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Eyes that burn
The first time Maggie saw Alex truly angry was when Supergirl nearly got hurt.
Maggie didn't even know that she could get hurt. It was just a routine raid on an organization that seemed to be trafficking alien drugs to an alien gang who would use them for interrogations. It was a literal truth drug, and it was used exactly how they were planning on using it on the planet of its origin. However, it didn't quite work like that on humans, and caused hallucinations instead. The DEO had decided that the raid would be a joint operation with NCPD since it seemed relatively simple, so, Maggie tagged along with Alex.
The place was crawling with guards, hence why Supergirl was present. Watching Supergirl fight in real time, and not in a newsreel, was a truly amazing experience. She flung guys twice her size like they were paper weights, and when they shot her the bullets, like marshmallows, albeit pretty fast marshmallows, just bounced off. In less than five minutes they were inside the processing facility with guns drawn.
Inside there were probably 20 or more people loading cardboard boxes with plastic cases. Their faces were covered with masks and they all wore gloves, which confirmed her suspicion that this really wasn't something they should be messing with.
A man came out yelling in some language she was at least 90% sure didn't come from Earth and gestured to the grunts filling the boxes while yelling something. They started to take the plastic boxes out and spiled their contents on the floor. That probably wasn't good.
Alex began barking out orders, "Cover your mouth with your shirt! You'll be fine as long as you don't inhale too much! Supergirl!" She pointed at the man that seemed to be in charge, and Supergirl flew into him, crashing him into the wall in the back of the warehouse. A bigger grunt seemed to notice this and he pulled off his mask to grab a green thing, which, in her opinion, looked like a rifle. After flicking a switch on the side the whole thing started to glow that green, but it looked almost sickly, and after looking down at it and nodding, he began to aim it at Supergirl. Out of the corner of her vision see could see Alex's eyes widen.
"No!" Before Maggie could stop her, Alex bolted towards the armed man, forgoing convering her mouth. She ripped the gun out of his hands and threw it to the crowd of agents near her. Supergirl noticed the commotion but was preoccupied with the boss. Maggie ran over, handcuffs in hand, and nodded towards Alex.
Supergirl sped over and a swift punch to the man's gut brought him down. Alex looked down at her handcuffs, but then just looked back up at Supergirl.
"Alex what are you doing? Arrest him." Something was wrong though, and she just looked confused. "Alex? You okay?"
"Supergirl!" Maggie knew what it was. "The drug! Did she inhale too much?" The superhero's eyes widened.
"Oh no. Alex, you know who I am right?" The agent looked at her, this time, but it didn't really look like she was seeing her.
"Know who you are? Do you work for them? Are you the one who's been making that drug? We know that you're using it to interrogate whistleblowers in your little operations," She sneered, "Don't think we don't, its best to just fess up before this has to get ugly." Maggie noticed she had started clenching her fist and decided to intervene before Alex attempted to punch the Girl of Steel and break her hand.
"Alex, calm down, we got the guy, see? He's over there okay?" The woman shook her head.
"You're lying, I can't believe you would tie up an innocent man!" Alex lunged at her and grabbed her by the throat. She clawed at the grip while she was lifted in the air. What did the DEO have them on? Or what was Alex's training because Maggie knew she was small but Alex is lifting her up like she's just a stuffed animal. It was terrifying, but the suddeness of the ground dissapearing from under her feet wasn't what scared Maggie though.
No, what scared Maggie was the fact that Alex's eyes were burning, burning while she stared into Maggie's own eyes with hot hatred.
Supergirl reacted quickly once she realized what had happened and pulled Alex's arms back by her biceps, locking her into a hold while a nearby agent handcuffed her. Once Maggie fell out of the air she gasped for breath as she massaged her neck, and she came over to her after Alex was being escorted back to the DEO truck while several other agents went to work capturing the rest of the distributors and the drug.
"Thanks Maggie, I'm sorry about her, clearly the drug's effects were worse than we thought, but now that we have a proper sample of it we'll probably be able to run some tests and get an antidote. I, uh, noticed that she was gonna attack me but I didn't really know how to stop her, getting you involved definitely wouldn't have been a part of any plan though." Maggie shook her head.
"It's okay, I get it. Now can we get out of here?"
Supergirl laughed as she nodded, and as Maggie was walking out of the building she realized she had another thing to check off her list.
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