Gravity of Critical Measure (10 AM)
They were newly sated and far too focused on approaching the final site, making the warriors further on edge. This was the last attempt at ending this war or preparing for another battle and they longed to be done with all they've endured. Careful and armed they spread out like a full tactical team with Sawyer motioning with commands and for once Alex stepped back letting her ex take the lead. Maggie was familiar with these situations and it was enough to further engage in a far different approach. With all the exits covered both Sawyer and Danvers held their alien blaze T-30s to climb up the four steps to the double doors looking at one another then forward to bring one foot up each and slam their boots against the slabs forcefully sending them crashing against the inner walls.
Two timed whistles through the coms and each in place kicked in the doors holding their weapons entering the building. The Director and Detective newly promoted kept their guns aimed as they scoped around. Something was off about this location..
Before the two knew it they heard two screams and guns going off with what sounded like slams and blasts and immediately the two ran through the hall toward the noises. Once in the massive main hall both dashed forward using speed and force as several soldiers dressed in black with green chains linked across their torsos attacked without mercy but there was something sinister about these men. Their eyes glowed a powerful green and both Alex and Maggie knew exactly what that color meant….kryptonite..
"Shit! WHOA! Little...help!" Vasquez felt a kick right into her gut grunting and nearly puking with the force of the strike. She used her suit's shields to avoid another strike. These men were far too fast to be human. Unless… "Director! These guys are.."
"Enhanced! Fuck...get the hell off me!" Lena snarled avoiding two punches only to cross her swords when one of these monsters dove at her like some wild animal. "More than...ooofff...more than...dammit...enhanced.." She felt the wind knocked out of her when someone struck the back of her skull. Even with the helmet over her head it didn't do her any good. Her vision buckled along with her legs but before she could hit the floor someone rushed at her in such a blur it nearly made her vomit. "Not...too...fast..thanks.."
"Don't...mention it.." Nia told her as she grabbed her two sticks from her back once more connecting them switching both rings as the bo staff sparked with powerful currents of electricity. Dreamer had four of the creatures on her at once and even with both her and Lena taking on these men they felt themselves forced back. They weren't the only ones.
"Shit...these guys are…"
"Lena's right! These men are not simple humans! They appear to have some pack mentality!" Alura was quick already charged to her maximum between the lamps and fuses Lena had added to the suits. She had almost three days worth of solar regenerates and even as powerful as she was now she too felt herself backed to the center of the rather darkened circular dome. Alura glanced over just as her daughter was body slammed to the floor sending a quake through the ground they all stood on. She yearned to get to her but the brutal strikes of the three men that surrounded her made it nearly impossible.
Saturn Girl had gotten the two at her away from the telepathic bashing of metal beams she'd found a use for but out of the corner of her eye she saw the strike which brought the glistening white armored fighter to a limp and vulnerable state. Panic struck her and when she saw one of the transformed beasts about to strike she forced the last of her power to create an energy shield around Zor-El. It would hold for now but the monsters that tried at Supergirl had figured out that was indeed the one they were after bringing the rest of the men to a halt when one howled to slash and punch at the sphere shield. They would all pile on to get to her..
"ALEX! THEY...ooffff...NO...OFF! THEY…" Imra hadn't expected the explosive strike against her side and with it all light went out. Her body sent across the room at such an immense speed only to almost collide with the wall if it hadn't been for Sawyer whom had blasted her way through the monsters to get to her barely catching her with her own body slamming back for them both to slap against the wall hard with a sickening crack.
"NO!" Danvers saw her ex and the Legionnaire drop only to both be grabbed and tossed her direction. Their bodies fell to the floor sliding at both sides of her. Vasquez collapsed to her knees close by the Director. Alura was thrown at them which luckily Alex gathered the proper stance to catch her but the kryptonian was already struggling to stand with the kryptonite all around them. Before she could blink even Dreamer had fell barely able to lift back up. Lena was thrown down hard to be kicked over to them unable to move much more coiling tightly on her side. Alex looked over setting Alura down forcing her wings to expand powerfully using the speed her sister had given her with her phoenix suit almost at her sister when an explosion hit them all knocking the Director right off her game with far too much of a violent impact. Her body was practically uppercut with no way to defend herself.
The armored fools were sent into the air in all different directions far from each other only to be dropped to the ground with none of them moving after that. She whistled and her enhanced altered dogs howled to return to her side as she walked casually up to the white-silver alien angel bending down with four of her boys keeping the woman pinned down aggressively. Kayla laughed to unbuckle the helmet and remove the head gear revealing the sun blonde kicked mutt.
