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Chapter Four: Monkeys and Backstories...

Took a few days to get Alexis into a routine and Anya caught up on the latest trends. Alex came by with the documents to make Anya alive again. Officially she'd been declared dead not long after the Soviets lost contact with her ship. Alex and Kara went with us to get Alexis and Anya clothed and to get other things they needed.

As it turned out, Lena and Lucy were not the only one to become 'good friends' while I was away. Lena and Kara had gotten really close in the last month or so. Like I'm pretty sure they're dating but they don't know they're dating sort of thing. Plus side was that Alexis and Kara were totally smitten with each other. When Alexis wasn't crawling over her mother she was all over Kara.

First time I witnessed Kara with Lena and Alexis was surreal. Only been back a handful of hours when morning came and Kara was knocking on the door with enough breakfast feed a football team. Not sure that Kara realized that I was home and I sure she was there just for Lena; however, Kara's healthy appetite came in handy than there was more than enough for everyone.

Alexis was captivated by Kara the moment she set her sleepy eyes on the woman, she wouldn't stop staring. Honestly, it was really cute to watch Alexis want Kara to feed her with Alexis leaving her Mommy's lap. Kara was more than willing to feed the girl and Lena had this look of adoration I've only ever seen her have for kittens, chocolate éclairs and Donald Duck (that one is usually when she's not feeling good). I wasn't sure who the look was pointed to but I took pictures anyways.

Alexis even tried babbling at Kara and we passed it off as the fact that Alexis only knew French. Her governess/caretakers…whatever had only spoken French and Alexis had always been a quiet baby. It was then I realized that we were going to have to make up a whole bunch of lies in order to keep Alexis safe. I had to wonder how good Winn was a making up fake baby pictures. Who was going to believe that we didn't have pictures of Lena's little cutie?

Then there was the interactions with Cat Grant. She became 'Grammy' and her son Carter became Uncle Carter (or as well as Alexis could say it) when Alexis started talking just a day or two of being on the ground. Kid's speech really did sound like butchered French. Alexis was pretty well looked after with our group in force.

The enforce group love and support that surrounded Alexis and Anya was relaxing and helped sooth the raggedness of my emotions. They were finally coming to the surface and they weren't pretty. Alex had helped me put in a home gym in my living room, which was freaking big enough that we could just split it down the middle and put a little fence around the gym that Alexis couldn't climb over.

The punching bag that Alex got me helped with the rage that came with the memory of Hammeroon dying in my arms. To deal with the sadness and grief, I ran on the treadmill until my legs were wobbly. I used the salmon ladder to cope with Lucy's rejection and what I had known was the inevitability of it.

So, when it was finally time to return to the DEO I felt much better; more stable. Anya was going with me when I returned. She was now a junior agent there because it seemed those friendly aliens who'd saved her gave her more than just information on earth. They taught her to read and speak a lot of different alien languages; Lam'cooes being slightly over helpful was not surprising at all.

***GL***

The DEO was in chaos when we arrived that morning. There were soldiers in military fatigues running about and I caught sight of Kara running for one of the halls. I told Anya to stay with Vasquez and chased after Kara.

I tracked her to one of the holding cells that was bathed in the light of green kryptonite. General Lane was there with his men holding General Astra on her knees. The green glowing syringe in his hand made it pretty clear what he was going to do, what was about to happen. I didn't need to hear Kara begging him not to hurt Astra as Alex was holding her back.

"STOP!" I screamed reaching out with a green hand and jerked the syringe out of his hand "I will not allow this," guns were trained on me as I strode further into the room "under the agreement between the DEO and Oa, Astra In-Ze falls under my purview. As she was a prisoner of Fort Rozz serving a life sentence she is remanded into my custody so she can be transported to Oa for retrial."

Astra's eyes widened slightly, staring at me as General Lane snorted like a mad brahma bull "she is our only link to Director Henshaw and you are interrupting my interrogation! I am acting Director of the DEO and what I say goes!"

