A/N: Thanks for the comments.
Guest (1) - There will be more support for Supergirl as the story goes on.
Guest (2) - I'm glad you are enjoying it. The rescue is not far off now.
Guest (3) - I'm still hoping that is not the case. Personally i think Barry needs his own universe so that he can't keep screwing with everyone else's.
"I failed." Nia said miserably moving to an adjacent room, unable to watch the continual footage of Supergirl's torture any longer.
"No you didn't. You gave us something to work with." J'onn said.
"Something useless. We still haven't found her and she was tortured just like I dreamed." Nia said. "In fact I take that back, she was tortured far worse than I dreamed. How could anyone do that?"
"I don't know. But I do know that we will find her." J'onn said.
"How? When?" Nia asked.
"Soon." J'onn said.
"What if that isn't soon enough...I mean you saw the video, she is barely hanging on." Nia pointed out.
"Should we try to extract people associated with her identity?" Agent Barrett asked cryptically. "I mean if she does break they will go after them."
"She won't break. She won't do anything to endanger her family. That is why she is in this mess." J'onn pointed out.
"I'm sorry." Nia said still feeling guilty. "I should have done more and sooner. I shouldn't have hid who I was. I mean what if Kara was right and powers are like muscles? If I hadn't run away from mine I could have honed them and used them to find Supergirl."
"You did all you could." J'onn said.
"And the clue about the meat hooks narrowed down the search location to just seventy six locations." Brainy said.
"That's still seventy five too many. Wait, can you help me dream? I mean if I thought about Supergirl do you think I could have another dream? One where I can see something useful?"
"Currently your powers are not well tuned enough." Brainy said. "But they may not need to be."
"You've found something?" J'onn asked.
"Maybe...Interesting..." He said as he interfaced with J'onn's phone.
"What is it?" J'onn asked feeling his patience wane.
"I have been running pattern recognition between the possible locations and the images of Supergirl. One of the possible locations has a score of 9.72 on the image cross correlator."
"And that's good?" J'onn asked not knowing the scale Brainy was using.
"There were better scores. But I have reason to believe that this one is where Supergirl is being held."
"Why?" Vasquez asked.
"Because rather than resembling an abandoned meat factory it looks like The Citadel."
"What Citadel?" J'onn asked confused.
"Mad Max: Fury Road...Is this another time cultural references are not required?" Brainy asked.
"Yes." Vasquez said.
"What is The Citadel?" J'onn asked still not understanding the reference.
"A heavily armed stronghold." Vasquez explained.
"So you are saying the meat factory is heavily guarded?" J'onn asked.
"Disused meat factory." Brainy corrected. "And indeed, they outnumber us greatly and they seem well armed, very well armed." Brainy said. "Which raises the question of who is funding them...but that can wait until after we rescue Supergirl. Although with there armaments I believe we only have a nineteen point two percent chance of success."
"Well we are well trained." J'onn said. "And we have powers."
"I had factored that into my calculation."
"Sir, there's a problem, another problem." Vasquez said.
"What?"
"A very large group is heading towards the meat factory." Vasquez said.
"More people want to attack her?" Nia asked looking at the video feeds of what looked like a large mob walk through the streets towards the building.
"Wait. I know her." J'onn said recognising one of the women in the group.
"And him, was he...?" Vasquez asked.
"Yes...I think they all were." J'onn said.
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"Can I get you anything?" Eliza asked as she walked into the lounge where Lena was staring at her phone.
"No, I'm fine. Is Alex okay?"
"She's sleeping which is for the best. It won't be long before she figures out we are hiding something. And when she does..."
"I can imagine her reaction." Lena said. "I hate to add to your worries, but I am worried about Kara. She still isn't answering her phone and Brainy said he hasn't found her yet."
"I know. I spoke to J'onn." Eliza said sitting down looking almost defeated.
"Kara's smart, she'll figure out a way to stay safe." Lena said trying to offer support.
"I hope so." Eliza said, with no trace of optimism in her voice.
"Is there anything I can do?" Lena asked hating feeling useless.
"You have done more than enough already." Eliza said. "And if you want to go before Alex finds out we have been lying to her, I completely understand."
"I get the feeling you'll need as much back up as possible when Alex figures it out." Lena said before adding. "You look exhausted. Go get some rest and I'll see if I can use some of my contacts to find Kara."
"Thank you." Eliza said before slowly standing and heading back to her bedroom where Alex lay asleep.
Lying next to her on the bed she tried to bury the images of Kara's torture and not think about what Alex had gone through.
-TBC...
A/N: Thanks for reading and reviewing.
