Chapter 3: Crucial Circumstances (1 PM)

All teams all warriors and leaders had reached the last destination of the Director's tracker fanned out searching with haste. They'd been notified even before the Major had been able to radio them and without any warning their phones came to life only to stop dead in their tracks. Their noble DEO boss was in a dangerously critical crisis. None of them could respond and when Lucy was practically screaming into their coms sobbing while trying to explain where she was everyone rushed out of the locations they were currently at to get to where Lane was and fast.

"DAMMIT!" Sawyer was fuming with tears still running down her face. The screams and sickening sounds her ex was making were killing her. Even worse was they were at where the spot on their GPS was and none of them saw anything that resembled a computer a scanner or door. It was as if the doors Alex had once gone through had disappeared.

"ALEX!" Both Arias screamed. Sam had her hands on the walls listening carefully as Ruby searched with her much stronger x-ray vision. "Where is she?!"

"SAWYER!" They all looked over as two familiar faces came running up. "Thank Susan later." Both Lance and Al Ghul ran over dressed in their dark and light attired holding both swords and bo staffs. "Where is she?"

"We can't find her!" Maggie snarled kicking at the walls. "We have to...she needs us.." The detective was breaking and listening to what was on the feeds on their phones were filling their ears with dread and rage. She felt a steady hand on her shoulder and when she turned she was looking directly into the eyes of the darkly beautiful assassin. "Wha…"

"Keep your heart steady. Breathe and think." Nyssa removed her hand from the detective and walked up to the black and copper suited teenager placing her hand on the wall. "You have another strength I see. You too must breathe." This child was far too young for these encounters but looking over at the mother she understood their convictions. "White Canary." She called as her lover stepped to her side. "Feel."

"What are you.." Both women told her to shush. Sawyer watched as they stepped away from one another dragging their hands along the walls. "What the fuck?" Just as she believed they were both nuts they all heard a loud click as their eyes widened when the wall slid away leading to a hall they hadn't been able to find before. "Holy shit.."

"Saturn Girl..Brainiac..you first." Both Legionnaires ran in with the two assassins following. Sam and Ruby were next with Lena and Maggie hot on their tails. Lucy looked to Susan and Aaron along with their teams staying back knowing that if everyone went in they could be possibly ambushed coming out. As much as it killed her Lane would stay and keep all the agents as safe as possible. She was trusting those that had run into the new path that they could handle themselves and bring Danvers back to them all.

"There are several heartbeats." Sam spoke up with her daughter nodding.

"Five. They seem to be in some sort of...I hear computers. I think it's a control room." Ruby stated. "This way. I hear them clearer this way." Both Arias watched as the two assassins scurried passed them quite alarmed neither kryptonian had heard them run up. "I need to learn those skills." The blonde slightly turned her head giving a smile and nod to look at her from the corner of her icy blue eyes.

"DANVERS!" Maggie yelled noticing the lights on the room and before any of them could blink she was kicking at a door. "DANVERS!"

"Son of a…" Lena ran over to where the detective was and with them both nodding she too started to kick at the door. Before they knew it both were yanked away from it by Sam only to have Ruby give one solid kick leaving the door in the equivalent of a crushed aluminum can. "Ruby no!"

"Where….is….my….other...MOM!" She snarled rushing around throwing the five in the room into a pile easily stripping them of all weapons which she kicked back toward her aunts. "WHERE IS SHE!"

"The...it's sealed. He has to...let us know." One black clothed man said shaking in his boots."

"Even if we could get in there...we wouldn't for you freaks!" That was the wrong answer and Ruby felt her eyes glow to yellow then orange and start to slip red feeling her anger boiling to the surface. She shot her hand forward and slipped it around his neck clenching at his throat holding him easily off the ground.

"Ruby!" Both Sam and Maggie yelled to get her attention but the teenager either didn't hear them or didn't care.

"Ruby.." Lucy began taking a deep breath approaching her. "Kueh Xao Luhra." She prayed her words were spoken right and with them said the young kryptonian turned to look at her. "Do not be that kind of person. Be the hero you want to be. Just like your aunt." When the teen looked away she slowly lowered the man but did not release her grip but gave it less of a squeeze. "Thank you." Lane turned to look at the man hauled back her arm and backhanded him hard. She was pleased when she noticed blood along his lip. "One fucking chance. How do we get in.."

"You side with monst…" She backhanded him even harder this time using the bottom of the handle some pleased when she heard a crack. "You bitch!"

"Tell us!" Ruby snarled shaking the man. "Now!"

"Fine! Filthy alien!" Lucy was about to smack him again when he raised his arm and pointed to the control panel. "4..7...00...1...Z...semicolon 4...9...N...JD..ZD..2." He threw back his head and spit right at Ruby's face. She slowly brought him closer to her lifting him some more off the ground she was levitating over. "Burn in...hell."