Was Astra expecting to be tortured? From the look of surprise on her face, I could see that she was. Alex had mentioned that she thought Astra had gotten herself caught to make a distraction for Non and their people to raid Lord Tech. I had to wonder what move this was for.

"You do not have the authority to disregard that treaty, sir," Alex spoke up, her voice steady and strong while she was still holding Kara back "it was agreed upon by President Marsden while the Green Lantern was away. It covers all the Fort Rozz prisoners."

"I will talk to the Green Lantern," Astra spoke up suddenly, she was glancing at the man to General Lane's left who had his rifle trained on Kara; his finger was getting twitchy and Kara getting shot in here could kill her "no one else."

General Lane snarled and growled "you will talk to me and the Green Lantern will leave before I have her shot!"

"This fight isn't worth it, General," I said calmly "and it will be one you will lose," I told him "I can tear the guns away from you before any of you get the chance to pull the trigger. Astra In-Ze is in my custody and I will not allow you to harm her. Tell your men to stand down."

The man smirked darkly and ordered his men to lower their weapons. He didn't say anything beyond that as he marched out of the room with his men in tow. When he was gone, I moved over to the settings control and lowered the kryptonite levels back to the original levels. Someone had turned them up to make Astra uncomfortable, almost on the edge of being extremely sick.

***GL***

A quick talk with Kara proved that she wasn't going to leave the room for the upcoming talk. Neither was Alex for that matter. I made them promise to stay silent or I would remove them. Green Lanterns didn't believe in torture but I could mimic a frequency that can cause a person to feel comfortable enough to tell the truth.

Problem with that was it hurt me physically to produce the frequency. The more complex the mind of the individual it was being used on, the worse the backlash it caused me. Against being like Kryptonians it could be lethal. Lower life forms were easier to convince to be honest. This was going to have to happen the old fashion way.

"I knew a Green Lantern once," Astra started, her arms folded across her chest and glaring at me "came to Krypton to help with the insurgents. I had just joined the military guild. He failed in bringing them all to justice. He was weak just like I've seen you be weak."

I nodded "I was weak when I last saw you, Lady In-Ze, I freely admit that," I shrugged standing back from her confinement with my arms behind my back "I have never done well with change. Why are you fighting us?"

"I have told you already, Green Lantern, I have lost one planet already and it was destroy because my people didn't care," Astra lifted her chin "I will not lose another," she thought she beyond reproach "humans have no concept of the destruction they face."

"So then why don't you teach us?" I asked tilting my head "to teach someone a better way is the greatest of honors, is that not a Kryptonian saying? If you do want to teach then you don't want to save us, Lady In-Ze, you want to rule us."

Astra snorted "I see what you're doing and it will not work. Playing to my sense of duty to custom."

"Then what about your niece?" I asked curiously "fighting her is going to eventual lead to a crisis point because I know that she will not give up until she's stopped whatever your plan is. Are you actually able to kill the girl who seriously like your daughter? Genetically she could be."

Astra growled and glared at a watery eyed Kara "she has made her choice and I have made mine."

"Then why did you just save her?" I asked, Astra glared at me and I heard Kara and Alex respond softly behind me, at least they were restraining themselves "you said you'd talk to me and thus keeping General Lane from giving the order to open fire. In this room, it would have killed your niece."

"If that is what you believe, Green Lantern." Astra scoffed and folded her arms over her chest.

"I saw your eyes, Lady In-Ze. I know that you didn't want her hurt," I pointed out and watched her bristle, throwing her shoulders back stiffly "just like you didn't want to hurt me at our first meeting. You listened when I spoke when you could have just attacked," I let out a long breath "you are Supergirl's aunt, Astra, the one she speaks to me of when she was a little girl. I know why you were sent to prison, Lady In-Ze, I know the decision you made that brought strife to your family."

"You know nothing!" Astra screamed and attacked the glass

"Your sister made a report after she sent you away," I didn't flinch at her outburst "it was uploaded to a shared mainframe with Oa. We share one with several different juridical systems. It lets us know who's wanted, who's been caught, bounties posted and things like that. She agreed with your sentiment, wanting to save Krypton but not your methods. Alura added a side note that it was the hardest thing she'd ever have to do."

