CHAPTER 6 - FRIEND OR FOE
"OK, Chloe, where do we go from here?" Lois asked. "You and I may not be able to fly to California in a single bound, but we can pool your brain with my contacts and get one hell of a dream team going in Metropolis."
"I'm not sure," Chloe said. "This guy is a ghost online," she said as she pulled up inconclusive records on Aaron Jacobs. "Lana gave me the name of the lab that he worked for, and there is absolutely no trace of him ever being there. Without an employment card on file, I can't get a picture, Social Security number, Driver's License number, nothing."
"Well, obviously, this Aaron Jacobs hacked the system and erased all of his information so that he would be a ghost," Lois concluded.
"Right," Chloe said. She jumped as though she just had a lightbulb moment go off in her head. "I never thought to look into Dr. West's files. Maybe he wrote something in his own private files that will tell us who or what we're looking at."
"Great idea, Chloe!" Lois responded, excitedly. She looked over Chloe's shoulder as Chloe hacked into Dr. West's files. They read silently for several minutes before Lois found the words that sent chills up her spine.
"Oh my God," Lois said as she read Dr. West's files. "Chlo - are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"Dr. West was definitely concerned about somebody being overly obsessive about Superman," Chloe said, staring at the screen like she had just seen a ghost. "But it wasn't anyone named Aaron Jacobs."
"It was Lana," the two women said in unison.