"After you." She shot back not gonna let this poor excuse for some soldier deter her from her mission, which was to rescue Alex. Her other hero.

Lena ran over and quickly punched in what she was told. As she did she heard four beeps then watched as the metal sheets slid back revealing a rather vast window. Ruby was first to look and without meaning to she tossed the man aside hearing a slight crack not giving a damn about that right now. She flew over and immediately tried to kick in glass only to feel a powerful surge of electricity through her body which knocked her back hard but her mother caught her lowering her carefully. "Hurt."

"It's some sort of energy field. Like some force field." Imra stated and as she brought fingers to the side of her skull she focused her power on lowering the electrical currents. "Brainy?"

"He isn't aware." He spoke seething. He doesn't know whom she is."

"He doesn't care! He's hurting her!" Maggie fired her gun at the window only to watch the projectile bounce of it. "Shit!" Luckily Sam saw it and dashed over to catch it before it could hit Lucy. "Fuck. Lucy I'm sorry."

"No worry. Let's just get our girl out of there hmm?"

"What I wouldn't give for Danvers guns right now."

"What guns are those?" Lane was curious now.

"These kind." Lena unholstered her weapon and with it fully charged she fired into the glass keeping the surge of alien power going. "Sam! Ruby!" Both nodded and aimed at the window too. "It's not just glass!"

"Fuck I want one of those." She didn't expect one to be thrown her way. "You have two?" She looked it over and noticed where she needed to slip the dial flicking the safety off. "Here goes nothing." She aimed and fired and felt the kickback some but stood her ground.

"Wait!" Sara yelled with both women letting their guns power down as both kryptonians cooled their heat vision. She pushed Luthor aside and slammed her fist down on the speaker button. "HEY!" Instantly the green veined monster released his captive as she dropped onto the partially broken table. "DANVERS!" The man tilted his head some raising an eyebrow and walked over to the wall pushing on the speaker button...


"Who the hell are you? Are those more alien filth? Bring them to me!" He yelled.

"Let go of the Director! Now!" Lance snarled.

"Like hell I will. This disgusting breed of outsider is nothing more than my fated prisoner. Just like the other kryptonian...the blonde one. She will suffer the same kryptonite sentence." Lena stormed over pushing Sara's hand away. "Who the hell.."

"You are quite the bastard you know that? That isn't a kryptonian OR an alien! That is Director Alexandra Danvers!" She yelled into the mic. The man of glowing veins went ghost white with shock. "Yeah. That's...YOUR niece!"

"Oh no. No. She was brought in here. I just. I thought.." The man ran to a corner of the chamber room and hurled puking up everything he had left in his stomach. He then rose but the shaking was eminent and turned back to them walking back over to the wall where the mic was. "Her blood was the one that got in here. It wasn't my brother."

"Yes. How can we get to her?" The man was shaking worse and when he looked over at the table he threw his head away from her vomiting again. "Please! How do we get her out?!" He forced himself against the wall trying to remain upright so sick so destroyed. "Please!"

"The code to unlock the shades….add ZDJD14….92. It will start to lower the cabin pressure. You need to lower her oxygen slowly or she will seize from too much air through her and start bursting her blood cells. Reduce the sun lamps by the two switches above the mic. Use the first three switches and put the first two towards you at 7. Put the last at 2. I'll use what I have to purge her body from the drugs as much as I can. I don't have much to work with here."

"What did HE tell you? What did SHE tell you...about the one you did those things to.." Lena had to know and with Lucy beside her she knew that was an answer they all needed an answer for. The man fired a syringe into himself and suddenly the glowing veins went away. "If I didn't find it sick I'd say that's an interesting development." She muttered to the ones now beside her and behind her.

"That is family has been infiltrated by a traitor." The man shut his eyes and they all could see the disdain in his face. "He said his daughter had been beaten and savagely tortured. He said his wife had been threatened to do as they were told by the monster Superman. He told me how his daughter had been beaten and raped by the alien that took over his home. He told me that he had been arrested and taken to a camp where others like the alien trained others like her in torture techniques." They watched him punch the wall of the circular chamber hard. "It was all a lie wasn't it? My own brother and Lily used me...didn't they?"

"Mr. Danvers...my name is Lena Luthor. I know you know that name. That person isn't my real mother. She became obsessed with killing all aliens after Lex her son went mad from a power obsession with Superman's abilities. She chose that to fund an organization called.."

"Cadmus. I know of it."

"Yes. The blonde you mentioned, is my girlfriend and best friend. That blonde has done everything to sacrifice her own safety and life to protect the woman in that room with you. She too sacrificed much, but they fight side by side to protect both humans and aliens alike. They are fierce warriors and real Earth heroes. We need to tend to Alex. What was she given?"