"What would you know about sibling betrayal?" Astra snarled dangerously

I ducked my head and nodding as I decided "I have two sister, one is older than me by two years and then other is younger by five," Astra looked at me in surprise as I let my suit vanish so she could see the real me "my older sister left home the second she could because our father was a very strict man who played favorites. He was had friends in the local Police department and he was very firm in his traditional beliefs. I know on Krypton, you have no concept of labeling sexuality but here on earth there is," I kept my voice even and firm even though I had to force it out "my younger sister was my father's favorite. He doted on her like he'd never done for my sister and me."

"Does this story have a moral?" Astra demanded, her arms folded across her chest again as she scoffed at me.

"When I was fifteen I was lost, trying to find myself in what appealed to me sexually. I'd had attractions got both boys and girls and I couldn't understand it. I'm a very visual person, writing things down helps so I wrote about what was bothering me," I continued and ignored her ire "my sister took my journal and showed them to my father. He'd been out drinking with my uncle who was in the military and home on leave," I lifted up my shirt to show a thick scar about three inches long just under my ribs "my father, in his drunken state, decided to beat the gay out of me and was halfway there before he decided that that would never work. He took a five inch kitchen knife and stabbed me with it."

Astra just frowned at me as if trying to understand why a parent would try to kill his child. It was an almost unheard concept on Krypton. They made their children using the codex. Genetically manipulating them for desired qualities. Main reason why nobody cared about sexuality because sex wasn't about procreation. I dropped my shirt and called the suit back up.

"My uncle saved my life and took me away from there," I finished feeling Alex and Kara's staring at my back, so intently that they could have started a fire there "and I haven't talked to them, my family, in ten years. It took effort and a very long time but I forgave my sister for what she did. She didn't understand what she as doing or how he'd react, she was ten. If needed, I would still help her. Blood binds us all."

Astra glanced to Kara and then lied "Henshaw is being held our base in the warehouse district."

I frowned "expect that is a lie, Lady In-Ze. We both know that this has been a power play," Astra growled lowly "you gave up too easily. You were willing to be tortured and my story makes you cave?"

"That is the only answer you're going to get out of me, Green Lantern." Astra stated defiantly.

***GL***

"Why is it always the warehouse district?" Kara groaned, we were back at the command center.

I could feel General Lane's glare "thing is, she lie though," I frowned at the pictures up on the screen of the district in question.

"About which part?" Alex asked

"I'm not sure." I admitted, General Lane scoffed.

Alex nodded "you should keep at her."

I shook my head "won't work, she's too committed," I glared at the monitors "I think this is another move on the chess board. She didn't break and she didn't give up and she won't. Astra will tell us only want she wants. She's had thirteen years to plan this out."

"Damn it," Alex sighed "this feels like a trap."

"Probably is," I nodded solemnly "question is, how do we turn it to our advantage?"

General Lane spoke up then "if any of my men get hurt, Lantern, I am holding you personally reasonable."

I snorted "no one is tell you to storm the castle, General. Personally, I would send in those bomb defusing robots. Let the machines take the brunt of whatever Astra and Non have planned."

***GL***

General Lane didn't send in the robots. Think the Red Tornado experience may have burned him on robots. Kara begged me to stay behind while Lane's men and Alex went to clear the warehouse that Vasquez had targeted, had satellite feed of people flying in and out. Lane gave a kill order instead of capture, not sure his first priority was getting Hank back. Kara didn't want him to do something to Astra while she was gone.

Turned out that Kara had cause to be worried. When the bombs in the containers went off and Lane got the after report, man went ballistic. He was going to go shot Astra himself and it was the DEO agents who stop him. I think the man was lucky that they only relived him of his weapon.

Kara had just returned when the monitors in the command center froze. Suddenly there was a man in a black suit and blond hair. It was Non, he wanted to trade Henshaw for Astra. There it was, that was their move.

