Elsewhere, at the entrance of the facility, Martian Manhunter phases through the steel door and is approached by two guards who he incapacitates quickly with a powerful enough telepathic blast to knock them out before flipping the switch to unlock the door. The rest of the Justice League (Green Arrow, Impulse and Cyborg) and Clark enter, watching the area for any more guards.
"Okay team, according to their security system, we've got 15 minutes max," Green Arrow replies, arming his crossbow, "Clark, you come with me."
"No, we'll cover ground if we split up," Clark insists, passing the Leaguers towards a stair-way that splits left and right halfway up. Green Arrow's concerned at his request, "What are you going to do if you get caught? Bite someone?"
"I'm not going to argue with you. Chloe's in danger!"
Green Arrow's jaw tightens, "Alright Clark, you be the hero. Just know that I might not be there to save you." With that out of the way, he brushes past Clark, heading down one corridor while the others pick their routes and scatter, leaving him on his own. Taking the only corridor left he hurries to find his friend, looking through door windows to find other prisoners but no Chloe. Reaching the end of the corridor, he opens the door and, to his surprise, hears a familiar female voice coming from one of the corridors, "I can't believe it! One alarm clock malfunction and you're suddenly demoted and sent to Deliverance territory!"
Lois! What is she doing here of all places! He waits as she, accompanied by two other guards, appear from around the corner and she stops, her face lighting up with shock at who she's seeing, "What the hell are you doing here?" She asks, walking up to Clark with the two guards following.
Clark hesitates, he doesn't know what to say in a situation like this, "I -- ," is all he can muster, wondering how Lois managed to get into a place like this before one of the guards speaks out, "Do you know this guy, ma'am?"
"Yes, no," Lois and Clark say at the same time, causing confusion to the guards. Lois smirks at them, "He wishes he didn't know me. I thought I dropped you at your cell?" She places her hands firmly at her hips, waiting for him to respond. Clark just can't seem to act as the other guard speaks out, "We'll take him back, ma'am."
Lois grabs his arm and pulls him back, "What and send me to the Sahara? Look, one demotion this week is enough," Lois answers firmly, trying to get them to understand but fails, "I think we can take care of this one."
Lois, knowing that she's not going to win this one, slams her boot vigorously into the stomach of one guard while Clark blocks the other's punch and knocks him out with a hard right hook before Lois finishes with a knee to her victim's face. Once he's knocked out she then kneels down beside him and takes one of his handguns, holstering it at her side, "What are you doing here?" She asks Clark, not looking back at him.
"I heard they did Espresso." Clark answers as he follows her down another corridor.
"You go missing for a month and you come back with a sense of humour." Lois then checks her ammo before clipping it back into the gun.
"I've been tracking down Chloe but the question is, how did you get in here?" His emphasis obvious in the question. Lois stops and gives him her trademark smile that usually gets her out of all sorts of trouble, "I used my feminine charm." She's interrupted by the sound of Clark's humph, "Yes I do have some." They then continue down the corridor, bickering as they went.
"Great job protecting your short supply of it."
"Why don't you give your stand-up a rest, it doesn't look good on you. Just do exactly what I tell you so we can find Chloe a lot faster and keep us both alive." Lois then heads on, leaving Clark to follow shortly behind.
Finally awaking from her drug-induced slumber, Chloe finds herself back in the room, looking at the screen with the phone numbers, only this time she's tightly restrained to the chair. She struggles, trying to free herself but the restraints are too tight. The researcher returns to her side, "Sweet dreams?" His presence makes her jump a little.
"Like my worst nightmare…I've been hunting down innocent people for Luthercorp, that's who you really work for, isn't it?" She asks, her eyes looking sternly at him.
Just then Regan appears to interrupt the awkwardness that's evident in the room, accompanied by Mera, "I've read you in Lex's file. I knew you had a healing ability but a turbo I.Q? That was a pleasant surprise." He puts his hands in his pockets and smirks. I'd slap him right across his face if I just had a hand free, Chloe threatens in mind as Regan senses her discomfort.
"I'm not going to help you," Chloe replies through clenched teeth, "So I'm guessing you're going to have to kill me."
Regan smiles at her bravery, "You know you come from a talented family. Your Mom had a real gift; the ability to get people to do anything against their will."
This causes Chloe to "stand down", remembering the brief time she had with her mother before she used her power against her in order to escape Lex's facility. With some help from Clark, Moira's able to see her daughter again, but without Lex's drugs, she slipped back into a catatonic state.
"Lex had the foresight to extract as much spinal fluid as he could from Moira Sullivan," Regan's voice awakening her from her thoughts, "Add in our own research and we have a way of controlling people, like my beautiful assistant Mera, for instance."
At that precise moment, as if on cue, Mera's eyes glow green and Chloe quickly deduces that's not a good sign. In Regan's hands he holds a special type of gun that has bright green liquid in its chamber. Chloe moves to the edge of her seat, uneasy at the fact that he's going to use that thing on her any second now.
"Well I know it's not perfect, it doesn't last long," his look reverting from the gun to Chloe, "But it'll get the job done." He nods before plunging it into her neck, "Get away from me," Chloe retorts but she can't do anything as it's injected into her bloodstream. Her irises glow green, like Mera's, feeling totally emotionless, staring at the screen in front of her.
"Find the final three digits," Regan commands.
Doing as he commands, Chloe focuses and finds them quickly, "173." The screen then links into the co-ordinates of the cell-phone to find that it's somewhere in the building.
"How thoughtful of him to come to us," he says as he looks at Mera, who nods at what he's suggesting and leaves, taking a gun with the "special fluid" in it with her. The effect on Chloe soon wears off, reverting her back to normal and looks in shock at the fact that they've found him. Ollie…what have I done?