A World Where You Can Be Both

Hello lovely humans! Chapter 2 hath cometh! Enjoy......😏

"Kara, if you haven't finished those floral arrangements by now I swear to God—" Alex stopped in the doorway of her sister's apartment and gasped. She was lying on the floor unconscious, still in her clothes and glasses from yesterday. "Oh my god! Kara!"

Alex rushed to her sister's side and felt her pulse, sighing with relief when she felt it beating steadily against her fingers. She whipped out her phone and called the first person she thought of. "J'onn, there's something wrong with Kara. Meet me at her apartment now."

***

"What happened to her?" Nia asked when she arrived at the Tower to see her friend unconscious on a bed. 

"We don't know," Alex said helplessly. "I went to Kara's apartment to check on her and found her lying there, unresponsive." She stared at her sister's sleeping face, brow creased with worry. They had just defeated Lex and Nyxly. Would the chaos never end?

"That's strange,"  Lena muttered, staring at a tablet in her hand.

"What is?" Alex walked over to her.

"Judging by these readings, her brain activity is completely normal. It's like her body is unaware anything is wrong." Alex flashed back to when Kara was attacked by the Black Mercy. She had been so heartbroken, so angry when she'd woken up. At least there was no creepy alien plant clinging to her sister's torso this time.

Suddenly an alarm sounded from upstairs, startling all of them. "Now what?" Nia asked, exasperated.

"J'onn and I will go see if everything's okay," Alex said, gesturing for the Martian to follow her towards the elevator. "You guys keep monitoring Kara."

When the doors opened, they were greeted by a familiar face. "Winn!" Alex said, hurrying over to hug her friend. "What are you doing here? The wedding's in three weeks!"

"No, I know," Winn said, fiddling with the hem of his Legionnaire uniform. "Something's happened to Mon-El."

"What do you mean?" J'onn asked, immediately on high alert.

"He didn't show up for work today, and when I went to his apartment to check on him, he was unconscious on the floor."

"The same exact thing happened to Kara," Alex said in surprise. "How did you know?"

"I'll explain in a second," Winn said, his expression unreadable. "Can you bring her to the Legion ship? It might help to compare their conditions."

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    "Now will you tell us what's going on?" Alex asked, staring at her sister and Mon-El lying side by side in the ship's med bay.

    "When I found him, this was on the counter," Winn said, handing Alex a piece of paper. "It's the reason I brought him here. I was hoping you'd know what it meant." The note in Alex's hand read:

I'd love to stay and chat, but I've got some unfinished business with the Girl of Steel. Toodles!

—M.M.

    "M.M.?" J'onn asked, reading over Alex's shoulder. "Who is that?" She frowned in concentration, trying to remember the names of past villains.

    Then it hit her. Kara and Mon-El, comatose but unharmed, and found alone in their homes. A mysterious attacker with the initials MM.

    "It's Music Meister," Alex realized.

    "Bravo!" said a voice from across the room. "I knew you'd get there." he was leaning against the wall, clapping sarcastically.