"No, we do not negotiate with terrorist and we sure as hell don't free them," Lane growled

I look at him, we were standing at the glowing table "well, fortunately that's not your call. Astra is still my prisoner and not yours."

"You're going to regret this," Lane snarled before he stomped off.

I shrugged "that's what they said about tacos in Mexico my junior year of university but I still ate twelve of them."

Alex snorted "how'd that work out for you?"

"I was so sick," I grimaced at the memory, shaking my head to clear it as Alex sniggered at me "so, Supergirl, what's the call?"

"What?" Kara frowned at me "I thought she was your prisoner?"

"This is your call, I just don't like General Lane." I shrugged

Vasquez nudged my sided and asked "what about Major Lane, are we liking her?"

I looked over at her and blinked; I didn't want to talk about Lucy "I'm sorry were you speaking? All I heard was blah, blah, blah…we have an alien to trade for another…grumpy individual," I caught myself before I gave Henshaw's secret away and mumbled as I marched towards Astra's holding cell "they are both quite cantankerous come to think of it."

It didn't take long to get Astra ready for transport. Kara was being stoic and keeping a neutral expression to her face. I could only image what was going through her mind right now. To be honest, I hope it was enough to distract from the story I'd told Astra.

"I felt like there should be some rock song blasting over the speakers," I muttered as we walked a shackled Astra towards the garage "maybe 'Highway to Hell'?"

"Nah, 'Bad Moon Rising'," Alex countered "if we're going old school."

Vasquez rolled her eyes "amateurs, Five Finger Death Punch, 'Bad Company'."

I looked over at Alex, we both nodded "winner."

"Here I thought this was a serious matter." Astra snarked over her shoulder

"She has no idea what we're talking about, does she?" Vasquez sounded amused by the prospect.

***GL***

The convoy was moving along smoothly. Astra was conversing lowly to Kara in their native language that I refused to have the ring translate. Whatever their conversation was, it was between them. I had my head against window, blocking everything else out.

Which was probably how I missed the swirly blue portal opening up over the road ahead. However I did see the big ass, silver backed gorilla coming out of it and landed on the asphalt just head of Vasquez's SUV. Next to me, Alex's grip on the steering wheel turned white as she spoke with this deep and gravelly voice.

"I am Grodd!" Alex announced as the gorilla jumped up on to top of Vasquez's vehicle "and I will rule this puny realm."

"Did the giant fuck-off monkey just use Alex to speak?" I asked dumbly

Alex looked over and tilted her lead "I cannot reach your mind," she snarled at me "you will die first."

"Uhh….Kara…bad fuck-off monkey…." I don't know what to do

Astra did "release me, Little One," she commanded and got Alex's attention "before the monkey does something…gun!"

Not that it made a difference to her but Alex had the gun head towards me. I grabbed Alex's wrist to keep the gun away from my head, first shot took out my window. Kara and Astra exited the vehicle as Alex punched me in the face with her free hand.

Her hit dazed me and her second shot was caught by instinctual green bubble. Alex swore when I punched her back. The last time I fought with someone in the car it was my older sister Melody but she was just stealing my chicken nuggets not trying to shoot me. That fight was ended by my mother, this fight was ended by another blue portal that Astra threw the monkey into. Alex passed out with her chin on her chest.

A loud voice echoed from the portal "sorry about that!" a man called "went too far, he was meant for Earth-2," the portal closed then.

Alex woke, jerking her head up and looking around before cradling her nose "what the fuck?"

I pointed towards the sky "big fuck-off monkey…I don't even know how to start to process this, Alex."

Alex looked over and grimaced "you realize that you're bleeding, right?"

"You punched me in the face," I pointed out "what do you expect to happen when a big fuck-off monkey mentally controls you and has you, Alex Danvers, punch me in the face?"