"Nice to see you again Supergirl. Or...should I call you Kara Zor-El.." The hero's eyes were slightly unfocused her veins glowing green with green taking over the blues of her eyes. "Chain this bitch up and bring her with us." She stood watching as her dogs threw chain after chain around the armored Super. "We can unwrap her once back at base. Leave the rest of them here. They've sealed their own fates."
She felt the sickening toxins permeating her skin her pores her lungs unable to even move any part of her body helpless as she was towed away from her armored angels. She couldn't hear any of their heartbeats with all the kryptonite around her and with the poisoning she found her own vision slipping away succumbing to the painful darkness..
She'd just finished up the specs for the new weaponry when she heard a cackling laughter through the speakers scaring the ever living shit out of her. Composing herself once more noticing the clock turning to noon Lillian grabbed the microphone to click the side.
"Was that duebly necessary niece of mine?" Yet another course of laughter. "Have you lost your mind for the fifth time this early in the morning?"
"Oh come now Auntie! I brought a gift so much better than the coffee I forgot to grab...uh sorry about that. STRING HER UP! I want her arms tightly wrapped with that set of spiked chains and get that pitiful suit off her! Theeeeere...much better. Come now! Can't figure out how to remove that suit too? Pathetic. Here...let me show you fools." Lillian's lips curved up with the most evil of grins along her face. "See? That wasn't so hard. Cut up every bit of it until all there are is tassels and twine left to barely cover her. I want her exposed to all of you! Theeere that's it.."
"I'll be down in two minutes. Where have you brought her?" Her niece cackled again.
"Our newest laboratory. I think specimens and experiments are best done there don't you think Lillian?" The old leader of Cadmus laughed out loud as well heading down the hall to the massive metal door bringing her hand up to enter her codes, run the scans and voice acknowledgement with her gaining access to enter and what she saw made her smile even wider.
"Dump her onto the bench and secure the pin shackles to her wrists and ankles. Tighten them until you hear a snap." Kayla walked around waiting for each restraint to be tightened and when she heard each loud click she flicked on the individual machines where the cords were attached to each box with several tiny hoses connected to the shackles. With all four boxes powered up the fluids slipped from the pumps through the hoses where the needles had been fitted to. "Now...for the final fitting."
"Oh allow me." Lillian smiled with her niece handing her the ball gag which had three hoses connected to the object and she quickly slapped the kryptonite saturated straps around the Super's head only to click both locks in place around the back of the skull. Just as she did their subject's eyes slipped open with barely any blue left in them so very poisoned by the kryptonite all around her. But then she felt several sharp spiked burns on her wrists and ankles only to feel every nerve muscle and vein igniting her in endless agony. "Nice to see you awake Supergirl. You must be parched." The woman's eyes leaked with rivers of green stained bloody tears trailing down both sides but even half blinded by the venomous toxins she knew exactly what would happen when Lillian turned the nozzle on the box on the post. "Let's quench that thirst for you."
The moment the hoses filled with their newest blend of both green kryptonite and the most potent of fire ant laced pepper sprays the woman's mouth was filled with the burning liquid which had no other place to go rolling over her tongue. Her chin was grabbed by Lillian and her head forced back with no way to escape what was pouring down her throat. Kayla laughed as did her aunt with Supergirl's gargled screams echoing along the chamber and walls of the lab.
There was no possible escape nor end for Kara and a prisoner of the sadistic monsters their torture and games she prayed to Rao to everything in her for her loved ones to find her and if they couldn't...for her death to be swift..
Slowly one by one they came to between groaning and coughs whimpers and sobs, leaving them all in such wretched shape. None of them could even sit up and the phoenix coughed in the com barely able to touch her wrists with her other hand but finding the strength to do just that. She coughed again and the iron-like taste alerted her to what she was spitting up.
"Rem...zi...J'onnnnn…" Alex could barely speak everything hurt and with the com switched over her arm slipped off her waist to slump to the ground. "He...lp.."
"Director Danvers? Director...we are on our way with several teams! Stay put!" She barely heard Aaron's voice but she needed to concentrate enough to know whom was with her. Her brain registered a looming nervousness and with it the horrendous awful feeling that clawed brutally at her heart kept it's attack festering.
She called out her teammates one by one but when she called her sister's name the name of the hero and her full blood borne name they were all screaming it with all the force they could when the cavalry arrived including J'onn whom flew over to land before the pile of the fallen. Quickly the teams of DEO agents noticed whom was missing amongst their comrades bringing a spiraling fear through all of them. The monsters that had attacked them and Supergirl were all gone with no trace left of where they'd run to.
"J….J'onn….find...her…" Lena spoke before once again unconsciousness took her. With careful ease the agents lifted each of the warriors onto stretchers to wheel them to the vans and back to the DEO. They didn't have a choice but to tend to the injured and hoped Supergirl would make it through whatever was thrown at her until they could find her. Time was definitely not on their side...