get himself killed. "Okay, I shouldn't really say that, sorry" he mumbled to her softly, stroking a hand through her hair as she decided to wrap her cape around the Guardian and herself, it was long enough to do so. "What's with that?".

"I don't want you to let go" she said, bringing her face out of his chest. the Lightbearer then went on to wipe the tears left on her face.

"Hmm, so I hear" he gave her a smile. "I was going to ask what you remember of what happened before you left Krypton but... Doesn't seem like a good idea to ask, right now" he told her, caressing her face with his free hand as she shook her head gently.

She let out a few sniffles afterwards, seeming to calm down from her state. "Kal vowed he'd find a cure to help me with the poisoning" she told him, gulping down a lump in her throat. "I just don't know if I can even... Go on a flight anymore alone when I want to".

"Because your afraid you might hear that voice in your head, again?" he asked. Kara nodded quickly afterwards.

"I just... I-"

"Hey" he stopped her. "You've said enough about it all" he pecked Kara's cheek, making her slightly smile before it disappeared.

Kara pulled herself in to hug him once again, the Guardian accepted her hugs nonetheless, never wanting to stop doing so.

"Say? You wanna go out for some ice cream?" Supergirl perked up at Y/N's question, before a huge smile came across her face, making him chuckle lightly.

"I love you" Kara exclaimed, still smiling bright.

"Love you too" he giggled in response. "Knew that would make you smile". Despite the two haven't had their first proper kiss yet, which was soon to come according to Kara's plans for the second date, the Guardian kissed Kara's forehead after responding to her.

A kiss that felt tender on her head, a little, tendering tickle that made her giggle.

"Only because you said ice cream" she told him while keeping her smile this time. She would kiss him on the lips right now if she wanted, but the date wasn't far off, and she had the semi-perfect plan to make that magic moment happen.

"Are we still on for that second date?" Y/N then asked. "Not sure if you'll be fine considering your-"

"Of course we are!" Kara told him, keeping his hopes up. "I'm not letting this Kryptonite Poisoning stop me".

"Good" he nodded. "But I'm still worried about it effecting you long term".

"We're worried" Glace added herself in.

"Yeah, Glace too".

"I just hope, Kal finds something soon" she showed her fears and doubts. "I know I shouldn't doubt my cousin. But nonetheless? I don't hear that voice in my head every time I'm around you, which is enough for me, or at least if I have something that reminds me of you that keeps that voice out of my head from tormenting me".

Y/N had a sense of an idea for Kara's condition but he couldn't reveal it yet. 'That's given me an idea, I'll tell Glace about it later' he thought to himself. "Hmm, I see... Well in that case? I'll stay by you in bed tonight, then" he vowed, surprising Supergirl as she pulled back from the hug.

Kara usually began sleeping normally as opposed to not doing it often since first arriving, she didn't need sleep, food or drinks to keep herself alive, maintained and vice versa... The sunlight stored within her body was enough, like a solar battery.

Like not needing oxygen much to breath in space and underwater which was mind boggling to most, not needing to eat or drink since she was a living Solar battery that kept her alive in those harsh environments of the vast of space and such. 

Sleeping for Kara Zor-El was different... Turns out? She needs sleep every so often, even her cousin does too from what she found out.

But the nightmares she had, prevented her from sleeping much, it was no wonder why she was surprised with Y/N offering to stay by her when she goes to bed. She thought of finally cuddling in bed with him which made her happier than earlier.

"Really?" she asked with a glint of hope in her eyes. "You would cuddle with me in bed?"

"Well" he shrugged. His face heating up a little "It... Sounds nice I suppose. You did say you also had nightmares too, probably another effect of that Kryptonite Poisoning" he told her his own thought on the matter, making her think about it too.

"Could be doing that also" she said to herself, taking in Y/N's words seriously.

"Anyway" he brought her attention away from the thought. "How about that ice cream? I know it's getting close to dinner but... I want to at least cheer you up with your favorite treat after earlier.".

Supergirl only smirked before picking up Y/N like a bride once more with a small giggle escaping her, now cheered up as she smiled. "On that? I agree. Let's go get ice cream!" She flew out the window, with the Guardian in her arms.

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To be continued...

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