It was then that Astra and Kara climbed back into the SUV. Astra had a big grin on her face and Kara looked just as dazed as I did. Alex just reset her nose and radioed Vasquez to keep moving. I wonder if Alex realizes that big fuck-off monkeys don't happen every day…nope, no processing this.

***GL***

The docks were bathed in an orange light and seemed a world away from what they were like during the day. It could have been its own alien world if one didn't know better. Also a great place for an ambush. All the containers stacked together with little spaces between them or creating what could be a shooting gallery.

It's almost fun when you can spot the rookie agents in the field, after fuck-off monkey, everyone was spooked. It wasn't exactly cheating that my ring was warning about [incoming: multiple Kryptonians] just before they started zipping into place. I kept the spooked agents from shooting at the new arrivals. Each wore a strange chest piece that glowed blue. Maybe ten of them in total.

"SORRY!" I called to a scowling Non "there was a big monkey that just attacked us, there's monkey prints on the roof. If you want to check."

Astra confirmed it "it's true."

Non nodded and his floating Kryptonians relaxed. That's when Lar-On arrived with Henshaw in arm. Lar-On was seriously something out of a monster slasher flick. The tall and hunched over body with a monstrous wolfish face, huge teeth and black claws. He was colored deep brown with lighter coloring and his eyes were glowing a soft red color. Not like laser beam red but like ominous 'I want to murder you and your whole family' red.

"Green Lantern," Lar-On chuffed and gave me a grin "I look forward to chewing on your bones."

"It'd be easier to go to Pet Co. and buy some rawhide bones. Taster too, I'd imagine." I countered and Kara snorted from beside me

"Silence," Non hissed glaring at his companion before looking to Kara "release her, now!"

"Release Henshaw!" Kara shouted back

I put a hand on Astra's shoulder and muttered as Kara removed the shackles "remember my offer, Astra. There need not be a fight; we can be allies like the days of old."

Astra looked unsure of herself before she walked off, passing Henshaw as she headed for her husband. Henshaw raised an eyebrow at me as he drew closer. When each 'hostage' was back on their own side, Non started to raise his hand for the attack.

I was close to calling up constructs I'd been thinking about, pretty sure those blue chest pieces are important. First goal would be to take those out without getting burnt to a crisp from their laser vision. Everything beyond that was left up to whim.

Astra stopped Non's hand and ordered the other Kryptonians to retreat. Lar-On growled my way before chuffing and leaping for the sky. I was right, there is nothing more scarier than a werewolf is a werewolf that can fly. I'm not sure what Astra said to Non, but he left looking pissed off.

"You did not lie, did you Lantern?" Astra called as she floated up into the sky "there is a place in the cosmos where my people have started to rebuild?"

I nodded "I would never lie about that, Lady In-Ze."

***GL***

I didn't go back to the DEO with the rest of the crowd. Instead, I got a text from Lena asked me to come home; Alexis was waiting me to tell her goodnight. Strange though, she asked me to come through the front door. Henshaw let me go, which left Alex and Kara to explain what had been happening while he was gone. Kara actually pouted at me as I lifted up and headed for the apartment.

Not wanting to come home empty handed, I stopped and got a box of donuts from Kara's favorite place (they were really good). Which lead to getting a gallon of chocolate milk and Lena's favorite candy, M&Ms, and was also a stuffed puppy that I could resist getting Alexis. It was mostly to keep both hands busy so I wouldn't be tempted to eat the donuts on the walk home from the shop…and because of that I couldn't open the door by myself.

Lena answered and grinned before whispering "what happened to your face? Whatever…Lucy's here, she thinks you went to Paris to get Alexis from the nanny there. You brought her home now that it's safe, Gotham was a cover."

"But Gotham was a cover." I muttered as I followed her to the living room after she'd shut the door "and Alex punched me in the face."

"Oh, okay," Lena shrugged "alright."

I gaped at her "really, I just tell you that Alex punched me in the face and that is your response!" I demanded in mock injustice, ignoring Lucy sitting on my couch with Cat Grant "I'm wounded for a second time Lena, a second time."

Lena grinned evilly "maybe you shouldn't have pissed her off."