"I used a mild sedative with a lucid hallucinogen Lillian created. It has two agents. One of a stronger ketamine and one of what you probably know what the letters GHB mean. Fuck...the headset. Oh no." He rushed over unscrewed what they had noticed was still on her head and once unlocked he tossed it away to softly reach down with a shaky hand and touch her forehead gently. He looked up and they all saw the pain the anguish the fear in his eyes. When he walked back over to continue talking he threw up again then wiped his mouth and pushed the button. "How long has it been...please."

"We think she entered around eleven or so. It's a little after 2 here."

"In here it's been three weeks. You need to get her out of here. She needs medical attention right away."

"I know this is hard right now, but you need to remain calm." How she was keeping calm right now even Lena was curious about. She knew though that Lane had been a former Director herself and the Major had been trained to handle the worst of times calm and collectively. "We need to know what else will stabilize the pressure in there. How do you get out when you need to?"

"Listen carefully…" He began looking back at his niece clenching his jaw forcing himself to concentrate. "There is a monitor on the deck. It should be about...five inches wide by...seven inches long."

"See it."

"Now take your fingers where there is a slight curved ledge on the left and push it toward the right." Lena nodded as she pushed it back widening her eyes. "Punch in the last letter of each of their last names. Check the bracelets on each their wrists. They have a micro SD card in each of them. Their initials aren't in order on the shields. Middle, last, then first name. Put their last names in order. Slip each card into the five ports. Make sure they are in the same order as you put the letters in. For each letter slip that card in and wait for it to read it. There is another screen behind the deck just push the button under the table and it will slide the cover away. Once each one reads it will pull up a file. Use the digital mouse you will see on the deck to the right of the screen and without double clicking, click and drag the file to the blue file labeled S.U.M.D. Once you've done that a button will flash blue by the port. You have to do that for each of their cards. Once all five are in the file click on the blue file twice with the right button not the left. That will stabilize the pressure and unlock the doors on your end. I will get it taken care of on mine. Just let me know where you've got yours done."

"Working on it now." Lena stated following the directions he'd given them and with both Maggie and Sam working diligently ripping the bracelets off each of the five men they handed them over to Lucy whom lined up the objects on the deck. "Okay we got.." All of them heard a rather familiar and dangerous loud dragged alarm and knew exactly what that was. "ALEX!"

"HURRY! No no no...breathe dammit! Breathe! Breathe sweetie. Alex...I'm so sorry. Breathe sweetheart breathe. I'm sorry Alex. I'm sorry niece please...I need you to...there. That a girl." He took his mouth off her's looking up. "Hurry please! She's breathing again but her pulse is weak."

"Almost there."

"Dammit hurry up Luthor!" Maggie growled watching helpless as the woman she still loved with all her heart fought for her life. "Well?"

"Got it!" The doors had opened on their end. "We got it!" She saw him push a panel back and punch in quite a few codes. She started to get another rather bad feeling. "If you are lying to us.."

"Shit.." He punched the wall. "It's gonna take at least seven minutes to unlock everything and stabilize the chamber. She didn't have that much time. "My end won't open until the pressure is down to 40. It's at 85 right now." He was cursing again worried that the seven long minutes could cost his niece her life. He felt the hope of saving her leave his body but that's when a blast not only rocked the capsule he was in but shook the room the others were in.

"Look!" Lucy pointed and they gasped as the last of the impenetrable doors of the circular chamber were kicked in easily only for a teen with raging red eyes to walk right inside. "How in the…"

"Ruby!" Five of them yelled and just like that Sam dashed out with the two Legionnaires and two assassins running out and to the left. "Ruby!"

"Let's go Lane.." Lena bolted out with Lucy beside her. But as they all got to the room they were stopped by the young Arias. "Ruby.."

"The pressure will make you sick...I'll get her!" She flew in right over to Alex and cringed at the sight carefully lifting her up and into her arms cradling her to her body about to walk out when she stopped to look at the horrible man. "You don't deserve to have that last name. This isn't over." Ruby flew out holding precious cargo. Once out she saw medics come running over looking over at Vasquez whom had lowered the radio from her face. "Take care of her." She told Amelia whom had been flown in by her Uncle J'onn. The agents secured her to the stretcher and ran out with more agents following, some packing their guns in their hands just in case of ambush.

Ruby turned back to the doorway flying in only to see several agents with masks on aiming their weapons at the monster whom had got down onto his knees and laced his fingers behind his head. "I should break all codes my aunt lives by and rip you into little bitty pieces." She walked up to him and looked down at him clenching her fists tightly. "Give me one good reason I shouldn't? You hurt both of them! You brutalized them like an animal! You nearly killed them both and because of you my aunt is suffering and may die!" It took everything in every single cell of her body not to unleash her fury on this evil that hadn't even known. Or...had he..