Lucy was sitting on the couch with Alexis in her lap and making funny faces at her; which the little girl was happily giggling at. Ms. Grant was still here and sitting across from them on the second couch that I'd yet to touch; she was taking pictures. Lucy beamed when she saw me and then frowned.

"Alex Danvers did that?" she asked as I sank into the couch next to her, she grasped my chin "you're going to have a really nice black eye tomorrow."

I shrugged "I really hope the one I gave her is as nice as the one that she gave me," I grimaced at Lucy's prodding fingers as Alexis climbed into my lap from Lucy's "I think that's what I get for upsetting her."

Lucy snorted and let me go "and what did you do to upset her?"

"Well, Counselor, I made a crack about monkeys," I grinned down at Alexis, who'd found the stuffed puppy and was happily playing with it "speaking of counsellors, I heard about the career change, Ms. Grant is lucky to get a lawyer of your caliber."

Lucy narrowed her eyes at me "was that a military joke?"

I leaned away "…maybe? At least you weren't a fighter pilot beforehand. Am I in Harm's way here? Get it?" Lucy rolled her eyes at me.

"Oooh, I liked that show," Ms. Grant chuckled as she and Lena were digging into the candy "I did a cameo on the show and got to kiss David Elliot."

Lucy grinned, looking over at the woman "I actually remember that episode, it was the highest rated one of that season."

Ms. Grant just grinned and pointed to little Alexis, who'd fallen asleep against my chest clutching the puppy in a death grip. Lena awed and stole Ms. Grant's phone to take a picture before she took Alexis to put her to bed. Ms. Grant left not much after that because she had to get back to Carter. This left Lucy and I alone.

"Why did you come over tonight?" I asked as I held the box of donuts out to Lucy.

She shrugged as she took one "Kara mentioned you were getting back into town and I wanted to see you. I had a lot of fun over tacos and it's not like I have very many friends here so…" she grinned at me "why are you so surprised?"

"I'm always surprised by people," I admitted leaned back into the couch tiredly "people hardly ever make sense. That's why I like lab work. I know how the chemicals are going react, how things go together and usually why they come apart. People are so much more complicated than that."

Lucy chewed thoughtful on her bit of donut before nodding "we need to change your view of people, Nadine. Get you a girlfriend or a boyfriend…"

"Or neither," I countered really not liking the twisting sensation in my stomach at her suggesting such a thing "I'm perfectly fine on my own, you know."

"Come on, Kara has Lena; which I'm sure is going to break Lois's little ole heart," Lucy sniggered at the thought "I have James," I did my best not to snarl at that "Winn was claimed by Anya, which is cute when he starts trying to tell her how a smart phone works. Alex seems to be in a committed relationship with her work and you need someone too!" she tugged at my sleeve as she passionate tried to prove her point.

I shook my head "no, I don't," I did smile at her pout "come now, Counselor, you should know that you are not going to be able to argue this one and win."

Lucy sighed angrily and then shrugged "yeah, but you're still going to the club with me and the girls. If you meet someone then you have to give them a chance."

I nodded and lulled my head back "because that worked so well the last time that happened," I mused as I closed my eyes.

"Nadine," Lucy's voice was small and a little broken as she laid her head on my shoulder "I just want you to be happy."

"I am," I murmured sleepily "for all that's ever happened to me, in this moment, right now, with you, Lucy Lane, I am happy and that's enough."

***GL***

The next day was spent with Kara, Lena and Alexis, we took Alexis to the zoo. It was actually nice for California in December. The four year old was excited and instantly fell in love with the monkeys and by extension…the gorillas. That made three of us wince and left Lena wondering what the hell was going on and why we basically fled the monkey exhibit. Not even sure we could watch Tarzan now without flashbacks.

The day was totally worth it to see how excited Alexis was. She knocked out in the afternoon, Kara happily carrying the sleeping girl with her head on her shoulder. We went back to my place after that (Lena and Alexis were still living there) where there was snacks and video games.

It was dark by the time that Kara and Alex wondered off to have 'sister's night'. Once they were gone, I popped over to Lena's room where she was still working. Her laptop was in her lap and Alexis's part of the room was pitch black. I told her I was going to go find the Bat. Gotham was only two hours ahead of us so the Bat would be out; I mean if she still wanted Wonder Woman to know. Lena nodded and then I left.

Leaping off the balcony was very entertaining. It made me feel free as I called up the ring's power and streaked up and out of the city headed for Gotham. At near super-sonic speeds flight took just over an hour, I've never actually clocked myself but Green Lanterns can go pretty fast.

A sweep of the city, which had proper snow that I hadn't realized that I missed until then, I found three Bats out working. Didn't have need for Batgirl, Batwoman was fun to chat with but not the bat I was looking for. Found Batman half an hour later hanging off his favorite gargoyle atop Wayne Tower over looking pretty much all of the city. He growled softly as I hovered before him.

"I thought you left he city?" his voice was overly gruff, his breath a mist cleaning to the air.

I shrugged "I did, but I miss it here," he scoffed at that, no seriously I did. It didn't feel like Christmas should be just around the corner because there was no snow in National City; it was really freaking weird "also, I need to get a message to Wonder Woman."

That piqued his interest "oh, why?"

"As I know I can trust you," I frowned as he tilted his head curiously "Green Lanterns went on a mission last week or so. Son of a Big Bad was stealing from our sector and got his hands on one of Lex Luthor's traveling labs. Turns out his moon base was just a launching pad for his space ship and to dirty Superman's name."

"Where doesn't that psycho have labs? Aquaman destroyed one a month ago in the Bering Strait," he scoffed darkly and shook his head "what does Luthor's labs have to do with Wonder Woman, shouldn't this be a matter for Superman?" he asked

"It would have been if Subject-29 would have come back to Earth with me," I floated closer "another version of the superman clone with a third genetic donor toss in, blue skin and white horns. Became a Green Lantern," I refused to think of Hammeroon, I didn't want to feel his loss again "but Lex was experimenting with more than just Super's DNA, he has samples from you, Aquaman, Hawkman and Wonder Woman."

Batman sneered "who'd he clone?" he growled and snorted contemptuously "Wonder Woman, wasn't it?"

I nodded "he did a hybrid clone using Lena Luthor's genetic coding as the other donor. The child was still in the maturation chambers when the ship was taken, not fully grown like the others clones when pirates pulled her out. Alexis is about four years old, I'm horrible at guessing ages."

"She a danger?" he asked curiously.

I shook my head "no, I ran a full battery of tests, as non-invasive as I could get and it's my belief that they didn't have the chance to program her for anything. Subject-29 was with the scientists more than Alexis was but he barely speaks and only had a tenuous grasp of his powers," I watch him turn this information over in his head "Lena has Alexis and plans to publicly claim her as her daughter. It should be relatively easy to say that she is Lena's and Diana's kid. Diana was in Europe four years ago as ambassador and she has the gods' attention so…"

He chuckled humorlessly "she's going to love that last bit, kid. That's not how it works."

"People don't know that," I pointed out "people be dumb and crazy. Lena doesn't plan on saying who the second parent is until Wonder Woman is informed and has a chance to help decide. Until then, she's going to stay silent and work with Cat Grant."

"Her un-official aunt," he nodded and I scrunched up my nose at him, why was I always the last to know about people things "she'll be able to control the story. What about Lex and Lillian. Lex being put away means nothing and he'll still go after her; everyone knows Lena's moving the company and spreading rumors are saying that she's rebranding it," he snorted and nodded towards me "near everyone knows that she's friends with a Green Lantern, you kid. Going public puts a target on them."

"I'm pretty sure that Supergirl will help out…" I frowned deeply at the thought

Batman sniggered at that "go home kid, I'll put a birdie in the air for Paradise Island, can't say its real name," he scowled "don't expect her anytime soon. That Amazon is hard to get a hold of."